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THK CROWN OF THE Y EAR.
■t Mae. a. a. a.
O glorious October, bright crown of the yearl
Queen mother of seasonal How laded with
cheerl . .
The rich flowing bounties thy bosom enfold,
Arrayed In thy garments of crimson and
gold.
Tla Nature's last banquet, her grand, royal
and Autumn, each well
favored guest.
With splendor unequalled, her power can
mould:
Iler treasures all georgeous with crimson
and gold.
I ■troll through the orchard path, shady and
■till. ■ .
(How the eoent of the herbage the soft
breeaea fill!)
Here birds and gay Insects a matinee hold,
And the apple boughs bend with their crim
son and gold
A beautiful robe of white blossoms have
crowned
Your old ragged boughs, as each season
rolled 'round.
But a mors precious burden your arms now
Mdtald,
Fair apple trees laden with crimson and gold.
How pleasant to be 'neath your great arms
and dream,
Where the bright sunlight foils in a soft
checkered gleam,
And thick coming fancies my senses con
trolled, ...
And the apple boughs bent with their crim
son and gold.
Sweet mysteries of Nature! How gentle your
Yet stern the oondttions the husbandman
With much toil and labor, ere he can behold
The orchard and field bend with crimson and
gold.
Thus when Springtime and Autumn with us
shall be o'er,
And the harvest of life shall be gathered in
store
Of snob tetont and virtue, may fruit be en-
Like these apple-boughs, laden with crimson
and gold.
Otwru, October, 1875.
TMJK HAND THAT ROCKS TBI WORLD.
Blessings on the hand of woman!
Angela guard har strength and grace
In the cottage, palace, hovel,
O, no matter where the plaoe!
Would that never storms assailed It;
Bain bows ever gently curled;
Forthe hand that rooks the cradle
If the hand that rocks the world.
Infamy's the tender fountain;
Power may with beauty flow;
Mothers first to guide the streamlet.
» Prom thetn souls unresting grow.
Grow on for the good or evil,
Sunshine streamed or darkness hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Ia the hand that rocks the world.
Woman, how divine your mission
Here upon our natal sod;
Keep, O keep the young heart open
Always to the breath of God!
All true trophies of the Ages
Are from Mother Love mspearled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
leit**« hand that roeks the world. '■
Blessings on the hand of woman 1
Fathom, sous anddaughiers cry,
And the sacred song is mingled
WMh thp worship in the sky—
Mingles where no tempest darkens,
Rainbows evermore are curled;
fs&issfi saarsffi
1 1 r ■
j MTThe fastest running time on rec
ord is claimed to have been made at
Hartford, Connecticut, Sept. 2, Kadi
winning a second mile heat in 1.411-4,
with Burgoo BO near that some claimed
that be was entitled to the beat. AJB
tbe race ryae with "catch weights," it
will not rank equal with those where
full weights are required.
SVTbo Chinese are evidently pa
ri. They celebrate their holidays
paying their debt, forgiving their
enemies and shaking hands all round.
The civilised people who bare gone
to China haws not yet iuduoed them to
relinquish these odd and barbarous
habits.
MP* Mini Harriet Hosinar, the Amer
ican sculptor, now in Rome, will be re-
Pfumtiu il th# PlaUdelDbia CM
tenaial Exhibition by an original group
in marble—the largest she has ever un
dertaken.
MT Buesk expects that her grain
harvest this year will feed bar own peo
ptojandaflfoid 7*.000,000 bushels for
gy The mis ssntennial building at
Philadelphia haa S,OOO men at week en
it, and will be finished in January.
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1875.
Hy Boil and How I Cored It.
I've had a boil, got it yet in fact—a
regular, old-fashioned, eigbteen-caret
" bile r Well, while I've had it I have
kept a clean record of all the boil-cures
that have been urged upon mo, and the
publication thereof I hope will result in
the early cure of all boils in this part of
the universe.
My boil came the first part of the
month on my hip, and the first man
who saw me limp, said,
"Halloa! corns hurt you ?"
I said, " No, I've got a boil."
" Don't say? Well now see here;
you go right home aud get soma of
Dalley'a ointmeut, and buy five cents'
worth of lint and put it ou your boil
and it will bo well in tweuty-four
hours."
I thanked him, got on a horse-car
and met another friend who urged me
by all means to make a bread-aad-niilk
poultice and lie perfectly quiet till it
should come to a head, for says he:
"Boils are sore things, and they
don't like to be jammed around much.'
I thought so too, but before I had
time to say so, another friend reached
over and touching me with his cane,
said: .
•' Did I bear you remark that you
were suffering with a boil?"
"Yes sir, suffering is the word."
"Well now, see here John," says he,
" all you've got to do is just to live it
down. Live well, eat plenty of beef
steak, mutton-chops, eggs and omelets,
and then if you will drink a glass of
hot water before breakfast—not warm
water you know, but just as hot as you
can Btand it, you will drive all the im
purities out of your blood instanter."
Beaching my place of business, I
found three more boil-curers awaiting
me; the first man said:
" Now you just give me a quarter
and I'll slip out to a drug store and get
a box of mercurial ointment, and it'll
ease you in less than three minutes.
You see it drives the matter back in
the blood, and the blamed thing has to
beal up in spite of itself."
But while I was taking out the quar
ter another friend stepped up and
begged me not to waste time and
money on mercurial ointment; he had
had boils from a boy up to two yeftrs
ago, when an old woman on Long Is
land, a friend of his mother-in-law,
had cured him completely; the matter
musn't be driven back into the blood,
but it must be coaxed out of it; if not,
there could be no certainty about the
thing.
"And now if you will just let your
boy go down to a botanic drug-store,"
said he, " and ask for ten cents' worth
of red cedar berries, and take and stew
them in a pint of water and drink the
tea, you'll never have another boil."
The next man was a woman who had
listened to the last two prescriptions.
She now pal ia her oasr. Ixcr husband
had had boils all over his body, and
what she knew about the boil business
was only equalled by the late H. G. in
the (arm line. There was only one
sure cure for boils: a few cents' worth
of honey mixed with flour and the yolk
of an egg, would draw a boil to a head
quicker than all the salves in creation.
My boy was standing, hat in hand,
waiting patiently to be sent for one or
all of these lotions, when a Wall street
friend stepped in and said,
•' Why, I can cure you of a dozen
boils in less than two days any time, or
at least I can on any one in tbe' street.'
You see we use Bears' grease on tbe
Bulls, and the gall of Bulls to poultice
the Bears with. Jay Gould buys all
the dead bears ot the Central Park and
Barnnm's Museum and keeps ten men
all the time at work boiling out bears'
grease, and he often draws the sorest
boils to a head before the owners know
it;" besides be knew men who con
tracted for all the bulls' galls that came
to Washington market.
I said, "My Christian friend, my
boil is too serious a matter to joke
about and it's not your kind." I was
about to administer some needed ad
vice to bim, when an Irish tailor next
door dropped in and urged me to send
out and get a little shoe-makers' wax,
and wear it on my boil just one day, i
and be would guarantee a cure or make
no charge for his advioe. .
I sent my boy back witb bis bat, and
seizing my own I started for home, hop
ing tnereby to get rid of my torment
on, who wen as ranch worse than my
boil as tbe boil was worse than a Life
Insurance Agent.
Bnt a man might as well etave of a
chill, as to free himself from boil-doc
tors. Before I reached home I met an
old friend, who, after sympathizing
with me, informed me that if I would
just mix a tablespoouful of " Injun*'
meal in a little water, and drink it three
times a week, it would eradicate all the
effluvia from the blood and make me
fed like a morning star.
On raaohing home I found a Spirit
ualistic aoquaintanoe, who had a mis
sion, waiting for me. I mentioned to
hiss that I had a boil. Said be:
" Why, I've bad hundreds of them
and oan eon these every time; all yoa
hava to do ia to wait till they oome to a
head then (it requires nerve to do it
though), just take a razor or lancet and
lay it open to the bone, and cut the
core right out by the roots!"
I suggested veins and arteries, and
he saw at once that I hadn't any nerve.
I had no money for his mission, but on
my offering him two dollars to help
start a ghost factory here in New York
that should beat the Eddy brothers, he
took up his hat and left me and my boil
to the next tormentor, who was not
long in putting in an appearance.
The next was a Turkish Bath man,
who assured me that he had a very bile
ous turn a year ago, and had sweat
them out of himself by taking six baths.
" You see," he said, "A boil must
be kept moist and warm, and that be
ing a known fact, why the Turkish
Bath is an intervention of Providence
for all Job-ites the world over."
I promised to at onoe call oil my
friend Dr. Miller in 26tb-street, and
let him put me through a " course of
sprouts." I was deterred from so do
ing, by a friend in the ice business,
who told me that one of his neighbors
had tried the baths, and instead of cur
ing him, the boils came out all over
him worse than ever "And now,"
said he, "ifyou will come down to our
ice house and just walk leisurely around
in it, keeping your blood cool for a few
days, you will find that all this super
abundance of heat inycmr blood, which
is evinced by the boil now on your hip,
will gradually pass away, your boil will
go down and you won't have another
till you get red hot again."
This looked as reasonable as the bath
cure certainly, and I promised to be on
hand bright and early next morning,
and try to freeze out my boil. Just as
I was starting out in the morning—
hadn't limped two yards from my
house—when I Rfas hailed by a friend,
who, when informed of my ailment and
intentions, suddenly faced me about in
the direction of my house, saying:
"Ico be blamed! I'll cure you."
Going right into our dining-room be
asked for brown sugar and brown soap;
then helping me to hobble up stairs, he
mafle a poultice of the aoap and sugar,
aad insisted on say m swing it on my
boil all day.
I promised to do so faithfully, but
after he left me it began to ache pretty
hard, I could not help mentioning my
feelings in the old-fashioned way, and
the noise I made being heard by a lady
caller on my wife, she at once said that
she could relieve me and cure me at
the same time. Sending out for a rate
onion, she said all I had to do was to
slice it up and lay it on my boil, and
its cooling properties would relieve the
pain, while its well-known healing
Sowers would effect a perfect cure,
his seemed very reasonable and worth
trying, and we tried it. v
Before its " cooling properties" had
got fully under way, I happened to re
member an important business engnge-
I meat which must be attended to, and
so I shook off my doctor and onion at
the same time. Returning home two
hours later, a young lady friend came
to the front with five cents' worth of
flaxseed poultice which her uncle always
used, and he never was without boils;
she was sure that Job used a flax-seed
poultice. I said 1 guessed not. I was
fosted on Job; all he did was to scrape
imßelf with a piece of broken pie-plate
(Job 2: 7), ana even when boils had
evoluted up to Isaiah's time, all they
did was to make a plaster of figs for
them. But the man who knew the
boil business by heart was near by,
and he gave me the surest cure of all—
cold water before breakfast.
"Drink it freely, and its action on
the liver and blood is such that it will
cure you just &B sure as twice seven is
fourteen." And he could cure any
thing. He was the only man that he
had ever heard of who could set brok
en ribs. But broken ribs are not boils.
I now determined to make an in
ventory of all my boil-cures and mix
them together, and put on one big
plaster which would surely cure it at
onee. But whon I came to mix cold
water and hot water, ice and steam,
flax-seed and cedar berries, shoemaker's
wax and honey, onions and ointment,
Indian meal ana razors, they wouldn't
mix; and there was no necessity for it,
for just then I ran against a chair back,
and with one moderate sized yell, I
found my boil had wiped itself out. —
Oneida Circttlar.
Car A little girl, five years of age,
being asked what is faith, artlessly re
plied : "It is doing just what God wants
us to do, and asking no questions about
it." This covert the whole field ; per
fect trust, combined with implioit obe
dience.
tar A lady of Utiea, N. Y., is ex
pending $16,000 to put a spire 250 feet
high on one of the churches of that
city.
$y Ex-Senator Bevels, aa a colored
Methodist minister, is said to be highly
successful.
ty One Craft is trying to walk 800
miles in fourteen days at Schenectady.
ty Potatoes are selling for S3B gold
per barrel in Havana, Cuba.
REMARKABLE EFFECT OF ARCTIC
COLD ON MAN.
Lieutenant Payer, the Australian
Arctic explorer, has been laying some
of the results of his explorations before
the Geographical Saoiety of Vienna.
Referring to the influence of extreme
cold on the human organization, he re
lated that on March 14, 1874, he and
his companions made a sledge journey
over the Semiklar glacier, in order to
make observations of Francis Joseph
land. On that day the cold marked
58' Fah. below zero. Notwithstanding
this intense cold, M. Payer and a Ty
rolese went out before sunriso to make
observations and sketch. ;>
The sunrise was magnificent; the aun
appeared surrounded, as it does at a
high degree of cold, by small suns, and
its light appeared more dazzling from
the contrast with the extreme oold.
The travelers were obliged to pour
rum down their throats so as not to
touch the edge of the metal cups, whiob
would have been as dangerous as if
they had been red hot; but the rum
had lost all strength and liquidity, and
was as flat and thick as oil.
The- metal ot the instruments waa
just like red hot iron to the touch, as
were some lockets which some of the
travelers romantically, but imprudently,
continued to wear next the skin.
M. Payer says that so great an amount
of cold paralyzes the will, and that, un
der its influence, men, from the un
steadiness of their gait, their stammer
ing talk'and the slowness of their men
tal operations, seem as if they were in
toxicated.
Another effect of cold is a tormenting
thirst, which is due to the evaporation
of the moisture of the body.
It is unwholesome to use snow to
quench the thfrst; it brings on inflama
tion of the throat, palate and tongue.
Besides, enough can never be taken to
quench the thirst, as a temperature of
35J° to 58° below zero, Fab., makes it
taste like molten metal. Snow eaters
in the North are considered as feeble
and effeminate, in the same way as is
an opium eater in the Bast.
The group of travelers who traversed
the snow fields were surrounded by
thick vapors formed by emanations
from their bodies, which became con
densed, notwithstanding the furs in
which the travelers were enveloped.
These vapors fell to the ground, with a
slight noise, frozen into the form of
small crystals. Notwithstanding the
hnmidity of the air, a disagreeable sen
sation of dryness was felt. , i
Every sound diffused itself to a very
long distance; dn ordinary conversation
could be heard at a hundred paces off,
while the reports of guns from the tops
of high mountains could scarcely be
heard. M. Payer explains this phe
nomenon by tho large quantities of
moisture in the Arctic atmosphere.
Meat is chopped, and mercury is used
in the shape of balls.
Both smell and taste become greatly
eufeebled in these latitudes; strength
gives way under*the paralyzing influ
ence of the oold; the eyes involuntarily
close and become frozen. When loco
motion stops, the sole of the foot be
comes insensible.
The only possible protection against
the cold is to be warmly clothed, and
to endeavor as much as possible to pre
vent tho condensation of the atmos
phere, while the much vaunted plans
of annointing and blackening the body
are pronounced to have no real merit.—
Scientific American.
Gov. HENDUICKS ON FINANCE. —Go*.
Hendricks, of Indiana, who at this
time holds a position of much promi
nence in regard to the Presidency, in
his late speech at Zauesville,Ohio, said:
I have heretofore expressed the opin
ion that a wise statesmanship may avoid
the extremes of a contracted currency,
cramping enterprise and labor on the
one hand, and of an inflated and depre
ciated currency on the other; that ttiey
are the extremes of gluttony and starv
ation, and health and strength will
come of neither. I have an unshaken
confidence that the National Council of
our party will so adjust these differences
as to maintain our ancient doctrine in
favor of a sound and stable currency,
shaping our politics in accordance there
to, with a return to specie payments
always in view, and at the same time
avoiding disasters which would imme
diately follow contraction.
19" A Mies Parker of London is said
recently to bave swam 7 miles in 1
hour 37 minutes and 30 seoouds, with
out fatigue.
car The greatest depth of the
Pacific Ocean, as found by the British
ship Challenge, was about five miles.
C3r The American sculptors and
painters are going to do their beet for
the Centennial.
ty Chicago is erecting ten thousand
dwellings this year.
ty Out of 350,000 Ohieagoaus, only
60,000 go to ohurcb.
ty Theyare having green corn so
ciables in Wisconsin.
A PICKLED WATOH.
The other da; we met Wiggins, and
be had a ailver-cased watch—hunting
cases at that. We kad known Wiggins
five and twenty years, and never knew
him to carry a watch before. We asked
him where he got it. He gave us a
nod and a lew, and said he'd tell us.
"LaatfML" he continued, "X killed
the old brindle cow, and put the beet
part of her into the beef-barrel. She
WSB fat and the beef was nice, and I
had nigh onto a full barrel. I didn't
want to make it very salt; to I set it
out in the shed, where the frost might
touch it and keep it; and you'd better
believe it made good eatin*.
"One day m; wife says to me—says
she—'Wiggins, 'pears to me our beef
is goin' mighty fast' I went and
looked, and, sure enough it was goin'—
goin' rather faater'n I thought it ought
to. Tve noticed it lowerin unaccount
ably this long time,' said my wife.
'Somebody is steahn' it. Why don't
ye set a trap?'
"But my neighbors were all good
hearted kind of folks—though one or
two of 'em might be just a little inclined
to poke 'round when thoy didn't be
long—and I didn't want to hurt 'em.
I concluded, howsumever, that it would
be beet to put the barrel, with what little
of the beef was left, down oellor—and
I did it.
"Well, when the beef was all used
up, and I went to.clear out the barrel,
I found this watch in the pickle. It
looked to me like Tom Gammon's
watch—Tom had worked for me con
siderable, and I had seen him have the
watch —or one very much like it. When
I saw Tom, I showed him the watch,
and he said right off it was his.
"How did ye lose itf" said I.
"I carried it in my pocket without
any chain, and it must have dropped
out when I was stoopin'," said he.
"Well," Baid I, "then you must have
been stoopin' over my beef barrel, for I
found it in the pickle P
"With that, Tom looked kind of
sheepish, and I guess he saw the twinkle
in my eye.
' 'Let me look at that 'ere watch agin,"
said he.
"He looked at'it a little while, and
then handed it back to me."
"On the whole Mr. Wiggins," says he,
"I guess that ain't my watch, arter all.
It mußt belong to somebody else." And
with that he walked off.
"I carried the watch to our jeweler,
and he said that the cases shut so tight
that the works hadn't been pickled a
bit; and for a dollar he cleaned it up in
good shape, and set it runnin'. It's a
first-rate time-keeper, and I reckon that
whoever took my beef paid all 'twas
worth." — Ledger.
A DISCOURAGED EDITOR. —He was a
sad-eyed meek-faced man, and we sup
posed he merely wanted to give na a
news item; but when he commenced
telling us about building a barn on his
ranch 190x280 feet, seven stories high,
and ornamented with bay windows, we
thought it was about time to check
him, so we commenced:
"Well, we must admit that is a pret
ty large barn for this country, but baok
in the States onr father built a barn
356x400 feet, nine stories high, and
furnished with eteam elevators; the—"
"Back in the States," interrupted
our listener. "Why, that wasn't much
of a barn for the States. I remember
now, that when I was quite young, my
father built a chicken coop 560 by 831
feet. I don't recollect how many sto
ries is was high, but I know there was a
cupola for the roosters."
"llow high was that cupola?" we
asked.
"I don't remember the exact hight
now. Mister," was the reply, "but I
know it was so high that the upper
tiers of roosters died from the effects of
the light atmosphere the first night."
Then he looked up toward the ceiling
and commenoed humming'' Jenus loves
me," and we went oat nod eat down on
a wood pile, end wondered why some
body was always outstripping us in the
raee of life.— fhirplay (Col.) Sentinel.
ry The most remarkable ooncsrt
troupe over organized has begun its
performance in Paris, The company
forms a quartette, and consists of four
dogs. Herr Hans Tammer, an Austrian,
has taught each of these dogs to bark
in two notes, and as no two dogs' notes
are alike, the canine impresssno gets a
a full diapason. We are informed this
canine constellation renders, "La Donne
Mobile" and other airs with neat life
and animation. It would no doubt be
a pleasure to all of us to listen to "Old
Dog Tray,'* rendered by this organisa
tion.
ry France this year will make at a
low estimate, 4,840,000,000,000 gal
lons of wine. *
17* Mr. Balaton's funeral in San
Francisco was attended by over 30,000
people.
gy Tha Chicago gambling booses
have issued regular business cards.
fy Germany has nearly 1,000,000
more women than men.
WHOLE HO. 783.
MALE OEAKBEBXIM.
i An American lady, visiting Pan* «M
horrified beyond measurewnen, on the
1 first morning in that city, bsiotw she
had risen, three mala "ebambSrtoaide"
entered her room. With « omfiUd
brow No. 1 walked in and daem a tiny
table to the bedside, noon which he
' delicious pat of batter moulded to the
! shape of a strawberry, sooted with a
diamond of ice, and resting npon a
fresh crisp of lettuce; along French
roll, a dainty China jog of boiling
milk, a few lamps of sogsrand a silver
pot of ooflse. He sold "Banjoul,
Madame," as he deposited hie inviting
; burden, and withdrew, leering in plain
er sight Pierre, the mustaobed "cham
bermaid," who was jast putting npon
the wash-stand a tin ean of hot Water,
and spreading snowy towehmbont with
a deft hpnd, albeit a year dirty one, as
any Marie or Lizette could bare shown.
' No. 3 proved to be Francois, also a
whiskered chamberman, who bote be
fore him, as the warriors oi old bore
their shields, the tin bath-tub which
bad been ordered overnight. And as
the occupant of the couch gazed in
wonder at the unwonted spectacle of
three men in her ropra at that on timely
season, she felt sure that she had tasted
the flavor of foreign experience that she
had longed for, and concluded that ahe
{(referred her next taste to be of > dif
erent kind. However, ladies who have
lived long abroad, declaim that than
are advantages in the service of sham*
bermen that quite counterbalance the
infelicities. For instance, when served
by Henri rather than Marie, one never
sufiois from a suspicion that if, by ac
cident, bureau drawers are left unlocked,
one's daintiest articles of lingerie go out
upon a holiday with Mane and her
lover, or that the best velvet jacket
takes an "outing" and figures largely
at Cafes Obantants in the Champ
Ely sees, or worse places.
m m m " '■ "Ttlj'r
A MIUOB IK THJ Moon.—A meat re
markable discovery is reported from
tbe astronomical observatory established
by tbe Russian government several
years ago at Pemlatesks, tbe highest
point with one exception, on tbe Hima
layan range. For seveaal months, a
peculiar bright spot had been discov
ered, shining from the extreme edge of
the moon's diso, at a point where no
mountains break tbe continuity af its
perimeter. This light suddenly dis
appeared and remained invisible for
nearly twelve months. It bas lately
reappeared in greater brllliaiKy than
ever, and the immense power 6t the
telescope attached to the above obser
vatory, so well known in the scientific
world, has developed the fact that the
light proceeds from soma huge, bur
mahed substance, noting as a mirror,
which must be at least one hundred
feet in diameter. The most iwioaufii
ing thing in tbe matter is the almost
complete proof that this is actually a
mirror of artificial constfuetiOß, and
the theory of the aavsns at Paints leaks
is, that it is erected for obcerratldM of
a scientific character, principally to Ob
serve the phases of the earth's ear
face.
It is well known that the immense
hight of that portion of the moon which
is turned toward Urn earth, not only
through the well known lawn of figut
itation, keeps that portion of her sur
face turned toward as, but also SM
ders it uninhabitable. It is supposed
that the side turned from us ttayfiavu
an atmosphere suitable for am mat life,
and that intelligent beings observing
the halo of light shed around its hori
zon by reflections from the earth,.may
have taken this means to sacaftain the
cause. Some ingenious device to place
a mirror at a hight wbare animal life
could not be snetaiaed, was thn basalt.
It is hoped this discovery may lead, to
others in regard to our interesting
lite.
WHAT THK Mnnwn» Asa.—The
grant influx, of Meanojwtgs jftSSiyHM*
country, and their settlement in adtMass
in the Western States, giWatiifrfiWl
their history, raHgtan sad tie
tome. They derive their n*S>o. from
Mennon Symons, a cotemporoiy of
Lather, under whose guidance they
were organized end doctrinated. In
some reepeote they ere like the Baptists,
in others like the Qnsktcs, instill others
like themselves. They «jte opposed to
war, end consistently refuse military
Mrvioe or to bold civil ottos. They de
cline to take o»the, in obedienoe to
their internrstatiw of tbif OkiiiMin
precept, "Swsor not at aiL" They
chcseu by lot. There are no
sp^es^nJdie^^lstiCT^toeiMMwnM
morning to Bnturdqy thj we
utlTXm
to say" thus and eo.