O i O o. o i o OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1874. c o VOL. 8. NO. 4(5. ' SP lly)Jly 7."";' a THE ENTERPRISE. i LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER farmer, Bn.si.jrss Man, k Family Circle. ISSUfA EVERY FRIDAY. oinOAL PAPERJOE CLACKAMAS CO. Ti.ossins's Rrick. next TerAf SUrrlitI . 1 Year. In Advance...... 2.50 jingle Copy J1' ' 1.50 o Term of .VtlvrrtWiS okion i.om;n no-1- 1 f . iso; tit -- .UCCAOi,;:;:!! ! NO- rV,V,.xV,l' ' "r-i-softho Degree ;i.f i.tvm-.i i-..iU iiI. iSivthriMi in j;ol ki.iu.inu ;i'- i.4h . -u i.f .ut. ..... i'.y ui"iit':.i ' - 1 FAM l AC AMIMIKM' NO. 1, 1. ). o r., "M ! nt i rciiows' r: li ,M oi'itiif Kn -vt umrriiinri'iu.-s- a.iv "1" 111. l'.il.-iaiv.is ,Vr in - 1 -l i" li".,' mviuxl loatU'll.l. tTTI r iTc Mivw i-:xr c. U I . i at J).l 1 !' -"o.vs' II. ill, ill Orc ,,,('., r i.-:it'. on !.! My ev.-iiin:;, at ...-.;.. I -M.c.Anuo.r. .1. .'!. .v. lA- la.rJ.ly H I S I I :.SS CA 11 DS. .1. 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Sal U Hi; ilM ii. ii lliolltll, At7..Vi..,U;n.iMtli.--K!iot.S.-l.. r...i .-r i.. Hi -Jlii ui -.ui ti: and 7l4 u. . i .. -'iHh i" M.in li t the C1TV ORPHANS. . . II Y I,. S. U. 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, ' r ' ... 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. -- 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. . . 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, L ; ; ..." o o o O O o o o o o O o 0 0 'V 0 i A G 0 0