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( 1 ift infi (rffiY Mcjj' 4 4x iilly iff ihiY-t 5 f! DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE DEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. VOL. 10. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 15, 1876. NO. 47 THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOB THE farmer, Business Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FRANK S. DEMENT, 1BOMXMO AlfD PUBLISHER. dinCUl PAPER 0R CLACKAMAS CO. t ttfrprisR BuUdinfr, one .SSSWnulWtnB. Main St. Term, of Subscription! .,.!. COPT One Year, In Advance......2.50 .. Six Months" " 1-50 Term, of Advertising On Column, ont year 60.00 Half " ,. . I".. g'card.leguaro.one year 12.00 ' SOCIETY NO VICES. OV.VA.OS LODGR NO. 3, I. I. O. Meets every Thursday g. reuiiis-t7' o'clock, in the JfgPgS Odd Fellows' Hull, Main SS&Ss street. Members of the Or der are invited to attend. Jiy order ki:iu:cca uugkisu i.oik;k no. d;iv evening each month, ysr39i-.... ..,7i: ..'..l.w.t iti the Odd Fellows' Hall. Members of the Degree uro invited to attend. MULTNOMAH LODGE NO. I, A.V, A A. M., Holds its regular com inunications on tho First and Third .Saturdays in each month, at 7 o clock, trom tne oi .-ep. tember to the Oth of Marcli ; ami 7?i o'clock from the 20th of March to the Mill of September, brethren in good standing aro invited to attend. iv order of W. M. FALLS USCAMPMUXT NO. 1,1. O. O. F., Meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the First and Third Tues Hi. Patriarchs In good standing "re invited to attend. n us i y us s card s. .T. W. NOIIRIS, PHVSU1AX AS1) SfltGEON, 7-omce lTv.Stairs In Charr.ian'i P.rlck, Main Strt. f 1 ) U. .TO I IN W FL.CI T OKFIOK IN "i- OIIKGON CITY, OBEfiOX. t3l.;Htt Cuah Irlr Pal J for County OnUrt. HU2LAT a. EA5THAM, ATTORN EYS-AT-L AW- PORTHXI) la Opitr.'a new brick, 30 First strict. OHEGON CITY Charm an's brick, up talr. !fLll jonrjsorj &. wcCOWN ATTORNEYS .1X3 COUNSELORS AT-L.WV. Orogon City, Oregon. WWIU practice In all the Courts of the Ktt. Special attention (riven to cases in th U. S. Land OftiCf at. Oregon City. 5aprlS7a-tf. Ij. T.- BAR1N ATTOJINEY-AT-LAW, OR EG OX CITY, : : OREGON. Will practice In all tho Courts of the State. Nov. 1. lS7o. tf JOHN 31. BACON, TMPORTF.Tl ANr nF.AT.F.U i7 fmTwl In Hooks, Stationery, Perfum ery, etc., etc. Oregon City, Oregon. BV.At the Post Office, Main street, east Ride. W. 11. HUHIFIEL1). Established since '49. One door north of Pope' Hall. Main Street, Oregon City, Oregon. An assort ment of Watches. .TpwpI- ry.nnd .sth 1 nomas' eijrht Clocks nil of which are warranted to l as si!-' represented. Repairing done on short notice, and h miaul ror past patronage. Ca.hpalci;fr County Order J. H- SHEPARD, Boot and Slioe Store, One door north of Ackerman Bros. Boots and shoes made and repaired as cheap as the ctieapesi. Nov. 1. 1375 Xt CIIAS. KNIGHT, CAXBY, OR EGOX, PHYSICIAN AND DRl'CGIST Prescriptions carefully filled at shor1 notice-. Ja7 lf- MILLER, MARSHALL &C0., PAY THK HIGHEST PRICE FOR AVI1K.VT, at all times, at the Oregon City Mills, And have on hand FEED and FLOUR to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring r'epd, must furnish sacks. novl'2t f IMPERIALISM I L L S, LaBocque, Sayier & Co. Oregon City. f instantly on hand for sale Flour, Mlddlincs, Bran and Chicken Feed. Tarties purckaalac teed must furnish the sack Old Saying's. As poor as a chuch-mouse, As thin as a rail ; A9 fat as a porpoise. As rough as a gale ; As brave as a lion, As spry as a cat; As bright as a sixpence, As weak as a rat. As proud as a peacock, As si v as a fox ; As mad as a inarch hair. As strong as an ox ; As fair as a lily, As empty as air ; As rich as Croesus, As cross as a bear. As pure as an angel, As neat as a pin ; As smart as a steel-trap, As ugly as sin ; As dead as a door-nail, As white as a sheet ; As Hat as a pancake. As red as a beet. As round as an apple, As black as your hat ; As brown as a' berry, As blind as a bat ; As mean as a miser, As full as a tick ; As plump as a patridge, As sharp as a stick. As clear as a penny, As dark as a pall; As hard as a millstone, As bitter as gall ; As tine as a fiddle, As clear as a bell ; As dry as a herring. As deep as a well. As light as a feather, As hard as a rock ; As stiff as a poker, As calm as a clock ; As green as a gosling, As brisk as a bee; And now let ine stop, .Lest you weary of me. Stanley, the Great Explorer. A London special to the New York Herald says : Five letters from Stan ley have just been received, being the lirst intelligence of him since June 1S75, and was written at Moy-higa- Island, in Lake Nyanza, and describes the explorer's voyage from King Mtesa's territory, at the northern end of Lake Victoria Nyanza, where Stanley had been vis iting the king, back to Camp Kayehe. In the course of their voyage across the lake Stanley and his party nar rowly escaped from being massacred by savages and treacherous natives of Bumboyha, a large island on the wester side of Lake Victoria. The expedition was saved from destruc tion during the savage attacks only by the skill and courage of Stanley and JUS FAITHFUL BAND OF FOLLOWERS, Who, by the observance of discipline and the effective use of their superior arms, beat of the treacherous natives. While on the lake the expedition encountered several heavj- storms which at times threatened their frail canoes with destruction. All the party, however, arrived safely at camp after experiencing the most remarkable adventures. The second letter from Stanley Jis written from Lake Shore, a town of Dumo in Uganda. It is dated August 15th, 1875. Here the explorer had estab lished his camp on the mainland, but within easy access of the lake. From Moyhiga Stanley madean expedition across the Ukerew Island at its southern extremity, from whence he recrossed the lake again toward the region of Uganda, the whole expedi tion b-jing transported in canoes. During the return voyage Stanley inflicted a sore punishment on the treacherous savages of Bumbovba for the attack made upon his expedi tion, as mentioned in the first letter. The second letter narrates all the INCIDENTS OF THESE EXCITING VOYAGES The next letter from Stanley is written from Kawango. and is dated Jannary 18th, 187G. The letter de scribes the march of the gallant ex plorer from King Mtesa s capital across the country to the southern shore of Lake Nyanza. The march was made at the head of a large army composed of spearsmen of Uganda. The army encamped on the shores of Lake Albert Nyanza at Lnijampaka, and after some delay again recrossed the cou; try to King Mtesa s, where Stanley arrived on the 18th of Janu ary. The day he arrived he wrote his fourth letter. All the letters con tain particulars of the highest geo graphical and ethnological value. Stanley traversed the country of ivabbar and visited but did not navi gate Lake Albert Nyanza. This land exploration by Stanley is in HIS MARCH BETWEEN LAKES And his short stsiy on the lake shore explains why Gessi, of Gordon's force, who sailed on Lake Albert Nyanza, in April last, heard nothing of the expedition. Stanley is, there fore, the first explorer who has pen etrated the unknown regions lying between lakes Victoria and Albert Nyanza, and the first to survey their mysterious recesses with the eye of a scientific traveler. Towering above this vast expanse is the remarkable mountain of Ganbarrayara, which Stanley thoroughly explored, and discovered among its high uplands a pale-face tribe who inhabit thi3 won deriul region, forming a different kind of people to the black-skinned denizens of the plains. Stanley christened the large inlet of Albert Nyanza, on which he encamped with his army, " Beatrice Gulf," in Lonor of the Trincess of England, of the Koyal House. The next letter is dated March 26th, 187G, from Kani furro, and relates the story of his final departure from Uganda. It also gives the particulars of his ex ploration of Kageera river, which flows into Lake Victoria Nyanza on its west side. It further describes the exploration of Captain Speke of Likes Lake, Windermere and the hot springs of Naragique. Stanley for wards with this letter SKETCH MAPS, I owing the hitherto uamapped por- tion of Victoria Nyanza. lie gives the coast line from the mouth of the Kageera river on the west to that of the Shiineyn river on the south. The latest letter is dated fromUbagive, in Unyamace, April 24th, 1870, and gives further details of the. explora tion of the interlacustrine region and of Stanley's southward march to wards Ujiji. From Ujiji Stanley proposes to revisit Albert Nyanza by way of Lake Tanganyika, and make a thorough exploration of the former basin. Stanley's last letter was dis patched when he was within, fifteen days march of Ujiji, where he doabt less arrived last month. He is amply supplied with men and moans suffi cient for him to solve the great prob lem still open to his undaunted courage and his splendid gifts as a traveler. Stanley mentions in his letter that his white friend, Frank Pocock, was well and that his own health was unimpaired. Isabella Meets With a Cool ception. Re- Ex-Queen Isabella met with a cool Jn ception on her recent return to Spain, according to the accounts recieved by the foreign mails. His Majesty Don Alfonso, accompanied by the Princess of Astureas, arrived at Santander to receive his mother, and when the vessel which brought the Qneen hove in sight all the church bells were in motion and the guns thundered their olfic;al wel come. The band played the royal march and the King started out to meet his mother, amid the enthusiastic acclamations of the na val and military elements. The road was densely crowded, and although few vivas were to be heard, it was easy to see that the youug monarch won id be a favorite among the peo ple if the high officials that surround ed him would only let him. The King rode a white charger and the and the Princess drove in open barouche, accompanied by a lady in waiting. His Majesty and her Boyal Highness embarked in a handsome pinnace and were towed out by a steam launch to the entrance of the harbor, where the vessel was moor ing. Queen Isabella had just arriv ed, and after embracing I.er son and daughter, embarked in the pinnace and landed on the magnificent, qiiay of Santander. The Queen seemed much effected, and indeed appeared to have been shedding tears; but one thing was very noticeable and that was a dead silence in the crowd, broken now and then only by the shrill vivas of two or three urchins who seemed to have been engaged for the task. Not one cry of welcome was to be heard .and silently tho roy al personages drove to the cathedral, where mass was said by the young Bishop of Santander. On coming o.it of the cathedral one man raised the cry of "Viva Isabella Segunda!" but not a single voice replied and the solitary attempt died away in ominous silen e. Blackmail. Blackmail is a term not universally understood. Originally it signified a certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid in the north of England and south of Scot land to certain men who were allied to robbers, to be by them protected from pillage. We have anew mean ing for the word now. A man that worms himself into your confidence and, having learned something of your private aft'airs, attempts to transmute it into gold, is a black mailer. It is simply blood money. A man that does that kind of thing has no right to live, except by the forbearance of the gods. There is a certain amount of meanucss allotted to the career of any man, and he runs the length of his string at a single dash when he levies blackmail. If he live aftsr such an ordeal it is only to vomit like a buzzard and stink like an nncoffined crow. Wrell, let the blackmailer remem ber, as he applies himself to his fetid repast, that there is an old and use ful adage on the subject of glass houses. A man may have an imper vious hide himself, but there may be those through whose unutterable sorrow and degradation he can be reached. Let him take care, or hearts that he loves shall bleed. A Blackmailing Adventurer. A remarkably successful adventurer has been arrested in Philadelphia. His last assumed name was Chalnotte, but his real name is unknown to the police, and his most recent ex ploits were performed as a brother of Don Carlos. His general plan was to flirt with women induce them to compromise themselves in some tri fling way, and then blackmail them. His good looks, education nnd intel ligence enabled him to make a sur prising number. Letters from over thirty women and girls were found in his trunk. This year he made a round of the watering places, and when caught was operating at the Centennial Exhibition. A sensible women exposed him. Gross Lack of Attention. A certain mad wag on a Cincinnatti journal lately distinguished himself in New York, Dining at a restanr ant, he noticed on the bill of fare a request to the guests to report " any want of attention." He s nt for the landlord and pointed out the notice. " Has there been any want of atten tion ?" queried Boniface. ' 'I should think there had," was the reply ; "I have been here fifteen minutes ami no one has asked me to take a drink. r Luelling's Seedling Cherry, speci mens of which reached the Exposi tion in excellent order are considered s iperior to anything yet seen in the East, The Custer Massacre. Statement of a Trapper who was au Eye- Wit ii ess-Six Prisoners Burned at the Stake and Horribly Tortured. Minneapolis, Sept. 7th, 1876.-The Pioneer Press and Tribune will to morrow publish an interview with an old trapper named Itidgley, who has been a long time in the lellowstone country, and claims to have wit nessed Custer's inassacrer-being ,a prisoner in Sitting Bull's ump and seeing every movement of the troops. He was taken prisoner last March and kept in the camp of the Indians ever since. Until the Custer mas sacre he was treated kindly. He says Sitting Bull organized, not to fight the whites, but to drive the miners from the Black Hills. Pre vious to Custer's attack, mounted couriers from Sitting Bull's camp had for eight days watched his forces, their division into small de tachments beiiig noted with manifes tations of extreme delight. Ambus cades were immediately prepared, and while the Indians stood ready for attack, many of them clambered on the side hills overlooking Custer's line of march. The Indian camp was divided by a bluff, the point of which ran toward the Bosebud and in the direction of one of tho availa ble fords on the river. To reach their camp by this ford, Custer fol lowed their trai: down to the water's edgo. There were but 25 tepees vis ible to Custer, but there were 75 double tepees behind the bluffs not visible. Custer attacked the small village, and was immediately met by 1,500 or 2,000 Indians in regular order of battle. Every movement was made with military precision. Ridgley says he stood on tho side hill, where he had a complete view of the battle, which was not more than y miles distant. Custer began the fight in a ravine near the ford, and fully half his command seemed to be unhorsed at the first fire. Then the soldiers retreated towards the hill in the rear, where they were shot down on the way with astonish ing rapidity, the commanding officer falling from his horse in the middle of the engagement, which commenced at 11 a. m., and did not last over 45 minutes. After the massacre of Custer's force, the Indians returned to camp with six soldiers as prison ers, and delirious witli joy over their success, these six men were tied to stakes at a wood pile in the village and all burned to death. While the the ll-imes were torturing them to d nth, tho Indi in. boys fired red h:t arrows into their quivering flesh until they were dead. Sitting Bull was met after tho fight, and he ex ultantly remarked that he had killed many soldiers, and one damned General, but did not know who he was. The squaws then armed them selves with knives, visited the battle field and robbed and mutilated the bodies of the soldiers. While the six soldiers were being burned, the Indians turned their attention to the force, evidently Keno's attacking tho lower end of the village. Itidg ley says Custer's command had been slaughtered before a shot was fired, Reno's force attacking the lower end of the camp at about 2 p. m. The Indians returned in the evening and said the men had fought like the devil ; but Ridgley ays they didn't make; any statement of their losses. They said the soldiers had been driven back twice, and they piled up stones, and the attack was unsuccess ful. The prisoners were kept burn ing over an hour ; but Ridgley was not permitted to speak to them, so he is unable to state who they were. One was noticeable for his small size and gray hair and whiskers. Reno killed more Indians than Custer, who fell in the midst of the fight and two captains, believed to be Gates and Keogh, were left to die. The night after the massacre the Indians were wild with delight ; many got drunk on whiskey stolen from the whites, and the squaws performed the duty of guards for the prisoners. The squaws becoming drowsy, Ridgley and two companions escaped, secur ing ponies and began a long journey homeward. The party ate game and lay in the woods four days to avoid the Indians. On the way Ridgley's horse stumbled, breaking his arm, but the party finally reached Fort Abercrombie, and thence Ridgley came here. He describes Sitting Bull as a half breed, of large size, very intelligent with a peculiar gait. A Sermon in a Paragraph. President Porter, in Yale gave the following advice to the sdents of that institution the other day : " Young men, you are the architects of your own fortunes. Rely on your own strenght of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance. In scribe on your banner, " Luck is a fool, Pluck is a hero." Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remem ber that the art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Think well of yourself. Strike out. As sume your own position. Put po tatoes in a cart, go over a road, and the small ones go to the bottom. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determina tion with a right motive, are the lev ers that move the world. Don t swear. Don't deceive. Don't read novels. Don't marry until you can support a wife. Be earnest. "Be self-reliant. Be generous. Be civil. Read the paper. Advertise your bus iness. Make money and do gooJ with it. Love your God and your fellow men. Love truth and virtue Love your country and obey its laws." " Matchless misery " has been de fined to having a cigar and no thing to light it with. The Boy as a Barbarian. The world the boy lives in is sep erate and distinct from the world the man lives in. It is a world inhabited only byboys. No events are important or of any moment save those affect ing boys. How they ignore the presence of their elders on the street, shoutiung out there calls, their invi tations, their appointments from our midst, as from the veriest solitude ! The have peculiar calls, whistles, pass-words, by which they commu nicate with each other at long dis tances like "Birds or wild creatures. And there is as genuine a wildness about these notes as about those of a fox or coon. Tho boy is a savage, a barbarian, in his taste devouring roots, leaves, bark, unripe fruit, etc. ; and in the kind of music or discord he delights in. They have their fashions that spread from city to city. In one of our large cities the rage at one time was an old tin can with a string attached, out of which they tortured the. most savage and ear-splitting discords. Police was obliged to interfere and siqpress the nuisance. On another occasion, at Christmas, they all came forth with ;tin horns, and nearly drove the town distracted with the hideous uproar. Another savage trait of the boy is his untruth fulness. Corner him up, and the chances are ten to one he will lie his way out. Conscience is a plant of slow gro-vth in the boy. If caught in one lie, he invents another. I knew a boy who was in the habit of eating apples in school. His teacher finally caught him in the act, and, without removing his eye from him, called him to the middle of the floor. I saw you this time," said the teacher. " Saw me what ? said the boy inno cently. "Bite that apple," replied the teacher. "No, sir," said the rascal. "Open your mouth ;" and from its depths the teacher, with his thumb and finger, took out the piece of apple. "Didn't know it was there," fa:d the boy unabashed. Nearly all the moral sentiments and graces are lato in maturing in the boy. He has no proper self-respect till past his ma jority. Of course there are excep tions, bat they are mostly windfalls. John Burroughs, in the Septem ber Galaxy. Modes of Walking. Observing persons move slow, their heads move alternately from side to side, while they occasionally stop and turn around. Careful persons lift their feet high and place them down ; pick up some little obstruction, and place it down quickly by the side of the way. Calculating persons generally walk with theirhands in their pockets and their heads slightly inclined. Modest persons generally step soft ly for fear of being observed. limul persons oiten step oil the side-walk on meeting another, and always go around a stone instead of stepping over it. Wide awake persons " toe out," and have a long swing of their arms, while their hands move about mis cellaneously. Careless persons are forever stub bing their toes. Lazy persons scrape about loosely with their heels, and are first on one side of the siJewalk and then on the other. Very strong minded persons place their toes directly in front of them, and have a kind of stamp movement. Unstable persons walk fast and slow by turns. Venturous persons try all roads, frequently climbing the fences instead of going through the gate, and never let down a bar. One idea" persons always very selfish ones, "toe in." Cross persons are very apt to hit their knees together. Good-natured persons snap their fingers and thumb evey few steps. Fun loving persons have a kind of jig movement. The Way to Hecome Itich. Pay cash for everything you buy at the time of purchase. If this rule was adopted, everybody would live well, live happy and prosper. Ev erybody wishes to buy cheap and sell high, Nothing can please aman more thau getting a good round price for what he has to sell. But supply and demand rule these things. The credit system does more in keening prices high than any one thing save supply. To Jtartout, the man that buys of the producer for cash, can buy lower than if he buys on credit. Then the merchant buys of the importer for cash, and saves another item of cost. Next the re tail, from the retailer, from the wholesaler, buys for cash, and on other item of cost is saved. The coods are retailed to the people at large, and the man who sells his time can sell at ten per cent, less for cash than he could on credit. Pay cash and you will be inde pendent. Pay cash and save cash. Pay cash and you will not be compelled to pay high tarrifls to pay other peoples. Pay cash and vou can buy bargains. Pay cash you can hold up your head and look the world of mankind full in the face, Pay cash and you will grow rieb. Ereed's Advertise)'. Two men were angrily disputing . i i. ii. . i i One said "You're a blear-eyed. beer-beguzzlel Dutchman !" The other said "Veil, by shorge. vou vas r.ftttiofirs. von vas a tarn nicr not- tj T ( Q tings,' shoost like shoost like a a it pig crow-scare, uy suorge, mid out any shlumn. Senator Mitchell is stumping Ohior 3Ir. Kerr's Last'Hours. A correspondent of tbeRichmond, Virginia, Dispatch, gives some inter esting particulars of the last hours of Speaker Kerr's life. "About 4 p. m., the death-struggle seemed approaching. His respira tion grew short and feeble ; he sank with a collapse, and ho seemed in great pain, and frequently the word suffocation' escaped his lips in a faint whisper.. Yet amid that trying scene he still manifested not only his usual fortitude bat his affectionate recognition of his friends. He pressed the hand of S. S. Cox, ex claiming, Good-bye, dear friend, God bless you.' His pulse ceased at the wrists, and his limbs assumed a marble coldness. Time passed on and the approach of the grim mon ster seemed to be momentarily baf fled by the extraordinary vital power of the sick man. Tho respiration grew stronger, and at G p. m. the pulse returned to the wrists, the heart beating with its usual force and regularity. Seven o'clock drew near'; Dr. Pope sat by his bedside conversing with Mrs. Kerr, the friends having mo mentarily retired. The doctor asked Mr. Kerr, "Do you suffer any pain?" The patient shook his head. " Do you -feel easier, now?" He nodded his head emphatically, at the same time fixing an earnest gaze on the doctor, expressing at once thanks and relief from suffering. Then fixing li is steady gaze upon'- the ceiling, his breath became per fectly natural and regular. The sun gradually declined behind the moun tains, and as his last rays faintly glimmered on the horizon, so it seemed as if the quenchless spirit was taking its last gaze through its bodily organs of vision upon things of earth : fainter and fainter grew his breathing, and fixed grew the gaze. The family and friends hastily gath1 ered around the bedside. The last heart-beatings grew soft and faint, like those of an infant sleeping. The sun sank, and the deathless spirit took its noiseless flight. To the reporter Mr. Cox said that he asked Mr. Kerr ' if he was ready to go.' He expressed his entire con tent with a heroic gentleness which was one of his characteristics. He conversed freely about the future world, its rewards, hopes and expec tations with calmness and equanim ity. He had suffered so much that he desired to bo relieved, and yet he would not have his pain alleviated so as to distract or stupefy his mind. He based his hopes of a better world upon the practice and benevolence which he had endeavored to illus trate during his life. He impressed his views upon his son, who is just entering upon his manhood. His wife Avas near him constantly, and but for the consolation of friends would be inconsolable. Every attention was shown to Mr. Kerr and his family during their stay at the Springs, and since his ieath all music and festivity has been suspended. Mrs. Kerr is a Presbyterian and the funeral services were performed according to the cer emonies of that church. The Teacher as a Man. It is unnecessary to say that the teacher should bo a model man : every man should be a model mau. There is much more in teaching; by example than by teaching by pre cept. The faculty of imitation seems to be the strongest during childhood and youth. Every man exerts a silent influence, which is powerful. Every man who uses tobacco is teaching its use to some younger man or boy. So with swearing, so with drinking, and so with every evil under the sun. A glorious fact it is, however, that every good deed a man does, teaches some one. Every good habit a man has, exerts an influence upon some one else. If this were not the case. we would all go to the evil one at a double-quick speed. leachers, how many of you vise tobacco ? Quit it, or quit teaching. Do not pretend for a moment to occupy that responsible position, if you cannot exert your will sufficient to relinquish a habit which you know to be injuring you : and. through your influence, hundr ds of others, whose influence again leads others, and thus in a geometrical ratio is multiplying evil. The use of tobacco is but one of the bad habits which every teacher should avoid. Teachers are watched, and watched closely, by hundreds of young bright eyes, whose owners are ready to fol low in their footsteps. Children reason in a very simple manner. ' There is a man who does so and so. and he is a good man and o smait man, and if is right for him to do so, it is right for me." This is the course of reasoning the child goes uirougu with, not considering that the premises are wrong, that a man who does these things is not good, is not smart as he should be : that X 1 1 mm. inose tuings are blots on liis charac ter, and if he copies them, he copies blots. Remember, teachers, that you are teaching daily and hourly : that you are teaching out of the school room a3 well as in it r that by your bad example you are undoing what your precepts have done. Like Sisyphus, you are rolling a stone up hill that is continually returning upon you. The teacher, then, must be every inch a man. Do right, because it is right, and teach your pupils so. There is too much copying of men in high positions. We should teach pupils to copy only the good and i eject the bad. JVatiorutl leacher. A Hopeless Case The full-grown young man who calls his moiner m maw and his lather ins paw. Giants in Olden Times. The giant exhibited in Home in 1830 measured nearly eighteen feet. Gorapius saw a girl that was ten feet high. The giant Galabria, brought from Arabia to Rome under Claudius Caesar, was ten feet high. Fannum, who lived in the time of Eugene 11"., measured- eleven and a half feet. The Chevalier Scrog,in his voyoge to the Peak of Teneriff, found in one of the caverns of that mountain the head of the G'unich, who had sixty teeth, andwaa-j not less than fif teen feet high. The giant Faragus; slain by Or lando, nephew of Charlemagne, was-twenty-eight feet high. In 181-4, near St. Gernand, waa found the tomb of the giant Isolent who was not less than thirty feet high. In 1590, near Rouen, was found a skeleton whose skull held a bushel of corn and who was nineteen feet high. The giant Bacar was twenty-two feet high: his thigh bones were found in 1703 near the river of Mod ern. In 1723, near the castla Dauphine, a tomb was found, thirty feet long, sixteen wide and eight high, on which was cnK ii gray stone these words "Kentolochns. Rex." The skeleton was found entire, twenty-five feet and a fourth long, ten feet across the shoulders and five feet from the breast bone to the back. Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516, was round the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high, and in 1558 another forty-four feet high. Near Magrino, Magrine," in Sicily, in 181G was found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high; the head was the size of a hogshead and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. We have no doubt that "there were giants in those days," and the past, perhaps, was more prolific in producing them ;then the present. But the history of giants during the olden times was not more remark able than that of dwarfs, - some of whom were even smaller that the Thumbs and Nutts of our own time. Mrs. William's Vindicated. A New York Sun Washington special of the 29th, says : A week ago there was extensively published a statement respecting certain anony mous letters sent to some members of the Cabinet, and that through the efforts of Bluford Wilson, the auth" orship was traced to Mrs. Williams wife of the late Attorney-General, resultingm AVilIiams expulsion from ihe Cabinet. At the time the state ment was published Williams and. his wife were en route for Oregon. but another and; higher authority, the President himself, pronounces the charges wholly untrue and auth orizes the statement that no suspicion ever rested upon Mrs. Williams as the writer of the letters, except in the mind of Bluford: Wilson. The Pres ident's wife and Mrs. Williams both received threatening letters after Williams resigned from the Cabinet, and the President saya that Williams' retirement was not in the slighest manner connected with the anony mous letter. He did not then, nor now Joes he entertain the slightest suspicion reflecting upon that lady. On the contrary, the evidence was of such a character as to point to a ma- icious person who was angered by an official act of-jAttorney-General Wil liams, which the President approved in due time. The person, whose name is withheld for prudential reasons. will be indicted, and then Bluford Wilson will have an opportunitv of tilling all he knows about the scandal. A China-Hoy's "Cousins." A "China-boy" has no end to cousins" (sounding the i as it sounds in pin), in this respect out-- Biddying Biddy a hundred-fold. From one to-half a dozen Chinamen will loiter round a kitchen if they dare, and one may feel certain that every Chinese of them is hungry. To be hungry seems, indeed, their normal condition, for they live by scores in their wash-houses and oth er haunts, subsisting on the smallest modicum of food, in order to save money. When they drop into our kitchens to call on a comrade, there fore, one may lie certain that those bright little sloping eyes are on the alert for forage. We have happened suddenly down-stairs, and found such a visitor in the closet, his hand in the sugar-bowl. A neighbor met another emerging from her pantry, eating pie. When thus confronted, they laugh and leave immediately. Not a word is said in self-defense, and the housekeeper's consolation is, that they do not dare to taV e any but small quantities. But it makes housekeeping with them not a Btaitf of entire confidence. It is quite a question whether or not to put things under lock and key. If trust" ed they seem to put themselves somewhat upon honor, not to allow, at all events, any large amounts to be abstracted. This, and the fact that no drudgery of lacking can re ally prevent theft, determines most ; housekeepers, we think, in favor of open elosets. Whether this ingrain ed habit of pilfering is at once eradi cated in those who accept Christian itv, we do not know; but we have been told by returned missionaries that they have to settle the same question, with about the same solu tion. Scribner's for September. An Oregon City girl was so hor rified on reading of man's dying, from the effect of being bitten by? another man, that she immediatelj had her left ear cauterized, and her. "feller" quit calling in a week, aaj ing he saw no fun in cowrtiufit a iceberg.-