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rnXTTTi TTTTi"PnmTTYT?T7rH XXLJLi JUL? SJJM.lki JLAXLi JL .. HAS THE ; FI N EST JOB OFFICE IX DOUGLAS COUNTY. CiRDS: I1LL HE1DS. LEGAL ILiKIS. And ether litnting, including Mgt .& HeaTj Posters ft Siowj Hani-Bills, Xeatly and expeditktusly executed AT PORTLAND PRICES. One Year - ----- $2 50 Six Months - 1 50 Three Months ----- 1 00 IPV, tk t.n In BAmnc The Ikdkpsndest offer flue inducement to atlYertiaera. Terms reasonable. VOL. IX. ROSEBURG, OREGON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1884. NO. 36. THE INDEPENDENT, IS ISSUED SATURDAY MORNINGS, BY THE Douglas County Publishing Company. Yin? HOlITfi-T . AS i TIMPFIMI" J. JASKULEK, - PRACTICAL Watctoaier, Jeweler ani Optician, ALL WOBK WABBANTED. stealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles and Eyeglasses. AND A TVLL US OW Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods. Thi only reliable Optomer in town for the proper adjust ment of Spectacles ; always on hand. Depot of the Genuine Bratilian Pebble Spec tacles and Eyeglasses. Office First Door South of Postoffice, ROSEBURG. OREGON. LANGEinBEBG'S Boot and Shoe Store BOSESUBti, OHEtlOX, On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office, Keeps on band the largest and best assortment of Eastern and Ban Francisco Boots and Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, And everything In the Boot and Shoe line, and OT?T T Q r tdTTP A "Q . !7,TD r A CJTT Doots and Shoes Hade to Order, and Perfect Fit Guaranteed. I use the Best of Leather and Warran all my work. Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice. t keep always on hand TOYS AND NOTIONS. , Musical Instruments and Violin Strings a specialty. I.OIJI8 LAXGEXBERG. DR. m. W. DAVIS, S3 DENTIST, UOHEBCBG, OBEGOX, Offick On Jackson Street, Up Stairs, Over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store. TiIAHONEY'S SALOON, Nearest the Railroad Depot, Oakland. JAS. MA1IOXEY, - - . Proprietor The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in Douglas County, and THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE, KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR. Forties traveling on the railroad will find this place ery handy to riait during the stopping of tbs train at j the Oaiuana Depot, uive me a can. JAS. MAHONEY. JOHN FRASER, Home Made Furniture, WILBUR, OREGON. UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC, Constantly on hand. FURNITURE. I have the Best STOCK OF FURNITURE South ef Portland. And aU of my own manufacture. Xo Two Prices to Customers. Residents ot Douglas County are requested to glre me a call before purchasing elsewhere. ALL WORK WARRANTED. DEPOT HOTEL, Oakland, Oregon. RICHARD THOHAS, 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 ANDTHK Ta We supplied with the Best the Market affords 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. Such as required by the Public County Schools. All kinds ef Stationery, Teys and Fancy Articles, T SUIT BOTH T0UNO ASD LT). Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes Cheeks on Portland, and procures Drafts on San Francisco. I SEEDS ! ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY. ALL ORDERS Promptly attended to and goods shipped with care. Address, BACBIXY fr BBX0, Portland. Oregon. Within the past six months about $3,000,000 have been invested in pur chasing stock ranches in Montana by Eastern capitalists. This money mainly came from New York City. During a visit, and talk among the capitalists, it was found there was great disposition to invest money in Western lands, and especially in the cattle business. Chi cago Tribune. Eli Perkins says that in France the farmers plant ojlyone stalk of corn in a hill. They hoe the weeds out of their wheat, rye, oats and barley. . THE OLD WIFE. Uy tho bed the o'd man, waiting-, sat In rlffil sa and tender, a Where; his aed wife lay dying; and the twi light shadows brown Slowly from lhe wall and window chased the suuset's polden pplendor Going down. "Is It n!ht?" she whispered, waking (for her spirit seemed to hover Lost between the next world's sunrise and the bod-time cares or thls. And the o'.d man, weak and tearful, trembling' as he bent-above her, 1 Answered "Yes." "Are the children in?" she asked him. Gould he tell her? Ai! the treasures Of their household lay in silence many years beneath the snow: But the heart was with them living-, back among hr toils and pleasures Long ago; And again she called at dew-fall, in the sweet old summer weather, "Where is little Charley, father? Frank: mnd Robert have thev come?" "They are safe,? the old man faltered ''all the children are together. Safe at home. Then he murmured gentle soothings, but his grief grew strong and stronger. Till it choked and stilled him as he held and kissed her wrinkled bund. For her soul, far out of hearing, could his fondest word? no longer Understand. Still the pale ling stammered questions, lull abies and broken versos, Nursery prat tle ail tho language of a moth er's lovinjr deeds. While the midn ght round the mourner, left to sorrow's bitter mercies. Wrapped its weeds. Thero was stillness on the pillow and the old man listened lonely Till they led him from the chamber, with the burden on his breast. For the wife of seventy years, his manhood's early love and only, , Lav at rest. "Fare 3'ou well, he sobbed, "my Sarah you win meet tne oaocs uerore me: TIs a little while, for neither can the parting- ions- amae. And you'll some and call me soon, 1 know and Heaven will restore mo To your side." It was oven so: The spring time, in tho step ot winter treaitna-. Scarcely shed its orchard-blossoms ere the old man closed his eves. And they buMod him by Sarah and they had tneir "diamond wed ling. In the skies. Thci vti Drown, in Youth's Companion. CHESTER HILTON'S WIFE. It was the cloe of day in midsum mer. Chester Hilton was putting on his hat, preparatory to leaving the oflice, when his employer asked him to step to the desk for a few moments. "I am very sorry, Chester," said the senior partner of "the firm of Gardner, hitbeck &vCo "to be obliged to tell to keep you after this mo&fchT As vou are aware. ss has fallen off to such a de- lat we are scarcely making our running oxpenses. Chester Hilton received this an nouncement in a cool, collected man ner He had been expecting a crash for two months past. Nevertheless, at heart he felt depressed and anxiou3. It was just the season of year when business was at its lowest ebb. Where and when would he get another situa tion? He had nothing put by to live on during the time he might be out of employment. His salary had been only sufficient to pay his family expenses. The outlook was certainly a dark one. He usually rode hoine in the horse cars, as he lived at the outskirts of the city. where rents were moderate, but that night a nickel looked as large to him as a silver dollar, It was later than usual when he got home, and, a3 he drew near the gate, a black-eyed baby, with a face illuminated bv a sight of "papa, toddled out to meet him. In her haste she would have fallen upon the broken plank over which she picked her way had not her father reached out hi3 arms just in time to save her. He held her tightly to his breast, and bending down, kissed the baby face and whispered "Papa's little darling." A girlish fig ure stood at the open gate, and as he passed through lifted up her fresh. young happy lace to t "What made von bo kissed, too so late to-night. Goldie?" she asked. aisy and I have been watching for you for ever and ever so long. i ne cars were crowded and it is so hot that I walked home." "It has been terriblv hot all day," sue repucd. "liaoy has sutiered so much with the heat. Do you know, 'Goldie' (the pet name she afwavs called him), if it were not for leaving vou, I would think scriouslv of going to Fern side Springs. Mrs. Hunter says this is such a sickly season for babies, and Goldie, I saw the little white hearse pass the house twice to-day "You wouldn't leave me alone, dar ling," he said. "You know I am such a poor stick if loft to myself. But per haps it will be best for you to go. ' I would cniv uave to buy two new dresses and some extra things forbabv. Board is not very high there, Mrs. Hun ter tells me. If it were not for baby and the sioklv season, I. would not think of going. You know, dear Goldie, we couldn't live without baby." As the mother spoke, she hugged the little, white-robed child tightly up to her bosom. "I am so afraid of losing her," she said. After the baby had gone to sleep, the father and mother went out on the porch and sat down in the cool evening air. It was duk, and the husband put bis arm around his wife and drew her so close to his side that she rested her head upon his shoulders. He wa3 thinking whether it was best to tell her cf Ins dismissal. A uauber of times the words came to his lips, but he as often eoceued them. Ao, he could not tell her. "lou don't feel ai well a3 usual, Goldie, she sa d. "lou are unusually qxiiet. Does yo:vr head ache?" As she $poke she placed her soft hand upon uis forehead and passed it lightlv back and forth. "I'll see if I have magnetic power enough to drive it away, she said laughingiv. "You aru a good little wife, darling," gaid her hnsband, taking her girlish face in his hands and lifting it up where he could kiss it. "A good little wife. "It-will bo nuite expensive to have us go to l'ernsMe, will it not?" she asked. Rather e-cpensie.1' he replied, "but I'd inquire about it to movrow." J he month soon passed, and Chester Hilton was out of business. Ao situa tion had boon found, and the outlook seemed darker titan ever. &o many business houses had reduced their forces. But every day he went oT at the same hour in the morniug and returned the same time in the evening. Hi3 wife supposed he was still at his old plaoe. for ho bad not yet made up his mind to xll her. Surely he would find another place, and then it was time enough to .et her know he had left Gardner, wna- oeck & Co. One morning, a fortnight after his iismissal, Mrs. Hilton had occasion to ro down town, and she stepped into ;he office to see her husband. " As she ;anie into the door, Mr. Gardner looked ap from his ledger and bade her "good morning." "My hnsband is out, I suppose," she laid, looking toward the empty desk in ihe corner. "Tour husband?" replied Mr. Gard ner. "He Has not been in this morn- 'Notbeen in? she exclaimed." 'You know, of course, that Chester :s not in my employ now, said the jentlernan. "He has notjbeen with us this month." ; 1 , . A vague anticipation of something wrong idled the wife s heart, out she was reassured by hearing the senior partner say: "We esteem your husband very high ly, and were 6orry to dispense with his services, but we were obliged to do so on account of the dullness of the sea son "My husband has not told me," she replied. "I respect his motive he was afraid it would trouble me. If he comes in, please do not say a wod about my having having been here." "Certainly not," replied Mr. Gard ner, as the young wife went out of the office. Turning to his partner, he said: "What a prettv wife Chester Hilton has! She is very young, though, not more than twenty-one, I should judge Whitbeck," he continued, "how strange it is that young men now-a- days take so many leaps in the dark as regards matrimony. Why didn't Ches ter Hilton wait awhile before he got married? It was a foolish venture." I don't agree with you," replied the junior partner. "I married on six hundred dollars a year, and saved money too. J, that was a long time ago, and you got the right kind of a wife to help lIJO.il atuii "That's true." he replied, "but I be lieve there are a great many right kind of wives now. You can t tell what stuff women are made of until they are tried. Chester Hilton's wife looks as if she had a good deal of character." While these gentlemen were talking. the subject of their conversation was walking homeward on the shady side of the street. A nickel had become as large as a dollar in her eyes, as well as in her husband's. In spite of the large sun umbrella and the thin lawn dress, she was very warm, and the per spiration stood in large drops on her face. "Poor Goldie," she said to herself. as the tears came into' her eyes. "He is so proud he couldn't bear to tell me that he was out of employment. Of course, I shan't speak of going to Fern- side again. I'll stay at home and take the best care of baby that I can. I'll watch her every minute. I'm paying hllen large wages. I must let her go and do the work myself. I wonder if I could? We can buy our bread, but Goldie hates baker's bread. I must have Ellen show me how she makes hers." And full of the pro;ect of doing her own work, she walked to ward home, forgetful of the heat and dust She did not have to give Ellen warn- mg; the event, as events in our lives often are, was ordered before she got home. Ellen's sister had been thero and told her her mother was ill and she must go home the following day. J he next morning r.llen showed her mistress how to make the excellent bread and rolls, and the heroic little wife surprised her husband with some, which he said were even better than Ellen's. A month passed by, and whenever her husband said, as he often did, "I'm afraid you are working too hard, my dear," she always answered with a merry laugh, "I'm just as happy as I can be doing my own work, and baby really helps me every day, she is so good." Not a word had been said by either husband or wife about leaving Gardner & Whitbeck's office. One morning, after "Goldie" had looked over the advertisements in the column of "Wanted" in the morning paper, and had put it down with a sort of hopeless look upon his face, bis wife looK it up anu ner eye leu upon mis i 1 . i i r -1 1 .i.:. advertisement: 'Wanted First-class home-made cakes and pies, also bread and rolls, at No. 07 Kalston Avenue. 1 "It's the Woman's Exchange," she said to herself. "They've just opened it. 1 rad about it yesterday in the pa per. I'm oroing to try it, I know I can do it," and the lit tle wife, in her culinary enthusiasm, hugged the baby so hard that the little one protested loudly against such close quartered demonstration. Early in the afternoonwith a basket on one arm and the baby on the other, she took the horse-cars for 57 Ralston Avenue. "Very nice cake," said the lady who waited on her. "We will take the three loaves." As she spoke she opened tho cashier's drawer and handed Mrs. Hilton the price paid for such cake. Can you make good cookies and gin- ft r rt a i 1 1 ger-snapsr mere is sucn a aemanuior them that we can t hall supply our cus tomers." "I'll briug some to morrow," replied Mrs. Hilton. They were pronounced excellent, and, as the days passed by, there was such .a demand for Mrs. Hilton's cookery that she was obliged to get Ellen back again. "I really can not' get along alone," she said, "and Ellen is so good." "Of course you need her," replied her husband. When the second month was passed, Chester Hilton had only a little money in his pocket The month's bills were coming in. It was the first timo that he had ever had to humiliate himself by asking the "butcher and the baker and candlestick maker" to wait for their pay. IIi wirc had kept the grocery book hidden, because it was her stock in tg(de, and there had been a larger bill than ever entered against her hus band that month. But when Chester Hilton asked for the pass book the last day of the month, she laid them with a cunning smile on his desk. As he glanced through the long list of gro ceries, a frown gathered upon his fac or an instant was his wife so very ex ravagant, when doing hcrownwork?" 3ut when he got to the bottom of the jage and saw the word "Paid," writ ten across it, he said in a tone of sur prise: ' "Who is paying my bills?" "Nobody but your own little wife, Groldie, : dear," she said, putting her irms around his neck. "You know you kept a secret from me, and so I kept one from you." Then followed such a burst of elo quence as only a husband in the same situation can appreciate. "I know, Goldie, you have a theory against money-earning wives, but just this once you know you must change your opinion. It was so much better than having bills carried over." "You precious darling," he said, "But you won't have any more of your husband's bills to pay, because I have just been engaged by 'Hunt & Slocum, to begin work there to-morrow at a higher salary than I ever had before." Mrs. Susan F. Perry, in Chicago In terior. Hoth Went Back. Several years ago, there lived in Dar dauelle, Arkansaw, an eccentric hotel keeper known as well, say Umle. John. He wa3 violently opposed to the title of governor, declaring that he once knew of a gang of thieves whose pass-word was governor; and on many occasion gue3ts who thoughtlessly gave him the title, were driven from the house. Com mercial travelers "put up" at bis hotel. Those who were acquainted with his peculiarities took great delight in as suring drummers who had never be fore visit' i the town, that by calling tho old man governor, special" attention would be paid. One day Harry Collins, a young drummer for a New York house, decided to visit Dardanelle. "By all means stop with Uncle John Pash," said a companion. "He is the best feeder in the country; and say, call him governor and he will nearly kill himself waiting on you. "When Collins arrived he was re ceived with a weleorae that was delight ful to contempla'e, and during the course of affable conversation, Collins remarked: "By the way, governor, bow are " The old fellow became furious. He had been teased several times that dy. lind he knew that the title was intended to be an insult. The drummer became angry and swore that he would not stand such abuse. "Come out here," said the old man. Collins followed and was conducted to the bank of the river, not far away. "Now," exclaimed the old man, drawing a revolver, "we'll settle this thing. "Two of us came down here. Only one of us will go back." 1 he drummer took out a pistol, half as long as his arm, and remarked: "I ra going back," "Well," said the old man, returning his own pistol, and eying the one- held by Collins, "I reckon that under the circumstances we'd both better go back." Arkansaw Traveler. A California View of Alaska. Alaska is an anomalous Territory. It has a full set of United States offi-. cers, including a Governor, a District Jndsre, a District Attorney, a Marshal, a Clerk of the Court and four Commis sioners stationed at different points. They have not much to do; but to give some of them a little additional employ ment the Clerk of the Court is ex officio Territorial Secretary and Treas urer, and the Marshal ex-olhcio Pur veyor General. There is no danger of their exerting themselves in the dis charge of their multifarious duties to the injury of their health. Alaska pos sesses a bracing atmosphere that is conducive to longevity. The white population does not exceed two thous and in number, and the annual in csease to it is merely nominal. Visiting adventurers from San Francisco are of course not included. Business is dull; the officials smoke their pipes in undis turbed tranquillity; and the Courts that is, the Commissioners, otherwise Justices of the Peace languish in ennui for lack of occasionl excitement in the shape of some petty cause of lit igation. A Legislature is of no earthly. requirement in Alaska, as averred by the half dozen or so of Government officials, the Alaska Fur Company being fully competent to transact its business without the impertinent interference of such. The Postmaster at Sitka ap pears to be the most important person age in that pleasaut region. He does not receive much pay for his labors, such as they are, but he manages to live as well as the best of them with commissions of a-higher grade. Gov ernor Kinkead was Postmaster at Sitka in 1887 at a salary of twelve dollars a year. Whether or not he saved the whole, or even hfty per cent, of it, is a matter which concerns only himself, But he is now the Governor of the Ter ritory. He has lumped with a single lean from the Postmastership to the Governorship. Can he or any other of Alaska s National officials higher as cend? They have the audacious ex amples and the decisive success of Or egon and Nevada before them, and two United States Senatorships are worth struggling for. ; Still a white popula tion of onlv 2,000 is too slim a basis upon which to found so great a struc ture. San Francisco Bulletin. The leper quarter of Jerusalem is just outside of Zion Gate. We first saw a woman without any uose, who was hanging clothes upon a line in her back vartl. Going a little farther we came upon j sights that beggar description. Stumps of arms were held up to us. hands from which fingers were drop ping away, faces wrapped about with cloths to keep the parts together. Mute ,nnli tnf dinritv triircrl.-H thrniio-Vi throats without palates. Cor. New Or leans Times-Democrat. The absurd office of King's cock crower was continued so late as the reicn of Georsre I. During: Lent an officer denominated the "King's Cock crower," crowed the hour every night within the precincts of the palace. in stead of proaoune ng it in the usua manner. . . The cable car system As to be used on the streets of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Pott. A Case of Like Cures Like. . An old bachelor friend of mine who lives up town has had a dreadful expe rience lately. "Remark these sunken eyes," said he with a wan smile, "see this wasted vis age, that flattened cheek, and this pinched nose. It's all on account of a neighbor who has got into the habit of giving summer-night parties. But I've cured her, I reckon," and he chuckled savagely. "Summer-night parties?" I echoed, interrogatively. "Yes; Mrs. Blank, who lives next door to mine, is a votary of fashion in a small way. But as her husband isn't wealthy enough to send her to Saratoga, she conceived the idea of making things lively in town for a while by get ting up ice-cream evening parties. Ice cream, -as everybody knows, means girls, and girls mean flirtation and mu sic, and pandemonium generally. The racket began some three weeks ago. I smoke a pipe and read or chat till bed time, and generally go to sleep by 10:i?0. Well, sir, just as T would be off in the first blissful doze, there would come a tremendous racket All of a sudden, bang! bang! would go the cheap hired )iano, and some wretch who makes be ieve to sing tenor, or possibly a fiend :in a clawhammer coat who professes to sing bass, but only succeeds in-emitting a hideous series of grunts and roars, would begin the circus. The windows being open, every one on the block was treated to the infliction of a free concert In one short week I heard the score of a dozen prime operas mur dered, a raft of solos torn to shreds, and Heaven knows how many arias from the best composers rendered in a way that would make angels weep. 1 lost my sleep on an average of three nights a week." "Not much. I went to Mr. Blank and told him that unless he called his wife off I was a dead man,. He laughed at me: then he swore and then he ordered me out I told him I would get square and I did," "How?" "I went down town the next morn ing and bought of a dog fancier a canine that was warranted to howl enough to turn the edge of a razor. Oh, he was a beauty! His teeth were set back as far as hi3 ears, and when he lay back, set up his snout and howled, you could hear him to Harlem. I chained him in the back yard, and that night there was a concert He took his feed quietlv, and I thought he was really going to sleep, but he was only himself for a good time later oh 10-1i Giiro ennnirh" hanir! saving About bang! pumpetty! whack! thump! squirr! rick ety! rack! br r r rip! went the pfano, and out on the night floated the strains of a wheezy soprano in Some day a some day a Some day I a shall i meet you, when my dog caught on. He thought it was a duet, and he did his part of "the business right up to the handle. - Every time the singer caught breath that dog gave a series of yelps and howls that made the windows rattle and my soles tingle. He really spoiled the effect of the song, I think, for a moment ater the music stopped and somebody flung a boot, or something that scunded ike it, into my nack-vard. But that made him howl the louder. He got well into the kennel and lay down with lis head a little on one side, nice and easv like, and there he nowieo so lusti- that I felt I had got him cheap at the money. - "We'l, he kept it up for three nights. Then old man Blank came round to my house and said he guessed there wouldn't be any more parties this sum mer a3 his wife had concluded to go to the country for a soell, and it 1 would call off mv dog he would call off Mrs. Blank. So we called it square and now I o-et my night's rest. But another week of it would have made a total wreck of every soul in the block.", N. r. Star. Stealing Eaejles. A farmer named Peter Gow, in Dun- wich, is in possession of several joung eagles, whose eyrie is in a tall tree on his farm. Several boys in Dutton have had a hankering for these eagles for some time, but Mr. Gow said he would not part with them at any price. The bovs vvero determined that he siouid, and one night trus wees iney appearea at the foot of the tree with pikes attached to their legs, after the mode of the tele- nranli prptnrs. n.nd ft stout stran t.n buckle around the tree to assist in climbing. The boldest boy in the crowd climbed the tree, and when about sixty feet from the ground, just under the eagle s nest, his strap dropped and lodged where it could not be got. lie was in a predicament. He could not set down without assistance, which the oys could not give. Various plans were suggested, but to no purpose, towards morning, when the boy in So the tree frot tired of hanging on and was about to drop, they went to Mr. Cow's house and besought him to come out with a rope and help save the life of the youngster in the tree. The old gentle man fortrot the miauitv of their act and ran to the barn, took the rope out of his hay-fork and went to the tree at a two-forty gait lhe question was: ITaw rrrjf- fViA J wfYk im fr lift KrwO After considerable cogitation the lad up in the tree was seen tearing his shirt, and the problem was solved. The shirt not being sufficient his pants were next made into strips and ii moms uiui Buiua auu ncu iu- gether. They reached the ground; the rope was attached to it and drawn up and down came the lad from his preca rious position as naked as when he was born. Mr. Gow provided the youngster with a pair of pants and ahorse blanket to keep the musouitoes from eating him up on the way home through the swamp. These boys think stealing eagles a poor spec. Toronto News She looked just a bit anxious as she appeared on the wharf at the foot of Woodward avenue yesterday and asked: "Anybody lumped in hure to day. "No, ma'am." "Will you please do me a favor?" "Yes'm." "My husband has threatened to drown himself, and I iion l wane mm to. can e: stay nere and watch because l m going on an ex cursion. In case he comes won't vou please discourage him. He's very easy discouraged, and I can go on my trip and feel HKe enjoying mysen. ine man promised, and she went away in the best of spirits. Detroit free -Press. The Duties of Parents. We should so live that when the sum mons comes to.be a parent it will find us prepared. Like a thief in the night, at an hour when we thinkJnot,like a thun derbolt from a clear sky, the call may come to us. Let the n ght-lamp, there fore, bo trimmed and burning, and the alum whew ye can lay hold on it at any time. But, above all, we should make ourselves conversant with those little parliamentary rules which must govern the conduct of the parent in his or her social contact with the child. A lew s uggestions upon what constitutes and shows good breeding in this branch of society, readily marking and con trasting the cultivated parent and dis tingu shing him or her from the vulgar. we say in France), the James Crow and tho sans culottes parent might sot be ill-timed or inopportune , In wiping a child's nose be extremely careful to leave the nose. Some parents use so much unnecessary strength in doing this that they find when it is too late that they have wiped the nose of a pet eh ld into space. Nothing gives more needless pain. Nothing can be more pitiful than the child's first look of sorrow and disappointment when he starts to wipe his nose and discovers that it is gone. Pause, fond parent while th wipe is in its incipiency, and resolve that you wdl spare his nose. Jt can be of no use to you, and the loss of it will be a constant source of annoyance to the child. Teach your ch Id the beauty of frank ness and op'-n candor toward all. Im press upon h m the beauty of be'ng what you appear to le, and hate de cept on everywhere. It you wdl fondle him and dote on h m in society and lerk h m i aldheaded in tho seclusion of the home e'rele, he will readily under stand what vou mean. Children soon lea: n i hat if vou hug 1 heir 1 ttle giz zards fat while visitors are alo.it, and then, when the home life is again ro- su.ned, you throw them down cellar and wear out a table leg oh their chub by limbs, that l'fe is real, life is earnest, and the square-toed, open, frank pol cj is not gene ally n use. . Pa ents should impress upon the'r children the beautv of self-sacrifice and self-abnegation, if they kuow what that is: 1 dont. If the e should be but one piece of pie, give it to "poor sick papa." It may kill him, and after the tune al your v ung lie will fce one p-o- longcd halh'lu ah and rose t'n ted whoop'emup'li -a ane. Parents should not be i ostantly sus- pic ous o: thc.r children. l tin wm in evitably breed by poo isy and unreliabil ity It you fear that v ur son is play- ? pin-pool, do not break down your ccust.tution and bring on delirium tn mens haug ng around the pool-tables watch ng all night uk him. lie wii loo.; upon vou w th distrust, -and no doubt at last tell vou to ro and soak your head Do not constantly tell your boy "how fair he is that he "grows like a weed" and finally make him think he is a iriraffe. If you keep it up you will finally make a round-shouldered, awk ward, bashful bean-pole out of a mighty good-looking boy. If every tail b y in this country will agree to lick every wooden headed man who tells hira how he does arrow." I will agree to ho'd the coat of said tall boy. I am now dealink with a subject on which 1 happen to be informed. The same rule applies to girls as well. If you want to make your daughter fall over the piano and yearn to climb a tree whenever she 3ees anyone come toward the house, tell her "what a great swalloping torn boy she is getting to be." In this way. if parents act judiciously and iu con cert, we can soon have a nation oi young men and women whose manners and carriage will be as beautiful and as symmetrical as the plaster cast of a sore toe. Bill Nye, in Denver Opinion Uncer'ainty of the Law. Here i3 another instance of the glori ous uncertainty of the law. The case of the father who caught diphtheria from sucking a tube to draw out the "diphtherian matter" in his child's throat and brought an action again t the doctors in consequence, has already been twice tried the first trial ending in a disagreement, the second in a ver diet for the doctors. A divisional court yesterday, ordered a thiid trial, which. just 10 complete me iimessoi tne ining, will no doubt end in a verdict for the father. We will refrain, however, from nre udicing the legal aspect of the case. aud will content ourselves with po'nt ing out that a very interesting question of ethics was involved in the argument yesterday. Lord Coleridge had assumed that the paternal instinct would have made the father suck the tub', in any case, and did not in:nK, tuereiore, thai his not having been warned of the daji ger made any d ttcrence. tsut tne ludges decided yesterday that the fath er ought to have been told of the dan ger anl thus to have "had the alterna tive presented to him whether he would nuek the tube or not And this is clearly the view that most schools of ethics would take of the matter, for where was the virtue of the self-sacri hte of it was not d ctated by tho rea son? Pall Mall Gazette. A .Japanese 3IniiMient. The prowth of modern ideas in Japan has teen sitrnificautlv indicated of lat a I.., , . in lf erocuou y noHmu impo3i Richardson, an En2l5shman, who died in lobo aunnj me neree struggle again' t the outside Nations. Mr. Rich ardson was hacked to death by the g-.iards of a Japanese nobleman, and his pompan:ou3 were crueiiy maltreat . . . . ... ed. The affair was one of the causes of the bombardment of Kagosheemaby a British squadron, in which l,oOJ Japan ese were Kiuea anu wounaea ana ?o,uuu. 00 ; worth of property was destroyed Then indirectly also the murder led to the suppression of feudalism in Japan through the agitation which followed. and th monument now set up is ap parently a recognition of that reform as much as of the man whom it honors. It is' placed on a mound on the spo. where he feu, ana is inscribed with erses recording his virtues, and n: av ing"that the thoughts of the bless'mgs he bi ought us may gladden his heart in the land of the shades. 'Chicago Irib- Tte. .... Easy Lc3sons in Science. "v When you lie down to sleep you have your choice of doing; either one of two things vou can sleep like a Christian or a fiend; but yon cau t do both. In the case of a Christian the act of breathing is simple; the air passes to and fro be tween the lungs and the limitless ex panse of the universe through the chan nels of lhe nose. There is another channel through the mouth, which com municates with the lungs, and these two channels unite in a little cavity just be- , , , , , - i-.f . low me v eium penuuium paiau, or, as the doctors sometimes call it the soft palate, which is attached by one end to the bone covering the roof of the mouth. This bone is bounded in front and at the sides by the al velar, arches and tho Lgums; behind it is continuous wrth tho soft palate, or, as it is commonly called. "the Velum pendulum palati. This roof of the mouth, which is covered by dense structure formed by the perios teum and mucus membrane of the mouth, is sometimes called the hard palate. Well, now, one end of the soft palate if I may be allowed to use tho professional name is fast to the hard palate. The other end hangs out in infinite space, like the leg of an old lady backing out of a carriage, wildly feeling for the ground with one foot This loose end of the soft palate is lightly and easily moved by the air asyonr mortal breath breezes itself along the avenue to and from the lungs. The lungs, my dear child, are your breath ing things your bellows, to speak pro fessionally, like Prof. Sullivan, the great slugger. ;" Now, when a sleeping Christian breathes, he breathes through his nose alone. When the air passes through the nose it gently presses the swaying; end of the palate down upon the tongue. The vibration is greatly impeded, if not entirely checked, and no sound is pro duced. But if you hold your mouth? wide open while you sleep, so that the two currents of air pass in and out through the nose and the mouth, th soft palate is right in the path of a respiratory cj-clone,' it is thrown into a state of violent vibratory commotion, it flaps and flutters about like a robe de nuit on the clothesline on a raw and gusty day in March, and you snore like a policeman. According'to the rapidity or slowness of the vibrations, the snore is shrill and sonorous or profoundly deep and guttural. So, if you snore, or think you do, vou know now how you can easily prevent it Put a base ball in your mouth when jou he down; or you can sit up all night and keep awake; or you can fasten your mouth shut with screws and thongs of leather; or, you may sleep out on the pathless prairie, far from any human habitation, and no one will care how much vou snore. Burdelte, in Brooklyn Eaqle. 1 he Talking Dog. It was a Market street restaurant. A solemn man entered, followed bv his dog, seated himself and asked for the bill of faie. It was given him. The dosr meanwhile had climbed upon the chair on the other side of the table, and was gravely regarding his master. "Well," said the solemnman, reflect ively, "gimme two fried - eggs, turned over." "Gimme the same," said the dog. The waiter gazed at the dog with amazement mingled with horror. The solemn man continued: "Then I guess you can give me a sir loin steak, very rare, with fried pota toes." "Gimme the same," said the dog. The waiter's face assumed the color of cold boiled veal. "Cup o' coffee, plenty o' milk," went on the solemn man. "Gimme the same," said the dog. The waiter shuddered, and turning, fled for the kitchen. A man with a squint, at an adjoining table, was much interested m the scene. He had observed it closely, and finally spoke to the solemn man: "It must a been a tearful lot o wort to learn that dog to talk, mister." "It was," said the solemn man. "I should smile,' said the dog. "What ud you take lor him now,' said the man with a squint "YYouldn t sell him," said the solemn man. " v,You'd better nos" said the dog. "The man with a squint was -much impressed. He began making wild offers, and when be reached a thousand dollars, the solemn man relented. "Well," said he, lean t refuse that I hate .to part with him, but you can have him." "He'll be sorry for it," said the dog. The man with a squint drew a check for the amount, which he gave to tha solemn man. The latter was about leaving when the dog cried again: "Never mind 1 11 get even. 1 11 never speak again " s He never did. ; The gentleman with a squint was the proprietor of a dime and freak museum on Market street. The solemn man was a ventriloqulal crook. San Francuco Argonaut; Vigorous Seed Corn. It has been noticed b' every farmer that corn when planted exhibits all de grees of vigor in growth, even upon sou that cannot possimy oe umiKe in fertility. It has ' been suggested that such vigor is attributable to seed itself, and that if certain precautions are tafc en, seed of uniform vigor may be more closely approximated to size, or weight win not eteruiiue uns, uui it uiigiit ue possible to eall in the aid of specific f;ravity, and thus discriminate between ight and dense Seed. If seed of any. Kina is put in Dnue it win db iouna mat a greater or less quantity will not sink, but rema:J -floating upon the surface, while the other will sink to the bottom ; and it is from these last that the most vigorous plants must come. It is a most important thing in successful crop growing to have seed of uniform grow ing, and the great loss in grain produc tion results from this very cause. With improved machinery, rotation of crops, better understood methods of fertiliza tion and cultivation, if a way of obtain ing more uniformly vigorous seed could be chanced upon, it is not beyond the bounds of reason to suppose that better crops can be raised in the Unnited States than in Egypt and India with the rude, barbaric ways and implements of I the centuries. Cleveland Herald.