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p-stairs in
Charnia n's I'.rick,
aiiMtf.
W. W. 310 RE LAND,
ATTORN EY-AT-L AW;
:ti-:ut). cirv, ohkuox.
OFFICl- M:iii
Court House.
Str'i't, ojnite tin
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A T Tv RNEY-AT-LAW:
ORESOii CITY," - - OREGON.
-(FFiCE
-(.'harmairs hrick. Main st.
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JOHAlSON &. McCOWN
1TT0R.W.S AM) l Or.NSCLDIlS AT-LAW.
Oregon Gity,
rJre2on,
' v ill pnuti in all tho Court soft he
Mtat S.,.fial attention uiven to eases in
tho U.fc. i,.mic1 o;n-' at Oregon City.
oaiirls72-tf.
14 T. 33 A
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
i
viiw;nv city, : : oregon.
OFFIr-Over Toil's Tl
tr'(t. 2ln
s Tin Store. Main
2lmar7a-U.
OYSTER SALOON
AND
11 1 S T A TJ 11 A M T !
L'lUIS SAAL, Proprietor.
Main fV'et, - - - - Orcifoii City,
MiSI IS WIT.T. RE SERVED FROM
an Xter this date lurintr the Winter
season, i he lst qu alit ies of
FRENCH una AMERICAN CANDIES.
Ice for sale In quantities to suit.
Dll. JOIINT WELCH,
DENTIST,
; OFFICE IX
OREGON CITY, OREGON.
H'KHefit rash Price I' si ill for Count)
vruerti.
RECREATION!
HEALTH
Vilhoit Socio, Spx'iiiir.s
'IHIS PSTAHI.ISHMKN'T, SO CELE
A orati-d for the medical oualties of its
ator, isac:ain open for the reception of
BMests. They are reached In one day Iroir
either Portland or Salem.
-Toirv Wir.HOIT. Proprietor.
Jun S74. jil5m4.
HIGHFIELI).
EstatilUhefl since 40, at tle oll stand.
31aiij Street, Oregon City, Oregon.
n assortment of Wathes, Jcwal
r. and Seth Thomas' Weight Clocks
all ot which are warranted to be as
represented.
ekfu!i
4
iriog done on short rotice, and
or past ratronac.
liy on lor
N (J.
Yf. H.
JOHN SCHRAM
Main St, Oregon City.
MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER
OF
Snclfllf, IIurueMX,
Sad tllery-lf a rl
ware, ete., ftc.
lT-IIICir HE OFFERS AS CHEAP AS
T T can he had In the tate, at
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
7 warrant my goods as represented.
1,0 00 DEER SKINS
W A NTED,
AXD ALSO,
VI.T, OTHER KINDS OF HIDES, FOR
which I will pay the hijrhes market
price in cash Krinp on your hides and get
your coin for them.
JOHN SCHRAM,
Saddle and Harness Maker.
Oregon City, Oregon, July 11, 1873-m.3.
JOHN M. J5AC0N,
IMIfJIlTER AND DEALER
In ISooks, Stationery, Perfum
ery, etc., etc.
Orejjon City, Oregon.
Charman Warner's old stand
ately occupied by S. Ackeman, Main st.
FRESH RHINE WINES,
Just received and for sale by
CHOrtGrK FLTCIIS.
it $1 0i) p.-r bottle. Also
.iijfllru, I'ort,
AVincM, In Bottle
C lurry, anil Soiioimi.
or by the gallon.
Opposite the Railroad Depot.
Oregon City, Aug. 7, 1ST I.
6t
ATSroiTld) INFORM THE CITIZENS OF
M Or.-gon City and vicinity that he is
pre par
ii 10 iiirnisn i
IR, SPRUCE
AND CEDAR LUMBER,
Of every description.
DRY FI.OORI.NG. CICILING.
SI'lll t l-: (tor shelving) I( TTI( E.
I'ICKKTS, FKXCK POSTS (Cedar)
Ooiistantlyon Ilancl.
Street and Sidewalk lumber furnished
on the shortest, notice, at as low rates as it.
an be purchased in the State.
Ciive me a call at the
OI'.KCON CITY
March 13, 1S74 .-tf
SAW MILLS.
WAGON
n a x u
AND CARRIAGE
F.iCTOKY !
AIIK U N D E KSKi XKD,
having increaseil the di
mensions oi tus premises, at
t hi okl stand on the
Curlier of Main anl 'I 'lii-.l Slrci't,
Oregon City, Oregon,
Pakes this method of informing his old pa
rons, ami as many new ones as may lie
leased to call, that he is now prepared.
wit h a m pie room, good materials, :i ml the
very best of media ii ies, to build anew, re
construct, make, paint, iron and turn out
til Complete, any sort of a vehicle from a
common 'art to a Concord Coach. Try me.
Jtla-!tsiiit 111 !;, Horse or Ox Slioeinr
mil !eneral Jobbing neatly, quickly, and
cheaply done. DAVID SMITH.
OREGON STEAFrlSMP CO.'S
STEAMBOAT NOTICE!
St r. K. 1ST. COOlvK,
Will leave OREGON CITY for PORTLAND
verv iliiv Except Sunday, at i S o'clock
A. M. Returning, will leave Portland lor
Oregon City at 2M o'clock, P. M.
Stv. ALICE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for CORY
T.TIS
every Monday una inun
(lav of each week.
Sti-. DAYTON,
Will leave OREGON CITY for MnMINN-
IId.E. LAFAYETTE and DaYTON, and
all points between, every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday of each week. Leaves
the l'.asin at X o'clock, a. r., and connect
with the train at Canemah at 9, A. m.
r-sti'. ALiJAr
Leaves OREGON CITY for HARRISBURG
and EL'dKXE and all intermediate iioints
very week.
St v. iTaimio Iatton,
leaves t)REGON CITY for ALBANY and
all intermediate points bet ween twice ev
erv week. J. D. BILES, Agent,
Oregon City.Fcbruary, HI. 874.
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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY,
One-Term vs. the Third-Term.
From the Sun Erancisco Examiner.
Several of the Democratic resi
dents at various times expressed their
views m reference to tho tenure of
the Presidential office. It waS their
deliberate judgement that the inter
ests of the people required that there
should be a constitutional amend
ment to prevent the Chief Magistrate
being las own successor. "Whether
tho term should be four or six years
was a question that thev mnsirp,!
should be determined by the people.
The present Executivehas not com
mitted himself by any official decla
ration on that m-onositinn in
studied reticence has hi
friends to bring his name forward as
a candidate for n. tl.ii-.l-
there is little doubt that if nnv imllt.
ical organization would place' him in
nomination for a third-term he would
gladly become its candidate.
Ihe Kadieai party, in its conven
tions, with few exceptions, have
been silent on a probablo issue of
the coming campaign. Pennsylvania
has spoken against making any inno
vation on the example set by the
early Presidents, and even went so
far as to suggest the name of the
present Governor of the Keystone
State as Grant's successor. But the
course in that body cannot be re
garded as a true indication of what
the Had ical party might do a vear
hence,
ran ft to
him in
needed ,
The fact of selecting Hart
be a candidate only places
a position to retire when
and give all the iniluenee
with which he
favor of Grant,
may be invested in
should the lladical
party in other States urge his re-nomination.
The Democratic party is fully
committed to the one-term principle.
It Mas a conspicuous plank in the
platform of the Baltimore Conven
tion, and it is the settled conviction
of the Democracy in every State of
the Union that it must be a promi
nent issue in every Presidential con
test, so that the people may pass up
on it and then endeavor to engraft it
into the constitution by an amend
ment to that instrument. It is diffi
cult to add a new article to the or
ganic law as it requires the assent of
so many States; but popular senti
ment can settle the question in any
single contest by the direct action of
the electors in selecting between a
candidate who is up for a second
term anil one who is not. The finan
cial question is only of secondary
importance? compared with the one
we have already mentioned. Hud
Greeley been elected in the last con
test, the resumiitiou of specie pay
ments would have been an accom
plished fact before now. By the
election of Grant to tho second term
the question of the reconstruction of
certain States, according to the ideas
of the lladical leaders, has been used
to serve as a pretext for electing him
to a third term, and matters are now
in Ijouisiana, after many years of ex
perimental legislation, that aflairs
are in greater chaos in that State
than they were six years ago. Her
people! are more impoverished by
many millions than they were several
years since, the debts of the cities,
parishes and of the State have been
vastly increased, her labor interests
have been demoralized by the carpet
baggers who have governed her. In
fact her condition is rapidly assimi
lating to that of San Domingo, and
instead of going abroad to purchase
a place of that name, as was once at
tempted to be done, -we can truth
fully say we have a
our doors.
San Domingo at
It is the immense patronage of the
President that leads him into errors.
Grant was well aware that he was ex
posed to the malum iniluenee ot
office-seekers and sought to shield
himself from their machinations by
the passage of the Civil Service Be
form Act; but that failed of its pur
pose and is now considered n redicu
lous sham. Long tenure of office
now has a tendency on the President
that did not exist in early times. In
former times the great interests of
business were administered by indi
viduals, or hy small companies, now
they are directed by powerful organ
izations of monopolists whose capital
gives them the employment of great
er numbers of persons than the Gov
eminent has. The transportation
corporatations, in the aggregate.
have larger incomes than the Feder
al Government, and the National
Bauks, embracing nearly two thou
sand corporate associations, have
business transactions greater in
amount than tho grand total of every
department of the I ederal Adminis
tration.
The leading ideas in the minds of
the members of these corporations
transjiortations or banking, is to com
bine and centralize their iniluenee.
And one of the greatest means of
consolidating their power to hav
the Chief Magistrate of the Union
chancred as seldom as possible. His
continuance in office gives them wh
thev consider an advantage deserv
ing their political influence. The
dancer of electing a President to
second-term, in these days of corpor
ate organizations' is that it invites
the moneved power, on tne pretext
of giving'stability to national securi
ties or other interests, to combine
for giving him a third-term of the
snpineness of the people would allow
them to carrv out their plans. The
maintenance'of the one-term princi
ple is the anchor of safety for the
liberties of the Republic. Ihe one-;
term is now spoken of too freely to :
be agreeable to the public ear. The j
next" Presidential contest suouiu oe j
' foue-ht by the Democracy on the j
same issues as those of the last, and ;
it is almost a certainty that the ex- ;
ample of the Grantism in its second i
Administration will convince the
people that the one-term principle
only will save ua from anarchy and
I centralization, '
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRAHY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOPJilA,
Story for the Married.
After having been married some
weeks it came into the head of a
young husband on Sunday; while he
lad little to occupy ins mind, to
suggest to his wife that they should
plainly and honestly state the faults
that each had discovered in the other
since thev were man and wife. After
aoiue hesitation, both stipulated that
the rehearsal should be made in all
sincerity and with an honest view of
lettering each other as otherwise it
would be of no use to speak of the
faults to which marriage had o2ened
their eyes. The husband was of the
same mind and the wife asked him
to begin with her faults. He was
somewhat reluctant but his wife in
sisted that he was the tirst to pro-
)Ose the matter, and as he was the
lead of the house, it was his place
to take the lead. Thus urged he be
gan the recital. Tie said:
"My dear one of the tirst faults
observed in you after we began
eeping house that you a cood deal
neglected the tinware. Yon don't.
eep it scoured as bright as if si lOllld
be. My mother always took great
pride in her tinware and kept it as
bright as a dollar.
I am glad you mentioned it .lPn v "
said the wife, bin sin" no- utti
hereafter you shall see no speck on
cup or pan. Tray proceed."
I have often observed." said the
husband, " that you often use vour
dishrags a long time without wash
ing them and finally throw them
away, l or when at home, I remem
ber that my mother used to wash out
her dishrags when she was done us
ing them and hung them up where
they would dry ready for tho next
time when she would need them.
Blushing as before, the young wife
promised to amend this fault.
Ihe husband continued with a
most formidable list of similar faults
many more than we have space to
enumerate, when lie declared that he
could think of nothing more worth
mentioning.
Now," said he, " my dear, you
begin and tell me all the faults you
have observed in me since we have
been married."
The young housewife sat in si
lence her face Unshed to the tem
ples, and a great lump came in her
throat which she seemed to strive to
swallow.
Proceed my dear, tell mo all the
faults you have observed in me snar
ing none."
A rising suddenly from her peat the
little wife burst into tears and throw
ing both her arms about her hus-
md's nock cried.
" My dear husband, you have not
a tault in the world. It you have
even one, my eyes have been so
blinded by mv love for you that as
have been
long as we have been married, I
cave never once observed it. In my
eves you are periect; anil an that von
do seems to me to be done in the best
manner and just what should be
done."
" But, my dear,' said the husband,
his face reddening and his voice
growing husky with emotion, " just
think; I have gone and found every
manner of faults with you. I know
1 have many ten times as many as
von ever will have. Let me hear a
few them."
" Indeed, husband, it is as I tell
you you have not a single fault
that I can see. "Whatever you do
seems right in my eves, and now
that I know what a good for nothing
little wretch that I am. I shall at
once begin the work of reform and
try to make myself worthy of 3011."
"'Nonsense, 1113' dear; 3011 know I
sometimes go awa3 from home and
leave you without any wood cut; I
st.iy up town when I ought to be at
home; I spend monev'for drinks and
cigars when I ought to bring it homo
to .you; I "
" No yon don't," cried tho wife,
" 3-ou do nothing of the kind. I like
to see 3ou enjoj yourself; I should
bo unhappy were 3011 to do other
wise than just exactly as you do!"
" God bless v-ou little wife!" cried
the now subjugated husband; "from
this moment you have not a fault; I
was but joking don't remember a
word I said!" and he kissed away the
tears that trembled in the little wo
man's C3es.
Never again did the husband scru
tinize the tinware nor examine the
dishrags, never so much as mention
ed one of the faults he had enumer
ated, but soon after the neighbor
hood women were wont to say:
" It is wonderful how neat Mrs.
Smith keeps everything about her
house. Her tin-ware is always as
bright as a new dollar, and I do be
lieve that she not onby washes but
even irons her dishrags!"
And the neighboring men were
heard to say:
" What a steady fellow Smith has
cot to bo nf late: ho don't spend a
dime now whero he used to spend
dollars, and never can be kept from
home half an hour when he is not at
work. He seems almost to worship
that wife of his."
Now "Wonders. Snook's I-03
heard him sav the other dav that
there was money in hens, and he
proceeded to investigate the old
mans poultrj- yard. He had gone
through a dozen fine specimens when
the old gent decended upon him,
and the boy now wonders if there's a
balm in Gilead.
"Would Melt Out. Massachusetts
Radical papers acknowledge that
without the assistance of the Butler
element the party would melt out of
the politics of that State.
At a Fearful Rate. The election
being close at hand, all the navy
yards in the country are preparing
to build ships and things at a fearful
rate.
OCTOBER 10, 1874.
Interestiii": from Loui-dana.
A dispatch under date of the
inst. Bays that the report publi:
8th
died
in regard of troubles in St. Martina
Parish and that the White League
were under arms, are untrue. . In
formation received at New Orleans
from prominent citizens of New
Iberia, contradicts the reports. Col
onel Leblanc, who is here to-day,
says the statements concerning af
fairs in St. Martin's published in
certain papers yesterday, purpor
ting to be based on a dispatch, are
utterly false. Neither at that time
nor since the arrival of troops, have
citizens been under arms in this part
of the parish. All are quietly gath
ering their crops.
Conservatives of this city are greatly
excited by fear that Governor Kel
logg will sign the bill passed by the
Legislature last winter, providing a
new charter for the city, and giving
appointment to him of all city offi
cers from Mayor down. Under a
decision of the Supreme Court of
this State, the Governor can hold a
bill passed at one session of the Leg
islature until its next annual meet
ing, without either vetoing or ap
proving it. For nearly eight
months it is charged, the Governor
has held this bill in suspense over
the heads of the people and munici
pal Government. The bienniel elec
tion for Mayor and Administrators,
takes place on tho 2d of next Novem
ber, and candidates have just been
nominated by Conservatives for the
positions. They claim that the city
is Conservative by a large majority,
and that tho ticket will be elected
unless tho Government interferes
under the decision above referred to.
The Governor may sign tho new
charter bill even after the election.
An address was issued to-day by the
Conservative leaders, protesting
against any such action on the part
of the Governor, though expressing
the hope that no such intention
exists on his part. The address
concludes as follows: "Without in
tending to use any language of men
ace, we declare that in our opinion
any such a-t would be attended with
the most serious consequences, and
would greatly endanger the public
peace, which we do most earnestly
desire to sec: preserved."
A Vi:i:v Loosk Man. For the past
da3 or two, says the Providence .
ua, there has been in this city a col
ored man who presents in himself a
queer physiological freak. Heisol
years of age, thick set, of medium
height, of fair intelligenee, and was
born in Manchester. Kngland. He
guins his livelihood by exhibiting
himself to physicians. His abdomen
is naturally full, but at will, without
the use of his hands, he gives it a
wave-like motion, and it gradually
sinks in as if being wound up, until
it apparently rests close against the
back-bone, and he presents tho ap
pearance of a man with no abdomen,
and then, in the same manner, he
rolls it out to its original form.
He then drops from under his ribs
duplicates, can be distinctly felt and
counted, and the whole front of the
body is. as it were, iron-clad. Or,
at will, he apparently drops his head
from its natural position some twelve
inches, puts it back, and sends it to
the right side of the body, opposite
its natural position, puts it back and
sends it to the lower part of the bod3
011 the right side, thus putting it in
four different positions. During
these changes the two sounds of the
heart can bo distinctly heard in eith
er of these new positions, and not
whero they are usually heard. It
seems to be necessai'3, however, that
after each chango it should go back
to where it belongs before being sent
to a new quarter. Ho also has the
power to stop the beating or his heart
at will, from live to ten seconds at a
time, the pulse stopping at the same
time. He seems also to have consid
erable strenth, easily bending b a
blow on the arm, a heavy iron cane
which he carries. Several of our
prominent pli3sicians have examined
him from one of whom wo have ob
tained these facts, and pronounce
him to bo tho greatest curiosity in
pli3siolog3r the have ever seen or
heard of.
The husbands of Santa Clara are
having a world of trouble. The im
pressible females of that burg have
lately been converted to the Adven
tists' Seventh Day Faith, and refuse
to cook for their families on Satur
day. The husbands of these ladies
not relishing this new departure,
and not wishing to havo proselytes
made of their wives, complained
against the Adventists, and asked the
Town Trustees to remove them on
the grounds of being a nuisance.
The tent was moved, but not far
enough to cure tho evil, and the poor
husbands gained nothing.
DxAr.oETCAii. The most diabolical
pun ever invented was perpetrated
by a ver3 harmless sort of person,
the other evening. When Mr. So
berleigh read that a father in the
West had chopped his only son in
two, he innocent remarked that he
diden't think they ought to arrest a
man for simply "parting his heir in
tho middle."
Nothing Like It. A Cape May
3'outh used the deeds of his father's
"farm for gun wads. The stamp on
the bottom of the document wasn't
any thing like the impression the
old man made on the same part of the
lad's anatomy.
Portland, New Hampshire, held
a municipal election, at which the
Democrats elected the Mayor and
a majority of the Alderman and
Council. This is the only Demo
cratic victory in that city for sixteen
vfearsi
Ludicrous Scene in a Pulpit.
A South German paper relates the
following:
In a Bavarian town of tho most
pronounced Catholic orthodoxy, the
priest preached lately against the
Old Catholics, and reiated such hor
rible things about them that his pi
ous hearers were literaly horrorstrick
en at Old Catholic impieties. At
last the preacher cried out, "The
Old Catholics are so vile that thev
will be all cast into the pit, and if
what I tell you is not true, may the
devil take me now on the spot!"' His
excitement was terrible, and he so
struck the cushion that the book fell
from it.
Not far from the pulpit there sat
an American, who had a negro ser
vant with him to whom he beckoned
to take the book up to the priest,
who, perhaps, had never seen one of
those sons of Ham in his life. The
negro at once obeyed, and as he
mounted the lowest of the pulpit
steps, the clergyman repeated his
wish that the devil might come and
take him if what he said against the
Old Catholics was not true. Al
though the negro went softly, the
preacher heard his footsteps, aud,
turning round, saw a black object
solemuly, steadily, and surely ap
proaching him. He looked at him
with terror, and believing that he
would be the next instant collared
hy his Satanic Majesty, he cried out
with a trembling voice, "It is, after
all, possible that there may be good
people among the Old Catholics."
Turning then round to see if tho ob
ject had disappeared, he saw it still
steadily approaching. Tho prespira
tion burst out on his brow, and full
of despair, he called out, "There are
even many good peojde among tlie
Old Catholics!" Thinking that this
would suffice, he turned round, but
what was his horror to find that the
object was close at hand. Imagin
ing himself in the very grasp of Bel
zebnb, turning partly to the negro
and partly to the congregation he
cried out, "May the devil come and
take me if all the Old Catholics are
not better than we are!"' Tho terri
fied priest fainted from the fright,
and it was only after some time that
he recovered.
Cash and Core.
The Radical press in discussing
the condition of affairs at the South,
in the opinion of the New York
llVW, exhibits of late some remark'
able periodic vibrations between the
mood of gush and the mood of gore.
Not manv months ago it was tho
fashion with many lladical journals
to denounce the Kellogg usurpation,
and to bewail the fate of South Car
olina. Gush was cheap, the infamies
and the crimes against libertv and
civilization at the South, w ith which
the Radical part had loaded itself,
were too heavv a burden to be car
ried continuously through the year,
and Radical editors and politicians
having no remedy to offer the South
and the country at large for the ills
which the party had inilictcd upon
the South and the whole country by
its Southern policy, glibly indulged
in gush about them. On the eve of
the elections the old crv of "gore'
is raised, which in the past has been
so often raised as a pretext for grind
ing the South under tho heel of the
Radical partN", and which is now rais
ed for the purposo of gulling North
ern fools into the belief that the
Radical party alone can avert anoth
er rebellion and preserve the Union
But fools of the raw head and bloody
bones stories about the riouth are
not as numerous at the North this
year as they were three or four years
Por.TKvrrs of Two Gkkat Mex.-
Since Grant has demonstrated that
it requires neither brain nor charac
ter to be President, the Pittsburgh
Post thinks there will bo aspirants
from every base ball club in the
countiy; all sorts of stupid, impecu
nious creatures, who think they
would like fifty thousand a year to
spend at watering and w hisky places,
behind fast horses and choice cigars,
with a comfortable winter residence
in Washington for three months, w ill
bo eager for the situation. This is
about the range of responsibility
w hich has entered the common mind
since the creature Grant tumbled
into the Executive chair. Tho re
cent State Convention of the Ring,
reasoning b analogv, w as correct in
resolving that Hartranft was just as
fit as Grant for the Presidency. He
was originally- a Democrat, passed
tinhurt through the war. and has a
number of brothers-in-law, likes to
dabble in stocks and take an interest
in outside investments, knows all
about horses, seldom opens his
mouth, but looks wise and sufficient
lv robust to stand nine months' trav
eling and draw his salaiy.
Cruel Ways. "What Women
Wear," gloomily muttered Charles
Aucrustus. as he read the heading of
an article in his newspaper; "I
know what one woman wears, and
that is Amelia Acmes. hho wears
ii"i v lionvt nut with lmr Pl-llf-1 waVS
and it is time for the fashion
change."
to
Something of a Philosopher.
The Cincinnati Enquirer is something
of a philosopher. It observes: Next
to a Democratic victory- there is noth
ing so generally desired in this sec
tion of the State as a soaking shovrer
of rain.
The Erfene Guard says: "Prob
abl3 not less than one hundred per
sons from the Atlantic States have
located in Lane county during the
' past two months, and all seem to be
well pleased yvith our State and its
i prospects.
NO. 51.
Au Arkansas
Father's
Son.
Advice to hi
Bob, you are about leaving iiorno'
for strange parts. You're going to
throw me out of the game and go it
alone. The odds is agin you, Bob -but
remember always that industry .
.urn iji&erverance are tne winning
cards; they are the "bowers." But
larning and all that sort of a Ihhif?
will do well to fill ui) with, like
trumps, but you must have the bow
ers to back them, else they flint
worth shucks. If luck runs agin you
pretty strong, don't cave in and look
like a sick chicken on a rainy day'
but hold your head up and make be
lieve you're flush of trumps; they
won't play so hard agin you. I've
lived and traveled around some,
Bob, and I've found out that as soon
as folks thought von held a weak
hand they'd buck agin you strong.
So when you're sorter weak keep up
a bold front, but play cautious, be
satisfied with a pint. Many's the
hand I've seen euchred 'cause they
played for too much. Keep your
T -, -.-1, 1 "ill,
fjl-s siiiiiuuu, jjuij, iiuii t let trm
nig on you; siecoJIect the game
lays as much with the head as with
the hands. Be temperate, never
drink, for then no matter how good
your hand, you won't know how
to play it, both bowers and tho
ace won't save you, fur there is
sartin to be a " miss deal" or some
thing wrong. And another thing,
Bob, (this was spoken in a low tone,)
don't go to much on the women:
queens is kinder poor cards; and the
more you have of them the worse for
you; you might have three oi them
and nary a trump. I don't say dis
card 'em all if you get hold of one
that s a trump, it s all good, and
there's saitin to be one out of tho
four. And, above all, Bob, be hon
est; never take a mans trick wot
don't belong to you, nor "slip" cftrds
nor " nig," for then von can't look
your man in the face, and when
that s the case there s no Inn in tho
game; it's regular "cut throat." So
now, Bob, farewell, and remember
wot I tell von, and yon will be sure
to win, and if you don't it will sarve
you right if you get " skunked.
What the Pjsomised Land Flow
ed YY iTii. JUittle children some
times give answers to questions pro
pounded on the subject of Ihe
promised Ijiiiid. A rumlayschool
teacher asked:
'Who led out the Israelites?'
'Moses,' was the prompt reply.
'And where did he lead them?'
'To the Promised Land, sir.'
'That's right, 1113- little dears.
Now what did that land How with?'
'With honey,' said three or four.
'And what else?'
Here was a stick no reply.
'Come, children, some of von
surely remember. When you were
babies, what did your mammas
give to you? What else did the
Promised Laud How with besides
honey?'
Again a blank pause.
'I know, thir,' said a little five
3ear-older, springing to his feet and
elevating hi little hand.
I know what it wath, thir: I know
thir.'
'What was it, my dear?'
'Why, it wath 'titty,' thir!'
The teacher, amid the laughter
of the adult spectators proceeded to
change tho subject by singing a
lcrnn.
Any Number of Teems. Gcrrit
Smith opens his last bulletin from
Peterboro with these words:, 1 am-
asked b3 ono and another whether I
am in favor of a third term for Gen
eral Grant. Mv invariable answer
is that I am in favor of any thing
and everything which will serve to
keep the Democratic part out of
power. If his re-nomination is es
sential to this end, then 03- all means
let it come yes, and come as often
as there shall be like occasion lor it.
o
Being Encouraged. A contem
porary thinks it begins to look as
though the war of races which
everybody is looking for m tho
Sir-inli la l-inor rilUTillVllWl iilli SO-
crctU formented by the third term
partv, in order that Grant may have
the advantage which lmcoin nan
in securing his nomination, of tlie
idea that it is not best to trade
horses while crossing tho river.
An anecdote is related of a preach 0
er Avho had for his text a verso from
the parable of the Ten Virgins; and
in the course of his sermon said:
"That in old times it was customary,
when the bridegroom and groom
were coming, for ten virgins to go
out and meet them and esoort them
lome five of these virgins being
males and live females.
Just Moved. The Detroit Tnlim
has just moved into a bran-new-stone
office, and prints a picture of it
with a man going up stairs two
cti-.q n.t. .1 time to whip tne em tor,
and a woman coming
with a peice of poetry
down street
for him to
print.
Voters. In Missouri, after tho
first day of January, 1&7C, every per
son, in order to become a voter,
must be able to read and write; and
in Florida, after 1880, a similar qual
ification yvill be required.
It is proposed by a party of Mon
tanians to prospect tho Misouri river
for gold. They reason that as tho
Jefferson mines have" proved good
and extensive, the Missouri will prove
"better than good" and more exten
sive. The Chowning Triumph. Tho
Buffalo Courier says that as an hon
est man's the noblest work of God,
so an honest negro is the crowning
triumph, of reconstruction.