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V'Sl 1:1 it . ') DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. YOL. 11. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1877. o NO. 29. Jr. I E I THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL. NEWSPAPER FOR THE Fanner, UuoincM Man and Fntuily Circli ISSt'EU EVERY THURSDAY I'ROIRIETOK AND PUBUSBCR. o Official Paper for Clackamas Countj-. OJfice: In Eutcririe Ruililiu;;, Out- J.ir S uth of Masonic Building, Main Street. Tf rm of .Subscription: Siue Copy, nuc year, in advance $2 50 Single Copy, six months, in advance 1 50 TrrtiM oT Ad verliolne : Transient advertisements, including all legal nniires, j-er Miliars of twelve Jims, o I J j i 2 .V Fur nch subsequent iustrtiou 100 One Column, one year 120 00 Half Column, one year GO 00 Quarter Column, one year 40 00 Business Card, one square, one year 12 00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OREGON LODGE, No. 3, I. O. O. T. Meet every Thursday Evening. atv---. TS o'clock. 1 Odd Fellows' Hall. Main Street. Members of the Order aru invited to att-ni. By order cf x. a. REBECCA DEGREE LODGE, No. 2, !. O. O. F., meets oa the Second and iT rV-l Fourth Tuesday Evcuins-sof each month, "( I at IS o'clock, in the Odd Fellows' Hall., "j y Member of the Degree are invited to"'TI"',fcn attend. FALLS ENCAMPMENT, No. 4, I. O. O. F., meet at Odd Fellows' Hall on the Firt and Third Tuesday of each month. Patriarchs in good standing are invited to attend. MULTNOMAH LODGE, No. 1, A. T. ii A. M., holds Us regular communl- cauons on ine t and TliirJ Saturdays if . . . v. il . .. . : . r iu ei u lunuiu, ai 1 o chick irom me Jinn - 1 . . . I . . . . . . . j "i oejiieiuorr 10 xue 21'ia Of iMaron ; ami y' 74 o'clock from the 2"th of March to the Y 20th of September. Urethren in nood standing are invited to attend. By order of W. M. BUSINESS CARDS . J. W. NORRIS, B'bysiciaii asil Surgeon. OrKICK AND RESIDENCE : Ou Fourth Street, at foot ot Cliff Stairway. tf CHARLES KNIGHT, CANBY. OREGON", E'li.vsiciaii and lraig-git. '"Prescriptions carefully filled at short notice Ja7-tf PAUL BOYCE, 1YI. D., I'li.ysiciaii and Surgeon, 0 Oheoon City, Onfuox. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Otllce Hours day and night; always ready when duty culls. auuU5'TC-tf DR. JOHN WELCH, ggfe T E X T T S T . OFFICE IX OREGON CITY OREGON. Highest cash price paid for County Orders. JOHNSON & McCOWN, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS AT LAW 0 OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will practice in all the Courts of the Slate. Special attention given to eases in the United States Land Otllce at Oregon City. Sapr'7'J tr o L. T. BARIN, ATTOK X I : V A T I A W , OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will practice in all th Courts of the State. Uuvl, 75-tf VV. H. HIGHFIELD, iHtuMiKlictl since , One door Xorth of Pope's Hall, Tl AI V ST., OREUOX CITY, OISK;o. An assortment of Watches, Jewelrv, and-? Stth Thomas' Weight Clocks, all of 'which are warranted to be as represented. c. tt"RepairinK done ou short notice; and thaukiul for t patronage. Cnsti IaiU lor County Orders. JOHN IVJ. BACON, PEALER in BOOKS, STATIONERY, PICTFRE FRAMES. MOULDINGS AND MISCEL LANEOUS GOODS, t ic 1 hi: t Tit ok ir.K. OUKOOS ClTt, OREGOS. OJ.t the I fi Oflice, Main Street, west side. novl, '75-tf IMPERIAL MILLS. LalM H i:, S AVIKIi A CO.. OREGON CITY. Keep constantly on hand for sale Flour. Mid dling, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties purchas ing feed must furnish the jack. J. H. SHEPARD, HOOT AM S1I012 STOCK?, One door North of Ackerman Bros. Boots nd Shoes made and repaired as cheap as the cheapest. novl, '75-tf MILLER, CHURCH & CO. PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR WHEAT. At all times, at the ' OREGON CITY MILLS, And have on hand FEED and FLOUR to sell at market ratea. Parties desiring Feed must furnish sacks. nov!2-tf A. C. WALLING'S Iioneer look Itindcrv rittock's Building, cor. of Stark and Front St POKTL.4XI), OKEGOX. BLANK BOOKS RULED AND BOUND TO ANY desired pattern. Music Coks, Magazines, Newspapers, etc., bound in every variety of style known to the trade. Orders from the country promptly attended to. novl, "75-tf " OREGON CITY BREWERY. Having purchased the above Brewery. "C wishes to inform the public that they are'r" uuw irrparea 10 manufacture a quality OF LAGER BEER, As good as can be obtained anywhere in the State. Order- soticited and promptly" filled. TWO RECEIPTS. TOR 73 CENTS I WILL SEND TWO RECF.IPTS J lor making a superior quality of Honey and oap at a small co-t. Nevada Mountain Honev, at a cost of eight cents f?TudV,th" cnnot e distinguished from the bnest Bee Honey. If-1". of Jrom 01e od one-half to three Ii?ii0Knnd- gre"e nor y Either article can be made by a child within fifteen mln UU.. Address J. K. STAXTLY. San Francisco CHANGED. From the outskirts of the town. Where of old the mile-stone stood, Xow a stranger, looking down I beheld the shadowy crown Of the dark and haunted wood. Is it change J or am I changed? Ah ! the oaks tre fresh and green. Cut the friends with whom I ranged Throuah their thickets are estranged By the years that intervene. Bright as ever flows the sea. Bright as ever shines the sun. But alas ! they seem to ine. Not the sun that used to be. Not the tides that used 1 1 run. A WOMAN'S HAND. Only a little, soft, white thing Made for wearing the cotly Ting ; Made for flirting the dainty fan As only the belle of the season can; Made for the stolen pressure or kiss 4 Long branch fashiou), raisin;; to bllfcs. By merely the touch 0 flit; rswv'te. xier escort Uown 0:1 beac1 thil. nig'u. ' Made for a " prize " for the highest bid (And uuder the rse a thorn lies hid) A thing which the honest Summer sun Has taught his ardent beams to shun. Lest freckle or tau its beauty spoils. And make it too near a hand of toil. Instead of only a daiLty thing. Ment for ease and the diamond ring. Only a sunburned, useful thing To which the hearts of the needy cling ; To which they turn who have learned the worth Of a woman's hand on this weary earth ; Made for healiug, for smoothing o'er The hearts of those who are taint and sdre ; Made for honest work each day. For driving the shadows of life away. For holding the "cup of water" to all Who, faint and thirsty for succor call ; Made for leading the timid on. For blessing all it may rest upon ; Made to be won by a loyal heart. Who iu its labor will bear a part ; Made to be clasped by a loyal hand. Which chooseth the best in all the land. Worth O 1 double its weiyht in gold. This useful hand that cau never prow old. JIarpe,-'i Weekly. Jacob's Tesr: Or, How Slio Lost Him- BY KENNETH DUNN. Doubtless many of you have read the old-time story of the youug gentleman who called at the doors of his lady ac quaintances, asking for the scrapings of their bread-bowls to feed hia horses with, and to the one who was unable to bring him any, he offered his heart and hand. My grandmother used to tell another. This young man concluded to test the housekeeping capabilities of his young lady friends by inviting himself to tea. At the first, the cfieese came upon the table with the rind untouched; here was a lack of neatness. At the second, the entire rind was removed; here was wastefulness. At the third, the rind of the cheese was carefully scraped ; here was neatness and economy combined; therefore, the 3-oung lady received an offer of marriage. Jacob Ilinton was brought up on these bread-scraping and cheese-rind stories; ho also read many of the popu lar novels of the day. In these he found many angelic women, always faultlessly attired, were they princesses or kitchen maids. And somewhere he had once read, "Eeware of the woman who is not neatly and becomingly dressed in the morning, no matter how beautifully at tired in the evening." Jacob had much good common sense, but be might have had more. He loved Nettie Lee; here he showed his good sense. Their homes were several miles apart, thereforo he only saw her as he occasionally visited with his mother and f-isters at her father's house, or at tended her when the young people planned a picnic or excursion, or in Winter a party or sleigh ride, and at church. On all these occasions, she was neatly dressed indeed, beautifully and artistically, to an appreciative eye. Jacob was a good young man, and a consistent church member. He was calmly in love with Nettie, but before commitling himself he wanted to take her unawares at home in the morning (you certainly cann ot blame him.) Now, in Nettie's home there were no hands to help mother but her own, and Nettie never took np a dishcloth minc ingly between her thumb and finger, or washed dishes with a rag tied to a stick, or swept her rooms or weeded flower beds with gloves on which it would have been better if she had done, for, indeed, she did enter a little too hearti ly into her work. "When she rose in the morning she dressed herself neatly in calico, with a white color or ruiHeat the neck, arranged her hair, polished her white teeth, mit on a white apron; then over all this neatness of womanly attire, pinned a great homely kitchen apron and was ready for work. After the morning toilet there was seldom any time for glances in the mirror in that busy household until after dinner. If a ring at the door-bell was heard, the kitchen ajron was laid aside and Nettie were ready to receive morning calls. But Jacob did not see fit to pull the white bell-knob peeping out from un der the porch; he rapped rather timid ly, to be sure at the kitchen door. Prompt Nettie opened it. It was a love ly May morning, but mother and Nettie were cleaning the cellar. Nettie did not wear her accustomed neat dress; af ter breakfast she and mother had donned some shabby suits, put on some old sub-bonnets aud gone with a will into the cellar, which father and the boys had cleaned the day before; but a woman's hand must polish the shelves where the nice jars of butter were to stand, and the cement floor must be scrubbed white. Nettie was a little surprised to see Jacob, but bade him a pleasant good morning and led the wav into the din ing room she was not fit" to go into the parlor. Iler hair was awry, her sleeves above her elbows, her arms certainly were dirty, and coming hastily up the cellar stairs when she heard his knock, she had caught her dress on a nail, and lo ! a great rent appeared ! Jacob saw all this but he dul not note the refine ment that would make no profuse apol ogies, merely saying, "We were finish ing our house-cleaning this morning." "Ah! said poor Jacob. "Yes," assented Nettie, and becran chatting pleasantly with him. 'The young people are makino- up a Maying party for the day after to-morrow, and I called to see if you would liko to accompany them, and if you would accept me as an escort?" "Oh, I should be delighted!" answer ed impulsive Nettie. "Where are you going, and what are the arrangements?" "We are going to Dobbs woods; and if the day is warm enough, we will take our lunch with us, and if not, we will dine with Bessie Leach." After Jacob had taken his departure and Nettie had returned to the cellar, she could not help saying to herself, "I wish he had come this evening moon light evenings, too I wonder why he did not such a plight as I was in!"" but she added brightly, "I think he has sense enough to understand the situa tion.". And Jacob mused as he rode slowly homeward, that pleasant May morning, "She certainly did not look very neat, but she is pretty, and how she can talk; I'll try her again. She said something about house-cleaning. Per haps she doesn't often look so in the morning." The May party passed off very pleas antly, but it was not considered safe to lunch in the woods, the ground being too damp; but nothing could be pleas anter for these young people than a din ner at Squire Leach's. "Surely, Nettie is my peerless beauty to-day," thought Jacob. As they rode home together in the twilight, he came very near whisjiering a word that would have given him a lifetime of h ippiness, but the pictui-e of a few mornings be fore rose beforo him. "I will wait," ho said; "I can never marry a slattern." Oh, simple Jacob! Do you think that pure skin, that bright hair, those white teeth, that neatly encased foot, can be long to a slattern ? Not many weeks after, another bright morning found Jacob on his way to Deacon Lee's. It was yet early; Nettie was washing the dishes; her kitchen was not neat, but she was making all haste, and in an hour everything would bo tidy. Her mother had not been well for a week; on Monday Nettie did the washing, aud having also to do the work her mother did, she had not cleaned the floor and put the kitchen to rights as she was aocustomed to do on that day. The next day was rainy, and the kitchen was given up to the boys; but Wednesday morning the sun rose bright and clear. The dishes were nearly fiuished when, looking through the open door, Nettie saw Bessie in the middle of her flower bed, and Jack and Jessie making all haste for the open garden gate. The boys, after feeding the calves, had neg lected to fasten the gate that led into their pasture. "What shall I do?" thought Nettie. "I certainly cannot drive them." She ran for their pails, put in a little milk, and hastened out. Iler coaxing began to have effect when the calves learned there was milk in the pails. Though they were well-fed animals, they rushed upon Nettie and soon pushed her into a run, which took them through the gate without seeing it, and Nettie quickly secured it. But how was she to get away from them? She threw her pails over the fence and essayed to mount it quickly herself, but Bessie had her apron m mouth, and Jack and Jes sie, the twins, had each a mouthful of her dress. She described a circle swift ly, made a detour, and reached the fence; landing safely at last on the other side, she shook herself out, and reaehe-d the d oor bare-headed and bare-armed just as Jacob ninton drove into the yard. This time he had an errand for Mrs. Lee, and tying his horse came in through Nettie's disordered kitchen. She wel comed him most cordially, taking him into her mother's sewing-room when she learned his errand. Mrs. Hinton had a sister from the West visiting her, and had sent an invitation to Mrs. Lee to meet her at a tea party giveu in her honor. Mrs. Lee sat at the open window, with a bit of sewing in her hands the first work she had done in several days. "Mother has not been well for some time," said Nettie. "Oh!" returned Jacob, gazing at what he mentally termed the "grease spots" on Nettie's dress, the marks of her re cent exploits with the calves. "Her mother's sicknes can be no excuse for such a looking dress as that. If Nettie, now, was only as neat as her mother, how gladly would I make her my wife," thought Jacob, with a glance of admira tion at Mrs. Lee in her dress. neat morniner Jacob had another invitation to leave on his homeward way. Fannie Kent was at her morning practice at the piano as he came up the neat, flower-bordered walk. She met him at the door in the neatest of dresses, and with the smooth est of hair. Mrs. Lane begged to be excused from appearing, as she was very busy. ""That is the girl for me," said Jacob, as he rode swiftly homeward. Let us look behind scenes: Fannie Kent rises when breakfast is ready ; her mother and little sister Susie have been up an hour or two feeding chickens, skimming milk and preparing breakfast. After breakfast Susie must wash the dishes, while Fannie will dust the par lor, sweep the dining-room, make her own bed, and then she is at liberty until dinner-time, which she spends either in making bouquets from the flower-beds which Susie's busy hands have so carefully weeded, or in practic ing, or with her embroidery sometimes innovel reading, when a new one is to be obtained. After dinner, mother washes the dishes, because Fannie must take her afternoon nap early, so if com pany come s?ie will be ready to enter tain thm. On Mondays, Susie must stay at home from school a half day, to help mother wash, it blisters Fannie's hands so. On these mornings she does condescend to wash the dishes, with rubber gloves onl . But Jacob knew nothing of all this; if any of her young lady friends spent a few days with her, they supposed Fan nie was having a holiday on their ac count. But Jacob had found the girl that suited him. FanDie was willing, for there were many acres in the Hin- ton homestead. She would have en joyed living at the old homestead, with Mother Hinton at the head and a stout girl in the kitchen; but Father and Mother Hinton decreed otherwise, and put up a nice little cottage on one cor ner of the farm for Jacob; they did not extend their wedding tour beyond a few visits to relatives in a neighboring county; Jacob was too sensible; and when they returned, Father and Mother Hinton were at the cottage to receive them. Everything was in perfect order; there were bread and pies and cake in the pantry, with vegetables in the cel lar, and canned fruits on their shelves; the tea-table was neatly spread. Father and mother came away, to let the young people begin housekeeping all by them selves. The first trial of Fannie's married life was washing the supper dishes that night. She certainly had hoped to find a well-trained domestic in the kitchen. Coming in from his evening chores, Jacob found her in tears. "Why, Fannie! what is the matter?" he asked in surprise. It was a difficult matter to get at the head waters of Fannie's tears. "See how I have soiled my nice dres3 with this dish-water!" she sobbed, at length; and by degrees Jacob came to comprehend that she would like a girl to do her housework. "But, Fannie, you never had help at home. You cannot be well to find the work in this neat little house a burden." Day after day of this wearying com plaint at last had its effect upon good, simple Jacob, and finally a girl was in stalled in the kitchen. Even then, Fan nie found the care of her house a bur den, and daily grew irritable and fret ful in consequence. Mother Hinton shook her head, but, wisely, said nothing. Here let us leave them, only wishing for Jacob's sake, that he had looked below the surface. And what became of Nettie? She lived a long time at home its very sun- suine, so lovely ana cheerful, that her big brothers declare that they will never marry until they find women as good as Nettie. When good old Parson Gray was laid in his grave, a young minister was call ed to his place, "to live and grow old and die among them," the people said. The deacons would have been better pleased had he been a married man. "I will soon remedy that defect," said the young minister, quietly. So the deacons reported" that he was soon to be married, thereby saving him much of that peculiar persecution to which young, unmarried ministers are subjected. He preferred to board at Deacon Lee's until he was ready to occupy the par sonage. Nobody objected; and by-and-by, when he asked Nettie to be his wife, rdie answered, "I love you, Parson White; but I never wanted to be a min ister's wife." "But, Nettie it is I who love you, and not 'a minister," he replied, and left her to her own reflections, which result ed so favorably that in a few weeks the parsonage was occupied, to the surprise and delight of the deacons, aud like wise of the whole congregation . Saved by Telegraph. The oppo nents of capital punishment can certain ly make a strong argument out of the reprieve in the Phair case. The con demned criminal's life not only depend ed upon the telegraph wires being in working order; a more important con dition was newspaper enterprise. On the morning appointed for the execu tion, Phair's statement appeared in the Boston Globe, and among those who read it was Marshall D. Downing, who was startled by a single sentence. Phair said that he visited Providence on June 9, 187-4, the day the murder was com mitted, to obtain work of the American Screw Company, but failing, returned to Boston the next day. Mr. Downing recalled a visit to Providence on June 10, which was confirmed by reference to his memorandum book. He left Bos ton by the early train and returned in the forenoon. The man whom he now supposes to be Phair sat in a seat alone. "I am from Rutland," said the man, "I came down yesterday and tried to get work of the screw company in Portland, but it is so dull I could not, and I am going back to Rutland." They talked on general topics and separated. The condemned man's statement brought back the conversation to Mr. Downing's mind, and he immediately took steps to communicate w ith the Governor of Ver mont to secure r reprieve. Phair's pho tograph he recognizes as wonderfully like the face of his fellow-traveler. The alibi may be a rope of sand, but the logic f this reprieve has an iron grip. Human life depending upon a man's buying a certain paper, reading three lines, and remembering a chance ac quaintance on the cars it is a terrible thought. Sowixo ox Horseback. The Country Gentleman says: Numerous as have been the instructions of late for preserving the almost "lost art" of sowing grain by hand, there remains one mode that has escaped mention, and which, when mentioned, will jrobably be derided by those who have not tried it. I allude to sowing on horseback. Sulky rakes, sulky rollers, etc., are regarded as use ful contrivances for the saving of human labor, but none of your correspondents appear to have thought of making the horse perform the labor of walking and carrying the seed-bag and sower to and fro across the field during the operation of sowing the grain. And yet, after a long experience, the writer has found that he could distribute seed grain more regularly from the saddle than on foot, and with far more ease and comfort, as any good seedsman will find after a short practice. Grass seeds, however, being lighter than grain, are best sown on foot. When Chinamen part they say "chin chin," which means good-by. That is just the way with our girls; they chin chin about half an hour before they can get apart. 2f. Y. Mail. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, irXTVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Cheese a.s Food. We are quite sure that cheese is not given its proper place as a food material. We are aware that some systems do not take to it kindly, and .such persons should not press it upon their digestive economy. We are aware also that much cheese, because it is poorly made, is indi gestible. These facts should be borne in mind. And yet as a food possessing great strengthening power and adapted to those who have hard physical labor to perform, there are few foods so satis factory as rich and well cured cheese. We propose to give some authorities ou this point, both for the good of the eat er and to contribute towards securing one of our most important branches of agricultural production, the demand to which it is justly entitled: Dr. Austin Flint, ore of our most erudite physiologists, says: " Old cheese taken in small quantity towards the close of a repast, undoubtedly facilitates di gestion by stimulating the secretion of the fluids, particularly the gastric juice." Here its effect is attributed to a different principle than that of its fer menting quality; but an active ferment may also increase the effect of the gas tric juice. Dr. Flint says: "Now cheese is a highly nutritious article, as is evident from its composition." The long experience of English, Scotch and Irish laborers proves cheese to bo a wholesome as well as a nutri tious food. A small quantity of cheese with them takes the place of a larger quantity of meat, and enables them to endure such hard labor as the American thinks he can perform upon a generous meat diet. In Germany farm laborers depend largely upon the curd of milk after being skimmed for butter. This curd is frequently used in a fresh state and makes an important part of the la borer's diet. It is related of a certain Dane that he could carry a stone so heavy that it re quired ten men to lift it on his should ers; that he performed such wonderful feats of strength upon a diet consisting of large quantities of thick sour milk, tea and coffee. His enormous strength must have been sustained by the curd of the milk. This case refutes the com mon error that milk does not furnish a diet for vigorous manhood. There are numerous cases in which a milk diet has sustained the system under the most ex citing labor. Wm. Vincent, of Ston ing, Ct., in a letter to Dr. Alcot, says: "I have lived principally on brpad, cheese and butter, with a few vegetables for more th in 21 years." He entirely abstained from animal flesh. The American Encyclopedia says: " The peasants of some parts of Swit zerland, who seldom ever taste anything but bread, cheese and butter, are a vig orous people." Our American! women take too little nitrogenous food, oing, perhaps, to their great predilection for the finest flourand much pastry. Their vitality is confessedly much lower than the better class of English women. Women are not such flt sh eaters s men, and with their love of sweetmeats the nervous system becomes illy nourished. They may almost be said to be made of starch and sugar. If they would make cheese a more constant article of diet, and use more unbolted flour, with more open air exercise, they would soon become the most healthful and robust, as they are the most beautiful women in the world. Cheese, is less liable to putrifactive change than flesh, and thus much less likely to develojie in the human system those scrofulous diseases attributed to animal food. Hysienio Notes. Scrofula. A tea made of ripe, dried whortleberries, and drank in place of water, is a sure and speedy cure for srofula difficulties, however bad. Inflamed Eyelids. Cut a slice of stale bread as thin as possible; toast both sides well but don't burn; when cold lay in cold spring or ice water; put be tw'een a piece of old linen and apply, changing when it gets warm. Dyspepsia Remedy. Subnitrate of bismuth, 2 ounces; powdered Jamaica ginger, 2 do.; do gum arabic, 2 do.; bi carbonate of soda, 2 do. ; powdered su gar, 2 do.; mix thoroughly and sift. Dose, a teaspoonfulin water twice daily. Cure forToothache. A certain cure for this most agonizing of pains, is to mix powdered alum and salt in equal quantities; then wet a piece of cotton batting sufficiently to make the powder adhere, and apply it to the hollow tooth. It never fails. A Cure for Nasal Catarrh. Make a weak brine and snuff up the nostrils, and let it run down in the throat; also, wet the head with the same. If per sisted in a sufficient length of time, it will effectually cure the nasal catarrh. It is said by a physician that the various mixtures sold as " catarrh remedies," in many cases are only salt disguised so as not to be known. Whooping-Cocoh Syrup. Onions and garlics sliced, of each one gill; stew them in the oil, in a covered dish, to obtain the juices; then strain and add honey, one gill; paregoric and spirits of camphor, of each half an ounce; bottle and cork tight for use. Dose for a child of two or three years, one tea spoonful three or four times daily, or whenever the cough is troublesome, in creasing or lessening, according to age. - People generally will be glad lo know that charcoal has been discovered to be a sure cure for burns. By laying a small piece of cold charcoal on the burn the pain subsides immediately. By leaving the charcoal on for an hour the wound is healed, as has been demonstra ted on several occasions. Carefully elaborated statistics show that the average cost of refreshing a Boston Alderman is 82 94. The econo my of the city fathers in saving the odd ix cents when they mis?ht jut as easv have made it a sanare S3, is to 1 hi.ri.. 1 ly commended. Boston Traveller. FanuyFern's Picture of tlio Modern Old Maid- For the benefit of those who may have seen it when it first appeared in the Revolution, we reproduce here etchings from Fanny Fern's picture of the modern old maid. "No, sir, she don't shuffle round in 'skimpt' rai ment, awkward shoes, cotton gloves, with horn side-combs fastening six hairs to her temples. She don't read "Law's Serious Call" or keep a cat, or snuff box, or go to bed at dark, nor scowl at little children, nor gather cat nip. Not a bit of it. She wears nicely fitting dresses and becoming bits of color in her hair, and she goes to con certs or parties and suppers and lec tures, and don't go alone either, and she lives in a nice house earned by her self, and gives nice little teas in it. She don't work for no wages and bare toleration day and night. No, sir. If she has no money she teaches, or she lectures or she writes books or poems, or she is a bookkeeper, or she sets type, or she does anything but depend upon somebody else's husband; and she feels well and independent in con sequence, and holds up her head with the best and asks no favors, and Woman's Rights has done it. She has sense as well as freshness, and conversation and repartee as well as dimples and curves. She carries a dainty parasol, and a nat ty little umbrella, and has live poets and sages and philosophers in her train ; and knows how to uso her eyes, and don't care if she never sees a cat, and couldn't tell a snuff box from a patent reaper, and has a bank book and dividends, and her name is Alice or Phoebe, and Woman's Rights has done it." Tell Your Wife. If you are in any trouble or quandary, tell your wife that is, if you have one all about it at once. Ten to one her invention will solve your difficulties sooner than all your logic. The wit of women has been praised, but her instincts are quicker and keener than her reason. Counsel with your wife, or your moth er,or sister, and be assured light will flash upon your darkness. Women are too commonly adjudged verdant in all but purely womanly affairs. No philo sophical student of the sex thus judge them. Their intuitions or insights are the most subtle, aud if they cannot see a cat in the meal, there is no cat there. I advise a man to keep none of his af fairs a secret from his wife. Many a home has been happily saved, and many a fortune retrieved, by a man's full con fidence in his wife. Woman is far more a seer and a prophet than a man, if she be given a fair chance. As a general rule, wives confide the minutest of their plans and thouchts to their bus bands. Why not reciprocate, if but for the pleasure of meeting confidence with confidence? I am certain no man succeeds so well in the world as he who, taking a partner for life, makes her a partner of hi purposes and hopes. What is wrons? of his impulse or judgement, she will check and set right with her almost universally right instincts. And what she most craves and most deserves is confidence, with out which love, is never free from a shu dow. Truth for Wives. In domestis hap piness, the wife's influence is much greater than the husband's, for the one first cause mutual love and confidence being granted, the whole comfort of the household depends upon trifles more immediately under her jurisdiction. By her management of small sums, her husband's respectability and credit are erected or destroyed. No fortune can stand the constant leakage of extrava gance and mismanagement; and more is spent in trifles than women would easily believe. The one great expense whatever it may be, is turned over and carefully reflected on before incurred, the income is prepared to meet it; and it is she small expenses imper ceptibly sliding away which do mis chief, and this the wife alone can stop, for it does not come within a man's province. There is often an unex pected trifle to be saved in every house hold. It is not in economy alone that a wife's attention is so necessary, but in those matters which make a well regu lated house. An unfinished cruet stand, a missing key, a buttonless shirt, soiled table-cloth, a mustard pot with its old contents sticking hard and brown about it.are really nothing; but each can raise an angry word or cause- discom fort. Domestic Monthly. Keep Your Aoreemexts. One rea son why many people do not get along in the world is because they cannot be depended upon. They do not keep their rgreements. When they are weighed in the balance of actual affairs they are too often found wanting. They are seldom on time. The workman who is always on handatfbe appointed time and place, and does his work according to agreement, is sure to get along. To a young mechanic, starting in life, the habit of punctuality is worth more than a thousand dollars cash capital- -although a thousand dollars is not apt to be despised. The trustworthiness of the faithful workman produces money, but the untrustworthiness of the un faithful one causes him to lose money. This is an everlasting principle. He who would be permanently prosperous must keep his engagements. Sixgular Premoxitiox of Death. Robt. Morris, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia, a grandson of Robert Morris,, the revolutionary, financier, had for some years been depressed be cause his father, while sheriff of that city, fell dead of heart disease in the street in the fifty-third year, and he be lieved that he would also die suddenly at the same age. As his fifty -third year approached he became more nervous, and his prediction Was verified. He died suddenly of heart disease, in his fifty-third year. Brooklyn can build a tenement house and get the sun on all four sides of it. A Miracle Explained. A case of a remarkable cure came nnder my observation in Manchester, Mass., about 1850, while I was pastor of the Baptist church in that plaoe. There was a worthy man and wife in the church by the name of Day. They had an in teresting and bright little boy, ten or twelve years of age. He came into the house one day from school and play, crying from pain in his hip and leg. The family physician, having been call ed in, spoke of the case as a serious one, and directed that the patient be kept in bed and as quietas possible. Day after day and week after week he called, ap plied his remedies, and took special pains to keep the little sufferer quiet and still. The leg was drawn up, and daily grew more and more rigid. The doctor exhausted all his skill, but with no relief. The family were in deep af fliction, and the church and neighbors expressed their kind sympathies. The 2hysician recommended, as the last re sort, that the little sufferer be taken to the McLean Hospital in Boston, where he might be examined and operated upon by the best-trained surgeons in the country. With much praj erf ul solici tude and tender hands, he was conveyed to the hospital. The doctors placed him, poised upon one foot, upon a table, held up and carefully examined the contracted and somewhat withered limb. The doctor conducting the examination at last said: "Can't you straighten out this leg, my boy ?" '"No, sir." "Well, you can try. Now I will bear down, and at the same time you do all you can to put the foot down to the table." The doctor gently pulled downward by the ankle with one hand, and rubbed the muscles with the other hand; the foot was soon brought to the table. "Can't you stand upon this foot now, boy?" "No, sir." "Well, you can try." The feet were spread, and the boy was soon able to stand squarely on both legs. "Now, boy," said the doctor, again, "can't yovr. step along a little ?" "No, sir." "Well, you can try;" and, with a lit tle steadying, he soon took one step, and then another, and so on, and in a few minutes he was able to walk back and forth on the table freely. The doc tor then 6aid to his anxious and won dering father: "Take the boy home; there is nothing the matter with him but the contraction and stiffening of the muscles, growiug nr. of confinement and the want of ac tion." Tne boy took his father's hand and walked through the streets of Boston with agility. When the cars came iu at night, I was near the depot, anxious to know the result of the hospital exam ination; and what was my surprise and joy to see the lame boy hopelessly af flicted, as the physician said, with hip complaint step on to the platform and run up tho street with the ability of a youn? antelope. 1 . li. Russell, l.t ISos ton Watchman. Result of an Experiment. It is an oM superstition that the ret ina of the human eye, after death, bears a picture of what it la3t looked upon. Prof. Kuhne has reported to the Berlin Academy the result of experiments showing, as he believes, that the super stition has a slight basis in fact. He demonstrates that the external layer of the retina is in all animals purple. This color is being constantly destroyed by the light that enters the eye, and as often restored by darkness, but at death it disappears permanently. Professor Kuhne made in this connection an ex periment that is thus described: "He fixed the head of a living rabbit so that one of the eyeballs would be in front of an open square in a window shutter. The head was covered for five minutes by a black cloth, and then exposed for three minutes. Instant decapitation was then effected, and the eyeballs were rapidly extirpated under yellow light, and plunged in a five per cent, solution of alum. On the following morning the milk-white and now toughened ret ina were carefully isolated, separated from tho optic nerve, and turned. They then exhibited, on a beautiful rose-red ground, a nearly square image. In brief, the hole in the window-shutter was photographed on the rabbit's eye. A Hideous Protection. A Pleasant story is told by Sir John Lubbock, quoting from Weissmann, illustrative of the means of protection which some in sects possess. The catterpillar of the sphinx moth is quite as good food for birds as any other insect; but it is per fectly protected by its ugliness. Its face is its fortune, having two great spots on it which look liko eyes when the catterpillar wriggles. In general, the insect is suggestive of a small snake, especially when it ia frightened so that it draws back its head and shows its false eyes to advantage. M. Weissmann put one of these catterpillars into a seed tray where he usually fed sparrows and other small birds. The first bird that alighted on the edge of the tray, per ceiving the insect, became half paral yzed with fear. Eight or ten birds joined the first one, but all stood on the edge of the tray, afraid to go in. One bird flew into the tray at first, but on seeing the catterpillar, hastily scramb led out and joined the company on the edge that were bobbing their heads up and down, and looking into the tray as if half terrified. After the catterpil lar was removed, the birds went into the tray for seeds as usnal. Alexis and his terrier went to a pho tographer's and were "took" in every city they visited. The duke is easily distinguished from the terrier by his princely air and a Htanding collar. Blessed is the man wtio minds his own business Exchanje. "Blesse I" scarce, you mean, don't you? 2fvrris toum Herald. SI k ... -r-