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ALBANY ISTER. tog faster. An Editorial Talk nfcout tireat Mon. Greatness is not inseparable from simplicity, neither from folly. Phil osophers are not always uttering wise sayings, neither are statesmen always forging thunderbolts, nor poets courting the 11uses. In gen eral they live very much as other people do, eating, drinking, sleep ing, talking, laughing, working, idling, groaning, coughing, sneez ing, going about in the world doing many things just as ordinary folks do, and many others not halt so well. A suspieiou that they are etherial is entirely groundless; for they are mundane both in origin and character. It is pleasant to know that a Shakespeare, a .Scott, a Johnson, a Byron, a Burns, Bun yan, Milton, Wesley, Calviu, were mortal men, like ourselves, the great things in their characters be ing associated with many little things. In the details of their lit tleness we arrive at the most correct solution of their characters. I inn is in his rural, cottage home, is a cheerful picture to contemplate. We like to join with Scott in his every day life at Abboteford ; or look in upon Johnson at Bolt Court; or Shakespeare at New Place ; or Byron at the Abbey. It affords us pleasure as well as profit to study the tastes, prejudices and habits of these great men, ami others, and thus arrive at the real source of their greatness. The systematic zeal and activity of a Wesley are as wonderful as the inflexibility of a Calvin. The noblest epic of a Milton is enriched by the thought that he preferred blindness to the sacrifice of duty. Bunyan, confined in Bedford Jail, gives to the world in minutest detail the best example of "Progress" ever made by pro fane writer to induce mortals to "Pilgrim" for a better life. That he tags laces in jail while he does this, to earn a support for bis fami ly, or that in earlier life he was an ignorant and wicked tinker, but increases our respect tor the exam ple of will and energy, and faith and goodness which enabled him to do so well in his "Progress." Con finement, however, does not always bring these sources of inspiration into play,' neither will it make smalj men great; and yet, greatness has its inspiring causes. While Young was composing his "Night Thoughts," lie had a skull before him, in which be would sometimes place a lighted caudle. Before Drydenset himself to compose, he used to take physic ; gin and water suffered when Byron wrote ; Cole ridge could not get himself up to composing heat without quantities of opium; music set the souls of Luther and Milton all aglow with inspiration ; clamorous duns caused Goldsmith to drink hard while composing the "Vicar of Wake field ;" Bobert Hall sought for in spiration in burning the tobacco god ; the horrible in Mrs. RadclifPs romances was inspired by eating half raw beefsteaks, extensively mixed with onions a favorite and harmless dish with some, which only proves tlrnt we are riot "fear fully and wonderfully made ' alike. In the matter of tastes, much dis crepancy jm existed and now exists among the great Sir Walter Scott was very fond of dogs as much so as Grant is of horses, or Daniel Webster was of oxen. Scott was always attended by his favorite dogs, and Webster, three days be fore his death, walked feebly to the door to gaze upon his favorite oxen. Saochiui required the presence of his wife while he composed, as well as his cats. , We dou't know which he preferred, but hope the former. Byron was a splendid swimmer; Washington was an exprt in jump ing ; .faeksou was fond of a pipe and buttermilk ; Bandolph could swear a blue streak; Clay took pleasure in blooded stock ; Patrick Henry delighted in getting his as sociates involved in a heated argu ment, that he might study the dif ferent phazes of character. It is no exaggeration to say that all great men have their peculiarities and follies. Their greatness does not consist in these, but they are simply accompanying traits. Their virtues should be copied and not their faults. Toothing. Devotion. One of the most fearful cases ever told on paper is this, of a little boy, a mere child, who traveled one thousand four hundred miles, tak ing care of the body of his mother all the way. Au expressman, upon reaching his office early one morning in Jan uary, observed on the sidewalk a long heavy box, which his practiced eye at once identified as containing a corpse. Cwpi the end of the box, shivering with' cold, sat a halfclad boy about seven or eight years of age. Addressing him kindly, he said : "My lad, don't sit there; yon will freeze, Tome in and sit by the fire." Bursting into tears, the little fel low replied : "No, I can't come My mother is in this box, and I promised her that I would not leave her until we got home." Deeply affected with the touch ing devotion of this brave little fel low, he finally succeeded in convinc ing him of the entire safety of his precious charge, and taking him to a neighboring restaurant, gave him a warm breakfast, and then learned the particulars of his story. His father died about a year pre vious in a remote village in Minne sota, leaving his mother in delicate health and nearly destitute. She died but a few days before the boy's sad journey, charging the little hero with the sad duly of conveying the remains to a distant State, and furn ished him with (all she had) a sum of money barely sufficient to carry them both by freight care to their destination. The little fellow had actually ridden day and night iu a freight car with his melancholy trust, never for a moment losing sight of it OuifiiN of Coal -According to Professor Wurtz, the formation of coal depends entirely upon the .ac tion of the iron which was dissolved iu the water of the coal period. The combinations of iron with which coal is always accompanied are pyrites, iron spar, and hydrated ox ide. These were doubtless derived from the strata interjected between the coal beds. In this case the oxy genated water appeared to act upon the metalic sulphurets which were contained in the crystaline slates, from the destruction of which these coal strata were derived. Coal, con sequently, is the natural result of the eremacausis of organic substan ces in waters which contain sul phate of iron and tree carbonic acid. An immense pressure upon the mass, while it a plastic condition, was also, without doubt, au additional element of importance. "Strayed or stolenA large Red Kow, with Yaller Specs on her left side, and a pair of white speks on her right ear. She is about seven or eight years old, and belongs to a poor widow with a long tail. Ten dollars will be given to anybody who will turn her over to Newark, Gone 17, 180060." Pay Your Trenchers. If a man is fit to preach, he is worth wages. If he is worth wag es, he should be paid with all the business regularity that is de manded and enforced in business lite There is no man in the com munity who works harder tor the money he receives than - the. faithful minister. There is no man iu whose work the community is inter csted to whom regular wages that shall not cost him a thought, are so important Of what possible use in a pulpit can any man be whose weeks are frittered away iu mean cares and dirty economies? Every mouth, or every quarter-day, every pastor should be sure that there will be placed in his hands, as hi just wages, money enough to pay all his expenses. Then without a sense of special obligation to anybody, he can preach the truth with freedom, and prepare for his public ministra tion without detraction. Nothing more cruel to a pastor, or more dis astrous to his work, can be done than to force upon him a feeling of dependence upon the charities of his flock. The office of such a man does not rise in dignity above that of a court-fool. He is the creature of the popular whim, .-and the preacher without influence to those who do not respect Jnm or his office sufficiently to pay him the wages due to a man whodevotetfhis life to them. Manliness cannot live in such a man, except it be iu torture a torture endured simply because there are others who depend upon the charities doled out of him. Good manly pastors and preach ers do not want gifts; they want wages, it is not a kindness to eke out insufficient salaries by donation parties, and by benefactions from the riclier members of a flock. It is not a merit as they seem to re gard it, for parishes or individuals to do this. It is an acknowledge ment of indebtedness which they are too mean too pay in a business way. The pastor needs it and they owe it, but they take to themselves the credit of benefactors and place him in an awkward and a false po sition. The influence of this state of things upon the world that lies outside of the sphere of Christian belief and activity is bad beyond calculating. We have hsd enough of the patronage of Christianity by a halt-scoffing, half-tolerated world. If Christians do not sufficiently rec ognize the legitimacy of the pastor's calling to render him fully his jut wages, and to assist him to main tain his manly independence before the world, they must not blame the world tor looking upon him with a contempt that forbids approach and precludes influence. The world will be quite ready to take the pastor at the valuation of his friends, and the religion he teaches at the price its professors are willing to pay in a business way, for its ministry. Scriburii Magazine. trouble and Trials or Wellknown Providence Connie The Woman Outwits the Mnn. Something like a year since a well known pair of this city decided to part company, and each leave the other to his or her most desired pursuit This dissolution of part nership was brought about by the frequently occurring fact that the course of their married life, instead of flowing along like a Summer stream, whose polished surface is disturbed only here and there by a gentle ripple, was on the contrary subjected to frequent storms and tempestuous squalls, which render ed existence iu unison a burden and a torment Such being the case, they mutally agreed to part com pany, and each to paddle an indi vidual canoe over such water as was most preferable. Each prom ised to leave the other in undisturb ed possession of whate ver property belonged to them individually, and with this contract they parted, the husband remaining iu Providence and the wife going to the house of her sister in a country town some thing less than a hundred miles from this city. Thus a year passed on, and neither saw or heard any thing of the other. Daring this period "fortune smiled" upon the wife, who is a woman richly endow ed with nature's charms, and upon whom beauty has stamjwd its cov eted impress. She amassed quite a comfortable quantity of this world's riches, and desiring to enjoy them more extensively she purchased a horse 8nd buggy, with which she drove about in high style and com fort. The husband hearing last week of the worldly prosjierity of the former partner of his joys and the creator of his sorrows, determin ed to pay her a visit, and in his secret thought resolved to become possessor of the aforesaid stylish "turn out.'' Taking a journey into those parts he watched his chance and succeeded in stealing the team, and in the morning started home in high glee, driving the coveted prize. The woman discovering the strate gic movement, took the first train for Providence, arriving here about the same time that her lord drove into town with the horse and buggy. On inquiry she found that the iaw would not convict her husband for stealing, recognizing, as it did, the precept "what is mine is thine and what is thine is mine." She then put her woman's wit at work to discover some way to secure a "comeuppance" with her husband. At length she also discovered that he owned a horse and buggy, and immediately she resolved upon her course. Finding where he kept the team, she succeeded, all unaided, in securing it, and away she went, whither her husband is in vain try ing to ascertain. For great was his astonishment and chagrin on Satur day, returning from his day's em ployment, which he had made light and pleasant by joyfully contem plating his own shrewdness, to find that the wife of his bosom had con pletely outgeneralled him, and that too, With his own weapons. It I-Paper- - - i What Fraxklyn Dm. He improved the printing press, invent ed stereotyping and manifold letter writers. lie cured smoky chimneys of their bad habits. He amended the shape and rig of ships. He showed sailors how they might take advantage of the Gulf Stream to shorten their eastern transit of th? Atlantic, and how to steer so as to avoid it on their western passage. He told them how a few men might haul a heavy boat, and how they might keep fresh provisions at sea. lie suggested improvements in the soup dishes of sailors, and the water-troughs of horses. He intro duced new kinds of seeds, grass, turnips, broom com, curious beans from England, vines from France, and many other vegetables and plants. Be drained lands skillfully, and gathered great crops from them. He reformed fire-places and invent ed the Franklyn stove. First of all men, he warmed public buildings. He had a fan on his chair worked with a treadle, so as to drive away the flies. He made him spectacles, with two sets of glasses, for far and near sight He invented a musical instrument, and improved the elec tric machine. He discovered that lightning and electricity are the same, proving it in the simplest, and deepest, and most satisfactory manner, by catch ing the actual lightning. He first discovered the difference between positive and negative electricity. i i A lawyer built him an office in the form of a hexagon or six square. The novelty of the structure attract ed the attention of some Irishmen who were passing by. They made a full stop, and viewed the building very critically. The lawyer some what disgusted at their curiosity, raised the window, put his head out, and addressed them : "What do you stand there for, like a pack of blockheads, gazing at my office ? Do you take it tor a cliurch ?" "Faix," answered one of them, "I was thinking so, till 1 saw the divil poke his head put pf the window." "I can't drink liquor," said Bob; "it goes right to my head." "Well," said Bob's friend, "where could it go with less danger ot being crowd ed?" JOB HUNTING. ALBANY REGISTER PRINTING HOUSE WITH NEW AND FAST POWER AXI HAS!) PRESSES, Latest and most Desirable Styles of Printing Material, Is undoubtedly THE SHEBANG v TO GO FOR Wben yon wish Posters- or Visiting Cards, Business Cards Bill Heads Letter Heads, Envelopes, Ball Tickets, Programmes, Labels-- Bnl why particularize, when it is gen erally acknowledged that we are ON IT When it comes nnder the bed of CVCome to see us, onct