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I .. r.rtT ji,:!! Jt,j; o DEVOTED TO POLITICS,: NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE, DEST INTERESTS OF .OREGON. o VOL. 9. OREGON: CITY, OKEGON, InbAY, : APlilL 9, 1875. NO. 24. i ' i - ! . tl f . ii . 1 ; , : f(' I ) ftfi tnTl rrrfTY ' - . -' : f ' . - . THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER FOR T H K timer, Bmiaesi Han, & Family Circle. MlUBD KYBRT FRIDAY. EDITOR AND TUB LIS II EE. OmCIAL PAPE2 FOB CLACKAMAS CO. Vkwrirw In EtbbpR Building, one "orM.sonicJJuiJUlnff. Mln St. Tirmi of Sberiptionl tlngU Copy One Year, In Advance. $2.50 Six Months" " ...... 1.50 Terms of Advertising! Trnlnt advertisements. Including all legal notices, lisquare of twelve lino on week..Jl - breach subseMuelinsertion... l. Un.Colii.nn, one j iifr. 4o.oo iuiutBS Card, 1 square, one year . w S0CJKT1' XO TICES. ou c;on i.oikjk xo. 3, 1. 1. o. l- Meet every Thursday 32g. iiin at 7 W o'clock, in tho EjJ&iri Odd Fallows' Halt, Main -iSS-atreet Members of tho Or der are invited to attend, Hy order IS . it. KEllCCCA PKCUIEH I.1(; NO. I. O. O. F., Meet on the Hacond and Fourth lues- dav evenings cacn monm, - '..1..L- i tlif Otlil . . i. Killowi1 Half. Membersoftho Degree as invited to attend. MULTNOMAH NO. I, A. ' A. M., Holds its regular eoin- A iiiunieatin.'f on the First and -mosS Tnird Saturdays in eaeh month , yf at 7 o'clock from tliol-'Oth of Sep. ttnibor to the HOtli or .Marcli ; ami o'cl;k from the i'th of March to the 23thjf ScpteinheJl Urethren in good Mlaa iinj; aro invitf I to attend. Hy order ofll W. M. r A I. L X C A 31 1- 51 U NT NO. -f , I. O. O. V., Meets at Odd Fellows' q q HaII on the First and Third Tues tUv of each mouth. Patriarchs tTC in j.wj i fctan Jin are invited to attend. CI.U'l'' UNCAMPJIKNT NO. 2, c. R. . Vt -!ts at Odd Fello vs' Hall, in Ore rj 'itv. )r;-j'n, on Monday evening, at t A VeIo. M"iub4rs f th order are iu to attend. M. C. ATIIKY, C. J. M. Bcok, It. S. maiTly a, . Jt V S I A" It X 3 CARD S. J. W.. NOIlltlrf. M. PUViilCIAN AND SIKGEOX, O KJtUO X CITY, O 11 H a O X. Z"ome I7-8tair In Charman's 1'rick, Maim arft. augHtf. , W. W. HO UE LAND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW; ORKUOX CITY, ORKUOX. OKKIC K Mitlu Htrec't, opoite tUc r S. II ULAT ATTORNEY-AT-LAW: .JilESan CITY, Q - ORS30H. "iirriCE-Char:nanlriek, Main at. 5ma.-lH7-J.-tf. JOHNSON & McCOWN ATTO JUSTS AND COUNSELORS AT-LAW. Oregon City, Oregon. ; rVIII practice in all the Courts or tho - State. Special attention given to cases in th V. S. Iand Office at Oregon City. 5aprl72-tf. L. X. BARIN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, . OREGOX CITVt OREGON. OFFICE Over Tope's Tin Store, Main itret. 21mar73-tf. I Dr. S.PARKER, 1ATE OF rOHTl" AMI), OFFERS HIS J services as Physician and Surgeon to - ths people of Clackaivjas county, who may at any tim be in nee J of a physician. Ho ha op ned an office at Ward A Harding's Irug .stor where ho can bo found at all ttmra of the clay when not engaged in pro i fowional calls. Residence. Main Street, . jxt dror but one above It. Cau fie Id's store, t Octob-r 23, S74. tf 4 JOHN 31. BACON, IMPORTER AXD PEALER EIR ln Hooks, Ststl ionery, Periuui- -'aS i ry, ttc., etc. i iri Oregon City, Oregon. J a "At Charman A Warner's old stand, atoly -K-eupifd by S. Ackeman. Main st. OREGON CITY BREWERY. Henry Humbcl, -.T1' th ftIve p,r,w. g VrishM to in'orm t he public that he is ltrrrep:irotl to nnnufacture a No. 1 qual-. r LAGRR JIBUTI, Th- M Ciln bo ottained anvwhere in ' fi.d ' Orjors sol..;ited and promptly OYSTER SALOON l AXD HESTAITRAMT! LOUIS SAAL, P roprietor. . 'in Street, - Oregon City. fill .STKRS WILT. BR SERVED FROf . na '.l'r T:hls date during the tTT : A. - nson. The best qualities of '""EXCH and AMERICAN CANDIES. I: J for sle in quantities to suit. A BrprcscntatlTc and Champion of Amer ican in lasie: Prospectus for 1875 Eighth Year. THE ALDINE, THE ART JOURNAL OF AMERICA, Issued Monthly. A Magnlfloent Conception, Wonderfully carried out. The necessity of a PODUlar medium for the representation of the productions of our great artists, has always been recog nized, and many attempts have been made to meet the want. The successive failures which so invariable followed each attempt In this country to establish an art journal, did not prove the indifference of the American people to the claims of high art. So soon as a proper appreciation of the want and an ability to meet It were shown, the public at once railed with en thusiasm to its support, and the result was a eroat artistic and commercial triumph THE AL.DJXE. THE AI.DINE, while issued with all thf rofmlarity, has none of the temporary or timely interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals. It is an elegant miscelUny of pure, liRht, and graceful literature; and a collection of pictures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill, in black and white. Al though each succeeding mintber affords a fresh pleasure tojits friends, the real value and beauty of The Alcline will be most ap preciated after it is bound un at the close of the year. While other publications may claim superior cheapness, as compar ed with rivals of a similar class,27ie Aldine is an unique ami original conception alone and unapnroached absolutely with out compet ition in price or character. The Iossessor or a complete volume could not duplicate the quautity of fine taner and engravings In any other shape or number of volumes for ten times its cost ; and then mere is me curomo oesiuesl I'llKMITJI FOIi 1875. Every subscriber for 1S75 will receive a beautiful portrait, In oil colors, of the same noble dog whose picture in a former issue attracted so much attentisn. " Man's Unselfish Friend" will be welcome in every home. Every body loves such a dog, and the portrait Is executed so truo to the life, that it seems the veritable presence of the animal itself. The Rev. T. De Wit Talmage tells that his own New Foundland dog the finest in T.rooklyn) barks at it ! and though so nat ural, no one who ' this premium chro mo will have the slightest fear of being bitten. I'.csides the chromo, every advance sub scriber to The Aldine for 1875 Is constituted a member, and entitled to all the privil eges of THE ALDINE ART UNION. The Union owns the originals of all the Aldine pictures, which, with other paint ings and engravinfi-s, are to he distributed among the members. To every series of o,0)U subscribers, 100 different pieces, valu ed at over $2,5V, are to le distributed as soon as the series is full, and tiie awards of each series as made, aw to b published in the next succeeding issue of The Aldine. This feature applies only to subscrilK-rs who pay for one year in advance. Full particulars in circular sent on application enclosing a stamp. Oar Knbsrriptioii, entitling to THE ALUlN'Konn year, the Chromo a 11 I the Art I'nion, $G per Annum, In Advance. (No charge for postage.) Specimen copies of TIIE ALUIXE, 50c. CANVASSERS WANTED. Any person wishing to act tM-rmanently as a local canvasser will receive full and promt information bv applying to TIIE ALIUNE COMPANY, .w MAinnx laxr, xr.iv yor. T)i LOTH! 11 Y O () I now offer this stock of Goods T at Prices far below any other house In the State. I Times are hard and money scarce and I will give every one the worth of their money. I also keep a full assortment of 8 O O n s c 1 A 11 s H A T S c A P S A OHEGOX CITY MADE Men and Hoj-s Clot hlnf, t'nilenvMr, Klun nvls, Ulaukels, And Vurna. AI.RO D 8 H () E S T O B A C C O S tl roferie,, Cutlery, Jew elry. Notions, Mnniral Intttramentu, Toj-k. Etc., AT THE Lowest Prices For CASH. AT octlCtf OREGON STEAMSHIP GO.'S STEAMBOAT NOTICE! Sti. E. 1ST. COOKE, Will leave OREGON CITY for PORTIjAND everyday Except Sunday, at 7?$ o'clock, A. M. Returning, will leave Portland for Oregon City at 2)6 o'clock, I. M. Stv. ALICE, Will leave OREGON CITY forCORVAIIS every Monday and Thursday of each week. Sti DAYTON, Will leave OREGON CITY for McMINN VILLE, I jA FAYETTE and DaYTON, and all points letween, everj- Monday, Wed nesday and Friday of each week. leaves the Rasin at 8 o'clock, A. r., and connect with the train at Canemah at 9, A. m. Sti ALI3ANY, Leaves OREGON CITY for HARRISBURG and EUGENE and all intermediate points every week. Str. Fannie Pat ton, leaves OREGON CITY for ALBANY and all intermediate points bet ween twico ev ery week. J. D. BILES, Agent, Oregon City.February, HI. 874. DTv. JOHN "WELCH DENTIST, OFFICE IN OREGON CITY, OREGON. Richest Cash Price Paid for County Ordors. FORSALE. THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS HIS premises, in Oswego, for sale at a bar gain, for cash. There is a fine dwelling and out buildings, orchard and about three acres of land. Finely situated Tor a board ing house forth haads employed in the Iroji Works. J. W. CAINE. Oswego, Sept. 10, 1S74. 3w A.LEVYS. Learning her Talne. "Just what I have been expecting for about seven years," said Miss Pauline Wortbington, looking from an open letter in her band, with a frowning brow. ; . i "Is it not your letter from Her bert, Lina?" oueotioned Mrs. Wor thington, a tiny, silver-haired old lady with a gentle expression. : -'Yes, mother. Essie is very ill with low, nervous fever, and they want me to come . and stay until she is better. The carriage will be sent at three o'clock, mother" and Miss Pauline's eyes snapped. "I think it is about time Bert's tyranny was end ed, lie is killing her." "Lina, he is your brother." "I can see his faults if he is." "I never heard Essie complain." "She never would. But look at her; nine years ago sbe was a living sunbeam, so bright and pretty. Now, pale, quiet and reserved, her voice is seldom heard, her smile seldom seen. A wintry shadow of her sttmmer brightness! Now she is broken down. You have never seen her at home, but surely when she is here you see the change ?" "Yes, dear, she has changed; but family cares " . "Has Louie changed so? She has been twelve years married." Mrs. "Worthington was silent. Louie was her oldest child, and pre sided over the home in which her mother was a crippled prisoner for lifteen years. She took all the house hold care and had five children, and yet Louie had gained in beauty, and certainly in cheerful happiness, since her marriage, even if tho merriment of girlhood was gone. "Henry appreciates Louie!" said Lina, "there lies the difference be tween her happiness and Essie's de jection. If there is any domestic trouble Henry and Louie share it, while Herbert shifts his all upon Essie. He is an habitual fault finder." "Perhaps, dear, Essie, is not so good a house-keeper as Louie. Her bert may have cause to find fault." "Once in ten times he mav. 1 never saw a faultless house or house keeper; but Essie and her house are the nearest apjroach to perfection I ever did see." "You never spoke so before, Lina." "Because Louie and I thought it better not to worry you with a trou ble beyond your help. But firmly believing, as I do now, that Herbert is actually worrying his wife into the grave, I intend to give him a lesson. That is if you can spare me to go?" "You must cro. dear. I shall get along nicelv." So when Herbert Worthington sent his carriage Lina was quite ready for the fourteen mile drive to her broth er s nouse. it was most unlike a house wherein any evil spirit of re pining or fault-finding should have found an abode. Spacious, hand somely furnished with well trained servants, and all the comforts wealth could furnish, it seemed a very para dise on earth to visitors. But a very demon lurked there to poison all, and this demon Lina had come to exercise. For the first fortnight Essie took all her time and care, the gentle spir it hovering very near the portal of the eternal home. There was a babe too, six months old, and its wants filled all the spare moments. Her bert snarled and fretted over the do mestic snortcomings, out ljina per emptorially forbade all mention of these in the sick room, having the doctor's authority for saying the pa tient's very life depended on quiet. But when convalescence commenc ed, Lina sent Essie and the baby to visit old Mrs. "Worthington, and took control of Herbert and the two older children and tho household, fully determined to show her brother how far he carried his habit of ab surd fault-finding. With all her se verity, she did believe he was him self unaware of the frequency of his querelous complaints and the exag geration of his fretful statements. The first dinner saw the beginning of the lesson Lina meant to teach, by practically illustrating some of Her bert's absurdities. Herbert entered the dining room, his handsome face disfigured by it3 habitual frown. Harry and Louie were seated and the waiter girl in her place behind Lina's chair. "Soup," said Herbert, lifting the tursen cover, "perfect dish-water." "Susan," said Lina sharply, before Herbert could lift the ladle, "take that toureen to the kitchen and tell Jane the soup is not fit to eat." Susan promptly obeyed. Herbert looked rather ruefully at the vanish ing dish. He was especially fond of soup, and the savory fumes of the really delicious dish were tantaliz ing. Essie would have made some erentle excuse never whipping off his dinner that way. All dinner time Lina kept up a dingdong at Susan about the abominable soup, till Her bert wished ho had said nothing about it. But his imagination de tected a burnt flavor in the pudding and before he could remonstrate that dish followed the soup. "I'll get this house into some kind of order before I leave it," said Lina emphatically. "Before you leave it," said Her bert, sharply. "Do you suppose that you are a better house-keeper than Essie ? "Why I have not a f riend that does not envy me the exquisite order of my house and dainty table." "Herbert, you surprise me. Only yesterday I 'heard you say you did wish there was something fit to eat on the table." One don't expect every word to be taken literallv." said Herbert rather sulkily. But not an hour later, find ing a streak of dust in the sitting room, he declared emphatically that it was not fit for a pig to lyre in. Coming in next morning he found the curtains torn down-, tho carpets taken up, the floor littered with pails, soap and brushes, and Lina in a dis mal dress, her hair tied up in a towel directing two women scrubbing vig orously. "Good gracious, Lina,' ho cried, "what are you doing ?" "Cleaning this room." ;; "You said, Herbert, that Louie hadn't a decent stitch and you wished somebody would see to her. - Bo I bought her a complete outfit.' I could not see any fault myself, but of course I got more expensive arti cles, as you did not like those al ready provided. I am glad you'call ed attention to the poor neglected child. "Poor neglected child!" echoed astonished Herbert. "Why Lina, Essie fairly slaves her life out over those children, I am sure I never see any better dressed, or neater." Lina merely shrugged her shoul ders. A month passed. Essie gain ed strength in the genial atmosphere surrounding Louie and her mother, while Lina ruled with a rod of iron. Herbert began to experience a sick longing for Essie's gentle pi'esence. Lina took him so very literally in all he said, and yet he could not rebuke her for doing what he openly wished. A chair with a tiny spot of dirt being declared absolutely filthy, was upholstered at a cost of eight dollars. A dozen new shirts, Essie's last la bor of love, being said to set like meal-bags, she gave them to the gardener, and a new set sent from the furnishers. Harry's blocks were burned at the kitchen fire when Her bert stepping on one, said he "would not have any such rubbish around the house." Every window was open ed after a pettish declaration that it was as hot as an oven. An hour later the stove was fired up to smothering heat because he declared it "cold enough to freeze a polar bear." In short, with an energetic attempt to correct all shortcomings and put the housekeeping upon a perfect ba sis, Lina, in one month nearly doub led her brother's expenses, and drovo him to the verge of distraction, keep ing accurate account of every com plaint. But Essie was coming home, well and strong again. On the day of her expected arrival, Lina invited her brother into the sitting-room for a few moments of private conversation. "Herbert," 6he said, very gravely, "I have a proposition to make to you. You are my only brother, and I need not tell you I love you very dearly. It has really grieved me to the heart to see how much there is to find fault with in your beautiful home." Her bert twisted himself uneasily in his chair, but Lina continued: "You know that mother is very dependent upon me, Louie having the children to care for, but I think would sacrifice her own comfort for yours. So if you wish, Herbert, I will come here permanently to keep things in order for you." Here Lina was obliged to pause and strangle a langh at Herbert's ex pression of utter horror and dismay. "You are very kind," he faltered, the instinct of a gentleman battling with the strong desire to tell Lina she would certainly drive him into a lunatic asylum by six months more of her model house-keeping. "Not at all. A man who has made an unfortunate marriage certainly needs all the aid and sympathy his family can give him." The last straw was laid upon the camel's back. Herbert spoke hotly: "You are entirely mistaken, Lina! I have not made an unfortunate mar riage. If ever a man was blessed with a wife, I am that man." "You amaze me, Herbert," cried Lina in well feigned astonishment. "I do not see why you should be surprised. Essie is gentle, loving, orderly, a gentle mother, and a per fect home-angel God bless her!" "Herbert, is that true?" "Certainly it is true." "I cannot believe it!" was the slow response. - "Because" and Lina dwelt im pressively upon the word "during the nine years of your married life, though visiting here frequently, I have never heard you speak one word of encouragement or nraiso. in F.ssio I never saw one look of approbation or appreciation of any effort she made ior your comfort upon your face. continual fault-finding, constant uinmo, nave cuangeu. ner irom a happy, winsome girl to a pale, care worn woman. Even her last illness was out the unspoken dispair of a heart crushed under a load of daily wcuauru uuu constant striving ior the approbation never given. And you tell me now she has never failed in her duty to you. There is a grave error somewhere, brother. The sadly earnest tone, the face of tuougimm gravity, sent every word nome to Herbert W orthington's heart He spoke no word of self-defense as Lina slowly left the room. In the profound silence that followed, con science reviewed the nast 'and ho knew that his sister had spoken only the truth. The habit of fault-finding meeting no resistence in Essie's gen- ueness iiaa grown in force till all its monstrosity stood revealed in the experience of the past 'month and Lina s words. In the days when Essie lay dan gerously ill there had been no self reproach like this in her husdand's sorrow. He had eriven his wife a fair home, an ample income, fre quent social pleasure, many costly gifts, and loved her faithfully, while poisoning her whole live. "God help me," he whispered, "to conquer this fault. Essie shall near no more fault-finding, , and if I see her drooping I -will send her -to mother and have Lina here to keep house. Never - had a wife and mother warmer welcome than greeted Essie. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, TTMTUvTDQTTV HV P. & T.TT?OPMT A The - children . were unchecked in their, loudest demonstrations of de light.' But Lina had to rush into the hall to hide her merry eyes when Herbert kissing Essie said: "We must let mother have Lina now, dear. She has been very kind and worked for my comfort; but there is no home fairy like my Essie." . The quick, glad , look in his wife's soft eyes told Herbert one step had been . taken in the right direction. As the days glided by; and Essie found appreciation meeting every effort to add to home comfort, a word of praise to every - little triumph of cookery or needle-work, her pale face grew bright with happiness. "Grad ually the care-worn expression was obliterated by one of sweet content, and Herbert found his own heart lightened by the cheerful voice, the sunny smile, the bright eyes of Essie he had wooed years before. And Lina, making a visit six months later, told her mother on her return: "Herbert learned his lesson by heart, mother. He appreciates Essie now at her value, and lets her know it." S. Annie Erost, in Hearth and Home. " They Lire by Cheating. Shreveport (Tja.) Letter, from Commercial. Cincinnati There is a colored man hero' who hac done what not one in a quarter of a million of his race have suc ceeded in doing. Born and reared a slave, he has since the war accumu lated about twelve thousand dollars' worth of property. The name of this man is Abner Hall. He has the confidence and respect of all classes and color. In company with a friend I went around to see Hall. He works at the foundry of L. W. J ones as a patern maker, earning good wages and put ting in every day. I asked him about the polical situation of his race in this region, and first as to his own political views. He said he had always voted with the white people. and used all his influence with his race to get them to do so. The white people own this country," he said, and we must live here if we livo anywhere. A cold country such as up Isorth doesn t suit us. This is our home, and we must be at peace with the white people. They will do the fair thing if the colored people do. My idea is that the Con servative party is the party for us colored people to go into. They al wava nominate the best men for office, and always go for a peaceable Government and low taxes, luese high taxes which tho Radicals put on the country finally come out of tho poor negro, if ho had sense enough to seo it. A white party and a black party, such as we have had so much of here, will ruin any coun try. Look what is has done for Louisiana. The Radical party is a cheating party. . Look how they got us all to deposit our money in what they call tho Freedmen's Bank and then slole it. Little do they for the nigger except to get his vote and steal what little money he makes through the banks." " Did you lose anything by the Freedman's Bank?" I asked. 44 No sir; but I had a whole year's earnings in there, and just did get it out in time. I smelt a rat. I took it out and put. it in a bank run by men who live here, and who I know will do right. The next day I tried to get out fifty-nine dollars that a friend had in tho old trap, but it had done shut down, and the money went up the spout. Ah, sir, you don't know how much worrying and suffering the poor colored men have had about that bank. Some had in three hundred dollars, and from that all the way down to fifty cents. " That, sir, is jnst one of the main reasons why the Conservatives car cried the election in this parish. Tho colored men voted with them right straight along. I think I in fluenced as many as two hundred myself. I reckon more. I worked as hard as I could. I put in all my time, for I knew I was doing a good work for my race." 44 The Conservatives carried the election, did they?" " Yes, sir, carried it in this parish by over six hundred majority, as true as you and I stand hero. The counting out of the men we elected to the Legislature was the biggest cheat that ever was. What's the use of us having an election if they can do that? The Radical party live by cheating. It is all that they have to go on. Nobody pretends that they carried the election in this par ish. You can't find a Radical who will say it. They knew we beat them and Aat the Returning Board cheat ed us out of what we had fairly won. The Conservative party, sir, as much as has been said about it, wouldn't do that mean." " Did the colored men vote tho Conservative ticket freely and volun tarily?" "Yes, sir; the election was tho fairest and most quiet wo have ever had here. Everybody says that. But the Returning Board counted in the very men that were beaten. What's the use of having an election when they can do that way?". I mentioned that it was necessary to count out a few Conservatives so as to give the Republicans the Leg islature. But Mr. Hall protested that it was no fair way to do, and that if the will of the majority can be set aside that way, we may as well abolish elections'and give the coun try entirely to the Returning Boards. A Westebxeb's Views. Senator McDonald of Indiana has been inter viewed, and says that the Presiden- .mm m , J -a tial nominee tnis time must be a Western man, that is if the Demo crats wish to succeed. He thinks that Hendricks and Gordon would make a good team. - The Demand for Oregon flax. : From the Bulletin." : - j . -We have lately learned of the for eign market for our wheat. But our wheat has many competitors, and its price varies every year between wide limits. Farmers cannot rely on large profits, though they can rely on sure crops of prime quality. . Hops, which now attract . much attention and create a speculative fever among producers, fluctuate in ' price more than wheat. Other cereals, as oats and barley never fail in our soil and climate; neither do our vegetables or fruits fail. We can affirm good har vests without a failure' for the last twenty-seven years. Food is easily raised, making it abundant and cheap. Wo welcome immigrants to a country in which it is easy for an industrious, temperate and econom ical man to supply himself and fam ily with food from a few acres, where land is comparatively cheap. Bat the trouble is, our crops of all kinds grain, fruits, vegetables and grass; as well as our herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, our products of sal mon and the productions of our for estsare quickly found in excess of the market for any one kind in any one year. We rush into the thing which pays best, as the wheat raisers and salmon canners did last year, and as the cattle raisers did the year before.' Sixteen years ago apples, pears and cherries and plums paid largely, and every man went into fruit growing. Prices declined, and orchards went to waste. But those men who cared for good qualities have done a fair business all the time. Agricultur alists have had no difficulty in changing from one crop to another to meet changing demands. The rains now falling so abundantly are the pledge of sure crops this year. But what our farmers need, especial ly those who have but few acres in cultivation, and little means beyond their own labor, is a variety of crops, and one or two that will bring cash, as sure as a bank check over the counter, every year. The question of food and fuel and most home comforts is easily settled for every one here, but the producer wants something that he can always raise and always sell at a remunera tive and almost unvarying price, and something that his own labor and skill can produce, small farmers who one to four or five production. Flax, for the lint opportunity. The I speak for the can spare from acres ior a new offers him this demand for all grades of lint and tow The President of the is unlimited. Belfast Flax Sujply Association in Ireland, Mr, Mulholland, says the supply is fail ing there each year they must look to foreign countries in future. New Zealand flax cannot be used except for ropes, and they. break when out of water and dry. Russia fails to supply the demand for the finest qualities which we in Oregon here produce. Ono gentleman remarks that if Oregon had 100,000 acres of flax for export next fall it would not reduce the price in England, Scot land and Ireland one per cent. The net profit over all expenses on every acre raised, as tested last year, was ovor 30. That profit can be secured on every acre that a farmer can sow and cultivate. If a man has one acre and raises straw enough to make 500 lbs of lint, he can hand brake and hand-scutch it himself; that is, break and swingle it, as the early pioneers did forty and one hun dred years ago for their family use. lhis 500 lbs will be worth, accord ing to quality, from $300 to 3375 per ton, and some of it will bring $450 to $500 per ton for cambric, lace and lawn manufacture. He will have about 200 lbs of tow, from the same acre, worth from 4 to G cents per lb. If he will let 20 per cent, of the flax ripen for seed, his seed will bring from 8 to 10 cents per pound for the next year's crop. If a few farmers will join and put in from 80 to 100 acres, they will more promptly gath er the crop with a reaper, losing some fibre, than to attempt to pull the flax, which will cost $ti to S7 per acre. . This amount of land in flax will warrant the expense of putting up a mill with a small engine or on small stream to break and scutch it, and thus prepare it quickly for mar ket. Such a mill can be put in working order for about $500, and they can be multiplied over the State. Canvas for sail cloth is made of the coarser kinds, which is hand scutched in Scotland and Ireland. Large factories are employed in mak ing this canvas, and the demand in creases with ship building and fur nishing. Brown Brothers & Co, of Dundee, Scotland, have tho contract of furnishing the British and Ameri can Governments with all navy sails. Let Oregon begin to raise fiax, and spinners and weavers will come here to manufacture it, saving 55 per cent, of tariff and expenses over present cost to consumers on this coast add ing a new argument for shipbuilding here. The water of our streams and ponds has proved very good for ret ting the. flax. This i3 a matter of great importance. The great differ ence in the value of the lint retted in one stream or ditch over that in an other, which abounds in lime or iron rust or some other impurity, some times equals 50 per ton. Water from a swamp, tinted with oxide of iron will stain the lint indelibly and destroy much of its value. Soft rain water, or water from melted snow is usually . the best, and such water always enables the producer to get a better price for his flax Some men need experience in raising: uax. doii must do wen oroken up. plowed, harrowed into a mealy, tilth ana rouea smooth, sown and covered m . mi as ior ciover. ine longest grown; nDre seus ior tne nignest rates. The middle cuttings are taken by spin-, ners for choice . fabrics. Lint, four and five feet long will give two or three middle cuttings, the ends be ing clipped, for other purposes and used for three different errades of linen. Our soil proves equal to the best for long fibro when well culti vated, that for which is the greatest demand for export Great care must be taken to pull or reap at the right time, not one day too late. - Great care is needed in retting and curing, but our freedom from rain storms, as a rule, in Au gust and early September helps" to insure the crop, even better than in Ireland. Experience can soon be gained to decide when to pull or reap. The books say when the seed . first tinges brown. Mr. Smith says when the stock colors a little above ground. But knowing that the crop wanted is good fibre, young, fresh, strong, soft and pliant, the trial of soil and sun will help every grower to dechle" the question for his own field. Flax growers from Scotland i m ii T"J . A "1 T A as well asirom tiie jjasicni anu fbt- ern States, are now among ns, and they can, if they will, lead on in this business. The Riga and Holland seed is now here for the first time, imported pure, and can be had of II. Hewett & Co. for trial. It will give work for men and boys and employ days and weeks profit ably that would otherwise be wasted; vou can rotate the crop, sowing . tho llax on the same acre only once in five years, and thus keep the soil strong as the Scotch do. If Oregon would raiso 500 tons of lint fibre, all prepared for export, this year for the British market, it would bring $150,000 to $175,000 and give us back what we pay for half the sacks we buy of them each year. Next year we could raise 1 ,000 tons and load a ship and get $300, 000. After that, like wheat, our cargoes of flax would be sought by France as well as Brittain. But ere that day manufactories of twine, cor dage, sail canvas, damasks and linen cloths of all kind would begin to bo erected here, as in Ireland and Scot land, near the fields of production. Farmers of Oregon, at this moment the call is made and the cash is ready for all the flax you can raiso and prepare on one, or live, or ten or a hundred or a thousand acres. You have the soil and climate and other needful conditions for its produc tion, and the seed is ready. The seed should be sown by tho middle or third week of April if pos sible. This crop will be another element of insurance for your harvest income. It will open new and invit ing fields of industry. It will unite with the coal and iron and lumber and the cereals and fruits and fish eries to win the confidence of enter prising capitalists and furnish para mount business and support tor a large population. As this product becomes important for export tho shipping business for our merchants will largely increase and be another permanent article of commerce which we all desire to extend. now a Boy Made hts Father Sor ry. Another callow youth has taken sweet and deadly vengeance on his father by shooting himself. This ono lived in Cincinnati, and his name was Kcenan. Old Keenan had some dispute or difficulty with tho boy, and the boy ended the parley ln- saying: "You will be sorrv for this." So saying he went into tho next room, and immediately a shot was heard. The boy then walked back into the room where his father was, with blood spouting from his breast and his face very pale. He had just life enough to say, "See what I havo done," and fell. The father gave him a respectable funeral, and prob ably did feel suitably sorry. This mode of vengeance is affective on tho fathers, but is also hard on the boys. A pretty girl is employed to take up collections in a Springfield church . and the receipts are very heavy. If a strange gentleman hesitates about contributing, she smiles, nods and winks in such a queer style that tho victim first blushes up to the roots of his hair and then makes a dive for his pocket-book, anxious to close tho interview as soon as possible. All the young fellows who know her think it worth fifty cents a week to catch her beautiful brown fVf and tho women all pay because if they mj T 1 lon't she savs "meanny"with her lips, while a look of intense disgust overspreads her face. Reasons for Thankfulness. Wo have great reasons for thankfulness that a Congress which was so sub servient to a bad Administration, which had so littlo conception of its duty to the country, and so constant and overpowering sense of its obliga tions to tho party, and which was so short-sighted and wrong-headed as to have Butler for a leader, has fin ished its career. Tho New Yrok Tribune suggests that wo may somo time get a worse lot. God help us if we do! An advertisement is a quiet unob strusive solicitor that never fails to make itself known. Curiosity often prompts ono to read it, and after once being read it remains fixed in tho mind though apparently forgotten. Do as you will, the remembrance comes to a person whether they de sire it or not, and as soon as the ar ticle advertised is needed, the seeker knows where to go. Miss May Read is giving readings out west. Her business manager is that wll known and popular indi vidual, "He who runs May Read.' O o o 0 O O o o o o o o O o o o o o o o o o o o o O o O 0 O o