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3 G O ,ari'iiifri-3gMggeBEireM,t o 0 o o Vol. 2. OREGON CITY, ORJEGOIV, SITUKDAYj KOYEMEEB 2, 867. o. 2. 1711 1 LJl 1 1 JIUIM lilkjJJJo o O ! o O o o o a O o o )c lUcckiij ntcvpriec. rCBLISnED EVEUT SATinnAT MOP.MVQ By D. 0. IRELAND, OFFICE" South east corner of ' Fifth and Main VtTeU, in the bnildmg ately known " the Court Hohsc, Oregon City, Oregon. Term of M1i' 0.. copy, one year in adv (3 CO o To MiT patron in int. .-y ' . ,, . ...v. fn.-l will forward two receipts in full lor one year, being redaction of titty cents per annum er copr- CIXBS Mar he formed at the following rates: Ten copies one year, and one to the jretterupnftheclub Twenty copies one rear, and two ex tra copies to the getter up of "ie 0(J cinb j Mailed to separate addresses if desired. Thr-cash to accompany each order, inva riablv, otherwise the regular rates of S3 wi I bechanced, and advance payments consid ered to be within the range of thirty or sixty days. Terms of Advertising. Transient advertisements, one square (12 lines or less) first insertion ...'2 50 For each subsequent insertion 1 00 Business Cards one square per annum payable quarterly 12 Ou Omc column per annum 120 00 One half column " f 00 One quarter " " 4000 Legal advertising at the established rates. j3ook and Fob Printing ! r I"IIE ENTEIIP HIS K OFFICE T 1 supplied with every requisite for doing a superior style of work, and in constant ly accumulating new and beautiful styles ofCmaterial, and is prepared lor every Tarie ty of book an d Jon AT SATIS FACTORY PRICK.-?. pff- The Public are invited to call and examine both our specimens and facilities for doing work. 11 USINE S S e CA III) S V. c. jonNsoN-. r. o. m cowx. O Xotary 1'nblic. JOHNSON St McCOWN, OREGON CITY, OREGON. lr- "Will attend to all business entrusted M i our care in any of the Courts of the State, c.illeet money, negotiate loans, sell real es H tc. etc. -"Particular attention given to contested I mid cases. 1 .' 1 -a. r. m.ssKi.i.. f. daltox. RUJSSELL &. DALTON, Attorneys and Counselors at law, Solicitors in Chancery, and Heal Estate Agents. Will practice in the Courts of the second, third and fourth Judicial Districts, audio the Supreme Court of Oregon. J-S-T" Special attention given to the collec tion of claims at all points in the above nam 'ed districts. Office iu Parrish'g brick building, Albany, Oregon. :?S. . H. MITCUKLL. J. X. DOLP1I. A SMITH. Mitchell, Dolpli & SmitlJ, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc tors in Admiralty. IT"Omee over the old Post OlIice Front ritreet, Portland, Oregon. (ly) O.gP. MASON, -Attorney and Counselor, at Law, o 102 Front st., Portland, Oregon. '-$T" Is fully prepared to attend to any busincss under the Bankrupt Law. Divorces obtained on the most reasonable terms, and no charges made for services where the divorce is denied. C7.1y BENTON KILL Yl Orrron City, Oregon. Oflic iu Charman'a Brick Block, up tir. (50:tf) D. M. McKENNllY, Attorney and Counsellor at Laic. 7iLL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL f V business entrusted to his care, Oitice One door north of Bell & Parker's llru;r store, Oregon City, Oregon. ":lv jTbTu "pYo n Attorkf.y and Counselor-atsLa-sv, Oregon City, Oregon. IW Oflice over the store of Pope & Co., iiain ttreet. j 41; tf Q . , 0 C. A. L0LPH, Attorney and Counselor at -Law, 1ST OtEce 10(5 Front street, Portland Orc- RANCH FOR SALE. 'ated u;:tvel:n the clack- a mas and the OREGON CITY TOWN PLAT ! In the vicinity of the place of T. J. Hunsuker. Hr WilPbe sold cheap for cash Apply to LEW & FEClillEIMER, U Main street, Oregon Citv. O JOHN MTSRS. 18GG. H. C. MYEHS. J. MYERS & .BROTHER, I'nJer the Court ir..is ;n ri,..,,,., r;t Healers in Dry Goods, Hoots and Shoes. Clothing, Buena Vista Stone Ware. SrY ,('r(,L'l'rios. Hardware, etc., etc., Hfh they propone to sell an cheap us any ' 1 ffrt'to.n O.I w OREGfVW HTTV BoR E W E E t HENRY II UMBEL., lv"K purchased the above Brewerr. tc) lnlorni tl... . spared to manufacture No. 1 quality of LAG Eli BEER! ila?. ,iRS,c:,n o'jtiiisied anywhere in the ie. Orders solicited and promptly tilled. !iu December 'sth. Is.'.." lOtf DAVID SMITH, nin"7Tv'.to mtu rf- Marshall, 'W-im,th and Waaon Maker, lornni- r 11 - , n. . . .... ui .uaiu anu l urd streets. -qvu vuy Uregon. 0. wiakin.P i O . 1 1s '"'aneiies. agon w irivn - - i,r"'g- All worK warranted O 11. BUSINESS CARDS. CLIFF HOUSE. Main Street. Nearly Opposite Woolen Factory, T. W. RIIOADES, 1 -oprietors. Oregon City. Oregon. We invite the citizens of Oregon City, and the traveling public, to eive us a share of ! p.iuuuc. j'h.-ws cuii Du naa at an : hours, to please the most fastidious. 15 Notice to the Public. I HAVE this day closed the Barlow Ilouse in favor of the Clitl' House. Hope my old customers will give their liberal patron age to the above well kept house. They will find .Messrs. "White & Khoades always on hand to make guests comfortable. WM. HARLOW. Oregon City, August 1, 1S07. AMERICAN EXCHANGE. (Late LIXCOLX HOUSE,) Xo. SlFiontsdccr, Port lii nd Oregon. L. P. W. QUIMI5Y. Proprietor, (Late of Western, Hotel.) Tbi house is the most commodious in the State, newly furnished, and it will be the en deavor of the proprietor to make his guests comfortable. The Baggage Wagon will al ways be found at the landing on the arrival of steamships and river boats, carrying bag gage to the house free of charge. 1 T.ly OREGON HOUSE, Main Street Oregon City. JACOB B0EIIM, Proprietor. EST A II LIS II ED 1S57. UEDUtTIO.V IX PRICES I The undersigned wishes to give notice that from Saturday, October 5th, 1st;-, prices at the above house will be as follows : Board and Lodging per week f5 00 Board w ithout Lodging 4 00 Board and Lodging per dav 1 00 JACOB BOLIIM. Oregon City, Oct. Sd, 1S07. 50:tf OSWEGO HOUSE! OSWKGO, OREGON. JOIIX SCI1ADE. Proprietor. IS now prepared to receive and entertain all who may favor him with their patron age. The House is New and the Rooms are Newly and Neat'y Furnished. The Table will be supplied with all the delicacies of the season. The House is situated near the steamer landing. The proprietor will at all times endeavor to give entire satisfaction to all who may favor him with a call, and would respectfully solicit the patronage of the Traveling Public. 41:tf. Board per week no Board and Lodging G 00 Single .Meals 50 W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since IS 10. at the old stand, Maix Stuekt, Okkgox City. An assortment of Watches, Jew elry, ami Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. Repairings done on short notice, and thankful for past favors. (37 GANEMAH STOKE! JAMES M0RFITT & CO., "YT70ULI INFORM THE PUBLIC ES V pecially of Canemah, that they have estaiilished a More at that place, where they will keep on hand a well assorted stock of Merchandise and Groceries. which will he sold at reasonable rales, for tbo purpose of establishing permanently such a necessity at Canemah. I it us. (.":;: v Fashion Billiard Saloon. Maiu street, between Second and Third, Oregon City. J. C. Elann, Proprietor. THE above long established and popular Saloon is yet a favorite resort, and as onlv the choicest brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars are dispensed to customers a shar"" '. il epublic patronage is solicited. ' 1 v) NX. SHADES SALOON. WtH Side Main Street, betirfni Second, and Third, Oregon, City. GEORGE A. HAAS 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 w'ines, liquors and cigars. 52 A. a. I1KLL. E. A. PAKKER. BELL &. PARKER. I RiLTGttlSTS, AXD DF.ALF.U3 IX Chemicals, latcnl Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept in a Drug Store. S3.) Maix Street, Oiibc.ox City. NOTICE TO ALL v 110 WANT Eirsi Class Fine or Coarse iloof s S3 sad &flocs ! Made or Repaired. Especial care and at tention paid to orders for line work, such as Ladies' and Misses Fine Gaiters, Gents' Fine French Calf Boots, etc. I ff Orders solicited from abroad will be executed with neatness and dispatch. TERWILLIGER .t SMITH, 40.tf Green st., Oswego, Ortgon. E. G. RANDALL, IMPORTER AXu DEALER IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Sheet Music, and Musical Merchandise of all kinds. Sole Agent in Oregon for Mason & Hamlin's CELECII VTED C ABINET OKCAX! AXO Stfinway A Soil's GOLD MEDAL. PIAXO FOUTES ! First street, next door to the Post Oflice Portland, Oregon. (4.tf C. P. FERRY, (Late Ferry & Foster,) ;CS .E2CSL J2SS rCTEL 0 No. 10S Front street, Portland. A pent North British and Mercantile insurance Company. And Manhattan Lite Insurance Co 1 OVERNMENT SEC ITRITIKS, STOGKS yjT Bonds, and Real Estate bought and sold on Commission. L. C. MILI.AKD. W. J. VAX SCHUYVEfc. MILLARD & VANSCHUYVER, Successors to Ladd, Reed & Co. Importers and Wholesale Dealers in I'OUEiySAXD DOMESTIC L.IQCOKS, Also: Sasli, Doors and Blind?. So. 73 FllOXT STIIEET, I'uitland, Oregon. 3 1 3 vv J JIM BUSINESS CARDS. JAS. L. DALY. W. P. STEVENS. Xotary Pullic. DALY & STEVENS, REAL ESTATE I1ROKERS, COLLEC TORS AXIt G EX Eli A L AGEXTS, Office 1st floor Vaughn's Brick, corner of .Morrison and J- ront sts, Portland, Oregon. ZW Particular attention given to the ad justment of accounts. Legal and other doc uments transcribed at short notice. ISAAC FAKR. j. K. GRAHAM. FARE & GRAHAM, Butchers and Meat Venders. Thankful for the favors of the community in the past, wish to sav that thev will con tinue to deliver to their patrons, from the wagon, as usual, On 2'uendays and Saturdays of eacli week. all the best qualities of Beet, Mutton, and Pork, or any other class of meats in the market. 47:tf OltEGOX CITY. KEEP CONSTANTLY OX HAND FOR SALE : BRAN AND CHICKEN FEED ! l'J" Parties wanting feed must furnish their sacks. 30.tf JOHN H. SCHRAiT, Slanufacturer and Dealer in SADDLES, HARNESS, etc., etc., Main street, between Third and Fourth, Oregon City. '"I'MIE attention of parties desiring any thing JL in my line, is directed to my stock, be fore making purchases elsewhere. (ly) JOHN H.SCIIRAM. William Broughton, CONTRA CTOR and BUILDER, Main street, Oregon City. Will attend to all work in his line, con sisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner work framing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly attended to. (52 CLARK GREENMAN, City Drayman on eg ox ctty: All orders for the delivery of merchandise, or packages and freight of whatever descrip tion, to any part of the city, will be executed promptly and with care. " It?. Cm DRAY FOR SALE CHEAP ! FIRST RATE HEAVY DRAY, IN 1 JL good order, will be sold cheap for cash upon application to C. GREENMAN, 3t.tf) Oregon City. Dr. F. Barclay, Iff. R. cTl (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) OFFICE: At Residence, Main Street (-A ....Oregon City. J. A. MacDONALD, Green Street Oswego, Oregon. l'ost Master and Dealer in G E N E HA L MERCHANDISE, Cirnr cries, AVines and Liquors! JAEIE3 Id. MOOSE, Justice of the Peace tf dig Recorder. Office In the Court Ilouse and City Council Room, Oregon City. Will attend to the acknowledgment of ieeds, and all other duties appertaining to theollice of Justice of the Peace. 2:ly J. WELCH, DENTIST. Permanently Located at Oregon City, Oregon. Rooms over Charman & Bro.'s store. Main street. O-ly Sunday School and Gift Books ! IT ROM THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIE . ty and Massachusetts Sunday School Society. For sale at Messrs. llurgren & Shindier's, First street, corner of Salmon, Portland, Oregon. G. II. ATKINSON, Scc.'v and Treas. Oretron Tract Soc.'r. S. SHIN DEER, Depositary. I23.1y A. J. MOXROE. W. A. K. MELLE.X. 1UAKBJL12 WORK. MONROE & MELLEN, Dealers in California, Vermont, and Italian Marbles, Obelisks, Monu vients, Head and Fool stones, Salem .Oregon. Mantles and Furnitnre Marble furnished to order. C2.tt ZIGLER & SON. COOPE KS, Oregon City, Oregon. rpiIE UNDERSIGNED ARE NOW PRE 1 pared to make all manner of ware in the line of cooperage, from a well-bucket to a hogshead, of both bilge and straight work, on Fhort notice, and at reasonable rates. Call and examine samples of our work, as it is its own recommendation. BS-.Oui) h. ZIGLER & SON. OENTKAL 'ItfAltfclST ! (Late Mayer s Jar.-et,) Removed to the lower story of the late Court House, under the Exteriorise oflice. Main Street -.Oregon Cit't P5Sj72!$Bffl? The undersigned will keep &:$JOi on hand all the varieties of tTrl fresh and cured meats: Poultry, Vegetables, Corned Beef and Pork, Bacon, Hams, Lard, Tallow, c-( A liberal share of patronage is solicited, as we expect to keep as good an assortment and of as trood quality, as'the country afford, which will be delivered to purchasers at anj reasonable distance in the ty. tfjurj RYAN k MAYER. LOGl'S ALBRIGHT, EXGELSiQRlSL MARKET! Corner of Fourth and Main Sis., Oreqon Ctty.... Oregon. rp.KE THIS METHOD OF INFORMING X the public that tnev keep constantly on hand all kinds fresh and salt meats, such as DEEF, POEIv, MUTTON, VEAL, COkNED BEEF, HAMS, PICKELED PORK, LARD, And everything else to be found in theirline of business. LOG US & ALBRIGHT. Oregon City. April '2"th, 1567. -J Oli PKIXTIXG XEATLY EXEtlT- edat the ENTERPRISE OFFICE. B ILL HEADS PRINTED. At the Enterprise Office, L. IBS THE SXOAA'J Oh ! the Snow, the beautiful snoyv, Filling the sky and earth below ; Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet ; ; Dancing; Flirting, Skimming along; Beautiful snow ! it can do no wrong. Flying to kiss a fair lady's cheek. Clinging 10 lips in a frolicsome freak, Beautiful snow from the heaven above, Pure as au angel, gentle as love ! Oh ! the snow; the beautiful snow, How the (lakes gather and laugh as they go, Whirling ont in the maddening fun, It plays in its glee with every one ; Chasing, Laughing, Hurrying by ; It lights on the face and sparkles the eye! And the dogs, with a bark and a bound, Snap the crystals that eddv around ; The town is alive, and its heart in a glow. To welcome the coming of beautiful snow ! How wild the crowd goes swaying along. Hailing each other with humor and song ! Ho the gay sledges like meteors flash by. Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye; Kingin g, Swinging, Dashing they go, Over the crust of the beautif ul snow ; Snow so pure when it falls from the sky, To be trampled in mud by the crowd pass ing by. To be trampled and tracked bv the thousands of feet Till it blends with the filth 111 the horrible street. Once I was pure as the snow but I fell ! Fell like the snow flakes from heaven to hell ! Fell to be trampled as filth in the street; Fell to be sco lied, to be spit on and beat ; Pleading, Cursing, Dreading; to die. Selling my soul to whoever would bur. Dealing in sh&mc for a morsel of bread, Hating the living and fearing the dead. Merciful God, have I fallen so low? And yet I was once like the beautiful snow. Once I was fair as the beautiful snow. With an eye like its crystals, a heart like its glow ; Once 1 was loved for my innocent grace Flattered and sought for the charms of my face ; Father, Mother, Sisters all, God and myself, I have lost by my fall ; The veriest wretch that goes shivering by, Will make a wide sweep lest I wander too nigh ; For all that is on or above me I know There's nothing that's pure as the beautiful snow. How strange it should be that this beautiful snow Should fall on a sinner nowhere to go ! How strange it should be, when the night comes auain, If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain, Fainting, Freezing, Dying alone. Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan, To be heard in the streets of the crazy town, Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming down. To be so and die in my terrible woe, With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow. "THE IIE.VI'TI KUL SXOAW I sat in my airy room, the cool winds of Ontario sweeping by me, with an open scrap book in my hand. I had just been reading" The Beautiful Snow," and its sad refrain was sounding in my ears as the last dying strain of an Eolan harp, when my friend entered, and casting his eyes over the verses I had been read ing, he surprised me by saying that he had known the authoress of "The Beautiful Snow," when she was as "fair as the snow'' of which she so feelingly wrote. Most of your readers have, doubt, less, read this beautiful and touching poem, if the latter qualification may be applied to that which seems the embodiment of the wail of a lost soul. Yet, probably but few knew the name of the author, or, rather, the authoress, for only a woman's pen could have written those lines, and still a less number know the history of whose bitter experience is embod ied in the poem of " The Beautiful Snow." Few poems in the English language contain more merit, or dis play a more pathetic conception. It is the reality of life reality stranger than fiction. The maiden name of the authoress to which we have alluded, was Dora Shaw. She was born and grew to womanhood in Wabash, Indiana. Her parents were not wealthy, as the world goes, yet honorable, well-to-do, and happy and wealthy in the pos session of their beautiful daughter. As she grew older she grew lovelier and more beautiful. Iler parents loved her to idolatry,and by frugality and self-denial they xvere enabled to bestow upon her an education second to none th:t a lady may receive. Young, handsome, accomplished, she returned to them from school little less in their eves, and the eves of the admiring villagers, than an angel, whom they might worship, but were not worthy to keep themselves. Yet Dora was mortal in her own estitr.a tion, if etherial in the eyes of her pa rents; and her heart, as that of any other maideu, was not proof against the allurements of Cupid's art and whom should she love and esteem as her beau ideal of all that was noble and good but a young lawyer of her own village. Undoubtedly he was poor, and Dora's parents indulged the fatal delusion that their daugh ters hand could not be given where wealth and rank were wanting. Tbey determined, as so many parents have done, are doing, and always will do, to sacrifice their daughter's will, un mindful of her happiness, upon the COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, OTDVTT T7V PAT TtTlOMT A altar of mammon. Perhaps tbey thought that where wealth and lux ury would lead, love and happiness would follow. Kow seldom is thi the case. What a lesson for parents the sequel shows ! About this time F. S. LeBaum, a gentleman of culture and of immense fortune in St. Louis, visited the re gion where Miss Shaw lived. He saw and loved and wooed thisyounir, beautiful and accomplished flower of the Iloosier State. In vain did she tell him that she could never love him that her love was another's that she could never give her hand to one who was not the possessor of her heart. He still pressed his suit with importunity, and all the influence his wealth and her parents could txert were brought to induce her to wed him. Although he never gained her consent, her parents compelled her fo wed him, and the marriage that fol lowed was hallowed by no love on her side, though doubtless her hus band loved her devotedly, and did not doubt his ability to teach her to love him as the years passed by. He took his young and beautiful bride to St. Louis, to his splendid residence, and all that wealth and devoted love coull bestow was hers. Still she was not happy ; the beautiful bird fluttered and worried in her gilded cage, and only longed to be free. She was introduced to, and became the admiration of, the first circles of society in the city. To the outward world she now seemed the happiest of mortals, illustrating the old adage, that the gayest heart makes some times the saddest mourning. It was about this time that the famous the atrical manager, Ben. DeBir, was in the zenith of his fame in St. Louis. He had ihe finest company in the tn I'M, his leaning star was juiss Annette luce, no less renowned for her acting mimic lift; than her beauty and her many womanly virtues. To this theatre Mr. and Mrs. LeBaum went one night, and witnessed a play. Dora had never been inside a theatre before, and before the curtain fell upon the second act, she had taken a resolution which would change the whole course of her life she had de termined to be an nctiess like Miss I nee. An interview with the manager was easily obtained, who saw in the aspiration of the lady a chance to make a splendid hit, and put gold in his purse. He gave her encourage ment, dismissed the idea of her first assuming a second part, but assured her that she should make her debut in the leading character of the play she had witnessed Julia in the "Hunch back." More than encouraged, in IV'.. II . I.... ! deed, completely resolved, Dora at once commenced the study of the play, and possessing a quick intelligence, was at least master of the language in a few days. Private rehearsals appeared to give perfect satisfaction to the manager as well as the com-, pany trained for that particular purpose and for that occasion. All this was kept from her husband. One morning the city was thrown into a tever by the announcement in all the journals, that " Miss Dora Shaw would appear that night as Julia, in Sheridan Knowles' great play, entitled the Hunchback.''1 Le Baum and his friends were struck as if by a thunderbolt from heaven. He first entreated, appealed and threat ened his wife, and next the manigcr, and finally declared his intention to murder her upon the stage the mo ment she made her appearance. All to no purpose. The Manager duly had all this passed into the streets, which, of course, increased the sensa tion and strengthened the desire to attend. Every ticket was sold at nine o'clock, and it is needless to say that when night came the place of amusement occupied the thoughts of the city. The curtain rose Dora appeared walked, stammered, blushed and repeated her part mechanically, like any school girl reading her composi tion atari examination. Still the au dience was pleased, not by acting, but by the novelty of the occasion. The next, the third, the fourth, and the fifth nights were like the first. The morbid appetite of the public, satiated with novelty, demanded good acting. This, Dora could not sup ply. The audience fell otT, the man ager became restless, dissatisfied, and refused to ofTer a re-engagement, but intimated that she had best go to an ether city. In the meantime, Le Baum sued for a divorce, which was readily granted by the court. The next appearance of Dora was in New Orleans, where her former social po sition was unknown, and where she was wholly thrown upon her merits as an actress for success. It were needless to say that she fulled to elicit one single plaudit. The rest of the story is soon told. Charity would wish the curtain had fallen sooner. Abandoned by home, friends, husband, penniless, broken hearted in her despair she fell "Fell, like the snow-flakes. from hcav'n to hell; Fell, to be trampled like filth in the street; Fell, to be scoffed, and spit on and beat ; Pleading, Cursing, Dreading to die. Celling her sotl to whoever would bay, Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread, Hating the living, and tearing the dead." CW. S. 'Times. Printing Offire Portraits EDITORSi An editor's qualification are "vari ous. It is to work harder, more hours in the day, with lees recreation, on less sleep and poorer pdy, than any of your fellow mortals. It is to be busy when your neighbors are idle, busier wheti they sleep, and busiest when they are enjoying a good time. It la to be always in a hurry, always under a press of busi ness, always "setting up" when oth ers are lying down, and always charitably iC distributing" the result of our daily labor. It is to have your opinions always put to " proof and seldom into practice. It is to advertise other pecple's wants, wishes, and wares; to announce fa cilities for pleasure; to herald the ap proach of diseases and the invention of cures for them; to make known who has been robbed, where, how much, who is the robber, his person al history, his trial, sentence, and its execution. It is to receive nice fruit and notice it, to be shown natural curiosities and describe them, to be everywhere at all times, and to be able to answer all questions on all subjects. It is to publish too much sentiment for one, too much politics for another, and too little news for all. It is to make a dozen enemies to one friend, and to be pitched into by anybody who chooses to consider himself aggrieved. It is to take com plimentary tickets to everything and pay for them in complimentary no tices. It is to be bored by friends uggesting how you should carry on your business, aud bullied by those whom you have hit in vulnerable spots. It is a lite of mingled good and ill, trial and triumph, never ending toil and never-beginning felic ity, wherein you work out your al lotted time with the ' devil" always at your elbow, calling for your sole end in this life a little more copy. rmsTERS. Printers are unlike other classes of men. Their vocation imparts to them an intelligence that does not res suit from any other business. Deal ing with language exclusively, in its combination of letters, words, sen tences, and paragraphs, they are cons .stantly brought into communion with thoughts and their working, and thus insensibly become imbued with the ideas of those minds whose crea tions they help to embody into those forms that give them to the world. They literally get grammar at their: finger's ends while picking up the, tvpes that form sentences that are grammatical. Spelling comes to them as natural as breathing, for they fall into correct orthography throurrh force of habit. The charac- teristics of printers are not so favor able to personal thrift as those of other professions. They partake of the nature of artists in some degree, and are generally liberal to a fault, thoughtless of the future and fre quently improvident for the present flush when in a good situation, and dead broke on a tramp. They may be said to be the working Bohemians of the world of operatives. PRINTERS DEVILS. From wild, friendless Jroys in the streets, are made what are called printers' devils next they become printers after that sometimes editors, in which capacity they not unfre-. quenlly make their mark in the na tion and in the world. Dr. Franklin was a most eminent instance in the early days of our country, and Thur low Weed, Horace Greeley, Simon Cameron, Hannibal Hamlin, Gener al Dix, Schuyler Colfax, Gideon Welles, and many others, are striking examples at the present time. The Tote of California. The following is the aggregate vote of the State of California, at the most im portant elections : !.- Scott 3,vrc Pierce 4',62rt"; Hale 100. 18oo-Johnson A'.X, Bigler Lem , lg55Fremont 20,601 Buchanan 53,36o ; Fillmore S'i.lrto. 1S50 Lincoln 30,173 s Douglas 3S515; Brccker.ridge 34,334. lSt$l-Stanord. ;V5,'3i5 ; Conness 20,944 v, McCoanell 3--f ."0. l62t-Swett 51,233; Stevenson 21;514; Fitzgerald 15,sl7. Ls6."-Low l, 54.447$ Downey It., 44,715. l(UI.;ncoln 6:2,134 ; McClellan 43.S41. lf5.":-Sanderson 83,221 i Hartley 2o,245. 1S67-Hairht ., SV21 ; Gorham V., 26- 4-io; Fay Ind. I'., 1,191. Governo Superintendent of Instruc tion, JvJudge. There are no fewer than three hun dred and forty-one manufacturers of false teeth in Paris. People are apt to get tired of Hy ing in St. Louis. There have been thirty suicides there this summer. The cotton worm has not done uch harm in central Texas. The m crop in one county, Washington, is estimated at twenty thousand bales. Gail Hamilton on Murriage. 1 have seen the girls respectable, well educated daughters of Christian families, of families who think they believe that man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, who profess to forsake the vanities of this world, and consecreate them selves to the Lord, who are yet trained to think and talk of marriage in a manner utterly frivolous. Al lusions to and conversations on the subject are of such a nature that they cannot remain unmarried without shame. They are taught not in di rect terms at so much a lesson, like music or German, but indirectly, and with a thoroughness which no music can equal, that if a woman is not married it is because she is not at tractive; that to be unattractive to men is the most dismal and dreadful misfortune; and that for an unmarried woman earth has no honor and no happineEs, but only toleration or un mitigated contempt. What is the burden of the song that is sung to girls and woman? Are they counseled to be active, self helping, self-reliant, alert, ingenious, lergetic, aggressive? Are they braced and toned up to solve for themselves the problems of life; to meet its ills undaunted; and its hap piness unbewildered? Goto! Such a tning; was never heard or. It is woman's rightsl It is strong minded! It is discontent with your sphere? It is masculine! Milton and St. Paul to the rescue 1 For contemplation he, and valor formed ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace," So " she" is urged to cultivate sweet, attractive grace by acquaint ing herself with Lousework, by learn ing to sew and starch, and make bread, to be economically and house wifelyj and so a helpmate to the hus band who is assumed for her This is the true way to be attractive, she is informed : "Men admire you in the ball-room;" say the mentors and the mentoresses, " but they choose a wife from the home circle." Marriage is simply a reward of merit. Do not be extravagant or careless, or bold or rude, for so you will scare away suitors. Be prudent and tidy, and simple and gentle, and timid, and you will be surrounded by them, and that is the heaven of heavens. A flood of stories and ans ecdotes deluge us with proof. Ar thur falls In love with beautifu!, ro mantic, poetic, accomplished Leonie till she faints one day and he rushes into her room for a smelling bottle and finds no hartshorn, but much confusion and dirt ; while plain Mol iie's room is RCat tid7 and ovcr" ,loNVS with hartshorn whereupon he falls out of ,ove with Leonie, in which Molly, and virtue and vice havo their reward. Or Charles pays a morning visit and is entertained sumptuously in the parlor by Anabel and Arabel and Clarabcl and Isabel in silks; while Cinderella stays in the kitchen in calico and linen collar. But Charles catches a glimpse of Cinder ella behind the door, and loves and marries the humble, grateful girl, to the disappointement and deep dis gust of her flounced and jeweled sis ters. Or Jane, at the tea-table cut the cheese rind too thick, and hand some young Leonard infers that she will be extravagant, Harriet pares it too thin, and that stands for nig gardliness, but Mary hits the golden mean, and is rewarded with and by handsome young Leonard. Or a broomstick lies in tho way, over which Clara, Anna, Laura, and the rest of tbcm step unheeding or in different, and only Lucy picks it up and replaces it, which Harry, stand ing by, makes a note of, and Lucy is paj(- with the honor of being Har ry's wife. Moral Go you and do likewise, and verily you shall have your re ward, or at least, you stand a much better chance of having it than if you do differently. " Be good and you will be married," is the essence of the lesson. Mrs. Partington, reading an ac count of a railroad accident, was much surprised to learn that the en gine had been driven off the track by one of the switches. "I should not thought," she said) " that the great iron engine would mind such a little thing as a switch.'' " Yes, but you must remember, mamma," said Ike, gravely, ' the locomotive has a ten der behind." Another mushroom " city is springing up near Fort Hays, in Kansas. Five county treasurers have dc. faulted iu Indiana within six months. EMEUSO.V OX THE BABY, Who knows not the beautiful group of babe and mother, sacred inQature, now sacred also in the religious as sociations of half the globe? QVeJ corao to the parents is the pony struggler, strong in his weakness, his little arms more irresistible than tho soldier's, his lips touched with per suasion which Chatham and Pericles in rcauhood had not. The smallest despot asks so little that all nature and reason are ftn his side. His ig norance is more charming than all knowledge, and his little sins more bewitching than any virtue. AlP day, between his three or fouj sleeps, he comes like a pigeon, sputters and scorns, and puts on his faces of im portance; and when he fasts, the lit tle Paradise fails not to sound his trumpet before him. -Out of bloclQ and thread-spools, cards andcheck-' ers, he will build his pyramid with the gravity of Palladin. With an accoustic apparatus of whistle and rattle, he explores the laws of sound j but chiefly, like his senior country men, the young American studies new and speedier modes of transpor tation. Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, he wishes to ride o: the necks and shoulders of all fleslu The small enchanter nothing cai withstand no seniority of age, no gravity of character, uncles, aunts, cousins, grandames, grandsires-a!l fall an easy prey. Hg conforms U nobody all conform to him. All caper and make mouths, andabU and chirrup to him. On the strong est shoulders he rides, and pulls the hair of laureled heads. Wanted Two Hundred Cooks. The subscriber wishes to make ar rangement with 200 cooks, to enter his service during the next four years. As it is not anticipated that any one of this number will remain more than on week, they will not be asked to enlist for a longer period. Dis charge papers from previous em ployer will be required. Two activo boys are engaged to wait upon the cook, and a carriage is always ready on Sunday to convey her to church. Water and gas in every room in the house. The groceries are not under lock and key, but are subject at all times to the free use of the cook. Cold dinners on Sundays in order to accommodate the cook. Company in the kitchen allowed at all hours of the night and day. The cook's wash ing cac be done at the laundry if she desires it. Two evenings a week al lowed the cook to visit place of pub lic amusement and two evenings to visit her cousins. She is not ex-. pected to answer eithe9 of the door bells, or wash the front door steps. No dog or cat kept on the premises Hack hire will be paid on the arrival and departure of eacU, cook. Sur geon's certificate required as to the capability of those applying to pers. form the work. Wages $6 per week, paid in gold. Apply to B. Linkum, Lock Box 10,780, Bostou Postoffice. o ty Origin of the Floating Icebergs in" the Atlantic. The valley of Greenland are all filled with glaciers, of which some have an enormous ex tent. They are always in motion, gliding downwards, like rivers of nearly solid matter which have their O outlet in the sea, only their motion is exceedingly slow, not exceeding about a hundred feet for theholo summer season. The lower extrem ities of these glaciers, reaclo the ocean, and then are broken off from the rest of the mass, when theyslow. y drift away to the south. They sometimes have an extent c several milts, and are really mountains of ice icebergs--cf which about seven eights is in the water and Jess than oneseighth exposed above the surface. These floating ice mountains (Oftea carry enormous blocks of rock, torn from the mountain side along which they have moved, and drop thesa rocks when and where the iceberg is. finally lost. Ic this way geologists explain how boulders aad erratic rocks happen to be found where therp are no similar formations namely by icebergs, at a time before tho present surface of tfte continent was upheaved from the depths of the ocean. It is known that this is on' of Agassiz's favorite theories. Ho supposes that the whole earth wgg covered with glaciers. The Unirersalist convention at Rochester has resolved to raise &0 000, in shares of $100 each, to en O large and improve the Ambassador the organ of the society. Always meud clothes before w's'l" ing them. o o o o i 0 o o f : K A