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VOL. 1. NO. 7.
J. D. KIRKWOOD,
X> E IX TI S T,
Pall man. \V»Mhi)i2ton TVr.
Office-Hours : 9 a. m. to 12 m.. and 1 to 4 p. m.
STKVVART BLOCK, MAIN ST.
IE. H. LETTERMAN & CO.,
Dealers in Orain.
Highest market price paid for Wheat,
Oats, barley and Flax.
PULLMAN", - WASHINGTON TER.
WILLIAM NEWTON.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
PULLMAN, W. T.
Money to loan on real •state at the lowest
rates of Interest. All lefral baa^iess promptly
attended to. Taxes paid for non-residents. Col
lections promptly made and remitted.
H. J. WKBB.
WEBB & WATT,
Physicians and Surgeons
Are Prepared to Treat All Special
Diseases.
Office in Stewart Block.
PULLMA.F, WASHINGTON TER.
11. C. WILLIAMSON,
— FASHIONABLE —
Barber and Hair Cutter.
Special Attention is Given to
Cutting : and : Trim in ills'
Ladies' and Children's Hair.
Hot and Cold Baths.
PULLMAN, WASH. TER.
PACIFIC
INSURANCECO
CAPITAL STOCK :
$500000 $500,000 $500,000
PORTLAND - - OREGON.
W. V, WINDUS, Agent.
I'liUniiiii. Washington Ter.
MASON BROTHERS,
— Proprietors —
Pullman Meat Market.
Dealers in all kinds of
Fresh and Cured Meat.
Specialties in Season.
Highest market prices paid for Cattle
.-... and Hides, Hogs, etc.
• XoJlue Block, - - Main Street.
VICTOR HUNZIKER,
. Jeweler and: Engraver
* — AND —'
-:- Practical -:- Watchmaker. -:-
Pullman. Washington Tor. .
§Jf Repairing of Watches, Clocks, and -Jew
elry a specialty. Pcstofflcc Building.
». » -
BARNEY HATTBLTP,
— TROPRIKTOR —
Pullman Sample Room,
Cor. Main and tirand streets.
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
l'arfoct order maintained and Rertlemanly
treatment to every one.
l»oll man. - ■"• - Washington Ter.
Union Pacific Railway.
OREGON SHORT LINE.
Through Pullman •Sleepers and Modern Day
roaches to Omaha, Council Bluffs and Kansas
City making DIRECT CONNECTIONS to the
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CITY. OGTIEX, COUNCIL BUFFS, OMAHA,
KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, mid all
: ]«)ints'iu the East and South.
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' man I« all points named.
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* All Through Trains.
" tenter Information regarding territory
!r*ed rates of fare, de«oriptive pamphlets,
■ ««ivf^l^o nearest agent of the Onion Pacific
• u'iiiwSy or O. R. &X. C0.,0r address .., .-*;
' fr , H. H/BROWN, Agent, Pullman. _;
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CONGRESSIONAL.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
An increase of pension has been
granted to Charles F. Fox, Seattle.
A railway postoffice service has been
established on the line of the Northern
Pacific and Fuget Sound Shore rail
roads, between Seattle at Tacoma, W.
T.
The following fourth-class postmas
ters have been commissioned: At
Eola.Or., Sylvester Wilson; At Jewell,
Or., Charles A. Bottom ; and at Kip
aria, W. T., Henry Carstens.
The pension department has granted
a pension te Elizabeth Quinn, of Can
yonville, Or. Her husband was a sol
dier in the Mexican war.
Representative Hermann has secured
a pension and considerable back pay
for Christopher Lehman, an old sol
dier of Douglas county, Or., who was
wounded in the civil war.
Daniel W. Barker has been ap
pointed postmaster at Cherryville,
Clackamas county, Oregon, in place
of William L. Young, who has been
removed.
J. F. WAIT.
Isaac N. Sargent, postmaster at
Mitchell, Crook, county, Or., has re
signed, and James H. Oakes has been
appointed in his place.
The following resident of Oregon
has been granted a pension : Mexicam
survivor, Henry Fillery, Perrydale.
An increase of pension has been
granted to John Stock, Baker city.
Secretary Vilas has informed Sen
ator Mitchell that he has just arranged
to complete the allotment of the lands
of the Umatilla reservation, in accord
ance with the terms of the act passed
at the last session of congress.
Patents have been granted as fol
lows : Oregon—John S. George, New
port, gold separating apparatus. Nev
ada—Sands Worman, Gold Hill,
bicycle and wheel (two patents).
Idaho—Charles Smith, Pocatello,
locomotive boiler.
The house committee on river and
harbor improvements held an in
formal meeting, and it was agreed to
prepaie a bill at once. The prospect,
however, of a river and harbor bill be
ing signed by the president, is so dis
mal that it requires much effort to get
either branch of congress to enter
heartily into the work of preparing one.
The attorney-general has decided
that the secretary of the interior has
no authority of law to permit the
Washington & Idaho Railroad Com
pany to construct, under the act of
May 18,1888, a railroad through the
Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation in
Idaho territory, in advance of the as
certainment, fixing and actual pay
ment of the compensation provided
for in the act.
In the senate Senator Mitchell in
troduced a resolution, which was
agreed to, directing the secretary of
the treasury to transmit to the senate
copies of the settlement between the
United States and Oregon, on account
of the sum of $70,268 appropriated by
congress to pay the Modoc war claims;
also a statement of the 5 per cent,
claims on account of cash sales of
public lands. .
Commodore Stockton, who, with
Capt. Dahan and Commodore Hester,
constitute the board appointed by the
secretary of the navy to select a site
for a navy yard on the Northwest
coast, stated that the board would
probably start within the next ten
days to examine the Pacific coast for
that purpose. The coast of Oregon
and Washington territory will be thor
oughly examined for an eligible loca
tion. The site selected will probably
be on Puget Sound, or thereabouts.
The fish commission has written to
Senator Dolph that he proposes to
take up and ship, in January next, a
carload of lobsters and white fish to
the coast of Oregon. The car will be
dispatched from Wood's Holl, with a
number of mature lobsters, sufficient
to establish several colonies at euit
able points on the cot^t of Oregon
and Washington territory. At North
ville station some seven or eight mil
lions of white fish eggs will be taken
on and hatched en route. The white
fish will be planted in Wyoming and
Dakota, as well as in Oregon.
Commenting v;?on prospective work
for Oregon, Representative Hermann
says that his attention will be chiefly
confined to measures introduced in the
last session of congress, and still pend
as unfinished business. The chief of
these which remain pending is the In
tdian depredation bill, providing for a
final adjustment of spoliation claims.
This passed th« hous3 and is n6w be
fore the senate, where it was not con
sidered at the close of the last session.
Then come bills for light house and
life saving stations at the mouths of
the Suislaw and Ooquille' rivers, pub
he building bills for Portland and
appropriation of arms for the Oregon
militia, which passed through the
house last session, but which was not
then considered by the senate; bill
forfeiting the Northern Pacific railroad
land grant between Wallula and Port
land, which passed the house and is
now in conference between the two
houses; wagon road land forfeiture
bills; pensions to Oregon Indian war
survivors; and the Indian war debt.
The project for a boat railway on the
Columbia river at The Dallea may be
considered. Here, however, in tbe
eve,nt of success, tbe danger of veto
is great, in view of the president's
well known reluctance to authorize
expenditures for internal revenue im
provements. .
PULLMAN, WASH. TER., DECEMBER, 15, 1868.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Blame is said to contemplate writ
ing another book.
Two cases of small-pox have ap
peared in South Chicago.
General Lougstreet called upon
General Harrison Monday.
Congressman McKinley pays that he
is in the race for the Speukership.
In Indianapolis there is a belief that
Blame will not enter the Cabinet.
Leaky gas jets are causing the death
of beautiful shade trees in Baltimore.
Russia is supplying Montenegro
with munitions of war.
A general and immediate strike of
colliers in Belgiam has been decided
upon.
The Pope has been advised by
France to leave Itome in case of a
rupture between France and Italy.
It is now known definitely that Em
peror William is confined with ear
complaint and not because of a cold.
Lord Lansdowne, Viceroy of India,
was received at Bombay with unusual
ceremony at hia landing.
Gladstone, ia the House of Com
mon?, attacked the Irish policy of the
Government and Balfour replied.
Boston is holding a' Fair to raise
money to build colleges for Indians in
Dakota.
A bullet fired at a Chicago man
struck a penny in his pocket and was
turned aside.
The agitation in New York against
"going out between act?" £" -*> apace
among New York theater frequenters.
The Press is to be the name of tiie
new Republican organ to be started in
Washington.
A band of regulators is terrifying
and maltreating negroes in South
Jackson and Clay counties, Ti:nu.
The London times is enraged over
the collection ot money in this coun
try for the defense of Mr. Parnell.
Albany proposes to have a "winter
carnival," and the Common Council
has voted aid to the amount of $1,000.
L. Houston and J. Huzelwood fa
tally shot each other on the steps of a
church at Elco, Illinois, Sunday.
Mrs. Jennie Greenwell killed her
husband at Grand Tower, 111., Monday.
Jealousy was the cause.
John W. Young, a son of Brigham
Young, and a Mormon apostle, will
reside in Washington, D. C, perma
nently.
Tammany proposes to control tbe
National Bank in which the bulk of
the New York city funds will be de
posited.
The exclusion of the colored chil
dren from the public schools of Felic
ity, Ohio, has created a bitter feeling
between the two races.
Bancroft, the historian, is suffering
from a severe cold and his friends are
uneasy. The age of Mr. Bancroft is
eighty-two.
Proctor Knott of Kentucky is
spoken of as the probable successor
of Civil Service Commissio»er Oberly,
who has resigned.
The Democrats of West Virginia, it
is believed, have succef ded in count
ing in Fleming, the Democratic can
didate for Governor.
A Washington Territory colony
plan has been organized in Chicago.
Land will be bought and Chicago peo
ple will cultivate it.
Sherman's going into the Cabinet is
said to depend upon the assurance
that Foraker will not be iiis successor
to the Senatorship.
The Interstate Commission has de
cided that free passes given by rail
roads as compensation for securing
business are illegal.
Veterans of General Harrison's
Seventeenth Indiana Regiment—loo
strong —hope to have the post of
honor at the inauguration.
Jersey City Police Commissioners
removed the Chief of Police before the
election, because he set his men to
hunting up fraudulent voters.
The Commercial Bank of Odessa
has ordered the construction of twelve
gun-boats for use in behalf of Monte
negro.
It is reported that very important
fortifications are being erected iv
Savoy, outside of the neutral zone of
the Franco-Italian frontier.
King Milan has returned all of Na
talie's presents and ordered that she
shall be addressed hereafter as "Mrs.
Natalie de Keeiko."
The plans and specifications of the
life-saving station on the Pacific Coast
ordered to be built by Congress, are
nearly ready and the work is being
pushed.
William Langley Northam died yes
terday iv New York. The deceased
was a California pioneer and one of
the founders of Sacramento city. He
was eighty-two years old.
Mrs. James G. Blame, Jr., has de
cided to hecome an actress, but will
not drop the contemplated suitaginast
the Blame family for the alienation of
her husband's affections.
Rumor in Washington says Wil
liam R. Hearst has married Theresa
Powers, a woman with whom he was
very friendly while he was at Harvard
College, and that he has gone to Paris.
AGRICULTURAL.
A Minnesota farmer believes that no
fodder is equal to green amber cane
for producing butter.
Feed the calf well. 2 Scant feed
means a scant calf, and with such a
calf a scant cow is the sure result.
The latest competition threatening
British faranerg is the importing of
bailed hay from the United States.
The State of New York is the second
barley-producing State in the country,
and the largest producer of hops.
California's production of dried
fruit has increased from 5,070,000
pounds in 1883 to 26,605,000 pounds
in 1887.
An orange tree in the gardens of
Versailles is four hundred and fifty
years old. It was planted by Eleanor
of Castile in 1416.
Cull the fowls very closely. It will
not pay to winter disqualified birds.
There is more success with fewer birds
and higher pricea.
Experience proves that cows which
have a due allowance of salt give
milk richer than those which are not
supplied with salt.
In feeding skim milk to calves lin
seed meal, or a little fiaxseed jelly,
should be added to replace the cream
which has been removed.
A few quince trees in a rich soil will
often give very profitable returns. In
many oases of failure the cause is the
poor soil in which the trees are grow
ing.
With fruit growing as with every
other business success caa only be as
sured by hard work end perserverance
with careful attention to the small
items of work.
Galen Wilson says that a speedier
and cleaner way to remove the skin of
new potatoes, than the common prac
tice of scraping with a knife, is to use
a "scrubbing brush."
Peter Henderson says that after the
cabbage maggot is once developed, no
application will kill it that will net at
the same time kill the plant. Drawing
the earth away from the stems, thus
destroying the eggs before they hatch,
if carefully folio wed /•■fill save the
crop.
Every feeder who has given his hogs
close attention knows that after the
hogs have reached a certain stage as
regards to growth keeping any longer
is an expense with very little profit.
Probably the best tonic for fowls is
the Douglass mixture: Take cne
pound of sulphate of iion and two
ounces of sulphuric acid and dissolve
in one gallon of water. Add oue
tablespoonful of this mixture to one
gallon of drinking water for the feirds.
Remove the droppings from the
poultry houses every morning instead
of once or twice a week, as is often di
rected. If this practice were strictly
adhered to there would be less disease
among poultry and better results
generally.
It is observed that "the masa of the
butter sold goes for half price, year in
and out, largely because it is churned
at the wrong temperature by persons
too stingy or too stupid to invest in a
good thermometer. A variation of
rive degrees from the standard spoils
or greatly injures either butter or
cheese."
The wood harvest, for keeping us
warm, and the ice harvest, for keep
ing u^ cool, go right along together on
the farm, without much reflection as
to how these artificial wants, from be
ing luxuries formerly, have become
necessities and are constantly increas
ing in their demands upon us.
Where raspberries and other small
fruits are grown in the garden, and
the labor is not great for so doing,
they should be banked up with dirt as
a protection to the roots and canes
against frosts. Trees are also bene
tited by having earth banked against
them. ' The earth should be removed
in the spring and the ground leveled.
The first grand exhibition of the
Ohio Valley Fanciers' Club will be
given in Cincinatti December 12 th to
19th, inclusive. It promises to be the
finest display of poultry, pigeons and
pet stock ever witnessed in the West.
Full particulars and entry blanks can
be procured from the secretary, W. C.
Riedington, 476 Baymiller street, Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
The moure pest in Australia is much
worse than the rabbit pest. The cli
mate is so soft that they have thriven
enormously, and there is said to be
"hardly a residence or sjore that is not
pestered by the plague, while from
every side come tales of crops de
voured so rapidly that many fields
have had to be abandoned, what was
left not being worth reaping."
It is distressing te see a farmer work
ing for less than the wages of a com
mon laborer, and at the same time re
ducing the productive capacity of his
land each year, so that the future
holds no better outlook for him ; and
on thousands of farms the first ■step
toward changing this bad state of af
fairs would be the seeding of a large
part of the farm to grass.
The Australian Government is build
ing a fence of wire netting eight thou*
sand miles long, to divide New South
Wales and Queensland, in order to
keep the jack rabbits out of the latter
country. Australia is paying not lees
than $125,000 per year to keep the
pests down in what is known as Crown
lands. The offer is still kept up of
$100,000 to any man who will produce
something that will exterminate the
pests.
It is certainly much to be regretted
that so few farmers keep accurate re
cords of their operations. A double
loss results to themselves and to the
public. It is an absolute loss to any
man to have no actual knowledge of
his business affairs, based upon re
corded facts. And it is a public loss
to have no accurate record of the re
sults of the most important industry
of the country, being that upon which
the prosperity of all others is found
to depend.
The annual product of honey in
America is 28,000,000 pounds, or half
a pound apiece to the population. In
1880 Tennessee made 2,131,000; New
York, 2,089,000; Ohio, 1,627,000;
North Carolina, 1,501,000; Kentucky,
1,500,565; and seven other States —
Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, lowa,
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia
—produced more than 1,000,000
pounds each ; altogether in the States
named more than half the entire pro
duct of the country.
An apple should never at any time,
while being handled or stored, become
cooler than the surrounding atmos
phere. If it does not it will never
"sweat," for this •'sweat" is simply at
mospheiic moisture, precipitated up
on the cool applp, precisely as it is
precipitated on the outside of a pitch
er of ice water in summer. Au ap
ple can not be made to "sweat" in any
true sense. The bkin of all sound,
smooth apples is nearly as air and
water tight as India rubber.
Although irarnence quantities of
Chicago dressed beef are daily shipped
to Eastern points for consumption,
and sold at prices paying heavy pro
fits to the dressed-beef magnates of
the West, yet the trade in ilre3sed
mutton has not been to successfully
conducted. The principal reason
seems to be that almost immediately
the mutton is removed from the re
frigerator car, and hung in the provis
ion store, it turns black,, its unsightly
appearance checking its sale.
On a recent morning every can of
milk coming into New York was ex
amined by the State dairy inspectors.
The total number of cans, inspected
was 5,728, and of this number only
fifteen of a douhlful character were
found. Samples of these were taken
for analysis, They showed a light per
cent :ige of cream, indicating that the
milk had been skimmed. The result
of the inspection shows that the milk
now coming to the city over the rail
roads named is of better quality than
ever before.
As a general rule the following con
stitutes n carload : 20,000 pounds or
70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 90 of
flour, 60 of whisky, 200 sacks of flour,
6 cords of hardwood, 7 cords of soft
wood, 18 to 20 head of cattle, 50 to CO
head of hogs, 80 to 190 head of sheep,
340 bushels of wheat, 360 of corn,
680 of oats, 400 of brjley, 360 of ap
ples, 330 of Irish potatoes, 356 of
sweet potatoes, 1,000 bushels of bran.
Stronger cars are now built to carry
much heavier loads.
No farmer is a good feeder who doeß
not study the individual peculiaritieß
of his animals. Some require more
than others, and to give too much is
as bad as to feed too sparingly. In
the same litter of pigs some will be
larger thau others. Some will fatten
readily, while others just as thrifty
will grow long and large in frame,
with less fat. These last, whether
male or female, should be reserved for
breeding. Food has something to do
with this, but individual peculiarities
of different animals has quite as
much.
A man living near Santa Cruz has
been catching quail in a peculiar way.
For three weeks he has been spread
ing grain in the road near his place,
where the quail abound. On the day
the law was out he put wheat in the
place as usual, but had previously
soaked the wheat in whisky. Watch
ing the place, he saw the quail come
out, eat, get drunk, and in a short
time lie down stupified. He Chen
went to them and gathered about one
hundred in a sack that he carried with
him. A few that were not fully drunk
were caught by his dog. He has
practiced the same method since suc
cessfully.
A Tompkins County correspondent
of the New York Tribune writes: "It
is profitable business raining winter
lambs, but, like any other, success is
the reward o* close attention. Lambs
last v/inter sold for $12 in January,
and then along down to $0 in the last
of April. The extra feed and care for
the ewes is nearly paid for in their su
perior condition for mutton in early
spring, .when mutton is scarce. A
shepherd can care for a herd of one
hundred and fifty ewes, and have an
easy time doing it. If this is rot bet
ter than selling lambs in the fall at
six months of age for $3, the price
here now, I would like {o be corrected.
2. The ewes arc shorn soon after com
ing into winter quarters, else, owing to
the temperature (50 degrees) kept up
with best results with lambs, the ewes
would shed their wool before spring.
A visit to a winter-lamb raiser last sea
eon, who had neglected shearing, re
vealed a sorry, ragged-looking fleck of
ewes. It may be here remarked that
with properly constructed quarters no
artificial heat is necessary, The sheep
generate too much heat and the tem
perature is kept even by air shafts.
Portland Market Report.
WHEAT— Valley, $1 45@$1 47$
Easton Oregon, $1 40.
BARLEY— Whole, $0 85@1 00;
ground, per ton, $20 09@21 50.
OATS—Milling, 32i@34c.
HAY—Baled, $10@$13.
SEED— Blue Grass, 12@15c.; Tim
othy, 7@Bc; Red Clover, 11® 12^«.
FLOUR— Patent Roller, $5 00;
Country Brand, $4 75.
EGGS—Per doz, 35c.
BUTTER—Fancy roll, per pound,
25c; pickled, 22i@25c.; inferior'
grade, 20@2253.
CHEESE—Eastern, @13Jc; Ore
gon, 13@14c.; California, 14c.
VEGETABLES— Beets, p*r sack,
$1 00; cabbage, per lb., J@lc ; carrots
per Bk., $ 75; lettuce, per doz. 10c.;
onions, $ 85; potatoes, per 100 lbs.,
40c.; radishes, per do*., 15@20c.;
rhubarb, per lb., 6c.
HONEY—In comb, per lb., 18c;
strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. B£c.
POULTRY — Chickens, per doz.,
$3 00@3 50; duck's, per doz., $5 00@
6 00; geese, $6 00@7 00; turkeys,
por lb., 12£ c.
PROVISIONS—Oregon hams, 14c
per lb., Eastern, 15(5>16c.; Eastern
breakfast bacon, 14c. per lb.; Oregon
10@llc.; Eastern lard, 10@ll$c. per
lb.; Oregon, 10c.
GREEN FRUITS— Apples, $50
@ 65c: Sicily lemons.. $6 00@6 50
California, $6 00@6 50; Naval oranges
$6 00; Riverside, f5 00; Mediterra
nean, $4 25.
DRIED FRUITS—Sun dried ap
ples, sc. per lb.; machine dried, 10@
lie, pitless plums, 9c,; Italian
prunes, 10@12c.; peaches, 10<glie,;
raisins, $2 40@2 50.
HIDES—Dry beef hides, 12@13c;
culls, G@7c.; kip and calf, 10@12c. ;
Murrain, 10 @!2c.; tallow, 4@4^c.
WOOL—Valley, J.7@2oc: Eastern
Oregon. 8® 15c.
LUMBER—Rough, per M, $10 00;
edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G.
sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 floor
ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling, per
M,slß 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00;
clear rough, per M, $20 00; clear P. 4
S, per M, $22 50; No. 1 flooring, per
M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M,
$22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50;
stepping, per M, $25 00; over 12
inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40
to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60,
extra, $4 00; 1± lath, per M, $2 25;
1* lath, per M, $2 50.
COFFEE—Quote Salvador, 17 to
17jc.; Java, 24 to 26£ c.; Arbuckle's's
r*&sU:d, 22^3.
MEAT—Beef, wholesale, 2i@3c;
dressed, 6c.; sheep, 3c; dressed, 6c.;
hogs, dressed, bj@7c.; veal, s@7c.
BEANS—Quote email whites, $4 50;
pinks, $3 ; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50;
Limas, $4 50 per cental.
PICKLES—KegB quoted steady at
$1 35.
SALT— Liverpool grades of fine
quoted $18, $19 and $20 for tbe three
sizes; stock salt, $10.
SUGAR—Prices for barrels; Golden
C,6£c.; extra C, 7£c.; dry granulated
BJe.; crushed, fine crushed, cube and
powdered, Bfc.; extra C, 6f c.; halves
and boxes, £c. higher.
New Circle of Kinsfolk.
What Is this naturalization, however,
trot a sort of parable of human life? Are
wo not always trying to adjust ourselves
to new relations, to get naturalized into a
new family? Does one ever do it entirely?
And how much, of the lonesomeness of
life comes from the failure to do it! It
is a tremendous experiment, we all ad
mit, to separata a person from his race,
from his country, from his climate, and
tho habits of. his part of the country, by
marriage. It is* only an experiment dif
fering in degree to introduce him by mar
riage into a new circle of kinsfolk. Is he
ever anything but a sort of tolerated,
criticised or admired alien? Does the
time ever come when the distinction
ceases between his family anfi iers?
They say love is stronger tiian death.
It may also be stronger than family—
while it lasts; but was there ever a
woman yet whose most ineradicable feel
ing was not the sentiment of family and
blood, a sort of base line in life upon
which trouble and disaster always throw
her back? Does she ever lose the instinct
of it? "We used to say in Jest that a
patriotic man was always willing to sacri
fice his wife's relations in war, but bis.
wife took a different view of it; and when
it becomes a question of office is it not the
wife's relations who get them.? To be
sure, Ruth said, thy people shall be my
people, and where thou goest I will go,
and all that; and this beautiful sentiment
has touched all time, and man has got the
historic notion that he is the head of
things. But is it true that a woman is
•ver really naturalized? Is it in her na
ture to be? Love will carry her a great
war, and *o far countries, and to many
endurances, and her capacity of self sacri
fice is great ex than man's; but would she
ever be sntirely happy torn from hex
kindred, transplanted from the associa
tions and interfacings of her family life?
—Charles Dudley Warner in Harper's
Magazine.
—Charles G. Iceland, writing on
"Crow Lore" in the St. James' Gazette,
says: "Everybody knows the Royston
rook or crow with a white jacket.
The gypsies say that this equivocating
and unprincipled bird once went
among the rooks, who inquired:
•Where did you get that white coat?'
To which fee replied: 'I- borrowed it
from a fool of a pigeon.' Then, going
among the pigeons, he said: 'Sariskan,
pals —how are you, my brothers?' To
which a pigeon replied: 'What, are
you one of us!- Where did you get
those black trousers and waistcoat?'
'Mum's the word, pal,' answered th»
Royston: 'I stole them from those ras
cals, the rooks.'"
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SUDDEN DEATfI.
ONE OF THE SAD RESULTS OF OUR'
"GO-AH EADATI ESS."
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American*, a* a Class, Live Too Fast to
Live Long— The Strong Man's Great Mis
take — The Old Gourmand at the Cafe.
Apoplexy.
The Bible speaks of three score yean and
ten as the age to which man may reasonabl)
look forward. It seems as if at least seventy'
equable, contented and happ7 year*—full of
such comfort and gratification as the mem
bers of each class .in the community have
severally a right to expect—should and
might be within the reach of every man and
woman. In some countries, however, we find
this to be much more nearly the case than
with us. Americans, as a rule, live too fast
to live long. * Every person is originally en
dowed with about so large a stock of vitality,
out of which to fashion his life. , • •
It amounts to nothing more nor less than
the simplest of problems in arithmetic to
show that if he draws upon this stock twie»
as heavily as he should the duration of hi*
existence will only be one-half of what it wu
originally intended to be. Indeed, the mat
ter stands much worse than this; his life is
likely to be at any moment suddenly cut oil
short long before reaching even the half. A
steam engine may use up its fuel in two
weeks or one, a.-cording to the rate at^which
it is driven; if it is sufficiently overworked
the result may be a general "smash," or such
an injury as will necessitate a long and
tedious "stopping for repairs," if. Indeed, it
ever becomes "as good as new." We hardly
seem ready to recognize the bounds estab
lished by nature, but when wo have reached
them, in our greed and ambition, we summon
our will, and, as tho expression runs, "Uvb
upon our nerve," congratulating ourselves on
our praiseworthy display of "American go
abeadativeness." Unfortunately nature hat
not yet become sufficiently progressive in her
ideas to manufacture constitutions expressly
for the American market, and in the midst of
our triumphant tour de force, click, some
thing snaps, and we vanish from the stage or
break down for years, ]>erhaps for life.
In every community such "breakdown*"
may be pointed out on every side, and many,
even of our most "successful" men, freely
confess they have paid too high a price for
their prosperity. The prizes of existence are
so greut with us, and seem to be so within
tho grasp of all, that practically all set out
to win them. Each is unflagging and merci
less to himself in his grim resolve to obtain
that for which he is striving. He works day
and night, including holidays, and not infre
quently Sundays; he reuses to take time to
eat bib rr^ais properly, and in such a sense
less luxury as a vacation ho never dreams of
indulging; amusement he regards as frivo
lous, and as abstracting too much valuable
time from the grosecutib:* of the all absorb
ing project. _. Every waking minute he keeps
his brain grinding away over ways an(
means, and not Improbably the boars Which
a sensible man would devote to sleep he * un»*
naturally curtails for the same purpose. The
social competition runs equally high with
that of business. Of course, In the path
way he treads he jostles and is jostled by
competitors, and in a nature so tense and set
in so great an endeavor as is his, the constant
and wearing,* though almost unperceived,
,!ay of the emotions—as envy, jealousy, ;
batred, disappointment, etc.— very great.
Occasionally", at some "close shave," or some
crisis of failure or success, he experiences a
oiilmiiiatiiig spasm of . feeling that shake*
Jim to bis very center. * Perhaps not satisfied I
ivitb this existence of abnormal and unhy
gienic physical habits and unnatural mental
md emotional strain, once in a while, when
•. ho "racket" ■ becomes too intense, to be for
.:3 time being endured, he varies the mo
.:ctonynot as he should do, with a change
of scene, a quiet, wholesome life, amusement ~"
:;vl rest, but by plunging into a period of
dissipation for the purpose of drowning his
worries and cares. But, ruinous at any time,
tho effect upon his" overworked nerves ami
distracted constitution of such a course must 2
naturally bo greatly intensified. -He could
scarcely take a more suicidal step. | '
'♦Died suddenly." How few realize with
what startling frequency in this country that
report goes out. The strong .man foolishly,
fancies ho is practically inaccessible to ail
ment and death, and so pushes on in his ex-'
aggerated expenditure «f energy until — ;
late—insulted nature* bestows upon him the
logical punishment he has so persistently.
courted. "We do fade as the leaf is the
delusion we fondly hug, while we think ol
death a3 afar off. Yet every day, simply
from faults of his own committing, many an
unfortunate is hurried into the presence of
his Maker without an instant's warning. 01
tho twenty-five deaths reported by a New
York contemporary one day last week nine
were sudden. Borne of us may wish that
such may be our —that we die "in th«
harness"but to many such a thought is ter
rorizing; they pray that to them the end
como slowly—that they may "ripen for tile
Crave." •" *
What are the causes of sudden death—
by a stroke of lightning? They aro not
many when only the so called natural acci
dents are considered. Death on the instant'
may result from apoplexy, or bursting of an
aneurism within the chest or abdomen; it
may bo caused by tho bursting of an abscess,
within the chest. - Great mental shoek —as j
from extreme anger or grief or even joy—
sometimes kills instantly' through total
paralysis of the chief nerve centers. Cases
of sudden death from hemorrhages of the
lungs are on record, but they are few in
number. Diseases of the heart render the
subject liable to instant death, and they are
the most frequent causes. —
As we grow old we should avoid those in
fluences which are likely to induce sodden
and great rush of blood to the head, such aa
intense mental eici cement —aa in publio
speaking or in a fit of anger—violent muscu
lar effort, gluttony and drunkenness, etc.
While one dines at popular cafes be has but
to look about him aad he is quite sure to sea
habits indulged provocative of apoplexy. A
familiar sight is the man about 60 years aid
'whose highest pleasure is in tickling his pal
ate. He is overweight by fully fifty pounds;
his face is red and shining; be is fall to burst
ing, and he looks as though every important
button on his clothing was threatened. One
on a warm day gives such a man as "wide a
bei th :> as he would a cookstove; he is alto
gether too hot to sit near. He commences
his dinner with an appetizer— generally a
cocktail. Then he deliberately "fills 5 up," t
largely on meat and other ."hearty" toods, all I
of which are washed down with one at least, I
and generally two bottles of j lager beer. Aa'
ha eats and drinks with one j hand, he I fans I
himself i vigorously with the other, all the I
time growing redder and redder, and finally, /
when he hoists himself out ,of bis chair, hi* -
face takes a purplish hue ! in consequence of
even that slight effort. Ha is like , a violin •
when in tone; every part of ; his " system is |
keyed up, and something is sure. to ' break -if |
the unusual happens. § Let . such a man, soon |
after dining, . beco~'r> , violently ; enraged or |
shocked jby some unexpected ] calamity,' and |
the chances are an attack of apoplexy is _ th* •
conswiueDpe.—Boston Hw^M/^MBpSJMM
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