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ik4. JLLIU No. 2. Vol. 1. OHEGON CITY, OREGON SATURDAY, KOTEMBER 3, 1806. r 1 i:V jHM ti vl 'A "i ri u I t . f A'; i: a 1 tljc lUcckhj (enterprise. prBLI3HED EYEET SATURDAY 1I0RX1X0 ;y D. C. IRELAND, SFlCE- South cast corner of Fourth and Mais streets, in the building lately known as the Court House, Oregon City, Oregon. Terms of Subscription. t)ne copy, one year in advance. . t if delayed... .$3 00 4 00 Terms of Advertising. Tranpieut advertisements, one square (12 lines or less) first iusertion . . .2 0 for each subsequent insertion 1 00 Business Cards one square per annum payable quarterly ...... 12 00 One column per annum AW uu One half column " - f 0 One quarter " " Z J ' 0 Leal advertising at the established rates. w. c. jonxsox. F. O. M COWS. JOHNSON & McCOWN, " OREGON CITY, OREGON. t2T attend to all business entrusted to our cart ' any of the Courts of tbe State, - collect rz'y, negotiate loans, sea reai es tate, etc J J. H MITCHELL. J. X. DOLrH. A SMITH. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Solicitors in Chaitcery. and Proc tors in Admiralty Office over the old Tost Office, Front street, Portland, Oregon. (iy) EARLOW HOUSE, Main Street, one door north of the Woolen factory, Oregon City .Oregon. IVm. B allow, Pioprictor. The proprietor, thankful for the atronagehe has received, would i continued patronage he has receiveu, wouiu mioriu me pubiie that he will continue bis efforts to . C pi east Ins guests. v Dr. F. Barclay, M. II. C L. (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) OFFICE: -At Residence, Main Street. . .(52) Oregon City. Dr. H. Safiarrans, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON OFFICE In J. Fleming's Book Store. Main sired, Orojow City. (-32 H. W. ROSS, EL D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. (Office over Charman Bros., Mainst.,) Or ego City '.. ly William Broughton, CONTRACTOR and BUILDER, Main street, Oregon- City. "Will attend to all work in his line, con sisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner work framing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly attended to. (52 JOHN NESTOR, AND DRAUGHTSMAN. Front Street, Portland, Oregon. Plans, Specifications, and accurate w.rkinx I 'ii v pr-i nl a short notice after tbe latest npproved style. (ly) John Fleming, DEALER U ROOKS and STATJOXERY. Thankful for the patronage heretofore re oeived, respectfully solicits a continuance of the favors of a generous public. His store i3 between Jacobs' and Acker Biau's bricks, on the west side of Main street. Oregon City, October 27th, '66. (tf A. LEVY, Main Street, at the Telegraph Office, Oregon City Oregon Dealer in Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Stationery. Cutlery, Willoio and Ivnoden IVare, -Yankee Notions, Fancy and staple Groceries, Candies, Nuts, Toys, etc. (o2 DAVID SMITH W. II. MARSHALL. SMITH & MARSHALL, -Black Smiths and Boiler Makers Corner of Main and Third streets, Oregon City Oregon Blacksmithi ns in all its branches. Boiler making and repairiug. All work warranted to give satisfaction. (52 .LINCOLN BAKERY. est Side M;in Street, Oregon City. L. DIIXER - - - - Proprietor. The Proprietor would inform the public that he still continues the manufacture of .'Bread, Pies, Cakes, Pilot Bread, Boston, Butter, Snsrar and Soda Crackers. In nddi- tion to which ha will keep constantly on hand a large stock ot the best staple and family groceries, provisions, etc. JOHiSCH RAM Manufacturer and Dealer in . -SADDLES, HARNESS, etc., Lc, 4 . - Main street, between Third and Fourth, Oregon City, THE attention of parties desiring anything in my line, is directed to my stock, be fore making purchases elsewhere. (iy) . JOHN JSCIIRAM. W. B. PARTLOW'S - S (ESTABLISHED 1352,) Mcun Street . . . ... .... Oregon City. THE proprietor, after an experience of fifteen years teels tiis ability to serve his customers in a satisfactory nia nner. and still continues to let horses and carriages on fa vorable terms, also to feed, buv, sell or ex--sriiang horses, " (lv) Annual Address. Delivered Iff ore the State Agricultural So ciety October U-th, 1SGS5. by C I Beutle, Esq., of Clackamas county. '"- Gextlemex of the Oiiegoj? StIte Agri cultural Societt : f At the request of your President I am here to address you. Among the industrial pursuits of men, agriculture ranks first in impor tance. When men assume fixed hab "nations the cultivation of the soil becomes a necessity in order to pro cure sustenance. And without fixed habitations the conveniences and comforts o( life cannot be obtained or enjoyed: hence agriculture make3 the first advance from barbarism to civil ization. As in tbe broad area of civilization the number engaged in the cultivation of the soil far exceeds the number engaged in any other pursuits, and as agriculture is the ba sis of prosperity to the whole, what" ever tends to promote the interests of the farmer is ot paramouut impor tance. I congratulate you, gentle men, that this Society having that very object in view, assumes a char acter of permanence. It has been found that a united ef fort on the part of those engaged in an enterprise is requisite to a com plete success. This principle of as sociation is not less necessary in farming operations. The agricultu ral societies formed in a number of the counties of our State, 1 havo no doubt will serve a important auxili. anes to this, the State Society. . I suggest the importance and utili ty of forming, in the various neigh borhoods, Farmers' Clubs, where farming in detail may betaken into consideration. These nviy become aids to the county societies, and thus there will be a general interest excis ed to promote agriculture. There it such diversity of soil and climate, that no one rule of farming will hold good for all localities. It may be a.-kt-d, has not Oregon, without these organizations, succeeded veiy well in agriculture'? I answer affirmatively. And yet the success cannot be attri buted to excellence in the mode of farming, but rather to the fact tl at soon alter farming was commenced here goid was di.-covered in Califor nia, which bpcame for some years a mirket for the products f Oregon at almost fabulous prices. Now, ex cept in seasons of drouth, the agri cultural products of California are largely in excess of the wants of her population. Subsequently the dis covery of the precious metals on our eastern border, and in the adjacent Territories, created a demand for and kept up the price of our products in the Willamette valley. Now thtt demand is nearly supplied to the valleys east of the mountains, wnere farming has commenced in earnest The present is somewhat a trying period for the farming interests of the Willamette and U mpqua valleys The scale upon which, and the spirit with which the manufacturing business has been commenced, gives m 1 1 . " . t encouragement; and altnougn h is probable that branch of business will steadily increase, vet the home de maud will not be nearly equal to the supply it the cultivation of the soil increases as it, suouiu. muni then seek a foreign market, and by a judicious system of farming inoreace our surplus, until there will be ;n ducements to make the investments necessarv to transport our products to some of the populous countries of the old world. With a ready mar ket, even at low prices, the farmer will be able to make definite calcula tions. Although the soil of Oregon does not equal in fertility some portions ot the Mississippi valley, the soil is good and there has not been anything like a failure in the crops since farm ing was commenced here. God firminnr requires not only that we raise large crops, but that we adopt thit rotation in crons bv which the richness of th soil may be kept up - a y There is something pleasing in the reflection that the farmer s land . becoming richer every year. Th process of summer fallowing, which has been so generally adopted by the best farmers, and which is so necessa ry to eradicate fern and sorrel while the land is comparatively new, wil not, I think, be found profitable 1 continued long it will exhaust th lonrl Wp want some crop which will serve as a fertilizer. I am con vinced from experiments made in my county (CI tckamas,) that red clover will do well. Clover will grow Dei ter in some soils after the land has bpen lillnrl for several vears. Then instead of continuing the process o summer fallowing, as is now done let the land be sown to clover with crop of snrincf" s wu orain. and the following year turn under a crop o clover when in blossom. By thi process I have known worn out land reclaimed in the State of Virginia and restored to more than their orig inal fertility. In regard to pastur age, we want some kind of grass in addition to tho kinds in use amongs us, which will ripen later, thus afford fresh, green pacture at a more advanced period in the season. In this direction we need to experiment and report progress. In the census report of I860, the statement is made that the number of animals employed in farming opera- tions is grt-ater than the number of men, differing in this respect from all other countries. Hence, the great importance attached to stock-raising and the nsccessity of getting the best kind of stock. Contrast the horses, cattle, sheep and hogs in Oregon iu 1851, when I first saw them, with those here now, and it will be seen that very great improvement has been made. Every stock-raiser should endeavor to get the very best variety of stock and improve that va riety. Our agricultural interests de mund untiring effort in that direction. The good stock already here is in the ! hands of the few it should be in the hands of the many. In the advancement of agricultnre, we must avail ourselves of the labor' saving machines which the enter prise and skill of our mechanics so abundantly furnish. We must connect with the manual labor the study of science bearing on our voca tion. Without it we cannot keep pace with the improvements made in other departments of labor. Let us connect theory with practice. Al though some ot our most successful armers never studied farming as a cience, they would be more success ul if thev had done so. 1 heartily endorse what the Presi dent said iu his address as to the im portance and utility of sustaining an agricultural paper in our midst. Ihe question arises whether, in view of the relation which a citizen sustains to tiiis government the labor ing classes have that share in the egislation of the country to which their numbers and the magnitude of the interests involved in their voca tion entitle them. A negative an swer must be given. Instance: Ihe State of Oregou has three represen tatives in Congress. Two of them ire lawyers by profession; the other not a representative man ot the la borinir class. Again: lhe county of Clackamas has four representatives in the State Legislature; two of them ire lawyers by profession. Ihesein stances I have gien, not with any party view or leebng that they are not good men and qualified for their position, but that when positions of trust and responsibility are to be filled, we turn instinctively to profes- ional men, because of their supener qualifications. Ihes; things ought not so to be. And now gentlemen farmers, I propose to talk plainly, os I am a farmer. We want a propor tionate sharr in legislative depart ments, of men who, by vocation, are in s mpathy with us. The fault lies mainly with us, as professional men who are successful in their business are not generally office seekers. We place the standard of education tar too low. How often do we hear it said that all the education a farmer needs is to be able to read, write, and reckon bv numbers, so as to compute interest. Thus to limit the education is a twofold loss. First, of the act ual knowledge embraced in a more liberal education; second, of the men ial discipline which the mind acquires in attending to that knowledge. If you would have a man qualified for an honorable station in life you must begin with the boy. "Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.' I ; education, among the laboring classes, great improvements may be made by giving, as was urged in the opening address, "more attention to common schools. Again, if the pri mary education be somewhat liberal, the library farmers even those in opulence is ordinarily meagre, so that a taste for and habit of reading is not likely to be acquired by the sons of farmers. Though the habit of reading be acquired iu the absence of a good library, works of fiction are apt to supplant the place of history and scientific works, to that the mind is not enriched nor the heart made better. 1 know it is urged that the hard labor and out-door exercise of the farm- r is unfavorable to the close application and laborious research necessarv to erudition. I ask if the farmer who has a liberal education has acquired a taste for reading and the habit ot study may not ordinarily have both the time and the means to gratify that taste. 1 affirm that em inence in learning and pursuit involv ing manual labor are not incompati ble. As illustrious examples, take Washington in our own country and Cincinnams among the ancient Rom ans. Il may be told we have farm ers who are qualified for any position of trust and responsibility. I know it, and rejoice therein; yet we want the number of such greatly increased, and their qualifications enlarged, so that when positions are o be filled, having a direct bearing upon our in. terests, we will not turn to profes sional men, but may feel that there are those of the same vocation with ourselves, by scores and hundreds, arpply qualified for any honorable station. In order to do this we must well improve our time, not neces sarily devoted to manual labor. Common sense alone, of which the farmer has as large a share as any class of professional men, does not fit us for positions we should occupy. We nmt have general intelligence in addition to the knowledge of our vocatiou. Then avo need not fear priestly dictation or the chicanery of demagogues. What I have said of the farmer applies equally to al! classes of laborers. Lit us not think, fellow!ab jrers, that because our vo cations require even hard labor they are less honorable, or that the way to useful knowledge is thereby hedged up Having all due respect and es teem for what are called the learned professions, I think the upright, in teldgent manual laborer the highest type of man. " Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the nonor lies." Before closing I wish to make a few remarks in relation to the Fair and Agricultural Society. I have seen that on exhibition here which is instructive and entertaining, ine improved stocK speaks well for the enterprise, judgment und taste of the owners who have placed it on exhi bition, and are endeavoring to bring it within the reach of the stock rds ersgeuerally. lhe grain, vegetables and fruit evince the fertility f our soil ?a)d the skill of the producer. The implements of husbandry and housewifery are creditable' to the me chanical department of labor. Iu the ladies' department are many things orn imental and useful, excit ing our admii ation. These are brought together for exhibition in connection with the annual meeting of the Agricultural Society, which serves as a nucleus. The members of this Society, who commenced and have continued the organization to the present are en titled to great credit for the enter prise and public spirit shown in the endeavor to promote the industrial interests ol our voung State. The enterprise is in its incipiency let the farmers who wish to come here with their wives, sons nd daughters, tak' hold of it with a hearty good will and make it what it should be in troducing what is beneficial and ex cluding what is pernicious, of which, 1 regret to say, 1 havp seen some things. The glorv of agriculture is, that its pursuit is conducive to virtue, ahove that of other occupations. It behooves those to whom the working operations of lliio Society is committed, to guard well at this point and tolerate nothing over which they have a vicious or immoral ten dency. With hands inured to toil and skilled to labor, with minds stored with know ledge and disciplined to habits of thought and with heart beating in unison with the commands of God, we, as laborers, are m.der God invincible in the maintenance of our rights, social, political and re- ligious. Tiie Oldest Man in the West. On Tuesday last we received a cali from Mr. Jordan D. Rhodes, of Camden township, in this county, tie is one hundred and four years old, aid looks younger than many men who have not yet reached their three score and ten. His parents were among the founders of the first American colony, and he was born at Jamestown. lie has a very vivid recollection of the Revolutionary war, and would have taken part in the great struggle had it not been that from his infancy until he was rearly thirty years old he was in very poor health. He emigrated to the West yea s ago, and af each recurring birthday has looked aound him and saw with wonder and amazement the marvelous strides the country has made. What pen can picture his feelings ns he looks back to the days when the thirteen colonies struck the first blow for the iudependance we have enjoyed for over eighty years. He has seen the minature Republic into which he was ushered on his birthday morn, grow from a little handful of people standing on PI y m onth Rock to the greatest Govern ment on the face of the globe, lie passed safely through the Revolution and saw his country survive a terri ble internecine war. He is a tho rough Christian, and says the great aim of his life is to get-to heaven. He has always been very temperate in his habits, eats whenever he is hungry, aud occasionally uses tobac co. He mauls rails and does other heavy outdoor work; he uses no cane in walking, and came up the stairs to our office in as short a time as wou'-d many who are not one third as old. He has been married twicf, and is the father of nine children The strangest thing in reference to this man is that be has never enjoy ed very good health, but has , always bePii very feeble, and until he was near thirty years old, was almost as helpless as a child. He lo -ks as though he might live a number of years yet, and we have no donbt he is the eldest rrjan in tho West. IU. Timsj. A Cool Business. The ice trade has grown into one of great magnitude, and may be called, without dispute, a Yankee creation. v It may seem a very little thing for a farmer to fill his ice house, but he can form no idea from it of the immense amount of labor which is annualy expended in the same way. Yet the trafiic in ice has become an important branch of in dustrj'. The first attempt to make Ameri can ice an article of commerce was that of Mr. Frederick Tudor of Bos ton, who in 1605 sailed in his own brig for Martinique, with a cargo of one hundred nd thirty tons of ice, which he obtained from that part of Lynn then called Saugus. Mr; Tudor derived no profit from this business until after t he close of the second war with England, when he obtained the monopoly of the Havana trade. In 1817 he introduced his business into Charleston, Soeth Carolina, in 1818 into Savannah, Georgia, and in 1820, into New Orleans. At present the port of Boston usually ships from one hundred and seventy five thou sand to Uo hundred thousand tons of ice, annually, of w hich one-half is sent to the Southern States. Be sides this, New York und one or two other cities are engaged in exporting ice. A large quantity is also pro cured from the great lakes, and shtpped down the Mississippi. The ice-boats ascend to the vicinity of Peru, Illinois, in the Autumn, where they are filled during the winter, and allowed to freeze up in Ule river. In the Spring thaw they are loosen ed, and then flout down the river with the r freight. The principal supplies of Northern ice are obtained from the fresh waur ponds in lhe neighborhood ot Boston, which during the cutting season pres cut an interesting and attractive ap pearance. When the ice has gained the ihickness of ten inches for home use, or twenty inches for exportation, the snow, or rough upper crust, is shaved off by means of a metal sera per, which is drawn over by a single horse. An instrument armed with several sharp blades at regular di tai.ces from each other is then drawn over the ice, and again at right an gles to the first lines, dividing the squares into small blocks about twenty two inches square. A row of blocks is then saw n out by hand, after which the squares are cut out by means of an icespade. As fist as they are cut, the blocks are pass ed along the opening made in the ice, to the shore, where they are drawn to the laud by a pole armed with a hook, or hoisted into the ice hou-es by means of machinery. The ice houses are generally situated on tne shore of the ponds, are very la rue and spacious, the capacity some times exceeding tweuty thousaud tons. There is an ice-house at Alli ens, on the Hudson, which hold; fifty eight thousand tons, and there are two at RccklM'd Lake, in Orange county, New York, hold ing forty thousand tons each. There are about, fifty of these buildings around Fresh Pond, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The cutting season being very short., no time mut be lost. Th work is carried on by day and night, and the number ot men engaged of ten amounts to several hundred. These, aided by the steam powrer em- ployed in lining tne ice irom me water to the houses, cut and pack about six hundred tons in an hour. The greatest activity prevails every where, and the scene never fails to draw large crowds of spectators to witness it. Life at Pau. Pau is a curious town, a favorite resort of invalids and idlers, w hos population conse quently consists of a certain number of inhabitants and a very great many strangers. Everybody lets furnished apartments, from the humblest citi zen to the highest personage. Gen erals, counts and marquises advertise their rooms " with a south a-pect aud a fine view of the Pryenees.": There is no harm in this; but it lately gave occasion for a sharp retort. Madame C, the wife of one of the richest merchants in Paris, was remarked for the elegance of her dress. Such elegance displaced by a simple commoner, displeased one of the noble dames of Pau, Madame )a Comtess d'Asterisk. "What do you call that?1 she saH, cotemptuously glancing at the Parisienne. "That is Madame C ," was re plied ti her. " Ah, yes, I know," the comtesse answered. " She's a dry goods deal ealer. ' Madame C every word of the who overheard conversation, in quired iu turn, loud enough to be heard, and pointing with her finger to the haughty lady. ' What do you call thatP ' It is Madame d'Asterisk." uAh, yec, I know. She's a letter of lodgings. We think of taking htr rcomsnest season.' The Natives of Terra delFuego. The Fuegians, lccording to a re. cent work, are very little superior in the scale of intelligence to the higher classes of brutes. Inhabiting an in clement climate, their ingenuity, un like that of the stunted nativ s of the artic c'ucle, does not even extend to the simple artsf preserving warmth, by sheltering themselves tfftctually from the weather. They are cannibals who appear to have no idea otjx future life, though the show trdrTT of superstition in a dread of superar invinsible powers. Mr. Darwin, in the work alluded to, says: .. While going one day on shore near Wollastou Island, we pulled alongside a canoe with six Fuegians These were the most abject and mis erable creature I anywhere beheld. On the sea-coast the natives, as we have seen, have guanaco cloaks, and on the west they possess seal skins. Among the central tribes the men generally have an otter-skin, or some small scrap, about a., large as a poc ket handkerchief, which is barch sufficient to cover their pucks as low down cs their Joins. It is laced across tfie breast by strings, and ac cording as the wind blows it is shift ed from sid to side. But these Fuegians in the canoe were quite nak d, and even one full- own woman was absolutely so. it was raining heavily, and the fresh water, together with the spray, trickl- dovvn her body. In another narbor not far distant woman, who was suckling a recent- ly-born child, came one day along side the vessel, and remained there out ot mere curiosity, while the sleet j f -11 and thawed on her naked boom, j and on the skin of her naked babv! i These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins greasy and filthy, their hair en tangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing s'ch men, one can hardly make one's veil believe !hat they are fellow creatures and inhabitants ot the same world. It is h common subject of conjec ture what pleasure in life omeotthe lower animals fan enjoy; how much more reasonably the same question may be asked with respect to these barbarians! At night, five or six human beings, naked and scarcely protected from the wind and rain of this tempestu ous climate, sleep'oti the wet ground, coiled up like annuals. u heiiever it ; is low water, Winter or Summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shell fish from the rocks; and the women either dive or collect sea eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair line, wi'.hout any honk, jerk out little fish If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a pufrid whale discovered, it is a feasi, and such miserable food is as sisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi." - Live Within Your Mbaxs. We don't like econom v. stinginess- -we don't like when it comes down to rags and starvation. we r . have no sympathy with lhe notion that the poo' man should hitch himself to a post and stand still, while the rest of the world moves forward. It is no man's duly to deny himself every amusement, everv recreation, every comfort, that he may get rich. It is n man's duty to make an iceberg of himsr If, to shut f is eyes and ears to the ruffe-rings of hi- Tellows, and to denv himself the enjoyment that re suits from generous actions, merely that he may hoard wealth for his heirs to quairel about. But there is an economy which is every man's duty and which is esfecially com mendable m the man who struggles with property an economy which is consistent with happiness, a; d which must be practised if the poor man would secure independunce. It is al most every mini's piiviliege, and it becomes his duty, to live wbhin his means; not up to, but within them Wealth does not make the man, e admit, and should never be taken into the account in our judgment of men; but competence should always be se cured, when it can be, by ihe prac tice of economy and self-denial only to a tolerable extent. It should be secured, m t so much for others to look upon, or to raise us in the est i rnation of others, as to secure the eomeicusnees of independence, and constant satisfaction which is deriv ed from its acquirement and posses sion. At a camp meeting, the officiating clergyman suddenly called out: "If the lady with the blue hat, red hair, and cross eyes don't stop talking she will be po.nted out to the congrega tion." A clergyman iu a recent sermon said the path of rectitude had been traveled so little of lae years that it had completely run to grss. 44 Why ain't hay cheaper ;Leu1" soliloquized j-"oy. A Lunatic Strike. ' A very amusing circumstance oc curred a short time since, at the asy lum, Murthly, .Lnghmd. It is well known that the inmates work in the garden and about the grounds of tbe institution. A newspaper had been dropped accidentally, which con tained a detailed account of the strikes, etc., among the iron workers on the Clyde. This was picked up by one ot the inmates, who read the paragraph to his associates, and, af ter some deliberation among them selves, the whole strock work. The outdoor superintendent remonstrated with them in vain to lesume; but they insisted that, until some ar rangement whereby they would get shorter hours aud more pay was en tered into, they would work no more. This state of matters continued for some time, and ultimately Dr. Mc intosh, the -medical superintendent, was sent for to endeavor to get tho men to resume. The doctor, on hearing how mat ters stood, went to the men und sug gested that they should send a depu tation to address him on the subject. Immediately about half a dozen matched up to the doctor, stated their grievances at touch length, und de manded more pay und shorter hours. The doctor said it was perfectly true that they had a great gr ievance of which to complain ; provisions were high in price, and the hours of labor were by far too long in this warm weather, and then put his hand in his pocket and handed the depu tation haif a crown. This gave complete satisfaction:; the deputation returned, informed l heir as.-ociates of their success, and the whole resumed work immedi ate Ly. Though it might be expected, the joke did not end here. The doctor happened to pass the men some hours later, when he was accosted by the man to whon he handed the half crown. He took the doctor aside, and told him, in confidence: kt Thy were a set of disagreeable chiels, and were quarrelin' and wrangliti whu shud keep the half crown. There it's back to you, doc tor, to keep it for us yoursel'.'' a o Hints to Music Teachers. Rob ert Goldb ek contributes io the Mu sical Review un article in which ho vigorously attacks the superficial style of musical teaching now in vogue, lie declares mat tne present method is parrot like," and gives these hints: I conceive it to be the duty of every teacher to encourage his or her pupils to take part in class exercises, fully convinced that the results of these will act favorably upon tho pupil's piano or sinking lessons. Let us now consider what the gener al am! speci d results of such funda mental, aud I maintain, easily ac quired musucial knowledge would be: General results 1. The raising of the mu-ical intelligence of the com munity at large to a degree of eleva tion which it has never before enjoy ed. 2. The calling into life of a dis criminating sense distinguishing the good from the bad, the real merit from ignorant and impudent ch rla tanism. Special results, to both pianists and singers 1. An increase ed facility of reading at sight. 2. A better insight into the general cor rectness of a mu-ical production, fan indispensable aid, in this age. of truih, to the choice of good pieces,) and a consequent better appreciation of its beauties. 3. Cultivation of the car by means of practice of the inter vals. This latter point is of especial value to the singer, to whom the knowledge of the intervals would prove a great saving of time; for what he spends pears to learn by an instinctive, unconscious and gradual process of study, he might acquire in a few months of intelligent applica tion, thereby quickening aud ensur ing his steady progress in intonation and reading. Were energetic efforts to be made by competent musicians to establish classes for fundamental musical instruction in every part of this country, the general standard ot taste and capacity of Appreciation would be, in a very few years, so el evated and improved, that it would bear favorable comparison with what might be termed the musically mor al of such countries as Germany, England and France. Sydney Smith defined benevolence as the feeling which prompts A, when sees B in distress, to ask C to help him. In like manner, the juror shows his chivalr us admiration fr weak and lovely woman by ruining another man on her behalf. This is the only intelligible explanation of the astounding verdicts which are often given. Bau Luck is simply a man with his hands in his breeches pockets and a pipe in his month, looking on to see how it will come out. Good luck is a man of pluck to meet diffi culties, his sleeves rolled up, working to make it come cut right. " i t sr.