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The Polk County Item izes
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J. N. SMITH, M. D.,
P H Y S IC IA N
DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1883.
VOL. OL
TWO SONG S OF LIFE-
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Pluck, at m orn, from it# stem , u ro«o—
Kwwet will it be when the day d oth o l o .,;
Take from the .and# a golden grain—
A thousand tim e» will it ehme attain.
K»»st' tints will live tit thy m em ory-hall)
The grain w in the boundleett sea recall.
I f so little delitrht can brin^r.
Is m an’ s love but p erishing/
A^D S U R G E O N
Dallas, Oregon.
Oftie® ou Mill St., North of Court House.
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The Largest Stock and Cheapest
Goods ! !
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Take from foam -w hite waves a shell;
W rit, therein a s o u k o f life:
O f m an’ s bravery in the strife;
W oman's trust—engrave it w eil;
Cast it on the spray-dashed beach;
Kea w ill speed it 'yond thy reach;
But list at eve—the sounding waves
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W ill echo, softly, from their eaves,
This sweet son g—beleive it, then—
“ True are w om en; true are m en .”
Dalla«, Oregon.
A LL WORK DONK IN FIltrtT-CLASS STYLE.
Otiic® one door north of J.l> Lee'® White Brick.
N. L BUTLER.
JOHN T DALY
D A LY & B U T L E R ,
F or
the
P eople
of
HP o l k C o u n t y !
A T T O R N E Y S A T LA W ,
\ \ r n .l . PROMPTLY ATTEND TO ALL LEGAL
Y Y biiHiiifHH «intruHted to them. Orticu on Mill 8t.
opposite Court House, Dallas-
X DA\VNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
E.
and Notary P upllc-
O P E C U I a t t e n t i o n g i v e n f r o COLLECTING
and loaning money. Always {»repared to loan from
ïdUO to <2,Mu on personal or real estate security. Ottice
in Criswold's building, op]»osite the bank, Salem, Ore­
gon.
J. H. TOWNSEND,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dallas, Oregon.
O
FFICE ON MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE THE
Court House. Collections made a specialty.
E. B. SK IPW O R TH ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
-AN D -
Notary Public,
Albany, Oregon,
\ V I L L PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS IN THE
Y Y State. All business entrusted to him promptly at­
tended to. Ollice in O'Toole's Block, Broad Albin St.,
Geo. W. Belt,
M. L. Pities
Dalli
Independence.
BELT
& PIPES.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
irif~ Will practice in all the Courts
of the State. Office up stairs in
Court House.
CHAS. P.
A
SULLIVAN,
t t o r n e y
DALLAS.
Prompt
a t L a w
,
OREGON.
A tte n tio n
TaDI to Riislne»«.
OrriCE-Ou Main Street, two doors north of PoBtoffice
Having returned to Independence
to permanently locate, is prepared to
do all kinds of dental work. Filling
and treating a specialty.
Office in Vanii uyn & Smith’s new
hrick, up stairs.
T R U IT T & JOHNS,
A tto rn e y s -a t-L a w ,
MASON,
R E S ID E N T
D E N T IS T ,
Dallas, Oregon.
(Late of Eugene City and Sheridan.) ^
Nitro Oxide or Laughing Gas administered.
up stairs over II. T. Butler's store.
D a l l a s , N ov
SPRING
In
My
STOCK !
In d e p e n d e n ce
Office
17, 1882.
Z F. VAUGHN,
.Mill S treet, Dallas.
My
Millinery
Department
i
G E N E R A L M E R C H A N D ISE
Produce taken in Exchange for Goods at Market rates.
POPPLETON.
ALL I ASK
Watchmaker and Jeweler, DRESS & FAN CY
Watches, Clocks and Sewing
chines Repaired.
Ma­
All work Warranted.
Z. T. DODSON, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, OBSTETRICIAN.
Haafciermanently located in DallaB, Oregon.
Office in llyde'rt drug «tore.
novlltf.
W . H. HOLMES.
Attorney and
Counselor
at Law,
Salem, Oregon.
jo h n
M c D o w
S to re
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
EZRA
DALLAS, OREGON.
j AFFICE ON MILL STREET, NORTH OF COURT
l ) House.
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‘ •Are there no underwriters for hu­
man hopes! For the most p re cio n
of interests is there no insurance?”
I have been tempted all day,
tempted by fate and the devil. All
summer long I have been trying to
clasp hands for a life journey with a
Is now open and ready for inspection.
man I did not love; a man noble of
soul anil horn to the purple, who set
up his high lineage against my poor
gifts of beauty and song. He threw
some love into the scales, too, hut I,
God help me, had none to give in re­
turn. I had bartered erewhile my
whole possessions for a few glances of
You will find tlte FIN E ST GOODS aiul the L A R G E S T ASSORTM ENT of a dark, dark eye, and my note had
gone to protest.
Could I, could I ? It kept follow­
ing me about with fateful persistency,
for to-night I was to give my answer
to my high born lover.
Kept on the West Side of the Willamette, outside o f Portland.
I tried to look things in the face,
to count the cost.
Money was a good thing; it insured
warmth in winter and delicious cool
ness in summer, and prettiness and
daintiness, and the entrance into
good society. Yes, money was a
good thing, and position anil power,
and houses and lands.
So far good;
Is complete in evory respect and in the hands of a competent Milliner.
hut my soul hungered and thirsted
for a love commensurate with my
own, which this man, who offered me
purple and gold, had it not in his
lower to give, or, let me qualify that,
md it not in his nature to give.
I n m y P e r r y d a le s to r e
Tho stars came out golden and
soft, and tho fragrant summer dusk
You will hud a CO M PLE TE ASSORTM ENT of
crept around me where I sat inhaling
the scent of the roses. Ambition
and love tore my heart by turn, and
weariness, too, put m a poor pitiful
plea, for I was so tired, so tired.
Suitable for the Country Trade. You will also find a L IN E of
It was a beautiful future that
Reginald Dacro ottered me, wherein
toil and weariness could never come.
I thought of the purple and fine
linen; the luxurious rest; the einolu
ments! Then my daily life passed in
roviow before m e—that of companion
to a haughty, line lady, and a singer
in a fashionable church, among
fashionable saints and sinners.
I had entered upon this life from an
unloved and unloving home, a home
doled out to me by tho tardy justice
Give me a call before purchasing elsewhere, and SEE MY GOODS of a grandunclo who had robbed mo
of my inheritance. I thought at first
and G E T T H E P R IC E S !!
I might find the sangreal somewhere
in this new country, which seemed so
fair, but alas! I hail not even heard
the swish of wings.
I thought o f it all—the fever and
the fret; the petty jars; the misunder­
standings; the jiain of incomprehen­
sion; the unguerdoned toll- the
lagging hours; the awful pauses.
This or marriage; this, or marriage.
Is that you do yourself justice by buying goods whore you can get them the It seemed written like a placard on
earth and sky. It seemed bound
cheapest.
like phylactery upon the brows of the
I know it is the practice among a great many merchants to sell a few people as they passed to and fro)
leading articles at cost, but they must make it up on something else.
I and soon tho word marriage lost all
intend to strictly adhere to very LO W P R IC E ? in everything I offer for its significance for me, as words do
sale, and in
after oft repeating. D id it mean
misery or happiness, bliss or woe?
This marriage that rung its changes
through my train—was it God-
appointeil? Did it mean G od’s bless­
ing or his curse?
You know I did not love this man
who offered me rest from my labors.
He had not power to evoke ono thrill
at his call. But then love is only one
reason why ono should marry a man.
AND
There might he love and plenty of
money, and yet one go hungry all
one's life. I have known such things.
I hail tried * o make my life straight
and fair. I had tried to keep clean
There is no doubt or question hut I shall sell them Tory much lower than hands and a pure heart; tried God,
the same goods have ever been offered in this market.
who knows the secrets o f all hearts,
i-S T Please to call and price the goods and yon will see that I am knows this—to fight despair.
in earnest.
W e see through shadows all our
life long. We come into this world
without our being given a choice as
to our advent, and go out of it in the
same manner.
We liavo not been consulted as to
S u c c e s s o r to W . C . B r o w n ,
birth or death. More and more the
D A L L A S , O REGON, M ARCH 8.1883.
prayer of Epictetus haunts me.
“ Lead me, Zeus and Destiny, whither­
soever I am appointed to g o ; I will
B U R N S & M O R R IS O N .
follow without wavering; even though
I turn coward and shrink, I shall
LIVERY AND SALE STABLE.
have to follow all the same.”
M A N U F A C T U R E R S A N D D E A L E R S IN
D a ll® « , O r e g o n .
Should I marry Mr. Dacre? Was
l i K Y I T I R L « P R I M « B i ;D « ,
he a good party ? as the world said.
An.l all kinds o f
T oo good for me, as my lady ele­
H O R S E S , C A R R IA G E S A N D L IV E R Y
UPHOLSTERED WORK. ALBUM PICTURE FRAMES. gantly phrased it.
WALL BRACKETS. AND WINDOW SHADES.
I had been horn into the world
A t th o M on t R e a s o n a b le R a te s !
amid tierce throes of mental anguish
T E KEEP A COMPLETE STOCK IN OUR LINE
the pain of her travail my
Conveyance o f < om m ercial men a apecialty,
U and will sell as cheap a® the name good® can be Through
mother’s heart was rent with the
go ia Portland. Do not take our word or other peoples
word for it, but come and see our goods and learn our
greater pain of ray father’s sudden
B U R N S A M O R R ISO N , P r tp ’ rs.
prices.
A l l k i n d » o f W o r k i n om* l i n e d o n e d e a t h - ill owned off the Cornish coast,
for I was horn at sea. Sho lived
o n S h o r t N o tic e .
THE SELT HOUSE !
until I was 10 years old, a life of
We also keep a large and well delected atock of
sorrow and poverty and renunciation.
PETEK C O O K , ..............................P u opE irroR .
Then s h e died, leaving me to the care
C askets and Cases on hand, of a compassionate world an.l my
In d ep en d en ce. O regon .
Which we will furnish at Redueed Price®
uncle. O f him I have already
Salesroom on MAIN STREET, two door® north of spoken.
• If K BF.LT HOUSE II A3 CHANGF.D HANDS AND
Vanduy® k Smith,
will be run a® a first cla®s henee in ev®ry reepeet.
My life dragged on with clogged
m i l P I YIIHYU.. O K M .O Y .
wheels. I was always at war with
my surroundings. Though too proud
to express it, I had never realized my
ideal of womanhood, or in any way
grown up to my aspirations and
DALLAS, CRZaON,
dreams. If I had grown at all it had
b e e n through pain and depression—
a fatal th:i g always for a warm­
hearted. earnest woman.
O E N U R A I i
Having purchased the above mill®, we are now pre*
pared to do all kimii of
My uncle, Edward Earle, had pro­
c u r e d the friendship (?) of the lady
C ris t and C u s to m W ork
in whose house I had passed a twelve
Promptly and in a satisfactory manner Give us a call
month —YIrs. Lucien Granger, a dis­
W IL S O N A H O L M A N .
tant cousin of his own. I was an
D a l l a b Oregon. Jan 5. 1183
unsalaried governess or always made
available by my nnrle. f t was during
my residence with that lady that my
fate came to me. A yonng nephew
W® have monee to loan on approved Real EetaD*
Security, in sum® from
o f Mrs. Granger came to the hall.
He was an artist, young and hand
One to Ten Thousand Dollars.
T w » «lourd norI li of Posi Olfire. some, and fresh from a four years’ so­
Time A From one to five yean; Terms Easy
journ in Rome.
I need not weai 7 yon with the
k
prologue or the epilogue o f our love,
for words are so poor to express the
I take pleasure in announcing to the public that my
Millinery of the Latest Styles!
DR. J. B. JOHNSON,
D o n tie t-
DR. I.
A LOVE STORY.
ell
Real Estate Agent,
DALLAS, OREGON.
O A R T IE S DESIRING TO BUY OR SELL REAL
I estate, will do well to consult me. Office two doors
Jap R Miller's drug store.
J. L. COLLINS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY.
a s b e e n i n p r a c t ic e o f h is p r o f e s s io n
M
in this place for about twenty-five years, and will
attend to all business
. . .
,
.
.
Office, opposite th® Dallas Hotel, corner of Main and
Court street. Dallas. Polk County, « »regon
_______
WILSON & BAY,
Drugs, Patent Medicines,
S T A T IO N E R Y ,
Perfumery. Fancy and Toilet Articles,
CIGAESAND TOBACCOS.
PERRYDA1E. OREGON
ROWELL & SON,
B lacksm iths,
GOODS,
CLOTHING
Furnishing Goods, Etc., Etc.
M. M. E L L I S ,
II. 1 . L IE S & LAWRENCE,
DALLAS CITY MILLS,
JOHN
E. S M I T H ,
WILSON & HOLMAN, PROPRIETORS.
DALLAS,
OREGON,
n
’ READY* TO DO ALL KINDS OF
\ ES
to \ d n 2 u Titlrioîk
u. their Hue 1 f *«•-» in th®
a
it
kMt atvl® and on the live en*l let live plan
You will
And thru» at their shop »*•••*■* "¡J *
or night, o u r shop 1® at tb y E lk horu «g n . one door
louthnf Bum* * jifTT,*», • 'l i y r
™ > ,n 1 ho»#
you will continue tne sam«
»(»W ELL k »ON
,flS 2 k * November 24. 1882.
BUCkSMITIIM.
M O N EY T C L O A N I
W
P
WRIGHT,
A U C T IO N E E R
And County Surveyor.
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’ I L L A T T E N D T O H 18 B D 8 IN E 8 8 _IN
a n , part o f th# c o o n t , p ro m p tlj.
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Truitt
Johns.
All Work Warranted.
heart’s utterance.
O golden days!
0 tender, pusBionate nights!
O
princely heart, come back to me!
Alan Leighton was the last son of
a high-born family, and because of
the blue blood—the united blood of
all the Howards— flowing in his veins,
Mrs. Granger interposed her fiat
against our love, dreading, doubtless,
the plebeian admixture o f mine.
It is a pity that blood does not al
ways toll. It was an inglorious tri
umph to me—yet still a triumph—to
bare my white arms to the shoulder
during our gala nights—to which my
voice was always invited-coBtrast-
ing their satiny smoothness and per­
fect contour with the lean, brown ap­
pendages Mrs. Granger folded over
ner aristocratic heart.
But a cloud crept into the sky, and
its shadow fell across our path.
Alan was called suddenly by tele
gram to England, where Lis grand
old father lay dying. We had hut a
moment for our farewells, anil Alan's
heart was rent with sorrow, and I
helped to expedite his departure.
But one letter over reached me.
His father was dead, and ho was Sir
Alan now.
Mv P r e c io u s H e l e n : —M y father, whom I
loved and respected above all men, died yes­
terday. I need not tell you how desolate we
feel, and how the liifht seems to have died
out in every nook and corner. My dear
m other is prostrated with the blow which
1ms taken away the lover o f her youth, anil
1 shall not be able to return,to you for some
weeks. Announce our betrothal, dearest, to
m y aunt and uncle, which, you know, was
m y intention the very night I was called
away. Be true to m e, m y darling Helen, as
I shall be true to you. G ood night, dear
love, I shall write at length so soon as the
m other and I have m atured our plans for
her lonely future. G ood night. May angels
guard you, and m ay the good Father fold
about you H is everlasting arms.
Your friend and lover,
A l a n L k iq h t o n .
Two years hail dragged their alow
length along since that letter came,
and I had never heard from Alan,
though craving his presence as the
prisoner cruves the sunshine. I had
written him once, and I had regretted
even that. “ He was soon to be wed
ded to an earl’s handsome daughter,"
Mrs. Granger read aloud from an
open letter in her hand; “ in fact it
was an old affair, prior to his visit to
the hall." etc. etc.
How I regretted I had written,
though the words had been few,
merely asking if he had been enabled
to procure me a eertaih book wo had
made mention of together, and the
time was more than a year ago when
I hail the sight thus to address him.
And now! O pitiful Christ! another
woman was to he his wife, and I must
never think o f the old days, or the
old dreams, or look into his dark eyes,
or feel his kisses upon my unkisseil
lips! Never! and I might live fifty
years
And, O the pity ui it, out of all
this world’s million possibilities I hail
only the chance of two— either to wed
Reginald Dacre, a man old enough
to he my father, or to be a companion
to some haughty woman. I had de­
cided upon accepting Mr. Dacre.
The tiny note of barely two lines I
had placed between the leaves of a
book it was his nightly custom to
read.
But Alan! but Alan! Iliad thought
him so true, so noble. I had called
him “ my prince,” “ my king,” alone
in tho warm dusk under the stars.
" I will not soil thy purple with m j
dust,” I had whispered in my heart.
“ Nor breathe my poison on thy
Venice glass.” * * *
I went
down to the sea to listen to its sullen
roar; hear it tell its tale of human
misery; of fair faceH dead under its
waves; of gold and jewels lying on
green beds of moss; of argosies
gone down, the wail of human misery
their requiem. I tried to remember
ull this, h o that mine might not seem
such a great thing amiil a world of
sobbing and tears. It was a good
tning to think o f tho sufferings of
others, and try to ignoro our ow n; a
good thing. But, my misery! the
misery o f tho girl called Helen Pres­
ton!
This girl was somewhat of a genius,
tho jieoplo said. Sho possessed the
gift o f song and she was handsome,
too, men said. Anil sho had two
chances in the world, mill if she hud
had money enough to have utilized
her gift o f song she might havo had
three.
But she had smirched her soul, for
all her beauty and gifts; had been
false to herself, to God and humanity;
false, too, to Reginald Dacre, for she
kept her love for Alan locked in her
heart.
“ I have sold my soul for houses
and lands,” sho said, “ and I am
wretched. Mea culpa! Men culpa!”
“ I have sold myself with open
eyes,” she said, “ knowingly, with
malice prepense. I have no one to
blame. That Alan forgot his vows
did not make it right that I should
forswear myself.
But the sea with its fuss and fret,
made my heart ache, the turbulent
water seemed wooing me thitherward
The chimes o f our quaint old church,
playing an old song, caused n choke
in my throat I would go and in
voke grand airs from the organ, nnd
mayliap I should forget the sea's roar.
It was my wont to go there to
practice, and I know the service
would not he held for a half hour.
The lights were turned down to ft
semi darkness, and tho old sexton,
with whom I was a favorite, had left
tho key jn the door for me. The
moon shone across the organ keys
and cross my face: and the trailing
folds o f my white dress looked almost
ghastly in its light. O quaint old
church! O quaint old chimes! Too
soon I would lie, far away from yon,
over the sea to my suitor's lordly
home, carrying with me a heavier
heart than my years should warrant.
But it was too late to look hack;
and the fault was mine. I had ruined
my own life, and must pay the price.
Because I had beefi forbidden the
desire o f mine eyes, I bad sealed tny
fate.
“ Peccavi.” I cried, and my head
sank upon tho organ and tears stained
the red roses at my throat.
“ Helenr* nnd my bead was lifted
gently and Alan Leighton's tender
eyes met mine. “ Alan!" wns all my
astonishment could utter.
“ My girl, you have suffered,” he
ejaculated, in a tone o f exquisite
tenderness. “ Helen, my first and
only love, how ws have been wronged.
NO. 27.
I only learned an hour before I em
harked, that you were not the false
woman you had been painted to ine.
Mrs. Granger wrote me eightoeu
months Hgo that you had married
Mr. Dacre, and left with him for
Cuba.’ A subsequent letter, without
date or signature, inclosing the tiny
pin I had given you, left me no
room for douht I ¡eft England for­
ever, and have been on the wing
ever since, finding no rest for my
heart on sea or shore, Helen. I suf­
fered as few men suffer lx>cause of
losing you, and because o f your
falseness. But I could not waste my
whole life because of a woman’s un
truth, so I tied up the broken threads
and tried not to look back. It was
by chance I met Herman Sloan, and
in the midst o f mutual confidences
he asked me why I had never re­
turned to America and to the beau
tiful Helen Preston, who hud de­
clined all suitors, anil was still un
wed. Helen, I embarked that after­
noon, and I am here, never to be
parted from my darling. When will
we he married, sweet?”
“ Married! Alan,” and the dreary
present recurring to me, I withdrew
myself from his arms, and almost un­
consciously my lips framed the words;
I had died fo r this last year to know
You had loved m e. Who shall turn on fate?
I care r.ot i f love co m e or g o
Now: th o u g h v o u rlo v e s e e k m in e fo r mate,
It is too late.
“ Too late! Helen, my only love, ex­
plain your meaning for G od’s sake.”
Then came a broken disjointed
tale of my sorrow and temptation
when I heard of his handsome and
high horn bride; o f my weariness of
the hull; of Mrs. Granger; o f myself,
of Mr. Dacre’s constant wooing, and
ut lust of the little note only this
night thrust between the leaves of
his book, making Alan’s coming for­
ever too late for my happiness.
Rapid hoof-beats along the road,
and my courtly lover came in sight.
“ Saved!
Alan,” and my words
came thick anil fast.
“ Engage him in conversation, Alan,
regarding tho hall, Mrs. Granger, the
weather, stocks, etc., etc.
I will es-
cupe by the vestry iloor, riy to the
hall! secure the note! nnd then, oh,
Alan!!”
“ My darling, my bright darling!”
hut I broke from his clasp anil sped
away like a chamois to the hall
I
diil not heed that tho roses fell from
my throat, that a portion of my lace
flounce graced a tnornbnsh, or that
my hair, unloosed from its fastenings,
hung about my shoulders. I think if
I had possessed a piece of paper I
should have shi.nteil a reprieve! a re
prieve!
Sh.dl I try to tell of how I secured
tho note and hid it in my bosom, of
how I ran upstairs and peeped for
one moment into tho mirror, twisting
up my shining hair, and trying to
hush the loud boating of my heart, of
how I rapidly traversed tho path lead­
ing to the church, dodging behind an
usage hedge to escape meeting Mr.
Dacre, hurrying on as Hoon as I was
free, to he folded cloBe to Alan’s
heart?
“ And you will not laugh at me,
Alan? ’
Laugh at yon, my darling, and
wherefore?”
Ob, for my mad flight, for the rod
roses scattered all along the road: for
my unbounded joy at your return;
for proposing to run and steal the
note, and, and things.”
For answer came tender kisses
pressed upon brow and lips and
closed eyes, and Mr. Lord Lovel (Mr.
Dacre) rode forth from tho castle
gates alone.
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CAUSE AND TREATMENT OF FAINTING-
Fainting, in most of its forms, is a
purely natural and physiological con
dition for which there is a good
reason. Fainting from loss of blood
is nature’s remedy for the bleeding.
The heart's action is lowered; the
blood withdrawn from tho extrem­
ities (whore, presumably, tho bleed­
ing is going on) into tho larger cen
tra) vessels; the patient lies motion
less; there are no struggles to force
the blood out of the wound; there is
no pain felt. In a case of fainting,
therefore, from loss of blood, simply
lay the patient on the hack a little
turned to one side—with the bead
low and the wound in a position fav
orable to the doctor's manipulation;
loosen all fastenings nnd buttons
about the throat, and then await the
doctor’s arrival. Don’ t try to bring
the patient urounil by deluging him
with water. Above all give him no
brandy unless by tho doctor's orders.
Brandy will end the fainting quick
enough, hut it will start the heart
at double quick time mid send the
blood surging through tho peripheral
nrteries, breaking down anil washing
away any protective plups of clot
which lias probably begun to close
the wounded vessels. In cases of
fainting from shock or from pain the
patient should he placed in an easily
recumbent position, with the head
low nnd the throat free from pressure.
The forehead may then lie bathed
with cold water and brandy cautiously
administered, or ammonia applied to
the nostrils.
AN INDIAN KERO
Hiqierstition settled many questions
of war and of tribal policy. A band
of Indians emigrated in a liody from
the Minisink region, to avoid a malign
genius of the place. A party of
Senecas chased a youg Catawba
warrior for five miles. He succeeded
inïdÎling
ig seven
seve: of them licfore they
captured
d him
him. The next day, when
be*was led out to the torture, he as
caped by a sudden dash, leapeil into
the river amid a shower o f bullets,
and swam under water like an otter,
only rising to take breath. On the
opposite hank ho mede insulting
gestures at his enemies, nnd fled
away. Of those who pursued him.
he slew a party of five while they
slept, mangled and scalped them, and
then returning in the night, dng up
and scalped the sevf n whom he had
«lain at first. A solemn council of
his foes decided that he must he a
wizard, and that pursuit would there­
fore Is- useless - [Dr. Edward Eggle­
ston, in the Century.
--------- a 4®t ♦—
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Dost thou love life, than do not
squander time, for that in the »tuff
life ia made of
PARIS.
A
L e t t e r F r o m t h e F r e n c h Capital R e­
p le t e W it h M a t t e r « o f I n t e r c u t t o our
R ea d er«.
P a b i s , April 5, 1883.
The leaves and the birds are re­
appearing, and so are the strangers,
many of them from California and
the Northwest Although mild and
genial the Paris winters are notice­
able by the bare trees, and interrupt­
ed growth of verdure in the Champs
Elyses, or along the Boulevards. On
the lower Pacific Coast this change is
not perceptible and our trees there
bloom almost continually, creating
surprise to the French tourists who
are always congratulating me on be­
ing a resident of the golden State of
California. I shall return to the Pa­
cific Coast firmly convinced that it is
tho cheapest place to live in the
world.
Paris must cut down its prices be­
fore it can hope to again see the thou­
sands of persons who once lived here
her ause they could accomplish much
with little money.
The scale of liv­
ing has become higher than it is in
New York and our other large cities.
If the town would to morrow abolish
its octroi duty, make articles of con­
sumption cheap and bring down its
rents it would bring hundreds of
millions of francs into the pockets of
shop-keepers and other small trades­
men.
But, cheap or dear, it is ever the
same facinating old Paris—the most
irresistibly charming place in the
world in which to reside, because of
tho immense accumulation of topics
of interest, o f objects of art, and
above all of varieties of human so­
ciety to be found within its walls.
We are not conqielled to adore even
its stains and spots as the Hieur
Michel de Montaigne felt constrained
to do; but we cherish a certain affec­
tion fur it, which not even the rapac­
ity of landlords can entirely deaden.
M. Jules Ferry said in his speech
ut the Sarbonne the other day that
the Republic had within the last ten
years expended sixty millions of
francs in building and equipping
school houses, in departments where
heretofore those structures were few
and far between.
“ And we expect
soon to spend forty millions more,” he
added. This makes the clericals roar.
They hoped to chock tho school sys­
tem by Laving the new text books
tabooed by the clergy; but the G ov­
ernment prosecutes every priest who
dares to fulminate against these vol-
rmnes, and many a pastor hesitates
before incurring the danger o f a
heavy tine for intermeddling in State
matters. Since 1870 there have been
founded no less than fifty-seven nor­
mal schools, specially for the instruc­
tion of school mistresses. Tho French
are gradually coming round to the
true theory tLat women should teach
in all schools excopt those of the very
highest grade. I say the French, but
I meun the Republican French. The
clericals profess to be shocked at the
idea of having boys taught by young
women, and tLey say that they will
net deliver their daughters into the
care of Godless girls, who are the
fruit of the odious revolution.
A curious fool came to his death in
a Parisian mad house this week. His
name »a s Roussot, and he was sen­
tenced to doath at the Assizes of the
Seine in 1853 for having assasinated
an old man nnmed Demonry, in order
to steal his money.
Roussot had
been a pettifogging man of business
about the Palace of Justice, and his
case attracted a great deal of atten­
tion. Such crowds came to hear the
¡deas on tho last day of tho trial that
the Judge presiding allowed several
spictators to crowd into the dock
where the criminal was standing
Roussot was between two gendarmes,
and immediately behind him stood a
spectator named Planchat, employed
as a runner for a sensational news­
paper. Planchat waited until the ex­
act moment when the Judge an
nounced to the unhappy Roussot the
sentence of death; then he pasead
his finger quickly across the assassin’s
neck, ut tho same time making a grat­
ing noise with his lips—as if imitat­
ing the cutting o f the guillotine knife
through the criminal’s cartílagos.
This brutal trick hail un unexpect
ed effect.
Roussot uttered a loud
scream and fell forward on his face,
us if he had really been guillotined;
and Planchat was arrested, and for
coutempt of court and display of
callousness was sentenced to two
years’ imprisonment.
Roussot was
taken away to the cells, hut he was
found to be quite mad. He begged
of the warders to give him back his
head, insisting that ho could not con
duct liimiielf properly without it At
first they thought that ho feinged
madness, but tho physicians said no,
nnd the case went up to tho Emperor,
who pardoned him and had him shnt
up in Rieetre, mid afterward in Cha
ronton. For more thnn thirty years
Rmisset has insisted that he has been
guillotined in the court room in the
Palace of Justice. “ You see,” he
was accnstomed to say to visitors,
“ they cut off my head before they
hail any right to do so.”
Then he
would relate all the circumstances as
they had existed for him in his dis­
eased brain, and would imitate the
grating sound which his persecutor
Planchat had mnde with lr's lips on
the day o f the sentence—the sound
which drove the wretched criminal
mad.
Du any of my P hc III c Coast readers
rememlier Kotten the pianist? I
think he made a tour in Ameaica
some years ago. He was a strange,
wild looking young man with a piale
face, a moustache n la diable and ec­
centric manner o f touching keys of
his favorite instrument.
Genius, I
think he possessed in a certain de
gres». There was a flavor to his play­
ing which wns entirely original. Be­
sides he wns composed with taste and
refinement Now he has gone—his
young life snuffed out quickly in one
night by the remorseless hand of
death. Last Friday evening he ar
rived In Paris wi,rn and nervous after
a hurried journey from 8t. Petera-
hear three-fourths < _
ianists o f the world,
asleep, never to wake
was found dead in hit i *
remembered chiefly
of his playing and 1
with prominent mui
I remember once
accompany Remenyi,
linist, at a concert in «
sion, whose wealthy on
bled for the occasion all
celebrities he could
upon.
Remenyi was in
and he played some ,
which were as fanti
Bs spiritual as a _
Ketten was pounding
ly a string of ~
snapped. Th«
aside his instrument, a n d ,t
Ketten, said, placidly, in
French, “ I shall play no 1
night, my boy !" whereupon
as if he felt he were reproached for
having done something wrong, rushed
frantically away from the piano and
disappeared.
Despite the multitude o f attractions
to be found in frivolous Paris I shall
soon return to California, satisfied
that after all it is the only pliuse for
an American to live.
B n s.
TEACHING A HORSE-
The qualities required in a teaoher
of youth are needed in one w h »-
essays to train a horse. He m ost be
gentle, firm, and gifted with the art
of putting things. I f he also pos­
sesses that which is as excellent a
thing in man ns in woman, a voice
“ever soft, gentle and low,” it will be
all the better for himself and his
pupil. The following directions as
to teaching a horse to brck and to
lead, show how the qualities referred
to may be used:
Take him to the top of a rather
steep piece of ground, stand his hind
feet down the slop-.-, throw the bridle
reins over the neck, place yourself in
front and take hold of them on each
side of the head close up to the bit.
Now press the bit against the sides
of the mouth and speak gently—
"hack, hack” —and the horse will soon
learn to do this.
Next, take him on to the top o f
ground not quite so steep, and pur­
sue the same course.
When the
horse has learned to back readily
down hill, he can be taken on to level
ground to do it
As soon as this lesson is well
taught, harness him to a light, empty
wagon, and go through the same
course.
YVhen completed, jump into th® '
wagon, take reins in hand, pall on
them, nt the same time speaking to
him, “ back, back," and thus keeping
up the discipline till the a n l m f i p r " '
perfected in it.
If he has a mate, after both are
well instructed, they can be harnessed
together, and drilled till perfected ia
backing.
Three things, ns nhore stated, tm®w
he strictly observed; First, to place
the horse with his back down descend­
ing ground; Becond. when harnessed,
let it be to a light, empty wagon,
which requires the least (possible
effort to hack it; third, he perfectly
kind to the horse, speak gently, pat
it on the neck, stroke down its face
with the hand, and on no account
strike it
As soon as the horso understands
what is wanted o f him, ho will do it
with alacrity.
It is not from ill-
temjier or stubbornness that a horse
does not back at once when spoken lo ;
it is from sheer ignorance; he does
not know what is wanted, or how to
do it until gently taught.
A second method is to harness the
horso alongside of another well
broken to back,' and set the hind end
of the wagon on a sloping piece o f
ground, and follow tne directions
above, or jump into the wagon and
take the reins in hand; but it is better
to discipline alone at first, as above.
To teach a horse to lead, let a man
or boy take the end of the bridle in
hand and gently pull on it, while
another holds out a dish with grain
or meal in i t
Tho horse will then advance to it.
Now let him nibble a small quantity,
then move with the dish a little
further in front, and so keep on till
he is taught to lead well.
He can also be taught by putting
him alongside of another horse which
leads easily. He onght to be rather
hungry when thns drilled, so he will
come up eagerly to the dish o f grain.
-[ Rural New-Yorker.
CATS ON SHIPBOAKD.
Although pussy is the unrelenting
enemy of rats and they stand in
wholesome awe of her presence, she ia
not always victorious in her encoun­
ter with them. I have seen a cat
rolled over and over by a patriarch
on whom she had poun«wd, and re­
tire from the fray discomfited, with
a severe bite through the lip. In
connection with cats and rats, I will
mention two episodes that I could
scarcely have believed possible bad
they not come under my imme«liate
notice. On board the Elbe we had a
grand, great yellow cat in the after
part o f the ship—for cats have tbeir
own well-refined homee afloat as
ashore, and recent intrusion within
their txmndaries from feline rivals
quite as conservatively as thair
brethren who enjoys the blessing! o f
the land. Handy, then reigned over
the saloon and quarter deck, and was
the moot accomplished and gentle­
manly cat I was ever acquainted with.
( )ne morning, while we were lyin g in
the .Scheldt a b reu t o f Antwerp,
Handy was seated on the rail watch­
ing the disembarking o f the cargo
ami the various operations o f tha
small craft which surrounded tha
steamer, with that responsible air o f
general superintendence which
tinguished him, whvn he
caught sight of a rat in r
lighters alongside. Without a
ond's hesitation he
from the rail sheer into'
space, a descent o f full
perhaps m ore! Aa may be
he was nearly killed by the
lay (or davs almost
we nursed him round
tea and brandy.