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, 1884-07-13

Portland (Ore.) Nows.
The Gold Dust, a stanch and trim little
steamer, successfully ran the rapids at the
Cascades of the Columbia yesterday morn
ing. There were five persons aboard. The
Gold Dust was built in Portland some five
years ago. She is e~ighty-five feet in length.
with n twelve-foot beam, and has a draft of
six feet, light. For Il year or two she ran as
an independent boat between this city and
Vancouver; then she was taken to the
Columbia river to run between the Cascades
and the Dalles. The owners had to cut the
boat in two and haul the sections with teams
around the Cascades rapids. Lately her
owners concluded to return the boat to
service on the Willamette river.
at was a mighty ticklish job to run the
rapids said Engineer st. Martin to a News
reporter last evening as he was enjoying a
smoke in the engine-room of the Gold Dust.
snugly moored at Ham, Taylor & Co.'S dock.
1--WE been on the water for over fifteen
years, and 1t was the hottest time I've ever
experienced. We started from the upper
Cascades at $3.50 In the morning, and at once
shot into the seething waters in the channel.
close to the Washington side. We shot
through the rapids, fully 800 feet in length,
like an arrow. 1t didn't seem TO me to take
us half a minute. The water was very rough.
the mad waves dashing us to and fro.
This channel is less than 100 feet
wide, with savage rocks on both sides.
Owing to high water these rocks are some
six feet under water, and this fact made tho
trip the more dangerous. Twice in the rapid.
voyage l thought we were goners. The
waves dashed against the boat yiciously.
knocking in the lights of the engine-room and
pouring n volume of water into the boat. 1
was drenched to the skin, and so were the
others. Once out of the main rapids we had
smooth sailing. We made the trip from the
upper Cascades to the lower Cascades, some
six miles in about as many minutes. The
Oregon shore was lined with spectators,
mostly government employees, and they gave
us a round of hearty cheers as we safely rode
through the rapids. One such a trip will do
a man for a lifetime.
, 1884-07-13
PoINTED PARAGRAPHS.

A small whisky bottle and some human
hair were found In the stomach of n dead
shark recently washed ashore on the Cal
ifornia coast, but so far as We know none
of the Pacific coast delegates are missing.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
British husbands show more desire to
marry their deceased wives sisters than
they do to preserve the life of the original
sisters. This anxiety upon the part of
our British relatives looks suspicious, =
NelC York Journal
Blaine viii have a banquet in Boston.
No crow will be served unless ordered in
advance. -Nelc York Journal
Dakota has been favored with a new
Governor and a cyclone.
, 1884-07-13
orIgIn or "whIg,, and s.Loeo-roeo.r

lCrOlIutS Letter.l
Gen. James Watson Webb told me how
the name "Whig" came to be applied to the
great party that had its birth about 1880.
He had been n warm partisan OF jackson,
and he resigned his commission in 1927, came
to New York, and started The New York
Courier in the interest Of that chieftain. He
had some of the equipments of a successful
editor: great positivsness, a clear head, a
good memory, but he was not a scholar or
an elegant writer, and he never became
either.
One Of the great grievances Of his life was
that Jackson, his hero, became IAN apostaten
that is, threw tho Federalists overheard,
and, from boing IN advocate OF the United
States bank, became its enemy. Webb raj
lied the leaders of a new a~nti-Jackson party
together and gave them the name "Whig,p
by which for twenty-five years the great
party was thereafter known.
His paper, The Courier and Enquirer, was
also responsible for the enemy's pseudonym.
A Democratic meeting in old Tammany hall
in 1880 broke up in a row, as has occasion.
ally been the case since that time. One party
blew all the candle out; and the other party,
having provided themselves with that as
tonishing n~ew-fangled contrivance known
as a match, relighted them and reassembled
their scattered partisans. This match coup
de main astonished everybody, and caused
great amusement, for matches had then re-
Gently been invented and were not yet in
general use, They were generally called
loco-focos probably Italian "loco fuoco"-
wild fire. and in the morning account given
OF the tumult The Courier and Enquirer re-
porter called the party who relighted tho
candles "Loco-focos." This became the nich.
name Of the party.
, 1884-07-13
JNo. r. ca editor

WHEN the SIM man sets himself down
to it calmly and premeditatedly an dstarts
his giant intellect to work on a political
problem, the Wattersons and Danas and
McClures and men of that kidney and
calibre must, in the nature %ofthings, hunt
their holes. What cares the world for
their puterilities or high sounding phrases
when the Sun man is about to speak2
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
The public generally was about settling
down to the conviction that the Demo-
cratic Presidential nominee was a pure
statesman, a man of spotless reputation,
with a perfect genius for administration.
The Sun man hears of this, and what
does he do? Does he sit down and
patiently accept the unemployment ofthe
people? Speaking briefly, he does not.
On the very morning 0he very, very
morning in fact) after the nomination has
been made, he hurls into the teeth of the
trembling and expectant Democracy an
editorial screed of nearly a column in
length. In a spirit of playful malcvolence
he calls it Democracy and Defeat, which
two words, he asserts, will eventually
prove synonymous, although the two
words, on a strict and conscientious round
up, reveal at least three.
Let the Democrats hang their diminish
ed heads; let them swathe their 1.-THE
limbs in Grape and other emblems of woe;
let there be weeping and waiting through
out the party, for the Cheyenne SIM has
pronounced against the ticket.
1t is a horrible thing thus with one fell
and ungrammatica swoop TO crush the bud
ding hopes and shatter all the bright pros
poets that millions of people have so set
their hearts upon But no such consider
ations affect the Sun man when he turns
loose his riotous imagination
Let some kind friend gently break the
news to Mr.. Cleveland. Let him not at
tempt to buoy the Governor up with
false hopes of success, as that now can
only be a memory since the Sun man
wrote his classical essay ON Democracy
and Defeat
, 1884-07-13
The Language of Umbrellas.


There Is II language OF umbrellas us of
flowers. For instance, place your umbrella
in a rack, and It will change owners. To
open It quickly in the street means thai
somebody's eye is going to be put out; to
shut IL, that a hat or two is to be knocked off.
An umbrella carried over n woman, the man
getting nothing but the ~drippings OF the rain,
signifies courtship. When n mnn has the
umbrella and the woman drlppings, 1t indi-
Gates marriage. To punch your umbrella
Into a person and then open it means ~ dis
like you" To swing your umbrella over
your head signifies Il am making n nuisance
of myself" To trail your umbrella along the
foot-path means that the man behind you is
thirsting for your blood. To carry it at
right angles under your arm signifies
that an eye is TO be lost by the man that fol-
lows you. To open an umbrella quickly, IL is
said, will ~frighten n mad bull. To put Il
cotton umbrella by the side OF a silk one
signifies Exchange is not robbery To
purchase an umbrella means 81 am not
smart, but honest" To lend an umbrella in
dicates ~ am a fool" To return an un-
brella m~eans-wel, never mind what it
means, nobody ever does that To turn an
umbrella in n gust of wind presages profan-
ity. To carry your umbrella in a case sig
nifies it is n shabby one. To carry an UNI
brelln just high enough TO tear out mems
eyes and knock Off mems hats signifies al am
a woman" To press an umbrella on your
friend, saying, "Ohid do take II; l had much
rather you would than notlp signifies lying.
To give n friend half of your umbrella means
that both of you will get wet. To carry il
home in the morning means at will
clear ON
, 1884-07-13

lIhil MAIL bhNeLLe.J
l find it difficult To answer yor. QUESTION,
because there are many ways Of setting to
work to excogitate q plot, and l have tried
them all at various times. II l am writing
TO exploit a certain actor, my first considera-
ton is how the character which he is TO play
in such n variety of dramatic lights will ena-
BILE him to exhibit himself to the best ad-
vantage. II l have a distinct doctrine to
urge upon the audience, tho principal ques-
ton TO consider is the special constellation of
characters which will best exploit my pur-
pose. In dealing with the libretto of u comic
opera the librettist is sadly hampered by the
vocal requirements of the piece, and also
by the fact that in many cases his characters
will surely be represented by actors who sing
inadvertently. - by singers who have had but
little experience us actors. The only rule
that appears to me TO be OF general applica-
ton is this; Always construct your last oct
first In other words never commit yourself
to a courseo OF action until you see your way
clearly ami with good ramat effect out OF
ever difficulty it may involve.
, 1884-07-13
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.
Former Meetings ms Described by
Long John wentworth.

Former Meetings ms Described by
Long John wentworth.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.l
~The first national political convention"
said Long John Wentworth yesterday, ever
held in Chicago was in 1850. was mayor of
the city at that time. Did you know that
Horace Greeley was the man who nominated
Abraham LincolnT"
No." said the reporter. @Was Greeley a
delegate from New Yorkip
NO, from Oregon"
-From Oregonf'
ayes, he had the Oregon proxies. Well,
you see, there was a bitter political
fight between Seward and Greeley,
and Horace made up his mind to
down him. Seward was the prominent cam
didate before the convention, and everybody
expected to see him nominated. Greeley
didn't care who was nominated so it wasn't
Seward. Well, Bates and Chase withdrew
in favor of the dark horse. Greeley had no
candidate of his own to start on, but he is
entitled to the whole credit of nominating
Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. When
Lincoln came to be president he did what few
men would dare do-he made up his cabinet
of his opponents. He put in Seward for sec
rotary of state, Bates for attorney general,
Chase for secretary of the treasury"
"The second national political convention
nel Il. Sn'aSo' sAu II non. Inh hoyne,
"a9 ma oc convention Oh loof
nc ~ nicoIehah ahu tehuletoh.
~ = "oie pases Ii Ina ma eohSeht.oh'
- taIJ LIE Sonfehtioh
1t had u canvass roof. L went in with
Governor Dick Yates and Pitt Kellogg.
,ho,"ht q. SisSIiIo ~. a. soseIls NJ aIu
IinaiS 49,. $40 ;a.a "o
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IN
~ 1sis hold l., tba Troas,, I'll hN
whore Grant and Colfa~ yvora porninotaJ'
800 NJ" SN "eio Illuminated
, 1884-07-13

IN the exuberance of his youth DIR. u.
w. Corey finds ii necessary to commit his
burning thoughts to paper. Not content
with the ordinary prose method of com
municatiOn he essays poetry, and shades
of the great departed songsters what an
effort it is. The inspiration for the Doc
tors "trilology' is found in the declina-
ton of Mr.. Tildcn, which he appears TO
have Just discovered. With this fact as a
starting point he browses over the whole
field of politics. His thoughts are as
massive as Swinburne's and as utterly be-
yond comprehension as Browning's And
the feet, the poetieal ieet-ancient and
modern times may be ransacked and the
dead languages scanned from a to lizard
without furnishings parallel. His poetic
model was undoubtedly the Sweet Singer
of Michigan, who a few years ago startled
and dazzled the civilized world with the
brilliancy of her genius and the eccentric
ity of her metrical compositions. Sweet
Singer of Cheyenne, we do most cor
daily greet you and bid you welcome to
the poetic pinnacle which the Wolverine
maiden must now vacate to you. oh,
poetry, they name is Corey,
, 1884-07-13
Johnny on Dogs.

THU UUUhN.
The Dogs is a great Sourse OF national
wealth but the Buffalows is nearly extincted.
He Is knockternal in his habits but he don't
squeel likes the Mules q pig.
II you don't give dogs enough to eat ho
becomes so avaricious that that he will nttact
Human people and ON account of his great
Fidelity to Man he is called the King Of
Beasts
Our teacher she learnt to talk french at
Miss Krautschwanger's Boarded School and
she says II you want to make a dog stand on
his Hine legs in french and make a Bough,
you just say o Reservoir Mon Chair.
, 1884-07-13

The Empty Cradle.
The cradle Is empty now,
For gold-halred baby May
No more in II Is sleeping
Throughout the liyelong day.
As we see 1t standing there,
In the dingy garnet room,
We think CT the laughing baby
As a white rose all in bloom.
And we hin Of the painted toys
And the lullaby refrain.
And the pearly dimpled knuckles
And the dainty Counterpart
And the mellow soft blue eyes,
That twinkled all the while,
And the little school OF dimplcS
That played about her smile.
The summer may come again
With its clouds rs while as curds.
And its ~silyer-nngered daisies
And its songs OF happy birds.
But what are the songs to us"
me what is the cloudless dayr
And the silver fingered daisies
when we haven't our baby May?
Yet she hears all the Summer birds
And the crickets ant the katydldS-
She's in ~Pawtucket, the mother
OF II dozen blooming kids.
R. II. Mtfnkitrick
, 1884-07-13
A BacheIors' Society.


A Bachelors society with matrimonial
tendencies and provisions has been formed
in Harlem, n. Y. Only young men are
hligible. They pay a monthly due of 50, and
agree to remain single one year. AT the end
OF that time any one. by giving three
months notice, may receive 5000 on his
wedding day, contributed out OF the fnnd OF
the society.
, 1884-07-13

Fly Loo,'' is the name of a new
gambling game that is played in cheap
liquor saloons. The players sit around a
table, each one having a lump of sugar
in front of him. Then each player puts
a dime or quarter into the pool, and the
man on whose sugar q fly first alights
rakes in the wealth.
, 1884-07-13
TWILIGHT.


INVuquEI IIIIIoFsI
The broad red city In her blossomed trees
Lies compassed about by the hosts Of night
Lies humming. low, like a hive of bees;
And che day lies dead. And its spirits flight
Is far to the west, while the golden bars
bound it are broken to dust for stars.
Come under my oaks, o drowsy dusk
The wolf and the dog; dear incense hour
When mother earth hath a smell of musk,
And things of the spirit assert their power
When candles are set to burn in the west
Set head and foot to the day at rest.
, 1884-07-13

MRs. LANGTRY has returned to New
York from her California tour, and took
with her a handsome Chinese boy l3
years old, the son of a merchant on the
Pacific coast, who entrusted him to the
actress 10 be educated.
, 1884-07-13

New York Letter In Troy Tines
The late Samuel Bowles, former editor of
The Springfield Republican, spent one night
in the Ludlow Street jail, and found even
this brief experience fully sufficient This
was the work of Jim Fisk, whom Bowles
had handled in n very severe manner.
Bowles soon afterward came to this city. and
Fisk arrested him for libel. He ordered the
officers to wait till late in the afternoon.
when business men had gone home and no
bail could be obtained. Bowles was trapped
in this tricky manner, but the next morning
bail was procured and he was released. Fisk
then dropped tho suit. His only object was
TO lock Bowles up. He was always proud OF
this exploit
Arkansaw Traveller: A man whut ia evil
but whut tries ter do good, soon gifts tired d
de job. DE wolf ken he ez gentle ez de lamb,
but it's SO tiresome dat he kahn hop out long,
The best smoking tobacco Is Little
Joker"
Ladies fine shoes, new styles and bes
qualities, can be found at jenkins & Ross.
The best pool table in the Pioneer
saloon, Jake Esselborn, proprietor.
Craig, Davis & Co. can show you Il
large line of wall paper.
You can buy Ha4iland's fine French
China in any quantities at Craig, Davis
& Co.'S.
The ladies approve of your smoking
Little Joker"
Engraving in all its branches is done at
LEHNER, JACKSON Il BUECHNER's.
soap, soap, soap
Positively the finest toilet soaps ever
brought to this city, at Rhodes & Trox-
els.
Fine gold filling a speciality. DR..
Warner, dentist.
, 1884-07-13

Gentlemen wishing to stake their money
OF the coming Presidential Election can
place it with us and make their own pro
positions as 10 how they wish 70 place it.
Said proposition win be posted in our
place of business, and, if accepted, our
charge will be 5 per cent. if not taken,
no charge. The transactions will be
strictly confidential;
PRRcE& MURRAY, Gold Room.
" i.
49, ~ - ~
All and every kind of lunches at Pho
neer saloon. Jake Esselborn, proprietor,
, 1884-07-13

No injurious effects can follow the use
Of Ayers hgue Cure in the treatment of
malaHal diseases, 1t contains, besides n
specific and unfailing antidote for MAS
matte poison, other remedial agents which
unite to expel the poisonous humors, puri-
fly the system, and leave it in a healthy
and reinyigorated condition.
, 1884-07-13

A long felt want filed at last. 1t has a
neat and useful index. Get one. For
sale at Rhodes x Troxells.
, 1884-07-13

Ladies are calling daily on futile for
house decorations in wall paper, kalso-
mining, etc.
, 1884-07-13

The best dental work for the least
mouey.-Dr. Warner, dentist,
, 1884-07-13

Arkansaw Traveller: A man whut is evil
but whut tries ter do good, soon gifts tired d
de job. De wolf ken he ez gentle ez de lamb,
but it's SO tiresome dat he kahn hop out long,
, 1884-07-13

The ladies approve of your smoking
'Little Joker"
, 1884-07-13

Engraving in all its branches is done at
ZEHNER, JACKSON Il BUEcuNER's.
, 1884-07-13
Daily, Except Monday.

catered al The POstoDlce, Cheyenne. RVo-
ming. ar trdnsniSsioR through he paGfS as
second elass waiter.
, 1884-07-13

The best smoking tobacco Is Little
Joker"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-06-26
The Pigs.

Of all the pitiable objects about the
farm in winter half-fed pig is the
worst. The rule should be in small
farms where hog-raisng is not the main
business Keep but few pigs over
winter and keep them we'll" The fall
pigs need to be kept growing rapidly
through the winter, but unless they
have seperate pen the chances are
that the older ones will get the most OF
the feed, Such pigs kept in good con,
dition through the winter may be turn.
ed into clover pasture in early summer,
end they will make a wonderful growth
and may be turned off in October and
make good pork with little corn given
few weeks before killing. Nothing is
made i'll half-feeding any stock, espec-
ially swine.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-06-26
Wise Words.

A man can do what ought to do;
when he says he cannot he will not.
We find ourselves less witty in re-
membering what We have said than in
dreaming of what we might have said.
He whose first emotion on the view
of &C excellent production is to under
value it, will never have one of his own
to show.
Ifyou would be pungent be brief,
for it is with words as with sunbeams,
the more they are condensed the deep.
ly they burn.
There are moments when pretty
sights are harder to bear than even u
serious injury. Men have died of the
fostering of gnat bite.
Stupidity has its sublime as we'll az
genius, and he who carries that quail
ty to absurdity has reached 1t, which
is always source Of pleasure to sensi-
bic people.
The man who puts chains upon an
Others limbs is on y one shade worse
than he who puts letters on another's
tree thoughts and on another's free
conscience.
All death in nature is birth; at the
moment of death appears visible the
rising life. Death and birth is simply
the circling of life in inself in order to
present itself ever more brightly and
more Ike to it self.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-06-26
DR.. P.D. fAHRNEY'S OFFICE
REMQ4ED.

take pleasure in notifying the afflicted
that have removed my Office to East
Church street, ninth door from the Penn
sylvania railroad depot, and also have pr-
waite consulting rooms to accommodate all,
where | viii continue the
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-06-26
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
TOPIC S.
The Model Farmer.

He should not buy more land than
he can pay for easily, and till to "dvan'
taee. The hardest thing to raise on
farm is mortgage. Thirty or forty
acres carefully cultivated will prove
more profitable than two hundred on
which the same care and labor are ex
pended.
He should not have more stock than
he can shelter we'll and keep in good
order through all the season. 1t is
poor economy to stint cattle through
the winter and expect them to do as
we'll in the coming spring as they would
under generous treatment. A man
should be merciful to his stock not only
because of moral cosiderations but be-
cause it pays best in the end. Cattle
that are stoned by the boys, kicked by
the men and worried by dogs; are not
likely to thrive in flesh or milk. Such
treatment is silly, brutal and every way
Improbable. The occasions are very
rare where beasts to burden horses or
oxcn-are benefited by the application
of the rod. People who wreak their
insane fury on helpless dumb animals
arc at those moments sometl ing lower
than beasts themselves.
lie should keep careful account of
his income and out-goes No business
can prosper that is based on uncertain
tiles. The habit Of keeping close &C
count begets prudence, economy and
wisdom in management. II a man can
figure out a fair profit as the result of
his years labor it lisa source of satisfac
ton and contentment; if the balance is
on the otherside he will ascertain the
cause of his failures and follow new
courses. "Book farming" is no long'r
despised by intelligent men.
He should make his home and its in
mediate surroundings as pleasant as
pleasant as his means will permit. He
should at least take as much pride in
identifying his home and supplying
it with the comforts and con-
veniences, if not the Injuries Of life, as
he does in having fine or brooded stock
and neat and large out-buildings. a
proper regard for the happiness Of those
whose duties lie chiefly within doors
would dictate this. The "matters of
house are of primary importance, for
what after all is the chief end of labor
but to make the home life happier and
better. Half the dullness and monoto
ny of life on the farm, driving the boys
and girls to the towns and cities, would
be banishel if the same pains We're
taken to make the home beautiful and
attractive that are taken by most resi-
dents OF towns and cities.
The successful farmer will do his
work in season. There is no business
where regularity is more essential than
in farning. The merchant and the
manufactl rer can cover ground lost by
neglect or inattention easier than a
farmer. The farmer who is chasing his
work all the year round, trying to catch
up with it, is doomed to ultimate
failure.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-06-26
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