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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1872)
Bringing It Home. Y.Ma Track lived in tlie country town of ltitvlnl:ile. It win one of Hie oldest torni in tlx- gttte, aWl liad htrn deemed bvits Inhabitants a one oftlh' pleasantest. Under tl"-' pres sure of tlie " Maine Law," so uillfO, tlK' rate of Intoxknting beyeriifw md liecn for a time almo-t entirely nun, pressed in rtwt section. At length, however, society rellxed from its vigilance, though for : rest, and Imttle and jngs were once more re plenished, though a- yet, with great eantion and ein nni ieetii)ii. hi tin e, however, the enemy became more lld, and our tavern' keener of Iiireh dale opened Iih liar. So long as lie had kept hh fit canters; liidden from the weak ones of the town, and luul sold only to travelers, the people Iwl not 0)iCllly reinon-trated ; hH w hen he came' to throw the cll open, and vcWtlic tippin g tievei-Jse over the liar to all callers, tliobttlcr class of the villagers wire alarmed; and measures wen; taken for caliing a meeting of I he citizens for the pnr-po-'e of rertraliihic this violation of the public weal. The committee who had the matter in hand called upon KIMi;iTra-k. Mr. Trask was an enterprising, frugal and Industrious man, with a young and interesting family growing np about him; and it was the Influ ence qf sueli men that the committee desired tot-Mire. I don't know." said Trask, slink ing his head, when the matter hail been presented to him. Mr. Whimper do-en't Interfere with me." Whooper was the tavern keeper. ' But," said the comuilttee man. " lie is interfering with the goixl of our community." " Then let ' the law hike him in hand." was Trask'n rejoinder. " I tliink," replied the committee' spokesman. " that our town should le a law unto it-elf in such matters. This is a question involving our deep est moral ai d social Interest and if we are true to ourselves we can settle it without trouble. All we require is the emphatic expression of our people against it." Hut," suggested Trask, "suppose you present the expression of the peo ple to Mr. Whopper, and lie still con tinues to sell, what then?" Then." said the visitor. " if we have the majority of the citizens to backus, we will stop film by force." Khsha Trask shook hi- Head again. Ho couldn't see the n-e of pushing such a thing. He bellcvexl temperance was a good tiling, and he went in fa it ; hut he did;;": heiieve in using any ha.-h measures. Mr. Whopper was an old re blent ho luul kept the tav ern a good many years and he. for one. did not care to meddle with lllm. " We know." replied the commit tee, "thai ii is not pleasant to Inter fere In the affairs of our neighbors; hut we niti't remember that the com mon, weal lias claims upon us. There is danger to our young men in Whrtp. tier's bur. for their sake let us shut it up." " Let those who are in danger look to the business," replied Trask. "For my part, I tell yon fatukly, I am not inclined to meddle with tint which does not concern me. If you have such a strong desire to protect the public, why don't you pitch in? As for me. I believe If every man would look out fi r himself, and take care of his own affairs, the public nt large would I e pretty well cared fir. The fact is, I would do to others just as I would bnve other do to me, 1 don't w ant other people to interfere with my, 1 iwiness, mile--1 interfere with theirs. Mr. Whopper lias never troubled me." " That Is hardly a iafe phUotophy fordpplication totlie affairs of society, said the coiuinifteo-iiiaii. seriously. Mr. Tra-k. being weary ofargtunent. took retnge l.i olleiiee. anil luitjo tile WoViuitlcc to go about their business. He wanted nothing to do with the matter any way. lie would look out for himself, ami would advise other to do the same. There were other men in Kitvhdale like Mr. Trask. They acknowledged that a tippling shop was an evil, hut they did not care to meddle with it while it did not interfere w ith them personally. They were content to imagine that what did not come home to their own doors did not concern them. And so the people were not aroused and Mr. VVnopjier'a bar remained open. I do not mean tint he kept a public bar, just as he might have done had he been licensed sow do; but he kept liquor for sale by the glass; and though the little luck room where his decanters stood were generally kept locked, yet the tender of a tencctit hit by any respectably behaved individual was a' sufficient Ojttu, eetatne, Time passed on. In the midst of stirring events live, years rolled quick ly away ; and the boy of twelve had grown' to lie a youth of seventeen. Such a son luul Klylia Trask a son by whom he set groat store. The boy was wayward aud Impulsive, but lie was frank and truthful and generous ; and liu was lnrtherinore itliove the average in intellectual capacity. KlUka was aware of his eon's wenk 110 aud lie strove hard to give him moral strength. More than once the youth had returned from public entertainments with an uonattMl aud nnliealtliful How of spirit in his blood. Mr. Trask was tilled with alarm, He Would rather die than see his son dis graced. ' Gilbert," he said to his hoy, ou one of these occasions, " I think 1 would rather see. you brought homo dead, than to see you brought home drunk!" And yet the terrible ordeal catne. One cold winter night Gilbert was brought to his anxious parents in ai state oi neimess intoxication. ' Where lias he been?" aeked the father. ' We found him at the tavern," said those who had brought him home. "And lie has been drinking there?" " Yes. He has been a pretty good customer of Mr. Whopper of late." Klisha Trask asked no more ; but ou the following morning lie sallied upon the war path. The evil had been brought home to his own door, sihH ne was now ready to battle against it lie had himself felt the sharp steel en ter his heart, ami he was aroused to a sense of the danger. He was a man of strong impulses, and when once hi- passions, took sway he knew no fear. Philosophy' was blown to the winds, and only 'hatred of the harmful thing was the incentive to action. He bearded the lion in his ieu ; nial he did not rest until Mr. Whopper luul been "hauled over the coals" as he expressed it, and his liar etlectually clos, d. Mr. Trask has been led into new aud enlarged views concerning his duty toward the coiniuou-wcal. As his Children grow up around hhn, and step out into the highways and by ways of )if,., he realizes that though he as an Individual may lie in no danger, it may yet be his 'duty to pro vide -lifeguards for those not so for tunate as himself-iind not only his duty, hut his privilege ; for while he inil:liUUiiin-.j4s strength,- lie knows not huav soon the enemy, if left at liberty, mi tij!, down some loved one who is weaker. Mark Twain on His Travels. I got into the ears and took n seat in juxtaposition to a female. That fe male's face was a perfect insurance company for lur it insured her against ever getting married to any body except a blind man. Her month looked like a crack In a dried lemon, and there was no more expression to her face than there is in a spinal col umn 6f void clist.inl. She iiptieiiM ilas if she had lieeii through one famine and had got about two-thirls through another. Nie was old enough to be a grandmother to Mary that had the lit tle lamb, She was chewing a box of prize pop corn, and earned in her h ind a yellow rose, while a hand-box and a cotton Umbrella' nestled sweetly by her side. I couldn't guess wheth er she Was ou a mission of cliarlty, or going west to start a saw mill," so 1 said : "The exigencies of time reiulro great eireumspeetion in a arson who Is traveling." Said she "What?" Said I, "The Orb of day shines re splendent in the bine vault above." She hitched around uneasy like.-then she raised her umbrella and said, "I don't want any ol'yOuagaa gltouf," and I got out. Then 1 took a seatilong?ide a male fellow who looked like the ghost of Hamlet lengthened out. He was a stately eu-s.and he was reading. Said I. "Minister did yott ever see a eaVuel leopard?" I said camel leop ard because it isjl pious animal, anil never eats any grass without getting down on its knees. Then said ', "1)5 yoil chew?" He said "Xosir." Then sai l I, "How sweet is nature?' He took this for a conundrum, and said he didn't know." Then he said be was deeply interested in the histo ry of a great man. "Alas."' he ex claimed, "we are hut few." 1 told him 1 knew hut one ; "the' man that made my cooking: stove wasa grate man." Tueu be asked me would I read? Says I. "what have you got?" He replied, Watts Hymns," "Iteve ries by Moonlight," "How to speud tlie Sabbath." 1 said, "none of that for Hannah," but if he bad got an iniabridgcd Bus Ines, Directory of New York city I w ould take a little read. Then be said, -Young man. look at these gray hairs." I toid him l saw them, and when a man got as old as he was he ought to dye. Said I, -you needcii't think these hairs are any sign ot wisdom; its only a sign that your system lacks iron ; and 1 advise you to go home aud swallow a crowbar." lie took this for irony, and what lit tle entente cardiule there was between us was spiled. It turned out. that he was chaplin of a base ball club. When we got to Rochester 1 called for a bowl of lean soup. I send you the receipt for making it : "Take a lot of water, wash it well, boll it until it is brown on both sides ; then verv carefully pour one bean into it and let It shunter.- Whenthe head begins to get restless sweeten with sait, tlieu put in air-tight cans, bitch each can to a brick, and chuck them overboard, and the soup is done." The above receipt orignated with a man in Iowa, who gets up suppers on odd occasions for Uikl Fellows. He has a receipt tor oyster soup of the same kind, only using twice as much water to the oyster and leaving out the salt. Speaking of Iowa reminds me of the way 1 got tin' money for my ticket to that Odd Fellow's supper. I bet a fellow a dollar that 1 could tell him how much water to a quart went nil dor the railroad bridge over the Mis s'esippi at Dubuque in a year. He bet, and L8iflG two pints t0 a quart. I won the bet, but after all, that sup per was an awful swindle, if the city dldn'tscttle any fester tlian its collets did, its old settlers' clubs would be a failure, and the city too. Dubuque is celebrated for Its flue turnouts. There was a very line turn out 011 the streets while 1 vviu t-lwrc, wagon upset and spilled a lot of wo men, I didn't see it ; i looked the other way. No cards. Duke Alexis of Russia, who Is now "doing" America, is the third son of the r. igning Czar Alexander. The tlrst was Alexander, born March loth, l!s45; the second was Vladimir, Iwrn April 3d, 1847; the third Alexis, born January 14th, jqpo ; fourth the Grand Duchess Marl",' born October 17th, 1850; Hfth Serghn, born May lltb 1857 ; sixth, l'aul, bom October 3d, 1870. Our visitor is therefore in bis twenty-second year, and is represent ed as being a young man of good tal ents and correct habits. Alexander, the heir appaent, died some years ago which makes the second son Vladimir the Prince Imperial. E. H. Derby, of Boston, a well known statistician, in one ot his ofrl cial paper:-, gives it as his opinion that China aud Japan will take from us 50.000 tons, or 111.000,000 pounds of butter aud cheese ier annum, when ever we shall be able to deliver It. Tweed has sold his Interest in the Washington Patriot for $7,000. STOVES-INSURANCE, ETC. TUB OLD STOVE DEPOT. JOHN BRIGGS, Dealer In E AN'fiES. COOK, PARLOR AND BOX, S T OVES ! Of the best patterns. AIAO : TIN', MIEI.T IKON AMI l OP . PUt WAKE, And the usual assortment ot famishing gootW lo lie olituined in a tin Mora. fieon! neatly anil promptly executed, mi tvaxoiutblo terms. Ktiort rcekoulngs mnkr louj(ll?uIs, KIIONT STltEKT, ALBANY. Hec. 3, 1SSU-1 LOOK ESSIE? II. THK SAX FfiAXCISCO STORE, Corner t'lrot and Ferry Ms.., Albany, Keeps constantly on hand A Full Assortment of Stores, P(iipK,aiil Tinware. And will have for sale the celebrated DIAMOND HOCK COOK STOVE. Also lnaiiiii'iietiin.' all kinds of TIX, COPPKII A- SIIEETIKO WARE, In the best style, at lowest rates, for cash or country produce. Always on hand. Full Supply cf Pure Wines" & Liquors, For medicinal purposes only. A well selected stock of OROCKKIES AND CUOCKERY Wtti always be (bnndot my establishment. I vill sell all gH) Is in my bouse, for cash or produce on delivery, ch'inper than over before ottered in this market. Ail kinds of repairing done, on short notice, and emire satisfaction warranted, ai mv stove and tin store. -Nov. 111-11 JUUU8 (iKADWOlIL. FIRE ! FIRE i FIRE! " A Milch In Time Knvrs Mnc." UNION Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Nos. 41G and 41S California St., SAX FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. Morkliolflpru Individually Liable. 4, Cash capital, ifWsold coin, - - 750,0(10 00 Hejioslt in Oregon, 50,1100 oo Losaen promptly and equitably ad jitoi.'d, and PAH) IN OOLI) COIN. ri'HIS COMTANV HAVING COMPUEn 1 with the laws of Oreou, Uy inukimr a deposit of rlfty thousand dollars, Is now prepared loettect insumnce against lossor damage by lire, and also nanmat marine nod inland navigation risks on liberal terms. OU6TAVK TOCCHAltO. President. Chas. Ii. HAYEK, BeoreUuy. J. C. MENDSNHALL, Agent, Albany. Albany, 1871-18 NURSERY. SETTLEMIRE'S XVRSERY, Six Miles ftouth of Albany, I. Inn Co., NEAR THE RAILROAD. ISOMCIT Tnu ATTENTION OF ALL persons desiring to purchase fruit trees to call and examine my stock, which is composed of the largest and liest selection in tlie state, consisting of apples, pears, cherries, phnns, primes, grapes, blacklier rles, currants and roses. Also, btaek and while walnut, English walnut, hickory, )xhhii, redbml, honey locust, hackberry, and a nuinlxir of other varieties of trees nnd plants too numerous to mention, nil of which are olt'ered at low rates. IlENItV W. DKTTLKMIRE. Dec. 17, 1870-1., NEW TO-!)AY Xollce of Copartrieratalp. NOTICE ISIIEREilViaVEN THAT THE Ann of Jkwli A Jhmteith, heretofore e ngaged in the milling business in thecitv of Albany, Liuu Co., Oregon, did, on the 1st day of August, 1871, assoelnte with themselves Henry Mycin mid A. S. Knox, in the illllng business, under the linn name of Reach, ilonteith &Co. Albany, Qr., 0!t. 41, !8J1-Iv4w4 DltY GOODS. L. Main. K. B. Young:. J. Barrows. BLAIN, YOUNG & CO., Wholesale aad Retail 333.Xj1X1.B INT DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. HARDWARE, BOOm SHOES, ETC. Agents for All Kinds of AGR1CUTURAL IMPLEMENTS SKWJXG MA CHINKS, And the Celebrated Bain Wagon! BLAIN, YOUNG & CO., FIRE-PBOOF BRICK, First Street, ALBANY, OREGON. SPr-CTAtXKS. JIOXEY CAM NOT BUY IT, FOR SIGHT IS PRICELESS! But Mm Diamond Kpreiarles will prcfM-rve u. WJK NOW Orran A GLASS TO THK public which is pronounce:l l)y tlie most cvlelirated opiiolaiis of tke world to Ik- tlie most i i1ivt. naliiml, srtltlutal help in the liimmii aye ver known. Tliey are ground iwUur nurown auiiervblon, ai our own numlltoi-lon-, in Sew lJuveiuaud are const iiicted tiui the core or center of H e lens comes directly hi front of the eye, producing a CLEAR AXI) !l n C I VISIOX, As In the natural, liealtliv tight, and pre veniing all iinpieuHuit seusslonu, such us glimmi.ring and wavering of Sight, dinzi ness, en ., pseullsr to uil others Its nse. 1 hesc glasses are niimufucl ureil from mi nute crystal pciihlcs melted tnretber. and derive ihcirmnne, "Diamond, "on SOODunl of their liarducssand brilQancy. Tlievnre inoimted in the tlncst nianner, nt one own niuiniliuitory, in all stylus Of cold, silver, stei-l, rubber, and shell' fnunes, of the bcsi Miiality. Their dumbility can not. lie snr pnssed.aiid their liuisb is such as 'ul "i""1 the most fastidious. Mine ijcnnTne uioess Ixnt-iagour trade-mark, o slnmiKd on every frame. Korsalc bv the principal opticians anil Jewelers, thronIioul the country. Shinu- laciiireii dv J. i;. NiHini-er i o.,pracueai opticians, New Vork. Korsaleoiiivby TITCs DRUTHERS, Iienlern In watchi-s, eliH'ks, jewelry, silver ware, etc., Allmny, Oyfgjott. Kntcml acrordlng to act of (,'ongrcss. In tlie ver 181111. bv .1 K. Sis-netM . 1 'o.. In I lie clerk's office of the District Court of the Cnited States, for the Sunt hem Ulstrict of .cw torn. QVVI IXSl'HANC'K. PACIFIC F1KE AMI MARINE INSURANCE COIHPANY, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Total Aaaela (told 11,777,206.03 .1. IH'NT Pi-csldent. W M. A 1. VOlt 1 1 Vice 1'ivsidcn t. A. .1. kalston Secretary. A. 11AUU1 Marine Secretnry. The leading Are and marine insurance comimny on this coast. lS0,000dep(wile I In Oregon. -Iisses inonijiilv and cipiiiubly adjusted and i aid In gold coin. LADD k TILT0N, Gen. Agenta For Oregon nnd Wasliiug;tou Terry. JOHN CONKER, Agent, ALII AN V, OREUOX. tfiv3y A CARD. rpilE NEW ENGLAND Ml'Tl'AL T.IKE I Insurance Company, of Boston, is the only company on doing business on this coast governed by the Mnsiinehiuetbi Xoii.rorfcltnrc Law. This company was incorporated A. II. 1S35, and has accumulated assets of over 1900,000 00. The following lapsed policies have been paid on I his coast, under i his law : No, of Over due nt Amount policy. time of death. Ensured. 1MB months. $ r,,ooo 33,'ia 4 months. 10,000 3H,-!i s months. 1,000 ,166 10 davs. ,H10 3'1,.V19 11 months. 8,000 nod the above policies been In anyother cointny they would have been forfeited. The above facts speak fur themselves, and to the wie and prudent further com ment Is unneecs-ar . EVKUSON & MIDOLEMI8S. tien. Agents, San Francisco. L. FLINW, Local Agent, AI.BAN V, OREGON. Feb. W, 18il-2oy SASH I'AU'lUKY. Bl'ILDKIJS, ATTKNTION! SASH, BLIND, AND DOOR FACTORY. H. II. ALTHOfSI-. J. r. BACKLl.-tlTO. ALTIIOUSE & CO., Lyon Ktreet, on the River Rank, ALBANY, OREGON. Keep on hand n full assortment, nnd are prewired to rCRNlSH TO ORDER, Doom, Suiili, RllndK, IMoldliiKs, and Such as CROWN, PANEL, HAND A KtXTIOS MOLU, Of all si'-cs. WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES, Floorlnft, Sldlnf, -And- All other kinds of Rnlldlna; Material. A I. SO: PREPARED TO IX) MILL work, furnish stinker foils, Elgzng shakers, suet ion driving pulleys of any kind, at our factory on Lyon street (on the river bunk), next liotow Murkliutn'a waivhonse. AI.TIIOl'SK & CO. Allnv, rob, 10, 1809-H BELUMOIM. An American lady is selling tes taments in the streets of Komo without interruption. She was seni out by tlte I lilile Socitty. The Catholic priest a)t Wetsterh, Ithode Islantl, has prohibited tl members of his church from engag ing in the liquor business. The Lutheran tlenomination in this country uumbcrs now about live hundred thousand communi cants, under the care of some two thousand two hundred ministers. The Catholic population of Amer ica, is estimated at 5,500,000, with 1,800 priests, worshiping in 4,850 churches and 1,700 chapels aud sta tions. Tlie statistical returns of tlie M. EL Church for 1871, show that the present total number of effective traveling preachers is 8,180 j of Mipenmmcvary preachers, 548 ; of supcramiated, 971, making a grand total of 9,0!U. The latest denominational statis tics give the Baptists in the State of Xew York 101,744 membets, composing 841 churches, with 754 ordained and 80 tinordained preach ers. The American Congregational Union reports that while new Con gregational churches are being formed at the rate of a hundred a year, tho number ofhoitseless el lurch es has increased at the rate of thirty five a year. Most of these are in thewest. The revised edition of the Bible in Chinese, which has for some time been preparing at Pekin, is now nearly ready, and will soon be issued from the American Mission press, within tho walls of the capital. A clergyman at Council Bluffs, Iowa, has made a new departure in the matter of "hitching up" folks. He has swept away the old estab lished rules of marrying for a tee, and announces that lie shall hereaf ter many by weight, charging four cents per pound for the happy man, and two cents for tho bride. The idea is a novel one. It is said that a large majority of tho preachers connected with the "Disciples of Christ" Church ap pear dependent upon secular means lor their support. Probably tho ratio of preachers devoting them selves wholly to the ministry is only about one to fourteen churches. CntJRCii DiiEssisc Here is some plain talk and advice which ought to bo heeded : There was time when good taste demanded the use of the plainest clothes in tho sanctuary, when the wealthiest were distinguished for their conspicuous aliscnce of personal adornment, and sartorial display was a mark of vul garity at such times and places. But now-a days, in the congregation, on the Sabbath, rich and poor alike seem to make a desperate strain, the one to make some faint approxima tion to the other, in point of extra va gant display, and the other to do monstrate the utter hopelessness of the attempt. It would almost ap pear as if whatever might bo thought of the propriety of a modest garb in other places, the proper costume for the house of God, whero theoretically, we all go to be remind ed of our common origin and des tiny, were an agglomeration of all the jewelry, and all the chignons, and all the feathers and furbelows in one's wardrobe. The wearer is to carry all this piled agony to the sanctuary as to a fair as if her erv rand were not so much to praiso as to be appraised and there era ploy tiie sacred time in envious comparison of her own mountain of millinery with tho Himalayan tri umphs of her neighbor. Sleeping iy Ciicrcil Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the celebrated Bap. tist clergyman of London, is report ed as recently having been very severe in his remarks upon those members of his congregation who havo indulged in sleeping during his discourses. Mr. Spureeon de. olaredthat"a sleepy seraph before we mroue ot Jehovah, or a cher ub nodding during a isacred song, would be ridiculous to imagine " and maintained that sleeping dur ing un u tcrvice was an uisun to the majesty of Heaven," 9