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VOL. C. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1871. NO. 9.igja-xjg3-:s:Our Hew York Letter.Hljt iUcektn Enterprise. they strike an archipelego of our

Anglo-Saxo- n consonants" they getawfully wrecked, and act "verymuch as if they had a severe at-tack of diptheria, or a piece ofbeef in their throats.

Three cannibals are also (n routeFcgee Islanders, who have been

dieting on the broiled clergymen.New York is in doubt how toovate tJiem, and Dclmonico is indespair at the prospect of beingordered to serve up some of hisboned friends the politicians.

other evening, I finished a cigar onthe front platform. There was anexpression on the face of the driveras the fitful Hashes of the gaslamps rested on it, so sad, so intel-ligent, so full of a manhood farabove that which is ordinarily writ-ten on the physiognomy of hisclass, that I felt impelled to be-come for the 'nonce a sort of inter-rogation point. lie met my ad-vances kindly, and after a littlewhile told me, with a voice full ofgentle tones, the story of his life.Years ago he was clerk in a largeestablishment down town, and as acommercial traveler visited most ofthe prominent cities of the UnitedStates. Eventually he became a

A Permanent Lab 3 1 ing Class.

fFrotn the Sao Francisco Examiner.Sometimes great men, so-calle-

utter fallacies decorated in glitter-ing verbal garbs which elicit greatapplause, while if the same werespoken by others of lesser note,they would not attract attention.Here is an illustration : SenatorMorton, who is regarded as one ofthe biggest guns of the Radicalparty, said, "We want no p.rma-manen- t

laboring classes in thiscountry. The child of a laborermay become a Governor, or thePresident of the nation, while thechild of the rich may, through im-

providence, lose his wealth and po-sition and become a laborer."While no one will doubt thesefacts, how, we ask, is their exist-ence to prevent our having a per-manent laboring class? "Let allour Governors and Presidentscome from the laborers, and yet noperceptible impression would bemade on the millions who earntheir living by the sweat of theirbiow.

It is very true that we musthave in this country no law to pre-vent a laboring man or his sonfrom rising to highest stations.The road to honor and wealthmust be preserved unobstructed toall. We must not onlT keep itopen, but we must facilitate thejourney of the adventurous travel-er who seeks, from the lowest so-

cial vales, to climb "the steep

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A TRUTH.

We wives are only wli.it yon m ike of usIndifferent, good or b id unfaithful, true;

We tire your handiwork.You tak us from our mother's bosoms

warm .

Likf birds, whose tender wings all yetunnVdgcil.

St:ll near the nest would lurk ;

"We build our little homos upon ynnr trees.Of faded grasses or of colored flowers

WhateVr you choose t bring;"We strive to be patten' help in little waysTo make the new grown nest a haven of

loviWe pipe the songs you sing!

Young, passionate, yet pliable and weak.We trust to you for succor, wisdom,. strength.

And trust infallibly!E'en if we be a little warped or wrong,A tender hand can shape us back again

To all we fain would be!In woman's breast there throbs nn restless

heartThat would not even beat to kindly love

From him she calls her - lord!"All! as ye give, so shall ye then receiveYour measure shall be meted back again

With generous accord!Believe, then, we are but what you make

of usThe echo of your words, your thoughts.

3'our deeds.Oh! look well to ynnr lives

That thev be pure. just, honorable, true,Affectionate and kind. Then see yours Ices

All mirrored in your icives!

About a Lost Pang.

A romantic story comes fromKansas City, Missouri, anil, likemany otheis, its incidents havegrown out of the war. la ISO I, ayoung man of Kansas Citv enlistedin the Confederate service, receiv-ing as a parting gift from his mo-

ther a plain gold ring. In 1804,the'' young man was taken sick atClarksville, Texas, and during hisdelirium lost this ring. After afruitless search, he gave up allhopes of ever. seeing it again, andwhen sufficiently recovered to leavethe place, he remarked to his nurse,a " pretty and amiable girl," thatif she would find his ring, he wouldcome back and marry her. At theclose of the war he returned home,where the loss of his mother re-

called the lost ring to his memory,and so he wrote to his former nurse,in 18G9, asking if she was still sin-

gle, and if she had found the ring.In 1870, he received an answerfrom the maiden, saying that shewas still single, and that only fivedays before, in the course of somerepairs to the house, the ring hadbeen found. The denouement can,c: course, be easily guessed. Anew offer of marriage was madeand accepted, and with money inhis pocke., and a good home be-

hind, the man has gone to Texas tobring back his " bonny bride."

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EXCELLENT In'TERST RULE.The following ruie tor computing

of value tointerest may provemany of our readers:

men indulge in the license of whichreformers complained, and thatthis same leniency would be incorJporated into her hwv making is ascertain as that each sex is more in-dulgent towards the opposite sexthan their own. Early marriagesand no divorce laws were the rem-edies she would suggest for tWgreater proportion of marital diffi-culties. The possibility of mankd?people being able to separate was.

the roisoNous groundwork .

which made the contemplation ofit possible, and in nine cases out often bred tire discontent which mad doseparation seem a necessity. Un-der a republican form of govern-ment, where individual freedomwas the fundamental law and thefranchise the exponent of that free-dom, women had the same right toit that men had, else they must bodesignated and proved to be notcitizens; but admiting the right, itwas not always wise bj use therights that we had or might claim,when the good and evil results ofdoing so were equally balanced;but in the present case, where therewas no good and all evil, the right,,anomalous as it appeared, assumedthe form of highly stupendouswrong. Applauscj

Housekeeping ox a SmallScale. Within a mile of the cityof Concord, New Hampshire, onthe free-bridg-e road leading to the"dark plains," is a newly builtminiature house, the dimensions ofwhich are only about ten feet long,,eight feet wide, and seven feethigh. It has two small windowsand a door on the front side, anda stove-pip- e through the roof issubstituted for a chimney. In thisdiminutive dwelling reside a manand wife, with four children, fromix months to six years of age, all

of decent appearance, and ot atleast ordinary intelligence. Prob-ably there is not another instancoof such compact housekeepingamong Americans out of largecities. The house is situated neara public watering-trough- , at a turnin the road. The eldest of thechildren mentioned (a bright littleboy) seems to make a business ofstanding on the top of the trough,and unchecking the horses thatcome up, thus often receiving are-war- d

of a few cents for his ingen-ious enterprise.

Grumblers at Newspapers.- -Horace Greeley hits the nail on thohead when he says: " It is strangehow closely men read the pagers.We never say anything that any-body don't like, but we soon hearof it, and everybody tells us aboutit. If, however, once in a while,we happen to say a good thing, wenever hear of that nobody seemsto notice that. We may pay someman a hundred compliments, and.give him a dozen puffs, and be-

takes it as a tribute to his great--nes- s,

and never thinks of it nev-er thinks it does him any good..But if we happen to say anythingthis man don't like, or something-tha- t

he imagines is a reflection onhim or his character, see how quickhe flares up and gets mad about it.AH our evils are duly charged tous but we never, apparently, get--any credit for what good we do,'

Air Beds in the Morning.The wise housekeeper should seoto it that all the beds should boaired immediately after being oc-

cupied. The impurities which em-anate from the human body frominsensible perspiration, arc madoup of minute atoms, which, if al-

lowed to remain long, are absorbedby the bed, .and will then, to agreater or less extent, vitiate theair for a considerable time after-ward. Let the occupant throw thebed open on rising, and, as soon asis convenient, open the windows,and ventilate the sleeping room.One hour's early ventilation isworth two hours' late airing.

An Iowa gentleman who wasinvolved in domestic troubles metwith a genuine "Job comforter"the other morning. Meeting anold friend, who was a widower, re-

lated hia tioubles to him, and toldhim that he expected to be brokenup, as his wife had commencedsuit against him for the sum ofthree' thousand dollars alimony'.'Well," said the widower, "I'llwait and see how she comes out,and if she succeeds I'll go for her.';

Cured Her- - A shrewish wifequite sick, called to her husband tocome and sit by her bedside."This is a sad world, my dear,"said the wife, plaintively, "ycry,"coincided the man."Wcre it notfor leaving you, I would love 'to.quit it." "0h, my dear," eagerlyresponded the fellow, "how can.von think I would interfere withyour happiness. Go by all means.The lady got well.

The loss of McCormick, themanufacturer of the celebrated

fire at unicago,i n11iP7. IJ V VHVy He will re--

j buuu nts oi

The Velvetdom of New Yorkat the Grand Ball Col. JimFisk a no the Naval OfficersStrang e Vicissitudes Tn eSainted Turkey AmusementsThe Mace-Cobue- n ContestjArANEsE PltlNCEs AND FeGEEIsland i m.

New York, Dec. , .1871.'The ball given in 'honor of the

Grand Duke Alexis was undoubt-edly the finest affair of the kind inmany years. If it had drawbacksthey must be ascribed to thatcharming characteristic of the gen-uine New Yorker to make moneysomehow, but to make it ; and tothat other social peculiarity, whichpermits a conglommeration of theelite and the riff-raf-f, especially ifItff-rai-f has on its paste breast-pins and good clothes. The tick-ets of admission were nominally$10, but the perennial committee-man quietly added another magiccircle to the figure, pocketed theninety dollars of profit as his re-ward of merit, and so exacted trib-ute from those among Noodledomand Poodledoni who, since the ar-rival of the Duke, have been stand-ing, metaphorically, on their socialheads, in their mad desire to smellthe atmosphere of royalty. Yetthe ball itself was a magnificentdisplay; a charming jam and jum-ble of bright eyes, handsome faces,pretty speeches and rich toilettes.Fully four thousand persons werepresent, who, between dress, dia-monds and political titles, repre-sented the curious patchwork of" Our Best Society." Of course,there were some odds and ends tothe Mosaic, which will not bearmicroscopic examination, but then,you know one gets tangled amongthese so often now-a-day- s, that theymust be regarded as a part of the" make-up- " of all strictly fashion-able comedies, and not be scrutin-ized with those virtuous winkswhich, in well regulated circles,sometimes disturb the whole sideof a woman's face.

Apropos of the New York ball,another was given to the GrandDuke by the Naval officers, atBrooklyn, and c.- vorv col ( t. innautocratic it was, that marines werestationed to stop the street carscontaining "the common people"from passing through the scentedair of the vicinity, while the policewere especially rnjoined to preventthe entrance of Col. James Tusk,should that famous personage putin an appearance. To his brotherColonels of the New York regiments invitations were freely issued,but, be it said in their honor, thatevery one of them resented theslight intended for their associate,by persistently staying away.

Now Jim v;i- - " as he iscalled, may have his foibles andheaven knows that his personal af-

fairs have been ventilated by theJenkinses of the press down to thevery creaking of his boots he mayhave operated boldly in Wallstreet ; run the Erie Railway tosuit himself, or done a score ofquestionable acts characteristic ofthe strong individuality of theman: but all these have their offsets, and when the ledger of ourlives is opened, I fancy there willhe found standing to his credit abalance of greater good than evil.As lie was passing the grand standof the committee and its families,at the head of his fine regiment,on the day of the reception parade,the few parvenus Leathered 'therehad the bad taste to vent theirspleen at him in the presence ofthe Duke a curious exhibition ofborrowed mariners but elsewherenlon r the entire route, from thet broilers upon the sidewalks andthe crowds in the windows, thewavimr handkerchiefs of the ladies,and the cheers of the men, testifiedthat the people of New York hadi.nr tm-o-ntio- n

. T ie man wno. int I V ' W ' - - - - i

with the means of relief, and himself driving from door to door toreceive thcTcontributions from thepublic. They had not forgottenthe enterprise that had given tothe metropolis the two most elerant stcaiushins in the world : thatj l

had and created acrack " regiment of volunteer

soldiery, with a band of one bundred and fifty musicians ; that hadbuilt an opera-house- ; and, in short,done a thousand good things, thatlend such brightness to a man'scharacter that his faults are seenonly in the shadow. The Navalgentlemen admitted to their balla great many individuals worsethrui James Fisk, and the true man-

hood of New York to-da- y has nosympathy with the snobbihnesswhich made flesh of one and fish

of the other.In wandering around New Y'ork

one occasionally sees strange char-

acters who illustrate, in a melan-choly manner, the"ups and downs"

the vibratory vicissitudes of citylife. Taking" an avenue car the

wary and easily deceived, andhence thev lend their oganizationsm too many instances, not to then-ow- n

amelioration, but to the ad-

vancement of the schemes of cor-rupt politicians, who use them forselfish ends. U'ntil they learn toguard against these they can ex-

pect to accomplish nothing. Theirlabor organizations will be in vain.They must not only remain a per-manent laboring class, but con-tinue to be the hewers of woodand drawers of water to men whotoil not nor spin. One of theirclass, here and there, may rise tohigh station, but it will 'avail themnaught. The true friend of the la-

boring class will not flatter them,but impress upon them the necessi-ty of improving their condition aslaboring men. This they can do,but the primal curse will yet en-

dure forever.

Is Female Eulfage a rand ?

Lectuee ey Mus. Xoiitox, atXewaiik Can Women WorkLike Men Ihk Equality ofthe Sexes.

Af.Mnterc sting lecture was deliv-ered Nov. 23d, at Newark, N. J.,by Mrs Sarah Norton, on femalesuffrage. Mrs. Norton, who hadheretofore been an advocate of thedoctrine, prefaced her lecture byremarking that as female sultragewas considered by many to be aprogressive movement she wouldsimply say that she had

"rno guessed" out of it.There was at the present time awidespread contagion of variouskinds of movements and isms, orwhat may be termed in politicalphraseology "new departures" fromthose well-trie- d systems underwhich the world has prospered.Among these the most dangerousyet in operation was that known asthe "woman's rights movement."Woman's rights sounded grand atfirst hearing to large-mi-n led menwho revered woman, and they en-dorsed the movement "on sight,"not because the women of theirown households required anythingwhich was promised by its success,but because there might be womenwho did, and because they coulddeny nothing to women, it sound-ed exceedingly promising to a cer-tain class of unoccupied, unambi-tious, childless, or unloved women(applause and laughter) and fromthose two classes the movementgained its proselytes. Everythingturned upon want of proper occu-pation; when this was lacking inwomen or men of certain tempera-ments they were

ALWAYS niri: for mischief.(Laughter.) All the women whopublicly advocated woman's rightswere those who had failed to findtheir proper place in lifet MaryWolstencraft, the contemner ofmarriage, fust originated this sub-- f

tie and illusionary disease--i- t wasas much a disease as yellow feveror the small-pox- . (Laughter.)The growth of all the evils complained of by women's rights ad- -

vo.ates war because ot the tendency of society towards the veryconditions they strive to estao- -

'jIie subject of wo:iiaiitsredits, followed out to its logicalconclusions, legitimately mergedinto and ended in the repudiationof the Bible, the abolition of marriage, and of the establishment offree love in its most revolting sense,or no love at all, as such a state ofthings would suppress nature her-

self and place humanity below thelevel of unreasonable brutes.There is no such thing as

EQUALITY OF TI1F SEXES,or of classes, or races, or any othertwo things between which naturehas. drawn her dividing line.There were three reasons why, if.voman could, she should not en- -

are m man s worK. 1 he nrsi isthat so doing would bring the sexes into too close contact it wasnot wise to hold fire to liax.Laughter. Few women couid

transact business on purely busiprinciples, everything with themturned upon a matter ' of feeling.Likes anddisnk.es controlled themand took precedence of judgmentiml principle; facts were nothing,opinion was everything.- Many awoman had lost t lie iove ot herhusband through her ignorance ofhousehold matters, and whetherhe went or stayed she had .virtual-ly lost him. As all things contain-ed in themselves the elements oftheir own destruction, so did allthings contain in themselves the ele

ments of their own .salvation, anawhere was the law more supremethan in the relation of man andwoman?NO LEGISLATION COULD REMEDY THE

WRONGS

w hich were evolved iromcontrast unless these wrongs

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mmated m crime, and all the crimessuch a culminationssi hie-- topo

already covered bvwere ......

Vomansuites. ijasis upon wmen. i ,oii wasHi US Uii"

A KUSONNE.

A Parallel.

The Washington correspondentof the Cincinnati Commercial, aRepublican paper, draws the iol- -

owmg parallel :

Andy Johnson had faults enough,ut avarice was not one of them.

He owned, notwithstanding, whileio was President, a few thousandlollars' worth 'of railroad bonds orshares in Tennessee ; but the exigencies ot war prevented him fromhsposmg ot them, and he did not

realize anything from their interest.Johnson, according to report, occa- -

lonallv took a drink. Grant, according to report, does so quite fretuently. Jut tyrant has one grievous fault which Johnson has not.Fhe latter, during his entire officialife, from Alderman to President,"

never accepted a present amounting in value to $50. Grant, dur-ing a period of less than six years,las accepted presents amounting

in cash value, presents that moneyought, to scores of thousands of

lollars. The only one he was everknown to refuse was the biich puprom Cleveland, Ohio, on which

there wen; express char-re- s amount- -

ing, I believe, to 810. He has accepted houses and lots, horses nndcarriages, libraries and works ofart, live stock and furniture, wines,cigars, and, indeed, everything thatwas oilered. I hose who contrib- -

uted the most liberally were appointed to the best offices, and Icite A. T. Stewart of New York.Roar of Massachusetts. Fish ofNew York, Boric of Pennsylvania,and Murphy of New...York,

.as spe- -

-cimen Pricks. lthougu AndyJohnson, when he came to thePresidential chair, was worth lessmoney than Orant was Vviien heleft the office of General, yet herefused even the compliment of anumber of rich gentlemen of NewYork, who offered to present himwith a pair ot horses and a familycarriage. Jonnson was too poor todrive handsome horses, and his stables were scanty enough. In theWhite House stables, in Johnson'stune, there were live horses; thereare now eigntecn, mciiuimg thesore-taile- d colt.

The Earth and the Planets- -

Science has shown, says a Frenchphilosopher, that the physical andclimatoiogical conditions ot theearth and the other planets areidentical. On those planets, as onthe earth, the sun shines and dis-aiipea- rs

yielding place to night, andcold and darkness succeed to heatand light. In them, as on the earth,the rich carpet of herbage covers. .i l 1 l : nuie piams, ami lUAiiriau. woodscover the mountains. Rivers flowmaiesticallv on to the seas. Windsblow regularly or irregularly, andpurify the atmosphere by minglingtheir strata charged m different de-

grees with the product of theevaporation of their soil. In quietnights, dwellers on these planetssee the . same heavenly spectaclethat delights our eyes, the samecostellations, the same celestialvisitors. x hey have panoramicviews of the planetary globes withtheir following of faithful satellitesand luminous stars, shining likegently .brandished torches. Oncein a while there is a sudden luminous trail, which furrows the heav- -

ens like a nasi, ot silver: it is astar that shoots and drops into thedepths of space. Again, it is rn

comet, with a beautiful trail, thatcomes to bring news from workbmillions of miles away.

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ice i res hi en t. onax nas sooften expressed and reiterated hisirrevocable determination to aban-don political life, in the face of apublic that is indifferent whetherhe docs or not, that his resignationh",s got to be as suspicious as thatof the ancient virgin at the sack ofSt. Sebastian, who was so vehe-mently opposed to being ravished,even while there was no evidencethat she was in danger. Why don'tMr. Colfax wait for the ravishingto begin, before he cries out ?

The Joica lie form .Leader is thename of a paper published at Os-ealoosa- by

tho " Iowa Reform Pub-lishing Company." Its aim is theorganization, of a new party inthat State. The paper is editedwith more than ordinary ability,and s many good reasons foranother organization in that State,which shall be made up of Dcrn -

ocrats who are not cowards, andPr.nnlilifnns who are not thieves,11V'"""V

partner, made money. and wasprosperous in the relations of business. A wife and three daughterswere the jewels of his home, andthey lived in a style becoming theirmeans. The firm was overtakenby the panic of 1857, and, unableto stem the current, went down.Private property was absorbed inthe payment of debts, and a fewmonths found him penniless. liebecame a clerk, supported himselfon a mere pittance, went into thearmy in 1S02, was disabled, hiswife and daughters meanwhile diedand he returned to a desolatehousehold, almost broken-hearte- d.

Bad luck seemed to follow his foot-steps, and all of his efforts to getout of the mire proved futile. Atlast, made desperate by the printsof want which had already crossedhis threshold he secured his pres-ent humble position, and for thelast two years, through winter'scold and summer's heat, has heldthe reins over a pair of horses who,with all their toil, doubtless enjoyinfinitely more of the solid com-forts of existence than their unfor-tunate driver.

But such is life. Pascals enjoythe rosewood and velvet, while in-

telligent worth too often ''walksthe earth with bleeding feet."

The weather has become intense-- y

cold, and in twenty four hoursevery skating run. an i pane inthese latitudes will blossom into its'antastic winter display of circlingbrins and flirtations on ice. Thewater begins to stick m the halt- -

rozen pipes like the aniens in Macbeth' throat, and the public foun-tains are covered with the frostybeard of the dying year.

Thanksgiving, for the first time,was celebrated as a national anniversary, and the people, havingtheir bone to pick with the annualturkey, picked it. clean. Millionsof the patron saint were martyrized. The stores were closed ;

business was hid under a bushel,and the few wayfarers on the streethurrying homeward looked as ifthey were taking a lingering mealwith their eyes on defunct gob- -

blings. The unfortunates m themiblie institutions were treated tom extra dinner ; and hilarity generally drifted from its moorings,and for the nonce traveled aroundloose.

The theaters are in full blast, andpresent unusual attractions. Nil-sso- n,

Capoul, Wachtel, in opera ;

Edwin Booth, m l lam let; John J v.

Owens, in Solon Shingle ; Anne,in opera bou lie ; Sothern, as LordDundreary; besides a dozen lesserlights, are drawing line audiences.

The partial panic resulting fromthe suspension of the BowlingGreen, the Guardian, and Stuyves- -

ant banks lias abated. All ot theinstitutions make a better showingthan was anticipated, and the de-

positors are re-assur- ed and hopeful.It is thought that pecuniary complications with some of the uisgraceful public officials may havehad something to (to with tne "runwhh-- h compelled the banks toclose their doors.

The Mace-Cobur- n prize-figh- t isregard e d h e re in th e u n c h r i t i a n

parlance of the natives as a "putup job," and disgust at the resultsextends even to the virtuous swensof Upper Ten do m. Why Coburn,the party of the first part, didnot, with his "left duke," propound such a proposition on meknowlege-no- x ot Alace, as to secure for that distinguished gladiator an obituary notice wnile m theTP'dth of his fame: and vrhy JemMace, as the party of the secompart, and true type of the musculur missionary, did not "plump'r.nn " bnUC l Ot flVCS" PJtO tllCbread basket, and with the otherassault the " spectacletar-proboci- s

of the aforesaid Coburn, in such arighteous manner, as to call for afirst-clas- s funeral, are questionswhich disturb this religious com-

munity.. They don't understandthe wavs of Providence.

Ten Japanese princes are at oneof tK Yn,.' York hotels, ai routeto Oxford, England, to be educat-ed. They are minus pig-tail- s andoriental drapery ; in manners areevidently gentlemen by nature,and in speech gentlemen by cul-

ture. Their command of English,especially when under sail amongthe vowels, is admirable, in viewof the fact that they learned it intheir own country ; but when

where lame s proud templeshines." We must give him wordsof encouragement and furnish him,ere he starts, with the scaling instruments of education. But thereire a limited number who can riseabove the great r.rimeval curse.j.

and in this and all other countriesthere will be a permanent laboringclass. Some may full into it andothers may rise from it, but thereit will remain immutable as the

oceanThere is work for head and

muscle,i tout neither can do without the other. A single headplans great works of improvement,and gives employment to thous-ands of brawny arms. For thesethere is always something to do.while it is, easy to overcrowd thefields of mental labor. No mat-ter how great the supply of geniusit cannot force a market. The de- -

maud for this is necessarily limited,and that is why nature only oncein a while produces such men asBacon, and Shakspearc, and Milton, and eostcr.

While, therefore, it is a fact thatwe will always have a permanentlaboring class, and it is onlythrough such that the greatness ofour nations can be developed, we

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snouia aim io improve it as aciassand lessen the distance betweenthose who toil with their handsand those who toil with with theirbrains. This we can only do bysystematizing labor by lesseningthe hours of manual toil by edu-cating the minds as well as "thenerves and muscles of the labor-iii'- -

classes. For this reason wefavor compulsory education. La-bor is pronounced a curse, butwhen accompanied

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with gross ig- -

Til Inorance, it is a ctouuie curse, nmcn could read they would read,and it is by reading that great social reform is wrought. Now thatthe press has become such a powerin the lann now mat, iikc snow- -

flakes, the daily papers fall aboutus, filled with mental food forthose who can appropriate it, itbecomes doubly necessary thatevery man should know how toread. HowT is it that a few greatcapitalists few in comparisonwith those who are not capitalists

manage to rule the country ?

How is it that Presidents, and Su-

preme Courts, and Congresses, andState Legislatures are all managedand controlled br them ? How isit that they are suffered to wieldthe powers of government as tolevy contributions upon the toilingmasses, for their own enrichment?It is because those masses are nottrue to themselves are not edu-cated, and consequently cannot betrue to their own real interests.mi .xney are m too many mst; n esmere human machines, moving asthev are moved, marching to thepolls like dumb driven cattle, anddepositing their ballots as they aretold not as their own intelligencedirects.

Some may say it is well that thelaboring men do not understandtheir power. If the horses or oxenunderstood theirs, they would soondestroy these wno make them todGreat power, mischievously nouiimwy wieiaeu, is to ne depre-cated ; but when controlled by intelligence and mi no, it is grand mits operations, oi recent vearsthe laboring classes have beenmaking noble exertions to betterthemselves. They have effectiveorganizations in many States,Could they but unite their strengthan exercise it to a single 'purpose,and with, concerted action, theywould soon have capital. But, un- -

fortunately, laboringuca are nn- -

4 per eent.-ALultipl- y the pniici- - t,veve 10urs after the destructionpal by the. number of days to run, J Chicago was dispatching light-separa- te

the right hand figure from . trains' to that city, freightedthe product, and divide by 0,

5 per cent. Multiply by thenumber of days and divide by 72.

G per cent." Multiply by thenumber of days, separate the righthand figure and divide by G.

8 per cent. Multiply by theKumber of davs, and divide by 45.

0 per cent. Multiply by thepumber of days, separate the righthand figure and divide by 4.

10 per cent. Multiply by thenumber ot days and divide by 30.

12 per cent, Multiply by thenumber of days, separate the righthand figure, and divide by 3.

15. per cent. Multiply by thejuimber of days and divide by 24.

18 per cent. Multiply by thenumber of days, separate the righthand figure, and divide by 2.

20 per cent. Multiply by thenumber of days and divide by IS.

Small Patch. A little girl oithirteen, out West, lias been pre-sented by her father with a smallfarm of 7,000 acres in a corner ofhis back yard to play at garden-ing.

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