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OREGON CITY, GEEGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1876.
NO. 36.
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MY JIOTHER.EV.IiAW. ' i
I married a woman of sweetness and truth,'
And beauty without any flaw;
But over my head hung, like Damocles
sword, i
That horror, a mother-in-law!
So upright and downright in person and
In looks.
She embodied the dismal old saw
Of a scolding and pushing and worrying
and bothering
Old bore of a mother-in-law.
She decided to live with us. Chaos and
wreck
Would be the result, I foresaw;
So I gave my cigars and my meerschaum,'
with groans, -. -
To a friend with no mother-in-law.
Ono night, as we sat by a blazing wood
fire, -. i
.Wheu the days had grown chilly and
raw, '
"How cozy and nice you would look with
a pipe!
Don't you smoke?" said my mother-in-law.
Did my ears hear aright?, Yes, bless her
dear heart !
"Don't you smoke?" was the first happy
straw
To "show how the wind blew," and clear
up the clouds
'Twixt me and my mother-in-law.
And, oh, she's the kindest and dearest and
best
Old darling that ever I saw!
My mother I love, and my wife I adore,
But I worship my mother-in-law!
The First National Presidential
: Conventions.
It was in the year 1831 that the
first national conventions to nomi
nate candidates for President and
Vice-President met. The example
was set, curiously enough, not by
either of the regular political parties,
but by the faction which came into
existence solely to oppose the secret
order of Masonry. It is worth
while to notice that it was this move
ment which gave an opening to the
public careers of two men who after
ward rose, one to the Presidency,
the other to the Senate and the Sec
retaryship of State. These were
William II. Seward and Millard
Filmore. The Antimasonic party
grew out of the order who was sup
posed to have divulged its secrets.
In September, 1831, a national con
vention of this party assembled at
Baltimore. JohnM'Lean, of Ohio,
since judge of the United States Su
preme Court, was adopted as their
candidate for the Presidency, but he
promptly declined. The convention
then tendered the nomination to the
famous Maryland lawyer, William
Wirt, formerly Attorney-General,
who accepted it; and Amos Ell
maker, of Pennsylvania, was added
to the ticket as candidate for Vice
President. The caucus system was now evi
dently extinct; no party would have
dared to attempt ils revival. The
system of national conventions, ex
emplified by the Antimasons, was
seen to be the only feasible substi
tute. As the supporters of Jackson
now called themselves "'Democrats,"
so his opponents adopted the desig
nation rf "National Bepublicaps."
The latter party was first in the held
to call a national convention, and
this convention met at Baltimore in
December, 1S31. Its session was
brief, for public opinion had already
marked out Henry Clay as its can
didate. Clay was nominated on the
first ballot, and John Sergeant was
uiven the second place on the ticket.
Thus the opposition to Jackson,
which was strenuous an hot, was yet
divided at the start of the race be
tween Clay and Wirt.
The Legislature of New Hamp
shire issued the first call at this time
for a Democratic National Conven
tion tlie first of that long series of
powerful and exciting conclaves
which have so often designated our
rulers since. This body met in May,
1832. The Democracy rallied in
large numbers at Baltimore, which
may be called the City of Conven
tions, as well as of Monuments, so
often has it been chosen fortheir
meetiug-place. General Lucas,' of
Ohio, was chosen 2?i"esident. One of
the fisst motions passed by this con
vention was to adopt the famous two
thirds rule, which more than once
afterward did deadly work with the
aspirations of statesmen. The form
of this as adopted at Baltimore was
as follows:
"ResolvtHl, That each Stata be en
itled, in the nominationto be made
of a candidate for the s Vice-Presi
dency, to a number of votes equal to
the number that they will be entitled
to in the Electorial Colleges under
the new apportionment in voting for
President and Vice-President; and
that two thirds of the whole number
of votes in the . convention shall be
necessary to constitute a choice."
There was no doubt at all of the
reuomination of President Jacksonf
and the wording of the first part of
this resolution i3 explained by the
fact that the oontest was upon the
nominee for Vice-President. John
Calhoun had occupied this office,
but had separated from the Jackson
P yi',nd Laa become the apostle
of nullification. Qn tha other hand,
-uartm an Bnren, one of the shrew
dest of politicians, and the President's
most familiar friend, had been re-
hJwi ?rJn,nister to England by
the , hlg genate General Jackso-
understood to be very desirous
nlVn Ure Sbaul(1 have the sec
ond place on the ticket; and as the
convention was composed largely of
Jackson s adherents, Van Daren was
nominated on the first ballot receiv
ing 203 votes, to 4? for pffi X
bour of Virginia, and 26 for Col
onel Bichard M. Johnson, of Ken
tucky. The result of the campaign thus
inaugurated by the first national
conventions in our history was terri
bly disastrous to Mr. Clay, and was
the second of the long series of his
defeats in attempting to reach the
Presidency. General Jackson was
re-elected by 319 electorial votes
Mr. Clay bad but, 40; Wirt carried'
Vermont's 7 votes; Pennsylvania cast
its vote for "William, Wilkins; and
South Carolina voted for John Floyd,
of Virginia. Martin Van Buren was
abundantly consoled for the rejec
tion by the Senate of his nomination
as envoy to London, for he' became
Vice-President, and was already des
ignated as the favorite of General
Jackson for the succession to the ex
ecutive chair. Lreorge M. Towle,
Harper's Magazine for July.
; Stories About Roses.
Xll
' There are an infinite variety of
stories about roses. When Milton
was blind, the duke of Buckingham,
who visited him, observed that his
wife was a rose. The lady had a fine
high temper, and so. Milton answer
ed that doubtless she was, for he
could feel her thorns. Frederick
the Great was walking in the gardens
of Potsdam with Valtaire, and asked
the amazing Frenchman for a rose.
He picked one, and presented it to
the king with"the remark that it had
grown beneath his majesty's laurels.
Luther had a rose graven on his seal.
A rose-tree in the park of Roxburgh
marks the place where James 11. of
Scotland died. At Santiago, in
Chili, whenever a stranger is receiv
ed in a house, each of the ladies of
the family offers him a rose. To
show the preference which Mme'de
Genlis entertained for old men above
old women, she was fond of saying
that oaks improved with time, but
roses faded. It may be mentioned,
in passing, that Mme de Genlis has
the credit of having introduced the
first moss-roses ever seen in France.
Among the Greeks, the Romans,
and the Gauls, parsley, ivy, myrtle,
and roses were looked upon as val
uable remedies for people who had
drunk more wine than was good for
them. In Capus roses were employ
ed by the local medical men as tonics
good for stomachs fatigued by over
eating. A decoction of roses was
supposed to have excellent astringent
properties. Hoffman recommends
it in pleurisy; Paracelsus thinks
that when mixed with honey it will
lengthen life. Princess Nonrmahal,
the most lovely lady in the harem of
a great mogul, had a canal filled with
rose-water and rowed about on it
with her august consort. The heat
of the sun disengaged the essential
oil from the water, and their majes
ties having observed the fact invent
ed otto of roses. The Emperor
Ileliogabalus filled a fish-pond with
rose-water; it is nowhere said wheth
er the fishes approved of this pro
ceeding. When the Soldan Saladin,
who had so much trouble with hard
fisted English King Richard and his
turbulent Christian friends, took Je
rusalem in 1188, he would not en
ter the temple, which he profanely
called a mosque, till he had its walls
washed with rose-water, and Sanut
assures us that 500 camels were no
more than sufficient to carry the
purifying liquid. Also, after the
taking of Constantinople by Maho
met II. in 1455, the church of St.
Sophia was solemnly purified with
rose-water before it was converted
into a mosque. The high priest of
the Hebrews wore a crown of roses
when he offered up certain sacrifices
nuder the Mosaic dispensation; and
it was perhaps in remembrance of
this fact that the synod of Nismes,
which was held in the third century,
enjoined every Jew to wear a rose on
his breast as distinguishing mark of
inferiority. In many countries the
Jews still celebrate the festival of
Easter flowers, during which they
ornament their lamps, chandeliers,
and bed with roses. Thus it happen
ed that these flowers were hateful to
the early Christians, and wo often
condemned in the writings of the
fathers, who professed that they
could not understand that pious peo
ple could think with equanimity of
roses when they remembered the
crown of thorns; afterward this hos
tile feeling seems to have died out.
Wheu Mario Antoinette passed
through Nancy on her way to be
married with Lonis XVI., the la
dies of Lorraine prepared her a bed
strewed with roses. In the middle
ages roses were held so precious in
France that a royal license was ne
cessary to grow them. Charlemagne
recommended the cultivation of the
rose in his "Capitulation." The
Persians of Shiraz stop their wine
bottles with roses, which give the
wiue a pleasing smell; and during
the festival of Abrizan, which takes
place during the equinox, Persian
ladies throw roses at each other
when they pay visits. At Rone it
was the practice of the church to
bless the roses on a special day set
apart, which was called rose Sunday.
The custom of blessing the golden
rose seems to have begun in the 11th
or 12th century. The benediction
was pronounced with particular
solemnity on the fourth Sunday in
Lent, and the golden rose thus con
secrated was given as a mark of the
sovereign pontiffs favor to some
prince or princess. Alexander III.,
who had been received with great
honor during a journey which he
made in Franoe, sent in the golden
rose to Louis the Young as a sort of
graceful compliment. Subsequent
ly the giving of the rose became an
authoritative act by which the pope
officially recognized the rights of
Christian sovereigns. Thus Urban
V. gave the golden rose to Joan,
queen of Sicily, in 13G8, thereby
preferring her over the king of Cy
prus. Henry VIII. of England re
ceived a golden rose both from Juli
us II. and from Leo X. Toward the
close of the last century, the golden
rose appears to have been given al
most indiscriminately to any travel
ing prince who would pay a sum
equivalent to about 4.00 in fees for
it.
A Baltimore correspondent writes,
"A merchant who does not advertize
can no more succeed than a ycung
lady who does not wear a bustle."
Autograph Hunters and Their
Prey.
The prey of the autograpb hunter
is generally accessible. There are,
indeed, some misanthropes who re
fuse to reply. But bow they settle
with their consciences the matter of
the inclosed envelopes, postage paid,
passes comprehension. The hunters
themselves cherish, under such cir
cumstances, a frightful suspicion that
the game detaches the stamps and
turns them to its own uses. There
is no well-recorded instance of this
kind, so far as can be ascertained;
but justice cannot deny that there
may be grounds for the awful thought.
Wanton destruction, cf tha, stamps
can hardly be supposed, suggests a
cynical commentator, because the
literary class is notoriously always
in want of them. And the rebuke
conveyed in the return of the envel
ope without an inclosure is lost, be
cause which one of the hundred ob
jects at which the request was aimed
may have returned it cannot well be
known. A general reproof of impa
tience would not wound. Besides,
no one whose autograph is sought
really resents the request. He may
not choose to gratify it. He may be
too busy. He may decline to en
courage what he may think a vapid
curiosity. He may condemn the re
quest and the reply as a shameful
waste of time. But still he is secretly
pleased by the request. His con
demnation and refusal are fine, but
they are the very Himalaya of virtue.
They are heights beyond belief. The
unformed handwritingof the request,
often the simple little phrase, have a
boyishness or girlishness of sincerity
which can be so readily gratified that
refusal is incredible.
But no general rules can be laid
down. The lordlier prey will make
its own law. Dr,, Dally may write a
few thoughts to every one of his ap
plicants, bat Carlyle, Emerson, Bry
ant, Longfellow, may find that the
day is not long enough to do what
they might not object to do if only
the day were a month. And to this
company belongs George Eliot, who
has spoken so closely to the heart of
her time that in every country, and
especially in this country, the memo
rial of an autograph is sought. But
the Easy Chair learns upon the best
authority, and commends the intelli
gence to the enthusiastic readers of
Daniel Deron da and Miildlemarc7i,tmt
Mrs. Lewes George Eliot objects
on principle to the hunt of the auto
graph, and cannot aid it in any man
ner. She is not in the least insensi
ble indeed no one is more alive to
the kind interest aud admiration from
which the request springs. But from
the first she has steadfastly declined
every application for her autograph.
The requests, however, are so num
erous that she is unwilling that those
who write to her should feel person
ally slighted; and it is therefore but
just that the Magazine which pub
lishes her story should inform the
readers whose enthusiasm betakes
itself to the hunt that her silence is
not personal to any one, but is uni
versal. Indeed, it seems that her
written name is the White Doe that
no autograph hunter can capture,
but whoso presence and the sound of
whose invisible footsteps enchant the
wood, and make the easier game
worthless. May the boldest of the
brethren learn from these presents
that the pursuit pains her, and if
they will but forbear, her sure escape
will not pain them .-ILirper'sMagazine.
Suicide as a Fine Art.
The English public have been re
cently interested in two singular
cases of suicido by poison, the mys
tery of which is not entirely cleared
up. The most recent case, just re
ported by the cable, is that of Vance,
a medical student, and Mrs. Helen
Smee,- who were charged with con
spiracy to compass tho death of Mrs.
Smee herself, Vance being also
charged with aiding and abetting the
woman in the commission of suicide.
It seems that, in February, a letter,
uncalled for at the London postofiice,
was sent to the dead-letter office, the
contents of which were so sinister as
to justify the postal authorities in
turning it over to. the police. From
this clew, the present crime and its
authors were discovered.. Mrs. Smee
had published an advertisement stat
ing that a "gentleman engaged in an
interesting experiment" would re
munerate liberally a competent assis
tant versed in medicine and chemis
try. The "interesting experiment"
was the destruction of her own life
in any way to avoid a coroner's in
quest, and "not to invalidate her
will," and young Vauce seems to
have entered into her plans with en
thusiasm. Her testimony was that
she had been "very lonely since her
husband left ker," and "intended to
have the drugs in readiness, in case
I was ill again." The parties were
committed Wednesday, tried the next
day, found guilty and sentenced, the
woman to six. months' imprisonment
for conspiring against her own life,
and Vance to 18 months for aiding
her.
Almost as remarkable in its way
was the case of Mr. Bravo, a barrister
of Balham, 30 years of age, and in
good health. .Mr. Bravo dined at 7
o'clock on Tuesday, April 18, retired
to bed about 9:30, and soon called
for warm water; the housekeeper,
Mrs. Cox, found him very ill and
vomiting, no said to her "I have
taken some of that poison, but don't
tell Florence" (his wif e) . Within an
hour, physicians were called, but
Mrs. Cox did not - report tho above
remark to them . for several hours,
and until the- patient showed signs
of coming out of an unconscious state
in which he had ' been likely to die.
Four dootors, including Sir William
Gull, who stands at the head of the
profession, werfe present on the day
following, and; rjnestioned' Bravo
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closely as to what he had taken, but
he denied having taken poison, and
only admitted that he rubbed bis
gums with laudanum. On Thursday
evening, Sir William Gull, remind
inghim that he was dying, and that
an innocent person might be accused
of poisoning him, said to him firmly,
"You have taken poison, besides
laudanum," but Bravo denied it still,
and in the following morning died.
An analysis of his viscera divulged
the unmistakable presence or anti
mony. Mrs. Bravo offered in all the
papers a reward of .500 for tlve per
son who sold the antimony or tartar
emetic, but no response had been
obtained at last accounts. The pub
lic scandal was greatly magnified by
the conspicuous neglect of the cor
oner to examine the doctors or to
investigate tho case adequately. The
subject was brought up in Parlia
ment, and the government avowed
its determination to clear up the
mystery if possible, but, although de
tectives took it in hand immediately,
no light has yet been thrown upon it,
except to show that Mr. Bravo had
not previously conducted himself at
all like a man contemplating suicide.
It would be interesting to know if
either of these persons carried large
amounts of life insurance.
Great Adventures of an Italian.
A New York paper says: Matteo
Batucca.'an aged Italian, who for
fifteen years past has led a life of
extreme poverty in this city, received
not long ago the welcome news that
he had been elected a member of the
Italian Parliament, with an annual
salary of 30,000 lire. In a letter from
a member of the present Cabinet of
Victor Emmanuel he was informed
that provision should be made for
him at the expiration of his Parlia
mentary term. This is the tardy
recognition of the disinterested ser
vices which a pure and gifted man
rendered his country. Forty years
ago he espoused the cause of the
Carbonari. In 1S37 he succeeded in
capturing Ferdinand II., afterward
known as King Bomba, with his
whole family. The Neapolitan tyrant
was frightened out of his wits. But
Batucca said to him, "We are no as
sassins. You shall be free; but open
all your political prisons." Ferdi
nand pledged his royal word to do
so, but violated it as soon as released.
A treacherous member of their little
band delivered Batucca up to the
royal troops. He was sentenced to
death. He was standing already near
the fatal block when a pardon arrived.
His sentence was commuted to penal
servitude. For a whole year he re
mained chaiued to a galley. Then
he escaped, was recaptured and again
sentenced to death. This time a full
pardon was granted on conditioL of
emigrating. He went to Algeria.
Then he traveled to Egypt and se
cured a position under Mehemet Ali.
But it was impossible for him to kee2
away from Italy, aDd so he returned
in 1844 to Calabria, and raised the
standard of insurrection. At one
time the movement assumed formid
able dimensions, but finally the in
surgents were forced to surrender.
Batucca wrote a letter to Ferdinand,
"Once I gave you your life," he
wrote; "now I ask you to take mine,
but spare the life of my men." The
King sent orders to have four of tUg
insurgents shot in Batucca's presence
and then let him stand for a certain
number of hours with the noose
round his neck under the gallows.
This horrible mockery was carried
out to the letter. Batucca underwent
the ordeal with the utmost sangfroid.
At last he was taken back to prison,
from which he effected his escape.
He fled to the mountains, where he
remained until 1848, when the revo
lution called him to Naples. He be
came a minister of the Democratic
Cabinet under Roerio, but resigned.
At tho reactionary rising of the laz
zaroni he was taken prisoner and
sentenced to death with eighty-nine
others. All of them were pardoned.
In 1857 he was released, and in the
following year he came to New York.
For a few years he gave lessons in
Italian and French, but gradually
pupils grew scarce, aud he had to re
sort to humbler pursuits. lie became
carrier of a Spanish newspaper, a
peddler and the like. Recently some
of his countrymen interested them
selves in his behalf, with the gratify
ing result stated above.
The Law of Newspapers.
1. Subscribers who do- not give
express notice to the contrary are
considered as wishing to continue
their subscriptions.
2. If any subscribers order the
discontiruance of their newspapers,
the publisher may continue to send
them until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse
to take their newspapers from the
offices to which they are directed, the
law holds them responsible until
they have settled the bills, and or
dered them discontinued.
4. If subscribers remove to other
places without informing the pub
lisher, and the newspapers are sent
to the former direction, they are held
responsible. .
5. The courts have decided that
refusing to take newspapers from the
office, or removing and leaving them
uncalled for, is prima facie evidence
of intentional fraud.
C The postmaster who neglects to
give the legal notice of the neglect
of a person to take from the office the
newspapers addressed to him, is lia
ble to the publisher for the subscrip
tion price.
She was a young lady from Chica
go, and ho asked her if she would
partake of an ice cream, and she gou
tly answered: "If it's good, square,
confectioner's cream, I'm there; but
if it's church fair or strawberry festi
val slush, count me out."
Odd Thoughts.
A little earth shaped into a pair of
cheeks and pinched into a nose, and
made into lips, chin and forehead,
with some humors mixed together
for eyes. These are a face.
Old bachelors have been styled
unproductive consumers, scissors
with but one blade, bows without
fiddles, irregular substantives, al
ways in the singular number and ob
jective case, unruly scholars, and
when told to conjugate always de
cline; .
All of us have a little speck of
fight underneath our "peace and
good will to man," just a speck for
revolutions and great emergencies
so that we should not submit to be
trodden quite flat by- the first
heavy-heeled aggressor that came
along.
A coquette would have triumphed
in such a captive as Petrarch. He
had a gay and captivating exterior;
his complexion was fair; sparkling
blue eyes, aud ready smile. He is
very amusing on the subject of his
own coxcombry, and tells us how
cautiously he used to turn the cor
ner of a street lest the wind should
disorder his elaborate curls! When
Petrarch walked the streets of Avig
non the women smiled, and said,
"there goes the lover of Laura."
The impression which Dante left
on those who beheld him was far
different. When years of persecution
and exile had added to the natural
sternness of his countenance the
deep lines left by grief, he happened
to be at Verona where, since the pub
lication of the Inferno, he !was well
known. Passing one day by a porti
co where several women were seated
one of them whispered, with a look
of awe, "do yon see that man? That
is he who goes down to hell when
ever he pleases and brings us tidings
of the sinners below!" "Ay; in
deed!" replied her companion, "very
hkelv. See how his face is scarred
with fire, and blackened with smoke,
and how his hair and beard have
been curled in the flame!"
In the art of elegant leisure, in the
art of wise trifling, we aro sadly de
ficient. We are bred to business,
tempered, to high excitement. We
hanlly know what to do with tran
quility. We long to make silence
talk and stir up quietness till we get
u glow upon it. We are forever
planning something for vacation
amusements. It is riding, rowing,
picnics or some excursion with its
fringe and frill of excitement. We
want a friend or two in our solitude
to take off its solitariness. There
seems to be no such thing as exqui
site enjoyment, in .simple concious
ness of existence. The great theater
is open; its scenes are shifted every
hour; its actors are innumerable; its
orchestra full and tuneful, but men
still yawn and stretch and wish they
had something to do.
AVidows and Their Attractions.
Widowhood is discussed by the
World in a leading article, and the
statistics presented are very sug
gestive. "Winter-kept apples, sea
soned wine, a clouded meerschaum,
a vase around which the scent of the
roses still hangs, all these," says the
World, "have a rare, evanescent fla
vor that suggests but cannot express
the charm of widowhood. A young
widow is perhaps, the most interest
ing object in nature or in art. She
represents experience without its
wrinkles or its gray hair. She is
matronly beauty and maidenly free
dom combined. She is grief with a
laughing eye sorrow in a house of
festival a" silver moon in a sable
cloud. She is too sweet for any
thing! Like all good things she
can only be created at a great sacri
fice. Mrs. Browning says that you
must spoil a man to make a poet;
and certainly a man must be pretty
thoroughly spoiled before he can
leave a widow. This black swan
this mournful phoenix rises only
rises out of the funeral urn that
holds the ashes of a husband's heart!
Let us wipe away the briny tear
and proceed. Pevgite Pierdies.
Poets, statesmen, heroes and philos
ophers have each felt the indefinable
influence of widowhood. Its quality
is not strained. It falls alike upon
the just and the unjust. None can
escape it. Edward Plantagenet
wedded the widow Elizabeth Grey,
though he knew she brought civil
war for her dowry. Ned Waller,
Joe Addison, Sam Johnson, George
Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte,
John Wesley,. Tony Geller, Ben
Disraely and all the boys married
widows. Henry the Eighth was so
fond of them that he took two; and
King David was so pleased with Abi
gail, the widow of Nabal, whom he
took to wife, that he turned Bath
sheba into a widow on purpose to
marry her. When Judith ceases
her cogitations over the vir
tues of the late lamented Manasses
of Bethulia, puts off her mourning
and adorns herself in brave attire to
set out for the camp of Holof ernes,
we feel instinctively that she will
come back with his heart, his crown
or his head, whichsoever she goes
for. When the old widow Naomi
counsels theyoung widow Ruth how
to lay her snares in the harvest fields
of her kinsmen and spring her net on
the threshing floor, we know at once
that the wealthy bachelor Boaz
might as well order the wedding
garments. Allan Ramsay wrote a
song telling how to woo a widow; ho
might as well have left directions
how to get struck with lightning."
Seattle tried to get a battery of ar
tillery and a detachment of soldiers
to manage it from Gen. Howard for
the Fourth, but the latter referred
the application to the Secretary of
War, who refused it,
An Aivful Mistake.
The Washington Capitol savs the
atrical people are yet laughing over
a joke practiced by John L. Smith,
the agent of the Vokes troupe, whiltv
here. The Vokes were doing their
best to rather poor houses, for they
vtr--i,: i .t n
opening of the Centennial and the
town was deserted. Smith, one of
the most efficient agents if not the
the most efficient, was in a high state'
of disgust. He does not succumb
readily, and in the midst of his dis
tress Henry Ward Beecber appeared
at the national capitol to lecture.
John L. determined to utilize Henry
Ward, lo tms end ne sent unscru
pulons emissaries throughout the
hotels, club houses, lobbies, lunch-
rooms and elsewhere to spread the
intelligence that on that night Hen
ry Ward was to visit the Vokes' en
tertainment at the theater. Jsow,. ii
cost a dollar to here Henry lecture,,
but for that sum one could enjoy the
Voke's and see the great Brooklyn
Pope at one and the same time.
The result was a crowded house..
And the people were disappointed?-
Not a bit of it.
John L. invited John Chamber
lain to the theater. He gave the fa
mous sporting character a box. Nay.
this wicked man did worse;- he in
veigled Chamberlain to his room at
the Arlington, and under snndry.
pretenses got on him a white choker.
Sitting in a conspicuous place in the
box, John Chamberlain would have
been embarrassed, had he lraowny
how, at the way tho entire houses
turned and started at him, foe John
L.'s w icked emissaries, busy roving
about in an utter disregard of trutlv
and grammar, were saving 'that's
him." This was pleasant enough till,
John was wending his way out,when
a fellow started at him for some sec
onds, then said, in an earnest way:
"Cuss me ef I don't think him
guilty; never saw awussoountenanoe
in all my life."
"What's that fellow making such
remarks about?" asked Chamberlain.
"Because," responded John L.v
coolly, "he thinks you are Henry
Ward Beecher. I don't know ho
it is, but the impression is general
to-night that you are the reverend
friend of the family."
John Chamberlain says that wlieik
he gets near John L. again there
will be a vacancy in the tribe ot
Smith.
Home Newspapers.
Their value is by no means appre
ciated, but the rapidity with which
jjeople are waking up to their neces
sity and usefulness is the most sig
nificant sign of the times.. The thirst
for knowledge is not easily satiated,,
and books, though useful yes, abso
lutely necessary in their place fail
to meet the demands of youth oragtaK
The village newspaper is eaeerlv
sought and its contents eagerly de
voured. Then comes the demand fos
the country news, Stata news, foreign
and national news..
Newspapers are also valuable to.
material prosperity. They advertise
the village, county or locality. They
spread before the reader a map on
which may be traced character, de
sign and progress. If a stranger calls
at a hotel be- first inquires for tho
village newspaper if a friend comes
from a distance, the very next thing
after a family greeting, he inquire,
for a village or a county newspaper
and you feel discomfitted and cob- 0
founded if you do not take it.
lhe newspaper is as necessary to,
fit a man for his true position in life
as food or raiment.. Show ns a rag
ged barefoot boy rather than an ig
norant one. His head will cover hi&
feet in after life if he is well supplied
with newspapers. Show us the child
that is eager after newspapers. He
will make a man of mark in after life
if you gratify that desire for knowl
edge. Other things being equal, it
is a rule that never fails. Give your
children newspapers.,
Temptation
While it is true that no one can
escape temptation entirely, there ist
no doubt that he can largely modify
its influence. The temptations which
inhere in a man's moral make-up, he.
cannot wholly run away from, how
much soever he may desire it, be-
cause the evil is in him, as disease is
in the tainted blood. But he. can,
largely modify its action and viro
lence. One way to- do this is to keep
himself from sights and surroundings
which inflame his passions, and shar
pen the edge of his appetites. If his
temptation is in tho direction of
stimulants, then let hbpi avoid the
sight and smell of lrqr.or, and tho
compauionshijj of those who drink.
So, whatever his w eakness, let him
keep beyond the reach of whatever
can penetrate him at that point. The
Indian method of fighting is an ex
cellent one in spiritual wai-efare. The
soldier of Christ should keep himself
under cover as much as he can. A
good deal of dodging is allowable in
a contest with Satan. "Discretion is
the better part of valor" at times, and
it is better to beat a masterly retreat
than to have your soul captured bod
ily. A man who is morally weak at
any point, and who, nevertheless,
persistently exposes that point to
attack, commits the gravest of sins.
The Golden Rule. .
A Fixe Affaib. Somebody has
imported from Paris a very novel and
elegant rosewood bedstead with a
head board twenty feet high, inlaid
with father, mother and all the oth-
ers of pearl! In the foot board is a
musical box, and by pressing a knob
with your, foot yon can be played
sweetly to "sleep. "Rocked in the
mattress of the deep" would be an.
appropriate tun
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