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La.LT'",ldr'' CUkn.Coty Or- ided eagc trried Jantitf. A. NOLTNER 0TA11Y P UK LIC. ENTERPRISE OFFICE. OREGON CITY. 1 Loans neil Lt anaaUeuVii; The Newspaper Man. -r un 1-nAW or pvpn tliinU- of the work there is in shedding ink cinprallvknownas newsiiarier men- Jottings," "In General," "Spice of r : iv " r ifa ' " Variations," and rumors rife, "Saturday Notes" and Sunday news, " A.11 sorts of Paragraphs" to amuse, Market reports and marine disasters, Pull's of nill and patent plasters; Now at the theater m white cravat, (Maw-hammer coat and opera hat; Then to the prize-ring, where you write Sickening ueians vi Hack to tiie city, just in time liacK to uie euy, j"" " v . To report the sermon of some divine; Steamboat collisions, smash-up of vwtinn rA'.irns to bother your brain; .. v. . . .-n. T ...:,!. 1 i.wnfa A.rcnts dramatic, with long-winded UUlllCI TV7UI 1 1 tl 1 1 1.-, , ! To write up his star to theatrical glory. Deaths and marriages, murders, rows, Hall and parties, minstrel shows, Stock simulations, bubbles of air, i Tossed about by bull and bear; ' Praisin" the limb in the dancer s pose, ! And next the calves in the cattle shows; Pencil in had at the racing course, Taking the time of a trotting horse ; Jottiii!' down each stroke and catch Made in a famous base-ball match ; Now of a street row taking a note And then a row in a college boat. These are a few of the many things At which the tireless pencil swings. Utility ot College Education. ; The utility of the ordinary colle 1 giate education to the " average man," is becoming year by year a 1 subject of increasing interest. We i see so many " graduates" unable to i make a fair living, distanced in the ; races for the world's great prizes by self-taught men, who make up in energv, industry, sense and tact, what they lack in classical culture, ; that many are inclined to doubt the 1 value of the training given in the higher institutions of learning. Our ' view is, that so far as it fits a man to rill his place in the world and to do - - . more successively than he eo it without such a preparation, far onlv is a collegiate educat ; Jal UU,J 1J , Ul.. e.ir i li mnimwii Oil. Jlow iai I Ins life work more iaiuuuuj mo. couia ao in so ition to be commended. How tar it does this has of late years become more I and more doubtful to many observ ! ers whose test of success is by no I means the vulgar one. The English historian, James Anthony lroude, he whom Father Burke made mince ! meat of a vear or two ago, in a ct I are before the students of the Glas 1 TTniroritv. of which he was Sector at the time, reminded them i..,f 'M-a ,.f nil :i man has to ret ! his living, and all the ologios in the ' worn I could not help lmn to it. I Without accepting Froude's dictum I in its fullness, daily experience j proves it largely true. It is a ques ' turn how far the education most in j vogue in our colleges helps any ' young man to make an honester liv , iiicr than he would earn without its i assistance, or incumbrance, perhaps, is an apter expression. In the in i dustries which occupy the vast ma jority of the people, the worth of a S man's work to the world is estnnat ! ed with approximation to accuracy, by what the world pays him for it. Taking this text, the London Spec ' fflconf nnd verv sutrcrestive article, shows that the wages of gen-erallv-edueated men who have not added to their general education the knowledge of any sjecial vocation men, in short, who know, how to do what colleges teach them to do, and nothing more are less than the av erage of handicraftsmen, and are rapidly becoming less than the wages of hod-carriers, whose work requires no training at all, but only brute strength and endurance. In this country, from the wider diffusion of education, the case is even stronger, and tends to become stronger with every fresh accession of raw recruits to the industrial army which each college-delivery brings. This is not . . .. i.:- lint it a verv cheering rennn, seems' to us a very needful and salu tary one and one very well worth the thoughtful consideration of our edu cators. In the very highest depart ments of human activity alone does it become grossly untrue that the . i " M,.nnu tad worth of a man s woi'K is j1i.-.i.lv.. by his wages. To these departments a verv small minority of men is call ed and their work will be done, no matter what their wages i co.lliko never could be paid, out iue earthly always could." The aim of colleges is to tit men ior iu and not alone for the high places of life, and this must be more tueir aim the more college education is ex tended. It is not a signal proof of their success in this aim if it should turn out, as the article we cite shows that ii, is turning out in very many cases, to be better for a man's work in the world that he never uao. at college. - Examiner. If you want to travel through the world in a quiet, contented way, don't get careless in any respect. Man. in every phase of life, is par ticularly given to carelessness. If he is on the high road to wealth and station, he becomes careless of those who, perhaps, were the very means of his good fortune. On the other hand, is he unfortunate in business, he looses his self-respect, and rushes to the dram-shop or gaming-table. Slightly sarcastic was the clergy man who paused and addressed a man coming into church after the sermon had begun, with the remark: "Glad to see you, sir, come in; always glad to see those here late who can'C come early;" and decidedly self-possessed was the man thus addressed, in the presence of an astonished congrega tion, as he responded: "Thank you; would you favor me with the text?" One of .our fashionable youths donned bis first silk hat and cigar Saturday evening. He got along well enough with the cigar, but he had to give up the hat it made him siek ai the stomach. "Warm weather during the week. r i I U " A Glauce Over the Vield. The lion's skin drops off. The President has signed the Inflationist bill. 1. It sanctions the increase of the legal tender circulation from 8350, 000,000 to 382,000,000. 2. It for the second time since the war promises that beyond this point there shall be no inflation, and re quires also that there shall be no re duction without consent of Congress. 3. It substantialy abolishes the difference between greenbacks and National bank notes, since the green backs are no longer required as a part of the bank reserves. 4. It reduces the reserves which the National banks are required to keep to 5 per cent., and thue sub stantially adds to the active circula tion 30,000,000. 5. It provides for transferring 55- 000. 000 of the National bank circula tion from Eastern to Western banks. In December, 18G8, Congress re stricted the United States Treasury from paying its legal tender notes, the issue having then been reduced to 350,000,000. And now again, in June, 1874, Congress, with the con sent of the President, once more re stricts the Treasury from owing less than 382,000,000 in notes payable to bearer. The United States Govern ment is, then commanded not to pay its debts we mean that class of debts which it forced upon its cred itors during the war; which we have seen depreciated sixty per cent, be low par, and which are still at a dis count of more than ten per cent. Since the restriction of 1808 there have been paid off 375,000,000 of interest bearing indebtedness we suppose, in pursuance of the princi ple enunciated in 18GS at Chicago, that "the national honor requires the payment of the public indebted ness in the uttermost good faith to all creditors." Again, this Govern ment, in accordance with the finan cial policy forced upon the Trersury by Congress, whenever it has had a surplus of coin or real money, has not used that money to pay its green backs according to jromise, but lias held an auction and bought back its 1. O. U.s from those who were will ing to sell at the greatest discount, which I. O. U.s being legal-tender, it has again paid out to its creditors for full value. When Gen. Grant, five years and four months ago, bseame President, the legal-tender circulation was 350 000,000; the semi-legal tender, or bank circulation, was 203,000,000, and the tag-rag and bobtail, or frac tional currency, was .17,000,000, making a total of 6fcG,000,000. Now, over thirteen years since greenkacks were first made use of, the lagal-ten-der circulation is 3S2,000,000, the semi-legal-tender circulation 350, 000,000, and the fractional currency 17.000,000, being in all 770,000,000. The increase in five years is 03.000, -000. or fourteen per cent. Mean while we have had a decision from the Supreme Court that anything is money which the Government is pleased to call money, and that a contract to pay dollars (dollar, in for mer time meant a specific quantity of coined gold or silver, of a certain fineness) is satisfied by paying what ever substance the Government may choose to issue and force into use as legal-tender. What more could Louis XIV., or the Sultan of Turkey have asked? Degradation of Con gress; degradation of the Supreme Court; degradation of the Executive; degradation of political and private morals; degradation of State, muni cipal, private and corporate credit ; this is the harvest we reap. Those who shamelessly demand that money be made of less" worth, in order that they may escape the obligations of their contracts, are now in the ascen dant in Congress, in the courts, and in the White House. iV. Y. Tribune. Is It Constitutional! The attempt to force whole com munities of people into a strait-jacket by means of such proscriptive and sumptuary legislation as the Local Option, law is essentially a Radical conception. The lately held Radical Convention of Indiana resolved in favor of "local option" on the subject of the traffic in liquors. As we have found, bv a short but sharp experi ence in California, where our astute Legislature was deluded into passing the present odious law, it is an adroit and skillful dodge meaning much more than it says. Micheal C. Kerr, who is one of the best lawyers in the country, gives it as his opinion that if the Legislature can authorize cities and other localities by elections within themselves to prohibit the traffic, then logically it can at once, and by its own direct act and flat, prohibit the traffic. That right and power under our State Constitution does not exist, and ought not to be exercised. The constitutional power, in our judgment, is for regulation not prohibition. It should therefore be so exercised, and that regulation should be most careful and strict, under severe safeguards and penal ties punishing all offenders against its requirements, whether they be the sellers or the drunkards and thereby the best interests and the security of society can be well guard ed and protected, and injustice done to no classes. Prohibition is simply impracticable and unconstitutional. Examiner. Butin-o Things. A farmer should never go to town without carrying something to sell-butter, eggs po tatoes, poultry, or even a load of wood By so doing his income is quTte sure to exceed his outgoes. There is no more miserable and pov erty stricken way than to keep send ing to stores and shops, having things charged, with the expectation of. paying for. them when special crops come. P" COURTESY The Short-Horn Fever. The high prices realized for theLyn dale herd recently sold at Chicago is evident that there is no abatement in the short horn fever. There is a great deal of surplus wealth among the agricultural community, for oth erwise fancy prices could not be paid for fancy stock. In the short horn we have the largest amount of beef with the least bone, but if the animals -were destined solely for the butcher's block they would sell at lower figures. The short horn cow or bull, when sep arated from the aristocratic herd, is valuable as a leaven of the coarser bovine ranks. The blood gives sub stance to the lathy frames, and grad ually the grade is improved. But were short-horn cows and bulls main ly used for the production of grade cattle, the demand for them would not be as great as it is. It is not a utilitarian purpose which keeps up the prices. Utility has its influence, but there is something beyond this. The desire to own what is exception ably bred, like the desire to possess a picture which held up in the thou sands, is what makes the short-horn fever rage so hotly. The animals grace the lawn, and then you can trace their blood back through a score or more of generations. In the picture bits of color tell. In the animal drops of blood are weighed. Judged from the utility standpoint neither of much consequence. But viewed from the aethetic line both become pearls of great price. The man who invests much money in a picture or in a short-horn, it is to be presumed, has a surplus of this world's goods. He does not have to fight a daily battle for simply bread and butter. The wolf does not stand grinning at the door, for if such were the case the money would be applied to the relief of a practical want in stead of being devoted to the gratifi cation of a fanciful desire. We draw attention to this phase of the case in order to impress the fact upon the reader's mind that there must be a great deal of wealth among the ag ricultural or grazing community in order to keep up the price of short horns. Horses also sell for fancy prices but just now the bovines seem to be in the lead. Possibly one rea son is that the purchaser of the shoit-horn is not put to the trouble and expense of training it, of devel oping that quality which imparts the highest excellence to the equine speed. The Lyndale herd was collected by Col. W. S. Kingatgrcatexpen.se. We remember that a few years ago he offered Mr Sheldon sixty thou sand dollars for six cows, which offer was declined. As he had the pluck to pay large prices, it was not diffi cult for him to secure animals of princely pedigree for his pastures in the breezy uplands of Minnesota. His herd has been the wonder of that State, but it is safe to say that it was not appreciated as highly at home as it was abroad, for the major ity of tlio people of Minnesota still take a utilitarian view of breeding. The. herd was taken to Chicago and placed under the hammer, and the sale attracted buyers from all parts of the country and from Europe. Fifty-eight cows brought 101,015, an average of 1,932 per head; and seventy -one bulls were knocked down at 25,375, an average of 1,207. The seventv-nine animals brought 120.000. When we look at the fig ures we are duly impressed with the remarkable success of the sale. While not a cow or heifer sold for less than 200, several ran well up into the thousands, the highest price paid being 5,500. The competition for the bull, Second Duke of Hill hurst red and white, out of Dutchess 97, by 0th Duke of Geneva, was very great. Hon. John Went worth bid 13,900 for the animal; but Mr. George P. Bobbins, of England, had the prize knocked down to him at 14,000. The Englishman, however, it ap pears, lost his head, as that other Englishman did who bid 40,000 for the cow at the sale of the herd at New York Mills last Fall. At least he was not able to settle up when called on. As the terms of the sale of the animal were not complied with, Col. King decided to take the Second Duke of Hillhurst back to Minnesota. Other parties, we are told, offered to pay the 14,000 for the bull, but the proposition was re fused. It is understood that Col. King will keep a small but select herd of short-horns at Lyndale. The fever still burns in his veins and having done so well,' he is willing and ready for another venture. Of course it is impossible to say to A certainty how long short-horn cat tle will bring the extraordinary prices which tl.ey now command. But it looks as if there would be no abatement of the fever for years. Several wealthy gentlemen in Eng land are rivals in this line, and they will not suffer the prices to decline for some time at least. They are able to bull the market and they will do it. And then their example in this particular is imitated in this country. If the Lyndale herd could sell for such high figures upon the heels of panic, it looks to us as if short-horn cattle would continue a safe fancy stock for several years to come. A shrewd little fellow was entrust ed to the care of his uncle who fed the boy poorly. One day he happen ed to see a grey-hound, whereupon he asked the little fellow if he knew what made the dog so poor. The re ply was: "I expect he lives with his uncle." . o The editor of the Wells Atlas has got a new "suit," and comes out in a quarter of a column to announce the fact. It is so seldom that an editor gets a new shirt even that it is worth while to announce the fact. OF BANCROFT LIBRARY', The Leisure Time of IJoys. We would suggest to many parents who are perplexed with the difficul ty of finding the wherewithal to amuse and interest their boys to give their lads every opportunity of ac quiring a mechanical trade. The in dustry and ingenuity of a boy of average ability, says the Scientific American, may easily be made to furnish him with a never-failing source of amusement of the best or der. The boy who can produce or make something already begins to feel that he is somebody in the world, that achievement of a result is not a result reserved for grown people only. And the education of mind, eye, and hand, which the use of tools and mechanical appliances furnishes, is of great and real value, beyond the good resulting from oc cupation of leisure time. Having nothing to do is as great a snare to the young as it is to the grown; and no greater benefits can be conferred on youths than to teach them to con vert time now wasted, and often worse than wasted, into pleasant means of recreation and improve ment. The boy, whose time and mind are now occupied with marbles and kites, may be a Watt, a Morse or a Bessemer, in embryo; and it is certainly an easy matter to turn his thoughts and musings into a chan nel which shall give full scope to their faculties. As to most boys the use of mechanical tools is the most fascinating of all occupations. As logic and mathematics have a value beyond accuracy in argument and the correct solution of problems, in that they teach men the habit of us ing their reflecting powers systemat ically, so carpentry, turning and other arts are of high importance. These occupations teach boys to think, to proceed from initial causes to results, and not only to under stand the nature and duty of the mechanical powers, but to observe their effects; and to acquire knowl edge by actual experiment, which is the best way of learning anything. All the theories culled out of books leave an impress on the mind and memory which is slight compar ed to that of the practical experience of the true mechanic. Our advice is to all who have the great responsi bility of the charge of boys. Give them a lathe or a set of carpenter's or even blacksmith's tools. Give their minds a turn toward the solid and useful side of life. You will soon see the result in increased ac tivity of their thinking capabilities, and the direction of their ideas to ward practical results; and, still more obviously, in the avoidance of idle mischief and nonsense (to omit all reference to absolute wickedness and moral degredation) , which are, to a great extent, the pastime of the generation which is to succeed us. . Mr. Cooley's Hat. When Mr. Cooley came in church last Sunday he placed his new hat just outside the pew in the aisle. Presently Mrs. Pitman entered, and as she proceeded up the aisle her abounding skirts scooped Cooley's hat and rolled it up nearly to the pulpit. Cooley pursued his hat with feelings of indignation, and when Mrs. Pitman took her seat he walked back with his hat brushing it with his sleeve. A few moments later Mrs. Hopking came into the church, and as Cooley had again placed his hat in the aisle, Mrs. Hopkin's skirts struck it and swept it along about twenty feet, and left it lying on the carpet in a demoralized condition. Cooley was singing a hymn at the time, and he didn't miss it. But a moment later, when he looked over the edge of the pew to see if it was safe he was furious to perceive that it was gone. He skirmished up the aisle after it again, red in the face, and uttering sentences which were horribly out of place in the sanctua ry. However, he put his hat down again and determined to keep his eye on it, but just as he turned his head away for a moment Mrs. Smiley came in, and Cooley turned around only iri time to watch his hat being gathered in under Mrs. Smiley's skirts and carried away by them. He started in pursuit, and just as he did so the hat must have rolled against Mrs. Smiley's ankles, for she gave a junip and screamed right out in church. When her husband asked her what was the matter she said there must be a dog under her dress, and she gave her skirts a twist. Out rolled Cooley's hat, and Mr. Smiley, being very near-sighted, thought it was a dog, and immedi ately kicked it so savagely that it flew" up into the gallery and lodged on top of the organ. Cooley per fectly frantic with rage forgot where he was, and holding a clinched fist under Smiley's nose, he shrieked: " I've half a mind to bust you over the snoot!" Then he flung down his hymn-book and rushed from the church. He went home bare-headed and the sexton brought his humili ating hat around after dinner. After this Cooley intends to go to Quaker meetings, where he can say his pray ers with his hat on his head. Max Adelery. Not Much. We have frequently within the past few months seen cur name mentioned as a "slighted or defeated candidate" for the nomina tion of State Printer. We would most respectfully ask these sympa thizing friends to be so kind as not to borrow trouble on this account for us. We will state, and our friends konw that we are saying what is true, that we declined emphatically to have our name used before the last convention, both State and coun ty, for any position and we have nei ther been slighted nor defeated. The Power of Kindness. "Are you not afraid," said a friend to Miss Dix, the philanthropist, "to travel over the country alone?" " I am naturally timid," she replied, "and diffident like all my sex, but in order to carry out all my purposes, I know that it is necessary to make many sarifices and to encounter many dan gers. It is true, I have been in my travels through the different States, in perilous situations. I will men tion one which occured in the State of Michigan. I had hired a carriage and driver to convey me some dis tance to an uninhabited portion of the country. In starting, I discov ered that the driver, a young lad, had a pair of pistols Avith him. In quiring what he was doing with arms, he said he carried them to pro tect us, as he had heard that robber ries had been committed on our road. I said to him "give me the pistols; I will take care of them." He did so reluctantly. " In pursuing our journey through a dismal looking forest, a man rush ed into the road, caught the horse by the bridle and demanded my parse. I said to him, with as much self-possession as I could command, "are you not ashamed to rob a poor woman? I have but little money aud I want to defray my expenses in vis iting prisons and poor-houses, and occasionally to objects of charity. If you have been unfortunate, and are in distress and in want of money, I will give you some," While thus speaking to him, I discovered his countenance changing, and he be came deadly pale. "My God," he exclaimed, "that voice!" and imme diately told me he had been in the Philadelphia penitentiary, and had heard me lecture to some of the pris oners in an adjoining cell, and that he now recognized my voice. He then desired me to pass on, and ex pressed deep sorrow for the outrage he had committed. But I drew out my purse, and said to him, "I will give you something to support you until you get into honest employ ment." He declined, at first, taking anything, until I insisted on his do ing so, for fear he might be tempted to rob some one else before lie could get into honest employment." Seasonable Food. The wholesomeness of food de pends nearly as much on the time it is taken as on the quality. We have grown so luxurious in our physical as well as mental tastes, that we are constantly tempted to eat things out of season. Yielding to the tempta tion, as we often do, we pay the pen alty, soon or late, in temporary or chronic derangement of our health. The meat which is excellent in cold, may not be desirable in warm weath er; fish is best during Spring and early .Summer; vegetables and fruit are nutritious when they are fully ripened by sun and season, and not artificially stimulated. Nature knows what she is doing; she furnishes for every latitude the productions fitest for such latitude. We need variety, not so much at one time, as from time to time. The delicacies of the season will not hurt us; but the del icacies out of season certainly will, if long continued. The appetite so jaded as to crave oysters in July, or strawberries in December, needs careful correction by the adoption of the simplest habits. The palate nat urally relishes what Nature has near' at hand. As a rule, not only is the simplest food the best food, but the most seasonable is, in the long run, the most appetizing. There is no difficulty in determining what we should eat, since the products of our climate show us plainly month by month. Fish, flesh and fruit, by their plumpness, tenderness and ripeness, themselves denote when they are ready to be eaten. A sound stomach will profit by whatever an unspoiled palate enjoys. Seribner's for June. Says Mary Kyle Dallas: "Dress, dress, dress! It is the bane of wo manhood from her cradle to her grave, and has been ever since Eve made an overskirt of fig leaves. Ev erything we do is mixed up with our toilet, somehow. When we are christened, our christening robes is the first thought. " When we are first taken to church, we are beribboned and belaced to make our appearance there; and are told that we cannot possibly go in those shabby old shoes, but must wear the nice Sun day ones. When we are married, our costume is the topic which all discuss, and white satin and pearls are more important by far than our emotions. And when the most ter" rible grief of life falls upon us. anx ious voices beg us to declare in favor of black folds of crape and a veil with a hem half a yard wide, or ask us softly, whether we are 'going to mourn deeply,' alluding, of course, to our black clothes. Yes, and when we are dead ourselves, it is still how we are dressed that is to thought of, though at least we are relieved of the task of dressing ourselves. Some wicked French writer has declared that woman will insist upon having the pretty dress for the Day of Judg ment, or refuse to attend at all." You are going to have your troub les as well as your pleasures. A man is not worth a snap who has not had trouble. You cannot subdue selfishness without a struggle. You cannot sustain pride without a con flict. You cannot expect to go through life without bearing bur dens. But you are going to have help under circumsta nses that will redeem you from these things. You are going to experience more victo ries than defeats. Your sufferings will bo only here and there little spots in a whole field of peace and joy. The Niobe of Nations. Ex-Mayor Medill, of Chicago, not long since made a tour through tho British isles. Writing of one of them he says: Ireland is a superbly beautiful land, inhabited by poverty stricken, unhappy and discontented people that is, in three or four provinces. Nearly three-quarters of a million of families live in little shaky, unclean huts, and have hard scratching to make money enough to pay the rent to the landlord, who squanders it in Great Britain and the Continent? The Inhabifants of Ireland pay in rent 100,000,000 gold for the privilege of liring on land confiscated from their fathers, and this money is taken out of the coun try as fast as collected, and spent abroad. Ireland has no manufac tures except the linen trade of Bel fast. Its immense water power runs idle forever. The country seems dormant, inert, unhappy, enterprise less. Ireland is truly the Niobe among nations. She is held down by the strong hand of power. There is a national constabulary of 80,000 men, with head-quarters at Dublin, who do all police duty. Every city, town, village and railway station has its force of armetl police. There are forts and barracks everywhere. Fif teen or twenty thousand red coats garrison them, and war vessels lie at anchor in every Irish harbor. No citizen is allowed to have and keep a gun or pistol, unless he pays a large license therefor every year, and is registered. The people are totally disarmed and utterly jDOwerless to do more than scold, protest, and swear at their conquerers. The recent acts of Parliament hare done a little good. The Tenant act, however, is being nullified by the landlords; who are forcing tenants to sign special agreements releasing the lands from the terms of this act, which gives the tenant a property in his improvements. The Kind. Not even the Repub lican papers. have a good word for the pious Gen. O. O. Howard, who is to be quartered on us as Comman der of this Department. The Salem Record, Independent, has this to say of the hero of the Freudman's Bu reau. . General O. O. Howard, ho, dur ing the late war, had immediate charge of the Freedman's Bureau, and who was openly charged with em bezzlement and other crimes, having been whitewashed by the Committee of Inquiry at Washington, has been ordered to take command of the De partment of the Columbia, rice Gen. Davis, whose future position or des tination has not yet been made public. Rich Without Monet. Many a man is richwithout money. Thou- C sands of men with nothing in theirD pockets are rich. A man born with a good sound constitution, a good stomach, a good heart, good limbs, and a pretty good head piece is rich. Good bones are better than gold; tough muscles better than silver; and the nerves that flash fire an.l enrnr energy to every function are better man nouses or land, it is better than a landed estate to havfi th right kind of father or mother. Good breeds and bad breeds exist among men as really as among herds and horses. Education may do much to check bad tendencies or to flpvplnriA good ones; but it is a greater thing to inherit the risrht -nronortion of faculties to start with. The man is rich who has a crood disnosition who is naturally kind, patient, cheer- iui ana nopetul. . We might as well laugh as cry these dull times, and th fnllnwinrr is applicable to the present financial crisis: curing the great collapse of 1857, a gentleman of color kept a bank in a Western city. His insti- i i - . -r . iunon was apparently in a sound 0 condition, but to be in fashion with the white folks he concluded to fail. Next morning a man came and shook the door, but a voir.fi insidfi vMnnn.1. ed that " de bank is closed." But the man replied that he had left a new pair of boots there tb dav b. fore, and wanted them. The sable iinancier opened the door softly, and throwing out one boot remarked, "We is only paying fifty cents on the dollar." Some years ago there was a worthy German in Baltimore who took unto himself a fair daughter of the Fath erland. In about a year Hans' bet ter half presenter! him with a fine heir, when . he exclaimed, "Yell, Katrine, dat is good!" When, in a year afterwards, she presented him with a pair of twins, he said, " Veil, dat 13 petter dan de oder time. I drinks more as ten glass of beer on dat." But when, a year later, she presented him with triplets, he cried out, in agonYy " Mine Got in Him rael, Katrine, vat isli de matter of you? Petter you stop dis piziness fore dere comes a village here?" OiTi Record. You and I "write our lives as if on one of those mani fold writers which you use. A thin, filmy sheet here, a bit of black paper below it ; but the writing goes through upon the next page, and when the blackness that divides two worlds is swept away, thehistory of each life, written by ourselves, remains legible in eternity. And the question is, what sort of autobiography are we writing for the revelation of that day, and how far do our circumstances help us to transcribe fair in our lives the will of God and the image of our Redeemer? Maclaren. - - '"Kissing your sweetheart," says a trifling young man, " is like eating soup with a fork; it takes along tune to get enough." 0 1 0 o 0 0 O o o