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X: ii J- r f RETAKE OF PRECEDING PAGE ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE '-"'iy.n'-lni': ilfij w 'it. ifr tfit ".- - jar ";Vi.Y'.m-fr?-- o EVQTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, A?JD THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. k VOL. 11- THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR THE Farmer, Business Man, & Family Circle. JSSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FKANK S. DEMENT, PROPRIETOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPER TOR CLACKAMAS CO. irt-rrr, In Enterprise Building, one yoorsouthof Masonic Building, Main St. Terms of .Subscription: Single Copy One Year, In Advance $2.50 Six Months ' 1.50 Tvrni of Ailvertlslnsr TrnI. nt advertisements, including all notices, s square of twelve .$ 2.50 SOCIETY NOTICES. OKi;c;)N W)1UE NO. 3, I. I. 0. 1, Moots every Thursday jggSSXjh. evcniiiiiat 7' o'clock, in the nj.l Fellows' J rail. Main street MMiil'ors ot me kjt jer are invited to attend. liy order . G. Iti:i:CCA DKCSItKR LODGJi NO. i o. O. V., Meets on the rry Second ami Fourth Tues- jZj Uav evening each inont h aiJT at T'i o'clock, in the Odd Tcllows' Hall. Members of the Degree ar invited to attend. Mi;jroMAii loikjh no. i, a. i .t- A. M.. Holds its regular eoin- niiuucaiioiis on mu i-iirM, uiiu . . . . .. I.-:.. ..t 1 Third Saturdays in each month, at 7 oYlork from theoth of Sen. temher to the lioth of March; and .7 4 o'clock from the liOth of .March to the 20th of September, l'.rethren in good standing are invited to attend. By onler of V. M. l' liNCAMIMIKXT NO. 1,1. O. 0. F., Meets at Odd Fellows' o rv IUll on the First and Third Tuos- 0l !: of each month. Patriarchs V" V iu'g 1 standing are invited to attend. It V S I A' X S S C A 11 D S. Mv. is a in us, PHYSICIAN AXJ) Sll'.ui'.OX, tt"oni'- and Ib-sidence on -It li Street, nt foot of t.'iitr Stairway. tt" I R. JOI WKLCII DEWTI57, or vice in "-OJLJjLjLJ OUKCiON CITY, OUKCiON. HlHmt Cash Prion I'uid for Comity Orders. JOHNSON l McCOVM .TT0RM-YS A XI) 10UXSELMS AT-L.WY. Oregon City, Oregon. (P?"ViH practice in all the Courts of the Mut-. Special attention Riven to cases in the IT. S. Eand Odic at Oregon City. 5airlS72-tf. I.. T. 13 A II 1 N ATTORKEY-AT-LAW, OHEdOX CITY, : : OREGON. Will practie- in all tho Courts of the fit at c. Nov. 1. 1S75, tf AY. II. 1IKJHFIEL1). Established ainco '49. Oii l(r nortii of Pope'ii Ilnll. Sain Slr?ft. Orcon Tity, Oirpn. g?c Ana'ssort ni'nt of Watches, .Tewel ry.and s--th Tlmmas' Weight Clocks cTi 'nll of which are warranted to be as l" r"preseiit."d. "Tlpnirinj: done on short notice, and ' h n icj 1 1 for past patronage. Cnsh pai,! f:,r County Onlfrtu JOHN 31. IiACOX, Dealer in UOOKS, STATION KY ?S9e' 1'ietiir.i Frames, MouVl UiK and Miscellaneous Goods. FRAMES MADE TO ORDEf. Oregon fit-, Oregon. frVAt the Post Ollice, Main street, cast Bi- novl,7.-j.tf. CVI I As7 KNI G LIT c why, ()1U',(;()X, PUYSIdAN AND DRfGCIST notCril'll0nS fari'fl,115- filled at shor Ja7 f. LiiKowiup, Savier A: Co. Oregon City. &UlTaT-HS!1? 'i7,r?nd "al- Flour. uri ru.'.Vo, d 'llcli0n Feed. Parties Jjijtljn furnish the sack. J. H. SHEPARD, I$oot and Shoo Store, One door north of Acketman Bros. 4SMho cSw,?aJe PaJred as Jv- 1. l-T5;tf'P 1 WIIEVT atI?AI,I-EST PRICE FQH - at all times, at the Oregon City Mills, And have on hand --S-. Partiesring i"E BASKET PRICE Tho r -w -""."n,! APPLES. has the CorrTmny. aUt horized to Pur" 1. 1). C LATOURETTE, i!i0s-HtRijv l'resident. 'a Vlty, JulyCS, 175 tf V Frea"h subsequent insertion.- 1.JJ0 Column, on, year 1;J - i)-f .?iness Card. 1 .uar. one year 12.00 BE EARNEST. Be earnest in thy ca 'lnj, Whatever It may be ; Time's sands are ever falling. And will not wait for thee. With xeal and vigor labor; And thou wilt surely rise ; Oh ! suffer not thy neighbor To bear away the prize. Be earnest in devotion. Old age is drawing near; A bubble In life's ocean Thou soon wilt disappear. lluth's 3Iistake. "So you are going to town again, are you, Bob?" Ruth's blue eyes were filled with tears, and her childish face wore a grieved look, but the voice had a commanding ring in it that spoiled the effeet of eyes and face. Rob West stood in front of a mer ry, crackling hickory fire, that sent out a warmth which penetrated every corner of the tidy little sitting room, lie was brushing his clothes briskly, and, being thus occupied, did not look up at his little wife's inquiry, but wondered "What was the matter now." If Rob had only looked up and seen that beseeching, yearning look, that pretty interlacing of the fingers, how different would have been the ending of my story. ,4Yes, Ruth," he said, in a bright, cheery voice, that rang through the room like the song of a bird, "I must go, but I will be at home on the sev en o'clock train." "Must go! What for, I would like to know ?" "Never mind, Ruthie, yon would not understand if I should take the time to explain it. What does that little head know about business?" Rob's playful words, that he had imagined would soothe her, had the very opposite effect. "Oh, of course I don't know any thing. What a pity you did not marry Mary Edwards. No doubt she would have been capable of un derstanding you and your business both." Ruth spoke with a sarcastic, taunt ing ring to her voice, as she began energetically to brush the dust olf of the mantle with her apron that Rob had raised but a moment before. Rob compressed his lips tightly to keep back the angry words. lie was not perfect, far from it, although his heart was large and warm. lie had many faults and infirmities none knew them better, none regretted them so deeply as he. Rob had formed a resolution long before that he would never allow himself to get angry when Ruth did, and lie would keep that vow be it ever so hard, and it was hard, for Ruth was quick as a llabh to anger, and as quick over, bursting out with hot, impatient words, and ready to make up in the next breath. "No, Ruthie, I did not want Mary Talwards. I am satisfied with my choice, and wish you could say the same." "Well, for my part, I think you ought to be satisfied, when you know that I might have married Will Ellis and lived in a fine house, with ser vants to go and come at my com mand, instead of this little ten-by-twelve frame, and niyself the house hold drudge." Ruth's temper was up to white heat now, and she did not care what she said. "Well. Ruthie," Rob said with a deep sigh, "it will all be right some day. I will grow rich or die, and you cau many rich." "Great danger of your growing rich, and about as much of your dy ing; better get your life insured if you are going to die." "All right, I will. Now I must go. I shall be obliged to drive IJird sin gle to-day, Speed is lame. I don't like to drive her alone, she feels too good this cold weather. Rut brush my hat, Ruthie, and get me a hand kerchief, while I harness up, and I will try her." Rob heaved a deep sigh as he walked out to the barn. Ruth's an gry words bled Ins tender heart; for, with all her faults, he loved little brown-haired Ruthie better than the whole world, although she tried him sorely sometimes. lie harnessed IJird to the light buggy and drove around to the hitching-post, tied her and entered the house to find his wife standing just where he had left her, with the same frown on her brow, and the same pout to her pret ty lip. What in the wide world possessed Ruth, and caused her to be so un kind to Rob, would have been hard to tell. She knew that she was cross and pettish, but could assign no rea son for it, only she wanted some thing, aDd ehe did not know what. Oh, how her heart ached to lay her head on that great, brave, handsome young fellow's shqulder the hus band who would have died for her ' and, with her face very close to his, sob out her repentance and crave his forgiveness for her bitter words! But pride, stubborn pri Je, held her back. Rob came and stood by his wee little wife, and looked sorrowfully down upon her. "Ruthie, I love you sq. Don't make me feel my insufficiency to fill your heart. Kiss me, pet, and say good-bye." Rob drew her to him, and waited for her to raise her lips for the caress, but he waited in vain ; and, bending down, he pressed a fond but sad kiss on her brow, while he said, "Well, Ruthie, if von will not kiss me goqd-bye, I shall have to go without it, for I will be compelled to drive fast to catch the train now. Never mind, we will make it all up i when I come home." - I Rob turned, and, with a lingering look, went out. The last sound that Ruth heard was the quick patter of Bird's feet on the frozen ground, I OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 2471876. then he was gone. "I do wonder what Rob wiU think of me! He knows that I did not mean one word that I saic. Oh, dear! I wish I had kissed him before he went away." So thought Ruth as she stood at the windqw watching his form out of sight. What a long, long, weary dav it "was i I he afternoon set in cold and gloomy; but inside, thanks to Rob's strong arm, all was warm and bright. Old Rover lay stretched out at full length before the cosy fire, while Dot sang merrily in his cage. "How dare he sing!" Ruth thought, when she felt so down hearted and sad. She went to the window and looked out on the gloomy surroundings, but found no relief or comfort there. She turned away with a sigh, and out of a little box in the closet she brought forth some mysterious pat terns and dainty fine linen, and was soon busy with the great problem of fitting together those tiny little gar ments. In the meantime Rob West drove as rapidly as rough roads would permit to the station, his mind rilled with thoughts of Ruth and all she had said. Maybe she was right in censuring him for condemning her to the dull and laborious life of a farmer's wife, when she might have been the bride of wealth. Then the words, "Better get your life insured if j-oii are going to d'ie," kept ringing in his ear. Of course he was not going to die, but perhaps it would be a wiseplaa; and then, if he should die, Ruthie would have something to live on. Rob arrived at the station just in time for the train, and soon he was in the busy city. After he had fin ished his business, he entered a well known life-insurance otlice, and pre sented his noble form at the desk for a policy, payable at death to Ruth, lie found no difficulty in securing what he sought, and with a deep sij;h of relief for, he knew not what he placed it in his breast-pocket and started for home. "Poor little Ruthie," Rob thought as he wended his way to the depot. "I must be kind and forgiving with her just now. I expect she can't help being nervous and irritable." And at tho same time, away off in the little cottage, Ruth was thinking, "I am so sorry I treated Rob so bad ly! I will have a nice warm supper for him, and afterward we will talk it all over." Half-past seven, eight o'clock. Oh, how the minute baud drags along! The little table was spread with a dainty little supper, the verv things that Rob liked best. The bright fire sparkled a welcome from the great wide chimney. Rob's comfortable arm-chair stood in the warmest cor ner, waiting to hold something in its great strong arms, but still lie tar ried. "I know he has had time to get here," Ruth thought, as she opened the door ence more and peered out into the darkness. Some one is coming, but it isn't Rob. One, two, three lanterns. What can it meau ? Nearer and still nearer they come. Something vague- and unformed strikes a chill to her throb bing heart. They have opened the gate, and are driving in. Who can it be ? She never moves but watches them with a stony stare as they lift out a heavy burden and pause at the door. She steps aside, and they en ter and lay Rob's mangled form on the snowy bed. Then, like a Hash, Ruth realizes what has happened, and, with a cry of agony that those rough but kind-hearted men will never forget, she sprang to his side. "Rob! wake up! Its little Ruthie! Don't you know me? Oh, Rob! have you left me alone?" Without a struggh. Ruth sank down, senseless and cold. All night rihe lay in a deep stupor, and when morning came a wen little life-blossom was laid, pale and cold, by its father's side. Many true-hearted mourning friends followed Rob's form to its last resting-place, talking one witli another how Rob's horse had shied and thrown him over a high bank, causing instant death. Ruth came slowly back to life and bitter remorse. The bitter history of the past came sweeping back to memory, with Rob's kind actions, and her waywardness, blending to gether to form a most unwelcome picture. Oh, it was a trying hour when the life insurance came to light, adding wormwood to her already bitter cup. She felt now what it was to be young, with life before her stretching far out in the wide, grand future, the sky bright with expecta tions, the kind hand and tender heart of Rob at her command. With such associations, it was pleasant to be j-ouug. But to have fallen from the brightness and bloom of expectations into a desolate waste of darkness and remorse, the sky overcast with dark clouds, which loomed up between her and the bright future, mountains high, to wait, weary and trembling, for admission at death's door, with the words, "Th? old must die, the young may die," fresh in her mind, and still be young, was, indeed, a bitter, bitter fate. Ruth accepted Rob's gift that he gave with his life, and with a meek heart used it as aid to her deeds of pharity, with which she spent the time of waiting for God to call her away, "to make it up with Rob." Godey's Lady's Book. The man who is curious tq see how the world would get on without him can find out by sticking a cambric-needle into a mill-pond, and then withdrawing it and looking in to the hole. Prof. Iluxley was so seriously ill during his voj'age homo that had not a doctor been near he might have left an appreciative world. He is not recovering fast. 1 Air ami its Elements. Air, says Dr. Playfair, is the most familiar of substances, the first with which an infant becomes acquainted on entrance into the world and in death the last to be given up. Yet, strange to say, its nature and con stitution have only become partially understood within the past century, and even now scientific knowledge could only be regarded as on the threshold of thp subject. Iu the year C40 B. C, Thales, a philosoph er of Miletus, traveled into Egypt, and having observed the manner in which (the laud was fertilized by the overflowing of the Nile, promulgat ed the theory that everything was made of water, and that all life re sided in it. Thales had no aids to forming a correct theory other than his untutered senses, and as far as they had led him they ap jieared to prove the currency of his views. In 518 B. C, Aleximenas said Thales was wrong, and that it was the essence of life. His reas onings appear to modern ears utter ly preposterous, but they were the first davvnings of philosojihy. Five centuries before the Christian era, Diogenes, of Appolonia, thought over the'same subject, more as a psychol ogist than as a natural philosopher; he considered air the unima mundi of the world, and that it was a spirit, usually benevolent, but liable to fits of temper, and hence storms, mists, fogs. These philosophers were of a disputatious school, and did not en deavor to test their ideas by experi ments, but in 348 B. C, Aristotle, who examined things as they were somewhat more closely, divided a!l substances into what he named four elements earth, air, lire, and water, and this nomenclature continued till little more than a century since. Little further was known about air till A. D. 1100, when a Saracen, nam ed Olhausen, found that it had weight, and that, instead of extend ing through all space, as previously supposed, it ceased to exist beyond a certain dstauce from the earth. He fixed this limit at 58 miles - a good guess, as modern observers had as certained it to reach a height of about 4UJ- miles from the earth.. In 1C30 Galileo investigated ihe action of the common pump. Aristotle had said that water rose on drawing oil the air, because nature abhorred a vacuum. Galileo fou:.d that water would only rise in a tube 32 feet or o3 feet; did nature then permit of the vacuum? He soon saw that the water rose because of the weight of the air, and that the limit of a pump's action was fixed by the weight of water to be raised. After his time Torricelli applied this principle to mercury, and, as he anticipated, it would only rise about thirty inches iua pump, as it was about thirteen times heavier than water. Thus the first barometers were made, and the foundation laid of modern discover ies as to the subject. It was found that air weighed about 15 lt. per square inch, and that it varied from day to day with the weather. The next great discov erer was Otto von Gnerikc, of Mag deburg, who invented the air-pump. His work on the subject of air, con taining an account in Latin of his discoveries, was still extant, and the lecturer had one of the two copies now preserved in this country. Guerike had several failures in his attempts to pump out air, but at leugth made what were still known as the Magdeburg hemispheres, two hollow semi-globes, which could be tightly fitted together, and from which the air could be withdrawn. The original hemispheres were dis played upon the tables with which, in 1054, Guerike exhibited to the Emperor, at the Diet of Ratisbon, his noted experiment of harnessing eight horses to each of the exhausted hemispheres, when they were unable to draw the two 2arts assunder. Guerike had a water-barometer at tached to his house, with the figure of a man iloating on the water, aud this popularized the instrument. Boyle, the next investigator of the air, was the first to endeavor to as certain its chemical constituents. He got so far a3 to prove that there were "fictitious airs," but never sufficient ly distinguished them from common air. Soon after this, Hales separated a number of what were now known to be constituent gasses of air; he, however, regarded them as so many impurities to be get rid of as much as possible. Black was the first to use the plural of the word air, and to use a balance for weighing air. Before his time it had been supposed that the difference between mild lime, or chalk, and caustic lime was that the principle then called phlog iston was imparted to the latter by the action of fire. Black argued that if so, quicklime ought to be heavier, not lighter, than chalk; and after some study and experiments he prov ed that its lightness was due to the withdrawal of carbonic acid from it, either by the action of heat, or of a stronger acid, and that quicklime re covered this from the atmosphere if exposed to its influence. He also showed that this acid was evolved by decaying substances, and passed into the air at every breath of men and animals. He also made important discoveries as to latent heat. All of Black's discoveries were made when he was about 24 years old, and it was to be regretted that, though he lived to bvi 80, he made no further discov eries. Cavendish soon afterward discov ered hydrogen, the source of light and heat, and observed that it enter ed into the composition of water. In 1772 Rutherford discovered the great ! diluent of air, nitrogen, by placing I mice, one at a time, in a receiver,! and as they died, washing away tho I carbonic acid produced with lime- water, and putting m a fresh mouse, till at length the little animals died COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, directly they were introduced. Two years subsequently Priestley discov ered oxygen, and observed" its won derful power of supporting light. He was persecuted and driven from England, and went to Paris, where he showed Lavoisier how to make oxygen, and then to America, where he died. Lavoisier never admitted that this discovery was imparted to him by Priestley, although latterly he confessed that he did not make it. Lavoisier carried forward the study of air, having a power of generalizing the observatiors of others, and in vented the caliorueter. In the height of his observations he was guillotined during the Revolution. A solemn procession was formed at a later date and Madame Lavoisier publicly burnt an effigy of the old element phlogis ton, and a requiem was sung to its memory, as a token that the old chemistry had passed away, and a new one was inaugurated. That sys tem now in its turn becoming anti quated and out ofj date. Till within the last few years air was supposed to be composed of the elements laid down by Lavoisier's chemistry oxy gen, nitrogen, and carbonic acid, but Liebig showed that there was a small portion of ammonia in the air, which is washed down in the rain; ozone, an active form of oxygen, had also been discovered, and certain minute organisms had aiso been found in the air. Fresh observations were ever being made, which tended to show how little was yet known about the air. In conclusion, the air that is viti ated by the carbonic ' acid liberated by breathing of men and animals, and the smoke of many furnaces and fires in these regious, is conveyed by tho action of trade winds to the tro2 ics, where the acid forms the food of a luxuriant vegetation. The air, by circulating, is constantly being puri fied, aud by tho benificent action of the law that plants should subsist, not only on decaying substances, but upon the gasses evolved by animal waste, tho balance of nature is preserved. Healthful lieds. Germany excels any country with which I am familiar in tho cleanli ness of its beds. It seems as much a part of yearly house cleaning, with them, to have the hair removed from the mattresses, to have it well beaten and sunned, and the cover washed, as it is with us to have carpets whip lied ami freed from their disease-begetting dust. I grant it would be a difficult and expensive undertaking for an Ameri can housekeeper, for skilled laborers are ra-e, and when found must be well paid, as they should be. Knowing the obstacles, then, in the way to a thorough renovation of our beds, we should take all the more care to protect and air them. Every bed should have especially made for it, the size of a tick, a white tacked comforter, not so thick as to be unmanageable in washing; over this the sheet is placed. Every bed in daily use should be subjected to the purifying rays of the sun at least once a week, and should be left open for the reception of air and light some time before being made up. Beds not frequently used are often found very musty and disa greeable to guests. The parlor bed.,, that swallow their contents by a magic touch, are fair w ithout, but in time, for the lack of proper airing, they become foul within. Science of Health. His (ioorl Reasons. A man who does business on Main street was yesterday button holed at tho postofiico by an ac quaintance, who observed: "They say that you have left the church and joined tho one down street." "Yes, that's so," was the answer. "Didn't like the preaching, eh?" "Oh, the preaching was good enough, and the pew-rent wasn't too high, but they are a queer set up there. Most any of them will lend a man ten dollars if he's pinched, but it isn't three days before they come spooking around and want it back. I want to get somewhere where the brethren are more absent-minded, or where they won't walk a mile in a heavy rain without an umbrella to re mind me that time's up." "And you like it?" "I think I shall. ' I borrowed fif teen dollars of a member nearly three weeks ago and he hasn't said anything about it vet." Prince Gortchakoff, tho Russian premier, is noted for his abstemious habits. He never drinks wine and never smokes. He drinks a cup of coffee in bed before rising, and eats but two meals a day. Retiring very early iu the evening, he sleeps ten or twelve hours. His regular habits have kept his frame in such excellent condition that he does not feel the infirmities of old age at all. He was born in 1798, entered upon his dip lomatic career under Count Nessel rode, and became the Foreign Minis ter of Russia at the close of the Crimean campaign. Saj'S tli3 HurlinytOH Jhwlceye: There is a North Hill man who goes to Church three times a Sunday, who alwaj's sings "I'm glad salvation's free" so lqud that the deacon, whose ears are very seusitive, can't get within four pews of bin; with the contribution basket. During his week's stay at Shef field the Archbishop of York conse crated two new churches, reopened a third that had been restored,- laid the foundation stone of another, held twelve special services, addressed tho workmen of three d;iferent fac tories, and preached twenty-five ser mons to vast multitudes. r Chemistry of the Fattening Pro-cess. A lean cow or ox is in a very diff erent condition, chemically consid ered, from fat animals of the same kind. In the first place the poor animal consists of about two-thirds water, the fat one of only half, that is, in total weight. A fat animal is in a dry condition, a poor animal is like some of our bog meadows, very wet. When the fattening process begins, water commences to dis appear, and fat or suet takes its place; a,nd the increase in bulk dur ing the process is largely of adipose matter. It is a curious circumstance that, during fattening, the proteids, or nitrogenous compounds, increase only about seven per cent., and the bone material, or inorganic sub stance, only one and a half per cent. The cost to a farmer for fattening an ox is much greater at the close of the process than at the commence ment; that is increafe in bulk or dry weight at that period is much more costly. If it costs three cents a pound for bulk for the first month after a poor animal is put in the fat tening stall, it will cost five cents the last month. If, then, a farmer consults his monej' interest, he will not carry the increase in fat beyond a certain point, provided he can turn his partially fatted animals to fair advantage. Farmers have perhaps learned this fact from exierience and observation, aud hence compar atively lean beef abounds in our markets. While this is an advantage to the farmer, it is very disadvanta geous to comsumers of beef, for the tiesh of a fat animal in every case is much richer in fixed nourishing ma terial than that of the lean, and it is never good economy to purchase lean beef. It is better to purchase the poorest parts of a fat animal than the best of a lean one. The best piece of a fat ox (the loin), contains Irom twenty-one to twentj'-eight per cent, more fixed material than the corresponding piece in a lean one, and curiously enough the worst piece in the lean animal (the neck), is the richest in nourishing material. The tlesh of the neck improves very little in fattening, hence, economy considered, it is the best portion to purchase, as its value is in a measure a fixed one. Horse Hesh is as nutritious, con sidered as a food, as that of the ox or cow. The relation of nitrogen ous to fixed material is rather higher in a horse than in an ox, and the amount of water is less. There is no good reason why horse llesh should not be used as lood. it is prejudice alone which prevents its employment. It is a regular article of sale in the meat markets of Paris at the present Chemistry. time. Journal of Tkkatment of Ckoit. A German physician, Dr. Stehverger, recom mends the treatment of croup by ths inhalation of pure glycerine through one or other of the well-known form of atomizing apparatus. He was led to try this remedy for croup from ob serving its good effects in cases of hoarseness and loss of voice. After application, the cough becomes more free and moist, and children are enablad to sleep almost immedi ately upon being relieved by the in halation. It is, however, believed to bo of importance to make use of the remedy early and frequently, as, if delayed, it may have no effect what ever. If the glycerine be pure, it may be 'used unmixed; if not, it should be diluted with a little water. The inhalations are repeated, accord ing to the necessity of the case, at intervals of from half an hour to an hour and a half, and for about fif teen minutes at a time. Celia Logan denies that New York women are much given to opium, but asserts that arsenic eating, for im provement of complexion, is a com mon practice. She says: "A few years ago cosmetics containing bis muth were in general use, but were found to yellow the skin until it be came tawny and created sores arid pimples. The family docter pre scribed arsenical blood purifiers. The patient was told to stop using these when the eyelids became puffy and she felt bloated; but it was pleasant to taste, it rounded out the form and beautified the complex ion. Therefore tho doses were in creased instead of diminished; and so jirevalent now is arsenic eating that any one able to recognize look it gurcs cau pick out its the vic- tims." -- - The Widow and the Bocqitet. A pretty widow, says the Raleigh, North Carolina, Sentinel, whoso hus band has been dead several years,, received a beautif ulbouquet the other day. The man that sent it had been flying around her with an earnest ness worthy of a dry goods clerk, and it was with extra delight he saw her pass his store that evening with the bouquet of flowers in hand. "Am so pleased to see you with them," said he, and a thousand little enpids dimpled in his smile. "Yes," she replied, "it was very kind in you. I -always knew you liked him; l am taking them to his In the government of Tamboff in Russia a peculiar religious sect, which has for some time existed in Siberia, is making many proselytes. Its leading doctrine is that all must marry on becoming of age, but that the husband must be subordinate to the wife, recognize her as the head of the family, and at least once a week confess his sins to her. In other respects the members of this sect are orthodox (Greek) and attend the Russian church. Thev call themselves "Purifiers" or Puritans, i- - A 4 & - - NO. 5. The Public Itoth Denounced. Prof. Rcamy's Views of the Hygiene, of Ilathiitg. The Cincinnati Commercial has a full review of Dr. Reamy's interest ing lecture ou the "Use and Abuse of Baths" before the faculty and stu dents of the Ohio Medical College, from which we extract the following: But important as it is to keep these millions of sudatory ducts open? it is very questionable whether the lavish use of soap and scrubbing brushes has the tendency to do so. In fact, the contrary may be presumed; for the application of soap to the outer cuticle, scrubbed well into the pores with a rough brush, roust rather block up the cappillaries than open them. The application of very warm water surcharges the skin with blood while that of very cold water drives back the blood and contracts the capillaries. There are other reasons, however, why soap and scrubbing brushes are not oujy unnecessary to health, but even inimical to it. The outer cuti cle, or scurf skin of the body, is. composed of the soma material a,s the nails, although the fiber is somewhat differently arranged. It is, in focf, the enamel of the skin, and its proper preservation gives to the skin of a beautiful woman the ivory polish so. much admired. It is the protection of the true akin beneath. But, like, the substance of the nails, it may be painlessly scraped or scrubbed off. It can all be scrubbed off easily., enough, if one keeps scrubbing long enough. Under the microscope it is scaly, like the skin of a fish; and these scales may be easily scraped away. Nearly all soap contains strong alkalis, which soften th. epilheiuia or scurf skin, and reiiiV it easily removed by rough scrub bing. A strong flesh-brush, rou towel and hot water are all wonder fully efficacious in removing th: protecting membrane, but axe whol: unnecessary to health and cleanliui The only really healthy and pro. . water bath costs little or nothn. and can be taken at home. Son-, say they have no time to tako.a bitt-. but this bath only requires tighi minutes before breakfast, which e cry one not ordinarily lazy can take Go to a tinner and get him to make you a tin tray, about two inches deep and eighteen inches square. This will cost about sixty cents. Then buy a sponge, which will cost you about a quarter. With the tin pan. a sponge aud a gallon of water, you have all tho requirements for art ex cellent bath, and every person should take such a bath daily. It is only necessary to sponge yourself thor oughly from head to foot, and wipe dry with a soft towel. The exercise of doing this one's self no one else should do it is excellent. The water should be about the same tempera ture as the atmosphere, if you are healthy and strong, but if the weather is intensely cold, tepid water may be substituted. Bnt the bath should not be taken with the window open or in a current of air, and the water should be of the same temperature as the atmosphere in the room. Tooth Wash.--The simple camT phor water, arpia camphora of the shops, is one of the best and cheap-, est washes for the teeth and mouth. Its detersive power is great, leaving, the mouth and gums very clean and sweet. It is fatal to. parasite, and therefore discouraging to tartar and decay. It has also a healing influ ence upon aphthous, sores (canker) q the mouth and throat. It lessens sensibility of the teeth, and tends to ': resolve the small abscesses known as gumboils. We recommend it as a Buuu.uu ui uuiu ui iiiu (.cue i. Aiierq are many sore throats, and we are not sure but that they include those of a bad type, which appear to be. speedily relieved by gargliug with camphor water in the incipient stage. The antiseptic property of camphor, or power to destroy minute organ isms, gives it value iu applications to the skin and mucous membrane.. --. m The Fmsx Aim of Edccation. I accept without qualification the first principle of our forefathers; that ev ery boy born in the world should be put in the way of maintaining him self in indejendence. No education which does not make this its first aim is worth anything at all. There are but three ways, of living, as some, one has said by working, by beg ging, or by stealing. Those wlio do not work, disguise it in whatever pretty language we please, are doing one of the other two. The pracii-..'. necessities must take precedence f the intellectual. A tree must h rooted in the soil before it can 1' flowers and fruit. A man must le.-; '. to stand upright upon his own f to respect himself, to be indepemli of charity or accident. It is on t basis only that any superstruetur intellectual cultivation worth can possibly be built. Froude Thirty j-ears ago in California . would flock in crowds to a glimpse of that rare spect; women. Early one morning noised about in the Canon that a women had arrived night. Everbody went to t ing ground but only the 1? calico dress was visible. "F out, we want to see her,'' rough miners to the husban wife is sick," said he; " been robbed by the Indians, a. want rest." "Fetch her out," m only reply. She came to the thev swung their hats, gave r--cheers and a tiger, collected S in gold, cheered agaiu, and home satisfied. Dr. John Dore, a distinguis Mason, aged 81, died at Richm; j Va, on tho ICth. o o o o o o o o o G O o o o o o o o o o 0 o