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o o o o o 9' ",-?v'5J.-Ss.-!-;i - - o lit Vol. 1. ORISGfO CITY, OMEGOI, SATURDAY, KOTEMKiSE 1.7, 184111. If II o 1 m 1:4 leljclBcckln ntevpnse. rrBLisnED evekt satluday morning By D. C.I RE LAND, OFFICE: South east corner of FonR-rn and Mais streets, in the building lately known as the Court House, Oregon City, Oregon. Terms of Subscription. e One copv, one vear in advance .?3 00 " " " il delayed 4 00 Terms cf Advertising. transient advertisements, one square (1'2 lines or less) first insertion . . .2 50 For each subsequent insertion 1 00 Business Cards one square ier annum payable quarterly 12 00 One column per anuuni. K) 00 . One half column " . 50 00 One quarter " " 30 00 Legal advertising at the established rates. D. Til. ElcKENNEY, S Attorney and Counsellor at Laic. W JILT ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL business entrusted to liu care. 1 1 0 r-FiCE One door north of Bell & Parker's 1 Drag ttore, Oregon City, Oregon. 3:ly t'5 - - " : 1 1 : 'i y. C'JOUXSO.V. F. O. M COttX. II JOHHSQN & BIcCGWN, OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will attend to all business entrusted 1 toVur care in any of the Courts of the State, I .(,!li!ct mouev. nesroiiate loans, sell real cs- Jtate, etc. l-yl( 1 J. H . MITCHELL. J. X. DOI-ini. A. SMITH. J Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, 1 Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc tors in Admiralty. fcj Office over the old Post Office, Front H 'street, Portland. Oregon. (ly) j V. LA III HILL. M. F. MfLKET. I KILL & InULKEY, s . ' j ATTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS I AT IYAV", "TAT ILL both be found hereafter at their J V (Mice on the coiner of Front and I Alder Streets, Portland, Oregon. Uvr- BARLOW HOUSE, Maiu Street, one door north of the "Woolen i actory, I Oregon City Oregon. TVia. Bailor, IVo-I'victor. O The proprietor, thankful fur the continued patronage he has received, would inform the public that he will continue- his efforts to p!e:st lus guests. (2 JAMES BI. M00BE, Jusice of the Peace iv City Recorder. Oillco In the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. "Will attend to the acknowledgment of th-edse, nucl all other duties appertaining to the utiicc of Justice of the Peace. . 2:ly Dr. F. Barclay, BI. R. C L.v -o (Formerly Surgeon to the Hoik II. B. Co.) OFFICE: A t lit lln cc, Main Street (32) Oregon City. Dr. H. Saffarrans,. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. OFFICE In J. Fleming's Book Store. Main afreet, Oregon City. (32 H. W. ROSS, Iff. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. (Office over Channan Bros., Main st.,) Ore fo i City ly William Broughton, CONTRA CTOR and BUILDER, Main sired, Orejon City. Will attend to all work in his hue, con I sitting in part of Carpenter and Joiner work I I framing, building, etc Jobbing promptly j attended" to. " (32 7oSj NESTOR , AND DKAlfallTSMAX. ; Front Street, Portland, Oregon. I j Z Plans, Specifications, and accurate : 1 workia drawings preoared oi short n ticj S after the latest approved stvle. (ly) 2f ' ' ' : John Fleming, I'FAL Eli in HOOKS an,l STA TIOSER Y. Thankful for the patronage heretofore re i Cfivod, respectfully soffcitsCa continuance l lhe favors of a genercrus public. ! ,5 r 1 store is between Jacob.s'and Acker f : anan shrieks, on the west side of Main street, ' ' 0rcS" 'tyjOctobcr 27th, '00. (tf i ' oSsscrA, j. Rutjes, TEACHER oi MUSIC. i'i'Jf 8jal to receive a number ot ' "Pils at his r..; t ... it : r iate reSJ kS lvf? -tructions at -tice !vhe v 8 DAVID SMITH MARSHALL. Mack-Smths and Boiler Makers. Corner of Main and Third streets, Oregon City J Oregon. I'lacksniitlii'n hT in nl! -i U -nve ;"; ,f r U1DS- All work warranted i.oiier ant( (32 w IUU. H, HEWDRIE, BfiAlTOlES ANDLIQTJUHS, 1 Fi nn t a t - SIlTfT, I'Outiaxd, ora;oo.N- Life's Leaves. The folloAving poem ii touchinrrly benntb ' ful. Many aa eye will be dimmeYt by ajtear as it reads theso lines and the thoughts o-o wandering away to " memory's wildwood"" o "The day with its sandals dipped in dew lias passed through the evening's golden gates, And a single star in the clowdless blao For the ri.sing moon in silence waits ; While the '.winds that sigh to the languid hours ' o A lullaby breathes oer the folded flowers. The lilies nod to the sound of the stream That winds along with a lulling llow, And either awake or half in a dream, I pass through the realms' cf long ago ; Whiie laces peer with many a smile From the bowers of memory's raagic isle. There are joys and sunshine, sorrows and tears, That cheek the path of life's April honrs, And a longing wish for the coming yeas : That hope ever wreathes with the fairest flowers; There are friendships guileless-lovc as bright, As pure as the stars in the halls of night, o There are ashen memories, bitter xain, And buried hopes and a broken vow, And aehingjieart by the restless main, And the sea-breeze fanning a pallid brow; And a wandering on the sleiyin?d shore List'ning for voices that speak no more. There are passions strong and ambitions wild, O And the fierce desire to stand in the van Of the battle of life and the heart of the child o Is crushed m the breast of the struggling man ; But short the regrets amlew Dare the tears That fall at the tomb of the vaiKpiisl?cd years. There's a quiet peace and a domestic love, And joys arising from faith acd truth, And a love unquestioning far above The passionate dreauiings of ardent youth; And kisses cf children on lip and cheek, And the rarent's bliss which no tonjue can speak. There are loved ones lost ! There are little graves In the distant dell.'neath protecting trce.s Where the streamlet winds and the violet O waves, And the grasses sway to the sighing breeze ; And we mourn for the pressure of tender And the light of eyes darkened in death's eclipse. q And thus, as the glow of dayligfit dies, And the night's Cist look on th earth is ca.,t, I gaze 'neath those beautiful summer skies At the pictures that hang on the wall of the past On sorrow and joy chanting a mingled lav When to memory's wldwood we wander a;vaj" A new method of inducing indispo sed young 'men to attend church has been adopted in some sections of the country, as the following indicates: A nice young man, a little wojddlyN minded walked to church once with a very pious young lady. Arrived at the church doer, worldly nin3ed young man declined enterinp; where upon, pious young lady seized his hat, and placing it "under her cloak, sailed into church, leaving the world ly minded young man standing at the door minus his hat. The last heard of worldly-minded young man, he was seen wending his way down the Church aisle as demurely as il" nothing had happened. -$ "Madam,''' said a husband to his young wife, in a little altercation, winch will sometimes spring up "in the belt of families," " when a man and his wife have quarreled, and each consider the other in fault, which of the two ought to advance toward a reconciliation? " "The hept-natured and wisest of the two," said the wife, putting up hercmouth for a ki, which was given with unction. She was the conqueror. The celebrated portrait painter, Stuart, once met a lady in. the street in Boston, who sainted him with : "Ah! Mr. Stuart, I have just seen your miniature, and kissed it because it was so much like you did it kiss you in return?"' A nrl Why, no!' "Then it was not like me." A little boy being told by his mother to take, a powder she had prepared for him, "Powder, powder!" said he, putting oji a roguish smile " mother, 1 am t a gun mother went ofTp 1 lie If any hard aflliclion hath surprised thee, cast one eyo upon the hand that sent it, and the other upon the sin that brought it ; if thou thankfully receive the message, he that sent it will discharge the c hi rid ion. messenger. En- True modesty is a flower whose grateful odor endures for ages. False modesty is a weed as poisonous as stramonium, and as deadly, in its ultimate effects, as the prussic acid distilled from the green and pretty peach trees. At the recent Commencement of Harvard College the honorary do gree cf Master of Arts was confc rred ypon the veteran printer, John Wil- json. of Cambridge Mass. Abuse of Language. We had occasion very recently to animadvert on the extravagance "into which men are apt to be betrayed by what is often called the " inspiration of a crowd." If that extravagance took only the form of load speech and vehement gesticulation, its ellVct would only be local and ephemeral. But when it takes the form of words which, from the position of the speak er or other circumstances,' are all carefully caught up, written out, tele graphed abroad, anq printed in a thousand newspaper, the. evil done, whether to the speakeis himself or the . - cause he advocates, becomes general and permanent. Reticence in a pub lic man aspiring to position fi politic; as an officer of the State it is a duty. We nil known that ' Henry Clay wonld have 'President ot the United States if he could have been induced toehold his tongue; and even Cass rnigbj liave reached the same position if pen and ink had been kept, out of his reach. We do not mean to say that a Secretary of State or a President of the United States, whoso conduct must bo judged by the people, should be debfbi red from explaining or vin dicating it in a 'form more popular than .through messages and State pa pers. But vve do mean to say that in a country where every speech from any such functionary is telegraphed everywhere, printed in every hamlet, and read by everybody, one care fully prepared and digested -popular exposition is all that is needed . The ideas intended to be presented, when once put before the public, -"'lose force and effect by reiteration, and are lia ablp, from inadvertence on the part of the speaker, from excitement con sequent on travel, the meeting of crowds, or from other causes more obvious, to be distorted by the9sjeak er himself, and take a form of ex travagance amounting to the mon strous o A most conspicuous and me an choly example of the truth of what we sav has "been afforded during the late Presidential pi.'grimngo, in which the intelligence ami moral sensj of the North has been shocked bv the frequent use of language which, if used in the literal sense or general significance, would irnr.lv a condition of tilings in the country more alarm ing ami revolting than prevailed du ring the wort days of anarchy in France. If the President of the United States, who should never ut ter a word without deliberately .... . J weighing significance, really bos lieves that all the men who differ with him on a question of great difficulty and del caey, who comprise more than two thirds of Congress, who embrace the Governors of ninetenths of all the loyal States, and three-fourths of the aggregate members of ail the Leoislatu'-es of those States if he really believes what he says, that they are " traitors," " trying to de stroy the Union," then that convic tion should be' communicated to cthe country, and the. world with a solem nity becoming the momcntousness of the announcement, and not shouted forth with passionate gesticulation in the face of a surging crowd, in an swer to the insults of a drunken boor! In such case he should remain at his post at the Capital, and thence pro claim the terrible fict in such lan guage as Washington would have used, in sad , and earnest appeal to the patriotism and intelligence of the country. But the President does not mean what he says. He is using, forms of expression unhappily too common among writers and speakers in the South, Who mistake extrava gance and hyperbole for force, andjventor of this last innovation, in who have lost all just conception of! stooping to enter a Broadway stage? the power and purports of words, j cut his throat from tar to ear, and is That there is a large body cf men j not expected to recover! There is differing from the Presich nt in his also (according to Paris gossip) a policy", who are vehement in their J wonderful Yankee machine so con denunciation of iR and ot h;m as, in their belief, a descPter from princi ples and measures to which they had supposed him attached, in common with themselves, there can be no doubt. But their dissent does not justify the heavy charge of treason from Presidential lips any more than their vituperation deserves notice from '.he Chief Executive of the na tion. 0 We regret profoundly the recent Presidential trip. Mr. Johnson, as well as the American people, must bi'terly blame those who planned and advised it. The dignity of the Presidential efnee h: been lowered and the weakest side of Mr. John on's salient character unnrcessanj son exposed, me men wm ui awav from his post ot duty Knew hPfter than any other equ-d number I 1 1 of men what were the faults and perils of the illustrious Teunessean. They knew how the opposition, the taunts and the sneers of the slave ar istocracy of his region had greatly unsettled the equilibrium of a mind which, under other circumstances, mi"ht have been eminently judicial, and had given to natural earnestness .irfcndency to violence in action nnrt cxlravngr.rce i fpoco exciting trials of the last foar years had not contributed to diminish. It was their duty as friends and counsel ed, and as American citizens, charg ed in all Dways with sustaining the national reputation, to have chocked this tendency, and avoided instead of seeking opportunities for its Exhibi tion. Earnest and disinterested frimds revised Mr. Johnson to re main in the Capital, and, if requiring repose and recreation, to seek it somewhere else than" among heated crowds and on rushing and sulTocat ing railways. Could these be real friends who overruled that rational advice? Is it possible thit their pur pose was the opposite of that of the sons of Noah, and that, by facilitat ing political suicide, they should clear the way for personal preferment? N. i". Paper. & oO"' ' Tins is an old stoy, which few persons have not heard. When Governor of New York, Seward, in those pre -railroad days, had occasion to visit a certain part of the State, and accordingly mounted upon a box of the mail coach in order that he might enjoy his cigar and the scenery. The driver was an inquisitive fellow, and his passenger humored him. "Land agent?'' said the driver. "No,'' qaotl: Seward. "Selling goods r "No." 'Traveling preacher T' " Circus r o o "No." " What then ?" said the baflhd driver; "what is your business ?" "oGovernor," replied Seward, with a tranquil puff. ''Governor o' what V1 'Governor of the Srufo of New York," replied the smoking passer., ger, with composure. "Get aout!" "Well, I can convince vou of that," said Seward, "for here is a man with vvhouP I am acquainted,'" and a the stage passed by he saluted him. " Good morning, Mr. Bunion : I j want to a-k you a question am I not the Governor of the State of New oYo.kf o "No, by thunder !" was Bunker's unexpected answer. "Who is, then T' said the startled smoker. " Thar low Weed P When a knly would compose her month to a bland and serene charac ter, she should, just before entering the room, say " bosom," and keep the expression into which the mouth subsides until the desired efiVct upon the company is evident. If, cn the other hand, she wishes to assume a distinguished and somewhat noble beanng not suggestive of sweetness, she should say " brush," the result of which is infahble. If she would make her mouth look small, she must say lhp, but if the mouth bo already 0, too small and needs enlarging, she must say " cabbage." If she wishes to look mournful, she must say ' kerchunk." If resigned, she must forcibly ejaculate " s'cat." Ladies, when having their photographs ta ken, may observe these rules with some advantage. , Yaxxkk Inventions. The Paris ians amuse themselves bv teilinrr wonderful stories about the Ameri cans. One is to the effect that, not satisfied with discarding linen around their throats, the inhabitants of the Great Republic now wear paper shirts and stockings, to the intense di-girst of too washerwomen. They also af firm that steel collars have taken the place of paper ones ; but ihat the in structed that it immediately stops a speaker the moment he commences to tire his hearers. Quite a useful contrivance that must be! The lofty mountain of virtue is of epiite a contrary make to all other mountains. In the mountains of the earth the skirts are pleasant, but the tops rough; whereas the skirt cf the mountains of virtue isharb, but the top delicious. He who studies to come at it,, meets in his first steps nothing but stones, briers and thistles; but the? roughness of the w.-y diminishes as he proceeds on his journey, and the pleasue of it in creases until at length, at the top lie flt.rla nnthinrr hnt lien 11 1 i fu 1 - flrv.vpr.a choice plant? and crystal fountains. TWotson. 1 Til I A model nouse is now oemg uum as an experiment in one of the suburbs of Paris. It con sists of ten stories, besides the cellars underground. It has no staircase, but every minute an hydraulic lift. As the upper siories will be more airy and quiet than the others, they will probably let at a higher rate than the lower floors. --- The French navy has the biggest rrn vrt rar.r--n 40 OGD pnundrv, The Causes of Rain. The air, the great resCrvoir of rain, seems placed in the system of nature to be the grand mediator between the land and water. Books inform us that the aimosphero is a compound of oxygen a d nitrogen gas ; but, in fact, an atmosphere consisting simply of these is not to be found in our sys tern. So much greater is the affinity ofair for water than the attractions of the particles of ivater for each othe; , that ail over the world, even at the icy pole, where water perpet ually hastens from the liquid to Uie solid form, 4he air is drawing mois ture into itself, licking as it were the surface of the ice rocks to fill itself with vapor. Sir David Brewster has called this capacity of nir for water, its power to dissolve water, since it destroys its most common form, and compels it to become, like itself, a light elastic gas. Suppose this process of dissolution to go on over the ocean, the surface of the two expanses will touch each other, and the air in contactwith the sea will become charged with vapor. This moisture will gradually diffuse itself through the layer of air next above it, and so on until it has per meated the entire body of air, the lowest stratum drawing up fresh moisture from the deep as fast as it is relieved of its former load. This, however, would of itself be a very slow process ; it would be something bke what we see when a quantity of salt is allowed to dissolve at the bot tom of a vessel containing water ; supposing the mixture to remain quiet, a long time is required to per mit of its complete salification, but let it bestirred that is, let the sat urated strata of water be removed from contact with the salt and the less saline portion be substituted, and th--;cproccss will be rapidly per fected. The rapid diffusion of vapor through the atmosphere is provided for by winds which remove the moist air from the aqueous surface, and bring a thirsty, dry atmosphere to receive its charge. From a square mile of water, six hundred and ninety tuns per day will evaporate. The extent of watery vapor enveloping cur earth, at eny moment, has been computed to bt nearly twelve thou sand cubic mflcs. Notwithstanding the great extent of this moisture in its attenuated form, if the whole were suddenly condensed to liquid water and deposited on the cart), it would only cover its surface to the depth of from four tojivc inches. 1 1 is estimated that the atmosphere absorbs and precipitates this large quantity of water every year. The quantity of moisture which a given measure of air will hold as sol ution, depends on the degree of its temperature, increasing as this be comes warmer. Vt the pole:', in consequence of the extreme cold, the air is Jilhc! that is, its power of con taining is exhausted, when bat very little water has been absorbed ; hence the wind which blows from the poles is comparatively -dry. Under the line, and throughout the tropics, evaporation goes on with extreme rapidity. Whenlhe water is warm er than the air, the vapor does not rise, but hangs over its surface as a mist; when, on the contrary, the air is warmer, the vapor rises, until, reaching an elevated region, it be comes condensed and appears as a cloud. It is for this reason that clouds are higher in summer than in winter, and that a lowering atmos phere generally announces the ap proach of rain ; because the air is so completely saturated with vapor that the reduction of temperature pro duced by a very small elevation is snPhVient to condense the excess of moisture which the afr is unable to dissolve. We have seen that the quantity of vapor which a measure ot air, say a cubic foot, will hold, depends on its temperature. But it must be re membered that, at any temperature, vapor is lighter than the air which contains it; if we take the number eight to iepresent the weight of a foot ot air, that of a light body of vapor may be represented by -the number five. Hence the tendency of vapor to ascend, from which it will be seen that, whatever the temoeraturc of the air which contains it, vapor is constantly tending to its coldest part, since warmth decreases as wo ascend; and further, that the capacity of air to hold moisture, not only increases with an accession of heat, but in creases very much faster than the temperature. If the heat cf a given body of air be taken to be four, and its capacity to contain moisture also at tour, an addition of heat which shall raise the temperature to eight, or double, will increase its capacity for vupor nearly to sixteen, or almost four fold. We have thus, on the one hand, an affinity of air for water, j capable of being greatly augmented by temperature, and on the other hand a tendency for vapor, obeying I the law of its gravity, to take the l highest place in air, as oil does in writer thfj fir:! tendency tn fill the atmosphere : with water, the second favorable to its condensation. What will disturb this balance, so as to precipitate moisture ? or in other words, what is the-' immediate cause of rain ? This question again may bo nar rowed. Whatever causes that a body of vapor shall be in a certain place us a wind, bringing the same from a distance, ora lake or a river supply ing the same by evaporation, might be reckoned among causes of local rain. Wo will row suppose the vapor to hang over a neighborhood, and ask what will determine it tc the liquid form Anything which tends to lower the temperature of air sat urated with moisture, may deprive it of its powcr to retain it in solution. A cloud may travel hundreds of miles without meeting 'any object capable of changing its condition. Suppose it to contain as much vapor as it will hold, and to meet a colder cloud, as full of moisture ; the' will mix, and the temperature of the first will fail. If the capacity of a cloud to hold vapor were increased in the same ratio without heat, the loss of the warmer cloud would be the gain of the colder ; but since, as we have seen, the latter is much les3 than the former, alitt'e loss of heat causes a great loss of moisture, which con- denses and falls. Suppose again that our warm cloud, instead of meeting another cloud, should be carried against the cold surface of a moun tain, a like efjTect would be produced; the cloud would gather round the cone and be rapidly turneel into water. The former of.ihese instances illustrates the cause of rain in cham paign or level countries 4he latter that of mountainous districts. In the case of thunderstorms, another caure is present to promote the thorough mixture of air ; the clouds are gen erally completely saturated with moisture, and 1 nlcr in irnriaifT lnr. , ... . J . tllV All V ' .f WOllj V. V, trical conditions. Tho fall ol rail? is mixes muen more completely, but with to sh great ra pidit: It is neeelless ow how much winds, have to do with promoting the mixtures of bod- lcs or vaporized air at chuerent tem peratures If the vapor is condensed by a temperature capable of freezing it immcdutely, it fails in the form of snw ; if it has time to take the form of drops before freezing, it fails as hail. . kt-$- I Cannot, Sin,"' A young man we will call him Honest Frank who loved truth was a clerk in the office of some ich merchant. One dayr a letter came recalling an order for goods, which had been received the day before. One of the mer chants handed it to Honest Frank, and, with a persuasive smile, said K.-nnt- repiy to tl lis note. Say, ' 1 he goods were shipped before the receipt of the letter .-countermanding the order.' " Frank looked into his employer's face with a sad but firm glance, and replied ; " I cannot, sir." "Why not, - sir?'' asked the mors chant, angrily. " Because the goods are now in the yard, and it would9 be a lie, sir." " I hope you will always be so particular' replied the merchant, turning upon his heel and going away. Honest Frank did a bold and tfps right thing. ."What do you suppose happened to him? Did he loso his place? No quite different. The merchant, was too shrewd to turn away one who would not write a lying letter. lie knew the value of such a yroutb, and, instead of turning him away, made him his confidential clerk. Children s Companion. Let the love cf yonr brethren be as a fire within you, consuminfi thrt selfishness that is so contrary to it an l is so natural to men; let it set your thoughts on woik to study how to do others good; let your love be an active love intense within vou, and extending itself in doing to the souls and bodies of your brethren as they need and you are able. Leigh ton. - A fellow out West, on being ask- ed whether tho liquor he was drink ing was a good article, said : "Wad, I don't know ; I guess so ; there is only one epiecr thing about it when ever I wipe my mouth I burn a hole in my coat sleeve." --e ?. What is the difference between a Summer dress in Winter and an ex tracted tooth? One is too thin, and the other tooth out. , ... . . When a cuning man seems the most humble and submissive, he is often the most dangerous, 'look out for the crouching tiger. Love's meanings are un spoken. The full heart knows no rhetoric of words ; it resorts to the pantomime; of sighs and glances. The Fmperor Napoleon has given up visiting Nancy this Winter, for which Fucrenio ourhl to be thankful. The Uncertainties of Law. . -: The Troy Whir; tells a story of 'ft case at law in that State. In 1855 ; a man was run over on the Hudson Kivcr Railroad, and his wife sued tho , company for' damages. .The case was first tried befbro a justice, and the plaintiff non-suited. She then appealed to the Supreme Court, and the non-suit was taken off. She then tried the case before another justice, and got S"2.500 damages. Tho rail road company appealed this time, and the fourth trial was held in the Su preme Court, the verdict of 2,500 being affirmed. The railroad corns pauy again appealed, and the fifth trial was had before the New York , Court of Appeals, . which reversed ; the. former decisions and ordered a new trial before a justice. ' This gave rise to the sixth trial, which came on before another justice, who non-suited the plaintiff. She -then appealed, and the seventh trial tock place be fore the Supreme Court, w hich this time affirmed the nonsuit; but tho lady again appealed to the highest " court, and the eighth trial was had before the Court of Appeals in April last. This court reversed all the for mer decisions, and sent the case down to the justice to begin again. Thus, after eleven years' contest in tho courts, and eight trials, the case is where it started in the Justice's Court in 1855. Wakning from the Stack. Tho great tragedian Macready would never allow his daughters to enter a theater. A recent memoir of an ac tor of brilliant genius, written by hi daughter, states that his children during their childhood were carefully ckept from everything connected with his profession. "Occasionally," says she, "we were permitted to visit the theater, but we werccnever allowed a free indulgence of promiscuous plays." A son of this actor, who himself is quite distinguished in tho same line, on being recently consult3 it eel by a soldier's orphan daughter, in 4 reference to going upon the stage, earnestly entreated her to abandon the idea, on account of the immorality Qf such a life. Another eminent .. . "1 1 . t actor, vj-eorge v auuennoii,on quitting the profes-ion for the bar, gave tho following gratuitous advice to anv. "ingenuous youth'' tint. king of be o coming an actor : "Go to seu ; go to law : go to church ; go to physic ; go to Italy, and strike a blow for liberty; go to anything, or anywhere that w?!! give you an honest aud decent livelihood, rather than go upon the stage. To any young5 lady with a similar proclivity, I would say, buy a sewing machine, and take in plain work first; so shall you save yourself much sorrow, bitter disappointment, secret tears." A late English invention of color-, ed starch is one of the greatest novel ties in the London fashionable world. Several colors arc already produced, and the invention is being extended to others. Any article starched with this preparation is completely color ed by it, but as the dye readily washes out, the garment that was pink to-day may be made green te morrow, and so on. This starch is of great uso for those bright but treacherously colored muslins that are very costlv, but., as their colors wash out, continually perplex their owners. If the pattern has been green, starch of that color is used, and the preen remain?, and the same is true of any other color. To have the means always at hand, not only of keeping colors fast, butilso of varying them day by day, must be invaluable to ladies. By the systematic arrangements of labor, and the great improvements in machinery, recently introduced Into the workshops of England, very su perior "Barlow" knives are now turned out at a cost of about five cents each; while a very common knife is produced for about one and a, half cents less than two cents for the blade, handle and manufacturer's profit! Making full allowance for the sad commentary which this fact presents with regard to the rnisera bly low equivalent which English, operatives receive for their labor, it, nevertheless, affords a most striking "C evidence of the vast benefits deriva ble from modern machinery, and tho admirable systematica! ion of labor which is now introduced into all large manufacturing establishments. Brethren, the very food of the soul is prayer; we cannot do without it. Show me the leading man in society -whose word is as good as his bond; whose judgment is always clear; whose affections are "always warm ; whom everybody loves, and whw loves every body,and I run no risk in asserting thai, such a man is a man of :; prayer. - . The man in jiil who, looking ou of the window of his cell exclaimed, " This is a grate : country!" is now -generally admitted to have spokerj within bounds. o