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The Portland, Dalles and Salt
Lake Railway.
COMMUNICATION FROM COL. W. VT.
CHAPMAN.
Ojtick P. T. & S. L R. It. Co., I
Portland. Juno 10, 1875. f
Bj late advices we are informed
that onr contracts for the construc
tion of the Portland, Dalles and Salt
Lake railroad have been received in
London and considered, and the fol
lowing modifications proposed, to
wit: That we, instead of the contract
ors, locate and furnish estimates in
detail for 200 miles of the road.
Upon this being done the contracts
will bo signed for the construction
of the whole line as fast as estimates
shall be made and approved. The
200 miles above referred to will reach
from Portland to tho town of Uma
tilla, and in connection with surveys
and estimates made by Mr. Blair,
our engineer, will reach to La
Grande, east of the Blue mountains,
including the Walla Walla branch.
It is the intention, if funds for that
purpose are supplied, to extend the
preliminary lines and estimates from
La Grande to Baker City this fall.
This is desirable in order to facilitate
obtaining tho right of way and at an
early day putting tho work under
construction. It is proper here to
state that after deliberation, and
upon advising with some prominent
citizens as to the probability of suffi
cient stock being taken hero to carry
the modifications into effect. We
have accepted tho modifications and
caused notice thereof to bo transmit
ted to the proper parties. It only
remains, therefore, for a compliance
on onr part, and all will be right,
and the great enterprise of the Pacific
Northwest a success.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from our agent in New York:
New York, May 6, 1875.
Col. W. W. Cuip?ncm--rEAR Sir:
I am only just this day in receipt of
news from the contract. It is not
signed nor is it rejected. They say
they are in earnest about building
the road, and have tho means at their
command, all of which is hopeful.
out they say they will require some
modifications, bnt do not irive them
in this letter, I shall expect another
ettar from them soon. The attorney
or the contractors is sanguine that
an agreement will be arrived at.
I remain yours, etc.
Letter from tho same party:
New York, May 20, 1875.
'jr. IF". Chinman. Esf. Rear Sir:
I am in receipt of news from London
to the effect that the proposced syn
dicate of contractors will not sign a
contract with us until we have fur
nished them with estimates of tho
cost of constructing at least one sec
tion. I send herewith copies of the
letter of the contractors, as presented
v Mr. B. (one of the syndicate) to
Mr. J., their counselor-at-law; also
of the latter's last letter to me, -which
explains the exact position of tho
matter up to this date. Isow, if you
can comply, all right. I may also
state that Mr. B. has expressed his
intention of coming over here in
June; and Mr. J., their counselor,
will probably accompany him. I
am very glad they aro coming over
here, as then we can treat more di
rect and expeditiously. Yours, etc.
Copy of letter from Mr. B to n.
D. J. (their counselor.)
London, April 29, 1875.
Dear Sir: The Portland Dalles and
Salt Lake Railroad
1st. We require detailed estimates
over such a length of line as the syn
dicate would after approval be bound
to build.
2d. The right of constrncting tho
railway so fr as such estimates ex
tend, and the remainder after the es
timates have been submitted and ap
proved by them. Of course the first
thing to be done is to have the est!
mates carefully prepared and this I
trnst you will impress carefully upon
your friends on the other side.
Yours truly, Ac.
Copy of letter from II. D. J., Esq.,
to our agent in New York, dated
May 1, 1875:
Dear Sir: I wrote you last on the
28th nit., and have since received
from Mr. E. W. B. a letter in refer
ence to the P. D. & S. L. railroad.
I know some of the men on the syn
dicate, whose names you are like
wise familiar with, and can only add
that if the American side will work
with ns the men aro powerful enough
to build the line. What they want
here are estimates, say of 200 miles,
from which they would make a firm
contract -with the company on ap
proval of the estimates to construct
the remainder. Tho men appear fully
in earnest, but they say, ' We want to
tal-e up the whole business, and three
million sterling (fifteen million dollars)
is, in England, always a serious matter."
That the public may understand
the reason for these modifications it
is proper to remark that the contract
as originally drawn in London, and
sanctioned by us, provided that the
contractors should survey and esti
mate the cost of construction, and if
it did not exceed an average of 30,
000 per mile for the whole line, then
the contract should be carried into
effect; if it did exceed that sum, then
it should be optional with them.
But they have, as we are advised,
taken the wisest course for them
and safer course for ns, to require
the surveys and estimates to be made
by us. We are safe in assuring that
the average cost of our road will not
exceed 30,000 per mile, even at the
former prices for iron, while it is
now found to be one-third to one
half cheaper.
Having accepted the proposed
modifications, we have engaged the
services of Mr. Theilsen. as Chief en
OREGON CITY,
gineer, to take charge of the survey
and make the estimates. His signa
ture will be a sufficient guaranty of
the integrity of tha work. He puts
the cost of making the surveys and
estimates at $0,000. If this Bum
shall be promptly subscribed, the
contracts may be finally closed by
the 1st of August and the work com
menced in September or October
next.
With the history of this enterprise
and its importance to the conntry
the public must be familiar. Four
years have been spent in constant,
persistent effort for Congressional
aid. In this we failed. Tbe day
had passed for such legislation.
But w-arned of these possible results
we, in the meantime, steadiiy pro
gressed with these negotiations to a
point where the final result depends
to-day not alone upon our own ef
forts, but upon the patriotism and
public spirit of our citizens. With
much respect, W. W. Chapman,
President.
Tbe Whisky "Ring" Frauds.
No harsher judgment could be
pronounced upon the administration
of the Internal Revenue Bureau
at Washington, than the confession
now formerly made that in order to
detect the frauds and combinations
of the Whisky "ring." Mr. Bristow
found it necessary to go outside of
the office created to protect the pub
lic interest, and to conceal from it
all knowledge of his operations until
they were completed.
This fact gives the true storv of
Mr. Douglass' removal, and th re
fusal to grant his abject apjieal for
retention until the end of the fiscal
year, lhe Secretary of the Treasu
ry was possessed of all the necessary
information when that step was taken
and ho knew that to make his plan
successful, the absence of the late
Commissioner was indispensable.
mere is no longer a particle of
doubt, remarks tho New Y'ork Sun,
that the Internal Revenue Bureau
wa3 the center of the "ring" which
for years ha3 been plundering the
government right under tho eyes of
Boutwell and Richardson, who re
fused to investigate the most serious
charges or to heed the evidence of
glaring corruption. This "ring" is
composed of active Republicans in
and out of Congress, who commend
ed themselves to favor by liberal con
tributions to the "cause and loud
declarations in favor of a third term.
They were always welcome at Wash
ington as friends of the President,
and in that capacity were able to
strengthen Douglass at the White
House, and to procure legislation by
which his powers were enlarged and
made comparatively independent of
control. Emboldened by this pro
tection they branched out on a more
extensive scale, until the loss of rev
enue aud the notoriety of illicit dis
tillation compelled the attention of
the Secretary of tho Treasury, and
led to the explosion which has now
created so much alarm at the capital.
The Sanborn contracts, Jayno job
bery, and other iniquities were
traced into the very office of the late
Secretary of the Treasury, and im
plicated Richardson and Sawyer in
the most serious manner. The Pres
ident rewarded Richardson with a
life appointment on the Court of
Claims, and but for Mr. Bristow per
haps Sawyer would have been trans
formed into a Minister Plenipotenti
ary. Now, tho great Internal Reve
nue Bureau is found to bo rotten
from the bark to tho core, and its
chiefs are detected as agents of an
infamous "ring" of thieves. This is
no news to the public, but only an
official confirmation of facts long
known to exist. Every day discloses
some new rascality, and no surprise
need be excited at more startling
robberies than have yet been uncov
ered. Ihus far, daylight has only
penetrated through the crevices.
An Attorney's Effective Advice.
If to serve ft client faithfully by
the adoption of every means to ad
vance his cause in a moral obliga
tion, then Attorney Stubbs, of So
lano, 'California, has got a credit
mark upon the books of the Record
ing Angel. A very bad caso of pris
oner, a reprobate known as "Little
Miller, was convicted of forgerv,
notwithstanding the strenuous efforts
of Stubbs in his behalf, and was
brought beforo the Judge for sen
tence. When asked if he had any
thing to say, "Jjittle Miller did not
remain silent. He had a good deal
to say and he said it. He wept like
a child, and spoke as ono who had
erred in a moment of impulse, for
which he was to atone by years of
contrition of well doing. Every one
in court was affected, and the emo
tional sensation extended even to the
Judge upon the bench. Mr. Stubbs
spoke of tho physical weakness of his
client and tbe prospect that his life
would be ruined by a long term of
imprisonment. Then the Judge sen
tenced Miller for only one year. Af
ter it was all over, Miller was ques
tioned by a fellow prisoner as to the
cause of his extraordinary grief, and
tho reply was: "Stubbs told me to
cry like a son of a gun, and the
Judge would bo light on me, and I
did." Mr. Stubb3 is evidently a
great man."
Smart Child. The other day a
New York lady went to pay uer re
cna.i! tn nnA nf the latest arrivals on
the list of babyhood, when the fol
lowing colloquy took place between
her and the little four-year-old sister
of the new-comer: I have come for
that baby now, said the lady. "You
cant have it," was the reply. "But
T mn:f T r.ime over on purpose,"
nwrwi itvr "Wd can't spare
it at persisted tho child, "but
ill get a piece oi paper auu you can
OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1675.
Cannot be Beaten.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
It will take very hard work to beat
the Democratic party in the election
this year. Next year it cannot be
beaten. It will carry all before it
everywhere. But these predictions
are subject, of course, to the sagacity
exhibited by the leaders of the cam
paign. We must not allow ourselves
to be led to defeat by unwise gener
als; nor permit the enemy to raise
false issues and force the Democratic
party to assume the defensive. .That
party is not on trial before the coun
try, and care musi be e'xercised to
prevent its being placed in such an
attitude. The organs and leaders of
the Radical party, in this State es
pecially, are seeking to make the
leading issue in the election this year
turn upon the question of the nation
al ascendency of an ultra and reac
tionary element -which they assert
controls the Democratic party.
Newspapers like the Territorial Enter
prise industriously endeavor to dis
seminate the falsehood that the res
toration of the Democracy means the
destruction of tho Union, and they
cannot even comment on a patriotic
celebration of the Mecklenburgh
Centennial without affecting to sec
in it the rekindling embers of Seces
sion, which will burst into full flame
the moment a Democratic President
enters the White House. A more
absurd calumny was never circulated.
Every utterance and every act of the
Democracy disproves the vile slan
der; and the entire atmosphere sur
rounding that party is luminous with
liberal thought and progressive pur
pose. But even if the charge were
true, it should not be allowed to af
fect the action of independent voters
in California this year. If next year
honest Republicans, now disgusted
with the corruptions of their own
party and, therefore, inclined to affil
iate for a season with the Democracy,
shall find reason to regret their course
and become dissatisfied with tbtTna-
tional attitude of t';e Democratic
party, they may return to their first
love and assist in saving it from ut
ter defeat, if they can. But this
question does not now present itself.
As long as Republicans are dissatis
fied with the position their party oc
cupies, so long will they oppose it,
negatively at least; and they will add
to this opposition an affirmative sup
port of the Democracy, just so far
as Democratic action and utterance
accord with their desires and views.
It will be time enough to renew their
confidence in their own old party
when it will justify public confi
dence, and it will bo time enough to
condemn the Democracy when it
shall take action justly earning the
forfeiture of the popular confidence
now reposed in it. The situation is
not changed from last fall to the dis
advantage of tho Demoracy. The
opposition has .done nothing to win
back the support of the people; and
the Democratic party has given re
newed evidence that it is worthy of
a further bestowal of the good will
of the country. The Radical party
has revealed an animus of hate and
oppression in its controlling coun
sels utterly destructive of the spirit
of fraternity which characterize the
relations of the sister commonwealths
of the Union. It has confessed that
it overthrew, in Louisiana, an estab
lished State government by revolu
tionary employment of the Federal
bayonet, and has confirmed the usur
pation thus violently consummated,
in total disregard of the Federal Con
stitution. It has deliberately mani
fested a set purpose to perpetuate its
power by force and fraud, instead of
depending on the popular favor. It
has threatened the South with "ra
pine, tire and blood" if extreme de
mands are not complied with, and
grossly misrepresented the purposes
of the whites of that section, in the
hope thereby to draw the color lino
more closely, and precipitate a con
flict of races, under which it might
force its way to a perpetuity of pow
er. It has mystified the financial
muddle by the enactment of a law
incomprehensible even to its framers
and friends. It has largely increased
tho burdens of taxation, imposing
over thirty millions for the ostensi
ble benefit of the treasury and as
much more for the monopolists who
aro the especial favorites and friends
of the Radicals. It has gone far
enough to reveal its own putres
cence in matters of investigation,
but not far enough to rid itself of
the robbers to whom it has given the
opportunities of plunder. And to
day tho only alternative it has to offer
is the perpetration of a third term or
the elevation to power in the Nation
al Capital of the Credit Mobilier
plunderers and salary-grabbers, who
made Jim Blaine Speaker and, in de
fault of Grant, seek to make him
President, in order to broaden the
sphere of operation of the "ring"
which controlled Congress to the
plundering of millions of tho people's
monev. Unless something better
than this alternative is presented to
the honest and independent members
of the Republican party, they cannot
be frightened away from their con
templated support of the Democracy.
We repeat what we have frequently
said in these columns, the Democratic
party can only be beaten by itself.
It has now the co-operation of the
honest Republicans who are dissatis
fied with the practical -working of their
own party; and who are, therefore,
Democrats on all the immediate is
sues of the day. How long they will
remain in affiliation with us rests on
the wisdom exhibited iu the councils
and campaigns of the party. The
Democratic party assails nothing
which a true patriot should desire to
preserve; while it aims at achieve
ments in the attainment of which the
entire public is interested. Next
year will be a law unto itself; and
on the commanding issues which will
theu be presented, if the Democracy
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
shall appear to disadvantage in the
eyes of the Republicans now co-operating
with us, they will be free to
return to their old pastures. For
the present, however, tho interests
of reform, of prosperity, of progress,
liberty and law, and of a fraternal
republic, are all bound up in the
success of the Democracy. So long
as this shall continue to be the case,
the Democratic party will demand
and receive the confidence and sup
port of the public. It need not be
condemned, merely because declam
atory demagogues seek to excite
groundless apprehensions of what it
may be next year; - for to thus con
demn it would be to leave the Rad
ical party, unregenerate and unre
formed, in the possession of the Gov
ernment to further carry on its work
of destruction.
Jonah vs. the TV'hale.
From An Exchange.
Unbelievers have often told us that
the story of the prophet swallowed
by a great fish was ah absurdity.
They say that, being so long in the
stomach of a monster, the minister
would have been digested. We have
no difficulty iu this matter. Jonah
was a most unwilling guest of the
whale. He wanted to get out. How
ever much he may have liked fish,
he did not want it three, times a day
and all the time. So he kept up a
fidget and a struggle, and a turning,
and gave the whale no time to assim
ilate him. The man knew that if he
was ever to get out he must be in
perpetual motion. We know men
who are so lethargic that they would
have given the matter up so quietly
that in a few hours they would have
gone into flukes and fishbones, blow
holes and blubber. Now we see men
all around us who have been swal
lowed by monstrous misfortune.
Some of them sit down on a piece of
whalebone and give up. They say:
"No use! I will never get my
money, or restore my good name, or
recover my good health."
They float out to sea and are never
heard of. Others, the moment they
go down the throat of some great
difficulty, begin immediately to plan
for egress. They make a rapid esti
mate of the length of the vertibrate,
and come to the conclusion how far
they are in. They dig up enough
spermaceti out of tho darkness to
make a light, and keep turning this
way and that, till tho first thing you
know they aro out. Determination
to get well has much to do Avith re
covered invalidism. Firm Avill to
defeat bankruptcy decides financial
deliverances. Never surrender to
misfortune or discouragement. You
eau, if you are spry enough, make it
as uncomfortable for the Avhale as
the Avhale can make it uncomfortable
for you.
There will bo some place Avhere
yon can brace your foot against his
ribs and some long upper tooth by
which you may take a hold, and he
will be as glad to get rid of you as a
tenant as you are to get rid of him
for a landlord. There is a Avay out,
if you are determined to find it. All
our sympathies are with the plaintiff,
in the suit of Jonah vs. Leviathan.
Flax Culture. From H. F. Bloch,
of Union, we learn that P. M. Coffin,
a well-known and enterprising farmer
of much experience, Avhose farm lays
near that plare, has began the first
experiment this season in flax culture
that has ever been attempted in this
A'alley. He has sown about seven
pounds of seed, consisting of the two
best known varieties Dutch and Ri
ga or Russian seed. Mr. Bloch, who
takes a deep interest in this section
of country, ha3 given the subject of
flax cnlture much investigation and
careful thought, and is firmly im
pressed Avith the belief that the soil
and climate of this valley i3, in every
particular, well adapted to raising
flax. He informs us that an aArerage
yield would be about one ton of flax
lint to six acres of ground. This is
worth in Portland from three to five
hundred dollars; owing mainly to
quality. Taking an average of 400
per ton would give our farmers a
yield of CG GG per acre, and this,
too, is a staple article that Avill al
ways bear transportation and bring
cash. We hope our Granger friends
will take this matter into consider
ation and endeavor to devise ways
and means by Avhich our products
will be changed from wheat, oats and
barley to something that will bring
cash into this country. Mr. Bloch
will send to Europe for seed, and
deliver it to any farmer who may de
sire to experiment, for just what it
cost laid down here. He also pro
poses to make extensive inquiry in
regard to flax culture, and will have
what information ho can gather on
the subject published for the benefit
of the people of this county.
Reduction in Postage. The Postmaster-General,
under authority of
the act of Congress of Juno is, lb 2,
has ordered that the rate of United
States postage on letters sent to or
received from foreign countries with
which different rates have not been
established by Postal Convention or
other arrangement, when forwarded
by vessels regularly employed in
transporting the mails, be reduced
from ten to five cents for each half
ounce or fraction thereof, to take
effect July 1, 1S75.
"Phoebe Couzins doesn't dress
like her brothers when at
the bar," says the Chicago Tribune
by way of commencing an item.
"That's undoubtedly true,'-' says the
Brooklyn Union; "she dresses by
putting on her clothes over her head,
while they don't, and what's more,
they can't. But what business is it
of the TYibune's anyhow?
A Dental Operation.
EXPERIENCE OF A COUPLE WHO WANT
ED A TOOTH DRAAVN.
From the Detroit Free Press.
About 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing a farmer and his wife hitched
their team on Woodward avenue,
and in another five minutes had
mounted tho stairs and appeared in
a dentist's office. The old lady had
her face tied up and there Avas a
smell of camphor, peppermint, par
egoric, turpentine, and oil of smoke
as she crossed the walk.
"Brace up now, Mary brace up!"
cautioned the husband as they start
ed to climb up the stairs, "I know
jest hoAV ye feel kinder weak in the
knees, like but the feller up stairs
'11 have that old snag out o' there
like a horse running doAvn hill!
They were met by the smiling
dentist, and the husband continued:
"She's got an old snag Ave want
drawed or dug out or driven in, or
suthin' or other!"
"Take a chair, madam," replied
the dentist "and I guess I can help
you."
"I vum! if I hadn't a mind to go
back out!" she said dropping on the
sofa.
"Brace, Mary brace!" command
ed the husband. "Why een little
children so high (measuring) come
up here eA-ery day and have their
teeth drawn for fun!"
"I don't b'lieve it" she bluntly re
plied. "Do you s'pose I'd lie to you.
Mary do you s'pose I'd tell a delib
erate lie right here?" asked the hus
band. She seemed to think he would but
didn't say so, and the dentist talked
softly and sweetly and finally induc
ed her to remove' her shawl and sit
doAn in the chair. While he was
looking over his instruments the hus
band remarked:
"You Avant to brace, Mary. Hold
yer mouth open as wide as yon pos
sibler can, and don't try to look out
o' the winder."
'I wish ye'd shut uj:!" she snap
ped, sitting up straight. "Don't
you s'pose I know enuff to get a
tooth drawed?"
"But can't yer own husband speak
to ye, Mary the husbaud Avho has
lived Avith you nigh on to thirty-six
years?"
The dentist talked his prettiest
and cajoled the woman into leaning
back and opening her mouth. He
found the cause of her misery to be
an old snag of a tooth, Avhich
Avould have to be dug around, but as
soon as the lance touched the gum
she screamed out and struggled up.
"Mary dear Mary, why clo you
holler!" exclaimed the husband rush
ing over to her side.
"She's alright, the worst is over"
replied the dentist.
"Oh, she'll stand it like an ele
phant she's, got real grit, haven't
you Mary?"
She fell-back, opened her mouth
again, and again the lance made her
scream out.
"Brace, Mary shut your eyes and
hold on to the cheer!" exclaimed the
husband.
"I wish you'd squat over there and
stay there!" she snarled, after spit
ting out a mouthful of blood.
"But I can't sit thar and hear you
moan and holler and take on so."
"Who's a hollerin?"
"You did."
"No I didn't."
"Mary, don't tell me a lie a bold,
straight lie right afore this dentis
ter." The dentist induced him to be
seated again, but it Avas five minutes
before the woman would open her
mouth. She declared the ache had
entirely vanished, and that her tooth
never felt so well in all her life.
"Don't try to crawfish, Mary
don't try that!" exclaimed her hus
band. "Will you shet up? she shouted.
"No, I won't, durn me' if I do!
Here you've kept me awake fourteen
nights, howlin' with that old tooth!
You've jawed and howled around
like an old camel, and now you've
got to have that tooth drawed or
you'll go home afoot!
She Avanted to get out of tho chair
and go for him, but the dentist per
suaded him in going to a drug store
after ten drops of laudanum, and
Avhile he was absent tho tooth Avas
extracted. "Mary" was balancing
it on her hand as he came in, and
after a brief glance he exclaimed:
"Bully for you Mary! I know ye
had grit. All ye Avanted Avas me to
encourage ye!"
"Ycu didn't encourage nothing,"
she loftily replied.
"I didn't eh? Why durn it, if it
wasn't for me you'd be howling
around home this very minute, call
ing for hot ashes, and camfire, and
oils, and vitrol, and cotton! Don't
lie, Mary, jist 'cause you've had one
old tooth drawed!"
"I pity your second Avife." she
growled as she p-at on her hat. "I
know just how them children of
mine will be used!"
"Allers a twittin' me about a sec
ond Avife!" he exclaimed. "Here
I've got to pay fifty cents to have
that old snag pulled out, aud ye
hain't the least bit grateful. I'd
drive home and leave ye in town,
only I know ye'd be in jail in less'n
and an hour."
"Wait till we get back home," she
said as he started down stairs.
"Threats! TlireatsT whispered the
farmer as he turned to the dentist;
"remember, that if I'm found dead
to-night, that ye heard her utter
threats !
And he followed her down stairs.
Important. Endorsed by the Ldical
profession. DR. AVM. HALL'S BAIAAM
FOR THE LUNGS cures Coughs. Colds and
ConsmptloD. and all disorders of the
Throat and Chest. DR. TOWLEY S
TOOTHACHE ANODYE cures in one
MlKTE.
febl
NO. 34.
Mrs. tiavett's lox.
There is not a kinder-hearted,
more benevolent woman in Detroit
than Mrs. Gavett. Last year she
was on the committee to canvas for
aid for the grasshopper sufferers,
and this year she intends to send
them a large box of her own getting
up. She had Gavett bring up a box
the other day, and when it had been
placed in the shanty she put on a
calico dress, tied on a check apron,
and rambled around the ' house to
pick up enough articles to fill the
box and have it sent off the next day.
Her greatest anxiety Avas the fear
that the box Avas too small for one
half the things sho Avanted to send.
Opening a closet door she took
down an old coat, one that her hus
band threw aAvay two years u&o.
"I'll send that for one thing," she
mused, as she held it up. "I don't
knoAv, though that's a pretty good
coat. Put a patch on that elbow
and Thomas can wear it half the
summer."
She placed it on a chair and took
down one of her old dresses.
"I'll make some farmer's wife glad
with this," she said, as she shook out
the folds and held it up. "Let's see!
Why, there isn't a hole in either
sleeA-e skirt all right waist almost
as good as knew. I believe I can
sell that dress second-hand for
enough to buy me a bracelet.
The dress Avas laid beside the coat,
and sho hauled out Gavett's jboots.
the heel of one Avas run over, and
thero Avas a hole in the toe of the
other. "They'll do for some one to
plow in." she solildhuized, as sho
took them over to the light.
"Snmo
farmer ah! Why these
are good
boots 1 I believe I could get them
fixed up for fifty cents so that Thom
as could wear them half the Avinter.
I don't believe in throwing anything
away even if we are well off."
The boots were set aside, and she
took down a bundle of children's
clothing.
"Ah! I can send them and mako
little hearts glad!" she whispered as
she untied the bundle. "Tho chil
dren have outgrown them, and they
will be a prize to some Kansas
sakes alive! but these garments are
almost as good as the day they were
made up! I believe I can sell them
to the washerwoman for two dollars
at least, and as soon as I get two
dollars more I can buy me a new
braid."
She tied the bundle up and stuck
her head into the closet and brought
out another dress.
"A hole in each elbow skirt torn
half off, she mused as she turned ij
OA-er.
some
'I'll send
this any how.
mother can
take it and get
of the skjrt to
a bran neAv- .
enough
cloth out
make her little girl
Here what Avas I thinking of? Why,
this is exactly the stuff I want for
the blue stripe in that new rag car
pet. If I'd known this dress was in
the house I'd have cut it up last
week."
She unlocked another closet, peer
ed in, and hauled out Gavett's old
overcoat one worn out and stained
and kicked around for a year.
"That will do splendidly!" she
said as she held it up. "It isn't very
nice, but some farmer can Avear it to
chop in. Ah! hold on! I want that
lining to make a cushion for my
rocking chair, and Jennie will Avant
these buttons for her string, and tho
rest of the coat '11 make a beautiful
rug to lay in front of the lounge.
I'd like to send it, but probably it
wouldn't be appreciated, or probably
some one else Avill send a better one.
She rummaged about for a full
hour, and when she got through the
chamber, her floors were piled high
with old "duds." Those she meant
to keep were placed on the right
those she meant to send.away on the
left. On the left was a wall-basket
made of hoop-skirt wire. She hasn't
sent the box yet, but she means to.
She knows that all should contribute
to the relief, of the suffering and dis
tressed. Detroit Free Press.
What an Honest Journalist Dro.
The first exposure of the di?tillery
frauds at St. Louis, and which led to
the discovery of the riug, wito its
co-operating members iu oth .-r cii'es
was made by the commercial report
er of the Democrat of that ;ty. It
happened in this way: Wi;nhe
came to make up his annual review
of the trade of St. Louis, he discov
ered that something Avas either wrong
Avith his balances or the returns of
the Internal Revenue Collector for
the district. The quantity of whiskey
manufactured and that on which tho
tax was paid did not agree. Hid he
been a dishonest man, he might have
informed the ring of his discovery,
and by a pledge of silence shared in
its plunder; but ho chose the oppo
site course. He went quietly to lay
ing his plans, gathering information o
and searching for a traitor in the
camp One Avas found, and then ho
poured a broadside into the ranks of
the swindlers ' which utterly demol
ished their citadeL
A man in Nebraska, who dropped
two cents' worth of mail matter in
the post office box, and had to pay
six cents to do it, Avent over and
stood by one of the windows, and
said: "May Hannibal Hamlin of
Maine, and Alexander Ramsey of
Minnesota, baA-e the bilious colic,
the ague, the gout, the jaundice,
corns, bunions, boils and the buck
wheat scratches from this day rioon
for the next fifty years to come."
Mihty Particular. "Isay .land
lord," said a Yankee, "that's a dirty
towel for a man to wipe on." Land
lord, with a look of amazement, re
plied: "Well, sir, you're mighty par
ticular. Sixty or seventy of my
boarders have wiped on . that towel
this morning, and you axe the first
one to find fault."
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