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L P Fislier KIL Mi:i;j ,:,, LJ-1J u g ' VOLUME VI ALBANY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 2'J, 1873. NO. 23. What a MiiicS . ii aaid to Me. All. distinctly 1 retuewtor Gentle wiv.c'ls from woman's Hp, When the i wx twiltaht rested On in1 ivM wlie.ru faiies trip, And fluid lyUshfi) dylnjftimheri Ea-el cm the nnrple lea. As I heard in broken wIHsiktm Wlnitn maiden -aid tome. Curls blow lightly round my shoulders Am Iho - 'ft win 1 kissed Hid vino, Tin: (lurk eyes from darker lushes Threw hoir Inve-IIjtht into mine: At our : the brook went slnKtng With a ifi tneio lions glee, And Its music Bewned to who Wh it a maiden said to nic. In my arm anot Iter's rested, .In my hand an ' tier's burned And soi nmdorlv I pressed it Thai the pressure was rotnmod i Then 1 whlspere 1 low and asked her. tfiny t rite love slie would ic, And I think I need not led you, Wha! u maiden wii J to me. . - TIIK WORLD AM) I. Whether inv heart he glad or no, Tho summers con. iho summers go, The lanes grow dark with dying leaves; Icicles lmii). liencai li the eaves ; The asters wither to the snow. Thus doth thu summer end and go. Whether my life be g!nd or no. Whether my life be sad or no, The Winters podia, the winters go, Tin: sunshine piayS with liu'iy leaves; Swallows build a! tout the eaves; The lovely wind flowers bend and blow; Thus doth the winter come and go, Whether uiy life bo sad or no. Tot mother nature gives to me A fond an I patient sympathy ; In my ow n heart I tlnd the ilinnn To make her tender, maraud warm ; Through summer sunshine, winter snow, Khe iJa-iis me, Sad or r lad or no. TUB ViU'.Ti PEXACE. Where they came from r. one knew. Among the fanners near the Ik-ml there was a mule ability ki con duct researches beset by far more difli culties than was that of the origin of the Pikes; hut a charge of buckshot which it good natural Yankee receiv ed one evening, soon after utting questions to a venerable like, exerted a great depressing influence upon (he spirit of Investigation. They were not blood-thirsty, these pikes ; but they had good reason to suspect all Inquirers of being tit least deputy sheriffs, if not worse, and it Pike's hatred of officers of the law is equal ed in intensity only by Ins hatred of manual labor. But, while there was doubt as to the fatherland of the litllo colony of Pikes at Jagger's Bend, their every neigh bor would willingly make affidavit as to the cause of their locating and their remaining tit t'e Bend. When hu manitarians and optimists argued it was because the water was good and convenient, and the Bend itselt caught enough drift-wood, and that the dirt would yield a little gold when manip ulated by placer and pan, all farmers end stock owners would freely admit the validity of these reasons;' hut the admission was made with a counte nance whose indignation and sorrow Indicated that the greater causes were yet unnamed. With eyes speaking emotions which words could not ex press they would point to seel ions of wheat fields minus their grain-bearing beads ; to hides and hoofs of cattle uuslaughtered by themselves; to mothers of promising calves, whose tender blentlngs answered not the ma ternal call to the places which had once known line horses, but had been Untenanted since certain Pikes had ff.ino across the mountains tor game. They would accuse no man wrongful ly ; but in a country where all farm ers had wheat and cattle and horses, and where prowling Indians and Mex icans were not, how could these dis appearances occur? But to the people owning no prop erty in tliu neighborhood--to tourists and artists thu Pike settlement at the Bond was as interesting and ugly as a Syke terrier. The architecture of the village was of original style, and no duplicate existed. Of the "hall-dozen residences, one was composed ex clusively of sod, another of bark, yet another of poles, roofed with a wagon cover, and plastered on the outside with mud ; the louulh was of slabs, uleely split from logs which had drift ed into the Bend ; the fifth was of hide, stretched over a frame, strictly Gothic from foundation to ridgepole ; while the sixth, burrowed Into the hillside, displayed only the barrel which formed its chimney. A more aristocratic community did not exist on the Pacific coast. VI dt the iikes when you would, you could never see any one working. Of churches, sehool-hou-es, stores and other plefMan institutions, there were none, and no Pike hemeancd himself by entering a trade orsoiling his hands by agriculture. Yet unlo this peaceful, contented neighborhood there found his way a litnr who had been everywhere i i die world without once being made ilauie. He came to the house built of slabs, and threatened the wife of Tarn Trotwine. owner of the house ;. and Sam. after sunning himself uneasi ly tor a day or two, mounted a pony and rode off for a doctor to drive the intruder away. When he returned he found all the men hi the camii seated on a log in front of his own door, and then he knew he niu t prepare for the w orst only one of the great influences of the world could force every Pike from his own door at exactly the same time. There they sat, yellow faced, bearded, long-hacked and bent, each looking like the other, and all like Sam, and, as he dismounted, they look ed at him. How is she?" said Sam. tying his horse and the doctor's, while the latter went in. "Well." said the oldest man. with deliberation, "wlmmiu's all tliar, if that's any sign.'' Each man on the log inclined his head slightly but positively to the left, thus manifesting belief that 8am hud been correctly and sufficiently answer ed. Sam himself seemed k regard his Information in about the same man ner. Suddenly the rawhide widen formed the door of Sam's house was pushed aside, and a woman came out and called Sam, and he disappeared from his log. As he entered his hut all the women lifted sorrowful feces and retired; no one even lingered, for the Pike has not the common Imuran interest in otfier people's business he Incjcs that, as well as certain similar virtues of civilization. Sam dioppcd by the bedside and was human, his heart was in the tight place, and. though heavily intrenched bv vedrs of laziness, whisky and to bacco, it could be brought to the front, and it came now. The dying woman cast her eyes an pealingly at the surgeon, and that worthy stepped outside the door. Then the yellow-faced woman said : "Sam, doctor says 1 ain't got much time left." Mary," said Sam. "I wish ter God I could die furyer. The children " "It's them I want to talk about. Siini," replied his w ife. "AnT I wish limy could die with me, rather'n hev 'em live ez I've lied to, Not that yon ain't Ih'Cii a kind husband to nie. lor you hev. Whenever I've wanted meat yev got it somehow; art' when yev been ugly drunk yev kept away from the house. But I'm dy in'. Sam, and it's cos votrve killed me." "Good Qod. Mary !" cried the as tonished Sam. jumping up; "yn're crazy here, doctor." "Doctor can't do no good. Sam ; keep still and listen, el yer love me like yer Once sed yer did ; fur 1 hevu't got much breath left," gasped the woman. "Mar ." said the aggrieved Sam; "I swow to God I dunno what yer drivln' at." "It's jest this, Sam." replied the wo man. "Yer ink me, tellin' me ye'd love me an' honor inc. an' jxTteet me. You mean ter to say now yer done it? I'm a dyin', Sam hain't got no fa vers to iisk of nobody, an' I'm tellin' the truth, not knowln' what word 'II be my last." "Then tell a feller where the killin' came ill, Mary, for heaven's sake." said the unhappy Stun. "It's come In all along. Sam," said the woman. "There Is women in the State-, so I've heerd, that marries fur a home an' bread an' butter, hut you promised more'n that, Sam. An' I've w aited, an' it ain't come. An' there's somethiu' in me that's all starved and cut to nieces. An' it's voirr fault, Sam. I tuk yer fur better or fur wuss, an' I've never grumbled." "I know yer hain't. Mary." whis pered the conscience-stricken Pike. "An' I know what yer mean. Kf Ood'll only let yer be fur a few years, I'll see if the thing can't he helped. Don't cuss me, Mary I've never knowed how I've been iignin'. I wish there was something I could do 'fore you go. to pay yer all 1 owe yer. I'd go hack on everything that makes life worth hevin'." "Pay it to the children. Sam.", said the sick woman, raising herself in her miserable bed. "I'll forgive yerevery tliiug if you'll do the right thing for them. Do do everything!" said the woman, throwing up her arms and falling backward. Her husband's arms caught her; his lips brought to tier wan face a smile, which the grim visitor, who an instant later stole her breath, pityingly left in lull possession of the rightfuFloneritance from which if had been so long excluded. Sam knelt for a moment with his face beside his wife what lie said or did the Lord only knew, but the doc tor, who was of a speculative mind, afterwards said that when Sam an- peared at the door be showed the first Pike face hi which lie fcad ever seen any signs of a soul. Sam went to the sod house, where lived the oldest woman in the camp, and briefly announced the end of Ids wife. Then, after some consultation with the old woman, Sam rode to the town on one of his horses, leading another. He came back with but one horse and a large bundle; and' soon the women w-'re making for Mrs. Trotw ine her last .earthly robe, and the first "new one she bad worn for years. The in xt day a wagon brought a ooffln and a minister,, and the whole camp silently Mid respectfully follow ed Mrs. Trotwine to a home with w hich hc could find no fattlt. For three days all the male Pikes in the camp sat oil the log before Sam's door and expressed their sympathy, as did the friends of dob- hat is, t hev held their peace. But oil the fourth tlieir tongues were unloosed. As a conversationalist the Pike is not a suc cess, hut Sam's actions were so unusu al and utterly unheard of that it seem ed as if even the stones must have wondered and communed among themselves. "I never heard of such a thing!" paid Brown Buck ; "lie's gone and bought new clothes tor each of the young 'ims.'" "Yes." said the patriarch of the camp, "an' this momiii', when I went down to the hank to soak my head, 'cos last night's liquor didn't agree with it, I seed Sam with all his young 'ims as they was awashlng their faces an' hands With soap. They'll ketch their death and be on the hill with their mother 'fore long, it he don't look out. Somebody ought to reason with him." " Twoii't do no good, sighed Lhn nimrJIm. "lie's lost his head, an' reason just goes into one ear an' out at t'otlier ear. When he was scrapin' around this front door t'other day an' 1 asked him what he wuz a-layin' the ground all boai and desolate fur, he said he was done keeping pig-pen. Now, everybody but him knows he never had a pig. His head's gone, just mark my words." On the morning of the fourth day. Sam's friends had at secured a full attendance on the log. and were at work upon their first pipes, when they were startled by seeing Sam harness his horse in the wagon and put alibis children into it. "Whar ye bound fur, Sam?" asked the patriae!). Sam blushed as near as a Pike could, but answered with only a little hesitation : "(Join' to take 'U1 to school loMaxlield goin' to do it every day." The tncumbt its of the log were too nearly paralyzed to remonstrate, hut alter a few moments of silence the pat riarch remarked in tones of feeling, yet decision : "He's hed a tough time of it, but he's no business to ruin the settlement. I'm an old man myself and I need peace of mind, so I'm going to pack up my traps and mosey, when the folks 'at Si ax tie id knows what he's dotal', they'll make him a constable or a justice, an' I'm too much of a man to live nigh any rich." And next day the patriarch wheeled his family and property to parts un known. A tew days biter Jim JlerncK, a brisk farmer a few miles from the Bend, stood in front of his own house, and shaded his eyes in solemn wonder. It couldn't be he'd never heard of such a thing before yet it was there was no doubt of it there w as a Pike, riding towards him in open daylight, lie could swear that Pike had often vis ited him- that is, his wheat-field and corral after dark, hut a daylight visit from a Pike was as unusual as a social call of a Samaritan upon a Sew. And when Sam for it was lie approached Merrick and made his business known, the farmer was more astonished and confused than he had ever been in his life before. Stun wanted to know for how much money Merrick would plow and plant a hundred and sixty acres of wheat for him, and whether he would take Sam's horse a line animal brought from the States, and for which Sam could show a hill of sale as secu rity for tlie amount until he could har vest and sell bis crop. Merrick so well understood the Pike nature that he made a very liberal offer, and after ward said he would have paid hand somely for the chance. A few days later and the remaining Pikes at the Kend experienced the greatest scare that ever visited their souls. A brlk man came into the Bend with a tripod on his shoulder and a wire chain ami some wire pins, and a queer machine under his arm. ami before dark the Pikes understood that .Sam had deliberately constituted him self a renegade by entering a quarter section of land. Next morning two more residences were empty, and the remaining farmers of the hamlet adorned' not Sam's log. but wandered about w ith faces vacant of all expres sion, save t lie agony of the patriot who sees his home invaded by corrupting iiillueuccss too powerful for him to resist. Tlien Merrick sent up a plow-gang and eight horses, and the tender green of Sam's quarter section was rapidly changed to a dull brown color, which is odious unto the eye of the Pike. 1 lay after day the brown spot grew larger, and one morning Sam arose to linil ad his neighbors departed, having wreaked their vengeance npou him by taking away his dogs, And in his de light at their disappearance Sain freely forgave them all. Regularly the children were carried to and from school, and even to Sun day school. Regularly every evening Sam visited the grave on the hillside, and came hack fo lie by the hour watching the sleeping darlings. Little by little farmers liegan to realize that their property was undisturbed. Lit tle by little Sam's wheat grew and waxed golden, and then there came it day when a man from 'Frisco came and changed it into heavier gold more gold than Sam had ever seen before. And tlie farmers began to step in to see ham, and their children came to see his, kind women were unusually kind to the orphans; and, as day by day Sam took his solitary walk on the hillside, the load on his heart grew lighter, uiftil lie ceased to tear file day when he, too. should lie there. Cali fornia Exdtnnge. THI.VJS TO REMOUtDR. Indian Buead. Take one quart flour, one quart meal, one quart but termilk, one cup molasse one egg, saleratns and salt. KekPISG CIDER Sweet. Heat the cider until it boils, pour into the bot tles, which have been previously heated to prevent cracking. Cork tight, and seal immediately, as in canning fruit. The cider will keep unchanged for years: To PRESEHVB GiiAi'ES. Procure some tin cases of any convenient size, and put in a layer of dry sand or char coal, and then a bunch of grapes, until the case is full; seal down the lid and make all air firht, and hurv them to any convenient depth in the ground. Ego Plant. Pare the fruit, cut it intoslicvs a third of tin inch thick, slightly salt the pieces and stack them upon a plate. In ail hour or two they will have lost considerable water. They are then to be dipped hi beaten egg," sprinkled with cracker crumbs and fried. Serve very hot. Celeky SacCK. rick and was vo beads c leces wi inc pieces m men long, ami stew ttiem in a pint of water and a teaspoonftri of silt, until the celery is tender. Rub a large tablespoonful of butter with a spoonful of flour, well together; stir this into a pint of cream, and put in tlie celery and let it boil up once. Serve hot, with boiled poultry. Oatmeai. Pudding Baked One pint of oatmeal mush, one quart of milk, four spoons of sugar, rue cup of bread crumb-! rubbed flue, one cup of fruit currants, dried apples, peaches, or any fruit you have convenient. Stew the fruit before putting into the pudding; one egg, one spoonful of good yeast, and spice to suit your taste. Bake or steam one iiour. SPOXGE Cake. Six eggs, one coffee cup and a half of white sugar, and tlie same of flour. It is best to whip tlie w hites separately, then after tlie yolks and sugar are well beaten together, add the flour and whites of eggs, a spoonful of each at a time. Beat a minute or more between each spoon ful. Flavor to suit the taste ; bake in rather hot oven. To Keep Sausage Meat. As soon as convenient after milking sausage. cut in snces or make m cakes and try till done. Take a stone jar. place your cakes closely in the jar and pour over the fryings. If not sufficient to cover to the' depth of two inches when done, ino fresh lard. Keep the sausage In a cool place. W hen wanted for use, re move the lard, take out what yon want and return the lard, to keep the air from what remains. This will keep till August. 1 have never tried to keep it any longer. Mrr.K Buead. Mix a teaspoonful of salt with three and a half pounds of flour. Dissolve one ounce of yeast in a pint and a half of skimmed milk made lukewarm. Proceed exactly as for household bread. When ready tor the oven divide the dough into three loaves, set them on a well-floured baking-sheet, and bake for an hour in a hot oven. When taken out, care should be taken not to put the loaves down flat, or the crust will be soddened with the steam Albany A Kantlani-Canal. Friend VanCeeve: Notfhavfng seen anything for some time in rela tion to tlie Santiam Canal, I op you a tew lines. Tlie Canal Is connected from the Santiam river to .fas. Elkinsr barn, one mile south of Albany, includ ing all the first contracts. B. B. Tur iey is through on sections 1st, 2d- atnf Itli ; 0. Fry on sections (itli, 7th and Sth, all to trimming up he will have finished entirely by Wednesday. My force has been on the Albany contract since the 18th ihst T will work to morrow (25th) forty teams anti-seventy men, besides thirty-six Celestials at trimmers. Now you can safely say through your columns that the 'Albany & Santiam Canal will be ready to re ceive water fit ten days from this vrrting, if clear weather continues so long, and I hope some energetic indi- idual or Company will at once take .dvaubigc of the opportunity thus af uirdcd for cheap water-power, and at once commence the erection of manu factories. There are any number ot line water privileges along the line of the Canal, and the Canal Company offer most advantageous terms to any one w ho will engage in any of the va rious industries that can be conducted, with profit in this county. Linn coun ty. it is well known embraces within its boundaries the largest and richest body of agricultural lands in the State It produces annually over a million bushels of wheat, besides oats,, barley, flax seed, wool, etc., but she sadly needs manufactories to work up the vast quantities of raw material at home, which now is compelled to find a mar ket somewhere else. , . A large mill for the mannWture of lumber would doubtless pay a large dividend on the money Invested logs being easily obtained, in unlimited numbers, and brought to the mill through tlie Canal. It is believed that wheatand the other products of the county will be brought to Albany by means of the Canal, in the course of time, doing away almost entirely w ith teaming as suitable ves sels win be built, capable of currying from ten to thirty tons of grain, which call-be towed by from one to- three horses, making the trip betwesn Leb anon and this city in four hours, sav ing in the first instance, eight hours hard pulling, and the labor of at least eight animals. Some assert that small learners w ill be able to navigate tlie i anal, but my opinion is that tow l oats are what will be needed. Ami as I have said before, the freighting of ! lie portion ot tlie county reached by the Canal, will be done in this manner, and at one-half the cost of teaming. As there is quite a fall at Elkins' barn, locks are to fie built at that point. If the above lines will serve tointer est, your readers, yon may publish. Truly Yours, A. B. M. Albany, Nov. 24, 1873. At the late meeting of the British Association, in the Economic section. Mrs. King read an importmit paper discussing the grRit"scrvantqucstion." Her views are novel and revolutiona ry enough to satisfy tlie most radical reformer." and she does not pro pose, like so many reformers, tc over throw thu present methods without offering a substitute. She wants to lielp both employer and employed, especially the latter ; and her idea for the purpose is that the middle class in towns should give up separate resi dences, "which are failures," and lodge in huge cooperative clubs, or mansions, or notels. where all service should be performed by women com ing In three relays the llrst to dean up. the. second to cook, and the third to lie guardians during the night. That would, she says, in the end, be cheaer than present methods ; ser vants living at home would have tiuw for self-culture, and the mistren8S would be much relieved front labor. Indeed, Mrs. King does not want the "better classes" even to understand" domestic management, saying tlwl servants will never be good while their employers meddle iu the work.