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I o t o G V 1 -I ? OEEGO CITY, OREGOar, PKIDAY, AUGUST 11,1871. WO. 40. F5v?3 itaSJ ETT?2T iriTtri-s. stes. wssa ssn Er.-LSS. I 1 H 1 K K Po -sib o f o O G o O O If G o o O o o O O O O E!jc lUccliln (enterprise. J DEMOCRATIC PAPER, FOU THE gusinsss Man, the Farmer ite FAMILY CIRCLE. UEI) 72V Kit V FIUD.VY BY NOLTKEr, K D1TO II AND I'Ur.LISIIER. 7C'-:-I,i Dr. The-saiVs Brivk Building. Til It MS of SUBSCRIPTIOX: ie Copy one year, iu advance, S2 CO r yV.'i U S' o J TA' R ITS IX G : ms'-nt .i 1 vert i-eni.r:its. including all !,.'- i! iitu:cs, i -' of 12 hues, 1 w.$ 2 50 J.'j r ,; t.-il sie.-t"iil -utilise rtlon. . . ! 0 du-nu, oiio year Ililf " " Onr-pr " " i,; ies, Car.!, 1 square one year 1 00 $120 00 00 12 f.S" R -null inren to be made at the risk o Su'j-:ri'K'ro, and (it the expense of Agents. nooh' a.xd dor, printing. 'he i::it-rprisi; uRi :e is "applied with !, riTif.il. :j:i)rvd stylen of type, and itiud o ii t vOlliN'il 'ilS.Sl'Irs, wliieli will eiiiible i,,. i'nijr.t'tui' tn do J -ib l'i iutinj; at all lion's j X, at, Q iir'; and Civap ! v " -V i lie ) ,c 1 1 e.l . j" ; i it tr i.'ii:fdioiis upon a Specie bash Attorney at Law, tii;iji City, Oregon. Sept.l'i-.l v. J OHN 31. r,Acox, T in ;')i tor aiid Dealer in G ct: e-sl. 9 STATION KIIY, rilllFUM HliY, ic, Ac, O''1 ' CV.'f, Oregon. A' Ch O in t Wm-'u-i '.i v.'J .'-t -id, lately oo- . !) S. Afk rii:i, Main street. 1 1 1 tf jOHN FLEMING : d; ALMR IN STATIONERY j J -J J A 1 : m i It C IS CITY. CTiECJON. i. t t . i In Odd K. ii..v ' Ten pie, corner 'li st and Al l r Str.-ct-. ! 'm tland. :tr on t ' ; 'Ii" e destr tig snpcr'o-i s i in -;.rc ul teque-t. Nitrous ox . i ai-il-- exM-.ietiD'i of tetli. . icia. toot i "bet it tliari tbe best,'' , th: : l H. HATCH, I) 1 X T I S T p-ntou ie of ttiiise desiring (Tutx .v. is l esneettull v solicited. S itishii-ti')-.! i:i all cases uarauteed N. !J. --X,fr-i - V, ,-,,. tAcydf aduauisterea ior tue I i i . i i -i !'. v t i:i-t inn of Teeth. ,),vic,4 -la Wf i 'ant's new building, west side Fht street, beuveen Alder and Mor rison streets, l'ortlaiid, Oregon. i t r ;r- md Let Live. JILDS & STlilCKLEU, DM VLIHIS IN P10VI3I0H3, GROGERISSj COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c, OH Old I WIXKS AND TAQUOIIS. t the old -f ind of Woitman & Fields Oi'egou Cit. , Oregon. iati 7 II. W ATKINS, M. P., SUTiGKON. roiiTL-wn, Orkg( n. OFFICE Odd Fellows' Temple, corner First a nd Mder streets- -Residence comer of Mu!i and Seventh streets, V4 . F. HIGHFIELD, Ed iblished since ist9,at the old stand, Mtin Street, Oregon City, Oregon. n Ansorttoeat or aienes, -e Irv and Seth Thomas' we-ght '' n-'ks, all of which are warrante d m ie aj represented. R.Mviirinscs done on short not; nd t'nnkf'il tor past tavors. -Q CLHK GHEENMA1T, o City Drayman OTi EG OX CITY. VII rders for the delivery of merchan- d :s" u'ka.'es and freitrht of whatever des crinti.n.to anv nirt o- the city, will be exe- citel pr -aptly and with care. THY YOHK HOTEL, (DeHtfehes Craftans,' No. IT Fr-uit. street, Mpos:te the Mail steam shin landing, Portland. Oregon. II. R9THF03, J. J. WILKENS, PROPRIETORS. Rijrd per Week i " with Lodging. " Div , i on A. G. AVALLIXG'S Pioneer Rook Bindery o u fa; o n i a n h iT 1 n i N r- Corner of Front and Al 'r Street. PORTLAND. OREGON. HLVNN HOOK RULED and BOLNP to v 1 i f ? mttrrn. anMVTO. 'WK. MVOAZTNF.P. NFWS-PVP'-'R. Ec, Sound m every rariety of stvle known to the trade. yrA"r3 fi'om tbe country promptly at cii4d to. "LITTLE SISTEIt NELL BY GEORGE C. GII MOKE. I had h little sister once, In cl ildl o"ds happv d vs. Whose lovinsr smiles I'll nVer foro-et Throuyh life's t. mptuous ways ' t?he was so pure, so rood ;t il And, motber lovel li-r weli. ' She seemed an angel leaned t eartfi "My little sist. v Nell." ' At morn, lit r 1 tile praveis went un To Heaven's b igbt tiirone nb .ve, For father, mother and fur me, ' In innocence and love; Her little flowers thn she'u view With water in her pail, ' Then spi inkle o er with tiny hands. "My little sister Nell." 'he often talked of r.od, and Heaven, Ahd the angels up on high. ' And v sheil so to be with them In their home beyond the xkr; She would not play as others ii , 15ut lea;n her les-o"s wi ll. And foremost i l the class was seen "My little sister Neil." But sickness came, poor Ii tile Nell, Was sad to leave us all. But. she said the angels beckoned, And she must obey their call; She told us all to follow, Then breathed last fuewell, he'd gone home with the impels, 'My little sister Nell." Long years have passed away since then, Some 'Taught with joy, s me pain, But all my pleasure-; I'd icsign To he a club) again; Yet! hope at times pa'iits visi iih, And my h- ait within rn Wilis, For in II aven oon, 1 i,o)e t meet "Mv liit.e aister Neil." The Ruinous EefTcts of High Protec tive TariU's. From the Kxin;iner There is nothing iii the whole history of Congressional leirisla tion more atrociously unjust than rotection, sti-ealled, as illustratei by our present laws. It is a thou sand fold worse than the taxintr of projierty holders to subsidize rail roads, and yet it is the same in principle. It is equivalent to tax ing property directly to raise a fund more than enough to support the Government, to distribute amonv; a few favored capitalists. And they alone derive benefit from "protection." It does not increase in the slightest decree the wanes of the worUinx-meji and workin; w oitu'ii and workinu,-ciihlren. It tioes not tal-e one minute from the hours of their d.'iily toil. It does not add one particle to their hu man comforts, if human machines can have comforts. It only fills the coffers ol heartless corporations and capitalists at the expense of the toiling many. In a commercial point of view, too, it is blihtinjj; in its effect. It has reduced our tonnage to one half what it was before the war. It has crushed out ship-buihlinix. It has closed the foreign markets to our domestic manufactures. It has thereby depressed instead of stimulated our urcat manufactur i nix interests. A most conclusive pr. ool or mis is driven ov ine oooi and shoe nianufactur.-i's it . i "r . New lnirlaiHl. e have receive! a .i protest signed by lour hundred leading New England manufac turers in t his business, set t ini; forth the depressing effects of the high tariffs on their business. After enumerating the articles used by them, commencinir with the leather at 35 per cent., they show that the combined tax lias yielded the Gov ernment from this source only 83, 500,000, while there is imposed upon the manufacturers ot boois and shoes a tax of 818,000,000, which is eventually paid by the wearers of these necessary and indispensible articles. We quote : The direct consequence of these protective taxes is such an increase in the cost of our products as pre vents our competing with the manufacturers of boots and shoes in other countries. Of late years, there has been an increase of twenty-five per cent, in the pro ductive power of a given amount of capital and labor engaged in our manufacture through improved machinery and new proces-es. This gain, winch should have re sulted in cheaper boots and shoes, has been completely nullified by protective taxes. The legislation of our own country has driven our products from the markets of Can ada, Mexico, the West Indies, and outh America, which we had en joyed for more than a century. It has transferred the manufacture of our products to a great decree to Canada, where it enjoys greater advantages, and is subject to fewer impediments, in the prosecution of business. Thus, our count rv l as to this extent lost the benefits of this industry and given her wealth to others, through a system of tariff taxation, professedly framed to foster and encourage American industry, but which expels it from America and increases the wealth of other nations. This is a most striking illustra tion of the ruinous effects of pro tect ion, so-called. There are few who understand the magnitude of this interest. We learn from sta tistics given in the JFftc Trader that in the value of its products and the number of hands employed. it exceeds any eithe r single indus try in the country. The product of boots and slmes in 1808 was valued at $246,252,000, and 131,- 3.33 hands. These added by their Labor to the value of the raw ma terials 1 10,082,392. Let us com pare these fiirnros with those of other leading industries. Theriro- duct of the manufacture of cotton j Committee for over three hours goods was estimated for the same ! yesterday, lie was first interro year, at 184,000,000, of which j gated as'to the existence of a band less than 870.000,000 are to be j f armed men called the Ku-KIux credi.ed to the labor of manufae- ! i'i that tate. On t!:is point, he tes turings i)erformed by 133,000 j titled decidedly that, of his own hands. The woolen industry em- j knowledge, and after having en ploys 90,000 hands, and produces j deavored to ascertain by all means an annual product of 8150,000,000, i in his power, lie was satisfied of which about 800,000,000 are to ; there was no such organization, be credited to the labor of manu- i and thai the oldest residents in facturing. The whole iron indus try of the country employs 115, 000 hands; including those pre paring the ore and the fuel as well, as producing the various forms of iron. The entire value added to the raw material by the furnaces, rolling mills,etc, amounts to about 8120,000,000. These figures, un aided, present an unanswerable in dictment against the legislation which, with supreme folly, has taxed almost to death the greatest and best of our home industries iu order to fill the pockets of woolen, iron and cotton monopolists with unlawful gains. The manufacture of shoes, says the lure Trader was firmly estab lished in Lynn previous to 1051, and in that year shoes made in that town were exported from Poston. Protectionist W ho gull no eV- riTl- our the the people by assertions th:;' manufactures will spring u:, eept under the stimulus ot go, ment bounties, and that all manufactures originated in system of Protection, carefully eschew such facts as these. Leath or was more abundant and cheaper in Massachusetts in 1051 than it. was in England, although the hit ter was an old country, and the former a struggling infant colony only twenty years old. Colonial records informs us that in 1009 there were tanners anl shoemakers in every town of the Masa hiw 1 Is colony. In 1 78, it is staled that L vim actually exported one hun dred thousand pairs of women's shoes. In 1705, the town contain ed two hundred master-workmen, and six hundred journeymen. 300, 000 pairs were annually exported, some to the Middle and Southern Stales, and many directly to Europe. One manufacturer ship ped during a period of seven months 20,000 p This home iudu.-; rv thus took root and flourished, nwt only in the absence of protection, but in the face of the adverse legislation of the mother country. The distress which wrung this protest from the si maun fact tiers takes its place with the depression of Amer ican ship-building, and the ruin of the wool and woolen industries is another illustration of the truth that if you favor one, you are eer a:n to injure another industry, dependent or complementary. It demonstrates that Protection de stroys the ability of American la bor to compete with "pauper labor" of other countries. Taxes upon his tools, his clothing, his food, fuel, and shelter, are the Protec tion the American gets against loreign competition. Once the boot and shoe woikers were, busy night and day supplying foreign orders; they had good wages and were happy. How is it now ? The extract from trie protest above answers this question. given Honor tiik Scissors. -The Amer ican Newspaper Peporter has some very sensible remarks under the above title, which we subjoin : "Some people, ignorant of what good editing is, imagine the get ting up of selected matter to be the easiest work in the world to do, whereas it is the nicest work that is done on a paper. If they find the editor with scissors in hand they are sure to say, 'Eh ! that's the way you get up your original matter eh '? accompanying their new and witty questions with an idiotic wink or smile. The facts are that the interest, the morality, the variety and usefulness of a paper depend, in no small degree, noon its selected matter, aim Jew men are capable of the position who would not ?:-enssvl""es be able to write many of the artieu-- they select. A sensible editor -h -ires considerable selected matter, be cause he knows that one mind can not make so good a paper as live or six. The father of our respected President was married fifty years ago to-day. There are a great many very excellent people who v ill regret" that that venerable old official bummer did not conclude, fifty year sn-o, to not marrv at all. C h i cu (jo Tim r?. "My boy," --said a clergyman, don't you know it is wicked to catch fish on Sunday ?" "Guess I havn't sinned much yet," said the boy, without taking his eyes off the cork; "hain't had a bite." The Ku-Klnx Investigation Testi many of Hon- P. M- Dox. II on. P. M. Dov, of Alabama, i was examined before the Ku-Klux his section of the country would bear witness to that fact. lie further testified that in 1808, dur ing an election which was held in that year, the negroes became un ruly and boisterous, to such an ex tent as to alarm peaceable citizens. They by some means secured arms, ami freouently in snuads would march through the streets and roads in cities and villages, firing them off in a careless niannti, much to the alarm of women ai.d children, and that lives had been iost by these imprudences of tlx colored people. They were ex postulated with and requested t" refrain therefrom, but to no pur pose. Accordingly, with a view to self-protection, the citizens of the village's and small towns thus annoyed, banded themselves to gether, as a kind of local patrol, such as existed before the war in Alabama. In order to work on the super stition of the negroes, masks were used by some of the organizations, with the view only of frightening them, and by such means endeavor to subserve the object, for which the organizations were formed. This may have been the prime cause which led to the belief by many that there was a systematic formation, with chosen officers, called the Ivu-Klux ; but of his own knowledge Mr, I), testified that the local patrol thus spoken ot accomplished tin object of pre- servieg quiet and rd t r in a s iort space of time, and at once there after disbanded, and no organiza tion of any similar kind now ex ist ill in the State. Mr. Dox was then questioned in regard to the testimony of liev.(?) Mr. Lakin. He testified that he lis not personally acquainted iim, although he had heard of I . him ; that he had read his state ment made before the committee published iu the newspapers ; that alter so reading he had travelled in various sretiousof the State, with a view to ascertain definitely the character of the man, and I hat, almost universally, by respect able citizens, regardless of politics, the opinion was entertained that they would receive his evidence cum, ffrtiuo $di. One eminently respectable citizen, who personally knew Mr. Lakin, told him that, in conversation with Lakin on the subject of Ku Klux, he stated to him that "he had never been treated betteriu his life than by the citizens of Alabama." The witness testified that men had been killed in Alabaa a, just as the same grave offense had been committed in other States, and for causes which had their origin between man and man, which might arise from various sources ; and further, that he spoke of facts within his own knowledge, when he asserted that of those killed in the section where he resided, all were Democrats, and he had yet to learn of the murder of a single negro. He was then invited to give his views as to the best means of main taining order and pc:tce through- out the South ; to wl ich he re- plied that, in his judgment, un'ver al amnesty would heal all discord, ami end -all political trembles. Patriot. -- -O- Shall It Succeed ? Congress man Peck is telling the pe'Ople some.' very pungent t ruths about the corruption of the liadical mana gers at Washington. He s.r.s that thousands of millions of dol lars are gone without a trace', tin loss which cannot, or will not, be explaine'd. Willi I he cessation of hostilities there was war material in the most profuse abundance stored in the liffer nt Government depots, besides mules, horses and supplies. A great "part of these were sold, and yet not a dollar has bee n accounted fer. Secretary Poutwell acknowledged that the Depart ment had squandered mil lions iu that, way; yet a bill to re quire an account to be rendered of these transactions was laid on the table and killed by a party vote. Sham Republicanism could not af ford to permit the light of day up on its corruption and public rob bery. And this party, young in wars and old m venality, is work- in: to he conunueei m power. A pious individual opened the Radical State Convention in Iowa by praying for forty thousand Rad ical majority in the State. The Effects of Uaiiexl PtrSdy on the General Welfare. From the Examiner. J The liadical party is a party of aggression Its leaders know no halting place in their raids upon the rights and liberties of the poo pie ami the States. When they succeeded by fraud and force, in engrafting the amendments upon the Constitution, it was understood that the work of reconstruction, so called, would stop there. Put they were not contented that this of should be. Their party was born agitation, and only by agitation and sectional strile could it live, aniiso the "bayonet act" and "Ivu-Klux bill" were put through not to accom plish anv good purpose, but to g ad the Southern people to some act of j resistance, and a fiord pretext bn ; farther reconstruction. Inthisthev have been disappointed. The ; Southern people saw through the nefarious purposes of their oppres sors and tormentors, and have act ed with a dignity and forbearance worthy of all admiration. The Congressional Nosing Committee, instead of convicting the Southern people of lawlessness, have demon strated the wickedness of the war fire which has been waged against them by the Washington agitators. This bad treatment of the South has been a severe blow at her at tempts at reorganization and indus trial development. Put the lovs fails on every section of the Lrnion. Our shipping interests are para lyzed; our home manufactures find a limited home market in regions that were once the best markets for the sah' of Northern and West ern productions. We- import and pay in gold for products once raised in superabundance within our lim its. Py the hostile legislation em acted against the South we have tie j rived our own industrial classes of employment, and the capital of the nation is diminisheel to pay for articles preduced abroad prtiduecd aoroad and im ported in vessels not of our own nationality. In our large cities thousands are condemned te idle ness, because by tin wise legislation they are d eve-d ot voi that would follow if disabilities and penalties did not cnisli -he enter prising spirit of the pi .e'e in ene third the area of the e,. ,ntrv. The' ext ra v ; gance- the Admin istration has ea ised high taxation (in the necessaries of life, with swarms of official.-- to colh-ct the taxes, and some of the impositions have been of that character that the revenue elerived from them would not pay the expenses ef their collection. The tariff has been so adjusted that it gives im memse bounties to manufacturing lords at the expense of every eb'ss ol consumers and orkmg men of many grades, who could earn a respectable living at their trades under a proper system of revenue duties, now earn but a precarious support lor tjieir families. Pccip roeitv of commerce is no longer the principle of our Government, and, in-dead of endeavoring te re gain what we' have lost, the pivs edit Administration is erecting leg islative barriers to e-ornmcreial in-tere-onrse with feueign nations as hi'di ami strong as the walls of China. The adoj, ted . amendments were regarded by the liadical party as sufficient to settle all the issues greiwing out of the war. It was supposed that their ratification would be followed by universal amnesty; the people of the' Ne; ami SeMith e-arnestiy desired n filiation. The prosperii v and h th niness of each section reouire ! it. The- eiections in the various Stati s exhibited the revival of friendly fee ling and a general determination te hav in future an cconennic ii administration. It was to arrest the progress jf these movements that the scalawags in the Sout he rn State's, seeing their eiccupations menaced, determineel to invoke Federal aid to maintain them in power. The peaceful etjmmunities i i of tiie South who were endeavor ing to retrieve the-ir losses by pa-ti'-nt toil were represented as guiity of fiendish ciimes, and the admin istration, perceiving that its power in the Western, Middle and North ern States was rapidly waning, in timated those-enact me nt s, which at an early day the national mind will re-garel as the scandal of the age. The question will be asked, could such things be? The Alien ami Sedition Laws, that marked the close of the last century, are sur passed in infamy by the penal en actments of our own time-s by those laws elesignnteel the Bayonet Law anel the Ku-Klux Act. A New Hampshire editor, who has been keeping a record of big beets, announces at last "the beel that beat the beet that beat the other beet, is now b--itmi 1-iv n j . beet that beats all the beets, whether the original beet, the beet that i . at the be , or the he't. tll!i: in 'it f 1m !.-,, I lw LiKJt I -- v.... n. i n wi. lijv w-i, that beat the beet." About Platforms. When Thomas Jefferson deliver ed his first inaugural adelress, he laid down what he conceived to be the principles of government. They form the best platfom of Demo cratic principles ever anuneiated, in office or ent of office, and for nearly three-fourths of a century have' been rolling principles gov erning the great party of which Mr. Jefferson was the ae kuou lege 1 head. They are as follows: "Equal and exact justice tf) all men, of whatever state or persua sion, religious or political. "The support of the State gov ernments in all the-ir rights as the surest bulwarks against anti-repub- ( Mean t eudeaicie's. "The preservation f the gener a! government in its whole eensti tut ional vigor, as of our peace at abroad. "A jealous care election by the v "Absolute a ' decisions ed the : the sheet-anchor mine and safety of the right of p!e. eiu-e in the qority, the vital principle of republics, from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle- and immediate' par ent of despot i rn. "The supremacy of the civil over the military authority. "Economy in public expenses, that labor may be slightly burden ed. "Enceniragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its hand-maid. "The honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservance of the public, faith. "The diffusion of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the' bar of public reason. "Freedom ed religion, free-dom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corjna, and trials by jury impartially se lected." These eloct lines were gooel enough for Jefierson ; they were good enough for the country during the golden period, and all we ask is a return te those sacred princi ples. They guided this Govern ment threnigh an unexampleel peri ed of happiness arid prosperity, and it was only upon the abandonment ef these doctrines that misfortune fell upon the country, North anel South. Littte Things. The Pest Headc'arters Praius. A Pklative Position Stand ing Godfather. A Lucky Hit An original idea striking one. Useful Domestic Cookeky Making both ends "meat." Little girls believe in the man in the moon big gills believe in the honeymoon. A woman's tears soften a man's heart ; her flatteries his head. Why is a dentist like a farmer? j Pecause he pulls out stumps anel fills ache-rs. Why is a comet more like a dog than the dog-star? Pecause the comet has a tail, and the dog-star has not. They say there is a sawmill down east that wnrs so e-asy, that, as a young man was sitting en a log as the1 saw was running through, he was sawed in halv es. and lid not discover it until the overseeT told him te roll off. A farmer who had lost, a sheep, advertised thus: "Lest orstraved mi from me, a shepe, all over with one leg was black, and it had a black head. All persons shall receive live dollars tvwaid trj bring to me. He was a she goto. A very absent-minded individual being upset from a boat in the river, sank iwi !. '"ore he could remember tha; h . uld swim. lie fortunately reuu mbe-re-d it just be fore he sank the third and last time. A gnat invention is mem ory. A man in I'eti ;! was fooling i ,:n .i . . i - iouiim a sawinoi, ami not nenig able to find his finger, went home without it ; now he brings suit to recover it freun the man who liel find it, and who preserved it in a jar of spirits. "How much cider did you make this year?" inquired onefarmerof another, who had offeree! a speci men tor trial. "Fifteen barrels," was the answer. Another sip. "Well, if you had another apple, you might have made another barrel." A Query. If women don't smoke, whv is it that they have so frequently" Hi tie holes burned through the front brcadthsof their summer dresses ? A little boy three ye ars old, who has a brother of three months, -ave a reason for the latter's gooel conduct "Baby doesn't cry tears because he doesn't drink anv wa- ter, auu can v wj mu. .1 I . . . r.( I t ,w 1 1 1 - ?1 Begin Eight. The following, if not new, is, at least, true, and is worthy of atten tion at this particular time, when so many "of 'em" are rushing in content ly into the holy, bonds of matrimony, to be lost to us for ever. "This little fable," said my uncle, "may perhaps be of service to some poor de il, 'more willing than wise.' A ee-rtain man once married a lady whose reputation for amii bilit.y of disposition was seriously questionable-. At the wedding everything went eff merrily, of ceuirse : the party gav, the supper magnificent the. whole affair had been eminently successful, and all parties extremely delighted. On retiring to his apartments q the gentleman found himgelf an noyed by the mewing anel purring ef a cat. "What in the devil's name is that'?" he exclaimed. "Oh, nothing, my dear," but my favorite eat Pussita." "Oh, d n Pussita I hate cats'!'' f - and ivith this uncerimoniousiy threw Pussita out of a se?0nel story window. "Well, if you haven't got a tem per !" "Yes, mv dea r, y IT, d better be- lieveit." " Everything, " continued 'my uncle " went on weil in that estab lishment even to a warm dinner on Sunday." Now, it so happened that a friend of the above named gentleman who had some months bef ore "com- mitted the ' error of marrying" an angel, ' tooic occasion to inquire ot c him : "ilew is it, that with you every thing 'goes merry as a marriage bell,' while I on the contrary, have almost given up the idea of wear ing the pantaloons at all." "He related to him the story of Pussita ami the second story window," saiel my uncle, "without fully impressing on his mind the important moral that it was nec essary to begin right. Neverthe less, there was that in his eye when he startel for home 'that told of treason." "Well !" said his wife, "you've come home at last, have you, after keeping me sitting up for you. And what's the matter-you haven't been drinking have you? You look very strange." "Not in the least, my dear but I hate cats, my love." "You de, do you? well T like 'em that's all the difference." Hereupon the unfortunate hus band made a dash at poor Tabby, who was quietly snoozing on the sofa, and rushed impetuously to the window. "You have been drinking. What are you going to do, monster ?" "Throw her out of the window." "You'd better try it ; I'd like to see you do it; I'd break every heme in your body; why don't vou throw her out ? I dare you to doit, sir!" He put the cat softly clown on the sofa hung his hat on a peg in the hall his manliness and his pantaloons on an easy chair, and said : "Go in, ducky, darling, and win ; I elieln'l be gin right." "I rather think you didn't yoti'el betti-r take a fresh start -but elon't try that game again, or you'll catch it. Come to beel" and he Went. "Wrong from the beginning," saiel my uncle. "Oh, dear me." Dei.inq u e n is. All d el i n quen t subscribers to newspapers will "aj preciate" the following clipped from an Exchange : A steiry is told of an editor who died-, went te Heaven, but was denied admittance, lest he would mee t some elelinepu nt subscribe rs, and bad le e lings be engeiulered in that pi a- e'fid e -lime. Having togo somewhere, the editor text ap pe-areel in the legions d' darkness, but was po--itively re iuseil admit lance, as the place' was full of de-linque-nt subscribers. Wearily the editeir turueel e.n k to the celestial city, and was met. by the watch man at the portals with a smile, who said; "I was mistaken, you can j ute I ! there IS lioi vnir quent subscriber m Heaven He mt w v -w At.baW. Oregon. July 31. Yesterday morning about o'clock, at th Jndiau. enmn in the upper part of tow n, soaie In (li ni's. while gambling got into aow, a.Miiio- wfcicli a halt' civilized Indian n ,uiM Jim Kirk owning arid Hying en a ranch near Uriovrisvilie. in this county, shot aud instantly killed another Indian nutii'-d Charley. The murderer was caught and i.s now held in close confine ment in this place. A Vermonter lately taken to task for beating his wife, extin guished his prosecutors thusly ; "I have read ancient and modern history, and rode on a peddler's cart thirteen years, anel I think I) know something ot human nature and when my wife ought to be whipped." G o O o G 0 O o o oo 9 Q O o o o 0 O O o o o o 0 o ...... C0URT3SY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,