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J mm 9mtm V .4) Bas FIN EST JOB OFFICE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. CAED3, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANIS, ,., Aad sthw Printing, toidariint Large el Heayr Pesters ani Slair Earl-Ellis, k V etij sad xpedlUoualy execst t& AT PORTLAND PRICES. rfVQ One Year -Six Months . Three Months - $2 50 1 50 1 00 Thew are th terms of those pyln In sdrsnce The Sevii w otfen fine Inducement to sdvertiMn. Terms teuonable.. VOL. IX. KPSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1885. NO. 49. BV1ET7. IS ISSUED FRIDAY MORNINGS. BT J. R. N. BEIL, - - Proprietor. .Rosebui , i - - .. .... . H . ... 1 o RevieWo TTfP J. JASKULEIC, PRACTICAL Watctaaier, Tpwp1pt anil flntipiQn ALL WOItK WABBANTED. Dealer la Watches, Clocks. Jewelry, Spectacles and JCyeglasses. ikd a rcu u or Cigais, Tobacco & Fancy Goods. Tb oslr reliable (Jptomer tn town for the proper adjust ment of Spectacle ; always on hand. Depot af the Genuine Brazilian Psbbls Speo taclet and Eyeglasses. . Office First Door South of Fostoftlce, R08EDCRU. ItEtJQX. LAHGEITBEBG'S Boot and Shoe Store HOSEIiURtt, OREGOX, a Jackson Street, Opposite the Poet Offics, Keeps on band the largt and best auortment of lias tern and San Francisco Boots and - Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, And everything la the Boot and Shoe line, and SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH. Doots and Shoes Made to Order, and Perfect Fit Guaranteed. I use the Best of Leather and Warran all my work. Repairing Neatly Dons, on Short Notice. I keep always on hand TOYS AND NOTIONS. Musical Instruments and Violin Strings a specialty. LOUIS IiAXGEXBERG. HUBBARD CREEK MILLS CLARK & BAKER, Props. Having purchased the above named mills of E. Stephens & Co.. w e are now prepared to fur nish any amount of the best quality of LUMBER ever offered to the public In Douglas county. We will furnish at the mill at the following prices: No. 1 roujfh lumber ..; .....(12 VM No. 1 flooring, 6 inch.. ,..$24 $ M No. 1 flooring. 4 inch...... $'26 VM No. 1 flnsihintr lumber 820 f M No. 1 flni-ihiiiff lumber dressed on 2 sides $24 M No. 1 finishing lumber dressed on 1 Bides $26 3 M CLARK & BAKER. X.. K. LANE. JOHN LANE. LANE & LANE, ATTORNEYS AT L AW Office on Main street, opposite Cosmopolitan Hotel. " . -..-.4. - v,. CHARLEY HADLEY'S H II O X Next Door Live Oak Saloon. Shaving and Hair Cutting in a Workmanlike Manner. ROSEBURG, OREGON. JOHN FRASER, Home Made Furniture. HII.RUn. OHEGOV. UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC, Constantly on band. FURNITURE I have the Bpt STOCK OP PtTENITCRE South -I Portland. And all of my own manufacture. XoTno lrlees to Cnwtomers, KeMdutita of Doticliui County are requested to give uie a call before iiurchatiiig elsewhere. ALL WORK WARRANTED. DEPOT HOTEL, Oak laud, 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 Tilt ' , Table supplied with the Best the Market affords Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad. H. C. STANTON, DEALER IN Staple Dry Goods, Keeps coimUnUy on hand a general assortment of Extra Fine Groceries, ' WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE, ALSO CROCKERY AND CORDAGE, A full atock of SCHOOL BOOKS. Such aa required by the Public County School. All i kinds or Stationery, Toys and Fancy Articles. TO SUIT BOTH TOCiTU XSD SOLD. Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes Cheeks on Portland, and procures Drafts on San Francisco. SEEDS ! SEEDS! ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY. ALL OKDfiRS Promptly attended to and goods shipped with care. Address, HAC11KXY A BSXO, Portland, Ohegon. INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Delivered by President Cleveland at Washington, D. C, March 4, 1885. Fellow Citizens : In the presence of this vast assemblage of my country men, I am . about to supplement and seal, by the oath which I shall take, the manifestations of the will of a great and free people. In the exercise, of their power and the right of self-government, they have committed to one of their fellow citizens a supreme and sacred trust, and he here consecrates himself to their service. This impres sive ceremony adds little to the solemn sense of responsibiliy with which I con tern plate the duty I "owe to all the people; oi the land. Nothing can re lieve me from the anxiety, lest by any act of mine their interest may suffer, and nothing is needed to strengthen my resolution to engage every faculty and effort in the promotion of their welfare1. Amid party strife, the peo ple's clpice was made, but its attendant circumstances have demonstrated anew the strength and safety of a government by the people. In each succeeding year it more clearly appears that our Demo cratic principles need no apology, and that in its fearless and faithful applica tion is to be found the surest guar anty of good government. Buf the best results to be found in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share, largely de pend upon a proper limitation of a purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged into the patriotism of the citi zen. To-day the executive branch of the government is transferred to new keeping, but this is still the government of all the people, and it should be none the less the object of their affectionate solicitude. At this hour the animosi ties of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph, should be supplanted by ungrudging acquiescence to popu lar will and a sober and conscientious concern for the general weal. More over, if from this hour we cheerfully and honestly abandon all sectional pre judice and distrust, and determine with manly, confidence in one another to work out ; harmoniously the achieve ments of our national destiny we shall deserve to realize all the benefits which our happy form of government can be stow.; 4 On this auspicious occasion, we may well renew the pledge of our devo tion to the constitutionwhich, launched by tlie foUndersof this -Republic r and consecrated by their prayers and pa triotic devotion-, has for almost a cen tury borne the hope and aspirations of the great people through prosperity and peace, and through the shock of foreign conflicts, and perils of domestic strife and vicissitudes. By the Father of His Country our constitution was com mended for adoption as the "result of a spirit of amity and mutual conces sion." In that same spirit it should be administered in order to formulate the lasting welfare of the country, and to secure the full measure of its priceless benefits to us, and to these who will succeed to the blessings of our national life. The large variety of diverse and com peting interests subject to federal con trol, persistently seeking recognition of their claims, need give us no fear that THE GREATEST GOOD TO THE GREATEST ' NUMBER will fail to be accomplished. If in the halls of the National Legislature that spirit of amity and mutual concession shall prevail, in which the constitution had its birth, and, if this involves the surrender or postponement of private interests, and the abandonment of lo cal advantages, compensation will be found in the assurance that thus the common interest is subserved and the general welfare advanced. In the discharge of my official duty, I shall endeavor to be guided by a JUST AND UNSTRAINED CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION, careful observance of the distinction between the powers granted to the fed eral government and those reserved to the states or to the poople, and by a cautious appreciation of those func tions, which by the constitution and laws, have been especially assigned to to the executive branch of the govern ment. But he who takes the oath to-day to preserve, protect ana deiend the con stitution of the United States, only as sumes a solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, and everywhere should share with him The constitution which prescribes his oath, my countrymen, is yours; the government you have chosen him to administer is yours ; the suffrage which executes tne , will oi the ireeumen is yours ; the laws and the entire scheme of our civil rule, from the town meet ing to the state and national capitols, is yours. Your every voter, as surely as that of your Chief Magistrate under the same high sanction, though in different sphere, exercises a public trust. Nor is this all. Every citizen owes to his country vigilant watch, and CLOSE SCRUTINY OF ITS PUBLIC SERV ANTS, ' and fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness. Thus is the people's will impressed upon the whole framework of our civil policy municipal, state and federal, and : this is the price of our liberty and inspira tion of your faith in the Republic. It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closely limit public expenditures to the actual. needs of the government, economically ad ministered, because this bounds the richt of covernment to exact tribute from the earnings of labor or the prop erty of citizens. And because public extravagance wrongs the people we shbuld never be ASHAMED OF SIMPLICITY and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of the Re publican forms of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people. Those who are selected for a limited time to manage public affairs are still of the people and may do much by their example to encourage, consistently with the digni ty of their official functions, that plain way of life which among their fellow citizens aids integrity and promotes thrift and prosperity. FOREIGN POLICY. The genius of our institutions, the needs of our people in the home life, and the at tention which is demanded for the settlement and development of the resources of our vast territory, dictates scrupulous avoidance of any departure from that foreign -policy commended by the history, tradition and prosperi ty of our republic. It is the policy of independence, favored by our position and defended by our known love of jus tice and by our power; it is the policy of peace, suitable to our interests ; it is the policy of neutrality, rejecting any share in foreign broils and ambitions on other continents, and repelling their in trusion here; it is the policy of Wash ington and Monroe and Jefferson- peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. 7 ' . FINANCES. - ' Due regard for the interest and prosperity of all the people demands that our finances shall be established upon such sound and sensible basis as shall secure the safety and confidence of our business interests, and make the wages of labor sure and steady. And that our system of revenue shall be so adjusted as to relieve the people from unnecessary taxation, having due re gard to the interests of capital invested and workingmen employed in Ameri can industries, and preventing the ac cumulation of surplus in the Treasury, to an extent that induces extravagance and waste. Care for the prosperity of the Nation, and for the needs of future settlers, require that the public domain should be PROTECTED FROM PURLOINING SCHEMER '- 1 . mm anu uniawiui occupation. The con science of the people demands that the Indians within our boundaries shall be fairly and honestly treated as wards of the government, and their education and civilization promoted with a view to their ultimate citizenship. POLYGAMY in the Territories is destructive of the family and of religion, and offensive to the mOfalsense Of the civilized world, and shall be repressed. CHINESE AND PAUPERS. The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of ser vile classes to compete with American laoor, with no intention ot acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining the habits and customs repugnant to our civilzation. CIVIL SERVICE. The people demand reform in the ad ministration of the government and the application of business principles to public affairs. As a means to this end civil service reform should be in eood faith enforced. ' Our citizens have the right to protection from incompetency of public employes, who hold their places solely as the reward for partisan services, and frpm corrupt influence of those who , promise, and the vicious methods of those who expect such re wards. .Those who worthily seek pub lic employment have the right to insist that merit and competency shall be recognized, instead of party subservi ency or the surrender of honest politi cal belief in the administration of a government pledged to do equal and exact justice to all men. THE COLORED MEN. ' There should be no pretext for anxi ety touching the protection of freedmen in their rights or their security in the enjoyment of their privileges under the constitution and its amendments. All discussions as to their fitness for the place accorded to them as American citizens is idle and unprofitable, except as it suggests the necessity for their lm provement. The fact that they are cit izens entitles them to all the rights due to this relation and charges them with all its duties, obligations and responsi bilities. These topics, and the constant and ever-varying wants of an active and enterprising population, may well re ceive the attention and patriotic en deavor of all who make and execute the federal law. Our duties are practi cal and call for the industrious appli cation and intelligent perception of the claims of public office, and above all, a firm determination of united action, to secure to all the people of the land ful benefits of the best form of government ever vouchsafed to man and to us. And let us not trust to human efforts alone, but to humbly acknowledge the power and' goodness of the Almighty God who presides over the destinies of na tions, and who at all times has been revealed in our country's history. Le us invoke His aid and His blessing up on our labors. A hotel is to be built in Pittsburgh seven stor.es high, with the kitchen on the top floor, and an electric fire-escape in every room. The escape is to be operated from the office. By touching a button there the guests are simul taneously aroused, every window thrown open, and a flexible ladder loosened that reaches to the ground. Pittsburah Post. fchip hres, so common an occur rence at the port of New Orleans in the past, rarely happen now. Theprc h bition of smoking near cotton on the wharves and on ship-board and a strict watch kept over it have almost entirely eliminated tnis evil. fl. u. Times. PREPARING LAND FOR GRASS. Thorough TiUage and Manure as Neces sary For Thl as or other t'rop. Our best land is put to grain, and it gets our best attention to put it in or der. When it ceases to give satisfac tory crops, it is put to grass, with the expectat on that this will improve it, which it sometimes does; but in many cases the grass soon 'runs out, or fails of a "catch," the land being too poor, or, mechanically, in too unfavorable a eondition-the latter the result which inevitably follows the abuse of clay soil, eaving it lumpy, and incapable of with standing drouth, while the little plant ... 0 . !. -I '-.1 S ood it may nave is iockcu up iu iuo umns. or if" liberated by soaking rains, is carried beyond the reach of the scaat roots of the plant. Worse than all is drouth, which usually proves fatal to spring seeding on such land. Here is the loss of the seed and of the labor of sowing and brushing the land, not un- frequently repeated tna ioiiowib; year with the same result, to say nothing of the disarrangement of crops consequent upon such failure. Should a mo'st sea son occur, there w 11 be at best but a weak errowth, and unless heavily seed ed, a light catch, some seed being al ways thrown away on such sou. Such management nas been ine means of an immense loss, and is still a heavy drain. This is to be deplored, and the more so as' the remedy is so evident simply a better preparation of the soil, which means not only the use of implements, aided by the elements, particularly fiost, out enrichment as well. Where land is intended to be seeded down, whether in connection with a grain crop or without, it should receive extra attention in order to favor the increased demand of the double crop of the grain and the forage plant, or the latter, if sown alone, so as to se cure not only a good catch and start, but to continue the growth and sustain the plant during the drouth wh:ch sel dom fails to occur. In this way a fair to good crop is realized the same sea son if grown without an accompanying irra'n cron. with the orosnect of an in creased yield the following season, to be further kept up with manure, which, if properly applied, will suffer no loss on grass lands, tne nenvorK oi roors which forms the ?oJ appropriating all, t me in such case be ng allowed for this. Further, a good cover of grass will prevent the rays of the sun and the -drying winds from getting access to the ground, and will hold the dew and the moisture of the rain ricr. The ma n Jo s of moisture is what the plants tlum elves take from the soil, and the greater the quant ty the better, as it is a measure of the growth of the crop. - Th s measure" ap plies to the roots of the plaut as well, Which penetrate deeply if favored by culture, and this culture, deep ami mel low, is nece.-sary, when it is considered what an amount of water grass takes from the soil, the pfoces going on during the entire seaaon, from ear ly spring till late fall, the grains occu pying but half that time. Deep culture is t tnereiore 01 more importance in growing a grass crop than one of grain. As in our drouthy climate we do not obtain the requisite amount of nio'st ure from the air, we must seek for it in the ground, and only in its depth can it be obtained. In th:s way heavv crops and a good sol are secured, the sod, when turned down, star lurther benefitting the land by introJuc'ng vegetable matter, which disiributed through it is one of the best means of fayor ng mo:sture. This prepares the orrmrwl nnt. nilv for further p-rowinjr n t J r " o rass or clover, or any other iorae crop, but in a superior manner grain. including wheat, it the so.l is composed largely of clay. The growing qr sod. as is wen known to jrood farmers, is one of the principal means of improving la id, as the dairy regions nave long since shown in this country and grazing in England. Badly reduced land has been renovated and made prolitabiy productive in the clay loannof Central New York by a single two years' course of clover aided only by a plas ter, good yield of hay being realized at the same time. So, with' a fair set of grass which can be obtained on worn- out land only by early sowing on winter srra'm "in the spring or, better. on land' prepared in autumn without the srrain a crood sod has been se cnreci m a lew vears uv me use ui V. ' I iL- mineral manures adapted to the land. The values of the fertilizers was real ized in the crops crown, while tne main benefit vegetable material in the soil was secured in the sou, where farm manure was wanting. But all this must be preceded by a good prep aratron of the soil, comminuting an I deeply working it, which will tell in fu ture vears in its favor, iust as bad treatment will still further reduce it. This proposed treatment of improv ing land for grass mean almost a revolution, so much has this part of farming been neglected. The old management in effect underrates grass and fails to appreciate sod,, when it is known that thev are leading factors in agriculture, the benefits of each to be secured speed ly, by a single prep aration of the sol maae inorougn, :ded bv the elements and by manure. Cor. "Count ry Genlkman. AMERICAN FABLES. Sundry Apologum With Morals. Extraordinary A Peasant having cut his Foot with the Ax began Abusing and Scandalise ing the Implement in the Most Em phatie Manner, and he was still at it when a Sage Passed that way and In quirt d: . "How, now, my fr'er.d Why all th's Chin-Music?"' 'The Ax Wounded m', and I'll havo Revenge!' ' replied tiie Peasant "Ah! ys, bat hail you b cn Sitting on a Soap-box in the Crocery and left the Wood-pile to your Who the Ax could have done vou no harm. Moral -The Same Sage also Advised the Peasant to let his wife l'ght the Morning Fire. THE RHINOCEROS AND THE LAWYER. A Rhinoceros, having run down a Lawver, stood over the Prostrate man for a Moment to gloat upon his Prize, when the Victim made an Earnest Ap peal for Irs life, claiming that hewosld some day Return the great Favor. The hmoceros Deliberated for a while, and then Decided to let the Lawyer go. Several weeks afterward tfie Beast got into a Row with an Elephant and killed him, and, Fearing trouble, he went to the Lawyer and said: Now is your time to Return that Favor. I want you to Defend my case.' . : "Oh ah exactly," stammered the awyer, "but you are iust too Late. Only last night the Friends of the Ele phant Retained me to help Prosecute yon. Sorry, you Know, but first come first Served." Moral: When you get a lawyer on the lip never let go. . , - - THE TWO NEIGHBORS. A Citizen having heard-, that his Neighbor was Scandalizing h'm called Around at the office for n Explana tion. "Haven't I always Spoken Well ; of you and yours?" he asked. ; " "Uh, yes." "Haven't I lent you my Snow Shovel, my Flat-irons and my Coffee Mill for these many years past?" "le. but " "But What? What on Earth could have induced you to throw out h nts that my Aunt was my Uncle?" - - vv ny, my ; uear ear, your onow Shovel is broken, your Flat-irons too old to be of Further use, and yourtUof fee Mill will ho longer grind. How can I Longer JSeighbor withmch a man?"'. -V .. Moral When vou can't live off a Neighbor make him sorry tor it. THE SICK ELEPHANT. An Elephant who was ATmg with Chill and Fever was Recommended bv the Hare to take Calomel. The Fox Hecommended something else, and the Wolf, the Lamb, the Owl, the Serpent and the Turtle all hastened to an nounce their Remedies and Importune the Elephant to try them. 1 he bood Natured Soul Swallowed One aft r An other, and before n'ght he turned his Toes up to - the Daisies. The Hyena, who had come too late with, h s Pre scription warranted to stand in any Climate, contemplated the Dead with Sorrow, and Remarked: ? "Moral My Friends, there is such a thing as getting too much of Sonie-th-ng real good." Detroit Free Press: RAIDS ,OF THE TURKOMANS. System of Plunder that Jla ReuU! In the Kttln of Held and Villftjres. As we left Shahrud, writes a corre spondent from Cala-I-Maur, Persia, the defensive walls of the villages seemed to get more massive and , stronger, while the single gate of entrance to them got smaller, this lat being a pretty sure evidence of danger and of )recaution against it. 1 he towers of refuge in the fields seemed also to in crease iu number, showing that I he Turkomans took every care to make a surprise bysktdkin gttRttar (ho 'ver.-. of hollows, or whatever would conceal them, till they could pounce suddenly on the village pr its field, and calch the Uufortunate cultivato.s before thev could reach the security of the walls or the safj re'uge of one of t ho towers, or if once into one of these the Turko- a. . ... ... In one village three men were kept on i the lookout in towers, and if lh-'v saw an Alaman coming they iired o:V muskets as a wani ng 10 an to run and save themselves. .-When':. a pris oner was taken the captor lied h s hands and put him up behind oa tlr horse, and thus carried off the prize. Handsome young girls we:e h'ghly val ued, because a high pr;ce could be got for them. Sheep, goats, horses and cattle were all seized. One raid was poken of when 130, 000 cattle were taken from the region we have been Sassing through, lhe numwr is no oubt exaggerrated, but suppose one o; the figures to be cut off from the .sum, by way of discount ng it, we have still left what would represent a seri ous loss, particularly to - a poor country like this. The head of oiie Village told us that he was Jong ago. carr.ed on to lurkestan and sold as a slave. At times there would be five or x thousand men in these raid-". From this detachments would go off as scout ing parties, and when successful the booty was brought into the ma 11 body, who moved slowly along and couid thus keep strict guard over their captives. A body of men- 1 ke , this w th their horses would be I ke locusts, everything grow ng iu the fields would be eaten up or destroyed. The wonder is now the people here were able to live under such awful visitations. One is aston- L- hed that the place is not depopulated, aad nothings but ruins left. Ruined villages there are; and de troyedby the Turkomans is the usual explanation. The people know that it is not their government they have to thank for putting an end to this state of things, and they speak gratefully of the Rus s'ans, to whom they owe the blessing of peace and security. ; ' Ghenghis Khan was the first great Turkoman raider, and the sy .stern has continued off and on ever since his time. Regions which in ancient times were cultivated and populous are now des erts, with nothing but mounds to mark where man lived. At last, after cen turies, an end has been reached, and this Turanian scourge will be a thing of the past. A new period opens for Central Asia, as well as for the regions round it. Loiulon News. The largest room in the world under one roof and uifbroken by pillars is at St. Petersburg. It is (J-'t) feet long by 150 in breadth. By daylight it is used for military displays and a battalion can completely maneuver in it. Twentv thousand wax tapers are required to light it. , The roof of this structure is a single arch of iron, and it exhibits remarkable engineering skill in the architect. It is a little remarkable that of the three statues raised to women in tbs country all within' the present year one is to an English woman, Harriet Martineau another to an Irish woman, Margaret Hangherty, a successful New Orleans baker, and one to an Ameri can, Mrs. Julia A. Tevis, of Shelbyville, Ky. , a successful teacher. Chicago Herald. SCARLET FEVER. Absolute Necessity of Complete Isolation : When This Disease Is In Our Mldnt. One of the usual accompaniments of the colder season of , the year is that terror of all mothers, the scarlet fever, which, although confined to no partic ular season, and having, like death, all seasons for its own,' nevertheless seems always to rage with more vehemence when the mercury gets down among the small figures. Unlike the measles, which most moth ers think it desirable for their chihlreu to have early, there is almost no pains which wise mothers will not take to avert from their children this fearful evil, than which no other disease is so much to be dreaded. And it is justly that this dread is felt; not even th small-pox is so deserving of it, for al though that sometimes takes life, - and often beauty, it seldom, after good re covery, does further damage. But the scarlet fever, even if the little patient escapes with life, is as likely as not to poison the blood, to injure the brain, to destroy the hearing, or to affect ' to deadly purpose some vital organ with long and slow and painful decay. Poe's terrible story of the "Masque of the Red Death" had in it some elements of the horror that belongs to this pesti lence that walketh by noonday; and we have known an aged physician who never could speak of this especial form of fever without tears springing to tus ej-es, so. much misery to child and Karent and household had he seen it rin about. .. . - When we see a disease which, even on recovery, drugs after it in most in stances long sequelae of other ailments," often veiletT and obscure and not easy to reach and treat kidney affections, lung troubles, glandular difficulties, idiocy and the rest we can judge of the virulence of the original thing it self. And if bv any chance we see the child itself enduring the first distress, the final agony, crying out in blind wonder at its own suffering, yielding up its brief life perhaps in delirium, perhaps in faintness, with the pangs of suspense and despair of the mother bending over it, and the desolatton of the home it leaves so empty of its sweet presence, till it seems as if there were nothing but suffering in the world when by any chance we have seen all this," have fought our own light with a disease capable of working such woe then it seems to us that we would almost give our own life rather than be : the means of diffusing such trouble, of increasing the suffering of the world, of bringing such j)ain and sorrow upon another person who loved a child. Yet it is an almost universal thing for families every individual of whom would feel all this shrinking from in creasing the sorrows of the world in stead of doing their utmost to prevent the spread of the terrible infection, . acting with an almost criminal care lessness in 'th'e"fmafctctVraniJ-':trrtt;'"i&f course, with no iutcntion other than good ones, but partly from ignorance and- partly from thoughts lessness and " partly from a general trusting to luck. There is a eae of fever in the house; they isolate it, and then they think they have done their whole duty; they themselves, if not needed in attendance, go and come, here and there, in and out, as thev please. "Oh, it is only a slight case!f' they answer you if you question their action, forgetful of the fact that the most malignant form can be developed from the tout agon of the very slight est case of , scarlatina, scarlatina being the generic name of the disease in any form, and not merely of its lightest de velopment. The doctor goes and comes unavoidably through the hall and up down the common stairway between the door and the sick, room, nobody knows how many germs of the disease cling ing to the woolen fibres of his garments to oe scattered in the hall and on the stairs, over which the rest of the family pass necessarily many times a dajv to gather them up in their own clothes, and have them ready to disseminate whenever they go out among people. The nurses, too, and those in attend ance on the sick-room, go up and down into the kitchen and elsewhere about the house, carrying with them more or less of the atmosphere of the room and all that belongs to it, again to be possibly caught up by those who have never gone near the patient; and the verv dogs and .cats about the place, to say nothing of the ' flies, are liable to gather the dangerous unknown force in their lon fur, and bring it to the other, members of the family. If then these other member of the family, thus virtually contam inated, go out freely on the street, what deadly work is it they do. all 'uninten tionally and unconsciously, what seeds of death and sorrow do they scatter with every wave of their garments as they walk and as they encounter peo ple'on the street or venture into houses! Doubtless it is hard and unpleasant, a sort of imprisoment, indeed, for peo ple not immediately concerned 4u the work for the sick to shut themselves ur when such a trouble is in the house; but there are always ways for them to get enough fresh air to keep themselves in health. And for the rest of it, if the thingcomes, if should be received 1 ke any other dispensation, and borne with becoming strength and self-denial, even if that requires abstinence from church and concert and call, the foregoing of the morning shopp'ng and the after noon stroll. For fully three weeks after the patient Is out of danger and con valescing a process called desquamat"o a shedding of the scarf skin goes on I with the lit tle person, and every flake of that cuticle waitea aoroaa js uui, in oculation of the disease wherever re ceived. Isolation, then can not be too much regarded; and if we do not here speak of disinfection it is because we believe everybody in the world must now know the value and necessity of that in its most extended foro while many forget or are not aware of the need of complete isolation. There is nothing fine in the courage or bravado of those who would visit or go errands to the dwellings where this sickness ex ists. It is verv easy to be courageous for other people, and it is other people, and not one's self, that the grown per son endangers by going into the way of the disease, and those other people helpless little ch Idren. Grown peo ple are seldom in much danger of re ceiving the contagion for themselves, but they can carry it in their clothes; and knowing this, and knowing the alarming vitality of the germ, and how long afterward it can maintain this de vastating vitality with unirapeached power, they would be acting with total, ' want of principle, and even of decent human charity, if they did not avoid going to the house where scarlet fever exists, and did hot also avcid those who come out of that house. When Seople who are aware of the danger o a vo5d those who have come out from these fatal doors it is not for themselves, it should be remem bered, nor indeed always for those. dear to. them as life itselfui4juitiTas often for thesake"of Those dsar as life to others; and no one has a right to be offended at this avoidance. It is not the people themselves who are" thus -avoided; it is the terrible trouble whose companionship lurks about them. The very individuals who avoid them, or who feel compelled to condemn their want of consideration; and care in go- -ing abroad, would, it is very likely, go Uf their houses and remain .with "them," helping and cheering them as long as the necessity lasted, but not daring to go out into the world again so long as the least danger of communicating the evil remained. -Instead of being; of fended at the avoidince, all persons, on the other hand, would do well to Erevent the necessity of such avoidance y keeping Out of the way themselves, and by voluntarily and spontaneous! v, with noble regard for others, even if ": i . it. A-j in xiii.ii . i. ifhui in , i n 1.5 I n I n ir I iutti selves and their house in a sort of quar antine, which, uncomfortable as it may be to them, is indefinitely better 'than - sickness and death and the sorrow of ' vacant houses to others. Harper' Ba- ' zar. ' ;'; 'n - j THE TONGUE, i The Gustatory Properties of ltd Diminu tive Tip. J - When ; we want to - assure ourselves, ' by means of taste, about any unknown object say a lump of somr white stuff, which may be crystal or glass or alum ' or borax or quartz or rock-salt we put the tip of the , tongue against it gingerly, . If it begin to burn us we ' draw it away more or less rapidly, with an accompaniment in language strictly dependent upon our personal habits and manners. Tbeest we thus occa sionally 1 apply, even in the civilized adult states to unknown bodies is one that is being applied every day and all day long by children and savages. Un sophisticated humanity is constantly putting everything it sees up to its mouth in a frank spirit of experimental inquiry as to its gustatory properties. In civilized life we find everything ready labeled and assorted for us; we comparatively seldom require, to roll the contents of a suspicious bottle (in the tongue in order to discover whether it is paie sherry -orXhili vint garr Du b liri stout or mushroom ketchup. Btt in the savage state, from which geologi cally and biologically speaking, we have only just emerged, bottles and labels do not exist. ' Primitive man, therefore, in his sweet simplicity, has only two modes open before him for de ciding whether the things he finds are or are not strictlyv edible. The first thing he does is to sniff at them, and smell being, as Mr. Herbert Spencer has well put it, an anttcipatorjr taste, generally gives him some idea of what the thing is likely to prove. The sec ond thing he does is to pop it into his mouth, and proceed practically to ex amine its further characteristics. Strictly speaking, with the tip of the tongue one can't really taste at all. If you put a small drop of honey or of oil of bitter almons on that part of -the mouth; you will find (no doubt to your great surprise) that it produces no e'ffect of any sort; you only taste it when it begins slowly to diffuse itself and reaches the true tasting region in the middle distance. But if you put a little cayenne or mustard on the eame part, you will find that it bites you immedi ately the experiment should be tried sparingly while if you put it lower down in the mouth you will swallow it almost without noticing the pungency of the stimulant. The reason is that the tip of the tongue is supplied only with nerves which are really nerves of touch, not nerves of taste proper; they belong to a totally different main branch, and thev go to a different cen ter in the brain, together with the very similar threads which supply the nerves of smell for mustard and pepper, ihat is why the smell and taste of these pun gent substances are so much al Jse, as everybody must have noticed ; a good sniff at a mustard pot producing almost the same irritating effect as an incau tious mouthful. As a rule, we don't accurately dist'nguish, it is true, be tween these different regions of taste in the mouth in ordinary life; but that is because we usually roll our food about instinctively, without paying much attention to the particular part , affected by it. Indeed, when one is trying del berate experiments" in the subject, in order to test the varying sensitiveness of the ditierciit parts to different sub-tancjs, it is necessary to keep the tongue dry in order to isolate the thing you are experimenting w th and prevent its. spreading to all parts of the month together. In actual prac tice this resxdt is obtained in a rather ludicrous manner by blowing upon the tongue between each experiment with a pair of bellows. To . such un dignified expeJients does the pursuits of science lead the ardent modem ; psychologist. Those domestic rivals of Dr. Forbes Winslow, the servants, who behold the enthusiastic investigator al ternately drying his tongue in this ridiculous fashion, as if he were a black smith's fire, and then squeezing out a single drop of essence of pepper, vine gar, or beef tea from a glass syringe upon the dry surface, not uanaturaliy arrive at .the conclusion that master has gone stark mad, and that, in their private opinion, it's the microscope and the skeleton as has doae it. CorrUiUl Magazine. -;'-;.x';i '. """ In the matter of speed, the bicycle ranks seventh the balloon, the loco motive, and trotting, pacing and run ning horses having faster records. It ranks seventh because a lie will tiaveL faster than any of them. Current.