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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04

voice and see her smile. Bright Days
indeed she makes for those about Eer,
and in making them she makes her
own. Beautiful Is the influence she
exercises over the most unpromis1ng
husband-the sunshine of the lirtle
home, where she faithfully tultills her
mission!
''Dear madame, go on and prosper
in your work. Doubtless you have
reached many hearts beside mine,
! though others may not have been so
bold as l in daring to tell you what
you have done. May God reward you
a hundredfold for Bright Days,
which has pierced the clouds and
gloom of self-seeking, self-engrossed
life, and has made me ever your
faithful, grateful friend,
'.ARTHUR PIERPo1NT.
P. S.-May I hope for one word in
reply, to show you are not angry with
me-, and to tell me that you are writ
ing another book?'
.'After all then Bright Days was
success" the husband said, as he re-
turned the letter. '.My darling, you
should laugh and be glad, not let
tears fail on the poor baby; give her
to me-"
"Oh! they are happy tears and to
think after all, that my poor little
book has not altogether failed l
really think L will begin again this
evening when all is quiet, and will
write to my unknown friend and tell
him the title of my new story shall be
Hope Fulfilled. ,"
think, in conclusion, may ven
ture to say that l, the book-who has
here related its own history, was not,
nay, is not, failure, but rather that
"Hope will be fulfilled" aud that
Cara Cameron will be known before
long as the successful author of
bright Days. Emma Marshall.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04
Saw the Judge.

Nat Mitchell, who lives out on the
Coon Creek road, went into the su-
preme court room and, seeing pleas.
ant looking gentleman sitting with
his feet on the table, the visitor asked:
"Are you the supreme jedge o. the
state?"
"Yes, SIR
''Would you be kind enough to give
me a little advice? I don't mean give
it to me, exactly, for I am wilIin' to
pay for it.''
estate your case.''
you've got suit here, Mayfower
VS.. Hall. The people out in my neigh.
borhood are mighty Interested in that
suit, an eff knowed exactly how it
was goin' to be decided I mout win
a right sharp pile O. money on it. You
jest tell me how she's goin' an I'll
slip back an take all the bets ken
git"
'sOf course I know how the suit will
be decided, but it would hardly be
right for me to tell you in advance"
eyes, but I'll make it all right. I'll
give you half O. what win. ~
81 never accept a contingent fee.
Tell you what I'll do.''
Oul WIFI IL.
''Give me hundred dollars and I'll
give you the necessary pointer"
''Say seventy-tiveP'
"No.'
s.Ninety.''
81 see you don't care to trade
s'Well, here's a hundred.
''Now, sir, you go home and bet on
Hail."
The suit was decided in favor OF
Mayfower. Several days later, while
the judge was sitting in his room,
Nat Mitchell knocked at the door.
They told me that the supreme
judge was in here,'' said he.
''Well, am the man." ..
s'You amt the man I'm after.
luther day a feller that claimed to be
the jedge said he would tell me how
certain case would go if 1 would give
him hundred. give him the hun
dred, went home. mortgaged my farm
for three thousand dollars, an bet
the whole amount the way that blamed
fellow said. Now look at me. Amt
got money enough to get bite to eat.
If steamboats, was sellin' for ten cents
hundred, couldn't buy pilot house.
I want that man. I'd like to wal.ow
around here awhile with him. He
amt the jedge then, l reckon
"No."
"Ah, hah! 1 reckon that he was
some feller that stepped in.'
81 suppose that he was"
Come in, m ay be, when everybody
else had gone to dinner.''
Every likely
s'Well, believe I'll poke on round
awhile. If 1 see him I'll show him
what pity it is that men amt honest.
1 KANT bear to see dishonest man,
jedge, and above all, do think that
our public men should be above sus-
picion.''
AS Mitchell went into restaurant
to see if the proprietor would trust
man who had played the 'jedge,"
slipped out the back door.-Arka'asaac
Trn7,eLe7.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04
A Gratified Astronomer.

A great, terrific noise came watt
ing over Hickenlooper' back fence.
Mrs. Hickenlooper ran to the window
and looked out. She saw her husband
gazing intently over into the yard OF
their next door neighbor, while a live
ly expression of satisfaction played
over his features. The noise continu-
ed, punctuated with yells of boy. to-
gether with what seemed to be the
Emphatic swish of a skate-strap, Mrs.
Hickenlooper threw up the window.
.-What is itp" she called. "What
are YOU dong, Horace?''
Mr.. Hickenlooper motioned for
silence with backward sweep of the
hand.
..Hushy' he whispered hoarselys
ssI'm watching the clips of the son.
Rockldpd Courier Gazette.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04
THE PAST Is MINE.

o Eemoryl D Memory!
AdoWn thy paths love to stray,
And view, now here, some lovely flower
Now there, bramble by the way.
For who may pierce, with backward glance
The vista of the perished years,
And not discern some olden i'll
That fills the eye with bitter tears?
With vines that trip and thorns that wound
The bramble well may typify
Those errors of impulsive youth
That cause old age the burdened sigh.
But then there comes the image fair
OF one who blessed our early days,
Whose presence seemed spirit sent
From those who walk celestial ways.
The soft caress, the gentle voice,
That wooed the wearied soul to rest
Oh, how they thrill the elder life
Now swiftly sinking to its west!
So bare of ill, so filled with good,
Thy paths, though long, appear to me,
fain would linger in them oft,
0 Memory! O Memory!
H. II. NeoChdl, IN The Current
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04

The bicycle is to be officially introduced into
the Bavarian army. number OF the soldiers
of the garrison of Munich are at present doing
orderly service for the purpose OF trying the
practicabilty of the ''wheel."
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04

Because Bismarck gets all his clothes made
in Vienna, an observing chap remarks that 1t
is sometimes inconven ent, even for great men,
to live in the same town with their tailors.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04

The studio of Rozz the painter, was filled
with animals which reminded one OF pictures
of Noah's ark,
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
Aunt Betsey's Apple-Tarts.

"Aunt Betsey's apple-tart" fingers in the memory of her nephews and nieces to this day. (And, by the way, who has an Aunt Betsey nowadays? What has become of the good. old-fashioned wo- man, who did with almost celestial cheer, fitness the odds and ends of work in the household, and whose sole weakness consisted in occasionally treating the children to some dish not wholly ap- proved by the motherO ? Here are di- rections for one of those dishes: Peel and core some apples, cut them into slices, cut one small quince into slices, and stew it until tender in very little water, with a small lump of butter add ed. Line some round tins with puff paste rolled very thin, then put into it a layer of apples and then of the quince, with layer of apples on the top; sprin- kle sugar enough over each layer to sweeten it, put a band of puff paste around the edge and thin cover over the top; wet this over with the white oI an egg, and bake it in moderate oven. Just before it is eaten it should have powdered sugar sprinkled over it.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
The French In Madagascar.

The French have done wisely in con- tenting themselves with the coast of Madagascar, for an advance inland upon the Hova capital would have been no easy task. A Hova King once boasted that no enemy could face his two com manders, General Hazo Qorest) and General Tazo (fever), but these are not the only obstacles to be encountered. The whole central part of the island is one vast natural fortress, aperfect inland Gibraltar, defended on all sides by tre- mendous precipices several hundred feet in height. When King Radama l., the Napoleon of Madagascar, lod his Hovas to the conquest of the wild region where their capital BOW stands, his whole army, despite it's numbers and firearms, was held at bay at the foot of the cliffs for two entire days, all who attempted | ascend being struck dead by the huge stones which the desperate mountaineers hurled down with ear-piercing yells. At length some nimble Hova marksmen scrambled up a more accessible part oI the cliff to a point whence their fire com handed the position of the besieged. who, having no means of replying with effect, were forced to give way. What kind of figure fully equipped French army would make ip such a spot may be easily imagined.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
Sending Them Home.

A San Francisco paper says: About the middle of last month Ah Sam, a hard working Chinaman, took contract from the Chinese Six Companies to dis inter and prepare for shipment to the Orient the bones of the Chinese tenn porarily laid in the City Cemetery. He began work with gang of Mongolians on the 17th of December, and up to the present time has removed over 200 bodies. Every Chinaman coming here in the service of the Six Companies re- ceives guarantee that if he should die his bones will be sent home for burial, and this agreement is most scrupulously observed. Where Chinamen die with out having made any such contract with the companies their friends see to it that their remains are sent home in due time. Ah Sam has with him in his present undertaking several women as well-as men, and the bodies are plum dered of everything of value. Every Chinaman is buried with coin of some kind in his mouth. The women who assist An Sam take this piece of money as their reward.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
Has had Lots Of Fun.

Frank vizettely, who represented the Illustrated Ne,rs in the rebellion for some time both in the North and South, and who is we'll remembered, was reported 10 have been among those killed in the Soudan. He has suddenly turned up, however, alive and well; he has been blown up iu steamboats; has been lost in total wrecks; has been captured by the enemy. Probably no man alive has had more stirring experi- ences. He was attached as special cor. respondent to the army of Hicks Pacha, and was captured by the Mahdi ten days before the disastrous battle of Fl Obeid. He is now serving in his army as a doctor. Vizettely's abilities are universal The Mahdfs people re- gard him as n wonder. But it is pleas ant to know that he still r,mains a Christian.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
PoppInE oorn

And there they sat popping corn John Stiles and Susan Catter, John Stiles as fat as any OK, and Susan fet as butter. And there they sat and shelled tho corn, and raked and stirred the fire, and talked of different kinds of ears. and hitohed their chairs up higher. Then Susan, she the pepper shook. and John he shook the pepper, till both their faces grewaa red aa saucepan made of copper. And they shelled, and popped, and ate, all kinds of fun n pok!ng. and he hAw.hawcd st her re marks. and she laughed at his joking. And still they popped, and still they ate; Johns mouth was like a hopper, and stirred the fire aud sprinkled salt and shook and shook the pepper Tho clock struck nine and then struck ton. and still the corn kept poppingi " struck eleven-then struck twelve, and still no sign of stopping. And Johu hs ata and Susan thought-the corn did DOT aud batter; till he cried out: 'sIhe corn's aare Why, Susan, what's the matter ' Said she; ''John Stiles, it's one o'clock; Youu die of indigestion; I'm sick of sil this popping corn-Why don't you pop the question
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
The Base Ball Pitchers Glory.

One of the new rules adopted by the National Base Ball League, while it is direct blow at the liberty and pursuit oI happiness of the pitcher, nevertheless is an excellent one. It had got to be So that high-salaried pitchers seemed to think all the people came and paid in their hard-earned half dollars for was to see them pose, and thereby the game was sometimes prolonged unreasonably. Under the new rule the pitcher cannot take the ball in his two-thousand-apiece- dollar hands and tumble it, then moisten his fingers and thumb with saliva and wipe them on the side of his trousers, cross his right foot around in front of the left, just touching the toes of the former to the ground stand in this picturesque attitude several seconds, while the feelings of the spectators are wrought up to fever heat, and then sud denly unite his legs and go down in his pocket for a chew of tobacco, and wink at the pretty girl who is watching his contortions through an opera glass.
 Any one of the peculiar habits into which celebrated pitchers have fallen even to looking with an eagle glance around the horizon of the diamond field, or hitching up his trousers-means that there is no retreat; the ball must be de- livered immediately thereafter, or it will be balk. Of course, the pitcher can go through all and singular his little idi- osyncracies every time he pitches a ball, but he can't do it and then, when bats, man, umpire and public are all torn up with suspense, suspend delivery and sing song or propound conundrum to short tstop.-Peck's Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
Advertising his Pills.
AN OFFER TO EXPEDITE THE JOURNEY
 OF LORD woLsELEY's ARMY.


 
 A leading manufacturer of pills in London has conceived an advertising scheme which is as novel and audacious as the most brilliant flights of American genius in this direction. He has for warded to Gen. Lord Wolseley, who is now marching toward Khartoum, 10, 900 copies of handbill in which the virtues of his pills are extolled in the highest terms. Accompanying the handbills is the manufacturers check for -el50, which he asks Lord Wolseley to award to the first soldier of his expedition who shall reach Gen. Gordon's palace at Khartoum and shall paste upon it's door copy of the handbill. In his letter the enterprising pill maker says that his offer is made from patriotic motives and with a desire to stimulate the soldiers to reach and rescue General Gordon at the earliest possible moment. He says be has sent large number of the handbills so that each soldier in the expedition can be furnished with copy, and thus have an even start in the race as far as he can provide for it. His ob- iect in prescribing that the bill shall be stuck on the palace door is simply to show who is entitled to the prize, and he adds that the name of the winner will be published in every paper in Eng land. thus giving him undying fame.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
CHOOSING A HUSBAND.
An English Clergyman Gives some Advice
 on this Subject.

It is not, of course, every girl who has the power of choosing a husband, in the sense of selecting and appropriating the one among her male Rcqnaintanoes who pleases her best. It is not natural that she should do so, and when nature is not followed there is generally a disastrous ending. It is true that love sometimes begets love; but. on the other hand, nothing is more likely to check it than a too ready response in the earlier stoges If mans love Is genuine, if be is not deceiving himself in fancying he has an affection which he does mol really feel, he wants no encouragement beyond the ordinary conduct which po- hteness and good feeling dictate. If, without any further encouragement, love dies away, it is pretty certain that it had very weak roots. If proposal comes before girl has allowed herself to be- lieve that little attentions offered to her had any special meaning-before she has permitted her feelings to shape themselves as they might have done uo harm will follow. It is unfair to ex. pect that Q girl should be ready to yield the moment the word is spoken. No sensible man, no man whose affection is worth retaining, is driven away by being told by the lady of his choice that she likes him, but that her heart is not yet his. If he really loves her he will come back again, and it is pretty certain that he will learn before a second asking whether his affection is returned or not
 But a girl, if she cannot dways choose, can always refuse, aud generally her difficulty is this l; It is evident thai this man is making love to me. l do moi love him, but think I might do so if l chose, or shall I forbear It is here that the power of choice comes in, and it is here that the voice of prudence must be heard, if it is to be heard at all. A girl can always tell how man stands with his sisters; if they are really fond oi him she may feel almost sure that he will make a good husband. A mother, of course, always speaks well of hei sons; it is not what she says of him, but his behavior to her that is to be lookec to. And lady may feel certain on this point-that as a man now treats bis mother and sisters so he will treat her six months after marriage. All this may. seem cold-blooded, very far re moved from the tender feelings which courtship induces. But, after all, gir has choice to make--a choice upon which the happiness of her whole lif' will depend, and there is always time whether she notices it or not, before sh' parts with the control of heriheart, d which she ought to listen to her iudg ment. Without better evidence than he own feelings she is very likely to mak' a mistake, but if she can assure hersel that her lover is man who is respected and liked by his male friends and is favorite at home, she may be prett, sure that in listening to his love she | choosing wisely.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07

''There, Elder" said the Deacon, ''there's a COW brought you. She's an awful good COW; been in our family more than 20 years. My father gave her to me when I was married. She's farrow and don't give any milk, but she's an awful good cow"
 "Tm very much obliged, I'm cure, Deacon" said MT. Crawford. Then he took the rope and, wading through the snow, led the COW around to the wood shed and tied her up there. The Pastor hardly knew what to do with the COW, which had but one horn and seemed un- commonly vicious for one of her age and good bringing mp. The supper was a great success. There were several little articles such ns eggs and spices wanting among the gifts, but these Mrs. Craw- ford supplied from her own store. After supper the Spitzenberg apples were eaten and so were the black walnuts. The Pastor and his wife were very tired when their party was over, and went directly to bed. When they arose in the morning, they found their dry wood had all been burned up the night before in an effort to keep the house warm. snow had fallen and after the wood which lay in the street had been cut up by the minister, it was found difficult to make it burn. The COW manifested a desire for something to eat by frequent appalling sounds, and the minister, after trying her with the dried apples which she rejected, meanwhile endeavoring to hook him with her one horn, gave her a couple of the twenty odd pumpkins in the cellar. Every article of cooked food in the house was gone, and the stores were closed. The brown sugar still remained, and there were the winter squashes and all the articles which could not be eaten. Mrs. Crawford cooked some of the squash, and with few of the raised biscuits which had been overcooked, they made a breakfast The Pastor preached very good Christmas sermon, although somewhat hoarse. Alter the sermon he was told by number of per sons that the donation was considered the most successful held in years.
 Three months later there was another gathering at the parsonage. The Rev. Eleazer Crawford was dead.
 Caught cold some time during the winter and never got over it." said Trustee Higbee. Consumption, l guess"
 1T don't think was ever strong enough for country minister's wife, said Mrs. Crawford, day or two before she died. ''Why, do you know, thal donation party last Christmas tired Elcazsr and me completely out. "-N F YTj,71ee
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
Come Home tO Die.

Elizabeth Jones came from county Fermanagh, Ireland, forty years ago. She accumulated comfortable income, and six weeks ago, as she bid Clerk Miller, at Castle Garden, farewell, she told him she was going back to the old country to die.
 Among the first passengers who landed recently at Castle Garden from the steamer City of Chicago was Elizabeth Jones.
 "Why, granny" exclaimed Clerk Miller, ''back again ?"
 ''I am that" said the old lady em. phatically, "and wish I had never gone back. Oireland to-day is not the Oireland kuew it forty years ago If is no place for me. I've come back to America to die"
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
A Terrible Possibility.

All the materials for a horrible tragedy are supplied by the details of m accident which occurred on Friday to a Dundee workman, an English paper tells us. He was engaged in putting up a large safe, and getting inside, incontinently shut the door, which has a self-actiDg lock. For tunately fer him, the key was at Birmingham, and was sent of ill re- sponse to telegram, so that he was not more than thirty hours inside. But could anything more hideous have happened than the chance that he should have had the key in his OWL pocket, and the door have had no aper- ture Writers of the realistic dramas oi to-day might make good use of the situation.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
Jewels.

When Lord Seborne, the present Chancellor, read the letter Miss Fortes- cue wrote to Lorl Garmoyle, begging him to buy her no more jewels, and written in such tender, womanly, sem sible way, he used. it is said, some un- usually strong expressions. The ex- Chancellor, Lord Cairns, would have been very unhappy if he had heard them. "1i I had q son, " said he, ''and he had the good sense and good luck to secure girl like that, should be al- most as proud of him as son as I should of her as a daughter" It cost Lord Cairns much bitterness to part with the $50, 900.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
A Queer Sort Of Libel.

A number of regular physicians in New York city are arranging to bring suit against the Medical Register for the persistent omission of their names. It pretends to publish the names of all reputable physicians in good standing and they who are left out are therefore injured in their calling and reputation. They assert that their omission is due to the personal prejudice of the editor, and they intend to seek damages. They will compel him by law to print their names henceforth, or show cause why he will not The suit will be likely to cause 8 marked sensation among the city doctors, who are easily aroused about anything connected with their profession.
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
Local News a Speciality.
GIVEN AND TAKEN.
Y JOHN sREENLEAF wHIrrIER.

E E Smoothing soft the nestling head or maiden fancy-led, Thus the grave-eyed woman said <Riehest gifts are those we make, Dearer than the love we take That We give for loves own sake. "Wen know the hearts unrest; Mine has been the common quest To be loved and therefore blest. '.Favors undeserved were mine; At my feet as on shrine Love has laid its gifts divine. ~Sweet the offerings seemed, and yet With their sweetness came regret, And sense of unpaid debt. "Heart of mine nnsatisied, Was it vanity or pride That deeper joy denied2 ~Hands that ope but to receive Empty close, they only live Richly who can richly give. ssStill, !" she sighed, with mois tening eyes, Love is sweet in any guise; But it's best is sacrifice! He whe, giving, does not crave Likesk is to Him who gave Life itself the loved to save. 'Tove that self-forgetful gives Sows surprise of ripened sheaves. Late or soon its own receives"
 -Iadependent
Connecticut western news., 1885-01-07
LabOrers' Wages on the Isthmus.

It has been stated by those favoriug the Nicaragua canal that white laborers from the Northern States can be hired to work on the canal for S1 per day. The current rate of wages paid to ordi- nary unskilled negroes on the Panama Canal ranges from g. 50 to 8 per day, and the Panama Canal Company pays their passages from Jamaica or other West India Islands, and bounty of S5 per head in addition. This being the case the rate per day at Nicaragua could scarcely be counted at s1 per day.