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girt- - f ... VOL. 11. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1876. NO. ' " : H Y ' ? . . jT tj tz 7 0'-' i SJj DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. 10. o THE ENTERPRISE. "a local newspaper FOR THE Firmer, Business Man, and Family Circle. ISSUED EVERV FRIDAY. ritOI'KIETOK AND PUBLISH BK. OFFICIAL PAPER FDR CLACKAMAS COUJiTY. OFFICE In En'Tekj'kise Buildins:, one door south of Masonic Building, Main street. Term of Mubxorlpt Ion : Single copy, one year, in advance $2 50 ijiugle copy, six months, in advance 1 50 TrrniN of.4dvertiiiie: Transient advertisements, including All le-:il notices, per square of twelve lines, one week $ 2 50 For each subsequent insertion 1 00 one column, one year 120 00 Half " " 00 Quarter " " 40 00 B isiness Card, one square, one year.. . 12 00 SOCIETY NOTICES. oki:gox loihji:, x. a, i. i. O. F., meets every Thursday even in"', at 7i o'clock, in the Odd Fel lows' Hall, Main street. Members of the Order are invited to attend. Uy order of N. O. i:i;m:ccA No. 2. I. O. O. F. di:gkee lodge, meets on the Seeo nd and Fourth Tuesday jj?'j; evenings or each month, at T f :w ft ry II lit l IV, 1U me uuu i tiiunfi linn. Members of the Degree are invited to attend. MULTNOMAH LODGE, No. A.F. ic A. M., holds its regular com- munieations on the First and Third Saturdays in each month, nt 7 o'clock fiomthe20lu of fceptemter to the 20th of March: and 7a o'clock from the 20th of March to the 20th of September. Brethren in good standing are invited to at tend. By order of W. M. FALLS j;NCAMl3IKNT, No. 4, I. O. O. F., meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the first and Third Tuesday of each month. Patriarchs in good stand ing are invited to attend. J. W. NORMS, 1 li y i c i 4i ii and Snrgcon. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE : On Fourth Street, at foot of Cliff Stairway. tf CHAS. KNIGHT, CAMIY, ... OKK;0, Physician and Druggist. Prescriptions notice. carefully filled at short ja7-tf PAUL BOYCE, M. D., Physician and Surgeon,' Okegox City, Oregon. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Office houra day and night; always ready when duty calls. " Aug. 25, '70-tf DR. JOHN WELCH, TP. "NT r-n t c; n-1 tS- ID OFFICE IX oiti:a CITY, ORKGOX. Iliirhest cash price paid for County orders. JOHNSON & McGOWN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law. OKCa CITY, OK ECS ox. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Special attention given to cases in the U. S. Land Office at Oregon City. 5aprlS72-tf L. T. BARIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OKECSOW CITY, OKEWOX. Will practice in all the State. Courts of the Nov. 1, 1875-tf W. H. HIGHFIELD, 0Zsta.taisli.ed. sian.ee One door North of Pope's Hall, IAI5f NT., UKEUOV, CITY OBF.fiOX. (3 An assortment of watches, Jewelry, Wj and Seth Thomas' Weight Clocks, all tV. . .-1 of which are warranted to be as repre sented. Jj7Kepairing done on short notice; and thankful for past patronaire. CwmIi pwhl for Comity Ordtrw. JOHN M . BACON , 0 FtFl Books, Stationery, b2b: PICTURE FRAMES. MOULDINGS AND MISCELLANEOUS GOODS, xa-i-xs to oist:x:23.. Okegox Citv, Okegox. ?7At the side. Post Office, Main Street, east novl-'7.-tf IMPERIAL MILLS. Lallwque, Savier & Co., OK EG OS CITY. Keep constantly on hand for sale Flour, Middlings, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties purchasing feed must furnish the sack. J. H. SHEPARD, Boot and Shoe Store, One door north of Ackerman Bros. I-?7Boots and Shoes made aud repaired as cheap as the cheapest. Nov. 1, 1875-tf MILLER, CHURCH & CO. J)AY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR At all times, at the OHKGO.V CITV And have on hand FEED and FLOUR to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring Feed roust furnish sacks. novl2-tf TO FRUIT-GROWERS. rrHE ALDEN FRUIT PRESERVING -A- Company of Oregon City will iay the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PLUMS, PEARS and APPLES. ri?r' ?hos. Charman is authorized to pur CUase the Company. TUf. L. D. C. LATOUKETTE, Pres't. Ore Liity, July 28, 1875-tf OREGON CITY BREWERY. HENRY nUMBEL, II :'i-NG DUrcliat-Bil the abovefeii public r."" -orewerv w.i to inform ther" 'urea No I quality of w nreoared to manuluc In the vraers solicited and promptly filled. 1, s 41 do lour test. The heart and mind of man to man Must differ, it is true, And so the deed ourneighbor does Perchance we ne'er could do; And thus, in climbing fortune's height . To reach the fame in store, . If people only do their best, The world will ask no more. Does then the little humming bird Its tender song forsake. Because the nightingale's sweet voice May softer music make? Or does the tiny, twinkling star, Vhich lends to earth its light, Repine because some kindred orb May chance to burn more bright? And so thro' life we And that some Are clad in praise and fame, While others meekly plod along, With naught to gild their name; But when each life is recon'd up, Its doings counted o'er, If we can saj "I did my best," Our God will ask no more. A". O. Picayune. A Double Harvest. : A farmer sat at his kitchen door, Smoking his noonday pipe, And over the fields his ej-es were cast, Where the grain so golden ripe, Nodded away Through the summer day, With shadows and sunshine hard at play. Down by the gate the farmer saw (And he chuckled low in glee) Two, who whispered together there; "So!" said the farmer; "I see! If I guess aright, And their skies are bright, There'll be harvesting soon with main and mijrht." The weeks went b', and the old barn groaned With the might of harvest store; But the farmer laughed, for well he knew There remained one harvest more, Since Cupid had sown, With grain of his own, A crop that love must harvest alone. The farmer sat at his kitchen door, When the evening meal was done, And he laid a kiss on his daughter's brow, ' And welcomed his new-found son; And the harvest time, With wedding bells chime, Sang its lays into merry rhyme. Some Experiments with Fire. BY M. QUAD. I knew him for months and months, and yet I did not know his name. I called him "Spon " and he answered to it as readilv as he would have answered to any other. He was small of stature, bent with aire, and his scanty locks were as white as snow. Most men took him to be a beggar, or some old man waiting to die. When I came to know him l tounu tnat he naa a little old shop on a quiet street, and that he had not a relation on earth. I cannot name the shop. It was not a tailor-shop, or a shoe-shop, or a junk shop, and yet it was all three, and lie kept herbs and medicines besides. No one liked him, and yet all respected him. He was re serven, ana yet ne was tree to answer questions. He gave his history to all honest inquirers, and yet they really learned nothing about him. Such was my strange old man. One night a fire broke out in a building de signed for a drug store. The store was furnished with walnut shelving and coun ters, and pine ceiling. Everything had been oiled and some of it varnished, and the store would have been occupied in another week. The fire was under good headway when discovered, and the whole interior was burned out. "What caused it?" I asked a .fireman after the flames had been extinguished "Some one set fire to it," he answered "It you say that you lie! cried a strange voice, and we looked up and tuunu my strange oiu man. lnat was our introduction. I laughed at him, but he maintained such a serious look that my curiosity was aroused and 1 inquired: "Why do you say thatf ' "Come with me," he answered, and he would not let go my arm until we stood at the door of his little old shop. We went in and sat down, and presently he commenced "It was neither accident nor incendia rism. There was no stove there to drop a spark, and doors and windows were locked agaiust incendiaries. It was siin ply acase ofspontaneous combustion. The light, dry woods were soaked with oil, the tioor covered with rags and shavings, and not even a pane of crlass out to ventilate the room." I was not a believer in spontaneous combustion, and I made lijrht of his re marks. "Come here to-morrow and I will con vince you," he answered, and after some further discussion I went away. He had spoken of spontaneous combustion; I named him "Spon." He was old; I called him "Old Spon." Old Spon was a character for a sketch, aud hoping to hud him lull ot anecdote and adventure, and smiling at the ab surdity of his theory, I called at his shop the next day as requested. He was ready for me, and he took up the subject at once. "I amroinr to reproduce that drug W 7 ft store," he said, pointing around the room "Here is a box. shavinss, oil and rags. Let me prove to you that it does not need tire to make fire." He had some fine walnut and pine shav- inrs. and some bits of drv board. He noured boi ed linseed oil and a little var- " i - - .. .. nr. nn thpsp. somi? morn on the ra.rs. and then nailed all un in a starch-box. "This is the drug store," he said, as he placed it on the counter, and you shall hnvp nn pvn anatinn ot the nre. It is . r . I I . 1 " . now noon: come nere ai y o ciock. una pvpninrr. T wont nwav and almost forcct him until fivenino-. When I reached his shop - J o in anlrita ond' hia fapR wore bland fimile. "Put your hand on the box," he said. I obeyed, and to mv rret snrnrisn found it warm almost hot. "You will have to wait an hour." he continued as we sat down: "combustion l -a uas already commenced. ' bo it had. There was a smell of burn ing cotton and heated wood, and within fif teen minutes alter my arrival smoke poured rrom ine box and was soon followed by flame. I could not take his word that he had not meddled with the box. and each little jet of flame leaping from the box was a theory in itself to support the main tneory. x ou may receive it as a fact that, when oil and shavings and rags come together, a fire will result," he said. "Had I not allowed the box to stand here in the draft the flames would have consumed it two hours ago." W ithin the next week we repeated the I same experiment, with the same result, and we produced spontaneous combus-1 tion with oiled shavings alone and then 1 with oueu rags, bince that time 1 have witnessed three fires in buildings which originated from oiled rags. Two of these were in paint stores, where the rags had been thrown in a heap on the floor, and the third was in a grocery store, where oil had accidentally been spilled on a heap of paper rags. The shop or factory or store which does not provide an iron chest for its greasy rags will sooner or later suiter trom hre. One day, not long after our first experi ments, I met Old Spon on the street and we walked together. We passed by an old house which had just been converted into a store room for the reception of paper rags, and a large lot was just then being taken in. The old man looked into the building, then carefully noted the windows, and as he walked on he said: "They are building a bonfire there" "How?" I asked. "Every pane of glass is in place, the doors shut tightly, and there is no escape tor the heat engendered by the rags," he replied. "It they do not secure ventil ation, the building will burn within a week !" He was right. On the third night after ! that a close, sultry night the old house was discovered to be on fire. The fire men gathered so promptly that the build ing was not greatly damaged, and they called it an incendiary fire. Old Spou was on hand and we found the identical sack in which combustion occurred a sack containing several pieces of old silk, a quantity of paper and many pieces of old cotton. The flame had run up the side of the house and shown itself before half the sack was consumed, and we could trace it as easily as any one may trace the course of a highway. About a month alter this I had business in a large picture frame factory. I met Old Spon at the corner, and while 1 was in the factory office the old man went "mousing" through the various depart ments. Returning, he said to the super intendent: "It vour men are not more caret ul you will burn out here some day." "How why?" asked the official. Old Spon led us to the room where the oil-finished frames were being finished up. It was a small, close room; the floor was spattered with oil; scores of oiled frames were hanging on the walls; there was a bushel or more of oiled rags on the floor and benches. "We never have a stove here, even in winter," said the superintendent, as he looked around. 4,Each one of those rags is a stove," re plied the old man. "I he windows are up now and the hot air has a chance to es- cape, but put them down and spontane- ous combustion will fire the factory with in six hours." The superintendent smiled contemptu ously as he turned to me, and on the way out he wanted to know if my old'friend was not an escaped lunatic To follow this case through, I will add that, one cold day in October, the em ployees of the finishing room put down the windows and left them down when they went home at six o clock. At ten o'clock in the evening an alarm of fire was turned in from the factory, and the flames created damage to the amount of ,000 before being conquered. One could trace the origin of the fire directly to the finishing room. That room was all ablaze before anv other portion of the factory was touched. The cynical super intendeut became a believer in spontane ous combustion, and the oiled rags are now thrown into iron boxes for the night A case in which spontaneous combus tion couiu ue more cieariy traced soon occurred. A woman used a piece of old cotton and some linseed oil to brighten up the table of her sewing machine. Through her carelessness the rag after- wards found its way into the basket of soiled clothes, which was kept in a close closet. That night, within six hours after placing the rag in the closet, the house became filled with the smoke, and an in vestigation proved that the clothes-basket was on fire. OldSpon was delighted when be heard of the incideut. Thi3 made the third case of spontaneous combustion from oiled rags, and he was preparea to prove that rags alone would ignite under certain condi tions. He .vent to a paper dealer's and selected several pounds of rags, some flannel, some cotton, some silk and a few bits ot" velvet, as a iauiily might make up a "rag-bag" in the course of three months. These rags were placed in a soap-box, which had been provided with a glass end, ami the box was placed iu the window where it had the full strength of the sun. Within two hours the glass began to grow dim,and in three hours the rags were smoking. Ave waited another hour, and then the old man made an air-hole in the! top of the box, raisea tne glass a little, I . C J 1. 1.. and a torKea tongue or name jeapeu oui of the hole and the box burned! We had indeed spontaneous combustion by shutting off ventilation, ine woolen ana the velvet had engeuderea tne neat, tne siiK natl acieu as i iciciiiauu nc wi n, 1 .1 il. ft t . . . ( ! 1 i n;1 .2. .) a 1 X7 n l a ft anu me vwiiuw, struck the spark. A lot of paper rags Jiung in a tignt I . . - . i , I closet, or piled up in a store wuere mere 1 i. no ventilation, will sooner or later start a fire. There are dealers who kuow j this, and who would as soon think of throwing a lighted match into cotton-batting as of closing the ; storage- room against ventilation. The lower sash of at least one window should be taken out during the summer, and it would be better to leave an opposite one raised a few inches, so as to secure a strong draught. A few months since some oiled rags in the basement of a Detroit picture store took fire on a hot Sunday morning nd called out the fire department, although one of the basement windows was open for ventilation. It wTas through this win dow that the smoke poured and gave the hist alarm. At the Detroit House of Correction, in December, 18T0, one of the prisoners em ployed in the chair-finishing room, piled up a bundle of oiled rags in a corner as the bell rancr for close of working hours, and at eight o'clock, only two hours after, the shop wa3 fired by spontaneous coni- bush on and several thousand dollars dam acre done. The room was close, contained nianv chairs lust finished, and as soon as the rags were piled and packed together the foundation was laid for a destructive conflagration The Detroit Car and Manufacturing Work, during a period of three , years, had three fires from spontaneous com bustion, each fire being traced to oiled rags, lhat establishment is now pro vided with iron boxes for storage of rags, and on one occasiou a fire took place in one of these boxes, the result of spontane- ombustion, and burned up all the rags. About two years ago, one winter even g, the watchman at the Michigan Cen tral Railroad car shops, located a short distance below the company's passenger depot in the city of Detroit, passed through the pattern and wood shop ana found everything safe and quiet. Fifteen minutes later he was alarmed by the smell of smoke, and while mounting the stair leading to the second story ot the shop, the flames burst out in one end and the entire shop was destroyed within an hour. A pattern-maker had used some oil and a rag just before six o'clock to oil a pattern just finished, and he had prob ably fluug the rag among the shavings. There was no stove in that end of the shop, smoking was prohibited, aud no one had a doubt that the conflagration was brought about through the medium of that oiled rag. But spontaneous combustion does not depend upon the presence of oiled rags and shavings. Three or four years ago, at seven o'clock in the eveuing, the front windows, blinds, glass and tsash, of a De troit wholesale dry coods h )use were blown into the street with a noise like the rumble of thunder, and the store was ablaze in an instant. The porter left the store an hour before the explosion and" a policeman tried thedoorsnot ten minutes previously. The gas had all been turned oil the steam pipes were nearly cold, and there was no light around the fetore. there was no smell ot eras, no oils nor fluids inside, and it was a wonder to most minds how the fire caught. The house had an immense stock of dry goods, and when closed for the night the store was like a dry-kiln. The heat thrown out by the goods was like gas, and finally became powerful enough to force its way out. A rna-Hrrlif ur.ia Ikllrm'rrr in f rr n t unA wtipn the hot air struck this the fire traveled back into the store like a flash of light ning. The very same thing occurred soon after at another store on another street, and the circumstances pointed so stroUgly to spontaneous combustion as the ageut that each fire was recorded under that heading in the record-book of the fire department. My old friend made another experi ment. Procuring a bottle ot liquid "war ranted to remove grease, piiuter's ink, etc.," from any sort of fabric, he exhaust ed the contents in pouring them over cot ton rasrs and pieces of worsted dress were placed in a box, a3 ladies would hang their dresses in a closet, and iu less than five hours the box was on fire. The liquid contained turpentine, and perhaps benzine, aud was almost as dangerous as gunpowder. Bits of cloth saturated with liquids no doubt often find their way into paper rag sacks, and in time they are al most certain to become the agents ot a disastrous conflagration. It is claimed and denied with equal vehemence that steam-pipes are ana are not the agents of conflagrations. My old friend and I have made more than a score of experiments, with varvinsr success. Where steam-pipes ran along a well-vec- tuated room we have placed bits ot cottou and paper on them and left them there for weeks, to lift them up unscorched by con tact. Again, where the pipes ran along a brick wall, unbroken by windows tor a long distance, and where the room was close, we have scorched pine blocks as black as tar in two days. We have never succeeded in producing actual fire,but have heated the blocks to such a degree that they could not be held in the hand. In a factory where there is much dust and I poor ventilation, a bit of iron can be made so hot by leaving it on the steam pipe for a while that it will start a fire auioug shavings or rags if knocked off". Steam- heating is doubtless the safest method of warming factories, stores and dwellings, but it has its dangers unless ventilation is provided tor. Ihere is warmth and heat there, and it is warmth and heat which paves the way for a blaze. The inougnnessness 01 an employe in drop ping an oily rag or a handful of shavings upon steam pipes or m close proximity, my not bum the building to-in or row, but a conflagration will sooner or later come. Uelroit tree 1'ress. A carpenter, who was always prorrnos ticating evil to himself, was one day upon the roof of a five-story building upon which rain had fallen. The roof being slippery ,he lost his footing,and as he was descending towards the eaves, he ex claimed, "Just as I told you !" Catching, however, on an iron spout, he kicked off his shoes, and reg-tined a place of safety, when he thus delivered himself: "I kuowed it; there's a pair of shoes gone." Always ready to take the fetump The dentist. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, Diseases of Our Own Causing. On an average, one-half of the num ber of out-patients treated by a hospital- burgeon sutler trom diseases due pri marily to a want of knowledge of the laws of health and cleanliness. 1. The ignorance of hygienic laws, which affects so disastrously the health of the rich as well as the poor, exists chiefly in regard to dress, ablution, and ventilation. This statement may, at first, appear startling, but an enumeration of the diseases that can be constantly traced to the above causes will show upon how sound a basis the statement rests. The following are ex amples: Varicose ulcers from dress; skin-diseases from want of cleanliness; chest-diseases and fevers from defective ventilation. The vast number of uleer ated legs treated in the out-patient de partment of hospitals, in workhouse in firmaries, and in private practice, arise from varicose veins. Now, a varicose ul cer is caused by a distended condition of the veins of the leg, which have to sus tain the pressure of the blood caused by gravitation. In varicose veins, the valves which help to support the col umn of blood are to a great extent destroyed, through the veins having been distended by mechanical obstruction to the free return of the blood from the ex tremities, thereby distending the lower veins and separating the edges of the valves. Thus, the weight of an uniu terrupted column has to be borne by the veins. This, of course, causes further distention, eivinsr rise to coasestion of the capillaries of the skin, and causing swelling, eczema, and ultimately ulcer ation. This is the varicose ulcer so com mon in the laboring classes. It is always difficult to heal, and often impossible, except by prolonged rest in bed. Hence it is the dread of the surgeon, aud the cause of misery to thousands. Varicose ulcers are seldom admitted into general lospitals, so that hundreds of poor fam ilies are driven to the workhouse, and such cases form a maiority in the work- louse infirmary. The most frequent and flagrant cause of obstruction is the or dinary elastic gaiter. Children should never wear them at all, as the stockings can be perfectly well kept up by attach ment of elastic straps to the waistband. garters are worn, it is important to know how to apply them with the least risk of harm; at the bend of the knee the superficial veins of the leg unite, and go deeply into the under part of the thigh beneath the ham-string tendons, lhus ligature below the knee obstructs all the superficial veins, but if the constric tion is above, the ham-string tendons keep the pressure off" the veins which re turn the blood from the legs; unfor tunately, most people, in ignorance of the above facts, apply the garter below the knee. Again, in nine out ot ten laboring men, we find a piece of cord or a buckled strap tightly applied below the knee, for what reason I could never learn. Elastic bands are the most in jurious, ihey iollow the movements or the muscles, and never relax their pres- sure on the veins. jNon-eiastic uanus durinj; muscular exertion become con siderably relaxed at intervals, and allow treer circulation ot the blood. Thomas Bond,in Popular Science MontJdy. Little Children. Children are the poetry of the world the fresh flowers of our hearts and homes little conjurors, with their "natural magic," evoking by pells what delights and enriches all ranks, and equalizes the different classes of society. Otten as they bring with them anxieties and cares, and live to oc casion sorrow and grief, we should get on very badly without them. Only think if there was never anything any where to be seen but grown-up men and women, how we should long tor the sight of a little child. Every infant comes iuto the world like a delegated prophet, the harbinger and herald of good tidings, whose office is "to turn the hearts ot the tattrers to tne cnuaren, and draw "the disobedient to the just." A child softens and purifies the heart, warming and melting it by its gentle presence; it enriches the soul" by new feelings, and awakens within it what is favorable to virtue. It is a beam of light, a fountain of love, a teacher whose lessons lew can resist. Infants recall us from much that engenders and encourages selfishness, that freezes the affections, roughens the manners, indurates the heart; they brighten the borne, deepen love, invigorate exertion, infuse courage, and vivify and sustain the charities of life. Salt Beef. To salt beef for Ion keeping, first, thoroughly rub salt into it and let it remain iubulk for twenty-four hours, to draw off the blood ; second, take up, letting it drain, and pack as de sired ; third, have ready a brine pre pared as follows: For one hundred pounds of beef, uses seven pounds of silt; saltpetre and cayenne, each one ounce; treacle, oae quirt; soft water, eight gal lons. Boil and skim well, and when cold pour it over the beef. Soap Makiso. A farmer says: After the family soap has been rm.de in the sprin', the grease that accumulates and laid aside during the summer otten gets maggoty. To avoid this, the following is a good plan : Have a kettle full of lye, and throw all baon riuds, etc., into this kettle, and when fall comes you will be surprised at the nice lot of soft soap you will have; and even it a rat falls in, will be changed into soap just the same. A Child's Bed. A child's bed should slope a little from the head to the foot, so that the head may be a little higher than the feet. But never bend the neck to get the head on a pillow. This makes the child round-shouldered, cramps the veins and arteries, and inteferes with the free circulation of the blood. Even when the child is several years old, the pillow should be thin, and made of hair, not leathers. Milk for Bowel Cosiplaixt. The London Milk Journal says that a pint o milk heated a little, but not boiled, taken every four hours, will check . the most violent diarrhoea, stomach ache, incipient cholera and dysentery. Mary Miller. The Detroit police are ahead again. Mary Miller, the most notorious and successful shop-lifter in the United States, was captured in this city yesterday by Superintendent -Rogers and Detective John B. Stadler, almost in the very act of plying her culling. For a long time the police of New York, Boston, Chicago, and, in fact, most ot the large cities in the East, West and JNorthwest have been on the watch for this woman, but she proved too clever for tliem uutu she invaded Michigan. A few years ago she was taken in Grand Ripids for theft and sentenced to the Detroit House of Correction for three years. She served her time and afterward went to St. Paul, from which point she carried on her operations until her cap ture in this city yesterday. She is said to be the leader of an or ganized gang whose ramifications extend from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and the police cherish a legend that during her career of crime Mrs. Miller has per sonally stolen and disposed of upwards of 150,000 worth of goods. "Why," said Superintendent Rogers yesterday in conversation with a reporter of the Free Press, "this woman is the smartest thief in America. She will go into any wholesale dry goods house and get away with $500 worth of goods in a day. Fact. She has actually been known to do it, and that, too, right in the face and eyes of men especially employed to watch her." "When did she arrive in Detroit?" in quired the reporter. "Wednesday noon." "How did you know she was here?" "O, we have a way of posting ourselves as to the movements of such distinguished characters, and not one of them has ever tumbled to the way in which we get on to them." "Have you a picture of the Miller?" persisted the reporter. ".No, we haven't one just now (with a sly twinkle), but we hope to have one be fore long'.' "Has she been operating in Detroit?" "I should rather think so. Just step into my office and 1 11 show you." The reporter followed the Chief into the inner sanctum at headquarters, and there saw spread out on a table dry goods enough to till an ordinary sized packing trunk. They were laid off in neat little piles, and upon further inquiry the re porter learned that the entire lay-out had been stolen by Mrs. Miller in this city within twenty-four hours after her arrival, the victims being Edson, Moore & Co., Chas. Root & Con and J. K. Burn ham & Co. The plunder which belongs to Edscn, Moore & Co. consists of twenty-five boxes of sewing-silk, five pieces of veil goods and several smaller articles. The Chas. Root & Co. pile includes five pieces of silk binding and a whole piece of mo hair dress goods. At J. K. Burnham fc Co.'s she had gathered in a large quantity of lace, two pieces of inserting, half a dozen baby bibs, a lot of silk handker chiefs and mufflers, four pieces of braid, and several articles of fine underwear. "Tell me," said the reporter, "how you managed to catch so clever a thief." "Well, I'll tell you the whole story and you can do what you like with the facts," replied the Chief. "We have been on the lookout tor this woman some time. Wed nesday night Mr. Stadler aud I learned that she had arrived, and our first step was to ascertaiu whether her visit here meant business or not. We soon louau out that she was stopping at the Franklin House, an.d that she had what the fly cops call a "stall" with ber. By "stall" is meant in this case Mrs. Miller's son, a young man of good appearance, who per sonates the country .merchaut in want of a stock of goods. . Their mode of work ing a town is bold and simple, and only the most expert shoplifters succeed on this plan. Tiiey first get their eyes on a number of wholesale houses, lhe old woman wears a dress in which is a pocket (or a cavern you might more appropriate ly call it), of at least two-bushel capac ity. Over this dress she wears a long wa terproof cloak, and tor that reason she usually selects rainy or threatening weath er for her heaviest veutures, in order that no suspicion may attach to her style of dress. 'Her son, who, you remember, is the country merchant, goes with her iuto a wholesale house, exhibits his memoran aa 01 goous wanted, ana wuiie ne en- iges the salesman in conversation or in exhibiting goods, the old woman employs herselt in stowing away valuable articles; and you may be very sure she makes the most of her time, as witness the results of to-day's work." "I see you know her method, but please to tell me the exact manner of her cap ture," said the interlocutor. "Well, as I it am .ted before, we felt morally certain that whe had come to De troit on a business expedition, and when we saw her and her son coming out of Edson, Moore & Co.'s about noon we knew they had finished their morning's work So Stadler and I started leisurely toward the r rankhn House. The Millers went up Jefferson avenue to Randolph street aud down Lamed street toward the hotel We met them on Larned, between Bates aud Randolph. I interviewed the mother while Stadler paid his addresses to the son." . "What did they say when you made known your business? "The youngster blustered indignantly, but the old womau took in the situation with the philosophy of the veteran she is, and held her tongue." "Did you let them go to the hotel?" "Xo. We took them directly to the Central Station. I told Mr9. Miller to disgorge. She wanted to know how we kuew her name, but fiually concluded that inasmuch as we were acquainted with it it would be of no use to stand off. She turned out the Edson, Moore & Co. plunder you see here, acknowledged her calling and identity, and was led off to a cell, where she will be kept until taken before the Police Justice. Tne son will also be held and a joint complaint will be made against them." "Where did you find the plunder taken from the other stores?" "That was stowed away in her room at the hotel. You see everv time she made a haul she went to her room and unload ed, and that accounts for the fact that w o only found on her person the goods last stolen." "How does she manage to dispose so much property?" "Why, she has "fences" (buyers stolen property) all over the country. of of It is possible she may have intended to dis pose of her Detroit harvest right here. I am not sure as to that; but the plan she has usually pursued is to go on stealing until sue has a trunkl nil and then ship it to some one of her numerous fences. She never stays in a town longer than two or three days at most, and in nine cases in ten she is hundreds of miles away before the merchants discover their losses." "One would naturally conclude that she is now in a fair way to renew her former acquaintance with the House of Correc tion," said the reporter. "Y-e-s; the case has a leaning that way," replied the Chief, with an affec tionate glance at his array of "evidence" on the table. Detroit Free Press. Woman's Love. There i3 a morbid sentiment in society. that, in a kind of an abstract manner, crlMri fia a iTrpnf rrimtnul anil lio wHr can boast of "one virtue and a thousand crimes," has a hold upon the memory of the public that can not easily be shaken off. In like manner the plebeian boor who burned the Temple of Diana was more famous than the royal architect who reared it. An instance in point was the marriage in Council Bluffs yesterday of "Sandy," alias George Melville, whose swindling games and greater crimes, and his frequent marvelous escapes from death by bullet and halter, have made him famous throughout the entire West. Bewitched by the fatalities that have al ways followed the man, discovering some good points that gleamed out of his dark career of crime, and admiring in him those very qualities that have made him an outcast iu society, a woman has fol lowed him, often with her presence, al ways with her love, and yesterday she sealed the c jmp;ict existing between them by niarrjing h.m under tne most humil iating circumstances. To thase who have not the prior knowl edge of him, Siudy will be remembered by the people of this commuuiiy by his attempt with Clinton to swindle an old mm by selling a lot of spurious gjld coins iu exchange for greenbacks. It will be remembered that the men were both arrested and were tried before the United States Commissioner at Council Bluffs, anL "Saudy" sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the Iowa Peniten tiary. While awaiting trial, or rather white beiug conducted, to the Justices' Court for the preliminary examination, Sandy attempted to escape from the offi cer, in two different instances, and was bhot at and hie by the officer, ia the latter case beiug wounded so badly that it was reported that he could not recover. As these troubles collected around Sandy, the love ot the woman who has at lasc married him, jjrew stronger, and she haunted the jail like a spectre, finally gaining the permission of the officer, she entered and nursed biin through the hour' when his life was despaired of, and at last when the stern decree of the law in terposed its edict, and declared that they should b separated by the stronger, firm er bars of the State Penitentiary, the woman sought and obtained the privilege of the officers to marry him before he was taken from her. The necessary arranfje-. ments were inade, and the two fctrangety matched beings were married in the Jan, the ceremony oeing performed by a Jus tice of the Peace, lhe witnesses were the prisoners, who were ordered to remain as the rear end of the hall, and a few per sons who were permitted to look inside through the grates ot the jront door. It was a queer spectacle, and shows what a womau will do lor tne man sne loves. There was Saudy, alias Melville, or as she claims Melody, beiug the name under which he was married, just ready to be shackled, preparatory to starting lor Fort Madison, wuere he is to serve a term of live years' imprisonment. Tnere was a woman, young, and of attractive appear auce, ctiugiug to a criminal, willing aud auxious to bear his name and share with, him ail the obloquy attached thereto. But then such ia woman's nature, and such has it always been lroui the time of Eve. As they stood -there assuming the obligations of the marriage vow, the thought was well defined in each mind how different it would have been had the relation of the parties been reversed, and the woman the criminal instead of the man. The chances are, in a case of that kind, that the man, even if he had been the cause of committing the crime, would have deserted her iu tne last extremity, and left her to bear her disgrace aio.ie, aud probably have felt a secret joy that he was able to place the blame all on her. Onaha Herald. Turkish Princesses Choosing Hus bands. The Paris Temps states that the husbauds of the Pi iueesesof the imperial houssof Turkey are kuown by "the gen eric name of Diuiats." A Da.ua at is gen erally a young Bey of good family, to whose appearauce a princess takes a fancy, for these ladies have the agreeable privilege of choosing their lords, and it is one which is u.it uufrtqaently exercised, greatly to the mortification of the latter. "I could cite an iustauce,"says the writer, "where a very haut'soine young man was .rightfully disgus.ed at being pitched upon by a Priucess of thirty summers, whose blear eyes had a diabolical aspect." Bat appeal or reaistancj was useless. Ha had to sui render. The compensation lies in appointments aud allowances. Live for Something. Do good, and leave behind y.m a mjnument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write vour name in kindness, love and mercy,- on hearts of thousands yon com J in cmtact with year by year; you will never bd forgotten. No, your nime, your dtftd- will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as tn stars of heaven. Chalmers. i V fir UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,