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A- A - o Oregon city enterprise, '' o O O O 0 o vl Vol. ! I)C lUcekSn Enterprise. PCBLISHKD EVKKY S ATCROA Y MORNING By D. C. IRELAND, I'rTlCE : South east corner of Firm and Main streets, in the building lately known as the Court House, Oregon City, Oregon. Trrms of Stiljacrlptioii. On copv, one year in advance 3 On " ' ii delayed 4 00 Tftim of Advertising. Transient advertisements, one square (-Jt lines or less) first insertion ...$2 50 Fur each subsequent insertion 100 ihisiness Curds one square per annum payable quarterly 12 0" t)HC column per annum 1 -'- 00 One half column " 50 00 One quarter " " 4-1 00 Legal advertising at the established rates. 'Mult RDiiith JL.Mtge .V. 1, A. & A. M. Holds its regular Or.immunications on the first and third .Sat urdays officii month, at half past six P. M. tkrelforeo n good standing are invited to Ueml. Bv order of V. M. Oregon City, Nov. fcth, 1SG6. n:2J ::'., Ortpon L.oIgc Xo. 3, I. O. Q5'?- ofO.F. Meets everv Wednes- '' day evening at 7 o'clock, in the Wanonic Hall. Member of the ord;-arc in tted to attend. By order N. G. w.M Willamette Lxlgc r.'o. 151. O. ti. T. Met. every Saturday evening, at the rooms S.rl corner of .Mam m.d Fifth stivts, at 7 1-2 o'clock. Visiting member are invited to attend. !-'!(,J By order of W. C. T. H. c. joaxsox. f. o. M CO'.VX. Xotary 1' iil-lic. jornsgn & hccown, OR KG OX CITY. OREGON. Will attend to all business entrusted i ;tir cure in any of the Courts of the State, r illjt'.t money, negotiate, loans, sell real es t tc. tc. J ."Particular attention given to contested J ui'l eases. D. EI. McKENHEY, Attorney and Counsellor al Law. JLh ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL business entrusted to his care. Or kick One door north of Hell k Parker's Drug store, Oregon City, Oregon. Z'Ay Dr. H. Saffarrans, PHYSICIAN and SURGE OX. OFFICE In J. Fleming's Book Store. Mil in aired, Oregon, (Jit if. ("2 Dr. F. Barclay, M. R. C. L. (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) O VFICi: ; A t Ji i fe nee, Qin Street ';".. Oregon City. J WELCH, DCXT1ST. 'trminendy Located ft Oregon City, Oregon. O Rooms over Cliarman Jc Bro.'s store. Main street. (12. ly JOHN II. 3CHRAM, Manufacturer and Dealer in SADDL ES, 11 A RXESS, etc.. etc.. Alain street, between Third and Fourth, Oregon V'uy. fp!lE attention of parties desiring anvtliins .L in my line, is directed to iny stock, be fore iiMkiun purchases elsewhere. (y) .IQiLN it. SCHRAM. William Brought on, C0XTRA CTOR and BUILDER, Main utrett, Oregon City. Will attend to all work in bis line, con sisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner work franiing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly attended to. - A. II. UK I I.. E. A. I'AKKKR. BELL & PARKER. AXn DHALF.RS IX Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, .And every article kept in a Drug Store. St.i Maix Stkkkt, Orkoox City. L. ZIGLER & SON., O O F E K S, Of Orcann Cifu. Orcaon. rpiIE UNDERSIGNED ARE NOW 1'RE L pared to make all manner of ware in the '.line of cooperage, from a well-bucket to a hogshead, of both bili;e and straight work, on short notice, and at reasonable rates. Call and examine samples of our work, as it is its own recommendation. M.'Mii) L. ZItiLER & SON". kJAKES BiTmOOB E, .Justice of the Peace d- City Recorder. .Office In the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. -WiUOattend to the acknowledgment of .leeds, and all other duties appertaining to .thootlice of Justice of the Pence. -':ly John Fleming, Ti:.LEll ih. BOOKS and ST A Tl OXER Y. Thankful for the patronage heretofore re ceivrd, respectfully solicits a continuance of the favors of u generous public. His store is between Jacobs' and Acker man's bricks, on the west side of Mam street. Oregon City, October 27th, 'tM. (.tf CLARK GREEN 21 AN, -Tv .nHti. t itv urnvinan, "Ti ii !- l.'JIJiUl'.l Vl J X. All orders for the delivery of merchandise, or packages and freight ot whatever descrip tion, to any part of the citv, will bo executed promptly and with care. " 1 ('..? in DRAlTliORALE CHEAP ! O A FIRST RATE HEAYY DRAY, IX 4- good order, will be sold cheap for cash wpon application to C. GREEN MAN, ui-" Ore-on City. WH3C MYERS. IS G(). H. C. MYERS. o J- MYERS & RUOTIIER, Cheap Csisli Sforc ! I '"Untie Court Home, in Oregon- City. iw f , Healers in UT) loods, Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Luena Yista Stone Ware. P'V4 riea' Hard'are, etc., etc., Vrgon Cm'foetober 23, 2:ly i ii i ii ii in in in CLIFF HOUSE. fr Main Street, rr:i"-K Nearly Opposite Woolen Factory, YV. L. VvTlITE, I T. V. RHOADES, ) 1 rPnetors. Oregon City. Oregon. We invite the citizens of Oregon Citv, and the traveling public, to trive us a share of their patronage. Meals can be had at all hours, to please the ir.ost fastidious. 15 Notice to the Public. I HAVE this day closed the Bail ow House in favor of the Clin" House. Hope my old customers will give their liberal patron age to the above well kept house. They will tind Messrs. White & Rhoades always on hand to make guests comfortable. WM. BARLOW. Oregon City, August 1, 1S;7. DAVID SMITH, " Sucetwrto SMITH if- MARSHALL, Black Smith and Wagon Maker, Corner of Main and Third streets, Oregon City Oregon. Blacksmithing in all its brandies. Wagon making and repairing. All w ork warranted to give satisfaction. (3'. 7. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since IS 113. at the old stand, Maix Street, Oukgon Citv. An assortment of Watches. Jew elry, and Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. Kenau-nigs cone on short notice, (and thankful for past favors. (37 l52ipCtlSll Mills, OKEGO.V CITV. KEEP CONSTANTLY" ON HAND FOR SALE : BRA X A XI) C1IICKEX FEED ! Zj Parties wanting feed must furnish their sacks. SO.tf oITe (J O N C I T Y H'sapci Msi2aiai9g Co. Manufacture, and have constantly on hand, a very Superior Article of Straw Wrapping Paper. ?T Orders will receive prompt attention. ""Vj.lyJ J- H. MILLER, Secretary. PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. IT IS ONLY NECESSARY TO LET THE public be informed that , JOHN HELM, Artist, Has removed to the Photographic Rooms on Main street, lately occupied by Morrison C. Athey, where he is prepared to execute bet ter work than ever. Fur Children's Pictures the best hours are between 'J and 12 o'clock a. m. I23.1y DAME U A li STOKE! JAMES HCRFITT & CO., -Y70ULD INFORM THE PUBLIC Eri ' jiecially of Cannnah, that they have established a Store at that place, where they will keep on hand a well assorted stock of Merchan&iso and Groceries. which will be sold at reasonable rates, for the purpose of establishing permanently such a necessity at Canemah. Try ns. (?si:y Fashion Billiard Saloon Main street, between Second and Third, Oregon City. J. C. Mann, Proprietor. rplE above lorn; established and popular I Saloon is yet, a favorite resort, and as only the choicest brands ot Wines. Liquors and Cigars are dispensed to customers a shar- ' 1 public patronage is solicited. 'W) J. C. MANX. sIiXdYsTT alo Ton . West Side Main- Street, htttceen- Second and Third, Urog-jii City. GEORGE A. 2IAA5 Proprietor. The proprietor begs leave to inform his friends and the public generally that the above named popular saloon isopen for their accommodation, with a new and well assort ed supply of the finest brands of wines, liquors and cigars. fl' GOOD TEMPLAR'S HALL, Late I'OXY SALO0X, Main Street, Oregon Citv. MANX, Proprietor. The Propritor takes this method of an nouncing that this establishment has one of the best'TSilliard Tables to be found in the citv. The choicest brands of Cigars, Tobac co," Sarsapariia, Soda,aad Ginger pop served to order. (T.tf "GOOD TEMPLAR'S RESORT. One Poor South of the Post OJice, Oregon City Oreuon. rpiIE PROPRIETORS TAKE PLEASURE L in stating that they have fitted up the above Resort in good shape, and will keep open every dav and evening, (Sundays ex cepted,) for the entertainment of the public, with Billiards, etc., on strictly temperance principles. Ice Cream served on rsainruav Siinilnv evenings. (o i.iitn KELLY & piLsnLiti. i-roprietors. OREGON CITY BREWERY ! HENRY 11 UMBEL,, liavinn- purchased the above Brewery, wishes To inform the public that he is now prepared to manufacture a No. 1 tiuahty ot LAGER BEER s cood as can be obtained anywhere in i the State Orders solicited and promptly hlled. Oregon Citv, December 2Sth, 1-W. Lm L o g u s A A L B II I H T , EXCELSSORSxL MARKET! Corner of Fourth and Main Sis., Orenon Cdy ..Orepon. rr KE THIS METHOD OF INFORMING X the public that tnev keep constantly on hand all kinds fresh and salt meats, such as BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, VEAL. CORNED REEF, HAMS, PICKEREL) PORK. LARD, nd pvervthmT else to be found in their line Jf bnsineU " LOG US & ALBRIGHT. Oregon City. April 20th, 167. I'iy IX MOSS' BUILDING, Main Street Oregon City The und?rsirned will keep on hand all the varieties of fresh and cured meats: Poultry, Vegetables, Corned Beef and Pork, Hnrnn, Hams. Lard, Tallow, t A liberal share of patronage is solicited s I evpect to keep as good an aseortmen, I which will be delivered to purchaseVs at anj reasonable distance in tho citv. MAYER 6; I - OIIEOX iiiim iim 'TIs "ot for Fame. We copy the first poem in Mrs. Mc llenry's little collection, not indeed one of the best, but very appropriate as giv ing a correct idea as to the sources ot her beautiful inspirations : Believe me, 7tw no love of fame That tempts my heart its lays to thrill, It trembles but to speak the love Whieli all its chambers seems to fill A love for all the beautiful In heaven, on earth, in sky, or sea, And fain would touch some spirit chord To wake an answering melody. There's music trembling in my heart, Strange music, like the sea-shell's tone, Which fills my being with delight, Most holy when I am alone ; Then like the fountain from the earth, Or warblings from the birdling's breast, My thoughts come gushing from ir.y soul, And can not, will not be represt. You ask. who tuned my girlish harp And taught my lips these strains to siug ; Go ask the mountain-bird, who plained And gave such wildness to her wing Go ask the star whence came its light Ask the bright sea-shell whence its tone. Who gave the rose its sweet perfume And let their answer be my own. Ah, no ! the glittering crown of Fame For woman is too slight a prize To trust her gentle heart upon. With all its ardent sympathies ; The bay-wreath, on ambition's brow, May rest to-day all bright and fair, And, ere to-morrow's rosy dawn, May turn to burning ashes there. Let woman sing as sings the lark. That fearlessly mounts up on high. And, while she cheers the hearts on earth. Let her bright wing still seek the sky, Winning with sweetness and with song The thoughts of those who watch her flight To rise above the clouds of earth, To the sweet clime of love and light. Poetry. Poetry, as we believe, preserves and purifies language, cuK tivates good taste, helps memory, fills the mind with fair images, and high, unselfish thonglits, wondrously increases our perception and enjoy ment of natural beauty, relieves the pain of our usual lack or poverty of expression, shaping and bringing within compass multifarious thoughts and feelings, otherwise inexpressible. ljt the boon of boons, including all the rest, is the general enlargement, elevation, emancipation of the soul. Poetry universalizes. In its last re sult it is never despondent, but in spired with the loftiest joy and cour age. It begins in the glad sense of universal beauty, and when it be stows the same glad iSense upon its hearers, its result is accomplished. Here and there you will find a short poem, exceptional, expressing a de spondent mood, but the best poetry in its total c fleet is cheerful and en couraging. Even when it treats of sorrow, ot pain, of death, it is sympa thetic, but not desoondent and gloomy. The very production of the exceptional sad poem indicates a de gree of victory over the sadness. The ''Iliad,"' treating much of war, wounds, and violent death, is anima ted and exhilcrating throughout; of Dante's great poem, the first part is most read, for its fierce picturesqu ness and dreadful fascination, but the second is an ascending symphony of hope and faith, and die third part a hymn of heavenly rapture. Chaucer is cheerful as the green landscape after Spring shower; Spencer full of rich vivacity and bold adventure; Shakepere's book a multifarious world of movement and interest; nothing did Gcethe so much bhor ; ,n hfe and , literature, as despon dency, discouragement. "Sacred'' Music. la New York they say the extreme livelniess of ihe sacred music occasionally affords an incident. A recent operatic perform ance atone of the first class churches came near being en cored, and the solo nerformer called out bv an en- i - thusiastic worshiper, who forgot his place, and thought he was in front of the footlights. On another occasiou the performance was so exciting that it is said a gentleman undertook to " walk a figure" in the aisle. Preaching. In the town of S., was ii shoemaker, who at the time officiated as preacher. Ha always wrote the notices himself in order to save the expenses of printing. Here is one if them: "There wiil be preaching in the pines this Sunday afternoon, on the subject: "All who do not believe will be damned at 3 o'clock." Worth Knowing. Sincerity is to speak as we think, believe as we pre tend, act as we profess, perfoim as we promise, and really be what we would seem and appear 10 oe. rrL - J - f,nii,l.it!nn ia lflld. the hjvher can the superstructure be rcarrd. ' CITY, ORJBGOX, SATURDAY, AUGUST A Mother' Grave. There is a tender pathos in the following incident from the Xorth British Mail. It suggests the sad thought that manv a home is made utterly desolate by a mother's death, and that children are ruined by the loss of her comforting and restrain ing love: Some gentlemen passing through the beautiful village of Benton, in the Vale of Leven, Dunbartonshire, about 0 o'clock at night, had their attention directed to a dark object in a churchyard. On going to as certain what it was, they found a boy of tender years, lying fiat on his face, and apparently fast asleep over a recently made grave. Thinking this net a very safe bed for him, they shook him, and asked him how he came to be there. lie said he was afraid to go home, as bis sister, with whom he resided, had threatened to beat him. "And where does your sister live?'' asked one of the party. "In Dumbarton," was the an swer. " In Dunbarton nearly four miles off,'7 said one of the gentlemen, " and how came you to wander so far away from home?" " I just came," sobbed the poor little fellow, " because my mother's grave was here." His mother had beeu buried there a short time before, and seeking ref uge at her grave in his sorrow was a beautiful touch of nature in a child who could scarcely have yet learned to realize ths true character of that separation which knows of no re union on earth. Thither he had in stinctively wandered to sob out his sorrows, and moisten with tears the grave of one who had hitherto been his natural protector, for he had evi dently cried himself to sleep. -- What is Not Charity. It is not charity to give a penny to the street mendicant, of whom nothingisknown, while we haggle with a poor man out of employment for a miserable dime. It is not charity to beat down a seamstress tostarvation price; to let her nt in her wet clothes sewing all day; to deduct from her pitiful remuneration if the storm delays her prompt arrival. It is not charity to take a poor relative in to your whims, and taunt her con tinuallv with her dependent situa- tion. It is not charity to turn a man who is out of work into the streets with his family because he cannot pay his rent. It is notcharity to exact the utmost farthing from the widow and orphan, it is not charify to give wih a supercilit us air and paronage, as if God had made you, the rich man, of differ ent blood from the shivering recip ient whose only crime is that he is poor. It is not chariy to be an extortioner no hough you besow vour alms bv thousands. The Power of Truth. There are truths so immense and glorious, that when we really credit them, though the heart should be opposed to them, they will still take hold of us iu so marir ways that we cannot escape from their impression; and the very attempt to do so, will but make us the more sensible of our trouble, as he would be who should shut his eyes to rid himself of a pain, 1 or run 10 geC oul or ine "g"!' or J;iy What, then, must be tlie impression, the power of faith, when the heart accords with its object? Faith. The faith of believers overcomes the world by spreading over it the bright shadowing of" bet ter things to come.'' No darkness or sorrowing moves them out of eir c"rsc ci amy, or stays mem in . 1 f .1 . - A 1 it; like the moon when she suffers an eclipse, they continue on, losing no motion and no order, till they regain the presence and glory of which they are deprived. As shaken trees root deeper, as the blast that beats down the flame causes it to rise higher, so they, when brought low by adversity, mount upwards, or bifid themselves closer to the rock they are resting on. Fond of His Preaching. A chaplain of one of our penitentiaries missed a female hearer whose sen tence had expired. In a few weeks he noticed her in her old place, " Why how came you back into prison again?" he asked. " Oh, sir," she replied, " I wanted to hear you preach so much, I couldn't stay away any longer.'' A young woman being asked by a politician which party she was most iu favor of, replied that she preferred a wedding party. Faraday's Theory of Life. Faraday adopts Flounn's physio logical theoty that the natural age of man is one hundred years. The du ration of life he believes to be measnr ed by the time of growth. When once the bones and epiphytics are united, the body grows no more, and it is at twenty year? tha. this union is effected in man. In the camel it takes place at eight, in the horse at five, in the lion four, in the dog at two, in the rabbit at one. The nat. ural termination of life is five re moves from these several points. Man being twenty years in growing, lives five times twenty years, that is, one hundred; the camel is eight years in growing, and lives five times tight years, that is to say, forty years; the horse five years in growing, and he lives twenty five years; and so with other animals. The man who does not die of sickness lives everywhere from eighty to one hundred years. Providence has given to man a cen tury of life, but he does not attain it because he inherits disease; eats un wholesome food, gives license to pas sions, and permits vexations to dis turb his healthy equipoise; he does not die, he kills himself. He divides life into two equal halves, growth and decline, and these halves into infancy, youth, virility, and age. Infancy ex tends to the 20th year; youth to the 50th, because it is during this period that tiie tissues become Grm; virility from 50 to 75, during which the or ganism remains complete; and at T5 old age commences, to last longer or shorter time us the diminution of reserved forces is hastened or re tarded. -e- & Individuality. Is it possible that one is through the whole course of his life the same individual being? Is one possessed of but one individual soul? Does it not rather seem that each man or woman is in himself or herself a succession of individual be ings, and possesses, one after another, several successive souls? Our body is the same body at fifty as il was at five, and as it will be at seventy tho same, subject only to the changes and modifications made by time, weather, sickness, or mode of life. Wonderful as it seems, the fat, dimpled baby-body is the same as the withered, old, yellow carcass totter ing into the long-expected tomb; but our soul is it the same? I trow not. Our estimate of things and people, our habits, tastes, and dispositions at certain periods of our life are so rad ically different from, and totally an tagonistic to, what they are at other periods, that I think it is hardly pos sible that their variations should be accounted for by any of the altera tions that it is within the province of time, sorrow, or any exchange in our outer life to effect. Perhaps, at cer tain epochs in our history, separated by varying periods of time, new poul (in our sleep, may be,) passes into our body, each successive soul sadder than the last. A more non- sersical, puerile idea never entered a human bead, I'm aware, but here it is, and I cannot cast it out. To Form a Vigorous Mind. Let every youth settle in his mind that if he would ever be anything, he has got to make himself; or, in other words, to rise by personal application. Let him always try his own strength, and try it effectually before he is al lowed to call upon others; send him back again and again to the resources of his own mind, for industry ana perseverance will accomplish. In earlv and timid flights, let him know that stronger pinions are nearer and ready to sustain him, but only in case of absolute necessity. When in the rugged paths of science, if diffi culties impede his progress which he cannot surmount, let him be helped over them; but uever let him think of being led, when he has the power to walk without help; or carrying his ore to another furnace, when he can melt it in his own. TrfE Sexes. The s-keptic asks, Why do so many more women than men make profession of faith and be--come members of the church? and asks it with an air that suggests the doubt whether it may not be because the latter are the more strong mind ed. The Christian Companion pro poses to answer it when skeptics shall answer this; Why is it that, among the hundreds who crowd our peni tentiaries, there are so many more men than women? Is It? Men are born with two eyes, but one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. The same is applicable to women and boys. SM, 18G7. Our Tratle wit 'o Eastern Asia. The acquisition of California by the United States, the discovery of gold 19 years ago in the new territo ry,the rapid settlement of the country since that period, and the wonderful growth of a first class city on the northwestern shores of the Pacific, the Tribune says are events destined to exercise a mighty influence, not only on the fortunes of this republic, but on the future commerce of the world. Of recent developments grow ing out of these events the two most important are the construction of the Pacific railroad, and the establishment of steam communication with China and Japan. These two enterprises promise to accomplish as great revo lution in commerce as did the discov ery of a new passage to India via the cape of Good Hope. In New York and San Francisco the cities of the old world are to find formidable com. petitors for the trade of eastern Asia. Vasco de Gama undoubtedly renderd good service to commerce when he established the practicability of reach ing India by sailing round the south ern end of the African continent; but after aW, that imperial navigator, Columbus, was right the true route to India is in the direction of the setting sun, and the world will be convinced of I his before long. Trade between the Pacific coast and and eastern Asia has just commerced but it is rich in promise and cannot fail to acquire magnificent volume in the course of a fe.v years. That we are warranted in indulging the most sanguine expectations respecting it, may be seen in figuring upon it. It is only six months since the first str. of the Pacific Mail Company left San Francisco (or China on its experimen tal voyage, and already the good re sults of the enterprise are shown in a rapid increase of trade with the for mer country. Among other tacts, it I appears the pioneer vessel of the new line to the east, on her return voyage brought into San Francisco freight amounting to nearly three times the value of the entire trade between the points for the first qu irter of the year I860. And further, that while the whole of the Japan trade of last year amounted to only 8107,8 14, the same trade, for the first quarter of this year, reached the sum of 59,7:.'0. The improvement in the passenger business is equally marked. What the trade between this coun try and Asia will become when the Pacific railroad is completed, and we have several competing lines of str.s on the route, it is not easy to imagine. The growth of the trade will then be so rapid and so prodigious as to make it one of the greatest wonders of this age of marvels. There is one branch of the trade with Asia to which too much import ance can hardly be attached which claims particular notice. We allude to the flow of treasure into the coun tries of the East, which approximate very closely to $45,000,000 from all parts of the world. At present the city ot London is the reservoir whence this accumulated treasure finds its way into eastern Asia, a very large proportion of it coming from Pacific States. In reckoning up, then, the elements which will combine to form the future grand and imposing commercial pros perity of the American republic, the trade in the precious metals must be accorded an important place, for the superior advantages offered by the new route to Asia across the Pacific must in time direct the trade from its old channels. To obtain control of this trade is to bear off the palm of commercial supremacy. Wrhat that control implies let the history of the past testify, let the splendors of Venice, when she sat as a qneen on the Adriatic, tell let the mammoth metropolis of England to-day, with its wealth of untold millions, and its proud array of " merchant princes," bear witness. Great Invention. It is said that an ingenious X ankee down east nas j lately invented a new and improved " button hole"' machine, just suited for politicians. It performs every thing requisite, except paying for the drinks; and he is now working bard to so perfect ths machine that it will perform the latter. If he succeeds in this last particular his fortune is made. A few of the perfected ma chines would sell well in Oregon at the present time, and next summer the request would more than equal the demand for Abolition oil, or Graefenberg pills. . , He who can wear a shirt for a whole week, and keep it clean, ain't fit for anything else. -at Bad. About forty years ago there lived in Sooth western Pensylvatda two farmers named Wo d and Osborne, respectively. They were noar neigh, bors, but inveterate enemies; and it is said they lived almost in sight of each other for fourteen years without speaking to each other. Wood one day went out with n mattock to dig up half a dozen stumps that had never yet been j lemovea irom nis meadow; but finding it pretty hard work, and moreover, not being very fond of work, he gave it up and returned to the house. On the way it oc curred to him that by a cunnin" device he might induce his unfriend ly neighbor to uproot the little annoyances. Acting on a bright iue inui occurred io mm, tie enter ed his house, got his writing ma 1, - 4. 1 . I I tcrials, and, in a disguised hand, wrote : "Mr. Wood: I am an old man, fast approaching my end, and I cannot go to my grave without revealing to you a secret. When I was a young man I helped to rob your grandfather of a large amount of money. 1 and my partner in crime buried $5,000 of it under the roots of a tree in the meadow that now belongs to you. No doubt these trees have been cut down by this time, but the stumps may still remain. He was soon after hanged for a murder he com mitted, and I was sent to prison for highway robbery. I was but lately released, and I wish to do all I can to atone for past misdreds. I send you this letter by a person who .-ays he knows where you live, and he will throw it into )our house. A REPENTANT CRIMINAL." Wood sealed this bit of fiction, addressed it to himself, and, when night came, crept stealthily to Os borne's door, opened it a little way, tossed it in, and ran away as though Satan were after him. On reaching home he retired to rest and repos ed sweetly till morning. When he rose he cast a glance toward his meadow and to his satisfaction, dis covered that every stump in his meadow had been dug up during the night and pulh-d out by tha roots. After breakfast he went cool ly to work and rolled them together in a pile, in order to burn them. And imagine Osborne's bitterness j of heart as he passed bv on his way to the village that morning, saw Wood thus engaged, and knew how he had been duped by him. -- , . Do It With Thy Might. For tune, success, fame, position, are never gained but by piously, deter minedly, bravely sticking growing lively to a thing, until it is Sairly ac complished. In short, you must carry a thing through, if you want to be anybody or anything. No matter if it does cost you the pleasure, the society, the thousand early gratifica tions of life. No matter for these. Stick to the thing and carry it through. Relieve you were made for the matter, and that no one else can do it. Put forth your whole energies. Stir, wake, electrify your self, and go forth to your task. Only once learn to carry a thing through in all its completeness and propor tions, and you'll become a hero. You will think better of yourself; others wiil think better of you. Ol course they will. The .world, in its very heart, admires the stern, deter mined doer. Drive right along, then, in whatever you undertake. Y'ou'll be successful; never fear. Aristocacy. One of the parvenu ladies of Cincinnati, who would be wonderfully aristocratic in oil her do mestic concerns, was visiting a few days since at the house of Major O , when, ufter tea, the follow ing conversation occurred between the Major's lady and the " top knot" in consequence of the hired girl oc cupying a seat at the tea table. Why, Mrs. G , you do not allow your hired girl to eat with you at the table, do you?" " Most certainly I do. You know this has ever been my custom. It was so when you worked for me don't you recollect?" This was a " collar" to silk and satin greatness, or. as the boy calls it " codfish aristocracy." After col oring and stammering, she answered in a low voice: " Yes, I believe it was," and left. Peculiar Case. A female school teacher, in her advertisement, stated that she was " complete mistress of her own tongue." "If that's the case," said a caustic old bachelor " she can't agk too much for her services," No '!!. t? A AVord for V"oul tt Manufacturer. As we nave new Woolen Factories springing np all around us, and as everything we use should be " good and strong," we give them an idea of the "homespun" they mate way down east, asPrported by Sim Slick, in his Trails of Human Gharcctef. Spenking of his own good cloth, he says : O G " When I lived in Maine," said Uncle Ezra, " I helped to break up a new piece of ground. We got the wood off in the winter, and early in the spring we bega:i j lowing on 't, It was so consarned rocky that we had to get forty yoke of o.ten to one" plow and I held the plow for more' 'n a week. 1 thought 1 should die; It e 'en a most killed me. I vow. Why. one day I was hold 'n, and the plow hit a stump which measured just nine feet an- a half through it -hard and sound. The plow split it, and I was going straight through it, when I happened to think it might snap together, so I threw my feet out, and had no sooner done this than it snapped together, taking asjnart hold of my pantaloons. Of course I was tight, but I held on to the plow handles ; and ffcouglf the teams sters did all they could, that team of eighty oxen could not tear my pantaloons, nor cause me to let go my grip. At last, though, after letting my catlle breathe, they gave another strong pa) together, and the old stump cairie out the quick, est. It h id monstrous long root?, too, let me tell you. Myicife made the cloth for those pantaloons, and 1 haven't worn any other kind since." The only reply made to this was: " I should have thought it would have come hard cn yer suspenders ?" " Powerful hard." O -- . The Missouri Test Oath. At one of the elections at St. Louis, in 1805, Gen, Frank P. Blair refused to take the stringent oath prescribed for all voters by the Missouri Con stitution, and his vote was r9jected. He at once sued the judges of the election, who had refused his ballot, for $10,000 damages, and the County Court of St. Louis decided that the judges did right in refusing to ac cept tho ballot. Gen. Blair appeal ed from that decision to the State Supreme Court, and that Court has recently given its decision, re-affirming the decision of theCounly Court. Gen. Blair's counsel claimed that the conditions of frarfthise prescribed by Missouri partook of the nature of an ex post, facto law, so far as the United States CdSistitution is con, cerned, and he also urged as a pre cedent the decision of the United States Supreme Court against the unconstitutionality of the oath re quired by the Missouri Constitution from ministers of the Gospel. The Slate Supreme Court Judges, how ever, decided against the ex post fac to argument, and decided also against allowing the precedent which was cited. The ground on which the de-3 cision was made was that the prac tice of a profession is a naturul and absclute t ight, while that of voting is a vested right. Did he Give Milk?-A young lady school teacher of Indianapolis, was, recently, endeavoring to im press upon her scholars the terrible effects of the punishment of Nebu chadnezzar. She told them that for seven years he ate grass just like a cow. Just then a small boPatked "Did he give milk?r' 0 Nautical. The Cherokee rears riage ceremony is very expressive. The man and women join hands over running water, to indicate that their lives are henceforth to flow on in one stream. That is a bad religion which makes j us hate the religion of other people. That is a bad sect of Christians which encourages its members to thii;k con teraptnously of all other sects of Christians Keep your head cool by temper ance, your feet warm by exercise, rise earh-, and go soon to bed; awl if yon are inclined to uet fleshyi-kerp your eyes open and youj mouth ebui. . "- r If we would have powerful minds, we must think; if we would hav faithful hearts, we must love; if w. would have muscles, we must labor. Virtue is so contented with its own : achievements that it needs not tin- adventious aid of flattery to heighten its enjoyments. The man that lorgets a good deal that has happened, has a better mem ory thau he who remembers a great deal that. never happened. 3 f i ft it O i o