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DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AMD THE PEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. THE ENTERPRISE. - A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR THE f arner, Business Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FRANK S. DEIENT, PBOPBIETOB AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPER FOB CLACKAMAS CO. )FFICK In Exterpkisk Building, one ttoor soutb of Masonic Buildlnc, Mala St. Term of Subscription t 3Incl Copy Ono Year, In Advance..$Z50 Six Months " " 1.50 Terms of AdvertUIngt Transient advertisements, including all legal notices, t square of twelve lins ono week .. Z- For each subsequent insertion l.JH) One Column, one year .. 120.00 ...if ...w - bO.tH) ' ,'wr" " - 4'-0 Quarter ............ Rnainoss Card. 1 square, one year 12.00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OKl'GO.V LOPGE NO. 3, I. I. O. F., Meets every Thursday Odd Fellows' Hall, Main street. MemlerM of the Or der are invited to attend. By order N.G. HBII11CCA UCGKEB LODGK NO. 2, 1. 0. O. F., Meets on the Second and Fourth lues UV.V...v A: IMSkjrf?- dav evenings each month, Sjfea -i il L- i. thn 11,11 Fellow."' JIall. Members of the Degree are invited to attend. MULTNOMAH LODGE NO. I, A. F. A A. M., Holds its regular com- a inunications on the First and Third Saturdays in each month, at 7 o'clock from the'JOth of JSep. tember to tho IJUth of March; and 7"- 'clock from the :J0th of March to tlie '.20th of September. Brethren in good standing aro invited to attend. 11 v order of W. M. FA L LS K X C A M P M E NT NO. 4,1. O. v. t., .Aieet at um i euows q Mall ontheFirstandTliirdTiiPs- TX cdaT of each month. Patriarchs In good standing are invited to attend. .. p. . . . JiUSiyjlSS CAltDS. .r. w. jsroiiiiis, PHYSICIAN AXD NCIiGKOX, VOfnee ITp-Stulrs in Charman's r.rlck. Main Street. tf rR. .foirsr welch DSfJTIST, OFFICE IX OHEGON CITY, ORKGOX. 1J I :;l3t Cai'.i Price Pultl f.r Comity Orders. MUZLAT & EASTHAWI, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. POnTXD-k Opitz's new brick, SO First street. onHCOX CITY Charman's brick, up stairs. sept'iltf JOHNSON &. f.lcCOWfj iTTORXEYS AXD COUNSELORS AT-LAW. o Oregon City, Creg-on. fc?VIIl practice in all the Courts of the State. Special attent ion given to cases in the U. S. I -a rid Ofliee at Oregon City. 5aprlS72-tf. L. T. BAR-IN ATTOaWEY-AT-LAVY, OREG0X CITY, : : OREGON. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Nov. 1. 1S75, tf JOHN M. BACON, IMPORTER AXD DKALER In Rooks, Stationery, Perfum erv. etc.. ete w - - "9 " Oregon City, Oregon. .At the Post Office, Main street, east ld. W. H. IIIGHFIEL1). Established since '49. P door north of Pope1 Hall. Maia Street, Oregon City, Oregon. HQ Anassorttnentof Watches, Jewel- O JiU ot which are warranted to be as T.5 represented. lhaniTfP?!rrinK dneon short notice, and tftankfui ror past patronage. !Mall for County Order. J. H. SHEPARD, Boot and Shoo Store, One door north of Ackerman Bros. ?ts a?d 8hocs made and repaired as cheap ns tho chPapesU 1 Nov. 1. 1375 rtf ciias. icisriGrriT, CAXHY, OKCGON, PHYSICIAN AXD DRUGGIST Prescriptions carefully filled at shor notice. Ja7 rtf. MILLER, CHURCH &C0., PM-.JA11 HIGHEST PRICE FOR His. AT, at all times, at the Oregon City Mills, And have on hand FEED andFLOUR Ivo I11' Rt markt rates. Parties desiring tiTi1inust furnish sacks. novl2tf IPSPER!ALIV1 ILLS, Laltocque, Saiier & Co. Oregon City. Mm;ri?non?,tant,1y on hand for at" Flour, Purehi P ' nran and Chicken Feed. Parties rurcnaaius ieCd must furnish the tack. IV. . . y-v 1 - Not Fit to be Kissed. 'W hat ails papa's mouf ?' said a sweet little girl. Her bright laugh revealing her teeth white as pearl. "I love him and kiss him, and, sit on his knee, But the kisses don't smell good when be kisses me ! "But, mama" her eyes opened wide as she spoke "Do you like nasty kisses of 'bacco and smoke ? They might do for boys, but for ladies and irirls 1 1 don't think them nice," as she tossed UC1 UUUb VUI IS. "Don't nobody's papa have nioufs nice and clean ? With kisses like yours, mam ma that's what I mean ? I want to kiss papa, I love him so well, But kisses don't taste good that have such a smell!- "It's nasty to smoke, and eat 'bacco, and spit, And the kisses an't good, and an't sweet not a bit I" And her l.lossom-like face wore a look of disgust As she gave out her verttict, so earnest and just. Yes, yes little darling, your wisdom has seen That kisses for daughters and wives should be clean ; For kisses lose something of nectar and bliss From mouths tint arestained and unfit for a kiss. Prehistoric Men of the Nine teenth Century. This beading may at first glance seem to be either a "bull" or a joke, but it is penned in sober earnest. While there can be no reasonable doubt, in view of modern discov eries, that man existed on the earth at a much earlier period than six thousand years ago, it is a curious fact that in some districts even in our own day he is very much what ho was in that prehistoric time. The comparative age of deposits of weapons aud other memorials cannot, therefore, in all cases be de cided by the rudeness or perfection of their manufacture. This is well illustrated by certain facts in regard to the remoter highlands aud islands of Scotland, recently brought out in one of the "lthind Lee tn res ou Arelneology," by Dr. Arthur Mit chell, of Edinburgh, which we find reported in English journals. Ac cording to his statements a species of pottery of the very earliest type is at this day in common use in the Lewis, one of the iuuer Hebrides. This primitive ware is made by the women with the hands alone, except when the vessels have narrow necks, in which caso a stick with a curve is used to give form to the inside. What ornament these vessels possess is giveu, as in the archaic specimens already referred to, by the finger-nail, a pointed stick or a piece of thread. The rudest pottery ever discovered among the relics of the stone age, remarks the lecturer, was not ruder than this, and no savages now known make pottery of a coarser or ruder character. Thousands of people in this Island of Lewis, we are also told people, described as well-conditioned physically, mentally and morally are living iu huts of the "behive' ' class, a kind of hive-shaped pile of stones, the walls of which are double, of unhewn stones, with turf be tween, six or seven feet thick, and containing neither table nor chairs, the apartments are separated by a tunnel like passage, through which you have to creep, stones being used for seats and the occupants sleeping on a part of the floor marked off for the purpose. These startling facts, as an English critic remarks, "show that stone-age lottery may exist side by side with Sevres and Wedgwood; that people may, in the most luxurious and com fortable community in the world, live in prehistoric huts, grind the corn in querns, and eat their meals out of bowls baked in the embers, and not to be distinguished f oni the rude vessels of the cavemen; and that this rudeness of external conditions may exist among certain sections of a people in the very high est stage of civilization, and have no relation to inferiority either of capa city or culture; for the laborer whom Dr. Mitchell found eating his break fast out of a 'craggan,' the meal of which it was composed having been ground by hand in a quern, had probably received a fair education at a parish school, and possessed at least the average intelligence of his race and class." Why Men Smoke.-No habit adopt ed by a whole race of men indeed by all races of men but must have a raison d'etre. The dhudeen of the Irishman, thechibouk of the Asiatic, the calumet of the Indian, the cigar of thejwhite American, would not. exist simultaneously on every part of the globe if in the use of tobacco there did not slumber some spell of great potenoy over men. The lazy man it seems to make lazier j the nervous man it makes more nervous ; the brain worker it inspires, and on the artist it bestows visions of beauty. All lecturing against it have proven vain. The habit spreads with popu lation over Australia and Polynesia, and in a couple of centuries from now smoking will be as universal as eating. It behooves us then, to see that something be done to insure the rehabilitation of the better qualities of tobacco.which seems deteriorating so fast. Mantilla is ceasing to. pro duce a decent cheroot, tobacco cul tnre is dying out there like wine cul ture in Madeira. One thing is cer tain, that the substitution of the ci garette for- the cigar is exceedingly dangerous. The American rifle, team beat the Irish team at Creedmpor on the 21st inst. by 11 points. OREGON CITY, Charles I.'s Death and Burial. In January,- King Charles was taken to London, and there was tried and beheaded, as you know, lou and I have not the time to in quire (and, perhaps, between our selves, are not clever enough to de cide,) how far this could have been helped, or what excuse they had who did it. The only thing we can be sure of is, that Charles was not a bad man, nor Cromwell an ambitious hypocrite though I do not think the one was a martyr, nor the other a spotless peer. It was on the 30th of January, 1749, that thi3 terrible event took place, and, after that oc curred the saddest scene that old Windsor ever. saw. Four of the king's faithful servants (he had faithful servants all through his ca reer), " the Duke of Kichmond, the Marquis of Hertford, and the Earls of Southampton and Lindsay," re quested leave to bury him, and car ried the body back to the Castle. They took with them that Bishop Ju xon who attended the king on the scaffold, to read the service over him now. Bat the Governor of the Cas tle, who was a certain Colonel Whitchcott, would not allow the bur ial service. He told them that "the Common Prayer-book had been put down, and he would not suffer it to be used in "that garrison when he commanded." You will see from this that persecution was not all on one side, but that whoever was up permost in these violent times did his best to crush his neighbor. You could not fancy anything more heartless than the Puritan's refusal to allow these heart-broken men to say holy prayers over their king's and their friend's grave except, in deed, the refusal of that same kiug to let these same Puritans live along with him in the native England which had room for them all. When the faithful lords found it impossi ble to change this decision, they went sadly to St. George's to find "a place to lay him, but found the chapel so bare, so naked, so altered, that it was only with hard ado that they found a vault iu tho middle of what had once been the choir, where they could lay the king. Here they fonnd a little space for King Charles, close by the great leaden coffin where Henry VIII. lay peacefully, unwitting who was coming. The Duke of Richmond murkud ont roughly upon "a scarfe of lead" fie letters of his name and the date. Then, nil in silence, at three o'clock in the January afternoon, when it was no more than twilight in the cold and naked chapel, they carried the coifin, then coveted with a black pall, of which "the fouro lords" curried the corners, with a forlorn attempt at state. As they came down the castle hill toward the chapel with their burden, it began suddenly to snow and the snow fell so thickly and so fast that soon the black pall was all white. Was there ever a more mournful sight? In the dim capcl that snow-20vered coffin would be the one spot of wintry lightness. " The Bishop of London stood w eep ing by to tender to 'that service, which might not be accepted." Thus they laid him in the dark vault to molder with the other royal bones, dropping the whiteness of the snow covered pall (an emblem, they said, of his innocence) into the black gulf with him not a word said, not a prayer except in their hearts,' the Puritan Governor of the Castle -landing by to see his orders executed. When all was over, he locked up the empty, echoing chapel, and took the keys away. Windsor has seen weep ing and sorrows like every other old house where men for generations have lived and died, and more than most, for in the old days suffering and sorrow were apt to follow in the paths of kings ; but never has our venerable Castle seen so melancholy a sight. If the story of the Stuavts had been a drama, a great tragedy such as Shakespeare could have made, no doubt it would have ended here. JUrs. OHi7tant, St. NicJiolas. I'"rult for Food. If a child's digestion becomes im paired and the gastric juice become weakened or defective in quantityby over-eating or bad food, the Avhole al imentary canal becc mes clogged and filthy, and furnishes nests for such worms as will breed there. In this weakened condition of the system they cannot be destroyed by the pro cess of digestion, and hence great harm comes from them. Now, it is an interesting fact that fresh, ripe fruit is the best preventive for this state of things. Dr. Benjamin Rush pointed this out a bundled years ago. He made a series of experi ments on earth worms, which he re garded as more nearly allied to those that infest the bowels of children than any other, with a view to test their power of retaining life under the influences of various sub stances that might be used as worm medicines. The results, proved that worms often lived longer in those substances known as poisonous than in some of the most harmless articles of food. For instances, in a watery solution of opium they lived eleven minutes; in infnsion of pink root, thirty-three minutes; but in tho juice of red cherries, in five minutes; gooseberries, in four minutes; whortleberries in seven minutes, and rasberries in five minutes. From these experiments Dr. Rush argued that fresh, ripe fruits, ot which children are very fond, are the mos speedy and effectual poisons for for worms. In practice this theory has proved to be correct. Ex-Qoeen Isabella and Ex-Queen Christana are intriguing in Spain to have 40,000,000 and S36,000,000 re rectively returned, to them.. ' . OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 29, 1876. Polygamy from a Philosophical Point of View. The economic aspects of polygamy have been studied by J, H. Beadle, during several visits and brief resi dences among the Mormons, and he has contributed an interesting arti cle about it to the Popular Science Monthly. He considers the system economically a failure, in Utah, and from ethical and physical ret-ions both. The reasons at the outset are obvicus. 1 Polygamy tends to multi ply the helpless, to increase the con sumers disproportionately to the producers, and &o eventually to eat up accumulated savings and prevent the accumulation of further surplus. If all the children should take their places among the earning class, in time this would correct itself, but forty per cent, of the race die before reaching tho age of self-support, so that forty per cent, of the increase is an absolute and the whole a pres ent loss. But in the condition of polygamy in Utah there is a larger percentage of mortality among the feeble children. It is true that more children are born in polygamous na tions than in monogamous, but nev ertheless population does not in crease as rapidly, as a comparison of the statistics of the Turks, Persians or Hindoos with those of the Eng lish, German or Russian will show. Owing to this continual dispropor tion of consumers, and the conse quent steady draft on the surplus, a polygamous community, in the cli mate and on the soil of Utah, cannot get rich. Mr. Beadle further as serts that individuals don't have an even chance to improve their condi tion. Brigham Young is not worth over $000,000, not a large fortune for a man with 120 wives, children, sons-in-law and grand-children cling ing to him. Utah's assessed prop erty is $28,000,000, of which half be longs to the Gentilo minority, so that the average among the Mor mons is about $140. The average individual wealth in Massachusetts is 1,4G2 and odd cents. Mr. Bea dle says that an old lawyer of Salt Lake thinks that in ten years nearly every man among them will be bank rupt. Polygamy, by its introduc tion of the element of uncertainty in the family, dissipates social en ergy weakens cohesion aud fellow ship, and, making a priesthood es sential, submits the community to a paralizing tyrranny, which cannot but prevent prosperity. . . m How Tight They Wear Them. The extremities to which fashion has advanced in London in female attire are really deplorable. A lady on whose truthfulness I can depend confides to me tho following particu lars: She was asked the other day to inspect the wedding trousseau of a 3'onug lady of high rank. The dresses were very numerous and beautiful, and every accessory of attire was in the height of fashion, if not of good taste. "But where," inquired my friend, ' is the under-clothing?" "Oh," said the milliner, with a smile of pity, "ladies wear none now-a-days. They wear these instead," and she pointed to three complete suits, not of armor, but of chamois leather. It is only over tho chamois leather that the skirts from Worth can be strained tight enough. At Bristol, the other day, the Mayor gave au entertainment to the Lord Mayor of London, and the occasion seemed so important that one lady guest sent to Paris for her dinner dress. It was so tight when it came that she had to take off garment after gar ment before she could get into it at all. And then she had to sit down at tabic. I am told that her suffer ings were considerable during the repast ; but her worst misery -wa3 the reflection, " How shall I get up agaiu ?" Eventually she did get up, thanks to the gentlemen on each side of her, who pulled down the refractory garment bv main force. At the very last drawing-room at Buckingham Palace a similar catas trophe took place. A lady made her bow to the Queen a little too low for her " kicking-strap," (as a man would call, but I dare say Mr. Worth has some prettier name) and it slipped down so far that she conld not get up again. The Lord High Chancellor himself had to come for ward and set her straight. Harper's Bazar. Jules Janiii's Widow. Mme. Jules Janin, widow of the cel ebrated critic, died of a cancer in the breast at her residence in Passy re cently. She made the acquaintance of her husband in this singular man ner: Being out one evening on the streets of Paris under the protection of her maid, she was accosted by Janin, who had been dining freely. He annoyed her to suoh a degree that she was obliged to threaten a call on the police. Some months afterwards, at a soiree dansante, he was suddenly confronted with the women whom he had so rudely treat ed. Escape was impossible. He was introduced. She cut him up with stinging sarcasms, but he ad mired her more for them, and in the course of a year the acquaintance having ripened, be formally propos ed for her hand. She consented to become his wife, stipulating that be should in the future never acoost young ladies accompanied, by their maid. This is the pretty story told of Luoy Hooper, and reading it one is singular impressed with Mme. Janin's want of good sense, since she does not seem to have objected to her husband's holding conversa tion with any but respectable wo men. The steamer Bryant was wreck ed on Prean Point, La., on the 21st, The. cargo , was mostly saved... The Wives of Great Men. It was a saying of Rousseau's that "a man is only what a woman makes him," and this sentiment is slightly varied is our own old Eng lish proverb, which says that "if a man would thrive he must ask his wive's leave." The records of his tory contain numberless examples of women who have done for their husbands what Aaron and Hur did for Moses; they have held up their hands and supported them at great est crisis of their lives and so turned what would have been a failure into triump and success. - And they con tain examples, too, of those who have accomplished a far more difficult task that of sustaining and cheering when endeavor and hope were dead. It is only necessary to mention the names of Gertrude von der Wert and and Lady Rachel Russell in proof of this. It may not be uninteresting to give a few instances of women iu our own generation who have been in their husbands helpers and fellow-workers as well as sympathizing companions, and who have thus tak en a position which is unanimously acknowledged to be a most proud and honorable one that of a help -mate to man. Among these the name that is first thought of probable be cause it has so recent! v been brought before the public notice, is that of Lady Augusta Stanley, the wife of the Dean of Westminster. Herself the daughter of a peer, and one of the most intimate of the Queen?s personal friends, she posess ed a largeness of and a strength of intellect which won respect and kind ly feelings from all who came in con tact with her. She svmDathized mosfc-heartly with her husband.both in thought and and work, while the poor of Westminister found in her tenderness and kindness a frequent alleviation of their miseries. Everv one will remember the testimony of John Stuart Mill to the worth of his wife which is to be found in the ded ication to her memory printed at the commencement of one of his es says: "To the beloved and deplored memory or her who was the inspirer and, ic part, the author of all that is best in my writings the friend and wife's exalted sense of truth and right was my strongest incitement. aud whose approbation was my chief reward- I dedicate this volume." It is said that such was Mr. Mill's sorrow at her death that hecontinued to reside at Avignon, the place where she was buried, so that he might continually visit her tomb, and he never ceased to lament her loss. Thomas Carlyle, ono of the greatest intellectual lights of this century, has recorded his te timony to the worth of his wife on her tombstone: "In her bright existance she had more sorrows than are common, but also a soft amiability, a capacity for discernment aud a noble loyality of heart which are rare. For forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word unweariedly forwarded him, as none else could, in all of worthy that he did or attempted." The wife of Sir William Hamilton, professor of logic in the University of Edinburgh, was a true helper to her husband; indeed it is more than probable that without her many of his best works would never have been written. When he was elected to the professorship many of his opponents declared publicly that. he would never be able to fulfill the du-. ties of his position, as he was nothing but a dreamer. He and his wife heard of this and determined to prove that it was not true. They therefore arranged to work together. Sir William wrote out roughly, each day, the lecture that was to be given the next morning; and as he wrote his wife copied it out; and again and again they sat up writing till far in to the night. When Sir " William was struck down with paralysis, the result of overwork, Lady Hamilton devoted herself entirely to him wrote for him, read for him and sav ed him in everyway. . Krupp's Cannon Factory. The establishment of 'Krupp, the great gun maker.extendsover several hundred acres and employs 12,000 workmen. It is traversed by a rail way five miles in iength and a tram way of two miles. Its various parts are connected by lines of tele graph wires and not less than thirty stations. The annual sum paid in wages amounted some years ago to 400,000; it is now probablv much greater. Considerable skill is re quired in the manipulation of the steel so largely used at Essen. When a good workman is found it is desir able to retain him; and so, as far as possible, it is made worth Lis while to remain when once he has been employed. A pension fund has been established to which every one em ployed on the works must subscribe a small fraction of his wages. To the money thus collected the pro prietor adds a sum equal to half of that subscribed by the men. Seaside Stockings. A watering place correspondent writes : Stock ings of blue, red and stripes are worn this summer in the bath, knee high, with a coquettish little white seam down the sides, as if it was a rip. What cunning has not woman? She is aware that her foot is almost always inferior to a man's in grace and plant. A man stands like a marble statue, with the blue veins cut clearly ; a woman's foot is the trade-mark of irresolution, and onlv half developed,' and the toes take hold of nothing. Her big toe points upward and her little toe shrinks into the sand. Occident trotted a mile at Sacramen to m 2:26 without a skipr. on tho 41st, JiDi. Xennent driving, Russia in Tnrkey. Of course the outside of the cur rent troubles in the east of Europe is all that is seen by the world, but it is as well to understand that Rus sia really opened this war in 1870, when the Czar notified subscribing powers to the treaty of Paris of 1856, of his determination to disregard any further the eleventh and thir teenth articles. That was the real opening of the present campaign. England and Italy were obliged to assent, which they did with a sullen protest. France was engaged at the time in war with Germany, and was therefore helpless. - The Czar's pol icy was to enfeeble Turkey by fo menting disorders and Insurrections in her provinces. For a time all seemed to go as the Czar wished ; in surrection followed insurrection, re forms were neutralized by intrigues, the army was uncared for, iron-clads that were of no service absorbed im mense sums of borrowed money, and to cap the climax, the direction of the Sultan's affairs drifted into the hands of one who was Russia's un resisting tool. The condition of Turkey was indeed deplorable. She had no credit, no army, no vigor of administration, and her subject prov inces turned to Russia for both alli ance and protection. But the fates have been against Russia in working out her scheme to destroy Turkey from the map. The May revolution upset all Russia's plan's. The Russian ambassador at Constantinople proved not to be master of the situation. The old Turkish spirit revived. The ambassador was called to St. Peters burg. Though Herzegovina suc ceeded in its resistance to the Porte, Servia's attempt has been a failure. The troops whom Prince Milan has been fighting against are not para lyzed by Russian influence, as they were in the case of Herzegovina. Russia apprehended this result, which was the reason why the Czar tried so hard to restrain Servia from the conflict, which turned' out so badly for the province. If ServiaJ is to continue fighting now, Russia ha-? got to show her hand by joining her as an ally. The western powers stand in the way of this, and will so stand to the last. Germany and Austria and Italy have relations of their own with the provinces. As everything has gone so decidedly against Russia so far, it looks now as if it was too late for her to act un less she means to defy the rest of Europe openly. 31ass PJougliman.- Iiow to Jlreathe Properly. , Most people breathe properly, often more by accident or instinct than by design, but on the other hand hundreds or thousands do not breathe properly, while many thou sands at this present moment are suffering from more or less severe aliectious of the lungs, or throat, owing to a faulty mode of respira tion in other words, because they breathe through the mouth instead of through the nostrils. The mouth has its own functions to perform in connection with eating, drinking and speaking ; and the nostrils have theirs, namely, smelling and breath ing. In summer time the error of perspiring through the mouth is not so evident as in the winter reason, when it is undoubtedly fraught with danger to the pers:n who commits the mistake. If any one breathes through the natural channel of the nostrils, the air passing over the mu cous membrane lining the various chambers of the nose, becomes j warmed to the temperature of the ! body before reaching the lungs, but if he takes the air between the lips and in the month, the cold air comes in contact with the delicate lining membrane of the throat and lungs. and gives rise to a local chill, fre quently ending in inflamation. Many persons, without knowing the reason why they are benefited, wear respi rators over their month in winter, if they happen to go out doors. By doing this they diminish the amount of air which enters between the lips, and virtually compel themselves to breathe throagh the nostrils. But they can attain just the same result by keeping the lips closed, a habit which is easily acquired, and con duces to tli3 proper and natural way of breathing. We believe that if people would only adopt this simple habit in other words, if they would take for their rule in breathing, " tohut your mouth ! there would be an intense diminution in the two classes of affections, namely, those of the lungs and throat, which count many thousands of victims in this country in the course of a single year. The Fall Term. The public schools opened for the fall and winter season yesterday, and every child in Detroit felt happy for an hour or two, if not longer. A boy going down Second street from the Cass school, at noon, met a boy going up from the Porter street school, and the Cass boy called out, " Haint school bully, though ?" . " You bet 1" was the prompt reply. " How's your teacher ?" " Nicest person vou ever saw. I snapped Bix paper wads this after noon, and never got licked once." 44 Just like mine," called the other. " When she saw me sticking a pin into a boy she smiled and smiled, and I believe she's got a heart like an angel.,' Those lads may meet a week later, and when they compare notes the first one will remark : " I'm licked reg'lar three times a day, and for nothing at all." " Soam I," was the mournful echo of the other. Subscribe for the county paper. NO. .49. Victor Hugo. - M. D. Conway visited Victor Hu go recently, and found the great nor ehst hale and hearty notwithstand ing the heavy sorrows that have come over him. The loss of hi? wife was the first blow, but that left him still a charming family, and Madame Druot, who had been their life-long friend, and who was then, asshe is now, his secretary, added something like a maternal presence to the household. He had four children, two sons and two daughters, and , they were all remarkable for talent and culture, and the daughters for beauty. Both of the sons were liter ary, and if they had not been over shadowed by their father's lustre, would have been much more distin guished. Both of these sons died lecently. One daughter alone lives, the wife of au English officer. The olier daughter died under strange circumstances. She had jnst been married to one of the editors of the Rappel, and was walking with her husband beside the sea inGuern sey. Suddenly a wave leaped up on the shore aud swept her away. Her husband plunged after ' her, but could not save her. The two bodies were found afterward clasped to gether in a last embrace," and so they were buried. Notwithstanding all these sorrows, Hugo still finds him-1 self surrounded by a lovely family. The widow of his son Charles, a most beautiful young lady, with her two children a girl of four and a boy of six. both clever and pretty nestle around the grand, white haired veteran, full of cheerfulness and courage. "It is a scandal," says Mr. Conway, "that such a man. as this should not be President of the French Republic. Simply as re gards looks it would be a figure of the good time to see snob a man drive down the Champs d'Elysees amid the people he loves and who worship him. 16 has1 been my happy fortune to listen to the conversation of some great men to Emerson, who cannot be surpassed in dialectic talk; to Carlisle, who is great in mono logue but Victor Hugo impressed me more than any other man to whose conversation I have listened." . m Nervousness aud Nervines. Nervousness, says Cassell's Maga zine, is one of the prices we have to pay for civilization ; the nervous savage is a being unheard of. For this disorder, which is partly of mental and partly of a bodily na ture, relief is sought in various ways, and among these we may place the employment of narcotics. The tem porary relief afforded by these drugs is very apt to lead those who suffer from these nervous sensations to put too much trust in and resort too fre quently to them. In the long run they prove most destructive to health. Their use of late has be come so frequent as to threaten soci ety with a serious evil. It has been boldly contended that chloral is to be found in the work-boxes and bask ets of nearly every lady in the west end of the metrdpolis," to calm her nerves." No doubt this is an exag geration, but it is a fact that in New York chloral punch had become an institution scarcely a year after the introduction of chloral into medical practice. And now it turns out that Germany " soberly, orderly, pater- nally-ruled Germany" has such a thing as morphia disease spreading among its population. The symp toms are not unlike those of opium eating. Experience suggests that persons suffering from this disease should at once be deprived of the drug. Their willfulness and liabil ity to relapse, however, are so great. that it 13 said that only about twen ty-five per cent, have been seen to recover in a large series of cases. Drifted Into a Fortune Charles R. Bishop, banker, of Honolulu, on the .island of Oahu, says the Albany Argris, capital of the Sandwick Islands, formerly of Sandy Hill, and wife a 'native princess are on a visit to friends and relatives in this country, and yesterday were the guests of George Bradley, of Fort Edward. Mr. Bishop, in com pany with the late William E. Lee,, lawyer of Sandy Hill, shipped in a sailing vessel at Newburyport, in the year 1846, bound for Oregon, and after being adrift 237 days, drifting about by contrary winds, landed ou the island of Oahu, one of the Sand wich Island group in the Pacifio Ocean. These two young adventur ers found themselves among stran gers on a small island many, thou sand miles away from home and friends, and Oregon, the land of their fondest hopes, not reached. But this island, having been visited and Christianized by American mis sionaries many years before, these young men found favor with the king and court, and they soon estab lished themselves in business. Be ing prospered, they remained, and Mr. Bishop, surviving his compan ion, now returns to his native land and home, after an absence of thirty years, to enjoy a short visit with those of his old friends, relatives and associates who still may be found amongst the living. , m """The farmer who sent his son to New York to become a clerk,, nor writes asking the merchant whether there is "anything in the boy' "Yes," replies the merchant,, "lust after he has been in a saloon." Albert Rhodes asks in the Septem ber Galaxy, " Shall we drink wine ?" This invitation is too general. Let Mr. Rhodes make it more personal,, and he wiil find ont. The schooner Idler won the New York yacht club regatta on. the 2Dtlu o O e o t