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OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1877.
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Tl AI V ST., OREUOX CITY, OISK;o.
An assortment of Watches, Jewelrv, and-?
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JOHN IVJ. BACON,
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BOOKS, STATIONERY,
PICTFRE FRAMES. MOULDINGS AND MISCEL
LANEOUS GOODS,
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OUKOOS ClTt, OREGOS.
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novl, '75-tf
IMPERIAL MILLS.
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OREGON CITY.
Keep constantly on hand for sale Flour. Mid
dling, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties purchas
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HOOT AM S1I012 STOCK?,
One door North of Ackerman Bros.
Boots nd Shoes made and repaired as cheap
as the cheapest. novl, '75-tf
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At all times, at the '
OREGON CITY MILLS,
And have on hand FEED and FLOUR to sell at
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POKTL.4XI), OKEGOX.
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desired pattern. Music Coks, Magazines,
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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.
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