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C1TV ORPHANS.
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Fatherless motlicrles.s.
Think of our loneliness all thro' the
vesirs.
Shelterless comfortless
Out in the o ld ; . ... ., - .
Open your hearts to us.
Toilers for gold,
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Lift your robes daintily,
Tis here we dwell
CIo.se on the confines of death and hell
Narrow and damp '
With the mold of avault 7
Look not so lothinjly, .
Is it our fault? ,
Once we were innocent,
Lonir, lonr a.o
Onlv to tliink of it adds to our woe
For vainly we lift np '
Oir eyes to the liht ;
We dwell in the shadow
Of sin and of night.
Horn to be buffeted
Ilunprermnd scorn
Are but our daily bread children for
lorn. - All who e'er loved us
Are under the sod ;
Pity us; pray for us,
People of God.
The 3Ian Vlio Smokes.
The Daily Routine ot HU Kxeellei.cy
tle irri,i(l-iit at tlie Sea.Shor Cnui
tuL Don Piatt in the Cajiitat
This is what Long Brunch is now
called, and we walked by the Execu
tive Mansion. It is a rather unpre
tending cottage, flanked on either
side by more pretentious houses, all
three belonging to his Excellency,
who rents at exhorbitant prices the
two. There are some shabby sort of
people who are willing to pay heavi
ly for tiie previlege of having a Pres
ident as landlord and neighbor.
We questioned a gentleman who is
on familiar terms with General Grant
as to how this intellectual personage
managed to put in his time. Our
friend replied, slowly, as if trying to
remember between sentences.
"Well, he rises about 9 and smokss.
Then he breakfasts and smokes. Af
ter, his secretary opens the mail and
the President smokes."
"Does he ever read the papers?"
'"Oil, no; his secretary reads them,
and when he sees a passage or para
graph likely to interest the President
he marks it. The liles thus marked
the President looks into, but he sel
dom gets beyond one, and this lje
does not keep long unless it happens
to be a sporting journal. After this
intellectual ellort he has visitors."
"And the President listens and
smokes V"
"He smokes, certainly; but there
is a popular delusion anent that si
lence. Among his intimate friends
and family he talks incessantly that
is, if the subject is not political.
When politics are touched lie sud
denly grows reserved and sinks into
silence."
"And after?"
"Well, then comes an early dinner
and more smoking. After dinner
there is a drive of two and sometimes
three hours. Then tea and smoke.
After tea more company and more
cigars. Sometimes be indulges in a
walk, and then he is accompanied 1.V
a friend and cigar. After a night-cap
and bed."
"Why, does he give no time to the
afiairs of the Government?"
"My dear friend, he gives all his
time here, in Washington, to Govern
ment matters. This is done by talk
ing. Our Government is carried on
through talk, in a social, pleasant
way. Every man and sometimes the
woman, has an ollice to be got. either
for self or friend. That is Govern
ment business, and lie or she talks it
at the President. Or there is a con
tract in question. This is Govern
ment business, of course."
"And so we pay a hundred thou
sand dollars a year directly and indi
rectly for a man to talk politics.
However, that is a very inoffensive
sort of a way to put in the time.
How are his habits?"
" Not so good as his occupation,
They talk about a third term. The
way his Excellency is drinking and
smoking it is not likely that he will
live out the second term. If he does
he has a constitution far stronger
than that of the United States."
"Is it not perfectly amazing that
such a mass of stolid ignorance and
ill-breeding should be tolerated by a
people supposed to be civilized?"
"It would not be, perhaps, if the
journals so prompt to expose the
shortcomings of subordinates, such
as Senators and Secretaries, were to
comment upon and criticise those of
the President."
"That is true," we said. "No man
ever held office in this country who
has been so tenderly treated as this
man, with Ids brood of brutal rela
tives. We have a very high opinion
of the people; but if they knew what
the citizens of Washington generally
know, Grant would be hooted out of
the White House."
What 1 Know of Farming."
BY A WESTERN MAX.
Chapter I.
Farming is damned hard work.
A county clerk in a rural town had
a pet calf, which he was training up
in the ways of the ox. The calf
walked around very patiently under
one end of the ypke, while Mr. Clerk
held np the other end. But in an
unfortunate moment, the man con
ceived the idea of putting his own
neck in the yoke to let the calf see
how it would seem to work with a
partner. This frightened the calf,
and elevating his tail and voice, he
struck a " dead run" for the village,
and Mr. Clerk went along, with his'
head down, and his plug hat in his
hand, straining every nerve to keep
up, and crying at the top of his
voice:
"Here we come! blast our fool
6ouls! Head Tts,Bome'body !"
POLITICAL XEWs.
Colcmbus, September 2 The
mblfcan State Comeotion' nominal
Bioner, Thomas W. Harvey; Qk of'
the Supreme Court, ilodllev-
iuember of the Board of Public
Works, Stephen R. Ilosmer; These
are all re-nominations, except John
son, who is nominated for the unex
pired term of Judge Stone who re
signed to-dav. .
St. Loris'Sept 2Tho People's
State Convention met here to-day
After organizing it appointed a Com
mittee, of Conference, consisting of
one 'from' each' Constitutional Dis
trict, to select a ticket. Win. Gentry
of I ettis county, was nominated for
Governor by acclamation, and II. W.
Headley, of Green county, for Lieut
Governor. The balance of the ticket
will be nominated to-morrow.
LixcoLiX, Sept. 2. The Republi
can State Convention met here this
afternoon and organized amid much
confusion, much bad feeling exist
ing between delegates from the east
ern and western portions of the
State. L. Crouse was renominated
for Congress, by acclamation, and
Silas Garber, of Red Willow, for
Governor.
ArorsTAGa. Sept. 8. The Dem
ocratic Congressional Committee of
the Eighth District, after an all
night session, nominated Alex. II.
Stephens.
Chicago, Sept. 3. Among the
Congressional nominations vester
day were the following: Sixth Illi
nois District (Rep.) Gen. Thomas
J. Henderson, defeating J. B. Haw
Iy, present member. Sixteenth
Illinois District (Rep.) Gen. S. Mar
tin, renominated. Ninth Michigan
District (Rep.) , J. A. Hubbell, re
nominated. Second Michigan Dis
trict (Rep.) J. C. Burrows, renomi
nated. Fifth Michigan District, W.
B. Williams, renominated. Fifth
Michigan District (Rep.), C. G.Wil
liams. Cheyenne, Wy., Sept. n. The
election returns are nearly all in and
give Steele (Dem.) a majority- of
between live and six hundred", re
electing him as Delegate by double
the majority that he received two
years ago. The Democratic ticket is
generally successful throughout the
Territory.
New Yokk, Sept. 3. The Demo
cratic Convention which met at Hag
ertown, Maryland, yesterda', nomi
nated Wm. Walsh for Congress.
Mongoniery Blair was one of the
defeated candidates.
Bt-iieinotox, Sept. 3. The latest
returns from the State election are
as follows: Two hundred and twenty
towns give Peck (Rep.) for Congress
32,501; Bingham (Dem.) 13,052
Peck's majority, l'J,44'J. Nineteen
towns are yet to hear from. In the
Second District, Poland is undoubt
edly defeated for Congress. The
vote is as follews: Seventy-one towns
(being all but ten in the District)
gives Poland 5,205; Dennison, fj,5fsG;
Davenport and scattering, 2.170;
Dennison's vote over Poland, 1,102.
There is no choice in the District, a
majority being required in order to
make an election ou the rirst trial; at
the next trial a plurality will elect.
Omaha, Sept. 3. The Republican
State Convention continued in ses
sion all last night and during the
entire dav to-dav. The session was
very stormy and exciting, the dissus- i
sion over the platform being of a
very bitter character. J. C. Mc
Bride was nominated for the Legis
lature; George II. Roberts, Attorney
General. Resolutions adopted ex
press a desire to see the credit of the
country firmly established, and a
hope that the finances will soon be
based on a metallic currency; favor
free banking and economy and re
form in all departments of the pub
lic service; demand a rigid account
ability from all office-holders; and
declare a determination to resist by
all lawfull measures unjust exactions
by railroad companies.
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Cii a k it y Defined. It is not char
ity to give a penny to the street med
icant of whom nothing is known,
while we haggle with a poor man out
of employment for a miserable, shil
ling. It is not charity to beat down
a poor seamstress to starvation to let
her sit in her clothes sewing all day,
to deduct from her pitiful remunera
tions if the storm delays her irompt
arrival. It is not charity to take a
poor relative into your family and
make her the slave of all your whims
and taunt her continually with her
dependent situation. It is not char
ity to give with a supercilious air
and patronage, as if God had made
you. the rich man, of different blood
from the shivering recipient, whose
only crime is that he is poor. It is
not charity to be an extortionei- not
though you bestow your alms by the
thous .nds.
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Good Investment. The Augusta
(Ga.) Cotton Factory has proved a
splendid investment for its owners.
The New York Sun tells us that it
was started at the close of the war;
that only sixty thousand dollars were
ever paid m, anil tne company nas
paid out in dividends, $1,008,000,
i ?i q i.vonertv worth 81,200,00, at the
owest calculation, and a surplus of
S2G5,870. During the nscal year
jnstended the company has expended
S350,000 for new machinery and for
the enlargement and improvement of
the building. If this be all true, it
pays better than the famous "Corn
stock Lead" of Nevada.
Ought to Bewake. Young ladies
subject to nervous debility in sum
mer, ought to beware of taking too
much exercise. They should, as
much as possible, lie quietly upon
the sofa,, and suffer their mothers to
fan the ni.
, " oupreme Judges
hong term Luther Da; short term!
V. W. Johnson: Sc honl n :'
TCLEGRAPIIIC XEHii.
HAKitrt,nrr.o; Pa., Sept. 1. The ne
gro who attempted to outrage a little
girl, five years of age, and then killed
her while being taken to jail was tak
en from " the officers by a mob who
riddled him with bullets. .
Washington, Sept. . 1. Special
Treasury agent Goddard leaves here
to-night for San Francisco, charged
with .certain duties connected with
Cnstoms services in California, Ore
gon and Washington Territory.
Boston, Sept. 2 At Mystic Park,
to-day, -Goldsmith .Maid trotted
against her 0wn: record for a purse
of 82,500. She was allowed three
trials, and was accompanied by a
running horse driven to a buggy.
On the second trial tire '' track Was
scraped close to the pole and there
was not a breath of wiud. She went
to the quarter in 33, to the half in
1:00-4, lifted her head slightly as she
reached it, but trotted the last half
without a break, and made the mile
in 2:14.
Washington, Sept. 3. As the re
sult of the conference between the
Attorney-General and the President
at Long Branch, and of the meeting
af the War department to-day, Attorney-General
Williams has issued an
order to United States Marshals and
Attorneys of districts in the South
where disorders are oceuring, calling
their attention to the enforcement of
acts of Congress which give the Gen
eral Government jourisdiction in the
matter and ordering them to spare no
efforts or necessary expense in order
to detect, arrest and punish the per
petrators of outrages. "United States
troops will" the order says, "be sta
tioned at different and convenient
points in your districts for the pur
pose of giving yon all needful aid iu
the discharge of your official duties.
You understand, of course, that no
interference whatever is hereby in
tended with any political or party
action not in the violation of law, and
for the protection of all 'classes of
citizens, white and colored in the
exercise of the franchise and the en
joyment of rights and privileges
which they are entitled by the Consti
tution and laws of the United States.
In the claim of the Oregon Steam
Navigation company that Z.F.Moody
had failed to perform the mail service
between Portland and the Dalles,
the facts in the case in behalf of Mr.
Moody were presented by Senator
Mitchell, but not as his counsel.
After a long controversy, the Postmaster-General
has decided that the
objection to Mr. Moody was merely
technical, he having promptly and
substantially performed his contract
in the time required by the schedule.
The Secretary of the Interior has
ordered an investigation of all cir
cumstances connected with the alleg
ed attempt of Indian agent Roberts
to extort blackmail at White Moun
tain reservation, in Arizona. The
agent has sent a general denial of all
charges made against him.
Coi.r.MJiiA, Sept. 2. The Board of
Trade of Columbia, at a meeting this
eveniug, adopted resolutions denounc
ing the attempt of certain parties,
particularly Senator Patterson, to
create a false impression as to the
relations which exist between the
white and colored people of this
State, and declaring emphatically
that there are no signs of danger of a
collision between them; that these
reports are disastrous to the prosper
ity of the people, and that whatever
appearance of trouble may have ex
isted was due and directly tracable
to colored men, acting on the advice
and suggestions of bad white men,
who, for their own ends, are intent
upon bringing about a rupture be
tween the races. They brand the
statement that there is any danger of
rupture as false, and ask the national
authorities to cause an investigation
to be made as to the truth of state
ments of Patterson and others made
at Washington.
New Ohle.vns, Sept. 3. Gov. Kel
logg has issued a proclamation offer
ing a reward of $5,000 each for the
discovery af the persons implicated
in the Conshatta affair.
Additional information from Con
shatta is to the effect that the first
account of the trouble is' true, viz:
that it was brought about by an or
ganized effort on the part of white
office-holders to incite the nogros
to violence. 'tv
Memphis, Sept. 4. Advices from
Greenvill, Miss., state that a large
fire oecurcd there j'esterday. Nearly
all the business houses (in all 73),
valued at over a quarter of a mil
lion of dollars, were destroyed.
There was about 8150,000 insurance,
of which the planters of Mississippi
and the planters of Memphis had a
large amount. There will be consid
erable suffering, as nearly all the
provisions in the town were destroy
ed.. A man named Thompson has
been arrested on suspicion of being
concerned in the incendiary work.
Topeka, Sept. 3. Williams, Agent
for the Kickapoo tribe, harj applied
to the State for a militia escort to
bring his Kickapoos, who are mainly
women and children, up from the
Indian Territory to the Kansas line,
and protect them from the Little
Osages, who have visited the Agency
with hostile intent and expressed a
determination to kill every white
man in the Territory. Governor Os
borne has tendered the use of the mi
litia to General Pope for such escort.
Great alarm exists along the southern
line contagious to the Osage Reser
vation, and militia are concentrating
in that locality.
Owned Ur. During a hurricane
in Kansas a cotinty treasurer owned
up that he had stolen Sl,500 of coun
ty money, but after the wind subsid
ed he denied it.
Most kirjds of roots and barks are
now used as medicines except : the
cube root and tha bark of dog . :
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
White Wives for Xegroes.
In a speech at Yicksburg, recently,
a mulatto' scoundrel named Daren
port, Chancery County Clerk, refer
red as follows to the elopement of a
white girl at Port Gibson, with a ne
gro member of the legislature: "The
time was not far distantwhen the
Fort Gibson affair would Ce repeated
daily. It would be nothing to see
large numbers follow the example of
that young lady. He would go fur
ther, and say, that there were thou
sands of Southern women, many here
in Yicksburg, of the most respect
able families who would do so to-day
were they not afraid. But these things
would change, barriers would be brok
en down, for the white women now see
that the negro is the coming man,
and that they have the control of the
city and State governments. If he
were not a married man, he could
get the doughter of one of the best
families in Yicksburg, and were he
in the matrimonial market, he would
buckle on a pair of revolvers and
meet the woman's brotherr or father
who would dare to interfere with his
love affairs, or rather to attempt to
prevent daughters and sisters from
choice in the section of a good hus
band (whom they were anxious to
have) among the colered men."
This moved the Vicksburgei' to re
mark the next day:
"We have seen the time when
this lying scoundrel would not have
lived five minutes after uttering such
atrocious statements, and if he be
permitted to live now we shall be
greatly surprised. He deserves to
die the death of a dog, and any man
who has a daughter or sister here,
will be jus ified in the eyes of God
and man in shooting him down pre
cisely as he would shoot down a wolf
or a rabid dog.
"Every negro voter in Davidson
county will applaud to the echo the
damnable sentiments uttered by Da
venport; and every candidate who
has bargained for colored voters by
a pretended indorsement of the civil
rights bill is still more infamous.
This is a white man's fight for a
white man's ticket, against the vilest
combination ever formed to betray
the interests of the people."
Why Penknives? Isn't it abou
time people stopped talking about
peuknives ? In my opinion, pencil
knife would be a far more fitting
term. Now, in olden times, the
house-canaries used to tell us Jack-in-
the-Pulpits how human folk wrote
altogether with the quill of the gray
goose family, and that as it was a
necessary accomplishment for ladies
or gentlemen to know how to make
a pen, every one wished to have a
sharp knife for the purpose. Hence
it was quite a recommendation to my
knife to call it a penknife. But who
uses penknives nowadays? Yery
few, if the birds know any thing
about it. Gold pens, steel pens, and
even India-rubber pens, have left the
goose question nowhere, as far as
people in general are concerned; and
the few folks who use "quills" rarely
take a so-called penknife to them.
They use patent quill-cutters that
is when they don't buy the quill
pens ready made yes, patent quill
cutters, that open their brass mouths
with a click and bite the quills into
pens before you can say Jack Robin
son. So, my boys and girls, let's
put an end to this small sham, and
abolish the word penknife. Call the
useful article with which you do so
much damage, a pocket-knife, a fur-niture-snatcher,
a chestnut-peeler, a
chip-maker, any thing but what it
isn't a penknife. St. Xic7olas for
August.
Svrpiusing Butter. A fastidious
man from abroad and a local mine
owner sat opposite each other at din
ntr in Yirginia City and the Enter
prise gives this version of their con
versation: Dundreary Deah me,
this is disgusting (holding np his
knife and gazing fixidly at its point)
Thisis eithaw the second or the third
hair I think it's the third that I've
found in this buttah. Comstocker
You've not been here long, I judge;
otherwise you would not have com
plained of hair in the butter. Dun
dreary Not complain of hairs in the
buttah. You surprise me, sir. How
could I do otherwise? Comstocker
These hairs, sir, are just as natural
to Washoe butter as butter is the
natural product of milk. They are
just as good and just as clean as the
butter. All our butter comes from
the great valleys of our State, where
flourishes the most nutricious and
truly wonderful plant, the white
sage. On this our cattle feed and
fatten. This white sage has many
virtues. Strange as it may appear
to you sir, from the white sago is
manufactured a most wonderful and
very popular hair restorative. Well
sir, in a country where all the cows
feed on the white sage, do j-ou think
it likely that the butter will bo bald
headed? Puheished Her. A man in
Orange county, Yermont, has pub
lished the following: "Whereas, the
Old Woman known as my Wife, in
Consequence of attending the Pow
wows of the Jumpers and the How
lers and the Cat Burners," has be
come entirely senseless. Crazy and
Reckless, and does nothing but run
up and down the road and Circulate
the most infamous Lies Concerning
myself anJ others, thus accomplish
ing my Ruin; therefore, I forbid any
one to harbor or trust her on my ac
count." "You cannot taste in the dark,!'
said a lecturer. "Nature has intend
ed us to see our food." "Then, how
is it about a blind man at dinner?"
asked a pupil. "Nature sir, has pro
vided him with an eye-tooth." The
querist fainted, . .
Gratitude and Justice.
As the branches of a tree return
their sap to the root from which it
arose; as poureth his streams to the
sea, where his spring was supplied;
so the heart of a grateful man de
lighteth in returning a benefit re
ceived. He acknowledgeth his obligations
with cheerfulness; he looketh on his
benefactor with love anil Qsteem.
And if to return it be not in his
power, he nourisheth in his breast
with kindness; he forgetteth it not
all the days of his life.
The hand of the generous man is
like the clouds of heaven, which
drop upon the earth fruits, herbage,
and flowers; but the heart of the
ungrateful man is like a desert of
sand, which swallow with greediness
the showers which fall, and bnrieth
them in his bosom, and produceth
nothing.
Envy not thy benefactor, neither
strive to conceal the benefit he hath
conferred; for though the act of gen
erosity commandeth admiration, yet
the humility of gratitude toucheth
the heart, and is amiable in the sight
both of God and man. .
But receive not a favor from the
hands of the proud; to the selfish
and avaricious have no obligations;
the vanity of pride shall expose thee
to shame, and greediness of avarice
shall never be satisfied.
The peace of society dependeth on
the happiness of individuals, on the
safe enjoyment of all their posses
sions. Keep the desires of your heart,
therefore, within the bounds of mod
eration; let the hand of justice lead
them ftright.
Cast not an evil eye upon the
goods of thy neighbor; let whatever
is his property be sacred to thy
touch.
Let no temptation allure thee, nor
any provocation excite thee to lift
up thy hand to the hazard of life.
Defame him not in his character;
bear no false witness against him.
Corrupt not his servant to cheat or
forsake him; and the wife of his
bosom, O tempt not to sin.
It will be a grief to his heart,
which thou canst not relieve; an in
jury to his life, which no reparation
can atone for.
In thy dealings with men, be im
partial and just; and do unto them
as thou wouldst they should do unto
thee.
Be faithful to thy trust, and de
ceive not the man who reiieth upon
thee; be assured, it is less evil in the
sight of God to steal than to betray.
Oppress not the poor, and defraud
not of his hire the laboring man.
When thou sellest for gain, hear
the whisperings of conscience and
be satisfied Avith moderation; nor
from the ignorance of the buyer
make any advantage.
Pay the debts Avhich thou owest,
for he avIio gaA'e thee credit relied
upon thine honor; and to withhold
from him his due is both mean and
unjust.
Finally, O son of society, examine
thy heart, call remembrance to thy
aid; and if iu anj' of these things
thou findest thou hast transgressed,
take sorrow and shame to thyself,
and mak speedy reparation to the
utmost of thy power. Economy of
Human Life..
In Ohio a mound of a novel char
acter has recently been cut through,
in order to approach the Newton
bridge, near Cincinnati. It was evi
dently the debris of a huge sacrifice
of children. A space twenty-five
feet in diameter had been covered
with an immense heap of wood, and
then it was set on fire, and the chil
dren were probably tossed in, one by
one, as the ancient sacrifices to Mo
loch. The heat was evidently intense
and long continued, as the ground
plainly showed the effects of violent
conflagration. As soon as the sacri
fice was completed and the fire had
died out, the remains of the victims
were all raked together in the center,
and then the mound was raised in a
very remarkable way. Soil Avas
brought, apparently by different
tribes, from different localities, and
each variety was deposited by itself,
so that the difference Avas clearly dis
tinguishable. The remains collected
consisted mostly of jaws and teeth
of children. A pierced tooth of a
rodent was found, which had evi
dently been used as an ornament.
The remains Avill be placed in a mu
seum at Plainville, Ohio.
A Lesson in Ad.tecttves " Well,
my son, you have got into grammar,
have you?" said a proud sire to his
thickest chip the other night. Let
me hear you compare some adjec
tives." Chip "All right, dad. Little,
less, least; big, beast; mow, more,
most"
Proud Sire "Hold on, Sir; that's
not right; vou "
Chip "Toe, tore, toast; snow,
snore, snout; go, gore, gout; row,
roar, rout."
P. S. Stop I say, those adj "
C. "Drink, drank; drunk; chink,
chank, chunk "
P. S. You infernal little fool !
What in thunder "
C. Good, better, best; wood, Avet
ter, wet; bad, wusser, Avorst; bile,
biler, bnlerbust; sew,
pew, door, pupouch;
sewer, sup;
oh! gemini!
dad! o-o-O-W !"
The outraged parent had broken
into the recitation with a boot-jack.
On last Saturday Mrs. Shaw, of
Baker City, mother of Mrs. E. A.
Miller, Mrs. Boothby and D. II.
Shaw, with the latter of whom she
lived, fell from a wagon, and, strik
ing on her head, her neck was bro
ken. . Ax Intkluec ttali Feast The en
tertainment of an idea.
Precocity and Pretention. j
A few evenings since Ms. Frimper
was unfortunate enough in br self
assunng mood, to consult ;l)r.'
Sprowle in public. It was at a warty,
given by Mrs. Badger, and the elect
were all there. Mrs. Frimper and
Mrs. Ludger and Mrs. Wopple and
Mrs. lodgers had been talking about
their children, and Mrs. Frimper
had endeavored to impress it upon,
the minds of the others that her chil
dren were especial paragons. Dr:
Sprowle came ufv while they were
talking ard Mrs. Frimper appealed
to him.
" Dear doctor you have often no
ticed a peculiarity in my children
especially in my little Benny?"
The doctor nodded and grunted.
"So different from most, other
children?" said the Iadj-. -
" Yes, entirely different," assented
the doctor.
"Do you think my Benny needs
great care, doctor?"
' Yes, madam; great care."
"He is so far in advance of his.
3-ears so very precocious," pursued
the doating mother. "I must re
strain him. You have obserA'ed his
head, doctor?"
" Yes, often." . -
" What can I do, doctor, to re
strain the ambition so far in advance
of his boyish years and to preAent
that large head from OA-erbalancing
itself?'
" Well, madam," ansAvered old Dr.
SpoAvle, with another grunt, " I
Avould advise first a good sound
whipping, with assurance that the
dose Avill be repeated until he can
restrain himself. Then, when you
haAe got him under sufficient con
trol, I Avould wash his face and comb
his hair! That might do for a begin-
Mrs. Frimper
from that party.
went home early
Husband axd Wife. A wife of
forty writes: Preserve sacredly the
privacies of your house, your mar
riage state and your hearts. Let no
father oi mother, brother or sister,
nor any third person CAen presume
to come in between you two, or sharo
the joA's or sorrows that belong to
you alone, to you two. With Ciod's
help build your own quiet world,
not allowing the dearest earthly
friend to be the confident of aught
that concerns j our domestic peace.
Let moments of alienation if thev
occur be healed
once. NeAer no
and forgotton at
n e ve r s i eak of
it outside, but to each other confess,
and all Avill come out right. Never
let the morrow's sun still find you
at variance. Renew or revieAv the
vow at all temptations it Vill do
you both good. And thereby yjpur
soujs will grow together, cemented
in that love Avhich is .stronger than
death, and you will become truly
one. Thus do I pray for every mar
ried pair.
Boas, Read and Heed This.
Character grows; it is not something
to lie put on, ready made with Avom-
nhood or manhood; but, day by
day, here a little, and there a little,
grows with the growth and strength
ens with the strength.
Look at a man of business prompt
reliable, conscientious, yet clear
headed ana energetic. W hen do you
suppose he developed all these ad
mirable qualities? When he was a
boy. Let us see the way in which a
boy of ten years gets up in the morn
ing, works, plays, studies, and Ave
Avill tell you just Avhat kind of a man
he Avill make. The boy Avho is late
at breakfast, and late at school,
stands a poor chance to be a prompt
man. The boy who neglects his du
ties, be he ever so small, and then
excuses himself hy saying: " I for
got! I didn't think!" Avill never be a
reliable man. And the boy who
finds pleasure in the sufferiugcof
Aveaker things, will never be a noble .
generous, kindly man a gentleman
in the same way.
$
What's ix a Name? The Buffalo
Globe has a pleasant column upon
the peculiarity of the names of busi
ness firms, such as the teachers
Briggs & Hugs, who advertised ex
plicitly in their circular that "Briggs
teaches the boys and lings the girls;"
and firm of plumbers who Beem grat
ified to hurry up jobs by working
the Avhole tAventy-four hours, Day fc
Night; also Fish & Ketchum. A
hatter hy the name of A. Gnhn; died
leaving his business to his son James
who advertised as "James Guhn,
Son of A. Guhn." The riahulcnler
says Cleveland for many years had a
firm whose large sign Avas conspicu
ous, and it Avas supposed to do a
larger business than any firm in the
city everybody seemed to patronize
it. The firm was " Fever & Ague."
'Requested to Contribute.
"Agreeable to custom," the Radical
State Central Committee of IoAva "is
compelled to solicit aid of those who,
from their official relations to the
party, or obligations thereto, are ex-
pected to contribute cheerfully" to a
campaign fund. The postmasters in
that State have, therefore, been ' re
quested to contribute according to
their salaries, notvithstanding a law
of Congress prohibits the levy of
such assessments.
Mr. Gilbert Litchfield, a merchant
on the Grand Ronde reservation, re
ceived a letter last week from Gen.
Phil. Sheridan, stating that he would
pay Oregon a visit in November next
to take a look at his Polk county
property.
When a Michigan woman was
taken from the cowcatcher of a loco
motive, upon which she had .been
caught and carried half a mile, .she
said with feeling, " T was jest scoop
ed nplik goeh almighty,
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