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OllEGOiY CITY, OREGON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1867.
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No. 17.
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PCELISHED EVERT SATCRDAT MORNING
By D." C. IRELAND
3fFICE: South east corner of Fifth and
Main streets, in the building lately known
as the Court House, Oregon City, Oregon.
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Brethren nTgood standing arc- invited to
attend. By order oO '' vV M.
Oregon City, Nov. fcth, 16C0. 3:ly
Oregon Lodge So. 3, I. O.
of O.F. -Meets every Wednes
dav evening at 7 o'clock, in the
Masonic Hall,
vited to attend.
Members of the order are in
By order N. G. 3:ly
AV'illametlc Lodge A't. 151. O. d. T.
Meets every Saturday evening, at the rooms
f.E. corner of-AI am and Fifth streets, at 7 1-2
o'clock Visiting riiclnbers are invited to
attend. n7l
By order of W. C. T.
J. WELCH,
DENTIST.
Permanently Located at Oreaon City-, Oregon.
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Rooms over Charman & Dro.'s store. Main
strv-et. (12.1y
W.C. JOHNSON". O. JI cowx.
Salary J'nNic.
jbHNSOW Sl BIcCOWitf,
OREGON CITY, OREGON.
Will attend to all business entrusted
to our care in any of the Courts of the State,
collect money, negotiate loans, sell real es
tate, etc.
Ji'l'articular attention given to contested
laud cases. q l.yl
BdSl. McEENNEY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Laic.
TILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL
business entrusted to his care.
prriCK One door north of Bell & Parker's
Drug store, Oregon City, Oregon. 3:ly
S. II U E L AT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Oregon City, Oregoji.
0(Hce over Charman & Brother.
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JiME3 T?l EIO0BE,
Justice of the Peace C City Recorder.
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OfUco-Jn the Court II ouse and Citv
CoiKicil Room, Oregon Citv.
will attend to the acknowledgment of
deeds, :id all other duties appertaining to
theofiioa of Justice of the Peace. :lv
Dn F. Barclay, BI. R. C. L.v
(Formerly Surgeon to the'llou. II. B. Co.)
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OFFICE :-ryt Residence,
Main Street (o2) Oregon City.
Br.H. Saffarrans,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
OFFICE In J. Fleming's Book Store.
Main stre t, Oregon City. (i
John Fleming,
'iEALER ih POOR'S and Sl'ATIOXERY.
(Thankful for the patronage heretofore re
ceived, respectfully solicits a continuance
of the favors of a generous public.
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His store is between Jacobs' and Acker
nian's briefed on the west side of Main street.
Oregon City, October 27th, 'tip. (tf
Professor A. J. Rutjes,
TEACHER 0 F 0MUIC.
ITILL be glad to receive a number of
V Pupils at his Music Room, at the ?ri-
-v-tyte residence of Mr. Charles Logus. He
will also continue to give instructions at
private residences. No charge for the use
of the piano. Jly pupils will please give me
notice when ready to Qmmence. S:ly
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HAVID SMITH w. K. MARSHALL.
SMITH & MARSHALL,
JXach-Smilhs and Boikr Makers.
6 Garner of Main and Third streets,
v,..., lvj jve
BJacksimthing in all its branchM.
Tkig and repairing. AU work warrant,
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ranted
ogie Etiiusiaeuou.
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BARLOW HOUSE.
JMaia Street, one door north of the "Woolen
Factory,
.. Oregon City Oregon.
Wnx. Earlow, Proprietor.
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The ptbprietor, thankfal for the continued
patronage he has received, would inform the
public that he will continue his etforts to
pleast his guests. (52
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William Eroughton,
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER,
Main street, Oregon, City.
Will attest to ail work in his line, con
sisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner work
-inuiung, ouuaint:, etc. Jobbing promptly
attended to.
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TO SUBSCRIBERS.
WOOD WANTED. Cord Wood taken
in payment of Subscriptions to the
Oreqox City Enterprise. Delivered at the
ofepe, or on the bluS, wrsjr of CcctT and j
t?eTeHth streets. i
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OREGON CITY
BEEWjEEY !
HENRY I1U73BEL,
Having purchased the above Brewerv,
wi.shes to inform the pnbiic that he is now
prepared to manufacture a No. 1 quality of
LAGER BEER!
As good as can be obtained an
OState. Orders solicited and
Oregon City, December 2th, ISM. 10tf
Msi;yci's Market !
IN MOSS' BUILDING, MAIN STREET,
Oregon City.
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POULTRY, VEGETABLES,
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horned heej and Pork,
q jLiucou, iiai;ir,, jara, lauoic,
etc., (I'C, fyc.
A liberal share 6f patronage is solicited,
as-J expect to keep as good an assortment,
ami of as good quality as the country affords,
which will be delivered to purchasers at any
reasonable distance in the citv.
6:Py B. MAYER.
LCGUS '& ALBRIGHT,
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O Comer of Main and Fourth sis.,
Oregon City . ., Oregon,
7AKE this method of informing the pub-
lie that they keep constantly on hand
il kinds of fresh and salt meats, such as
BEEF; PORK, MUTTON, VEAL,
COIiy ED- B E E F, PICKL ED- P O II K,
(JAAS, LAUD,
And everything else, to be found in their
line of. business. BOGUS & ALBRIGHT.
Oregon City, November 1, 1SG(. 2.1 y
JOHX M V E US. 1 S G 6 n. C. MYERS
J. MYERS & BROTHER,
CIrcsi-p Caisia 8f aee !
'Ciidtr tie Court House, in Oregon City.
Dry Goods, Coots and Shoes. Clothing,
Groceries, Hardware, etc., etc.,
II hicJt tjuy propose to sell as eteup as any
Ho a s4ih O re go n .
QOregou City,' October 23, 1SGG. 2:ly
C A N E M A Si STORES
JAHE3 H0RFITT & CO.,
TT70ULD INFORM THE PURLIC-ES-
V peciallv of Can-mah, that thev have
established a Store at that place, where thev
will keep on hand a well assorted stock of
Merchandise and Groceries.
which will be sold at reasonable rates, for the
purpose of establishing permanently such a
necessity at Cauemah. Try us. " (7:ly
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JOHX SCHEAM
Manufacturer and Dealer in
SADDLES, HARNESS, etc., d-c,
ALKiE-street, between Third and Fourth,
O Oregon City.
npilE aft-ention of parties desiring anything
JL in my lino, is directed to mystock, be
fore makiu;'- purchases elsewhere.
(ly JOHN SCIIRAM.
A. LEVY, ,
Main Street, at the Telegraph Office,
Oregon City Oregon.
Dealer in
Fester's Ready-made Clothing,
Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Stationery,
Cutlery, Willow and Wooden
irre, Yankfe Notions,
Fancy and staple Groceries, Candies, Nuts,
Toys, etc. (,r2
Fashion Billiard Saloon
Main street, between Second and Third,
Oregon City. 9
J. C. Mann, Proprietor.
THE; above loug established and popular
Saloon is yet a favorite resort, and as
only the choicest brauds ot Wines, Liquors
and Cigars are dispensed to customers a
share of the public patronage is solicited.
Oy) J. C. MANN.
SHADES SALOON.
B"
Side Main Street, btiireAh Second and
Third, Oregon City.
GEORGE A. ILArlS Proprietor.
The proprietor begs leave to inform his
friends and the public generally that the
above named popular saloon is open for their
accommodation, with a new and well assort
ed supply of the finest brands of wines,
liquors and cigars. 52
Main Street, opposite the Post Office, Oregon
City. E. PAYNE ....Proprietor.
The undersigned takes this method of in
fn fining the public that he has purchased
the above saloon, ana now offors a choice and
well selected stock of foreign and donaestic
wines, liquors, etc., which cannot fail to
please those who may extend their patron
age. The best Laeef Beer, Ale and Porter
m the State, always on draught.
E. PAYNE.
PONY SALOON.
Main street, Oregon Citv,
Adjoining the Brick Store of
S. Ackermaji.
JA5IES 3IASX.
r.-y-uPplied
iq-rs, Ale, Po;, Y d
Give me a calf v'1Sara
JAMES MANN.
BENNETT HOUSE
Salem
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on.
L,. JAY S,TfRXEY
HAVING LEASED THE ABOYEIIOTE!
is prepared to accommodate; the ruhl
m as goou sr ie as any House ca the coasi
milE UNDERSIGNED WILLSS?
X keep on hand all the vari
eties of fresh and cured meats : 5Xfzlx
This
food as the best, 3nd better than any puM
house ia Salem. Chsr-s moderate.
lie n as ueiciunueu m raase xiie Uennett
Xorlne, tlic Sliop-Girl or Leghorn.
Count Bacchiochi, who died at the Palace
of the Tuileries, was a cousin of the French
Emperor, and first chamberlain and super
intendent of the imperial theatres. On
court days, seventeen grand crosses of the
most select orders of Europe sparkled upon
his breast. He died of sheer exhaustion
from want of sleep. A few minutes before
he paslcd away, he muttered in a low voice,
" Norine ! Norine!" One of the attendants
asked : " What do you want, my lord ?" He
raised his hand with a gesture of impatience,
and said : " Don't question me." A few
moments after the words came again, " No
rine! Norine!" and the soul of the dying
man passed away with his words.
Norine was a little shop-girl of Leghorn,
his first love, now an old woman, with a
family. The heart of the dying man, who
had been through his life familiar with all
of pomp and pageantry that Europe could
show, fled back to his first love. This was
the oasis in the desert; all the rest was but
sand.
He lav within the srilded halls.
Built by a line of crowned Gauls,
Around his couch of sumptuous ease
Played soft and warm the autumn breeze,
While faint and far the city's hum
Came like the sound of muffled drum,
And the proud Seine, in murmuring key,
Swept its swift course toward the sea.
In royal purple lapped he lay,
As ebbed the t:de of life away ;
While back and fourth, and to his side,
The waiting minions softly elide.
Seeking, by each obsequious breath,
To turn the poisoned darts of Death,
Or smooth, with gentle hands, the floor
That leads to the giim monarch's door.
All vain ! The wealth of kings is vain
The Lord must have his own again.
And out upon the ebbing tide
Out to the ocean, drear and wide
A sated soul floats, stark and lone,
Full with the world's sad monotone
Full with the seeking of it? own
Passing from Earth' to God's white throne.
But yet a moment, ere it flies,
Some half-form sound is born and dies.
Low bending to the muttered word,
" Norine ! Norine !" is family heard.
The startled menials gather near,
The word falls strangely on the ear :
" What wants my lord ?" they softly said.
"Norine! Norine !" My lord is dead.
And there, amid the blaze of gold,
His heart and limbs alike grown eld,
The pampered favorite of a king
Fled back through life on Memory's wing
To that sweet spot, whereon he he?rd.
From lips that loved, fond Love's first word,
And pomp, and pride, for her Were gone
Norine, the shop-girl ot Leghorn.
Facts ai-.tl Fancies.
TearnskT? may ilo a brisk business, but
wheelbarrow men carry all before them.
Why U a vyatch dog longer at night than
he is in the morning? lie is let out at
night and taken in. in the morning.
Why is the treadmill like a true convert?
Because its turning is the result of the
man's conviction.
Why is a married man like a candle?
Because he sometimes goes out at night
when he ought not to.
The man who tried soft soap to wash
the harshness off his wife's tongue, says it
took off a little of the roughness, but made,
it run taster.
A queer thing is an accommodation nolo
when you try to work it off. If you can't
sell it you can-eel it, and if you can-eel it.
you can't seil it.
Josh Billings says : " I am violently op
posed tew ardent sperits as a beveridge,
but of rnanufhcteriii' purposes I thinks a
little of it taste good."
" What is whiskey bringing?" inquired
a large dealer in the article. "Bringing
men to the gallows, and women and chil
dren to Avant," was the reply.
An adjutant of a volunteer corps, being
doubtful whether he had distributed mus
kets to all the men, cried : " All of you
that are without arms hold up your
hands."
Mr. Thomas Gould, of this city, has
three busts which are well spoken -of.
Boston Advertiser. Old Blowhard, of
Swipesville. has had a score of ?ein, and
he thinks they are nothing to speak of.
Hartford Times.
At a recent railroad dinner, in compli
ment to the fraternity, the toast was given:
4i An honest lawyer, the noblest work of
God."' But an old farmer in the back
part of the house rather spoiled the effect
by adding in a loud voice : " And about
the scarcest.'7
" Larry ;"' said a coquettish young lady
to her cousin, prematurely bald. " why is
your head like heaven?" "Don't know,
Tin sure," replied the swell. " unless it
has a shining crown."' "Good but not
correct. Because there is no more Dying
or Parting there."
A writer at Crab Orchard Springs, Ky.,
gives the following : " Passing the draw
ing room, last evening, my attention Avas
attracted to an exceedingly corpulent
young lady, visiting the Springs for her
health. She was seated at the piano, and
singing, ' Do They Miss Me at Home?' I
thought they did about meal time."
A twro months' widower, living near
Hartford, Conn., went to that city lately
in search of a housekeeper to take care of
his six motherless children. He was re
commended to a nice young woman, and
staling his case to her. was told, hesita
tingly, that she had no objection to going,
provided she went as his wife! He hadn't
thought of that, but accepted the condi
tions, and she rode home with, him the
same day.
A merchant of Lyons. France, lately
having occasion to visit Paris, and being
anxious to let his spouse know of his in
tention to return home, telegraphed to her
in writing, saying : " Expect to see me at
noon. O. Faulsone." This was sent by a
porter, and received by his wife thus :
" Expect to see me no more. O False
One." The lady's state of mind may be
better imagined" than described.
Never Say You Caxxot. There never
was an instance of a man of a shrinking
disposition having accomplished any great
things. Drones, or stupid beings, who
will not, or possibly cannot, exert them
selves, can be got along with; but a person
who is forever thinking about something,
and will be constantly delving at that and
the other with desperate industry, and yet
flinches when he arrives at some difficulty
he cannot see through, such a one we de
sire no acquaintance with ; give us the
" " uo navmg made up his mind to ar
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" " Hiven point, clauntlessly rushes
" 1 L-x laroTijb. every obstacle.
Plain Talk "With Married Ladies.
KESPOXSIBIIJTIE3 OF PARENTAGE.
FIFTH PAPER.
Let no woman suppose that these re
sponsibilities commence only upon or af
ter the birth of the child. No, indeed.
At the moment the youth chooses his
wife, the girl her husband, the train of
causes has already commenced which
shall influence the destiny of unborn gen
erations. In the girl?s family' there may
be consumption, insanity, or scrofula. In
the youth's family there may be heredi
tary sin, drunkenness, idiocy, deformity,
blindness, gout, morbid appetites, lazi
ness, or one of a hundred other hereditary
diseases either of mind or body. Now,
though the tendency of nature is to per
petuate the best of a kind, yet even " the
great mother" cannot entirely ignore the
existence of certain maladies in the con
stitutions of men and women, nor prevent
their re-appearance in subsequent genera
tions. The " taint of blood" is certain to
show itself reproduced in either a new or
a remote generation. Therefore when
children are born of parents coming from
families in which there lurks any heredi
tary disease, or peculiarity, some one, if
not all of those children, carries in its con
stitution a drop, if no more, of that tainted
blood ; and should it fail to show itself
upon this individual, it is by no means
certain that this child's child or grand
child may not re-produce the peculiarity
in an exaggerated form.
How often do we hear it said of some
one accused of faults or crimes " I should
not wonder ; his grandfather wras just so."
It is true of every trait which we possess,
good, bad. and indifferent, they will de
scend with our blood to generations after
us. It is too late for me to advise you,
who are already married, to look into this
matter for yourselves. If any of you can
see in your children the undesirable qual
ities of former generations, you can only
do your utmost toward eradicating them
by proper physical and moral training.
But to return to the first proposition. The
girl in choosing her husband takes the
first step in this responsible business. If
through ignorance, thoughtlessness, or ill
directed affection, she chooses a man
whose forefathers' have been criminals,
drunkards, profligates, imbeciles, scrofu
lous, liars, traitors, deceivers, insane, there ;
is no security that her sous may not have
the obnoxious trait in a direct descent,
full-flowering with sin or with suffering.
There is no security that her daughters
shall escapb the poison ; and be it disease
or wickedness. Hie daughter will suffer
more than the son for the same reason.
IIo-v important it is that you should in
quire well into the antecedents of your
daughter's associates, lest she thought
lessly set her heart upon one avIio will
bring misery upon herself or her children
after her.
The next consideration, after selecting
from an honorable and healthy stock, is to
preserve the good qualities that are in
herent. The man or woman contemplat
ing marriage, who trifles with the laws of
health willfully, is either very ignorant or
very culpable. If the comfort of the in
dividual was of no consequence, it would
still be his or her duty to preserve the
health in order that the happiness of mar
riage might not be destroyed by sickness,
peevishness, or poverty consequent upon
inability to pursue the business of life ;
and in order that the children born of
marriage might not be wronged out of
their most valuable birth-right, good,
sound constitutions. Not only is this sort
of self-preservation a duty of kindess and
policy in a worldly sense, but one of the
highest christian duties. " A sound mind
in a sound body" is the best security of a
child being "born into the kingdom,"
that you can possibly have. The state of
the miud depends very much upon the
state of the body, and vice versa. If the
body has inherited, or other disease, the
mind sympathizes with it. It is common
to impute to the drunkard a moral deprav
ity which is much more likely to have
been in the first place a mere depravity of
his appetites induced by a want of stimu
lus in his system from the effects of disease,
either in himself or his father before himt
So with opium-eaters, tobacco-chewers,
and others. Let the body be sound, ani
it will not crave unnecessary stimulants ;
it will not subject the mind to false influ
ences, nor cloud the moral powers with
the struggles of a will weaker than the de
mands of appetite. I think it is very sel
dom that a youth brought up under good
home influences, and possessing robust
health, turns out to be a "bad man. It is
the puny children, the pale, nervous, un
dersized boys, Who run into all kinds of
excesses, and whom not even the best of
training can restrain in some cases. For
these things somebody, certainly not the
Creator, has been to blame. See to it,
mothers, that not you, nor if yo -'an pre
vent it, your husbands, have to charge
yourselves with the worst results. Do not
imagine, because I have laid such stress
upon physical causes which produce sin,
that I forget the spiritual remedy for sin.
I only charge you as christian women to
prevent all the sin and suffering that you
can, by remembering your great responsi
bility in the matter. After that you may
leave the remedy to God, not fearing but
he knows the origin of ali sin, and judges
charitably.
" The eine of the parent; ehall be rbitefl
upon the children even unto the third and
fourth generations." If we should sub
stitute the word disease for sin, we should
comprehend it better. For sin is an ail
ment of the mind, a consumption, a scrof
ula, a gout, an imbecility, an insanity, af
fecting the soul of man. As severe reme
dies sometimes restore 4he health of the
body, so severe afflictions and powerful
impressions are effectual in bringing back
the mind to its proper balance. Why is
Christ called the " great Physician- who
"makes us whole?" The laws he gives
us are the soul's laws of health ; if we ob
serve them we are sound, always provided
our parents have not conferred upon us
those sins which will descend to genera
tions yet unborn, and which Christ alone
can purify us from. This is so moment
ous a matter that once having been warn
ed, no woman can safely disregard it.
There is no subject upon which the world
of Christian women is so hopelessly unin
telligent as upon that of marriage and its
results upon parentage. To improve the
farm stock is considered equally commen
dable and important, by securing such
breeds of animals as have the best quali
ties both of strength and disposition. The
stock-grower, knowing by experience the
effect of good blood in stock-raking,
spares no pains to procure specimens of
the most noted breeds from which to start
a better race of animals. But the human
animal, with immortal destinies awaiting
him for good or for evil, is unhesitatingly
mated Avith every manner of defect in
blood to the eternal injury of the race of
men. In consequence we have plenty of
misery and vice ; plenty of feeble children
to reproduce others still more feeble, who
will fall victims to every disorder of body
or mind which flesh is heir to. Y'et wo
men have as a general thing far more
modesty than intelligence, and naturally
shrink from the idea of selecting husbands
upon physical grounds. But why not?
Do you not want a strong and valiant
arm for your support and protection? l)o
you not want sterling sense, honor, and a
good disposition in your husband? Do
you not want these qualities in your chil
dren, inbred, and fostered by education
and example ? Undoubtedly yes. Manly
men, sound men, good men, these are
what you want, and you should take no
other. The American race will run out in
time, as other races have, unless a higher
degree of knowledge and a more scrupu
lous practice is brought about. All the
enorts ot Mature to select and perpetuate
hor best specimens will not save a people
who persistently doom themselves to de
cay. I could give you proof enough if I
had space, that no other enlightened peo
ple commit such follies. An English girl,
if she shows signs of being unfit for a wife
and mother on account of an unsound con
stitution, is not permitted to think of mar
riage. Nobody wants her ; parents do
not expect her to marry : she resigns her
self to such a quiet life of usefulness at
home as she is most fit for. This, with
other sensible ideas, and a good climate,
make the English the robust people that
they are or rather make the intelligent
classes robust, for the poor and ignorant
suffer the usual penalties of poverty and
ignorance in England as elsewhere.
I have insisted that "the moral and phys
ical must be carefully looked to by those
who assume the responsible duties of pa
rents. No less in importance is the educa
tional. A man may come of a good fami
ly, may possess high moral qualifications
naturally, and yet be deplorably ignorant
of the most important branches of that
learning which would fit him to make a
right use of himself. Ignorant people will
never cease to marry and have children.
We must not expect to prevent this natu
ral tendency, nor hope to avert altogether
the evils of ignorance from them or their
families. All that you can do is to effect
what you can, each in your own family,
to secure the future good of humanity.
One of your children may bestow the ben-"
fits of your instruction upon half-a-dozen
of his own, and each of this half-dozen
upon thirty-six others in succession and so
the good will grow.
Education is freedom. The powers of a
good or talented man are in bondage if he
be uneducated. Education severs the
bond, inspires his faculties with the motive
power, and lifts him at once into a sphere
of expansion. Thi3 is true of education
in the abstract, and consequently all culti
vation of the mind is good for the man-?
and desirable in the father and mother.
But there are especial branches of learn
ing calculated to help the parent in the
discharge of parental duties. It h inex
cusable at this present day for women to
neglect the study of physiology and
hygiene. And again, one pursuit helps
another ; therefore to know something of
the history of the race, to know something
of moral and intellectual philosophy, nat
ural history, climatology, and medicine,
would greatly enhance the value of your
ideas about physiology and hygiene.
But all this is rather preparatory, and
ought to be understood before a child Is
born to you. The duties and cares which
follow, from a subject by itself, will be
best discharged by the practical applica
tion of the knowledge you have gained
beforehand. I have dwelt upon the im
portance of a proper parentage. The re
sponsibilities which follow parentage,
W hether proper or not, are very great, and
greater as the good qualities likely to be
inherited decrease. Little indeed did
most of you know of the aeriousacss of
duties so lightly assumed. To fall in love
and be married is the inevitable destiny
marked out for women. You are noi
taught how to choose, you are not in
' formed how grave a duty yours will be as
wife and mother, yr'u are not educated for
the station which is thrust upon you in
your girlish thoughtlessness. No wonder
so many women fail and faint by the way
side of life, over-burdened with the heavy
cares for which they were entirely unpre
pared. Without health or knowledge they
undertake the dutied which those best
fore-armed with both find onerous enough.
How can we expect w eak, nervous, and
ill-constructed women to perform that
which is sufficient for the well-prepared.
My heart has ached over many mothers,
themselves fit for the sick room, doing
their hard duty of attendance upon a little
brood of children yet more nervous and
sickly than themselves. No rest by day
or night, no hope in the future, but the
prospect of continual infirmities forever
before them, not knowing how to do even
that which can be done for the relief of
themselves or their little ones. It U in
vain to flutter ourselves that such offspring
are going to make the right kind of men
and women. By a judicious training, if
they get it, and by the grace of God, they
may be tolerably good and useful ; but it
is a plain inference that just in proportion
as their strength and their lives are
abridged, in the same ratio their usefulness
at least is also abridged.
I have not mentioned the particular na
ture of the responsibilities which follow
after birth, this being reserved for a special
paper. I have only endeavored to com
press into limited space suggestions,
rather than explanations of my subject.
For the rest,' you must read, and think,
and pray too. Errors that are committed
and cannot now bo remedied you are not
asked to remedy, but only to do what you
can to soften or eradicate their effects on
others. One thing, however. I must men
tion, as belonging to my subject : the ob
ligation resting upon mothers to make
their children's welfare paramount to all
considerations of a worldly nature. These
young beings brought into the world by
you have a claim upon you which you can
not fail to be sensible of. from the first
moment of motherhood to the end of life.
Never more can you lay your head upon
your pillow without a care. Your last
thought at night and first thought in the
morning is ot your children. Are thev
well ? are they comfortable ? are they hap
py ? Happy are you if you can sayihat
no neglect of yours has caused them any
illness or needless pain. Many mothers,
like many fathers, are in such haste to get
rich, or to execute some favorite worldly
project, that the affairs of childhood are
neglected a:i of little consequence But it
will not do to underrate the importance of
children's business. The years of infancy
and childhood were given them by the
Creator in which to store up the impres
sions that are to make up their characters
in after life, as well as to grow and
strengthen bodily. They have a right to
your watchfulness and unceasing instruc
tion. Never flatter yourselves that if you
leave them plenty of money you have done
your chief duty by them: Money is all
very well if you have taught them how to
use it. To teach them this, and many
other things, is better than to leave them
riches. A healthy, well taught boy will
better make his way in the world without
money than a sickly, ignorant, and rich
one. The sense of manhood the former
has is more desirable than the vanity of
possessing a million with the disadvantages
of the latter. There is no sp w eighty re
sponsibility in life as that of rearing chil
dren ; and there can be no such deep sat
isfaction from any other source as that of
seeing a family of sons and daughters
about you in whom no blemish can be
found with "sound minds in sound
bodies." and every way good and accom
plished. All a mother's long years of pain
and care are well rewarded by results
like this.
An Argumentative Youra. What thou
hast to do. do it Avith all thy might," said
a father to his son one day.
" So I did this morning," replied Bill,
vrith an enthusiastic gleam in his eye.
" Ah ! Avhat Avas it my darling ?" and his
father's fingers ran through his offspring's
curls.
" Why, I thrashed Jack Edwards till he
yelled like mad."
Papa looked unhappy. Avhi'.e he ex
plained that the precept "did not imply a
case like that, and concluded mildly Avith
" You should not have done that my
child."
" Then he would have thrashed me,"
urged Bill. " Better," said his sire, "to
have fled from the wrath to come." " Yes,"
retorted Bill by Avay of a final clincher.
" but Jack can run "twice as fast as I can."
The good man sighed, went to hLi study,
took up a pen and endeavored to compose
himself and sermon, reconciling practice
Avith precept.
" I call upon you," said the counsellor,
" to state distinctly upon Avhat authority
you are prepared to swear to the mare's
age ?" " Upon what authority ?" said the
hostler, interrogatively. " You are to re-'
ply, and not repeat the question put to
you." " I does'nt consider a man's bound
to answer a question afore he's time to
turn it in his mind." "Nothing can be
more simple, sir, than the question put.
I again repeat it. Upon what authority
do you swear to the animal's age ?" "The
best authority," responded he. gruffly.
" Then, why such evasion ? Why not
state it at once?" "Well, then, if you
must have it, I had It myself frorri the
mare's own mouth."" A simultaneous
burst of laughter rang through the court.
The judge on the bench could AA-ith diffi
culty confine his risible muscbsto jnd'cial
fjcr'xTivn.
Silver Palaee Cars.
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A Chicago correspondent writes to the
Iloeky Mountain Xeics as follows :
It may be of interest to thrtt portion of
the public who' have not already learned
the fact, to know'' that the Central Trans
portation Company, through the enterprise
of its Superintendent MV. Jonah Woodruff,
has recently inaugurated a new era in
railroad travel.
Henceforth, the journey between the twro
rival cities (gf New' York and Chicago.need
not be a tedious one to the frailest traveler
the thousand miles of territory that inter
venes. On the contrary, it is simply a
pleasure trip, fraught with numerous en
joyments that are not. attainable at Gome,
and such as have formerly been considered
cut of the reach of the "traveler while on
his way.
This new and successful enterprise for
the benefit of the traveling public, consists
of the running of a regular line of Silver
Palaee Cars, through, between the points,
without change. Three of these palatial
cars have already been brought out and
put in operation, and three mom are being
built. The whole will constitute a daily
line. At present the line is only tri-weekly
but the increasing demantr for just such
traveling facilities justifies the company in
making it a daily as soon as the requisite
number of wheeled palaces can be furn
ished. I will not here attempt any elabor
ate description of these silver palace cars,
for should I fill a column in that way the
reader would then hardly realizeQtheir
splendor, without seeing for himselfThey
are nothing less than "silver palaces" built
on wheels and run through the entire route
at a rate of speed commensurate Avith tlm
progressive spirit of the age. Each car i
so constructed as to render the passenger
comfortable, both during day and night.
All the internal arrangments are such as to'
afford the same degree of comfort as is to
be found in a first class hotel, while the
decorations and ornamertal work present
to the eye a scene of glittering splendor
suggestive of an imperial palace. 0
The route which the palace cars rtW is
composed of the Pittsburg & Fort YQvnc,
Pennsylvania Central and Ncav York
Central Railroads, than Avhieh there is no
better between the east and the Avest, and
none so prolific in picturesque scenery.
Think of being ensconsed in a palace on
Avheels in Chicago, and whihGenjoying all
the comforts and luxuries of the faultless
hotel, be whirled over the entire uistanco
iu .nv ion:, ana lanuea m mat metropo
lis in less than thirty-six hours from the
time of leaving this city. It is an era in
railway travel which Ave hardly expected,
but it has come, and many are the people
who Avill avail themselves of the advan
tages of the new through line, and after
having made the trip Avill inevitably vole
silver palace cars one of the grandest in
ventions of the nineteenth century.
List op the Presidents. The following
is given as a correct list of the Presidents
of the United Stages, and the date of each
Inauguration. The Inaugural address of
each President, printed in pamphlet form,
will soon be issued from a Boston publica
tion house :
George Washington, first President of
the United States, was inaugurated on
Monday, May 1st, 1789, and served Iavo
terms.
John Adams, second President, Avas in
augurated March 4th, 1797.
Thomas Jefferson, third President, was
first inaugurated March 4th, 1S01. and
served two terms.
James Madison, Avas first inaugurated ori
March 4th. 1S0D, and served two terms.
James Monroe, first inaugurated March
4th 1817, served two terms.
John , Quincy Adams, inaugurated 4th
March, 1825.
AndreAv Jackson , fi rst in augurated March
4th, 1829. served two terms.
Martin Van Buren, inaugurated March
4 th. 1837.
William Henry Harrison, inaugurated
March 4th, 1841." Died d!-ing the term,
and was succeeded by Yice President John
Tyler. April Gth, 1841.
James K. Polk, inaugurated March 4th.
184.-). .
Zachariah Tavlor, inaugurated March 4,
1849. His term was but little longer than
than that of President Harrison, when by
an untimely death he was reihOA-ed, and
Yice President Millard Fillmore took the
oath cf office July 9th, 1850.
Franklin Pierce Avas inaugurated March
4th, 1853.
James Buchanan was inaugurated March
4th, 1857.
Abraham Lincoln was first inaugurated
March 4th, 1805, and having steadied the
ship of State through the storm of battles
unparalleled, Aras re-elected by the people
and entered upon his second" term March
4th, 1865. He had not proceeded far in
finishing the work of repairs, when he Avas
coldly assasinated, on the evening of the
14th of April, 18G5, aiid Vice President
Andrew J ohnson ascended to the poskion.
A brief history of the administrations of
the several Presidents avouM be interesting.
It is boasted bv the Democracy that no
President, elected by their opponents, ever
survived his term.
Poor People and Poor Money. Henry
Ward Beecher, not long since, preached a
sermon in Avhieh the following passage
occurred :
In all the troubles and mischiefs that
arise from false weights and spurious cur
rency, it is usually the poor who suffer the
most. Here is a spurious quarter Of a dol
lar: The merchant in whose hands it
chances to have fallen, thoughtlessly, of
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passes it to the trader, and he, seeing that
it does not look quite right, but not think
ing it Avorth while to scrutinize it too
closely, passes it to the grocer, and he,
glancing at it, and not liking the looks of
it exactly, but not Avishing to be over par
ticular, and saying, "I took it and I must
get rid of it," passes it to the market
man ; and he, saying, " it might as AA'ell bo
kept traveling." passes it as he is jo urn ey
ing, to the conductor ; and he, kndwihg
that it is not good, but disliking to 8ay
anything to the man, says to himself, "I
Aviil keep it and give it to somebody else,"
and passes it to the Sewing woman. She
is roor. and a nerson that nnn ?a i
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Avays watched, and when she offers it, it is
discoA-ered to be spurious, and is refused,
and she looks at it and says, " It is nearly
my Avhole day's wages, but it is counter
feit, and of course I must not pass it," and 3
she burns it up, and so is the only honor
able one among them all. Bad bills,
spurious currency, almost always settle on
tie poor at lact. ,
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