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OltlHiON
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lows' Hall, Maiu street. Members rxT
oi tne (Juier areinvitea to attend.
By order of N. G.
KKISKCCA DliUltEi: LODGE,
No. 2, I. O. O. F., meets on the frsiirM,
Second and Fourth Tuesday JT 'MIy
evenings of each month, at n- '
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J. W. NORRIST
I It y u i c i a 11 and Surgeon.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE :
On Fourth Street, at Toot of Cliff Stairwav
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CHAS. KNIGHT,
CAXBY, ... OttECiOX.
Physician and Druggist.
Z$f Prescriptions carefully tilled at short
notice. ja7-if
PAUL BOYCE, M. D.,
1 Ii y m i c i a 11 and Surgeon,
Okeoon ClTV, OltEGO.V.
Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Women
and Children a specialty.
Otlloe hours day and uight; always ready
when duty calls. . Aug. 25, '?i-tf
DR. JOHN WELCH,
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OFFICE IX
ORF.OOX CIXY, OREGON
Highest cash price paid for County orders,
JOHNSON & McCOWN,
Attorneys ani Counselors at Law
OHKtiOJ' CITY, OUKUOX.
Will practice in all the Courts of the State.
special attention given to cases in the U. S,
Land Office at Oregon City. 5a prl 872-t f
L.T. BARING-
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
opicuox city. oi(t:vo.
ill -practice ia all the Courts of the
State. Nov. 1, lSTo-tf
WH. HIGHFIELD,
ZZsa,lbiisle:3. since
One door North of Pope's Hall,
MAIS T., HF.(JO, CITY Olti:(;0.
(f!5L An assortment of watches. Jewelry,
f:i7nd Seth Thomas Weight Clocks, all
SiiiSof which are warranted to be as repre
sented. JTKepairing done 011 short notice;
and thankful Tor past patronage.
ili pwlrt for Comity Wnlrr.
JOHN M. BACON ,
DEALER IX
Books, Stationery, 6
PICTURE FRAMES, MOULDINGS
AND MISCELLANEOUS GOODS.
Okeoon City, Okeoon.
S3TAt the Post Offlcc, Main Street, west
norl.'75-tf
IMPERIAL MILLS.
LaRocqiie, Savier & Co.,
OREliON CITY.
K"cp constantly on hand for sale Flour,
Middlings, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties
pure basing feed must furnish the sack.
J. H. SHEPARD,
Boot and Shoe Store.
One door north of Ackerman Bros.
I-Boots and Shoes made and repaired as
cheap as the cheapest.
Nov. 1, 1875-tf
MILLER, CHURCH & CO.
1)AY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR
WHEAT,
At all times, at the
OKE(i()X ClTV 31 ILLS,
And have on hand
FEED and FLOUR to
Parties desiring Feed
sell, at market rates,
must furnish sacks.
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A. G. WALLING'S
Pioneer Book Bindery,
IMttock' Building, cor. of Stark and Front ets.,
POKTLASD, OUE0!f.
BLANK BOOKS RULED AND BOUND
to any desired pattern. Music , books,
Magazines, Newspapers, etc., bound in every
variety of stvle known to the trade. " Orders
from the country promptly attended to.
novI-75-tf
OREGON CITY BREWERY.
HENRY nUMBEL, ' :
Hi
AYING purchased the above
.Brewery, wishes to inform the
public that he is dow prepared to manufac
ture a No I quality of- -
As good as can be obtained anywhere in the
State. Orders solicited and promptly filled.
Morning, Xoon," and Evening;.
She came like the morning, so fresh and so
fair,
With brow sullied neither by Borrow or care;
So gentle, so tender, angelic, and bright,
She siemed one unearthly a being of light.
Not a tigh had escaped from that bosom of
snow.
She dreamed not of sorrow, she thought not
of woe;
She knew not that men eould so faithlessly
smile,
Or the vows of a lover be prompted by guile.
I knew her as such in her morning of life,
But the noontide was passed amid sorrow
and strife ;
That form once so bright, and that face once
60 fair.
Were faded and worn by the furrows of care.
That love-beaming
eye, which with gayety
shone,
Its sweetness was left, but its brightness was
gone;
She smiled, but how alter'd, how holy, how
faint,
Once she smiled like a fairy, but now like a
saint.
I saw her again, but the struggle was past,
And the end of her sorrows drew near to the
last;
Till . .
tier 100K. was resigneu auu tier beauty so
bright,
tor a space was restored like a heavenly
light.
We deem'd that she slept, but her spirit was
flown,
The best flower of creation was perished aud
gone.
The morning was calm and the:nooutide was
wild,
But the evening of life like the sleep of a child.
The Diamond Iiinjr.
R-.xie, Hoxie, chiJl!"
' A youug girl, lovely as the
disengage! herself from the
group around her, to reply t
who called her.
mo. ning,
laughing
the lady
"Well, auntie?" she said, -with a hack-
ward toss ot the softt
and a loolc of saucy defiance out of arch,
hazel-brown eyes.
"What was that I heard you say just
now?"
Hoxie co'ored, but looked saucy still,
and laughed.
"I don't care," she said, pouting verv
becomingly the next moment; "I do like
crank lhorley, although he is pap s
clerk. I shouldn't have said so, only
Ellen Richmond was making fun of whit
she calls his assurance in dancing with me
so often to-night." ' ...
"I wouldn't dance with hini again, my
dear." . . -
"Why' not, pray?" Koxie exclaimed,
elevating her graceful eyebrows. . '
"Because you are a very pretty girl, and
he is a very handsome, impressionable
young man. You may do him much
hurm."
"H"
"Such flattering preference as you are
evincing for young Thorley'a socie'y is
ei.ough to turn any young man's head;
and coming from a girl in your position,
'o a nun in hn, is calculated to do harm.
Take my advice, Roxie; he already sees
no one in the room but you. Lavish your
witcheries on some one less liable to lose
his witsiu consequence of them."
R xie turned away from her aunt a lit
tle pettishly, anI stole "from under her
thick lashes a furtive clance in young
Thorley's direction. lie was, indeed,
watjhing her, with his heart in his hand
some eyes; aud the vain little beauty
flushed with pleasure.
It. was not long before" Prank Thorley
asked her to dance with him again.
"lie is so handsome and graceful, and
so entertaining," Roxie mued, during the
instant's hesitation. "I will dince with
him there 1"
And away she floated in airy circles.
"It can't do any harm," she continued,
witli some inward migiving, as her eyes
met auntie's mildly disapproving look, or
fell betn a'.h the impassioned aad almost
t o frankly a Jmirh.g glance of her com
panion; "of cou se ne knows I am par
ticularly kind to him, because he's papa's
clerk; and he can't be so ridiculous as to
fall in love with me really, an i it isn't
likely we shall ever be together this way
ajrain."
Miss Roxir, however, was mistaken in
her calculations. She had indulged a mo
men' ary whim, and ha i insisted upon his
attending her party.
As a consequence, somebly else in
vited him, and then somebody else, and
lie w is so handsome and ent-nta;ning
such a graceful addition to .any circle
that before the winter was over, he had
become very popular, and received more
invitations than he was able to aci-ept.
Roxie was surprised, but secretly pleased
at thi. and at the continuance ot his un
disguised and almost romantic devotion
to herself. Roxie accepted this devoticn
with occasinl reluctance, occasional
miscjivinir as t where it was to end; but
she liked it too well to lose, and was per
haps more interested at heart thin she
realized herself.
Imagine her coasternntioa when Fra:ik
Thorley a-ked her to marry him!
"I Urn sorry, F.ank," she murmured,
almost incoherently, as she dropped into
a sent.
. Thorley's eyes flashed momentarily
louve done a wicked thin". Miss
Koxie Lyle," he said.
ld man to believe -she
did me"
"If ever woman
loved him, you
Roxie stopped him there with'a haughty
gesture, and an angry, 'You forget your
self Mr. Thorley ;"-.aiid she swept impe
rially past him, back t the drawing-room.
she had quitted a moment before on his
aim.
Mr. Vincent Lyle was at the head of
one of the oldest firms in the city. He
was a man of steriiig integrity and up
rightness himself, and sternly severe upon
any dereiictioa in another. His clerks
were all liberally paid; and a young man
who could-obiain a situation, be' it ever
so sulordinate, with Lyle & Co., was con
sidered to have secured an uncommonly
good sart in life. Dishonesty or unraith-
fulness among the clerks of the firm was
rare; partly bec;u-e of the discrimination
exercised in engaging them, partly because
of the severe and summary reckoning ex
acted trom the tew orlenders.
Mr. Vincent Lyle was not inclined
therefore to deal leniently with the author
of gome small but darimr sneru'.ation
that had been going on of late. Woe to
the guilty one, when he discovered him;
and from the searching investigation he
was making, he was likely to do that s on.
The matter worried him so long it baffled
him; and he was sitting in his luxurious
library at home, pondering it, when Frank
Thorley sent in a note to him.
The merchant started, as he read, mut
tering: "Sharp fellow, Thorley. I wasn't de
ceived in him! Show him up, John."
Mr. Lyle shook hands with him warm
ly when he came in; but Thorley seemed
strangely reluctant, and not noticing the
seat the merchant ofiere i him, remained
standing on the hearth opposite, his face
pale and his eyes in an unwonted glitter.
''Glad to see you, Thorley, glad to see
you. Shan't l'org. t it if you can give me
any clew to the author of this scandalous
business," Lyle said.
"Heboid him," Frank said
whiter yet.
Mr. Lyle stared.
getting
"It was I who s'ole your money," Frank
repeated, w ith a half desperate emphasis
on the oonoxious word in the sentence.
Mr. Lyle stared incredulously a few
moments still, before he could realize the
stupendousness of the fact. He was ter
ribly angry then. The very fact that he
nail ueen so rea iv to vouch tor young
Thorley made his unfaithfulness doubly
culpable. He remembered suddenly the
gay life the young man had been leading
of late, vague rumors of which had
reached his ears, and said sternly, as soon
as he could master his voice en ugh
"It you come here, thinking to move
me to thoughts of clemency. v-u will
find yourself mistaken."
"Not for myself, Mr. Lyle," he said at
last, speaking with difficulty; "but fla
my mother's sake I do ask your clemency ;
not to retain me in your employment, but
to give me a chance to begin again some
where else."
"And serve some one else as you have
mei the' inerchint exclaimed, w ith irou
ical anger. "It is rather late to think of
your mother, young man." '
"I know it, sir. If I had suffered no
other love to enter my heart but love her,
I should not stand here the guilty wretch
1 am to night, let ior her s ike spare
me. 1 am her only son her only sup
port. If you expose me you strike her to
the heart.
Mr. Lyle ma le an impatient movement
"I tell you, you should have thought
of this, betore. It is too late now; you
have had joir chance and abused it
wickedly. You must take. the conse
quences."
Thorley was trembling, and he could
hardly stand.
"Mr. Lyle," he said, huskily, "do you
know how ohl I am? 1 am nineteen, sir,
and I never touched a farthing that was
not my own before."
"It is time to end tins," Mr. Lyle said,
rising and approaching the bell.
"Wait oue moment, sir," Frank Thor
ley said, passing between him and the
bell-pull ; and his desperate, anguished
look stayed Mr. Lyle an instant. "Shall
I tell you who tempted me, to do this
whose beautiful face came between me
and right, and lured me ou to ruin? As
you hope for mercy hereafter, sir, hear
me! Hejr how I came to fall, aud then
retuse to be mercitul, if you can."
"I am listening," said the merchant
"I never saw London till two years ago,
and you yourself have commended me
lor withst mding its temptations. You
know, sir, that 1 neither drink nor gam
ble. The sni illnes of the amount I have
taken must prov that your money was
not spent in that way. lou have been
pleased to be very kind to me, s r. Do
voa remember urging upon me the ac
ceptnncc of im invitation to a party given
by your daughter? I wis reluctant, but
I went, and from that hour my fate was
sealed. The most la cinating as well as
the mo-t heartless of coquettes did not
scorn to set her snaes for me, to dazzle
me with her loveliness, a-id lu e me witl
her smiles. Th' re is no int ixica ion like
tne first love of youth, sir; don't jou
know that? There is no frenzy like-that
inspired by a woman who makes you love
her. I lived 111 a delirium; I was mid
on account i f this woman whom I loved
and who seemed to love me, and 1 iu-
curred a debt for her a debt which, in a
wild moment, a m lment when I had just
been scornfully cast on by her I paid
with your money."
"What was your debt?" Mr. Lyle asked
briefly.
'It was for a ring."
"A ring with a diamond set in a cluster
of rubiest" the merchant asked, with 1
flash of remembrance.
"Yes, sir," Thorley said, reluctantly.
The merchant sat down, and, motion
ing Thorley to a seat, remained some mo
ments thoughtful, and with his face
averted. Then, touching the bell, he
waited, while Frank Thorley covered his
face with his hands.!
"Tell Miss Roxie I wish to see her
here," he said to the servant who answered
his summons.
Roxie was iust going out, and she came
dressed as she was for the paity, fleecy
white floating about her like cloud
wreaths, her lips red, her cheeks aglow
aud her eves sparkling.
She reddened somewhat at the sight of
Frank Thorley a ghastly tace
"Did vou send for me, papa?" she
asked of her father, who sat with his fa-.-e
in shadow. '
For ren'v. he reached and took her un
irloved hand in his. It was a dainty
hand, slender, small, atfd-whrtorand glit
tering with rings. He put his finger upon
one. a small diamond surrounded by
rubies, and lifted his glance to hers.
1? ehrnnk a little, and looked as
t.hoii ili she were rroimr to cry.
TW..in,T nn-rd Frank Thorley. Mr.
Lyle saidl ' Upon , one condition I wil
forgive vou. Reueat what you have jus
said to me, in the presence of this mis
guided girl. '
Poor Frank Thorley 1 Perhaps he
thought even exposure would be prefer
able to such humiliation before her whom
e loved. Perhaps a second thought of
his mother came and uerved him. lie
hesitated only a moment, and told his
tory with a half desperate, half sarc.ts
lc eloquence, that took the vivii color
out of Roxie's brilliant face, and left it
white and scared.
"Won't you forgive me, Frauk?" she
cried, and clung to her father with a
burst of sobs.
'Will you forgive her, Frank Thorley,
or not?" demauded Mr. Lyle.
"Heaven knows I forgive her, sir, as I
hope to be forgiven."
'I hank you, sir. I think she has
wroaged you more than you wronged m,
and I will how you, young man, ho I
can forgive, to morrow."
But when the morrow came, r rank
Thorley had left London, with his moth
er; and vain were all Mr. Lyle's efforts to
discover him.
Years passed. There came a financial
crash; and though everybody supposed
Lyle & Co. to be established on to 1 firm
a basis to be shaken, they were not able
to outride the storm.
Scrupulously honest now as ever, Mr.
Lyle gave up everything; made no effort
to sacsomuchas Roxie's piano from
going under the hammer.
"Never mind, papa," she said softly to
him that last night before the sale; "we
have still each other, and I am young.
Perhaps I may find some use now for
those accomplishments you have lavished
upon me so freely. You didn't think,"
she added, with an attempt at gayety,
'that you were putting money by when
you were spending it on me, did you?"
"Heaven knows what is to become 01
us! inclined the uuhappy merchant.
'To-morrow at this time we shall have no
right even to the root that shelters our
heads, lint Heaven bless you, my child,
for t ;is sweet courage. It is something
to have so brave a child. You have been
used to such freedom from care, though.
Roxie. I wish you had married, dear.
ind you would have had a home now
"1 have gov vou, ppa, and there s no
body I like better.1'
"Nobody, Roxie?"
The soft cheeks flushed a little and the
red lips trembled.
"Don t ask me, papa. There s no'jo ly
w," she said, hiding her face on his
shoulder.
"Was it some one who weut away ?"
"Yes," faiotly.
"1 thought so, ieir. Its like you
women to love the man they have wroaged
most."
The two hid away in the remotest cor
ner 01 the house while the auction was
going on the next day, and'R xie exerted
herself incredibly to sustain her father's
heavy heart. He grew old fast in those
tew hours. This lo-ang his noma seemed
to hurt him cruelly.
The sale was over, and they' still sat
there alone, w-.iiting, perhaps, to see if
some friend would not coma to speak a
word of counsel or comfort in this trying
hour.. .
There was a hesitating knock at the
door presently, and a geutlemau came in.
Mr. Lvle, seeing that it was a stranger,
said: "You are, perhaps,, the new pro
prietor?"
The stranger bowed anil said, "I bought
everything in trust for a friend of Mr.
Lyle s, who requested me to say to him
that his home was as much his now as it
ever was." . .
Mr. Lvle lified his head and looked at
the man, and from him to Roxie, in a sort
ot bewilderment.
"What does he mean, Roxie?"'
Roxie had come forward breathless, her
face rd and white in swift changes.
'Papa," she cried, running to him and
sobbiug upi n his neck, "it's Frank Thor
ley."
"No, no, Roxie," the merchant said,
incredulously.
"It is Frank Thorley, sir," Frank said,
now coming nearer; "and he wishes ier-
vently that he had come sooner. 1 am a
rich man, Mr. Lvle, th inks to you tor
giviug me anotner chance in lite, a id
have come ready to discharge my obliga
tion to yo 1 with my all. I have nothing.
sir, that is not yours also."
"Don't, Frank 1 I wasouly just, scare
ly that; it seems good to see you, thou 'h,
like the face of an old friend. We haven't
miny friends now, you know."
Roxie had not spoken. It seemed she
could not lift her face from her father's
arm. But when Frank asked, ir -ntly:
"Have yon no welcome for me, R xie?'
"Have you forgiven me yet?" she
asked, looking up suddenly.
"l have never married," he said, in a
lo v voice; "an I you "
"Nor I," flushing and trembling.
"Roxie" with sudden he-it and eager
uess "I have loved you all these yea's.'
"And I you."
The new firm is Lyle and Thorley
Frank would have it so.
Witty Witness. A lawyer, to be a
oil cross-examiner, must have a quick
wit, and be always ready to use it. But
quick as he may be, he sometimes finds
his match, especially wheu a woman is on
the witness-stand.
"Oh, you say this gentleman was about
fifty-five," said Canning to a pert young
woman in the witness-box, "and I suppose
now you con-i ler yourself to le a pretty
good judge of people s ages ehf Ah
just so. Well, now, how old should you
take me t be? '
"Judging by your appearance, sir," re
plied the wiiness, "I should take you to
be alout sixty. By your questions, I
should suppose you were abiut sixteen."
Whether co insel had any m ire ques
tions for this lady is not recorded.
A boot four hundre I shinties are far
out on the ice in Saginaw bay. These
structures are iuide of thin wood, lined
with heavy building P"jp?r, a id rest on
runners, so that they may be moved read-'
ily. The inhabitants are fishermen, who
cut holes through the ice and capture
great quantities of fish. The population
is over a thousand, and there are stores,
saloons, and a hotel in this strange vil
lage, which will last probably until
March.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY
ttvt77T?STTY OF CALIFORNIA.
The First Steamboat.
In August, 1807,the first steamboat
sailed up the Hudson. Those who saw
the Clermont as,under the command ot her
inventor, Robert Fulton, she sailed
against wind and tide, regarded her
with wonder and anxiety, not unmixed,
in some cases, witn iear.
Newspapers were not abundant in
those days, and the news of the previous
day was not served up with the breakfast;
consequently, many of the residents on
the river s bauks and the boatmen, also,
were wholly ignorant of the stra-ige craft
which Fulton had built.
The farmer ran home to tell his wife
and neighbors that he had seen the
devil going up the river in a saw-mill.
I he Clermont used dry pine tor fuel,
which sent forth a column of flame many
fe-t above the top of the smoke-stack.
When stirred up, the fuel shot forth
volumes of sparks. In the night her ap
pearance was not unlike what several
groups of Indians, camped on the binks,
called her, "The lire spirit, breathing
forth flams and smoke, and lighting its
path by its own fires."
r ar down the river the crews ot sloops
saw the singular ugnt. iVs it came
nearer, they discerned that it shone from
a huge craft sailing iu the teelh of
the wind, and against an ebb tide.
Strange noises of jarring machinery
and a fierce beating of the water, as with
boards, were heard. What was it? Some
ran below decks to escape the terrible
it. Others fell on their knees, and
prayed for deliverance from the monster.
One ancient Dutchman, long an oracle
in the village, almost dropped his pre
cious pipe as the fire-boat passed, ejacu
lating, "Dunder and lilicksenl
When the Clermont settled down to
her work - of carrying passengers and
freight, the owners and captains of sloop9
found their business seriously dimin
ished. One mii'i, a noted captain, de
termined to build a boat that would
beat the Clenmnt. He argued that as
man power was cheaper and more effi
cient than steam power,his boat should be
propelled by brawny arni3 and horny
hands.
The boat was built in Esobus Creek,
at Rondout ou the Hudson. It had two
side paddle-wheels, each of which was
to be turned by a long wooden shaft
working a crank. To each shaft was
fitted a dozen wooden handles, by which!
the men were to work the shatt, turn
the paddles, and thus propel the boat.
The b at when finished was moved
down to the m uth of the creek, and the
crew shipped, and a watch kept for the
appearance ot the Clermont. One morning
she hove in sight. Immediately the lines
of the man-power boat were cast oft. The
brawny arms and horny hands strained
at the shafts, slowly the paddles re
volved, still more slowly the boat moved
forward a few hunched feet aud stopped
lhe strain was too much tor the en
durance of human muscle. The Clermont
steamed by, and, the disappointed captaiii
sullenly acknowledged that steam aid
iron were too much for arms and hands
Fotrit-FoOTED Mail C.vruiers. Be
tween two of the remote towns of Michigan
the mails are carried by means or dog teams:
The' sledge is simply a thin, flexible
board, six or seven feet long, aud a foot or
more in width, turned up at one end to
enable it to rise over obstacles in the path.
Along the edge, on either side, is a low
rail, to which the load is securely bound
with cords. Tne burJen carried usually
consists of the bags, a few bla ikets, rare
ly a tent, provisions for a few days, a
small axe, and a few other articles essen
tial to this primitive mode of locomotion.
The driver never rides, as his weight is
too much for the strength of the animals
and the frail sledge. The dogs arc not
noble looking animals, by any means.
The truth is they are mangy curs, which
are "driven" by being called on by the
driver in advance, stimulated to some de
gree of speed by a famishing process and
various ingenious kinds of torture, and
occasionally he'pjd along by propulsive
aid from behind. Their weekly advent in
Ma quette is still the source of wonder
ing curiosity and intense admiration of a
large group of dirty urchins, who have
a lingering love of the antique. One of
the smill attend ints usually precedes the
tr im on snow shoes, either to encourage
the dogs to a greater speed, or to break
the path and remove obstacles, as the
road is narrow and circuitous.
Umbrellas in Africa. Umbrellas
or, rather, parasols are the badges of
royalty in Africa. King Coffee's um
brella was oue ot" the most noted tro
phies taken by the Eaglish in the Abys
sinian war. This, however, wa3 a shab
by affair in comparison with the hand
some and gigantic sunsha les just manu
factured, to the number of forty, by a
Glasgow firm. They have been " ordered
by a mercantile house in the same city,
and are intended to be given as presents
to African chiefs, with whom the mer
chants iu question d busiuess. Three
of these parasols, or palanquins, as they
are also called, are about thirty feet in
circumference and the remainder about
eighteen feet. They are covered with a
rich variegated damask silk, fringed round
the edes, ornamented with a gilt ball
at the top, and lined with finished cloth.
The handle, which ia of lance-wood, is
armed with a spike, for tenting pur
poses, aud a bavoaet joint at the end of
the stick renders the whole more portable.
Ax official estima.e hasjust been mule
of the revenue of Ctrna. It is 6t Ued to
amount to 125 ,000,000, raised Jby taxes
on lana, grain, the transit of goods, for
eign imports, etc., aid by the sale of
ranks and degrees. Of this amouut,
ii)w AAA AA . . - . '
.o,uuo,uuo, it 19 estimited, 13 spent
uhju me anuj. 1 hoc amounts are lrre-
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specuve 01 locai uues, requisitions in
kind, and of d.rect plunder on the part
ot Chinese omclals. A remarkable fea
ture ot tne oudget 19 the small amount
raised by land tax only $30,000,000.
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if k ureaine easier now. -The new
A. J ? 4. t A Art . .
couuieneic ?i,uuu notes now m circu
lation can be detected by their "creasy
feel." It eats into an editor's salary
tearfully to get "stuck" with four or
five such notes in a week. Norr. Herald.
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Rohinsoii Crusoe.
The iconoclasts have robbed us of Wil
liam Tell and reduced Pocahontas to a
prosaic savage, and now it is pleasant to
give them a Roland for their Oliver by
establishing the real existence ot a hero
of fiction heretofore regarded as a myth.
The story of Robinson Crusoe made its
appearance in 17iy. I he rare simplicity
of the style, the naturalness of the inci
dents, the interest sustained throughout
and the excellent lessons inculcated, gave
it instant o onularitv. wlrch it has always
retained: and t i-dav. utter the lapse 01
one hundred and fifty years, no similar
production" possesses sach charuia fo.- tl.o
youthlnl reader.
Defoe was a fierce partis oi in the strug
gle of thirty years' duration, which gave
constitutional liberty to England, and
this, together with his great literary suc
cess, aroused the enmity and envy which
pursued him relentlessly through life.
'lhe charge tint he had st ilen his ma
terials from the nirrative of Alexander
Selkirk proceeded from his enemies, but
was totally unfjundjd. Selkirk volun
tarily went a-hore on the island whea it
was frequented by ships, and the dura
tion of his exile was a matter of his own
choice. The incidents of h:s story bear
no particular resemblance to those of
Crusoe's life. Peter Serrano, who was
shipwrecked on an island in the Car
ribean Sea, in the sixteenth century, and
whose story is related in Gorcilaso's
"History of Peru," published in London
about the year 1700, probably gave Defoe
the foun lation of his romance.
Defoe aimed, above all else, at proba
bility, and the story does not contain
any inconsistency n ir an impossible in
cident. The title has been taken for
granted as the invention of the greatest
novelist, but this is incorrect. It was
stated some time since in a magazine
article that Defoe first met with the name
Robinson Crusoe on a tombstone in a
graveyard at Lynn R 'gis, an important
English seaport. The rarity of the name,
and possibly the fact that its owner had
been a sailor, commended it for his pur
pose. The Crusoe family is an old one
in Lynn, and there is no other family of
the name known than the one which hails
from that locality. Curiously enough,
they have usually been seafaring people.
During the war between France and
Great Britain, in the early part of the
present century, John Crusoe, of Lynn
Rjgis, was in the navy and participated
in the glorious action of Trafalgar. In
1815 he emigrated to America and set
tled at Faydtteville, N. C, where he re
sided for many years. A diary of his
voyages, iu his owa hand writing, is in
our p )ssession, aud gives evidence of
scholarship and a mind of more than or
dinary calibre.
In 1835 Captain Crusoe revisited Eu
rope, and his diary is filled with interest
ing incidents of his journey. Hisgrand
children are now, aid have been for
some years, highly esteemed residents of
the town ot Versailles, and oue of them
bears the name of Robinson Du Brutz
Crusoe. From this gentleman we learn
that Robinsou has always been a family
name with his people, and this is con
firmed by the diary of C.iptain Crusoe,
who speaks of a nephew named R ibin-
son, whom lie saw on a visit to Lynn
Reiis in 1835.
These facts we believe to be perfectly
authentic aud reliable. Tne antiquaiians
are welcome to give them full investiga
tion. Meanwhile, Versailles may let the
oulside world bubble with centennial en
thusiasm and political excitement, Content
in the possession of a genuine Crusoe.
Self-Made Men. Ralative to Cardi- !
nal Antouelli, there appears to be a
pleasure m-inifested in stating from what
a modest family he sprang. What does .
this prove: Have not the niaiority of
celebrated men risen from the most hum
ble positions in the social scale to reach
the most elevated? Demosthenes was
the son of a blacksmith, Virgil of a
baker, Horace of a freed man, Tueophras-
tes of a s alesm in, Amyot of a currier,
La Moth of a hatter, J. B. Rosseau of a
shoemaker, Moliere of an upholsterer,
Quinaut of a working baker, Flechier of
tallow chandler, Rdhn of a cutler,
Massillon of a tannar, J. J. R sseau. Du-
pout, a-id Biaum irehais of watchmakers.
Was not II .mer a mendicant? Francois
Vrago had a farmer for his father, Cauo-
va was attached to the service of the
house of Fatieri, Clumbus was the sou
of a wood-carder. Co k of a peasant.
Copernicus of a baker, D'Alembert (a
fouudliug) was reared by a draper, and
Franklin aud Fulton started from much
more miserable positions in life. Jac-
quard was the offspring of a weaver,
Herschel was a street musician, Monge
the son of a hay dealer, Bernard Palisy
and Leplace were the children of peas
ants, and Volta was brought up on char
ity. Sixtus V. was a herder of Digs, and
O jlbert was the son of a cloth merchant.
Qalignini.
Come Along. The 'Providence Press
relates the following story of a gallant
Colonel 01 a Rhode Island regiment dur
ing the earlier portion of bis military
life: "The regiment being at 'order
arms,' our colonel desired to put the col
umn in position. He therefore gave the
order 'Forward march !' and rode off
without looking behind him. No mau
moved in the ranks, and, after riding a
short distance, the colonel discovered
this fact. He turned, saying, 'What
have I done now?' and was informed
that it was impossible, from a military
standpoint, for a column to move when
at 'order arms.' 'O, well,' rej ined the
matter-of-fact colonel, 'pick up them
things and come along.' They came."
At a recent mseting of clergymen in
Washington City, statistics were aiduced
showing that there are 500 professional
gamblers to 140 ministers of the gospel,
and more money invested in gambling
than in building churches. We think,
however, these figures hardly do the
gamblers justice.
It took only eleven days to revise the
constitution of New Hampshire, but it
cost the State $20,000.
The First Steam Whistle.
The story of the first steam whistle 011
the Missouri river is amusing. Its in
troduction dates back to 1844. At that
time the settlers on the Missouri river
were in the habit of making regular
yearly visits to St. Louis to do their
trading fr themselves and friends.
They were not provided with daily inter
course with the out-ide world, and many
who lived back from the river seldom, if
ever, saw a steamboat more than once a
year. It happened that during the fall
of 1844 the new steamboat Islington
s'arted up the Missouri river loaded
v- to the guards vitu freight,
mong the passengers were Judge
Joseph C. Rans on, now of this city ;
Theodore Warner, of Lexington ; Ben.
Holliday, afterward the famous overland
stage proprietor; Ctl. Pomeroy, of Lex
ington, and a planter of Platte county
named George Yocum.
The steamer Lexington, was provided
with a steam-whistle the first used on
the Miss ur i river and as it happened
no one knew about it except Warner,
who was a wag and a lover of a joke.
The night after leaving St. Louis the
passengers were collected together in
the cabin, when the talk turned upon
steamboat explosions, then very com
mon. "I feel perfectly safe on this boat,"
said Warner.
"Why?" inquired Yocum, the planter.
"Why?" echoed the rest of the com
pany. "I will tell you why," said the wag,
"This boat is provided with a new pat
ent safety-valve, which notifies the pas
sengers on board when it is about . to
blowup. It is a concern which mikes
a most unearthly noise, and when you
hear it it is time to get back aft or jump
overboard."
Notwithstanding the fact thit "Warner
told his story with the most solemn and
earnest countenance, some were skepti
cal. Not so, however, with the plant-jr.
Next morning, when the Lexington was
steaming up ihe long, straight stretch of
river just below Washington, Mo., the
passengers were at breakfast. The meal
had been called, and all were busily en
gaged in doing justice to the kind of
meals they were accustomed to serve on
steamboats in those days. Suddenly the
whistle commenced to blow, the first time
on the trip. The p issengers looked at
each other a moment, and horror and
dismay spread its-jlf over their faces.
The first man to realize the situation
a id act was Yocum, the pl inter, who,
with hair erect and bianhed face,
jumped up, crying as he pulled over one
afier auother of the passengers:
"Run, run for your lives; the old
thing's going to bust. Follow me and
let's save ourselves."'
Of course there was a stampede for
the rear of the boat, and it was only by
the exertions of some of the crew that
the more excited were restrained from
jumping iuto the river. Kansas City
limes. . ,
The Orator and the Newspaper.
In its remarks up u Mr. Jonathan
Wild, the Easy C.iair has not alluded to
a theory which has been recently put
forth, that newspapers are taking the
place of orators. There is an apparent
reason for the remark. For in a country
where newspapers daily at morning and
eveuing discuss every public question in
every way, and where newspaper reporters
conduct investigations into every kind or
subject, it might be supposed that noth
ing remained for the speaker when the
writer had finished his task.. But it? is
singular that the theorist did not remem
ber one of several things. Reading a
written word and hearing the same word
spoken are by no means the same. A
hundred people read a statement or an
argument in a newspaper, but they are
not conscious ot its force until they hear
it from living lips. Moreover, the most
familiar thing in print have a fresh
charm in the hearing, which may be in
explicable, but is certainly undeniable.
The Easy Chair had heard Mr. Wendell
Phillips deliver word for word a lecture
which had been long printed in a book,
aud which it knew perfectly. Yet it
listened with as much delight as a child
listened t a story iu which it corrects
the teller. llarper's Magazine.
A Donkey Race. The officers of a
cavalry regiment stationed at a dull Eng
lish garrison town, lately got up a don
key race for their amu emeat, an 1 very
amusing it proved to be. One donkey
took the lead from the start, and rapidly
ueared the goal amid the wildest suout
ing. Wheu within a few feet of the winning-post
his rider thought to put ou a
tine spurt, and so gave the beast the spur,
but with disastrous effect. The brute
put his head down, kicked furiously,
stopped dead short, and would not budge
an inch! Those who were running
second and third saw their comrade's
difficulty, and redoubled their efforts.
Slowly but surely they came along, every
stride bringing them nearer to the goal!
At last the rider of donkey number oue
came to the conclusion that some action
ought to be taken, and that at ouce.
Should he let the prize slip from his
hands, when it seemed almost within
his grasp? He sprang to the ground
without a moment's hesitation, and seiz
ing his steed's tail, put it over his shoul
der, and dragged the unwilling animal
backwards past the post! An objection
was lodged, but the decision was given in
favor of the winner.
Botanical Garden. Mount Holyoke
Seminary, at South Uadley, Mass., pro
poses to establish next spring a scientif
ic botanical garden on a large scale. It
is to be kept by a professional gardener,
under the supervision of Miss Suattuck,
the long-time botanist of the institution.
A great variety of seeds an i germs is
now being collected for the purpose,
which already includes many rare sorts.
A collection which was procured at Uhe
centennial contained. Egyptian
lentils, castor-oil beans, rice, barley,
corn.
etc.
and
ine scnooi now numbers 2G5 pupils
30 teachers.
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