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VOL. VIII.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 14. 1883.
NO. 1.
r hY h ml Ml
PRACTICAL '
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
DesJsr
fa Watches. Clocks. Jewelry.
Spcctselrs and Ey-s;tss,
And a Pull Line of
Clgirs, Tobaccos and Fancy Goods.
Tbe only reliable Optometer In town for tbe
proper adjustment cf Ppecmcle ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE first door sou lb of poet office, Rose
bant Oregon
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
' OFFICE OS JACKSON STREET,
Up Stairs, over 8. Msrks & Co.'s New Store.
HAHOr.EY'S SALO O W
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jas. Mahouoy, Prop'r.
Ths finest of wines, liquors and cfgaWia Dovf
Iascountj, and the best
niLlL,IAllD TABLH
in the State kept in proper repair:
forties traveling on the railroad win find this
place rerj hand to visit daring the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Give me aoalL '
' JOHN FRASER,
Home . Made .to
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on, hand.
PIlRHITIIRfT 1 bve the best stock of
rUIIllllUrib. lurniture sou tb of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
rjire me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
IS?-ALL WORK WARRANTED.-
DEPOT HOTEL
OAKLAND, . - OREliOlf.
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
rpHI3 HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number ot years, and has become very
popekrwith the traveling public? First-clsss -
SLEfePINQ ACCOMMODATIONS, k
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Hotel at the depot of the Railroad.
H
A VINO ON HAND A LARGE LOT OF FINE
Spanish Merino
I offer the sunaA for sa'o, Chea for Cash, at my
Farm la Douglas county, six miles from Roseburg
HENRY CONK, Sr.
H. G. STAfJTON,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coods I
Keeps constantly on hand
, ment of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASS WAKF,
ALSO.
Crockery anil Cordage
A full stock of
SCHOOL
BOO 18
Such as required by the PirMic County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and 01J.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, -and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
DEEDS !-ei I9-SEEDS !
ALL fini)S OF Bk5M QUALITY
A TL. OR DERS
Promptly Attended to and
with care.
Goods shipped
Address. Ilaclien6v & Heno.
Portland. Oresron.
Xotlce,
Notice Is hereby (riven, to h4m It jit concern, that
tbe tuuleraijritwl . h.is botn awarded the contract for
keaninr th DoUmIus county Pauoer for liie period of
turo years. Ai! perni in need of aALitwca Ironi ald
Muntr must first procure a certiticale to that effect
from am ttitnibtr of this County Board, and present it
tn one of tbe following nain&l persons, who are author-
i tud tu, and wii I care for those presenting such certificate
W l.. Button. Roaehunf : L. L. Kelloirtr. Oakland; Mrs
tiro -an. Looktnir titas. Dr. Scroinrs is authorized to
Atrniah medical id to alt parsons in need of the same
who bare been dsciared paupers of Douglas county.
WM. B. CLARIClS, Supt. of Poor,
tUMKBCSA. Or. Feb. 16. 1380
A San Francisco dispatch says: On
the last trip of the new ship City of
Brooklyn from Seattle to this port, one
ef the seamen fell from the maintop gal
lant yard into the ocean and was never
afterwards eeerf. The distance from the
yard to the water was 140 feet.
. Henry "White was shot three times by
a man named Sreed at Farmineton, U tah
April 5th. White waa dangeroosly
wonoded. and tazen to rSt. Mars a
boapital, Salt, Lake.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
. -','.
MY TELEOBAril TO DATS.
! Matt Grace, the well known sporting
man, died at New Ybrk, April 5th.
George Tncker jwas killed by his
brother at Lebanon; Ky., April 8th.
Wm. Berg, a nolked mnsician, died of
heart disease at New York, April 7th.
The Mar quia of Lome expresses a de
sire that his term be extended another
year. , - . i
Herr Most, the saaialist, intends visit
ing the Pacific coast before he returns to
Enrope. . "... -
Jay Gould'a steam yacht Atlanta
was
successfully launched at
on the 7th?
Philadelphia
At Newbern, N. C., on the 6th, a
boiler explosion killed the engineer and
fireman and two others injured.
A heavy watersprout at. Nashville,
Tenn., on the 6th, flooding the streets
and doing considerable damage.
The remains of (the late Judge Mo
Comas and wife, recently killed by In
dians, were buried at Fort Scott, Ks.,
April 9th. j
John A. Wilson, wife and two daugh
ters, were burnsd to death in a house
three miles from i Hartwick, Otsego
county, N. Y., April 5th.
In a quarrel between Sergeant Willis,
colored, and Private Boyd at Fort Hall,
D. T., recently, tbe! former shot the lat
ter with an army nfie, killing him in
stantly. The funeral of the late Assistant Chief
Juogineer lioss, who waa fatally injured
by the gas explosion at the Palace hotel,
San Francisco, recently, took place on
Sunday, April 8jth. j
Schooner Marion arrived at Philadel
phia April 8th from Hayti. The mate
and steward are down with fever. The
captain died on the voyage. Yellow
fever, or Hay tian fever, is said to be the
disease; j
A Geneva dispatch of April 8th says;
The conflagration at Vallerbes, in the
canton of Vaud, destroyed 145 houses
with the postofQce, in which important
securities were deposited. Twelve hun
dred persons were made homeless.
The Nashville college for young ladies,
one of the largest Methodist educational
institutions in the south, has suspended
recently on account of the prevalence of
scarlet fever. The smallpox is unabated,
and seven new cases are reported.
A shocking murder occurred at West
Union, W. Va., April 5th. Barney Doyle
and daughter, who were known to keep
money about the house, were killed by
robberu, and another daughter badly
beaten. Five men! were arrested on bus-
picion, ana tnreats oi lynching are
heard. j
A Greenville, Texas, dispatch of April
8th says: About 2 o'clock tbis morning
the end house of a three-story brick ho
tel fell, burying the inmates" between its
walls. Fifteen persons are known to
have Deen killed, j A few others escaped
unhurt. The ruins took fire and manv
bodies were burned in the flames.
A severe wind, rain and hail storm pre
vailed in central and southwestern
Arkansas on the nrght of the 5th. dome
considerable damage to buildings, fences
ana trees. Tne cyclone at one ulace de
veloped such force that the wind lifted
a passenger coach off the track and sent
is aown me emoanKment. several per
sons were injured,! but none seriously
m a
ine American uevejopment com pan v
ox oan x rancisco nan incorporated with
a capital stock of I $5,000,000. The ob
ects of the organization include almost
every branch of business, the most im
portant being the construction of tele
graph lines, bridges, and wagon roads.
and carrying a general banking business,
besides the improvement and construc
tion of railroads, j
It is estimated by persons thoroughly
amiliar with the subject that under the
new law reducing letter postage and
regulating the pay of postmasters the
.receipts of not jnore than one office in
every for.r, on a general average, will be
in excess oi tne postmasters salaries
under the existing law. It is said that
all postoffices, however small, will con
tribute about two-fiftus of their receipts
to tne government.
A Braidwooa, Ills., dispatch of April
tun says: meyermctoi the coroner s
A.I . . . - .
jury in tne case of thh miners drowned
in the Diamond mine recite the facts and
fctates that no blame can attach to any
one, as the accident was such as is liable
to happen to any mine under like cir
cumstances. The; shaft Las been open
for volunteers to continue the search
since Monday, but as none appeared the
work of taking jup the track, rails and
other property m the mine began vester
day with a view to the abandonment of
tho shaft.
The London Pall Mall Gazette points
out tnat the bomu explodes every week
in Italy, and that France, Germany,
Kussia and Austria are familiar with its
sound, and that no one can seethe direc
tion of popular tendencies across the At
lantic without seeing before Jong that
dynamite may be commissioned against
the millionaires of the United States.
The English people in general cannot
view it in this light, in their unreasona
ble and panic-atricken frame of mind,
and are convinced that Americans are, in
a great part, responsible for it all.
A Tombstone i dispatch of April Gth
says: Senor Prieto, Mexican consul, is in
receipt of information that several per
sons, .including nve Americans, were
murdered by Apaches ten miles from
Ures, Sonora, yesterday. Two hundred
Papago Indians,! armed and equipped,
are ready tomove on short notice. The
Papagoes are skillful trailers, good
fighters and hereditary foes of the
Apaches. Superintendent Jim Findlay.
telegraphs tnat twenty mounted men are
now awaiting orders at Harshaw. News
from Clifton, Globe, Tucson, Wilcox,
Bowie and- other points indicate great
activity in tne worn or organising com
panies of rangers. Indians attacked the
ranch of Don J nan Elias, near the San
Pedro custom house, Wednesday and
run oil a large amount of stock. In re
treating to Canea they encountered a de
tachment of Governor PasqueroB troops,
which was defeated with a loss of six
men.
The first through train on the Bio
Grande brought 200 Mormon converts
to Salt Lake City.
Ingraham and Green, murderers of
Cash Millet, were hanged by a mob of 35
masked men April 4th, at Hastings, Neb.
Peter Cooper, the venerable philan
thropist, died at his home in New York !
city on the morning of April 3d,i aged
92.
Charles DeLesseps ariived in New
York April 5th. His visit to this ooun
try is in the interest of the Panama
canal.
The East river bridge, connecting New
York "City with Brooklyn, is nearly com
pleted for the passage of carriages and
pedestrians. ' .
Tarry to wn, N. Y., celebrated the cen
tennial anniversary of Washington Ir
ving, the pioneer of Anwerican literature,
on the 4th inst.
A large numberiBof laborers left San
Francisco on th Gth to be employed on
the O. & C. B. B., commencing opera
tions at Bedding, Cal.
Verona Baldwin, on trial in San Fran
cisco on the charge of shooting Lucky
Baldwin some time ago, was acquitted by
the jury on the otn mat.
In the Bhode Island state election re
cently for governor, Bourne, (Republi
can) was elected by a plurality of 2865
votes over Sprauge (Democratic candi
date).
Two colored children, aged five and
six, were burned to deatu in a cabin at
Shelby ville, Ind., on the 5th inst. Their
mother had locked them in while she
was away. ;
A St. Petersburg dispatch of April 5th
says: me local chief of police and all
others who contributed to, the comfort
of the .crews of the Jeannette and Bod
gers have been decorated by the Czar.
A Kome dfspatch of April 5th says:
The powder depot at -Passo Correz, for
the use of engineers conducting: opera
tions there, exploded to-day. Forty per
sons were killed, and many injured ,
some fatally. a
A Tombstone dispatch of April 5th
says: A letter from l. Kennedy, of
Sonora, reports a fight between a party
of three Americans and Apaches eighteen
miles from Ures. George Watson, Chas.
Forman and Ed Green composed the
party. The fight lasted some hours.dur
ing which Watson and one Indian were
killed. The whole party would have
been taken but for the opportune arrival
of Mexican troops.
Tbe tenth annual meeting of the Wy
oming Stock Growers' association held
at Cheyenne recently repoit that last
year 220,000 beef cattle were inspected,
an increase of 52,000 over, the previous
year. Also that about one thousand head
were killed by the Union Pac fie road.
The report further shows that herds of
breeding cattle are selling 25 per cent
higher than last year, and that $30,000,
000 of Scotch and English capital was
invested during the year in Wyoming
and Texas.
Recent advices from Colombo, the
capital city of the island of Ceylon, re
port that vicious riots occurred lately
between the Jiuddhiats and Papists. Tbe
Catholics seriously objected to a religious
procession of Buddhists, in which was
carried a crucifix surmounted by a
monkey.. The latter combination, which
the Papists held to be an insult to the
Cathclic religion, brought about a
violent conteet in the streets, which was
only stopped by vigorous efforts of the
tioops, who dispersed the rioters and re
stored peace without bloodshed.
On April 8th the government gauge at
the head of Canal street. New Orleans,
shows that the river is even with the
great floods of 1874, and five inches high
er than last year. The water at several
points along the city front passes over
the levees into the gutters. Several
small breaks in the levee were closed,
and little or no damage is done. The
rain is the heaviest since 1877. Five and
sixty-three one-hundredths inches fell in
three and a half hours. The town of
Gouldsboro is flooded with from three to
six feet, and the track of the Algiers and
Gouldsboro dummy line is washed out.
A Panama dispatch of March 27th
savs: Severe and continuous noting is
taking place along the line of the canal
works,' originating in race hatred be
tween the Jamaicans and the Cart hag
ians. Some twenty of the former have
been massacred and the government
finds itself unable to restore order, arms
being independently purchased. As no
work is going on, and' as there is about
0000 men drinking, a really serious trou
ble is anticipated on the isthmus, which
is being rapidly overrun by the dregs of
all nations. DeLesseps leaves the isth
mus to-day for New York. He insists
that the canal will be in fine shape by
1888. , "
At Birmingham, England, the city
police made a raid upon suspected
localities in Liedsam street and discover
ed a Fenians' nitro glycerine factory in
full operation. The apparatus for pre
paring and mixing the explosive com
pound was constructed on scientific prin
cipies, and witu an tne cunning and
craft which clearly showed its inventor
to be not only a thorough scholar in
chemistry and machinery, but also an
adept for expedients for avoiding
notoriety and preventing discovery
Among the noteworthy features of the
place was a shrewdly -devised method for
carrymy fumes up the chimney and con
suming the odors. It is learned that the
premises in Ledsam street were taken
two months ago by a man named White
head, an Irish-American, who had a sign
hung out in front of his place indicating
that his - business was that of a paper
hanger. Whitehead himself was taken
into custody when the police made the
descent on the den, ane is now in close
confinement. A considerable quantity
of mtro-giycerine was seized by the
officers at the same time. Information
is now in the hands of the detectives that
tends to demonstrate that this .place is
the central manufactory of explosives
and the most important depot of all in
fernal connivances in : the kingdom.
Whitehead, - who is described as a man
about 25 years of age, with a dark com
plexion, and with a marked American
accent, has been in the habit of purchas
ing supplies of nitro glycerine and acids
whioh - were necessary to rnn the business.
Coming Inventions; ' ;
' ' .;
"What more can be invented?" asked
an enthusiastic citizen on Saturday, after
listening over the line from here to New
York. ;
"Why, we have only begun," replied
a gentleman who had paid some I atten
tion to the subject. "To talk 600 miles
or so is nothing. Why, you just wait
ten years and I will tell you. what you will
see." -
"Well, let's hear you now."',
"In the first place the present Morse
Bystem of telegraph will ,. have- entirely
passed away. . Talking will be so mucrVgwe can remember,was: "Why, certainly,
more rapid and accurate.
"Yes, I admit that.
"Well, that is not all. There will be
perfect network of telephone communi
cation, and it will be very cheap. But
that will not be all. By the payment of
a very small sum the father in Northern
,Ohio can step to the telephone station at
the township center and call up his
married daughter, who many years ago
emigrated to Dakota. As he talks he
will look into a finely adjusted mirror
that stands before his face, and in that
mirror he can see the face of his beloved
daughter as she talks to him. She, at
her end of the line, of coui-Re, will ob
serve the countenance clearly and dis
tinctly also. The conversation will run
something like this:
" You seem to be a little pale to day,
father. Are you as well as usual?'
" 'Why. yes, I guess I am all right.
How are the babies?
"Oh, Sally was sick all night and
don't seem to be just right this morning.
Here she is (holding her up to the tele
phone). You must excuse her appear
ance. Her face is not very clean; I have
been so busy that I have not had time to
wash it, and she has been playing around
and got this apron very dirty, too."
Silly is all right, am t she, little
one? How grandpa does wish he could
take her in his arms. He can see her
very clearly though. I thinks she looks
more and more like her mother's folks
as she gets older, don't you?"
Yes, we all agree on that; William
has insisted almost ever since she was
born that she was mother's girl. But
here is Jienry and John; both, want to
see and talk with grandpa a minute this
morning.'
" 'Buss their souls, grandpa wants to
see them, too. Lmt them come to the
phone."'
'And so the conversation will go on,
and all for ten cents."
"But that will spoil the United States
mail. What will be the - use of writing
etters when we can talk that wav?"
"There will be none at all. But this
telephone business will be run by the
government, and the price of communi
cation will be kept down to tbe mini
mum. When we think, "re can now talk
over a line 600 miles long, and hear what
is said, do you think that is expeccing
very much? Who would have believed
that such a thing as a telephone was pos
sible ten years ago? I tell you, I am not
speaking at random in what I have : said
above. Through with wonders are we?
Why, man, we have only just begnn.
We have got to study up some means of
rapid transit by which newspapers at
any rate can be sent from one part of the
country to another much faster than
now. Aiews will get very old before a
full description of it can be sent from
one part of the country to tne other by
telephone. Men are now studying the
problem of electric locomotion and in
ten years it will be an accomplished faot.
This is a fast age? Ah, ha! This is an
ox-teamandcovered-wagon age com
pared to what is coming. Twenty-five
miles per hour for an express train ! Bah!
who will be willing to wait for that: we
shall spin along at least at the rate of
Jhirty or forty miles a minute when there
is any necessity for so doing. Not possi
A St A .
Die vny, man, you are a Bkeptici any
thing is possible to .themodern Yankee
mind and genius. We can do anything
we have a mind to and we will."
The man who thought the Inventors
had got to the end of their string walked
away in a reflective mood. Cleveland
Leader.
How to Treat Typhoid FeTer.
What seems an almost interminable
discussion has been going on in the
French Academy of Medicine, ever since
the typhoid epidemic pf last autumn, as
to the proper mode ot treating that dis
ease. The system to which most promi
nence has been given is that recently in
troduced into uerman practice by Dr.
Brand, the main feature of which is the
immersion of the patient in long and
frequently repeated cold water baths
German medical statistics show an ex
cellent result from this mode of treat
ment; though they are, it is said, vitiated
by the inclusion of typhus patients in
the typhoid category.
Dr. Dumontpalher described at Mon
day's sitting, Feb. 26th, oflhe AcaCemy
an apparatus or nis invention, by which
. 1 i . 1 .
lever patients may oe cooiea to the re-
qaired degree, without undergoing the
fatigue of leaving the bed, and being
weueu oniy to oe uneu again, ine ap-
paraius consists essentially of two water
beds, one placed over the other, between
w,hich the potient lies. By a simple sys
tem of pipes the physician can regulate
the temperature of the water in tbe mat
tresses, and the cold bath with its risks
and discomforts is thus dispensed with.
ine iaea ox cooling xever patients is not
new. Curry, an English physician, was
the first to introduce it into modern
practice, for the ancients seem to have
employed it exactly a hundred years ago
. . i . . . i - "
ana is was niucn usea wiium toe presen
A TO 1 T .I . ,
century in xjogiauu lor iub treatment O
scarlet lever. uot tne results were not
satisfactory. St. James Gazette.
Probably a Lie.
bhe came tripping in to the sanctum
all radiancy and sunshine, and clothed
in the garments of youth, beauty inno
ence and other things, .with a smile
that was "heaven in a heap." She re
marked: "Is the editor in?"
He was, and the smile that radiates the
classic brow and spread over his features
like the ripening on a pumpkin, was
soothing to gaze upon
"He is," came from this side xt the
great moral newspaper with original
poetry and patent medicine advertise
ments. "I'm so glad of it," she said, and a
grander, sweeter smile radiated spread
some more. ,
"I am he," he said, not gallantly, but
gloriously.; "What can I do for you?"
At this we rose and bid her approach.
She did so, and said, "I have returned
homeI want a personal in Every Mon
dsyland she looked too sweetly inno
cent a frank, pure innocence unknown
to the latter day sanctum.
This side made an effort and had soon
ntterod an nttarAuca which, aa near ns
with pleasure: what shall we say?"
5ue smiled some more, we dittoed.
She said: "Miss Mary Maccintosh has
returned home after a visit to friends in
Kansas City. And" continued she, "add
anything good you can think of. ion
know all about how to say, accomplished,
etc."- .-' . '-1 .
With this she vanished like a summer's
dream disturbed by gallinipers, and
when we recovered wrote:
"The readers of Every Monday will
SP V
rejoice to learn that Miss Mary Mac
cintosh has returned to her home in this
city after a month's pleasure tour through
Kansas City. Miss Mary is truly nature s
queen; she is the goddess oi love, purity
and womanly grace, large, roomy, well
ventilated and robust as a buffalo. She
can do a bigger washing.eat more onions
and mash more male palpitators in one
day than all the female Yen uses in
Christendom. She is a stunner, with a
smile as broad as human sin, and a foot
as big as the base of the Rocky Moun
tains. She wears fine duds, silk . stock
ings, brass buttons and chews gum in
Latin. Mary is some pumpkins, and
don't you fail to remember it, and Every
Monday is goldarned glad she has come
home (Kansas City Bugle please copy),
for the boys missed her very much."
St. Joseph ''Every Monday."
A Colored old
Fellow Who
Afaiiate.
Desired to
A colored man was busily engaged in
sawing wood for uoionei .rowu, when
the latter observed that the bosom of the
man and brother, so to speas. was
adorned by an Odd Fellows' breastpin.
'Do the white Odd Fellows and the
colored Odd Fellows in Austin affiliate?"
asked Colonel Powis.
"Don't fillyate wuf a cuss, but dey
helps each other out."
"Well, that's the same thing, ain't it? '
"No, sab; hit's not de same ting."
"What's the difference?"
The colored man stopped sawing wood
and made the following explanations:
'Last week when dat norther was
freezing de marrow in yer bones, I
went inter de saloon of a white man what
otes des verv same emblem. I was in
distress, rale distress, as I hadn't had a
dram dat morniu', so I gib him the sig
nal ob distress."
"Did be respond?" "
"He didn't gib de proper response.
De pioper response would hab been to
had rubbed his lef ear wid his right
hand, and to hab sot out de bottle."
"Then he did not respond correctly?
"No, sah; he made a motion at de
doah wid one hand, and reached under
de bar wid de odder. I made do Odd
Fellows' sign ob distress once moah,and
den sumfin' hard hit me on de head, and
knocked me clean out inter de street.
Hit was de bung starter what dat white
brudder Odd Feller had frowed at me in
response to de distress sigual." "- .
"Then the colored Odd Fellows and
the white Odd Fellows do pot affiliate?"
"Jest what I told yer. Dey don't filly
ate, but dey helps each odder out. I
was helped out inter de street wid de
bung starter, but fillyate means to set
out de whisky." Teqas Sittings.
Death of the Queen's Iliral.
The "death in Broadmoor criminal
lunatic asylum of John Goode brings to
mind an exciting passage in Queen
Victoria's life. In November, 1837, while
riding m St. James park, a man suddenly
sd range to the side of her carriage, and.
holding ulp his fist, made use of obscene
language, adding that her majest v was a
usurper, and that he would have her off
the throne that day week. The queen
on alighting from her carriage, directed
her equerry to cause the man to be ar
rested. He told the officers he was their
lawful sovereign, and, when brought be
fore the authorities, declared himself to
be the son of George IV and Queen
Caroline, and that he was born at
Montague place, Blackheath, and the
throne of England belonged to him.
Upon very other subject unconnected
with the royal family he spoke in a most
rational manner, but when the queen s
name was mentioned he became exceed
jngly violent. While being taken to
prison she mashed the windows with his
elbows and screamed' out to the sentinels
on duty: "Guards of England, do vour
duty, and rescue your sovereign!" At
that time he was a fine, handsome look
ing man, in his 41st ye&r, and of dark
complexion. When afterward visited by
his brother, who had been abroad, he
denied the alleged consanguinity.
A Widow's Singular Resolution.
"Mrs. Flapjack, you husband has
been dead several years. Do you never
think of marrying again?" asked a Texas
legislator of his landlady, a very attract
ive widow, who keeps an Austin board
ing house.
"No, sir, I do not.' None of us know
what trouble is in store for us in the fu
ture, but if I should- become a widow
ten times over I would never marry
again."
The legislator sighed, and said he
would not, either, under the circum
stances. From Sweet's Sauce.
The consumption of beer in the camps
of the railway builders is enormous. At
Bismarck I saw an entire freight train of
thirty cars laden with bottled beer from
a Chicago brewery, bound for the town
nearest the end of the tract. The chief
engineer of the construction force said
that an average of one bottle for every tie
laid was consumed, and that the tie and
the beer cost the same fifty cents. Thus
the workmen pay as much for their drink
as the company for one of the important
elements of-railway construction. Century.
English Literature.
English literature could better spare
any one of a score of men whose names
and personalities are as familiar as house
hold words, than tbe modest and almost
unknown clergyman and teacher who
died recently at Mentone John Rich
ard Green. There is not a word about
him in the encyloytedias; there is no
newspaper office in America supplied
with evan the date of his birth; no de
scription of the man or his habits or life
has ever appeared , in print, to our
knowledge and yet he is the greatest
English historian Bince Macaulay, and,
through his works, tbe most popular us
well. We know something about Stubbs,
and a good deal about Froude, while
Freeman has only now returned from a
lecturing tour through America, during
which every reader of newspapers got a
distinct idea of what he was like. Yet
John Richard Graen has five readers
where the three others combined have
one and is entirely unknown in a per
sonal sense. All his life was spent in
the scholarly seclusion of Oxford,.where
he had a chair of modern history His
first work, the celebrated 'Short History
of the English People," was published
in 1874 in England, and immediately re
printed in the United States. In both
countries it had a tremendous sale,
catching the popular fancy at once, and
charming alike critics and readers. If
Macaulay awakened the first intelligent
and general interest in English history,
it is equally true that Mr. Green's book
completely altered the channel of that
current of interest, and gave it a new and
indescriably more -popular direction.
For the first time people saw the past of
England dealt with as a whole, and all
its myriad component parts and phases
given their just proportion. The old
chronicles of kings and brawling nobles,
of court intrigues, dynastic wars, tourna
ments and gilt edged feudalism were
supplanted by a manly, lucid and thor
oughly artistic story of the English as a
people, from the time when the idea of
crossing the North Sea first came to them
in the fog wrapped bogs of their
Schleswig home, down to modern days.
The foreign kings and their friends and
parasites were given their places iu tbe
story, and no more. The great Saxon
people which, by sheer inherent force of
character, moulded itself into the great
est of the world's races, and absorbed in
cidentally these foreign princes and
parasites as tbe forenoon takes up dew.
was given its place, as it never had been
before. The work marked an era in the
making of histories. Mr. Green sub
sequently extended this "Short History"
into four volumes, which Harpers press
has made familiar. 1 or thirteen years
past he had collected material for an
elaborate and exhaustive history of the
Saxon period of English existence the
first volume of which, under the title of
"The making of England, t Was, pub
lished last year. It is to be hoped that
his death does not leave the work un
finished although the wretched condi
tion of his health for the past few years
renders the hope a dubious one.
Two Romances.
The son of a leading lawyer in New
York, some years ago, was attracted -by
the innocent face and quick wit of a
Welch chambermaid in his father's
house, and declared that he preferred
her to all the . fashionable beauties who
had courted his notice. His family pro
tested, but to no purpose. The only
concession he would make was to consent
to go to Europe for three years before
marrying the girl. In the meantime,
having an independent fortune, the lover
placed her at one of the best schools in
New York. The girl was ambitious and
devoted in her affection to the man who
had chosen her. He returned, found
her more lovely than ever. They were
married, and the lady is now one of the
leaders of society in the city where they
live a noble, refined, charming woman.
An eminent jurist, well Known in
Pennsylvania in the early part of this
century, was "making the circuit" on
horseback, and stopped for dinnner at
the house of a farmer. The daughter of
the farmer waitedjon them, and the judge
who had been a cynic about women
observed the peculiar gentleness of her
voice and a certain sweet candor in her
face. After dinner the farmer said: -"Mary,
bring the judge's horse."
Mary started to the field, which was
inclosed by a barred fence. Laying her
hand on the topmosLrail, she vaulted
liehtly over.
"I saw," said the judge afterwards,
"for the first time, a woman with the
mind and body 1 should require m my
wife. I called again and again at Farmer
C's. At last I sent Mary to school for a
couple of years, and here she is, nod
ding to the stately matron who pre
sided at his table.
-The sons of the judge and this rea!
Maude Muller all attained distinction
one. like his father, at the barf another
was an eminent divine, and a ttiird was a
Doutnern oanaiaaie ior me jrresiueucj.
All were noted for their fiery eloquence,
their high sense of honor, and a certain
appetite for fighting which was well sus
tained by strong physical health. The
judge had not been mistaken in Mary's
qualities of mind or body. Youth's j
Companion.
A Forgotten Promise.
There is a young conductor on a line
of streetcars in Cincinnati who is the
hero of a romantic episode. At the tiae
of the burning of the Brooklyn theater,
in which so many people were burned to
death, this young man was a resident of
Brooklyn. He attended the theater on
the night of the fire, and, sat beside a
male companion in the front row near
the orchestra. As it will be remembered
the fire was discovered during the latter
part of the first act of the "Two Or
phans." At the time the flames made
their appearance behind the scenes one
of the company billed as Nellie Dell, but
whose real name was Kittie Meyers, a
young New York girl was doing a song
and danca act. The fire burst all over
the stage with incredible rapidity, and
the young man saw that this girl was in
peril. With a spring he leaped across
the orchestra railing, clambered on -the
stage and caught Miss Dell in his .arms
and broke for the private box nearest the
street. After considerable difficulty he
succeeded in getfcisg into the open air
with the girl clinging to his peck, fright
ened almost to death. Ee had saved her
life, as most of those who were on the
stage when he went to her rescue per
ished in the flames. Thus began an ao-
qu&intance which soon ripened into love,
and finally tney were married.- The
father of the girl was a business man in
New York city, made the acquaintance of
his daughter's deliverer, and, pleased
with hia appearance, said: "You : have
saved my daughter's life, and you shall
have her for your wife," Nelliq s heart
had been smitten by the good-looking
fellow (he waa a poor tinner at that
time), and a union was soon effected.
The father said to him: "You shall
never want for anything.' He must
soon have forgotten his promise, for his
heroic son-in-law is manipulating a belK
punch. for$2 a day. Such i3 life in a .
great city.
Oil of Peppermint. '
Peppermint is grown for its essence
chiefly in western New York. Two
thirds of the supply comes from Wayne
county, which prodnces 60,000 pounds
of oil yearly from 3000 acres. The har
vest comes in August, and the. first crop .
is the best. The mint is cut with a sickle,
scythe or mowing machine, according to
the fancy of the cultivator. After cut-
uug, id is miuweu ic wimer ia tne sua
for five or six hours, and is then raked
into "cocks" where it remains a short
time before being distilled. It is not
every cultivator that is provided with a
still, but stills are found distributed
about the peppermint region at conven
ient distances. The apparatus and
method differ from those employed in
Europe, where the fire is applied to the
still. In America tbe still consists of a
wooden tub or vat of heavy'staves hooped
with iron. The withered mint is packed
into the vat by treading with the feet
until the vat is full, when a cover, made
steam tight with rubber packing, is fast
ened down with screw clamps. A steam
pipe oonneots the lower part of the vat
with a steam cover,! and another pipe
from the center of the cover connects the
vat with the condensing worm. The lat
ter varies in size according to the capac
ity of the still, and becomes progressive
ly smaller toward the outlet. The worm
is so plaoed as to have a constant stream
of cold running water surrounding it.
The : steam from the boiler being ad
mitted to Ihe vat at a pressure of thirty
to forty pounds, the oil of the mint is
volatilized and mixed with"
the steam condensed in the worm. The
mixed oil and water are collected into
the receiver where the difference in their
specific gravity causes them to separate.
No attempt is made to redistill the water
which separates, and a considerable loss
of oil which is held in solution doubtless
results from this lack of economy; The
oil is packed in tin cans or glass demi
johns, holding about twenty pounds
each. The glass demijohns are much
the best when the oil is to be kept for
any length of time, as its good qualities
are more fully retained and it is less lia
ble to discoloration. Oil of peppermint
is sometimes adulterated with turpen
tine and sometimes with oil of hemlock.
Pure oil of pepperment, as exported
from Wayne county, is colorless and re
sembles the English oil, except that its
odor and taste are somewhat less pun-'
gent and penetrating. The oil deterio
rates with age, and the aroma becomes
more faint: after a certain number of
years it thickens, and the color becomes
of a yellowish tinge; exposed for a tune
to air, it becomes resinous.
A Drug Clerk Cures a Caller of Chills.
: A respectable looking man staggered
into an Eighth avenue drug store last
evening, and, in a tremuluos voice said
to the clerk: .
'Will you please mix me a dose of
medicine? I've got the chills."
The clerk eyed the man for a moment,
and then went to the back of the store.
He returned with a glass graduate. He
took down a bottle labeled "Tinct
Zinzib," and half filled the graduate.
He added some hot drops, a little cay
enne pepper, stirred it up, and passed it
to the man, saying:
"Down with it right away." .
The shivering man emptied the glass
at a swallow. He stood a moment as
if dazed, and, without offering payment,
rushed from the store with his mouth
open. The clerk smiled, and played with
the scales. ;
' "Are you troubled much by those fel
lows?" inquired a customer with, a pre
scription, i'
"Yes, but the same persons seldom re
turn, as we generally give them such a
hot dose that they , would rather risk
being frozen with the chills than burned
up internally. You see, they make a
practice of going from one drug store to
another, asking for a dose of something
to cure the chills or some other disease,
but always asking for something contain
ing alcohol.: They keep this up until
they become intoxicated. Occasionally
a woman chooses that method to procure
liquor, but not often. But you can gam
ble your collar button that they never
get drunk from anything they get here."
Made Them Eren.
"Arrested for carrying a pistol was
he?" asked a magistrate of an officer, re
ferring to a gentleman who had just
been arraigned. "Let's see the pistol."
The weapon was produced and handed
to the judge, who examined it and asked:
' "Where did you get it?"
"Bought it at a hardware store.".
"What did it coat?" -
"Fifteen dollars."
"Fine implement. How'll you swop?"
and tho judge drew out a pistol and
handed it i o the prisoner.
"Take $10 to boot."
"All right. I'll fine you $10. That
makes us even."
They are now telling a story about a
Chicago girl who insisted on throwing
her shoe after a newly mrrried couple.
The carriage- is a total wreck, a
doctor has the bride and horse under
treatment, and a large number of men
are searching the ruins for the groom.-
Chaff. ,.: vv-'' '
"The spring will be baokward' pre
dieted Vennor, as he was obout to app1
a rd-hot poker to tto oat's no3.