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ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1869.
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SAT U.H 1AY , . A PHI I 1 7, lSUU.
IJcautil'ul Hauus.
Bach beautiful, beautiful hand t
Tbey'r j neither wbita nor small ;
And you, I know, would scarcely disk
TLa: ihcy vrcro fair at all.'
X.'vslaacd on lands whoaa form and huo
A ssulptor's die mi might hi ;
'SSt tjuss ajjed, wrijklsif hands .":.
"'- ' " Mo 4l beautiful to kq.
Such beautiful, bo3u:iiul haacU 1
. Though heart werj weary and sad ;
These patiuut hands kept t ji'.ia ou.
That children might b-s glad.
I almost weep, as looking buck
To" childhood's distant day,
, Z thick how these hands rested cot,
Whoa mine wore at their play.
Such beautiful, beautiful haud !
They are growing iejhle now ;
Por tiiua and puiu have left their wcrk
On hand, and heart and brow.
Alas ! a'.asj .the ncaiiu tiuao,
'And the sad, gad day to m:,
When 'ncuth the dairies, out of aijjht,
Thcso hands will folded be.
Bat oh I beyond this shadow lamp,
Where all is bright aad fair,
I know full well these dear old hands
a. , Will palms of victory bear.
Where crystal streams, through endless years,
' Flow over golden sands,
.- And where the old grow youn again,
I'll clasp my mother's bandi.
A Family Jar, aud What Came of It.
I remember it as though it had hap
bened vesterdav. It was the Litest
row we ever had in our family
It was one cold, rainy evening in the
arly part of December. We all sat
down to the supper table as usual, but
not, apparently, in our usual good humor.
"By "all," I mean our family, which
consisted of father, mother, my two sis
ters Clara and Lizzie Bob and myself.
Bob Carver was one of our family, as
ha saiJ, by "brevet." His' mother and
my mother had been friends in girlhood,
and had never outgrown their intimacy.
Ever since Bob had lived in the city he
had boarded at oar house, and he seemed
like one of us.
: lie was a jolly good fellow, and ap
peared to think a good deal of us all, es
peeially Clara," who, by the way, did not
ficem to care particularly for him, though
of course, she liked him '-well enough
as we all did.
caused uic considerable painful considc- j
ration. I liked Bob very much,, and
' would have been glad to have htm in the
amity more - fully than by "brevet."
Besides this uiy regard for him made me
feel a warm sympathy for his unrecipro
cated affection for Clara. I was in love
, myself, and thought if Maggie Scranton
showed as Mnnch indifference to me as
Clara did sometimes toward Bob, that I
should have been inexpressibly miserable.
.Besides this, Clara seemed to take a
good deal of pleasure in the company cf
that stupid Jim Baync, whose chief de
light seemed to consist id talking about
, religion, v politics -and . other subjects,
which bored me intolerably. X was nine
teen, and poetical. rS
It always seemed lo me ' that Lizzie
- would have suited Bob better than Clara,
anybowv They were both fond of music,
and often played and sang together j but
theynever got along smoothly together.
They did not appear to agree about any
thing" buimwic)-and jtbey? quarreled
about that. 'Yet they would still prac
ticet togetherl tliTheir 4 voices harmonized
well, and I,Buppose4:they tolerated each
' other for the sake of the musie- - ' -
I-could never understand Lizzie's con
duct toward; Bob: ' It was absurd. Some
of his ideas which he argued t against
with all her 'might, when Tie stated them;
she as warmly defended in conversation
, with the rest of us I pelieTe she j&h
1 lighted in being contrary. , , W -'
Mother sometimVs rebuked her for her
. petulance o 'Bobjbat father said it made
no differenceit was? customary for ton
sicat people to5 quarref. - He vwas quick
tempered himself, and Lib was more like,
him than any of the rest of lis were. T' '
t Bat to return to that December i ciren-ing-.
As I have said, the weather was
bad."-" For Chat Teasoo; I suppose,' the
boy hadJailed to hyive the evening paper!
When Bob came in, he asked ior the
parcr. ana went up stairs to change Iiw , so.
boots, grumbiing out something about
hatigiug the boy to the nearest lamp
post. The girls were in bad humor, because
they h;id been unable to get out shopping
that afternoon on a holiday shopping ex
pedition ; while mother was worried be
cause the bread had not turned out well,
aad the buck'.xhat cake3 showed a ten
dency to become sour. .
Mother said something about the bread
said she had been over the baking
nearly all day8 aud it seemed as though
it never would rise. She said, '! thiuk
cither the flour or yeast is bad."
Father,-just to be disagreeable, I sup
pose, said, "A bad workman always com
plains of his tools."
Mother flashed up instantly. She was
a gootl ureaa-mavcr, ana sne Knew it.
Shu sa:d, '-That don't apply tome. We
generally have as good bread as any one.
Don't you think so, Robert?"
Bob, who looked as though he was
working out seme problem in mental
arithmetic, answered, "I don't presume
to criticise the fare at my boarding
house." This was improving (?) things, rapid
ly, Bob calling our house his boarding
house. After supper J3ob went up to his room
and smoked a cigar, and afterward came
dowu in a more social humor. In "ac
cordance with a previous arrangement,
he and Lizzie sat down to practice an in
strumental duet.
I sat in the parlor reading, and so long
as the music ran smoothly on, I paid no
attention to it ; but suddenly there was a
discord, aud then it ceased.
"You made a mistake there," said Bob,
pointing to the music. ;
9 '-No, it wa3 youy" said Lizzie, "and
there is where it was," pointing at one of
the hieroglyphics with which composers
disfigure paper. V
"I beg pardon," said Bob ; "but 1
could not have made such a mistake, as I
am quite familiar with the piece. I
played it with Miss Peterson the other
evening, and she made the same mistake
you did only she saw it when I pointed
it out." ' ' ' , '- -
, "Oh, yes ; she would , see that black
was white, if you pointed it out. What
has 3Iiss 1'ctersoa to do with me ?"
I surely thougbt that you and I had
lived long enough in the same house
together, and were sufficiently intimate
if not friendly to allow me to differ from
you sometimes, and even to quote author
ity in support of my own opinion when it
wa3 at variance with yours." f -
"Whatever friendly, relations there
were need not continue. You have chosen
to define your position in the house as
that of a mere boarder, and, as such, had
no right to flout another young lady in
my face, and claim tint because she
made a mistake, I must have done so,
too. . You talk queerly about; this music,
anyhow. If you arc as familiar with the
piece as you pretend, why dd you prac
tice it? I know you arc not! right about
that mistake, and I don't believe you
think you are, yourself."., 5 j
If a man had given Bob Carver the lie
so directly, I suppose he fould have
knocked him down. As it was, he jump
ed up, without a word, and went to his
room. , ' v ir . I: j
Lizzie played several very j lively airs,
with great animation, and was , as merry
as a bird until she went to bed.
- Her apparent triumph over the matter
angered me, 'and I . bluntly told her , she
had been ill-natured and unlady-likg ;
whereupon sho informed me I that "chil
dren should be seen and not heard." ..
'At breakfast, next ncorning, all of us
had apparently Tegained our good humor,
something to him once, but did not do
hought smoking agreed with him, and
he told her yes, be considered it a. de-
Father, mother and Clara went to
church. Bob and I concluded not to go,
and it was Lizzie's turn' to stay at home
and superintend the preparation for din
ner. . .
Wc were accustomed to eating good
dinners on Sunday, as it was the 1:0 uiy
time we could all eat that meal together
aad take our time at it. Wo all enjoyed
those Sunday dinners keenly.
Just before, the folks started to church,
Clara and Lizzie were talking earnestly
together, aud Clara saiJ, "Yes, you
ought to do it, aud do it at once." I
gave no heed to the words then, but af
terward knew what they referred to.
Father had a sort of half-library, half
office, up suits, and there Bob and I
this novel assurance, he reached for the
molasses and poured it over his potatoes
and butter. it-. . ,
This was too much for Clara and me.
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and we burst into an
lughter,- which reca
es
but thero was something forced about
Bob's gayety." I noticed that he and
Lizzie said nothing to each other. When
he leftyhe'saidh'6"Wp'u'ld'noti.be.'back to
supper.' . (He always dined down town.)
As this, was not altogether j unusual, no
one' but myself appeared to notice it, ex
cept Clara, who looked at Lizzie? with &
sort of UI told you so,' glance.. .
JPob came home late that eTe&ing,.and
he fatheicame1in,he asked fbrlhe t we did not see him untU next orning
pper; and said, "Confound the boy." J At breakfast Lizzie seemed about to say
went; he to take a smoke and myself to
real.
After we had been there a short time,
Lizzie tapped at the door and walked in.
I asked her if she would have a cigar, to
which she made no reply, but walked di
rectly toward Bob, who involuntarily got
up to meet her.
I saw that they were about to make up
their quarrel ; but as I had been present
at a half dozen make-ups of theirs, I only
thought it necessary to gaze, with sudden
interest out of" the iwiudow.
Lizzie commenced : "Mr. Carver, I
was rude; I was provoked at what you
said at the table, .and so forgot myself; I
am sorry."
I wished I Lad gone out ; but they
were between me and the door, so I did
not know what to do.
Bob maintained an awkwaid silence
for a few seconds. ; I began to feel inter
ested. I knew that was pretty much of
an apology for Lib to make to any one,
and I mentally said if he did not accept
it as frankly as it was offered, he was a
well, not what I thought him.
Lizzie must have grown tired of his
silence, for she had' turned around from
the window, when' Bob said "Stop.';
She turned toward him and he continued
"Lizzie, don't think I am such a brute
as not to accept 3'our apoiosy. : 1 was
only at a loss to find words to express my
regret at having provoked you into say
ing what you did. It was all my fault."
"No, it wasn't," curtly returned Jab ;
and I mentally concluded that they would
quarrel over this.
But Bob continued seriously, and in a
most lugubrious tone, "Well, may bo it
isn't. I guess i is fate. It is the result
I suppose, of over-sensitiveness to your
indifference or dislike."
"Bob !" exclaimed Lizzie.
"It's true," he said; "I can't help
feeling that you don't like me, and my
uneasiness leads me to act so as, to in
crease your aversion."
I wish I ; had gone. They seemed to
bo settling not only their last quarrel, but
all they had ever had.
"You had no right to 6ay thrt, Bob
You know I don't dislike you," said
Lizzie, actually breaking down and sob
bing.
I guess he must have concluded that
he knew it, for he took her in his capac
ious arms just ' as I passed them on a
rapid retreat, terribly ashamed of not
having gono in the first place. ....
I do not know what took place after I
left, but so far a3 dinner was concerned,
Lib might as welt have gone to church.
Bridget got it all right, however, and
I think it was about the happiest one we
ever did eat:;'', ' ' :'2J.'!'-:t:'l',., ,
Happiness is contagious, and there was
enough of it in ; Lizzie's eyes alone lo
have inoculated a whole regiment with
joy,
I believe Clara saw the state of affairs
at once, and shared Lizzie's joy ta the
greatest possible degree.
Father and mother seemed to accept
the "era of good feeling", without expla
nation, while Bob was insane.
r He asked father about the Bcrmonj and
on being assured that it was an excel
lent one, said he would take a little of itj
Father asked hinv"What Vs and he
said "potatoes." ".3 .v t " , ''jol
He helped himself to a spoonful, and
then deliberately took a spoonfuFof but
ter- ' ' "V;; :-k'f 'p-n ;
Mother significantly asked him if he
jhlful
...exercise: and as he gave her
uncontrollable fit of
led Bob to his sen-
amV ,feshj"S cK,nfon he coufessed
that he was absent minded, as he had just
been able to see his ivay clear in a matter
which had troubled him for months. '
He then heartily' joined in the general
augh at his mistakes: Lizzie also joining
iu, and blushing a pink accompaniment
to his deep crimson flush. ?
Hob and father took a sntoke in the
office that afternoon, and mother and the
girls held a conferenpe in (he parlor; I
took a walk. , ,:
When I came back Clara said, "You're
;ump." ; - r l:::; ' . .
Without any idea of what that might
be, I meekly assented, and said, "1 had
no idea of what was coming : I thought
Bob wanted you. instead of Lib." ?
"You're all the -worse gum p for that'
About Mrs. President Grant.
said she ; "and for
something else in time, I'll tell you now
that I'm engaged to
Five years have
fear you ' can't see
Mr. Bayoe.
I thought the mfcrrying days 1 of the
year had come, and went off to my room
to indulge in a delightful dream of my
own marriage, in the far off future, with
Mastrie Cranston.
passed
sinco then,
Clara and Lizzie got! married, of course,
and I stood up at their weddings. Clara
keeps house. Bob and Lizzie still live
at our house, and fa her insists that they
always shall. ' . ' "
I do not think Jim Baync as stupid as
I once did. Three vears in the fish and
oil busines3,'as 1 junior "member of the
firm of Martin & Scjn, have damaged my
poetic enthusiasm, while Bayne's seems,
somehow or other, on the increase.
I have not married Maggie Cranston.
In fact, I do not kn ow her. We did not
keep up our acquaintance long after she
left the boarding school' where she was
when I so fully expected to marry her,
and thought I could not get along ; with
out her. ' -"' , -" '
I am still a youthful bachelor, awaiting
an opportunity . 1oj quarrel with some
young lady, as Bob jCarvcr did with our
Lizzie; but I don't! want any niueteen-ycar-olJ-brothers
00 hand at the recon
ciliation. I . .
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati vltrcnkht speaking of the re
ceptions at Washington, thus .speaks of
Mrs. General Grant:
Of course there are uo recegtions more
crowded than the Grants'. For four
years every lady has known that General
Grant would bo the next President. Be
yond the inspiration of such knowledge,
their receptions have the charm of a gra
cious personality. Mrs Grant is not go
ing to disgrace her countrywomen in the
highest mansion in the land. Instead,
she will there represent the best type of
wife,, mother aud friend. She has many
friends in Washington for her own sake.
When she rolls past in her carriage, I
don't believe the most envious cry after
her' in their hearts, "There, there she
goes, a vulgar, selfish woman, who would
bo a nobody if her husband had not lifted
her into power !" They say, rather,
"How she enjoys lifo for herself and
others ! How happy and earnest ; how
hearty aud kind hc is ! and whatever
her lot she would be the same ; I am
glad she has-come to good fortune I"
People like Mrs. Grant because she
brings with her prosperity the same qual
ities which made her happy and beloved
iu adversity and obscurity. Few women
ever bore the perilous test of sudden
fame and fortune ' with a more hearty
happiness or more unassuming grace. Is
she pretty ? No. She is a roly-poly of
a little woman, with a beautiful neck,
hands and feet ! Her features are well
cut, but her eyes are crossed. Some of
her friends wished her to have them
straightened. "No," . she said, "Mr
Grant had loved her ever since she was a
little girl with her eyes crossed. Ho had
said that she would not be herself to him
if they were straight. " Crooked they
should remain. If he was satisfied what
mattered it to other people I" Her morn
ing receptions are on Saturday. "In
society" morning means after 1 o'clock
in the afternoon. To-day she wore a
ruby-colored gros grain silk, trimmed
with folds of satin and heavy fringe a
shade lighter than the dress, costly laces
and no ornament whatever in her abund
ant hair. A constant throng of richly
apparelled ladie3 and gentlemen passed
and repassed before her from , 1 till 4
o'clock. 1
iog people who kill.
It is said that
brought asrainst thb
SoMethinq New. The following
singular-proceedings tally with the grow
ing mawkish sentimentality against hurt-
:Thd Tribune says :
charges have been
Sheriff ,4f Oneida
county, for administering, chloroform to
the convict Cars well just before execu
tion. We believe tjho "black cap" pulled
over his face was Saturated with anaes
thesia. The matter will be brought to
the attention of the Legislature. We
don't see any particular harm in the
Sheriff's action. If the law means that
a man shall die fori the : crime, the main
object is to take life away in the easiest
manner Any other method would be
torture. The discussion 01 this "anaes
thetic" question will bo of great interest.
Bully foe, Fnnie. Fanny Fern
thus disposes of that ornamental and use
less object called a "handsome1 man," and
sensible folks will concurvl ; She says :
" ; But your conventional"hand3omc man1
cf the barber's window, Wax figure-head
pattern I with pet lock in the'middie of
his forehead, an apiplo-sized head, a rasp
berry moustache ' with eixf 'hairs ' in it,
paint pot on his cheek, and a little dot of
a "goatee; on nis cnin, wim pretijr uuu.
ing little stnds in us shirt boson ; and a
little neck tie that llooks as- if his would
faint were it tumbled I'd as lief look at
a noodle." I alwavfe feel a desire to nip it
up with a Tair of sugar tongs,-drop ' it
irentlv into a bowl ! of cream. and strew
pink rose leaves over the little remains.
A prize of 310 was recently offered to
any member of the Connecticut Toachcrs'
Institute who would write and spell cor
rectly the words in the followingsentence
"I. is an agreeable sight to witness the
unparalleled embarrassment of a harness
ed peddler attempting to guage the syni
metry of a peeled onion which a siby
has stabbed with a poinnrd regardless of
the innuendoes of the lilies of carnelian
hue."' Thiity-eigbt teachers competed
for the prize, but not one "was successful
Sharp. A sharp student was called
un by the worthy professor of a celebrat
ed college, and asked the question : "Can
a man see without eyes : " 1 cs, sir,
was . the prompt answer. . "How, sir,
cried the amazeu protcssor. "can a man
see-without eye3 ? -r Pray, sir, how do
you make that out 1 . "He can see with
one, sir J" replied the ready witted youth
aud the whole class shouted with delight
at the triumph over metaphysics.
" Cause. A writer observes that ;it is
so well demonstrated that the ' destruc
tion ' of woodlands promotes extended
drouths and ruinous freshets, that the
French Government has provided for the
replanting of thousands of acres 'of forest
as a protection for the lands skirting the
Alps against the tremendous floods which
render certain districts unfit for agricul
ture." t:' v r .y - --
Woman Suffrage, at White
The subject of woman suffrage is daily
gaining in importance, and bids fair to .
be the leading issue in future campaign.
The White Pine Ntxct, commenting '
the lion. J. C. H.Iyer's Woman Suffrage
speech, in a calm and dispassionate man
ner, says : The generous advocate tif
the ladies presumes that the fair crea
tures would net in' a body for the publiw
good, and would uuite on the best meas
ures and the most worthy candidates, but
from our slight knowledge of the sex, we ;
believe that when they com to- the pole
they will be found to be inueh wors
split up than the men, and that the good
results so fervently anticipated by Hon..
Mr. Hiilyer would not be obtained. '
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A Mormon Stokm. Speaking,; f
Brigham Young's voluminous and various .
matrimonial arrangements, a correspond ,
cnt of the Oakland News, writing from 1
Salt Lake, says : "Lucy D. reigned as i
the favorite until her apparently failing
health led to the introduction of "Amelia
the imperious'" into the place she had
occupied. Amelia ... took, Brigham ' by
storm, and it has been storming there
ever since. Sho usurped all the privi
leges and the prerogatives of tho Lion
House, and raised so much of tho - devil
generally that Brigham, having "one
eyo" already on her successor, placed her
iu a separate establishment." It must be
oncommon pba?ant thus to be able so
effectually to quell thcso domestic s torm?. '
But won't Brigham have a high old re
ception when he enters the next world, -from
some of ftheso aggrieved fomales I .
Won't they Vnakc it lively for him I
There'll be no saint's rest about him - for
a period. . ,
New Velocipede. Jenkins, of Napa,
California, has invented a new valocipede,
which is thus described by him in the '
Register : "The machine in general ap
pearance resembles the ordinary one in
use the saddle being somewhat thicker
and the body formed of tix-inch gas-pipe.
Underneath the saddle is fastened a com
pact box containing a galvanic battery.
the wires of which connect with the arm
ature of an electro magnet, the helix
covered with 7,000 feet of fine wire. In
front of the operator is a small button
which,- upon being touched, breaks tho
connection between the armature and
magnet, the former being attached to
piston-rod working upon the eccentric if
the front wheel. It will be seen that a
succession of quick touches like finger
ing the keys of a , piano produces 1 ft
quick alternate attraction and repulsson
of tho armature, and this motion commu
nicated to the crank of the driving wheel
produces power sufficient to propel the
machine at the rate of GO miles an hour."
Why don't some of our inventive gen
iuses about Albany try their hand on
velocipede? It's better than going to
Congress, both as to fame and financially.
; Counterfeit swindlers are speken of in
Illinois. Tbey send a note to their vic
tim, inclosing a genuine twenty-fire cent
piece of postal currency as a "sample,"
and offer to sell the same, at counterfeit
er's prices. The victim , tries it at
'bank, and finds it a sure thing and safe.
He sends on $10 to $30 for four times
the amount in counterfeits. This is: the;
last ho hears of the matter. - , : ; ,....-
. While the question of abolishing capi
tal punishment is being; widely debated
in Maine, the ' Western ' States,' haying
tried the imprisonment system, are. going
back to hanging. ; Wisconsin is following
Illinois in the - mo1 "ement : to restore the
gsllows. .Two bills are before the ".Wis-5
consin Legislaturej providing fsr a return
to the" death" penalty, an -one provides
for murder in the second degree also, v
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- - Isqenious. Hawthorne tells of a fel
low -without money, who, having one
hundred and seventy miles to go, fasten
ed a padlock and chain: to his legs, and
lay down. to sleep in. a. field, ne was ap.
prehended, and carried gratis to a jail in
the town whither be desired to go. :
Musk.--When Justinian, in 536, re
bnilt what now is known as the Mosque
of .St.; Sophia, the mortar was charged
with musk, and this very day the atmos
phere is filled with tho odor-,? ; .
New York stage managers re sopur-"
ing. London for'ifirsti class altraetions"
aad "Btars."
..' it.
I Tkyiaiiji .whxaa peace ..ViuadJ.wjt
utuMB, luimnus 10 nave repairea.
Bhiguam's Satinos. In rcferrintf
to the probable effects of the Paeifio
route upon polygamy, Brigham Young'
says, in his characteristic way,; that
must be a d d poor religion that can'
stand one railroad." Brisham should'
preserve hia various "characteristio" sayJ'
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'"b uuu turu iuei'1 iniu a vort entiuea
tho, iPolygamist's Jest 15ook,'V suggests
Figaro. -,.,.'',., -.v ' -
The small pox is at last finally diaapv
peariag from San Francisco. .1 The Time
says that several months ago,;; when. the
small pox j was at iu height. Dr. i Bo veil
remarked that the disease would not sub
side until the grass grew, giving as bis
reasons -the absorption ' of atmospherio
poison by vegetation, and illustrating the.
.theory by numerous historical examples,-,
whero the plague . and other, pests -had
run, until the presence of thV Sprinsi f
.vegetation arrested its progress. -,tf-J i'j
; Church, the artist jaarow.ioNiog;
janioctKe" Arabs says the Baal'inS
Vri can he Bedouin T
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