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LP Fisher . . , i VOLUMK VI ALBANY, OREGON. .WLY 4, 1874. NO. 43. mm The MfNPr of Kant .'iltak CIIAIM'hii 1. "Yen, yon hme lieen very ill," aid Madame tiiiyot, as the held the mug fc U e boy's lips. "1 0111 only remcnilier that I seemed t be burning up; ai d my mouth if so dry ai;d parched !" re plied Jacques. "Yo't called cnntimia !y for water, and would KwelinKW scream t the top of your voice. Hut thank heaven, yon are better now, dear; and the" doctor thhiki yon will soon be wel1 again." "I am ho thirsty ! and I do not believe tnojiW cop t water would do any harm." said the lad. "No, Jacques, not now ."answered the mother, soothingly. "Vou roust wait a while." There was a knot at the front door. Madame Guy. left the chamber, and found the doctor wait ii g to be admitted. After convers ing a few moments alxrat the inva lid, she asked, "Is there mo means ofalleviatiug his iitetise suffering from thirst?" "Yon may allow Mm to drink freely now,' returned thephyMciaii. "Hut the water is exhausted:; and the authorities dole k out but ouce a day." The doctor jiansed tlioughtfully, and said, fThey are compelled ) do so. The drought continues; -and it is feared tl supply Witt toon be wholly cut off." "Jean thinks tlie fife tost night might lave been arrested, bat for the scarcity -f water." "No doubt of it," said tlie otihec ctirtly, as they went to tlie room in which tlie patient lay. Many days passed, and Jacques was still confined to the house. His thirst continued unabated ; aud at last Madame Guyot toW him the reason she was unable to satisfy it, He remaiued silent a long lime, and at last inquired thoughtfully, Mamma, does every one suffer so much from thirst as I do f ' "A great mairy persons do, my ton,"" rejoiiied tee motto, "especi ally tlie poor." "Why, mamma, I thought water was free to all, like air and liht ! Do people lmve to buy it, like hous 41, and things to eat ?' "Not exactly," she returned, a tittle puzzled. It was evidently a new thought to her. After a min ute he continued : "Water is free, Jacques; but tlie labor of procur ing it ha to be paid for, Tlie rich u afford to dig wells; and yon know a few of tlie wealthier class liave aqueducts, which bring water from springs or lake in the country. When tlere w a drought, tliey are amply supplied ; while the poor de pent oti the public wells, and these always give wit first." "Why is there no public aque duct?" asked the lad. "Because those who feel the need of it haven't the means to build one." "Mamma," said Jacques, after a pause, "vou once told me that papa was rich!" "Xydeajr.;ibut his factory was burned down at the time of the great conflagration, ten years ago " tWhy didn't papa build anaqne duct for the poor wlwn lie was sb e?1 asked tlie boy. "It would tost a great deal of mil; my hil'd,w she replied; "and we did not feci the need ot it if there had been plenty ot -couldn't his factory have rhsns it mio4it " said the moini? - "for -t was he fcnrtd at the oeeu eumflMWHni'ntnera nwww had been a severe drought that summer aud autumn; and the rich were afraid to allow the firemen to use their reservoirs." At that mo ment Jean Guyot entered ; and, as he c nversed with his wife on house hold matters, Jacques rec'ined on a hmnge by the open window, ab sorlied in thought. Jacques' recovery was slow; and his sintering made a deep ami last ing impression on his mind. Finally they were compel ed to use water so muddy and brackish, that even tlie swine would hardly accept it, save iu tbe last extremity. The hoy's moral power came to his nid, afie.- the conversation above related; and he struggled manfully to con quer by patience what apjieared to liave no other immediate remedy. chaitkr it. A dozen years liave elapsed since the events recorded in the last chap ter. Jean Guyot is deal. Hisson is now a young man of twenty-three, and is standing by the very lied in the little chamber where we fird made his acquaintance, Madame Guyot is lying on the couch ; and the old doctor is at Jacques' side. "Dear Jacques, I am going," she murmured, almost inandibly ; "and yet I would gladly have seen you and Annette married before my death; but heaven's will he done " Tlie son did not renlv. He knelt by tlie bedside, and field his mother's hand iu bis. "It was your fallier's wish," she continued. "You were betrothed in early child hood. Her parents died soon after ; and she' went to live wMi her uncle, who has never favored your union." Jacques was still si'ent, and she proceeded: "Since your illness, the year of tlie last great drought, you are much changed in character. You have grown melancholy, and I have tried in vain to bring back your naturally clieerful temper. Remember my last request, Jacques; remember your duly to Annette." Is a few days all was over, and tlie young mini was alone iu the world ; and yet why should he re main so? Ik had a comfortable lionse to live in ; and his prospects were better than those of his class, for lie was both industrious and economical. In fact, he was already known as penurious: and people said he was constantly growing like his uncle an old miser who had lived iu a garret for titty years, and died very rich, before Jacques" was bom. "He'll beapeifect old curmud geonL" said M. Pardee to his wife, as Annette was entering the house in company with a handsome young man. Jacques had just left, and was still visible, walking away from the house. "What a contrast!'' said Madame Pardee "And I think Victor is much attached to the gill.'' "Attached I" exclaimed the litis, band : "ot course he is. And he will soon become a partner in tlie establishment where he is now em ployed. Guyot is a slow, timid fellow, who will never be worth anything, because lie is afraid to branch out." "Uncle," said Annette, coming into the room. "I liave almost made up my mind that you are right. Jacques is so slow, and says be cannot afford to be married for a year or two. The other girls are5 all getting-Tiflfrfefl: and they say "Whenever you do make lip your mind, just let us know.!' aid the uncle, sternly. . we following note ng now;-. i exhausted her tawwght mmw lunger agreeable, unless yon con clude to be married during the pres ent year. "Very truly yours, "Jules Pardee. "Poor child !" said Jacques to himself, "1 tear she - very weaK, aud has been led away by the fine wirks of that spend-thrift." lie paced the room nervously, and then threw himself on the lounge. "I had not the courage," he said, "to give her up, and with her the hope ot a happy home. Hut ft is her own choice; and now I can de vote my whole life to that one pur pose formed so Jong ago." GIT AFTER III. "Here comes Old dry-bones!'1 juried a ragged boy to his mates, as they were at play by the roadMde. It was a good many years after Annette's marriage. "Give it to him!" shouted an other, as he picked up a handful of mud, and, alter rolling it into a ball, threw it at an old man who was passing by. At this all the boys legan to follow the example of their leader. Some threw sticks ; some, sand aud dirt; and one or two sent stones whizzing through the air. "He's an old miser!" exclaimed one ot the boys. "Mamma says he Is. "He's f oo mean and stingy to live," said one boy, better dresser than the others. "My grandmother savs he starved Sis mother fill v years ago, and has hated everybody ever since." A crowd ot urchins had now gathered around the old man, aud some ot them had picked up long sticks with which they annoyed him One lad had knocked off his hat ; and, as the man stooped to pick up, the well-dressed boy strncK his cane, and knocked it into the gut ter Several docs were in the crowd : a d the bovs set them on tlie old man. At this juncture a carriage came up ; and in it there were two Voting, ladies, a man in the prime of life, aud an old lady "Papa," said one of the girls. "can't you make those rude boys let the old man alone ?" I he gen telman looked out ot tlie window, and said. "For shame lads, to trouble a helpless old man I" "He's an old miser !" "He robs lUiVbnil' lllo livric in Q cvarmt. I" "He hates everybody!" shouted many eager voices. Tlie old lady looked out, aud exclaimed : "Poor Jacques ! for he it is, I am sure; how changed ! Hut the boys are right; lie ia a miser, and never speaks to any one, it ne can avow it." "Do you know him, grandma ?' ' said one ot the young mnies. "Yea, my dear," replied Annette; font was wie. "We were play mates when we were children. Hut Jacques had a fever, and after that grew very odd and melancholy. At last he negan to grow penurious; and for many years he has been' known as 'tlie miser.' I have not spokert with him since my marriage which was just fifty years ago to day and have only seen him occa sionally on tlie street." Two days later a crowd of per- sonsmen, women and child reu-f might, liave been seen in front of the little dwelling-house where we first introduced our reader to Jacques Guyot and hu mother. I ITve next door there." said a carpenter, in his shirt-sleeves, and without a hat on Ms head t "and my wife has seen no one aboil tlie bouse these two days." He proBH t my store pt in such nmtieriyii, oj mife . . . 1 A,vt hMui he woo d can at marked a tailorj 'iid he has not been war me since," "That's iwt like him," added another, "Something's wrong when Jacques Guyot isn't on hand to receive money." An officer had arrived, and they proceeded to ton the lock of the front door. There was a strong iron Is ill inside; and the entrance was affected with ' some difficulty. Nothing was found in the first room bnt a rnt, which seemed to be delighted to see the new-comers. "'oor Jacques!" it said, "poor Jacques !" 'I hen, on seeing two or three boys in the crowd, the bin! screamed, "Bad buys ; poor Jac ques!" For a minute or two, there was a profound silence, not a stir or Whisper broke the stilhiess. The officers then approached the cham ber, the door of winch stood slight ly ajar. It was pushed open; and eagerly the crowd gazed into the room. There was the old man kneeling iu front ot a great iron chest, his head bent forward, and one hand on the edge of the box, while the other grasped an old brown-looking piece of aper. Then the authorities were sen for, an in vestigation made, uid a proces verbtil drawn up, to the effect that the defunct had come to his death by heart-disease. The per he held was a very old document, and so faded, that it was scarcely legible. The de ceased had, apparently, taken it out to examine it; and he had . written down at the close of the will tor such it was the amount of his property, aud the manner in which it was invested. '1 he officer who directed the pro ceedings was a man tar advanced iu years. He had been a comrade of Jaeqnes' in their boyhood, bnt had lost sight of him for many years. There were tears in the old man's eves as he held up the instru ment, and said, iu a shrill and bro ken voice, to the motley group which had assembled : "My friends and townsmen, here lies the body of a man whom the whole city ridiculed and despised as a heartless miser. The bys hooted at him in the streets, and pelted him with dirt and stones. People taught their very dogs to bark at him as he passe5. The poor upbraided him; ami the rich sneered and pointed the finger of scorn at him as they rode by in their coaches. Let me read you his will." He paused to wipe his spectacles, and then began iu a measured tone: Marsriu.es, Aug. 1, 1775. When I was a child, I fell ill of a fever, and during ray recovery suffered much from thirst. There had been a severe drought tor many months; aud tlie water, always poor in quality, was almost wholly exhausted. At that time my mother told me that many hundreds of tlie poorer class suffered iu the same way. IShe also, told me that mv father and many others had lost their property by fire, chiefly be cause there was an insufficient sup ply of water to extinguish the flames, r or these reasons, I Be queath all my property of every T A I - . L ... - Kiiki, alter me payment oi my just debts, and of my funeral expenses, to my native city ot Marseilles, tor the purpose of poviding waterworks which shall supply the entire com munity tree ot expense. - ' JacQcks GuVot. . A .' A CI 1 H .'4 After slight pause, the officer continued, "This is tbe original doc- ument. and Is much faded. What a. What , . Amu. L IfiOA By UlW acquired a fortune of more than four million francs; and I hereby give and bequeath tbe same to the object above named. Jacques Gtrrox. Such is the pathetic story of Jacques Guyot. the miser of Mar seilles. Old and New for June. : t i, v :". fi Fruit and Health.- Pr. Hunt said at a rece t meeting of theWar saw Horticultural Society, that "an absence of fruit implies doctors' bills." We have Vged tor many years the importance of a regular supp y of ripe fruit to prevent disease and insisted that the best medicine chest which an emigrating family could carry to a newly settled coun try would be a box ot early bearing fruit trees, currant, gooseberry and raspberry bushes, and strawberry plants. We knew a family who moved West, and took with them a very large supply of dried fruit, which lasted them throughout the first summer. None of them were sick, although disease prevailed a)j about them that year; but the next year, with more comforts and less privations, but with no fruit, they suffered much from sickness. Other western residents have toll us that so long an they could nave ripe truit, they have been free from all disease resulting from malaria. A correspondent of the Herald expresses himself in regard to cre mation as follows: "Among theua cient heathen and tlie tire-worshippers this abnormal custom, at one so shocking and revolting to sensi tive natures, may have well found favor ; but with us, who live io a more advanced age, and have all the advatages of free schools, lager . beer, the proposed Brooklyn Bridge the Committee of Fitty, the Grange movement, currency inflation, U temperance woman, tlie Arkansas mudd le, the Tkjhborue claimant, the i French Republic, and other truly beneficent blessings, I should say that the man who could deliberate ly offer his corpus a willing sacri fice to the exemplification of the Darwinian theory." Connection here is not easy to establish but no matter. SroNGB Cake. For one large loaf, teat three eggs together two minutes, add one and one-half cups of sugar and beat five minutes, add one cup of flour, one and one-half cup ot water and beat two minutes, one-halt teaspoouful of soda, and one teaspoonful of cream ot tartar1, or two teaspoontuls ot baking pow der in one cup ot flour, salt and fla vor. " 1 ' To Makb Good Ysast Take ft ve or six potatoes grate fine Then add two tablespooufuls ? sugar and one ot salt, Take or quart of water and a handful of hops. Boil a tew minutes, strain and stir into potatoes Set on the stot e and stii until thick. When cool add one up ot yeast. Wt sonf. J6u look fikea boy ' U. Wn hmnaht nh tw inV : Do IT Just look at mj back! i