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VOLTTMia VII.
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.A.1VD, OREGON, JTKXDA.Y, JU1VE 1878.
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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-
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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.
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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.