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n I v. .... DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. Xlt. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1878. NO. 4. i ; - s 4 1 2 iV ? THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOB T U I ( Farmer llutlaru .Van mntl J'miuIIt Circle ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY. rEOPBiriOR AND rCBLIHHEU. Official Paper for Clackamas County. OUice: lu Enterprise Bitildiugr, One door South of Masonic Building, Main Street. Tcriua of Suborrlptiou Kindle Copy, one year, in advance. . Single Cooy. ix months, in advance. .... a 50 1 50 Term of Adirrdiing: Transient advertisements, including all legal notices, per square of twelve lints, tm week S ' 2 50 For aeh subsequent insertion 1 00 Uui Column, one year 1-0 00 Half Column, one year CO 00 ouarter Column, one year 40 00 BunimsAit Card, one square, one year 12 00 SOCIETY NOTICES OREGON LODGE, No. 3, i. o. o. r. AloeU every Thursday Evening at j,, 1 o'cloi-k. in ).!.! FllnwH' Hull.; I," '"Xn - XI. in Ktrm t M.ir..). rj tt nr,lnr kJfvTfyi. By order of N. G. REBECCA DEGREE LODGE, No. 2, j. v. u. meets on the Second and Fourth Tuesday Evenings of each mouth, I tu cioca, in ine Odd i ellows Hall. Members of the Degree are invited to attend. FALLS ENCAMPMENT, No. 4, I. O. O. 1'., meets at Odd Fellows" Hall on the First aud Thii4 Tuesday of each month. Patriarchs in good standing are invited to arienu. MULTNOMAH LODGE, No. 1, A. . & A. u., holds im regular communi cation on tue irat and Third Saturdays -J in each month, at 7 o'clock from the yoth of September to the iitJth of March ami V . 7K o'clock from the yoth of March to the ' zuiu ui oepioniuer. .ureuiren m good standing are invited to attend. By order of W. il. BUSINESS CARDS WARREN N. DAVIS, M. D., IMi fciciuu nl Surgeon, Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. OiFitu at Cliff IXousb. CHARLES KNIGHT, CANBY. OREGON, IMiysician ami Jruggi.t. Prescriptions carefully filled at short notice. jaT-tf DR. JOHN WELCH, DENTIST. OFFICE IX OREGON CITY ..OREGON. Ilightnt cash price paid for County Orders. E. L. EASTHAM, ATTOILEY- A T -1 A IV , OREGON CITY, OREGON. Special attention given-to business in the U. S. Laud Oliico. office iu Myer's Brick. ' JOHNSON & McCOWN, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS AT LA? OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Kpeclal attention given lo cases in the United States Land Otlice at Oregon City. 5apr'T2-tf 1 LANES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR ) Sale at thisoftice. Justices of the Veeaco can et anytnintf in their line. T. WAUD, GEOROS A. IIAIIDIXO. WARD &l HARDING, K XEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A GENERAL assortment of Drugs aul CliciiiicnlH, rrrunifr.T, fcoiftin. Com tut and ISriinlion. 'frnwra, feuitnort. kbeulilrr Itrarri l unrr and 'Jila Arllelfk, ALSO Kroan Oil. I.uiu 4'liliu iir.t a. Cilaae. I'lill.r. I'ainlM. Olle. Varuiiliri aud lj Klullk PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. PATENT MEDICINES, ETC., ETC BrV. rhysiclana' Prescriptions carefully coi peuuded, and all orders correctly ajiawtred. t. Open at all hours of the iiiglif tka. All accounts must be paid uionthlv. novl.lbT&tf WAUD & HANDING. W. H. HIGHFIELD, KstnhllHhoil Hiiiec '4U, One door North of PopWs Hall, MAIM NT.. OltKUOX CITY, OKI'.UAX. An assortment of Watches, Jewelry, and j Both Thomas' Weight Clocks, all of which are vrarrautod to be as represented. IW"Kepatring done on short notice; and tliunkiu tor past patronage. Casta tuil lor County Ortlertt. JOHN M. DIALER IN BACON, BOOKS, STATIONERY,' 'PICTURE i'RAMES, MOULDINGS AND MISCEL LANEOUS GOODS. fratii: n int: to oi;di:r. Obeooji Citt, Oreuon. 7At the Poet Office, Main Street, west side. novl, '75-tf A. C. WALLINC'S lionccr Boole Bindery Pittock'a Building, cor. of Stark an Front Sts. 1'OKTI.AXD, ORE(iO.. "ILANK BOOKS RULED AND BOUND TO ANY X desired pattern. Music Bocks. Magazines Newspapers, etc.. bound in every variety of etyl known to the trade. Orders from the country promptly attended to. novl, lo-tf OREGON CITY BREWERY. Having pnrehaaed the above Brewery, wishes to inform the public that they arej umw prepared to manufacture a No. I quality OF LAGER BEER. As good a can be obtained anywhe the State. Ordara selieital and promptly nlle mi wmt ai AMtaries Convalescing'. Dreaming of the woodland, Dreaming of the hill, "Where the shadows lie so cool Lie bo cool aud still; Dreaming of the river, Sweeping slow between Banks the summer raina niUHt keep Deeply, darkly green ; Dreaming of the pathway T( a niOHsydcat, That has waited long in vain, For my coming feet. Birds are flying outward From recesses green, 'Jxlling in a trilling lay "What their eyes hare seen; Bees are coming homeward Ladened flying lony. Bearing sweets they gathered (here 1'rom the Linn tree's blowy Breezes whisper softly To the weary brain: "Summer watches on the hills Till you come again." The Mountain of the Ark. From the Russian station of Aralykh, on the line where the last aud very gentle slope of Ararat melts into the perfectly Hat bottom ol the Araxes Valley, Mr. llrvce and his companion commenced the ascent of the mountain on September 11, 18 G. The ollicer in command at Araljkh, a "Mohammedan noble from the Caucasus gave them horses and a mounted Cjssack escort to take them to Sardar bulakh, a sifall military outpost on the pass between Great aud Little Ararat. fast a lvunlisn encampment and up a grassy slope tne travelers rule to a traar- bulakh-uthc Governor well -a very pleas ant frontier post, but to tliein a place of refreshing indeed, though the beginning of troubles. Horses could go no further, the necessaries for bivouac must bo' car ried, and the Cossacks would not carry them. Kurds had to be procured and bargained with, a time-wasting process, all the more trying to the travelers that they could not understand what was said on either side. The glorious snows were beckoning them, the precious minutes were llying, but there was nothing for it but ;atieuce. THE GOVERNOR'S WELL. At length it became evident that the travelers must camp at Sardarbulakh ; neither Kurd nor Cossack would faee the terrors of the mountain at night at au un familiar height. For the unforseen an noyance there arose one unexpected item of consolation; a band of Kurds, who had just crossed the flanks of Little Ara rat from Persia in search of fresher asture, came up, driving their cattle to the Governor's Well : and the travelers jeheld, in the most ancient scene within the historic record, a picture which viv- dly reproduced the first simple life of the world. The well is an eliptical hol- ow three feet deep, surrounded by a loose wall of lumps of lava; troughs were set up all over the surrounding pasture. And urdish boys and girls went busily to work filling brazen bowls aud carrying the water to tlwj troughs, whence the heep, small creatures like those of the Scotch Highlands, and the goats ex actly the scagegoat of Mr. llolman Hunt's picture urank. ior two hours the wa- g went on, and boys and girls and women were so intent upon tneir work that they hardly glance 1 at the strangers from Frangistan, wcmderfully foreign as the group must have been to them. At 1 A. M. the party started, thirteen in number, and made across grassy hollows for the ridges which tend up the great cone, tiie ivurus leaning tne way,, ine travelers' hopes were high; the Kurds got on rapidly; their pace was better than that of the Swiss guides; but it soon slack ened; and at the top of the first steep bit these sturdy fellows sat down to rest; and they repeated the periormance every quarter of an hour, sitting seven or eight minutes each time, smoking ana chatter ing, and utterly indifferent to gestures of remonstrance and appeals. The travelers could not make them understand their speech the interpreter had left them at Sardarbulakh; "and," says Mr. Bryce, "it was all very well to beckon them, or pull them by the elbow or clap them on the back; they thought this was only our lun. aud sat still and chattered all the same. TWELVE THOUSAND FEET niGn. "When daylight came the travelers be gan to despair, but also to enjoy the won derful cliects of light. At S a. m. they had seen the morning star spring up from behind the Median Mountains, shedding a light that almost outshone the moon. An hour later, there came iipon the top most slope of the cold and ghastly snows of the cone, six thousand feet above a flush of Dink. "Swiftl fit floated down the eastern face, and touched and kin died the rocks above us," says the author; "and then the sun flamed our, and in a moment the Araxes Valley and all the hollows ot the savage ridges we were crossing were flooded witli overpowering light." At six o'clock it became evident that neither Cossack9 nor Kurds would go farther. Mr. Bryce then resolved to leave them, to await his leturu or not as thev pleased, and to make the a?cent of the snow-cone alone; his friend, being unequal to the exertion, aiced to wait about and look for him at nightfall They had now reached a height of 12,000 feet; everything, except Lilile Ararat op posite, lay below them; the awful cone rose there from where they sat, its glit tering snows aad stern black crags of lava standiuir up perfectly clear in the eea of cloudless blue; tempting, indeed but awe-inspiring, too, for the summit was hidden behind the nearer slopes, and no one could tell what th difliculties ef the ascent might be. The Kurds and the Cossacks knew nothing, and could not tell if they had known anything oa the subject, v A LONELY CLIMB. At 8 A. M. Mr. Brvce buckled on his canvas gaiters, put some meat lozenges four hard-boiled eggs, a email flask ot tea, some crusts of bread and a lemon in his pocket, bade his friend good bye and set off, accompauicd, to his no small surprise, by two Cossacks (who had been mnch-ani'jsed Kurd. After ODe Cossack by the ice-ax) and one two hours' climbing, only remained with the daring mountaineer, and the of this worthy gave way before terrible sheer cliff, which had to be reached by steps cut in the intervening snow. Mr. Bryce bade him by signs to return to the bivouac, and pressed on alone. After two hours incessant toil up a straight slope of volcanic minerals, frag ments of trachyte and other stones,which perpetually slipped under his foot and hand, it became a question whether the gasping climber could possibly reach the desired gaol. lie would not at all events give it jip yet; and after a severe struggle with tins dpcidedly bad bit, he got on to a rock rib, where ho was revived by be holding a spectacle which he describes as perhaps the grandest on the whole mount ain. "At my foo!," he says, "was a deep, narrow, impassable gully, in whose bot tom snow lay where the inclination' was not too steep. J3evond it in a line of rocky towers, red, grim and terrible, ran right up towards the summit, its upper end lost in the clouds, through which, as at intervals they broke or shifted, one could descry, far, far above, a wilderness ot snow. A 11EOION OP SILENCE. Having crossed the fissure, Mr. Bryce began a tremendous climb along the slope of friable rocks . which ran up till lost in clouds, and among which he was saluted by a violent sulphurous smell. which made him look for some trace of an eruptive vent, or at least for hot va pors betraying the presence of subterra nean fires. Nothing of the kind is to be soen,'however, and he attributes the smell to the natural decomposition of trachytic rock, which is full of- minute crystals of sulphide ot iron. AU the way up this rock slope, the climber kept his eyes fixed oa its upper end, to see what sigus there were, of crags or snow-fields above. He was now thousands of feet above Little Ararat, which looked more like broken obelisk than an independent summit twelve thousand eight hundred feet in height. "With mists to the left and above," ho says, "and a range of .black precipices cutting off all view t.o the right, there came a vehement sense of isolation and solitude, and I began to understand better the awe with which the mountain silence inspires the Kurdish shepherds. Overhead, the sky had turned from dark blue to an intense bright green, a color whose strangeness padded to the weird terror of the scene." In another hour he must turn back, whether ho should have gained the sum mit or not; to be overtaken by darkness upon the mountain would mean death; already he was suffering very severely from cold, and his strength was nearly exhausted. The rest must be told in his own simple forcible words: "At length the rock slope came suddenly to an end, and I stepped out upon the almost level snow at the top of it, coming at the same time into the clouds, which clung to the colder surlaces. lu the thick mist the eye could pierce only some thirty yards ahead: so I walkfid on over the snow five or six minutes, following the rise of its surface, which was gentle, and fancying there might,still be a good way to go. fo mark the backward track, trailed the point of the ice-ax along be hind me in the soft Enow, for there was no longer any landmark; all was closed on every side. Suddenly, to my aston ishment, the grpund began to tall away to the north; I stopped; a puff of wind drove away the mists on one side, the op- )Osita side to that by which I had come, and showed the Araxes Plain at an abys mal depth below. It was THE TOP OK ARARAT." The traveler himself could not put into words the wonder aud awe with which he was filled bv the spectacle which lav before him. We can only iudicato the chief features of that astouishinj pano rama,whieh included Kazbek and Elbruz, the latter two hundred and eighty miles away, and had the Caspian Sea upon its dim horizon. The mountains of Dagh estan, the extinct volcano of Ala Goz, .hrivan with its orchards and its vineyards, Araxes like a silver thread, the Taunus ranges and Bingol Dagh, the great Rus sian fortress Alexandronol. and Kars. its enemy then, now in Russian hands. Two hundred miles away could be faintly descried the blue tops ot the Assyrian mountains of Southern Kurdistan. 'mountains that look down on Mosul and those huge mounds of Nineveh by which the ligris Hows." Below and around. included in this single view, seemed to lie the whole cradle of the human race. "from Mesopotamia in the south to the great wall ot the Caucasus that covered the northern horizon, the boundary of the civilized world." No wonder that, look ing on such a scene, a solitary man should feel terrified at his own insignificance. "Nature," says the traveler, "sits en throned, serenely calm, upon this hoary pinnacle, and speaks to her children only iu the storm and earthquake that level their dwellings in the dust." No wonder the solitary man could take no heed of time until, while the eye was still unsatisfied with gazing, the curtain of mist closed again, and says the author, "I was left alone in this little plain of snow, white, silent, aud desolate, with a vividly bright green sky above it, and a wild west wind whistling across it.clouds girding it in, aud ever and anon through the clouds glimpses of far-stretching val leys aad mountains away to the world's end." Mr. Bryce accomplished the descent speedily and safely, reaching the encamp ment at 6 o clock in the evening. Two days later he and his friend went to visit the Armenian monastery ot Ltcumiadzin, near the northern foot of Ararat, and were preseuted to the Archimandrite. Here is Mr. Bryce's pithy account of the interview: "It came out in conversation that we had been on the mountain, and the Armenian gentleman win was acting as interpreter turned to the Archiman drite, and said : "This Englishman says lie has ascended to the top of Massis (Ar arat)." The venerable smiled sweetly. "No." he replied : "that cannot be. No one has ever been there. It is impos sible.' " COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, The Curse of the East. A number of philanthropists are in dignant to learn that fifty thousand acres of land, hitherto uncultivated, in Mozam bique, and belonging to the Portuguese, e been granted to a British and An glo-Indian company, having a capitol of 200,000, for raising popies and making opium. The company lias procured the exclusive right to export opium, free of duty, through all the custom-houses of the province of Mozambique, and will no doubt conduct a very lucrative trade. Lflte accounts mention that "it is satis factory" to hear that the people are thriv ing, and that the opium produced prom ises to be superior to the best raised in India. Considering the manifold evils which opium has caused in Asia, particu larly in China, the increase of the drug, and the inevitable increase of its smug gling into that country, is justly regarded by philanthropists as a great wrong to humanity. They Fay that the Anglo In dian Government should be held responsi ble lor the deleterious opium trade. There is a district of twelve thousand square miles on the banks of the Ganges where the poppy is exclusively cultivated, and its groweth is encouraged in more southern parts of Ilindostan. The plant, sold to the officer of the Indian Govern ment at a fixed price, is made into opium under supervision of the Government at the Queen's factories at Patnaand Ghazi- pore, sent to Calcutta, and there bought by 'merchants who smuggle it wholesale into China. Out of about seventy thou sand chests of opium made annually in India, sixty thousand chests are con sumed in China, the remainder going to Burmah and the islands in the Straits of Mecca. The tax on the opium sent into China amounts to some 10,000,000, which goes into the treasury of -British India. The Chinese authorities iu 1839 demanded the surrender of all the opium iu the factories of Canton, aud seized some tweuty-five thousand chests. The resalt was a desultory war, resulting in the capture of Canton and other ports, the transfer of Hong Kong to the Eng lish, the payment to them of 0,000,000 as indemnity, and their continued con nivanco ot , the opium trade, which they are steadily increasing. No body expects John Bull to be any better than his neighbors, despite his pretense and preaching. But since he is as he is, his sins would be less conspicuous and less odious, if lie could be persuaded to lay aside a moderate portion of his intol erable cant. His boasted efforts to civil ize aud Christianiz j the world are rather inconsistent with his sustainment aud exteutiou of the epium trade, really, as it is carried on iu Asia, a crime against the human rase. N. Y. Times. A War Scene iu Adrianople. Hostilities have been resumed at Adrianople, this time by the women. The cause of war was the week's washing. A Russian officer and his wife were quar tered in the house of a Greek merchant, named Youanuon. One dav the Greek's wife entered the room occupied by the Russian lady, and was about removing a white table cloth tor the purpose of. hav ing it washed. The officer's wife ob jected to the table cloth being taken away, thereupon they quarrelled, one speaking in Greek and the other in Rus sian, neither understanding a word of the other's language. There was a struggle for the possession of the table cloth, and the Greek lady was about gaining the day, when the Russian lady rushed from the room and co:nplained to her husband that she had been assaulted. The officer remonstrated with the Greek lady in strong language, and she replied that he was not a gentleman. 1 he in spector arrived, and the Greek lady was asked to go quietly to the police station She refused to obey, but ultimately was led awav bv the police. The women ot the quarter became so enraged that they rushed upon the gendarmes, rescued ner, aud carried her back in triumph to her house. Iu the skirmish the lady fainted The crendarmes followed her back to the house, and contented themselves with guarding the door of the room. Mean while her husbaud had been summoned, but on his arrival the soldiers refused to allow him to enter the room. lie was told that his wife had insulted the Rus sian ladv, but that if an apology were of fered it would be accepted. Ihe apology was at once given by Youannon, who wiely thought it was the best course he could adopt to restore tranquility to his household. Hie details ot the eisgage- ment are civen by a Standard cories- poudent at the seat of war. A Kiss From a Kino. In the diary of Lady Chatterton. iust published in Lon don, that lady relates an amusing inci dent of her mother's first presentation to King George III: "When my mother appeared, with her hair powdered after the fashion of the time, the good-natured King was so glad so see her that the con ventional kiss, given to young girls on their first presentation, was, on this oc casion, so hearty and affectionate that his nose became covered with the pow der of her hair. The Kind's face being rather red, the white powdered nose pro duced a most ludicrous effect; and the Lords in waiting, perceiving suppressed laughter among tne court, and seeiug the difficulty each succeeding lady experi enced iu keeping her couutenance as she advanced, ventured to say to the lung, 'Your Majesty has powdered your nose The King, not quite hearing, but perceiv ing that something must be wrong, be came alarmed, and said, 'What what My mother was almost convulsed with laughter, which she tried in vain to sup press when she saw Queen Charlotte's severe eyes fixed reprovingly on her. At last the King understood what had oc curred, and as he wiped the powder from his nose he burst into a hearty laugh, to the great comfort of my mother, who was then able to take her place in the Minuet de la Cour with becoming gravity." Charity is friendship in common, and friendship is charity enclosed. Expositou Opinions. Nothing is more amusing than to hear different opinions on the exhibition ut- terftUv i.nnlAnf n, T-.rinna cho,ioa f political opinion. The Bonapartist coun - i -i - sels his friends not to so there, remarks that everything is sadly incomplete, hints that the whole thing is a failure, and with a sigh remarks that it is "not much like the affair of 1807." A good many Americans, I regret to say, echo this idea. They appear to fancy that the downfall of the late empire was a loss to civilization. The Republican is course enthusiastic in praise of the rich ness of the exhibition, as compared "with trfat hodge-podge in 1807;" every thing suits him now as nothing pleased him then. The English swells endeavor to find fault because they imagine that a republic must in some manner bo con nected with dirt; but their little offen sive sneers pass unnoticed. The Legiti mist holds aloof, sneers at all the fine talk about modern progress and the union of the peoples, and prophecies that the country will ruin itself in junketings aud special appropriation. As for the Orleauists,,they yawn in their elegant chateaux in the country, and announce that they "shall not go up to town until late this season not till that dreadful exhibition is over, you know." Mean time the fair keeps on its way, and is more prosperous thus far in its first month than the grand hurly-burly of I8G7 was. The real truth is that the Im perial Exhibition was planned more with an eye to amusement than this has been. The Republican advisers thought it not wise to turn the Champ de Mars into a beer garden, or a place for flirtatious ; but rather to construct there a solid and rich museum, iu which a real interna tional competition could bo iugaged in; and no sensibly people will regret their decision. There were 36 restaurants on the Champ9 de Mars, in 18G7; but I will venture to say that, before this exhibition closes, it will be recognized that it has been a far greater popular success than the old one. Edward King, in Boston Journal.' Iltw Dauiel Webster Went to Church. Of Dauiel Webster when he visited Wheeling with his wife and daughter, an old inhabitant writes to the Intelligencer of that city : "That massive man who seemed to loom up above all others, who inspired one with his majesty ot person, with his voice, with the flash of his deep sodark hazel eyes, and with his every movement, who was not really a large man in height ho was only about 5 feet 10 inches. His head looked very large, but tlnfle are many ls large. He wore 7 3-8 hat. Mr. Clay's looked much His smaller, but was of the same size. shoulders and chest were very large, that was all; he tapered to small hips and verv small hands and feet. He weighed very little, if any, over 200 pounds. He remained in Wheeling over Sunday and attended the Rev. Dr. Weed's Church, on r ourth street, wnere he said he Heard a very good sermon. It was amusing to see him and his family goiug'to church. He went ahead with that never-to-be- forgotten tramp, placing his "'foot down as though he intended it to stay there. There was no elasticity in his legs, and apparently there were no bones, heel or instep in his feet. His wife, not much for pretty, came about a rod behind, with much the same tramp. Miss lvato went a rod oem ud uer with more oi gooa iooks and less of the tramp, but she was very hard to keep step with aud if the daisies of Marshfield would rise unhurt from under her feet they are harder than any I have seen." The Mennonites who have settled large tracts of country in Kansas, Dako ta, Nebraska, Manitoba, and other por tions of the great West and Northwest have also settled the fuel question out there by the introduction of grass stoves The Western liural gives diagrams show 2 how to construct a stove for the burning of crass, and every family can now go to grass for -their fuel. These grass furnaces are extensively U9ea in the homes of the Mennonites in Russia and from thence the pattern has been transferred to the far West. They are made of brick or stone, and are about five feet long, six feet high and two and a half feet wide. The Russian grass stove has six stories which are, com mencing at the foundation, ash-box, fire box, oveu, lower smoke passage, hot air chamber, aud upper smoke passage, the dry grass requires no special prepara tion for burning and is shoveled in, as it were, bv an abled-bodied citizen with a pitchfork. Three or four times in the twenty-four hours the energetic party with the fork tosses the loose hay into the roaring furnace for about twenty minutes each time. This gives sufficient heat for cooking and comfort. The stove cost about $5 each. Detroit Free Press. At a recent meeting of the English Institute of Naval Architects a paper was read suggesting that a let ot crude pe troleum might be thrown upon the deck of an ironclad with excellent results. The crew would be so scorched aud smothered by the smoke as to be forced to retire from working the guns, when a launch with, a spar or otnec topedo couia ap proach and deliver the fatal blow. It was calculated that such a jet could be thrown duu leet witn accuracy, appar ently much after the fashion in which water is directed Iroin a hose on a con uagrauon, oniy witn precisely the con irary intent, ivireauy tue necessary ap paratus has been designed, and it i3 be At . 1 1 lieved that a single gallon of petroleum would render a hundred square feet of surface uninhabitable by man for some little time. It is alleged that a Russian commission which investigated the sub ject decided just before the opening of the campaign that liquid fire could be used against ships with success. i ue nickel cent in our coma20 owes its origin to a desire of Mr. Bryant's, alter ma nrst visit to Germany, to re place the old-fashioned copper cent with something more resembling the kreutzer. Respect for Are iu France. L, 'e."euung very touching in lue respecttui allection and care with which old age was, and is still, treated in France. Not only the parent's, but the grandmother's salon is the point of re union of the whole family, vieing with each other who should best please and amuse the old lady. They never failed, whatever the occupation or amusement, to come in first and delight Bonne Hain an and Ma Tante by their pretty toilets. J and be rewarded by the somewhat exag- gcraieu aumirauon xuey elicited. But the old lady really thoucht her Grand daughters marvels of beauty and grace. A very marked feature of French old a"-e is its beinveillan.ee to the'young, an im possible word to translate, for it is neith er good nature, kiudness, nor indulgence rather an habitual state of the mind disposed to admire and approve. This tone ot feeling is but natural for chil dren to their parents, and the young to the old are almost universally dutiful and affectionate. Well do I remember how pretty I used to think the sliirht in clination and kiss of the hand held out to them, which prefaced the morniDg em brace to Bonne Maman. Our own roval family is the only one in England where I have seen this graceful custom prevail. If young women and girls knew how much charm and eonquellerie there is in this manner to their elders; how much younger they seem, how their grace and softness gains by contrast with old age, they would not in their own interest in dulge in the Get-out-of-the-wav-old-Dan- Tucker style which obtains so much in our society at present. Even the young men were lull of attentions to their aged relatives. They really loved them al most as parents. When the Prince Con sort's Life first appeared, we all wondered at the deep griet he expressed for the death of his grandmother, a relationship scarcely taken so seriously with us. Adorable et adonee was the phrase used to me only a few mouths ago by a vouns Frenchman of the modern set about the venerable mother of his parents. It must be said that the grandchildren were often brousrht up in her house, and that sue ueing much younger than the same relative in Eugland, became almost a friend and coufidaut to these young men, who found in her that experience in the past and sympathy in the present, which made her society as charming to them as it was to thosa of her own age. Afac millan's Magazine. Houses twelve stories uion.-In the West Eud of London, in a neighbrhood known as Queen Anne s gate, a banker named Han key has built some enormous mansions" overlooking St. James' park, and not far from the Metropolitan rail way station by that name. The houses are the highest in England twelve sto ries perhaps the highest in the world. They are let in fiats, upon a new associ ated principle; And Mr. Hankey has chosen for his own apartments the high est story, where he commands the purest air, with view9 of the parks, Surry hills, and northern heights. The suits of apartments are bo eagerly sought after by those who wish to avoid the cares of housekeeping that Mr. Hankey is build ing a second block of buildings twelve stories high. The tenants are chiefly bachelors, whose suites contain a bed room and a sitting-room; but there are also family suites of ten rooms. Eleva tors, of course, travel to each story, and eletric bells and speaking-tubes are in each room. There is a "wine-cellar" for each tenant; the male-servants are in liv enes; the iemales wear a neat and uni form drdfcs ; and one quarterly payment covers the expense of servants, taxes, gas, water, and indeed every item of house keeping, even down to the insurance of furniture. In a "Tea-Hono." Here, for the first time,we were taken Into a"tea-hong,' where they were preparing tea for the lor eign market that is ruining it. it is subject to a degree of heat as high as a man can bear his hand in for a short time; for which purpose it is put into iron vessels over furnaces. While in. this process of heating it is stirred actively by men's hands, the men changing from one hand to the other at short intervals. the heat being too great to be borne long by even those accustomed to it. In to these vessels a handful of coloring matter is cast, consisting of what? I do not know what all. Prussian blue. we were told enters into the composition. and with our eyes we saw indigo being pulverized for this purpose. I have never relished tea in America, and I think I shall never drink it there again Here in China, where it is used pure, it is a delightful beverage. If I can't tret it ithout indigo hereafter I think I shall not taKe it at an. xou can get no re spectable Chinaman to drink it after it has been doctored fur the foreign market, and. I feel altogether disposed to class myself with intelligent Chinamen on the tea question that is,as to the tea itself- but tor the water they use here in mak iug n excuse me. msn-oo Marvin, tn Nasliville Advocate. an ooservant writer savs that "very i i . . . . . . tew men can bear prosperity. It intoxi cates them like wine. It turns their heads and throws them off their balance. Others cannot bear adversity. They have no fortitude, no courage, no hope. Ihey are not like the old sailor who said he al ways felt happiest in the hight of a storm because he knew then that the next change that took place, whatever it might be, must necessarily be for the better. They cannot realize that there will be a change. When the sky is once cloudy and overcast they will not believe the sun will shine again. Young men should make it a point to keep tneir heads cool under all changes of circum stances, to preserve their equanimity, and not to be unduly elated by susccss or too much cast down by disappoint ment." It is estimated that 400,000 acres of new ground in northern Minnesota will be put under cultivation this season. - Dangerous Liberty. When will parents learn the importance of keeping fire-arms out of the children's wayf Ihey will play with them if they can. It has been established by innumer able examples that there never was a gun or pistol so crippled, old or rusty, that it will not go off in the hands of a child, and it is also as well established that the innocent aim of a child is always deadly. Two more cases of this kind aie reported. A boy of twelve years of age was left alone for a few minutes with his one year old sister. He commenced playing with the baby with a loaded rifle. The gun went off, the ball entering his sister't chin and passing through her head, kill ing her instantly. The alarmed boy called for help. He said that a man came into the house and shot the child and then ran away. That was a lie told in fright. He afterward confessed that he was playing with the gun, pointing it at his sister, when she, grasping and pull ing at the ramrod, the gan went off in his hands. And so she died. The other case was that of a fourteen-year-old who was playing at "burglars" with a seven-year-old friend. He had a gun which" he did not know was loaded, but which he had been in the habit of using to snap caps. The inside boy took the gun, while the outside fellow played burglar and robber at the wide chinks of the door. He put his face to one of the chinks, and this was a good opportunity for the other to "blow wind" in his face by snapping caps, l lie nrst cap missed nre, out tne second discharged the gun and killed the outsider in the game of rebbere, in stantly. There is no more to say. If children will play with fire-arms they must get shot sooner or later. It is for parents to prevent such dangerous play. The FasMonable Wife. The fashionable wife looks on her hus band's money as spoil something which he wants to guard, and she to sieae. It is no joint property which it is as much her interest as it is his to save and use wisely; but an enemy's possession which it will be her. gain to loot. As for com panionship toujour perdrix palls, and an evening spent with her husband alone counts as the ne plus ultra of deadly dullness. Personal love for him has died out, if even it once existed under the guise of passion because of novelty; and whatever she may be to others, ner nus- band finds her uniformly cold and repel- lant. Motherhood is her bug-bear; chil dren unwelcome intruders; and there is no more miserable woman extant than the fashionable wife with a baby, that hinders her from joining in the season's vulgar pleasures. Essentially selfish and shallow, love has as little meaning for her as the doctrine of duty or the glory of sacrifice; and those who know her stand aside in a kind of wonder at the scheme of creation which includes, among its offsetts, a being without uses and without virtues a woman with presumably a soul like any other, absolutely destitute of the love which saves the world from worse than death of the reality which seeks truth and lives in it of all noble ness of aspiration and all righteousness of life a woman whose good is pleasure, and her one sole religion fashion. Advice to the Girls. I want to give the girls a bit of advice. Marry the man you love, whether he be a farmer or a mechanic, rich or poor, but first, when you begin to go in company you can go with a rich one or a poor one, as you like. If you commence with a rich one you can still keep it up; and so it is with the other. Terhaps some of you may say I married for riches; so I did. I never went with a gentleman but what if I took the notion to marry him I could, and bo I never learned to love a poor man. I live on a farm and expect to all my life. I do my own work for myself and hus band and hired hand ; have been married two years. I do not think it a woman's place to shear sheep, cut wood and husk corn. 1 think it she keeps a tidy house. yard and garden, she will have all she can do. Blanche, in Ohio Fanner. Cocoanut Custard. One cocoanut grated, quarter pound butter, two cups white sugar, two eggs, quart new milk; bake with one crust twenty minutes. French Cake. Three eggs, two eup9 white sugar, two-thirds cup of butter. one cup milk, halt teaspoon soda, halt teaspoon cream tartar, three cups flour, flavor with bitter almond. Ginger Snaps. One pint molasses and one cup butter, boiled together; when cold add half cup ginger, one teaspoon soda, and flour to roll; roll thin and bake. Corn Cake. One cup of fine Indian meal, two of sifted flour, one-half cup of granulated sugar, one egg, a piece of but ter or lard half the size of an egg, one teaspoon salaratus, a small pinch of salt, one pint sour milk. It is greatly im proved by using the egg, but very good without. Ego Omelet. Break the eggs, separat ing the yolks from the whites; beat the whites to a stiff froth ; then drop the yolks in the whites and beat both well together; grease the pan with butter; cook two minutes, one minute before turned, one minute after turned; do not season until after cooked, as the seasoning causes it to fall if done before cooked. Asparagus. To cook asparagus with out making it stringy, cut tne snoots when about three inches high. Soak them well in salt and water, but take them out thirty minutes before dinner, tie them into small bundles, and boil rapidly twenty-five minutes, until soft. Spread hot toasted bread with butter, skim out the asparagus, spread it over the toast, and serve. Ocr Fo'od. Rice and potatoes consist chiefly of starch, and of themselves alone are poor food, unless combined with fatty and albuminoid'matter. For this reason we use with rice in puddings milk, eggs ' and butter, which supply all that is want ing, and it thus becomes a valuable as well as a palatable article of food. ' J 5 i :i i l - I n rfl-