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Ik-mbursof the Dc ,ri. inxite.l toatti-ii'l. rroo l( I.TMIMAI1 I.OIXii: ). I, A.l". & v M Holds its rcL'nliir coin- & : munient'ions on tho First ;uul thr S.iturdiivs in fitch month, lt;oVloekfroiiithe )th of Sep. -vmiU-r totho -''Uh ot Msirrh ; and 7 4 9;, !ek from tho IDth of March to the -do, nf SeptenilxT. I'.rot hri-n in Kuoil ttaii'lin mviU'it to attenu. 1V nlr of M. i r.NC AMi'.-rr.xT xn. 1,1.0. 'i 0. V., Moots at O.hl IVllows' Q Q ilUllontlio First aTulTh'u .rruos 'd:tv of oaeh month. Patriarchs r ' in "on.l staiiilini; arc invitoil to attend. n r .v .v k s ft ' a it n v. .i. Norn PilVSlCl VN Al St in: i :.-); ; tl lilies a:d i a; f.)..i il i : U-s:d-n ei air A ;iy. o:i -it'n sir. i tf DI?. JOl 1 N D E H T I G F :'":r : v Kit' i n .1 r I, r. HUHLAT ci B A GTh A M , ATTORN E YS-AT-LAW I'HTIj M-1 Opit.'.s new brick, "( Htt si root . UU !-:!. V CITY Charioan'.s brick, ui J J H NSO H & till cCO VV ?J JTT'JRNEVS AM) fOlXSELORS AT-LAW. Oregon City, '. rerjen. "Vill praiice in all the Courts of the special attention givn to cases in i t ii 1'. S. .and Oltiec at Oregon t ity 5airlS72-t I". 1,. T. A Ti lsT ATT OR S Y-AT-LAW, : : on KHOX. th' Courts of the Nov. 1. 187"), tf t win t Slate. prnetle1 In all W. 11. HKJUFIKL1). Established since '49 One ilonr north of Pojie's Hall. )hin Strrt, Or:'!ioi City, Orrjou. Anasiirt iii.'nt if Watches. ,T-wol-rv.Miid S -Hi Tliomas' Weiirht Clocks all of Thieh are warranted to le as ri pr"sctid done n short notice, and i '.i i i.vini f,,r ,,;lst patronage 1 l'd for Com nly Orders. JOHN f liACOX" 1K VI.KR IV 31 lOOKS, ST.VTIOXVK V, I 9 I'ieriir. t-rntnes. toniil inp ana Miscellaneous i(M)ds. FRAMES UM)t TO wrrou t ity, Oregon. .At tho Post Drtlce tide. Main street, rast novl,7):tf. a di.AS. Jv?s-I011T, Y caxuv.okwjhx, r 1SICIA.N AMJ DRCOOIST 3 a,!'r;rrip,ins c-wfHy Ailed at shor . ; - ja7:tf. rvj ILLS, IUoctiiio, Suvier & Co. Ore; City. MM I !l,.,nM""J"n n:ind fr sale Flour. Jr.'h'a-o.V"".1 :lndClucken Feed. Parties Jot) Tl.,,(, mus( tnrriish the sack. I J. H. S HEPARD, ! Boot and lioo Stove, I ",,ne d(or north of Ackerinan Bros. !s arl snoes n-.ade and .el.oapesi. .if repaired as 1. 1 KY. 'UFaUIT-GaOWERS. v. HHKEST MARKET PRICE ''VMS; . i. . . pay Mr Tk " ' ti PPI.ES. r lUc Company. I'. I. C. IVrOURETTE, 'HcilVPMiv c. . President. 2oa oU; i i ' sro ry . " ,a VfTj .July ".V, 1ST.5 .tf 1 Twas but a breath And yot the fair, pooU name was wilted : And friends once fond prrwcoldand stilted. And life was worse than death. One venomed word. That struck its coward, poisoned blow. In cran whispers, hushed and low And yet the wide world heard. Twas but one whisper one, That muttered low, for very shame. The thing the slanderer dare not name And yet Its work was done. A hint so slight, And yet, so mighty in its power, A human soul in one short hour . Lies crushed beneath its blight I - G'ool-Night, Kittie. It. was away out in the country, where dissipation was a word almost without nieani g, and the young grew up, enjoyed their simple round of pleasures, grew old and left them to their children. But into this quiet tide a sudden, exciting element had fallen, in the shape of a gay young girl from a neighboring town. Her name was Jennie Mordant, and she claimed cousinship with Farmer Mordant's brown-faced and rather bashful sons, in a daring, coaxing way, that was new and de lightful to them, and Jared, the eld est, catching in his frank, receptive nature some breath of inspiration from her, grew more demonstrative toward others. There was a little girl living at Low-hill Pass, as a handful of houses situated in the valley among the hills was called, whose name had often been spoken in connection with .Tnr ed's, and it was guessed that they mutually felt a shy fondness for one another. They had been to the same chnrch ever since they could remember; at last winter's evening school they had stood side by side in the class, and twice, when the roads were bad, and Tared had "been over with his cart, he had asked her to sit on the front seat with him. This had as good as settled their fate in the minds of the village gos sips, though no word of special in terest had been spoken between them and bp only called her by her formal Christian name, Katherine, at rare intervals, an.l then with a sense of familiarity that made him half ashamed. But after Jennie Mordant had ted his neck-tie, brushed the threads oiT ns coat, pulled his hair, and called 'litd "a goodish sort of a boy, consid ering his bronghten up." he escaped from lior bright eyes and merry ways and walked to Lowhill with a light stej). As he neared the house he saw Katherine returning lmme from the Widow Sangster's where she had been to take the old lady some milk. "With one leap he scaled the hedge, and hnrryinsr to the narrow foot-path he said, softlv: "Don't walk so fast, Kittie." The girl stood still, trembling and blushing; and then, as they walked slowly on together, she asked, in a voice scarcely audible, "What made vou call me that ?" " "Oh, I don't know." he said, try ing to speak calmly and indifferently. "Yon looked like a little grey kitten, moving so swift in the shadows; and then, yon know, it is a part of your name, and you are sorry I said it?" For she was walking very quietly. She did not speak, but raised her eyes with a shy, pleased look, and he asKou eager ly: uay A cau you so again ?" "Yes," she answered, simply, and lie did now linow how quick her heart was beating. And so they went in silence through the gathering dew and darkness up to the door. Farmer Ilnbbel.Katherine's father, called to Jared that the grey colt had sprained his shoulder, and while they talked of hot baths and lini ments, the girl tied up the rose branches that a late storm had blown down, pnt new strings for the morn ing glories over the cool north win dow, and waited. When tho loug horse talk was over it was time for Jared to leave. But he slided up to the kitcheti window, and reaching in, with one arm on the sill, be dropped a spray of lilac, as if by accident, and said, "Good-night, Kittie." I know when she awoke at mid night and saw the moonshine quiver ing on the floor, she blushed and smiled, as the spring wind, passing the old tree at the window, whisper ed. "Good-night, Kittie!" So the summer passed with a new glory, and when the even ngs grew long and cool in autumn, a dancing school was talked of. in the village. It was long since they had one, and old and young joined interests and determined to make up a series of cotillion parties. Two young girl-friends of Miss Mordant had been spending their school vacation on the farm, and three or four artists and students, roaming about for new views or tr nting, had stopped long enough to become somewhat acquainted in the village. All these promised to run up from town occasionally, and so the season opened far more gaily than nsual. Then there was to'be a husking at Farmer Mordant's in the long new barn. Long before dark the great piles of corn filled the bam floor, and the nihllers walked about with their pet violins tucked owav in ptppt, Vo-a- while the kitchen was over-flowing with food, and a row of cider barrels lay tapped in the yard, Katherine Hnbbel came down ear ly, with her brothers. The candles were lighted in the sitting room, and there w as Jared her Jared whose brown hair and white brow she had never touched, even with her finger tips, romping, actually romping, with OREGON CITY, Miss Jennie. She -was standing on her toes to reach his head, pulliug his hair and bothering him, when suddenly he turned, and taking the two little white hands in his big brown palm, he held her so firmly that she could not get away ..though she struggled and laughed for a minute, and then stood still, listening iutentlv. When he let her go she patted his face, smiled brightly and ran away; and Katherine could see that Jared was blushing like a girl. i She did not go into the sitting room as if nothing had happened. She was not actress enough for that. She went slowly round to the kitch en door and found their girls; and in their merry chatter they did not no tice her silence. But that Jennie how could she ever speak to her again ? ' Thirty or forty young men made fast work of the husking, in spite of the girls, rather than by help of them, and then the floor was cleared and preparations made for dancing. It was the first dance that was to decide choice of partners for the evening, forthe season, perhaps for life; and Katherine knew it. She could not flirt, and laugh, and pretend not to care, as some could. Her eyes flashed with anger as she thought of Jared leading Jennie out before them all, and creeping away to Grandma Mordant's room, she huddled herself up by the tire in a forlorn little heap. The old lady was not there, but she soon came in, and with her was "that Jennie," talking low and very earnestly. "She is always in my way," thought Katherine, bitterly; but she held her breath to listen, as Jennie said: "Jared says he never has a chance to see her for a minute alone, and the house is so full of company that there won t be another quiet spot but this room. I'll manage to smuggle him while she is here, and then do you make an excuse to go out and leave them; that's a dear.good grand ma. She is really a sweet little girl, and Jared is so fond of her. Do you know he calls her Kittie?" Tho "swee-t little girl" crouched lower among the shadows, Jennie ran away, leaving a kiss on grandma's withered cheek. Tho eld lady chuckled pleasantly to herself, as she went out after a candle, and when she returned with it lighted the room was empty. lint later, ti e harvest moon drop ped from the deep sky, and the ra diant stars came near to listen to the new meaning that echoed in Jared '.s voice, as he -aid: "Good-night, Kit tie." Years passer; an old man lay dying in a handsome home; his gentle, silver-haired wife stood beside him, holding his hand. "It's growing dark come nearer Good-night, Kittie." And his voice had hushed forever. Her hand fell upon his breast, his lifted arms dropped about her neck; together thev had gone to the land of light. "And there shall be no light there!" A Friendly Kick iu Ilroadivaj-. An old citizen, says the New York Commercial Advertiser, relates that many years ago when the late Em peror of Fiance visited this city, he made many valuable acquaintances, among whom most promineut were the Beekman and Custer boys, who in those days were rich and fast. Many an amusing scene was enacted by this friendly association. One of the most striking occured as follow s: They were at the Washington Hotel, which stood where Stewart's whole sale store now is. Early in the month of April a stranger- was passing on the opposite side of the street, dress ed in a mid-summer suit, white hat and pantaloons, claret-colored eoai and buff vest. The Princo remarked that "he ought to be kicked." Young Beekman offered a bet of five dollars that he would do it. "Done," said Napoleou, and the money was placed in "Wash" Custer's hands. Beekman ran across the street, overtook the stranger, and saluted him in a very uncivil manner with the toe of his boot. The strange gentleman was much offended, and wheeled around to resent the insult, when Beekman caught him familiarly by the hand and said: "How do you do, Jones!" "My name is not Jones," was the re ply T "All! my dear sir," said Beek man, "I ask a thousand pardons, and assure you that I thought you were my dear old friend from Arkansas." "That may be very naturally so," said the stranger, "and I forgive yon with the advice that you be more careful who you kiak next time." The quick conception and prompt execution of this little farce pleased Napoleon very much, and it was the occasion of a game supper that same night. The New York Sun gives the fol lowing simple and inexpensive meth od of preventing the plague of mos quitos: "Pour a small quanity of kerosene oil into tue pools, sinus, and other receptacles of stagnant water in which the insects breed. The oil forms a film upon the sur face of the water, through whiob neither the new-born mosquito can emerwe into the air. nor the adult female penetrate to lay its eggs. The result, is that, in a few dtVS the mosquitos in existence die out, and their places not being filled, there is an end of them. The oil in time evaporates, and must be renewed occasionally." ' ' T f Ttra ova 4 r of tar . 1 1 1 1 1 whv don't we have some knowledge of it?" "Why didn't you have some knowledge of this world before j-on came into it?" was the caustic re tort. OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 17, 187G. Female Gamblers in tlie West. The existence of a female gambling house in this city has been suspected by some and known to a few favored ones for some time past in fact ever since the opening of the institution. At first it bloomed and flourished during the winter months as the re ception apartment of Miss Mary Lan don and Mme. Burgoine on Main street, near the Junction. These two ferninines passed for mother and daughter, and by their industry and modest deportment . won their way into the family acquaintance of the families in tho city. How or where they obtained capital enough to fit up and open their present magnifi cent establishment is one of those things the ordinary news-gatherer fails to find out. But that tho madam and her quondam daughter have made money, and lots of it, too, since they left their rooms near the Junc tion, it is plainly evident to those who visit their snug and sylvan re treat. The police made the first complaint about these women early last spring or late in the winter, but as they soon afterward removed from the building complained of, no one cared to inquire where they went. It was left to an occasional con tributor of the Times to re-discorer the retreat of these now notable fe males and give an idea of the way in which fast girls and boys pass the. nights, as some of them say, "out of town on business." The secret leaked out through u colored girl who was recently dis charged for some irregularity, and imparted by her to another domestic, and by her to the person who visited tho "retreat." They call it the "re treat" because of its charming priva cy and apparent obscurity. It is on Main street, not far from the court house. The front of the building would appear to the ordinary observ er as a building unoccupied. The windows are darkened above, and, were it not for the side door, left open night and day, but which is seldom used, no one would suppose the upper part of the building occu pied. But it is now discovered to be the popular place of resort for various classes of people who nightly assemble to play with and provoke Dame Fortune as represented by her most fascinating votaries. But let the last victim tell his own story: "We were shown first into a small but neatly furnished ante-room, light ed only by the light which penetrat ed from t lie next room, which, in the darkness, appeared lirilliantTyHght ed. Our party was admitted imme diately on the presentation of cards previously furnished at the gaming house we had just left, and a gaily dressed colored girl admitted us to the parlors adjoining, where the ma dame greeted us and engaged us iu conversation for a few minutes, and then led tho way to the place we had come to see the retreat. "It was a strange sight one that fairly astounded one at first glance. Here, in a room gaudilv but not rich ly decorated and brilliantly lighted. were assembled at least thirty men and women, three-fourths of whom were engaged in the fascination of games ot chance. At one table sat the quondam seamstress, Miss Marv Landon, attired in a loose, white lace wrapper, her fingers glittering with pearls. She was dealing faro for tho amusement of a young merchant of this city and two women, both stran gers to me. Four or five persons sat by the table looking lazily on, smok ing and sipping refreshments. At an adjoining table two men and two women were engaged in a game in which bright new half-dollars passed for cheeks, and gold pieces occasion ally passed current. One of the wo men, 'a girl of the period,' smoked her cigar with the nonchalance of an adept, while her neighbor on the right, a middle aged woman of means, kept a record of the game on paper. They appeared to be playing whist. At two small tables at the far end of the room six or seven women with one or two men were interested in games of chance, apparently poker or encher, and money appeared to be passing freely bnt rattier silently. Taking down a billiard cue we ac cepted the challenge of Mme. Bur goine, and engaged with our friend and q girl who had just prepared to start for home, in a friendly game of billiards. These are a few of the observations made during a short visit to a retreat whosa existence is unknown to even the business men in its vicinity. You can use these notes as yon please." The above statement was handed in a few days ago by an occasional contributor to these columns. But the denouement was so strange no mention was made -of the existence of th female gambling house until a reporter had been sent to investigate for himself. It was found more diiH cult to obtain entrance to the place, as "newspaper men" are tabbooed the precincts of this pagoda of mis chief. A deputy, however, obtained admittance and more than confirmed the observations of the writer of the recent communication. A female gambling house does exist in this city, to which women, moving in respectable society, resort, to spend the evening. No liquors of any kind other than light Wines are "used. Women of all shades of virtue come and go, and tho fascinations of the game are such that dozens of men nightly assemble to squander their money with women old and young, who deal the cards like adepts, aud who bet their stakes with the temer ity of old "sports. It is a strange but o'er true tale, as many a man and woman in this citv know to their cost. Kansas City Times. It is estimated that the number of ladies who cannot pass a mirror without glancing into it averages twelve to every dozen. 1 COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, TrMTUVPQTTY flT? CALIFORNIA. Turkish Atrocities. - There lias been no change of pop ular sentiment in England, we pre sume, in relation to the Turkish question; but a very great change ha occurred in popular action, as is plainly manifested by the tone of the English press and the otit-spok-en indignation of Mr. Gladstone at the meeting of his constituents, last Saturday. Englishmen are cautiuos about interfering with the policy of the ministry, who are presumed to. be the better judges of what is proper in their relations with for eign powers; but the preliminary report of our consul, Mr. Schuyler, in Constantinople, of the atrocities committed by the Turks in Bulgaria, which Mr. Gladstone made the basis of his speech, has roused up the feel ings of Protestant-Englishmen to a degree that must compel the Gov ernment to a change of policy in treating the Turkish question. The report of Mr. Schuyler, which is made from personal observation and knowledge, is addressed to our min ister in Constantinople, Mr. May nard. It is very full and startling, from the facts it gives of the savage cruelties of the Turks; but it is call ed a "preliminary report," because his investigations -'had not been finished nt the time it was written. It was sufticientl full of horrible revelations, however, to produce a very marked effect upon the British mind, and its specific statements were accepted as facts, althoug an official statement was looked for from Mr. Baring, of the British em bassy, who left Constantinople at the same time with Mr. Schuyler for Bulgaria, for the purpose of making a report of the true condition of af fairs. As tho British minister in Con stantinople is a strong partisan oi the Turk, it is very probable that the report of Mr. Earring will be less horrifying than that of Mr. Schuyler, bnt the facts presented hy our consul are accept ed by the Times as substantially ac curate, and public sentiment is not likely to be changed by any subse quent statements. Undoubted by, there are many complications, of which we are ignorant, which must perplex the minds of English states men dealing with the Turksh but there is enough known of the true relations of England and the other Christian powers of Europe to the Sublime Forte for astonishment that no attempt should have been made to prevent -tho slaughter of Chris tians which has taken place since the outbreak of the war. The Pope wo lid rather the Turks should extirminate Christianity in in Servia than that the Greek Church should prevail, and Tory England would sooner see Turkey triumphant in Bulgaria and Servia than that Itussia should gain any advantages bv the defeat of the Mohammedans in their contest with Christians. The Turks have undergone no change during the past four hundred years, unl Mr. Schuvler s harrowing state ments read like extracts from Gib bon's diseriptions of the atrocities committed by Mohammed the Sec ond at Constantinople. In describ ing the attack on Panagurishta, last mav bv the Bashi-bazouks, Mr. Schuyler says that three thousand women and children were massacred; that the ruffians attacked children of eight and women of eighty indis criminately; old men had their eyes torn out and their limbs cut oft, and then left to die; that pregnant wom en were riped open, and the nnboin babies carried triumphantly on the points of bayonets and sabers; while little children were made to bear the dripping heads of their comrades. This scene of rapine, lust, and mur der was continued for three days, when tho survivors were made to bury the bodies of the dead. The perpetrators of these atrocities were chiefly regular troops, commanded by Hafiz Pacha. These atrocities are permitted by the Catholic powers, from jealousy of the Greek Church, and by Chris tian England, from jealousy of Prus sia. But the recent out buret of pop ular feeling in England is likely to call a decided change in the policy of the Tory ministry, and it has been intimated that Sir Henry Elliott is to be supplanted in Constantinople by Lord Odo Russell, the British minis ter in Berlin. 77 hincpendcxt. Truism. A man can never be made to feel at home in tight boots. The best a man can do for his State is to bo a good citizen. , Our poor relatives are those who are rich and of no use to us. A bad young man is poor material for making a good old man. To enjoy life you should have vonr monogram on your bedstead. What politicians really want is a soft position with hard money pay. The underlying cause of almost all financial distress is extravagance of individual distress, personal extrav agance; of public distress general extravagance. A helping hand to one in tronbleis often like a switch on a railroad track but one inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity: We are apt, in onr wonder and onr applausejatthehighth to which a man has attained against all odds, to for get to note whether his steps up the incline have been clean and justly taken. m "Mr. Thompson," said a young lady who had been showing off her wit at the expense of a dangler, "you remind me of a barometer that is filled with nothing in the upper story." "Divine Julia," meekly re plied her adorer, "in thanking you for that compliment, let me remind you that you occupy my upper story." X The Pbvnibroliiiig Business. It appears from the last census that there were in 1S70 only 381 pawnbrokers in the United v States; but the actual number must be con siderably greater. In w York there are eighty licenced pawnbrok ers, who must be American citizens, must have resided in the city one year, and have paid $50 license and given bonds of SI, 0(H) before they were accorded the privilege of con ducting their business. There are no doubt many unlicensed pawn brokers and jewelers and others who do a monev-lending business sub rosa. Certainly many persons tn--. gaged in the business are averse to having their occupation known. Pawnbroking has of late years been considered somewhat disreputable, notwithstanding that the first pawn brokers were Italian merchants from Lombardy, of high standing in their own country, aud had noble and roy al customers. Edward I, of England j pawned the customers of his king dom, for a heavy loan, and Edward III and Richard II pledged the crown jewels. In the sixteenth cen tury the descendants of the Lombard pawnbrokers had become so over bearing and extortionate that they were expelled from Frauca and Eng land, and laws .woro enacted to de liver the 'poor from tleir extortions. Members of the famous Medici fam ily w ere foremost among the money lenders of the middle ages. ". The pawnbrokers of the present day are no better than their pre decessors, from whom they have in herited their cruel' greed, as they maintain the trade sign of three gold balls.derived from the armorial bear ings of the ancient corporation of Lombards. But the recent enact ments in regard to usury have some what curtailed the profits of the bus iness. In thirty-three States and Territories the regular rate of inter est varies from six to twelve per cent. In California, Florida, Maine, Mon tana, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming all usury laws have been abolished and any rate of interest agreed upon may be collected. New York has the most stringent usury laws. Tho maxi mum rate of interest is fixed at seven per cent., and violations of the law are made misdemeanors, punishable by fine, imprisonment and forfeiture of the principal. -Nevertheless, ex orbitant interest is invariably col lected by roundabout methods, con trived successfully to evade the law. The brokers charge for the ticket, charge for registering, charge for storage anything, to swell their profits. The pawnbrokers of New York do business chiefly on the Bowery ,Third and Sixth Avenues, and on the side streets between Bleecker and Fourteenth. They are not numerous in the poorest districts. There are no less than six of them in three blocks near tho beginning of Sixth Avenue, Just now business is live ly with them. The prevalent de pression in all trades and industries has reduced so many hitherto well-to-do people to absolute want that the pawn-shops are overstocked with wearing apparel and household goods of all kinds, pledged, not unfrequent Iy to procure a much-needed loaf of bread. The consequence is that the brokers are offering very limited loans, and many of them will not take anything but jewelry, which is always marketable and which, as it is seldom redeemed, is a source of much gain to them. The articles most frequently pawn ed are watches and rings, on which the money-lenders usually advance from one half to two thirds of their value. Clothing is taken in pledge only at the lower class of pawn-shops and unless it is new or almost new very little mouey can be raised on it. All pledges are kept for one year and at the end of that time those left unredeemed become the property of the broker, whose chief profit comes from this branch of his trade. It frequently happens that stolen goods are pawned by thieves or their agents, and pawnbrokers are consequently subject to constant visits by tho po lice, in search of lost property. Near ly all of the so-called diamond brok ers on Broadway and side streets are pawnbrokers, who surreptitiously buv all sorts of property and advanca money on all classes of valuables, "and no questions asked." They are under strict police surveillance. The requirements by law that every per son offering an article in pledge shall give his or her name and address is practically useless, as about eighty four per cent, of .people so pledging give assumed names and false ad dresses, j The scenes and incidents of pawn brokers' shops have been so often and so graphically described, notably by Mr. Dickens, in his Boz sketches, that it is not necessary to treat of them here. As a rule, the shops are well kept and orderly, and w hatever grief or trouble may penetrate there does not disturb the peace. The sight of men pledging their tools and women their household utensils for money wherewith to buy intoxicating drinks, which is so terribly common in England, is happily rare among us. On the other hand, people of very fair social position, who in Eng land would not dare enter a pawn shop, frequent such places here whenever the necessity arises. Professional gamblers are, perhaps, the pawnbrokers' best customers. They generally wear an abundance of jewelry, and when bad luck sets in they part with their baubles one by one to raise the means to "get square" again. A large number of wedding rings are pawned every year, and more of them redeemed than of any other kind of jewelry. The wedding ring is usually the last i trinket with which a woman will O. 4. rart. and if it goes 'tis probably to restore a dying child to life orto feed a famishing family. So many watches have been pawned of late that the brokers will now advance on them only the value of the metal, unless the watch be of a celebrated make. ' The consequences of this is . that watches, are cheaper than ever, aud can be bought in running order as low as 62. It is very common for ' people to take imitation gold to the pawnbroker's, with the hope that it may pass for genuine;, but the hope is always del usiAe. The money-lender is too much an adept at getting the better of others ever to allow any ; one to get the better of ; him.- He is always provided with a bottle of. strong acid and a pair of scales, and can tell to a fraction the exact value " of every piece of metal offered him. Pawnbrokers, more than any other class of men except sheriff's officers, profit by tho misfortunes of their neighbors. As one of them said tho other day to the writer: "Hard times or good times don't mako no matter of difference to us. There is always, folks wanting money and ready to get it the best w ay they can. 'ftcca beus, in Illustrated Weekly, ' Table Etiquettes The Abbe C-asson, a professor iu the College Mazarin ' and an accom plished literalwr, says Mrs.- Duffev's book on "Behavior," dined, one day . at. Versailles with the Abbe de Rad onviliers, i:i company with several conrtiers and marshals of France. After dinner, when the talk ran up on the etiquette and customs of the table, Abbe Cassou boasted of his in timate acquaintance with the best dining-ont usages of society: The Abbe Delille listened to Cas son's account of his own good man ners for awhile, but then interrupted him and offered to wager that at tho dinner just served he had commit ted numberless errors of improprie ties. "How is it possible?" demanded the Abbe. "I did exactly like tho rest of the company." "Nonsense!" exclaimed the other. "You did a hundred things which no one else did. First, when you sat down at the table, what did you do with your napkin?" "My napkin? WI13-, just what ev erybody else did. I unfolded it and fastened it in rnv button-hole." "Ah, my friend," said Delille, "ou were the only one of the party that did that. No one hangs his napkin up in that style. They con tent themselves with placing it ac cross their knees. And what did you do when you were served soup?" "Like ihe others surely. I took my spoon in mv right hand and mv fork in the left" "Your fork? Who ever saw any one eat bread out of his soup-plate with a fork? After your soup what did vou eat?" "A fresh egg." "And what did vou do with the shell?" "Handed it to the servant." "Without breaking it?" "Yes, without breaking it up of course." "Ah, my dear Abbe, nobody ever, eats an egg without breaking be shell afterwards." exclaimed Abbe, Delille. "And after your egg?' 'I asked the Abbe Radonvilliers to send me a peace of the hen near him." "Bless my "soul! A piece of the hen? One should never speak of the hens out of the hennery. You shonld have asked for a piece of fowl or chicken. But you say nothing about your manner of asking for -vino." 'Like the others. I asked for clar et and champagne." L.ec me lniorm you -that one should always ask for claret wine and champagne wine." But how did yon eat vonr bread?" : "Surely I did that properly, j cut it with my. knife into sma mouthfuls and ate with my . fingers." "Bread should never be cut, btc always broken with the fingers. Br.: the coffee how did you manage that?" "It was rather too hot, so I rout ed a little into my saucer and drui.i. it." "Well, then, you committed . greatest error. You should n"-- -pour coffee or tea into the saucer m . always let it cool and drink it , i , 1. the cup." It is necessary to say that the A was deeply-mortified at his vi -f ignorance of the usages of poll' ciety." - - ; ' "I understand you make - rv good cider?" "Yaw," said Co., Dutchman; . "Hans, my poy. bring a mugful. Hans roc turned with a mug brioiing full, handed it to the Dutchman drained it to the bottom at v drought; then turning to his astd ished visitor, said, "Dere now, you dosh not tink dat ish good cite yoost schmell of te mug." An Australian has taught a carar bird to sing "Home, Sweet ITom. by suspending it before a looking glass near a music-box which i ' ' formed that melody. Supposing V bird in the glass was making tj " mtisic, tho bird firally caught tin notes, and now warbles the who-e tune. Mr. B. L. Garner, of Powder river valley met with an accident last (k. He w:as on his way from Umatilla with freights for S. A. neilner & Co.,of Baker City, and, while cross ing a bridge over the Grand Ronde river the bridge gave way and preci pitated two of his teams in the river, upsetting the freight and damaging i.,-oo-c o-onrjill v. The loss is esti- luiu- pV--" ! mated at some S5.000. N o o o o G c o o o o e 0 o O OO 0 o 0 c? c o o G 0 O o o o o o o o o o i