(l 1 ) (T ITfl (flfl'M' TiT " Ml! rr iiniYF IIk fir to ffr in' Wv FP o DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECOfl. VOL. 10. OREGON CITY, GEEGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1876. NO. 36. THE ENTERPRISE: A LOCAL NEWSPAPER F O 11 X II E farmer, Business Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FRANK S. DEMENT, PBOPBIETOR AND PUBLISHES. OFFICIAL PAPER FOB CLACKAMAS CO. riB-Vrrrc In Enterprise Building, one 0SnoatOlt.cnuilding. Main St. Term of Subscription t pinslo Copy One Year. In Advance $2.50 Six Months " " I-50 Term of Art vertUlnjrt Transient advertisements, including T Hi lBal notices. ? square of twelve lines one week .. - For each subsequent insertion One Colu mn, one J ear naif ( 40.t0 ine'ss Card. 1 aoSSTear 12.00 SOCIETY NO TICES. oKW;ox i,onr.i5 no. 3, 1. 1, o. i. Meets evcrv Thursday c-u evening at 7 o'clock, in the TSii Odd I-Vllows' Hall. Main street. Members of the Or dor are invited to attend. By order 2S . (jr. hkiihcca ii:c;iii:i: loimjh xo. 2, I. O. O. 1, Meets on the Second, and l'ourtli lilt's dav eveninirs each month gy Rt 74 o'clock, in the Odd Fellows' Hull, Membersof the Degree are invited to attend. MULTNOMAH I.OIXili NO. l.A.K. A . M.. Holds its regular com- A Humiliations on the First and 2' if Th'rd Saturdays in each month, at 7 o'clock from theOtfi of Sep. tember to the 'JUth of March; and 71 'clock from the 'JOth of March to the 20th of September. Brethren in good standing are invited to attend. lSv order of . 31. FALLS UN CAM JM F.XT NO. 1,1. O. O F., Meets at Odd Fellows' o J3 Hall on the First andThird Tues- 0X day of each month. P.itihrchs in good standing are invited to attend. Jl V S I A H S S V A li D S. J. w. Noinas, PHYSICIAN AM) Sl'IlCEON, trofflee Tp-Stairs in Charman's P.rick, Main Street. tt' T"R joiin D E U T 1 s ORESON CITV HI?hFt('js: Ptr' Order. OUEUON. Paid for County HUELAT & EASTHAM, TTORNEYS-AT-LAW. POUTLlMWi: Opitz's new brick, SO First street. OREGON stairs. 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IvjIGIIT, CANIfY, OKEGOV, PHYSICIAN AND DRUGGIST Prescriptions carefully filled at shor notice. ja:tf. STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. VOTM E IS HEREBY GIVEN7 THAT 1 th stockholders of the Oregon Citv Manufacturing Company will hold their Annual Meeting for the election of Direc tors at t heir office in Oregon Citv on Satur day July 8th 1ST0. R. Jacob. Trst. JuneTth, wl M. A. Stratton1 Sec. MILLER, FIARSMALL &C0.f P T. TIIK HKiHEST PRICE FOR j W HEAT, at all times, at the Oregon City Mills, O And have on hand EED and FLOUR Vwi11, ntJn-rfe'-t. rates, rarties desiring eed, must liyntsh sacks. noviaf mm , ,7 Nil MY JIOTHER.EV.IiAW. ' i I married a woman of sweetness and truth,' And beauty without any flaw; But over my head hung, like Damocles sword, i That horror, a mother-in-law! So upright and downright in person and In looks. She embodied the dismal old saw Of a scolding and pushing and worrying and bothering Old bore of a mother-in-law. She decided to live with us. Chaos and wreck Would be the result, I foresaw; So I gave my cigars and my meerschaum,' with groans, -. - To a friend with no mother-in-law. Ono night, as we sat by a blazing wood fire, -. i .Wheu the days had grown chilly and raw, ' "How cozy and nice you would look with a pipe! Don't you smoke?" said my mother-in-law. Did my ears hear aright?, Yes, bless her dear heart ! "Don't you smoke?" was the first happy straw To "show how the wind blew," and clear up the clouds 'Twixt me and my mother-in-law. And, oh, she's the kindest and dearest and best Old darling that ever I saw! My mother I love, and my wife I adore, But I worship my mother-in-law! The First National Presidential : Conventions. It was in the year 1831 that the first national conventions to nomi nate candidates for President and Vice-President met. The example was set, curiously enough, not by either of the regular political parties, but by the faction which came into existence solely to oppose the secret order of Masonry. It is worth while to notice that it was this move ment which gave an opening to the public careers of two men who after ward rose, one to the Presidency, the other to the Senate and the Sec retaryship of State. These were William II. Seward and Millard Filmore. The Antimasonic party grew out of the order who was sup posed to have divulged its secrets. In September, 1831, a national con vention of this party assembled at Baltimore. JohnM'Lean, of Ohio, since judge of the United States Su preme Court, was adopted as their candidate for the Presidency, but he promptly declined. The convention then tendered the nomination to the famous Maryland lawyer, William Wirt, formerly Attorney-General, who accepted it; and Amos Ell maker, of Pennsylvania, was added to the ticket as candidate for Vice President. The caucus system was now evi dently extinct; no party would have dared to attempt ils revival. The system of national conventions, ex emplified by the Antimasons, was seen to be the only feasible substi tute. As the supporters of Jackson now called themselves "'Democrats," so his opponents adopted the desig nation rf "National Bepublicaps." The latter party was first in the held to call a national convention, and this convention met at Baltimore in December, 1S31. Its session was brief, for public opinion had already marked out Henry Clay as its can didate. Clay was nominated on the first ballot, and John Sergeant was uiven the second place on the ticket. Thus the opposition to Jackson, which was strenuous an hot, was yet divided at the start of the race be tween Clay and Wirt. The Legislature of New Hamp shire issued the first call at this time for a Democratic National Conven tion tlie first of that long series of powerful and exciting conclaves which have so often designated our rulers since. This body met in May, 1832. The Democracy rallied in large numbers at Baltimore, which may be called the City of Conven tions, as well as of Monuments, so often has it been chosen fortheir meetiug-place. General Lucas,' of Ohio, was chosen 2?i"esident. One of the fisst motions passed by this con vention was to adopt the famous two thirds rule, which more than once afterward did deadly work with the aspirations of statesmen. The form of this as adopted at Baltimore was as follows: "ResolvtHl, That each Stata be en itled, in the nominationto be made of a candidate for the s Vice-Presi dency, to a number of votes equal to the number that they will be entitled to in the Electorial Colleges under the new apportionment in voting for President and Vice-President; and that two thirds of the whole number of votes in the . convention shall be necessary to constitute a choice." There was no doubt at all of the reuomination of President Jacksonf and the wording of the first part of this resolution i3 explained by the fact that the oontest was upon the nominee for Vice-President. John Calhoun had occupied this office, but had separated from the Jackson P yi',nd Laa become the apostle of nullification. Qn tha other hand, -uartm an Bnren, one of the shrew dest of politicians, and the President's most familiar friend, had been re- hJwi ?rJn,nister to England by the , hlg genate General Jackso- understood to be very desirous nlVn Ure Sbaul(1 have the sec ond place on the ticket; and as the convention was composed largely of Jackson s adherents, Van Daren was nominated on the first ballot receiv ing 203 votes, to 4? for pffi X bour of Virginia, and 26 for Col onel Bichard M. Johnson, of Ken tucky. The result of the campaign thus inaugurated by the first national conventions in our history was terri bly disastrous to Mr. Clay, and was the second of the long series of his defeats in attempting to reach the Presidency. General Jackson was re-elected by 319 electorial votes Mr. Clay bad but, 40; Wirt carried' Vermont's 7 votes; Pennsylvania cast its vote for "William, Wilkins; and South Carolina voted for John Floyd, of Virginia. Martin Van Buren was abundantly consoled for the rejec tion by the Senate of his nomination as envoy to London, for he' became Vice-President, and was already des ignated as the favorite of General Jackson for the succession to the ex ecutive chair. Lreorge M. Towle, Harper's Magazine for July. ; Stories About Roses. Xll ' There are an infinite variety of stories about roses. When Milton was blind, the duke of Buckingham, who visited him, observed that his wife was a rose. The lady had a fine high temper, and so. Milton answer ed that doubtless she was, for he could feel her thorns. Frederick the Great was walking in the gardens of Potsdam with Valtaire, and asked the amazing Frenchman for a rose. He picked one, and presented it to the king with"the remark that it had grown beneath his majesty's laurels. Luther had a rose graven on his seal. A rose-tree in the park of Roxburgh marks the place where James 11. of Scotland died. At Santiago, in Chili, whenever a stranger is receiv ed in a house, each of the ladies of the family offers him a rose. To show the preference which Mme'de Genlis entertained for old men above old women, she was fond of saying that oaks improved with time, but roses faded. It may be mentioned, in passing, that Mme de Genlis has the credit of having introduced the first moss-roses ever seen in France. Among the Greeks, the Romans, and the Gauls, parsley, ivy, myrtle, and roses were looked upon as val uable remedies for people who had drunk more wine than was good for them. In Capus roses were employ ed by the local medical men as tonics good for stomachs fatigued by over eating. A decoction of roses was supposed to have excellent astringent properties. Hoffman recommends it in pleurisy; Paracelsus thinks that when mixed with honey it will lengthen life. Princess Nonrmahal, the most lovely lady in the harem of a great mogul, had a canal filled with rose-water and rowed about on it with her august consort. The heat of the sun disengaged the essential oil from the water, and their majes ties having observed the fact invent ed otto of roses. The Emperor Ileliogabalus filled a fish-pond with rose-water; it is nowhere said wheth er the fishes approved of this pro ceeding. When the Soldan Saladin, who had so much trouble with hard fisted English King Richard and his turbulent Christian friends, took Je rusalem in 1188, he would not en ter the temple, which he profanely called a mosque, till he had its walls washed with rose-water, and Sanut assures us that 500 camels were no more than sufficient to carry the purifying liquid. Also, after the taking of Constantinople by Maho met II. in 1455, the church of St. Sophia was solemnly purified with rose-water before it was converted into a mosque. The high priest of the Hebrews wore a crown of roses when he offered up certain sacrifices nuder the Mosaic dispensation; and it was perhaps in remembrance of this fact that the synod of Nismes, which was held in the third century, enjoined every Jew to wear a rose on his breast as distinguishing mark of inferiority. In many countries the Jews still celebrate the festival of Easter flowers, during which they ornament their lamps, chandeliers, and bed with roses. Thus it happen ed that these flowers were hateful to the early Christians, and wo often condemned in the writings of the fathers, who professed that they could not understand that pious peo ple could think with equanimity of roses when they remembered the crown of thorns; afterward this hos tile feeling seems to have died out. Wheu Mario Antoinette passed through Nancy on her way to be married with Lonis XVI., the la dies of Lorraine prepared her a bed strewed with roses. In the middle ages roses were held so precious in France that a royal license was ne cessary to grow them. Charlemagne recommended the cultivation of the rose in his "Capitulation." The Persians of Shiraz stop their wine bottles with roses, which give the wiue a pleasing smell; and during the festival of Abrizan, which takes place during the equinox, Persian ladies throw roses at each other when they pay visits. At Rone it was the practice of the church to bless the roses on a special day set apart, which was called rose Sunday. The custom of blessing the golden rose seems to have begun in the 11th or 12th century. The benediction was pronounced with particular solemnity on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and the golden rose thus con secrated was given as a mark of the sovereign pontiffs favor to some prince or princess. Alexander III., who had been received with great honor during a journey which he made in Franoe, sent in the golden rose to Louis the Young as a sort of graceful compliment. Subsequent ly the giving of the rose became an authoritative act by which the pope officially recognized the rights of Christian sovereigns. Thus Urban V. gave the golden rose to Joan, queen of Sicily, in 13G8, thereby preferring her over the king of Cy prus. Henry VIII. of England re ceived a golden rose both from Juli us II. and from Leo X. Toward the close of the last century, the golden rose appears to have been given al most indiscriminately to any travel ing prince who would pay a sum equivalent to about 4.00 in fees for it. A Baltimore correspondent writes, "A merchant who does not advertize can no more succeed than a ycung lady who does not wear a bustle." Autograph Hunters and Their Prey. The prey of the autograpb hunter is generally accessible. There are, indeed, some misanthropes who re fuse to reply. But bow they settle with their consciences the matter of the inclosed envelopes, postage paid, passes comprehension. The hunters themselves cherish, under such cir cumstances, a frightful suspicion that the game detaches the stamps and turns them to its own uses. There is no well-recorded instance of this kind, so far as can be ascertained; but justice cannot deny that there may be grounds for the awful thought. Wanton destruction, cf tha, stamps can hardly be supposed, suggests a cynical commentator, because the literary class is notoriously always in want of them. And the rebuke conveyed in the return of the envel ope without an inclosure is lost, be cause which one of the hundred ob jects at which the request was aimed may have returned it cannot well be known. A general reproof of impa tience would not wound. Besides, no one whose autograph is sought really resents the request. He may not choose to gratify it. He may be too busy. He may decline to en courage what he may think a vapid curiosity. He may condemn the re quest and the reply as a shameful waste of time. But still he is secretly pleased by the request. His con demnation and refusal are fine, but they are the very Himalaya of virtue. They are heights beyond belief. The unformed handwritingof the request, often the simple little phrase, have a boyishness or girlishness of sincerity which can be so readily gratified that refusal is incredible. But no general rules can be laid down. The lordlier prey will make its own law. Dr,, Dally may write a few thoughts to every one of his ap plicants, bat Carlyle, Emerson, Bry ant, Longfellow, may find that the day is not long enough to do what they might not object to do if only the day were a month. And to this company belongs George Eliot, who has spoken so closely to the heart of her time that in every country, and especially in this country, the memo rial of an autograph is sought. But the Easy Chair learns upon the best authority, and commends the intelli gence to the enthusiastic readers of Daniel Deron da and Miildlemarc7i,tmt Mrs. Lewes George Eliot objects on principle to the hunt of the auto graph, and cannot aid it in any man ner. She is not in the least insensi ble indeed no one is more alive to the kind interest aud admiration from which the request springs. But from the first she has steadfastly declined every application for her autograph. The requests, however, are so num erous that she is unwilling that those who write to her should feel person ally slighted; and it is therefore but just that the Magazine which pub lishes her story should inform the readers whose enthusiasm betakes itself to the hunt that her silence is not personal to any one, but is uni versal. Indeed, it seems that her written name is the White Doe that no autograph hunter can capture, but whoso presence and the sound of whose invisible footsteps enchant the wood, and make the easier game worthless. May the boldest of the brethren learn from these presents that the pursuit pains her, and if they will but forbear, her sure escape will not pain them .-ILirper'sMagazine. Suicide as a Fine Art. The English public have been re cently interested in two singular cases of suicido by poison, the mys tery of which is not entirely cleared up. The most recent case, just re ported by the cable, is that of Vance, a medical student, and Mrs. Helen Smee,- who were charged with con spiracy to compass tho death of Mrs. Smee herself, Vance being also charged with aiding and abetting the woman in the commission of suicide. It seems that, in February, a letter, uncalled for at the London postofiice, was sent to the dead-letter office, the contents of which were so sinister as to justify the postal authorities in turning it over to. the police. From this clew, the present crime and its authors were discovered.. Mrs. Smee had published an advertisement stat ing that a "gentleman engaged in an interesting experiment" would re munerate liberally a competent assis tant versed in medicine and chemis try. The "interesting experiment" was the destruction of her own life in any way to avoid a coroner's in quest, and "not to invalidate her will," and young Vauce seems to have entered into her plans with en thusiasm. Her testimony was that she had been "very lonely since her husband left ker," and "intended to have the drugs in readiness, in case I was ill again." The parties were committed Wednesday, tried the next day, found guilty and sentenced, the woman to six. months' imprisonment for conspiring against her own life, and Vance to 18 months for aiding her. Almost as remarkable in its way was the case of Mr. Bravo, a barrister of Balham, 30 years of age, and in good health. .Mr. Bravo dined at 7 o'clock on Tuesday, April 18, retired to bed about 9:30, and soon called for warm water; the housekeeper, Mrs. Cox, found him very ill and vomiting, no said to her "I have taken some of that poison, but don't tell Florence" (his wif e) . Within an hour, physicians were called, but Mrs. Cox did not - report tho above remark to them . for several hours, and until the- patient showed signs of coming out of an unconscious state in which he had ' been likely to die. Four dootors, including Sir William Gull, who stands at the head of the profession, werfe present on the day following, and; rjnestioned' Bravo COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, TnvTTirvnQTTY OT? CALIFORNIA. closely as to what he had taken, but he denied having taken poison, and only admitted that he rubbed bis gums with laudanum. On Thursday evening, Sir William Gull, remind inghim that he was dying, and that an innocent person might be accused of poisoning him, said to him firmly, "You have taken poison, besides laudanum," but Bravo denied it still, and in the following morning died. An analysis of his viscera divulged the unmistakable presence or anti mony. Mrs. Bravo offered in all the papers a reward of .500 for tlve per son who sold the antimony or tartar emetic, but no response had been obtained at last accounts. The pub lic scandal was greatly magnified by the conspicuous neglect of the cor oner to examine the doctors or to investigate tho case adequately. The subject was brought up in Parlia ment, and the government avowed its determination to clear up the mystery if possible, but, although de tectives took it in hand immediately, no light has yet been thrown upon it, except to show that Mr. Bravo had not previously conducted himself at all like a man contemplating suicide. It would be interesting to know if either of these persons carried large amounts of life insurance. Great Adventures of an Italian. A New York paper says: Matteo Batucca.'an aged Italian, who for fifteen years past has led a life of extreme poverty in this city, received not long ago the welcome news that he had been elected a member of the Italian Parliament, with an annual salary of 30,000 lire. In a letter from a member of the present Cabinet of Victor Emmanuel he was informed that provision should be made for him at the expiration of his Parlia mentary term. This is the tardy recognition of the disinterested ser vices which a pure and gifted man rendered his country. Forty years ago he espoused the cause of the Carbonari. In 1S37 he succeeded in capturing Ferdinand II., afterward known as King Bomba, with his whole family. The Neapolitan tyrant was frightened out of his wits. But Batucca said to him, "We are no as sassins. You shall be free; but open all your political prisons." Ferdi nand pledged his royal word to do so, but violated it as soon as released. A treacherous member of their little band delivered Batucca up to the royal troops. He was sentenced to death. He was standing already near the fatal block when a pardon arrived. His sentence was commuted to penal servitude. For a whole year he re mained chaiued to a galley. Then he escaped, was recaptured and again sentenced to death. This time a full pardon was granted on conditioL of emigrating. He went to Algeria. Then he traveled to Egypt and se cured a position under Mehemet Ali. But it was impossible for him to kee2 away from Italy, aDd so he returned in 1844 to Calabria, and raised the standard of insurrection. At one time the movement assumed formid able dimensions, but finally the in surgents were forced to surrender. Batucca wrote a letter to Ferdinand, "Once I gave you your life," he wrote; "now I ask you to take mine, but spare the life of my men." The King sent orders to have four of tUg insurgents shot in Batucca's presence and then let him stand for a certain number of hours with the noose round his neck under the gallows. This horrible mockery was carried out to the letter. Batucca underwent the ordeal with the utmost sangfroid. At last he was taken back to prison, from which he effected his escape. He fled to the mountains, where he remained until 1848, when the revo lution called him to Naples. He be came a minister of the Democratic Cabinet under Roerio, but resigned. At tho reactionary rising of the laz zaroni he was taken prisoner and sentenced to death with eighty-nine others. All of them were pardoned. In 1857 he was released, and in the following year he came to New York. For a few years he gave lessons in Italian and French, but gradually pupils grew scarce, aud he had to re sort to humbler pursuits. lie became carrier of a Spanish newspaper, a peddler and the like. Recently some of his countrymen interested them selves in his behalf, with the gratify ing result stated above. The Law of Newspapers. 1. Subscribers who do- not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If any subscribers order the discontiruance of their newspapers, the publisher may continue to send them until all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their newspapers from the offices to which they are directed, the law holds them responsible until they have settled the bills, and or dered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers remove to other places without informing the pub lisher, and the newspapers are sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. . 5. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers from the office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. C The postmaster who neglects to give the legal notice of the neglect of a person to take from the office the newspapers addressed to him, is lia ble to the publisher for the subscrip tion price. She was a young lady from Chica go, and ho asked her if she would partake of an ice cream, and she gou tly answered: "If it's good, square, confectioner's cream, I'm there; but if it's church fair or strawberry festi val slush, count me out." Odd Thoughts. A little earth shaped into a pair of cheeks and pinched into a nose, and made into lips, chin and forehead, with some humors mixed together for eyes. These are a face. Old bachelors have been styled unproductive consumers, scissors with but one blade, bows without fiddles, irregular substantives, al ways in the singular number and ob jective case, unruly scholars, and when told to conjugate always de cline; . All of us have a little speck of fight underneath our "peace and good will to man," just a speck for revolutions and great emergencies so that we should not submit to be trodden quite flat by- the first heavy-heeled aggressor that came along. A coquette would have triumphed in such a captive as Petrarch. He had a gay and captivating exterior; his complexion was fair; sparkling blue eyes, aud ready smile. He is very amusing on the subject of his own coxcombry, and tells us how cautiously he used to turn the cor ner of a street lest the wind should disorder his elaborate curls! When Petrarch walked the streets of Avig non the women smiled, and said, "there goes the lover of Laura." The impression which Dante left on those who beheld him was far different. When years of persecution and exile had added to the natural sternness of his countenance the deep lines left by grief, he happened to be at Verona where, since the pub lication of the Inferno, he !was well known. Passing one day by a porti co where several women were seated one of them whispered, with a look of awe, "do yon see that man? That is he who goes down to hell when ever he pleases and brings us tidings of the sinners below!" "Ay; in deed!" replied her companion, "very hkelv. See how his face is scarred with fire, and blackened with smoke, and how his hair and beard have been curled in the flame!" In the art of elegant leisure, in the art of wise trifling, we aro sadly de ficient. We are bred to business, tempered, to high excitement. We hanlly know what to do with tran quility. We long to make silence talk and stir up quietness till we get u glow upon it. We are forever planning something for vacation amusements. It is riding, rowing, picnics or some excursion with its fringe and frill of excitement. We want a friend or two in our solitude to take off its solitariness. There seems to be no such thing as exqui site enjoyment, in .simple concious ness of existence. The great theater is open; its scenes are shifted every hour; its actors are innumerable; its orchestra full and tuneful, but men still yawn and stretch and wish they had something to do. AVidows and Their Attractions. Widowhood is discussed by the World in a leading article, and the statistics presented are very sug gestive. "Winter-kept apples, sea soned wine, a clouded meerschaum, a vase around which the scent of the roses still hangs, all these," says the World, "have a rare, evanescent fla vor that suggests but cannot express the charm of widowhood. A young widow is perhaps, the most interest ing object in nature or in art. She represents experience without its wrinkles or its gray hair. She is matronly beauty and maidenly free dom combined. She is grief with a laughing eye sorrow in a house of festival a" silver moon in a sable cloud. She is too sweet for any thing! Like all good things she can only be created at a great sacri fice. Mrs. Browning says that you must spoil a man to make a poet; and certainly a man must be pretty thoroughly spoiled before he can leave a widow. This black swan this mournful phoenix rises only rises out of the funeral urn that holds the ashes of a husband's heart! Let us wipe away the briny tear and proceed. Pevgite Pierdies. Poets, statesmen, heroes and philos ophers have each felt the indefinable influence of widowhood. Its quality is not strained. It falls alike upon the just and the unjust. None can escape it. Edward Plantagenet wedded the widow Elizabeth Grey, though he knew she brought civil war for her dowry. Ned Waller, Joe Addison, Sam Johnson, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Wesley,. Tony Geller, Ben Disraely and all the boys married widows. Henry the Eighth was so fond of them that he took two; and King David was so pleased with Abi gail, the widow of Nabal, whom he took to wife, that he turned Bath sheba into a widow on purpose to marry her. When Judith ceases her cogitations over the vir tues of the late lamented Manasses of Bethulia, puts off her mourning and adorns herself in brave attire to set out for the camp of Holof ernes, we feel instinctively that she will come back with his heart, his crown or his head, whichsoever she goes for. When the old widow Naomi counsels theyoung widow Ruth how to lay her snares in the harvest fields of her kinsmen and spring her net on the threshing floor, we know at once that the wealthy bachelor Boaz might as well order the wedding garments. Allan Ramsay wrote a song telling how to woo a widow; ho might as well have left directions how to get struck with lightning." Seattle tried to get a battery of ar tillery and a detachment of soldiers to manage it from Gen. Howard for the Fourth, but the latter referred the application to the Secretary of War, who refused it, An Aivful Mistake. The Washington Capitol savs the atrical people are yet laughing over a joke practiced by John L. Smith, the agent of the Vokes troupe, whiltv here. The Vokes were doing their best to rather poor houses, for they vtr--i,: i .t n opening of the Centennial and the town was deserted. Smith, one of the most efficient agents if not the the most efficient, was in a high state' of disgust. He does not succumb readily, and in the midst of his dis tress Henry Ward Beecber appeared at the national capitol to lecture. John L. determined to utilize Henry Ward, lo tms end ne sent unscru pulons emissaries throughout the hotels, club houses, lobbies, lunch- rooms and elsewhere to spread the intelligence that on that night Hen ry Ward was to visit the Vokes' en tertainment at the theater. Jsow,. ii cost a dollar to here Henry lecture,, but for that sum one could enjoy the Voke's and see the great Brooklyn Pope at one and the same time. The result was a crowded house.. And the people were disappointed?- Not a bit of it. John L. invited John Chamber lain to the theater. He gave the fa mous sporting character a box. Nay. this wicked man did worse;- he in veigled Chamberlain to his room at the Arlington, and under snndry. pretenses got on him a white choker. Sitting in a conspicuous place in the box, John Chamberlain would have been embarrassed, had he lraowny how, at the way tho entire houses turned and started at him, foe John L.'s w icked emissaries, busy roving about in an utter disregard of trutlv and grammar, were saving 'that's him." This was pleasant enough till, John was wending his way out,when a fellow started at him for some sec onds, then said, in an earnest way: "Cuss me ef I don't think him guilty; never saw awussoountenanoe in all my life." "What's that fellow making such remarks about?" asked Chamberlain. "Because," responded John L.v coolly, "he thinks you are Henry Ward Beecher. I don't know ho it is, but the impression is general to-night that you are the reverend friend of the family." John Chamberlain says that wlieik he gets near John L. again there will be a vacancy in the tribe ot Smith. Home Newspapers. Their value is by no means appre ciated, but the rapidity with which jjeople are waking up to their neces sity and usefulness is the most sig nificant sign of the times.. The thirst for knowledge is not easily satiated,, and books, though useful yes, abso lutely necessary in their place fail to meet the demands of youth oragtaK The village newspaper is eaeerlv sought and its contents eagerly de voured. Then comes the demand fos the country news, Stata news, foreign and national news.. Newspapers are also valuable to. material prosperity. They advertise the village, county or locality. They spread before the reader a map on which may be traced character, de sign and progress. If a stranger calls at a hotel be- first inquires for tho village newspaper if a friend comes from a distance, the very next thing after a family greeting, he inquire, for a village or a county newspaper and you feel discomfitted and cob- 0 founded if you do not take it. lhe newspaper is as necessary to, fit a man for his true position in life as food or raiment.. Show ns a rag ged barefoot boy rather than an ig norant one. His head will cover hi& feet in after life if he is well supplied with newspapers. Show us the child that is eager after newspapers. He will make a man of mark in after life if you gratify that desire for knowl edge. Other things being equal, it is a rule that never fails. Give your children newspapers., Temptation While it is true that no one can escape temptation entirely, there ist no doubt that he can largely modify its influence. The temptations which inhere in a man's moral make-up, he. cannot wholly run away from, how much soever he may desire it, be- cause the evil is in him, as disease is in the tainted blood. But he. can, largely modify its action and viro lence. One way to- do this is to keep himself from sights and surroundings which inflame his passions, and shar pen the edge of his appetites. If his temptation is in tho direction of stimulants, then let hbpi avoid the sight and smell of lrqr.or, and tho compauionshijj of those who drink. So, whatever his w eakness, let him keep beyond the reach of whatever can penetrate him at that point. The Indian method of fighting is an ex cellent one in spiritual wai-efare. The soldier of Christ should keep himself under cover as much as he can. A good deal of dodging is allowable in a contest with Satan. "Discretion is the better part of valor" at times, and it is better to beat a masterly retreat than to have your soul captured bod ily. A man who is morally weak at any point, and who, nevertheless, persistently exposes that point to attack, commits the gravest of sins. The Golden Rule. . A Fixe Affaib. Somebody has imported from Paris a very novel and elegant rosewood bedstead with a head board twenty feet high, inlaid with father, mother and all the oth- ers of pearl! In the foot board is a musical box, and by pressing a knob with your, foot yon can be played sweetly to "sleep. "Rocked in the mattress of the deep" would be an. appropriate tun 0 O o o o c o o o o o o o 0 0 o