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RflSEBURG, OREGON, S4OTU)AYf JULY 7. 1883,
NO. 13.
sS" J. J ASKULEtC LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER,
OPTICIAN.
1 1 ' ' i 5 .i.
THE INDEPENDENT
HAS THE
PIN EOT JOB OFFICE
IJT DOUGLAS COUNTY.
CAXDS, BILL BEADS, LEGAL BLANKS
And other piloting, including
Urge and Heavy Posters and Showy
; Hand-Bills.
Neatly and expeditiously executor
AST PORTLAND PRICES.
1 AND
BT TLOBAPU TO MATE.
Benjamin P. Sands, re-1
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer In Watches. Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Eyeglasses,
And a Full Line of
Tobacccs and
Cigars,
Fancy Goods.
The only reliable Optometer In town tor the
proper adjustment cf Bpeetacles ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door south of poet office, Rose
bar. Oregon.
Rear Admiral
tired, is dead.
fnr .
Aae semi centennial celebration of
voernn college, at Oberlin, Ohio, was
celebrated July 1st.
a , . .
a survey is about to be taken of the
The naval retiring board recommended
the retirement of Commodore Thomas
H. Eastman.
At Hanover, N. H., Rev. Dr. C. D.
Barrow of San Francisco made an ad
dress at the Dartmouth alumni dinner.
About 5000 bushels of new wheat was
received from Tennessee, Ken
tacky, Illinois and Misaonsi in Sfc T.nnin
.um,juWU(10 oe tasen 01 me June 2yth. It is about eaual to No 3
remarkable country lying between Lake and some of it sold for 81?
The German government
! GEIJ BERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store,
R08EHUUG, OGN.,
On Jackson Street, ooposlte the Postoffice. Keeps
on hand the largest and heat assortment of
Eastern and San Pranelteo Boots and
Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers
And everything In the Boot and Shoe Line and
SEIXS CHEAP for CASH.
denies tha
aeucwcu upaeriion mat it intends to es- j
taoiish a colony in Mexico.
At Xeithbursr. 111.. Jnno 07fh vnm
Ulair shot hia wife and then took his
own life. The wife may recover.
At South Abington, Mass., Reed &
Clossona shoe factory burned July 1st.
Loss, $175,000; partially insured.
Nearly the entire business portion of
the town of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas,
was burned June 29th. Loss 75,000.
The corner stone of the first .T Ann oli
temple ever erected in Memphis was laid citizens of California, looking to a dis
A Greenville dispatch of June 27th
says: News reaches this place that two
negroes who outraged a young lady
near Jefferson, were lynched to-day.
One was hanged, the other burned to
death.
At Utica, N. Y:;' June 28, a coal train"
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern and a train on the West Shore col
lided at the crossing. Thos. Dunn, a
West Shore man, was killed, and several
were injured.
The secretary of the interior has de
clined to grant the request of a number
Boots and Shoes Made to Order Perfect
Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warrant all
my work.
REPAIUINd Neatly Done
On Short Notice. I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
csrMuslcal Instrument and Violin String a 8pe
CkHj. IMC IS L.A tk QUX BitKO.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
R0SEBUR8, OREGON.
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OFTICE-OH JACKSOSI STREET.
Up Stair, over 8. Marks & Co.'s New 8tere. I
fiilAHONEY'S SALOOT!
Nearest to the llailroad Dejmt, Oakland
Tass. Mahoney, Prop'r.
Th finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Dot
las county, and the best
XJI1L.IL,IbvIII TABIiH
fa the State kept in proper repair!
ffsrtiaa traveling on the railroad will find tab
place very handy to visit during the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Give me a call.
Jao. HAHOyEY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUH,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand.
FHRNITIIRP 1 nave tne best stock oi
ruillll I unt, lurnlture south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
tST ALL WORK WARRANTED . "a
DEPOT HOTEL
OAKLAND, - . OREtiOir.
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
rHl3 HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number or years, and has become very
popularwith the traveling public. First-class
SLEtPINC ACCOIVIMOOATIONS.
And the table eupplidi with the best the market
aaorda. Hotel at the oVpotof the Kailroad.
H. C. STAMTOR,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coods!
June 30th, with the usual ceremonies.
Morris Greenwall of Melbourne, Aus
tralia, has concluded arrangements with
Mrs. Langtry for a sixteen weeks en
gagement. At Darien, La., June 20th, Tony
James, colored, who shot Price Ander
son in a drunken brawl th 7t.h of a
gust, was hanged.
At St. James. Minnesota, thm ftbsftnnA
of County Treasurer M. E. Dunn creates
a ripple of excitement. His accounts
will be examined.
Quartermaster-General In galls re
quests to be placed on the retired list of
the army, he having been in service 40
years from July 1st. -
The London Standard's correspondent
at Rome says the pope is indisposed, and
is much disturbed by the state of affairs
in Ireland and France.
The fine art exhibition opened at Mu
nich Sunday July 1st. The American
exhibit is good, in landscape especially,
there being many fine works in black
and white. 4
The London Post says that the latest
news received at the foreign ofiioe in re
gard to tne Tonquin difficulty is that
China is resolved to prepare for the
eventuality of war, while carrying on ne
gotiations with France to gain time.
Le Temps publishes a analiflad
of the statement that negotiations be
tween France and China have been
broken off, but it admits that the nego
tiations so far have been difficult and un
favorable. Eighteen thousand immigrants arrived
at Montreal during the month of June.
An appropriation of $15,000 has been
made by the dominion government in
partial aid of an emigrant depot similar
to Castle Garden, N. Y.
The cost of operating the star-route
service in the Pacific section, comprising
two-fifths of the United States, during
the fiscal year about to end, waa 10 and
1-10 cents, against 15 and 1-10 cents per
mile during the preceding fiscal year.
La Citaro, an important town in the
state or Micnoacan, Mexico, on the road
continuance of suits brought to recover
lands in Colusa, California, from the
Central Pacific railroad.
The president has appointed Frank A.
Clasaon master and refiner of the mint at
New Orleans, vice M. F. Bonzans, vice
iwuiammjc. iajior, assayer of the mint
at New Orleans, vice Joseph Albrecht.
suspended.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch of June
27th says: Heavy rains of the past few the barracks.
ttays and the bursting of a dam have Captain Pratt as
uausea an extensive cave in the Balti
more mines, and residents in the neigh
borhood are alarmed.
Indians at Carlisle School.
Last fall a man desirous of getting up
ouuw wouv among sae xvaws in the In
3. a t nrr .
uiau lerruory. ue garnered a group of
young men wno were willing to deck
themselves and dance to amuse and as-
tonisn tne eastern people. Among those
wuo joineu uis company was aam. He
had long been seeking how he might get
to Carlisle, and now he thought th Mv
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uftsueu. xiaviug ueen at scnool and
speaking some English, he was valuable
in the troupe. By - wagon and rail the
party maae its way to Jtansas and on to
Missouri, lne snow business, however
did not prosper, and the manager dis
missed his company. All of the In
dians returned ttheir reservation bnt
Sam, who, with a capital of $2.73, deter
mined to start for Carlisle. Reserving
the money for food, he sold hia orna
ments, and got as far as Bloomington,
111. There he began hia 1000 mile walk
to school. Once in a while he succeeded
in getting a lift on a freight train, and a
kind traveler, moved to compassion,
paid for a 100-mile ride. Food was
scant, and the lad was often hungry and
very tired, but he kept on, until at last
he Alleghany mountains were reached.
Snow was on the ground, his moccasins
were completely worn out, and his feet
sore ana numb. He determined to trade
his blanket for a pair of shoes, and, hav-
iuS Buuceeaea, ne pusnea on, defying
me epia. one day in .December a tat-
terea, naggard lad passed the gate at
living" fas erenerallv tin
or both hold sway.
The plainest food can be made to taste
very good by simply selecting.preparing
and preserving it. Those who eat food
seleoted and prepared with chief refer
ence to its nourishing qualities, eating
moderately to gratify a natural appe
tite, instead of a morbid craving, really
enjoy eating more than the gourmand or
glutton, whose chief pleasure is in eat
ing, ana wno must have everything fixed
up "good," with condiments or hot
saaces. and washed rinwn win,
w ii a WW s VIA . 111 s.
lants. He becomes incapable of detect
ing and appreciating delicate flavors.and
so wears out the sense that it ia
work to find anything that he does rel
ish while si dish of unskimmed railk
seems very delicious to people with un
depraved appetites. RAftentlv T h
l--i.Ii. i '"-
nme giri wno does not like bread and
milk, say of a piece of bread and butter,
that "no cake could taata hAktert" ti,
oreaa was made of whole wheat flnnr
stirred up with nothing but water, and
baked in gem irons. It was snead with
creamy butter, and T thin fa- nv i.
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iueu jwno wouia not like the taste of . wuu" ieraiuy ox ttno uhio soiJ.
stood t almost alone among Englsih
statesmen as a champion of the Union
and heto-day, holds the gold-headed
cane of President Linnnln
of the esteen which tha lat pM..t
! felt for him." w B
. His name has been mainly identified
with reform in electoral representation:
extension of the suffrage; a more equal
distribution of the seats, with reference
to population, and alteration in the law
of entail.
Despite the comparative unpopularity
of his extreme, rail ina 1 rnm
Mr. Bright is one of the most highly
admired and esteemed men of his
country.
Mrs. Tjollope in CinelnnaU.
About the year 1835 there broke out
one scarcely knows how, a sort of Cin
cinnati lever in England. In the British
Museum I have looked at a number of
books, issued about that period, written
by travelers who had returned from the
far western country, and had "mounts
ana marvels" put trueonasl In toll f
.
sucn gems and such butter. Thorough
chewing adds to the pleasure of the sense
ox taste, tms sense resides in thA fnnrrno
and in the sJft palate and its arches. One
common way of abusing the sense of
taste is, by eating fast with very slight
chewing, so that the food is not retained
in the mouth loner ennn&h tn criva tv,
the splendid rivers, the aatrmiahincr an.
lightenmentof th- citizens, the desira-
uimy oi unto as a residence state for
x.ngusn people, and so forth. Among
those who were touched bv th nnnfamnn
was Mrs. Frances Trollope, whose terri
ble castigation of the people of the whole
uuuatry m a Doo entitled Domestic
LongeTiry Increasing. 1
- N. A. Humphreys, in his reoent paper
on the decrease of mortality, read before
the statistical society, has don a con
aiderable service to the public. With
infinite care and painstaking, Le has
brought a mass of Abating and vague
opinions upon the subject of English
health to the test of accurate statistics,
and has told us exactly what modern
hygiene has and has not done to English
men. Mr. Humphreys, , who has even
drawn up a sew life table to compare
with Dr. Fair's", shows thai ever since
1872, when the first public health act
was passed, the longevity of the English
people has sensibly increased. Whether
from the operation bftfcat act. or from
ther general attention to health which
produced the act, or from an unobserved
change in the ways of the people akin
to the development of temperance now
going on, or from one of those altera
tions in the virulence of disease which
have repeatedly occurred in history, tha
mortality from epidemic disease mai
denly declined till the mean morality in
England, which, between 1838 and 1851
had been 22.5 per thousand, dropped in
1876-80 to 20.tJ, and is dropping still,
the mean death rate of 1881-2 being 19.S
a total improvement of very nearly one
seventh. This increased longevity is
eot, it is true, quite equally divided be
tween tne sexes. Owinjr to causes which
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1 a . I UU1 I Ufl Ul liM.ni.a-. M. I'll.rinU m lAl.lai . n.A aaiiaMUV fl aaa Ulin a llinrilTlallH I rill 1T1 miaAaia . . ."X - -
ana presented himspif fn i . w , , ..TODU(r Mfl ftn - nart.aiiir aaara;naA ut-
a new echolar7teTlin toe,0?d eat?n- - Bat for ' !- ...r 'avowal and laudable which probW haTe some-Tn
. . ' j bAiiM i h 1 1 1 1 1 narinrp nni wmm p. m :ir i vu ciib Ail iiiirisT' T.n inninnnt'i m
six weeks' walk across :rfi zr''? . r wnn , - " , rM tu B- the extra
The postoffice department at. Wash
ington has received information that the
Australian colonies have resolved to
apply for admission to the universal
postal union. If the application is suc
cessful Bolivia will be the only country
with an organized postal service not
included in the union.
The New York Public says: The re
port of exchanges for the week ending
June 23d is altogether more favorable
than one could expect from other indi
cations at New York. The returns are at
least more satisfactory than those of sev
eral previous weeks. Returns outside of
New York show an increase of from 4 to
8 per cent., and in the aggregate the
volume of business at cities outside of
flow lork lias been generally larger than
it was a year ago, though it may be in
ferred vith reason that much of the in
crease is due to speculative transactions.
The fact is that speculative activity does
not always mean prosperity; but the im
provement noticeable at other cities is
sufficient to make the returns measurably
ouwumgiiag.
u rrrcon rm H,iaMa..j T - i ,
B.oSajj uaruieu urinKs, mucn tnat is
eaten would be rejected as either bitter
or tasteless. Ameriean Agriculturalist.
.
A London Walter.
Smith is a man about forty, but so un
assuming mat J. do not think he would
at CarHsJe6' to 3d young as Thai T- ?H a Persoa of refinement "in
, waspufto Ja and straight, withftf flded tannT fi?UrSe 8he 7?
' . v. . i--.t-j . it. ' . tOUnd herself surrnnmlnH l. noMAn.
Approximate figures of business
failures over the entire country for the
uan year anaing June iJUth, as compared
by R. G. Dun A Co., of New York, indi
cate a marked increase in the number
and extent of liabilities, as computed
with the corresponding periods of the
two previous years. The increase in
liabilities the last half year is attribute
to large speculative features in the west,
but even deducting the indebted nana
from Acapulco to Morilla, was destroyed .fP.'m8mK this cause the inorease in
uj uio xeuBunjr. xuYery store was
burned, and nearly all the dwellings. A
large number of inhabitants are home
less. A Marysville, Colorado,, dispatch of
Julyl, says: This morning that Diok
Baker came to town and amused him
self shooting into several buildings. The
constable being absent, Mayor John Mar
lin undertook to stop the disturbance,
when Baker commenced firing at him.
The mayor then put four balls in Baker,
causing his death.
A statement prepared at the oflice of
the cnmir.iAair.nAP of infama! vAvonn. t
- "i.iu .omuuo i . d:u m. if . . : : :
Washington shows that the affirrecate re- oa.ult oll' to oonnect with the
-.-.i A 1 V W rr I lV AnhAVn Paiifii
w o
iaiiures ana liabilities is vr m-i-d
It is noticeable, however, that during
the second quarter of the year mercantile
disasters were much less than in the first
quarter, in which the bulk of the in
crease occurs, so that it is possible the
worst part of the year has been got over.
Reports as of the business outlook for
ninety-seven trade centers indicate a
more hopeful feeling as to the future.
At Montreal June 26, the contract for
another great railway enterprise was
given out to build a new line, called the
Ontario and Pacific railway, from Corn
wall, on the bank of the St. Lawrence
Keeps constantly on hand
ment of
a general assort-
. EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
HCIIOOL
BOO Kg
Such as required by the .Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and Old.
UYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS.
furnishes Checks on Portland, and niTOi.rea
Drafts on San Frnnoi9co.
B
8EEDS 3SEEDS !
ceipts during May, 1883. were $346,818
greater than the same month in 1882.
There was an increase of $231,729 from
spirits, an increase of $220,527 from to
bacco, an increase of $167,863 from beer,
a decrease of $84,049 from banks and
bankers, and a decrease of $188,752 from
miscellaneous.
A Louisiana, Mo., dispatch of July 1
6ays: Bill McDowell, the negro arrested
recently on a charge of outrage upon
Miss Kate Murray, was taken from the
jail at Bowling Green early this morn
ing by a party of masked men from the
vicinity, who went to Bowling Green,
broke into the jail and secured the pris
oner. After extorting a full confession
they hung him. He also confessed to
having fled from Missouri on account of
a similar crime there.
A Bradford, Pa., dispatch of July 1st
says: An accident happened on the
Rochester and Pittsburg railroad at Ras
Belas, twenty-five miles southeast of this
city. The first section of a coal train,
to which was attached a passenger car
containing fifteen persons, broke in
two on a heavy grade, seven cars rushing
back down the grade and into the sec
ond section, smashing the cars to pieoes,
killing six and wounding others.
The reduction of the national debt
during the fiscal year just ending will be
in round numbers $125,000,000. In
only one year in the history of the pub-
rromptly attended to and Goods shipped
with care.
Address,-
Hacheney & Beno,
Portland. Oregon
ALL filKDS OF BkJST QUALITY lio debt ha.8 the reduction been as gJeat.
""jrai in wn j & i i.uw, wv, me year
Vioforn fiftl W. fWV) BnA V.
ALL OR DERS year $73,000,000. What it will be f
the coming year nobody can foretell
with any degree of accuracy, as the
changes in the tariff and interna reven
ue laws make an estimate of the receipts
of the coming year impossible.
A New York dispatch of July 1st says:
Agnes L. "Wynne of Brooklyn was fatally
shot to-day by her husband James H.
Wynne. Mrs. Wynne was 19 years old,
and her husband was one year younger.
They had been married eighteen months
and had one child three months old. He
had been drinking heartily to-day, and
a quarrel took place. He threatened to
shoot her, and she answered: "I dare you
to do it." At the time Mrs. Wynne was
lying on the bed with the baby beside
her. The boy husband drew a pistol
and fired, the bullet entering his wife's
breast. He went for a physician, and
subsequently Mrs. Wynne was taken, to
the hospital, where the wound was pro
nounced fatal. Wynne was arrested.
Two playmates of Mrs. Wynne witnessed
the shooting.
Three thousand Chinese laborers," em
ployed on the Oregon and California
railroad, have struck for an advance in
wages from $1 to $1 25 a day. The
strike began, every man quitting at a
given' hour, on June the 20th.
They will listen to nothing ex
cept $1 25, and all attempts to coax or
compromise have been rejected. The
contractors are now trying to starve
their stubborn workmen into subjection,
but without suocebs. Chinese bosses
here say the advance will have to be
paid, as there is such a demand fnr la
borers in this section that men will have
bo trouble in getting work elsewhere.
They also state that there never has been,
an unsuccessful strike by Chinamen on
the Paoifio coast.
ondge, to the western terminus 700
miles. It is claimed this will make the
most direct and shortest line to the west
from the Atlantic seaboard, and will give
the Northern Pacific an advantage over
both the Canadian Pacific and the Grand
Trunk from ocean to ocean. The do
minion government's charter gives the
company power to build a bridge over
the St. Lawrence, and American connec
tions are already secured from the border
line to Portland, Maine, Boston and
New York. A large part of the new
road will run almost parallel with the
Canadian Pacific, to Sault Ste Marie. It
will receive subsidies from municipal
tnd other Bources. The contract was
given to Philadelpia men, and the pro
moters are American and Canadian capi
talists. Bonds to the extent of $12,000,
000 will be issued. Duncan Molntyre
and B. R. Angus, directors, and Van
Horn, general manager, went off in a
hurry to meet President Stevens of the
Canadian Pacific relative to his threat
ening scheme. How they can counteract
it without purchasing the charter is a
mystery. . '
A New York dispatch of June 27th
says: Dayies, tea appraiser, hts com
pleted an inspection of a cargo cf teas
brought to this country by the Flint
shire, and found that a large proportion
of it is grossly adulterated. He to-day
presented his report to the collector,
showing that he had rejected 3100 pack
ages, which, if sold in the market, might
have realized about $2200. These teas
consisted of greens of all colors, sies
and descriptions, some of which wera
mixed with sand and some with gravel;
others were composed of dirt and paste
rolled into pellets. About 500 packages
of colored Japan dust were also rejected,
on the ground of high color and admix
ture of mineral substance, intended to
make the tea heavier in weight. This tea
was also' brought to this country on
board the Flintshire. The collector and
the appraiser of the port of St Louis
have forward 9d to Davies samnles of an-
j called tea sent to that city by way of San
x rancisco, an examination of which has
clearly shown tnat the "stuff" was only
wild leaves, indiscriminately collected
and dried and sent to this country to be
palmed off as tea. This was intended to
be sent to a part of the country remote
from the regular market and there dis
posed of as tea, regardless of ,the fact
whether or not it would injure the con -Burners.
Davies said this morning that
wrup, now arriving overland, ap
peared to be of good quality.
the story of his
over IDUU miles of oonnarv. Thtti-a
was no money to support him at the
sonool, but he was sheltered and nara
for, and kind friends who heard hisstory
ocm w me captain tne needed contribu
tion. Meanwhile Sam had been put
buiuugu me uam transiormation, and
had come out a student-worker in blue.
as every one must labor
oam, with another new boy
sifting ashes. Sam's heart was full and
he craved sympathy; his companion
knew little of English speech, and was
of a different tribe from Sam's, so the
lad bad mainly the comfort of his own
voice as be said, "Are you homesick?"
a o answer only a blank look. "Home
sick is hard; makes me feel bad; but I
don t want to go home. I stay here;
learn work and learn study; but I so
homesick. It is good here; I want my
urumer uere; ne must not come the way
i aia ; tnat way very hard." The ashes
flew in clouds about the boys, and Sam
pegan to sing, for like most Indiana he
is tona of singing. The stroner relis?
lous nature of his race caused the hymns
ue uaa neara at tne mission to come to
mm, and be tnougnt to share their con
solation with his fellow-worker by ex
piainmgtne wordsi 'Lead mo to the
rock that is higher than' I," sang Sam:
unuinenuessia: "j. can t tell very well
1 a. l t w i
auout mat, out i Enow the rock is
unrist."
'JLhe children at the school find their
way there by varied paths. Little
jvesetta of tne Lapan Indians was taken
prisoner during a fight in the southwest.
Her mother would not be captured,
preferring death to i the loss
of liberty, and she tried to kill
ner child. Having no weapon but
a stone, sue failed to do more than se
verely wound tne girl. Careful treat
ment and nursing, however, saved the
life of the child, and she ! became the
daughter of the savior. A little boy of
ner tribe, but no relative! shared her
Ll j. mi .
uupuvny. j.nese two orphans grew xxp
wgemer, learning Jttnglisnand becom
ing attached to their soldier foster
parents. When news of Carlisle reanhn.1
the garrison, application was made for
permission to eend .liesetta and Jack
tnere to school. A soldier brought them
on the long journey, and the little ones
found a kindly welcome at tha harmnlra
Kesetta grew tall and plump and rosy,
making good headway in her studies and
work. The large scars of !the wounds
made by her frantic mother remain on
ner to-day, but the child says, "My poor
uioiuer aia not mean to do wrong she
did not know God." Jack ;felt severely
the change of climate, and fell sick. He
lay in the hospital, and it was feared h
would die. One evening he! begged hard aP' t0 8efc fl detail or two quite unawares,
to havo Captain Pratt sent for. "I must 1 d? not know bovr OT ben six little
seethe captain!" he cried. So earnest Smitbs glided into my intelligence (they
was the boy that to quiet him the captain cost a shilling a head) , but I think it
was sent for. As the tall figure, wrapped was n connection with an inquiry on
1U
ure a inture lor ner son, the late well
Known novelist, Anthony Trollope. A
dispassionate reviewer of the situation
easily sees the rights and wrongs of Mrs.
Trollope's story. She was a clever liter
ary woman, who was at home in the
salons of what is now called "Upper Bo-
"v--"i" uuu iu iruu na in juonaon. a
u.u uaibou in liih mi nn I A anrf a
deferential cough; clammy blue eyes,
thin lips, a sedentary complexion, and
careful side-whiskers. He is alwava in
evening dress, and wears white cotton
gloves, which set your teeth on edge
during dinner service. He is a person
whose gravity of deportment is such as
to lend s -riousness to the coal scuttle
whail flA rpnl an icViao a
-t--r uie a B uu.i n , . . j
- 9m UVUOUUU1U UUL1HM f 1 1
tuuuu uenwu BUrrOUnaed Irr nor arm a
whose daily battle for bread left them no
time for any thought of life's graces and
adornments. Yet she absurdly brought
these pioneers into comparison with the
people whom she had left, and ridiculed
Cincinnati mea because they went out
with baskets on their arms and bought
the family marketing, and was disgusted
with Cincinnati
as
imperative, the English April being
iw us an American February.
He is not taciturn, but he gives you the
impression of unconquerable reserve.
Though he never speaks except in reply
to some inquiry.he has managed in some
occult fashion to permeate us with a
knowledge of his domestic en vi ron m An
For the soul of me, I can not tell how I
came by the information that Smith mar.
ried Lady Hadelaide Scarborough's first
maia iweiveyearB ago, nor in what man
ner I got hold of the idea that T.orlv
Hadelaida's first maid rather stooped
from her social status when she formed
a matrimonial alliance with him. Yet
these facts ar undeniably in my posses
sion. I also understand that Smith re
gards Mrs. Smith who auitted RArvinA
at the time of this "mesalliance as a
sort of fragment (a little finger-joint, if
that will help convey my meaning) of
Lady Hadelaide herself. There's an air
of very good sooiety about Smith. Ha
evidently has connecting tendrils with
beings who, if they are not rosea them
selves, have' the privilege of constitut
ing the dust at the roses' feet.
Smith has been very near to rovaltv.
To be sure, it was fallen royalty, so I
shall waste no capital letters on it. Tt
fell at Sedan, and picked itself up in a
manner, and came to London, where
Smith had the bliss of .waiting upon it.
Ihe hemporer was a verv civil -unfit n
gentleman," observed Smith, detailing
the circumstances with an air of refinAct.
ful patronage, and showing that he had a
nice sense of the difference between an
English sovereign and an uncurrent
Napoleon.
The plain truth is that Smith is an ar
rant gossip about himself without in the
least having the appearance of it. He so
ingeniously embroiders bits of his auto-
uiuKrapuj uu aiien textures tnat one is
a cioafc. entered the rnnm Jn'a
bright eyes became fixed on the captain,
forgetting the presence or existence of
any one else, he said: "Captain, if you
will pray God to make mej well, I shall
get well." The captain met the un
daunted gaze and knelt beside the sim
ple hearted child and praydd for healing.
The boy rested on that prayer as on a
faithful arm, and fell asleep, to waken to
convalescence and to health.
my part as to what hour the morning
train left Paddington station for Stratford-upon-Avon.
Two nights out of the
week Smith retires to his domestic domi
cile; situated, I infer, in some remote
suburb of London, for he always takes a
bag with him a respectable, drab-col
ored hand-bag, with a monogram on it.
a lil-a
cnaracter.
Poor lady ! 8he probably had a very
unpleasant experience of the west. The
people were wholly uncongenial to her;
she had nothing in common with them,
and she felt herself to be isolated and
disappointed. She effected a certain
measure of retribution, however, on her
own account, by inflicting a very painful
building on the town, her "Trollops's
Bazaar" a dismal, ill-contrived edifice,
with hideous windows, hall Gothic, half
Moresque in style, the whole now happi
ly done away with. Harper's Magazine.
Cincinnati's Xkikcame.
The nickname of Porkopolis is of Eng
lish origin, and was the brilliant inspira
tion of a sponsor who never saw Cincin
nati, in tne year 1825 there flourish prl
in the Queenf City a gentleman named
Jones. He was the president of the
United States Branch bank, and was
locally known as Bank Jones. The pork
trade had already taken such proportions
as to rouse the financial enthusiasm of
Bank Jones, and in a succession of let
ters he dilated upon the prosperity of
pork prospects of the Queen City, he
letters were addressed to the Liverpool
correspondent of the Cincinnati bank,
and this gentleman's imagination at
length became fired by Bank Jones'
enthusiasm. In a moment of wild gen
erosity he hied him to the studio of some
Liverpudian Thorwaldsen, and ordered
the construction of what is set down in
the annals as "a uniane pair of mn.Al
hogs." These noble effigies were made
of papier-mache, and were sent out to
Cincinnati as a present, accompanied by
the inscription destined in part atleast
to become famous "To Mr. George W.
Jones, as the worthy representative of
Porkopolis." The hogs have still a local
habitation and a name. They add to the
burden of life in the oflice of one of the
largest "slaughterers" of Cincinnati,
having passed by inheritance from Bank
Jones down, from hand to hand among
the pork monarchs of Porkopolis, for
nigh half a century. Harper's Maga
zine. How to Succeed.
There must be a responsive feeling in
a man or he is not an artist. You hear a
At a little distance the twisted initials.in I and it stirs you, and you think that
Good and Bad Cooling.
Housekeepers or cooks
do a vast
derangement
sour bread is
sins. Many
is sour, and
acid flavor.
amount of mischief by the perversion of
taste, and the subsequent
01 tne stomach. Making
one of their most common
do not know when bread
supply it with a distinctly!
believing it is "very nice.'j because it is
so very light. They suppose bread is
sour only when the vinous! fermentation
has changed to acetic. Bread is sour as
soon as it tastes at all sourj This may go
on increasing.but to the best breadmaker
the least acid flavor is a source of grief.
Really good bread is positively sweet,
and will be as light and spongy as the
nicest sour bread, if good! material and
proper care are used. In families where
the taste is perverted byj sour bread,
other abominations are usually tolerated
biscuits tasting either I of excess of
soda, or of bitter buttermilk; vegeta
bles seasoned with bad butter; pie orust
strongly flavored with lard or tallow;
cake tasting of rancid butter, etc. Along
with this diet naturally goes a deal
of spicing to cover the bad flavors, or
much washing down with hot, strongly
seasoned coffee or tea. Sour bread is
never good in milk, and children prefer
to lunch on pie or cake rather" than on
sour bread and milk or butter. The
whole family eat as little bread as possi
bleand the butcher's bill is very heavy
and they call this ''good living!" Just
count the empty bottles labelled "Bit
ters," or 'Blood Purifier," that lis about
the house where sour bread and "good
raised worsted, resembled a reduced
copy of the Laocoon, the prominent ser
pentine S having, I suspect, no small
share in producing that effect. I some
how pose and mix up the six little Smiths
in this monogram.
John Bright, M. P. P. C.
Among the great orators of the British
senate, no one stands out more promi
nently than John Bright, whose twentv-
five years of faithful representation for
Birmingham, has just been celebrated
with great enthusiasm.
He was born in 1811. at Greenbank.
and after receiving an ordinary English
education, entered the business of his
father, in the firm of John Bright & Co.,
wool spinners. In 1839 he distinguished
himself by becoming a vigorous member
of the anti corn-law league. He was rep
resentative for the city of Durham from
1843 to 1847, after which he waa returned
to parliament for Manchester. The in
dignation which was felt against the
"Peaoe-at any-Price" party, led to his re
jection by Manchester while he was trav
eling in Italy for his health, but upon
the death of Mr. Muntz, a few months
later, the constituency of Birmingham
invited him to become a candidate for
the vacant position. He was elected, and
has, ever since, represented Birming
ham. In 1868 he was appointed president
of the board of trade in Gladstone's new
cabinet.
On the eve of the bombardment of Al
exander, Mr. Bright resigned his posi
tion in the cabinet of Mr. Gladstone, as
soon as he learned its determination to
give Sir Beauchamy Seymour orders to
attack the forts.
Daring our oivil war, Mr. Bright
in a certain combination of events that
would be .tremendous. A sparkf alls out
on the carpet; it doesn't burn the woolen
rug, but if . there had been gunpowder
there the whole house would have been
blown up. How did Shakspeare get up
his plays? From what he had seen and
heard in real life. He was a great ob
server of what was. He jollified right
along, and he sang his song like a bird.
He didn't need to talk about kings all
the tinfe. Common people were of just
as much importance. Just the same with
Molliere and- Cervantes. Shakspeare
never sat down and said, "Now I am go
ing to be original." No. When he
opened his eyes in the morning he didn't
think of looking at things as Tommy
Tinker did. He wrote his plays just as
I would smoke a cigar or read a book.
But you had better believe he was a
worker! The fellows who have succeeded
have sweated more than others. It is a
case of open pores. Most people in their
eternal grasping for gain keep their pores
tightly closed. Ex.
The first trial in Connecticut of a loco
motive engineer for killing a man by
running his engine over him, has just
terminated in Stamford in the acquittal
of the accused. The charge was man
slaughter. The question on which the
case turned was whether the locomotive
whistle was sounded at the crossing
where the killing occurred. Eridenoe
on this point was, as might have been
expected, conflicting. Prosecution had
witnesses who were solemnly sure that
no warning was given. To meet this the
defense did not depend wholly on the
statement of the accused engineer, but
prodased other witnesses who corrobo
rated him.
liability of women during the
child-bearing period of life, females
benefit most by improved sanitary con
ditions, and the total progress effected
maybe broadly stated thus: Men live
two years longer than they did SO years
ago, and women three years and four
months longer, a difference, we need not
say, quite, large enough to be
perceptible in human life. . It. is
equivalent, if with Mr. Humphreys we
take 40 years to be, roughly speaking,
the usual term of life, to an improve
ment of 6 per cent., and would in a gen
eration leave a country of 30,000,000 with
2,000,000 more people in it than it other
wise would have had. A population
greater than that of Denmark would have
been saved from perishing. Whether
that addition to numbers is good must
of course depend upon a multiplicity of
conditions.- Of the fact, however, as re
gards England there can be no reasona
ble doubt, and it is well that the fact,
whatever it is worth, should be univer
sally recognized. Our people tend more
strongly year by year to keep alive .
This is the broad fact, but Mr. Hum
phreys adds details of the highest inter
est. Our suggestions, derived not from
figures, but from observation, were, it
appears, correct. The very old live
longer that is, of course, they are, as
we suggested, stronger, less liable to
that senile feebleness and degeneracy
which struck our ancestors as their nat
ural condition. They decay, of course,
and lose powers of all kinds, but they no
longer sink into a second childhood, but,
except when overworked, die, so to
speak, standing, as only heroes used to
do. We see men and women nowadays
over 80, with all their faculties intact.
aoie to converse, to eat well and to walk,
and with a decided and admitted influ
ence on the affairs amid which they live.
This is the more striking because the in
creased longevity of the very aged is not
shared by the old. Both in men and
women the chance of survival
between 55 and 70 has not
increased, but has rather, if any
thing, declined. . People of that age do
not benefit so much by the reduced pow
er of epidemics; they feel, unless ex
ceptionally strong, the influences, such
as sudden falls of temperature, over
which science has little power, and they
decidedly suffer from the increase of
worry and anxiety which, among men
and women with grtfwn families, so mark
edly characterizes modern life. It is,
however, in youth and early maturity
that the improvement is most marked.
The man's chance of life is increased -most
decidedly between 5 and 35, and tha
woman's between 5 and. 55; and as, of
course, great numbers, though not in
creased numbers, who reach those . ages
survive, Mr. Humphreys condenses ex
tensive calculations into the following
sentences: "Although a large propor
tion of young people cease to be de
pendent before 20, and a large propor
tion of elderly persons do not become
dependent at 60, we shall not be far
wrong in classing the 40 years from 20
to 60 as the useful period of man's life.
Table No. 9 Bhows us that of the 2000
years added to the lives of 1000 males by .
the reduction of the death-rate in 1878
80, no less ihan 1407, or 70 per cent.,
are lived at the useful ages between 20
and 60. Of the remainder of the in
crease, 445 or 22 per cent, are lived un
der 20 years, and 157, or 8 per cent,
above 60 years. Thus, of the total in
crease, 70 per-cent is ad led to the useful
and 30 per cent to what may be called
the dependent age periods. The in
creased number of years lived by 1000
females, according to the rates of mor
tality that prevailed in 1876-80, is 3405.
Of these, 2196, or 65 per cent., are lived
at the . useful ages between 20 and 60;
517, or 25 per cent, under 20 years of
age, and 692, or 20 per cent, over 60
years."
If, therefore, Mr, Humphreys figures
are correct and there is every reason to
believe them the question we put in
1881 is finally answered, and. answered
in the affirmative. Hygenio progress, so
far as it extinguishes or diminishes dis
ease, does not merely lengthen life,
which would be no boon if the extension
were confined to the Psalmist's period of
"labor and sorrow," but it increases "efS
ciency. More youths live and more men
and women in their prime, and youth
and early maturity are less suddenly and
frequently cut short. The reservoir of
force in the nation is deepened as well as
the reservoir of vitality, and a generation
of English people, taken as a whole,
gains more time to do its work, whatever
it may be. Three minutes for men and
five minutes for women is added to erery
hour of their time on earth. That is
satisfactory, even to us, who see with a
painful clearness to what extent crpwd
mg dnninishes the happiness of life and
redncesJt to a continuous struggle, for,
if effeotiTdvvitality is increased, sot also is
the capacity for emigration. London
Spectator.
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