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VOL. VIII.
THE TWO STUDENTS.
In one of our largo suburban towns
lived a man named John Atkins. He
was otic of those men who had made
their way to wealth, nfUnenco and
honor by strict integrity and atten
tion to business. Every pcuny ofhis
great wealth bad boen honestly
earned, and he richly merited all the
love and respect that were bestowed
upon him. Mr. Atkins was uow a
widower, nud his Jiouschold was man
aged by liis daughter, a fair, blooming
girl of eighteen summers. Iter name
was Laura, aud her beuaty and wealth
made her the object of a vast number
of admirers.
Attatched to Mr. Atkins' establish
ment was a mau named Jared Walk
er. He was about eighteen years of
age, and was the sou of a man who
had once been in the merchant's em
ploy. When his father died he was
left poor and friendless, and iSIr. At
kins hired hint to take charge of the
garden aud stable. He had uow been
with his preseut patron a little more
than two years, and during that lime
had proved himself not only capable
of all things which he undertook, but
also most scrupulously iuilblul and
trustworthy.
Not far from the dwelling of 31 r.
Atkins stood a college one of the
most flourishing aud noted in the
Union. Mr. Atkins himself had never
had the advantages of a college edu
cation, but he hail yet picked up a
vast deal of information, more of a
real practical information than a mau
could gain in a lifetime within the
walls of a college; but the old man
was a friend to the institution, and he
was the best friend to that youth who
made the best use of his time.
One summer's eveniug, while Mr.
Atkins and his child were sitting in
one of the drawing rooms, a visitor
was announced. He was a young
mau, and both the merchant and ins
daughter received him very kindly.
His name was Albert Landowu, and
he was the child of wealthy parents.
Youug Landowu, though only about
nineteen, was considered the favored
suitor of Laura's hand, and from his
manner it was evideut that he had the
same opinion himself. If he possessed
any peculiar traits ot character they
were rather of the negative kind,
though perhaps his love of self, and
pride in wealth, may have been of
taiher a positive character.
"Laura,'' said the young man, after
the usual civilities of the meeting had
been passed, "who is that fellow that
works around your garden here "r"
"Oh, that is Jared Walker. He
lives with us now. Don't you re
member his father old Timothy
Walker that used to live in the little
black house back of the cottage ?"
"Seems to me 1 do remember such
a name; but I never knew him.'
'He us-ed.to work for father, but he
died a few years ago, and Jared came
to live with us.:'
'Ah is it possible?" uttered the
youth, with a condescending air. "Yes,
It is just like your father, ahVays kind.
But this master Jared needs some
better manners."
"Better manners !"' reiterated Laura,
looking up with surprise. "Why, I
thooght Jared was one of the most
scrupulous young men iu his" man
ners." "Perhaps he is ah, I don't donbt
it. But he actually bowed to me in
the street this morning when I was in
company with a couple of lriends
from the South. Iieally, I felt as
though I should sink through the side
walk. Hadn't you better speak with
bim, and tell him not to recognize me
on the street again ''
"You must excuse me, Mr. Lan
Jowd, for I couldn't do such errands,
even for you. I only wish the rest of
the young men in our town needed
no more cultivation of manners than
does Jared Walker."
This seemed to operate as a sort of
damper upon the rising spirits ot the
young exclusive, and it was some time
before be could rally, but at length he
managed to regain his wonted speech,
and for awhile he rattled away at
a mass ot "small talk," to which his
listener only answered by occasional
monosyllables.
Jared Walker soon afterward en
tered the apartment. His face was
all tremulous with emotion, and he
seemed to be laboring under some
great anxiety.
"What'8 the matter Jared ? What's
the matter?', kindly asked Mr. At
kins, as he noticed the youth's pertur
bation. "Sit down, sit down, and
out with it."
Jared took a seat, and after a few
moments of anxious silence, he said :
"I want to do jutt as you think best,
Mr. Atkins.' Yoa have been very
kind to me, and God knows that I
would not be ungrateful. But 1 have
got a chance to go to another place
a chance to to
"Say on, say on, Jared," said Mr.
Atkins, showing by his tone and man
ner that he was disappointed.
"If you have found a better place
than this of course I would not keep
you. If you can find a Letter friend
than I am, you may go to him."
"O, it is not that, Mr. Atkins,"
Jnickly cried the youth. "God knows
shall never find a nobler firiend than
you have been. But I have got a fu
ture to live I have got a manhood to
prepare for, and I may never find
another opportunity like the present.
But I didn't seek the place Bir they
came of their own accord and offered
it to me."
"But what is,it, Jared?"
"Why, sir, the professors- of the
college want me to take care of their
rooms, and in turn they offer to in
struct me in all the branches taught
in the college. I can have half of the
day, and nearly the whole off every
evening for study. - Yet, 6ir, I will
not go if yon would rather have me
6tay with you. You have been very
kind to me, and I would not for the
world not even for the education I
covet leave you if you wished me to
Btay." - . - .,
For some moments the old man
There was a rich mois
cye, and his nether lip
"Jared," ho at length said, "I think
I have been kind to you ; but that is
no reason why I should now be mi
kind. You could not have done a
thing to give mo more real joy than
this. I knew not that yoti hud such a
desire for learning, or I should have
helped you myself.
"And have you not helped me ?''
cried Jared with enthusiasm. "I have
had your books and read them, and 1
have heard your encomiums upon edu
cated men. I owe it nil to you, sir."
"Well, well, perhaps you do. But
I will let you go to the collego and
try tho plan you have formed, on one
condition."
"What is it?" asked tho youth.
'That you will consider my honso
your home; that you will spend your
Sabbaths here, and also such of tho
holidays as you have to spare. You
will have no other homo aud this will
come handy for you."
It was hard "work for Jared to
speak, but ho managed to promise
what his pr.tron askd, and then ho
bowed his head and wept. Ho had
not expected such kindness; in his
orphaned heart he had laid down the
rules of life, but he had not looked
for such sympathy and assistance in
his hour of need. Kach one of those
tears that fell from the young man's
drooping lips was a volume of thanks
to Mr. Atkins, and he knew it. Ho
saw at once how noble was tho heart
he had touched, and felt happier far
than as though ho had found a mine
of gold. '
On the first of the week. Jared
Walker took his. new situation in the
rooms of tho college, and on tho same
day Albert Landown was entered as
freshman. One was rich, the other
poor. One came with the determina
tion to be a man, and the other came
that he might appear a man.
At first some of the students were
inclined to be uncivil toward the poor
youth, for they found that bo enjoyed
all the opportunities far advancement
that they did, but his uniform gentle
ness and unobtrtisiveness, and his
p:iet. upright conduct soon won most
of them to his friendship. But there
was one in the college who still affect
ed to scorn him.
Early ono morning, as Jared was
crossing the college yard with a buck
et of water in his hand, he met Albert
Landown. To be sure. Jared was
dressed in a working garb, and from
the very nature of the work he had
been doing was som-whai dtiNty ; but
still he thought it no harm to speak,
and so with a bright smile he bade
the oilier "good morning."
"Stop you, a moment," uttered
young Landown, turuiuz red in the
lace. Jarc-d stopped and set down
his- bucket.
"Now look ye," continued Lan
dowu, "this makes the third or fourth
time you have spoken to mo since 1
entered the college, and I want no
more of it. I thought my ti'ence
might have given you the hint, but it
seems you are too dull to take a hint.
Now don't you dare to recognize me
again, for I don't choose to be on
terms of intimacy with every floor
sweeper who happens to know my
name."
Jared did not daro trust himself to
make a reply, for he was touched to
the piick, and might say too much,
so he picked up his pail and started
on his way. Perhaps it was well for
Jared that this affair happened, for
from that moment he was resolved
that Albert Landown should not be
the best scholar.
Time passed on, and Jared won
more and more upon the lovo and
respect of the professors, and they
showed their love by rendering him
every assistance in their power. :
Every Sunday he passed beneath the
roof ot Mr. Atkins, and that kind
old man was highly gratified to find
how rapid was the advance which the
youth made. But yet ho knew not
all to which Jared's mind was grasp
ing. Sometimes Jared sat and con
versed with Laura, and he was sur
prised to find how deep and clear was
her understanding.
"Have yon studied French yet?"
she asked ono Sunday afternoon, as
they sat together.
"Not yet," returned Jared, "but I
am going to study it."
"That's right," replied tho fair girl,
"for I am going to study it, and it will
be so ileasant to have one to converse
with."
"Will not Mr. Landown study tho
language ?" Jared asked. .
"Perhaps so he says ho shall," re
plied Laura. "But he does not seem
to make much of his studies."
The two had been conversing to
gether for some time, but tho intro
duction of Landown's name seemed
to strike a chill to the minds ot both,
and shortly after they separated. But
it was not their last conversation, for
they conversed often, and with mu
tual profit, too. Sometimes Mr. At
kins sat by aud heard them, and be
never failed on such occasions to show
by bis manner that ho enjoyed it
much. Yret Mr. Albert Landown
was regular in his visits, and once he
had. asked Mr. Atkins for Laura's
hand, but the old man bade him wait
nntil he had graduated from college
before he thought of such a matter.
Years are not long in passing away,
and the college term at length ex
pired. Four years had gone by since
Jared Walker first became a servant
in the college, and he had now come
forth with a well-earned diploma.
Even tho professors were astonished
at the amount of learning which he
had managed to amass to himselt, and
when he received hia, degree ot Mas
ter of Arts, those who bestowed it
knew it was given to one well quali
fied to claim it. i
Mr. Atkins was not a great party
politician, but nevertheless he was a
warm adherent of his political party,
and one, moreover, who wedded a
vast deal of influence. The presiden
tial chair of the nation bad just been
was silent,
tine in his
trembled.
ALBANY, OREGON, FRIDAY,' MARCH 28, 1873.
filled by a now incumbent, and new j
appointments were being made. Mr.
Atkins was selected to fill tho im
portant position of a foreign minister.
It was more than ho had expected
more than ho hail flared to hope for
bnt it was no more than ho deserved,
and his superior knowledge well fitted
him for the place.
"Well, Albert," said Mr. Atkins, as
the younp mau was at his hotiKO ono
evening, "how stands vonr education
now?"
"Oh, nbont right," returned tho
young man with a light laugh. ,"I got
through, but it was a very tedious job.
I thank heaven we go through col
lego but onco in n lifetime."
"You studied French, I think," tho
old man continued, not seeming to
have relished tho previous answer.
"Yes I studied it 'twas fashion
able, you know, and I had to study it."
"I suppose you speak the language,
then ?"
"Well, as for that, I don't know, I
can read a few sentences, but what's
tho use?"
"Anything that is worth doing is
worth doing well," said the old man,
somewhat severely. "Did you study
Spanish or German ?"
"I dipped into tho Spanish some,
but got sick of it."
"Well, I am disappointed."
"Eh!' uttered Landown, starting
up.
"I say I am disappointed. Y"ou are
probably aware that I have received
an appointment, and I had some
thoughts of making you my secretary,
but that is impossible now. I had
thought that a residence of a few
years iu Europe, upon a good salary,
would please you."
"So it would so it would," uttered
the young man, turning first pale and
then crimion. "Can I go with you ?"
"Not now, Albert," returned Mr.
Atkins. "You are not qualified for
the place. You have had every op
portunity to prepare yourself, but
you have neglected it. I am sorry,
but I cannot help it."
"Will Laura accompany you?"
faintly asked tho youth, after some
moments of anxious sileuee.
"Of course sh will go with me."
, "But perhaps I could prepare my
self btl'o re vou "o."
v "No, that would bo inrpossable. I
shall start next week."
Sad and dejected did Albert Lan
down turn his steps away from the
dwelling ofMr. Atkins that evening.
But for his disappointment he had no
one to blame but himself. The best
hours ofyouthtul life had been literally
thrown away, and it was now too late
to find them again.
"Well, my child," said Mr. Atkins,
coming into the house one day, "I am
all ready to start, and uext Monday I
shall bo off." He spoke iu a very
happy and satisfied mood.
"Have you engaged a secretary ?"
asked Laura.
"Yes an excellent one."
"Do I know him ?"
"O, vts."
"And who is he?"
"Jared Walker."
-Jared -"
"Jared Walker, I said, llow do
you like the idea of his going with us'"
But Laura did not. answer. She
'only hung down her head and trem
bled, while her father could seo that
sho was blushing, too.
"He will make the best companion
I could have found. Ho speaks
French, German, and Spanish with
fluency. I should have taken Albert
Landown, but he is not quallied in
the least. Are you sorry for tho
change ?''
"No, no, indeed lam not," mur
mured the fair girl, hiding her face in
her father's bosom.
And so Jared Walker accompanied
Mr. Atkins to Europe, where they re
mained four years, and when they re
turned the minister had given up the
control of his fair child to his young
secretary. Laura had become Mrs.
Walker, and a happier bride it would
have been hard to find.
"What makes your horse so slow?"
asked a tourist one day in the Glen
of the Downs, Ireland, of his Ceitic
Jehu. "It is out of respect to the
bayutiful eanery, yer honor. Ho
wants ye to seo it all. An' thin, he's
an intelligent baste, and appreciates
good company, an' wants to kape the
likes o' ye in beloved ould Irelajul as
Ion" as he can."
"Why does the operation of hang
ing kill a man?" asked a medical pro
fessor of his class. "Because," re
plied one of the students, "inspira
tion is checked, circulation is stopped,
and the blood suffuses and congests,
the brain."- "Fudge 1" said another;
"it's simply because the rope isn't
long enough to let hia feet touch the
ground."
A Scranton man who went home
the other evening, and found his
house locked up, after infinite troub
le managed to gain entrance through
a back window, and then discovered
on the parlor table a note from bis
wife reading "I have gone out; you
will find the door key on one side of
the door step." '
Congress, it is said, contemplates
honoring the nation's hero Farragut
by the erection of a statue, represent
ing the gallant sailor on horseback.
The Buffalo Express suggests as a
companion pieca a bronze represen
tation of General Sherman charging
the heights of Mission Bridge in a
canoe. -
"In the absence of globes, how do
you illustrate the shape of the earth
to your scholars?" asked a committee
of a school teacher. "I Bhowa 'era
my head," waa the reply.
Has the glory of base ball depart
ed? The Cnicag6 Association decided
the other day that it will no longer
Bupport a club, and then proceeded
to commit suicide, ll outcago aban
dons the game,, what can we do to
save it? - . . -
ANTOItIA COItltKM'O.VDEM K.
12Jil(r JJtmocral:
Tho Portland JlcraUloi March 1st,
in its commercial article, ! devotes a
paragraph to Astoria, and throws a
lance at "Pioneer" for presuming to
say a word to the farmers of tho val
ley on matters relating to their own
interests and for the prosperity of the
State. This is tho editor's language:
" 'Pioneer' is flooding tho columns of
tho Albany Democrat with his milk-and-witer
bosh about Astoria and tho
position naturo has assigned if" Y'ou
see at once, Mr. Editor, that tho first
statement of tho Herald is false, so
far as "Pioneer" is Concerned for ho
had furnished but ono articlo to the
Democrat, and that did not occupy
one full column. Tho Herald styles it
"milk-and-water bosh." I will accept
tho term. Milk is nourishing; water
is most refreshing, and absolutely nec
essary for our existence; and bosh
(according to Webster) signifies "out
line; figure" Now, if I can admin
ister nourishment and health to tho
farmer, and give him a correct outline
to bo pursued by himself in tho fu
ture, I shall have done what I in the
first place desired to do. It is a little
singular that an article so weak and
harmless should cause tho editor of
the llvrnld to throw up. If ho in
tended to signify that tho dose was
weak and tasteless, wo can put a little
cayenne in his portion. Ho says, "we
demonstrated yesterday by actual fig
ures that tho pilotage and towage of
vessels to and from Portland is but
forty-eight and one-fifth (a pretty nice
calcuktion)centsperton. It is said that
figures won't lie,' but they often con
vey a falsehood from those who tnako
them." Now, James Taylor, iu the
J'amier of March 1st, "demonstrates
by actual figures," and figures obtain
ed from Capt. Sawyer of the "lloswell
Sprague" that the diflerence :n ship
ping at Astoria instead of Portland
would be 87 j cents per ton, and he is
below the mark. If you add to that
the difference of charter money paid
to get ships to go over tho sands to
Portland for their cargoes, the differ
ence would amount to dollars instead
ot cents per ton. The statement of
Capt. Sawyer of tho "Sprague," and
the statement of Capt. Barber of the
"Felix Mendelson," show plainly that
tho Jfrrali intended to deceive. In
fact, the press of Portland, for the
past fifteen or twenty years, have fal
sified and deceived the commercial
world in regard to the actual position,
relatively and commercially, of tho
two places. I venture to assert that
no one, being wholly ignorant of the
geography of tho country, could have
determined from the Portland papers
up to this day the exact location of
that town.
The people of Astoria do contend
that this is the only port for the Col
umbia lliver Valley where a success
ful foreign trade can bo carried on so
as to compete with San Francisco and
other sea ports on this coast.
Y'ou may ask (it yon, are not al
ready posted up in this matter) what
has kept Astoria in the back-ground,
if sho holds so favorable a position by
nature? I answer: Oregon, up to
1818, was taking tho lead on this
coast, but the discovery of gold in
California brought from tho Atlantic
States much wealth into San Francis
co, and the city grew up as by magic.
In those golden days 6ho needed tho
agricultural products of Oregon to
establish a trade with us, and sho sent
her branch commercial houses as far
into the interior as tho light-draft
steamers of those days could run, so
as to wholly monopolize and control
our trade and make Oregon tributary
to her; so that, in fact, Portland is an
illegitimate child a daughter of San
Francisco identified with that city.
She is bound to hor commercial
houses, and would sooner see the
whole trade of Oregon go by the way
of the Sound, and the stopping of all
direct foreign trade, to the detriment
of the State, than to see Astoria take
the position designod by nature for
her, and grow rip in commercial
wealth and importance. Look at
matters as they have progressed. The
whole of Oregon has been claimed by
Ben. Ilolladay as his farm, and the
whole business of the farm was to be
under his control, and the products
carried in bis steamers to San Fran
cisco. For the last ten or fifteen
years, with the money of Holladay
and San Francisco, Portland has had
nearly the whole representation in
Congress to foster and build her up.
They attempted at one time to re
move the Port of Entry to Portland,
leaving only an Inspector or Surveyor
at Astoria, and would have succeeded
had not Judge Oluey been at Wash
ington and interposed.
When the telegraph wires were put
op from San Francisco through
Oregon to Portland, thoy must not
come near the mouth of the Columbia;
(where thet TJ.; S have more im
portant interests to guard than at
any other point in tho State, and from
which point it is at times, very im-j
portaut to receive information,) but
must pass on through a wilderness to
Victoria. Ben. has built two short
railroads for the , soul purpose of
freighting his steamers to San Fran
cisco from Portland, and has perhaps,
with that object in view, succeeded in
destroying the land subsidy granted
by Congress for a railroad to this
place, and prevented, for a time the
construction of a road. But Ben
Holladay is not tho Almighty, and
neither is Portland a seaport town.
There were many inventions and plans
devised in former generations, bnt
they never entertained the absurd
idea of building a seaport town a
hundred and twenty-five miles in the
interior of a country, and then dig
ging a ditch to float sea-going vessels
to it. That invention was left for
this generation. For absurdity, it
has but ono parallel; and that is, for a
woman to put on breeches, and think
herself a man. The press of Portland
are constantly boasting about what
Uncle Sam will do to complete their
ditch. They got a U. S. engineer to
look through convex glasses and re
port to Washington Mobiliers that
tweuty, thirty, or forty thousand dol
lars more of thy people's money
would complete the job in the Wil
lamette liivcr. They have not yet
estimated the cost to their Uncle,
of removing all the sand flats on down
the river to Tongue I oiut; ind I think
it will be sufficient to make a I ram in
Priest, laugh, when they can see their
ditch digger at work in C'alhlamett
Bay; just think of it your self, Mr.
Editor, and laugh. They have a long
stick with a spoon on the end.J they
stick that down to the bottom, and
whatever it brings up they dump into
a scow, to be dumped again into the
river, to contribute in forming another
bar. In a good fresh see breeze
they have a lively time, tho rvier
being from K-n to twenty miles wide,
and tho rollers sufficiently large to
shake the sand out of their spoon
before they can dump it into the flat.
In this manner, they think ot making
a great highway lor commerce, so
that (in the language of the Portland
papers) all the Navies of the world
tan ride on the broad waters of
Portland Harbor. That view of the
matter looks zrarjJi and imposing,
but on a nearer and a more critical
view it don't appear so. But a lew
days since, two ships started from
Portlaud on their way down the river;
the foremost ship happened to have a
few sacks of wheat too many,, and
stuck in the channel, blocking it up so
that tho biudmost ship was com
pelled to wait until her turn came.
The buncoinb of the Portland papers
reminds me of the great King
Nebuchadnezzar, who walked in his
palace and said, "is not this t
Babylon that I have built bytbe
might of my power and for the majes
ty of my kingdom," and tuo 6ame
bow he was driven out to grass. A
similar fate may await the great
men who now control the commerce
of Oregon, and who crush the tiller
of the soil to bankruptcy. The con
dition of "our commerce now would
have made wise statesmen blush fit-'
teen years ago, but in these days
of Mobilierism, when the public
man that can steal the roost money,
is looked upon as the greatest; it is
considered a matter of moment.
have made this communication too
long already, yet the half has not been
been told. I shall probably not
trouble you again on this subject, as
I have almost completed my seven
tieth circuit around the orb of day, on
this terrestrial ball, consequently, I
expect soon to move to a better coun
try, where, if the eigth verse of the
21st Chapter of Revelations be cor
rect, (and who can dobut it?) I shall
not see nor bear of a Portland editor,
PlOXEER.
The reverence in which the mem
ory of George Washington is held
even by those who are of tender
years is truly encouraging. A lad,
last week, in Boston, being directed
by his teacher to compose an essay
on Washington, went bo far as to
speak of that great man as the pro
genitor of the human race the nrst
man. Being asked by the school
master if Adam was not supposed to
stand in that dignified relation, the
lad admitted that "perhaps he did, if
you were going to take foreigners
into account. '-
First and Last. A man on the
day ho became one hundred years
old went to have a pair of shoes made,
remarking that he wanted them built
substantial, with plenty of hobnails
The1 shopkeeper suggested that he
might not live to wear such a pair of
shoes out, when the old gentleman
retorted that he commenced this one
hundred years a good deal stronger
than he did the last oner
s A shrewd little fellow was intrusted
to the care of hia uncle, who fed the
boy very poorly. - One day , he hap
pened to see a , greyoound, wnore
upon he asked the little fellow if he
knew what made the dog so poor.-
The reply was, "I expect he lives
with his uncle
NO. 33
ttlfOHT AND SHARP.
The Brooklyn Eayle has a corres
pondent who sighna himself "Sam
son," and goes for the "Woman's
Bights Movement" in this style:
One of the most frequently offered
arguments by Mrs. E. C. Stanton
and her associates for woman's nse
of the ballot is that when they begin
its exercise, all the ills that flesh is
heir to will gradually disappear from
among men: ajso women.
Mrs. Stanton assures an tbat her
sex with thel power of thf ballot, will
gjve society Shxcellent sanitary laws,
merciful treatment of the helpless
and systems of social government
that will produce universal happi
ness. Hero are glittering gener
alities. The politician when out of office
abound in nothing so much as in
fair promises. Give them the op
portunity of administration, and we
are guaranteed the millennium; so it
is with the strong-minded woman.
She is great iu speech, little in per
formance. Since women has taken a free band
in its production, our literature has
become both offensive and mischiev
ous. A tie vilest tnings 01 toe last
twenty years have come from the
unguided pens of strong-minded
women writers.
The Byron scandal (ye godd of vir
tue and modesty, forgive tueforallud
in to the damnable affair) wan the
works of a woman, bred among fine
surroundings, whose judgment was
faltter than her heart.
The Beecher scandal, another of
kindred iniquity, is the workof leaders
iu the woman's rights movement. A
woman has done this also. She.
with all its disgusting suggestions,
has lifted it into life aud circulation,
I he most objectionable things iu
modern romance have Uow a from the
pens of that sex, whom we have
been led to honor and defend. Our
arms grow week ana our cheeks
blush to continue longer in their
defense. Forbidden things that
should never be named among us
are retailed without shame to our
daughters bv bold women from the j
rostrum. Our grandmothers faint
over the recitals 01 tue youns:. I
Death logins here. i
Subjects that men decline to talk
about gush unchecked from the lips
of those who persibt it calling them
selves slaves. Oue of them, ensair-
ed iu selling books, came to my ollice
the other day offering books which
the strong-minded women declare
should bo iu tho Lauds of every
young person in the land, but whicu
i tbiuk should be publicly burned.
From all this the conclusion is
inevitable and the truth is offered as
unanswerable, that women more
than men lack the strength neces
sary to stand for the true and the
right from the time of Eve to the
iresent hour.
As they bav6 polluted our litera
ture, so will they degrade them
selves and our politics by interfer
ence. In the unhappy investigation late
ly conducted in W ashington, refined
and elegant ladies were dragfjedj
from domesticity to assist in washing
some very dirty linen. Does any
one thuiK that tue spectacle was au
eleva ting one? Enlarge this tableau
and the atmosphere and the condition
of this will prove uiosi disastrous to
the public peace ana welfare.
onian already has unlimited pow
er for good in the Church, the State
and the home, but she still hankers
after forbidden fruit, and every - ser
pent still, as of old, whispers to her
to seize more power and freeaom
lhe end to the end of time will be
the same.
in comparison with the loss ot a
beloved wife, what are other bereave
ments? The wife! she who fills so
large a space in the domestic heaven
she who is so busied, so unwea
ried bitter, biller, is the tear that
falls upon her grave? You stand
beside her tomb, and think of the
past. Fain would the soul linger
there. No thorns are remembered
about the sweet clay, save those your
own hand may have unwittingly or
unkindly planted. Her noble, tend
er heart lies open to your inmost
Bight. You think of her as all
goodness, all purity, all truth.
But she is dead. The dead head
bo often laid upon your bosom, now
rests upou a pillow of clay. The
hands that ministered so untiringly
are folded white and cold, beneath
the gloomy portals. The heart
whose every beat measured an eter
nity of love, lies under your feet.
And there is no white arm over your
shoulder now no 6peaking face to
look up in the eye of love no trem
bling lips to muriner, "Oh.it is so
sad !" There is bo strange a hush in
every room I No smile to greet you
at nightfall and the clock strikes
and ticks, and ticks and ' strikes. It
was sweet music when . you could
count the hours with her when she
could hear it! Now it seems only
the hour through which you watched
the shadows of death gather upon
her dear face. But many a tale it
tells of joys past, lorrows shared, and
beautiful words and deeda registered
above. You feel that the grave can
not keep her. You know that she is
iu a happier world, but still you feel
that 6he ia by your side an angel
presence.
Cherish these emotions. They
will make you happier. Let her holy
presence be as a charm to keep you
from evil. In all new and pleasant
connections give her a place in your
heart. ' Never forget what she has
done for you, that she has loved you.
Be tender of her memory.
To how many bereaved hearts will
these sentences come who will look
back upon the past with mingled
recollections f sorrow: and joy
perhaps 'of penitence "So live,
hnsband and wife," says an bid Eng
lish worthy, "that when either dies
the spirits of both may mingle."
BonlneM notices in the Local Columns, 29
cents fier line, each insertion.
for lejral and trnient advertioestfrts ? 60
persqnsre of J2 lines, for the first insertion
and $1 00 per square for each sabseqneat insertion.
THE TEJIPER VN'CE VTSIOS.
The following preamble and rescM
lotions adopted by the Oiegon State
Temperance Union,- are intended to
be a statement of the motives actuat
ing the members of the Union in
their withdrawal from the Alliance t
Whereas, Some persons have -attempted
to impugn the, motives of
those delegates who withdrew from
the late session of the Oregon State
Temperance Alliance, aDd
r "Whereas, it has been 'deemed ex
pedieot, by those who participated
m ! that withdrawal that there
should be a true, explicit and au
thoritative statement on their part of
the reasons that impelled them to
that act, and the undersigned having
been duly appointed a committee to
draft resolutions declaring these
reasons, therefore,
He it finydced, 1st, That in with
drawing from the Oregon State Tem
perance Alliance, and asking that
our names should be stricken from
its roll, we are not actuated by any
factious or petulant spirit of resent
ment against the action of the Al
liance, nor by any feelings of spito
ill-will towards any member or mem
bers of that body, tut solely by a
eineere desire to promote the good
of the temperance cause.
2d. That after a patient observa
tion and experience of tho workings
of the Alliance we became satisfied
thut it3 organization was too loose and
flimsy in texture to be effective, and
that founded as it was upon the idea
that its door should be freely opened
to all who applied, whether possess
ing a true temperance record, of
representing any genuine temperance
sentiment or not, its membership
was too heterogeneous for it to be a
safe leader of the temperance ele-
meuts of the State.-
3d. That believing as we did, and
do, that the only true and safe uniou
of the temperance people of Oregon
must be on such a basis as shall ex
clude all organizations and elements
whatsoever . that are not throughly
aud practically enlisted in the cause
of temperance, we felt, and still feel,
that we could not conscientiously
remain in an association founded and
controlled upon au entirely different
plan.
4th. That having thus lost faith in-
the Alliance as an effective agency in
this great reform, we, by the consent
of that body, withdrew for the pur
pose of forming an association that
should really represent the tem
perance organization, temperance
people, and temperance sentiment of
the State, and should represent
nothing else: and that in establishing
the Oregon Slate Temperance Union,
we believe we have fully accomplish
ed that purpose.
5tb. That though we are no longer
members of the Alliance, we have
no hostility toward it, but honestly
wish it well; and that, though we
have little faith in it as a present or
future agency in the temperance re
form, we shall nevertheless heartily
applaud and welcome any good re
sults to this great cause that many
now irora it.
Cth. That with this plain and hon-
est statement of our cause, we are
content to submit our actions to the
candid judgment of the true temper-"
ance men and women of Oregon.
SYL. C. SIMPSON,
S. BOWERS,
W. It. STEWART.
O.V THE WAR PATH.
Lovf, Revenue, Bate and Bad Spelling
Pretty Thoroughly Jlixcd.
The following threatening . and
interesting epistle was picked up in
the lobby of the Four Courts iu St.
Louis, a few days ago. It is a
curious document, wheiher consider
ed philologically, analogically or any
other wayologicaily, and will repay
perusal.
Deab Sir: On my arrive home I
found a leatur from yu. I red the
cuntense wich hurt me very much
and also yu sayed fur me to destroy
your leature I have dun so all redy
and fur yu to say fur me to destroyh
them befour Miss as yu say that
leatter settles all if yu say so veary
weall but remember one thing wich
I will now tell ya and this is it I
swore to yu by the Holy god that
the girl yu mary-that I puissea hear
the first chance I got if she eveaf
crusses me in life if I find out the
write one be sure she shall have ya
now beare that in mind if you ever
mary a girl I murdear her if I have
to wach fur hear night after night I
dos it & in cole blud beare that in
mind fur I doo it if evear I ketdh her
and as fur yu who has tryed to prov
ed yure luve forme has proved faulse
fur if yu had aney love for me as yu
sayed yu did yu would not ha,ve
turned in 5 minuts yu swoar to me
by the gate that yu luve Meyu weant
wriget over to t marry and ingage
your 6elf to hear can I believe that
yu luve me no I kant thout you luve
fur rae was pure & onest but remem-.
ber every vain in my buddy bleeads
fur yu & yu only theare fure I am to
spite and revenge full fur yu to mar
ry anuther, I murdear hear no matter
who she is if she was my own sister
and I doo it in cole blud beare it in
mind oh if you know how my trob
ing harte beets yu would never had
caused me such pane my mind was
made up to doo what yu wrote to me
wich I only vreseaved yeasterday
morning I intend to goo on a thds
dad but this biunks all weal if joj
say that leattur cluse all be twean us
it ia your fait not mine except my
beast lay and wishes froni your tra
frend, , - Kat.
A chemist of Allahabnd, India, in
under arrest for having sent, by rail
a box eontaing matter that exploded
killing a native and
doing
much.
damage to property.
The Gardner's Magazine, in Lon
don, claims to be the oldest of agri-"
cultural papers, and has just cele-
brated the issue of ils oue thousandth)
number.