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V , V t: i t !. 1 DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. XII. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1878. NO. 23. 4 5 0 THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER F OB 1 H X rsriaer.Botlan 31 nn and Fxiullj Circle ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. ; VSOPSIXTOB iUl FI-'BLlSJiEB. Official Pape for Clackamas County. Office: lu Enterprise Builillnsr, One door Sooth of Masonic Building. Main Street. . . - Trrmi of Nuberiitlon i Single Copy, one year, iu advance $2 60 Single Copy, six mouths, iu advance 1 60 Term of Adtfrtikinii Transient advertisements, including ail legal notices, per square of twelve lines, one week $ 2 50 For ea a subsequent insertion 100 One Column, one year. 120 00 Half Column, one year. 60 00 Vjuaiter Column, one year 40 00 Buaiue-s Caid. one square, one year 12 00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OREGON LODGE, No. 3, I. O. O. F. Meets every Thursday f.venlng. at 114 ociock, 111 uuil fellows Hall, ,v--.?v Main Street. Members of the Order VTi: are invited to attend. By order of X. a. REBECCA DEGREE LODGE, No. 2. .. v . luccii uU iue seconu and 4 . F. urth Tuehdny Evenlnps of each month, I ' i i ?i u tiw, iu 111a oau fellows' Hall Members of the Degree are invited to FALLS ENCAMPMENT, No. 4, a. j. yj. t ., meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the Firet and Third Tnn.luu r .of. ... ...v. Patiiarchs in good standing are invited to MULTNOMAH LODGE, No. 1, m. m . a. n.. m., uoiii us regular comuinni- lu" on me first ana Third Saturdays -J In ..i'h niiih m t 1. r of September to the 2tith of March- nl iW 7 o'clock from the th of Mmvli to ' 20th of September. Brethren in good standing are Invited to attend. By order of W. M. BUSINESS CARDS WARREN N. DAVIS, M. D., I'liy&ii'iaii and .Surgeon, Giaduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Office at Cliff House. CHARLES KNIGHT, CANBY. OREGON. I'lij'Kiciau and Druggist. "Prescriptions carefully filled at short notice. ja7-tf DR. JOHN WELCH, DEXTIST. OFFICE IN OREGON CITY, ..OREGON. Highest cash trice paid,f-- onnty Orders. - AX... VL: ;.!:. L. EA&TilAM,?- AT TOJ'XE Y-AT - JL 'V ; OREGON Cm, oVeGOX. Special attention given to business in the U. S. Land Office. Office in Myer's Brick. JOHNSON & McCOWN, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS AT LAW OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will praftice in all the Courts of the State. Special attention given to cases iu the United tales Land Office at Oregon City. SaprT'2-tf BLANKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR Sale at ttiisofiice. Justices of the Pveace can get anytning in their line. i. P. WABB, OEOBOK A. HARDING. WARD & HARDING, eci KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A GENERAL assortment of "rugs anil Chemicals, rrrfamrrTi Nonpa. t'ombo Mild ' UriKftira. Truri, aipimrla, KbonMrrBram 'aner and awilea Articlrit. ALSO Krroaen Oil. Lamp Otlmne.va. !. I'utl.T, PJklnl. 4111. Varaithes and ljeM lulls. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. PATENT MEDICINES, ETC., ETC Physicians' Prescriptiona carefully com pouuded, and all orders correctly answered. a Oten at all honrs of the night All accounts must be paid monthly. nuvl,187atf WARD & HARDING. V. H. HICHFIELD, lNtubllNllO Cl t4l IK o 1 O , One door North of Pope's Hall, MUX !T.. OREUOX riTV, UKKUOX. An assort ineut or Watchra, Jewelry, and Seth fl lioiuaa' Weight Clucks, all of which axe warranted to be as represented. Vitepainng done on short notice; and thanmul for past patronage. th I'm ill fur (onul) Oriien. JOHN M. BACON, DKALKB IN BOOKS, STATIONERY, PICTURE FRAMES. MOULDINGS AND MISCEL LANEOUS GOODS. FIIAJI t'.t JltDK TO OltDDB. Oregon Citt, Oeeqos. JlVAt the Post OlSce, Main Street, west side. novl, '75-tf A. G. WALLINC'S Pioneer I5ooi ISiiiflcry Pittock"s Building, cor. of 8tark and Front Sts.. POKTtAXD, OHKCJOX. BE-KNK BOOKS RULED AND BOUND TO ANY desired pattern. Music Bocks, Magazines, ewspapfcrg. etc., bound in every variety of style anowu to the trarlo ilr.l f-V,., winntrJ promptly attended to. novl, 75-tf OREGON CITY BREWERY. wishes ?"rchu h bove Brewery. sp SSruty manuiacture a So. a T AOER BEER, 'bMJawJft DMlSlS Aitll Givinff and Takiugr. Who gives and bWes tlie giving band, Nor counts on favor, fame, or praise. Shall 11 nd Lis smallest gift outweighs The burden of the sea and land. - Who gives to whom hath nausjht been given, His gift in need, though small, iadeed, As is the grass blade's wind-blown seed. Is large as earth and rich aa heaven. Forget it not, O man, to whom A. gift shall full, while yet on earth; Tea, even to thy sevenfold birth Recall It in the HVC iocrfriie.- '" Who broods above a wrong in thought gins much; but greater sin !n his Who, fed and clothed with kindnesses. Shall count the holy aims as nought. Who dares to curse the hands that bless Shall know of sin the deadliest cost; ' The patience of the heaven is lost . Beholding- man's unthankfulness.. 4 For he who breaks all laws may still Iu Sivam's mercy be forgiven; But none can save in earth or heaven, The wretch who answers good with ill. John G. Whit tier. Cincinnati Hoy's Cruise in the Med- itteiraiieau. After minnl'in-; with the sacred memo ries of the Holy Land, and sailing past the oeautilul islands 01 the iicvuuf, we sighted Malta, and our ship rau into La Vallette, the principal port ot the l.-luml. Continuous lines of foi titicatioiis protect both siles of the deep and narrow har bor. The high, somber walls, the deep moats and bristling battlements make this second only to Gibraltar iu point of impregnability. The town has been a fortified one ever since its oc cupation by the Phcenecians, nearly a thousand years before the Christian era After the Pheenecians came the Greeks, Carthagenians, liomans, Goths and Sara cens. Later days saw it held, with cer tain other islands as fiefs to the houses of Aiagon and Castile. Finally it passed to the crown of Geimany. In 1530 Charles the Fifth ave it to the order ol the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. During the two succeeding centuries Ma'ta was the strongest outpost of the Christians held agaiust the ever vigilaut and aggressive JMoslem. The knights held the island till the 9th of June, 1703, when Napoleon, on his way to gypt,captured it. The French did not long ei joy in peace their citadel island. From November, 171)8, till September, 1SUU, the Lnglish and Portuguese fleets lay before the town besieging and harass ing aud isolated garrison, till from sheer starvation, the gallant French sur rendered. Sii.ce then the English, itb ,h far-seeing, stead -pertKiaytv, ! ve rse - the island. The ;rt;nv.itio,f5 -?-;e I'ucC have been kept in Ad v repair, and iiiHny vfi v extensive vfi t'oveiaeuts have been. .effected Uo'.lU'iTie high walls surrounding the town proper, there are three magnificent lines of outworks protecting this naturally impregnable city from the land side. The siege of Malta by the Saxon in the beginning of this century had a yet bloodier and more memorable example in 15G5 by the Saracen. The knights had for ninny years made the Maltese cross the bitterest foe the cieicent found. An especial act of depredation the capture of. several Turkish galleys laden with costly stuffs for the beauties of the Sul tan's harem spurred the Turk to its im mediate capture. An overwhelming force under the Seriaskier, Mustapha Pasha, and the celebrated Admiral Dragur, ap peared before the ton and demanded its immediate surrender. The littlegairison counted 700 knights and 8,500 soldiers. So overwhelming was the force of the enemy, and so renowned their prowess that CnristenUom little hoped a success ful issue. The event illustrated the won deiful and almost miraculous iiilluence of an abiding determined eff rt on the part of one old man. John De L t Val lette was their Grand Master. II gath ered about him in the chapel his little band of chivalry, and addressed them with the following inspiriting' words: "A for midable enemy is comiug like a thunder storm upon us, and if the banner of the cross must sink before the unbeliever? let 4us see in this a sign that Heaven de mands from us these lives which we Irivc solemnly devoted to its service. He who dies in this cause dies a happy, devoted death, and to render ourselves worthy to meet it, let us reuew at the altar' those vows which ought to make us not only fearless but invincible iu the fight." Fear less in the fight they were, for when the siege was raised, after four long months of bloody struggle, 5,000" of the brave defenders and 25,000 of the enemy met death. The Turk sailed off with the tat tered remnant of that once invincible fleet, -and left behind them an almost de molished towD, but which still was un conqueiable while the soul of a La Yallette inspired its defenders. From that day they called it La Vallette, after their old Grand Master. I hired one of the small double ended boats which lay alongside, and went ashore. By dint of good fortune and a vigorous choice of epithets, I escaped from the vociferous medley of hackmen and guidis, and passed over the moat, through the massive iron gates into the town. There are but three of these gates and each is very diligently guarded. The streets ascending from the harbor are very steep, the sidewalks are almost stair cases. The first thir g to be noted is the perfect cleanliness of the streets. Tke street commissioners, if they have any, perform their duty in a way to put the blush of bhame to some gentlemen in our land. The houses all look, substantial, and some of them are quite picturesque with their projecting upper stories and balconies. The streets are full of sol diers. Here you see the English infantry officer in all his glory, red coat, plaid breeches round turban resting for sup port upon Ilia right ear, long bright scab bard hanging from a belt the polish of whose clasp must be a matter of great mo roent. Straight aa an arrow be climbs the steeD e treats as if upon drasa parade The "tfat Bbl" Mm to iy, MI 'av the honor to be a leftenant in her Majes ty s service, by Jove!" He hardly allows himself the indulgence of glancing under the black headgear of the native women who pass. Some of those Maltese maidens have fine features. They have all black hair and eyes, and something of the swarthy tint of their Saracenic ancestors. . They still retain a modified form of the yash mak. It consists of a piece of black silk, covering the head, and figure, leaving the face exposed. There is a large immigra lion of marriageable ladies to the island, and she is uaattractive indeed who does not storm the heart of some ' brave sol dier. 1 heard of ons young lady who has been trying to marry into the army with a pertinacity of purpope that deserves a better fate. After having exhausted the home station she went to India, then to Gibraltar, and now she seeks her Phulis upon this island. Malta has a military, governor. His palace fronts on the principal square. In it is the museum of the Knights of St. John, one of the most noted collections of antique arms in existence. Alongthesides ot the rooms are rows of figures clad in the armor of the different orders of knights. The walls are hung with the portraits of various Grand Masters, and covered with halberds, swords, and pistols In a glass case is the original document, on parchment, by which the Emperor Charles the Fitth gave the island, to the knights; also the sword belonging to tne iurkisu Admiral JJragut. .Near by is a curious cannon, five feet long and three inches bore, captured from the Turks. It consists of tarred rope wound around a thin tube of copper. Here is also a lead mortar, and a pile of stone cannon balls nine inches in diameter. On a pedestal is the armor of a Spanish giant seven and a half feet high. The helmet weighs thirty-seven pounds. In these days when breechloaders have been in general use but a few years, aud rifled muskets for not much longer, one is sur prised to see a gun that dates from the sixteenth century, which not only is rifled, but is a breechloader of a very excellent pattern. In the palace is also shown the state carriage ef the Grand Masters. It is covered with gilding after the fashion of the mayoralty carriage at Naples. One looks at it with increased interest when he is told that Napoleon used it during his stay here, sat upon that same rusty cushion, and looked from those same windows, now broken and glassless. the venerable church ot St. John is one of the chief attractions of tho city. It contains several fine paintings, and a marble group by a Maltese sculptor, rep resenting the B iptism of St. John. When walking over that mosaic floor one grows thoughtful and is impressed with sadness to think that every foot of it covers the remains .of soma hero, who, in the dark"! ages past left home with all its wealth. and cheer, and happiness, to be a martial champion for Christendom. Would the men ot to-day be aa disinterested? In these days of selfishness - when nations fight or bear insult according to the dic tates of interest, how many of our highly civilized warriors would sacrifice their earthly welfare for life, for auy abstract idea whatever? La V alette boasts a first- class opera house. Three American stars are engaged for the season Misses Harda, Glyn, and Volga. They spent last season in London. Their peiformance of the difficult opera of Lucia di Lammermoor was superb. One day I hired one of the curtained native carriages and drove to the palace of the Duke of Edinburgh. It is finely situated nve miles from the town. 1 he palace does not amount to much, but the gardens are beautiful. R ws of orange trees laden with truit line the walks. The groups of stately date palun give a sort of ''Arabian Nights" air to the fountains that sparkle beneath them. Altogether it'is a beau ideal of a charming winter residence. The Maltese are proud of their Duke. The Duchess is soon to be come a mother, and if the youngster turns i-ut to he a prince he is to be chris tened G. nza Vallette; if a princess, Val lette Gorza Gouza being the name of a neighboring island. We set sail from La Valette with re gret. It is a charming place, and the last real English speaking city we will see for some time, as our route lies east. We reached Alexandria on January 5. Again we are among the narrow, dirty streets so characteristic of all Turkish countries.' The only respectable part of the city is the Frank quarter. Ever since the day when I looked with wondering eyes at the picture of Pompey's Pillar in a small schoolboy's geography, I have had a gre it desire to see it in all its ori ental magnificence, surrounded with beautiful women reclining in the sh&d; of bending palms 1 Oh, those boyish dreams! I now regret the loss of another of the fairy pictures of childhood. Rid ing out a long, dusty road, past hovels and filth, we reached a sand-hill, upon the summit of which the guide points out the pillar. Bat those palm trees 1 Where are those reclining formsf That 6andy waste does not even give back an echo. In their places a half dozen black and dirty Arab boys are having a trial of skill to determine who can throw the largest stone at that hoary monument of antiquity. Corretpondenet of th Cincin nati Oat!. The system of ventilation by the u--e of a hollow cornice communicating with the exterior of a room to bring in fresh air or take out foul, is well understood. Ac cording to an improved form of this meth od, the pertorated cornice is constituted with two pas-ages, the one next the ceil ing, and which communicates by valves with the chimney or other flue, is for the vitiated air, and the lower one open to the external atmosphere for fresh air. The latter is not perforated near the en trance, so as to give the air a direction along the channel. The size of the chan nel, of the perforations, and of the open ings of entrance and exit, must, of course, be apportioned to the size and purpose of the apartment. Various materials may bo employed for cornices of this descrip tion, sine or sheet brass usually, aud some times partly of plaster, especially in avJsptiag tke system toold eeraictf. LoYe's Young" Dream. A bridal couple, with more style about them than a grass widow, honored the Indian House with their presence two or three days during the pist week. They gave the dining room a mighty tony look by marching in at meal-time arrayed in their new clothes, with white gloves on, and when old man Ryman first saw them he took one square look and then set down his coffse-pot and went out into the kitchen and laughed until bis eye balls felt pointed. In that supreme mo ment he felt that he was paid ten times over with compound interest for all the trials, vexations and unpaid board bills encountered in his experience since ho left the old farm. When the dining-room girl got her face straight enough to get behind their chairs and say "Roast beef, ropst port, Iamb, chicken or fish!" the bridegroom said, "Chicken and fish," but the bnde, with the charac teristic presence of mind for which her sex has ever been noted, interprsed : "Oh, no, ducky dear; we can't take any o' that; for don't you know, pidgy-widgy, 'twould muss our gloves up? We'll httve to have something we can eat with our knives and forks." "So we will, bonny blue eyes I never thought o' that. What do you say to roast beef, then, huxy-puxy t Can we go some o that, sweety f ' asked the happy man. "No, no, darly, it's always tough, and we might splash the gravy aud soil our clothes, don t you see, honey dew? Let s take lamb, pootsie, that's always tender, I don't care much about it, but it cuts bo easy, lovey, and I expect their knives are as dull as a hoe, remarked the bride. "Well, I don't care, pussy; whatever you say, for I s pose we ve got to keep up appearances; but, burn my buttons, sugar lump, if I hain't got a confounded big notion to peel off these mittens an' wade into some o' that" 'ere chicken and fish, forj'm all killin' fond of it, and these blame things sweat my hands so, doosy poosv, and pucker and draw wors'n a stickin' plaster, and hang me if I don't almost consate they've blistered my fin gers all up." "JNo, no never, goosey, don t do that for the world, or everybody'U know we're from the country, an' maybe they'll put us in the papers, hubby dear, an' wouldn't that be awiuli" And the young wife had her own way about it, as they always do. Breakfast Tabl: A Family of Exclusives. The Reading (Pa.) Timet thus describes the members of a family residing in the neighboring townships of Albany: "Kunkel is the name ot the family which consists of five persons four old bachelors and one old maid brothers and sister, who are bound together by the most alkctionate ties, and refuse to be separated. The sister is in her seventieth year, and is noted for her excellent man agement, wielding a great influence over her you tiger brothers, who range in age from fifty to sixty-five years, the youngest being upward of fifty years old. Thev are over six feet tall, and possessed of herculean lraines. I he farm upon which they live was acquired by their ancestors over a century ago. Their house was erected more than one hundred years ago, after the style of tho first settlers, split log tor a noor, filled up with clay. They do all their own work, and are neat and clean in all they do. Their farm is iu an excellent condition,-and produces annu ally large crops. They do not have their horses shod in the winter, only in the summer. In winter shoe's are re moved, and the horses are not taken fur ther than to water. They carry all their grain to mill, and back on their shoulders, never using the horses for this purpose. Their barn-roof and a number of their out-buildings are thatched with straw. The family is" much respected and report ed to be wealthy. A child, who married a number ot years ago, has been utterly discarded, her singular brothers and sis ter having paid her the portion to which she was entitled out of her father's es tate, and refusing to have further inter course with her. This curious family re sides near Wesnersville, in Albany town ship, and have never been out of the country, and it is believed never out of the township. They are said to have rela tives in Philadelphia whom they have never seen. A Cheerful Fire. Whatcau be more cheerful, or more conducive to home com fort, than the open fire, with its blue and gold of sm ke and fire curling and twist ing together as they find their way up the open chimuey? Who does not love to sit before such a fire and look iutoit, aud dream away the hours with eyes half closed, forgetting the corroding cares and sorrows of life as in fancy they behold such pictures as nowhere else are revealed to those who really de-ire to see them. It is a comfortable arrangement, too, this fire oj the he trtb; but aoove all it is a very hedthiul one, for by it the room is well ventilated. S we say to all who can afford it, Lave a lire on the hearth in addition to a mo icra'.e degree of heat from the furnace. L.t the family sit by it timing the long evening-, and so enjoy it to the fullest extent. We believe the open fire will do much to check the de si e of thj y ung to be out evenings, to in ike the h u-e teem more truly like home. L'jiit it on your hearth if you can. A tramp walked into a Third street bank yesterda-y, and, stepping up to the counter, said : "May I ask you a ques tion, sir?" "Ye, but be quick about it," replied the clerk. "I want to know if all the greenbacks have been retired from circulation," said the tramp, with a very anxious air. "Oh, no,'l replied the clerk, "there are about 450,000,000 of them yet." Thanks, thanks," said the man, with visible emotion. "You take a load off my mind. It is so long since I have seen one that I was afraid they had all been retired," and then he slowly retired himself. Sghutlkill Cocntt, fscaile postmasters. Pa., has twelve I COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY I . - t TTAnTT A Shirt Ironing-. Experience and observation have long ere this taught me that the ironing of shirts is no small item among the duties of the wife, mother, daughter or sister It has been the cause of many weary heads, aching backs, and tired arms, and if at such times, when the ironer has done her best, the men-folks, unmindfu of the amount of. patience and labor ex pended upon them, grumble because they do not look better, how rery try ing it is! If the result of my experience can be ot any assistance to others, I most willingly give it. An easy way, I have found, i9 to dis solve the starch in a little cold water then pour on hot not boiling water, say half a pint to two teaspoonfuls of starch. Wet the bosoms in this, roll them up, let them lie two or three hours and iron in the usual way. But when cuffs, collars, or shirts are to be iroued, so they can be worn some little time without becoming soiled similar to laundry work, it requires more tune and labor. I have known one shirt, when "done up" as follows, to outlast two or three ironed the easier way: Dissolve two tablespoon fuls of starch in cold water then pour on about a quart of boiling water, stirring all the time; add a piece of spermaceti the size of a large hickory- nut (or some nice clean tallow), and lot it boil until clear. Use as hot as pos sible, as it soaks in better. The cuffs aud collars can be put into the hot starch with a spoon until cool enough to use the hands. Rub the starch in well, wring but little and hang up to dry. If the clothes are starched after they have been dried, they will absorb more starch and be much stiffer. When agiin dried, I usually wet them in some thin boiled or unboiled starch, as described above; then roll tightly the cuffs and collars rolled in a dry cloth, dampened a little on the outside and leave all over night before ironing. If the shirts are not wanted quite so stiff, wet them in hot water mstead ot thin starch. If any part is too dry in the morning, dampen with a wet cloth first, then rub all 4he wrinkles, if any, to the edge of the bosom, or un der the plaits, looseuing the plaits and ironing in the usual way. To polish after ironing, moisten the surface with boiled starch and iron brisk ly with a smoothing iron I use a nickel- plated one. Cuffs and collars are treated similarlv; but I usually lay a dry cloth over them and iron ou the wrong side first. If they are not yet stiff enough, tub in while ironing more thick starch, cold or hot, and polish them as directed. When done, tip the iron and draw the edge back and forth over the inside of the cuff or collar, which will round it to the shape of the arm or neck. The linen part of the turn-down col lars should be finished first, then the oth er part ironed on the wrong side, as it will turn over better. Auy time when ironing, little specks or soiled spots can be rubbed off with a damp cloth. It will no doubt require some practice to do the above satisfactorily, but 1 trust that labor and patience will oe rewarded with suc cess. Will not others f ivorus with criticisms and suggestions? One Wha Triet to Learn, in liural A eio Yorker. Steamed Beef. For a family of six or seven persons take four pounds of beef, cross-rib is best; get a piece ot suet the size of your hand, cut in small pieces and fry out the fat; you mu?t have a large,. flat-bottomed pot; after the suet is brown, take out the scraps and put iu the meat and two onions, cut up; when the meat has become dark brown on one side turn it over on the other, and let that get the same; when onions and meat are thoroughly bron, pour in a pint of boil ing water; whenever the meat gets dry, add more water, but it must always be boiling hot; throw in a handful of salt. three bay leaves, and half a dozen each of whole allspice and whole pepper; cover with a close-fitting cover and let it cook for three hours; when almost done thin a tablespoonful of flour with half a cupful cf water; stir this in the gravy, taking care not to have any lumps in it; when you wish to serve it, strain the gravy through a fine sieve and pour a few spoonfuls over the meat. Matonnaissk Sauce. Yolks of three egg, well freed from white, one e alt spoonful salt, one teaspeonful dry mus tard, one teaspoonful Worcestershire sauce, and the juice of one lemon; mix together, add one piut of oil by drops at first, then by spoonfuls until used; one wine-glassful vinegar, one-half of which add after the first half pint of oil is used, two wine-glassfuls of rich cream, one spoonful at a time. Success depends on the thorough working of the oil; should wine be used at the table, add two spoon fuls of Worcestershire sauce instead of one. Pousd Fruit Cake. One pound of sugar; one pound of butter; two pounds of currants; two pounds of raisins; one half pound of citron; nine eggs the whites and yelks beaten separately; one wine-glass of brandy; one nutmeg; one teaspoonful of cloves; one tablespoonful of cinnamon; six teaspoonfuls of baking powder in one pound of flour. To Stof Bleeding at tbb Nosb. It is worth while to know how to stop bleeding from the nose when it becomes excessive. If the finger is pressed firmly upon the little artery which supplies blood to the side of the face affected the result is accomplished. Two small arteries branching up from the main arteries on each side of the neck, and passing over the outside of the jaw-bone, supply the face with blood. If the nose bleeds from the right nostril, for example, pass the finger along the edge of the right jaw till the beating of the artery is felt. Press hard upon it, and the bleeding will cease. Continue the pressure five minutes, until the ruptured vessels in the nose hare time to contract. Therm are few things mere productive of evil U denesti life taaa a ea tetpr. The Loos. The assumption by Cardinal Pecci, on his elevation to the papacy, of the illus trious name of Leo, indicates a purpose of following in the footsteps of the illus trious men who have borne this title, and proved themselves truly "lions," in tho wars they have waged for the Church, in the court, and in the field by force of arms, an! by the power of courage, and intellect, against Saracen and ' heathen, infidel and schismatic, rebellious Euro- - - - TTf 1 i . m a pean ivmg, ana subverting Moslem po tentate. 1 here have been twelve Leos all men of force of character and energ of action. Of these five liavo made their reigns great historical epochs. The first, or Saint Lso, succeeded Sex tus III., m 440, and for 21 years fough an -almost incessant warfare with th Vandals and Huns on one side, and the partisans of the Patriarch of Constanti ncple on the other. He filled up the brief trusses which wera allowed him b struggles with Pelagians, Nestorians, and other heretics and chismatics, and against whom ho had more success than in his struggles with the marauding barbarians of the Noith. Leo III., also a Saint, assumed tho tiara ami ine r isnerman s Uing, 3a years later, in "Jo. His was almost an equally stormy reign, lie was beset by continued conspiracies against his life; he united with Charlemagne to fight the Saracens and he constructed the earthquakes which devas'ed a part of Italy, and caused by wrath of neaven against his people, and he engaged in an attempt to propitiate its anger with as much vigor as he did in combatting the Jlohamedans' Thirty-one years after he died or in 817, Leo iv. also a saint ascended th throne. He came into his office while the Holy City was iu imminent peril from Saracen pirates, and the eight years that he reigned were marked by continued and most desperate struggles with those treebooters. He had the satisfaction of achieving a decided victory over them be tore death came to relieve him of his task. .- When L?o X , who ascended the throne in 1.513, began another era for the Ctiurch Heretofore it had f ught with heretics and Moslems. Now it was struggling wr.h Luropean Kings for temporal now and aggrandiz'-ment. Leo A. found a great war with France had been be queathed him by his predecessor, lie fought this through to a victorious term ination, and during his whole reign of eight years played a part in European politics which no successor has ever equaled. Nor were his triumphs confined to the field and the cabinet. He was one of the foremost of scholars, aud his en courugement of the letters and the ai ts something unequaled in history. He de veloped the great R man Uaiversity, gathered into it scientific men from every part ot Lurope, and every form of intel lectual effort found in him a patron of never-failing generosity. His reign is the most splendid chapter in the history of the Koman Cnurch. The next L-?o who made a special fig ure in history was the All- who reigned trom 123 to 1826, and in those three years did a very efficient and much need ed work of reformation in the Roman Church. H also displayed much talent as a secular governor. Toledo Blade, The Little shoes Did It. A young man, vho had been reclaimed from the vice of intemperance, was called upon to tell how he was led to give up drinking. He arose, but looked for a moment very confused. All he could say wa., "ine little shoes. 1 hey did it I ' With a thick voiec, as if his heart was in his throat, he kept repeating thi9. There was a stare of perplexity on every face, and at length some thoughtless young pec pie began to titter. The man in all his erubaratsinent heard this sound, and rallied at once. The light came into his eyes with a flash he drew himserf up and addressed the audience; the choking went from bis throat. llYes, friends," he siid, in a voice that cuts its way, clear as a deep-toned bell, "whatever you may think of it, I've told you tho truth the little shoes did it! I was a brute and a fool; Btrong drink had made me both, and starved me into the bargain. I suffered; I deserved to suffer; but I din'ut suffer alone no man does who has a wife aud a child, for the woman gets the worst abuse. But I am no speak er 10 enlarge on that; I stick to the little shoes. It was one ui"hr. when I was all but done for, the saloon keeper's child helding out her feet for her father to 00k at her fine new shoes. It was a sim ple thing; but friends, no fist ever 6truck blow as those little new shoes. Thev kicked reason into me. What business lave I to clothe others with fineries, and provide not even coarse clothing for my own, but let them go bare? said I; and there outside whs my shivering wile and blue chilled child, on a bitter cold night. I took hold of the little one with a grip and saw her chilled feet. Men. fathers! f the little ehoes smote me, what must little feet do? I put them, cold as ice. to my breast; they pierced me through. Yes, the little feet walked right into my heart and away walked my selfishness. I had a trifle of my money left; I bought a loal of bread and then a pair of little shoes. I nevar tasted anything but a bit of that bread all the S-ibbtb day, and went to work like a man on Monday, and from that day spent no more money at the pub ic bouse, lhat a all I re got to say ll was little shoes that aid it." litany Sunday Presf. Ah Eo in his Pocket that he Could'kt Get Oct. The gentleman who left church so suddenly last Sunday was not sick, as his friends feared at the time. That forenoon, just before service, he visited his barn to see it his horse had been properly cared for, and finding a new-laid egg, he put it in nis pocket. The recollection that the egg was still in his pocket prompted him to steal away from the congregation to make an inves- tigation, and we regret to say that hia worst fears were realized. Maxioo's only railway earned $2,000,- t0 List year. Hiuts on Poultry. The following items of interest to poultry keepers are from a recent issue of the Poultry IForfd: In buildiug new hen houses, we deem it well to recommend, for economy's sake, that the walls be carried up not too high from the ground. The inside of a fowl house need not be over seven or eight feet high, at the eaves on either side with a "one-third pitch" above this for .the roof. If the buildiug has only a "shed' roof, or one slant of covering, the back wall may be three to five feet high, and fhe-front seven or eight feet from the sills. In all cases loak wIl to the meats of having tho building thoroughly ventilat ed, when desired. An o-iening in the lidge for this purpose, or one st both sides of the house under the eaves. Is best. Have a screen, trap-donr, or slide iuside, tint may be raised or shut at wiil con veniently io very cold weather. There will come very shaip or stormy nights in winter, when there must be no opening in the house to admit the snow, sleet, or bitter frosty air. Clear rye bran, a'one, should never be fed tofo!-?, on account of its swelling and cakiug, in mas, in the crop, and proving fatal to chicken-life, not infre quently. It will thus sodden aud increase in bulk very rapidly, before digesting causing rupture of the ciop if auy great quantity has been eaten. A neighlor, we recollect, in a hmried way mixed a large pan full with water and placed the mesa before a nice flock of three-quartera jiown chickens leaving them to ei joy the feed at their leisure. ' He drove away in the wagon, and after an absence of a few hours returned to find his birds scattered about, dead, in his yards. It is very good when mixed with wheat bran and oat-meal, or corn-meal. But, by itself, it should not be fed to fowl stock. Fowls drink water freely, but they know just how much they nsed, aud when they have access to the fluid clean, sweet and freeh, they imbibe no more than is good for them. It is, therefore, unneces sary to mix your douh to thin, and sloppy, at the morning feeding. Have the meal well scalded, and feed the mix ture to the stock stiff anJ dry, compara tively. This feed should, gjceraily. be composed of both corn aud rye-mcal,with vegetables say one-third each. In our own practice we h.ve found this prefer able, both for the birds and as an econom ical provision for tho old or the growing stock. A little per.per occasionally ia tiiis dough, and alwajs salt, wid improve tne mess. Calves, or sheep's lights and livars. which can always be obtained in the mar ket-houses for a few cents ai iete, are valuable to feed fowls, for two reasons. They are devoid of bones, aud they close ly resem b;e insect u.ct. We ajvise the cooking of any sort of meat food always. Thiii Ont -Your Pears. If anybody this ye-ir has an orercroo of pears which is hardly probable now is about the time to thin them out for the second time, by removing every knotty aud wormy specimen. There are some varieties that grow in clusters and do not generally overbear from these the wormy or worthless ones only should be removed; hut where the trees are not too large to man age, and are not cluster growing, no two specimens should be allowed to touch, as they are almost certain to become worm v. and both are lost. Muuy persons not well cquainted with f.uit raising, hesitate to thin out the trees, on the ground that their crop will be diminished. This may be possibly but not po-j'stively true, unlets the fruit is intended to be fed to the pigs. But even should it be otherwise true sometime?, wLo would not prefer to have one burhtl ot large, beautiful, luscious pears, to live bushels with probablv one- half a neck anions; the whole lit tn nut pou your table or fend to market? Trees, too,al!owed to overbear will have diminished crop next year. Upon our wn premises, five years ago, one half of the whole crop of trees was removed, but the remaining half so exhausted the tree that it bore not a tingle near the next year, nor grew an inch. The following season, however, it showed its usual over load of fruit, and early in June about three-fourths of the crop was removed, but there was still too maDy left, aud we went over the trees a second time to re move the knotty, stunted and wormy specimens. The third year the tree died. It was a standard Belle Lucrative. Ot mantovsn Telegraph. . Thk LTebsian Flt. This destructive insect made its appearance in the wheat fields last fall to a considerable extent, and did much damage; b ut one fact con nected with its appearance, or rather re appearance, should be certainly borne in mind that it is only the early sown wheat that is attacked, and this mostly when early sowing is followed by a long spell of naiid weather, like that of la-t autumn, during which thegrain becomes quite rampant. Wheat sown the last of September or the beginning of October which is early enough in most years ia seldom if ever attacked by the fly. There is a statement now before us of a farmer in Western New York, who saya that while he sowed his wheat as late as the lgth and 30th of September, hia neigh bors sowed in the latter end of August, and that while his crop was wholly free from the fly.and yielded over twenty nine bushels to the acre, the crops of hia neighbors were nearly destroyed. He fur ther says that a barrel of salt to the acre will destroy the midge and cause the grain to ripen from three to six days earlier. We think there is wisdom in hia statement. Oermantoxen Telegraph. To Prevent Potatoes prom Rot. Dust over the floor of the bia with lime, and put in about six or seven inches of potatoes, then dust with lime as before, then more potatoes, using about one bushel of lime to forty bushels of pota toes. The lime improves the flavor of the potatoes, and effectually kills the fungi which cause the rot. Thb number cf seeds in one peuaal ef fcackwkeat ii 35,00. V V