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Tlì© Smiil-colored. Sait. I scarcely know how it happened but a timber must have fell and struck me on the bead. The'first thing that I realized after it was that I was straight and still on something hard, and when I tried to move myself and speak I found it impossible to do so. I concluded that I must be in some very dark, tight place, for I could not sc-e; in fact, I soon learned that, though per fectly concious, I could do nothing but hear. A door opened and foot steps, approached; but I felt a cloth taken from my face, and a -voice which I recognized as that of Mr. Jones, the father of my wife that was to be— said: “ He,hasn’t changed much,” and his companion, whose voice I knew to be the village undertaker, Hop kins by name, said lightly: “ Better looking dead than alive. How does Jcrusha feel about it? Take on much ?” “ Oh, no, she had her eyes on an other fellow anyhow, and a better match, too, except the money part. - Though I had nothing against Ben, only he didn’t know much, and was about tho homeliest man I ever knew. Such a mouth; why it really seemed as though he was going to swallow knife, plate and all, when he opened it at dinner.” “ Well,” said tho cheerful voice of Hopkins, lie’ll never open his mouth again,” and then he proceeded to measure for my coffin for it seemed that I was dead, or they -thought I was, which was all the same to the greedy pocket of the undertaker. I had heard of undertakers who al ways whistled when they got a meas- iirp, but I never believed it before. But that man actually whistled a subdued dancing-tune while he measured me, and it seemed to me that three of four icicles were rolling down my back to the music of his tune. His duty done, they covered tny face again and left to my own reflec tions, which were hot particularly comforting, although I had often heard it remarked that meditation was good for the soul, and this was the best chance I had ever had for .trying it. An Lour must have passed when the door again opened, and two per sons came whispering along to where I lay, and the voice of my promised wife fell upon my ear. “ I dread to look upon him, Bob; he was so mortal homely, alive, he must be frightful dead.” I ground my teeth in imagination, as I remembered how often she had gone into raptures or pretended to, over my noble brow and expressive mouth, and how she had often de clared that if I were taken away from her she would surely pine away and die. One of them raised the cloth, and I knew they were looking at me. Bob was her second cousin, and I knew he was that other fellow, her father had mentioned. “ Seems to me you don’t feel very bad about his dying’Rusha, remark ed Bob. “ Well, to tell the truth,” said my dear betrothed. “ I don’t care much about it. If he had lived I should have married him, because he was rich and father wanted me to; but I was getting about sick of my bargain for I knew I should always be asham ed of him, he looked so much like a baboon.” “ But yon loved him,” remarked Bob. “ No I didn’t ! My affections were wasted long ago on one who never returned my love;” and my fast-fad» ing idol sighed heavily. They had covered my face by this time, and were standing a few steps from where I lay. “ About how long ago ’Rusha ask ed Bob. “ A year or such a matter,” with a deep sigh, which ended in a fit of sneezing. “ About the time I went away?” interrogated the cautious Bob, coughing a little. “ Well, yes, some’res near,” assent ed my dear affianced. “ Now, Jerusha, you don’t mean to insinuate that I —” “ I don’t mean to insinuate any thing. Bob Smith!” and the angelic sweetness of her voice was somewhat sharpened. “ Now see here, ’Rusha, I ’ve loved you ever since you were knee high to a gopher, but I thought when you came home that you was sweet on that other chap, but I swan I believe you liked me all the time!” “ Oh, Bob!” said my was-to-be, in a gushing sort of way. “ My own ’Rusha!” remarked Bob. Then I heard a subdued rush, ao' companied by violent lip explosions. I tried to kick, or grate my teeth, or do something to relieve my outraged feelings, but not a kick nor a grate could I raise. It was an awful fix to be in, but I had to stand it, or lay it so I laid still and let them alone un til they got tired of it, and then they went out, and I was again left to my own pleasant reflections. Night came, and so did a lot of young fellows with their girls, to sit up with me: and they bad a jolly time of it,although it was against my principles to enjoy it on so solemn an occasion. It seemed an age until morning, hut it came at last and they went away. I heard them say I was to be buried that day at % o’clock, and I was beginning to feel decidedly shaky wnen Jerusha and her mother qame into the room aud began ar ranging for the funeral. “ ’Rusha,” said her mother, “ here is that snuff cglored suit of poor Ben’s; of course lie will never have any more use for clothes, so just put them away among your carpet- rags; they’ll maketa splendid stripe.” Now that particular suit of clothes was just the neatest one I ever own' ed, arm wholes, collars, waist-bands, buttons, all just the thing, and my blood boiled to hear them talk so cooly of using them for stripes in a rag carpet. They kept on talking as they swept, dusted and cleaned up the room. “ Bob says he will take the Martin farm to work this year,” said Jeru sha, cheerfully, “ and as soon as we are married we shall go to house keeping in that little cottage close to the road. Now I must get my car pet done, as soon as possible, for I want it in that nice little front room. These duds of Ben’s will make out enough rags, I guess. His folks live so far away they will never inquire about his clothes. Nov/, if it wasn’t for the looks of it, we could ask old mother Smith about coloring yel low; she is sure to be here, too day.” I was getting very mad now, in deed. - I felt that the crisis was near and that I .should either die or exi plodo, if they did not let my snuff- colored suit alone. Jerusha picked Inem up— I knew it, for I heard the buckles, and buttons jingle— and made for the door. I tried to shake my fist and yell at her, but all in vain. I laid there, outwardly as quiet as a lainb, inwardly boiling with wrath. It was too much; the deep est trance could not have held out against the loss of that suit. With a powerful effort I sprang up and screamed. Jerusha dropped my clothes and her mother the duster, "and both fled from the room, and the house, never stopping until chey reached Dr. Brown’s across the street With difficulty I managed to get my clothes. I had just got them fairly on, when Mrs. Jones and her daugh ter followed by a numerous company of men, women and children, came peering cautiously into the room. I sat on my board and looked at them. Such a scared-looking crowd was enough to amuse ah owl, so I laugh ed ; I knew it was unbecoming, but I couldn’t have helped it if they had chucked me into my coffin— which the undertaker was just then carry' ing past the window—and buried me the next minute. I laughed until I jarred the chair out from under one end of of board, and down I went with a crash. Then the doctor ven tured into the room, saying, rather dubiously: “ So you are not dead yet, Ben? ” “ Weil, no, not exactly,” I replied ‘sorry to dissapoint my friends about the funeral however. ’ “Yes,” he said rather absently, ‘bad, rather— that is— ahem!’ Fooled out of that snuff-colored stripe! I thought as I looked at Je rusha. Go and speak wiili him, said her father. He’s got the stamps, and you had better marry him after all. They had began to gather around me and congratulate me on my es cape. I ndticed that they cried a great deal more now than they' did when I was dead. Jerusha came and hung around my neck, sniveling desperately, I gave her a not over- gentle push and told her to wait next time until I was safely buried before she set her heart on my old clothes. O, I’m so glad! she said sweetly, not appearing to notice what I said about the clothes, that you are not dead, Benny, dear. My heart seem ed all withered and broken to see you lying all cold and white. I wept bitterly over your pale face, my be loved. Yes. I replied, I heard you and Bob taking on terribly, It was a lucky die for me. Could 3:ou hear? she gasped, I rather think I could;— some, I replied. She looked toward the door, but it was crowded full, so she made a dive for the open window and went through it like a deer. She shut her self up in the smoke-house, and would not come out until I had left the house. Bob would not fulfill his promise of marriage with his cousin because she tried to make up with me again; so she is living a life of,single bless edness. While I am writing, my wife is cutting up my snuff colored clothes to make a stripe in a new carpet for our front room. A Plainville clergyman insists that he saw a snake forty feet long and as big round as a barrel of whiskey. A pretty good sized insect that. W e have no doubt that he saw it, but he unquestionably saw the barrel of whiskey before he saw the snake. ,It seems more 'reasonable, some how. A Poughkeepsie parent lately induced a croupy youngster to make quite a hearty meal on buckwheat cakes and “maple molasses,” but the latter proved to be njce syrup of squills. The boy said he thought something ailed the molasses the very minute his father told him to eat all he wanted. Gen. Schenck’s new work on “ Draw Po ker” is enjoying great popularity in the West. It is used almost exclusively by the courts in administering the oath to wit nesses and swearing in the jurymen.— Brooklyn Argus. Mr. Spencer, of Modus, Conn., cast a des pairing look upon his twenty-first child the other day. No wonder they call a repeating rifle a Spencer. Now is the ¿.season when people should economize by burning almanacs instead o f wood and coal.—Terre Haute Gazette. True merit, like the pearl inside an oys ter, is content to remain quiet till it finds an opening. It will not improve your under-standing to have your shoes fixed by a sherry cob bler. Tiie Problem of “ C.” Considered. From thé Jacksonville Sentinel. In your issue of January 23d the follow ing ‘ ‘Problem” is put forth: “ Is the auriferous ‘Big Blue Lead’ of Cal ifornia the channel of the ancient Columbia river ? Who will answer ?” To any one but a geologist well acquain ted with the country between tho “ Big Blue Lead of California” and the “ extinct river in Baker County, Oregon1” tho question will be a poser; but in the absence of such a “ master” to solve the “ problem,” I will be pardoned for offering an opinion. At the time these “ dead rivers” were liv ing streams all that country between the points named on the North and South, and Jacksonville on the West, including the Southern part of Baker, Grant and "Wasco counties, and embracing, also, all of western Oregon but Curry, Josephine, and the west ern part of Jackson, with all western Cali fornia, except Del Norte, Klamath, and the western part of Siskiyou counties, was a part and parcel of the Pacific Oecan. The west ern part of Jackson, with all of Josephine and Curry counties in Oregon, and the west ern part o f Siskiyou, with all of Del Norte and Klamath counties in California, were a grand island in the Pacific, some hundreds of miles off the eastern shore. The extinct part of old ocean -thus sketched, with its is land (now so much of the coast range West of us), may not be very accurately bounded, bur certain it is that Jacksonville stands about one mile off the shore of a once migh ty ocean, while Ashland is immediately on the beach. Cottonwood, California, is off the shore a mile, and Yreka inland but a short distance, -perhaps not more than a mile. A little beyond you, to the East, Mr. Edit or, and in fact all around you, for you, are nestled at the feet Of, and among a small group of 3mall islands, stood, or rather an chored, one of the Cities of the Icebergs, re flecting the gorgeous rays of the sun in a thousand different directions, as in its light and warmth they were enabled to discharge their cargoes of animals, rocks, trees, Ac., and giving to the 'place an air of business that no seaport of modern times, with all its wealth of shipping, could rival. Ashland was not favored with a channel and harbor into which these ice vessels could sail and find quiet anchorage from the storm without, but thousands of hapless icebergs, drifting too near the rocks, were stranded in the breakers, leaving their, cargoes, as ever lasting monuments of their nativity and disaster, to be read and studied with delight by the scientific mind of the coming man. The same'convulsions that lifted the ex tinct part of the ocean above its original wa ter level also raised the Sierra and Cascade range of mountains, and thus the waters East of this range were divided [from those on the West. How long the waters were thus pent up in this elevated inland, basin will never be'.known, but its rim at the Dalles of the Columbia, the chasm through which , the'Klamath flows, and the passage of the Colorado, were finally overflown, and the immense reservoir was thus gradually drained and opened up. enriched, for the future habitation of man. Having promised thus much, a few words will dispose of the “ problem” in accordance therewith. Into the extinct ocean thus in imagination re-created, poured the living waters of those now “ dead rivers,” with whatever of wealth their density and velocity enabled them to carry, the one draining the country on the North and the other on the South. The “ auriferous deposits” of the “ Big Blue Lead of California” and the “ gravel lead of Baker county, Oregon,” were collect ed iron; the country adjacent to where they are now found. Their present wealth de pends almost entirely upon the original rich ness of their own immediate localities. Heavy (or course) gold does not wash far, unless there is great tall and consequent power in the stream to carry it along. Be side", the country adjacent to both streams is known to be rich in gold wherever explor ed. There is much of “ C.’s” article that is of great interest, hut I have not now time to endorsedt, while the part considered still remains an open question. Some of tho premises taken are incorrect; the “ problem” is not fairly disposed of. I invite "criticism, as this is written more for the purpose of awakening interest in the subject than for any other purpose. R. ---- *- ---- ----------- ------ Tiie Portland and Halles Mail. The Mountaineer under the head of “ the facts in the case,” publishes tho fol lowing regarding the transfer of the Moo dy mail contract to the O. S. N . Co., “We wish to set before the public certain facts concerning the mail service between this place and Portland, premising that what we state comes with authority. The pub lic are well acquainted with the work of last season, the two lines, and thè fact that the 0. R. T, Co., better known as the Teaser Company, carried the mail since last July. Early in January last, Mr. D. M. French, proprietor ol the boats Teaser and Otter, notified Mr. Moody by letter. Mr. Moody being in Portland at the time, that except on certain conditions, with which Mr. Moody did not feel justified in complying, he should cease carrying the mail, and tie up the boats on and after Jan. 9th, 1875. On the 7t.h of Jan. the river closed, Mr. Moody being still in Portland; since that time we have received our mails' overland, and have been well served in that respect, as compared with former years. On Mr. Moody’s return from Port land, he met Mr. D. M. French, and find ing no satisfactory arrangements could be entered into for a continuance of their bus iness relations in the matter of the trans portation of mails, they had a final settle ment. Mr. Moody has now made arrange ments with the O. S. NT. Co. to perform the mail service on this route, and when the ice shall disappear and the river be again open for transportation, they will take the mails for us. These are the simple, un varnished facts; the boats are still the property of Mr. French, and if the next season’s trade should justify, who knows but they may again plow the waters of our noble river in the interest of com merce?” Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Veg etable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom with out the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “ What is the cause of the unparalleled success of V inegar B itters ?” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Reno vator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has aqnedicine been compounded pos sessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar B itters iu bealiug tbe sick -of every disease. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of _the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. The properties of D r . walker s V inegar B itters are Aperient, Dia phoretic, Nutritious, Laxative, Diu retic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Su dorific, Alterative, and Anti-Bilious. r . si. Mc Donald &> co„ Druggists & Gen.Agts., San Francisco, Califor nia, J ecor. of Whasington & Charlton Sts.,N.Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers. August 19. 1874, nl51y THE UNEQUALLED These Superb Instruments have achieved a success unparalleled in the history of Eiano-forte Manufacture. They are remarkable for Great Volume, Purity and Sweetness of Tone, and Durability. THE CELEBRATED The Most Desirable Instruments in the market for church and parlor. Over 28,000 now in use. SHEEMM & HYDE, GENERAL AGENTS, , > I SAN FRANCISCO./ C ash' s Preset . 'O.H.BOQART V' k H . BUR NETT domerRine &tfansome Streets, SanRaiieisco California. Capital M i ill(M)$ 8Q 0,Q 00 Surplus Fund(in&oli) 206,110 Transacts every kind of legitimate Banking Business. 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Boyd, or other persons, in the SoutheastQuarter of Section Seventeen, in Township Nine South, and Forty East, commonly known as Baker City, and Boyd’s Addition, and which is situated in~ Baker county, Oregon, (if said Boyd, or other person, has not first secured the title of the undersigned to the same), is voidable, and will be taken from you with out any pay or reward for improvements, and .you are further _ notified that there has been no final decision, even in the Land Office, against me, on merit, as to my title to said lands. All that decision went to, was to the point that my Attorneys did not make the appeal in proper season, as ordered by me. Suit will be instituted in proper time to recover all of said land and improvements held. Beware! ,, ROYAL A. PIERCE. Rockbridge, Wis., Jan. 24, 1874.n34tf H^otice. N otice is hereby givey to all those who are in arrears with the Academy Company for tuition, to call on Mr. W. E. 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No one will suffer troublesome Influenza and painful Bron chitis, when they know how easily they can be cured. Originally the product of long, laborious, and successful chemical investigation, no c-ost or toil.is spared in making ever}- bottle in the utmost- possible perfection. It may be confi dently relied upon as possessing all the vir tues it lias ever exhibited, and capable ot producing.cures as memorable as the greatest it lias ever effected. PREPARED BY Or, j, C, AYER & CO., Lowe!!, Mass,, Practical aiul Analytical Chemists. SOLI) BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE. BAKER CITY ACADEMY. he Fall Term of the Baker City Academy will begin on the 1st day of September, 1873, under the supervision of S. P. BARKETT, A. M., Principal; assisted by M rs . B arrett , as Preceptress. The Directors feel warranted in saying that our School will fully maintain its present high reputation under its present manage ment, and every effort will be made to ren der full satisfaction to our patrons. ^ o ï » m so Primary Department, per Quarter, $10 00 Preparatory and Academic, 15 00 Latin. Extra, 3 50 French, Extra, 6 00 Other Higher Branches in proportion. Tuition Invariably in ADVANCE. À. H. BROWN, President. W m. F. McCrary, Sec’y. nl3tf Notice to tbe Pale, On and alter May 20th, 1872, the Post Of fice hours will be from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m.— Sundays excepted. Open on Sundays from 9 to 10 a. m. and 5 to 6 p. m. GEO. H. TRACY, p. M.

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  • Tlì© S m iil-c o lo r e d . S a it .

    I scarcely know how it happened but a timber must have fell and struck me on the bead.

    The'first thing that I realized after it was that I was straight and still on something hard, and when I tried to move myself and speak I found it impossible to do so. I concluded that I must be in some very dark, tight place, for I could not sc-e; in fact, I soon learned that, though perfectly concious, I could do nothing but hear. A door opened and footsteps, approached; but I felt a cloth taken from my face, and a -voice which I recognized as that of Mr. Jones, the father of my wife that was to be— said:

    “ He,hasn’t changed m uch,” and his companion, whose voice I knew to be the village undertaker, H opkins by name, said lightly:

    “ Better looking dead than alive. How does Jcrusha feel about it? Take on much ?”

    “ Oh, no, she had her eyes on another fellow anyhow, and a better match, too, except the money part.

    - Though I had nothing against Ben, only he didn’t know much, and was about tho homeliest man I ever knew. Such a mouth; why it really seemed as though he was going to swallow knife, plate and all, when he opened it at dinner.”

    “ Well,” said tho cheerful voice of Hopkins, lie’ll never open his mouth again,” and then he proceeded to measure for my coffin for it seemed that I was dead, or they -thought I was, which was all the same to the greedy pocket of the undertaker. I had heard of undertakers who a lways whistled when they got a meas- iirp, but I never believed it before. But that man actually whistled a subdued dancing-tune while he measured me, and it seemed to me that three of four icicles were rolling down my back to the music of his tune.

    His duty done, they covered tny face again and left to my own reflections, which were hot particularly comforting, although I had often heard it remarked that meditation was good for the soul, and this was the best chance I had ever had for .trying it.

    An Lour must have passed when the door again opened, and two persons came whispering along to where I lay, and the voice of my promised wife fell upon my ear.

    “ I dread to look upon him, Bob; he was so mortal homely, alive, he must be frightful dead.”

    I ground my teeth in imagination, as I remembered how often she had gone into raptures or pretended to, over my noble brow and expressive mouth, and how she had often declared that if I were taken away from her she would surely pine away and die.

    One of them raised the cloth, and I knew they were looking at me. Bob was her second cousin, and I knew he was that other fellow, her father had mentioned.

    “ Seems to me you don’t feel very bad about his d y in g ’Rusha, remarked Bob.

    “ Well, to tell the truth,” said my dear betrothed. “ I don’t care much about it. I f he had lived I should have married him, because he was rich and father wanted me to; but I was getting about sick of my bargain for I knew I should always be ashamed of him, he looked so much like a baboon.”

    “ But yon loved him ,” remarked Bob.• “ No I didn’t ! M y affections were wasted long ago on one who never returned my love;” and my fast-fad» ing idol sighed heavily.

    They had covered my face by this time, and were standing a few steps from where I lay.

    “ About how long ago ’Rusha asked Bob.

    “ A year or such a matter,” with a deep sigh, which ended in a fit of sneezing.

    “ About the time I went away?” interrogated the cautious Bob, coughing a little.

    “ Well, yes, some’res near,” assented my dear affianced.

    “ Now, Jerusha, you don’t mean to insinuate that I —”

    “ I don’t mean to insinuate anything. Bob Smith!” and the angelic sweetness of her voice was somewhat sharpened.

    “ Now see here, ’Rusha, I ’ve loved you ever since you were knee high to a gopher, but I thought when you came home that you was sweet on that other chap, but I swan I believe you liked me all the time!”

    “ Oh, Bob!” said my was-to-be, in a gushing sort of way.

    “ M y own ’Rusha!” remarked Bob.Then I heard a subdued rush, ao'

    companied by violent lip explosions. I tried to kick, or grate my teeth, or do something to relieve my outraged feelings, but not a kick nor a grate could I raise. I t was an awful fix to be in, but I had to stand it, or lay it so I laid still and let them alone until they got tired of it, and then they went out, and I was again left to my own pleasant reflections.

    Night came, and so did a lot of young fellows with their girls, to sit up with me: and they bad a jolly time of it,although it was against my principles to enjoy it on so solemn an occasion.

    I t seemed an age until morning, hut it came at last and they went away. I heard them say I was to be buried that day at % o’clock, and I was beginning to feel decidedly shaky wnen Jerusha and her mother qame into the room aud began arranging for the funeral.

    “ ’R usha,” said her mother, “ here is that snuff cglored suit of poor B en’s; of course lie will never have

    any more use for clothes, so just put them away among your carpet- rags; they’ll maketa splendid stripe.”

    Now that particular suit of clothes was just the neatest one I ever own' ed, arm wholes, collars, waist-bands, buttons, all just the thing, and my blood boiled to hear them talk so cooly of using them for stripes in a rag carpet. They kept on talking as they swept, dusted and cleaned up the room.

    “ Bob says he will take the Martin farm to work this year,” said Jerusha, cheerfully, “ and as soon as we are married we shall go to housekeeping in that little cottage close to the road. Now I must get my carpet done, as soon as possible, for I want it in that nice little front room. These duds of Ben’s will make out enough rags, I guess. His folks live so far away they will never inquire about his clothes. Nov/, if it wasn’t for the looks of it, we could ask old mother Smith about coloring ye llow; she is sure to be here, too day.”

    I was getting very mad now, indeed. - I felt that the crisis was near and that I .should either die or exi plodo, if they did not let my snuff- colored suit alone. Jerusha picked Inem up— I knew it, for I heard the buckles, and buttons jingle— and made for the door. I tried to shake my fist and yell at her, but all in vain. I laid there, outwardly as quiet as a lainb, inwardly boiling with wrath. I t was too much; the d eep est trance could not have held out against the loss of that suit. With a powerful effort I sprang up and screamed. Jerusha dropped my clothes and her mother the duster, "and both fled from the room, and the house, never stopping until chey reached Dr. Brown’s across the street With difficulty I managed to get my clothes. I had just got them fairly on, when Mrs. Jones and her daughter followed by a numerous company of men, women and children, came peering cautiously into the room. I sat on my board and looked at them. Such a scared-looking crowd was enough to amuse ah owl, so I laughed ; I knew it was unbecoming, but I couldn’t have helped it if they had chucked me into my coffin— which the undertaker was just then carry' ing past the window— and buried me the next minute. I laughed until I jarred the chair out from under one end of of board, and down I went with a crash. Then the doctor ventured into the room, saying, rather dubiously:

    “ So you are not dead yet, Ben? ”“ W eil, no, not exactly,” I replied

    ‘ sorry to dissapoint my friends about the funeral however. ’

    “ Y e s,” he said rather absently, ‘bad, rather— that is— ahem!’

    Fooled out of that snuff-colored stripe! I thought as I looked at J e rusha.

    Go and speak wiili him, said her father. He’s got the stamps, and you had better marry him after all.

    They had began to gather around me and congratulate me on my escape. I ndticed that they cried a great deal more now than they ' did when I was dead. Jerusha came and hung around my neck, sniveling desperately, I gave her a not over- gentle push and told her to wait next time until I was safely buried before she set her heart on my old clothes.

    O, I ’m so glad! she said sweetly, not appearing to notice what I said about the clothes, that you are not dead, Benny, dear. M y heart seemed all withered and broken to see you lying all cold and white. I wept bitterly over your pale face, my beloved.

    Yes. I replied, I heard you and Bob taking on terribly, I t was a lucky die for me.

    Could 3:ou hear? she gasped,I rather think I could;— some, I

    replied.She looked toward the door, but it

    was crowded full, so she made a dive for the open window and went through it like a deer. She shut herself up in the smoke-house, and would not come out until I had left the house.

    Bob would not fulfill his promise of marriage with his cousin because she tried to make up with me again; so she is living a life of,single blessedness.

    While I am writing, my wife is cutting up my snuff colored clothes to make a stripe in a new carpet for our front room.

    A Plainville clergyman insists that he saw a snake forty feet long and as big round as a barrel o f whiskey. A pretty good sized insect that. W e have no doubt that he saw it, but he unquestionably saw the barrel o f w hiskey before he saw the snake. ,It seems more 'reasonable, som ehow.

    A Poughkeepsie parent lately induced a croupy youngster to m ake quite a hearty m eal on buckwheat cakes and “ m aple m olasses,” but the latter proved to be njce syrup o f squills. The boy said he thought something ailed the molasses the very m inute his father told h im to eat all he wanted.

    Gen. Schenck’s new work on “ Draw Poker” is enjoying great popularity in the W est. It is used alm ost exclusively by the courts in administering the oath to witnesses and swearing in the jurym en.— Brooklyn Argus.

    Mr. Spencer, of Modus, Conn., cast a despairing look upon his twenty-first child the other day. No wonder they call a repeating rifle a Spencer.

    Now is the ¿.season when people should economize by burning almanacs instead o f wood and coal.—Terre Haute Gazette.

    True merit, like the pearl inside an oyster, is content to remain quiet till it finds an opening.

    It will not improve your under-standing to have your shoes fixed by a sherry cobbler.

    T iie P r o b le m o f “ C .” C o n s id e re d .

    From thé Jacksonville Sentinel.

    In your issue of January 23d the following ‘ ‘Problem” is put forth:

    “ Is the auriferous ‘Big Blue Lead’ of California the channel of the ancient Columbia river ? Who will answer ?”

    To any one but a geologist well acquainted with the country between tho “ Big Blue Lead of California” and the “ extinct river in Baker County, Oregon1” tho question will be a poser; but in the absence of such a “ master” to solve the “ problem,” I will be pardoned for offering an opinion.

    At the time these “ dead rivers” were living streams all that country between the points named on the North and South, and Jacksonville on the West, including the Southern part of Baker, Grant and "Wasco counties, and embracing, also, all of western Oregon but Curry, Josephine, and the western part of Jackson, with all western California, except Del Norte, Klamath, and the western part of Siskiyou counties, was a part and parcel of the Pacific Oecan. The western part of Jackson, with all of Josephine and Curry counties in Oregon, and the western part o f Siskiyou, with all of Del Norte and Klamath counties in California, were a grand island in the Pacific, some hundreds of miles off the eastern shore. The extinct part of old ocean -thus sketched, with its island (now so much of the coast range West of us), may not be very accurately bounded, bur certain it is that Jacksonville stands about one mile off the shore of a once mighty ocean, while Ashland is immediately on the beach. Cottonwood, California, is off the shore a mile, and Yreka inland but a short distance, -perhaps not more than a mile.

    A little beyond you, to the East, Mr. Editor, and in fact all around you, for you, are nestled at the feet Of, and among a small group of 3mall islands, stood, or rather anchored, one of the Cities of the Icebergs, reflecting the gorgeous rays of the sun in a thousand different directions, as in its light and warmth they were enabled to discharge their cargoes of animals, rocks, trees, Ac., and giving to the 'place an air of business that no seaport of modern times, with all its wealth of shipping, could rival.

    Ashland was not favored with a channel and harbor into which these ice vessels could sail and find quiet anchorage from the storm without, but thousands of hapless icebergs, drifting too near the rocks, were stranded in the breakers, leaving their, cargoes, as everlasting monuments of their nativity and disaster, to be read and studied with delight by the scientific mind of the coming man.

    The same'convulsions that lifted the extinct part of the ocean above its original water level also raised the Sierra and Cascade range of mountains, and thus the waters East of this range were divided [from those on the West. How long the waters were thus pent up in this elevated inland, basin will never be'.known, but its rim at the Dalles of the Columbia, the chasm through which , the'Klamath flows, and the passage of the Colorado, were finally overflown, and the immense reservoir was thus gradually drained and opened up. enriched, for the future habitation of man.

    Having promised thus much, a few words will dispose of the “ problem” in accordance therewith.

    Into the extinct ocean thus in imagination re-created, poured the living waters of those now “ dead rivers,” with whatever of wealth their density and velocity enabled them to carry, the one draining the country on the North and the other on the South.

    The “ auriferous deposits” of the “ Big Blue Lead of California” and the “ gravel lead of Baker county, Oregon,” were collected iron; the country adjacent to where they are now found. Their present wealth depends almost entirely upon the original richness of their own immediate localities. Heavy (or course) gold does not wash far, unless there is great tall and consequent power in the stream to carry it along. Beside", the country adjacent to both streams is known to be rich in gold wherever explored.

    There is much of “ C.’s” article that is of great interest, hut I have not now time to endorsedt, while the part considered still remains an open question. Some of tho premises taken are incorrect; the “ problem” is not fairly disposed of. I invite "criticism, as this is written more for the purpose of awakening interest in the subject than for any other purpose. R.

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    The M ountaineer under the head of “ the facts in the case,” publishes tho following regarding the transfer of the M oody m ail contract to the O. S. N . Co., “ W e wish to set before the public certain facts concerning the m ail service between this place and Portland, prem ising that what we state comes with authority. The public are well acquainted with the work of last season, the two lines, and thè fact that the 0 . R . T, C o ., better know n as the Teaser Com pany, carried the m ail since last July. Early in January last, M r. D. M. French, proprietor ol the boats Teaser and Otter, notified Mr. M oody by letter. M r. M oody being in Portland at the tim e, that except on certain conditions, with which Mr. M oody did not feel justified in com plying, he should cease carrying the m ail, and tie up the boats on and after Jan. 9th , 1875. On the 7t.h o f Jan. the river closed, Mr. M oody being still in Portland; since that tim e we have received our m ails' overland, and have been well served in that respect, as compared with former years. On Mr. M oody’s return from Portland, he m et Mr. D . M . French, and finding no satisfactory arrangements could be entered into for a continuance of their business relations in the m atter o f the transportation of m ails, they had a final settlem ent. Mr. M oody has now m ade arrangem ents with the O. S. NT. Co. to perform the m ail service on this route, and when the ice shall disappear and the river be again open for transportation, they w ill take the m ails for us. These are the sim ple, unvarnished facts; the boats are still the property o f M r. French, and if the next season’s trade should justify, who knows but they m ay again plow the waters of our noble river in the interest o f com m erce?”

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    Originally the product of long, laborious, and successful chemical investigation, no c-ost or toil.is spared in making ever}- bottle in the utmost- possible perfection. It may be confidently relied upon as possessing all the virtues it lias ever exhibited, and capable ot producing.cures as memorable as the greatest it lias ever effected.

    P R E P A R E D B Y

    Or, j, C, AYER & CO., Lowe!!, Mass,,P ractical aiul A n aly tica l Chem ists.

    SOLI) B Y A L L DRUGGISTS E V E R Y W H E R E .

    BAKER CITY AC A D EM Y.he F a ll T erm o f the B a k e r C ityAcademy will begin on the 1st day of

    September, 1873, under the supervision of

    S. P. BARKETT, A. M.,P rin c ip a l; assisted by

    M r s . B a r r e t t , as Preceptress.The Directors feel warranted in saying that

    our School will fully maintain its present high reputation under its present management, and every effort will be made to render full satisfaction to our patrons.

    ^ o ï » m s oPrimary Department, per Quarter, $10 00 Preparatory and Academic, “ 15 00Latin. Extra, 3 50French, Extra, 6 00

    Other Higher Branches in proportion. Tuition Invariably in ADVANCE.

    À. H. BROWN, President. W m . F. McCrary, Sec’y. nl3tf

    Notice to tbe P a l e ,On and alter May 20th, 1872, the Post Of

    fice hours will be from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m.—Sundays excepted. Open on Sundays from 9 to 10 a. m. and 5 to 6 p. m.

    GEO. H. TRACY, p. M.