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-:; - - 7 ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE i) tSS3Sri-: . 1 1 mm gaaM-VJ,. gi.. jii..iimi Lim., i -----v VOL. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1872. NO. 9 She lUcckhj (enterprise- 1 " .i y.MOCRA TIC PAPER, FOB TF1E Business Wan, the Farmer jndtheFAMV CIUC'I-E. -r-p KVKKY FKIDAY KY T" a. NOLTNER, KDlTOIi A.NI) 1MU5MSIIER. OFFICE In Dr. Tbcssing's Brick Building TERMS of SUBSCRIPTION: Sinflrt Copy one year, i advance, $2 50 7T3fV o ADVERTISING : f .rivertisements. including all Train1011 i;,,ti.-e.yM.f 12 lines, 1 w.$ 2 50 le;i . L ,...nl lllst-l I (HI 1 XJ 31.o-ia:fl.oc,.car el! limine- Card, 1 square one year 12 K . nl'tani-'-x tn be mnde at the risk cj Stlsc-ib'", anJ at the W"' f Agents. nook' AXD JOB PRINTING. vr- Th Kntiu-nrise office is supplied v. itli tiau.uir iihii'iivim: sr v.is i ijPf,iiMi ni'iu- T . i: i. ; M .. 11... -u-lv . . !. r,.l. P.inlHMr ft-illtimcj I ! -ii''. wniei win eiusi'ie t AVa', Onick an-i ieap : PIT Vv'orK solicited. .4.' ' Hasinas trawtwn upon a Spine bai.. A I-' T U M N" !Y A. O. Y. Why cornet 1hu? st.-rn sisier Autumn HlHiiing summer's genial rays: IliiiuTing with thee naught but colOncss Chiliing nature's runniest days; l-r,.rv hre.it he that from thee i-sties. " the fnr.-st leaf ami tlowers; Seel the ieaves all aline: yellow ' .ireun aronml ilicr fairy bow'r?. Mk that tree! that oak fo nol!e t ii'iit ,1 atut huMChtv. stanus lie n-..i, Y,-! he ljnws his nead m ?nnow, ",,w. mindied. he sheds a tear. I'm- i!:nu wi'h thy stem !i-deaf.'-e, r.j.ij.- him eat his ciown away; )': ,,i.-;n ol h aves have 1aU-n N.e.l-lit hut Iiahed lin.b: IliS SiS' ,nnrk ttie rn- Vi'iiere Uiv ft thv brenU: liau I: .-Is and insefs. aU :ep:ir'Mi, '')aht but iie.v:h i.s seen. i inei u:r-( UMii,. a kinuiv i',.,?- r !n care eaniiV 'iiituin jr. .1. !iiii m inter s bias' juecede. ,11 Ihe it tie fores that, ho In t l!0 destroy the domestic virtues oiiv is more omiiiprest-nt. or v, than that small n st wl.h-h lnii'sts aiike J oef. which t'ie v. if- to ;i. t he houses of rich am! makes it necessarv for ask her huband for hioiii-v t SU ) !V Hit' (I tany recur- linLT i:U!li! v n eessities and her own. It i'!,.t It'.!.!,- . ! ,0 f SXL.- ,1! v creates uiseoment. a ser.se h u milia t ion. degredat ion i'l separat ion. he woman who '.iincii am been free to use i f ivi't'klv va"es or vear! v salarv i'l iMi'cr lliCniMe jetnre lior ii':)e 'er mcoaie, uni niter 1 1 iat (-vent, l!ioi; ' ll.!!. is more lihiv occunied ii.'SM ever lias ni money except at ier aKi!ig and not always then iee!S I t as a man would who s-b ; 1 4 i hit cuiiislai'.ces'. need m t.ne same cir- 'H' gave up her opportunity to anpmv inuin'v by th.e usual melh- '"Is, for the sake of the home and tl!e!';u.;i!y. L tiiis end she devoted her tune, tin aghts, and efforts every "iv, an. I all the year, without ces sation er vacation. I' it custom every where, and law many places puts all the money r the iauiilv in the hands of the hushaini. ho wife lives as a de 1'i'ii'h'iit. Slio haS what i.s civen nteliecrfully or grudgingl y, as the i.'HMnay he, but inevitably learns to hate her position, and to grow :vvay from the man who giveson1y when he is asked. It may be J're thoughtlessness on his part, lH1' the result with the wife is the same-. (ne of the most fruitful sources f' discontent in the home is a too Ufj't'iident position of the wife. Jt ioish:uids would consider ""it it would 1 be to them to be siutatod e. t" . precisely in the same way. ar as money is concer ned, every just and generous man among them Won'el i s1 to it at once, that his IK'U ,, . "vi iiviui 2u ii uiiiui ;t -urce of niilm ippiness. 31; Vears n rr-i on vnr.llj.i.t '':"'.to ,l "in his experience in this l.:'-''-. He had not been mar ,a -'ar? hilt lie noticed a change 'IIl,l in,,' and maimer of his wi?e r1"-1 svenietl less cheerful, less r- J he ,, i i,..,.., , his Tail e inMv V... i : , . h, - iiuin oiisiness I'Ttf011'1' IJe knew no reason change. He sincerely lov- nt!' :l"l NVUS misL''';ll'5e when he , , , Uat he was not even comfort 'v ins with. This state of things "--- en, lured if it could be O f it iicu ner trauKiy ix, ,,. i, iib me- ?vtuie '.tTiU,''1"-". ller ,hat above all Ir,' wished to promote her j'liiess c. nv,!0'! sl,c 'ered frankly: .,'. T tll;lt Ix-fnre our mar- - U-oaected my own dividends ton-V!TTV 1 harl 'asmvown, " l'5 1 c!-ose, and it was all I I S I 1(1 ni'ltlni. tl. rr.. in ncciU'l. Since v.e were married you collect my income, nixl I never have a cent tor any purpose, ex cept when I ask you for it. It seems to me that if you cared for me in the least, you could not subject me to such humiliation. Look at these slippers; 1 have worn beyond all decent use, because I could not ask for the money necessary to buy new ones. 1 feel it a degradation, just as you would, if you were in my place. Could you endure it, if I had the money and you bad none, only as you got it by asking me for it? I ued to teach siv hours, and had the whole remaining day for my pleasure. Xow all my time is oc cupied; I have neither money nor leisure, and I feel just like a beg gar or pauper and I wished I were dead." Then she burst into tears, and cried as though her heart would break. With an immense sense of re lief, he asked: "Is that all?" "All," said she. "It is enough to kill any woman." The dreadful fear that she had ceased to love him, or that she loved some one else, lied. The whole matter was talked over with the largest freedom, until the hus band said he seemed to himself to have been unsneakablv mean. "To think" said he" "that I had 7 J t ever ollered her just the twenty which she said she needed to buy pins, or the six cents necessary lor shoe-strings, and had not once thought she must need more lor other things, while all her time was devoted to .make a comfort able home for me!". As a result of the explanation, the husband every week put a sum of money double what his wife thought she would need, where she could get it wit hout asking. The young wife's face grew glad again. The feeling of pauper and beirgar vanished. The end of the year showed a bank account of seven hundred dollars in the- name of the. wife, saved carefully from the money she had not needed to use. The only root of bitterness there had ever been between them as iiiueueu tin. . i i i "1 fort returned and ih-urished. The story of this many others. wife is the story of i ! ill the 1 iV will recog rmht of the nize t he undoubted w:fe to her full hare of tl ie monev vanie whieli accrues to the mar riage 1irm. I'ntil that time, the thoughtless ness of really xood men may be cured by the franl. SK'LCh ) the wife, w!io is daily hurt by a feel- mg of d oe'K'iHlence which (iti it. never to exist between tl ie eouallv valuable partners in the home 1 here are plenty of spendthrift. wives and hus-bands, who waste the common substance and that of . .1 . .1 M l . , e;ic.i outer. i m-y must always suffer loss. ut the great majority or married couples bear each then natural share of the family burden, care and toil, and they should be aliKe independent in money mat ters. M'oitajs Journal. The cost of reporting the testi monv embodied in the Con ores- sional Ju-lylux report amounted to some 28,O00, while the printing, stereotyping, and binding of the immense edition of the report or dered for circulation for partisan purposes must have carried the to tal cost of publication up to some where in the neighborhood of $200,- 000. iis an evidence of the value of this book, it is said that there i? not a copy of it fo be found in the Congressional library, the Senate library, or elsewhere in the Capitol; but it has been sold by the wagon oad as waste paper to the pink dealers in Washington. This is one way in which the taxes go un der this Administration. The Colusa (Cal.) Fuji publishes a ratiier romantic story concernum- an emigrant gal from Oregon. !She, with her father and family, camped near Colusa one evening1, and were visited by a resident of the town, bachelor, who was a violinist, and brought his violin with him. He played upon the instrument so sweetly that he captivated the gal's ulections, and when the old man ii tcheel up the team and drove off the next morning he kissed his married daughter and shook hands with the fiddler, whom one night's nergetie courting had transformed into his son-in-law. The old man emarked as he cracked his whip over his jaded beasts: "Thiscoun- rv i.s too fast for me: and I'll be larned if I don't git out of it." Fr.riMMKo. " Does the court un derstand you to say, Mr. Jones," asked a judge, "that you saw the editor of the Axrvr "of Jrrcdoui. intoxicated ?" "Not at all, sir. I merely said that I had seen him frequently so flurried in his mind that he would undertake to cutout copy with the snuffers that's all." Who is the first boy mentioned the IJible ? Chap. "l. A Story of Xew York The Xew York correspondent of the Chicago Trihune tells this story of life in Xew York, which may or may not be true, but there is reason to believe that it is a type of a peculiar phase of our fashiona ble society: "About forty years ago a young man came to this city without ed ucation, money, or friends, his sole capital being a ragged constitution, large industry, and a hopeful or ganization, lie M as not long in obtaining a situation as porter in a shipping house on fSouth street, and he showed so much industry and intelligence and general capacity, that before twelve months had pass ed, he was promoted. Jn ten years he had an interest in the firm ; in twenty he was at the head of the house, and possessor of a lib eral fortune. Meanwhile, he had married a young woman greatly his superior in position and culture, who would not have affected him naturally, had she not been so poor that she" had to teach for a liveli hood. She had suffered much from indigence, and the consequence was, that she regarded want of money7 and wretchedness as cause and effect. After marriage, her circumstances were all aflluent," even luxurious; and yet, when her two daughters, near the same age, had arrived at maturity, she was never willing that any man, how ever descrying, should be the suitor of either, unless he was rich. The girls were comely, amiable, and quite agreeable, and might have been the wives of worthy and clev er gentlemen in independent posi tions, but for the opposition of their mother. Again and again Mrs. de clared she would never consent to receiving as a son-in-law any can didate for the poor-house, and aver ing that he who aspired to such a position must possess property valued at half a million. Just before the war, a young Frenchman came here with letters of int roduction, claiming to be the son of a wealthy wine deaIer,of 1 'or deaux. Among1 other houses he visited was that of the now retired South street merchant. lie paid court to tlic elder daughter (we will call her Ellen), assumed to In violently in love with her, and in less than six months thev were both married. The bridegroom was anxious to take his wife to France, that his father might see what charming women America contained. They went abroael, a gay party seeing them oil and dismissing them to a happy honeymoon. Tin bride, alter leaching Europe very frequently wrote to her father foi money, though he had liberally supplied her on setting out, always giving special reasons why she was m need. She had been wedued but little more than twelve months, when the whole truth came out in her letters written home. T T 1 1 1 1 iter iiusoand was an aetven- turer; lie had lived in Kordeaux but his father was not a wine mer chant, nor, ineleed, did he know who his father v, as. His letters of int roel action had beer, forged, and, in truth, forgery was his only pro fession, having been .several times arrested, and narrowly escaped im prisonment for that crime. As soon as he had reached the Continent, he had gambled away whatever money his wife had, and then compelleel her to write home feir more. He not only neglected and was disloal to her, but he abused her savagely, and even beat her, all of which she bore without the least complaint. At last he deserted her, leaving her, almost penniless in Paris. Then she disclosed what I have re lated, and returned to New York, a miserable and broken-hearted woman, dying two years after her desertion." There is a man living in Waco, Texas, who has been mar ried live times, and is the father of fifty legitimate children thirteen bovs by his first wife; eighteen children, boys and girls, by his second wife; ten by his third wife; six by his fourth ami three by his fifth "wife. Twenty of his sons served in the Confederate army, eight of whom were lulled; seven died natural deaths; and the re mainder are still living. "Ma, why don't yoif speak ?" asked little jake; "why don t you . i - i V . .id k vi... say summ unuiv n-o I say ? Don't you see I'm busy tying doughnuts ? ay sulliin unny, indeed !" "Vol, ycr might sav. Makewon't ver have a cake?' That ud be funny tor you. . . To take down the gridiron from the nail where it is hanging with the left hand is a sign that there will be a broil in the kitchen. Among business men, those who are mostsharp generally get most blunt. A Gifted Memnhis Lawyer Who ed ited Two Papers, IJoth Daily. An antiquated writer in the Memphis Appeal lias dug up out of his memory the following rich story. T h e y o u i j g 1 a w y e r re fe rr cd to is still flourishing in Memphis: "There never was greater local ex citement than that which grew out of this infernal navy-yard busi ness. Half thv .peov.Ie were in fa vor of accepting the property, and half or more opposed to it, the lat ter thinking that the Government might be induced even yet to make liberal appropriations and perfect the navy-yard, and build ships and steamers here. There were two newspapers published here one a morning publication, edited by a gentleman of no ordinary ability named Hankhead, who v.-as tragic ally and mysteriously assassinated some six years ago. There was another, an afternoon paper, called the JYctcs, ( believe that was its name), edited by7 a man named Yancey. These editors opposed one another on the navy-yard ques tion, and their discussion had be gotten a good deal of excitement, when both went away for the sum mer, and each without the other's knowledge employed the same man, this young lawyer, to conduct his paper in his absence. The vouu,r limb of the law naturally enough took to both sides of the question, lie made the controversy between the two papers hotter and hotter oil each successive day. Crowds gathered each afternoon about the Acvf office, and somebody expect ed that the two furious editors would shed blood. The coming duel in Arkansas was confidently anticipated, and the ferocity of the two papers was marvelous. Pop ular excitement was intense when Eankhead came hurrying home from Virginia and Yancey from Alabama, each thinking the other was about to murder his own sub stitute. Such was the fervor of popular feeling and exasperation that the story was necessarily kept quiet. If tlu; mischievous fraud upon the public passion had been exposed at the time, the deceiving editor would have been hanged te a lamp-post. Woman's Influence. The famous Philadelphia lawyer. David Paul Brown, wound up a temperance discourse lately deliv ered by him with the following eloquent t rut lis : In approaching the conclusion of this imperfect discourse, allow me to say, there is no greater safe guard to sobriety and general re spectability, no stronger evidence ed their existence than devotion to well regulated female society. 1 have yet to see the early devotee to such society who has ever prov ed a drunkard. But upon the other hand, an exclusive attach ment, especially among the young men, to their own sex seems to be an almost inevitable ruin. They seem to lose their humanity. The eye of the world is no longer upon them; bewildered in their infernal orgies, in the dark recesses of some temporal pandemonium they stim ulate each other in their downward journey by mutual pledges and po tations, forget a heart-broken mother, a deserted wife, a blighted sister, or tender children, doomed to worse than orphanage; they for get themselves. Indeed it would seem almost impossible for their intemperance to obtain access to highly cultivated female society; in order thereto refinement, intelli gence and virtue are necessary, and if they even were not the sub duing and chastening influence of such an association would soon im part them, and thereby teach men what may be called the pride of virtuc,which isvii hue's surest shield. The companionship of virtuous women i the best voucher for any man's sobriety and worth. In aristocratic countries, England, for instance, a duchess marries a ple beian: he is still a plebeian. A duke marries a dairy-maid, ami she becomes a duchess. But we man age these affairs much better here. Thev hold the keys to the patent . -. l i . t i - or herald ottice or noouity. mie women, therefore posses such in- lluence, let them use it wisely, and they will soon teach legislatures, ind constituents, too, that from their high decrees there is no ap ical. Their smile is fortune, tneir will is j ower. There's in them nil that we believe of heaven; Amazing brightness, puri'y ;iad truth, L.'nfadin joy and ev.-rlasting love. An Irish housemaid who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner found him engaged in using a tooth brush. "Well, is he coming"? asked the lady. "Yes, ma'am, directly; he's just i,arpciihj his tc.t.f" A promisin young man is all very one. well; better have a paying Can an electric eel be said to lead a .;! o,'ajV? ' life? Do People Head Advertisements? There is now and then a person fo stu pid as to believe that advertisements in tbe newspapers are not generally read, and that money expanded in advertising is practically wasted. Even such will concede that if a hundred men of poiite address, oftluent speech and ready wit were to call daily or weekly each upon an hundred others and get the ears of each long on ongh to say Jno, Smith, or Jones, cr Thompson at such a place, has such and such goods at such prices, or would sell a farm, or house and lot, or had lost a horsfi er pocket-book, or would loan money, t ic we s;;y snch men will con cede that the service:; of this one hundred men would be of great value to Smith or Jones, and in curie measure advantageous to the parly to whom this statement was made. Thh hundred men cannot hi em ployed to fro from door to door and make this ftiiteraenl to tea thousand people at less thr.n a co:.t of re-vend hundred dollars each trip. All litis is done by the news papers at, a coct of a few shillings, cr a few Cellars at most, and the vkits are made week after week, day after day. The messenger who travels addresses him self to the e.:r and tahe-i the party ad dre.sscd wiiea he may Ini-e his thoughts al:urbed in business cr othsr matters; but the newspaper reaches the party sought through the eye, when the reader has his thoughts solely fixed upon the paper before Lim. But those who afTect to believe that there is liu!e use in advertising urge as an objection that advertisements are not read. They can be easily convinced of their error in this respect by making in quiry. Let them insert an advertisement otfeiing to purchase some article that is tolerably pb-nty in ihe market, and they will be Hooded with offers to sell before the ink of ihe advertisement is dry. An enterprising weekly that has a circulation of one. two or three thousand copies is in a position to do the village merchant great good, and lor which, as a rule, the publi.-her does r.ot get one-fourth of what he justly deserves. In its sphere the weekly is of quite as much service to the advertiser as is the daily, and oftentimes it enjoys die privilege of being the ex clusive family visitor, a privilege the daily seldom has. Jiudusl'sr, N. i Union can Adccrtiaa: Goon Anvroi;. President Por ter, of Yale College, gave the fol lowing advice to the students of that institution, the other day: Young men, you are the architects of your own fortunes. Pcly upon your own strength of body and soul. Take, for your star, self-reliance, faith, honor and industry. Inscribe on your banner, "Luck is a fool, pluck is a hero." Dont take too much advice. Keep at your helm, and ;;tecr your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to lake a share of the work. Don't practice too much humanity. Think well of yourself .Strike out. Assume your own position. Put potatoes in your cart, oyer a rough road, and the small ones will go to the bottom. Pise above the envious and jealous. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invin cible determination, with a right motive, are the lovers that move the world. Don't reael novels. Don't drink. Don't chew. Don't smoke. Don t swear. Don't de ceive. Don't marry until you can support a wife. J5e in earnest. Ie self-reliant. Ie geneious. IJe civil. Head the papers. Adver tise your business. Make money, and do good with it. Love God and your fellow men. Love truth Land virtue. Love your country. and obey its laws." If this advice is s trict I v followed by the vouner men oi the country, the millennial is at hand. Divokct-: is Ynmi.xiA. The first divorce suit on record in Vir ginia Avas decided a short time ago, and the Judge, in delivering the opinion of the Court, referred to the extreme rarity of such cases in Virginia. lie said: "Happily for the interests of society and the sanctity of marital rights anel rela tions, suits of this character are not of frequent occurrence in this State. And in these modern days of so called social reform, it is a fact wor thy of record, and one Avhich fitly illustrates the purity of social life and the inviolable sanctity of the marriage bond in this State, that there can be found but two reported cases in all its judicial history, from the foundation of the common wealth down to the present time, touching questions arising out of the separation of husband and Avife. And the two cses referreel to were not suits for divorce, but for ali mony, brought b- the wife after desertion by the husband." o A lively Iloosier maiden wept when she read how Longfellow had cut his pastern so as to ruin him for life. She was so fond of his poetry, she said, as she snuf'ied the pearFy tear-droy from her nose. Some genius has been heard to say that pilloAvs, though not be- ! longing to the human species, come under the head of rational beins. .JU "I Pleasant Homes. It is a long standing and fully acknowledged statement that the homes of the people of moderate means in some of the older coun tries are superior those of the same classes among us in every partic ular. "We have not learned to pay that attention to little things, which add beauty and comfort at a trifling cost. Now and then a per son of ingenuity and taste is found to do this, but they arc uncom mon. It would involve no waste of time, and but small expense to turn bare yards, unpainteel boards and untended fences, into a pleas ant sight to the traveler, and to every one, of the habits and tastes of the owner. A few flowers, a day's whitewashing, repairs done at odd hours, would effect a per fect transformation, if the inclina tion be not wanting. We have some of as pretty workingmen's homes in America as can be seen anywhere comfortable, clean, sur roundeel by flowers and trees, and displaying all the signs of com fort, and a desire for something beyond mere material satisfaction. On the other hand, we have many of tiiese dirty anel elilapidated, ami looking upon all kinds of filth from their very front doors. We wish we had here in America the cottages described as observed in Scotlanel : "The tennant's house, too. is worthy of observation, showing at once the care anel neat ness of those who inhabited these ivy-clael cottages. The gardens in front are filled with a variety of flowers, sometimes intermingled with honey-suckle creeping over the fences and, like the ivy, some times hides the cottage known to be there by the curling smoke ris ing lazily into the. air. Away on the hillside, the bluebells wave in the Summer breze, anel the heather, growing dark and rich in color as the summer wanes, with the vari ety of green colors that mingle to gether, form contrasts that are quiet anel sober." 9 -dfr- a . . Agriculture in Wa'diinlon. A fine grapery is attached to the Agricultural Department at Washington. It is 150 feet in length, 30 feet wide, with glass root and sides, with ample ventil ation by means of hinged sashes in the roof and sides, anel so con structed as to exclude the rain. This building was erected for the purpose of cultivating and testing the most valuable varieties of for eign grapes, with the view of en couraging this industry, which is annually increasing throughout the country. The vines have been planted some three feet apart on the outside of the walls, and trained through in the brick walls and run up the inside on wire trellis Avork towards the cen ter of the roof and very near to the glass. The heating in winter is b- means of hot Avater circulated through iron pipes running length wise the building. ly this ar rangement the rerjuireel tempera ture can always be preserved, the rain and dews excluded, the rays of the sun unobstructed, and the full benefit of the rains to the roots of the vines secured. The ground inside is kept covered with tan bark, and stands of various plants are placed around the interior, the whole forming a novel anel pleas ing scene. There are upAvards of one hundred varieties hoav grow ing in this room, and bearing fruit for the first time. The dark col ors seem to be arranged on one side anel the light colors on the other. . Tact and Tata:xt. Talent is something, but tact is everything. Talent is serious, grave, and respectful tact is all that, and more, too. It is not a sixth sense, but it is the life of all five. It is the open C3'e, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch ; it is the inter preter of all riddles the surmount er of all difficulties the remover of all obstacles. It is useful in all places, and at all times ; It is use ful in solitude, for it siiows a man his way into the world ; it is use ful in society, for it shows him his Avay through the world. Talent is pOAver tact is skill ; talent is Aveight tact is momentum ; tal ent knoAvs what to do tact knows how to do it ; talent makes a man respectful tact will make him respected ; talent is wealth tact is ready money. For all the prac tical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent ten to one. y- . "It's fort 3- V'ears, 1113- old friend John, since avc were bovs togeth er.' "Is it? Well, don't speak so loud; there's that young widow in the next room." "Arthur," said a good-natured father to his " young hopeful," "I did not knoAV till to-day that you had been whipped last week." " Didn't you, pa?" replied hopeful; "why, knew it at the time." t !a.1.U-. JUL 1 The 32'jdern Press. The Printer being askeel what he printed ? said that lie printe.it thoughts. When asked, how can rou print thoughts, which are in visible, intangible things? his an swer Avas, that thoughts live anel AA'alk in things that make tracks, anel with pieces of metal called types he could measure the track of any thought that ever maele its burning footmarks along the path way of ages. Thus, thought "when measured by types and touched b- printer's ink, assumes form, takes on a body, and is clothed in garments of beauty, that make it a living, working, intellectual, moral and political force in the wide Avorld. Thought first works through the machinery of the hu man body, and reveals itself in the flushed face, the Hashing smile, the tender glance, the musical voice, the graceful movement, or the gen- tie pressure of the hand. It next works through the ma chinery of the printing press, and b3' it is stamped with immortality, and in all the ncAVspapers is scat tered abroad as leaves of the "Tree of Life for the healing of the na tions." In the newspapers of the present daT, more than in books or periodicals, is the minel-fooel served up and distributed that is to satis fy the appetite and feed the strength of the teeming millions of the earth's rational population. Effkct of Colons Upoc Hkai.tii. A correspondent of the JivUJxr states that he had occa sion for several 3-ears to examine rooms occupied 03' young women for manufacturing purposes, and he has observed that while the Avorkers in one room would be very cheerful and healthy the occupants of a similar room, who were em ployeel on the same kind of busi ness, were all inclined to be melancholy-, and complained of pain in the forehead anel eyes, were often ill and unable to work. The only difference lie could discover in the rooms tvas that the one occupied l3r the healthy workers Avas whol ly whitewashed, anel that occupied br the melancholy workers was colored with ochre. As soon as the difference struck him he had the yelloAV ochre washed off the Avails and then Avhitened. At once an improvement took place in the health and spirits of the occupants. "I'vk Got Mao." The Petroit Free Jress relates an incident which occurred on the return of an excursion party from that city. Soon after the boat left Toledo the steward Avas approached by an excited individual, avIio askeel him if he was captain, The steward replied in the negative, at the same time giving his rank. "Have you the pOAver to put a man out of "the cabin?" inqured the stranger. Well, yes, if lie's disorderly I liaAe," " replied the steward, "Well, sir, look in here and see them, will you?" said the stranger,, leading said official round to the door. The steAvard looked upon the motley group and replied that he saAV nothing out of the Ava "You don't, eh? Don't you sce'a man in there embarcing a woman?" "Well, yes," replied the steAvard, "but what of that? Hasn't a fel low a right to embrace his wife?" 'That's what I want you to run him out for," replied the stranger, dancing around ; "that's m3' wife, and I've stood it so long that Tve got mad !" An Arkansas local soliloquizes thus: "Some of our exchanges arc publishing as a curious item a statement to the effect that a horse in IoAya pulled the plug out of the bunglioJe or a barrel for the pur pose ot slaking Jus thirst. e not see anything . extraordinary no in -1 the occurrence. Noav, if the horse had pulled the barrel out of the bungholc and slaked his thirst with the plug, or if the barrel had pulled the bungholc out of the plug and slaked its thirst with the horse, or if the plug had pulled the horse out of the barrel.and slaked its thirst with the bungholc1, or if the bungholc had pulled the thirst out of the horse and slaked the plug with the barrel, or if the bar rel had pulled the horse out of the bungholc and plugged its thirst with a slake, it might be worth while to make some fuss over it." The Methodists of Wisconsin, in couvention at Madison, have expressed an affirmative opinion on the question of opening the pulpit to women, and one of the principal speakers, the Rev. Dr. FeiloAV, superintenelent of public instruction, has advocated a modi fication of the system of itineracy, so that the relations between the pastor and congregation may be continued as long as they are mu tually satisfactory. A Dutch judge, on conviction of a culprit for having four wives, de cided : " He have punishment hb I lifs 111 it o.nc. 1 ! 1 -S 'I I 3 1 -S - i 1