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OREGON CITY, OREGON,. FRIDAY, MACRII 14, 1873.
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And the FAMILY CIRCLE.
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M dli'iis, Uran ami Ohi.-keti Feed . l':n les
jtui-ehasi-i. feed mast furnish the xs.
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OFF1CK -In O Id Fellows' Temple, corner
of First and Alder Streets, Portland.
T'ie patronage of tho-e desirin:: superior
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lor 111- iiaialess extraction of teeth.
Vi ti ieial teeth "hotter than the best,
im'l '.n .!' ,.- !. the ehr-ty.. '!.
Will '.if in Oregon City on Saturdays.
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1 V, cr First and Wasiiinirton Sts., Portland.
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Oregon City, Oregon.
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O lir.C.OX CI T Y , O i I V.COS.
.March H7-':tf
F. GAFI CLAY, Til. R, C. S.
Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. IT. H. Co.
3" Years Experience.
iit vcriciNt: iiiy?icia; .vx: sviniEoy,
Strcel, Orr-oii City.
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TLc Popular Capacity for Scandal.
One of the most saddening and
humiliating exhibitions which hu
man nature ever makes of itself,
is in its greedy credulity touching
all reports of the misdemeanors of
men. If a man stand high as a
moral force in the community; if
lie stand as the rclmker and de
nouncer of social and political sin;
if he be looked up to by any con
siderable number, of people as an
example of virtue; if the whole
trend and power of his life be in a
high and pure direction; if his per
sonality aud inilncnce render any
allegation against his character
most improbable, then most readi
ly does any such allegation ihid
eager believers. It matters not
from what source the slander may
come. Multitudes will be influ
enced by a report against a good
man's character from one who
would not be believed under oath
in any matter involving the pecu
niary interest of fifty cents. The
slanderer may be notoriously base
may be a panderer to the worst
passions and the lowest vices
may be a shameless sinner against
social virtue may be a thief, a
notorious liar, a drunkard, a liber
tine, or a harlot all this matters
nothing. The engine thnt throws
the mud is not regarded. The
whi e object at which the foul dis
charges are aimed is only seen;
and the delight of the Ly-standers
and lookers-on is measured by the
success of the stain sought to be
inflicted.
As between the worldling and
the man who professes to be guid
ed and controlled by Christian mo
tives, all this is natural enough.
The man bound up in his selfish
ami sensual delights, who sees
a Christian fall, or hears the report
that he has fallen, is naturally com
forted in the belief that, al'ler all,
men are alike that no one oi" them,
however much he may profess, is
better than another. It is quite
essential to his comfort that he
cherish and fort if v himself in this
conviction.
S
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when
any
reat
scandal arises in quarters where he
has found himself rind his course
condemned, he listens with ready
ears, and is unmistakably glad.
We say this is natural, however
base and malignant it may be; but
when people reputed good nay,
people professing to be Christian
shruer their virtuous shoulders and
shake their feeble heads, while a
foul scandal touches vitally the
character of 0:1c of their own num
ber, and menaces the extinguish
ment of an 'influence, higher or
humbler, by which the world is
made better, we hang our heads
with shame, or raise them with in
dignation, if such a thing as this
is natural, it proves just one tiling
vi., that these men are hypocrites.
There is no man, Christain or Pa
gan, who can rejoice in the faint
est degree over the reputed fall of
any other man from rectitude,
without being at heart a scamp.
All this readiness to believe evil of
others, especially of those who have
been reputad to be eminently good,
is an evidence of conscious weak
ness under temptation, or of con
scious proclivity to vice that finds
comfort in eminent companionship.
There is no better test of purity
and true goodness than reluctance
to think evil of one's neighbor, and
absolute incapacity to believe an
evil report about good men except
upon the most trustworthy testi
mony. Alas, that this large and
lovely charity is so rare? int it
is only with those who possess this
charity that men accused of sins
against society have an equal
chance with those accused, under
the forms of law, of crime. Kvery
man brought to trial for crime
is presumed to be innocent until he
is proved to he guilty; but, with
the world at large, every man
slandered is presumed to be guilty
until he jtf oves himself to be inno
cent, and even then it takes the
liberty of doubting the testimony.
Every man who rejoices in a scan
dal thereby advertises the fact of
his own untrustwerthyness ; and
every man who is; pained by it, and
refuses to bu impressed, by it, un
consciously reveals his own purity,
lie cannot'believc a had thing done
hy one he regards as a good man
simply because he knows he would
not do it himself. Ho gives credit
to others for the virtue that is con
sciously in his own possession,
while the base men around him,
whether Christian in name or not.
withhold that credit because they
cannot believe in the existence ol
a virtue of which they are con
sciously empty. When the Master
uttered" the words, "Let him that
is without sin among you first cast
a stone at her," he knew that none
but conscious delinquents would
have the disposition to do so ; and
when, under this rebuke, every
fierce accuser retired overwhelmed.
He, the sinless, wrote the woman's
i crime in the sanl tor neaveniy
i rains to efface. If he could do this
I in a case of guilt not disputed, it
i certainly becomes his followers to
stand together around every one
of their number whom malice or
re venire
assails with slanders to
which his or her whole life gives
t ie lie.
In a world full of influences and
tendencies to evil, where every
good force is needed, and needs to
be jealously cherished and guarded,
there is no choicer treasure and no
more beneficent power than a
sound character. This is not only
tlie highest result of all the best
force of our civilization, but it is
the builder of those forces in soci
ety and the State. Society can
not alford to have it wasted or de
stroyed ; and its instinct of self
preservation demands that it shall
not be suffered. There is nothing
so sensitive and nothing so sacred
as character ; and every tender
charity, and loyal friendship, and
chivalrous affection, and manly
sentiment and impulse, ought to
entrench themselves around every
true character in the community so
thoroughly that a breath of cal-
CJ ml
l'.mny shall be as harmless as an
idle wind. If the-cannot do this,
then no man is safe who refuses to
make terms with the devil, and he
is at liberty to pick his victims
where he will. tf. (1
I T 1: x.v Yo u n ski. k. F i n 1 1 v o u r
own battles. Hoe your ormi row.
Ask no favors of anyone and you'll
succeed five thousand times better
than one who is always beseeching
some on.e's patronage. No one
will ever help you as you help
yourself, because no one will be
so heartily interested in your af
fairs. The first step will be such a
long one, perhaps; but carving your
own way up the mountain, you
make each one lead to another,
and stand firm in that while you
chop still another out. Men who
have made fortunes are not those
who had 5,000 given them to start
with, but started fair with a well
earned dollar or two. Men who
have by their own exertions ac
quired fame have not been thrust
into popularity by pulls begged or
paid for, or given in friendly spirit.
They have outstretched their hands
and touched the public, heart. Men
who win love do their wooing, aud
I never knew a man to fail sig
nally as one who has induced his
eilectionate grandmamma to speak
a good word for him. Whether
you work for fame, for love, for
money, or for any tiling else, work
With your hands, heart and brains.
Say "I will!" and some day you
will conquer. Never let any man
have it to say, "I have dragged you
up." Too man' hurt a man more
than none at all. Grace Grccn
icoocJ. Ax Ixr.KNiors Comiwkisox.
The following ingenious eompari
son is published 111 the
Journal :
1 T
i, oman is
Passive,
Heauty,
Affection,
Persuasion,
Kn durance,
Subordination,
Centripetal,
Rest,
A dispenser,
A follower,
A servant master,
A house plant,
Instinct,
For results,
Cautious,
Imitative,
Conservative,
Practical,
Personal,
Ueligious,
Society, the chr.reh,
The home
it 'll is
Active,
St rength,
Force,
I )ictation,
Conquest,
Pebellion,
Centrifugal,
Unrest,
A gatherer,
A leader,
A rn'str serv.
For open air,
Heason,
For causes,
Peckless,
Inventive,
Constructive,
Theoretical,
Impersonal, . .
Irreligious,
The State,
The world.
Women-. The editor of the
Xashville lotion and Imeri.un. is
an admirer of the fair sex. Hear
him: "We love women old or
young simply because they are
women. Our mothers spank us;
our sweethearts
snoil our
b
tinting with our rivals; our wives
read us a genuine or moderate
caudle lecture which wc usually
deserve. Woman has laughed at
our woes when indulging in the
tender pas-ion, riddled our hearts
with iviosian arrows, depleted our
1 Tfr at 7 w--T-
disturbed our shim-
bcrs, s
Honed our couee, rumbled
1 1 1 t
our starched linen bosoms, hung to
our arm with her whole precious
weight when our corns hurt us
most, danced us into perspiration,
and caused us to buy lozengcrsfor
a cold; but in spite of all these
we love her. We set her up as an
idol, and prostrate ourselves before
her as before some divinity. We
don't care a copper what dry-goods
cost, so she looks sweet. We will
finhtfor her like a Prusian soldier.
Let Mr. Holland say what he will
to derogate from the sex, we shall
'hang our banners on the outer
wall,' and cryIIurrah for women!' "
A young lady of sixteen, who
had worn short dresses all her life
positively told her mamma she
would wear them "no longer."
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Providentially Directed.
Among the attendants at a late
Methodist conference was a very
beautiful intelligent-looking young
lady, who drew the admiring gaze
of many eyes, particularly "eyes
masculine, always on tlie lookout
for feminine faces. During the in
termission at noon, a spruce young
minister went up to the presiding
elder, and said with an air of secre
cy: "Did you observe the young lady
who sat by the first pillar on the
left?"
"Yes," said the elder; "what of
her?"
"Why" said the young man, "I
feel impressed that the Lord desires
me to take that lady for my wife.
I think she would make a good com
panion and helpmate in the work
of the ministry."
The elder, as a good christian
ought, had nothing to object.
Put in a few moments, another
candidate for ministerial effort
ant' honors, and for the name of
husband, came confidentially to
make known a like impression re
garding the same identical young
lady.
"You had better wait awhile.
It is not best to be too hasty in de
termininir the source of such im
pressions," said the prudent elder.
And he said well, for hardly
were the steps of the second youth
cold at his side, ere a third ap
proached with the same story, and
while the worthy confidant still
marvlcd, a fourth drew near, with
the question: "Did you notice the
noble looking woman on your left?'
"Yes!" cried the swelling elder.
"Well, sir," went on the fourth
victim of that unsuspicious girl,
it is strongly born in upon my mind
that it is the will of tlie Lord that
I should make proposals of mar
riage to that lady. He has im
pressed me that she is to be my
wife." The eider could hold "in no
longer. "Impossible! impossible!"
he exclaimed, iu an excited tone;
"tlie Lord never coahl tiave Intend
cdlliotforr men should marry that
one ? Tw"
A Yankee Thick. A Kentuck
ian and a Yankee were once riding
through tlie woods, the latter on
an inferior animal. The latter
wanted to make a "swap," but lie j
did not sec how he wras to do it.
At last he thought of a plan! His
horse had been taught to sit down
like a dog whenever lie was touch
ed with the spurs. Seeing a tnr
key,the Yankee made his hore per
forin this trick, and asserted that
he was pointing game as was his
custom. The Kentuckian rode in
the direction indicated by the
horse's nose, and up rose a turkey,
This settled the matter; the trade
was made, the saddles and horses
were exchanged. After a time
they came to a deep, rapid stream,
over which the black horse carried
his rider with ease. Put the Ken
tuckian, with the Yankee's old
beast found great difficulty in get
ting over, and when he readied
the middle of the stream he was
afraid the horse would allow him
self to be carried away, and endeav
ored to spur him up to a more vig
orous action. Down sat the old
horse on his haunches. "Look here!'
shouted the enraged Iventuckian
to the Yankee on the other side of
the stream, "what does all this
mean?" I want you to know,
sianger," cried the Y'ankce pre
paring to ride away, "that horse
will pint fish as well as he will fowl.
is Fkiday an Uxi.uciiy Day?
Friday, long regarded as a day of
ill-omen, has been an eventful one
in American history.
Frida', Christoper Columbus
sailed on his voyage of discovery.
Friday, ten weeks after, he dis
coveied America.
Friday, Henry YIL, of England,
gave John Cabot his commission
which led to the discovery of North
America.
Friday, St. Augustine, the oldest
town in the United States, was
founded.
Friday, t'ne Mayflower, Avith Pil
grims, arrived at Princetown; and
on Friday they signed that
august compact, the forerunner of
the present Constitution,
Friday, George Washi
hincrton was
born.
Friday, Hunker Hill was seized
and fortified.
Friday, the surrender of Sara
toga was made.
Friday, the surrender of Corn
wallis at Yorktown, occured; and
on Friday, the motion was made
in Congress that the United Colo
nies were, and of right ought to be,
free and independent.
Mrs. Elizabeth Crittendon, the
widow of the late Senator John J.
Crittenden, of Kentucky, died, in
St. Louis, on the Sth inst., aged
sixty-eight years. She was thrice
married. First to Dr. "Daniel I.
Wilcox, of Columbia, Mo., next,
to Gen. Wm. II. Ashley, member
of Congress from Missouri, and
next to Hon. J. J. Crittendon,
Oeneral Items.
The wrong side Suicide. e
Humps of curiosity. Chignons.
The best band to accompany a
lady vocalist A hus-band.
The "Sisters of Silence" is a val
uable Michigan association of wo
men. "Salted" is what they call a wo
man in Colorado m Iio wears unlim
ited diamonds.
During the past year Kansas
has invented one million dollars in
new school houses.
Slander meets no regard from no
ble minds; only the base believe
what the base only utter.
There is a great deal ov poetry
in gin; but the poetry and the gin,
both of them, are kussud poor.o
"It is right," says Macintosh,
"to be contented with what we
have, never with what we see.
How natral it iz for man, when
he makes a mistake, to correct it
by cussing some body else for it.
Xever reflect on a past action,
which was done with gootl motive
and with the best judgment at
the time.
Ifj'ou fall into misfortune, dis
engage yourself as well as you can;
creep through the bushes that have
fewest briars.
An inmate of the Pennsylvania
penitentiary lias occupied a solita
ry cell for thirty-four years with
out seeing the sun.
Go to strangers for charity, to ac
quaintances for advice, and to rel
atives for nothing and you will
always have a supply.
Sunday is the strongest day be
cause all the other (lays are week
days; yet if it is the strongest, why
is it so often broken?
Death is but a ferry-boat. Every
day and every hour, the boat
pushes off with somebody, and
then returns for more.
An official advertisement of prop
erty to be. sold for unpaid taxes in
Chicago, occupied ISO columns in
the Chicago Ucening .Post. 0
Why is coal the most extraordin
ary article known to commerce?
Hecause when purchased, instead
ot going to the buyer it goes to
the cellar.
A Chicagonian has patented a
new process of petrification, by
which means Indians can be trans
formed into tobacco signs as fast
as they die.
It is stated as a bevinological
fact that the milk of a young cow
is apt to be foaming. Which is
highly probable, as the creature is
naturally heifervesccnt.
A Milwaukee girl frankly con
fesses that her advocacy of the avo
man's rights movement is due to
an insane desire to wear red-top
boots and a pistol pocket.
"I wish I was in heaven," said
discouraged Mrs. O'Clarence the
other morning. "So would I,"
said the brutal husband, "if I hadn't
friends there whom I value."
A colored Mem pit is preacher
calls himself Henry Ward Hcecher
No. 2. That moke has certainly
never read the Woodhull story, or
else he has an insignificant amount
of self respect.
In the portico of one of the fash
ionable chapels in Paris a fine in
fant was left in a basket. A notice
stated that the little stranger was
a Honapartist, but threw itself on
the republic.
Shakespeare produced all his
plays with about 15,000 words;
Milton's works are built up with
about 8000; and the Old Testa
ment sa-s all that it has to say
with 5043 words.
Teach your frail girl that, though
she may find pleasure in the gal
lant support of a brother's arm,"his
care should in no way cripple her
energies, or rob her of her birth
right, noble womanhood.
If the man who has got to the
top of the hill by honesty is asham
ed to turn about and look at the
lowly road he has traveled, lie de
serves to be taken by the neck and
hurled to the bottom again.
A Jancsville (Wis.) editor has
dircovered, with regret, a danger
ous habit namely, that many of
the young ladies of that city wear
their corsets in bed with the strings
tightly laced. The editor neglects
to say how he came to know eo
much.
Hill Arp is now on the Home
Commercial. He goes for the lat
est styles of bustles as follows:"
"We saw a lady on the street yes
terday who leaned smartly forward
as she walked. From the amount
of bandages and filling that seemed
to have been put over the wound,
the accident must have been a se
rious one. We are glad' to see her
out."
lioy s Listen to Thfe.
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Trne as the Gospel is the follow
ing, said by Robert Collyer, of
Chicago: "It is tru ePthat the work
ing successful meli of to-day were
once poor, industrious, self-reliant
boys. And the same thing will be
repeated for from the ranks of
the hard-working, economical,
temperance ami persevering boys
of to-day, will emanate the pro
gressive men of the future? Every
man Jbingp any sort of work in
Chicago to-da-, was raised acpoor :
man's son, and had to fight his way
to his place. Xotne of them, as
far as I can ascertain, was a rich
man's son, and had a good time
when he was a boy. All boys
should grow as strong as a steel
bar,fightingctheir way on to an
education, and then, when they are
read-, plunge into life with that
traditional half-dollar and a little
bundle0tied up in a red handker
chief as I have known great-men
to start. I tell 3011 that in five
and twenty years, when mosfof us
that are in our middle ages have
gone to their retribution, the
men of mark in this country will
not be the sons of those fathers
woo give theru all they wish 0 for,
and ten times more than they
ought to have, but will be those
who are brought up in farm houses
and) cottages, putting their'"" way
through the thickest hindrances of
every sort; and all the brown stone
houses of this metropolis will be as
nothing to bring out the noble
man
Eli Perkins. Some gc'utlemen
were talking about meanness yes
terday, wlien onePsaid he knew a
man on Lexington avenue who was
the meanest man in Xew York.
"How mean is that?" asked a
friend. "Wli lie is so mean that
he keeps a five cent piece with a
string tied to it to give to beggars,
and whenctheir backs are turned,
he jerks it out of their pockets!"
"Why, this man isjo iriieanT"con
tinuedthe gentleman, 'that hegavo
his children ten cents a piece the
night before the 4th of July, but
during the night, when they were
asleep, went up stairs, took the
mone7" out of their clothes and then
whipped them in the morning for
losing it!"
"Does he do any thing else?"
"Yes the other day I dined with
him, and I noticed the. poor little
servant girl whistled gailT all the
way up stairs with the dessert
and, wren I asked my gewrous
friend what made her whistle so
happily, he said: "Why, I keep
her whistling so she) can't eat the
raisins outof the cake." O
"Wouldn't Fight Titat "Way.
A sad story is told of Juvtge
Pice in the Staunton fipccteitor,
which is very good :
About the commencement of the
war he made a speech in Xorth
Alabama, in which he said that the
Southern soldiers, could whip the
Yankees with pop-guns. Since the
war he chanced to make another
speech in thcsame placed A big
double jointed fellow was present
who heard and remembered the
former speech, and being in no
amiable frame, concluded to go for
Sam. Polling up his sleeves, and
popping his fist in the palm of his
hand, he propounded the fearful
question5:
"Sam Rico, didn't you make a
speech here in 18GI ?"
"I did," said Sam.
"And didn't you say we could
whip the Yankees with pop guns?'1'
"Certainly I did ; but the d d"
rascals wouldn't light us that way-,T
Imperious fashion has instituted
a new change in the manner of
leaving calling cards. Turn down
the left end of your calling card Vw
and you intimate that your call isO
intended "for all iji the house."
The lower left corner turned down
means "farewell." The lower right
means "congratulations." The'lip
per right means "two in the house." O
and the. upper left means 'condo
lence." 3y this means an almost
new language is created and the
various sentiments of the human0
heart are expressed easily ana
uniquely.
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A clock, formerly tlie property
of General Washington,was dispos
ed of at a sale in West Philadel
phia last week. The case is of pol
ished ebon', richly mounted with
ormolu filt ornaments. Tht clock
is the work of Somcrsall & Son,
noted hcrologists of the last ccntiK
ry. It notes the days of the montli
strike's rind ehlmnia thr Imuro nnrl
half hours. This curious relic was
purchased by Dr. L. IV Kocckcr,
who is a connoisseur m articles of
virtue. O
Tlie Atchison beau who ltni. hi
girl his false teeth to crack hick
ory nuts with was a cousin to the
man wno unscrewed his old-fashioned
wooden peg of a leg and
handed it to his intended to poke
the fire, before which they were
sparking.
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