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COLL. VAN OliEVB.
ALBANY,
OREGON.
0SaH01fl)S BOYTEK. i '
Ijove was everything to Margaret
Jlercer love and home. She was suck
very woman to the heart's core, that
I doubt if she had any ambition. To
"wish to be great, to be known of all the
world, to be very wise or learned, never
entered her simple mind ; but one thine
, she hoped and labored for with all her
. aught to be empress of her husband's
heart, and living queen regnant in his
borne. Such a home as site made of it.
too eo bright in every nook and corner
so Dngnt as ahe was with her fair,
smooth face smooth save for dimples.
nlatnew Mercer should have been a
. very happy man, and so he esteemed
himself. Two children, aa pretty
, their mother played at her knee; and
- there never had been an angry word be
tween the pair since he first courted her.
They were as greatly blessed as were
Adam and Eve in paradise. But even
to paradise, as we remember, there
: oaxne a serpent. So, to Margaret Mer
cer's home came one day Elsie Grey, as
fair a serpent as one could meet a
. woman of whom one said, looking at her
for the first time, " She is as good as
sne is beautiful. one came as gov
erness for the children ; and Margaret,
. cnarmed by JUer sweet face, made
. compact of friendship with her at once
and was well pleased that Mathew
.liked the girl.
"She is so lonely, my dear," said
Margaret, looking up into her hus
band's eyes,;as they stood together be
fore the pleasant fire on the first even
ing after the governess' coming. And
it is hard for any woman to earn her
bread among strangers ; let us be very
good to her.
"You could not help being good to
any one, Margaret," said Mathew,
and I will try ; but I must not quite
make love to her eh, Maggie?"
Then the wife had turned and kissed
' him. .:
"I should be jealous, and put poison
in a bowl of ooffee, and offer her the
choice between that and your sharpest
razor," she said, laughing.
That was in December. One day in
June Margaret walked a little thought
fully among the roses in the garden,
, and wondered whether it might not be
- that she was a little jealous.
So wrong of me," she said to her
self. " Mathew is only kind to Elsie."
A tear trembled on her eyelash, and
at last she sat down upon a bench and
fairly sobbed aloud, telling herself all
the while how wrong it was.
And just then, without knocking, in
walked Miss Eaphemia Jones, her next
door neighbor, and looked straight into
the wet eyes, turned, somewhat indig
nantly, upon her.
Ain't well, eh? "said the spinster.
" Not very," said Margaret. And
tired, you know, and "
" And unhappy," said the spinster.
"Don't tell me, Mrs. Mercer. And
this I Bay get rid of that sly boots of
' a governess, or you'll have more reason
to cry than vou have now. Men are
men, Mrs. Mercer, and . your hus
band "
" He is the best man in the world,"
said Margaret.
" But he's a man," said the spinster.
Why, loo here, my dear. Men are
' men. The last bright eyes are always
brightest. It's only women that love
through long years with nothing to
' ' show for it not a kiss, not a word, not
a letter; women that love some one
pithout a speck of beauty until there
couldn't be any face so bright and dear
to them in all thejworld. Men ain't like
us, and never will be, and this Elsie
Grey is pretty, my dear.",
- But Mathew is my husband," pant
ed Margaret.
"Then he ought not to go a-walkin
with Miss Grey," said the spinster;
holding her hand, too he oughtn't.
Don't be frightened. But there's
something you ought to know he
oughtn't to go out of town along with
her. We saw them go. I and. Mrs.
Thompson, only - an - hour ago. - My
dear, did you know they were going?
Mv dear, don't look so : don't feel so,
if you can help it. She had a bag with
her; so had he. She
But then the wretched wife fell for
ward into her neighbor's arm, insen-
Bible. , - :
Other neighbors came in, and they put
. her to bed and took care of her as
thoueh for once all women were sis
ters. There was no doubt on any one's
mind that the very worst had come to
nans : and so. indeed, i it had. Be
witched by the beautiful serpent his
wife's kind heart had warmed and
nourished until it had strength to
tine her. Mathew Mercer had left his
home, his wife, ana his children, for
her sake. "--'vw
Martraret had no father or brothers
to take her part ; she could only suffer
in silence. That which aroused her
first was the need of earning bread for
. her children! the two who had ceased
now, after five years of labor tea years
in which no word had ever oome to her
of the man she had loved so truly, and
who had so wofully broken the vow he
uttered, to cherish and protect her
while ie should last Margaret began
mo tu3i piuiuro wnicu went oeyond
mere prettiness the first in which ac
tion am expression, rich draperies and
knowledge of the oostumes of the past
J-J . . n -r-,, i.a.uow, nuts
"rTrfri.-r!"0"101 ture stand between us?
' You have not asked me to forgive
you, Mathew," she said softly.
.Forgive me. when vou have painted
my crime down for all posterity to look
upon !" he said. "Is it likely? Be
sides, vou are rich now" and he
looked at her costly dress ; " and I next
door to a beggar."
Great tears filled Margaret's eves.
" nlatnew, she said, "does that pic-
tration of an old ballad which told the
tale ; and Rosamond was wondrous fair,
and the Queen mightily stern and cruel,
u tne poet were to be believed : but. aa
she painted, that which slept within her
soui xouno utterance.
isosamona, oeautuui indeed, had a
face as false as it was fair ; . and Queen
naeanor s eyes held in their depths a
look of such reproach that one might
see she was an injured wife ; and the
bowl was at Rosamond's lips : and upon
the wall of the bower hung a portrait
tne portrait ox the King. Margaret did
not mean it ; but as she painted hard
and last through the long summer days,
the laces that grew upon the. canvas
were portraits.
Jiosamond was .Elsie Grey ; Eleanor
had her own features : and the portrait
of the King upon the wall was that of
Mathew Mercer.
Margaret's children watched her as
she painted the boy of 16 and the girl
of 14, and the younger boy who had
never seen his father.
"She is just like mamma the Queen,
I mean, cried this little one at last
" only mamma never looked so cross.
"Not cross," said the girl. "The
Queen is not cross, but angry, and sorry,
and proud.
The elder boy said nothing for a while.
At last he muttered, "She's pretty.
though, that girl. Who ever looked
like her ? I know some one. Who was
it ? The Xing is like what 111 be when
I get a beard."
Then Margaret Knew wnas she had
done. She sent her children out to
walk, and locked the door. Then she
stood before her easel, struggling with
herself.
The woman within her said, " Dash
your brush at it ; paint it out, for you
have written down your life history."
The artist said, " Let it stand. What
though it wrings my heart to look at
it ? it is the best thing I ever painted.
The woman .looked upon the false
face of Rosamond and the beautiful
portrait of the King, and cast herself
down and wept. The artist arose, and
saw the gloss upon the golden hair, and
the reflex of light upon the white satin
and purple velvet, soft as ' though one
could lift it in its folds ; saw the flesh
like flesh the shadow, like the real
light and shadow saw power and feel
ing in the picture, and smiled through
her tears.
For the first time she understood that
love was not all of life. For the first
time she stood proud and ambitious,
and hopeful of fame and desirous of it ;
and this before the record oi her lile-
grief, with the beautiful faces of her
false husband and his love, created
by her own pencil, looking down upon
her.
Then she opened the door, and went
to seek her children in the garden ; and
told them how some day they should
all go to Italy together ; and was happy,
with a strange pridef ul happiness, new
to her and new to them.
The picture was sent for exhibition.
It hung in a great gallery set off by a
dusky proscenium ; people went to see
it, and it was admired ; critics praised
it. A rich man offered a great price for
it. Margaret was proud and glad ; so
were the children, to whom she spoke
again of Italy, where she would paint
such pictures as she had never painted
before.
And meanwhile a man, threadbare
and rusty, old before his time, with
remorse so stamped upon his handsome
features that a child could read it
there, prowled often about the door of
the gallery where the picture hung, and
looked in along the still ecnoing en
trance, at the end of which the man
who took the tickets sat. At last he
ventured in.
Look here," he said, in a sort of
shame-faced way, to the ticket-taker
X want to see that picture, x haven t
any money ; but a knew Mrs. Mercer
once. Let me look, won't you? It
can't hurt you, or any one."
" If you know her, why. X suppose
yawned the man " only look here ;
don t stay long
But the man . had passed him. He
walked up to the picture, and looked
at it. Then he pressed his hand upon
his forehead, and ground his teeth to
gether. .
Margaret 1 Margaret 1" he mut
tered 1 " oh. heavens ! Margaret 1 "
And then he sat down, staring at the
picture with eyes that saw those like
nesses as none others ever had.
He sat there still, when a rustle of
silk, s sweep of velvet, the high tones
of young voices filled the gallery. A
lady walked up the room and stood be-
fore the picture s cnua oy ner nana,
a tall girl and boy behind her.
it looks better here man in my
studio," she said, quietly ; " only I
shall touch Eleanor's face again when
I have it home. It is not stern enough."
The man . heard the voice, gave one
Your hate your scorn that which
gave birth to that picture must," he
said. i
" Have you a penkif e ?" she asked.
"A penknife?" , i -"Yes."
;i-
Perhaps he thought she meant to kill
him. He took it from his pocket and
opened it, as he handed it to ; her, and
hung bis coat back, and stood, as it
were, ready for a blow. And she maeea
lifted the knife, but the blow fell upon
the picture, upon the painted face of
the lung, upon the golden hair or itosa-
mond. and the roval robes of Queen
Jleanor slit and tore them, dasned
from the canvas all the toil of months,
in a few short minutes. There was no
picture left, as she turned from her
work, for critics to stare at, or ncn men
to buy ; but her eyes sparkled, and her
cheeks were aglow.
"Nothing stands between us now,
Mathew." she said. "There is no
memory of the past on my heart, any
more than on that canvas. Let it be
blotted out for both of us. and let us
beer in our life anew together." -
And in a moment she wept upon the
bosom of the man who. whatever had
been his faults, was still her husband.
and the father of her children and tne
only man she had ever loved in her life.
1 think Margaret will never paint an
other great pictnre in her life. Pretty
things bits of still life and woodland
nooks, and doves upon their nests, still
grow beneatn ner pencil ; out no areams
of art or fame, no longings for Italy,
slumber in her dark eyes now. Instead,
you see there the sweet light reflected
from the fireside, and all her dreams
are of home. Perhaps she ought not
to be happy, but she is. And he who
has repented is dear to her, as the Bible
s ys repentant sinners are to heaven.
And Queen Eleanor, and Rosamond,
and the false King, and the wrongs and
woes that gave bulk to those " coun
terfeit presentments," have faded from
her mind forever.
As for the picture, no one guesses
how it was destroyed, except the ticket
taker, who, laying the deed to the charge
of the man he admitted, keeps his own
counsel, lest he should be blamed.
beggar
did
In
its
own sodull apwhpaprneve look, dragged "owr
5m V,nm ivhT tim went so and cowered down upon the bench,
bitterly, and .the unconscious; little
creature born at the time when her
grief was the greatest and the blow but
newly fallen.
What could she do for her children's
bread ? . With .-. the question came a
thought to which ambition never would
have given birth. She could paint.
Already certain little bits of still life.
scraps of landscape, and a child's head
or two, proved her power to put s pret-
vj icmg, u no a nne one, upon can
vas. Many artists at least lived by their
art, . She would live, and her children
should know no want. And so she be-
. gmn her Uf e-work.
There were hours to come of novartw
so great, that tho prayer for daily bread
-was answered with, no more than bread
- and water. There were nights passed
in the . dark, because the purse held
nothing which might be spent for oil
, or candle. ' .There were fireless days in
dead winter but through alL hop
lived, ana pna ana m mower s love.
' Ko one guessed what Margaret suf
fered : and at last her prospects bright.
ened. : A certain fashionable clique
took a fancy to Mrs. Mercers pictures ;
huddling frimwilf together as a
does seldom any other, j The lady
set look at him ; but the child did.
a moment , more, it had pulled
mother's sleeve. :"
" There's a man lust like the King,"
he said; "just such a beard, mother.
And Margaret turned - her head.
Then her face grew white. . She took a
step toward the man. He started to
his feew
" Mathew ! " she cried.
He only turned his faoe away.
" Mathew." she said again. " did
you oome here to find me ?
" No." he answered : " I am not cow
ard enough for that. I. came to look at
that picture. 1 knew what I should
see ; that picture, born of your grief.
with the story of - mv treachery and
your wrong stamped upon it. ' XJid
you say to yourself, as you painted it.
coat tans tne memory of that evil done
you should outlive you, and those who
mjureu yon r - .
a 3 ...
m. vwueu Ida " nifflnn with nn
waougn or tnat," she said. "Oh.
xuatnew i Mathew I I oucht nofc tn
Tom Sanders' Bet.
Tom Sanders, of Buffalo, owns a little,
lazy, slow mare, - that is the ridicule of
his friends. One recent evening he and
some of these friends were talking of
horses, when he astonished them by
offering to bet $100 that he could ride
his mare twenty miles in an hour. He
counted out the money in a tantalizing
way, remarking that his mare had been
laughed at long enough, and he had
made up his mind to shew what she
could do. It seemed like robbing him,
so they all said, to take his bet, but he
insisted, and the stakes were put into
trustworthy handB. A day was chosen
for the trial, and when it came Tom led
them to the Central railroad depot,
where the homely little mare was found
aboard a baggage car. Tom had tick
eted her for Rochester by express, and
when the train was ready to start he
fot on her back, smiling tnumpnanuy.
e said he reckoned that he could ride
that way twenty miles in an hour, un
less .the time-table lied. Away went
the train with the referee holding the
watch, and the three : fellows who had
joined in the bet against the mare
very sorrowful of expression. About
fifteen miles had been run in about half
an hour, and Tom was grinning in an
ticipation of easy victory, when the car
bumped over something, . and he was
thrown off the mare, by nastily applied
air brakes. An axle had i broken, and
the train was stopped for more than an
hour. And Tom was not so rueful over
the loss of the stakes and the failure of
his trick as he was over his stupidity in
not thinking of taking the mare off the
cars and riding the rest of thetwenty
miles, as there had been ample time to
do within the hour.
Jiew State Project Revived. .
The project of a separate State, to
include the Upper Peninsula of Michi
gan is strongly urged again by the Mar
quette Mining Journal, which ridicules
the idea of being detached from Michi
gan and becoming a part of Wisconsin,
or annexing a part of Wisconsin to form
the new State. It dislikes the existing
position of " depending upon the state
that has no interest in common with the
Upper Peninsula," and says, "the
70,000 people ask a separate govern
ment, with a looal Legislature and a
delegate to Congress, for the encourage
ment of manufacturing industries and
the development of mineral and other
resources that are without a parallel.
The Portage Lake Mining Gazette, on
the other hand, is opposed to any " one
horse Territorial scheme." and calls the
attempt in this direction " a waste of
time." The Lansing Republican be
lieves that, if a decided majority of the
people of the Upper Peninsula wish to
set up on their own hook, and can show
good reason for it, the Lower Peninsula
... . . i -n -
will do lorceo. m do wuuug.
- - After the Eleetlon.
When I got home last night (said
Squills) the old lady was waiting for
me. X knew there was someuung in
soak. There always is when she sits
propped up in bed reading, and I knew
it. .
I was ffielinc pretty good, said
Squills, for I had been whitewashed in
the convention, sold out Doay, ooots
and breeches, and I felt like a board
yard he cat with his back hair curled
the wrong eide up.
Have you got elected, oquuis,
dear ?" - - -
I knew that she had seen the paper,
but I said, ..." No, love," as mildly as if
elections and all such snares were be
neath my notice.
" Jlot got the election, jut. oquius t
" No, Mrs. Squills, not that the court
is aware of at this present : writing,
Certainly not."
" Then what do you expect to get
for all the whisky you've been pouring
down those fellows tnroats t
" What fellows' throats ?"
" Your friends who have been ramp
ing in and out oi my nouse, Mr.
squills, and borrowing your children's
money, and running you into au kinds
of disreputable places to hunt up votes,
and sneaking you off into the country
to barbecues and other infamous re
sorts, paying for buggies and making
ridiculous remarks, which I know you
paid the reporters to work up into a
speech. A nice thing you have
done for yourself, and me,
and ; the ' poor children, . and
then, after all, not get anything for
your pains ; I'm ashamed of you, Mr.
Squills. If I could afford to blush for
so wicked a being, Squills, I would
blush for you. But I can't, and, what
is more, I won t. Don t tell me, Squills,
that you don't want me to blush for
you, and you sitting there just as mad
as a hatful of hornets. After you tell
ing me, too, and the dear child, that
she should have. a new silk when you
got the election. A nice election you've
got, and those f ellovs who took your
money and your whisky just laughing
at you and thinking what a fool you
are for believing them. That's what
hurts me in the tenderest point,
Squills." i
'About this time,"1 said Squills, " I
put out the light, tumbled into bed,
and prepared to sleep, but Mrs. Squills
still kept at it with forty Squills power.
After a time exhausted nature gave
way, and she was silent; Then I felt a
singular jiggling at the bed, and I
turned round and said : Mrs. Squills, is
that you ? What in the world are you
doing that for ? If you want to laugh,
laugh, but don't shake' as if you had
the buck-ague."
Oh, what a politician you are.
Squills," said she. " Two weeks' can
vassing, and then to be beaten by a
tadpole."
" To keep peace in the family," said
Squills. " I had to promise a dress, or
something else, and as for the tadpole
business, what can you explain to a
woman."
A 5Ice Man to Side With.
The London correspondent Of the
Graphic tells this story : One of the
most popular notions in England is
that our system of railway traveling
surpasses yours in comfort, from the
fact that with our small carriages it is
easy to get a compartment to one's self,
or, at worst, a carriage with only , one
or two occupants. That there are
drawbacks, however, even to this sum
mit of earthly felicity, the adventures
of a worthy director, who recently trav
eled from one Midland station to an
other, may show. The train he had to
catch was very full and he was rather
late, and in hurrying to and fro he ob
served a carriage tenanted by two men,
one of whom was 'eaning out of the
window while No. 2 was asleep in the
corner. No. 1 endeavored to assert
that the carriage was taken, but the
director would stand no such nonsense
and bustled into the carriage, followed
by the solicitor to the company. The
train started immediately, and tenant
No. 1 proceeded to explain that hi
sleepy friend was a lunatic, and that he
was his keeper, and that as his patient
was excitable all that was to. be hoped
was that he might not wake. ... Un
luckily this hope proved vain, and the
invalid being aroused required the
director to sit opposite him while he
explained the theory of the connection
between fish-ponds and frogs, the di
rector's open mouth doing duty for the
former and the ranunculi being repre
sented by little pellets of paper, which
were hurled down the aperture with
great precision by the lunatic This
interesting invalid next insisted on
the director's daubing his face with ink
which was produced from a traveling
bag, and the entertainment wound up
with a screaming farce, called " Hot
Pancakes," in which the fun consisted
in the insane gentleman's slapping each
of nis companion s faces in turn, and
exclaiming, " There's another hot pan
cake." This finally resulted in a free
fight, and the capture of the lunatic;
but the director takes care now whom
he travels with.
Mrs. Watson, wife of Professor Wat
son, of Michigan University, is prob
ably the only woman who eDjoyed the
privilege of going on the transit expedi
tion from the United States. She had
a long journey. First, there was an
overland journey to San U rancisco, and
then a voyage, lasting twenty-six days,
to Yokohama, a four days' sail to Na
gasaki, and another of six days to Tien
tsin. Then followed a voyage up the
river on small house-boats to Tung
Chang, and finally, a donkey ride of
sixteen miles to Peking.
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supplied with all kinds of fresh meats. Call .
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Steam Engines,.
Flour and Saw Mill Machinery,
Wood-WorHiig & AETicultnral MacMnerF. ,
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T
How Do Too Measure Wood ?
A singular and interesting case is
being tried here before Justice Ming.
It appeaxs that a wood-cutter took a
contract to cut and deliver a certain
amount of wood to the coal kilns of tne
blast-furnace situated here. The con
tractor delivered the wood in proper
shape, but in measuring it a dispute
arose between tne company s agent and
the contractor, the contractor claiming
that the : agent did not measure it ac
curately. Upon presenting his bill to
the company, it refused to pay him for
any more than what the agent had made
it by his measurement. Law was
resorted to, competent, judges, among
whom were engineers, were employed
to inspect and re-measure it ; but tney
differed in regard to the amount to
something like one hundred cords. In
measuring the length, some did so from
one-tnird of tne distance from wnere
the chamfer begins to the tip end of the
stick to the same distance on the other
end, while others measured from one
half of the length of the chamfer, and
others from the tip of one end of the
stick to where the chamfer begins on
the other end. In the pile there are in
the neighborhood of 950 cords. By
computation it will be found that one
inch of the end of the wood will amount,
in the number of cords given above, to
nearly twenty. - Now it is evident that
the three methods used will vary quite
materially as to tne lengtn oi the wood,
and greatly as to the number of cords ;
but which is correct? Appleton Cor
respondence Milwaukee Sentinel.
speak to vou : but VOU ftrA nnnr ntn
took a Cancr to Jars, mercers pictures : i T,r,v,rWv- ' " "., , - r"Z J
lr bits of still life sold her cbil- i am m poor aa I
iron's . head were voted-- gems : the
womarly prettiness of her conceptions
tOp! the eyes ' of other women,
and J'largaret felt very rich and pros-
werous.
: r.ii hnA beernn with no ambition save
that of love ; he had struggled only for
ii&t '.- children. K . Now . t she began " to
2ream of a nam end fame of painting
A-'fre pictures- ex bemg great woman.
litaMMre ! hopes f or MaM&refc Mereer
bopes that seldom oome to any woman
' ' vnrA the natural hopes and ambitions
. W tiA life our bLutted. ."
So with no fear of starving upon her
i poor as I deserve to be'
r TkT A.1-2
A Horse that " Knows the Bopes."
The Newburg (N. Y.) Journal relates
the following: "A gentleman living
in the suburbs has a colt which he
values highly, not only on account of
his possessing pure blood and a degree
of soeed: but lor his intelligence. In
common with the other stock in tne
RtahlA. he is fed his hav from a crib on
the side of the building. It had been
noticed that, while all the ot ner animals
Uft a. small ouantitv of fine hay-seed in
the further end of the crib, which oould
not ha reached, the bars only permit
ting them to get their noses in a snort
distance, this horse always had his eaten
clean. On being - watched it was dis
covered that the colt would eaten up
th nifljv of his reoo halter in his teeth
so that it formed a loop, ano wruBUHg
it between the bars, be was awe to
push it to the back part of the crib; and
h siATrinr it out afirainJ to drag with it.
where he oould reach it the part of the
feed referred to. Thus it was the crib
was always clean. The1 way he handled
sue rope is said to oe buuiu
sagacious in ihe extreme."
Onr Productive Growth.
Every man must take peculiar pride
in contemplating tne vastness oz tne
productive industry of the Western
States. Its increase is so wonderful
that a frequent examination of the fig
ures is necessary to its complete comprehension.
xn tne year lsva tne states oi micni-
gan, Indiana, xiunois, Wisconsin, Min-
Besota, lows, Aiissonn, Jiansas and
Nebraska, produced, of cereals, 1,029,
000,000 bushels, or about 62 per cent,
of all the grain produced in the United
states in tnat year. VI tins, ever lob,
000,000. bushels were -of wheat, of
which, these states consumed only
about 86,000,000, leaving some 70,000,
000 bushels for export from these
States. They produced, also, in that
year, 700,000,000 busneia of corn, 'xne
Western and -Northwestern States snip
ped to market,' the same year, 213,000,
000 bushels of wheat, of which over
74,400,000 went to foreign countries,
over 41,000.000 to the New England,
and the balance to the Gulf States.
The year 1873 saw an increased acre
age, and 1874 surpassed all the preced
ing by far, both in the number of new
acres brougnt under tillage, and in tne
aggregate yield of most of the cereals,
and this in spite of droughts and insect
depredations, which in quite extended
localities - destroyed aU vegetation.
Prairie farmer.
Dog Dentistry In New York.
Dogs have the toothache, and not
only do dogs have the toothache, but
they have dentists, and it's hard to tell
which is the worst to have. A lady
here has a beautiful blaek-and-tan, a
fragile bit of a canine weighing no
more than two pounds. The dear little
man became fractious. He plunged his
head in the sofa pillow and threw np
his other end as if life had no more
bones. He took a lap at his mug of
cold water, and then sat down on his
tail, and lifted up his voice in such pro
longed misery that the whole house
cried hydrophobia, and got up on top
of chairs and tables. Had this been a
twenty-pounder instead of two, and
affection the only tie between the owner
and the beast though it pulled her
heart-string " Claude " would have
been shot; but it was the purse strings
by which he held on; he was worth two
hundred dollars. A doctor was sent
for the patient was found with his
nose in an india rubber shoe, and his
rat tail vibrating with a big ache an
ache the attendant physician im
mediately pronounced to be the tooth
ache.) Imagine the astonishment of
the family when the prescription for
Claude was the dentist. His blanket
was put on, his spirits encouraged, and
off went the poor dear to have his teeth
fixed.
A regular practitioner was the oper
ator. Claude was put into a neat little
box, packed inwitn wool. Hia wonder
ing countenance stuck out of a hole in
the cover. A rubber-covered stick
went into his mouth and kept his jaws
open, and the investigation commenced.
Two of his baok teeth were puUed
there was no doubt of that. He ex
postulated loudly, notwithstanding the
gag. Then he was allowed a respite of
some hours, after which he reluctantly
resumed his harness and had three
teeth filled with amalgam. Thus tink
ered, Claude has returned to his home
to think of the past and refuse alf
sweet things that may bring to his little
canine soul such sorrow as he has just
suffered.
The little dog's dental bill was $20,
and that's but one of his mistress'
troubles. She has paid $25 for his
passage across the ocean four times.
She has paid $100 for damages dene to
a suit of furniture, from which . he ate
every button in every tuft in the space
of half an hour. She has paid innum
erable small sums for railway travel,
for of late years they are trying, these
hard-hearted railway officials, to part
the tender traveler from her poodle,
considering the dog as a nuisance.
New York Letter.
Office in Parrish Brick Block, corner First and
Ferry streets.
Residence, corner Fifth and Ferry streets.
Office hours from 8 to 12 o'clock a. m. and 1 to S
O'clock p. m. 18v6
Epizootics Distanced.
THE BAY TEAM STILL
And is flourishing like a green bay tree,
LIVES,
. Thankful
for past favors, and wishing to merit the continu
ance of the same, the BAY TEAM will always be
ready, and easily found, t do any hauling within
the city limits, for a reasonable compensation.
tr Delivery of goods a specialty.
20v5 , A. N. ABKOLD, Proprietor.
; W. O. TWEEDALE,
Dealer in
Groceries, ProTisions, Tobacco, Cigars
Cutlery, Crockery, and Wood and Willow Ware,
Axbant, Oregon.
Call and i
i him.
3vS
The EYietzler Chair !
. : Can be had at the following places:
Harriaburg... ....1. Sam May
Junction Citv Smith k Brasfleld
Brownsville Kirk k Horn
Halsey ..J. M. Morgan
Bcio .....J.J. Brown
Albany... .Graf k Collar
A full supply can also be obtained at my old shop
on jnrst street, Ainany, uregon.
. J. M. METZLEK.
Iron and Brass Castings.
Particular attention paid to repairing all kinds of '
machinery. lv3
A. CAROTHERS & CO.,
DEALERS IK
Drugs, Chemicals,
Oils, Paints,
Dyes, Class,
Lamps, Etc.,
All the popular
PATENT MEDICINES,
PINE CUTLERY,
CIGARS, TOBACCO.
NOTIONS, PERFUMERY,
And TOILET GOODS.
Particular care and promptness given physicians
prescriptions and family recipes.
, A. CAB0THEB8 k CO.
Albany, Oregon. vg
GO TO THE
BEE-HIVE STORE L
TO BUT
Piles !Piles!
Why say this damaging and troublesome com
plaint cannot be cured, when so many evidences of
success might be placed before yoa every day
cures of euDDoeed boneless cases t Your physician
informs you that the longer you allow the complaint
to exist, yon lessen your cnanoes tor renei.
ptrieneskas taught this in all out. .
A. Carotliers & Co.'s Pile Pills & Ointment
Are all they are recommended to be. Will cure
Chronic, Blind and Bleeding Piles In a very abort
time, and are convenient to tuw.
This crenaration is sent by mail or express to any
point within the United States at tl.SO per package.
Address A. CAROTHERS k CO,
37t5 ' - Box 33. Alsbany. Oregon.
JOHN SCHMEER,
DEAIiBB VX :
Groceries ami Provisions,
ALBANY, OREGON,
Has just opened his new grocery establishment, on
Corner of Ellsworth and First Streets,
With a fresh stock of Groceries, Provisions, Candles,
Cigars, Tobacco, &c, to which he invittsi the atten
tion of our citi sens.
In connection with the atore he will keep a Bakery,
and will always have on hand a full supply of fresh
Bread, Crackers, lie.
r call ana see me.
JOHN 6CHMEF.R.
February 18. - 24v
Groceries,
Provisions,
notions,
&c.t &c.y &c.f ,
Cheap for Cash. I.
Conntry Proflnce of All Kinds Bonsnt:
For Merchandise or Cash.
and
n .inIlef8?rt? Th, Queen of England's
there'
That is Rosamond." said ifannnt
as he pointed to the canvas.
"xs is j-iisie ureY." he nM. Am
sot cimx creature, sue has been as false
to me aa to yon ; and worse, than the
bowl of poison or the dagger 'was of-
ierea ner dt sate oeiore she died."
"t .is is dead, then r said Margaret.
iss. oi a ooars aeatn i no mnttAr.
a ; - in s nosarau. xnavs tne way
au tusi, as a mos.-- - '
Xa&rgazet went one step nearer.
daughters
are samples to the rest of the fashion
able world in industry and taste. At
the roYal Swiss cotta&e each of the
DrineesMM hut a cardan which she cul-
Urates with her own hands. I They hare
learned to cook, ead they frequently sit
down to a meal tweoared bT one or the
other, lionise wife of the Marqnia of
Lorn, is a clever artist, and all of them
are accomplished in some way or other,
vwww oeing exoauent iingriun.
"- OoOTiiAsxAxxozrs are now spoken of
Dots'n Gboah. The man who pro ana
oyer his poverty without taking a step
toward bettering nis condition, is justly
regarded as a good-for-nothing dunce.
Had he sense, the more desperate his
fortunes the more energetio would be
his attempts to improve them. Groan
ing does not help the matter ; work is
waat is wanted, jfersistent work: will
' accomplish most anything. Opportu
nities are always waiting lor tnose wno
are able to sense tuem. XI a young man
is poor, it does no good to complain
about it. v Let him go to work and ao
onire means to fit himself -for business.
When thoroughly instructed in business
affairs he wiu find a plenty of opportu
nities to advance himself, i Business
men are always glad to get such talent.
They know tnat any yoxmz man wno
has had force of character enough to
educate himself will always prove use
ful, and can be depended - on xoung
men, if you are poor, don't groan, but
go to work. - v; -,-..;. -
Thj milkman of San Francisco have
formed a mutual aid association. . One
1 holds the e&n, while another pumps.
. A oountbt merchant in Iowa recently
sold a gross of matches to a woman,
who, on reaching har home, could not
make them burn. In a towering pas
sion, which increased all the way back,
she returned and demanded : " Why
did you cheat me with those worthless
matches?" "Matches," responded the
grocer, pleasantly, (he always wears a
smile for his customers), " what is the
trouble with the matches?" - "They
won t burn, not one oi tnem, was tne
quick, angry response. " Let ns Bee,"
said tne gen ueman, applying tne onarged
end to his pantaloons, and causing it
to blaze instanter; "that burns well
enough." ; "But the rest won't," re
plied the . woman, who began to fear
that she had walked seven miles and
was to return seven more on foot, and
had got angry for nothing. ; The grocer
opened three bunches ana proved them
aU the same. "I don t want to burn
up all your matches," he said, " but
there is not one that will not burn the
same way. Chagrined, she stared' at
him with tiger eyes, and not to beaten,
burst out : If they will, you don't
s'pose every time I want a Are I'm com
ing all this way to rub them on the
seat of your trousers, do you ?"
The Old Stove Depot
John Brlggs,
Dealer in
Coot, Parlor asi Box Stoyes !
OF THE BEST PATTERNS.
A X. S O ,
Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware,
And tha usual assortment of Varnishing- Goods to
Repairs neatly and promptly executed on reaaon-
aute term. .
Short Reckonings Hake Long Friends.
Fbont Street, Aibasts. -
; See. S, 1874.. :
sWfSlQE.
A hpeox4.Ii from Topeka, Kan., state
that Joseph B. North, alias "Buffalo
Joe, wtio murdered ueorge Jones on
Christmas evenins a . year ago,' was
hanged to a telegraph pole by a mob on
the night of December 80. at Wallace,
Kan. : The knot of the roue with which
he was hanged caught under hia chin
and did not choke him ; so he hung for
a long time in that position, tauung to
the mob, imploring them to release him,
but received only jeers in return. He
did not die for over two hours, and
finally froze to death. .
Everything ISTew.
GRAF & COLLAIl, !
' Manufacturers ana Dealer in
FUR NITURE
Bureaus, Bedsteads, TaMes. Lounges.
Sofas, Spring Beds, Chairs, Etc.,
Always on hand or made to order on the shortest
- ' nones, -:
Turniture repaired expeditiously and at fair rate.
MlMrsem ."""rMt Stct,
Albany, Tab. 28, 1874-38. OBAV k COIXABi
This is the p' ace to get the
Best Bargains Ever Offered In Albany.
Parties will alwava do well to call and bps for them
selves. H. WEED.
First Street, Albany
82v8
Oregon.
iOiILiiII)
MEXICAN
Llustang Liniment
Was first known In America. Its merits are now
well known throughout the habitable world. It has
the oldest and beet record of any Liniment in the-
woria. from the millions upon millions or Domes
sold not a single complaint has ever reaohed us. As
a Healing and Pain-Subduing Liniment it has no
equal. It la alike
BENEFICIAL TO MAX AND BEAST-
Sold by all Drugglata.
S.T. I800--H
Y OLD
Homestead Tonic
Plantation Bitters
. 'i v
is a purely Vegetable Reparation, compod or
Oaliaava Bark. Boots, Herbs and Fruits, amour
whtohwilllS'ound SrsaparUlian, Dandelion, Will
CbrBaf. Tansy, OsntUn, Sweet Kin, etc.;
also Tamarinds, Dates, Prunes and Juniper Berrlee,
curved in aaufticient quantity (only) r the spirit
ifSuCe to keep to any climate. Thaylnvart
ahlv rSeve and cure the following complaints
?SJusT Jaundice, Liver Complaints, W of
iSrHeedache? Bilious Attacks, Fever and
iSut! Summer Complaints, Sour Stomach, Palpita
5ST the Heart. General Debility, etc. They are
especially adapted aa s remedy for the diseases to-
. . war vwe . m mm ,,,
Arc subjected : and aa a tonlo for the Aged, Taeblw
and Debilitated, have no equal. Tbay are atnotly in
tended as a Temperanos Tonlo or Bitters, to ca
used as a medicine only, and always acocidlag to
directions.
- " Sold bt all Ftbst-Class DxDQms