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WIT AND HUMOR. Collector's favorite color dun. When engin-ears comprom-eyes, any body nose the people are a-head. Some people read the eleventh com mandment " Do riot and fear not." The man who can say all lie has got to say in a few words is an ugly customer to handle. A child thus defines gossip : " It's when nobody don't do nothing, and somebody goes and tells of it." It is suggested that the name of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company ought to be changed to the Slippery Elm. Good man, you must always narrate the facts clearly and truthfully to your lawyer. It is his business to mix them up and lie. Three are a mob, according to law. This is what a young fellow thinks when he and another chap are courting the same girl. X. Y. Herald. Ix concluding an article on the last corn crop, an Alabama editor remarked, " We have on exhibition in our sanctum a magnificent pair of ears." A Mississippi granger is opposed to railroads. He says that when he goes to town they " bring him home so quick he hasn't time to get sober before he ar rives." If von fro on an excursion and the seats aro all taken, stand up as long as yon can and then cry out : " Man overboard !" Every woman will rush for the rail. Free Press. " Another whaler sailed," wrote a New Bedford editor. "Another sailor whaled," said the intelligent compositor, who had been watching a parting fight on the wharf. "A soft answer turneth away wrath ;" yet a man caught by his wife dealing soft answers to a pretty widow next door, says he can show scars to prove that the proverb didn't work well in his case. Ix some parts of the world the days are four months long,- and when a lively boy of six years accompanies his parents to church for the first time he thinks he has struck one of those kind of days sure. A rich, but parsimonious old gentle man, on being taken to task for his un charitableness, said: " True, I don't give much, but if you only knew how it hurts when I give anything, you wouldn't won der." " So you like your second wife better than the first ?" " Yes," he said, enthu siastically; " she always puts enough starch in my shirts to save me the trou ble of scratching my back." N. York Weekly. A North Carolina man has invented a new spark-arrester, just as though the old man yelling down stairs to the girl to come to bed, and asking if that sap he&d intends to stay for breakfast, wasn't effective enough. A CjCstky editor publishes the state ment that the "moon-eyed men" of his town are raising a fund for the relief of sufferers by the late fires. The moneyed men would probably be obliged to him if he wouldn't O them so much. "Doctor, my daughter seems to be going blind, and she's just getting ready for her wedding, too ! O, dear mo, what is to be done ?" " Let her go right on with the wedding, madam, by all means. If anything can open her eyes, marriage will." Whex a small boy with a prejudice against yellow dogs observes an old oyster-can in a condition of activity, he at once begins debating whether it was cre- ated to point a moral or adorn a tail. The dog gets the first news of the de- cision. "Mother, mother, here's Freddy teas ing the baby." " Make him cry again, Freddy, and then mother will give him some sugar, and I'll take it away from him, then he'll squall, and mother will give him some more, and you can take that, and we'll both have some." Mrs. Mulock Craik has written sev eral verses about " When a Man Comes Home." She says, "When a man comes home, let him enter, smiling." But pretty often he has "smiled " so much before he comes home, that it is almost impossible for him to enter at all. Mr. Evart's wit is the life of the Cab inet meetings at the White House. He told his associates the other day that he was going to put over the door of his of fice in the State Department a passage of Scripture slightly changed, thus : " Many call, but few are chosen." His Reverence (time Sunday morn ing) : " Tim, you don't mane to say ydur master is going to work the poor baste to-day ?" Tim : " Oh, no, yir riverence! Yir see, he's been hard to work all the week, so the master thought he'd take him out to-day for a bit of a holiday!" f Judy. Spilkixs came down town this morn ing with a nosegay in his button-hole. " Hullo!" said a friend ; "why, Leander, you look as if you'd just come out of a green-house." " No," replied Spilkins, mopping his fevered brow, " but I pass ed the night in a hot bed." N. Y. Com. Advertiser. Scexe: Royal Academy, Gallery No. 2. Artful One (noticing proximity of re freshment room) : "Oh, George dear, I I feel so faint." More Artful One (who has been "served that way before") : "Faint, eh? it's this doosid unpleasant smell of cookery: let's get on a bit." London Fun. A Scotch witness somewhat given to prevarication was severely handled by a cross-examining counsel. " How far is it between the two farms?" said the counsel. " By the road it's twa mile." " les ; but, on your oath, how far is it I as the crow flies?" " I dinna ken ; I never was a crow." Two Irishmen were recently looking at people stretching a rope from one house-top to another for the purpose of suspending a banner, " Shure an what will they be afther a-doin at the top of thim houses there?" Pat asked. "Faith, an it's a submarine telegraph they're af ther puttin up, I suppose," answered Mick. Ccstom-house Officer: "You're keep ing a sharp lookout for the Colorado bee tle, Mike?" Mike "Ay.ay.sorr. Shure and wasn't it thisblissid marnin' we stop ped a quare sort o' traveler, and over hauled his portmanchew, and sorra a bit did we find on hkn so much as a cocked hat to bespake him a beadle 1" f Funny Folks. Some short time ago a Yicksburg wo man was trying hard to get her drunken husband home, and as she pulled him along the street, her words and actions were so tender that a citizen halted and said, "Well, all drunkards' wives haven't your disposition." " S-h-h ! don't say anything," she replied, in a whisper ; . " I've got to call him pet names to get him home, but wait till he drops into the hall be there then." i x T V"- A Modest Methodist Minister. HOW HE WAS CACGHT BY CUPID AT CAMP MEETIXG. Ocean Grove Camp Meeting, August 17. As the camp-meeting is well under way, I must rise and tell my experience before the brethren: Her skiff was named the Pentecost, and she rowed it all alone. People en viously said that she must have a versa tile tongue to put such a name upon her boat, but the blade of her oar was more dextrous than envious tongues. She passed everything on the Wesley lake. As she rowed the fine outlines of her form were defined. Her arm sometimes was exposed enough to make men see that though muscular, it was round and trim. He also rowed alone; his boat was call ed "The Little Fraud." He wore his hair behind his ears, and his feautures were of a monastic leanness, yet fine. He had large, feeling eyes, soft as a pray er, expressive as praise. Barbara was struck with his appear ance. She said : " I never expected to see a man hero I could look at twice. My aunt is such au incorrigible Meth odist that she would go no where but to Ocean Grove. I hate it! She goes to the meetings and I'go rowing. Now, by rowing every day for two months I have muscle enough to hug the life out of that little fellow yonder, if he was spirited enough to flirt!" She therefore adopted all the devices of her sex when mischief and obstinacy unite to suggest tliem. Her handker chief was set flying over her shoulder, after she passed him, so that he could see her, a she looked astern, place it there. A little more of thosefine arms were exposed specially for him, and they attracted even the small boys, but that sweet and refined monastic face only looked a little more respectfully out of its large eyes. " I believe I've touch ed him, though he is too saintly to look it," said Barbara. "Who is he? Is he married?" The stranger also rowed his boat with reerulanty, and seemed to be a sort of a religious athlete, but he was no match for Barbara. She rowed around him, behind him, and finally fouled him; then his fine eyes wore a more cherry light, but not quite worldly yet, and she heard a full melodious, clearly articu lated voice exclaim: "Sister, we're afoul! But it must be thy fault. I'm the worse rower of the two." louuont want me to take you in tow?" asked Barbara, cooly. The gen tle and refined face barely smiled, and he shook, his head, "No." But still there was a little more ardor in his glance. Barbara exclaimed that night: "Aunty, I'm in love!" " At last," answered aunty, looking over her bible. " Whero)have you been !" " I have you been trying to flirt with one of your kind; ho looks like a meth odist monk. Ho rows a boat called 'The Little Fraud.' And that's what he is! He's got my heart; I'm sick. Hadn't you better pray for me? I want that man and no other." Aunty wanted to have Barbara mar ried, and Barbara's fortune put where it would do the most good. She said: " Niece, perhaps you'll find that young man at somo of our meetings." " Then I shan't find him," said Bar bara, "for I hate your meetings. They are vulgar! The last time I went a man told three stale and, I dare say, invent ed anecdotes, and then shouted at the top of his voiee, using the initials of his own name, " Jesus died for P. II. Bliss! P. II. Bliss is pardoned ! Thank God for its! He died for us! 1 II. Bliss is one of us! Now that," contin ued Barbara, "is worthy of A. Ward. If my young monk preaches that way I'll run him underwater, and drown him in Wesley lake." Barbara would not go to the meeting, but that day and the next she rowed the lake, and the young man was not there. " I may have frightened him off," she thought. "What a miserable paddle this lake is without him. I could go somewhere and cry!" She did cry, and scolded her aunt. I shall just go up to Long Branch," she said, "and marry one of those nin compoops, the stock brokers!" "Ah, my child!" said aunty, "hunt your young monk first at meeting. If you don't find him, you may find conso lation. I've buried two pious husbands, and may be the Lord has willed it for me to have a third. Blessed be His name. I shan't rebel." The old lady sniffled, stuck out her foot as if to admire it, and went on read ing her bible. Barbara put on her bonnet that even ing and went to meeting. She had hard ly entered the accessory tent when it was to be held, when she saw the Little Fraud. He was among the dignitaries of the church. He blushed over his pale face; she blushed over her fine, commanding, almost masculine features. Nature never turning out her physical superior. Health played in her like champagne in the quart form of the crystal bottle, and now, it seemed, the preacher's hand was drawing the cork and all her nature bubbling upward. That soft and deeply-drawn voice read a hymn: " Watchman, tell us of the uiglit; W hat its signs of promise are?" Such reading Barbara had never heard. An actor could not do as well "I'm gone," she said, "It's Methodist witchcraft!" The reading of that hymn was supplemented by the young man leading the singing of it to a small organ accompaniment. "O!" thought Bar bara, "if I could play that organ to tuat voice, lie suoutd never stop, but si. g himself to heaven, or faint in my arms." Some tedious man preached, and whenever he stuck, yelled his text aloud. The text was, Behold the mustard seed!" Barbara's aunt said it was a noble discourse. Barbara remarked sotlo voce, " Oh! aunty go to grass?" After the preaching and more singing the Little Fraud arose to exhort. He had been looking quietly at Barbara during the sermon, particularly when ever Brother Stuffinbox cried, " Behold the mustard seed!" " He is not afraid of mustard;" said Barbara, "but it makes him blnsh!" The Little Fraud was neat as a pin and soft as a fawn. Sincerity and refinement invested him, and he was earnest in not bullying peoplo to heaven as if he was driving steers. He addressed himself to the sense of divine love and gratitude. Barbara listened with delight. His slight form grew to a height as he proceeded ; his tender eves were beseeching; " O stay that careless oar dear broth er sister!" he said, and his eyes were on Barbara. "The rapids are before you pause." " I'm in them," thought Barbara. After the address came prayer and the invitation. The young man walked down the tout as the time for personal appeal to sinners came, among other earnest brethren. He stoppeu ueiore Barbara, and when no one noticed,' in a time of general emotion, he knelt be ore her. He took her hand. "Sister," said he, "have yon found peace?" "I hope to find it," said Barbara. " Now is the time," said the young man, tenderly. "Why not to-day? Is something standing between you and everlasting love? Discard it from your heart!" ml . . "I can't," said Barbara. '.'This is not the time and place to speak with me, I don't like to kneel in straw. But I'm moved." She looked into the young man's face. He blushed again, and his voice trem bled a little in the pauses of Brother Stuflinbox's roaring prayer. " Can I help you to cast out that evil from j-our mind?" " Perhaps," said maiden. " If I am worth saving you might try again but not here." She trembled a little, too, and between them passed the flattering pinions of the worldly angel which visited unseen the monk Abelard and the wistful Ho loise. " I'll see thee again, then," said the young zealot, softly. "Have faith till then!" Auntv brought home the Little Fraud. She and.Brothcr Stuffinbox went deeply into the jarable of the mustard seed, while Barbara heard her monk discourse anart. lie came aeain and aerain. One day he said: " Dear sister, is that ob stacle still in your heart? Perhaps I can divert it! I have asked your aunty, and Brother Stufliubox is ardent for the ceremony!" "Nothing else. I am afraid can save me," faltered B;irbara. "Why, sister," he answered, "it has come to pass that nothing else can save me. I have been in love a montu. Then ho received the athletic hug, ti 1 1 1 1 lit ai n luiii liuv; uug nuuiuu out, while he tried to draw his breath: " For shame, you Little Fraud!" Grald, jv. l . urapiii . Oyster Planting. A man named Horter lived out in Col orado, a few years ago, but, as his health was bad, he was ordered to spend a vear or two at the sea-shore. He was born in the far West, and had never seen an oyster in its shell. He bought a cottage at Atlantic City, and went there to live early last spring. A few days after his arrival, he saw a man going by with a cartload of oysters, which Hor ter mistook for stones. Stones are mighty scarce at Atlantic, and, as Hor ter wanted some to make borders for his flower-beds, he asked the man what he would take for his load. It struck Horter that the price was very high; but he boucrht the lot. and had tliem down by his cate. Tho next day he stuck eight hundred of them in the sand in his garden, around the beds, and when the job was done ho thought it looked uncommonly handsome. A week afterwards there were threo or four warm days, and Horter remark ed that the sea breeze smelled very strong; and ho told Mrs. Horter that ho thought there must bo a dead whale lying somewhere around the beach. The next day the smell became more offen sive, and Mrs. Horter said that it was an outracre that the authorities didn't clean up the street and remove the garbage that poisoned the air. On the follow ing day the weather was extremely hot, and the stench became perfectly ter rific. Mr. Horter said there must bo a dead rat somewhere in tho weather boarding, and he got a carpenter to come and remove some of it. But he found nothing, and upon going away, lie re marked to Horter "that the. sauer kraut thev were cook iner for dinner was the deadliest sauer kraut for smell that he ever encountered in his life. The stench grew stronger all that nicrht. and on the next mornine a com mittee of neighbors waited upon Mr Horter to say if he would kill that Jpole cat he would confer a personal favor upon them, and upon the peoplo of the county generally. Then Horter told them how perplex ed he was about the matter, and said he would only be too glad to have the causo of the trouble detected. So the commit tee made a tour of inspection, holding their noses. When they got into the garden they perceived the oysters all gaping wide open, and evolving an aw ful smell, absolutely in fumes. One of the committeemen, grasping the fact that Horter planted these oys ters, imagined he was crazy, and sudden ly climbed over the fence and went. The others remained, and asked Horter what on earth he meant by laying those oysters around in the sun in that man ner. " Oysters!" said Horter. " Oysters! you don't mean to say those are oysters! Well, well! that beats all! I was won dering what made all those stones split even down in the middle. I couldn't account for it! And so those are oys ters? WThy, I thought oysters always came in cans." That afternoon he buried the shell fish deep in tho sand, and the smell ceas ed. Then he sold out his cottage, and moved to Long Branch. He told Brown, his next-door neighbor, that ho knew they were oysters all the time, and he did it for a joke; but he moved because the people seemed to see too awful much fun in it. Phila. llulletin. Profitable Honey Bees. A well known beekeeper in New York State says that he obtained last season from 132 familes or stocks five tons of honey. Many of the statements in the papers about the quantity of honey obtained by different men are not reliable; but this men I think, has not exaggerated much, as he is a skilled beekeeper. How was it done? In the first place, these wero undoubtedly selected hives from a much larger number. Secondly Theliees were in "non-swarming" hives, by which the labors of two or three times the usual number of bees in a hive were secured in one hive. Thirdly he probably used a honey extractor, by which he obtained considerable strained honey. Fourthly He resides in a very fine locality for bees. This is 75 pounds per hive, worth perhaps 15 cents per pound, or $11.25 per hive, apart being strained honey that sells now at whole sale for 10 and 12 cents per pound in New York, and comb box honey at 18 and 20 cents, but this statement shows that bees are profitable in skillful hands if the locality be a good one for them. Rowland Hill was once requested to preach a sermon to the elect. He promptly replied: "Have the goodness to mark the elect with a piece of chalk, so that I may know them, and I will preach to tl em." The request was not insisted on. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, That Disease Breeds Disease Is a notorious fact. It is therefore of vital im portance to check maladies in their birth, ere they have a chance to develop other and more dangerous disordera. As a means of checking complaints which, if allowed to proceed, finally disorder the entire system. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters iu-a medicine the use of which cannot be too strongly urged upon the sick and leeoie. sures the acquisition of vigor by the debilitated. OUU lb DUUBULUm ih lUCClllU cuhuiuvh - for gloom and despondency. Dyspepsia, consti- yti Liwu , livci tuuimaiuii auu troubles yield to its remedial influence ; it coun teracts a tendency to gout and rheumatism, and invigorates the nerves. Moreover, it is derived from purely botanical sources, and in this, as in every other respect, is suporior to the mineral OIR 1 1 ATT E KS. A Model Hat Store O. Hebrmass, 402 Keak- xy Steeet, Sax Fkancisco. It has always been noted that some business firms drasr a slow and tedious existence, while another with no better advantages or cap ital succeeds from the start, lor this there must be a cause. The cause generally, yes, we may pay universally, is that there i a man at the head who not only understands his business m a mechanical sense, but in a commercial one too. The first essential is a fir.t-class article and one which time proves the honesty of its recommen dation. The hat store of which it is our pleas ure to call attention to. is that of C. Herrmann, 402 Kearny street, this city. This store was started here about a year anil a half ago by the enterprising young man before mentioned, and in that brief period he has built up a lucrative trade. This has been accomplished by a close attention to the wants of customers and treating all with civility and courtesy. Anything ema nating from his establishment is the best the market affords and sold at marvelously cheap rates. The consequences of this are that when once a purchaser deals there he returns. New styles from all the principal large manufactur ers aro being constantly received. Mr. Herr mann makes a specialty of line grade bats. In felts he has a fine assortment of soft, stiff and semi-stiff grades. Bilk hats are made to order in the highest skill of the art and in any style ordered. Wo would not unduly laud the enter prise of this gentleman or the superior quality of his goods, but in setting forth these state ments wo feel assured that the public can sub stantiate our assertions. S. F. Commercial. Irviisr.s Japanese Paper Carpeting:. Among the many novelties at the Me chanics Fair, San Francisco, the well known firm of Armes A Dallam exhibit some Japanese paper carpeting. While it has the general ap pearance of oil cloth it is handsomer and nas no offensive smell, and as it costs only 50 cents per square yard it must sooner or later have an extensive sale. It is claimed it is even more durable than oil cloth its fineness of texture certainly gives credence to this theory. There is nothing alou t it to friz and tear as there is in oil cloth, and those who know anything about Japanese skill in making an almost incredibly firm, strong and tough paper, will readily credit this. As it lays down smoother than oil cloth it obviates a serious objection to mat material it does not crack, and tho colors are printed into the very fiber of the paper. No doubt some people may have a prejudice against it ironi its name, but if any will examine the specimens on exhibition they will see that the fiber and body of the material has more of the toughness ana appearance of leather than anything known un der the name of paper made in this country. We have seen some of this carpeting which has been in an ofliee where it is much used and it shows hardly any signs of wear, although it has been in use fifteen months. Armes A Dallam, dealers in wood and willow ware, at 215 and 217 Sacramento street. San Francisco, are the sole asrents. People should examine this for tliem selves. Amies A Dallam will supply samplts upon application. A typographical error occurred In our issue two weeks iu place of the word months." it read ' weeks," From Hon. W. II. Joura, of Hl inner, Vermont. " I have been troubled from my boy hood with chronic orlioreditary lungcomnlaiut. Some years since, early in the winter, I took cold, which as usual settled into a severe cough, which continued to increase as the season advanced, al though I made use of all the cough remedies I had knowledge of. My family physician also prescribed for me, but I experienced no relief. During ail this time I wan" gradually running down, losing llesh and strength, until my friends as well as myself beoamo very much alarmed, thinking I should waste away in consumption. While in .Boston, during the Spring following, 1 was induced to try Wistau's Balsam of Wim Chebuv. After one day's trial I was sensible that it was relieving me; in ten days time my cough had entirely ceased, and I was soon res tored to health and strength. I have ever since kept the Balsam in my house, and whenever any member of my family has a cough or cold, it is immediately resorted to. No family should be without it.'r Sold by all druggists. Tlie Machine Wait Horn Out. Why? Not because it was not well built, but it was wrongly run. Thousands of men who have run down long before their three score and ten years are accomplished, might have been renewed into sprightliness and vim if they had tried the v. ell-known Peuuvian Sy hcp, which contains among its compounds the Protoxide of iron, so combined that it assimi lates with the blood and invigorates the whole system. This Syrup has proved efficacious in thousands of cases, and wDl do everybody good who uses it. All druggists keep it. A Chance for Everybody. Extraordinary Cash Premiums offered for subscribers to the Weekly Rescue S10 per day can be made. Address Russell, Gibson A Co., '518 Clay st., S.F. 98 PIERCE'S PATENT MAfiSETIC EI.AKTIC TRUSS. This great inven tion is beijg adopted by the lead, irig Physicians and Surgeons all over the land. nrWe would respectfully caution the I'ublie agaiiiHt certain fraudulent and worthless imitations which are now iu the market. Jieware of them. BdSS-end for Illustrated Book and Price List. MAGXETIV ELASTIC TKUKS CO., W9,GeI eHcrineiito St., Up Stairs, San Francisco. REVOLVER FREE Seven-shot revolver. with box cartridees. Address J. Bowu fc Sou, 136 aud 1'iS Wood Street, Pittsburg. Pa. BUY A LAMB KNITTING MACHINE, And maice :l to (4 a day. 8end for Circulars to J. J. PFISTKR & CO., Clenral Agents, 12U Hvttkk Stkkkt, Koom 4tf Sua Francisco. THE SECRET Adviser and Private Med ical Guide. Sufferers from physical debility, indiscretions and excesses, send ix:. to Dr. Jobn Cooper, P. O. Box 2,148, Phiia., get a cooy, cure yourself, aud save ex pen and exposure. HOW TO BECOME LEAN ! OR the succesoful treatment of excessive fatness, without injury to the health, bv the use of DK. OKR'S KMX1K OF 'JL'LF WKEIV which can he obtained of ali respectable iJruggists and at the WHOI.KSAI.K IJKPOT, N. K. COR. POHTAVD MaNOX Sts.. San Francisco. I'rlrr. 82.00 Hr bolllr. Information to Country Residents. The ST. GEORGE MEL, 812 Kearny St., SAN FRANCISCO. New four-story brick, con taining lOO beautiful light sunny roor.is, newly furnished, to rent by the Iay, Week or Month, in suite or single, at one-half the usual rates, enabling one to live in the cltv Iu line style for the small sum of One Dollar per day. THY IT. Ask your Grocer for See that you get AVBlsTA, And do not be deceived with that which Is not AVEISTA. SPECIALTY REMOVAL. J. PAVlill, at. It., ban ri'iiiiiiuil l t'l.T alrerl. Dis eases of the Kyk and Kar receive especial attention. Medical a rut fHtrpiral treatt nient given In all diseases. Much experience In Throat and Lung diseases. FJectro Matrnetism -iitjittrnri.. plTed in diseases of the nervous svstem. To Genito urinary diseases much attet 4on'ls given. May be consulted by letter. Addresn W. J. PAtOH, M. D Kll Clay Street, San Francisco, (over Clay streeY Savings Bank), Knows 1, 2 and a. BLOOD (IMCIIESSEJttU SAX.) IF YOU ARE PALE, IT WILL GIVE COLOR TO YOUK CHEEKS. IF YOU ARE WEAK, IT WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH. IF YOU FEEL DULL AND GLOOMY IT WILL MAKE YOU CHEERFUL. IF INCAPABLE OF EXERTION, IT WILL GIVE YOU ACTIVITY. IF THE LEAST THING PUTS YOU OUT, IT WILL GIVE YOU l'LUCK AMD ENERGY. t' woni), If Your Blood is Thin IT WILL MAKE IT RICH. A UR(!E NUMBER OF MEN' AND OVER tiuif ..l tho wiunvn siifTnr from AneutV or '1 hill Wood; that is to say. that the quantity oi rei gioo tiles, which predominate In a healthy anil vigorous blood, is in their cases too small. The basis of these reil glohuies is I HON. which their interKal economy lails to furnish in sutVicient quantity. The basirf of this new and wonderful medicine Is also IKON, which is easllv assimilated by the sys pm ami gives to the Blood ttiat vitality and stietigth which it so much wants, and which is ho iunispeiisj ble to that real eij"vment of life, commonly called PKRKKCTT.T iol 11 KitTII. One of the great qualities which will maue this precious nrepaiation largely pooulur is that once the Blood has obtained the quantity of Iron it needs it will not iibso' b any more of it; there is therefore no tear of bad consequences to be euiertai ued should a person use it when not needed. Therefore, if vo'i perceire any of the symptoms above descr b-d, or in any way have the least cau-e to think that your Blimd is thin, do not hesitate a moment to have recourse to our UKD BLOOD, ami stick to it until you reel a rad cal change; nn.l. r it iuiltieni-e you will perceive your cheeks gradually redden; vonr energy, moral mid physical, will be strecgtlie"ii d, and you will discover what a good thing it W to live when one is healthy. AnemyorThln Blood is not only a disease by it self, but it predisposes one to any other diseases, prevalent or utider whose Influence you may be unconsciously thrown why, then, not get rid at once or such a terrible enemy ? W'e owe this great discovery to Du. Bautkowsk v. a distinguished French Chemist, who, under certain considerations, has entrusted the undersigned with his secret to act f:r him as his Agent for the United StHtCS. N. It.-Unlike any other preparation, this snot ail'ect the teeth. To be iiml from nil tlae principal licni lst. Irir, 1.23. A;entfirthe United States, C. MEIQUIOND, 115 SAXSOJII! STRKI.T, Corner of Commercial, San- Fuancihco, Cal. JOHN T. LITTLE, llcoiiiil Iti-oI.er, It ! Ktetntc- A;i'ul.iuil llrnlrr in I'lilirtl StntrH, Slute. City nml County IttttatlM. u, H'nler, Itnk. Itallroad nml Otuer Keeurllim. 412 Montgomery Street. $400,000 To Loan on CITY and COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. $250,000 To Loan on Gas, Water, Bank, Rail road, and Other Securities. MERCANTILE PAPER Discounted, and Money Loaned non all kinds of Collaterals. 4l Montgomery Street, SAN FRANCISCO. Moiney to ILosm ON FIRST CLASS FARMING LANDS, IN large sums, at low rates. IjuhIs bought and sold. Parties having money to loan cau always Hud good securities, by applying to w.n. i.i:Kt'iMm i:u Ko. K Stevenson's Building, S. VV. for. Montgom ery and California streets. San Francisco. OREGON STEAMSHIP COMPANY. The Only Direct Line to Portland. Cabin Inaairo. 8to I Nteerace InHaue, 93 K:ri.AK KTK A I E K H TO fcl'OHTLAND leaving San Francisco ev ery F1VK DAYS until further notice Steamships City of Chester, George W. Elder and Ajax, Connecting with Steamers to SITKA and PUOF.T SOUND, and O. anil C. R. R. Co. and Oregon and C. It. R. Co. through Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue Kiver Valleys, Oregon. TICK KTS TO ALL POINTS ON TIIK O. and C It R. SOLD AT REDUCED KATES. K. VAN OTERKNDORP, Agent. 2IO Battery street, San Francisco. PACIFIC COASTSTEAMSWP CO. Carrylnar the V. N. Mail and ttic Kxirr. Tli Klreant Nlfinuem of thin k-Company leave lirnuinov ti'i,.f i'inunui,VMII n KKK tor PORTLAND, OREGON, DIRECT, And for Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Santa Bar bara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and San Ulego and other ports about EVERY THIRD DAY. ciHcrsiope,at l " th6 prt,,ci'a' P'ces on the Pa TIIIS LOWEHT HATKS. ...,V.,.""t 1"'T XicUeli. by any other Lino until yon eall at our TieUet 111 re. Kan rranrlMo Ticket OHiee 314 Mout Ko iu-ry Street. GOODALL. PERKINS k CO. General Agents, No. 10 Market Street, Sail Francisco. . . . -r ' ' oau San Francisco, May 30, 1877. the nudenlenrU Wholeaale ro er, take plrnnre in remarking the In ereaaed demand for Iiawrn'n I'rrmlnm Yeaot Powder, and or tetlflmar to the general BaliHraetlon given by this brand : 8an Fbancibco WELLMAX. PECK k CO., ROOT & SANDERSON, LEDDEN. WHIPPLE & CO.. HAAS BROS., TABER, UARKER k CO.. J. M. PIKE it CO.. J. A. FOLGER & CO., NEWTON BROS, CO.. CASTLE BROS.. KUUSE & EULEE, JONES & CO., M. EHRMAN k CO.. . DANERI A: CO.. M. k C. MANGELS. TILLMAN k BENDEL. ALBERT MAU k CO.. W. W. DODGE k CO. Sacramento ADAMS. McNEJLL & CO MEBIUS & CO.. BOOTH k CO., MILLIKEN BROS. STOVBS9 E AMGES MARBLEIZED IRON MANTELS AND KITCHEN UTENSILS, At tlic MECHANICS FAIR, San iV;mi-is'i. IS MACE RY W. W. MONTAGUE & CO., Who liaic Ue Larertl StocU and reatet Variety of KTOVI.S aud Kax;,;s Bn II. e I-ucitlc Coaal. Over 500 WlOVren Style. Slie and lall. rns r suflt Kau se may be weeit at their WAREROOMS, 110, 112, 114, 11G, 118, PATENT " ffc-- TRADE MARK. EXTERMINATOR ! The Price of this well known article in 5 lb. Tins has been MATERI ALLY REDUCED. See tbat the above trade mark is on each package. The Best Medium for the Destruction of GOPHERS. FULL DIRECTIONS WITH EACH C N. H. P. WAKELEE tfc CO., Importers of JJIXTJGrS mid OXIDE:3VriO-XjJS, AGENT AND MANAGER GOLDEN CITY CIJFMfCAL WORKS. Ul'KU'E, OIl. JIOTVOHi:ilV AI III VET Kit YOU HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING In vain, USE IS6. SALFIELD-S RejuvenatoR Aud a thorough. Speedy and I'rriiiaiienl riire will be your Kettard. It Is the only Kri-ut remedy, immediate relief, an-l positive cure for r.nkiiexs prr.uliar to uiri) : sucli Nervous, Mental and Physical Debility, I'remaiure Decline, and Krokttii-ilown Constitution, from wli-.il ever cause. irill rextore Ertutustfd i'trrlit tityi Jftnhfft ivtw.ii nil ttthf.r remetiie littre. ftjU&i. it will purify the IiIimmI ami mipply it with Hie necessary life-Ri vim? principle, and thereby eradicate nil mo- -bill eruption! of the skin. I tin an immediate reli. f and sure cure for ali KIDNEY' AND BLADDER COMPLAINTS. Price, $2 50 per bottle, or five bottles in cane (which in mostei'ery instance lias Hl'ecte.1 a complete eurei for $10 O) Sent to any address upon receipt of price, or C. (. D Procurable only, direct of DR. NALKIKLD, 'A Kearny Strrrl, San Francisco, Cal , where you should call oraddr-ss your lvtlers. AU communications strictlv confidential. Ukkh k Hours : a a. m. till 4 p. M. and 0 till 8 i M. Suuduys from 10 tiii 1 only. Cmuluitioii by letter or personally Free. USE the Hierapieraor Fi I'.itters. Cures Fever ami Ague, liiliousne.ss. Constipation, Impure liliHxi, Kidney Weakness, Worms, Utiiiary Disor ders, Female Cumpiuiuts, etc. DrinrKists have it. Aden's. IIkmnhtox & Co. Wholesale Druggists, San Francisco, Cal. W. 14. ( I1AMBE1U.A1X,JR. THUS. A. lt(ll:INl.. BUSINESS C3LLIG2, C20 To3t Street, I II IS O. OPPOSITE UNION SQUARK. TIIK OLDEST and most complete Commercial i'olleiceou the coast. Kleeaut halls : new ftmiiture: thorough in struction: practical teachers: hilfb HtHiidiisif with the public Students can commence at iin v time. Day uiid Kveiiing sessions. Circulars free on application. ISoots and Shoos. JOHN Kl' 1.1.1 V 4 N, N. K. cor. P.at-t-ry and Jackson Sis , sail Francisco, offers to make to order the best Freuch Calf Leather Hi IO I S at from j s to ! 00 California Leather Hoots, - - H 00 French Calf Oxford 'IVs, - - jl 00 California - - . s'l 50 Boys' and Children's Hoots and Shoes made to order. Persons in the country ordering Roots and Shoes to the amount of $1'2 or more will be allowed a reduc tion of four ercent., to make the express charges iKht. I sell Hoots and Shoes of MY OWN MANU FACTURE ONLY. Roots and Nlioes sent C. O. D. Positively one price. Save Your Money "I Y' (IKTTINH YOUR PHOTOGR APHS AT J H(tVI,tMrs SDW IIALLKItr, No. :t."i Thikd Stkkkt. First-class Itiotoraphs for half ttie price charged at other Ualleries. Life-size Por traits in Oil or Water olors, only Ten Iollar. Old Pictures enlarged to any size and Reuutifullv Colored. Rest Enameled Cabinets and Curds very cheap at ilOWI.AD'S KV UALLKRY. Please call and see our work and get our prices be fore sitiinit elsewhere, and be wure and remember the number, SH Tliird Klrert, corner ft Jessie. it. r. MOWLAM). Artlkt, San r'KANClsco, Oil 1YZ- COHKN. riC'O AND SEE or write to Dr. Cohen, the only living Astrologer. He has practised eighteen years in San Francisco; he can tell cor rectly the past, present and future ; gives reliable Information and advice, of benefit to those consult ing him. Consultation Fee, $2 by letter 3. n$,It is not necessary to give the age. tt,Dr. Cohen's medicine Is a positive cure for liver and kidney complaints. Impurity of the blood, nervous debility, heart disease, rheumatism, catarrh, lung diseases, fever, diseases of the stomach and female diseases. Cbaiges very moderate. Medicine will lie sent to all parts of the coiLst. Ofliee, No. 405 Kearny St. corner of Pine, Sau Francisco. TO TIIK I 1 1 - STEINIIAItT'S ESSENCE OF LIFE CURES NERVOUS AND PHYSICAL PERIL, Ity, arid restores exhausted vitality Iu four weeks as sure as water quenches thirst. Price 3 per Bottle, or 4 Bottles (In case) $10. Sent to any ad dress upon receipt of price, or C. O. D To be had only at 49 Kearny St., San Francisco Oal., where all letters should be addressed. Office Honrs from 9i.ii.tolp. m .. and 6 to 8 p. it. DR. X. J. CZAPKAY'S Private Mcdloul lntltito, SO Kearny Sit.. San Franciseo. Established in ISM, for thr. Fermwxrnt Cure of all. Strrinl ami t hronte IHtrmrx, a.t also nil Eenuile ComjUainls unit Viseaset of the A'crvou Hjjstfuu rpiIR IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF HITMAN -1- life annually from secret and chronic diseases, caused this oll and reliable Institution to be estab lished first in Philadelphia, Penn.. iu is.-), and after wards in San Francisco, Cal., in ls, Hs a private dis pensary, in order to afford the afllicted the best med ical and surgical treatment, for the above and all other affections and complaint-!. Consultations at the institute or by letter, FREE. Phyoleal and Mental Iebillty. Vital weakness, nervousness, low Kpirits. lassitude weaknews of the limbs and back, loss of muscular power, indisposition and incapability for labor and study, a weak, exhausted feeling, no energy orcour. age, palpitation of the heart, dullness of apprehen sion, loss of memory, aversion to society, love of solitude, timidity, self-distrust, loss of manhood diz ziness, headache, pains In the side, affections of the eye, pimples on the face, sexual or other infirmities In man or woman, are cured bv the Justly celebrate! physician. LJ.tZtPHAY.n. 1. His method of curing disease is peculiarly hi own (unknown to others) and hence the great success Rheumatic affections, chronic catarrh, diseases of the stomach and kidneys, liver complaints etc successfully treated. ' DR. CZAPKA Y, one of the most successful medi cal practitioners on the Pacific coast, mav be con sulted confidentially In reference to the above and all other complaints at the Institute, No. 209 KE.tR.MV ST., Nan Franelaeo, Cal. -The Doctor offers Free Consultations, and asks no remuneration unless he effects a cure Charges moderate. Communication strictly confidential Medicines sent by Express. Address L. J. Czapk av M. D., Postoflice Box C4, San Francisco XI.. SPINNEY, Ko. 11 KEARNY STREET. rX"eai;esrS ALL CHKONIC AND SPECIAL DIS- MIDDLE-AGED MEN. .T.b,T;,f man? of tb? ot thirty to sixty wu bntiJ b, ?. W,th 100 fr.ent evacuation ff . i e m,t'. ' ",f'Compa tiled by a slight smarting or LJiJ??. - .'' th? P'e"t eannot account for. On ex amining the urinary deposits a r..pv sediment will ."'""""onieUiueaBt, : ! particles of al HJiFJfj; 'PP""-. the color h. of a thin and millclsh hue, again changing to a dark and torpid inRearal,?e- There are many men who die of this Oltliculty Ignorant of the cause, which is the second stage of seminal weakness. Dr. Splnuey will guar an tee a perfect cure In all such cases, and a healthy r?.?,ral'on ot the (tenlto-urinary organs. Ofliee Hours K) to 4 and 6 to 8. Sundays from to 11 a.m. Consultation free. Call or address DR. A. B. SPINNEY, No. II Kearny Street, Sau Franclsc,. NERVOUS ana DEBILITATED OF- 5 120 BATTERY ST., SAN FRANCISCO Ml NTKKKTN. KAN I KlMIStu. lkAiit MARK Ilav nil tlie ;l 1'oint: Superior Merlmninii! .!: tell less Sliitllle! 1' - II :t I Oil Work i n Hji;cilj! SAIiLEll & II K ROWS. Oeneiai Agm,, lia JIaKKKT Stkkkt. San Kraiu ivo. and 46i Twe f Ih Street, liaklaM.I Pacific Const Agents for the Celehrib-d Ki'i-i-r Cold Nwsged Sewing Machine Needles, an. I J.'. hers of oil, Thread, Silk, and t-11 kin. Is jl Atu b ments. Tim SNnruc i ME RICAN SEWING MACHINE. Tliroe-ijiwrlfr"! I.ews friction llimiaia vtlier Machine. IT BEATS THEM ALL! Sel r - 1 lireMilinc Miullle! Srlf-Tliieadliis - ! I- : I.ililc-I It It inline Hlllle-t Itnuiilng Miuple-I : ' f:--l I. eru in l :i liowtl il-i llje Soe It ! Try It ! Buy It ! Warranted to Givk ENTIRK SATlsKAlTKi-V AMERICAN SEWING MACKINECO .-. It. It !. Jlaimet r. 121 FIFTH STREET. - - - SAN KUAN! ISOJ IV$-.4'ool AarentH W:nl-1 In nil unoi-ru-ti)l li'rrlliir.r. COLLEGE. 120 Suiter M. GRAND REDUCTION IN PRICES, KHOlt'-r, Having just received a Large Invoice of WEST OF ENGLAND GOODS, Therefore Informs his patrons that he will niske CEOTHINU TO ORDER at the Lowest CAM" I'RK'K for the next Sixty Days: Business Suits to Order, - $25 Pants to Order, - - SB Dress Suits to Order, $35 to S50 Commercial St., cor. Leidesdorff, AM) No. G Itoarny Street, 8AN FRANCISCO. AMERICAN EXCHANGE EOTU, KAN FKANC'lCO. riHUS OLD AND POPULAR 1IOTE1 W,1II.('H1 J. has for the last twenty-four years exlemleii '" the traveling public a contial welcome "V1",, of a home, and so favorably known t- old nu" ulans and the traveling public, that it reuuireii an comment on niv part further than to say llwl"""; Bryan, who is au old Californlaii.aml knows no a cater to the wants of the traveling public tins the full proprietorship of the above hotel, ami " leave nothing undone to nia!:e this hotel sccoii" noue iu San Francisco for Comfort. Good Livinu Cleanliue. My sole aim shall he to the comfort and welfare e' ly Kiiests. The table is furnished with the Dent i'j market affords; the house has been thoroughly reu ovated and newly furnished throughout; uuu urea rooms well veninaieu. ur-u rooms well veil inwico. u , . Oentlemanly and ohlinnf clerks. ami deari ami tentive waiters will always be found iu mv The Hotel is the most centrally located of any breast with the name of the house on Hotel Prices are tt-A RrMuvrm. t.f fjhr Eitritvrl. fr..,,. It (ft t.i kt M fior ThftP Oive me i rati '. tnriVn tor vnumelves T'il'. H"v PaopaikTca. v?V:. CALVERT o !5 ttra.nmi'ira-: CARBOLIC Sheep Wash.; VICTOR SEWING MACHINE ' c i- f -jv i k m ' r. . - RARNAffll'S SAN FRANCISCO, CAI-. OFFERS the best facilities !r :i first duos Busi ness Kducation. You may attend two day n of clmrire to see bow von like it. No more student." are admitted than Professor Hainan! can persona'. instruct. Each student receives personal instruc tion. Over one hundred references to graduates m San Francisco. the city, being In the centre of the 01 sines., Of the city; the Street Cars pass th" d or every ! minutes to all parts e.r the city, lhe l'"1u-' ' 'mi with red lights, will be nt the railroad "Wl , wharfs to convey passengers tt the house "-"j Charge: mv Runners wear Silver Radges on S I -V