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Work Oxen kept for sale. Barrelled
Beef and Pork constantly on hand
and at prices to suit the times.
Patronage respectfully solicited. Ap-
ply to the SEATTLE MARKET, corner
Commercial and Washington Streets.
Seattle, W T.. Aug. 27. 1874
, 1874-10-15

New YORK, Oct. Tho Pacific Mail
SIS. Co. has begun suit against Richard
B. Irwin, late of San Francisco, agent of
the Company at Washington, during its
former administration, to recover $780,
GOO which he is alleged to have appro-
priated.
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4 Legend of the Iron Mask.

DURING the seventeen years contine-
mcnt of this strange prisoner at Sainte
Marguerite, st. Mars, who brought him
To the fortress, was replaced by ,on-
sieur de Bonpart as Governor. The
daughter of the latter, just emerging
from childhood to Nomanhood, grew up
with this mystery around her She had
seen the graceful figure of the masked
prisoner promenading at night upon the
terrace and at worship in the chapel,
where he was forbidden to speak or un
cover his face, the soldiers in attendance
having their pieces always pointed to-
ward him if he should attempt to do
either. She discovered that her father
always treated him with the greatest re-
spect, serving him bare-headed and
standing. His table service was of mas
sive silver, his dress of the richest vel
vet; he wore the finest linen and most
costly lace. She had heard her father
accidentally speak Of him as 1.-THE
Prince" No wonder that his sad fate
occupied her thoughts by day and his
noble figure haunted her dreams by
night She. too was very young and
beautiful, and their eyes occasionally
met in chapel. She sang beautifully and
was a very skillful performer on the
guitar. Ii is said she climbed the rocks
under the castle terrace and sang sweet
songs to the poor captive. Thus a ro-
mantle love sprang Up pUIweru uI,uru,
and as it gained strength, the young girl
dared to purloin the keys from her father
and so obtained access to the pris-
oner. When the Governor discovered his
child's treachery he was struck with dis
may His oath was binding upon him to
put immediately to death anyone who
had spoken to the prisoner. But she
confessed her love for him and pleaded
piteously for her young life. The cap
tive also to whom the Governor was
much attached, joined his prayers to hers
and implored that they might be made
man and wife and then the secret would
be safe. The Governor was not stern
enough TO immediate his child, and per-
haps a CLEAN of ambition may have
flashed across his mind, as in the event
of the death of Louis XIV, the prisoner
would be acknowledged and his daughter
sit on the throne of France However,
their nuptials were performed by the
priest of the castle in the dead of night,
and all were sworn to secrecy. From
this union two children were born. A
whisper of this reaching the ears of the
Minister the Marquis of Louvois, the
prisoner was Immediately removed to
the Bastle for safer keeping; ard the
mother, the priest and Governor Gisap-
peared The children were sent to Cor
sica to be brought up in ohscurity under
the name of their grandfather, Bonpart,
which was corrupted into Buonaparte.
And thus, says the legend, Providence
avenged the wrongs of the twin brother
of Louis XIV. and restored the oldest
branch OF the Bourbon line to the throne
Of France -" Bdzaines Prison." Scribner
for Td1d0ru
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CHAPTER VII.
THAT TWO DoLLARs"-HOPE LONG DE-
FERREn

THAT TWO DoLLARs'-HOPE LONG DE-
FERREp
The little woman went into trade. She
sold the old newspapers for SIN cents.
The orange-peel speculation resulted in
failure. Nobody would buy.
Meantime "that two dollars, you
know" was drawn from the bank per-
force, to pay the washerwoman-a poor
old woman who needed the money, on
which Mamma Mullen felt sinking of
the heart, and was obliged to do that
sum about the Idyls," etc, twice over
before she could quite recover her usual
cheerfulness.
Also the dodge" though in splendid
working order, was so continually tripped
up and circumvented by the law" that
its Young inventor might almost as well
have spared the car-horscs the shame Of
their defeat The Christmas-rose will
be very small growth" they told each
other.
One-two-three-fou weeks Such
weeks The hours in them had feet of
lead and were lame besides. Darkest of
all came to be that hour known as the
postmans. No such heart shaking hour
in the year, as, if you are mullen per.
son, or like those who Joined David in
the cave of Adullam. and you are at the
crest of the wave and letter will tide
you over or dash you down into its CULTS,
you very well know. The Hour
quite overshadowed the Mullen family.
When it began, everybody grew nervous
while it endured, everybody started at
each tinkle or the bell and watched sly
ly out of window. When it epded-oh
the miserable blank: worse even than the
torture of suspense! and when the mem
ber from outside-who had been absent
eanwhile-returned there was another
trial. The vague expectation, the quick
glance at the table and into the faces of
the stayers-athome, the pathetic attempt
at Indifference on the part of everybody
and the determination of everybody to
show no anxiety, and to see none!-ah
let it pass! 1t is easig to write than to
witness
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CHAPTER VIII.

RETURNS, BILLS AND BALANCES.
A letter at last about the Working
Idyl" AN excellent idea" the letter
said; "but was there not touch OF
nitro -glycerine in it, that, admitted,
might blow up society, or some sub
scriber's idea of society, which would be
quite the same thing as far as news
papers are concerned and so, with
thanks, ii was returned.
Mamma Mullen tore her hair, or
rather whatever in the mental economy
corresponds to hair the real article is
too eXpensive1, in private, mind you! and
then came down smiling and got letter
about the Carol" A letter! A blow in
the face.
There was something theological I'D
the Carol, the letter said, and truly.
Mamma Mullen was a devout woman,
and it had slipped her pen without in
tending it. "There was always danger
said the letter &" in handling the theolog-
ical porcupine, even with gloves; and
the paper declined to take the risk. And
so-with thanks" etc.
Christmas comes but once a year,
and to make all these slips and stumbles
them A Protestant pilgrimage barefoot
to the Stock Exchange or some other
temple of Mammon and a solemn VOW
never again Ito call a spade a spade
would have relieved Mamma Mullen S
overwrought feelings as she subtracted
forty dollars from her calculatio J. Then
the tide turned in a letter sweeIer than
any love-note, inclosing a check for the
Preach About Babies" twenty dollars.
Another letter and another check for the
Review" fifteen dollars.
Ftfth Week.-Appropriate articles for
the Chiynoa not returned-they had been
specially ordered, but gone into bank
ruptcy The paper had fallen into finan-
cial collapse. Broken reeds that pierced
her side Mamma Mullen had scarcely
the heart left to subtract forty-fve dol
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Uncle Jacks Last Ride.

DID you ever see him. If so, you saw
a queer old man, with many wrinkles on
his face, many burdens on his shoulders
and a mind which was never free from
trouble. Some folks seem marked as
victims of misfortune. Uncle Jack was
one of them. Had he been less brave
hearted he would have gone to his death
years ago. As il was, he fought poverty
and misfortune like giant driven to the
wall. He had no home for The last
dozen years. After his wife had been
laid away to rest he became street
wanderer, sometimes saving IA little
wood, sometimes in the hospital, but
never having one hours real rest or com
fort. The boys called him Uncle Jack,
and finally. when he crept into the Cen
tral Station to lodge, the police recorded
him by that name. There was some
thin% in his look which made one feel re-
spect for him, even if his gray hairs were
not enough. People sometimes gave him
money but Uncle Jack was not beggar.
He knew that he was old, and poor and
weak, and that charity alone kept starya-
tion away, but when he accepted money
he took il as loan, strangely hoping
that want and woe and misery would
flee away from him some day and for
tune again smile upon him.
For the last three or four wears Uncle
Jack had boarded here and there among
people almost as poor as himself, turn
ing over to them any gifts bestowed
upon him. Last winter was a hard win
ter for him, and once or twice he came
near going to the County House, but he
begged so hard and seemed to feel so
crushed at the prospect that he was al
lowed to remain in the oid track Of life
Age crepi upon him 50 fast last summer
that he became almost blind and bedrid-
den, and the other day fate administered
a last blow. Uncle Jack was brought to
the City Hall and given a ticket to the
County House. He had fought it off for
a quarter OF century, but poverty mad
triumphed at last, and the old man wept
like "a child AS he waited at the depot
for the train a few OF his old friends,
whose shillings had kept him clothed for
tSle last dozen years, gathered around
him and said good-by. His heart was
so full that he could hardly speak. 1t
wasn't right, he said, 10 make pauper
of an old man who had made such
long and such square night
against fate, and he wished that he had
flung himself into the river. It's always
sad enough to see any old man going tC
the poor-house-there were many things
to make Uncle Jacks going yet saddeT.'
The train went at last and the old mar
was crying as he bert his head down OF
| the back Of a seat Some of the passen
gers sympathized witE HIM and spoke
| kind words but he would not raise his
head One would not have looked fol
such sentiment--such sense of honor
IN such man IS Uncle Jack, but it wa
born in the heart and forty years Of
poverty and misfortune had not heater
il out.
Poor old man" sighed the passengers
and they wondered if their old age would
be like his
The train finally halted at the County
House station, and the conductor opene q
the door and said:
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lars more from their calculations. 1t was
all over now. She kept bright face for
the younger Mulleins; but, though there
might be still some scanty shreds and
patches of Christmas, there could be no
Christmas-rose for them.
iSirth Week.-The day before Christmas.
Returned, the prose version of The
Cow Jumped Over the Moon" with
thanks. The editor would have use
ii, but he had accepted an article before
receiving it, on precisely the same sub
iect, which would appear in the present
number" Singular, and yet more sim
gular that the article on the same sub
leCt proved to be written by the editor
in person. But Mamma Mullen had for
her consolation the adage that great
minds think alike.
BY the same post arrived Skiggs' bill
for twenty-five dollars, Quiggs' bin for
eighteen dollars, Haggs' bill for twenty
dollars; total, siXty-three dollars. And
the Mullen receipts had been thirty five
dollars! Mamma Mullen finds ditli-
matter with her eyes. And the winter
clothing and the Christmas-rose, The
dodge" had accumulated two dollars
in spite of the law" The little woman
had brought six cents out of trade The
young inventor and the little woman pro
posed to invest the two dollars and six
cents after supper by means of "A com
mittee of two, which mamma was not in
vlted TO join-for reasons common to
Christmas.
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y. MANITOWOC WISCONSIN, DECEMBER

himself to the house among the earliest
of the runners, and nevertheless aver
aged thirty cents day by the dodge"
There are six days in the week, 6x30-
$50. 1t lacks six weeks of Christmas
tide: 6x1. .S0-$10S0.
But
The world is under the reign of laws,
and the Mullen household was under a
law of necessity, that, do what they
would, was sure to levy tax of, say,
thirty cents on every fifty cents amassed
by the dodge" for matches, soap,
paper, carfare-some;hing of the sort.
After the eleventh or eighth" collision
between the law" and the dodge" it
certainly occurred to Mamma Mullen
that things looked discouragine; and she
sighed. But the young inventor went
sturdily on, with pluck and an undi-
minished faith in the virtues of the
" dodge" quite delightful to see.
The little woman! Such very little
woman, She was preparing to 90 into
trade-in orange-peel and old newspa-
pers-when she could find no buyer.
People do buy such things somewhere,
you know.
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CHAPTER TX.
NEMEsIs.-THE FATE OF THE "DoDGl


Enter the washerwoman. Nobody
had expected her If she had been
Nemesis herself the family could not
have surveyed her with more dismay.
With what was she to be paid? The
young inventor looked at the disturbed
face of his mother and gave a great
gulp.
How much is it, mamma? There is
the dodge, you know" and Mamma
Mullen felt the two dollars thrust into
her hand. Yes, there it was, and there
was the washerwoman. The Mulleins
looked at each other incredulOusly.
Their last hold on their one loved holi
day was slipping from them, and they
hardly knew how to believe il, after all
the toll, and the patience, and the self
sacrifice and the planningl If the wash
erwoman had but known it, she was being
paid in dramas, in "A concentration of
much that was precious But il looked
to her a poorenough note, unacCom-
panied by an extra fifty cents or so in
honor of Christmas She thinks they
have forgotten it!-fOrgotten it, poor
s0uls.-and stands her ground. Mamma
quakes before her, and answers her
feebly. Still she stands VIII she never
go? An awful silence Convicted
felons might wear the open and cheer
full expres sion of the Mulleins. The
Nemesis of the washtub tosses her head
flounces, makes a remark, to the door
knob apparently, about the poor returns
of stlnginesss to stingy people in the
long -run-but she goes! Mamma Mullen
is free to cover her face with her hands
and the young inventor to press a soft
check against hers and call her his dear,
good, lovely mamma.
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The Effect OF Music on Savages.

SIR SAMUEL BAKER, in his new volume
of African adventure, tells us of the
notable effect of music upon the natives
Il believe" he says, 1.-THE safest wsy to
travel in those wild countries would be
10 play the ccrnet, if possible, without
ceasing, which would insure safe pas.
sage, A London organ grinder could
march through Central Africa, followed
by an admlring and enthusiastic crowd,
who, If his tunes were lively, would
form dancing escort of the most un-
firing material" One can but imagine
the different record we should have if
music, instead of gunpowder, had been
employed as force for the conquest of
savage races. The Pilgrim father who
so severely condemned ungodly music,
might have reversed his judgment had
he known the effect of the fife and the
drum and the trumpet on the sensitive
ears of the Indians; he might, indeed,
have organized bands of organ PLAYERS;
and, even if his own spirit had severely
suffered under that unwonted noise, the
speedy conquest of the otherwise intracta-
BILE savage would assuredly have rem
dered the employment of such means
good ard wise in his Judgment. Let
African explorers hereafter go forth with
many wind and string instruments; even
the pirates of the thina seas, or the can
nibals of the Pacific, would cease to be
terror 10 every traveller had they means
IT hand for the production of sweet
and dying sounds" Fearful has been
the bloodshed because the power of
Orpheus has been unknown or neg
lected, and future travellers, explorers,
or adventurers into unknown wilds may
cordially thank Sir Samuel for his valua-
bic hint.-dppletoR'S J0updi
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Paper Pellets.

Unless woman haZ a large invoice ov
good common sense it iZ a dangerous
thing for her to be smarter than her hus-
band
Silk and hang, yung man; it IL allwuss
the last six inches in a race that wins the
mummy.
Thare iz nothing in this world more
skarse just now than truly humble
man. -
A man kant tell one lie and then stop,
emmy more than he kan tap barrell ov
nu cider and draw just spoonful out
and no more.
Thare never waz a man yet so ritch or
exalted but what the finding gold dollar
on the sidewalk sent thrill of delite all
thrue him.
Sum men allwuss fite the best on the
under side, and yu will notiss one thing,
theze men are the hardest kind to whip.
Weak persons are the wust ones we
hav to deal with; it takes sum strength
ov karakter to be even respectable
fool
We find full az much in the karakters
ov our best friends to reprove az we do
to brag on. Thare IL nothing so helthy
for emmy boldly az good honest abuse.
Az long az yu don't want to borrow
ennything yu will find plenty ov folks
who are anxious to lend you sumthing.
The fust three notes endorsed had to
pay, and hope it will be Just so with the
next three
If man haint got strength ov karaks
ter enutf TO live down lies and slander,
he better leave this world for sum other
Philosophy iZ not cure for all, nor
even emmy evils, but it duZ take the gaul
out ov them nightly.
kuriosity IL the same IN all people the
vulgar stare with their eyes and mouths
wide open, but the refined peek thru a
crack
Thare IL only one man kan stand ridi-
kule without winceing, and he IL a
loafer.
Iung man, politepess il kard that yu
kan alwuss pla and not make emmy mis-
take. 1t will almost win on hornet or
mule.
| hav allus been able to trace mi good
or bad luck to good or bad mana cement.
! and guess others kan if they will only
hunt honest.
When man beats us it shocks our
vanity more than it duz our morality
One ov the best things and at the same
time the most Giffikult to do il to be
| humble.
Men seldom repent az long az they are
prosperous. 1t takes adversely to bring
| a person down on his kneeze
Thare IL nothing as rare az good judg.
ment, nor nothing which most people
| think they hav got so mutch ov.
| The person who iZ anxious to take a
| sekret to keep IL the last one who ought
| TO be entrusted with it.
Thare IL noboddy makes emmy more
| blunders than those who think they
don't make enny-Josh Billings, in N
7. Weekly.
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The Finance Bill.

A WAsHINGToN Associated Press dis
patch gives the following as the leading
features of the new Finance bill agreed
upon by the Senate Republicans in eau
Gus on the 18th and passed by the Senate
on the 22d:
FJrSf-Free banking to he open to all individu-
ais and associations without limitation Of capital.
S,COH8-The retiring of an amount of green
backs equal to ~ per cent of the amount of the
new National Bank notes issued until the green
back circulation shall be reduced 10 500, ,0pOG0 4;
after which no further reduction of greenbaCks il
tO take place. II j. claimed that by this pro.
vision there will be neither expansion nor con
traction of the currency, a. about - per cent l.
now required rs bank reserves.
TfiyJ The withdrawal and destruction of rrac-
tinual currency and the substitution of silver coin.
the arrangement to 20 into effect ~ soon as prac-
tiCahlc under the direction Of the Secretary ut the
Treasury. who j. authorized Ia use any surplus
money for supplying coin. and if this l. not sniff
Cirnt to sell the requisite amount of bonds of the
new series To obtain the funds for that purpose.
F00rh-RCmoying the cost for the coinage OF
gold at the several mints.
Fgth h-RvsumPtiOu Of specie payments To com
mcuCc on the first day of January, 1S7",
The Secretary Of the Treasury l. authorized 10
Usc any surplus specie in the Treasury: and II
that J. not sufficient TO sell bonds in order 10 OBJ
tam gold to pay Treasury notes. But this last
provision does not. ike the Others. 20 into imme-
diate effect. The Lc-al-Tcudrr act remains un
li-turbfl
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CHAPTER V.
THE CHRIsTMAs-RosE.

To begin: 1t had happened a month
or two before that they found them
selves in possession of surplus two
dollar note. That is, of a two-dollar
note which need not be paid over at once
to landlord or shoemaker. This note
was deposited by acclamation in the
4" Sixpenny savings as a beginning
toward growing the Christmas rose
Henceforth the family leaned much on
it, and it often came up in conversation
as that two dollars, you know"
Then the three Mulleins had each a
little plan for growing a Christmas rose
Master Mullen invented what he
called the dodge" as this: There are
certain transactions in business so much
a matter of course that you are startled
to reflect on the number of persons who
earn living in these very departments
Who thinks how notes, bills and messages
get about? Yet they certainly don't run
on casters. as young Mullen, with his wal
let chained about his waist, might have
assured you. If you have an eve for
rosy boys, dare say you have seen him !;
and if you have observed him, arms up,
hands clinche d, running on sort of dog
trot, so as always to keep pace with
the car or stage in which you were rid
ing, why then you have seen the
" dodge" There are lines on which a
boy OF determination may keep neck
and-neck with the horses. On such lines
Mullen pocketed the fare and ran the
route. There are lines that defy the best
breathed runners" On these, as a boy
of honor, Mullen rode. He reported
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The Whipping.P0st in England.

The English papers record recent
cases of the use of the lash in crlpinal
punishment, which were cruel but cfti-
cient. 1t is great mistake to suppose
that the whipping post is obsolete IL
Great Britain. At Manchester a report
er has interviewed a man who vas
whipped for robbery with violence, and
the proceeding was not "A pleasant one,
although calculated to inspire whole
some fear. The man himself is the mar
rator:
"1he first stroke went right across my
shoulders, ami it was something awful.
I'd never felt anything like it before, and
howled out sharp and roared as loud as
| could. Just where the lash went it
seemed to burn right into me, and the
skin felt as if it had swelled up and was
going to burst 1t went through me like,
and if hot iron had scorched me it
wouldn't have been half as sharp. 1t
was slow time, for ! counted thirty
before ! got number two, and that
came as sharp as the first. The doctor
stood close by and pointed out where
every stroke was TO drop, and the screw
| (warder) put it down just where he
! showed He was bad 'un, that doctor,
| for every cut was as bad as the others,
| and the pain was just like dying over and
| over again. The hardest pull was trying
| to make out where the next would drop.
The doctor would point, and waited till
] heard the whip coming and then L
would cry out louder every time. Some
times it would drop on one Of the cuts that
had gone before. | could have sworn
my back was as big again as it should
be, for after the cat was pulled sharp
back the flesh went after it and rose up
till knew | was bleeding, and that the
skin had burst. The blood ran down
into my trousers thick, no cheese (mis-
takel about it. How did it hurt me?
Why every now and then the cat Tapped
round my chest, and that was worst OF
all. 1t knocked me out of wind, my
| breath went as if I'd jumped into cold
water, choking like, and my mouth as
| dry as could be- I'd nothing to
chew, so hung on to the rings with my
/ hands as hard as | could, and this only
| pulled my chest across the wood and
made my back tighter. The last was as
! bad as the first, every bit of it, if not
trifie smarter, but | shouldn't have
minded if they'd laid it on quicker. II
was the slow time that licked me, and II
! I'd had the regulation three dozen L
think it would have done for me. It's
all stupid about not feeling it after the
| first five or six. Your back don't grow
dead numb at all, but only gets tender
as YOU get more Of it. Is there anything
else like lashing? Nothing that know
of I've had most kinds of knocking
/ about, but it licks all; there's no pun
! ishment comes anywhere near it It's as
bad while you're waiting as when you're
getting 1t, and both are smart"