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twusbto itiii nnut by COLL. VAN CLEVK ALBANY, OREGON. A CHILD'S WORK. Go away I We won't play with you; you're a drunkard's child. Your father gets drunk 'most every day, my father Bays." - The speaker was a girl of perhaps twelve years of age. The one addressed vran a girl of about the same age. A group of children had gathered by She roadside to play. A small house stood near by. From this house the child addressed to rudely had seen them at their sport, and had joined them, to "be repulsed by the words with which I have begun my story. Her eyes filled with tears, and her cheeks flushed up with shame and wound ed pride. ,"I know my father drinks, but I -ain't to blame for that," she said, bit terly. " 'Well, we won't play with you, any way," said the first speaker. "Will we girls?" "No I no !" cried the other children, in chorus. "There! you heard that, didn't you?" cried the girl, to the child of a drinking father. "I hope you're satisfied now. Go along with you ; we want to play, mnd we won't be . bothered with you, so now. .. I'd be ashamed if I were you ! You're a drunkard's daughter ! Sliame ! Shame !" She pointed her finger in derision and scorn at the poor girl, and, parrot-like, or rather, like children, the others fol lowed her . example, and cries of " Shame !" " Shame !" rung in the ears of the disgraced child. She covered her face with her hands, and turned and ran away from them, never stopping until she reached her mother's Bide. Then she sunk down sobbing as if her heart would break. " What is the matter with my little gali JUrs..ieane asKeu, lenaeny. Mrs..Deane asked, tenderly. SUe was a pale, saa-iacea woman, wiui sorrow-haunted eves. A woman who, without being old in years, was . old in sad experience of life. " I went out to play with the girls, and they told me I was a drunkard's daughter, and wouldn't play with me," sobbed Mary, hiding her face in her mother's lap. "Poor cliild!" Mrs. Deane sighed heavily, but she did not weep. She had found out, by bitter experi ence, that tears were of but little avail. She stroked Mary's hair, and tried to soothe her by kind words. But the wound she had received was a deep one. "Oh, mother, do you suppose fatherU eper give up drinking?" she asked, after a little silence. " I don't know," Mrs. Deane an swered. "I hope so. I have prayed for such a blessing more times than I can comprehend. If God heard, he has not answered my prayer yet. He may in his own good time. I can only pray, and hope, and leave the rest to him." "I can't go to school week-days, nor to school Sundays," said Mary, sighing as no child of her age ought to sigh. And the children won't play with me, "cause father drinks. . And you can't go to meeting, "cause yon hain't clothes to wear. It's too bad, mother, isn't it? " " It is a sorrowful way of living," her mother answered, kissing her.- " I do not care so much for myself, but for you. I bpe to see the years which should be the brigntest ones in your life, darkened and made sorrowful. Oh, if lie only would leave off that awful habit" ' The words held the , pathos and sub limityof a prayer. "What makes Mr. Strong sell liquor, I wonder ? " questioned Mary. . " I don't know," her mother answered. " To make money, I suppose. - I think a man who can make money by selling that to his fellow-man which; will ruin his body and soul, must have a. heart as hard as any stone." - : " I wonder if anybody ever asked him to '. give . up such wicked business ? " "Mary asked. " Maybe he'd quit it if he only knew what misery he was commit ting.; Do you suppose lie would? " I'm afraid not," answered Mrs. Deane. " Mary sat and thought for ft long time after her mother left her. ' .r .: t Suddenly she seemed to make up her mind as to the course she should pur sue, and she got up and put on her bon net, and started down the road without saying anything to her mother. Poor Mary ! ; : ; .- Her home had not always been the un happy one it was then. She could re member the time when her father used to come home from his day's work, sober as any man. Then her mother would meet him at the gate with kisses, and he would take up his child and carry her to the house, and they were all so happy, so happy .. , , , But now! r " She shuddered when she thought of it. Now,: she had hardly clothes enough to keep her warm ; not enough to enable her to go to school,, and- for! the same reason tlur. mother could not go to church." Now,, her father loften came home the worse for-liquor ; she could -not beartcrSiss-bJni' with that sickening scent of .whisky on his breath. All his earnings, lor a week sometimes, would be spent at the saloon in the village. There was but one saloon in the place, "bnt that was enough to circulate a deal of r misery - and heartache among the neighborhood. , . When Mary got out of sight of home, she turned off from the road, and knelt down among some bushes and prayed. It was a simple little prayer,' but it had something very touching in it for' all that : fe'K -i . w-j. k4 'p-r s.ir i- : Dear Jesus," she ; said, " please help me. rm "going to try to save my father from being a drunkard, and I can't do it alone, i I don't want to be called a drunkard's child, and -'be laughed at any more. I do want tor go to school, and mother wants to go to meeting, and we can't if father keeps on drinking so. Please, dear Jesus, help me, and make Mr. Strong stop selling liquor. .Amen." Then she ,got p, and went on again. She reached the village. The first person -she met was a mer chant, with whom they had often had dealings. Occasionally they got things at his store on ' credit." Mary remem bered that there was something due him Are' vou coing tothe store ? " he asked. 1 "No, sir,1 she answered, i C ' "All right, then," he said. " I didn't know but ' yoti was down after samething. ' I thought I'd tell yoti that I couldn't let your folks have anything more' until they pay for what they have had.' Your ; father drinks up enough everv dav to pav me what he owes me." Mary went on down the- street until she came to a place where there was a flaming sign hung out, on which was painted in crilt letters. "Saloon! - Here she stopped, while her heart beat like a scared bird's. This, then, was what some one .who had a strong sense of the fitness of things had called " Strong's HelL" Here was where death and ruin to soul and body was sold over the bar at five and ten cents a glass. Mary went in. A man was standing behind the bar. . A man with a not unhandsome face, but one which lacked culture and refine ment. "Are you Mr. Strong?" asked Mary, timidly. " Yes, that's my name," he answered pleasant! v. " What do you want of me?" " You don't look like such a bad man as you ought to, to sell liquor," she said, looking into his face. " Why, had a liquor-dealer ought to look like a bad man ("he asked. "Yes, I think so," she said. "Only bad men sell liquor, and you don't look a very bad man. I ain't much afraid of you, and I thought I should be. Oh, Mr. Strong !" clasping her hands plead ingly, and lifting a face full of beseeching to his, " I came down here to-day to ask you to give up selling liquor. You don't know what awful work you're do ing. I guess you never thought of it. Did you ? I can't go to school, because I can't have clothes (rood enough to wear and I do so want to learn as other chil dren do. I could, if you wouldn't sell my father liquor ; and mother could go to meeting every Sunday. She used to, before there was a saloon in the place, but now she doesn't. And the children won't play with me. They call me a drunkard's child, and shame me. And we're real unhappy at home, mother and me. Father don t seem like the same man he used to be, since he got to drink ing. He spends most all of his money here. And we ain't the only ones who suffer so. It's all through the neighbor hood, mother says. .Ever so many men drink, who didn Jt before you came here. I thought Fd come down here and ask you to stop selling liquor. Maybe you never thought how much sorrow you were causing. jJittn t any one ever tea you t i Qh j mv8elf to 8lee lote of - : , - "fllfW nk T don't warn just because father drinks. I don t want to be a drunkard's child ! Its the worst tiling in the world, I guess. If father didn't drink so, I know we'd be happy again, just as we used to be. Ah, Mr. Strong, if you was me, would you want to be made fun of, because your father drinked? If your mother knew what you was doing, don'tyou think she'd feel sorry ? Please, please don't sell any more liquor. IH pray for you, every night, and so will mother, if you'll only let us have father back, a sober man. Won't you? There were tears in Mr. Strong's eyes; her words, full of infinite pathos, struck home, and the man's heart, which was not all bad, smote him. - What would his mother say? She had been dead many years, but the memory of her was the tenderest spot in his heart. - If she had lived, he might have been a differ ent man. Since her death, he had been drifting hither and thither, and the good impulses of his nature had got choked with tares and brambles. " Child," he said, with a voice that had a suspicious quiver in it, " you've given me the best temperance sermon I ever heard, and you've converted me ! Not another drop of liquor shall be sold across mv bar. I will close the place to night. Wait!" - . . He went out, and took down his sign. -"There I" he said. ' " You see I mean what I say. Go home," child, and tell that mother of yours that she need fear nothing from me. I shall not stand be tween your father and the sober life which was his in the days when you were happy. Don't forget to pray for me. I am not all bad yet, and such prayers as yours may help me to be a better man." ' " I wish you'd let me kiss you, she said. ' " I love you, and I like to kiss folks I love." . He bent down and caught her . in his arms, and she kissed him. Some warm tears fell upon her face. They were promises of a better life. Some old topers were horrified to miss the sign from the place where they had been in the habit of imbibing, and still more horrified to find that the place was closed forever. ' " I have been converted," Strong said. " I have concluded to change my busi ness, and have taken down my 'guide board."' For some" one had ; characterized his sign as a " guide-board to hell." Mary's home is a happy one now, for, with the, temptation out of the way, John Deane has gone back to his sober ways again. And a child's work, under God wrought the change. : How to Hake Good Coffee. - I will give my mode the result being very satisfactory ; First of all get a good article that ' is, coffee that will brown well this can be tested easily, as the grains should swell almost twice the size when browned than when green ; brown it evenly ; never leave the - stove when once the coffee has commenced to brown, or you wilt burn it, and good coffee cannot be made out of charcoal. I have an old-fashioned mill, the kind that are nailed upon the waif; that mill three-fmirths full makes snmcient coaee for four persons. jUfter"'grinding it I put it in a bowl, pour some white of egg to clarify, then dampen thoroughly with cold water, stirring well to mix the egg through completely, ; then pour into the boiler, and to this add three pints of cold water, instead of hot, as many use. Set the boiler upon the fire, and as the coffee heats, stir it two or three times before it arrives at the boiling point.. Let it boil for twenty-five minutes, set it off. pourinsr in the spout of the boiler about one tablespoonfnl of cold water, J which will clear , away any grounds that may be there. In five minutes it will settle ; pour off then into' the coffee pot for the table. - If your meal is not quite ready set the coffee where it will keep hot. but" not ' boiL Never serve coffee that is half cold ; on the contrary, take pains to have it piping hot.-1 Cor. t'in Comparative Mail Statistics. From a detailed statement of mail mat ter of all classes originating at fifty of the largest offices in the United: States for a period of f four f weeks, beginning Dec. 1, 1874, the following comparative figures are taken : v:, V;;: Weight in ponod. No. of pieces. Boston.... ..... Baltimore.... ... Bullalo ..... Chicago... .... Cincinnati ..... Indianarnlia ... LoaiBvtUa New Orieaos.'... New Ycrrk Philadelphia.... Pitsgburgn .... St. louia San Francisco. . Washington. ... 338,848 l,237,tt5 : 627,571 , 8, 382,276 -. 3LM4,628 ' 883,166 073.54? 70.K14 : 28,848 401.251 181,384 30,008 - 70,671 47.719 l,Ul,6fi5 ...... ....U.a,031 1,089,758 309,730 90.134 ,176,PHO 1,018.998 1,980,701 856,24.1 1,139,7S0 300,278 99,619 The total number of pieces m the fifty offices for the- period named is 4.1, 241, yyu, weighing o,t3,U4S pounos. People Who Delight In Cold. The Spectator says : " There are peo ple who find the cold simply a novelty, which gives a fillip to their energies and adds a zest to life. Mr. Alfred Garrod threw out not long ago in a scientific journal a suggestion that perhaps it is the difference in temperature between the ex ternal skin and the heat of the blood which supplies the springs of those mag netic currents of which nervous action in a large degree possibly consists, and that the greater that difference of temper ature, the more lively is the action of the batteries of which the nerves are the con ducting wires. If that were so, that would certainly account for the sort of abounding self-gratulation which seems to possess some men in dwelling on the mere fact that ' the thermometer showed 18 dees, of frost last night;' only it woulr make it still more difficult to account for the apparently frozen up energies which cold causes some people. But to the people who exult in cold, the human race appears all the nobler for sustaining so many degrees of frost ; and as for them, thev treat the low temperature as a gos pel of great joy. . indeed, their Deanng seems to indicate something more like the deep well-spring of satisfaction arising from a good conscience! than anything else. You see the traces of this state of feeling in Dickens Christmas stories, where frost and benevolence always flow together in great spring tides. If feeling does not gush when water is frozen, it is always, with Dickens, the sign of deliber ate malignity of heart. And unquestion ably there are a good number of persons to whom severe weather brings a self-satisfaction and a desire to overflow benig nity over other people which you never see at other times. They go about saying either literally or by smiles and lavish rubbing of the hands, Here is the ther mometer ; more than half-way between freezing-point and zero, yet I exult in it ; I walk ; I skate ; I ride ; I beat my breast heartily for the severe weather ; I make a joyful noise in everything I do, to at tract the attention of the world to my great success,in defying the cold ; I smile jubilantly and return jubilant smiles jubi lantly ; for I feel a successful man, and without any mean envy I recognize all comrades who are successful in the same way.' Heroes should support each other, and they are heroes who find nothing but stimulus in such cold as this." Unappreciated Shakespeare. A few days ago young Gnrley, whose father lives on Croghan street, organized a theatrical company and purchased the dime novel play of " Hamlet." The company consisted of three boys and a hostler, and Mr. Gurley's hired girl was to be the " Ghost " if the troupe could guarantee her fifty cents per night. Young Gurley suddenly bloomed out as a professional, and when his mother asked him to bring in some wood he re plied :',' "Though I am penniless thou canst not degrade me ! " " You trot out after that wood or I'll have your father trounce you ! " she ex claimed. . " The tyrant who lays Ids hand upon me shall die ! " replied the boy, but he got the wood. He was out on the step when a man came along and asked him where Lafay ette street was. v ',''' " Doomed for a certain time to roam the earth I " replied Gurley in a hoarse voice, and holding his right arm out straight. ' "I say you ! Where is Lafayette street ? " called the man. "Ah! Could the. dead but speak ah !" continued Gurley. : The man drove him into ' the house, and his mother sent him to the grocery after potatoes. "I go, most noble duchess," he said as he took up the basket, " but my good sword shall some day avenge these in sults! " . He knew that the grocer favored the atricals, and when he got there he said : " Art thou provided with a store of that vegetable known as the "tater, most excellent duke ? " " What in thunder do you want? " growled the grocer as ' he cleaned the cheese-knife on a piece of paper. " Thy plebeian mind is dull of compre hension ! " answered Gurley. " Don't try to get off any of your non sense on me, or I'll crack your empty pate in a minute !" roared the grocer, and " Hamlet", hail to come down from his high horse and ask for a peck of potatoes. ' i ' " What made you so long ?" asked his mother as he returned. ! "Thy, grave shall be dug in the cy press glade !" he haughtily answered. When his father -came "home at noon, Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed the boy was going crazy, and related what had occurred. "I see what ails him," mused the father ; " this explains why he , hangs around Johnson's barn so much. " At the! dinner table young Gurley spoke of his father as the . illustrious Count," and when his mother asked him if he would have some butter gravy he answered;, "The appetite of a warrior "cannot be satisfied with such nonsense." When the meal was over , the father went out to his favorite shade tree,' cut a sprout, and the boy was asked to step out into the woods and see if the pen stock was frozen up. ' He found the old man there, and he said : " " Why, meet - noble lord, I had sup posed thee far away I " iv. , ; " I'm not so far away but what I'm going to make you skip ! " growled the father. " 111 teach you to fool around with ten cent tragedies! Come up here !" v.U.,,-v ; -:-' For about five minutes the woodshed was full of dancing feet, flying arms, and moving bodies, and then the old man took a rest and inquired i t J . j ; " There, your highness, dosi want any rmore?" .-,-.. .- .) '-V J.'Oh ! no, dad not a darned bit!" wailed the young manager," and while the father started for down town he went in and sorrowfully informed the hired girl that he must cancel ner engagement until the 'fall season. Detroit Tree Pre. i - ' i A Farmer's Battle with a Boar. A Cumberland county (Pa.) paper says: "Mr. Sadler, of Camp Hill, was attacked bv bis Berkshire boar, which had been kept penned up, but broke out ; on Sunday - morning. After a severe j fight, Mr. Sadler was seized by the ankle, thrown down, and dragged about twenty yards to a place where the . water was about a foot deep. The house-dog, hear ing the struggles, broke his chain and went to his master's assistance. , The dog is a large one, of the j bull-dog species, and immediately seized the boar fey.the ear with such ferocity that Mr. S. was released, and enabled to crawl away from the contest, nearly smothered with mud, though not much hurt. 'An hour later, after being thoroughly washed, he found his late assailant Bleeping, as though he was innocent of bad intentions. But Mr. S., still smarting from the effects of the late skirmish, took aim, and there was a waste of 800 pounds of pork." A HUMAN FIESD. How Ortweln Destroyed a Whole Family One of the Most Monstrous ami Horrible Crimes E r Heard of. Ernest rtwein, who was hung at Pittsburgh, last week; for the murder of the Hamnett family in April last, made a full confession of his crime and ac knowledged the justice of his sentence. The story ; of the murder, which was made in German, of which the following is a translation, is almost too horrible for belief : " I left Hamnett's house just after sup per on the evening of the murder, and went directly to Homestead; I called at a saloon and drank two glasses, of beer; that was all I had that night; after leav ing the saloon I went to a grocery-store kept by a German and purchased some cigars and five cents 'worth of candy for the children; I don't know the name of the storekeeper, but I had been there several times; think I was in the store about 9 o'clock in the evening; just as I .was about leaving, it came into my head that I must have Hamnett's money; I thought he had a great deal of it in the house, and. as I felt queer all at once in my head, I thought I must get it; I went directlv to . the house, but don't know how I erot there; I suppose I must have been out of my mind; after getting into the house 1 found, that Mt. ana Mrs Hamnett had not come home. It occurred to me that, to get the money, I must kill the children ; I found the ax in the kitch en, and. taking; that with me, I went up into the room above the kitchen, where Robert Smith and myself slept; the bed was in the corner of the room, and I saw that Robert was sleeping soundly, with his face to me; I took a position at the front of the bed, and with one blow killed the boy; he never moved; I can't say how it was that the boy s throat was cut; I may have struck him twice, but he never eroaned; after the boy was aeau, I went into an adjoining room, where Ida and little Jaama were sleeping one in the corner and the other in the bed occupied by the children, near the cen ter; both of the little girls were sleeping; I struck Ida first, and. she never moved; I then raised the ax and struck at Emma; Bhe uttered a cry, and I hit her a second time. She did not groan again After this I wept down stairs, and took a position just inside of the door of the room adjoining the kitchen, and waited for Mr. and Mrs. Hamnett to come home. They came between 10 and 11 o'clock. Mr. Hamnett came into the room first. I was standing so that he could not see me, and I struck him from behind, using the same ax ; he fell to the floor. Mrs. Hamnett came rushing into the room, and, as she passed me, I struck her, but did not kilL She shrieked once or twice, " O God, John !" and then I struck her a second blow, which killed her instantly. Mrs. Ham nett and the baby were the only ones I hit twice ; the others were killed with one blow. : I used the ax all the time. I committed the deed to get Mr. Ham nett's money. ' I searched Mr. Ham nett's pockets and obtained his pocket book. It contained only $15 in paper money. ,. I found Mrs. Hamnett's pocket-book on the sewing-machine ; there was only 50 cents in it. I looked over the house, but all the money I got was $15. The silver money I spent yes terday I brought with me from Ger many. I did not get it from the house. My only motive for doing this deed was to get the nic, .y. I never had any ill-feeliug towaid any of the Hamnetts ; I always liked the little children, and al ways bought them candy when I went to Homestead. The boy Smith and I were good friends, and I always liked Mr. and Mrs. Hamnett I did not fire the house, and it was not a part of the plan to cover up the murder. When search ing the house I put an oil-lamp in the sitting-room, and, when rushing away from the builning, it was overturned. I thought it would go out ; I did not think the house would burn. As soon as I left the building I proceeded at once to the railroad, aed walked direct to Pitts burgh ; I stopped at several places, but don't know the names ; came over to Pittsburgh," and went to see my friend Baier, on Penn avenue. After leaving Baier's, I crossed over the river to Alle gheny, and went to several breweries to get work ; purchased a new suit of clothes. . " : - Trne Presence of Mind. The following was related by a man who was at work on the farm where, and at the time when the event occurred : "A Mr. Sutherland, of Ulster county, ?f. Y., besides extensive farming opera tions, raised large numbers of cattle. One day his daughter, a girl of fifteen, had occasion to pass through a meadow where the cattle were grazing, as she had often done before. Among the cat tle were ; two bulls, one an old brindle, which the girl had petted from calfhbod, and the other a young black rascal, treacherous and belligerent. ; On the oc casion in question the girl came near to the black bull, and, with a smothered roar, he started toward her. The girl saw, and was for the moment paralyzed with terror. What was she to do? There was not a fence, nor a stump, nor a protecting rock, within half a mile. To run would have been death. Instantly her senses came to her. She thought of old Brindle, larger and stronger, she knew, than the black, and with swift steps she ran to the patriarch's side, and patted him upon the shoulder. -"Brindle want a potato ?' she said a sentence the meaning of which she had taught him long ago. ' Then come along Come. ' v " The old fellow started along with her at once, and the enraged black, roaring and tearing, followed ; but when he ven tured too near, the grand old Brindle turned, aad with a Bimple toss of the head, hold him at bay. In this manner the giii led her pet to the stile, close by the lu-n, where she was safe. "Be sure old Brindle got his potato with interest." - ! . -V.A Tiger at Large. ; A remarkable .scene occurred at Burr Robins' .farm, near Janesville, Wis., where he 'winters his menagerie, ' last week. About midnight the sacred ox got loose, backed out of his stall, and stopped close to a den occupied by a large Bengal Tiger. The tiger seized the ox by the neck with such tenacity that when the ox tried to escape he separated the cage- oars ana arew the tiger through them. Then a terrible battle commenced. The watchman climbed to the top of the build ing to save his life. The noise awoke Sam Dickey and Richard Brooks, who slept in the upper part of the building, and they at once came down to discover tba cause of the din. The hyena, ele phant, and all the other animals were ter ribly excited, and doing their utmost to es cape. -, Brooks and Dickey jumped upon the tiger j and by choking him succeeded in tearing him from his victim : but he es caped them and again fastened upon the ox. They then secured a stout " rope around his throat, and, dragging him off, secured him once more in his cage. Both men we)ee badly bitten and Wit up. Brooks will probably be laid up for, several weeks. They stood about one chstoce in a hun dred of escaping with theirlives. OVER THE WAT. Over the way, oyer the way, I've seen s head that's fair and gray ; I've seen kind eyes not new to tears, A form of grace, though fall of yesss. Her fifty summers have left no Haw And I, a youth of twenty-three, ; Ho love this lady, fair to see, I want her for my mother-in-law! Over the way, over the way, I've seen her with the children play; I've seen her with s royal grace Before the mirror adjust her lace ; A kinder woman none ever ssw ; o God bless and cheer her onward path. And bless all treasures that she hath, And let her be my mother-in-law ! Over the way, over the way, I think 111 venture, desr, some day, (If you will lend a helping hand, j And sanctify the scheme I've planned), , 111 kneel in loving, reverent awe, Down at the lady's fet, and say : " I've loved your daughter many a day Mease, wont you be my mother-in-law ?" Scrilmer' Monthly fur March. Pith and Point. Some ice o late. A terrible blow B'low zero. " Cloth for a baker Dough-skin. Legal nudity Losing one's suit. Broken spirits Brandy smashes. A Detroit boy says he doesn't want to die until he gets used to it, so it won't hurt so bad. : ' There's one good thing . jout this cold weather one doesn't have to take down stove-pipes, i It is hard to lose friend after friend. to see them slipping from you one bv one ; but it is harder still to find a towel with your eyes full of soap. Mb. Spenceb, of Moodus, Conn. , cast a despairing look upon his twenty-first child the other day. No wonder they call a repeatmg rule a spencer. Save your pennies. The Providence Press says it never heard in funeral oration or sermon, and seldom in private conversation, the opinion expressed that a man with $10,000 income had gone to hell. If the James brother carry six revol vers and two bowie-knives each, besides a Henry rifle, Quad says he shall peg right along m the office ana make no more attempts to secure that $10,000 re ward. . The man who brought down two birds with one stone was nowhere compared with the honest Granger who brought down two birds with two stones, one in each, and then sold the chickens by the pound. At a -Dartincr at a Chicasro railroad de pot, " Do not forget me or cease to love me ! murmured the husband. Js ever. never ! " sobbed the wife, and she pulled out a handkerchief and tied a knot in it, that she might remember. EVASESCKNCE. What's the brightness of a brow T What's a mouth of pearls and corals ? Beauty vanishes like a vapor, Preach the men of musty morals. Should the crowd, then, ages since. Have shut their ears to singing Homer Becauxe the music fled ss soon As, fleets the violet's aroma? Ah. for me, I thrill to see The bloom a velvet cheek discloses. Made of dust ! I well believe it J " So are lilies ! so are rooes Harflrr' Magazine. THE DOCTOKS. The very worst pests in God's creation Are the various doctors of this great nation, Whoee pills and tonics make me sqmssl, And inclined to take them I dont feel. My doctor comes with good intention, His name courtesy forbids me to mention : Says he, " Mrs. , you are quite ill, So-you must take this little pill." This pill is the size of a small nutmeg ; " Oh, doctor 1 have mercy V I scream and beg. My dear," says he, " if you holloa much louder 111 be forced besides to give yon a powder." - Then on my poor back be puts a plaster. Which sticks so fast, if not faster, I wiph my doctor felt as I feel. And had to be plastered from head to heel. There is quinine, whisky, and potassium, I believe. Given to me my pains to relieve ; But yon may talk and coax as much as you please, IH still believe the remedy worse than the disease. Doctors, like othrr things, are good in their place. But am not one that admires the rsce ; Ho I advise all not to get ill If yon should, though, refuse to take both tonic and pill. Carl Scliurz's little Hamburg Girl. Carl Scliurz has always been his wife's hero. A little girl in Hamburg, she worshiped the pictured image of the revolutionist whom she had never seen. After leaving school she visited London, and a friend said, " You must come to my house this evening and see the won derful Carl Schurz. " - The maiden came, and in a remote corner worshiped from afar the young lion of the occasion. The friend said to Carl, There is a little Hamburg girl here who adores you as a far-off hero. You must know her." " He was introduced," said the sweet voice, " and what do you think he said of me When my friend asked, 'What do you think of her V why, all he thought was, 'She seems a good, healthy girL' He didn't admire me at all not then." He must have managed to do so pretty soon after, however, for they were married within a year, before he was 21 or she 17. They came to this country to begin their u iited fortune. - " You will hand me the bricks," he said, "and I will build." If he has often " builded better than he knew," has it not been because of the sympathetic intelligence, the lov ing heart, the gentle, unfaltering hands which have . never for an instant failed him in his life-service ? -Mary Clemmer She Didn't Say Anything. A few days ago, says the San Francisco Chronicle, a rather passe lady got into a cloaely packed car on Kearney street, near flie Maison Dore. At. first no one rose to give her a seat, but, as the car reached the White House, a gentleman, evidently an invalid, struggled painfully to his feet, and with a qtsiet "A seat, Madame," stepped one side for the lady. Bhe took possession with an aggrieved look, as though he had been defrauding.; iter ot ner jnst due. Me seemea a little surprised and perplexed for a moment, but, as the car swung around the corner to go up Boflt street, he bent over with a pleased smile and queried, " Beg par don what ?" in a voice audible to every one in the car. 4 With & rather tart voice, she answered. " I did not say anvthinir to vou, sir." The smile on his face grew piaimy cynical witu ner reply, and, as he turned to walk to the front of the oar, he remarked, " Excuse me, Madame, I thought you Bald "Thank you." The lady reddened, stopped the car, and got out, - leaving but one calm face, that of tne invalid wna resumed Jtua seat. Thb sooner new potatoes are cooked after being dug the more palatable they are. , Clean off all the loose ekin with a' coarse towel and cold water : when rubbed clean put into scalding water, and boil from twenty to thirty minutes, according- to size; new potatoes are usually cooked too long. . Turn off all the water, sprinkle a little salt on them, and shake the kettle with both hands over the handle. This makes them look very floury. Serve with butter and salt. Thb parsnip is the only cultivated root which appear to defy all cold. BUSINESS CARDS JOHN CONNER, AND- Exchange Office, ALBANY, OREGON. Deposits received subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on time deposits In coin. Exchange on Portland, San Francisco, and Kew York for sale at lowest rates. Collections made and promptly remitted, Befers to H. W. Corbet t. Henry Failiog, W. 8. Ladd. ; Banking hours front 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. ' Albany, Feb. 1, la7. . 32v8 J. W. BALDWIN, Attorney and Counselor at. Law, will practice in au the oonrts in tne neoona, i uira and Fourth Judicial Districts, in the Supreme Court of Oregon, and in the V. S. District and Circuit courts. Office in Parrish brick (up-stairf), in office occu pied by the lata X. H. Cranor, First street, Albany, Oregon. tol5v6 D. B. RICE, M. D., SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN. Office, Firxt-st., Betteeen Ferry and Washington. Residence, Third street, two blocks below or esst of Methodist Church, Albany, Oregon. vSn40 J. C. POWKLIi. ' It. FIiTNN. .POWELL & FLYNN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, AND SOUCITOKS IN CHANCtET, Tj. Flinn, Notary Public), Albany, Oregon. Collec tions and conveyances promptly attended to. 1 Albany Book Store. JNO. FOSHAY, Dealer In i Miscellaneous Books, SeJwot Books, Blank Books, Stationery, Fancy Articles, c. Books imported to order at shortest possible no Ice. V6D30 DR. GEO. W. GRAY, DEN T IS T , , Albany, Oregon. Office in Parrish Brick Block, corner First and Ferry streets. Residence, comer Fifth snd Ftrry streets. Office hoars from 8 to 1'2 o clock a. m. and 1 to S o'clock p. m. , 18vfl Epizootics Distanced, THE BAY TEAM STILL LIVES, And to flourishing like a green bay tree. Thankful for past favors, and wishing to merit the continu ance of the same, the BAY TEAM will always be ready, and easily found, to do any hauling within the city limits, for a reasonable compensation. t3? Delivery of goods a specialty. 20vS A. N. ARNOLD, Proprietor. W. C. TWEED ALE, Dealer in Groceries, Proyisions, Tobacco, Cigars, Cutlery, Crockery, and Wood and Willow Ware, Albany, Oregon. EZ call and see him. 24v5 The Metzler Chair ! Can be had at the following places ; ' , Harris burg. . . . Junction City. Brownsville. ... Hslseyi ..Sun May .Smith at Mrssneld .Kirk& Hume 3. M. Morgan scto., J. i. Brown Albany Graf It Collar A f nil supply can also be obtained at my old shop on First street, Albany, Oregon. 1. M. METZ1ER. H.J.B0UGHT0N,M.D., GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, asd )te n ember of Belle vxe Hospital Medical College, NfW York. Office in A. Caruthers At Co.' Drug Store, Al bany. Oregon. Piles !PilesI Why say this damaging and .troublesome com plaint cannot be cured, when so many evidences of success might be placed before you every day cum of suunosed boneless cases T Yonr physician informs you that the longer yon allow the complaint . i . . 1 ... ..K.. rw.u f-w. -Alfa. J.' pmenc ha taught tins in au A. CaroMs & Co.'s Pile Pills & Ointment are a'l they are recotnmendod to be. Will cure Chronic, Blind and Bleeding Piles in a very short time, snd are convenient ta vne. This preparation is sent by mail or express to any point wlttuu the uuneu urates at si.nu per passage. Address A. CARO I HEBa 4 CO , 27 v5 Box 38. Alabany, Oregon. JOHN SCHMEER, DEALER IN Groceries anil Provisions, ALBANY, OREGON, Has jnst opened his new grocery establishment, on Corner of Ellsworth and First Streets, With a fresh stock or Grcceries, Provisions, Candies, Cigars, Tobacco. Acs., to which he invites the atten tion of our cttiseus. In connection with the store he will keep a Bakery, and will slways have ou hand a full supply of fresh Bread, Crackers, Ac j SW Call and see me. " JOHN rCHMEER. Fehrnary 18 24v The Old Stove Depot John Briggs, . i- Dealer In . Coot, Parlor , and Box Stoves! OF THE BEST PATTERNS. ' ALSO, Tin, Sheet Iron and .Copper Ware, And tba nsnal assortment of Furnishing Goods to :.-.........;. be obtained In a Tin Store. . ;l : Bepsirs neatly and promptly executed on reason, able terms. . ,-- ' Short Reckonings Hake Lonff Friends. Front Stbekt, Aubaxt. " Dec. 0,1874. , I A. WHEEELER. C. f. KOCOE. C. B. WHEKLKR. A. WHEELER 5, CO., . SHEDD, , OREGON, ! FORWAMG ASD C03IESIGH HESCH4N1S.. Dealnra In Iferohandls and Produce. A good assortment of all kinds of Uoods alwav ia srors at lowest market rates. . r t.1 - Agents for sale of Wagons, Grain Drills, Cider MHIs, Churns, Ac., he. , . ius.Bn paiu lur ua Jl n, jrvABk, nv" TER, EGOS, and PODLTKr. A. W. GAMBLE, M. D., PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, Etc Office on First BL, over Weed's tirooery ttore Residence opposite late residence of John C. Men denhsll, near the Foundry, First street, Albany. October M 1878. V e b f o o t f.l arketr CHARLES WILSON Having leased the Webfoot Market, on First street, adjoining Gradwobl's, respectfully asks a share of" the public patronage. The market will be kept con stantly supplied with ail kinds of fresh meats. Call. in a see. . . r The highest cash price paid for Hides, CHARLES WILSON. Albany, August 14, 1974. GEO. K. HELM, Attorney an! Counsellor at LaitJ ALBANY, OREGON, Win practice in all the Courts of this Rtate. Office in Foil juice uuucucg (upstairs), First . stieet. - 6v7 - ALBANY Fonaflry anfl Mine Sliopn A. F. CHERRY, Proprietor, ALBANY, OREGON, Manufactures Steam Sngines,. Flour and Saw Mill Machinery, Wood-Vorldng & Asricnltnral MacMnery And all kinds of Iron and Brass Castings. Particular attention paid to repairing all kinds ot" machinery. lv3 A. CAROTIIEltS & CO.a. DBAIJCBS IS S Drugs, Chemicals Oils, Paints, Dyes, Glass, Lamps, Etc All the popular PATENT MEDICINES, FINE CUTLERY, ' CIGARS, TOBACCO. NOTIONS, PERFUMERY, ! And TOILET GOODS- ' Particular care and promptness given physicians prescriptions and family recipes. A. CAROTHERH Av CO. Albany, Oregon. v5 GO TO THE BEE-HIVE STORE I -TO BUT Groceries, Provisions, ? ., Notions, &C, &C, &C.p Cheap for Cash. !? Conntry ProflncB of All Kinds Bought For Merchandise or Cash. This is the p'acs to Ret the Best Bargains Ever Offered In Albany Parties will always do well to call and "e for them selves. H. WEED. First Street, Albany, Oregon 82v0 MEXICAN Mustang Liniment Was first known In America. Tts merits are now well known throughout the habitable world. It has the oldest and best record of any Unlment in the world. From the millions upon millions of bottlrs sold not a single complaint has ever reached tts. As a Healing and Pain-Subduing Linunent it has no .equal. It it alike . BENEFICIAL TO MAX AXD BEAST.. Sold by all Druggists. SiTi""I860"L Y- OLD 1 I sat msm sJ ' . TPass MIA, nuinesiuau iuiiiu Plantation Bitters Is a purely Vegetable Preparation, composed of Calisaya Bark, Root a. Herbs snd Fruits, which win be fonnd SarsaperilUan, Dandelion, Wild Cherry, Bssssfra. Tansy, Gentian, Sweet Flag, ,; also Tamarinds, Dates, Prunes and Janvier Berries, preserved in a sntneiaut quantity (only) of the p""t of Sugar Cane to keep in any climate. They Id ably relieve and cure the following complaints Dyspepsia, Jaundfoe, Uver Complaint., Appetite, Hsaoscne, siuom Ague, Hummer Complaints, Sour Stomach, Pslplta- tioa of tne Bean, uenerai w""'J. ' .. . ramsdv lor the dlsesst to which J WOMEN Are subjected ; and s a tonic for the Aga.rf-. tended mm Tmru Tonic or Bitten. L need mm m awdtcme ouy, mud lwje acoorUio to directions. Sow BY AM. Firbt-Class Dbpoo18 BROOM FACTORY. Who manufactured the first good made in Albany, has returned ironi California, snsa located permanently In this city, where bs ne again commenced tne manufacture of ail kisos ot Brooms,7 Bruslies, Wisps.; ftc.at fcto factory on FIRST 8TBEET, at L Metsler old stand, esat of Magnolia Mills, be Invites those wishing a firsKiass broom and secure ef boo. w BULDI""- Albasy, Oct. lo, 187. . ' -. v , 1