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L i i ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE '. " . .. . - : ... .- ' . - : tt. . . , - : "T : : " 53 rT-" ... . : .... , - - 0' - H IT: ' O o o O o o o I lb, G ' IV II VOL. 8. THE EHTE1PH A LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER FOR THE Farmer, Business Man, & Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FKIDAY. A. NOLTNER, EDITOR A NB P UB L IS HER. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In Pr. Th-ssins's P-rick, next door to John Myers" store, up-stairs. Term of Subscription: single flonv Ono Year, In Advance. ...S2.50 .... 1.50 ! " Six Months " " -- Term of Ailverti-dii t Transient advertisements, including oil l.-.r;i! notlO-S. t Si III mi-nr lini'S one w'"k 2.50 For t'iioli subsequent insertion One Column, one year Half Quarter" " Iiusiness Card, 1 square, one year ; u s i x n s s c a j: i s. l.iio i I'lUI i -I'UMI 12.U0 J. XV. sT IS, M. J PHYSICIAN' U Sl'UCiKOX, O Ji koo y CI T 3 ( i: Ji (7 O .V. R-J-Offic Up-Stairs in Main Street. Charmnn's I'.rick, anil It I. W. H. WATK1NS, 11. D. (M)llt PORTLAND, -7-OFFICK Odd Fellow's Tern r ! enrn-r 1 First mill Ald-r streets. Kesideiic.- corner of Mam and S ventli streets. Drs. AVelch A: Thompson, D E M T I oi rici: i v O 1)7) FELLO ir.s1 TEMPLE, f - I Corner of First and Alder si r ts. PUKTLAXn - - OliKGUX. gy-Vill b ' in Oregon City on Sat urdays. Nov. o :tf S. UCELAT. CH AS. K. W. IIKKN. HUHLAT&lVAHa Attorneys 03E30N CITY, DREDGE. lL?"OFFICK ('harniioi'sbvif 5:narlS 2 :t i. U. Main st. JOHHSOH a JYlc ATT0RX2YS AND nil ajLLOKS i-L.'n. 3 Or 35?on .3 RVWill praetiee in all tt-.t.. Ki ei:il attention th' ,i;r! s of the to eas s in the if. S. hand oiiie - at irv' City 5aiirls72-tt. ATTORHY-AT OR EG OX CITY, : : LAW, OREGON. O Fi st roet ICE Over I'ope's Tin Stor", 21mar7;;-tf. Main J. T. APPSRSOft, OFFICE IN POSTOFFICE r.CII.DIXG. L.Ksil Tfiuli-rs ( lirknm:i County Or ders aml Oi-rmi Cily Order; BOUGHT AND SOLD. XOTAUY 1M lllv . Ians m-ottated, Coll -et ions attended ss earried to. and a ieneral liroKeae uu-m ou. janiitf. N 0 T A IS V T U 15 1. I C. ENTERPRISE OFFICE. OKF.GON CITY. AV. II. 1LIGHFIELI). EstablUll ini- 1'., at the ohl stand. Main Slr.Tt, Or.'Eon l it y, Orrson. An assortment of Wat hes, .Tewel V?eN rv and S. tn riiom.i'.' Weight Clocks ( - fi all of which are warranted to be as tLJ-.'t r.-i.reaellt.-d. y-li.Mairini done on short notice, and thanRful for past patronage. A. G. WAL LING'S PIONEER BOOK BINDERY. Pillock Hnlhling Corner of uikI Front Strefls. Stark. PORTLAND, - - OREGON. m.Wir P-OOKS Itri.KD AND r-OUNP l tr. anv desired pattern. Music books Magazines, Newspapers, etc., lound in cv .rv vnriwv of st vie known tothetrrade. rP.ir from the c. untrv promptly at tended to. OREGON CITY BREWERY. Henry Humhel, g .WING rt-RCHAS- vi. H "wishes to inform the public that hois or nwnared to manufacture a -No. 1 qual- ltyf LAO BR as c-ond. as can be obtained anywhere in fh sstate. Orders solicited and promptly filled. NEW YORK HOTEL (Dcutfcb.es Gaflhaus.) No. 17 Front Street, Opposite the Mail Steamship Landing. PORTLAXD, OREGON. H.KOTIIFOS, J. J.WILKENS, Proprietors. TVard Wxk Board Weefc with Board Day ...$o.00 ... 6.00 ... 1.00 Lodging - Shaci Economy. From tlic New York Sun. There is a vast deal of pretence at "Washington on the subject of re trenchment. The departments are going through the motions of cut ting off some the monstrous exeres cencies, and diminishing estimates that were purposely exaggerated.. j Members of the Committee of " ays and Means are using the telegraph I to humbug the country with a pre tended zeal in the same direction. This whole business is a sham, from leginning to end. No earnest disposition has been shown either by the Administration or by Congress to bring down the expenditures to a real peace basis. The cost of carry ing on the Government has multi plied in the ratio of seven for one when compared with the increase of population during the last decade. Extravagance, corruption, and pro digality are the causes of this extra ordinary disparity. Abuses have m-own into accented usage tnat were never tolerated until the advent of Grantism. Unices have Peon created merely to reward partisans. The con tingent funds of every Cabinet offi cer, and all the heads of bureaus, have been converted into a source of personal profit, by which their com pensation is largely increased. Deception is habitually practiced in the estimates sent to Congress. The Secretary of the Navy obtains millions under the guise of necessa- ! rv repairs, and applies this fund to building new ships, ihe naval com mittees are "seen," and they connive at a barefaced fraud. The Indians are decreasing rapid ly in numbers every year, yet the ap propriations augment in the inverse ratio of their decline. Under the hollow pretext of a Christian policy, the outgrowth of Christian states manship, eight inillionswerecxpend ed for this service during the last fiscal year, and a million more is de manded for deficiencies. In other words, nine millions against two mil lions eight hundred thousand in the year of l when the Indians were almost doubly as strong as they are now. "While" tho Indian Bureau is connected with the Interior Depart ment, and that continues to be presi ded over by Columbus Delano, these expenses will grow as they have con tinuously grown under a system of pi under "and swindling, by which an infamous liing is enritched, t'.ie In dians are cheated and the Treasury plundered. "When reform of these and other flagrant outrages is proposed, Mr. Crarlield, at the head of Appropria tions, answers that they are author ized by law. That is to say, an amendment is emnwigly attached to some bill this year at the close of the session, by which a permanent out l iv is incurred, an office established, . v :i service enlarged, without dis cussion or the, knowledge of Con gress. Next year it is added to the regular estimates, and if a careful member objects to the new item, Mr. Caitield rises and reads him a lec ture , saying that the money is only asked to carrv out a law. Vud so it goes on year by year, un til millions are voted "in every snp- ly bill, which are nothing but gross frauds. This thing cannot he i.ono without colludon. and it is no se cret at Washington that the import ant chairmanships in the Senate and louse of Kepre eutatives are sought or ti e opportunities whicu they af ord of making money. In this way the appropriations are constantly iept swelling, until the present pro- portions have Peen reacnea. Special and class interests wmcii ire protected by vicious and corrupt irills, join hands with the proiess- ional plunderers to put U2 the ex- peiises to the nigiiesi point uuia the least regard to the puouc mier- st. While this system is permit ted to continue, their revenues are augmented and their monopolies more tirnilv fixed. So that the conn try is not only taxed directly for the tens of millions thus stolen and squandered, but is also made to pay tribute to these monopolists, who buy any legislation they need at W ashington. To tamper with this condition of things by reducing some of the most notorious extravagance would be like treating a deadly cancer with court plaster. There is but one rem edy, and that is to strike at the root of the evil. The plain duty ot Con gress, at least of those members who are earnest about reiorm, is to lix a limit of expenditure in the public service, and say plainly to the Kxec utive and the ttepartments, that they must live within this prescribed al lowance, and that no deficiencies will be tolerated. That is thcjonly method of certain retrenchment. If tue President had been - at all inclined to stop the abuses, he could have done much bv an order to that effect, and by his own supervision, lie has more power to reiorm the civil service by exam pie and exaction, than all the laws that could be passed in any Con gress. But he has no disposition to ao one nor the other. In fact the whole of his official and personal in fluence has been thrown on the side ol extravagance, and in favor of in iainous lungs. He is responsible for his own double pay, for the most in sulting appointments, and for the protection of thieves who have plun- 1 1 it fP . -w . uerea me xreasury. it remains to be seen if Congress will end as it has begun, in shams. "How is your wife?" inquired doctor of one of his patients. " She is dead, I thank you was the witty and wicked answer. Every meal is a rescue from one death and lays np for another; and while we think a thought we die. Jeremy Taylor. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY,' About Married Women.. There is a great difference in mar ried women; some are happy and contented, some are cross and figity, many are tidy and industrious, and not a few are careless and indolent. Some have a bright and interesting group of children about them; oth ers have none, and never will hae any. Young girls indulge in many ro mantic and unreal fancies with re gard to marriage and its relations. They are ever looking forward to the time when they shall settle in life, with many happy expectations. ftome nini in marriage more than a happy realization of their dreams; others encounter trials and cares, to which in earlv life they were not accustomed. A woman's domestic i - - . happiness depends as much upon her own disposition to be unselfish patient and comfortable, as it does npon the worthy dualities of her husband. Married women mav be classed under three separate heads. The married llirt, the strong-minded wo man, and the domestic wife. 1 he married llirt is usually i wo man with a very pretty face and tig ure, a great deal of personal vanity and verv little good taste, common sense, and moral principle. She has in her character no element of true affection, or loviucr regard. She marries either for money, or to se cure a irreater freedom in her flirta tious than she could have under the protecting wings of her tnyus-eyed mother. . She has a prominet pas sion for iewelrv and other barbaric ornaments, and she shows them off to good advantage, if wearing such decorations can be considered as any advantage. If she is unfortunate enough to have anv children, they are usually left to th care of a care less nurse-maid. Sometimes the husband of a married llirt becomes verv iealous of her. storms around and works himself into a furious pas sion at her various improprieties, vet often he encourages her in her little eccentricities, feeling in his bo som a. sort of secret, gratification in the consciousness that he is the sole owner of what to many others court and admire. The strong-minded woman has the credit of possessing a considerable amount of brains. She has the head of a man. on the bodv of a woman. Tf idio lei.1 nnlv been born a man, she would have been a positive success. As it is shf! can hardly lie Wanted is, upon as a nrodigv: for she is usually a verv noor house-Keeper, aim i i tne superiority of her intellect often dwarfs the energy and business qual ities of her husband, who soon sink into a sort of menhfl and physic.i inirmiric.ince beside her. until he becomes a sort of mediocre bein whom she regards as of verv little conseoiience. She is usually cngag ed in bringing about -some "much l reforms" or lecturing on the domestic relations; the proper training of children, etc.,; while her own offspring very much need her care at home, as their neglected and nntidv appearance often indicates. Son.etinies her strong-mindedness takes a literary turn, and she breathes her sentiments through the medium of the public press, and burns the midnight oil at home, in the aconies of composition, while her husband puts the children to bed, and looks after the household affairs generally. There is nothing lovelier or more beautiful to the world, than the do mestic wife and mother, she devotes her best years to the happiness of her husband, and the proper care and mental and moral training of her children. The love and inliuer.ee of such a wife and mother is one of the sweetest things in the universe. It ones with her children through their manhood and their womanhood, and is the ' iruiding star to their subse- iiipnt success and usefulness. She has her cares, ner trials, ami tier - . . j-, -ii sorrows, HKe ail wim are numan. Vet, she bears her burdens with 11 11 i Christian fortitude and patient resi nation. She luihlls every promise made at the marriage altar; her love is unchangable, and the world better for her having been an inhabitant ot it.. Such a woman is missed when she passes away, not only at the home fireside, but in the community where she lived. It is the highest type of true womanhood to be a do mestic wile, a laimiui neip-meeu ana affectionate mother, and the wo man who tills this position, accom plishes the highest aim in life that God has given her to do. .ifjte in Our Firexvle r rieml. The editor of a Western paper once gave a notice of a ball, and happened incidentally to mention that the dancing of Major Heeler's better half was like " the cavorting of a lly bitten cow in a field of cucumbers." The fact that the editor had not been invited to the ball may somewhat de tract from the value of the simile, while at the same time it accounts for his establishing the figure. The Major accompanied by his better half and a six-shooter, called on the editor to complain of the poetical nature of the image. On learning that the la dy was the one he described, the ed itor besought her to raise her veil. She did so, adding, "Now, sir, I ex pect you to apologize." "Apologize! I should rather think I would, was tl.o on-r ns he seized his hat and ranidl v left the room. The astound ed Major rushed to the window, "Ston. von sir. vou haven't apolo gized !' ? "All right, Tm going to do it in a minute?" "WTiat do jou mean?" shouted the Maior. accentu ating the note of interrogation with a pistol bullet. The answer was wafted back from, around the next corner " Can't tou see I'm looking for that cow !" Working-men. From the Kasson Telegraph. The workingmen of Cincinnati. Chicago and Louisville, met together in large numbers recently, and de mand of the authorities either work or bread. These workingmen's conventions are getting to be very common and there is no telling to what they may vet lead. Just look upon this pic ture and then that. On the one hand we have honest American citi- struggling for a mere subsist- . . -i -i ence, the sun Ken eyes ami wau coun tenances of their wives and children continually goading them on to des peration. On the other hand we lave a President at nity tnousanu dollars a year, with itcidental appro priations amounting to over a hun dred thousand more, we have Con gressmen living in high style and frittering away their time, without anv regard to the welfare of the peo ple, at a salary of six thousand per year. - . . .i. It is this extravagance in tue pay of otTieials. exnenditures of govern ment, defalcation of government offi cials, fat jobs for government pets and other like abominations of par tisanship which bring these troubles , a .Til, upon tue people, -tvii wea.ii.ii i me result ot labor, and surely the laoor- er. the oniv one w no produces an ! 1 11 that is produced, should have at least a living. mere is no iacK oi weanu or means of subsistence in the coun try, but the trouble is that by unjust ami unwise legislation a few have been enabled to amass millions of wealth more than there is any sen?e or justice in one man obtaining, while for every one of the millionaires hundreds of laboring people have been compelled to eke out a mere living not even beholding so much as a solitary basis in the gloomy des ert of hunger, poverty and despair through which they pass on their weary journey to the grave. Is it just for one man to have a hundred fold more than what can possibly do hint anv good while others have to starve lor tne wealth he has noamcu . .i i.tii i it and over which he sits and growl like the dog in the manger? But how would vou remedy it? Some men are sharper than others and al- wavs will accumulate wealth while their followers live in poverty, prob nblv on account of their own sloth and indolence. We are not speaking of that class. The man who accum ulates wealtii by his own energy is i . - - i.i i i entitled to it, ana aitiiotign ne is in duty bound to aid his fellow man vet it would be unjust to compel him to do so. Tlie injustice we speak of consists in the favoritism of govern ment where men, not by their own energy and ability, but by traud ana laws favoring one class at the expense of another, are enabled to snatch from the people the profits of their labor thereby filling theirown coffers with gold but making beggars of the laboring classes. Let salaries, from the highest government ollicial down to the lowest county official, be re duced fifty per cent., in some cases ninety-five per cent, as in the case of some oi the snorms ot counties in which are large cities. Let all inter est in tees be doue awav with and let each iiicial have a stipulated amount. But, says one, our ohicials must have large salaries in order to maintain their dignity. Dignity, indeed. Spare us from such dignity display ed in Congress where a lot of salary giabb?rs stand, each pointing at the oilier saying "you did it!" Another says we must pay these men well in order to make them honest. If a man is not honest by nature you can not bribe him to be honest, and the more you give him the more his avaricious spirit will crave. Let ns put all this sophistry and can't far from us; let justice be done to all; let no one inteiest be protect ed and another neglected; let our ohicials have reasonable salaries, and let them work for the good of the country and not for money; Ictus hasten to return to the simplicity of republican government; let us not build up a nioneved aristocracy of the few while the masses labor on bound la the chains of a servitude as degrading as was ever heaped upon man. Let us see that justice is done aid all will be well. Let us continue in the blind partisanship that has ruled our country so long, continue to bow to the (iod of Mammon, and will not be long ere the working men will not only meet to pass resolutions but tneir riots will cause our streets to How with innocent blood and the horrors of the French revolution will be re-enacted in this fair land of ours Who, in that day, shall bear the heaviest blame? Shall it be the poor workingmen led on to acts of violence by hunger and despair, or the moneyed sharks, who, while sit tin3 in their gaudy palaces, reared by the labor of these very men, have refused them even a crumb of bread from their tables bending with the richest viands of earth ? Let justice answer. The editor of the Louisiana, Mo Press, in relating what he knows about farming touches upon the hog Question in this stvle: "To make Berkshire pigs out of your hazel split ters, select a cool day, stand them on their hams, tied to a sapling, and drive the noses back into their shoul ders, leaving about an inch protrud ing. If you look at the agricultural papers you will see that all blooded hogs are fixed in that way. XI you have any whose noses are longer than the rest of the body,' better sell them to an artesian well company for drills, for vou cannot drive the nose back without telescoping- the whole pig When you cut up hogs, leave the ham square, leave some hair too, salt . 1 -I 11 1 iL everlastingly, aua inej wm ue worm several cents less per pound than when trimmed and cured so that a Christian can eat theni' JANUARY 30, IS74. Home Training. "While we are alive to the advan tages of technical education as a remedial agent for the curse of Hood luniism, we have always held that the cause and cure of that social dis ease are to be found in the parental influences that form the character of the child. We have frequently writ ten upon this subject in this strain, but perhaps have said nothing more to the point than the following re marks which we extract from a lengthy article, treating of Prof. Oilman's technical school project, which we find in the Sacramento (Cal.) Record:. There is something wanting in the education of the boys who gravitate toward ruffianism, something which the best educational scheme in the world might utterly fail to supply. That something, we i take it, is a moral sensibility; a kind of possession which no text-books can help us to, which no course of lectures can supply; which be sought in vain among the problems of s.:i ence,the mechanism of manufactures, or the paraphernalia of experimental chemistry. When boys are abandoned to their own courses, they speedily take on the habits and modes of thought of those who are held up to them as specially deserving of imitation; and this is the case whether the object of admiration be the swaggering, high heeled, long-coated rowdy ou the street-corner, or the gin-soaked ruf fian who lurks about the city front. And when the plan of education is, as with us, one which brings togeth er all kinds and conditions of chil dren, it is clear the sole preventive ive against contamination and corrup tion is the influence of parental in fluence of parental instruction. It is, in fact, in the home circle alone that the character can be formed for good; and if that subtle, gentle, but wholesome aud powerful influence, be wanting, the result, in nine cases out of ten. will be the condition we know as Iloodlumism. And if this reasoning be just, it follows inevita bly that the cure for Iloodlumism must be sought in home training, and that it will be vainly and fruit lessly sought in any other direction. Purity of life, of thought, of speech, are inseparable. The bov who talks profanely will think profanely, and act profanely. Obscene language indicates obscene thoughts, and jus tifies the apprehension that obscene conduct will follow. Indifference to moral principle, to truth, to reverence for age, to self-respect, to honesty aris es very easily from lax parental disci pline. The parents who permit their children to have their own way in infancy, through silly fear of injuring them, will find that the habit of self indulgence, once formed, is scarcely to be eradicated, and that the child who is taught at his entrance into life that his whims are supremely importaut, will develop into a selfish, heartless, irreverent, and brutal creature, with astonishing and alarm ing rapidity. It may be said plainly that unless men and women can be induced to do their duty to their children all attempts at reform the i ia ri nsing generation win prove lutue. You may teach the boys trades, but until they have been taught the vir tues of submission, of humilty, of self-abnegation, their knowledge of technical matters will avail but little to eliminate the class of debauched youth whose ranks are now swelling so raiud Iv. whose anuaciiy aim reck lessness are beginning to alarm the i most thoughtful, and whose future has already become the most serious problem this country has to deal I , -i i r-n 1 with. We fire not opposed to lecn- nical Education. On the contrary, we welcome, the prospect of it with hearty satisfaction. But we insist that it should be accepted for what it is, and not mistaken for what it is not. mat it sliouhl be recogized as an indirect and partial reformative agency, and not be relied ,upon as a panacea calculated to remove com- pletely the evil against, wnicn it is directed. An Opinion Worth Having. Thirtv-five years ago Thomas Ji. Benton, "Old Bullion," as he was called, savs the Iioxfon Journal, de- livered a speech upon finances in the United States Senate, in the course of which he made some remarks which sound very much like the ut terances of to-day. One passage was follows: "One of tne highest functions of money is to measure values. That is a function which paper cannot perform. The measure of values must itself possess intrinsic value, and must itself be free from sudden or material variations oi vai- It must have uniform and a uni versal value. As well might you attempt to make a measure of lengths out of that which has no length; a measure of weights out of that which has no weight; a measure of qnanti ties out of that which has no ca pacity to hold any quantity, as to endeavor to make a measure out of that which has no intrinsic value. The precious metals can alone con stitute a measure oi values; paper money can measure nothing, nol even of itself; its own value is eter nally measured by its reaction by its convertibility into specie. "Eternitv has no gray hairs The flowers fade, the heart withers man dies; but time writes no wrink les m the brow of eternity. Earth lias its beauties, but time shrouds them for the grave: its honors, thev are but as the guihled sepulchres; its possessions, they are bursting bub bles.' Not so in the untried bourne. Jn the dwelling of the Almighty can -'come no footstep of decay. ..... Human natur iz like cow natur. i hav known them both tew giv a good mess ov milk,' and then kick it over. ' Josh Billings. " ' The JLocal Kditor's Dream. Once upon a .time a local editor dreamed that he was dead, and in another world. He approached the gate of a city before him, and knock ed for admittance, but no one an swered his summons. The gate re mained closed against him. Then he cried aloud for an entrance, but the only response was scores of heads appearing above the wall on each side of the gate. At the sight of him the owners 6et up a dismal howl and one of them cried: "Why did you not notice the big egg I gave to you? At this horrid and most unex pected interrogation, the nnhappy local turned in the direction of the voice to learn its owner, when anoth er voice shrieked 'Where's the piece you were going to write about my soda fountain?' And close upon this was the awful demand: Why uui you write a piece about old Peddle's fence and never say a word about my new gate?' Whatever answer he was going to frame to this appeal was ab ruptly cut off by the astonishing query: 'What did you spell my name wrong in the programme for? The man turned to flee, when he was root ed to the spot by the terrible de mand: 'Why did you put my mar riage among the deaths? He was on the point of saying the foreman did it, when a shrill voice madly cried: "What made you put in my runa way, and spoil the sale of my horse?" And this was followed by the voice of a female hysterically proclaiming: "This is the bimte that botched my poetry, and made me ridiculous!" Whereupon hundreds oi voices screamed: "Where's my article? "Give me back my article." "Where is my religious notice, that I brought in at the eleventh hour?" And in the midst of the horrid din the poor wretch awoke, perspiring at every pore, and screaming for help. The next day he resigned, and we had to hunt up another local editor. Dan bur News. Miscellaneous Paragraphs. Who has the fewest wants is most like God. Advice to surgeons Keep your temper or you'll lose your patients. The theatre of war is about the only one where back seats are desir ed. f La Crosse papers speak of the schools of that city as " the tanner ies." Advice to florists Always plant pillowslips at the head of your flower-beds. Do not speak of your happiness to a man less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch. Blobbs insists that eating chest nuts in the dark doesn't give the worms a fair chance. No man is always wrong; a clock that does not go at all is right every twelve hours. He that wants money, means and contentment is without three good friends. Shakespeare. The watch-dog's honest bark is not heard in Hinsdale, N. H. Not a canine lives within the town limits. The man who is awfully urbane to his wife before strangers is generally also "her bane" behind their bucks. Every editorial writer on the Bos- ton Globe wears glasses on the nose, and all the Louisville writers under it. A love-lorn young lady at Dubuque does nothing all day long but sit and hold her hands. In the evening her fellow calls and holds them for her. - Ttte S40,G0O Cow. The short-horn - 1 i .1 T 1 . C A 1 1. COW, luigntu jucness oi vjreneva,iu. l was purchased at the late New lork Mills sale, by Mr. II. Pavin Davis.of Gloucestershire, England, at the enormous price oi -iu,uow, again changed hands, and will remain in America, a part and parcel of the herd of Col. Lewis G. Morris, of Fordham, N. Y. It seems that Mr Davies' agent being unaccustomed to our currency, in the excitement of the sale lecame confused as to the rel ative value of dollars and pounds sterling, and bid far beyond his au thorized limit. On his return to England his principal wrote to Mr. Campbell, requesting him to dispose of the cow for his account on as fa vorable terms as possible. Upon hearing of this Col. Morris at once offered the price that Lord Skilmers dale paid for his prominent purchase, oi ),b00, which was accepted. In ad dition to this cow we learn from Col. Morris that he has purchased the Thirteenth Duchess of Thornedale. Twelfth Maid of Oxford. Third Countess of Oxford, and several oth er females of prominent breeding that were disposed of at the New York Mills sale; also, that he has purchas ed the ohl bull. Beau of Oxford, from Mr. Ezra Cornell. These make a strong combination, and add prom inence to the Scarsdale herd. Spirit of the Times. The Fool John Far Away. I stooped at the Metropolitan Hotel at Corinne. I juxtapositioned with ahistorical cuss the first thing. Says he, " So he's dead, is he?" Says I, " Who? " Says he, "Napoleon. Says I, " Dead as mackerel." Says he, "Stranger, I'm from the mines and I only just heard " it." One of 'em died years ago, I believer nnt what get3 me is, what became of tne other hundred and nine." Says I, "Hundred and Dine. My dear sir, there never was a hundred and nine. Says he, Stranger, there was & hundred and eleven of 'em." And he hauled out a book and pointed to Napoleon in., and says he, "What s that but Napoleon one hundred and eleven ?""" ' . NO. 14. What We Seek. O are lookinf o That the farmers are looking for material relief in the organization of granges, is a fact the most superficial observer will readily concede. That many will be disappointed in realiz ing to the full extent of their wishes and expectations, immediate busi ness advantages, is equally evident, dlome was not built in one day, nor' will a day or a year enable the Pat rons to inaugurate a systematic method of doing business, that shall be national in character and as effect ive and perfect in its workings as it should be. To perfect such a sys tem, the best executive and business ability the organization can call to gether, will be required. A perfect well organized system of conducting business, on a cash basis is the need of the hour. Such a system will give power aud assistance to the or der. What we seek and what wo hope to secure is, an Interchange of the products of industry in all parts of our country and the world, at the cheapest possible rates. We desire to lessen the number of middlemen and sell to the consumer direct, and to purchase, so far as possible, from first hnds, .whatever we desire to buy. We seek to get out ofdebt, and when once out, to so manage as to keep out. We seek to lessen the taxes that are now weighing so heav ily upon us. We desire tu encour age immigration, and we expect to put forth au effort in this direction the present winter that wfll exeifa marked influence in increasing it. But we do not seek material pros- o perity unaccompanied by social ele vation; we seek the elevation of the working classes and to exalt- univer-D sal labor; we seek to throw off the chains of narrow-minded partizan ship, and to work together cheerful ly for the good not only of the order to which we belong, but for the in terests of our common humanity. Rural Wcrld. n -' o Which is Which? "Ah, Pat," said a school mistress to a chuckle headed urchin, into whose muddy brain she was attempting to beat theo alphabet, " I am afraid you will never learn anything. Now what; is that letter, eh ?" "Sure, don't you know rnaam?" replied Patrick. " I thought you would have recol lected that much, because it has a dot over the top of it." "Och, ma'am, I mind it well; but sure I thought it Mas afly speck." "Well, now, remember Pat it's I." "You, ma'am ?" " No, no, not U, but I." "Not I, but U, ma'am. How's that?" "Not U, but I blockhead.4' "Oh! yes; faith, now I have it, ma am. lou mean to sav that you, not I am a blockhead." "Fool ! fool !" exclaimed the ped- agoguess. almost bursting with rage. "Jist as ye plaze," replied Pat. "Fool or blockhead, it's no matter to mo which ye are so long as ye are free to own it." County Papers. The Washington Ttejmblican thus truthfully speaks of the value of a home paper: Ihe newspaper which announces the state of the markets and ives information of drouths and floods so that the farmer may be enabled to secure the full advantage of the time, is essential. A family paper, which is the herald of both jen and sorrow, and winch, by instructing the youth, keeps them out of bad society, is paying its way a thousandfold. We venture to assert that no family can either become or remain prosperous that is deprived of its newtpaper. Ileal estate and all other property would depreciate if an organized county should permit its local papers to languish or die. In fact, we know of no class of men who pay their way so fully as the conductors of the five thousand local weekly journals in the United States. o The Erie Obxerrer gets off the fol lowing: "In the early days of Pi thole, the pious oil men thought it necessary to have a Sabbath school. One of the leading young men was chosen for Superintendent. The po sition was new to him, but he deter mined not to shrink from the re sponsibility. Thinking that it would be proper for him to make a little opening speech, he cleared his throat and started as follows: "Children, you are very fortunate in being born in a Christian land. There are thou sands in the world not so' fortunate. Tt is peculiarly gratifying to know that you live in that portion of tbP earth where the rock pours forthQ rivers of oil. Now my dear chil dren, there's the Mormons, they wor ship old Monn: there's the Moham medans, thev worship old Mahom; the Heathens they worship old Heath; there's the Hindoos, they worship old Hind; and there's the Pagans, they worship old Pag, while weworsbip whom we please. , . - A movement .is now on" foot in Pennsylvania to organize a mammoth chorus to sing at the Centennial Cel ebration in Philadelphia. II the project meets with favor and proper encouragement; mey win cumiucuwj training at an early day. The chorus is to consist of five hundred voices, to be selected from the best Welsh talent in the Lackawanna and Wyo ming Valleys. . . - "Pat," said a vou make the traveler, "why did stone wall around your shanty so thick?" "Why please your honor, I bear they have extra ordinary high winds in Ameriky, so I thought if I built it about as thick as it was high, if it blew over ir would be just as high as it was afore your honor." . - ,.,r Socrates thought men -were gods vho had not found iVsout. O o O O .o o o