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THE RIVER OF DEATH.
TO MISS P. T., WITH AUTHOR'S LOVK.
A mother has passed o'er the swelling
tide,
We clung to her hand in bitter woe ;
We followed hr down to the river-side,
And watched her boat, with its sail of
snow :
And oh ! how we longed to go with her,
In the boat with that ghostly mariner.
But see! they have touched the further
brink,
The boatman turns he is coming backl
Who will the next one be, do you think,
To follow the loved, o'er that viewless
track ?
Our lives seem suddenly dear to grow,
How many of us are ready to go ?
I turn away with a secret fear,
I've a vorld of work just begun ;
Children to raise and friends to cheer,
Oh I boatmen, take those whose work
is done ;
The b ightness from Heaven I cannot
see,
And oh, I'm afraid to go with thee!
But have I not faith to follow my Lord,
Wherever his hand beckons me!
And when in the swelling of Jordan's
waves.
Will he not my Companion be?
Oh yes, to the'boat, 1 will joyfully llv,
For Jesus will do my work letter than I.
Then oh I how sweet will the union be.
With the true, tried friends, who have
trone be tore:
My children will hasten to welcome
me.
For love has no frain, on the thither
snore,
But thy sweetest joy these words alTbrd,
mere snail L ever be with the IjoiiI!
M. I..
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Wasuixotok, D.C, Mar. G, '7G.
Like a clap of thunder on a clear
summer's day came the discovery of
Secretary Belknap's criminal malver
sation and flagrant abuse of his high
public trust. From the time of the
first announcement of his deep dis
grace until the present, Washington
has been a scene of excitement and
uncertainty. The air is thick with
rumors of oilicial corruption and
prospective removals from ofiice, but
the pivotal point of speculation and
discussion rests in the name of the
exposed Secretary. With such abso
lute secresy had tho investigation
been conducted, that on Thursday
none but the immediate members of
the committee were cognizant of the
forthcoming exposure. The morning
pajiers contained no allusion to the
matter, and the first public intima
tion reached the city through the
columns of a Baltimore journal. The
account, though given with great
accuracy, seemed too incredible to
warrant belief, and it was not until
later in the day, when positive con
firmation was received from official
sources, that our citizens were able
to realize the truth of the impending
crisis. There has been scarcely an
individual instance since the assassin
ation of Abraham Lincoln that has
created a more profound sensation
and jerhaps the last person to whom
a taint of suspicion would heretofore
attached was W. W. Belknap. The
office of Secretary of War, although
greatly stripped of the opportunities
for dishonorable transactions since
the cessation of hostilities between
the North and South, has always
been regarded as one which required
the presence of a Cabinet Minister of
enlarged and comprehensive views
and unimpeachable integrity.
In October", 18G9, William Worth
Belknap, when but 40 years of age,
was called from the obscurity of an
Iowa village to assume the duties of
this elevated position. From a me
diocre lawyer and ex-army officer,
was elevated an official who was es
teemed worthy to succeed to the se.it
as acceptably tilled by Stanton, liaw
lins and a host of others, distinguish
ed alike for brilliancy of genius and
unswerving devotion to their coun
try's good. For some time he evinced
a firm determination to further the
nation's interests, and accordingly
rose in public consideration and es
teem. His Alma Mater (Princeton)
requested him to deliver their annual
address in '71, and soon after he offi
ciated in a similar character at West
Point. In many other ways he seem
ed to merit public approval, and it
was only a few mouths sinse that his
name stood prominently forth as the
Republican nominee for U. S. Senator
from Iowa. But all these bright
promises of future usefulness are now
ended, and a well earned reputation
as a soldier is blasted forever. Pity
in such a case is possible, that oue
whose career possessed so mu-.-h of
merit should end in such deep ig
nominy. To tho inordinate fondness of dis
play and pitiful ambition for fashion
able supremacy, may be attributed
the principle cause whiph has covered
a nation with disgraoe apd oonsigned
forever to infamy and dishonor he
who so lately ocoupied one of the
most important positions in the gift
of the Government. The lesson af
forded is one which may be profitably
pondered by hundreds of families,
and though deduced from a great
calamity, it yet "works a moral" in
which social reform is no insi-nifi-cant
feature.
In considering the results to flow
from BeUnap'a malfeasance, there
arises a, peculiarly obstruse question
as to the impeachibility of an officer
whose resignation has been accepted.
The investigating committee seem
unanimous in considering the culprit
within the jurisdiction of Congress
but a few minutes reflection shows
how disastrous a policy this would
inaugurate, tending to the revival of
the many (at present! PT-nffiioT !
crimes which have long since been
forgotten, and the resurrection of
which would be productive of noth
ing but months of weary and useless
legislation. As the matter now stands
iuis legai tecnmcaiity has been refer
red to a special committee who will
report thereon at an early day, but
in the meantime no cessation i's no
ticeable in the House proceedings,
and articles of impeachment to the
number of VHi have already been pre
pared and are held in readiness for
presentment. Belknap is amenable
to the criminal law and it therefore
becomes a matter of very little eon
sequsnse whether he is indicted be
fore the bar of the Senate or that of
the proper criminal court. The pros
pect is that to avoid the responsibil
ity of forming so troublesome a prec
edent, the question of Belknap's
liability or non-liability to impeach
ment will after some discussion be
merged into his criminal offense and
the ex-Secretary remanded to the
tender mercies of the district courts,
there to be, throngh the efforts of
learned counsel, purified and eventu
ally issue forth cleansed from his
sins, jjrepared once more to battle
with the storms of this mundane
sphere. Selah!
Belying upon the telegraph, I have
attempted no detailed statement as to
the particular attendant upon this
exposure, nor the cause which led to
the issue. Suffice it to say there can
be no doubt of the correctness of the
charge, and Belnuap's guilt is estab
lished be3rond peradventure. Dem
ocratic stock has gone up, and it is
wonderful to notice how enthusiastic
the advocates of "ye Bourbon (?)
principles" have become in their
philantropic work of investigation.
The startling developments adverted
to temporarily pass the Republican
prospects into partial eclipse and
present another splendid opportunity
for the Democratic faction to blun
der, aud thus add an additional link
to the brilliant chain of marvelous
stupidity with which their party an
vil has been as busily ringing during
the past decade.
Dame Rumor is busy selecting
Belknap's successor. Johh C. Xew,
U. S. Treasurer, L. M. Morrill, U. S.
Senator from Maine, and Judge Taft,
of Ohio, pass in prominent review,
but to whom the palm is to be award
ed remains yet to be seen.
The War Department portfolio
promises to be accompanied with
stern duties and great responsibili
ties the occasion is here, and the
query becomes, is there a man equal
to the requirements of the same.
Hurriedly, R. M. D.
The I'irst Steamboat on the Hudson.
The steamboat itself is a romance
of tho Hudson. Its birth was on
its waters, where the rude concep
tions of Evans aud Fitch on the
Schuylkill and Delaware were per
fected by Fulton and his successors.
How strange was the storv of its ad
vent, growth, and achievements! Liv
ing men remember when the idea of
steam navigation was ridiculed. They
remember, too, that when the Cler
mont weut from New York to Albany
without the use of sails, against wind
and tide, ip thirty-two hours, ridi
cule was changed" into amazement.
That voyage did more. It spread
terror over the river, and created
wide alarm along its borders. The
steamboat was an awful revelation
to the fiashermen, the farmers,
and tho villagers. It came upon
them unhearalded. It seemed like
a weird craft from Pluto's realm
a transfiguration of Charon's
bout into a living fiend from
the iufernal regions. Its huge
black pipe vomiting fire and smoke,
the hoarse breathing of its engine,
and tho great splash of its uucovered
paddle-wheels filled the imagina
tion with all the dark pictures oi
goblinsthat romancers have invented
since the foundation of the world.
Some thought it was an unheard-of
monster of the sea ravaging the fresh
waters; others regarded it as a herald
of the final conflagration at the day
of doom. Managers of river-craft
who saw it at night believed that the
great red dragon of the Apocalypse
was loose upon the waters. Some
prayed for deliverance; some fled iu
terror to the shore, and hid in the
recesses ' of the rocks, and some
croached in mortal dread beneath
their decks, and abandoned their
vessels and themselves to the mercy
of the wind and waves, or the jaws
of the demon. The Clermont was the
author of some of the most wonder
ful romances of the Hudson, and for
years she was the victim of the
enmity of the fisherman, who believ
ed that her noise and agitation of the
waters would drive the shad and
sturgeon from the river. Bexsox J.
Lossixg, in Harper's Magazine or
April.
Mex With Bcstdes Ox. A Cim
cinnati correspondent of the Toledo
Blade writes as follows: Now, the
unearthliest, funniest thing abont a
man dressed up in women's clothes,
is alwavs his bustle. He never, never
gets it on right. Not a single one of
our male women on Madri Oras wore
his bustle with the flowing ease and
poetical grace which only comes of
long practice. Our fellows either
had the bustle away around upon
one hip, or, when it wasn't that, it
was a good many inches too low
down, and in every case it bobbed
about fearfully and the man kept
putting his hand timidly around
every minute or two, and fealing
behind to see if he wasn't losing his
bustle. Uneasy is the man that wears
a bustle. He isn't used to it, you see.
The Chicago Post thinks that
jwomen have more mental labor to
perform than men. It must wear
the brain to put a border on a Jamp-3at.
Tom Paine.
Among the Centennial events there
is one that should not be forgotten,
yet will not gladly be remembered,
because it is associated with a name
which is as generally distasteful as
any in our history. In the winter of
a hundred years ago was published
the famous pamphlet, Common-Sense,
which crystallized into fixed purpose
the wishes and hopes for indepen
dence which filled the colonial mind.
The author was' Thomas Paine a
very conspicions fignren his time,
but generally known toVus as Tom
Paine, the infidel. One little boy
whom the Easy Chair well knew
heard his name first upon a raw
wintry day in New England town,
when his attention was attracted by
the firing of guns, and he asked what
they were for. The reply was in
substance that some disreputable
people were celebrating Tom Paiue's
birthday. The tone implied that he
was a dreadful reprobate. But surely
Tom Paine had done some good
service. He wrote 'Common-Sense,
and published it in the dark hour of
the Revolution. It was a wholly
unselfish service, for he took out no
copyright; and even in those days,
among a colonial population of three
millions only, poor and in the midst
of exhausting war, there were a hun
dred thousand copies of the pamph
let sold. Washington, Franklin,
Adams, Jefferson, hailed him as a
public benefactor. But among later
Americans his name was always men
tioned with horror and disdain. It is
agreed that no single cause was more
effective in produeiug the Declaration
of Independence than his Common
Sense. Yet sixteen years ago, when
a portrait of Paine was offered to the
city of Philadelphia, to be hung in
the hall where the Declaration was
adopted and signed, it was declined.
A likeness of Torn Paine, the infidel,
must hang among the august
shades of the fathers. Yetthejreligiotis
views of " Tom Paine " were essenti
ally those of "Tom Jefferson," whose
name will be saluted as among tht
most illustrious of this illustrious
year.
lhe feeling about Paine in the be
ginning of tho century was largely
political. When Jefferson was Presi
dent, he invited Paine to come to
this country from France, where he
had narrowly escaped the guillotine,
and he arrived in October, 1802. His
friends gave him public dinners.
His opponents said that Tom Paine
and Tom Jefferson ought to dangle
from the same gallows. For even in
that golden age of tho republic, to
which so many sighing imaginations
revert from the corruption of this
age of brass and iron upon which we
have fallen, there was some warmth
of party feeling aud expression.
When Paine came to New York lie
stopped at the old City Hotel, on
Broadway, just north of Trinity
Church. And the inquisitive little
Laurie Todd, or Grant Thorbnrn,
heard one day that the great sinner
was standing at the door of the hotel,
and he rau out with some friends to
see him. But Mr. Paine had goneto
his room. The Scotchman was not
to be foiled, but lie asked. a servant
who was sweeping the hall if Mr.
Paine was at home. Hearing that
he was, Thorburn pushed on, au i
was shown into a large room whore
the table was set for breakfast. One
gentleman was writing, another read
ing the newspaper, and at the father
end of the room stood a long, lank,
coarse-looking figure warming his
hind-quarters before the fire. The
intruder asked for Mr. Paine. Tho
figure by the fire replied that, his
name was Paine. Thorburn put out
his hand, which Paine took, and the
little Scotchman said that he had
called from mere curiosity. Mr.
Paine replied that he was very glad
to satisfy it. Upon which Thorburn
made a bow "like a goose ducking
his head under water," walked out,
and shut the door, while all the
gentleman in the room burst into a
laugh which he heard all the way
to the door. He did not care: he
had seen the great man. But he had
to pay for the pleasure. The great
city was a small town then, and the
story of the interview grew as it was
repeated. TJiorburn was clerk of
the Scotch Presbyterian church, iu
Cedar Street, and if he had hobnob
bed with Voltaire as was Voltaire
was then generally esteemed or
had sworn eternal friendship with
David Hume, he could not have
struck his brethren with great horror.
The Kirk Session took alarm. A
special meeting was called, and Grant
Thorburn was suspended from
psalm singing for three months
because he had shaken hands with
Thomas Paiue.
Doubtless Paine has been very
haifehly treated. His honesty can
not be doubted. His political views
were those of the men of his time
whom we most reverence, and his
religious opinions did not differ
from those of many men whom we
most highly honnor. He was not
an infidel in the ordinary sense, for
his Aye of Reason was written to op
pose atheism. His misfortune was
that he had no tact, and the very
vigor and simplicity of mind and
style which made Common-Sense
and The Rights of Man such efficient
political pamphlets, made his reli
gious treatise, the Age of Reason,
fatal to his reputation. In the first
he trenchantly expressed a great and
powerful public opinion. In the
last he came into collision with it,
and it crushed him. Editor's Easy
Chair, in Harper's Magazine for
April.
Some people regard it as singular
that a man who "never played cards
in his life because it's wicked," will
exact fifteen per cent, interest from a
widow.
Jackson county's
9,000 this year,
State tax was
Confederate Make-shifts.
Every household became a nest of
domestic manufactures, every farm
had its cotton patch and its sorghum
field. Spinning wheels and looms,
which in former days had been used
for clothing the slaves on large plan
tations, but which, during the era
of cheap dry goods, were compara
tively idle, were again set going.
Ladies whose hands were unused to
such labor learned to card, to spin,
and to weave. Knitting became as
fashionable in Southern parlors as it
is in German homes. Homespun
dresses were worn by the first ladies
iu the land, and she who was clever
est to contrive and deftest to execute
had highest praise from her associ
ates. Foreign dies were well-nigh
unattainable, and the woods at home
were ransacked . for the means of
coloring the home-grown flax, wool
and cotton. Black-walnut bark fur
nished a rich brown, varying in
iutensity with the "strength of the
dye ; swamp-maple, a clear purple ;
pokeberries, a solferino, bright, but
not durable ; wild indigo gave a tol
erable blue, and elderberries an
unsatisfactory black. Indeed, no
experiment with bark, root, leaf or
berry ever resulted in any substitute
for logwood ; and as black was the
dye most needed for Southern gar
ments in those dark days, the blockade-runners
learned to make it part
of their regular cargo.
At one time in some sections of the
South there was fearful destitution
of salt. Speculators held it at enor
mous prices. Even tho rich were
forced to use it sparingly. The poor
seemed likely to suffer for lack of it,
and live slock were in many cases
denied it altogether.
Barrels and boxes which had been
used for packing salt fish or pork
were soaked in water afterward, which
was boiled down and evaporated for
the sake of the salt thus extracted.
The earthen floors of smoke houses,
into which the precious mineral had
been trodden year after year, were
dug up, and the earth given to cattle,
or treated with water, after the same
manner as the salt seasoned boards.
The government at Richmond came
to the rescue, and seized the salt
works throughout the country, issued
regular rations to each family at nom
inal prices for the rest of the war.
By this high-banded measure the
people were saved from a salt famine.
Coffee was a luxury seldom enjoyed,
and for which rye or wheat, roasted
and ground, was the usual miserable
substitute. Some quick-witted person
conceived the idea of using sweet
potato chips instead. These made
a more palatable drink, but were,
after all, only a hollow mockery.
Dried raspberry leaves were used for
tea, and some people fell back upon
sassafras, the North Carolinian bev
erage, grimly assuring those who
scorned it that it was good for the
blood and would save doctor's bills.
Not a few eschewed all these trans
parent deceptions, if that may be
called deception which deceived
nobody, and when unable to afford
milk, drank cold water with patient
heroism. Mrs. M. P. Handy, in
Harper's Magazine for March.
Haying un.
A dignified citizen of Detroit yes
terday sat hi his office, in the third
story of a building on Griswold street,
wneu a stranger about forty years
old, with a red nose and a grand
smile and a ragged coat, slid
softly in.
" Any fun here?" he inquired as
he stood by the door.
" Fun ! "What do you want, sir?"
shouted the citiz.-n.
" Want to have some fun with
somebody !" was the oily answer.
The citizen turned to his papers,
and after a pause the stranger creit
nearer and said :
" Come on less wrastlecach other
and kick around and have a good
time."
" Yon go down stairs !" was the
reply, spoken in very earnest tones.
" Won't you have any fun with
me ?" pleaded the stranger ; won't
you tussle around and knock off hats
and kinder liven me up?"
The citizen rose up and pointed
to the door with a look and gesture
that Booth might envy.
" I can't find any one around hero
to have fun with me !" complained
the stranger as he backed off a little.
" I haven't half enjoyed myself since
I came here just 'cause no one will
punch me in the ribs, jam me around,
cuff me up to a peak aud get in a kick
occasionally. I don't wan't work ;
I don't care for money ; all I want is
to git somebody by the choker , me
git liime by the hair, and have a reg
ular old-fashioned time, just as we
used to have in those boyhood days
now gone forever."
The citizen had a table-leg near at
hand, and he grasped it, drove the
stranger to the door,- and then gave
him a royal kick to help him down
stairs. The man paused on the land
ing, looked back, and in a sad voice
inquired :
" Won't you change your mind,
won't you gratify a feller ?"
"You go down.01 -I'll throw this olub
at you !" was the answer.
"I hate to but I will. Wish you
had kicked me three or four times
and let me piled you under the table
aud tied your legs in a knot."
Love axd the Stomach. A Washr
ington doctor says love is an affair of
the stomach, and not of the heart;
but we really cannot conceive of a
love-siok swain singing to his mate,
Ask my stomach what means this
sadness." It wouldn't be right. She
might think it was something else.
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A colony from Arkansas, it is said,
is preparing to come to this State in
"prairie schooners" during the summer.
Preparations for Dinner.
There are the decent proprietors,
moreover, which belong essentially
to the well-ordered home dinner,
which not only heighten its pleasures,
but render it more healthful. There
is the preliminary refreshment of the
toilet, not only securing cleanliness,
but compelling delay before sitting
down to the table, and thus prevent
ing that dangerous practice of eating
and drinking when fevered with the
heat and agitated with the flurry of
excitement and exercise. There is no
part of the toilet before dinner more
important than cleansing the teeth
and thoroughly rinsing the mouth,
operations which are hardly practi
cable in the hasty " down-town feed,"
but which no nice person would fail
to make a preliminary of his deliber
ate domestic meal.
The cigar, if permissible at any
time, should never be smoked within
the two hours preceding anv solid
meal. If it is, it will not only deaden
the appetite, but pervert the taste
and weaken digestion ; and yet it is
no uncommon practice to take a cigar
at the very moment of starting out
for dinner. When this meal is dis
patched in the restaurant, the last
puff has hardly passed away, and the
taste of the fetid remnant is still
clinging to the mouth, while the first
morsels of food are being swallowed.
Nicotine has never been commended,
so far as is known, either as an
appetizer or a condiment, but is uni
versally believed ts be a nauseous
poison, nhould the dinner be eaten
at home, the cigar will, be thrown
away, at least by most decorous per
sons, at the door step, and there will
be some chanco of its vile smack
passing off in the course of the ante
prandial purification.
All provocatives of the appetite in
the form of " bitters," absinthe, and
glasses of sherry are hurtful to diges
tion, and especially dangerous to
morals, for nothing is more conducive
to habits of intoxication. Strong
spirituous or vinious drinks are prob
ably hardly ever safe, but they are
certainly never so when taken into
an empty stomach, and especially at
the moment just as it is ready for a
hearty meal, and its powers of absorp
tion are at their height.
Dressing for dinner, as that process
is generally understood by our dressy
dames, is by no means a preparation
favorable to the enjoyment of a heart j
meal and its good digestion. The
constraints of the fashionable cos
tume, with its constricted waist and
multiple pressure upon the very
organs, the free service of which is
imperiously vemanded on the occa
sion, are hardly consistent with the
full reception of the necessary food
or an easy disposition of it. I)r.
Tomes, in Harper's Magazine for April.
The First Clreat Tipple on Manhatleii
Island.
There was a tradition, a hundred
years ago among some of the neigh
boring tribes, that an old chief said
had been handed down from genera
tion to generation, in which it was
stated that when the Indians here first
saw tho ship, which seemed a huge
white thing moving up, they thought
it was some monstrous fish, but final
ly concluded it to be tho canoe of the
great Manitou visiting his children. '
Runners were immediately sent to
the neighboring tribes who flocked
to the place of rendezvous. Sacrifices
were prepared, and a grand dance
ordered for his reception. Hudson,
dressed in scarlet and attended by a
portion of his crew, came ashore,
and the chiefs, grave and respectful,
gathered in a semicircle around him.
Hudson, to show his friendly feel
ings, poured out a glass of brandy,
and tasting it himself, handed it to
the nearest cheif. He gravely smelled
of it, and handed it to the next one,
who did the same, and passed it on.
In this way it went the entire circle
without being tasted. At last a young
brave declared it was an insult to the
great Manitou not to drink after he
had shown them an example, and if
no one else would drink it, he would,
let the consequences bo what they
might. So, bidding them all a sol
emn farewell, he drained the goblet
at a draught. The chiefs watch
ed him with anxiety, wondering
what the effect would be. The
young brave very soon began to stag
ger, till at length, overcome by the
heavy dose, he sunk on the ground
in a drunken stupor. The chiefs
looked on at first in still terror, and
then a low, wild dcath-wail rose on
the air. But after a while the appar
ently dead man began to rally, and
at length jumping on his feet, caper
ed round in the most excited, gro
tesque manner, declaring he never
felt so happy in his life, and asked
for more liquor. The other chiefs
no longer hesitated, and following
his example, the first great tipple
on New York island took place, end
ing in a scene of beastly intoxication.
From that time on the name of the
island in the Delaware language sig
nified "the place of the big drunk."
many people think it would be a
good name for it now, or at least
portions of it, not onlv where th6
"sachems" do congregate, but other
places. J. T. Heatev-, in Harper's
.uagazine jQr Jiprtl.
The Albany Democrat is responsible
for the following item :
" At an event in the foothills re
cently, which would properly come
unuer the bead of " census reports,
a surprise party was given somewhat
after this manner : Due preparation
had been made to welcome the little
one 'all the wav from heaven.' but
lo ! the heavenly visitor brought a
playmate with him. and the unfortu
nate male pa-ri-ent of the new comers
had to travel six miles throuoh the
rain and mud to borrow suitable
apparel to clotho the extra nn
pected,
X-
CONGRESSIONAL
norsE..
Washtxgtox, March 20.'
The House then as the regular,
order of business, considered the'bill
reported by Banning from the com
mittee on military affairs, regulating
the pay aud allowance of the officers'
of the army. The bill Is' to bake'
effect on the last of July neVt. Bah'1"
ning proceeded to address1 the. House
in explanation and advocacy of the.
bill, which he said would effect aTi'
anuual saving of over half a million'
dollars. The reductions, he said
were made in accordance with the'
advice of Gen. Sherman, who said to'
the committee, "Cut off at the head,
and not at the foot." The bill was
cutting down the pay of general offU"
cers. Garfield had read an extract1
from the testimony made by Geny
Hancock before the committee ad.-"
verse to the proposed reduction's":-. ;
Without further debate 'the" bill1
passed yeas 141, nays 01. :
Banning from the committee on'
military affairs, reported a bill ta
promote the efficiency of the army
of tho United States;to provide: for'
its gradual reduction and to co'nsdli-"
date certain of its staff detriments;
referred on . the whole" and made
special order for next Wednesday .
Burleigh, from the committee dtt:
naval affairs, reported a bill directing
the naval estimates to be made in
detail under tho various he:ids of ex
penditures. After discussion the
passed. o .
Knott, chairman of the judiciary'
committee, presented articles" to be
adopted and presented to the Senate
in the maintenance!' arid support df
the impeachment for high crimed
and misdemeanors in office of Wrii.
Belknap, late Seretary of War; wbicib,
'is rofnni in i 1 1 il nnil onlered td
printed, with the understanding that'
they would; be' called Hp Saturday
next.
senate.-
March 30. The committee" orlJ
Territories to-day authorized . Chr"s-
tiancy to report for jjassage his bill'
to regulate the elective franchise and;
trials by jury, with certain amejid'-
ments which do not materially affect
- 1 A t
tne main provisions as uereioiore
pub.ished. ?
Kelhr, of Oregon, presented the
petition of the Board of Trade of"
Oregon, asking an appropriation to'
improve the Columbia and Villaln
ette rivers;' referred to the committed
nn commerCe.'
Sargent introduced a bill grahtiBgf
a site in Santa Barbara county, Cal.v
to tiie trustees of the James Lick
fund; referred to committee on pub
lic lands.
Morton introduced the metaoriail
of a convention of delegates're'preseB
ting the Society of Friends, remon
strating against the transfer of the
Indian Bureau from the' Interior
Department to the' War department
referred.
Pars'oii 3Iurrav oil riariiessiii'r a Colt..-
When the foal is 15 mouths old
we begin to educate him to harness.
Most colts, remember, are timid;-
they were born so. The first day,-
we simply put the saddle without
the back-strap on, buckling tip the'
belly-band loosely. This is done'
many times, increasing the pressure.
Then we take the ncck-collr. ancf
put it over his head, first permitting
him to smell of it, and touch it with
his nose, until he is entirely convince
ed that it is not calculated to' hurt
him. In like manner we add part to'
part until the colt is fully harnessed.
lie is then allowed to stand with tn-6'
harness on until he has time to reflect
upon the whole matter, and became
accustomed to the pressure of th
harness against his sensitive skinj
for we must remember that all thia
performance seems very queer to
him, and startling. When he has
fully composed his mind, atid settled
down into the conviction that every
iumg is an right ana as it snouia do
with him, ho is then walked about,
the harness still being on, aiid brought
back everv few minutes to the spot
where he is to be unharnessed, and
taught to stand as long as it would
naturally take to remove the harness
Straps are loosened,- buckle-tongues,
started, saddle and collar eased; in
short, everything done that would
le done in unharnessing, save actu,i
ally removing the harness. After
several times, this standing 6tiU
while being unharnessed has come
to be, in his mind, a jart of the
programme, and he understands it,
and assents to it as such. Once
learned, in the case of an intelligent
horse, always learned. This same
process should be gone through with
in the case of a high-spirited, valua
ble colt, once or twice each day, for
a week at least. And remember that
he is learning many lessons in ope,
including that greatest of all a (iolfc
can learn, viz., to have confidence in,
and yield his will to, man. Have
great patience at this point oi his
education, and proceed step by step,
advancing no further than your pu-j
pil's success justifies. During these
harness exercises, accustom the colt
to pressure againt breast aud shoul
der, by tying" lotg corda into either
side of the collar, and pulling gently,
cause him to brace himself, as ha
will naturally do, against it. This
gives him the idea of drawing weight
somewhere behind him, and. by peri
mi t ting him to pull you along, ha
will grow to feel that he can pull
anything. -Vie Golden Rule.
It has just been discovered that it
isn't whisky that kills. When a man s
teeth strike a tumbler there is fnc
tion, and friction jars his nerves and
wears him out.
The trial of Shepardson, the mail
robber, has been set for the P.f
May.
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