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Rib. A. J. BCXIWAT, mter an! Proprteter ) KFICE-Cua.Fno.NTi Wajihinoto.sSTSBBT TE&lfR. IN ADVANCE: A JoarnalforthePeople. Devoted to tho Interestaof Humanity. Independent in Polities and Religion. Alive to all I4ve Issues, and Thoroughly RadlcallBOpposlnKandExpoelnctheVr'rongB ot the Maeses. Y mnatha TtrM aoothc -in KaE Speech, Fhee Pbew. Free People. Correspondents writing over assumed signa toree mutt make knows tbeir names to the Bdltor, or no attention will be given to their communications. tnVERT18EMENT8Inaertedon Terms VOLTTMia VII. POKTL .A.1VD, OREGON, JTKXDA.Y, JU1VE 1878. IVTJXIJEIi. -tO. KO STOBYJTHIS WEEK. Owing to some unforeseen and una voidable circumstance, tbe chapter of tb story which should have appeared in this issue did not resell the office in time. We join our readers iu their re gret at tbe mischance, ami hope it will not again occur. GIFTS. A DCATIKTt; ASmn AID TALKDirTORT or Mm BLX.KH toon, GIVES AT PACIFIC UHI- vebsitt, pokkst obovk, jvx 5, 138. There is not a more fitting time than tbe present, forue who are about to leave tbe kindly shattering arms of Altna Motor, to make an eetlmate of what we have to take with us into the greater world which we are now entering. Be fore artisans begin any kind of work, tbey Bret consider the materials neces sary and at hand, and tbeu proceed ac cordingly; thud we, without physical and mental capacity, ean hope to do nothing. This material or ability, intellectually considered, is of two kinds, natural and acquired, and it is the former which we are to notice. Care most be taken not to confuse the two, and so lay to tbe charge of the great Giver tbe efiect oT what we are pleased to eat! a gift from his bands, when In troth it is but an inherited tendency, strengthened and fostered by education and oar own indulgence. It is not these of which we are thinking, but the true gifts with which men are endowed, and which give each, In a measure, a pre dominance over another. The value of these gift is realised, since we have come to see that oar own bare efforts, however strenuous, tbe aids given by our teachers, however efficient, cau avail but little when we oome to leave oar sheltered school life, and enter upon tbe busy, practical world life. (Granted that such gifts are bestowed upon men, tbe next thing is for each one to find out bis particular one. This should not be a difficult task, as usually we are not troubled with so mauy that, it is bard to make a choice. If there are aoy who think tbey have none predom inant, let such console themselves by thinking perhaps they are highly gifted in every direction, and capable of ex celling in any undertaking; and then let them go to work. In our school life we have had but little difficulty In finding for what particular branches each bad a natural aptitude. This one was never happier than when laboring through soma tedious mathematical problem; that one's delight was to classify plants and cant ore hapless insect, while yet another was in his element while dig ging among Qreek roots, and helping Oesar build his bridges and muster his forces. While in our studies it has proved almost Impossible for one to equally excel In all branches; so in prac tical life we shall doubtless find it equally bard to be alike efficient In : everything, and to work against our natural tendencies. The right way Is not for one to wait for a leading talent to make itself known, for one, "Mioaw-ber"-like, might spend a life-time in waiting, but to pot iuto practice tbe old adageof "Mahomet and tbe mountain." The possession of a true gift, one valued for what it is really worth, will unfit no one for practical life. Fortu nately, men of genius, those Individuals who take pride in being eccentric and general nuisances, and gifted women who go about with a melancholy air, with ink-stained or paint-dabbled Angers, disheveled hair, and a general air of uokemptness, live only In dime! sovels. True gifts make their pos sessors feel above their present position, only as tbey are able to rise above it by tbe effort coming from such powers. Between us and such gifts no obstacle whicb can possibly be overcome should be allowed to stand. That for which we feel fitted by nature and have fostered by education has so become a part of us that to have it removed is like taking away a part of oar lives. In a practical point of view, natural and acquired abilities of individuals form an important part of a nation's wealth. We do not mean those gifts whicb are not used, for they have no value when apart from intellectual or bodily exertion; but when put Into ex ercise, tbey give a diversity of advan tage proportioned to the diversity of tbe gifts. Tbe different desires of men In social life give rise to as many different efforts to meet each desires, and in this way each has an opportunity of exercis ing his natural talents to their utmost. Of course when one bends all his ener gies in a directum congenial to his tastes, he must surely excel in that di rection; and thus in the exchanges that make op practical life, tbe abilities and skill of each one are rated at their rela tive worth. This mutual advantage is, from its nature, both legitimate and laudable. Considering these abilities a capital, they must, like it, be used, in order to make profit, but, unlike it, will not draw interest if not employed by tbeir immediate possessor. Another practical advantage result lug from gifts is competition. This comes from different degree of effort, arising from the same or different gifts wher ever bestowed. In our school life we have found this an invaluable incentive to greater exertion. Those who have preceded us in our entrance into active life will bear witness to the same result. Merchants and tradesmen say it is the life of trade; lawyers tell you how it brightens their wits, and editors how it sharpens their pens. It really seems a universal and Irrepressible principle of our natures. Iu order to gain this ad vantage, and be enabled successfully to vie with oar fellow-men, our faculties must be cultivated, even at tbe expense of wearisome and often wearing toil. One can scarcely work too hard; at any rate, to use a homely phrase, "better wear out than rust out." Much greater good, not to say happiness, results to him who constantly uses gifts of body and mind, than to him who allows them to lie dormant. One's powers must not be allowed to "hibernate," lest a time of awakening never come. A feeling of responsibility should be a consequence of all gifts, few or many. The parable of the talents is a case just to the point; it will be remembered that an account was required not only of the one upon whom the talents were be stowed, but from him who bad received but one. It is true that the degree of responsibility increases as the powers increase, but the feeling is tbe same. How mauy of us will hide our Lord's gift In a napkin of selfish oase and idle Dees ? It is not for us, but tbe Giver, to to say how valuable are tbe talents en trusted to our keeping; they are oft val uable in his sight. If one has capacity only for the most simple and common every-day work, and uses this capacity as well as he Is able, this is all that Is needed. He is doing the work given him to do. Those few are especially favored upon whom rare and unusual gifts have been bestowed. The efforts which sueh per sons make, resulting in products which are in general demand, and which can be supplied by them alone, give them a certain advantage over their lew favored brotliers. Sueh are inventors and artl sansof unusual talent. Upon gifted au thors we look with feelings of almost reverence, as upon those whose miuds God has especially illumined. Some seem to be "gifted," so-called, only with tbe faculty of sliding through life as easily as possible, and, what is more, they succeed admirably. Let there be unmingled pity for those who feel the divine fire, but who have no means of fanning it intoaqaiek lis me those of whom Gray said : " Chill penury repressed their noble race, And I rose the rental cnrrenU of their mmiU" How shall we feel toward such as have large natural abilities, with ample1 means for using them, aud either neg lect or use them to work against the Giver? How much above sueh, in true mauhood, are those wlwse capacities are few and common, but who make wise use of them ! We are not respoosibli for what we have uot; let this thought comfort those who feel that they have i no special talent, or are Hindered from I using what they have. To some a knowledge of gifts come late in life; and others cultivate what at first seems but a tendency, until it develops into a precious power. My hope is that, as a olass, we each may toon oome to a real izing sense of our lunate abilities as concerns practical life, and improve them, By the patience of hope and the laborof lore." Faithful and kind teachers, we scarcely know how to address you in parting; words of welcome and greeting come much more easily from our hearts than those of farewell. We feel a if, in leav ing you, we were leaving those who, next to our parents, were our dearest earthly friends and guides. Your words of kindly admouitlon and faithful in struction, your forbearance with our faults beyond our deserts, your deep in terest In our welfare, we shall always keep in our hearts and cherish in our memories. We thank you for your many favors which we cannot number, and pray that we may profit iu all our after lives by the instruction so pa tiently given by you. Our honored president we pray the dear Father in his own good time to restore to health, that he may in future years, as he has in the past, take his place by your side, and give you tbe benefit of bis counsels, and tbe students of bis teachings. In taking our leave of you all, we, as a class, ask that our faults so faras they respect you may be forgiven, and that you will ever favor us with kind remembrance. Our loved schoolmates, whom we leave behind, we shall remember you as year by year one and another of your number occupy tbe plaees we to-day are filling. As you sit in the school-rooms once occupied by us, and under the same watchful care; as you hurry along the walks, summoned by tbe same old bell whose tones have many times warned us to the same duties; as you linger be neath the old oaks which have given us shelter, we shall think of you. Now that we are alwut to bid you a reluctant farewell, we ask you to forgive and, if possible, forget whatever In our past in tercourse may hove wounded or injured you; that you will remember us, no matter how far aoart we mav drift in future years; and, above all, we beg that you will oe true to yourselves, your teachers, and your God, Pear friends and neighbors, we thank you for tbe encouragement you have given us while students here; and as we, as a class, take our leave of you, we ask that to those who may follow in the euceeediBg years you may extend tbe same ready sympathy aud interest which you have to us. As for tboso who have striven to teach us that "the fear of the Lord Is the be ginning of wisdom," we pray that their faithful ministrations may not be lost upon us. For the choir, of which many of us have for years been members, we shall keep a most tender recollection. With its other members, our volees have often joined in glee aud anthem and funeral hymn; and wc hope that our training with it in these hallowed and never-to-be-forgotten waits has not made us less fit to join in that choir above. My classmates, with what mingled feelings of Joy and sadness do we leave ourklnd Alma Jaferaud enter upon the "commencement" of life's duties. Let us first be thankful that with unbroken ! numbers we can appear to-day. Let us then rejoice in the pleasant memories of our school-days, aud all the associa tions that have become so dear; and in the thought that whatever talents of mind we may possess have here been improved. Let our present determin ation of using and perfecting our educa tion never become less. Let us rejoice in our youth, health, and mental vigor, ami in tbe beautiful world before us, so full of glorious possibilities. And al though when we think of our future life, " We aee not a step before at As we tread the daya of the Tear," Yet, The part U aUH In Hod keeping. The fatnic hla mercy shall clear." Six Oente a Day. The extremities of one-half of the world are matters of which the other half Is profoundly Ignorant. It Is not generally known that there is in this city an institution where the children of poor working women cau be nun-etl duriug the day, and yet such a home has been In existence here for sixteen years. In a dingy little street Blight street running north from Lombard, below Broad, is a plain three-story hriek structure, which was pointed out to a reporter as the place where this novel work was performed. A nurse, bearing in her arms the In signia of her olllee, a plump little bun dle of humanity about two months old, opened the door. Presently the news gatherer was confronted by about twenty little Innocents, ranging in ages from five to eight years. Having just finished their suppers, they were there fore in au amiable mood to receive vis itors. In the room were an abundance of rocking-horses, toy-houses, and animals iu such confusion that one might sup pose they hail Iteen ushered Into tbe store-house of old Santa Claus himself, instead of simply the play-room of tbe children. The children are received any time after half-past six o'clock in the morn ing, and must be called for by seven In the evening. After the ohildren ar rive in the morning they are washed and have breakfast. Tills agreeable ex ercise completed, the matron and her flock adiourn to thn nlnv-rnnm. w!iam the children repeat a hymn or sing one; me matron reaus to mem from Uie lit ble and explains the meaning; then they repeat the apostle's creed and the Lord's prayer, after whieh the older ones are buudled off to school. For the care bestowed and for the food fur nished, the mothers pay six cents a day. Ifiiladelphia Jleeonl, Sixteenth Amendment in Con gress. Senator Wadleigh, of New Hampshire, is preparing an elaborate adverse report from the Senate com mittee on privileges aud elections upon the petitions of thirty-six thousand United States citizens asking for an amendment to the constitution protect ing the rights of woman citizens. The tie in the House judiciary committee, which was five to five, remains un broken. The eleventh member, Mr. Harris, of Virginia, admits that he has never given tbe subject any considera tion, aud, as a judge, he does not regard It fair to give an adverse vote without investigation. Then, why does he uot Investigate? Would be not if it con cerned all the rights of all men ? The Senate committee on privileges and electious does not intend to smother the Sixteenth Amendment for women citi zens. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, has been absent from the Senate four weeks on account of illness and death in his family, and Senator Wadleigh, chairman of committee, Is awaiting his return. The friends of Woman Suffrage in the committee and in the Senate will demand a report upon the petitions of forty thousand intelligent United btales citizens asking that equal rights for womau may be protected by explicit constitutional guarantee. There will be a warm debate aud a square vote on Woman Suffrage before the adjourn ment. Washington Department of Wotnan't Words. The models and thoughts of man are revolving just as ineessautly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed; take time by the forelock, now or never. You must live In the preseut, launch your self on any wave, find your eternity In each moment. Fools stand on their Is land opportunities and look toward an other land. There Is no other land, there is no other life, but this, or the like of this. Where tbe good husband man Is, there Is the good soli. Take any other course, ami life will be a suc cession of regrets. Tiorcau. I think a great many professors of re ligion are just like backgammon boards. They look like stately books; and on the back of them Is inscribed in large letters, "History of England," "History of the Crusades;" but when you open them you find nothing but emptiness, with the exception of dice aud counters. And many men bear tbe name "Chris tian" who are Inside all emptiness and rattling nothing. Jlethune. The Baroness Adolph de Rothschild has juBt bought for $70,000 two groups Iu bronze, discovered in an old Venetian palace aud attributed to Michael An gelo. Each of them represents a pan ther, on whleh is leaulng a graceful fig ure or either a satyr or a faun. They are now at the Paris Exhibition. I People that worfc i actors. PBONTIEB SKETCHES. HO. 7. BY X. O. S. RBDNA. Boggs vrni not more surprised than pleased at the unexpected turn things took consequent upon the opportune ar rival of the United States troops, but great was his disappointment nnd cha grin when, on confidently applying to Captain Blank to avenge the wrougs he had been subjected to, ho learned that the mission of the soldiers was one of peace, and that it was no part of their duty to interfere in behalf of Irrespons- ible citizens who come among the Imll aus and stir up strife. The captain, however, offered botlt of us "safe con duct" out of the Osage country on con dition that we join him in the capacity of camp servants. But, while Boggs accepted the proposition, I chose not to do so, aud the following morning we parted, nor have I seen him since. Ta beau seemed greatly pleased that I was to remain longer with him, and other members of his family seemed to share his feelings. In fact, so companionable had the old statue become that I began to feel quite au Interest In him. I knew that ho had a secret of some kind which gave color to his whole life, for he was a man who thoroughly understood the ways of tbe world, and seemed to my limited view to be uot only a man of much native ability, but one who might have figured conspicuously in some public way, and yet, here be was, burled hundreds of miles from civiliza tion, and moving on a plane but little above his only associates, the untutored savages. At length, he voluntarily confided to me a portion of his history, and I learned, as I had guessed, that a woman was at the bottom of the mys tery that shrouded his life. He was de scended from one of the best families of France, uud, as several of his brothers held commissions Iu tho army, his father thought it expedient to make a clergyman of him, although, as Tabeau said, nature had better fitted him for any other avocation. To carry out their plans successfully, he was sent at an early age to a school near Boulogue, where he learned the usual amount of Greek and Latin and an extra amount of bad practices. Here he become ac quainted with a young lady of plebeian rank, whom he described as the most beautiful of her sex. He waxed truly eloquent while expatiating on her charms, and, although the staid old English Is scarcely suited to the busi ness of love-talk or love-making, I will attempt to give his description of this Hebe as nearly as the poverty of tbe language aud my ability will allow. He first saw her engaged in the un ro mantic business of selling turnips from a basket on her head, her only dress a chemise and coarse woolen skirt; yet, be declared there was au air of grace, aud a charm about her that neither blrtb nor fortuue could bestow. She was standing on a door-step, the taper fingers of her right hand supporting the basket on her head, while her left was gracefully resting on her h ip. Her dark, full aud lustrous eyes, overarched with brows of penciled regularity, and fringed with lashes of long aud silken texture, beamed forth full of intelli gence and tenderness. He was so en tranced with tho exquisite loveliness that, priest as he expected to be, he could uot resist the temptation to ap proach. Ou nearer view, ho said he saw tears of mortification at her lowly lot coursing down her cheeks of purest marbje, while her beautifully curved lips half opened in astonishment aud disclosed a set of teeth of pearly dazzling whiteness. Innocence was playing Iu every lineament of that lovely face as he stood transfixed before her faultless figure, the like of which he declared Praxiteles himself could not approach for classic excellence. Iu the artless simplicity of her nature, she knew not that her singular loveliness, combined with the display of charms her un studied yet graceful attitude and scauty dress had given, was beguiling one of the opposite sex from a life that nature never intended him for. But Tabeau then and there vowed not only not to be come a celebate, but to lift that exqui site beauty up from her lowly calling to move in tbe refined nnd fashionable circles of his own native city iu short, to make her his wife. He therefore proceeded, as the first step toward an acquaintance, to purchase her whole supply of turnips, and to order as many more for the following day. But his father, hearing of the disgrace his thoughtless heir was bringing upon the family by cultivating the acquaintance of a young lady of low blrtb, and by peremptorily refusing to take holy or ders, took him from school aud ordered him to Algiers to fill a lucrative place In the customs. He accordingly set off : for that destination, but, on arriving at Marseilles, he saw flaming hand-bills calling for volunteers to embark for Spain to tbe assistance of Isabella. Here was just the thing suited to a love sick swain of his wild temperament and ardent impulses, aud to enlist, allowing the customs to take care of themselves, was his first movement. Arrived In Spain, he was promoted step by step for his gallant conduot, and finally, for successfully leading a forlorn hope, he received a captain's commis sion, and was made a Knight of the Or der of Ferdinand. The return of the le gion to France left bitn without era- ployment, but, hearing ho could obtain a commission in the Persian army, he pushed for that country to join the ser vice. Finding, on reanhiug his new and singulardestinatlon, that there was prospect for little fighting and less pay, be returned to France and proceeded at once to Boulogne, determined to lay his heart and his fortune at the feet of his lovely charmer, though every relative of his opposed. But when he sought her out and laid siege to her heart, he learned that a low-bred bumpkin bad R,reauy Kt the consent of her parents to make her bis wife, against her earnest protestations. This unexpected revela tion Inflamed him with jealousy and rage. But when he, with nil the ardor of first love, besought her to fly speedily, fly from ber unreasonable parents and hated afllanced, and with blm seek the shores of far-off America where caste was unknown, and where women are not compelled to form matrimonial alli ances against their wishes, she stoutly refused, but assured him that she was fully determined to llee to a con vent and devote ber life to religion rather than be tbe wife of him she hated; nor could she consent to ally herself with any one and be frowned down upon by his aristocratic relatives. If he would get his people's consent to their union, she would be but too happy to accede to his solicitations. He heartlessly accused her of duplicity, and she Indignantly resented the imputa tion, and thus they parted, he to brave tbe daugers of the sleepless Atlautlc, and she to coutinue to plod ou iu her lowly sphere. At leugth he met an ac quaintance in far-off America who told him that his heart's Idol had crossed the oceau with him, and he had parted with ber aud her husband in New York some weeks before, but knew not where they were Intending to locate. He spent mouths In searching for her from city to city. At last he espied her pen sively promenading with a fashionably dressed man whom he rightly judged to be her husband. The sight of him re kindled the burniug tlame In her bosom, aud the sight of her crazed him with jealousy. He threw himself in their way. She recognized him at once, and, throwing herself in his arms, submitted to his passionate embraces aud returned his fervid salutes. Her escort looked on in amazement while this ludicrous scene vjs being enacted, but took no measures to stop it. The first excite ment over, she turned upon her husband and administered such a rebuke as only a wronged womau can give. "Here Is the man whom you reported dead that you might win me for yours. Begone from my sight," she said, "for henceforth tbe very thoughts of you to me will be intolerable." But when Tabeau implored her to take steps for a legal separation from her husband aud yet become his wife, she only answered by pleading with him not to tempt her, that she could not wrong her conscience thus; and she forthwith applied and was accepted as a novice in a neighboring couveut, and, like hundreds of the fairest and most amiable of her sex in this nnd other! lands, sacrificed her love and nature, committed social suicide, and buried herself within the gloomy walls of one of the prison-houses of the dark ages, while he acted hut little more wisely by shaking the dust of civilization from his feet and sought to drown his sor rows among the wild men of the prairies. After hearing the old man's story I ceased to wonder at his abstraction and stoicism, and, although I could offer him no encouragement nor consolation, I really wished that I could tear him away from his uucongenlal asiocia tlons, unlock tbe doors that shut out from her the cheering light of heaven, and see them, as heaven evidently in tended, happy in the enjoyment of each other. To be continued. Beecmek's California Tour. Thomas Maguire, manager of Baldwin's Theater, San Francisco, has been iu the city a week, engaging attractions for his establishment. One of his ideas was to hire Henry Ward Beecher to deliver ten lectures In cities west of the Rocky Mouutains, aud soon after Ills arrival here he made a visit to the Plymouth pastor's residence. Beecher said in re sponse to the proposal that he had no time for the trip, which would necessa rily occupy about a month. Maguire desired that ho should go in July or August, but Beecher said that be had just completed a summer house In Peek- skill, and that uo money would tempt him away from it until complied by fear of bay fever in September to goto the mountains. Maguire tbeu offered $1,000 each for ten lectures in the fall. and Beecher said he would accept it if ins expenses were also paid. A contract has been signed on tho basis of $10,000 for ten nights, with $1,000 extra for ex penses. Beecher will probably go about the middle of September, cutting short his stay at the White Mountains, and delaying his return to Plymouth pulpit. Probably three of these lectures will be given In San Frauclsco, two iu Sacra mento, one in Virginia City, aud two in Salt Lake. Maguire thinks the curios ity to see Beecher will Insure large audiences. The admission fee is to he $2 00. Aew York Sun. The world wants more sunshine iu its disposition, In its business, In its chari ties, Iu lis tueoloey. For ten thousand of the aches and pains and irritations of men a ml women wo recommend sun shine. It soothes better than morphine. it is tue uest piaster tor a wound. 1 1 fortuue ,s est,mated ten millions. oub wASHnrcros' lettee. TotiieBditobofthe New Northwest: The proposed adjournment of Congress on the 17th of June meets with much disfavor here among the Democrats, and so great is the expression of disap probation that we regard it as probable tbe time will be extended at least two weeks, under a reconsideration of the adjourning resolutions; otherwise, the flve-miuute rule must certainly heap- plied to all discussion upon the business under consideration, for few measures will be acted upon should free debate be permitted, no matter if sixteen-hour sessions be held instead of tbe customary hours from eleven to four. Tho real business accomplished thus far Is cov ered by h very few bills, hence, If any attempt is made to adjouru on the 17tli of June, much of material importance will be neglected or passed iu that hasty, careless manner which invariably opens tbe door to loose or impolitic legisla tion. The last days of Congress are usu ally a sbame aud disgrace to the coun try, for in them are concentrated that legislation which should have been spread over the entire session under fullest deliberation. Decoration day was observed here pretty generally. Congress adjourned over, by order of the President all tbe executive departments were closed, and our people fairly poured out of the city In excursion parties and to decorate the graves at the various cemeteries In our suburbs. Arlington is usually the great resort, though the cemetery at Soldier's Home contains nearly as many graves. But the storm marred and brought the ceremonies to an abrupt close. On the Seventh-street road, near the Soldier's Home, is the mouumeut erected to the memory of the ninety men who fell at that point while resistiug Early's at tack on the city in 1S6I. It was deco rated with some few flowers, but really, as a matter of fitness, it should have been the most highly honored, for, but for these brave men aud tbeir gaMant comrades who escaped injury, Early would have entered Washington, and by destroying nnd laying waste to it, the ruin of the government might have been accomplished. We would have been a nation without a capital, and Early's success, perhaps, the end of the opposition to the confederacy. We, at the time, saw many of the dead heroes, who sleep under this shaft, with their ghastly wounds speaking their devotion to their country, and cannot now resist the thought that Washington should put them and tbeir lovely inonumeut in the place of highest honor, aud give them ever the holiest reverence. The soldier's burial place is upon the battle field, where be gave up his life, and tbe proudest mouumeut of Washington should be the one covering tbe handful of patriots. Our papers have published interesting letters from Alexander H.Stephens and Postmaster-General Key, giving their views upon Mr. Potter's Presldeutial resolutions, and both handle these measures with no gingerly words. Both declare them revolutionary in their ten dency aud productive only of evil, if pushed to fullest extent. The reader of their letters would hardly conclude that the writers had been identified with the confederacy when noting their devotion to Mr. Hayes and their solicitude for undisturbed peace throughout the coun try. The opinion seemingly grows stronger here daily that the whole mat ter will prove a silly farce in the end, because the people will not permit that Mexicanization of our government which Messrs. Stephens and Key so freely charge upon the supporters of the resolutions as u cousequeuce of their acts. The Senate licked our District govern ment bill into pretty good shape, and it is likely tbe House will accept the ma jority of the amendments made by the Senate. The differences between the two Houses upon this bill will doubtless be speedily harmonized by a committee of .conference, and then we will be In a positlou where we can feel we have a definite city government. The clause requiring the Uuited States to pay one half the cost of governing the DIstriot has not been disturbed. The debate in the Senate showed conclusively that the District should uot bear greater bur dens of taxation than the nation. Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, went so far as to say that the government should pay even more than half, because it received more thau half the benefits following expenditures made here for public pur poses, and yet, iu the past, our citizens have expended one-half mote than Con gressional appropriations for District purposes. It now seems settled that Congress will erect a separate building for the national bureau of engraving and print ing. Seuator Thurman has withdrawn his objections, he having heretofore on- posed, on the grounds that it cost the government more to do its own printing than to have It done under contract, aud that one impression printed by pri vate parties operated as a check against fraud and loss. He frankly stated, how ever, in Tuesday's debate, that Investi gation had caused him to reach differ ent conclusions, hence he would favor the experiment. Fblix Washington, D. C, May 31, IS7S. HXw I virtue, throueh the dmrt. - ' A Practical Idea. While trying to find a suitable "board ing plaee" for a friend of mine, a few weeks ago, I was surprised at the gen eral uuwllllnguess of landladies to re ceive a lady as a member ot their house hold, especially if that lady happens to be a widow. r "Gents" whatever that may be "married couples" aud young meu "who have good appetites, and are uot so par ticular about what they get to eat," seemed tobethe onlydesirable boarders "You see it pays me better to have two in one room, and I couldn't give a double room to a lady alone, unless she paid full price, whicb, of course, she wouldn't like to do; aud yet she would want a nice room, large enough to swing a cat in," picturesquely explained a plump, good-natured lady. As 1 am afraid or cats, I have never - tried to "swing" one, but I have no doubt that it Is a bracing, exhilarating exercise, for the very thought restored - my cneerruinees and gave me a bright idea. Why, instead of swinging strange cats in boarding-bouses where they are not wauted, and wliere tuey do not want to be, why should not single ladles aud "widow women" ladies club to gether and swing their own cats In their own house? Seriously, and leavinc tbe cats out of the question, I think it would be u pleasant, economical arrangement; and would like to write about it talk-fashion, because then one dees not so much feel the sinfulness of using tbe same word several times. Well, then, suppose that six or seven lailies should rent a good, plain house in good location at forty dollars per month. For that price they would have. besides kitchen, dining-room, and two parlors, four moderately large bed-rooms, and three or four small ones, which would give one room to each, one for the "help," and one for friends. The rent for rooms would be according to size and location, and each lady would furnish her own room. The other ex penses for food, light, wages, etc., would oe equany atviued, and all bills paid at the end of the month. Arrangements for furnishing the par lor aud sitting-room could be made to "suit all parties" aud purses, and would be quite an interesting subject of con versation. "Elegaul" furniture is very nice to look at, but one can be delight fully happy without it, and a great deal can be accomplished by taste and in genuity. Of course, all this would cost quite a little fortune at first, but in the end it would he less expensive than boarding house life, and infinitely more comfort able and home-like. It seems to me that it would be pleas ant to have one or two children in tbe house, and at least two decidedly "youug ladles." But this is a matter of "taste," and need not be "settled" at first. American Home. The Best Love. Home love is the best love. Tbe love that you are born to is the sweetest you will ever have ou earth. You, who are so auxious to escape the home nest, pause a moment aud remember this is is right tiiat the hour should come when you, in your turn, should become a wife and mother and give the best love to others; but that will be just It. Nobody, not a lover, not a husband, will ever be so tender or so true as a mother or a father. Never again, after strangers have broken the beautiful bond, will there be auvtbiusr so sweet as the little circle of mother, father and children, where you were cherished, praised, aud kept from harm. You may uot know it now, but vou will know it some duy. Whomsoever you marrv. true and good though he may be, after the love days are over and the honeymoon has waned, will give you only what you de serve of love or sympathy, usually much ies, never more, iou must watch and be wary, lest you lose that love which is through the eyes because they thought you beautiful. But those who bore you, who loved you when you were tho dreadful little object, a small baby, and thought you brilliant, they do not core for faces that are fairer and forms that are more graceful than yours. You are their very own, aud so better to them always than others. To leave home should be a sad, not a glad tiling. It should not be so easy to turn away from the "old folks" and for get them, as it seems to be to muny. I have said It once, but I say it again. There Is no love like the love you are born to, no home like the first home you knew, If you have good parents and that home is what it should be. When you leave It you leave your best behind you. yew York Observer. The Affable Man. A mother aud her babe were among the many passen gers waiting at a Western depot re cently. She had the child carefully wrapped up, aud this fact attracted the attention of a fellow with a three-story overcoat, and rusty satchel in his hand. Sitting down beside her, he remarked: "Cold weather for such little people, Isn't It?" She faintly nodded. "Does he seem to feel It much ?" con tinued the man. She shook her head. "Is it a healthy child!" he asked, seemingly greatly Interested. "He was up to a few moments ago," she suapped out; "but I'm afraid be has smelted so much whisky around here, that he'll have the delirium tre mens before night I" The man got right up and walked out of the room, and was afterward seen buylDgoloves. , Nature has so ordained it that only two women have a true interest in tbe happiness of a man his own mother and tbe mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and idle delusions. If the heart does not go with tbe head, the best thoughts glvo ouly the light. This is why science is so little persuasive, and probity so eloquent It is an odd circumstance that the bark "Azor," which has just takeu a colony of freedmen from Charleston to Liberia, used to be a slaver. Idleness Is tho dead sea that swallows up all virtues, and Is tho self-made sep ulchre, of a living man.