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r Li .v n r fim M a DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AMD THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. VOL. 10. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 1876. NO. 46. d 1 ) if nil ut it if! if W' THE ENTERPRISE. A .LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR THE firmer, Business Man, .& Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FRANK S. DEMENT, normroB. &hd publishes. OFFICIAL PAPEB FOE CLACKAMAS CO. nvviCK In Enterprisk Building:. nn .Houh of Masonic Building. Mam St. Term of Hubacrfptlon : fllneU Copy One Year. In Advance 2.50 Six Months " ' I-50 Terms of Advertising! TramUnt advertisements, including 11 leg"' notice. ? square of twelve line one week For each subsequent Insertion.- 1.00 On. Column, one year 1M Ha,L .. - "".'.".." 40.00 Card, 1 squarejoneyear 12.00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OHKdON I,OIHSI3 NO. 3, I. I. . l. Meets every Thursday vg Odd Fellows' Hall, Main street. Members or tlie or der aro invited to attend 15v order rhiiucca dhguhi i.oixi no. 2, 1. O. O. F., Meets on tho jrfefJivj hecond and Fourth Tues- fMfmr day evenings each month tVi clock, in the Odd Fellows' Hall. Memlcrsof the Decree are invited to attend. - MUITXOMAII I.OlXJi: Xo. I.A.F. A A. M., Holds its regular coin- A munieations on the First and 4'MV Third Saturdays in each month, ? at 7 o'clock from the'Juth of Sep. toniber tothe2th of Mareh; and 7'-: 'clock from the iDth of March to the 20th of September. lirethren in good standing aro invited to attend. liy ordir of W. M. falls i;ncamimi:xt XO. I.I.O. O. F Meets at Odd Fellows' Q r Hall on the First and Third Tiies- 0T 1T of each month. Patriarchs v In Rood standing an? invited to attend. .F n us i .Y li 8 S V A R D S. .r. W. NORKIS, PHYSICIAN' AM) SfltGEOX, 0!Tle Up-Stnirs in Main Street. Charman's Brick, tf TR. .TOIIT DENTIST, OKKIfiK IV OKKftON C ITY, OUKOX. ni;liH rah IrIco Paid f.r County Order. HUELAT & EASTHAP1, ATTORNEYS-ATLAW. onTL.ND-U Opitz's new trick. "0 t street. KOO.V CITY Oharman's hrick, n; sei-tittf Nsorj a mccowm ' AXU COUNSELORS AT-L.WV. i City, Oregon. .ctiee in nil the Courts of the al attention given to cases in nd OlHc- at Oregon City. 5airlST2-tf. L. T. BARIN ATTORN ZY-AT-L AW, OREGON CITY, : : OREGON. Will practice in nil th Courts of the .State. Nov. 1. 1S7", tf JOHN M. KACON, IMPORTER AND DKAT.ER In Hooks, Stationery. Perfum ery, etc., etc. Oregon City, Oregon. V.At tho Post Offlce. Main street, cast Id. Yf. II. 1IIGHFIELD. Established since '49. One door north of Pope's Hall. ' Haiti Street, Oregon City, Ore;"?.. An assort ment of Watches. .Tewel- rv.aml S..th Thomas' Weight Clocks . n i w men nro warranted to be ns 1 rnrosentrd. "Repairinic done on short notice, and ft ankful for past patronage. CaA paid f.r County Order J. H. SHEF ARD, lootaiitl Slioo Store, One door north of Ackerman Bros. Boots and shoes made, and repaired as cheap as the cheapest. Nov. 1. 1875 .if cTias. rasriGrirr, CAMIV, UREOON, PHTfllCIAX AXD DRUGGIST Prescriptions notico. carefully filled at short Ja7 Af. MILLER, MARSHALL &C0., 1AY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR X WIIK AT, at all times, at the Oregon City Mills, And have on hand FEED ancl FLOUE to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring reed, must furnish sacks. nov!2tf IMPERIAL MILLS. LaRocquc, Sayier & Co. Oregon City. Keep constantly on hand for sale Flour. Middlings, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties pu rchaalsg feed must furnish, the sack- WETX1! Eft, My Picture. I wear a picture in my heart, Framed in the flush of autumn weather That glad, sweet time, when you and I First drank the dews of love together. O happy days of youth and hope ! Our hearts were full of life's best leaven : You loved me well, and I was true As stars are to their native Heaven. And yet and yet there came a doubt. That fell between us black and dreary : Our lives went drifting wide apart To-day we roam estranged and weary. But when the twilight's tender mists The flushed and tired days are wreathing ; And summer roses, damp with dew. Are all their sweet incense breathing. Oh ! then I listen for your step. And wait and pray for your dear coming. And almost hear your tender voice Call softly to me through tho gloaming. Alas! alas I I do but dream ; Between our hearts wide seas are rolling; O'er faith that languished, hope that died, The "memory bells" are sadly tolling. And so I bear within my heart A tender dream, a picture onlv, That still shall be a beacon light Through all my life so reft and lonely. And some time in the coming years. Amid t he glow of autumn weather. Your heart w ilt cling to thoso glad days When love first bound our lives together. This long, long night of doubt and pain Will fade before the rays of morning, And I will wait in trustful hope, Till Heaven sends that fairer dawning. A Game of Draw. An Iiitercsli.'ii Incident of Idfc on the Mississippi During-the M ar. From the X. Y. Sun. They were sitting around the tal)le iu n Fifteenth Ward faro bank that is temporarily closed through some misunderstanding willi the public, and having tired of short-cards they fell to telling stories. Yon may have heard thi.s one," said a .squar. jawed, hrm-faccd, gray-whiskered man, " for it was printed briefly at the time ; but I was there." " In the latter part of '01 I made a trip down the river. There came on board at Cairo a young paymaster who was on his way to pay a brigade of troops somewhere in the neighbor hood of Vicksbnrg. It was very quiet on the boat, and on tho first night below Cairo the paymaster seht a good deal of his time after supper walking up and down, the saloon. There was also a trim, square shouldered man who seemed to be suffering from the same tedious ness; and when they had met a few times the stranger smiled a little at the paymaster, and said : Dull." " D dull," said the paymaster. ' Suppose v.e have a little gnme of draw?" said the stranger. Good idea," said the paymaster ; and they sat down and went at it. Uoth of them were playing merely to pass time, at least the paymaster was, and the other man seemed to be. They had it one way and the other for an hour or two. playing about .j for a bp bet, and neither of them winning or losu.g much, but still getting more and more interested. Finally each seemed to get a big hand, aud they began betting iu the most natural sort of way. The hie had been smouldering, you see, and broke out apparently without their knowing it. Neither of them seemed disposed to lay down, and they kept on raising and raising till they were making bets 'A $:'!.) and f0(, and they got the pot up to 7,000. Tf.un the stranger rested his eye on the pay master a moment, and made an esti mate of the amount of his pluck and the probable size of his pile, and the result of his observations seemed to be a belief that he could bluff him or freeze him out, for he threw, down lits hand on the table, and leaned over and pulled a bowie-knife out of his boot, and jlrove th point of it down through the cards into the table. Then he took a big wallet out of his breast pocket and counted out twenry-ono 8500 notes. He saw the paymaster's last bet of 8500, and then hauled a revolver off his hip. pushed the twenty other bills into the pot and said: 4 I raise you 810,000 ! The paymaster looked at the gam bler about two seconds. Then he beckoned to his colored boy, a bright young lellow who had ueen taking the thing in from the start, and who would have given his master tho wink if he had ever happened to look in hisdirection, which he hadn't. But he brightened up when he heard the word, and walked right straight off for the paymaster's stateroom. He disappeared a moment, and then showed up again, backing through the door, dragging a trunk after him, and he carne down the saloon rolling that trunk along on its end, tist as handy as though he had smashed baggage on a through line all his life. The paymaster took out a key out of his vest pocket, threw up the lid of the trunk, and took of a sheet of sole leather that seemed to serve as a sort of binder for the bundles of bills underneath. He took the two big packages out of the end and laid them upon one side of the table. Then he began taking out the other bundles and stacking them upon the table in front of him. He kept taking out and stacking up till ne had built a big triangular shaped pile like two pans of stairs meeting at the top and failed iu solid underneath Then he threw his hand on the table and pulled a bowie-knife out of his boot and spiked it down through the cards and while the handle was shiTenng he handed the two bundles into the middle of the table and said- t v.v-w-uere ne braced himself back against the tabl and began shoving it up to the pile con tinuing to talk all the time 'and I raise you $175,000 !' and then (he did it so quick I couldn't Bee when it was done) he had a pistol off of each hip aud was resting an elbow about half way up each side of the greenback stairs, both shooters covering the gambler, and holding them very straight and steady, too. Now the gambler was an older man and of much more experience than the paymaster, and, under any sort of ordinary circumstances, he could have handled him ten to one, and he knew it, and had no thought oi lay down, even then, and ha seemed to revolve the thing iu his mind for about a quarter of a minute, aud when he had settled what to do he Jooked up. ready to act, but one glance at the paymaster made him change his mind ; for he could see, shining through tiie young man's face, all the accumulated unused grit of years, and a man with half an eye could have seen that he meant busi ness. The gambler realized that fact. He pulled his knife out of the table, stuck his pistol into his pocket, and walked off down the saloon whistling 4Hosa Lee' just as soft and pleasant as though he was going for a cigar after dinner. Then the paymaster booted his knife and slung his shoot ers and packed his trunk, putting in along with the rest the thirteen thousand and odd of the gambler's money; and he didn't take any more 'draw' that trip. And I am told.that he was so much impressed by the revelation to him self of his own backbone and nerve that ho made up his mind there was something better for him to do than wasting his time in gambling, and ho hasn't handled a card since.' " Cheap and Convenient (latcs. A writer in the Rural Home says : " I have mado gates to replace some old-fashioned bars that I am heartily tired of continually opening and shutting. They are durable, and very easily made. Each gate is twelve feet in length by four in height. Five boards, four inches wide, are used, besides battens and braces. Battens should be placed on both sides, making three thicknesses to nail through. It does not take more than thirty-three feet of boards, worth, perhaps, sixty cents, to make each gate. Add to that, ten cents for nails, and tho value of one hour of your time, and you have the whole expense. A gate of this kind will outlast a framed one costing four dollars ; and, as no hinges are used, tha expense is saved also. It is held in position by means of a stake driven in the ground, four or live inches fz-onv fhe post; not iu -a straight line, but a little more than the thickness of the gate toward the driveway, so that when opened the gate can be turned half way around, and be parallel with' the driveway. It is kept a few inches from the ground by a strip nailed to both gate and post, on which one end rests when shut, and on which it slides half its length, and then swings around as on a pivot when opened. Tho strip is usually placed under the second board, iu a space arranged for it, cutting away two of its hinges. A gate of this : ind can be made in much less time and at as little ex pense as a pair cf bars, and is cer tainly much more convenient." A Kkf.x 2N( (rNTi.i of Wits. Chesterfield and Voltaire, born iu the same year (10 J), were warm and life-long friends, Whatever may have been the erratic Frenchman's vageries and miffs, for he never had a friend whom he did not at some time abuse, Lord Chesterfield was too much of a gentleman too take offence or even notice. On a certain occasion the two friends were in company at a grand ball in Paris, given by the King's favorite. Chesterfield stood by a marble pillar gazing upon tho bril liant assemblage of of ladies, when Voltaire accosted him: "Jly lord yoii should be a judge iu such matters. Now, seriously, do you not think our French la lies the most beautiful you ever saw ?" "Upon my word," replied Ches terfield, with anod and a smile "lam not a judge of paintings." Not long afterwards Voltaire cross ed over to England and was present one evening at a party given by an English nobleman in London. A lady in the company, sparkling in jewels, and highly roughed, was par ticularly attentive to the . noted Frenchman , engrossing most of his discourse. Chesterfield, observing, came up and tapped his friend on the shoulder. "Beware, Monsieur, or you will be captivated." "No fear, ray Lord," quickly re turned Voltaire. " I am not to be captivated by an English craft sail ing uuder French colors !" An EsglishGirl and Gen. Wash ington. One day after dinner the Congress was the toast ; Gen. Wash ington viewed me very attentively and sarcastically said : " Miss Mon crieffe, you don't drink your wine." Embarrassed by this reproof, IV new not how to act ; at last, as if by a secret impnlse, I addressed myself to the American commander, and taking the wine I said: " Gen. Howe is the toast." Vexed at my temerity the whole company, especially Gen. Washington censured me ; when my good friend Gen. Futman, as usual, apologized, and assured them, I did not mean to offend. " Besides," re plied he, "everything said or done by such a child ought rather to amuse than affront you." Gen. Washington piqued at this observa tion, then said, " Well miss, I will overlook your indiscre tion on condition that you drink my health, or Gen. Futnam's, the first time you dine at Sir William Howe's table on the other side of the water." Sendder's " Men and Manners in America One Hundred Years Ago-." Many people are leaving Hillsboro f 1 i r in wagons for California. 1 Woman and her AVork. From the Detroit Free Press.J That the "suffrage shriekers." as they are sometimes tersely, if not politely called, are honest in their championship of woman and their efforts for their advancement is prob ably true. There may be some ad mixture in their zeal of a desire for personal notoriety, and their denun ciation of the "tvrcnt man" may at times reach a height which suggests that it is overdone; but their can be little question that the mainspring of their action is a belief that wo man really is unfairly weighted in the world's race, and a desire to see some 2ortion of her burden removed. If they are as thoughtful as they are zealou, however, they must feel somewhat ashamed of themselves when they read the report just pub lished by Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston, of the work done at "Boff in's Bower" in that city during the past year. For if they read that re port carefully they will discover that one earnest, practical woiker has done more for the practical ameliora tion of woman's condition than all of them have accomplished with their conventions aud addresses, their proclamations and denunciations. They will discover, moreover, that there is still so wide a field for prac tical earnest work that no one can fairly be accounted a real friend of woman's advancement who leaves the work undone to engage in the more congenial occupation of talking about it. "Bofliin's Bower," as is pretty gen erally known, is an institution for the relief and encouragement of working women. It has been in op eration some six years, and duiiug that period has accomplished a vast amount of good. To girls and wo men seeking employment it stands in somewhat the same relation that the Young Men's Christian Associa tions iu the largo cities undertake to occupy toward young men. It goes farther, however, than most of these associations attempted to go. It gives a heme to girls coming to Boston without money or friends, and cares for them until work is found. During the winter it gives free dinners to working girls, the number fed last winter from January 11 to April 1 having ranged from sixty-live to eighty-five daily. All the expenses of the institutions are defrayed from . tb? subscriptions of the benevolent, tho manager giving her time and labor without any charge whatever. The report referred to presents some very interesting facts and sta tistics concerning the employment ;f women in Boston aud especially of shop girls, to whom it is chielly devoted. Of this class tho report states there are o0,000 in the city, or nearly one-tenth of the entire population The number of the occu pations in which they are engaged is given as seventy, and the list embra ces a very wild range, including type setting, carriage trimming and the manufacture of artificial limbs, as well as knitting and waxwork. Be sides the girls employed in the sev enty occupations enumerated, there is a small army of little girls, from seven to ten yeais of age, w ho run errands, pick out bastings and act as cash girls. The report is of more interest, of course, in Boston than it will be else where. It is not without its value, how-even, as a lesson, not only to the class to whom we have commended it, but to the thoughtful everywhere. In showing the existence in a single large city of a class of women, iiO, 000 strong, so successfully earning their own living that less than one- third of one per cent, find it neces sary to ask food in winter, it shows that the problem of supplying work to women cannot be as difficult of solution as it is frequently represent ed. The report does not show what the rate of wages is nor how it com pares with the rate of former 3-ears; but we are fortunate enough to find in a recent issue of the New York Tribune figures which measurably supply the deficiency. From these figures it appears that the average weekly earnings of a woman in the seventy-three occupations open to her in New York City are 84, a fall ing off in the past five years of about thirty per cent. The rate in Boston cannot vary greatly f om that in New York. Assiiming ti is to be so, aud considering the fact that work of all kinds is very much depressed, the showing of the Boston report be comes even more encouraging as a record of the progress which woman is making toward honorable self-support. Let tho Anthonys and Stan tons, the Howes and Blakes forsake the platform for a season, put their shoulders to the wheel, and see if the whole country can not be per suaded to follow the worthy example of the "City of Notions." She was a colored lady, says tho Columbia (S.C.) Sun, and attending a revival of religion, and had worked herself up to the extreme jitch of going to the good place in a moment, or sooner, if possible. As her friends gave vent to their feelings, she like wise gave vent to her feeling, and exclaimed- - " I wish I was a June bug !" A brother of sable hue, standing near by, inquired : "What you want to be one for ?" "That I might fly to my Jesus." "You fool nigger : woodpecker ketch you 'fore you get half way dar. A party of Empire City prospectors has struck a good thing on the beaeh about 50 miles north of that place. Quite a rich body of black sand has has been found under a deposit of gravel, and the boys, it is said, are making big wages. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Courtship, Kissing and Carriage Riding. From the New York World. We have great respect for the opinions of our able contemporary, the Sun, and are always grieved when we see it fall into an error on any important subject. The mis leading of three or four millions of readers upon a great issue is a fearful responsibility. And there was much in a leading and able editorial article of the Sun yesterday upon kissing, to make the judicious grieve. We shall confine ourselves to a single blunder in the most serious of the many questions discussed in that article. It seems that a Connecticut girl has written to the editor of the Sun to ask, among some trivial inquiries touching upon etiquette and religion, this important question : " Is it proper for a lady to kiss a gentleman 4 good night' when she has been carriage-riding with him ?" As the dis cussion of this point comes home to thebusiness and bosoms of thousands of both sexes throughout the country, it should not be lightly nor flippant ly carried on. In this respect the Su)i has not erred, we make haste to say. It has treated the subject with its customary elevation of tone and severe dogmatism of temper, but in doing so it has been guilty of one of the worst mistakes ever made by an influential American journal. It says: "A lady may kiss a gentleman after she has been carriage-riding with him, uuder certain circumstances, but they are very few. If she is engaged to him we have no objection, nor have we if ho is a near relative. Otherwise she had better politely refuse to do it, for that is a foolish maiden who throws away her kisses." Now, the first of these three sentences is merely a general statement of what follows in detail. The last is a new form of the old saying that the fruit that falls without shaking is rather too mellow. The middle sentence contains the gist of the Sun's whole creed and teaching on kissing after carriage-riding, and this maintains that a girl must 011I3' kiss near rela tives and the man to whom she is engaged to be married. As for kiss ing mere relatives in such circum stances, that is simply nonsense. Mere relatives don't want to kiss her, and she doesn't want them to kiss her. The Sun's rule is therefore practically narrowed down to this that a girl may kiss her accepted lover and no one else. If this rule, of conduct were adopted, how many girls would have accepted lovers to kiss? Does an engagement come suddenly after a mere formal ac quaintance, or is it not the result of a gradually growing intimacy in which men and women learn to understand, by carriage-riding and otherwise, and confide in one an other. 'I he Sun, to be consistent, must extend its doctrine a little further, and maintain that a girl should not go out " carriage-riding" except with a near relative or the man to whom she is engaged. This is the principle adopted for tho govern ment of the young ladies at Mount Holyoke Seminary, and wh recom mend to the consideration of our contemporary the answer of a lively pupil to the preceptress who under took to enforce tho rule agaiast her. The j-oung lady asked for permission to drive out with a gentleman. "You know the regulations of tho institu tion," was the answer. "Is he your father?" "No." "Is ho your brother?" "No' "Are you en gaged to him?" "No, but I expect to be before I get back." That an swer carried the day, and there is much philosophy in it touching the whole subject of "courtship, kissing and carriage-riding." A Game of Poker. Not long since, an eminent divine in the State of Illinois, (it won't do to mention names), visited a distant town for the purpose of preaching a dedicatory sermon in a new church. Court was in session, and on Satur day evening the Judge and lawyers congregated together in a room and amused themselves by card-playing and story-telling. The divine, at the request of F., a lawyer, visited the room. Coming upon them so sud denly, they were unable to hide the cards and whiskey. The divine looked on awhile, and then raising his hat, invited "the gentlemen to attend church the next day, and hear him preach. This they agreed to do, a nd Sunday found Judge and lawyers seated in the " amen corner." The sermon was over, the minister announced : " Friends, the citizens of this town have built a fine church- There is still fifteen hundred dollars due. We propose to raise it by subscription to-day, and (eyeing the Judge) I go one hundred dollars. Who goes better ?" The Judge glanced at the lawyers, and slowly responded : " I see your hundred." " Thank you, brother," said the divine. " Will any one raise it?" looking at lawyers No. 1. The lawyer saw that he was in for it, and quietly responded : " I go a hundred blind," and so on through the list. The divine raked down both the bar and the money, until the scene closed by a shrill sharp voice, an nouncing : "I see the last hundred, and "call" you." Our readers can imagine the aston ishment of that congregation. We venture to say, however, that those lawyers will not soon invite the divine to witness a " social game of poker, where men ' see each other " go it blind," and call" tho hand. Stories of Vanderhilt. It is conceded by all his physicians, say the New York. Times, that the ability to withstand the shocks of disease evinced by Commodore Van- derbilt is due to his strong constitu tion and magnificent physique, aid ed by his abstemious habits and love of exercise in the open air. As an instance of how active he was in his fifty-eighth year, it is related that in 1852 he was on board the steamer Prometheus, of the. Nicaragua line, as she-was being moored to her berth at Pier No 4, North River. A single hawser had been run from the ship to tho pier, but owing to the strong current the ship could not be moored. The Commodore became impatient at the delay, and throwing his cane on the dock swung himself, hand over hand, on the hawser from tho ship to the pier. Then picking up his stick, he said, "I was not going to stay there all day, "and walked slowly up the dock Many stories showing his strong prejudices and peculiarities in those days, in regard to his business, are told of him. On one occasion, in 1852, a Mr. Loper, of Philadelphia, who had built a number of propel lers, and who was strongly in favor of that class of vessels, called on the Commodore to try to induce him to use propellers instead of side-wheel steamers on the Nicargua line. He exhibited a model to tho Commo dore, aud predicted that in ten years from that time not a single side-wheel steamer would be built, as the pro pellers were superior to them, both in speed and ecouemy. After hear ing all tLat Mr. Loper had to say, the Commodere said : " All you say. Mr. Loper. may bo true, but I'll tell you what I'll do. You build a propeller, and I'll build oun of my walking-beam ships, and 1 11 run 3-ou a race from New York to Liverpool, ship for ship." Mr. Loper did not accept the wager, and the Commo dore never built a propeller. One of his peculiarities is that he signs his name thus, "van Derbilt, pronouncing it " Wauderbilt, " as if written with a W , the old Dutch pronunciation of the name. Many year ago, when Wm. II. Vanderbilt was a boy, the old gentlemen made arrangements to send him to a board ing school in Bedford, Westchester County. It being necessary to procure a trunk for the boy, the fa ther and sou, who then lived in Madison street, went to the Bowery to purchase one. After they had se lected a trunk William suggested that it would be well to have it mark ed with his initials. Tho Commo dore acquiesced, and turned to the storekeeper and said, " Put 'W. We' on the ends," meaning W. V. "W. We ?" said the storekeeper, inquir ingly. "Yes," said the Commo dore, "W. We" Tho man still not seeming to understand, the old gentleman said, it, Bill, you then ex- tell him." William plained what his father meant, W. V. was put on the ends of and the trunk in bright brass-headed tacks, as was the custom in those days. The title of Commodore was given him in thejyear 1834 by David Hey wood, who was at that time captain of the steamboat Champion, running between New York and Albany. The Commodore owned her as well as the steamboat Nimrod, with which he was running a day line to Albany in opposition to other lines. m Disraeli as a Peer.- The . levation of Premier Disraeli to the peerage, with the title of Earl of Beaconsfield, has been briefly an nounced by cable. In 18G9 the Queen offered to make him a vis count, but he declined the honor. A coronet, however was given to his wife, and she is now known to histo ry as the first and only Countess of Beaconsfield. The place from which the name of the new Earldom is to. be taken is a small town in the County of Bucks, which Disraeli has represented in Parliament since 184G. The elevation of Disraeli has an in terest all its own, derived from the antecedents of the man and the na ture of the contest lie has so success fully waged through life. He enter ed life with an excellent education, an acuto mind, and a courage that feared nothing. But he was not merely without social influence and without great wealth but he was op posed by prejudice as old as Chris tianity. His grandfather was a Spanish Jew, who accumulated a competency in trade and died, leav ing his name and his money,but no thing more, to his children. Isaac Disraeli, the Earl's father, added no thing to the fortune which had been bequeathed to him, and, although making for himself an honorable place in the literary annals of Eng land, did nothing to advance his son among the politicions of the period. Without the aid of wealth or family prestige, and by his sole unaided genius and energy, Benjamin Disra eli has made himself leader of the House of Commons, Minister of Fi nance, and twice Prime Minister of the British Empire ; and now, in his seventy-first year, retires from the leadership of the House of Com mons to an aristocratic dignity which he is well calculated to adorn. Had to "Contemplate. No matter how thorough has been a man's Christian education, says the Brook lyn Argns. nomatterhow attentively he has followed the paths of right eousness, he can't fall down a eoal hole without making remarks that will bo remembered in the Day of Judgement. They have a man in St. Louis who has made an enormous fortune in paintsand dve-stuffs. They call him a ver-miliionare. iosiou -( script. Hiram WoodrutTs Advice About Driving Fast Horses People talk about a steady, bracing pull; but in my opinion, that is not the right way to drive a trotter. There is a great difference between letting go of your horse's- he- d and keeping up one dull, .deadening pull all the time. The pull ahonld be sufficient to feel the moutbr so as to give the horse confidence- to get np to his stride. More' than that is mischievous.. . To keep- tho .mouth alive the bit must be changed occa sionally. But this ia not to ber done 1 by a iull of the " hand- on the rein. A mere half turn okthe wrist, or less than half a turn, by which the thumb is elevated and the little finger is lowered, is sufficient to shift the bit, keep the mouth sensitive and rouse the horse. The reins ore to be stead ily held with both hands while this play with the wrist is made; anil it is, of course, only to-be done with one wrist at a time; The hands should be well down; and the driver ought not to sit all of a heap, with his head forward. Neither should he lean hack, with his bodily weight on the reins, which, in that case, ar& mado a sort of stay for him. He should be upright, and what pulling he must dashould lie done by tho rn nseular force of his arms. The driver who depends upon the arm has command of the horse he who substitut a-bodily weight, with tho reins wrapped around his hands, has not half command of the horse, or of himself either; aud, if the horse is a puller, he will soon take command of the driver. The reason of it -. that there is no- intermission of the exertion, no let-up either for man or horse. Besides, in that way of driving,. it is impossible to give thoso movements to the bit which seem to refresh and stimulate the horse so much. When a horse has been taught the significance of the move ment of the bit, the shift by the turn? of the wrist,, ho will never fail to an swer it,, even though he should seem o to be at the top of his speed. The moment he feels this little move of the bit iu his sensitive mouthr he will collect himself and make another spurt, and the value of this way of driving i . that the horse is not like ly to break when called upon, while a high-strung, generom horse if called upon for a final effort with the whip is as likely to break the moment it falls upon him as not. I have won many a very close heat by practicing this movement, and,, therefore, have no hesitation in rec ommending it. It is not difficult to acquire, and the horse soon comes to. know what it means. The Backward Habit of the Japanese. The Japanese habit of reversing everything, if we may regard our own ways of doing as the proper ways, is very curious and in some of its de tails very interesting. Mr. Griffisr in his work on Japan, discusses it thus : " Another man is planing. He pulls the plane towards him. I no tice a blacksmith at work. He pulls the bellows with his feet, while he is. holding and hammering with both hands. He has several irons in the fire, and keeps his dinner pot boiling with the waste name. His whole family, like the generations before him, seem to all get their living in the hardware line.' The cooper holds his tub with his toes. All of them sit down while they work. How strange ! Perhaps that is an import ant difference between a European and an Asiatic. One sits down to his work, the other stands np to it. "Why is it that we do things contrariwise to the Japanese ? Are we upside down, or they? The Japanese say that we are reversed. They call our penmanship ' crab-writing,' because, they say, it goes backward.' The lines in our books cross the page like a craw-fish, instead of going down ward ' properly.' In a Japanese stable we find the horses flank where we look for his head. Japanese screws screw the other way. Their locks thrust to the left, ours to the right. The baby toys of the Aryan race squeak when squeezed ; the Turanian gimcracks emit noise when; pulled apart. A Caucasian, to injure , his enemy, kills him ; a Japanese kills himself to spite his foe. W jich has the negative, which the positive of truth ? What is truth ? What is down ? What is up ?" The Illackhurn Murder. One of the most remarkable crim inal cases of recenf years was tho so called " Blackburn murder" in Eng land. A barber, it will be remem bered, killed a little girl seven years old, cut irp her body and hid it in a chimney. Another man, a tramp, was likely to be convicted, when a dog scented out the remains, re vealed the dead body, and made so plain a matter of the previous mys tery that the barber confessed the criiine, and the tramp was reluctantly discharged by the authorities. That was in March. To be sure,' since then the interest of the affair has wandered a little from the murder and accompanied a brisk fight as to who owned the sharp dog, and whose was the money taken in for exhibit ing him. Still, the case altogether is one distinctly remembered, and certain of a place in the history of crime. - Fish, the murderer, was vigorously defended on a plea of insanity it being held that no sane man could do what he did. But be has been found guilty and sentenced to death, as he deserved to be. Courtney, of Union Sprin gs, -won the single scnll race at Philadelphia, on the 31st ult. jv O