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Odd 1'fllowV Hall, Main
street. M .-inlicrs .f the Or
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order
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o'eloek from the lieth of Marc
'itli of Sijlmleiv llrrtliren
3ta!idinii are invited to utteiid.
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it loth"
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Hall t!ie First and Tiiii d Tues
div of ea - month. Patriarchs "j
in g j 1 ta!t ling are invited to attend.
n u s i x a s s
V A P. D S.
i. W. -oki:is, M.
A. J. If'J VEt, M
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IIOVKli IsOliHIS,
p:ivsk j vxs axo sriaciKo.ws,
y-0'15'. ITji-Stairs in t'luirntrn's Crick,
Min sir -ft.
i.r ir .v-r-s r.-siil.Tii?? Third strict, at.
f-i it of chif sta:rvay.
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Dli. JOHN WKLCI
DENTIST,
OK'.'KU-: IN
ON CITY, Oil
Iricf PaiJfjrt'ounty
Orilor.
HUE L AT & EA3T24AWJ,
ATTORN E YS-AT-L A W-
POJt Tti N'i 1. Oiit.'s new lriek, -ta
Flr;t str-".'!.
ll!:r; CIT Y Ch arnr.in's ' rick, up
utair. s.'i-t2tf
ATTOilMIV
AM) ('!)C.SEL:MT-L.1W,
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Spt-liil nttiMition jilv-'ii to loaniiv-T Mon"y.
Ota i-'roitl roL:n in ICntki'ui.sk huiUl-in-
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JO.HTJso? & Lie
ATTORNEYS AND COnSELORS AT-LAW.
Orason City, Oregon.
t"VUl pra.-ti-'t? i: nil t!v5 Courts of tho
8tat". So-ciul attention jriven to cases in
tlie U. S. Uint U;ik- at orc-ou City
o:iirl7'-lt.
J.. T. 15 A I? I N
A T T O n r J Z Y -"A T - L A W ,
OJlKdOX CITY, :
: : OR Ed OX.
the Courts of the
Nov. 1, 1873, tf
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St ale.
l'raotie-j in all
Y. II. UKillFIELI).
Established ninrt ' !'., lit tlie old stniiti.
51 a i 11 Str:d, Orrgou lilv, Dri'con.
An assortment of Writ li.-s. .Tou-.-l-
rv.iiii'l s -t h 'I'licimus' Weight Clocks
all of whicli are warranted to he as
r'iri'seui"u.
y It -pa irin dono on short not Ice, and
thankful lor past patrona-e.
JOHN 31. IJ.M'OS,
IMPORTER AND DEALER
In Rooks, stationery, lVriu-it-
ery, etc., etc.
Orruu City, Oregon.
(J
trwAtthe Post
tde.
OtV.ee, Main stgoct, oast
STILL IN THE FIELD!
REMOVED SECOND DOOP, SOUTH OF
11 A AS' S AI.OOX.
VVILL1AF.1S & HARDING,
AT THE
LINCOLN BAKERY,
KEEP THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK
of Eamily Groceries to le found in the
oitv. All enods warranted. (Joods delivered
in tho citv free of charge. Tho hi -host cash
orico paid for country iro.h;oo.
Oregon City. March I's, 1S73.
TOWuTf ROWERS.
rrHE ALDKN FRUIT PRESERVING
J Companv of Oregon City will pay the
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
for Pl.i-.ii, PKAItSnnd APPI.KS.
Mr. Thos. Chnrman is authorized to pur
chass for the Coin nan v.
L. D. C' bATOURETTE,
tm President.
THOx. fllAnMAN.Scretarv.
OreKon City. July S, 1S75 :tf '
"Gnod-byo, thon,"ai(l Jie turned awa.v,
rsootln-r worn iMwpoii tncia spoueni
lou hurdly coiiltt have
guessed that
u:s-
IIov close a bond was broken
The f.tint, sli-rh.t tremor of the hand
That flashed lier own ia tliat brief
liartinpr,
Onlv her heart could understand,
Who saw the tear-drop starting
Who felt a sudden surge of drmht,
Come rushing back unhidden o'ei4
her, S3 .
As wit'i the words her life withouT
His presenee loomed before her..
The others saw, the others? hoard
A calm, cool man, a gracious woman;-
A quiet, brief fa re v. jll, unstiiftid
liy aught at all uneoihuion.
Site know a solemn die was c::st,
She knew -that tao paths now must
sever;
That one familiar step had pissed
Out of her li:e forever.
To all the rest it merely meant o
A trivial parting lightly spoken;
site read tree bitter mute lnienr,
She knew a heart; was broken !
The solcmu Androscoggia bell
was ringing the mill girl in by broad
sunlight one noon, when there came
a knock at the door and behind it
thy young ladv whom I heard. Deb
was startled bv the Knock and
frightened by the young ladv. It
was not often that visitors came to
Brick alley and it was still less
that Jiiick alley hail a vrsitor who
knocked.
This was a young lady for -whom.
Deb's mother did t'aUi washing.
Deb's Vuother-jviped her hands and
placed a chair, and the young lady
sat down. H'io was a straight lady,
with strong- feet, and long brown
feathers in her hat and .soft brown
gloves upon her hands. She had
come, she said, with that Cluuy e6t
which she found she should need for
a party this very night. Indeed she
was in such haste for it that she had
hunted Deb's mother up which was
a matter ot some calneiuty as she
never had the least ide;t where she
lived before, and show crooked tho
tairs were! Hut the lace was very
yellow, as sho saw, and she would bo
sure to nave it iiouo by nine o ciock
tonight? .ud : "
And then, turning her head sud
denly, the straight young lady saw
poor croo.iod Deb in her h:gu chair,
with wonder 1:1 her eves.
I wonder if ITl f l ightened her,"
thought Deb. liutsheouly wondered
nnd dtd not speaks
"Is this vour -, "
"Yes," said Deb's mother, "the
i-i l n-.'. mi . i i
uKiesc. iuieeu. 1 n iry iny uesc,
mj.'am; but I don't know a 3 I ought
to promise.' H
e spoke in a busi-
ssdike tone
nd turned the Clrtnv
lace a dainty collar and a pair of
sott culls about 111 her hands iu a
b Ashless like way. A breath of some
kind of Rerouted wood struck ia a
little gust against Deb's - face.' yho
wondered how people could weavs
sweet smells into a piece of lace aod
if the young lady knew how mulsh
plensaiiter it was than theonions that
Mrs. 3Ic?.Iahoney cooked for dinner
every oay ot me weeic except Sun
day, upon tlie tirst lloor. lint it
gave her enough to do without
speaking.
"Fifteen !" repeated the young
ladv
standing up very straight, and
lioi;ing verv sorrv.a
How long has
she been like that?".
"Horn so," said Deb's mother.
"She jtfot set in that chair ever since
she's been big enough to set at alj.
Would you try gum on these, Miss?"
r "Jiut vou never told me von had a
cr i
pled
t,
01
X i
e young lady
said this quicklv,
Yon have washed for me for three
years, ainl yon meveiLtoid ine you had
a cripple'd child!"
"You never asked me, TJiss,
said
Deb's mother.
The. young lady made, no reply.
She came and sat down on the edge
of Deb's bed, close beside Deb's
chair. She seemed to have forgotten
all about her Cluny lace. She took
Deb's hand up between her two sofr,
brown gloves, and her long brown
feathers dropped and touched Deb's
cheek. Deb hardly breathed, , the
feathers and tho gloves, and the
sweet smells of scented wood, and
the young lady's sorry eyes such
very sorry eyes were so close to the
high chair.
Fifteen years!" repeated the
young ladv, very low, "in that chair
that nobodv ever poor little girl!
ljiit you could ride," she said sud
denly.
"I don't know, ma'am,' said Deb,
"I never saw auybody ride but the
grocer and the baker. I ain't like
the grocer and the baker." i
"You could be lifted, I mean,"
said the young lady eagerly. "There
is somebody -who lifts you?"
"Mothers sets mo generally," said
Deb. "Once, when she was very
bad with a lame ancle. Jim MeMa-
honey set me.
MeMahonev."
"I shall' be
young lady,
quickly, but
mother now.
lie's first lloor Jim
back
here," said
tho
still speaking very
speaking to Deb's
"in iust an hour. T
SlU
all
come in an ea:v Kb.;ri. ;,
warm robes, if you will have your
daughter ready to take a ride "with
me 1 shall be very much obliged to
you.
The young lady finished her sen
tence as 11 sue didn t know what to
say, and so said the truest tiling she
could think, which is what we are all
in danger of doing at times.
"Well, I a'mJsure!" said Deb's
mother, "Dabitra, tell the lady "
Bat Dabitri could not tell the
lady, for she was already out of the
door, and down stairs and away into
the street. And, indeed, Deb would
not have told the lady has never
told tho lady can never tell the
lady.
If all the blue summer skies, cnl
SUPJlfflzt.
an.T
tho shine 01 soiaraec" sta.i-R ff'J:l-
- m - . - . I "1
into you.1- JfancTs fc opci for vqu to
paint.Jci-p-Uqobs.itha would vou
know wtat to 6Ay? 0
Into th& poor little- scran-boolc nf
Deb;5 liteo tj3e oblbrs" of. )itaven
dropped aud. blinded her on t-bAt be-
wiideriDg- beaobf u3ble8"sed ride.
Ill iiast an.hoxir the sleisrh n
tbere, with tjie easiest "cttshioiis and
the warmest- ropes? .. aad bells the
merriest; o&us and the straight
yoaug lady. Aj2& Jim McIaUouev
wastlasi-e, ad !ja caaTisd taer down
stail-s to "Sv&" her. And Ler mather
was. titer, and. wa.ped.Utu-ull abont
in an-'ohi iad eua-Vl", fdr Deb" bad uo
' tilings" like other littlo cirls. The
young l&d-y rmeiQbercd that, and
1 !- 1..
she had brought the prettiest
itth
bits liooa-tbat Deb hid ever seen,
and Deb's faco looked-Iikt a bruised
day-lily between the shining wool,
bnt Deb could not sid that; and Mrs,
McMaucny was there, paring ouions
at the door, to wish her good luck;
and nil tb.e.liuti3 TJcMahoncys -were
there, and all the children who did
cot wonder, and the grocer turned
in at th.a alley corner, aad tho baker
stopped as be turned out, and every
body stood ana tmuej to see her
start. The "mute horso pawed .the
snow aod held op Ins head Deb had
never seen -such a hors-e and the
yonngjui0y tiaa gathered the reins
into her brown glove3, and the
sleigh-bdls cried for joy, how they
cried' and away they went, and Deb
was unt of the. alley in a minute, and
thti people in the alle3' hurrahed, and
hovi-aucd,-and. hurrahed to see her
go.
That be vyildering, bean lifal, blessed
ride! How warm the little white
hood was! How the cushions sank
beneath her, and thefur robes opened
hko leathers to the touch of her poor,
cuio hands! How tho bells sang to
her. and. tlae snowdrifts blinked at
het and the- icicles, and the slated
roois, and eky, .and tho people's
smilatt at her.
"What's tho matter?" asked the
yoang lady; for Deb drew the great
ffolls rob over" her lace and head.
and sat so for a minute still and Jud
der!. The young lady thought she
wa f risrhfcenecl.
".But I only want to cry a little!"
said Dob's little smothered voice. "I
aut cry a little first'"
AVlieu she had cried a little Bhe
held tip her bead, and the shine of
her pretty Vi'hite head grew faint be
suie tho iume 01 her eyes &uu ner
checks. ThatbewilderiDg, buautial,
blessed ulIh
B tree Is and a crowd, and church
Apdriss were in it yes, and 0. wedding
ivtul ft funeral, tooall things that
Dub had seen in her lugh chair in
the daytime "with her eyes shut, she
saw in the sleigh on that ride -yith
hsr eyej open wide.
tone Wfis; very stm. j.uo voanfr
lady did not talk to her. and 5ho did
not talk to the young lady. The
horso held UtJ his head. It seemed
to Deb to .be flviog. She thought
that bs must be like the awful, beau
tiful whifeo horse 10 Hovel ati on. Bh
felt as if he could tako her to heaven
iust as tven as not, it tuo yoang
lady's brown gloves should only pult
tlm rains that vav.
They rode- and rode. In and out
of the merry streets. Jhvough' the
s!riiviriv "bells, abont and abont the
grfcat Chnvoh spires all over, and
over the laughing town. They rode
to tlia river and the young hidy
Stopped, the white, hurse.ao that Deb
contd look across, uud rip and down
at Ua sinning strewn, ana the sum-
iu-x bank.
"There is so much of it," said Deb
sofilv. think fug of tho crack of it she
: had CfeO, between two honsea for
fifteen' rears. For tho crack seemed
to her very ruuaa liko fifteen years
111 a high eaiair. and the Jong-broad-
shouldered, silvered river seemed to
her very much like- thia world about
which s!ie liod wondered-
They rode to tha mills, and Deb,
trembled to look up at their frown
ie.g walls, and to rifcefc their hun
dred eye; but tome of. the girl3 who
wore tlio little pink bows, nod who
knew her C31U0 nodding to look down
out of them, uud -she lctt oil trem
bling to laugh: then, in a minute
she trembled again, for all at once
without any warning, the great An
droscoggin bell pealed the tune, just
over her head and swdlowed her up
111 ljs sound. Sue turned pale with
delighted terror, and then she Hushed
witii terrified -delight. .
Didit pray, or crv, or laugh! Deb
did not know, it seemed to Lcr that
if the white horse would carry her.
into the great heart of the bell, she
need never sit in a high-chair at a
window again, but ride and ride with
the voung ladv. It seemed to her
liko forever and ever
They turned away from Andro."
eoggiu without speaking, and rode
and rode. Daylight dimmed and
dusk dropped, and see! all t!m town
ablaze with lights. They rode and
rode to see the lights. Deb could
not sneak there were so many lixrhts
And still she could not speak when
thev rode into Brick alley, and Jim
MeMahonev and her mother, and th
children who did not wonder, came,
out to meet her and take her back to
her chair
She was too happy to speak. She
need never wonder any more. She
could remember. .
But the voung ladv did not want
her to speak. She touched her white
horse, and was gone in a minute;
and wJien Androscoggin beil rang
them to sleep that night for the
young lady forgot to ask for her
CInn', and was too tired to go to the
party I am sure I cannot tell who
w as the happier, she or Deb. Eliza-
betti Stuart Phelps.
V oikmen commenced ' nutting up
the frame work on the new church
at Albany, known as the Church of
England. '
of 5umifs!.'
.Prom tho N. Y. San.
Ten years ago Joun Maelrey was
working as a mining laborer m a lit-
tle 'exploring shnft hi Virginia, City.
He swung bis pick vigorously, and
was-paid SI d day. lo-uay he has a
larger income than any otJier single
individual 111 America, anil li 11 is
wealth contiuues to accumulate as it
has in the past two year's, his fortune
will rival thaL of tne richest lioths
child. Mr. Maekey isEthe head of
the great firm of Flood & O Brieti ot
San Francisco, whose gigantic opera
tions and grand aggrogation f eap
ital recently swamped the Bank of
California, and hurled Sharon, Ilals-
ton and Jons from tueir financial
pedestal. The members of the firm
are John Maekey, James C. Flood.
lliaui S. O'Brien and Col. James
G. Fair. Mr. Maekey is lis financial
head, Flood and O'Brien attend to
the interests of the firm in California,
and Col. Fair is working superinten
dent of the mines it: Virginia City.
The latter embrace the Consolidated
Virginia, the richest mine ever dis
covered in Nevada, now turning out
a million and a half a month: the
California, adjoining it, -with even a
ger body, of ore; the Hale and
Novcross, Best and Belcher. Gould
and Curry, Sierra, Nevada, Mexican,
and finally the-famous Savage, which
m years gone by has turned out its
millions. Besides, they own a score
of small mines, any one of which
may at any time turn up a bonanza.
Of the entire business and profits
of the firm, Mr. Maekey has a three
tilths interest. The iirra owns CC.000
shares of Consolidated Virginiastock,
on wUicu they declare a monthly
dividend of 10 a share. Mu-clcey'a
share- of this is 8390,000 a month.
Of stock in the California mine, they
own 00,000 shares. The first monthly
dividend is fo be declared in Novem-
Yr v avwI will A r rl "Ti A
Utl 1 CA1J1 IX l U. 1 V? 1 t Wi Ifc. teS A I A. ir
ey's income, 300,000 a month
X ... 1.
. The
other mines thar the hrm control pay
no dividends, bnt they yield a large
revenue to the nrm m ways more in
direct. For instance, the firm owns
all the wood used 'in thtir working.
both for fuel aud for timbering, and
they seU it to the companies at an
iiawenso prone, 'xhe cavage, Hale
and Norcross, and Gould and Curry
all crush more or less ore, and this
ia done in the firm's milla at a cost
of 13 a ton. The j'ield of silver be
ing scarcely enough' to, pay the coat
of both mining aad crushing, assess-
mcnta aro levied to make up the de
licieocy. The linn's iocome from
thia source and from, croshmg iho
ore of the Consolidated ..Virginia.
which is also done iu their Own mills,
is estimated at 50.000 a month, of
which put Mr. Muekev down fur
Add to th.H the prospective profits
of the Nevada Bank, which has just
opened with a cash capital of S5,000,-
000, and which is tho exclusive prop
erty of the hrm, and yon may then
figure out the income of Mr. Maekey.
The Bank of California paid for years
18 per cent, on their SOOO.UOO capi
tal, xhe prohts of the new bank
cannot be lexs. This amounts to
e0C,000, or 75,000 a month, of
w-hic-h Mr. Mac key's share will be
45,000. To sum up thou, Maekey
will have for the next year from his
mining and bunion interests aioue
tho colossal incomn of .d31,000 a
month, or at tho rate of nearly 810,-
000.000 a year. This does not in
clude, the income of his vast wealth
in real estate. For - the past year he
was neon insuring jarge investments
in the very heart of fcue city. Whole
blocks of thf; most valuable real es
tate in Sun Francisco have been pur
chased, and tho income from this
cannot well ha estimated, but it innst
be enormous.
Mr. Maekey 33 the most retiring
and modest of hny of the California
millionaires. He lives in "Virginia,
but his family snend most of their
timoiu Ban Francisco. 'Ho dresses
plainly, and might be supposed to
bo a well-to-do farmer nothing
more. AJreadv 'the Nevada politi
cians are moving- to make him Sena
tor Jones's successor in Washington.
If he wants tho iilace, he can un
doubtedly buy it for much less'mori
e.y than Jones paid, for Nevada poli
ticians are poor and hungry, aud will
sell on f cheap.
Oi AUckcv S parfnors. J. C rioou
is the mofe important. With O'Brien,
Flood used to keep a little gioggery
On bansonm street, ban J- rancisco.
Thev did not close, the establishment
until jSC7. They made some money
Ht the business, tun I invested It witu
Maekey in the purch'tse of the ground
that is a part "t the uonsoiuiiuou
Virginia mine. Flood and O'Brien
ue Irishmen. They "aro shrewd and
sharp ..iu business, generous to their
friends, and unrelenting to their en-
ur.e,. -J. hey tno- "p puveit-
stricke.n oewspapor man Iti.t spring
, .. S S . n ..j. i:oi
i man who nai none uHsiHoynie ii'
turn while they wvre in tlie whisky
business 8nd in threo. days made
him worth $75,000. On the othr
hfind, Sharon, ayd Ihdslon, and the
lUnkof Calif eu-nia', which had offond-
them, they crushed out in tines
weeks, n-nd they, would have Kept tne
bank down but f?r Balston's death
and the popular outoi'y againftt tliem.
Flnod reeentlv bought 53,000,000
wor th of real estate, aud said himself
just before the new hank opened that
he had 4,000,000 lent on call at one
th His weiiltli is
1v to that of Maekey. Col.
Fair is the only man of book educa
tion in the firm. He? has long been
a mining superintendent, and is
somewhat noted for tricks that are
vain. When ho was poor, a. few
years ago, he was hnown by some as
"Lving Jim Fair," and by others as
"Siipperv Jim," but everybody calls
him Col.'Fair now. He is worth ten
millions.
Empire City has a literary club.
Satisfaction ill Xiscnesss.
From tb. N.Y. Tribuoe. : . " '
test .ease of great concern .to
A
photographers ; and ' of considerable
interest to the. public is beTore the!
Brooklyn court. -Por seventeen euo
eessive" times & young lfidy faced thd
camera. Duly after each successive
sitting the photographer ee-ot the
evidences' oi his labor for criticism
and ' possible acceptance. None of
the pictures suited, ait last the laity
declined to sit agio,-s.nd the gentle
man who hart origin-ally made the
contract -if it eftn. be so. called de
clined to takeuuiy cl :'tli pictures or
to pay for anything dona. " The pho
tographer- has brought before the
court his seventeen negatives .nd
proofs, doubtless quoting Hamlet,
"Look now upon thia picture and
on this. '" His labor in preparing
them amounts to a eertain sum of
money, to recover which he has
sued. There were the front face,
and tho. sido face, and the half -avert
ed gaze; the chm a little more up;
the sad look; the faint smile; the ex
pression of being very muoh. pleased
more in fact than the Tady actually
was, and consequently not at all a
truthful picture. There were also
tint, standing portrait, and the one
with the hand up to the bead in a
position of reflection; the one with
tlie hair drawn b.ck and the one with
it let down; the one with the neck
lace, the one with the furs, and the
one that seemed as if it might have
suited, with the last now thing of a
bonnet. All these the lady, and the
gentleman, and all their friends, and
now the jury, have contemplated.
As Beau Br u rani el's valet said of the
morning's bundle uf tried and reject
ed neckties, "These are our fuilures."
The defendant replies to. all this
array ot testimony iuatbis agreement
"with a tall young man in the room"
was simply that a portrait should be
obtained that should give -satisfaction;
that failiog, nothing was to be
paid. Tho Autocrat of the Breakfust
Table has to!d-u3 how that same
requisite of ."satisfaction" tortured
him with anxiety when lycenoi trus
tees specified it as a condition of his
lectures. To promise satisfaction in
this part of the country is almost as
serious a mutter as to demand it,
further" souths So far as photo
graphers are concerned, they have
put themselves in the vocative, where
they have odopted such a method of
doing business as is in evidence.
The usual -experience is when a pho
tograph does nob suit, another and
another attempt is made,-till all par
(iea to the transaction are wearied
beyond endurance; Dd at last the
siiter, grown desperate, takes what
does not really give' the ooveted sat
isfaction takes any of tho lot, and
usually the eworst; on the principle
that people who' go all th rough 4he
woods to look for a cane usually put
up with a crooked stick. Most per
sous get into this condition of de
spair before they have settled them
selves for thn seventeenth time to
gaze at tho black cloth, to-be asked
to throw up the chin and to look
smiling. "Were human nature not
so constituted, the business of photo
graphing likenesses would have to
be reorganized, or it would scarcely
last a fortnight.
For all that appears in tho Brock
lyn. Case, which probably offers a, lair
specimen of this sort of ngrefunent,
if the sitter had been willing to go
ou with, the attempts , at getting a
likeness they might hnvo continued
indefinitely, till the golden tresses oi
yonlh are whitened by the snows of
age. But camera sittings nro like
the infinite denoroiuHlora of ninth u
maticH; with every n.w iiguro ob
tained, they grow mm clnmy. The
suit under consideration snests,
however, anew fcatnro in the prob
lem. Suppose a gentleman lias made
this bargain respecting a lady's por
trait. Suppose also, tho lady be
comes tired- of the experiment, and
ontting the sole Of her ntimoev three
flatly ou the ground, declares that
she will not present herself beiore
the camera again. Photographers
probably have some rights as well as
wrongs. Can tuey compel the gen
tleman to hud a substitute?
laHuciice of Newsiiapers.
The Boston Traveler states that a
school teacher who had enjoyed the
beueiit of a long practice of lu.s pro
fession, and had watched closiy the
iullue-nec of a newspaper upon the
minds of a family of children, gives
as a result of his observation that,
without exception, those scholars of
both sexes and all ages who have ac-
cessto newspapersaf home when com
pared to those who have not, are:
1. Better readers, excelling i
pronunciation and consequently read,
more u uderstan. 1 1 ngi
o Thev are better spellers, and
define words will ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain partial knowledge
of -eoranhv in almost half the time
it requires others, its the newspaper
has made them familiar with the lo
cation of important places and na
tions, their governments ami doings.
i, They are better grammarians,
for having become familiar with every
variety of style in the newspaper, from
common place advertisements to the
finished and classical oration vf the
statesman, they more read i 1 3' compre
hend the meaning of the text and-con-sequently
analyze' its construction
with accuracv.
The Pix-Back. The Yreka Union
devil is delighted with the new pin
hack frocks. He and his holyhock
went out walking last Sunday night,
and just for experiment imagined it
rained, aud he says they could just
snug up under one umbrella lots
easier than they could last winter.
Minnie Myrtle Miller is lecturing
on "Societv" in Coos county.
Centennial
ticn.
Exhilu-
The following rules have been
adopted for the. government of the
Art Department of tho Qcmtemiial
Inhibition:
I, The exhibition will be opened
May 10, 1S7C, -and " closed' N ovember
10.1876. 0
' 2. Works of art will be admitted
for exhibition whether .previously'
exhibited or not. -
3. Uo charge will be made fori
space. " . ; i,
L. "Wnrka Of foreiern artists- bo-loncr !
:im?fc" residents of the United .'States )
.'11 1. . .a -w 1 . 3 . 1. . w. . . 1 tM
win 09 aorantea on tne approai ui
the-Gommittee .of Selection f.or ex- t
hibition in a special gallery. a
5. The installation of works oart
admitted to the exhibition will
under the supervision of the. commis
sions of, the country. to which they
belong. .
6. All works Of art must bo of a
high order of merit, and those pro
duced by the citizens of the United
States will be admitted to the exhi
bition on the approval of the Com
mittee on Selection, composed of
artists.
7. Packages forwarded by eshibi
"tors in the "United States for admis
sion to this department must be
marked "'Art Department. Interna
tional. "Exhibition, Philadelphia."
-There mu3fc be also attached. to the
outside and.inside of each package
a label giving the name and ad
dress of ths exhibitor and the title,
and nntaber of articles in the package.
8. All pictures, whether round or
oval, ehonld be placed in square
frames. Excessive breadth in frames
cr projecting moldings should be
avoided. &bnjlov-boxes will not ho
allowed to project more than ono
inch beyond the irame. uiass over f
oil painttugs will not he permitted.
9. Works of art intended for sale
will be so designated in the official
catalogue.
10. Works notintesded for compe
tition mast be so stated by tho ex
hibitor, and they will be excluded
from examination Dy Ihe jury.
11. All wo.ks of art must bo irf
Philadelphia prior to April 1, 1S70
and mfter having been admitted uu,
der the rules cannot be removed be
fore the close of tho exhibition. Ap
plicant" will bo notified of tho time
and place to present their works to
the Committee;-ou Selection for ex
amination. 12. "Bach person presenting works
of art for admission thereby agrees
to comply with tha special, rules
established for this department and
, the general rules for the government
of the exhibition.
A. T. Goshoi:n,
- . Director General.
Tohn Sartain, Chief of Bureau, Art
Department.1
James D. Claghorn, Chairman of
the Advisory Art Committee.
Ilailroail Coninetitio:i.
In a recent address, Mr. Charles F.
Adams, Jr., one of the Bailroad Com
missioners of Massachusetts, etook
the ground that competition had
fuiled to solve the modern transporta
tion problem; that it hail, on the
country, increased the difficulties of
tho case by multiplying railroads
faster than tlie growth of the country
furnished them business to do. The
committee winch reportedto tlie
"Cheap Transportation Association in
this city a lew evenings asro evident
ly does not agree with Mr. Ada'ms.
It proposes toencourage competition
and to add to the miles of llailroad
already laid b- building a new line
between New York and St. Don is
exclusively for freight "or one on
which passenger traffic would be
subordinate to freight." The Presi
dent of the New York Board of Trade,
Mr. Opdyke, spoke favorably of such
an undertaking in his address at their
recent dinner. The committee in
sisted at considerable length that the
trunk lines which connect the East
and the West cannot furnish the fast
ami cheap transportation demanded
by tlie public interests, and especially
by those of this city. Mr. Adams
here might interpose the question,
How then can anew and costly line
furnish it? The proposed road, wi,j.h
double tracks, it is estimate!, would
cost 70,000,000, to build and equip.
Tliis large sum of money, the com
mittee believe, can be raised as fol
lows: ' One-half in this city, one
quater in the West aud along its
line, 'and one-quarter on first mort
gage construction bonds." Great as
are the country's resources, euter
piises of such magnitude are of slow
growth. It is not necessary to look
beyond New York for proof of. this.
This cit3" for many years.has needed
rapid transit within itsu municipal
iKK.nct.iri'.'s at least as mush as it
now needs anew freight railroad to
St. Bonis yet rapid transit is just
taking shape. While the association
is raising its 70,000,000 there will be
1.. : x . -
.niMck.ui!iu 10 question wnetiier we
need any more railroads and whether
beyond a certain point, competition
promotes the public interest. Netc
York Evening i'o.sl.
Ax Immexse Hotel. A gigantic
hotel is about to b built in London,
with American capital, by an Ameri
can architect, with American speed,
after an American plan, and to be
managed on the American system. A
site not far from tne House of Com
mons, and close to St. James' Park
has been purchased and it is said that
ay ear hence the first visitor may take
up his abode in tae new establish
ment. This hotel will make up 1,000
beds; the dining-room will accom
modate 700 persons at the same time,
and a staff of 100 servants will be re
quired to carry on the duties of the
house t
Friend Siglia'oV the Coos Bay
Xe.vs is "doing it up brown.
Jivt at - the
EgJlt and Aljysslnia.
From tho rail Mall Gazette. '
A letter from Alexandria in the
hand says that a war between Egypt
and Abyssinia seems to have become
inevitable. Singulir.lv enough, it is c
Ahysiina which is 'taking the ag
gfessive, although there can be little o
doubt thatho is far from being a
match for the power of the Khedive.
It appears, however, that another of
those civil conflicts which are con
tinually oecnring in Abyssinia has
taken pla-e there, and Khg Johannes
has perhaps considered it necessary
to. divert the attrition of his people o
from internal disputes by permitting 0
soinn 01 tne tribes to make incursions
on Egyptian territory. Public opinion 0
in Egypt now unanimously demands
the jiunex.ition of Abyssinia, and if
the Khedive should hesitate which
j'.s by no 'means certain he will do so
only because tlie Egyptian treasury
is. very low just now and Darfnr is
not yet quile reconciled to the Egyp
tian rule. Tlie annexation (adds the c
corresiiondent) will certainly ocjeur
sboner or later; the only qusetion is
whether it is to be effected at or.ee. 0
The itfeursion of Abyssinians ab-.no
r6f.io.-red to, which is regarded as be
ing of special importance becansa the
aggressors were-- accompanied by
government troops, look place on
tho northern frontier, wnere Egypt
1 at present unprotected, and they 0
Cvidtidly hoped to push forward
without resistance up to Sennaar. .
Dirr-gily, !.vweer, the new pf the o
ail'.ir r. a-.-!: ;! Cairo, the Khedie
t:'m re
,1 i;il l!ion iv.tl troous uu--.
der Iliilnp Pasha to march at once
to the soutli. ard a large force is be
ing piepared for reinforcements in
-ase t general slionht think it ad
vi:e:i)le to ienetrate into Abyssinian
teiritory. The con-f-spondt nt thinks
that -the result of a war between the
two countries cannot "'.bo doubtful.
Nearly one-half of the population of
Abyssinia is composed of Mohamme
dans, who would not &t all olect to
uniting with their kinsmen and core
ligionists of Egypt, and King Jo
hannes has for some time been al
most without any inliuence in the
country. People are already talking
seriously of entrusting the adminis
tration of the country to Munzinger
Pasha if ll should become an Egyp
tian possession. c
- -o-
Eeware of Ono Class.
111 the glass lurks a world of evil.
Eveuoie glaxs disturbs the quiet and
working of the human sA stem; and if
jt contains much spirit it will produce
a ee; tain amount of intoxication. Bu;t
we should look at its tendencies to
see the delusion and danger involved
in one glass.
it is the one glass at dinner, or for
medicine, that lias gradually created
a liking for liquor on the part of thou
sands, and which has ended in their
ruin. It is the one glass in the saloon
which often ends in drunkenness with
all its terrible consequences. It is
the first glass ordered by the doctors
to delicate yor.ths that creates the
appetites for stimulants, and often
leads the poor sniierer to excess. One
glass taken at the social board, or
at their father's table, has led to the
dissipation of so many ryoung men,
almost to the heart-breaking of their c
parents. It is the one glass on the o
part of many tradesman, that leads to
their expensive habctsand to the neg
lect of their business, ending too
often in ruin. Oh! if people would
calculate the dreadful consequences
lurking in the one glass "they would
dash it from them as their greatest
foe! ;
Evrry case of drunkenness begins
with the one gla-s; and suicides man
slaughter aud murder proceed from
the same cause.. Behold the deg
radation of many of the "female sex
through intoxicating liquor! This
all commenced with the oue glass.
What a mistake for persons to sav.
"One glass will do nobody harm."
A single spark from a passing train
lias fired mauv a forest, destroying
farms and-villages and caused in
many instance a fearful sacrifice of
human life. There is no good either
in the liist or second glass, therefore
shun it as you would your greatest
enemy. CalnoU1 Sentinel.
Small is the sum that is required
to patronize a newspaper, amply re
warded is iis patron, I care not how
humble" and unpretending the ga
zette which he takes. It is next to
impossible to (ill a sheet with printed
matter without putting into it some
thing worth the subscription price.
Every patent whose son is away from
home at school should supply him
with a newspaper. I well remember
what a marked differeneeo there was
between my schoolmates who had
and had not access to new-spapers.
Other things being equal, the first
were ahw-ys decidedly superior to
the last in debate, composition and
general intelligence. --Zt Webster.
Says an exchange: The dry goods
mercV'ds of Virginia City, Nevada,
recently entered into a compact notto
advertise in any of the papers. It
was a money saving an angtme-nt.and
the effect was the opening of several
new dry goods stores that did ad
vertise and the failure of auumberof
old firms that liad agreed tp the com
pact. An amusing feature about tho
business of men that do not believe in
advertising is that they have to come
to it at last. The sheriff does it for the
benefit of their creditors. u
When 3-011 see a married woman
standing on the corner a block from
ber house to catch the letter-carrier,
3-011 ma- know that she is expecting
a letter from her aunt, and doesn't
want her husband to see it.
Tlie case of State vs. Whitney,
who was convicted of arson at Salem
last week, is to be appealed.
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