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O LWJJIW Co o rr& AY Afc f 1 DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. & : ! f ri o "VOL. 10. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1876. NO. 32. o o O o O o O o THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR THE farmer, Btiiinrss Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FTiANK S. DEMENT, PROPRIETOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In En-terprik RtiilJIner, one uoor south of Masonic Ilulldlng. Main St. O Term of Subscription t Sln! Copy One Year, In Advance 12.50 Six Months " " 1-50 Term of Advertising: Transient advertisements. Including i mi;al notions, squire of twelve ltno'one week .. ' rArearh subsequent Insertion One Column, one year naif ,. , nsiness Card, I square, one year SOCIETY XO TICES. 5 2.50 l.oo 120.00 G0.00 40.00 12.00 ori:;o lopgr xo. 3, 1. 1. o. Meets everv Thursday -ggeig. aveninssatT'-i o'clock, in the SKra?: Odd Fellows Hall, Main street. Members of the Or der are invited to attend. By order H. it. iti:m;cc A m:;ui:n i.odc;li xo. 2, I. O. O. F-, Meets on the rfalm jSecond and Fourth Tues- f ISjJ t7 4 o clwK, in .me wiu Follows" Hall. Meinbersof tho Degree tiro invited to attend. MULTNOMAH I.ODGK XO. 1, A.F. Jt A. M., Holds its regular com- ft munieations on the First and Third Saturdays in each month, at 7 o'clock from theL'Oth of Sep. tfinber to the liOth of March; and 7xi "clock from the IMth of March to the 20th of September. Bret 1 iron in good standing aro invited to attend. Bv order of W. M. FALLS RXCAMPMUXT XO. 1,1. O. O. F., Mets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the First and Third Tues il:i of eneh month. Patriarchs in gooiJ standing are invited to attend. O R U S I -V K S S CARD $. A. J. HOVER, MD. J. W. SORRIS, M. D HOVEK NOHRIS, PIIVSlflAXS AND Sl'KGKOXS, 0"Oftlc UjvStairs la Charman's Rriek, M in st ref.. Ir. Hovr's residence Third street, at f oot of clifT stairw ay. tf if. XT. ROSS, M. D. WAIIRK.V X. DAVIS, M. D. OS.S So DAVIS, PII VSIC'IANS A N I S U lUi K X S Oregon City, - - Oregon, office at t he "ity Pisjiensary, corner f)f Main and Fourth st s. Ir. Iavi is a gr.iduatc of th University ft IVnnsylvniiia, and has lately arrived from th' East. l'articular attention Riven to surgery. Ottjen hours from S o'clock a. m. to 5 P. m. PR..TOHN WELCH DENT1 ST, O OFFICE IN' -Li-ijLjLJ OREUOX CITY, OIlEfiOX. UIhet(U!i lrlce Paid for County Ortlrri. HUELAT & EASTHAWI, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. PORTLAND la Opitz's new brick, 30 First street. ORKUO.N CITY Charman's brick, up talrs. septtMtf JOHNSON & McCOWTj" iTTORXEYS AND COUNSELORS AT-LAW. Oregon City, Oregon. yWill practice in all the Courtsof the fctato. Spt-cial attention given to cases In th V. . I-and Office at Oregon City. 5airlS72-tf. 0 Q Hi. T. BARIN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, OREGOX CITY, : : OREGON. Will practica in all the Courts of the fetato. Nov. 1, 1S75, tf JAMES 13. UPTON, Attorncy-at-Law, Oregon City. Not. h, 1S75 At . " JOHN 31. IIACOX, IMPORTER AND DEALER tElStf In Rooks, Stationery, Perfum- SsfrlwAr ery, etc., etc. v,.ainy O Oregon City, Oregon. irv.At the Tost Office, Main stgeet, cast ida. IV. II. HI(iHFIELl). Established since '49. One door nortU of Pope J a Hall. Main Street, Oregon City, Oregon. An assort ment of Watches. .Tewel- ry.and Set h Thomas' Weight Clocks b nil nf vchfh Are wnrrant.iil tr ho a. UiMil represented. Ropairing done on short notice, and irtankiul lor past, patronage. Cash paid for County Orders. MILLER, MARSHALL &C0., FAY THK H Kill EST PRICE FOR X WHEAT, at all times, at the Oregon City Mills, And have on hand FEED and FLOUR lo 11, at market rates. Parties desiring Feed, must furnish sacks. novl2tf CPIAS. KXICrllT, CAXBV, OREGOX, PHYSICIAN AND DRUGGIST Prencilrtions carefully filled at ohort Post-Mortem L.ove. If you arc ever joins to love me, Ixve me now while I can know All the sweet and tender feelinss Which from real affection flow, joe me now while I am living Do not wait till I am gone. And then chisel it in marble Warm lQve;wordg on ice-cold stone. If you've dear, sweet thoughts about me. Why not whisper them to me? Don't you know 'twould make me happy. As glad as glad can be? If you wait till 1 am sleeping, Ne'er to wake here arain, There'll be walls of eart h between us, And I couldn't hear you then. If you knew some one was thirsting For a drop of water sweet. Would you be so slow to bring it? Would you step with lajrsard feet ? There are tender hearts all 'round us. Who are thirsting for our love ; Shall we begrudge to them what Heaven Has kindly sent us from above ? I won't need your kind caresses When the grass grows o'er my face ; I won't crave your love or kisses In my last, low, resting-place ; o, n you uo love me any, If it's but a little bit, I'd rather know it now, while I Can, living, own and treasure it. A Philosopher's Ileligion. A Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Cieorge AVhitelield. To the Editok of tiie Sun Sir: I semi you for i)iiblieation the fol lowing letter of Benjamin Franklin, addressed to the great and eloquent Methodist and revival preacher of the last eentury, George Whiteheld, who addressed and electrified audi ences of from 10,000 to G0.000 people. This letter seems to be applicable to the present time of revival preach inj? and praying. The kindness alluded to in the letter as done by Franklin to White- held, referred to the fact that I rank Iin had relieved Whitetield in a par alytic case by the application of elec tricity. The prayer of Dr. Franklin, which I send, I find is hardly known at all, and I think a republication of it might be welcome to many: FKANKLIX'S LETTER. Philadelphia, June G, 1753. Sir: I received your kind letter of the 2d inst., and am glad to hear that you increase in strength. I hope you will continue mending till you recover your former health and firm ness. Let me know whether jou still use the cold bath and what effect ' it has. As to the kindness you men- ! tiou, I wish it could have been of greater service to yon. But if it had, tho only thanks I should desire is, that you would always be equally ! ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good oftlces go round, for maukind aro all of a family. For my own part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. In my travels and since my settle ment, I have received much kindness from nieu, to whom I shall never have any opportunity of making the least direct return, and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our ser vices. Those kindnesses from men I can therefore only return on their fellow men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help his other chil dren and my brethren. For 1 don't think that thanks and compliments, though repeated weekly, can dis charge our obligation to each other, and much less those to our Creator. You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from ex pecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree and eter nal in duration; I can do nothing to merit such rewards. He that, for giving a draught of water to a thirsty person, should expect to be paid with a good plantation, would be modest in his demand, compared with those who think they deserv heaven for the little good they do on earth. Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit! how much more such happi ness of heaven! for my part, I have not the vanity to think I deserve it. the folly to expect it, nor the ambition to desire it, but content myself with submitting to the will and disposal of that God who made me, who has hitherto preserved and blessed me, and in whose fatherly goodness I may well confide, that he will never make me miserable, and that even the afijictions I may at any time suffer snail tend to my benefit. iue faith you mention has certainly its use in the world. I do not desire to see it diminished, nor would I endeavor to lessen it in any man. But I wish "it. were more iiroductire SO""- works than 1 have generally seen it. I mean real good works, works of kindness, charity, mercy and public spirit; no holy-days keep ing, sermon hunting or hearing, per forming church ceremonies, making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments, despised eveu by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity. The worship of God is a duty. The hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and prayr ing, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself on being watered and putting forth leaves, though it never produces fruit, Your great Master thought much lass of those outward appearances and professions than many of his modern deoiples. He preferred the doers of the word to the mere hearers; the son that seemingly refused to obey his father and yet performed his commands to him that professed his readiness but neglected the work; the herietcal'but charitable Samaritan to the unchar itable though orthodox priest and sanctified Levite; and those who gave food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, raiment to the naked, enter tainment to the stranger, and relief to the sick, though they never heard of bis name, be declares shall in the last day be accepted, when those who cry Lord, Lord, who value them selves upon their faith, though great enough to perform miracles but have neglected good works, shall be rejected. He professed that he came not to oll tbn rifrli Iam. X i. - . i5uicuus, hud sinners, to repentance, which implied his modest opinion mac there were some in his time who thought themselves so good that they did not hear ptpii liim for improvement; but now-a-days we nave scarce a little parson that does not think it the duty of every man within his reach to sit under his pet ty ministrations, and whoever omits them offends God! I wish to such more humility, and to you health and happiness, being your friend and servant. B. Frankxik. PRATER OF DR. FRANKLIN. Merciful God! Wonderful Power! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest ; strength en my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates, and accept my kind offices to Thy other creatures, as the only return in my power for Thy infinite goodness to me! Ancient Newspapers. At the Centennial Newspaper Ex hibition at Philadelphia it has been decided to display copies of antique journals and other curiosities of newspaper literature. To this inter esting collection all persons having ancient, qnaint, or curious specimens are invited to contribute; and should the response be as hearty and general as we hope to find it, this gathering of time-worn publications will jjrove to be not only a leading trait of the Newspaper Department, but also one of the salient attractions of the Ex hibition as a whole. All having the ability and the will to aid on the project should transmit their consign ments without delay to the Pavilion of the Centennial Newspaper Exhi bition, Fairmount Park, Philadel phia, addressed to the care of Mr. Geo. P. Rowell, who has the matter in charge. While on view, these exhibits will have attached to them labels designat ing by whom they are contributed, and all consistent care will be taken to preserve them from damage. Af ter the close of the Exhibition they will be again at the service of their owners, or, in the absence of different instructions, will be transferred to some historical society or museum. During the late war there were mauy newspapers issued which illus trated the straits in which their pub lishers found themselves. Pink, blue, and yellow sheets, wrapping paper, and many other substitutes were pressed into the service. Spec imens of these now possess a curious interest. The advantages to the public of such a gathering are manifest to a degree which renders elucidation unnecessary, and the opportunity to do a very useful act is placed within easy reach. A single copy of some senile broadsheet may not be of much worth to its proprietor, yet in conjunction with others it will make up a worthy collection. Many people there are who, having preserved such curiosities for years, can turn them to little or no practical account, and it is not to much to hope that the response given by such will be ready and general. Without loss to themselves, they can materially bene fit visitors to the Great Centennial Exhibition and appreciably advance a patriotic movement. Rabies' ICr". Bow-legs and knock-knees are among the common deformities of humanity; and wise mothers assert that the crookedness in either case arises from the afllicted one having been put upon his or her feet too early in babyhood. But a Massa chusetts physician who has watched for the true cause thinks differently. He attributes the first mentioned distortion to a habit some youngsters delight in of rubbing the sole of one foot against that of the other; some will go to sleep with their soles pressed together. They appear to enjoy the contact only when the feet are naked; they do not attempt to make it when they are socked or slippered. So the remedy is obvious; keep the baby's sole covered. Knock knees the doctor ascribes to a differ ent childish habit, that of sleeping on one side, with one knee tucked into the hollow behind the other. He has found that where one leg has been bowed in more than the other, the patient has always slept on one 6ide, and the upper member has al ways been that which has been most deformed. Here the preventive is to pad the inside of the knees so as to keep them apart, and let the limbs grow freely their own way. All of which is commended to mothers who desire the physical uprightness of their progeny. Dom Pedro was in the Senate chamber during the delivery of Judge Black's argument, and ap pears to have been very much im pressed by this remarkable man. "Nevaire pefore," he said, "vas mine eyes to see a man who coot use so mooch fine worts and bo mooch fine she wing-tobacco at ze same time." Brooklyn Argus. A person of an inquiring turn of mind asks- "Does the Lord love a man who spends at a church festival the money he owes bis washwoman?" We pass the conundrum to the jiext man. Suggestions to the Editor. Persons outside of a printing office have no idea how many pleasant suggestions an editor gets which makes newspapers work a great deal easier than people generally imagine. 'I just dropped in," says No. 1, 4,to give you a little hint that you miffht work up. You know Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, is in this country now, and as Brazil is in the Torrid Zone couldn't you get some thing off about him being a Tor (rid) Pedro? See? Chance for a fgpod thing there," and he smiling leaves. No. 2 slides into the vacant chair and remarks: "Looks like spring again, don't it? Talking of spring reminds me of a jokejthat occurred to me in the postoffice to-day. Why is Dom Pedro like the voice of a sick mule? Give it up? Because he's an Empy-roar and Brays ill. It's asv tonishing how these things will strike a person ain't it?" No. 3 takes his place, and with a modest cough commences; "Your pajer always has racy comments on passing events. That's the style of paper I like; but there's something about Dom Pedro that I think has escaped your notice. He's gone West now, and when he was passing through Ohio he must have been a Dom-in-O. O stand for Ohio, don't you see? I thought also about some allusion to velocipedro," he added as he rose to leave, "but I hadn't time to fix it up." "When I was in the car this morn ing," began No. 4, "the following conundrum Hashed through my mind: WThy is Dom Pedro like England? Eh?" The editor gave a hopeless look at the door and replied, "Because he's a Tor-Pedro." "Oh, no." "Because he Brays ill." "Why that's no reason. I said why was he like England" "Because he's Domino." "I guess you don't understand much about riddles. The answer is, because he's a Kingdom." "Oh, that's it, is it? Well, I'm glad lie's a kingdom. We had it that he was an emperor; but we'll make the correction. Y'ou see, I'm agricultural editor, and these news items are hardly in my line." Just before No. 5 came up the ed itor put a placard on the door in scribed in large letters Dom Pedro, with the middle letter of his iirst name changed. The punster looked at that and went down stairs again. Dying iVords A Miscalculation. Old Entwizzle, says the St. Louis Republican, (this isn't the name, of course) was an enthusiast, and what most excited his enthusiasm were the dying words of some of the great men who have lived on the earth. He had stored up in his memory tho last words of all the great philosophers, statesmen, war riors and other celebrities that had ever been reported. He was addicted to quoting "Head of the army," Napoleon; "Don't give up the ship," Lawrence; "This is the last of earth," John Qniney Adams; "I still live," Daniel Webster, and so on. At length his own time came to die and he felt it incumbent upon him to give utterance to "last dying words," such as should reverberate down the coming centuries and echo to the end of time. As he had never been a warrior, or statesman, or nav igator, nor filled any position in life more eminent than that of a ward politician, he mourned to feel him self circumscribed by the narrow limits of a commonplace experience for a selection of words. For weeks he had lain on his back, slowly sinking, sinking, thinking,' think ing, but never a word worthy of be ing bequeathed as an heirloom to posterity came to his mind. For days he had not spoken; he did not wish to mar the effect of the words he should utter as his last, by speaking others of less import short ly before. As he lay revolving the matter in his mind in silence, the absurdity of a man of his gigantic intellect being unable to evolve from his inner consciousness a few words that should become immortal pre sented itself vividly to his mind and inadvertently he exclaimed: "How ridiculous I am." The unwonted effort brought on a fit of coughing which ended in a gasp, which ended him. His aged wife, who had been inconsolable at his supposed uncon scious condition, taking comfort from his having spoken before his depart ure, remarked: "Well, it is a great satisfaction at any rate, that the old man died sensible at last." An Enthusiast in Hugging. A couple from the country came to the city, procured a license and were married in due form. They left on the afternoon train for home. They attracted the attention of every pas senger by their lavish display of af fection. The young man kept his arm tight around the bride's waist, as if he was afraid she would vanish before he knew it, and she didn't seem to care if he hugged her right along for half a day. She was so terribly homely that everybody won dered how he could love her, and by and by he seemed to think an expla nation would be in order. He bor rowed a chew of tobacco of a man near the door, and remarked: "I'm going to hug that girl all the way home, though I know she isn't 'pur ty." "I wouldn't," briefly replied the man. "And that's where you fool yourself," continued the young man. "When I'm huggin' a hun dred acres of clean, nice land, with forty head of stock on it, I can make the homeliest girl in the world - look like an angel to me." If men would set good examples, they might hatch better habits. Personal Complications o" Euro pean jlonarchs. The London correspondent of the New York Tribune has afresh budget of precious gossip about royalty. The rumors of a separation between J the Duke of Edinburgh and the Czar's 1 daughter drew space, and it is loud ly asserted that the visit of theDuch ess to Petersburg,for which the death of her aunt furnished a convenient pretext, was really a polite means of effecting a separation between the Duchess and her husband. The Czar has got his daughter back again, the Duke of Edinburgh has return ed to England, and Clarence house is shut up when to open nobody pretends to know. The Czar's love for his daughter is one of the strong passions of his life; what may he not do to avenge the fancied slights which she believes she has had to bear? If these seem too contempti ble reasons for hostile feelings, turn to any history on your shelves and see whether the first war you find recorded sprung out of circumstan ces less insignificant. In connection with this may be mentioned the curi ous reluctance shown by the Emperor of Germany to pay his expected visit to the Queen of England at Baden Baden. First it was said that his Imperial Majesty had no cold, it was the weather that was cold, and the Emperor only feared that he might catch one. Nobody is taken in by court fictions of this kind. The tough old Emperor who bivouacked six months in France not long since is not a man to decline a railway journey for fear of drafts through the windows. There is a quite diff erent reason from that for his shutting himself up in his stuccoed palace at Weisbaden. Berlin and St. Peters burg are fast friends, and why, it is asked, should not the Kaiser pay his ally of llussia the compliment of snubbing the mother of the unman nerly husband who had ill-treated the Czar's daughter. Sympathy not Censure. Sometimes a citizen standing high in society and possessing the confi dence of all who know him falls from grace and shocks the community by his crimes. Yet what reasonable man would hold the community responsi ble for the shortcomings of the fallen man ? A banking company have in their employ a confidential clerk. He is believed to be the very soul of- honor. He has been tried and found true. He handles millions of money, and for years has retained the unlimited confidence of his employers. But of a sudden a defalcation is discovered, traced to this honored clerk, and the company are shocked by the revela tion that the man they deemed hon est has been robbing them through a series of years. What fair-minded man would think of condemning tho company for the sins of the unfaith ful employee. A church reposes confidence in one of its leading members. He is foremost in the works of charity, seems to be the incarnation of good ness, sets an example for others to follow, and is looked up to as one of the pillars of religion. But he iroves false. A groat temptation overpow ers him, and lie is discovered to be a whited sepulchre, and is cast out as unworthy the association of upright men and women. The chnrch may keenly feel the disgrace, but wrho thinks of charging the hypocrisy discovered upon the chnrch which has been deceived and wronged? An official, holding the confidence of the administration, tried, and be lieved to be true, suddenly falls from grace, and is quickly deprived of position and brought to the bar of justice. Can any sane person saddle the faults of this man upon the party that ho has abused? Would it be right or just to charge his crime upon a party that had every reason to believe him to be both honest and strong? No! The rule which ob tains among individuals should apply to parties. Punishment should be meted out to those who betray the confidence of their employers, and sympathy should be extended to those who have suffered from the betrayal. Gilt-edge Butter. The Phila delphia Ledger says that there are at least two dairymen and butter- makers in tho neighborhood of Phila delphia who always sell their butter at l a pound, and cannot supply the demand even at that price. One of them attributes his success to three points: Good food to his cows, uniform temperature of 58 degrees in the milk-room, and neatness, cleanliness, and dainty nicety at everv step from the time when the milk is obtained until the dollar ia paid for the pound of butter. He feeds his cows often, and not much at a time, on white clover and early mown meadow hay, which he cuts fine, moistens and mixes with wheaten shorts. Pastures and meadows are kept free from weeds. The milk room is kept at a temperature of 58 degrees by flowing spring water. . New Use tor Poodle Dogs. A lady who kept one of these curly abominations lately lost her pet, and called up a detective to find it. The next day the officer came with the dog, which was very wet and dirty. The lady -was over joyed, and asked forty silly questions, among others. "Where did you find the dear darling?" "Why, marm," re plied the officer, "abig fellow had him tied on the end of a pole, and was washing windows with him. . . A landlady in a first-rate boarding house up town finds it necessary to post up the following notice, which leaves a margin for meditation: "Do not fool with the girls while they are lighting the coaloil lamps,' Patrick Henry. Henry had already received the name of the "Alan of the .feopie. - He sprung from what may be called the middle class, and his personal appearance was plain, almost humble. JJuring his early manhood he was noted for idleness and failure in all that he undertook. He failed twice as a small country merchant, giving his time and attention to hunting, fishing, and playing the violin, in stead of his business; and, as a last resort, read law for six weeks, barely receiving a license to practice, and seemed destined to starve a little more rapidly even in his new profes sion than in trade. The moment was near, however, when his wonderful powers were to reveal themselves. The clergy of the colony, who were not a popular class, brought suit to" recover their salaries, resting their claims on a royal order in council, which was in direct opposition to an act of the Burgesses, and Henry was employed to oppose them, though the law was completely in their favor. The result was remarkable. The awkward youth rose to speak in the midst of derisive smiles from the clergy, who were present in great numbers. His head hung down, and his voice faltered. But soon an as tonishing transformation took place in his appearance. The head rose erect, the voice grew vibrating and imperious, and he denounced king, clergy, and Parliament in terms so violent and overwhelming that he was interrupted by cries of 'Treason !" and the parsons left the court house in bitter indignation. Henry's tri umph was complete. He had plaved on the chords of the popular heart with the hand of a master. The jury decided in his favor in open opposi tion to all law; and the crowd, yield ing to jiassionate admiration, caught the young orator up on their shoul ders, and bore him, in the midst of shouts and outcries, around the yard of the court house. Henrys next public appearance was in the debate on the Stamp Act in the House of Burgesses. We have seen him on that occasion rise in the midst of the crowd of planters, and break down all opposition by his im mense eloquence. He had thus car ried with him the first men of Vir ginia, as he had carried with him the rustic crowd when he spoke against the parsons. He was thenceforward the mouth-piece and leader of the extreme revolutionists, and his own fiery spirit pervaded the whole fabric of society, moulding public senti ment and spurring the people to resolute resistance. JoJin E. Cooke, i?i Harper's Magazine for June. Save The Straw. Farmers are beginning to discover that burning straw in the fields is not by any means the best use to which it can be put. For a long time it was the almost universally prevailing practice to reduce it to ashes shortly after harvest, but more recent experience has convinc ed practical and economical farmers that it can be used to great advantage in feeding stock during the Winter months. Illustrative of all the pro fits to be derived from carefully pil ing up straw for future use instead of applying a match to it and send ing it off in smoke, we will relate the experience of a farmer two years ago on the French Camp plains. Previ ous to that time he had used fire as a most ready means of getting rid of his straw and clearing the land of what he considered utterly worthless material. For some reason scarcely known to himself, he concluded to stack it, and went to an expense of about seven dollars to accomplish the work. Some time afterwards the owner of a herd of fine cattle made inquiry as to the willingness of the straw to sell it and permit the cattle to eat it on the spot. At first he con cluded that if it was good for another man's live stock it was eqally good for his own, and so intimated to the party proposing, to purchase, but the latter offering the sum of $250, a sale was at once effected. This far mer, at an expenditure of about seven dollars, not merely preserved material which brought two hundred and fifty dollars in cash into his hands, but he considered that he was benefited in at least double that amount in having his land en riched by the cattle remaining upon it until all the fodder was exhausted. The field thus enriched exceeds one hundrod acres, and he considered it the most fertile land on his entire farm. He now views straw in a very different light than he did a few years ago, and has concluded to pre serve every pound produced in fu ture for use during the Winter months or when other feed for cattle is not plentiful. Harvest will soon be at hand, and farmers everywhere will doubtless find themselves gain ers by stacking their straw carefully as the work of thrashing the grain proceeds. Burning provender in the Fall and cattle starving in Winter are not to be accepted as evidences of sound farming economy. Save the straw. Stockton Independent. Wakefulness. If you find your self inclined to wake up at a regular hour in the night, and remain awake, you can break up the habit in three days by getting up as soon as you wake, and not going to sleep again until your usual hour for retiring; or retire two hours later and rise two hours earlier for three days in suc cession, not Bleeping a moment in the daytime. Dr. Hall. The young ladies of La Grange (Ga.) Female College have unani mously resolved to wear no kind of dresses but calico at their next com mencement. Too late! All the men in search of those kind of girls were married last year. Stolen Fruit. Beans it's spring, lettuce have pea. Intoxicating music: " 'Ale to the Chief." ' " ' Old bells can be made as good as new ones. Od belles can't. If a man wants to know what "true inwardness" means, let him try some early cucumbers. "Astonishing cure for consump tion," as the old lady said when she sprinkled snuff on the victuals of her boarders. One way to be happy and to study, angles at the same time is to hold a sunshade oyer a pretty girl while the plays croquet. ' A lively nrchiu accosted a drug, store man the other day: "Mister, plenso gimme a stick of licorice, your. clerK goes with my sister. Spilkins says there are two ways in which "fair, fat and forty" makes itself conspicuous, viz: its waste of sighs, and its size of waist. Prof. Swing still sticks to it that lace has ruined more persons than wine. Does he refer to the way wo men tighten the corset strings? A-lass! a-lass! as the old bachelor, said when he felt a desire to marry. lie made the saae exclamation after, marriage, but spelt it differently. A colored brother's opinion! "De women ougLter work; dat's so; for ef, hadn't ben for Five o wouldn't none of us ha' ben "bleeped to work 'tall." When Mr. Parton visits Massa chusetts novy he Stops, with bis step daughter; but white he is at home in New York he lives with his wife. It is now settled that Satan's ad dress to the fallen angels, after being driven out of heaven was in German. He began by saying, "Nicks, come, arouse." Andrew Gunn, of Portland, Me., has petitioned the Legislature to change his name, because the street gamins call his little boy "a son o A. Gunn." "Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer ?" was recently v?ry ably discussed by the members of a debating society. The conclusion arrived at was that it was not wroLg, but impossible. An inebriate recently fell and struck his nose against a barber's pole. On, being raised from the ground, he asked : "What's zat woman wi striped stockings on got agin me?" A man in Michigan swapped hi horse for a wife. An old bachelor, acquaintance said he'd bet there was something wrong with the horse, or. its owner would never have fooled it away in that reckless manner. A skating-rink accident is thus de scribed by a Kentucky reporter: "She. struck out; couldn't turn; started for the ceiling; shouted, 'Don't look;"- turned a handspring, and then sat down. The stripes were brown and red." Jones asked his young hopeful iost from the Sunday school why Pharaoh killed the boy babies and did not touch the girls. " 'Cause he wanted to get rid of the Hebrews, but wanted to keep the She-brews," the young hopeful replied. Jones gave him two cents for the missionary box. A woman is imbued with a feelinz of joy and kindness second only to. that ol the angels, but she can never wash a pair of men's cassimere pants and have them set as well as they did before. Fulton Times. No: nor as well as they did behind, either. ieksmirg Herald. A Trenton editor makes the state-: ment for the good of correspondents that they need not commence their communications, "I take xay pen ia hand," as he don't care whether they write with their toes or with their pen in their mouth, so they send the news. Two Council Bluffs (Iowa) girls, school-mates, who were "awfully smashed" over each other, as they say at Vassal, in a gush of affection went before a Justice of the Peace last week and demanded that he should unite them in marriage. They left in tears when informed that no such ceremony could be performed in their case, A Louisville chap thought he had found something nice in the shape of a laughing sunny little witch of a girl, and was on the point of propos ing marriage when she scattered his fond hopes to the winds by remark ing one evening: "Yon hug and kiss me more than any gentleman I am acquainted with, except Bill Wallace, and he is a steamboat clerk, and ondy comes here once a month." The Taris fashion inventors are determined to make woman's life a burden to her. One of the journals of that city says that no glove will be tolerated in good society this sea son with less than twenty buttons, while another declares that in less than five years knee-breeches and six-inch skirts will be the fashionable street dress for ladies. For the extreme of naivete com mend us to the Princess Borghese (Napoleon's sister Paaline).whor hav ing stood to Canova as what the schools of art would term an "nn draped model," and being asked by a lady how she had felt, replied that the had not been at all cold, as there was a ftre in the room! Mr. Moody said, in his famous inquiry meeting, in answer to the question, "Would you encourage women preaching?" "I should say it is a complicated point, and we will leave it. I don't care about my wife p-oinpr around and preaching." Mrs. Van Cott is now "going around" and praying for Mr. Moody. Chicagq Tribune. v . ' J i 1 G O o O o o o o o O O j SJ-