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A o c o o o f h- rf O O O DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. O o VOL. 10. OREGON CITY, OEEGON, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1876. NO. 29 -s nils if" llff Mi frnTY fiff if " 5tf i ii i o o O K THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR T n K Farmer, Easiness Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. TRANK S. DEMENT, TBOPEIFTOR AND PUBLISHES. o OWICIAL PAPZB FOB CLACKAMAS CO. OFFTCE In Enterprisk Building, one or gouth of Masonic iiiinuiij, Tnm of Subscription t Pnnr One Year. In Advance $2.50 Six Months 1.60 Term of Advertising! Transient advertisements. Including l notices. s square of t welve $ 2.50 1.00 linns one ween Fr each subsequent insertion... o Column, one vpsu- 120.00 - " fiO.OO "" . 40.00 v. :: :;z Card. 1 square, one year SOCIETY NOTICES. 12.00 ourcox r.onfiR no. 3, 1. 1. o. v., Meets everv Thursday gga ereninjat7 4 o'clock, in the $pZ$&& t Odd Fellows' Hall, Mam 'Hsf m t roof f emlers of the Or der are invited to attend. Py order N.. cki;iu:cca iiiuattiCLonaii: so. 2. I. O. 0. 1, Meets on the Second and Fourth Tues dav ovenings each month. at 7l4 clock, in tne oia Fellows' Hall. Members of the Der are invited to attend. ree MIII.TXOMAII LOIKJH XO. l.A.F, A A. M.. Holds its regular com r com- & X and "O ...nth, V munications on the rirst Third Saturdays in each in t 7 o'clock from the '20th of Sen tember to the 'Mth of March; and 7'i 'clock from the 20th of March to the 20th of September. Brethren in good standing are invited to attend. Bv order of W. M. FALLS I1NCAMPMRNT XO.4,1.0. O.V., Meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the First and Third Tues iith. Patriarclis inood standing arc invited to attend. JIUSIXliSS CARDS. X. J. HOVER, M. D. J. W. NORKIS, M. n IIOVKR So NOIH1IS, PHYSICIANS AND NUIIGKO.NS, sVOflice Up-Ktairs in Charinan'ti Hrick, Mnin Street. Dr. Hover's residence Third street, at foot of cliff stairway. tf II. W. ROSS, M. n. WAKUEX N. DAVIS, M. D. ItOSS So DAVIS, III YSICl VXS A n S V It ti K O N s Oregon City, - - Oregon. e7-tni.? at the City Dispensary, corner of Main and Fourth sts. Dr. l:iviH is a graduate of the. University of lViuK.vlvania, and has lately arrived from t lie East. Particular attention civen to surgery. Oflice. hours lrom S o'clock a. i. to " p. m. DR. .TOIIIsT WELCH DENTIST, OFFICE IM OREGON CITY, OHEGOX Prlt-B PalJ f jr County Orders. HUELAT & SASTHAM, ATTO RNE YS-AT-LA W- PORTLXD Iu Opitz's new brick, 30 First streot. OREGON CITY Char man's brick, up tair! gept24tf JOHNSON Gl WcCOW? 1TT0R?(EYS AND COCXSELORS AT-LAW. Oregon City, Oregon. yVill practice in all the Courts of the tat. Special attention given to cases in the U. 8. Land Offlce at Oregon City. 5aprlS72-tf. 3 L. T. 13 A Ti I N" ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, OREGON CITY, : : OREGON. practice in all the Courts of the Nov. 1, laTo, tf State. JAMES 13. UPTON, Attornev-at-Law, Oregon City. Not. 6, lSC5Af JOHN M. UACON, IMPOUTEU AND DKATEK In Books. Stationery, Perfum ery, etc., etc. Oregon City, Oregon irvAtthe Tost side, o Offlce, Main stgeet, east W. II. HltiHFIELD. Established since '49. One door north of Pope'i Hall. Main Street, Oregon City, Oregon. An assortment of Watches. Jewel ry.and Seth Thomas Weight Clocks . all ot wnicn are warranted to be as represented. tr"Bepairins done on short notica, and thankful for past patronage. Cash paid for County Orders. MILLER, MARSHALL &C0., rAT THE HIGHEST TRICE FQU X WHEAT, at all times, at the Oregon City Mills, 4 r Vi i" Vt An1 FEED and to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring Feed, must furnish sacks. novl2tf GIT AS. msriGrirr, CAN BY, OREGON, PHYSICIAN AND DRUGGIST Prescriptions notice. carefully filled at shor ja7 If. -.fe; W A STRAY CURL. It hung o'er her shoulders divinely, A curl of magnificent cold : I thought, as it lay there supinel or tresses ttiat uerman girls I envied the curl so reposing, Like sunshine or ambient iearl. But while I was dreamily dozing, It fell with a quivering whirl And ah 1 my dream was then ended It lav there aghast on the lloor, While its owner in ignorance wended, 'Mid silence her steps to the doorl Aii Interloper. "The big boss," as the old apple woman calls him, stopped a moment as he passed through our offlce. Everybody was wondrously industri ous at that moment. "A young woman will take the place left vacant in this establish ment by the death of Edwards," he said, in his usjial abrupt manner, at the same time looking at nothing and seeing everything. "She will be here to-morrow, and I've no doubt will perform the duties required of her in a satisfactory manner. Good- afternoon." v e loosed at each other in sur prise, and Thrall just stopped him self on the verge of a whistle, and coughed instead: but not a word did we say until we were sure that our head had reached the street, for the ears pertaining to our head are ex ceedingly sharp. Then burst forth a torrent of words. "A girl! what a nuisance!" said Smith. "Alas! my melodious voice is si lenced forever," said Thrall, who was great in opera burlesque, at the same time with atnronriate gestures of despair bursting into "Infelice." "What possessed Lawrence? Such an old fogv as he is, too. I can't understand it at all," said Marlowe "Gat her at half the salary he paid id wards, drawled Jule Oerard. a vouiiff fellow disliked bv most of us for his uppish airs, and chaffed tin mercifully behind lus bade lor his immense belief in himself and the Gerard family. And dear at that price, in my opinion. A cint oi a gin, smart ai her sums; gold medal for mathemat ics at "NVhat's-its-narae Institute, and consequently highly eligible for any position anvwhere," said Thrali. iliuging his hat across the room, and ) singing some ridiculous words of his own to an air lrom oomnamuuia. Do bo quiet a moment, Thrall," I interrupted; but he never heeded me, but went on until the very last note was reached, and then politely requested me to proceed. ".Lawrence didn t say a girl; he said a young woman, and that may mean anything in pull-backs from sixteen to sixty. Anyhow, as Smith says, she'll be a nuisance. Why don't she sculp, or paint, or draw, or en grave, or something of that sort, all undisturbed in the privacy of her own dear little studio? Or, better yet, why don't she marry somebody?" "Marry her yourself, Dickson, and prove a benefactor to mankind in general and your fellow-clerks in particular," suggested Smith. "Oh! I say!" drawled Gerard; "life is too short to bo wasted talking about a woman. Let's go round and get some beer" (he called it be-ah) , "and drink death to all interlopers." We went. I am Dickson, the young man who was kindly advised to marry the girl book-keeper, a propositi from which I shrank, having a horror of women who usurped, as a thought, the posi tions and privileges of the sterner sex. However, I will admit I had a fair share of curiosity about the new comer, and so no doubt had my companions, always excepting Jule Gerard, who was too selfish and indolent to feel the slightest interest in anything or anybody. And the next morning, when a young woman pushed open the swing door, walked quickly up to me, I being nearest the door, and said to me in a low, shy voice (I like low, shy voices), "Will you please show me where my desk is?" I am conscious I regarded her with a look more keen than po lite. The blood rose to her cheek, and she returned my look not boldly, but unflinchingly. "Certainly," said I, and escorted her to her seat, catching a fearful grimace from Thrall as I passed. The girl (for she was a girl, about eighteen, I should think) was, in my opinion an opinion shared by all my fellow-clerks, as I found before the day was over, not at all pretty, not even good-looking. She was tall and thin; had large sunken gray eyes, a wido brow, left bare by the plain arrangement of her hair, which was all drawn away from it and carelessly twined in alipaw coil at the back of her head, rather ugly nose, and rather pretty mouth. She blushed nicely, the delicate crimson just tingeing her pale cheeks and touching her chin; and she had beautiful hands, with long taper fin gersI noticed them when she began to write and her name, as I after ward discovered, was Stella Starsun. Miss Starsun proved so quiet and mouse-like that after a few days we almost forgot her presence, and chaff ed, laughed, and sung, when the cat was away, almost as much as ever One thing wj all noticed Miss btarsun never went out at lunch-time. She nibbled away at something for about five minutes, drank a glass of water, and then taking a book from her sachel, read or studied until time for work again. "Fellqws," said Smith, one day, after she had gone, "I've found out what Miss Starsun lunches on " "Pickles," said Thrall. "Candy," drawled Gerard. "Two crackers," said Smith; "nei ther more nor less. I've watched her for a week through a little peep hole I've . made in my screen and that's all, 'pon honor!" ' 'Poor thing," said I. "th fare." J "Not so bad," drawled Jnle?" unfortunate people haven't two. crackers." 'Good heavens! what a tnrtmA you are, Gerard," said Thrall. "la-as, said Jule. The next day I noticed on Miss Starsun's desk a pretty basket of strawberries, inwreathed with bright green leaves. She looked at it in evident wonder for a moment when she entered, and then set it aside; but I was glad to see that at lunch time she ate the strawberries with her crackers, taking what the gods ap parently had sent her, in her usual quiet manner, without question. After that, every day throughout the summer, some fruit-qffering was laid on Miss Starsun's desk; placed there by order of old Lawrence, we all decided, whose poor relation we had long ago made up our minds the gin muse oe. Gradually we became quite inter ested in the interloper she was so patient, so thoroughly womanly and modest in all her ways, and worked so conscientiously and well. "Only inconvenient to have around," Thrall said, "when a fellow feels as though he must swear or burst. And if she had only been pretty, half a dozen of us would have been in love with her, as I said to Elizabeth W ayiand, authoress, who had come in to see the editor of one of our numerous publications, and he being out, stopped a moment to chat with me. J3y-the-bye, those who say all women writers are ugly, should see Elizabeth Way land. It is a pleasure to look at her bright, attractive face, and such a delicious, charming, harmless flirt as she is! " 'Pretty,' Mr. Dickson," said she; "where are your eyes? "Where they always are when you are present, 1 replied. "Take them away immediately and look at that girl. Nice head, nice broad brow, nice brown hair, sweet gray eyes, long dark lashes, pretty little mouth, characteristic nose " 'Nice' way of saying ugly," inter rupted I. "And altogether," continued Eliz abeth ayiand, "a refined, lovely face." And so it was. She had been with us three months now, and her cheeks had filled out and were tinged with a faint pink hue, her eyes no longer looked sunk en, her brow was shaded by some pretty tendril-like curls, and a happy smile lingered about her lips. "Well, stunid?" said Elizabeth Way land. "l'es ma'am," said I. And from that day I began to fall in love with Miss Starsun. I helped all I could with her work, which was not much, as she understood her business almost as well as I did. I bored the fellows in the other pub lishing houses, for all their new books, that I might lend them to her. Now and then I left a little boquet on her desk, and at last I got to exchanging a dozen or so sentences a. day with her. She had a sweet low voice, as I have said before, and a pretty way. which I have not said before, of glancing up at yqu from under her long dark lashes, which, liked me much. Well, the long and short o,I it was that Miss Starsun had been my fel low-clerk only four months when I was desperately in love with her, and only waited a favorable opportunitj- to tell her so. It came. Some of our fellows wero on their summer vacation; the rest had been summoned to the room of the chief. I would be alone with Miss Starsun for an hour. I approached her desk, my heart beating violently, and leaned over her. She laid down her pen and looked wonderingly up in my face. "Miss Starsun dear Miss Star sun," I stammered, "you h ive a wo man s tact an tuition; vou cannot have failed to see that I " nave ceaseti to regard you as a 'nuisance,' " drawled Jule Gerard, who had silently approached from behind and secured the taper fingers I was about to clasp, "and , Stella, my love, as an interloper. And now put on your hat, say good-bye to Dickson, and invite him, if you cnoose, to can upon us wnen we return from our wedding tour-Ta-ta, old boy!" Chinese Proverbs about Women. The Chinese are a people of many proverbs, some of which are extreme ly acute and neatly turned. "He who finds pleasure in vice and pain in virtue is a novice in both," would be accepted by the wise of most ad vanced countries as warranted by ex perience. But mark the providential philosophy of the Chinese with re gard to women: 'jisten to your wife, but don't believe her." "To cultivate virtue is the science of men; to renounce science is the virtue of women." "The happiest mother of daughters is she who has sons only." "If one is not deaf or stupid, what a position is that of a father-in-law?" "If with a wife and daughter-in-law, daughters and nieces, one ought to be a tiger in order to hold oat." "The minds of women are of quicksilver and their hearts are of wax." "The most curious women willingly cast down their eyes to be looked at. "The tongues of women increases by all they take from their feet." "When men are together they listen to one another, but women and girls look at one another." "The most timid girl has courage enough to talk scan dal. Harper s Magazine. Paddy's description of a fiddle can not be beaten: it is the snape oi a turkey, and the size of a goose. He turned it over on its belly and och, by St. Patrick, how it did squale CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington, May 3. After re ports from various committees, Mor ton ftrqse to a personal explanation, he had read an article recently pub- At .- -vr i. ir...i i lisueci in ine iew ium trvnu, m re gard to two hundred and fifty thou sand dplla-S received from the Gov ernment, and expended by him in organizing the Indiana troops, and said in the spring of 1863, the Presi dent of the United States advanced to him 250,000 to enable him to carry forward the military operations in that State, of which amount be expended 133,302 91, and the bal ance, llG,b'J7 IW, was returned to the Treasury. He had read a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, dated April 11, 18G5, acknowledging ihe receipt of the money. He then spoke of ' the elections in Indiana in JbG2, when the Democrats carried the State by 10,000 majority, and said they attempted to take from him all power to organize the mili tary and take Indiana out of the line of loj'al States. There was plenty of money in the State treasury to enable them to carry out the operations, but it was locked against him. He made an appeal to the people of Indiana, and various county banks and cor porations advanced him money, but he was still 250,000 short, which amount was advanced to him by the General Government. A joint com mittee of the Legislature, composed of some of the most prominent Dem ocrats, examined his accounts and reported they were correct to a cent, including all expenditures of the amount received from the General Government. At the conclusion of Morton's ex planation, McDonald, of Indiana, said, at some future time he would have something to say in regard to the political history of the State of Indiana. He had nothing to say about his colleague's vindication of his own character. Anthony spoke in condemnation of the course of Morton when Governor of Indiana, and condemned the in vestigation now being made. He stated that the witnesses were dis charged employes, broken down con tractors, illicit distillers and disap pointed office-seekers. The peniten tiary and the mad house had given up their dead in this general resur rection of false swearing and perjury. Cameron also approved the course of Morton when Governor of Indiana, and said no man did more to give victory to our arms than he. The Senate then resumed the bill in rela tion to the Japanese indemnity fund. Kelly, of Oregon, from the com mittee on public lands, reported fa vorably on the bill to create an addi tional land district in the territory of Idaho; placed on the calendar. Also favorably on the House bill to adjust the claims of the owners of lands within the limits Klamath reserva tion, Oregon; placed on the calendar. Also favorabl' on the House bill to amend section 2,291 of the revised statutes of the United States in re gard to proof of residence upon pub lio lands, tc. ; placed on the calendar. After some debate bargent s motion to strike out the first section was rejected 24 against 29. Adjourned without further action. HOUSE. May 3. Blaine introduced a bill to utilize the product of gold and sil ver mines; referred. Wiggirton introduced a bill relat ing to he indemnity of school sec tions in California; referred. Manure Versus Weeds. It is commonly observed that the first effect of large quantities of barnyard manure is to make the weeds grow more vigorously. This is partly because the manure is usually filled wit!weed seeds, and also because the increase in fertility encourages seeds to sprout which, with poorer soil, would have remained dormant The light, warm and rich soil will sprout weed seeds to a greater depth than that which is heavy, cold and poor. On the other hand, where grain crops are sown, multitudes of these weeds are smothered and destroyed by the stronger growth of the grains. Almost all annualy weeds start from seeds as tiny and ns feeble as turnip or onions, ana the hrst appearance of the weed is most insignificant. On the other hand, wheat, corn, oats and barley have a grain of considera ble substance, and the blade and root are correspondingly vigorous, not only outgrowing the weed, but enabling the farmer to cultivate his sown or drilled crops with little in jury to the grain but complete de struction to the weeds. A light drag passed over drilled oats or barlev, just as the grain is well up, will hardly disturb a single spear, but will bary and uproot millions of tiny weeds. In this way a held may be kept clean, and, where spring grain is to be followed by wheat, the la bor of fitting the stubble is much lessened. Rural New Yorker. It now appears that the true rear: son why London has not yet a con stant water supply, and is conse: nuentlv in dancer of calamitous con flagrations, is that forty members of Parliament are large share-holders in the monopolizing London water com panies. A bill for increasing the water facilities has lain on the table of the Houso of Commons for two sessions, and bids fair to lie there for an indefinite period. A rait of acient armor recently un earthed in Rome proves beyond a dpuht that the Romans used to feel the need of protecting that portion of the body most exposed when a warrior leaves the fight and starts far home. The Face a Mirror. What a mirror of the heart the face isl Unconsciously perhaps, we are each day moulding our features either in the line of beauty or scar ring them with evil passions that make them repulsive. Every action, every passion, even our secret thoughts, leave an indelible impress there. It is true, we may for a time smother some great or secret emotion but onr faces will eventually betray us and show to the world what we would so carefully conceal. We may not overcome natural defects in our features, but there is a beauty of soul that makes us forget these im perfections and see only loveliness that shines forth from those windows of the soul, the eyes; a loveliness and goodness that have power to chisel and refine the coarsests of faces. As we traverse the crowded city streets, how many faces we see, and what a field are they for the student of human nature! Here is tho man of business, prematurely gray, with lines of care on his brow and a weary look that tells of the hurry and drive that is killing him in the race for cold, lie hastens by. and we see a beautiful face, with eyes as blue as the sky above, framed with masses of golden hair. The blue eyes have a sad look that speaks of a life of sin and sorrow. The haughty woman of fashion gathers up her draperies as if her veay touch was contaminated, and with a look of scorn on her proud face, goes grandly by. We see the street Arab perchance with papers under his arm or box in hand, troll ing some street ditty or soliciting customers. His appearance tells a sad story of early neglect, of life in the streets, of kicks, cuffs and curses of the multitude. Here is the hag gard face of dissipation and crime. Pleasant smiling faces, and faces were sorrow and suffering have left their mark. We here may read life histories as touching as the greatest authors ever penned. "The face is as a written page, Whereupon the world may read Whatever we have written there In word, or thought or deed." Should we not then be careful, and as we each day add a page to this book, make it beautiful with thoughts and loving deeds and never suffer evil to mar it! Land Ottice Decisions. Washington, May 2. Coop's Laud Oioier contains the following land office decisions: In the case of Watson vs Missouri River, Fort Scott and Gulf R. R. Co.. it was decided that a pro-em p tor's claim is not forfeited on account of failure to make a payment within the time limited by laws, there being no adverse claimant to the claim and the tract is excepted from a grant to a railroad subsequently located. Ihe right to change from a pre emption filing to a homestead entry is incident to and a part of the right given the 2re-emptor at the time he intimates his claim, and upon the change being made relates back to the date of his settlement, such home stead entry is governed by the con dition of land at the date his pre emption claim took effect, and if the land has become double minimum in price, he may homestead 1G0 acres, if the price was 1 25 per acre when the settlement was made. Queen vs Southern Pacific R. R. The act of July 27, 18GG, is clearly intended to authorize the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to con struct its road to San Francisco, and gives the company the right to select the route that is most desirable. The State of California could interfere if the road was built on a line not au thorized by tho State; but if that right were waived there was no power elsewhere to interpose. By the act of June 25, 1858, Congress treated this road and the one created by its authority and extended tho time for its completion, and by joint resolu tion of June 28, 1870, expressly gave its consent to the line of road indi cated by the map filed in the general land office January 3, 1857. The grant to this road took effect January 3, 18G7, when the map referred to above wa.s filed in the general land office. The Philosophy riage. "You love of After Mar me no longer," said a bride of a few months to her better half in his gown and slippers "Why do you say that, Puss?" he asked, quietly removing a cigar from his lips. "You do not caress me nor call me pet names, you no longer seek so anxiously for my company," was the tearful answer. "My dear," continued the aggravated wretch, "did you ever notice a man running after a car? How he does run! over stones, through mud, regardless of vervtliinr till he reaches the car and he seizes hold and swings on. Then he ouietly seats himself and reads his paper." "And what does that mean?" "An illustration, my dear. The car is as important to the man after be gets in as when he is chasing it, but the manifestation is no longer called for. I would have shot any one who put himself in my way when in pursuit of you, as I would now shoot any one who would come between us; but as a proof of my love you insist on my running after the car. Personal Appearance of Dom Pedro. He is about six feet tall, with gray whiskers and hair. His head is slightly bald. He looks and talks like a German. lie was dress ed in plain black, without an orna ment except a gold watch chain. His imperial spouse is much shorter and is what may be called "dumpy." She also has German features. The suite of the Emperor and Empress numbers nine person exclusive of six servants. Ch icajo Tribune. Graham Bread. Because Graham flour is recom mended as a very healthy article of food, it should not be considered that all Graham flour is rapidly com ing to be as much an article of sus picion as ground coffee or spices or any other of the thousand and one adulterations that are daily practic ed. The commonest form in which Graham flour is seen is that made from a medium or poor class wheat, and while not properly adulterated, it may be justly characterized as swindling of the meanest kind, for the reason that the product is largely used by dyspeptic and others in im perfect health. The miller who palms off on his customers Graham Hour made from anything save .the choicest of wheat is one of the mean est of all villains, and if he is not aware of it should be told so. Gra ham flour properly made is nearly as costly an article as bolted flour ground from the same wheat, and, therefore, when you are offered Gra ham at much less than the best bolt ed flour you are being victimized; it is either adulterated or it is made from inferior wheat. A common form of adulteration is to take a bar rel of flour costing about 5, add to it about sixty pounds of middlings, and the same quantity of cornmeal. The result of the mixture is 30G pounds of stuff costing about $6 45, or a fraction over 2 cents a pound; while Graham flour made from the best wheat cannot be sold at less th an 3 to 4 cents a pound. And yet this vile stuff is being swallowed by people in search of better health, when they would do about as well on a diet of hot white biscuit. A Strange Case. The other afternoon an old lady and her daughter drove into tho city on the Gratiot road in a one-horse wagon, and the horse was secured in an allev near the lower park on Ran dolph street, while the women went off in search of a dry-goods store. Some boys wandered through the alley, saw a chance for a joke, and one of them borrowed a wrench, others got a pry, and in about five minutes they had placed the hind wheels of the vehicle where the fore wheels had been in the habit of run ning. By and by the woman and her daughter returned, untied the horse, led him out, and the mother looked at the vehicle and remarked: "Seems as if this darned old horse had been kicking in the dash board." "Pile in, mother, called the girl, as she tied up the halter; but the mother couldn't. The pitch was so great that the seat slanted skyward, and the woman got off the hub, walk ed around the wagon, and said: I Jl bet onions that this horse is hitched to tho wrong end of this wagon!" They were in a great puzzle when a boy came along, saw the true state of affairs, and he leaned up against a store and langhed till the tears came. A blacksmith was sent for, the wheels properly placed, and the old lady remarked, as she climbed up: "Ulamed if 1 wasn t afraid for one spell that I'd either gone cross-eyed or was losing my reason. I just want to get hold of some of these Detroit boys!" Hints for a Universal language. Yesterday afternoon, says the San Francisco Call, a young man much given to the use of slang of the day called on the Prosecuting Attorney and announced that he wanted a war rant for the arrest of a saloon keeper who assaulted him, and this is the way he made his want known: "Look a-here, I want a warrant for a fellar." What did he do to you?" asked the attorney. "He hred me out. "Fired you out! What do you mean by that?" "Oh! well, he stood me on my head." "Do you mean to say that he stood you on your head; how did he do it?" "He didn't exactly do that, but he elevated me. Kinder raised me and slid me olf my ear." "WThat did ho do that for?" "Why, I asked him for a drink, and when I told him to chalk it in his head, and that when I came around again I'd kick it out, he told mo to pull down my vest. I told him to co,mb his hair, and he just then boosted me. He obtained a warrant for assault and battery. Gumming the Pubi-ic. A good deal has been said against chewing gum by the press at large, but it holds its own evenly with the des pised hand-organs. Certain Detroit boys now peddle the stick from house to house, and are allowed to go from parlor to basement and back and sell to all. When he has been gone about fifteen minutes the lady of the house remarks: " 'Manda, yum gum um tell Bess um whum to get for um dinner.." "Yoli u go," Amanda replies. "Bessum, 3ave chichum fum din ner" remarks the mother a3 she reach es the kitchen. "Yaus um, bileum your roasum?" shoasks, rolling her cud around. Phtlosopht. Schopenhauer, the German philosopher, was accustom ed to place a gold piece by the side of his plate as he sat down todinnor, carefully pocketing it again when he had done eating. Several noble offi cers one day asked him jestingly what was the reason of his curious action. He replied: "I have vowed to give this gold-piece to a beggar the day you and your colleagues stop talking about women and horses. I have been waiting ten years." Republican Platform. The following platform was adopt ed at the Republican convention, held in Portland last week. The Republican party of Oregon, in convention assembled, makes this declaration of its principles and policy: Jtesolred, That in this Centennial year of American Independence Tje again affirm our devotion to those fundamental principles upon which tho republic and the Republican party were founded. Among these are , 1. Unswerving fidelity to, the con stitution and the perpetuity of the Union. 2. The preservation of the liber ties and equal rights of all citizens throughout the nation, andthe im- partial administration oJE the laws in every part of the country, for the protection and enforcement of pub lic and private rights and the punish-. ment of violence and crime. 3. Pure and economical adminis tration of every department of the government, State and nation, and. we pledge the support of the Repub lican party to all measures honestly proposed and wisely designed to promote the moral and material prosperity of the people. 4. That a well instructed people alone can be permanently free, it ia therefore essential t,hat the public school system shall be maiitaurieil in order that every child may receive, such education as will fit him for useful citizenship, and we are unal teiubly opposed to any division prHblic school money ior any juir pose whatever. 5. That while we are in favor of a revenue for the support oi the gen eral government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such, adjustment of those imports aa to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country and we commend that pol icy of national exchange which se cures to the forking men liberal wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, to mechanics and maufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor and enterprise, and to the na tion's commercial prosperity and in dependence. 6. That tha best interest of si citizens of every condition and pur suit imperatively demand the speedi est return to a specie basis of values and currency, and we hail with grat ification the act of a Republican, Congress definitely providing for that end. 7. That we are in ing prosecution and favor of untir punishment of public fraud and crime, strawbid ding and speculation in office, where ever existing, and we repeat the iut junction, "Let no guilty man escape." 8. We demand that our national candidates shall be men of tried in-, tegrity, who will carry out this pol icy of reform, and preserve inviolate the great results of the war, 9. We arraign the present State administration and its supporters as. corrupt and profligate. They have robbed the common school fund; they have been guilty of partisan legislation ; they have squandered our patrimony in lands, heaped upon us a debt of over couu uuu in uirect vio- lation of the constitution. A jtersoi:cl Motive tor the .Issstlna tion of Lincoln. Pomcroy's, Democrat tells a story which, if true, supplies tho persona motive of John Wilkes Booth in. murdering Abraham Lincoln, which has been lacking in all accounts of the affair hitherto given to the pub lic. John Y. Beal, long a bosom friend of Booth's, lay in prison un der sentence of death for piracy on tho northern lakes. Booth, accom? panied by Senator Hale pf New Hampshire, Col. Forney and Wash ington McLean, interceded with President Lincoln for Beal's pardon, going to the White House, after mid" night, calling Lincoln from his sleep, and most piteously pleading with him. The interview lasted till 4 o'clock in the morning, Booth throw ing all his dramatic power into the work, and bringing tears from the eyes of all. At last Mr. Lincoln yielded and promised that ' Beal should be pardoned. Next day he told Mr. Seward what he had done, and ho was very angry, declaring that the sentiment of the North re quired Beal's blood, and if the man was not executed he would leave the cabinet and charge Lincoln with be ing in sj-mpathy with the South. Ac cordingly Lincoln changed his mind, and Beal was executed. This was too much for Booth. He went into a very frenzy of rage, and swore vengeance on Lincoln. Selecting the President for his particular vic tim, he engaged the other conspira tors to murder Seward, and thus he got his revenge. An editor is described as a man who is liable to, crying babies, grammatical blunders, tooth-ache, typographical errors, and lapses of memory, and Las 25,000 people watch ing to catch him tripping a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief; poorly paid, poorly estimated, yet envied by many and despised, per haps by some of the great men he has made. Clean Ceilars. Take care that the air in your cellar be free from bad odors, lest your butter, cheese, fruit, or whatever else be kept there, become ill flavored having an old musty taste.- It is important that the air of your cellar should be chan ged, as that of your parlor, setting room, dining-room, kitchen or sleep ing room. Pure air is one of the very best preventives of the typhus fever, diphtheria and other kindred ailments. 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