VOL. 2.
ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1870.
NO. 24.
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v. . - - JQB WORK.
'Having reoeirea ew type, stock of colored
inks, eards, a Gordon Jobber, etc., we are pre
pared to execute all kinds of printing in a better
manner and fifty per cent, cheaper tnan ever be
fore oSered in thli oity. i : "
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The following gentlemen are authorised to re
ceive and receipt for subscription, advertising,
ete., for the Rbgister : !
HIRAM SMITH, Esq L Harrisburg.
Judge S. H. CLAUGHTON.- Lebanon.
PETER HUME, Esq. .... ..Brownsville
Vf. R. KIRK. Esq
E. E. WHEELER. Esq ! Scio.
T. H. REYNOLDS, Esq- Salem.
Om. W. CANNON, Esq....... Portland.
LrKHERsq
BUSINESS CARDS.
A. WHEELER,
JVota-ry ..P,ublic-.
BROWNSVILLE, OREGON.
r EGAL INSTRUMENTS OF ALL KINDS
Jf made an i attested. Conveyances and col
lections attended to. ' 1269
J. HAIWOX,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
A LB AN Y, OREGON.
OFFICE On Main street, opposito Foster's
Brick. 1-G9
, : Hiltaoiael & Co.,
DEALERS IN GROCERIES AND PR0
visions, Wood and Willow Ware, Confec
tionery, Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Notions, etc.
Main Btreet, adjoining the Express office, Albany,
Oregon. 1
S. A. "Treeland,
DEALER IN EVERT DESCRIPTION OF
School, Miscellaneous and Blank Books,
Stationery, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, etc., Post
office Building, Albany, Oregon. Books ordered
from New York and San Francisco. 1
S. H. Claug-hton,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE
AGENT. Office in the Post Office building,
Lebanon, Oregon.
Will attend to making Deeds and other convey
ances, also to the prompt collection of debts en
trusted to my care. , , 1
j. . an-casi-i.. J. . DOIM. A- SMITH.
- Mitchell, Dolph & Smith,
ATTORNEYS akb COUNSELLORS at LAW,
Solicitors in Chancery and Proctors in Ad
miralty. Office over the old Post Office, Front
street, Portland, Oregon. I
rowiu. i run.
Powell & Flinn,
ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW
and Solicitors in Chancery,
(IV. Flinn, Notary Public,)
Albany, Oregon. - Collections ! and conveyances
pTomply attended to. I
a J. QDTNN THORNTOn7
Attoruey and Counselor at Law,
ALBANY, OREGON,
WILL practice in the superior and inferior
courts of Marion, Linn, Lane, Benton and
Polk counties.
. Five per cent, charged on collections when
made without sueing. jl9-9 "
F. K. BEDPIELD. P. W. SPIXK.
F. M BEDF1ELD 4c CO :
CONSTANTLY on hand and receiving, a
large stock of
Groceries and Provisions, ;
Wood and Willow Ware, Tobacco, Cigars, Con
fectionery, Yankee Notions, Ac, Ae., Wholesale
and Retail, opposite R. C. Hill A Son's drug
store, Albany, Oregon. 6oct9
ALBAi Y IIATII HOUSE.
THE! UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT
fully inform the citisens of Albany and vi
cinity that he has taken charge of this establish
ment, and, by keeping clean rooms and paying
trict attintic 3 to business, expects to suit all
those who may favor him with their patronage.
Having heretofore carried on nothing but
First-Class Hair Dressing- Saloons,
he expee'a to give entire satisfaction to all.
ar Children and Ladies' hair neatly cut and
shampooed. JOSEPH WEBBER.
evl9y2
E. F; RUSSELL, I JAMES ELKINS,
ATTOMEY AT LAW. HOTASY PUBLIC.
RUSSELL & ELKINS,
' (OSes In Parrish A Co-'s block. First street,)
. " ' " . Albany, Oregon. ' !' " )
HAVING TAKEN INTO CO-PARTNERSHIP
Jambs Etnas. Esq., ex-Clerk of
Linn county, we are enabled to add to our prac
tice of Law and Collections, superior facilities for
Conveyancing, Examining Records,
and attending to Probate business.
Deeds, Bonds, Contracts and Mortgages care
. fully drawn. - -
Homestead and Pre-emption Papers
made, and claims secured.
Sales of Real Estate negotiated, and loans
effected on collateral securities on reasonable
rates.
AH business entrusted to them faithfully and
promptly executed.
. . . .. - RUSSELL. A ELKINS.
Albany, Oct. '10, '68-5y
"ON TO BXTV
YADSYQRfir& KUHFJ
, Are now ready to execute all kinds of
Plain and Fancy - Painting !
each as
Signs, Carriages, Buildings,
n-i- as well as
Graining, , Paper hanging, Calcimining,
' - and ia fact all kinds and styles of
risAlV AND ORNAMENTAL WORK,
'' that eaa be done with Paint and Brash, at
'!" FAIR, itVINQ KATES. -831
. Give as a sail. Shop oa Ferry street, ever
JCnhn M Adams' wagon shop.
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BLANK 'Deed, Mortgages. v. on hand
latest style, and for a low, at this effea.
UNION REPUBLICAN CONVEN
TION OF OREGON.
The Union Republican voters of the State of
Oregon will meet at the City of Portland, at 10
o'clock A. M., on Thursday, the 7th day of April,
1S70, in Delegate Convention, for the purpose of
placing in nomination a State Ticket to be sup
ported at the approaching election in June, and
the transaction of such other business as shall
properly come before said Convention.
Counties will be entitled to delegates as follows:
Baker 1
Benton 10
Clackamas 12
Clatsop 3
C003 4
Curry 2
Columbia 2
Douglas 12
Grant 7
Jackson 10
Josephine 4
Lane...... 12
Linn.... , 18
Marion ................... 24
Multnomah 20
Pulk....... 1 1
Tillamook .. 2
Umatilla.... 5
Union 6
Washington.. 9
Wasoo... ...... 6
Yamhill 11
The Committee recommend that the County
Conventions for the election of Delegates be held
on Saturday, the 26th dy of March, 1870.
By order of the State Central Committee,
M. P. BERRY, Chairman.
T. B. Odenkal, Secretary.
Portland, January 19th, 1870. '
PORTLAND CARDS.
S. D. SMITH.
THE
GEO. B. COOK.
OCIDENTAL,
FORMERLY
Western Hotel,
Corner First and Morrison streets,
Portland, Oregon.
Messrs. SMITH A COOK have taken this
well known house, refitted and refurnished
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thirty more pleasant rooms, enlarged the Dining
and Sitting rooms, making it by far the
Best Hotel in Portland.
A call from the traveling public will satisfy
them that the above statements are true.
SMITH A COOK. Props.
N. B. Hot and cold Baths attached to the
house for the benefit of guests. 50
Portland, August 15th, 1869.
AMERICAN EXCHANGE,
CORSES OP
Front and Washington Streets,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
It. P. W. Qnimby, - - - - Proprietor.
(Late of the Western Hotel.)
THIS HOUSE is -the most commodious in the
State, newly furnithed, and it will be ths
endeavor of the Proprietor to make his gneste
comfortable. Nearest Hotel to the steamboat
landing. .
jg!" The Concord Coach will always be four
at the landing, on the arrival of steamships ar
river boats, carrying passengers and their bar
gage to and from' tbe boats free of charge.
Mouse supplied with Patent fire Extinguishers.
COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL.
(formerly arriooxi's,)
Promt street it i Portland, Oregon.
THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING PUR
chased this well known Hotel, are now pre
pared to offer the traveling public better accom
modations than can be found elsewhere in the
city.
Board and Lodging $2 OO per day.
The Hotel Coach win be in attendance to con
vey Passengers and baggage to and from the
Hotel free of charge.
J. B. SPRENGER.
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Office Oregon & California Stage Company, B.
G. Whiteroese, Agent. 2tf
Jew Columbian Hotel,
Nos. 118, 120 and 122 Front street,
PORTLAND, s i t OREGON
ED. CARNEY, PROPRIETOR.
The Largest, Best and most Convenient
Hotel in Portland!
Located in the center of business and near all
the steamboat landings.
Board and Lodging
From one to two dollars per day according to the
room occupied.
Rooms newly furnished and well ventil
ated. Superior accommodations for families.
29- The New Columbian Hotel Coach will be
in attendance at all tbe landings to convey pas
sengers and baggage to and from this Hotel
17 ?S Free ot Charge I 69 :
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
C. ME ALE Y
DEALER IN A MANUFACTURER OF
FTJjaXITTJRE!
and
CABINET WARE !
Bedding, Etc.,
em er First and Bread Alhin streets,
ALBANY, OREGON.
PABTxCULAB ATTBBTTOB PAID TO '
ORDERS OP AU ETNSS
. in his line.
October : 1888-8 '. .
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ALL KINDS OF TURNING I
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Spinning Wknli.
Shop near the "Magnolia Mills."1
JOHN M. METZLBR
: Albany, Nor. 28, 1888-12
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J ALi SXStVS, pristoi at the very lojntt
rate, as ordered, atuus onwa.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
Called. Postal Agent, Hon. Ben
Underwood, called on us Saturday, en
route for Portland and Dalles, on biz
Ben is an indefatigable worker, wide
awake to the interests of the people in
mail matters, and is giving good satisfac
actiun throughout the valley as postal
agent.
We have received the prospectus of a
paper to be published at Roseburg; Ore
gon, by Win. Thompson, to be called the
Plaindealer. It will sustain the doc
trine that this is a " white man's govern
ment," and will doubtless go after the
Radicals regardless of taste or expense.
Gone. U. S. Assistant Assessor, Col.
Folsom, who has been shedding the light
of his genial countenance npon us for
two or three weeks past, having "finish
ed up" for this ciy, took up his line of
march for Corvallis on. Monday, to fix up
his lists there. From thence he goes to
Harrisburg. The Colonel is a jovial,
whole-souled man, and of course makes
friends wherever he goes.
From Scio. The Scio JVeics of the
10th instant received.' Following is the
gist of its news :
A correspondent differs with the editor
in regard to tbe propriety of building a
macadamized road from Scio to a point
on the Railroad. He thinks a railroad is
what is demanded, and that ten miles of
railroad will cost the people less than the
same number of miles of macadamized
road. With a railroad, all the produce
raised in the vicinity would find a ready
market in Scio, building up the town and
surrounding country, whereas a macada
mized road would build up a market at
the railroad point ten miles off, to the
material detriment of Scio and the coun
try adjacent. .
A party of hunters- had returned,
bringing the carcasses of twelve deer
the editor was remembered.
A new billiard saloon is soon to be
opened in Scio.
Received. The Excelsior, a monthly
magazine, published in New York, by C.
L. Van Allen, at $1 per annum. It is a
neat 82-page journal, with illustrations,
about one-third larger than ordinary
double-column magazines. It is neatly
printed, and filled to the brim with in
teresting literary and miscellaneous mat
ter. Through arrangements with the
publisher we are enabled to furnish all
new subscribers to the Register, who
wish it, with the Excelsior one year free.
The European Mail, published weekly
in London, England, at 13s per annum.
It contains a vast amount of general and
miscellaneous European news, reviews of
new publications, markets, etc.
One of the editors in Reading bad a
shirt, about which he made his brags,
and abused his cotemporaries for having
none. It afterwards appeared that he
had stolen it off a pole from a brother
editor, who was in bed waiting for it to
dry. i
Black Lead. The Enterprise says
that Dr. Ross has found a very pure arti
cle of native plumbago, in the upper part
of Oregon City. The deposit where
it crops out is about one foot thick and
twe rods wide. i
In Stockton, a few days since, a man
named Crabb entered a house in the day
time and stole a watch." The lady ot the
house returned from a visit to a neigh
bor just in time, caught the thief by the
throat, and choked him till he dropped
the watch and ran.
Grant's administration is reducing the
public debt at the rate of $182 a minute
one hundred and eighty two thorns in
the Democratic side every sixty seconds.
During the month of January one
hundred and forty-eight marriage licenses
were issued from the County Clerk's
office in San Francisco, and twice that
number of souls "with but a single
(or simple") thought," made miserable or
happy, as the case may be.
Back Again. H. W. Scott, Esq.,
editor of the Oregonian, arrived at Port
land on the last steamer from San Fran
cisco, from his late visit East.
New Locomotive. The bark Wrh-
foot brought to Portland anew locomotive
to be used on Hoi lad ay's road.
Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, having quali
fied, entered upon the discharge of his
duties as Judge of the United States
Circuit Court at San Francisco, on the
2d. -
It is not work that. kills men ; it is
worry. Work is heathy ; you can hardly
put more upon a man than he can bear.
Worry is rust upon the blade. , It is not
the revolution that destroyes the machin
ery, bat the friction. Fear secretes acids;
bat love and truth are sweet juices. :
NEWS ITEMS. :
A new double shotted projectile, in
vented by J. H. Hill, of Jefferson, Iowa,
it is claimed, will throw shot eight or
ten miles.
; The Legislature of Tennessee, by bill,
has postponed county elections to the 4th
Monday in March, in order to submit
the amended Constitution at the same
time.
-(An American citizen named Vincent
Danny, of Florida, for relating a some
what modified account of the assassina
tion of Castanon, was set upon by vol
unteers, in San Jose street, Havana, and
beaten to death. ' Nino Cubans were
also masacred in Havana and Matanzas.
In New York city, -John Goulding, a
well known politician, ' was discovered
having intimate relations with, the wife
of Joseph Sinnett, a seaman. He fled
from the wrath of Stinnett in the even
ins, and the wife at once cut her throat
with her husband's razor. j
The new naturalization bill, now be
fore the House Judiciary Committee,
takes the matter from the State Courts
and puts it into the hands of the United
States officers. Four years of continu
ous residence before application for nat
uralization must be proved by persons
intending to become citizens.
The people of Long Island still con
tinue excited over the Mormon question.
The Legislature of Virginia has elect
ed Gov. Rice, of Shenandoah county,
State Treasurer. His county cast its
vote for Fremont and Lincoln for Presi
dents. The steamer Anna reports having suc
cessfully landed, December 19th last,
on Cuban soil, 22 men, including Col.
Ryan, Cespedes and Gaicuria, with
2,400 stands of arms and 30 tons of
powder, shot and shell.
Gov. Butler issued . a proclamation
calling the Nebraska Legislature together
on the 17th, for the purpose of ratifying
the 15th amendment, dividing the State
into Congressional districts, providing
for the erection of a new penitentiary,
elc.
The Territorial government asked for
by Alaska will probably not be granted
by Congress.
Horse racing has been restored at
Rome by the Papal authorities.
From Madrid (Spain), it is reported
that another Carlist insurrection is in
preparation.
A minority of the Committee investi
gating the alleged defalcation of the M.
E. Book concern at New York, report
heavy irregularities in the printing and
binding department ; give the total de
falcations; implicate the son of one of
the ex-managers, and reflect upon the
the father. The report is signed by the
Revs. S. Slicer and Pike, and by the
Secretary of the Committee.
Julian, Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Public Lands, has prepared a
bill prohibiting further grants of public
lands to railroads or other corporations,
under any circumstances whatever. ,
Counterfeit five cent nickels are in
circulation. It is announced that twenty-five
per cent, of those now in circula
tion are spurious. All the old issue will
probably be called in, and a new issue
made
The Mormon Legislature of Utah has
passed the bill granting the right of suf
frage to women, and acting Governor
Mann has signed it.
In San Francisco last week, articles of
incorporation were signed, creating the
San Francisco & Northern Coast Rail
road Company. The design is to con
struct a railroad from a point near San
Rafael to Healdsburg, with a branch to
Bloomfield and Tomales. The company
is said ta have the capital and enterprise
to carry out the project.
The man James Dwyer, who was out
on $16,000 bail to answer for the murder
ot Ueitrich Wohler, in San Francisco,
was arrested on Saturday last in that
city, charged with robbing a man named
Ball, a tew hoM after his discharge on
bail. ; '
On the 12th inst., Oregon oats brought
$1 60 per 100 pounds in San Francisco.
Wheat firm at $1 40 1 65 per 100
pounds. Flour, in sacks, $4 505 50,
as to quality, per barrel. .
In San Francisoo, Charles Kyle &
Samuel Carr, keepers of a saloon on
Kearney street, on Saturday last were
sent to the penientiary, each for his nat
ural life, convicted of the crime of mur
der. Brick Pomeroy boasts that he once
worked by the side of a negro composi
tor. The negro compositor turns out
to be one Noah Pickett, who writes to
the Herald that he did work along side
of Brick, and that he is ashamed of it.
That Brick still owes him $2 70 ' bar
rowed money, and that he would be
happy to receive it at his home in Tali
madge, Summit ooanty, "Ohio, and adds :
"I am now rather crippled up, but my
Heavenly Father knows that I would
starve before I would again work at a
case along side of Brick Pomeroy."
The Eugene Journal says that Chief
Engineer Brooks with a party ot men
are between Spore's Ferry and Spring
field, making a survey the second and
probably the final survey on that route.
' A Maine soldier has had his name re-
9
moved from the pension rolls, saying he
has regained his health and does not need
the pension. Commissioner VanAernam
wrote to him that his name " should go
down into history as a worthy example for
the coming generations."
Spiritualism.
Lebanon, O., Feb. 14, 1870. .
Our village has been yisited by some
of the inhabitants of "That undiscovered
country, from whose bourne no traveler
returns."
Mr. McCord has taken it upon himself
to enlighten - this benighted community
on the subject of spiritualism. His zeal
and disinterestedness are highly com
mendable. It is true he usually charges
each an admission fee of fifty cents ; but,
of course, he must have some compensa
tion for his valuable time, and incidental
expenses must be paid.
He appeared here before a small audi
ence last Wednesday evening ; and to
convince them that he is a fa.orite of the
spirits, and that they came to his assist
ance at his bidding, he solicited some one
to tie him, which being done, he was
taken into a dark, very dark room, and in
aliout twenty minutes he came out with
the rope in his hand. Now, sir, is not
that enough to convince the most skepti
cal that there is a reality in spiritualism?
For, remember, he was bound hand and
foot, and cast into that dreadfully dark
room ! Certainly none but a spirit could
see how to untie those hard knots!
Is not this "a most wholesome doctiine
and very full of comfort ?" For, if by
any means, its disciples should incur tho
displeasure of the civil law, and the au
thorities should bind them with chains
and cast them into prison, the first dark
night the spirits would come to their re
lief, remove the chains, turn the bolts
and let their wards go free. We sup
pose, of course, that spirits have as much
power over chains and bolts as they have
over ropes and cords.
Then, again, is it not a source of com
fort to the friends of the deceased to
know that their departed sisters, friends
and children are permitted to attend De
Wolfe, Todd, McCord and others for the
purpose of tipping tables, rapping to
questions, untying knots, &c. ? This is
ennobling employment for the great and
good who once inhabited earth 1 How
much more ennobling than that in
which we have been accustomed to sup
pose them engaged !
A tree is known by its fruits. Hence
it is just that spiritualism should be
judged by its fruits that is, by the in
fluence that it has on the characters of
its followers. Not by isolated cases, but
by the characters of its leading advocates
and the masses of its followers. Could
you find a more noble example of a true
man than is exhibited in the lives of its
leading advocates ? Are they not noble
examples for the youth ? It is true that
De Wolfe got into trouble at Olympia by
ignoring the law regulating marriage ;
and Mrs. De Wolfe was arrested in San
Francisco by the police for appearing on
the streets in attire which they thought
was not becoming her sex ; but might
not the fault be in the laws?
Spiritualists do not visit saloons, the
race-course, or gaming table ; neither do
they violate the Sabbath, or take the
name of God in vain. Do n.ot their lives
recommend their doctiine ? Credo.
Married in a Cornfield. A high
ly dramatic episode, showing how the
course of true love does not run smooth,
transpired here the other day. The
daughter of a rich planter, who lives a
few miles from the city had fallen des
perately in love with a young lawyer
from the same neighborhood.
The affection was mutual, but the old
man, the girl's father, was bitterly oppos
ed to the match, and packed his girl off
to Nashville, to one of the strictest female
seminaries- Love, from the foundation
of the world, has been found fertile in re
sources, and, as might have been expect
ed, the young people were not long in
finding means of interchanging notes, and
afterward meeting at the house of a mu
tual friend. They had arranged for a
sort of clandestine mairiage, when the
cruel parent got wind of the matter
(cruel parents always hear of these
things), and took the girl home for a
day or two till he could take her to New
York and incarnate her in a convent. Af
ter much difficulty the lover got a note
to her, and the day before the intended
departure for the East she went into a
back room, under pretext of getting some
article to pack in her trunk, slipped
through the window, across the yard,
and into an adjacent cornfield, where the
lover was ready with a "Squire,", and
standing amid the corn ricks in a drizzling
rain, the two were married.
That was pretty plucky on the whole,
wasn't it? Cincinnati Times.
"Big Injan' Downing, Chief of the
Cherokees, is in Washington to secure
the ratification of a treaty by which hid
nation will receive $3,000,000 for 13,
000,000 acres of land. , A
To. Let Inquire Within.
The lady flounced out in a rage.
Two young damsels and a spiBster
aunt followed, and after a lengthy in
spection of the premises, came to a state
council in the parlor, ;.
" I like the house very much," said
the spinster aunt solemnly, " and with a
few alterations, I will engage it for my
brother's family."
"Very good. Ma'am," said Nahum,
rubbing his hands, and scenting a speedy
termination to his trials. "Name 'em."
" The door handles must all be gilded,
and I should like the house newly paper
ed in velvet and gold, and repainted,and
the partition between the parlors taken
down and replaced by an arch, and an
extension dining-room built on behind,
and a new style of range in the kitchen,
and a dumb - waiter put in, and new
bronze chandeliers throughout, and an
other furnace in jhe sub-cellar, and "
- " Hold oil, ma'am fust hold on one
minute," said Nahum, feebly gasping for
breath. "Wouldn't you like the old
house carted away, and a new one put
in its place ? I think it would be rather
less trouble than to make the trifling
alterations you suggest." 1
" Sir " said the spinster loftily.
" I don't think we can-agree, ma'am."
" Very well very well come girls."
With prim dignity the lady marshalled
her two charges out, muttering some
thing about the " extortionate ideas of
landlords now-a-days."
While Nahum, wildly rumpling his
iron-grey hair with both hands, solilo
quized :
" Well, if Job had been alive, and had
a house to let, there never would have
been any book of Job written. There
goes that everlasting bell again I I'll
haul it out by the roots, if this thing
goes on much longer. I'll tear down
the bill, and put up the old place at auc
tion." Another lady, but quite different from
the other a slender little cast-down
lady, with a head that drooped like a
lilly of the valley,1 and a dress of brown
silk, that had been mended, and turned,
and retrimmed, and even Nahum Briggs,
man and bachelor though be was, could
see bow shabby it was. Yet she was
pretty, with big blue eyes, and shining
brown hair, and cheeks tinged with a
fair, fleeting color, where the velvety
roses of youth had once bloomed in vivid
carmine. And a golden haired little
lassie clung to her dress, as like the tiny
lily buds to a blooming chime of flower
bells.
As Nahum Briggs stood looking at
her, there came back to him the sun
shiny days of youth ; a field of blooming
clover crimsoned the June light like
waves of blood, and a blue-eyed girl
leaning over the fence with her bright
hair barred with level sunset gold, and
be knew that he was standing face to
face with Barbary Wylie, the girl he had
quarreled with years and years ago, and
whose blue eyes had kept him an old
bachelor all his life long.
" This house is to be let, I believe ?"
she asked timidly, with a little quiver in
her mouth.
" I believe it is, Barbara Wylie."
She looked up, starting with a sudden
flush of recognition.
And then Barbara turned very pale,
and began to weep, with tbe little gold
haired girl clinging to her skirts, and
wailing:
" Mamma, mamma what's the mat
ter, mamma ?"
" Nothing now," said Barbara, reso
lutely brushing away the tears.
" If you please, Mr. Briggs, I will
look at the house ; I am a widow now,
and very poor, and I think of keeping
a boarding-house to earn my daily bread.
I hope the rent is not very high ?"
" We'll talk about the rent after
wards," said Nahum, fiercely swallowing
down a big lump in his throat that
threatened to choak him.
" Come here, little girl, and kiss me ;
I used to kuow your mamma when the
wasn't much bigger than you are."
Barbara, with her blue eyes still droop
ing, went all over the house, - without
finding a word ot fault, and. Nahum
Briggs walked at her side, wondering if
it was really fifteen years since the June
sunshine lay so brightly on the clover
field.
"I think the house is beautiful," said
meek Barbara. " Will you rent it to
me, Nahum ?"
"Well, yes," said Nahum, thought
fully. " I'll let you have my house, if
you want it, Barbara."
" With the privilege of keeping a few
boarders ?"
" No, ma'am."
Barbara stopped and looked wistfully
at him.
" But 1 : don't think you understand
how very poor I am, Mr. Briggs."
" Yes, I do."
"And that I cannot afford to take the
house without the privilege of boarders."
" I tell you what, Barbara," said Mr.
Briggs, dictatorily, ", I'll , give you the
privilege of keeping just one boarder,
and him you have got to keep all your
lift long, if you once take him."
"I don't think I quite understand
you, Nahum Briggs," said Barbara, but
she blushed very becomingly) and we are
rather inclined to think that she told a
naughty little fib.
" What do you say to me for a board
er, Barbara ?" said the old baohelor,
taking both the widow's hands in his.
" Barbara, we were young fools, onee,
but that is no reason why we should be
old fools now. I like you just as well as
ever I did, and I'll do my best to be a
good husband to you, and a good father
to your little girl, you'll be my wife."
Barbara blushed again, and hesitated.
But Nahum was not to be eluded thus.
" Shall I take down the sign ' To Let,'
Barbara ?" ;,. V "' -"
Yes," she murmured, almost under
her breatn. , ,
So Nahum went deliberately oat, and
coolly tore down the bill, to the great
astonishment and disappointment of a
.arty of rabid nouse-hunters. who were
just ascending the steps.
"Ana when shall we be married, Bar
bara ?" he next demanded.
" In tbe summer, perhaps," said Bin,
Barbara shyly. . :
" To-morrow," said Nahum decisively,
and " to-morrow" it was. : " -
" Upon my word, Barbara," said Na
hum, on the first day of May, as he
watched his wife's blooming face behind
the coffee urn, " yon ean't think how
much jollier it is with you for a house
keeper than that hag, Mrs. Parley."
Barbara only laughed, and said " he
was a dear, good eld stupid."
So the probabilities are that neither
Mr. Nahum Briggs nor bis brown stone
house, will be in market again as "To
Let Inquire Within."
Job's Comforters. The following
deeply interesting "narrative" is credited
to a "School Boy." It has very many
"fine points" in it that leads us to be
lieve the credit is correct or not. But
in any case it. presents the subject in its
very best light, and we hope those who
read it will take as much comfort in it as
we did :
A boil is very small at first, and a fel
low hardly notices it , but in a few days"
it gets to be the biggest of tho two, and
the chap that has it is of very little ac
count in comparison with his boil, which
then "has him." Boils appear mysteri
ously on various portions of the human
body, coming when and where they please;
and often in very inconvenient places.
Sometimes a solitary boil is the sum total
of the affliction, but frequently there
is a " rubbishin' lot of 'em " to help
the first one. If a boil comes any
where on a person, that person always
wishes it had come somewhere else, al
though it would puzzle him to say just
where. '
If a chap has a boil, he generally gets
a good deal of sympathy from others.
Whoever asks him what ails him laughs
at him for his pains to answer, while
many unfeeling persons make game of
him or his misfortune or boil. It is very
wicked to make sport of persons with
boils ; they can't help it, and often feel
very bad about it. Physicians don't give
boil patients much satisfaction as a gene
ral thing, although young physicians who
are just beginning to practice are fond of
trying their lancets on them. Boils are
said to be "healthy," and from the way
they take hold, and hang on, and ache
and -burn, and grow, and torment one
generally, there is no doubt they are
healthy, and have good constitutions.
They are generally very lively and play
ful at night, and it is very fnnny to see
a chap with a good large one prospecting
aronnd his couch for a place where his
boil will fit in "without hurting."
Boils tend to "purify the blood,"
strengthen the system, calm the nerves,
restrain the profanity, tranqnilice the
spirits, improve the temper, and beantify
the appearance. They are good things
fur married men who spend their even
ings away from home, as they give them
an opportunity to rest their night-keys,
and get acquainted with their families.
It is said that boils save the patient Ma
fit of sickness," but it the sickness is not
the best to have, it must be an all-fired
mean thing. It is also said that a person
feels better after he has had them, aad
there is no doubt that one feels much
better after having got rid of them.
Many distinguished persons have enjoyed
these harbingers of health. Job took
the first premium at the county fair for
having more acbers under cultivation than
any other person. Shakespeare had
them, and meant boils when he said,
"One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
so fast they follow."
: There are a great many remedies for
boils, most of which are well worth try
ing, because, if tbey don't do any geod,
they don't hurt the boils. Ha chap
goes down street with a boil, every man
he meets, will tell him of "a eood thing"
for it, among which are Shoemaker's
wax, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, Trix, Spald
ing's Glue, Charlotte Russo, Gum Drops,
Water-Proof Blacking, Night-Blooming
Ceres, Chloroform,' Kissengen, ete.
Bow-legs. Bowed legs are not caus
ed by a baby's being placed npon its feet
too early, but to a habit children have of
rubbing the soles of the feet together.
They seem to enjoy the contact only when
the feet are naked ; they dont attempt to
make it when the ieet are socked. So
tho remedy is obvious ; keep the baby's
feet covered. Knock-knees are ascribed
to a different childish habit that of
sleeping on the side with one knee tacked
into the hollow behind the other. When
oni leg has been bowed inward more than
the other, tbe patient has always slept on
one side, and the uppermost member has
been that most deformed. Here the pre
ventive is to be careful every night to
place the child to sleep in different posi
tion. Indeed, all through life, it is well
to sleep on either side. ,
To Remove Diet Trom the Etk-
Take a bog's bristle, double so as to form
a loop. Lift theeyelid "ftKg
the loop up over the ;. n
occasion Tno 'disagreeable Now
close the lid down upon th ' bnstJe h.ch
may now be withdrawn The dirt wdl
surely be upon the bristle. . , .......
Our irood minister once said that if we
were so foolish as to allow people to laugh
us out of onr religion .toll at last we
dropped into Jiell, they oould notlauga
ne out again. - ,;v