The Portland daily press., 1877-10-17

another of the general in military costume, by
Fagnani, brought $780, Some of the bric-a-
orac brought high prices. There was time
wnen portraits of the "Pathfnder' would not
nave gone begging at a public auction, but
ume WORKS great changes in the estimation in
Wnicn some people are held by the public, aud
the feeling toward Fremont is probably very
we'll expressed by the prices paid for his pic
lures. III ever we have q national gallery of
the noted men of the country, az We should
have, these foe pictures of Fremont will pro-
badly occupy prominent place therein. But
Americans do not seem to care much for their
old favorites, and it is doubtful il such q GAL
ery will ever be establlshed.-Neso York
Graphic.
Pongos Opinions on Civilization, as elimina-
ted In an interview by one of those smart New
York Graphic reporters, are not favorable.
"Clothes," he says. "are hindrance to clean.
liness The necessity of putting them on and
taking them off hinders your monkeys-men,
mean-from washing themselves often enough.
You are poisoned by swill milk, bad whiskey
and diseased meat. Got too many notions and
too little truth. 1 don't know much. but L new
er have goui or dropsy. You've lost in agility
while you've gained in brain. Your best aero.
bat is clumsy compared to me- When your
sort discarded long tails you threw away third
arm. You despise going on all fours, but we
don't stumble and break bones as you do. Your
folks would never burn to death in your high
buildings if you could run along copings and
Slide down cutters as we do. You're always
tottling over. My fur saves four suits of
clothes year and fits better than any of your
tailor work. You've gained in intellect, but
you can't run up tree and save lodging ex-
| hv tuin1 ~, Ill
most limb and spending the night aloft in
pure atmosphere. pity you. You're the de-
generate sons of agile four-footed, fat-footed
and noble sires. Aud then you are so cursed
with lawyers! Nonsense! that's not progress
sion. You've disgraced us.
John W. Young's wife Libbie has left her
brothers in Philadelphia, where she has been
staying since she came from Utah a month
ago, for Elmira, N. Y, where she will spend
the winter at a water-eure. She was inter-
viewed by New York Sun reporter, who de-
scribes her as petite in figure, with black eyes
and hair. When a girl she must have been
beautiful, but now there are dark blue circles
about the eyes, and, there is compression of
the lips, paleness about the nostrils, and a
tremulousness of the hands, that are very pain
ful to see. This woman is consumed by fire
OF Jealousy unspeakable, or she is dying of re-
morse and shame. In her youth and loveliness
she compelled John w. Young to discard two
former wives to secure her, and foy ten years
che ruled in his house, bore him several chill.
dren, and was the darling of his heart. Now,
as her beauty begins to fade, and when she is
about to become mother. for the fourth time
she finds herself supplanted by chit of q
girl with pretty face. In answer to qass-
ton, she said: 81 knew that my husband was
going to marry Luela Cobb, and therefore
left him and came home to my parents, and
will never live with him again, never, never"
She spoke vehemently. although she was
almost sobbing. After moment she said. and
there was something of pride in her face, "But
don't you imagine that he married that girl for
love- No, my husband loves me. 1t was am
biton and in fulflment of promise made to
his father on his death bed. His father wished
John to succeed to his place in the church, and
that he might do so made him promise to be-
come polygamist. His marriage to Miss
Cobb was his first step in execution of the
promise and, as he thought, toward his fathers
seat. Bnt he has been disappointed. He was
not chosen to succeed his father, and now he
bitterly regrets the step he has taken, and
almost every day L receive letters and telegram
from him begging me to return. treat them
with contempt will never go back to him.
will be the wife of no man who would give me
up and break his VOWS to me for the sake of
power" She said this with flashing eyes and
quivering lips A moment afterward she was
almost weeping, as she said: II may go back
to Utah in the spring, if live, and get my two
children who are there. Then L shall return
here and devote the rest of my life to the educa-
ton OF my children never believed in poly
gamy or Mormonism, but loved John Young
madly. think polygamy too horrible to think
Of, and made John forswear 1t before would
marry him."