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Year: 1877

A dark-haired, slender young girl,
with. brown eyes and a pleasant face,
stood at the prisoners dock in the JEFF
ferson Market Police Court the other
morning. She was neatly dressed,
though her attire was we'll worn, and
she stood with bowed head, while an oc-
casional sob shook her slender form.
Two other female prisoners stood in the
dock with her. The one on her right
was bold-faced woman of the town,
dressed in cheap but gaudy finery, be-
decked with tawdry jewelry, and evil
IDENTIFY familiar with her surroundings.
The other was an old woman in dirty
rags, which she scarcely held upon her
shoulders with one thin and grimy
hand. Her eyes were bleared, and her
face bruised and blOated.


The Judge looked at the strangely-as-
sorted trio. Then he said to the weep
ing girl:


"How is it that so young girl as you
should have come to this ?"


"I did not intend to get drunk, Judge"
said the girl. "I went to a woman's
house and we drank some beer together,
and somehow 1 don't remember what
happened after that, until found my
self in the CELL"


"HOw old are you ?"


"I am going on sixteen, SIR"


"Sixteen! How do you like your
neighbors ? Look to your right; that
is your next step. 1t won't take very
long for you to reach that stage if you
continue as you have begun. Now,
look to your left; that is the sure end OF
the downward path"


The young girl sobbed, but said moth
ing.


"You are young" resumed His Honor
''This is your first offense; 1 hope it will
be your last. You can go.n


The girl left the courtroom with
hanging head, but the woman on the
right laughed and the woman on the
left leered as they waited for their turn
-NelU York World.
Year: 1877

coming in time the owner in fee simple
of the park like domain of Grand Ronde
which is large enough for an European
realm.


Sad indeed was the parting of the be-
reaved family from the lonely resting
place of the patient, long-suffering wife
and mother. But in the excitement of
iourneying the most poignant grief was
mercifully aIlayed, and it was but lit
tie while till the wild splendors of the
promised land were pictured before
them, from the descending slopes of the
beautiful mountains overlooking vast
tract of fertile land that is now an In
dian reservation, given over to Cayuse
ponies and not more intelligent camas
diggers. At that time this valley was
not wilder than at this writing, if we
except q few temporary Indian farms
that resident agents have caused to be
made by the lazy savages within the
past decade.


The average Indian will not work.
He prefers to murder and thereby dis
possess the man who will. But then,
as long as the Federal government pays
him anew, in increased annuities, for
every fresh endeavOr to decimate the
whites by butchery, there is no telling
when the numerous savage outbreaks of
the border will stop. Certainly not till
the noble red men are all destroyed.


Slowly and steadily our party journey
on, their way running through broad
tract of fertile land, and again over a
seemingly arid desert, which subse-
queut cultivation has redeemed from its
only seeming barrenness; across numer-
Gus rapid streams that seek their way to
the mighty Columbia through the SLOW
rolling ages, and at last behold them at
the foot of the Cascade Mountains,
where they remain encamped for a few
days to await the termination of a storm.


If any one doubts that the natural
tendency of the human family is toward
matrimony, let him note the progress OF
the malady in any new country where
population is sparse.


If Mrs. Marblehead had not died, I dc
not for a moment imagine that the Ma
jOr would have fancied another woman
There was little sentiment about him.
anyhow, and he had rigid notions con-
cerning chastity, his idea of that virtue
being always based upon human law
bat now, the patient, blue-eyed wife
was beyond his reach, and there was
ample opportunity for legal love-mak'
ing with the widow Jones.


Don't fancy that the Major hinted hi:
intentions all at once, or that the widow
pretended to divine the import of hi.
tender words or tenderer glances.


ITO be continued.l
Year: 1877

ERRORS IN MARRIAGE.-Many peO-
pie think that they have made a mis-
take in marriage, when their mistake
is only in their behavior since they
were married. Good husbands make
good wives, and good wives make good
husbands; and the scOlding and intem-
perate, or slatternly partner often has
himself or herself to blame for the mis-
cry that clouds the life and desolates
the home. Multitudes who feel that
their marriage was a mistake, and who
make their existence life long misery,
might, by a little self-denial, and pa
tienee, and forbearance, and gentleness,
the old-time courtesy, make their home
brighten like the gates of Eden, and
bring back again the old love that
blessed the happy, golden days gone by.
Suppose the wife does not know quite
as much as you do; well, you showed
your very great judgment when you
thought you chief among ten thousand.
Or, if your husband is not the most won
derful man in the world, it simply il
lustrates the wit and wisdom of the
young woman who once thought he was,
and could not be convinced to the con-
trary! So, perhaps, you are not SO un-
evenly mated after all; and if one has
had better opportunities since marriage,
then of course that one should teach and
cultivate and encourage the other, and
so both journey on tOgether.-HGtPt
Health Journal.
Year: 1877

The FALSE BALANCE.-Alas! what
narrow creatures we are, after all How
distinctly we can see the "mote" in
other eyes, so imperceptible in our own:
How easily we can settle the question OF
duty for a tired, tempted, discouraged
fellOw-creature, and what a large mar
gin we allow for our own weaknesses
and follies How seldom do we reflect
that, placed in the same circumstance,
we might be even more reprehensloie
than thew whom we so uncharlta0ly
condemn! God help us-what if He SO
unsparingly and unrelentingly measure
our motives and lives! What if our
upworthiness were the measure of His
daily favor and recognition! May the
thought stifie on our lips the harsh
judgment, and prompt the extended
hand of succor to the tempted and disN
eOuragsdl
Year: 1877

A traveller in Persia thus describes
the dress and appearance Of the ladies
Of that country:


A few women are seen. We meet
one sitting astride on horseback, as all
Eastern women ride. We believe them
to be women because of their costume
and size, but we can see no part of them,
not even a hand or an eye. They are
shrouded from the head to the knees in
cotton or silk sheet of dark blue or
black-the chudder, it is called, which
passes over the head and is held with
the hands around and about the body.
Over the chudder is tied around the
head yard long veil of white cotton or
linen, in which before the eyes is a
piece of open work about the size of q
finger, which is their only lookout or
ventilation. The veil passes into the
chudder at the chin. Every woman be-
fore going out of doors, puts on a pair of
trowsers, generally of the same stuff
aud color of the chudder, and thus her
outdoor seclusiOn and disguise are COM
plete. Her husband could not recog-
niZe her in the street. In this costume
MOhammedan women group their way
about the towns of Persia. Their trOw-
sers are tightly bound about the ankles,
above their colorej silk stockings, which
are invariably of home manufacture ;
the slippers, with no covering for the
heel, complete this unsightly, unwhole-
some apparel of these uncomfortable
victims of the Persian readers of the
Koran. The indoor costume of Persian
women of the higher class appears in
delicate to Europeans. The chuddel
and trowsers are the invariable walking
eOstuu1& Indoors the dress of a Persian
lady is More like that of ballet girl. In
the ante-rOoms of Persian royalty my
wife was received by the princesses
thus attired, or rather unattired.
Year: 1877

To think that the moro q man cats tho
iatter and stronger he will become. To
believe that the more hours children study
the faster they will learn. To conclude
that, if exercise Is good, the more violent
IL is the more good is done. TO imagine
that every hour taken from sleep is an
hour gained. To act on the presumption
that the smallest room In the house is
large enough to sleep in. TO argue that
whatever remedy causes one TO feel i'm
mediately better is good for the sysiem'
without regard TO more ulteriol effects
TO eat without an appetite, or to con.
tinue 10 cat after It has been satisfied,
merely to crafty the taste. TO cat a
hearty supper for the pleasure experienced
during the brief time II Is passing down
the threat, at the expense Of whole
night Of disturbed sleep aud season oi
weary waking in the morning.
Year: 1877

A few days ago The chief of police ol
Sacramento city had occasion to send
messages TO the surrounding towns for
the arrest Of certain individual, aud In
the course Of time received an answer
from one Of the places that the party had
been caught. The chief started after hin
early next morning, and found on his ar.
rival at bis destination that, there being ne
jail in the place, or other conveniences
for OBTAINING prisoner, the officer had
secured him by making him drunk aud
putting him TO sleep on stove in a sa-
loon. This accomplished, the officer
treated himself few times as a reward
for his success, aud when the chief ar
rived he was full as a goose, but the pris.
oner was safe. Before starting on his re.
turn the chief inquired:


What's the costsP


Well, don't scarcely know, was The
reply; | don't like to charge too much,
but be was awful hard to on up Sup.
pose we say sl0l


The money was paid aud The prisoner
brought to town. Il proved TO have been
an excellent job performed upon bin, for
he didn't get sober for three days.
Year: 1877

It is not little remarkable that of all
European nations those which at this
moment stand in greatest danger of war
are also on economical grounds most in
need of peace. Turkey is bankrupt.
Russia is financially in such state that
O great conflict would, to say the least,
bring her to the very brink of ruin.
The condition of Austria is very little
better. Englishmen of this generation
cannot easily realize the depressing in
fuence of the fiscal burdens which have
to be borne by countries whose govern
ments are continually threatened with
pecuniary embarrassment. For many
years past we have been reducing our
national debt, and at the same time les
sening the pressure of taxation. Ex-
cepting Holland, we are the only nation
in Europe which has been in this happy
condition. Other countries, and es-
pecially the three we have named, have
within the same period been rapidly in
creasing their Indebtedness, while main
tanning their taxation at point verging
sometimes almost upon oppression. In
all three cases the wealth stored in their
metallic currency has long since disap-
peared in payment of foreign claims,
and the best of them-so low stands
their credit-would find it next to i'm
possible to contract large loan abroad.
OF the three, Austria is perhaps, from
financial point of view, the most
favorably circumstanced and, as we
have lately been told by Prince Bis
marck that she is much more powerful
than is commonly supposed, it is GER
tainly worth while inquiring how far in
an economical sense the estimate of the
German Chancellor is borne out by the
facts of the case.-Manchester Eng.
Guardian.
Year: 1877

THERE is this difference between
leen and fat man when they slip down
on the icy sidewalk--the lean man
jumps right up, while the corpulent fel-
low crawls along for way on his hands
and knees,
Year: 1877

speak to such objection or question. ten
minutes and not ofteDer than once: hut
after such debate shall have lasted two
hours, 1t shall be the duty of each house to
put the main question without further de-
bate.


SEC. 5. That at such ioint meeting Of the
Two houses, seats shall be provided as fol-
LOWS; For the President of the Senate, the
Speakers chair; the Speaker Immediately
upon his left the Senators in the body of
the hall upon the right of the presiding
othcer; the Representatives in the body OF
the hall not provided for the Senators; the
tellere, Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of
the House of Representatives, at the
Clerks desk; the other officers of the two
houses in front of the Clerks deek and
upon each side of the Speakers platform.
Sueh JOINT meeting shall not be dissolved
until the count of the electoral votes shall
be completed and the result declared; and
no recess shall be taken, unless q question
shall have arisen IN regard to the counting
OF any such votes or otherwise under this
act, IN which case il shall be competent for
either house, acting separately, in the man
ner hereinbefore provided, to restrict a re-
cess of such house not beyond the next
day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of ten
O'Clock in the forenoon, and while any
question ls being considered by said COM
mission, either house may proceed with it's
legislative or other business.


SEC. 6. That nothing in this act shall be
held to impair or affect any right now exist
ing under The constitution and laws to oues-
tion by proceeding in the judicial courts of
the United States the right or title of the
person who shall be declared elected, or
who shall claim to be President or Vice
President of the United States, if any such
right exists.


SEC. z. That said commission shall make
its own rules, keep record of its proceed
lAgs, and shall have power to employ such
persons as may be necessary for the trans
action of its business and the execution of
its nnWnr
Year: 1877

The following letter, from an old COM
panion in arms, was received by Governor
Packard last week. It's earnest words of
approval and the thorough appreciation Of
the situation it exhibits are gratifying as
coming from an old friend, and at time
when some who should be equally warm
and have more reason to be faithful to their
leader are doubtful in their expressions;


SAVANNAH, Ills, January 90, 1877.
Governor S. B. Packard:


MY DEAR SR-Your noble record during
the last presidential canvass in defeating
the attempt by the Democratic party of the
South, cOuntenanced and upheld by its
Northern wing, to rob the freedmen of their
franchise by intimidation, vioIence and
murder, which they undertook by process
that shames the civilized world, commands
the respect and admiration of the loyal
masses OF this country. YOnr State made a
very wise and judioiOus choice in a man
who is fully identified with the great prin-
ciples of the Republican party, and who is
fitted by ability and experience in public
affairs for the responsibilities of the high
office of chief magistrate. Now, as ever,
the loyal people of the State of Louisiana
will cling with unchanging faith and con
fidence to the man who has proved himself
inyincible upon the field of battle, and
equally courageous and wise in administer
ing the affairs of the State. Upon your
patriotism and courage the loyal people Of
your State rely.


My long personal Acquaintance with you
upon the field, facing the guns of these very
White Liners, oonviDces me you are not the
man to be intimidated from deing your
duty as then.


Very respectfully, your obedient servant,


w. w. JORDAN,
Formerly First Lieutenant of Company B,


Twelfth Maine Volunteers.
Year: 1877

candidate for reelection, was at the bot
tom of the denomination of Marcy, and that
Jones himself is alarmed at the shape the
matter has taken. The Democrats admit
privately that unless the gubernatorial
question is satisfactorily adjusted, they
have no hope of carrying any one OF the
Congressional districts.
Year: 1877

THE officers and chiefs OF the various Bu-
reaus in the War and Navy Departments
have been notified to select their rooms in
the new building now being rooted, which
is to form the east wing of the building, to be
used by the State, War and Navy Depart
ments. 1t is proposed to locate the War De-
partment on the west side of the new wing,
and the Navy Department on the east side,
as soon as the new wing is ready for occupa-
tion, which will not be for some months.
The War ard Navy Departments will be
moved therein, and the old brick buildings
now occupied by them torn down to make
room for the north wing and Seventeenth
street front of the new structure. The south
front has already been completed and is occu-
pied by the State Department..
Year: 1877

There assembled yesterday in this city
body of men and women representing a
Christian denomination which perhaps more
literally and emphatically than any other
proclaims and carries into practice the pre-.
Year: 1877

A Texas paper says that that State, under
its Democratic administration, is running in
debt at the rate of something like one mil
lion dollars year, and already has a good
start of five million dollars.
Year: 1877

A Brooklyn man writes to the Sun
81 drank more intoxicating liquor
from the year 1857 to the last day q
1873 than any other person I evel
knew or heard Of. and in the mean
time, knowing this cure did not prac


tice it on myself, but, for fun, did
parctice it on many others, and effect
ed permanent cures. The iremedy Of
the cure is this : When ( person 6nd.
he must have drink, let him take i
drink of water, say two or three swal-
lows, as often Is the thirst or craving
may desire. Let him continue thie
practice. His old chums will laugh
but let him persevere, and it will moi
be week before the appetite for any
kind of stimulant will disappear a.
together, and water be taken "a
quench tts natural thirst. If at any
time the victim should feel = craving


let him take the 6rst opportunity and
obtain swallow of water, and he car
pass snd repass all soloons. Whe hs
goes home At night he will feel satis-
fed and be sober and have money il
his pocket I commenced this prac


tice the first day Of 1874. and nevel
think Of taking drink Of stimulants. :
Year: 1877

Gen. Ewing and Stanley Mathews
are indulging in joint political dis.
cussion in the Ohio Campaign. Ewing
reinterated the charge, made last fall,
that Mathews had been a party to a
bargain with Southern leaders that in.
fiuenced votes on the electoral count
and disarmed Southern opposition to
Hayes Inauguration. Mr.. Mathews
make the following emphatic denial.


"Now I intend to make my denial.
to cover it in every form, written, YER
bal. implied, expressed, collateral. in
cidentaI. in every possible form, shape,
variety, mode, tense or view, that the
ingenuity or the malice Of the men may
affirm it. IL IS a lie There is not a
word of truth in it, There is not a
an event, fact, document or an IN.
cident which could justify a reason.
able, conscientious man concerning the
possibility Of it. Every scrap that
ever I wrote or signed in connection
with the history Of that event has been
published far and wide. If any man
has anything yet, let him produce it.
/ DEFY all my accusers. No. fellow
citizens, it is not fair, it is not right to
undertake to deprive President Hayes
Of the honor and the grace Of first con.
ceiving and originating the policy
which he himself carried out. It was
born Of his own good sense and his own
good heart. 1t is inscribed first in his
letter Of acceptance, where it was seen,
and know, and read, and every man
that knew him, and every assurance
that ever was given by himself, and SO
f.r as know by any other man in
Washington city or elsewhere in refer
ence to what he would or would not do
when he became President, was found
ed on that and that alone. As for
myself I never had, from the time I
went to Washington to act as one Of
the council before the Electoral Com
mission until the day that he arrived
in Washington after the announce
ment and declaration of his election
had been made, never had the slight
est communication with him."
Year: 1877

NEW CURE Fer WoUNDs.-As soon
as wound is inflicted got a little
stick knife or file handle will do
aud commence to tap gently on the
wound. Do not stop for the hurt, but
continue until it bleeds freely and be-
comes numb. When this point is
reached you are safe-all that is ne
cessary is to protect it from the dirt.
Do not stop short Of the kleeding and
the numbncss, and do not on any ac-
count close the opening with plaster.
Nothing more than little cerate on a
cloth is necessary. We have used and
seen this used on all kinds of simple
punctures for thirty years, and never
knew = single instance Of a wound be.
soming indamed or sore after treatment
as above. Among other cases; A
coal rake tooth going entirely through
the foot, rusty darning needle through
the foot. bad bite BY a sucking pig.
several instances of file shanks through
the hands, and numberleas cases Of
rusty nails, avis. 60, but We never
knew failure of this treatment.
Year: 1877

PREVENTING SUFFocATIoN By
SMoKE-I will give some suggestions
for the prevention of suffocation by
smoke. A pillow case, we'll saturated
with water, and havinga small hole
torn it to look through, placed loosely
over the head, will be found an ad
mirable impromptu respirator in the
densest smoke 1 am indebted for the
idea to Vice Admiral birmingham
who told me how when he commanded
the Cambridge training ship at Ply.
mouth, he made his first experiment
with this pillow case respiratcr. He
had twelve pounds Of loose powder ex
ploded in confined part Of the ship,
which, although screened off with fear
nought, emitted so dense a smoke tha,
those outside had to lie down on the
deck. A common pillow case, with a
small eye hole, was placed over the
head Of q man, who, with the hose in
hand, went inside and remained ten
minutes, when to assure his friends
outside Of his safety, he sang a comic
song.-[Cor. London Times.
Year: 1877

The building of the Union Pacific is
not yet SO old an event that any one can
have forgotten the history of this bold
feat of engineering, nor yet the wild.
reckless, adventurous life which mark
ed its progress westward. Happily the
experiment of building railroad over
1000 miles of uninhabited mountains
and plains is nolongeran experimentbut
a fact, and happily, too, theadventurers
who followed its building have disap-
peared. Still, it must be confessed,
there was the charm of novelty
about this strange life which relieved
it to q great extent Of its roughness,
and it is ON this account that sold
timers" look back on the months spent
in the construction camps and ''red
hot" mushroom cities of the plains,
even with all their fatigue, dust, hun
ger, thirst and crime, as among the
most interesting and instructive of
their life's experience.


But what contrast now, not only
in the character of the towns and vii
lagos along its course, but in the whole
country through which the road passes.
In the intervals of rest and sOberness
of this migratory people, it used to be
the common query of everybody,
"What, in the economy of Nature. this
country was ever created for?" and
"What use it could be put to?" The
answers were usually anything but COM
plimentary to the country, and few
indeed were bold enough to venture the
opinion that it would ever be brought in
to use for purposes Of agriculture. True,
the majority of those enterprising pion-
GERS were better informed in the mys-
teries of faro than of agriculture, and
knew more about the speculative value
of pair of jacks than of the process of
raising corn. Their researches had not
been extended to the chemical proper
| ties of the soil, nor to the climatic
changes going on about them. Bat in
these particulars they were not far be-
hind the more reflective minority. Ap-
pearances were certainly against the
country, and it required more than or
dinary credulity to believe the yarns of
old plainsmen about the wonderful pro-
ductiveness of the soil and its adapta-
bility to all the cereals and esculents
of the temperate zone. But now travel
ers across the plains are pre-
pared to believe the ''big stories"
of the the ranchmen, even if they
did not then; for trip now is reSela-
tion of such amazing development that
one can credit almost the widest pre-
| diction for the future.