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VOL. IX.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1884.
NO. 28.
J. JASICULEK,
PRACTICAL
Watcliaieiy Jeweler ani Optician,
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Eyeglasses.
ad a nu li or
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Thi only reliable itotomer in town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacles ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Speo
- - tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffice,
ROSEBURG. OREUOX.
LANGENBEBG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
ItOSEBUItCv, OKEtiOX,
On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps on hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and Han 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 "War-ran 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 IiAXGEXBERG.
DR. ML W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
ROSEOURG, OREGON,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over &. Marks & Co. s .New btore.
MAHONEY'S SALOON,
Nearest the Railroad Depot, Oakland.
JAN. 3IAIIOXEV, - - - Proprietor
The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will find this place
very handy to visit during the stopping of tne train
the Oakland Depot. Give me a call.
JAS. MAIIONEY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, OREGON.
UPHOLSTERY, mm MATTRESSES, ETC,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the Best
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South f Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
Xo Two Prices to Customers.
Rettdunta of Douglas County are requested to give me a
call before purchasing elsewhere.
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 THK
Table supplied with the Best the Market afforda
Hotel at the 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,
Sti oh as required by the Public County Sohools.
All kinds of Stationery, Toys and
Fancy Articles,
TO 8CIT BOTH TOVKO AND OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Cheoks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS I SEEDS I
SEEDS!
ILL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
. ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended jto and goods shipped
with care.
Address,
HA CHEW A BESO,
Portland, Oregon.
An dujallant Witticism.
Exchange.
On ont; occasion, when a lady was boast
ing that she had brought hundreds of men
tn her feet, the wxttv Lord Houghton re
marked in sn undertone, "Chiropodists.
Henry Ward Beecher: Men aro born
histories, unopened, unreadable; never
theless. every man born :nto this life
brings down something of his father and
something of bis mother, with a new
mixture made by the mingling of the two.
BRILLIANTS. .
The patient pleading of tha fjvi
How deep it shame the soul's despair!
In supplication moveless, rmitw,
They keep their attitude of prayer. "
. I John Vance Cheney.
He who stauds by my side alway,
Nor waits to see what tho world will say,
Caring not what jmy fortune W,
lie is my friend, the friend for me.
F. F. Wotherby.
Great souls have died for truth,, and left
their fame '
To l)e the watchword of another age;
By virtue, justice, courage, and high aim,
Descend through tune, a common Leriiage,
And heroes live to-dav in all but name.
i Charles I. Hikireih.
Bodily- Altitude and Health.
American Queen.
A writer on health very justly condemns
lounging, in which a large number of per
sons indulge, as injurious to health. He
says: "An erect Ixxlil y attitude is of vastly
more importance io health than is gener
ally imagined. Crooked Ixxli.y' positions,
maintained lor any length of tune, are al
ways injurious, j whether in a sitting,
standing or lying1 posture, whether sleep
ing or walking. To sit with the body lean
ing forward on the stomach or to one side,
witli the heels elevated to a level with the
head, is not only j in bad taste, but exceed
ingly detrimental to health. It crams the
stomach, presses the vital organs, inter
rupts the tree motion of the chest, and en
feebles the functions of the abdominal and
thcoric organs, and, in fact unbalances
the whole muscular system. Many children-Income
slightly humpbacked or se
verely round-shouldered, by sleeping with
the head raised on a high pillow. When
any person finds ft easier to sit or stand,
or walk, or sleep! in a crooked position
than a straight one, such person may le
sure Ids muscular system is badly de
ranged, and the morecareful he is to pre
serve a straight Or upright position, and
get Luck to nature again, the letter. '
How They Hot film Out.
Chicago Times.
. In Paris, recently, a workmen fell ovei
the parapet of one "of the bear-pits at the
Jardin des Plantes, and very nearly be
came a prey to two huge bears awaiting
their afternoon repast. The man lay for
a few minutes j insensible, with a" bad
wound on his head, from which there was
a copious flow of blood. The spectators
for a short time kept the hears employed
by throwing them endless pieces ol bread,
but they made so much noise in carrying
out their well-meant stratagem that the
animate were frightened away from this
frugal entertainment, and the male,
wandering about in search of refuge, ap
proached the more palatable food", and
licked up the blood flowing from the pros
trate sufferer's wound. Amid intense ex
citement the keepers arrived, and the man
recovered his senses. Seeing his danger,
however, he lay still, as if dead, while the
keepers prepared a rope and distracted the
bear from its prey by striking it with long
poles. At length the prisoner clutched the
rope and was speedily hauled aloft, to the
disappointment of the bear, who displayed
much irritation nt the withdrawal of so
daint y and ample a meal. The rescued in
dividual, who was badly hurt by his fall,
was conveyed to the hospital.
A Detective' Shrewdno.
London Standard.
Only a few months ago the papers gave
an instance of the acuteness of a French
detective. A man had murdered his fe
male companion and buried her body in a
cellar. The corpse was discoved, and the
man then said that the woman had killed
herself by falling down-stairs, and that
he had buried her secretly, fearing to
be accused of her death. He as
serted that this "accident" took place
in the autumn, in Octoler. The
detective observed the traces of smoke on
the ceiling. "You had a caudle when you
buried the body,!" he remarked, and was
answered in the affirmative. "And you
say you only entered this cellar that one
day in October?" The suspected man
again averred it. "You are speaking
falsely, " retorted the detective, and showed
the murderer, between the crevices of the
ceiling, the half-consumed larvte of cer
tain insects which only lay in the spring.
and which had been burnt by his candle
at the timo when lie had actually buried
his victim. i
Equalizing the Charges.
Philadelphia Call.
Railroad Magnate See here, slrl this
won't do. You sell me that sugar at 10
cents a pound, and I have just found out
that vou have been charging my son 15
cents for the same brand.
Grocer But you see.sir, your son lives
in lli c next square, close by, while you re
side a mile awav, and I have been afraid
that if I did not sell you at a low price
vou would preler to buv at some grocery
nearer home, j
R. R. Magnate I can't help that You
have no right I to discriminate against
my son in that way, just because he lives
near you. '
Grocer Well, I will stop it.
R. R. Magnate And let him have his
sugar at 10 cents.
Grocer No, I will charge you 15 cents.
Got Ahead of Lincoln.
New York Tribune.
The story was told of President Lin
coln's first visit to the penitent uirv at
Springfield, Ills. An old criminal, look
ing out through the bars of his cell, re-
mar ked: i
"Well, Mr. Lincoln, you and I ought to
be well posted on prisons; we've seen all
there are in the country.
" hv, this is the hrst one I ever visited, '
said Mr, Lincoln, r.nd was astonished at
the response: !
"But I've been in all the rest.''
Grateful Are We.
Burlington Hawkeye.
Yes, we think well of bicycles and bi
cyclers; wc love to watch them wing their
noiseless way swiltly past the nouse ana
we are glad we do not keep a gun. ' Every
Saturday afternoon there is one particular
bicycler goes bv; a lat man; a very iat
man in knickerbockers, a pleated blouse,
short skirted and gathered in at the belt.
mutton chop whiskers; single eye-glass
and navy cap. ; Grateful, indeed, are we,
every Saturday, that there is no gun in the
house, ;
Didn't Like It.
iTexas Si; tings.)
Mrs. Yerger oeing afflicted with face-
ache, sent to the drug store for some car
bolic salve, which she rubbed on her jaw.
The salve smelt like creosote, whereupon
her son .Jounuy remarKed:
''Mamma, 1 wouldn't use the medicine.
It smells like toothache.''
Ouecn Elizabeth of Roumania is said to
s:i;c iiiid a fondness for boiled sea gulls,
t;i:; c h-rsc. and hartshoru idly,
itiiit it s unknown to the Biretceutli ccu-
u v bill of fare.
THE BANK CHECK.
New York Times.
What I have to tell is absolutely true. It
did happen exactly as I shall try to write
it. The only thing I will omit fire the
names of the persons and the place where
it happened. I might by lengthening out
the story show the play of those fell pas
sions, greed and covetousness, but I trust
what 1 have to say will not lose its point
from brevity. The moral is the same
old trite one, that honesty is the best pol
icy. When a man is tempted to commit
a wicked action it often happens that the
injury done another becomes irrepara
ble. There is a sequence in all dishonest
transactions which escapes the evil-doer.
Effect follows cause. This may come
instantly, a quickly as an explosion when
the hammer of the gun-lock strikes the
cap containing the fulminate, or ilie fire
may hang back, but it will come some day
or other. This is a longer preamble than I
thought would be drawn from ray pen,
but as I am not a young mail 1 may
Indulge in such comments, because in the
life of any one who has passed the hall
century the force of inevitable constantly
occurs to him. A man of my age has been
long enough in this world to have seen
passing before him many a sad drama;
he has been present at tho very first
scene, and has leen an uuwilling witness
of the terrible conclusion.
I suppose few people who have had di
rect transactions with banks are not aware
that errors sometimes happen. The heads
of firms rarely are acquainted with such
mistakes. It is the business of clerks who
have the checks cashed to see that the
amounts paid them are correct. Paying
tellers if they do err are rather likely to
pay too much than too little. Should they
give more money than the face of the
check calls for, if the receiver of the
money is dishonest, then the paver does
not always hear about it If he underpays,
the demand for the difference is invariably
made at once. I am rather inclined to re
peat the assertion that in such mistakes as
are made in the rush of business, it is
the commoner error to pay too much.
Sometimes a very tired man, whose brain
has neon too long on the stretch, or
who is ill or nervous, mistakes the number
of the check for the amount, ano pavs
away some thousands instead of hundreds.
I have known this to happen in a New
York bank to a young friend of mine. lie
had sufficient good judgment not to em
barrass the paying teller by making am
noise about it. lie resumed his place in
the line, handed back his bank book, po
litely requested the teller to look at the
check he had presented, the amount he
had received, and it was all so quietly done
that he made for life a fast friend of a
careiul ana expert hank teller. I have
two or three times wen overpaid bv a
bank teller. People who shop have very
often mistakes made in their change to
their advantage. Need it be said that
without waiting an instant restitution
should be made?
I was a clerk in a house when the inci
dent I am about telling happened. We
did a large business in the cilv of , and
our check-book was in constant demand
I made out the checks and kept the bank
account, but did not have the signature ol
the firm. Generally for greater security.
wLen the amount was large, I drew out
the money myself. A great raanv of the
transactions we were engaged l re
quired us to pav at once to the individual
the hard cash.
The pa 1 ig teller of our bank in '.he
busine; s season had all he could attend to.
Tho money to be paid for an agricultural
product very much in demand would on
some days make the cash disburse
ments of the bank amount to $750,000.
I remembered that on one occasion.
looking at the teller, he seemed tired and
depressed. Presenting my check for some
amount less than $1,000 wanted by me
m Jfo and 10 bills he overpaid me $.),
lie had counted tne money over twice De-
fore passing it to me. I recounted the
money, found the error, and, being pressed
for time, could not return the StfO until
after 8 O'clock. The teller was obliged to
me, but I noticed that he bore a worried
look. A month after this we had some
balance to pay a customer living out of
the city, amounting to $4o6. A check
whs drawn by me, handed to tho creditor,
and his account was balanced. The busi
ness entirely dropped out of my mind
come three months afterward the hrm
received a letter from this man, which was
rather ambiguous of its kind. There was
an error, so he said, in his account. Would
we look over it? At once I examined the
books, checked off every item, went
through all the debts and credits of his
business, and ended by inspecting the final
check paid him. My employers, who
were very honest and careful gentlemen,
were satisfied with the accuracy of the ac
count, and I was Instructed to wnte him a
letter to that effect. I did so, as politely
as I could, but at the conclusion of my let
tor I said, l ou leave us in the dark, how
ever, as to one thing. Three months have
elapsed since our check was given to you,
If you find not been paid what was due
you we should have certainly heard
from you before, iiave you been
overpaid?" My senior employer,
a shrew a business man, looking over my
letter, remarked, "remaps your question
here might not be liked by Mr
However, let it go. " I mailed the letter
W e heard nothing more about it lor a
month. Then there came a tortuous let
ter from the man.
"liis account- was
wrong, " he wrote. "
'Maybe he had come
across some money he could not exactly
account for. " He did not state how much
money it was. or how it happened. It was
a mean shamble on his part. I knew that,
He had pricks of conscience; that I was
certain of. The firm consulted with me
what they should do. I made up my mind
that more money had been paid the man
on the check than he was entitled to. I
went at once to the teller of the bank. I
found him ill, nervous, and tremulous.
"les. he said, "my accounts were
wrons. There had been a big deficit. I
have not slept for months. 1 am afraid I
have overpaid some one. But thank God
I made it up. I mortgaged ray house and
passed the amount short to the credit of
the bank. I must have made a blunder
somewhere. But the strain on mv mind
has been 'killing me. 1 feel as it 1 were
no longer lit for the place. " He seemed
to me to have moments of doubt and un
certainly. T still cling to my place, " he
paid. " Of course I have no recollection of
having ever paid that check of $456.'' 1
said to Mm that I had hopes of getting
some of ihe money back, but I did not
like to tell him how. But what I did do
was to iro that evening to the president of
the kink and state the case to him. As it
had Itcen through him that I owed my po
sit in in the firm, he had
every confidence in me. My advice
was asked. 1 was forced to
declare that I thought the paying teller
l.v.ti !.h i :cr be given another and lighter po
Miion. The next day when I went to the
k :he old teller had been apparently re
lieved He was casting up some accounts
in the ledger. Whoa I spoke to Mm
across the raning he did. net Mm to recog-
nize me. rext uay l was snocKeu io learn
through the president of the bank, that
such positive indications of mental trouble
had been shown by the teller, that his
friends had thought it wiser to confine him
to his house, llis accounts had been at
once rigorously examined, and were found
to be correct. It was perfectly true that
he had mortgaged his house, and had paid
the amount into the bank. He had con
cealed the loss for three months or more
from the Inink, which was a mistake on
his part, but he had been punctilious
enough to even add the interest for some
ninety days.
Now, I felt absolutely certain that tht
man to whom the checK nau oeen paid
must be a rascal. If he had offered resti
tution it came late very much late. My
firm gave me carte blanche to manage the
matter as I pleased. I could not have him
arrested. As he lived in an isolated part
of the country, no efficient summons could
reach him. If I had bfieu aggressive
before, probably not a cent would have
been returned. I wrote lw, a sharp
letter. I said: "That ;n'. Twre
amount of money must have been paid
him over and above the face of the last
check given him, which was for $453
I stated,
aieu, that l anew exactly how much
O ' V " I
it was.
s. i must uoniess uuingiu uuu mis i
was a bluff. 1 was not sure that tho
teller had not made other mistakes
besides this one. I wrote that "unless
the money was at once restored 1
would blast his reputation. If he was
inclined to be honest,, even at this lat
date, let him do all he could and send
back tho whole amount" I thought it
wiser not to let him know the mental con
dition of the teller. I was quite certain
that if he knew that if the teller was out
of his mind not one penny would he
return. I wrote to him that he must bo
in a hurry about it. That only the teller
and I knew of it, and that my firm were
yet m ignorance.'
At once, by return mail, 1 had a letter.
The sum was not, as he said, what 1 rep
resented it to be. He made some specious
arguments about a man finding a purse,
and the description of it not tallying with
the actual purse lost, or the amount in it.
Under such circumstances, was a man
bound to return it? If I could prove that
he had been overpaid, 1 ought to
state exactly what was the amount.
He might, he added, "never have
written me a word about it, and
no one would have been the wiser. But he
had a conscience, " so he said. I replied
with a vigorous letter. I confuted his
arguments. uHe knew," I said, '"the mo
ment he had the bank-notes passed over
to him that he had been overpaid." A
man might find a piece of gold in the dust
of the road, and could never tell who
dropped it there. But there was no anal
ogy between tne two cases. 1 cried for
immediate restoration, or there would be
an exposure. " His answer did not come
for ten days. I was mistaken, he said.
He was not aware that he had been over
paid until he got home. Then he did not
know of it for a week afterward. It
came out then in his accounts. " I knew
this . io be a wicked lie, but it
contained at least the written ac
knowledgment that he had been over
paid. His letter concluded as follows:
the matter has worried me considerably
has taken up a great deal of my time, and
time for me is money. Don t vou think
there should be compensation allowed me.
or in other words, can t we make a com
promise?" (Oh, the blackguard!) "If
such a thing could be arranged 1 will come
to the city and pay over to vou the money.
I am not afraid of the bank. I consider
that my transactions have been with your
linn.
The money overpaid by the teller had
been some $4,000, and he had probably
counted out $4,5(50 instead of $450. I
hated to do it, but I offered the scoundrel
his traveling expenses, llis reply came
promptly: io leave his business was
worth a great deal more than that.
Then, again, he thought of bring
ing Dis wile on with mm and en
joying themselves." rihe up and down
or it was that 1 must oiler him a certain
amount. "Mv temptations, vou remem
ber, have been very great. n i offered him
Si'juu. l was uisfrusten. 1 lelt like from?
to his place and tackling him myself.
This is my ultimatum," I said. "If I
do not hear from you in ten days I will
disclose the whole matter and you will be
dishonored. llis letter came back
promptly enoucrh. "He would take the
$500. It wasn't very much. The bank
was ever so rich. Corporations had no
souls. " I consulted with the bank presi
dent, who thought it was better to close
with the man. Would it be believed that
that wretch and his wife came to ap
parently on a pleasure trip? He had done
a sharp and a clever piece of business. He
had not the least compunctions
of conscience. He came to the office of an
evening, and 1 do not hesitate in saving
that in my hip pocket there was a revolver.
He handed me over something less than
$2,000, asserting that the amount received
less the traveling expenses and the $500
made up this balance. V hen the money
had been transferred by me to the safe I
gave him a piece of my mind. I did not
spare him. I heaped on him every insult
ing epithet I could think of. Then he
showed his temper, which was an ugly
one. "jsow, said l, (remember, 1 was 20
men, ana hotter mood ran through my
veins than to-day), you arc worse than a
thief; you are a murderer. You have
wrecked an honest man's brains. That
teller of the bank, whose monev vou took.
has lost his reason. He will, I am afraid,
never no a sane man again, l his is vour
work. " That seemed to cow him. ""i'our
repentanco comes too late. I hate
you so that God forgive me had
you as much as lifted a finger
against me, I should not have
hesitated in killing you like a dog, and no
iury in the land would have touched a
hair of my head. Go out of this city by
the earlv morning train, or I will make
you. " The wretch left the office like a
whipped cur. What was the sequel? A
sad one. The bank teller lapsed into a
melancholy condition, which rendered all
menuu iarxr nnpossiDie. lie had some
little money, but many friends, and such
few comtom as he required were ungrudg
ingly given him. He died ten years asro.
He never did completely recover his senses.
As to the canting rascal, his fate was a
dire one. Somehow the whole storv came
out, though I did not divulge it In that
section of country where he lived he was
discredited. He took to drink, and be
came a confirmed inebriate. He neglected
his business, and his plantation was sold.
His wife sought and obtained a divorce.
Two years ago I read that in a brawl in
ine most aegraaea quarter oi a town in
Alabama this man met his death in a negro
dance-house.
Training Children.
Philadelphia Call
A child's education in obedience should
begin at a very early age, but in a most
gentle way: little by little as events occur.
Do not crowd the voungmind bv tcllinir it
what it should not do. Simply tell it what
It should do.
A LITTLE GIRL'S FORTUNE.
What a Bundle of Confederate Bonds
Brought an Orphan.
, Frankfort (N. C.) Letter.
This quaint old place, which lies in
the center of the Quaker settlements,
was during the war a favorite resort of
"refugees," by which name was desig
nated those persons whose j homes in
the eastern section of the stata were in
side the danger line, or in the counties
already held by the Federal
troops. In this sleepy town these
found a haven of refuge, and made
themselves comfortable, to remain
while the war lasted. They brought
here their money and the old-fashioned
bank stored Confederate bonds and
currency in great amounts. ! The crash
came in the fatal 18oo, and fctoneman's
raiders whirled down so near that mo,t
of the refugees prepared to fly. A little
later the war ended.
The big old safe, aa solemn as the
grave and as chary of its secrets, was
shut. But few of the depositors had
withdrawn t'.ie now valueless currency
it coutained.
J he bank, a dead corpor-
;., onHOi tn DT;C. ,iw;
as it had
lived, lazily. Years rolled by, each
making the old safe and it3 secrets
more solemn still, as it stood cob-web
bed in one corner of the lower rooms of
the gloomy old bank building. Rumors
of its contents being of value began to
be created in the fertile field, imagina
tion, nd it was whispered that in its
deep recesses lay piles of sound silver,
vast quantities of bonds, jewelry worth
a prince s ransom, and finally the con
tents of the safe became a matter of
daily conjecture. Last year the
"boom" in Confederate bonds besan.
The safe was ransicked. From its ca
pacious depths were taken oat quite
3,OUO,000 in Confederate bonds, and
nerly $1,000,0K) in state bonds and a
much in Confederate and state cur
rency. Ihe bonds were tied in rolls or
in boxe, and the names of the owners
could be found in but one case. On a
large roll was found the name of "Adam
i'.xum, 18b-'?. The bundle was found
to .contain 1,500 $1,000 Confederate
bonds. What the long dead owner had
paid lull value for and what had been
lor years so much waste paper, had be
come worth $5.50 per $l,0i;0.
But strange as the past events might
seem, future ones were even more curi
ous. It was found that Exum had gone
to Charleston, H. C, October, 18G3, and
nothing had s:nce been heard of him.
His son, a soldier, had been wounded;
had married after the war in S'irginia;
had come baok to North Carolina ; died
in 1871; his wife following a year after,
and their child, a girl, had been placed
iii an orphan asylum. The action of
th ex-bank officers were prompt
and ju t. When told about the
girl, so poor, so desolate, they
sold the bonds on which were her
grandfather's name, and sent th money
they brought (,2o0) to a ltaleigh
bank, notifying the superintendent of
the orphan asvlum where the girl was
g cared for. The case is a curious
one in all respects, and is attracting
much attention in the state wherever
known. Tho rirl in intelliVent and
mcdast, and, though no great fortune
comes to her, yet the strangeness of its
C5 O I
iming gives to it an interest which
would not ordinarily attach to it. The
girl has been sent to a
lead ng school.
Hun the Prince of Wales Look.
Olive Lj a London Letter.
The most powerful supporter Gen.
Baker has is his liege lord the prince
of ales, but you know the old adage,
qui sereseoiblent, s'assemblent. I saw
the heir apparent in a hansom this
morning not a common hansom, you
understand his own hansom, a mag
nificently appointed little affair, with
such a beauty of a bit of gray horseflesh
between the shafts. Dear me. how
that exqusite, shapely brute did dance
about! Ihe driver was a light-weight,
a good-iooKing young ieuow, in the
usual gray livery tf the Wales'.
We alwan know the princess is
coming when we see the gray livery
and the horses with red head-bands
and red rosettes and we always know
the prince is coming when we see the
gray livery without the red ribbons. So,
forewarned forearmed, we have time to
stop and have a good stare. The prince
is getting uglier and more dissipated
looking every day and the princess
seems more and more charming every
time we see her. Whatever the real
home life of this so famous couple may
be we know not, but their demeanor to
each other in public is so really affec
tionate that one wonders at their clev
erness in keeping up appearances
that is, if they do not care for each
other. W e think it surpnsipg that a
man who ha such a pretty and good
wife as Alexandra is should care to as
sociate with the creatures we hear his
name coupled with.
Noted Checker-Player.
Exchange.
Chess is oftened mentioned as the fa
vorite game of great generals, diplo
mats, and scholars; but the simpler,
though,, perhaps, not less pleasing game
of checkers must have its innings on
that score, too. Not only did Plato use
it for philosophical illustration, and
Cicero turn to it for mental diversion,
and Frederick the Great spend hours
over it. but, in later days, such men as
Lincoln and Garibaldi prized it highly;
and it is said that, as his namesake s
place in Ithaca was the scene of many
checker contests, so Gen. Grant used
to "clean out the boy" at West Point
at it, and indeed ascribes much of his
military success to the training of the
sixty-four squares.
Curious Natural Barometer.
Exchange.
The natives of the Chiloe islands
make use of a curious natural barome
ter, to which, from its having been first
noticed by tho captain of an Italian
corvette, the name "Barometre Arau-
cano" has been given. This novel
weather guide is the shell of a crab,
one of the Anomnra, probablv of the
genus Lithodes. It is peculiarly sensi
tive to atmospherio changes. It has a
color nearly white, in dry weather; but
as soon as wet weather approaches
small red spots are exhibited, varying
in number and intensity with the
amount of moisture in the atmosphere
In the rainy season it is ompletel j
red
tTnder tho Cottonwood.
Chicago Herald 'Meddler.
'I see the cholera is corning," said a big
man to another on the north side street
cars. "I never hear of the epidemic but I
lainK ol an incident that came under my
own observation in Missouri A physi
cian in one of the pruirie towns of that
state went away to California during the
gold fever that raged so strangely in this
country so many years ago. His compan
ion was his old man-servant, one of the i
best old negroes that ever lived. The mis
tress was left in Mis-jouri to take care of the
old house. There were few mails in those
days and months passed away before any
tidings came back of the master and his
servant. One eveninc. two vears after.
the old negro came j back and found his
"Missus" in tho doorway of the old home.
He had a short story to tell.
Fust he laid down at her feet $10,000
in gold. The story told was of a dying
master, his command to the old servant.
and a grave in the sound of the waves of
the Pacific. At the . time of the old ser
vants return the choie"ti wa sweeping
over the west. That i very night the old
servaut died, and in an hour after the old
"missus, hearing of it, had passed away.
They were buried on a knoll on the
prsnrie side by side.; Two cottonwood
trees, the only ones in the range of the
eye stood sentinel above their sleeping
plnces.
One day two bodies of men fought on
this site. The struggle was brief, but it
was as fierce as any that the war witnessed.
It Ls known in history as the battle of
Lone Jack. During- its engagement a
wounded soldier crawled over to one. of
these graves and resU.nl upon it, under the
cottonwood trees. lie tuid not been there
long when another one did the same thing.
Une of them was a rebel soldier, the other j
was a Federal. They were brothers. One j
of the graves where , the greeting took I
place was that of the mother of the rebel
and Federal. Tho other grave was that of
the old servant. The war ended right
there, so far as those boys were concerned.
I never hear of cholera that I don't think
of this incident
Thought "Stinithln Wan the flat
ter.
Chicago Herald.
"Did you ever," asked a New York Ceu
tral fireman, "hear of old Jerry Drew who
lives up near Kochcster? iSor Well, we
had a scrimmage with him one day. He
gets drunk every time he goes to town,
and that day he was drunker than ever.
He alius, seemed to get to the track 'bout
time we got to the road, an' I've , seen him
whip up his horses and whoop and yell
and try to get there the same minute we
did many a time. He seemed to delight in
it unce he stopped right on the track,
and when we came up slow with brakes
on he ilnred us to come any closej.
and said lied run over us. Had to
whistle and scare his horses in order to get
him off. The time 1 started out to tell you
about, though, Jerry had had too much
and was sound asleep in his wagon. The
horses went on the track right in front of
us, and the whole institution was busted
all to pieces. We stopped as quick as we
could an run back. Both horses was
killed and the wagon all cut up to kindiin'
wood an' scrap iron. Over bv the fence
was old Jerry. I saw he wasn't dead right
away. The shock had woke him up, an'
he was try in to drink out of the neck -of a
bottle, the neck being all there was left of
it. 'What's the matter here?' I shouted
to him. He looked un, opened his eyes a
. 1
"" an CTzca aroami
V1' 1,e , ?uess 1
1 mm. i guess-
3 - "
must o hij run
into sumthin'
The Jews In Russia.
Boston Advertiser.
There can be no question that the Jews
have a hard time of it in Russia. " The
miserable scenes which have just been en
acted at Novgorod are only a repetition of
whet haa repeatedly taken place during
the past two or three years in various parts
of the czar's dominions. 1 he ltussian law
itself teaches the people to look with con
tempt and hostility upon the Jews. Under
that law the avocations open to the Jew
are strongly restricted. lie cannot be a
lawyer or a doctor, or even a merchant in
the ordinary sense. He is forever forbid
den to hope for anything like social
rank or political preferment If he
would live, he must stick to usury and the
smaller trades. He stands, moreover, in
perpetual peril of insult, outrage, and even
death. His appeal for justice in the courts
and for protection from the state is often
little heeded. 1 he orthodox Kusslan, how
ever, seeks the aid and converse of the
Jew, when, as often happens, he is in need
of funds. AH over eastern and southern
Russia the Jews have been for manv vears
absorbing the land and other properties of
the small boyard and the agricultural class,
foreclosing mortgages and grasping pledged
ehects. I he natural issue is the ever-re
curring persecution which the government
is not always prompt to check.
A Convenient Fashion.
New Y'ork Times.
To all wearers of false teeth the news of
the recent fashion set by a Chicago society
lady will be extremely welcome. This
lady has an entire set of false upper teeth,
and she neither conceals the fact nor pre
tends that they are preferable to real teeth
bhe is also near-sighted, and wears sus
pended to a hook on the northwest summit
of her dress a pair of neat eye-glasses,
which she puts on whenever she wishes to
look at anything, bome lime ago it oc
corred to her that it would Iks the part of
common senso to use her teeth only when
she desired to talk or cat Accordingly,
she now carries them suspended by a cord
around her neck. hen the meets a
friend sho first puts on her eye-glasses and
looks at him, and then put3 in her teeth
and indulges in conversatiou. Similarly,
when she goes to dinner.- she puts in her
teeth as soon as the soup has disappeared
and the fish is brought on. Being a leader
of Chicago fashion, her example has been
followed bv other ladies, and at a Chic
opera quite a large proportion of the ladies
of the audience wear their teeth gracefully
suspended from the neck.
Inventions of the Shakers.
(New Orleans Times-Democrat
The peculiar sect known as the "shak
ing quakers," deserves credit for many of
the useful inventions of the present. More
than haif a century ago they first origin
ated the drying of sweet corn for food, and
they first raised, papered and vended gar
den seeds in the ; present styles, From
their first methods of preparing medicinal
roots and herbs for market sprang the im
mense patent medicine trade. They be
gan the broom-corn business. The
first buzz-saw was made by the shakers at
New Lebanon, ibis is now in the Al
bany Geological hall. The shakers in
vented metallic pans, first made of brass
and silver. AH distilled liquors were
abandoned as a beverage by the shakers
sixtv vears ago. and during the past forty
vears no fermented liquor of any sort has
been used, except as a medicine. Pork
and tobacco are also numbered amonj the
"forbidden artielift.
Tho
Simple Little Community on
Iionenome Islo an Haut.
New York Sun.
Away off the coast of Maine, outside tha
cordon of rocky Isles that stretch like a
protecting chain between the Atlantic and
Penobscot bay, exposed to the ceaseless
beat of the waves. ad to the fury of every
storm. Is the oldest, lonesomest, and most
primitive spot on the American coast, the
Isle au Haut This name was "given to it
by one of the early French voy
agers, who thought lofty island or
Isle of height a most appropri
ate appellation for the sea-g!rt rock.
whose perpendicular sides rise immedi
ately from the water, with scarcely a break
In their monotony or a bit of beaoh. The
island proper, with eight or ten smaller
companions, now comprises a town, hav
ing been set off from Deer Isle in 1874,
All the islander together have an area of
3,000 acres, and about 300 peoplo live on
t:.era. Ihey all live by the soa, directly
or indirectly, and .their lifa is but -a du:l
existence. Anthony Merchant first settled
in one of the group, which now bears his
name, in 1772, and since then the hamlet
of fishers lias grown by twos and threes)'
painfully, slowiy. 1 hero is no posto'I.c.',
no minister, no lawyer, and no doctor. If
anybody is sick, or wants any rt-d tape, or
an expected letter, he must take a sailboat
and go to Deer island or to Rockland, the
journey leing nearly always rough and
often impossible.
On the summit of the cuffs Is a great
level plot, half sheep pasture and half blue
berry bog, and there is grown the best
mutton and wool in Maine, and there, too,
is the blueberry pickers' paradise, whole
schooner loads of people often going in
summer from the mam land to gather the
berries. There was an attempt made
years ago by a Georgia gentleman to make
Isle au If aut a great summer resort, and he
put all of his own money and that of somo
other persons into the scheme. A splendid
pavilion for concerts and dancing was built
and roads along the cliffs constructed at
great expense. Then, just as the plans
were ready for a great hotel, the finance
department of tt association collapsed,
and with it the whole fchenie. That was
years ago, before the expressive term
crank" was on the boards. The natives
used the roads for sheep paths, and dried
nets on the hard-pine floor of the pavilion.
1 he fishers are as simple as the old Ar
cadians, of whom it is written: "Neither
locks had they to their door, nor bars to
their windows. Not manv of them have
ever seen the mainland, and scarcely any
of them know what a city is like. Only a
month ago the first hor?c ever landed on
the island was brought there, and a good
half of the simple folk .gazed then for the
first time upon a member of the equine
species, jno steamer ever lands there, and
in all probability the only gnmpes of
good-sized steam craft the islanders ever
get is when, on clear days, they see
through a glas passing vessels of the In
ternational and Boston and Bangor lines.
Farmer. .
Donn Piatt
I now hurl back the foul aspersion.
made by certain members of the press,
wherein I am charged with falsely rosing
as a farmer. If I am not a farmer, frienda
and neighbors, I would like to know what
in the old scratch I am?
Now, as I understand it, a farmer is a
man who tills the earth, with great loss to
himself, and benefit to others. So 3ou see
my, claim to being a practical farmer can
not be denied. Like honest Dogberry, 1
boast " my losses. "
A farmer is a man who toils for fifty
years lor the privilege oi living teu
and then, in a majority of instances,
gets cheated out of that by rheuma
tism. He rises before daylight, and '
labors till after dark. He eats what he
can not sell; wears barely enough to make
him decent in appearance, but not suffi
cient for comfort or health, is a hard task
master to his family, and death to his wife.
He is industrious, sober, and, if you don t
touch him on a horse trade, or too closely
in a little bargain, almost as honest as a
country merchant, and as honorable as a
county court lawyer.
This grand pursuit Is the underlying
foundation of our existence. It is not only
the author and creator of our homes, but
of all the immense improvements that
amaze the world. This net-work of rail
roads, manuring over 100,000 mfles of
operating rails, was built by farmers.
These great cities, all these towns, canal,
telegraph, mines and manufactories were
it of our earnings. e make eight-
tenths of the h.bor of the land.
The Maori King:.
IiOiidon Letter.
We have a titoocd man over hero who
is attracting a great deal of attention. This
is me ;iaon King, lawiimo. me King at
tended the ilaverly Minstrel 6how at
Drury line the other night, and was the
observed of all observers. He looked like
a new kind of minstrel himself. Skidmorc,
the interpreter (probably one of the orig
inal Skidmore guards), tried to translate
some of the jokes for his majesty, but if
the sullen looks of the king are" any cri
terion he did not approve of tl.em, which
shows him to be a man of some sense.
The Maori king is tattooed in a manner
that gives him a surprised sort of look.
Commencing over the nose between the
eyes the tattoo marts radiate an over a
rather large forehead, it looks sometiung
as if the tattooer tried to make a picture
of a sunrise. The nose is ornamented
with little circles, and from the base of the
nose other lines come round under the
chin to the nose again. The king is tall," -but
walks with an undignified shuC'e,
Something seems the matter with hii
knees. lie gets sick every few days in
other words, drank.
Sttrprled at Connecticut.
New York Sun.
Yes, ah, " said a North Carolinian at
the New Y'ork hotel yesterday, "I like yo'
city very much, but, sah, I am very much
puzzled at Connecticut. 1 have been up
thar on business, and 1 have ndden pretty
much all over the state a consid'ble
po'tion of the way In a buggy. It's a
pretty country. Thar's lots of neat-looking
places, some fine buildings, plenty of
nice stock, and it is evident that thar's a
great deal of wealth; but, sah, I can't un
derstand how they live ur-thar. The
rocks are so big, eah, and thar's so many
of them, that I can't pee where they can
raise anytliing to feed themselves with, for
I give you my word, on my honor as a
gentleman, sah, that if I was put down
thar, sah, though I am a fanner, I would
starve to death. And yet, sah, they tell
me, sah, that the bay crop of that mas oi
stone carbuncles, sah, called New England,
was one-third more in value than the
whole of the cotton crop of the south, I
tell you. sah. it s'prises me, "
Springfield (la.) New Era: A mac
should always consider himself under obli
gation to sweep first his own dooryard.
The Current: Among, the Ino arte the
the-holier-than-thou-aru."