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- . - . . - - - V J - i 3 O O I - i YOL. 11. DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1877. NO. 49. J I 1 THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL XEWSPAPE1! FOR T H V. t'ttriuer, llufclneH Mm anil F.-imlly Circle ISSUED KTERT TUX It S 1 A V . O PROPRIETOR ASI PUBLISHER. o Official Paper for Clackamas Count'. Oflire: In Enterprise JSiiilii Jmk. Due dour South of Masonic Building, Main Street QTrrmii af Kuburrlplion: Siunle Copy, oue year, in advance .$ 50 Single Copy, six months, in advance 1 M Trnai f Adirrllilait: Trausicut advertisements, including all legal notices, per square of twelve hues, one week $ 2 .V) Fur each subsequent insertion 100 Ona Column, one year ll!0 00 Half Column, oue year 60 00 yuarter Column, one year . 40 00 Business Card, one square, cue year 12 00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OREGON LODGE, No. 3, I. O. O. F. Meets every Thursday Evcniug, at -t-r-.f-7)4 o'clock, in UJil Fellows' Hall, 'tpT ' 1 Vain Street. Members of the Order ai ara invited to attend. " By order of . o. REBECCA DEGREE LODGE, No. 2, I. O. O. F., meets on the Second and TTto Fourth Tuesday Evenings of each month, I -H I at 7 o'clock, in the Odd Fellows' Hall J"S I S1 Members of the Degree are invited t,,", attend. FALLS ENCAMPMENT, No. 4, I. O. O. t., meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the tlrst and third Tuesday of each month. Patriarchs in good standing are invited to at if ij 11 . MULTNOMAH LODGE, No. 1. A. F. & A. holds its regular communi cations on the First and Third Saturdays La each month, at " o'clock from the i()th of September to the 2itth of March ?il v H o'clock from the 20th of March to the ' ll)th of September. Brethren in good standing are invited to attend. By order of V. M. BUSINESS CARDS. WARREN N. DAVIS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Office at Cliff House. CHARLES KNIGHT, CAN BY. OR EG OX, Physician and Druggist. '"Prescriptions rarefnllv filled at short notice. ja7-tf PAUL BOYCE, M. D., lMiysirian and Surgeon. Okkcon City, Orfoon. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Women aud Children a specialty. Office Houra day "and night; alwavs readv when duty calls. " auyjrOTCtf DR. JOHN WELCH, DENT I OFFICE IX OREGON CITY OREGON. Highest cash price paid for County Orders. JOHNSON & McCOWN, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS AT LAW OREGON CITY, ORF.C.OX. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Special attention giveu to cases in the United bUtea Land ottice at Oregon City. .lapr'T'.' tl' L. T. DARIN, ITTOUXKY AT JLA W. OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. novl, TS-tf W. H. HICHFIELD, IJHtnhlUluMl Hlnoe !!, One door North of Pope's Hall, MAIM ST, OHIUOV flTV, IIKKVUV. u 'rtuient of Watches, Jewelry, and fSL Seta 1 nomas' Weight Clocks, all of 'which are warranted to be as represented. (SiUa VRepairtu done on short notice; andthaukiul for past patrouaaa. 4'h Xai tor Comity Orler. JOHN M. BACON, DFALEB IN BOOKS, STATIONERY, PICTl'RE FRAMES. MOULDINGS AN1 MISCET, : LAXEOl'S GOOD.S. FltlMKNM.tDi: X4 ORD1K. Orf.ikin Citt, Oregon. tJTM the Poit Office, Main Street, west hide. novl, '7.1-tf J. R. GOLDSMITH, f illXEltAL rVI-2AVS-I-V I Ilt Collector and SolieHoi 'PORTLAND. OREGON. CBcst of references given. dcc25-'77 HARDWARE, IRON AND STEEL, Hubs, Spokes, It i ins. OAK, ASH AND HICKORY PLANK. XORTIIRI'P A THOMPSON, tnar31,"76-tf Portland, Orcg .n. j. H. SHEPARD, HOOT AM) SIIOK SKHti:. One door North of Ackenuan Bros. V Boot a and Shoes maJe and repaired as cheap as me cneapest. novl, . j tf MILLER, CHURCH & CO. PAT THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR WHEAT. w At all times, at the OREGON CITY MILLS, And have on hand FEED and FLOUR to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring Feed must furnish sarka. noviz-tl A. C. WALLINC'S IMoiieer Book Bindery rlttock'a Building, cor. of Stark and Front Sts., PORTLAND, ORi:0. BLANK BOOKS RULED AND BOUXD TO AXY desired pauern. Music Bocks, Magazines, wpapera. etc., bound in every variety of style M to the trade. Orders from the country promptly attended to. novl, "75-tf OREGON CITY BREWERY. i.JT'n8 Purcnased the above Brewery. 3Ejv ' inform the public that they ure?3) SttrUty t"'ed nrt'M - , - . OF LAGER BEER, wrjT ?.cn obalnd anrhsre iq the State. r4i4 solicttaa and promptly filled.' o 3v y AX AXflEXT SCl'IPTl'KED Tlt.HB. He goeth forth into the unknown land. Where wife nor child may follow; thus far tell The lingering clasp of hand in faithful hand. And that brief carven legend, Friend farewell. O pregnant sign, profound simplicity ! All passionate pain and fierce remonstrating Being wholly purged, leave this mere memory. Deep but not harsh, a sad aud racred thing. Xot otherwise to the hall of Hades dint He fares, than if some Summer eventide A message, not unlooked for, came to him. Biddiug him rise up presently and ride. Some few hours' journey to a friendly house. Through fading light, to where within the West, Behind the shadow of Cithaeron's brows, ' The calm-eyed sin sank to his rosy rest. J!Y ItAREFOOT BOY. SI E. K. BROWN. Skipping along through the narrow street Of a country village quaint and neat. With torn hat pushed from a freckled face. And every motion a wave of grace With heart brimful of untainted joy. Who is more blest than my barefoot boy ? See the clouds of dust that are gathering fast Round the little form, as it hurried past. Hiding the delicate limbs from view. Far more than the tattered garments do. Yet poverty cannot his peace destroy Ah ! who is so rich as my barefoot boy? Now he has mounted a wayside gate, And is shouting his call to some far-off mate; With the air of a leader he issues commands,' Using for trumpet his sunburnt hands. Now holdiuu to view some newly bought tov Proud as a king is my barefoot boy. Earnest of purpose, and strong of limb. What is the poiiip of the world to him? Scarcely deigning to turn his eye Toward the rich man's coach that is rolling by ; Envy is powerless now to annoy The satisfied soul of my barefoot boy. But how will it be ? Will the coming vears Ripen his hopes, or increase his fears ?" Will innocence yield to his lust for gold. Till the heart grows bitter, and hard, and cold? Yet why should vain doubts my mind employ '! The an4ela have charge of my barefoot boy. Rep9fitary. LULU'S PRESENT. Everybody declared that Uncle Titnp kins would be ruined by Lis generosity. Eut this declaration had now been made for a number of years, and still he con tinued prosperous. But Uncle Timpkins had just jierpe trated an act, the enormity of which dis turbed his domestic peace for a long while, and sometimes it seemed doubt ful if the sky ever would be cleared. He suddenly took it into his head to look up the widow of a brother who had been dead several years, and, knowing that poor John "never had possessed a knack for acquiring worldly goods," he resolved to inquire into the condi tion of the family. Without telling Aunt Jrollie of his plans, ho went off very quietly by himself, but he return ed not as he went. Aunt Mollie prophesied that no good would come of this journey; but when Uncle Samuel opened the hall door, and she saw her husband enter with a little girl, she could hardly believe her own eves. "This is my little pet, Mollie, I have brought her home to keep me company," said Uncle Samuel. ' Her name is Lulu." Aunt Mollie looked coldly upon IjuIu, who shrank back into herself, and eyed her husband severely, then turn ing indignantly from them, she ex claimed: "To think that after raising a family of eight children, and getting them well oft' her hands, Samuel should go and bring home such a pest as that! It was too much for flesh aud blood to stand!" But Uncle Timpkins had gained his point; Lulu was regularly established in the house, and, if not noticed by her aunt, she soon became a great favorite with her uncle. xVnd not only with him, but with all who came to the house; for slie was a sunny-tempered little thing, making me and gladness where she went. It was almost breakfast time. and. punctual as the clock, the lean, wiry figure of Ephraini Doolittle strode into the kitchen, and sank into the aocua- tomed seat by the chimney corner. Of all Timpkins' proteges thi3 was the ! one with whom Aunt Mollie had the least patience, lor five years he had not missed a morning unless detained by illness, and yet he always came In with the same observation, that "as he happened to be passing by he thought that he would just drop in"" lie always went to Uncle Timpkins' to breakfast, but upon being invited into the dining-room invariably observ ed that "there was no occasion, wife would be expecting him home," etc. This was a regular part of the perform ance, and it required considerable exer tion to dislodge him from the chimney corner. It was in the morning after Lulu's ar rival, and her uncle desired her to in form Mr. Doolittle that breakfast was ready. This she did very sweetly, and Ephraim, making a feint of rising, re plied : "I was just going, my dear time that I was off, long ago. Stop to breakfast! O, no, thank you my wife will be wait ing for me." Lulu returned to the dining room and innocently repeated what she supposed to be Mr. Doolittle's refusal. To her great surprise her uncle laughed out, and her aunt had a very queer expres sion about the mouth. "Waiting, what?" she exclaimed, in a tone of cutting sar casm; "maybe they're going to have fritters for breakfast, and they'll be spoiled he'd better go!" Uncle Timpkins, however, not wish ing to be undone, dispatched Lulu to the kitchen with an imperative sum mons to Mr. Doolittle. She soon re turned with the answer: "He said there was no occasion." Laughing more heartily than ever at Lulu's innocence and perplexed look, Uncle Timpkins went to the kitchen, as he had done for five years, and marched Ephraim Doolittle' in to breakfast. Lulu was astonished at the rapid disap pearance of the viands; but Ephraim had taken quite a fancy to the child, and regarded her very benignly. As he went home that morning he be gan revolving in his own mind a plan for her benefit. Samuel Timpkins was a good sort of a fellow, and, as he had now taken breakfast there several times, he believed that he would make the child a present, by way of testing his gratitude. At the wonted hour Ephraim made his appearance with a covered basket and therein a Maltese kitten. Lulu was enraptured was delighted;, her heart fairly overflowed with love for all sorts of pets, and the kitten was a perfect beauty; just the right size to be grace ful; it was plump and sleek and the very color to wear a blue ribbon around its neck. After gratefully thanking Mr. Doolittle, Lulu displayed her treasure in triumph; but, at the sight of the kit ten, Aunt Mollie's cup of wrath was overflowing. She couldn't bear the sight of a cat she detested cats; it would always be putting its dirty little rse in the milk and cream, and it was just exactly like Ephraim to give a pres ent that would soon eat its own head off! One beautiful evening in March. I was entering the room, where it seems my uncle and aunt were engaged in serious conversation regarding their ' financial prospects, when the latter exclaimed: "Well, Charlie! I hope your uncle is satisfied now ! . He is ruined ! I told you that it would come to this, and I'm only surprised that it did not come long ago!" This was poor consolation for a man who had just been confiding to his wife the story of his misfortunes, and Uncle Timpkins looked into the lire and sigh ed. But all the attempts at consolation, unless they came in the shape of bank bills, would have proved unavailing; for Uncle Timpkins, led away by his enorm ous heart, had indorsed largely for a neighbor in distress, and the neighbor had gone down, dragging his benefactor with him; and tho friend of so many un fortunates saw himself threatened with a Sheriffs sale, and he and his wife driven forth in old age from the home which sheltered them for so many years. "It is strange," said Uncle Timpkins, musing, "that father left no more money. There was little beside stock, and everybody was surprised at it. He was always so saving and had plenty of cash." It was a delightful evening, and Lulu, accompanied by her kitten, had gone to the old garret, whose mysterious nooks she loved to explore; and there she could have a romp with kitty, in the full en joyment of being beyond the reach of Aunt Mollie's reprimand. Uncle Samuel had been very grave of late; and, half anticipating something dreadful, she scarcely knew what, Lulu leaned against the rough beams, and watched the gambols of the Maltese kit ten, which seemed challenging her to participate in the fun. The kitten was making a terrible scratching against the boards, and Lulu endeavored to call her off. She really believed that she had discovered a mouse it would be horrible to see her kill it and eat it, like other cats; she should not love her a bit after that and Lulu tried to pull her away. But kitty was very bury scratching some thing from under a board, and, having put in one velvet paw, she succeeded in dislodging a dark-colored roll that cer tainly was not a mouse, nor anything else alive. Lulu examined it with trembling fingers, and found bank-bills to the amount of $5,000. With glowing cheeks sparkling with excitement, she rushed into the room where her uncle sat buried in his gloomy thoughts; and, paying no attention to her aunt's excla mation of "Lulu Timkins, go back this instant and shut the door ! you impu dent little scapegrace !" she placed the soiled and crumpled notes in his listless hands. "Where did you get these?" said he, so calmly that Lulu feared he cared very little about them. But when the story was told, Lulu and her pet Mere both lifted in Uncle Samuel's arms, and his tears rained down upon tho bright curls, as he whis pered : Lulu, do you know that you and kitty have saved your old uncle from being turned upon the world ? Mollie," said he, looking re proacb fully at his wife. It was foreign to Aunt Mollie's na ture, but she gave way for once, and folded Lulu in the first embrace that she ever had bestowed upon her. "I wish that Ephraim Doolittle was nere, said Uncle Timpkins. "Had it not been for his somewhat unwelcome present, this money would still have been idle. I should really like to see him." "Can't you wait till to-morrow morn ing?" said Aunt Mollie, so drily that it extorted from her husband the first hearty laugh he had indulged in for a long while. Th4iouse, of course, was not sold ; and the very singular manner in which it had been preserved traveled about like wildfire, and Lulu and her kitten became objects of the greatest curiosity. Ephraim now began coming to dinner, on the strength of his gift; and if he had taken up his residence there altogether Uncle Timpkins would doubtless have made him welcome. Time sped on, the kitten had grown into a cat, and Lulu had become a voung lady. Her cousins laughingly declared that she had entirely sujrse ded them in the affections of their pa rents; and a stranger would certainly have supposed that she was the pet daughter of the house. One day an advertisement to the fol lowing effect appeared in a paper pub lished in the city: "Lost, on Thursday evening, the 4th ult., a Maltese cat, with a blue ribbon around its neck. On returning it to Xo. Camp street the finder will be suitably rewarded." . The following day the paper contain ed the following answer: "The finder of the Maltese cat, adver tised in yesterday's paper, is extremely anxious to retain it. What would the owner consider a sufficient inducement for parting with the cat?" Lulu was perfectly indignant, both at the insult and at being separated from ) her pet, so she sat down and wrote: "If the finder of the Maltese cat does not restore her to her rightful owner, he or she will be searched out and ex posed before the community." When the paper containing this threat appeared, it brought a reply from the culprit in person. Aunt Mollie was looking forth from the sitting-room win dow, when she suddenly exclaimed: "What on earth is that handsome stranger coming here for? I declare," she continued, "if he hasn't got Fortu na in his arms !" This was the name the titten had received on that memorable day when it saved Uncle Timpkin's house. "Run. Lulu," continued Aunt Mol lie, "and. take him into the parlor." Lulu opened the door with a height ened color, and a somewhat elevated head, for the offer of buying her favor ite was still fresh in her miud. The visitor, a handsome man of 30, with an air of foreign travel, doffed his hat with a low obeisance to the beautiful appari tion before him, and perhaps he too felt conscious of his misdemeanor, for he was decidedly embarrassed as he fol lowed Lulu into the parlor. "I hope," said he with a smile that disarmed all Lulu's indignation in spite of herself, "that you will pardon me my unintentional rudeness? I expected to find the owner of the cat some indigent old lady or thoughtless boy, to whom a few dollars would prove an irresistable allurement, and as I had taken a great fanoy to the animal, I concluded to try the experiment." "And I," replied Lulu frankly, "ex pected to see, in the finder of Fortuna, a disagreeable, purse-proud individual but whether lady or gentleman I could not decide." The half compliment conveyed in this answer, brought a look of gratitude from the visitor that made Lulu wish she had not said it; but, just as an awk ward crisi? was approaching, Uncle Timkins entered the room, and politely saluted the gentleman, whom he had recognized as the senior partner of an influential firm. The visitor introduced himself as Mr. Chad wick, and at once entered into an easy and agreeable conversation with the master of the house. The story of the kitten was told and commented upon, and the gentleman learned, by adroit questions, that Uncle Timkins' circumstances were by no means flour ishing. He immediately expressed his want of an agent to oversee his planta tion, which he pronounced to be sorely neglected, and acknowledged Uncle Timpkins' qualifications for the office. He did not lose sight of Lulu's speak ing eyes, which rested upon her uncle almost beseechingly. This was just the thing for him, it would require so little labor; but Uncle Samuel was not one to recommend himself, and Mr. Chadwick was obliged to ask him point blank. After a while it was all arranged , and the handsome Mr. Chadwick departed, with a warm invitation to renew his visit. "Fortuna agttiu!' exclaimed Uncle Timpkins, as he related to his wife this piece of luck. But Aunt Mollie glanced at Lulu in a very significant manner, and looked little disposed to give the cat much credit this time. "If Ephraim were here now, I could almost give him a hug," continued the old man. "He will be here to-morrow morn ing," replied Aunt Mollie, as dryly as ever. Uncle Timkins entered at once upon the "agency," which turned out to be very little beyond a name and a salary, and Mr. Chadwick availed himself to the fullest extent of the invitation to re new his visit. "Jliss Lulu," said 'ho, "quite sudden denly, one evening, "do you remember that, when advertising your cat, you promised that the finder would be suit ablyjrewarded ?" Lulu looked surprised at this address, and endeavored to escape from the piano "I left it altogether to your generosi ty," continued Mr. Chadwick, gravely, "but I have as yet received nothing." Lulu stammered out something about not wishing to insult him, but be re plied very coolly that it was no too late to make reparation. The next moment Lulu's hand was imprisoned in both of his; and. as she did not withdraw it, he acknowledged himself "suitably rewarded. A Valuable Hint. We read in a scientific journal: "There is a method which I have adopted in my own house to cool the temperature of any room during hot weather, and it is this, to hang a sheet or blanket down outside windows upon which the sun may be shining. This sheet is wet, and the evaporation of the water produces a de licionsly cool apartment. The sheet is kept damp by having a vessel filled with water above the top of it outside, and a piece of flannel arranged to form a si phon, and touching several portions of the sheet. The water gradually empties out of the vessel, and may be replenish ed if necessary. The window i3, of course, open. It is strange that so sim ple and inexpensive a method has not found favor here, more especially in sick rooms; a cylindrical-shaped vessel, with some very fine holes, fixed over the window, would easily supply the water. Musical Machiseet. The average annual value of musical instruments made in Paris during the last six years has been 23,000, 000f., divided among 3G0 makers, employing no fewer than 5,000 workmen. Paris turns out every year 1,320,000 francs worth of accord e ons. Pianos figure for 1 1, 400,000 f.; organs for nearly 5,500 ,000f.; wind, wood, and metal instruments for nearly 4,000 ,000f.; but bowed instruments for less than 500,000f . The Empress of Brazil has but $600, 000 worth of diamonds, and some one ought to feel like heading a subscrip tion for her benefit. The pitcher of a base ball club is rhe power behind the thrown. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY How to Breed Short-Horns. Among the papers read at a conven tion of Breeders of Short-horns, was one by Mr. W. T. Thrasher, who spoke as follows on tli8 management of these choice cattle: When the calf is born it should re main with its mother two or three days, after which the mother may be turned out; but should be let to the calf to suck three times a day until it is two months old. The calf for several days will not suck all tho milk of its mother. She should be milked clean until the calf will take it all. When the calf is six weeks or two months old, there should be kept in a box or trough some shelled corn, which it will soon learn to eat; and as it advances in age, a little shelled oats should be mixed with the corn or a little mill-feed. After it begins to eat the calf should bo fed all that it will eat clean. At two or three months it should be turned on a grass lot, and allowed to suck night and morning; and the feed should be con tinued all the time. It should be wean ed at about five or six months old. Two or three weeks before weaning it should suck but once a day, and then once in two days, and again once in three or four days. Thus tho mother will grad ually dry up, and the calf will be grad ually weaned, and both mother and calf will do well. Still continue to feed all it will eat until one year old. Then give a mixed diet sach as you would feed grown cattle. There is at this stage nothing better to develop its organiza tion than oats. Cut up fine and wet; then pnt good, fresh shipstuff with it and mix up thoroughly. Feed this once a day and shelled corn once a day. This full feed should be continued until about the first of May; then lessen the feed until the first of June. By that time the grass will be sufficient for the animal until October. Then commence feed ing again lightly until grass fails. Then full feed again; or, if you have stalk fields, they will do well on that, with what grass they will get, up to Christ mas. Then they should be stabled and full fed all winter, letting them out every day all day if not stormy. If stormy, it is best not to leave them out all day; yet they should be let out for exercise and water every day, stormy or not. The herdsman should be the judge. The ijrojjer age for breeding, if the calf is a heifer, with the above treat ment, is at eighteen to twenty months old. A bull may be let to a few cows some younger. There is one thing to be said in re gard to handling animals. That is, always treat them kindly. Never get out of patience yoursell and begin to hallo and abuse the animal. If you would have them gentle and kind, you must treat them so. Also have regular hours for feeding. Let nothing inter fer with these rules, if you expect to succeed in your business. To Make Good Butter. "A Prac tical Butter Maker" sends the follow ing to the Rural New- YorKer: Making bad butter is due not so much to want of knowledge on the part of butter-makers, as it is to a want of personal application of that knowledge to all the details of the art by the tamers' wivea themselves. To make butter in the sum mer months, a place of suitable temper ature is the first requisite, and that ths best butter is made in the spring-house is unquestionable. The uniform tem perature of the water should be fifty four degrees, and of the air, about sixty degree's. The cream should be kept in the deepest part of the spring, and thor oughly stirred each day; and if any de tail in the process of butter-making is of more importance than another, it is the management of the cream, for if this is spoiled, all subsequent care cannot make good butter; and in order to accomplish this result three essentials should be ob served: it must be kept in a temperature not higher than 2G degrees. Each cream pan must be stirred every day, and it must be sejmrated from the milk after the latter has stood not longer than thirty-six hours. If a small quantity of cold spring-water is then added, it will have a tendency to raise tho cream more rapidly. The cream should be churned at least once a week. The butter should then be thoroughly washed by churning it in cold water an operation that should be several time repeated. This process is necessary to free the butter from the butter-milk, for if any remains, the case ine and sugar contained in it are subject to decomposition; the former becomes rancid, and the latter is converted in to acetic acid, and thus the butter be comes a poor sort of grease. The butter should next bo salted and allowed to stand until the next day, that the salt may be thoroughly dissolved; it should then be finally worked and in an artistic manner done up into pack ages of desired shape and weight. .These should always be neat, for their freshness and beauty have no small in fluence on the sale of the article. In moulding and working the butter, it is important that the hands of tho maker should not touch it. Wooden paddles should be used, dexterity with which can only be acquired with prac tice. Butter thus made is truly a gold en luxury and worthy of a place on any table. ItiiEUMATisM among Fabmebs. There is a great deal too much carelessness gen erally among farmers with regard even to ordinary precautions for the preser vation of their health, and yet after all, there is scarcely any class to whom sick ness or disease is more irksome and in convenient. Rheumatism is frequent among them because they wear wet clothing, heat and suddenly chill the body, over-eat after very hard work, and because they do not keep the skin in a healthy condition. If farmers would avoid suddenly cooling the body after great exertion, if Jhey would be careful not to go with wet clothing and wet feet, and if they would not over eat when in an exhausted condition, and bathe daily, using much friction, they would have less rheumatism. . r Schoolmarms as "Wives. We find some disagreement as to whether schoolmarms are desirable can didates for matrimony. Among the la dies themselves the opinion seems to prevail that, as wives they would espe cially adorn homes and make happy the lives of good husbands. They argue that the very fact of their getting and holding their places is evidence of their intelligence and moral worth, two things very requisite in a wife. They say, further, that the familiarity with the management of children which a teach er acquires will serve her in good stead when she becomes a mother; and that the development of her faculties which she gets in a school room is of just the sort that best prepares a woman for the duties of a wife. In fact, they say that they are the gir's for young fellows to court. We are not surprised that some of these maiden pedagogues refuse, or pretend to refuse, to entertain the idea of marriage. Situated as they are, they are able to support themselves comfort ably, and enjoy a degree of independ ence. They have the satisfaction of earning their own living, and spending their money as suits themselves. They feel that, they are their own mistresses, know just what are their present ills, and fear that those they might fly to are worse. But, though all these may be true, if the right sort of lover comes along, and tries to convince a sehool marm so fortified by sound arguments against matrimony, that she would be happier as his wife than as a single wo man, we will wager that he will batter down the walls and carry the fort. Yet so far as material comfort is concerned, she might do better to withstand the as sault. It is true schoolmarms of long experi ence in handling the birch do get a lit tle precise in their manner and severe in their accent. The attitude i3 not, as our correspondent calls it, independent and overbearing, but like that of an old drill sergeant, a little mechanical and austere. But this is the misfortune, and not the fault, of the schoolmarms long in the service. Sometimes, too, doubtless, the daily trials and petty an noyances of their profession may tend to sour their tempers, but so would any body's temper be likely to suffer with a lot of unruly children in nowise related to him, to keep in order from year's eud to year's end. No wonder the counte nance of the seasoned schoolmarm grows strong in its lines, and her movement becomes trim and methodical. What would the teacher do in a schoolroom if she always wore a jaunty manner and kept her .face wreathed in smiles? Would not the boys and girls take ad vantage of her, and would not her pu pils fail to advance in the rudimentary studies ? It i3 not right to forget the trials of the schoolmarm. But, after all, we repeat that many good wives may be found among the women who teach boys and girls; and we hope that all such will get good hus bands, and find that they have changed their state onlv to better it vastlv. N. T. Sun. Thoughts. A beautiful lady's smiles are magnets to draw metal from the purse. Very few persons have sense enough to despise tho praise of a fool. When tho loved one is absent, every beautiful thing seems her shadow. A child's heart responds to the tones of its mother's voice like a harp to the wind. Every base occupition makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. Never court the favor of the rich by flattering either their vanities or their vices. If the waves threaten to engulf you, don't add by your tears to the amount of water. Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good. Promises made in time of affliction require a better memory than people commonly possess. Indolence is a stream which flows slowly on, but yet undermines the foundation of every virtue. Whatever makes the past or the fu ture predominate over the present, ex alts us in the scale of thinking beings. If the storm of adversity whistles around you, whistle as bravely your self; perhaps the two whistles may make melodv. Keep Staight Ahead. Pay no atten tion to slanderers and gossip-mongers. Keep stiaight on in your course, and let their backbiting die the death of neglect. What is the use of lying awako at nights, brooding over the re mark of 8om"' false friend, that runs through your brain like lightning ? What is the use of getting into a worry and fret over gossip that has been set afloat to your disadvantage, by some meddlesome busybody who has more time than character ? The things can not possibly injure you unless, iLdeed, you take notice of them, and in combat ing them give them standing and char acter. If what is said about you is trut, set yourself right; if it is false, let it go for what it will fetch. If a bee sting you, would you go to the hive to destroy it ? Would not 1,000 come upon you ? It is wisdom to say little respect ing the injuries you have received. We are generally losers iu the end if we stop to refute all the backbitting and gossiping we may hear by the way. They are annoying, it is true, but not dangerous so long as we do not stop to expostulate and scold. Our characters are formed and sustained by ourselves by our own actions and purposes, and not by other?. Let us always bear in mind "that "culmniators may usually be trusted to time and the slow but steady justice of public opinion. A touth, at his sister's evening party, began to sing "Why Am I So Weak and Weary?" when a little brother brought the performance to a sudden close yelling out, "Aunt Mary says it's 'cause you come home so late every night." i Recent Discoveries at Pompeii. A recent visit to Pompeii, altera long interval, enables me to give you new and interesting details of that remark able locality. About two-fifths of the city have already been disinterred, and the excavations are now being carried on by an average number of 100 men, towards tho east or northeast. One must look in at the museum, where fresh bodies or their forms in plaster of Paris are constantly added. Years have passed since I was present at the first ingenious experiment which was made by the present Senator Fioralli to re cover the forms at least of the dead, so that it i a with no slight interest that I regard any progress, and considerable progress has been made in the mode of preservation. It often happens that. from the superincumbent weight and other causes, the bones haie been dis placed these are now removed from the debris as far as possible, so that the figure is not deformed by bones protru ding from wrong places. This was first . attempted in 1873, and has been contin ued ever since with great success. Perhaps the most beautiful figure in tho collection is that of a young girl, exquisitely formed; she is lviug on her face, while her hand was evidently at tempting to cover her eyes. Tho folds of her dress, the very texture, and her hair, are all sharply defined. Near her lay, and lies, a man on his back, and by his side was, and is, an iron rod, four feet long, with which it is supposed he was forcing a road. Close by is another female figure, with iron sandals attached to the feet, the bones ef which are well preserved. Without lingering here any longer, however, let us pass on to the house in which an excavation was made in the spring, in honor of our princess. The objects found there and then, of no great value, were presented to her royal high ness; they are an amphora, a necklace with eighty-four pieces of coral, a mass of paint of yellow color and a few other articles. In this house was a shop for "warm drinks," two or three good fres coes adorn the wall, and oil jars are sunk in marble slabs. That compara tively bo little of the treasures of the Pompeiani is found is easily explained by the fact that the inhabitants had escaped, and thieves broke into ihe houses, especially between the t'arth qnake and the eruption, and carried off all articles of value. Mo t of the hou -es have indications of these visits in the modern mason-work, which closes a hole. I am not aware that what are called the "water castles" have been sufficiently noted, perhaps for the rea son that most have been carelessly de stroyed. One however, has lately been discovered, and propped up and bound round with iron. They were buildings for supplying the neighboring houses with water. The top was a large vasca, to which water was carried up by leaden pipes, a great number of which still lie under the level of the ground. By pipes the water was again distributed from house to house from the vasca. The Sarno, which supplies it, still runs. un derneath Pompeii, and its impurity is evident from the deposits which have been formed ou the walls of the castle; its continual dropping has covered them with a kind of stalactite. Further ex amination shows that these deposits cor respond exactly with the stone with which a great part of Pompeii was bnilt. The stone was brought from Sarno, on the river of the same name, which thus supplied the inhabitants with building material and drinking water. The spot on which excavations are actually carried on now is called the bathing establishment. It is an im mense hall, and is still half full of pum ice stone; but in the very centre of the mass, after many feet of soil had been removed, there were found, last month, four human skeletons, one of a woman, and by them were the following precious objects, which they were evidently car rying off. In gold, two necklaces, con sisting of ninety-four pieces, represent ing ivy leaves, two ear-rings, a chain with an emerald. In silver, two casse roles, a large looking-glass, three vases, a ladle, six large spoons, sixteen smaller spoons, two forms for making pastry, like scallop shells; all are well pre served and highly decorated. Cor. London Athenaeum. "Doctor," said an old lady the other day, to her family physician, "kin ye tell me how it is that some folks is born dumb?" "Why hem ! certainly madam," replied the doctor; "it is ow ing to the fact that they come into this world without the power of speech." "La me," remarked the old lady, "now just you see what it is to have a physic education. I've axed my old man more nor a hnndied times thatar same thiug, and all that I ever could get out of him was 4Kase they is.' " Ax exchange says that bats introduce bed-bugs in dwellings. We ncer were in a dwelling where the bats did any thing of the kind. All the bed-bugs we have met have seemed perfectly well acquainted and familiar with us without waiting for a bat or anybody else to in troduce them. Fulton Times. Yeabs ago, when Abraham Lincoln was a "deck hand" on a float-boat, a man said to him, "Some of the girls who pass up and down the river on these arks are perfect divinities." " Yes," replied the yonng boatman, "real ark angels." Visitok "I see you have a new girl." Housekeeper "I took her a week on trial." Visitor "And how do you like her?" Housekeeper "The 'trial' is almost more than I can bear." The foolish man rasheth out to see the mob, and is shot through the lungs, but the wise man huggeth the constitu tion of the United States to hi and abideth in the cellar until the evii days be over. . 1 Ax Irish Belle, wishing to perpetuate the name of her lover, called her cat Cleopatra, because the cognomen had Pat in it. - jSk; ! f n t t i ' i if I'M -' I s H - '. f