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o ri- DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. (Huff flSroinBTis iTiDr If fiitrr ffit VOL. 11. THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR THE parmer, Business Man, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FRANK S. DEMENT, PBOPBIETOK A5D PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CLACKAMAS CO. nvvwr In Ejctfrprisb Building, one .Sri south of Masonic Building. Main St. Term or Subscription t ginSle Copy One Year. In Advance 2.50 .." six Months" " . 1-50 Ttrmi of Advertising: Transient advertisements, including: all lejral not ices. square of twelve lines one week .. ..... For each subsequent, insertion.. 1.00 On. Column, on. year Hal' .. 4000 9.1. narA 1 .nn are. one vear 12.IK) HHBliica v-" - SOCIETY NOTICES. OKKOO-V iolUJE XO. 3, I. I. . F., Meets everv Thursday vninir at 7 W o'clock, in the Odd Fellows Hall, Main --5- street. Memborsot ineur dcr arc invited to attend. liy order 2s . ( i 2 I. O. O. F., Meets on the J....'. .mil Fourth Tues Ms, day oveninjis each month, ' at 7'o clock, in tlie una Fellows' Hall. Members of tho Decree aro invited to attend. MULTNOMAH LOIC;i 5iO. 1, A. F. & A. M., Holds its regular coin- muni'-ation on tne nrsi ana Third Saturdays m each month of 7 '.lu'L- fru'm t lie 'Jilt h of Sen tember tothe'JOth of March ; and 7 o'clock from the 2Uth of March to the 20th of September. Brethren in Rood standing aro invited to attend. l'.v order of W. M. FALLS encampment XO. 1,1. o. O. F Meets at Odd Fellows ii i. - ..... . . .1 'ft. ; 1 'Pntw IUI1 OIUIIC I UMBU'l i Mini i i" -i- - ,-f i.i.mrli Tvtr:archs in "good standing aro invited to attend. Jt US I XJtSS CARD S. .Ti W. NORRIS, PHYSICIAN AM) SlIKiKON, -O.Tlco and Residence on 4th Street, at foot of Cliff Stairway. tf mi. .tot it wFJiCi r DENTIST, &, or KICK IN Xj.HJLXa- OlrtUiOX CITY, OUKfiOX. t1"vr'ot ( itxli Irltr Puia fr Count ) lrtlr. HUEUAT &. EASTHAM, ATTORNEYS-ATLAW. roilTT.VNO In OpltJ-'s new brick. 30 First stre-t. OflKGO.V riTV-Clmrmmi's lr!ofc, up talro. sejtCttf JOHNSON & McCOWN ATTORNEYS UD COUNSELORS AT-LAW. Oregon City, Oregon. 7" Will practice In all the Courts' of the Ktat. Special attention given to cases in tht V. R. band OfTice at Orgon City. 5arrlS72-tf. L. T. BAEIN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, OREGON CITY, : : OR EG OX. Will practice in all the Courts of the Stiite. Nov. 1, 1875, tf W. H. HIGHFIELl). Established since '49. On door north of Pojw'ii Hull. Mil Street, Oregon City, Oregon. Ina coaH mrnt rf Watches. Jewel ry.. d Sot h Thomas' Weight Clocks jail ot which are warraniea to ue s "lankfui for past patronage. Cash paid for County Orders. JOHN M. 1UC0X, Dkai.fr iv HWUKH, STATION A UY, eti" Pirtvirft Frames Mrmlii.tfwi Vng and Miscellaneous Goods. FRWIS MADE TO ORDER. Oregon City, Oregon. VAt the Tost Omce. Main street, east nuvl.75r. CIIAS. KXIOMIT, CAXKY, OUKGOX, PHYSICIAN AND DRUGGIST -CripUons 'awfully filled at shor T1C,J- Ja7.-tf.. IpeFalm ills, UUocque, Savior k, Co. Oregon City. Mwai?nCnRnt-y on hand tor Flour. MhiafrjJ andCh,cken Keed- Prtles Ti!i"e feed rquat furnish the sack. J. H, SHEPARD, oot and Shoe Store. ae door north of Aokerman Bros. V lYapVsT,aJe ani rePaiped as FRUTTGROVERS. f pi?JSJeJT MARKET PRICE D, C. fuATQURETTE, o 108. ch vrtMw o . President. ?ni U Seeret a ry . tr,4i y, l87Ss Little Skeptic. I know that I'm horribly wicked ; My pranks are enou;h to appall ; They say sister Jessie's so Uve.y, It's odd that we're sisters at ail. But though Jessie never. In school-time-Makes any more noise than a eat. She peeps in the books while reciting. And I would't stoop to do that. And then, if I chance to displease her She don't fly in tempers not she! ' For whole days together she merely Will sulk and have hard thoughts of me, And sometimes I feel rather puzzled. When mischief I do on the si v, Is pruessed by mamma so soon after I hate to think Jessie a spy! Well, well, very likely I'm talking Of what I know nothing about. And she's just a saint in short dresses, And I'm a sad sinner, no doubt. Dut tshe's a saint (and rvo humbug), V hy, it don't seem so dreadful to be The thing most people think I am That bad word beginning with a D! Peculiarities of Distinguished jlen. At a certain country inn, in Eng land, vhere the landlord bad more than once beeu furnished with ocular proof of Johnson's eccentricities, and where Boswell happened to be, the latter chancing to mention Johnson's name (a practice almost habitual with him), "mine host" involuntar ily commenced snickering, when Bos well inquired of him if he knew Doc tor Johnson. Replying m the affir mative, lie was asked bv Boswell his opinion of the great man. "Why, sir," said the landlord, "folks say he is the greatest writer in England and, hereabouts, he goes bv the name of 'Oddity." As if instinctively, the next distin guished individual we think of, and whose image presents itsgl to our "mind's eye" is "magnanimous Gold smith," in whoso "peculiarities" dif fidence and a strange sort of simplic ity predominated to an extent, prob ably, never before seen in so remark able a man. Boswell, indeed, fails not to insinuate that Goldsmith was sadly lackingin conversation indeed we. have it on the authority of Gar rick that, while "he wrote like an angel he spoke like poorTol." While stupid sticklers for mere common sense, therefore, and rattling dis courses, would be apt to recognize in Goldsmith's conversation nothing worthy so celebrated a man, it took the more appreciative among his countrymen to comprehend that a niche, pext to the very highest in Fame's temple, was destined for this most exquisite and sentimental of poets. Goldsmith's remarkable ph sio'jnoniif, in itself, constituted one of his chief peculiarities, entirely want ing, as it teems to have, been, "in dig nity, comeliness and intellectual ex pression. Tiiis his most enthusiastic admirers of both sexes (among his contemporaries) reluctantly admit and that this personal deficiency constantly preyed upon poor Gold smith's mind, there can scarcely be a doubt. Thisunfortunate"peculiaritv" was, undoubtedly, next of kin to another (the two stood in the relation, most likely, of cause and effect) , which latter peculiarly, to say the verv least, rendered the poet a legitimate cause of merriment even among his most distinguished literary friends and admirers. We refer to his well known predilection for affecting the fop, in tlie matter of dress, whenever his means would enable him to do it. So, on occasion of a distinguished party of literary men (of con rue in- eluding Johnson, Burke, Garriek, ' nn.l nll.r ... 1 1 1 At , mi uiucisj, uNseuiiiieu at me nonse of Sir Joshua Beynolds, Goldsmith had provided himself with a new suit of clothes, of a style, mateiial and color (purple, we believe) .calculated to astonish the beholders. On his way to Sir Joshua's he met a noble man of his acquaintance, who. not recognizing him in his new attire, passed on without speaking. Arrived at Sir Joshua's, and after a hearty welcome on the part of the distin guished company (Goldsmith was ever a favorite amofir them), Garriek at ouce laid hold of the anthor'of the "Traveller," and exhibiting all his points and appointments before the company, in a manner of which he (Garriek) alone was capable, the hi larity of the guests became obstrep erous. But after his introduction to the company by Garriek, aod when Goldsmith, with a hurt and exceed ingly mortified look, remarked that he had "just met Lord J., and that be bad taken no more notice of him than if he had been a common man," the merriment of the company knew no bounds. It was at this crisis that the noble-hearted Johnson broke in with the remark (a remark which did him so much honor and Goldsmith so much justice) , "Sir Lord C. ought to have made up to such a man as Doctor Goldsmith." The latter's wounded vanitj' (for vanity may be mentioned as another of Goldsmith's peculiarities) was doubtless fully appeased by this complimentary speech so happily and gracefully timed by Johnson, who comprehend ed Goldsmith's true character to a hair. Absent mindedness (resulting in a choatic confusion of ideas) was, unquestionably, one of Golosmith'e most striking peculiarities. No man sooner than Goldsmith (to nse a slang phrase) "lost his head." For instance, on a certain occasion while taking dinner at a friend's house, and observing a dish of peas in his neigh borhood (we doubt not they were as green as they ought to be) he became at once big with a pu?i, and choosing to consider the peas before him any color but green, loudly exclaimed to "mine host," "Why, these peas, my friend, are not green. Send them to Mai '6 em Green. " meaning, of course, a place in the vicinity of London oalled "Turn trm Green." The visit ors all stared; and how poor "Goldy" looked under tho circumstances we bave'never beard. Money in very scarce at Coos By. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 187(5. Touching Story. It may not be generally known, yet it is probably true, that the fam ous novel of East Lynn, though writ ten in England, had the groundwork of its story in a singular marriage which took place in this city, the notice and attending circumstances at the time being- copied by almost every paper in the country. The matter was about as follows: " A Mr. J. M., a clerk in a down town house, fell in love with a voung lady whose father was a well-to-do SeconJ Street merchant, and after a proper season of attention the couple were married. They soon found out that they were not happily mated, and. after a marriage of seven years, during which time they had three children (two boys and a girl), thev mutually agreed to the; husband" applying for a divorce, merely on the ground of incompatibility of temper. The divorce was granted, and the wife went home to her father.who through indorsing lost all his business and all his property. The daughter's and his own misfortnue weighed so heav ily on the father's mind that, during a moment of mental alienation, Le took his own life, leaving his daugh ter penniless, and to rouffh it with the cold charity of the world as best she could. The woman, a brave lit tle creature, tried every way she knew how to gain an honest liveli hood; in fact, working so hard, giv ing music lessons and doing embroi dery for her old school-mates, that her health gave way, and, haviug no money to pay hei board, must beg, starve, or go to the poor-house. To turn to the other side of the picture, the husband, after a month's release from the marital bands, again married, and at the time of which we speak had not only the children by the first wife, but also an addition thereto, a little two-year-old girl by his second wife. The latter lady be ing ill, the husband advertised for a nurse and housekeeper, which notice reached the eye of the first wife, and she, iu her trouble, went to the for mer partner of her heart, told him of her sad condition, and applied for the position in his household. The husband, giving her ample funds for all immediate want.-), asked her to call again at his oilice on tho follow ing morning, promising to consult his wife about the matter in tlie menu time. Promptly, as per agreement, wife No. 1 was on time, as was the hus band, and from there they went to the residence where the two wives had their first conversation, ending in their agreement for the first wife to come and accept the vacant place, winch she did, seemingly delighted at having a peaceful home over her head, notwithstanding the very strange circumstances under which such shelter was given. Necessity demanded that the entire past should be obliterated, and the new house keeper treated as any other help; that she must care for the children her own offspring and the other child as any hired nurse would do; that she must eat at the second table; to care for her charges. All these things and even more humility i'h the poor woman show, never a sigh, word, or look, exhibiting the least evidence of discontent. What, how ever, must have been the true feeling of her heart, when seeing auother lilling the place that she had once tried, as she thought, so hard to fill. The above is from the files of an old Cincinnati paper, bat the sequel, as told us by one conversant with the facts, is stranger than what we have already narrated. When the cholera was raging in our city in 185G the second wife was taken very ill with it, and being informed by the physician that she could not live but a few hours at most, as she was then taken in a collapsed condition, she asked that all go out of the room ex cepting her husband and housekeep er, when she told how much she dreaded Jenving her little child among strangers, and as a dying wife entreated them to marry again. The profosition was a strange one, but both promised, and in a few months afterward, when the secoud wife had been dead a sufficient length of time not to cause remarks, tb two were again married, brought to gether after a cruel separation of so many years, and, we believe, are now living happily together in a cozy West End house. Cincinnati Enquirer. Green Food lor Poultry. Green food is essential to the well beiogf f poultry at all seasons of the year. When fowls are limited to confined "quarters, this must be sup plied to them artificially to keep them in good health. In winter time we can give them cabbages or chopped turnips and onions from time to time; short, late dried bay (or rowen) is very good for a change; corn-stalk leaves, chop ped fine, they will eat with a relish. In early springtime, when tho ground first softens from the frost, pasture soils thrown into their pens will be ravenously eaten by them; and as soon a the new grass starts (unless they can have free access to the fields or lawn) they should be supplied with this excellent succu lent daily. For the young chickens nothing is so beneficial and grateful as a run on the newly-mown grass; and next to this indulgence they should have an ample supply of cut or pulled grass every day. It should never be forgotten, that one of tho most important things to bo observed towards keeping our fowls in good health is the regular supply we should furnish them of green food. o John Lick will contest his father's deed on the ground of insanity and undue influence. A French Execution. The Iong History of the Last Fifty Five fcecoiids in a Man's Ufe. Twas the doomed man. He was tall and thin. He is stiff in bis bear ing, and walks very slowly. His haggered eye is fixed on tho guillo tine, which he sees for the first time. His face seems to reflect some object of an earthy, yellow color. One of the executioner's assistants removes the jacket from his shoulders. The upper part of his shirt has been cut oif.and his bare breast and shoulders were visible. The executioner seiz ed him by the left arm-pit. Anoth er assistant pushed him from be hind. A third assistant went rapid ly by us and stood near the yoke which keeps the head motionless. Tlteldoomed man tottered a3 he came forward. He said to the assistant who pushed him, "Not so fast!" but his voice was strangled, for he had no saliva in his mouth. He reached the scaffold. Its vertical plank came nealy up to the hollow of his breast. The assistant pushed the plank which from vertical be came horizontal, tripped up the (loomed man, who iellon it horizon tally, his abdomen next the plank. He tried to raise by exerting knees and arms. He murmured some in articulate words. The executioner and two assistants pushed him vio lently forward, so as to bring his head immediately under the yoke. The doomed man must have felt the sensation of a person who falls down an abyss. The executioner bends forward to see if the neck is in prop er position. His assistant lets the yolie fall on he d omed man's head. This yoke imprisons the head as if the yoke were a vise. The doomed man must have felt this fall distinct ly. It must be as if he were twice executed. All this took time. I counted my pulse; it boat four times while this was taking place. This is long. Tlie execut ioner raised a little levsr. The knife fell. It could be followed as it fell. It attained its greatest velocity only at the close of the fall. The head bounced into a zinc box. It seemed to me I could see, as the knife fell with an indis tinct rumble, the doomed man's soul take flight. The headless corpse is tossed b- the assistants into the bas ket, where it lies ou its back. The executioner wheels on his right foot and turns his face towards us. his back to the scaffold. He indi cates by ihis final movemeut, which he never fails to make that once the criminal beheaJed his part is at an end. The rest is his assistants' business. One of them shook the zinc boK to mrike tlie head fall into the basket. I saw it roll over and over liki-a ball on the bloody bran. I staggered and shut my eyes. H calih of the Khedive. The popular view of the wealth of great Asiatics is almost always ab surd, and the popular view of the Khedive is no exception to the rule. The Khedive has always been be lieved to be one of tho richest men in the world, tho personal owner of a great part of his owu dominions. He is, however shown in Mr. Cave's report to be a poor man, possessed of a very large but very heavily encum bered estate. He owns 310,000 acres of good land and 100,000 acres of poor land, or about one-tenth tho cultivated soil of Egypt, yielding to him 422,000 a j ear iu round figures a very noble estate, if it were only clear. But the Khedive owes b, 000,000 on his estate, at ten per cent, per.annnui, besides a floating debt at enormous iuterest, aud is, there fore, a loser on his whole property, the statement of income, including all profits from sugar, which Mr. Cave, by the way evidently believes to be imaginary. He may, of course, have other properties in money, and probably has. but they are not hy pothecated to his creditors, who have to look only to his great estate in land, lie might, if set free by the French capitalists,raise a private loan also on less onerous terms than he is now paying; but still, if be could borrow at eight per cent., or even seven, which is the usual rate in Egypt on good security, the pri vate estate remaining would be very small, and wholly insufficient to help out the indebtedness of a king dom. The plain truth of the matter is that the Egyptian debt of all sorts, though not heavy for a Western State borrowing at four or five per cent., is too heavy for an Oriental State borrowing at thirteen, aud that the alternatives are the administra tion of Egypt throngh Europeans and the European ways, or the ex tinction of Egyptian credit. CharcoaXi for Turkets. A Cali fornia paper highly recommends nharcoal for fattening turkeys, and says that it should be pulverized and mixed with mashed potatoes and corn meal, as well as fed to them in small lumps. It mentions that in two lots of lour each, treated alike, and one lot given this mixture and the other not, there was an average gain in tho weight of the first of a pound and a hjvlf-each, In comment ing upon this another writer says: "While we condemn the practice of mixing the pulverized charcoal with other food for turkeys, compelling them to eat it whether they want it or not, we have no doubt of the ex cellent effect of supplying them charcoal broken into small bits, es pecially when fattening for market. We have had evidence of what we say, and for a number of years have recomended charcoal for this pur pose. Three hundred and forty-six acres in the southern part of Linn Co. was sold last week for 0,000. It was well improved. Crossing for Inniroveinent of Com in on bheep. A correspondent asks us the fol lowing question: "What is the best cross upon our common sheep for qnality and quantity of wool, for the general market, and for weight of carcass? This inquiry can be replied to from so many standpoints, that an opinion in favor of either of the rec ognized breeds requires certain ex planations. A cross of the long wool say Cotswool, Leicester, or Lincoln will insure an increase of carcass to nearly or quite double the value of the common, or native.dam. The ileece will haye additional length, considerable improvement in style, and a perceptible increase in weight. The improvement in length and luster will add to its market val ue. A cross of middle wool, saj' South down, Shropshire, ifcc, will add greatly to the quality of tho meat, somewhat less, though considerable, to itsquanity, will thicken somewhat the Ileece, and give it slight addition al weight, without aiding much to its value per pound. A cross of the American merino will make a marked improvement in fleece, adding to all its desirable characteiistics, except that of length. The weight, iu many instances, will be doubled, while in any other thau an anomalous condition of the mar ket, the value per pound will be somewhat increased. The size of carcass will not be increased though its compactness aud symetry of outline will be greatly improved. With the average farmer the more satisfactory result will be secured by a cross with the long-wool breed or the One wools. The one will show its chief improvement in the carcass, the other in a Ileece though the merits of neither will be confined to these prouiinent characteristics. As a rule, the least satisfactory re sults will be derived from a cross with the "Downs" this, not from any defect in the breed, per ce, but rather from less diversity in size in the one and character of ileece in the other. Sheep from this cross may reasonably be expected to withstand the hardships, sometimes privations, incident to the lot of the flock when compelled to work its living off the average farm, with better results thau would be realized from a long wool cross simple treated and, for "ronqhing it." would prove nearly equal to tlie results of tlie Merino cross. In view of these considerations, added to some minor ones, that may be classed as results of taste rather than experienced as a general conclu sion, would advise a cross of the ?Iorino in preference to the others referred to always. with the recom mendation that the best rams within reach of the m ans of the llock-ow-uers be used and that none of the male animals of the cross be used as sires, no matter how near the de sired standard they may approach. National Litre-Stock Joamal. The 3Iau Who Crossed the Atlantic in a I oi j . William Baxter, of Lowell, says the Cape Ann (Mass.) Advertiser, recently returned from Liverpool, England, brings us intelligence that Capt. Johnsen and his dory are the lions of the day. The exhibition fee is one sixpence, and the room is thronged day aud evening by those who wish to see this daring voyager aud his little craft. The crowd are not allowed to tarry long, but pass in at oue door, taking a look at Johu sen aud his boat, then, after purchas ing a photograph, are requested to pass out. Mr. Baxter, being an Americau, had an opportunity of conversing a few moments with John sen, who is now in good health, hav ing fully recovered from the fatigues of the voyage. Ho stated that he would not at tempt the feat and pass throngh what he did on that trip across the Atlantic for a million of dollars, iu'fact nothing on earth could tempt him to repeat such a voyage. It is evident that he is now coining money, and we are pleased that he is to receive such a goodly sum for his unparalleled feat and the pluck he manifested in performing it. It is probable that he may go to London before coming home to the Centen nial Exhibition. Several entries in his log have been verified from the logs of the vessels St. Louis, Defiant, Amerique and Grace, which be spoke on the way. He intends to publish the details in order to silence skep tics and prove the genuineness of his memoriable voyage across the At lantic. A Bathetic Picture. George William Curtis paints the following pathetic picture, which every one could wish less true to nature: "I think of many a sad-eyed woman who seems never to have smiled, who struggled with hard hands, through meltiug heat and pinching cold, to hold at bay poverty and want, that hovered like wolves about an ever increasing flock of children, now it was scour in the morning, scrub at. night, and scold all day long! How care blurred the window like a cloud hiding a lovely landscape! How anxiety snarled at her heels. dogging her like a cur! How little she knew or cared that bobolinks. drunk with blithe idleness, tumbled and sang in the meadows below, that the earth was telling the time of year with flowers in the woods below. As I think of these things, of the taci turn husband coming in beavv with sleep, too weary to read, to talk, to think, I do not wonder that mad houses are so richly recruited from the farm houses as tho statistics show." Sixteen bouses were destroyed by fire at Canada, Miss., on the 1st. "The Old Oaten Bucket." The popiilar song of "Tie Old Oaken Bucket" is said to have had its origin under the following cir cumstances, which give it additional interest: Some years ago, when Wood worth, the printer, and several others, "Old New Yorkers," were brother typos in a printing-office which was situated at the corner of Chestnut and Chambers Streets, there were few places in the city of New York where one could enjoy the lux ury of a really "good drink." Among the few 2htces most worthy of patro nage was an establishment kept by Mallory, iu Franklin Street, or about the same spot where St. John's Hall recently stood. W,iV orth "jo company with several particular friends, had dropped in at this place oue afternoon for the purpose of fak ing some "brandy and water," which Mallory was famous for keeping. Ihe liquor -was superexceileut. and Woodworth seemed inspired by it, for, after taking a draught, he laid his glass upon the table and, smack ing his lips, declared that Mallory's eau de vie was supeiior to anv he had ever tasted. "Oh," said Mallory, "you are quite mistaken; there was oue thing which, in both our esti mations, far surpasses this in the way of drinking." "What was that?" asked Woodworth, dubiously. "The draught of pure, fresh, spring water we used to drink from the old oaken bucket that hung in the well after our return from the labors of the field on a sultry day in summer." The tear-drops glistened for a mo ment in Woodworth's eyes. "True! true!" he replied and soon quitted the place. He returned to the of fice, grasped the pen, and in half an hour "The Old Oaken Bucket," one of the most delightful compositions in our language, was ready in man uscript to be embalmed in the memory of succeeding generations. A Soldier's CJoJjrotha. Cuba is a cemetery for Spanish re cruits, unlike ralstafrs ragged regiment, who were good as food for powder, these poor boys who are en listed in Spain and shipped oft' to crush the insurrection in Cuba, are killed by the diseases incidental to the country before they have a chance to face the enemy. The mor tality is as great or perhaps greater than that which cursed the Union army on the peninsula. Malarial fever "gathers them in." The offi cial records at Madrid aud Havana may be able to show how many stout fellows have been swallowed in the swamps of Cuba, but, in no other way can the thousands of victims be told off. The Madrid government is evidently tired of frittering away hu man life in this way. Martinez Campos is appointed to command the army, and the order to tire is to be given all along the line. Insur rection is to be wiped out. Campos has only to give the order, and quick, presto, it is done. It is as easy as lying. Sixteen thousand troops f om Madrid are on the sea. and twenty-four thousand more are to follow, aud with those on the ground the spirit of free Cuba is to be crushed. We have been hearing this for 3-ears. Men have come and men have gone back to Madrid, but the war goes on. The insurgents have got a commander who is never idle. His name is Gen. Disease. Fattening Animals. A very common error among farm ers, which needs correction, is the opinion that animals may be fattened iu a few weeks, and fitted for market, by heavy feeding, or, as is termed, by pushing. Many farmers do not think of beginning to fatten their hogs or cattle for early winter market until autumn has actually commenc ed. Their food is then suddenly changed and they are dosed with large quantities of grain or meal. This sudden change often deranges the system, and it is frequently some time before they recover from it. From observation and inquiry we find that the most successful manag ers adopt a very different course. They feed moderately, with great regularity, and for a longer period. The most successful pork raiser that we have met with commences the fattening of his swine for the win ter market earlj- in the preceding spring. In fact, he keeps his swine in a good growing condition all through the winter. He begins mod erately, and increases the amount gradually, never placing before the animal more than it will freely eat. With this treatment, and strict at tention to the cleanliness and com fort of the auimal, his spring pigs at ten months usually exceed three hundred pounds, and have sometimes gone as high as four hundred and fif3- pounds, and pigs wintered over reach a weight of five or six hundred. The corn, which i3 ground and scald ed before feeding, nets him ou an average of not less than one dollar per bushel when the market price of pork is five cents per pound. Christian Union. Sm Aiiii Seeds ix a Pound. The number of seeds of wheat in one pound is 10.500. The number of seeds in one pound of barley is 15,400. The number of seeds in one pound of oats, 20,000. ' The number of seeds in one pound of rye, 23,000 Tho number of seeds in one pound of buckwheat, 25,000. The number of seeds in one pound of red clover, 249,000. The number of seeds in one pound of white clover, 080,4000. The Grangers of the United States have over 18,000,000 invested in their various enterprises. NO. O Hurry ami Haste. "Never do anything in a hurry," is the advice piven to attorneys and so licitors by Mr. Warren. "No one in a hurry can possibly have his vriU about h i m; and remember that iu the law there is ever an opponent watch ing to find yon off your guard. You may occasionally be iu haste, but you need never be in a hurry; tako care resolve never to be so. Re member that others' interests are oc cupying your attention, and suffer by your inadvertence by that neg ligence which generally occasions hurry. A man of first-rate business talents one who always looks so calm and tranquil, that it makes one's self feel cool on ajjot s-:i iroer day to look at him ouco told me that ho bad never been in a hurry but once, and that was for an entire fortnight, at the commencement of his career. It nearly killed him; he spoiled ev erything be touched; he was always breathless, and barrassed, and miser able; but it did him good for life; he resolved never again to be in a hur ry and never was, no, not once, that he could remember, during twenty five years' practice! Observe, I speak of being hurried and flustered not of being in haste for that is often inevitable; but then is always seen0 the superiority and inferiorrty of different men. You may indeed al most define hurry as the condition to which an inferior man is reduced by haste. I one day observed in a committee of the House of Commons sitting on a railway hill, tho chief secretary f the company, during several hours, while great interests were in jeopardy, preserve a truly admirable coolness, tranquility, and temper, conferring on him immense advantages. His suggestions to coun sel were masterly, and exquisitely well timed; and by the close of-the day he had triumphed. 'How is it that one never sees you in a hurry?' said I, as we were pacing the long corridor, on our way from the com mittee rcoia. 'Because it's so expen sive,' he replied, with a. significant smile. I shall never forget that ob servation, and don't von." How to Acquire Contentment. First of all, a man should always consider how much more he has than he wants; and secondly, how much more unhappy he might be thau he really is. Listen to the re ply which Aristippus made to one who condoled him noon the loss of a farm. "Why," &Jd he, "I have three farms still and you have but one; so that I ought rather to be af flicted for you than you for me." When Pif.icus, afler the death of his brother, who had left him a good estate, was offered a great sum of money by the King of Lydia, ho thanked him for his kindness, but told him he had already more by half than he knew what to do with. There is an excellent saying of Bion, the philosopher, namely, that "no man has so much care as he who en deavors after the most happiness." We read of the honest Dutchman, who upon breaking his leg by a fall from the mainmast, told the bystan ders "it was a great mercy it was not bis neck." And we may also add the. saying of an old philosopher, who after having invited some of his frierds to dine with him, was milled by his wife, who came into the room in a passion and threw down the tablebefore them; "Every one," said he, "has calamity, and heo is a happy man that has no greater than this." If couteutment docs not bring riches it banishes the desire of them. It destroys all inordinate ambition and even- tendency to corporation. It erives sweetness to conversation and a perpetual serenity to all thoughts i Don't Like to Tell Ilcforc Folks. A horny-handed phrenologist in a west-end grocery of Madison, Wis consin, the other evening placed bis band on a friend's head and said: o "Bill, do you want to know your capacity and perceptibleness ?"' "Yes, if I've got any," was the re ply. 4Well, then," replied tho phrenol ogist, "I place the tip of my thumb about the center of the ear, thus; theu I extend my fingers around the posterior portion, called in phrenol ogy the occiput; then I join the tips of the fingers of both hands, and en deavor to bring the thumb tips to gether, but the thumbs don't meet by good gracious!" At this point the phrenologist looked puzzled and gazed up at the ceiling gravely. ' "Out with it-T nm prepared to bear the very worst," said Bill. But the phrenologist eaid he'd have to tell him privately, and took him out and up tho street till near a saloon door, when he paused and whispered in Bill's ear: "You've got a powerful brain a powerful iutelleck, and orto be in Congress stead of using a hammer." Bill dragged his frie"nd into a saloon and called for "the best in tlie house." They drank, and Bill asked, "Why didn't you tell me in the jrescnee of those men in the grocery?" "Be cause," said the phrenologist, "I knew they'd call me a fool." Deaf Mute Advance. She, a sentimental widow, observ ing some sea-gulls flying ibout the vessel, remarks: "What a charming subject for a poem a swallow lost at sea!" He, just recovering from a severe attack of sea-sickness, replies, looking at the subject from his point of view: Yes, madam, but there are so many swallows lost at sea!" She chose a more sympathetic listener during the remainder of the trip. England spends annually on her public s.'hoola about 810,000,000. G O 0 ( O o o o
