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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1S72.
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II. W ATKINS, M. P ,
SURG EOS. l'oKTi.iXD, Okkgi n.
OFFLCKOkIA Fellows' Temple, corner
FirttauJ VlJer streets Residence corner of
Main and Seventh streets.
VJ. F. HIGHFXELD,
Estibl:-hed since ls49,ji the old st;ind,
Muin Street, Oregon City, Oregon.
An Assortment of Watihe , Je w"
elry. an I Seth Thomas' w eight
Clocks, all of whiS are warranted
to be a represented. m
Repairing done ou kjoii nonce,
i ind thankful for pt:t favors.
JMuKRIALMILLS.
Savier, Laltoque & Co.,
can r. a os city.
jKeep constantly n hand f"i s--a!e
Midiinis, Kmn and Chicken Feed. Pai'iea
pareha-inp: fei-d omul fumi-h the te k.
J- WELGSH
DEIJTIGT.
OFFICK lu Odd Felb.ws' Temple, enrner
of First and Alder Streets, l'ortland.
The patronn' of thoe lesirinor superior
ODer.it:or.s is in vnecial r( 0uet. itrou.sox
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ii- tor thi t afnliss fxtr:tct ion of teeth.
fArti:iciaI teeth better than the Lest,
and at r'nii p a the clieipet.
Will be in Oregon. City on Faturdays
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Dr. 3. R. FREELAS
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DEMTI8
1hom j if.kim's huildixc. corv
V er First and Wasliinston Sts., Portland.
Nilroin WVde adainii.-tered. n'j;it:.
JOHN M.
BACON.
Importer and Dealer in
55 CI2 I2 11.
STATIONEHV, PEJiFl'MKIlV. -tc, ic.'
Orrgon City, Oregon.
At Cicg'i j'j 5 ll'urner'f old tijitd ,1 ' atehj vc
tvpied by sS Ark'rmau, Main bti tci.
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CH AS. E. WARREN.
51 ULii S Cd, J t4 i
Attorneys at Law,
OmCE CflARM AXS ERIC J) MAIN' STREET,
o r i : ! ; o x c I T y , o : t e g o x .
March .", 1-J:tf
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F. BARCLAY, H3. R. C. S.
Formerly Sarcon to itio'llon. II. B. Co.
3i Vrar Kxprrlcprt.
rRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SUROEOX,
Matn Strrtt, OrrRon C'Hy,
Stors to Rent.
rynr. store house FoiyiKiu.Yocn;-
L pitvl by Kafka, on Iioelr Creek. 12 miles
from Aurora, situat'd at a tin point for
cnunl ry trading pos : c.in be hud on very
reasonable terms. This is a desirably 1 oint
f 5 a man with small capital to go into busi
ness. Knq nr of J0I1XSOX & McCOVYX",
j ily2 ".tf. Oregoti City, Oregon.
WEALTH AND HEALTH Hi
Good Cable Screw Wire
BOOTS AXD SHOES.
Kill not Irak and Last Twice as Lou?'
JOHSSSOfJ &. rVlcCOWrc
ATTORNEYS AND (OINSELORS AT-LAW
OREGON vCITY, OREGON.
WH.L PRACTICE IX ALL THE COCRTS
f th State.
-f?Speci;il attention given to caes in the
F. S. band Oilice at Oregon Citv, -
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I A. KOLTfJER,
OTARY PCBLTC, ENTERPRISE OFFICE
Oreson C ty. Ja- 13:tt
k? tr QH Prdv! A wnts wanted! All
LU kyjU ela-scs of workinfr jv?ople, of
eithor vx. youne or old. make more money at
work for in their opare moments, or all the
"laM Rt anvthinu flc. l'artirnlnrs free.
Across a. stinsc.u Sc Co., Portland, Maine,
sejreiar-.j ;rih, li:::iv.
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AUTL'SIX'S HCl'LY TO A. O. V.
BY S I U M A.
Whn the warmth of Summer clows oil
.the hill.
And deepens the blush on the rose;
Wlivn the low ead murmur of distant riMs
In tweet musical cadence flows;
When the ong bird's note rises clear and
loud
On the soUly verloine'l air.
I come from my home in yon russet, cloud
Lome on wings of a Zephyr fair.' s
With the wandering bieezs forth I stray
Where the shadowy forests rise
Where preen fields " if u etch to the hills
away ;
And flowers lift their modest eyes
I look and wondtr and mue 'till. loo soon.
Summer's penial d;ty has flown.
And the Autumn stars, and Uri Autumn
moon.
Sit s-milin in joy on her throne.
How chanced the- scene that lately was so
And is mine the nnwe'eome lore
To tell the earth, array ed in parruentH sad,
That all her dazziiajMimp io"er!
To Lush all joy. to e;st 'perpetual gloom.
To sn ip the glad green forests bare
To enshroud the world, as if some awful
doom
Had cast its ghosllv shadow there !
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Then come, while flowers Jade and leaves
turn sear.
And s!e;n with gold the earth's Jaik
floor,
While the west wind moans through the
torehl drear. -g-.
And birds their sheltered h(ines dpire;
Come uiid tead. O man ! in this wreck ot
pride. o
How 6oi)U the great, the wise, the brave.
Come to an end. arid, lil.e Autumn lcue.s.
glidJ
All hiieut ic'o the grave,
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Thou fullest as Cower pause and muse,
.Improve ihe ssdne.-s of the hour.
Pace thougLtlully the way. asd wisely uee
LeK-:oii li'.iuglii with love and power;
Then Crtll me not h(rin;v ubk not "why I
come''
To chill the earth, to make hearts sore;
Hut lather rejoice tor what 1 have done.
And lay lo heart Iy useful hoe.
Or.i:oo City. Dec 3rd. 1872.
How a I'letiuiiit i. Selected.
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The question is often asked how
thePresident of the United States
is elected. V"e will answSr.
Each Slate is entitled to as many
..lectors , fur Ui evident and Yiec-
l'ri sidi lit a it ha. senators ainl
representatives in Coiigrcss.
In each Slate theeiettors are
chosen by a plurality vote. That
is, if there arvr,three sets of e!c cto;s
voted for, the highest number oi'
voters is chosen.
JJtit a candidate for Uivsideiit.iu
order to be successful, mu.-t have a
majority of all the electors.
If there be three candidates for
President and none of them re
ceive a majority of the electoral
college, there is no choice, ami the
elect ion, t hen ltws to the House ed
Kcpresentativcs.
The House must confine their
choice to the three highest candi
dates voted for by the electors.
The llepresentativCK vote by States,
and each State has but one vote;
so that the power of Deleware is
as great a.s that of New York. A
candidate to be successful, must
receive a majority of all the States
o nineteen States. If the State is
divided the vote of the Stale
not be east.
The Aft ol" Making Money.
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One great cause of the poverty
of the present day, is the failure,
of ln-any peq)le to appreciate small
things.
Thev say if they cannot save
large bums they will not save any
thing. They do not realize how a
daily addition, be it ever so small,
will" nVake a large pile. It, the
young 111(11 and wcnien of to-day
will only begin, and begin now, to
save a little" from their earnings,
and invest it in some Savings Jhink,
and weekly or inonthly add to their
mite, they" will wear a happy smile
of content and independence when
they reach middle life. Not only
will the pile increase, but the abil
ity and desire to; increase it will
soon grow. Let" the clerk and
tradesman, the artisan and laborer,
make now a beginning. Store up
some of your force ami vigor for
future contingency. Let parents
teach their children to begin to
save. Hegin at the fountain's head
to control the stream of extrava
gance, and then the work will be
easy to choose between poverty
and riches. Let our youths go in
the way of extravagance for fif
teen years to come,., as they have
for fifteen years past, and we. shall
have a nation of beggars, with a
moneyed aristocracy. Let a gene
ration of such as save small sums be
reared and we shall be free from
want. Do not be ambitious for
extravagant fortunes, but seek that
w hich is the duty of every man to
obtain independence and comfor
table home "Wealth in sufficient
abundance is within the reach of
all. It can only be had by one pro
cess Saving! JN" Jlictaiic.
Is there anything nowadays that
won't explode? It began with
kerosene and nitro-glycerine; next
pies and potatoes ami such like be
gan to blow up and now we hear
of a death in .Michigan from the
bursting of a circular saw.
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Courtship.
Courtship 5s the last brilliant
sccno in the life of a woman. It
is to her a i;arUn where noweetls
miimle with the flowers, hut all is
lovily ami beautiful to the senses.
It is a dish of nightingales served
up ly moonlight, to the mingled
music of many tendernesses and
gentle whisperings and eagerness
that does not outstep the bounds
of del'oaey, and a series of llutter
iugs, throbbing, high pulses,
burning eheeks and droooini;
lashes. Ifut, however tlelightiul it
may be, courtship is, nevertheless,
a serious business; it is the first
turning point in the life of a
woman, crowded with perils and
temptations. .There is as much
danger in the strength of love as
in its weakness. The kindled hope
requires watching. The rose tints
of a flection dazzle and bewilder
the imagination, and while alwavs
beariii'jr in mind that life without
love is a barren wilderness, it
should not be overlooked that true
aiiection requires s-olid supports,
discretion tempers passion, and it
is precisely that quality which, of
tener than other, is found to be
absent n courtship.
Young
ladies m 1 t.'tert
lore
wise counsellors. Ihev
liouitl not trusttoo imu-n to tne
iniu'ses oi the heart, nor be too
easily cajttjvated by a winning e.-
t trior. In the selection of a bus-
band, charactt r should be consid -
cred moie than appearance. 1 oung
uien inclined to intemperate habits
even but slightly so rarely
make good husbands lo the end ;
they have not sufficient moral
stamina to enable them to resist
temptation, even in its incipient
stages, and, being thus deficient in
sc-If-K-spect, they Cannot possess
that pure unconlamihated feeling
which ah.n ( a pic-Rates a man for
rightly appreciating the tender and
loving nature of a true woman.
The irreligious man is like a ship
without a rudder, and he nevcrceay
make a '.rood husband: lor a house
darkened by a cold skepticism or
an inii iii'ereiice lo reliuion and its
duties is never
a home it is mere
but there is little
a shelter
warmth m the atmosphere or the
rooms, can 1 every object in them !
looks cohl and chiHinir. The in- !
do'ent man, likewise," can not be . the latest style, and a much improv
expicted to make a good husband, d appearance gem rally. When 1
for he ne-lects his timeaiid wastes j heard the thrjlling accounts of t he
his estate, allowing it to be over- ! exertions of t?ie firemen, with fifty
run with thistles ' and brambles, 4t reams of water directed upon ll.ne
and subsists on the industry of f steeple of the Old South, surround-
othcrs. I-Acry precaution, then, !
is necessary m the sciecuon oi a
husband.
Siiootixo Stai;s. M. Silberman
advances the following curious
hypothesis concerning these cos
luical bodies: The celestial spaces
are traversed in every directioji by
an immense number of comets,
which are divided by astronomers
into two groups, viz., those w hich
move in the Same course as the
planets o'irert, and those equally
numerous that move in the oppo
site direction rid'ofradc. Admit
ting the results of observations of
the direction of the shooting stars,
and the results of the works of
many eminent astronomers, we are
led to believe, 1st, that there are
streams or currents of shooting
stars (isdiich prodiu-e movement in
celestial bodies; these streams cor
respond to and are dependent upon
comets of the first or direct on,b'r;
2d, streams-, of shooting stars cor
responding to comets ot the sec
ond order, and having for their
function' the moderation of this
movement and transformation of
the fierce of rotation and propul
sion into heat. Svv7-;.: Jn' Dv-
CCitibu'.
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A Goon "WonnTFor: T.ooai. Vx
ri:ns. The New Yoik "Juik. ? says
yon might nearly as well forget
your churches, your academies and
school houses, as to forget your lo
cal paper. It speaks to ten t Tines
the audience that your local minis
ter does. It is read eagerly each
week from beginning to end. It
reaches you all, and if it has a low
spirit and less wisdom than a ser
mon it has a thousand times better
chance at you. Lying on every
table, in almost every house, as it
does, you owe it to yourselves to
rally liberally to its support, and
exact from it as able, high-toned a
character, as you do from any ed
ucator in your midst. It is in no
sense beneath notice and care it
is vour representative. Indeed, in
its" character, it is the consumma
tion of the importance, interest and
welfare of you all. It is the ag
gregate of your own consequence,
amfyou can not ignore it without
miserably depreciating yourself.
Air. George Lee, the Gill more of
Dublin, w ho got up a local jubilee
there during the late exhibition, is
to be knighted whilst Lostoms
Patrick is left benighted and out
of pocket, notwithstanding his in
timate relations with all the poten
tates of Kufope.
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Spontaneous Combustion.
Several weeks ago the new sta
ble ot S.'S. Aletzger took lire ami
burned to the ground in the midst
of a drenching rain ; no f,re hal
been used about the building, and
there was no way of Recounting
for the oiigin of 'the lire but by at
tributing it to an incendiary or to
spontaneous combustion. The men
engaged in painting and finishing
Air. Metzger's new house had been
graining shutters for the house in
the stable during
the
day before
me nre : out, it was scarce v
thought )Ossihle that the fire could
have originated from that source.
The stable havhig been burned,
the painters next day transferred
their graining to the cellar of the
house. That evening the inmates,
of the hos"e discovered a smoke"
and a smell of burning cotton or
paper issuing from the cellar. An
examination disclosed the fact that
the oiled rags used by the painters
in graining had been thrown to
gether m a corner and had ignited
by spontaneous combustion, and
were just bursting into a flame.
This timely discovery saved the
house siud se'ltlcd the question as
to the oiigin of the fire in the sta
ble. Next day a nail-keg was
parUy tilled with the oily rags cast
away by the painters, and set in
the sunshine in the yard. In a few
: . hours the rags and keg were found
; to be on fire Yery few oeoiileare
j aware of the danger arising from
! s;;eh a source. JJcJ'vrd ( O.) In
How the Old .South wasfaed.
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Tfie llostonian's pride in his birth
place is graphically illustrated in
thy following extract from a letter
to Ga biot her of the writer in this
city :
t:The fire, which at first looked
like a fi ightfulo.disaster to osten,
does not seem to be so, viewed in
the light of the future. The loss
falls priiicipailyupon the class best
ablevto sustain it; and when the
streets in tins) burnt district are
widened and straightened they
will be rebuilt upon a !::ier scale
than before. The gloomy granite
will irive i':n-o lo marble and iron.
'd the good old ehy come out of
her trouble with new dress of
-'! with flames and showtgvd with
brands aud0pai ks, and at last, after
more than two hours, the venera
ble st met ure saved, while?! he im
mense throngs watched the une
qual battle; and when the old relit;
was seemed to have sijrvfved the
firery ordeal, the crowds rewarding;
t lie effort owith cheer upon cheer,
I could not restrain my tears o?
sympathy. The topic has absorb
ed every'onc since Sunday, and I
think Loston has never seemed
so dear to me as since this event.
.
The IiiLicn. The idle man is an
annoyance a nuisance. He is of
no benefit to anybody. He is an
intruder in the busy thoroughfare
of every-day life. He stands in our
path, argl we push him contenfpt3
uously asiile. He is of no ad vant
age to anybody. He annoys busy
uftm. He makes them nnhppy.
He is a unit in society. lie may
have an income to support him in
idleness, r he may "sponge" on
his good-natured friends. Hut. in
either case he is despised. Young
men; do something in this busy,
bustling, wide-awake worldly Alove
about for the benefit of mankind,
if not for yourju lfi )o not be
idle, (bid's law is that by the
sweat
of our brow we -hall earn
our tireail
That law is a rood one,
and the bread we earn Ms sweet.
Do not be idle. Alinutes are too
precious to be squandered thought
IcssIvq Kvery man and every
woman, however humble, can do
good in this short life, if so inclin
ed; therefore do not be idle.
How Loxti a Max Can Starve.
A man will die for want of air in
five minutes, for want of sleep in
ten days, for want of water in a
week, for want of food at varying
intervals, .. depending on constitu
tion, habits of life and the circum
stances of the occasion. Instances
have been given where persons
have been said to live many weeks
without eating a particle of food;
but opportunities have offered a
fair investigation of)the case, it has
invariably been found that a weak
and wicked fraud has been at the
bottom of it.
A lady writer in the TtcyuhTlco.n
of the 17th u't., reasons that the
fires in Chicago and Michigan last
year, and in Poston recently, were
vIvItniimK sent nnon the North as
expiatory of the outrages perpe -
trotod on the South bv Sheridan
and Sherman the dates of their
celebrated "raids" corresponding
with the dates of the fires.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
Mother five's Servant Cirl.
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"Can any of you tell why, when
Eve was manufactured, from one of
Adam's ribs, a servant girl wasn't
made at the same time to wait on
her?" Because Adam never came
w inning to Kve with ragged stock
ings to be darned, a collar button
to be sewed on, or gloves to be
mended, ' right aw ay, quick, now!"
Pecamse he never read the news
paper till the 'sun went down be
hind the palm trees, and then,
stretching, yawned out, "Ain't sup
per almost ready, my dear ?" Not
lie. He made the fire, and hung
over the tea-keltic himself, we'll
venture, and pulled the radishes,
peeled the bananas, and did every
thing else that he ought to. He
milked the cow, fed the chickens,
and looked after the pigs himself.
He never brought haif-a-dozen
friends home to dinner, when Eve
hadn't any fresh pomgranites, and
the mango season was over. He
never stayed out until 11 o'clock
tf a "ward meeting," hurrahing for
an out and out candidate, and then
scolded poor Kve because she was
sitting up and crying inside the,
gate. He never played billiards,
"nor drove fast horses, nor caioked
Kve with a tobacco smoke. He
never loafed around corner grocer
ies, while solitary Kve was rocking
little Cain's cradle at homo. In
short, he didn't think she was
specially created for the purpose of
waiting on him, and was under the
impression that it disgraced asnan
to lighten his cares a little. Thest
are the reasons that Kve did not
need a hired girl, and we wish it
was the reason why none of her
fair descendants did.
Pat's Pic'.y.
Pat was an idle boy. One dajr
he was suddenly called up and the
question propounded by l?ie peda
gogue: "How many Gods are there?"
Pat was not a distinguished theo
logian, but quickly answered:
"Three, sir." ' r.
"Take youieat," thundered the
master, "and if you don't answer
in five minutes, I will welt you."
The probat ionaiy passed, and
Pat, taking the floor, hesitatingly
Mated the number to be "five, sir."
T T
1 ie
received the promised welt-
m-g.
ind returned to his seat ten
minutes for consideration.
Ten minutes up; Pat w as up too,
and satisfied that h; had not fixed
the number sufficient I3 high before,
shouted out :
0"There's ten, sir."
He saw the ferule descending,
and breaking for the door, he clear
ed a five-railed fence and ran like
a quarter-horse across tilt meadow.
Panting with exhaustion, he met a
lad with a look of one in pursuit
of knowledge under difficulties, lie
asked:
"Where are you going?"
"To school, vonder was the
re pi
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"One," answered the boy.
"Well, you'd better not go there.
You'll have a good time with your
one God. I just left there with
ten, and tbat wasn't euough to
savcdiie the darndest licking you
ever heard of."
A Wife's Power. The power
of a wife, for good or evil, is irre
sistible. Without, one must be
forever unknown.
A good wife to a man is wisdom,
strength and courage; a bad one is
confusion, weakness and despair.
No cemdition is hopeless to a man
where the wife possesses firmness,
decision and economy. There is
u(P 'outward propriety which can
counteract indolence, extravagance'
and folly at home. No spirit can
long endure bad influence. Man
is strong, but his heart is not ada
mant. He delights in enterprise
and action. Put to sustain him he
needs a tranquil mind; and espe
cially if he is an intelligent man.
w ith a whole head, he ireods his
moral forces in the conflicts of life.
Tosrecovtr his composure, home
must be a place of peace and com
fort. There his soul renews its
strength and goes forth -with fresh
vigor to encounter the labor and
troubles of life. Put if at home he
finds no rest, and is there met with
bad temper, sullenness, jealousy
and gloom, or assailed with com
plaints and censure, hope vanishes
and he sinks into despair. Such
is the case w ithtoo many who, it
mighti seem, have no conflicts or
trials of life; for such is the wife's
power.
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Pesponses to prayers hnd ser
in ems may be good if they come
in the right place. Not so how
ever, came in a response, recently,
to a minister in an African church.
He had come down from the pul
pit to invite a stranger in one of
; the pews to preach for him but was
"
. 1 "ited Ir
Brethren, said he,
otherS : to preach.
but he declines." "Thank God'"
roared out a man from the middle
1 of the church.
C'irls, Take Care.
HARRIET r.EECIIEK STOWE IS TAL1C-
ix a.
We have "charity for fast girls.
Wc have often found them gener
ous and warm-hearted, and are
fully ready to believe that their
tlisrt-gard ot conventionalities is i
often the boldness of innocents.
For example, in some families the
chamber of the sister is the resort
of the brother in the first place;
then of the cousin who is almost a
brother, and then of the brother's
intimate friend, who is treated as
one of the family. When this free
style of living is transferred from
the shadow of the family, to the
apartment of a crowd eel hotel or
boarding house, it gives occasion
for much free speaking and free
thinking lor a style of judgment
that often does the young girl grc:.t
injustice. We have said that our
Americans had their faults. The
want of conventional limits cd pro
priety between the sexes is one of
them. The young French girl is
kept secluded and never suffered
to see a gentlemen unwatched. In
America, from their early child
bond, little girls ami boys grow
up together and on ttie wluje it
is best I hey should. But in order
that this liberty should produce
good effects, parents and guardians
should incessantly teach certain
limits ot propriety, there are
(ertain places, time's and 'modes of!
intercourse, that are proper places,
times and modes; there are certain
other places, times and modes
! that are improper, and it ought to
i be a pait of the. early training of
every girl to teach her this. Kvery
approach on the part of a young
girl lo any personal familiarity
with any young man, such as she
might most innocently take with
i another nrl. ex rest, s her to mis- '
construction which it was the duty
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of her mother to prevent by timely
warning. A favorite author has
said that such personal advances
on the part of women were "immo
ralities of manner," even where the
intention was innocent. So girls,
take care -res pe'ct yourselves re
spect your se.v, and do not? give
the enemy chance to speak re
proachfully. Listen, all'of you It)
what a man, savs. It is out of j
some old fashioned Father's Leg
acy, or some such antiquated book.
He says: "A fine woman has a
power over us of which she very
little dreams, but a little too near
acquaintance, often dissohet Ah
illusion aud converts the angel
into a very ordinary girl. Let a
mother tell you, girls, that moth
ers when they send their boys inte
the great worfirand its temptations,
hope much for them from the in
fluence of good women. Did you
ever think of this when you tell
young men that you dote on smok
ing?" when you urge wine upon
them at parties? Some mother,
some sister nvy wish that you
would lead he", son or brother to
nobler, purer conceptions of life.
Ought not some higher motive
govern your intercourse with the
young,, men of your acquaintance
than merely the desire to fasten
their admirations on yourself to
please them at any ami every haz
ard? Be surethatra young man who
is pleased through the lower nature,
because you encourage his indolent
and self-indulgent habits, and parts
with hi lat ' elevateeb impulses,
will think of yon by and by only
as a part of something unworthy,
which his better self will seek to
outgrow.
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Where the Nickels Come1
From. Few persons are aware
that the nickels from which our
smaller coins are made, come from
a single mine, which is the only one
in the country that is now being
worked. This mine is situated in
Lancaster county, Pa. It has been
worked for seventeen years, and
developed to a depth of 200 feet.
The length of this lode is between
2,000 taiid 3,000 feet, and it pio
d nces f rom 4 00 to 000 tons per
month, employing" in the working
mine a force of 175 men. In the
arts, nickel is rapidly growing into
favor as a substitute for silver in
plating steel, iron and other metals.
Its commercial demand is rapidly
increasing and as it is much cheaper
than silver, it will undoubtedly be
adopted in the manufacture of
many articles as a substitute for
tnat more precious metal. One
mine, the Miuela-Motte track, Mis
souri, was woiked fiom 1S50 to
to lco-3. The ore was the sulphu
ret, associated with lead and cop
per. About 6100,000 was realiz
ed from the croppings of the vein.
Croppings of nickel ore are found
i,... :,Vi . 3: t i
aisu iiiuiamsim, iron ami uuc-j
counties, Mo., The refined metal
is worth 53 per pound.
A dentist is anxious to become
acquainted with the celebrated man
born with a silver spoon in his
mouth. The dentist wants to ex
tract that spoon and replace it with
ivory and gold.
After the Election.
WHAT A GRANT ORGAN NOW DARE
TO SAY A ROUT GRANT.
From tho Atlantic Monthly.
It was unfortunate that Grant
came into office with the conspicu
ous gifts of citizens to the success
ful General who in the line of pre
cedents was the corning President.
When he showed an inclination to
call the givers to high places in the
Government, it gave the oppositkn
a weapon against hiiru When lie
took a share in the gift that citi
zens were, contributing to General
Sherman, and in his eagerness in
volved himself in the scandal with
Mayor Bowen, he compromised bis.
personal dignity and exhibited
qualities unbecoming lo his station.
It is not a great draft upon the
public purse, nor a creation of dan
gerous' family influence, when the
President appoints a dozen or more
of his relatives to office; but it is a
bad example, and shows a low vier
of the Presidential office.
But far worse than this was tho
scandal of a President's brother-in-law-
at the capital following1 the
profession of agent of claims agaiut
the Government, carrying his fam
ily influence into the subordinate
executive departments where such
claims are judged, and actually
as he testified before a Congres
sional committee appealing cases
from the departments to the Presi-
b-nts influence against the ends of
'justice by his brother-in-law-.
a lie summer aoseucc 01 ine x resi
dent from the capital are matters
of no great moment in the affairs
of our Governmeiit,anel his frequent
junketing excursions could be .ex
cused but dbi his proclivity for a
peculiar kinel of entertainers who
bring him and the Presidential
office into disrepute, and expose
1dm to be made the instrument of
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1 ULSIo,i:s ul,ou luu .o. erumenr.
hen the gold conspiracy, to
make a private speculation at the
cost of wide-spread ruin of the in
nocent, burst upon the publie on
the memorable Black Friday, the
public mind was shocked by the'
intelligence that the President had
been caught in the toils of the con
spirators, and had been made to elo
their bidding by writing a letter to
Secretary Boutwell advising him
against increasing his sales of gold.
The effect was not mbigatetl by
the fact that the conspirators had
entangled the President's family in
the plot. The public partly excused
him with the charitable plea that
he was deceived by the sharpers
Gould and Fisk; but there was a
general feeling that the President
of the United States should not
have made companions of men so
notorious as public robbers, nor re
ceived hospitalities and other fa
vors from them.
The American people do not fear
that the President's surrounding
himself cwith military attendants
maens a design to subvert the
Government; but jealousy of mili
tary surroundings and manners
belongs to f ree institutions and the
spirit of free peoples, and the dis
regard of this shows a lack of per
ception of popular sentiment, or a
contempt for it. '
Genuine Sorrow. During the
Clay and Polk campaign, the ad
miration of the Hon. Walter
Brooke, of Mississippi, for the great
Kentuckian leel him to bet a pair
of matched horses, all the stock lie.
had, on the result, and this though
a strict member of the I e byter
ian church. Of course he lost, and
of course was "churched" for gam
bling. "All we ask of you, Mr.
Brooke." said the minister during
the trial, '"is to acknowledge that
you are sorry, and promise to sin
no more." "'Sorry?' asked Air.
Brooke, rising from his seat with
an air of injured innocence; "sor
ry? My dear brother, when I
think of those beautiful bays, gone
from my gaze forever, I can truly
say with my hand upon my heart,
that no transaction of my life gives
me more genuine sorrow than this."
Pemarkarlk Heroism. One of
the most touching instances of de
votion the worltl has ever known
was the last act of John Walker,,
the fireman of one of the engines
which came in collision on the Bal
timore and Ohio Bail road a week
ago. lie was caught between tho
foot-board-and hot wall of the en
gine's furnace, and from that hor
rible position it was impossible to
extricate him. When he first real
ized the frightful death awaiting
him, he implored those around him
to kill him at once, rather than let
him tlie slowly. Then in a moment
becoming calm, with that perfect
self-renunciation with -which life ,
begins, ho forgot his own agony,
and, with his dying hand, wrote a
farewell message to his wife, that
she might know his last thoughts
were ot her.
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The New York 'World regards
the prospects of the Democratic
party better now than at any timo
during the past fifteen years.