rrrV If VOL. 7. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1873. NO. 37 o o ) o THE EMTEBPHISE. A LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER FOR T n K Farmer, Busiuiss Man, & Family Circle. IS-SL'EU EVERY FRIDAY. A.NOLTNEB, EDITOR A XI) P UB L IS HER. OFF ICIAL PAPER FOR CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In Ir. Thesslng's Brick, next Jur to Joan Myers' stor-. up-stairs. Tei-iu f Sultrliition I SilDSlo Coi-y ( tii-:- Year, In Advance. Months " " ..$2.50 ... 1.50 Tt-rnifc of AilvTtlinf Tr:insi nt ad ver.isenients, Including all I -1 1 noU.; s, ji sijUiirj ol twelve lines one weei; For.M' ii a Hjs 'ui iil ins-ruon Jin ci'i"". y,tr lUU " " " Uirt-r l.usiii-.s Card. 1 square, one year.. 12U.IW 00.00 40.00 l'J.OO ; u s I -V Ji s a C A li,DJi. J. W. MORRIS, M.D., (LATK OF ILLINOIS.) IUVSIU.VN AND SURGEON, oitJiG o y ci r y. u n n a o .v. e7-'ill respond promptly to calls during iiui r day or n..a. O odici-at iir.is i 'filestore. Can bo found jvt tut: CI. If lluiis.- at :uiit. inalliii i- w. n. wat:sns, wj. d., o S ii recoil. P3?iTLHQ. OREGON. KiTOVl-"ICE Od t Fi'Ilow,sTfiiijlo.coni"r r.rN .-i:id Aiii-.T sir -i ts. Rt-siUcnec corner oi Mum anil rv-M-nth streets. lrs. W ell h Ac Thompson, o,cs ODD E E L L O M' .S TEMP L E, Corai r l l-ir.-l and Ald. r .Streets. briVUi in Or.-on City on .Saturdays. . V II I.T.I.AT. t'HAS. E. W A It HEX H JiLAT & WARREN Att jrneys-at-Law, m?lil4 CITY. - - OREGON. ft"vFKICE ( 'li irninn's brick. Main st. .i.i, inii'.U. j o ii ;j & osa a racco wti ATroiiM-rs'iM) rorxsi-LORs AT-L.W Orojon C.ty, Oregon. O tv-Vi.l practic -'in an tin' Courts of the K' l: rial nil IjI.jou 1 I to can. ill tu. ialid OiJi .l wri-oil Cll,). oaj.ri7.'-M. T.. rl I A 11 I :n. ATVOr?r:iY-AT-LAVVf OH Eti OX CITY, : : OREO' OX. okfic: tr-' i. -Ov.-r I' p --: Tin Store, Main l'luiar7.r-tl. STILL IN THE FIELD! WILLIAMS & HARDING, At hie e LINCOLN BAKERY, Keep hie Mu.r complete sionc oi Fanwly ur.n iTi -.s to io loutiu in the e.i . A 1 1 hi war:'aui-d. ihmkis d-.-hven-U tula - i-.ly u- -.- oi ei, ir-. I lie Iulu-M easu pnipaiu ior eoiiniry produee. or.v'i' C.iy. .--laru isf-i. J. T. APPERSON, OFFI?E IN POSTOFFICE BUILDING. o 3 I--nl 'l':-nderH, ( luckaiiinn County Or-l-r, ii ml Oiriiii t ilj- ilrdei BDJGHT AND SOLD. NOTARY PUBLIC. Ioms int:otiat,'d, Colleetions attendel tn, and a General lirokeae lnisines carried oil. Jan6tf. W. 31. 1IUJIIFIELD. KatallU1i-l inc. '!'.. nt tlio old stand. Main Strftl, Or.on City, Orrion. An assort m nt of Waths, ,Tfwl-V'-N ry.and Si th 1'homas' NYeitrht Clix-ks . ,J2 nil ol whieh ;i n warranted to be as K'-pairinn done on short notice, and hankhil for past patnnaRe. IMPERIAL IVI ILLS, Savior, LaKoeque & Co. Oregon City. Kp constantly on hand for lr Flour, Middlings, blanand t hicken Feed. I'artie purcliasin; feed must lurnish the Rack. J01LX 31. I5AC0X, IMl'OKTEU AND PFLLER JPJjjl& n UMks, Stationery, Cerium- m r V ry, etc.. He. rnn!t Oregon Citj-. Ore iron. '"At Charman Warner's old stand, i.it ly occupied by s. Ackeinan, Main Ft. A. NOLTNER NOTARY PUBLIC, the ENTERPRISE OFFICE. wo(H OHEGOS CITY. son. ter. a TO LET. M FORMERLY OCCUPIED M .RUuocil Chamber, In Dr. Thes issued b'iJ(:linC- Apply at th'B ofBre. unty 49 i. pat year. i SINNING AND REPENTING. IlY MRS. MARY F. VAN DYCK. There seeineth oft but little odds. Hetween tne sinner ana the saint : Both seem to have their earthly gods, . i i . i .. . - . . . ixtn Dear me inarKS oi Human taint. The outward cup and platter are About alike in either man ; Thus doth the sceptic tongue declare, In cavil at the Christian, plan. Tis true all sin who dwell on earth ; I5ut one repents the other, not : This is the test of spirit birth KeiH'iitence mourns and hates each blot. The heart renewed will ever trv And. in the end. too. will nrevail To pass the world's allurements by, men saiui auu sinner uoui assail. While man, with his weak, insect power, Assays a judges throne to rill, God, in the germ, beholds the tlower. Ana judges actions by the will. Our errors oft from virtues rise. And He who doth the motive scan. Regards us with indulgent eyes, it we but uo trie best we caii. Wo. sinning and retienting go, v iio most lament besetting sin, And G.,d will measure every throe Wkn which we strive to enter in. THE FADI-DLLAF. BT a EN. WM. O. B'JTI.KR, OF KENTUCKY. Dearer to me the faded leaf That pines in yelk w autumn's bower, l ar dearer than the spr.nsnns; Hower. I love to see it mount on high, Mul trace it through the Yielding sky. It points me to that momei.t briel, W hen borne on plumeless wings of wind. The soul shall leave its el-iv behind Iike yellow autumn s brightest leaf. Yes, little wanderer ofthe uir, I'roud man with thee may well com pare 1 Like thee, he blooms his little hour, Inhales the zephyr, drinks the shower I Like thee he luiasts his summer prime And decks him in the robes of time! Like thee, he h aves his stem behind To journey on the viewless wind! Frail traveler through thetracklessair 1 Like thee he noes he knows not where. Yet Ilo-e still c-heers his untried road, And faith, untiring trusts to Ciod. Champions lZim Mrs. Duniway in the Xeic Xorth-ve-t, comes valiently to the front in defense of our apostate Senator, and thrusts her quill sharply against the " scandal-mongers " who liave unfold ed his dark talo. She says that Hip pie's " taking refntre behind the maiden name of liis niotlier, in the days of 'dejection and sorrow' of Mliich Mr. Mitchell so frankly tells, is not to our mind a crime. It is simply a very natural thing for a son to do. She does not see lit to discuss the charges of adultery and bigamy. Neither dots the Senator. SEE FIT TO DENY THEM. JJllt she gently rubs her hand over her guilty countenance, shuts her eyes and can't see any crime depicted, it feels only a litttle " perturbed." She closes her eulogium on Mitchell with a pathetic exhortation, in which she promises, in case he continues to help in the elevation of women (?), to have fond mothers iu years to come, lead their little ones to the spot where lies the honored remains of John H. Mitchell, and toach them to lisp his name and thank God that he lived, a monument of repentance and restitution. We have never had that vulgar spirited derisive despot ism exhibited by some of the Oregon apers toward Mrs. Duniway and iier cause, but rather wished her success, as a reward for her earnest, honest work, but when she takes Senator Mitchell's donations of gold, and, as is apparent, for that and sim ilar reasons, publicly applauds him and winks at his svstematic crimes, men aud women of true principle and pure motives justly lose conli dence in her. Hatch-Eye. Fifty-three Chinamen were arrest ed at Tortland for violating the Cubic Air Ordinance. This ordinance was passed at recent meeting of the Com mon Council, and ordains that for the purpose of preventing disease and preserving health it shall be unlaw ful for any person or persons to use any tenement house or other build ing, used as a sleeping apartment, within the city limits, which contain less than five hundred and fifty cubic feet of air or space for each and every person lodging in such house or apartment. It further states tha every person violating this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction therefor shall be punished, by a fine of not less than S3 nor more than 50 for each offence, or by imprisonment in the city jail, not exceeding ten days. The manner these heathens sleep may le judged from the following as given by a Portland prper: In one of these rooms, on Alder street, just above Second, twenty-four Johnc were found, which was only 10x20 feet in dimensions; fourteen in an other room opposite Odd Fellows' Temple, 15x18 feet; eight in a room 7x14, on Fourth street, between Oak and Pine, and seven in a room Gxl2 on First street, between B. and C. In most instances these rooms were on the ground floor, very low, and of course, the atmosphere was in an ex tremely unhealthy condition. "Would it not be well for our City Council to pass a similar ordinance? Divtcjged the Fact. A little more than a week ago some dement ed newspaper correspondent in Danville, N- H., divulged the fact that no insurance agent had ever visited that peaceful town, and now no citizen can take a walk without heading a procession of them. Tarift'IJounties. The operation of the tariff has built up several manufacturing in dustries by taxing the whole people for their support for the benefit of the few. Under the plea that cer tain branches could only be followed in the United States by imposing a protective duty on imported fabrics, exorbitant duties have been levied on manufactures of cotton and wool, although the raw material required in them is produced in great abund ance among us. The total value of cotton manufac tured in 1870 was S177,500,000; of wool, 8135,400,000. For the former little or no cotton was imported ; for the latter, if all the quantity entered at the Custom house in 1870 was used in manufacturing, it did not exceed that year 7,000,000. The joint production of these articles in the whole Union aggregated o32, 900,000 on which the total cost of labor was $05,000,000; the capital invested in both, 223,500,000. If the government had contemplated giving the capital engaged in these branches a duty that would assure the manufacturers against the com petition of European cheap labor, and had levied rates to secure them a reasonable interest on the capital, duties fully one-half less than those now imposed, would suffice for those objects; and the foreign competition with our domestic manufactures would have protected our people against the exorbitant prices which are charged because the home man ufactures Can combine to control the market for these staples. Such a rate of duties would be higher than what should be charged for revenue purposes, but they would permit foreign competition by imposing a limit on the prices that could not be exceeded by a combination of home manufacturers. In speaking of the percentage wc give the average rates. We have shown the value of cotton and wool manufactured at the mills in the United States $:i:32,!K0,000. The labor therein was 805,000,000, a fraction under twenty per cent. The interest on the capital iu vested, if we allow ten per cent., would be 21 000,000, or a total of 8i,000,000. The Government, pursuing the un wise policy of regulating the profits of a few branches of indnstrv at the expense of others, permits a wrong to be done to equalize the cost of production at home with that of for eign countries. It robs Peter to dny Paul. But the Protectionists are not satisfied with that amount of indi rect taxation; they have obtained more than double. The average duty on home production to cover the cost of labor and interest would noi amount to 30., per cent., whereas the duties imposed on cotton and woolen fabrics, imported, range be tween GO an. I 08 per cent. The value of these staple- entered tit the Cus tom house for the year ending June 30, 1872, was 87,700,000, on which the Treasury collected a sum of gold which at the ruling premium, would amount to nearly 05,000,000 in cur rency. Under the Revenue Tariff of 1S1G which long remained in force, the duties were 20, 25 and 30 per cent, averaging 25 per cent., and under that system our mercantile marine nearly equaled in tonnage that of Cheat Britain. The prices of produce were better, and the farmers paid less for the articles consumed by himself and family. We were then in a healthy state of development; the country was becoming enriched, and wealth and comfort were more generally diffused among the people than is the case now. And the pub lic morals were better, for lobbyists and eorruptionists did not infest the National Capital to influence Con gressional legislation. To illustrate the injustice of the tariff system we have examined the returns of one of our agricultural States, Illinois, which has risen rap idly in wealth by the products of the soil. The deductions that may be made from her condition will apply to several other States. The value of her farms, implements and ma chinerv, are returned in the census of 1870 at 055,000,000. The total amount of wages including board, or the actual cost of labor, 22,338 0004 and the improvements and all agricultural productions are given at 210,800,000, a sum, as will be seen on reference to our statements far greater than the total production in the whole Union of either cotton or woolen manufactures, amounting to two-thirds of both. What will ar rest the attention of the reader in ex amining the census returns is the fact that in the State of Illinois the whole number employed in agricul ture 376,441, which is at least one hundred thousand more than the number employed in the two branch es of industry to which we have re ferred as being run on tariff boun ties. It will also be seen, from the Custom house returns, that the gov ernment protected collected on these two protected branches an amount of duty nearly three times greater in currency than the whole amount of wages p'aid farm laborers in Illinois. S. E. JUxnminer. This is the way Madison ladies manage to give a liint to undesirable callers: The callers had arrived be fore the ladies had completed their toilets and were ushered into the parlor to await their coming. Upon their arrival they invited their guests to take a f.eat ori the doorstep, it be ing "such a delightful evening." They brought out cushions for them, begged them to make themselves comfortable, and started back into the parlor, ostensibly to get cushions for themselves. When inside the hall, the front door happened to blow shut and in some unaccountable manner the key was turned. The young ladies departed through, the side dcor and -went down, street. What lVe Huy Abroad. The United States during the year 1872 imported foreign goods to a greater value than during any previ ous year. The imports for the year amounted to the large figures of S677, 144,579 in gold over 87,000, 000,000 more than during 1871. Of this immense importation about one fifth came in as free goods, being chiefly raw materials of foreign pro duction, entering into American man ufactures. The other four-fifths paid duties, and these duties were the chief source of revenue of the Treas ury during the year. Of the aggre gate importations only sixteen mil lions came into the country overland from Canada and Mexico. It is instructive as well as interest ing in examining the details of this enormous importation to find how largely foreign countries contributed to our stores of goods, and what di versified articles they send us. The greater portion of the import trade however, is usually made up of a few classes of articles, and more than one-half of the imported values for 1873 some 350,000,000 was com posed of sugar and molasses, coffee, cotton, woolen and silk goods, and of iron and steel and manufactures. The value of these articles was over ninety millions of dollars, this being nearly one-seventh of the entire car rying trade. The second was wool and woolens, of which we imported nearly eighty -two millions. Iron and steel were third in the list, Eng land and Germany sending nearly sixty-two millions. The fourth arti cle was coffee, of which we got forty two millions; the fifth, cotton goods, thirty-six millions, and the sixth silk goods thirty-five and a half millions. These sixth classes of articles made up more than one-half the imports of last year. There are several other articles of which we also receive large amounts from abroad. Thus of tea during 1872, Ave imported over twenty four and half millions; of tlax and linen goods, nearly twenty-three millions, and of gold and silver, over twenty one millions. Neaily eleven millions of chemicals also came in, exclusive of a large amount of acids, salts and similar goods that are separately classified. Of foreign fruits we con sumed ten and a half millions of dol lars' worth: of tin over seventeen millions and of foreign wines import ed, and a little more than that amount of Cuban tobacco and cigars. We get nearly ten millions' worth of breadstuifs. Of foreign crockery, nearly six millions came in, and near ly seven millions of foreign glass. We also took over seven millions of India rubber whilst the growth of our silk factories is attested by an importation of nearly seven million dollars' worth of raw silk." Some smaller items also are of inter est. We imported more than a mil lion and a quarter dollars' worth of foreign jewelry, a million and a half of precious stones, and three and a half millions of watches and watch materials. Over two millions of spices came in, and nearly four mil lions of flaxseed. That we are at peace (except with the Modocs) is attested bv a saltpetre importation of but 381,000. Salt came in to the value of a million and a half. Maine and New Jersey, it seems cannot grow enough jtotatoes for us, for we imported 138,000 bushels; and the American hen will probably need more "protection," when she learns j that last year over five million dozen eggs came from abroad. A half mil lion pounds of bristles from foreign countries show the American hog will have to look after the safety of his hide. There is also food for spec ulation in the inquiry as to what was done with 31,000 tons of imported brimstone, and that rags are of value is attested bv an importation of near ly 112,000,000 pounds. Nearly a million dollars worth of human hair was imported, and this was accom panied by a half dollars' worth of perfumery to dress up the natural article. Coffee drinkers who prefer the pure article, will regret to learn that 4,000.000 pounds of chicory fig ure in the list of importations. That buttons are numerous as well as use ful is attested by an importation of over two and a half millions of dol lars' worth. A million dollars worth of sardines and nearly a third of a million of salad oil came in. We also took a million's worth of musical instruments. Somebody bought and others doubtless drank over two mil lion gallons of English ale and Ger man beer, three times the quantity of the previous year. Indigo to the extent of 1,071,000 pounds came in for the washtub and other purposes, whilst plaster of Paris is used for for something more casting images is attested by an importation of 115 000 tons. Of wines in bottles there were no less than 7,040,970 bottles brought in last year, at an average gold valuation (without duty) of about fifty-six cents a bottle, which is an interesting fact for wine con sumers to know, considering that it costs them from two to four dollars a bottle. Philadelphia Ledger . Startled Him. A visitor was ex amining a class in Sunday-school re cently, and asked the qtiestion: Why did Joseph detain Simeon in Egj pt until his brethren should return with Benjamin? A teacher endeavored to prompt one of the boys, and whisper ed to him to answer "that he was de tained as a hostage." The boy, not catching the exact sound, startled the visitor by piping out: "Please sir, he was detained f or postage ?" Just Like Thelr Pabexts. A lit tle boy in Georgetown ran into the house, the other day, crying at the top of his voice because another lit tle boy wouldn't let him put mud on his head with a shingle. Some chil dren are just like their parents; no accommodation about them. Poor Louisiana. With a declining trade, absence of shipping from our port, dwellings unoccupied, assessments increased, heavy taxation, with a pall hanging over our city, while we still have a highway bearing the products of the Great West, our st:oets filled with a class of men ready to entrap the unwary, with a police affiliating with them, robberies nightly, mur ders weekly what is the end? And who are responsible for the investi gation of their causes, and as far as possible to apply a remedy, and we invite all good citizens to aid us. Our city is overrun with gamblers, thieves and idlers, who seek no means of employment; bunking games prohibited by law are carried on within hearing of the 2olice. Houses disreputable and suspi cious of harboring thieves, into which strangers have been forced and plucked, lying contiguous to depots, by which our citizens and strangers have to pass at all hours of the day, are tolerated. We charge the chief of Police with a lukewarm indifference, and it behooves him to stir in this matter, and with as deep an interest in ferreting out these traps for the unwary as will guaran tee him more success than in his un tiring efforts to force upon an un willing community aspirants in whom they have no confidence and by whom they would not be ruled. With these observations we com mend to your Honor the law; and if we have a police, we ask your aid to bring them to a sense of t heir duty that they should be untiring in rid ding our city of the pests with which she is inflicted when these gam blers and ropers-in fill up our ave nues and are observed daily by citi zens leading unwary victims to their alters of sacrifice, and they, the po lice, stand idly by and -do not inter fere, they are accessories to the act, and should be held responsible. We would also invite your attention to the accompanying letter, and request you to instruct the Attorney-General and District Attorney, whose duty it may be to send a copy to each of the municipal police of New Orleans. It is of the highest importance to the credit of our city that this prop erty, which is discreditable to it, should be sold for the benefit of its creditors, and a house of industry substituted in a proper location, where our indigent poor could be provided with labor suited to their ability i and a house for their com fort. Our large cities have snch in stitutions, and they have proved in many instances, to be self-sustaining. Bespeetfullv submitted. " E. II. Poole, Foreman Grand Jury. I'conouiy lor Women, HOW YOU CAN MAKE ONE DltESS SEr.VE ron half a dozen all fiiom stakcii. The Scientific America" says it is not often we find scientific items of any special degree of interest to the fair sex, who may perchance glance over our pages; but now we believe we have got one which is simply ab sorbing. Probably Madame or Miss you are the possessor of a summer dress, made from some white diaph anous material ; and it may also be imagined that during your shopping you have inspected goods of similar na ture, only of varying colors, from which you have purchased sufficient materials to construct a number of those bewildering garments in com parison with the intricacies of which the most elaborate works of modern engineering furnish no parallel. Now, a learned German professor has invented a plan whereby your single white dress may be changed as often as you desire to any color you may fancy, and this in your own laundry, so that hereafter the money which you would devote to robes of varying hues may be entirely saved, while you may appear daily if you choose in toilets of different com plexion. The process is very sim ple, and consists merely in coloring the starch used in the "doing up". Suppose a white is to be tinted a beautiful crimson: Throe parts of fuschin, an analine color which al chemist can readily procure for you are dissolved in twenty parts of gly cerine, and mixed in a mortar with a little water. Then ordinary starch finely pulverized, is stirred in, and the thick mass obtained is poured out and dried on blotting paper. The powder thus obtained is used just the same as common starch, and so applied to the fabric. When the latter is dry it is slightly sprinkled and pressed with a moderately warm iron. By means of other coloring materials, mixed as above descrilied, any desired tint may be obtained. We should counsel however an avoid ance of damp localities, and strongly deprecate going out in the rain with it, as we doubt the "fastness" of the dye, aud would not be at all surpris ed to behold the garments shortly assume rather a streaked and zebra like appearance. It appears in this age that an ex quisitely neat taste is "acquired." Girls under 20 are rarely tidy. They may desire to look neat, but they do not attain to exquisite freshness. Old maids and women happily mar ried are the ones who learn the re finement and quintessence of neat ness. The former naturally incline that way, and the latter have the in centive to excite and retain their husband's admiration. Adjustment. Bootmaker (who has a good deal of trouble with his customers) "I think, sir, if .you were to cut your corns, I could more easily find you apair. Choleric old gentleman "Cut my corns sir! I ask you to fit a pair of boots to my feet, sir! I'm not going to plane my feet do-TO to St your boots!" How Hunting Won tu? Widow. ' Oh, what a handsome man!" cried Mrs. Hunter; "and such a charming foreigh accent, too." Mrs. Hunter was a widow rich, childless, fair and thirty-five and she made the remark above recorded to Mr. Bunting, a bachelor, who had come to make an afternoon call, apropos of the departure of Prof. La Fontaine, who had, according to the laws of etiquette taken his departure at the arrival of Mr. Bunting. " Don't like to contradict a lady," said Mr. Bunting, " but I can't say I agree with you; and these foreigners are generally imposters, too." Mrs. Hunter shook her head co quettishly. She was rather coquet tish and rather gushing for her age. " Oh, you gentlemen! you gen tlemen!" she said; " I can't see that you ever do justice to each other." And then she rang the bell, and ordered the servant to serve tea, and pressed Bachelor Bunting to stay and partake of it. There was a maiden aunt of eightj in the house to play propriety, and allow her to have as many bachelors to tea as she chose; and Mr. Bunting forgot his jealousy and was once more happy. He was, truth to tell, very much in love with the widow, who was his junior by fifteen years. He liked the idea of her living on the interest of her money, too. She was a splendid housekeeper and hne pianist. She was popular and goodlooking. He intended to offer himself for acceptance as soon as he felt sure that ohe would not refuse him. But this dreadful Professor La Fontaine, with black eyes as big as saucers, and long side-whiskers, black also as any raven's wing, and the advantage of being the widow's junior, The opportunity to make a fool of herself is so irresistible to every widow. It troubled his dreams a good deal. Not that he thought him handsome. Oh no! But still at fifty a man does not desire a rival, however he may despise him. " She did not ask him to stay, and she did ask me," said Mr. Bunting, and departed, after a most delightful evening, during which the maiden aunt, who was at best deaf as a post, snored sweetly in her chair. But alas! on the very next evening his sky was overcast. Professor La Fountaine took the widow to the opera, lie saw them enter the door of the opera house, and having followed and secured a seat in a retired portion of the house, also noticed that the professor kept his eyes fixed upon the lady's face in the most impressive manner, during the whole of the performance, and that she now an t then even returned his glances. " It can't go on," said Mr. Bunt ing to himself. "I can't allow it. she'd regret it all her life. I must remonstrate with her. No woman likes a coward. Faint heart never won fair lady. She'll admire me for speaking out." And that very evening Mr. Bunt ing trotted up to the widow's house, full of a deadly purpose and with a set speech learneu off' by heart. The speech he forgot as he crossed the threshold. The j3urpo.se abode with him. There were the usual remarks about the weather. The usual chit chat followed, but the widow saw that Mr. Bunting was not at ease. At last, with the sort of plunge that a timid bather makes into the chilly water, he dashed into the subject nearest his heart. " He's a rascal, ma'am, j give you mv word." " ' Oh dear! Who is?" cried the widow. "That frog-eater," replied the bachelor. " Upon my soul, I speak for your own good. I am interested in your welfare. Don't allow his visits. You don't know a thing about him." " Do you allude to Monsieur La Fontaine?" Mrs. Hunter solemnly asked. "I allude to that bachelor Bunting. " countenance proves rascal. I I'd enjov fellow," said Why his very him to be a kicking him out so much. I '"" " Sir," said tho widow, " if you haven't been drinking, I really think vou must be mad." " Ma'am?" cried Mr. Bunting. " Perhaps, however, I should take no notice of such conduct," pur sued Mrs. Hunter. " Perhajjs I should treat it with silent contempt." "Oh, good gracious!" cried Bach elor Bunting. " Don't treat me with silent contempt. It's my affec tion for you that urges me on. I adore you. Have me. Accept me. Marry me and be mine, to cherish and protect from all audacious Frenchmen." The widow's heart was melted. She burst into tears. " Oh, what shall I say?" she sob bed. " I thought you" merely a friend. I am I I I am engaged to the Professor. He proposed last evening." Bachelor Bunting had dropped down upon his knees while making his offer. Now he got up with a sort of a groan, not entirely caused by disappointment for he had the rheumatism. " Farewell, false one," he said, feeling for his hat without looking for it. " I leave you forever." He strode away banging the door after him. The widow cried, then laughed, then cried again. In fact, she had a genuine fit of what the maiden aunt called ' ster icks,' before she was brought to, and prevailed upon to take a glass of wine and something hoc and com forting in the edible line. After which the thought of her fiaivcs con soled her. Day? paeeod on. Bachelor Bunt- ing did not drown himself or sup cold poison. The wedding day was fixeL The house-maid informed her friends that Mrs. Hunter kept " steady com pany." The maiden aunt who had no income of her own, curried favor by being almost always in a state of apparent coma. The widow was in the seventh heaven of bliss, and all went merry as a marriage bell untill one evening as the betrothed pmir sat by tho pol ished grate, there came a ring at the bell, and the girl who answered it soon looked into the parlor to an nounce the fact that a little girl in the hall would come in. " Oh, let her in," said Mrs. Hunt er. "I am so fond of the dear chil dren in the neighborhood. It's one of them, I presume." But while she was speaking, a small but very odd looking little girl in a short frock, with a tambourine in her hand bounced into the room, and throwing herself into the pro fessor's arms, with a strong French aecent, screamed: " Darling papa, have I then found you? How glad mamma will be. We thought you dead," " I am not your papa. Are you crazy, my dear little girl," said tho Frenchman, turning pale. "No, no, no; you are my papa," cried the child. "Do not deny your Estelle. Does she know ycu? Ah, my heart, it tells me true. Dear mamma and 1 have almost starved, but she has never pledged her wed ding ring, never. She plays the organ, I the tamborine. We have suffered, but now papa will return O to us. Ah, Heavens." " My gracious! the morals of fur riners. lie would have married mis sus!"' cried the girl at the door. " She tells one black lie. Never before have I seen her; believe me, madame," said the Frenchman. " Oh, Alphonzo.."' cried the wid ow. " But there I will lie firm. My best friends warned me of you. Take your hat go! Never enter my presence airain. Go with vor.r unfortunate child your poor, half starved little girl. Go home to your deserted wile. Go." " Ah, madame, zeze is falsehoods," cried the unfortunate Frenchman, losing his English in his excitement. ' -Believe " " "Out of my house. Peggy open the door. Go! What an escape I have had," cried the widow. The professor departed. Mrs. Hunter threw herself int j a chair, and burst into tears. Afr.er awhile she grew more calm, taking a letter from the drawer perused it. "Ah, me! what deceivers these men are," she said, as she pensively lay back on the cushions. " Only to think he could w rite a letter so full of love and prove such a villain; but I am warned in time I am warned in time." And she tore, the letter into frag ments. The maiden aunt, who had not heard a word, demanded an ex planation? Biddy howled it through her ear trumpet in these words " The scoundrel has ever so many wives and families already, .playing tambourines for their bread the rascal!" rang, and Mr. Bunting walked in, with a polite bow. Biddy and tho aunt slipped out of t he room. Mr. Bunting approached the widow. "I cail to apologize," he said. "I was hasty the other day. Hal I known the gentleman was dear to you, I should have restrained my speech. I wish you happiness; I " " Don't please"" cried the widow. " He is worse than you painted him. I've found him out. I hate him. As for me, I never can be happy again." "Not with your own Bunting?" cried the bachelor, sitting down be side her. " I'm afraid not," said the widow. " Are you sure?"' asked Mr. Bunt ing. "No, not ouite,' said Mrs. Hun- ter. "Then marrv me, my dear, and try it. Do, oh, do!"' Mrs. Hunter sobbed and consent ed. After having a white corded silk made up and trimmed with real point lace, it was too bad not to fig ure as a bride after all. She married Bachelor Banting, and was very happy. It was well, perhaps that she had not the fairy gift of the invisible cap. and did not put it on and follow Mr. Bunting to a mysterious recess in the rear of the theatre, whither he took his way after parting from the pretty widow, on the night of his engagement. There he met a little girl, small but old looking the same indeed who had claimed the professor as her lost papa, aud this is what he said to her "Here is the money I promised you my child; and you acted tho thing excellently. I know that by the effect produced. She believes he is a married man, and he can't prove to the contrary. I knew you'd be able to act it out. wheit I saw you plav the deserted child in the trag edv." Then twenty-five pounds were counted into the little brown hand, and Bachelor Bunting walked off triumphant. To this dav his wife does not know the truth, bnt alludes to poor Pro fessor La Fontaine as that wicked Frenchman. His Preference. An Alabama Congressman has given his back-pay to his wife. IJe prefers domestic peace to the favor of his constitu ents. Well Rewaeded. A Charleston father gave a young man who had saved his daughter from drowning, a trro-Tar-olc! steer and a shot-gun.