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SSSiiy P,w tJ a'nufcture a No. 1
OF LAGER BeTR
AS A LITTLE CHILD.
BT JOHN O. WHITTICR.
Of such is the kingdom ! Teach thou us,
O, Master, most divine,
To feel the deep significance
Of these words of thine !
Tho haughty feet of power 6hall fail
Where meekness surely goes,
No cunuing find the key of heaveu.
No strength its gates unclose.
Alone to guilelersness and love
Those gates shall open fall :
The man of pride is nothingness.
The child-like heart is all.
1E COXVEXAXflU
So glaS you are here for the wedding
i diui juu o see my Trousseau.
Pa gave me carte blanche for tho outfit
lis ail he need give me, you know.
TIsn't every girl marries three millions.
And so he's as pleased as can be.
Here's the dress, dear white satin. Worth's latest.
And .the flounces and veil real point ; see .'
The girls are all dying with envy.
Last Summer, at Newport, the way
They courted the man for his money
Wan disgusting, I really must say.
Oh, Tiffany's keeping my diamonds
I shouldn't feel safe with them here :
I think they will create a sensation ;
No bride has bad finer this year.
Of course we are going to Euroje
The state-rooms are taken and all ;
How long we shall stay I don't know, but
I guess until late in the fall.
When we get back I'll give a grand party,
The house he is building up town
Will be something superb when it's finished.
I uish the man's name wasn't Brown.
In love with him? Jnle, why you're joking :
He's fifty at least, if a day ;
But then he is really in love, dear
I'm sure I shall have my own way.
You know I was never romantic ;
If he wants a pretty young wife,
Why. I don't object to be petted
And worshipped the rest of my life.
It's wicked to marry for money !
OL, yes, but who likes being poor?
Don't they say Love flies out of the window
When Poverty darkens the door?
I dirt come near falling in love once
With the handsomest fellow in town.
An artist, with nothing but talent
My stars ! how the pater did frown !
But note he's delighted. Three Millions .'
What well-brought-up girl dare refuse?
And the other girls' mothers are wishing
Their own daughters stood in my shots.
There's my fiance now. Seo his horses '.
Perhaps he does look rather grim.
And what of the handsome young artist ?
Ah, well, we won't talk about him !
Harper's Bazar.
WITHOUT A PIGTAIL.
A STOP.Y OF PLEASANT LOVE.
CHAPTER I.
"I have got some news for you, Mag
gie," he said one day, abont eighteen
months after" ho had gained his commis
sion.
' Guess w hat it is."
They were "walking alon
the
green
lanes of Porlock
listening to the eease-
less murmur of the sea, as at intervals
they hid walked and listened ercr since
they could remember, or ever since
Maggie could remember at any rate, for
she was six years younger, than her for
mer playfellow. '
" Yon are going to be promoted," she
said.
' Promoted, you little goose! No one
ever gets promoted in the British army.
tiuess again.
" You are going to marry an heiress. "
There was a lump in her throat as she
said it.
"Wrong again No inestiuiabl
young person with greeu-eyes, a turn
up nose, susceptible heartland fifty
thousand ft year has turned Aip yet.
But it is something nearly as good. "I'm
ordered to China! "
"Oh, Alic!" she gasped, and burst
into tears.
It was very foolish of her, but then
she was only sixteen, and had not yet
acquired the praiseworthy art of con
cealing her feelings.
" Why .whatever are you crying for ? "
he asked, and kissed away her tears.
He'd kissed her ever since she was five,
and thought no mora -oL it than if she
had been his sister, or the cat, excepting
perhaps that it was nicer which it was,
no doubt. " I shall only be away five
vears at most, and when I come back
I'll bring you a pigtail and an ivory
toothpick, and a whole lot of things,
and"
"Yes?" she said, listening atten
tively.
" But then you'll be a young woman,
I forcrot and 'out.' and all that sort
of thing, and won't condescend to speak
to a poor lieutenant; you will have all
the souires and fox-hunters about the
clace at vour feet."
" Oh, no, indeed I shan't, Alic," she
said, eagerly.
" But I tell you, you will. I believe
von aro a born little flirt, aud I shall
come back and find you "
. But she burst into tears again, and
put up her pretty little hand as if to
stop his teasing, which she could not
lwir insfc then. It seemed so cruel of
him to laugh and joke when he was go
ing away for five years. He did not
seem to care a bit, and she could have
broken her heart on the spot, and would
hav triad lv done so. and thrown the
pieces awav so as never to be bothered
with it again. Then, seeing ner mourn
ful blue eves, he was merciful.
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" I believe I shall come back and find
you just as great a little darling as you
are now, and if we have got any money
we'll get married and live happy ever
after, and if we haven t we 11 get mar
ried and starve ever after unless, of
course, the heiress turns up."
"Oh, I hope she won't!" said Mag
gie, like a truthful little idiot. " Shall
you ever write to me, Alic, dear?"
" Yes, of course I shall, and I shall
expect you to write back six pages
crossed, and all that sort of thing, you
know."
So Alic Granger went to China, and
Maggie waited hopefully enough for a
letter, but six months passed and none
came. " Perhaps it takes longer for a
letter to get here from China," she
thought, knowing as little about the
means of transit and the time it took as
if the Celestial city- had been in the
moon. But a year passed and no letter
come.
" Perhaps he's ill, or it's miscarried,"
she said tearfully, half wondering if it
could be possible that a Chinese heiress
had turned up, and that was the real
reason of Alic's silience. Two years
passed and never a word. "It's too
bad," she said bitterly, and wondered
ruefully if he really had married a wife
with a pigtail. And the days and the
months went by, and Maggie journeyed
on into womanhood, but no word or
sign came from Alic Granger and at
last she gave him up altogether.
CHAPTER II.
Maggie was twenty years old when
her father died, and the creditors did
pounce down, and she and her mother
were sold out. Mrs. Dunlop was offer
ed a home in London by a sister who
was well off and bad tempered, and it
was thankfully accepted. Maggie was
informed that she must get her own liv
ing, which being precisely Maggie's
own opinion as well as intention, she
advertised for a situation as governess.
Now, Maggie had a very modest idea of
her own merits, and therefore only
asked for twenty-five pounds a year and
a comfortable home, so no less than five
answers came to her announcement that
she could teach English, French, music
and the rudiments of drawing.
One of these answers came from
Woolwich, and stated that Mrs. Mar
shall required a governess for her three
little girls. Mrs. Marshall was a stiff
necked sort of a woman, and stared at
poor little Maggie (who looked almost
as childlike and twice as pretty as ever)
through double gold glasses. Colonel
Marshall, her husband, was a nice old
man, with a bald head and an iron gray
mustache, and there was a grown up
daughter, a Miss Paterson, Mrs. Mar
shall's daughter by her first husband,
who was really the mistress of the es
tablishment, for Maria Paterson had a
strong will, and she was an heiress.
"A very nasty heiress too," poor Mag
gie thought, and she was right, for
Maria was skinny, and thought herself
sarcastic, and always said nasty things
to people who did not dare say them
back again.
One evening, when Maggie had been
about a year at Woolwich, and she was
sitting alone in her school-room as
usual, for her pupils had just said good
night and been delivered up to the ten
der mercies of their nurse, Miss Pater
son walked in very much dressed, and
rather flushed and excited.
"Miss Dunlop," she said, "we shall
have a few friends this evening, and I
know one or two of them like an im
promptu dance; will "you be ready to
come into the drawing-room and play,
if we should want you?"
"I fear I cannot play dance music
very well; I never keep time," said
Maggie.
"Yes, I feared so, and thought I
would come and tell you, so that you
might practice for an hour or two till
after dinner;" and she sailed out of the
room, evidently considering the matter
settled; and Maggie meekly proceeded
to practice the Mable Waltz and the
Flick and Flock Gallop. Then she put
on her. shabby black evening gown, and
siuck a spray of white flowers into her
golden hair, and waited patiently lor a
summons, hoping she would wait in vain.
It very soon came, and with a roll of
music under her arm, a flush on her
innocent face, and a scared, almost
hunted, expression in her eyes, she de
scended, and timidlv opened the draw
ing-room door, and there stood still lor
a moment staring in astonishment at
the scene before her. There sat the
heiress with an eager, pi eased expres
sion on her face, and leaning over her,
talking and laughing, and more hand
some than ever, and sunburnt and
soldierly looking, was Alic Granger.
There was no mistaking him. The
color rushed to Maggie's face, as if to
say a hurried good-bye. and then left it
altogether. She recovered her self-pos
session, however, and walked with
what she flattered herself was great
dignity toward the piano. She felt
rither than saw him raise his head and
look at her, and the next moment ho
was by her side.
''Maggie my dear Maggie! . Why,
fancy you being here; where did you
com? from? I have been trying to find
you for months."
"I thought you" And then she did
not know how to go on, so added, al
most piteously: "I am governess here."
"Are you? Oh, I see then, that is the
reason I've not seen you before, I sup
pose." "Do you really know Miss Dunlop?"
the heiress - asked, coming up, and
speaking in her coldest manner.
Maggie wished sincerely she could
sink into her shoes and bury herself.
"Why, of course I do; wo have been
playfellows ever since we were born
And Maggie,, feeling she was
backed up, answered bravely:
"Yes."
" Oh, indeed ! how interesting !"
turning to Maggie: "Will you
being
Then,
be so
good as to begin a waltz, Miss Dunlop?
This was to be our dance, I think," to
Alic. and she sailed off with him tri
umphantly.
He came up to her directly after the
dance was over.
"I went down to Porlock to try and
find out where you had gone to," he
said, "but nobody knew.
"It didn't matter," she said, huskily,
letting her fingers wander vaguely over
the Keys to niaJte ueueye itu niuu i iu
te rested in what he said.
"Yes.it did it mattered a great deal
Why, I've got a box full of curiosities
fnr von clubs to fight with, and a lit-
1 vearhn trod or two. and a statue of
d all sorts of things. I told
you I should bring you them home
i; here I mean in this house?'
TTo Raid these last words under his
breath, for the heiress came up, end the
next minute he was carried off to dance
with. Mrs. Somebody at the other end
hnfc not before Maggie had
t,i,W a wolv to him. Soon after this
Miss Patterson came up to the piano,
i v-ncr Khfl wished to play herself,
and'that Maggie looked red, dismissed
her without her beingC.Me to get even
another look at Alic.
CHAPTER III-
The next morning, to Maggie's very
great surprise, Miss Patterson came
into the school-room 'before the children
had assembled.
. "Miss Dunlop," she said, stiffly, "I
should like to know where you say you
met Mr. Granger."
"At Porlock. His uncle lived next
door to my mother. He is a very old
friend indeed"
"Thank you. I merely wished to in
quire, because, of course, you must be
aware that it is not usual for any one in
your position to make herself remarka
ble by having long confidential talks
with any gentlemen who may visit the
house."
"I don't see what you mean, Miss
Patterson?" Maggie said, indignantly.
But Miss Patterson had. swept out of
the room without deigning to reply.
lhen Maggie went into her owa little
room, the one place she had in the world
entirely to herself, and cried till her
eyes were red and her head ached.
I he lessons did not progress that
morning. Ju aggie was thinking of Alio,
who was no doubt strolling about the
commons, listening to the . band, and
making love to the heiress. The chil
dren were more than usually stupid,
too, and all the world seemed upside
down, aud all its ways crooked. Sud
denly, at about twelve o'clock, just
when Maggie was in the middle of ex
pounding as best she could the eccen
tricities of the French grammar, there
was a knock at the school-room door.
"Come in," she said.
The door opened, and there stood be
fore her astonished eyes the form of
Alic Granger, and behind him was a
man evidenely his servant with a box
on his shoulders. 1
All right, Tim, put it down; that's
right; now be off. There, I've brought
the curiosities round, Maggie; I thought
you'd like to see them."
Oh! what will Mrs. Marshall and
Miss Patterson say?" said Maggie, in
consternation.
"Nothing to you for the next half
hour or so, for I have just .seen them
safely on their way to Woolwich, and
thought I should just get a quiet chat
with you. My dears," he said, turning
to Maggie's wide-eyed; open-mouthed
pupils, "I'm sure you'd like to be let
off your lesson, so I'll let you off for
half an hour; run along, my little
dears," and ho opened the door for
them, and shut it after them.
"Oh, Alic!" she said in fear and trem
bling. "Oh, Maggie!" he answered, mimick
ing. " What do you mean by going
away from Porlock, and not leaving any
address."
"I couldn't help it, and you never
wrote," she answered, helplessly.
"No, I never write letters; don't
know how to spell well enough. But I
have been hunting for you all aver the
place, and never dreamed of finding
you here. Now we'll unpack the box;
I had it opened before I came, so it's
only fastened by a lock."
"But, Alic, they'll never forgive me."
"Never wind, it does not matter, be
cause if you are good I'll take you away
next week. Besides, they'll forgive
me anything. I saved the colonel's life
when he was in Hong Kong at least, so
he says. There, now, what do you
think of these for fighting with ? Got
them at Java on purpose for you;" and
le held up a pair of heathenish looking
clubs and brandished them over her
bead, and then proceeded to pull out
the contents of the box and to decorate
the school room with them. "There's
Mr. Buddha, and there's why. what's
tho matter, Maggie ?"
'Nothing; only you will get me into
Ireadful trouble you will, indeed.
Miss Patterson came in this morning
and scolded me for talking to you last
night."
"Nevermind, she was only jealous,"
he laughed. "Now tell me how soon you
can leave here."
"What for?" she asked innocently.
"Why, you haven't forgotten that we
agreed to get married when T caie
back, have you, you little coquette ?"
and he put his arm round her waist just
as of old, and was not reproved. It was
so very comfortable, she thought.
'No, but you are engaged, are you
not?"
"Yes, of course I am to you."
"Oh! but Alic "
"Oh! but Maggie" And then he
stooped and kissed her, and nothing
more could be said, for the door opened
and there stood the colonel, and there
stood Mrs. Marshall, and there stood
Maria Patterson.
"Miss Dunlop!" screamed Maria, horror-struck.
"Mr. Granger!" said Mrs. Marshall
iu astonishment.
"Hoity-toity!" exclaimed the colonel.
"What does all this mean ?"
"She must leave the house at oner,"
said the heiress.
"Of course she must," Mrs. Marshall
said. "I never heard of such a thing in
my life"
"My dear Mrs. Marshall," said Alic,
looking as if he were beginning a
speech. "It is all my fault. You told
me, and so did the colonel, to consider
your house my home, and I have done
so. Miss Dunlop here was a playfellow
of mine once, and when I went away we
were engaged, but somehow we lost
sight of each other when there were a
few thousand miles between us, and it
was the happiest moment of my life to
meet her again last night; and so I took
the liberty of calling on her this morn
ing, and we were just arranging to get
married next week, when you inter
rupted us."
"Quite rieht. quite right, my dear
Granger," said the old colonel, heartily,
"you shall be married from here
- "Oh! please let me go to mamma do
let me go at once, pleaded JMaggie, nnd
ins: her little tongue at last.
"I think it would be much more satis
factory if Miss Dunlop went back to her
relations, said the heiress, sourly.
So they all finally agreed, and that
very af teraoon Maggie packed up her
modest belongings, and all the curiosi
ties, and went to the well-off and bad
tempered aunt.
The bad-tempered aunt received her
neice very graciously when she found
she was going to marry well the follow
ing week. It is amazing how fond peo
ple are of rich relations, even though
the riches concern them little personal
ly. As for poor Mrs. Dunlop, she could
have jumped for joy, only shfc was too
old for such violent exercise.
'Pray, miss, what are you laughing
to yourself about T asked Alic the even
ing before their wedding-day.
JNotning, Alic, only wlien you were
away, I used to think sometimes that
perhaps you'd marry a Chinese heiress I
with a piertail. - .
"The sort oPthing you would think,"
he said, grandly, "as it is you see, I am
going to marry a little girl without a
pigtail;' and I am very hajjpy, my
darling are you?
"Very, very," she said; and she was.
The Commodobe's $100. Mr. Van-
derbilt once -gave Elder Lomas of the
Shaker Community, a check for 8100 to
buy a wooden leg for a young man who
was sadly injured on the Central Rail
road. "Then," says Elder Lomas, "he
told me of his first visit to the Shakers
about the year 1812. He had brought a
sloop-load of melons to Albany, and,
after dispatching peddlers south and
east, started himself with one horse and
wagon to Schenectadv. Arriving at
the Shaker's, he fed his horse and took
dinner himself. After dinner he sold
to our people a large number of melons,
and the old man's eyes twinkled when
he said: 'I never saw such people; they
made me ashamed; they paid me well
for my melons, but would not let me
pay for my dinner nor horse feed! I
have never forgotten it, ard hoped some
day to get even with them.' And from
this circumstance of 05 years since I
may congratulate myself that I was not
considered impertinent, but made most
happily at home, and got my check,
After procuring the artificial limb, which
cost $86, I wrote the Commodore ask
ing what disposition to make of the bal
ance, me answer still manitestea a
disposition of getting even, by replying:
It is at your disposition; the interest
on two dinners would, ere this, nave
amounted to that, saying nothing about
the principal.
The Nervous Man. We easily know
a nervous man. lou say. "ne never
walks, he runs." Born in a hurry, he
lives m a hurry, and you anticipate he
will depart this life with corresponding
precipitation. Full of fears, freelv ex
pressed. Afraid he.will be too late for
the train, or the train be too late for
him. Afraid it will rain or afraid it
will not. You ought to pity him, but
you can't. Entitled to commiseration,
he awakes only vexation, lou pro
nounce him a wearying companion. He
comes in with a whew, uttered or unex
pressed. A sh-sh-sh rises to your lips
as he approaches, and you long to ad
minister to him some quietus. He
makes doorknobs ache and break. In
your provocation you call him an ani
mated threshing machine, lie is un
conscious, outside of active nervousness.
louknow how infectious it is. Ascatch
ing as the small pox. You feel that if you
don't get out of his orbit you will ba
iust like him. His watch outruns his
neighbors' time-pieces. True, he is al
ways in time for everything, but at a
cost of whatever comes in his way. You
pity his tired-looking wife. Mow can
life go smoothly with her? He loves
her dearly, but as you look into her
worried face you remember that poor
pussy never purs when you rub her fur
the wrong way. As for his own quan
turn of comfort you can't see when he
stops to take it, and the funniest of it
is, he utterly repudiates the idea oi ms
being nervous.
Pooh Kate Claxtojj is having a rough
time of it. She has been burnt out of
so many hotels that whenever the guests
see her name on a register now, they
either leave the house or go down to
dinner with a Babcock fire extinguisher
on their backs and a fireman's helmet
on their heads- She was recently in
Minneapolis, and had occasion to ring
the bell for a waiter to bring her some
matches. The domestic informed her
that he had orders not to allow matches
in her room or the use of gas. Miss
Claxton also noticed that a four-inch
hose was laid all round her apartments,
and that the fire brigade was in constant
attendance under her windows. Becom
ing aggravated with the servant, she
threatened to fire him out, and the man
replied that that was just what he was
afraid of, but that he had removed his
valuables to a friend's house. Miss
Claxton says in her letter: " At first I
was inclined to laugh at strong men act
ing in this superstitious, silly manner,
but the persecutions I am subjected to
are becoming serious. Even newspaper
editors, who, from their positions, one
would be led to believe possessed brains.
yield to the general feeling, and I rarely
meet with a paper that lias not an un
pleasant allusion to myself in connec
tion with fire in its columns." S. JP.
News Letter.
iioME-oiCKNEss. j. his is not com
monly considered a disease, except in a
rhetorical sense, but it is known some
times to absume the form of a mental
disorder. Among a number of recruits
V ll . . Ml al sww.-a
wno came recenuy witu tne voth regi
ment to garrison at Montelimart was a
youth named Marchise, from Correze.
From the time of his arrival he did not
cease to weep and lament for his coun
try home day and night. His grief was
so great a to move the pity of the offi
cers, and they softened some of the
military regulations in his favor. It
was of no use. The mountains of Cor
reze were ever before the tear-filled eyes
of the unhappy conscript. Gne day,
instead of returning to the barracks at
evening call, the poor youth betook
himself to the railway, and placed his
neck on the rails. He was killed by a
passing train.
The baby that was carried across the
East river foot-bridge yesterday will be
baptized Bridget. Graphic. -
Husbands and Wives.
"They are just married," was the re
mark of all the fellow-passengers of a
certain couple on a railway train the
other day. And wherever that couple
went on their journey, the same obser
vation was repeated. There are certain
indications about the recently wedded
which always betray the happy parties
as enjoying their "honeymoon." Al
though from time immemorial the said
moon has been regarded as transient,
every woman who marries thinks that
her case is an exception, . and that the
new happiness is to be continued indefi
nitely between the twain until death do
them part. It is not pleasant to think
that the woman who thus confides must
in too many cases be disappointed. She
must find that tho suitor who professed
that her companionship was the one
thing necessary to his happiness, will
discover that there are mny other things
which her husband deems pleasant, and
with which the wife has little, if any
thing to do. As a rule, the less she is
interested in his outdoor movements
the better he is pleased.
Courtship is one thing. Wedded life
is another. Indeed, some women go so
far as to say that nearly every boy or
man is in a chronic opposition to the
girls or women in the family where he
domiciles. It is charged that the lads
would not "go a courting" if it did not
vex tneir sisters; and that they would
not marry if mothers were not in some
cases entirely averse to their marriage;
and others are only submissive under
protest. The marriage of a man is in
some sort a triumph over his own female
kindred. These kindred submit, as they
say submission is a woman's lot. And
they make the best of it, and sweeten
the inevitable with womanly gentleness.
But the husband what of him The
new husband is elate with the conscious
ness of having won the girl of his choice.
He has taken a wife, all objections to
the contrary notwithstanding. He takes
her on liis arm with all tne pride of a
captor and a conqueror. Nobody dis
putes his victory. Mothers and sisters
become his wife's allies and endorse the
proceeding with all their hearts. He is
monarch of all he surveys. There are
no more contentions, for everybody has
indorsed tha arrangement, as if every
body nad neartily approved and pro
moted it from the first.
He might rest on his laurels but lau
rels will not always keep green, and the
dry leaves metaphorically choke him
He look for new conquests, and selects
his wife for an antagonist. It is not
that he does not love her. He loved his
mother. It is not that he would not
do any and everything for her that does
not interfere witn ms own whims and
caprices, lie did mat ior nis sisters.
But he rebelled under their control; and
having, boy-like, annoyed them, man
like, he annoys his wife. Evenings at
home become wearisome, and evenings
abroad, if his wife must be with him,
are hardy less so. As he declined to be
"tied to his mother's apron-strings," he
is fretted by his marriage tie. He has
pressing business which keeps him from
the tea-table, and which encroaches on
his evening hours. His wife's looks of
remonstrance are considered "fussy,
and her claims upon him, put in words,
are met by protests. And so the honey
moon frequently passes its last quarter,
with, unfortunately, no promise of a
new moon of the same happy descrip
tion in the matrimonial calendar.
Then other affairs come in to engross
the erroom's attention boat-clubs, bil
liards, base-ball, horses, "the Lodge,
supper with some of the "old fellows,
"politics, hotels, saloons, and all tne
rest. And he just drops in at the thea
tre you know, quite accidently, because
Smith told him of a very particular at
traction. If he had only thought of it
at dinner-time he would have gladly
asked Sarah to get ready. And so on.
Mind, these are things that the women
find out,- though they may be very cau
tious in speaking about them. These
are the general heads under the fears
that they hav that their husbands like
to escape the company which as suitors
they prized above every other. The
men must answer to their own conscien
ces how far the suspicions are well
founded; and in many cases husbands,
even of some years' standing, would do
well perhaps to live their "attentive"
days over again, and "spark" their wives
afresh. The change from the wan and
weary or the slightly martyr aspect
which many wives wear, would be a
thing as well worth seeing as any adver
tised "attraction," and the voice of a
cheerful wife as well worth hearing as
any drama, opera, or lecture. Philadel
phia Ledger.
ExxuLLATixa Chambers. When it
is considered that pure air is essential
to the purification of the blood, and that
the food we eat never becomes nutri
ment until it meets with the air in the
lungs, and when it is furthermore re
membered that a full third of our entire
existence is passed in our sleeping
apartments, it must be clear to the com
monest understanding that the differ
ence between breathing a pure and im
pure air whilo we are asleep, is literally
incalculable as to tho effects upon our
happiness and well-being.
Foreign Bodies in the Nose. Pa
rents are often puzzled to help their
children when thev eet beans, buttons,
etc., in their noses. The Medical Re
cord says: Blow the patient's nose for
him by closing the empty nostra witn
your finper and blowing suddenly and
strongly into the mouth an efficient
method which has often succeeded when
instruments have failed. The glottis
closes spasmodically, and the whole
force of vour breath goes.to expel the
button or bean, which commonly flies
out at the first effort.
New Hampshire law says that if ap
ples grown on the other side of the fence
fall upon your land they aro yours; and
now the only thing needed i9 to shake
the trees at nijht.
Men's evil manners live in brass,
their virtues we write in water.
New Zealand Snperstition .
To realize fsavs Shorthand) a know
ledge of these superstitions as they now
exist, I went with a New Zealander to a
hut inhabited by an old woman celebra
ted for her intercourse with spirits.
This Phythoness, after smoking a short
black pipe, removed all the blazincr
sticks from the fire, so as to obscure the
light partially, and then sat quite still.
The two slave women, who up to this
time had gone on with their work, now
ceased to ply their fingers, laid their
baskets down quietly, and also sat still
without speaking. For awhilo we all
observed a complete silence; but no
strange sound was heard. At length,
Taukaraina began to show symptoms of -impatience.
He quitted his seat by me
and took the opposite side of the'firo,
near the old lady, where he stretched
himself at full length on the grovnd and
called on the Atua by name. "Why are
you so long in coming?" he shouted an
grily. . "Are you at Waikato, or where
else at a distance, that you come not
quickly ?" The flame of the lire had by
this time gone out, and the embers
alone gave a dim light. It was, how
ever, sufficient to enable me tj distin
guish the persons in the hut. They all
sat still except Taukaraina, t ho, roiling
himself on his belly, ceased not to call
on the gods with gret energy. The
sight was strange and unexpected, and,
at the moment made a great impression
on me. In spite of my better judg
ment, involuntary fancies would intrude
on my imagination. Was it only a mere
juggle I was about to witness? Might
there not be more things in heaven and
earth than were dreamt of in man's
philosophy? These speculationa were
interrupted by a sound as if something
had fallen on the roof of the hut; and
then a rustling noise, just as mis: lit be
made by a rat, crept along the thatch
till it stopped just over our heads. The
old woman covered her head and face in
her blanket, and bent herself up nearly
double, her head resting on her knees.
And immediately from the spot where
the rustling noise had ceased issued
sounds imitative of voices, but whistled
instead of being articulate in ordinary
tones. The old lady was detected prac
tising a sort of ventriloquism, by utter
ing a squeak, which seemed to como
from a lizard on the roof . But no mys
tery of Egypt could be more solemny
enacted.
WrLi. of Zachary Tatxor's Daugh
ter. WThile Mrs. Ann M. Wood,
daughter of ex-President Taylor, was on
a visit to Halifax, in the latter part of
18C9, she made her will on a sheet of
note paper, the document having more
the ' appearance of a letter than a will,
and being entirely devoid of the usual
legal phraseology. The instrument was
admitted to probate by Surrogate Cal
vin, and, as no provision is made in the
will for an executor, letters of adminis
tration are to be granted to John Tay
lor Wood, son of the testatrix. Follow
ing is the document:
Halifax, . Nova Scotia, November
24, 18G9. I leave to my son, J. T.
Wood, the' sword presented to my
father, Gen. Z. Taylor, by the State of
Louisiana, and to my son, Robert C.
Wood, the gold medal presented by
Congress to my father, Gen. Z. Taylor,
and also my silver butter-dish and milk
pitcher. To my daughter, Nina Von
Grabow, my silver punch ladle. She
and my daughter Sarah K. Wood will
draw for my silver pitcher, which was
presented to my father. At their death
to be given to my grandson, Willie
Bryce. To my daughter, Sarah K. Wood,
I leave all my bank stock in the Bank
of Louisville, lventucky, and all the fur
niture in my house, No. 25 East Thirty
first street, New York City, and the bal
ance of my silver, which is at Tiffany s
in New York, and also the plated ware.
To my grandson, Robert C. Wood, the
watch which belonged to grandfather,
and my grandson, Bringier Trisa Wood,
the silver cup marked, "R. C. W." In
case, of the death of my daughter Sarah
bef ove mine I leave" my silver tea set,
consisting of tea pot, sugar and slop
bowl, ind cream pitcher, and milk
pitcher to my son, R. C. Wood; my
silver butter dish to my son J. T. Wood;
to my daughter, Nina Von Grabow, my
silver tankard, epergre, and four vege
table dishes ; the balance of the silver to
be equally divided, except the silver
pitcher, which I leave to my daughter
Nina Von Grabow. To my sister, B.
T. Dandridge. I leave $2,500 of my
stock in the Bank of Louisville, Ken
tucky. The balance of my property to
be equally divided, with the exception
of $500 for the grave in Lockport, New
York."
The daughters of the testatrix, Nina
W. Von Grabow and Sarah K. Wood,
reside at Frieberg, Baden, Germany.
The testatrix estate is valued at about
50.000. She died in this city, at her
residence in Thirty-first street, in De
cember, 1875. N. Y. Times.
A Trifling Mistake. In the House
of Peers, during the examination of the
magistrates of Edinburg, touching the
particulars of the Porteou,s mob, in
1736, the Duke of Newcastle having
asked the provost with what kind of
shot the town-guard, commanded by
Porteous, had loaded their muskets, re
ceived the unexpected reply, "Ou, just
sic as ano shoots dukes and fools wi!"
The answer was considered as a con
tempt of the Honso of Lords, and the
poor provost would have suffered from
misconception of his patois, had not the
Duke of Argyle (who must have been
exceedingly amused) explained that the
worlhy chief magistrate's expression,
when rendered into English, meant to
describe the shot used for ducks and
water-fowl.
It was fun to watch the expression on
that peanut vender's face as a polica
man appeared to him yesterday, with
tle caution to "look out for one thou
sand dollar counterfeit greenbacks."
An Irishman having bought a pair of
boots that were too small for him,
"Faith," said he, "I shall have to wear
them three or four times before I get
then onl"
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