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I , Tiy-!iwr.M.ily-ji-- .- o o O o DEVOTED TO MEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. "It i i , I - fl HfP ii (it ft' lr IP! 1J w 1 1 ! I 6 O O VOL. 11 THE EI4TEBPHIS1. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER von t n k farmtr, Business Man, & Family Cirele. jSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FH VNK S. DEMENT, PE0PHIETOS AND PUBLISHER. jrncuL paper or claceaiias co. ."rr t rvTKKPRisE r.uihlinjy. one 0FKI,U,"oAlasonicnuiiainS. Main St. Term of StiWrljitlon : ,iB-l. Cory One Year, In Advance 82.50 9 .." Six Months" " 1-50 Term- of Advertising t ., -avert isements, including Transient a"'"1 ,,.,,, of twelve One Column. 0"e oir (.() ()() 1 9".a."rr.rnr,l.lsnunro.onyear l- .00 SOCIETY NOTICES. oKKi()N i.oici- no. 3, 1. 1. . i'.. Meet rvcrv Thursday J, evVnimratT'i o'clock, in .the ill Fellows' Hall, Main 1 'Pt. Members of thoOr are invited to attend. P.y order Jebkcca i)i:r.iii:r: i,om:u no. j o. o. F., Moots on the and 1'ourth Tues day evening each month, Frilows' Hall. Membersot the Degree are invited to attend. MLI.TNO.MAII LODCH X. 1,A. l' 4 A. M., Hoi. Is its regular coin- A miiniiations on the First and Third Saturdays in each month, it T o'clock from the 'Jot h ofSep. tMiher to the :Mth of March; and ili o'clock from the 20th of March to the Mth "f September, llrethren in good "unding aro invited to attend. l'.v order of W. M. FALL" i:CAMlMi:XT NO. J.I.O. O. F., Meets at Odd Fellows' q rj Hill onth First andThird Tuck- oX dar of each month. Patriarchs in good .standing; are invited to attend. V7 V S I A' Ii S N C A It I S. J. V. OliUIS, niYSKlAX AM) Sl'KGICOX, "O.lipti an J U'-siclence on 4th .Street, ! foot of Cliff Stairway. tf T)K. .IOIIsT WELCH DEUTIST, OK1MCK IX oiihgon cm, i)n:y.;o. ni-UHl tash l'rice ril for County Onior. lTTOUNEYS AND COINSELOUS AT-LWV. Oregon City,-Oregon. 7"ViU practice in all the Courts of the tt. Snecial attention given to cases in tt L S. Land Oillc at. Oregon City. 5apris.i--tf. L,. T. BAKIN OREGON CITY, : : OREGON. Will prnetic in all th Courts of the ftate. Nov. 1. 1S75, tf Established since '40. One lior north of Pope' Hull. Main Sltvrt. Orfgon City, Oregon. fO Anassortment of Watches. .Twel Vry,:in.l Si-th Thomas' Weight Clocks "H .'-Hall o( which are warranted to be as ' "'.i,r'ir,s"nted. T 'rpairin:i done on short notice, and l.iankfui for pat patronage. 5jh paid for County Orders. J OH X" 3L HAT ON, I.KALKHIN fZjlf? UOKS. ST TIOX TIV, C--i Picture Frames. MoiM- iiia r.vi-r In? and Miscellaneous Cioods. FRAMES V,.DE 70 ODES. Orcijon City, Oregon, V-U th Povt omoi Main street, east novl,T5 :tf. C 1 1 A S. Iv "X I f 1-1 LT, CANUY, OUV.CON, Prseriltions rnrofiillt- nn.,.i notice. - u iu snor jaT Af. U I MPS R 1 AL 3 ! L L S LaKocque, Savior tv Co. Oregon City. J- SHEPARD, I oot ana Sl.nn a north of Aekerman Pros. v.i. ls--j1f lP-sl- I 1 AvSt ?;,tEST PRE FOR ; at all tunes, at the ; fegonCfty Mills, And hnvo r. i , 1 "PTr1! "an 1 W, aua FLOUR furnish sacicQ cesirms T JO FfjBOWERS: novlJtf I NO SEHAoKET PRICE the rtheI aborized to pur- " K C- i'ATOUnETTK. o2.:)!?trARr w . ''resident. L.VVEXDEU. How i;rone we are to hide and hoard Each little token love has stored, To toil of happy hours ; We lay aside with tender care A tattered book, a curl of hair, A bunch of laded Ilowers. When death has led with pulseless hand Our darlings to the silent land, Awhile we sit bereft. Dut time noes on, and anon we rise, Our dead being buried from our eyes, We gather w tun is left. The books t hey loved, the songs they sung, The li.tle flute whose music rung So cheerfully of old; The pictures we have seen them paint, The last picked flow -r. h' odor faint', That fell lrom fingers cold. We smooth and fold with reverent care The robes they, living, used to wear; And painful pulses stir. As o'er the relies of our dead With bitter rain of tears we spread Pale, purple lavender. And when we come in after years With only tender April tears ' On cheeks once white with care, To look on treasures put a way Despairing on t hat tarotrdav, A subtle scent is there. Dew-wet and fresh we gat her them, These fragrant flowers; no-ever v stem Is bare of ail its bloom. Tear-wet and sweet we strewed them here 'io lend our relics sacred dear Their beautiful perfume. Their scent abides on book and lute, On curl and flower; and, with its mute P.ut eloquent appejil, It wins from us a deeper sob, i or our lost dead a sharper throb Than we are wont to feel. It whispers of the long no. Its love, its ions, itsaciiing woe. And buried sorrows stir; And tears like those we shed of o'd Koll down our cheeks as we behold Our faded lavender. Ci ristopher Col tinilms. Pew men belonj; less to the age in which they lived than Columbus. In truth, he can scarcely be said to be long to any age. Thoroughly imbued with the spirit of chivalry, he was a Knight Templer who had lost his way amidst the romantic cycles of the twelfth ceutury, to find himself a discoverer among the practical though daring enterprises of the fifteenth. Had he lived during the first Crusade, he might have been sung by Tasso as the"star of knight hood" and the protagonist of the "Jerusalem Delivered." A singular compromise between a paladin and a philosopher, he would have been about equally at home with Peter the Hermit or Copernicus, Godfrey of Boulogne or Galileo. While he challenged philosophy at every point where she appeared to conflict with his cherished theories, in matter of religion he yielded a blind, unreas oning faith. To him a dream was a revelation. In his sleeping visions he heard a voice that to him was the voice of God. His piety, though deep and fer vent was nevertheless tinctured with the superstition of his times. He engages in every important enter prise in the name of the "Holy Trin ity," whether it be a voyage of dis covery of the shipment of a cargo of slaves to be sold in the shambles of Seville. If, however, he enslaves .intutored savages it is with a view to Christianizing them such is his implicit faith in the saving power of baptism and the eliicaey of the ho ly water. At a time when the popu lar imagination had not throughly purged it of the legendary lore of fairies and salamanders, hippogriffs and anthropophagi, dog-faced wom en and lion-bodied men, flying islands and fountains of perpetual youth, it is not supprisiug that Co lumbus should have seen "mer- maids," though "not so like ladies as they are painted," or should be come the bearer of dispatches to that mythical potentate l'rester John, or fancying he had discovered the river that flowed from the foun tain of the tree of life, should have located the ti rristiial paradise upon the apes of the "pear-sl)apped"earth, far above the "heats and frosts and storms" of tin's lower world, like the enchanted gardens of Armida in the Fortunate Isles. It is somewhat surprising, however, in view of the apprehensive fears of his supersti tious crew, that on his first voyage he should have set sail on a Friday, and not a little remarkable that he should have discovered America, and returned again to the port of depart ure, all on the same unlucky day. In the life of Columbus, so full of illusions and strange vicissitudes, there is a striking disparity between the ends lie aiiutd at and those he actually accomplished. Like Saul, the son of Kish, he went out in search of hisfatlicr's asses, and found a kingdom. The son of a wool comber, with the key-note of a grand discovery ringing in his brain, he emblazons on his shield the royal arms of Castile and Leon. His fa vorite dream had boon to find a direct route westward to tiie rich and popu lous realms of Kublai Khan, and he discovered a new world instead, thonqh he died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his achieve ment. He had stipulated with the Spanish sovereigns, in the event of his success, for honors and emolu ments that were regarded at first as absurdly extravagant. But if he in sists on a tenth of all the profits aris ing from his discoveries, it is not in his own personal interest, but that he may obtain the means for fitting out an expedition for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre and the evan gelization of the heathen. And yet at a time when he had vowed to fur nish an army of 40,000 horse and 50, 000 foot for a crusade against the in fidel Turk, he, who had ''staked both soul and body -on his success," had no resort but an inn, and was, for the most part, without the where withal to pay his bill; while it was reserved for another to confer his name upon the continent he had dis covered; "aline example." as Vol taire remarks, of the quid pro qv.as of gh:ry. He went out in quest of gold, and discovered tobacco, the "divine OREGON CITY, weed" of Spencer a discovery that ti n u iviM-(.,1 . . n -l , - uiuie prouuciive, iinan cmlly and commercially, than all the mines of Mexico or Peru. He sought to Christianize the untutored Indians, and thereby elevate them in the scale of modern civilization; but the lust, cruelty and rapacity of his followers transformed a paradise of almost primeval beauty and simplici ty into a land of cruel bondage.deso lation and death. But whoever he is or whatever he does; whether a penitent at the con fessional or a suppliant at court, a desperate adventurer or a successful discoverer, a viceroy of the Indies or a prisoner in chains; whether chanting a Salru Reyhui or perform ing a pilgrimage to the shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe; whether quell ing a mutinous crew, or combating a junta of cosmographical pedants, or curbing a cabal of Spanish hidal gos; whether engaged iu piratical expeditions against the infidel, or erecting wooden crosses on every headland of the New World he i's ever inspired with the same glowing enthusiasm that sublime fervor of an ardent imagination that dignified his failures scarcely less than his success, and shed a halo of romance around the simplest of his acts as well as the grandest' of his achieve ments. Harpers ILtjnzhte fur De tember. A Forgetful Man. His wife sent him up-town for sum thin' or ruther" early in the eve ning. On the way he met a friend, and they spent a half-hour in an an imated dispute as to whether Haves or Tilden had the best ehanee for an election, and, when he had left his friend, lie had eutirely forgotten what Maria had sent him after. It was in vain that he tried to think up his forgotten errand. For three long, weary hours he wandered around from saloon to saloon, seek ing to stimulate his unreachable brain and prick up his memory. 'Twas no use. The more he stimlat ed the more he didn't remember. He hated to go home and acknowl edge as much to his wife, and so he just dropped on his friends to gather their sympathy. After ho had managed to scrape considerable of the article to-gcther, and just as the chimes of St. Kavier Church was chiming the midnight hour, the tel egraph editor opened a dispatch and remarked that the Associated Tress announced the death of Dr. , the famous physician of . "By the jumping Juniper Jupiter, I remember now," said the visitor, rising slowly from his chair and turning as pale as a cholera patient; "I remember now. My wife had the cramp-colic and sent me to bring the doctor! 1) n politics! 1 won der if she's alive yet!"' And he shot out that door for the doctor without staying to hear what the chances were in New York. Sliot i thy Kack. The Servians are not a military people, and in their present war with the Porte they are extensively oflt ceted by the Bussians. It is said that many of these Russians ollicers have been shot down from behind! The Servians were urged into a dis astro .s enterprise, to whic'i they were not very strongly inclined of themselves and now when they can not escape service by wounding and bandaging their own arms, they take revenge by shooting down the oHicers who have volunteered to lead them ! It is not alone in battle that men, figuratively, if not literally are often shot down by their own allies and profess--d friends. Many a civil en terprise, as well as military exploit, has been wrecked by the treachery of those professing to aid it. If you wish to succeed in life as who does not? be cautious with whom you unite in joint undertak ings. The unwilling and over-persuaded are never to be depended up on; neither are those of a fickle dis position, or who are capable of be betrnying a friend. In every calculation it is not mere ly the enemy in front w ho must be taken into account; but also the li nbility'to be shot down from behind. A". Y. !,'! 'j er. Poets' Peculiarities. Fenton was a fat poet, whose habit it was to lie in bed and be fed with a spoon. He was almost as lazy as Thompson. Pope says he died of indolence. Wilkie, the author of. "Epigoniad," loved not only to lie in bed. but, if we may believe his biographer, Anderson, to lie under sixteen or seventeen pairs of blankets. Pope was another poet with queer habits. He was fretful and petulant and expected that everything should give way to his ease. If he felt drowsy in company he would go to sleep "without ado, and once slum bered at his own table while the Prince of Wales was talkingof poetry. When he accepted an invitation to stop at a friend's house he took no servant, and his wftuts were so many that a hall full of servants might scarcely supply them. "His errands were so frequent and so frivolous that the footmen in time avoided and neglected him. The maids, when they had neglected their business, alleged thev had been attending Mr. Pope." Like his friend Swift, he was sometimes parsimonious, and is charged by Johnson with "niggardly reception of his friends and scanti ness of entertainment, as when he had two guests in his house he would sot at supper a single pint upon the table, and, having himself taken two small glasses, would retire, and say: 'Gentlemen, I leave you to your wine.' "Baltimore Bulletin. OREGON, FRIDAY, DEC 1, 1876 The Ex-Empress Eugenie. Lucy Hooper writes from Paris to the New York World: "The papers announce that the lawsuit brought by Mnie. de Montijo, the mother of the Empress Eugenie, against three Parisian newspapers Les Droits de Homme, Le Tribune, and E ludepen dauce for publishing extracts from the cute de naissance of the late Em press and drawing scandalous con clusions therefrom, is to take place on the 9th of November. It was ap propos of this forthcoming trial that an interesting conversation recently took place in my presence respecting the Empress, the speaker being a lady long resident in Paris and well conversant with he society of Mad rid. She said that as a very young girl Mile, de Montijo was not con sidered at the Court of Madrid to possess any remarkable beauty, though her profuse tresses of the palest chestnut, just tinged with ruddy gold, and the fine contour of her throat and shoulders were great ly admired. But the full aud flow ing draperies which were worn in those days were unfavorable to the display of the lady's exquisite figure. It so chanced one day that Queen Christina gave a garden party at her villa near Madrid. Mile, de Montijo and her friends were amusing them selves on the borders of a small lake, when the future Empress of France lost her footing in some wa- and fell into the water. She was taken out iuseusihle, though totally unhurt, and her drenched muslin dress, clinging in close folds around her form, revealed outlines of statuesque perfection. She sank a fashionable damsel; she emerged from the waves a Yeims. From that day the repu tation of Mile. Eugenie as a beauty was firmly and incontestable estab lished at Madrid. To her great credit be it said that, after she became Em press of the French, though she pre sided over one of tho most dissolute Courts of modern Europethe breath of slander never dared assail her. Her married life was far from being happy. Bike a true Spaniard, she was passionately jealous of her hus band, who certainly gave her ample cause. A story once went the rounds respecting an altercation between the Empress and a certain noble Count who filled the honorable functions at the Imperial Court that the infamous Lebei did at that of Louis XV. The Empress one day desired to enter the apartments of the Emperor in great haste, being desirous of imparting to him some important piece of intel ligence. She was stopped at the thrcshhold by the functionary afore said, who impressively declared that she could not enter, as the Emperor was at that moment in conference with one of his ministers on a weighty affair of State. Prayers and threats having alike proved in vain, t he irate lady withdrew and went and posted herself at a window which command ed a full view of the private entrance to the apartments of the Emperor. She soon saw issue therefrom an in dividual who could scarcely have been the minister, unless, indeed, ministers are in the habit of wearing stylish silk dresses, and tiny little boots, and thick lace veils over stun ning little bonnets. Back Hew the fair Spaniard to her husband's door, where site first relieved her wounded feelings by soundly boxing the ears of th noble Count aforesaid, and then she made her entrance unques- tioned and in triumph. Aud we trow that Louis Napoleon passed an "evil quarter of an hour," as the French idiom hath it, when once she got hold of him. It was after one of these scenes that she started off so suddenly on a trip to Scotland, at tended only by a single lady-in-waiting, and, (hough the matter was hushed up, and the story promul gated that she had gone to consult a celebrated physician in Edinburgh, the fact that a conjugal quarrel was at the bottom of the trip was a well understood fact at the Imperial Court. She used to quarrel dreadfully with M. Fould, and her dislike for him reached a culminating point af ter the death of her sister, the Duch ess of Alba. The Empress gave or ders that the Duchess should be interred with all the pomp and cere mony due a member of the Imperial family, to which request M. Fould, who was then, I believe, minister of finance, returned a positive refusal. "The Duchess," said he, "is a Span ish subject, and is in no wise entitled to the honors due a French Princess. If the Empress chooses to send the Imperial carriages to the funeral she can do so, but I refuse to appropri ate any sum from the finances of France to pay for the interment of a subject of the Spanish crown." TLis decision so enraged the Empress that she never forgave M. Fould, and was ids bitter enemy from that hour. She heartily detested the United States on account of the supposed designs of our Government on the Island of Cuba, and she used to , enjoy ridiculing the awkward or i 11 i dressed among our countrywomen at i the court ball, her strictures being always uttered in softest Spanish be hind the shadow of her fan. She is fifty 3'ears old now, and is said to be sadly dispirited bv the waning pros pects of Bonapartism in France. "Set Dows." A member of Con gress, ambitious to make at least one speech for the gratification of his constituents, thus began, "Mr. Speaker, the generality of mankind in rreneral are generally disposed to ! exercise oppression upon generality j of mankind in general." "Set down;" whispered a judicious friend ; pulling at his coat-tail, "you're i coming out of the hole you went in at." lie sat down at once for all; , his voice was heard no more in that I ball. 1 COURTESY OF BANCROFT The Cossacks. The name of Cossack has been synonymous with barbarian ever since the war between Napoleon and Russia, when the skirmishers of Al exander came to bo regarded by the European troops as a band of fierce, brutal savages, unrestrained by the laws of civilization, and unmoved by the instincts of common humanity. This idea of the character of Cossack does him great injustice, according to the representation of Mr. Eugene Schuyler, who in his travels in the Russian provinces in Asia, had abun dant opportunities for observing the various people inhabiting these re geons, ; nd the Cossacks among the rest. He testifies that "in reality the Cossacks are mild, amiable, and hospitable. They are the pioneers of Russian civilization. If anything has to do it, the Cossacks are em ployed. When a country is to be colonized, the Cossacks guard it, and themselves take part in the work of settlement. Though given perhaps to occasional raids, when next to some Kirghiz or uncivilized tribe, they are, in the main, peaceful and orderly citizens, brave, indus trious, and enduring. The women are hard workers and good house keepers; and, during my whole jour ney in Asia, I was only too delight ed when I came to a post-station kept by a married Cossack, for there I was to find everything clean and neat, with eggs and milk at least, and possibly something more substantial, to eat." The Cossacks are a Slavic race, although their name spelled"Kazak," by the Russians, is of Turkish or Tatar origiu. It originally sig nified robber or vagabond, and later took the meaning of par tisan or guerrilla. "The Cossacks of the "Don" dwelt, on their first appearance in history, in the country north of the Caucasus Mountains, and from here bauds moved west ward to the Dnieper, and eastwards to the shores of the Ural. Notwith standing their descent from the ancient Russians, the Cossacks long considered themselves an indepen dent people, and made war upon their neighbors, or lived at peace with them, regardless of the polity which happened at the time to gov ern their parent nation. Their in cursions into Persia, in the seven teenth century, compelled the C.ar Alexis to take effective measures for their due subjection to the laws of Russia. In 1055, their military chief, or Ataman as he is called, was induc ed to visit Moscow with a party of his followers, and they were then sent against Poland and Riga the first use made of tho Cossacks in the Russian army. When tho Government of Oren burg was founded in 17o5, its lines extended into the dominions of the Ural Cossacks, and tho introduc tion of Russian posts and authorities caused great discontent among that free and warlike people. They com plained of the invasions of their ter ritory and of the exactions of the Russians Governors, and were in a continual commotion, which finally broke out in open rebellion. There revolt was universal and determined, but was quilled in 1775, when their leader, Pugatcheff, was executed, and the name of the river and province was changed from Yaik to Ural. Siuce then the Cossacks have been peaceful and contented subjects of the Czar, giving him trouble ouly in the matter of predatory excursions, which they continue to carry on against the Kirghiz east of the Ural River, in decidedly ruthless fash ion. With regard to the military ser vice fof the Ural Cossacks, Mr. Schuyler states that, from the age of IS to 20, youths tire obliged to serve within their district. They are al lowed a year of respite, after which they are liable to service elsewhere for a nominal period of fifteen years, although they are always released long before .this term expires. "Every Cossack is supposed to be in the'army, though exceptions are made in favor of a father who has three sons in the service, or in case of one out of four brothers. In time of war, all can be called upon. The actual number of the Ural Cossacks in service is estimated at over 10, 000, though really not more than 3, 000 actually serve at one time. It has long been the practice of the richer Cossacks to hire tho poorer to take their places i n the ranks, 300 rubles being paid for two years' ser vice in Turkistan. The abolition of this custom by the new military law was the cause of the disorders in September, 1871." Mr. Schuyler relates that the Ural Cossacks form an ideal community. The land is free to all alike each individual tilling the soil, cutting hay, and pasturing his cattle where he likes, providing always that he respects tho rights of others, which are established by custom. The fishing in the Ural and the sea is al so open to every one. "The days of fishing ar3 regulated; and, though all are read, none dare to cast a net or throw a harpoon before the can non signal has been given by the Ataman under penalty of confisca tion of all his fishing implements." The waters of the Ural aredeminish ing in volume, and its finny inhab itants are consequently decreasing in numbers;ytt the produce of caviare, isinglass, salt sturgeons, and beloza is ttill great. The communal system prevailing among the Cossacks in sures a comparatively even distribu tion of wealth, and neither of the ex tremes of proverty or riches is found among them. The poorest man has a house, a horse, and some property in catt'e. When the Patriarch Nieon intro I duced reform into the Greek Church, I they were rejected by the Cossacks, 1 who still held to the old faith. In LIBRARY, 1SG2, out of a population of 70,000 along the Ural, only sixty-two be longed to the Orthodox Russian Church, and those were mainly Russian officials. In 1859, at which date the last official statistics of the army of the Ural Cossacks were pub lished, out of eighty crimes, thirty eight were committed by the Ortho dox, and only ten by the dissenters. The remaining guilty parties were Jews, Mohammedans, etc. The New Postage Rates. nardly a day passes but -we are asked for information relative to the present postage law on newspapers and letters. Below we give the rates as they now stand, which every bus iness man should cut out and paste up for future reference. Postal cards, one cent each, go without further charge to all parts of the United States and Canada, with an additional one cent stamp tLey go to all parts of Europe. All letters to all parts of the United States and Canada, three cents per half ounce. Local or "drop" letters, that is, for the city or town where dejjosited, two cents if delivered by carriers, and ODe cent where there is no car rier system. Newspapers, daily, semi-weekly, tri-weekly and weekly, regularly is sued and sent to regular subscribers, two cents per pound, payable at the office of publication; newspapers and magazines less frequently than once a week, three cents per pound. All other printed matter, including transient newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, handbills, and books, one cent for each two ounces or frac tion thereof. On unsealed circulars, and all mailable matter of the third class, other than that designated in the foregcing section, postage as hereto fore, one cent for each ounce or frac tion thereof. The following are the postal rates with Europe. The rates for letters are for the half ounce or fraction thereof, aud those for newspapers for four ounces or fraction thereof. To Great Britain and Ireland, let ters five cents, newspapers two cents; Spain, letters live cents, newspapers two cents; 1 ranee, letters hve cents, newspapers two cents; to all parts of Germany, including Austria, letters five cents, newspapers two cents; Denmark, letters five cents, news papers two cents; Switzerland, letters five cents, newspapers two cents; Russia, letters five cents, newspapers two cents; Norway, letters five cents, newspapers two cents; Sweden, let ters live cents, newspaiiers two cents; Turkey, European and Asiatic, let ters live cents, newspapers two cents; Egypt, letters five cents, newspapers two cents; Italy, letters live cents, newspapers two cents. Packages containing liquid, poi son?3, glass, explosive chemicals, live animals, sharp-pointed instruments, sugar, flour, or any other matter lia ble to deface or destroy the contents of the mail, are unmailable, are not placed in or allowed to pass through the mails under any circumstances. By a late act of Congress, also, all letters or circulars relating to lotter ies, gift concerts, or schemes of chance of aDy description, are de clared to be unmailable, and entirely excluded. The Female Hoodlum In 'Frisl co. An investigation shows the bud ding woman hood of San Francisco to be in a very demoralized condi tion and a crying disgrace to the so ciety which permits such a state of affair to exists. Worst of all the evil has invaded a class of society not usually productive of the genus hoodlum and in a manner that will not admit of its speedy suppression. In fact the curse of hoodlumism has seemingly leavened tho whole rising generation, and both male and female now assert their right to breathe an atmosphere of absolutejindependence, and snap their fingers at the parental authority of any degree or descrip tion whatever. In the case of girls of all classes and conditons, the re sult is a most deplorable and dam aging one. It has been remarked by strangers to our city that the behavior of girls in the r teens on' our streets is very brazen and unac countable. They can be seen late at night trooping around in their short dresses, aud smiling and smirking in the most maudlin way at the well dressed, long-coated, cigarette-stain ed statues who disgrace the street corners and themselves for the pur pose of catching the glances of these same little girls. The characters i : r ii. e i i n uc ui me lcmaie uooaiums are a quick walk, the hair pulled down over the forehead, and cut off square JiKe tue shock ot a Washoe Indian squaw, and a complexity of attire that is tar beyond their age and ca pacify to -jarry. It is no crreat troub le to pick them out, and the only thing that will bewilder the curious observer is the number to be met with. To study the species properly onemust be abroad on their field-days Daumiay ana Sunday. San Fran cisco Chronicle. "I am willing to risk my reputa tion as a public man," wrote Edward liine to the Liverpool Mercioi, "if the worst case of small-pox cannot be cured in three days, simply by tue use ot cream of tartar. One ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in a pint of water, drank at intervals. when cold, is a certain, never-failing remedy. It has cured thousands, never leaves a mark, never causes blindness, and avoids tedious linger ing. It is reported that the Steilacoora Express is about to suspend publication. NO. 6. Grumbling About Newspapers. Grumbling about n .fopapersajS the Boston Traveler, is as ancient as newspapers themselves. And not withstanding the multiplication of these modern conveniencs and the sleepless efforts of publishers to adapt their papers to every variety of taste and every grade of sentiment, affording, one might think, ample opportunity for readers to suit them selves perfectly yet there is still, perhaps, as much grumbling about newspapers as there ever was. We suppose it does not' often occur to the grumblers that possibly they themselves may bs at fault,-may be' unreasonable, may expect impossi bilities, may be out of humbr, may have a fit of indigestion or spleen, or may be stupid or unappreciative. It may never occur to them that the men who toil night and day to fur nish them with the latest news and the greatest variety of information and entertainment, are mortal, and sometimes tire themselves, and get sleepy and cross and stujiid, and for-" getful and careless, and need and deserve, too, some consideration and sympathy from those for whom they unceasingly work. Fault finding readers do not con sider that everything that is made by human brains and human hands must, of necessity, be im2erfect, however strong the desire and how ever earnest the efforts to have it faultless. And above all they forget that a newspaper cannot be made for general circulation acd yet, in every thing, exactly suit any one personV A thoroughly good, enterprising newspaper is really like a well-spread table. It contains variety as well as quantity; something for every taste and enough of each kind to satisfy any reasonable appetite. It is not expected that any guest of a table should eat of every dish jirovided. It is not supposed for a moment that every dish will be palatable to every guest or agree with every one's di gestion; but it is thought. and rea sonably, too, that from the abundant bill of fare every guest can select enough that will be digestible and agreeable to make a substantial and satisfactory meal. Just so it is' with every well edited newspaper. No man is expected to read everything in the paper, or to like everything if he reads it; but every man i- expect ed ;to find enough that is good and useful and acceptable and agreeable in the ample columns spread out be fore him, to be a full equivalent for' what the paper costs; aud if he hap pens to find on the carte an article which offends his taste, or is in op position to his views, he has just to let that alone and leave it for another. whom it will just suit, and for whose taste it was gotten up. In choosincr his i:aper one should do just as he does in choosing his restaurant; he should select one whose general style suits him, and when his taste changes or the paper deteriorates, he should change and try another: but never fret himself or vex his neighbors by grumbling and scolding about his newspaper which, after all. is just about as necessary to hi? comfort as his dinner. Exclling Incident at Seiu ner Majesty's ship Tenedos is homeward bound, after four years in the Pacific station. On July 20th, according to the English newspa pers, she was making for the Gulf of Peuas, when the gale sprang up, which made Cape Tresmontes on lee shore, loward night it moderated. and Captain Pollard, before turning in lor the night ordered hres to be banked, and the ship to proceed un der topsail. She went spinning on at nine knots an hour, the shore be ing supposed to be thirty miles dis tant. About two in the morning, Lieutenant Graham, officer of the watch, roused the Captain, saying he felt uneasy, and asking if the course should be changed, or steam got up. Captain Pollard, however, ordered to keep on the same course until four o'clock. Soon afterward land was sighted close under the lee bow. The helm was instantly ported, and the ship was answering excellently, when the lookout man shouted, "Breakers on starboard bow." Lieu tenant Graham rushed forward,and through the intense darkness saw a gigantic rock, right ahead, about live hundred yards away. It was in stantly seen that he could not clear it by passing toward the open sea, and whether there was any channel between the rock and the mainland, could not even be guessed. To ven ture this was the only chance, how ever', and Graham, without one mo ments, reflection, had to act. He shouted, "Helm hard starboard, square yards clear lower deck, call the captain." Every order was obey ed with lightning alacrity, and there ensued a few moment's of intense excitement and suspense. On rush ed the Tenedos, apparently to certain destruction. Less than a minute af ter, she swept through a narrow channel, almost grazing the huge rock on one side, and within a hun dred yards of the mainland on the other. As ten score men rushed up from below, and saw how narrowly they had escaped destruction, even hardy sailors burst into teais, and Lieutenant Graham was overwhelmed with thanks and congratulations. It is estimated that there are now in the United States, no less than 800 paper mills, which are valued at $10,000,000 of capital invested, with a total production of $70,000,000. These mills give employment nomin ally to 20,000 people, whos-e earnings are footed up at $10,000,000 annual ly. Seattle is to have a literary society, and everybody is expected to speak in poetry. O o o o o o c o o o o o ,o o o O G o o o o