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VOLJ IX.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1884.
NO. 9.
THE INDEPENDENT
is ISSUED
SATURDAY MORNINGS,
BT THE
Douglas County Publishing Company.
J. JASKULEIC,
PRACTICAL
fatcliator, Jeweler ani Optician,
.ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Bealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
AND A FULL LI5B Of
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy G-oods.
Th onlyeli&ble Optomer in town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacles ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffice,
ROSEBURGI O REG OX.
LANGENBERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
' BOSEBUItG, OREGON,
On . Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps on hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and San Francisco Boots and
Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers,
And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH.
Boots and Shoes Made to Order, and
Perfect Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warran all
my work;
Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS LAXGEXBER6,
DR. (11. W. DAVIS,
m DENTIST,
ROSEBITRG, OREGON,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store.
MAHONEY'S SALOON,
Nearest the Railroad Depot, Oakland.
JAS. MAIIOXEY, --- Proprietor
The
Finest "Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parlies traveling on the railroad will find this place
very handy to visit during the stopping of the train at
tee Oakland .Depot. Dive me a call.
JAS. MAIIONEY.
JOHN FRASER,
TTflinO IfTaflP Kl lril III I TP
.LJ.UIIIG AUXlllG UIIIIIUIU,
WILBUR, OREGOX.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRIM MATTRESSES, ETC.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the Best
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South ! Portland.
And aU of my own manufacture.
Xo Two Prices to Customers.
Residents of Douglas County are requested to give me a
call before purchasing elsewnere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
DEPOT HOTEL,
Oakland, Oregon.
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num
ber of years, and has become very pop
ular with the traveling public.
FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THI-
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords
Hotel at th Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Goods,
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
- WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY - AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Such as required by the Publio County Schools.
All kinds of Stationery. Toys and
Fancy Articles,
TO SUIT BOTH TOUNO AXD OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS! SEDS !
SEEDS!
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
with care.
Address,
IIACIIEXY St BEXO,
Portland, Oregon.
Eev. Dr. Deems : Insight into the
spiritual world is necessary to correct
impressions of this world. Ihe men
tha have - made the great discoveries,
the men that have inaugurated the great
roforms have been great believers in
the unseen.
Two Boys Quarreling.
Arkansaw Traveler.
"Mv pa is a preacher an' will go to
heaven
aven " "Yes. an' mv pa is a doctor
an' can kill your ole pa."
THE RIVER
Charles ,11. Adams.
The lights of the city glimmer
Iu the swift black wave below;
Like ghosts that flit in the gloaming
The white ships come and go.
White and dim and stately,
The good ships seaward go;
Luck to you, captain and sailors,
However the winds may blow!
Wbite and dim and stately,
The good ships homeward throng;
Welcome, captains and sailors,
Your voyage has been long!
And sweethearts' eyes shall glisten,
And wives shall joyful be,
As the little children listen
To your tales of the stormy sea.
But what are the wrecks you tell of
To the wreck of a love like mine?
The river murmurs and glitters;
Above the cold stars shine.
PARROTS'; PERVERSITIES.
Hints and Helps for Those Who
Teach Folly's Idea flow to Shoot.
London Telecraph.
Whea juvenile the bird is very im
pressionable. Adult, it is liable to be
obstinate, and, like the proud Briton
who refused to truckle to the German
system of genders, it oftentimes learns
a new language very imperfectly. Two
old birds, indeed, show extraordinary
antipathies to syntax, and get whims
into their heads ; about the construction
of sentences j which the utmost
patience or violence, as the case may
be. is powerless to dissipate. You can
not disabuse an old parrot's mind of an
error that it has once cordially enter
tained. It has its own ideas of gram
matical proprieties, and clings to them
like a limpet. You cannot shake it on
a matter of English. You may teach it
another phrase ' altogether, but it will
not forego the first. It will tag the
two together aud mix them up like the
"Protestant kettle" of the immortal
Bainaby's raven but this compromise
is fie best terms vou will make with
the bird. ;
When possible, therefore, secm-e a
young parrot, catch it at a good school-
board a-'e, and then teach it yourself.
While doing eo keep it away from the
contaminating influences of street boys,
for a baker's boy will teach it to ask
"Who kissed the cook?" in a half dozen
easy lessons, while you are wearing
your days out in impressing "God pave
the queen" upon its memory, and, after
all, the odds are the bird will say, "God
save the cook." Street cries, again, are
to be avoided if possible. It is not well !
to have a bird calliDg "cats'-rnea.," dur
ing family prayers.
liut above all the educator of the
youthful fowl should herself be circum
spect in her language, and careful of i
the pitch of voice, tor it will catch
her scolding tones at once, and pick up
"Bother that cat!" in her exact voice
too long before it will learn to say,
" low I it.r. i rvna: " lhnsfi who havA a
harsh laugh, or suffer from catarrh, or
imtwlimftr,t.nr nv defect of snPPr-h
should choose other pets than parrots
1 1 J L
guinea pigs or squirrels, or sone
other harmless "dumb" animals for
these bird3 have a perfectly malicious
aotitude for hitting off such weak
points. If old Mr. Weller had kept a
good parrot at the Marquis of Lxranby
the position of btiggms would have
been impossible; the mimic would have
utterly routed the snuffling rascal. So
that the difficulties in the way of bring
ing up one's own bird are considerable.
Bat if it can be accomplished the re
sult will abundantly repay the labor,
were it only in keeping the possessor's
mind frea from any disquieting appre
hensions as to "what that parrot will
say next." It is a great relief to vis
itors to know that, when out of polite
ness they take notice of their hostess'
bird, there is no danger of awkward
rejoinders. It disconcerts the average
caller if, when he says Pretty Poll,
the parrot retorts with Jorrocks apos
trophe to Aitaxerxes, "Get hup, you
hugly beast ; and the sesquipedalian
oath of the mariner articulated like a
centipede in an unbefitting response to
a friendly invitation to have a poll
scratched. By all means, therefore, if
you wish to be able to depend upon
your bird in mixed company teach it to
talk yoarsell.
The Wonderland Fast Vanish Ins.
Lonlon Telegraph.
Thibet is one of the few regions left
on the earth which will afford legitimat3
scope for romantic conjecture. All other
lands of mystery have been explored.
The Abyss"n:au campaign dissipated
the last shred of wonder about Pi ester
John. Travelers have abolished the
mountains of the moon; a Russian rail
way runs within s"ght of the Vul
ture's Nest, the eyrie of the As
sassins and the Old Man of
the Mountains; commerce has familiar
ized us with the lands of the white ele
phant and golden umbrellas ; science has
dispersed Atlantis, Utopia, and the
other "rewhon3" of past beliefs. No
Raleigh no -days would make sail for
fabled cities of Mansa ; no voyager set
his helm for Hesperides. The Ichthy-
ophagi, Tartarines and Malrotrans,with
all the other strange races of whom
Mandeville gossiped, are now sobered
down into matter-of-fact tribes, and the
whole world, under the ruthless scru
tiny of scientific explorations, is fast
becoming commonplace.
The Shid-Ilelty" futtern.
Chicago Journal.
Philadelphia dudes have been greatly
star led by the appearance m several
tailors' show windows of a colored
fashion-plate, which depicts a very mild
and blonde young man anayed in a
garnet-colored coat of the "shad-belly"
pattern, with ilesh-colored lining, a
figured white vest, a flowing cravat of
a delicate tint, and trousers to corre
spond. This is i declared to be the
dress-suit of the near future, the inven
tionof a .New lork man, and the re
sult of years of profound reflect;on
It does not appear whether or not the
inventor has communed with Oscar
"Wilde, and received his apostolic bene
diction. I
Dumas Pere.
The last mot of the elder Dumas.
He was on his deathbed. His old ser-
vant, who aaorea him, was weeping 1
in a corner. Dumas turned his half-
closed eye3 toward him and said kindly
"Don t cry, my poor mend: if 1
want
jou up there I will ring for you."
AT THE KOT SPRINGS.
Drus Stores and Doctors --- The
County Jail Arkansaw Poverty.
, " W. D," in New York Times.
You will not be surprised, of course.
at the number of drug stores along the
street. I started out once to count
on my fingers, but the fingers ran out
before I was half way up the street. If
a man could by any possibility throw a
stone in Hot Springs without hitting a
doctor he would be sure to hit the win
dow of a drug store. Here in the Ar
lington hotel the street makes a little
curve, running up past the opera hou9e,
a neat little theatre, and so straight on
up till it ends at the foot of a mountain,
then branching out to the right and the
left, and extending a mile or more in
each direction. Then, in every
way you can imagine, north,
south, east" and west, and in
all the possible angles between
these points, smaller streets run, in
which are the dwelling-houses, all
built of wood, some of them expensive,
Borne very cheap and none with any
vtrv distinctive features, except that
it is customary to build a fine house,
spend a few hundred dollars in ginger
bread work about the cornices and
pi zzz&, and leave the front yard m a
state of nature, which here means a
state of rocks and dead grasa and tall
bushes. Nine houses of every ten iu
the town take either boarders, or
lodger., when they can get them.
AVheiever von go you see the sign
starir.j
you in ihe face :
a v.u N1 .tOOM.
This invariablv jhosms that the build
ing is a lodging-ho tnd that lodgers
are urgently needed ; bat the announce
ment of "a" vacant room gives it rather
an air of there being a constant brisk
demand for places and of one of the
rooms just happening, by great good
fortune, to be vacant. This "vacant
room business is carried to such an
excess that it is a standing joke.
People try to find lodgers for rooms
in sheds, out-houses and garrets, lhere
was a big stove standing lor several
days on the edge of the sidewalk in
front of one of the saloons, labeled
"for sale." One night the "for sale"
sign disappeared and in the morning
the rusty old stove rejoiced in t;ie an
nouncement, "a vacant room!" Some
joker had stolen a lodging-house sign
aud hung it over the stove-pipe. Ihe
joke was so very pat everybody saw' it
at once, and there was a crowd around
the stove all morning.
I doubt whether there is any place of
its size in the world where more curious
things are to be seen. The hot springs,
of course, are most curious of all ; but
there are many others. For instance :
You go down to the railway station and
find a neat brick depot, perhaps as fine
and modern building of the kind as
there is in the whole south. You walk
fifty yards away from it and you come
upon a log snanty, perhaps twelve or
fitteen feet square, with no doors in
the walls, and with a rickety veranda
somehow growing out of the roof. You
notice that a little bit of a window, not
more than a foot square, in the front
wall is protected with iron bars. This
leads you to make inquiries about the
banding, and you learn that it is the
Garland county lau. Curiosity induces
you to walk around the corner of the
hut to the foot of a shady wooden stair
way, by which you climb to the ver
anda, where sits the jailer. He in
vites you to enter a garret room in
which you can just stand upright,
raises a trap in tne noor, ana snows
you the four or five prisoners con
fined beneath. "When a new prisoner is
brought a ladder "is lowered, the pris
oner climbs down, the ladder is with
drawn, and the trap is fastened down
again. In this hole the county prisoners
are kept until the county "judge" rides
over on his mule and opens the county
court. The prisoners, when the trap is
opened, look up and gibe the jailer and
visitors, ask for tobacco, crack
jokes about the weather, and make
as much capital as they can out of this
break in the monotony.
You go LOO yards in the other direc
tion from the depot and you come to
the old s'ation. Immediately behind
this is a high and very steep hill. Visit
it almost any pleasant afternoon and
you will see a dozen youngsters climb
ing the hill, dragging small sleds after
them, just as our northern boys do
after a snow-storm. These boys seat
themselves on their sleds and come
down the hill like lightning, although
the ground is perfectly bare. The soil
i3 full of oapstone, or some other
tlippery rock, -md the boys have a sport
ti.at n.atiy a Ne v lork lad has wished
lor tne lun ol riu.ag down hui in
summer time. Ycr ,0 a little further
out and you come c.. c Jbins where poor
people live, both white and black, lou
know what poverty is when you enter
one of them, and see that the on?y fur
niture is a bundle of rags for a bed,
and the v,uly food such scraps r.s can be
begged from the hotels. I taw a pietty
little colored shaver m one of thate
shanties, one dav, munching a piece of
dry brend as if he en-oyed it. He ist
bit of it fall in the ashes, and his
"mummy," who sat on an inverted pail
before the open fire, hunted it up
for him, saying, "Good Lawd, honey,
don't waste yer flour bread. 'Taint
oilen yer gets it I lou will not
often sit down and talk for ten min
utes with any male person in Garland
county without the conversation run
nmg mto knives and pistols and fights
and the gentleman telling you whom
he has '"licked," or whom he is going
to "lick," or why he hasn't "licked"
him, or why he would like to "lick"
him. But you need not mind this,
1 i 11 i M TTT,
uecuube n is an taiK. w nen two men
really do have a fight, even in the way
x nave described, it makes a great ex
citement and people talk about it for
weeks.
Ihe waters beheve to be equal to
the Lest that is claimed for them. For
paralysis, rheumatism, and all disorders
of the skin and blood they seemed to be
almost a sovereitrn
cure. If more reo-
p!e
knew about them ueoDle
would come here. And they should
cou.e. either m the spring or fall, and
stay nol,less than two or three months,
11 ti.ey expect to reap any benefit
Summer is to hot, winter 0g cold
Thv should, of course, keep ?lear o
ali "runners" and go first to orie of the
teehr large hotels -the Arlington
Avenue or Waverly -and take two or
three days to look around before con
sulting a doctor. In that tune they
will have been recommend d to htty
physicians as "the best in the place,"
and will have received tempting offers
from quite that many boarding houses.
TWO DAYS WITH KING WILLIAM.
A Couple of Dutch Otrls Pay a Visit
to the Jwvlal Old Monarch.
Dutch Cor. Springfleld Republican.
SpeakiDg of Maynheer Vanderkamer
brmg3 pleasant remembrances, espe
cially of his daughter Heather, a bright
girl of 18, and one of seven sister3. She i
was my guide and companion in many j
expeditions here and there, one of
which is worth telling, xou hxve read
Macaulay and Mfttley, and . have taken
some interest in William of Orange, I
am sure. At least I have VWJl, I said i
one day to Hesther Vandlf kamer : "I I
see how your common people are just
ike the Dutch settlers of New York;
and I suppose your king ij just
what the prince of Oange was."
"You should ko and see Kiner
William," sail the audacious girl, and
he next moment we made a plan. The
professor was the preceptor of the royal
princess, and his daughters are quite
familiar in the royal family. So I was
not much surprised when Hesther sent
a note to his majesty telling him of the
American lady, "whose hero was our
great William, and who is sure that he
is to be seen in your majesty, and who
would be so glad to bo presented that
she might see just how our hero ap
peared," etc.
King William, who 13 quite bour-
geo.se and independent, answered the
note as follows :
Dear Child Hesther: Your friend mav trv
to find the being of the great William in me.
She and you may come Tuesday and remain
as long as you like with us, and I can promise
that we live much as our ancestors, though
we may not be like them. William.
I have this note among my treasures.
and I shall keep it as a valued meme ato.
So we two girls went to the roval
palace on that Tuesday, and remained
ill Thursday morning. I might give
i description of the buildings of the
court and pen-pictures of the roval
amily ; but I spare you. King William
is a jovial old gentleman, and I had a
very nice time: Just now the question
is in ' regard to eating and etiquette;
and if we are to see in the modern
lollander the customs of our Nieu
Nederlander, in the king of Holland
we can see how that old-time William
of Orange and of our school historv
used to live. The royal Dutchman
rises a little after 9 and takes brandy
and water with his breakfast. Then he
takes a short walk, and until the time
for koffy is busy with stale affairs. The
second meal is much like that of the
common people. He drinks four or
fave cups of strong black coffea, and
has buttered toast of brown bread with
it. Soft-boiled eggs are always on the
able, for he is a light eater. Dinner is
alway3 a grand affair, and there are
never less than a daeen guests at
the table. This meal, like the others.
is much the same as that of the country
folk, except that the royal host and his
gentlemen guests have their Tokay
and J ohannisberger to discuss, and the
aaies have plates of confection.3. Tea
is invariably served at midnight. I have
sometimes wondered if Queen Vic
toria ever eats potatoes, and, in th,e
same line of thought, it does me good
to know that King William of Holland
eats buttered toast. Verily,' Diedrich
Knickerbocker, the Dutch were just
what you represented. But I am 6orry
to say that olykoecks and baggy
breeches I did not see. I wonder if
they are lost. I am almost inclined to
believe that the "koecks" are no longer
made and that the breeches are out
grown. Pills In France.
Pall Mall Gazette
French Holloways, if they do not be
come millionaires, at Jeast do a very
flourishing trade. One of the most
curious sights of the kind is the famous
pill manufactory of Dijon, founded
many years ago by aDijoanais chemist,
who invented or introduced in that city
pill-making by machinery. A note
worthy feature in this commerce is that
depression of trade, bad seasons, and
even national calamities, do not affect
the sale of pills. People at any rate,
French people will not give up these
delicacies, however hard the times may
be and however much economy they
are obliged to exercise in other matters.
The quantity of puis taken m Jb ranee
must be enormous, judging from the
activity displaved at the Dijon manufac
torv. We have known one .trench
lady alone to spend 40 a year upon
pills, which, it must be admitted, can
be had in great variety, lar,
camphor, castor oil, these are
among the family pills, and they
are got up m the neatest and most at
tractive manner. The capsules have
an envelope of slightly sweetened gela
tine, and when bottled ready for sale
look more like sweetmeats than any
thing else. Perhaps the agreeableness
of their medicines is the reason why
French people from childhood upward
are so good tempered.
Our School.
Judge Tourgee's Lecture.
And I am afraid the dude has got
into some of our schools. We are edu
cating our children either for the White
Hou.-e or tne poor-house. tseven-
eightha of them are to make their own
way in this hard, practical world, yet
they are made to swallow volume o
sciences and classics very impractical
Nervousness.
One day a little girl said : "Mother,
I feel nervous." "Nervous 1" said the
mother; "what is 'nervous'?" "Why,
it s being in a hurry all over!" was the
reply. The mite nad given a dennition
worth placing in the dictionaries.
St. Paul Pioneer Press : Perhaps
the instances where a battle is won by
strength of the enthusiasm of numbers
are rarer than those where utter route
is precipitated by the flight of a few
cravens, whose spirit conquers bravery
an 3 demoralizes organization.
"Yes, give us fun and laughter,
And hand the smile around;
We caunot laugh much after
They put us m the ground,"
How and Where Malaria Thrives.
Popular Science. -The
health o"hVrs of New Britain,
Conn., have made an instructive report
concerning the prevalence of malarial
diseases in that town, and their con
nection with certain supposed causes.
The causes of malarial and other
miasmatic diseases are not identical,
though they are similar, and the two"
classes not infrequently occur in a
given locality at the same time; and
the hygienic measures re paired to pre
vent them all are the same.
The essential conditions for the de
velopment of malaria appear to be : the
presence of the malarial germ; a high
temperature and dry atmosphere; and
favorable conditions of the soil ; and
the absence of either of them will sus
pend or prevent , the action of the
poison. We have power only over the
third condition. "A generous rain in
the vicinity has, we think, invariably
suspended its action. And yet a
previous condition of moisture is essen
tial to its manifestation. All deposits
of vegetable matter, such as muck.
sink-drainage, heaps of deciving
vegetable matter, or even wet, spotgy
and, furnish the essentials for its sup
port; but it is requisite that the soil
shall have been very wet, or covered
with w ater some portions of the vear.
A generous crop of grass, and per
haps of other vegetable substance, has
been known to prevent malaria. In
870 nearly all the families in the
neighborhood of some lots which were
argely a deposit of muck, had malaria.
The lots were plowed, dragged, and
sowed with grass-seed, and. the appear
ance of the crop of grass and weeds
was attended by a disappearance of
chills and fever. Two or three other
instances are mentioned in the same
town in which fever-and-ague was ban
ished by giving a similar treatment to
tracts of swampy and mucky soil.
Another case is specified where
malaria was prevented by the drying
up of the sewerage and s nk-water
which usually found it outlet through
a system of ditches cut in muck. Prepa
rations were making to lay tiles in
the ditches and fill them up, but before
his was done a heavy rain washed
them out, and "caused the prevailing
sickness to abate as suddenly as it had
commenced." From the first, malaria
has not prevailed in those parts of the
ity where vegetable deposits and filth
iiave been absent, and the health of the
streets in which sewers h ive been laid
has been remarkably good.
How Much Enslish People Write.
English Illustrate 1 Magazine.
There is a well-known story of a
woman in the lake district whom Cole
ridge befriended by the payment of a
shilling for her letter, and who, when
he postman was out of sight, explained
that her son had arranged to write to
her in blank letters, which she should
refuse, by way of letting her know that
he was well, and at the same time saving
the postage. Marks- and names on
newspapers, which might oe iranked
without the owner's consent, were also
employed to convey messages. It is
therefore not surprising to fand that, in
the year before the introduction of the
new postage, each person on the aver
age wrote only three letters in the
course of the year. In the following
year the average was seven ; it is now
thirty-six. In 1839 there were 82,000,
000 lettr T3 posted, of which about one
in every thirteen was franked. In 1840,
he circulation rose to 169,000,000, al
though franking was abolished.
At the present time it has reached
the astonishing total of 1,280,000,000.
t will perhaps bo gratifying to the
pride of Englishmen to learn that not
withstanding the boasted superior edu
cation of Scotland, each member of the
community there write on the average
thirty-one letters in the year, while in
England and Wales the number is
orty-One; in Ireland only seventeen.
But increased letter correspondence is
only one item in the growth of the
postoffioe. Post-cards did not exist in
839 ; they are a wholly new invention
within the memory of all of us. Their
circulation now exceeds 144.000,000.
n addition, 288,000,000 of books,
packets and circulars, and 140,000,000
of newspapers, passed through the post
in the year, making a total of more
ban 1,852,000,000 of packets of one
kind and another. The increase in the
circulation during a single year is now
nearly equal to the total number of
etters
carried by the dep m nt in
1839.
Xo Chance to Rectify Mistakes.
Horatio Seymour.
When I was a young man there lived
in our neighborhood a farmer who was
usually reported to be a very liberal
man, and uncommonly upright in his
dealings. When he had any of the pro
duce of his farm to dispose of he made
it an invariable rule to give good
measure rather more than would be
required of him. One of his friends,
observing him frequently doing so,
questioned him as to why he did it; he
told him he gave too much, and said it
was to hi3 disadvantage, inow, marK
the answer of this excellent man :
Go I has permitted me but one
journey through the world, and when I
am gone I cannot return to rectify mis
takes." The old farmer s mistakes were
of the sort he did not want to rectify.
Prentice's Last Year.
Henry Watterson.
George D. Prentice did not drink a
drop during tho last year of his life.
The first day of January of that year
he said he intended to make this the
best year of his life. He carried out
his good resolution, and it is wonderful
what amount of excellent editorial
matter he wrote. The paper could not
keep up with him, and it always had
copy on hand. At the close of the
year he died, having succeeded in mak
ing, as he had resolved, his last year
his best. '
Rather Persona!.
While an Indiana editor was home
sick with typhoid fever, and his wife
and little daughter were sunering at
the same time with diphther'a and scar
latina, the office boy clipped and pub
lished as a leader the following medi-
cal note: "Typho'd fever, diphtheria
and scarlatina are the results of human
ignorance, stupidity, laziness and filth,
rather than visitations of God."
A MODESTO MAN'S LUCK.
Be Wins a Portion of the S25.00O
Price in the Louisiana State Lot
tery. San Francisco (CaL) Chronicle, April 20th.
Within the past two or three months
artre nrizes of the Louisiana State lotterv
have been awarded in this State, notably
that drawn by Thomas Kichenei the cap
ital prize of 75,000 and the 10,000 prize
won by John Martel, C. P. Kobbins and G.
W. Bumm. And now comes the drawing
of the second capital prize of $25,000 of
which Isiaor Isaacs, of Modesto, has been
awarded $5,000. Mr. Isaaes was in this
city the other day, and said in conversa
tion, that there was a peculiar circum
stance in relation to his securing the luckv
ticket.
"In the first place." said he. "I sent to
San Francisco for a ticket in the Louisiana
State lottery, inclosing $1. I received no
answer to my A letter and so wrote again,
inquiring about it. The agent replied that
he had sentrthe ticket by mistake to Isidor
Colin, but that I might call at the postof
fice and get the letter, as the ticket be
longed to me. I went to the postoffice and
did not find any letter there for Isidor
Cohn, and therefore wrote again to the
agent, requesting him to either send me
another ticket or refund my money."
"He sent me the ticket numbered 58.298.
for April Sth drawing the lucky one and
right glad I am that the mistake was
made, for it was only a little while before
I received a dispatch, stating that I had
won a $5,000 prize,"
v nat were your sensations on receiv
ing the news ?"
W ell, 1 guess I felt about as anv Door
man does who suddenly comes into pos
session of a good round sum of money like
that. I nrst turned hot and then cold, and
then came a sudden conviction that the dis
patch was not authentic. So I telegraphed
to my brother who works in a clothing
store in San Francisco, to go to the agent
and see if I hadeally won the prize. He
did so, and on receiving word from him
that it was all right, I made a lively jump
for my gripsack, boarded the train, and.
on arriving in the city, made a bee-line
for the agent's office after my 5,000."
J. Boas cashed the check for the luckv
man, who left the city for Modesto in high
glee, after having feasted and wined him
self and friends to their hearts' content.
Mr. Isaacs is a clothing store keeDer in
Modesto, and has seen some nrettv hard
struggles to maintain himself and keep
up his business, under heavy competition
there, but he is satisfied that, with the
present comfortable addition to his little
capital, he will be able to increase his
stock and trade and become a succesful
merchant in that thriving town.
Reversing: the Old Maxim.
Judge John A. Jameson in a recent con
tribution to The North American Keview
says that of the things necessary to be done
to save our civilization, the first and most
important is to caus9 a complete change of
attitude on the part of society toward wrong
doing. What is now the attitude maintained!
It is one either of indifference, toleration or
connivance, or one suggestive of paralysis of
tno power or indignation and of every
faculty needed for the repression of crime.
Toward the criminal the attitude of the
public is that of weak pity, not unmingled
with admiration. The criminal is an unfor
tunate man, to save whom from punishment
seems to be the chief end of the law.
Look for a moment at his trial in a court
of justice. The jury, carefully selected for
their ignorance, are made judges of both
law and fact; to convict they must be unani
mous: if tbey have a reasonable doubt of
guilt they mu acquit; they are themselves
to determine what is a reasonable doubt;
and, to crown all, they are instructed that it
is better that ten guilty men should escape
than one innocent man should be punished.
These rules and max ms, devised centuries ago
by merciful judges, then met the ends of
justice, since, as the laws were, as against
the crown officers seeking to convict, a per
son accused had no chance of acquittal, for
he was allowed neither counsel nor witnesses;
but now they operate to screen the guilty
from punishment, save in the few cases
where there is a general cry yfor vengeance
against some atrocious offender.
The maxim about the ten guilty men is
pressed upon juries by every felon's lawyer,
as the great safoguard of private rights. In
truth, however, the interests of justice would
be best served by making it read: "It is better
that ten innocent men should suffer than that
one guilty man should escape." Were that
declared to be the policy of the law, juries
would ba made to feel, not that the innocent
were less deserving than before of acquittal,
but that the guilty were a hundred times
more deserving of conviction and punish
ment; and the results would be most salutary.
In not one case in a million could an innocent
man suffer, and hardly one in a thousand of
the guilty, instead of three out of four, as
now, would escape.
Climbed Him at Last.
Through Mail.
"Ever in Cahforny?" ask6d a long, lank,
lean, lantern-jawed tramp of a man on Cen
ter street the other day.
"No."
"Wa'nt in the boom o' '49, ehf
"No."
"Never was In the mines in Colorado or
New Mexico, eh!"
"No."
"Don't know nuthin' 'bout minin' a tallP
"No."
"Wall, I be darned I" said the tramp. "Never
was in the war, was yer
"Never." v
"Knock every button off my pants, if this
don't beat alii Ain't a member of the mel-
ish?"
"I am not a member of the melish."
"Wall, blast my hat, if you ain't the hard
est man to work for a drink I ever struck.
Say, pard, ain't yer never been in the peni
tentiary P
"Never have."
"Well, try me for a hoss thief if I ever see
the like. Yer the fust man I ever struck
that hadn't done suthin' mean or been to Cal
iforny, or in the war, one or t'other. Say,
pard, what's yer business?"
"I'm a bank cashier from New Jersey."
"Jewhillikens! I knowd I'd climb yer yit.
Aa' ye've never been in quad Well, by
jinks, yer ortertet 'em upr' and he did.
Uses of an Enemy.
Rev. Dr. Deems.
"Always keep an enemy on hand a brisk,
healthy, active enemy."
The having one is proof that you are some
body. Wishy-waihy, empty, worthless pe
pie never have enemies. Men who never
move never run against anything ; and when a
man ia thoroughly dead and utterly buried
nothing ever runs against him. To be run
against is proof of existence and position; to
run against something Is proof of motion.
The next best thing to having 100 real
friends is to have one open enemy.
Train Ins for Concert.
Washington Hatchet -V
A visiting friend found Simkins with his
coat off standing on the door-steps the other
night and remarked:
"Buttering losar, man, you'll eaten an
awful cold out b3re in your shirt sleeves."
"That's what T want," said Simkins, cheer
fully. "Got to sing a bass solo at an enter-
ment to morrow night, you know."
Mechanleal Musical Instruments.
Chicago Herald. J
The first mechanical musical instru
ments in which perforated sheet musio
was used were classed under the gen
eral head of orguinettes, the manufac
ture of which . was begun nearly a
decade since. The success with
which -they met was so si ntaneou3
that the- name under which substan
tially the same instrument is now known
became legion, and the concerns en-,
gaged in their manufacture have in
creased in the same ratio. Like most
new inventions they were at first crude,
cumbersome and complicated, easily
getting out of order, and generally but
poorly constructed. However, the main
principles being correct, the demand
which even such poorly constructed
goods created stimulated competition,
and improvements rapidly followed
each other, until the mechanical instru
ments of to-day would be hardly recog
nizable compared with those originally
offered.
The common orguinette represents
the cheapest style of any automatic in
strument ia the market. It is very
much admired, and has become quite a
favorite, it being neat, compact and
simple 'in its construction. It has a
full, e'ear tone, is well made, and, in
range of music, is practically unlimited.
The top is easily raised, or entirely re
moved ; the music then laid in, ready to
run, the top being then replaced and
held in position by springs, the instru
ment is read3 for use. A piece
of music can be repeated as
often as may be required by
simply joining the ends together, which
are already rnucilaged for this purpose,
and then passing the band underneath
the orguinette, a space at the bottom
being left for the purpose. This is often
very convenient when two or more ver
verses of a song are to be sung, or in
music for round dan cing, where a waltz,
polka or schottische needs to be re
peated indefinitely.
Some of the orguinettes have one
large bellows instead of three small
ones, filling the entire space uuder the
instrument, and constructed upon a new
principle, one of the main features be
ing its increased wind capacity, en-'
abling the performer to render slow or
fast music with equal accuracy ; or, in
other words, to play the music as orig
inally intended. There is an "express
ion box" on the top, forming a tone
chamber, which, by means of a hinged
cover, can be opened or closed by the
performer's left hand while playing,
thus producing crescendo or diminuendo
effects at pleasure.
Mr. Sliffln's Terrible Dynamite Gnn.
Norwalk (Conn.) Hour.
On the floor in one of the rooms of
the Norwalk Iron Works company is a
long, heavy cylinder. Its length is
about twenty-eight feet and the diam
eter of the bore is about f pur inches
In another department men are at work
constructing an air -compressor. When
the latter is completed it will be con
nected with the tube mentioned above,
and what the inventor confidently be
hoves will be the most tremendous en
gine of war will ba completed and ready
for trial.
Several years ago, while in Washing
ton, a gentleman from Ohio heard a
naval officer say that if a gun could be
constructed that would throw dynamite
it would thoroughly revolutionize mod
ern warfare. Mr. Miffin that was the
gentleman's name proceeded at once
to invent such a gun, and he has reason
to believe that it will be a perfect suc
cess. It would not do to use powder as
a propelling power, for its sudden ac
tion would explode the dynamite cart
ridge at the start and blow the gun
to atoms. Compressed air at a
pressure of about 300 pounds to
the square inch will take - the
place of powder, and the gun now
in South Norwalk is expected to throw
a three-pound cartridge a distance of
two mile3. Imagine the effect of a
cartridge of even so small a weight
striking the side or deck of a vessel or
the ramparts of a fort. The explosion
would be terrible in its results. If the
gun is a success, others of a size suffi
cient to throw 100 pounds of dynamite
ten miles will bs constructed. The gun,
loaded with sand instead of dynamite,
will be tested in South Norwalk at an
early day in the presence of naval offi
cers, scientific men and others.
A Unique Tolnme.
Boston Herald. 1
A valuable addition has just been
made to the Concord public library by
the purchase of a manuscript volume,
prepared by Mr. George Tolman, of
that town, containing an exact copy of
ell the inscriptions on the gravestones
and tablets in the two older burial
grounds of Concord. The inscriptions
are copied, line for line and letter for
letter, with all the peculiarities of spell
ing and punctuation which appear on
the stones, and with even the form of
the letters preserved. Several of the
stones are over 200 years old, and are
sunk in the ground, and so covered with
moss, as to render the inscriptions
nearly undecipherable. The labor of
transcribing these epitaphs has been
great, and has occupied Mr. Tolman's
leisure for a number of years. The vol
ume is a large record book of about five
hundred pages,beautifully executed, and
contains, beside the inscriptions, a large
amount of genealogical notes carefully
arranged and indexed. The value of
this unique work will increase with
1 1 1 111 1
years, and 11 win douotie3s be con
sidered, m a century or two from this
time, the most precious treasure in the
possession of the library. The book
will be preserved in the safe of the
library building, and its use guarded
with the utmost care.
Dickens and the Pill Man.
Inter Ocean.
Charles Dickens once received a
check for 1,000 from Holloway, the
pill man, which was placed at the au
thor's disposal on condition that one
line of complimentary reference t6
Holloway's cures should appear in the
book which Dickens M as then publish
ing in monthly numbers. Dickens sent
the check back by the messenger who
brought it without any answer at all.
R.K. Bowker: Nature does not in
trude her law. It is felt only whea a
man runs against it. Nature neve?
"nags .