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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.
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