COLL. VAN CLKVE, ALBANY, OREGON. young noma peeyy. Villate'a " drive" of logs bad jammed t the foot of Bed. Rapids in the very throat of the main " pitch," -where the Aux Lie vree faUa over the ledges into the " glut-hole," fifty feet below. A wilder spectacle I never saw throughout the lumbering region daring m space of eight years.. The gates of the dams at the foot of all the lakes were up; the volume of water ." was immense. Hooka, which in summer stand twenty feet oat of the rapids, were now under water. The water eame pouring down the long incline, black and swift as an snow, and went over into the pool at one thunderous plunge, throwing up a vast column of mist. Two ledges-only, situ ated in the very throat of the " pitch," snowed above water. 'XHese rocks trie ferambering company had 1 designed ' to t MHW vui eaggjej lau'vub "" ------ ftUa TT I been prevented by, heavy rains. They then stood, twenty-seven feet out of -water. Now their exeats are barelv ex posed, and the flood . washes over them an its nughty rhythm-motion. In the sapids the whole stream is compressed to a width of a little more than seventy AyMght. jam had formed that morning at a puioe wom a mue aoove. amis was broken by getting a haul on it from the shore with a dog-warp. Thereby several snou&ana logs were noeratea at once, and went down together into the rapids. The older drivers exclaimed that it would make mischief when it started bat nothing could be done ; it brole and went out witn a rusb. . We, who were ahead, ran on down the ' ledges to nee it go through the falls, and we had to run last to keep up. The instant the logs entered the rapids they left us .behind. We : could see them croinar down, how- ver. end over i end. and hear them " boom " - against the sunken rocks. Tuxtlotte and a Welshman named Fin frock were ahead. I heard Turtlotte call out in French that the Iocs were jamming, and saw the butt ends of great sticks fly up, glittering, out of the water. The1 logs had struck and hung on one of -the center rocks, and on the shelving ledges upon the east side. The ends of ; these large sticks,' three or four feet across, stood fifteen feet or more out of the water. We ran on, clambering from crag to crag till we came to a point looking down on the grift, sixty feet be neath ; and that was about near enough, for the ends of the logs- flew up almost on a level with our eyes, as they went over, and the spray drenched our faces. The ledges under our feet trembled as if an earthquake were shaking them,' anl not a word eould be heard, even when shouted in the ear. The combined noises were louder than thunder, heav ier, deeper. It was a wjoth forenoon, and the sun shone into the rack dazzliog ly bright, making a vivid rainbow. It was the hottest, maddesj) chasm that can well be imagined ; and to see that bril liant rainbow hanging there, so still and motionless amidst all that uproar, gave one a queer sensation. OU nian Villate himself , with his red cap over , his 'ears, came pnlBng down, shouting at the top of his lungs. We oould see his iips fly. . The hitch was be twixt the shelving ledges on the east side and one of the mid-channel rocks. . ' It was not one log that had caught, else the weight of the water would have broken it out. It appeared that two large sticks had ( come . down with the ends across. each other, land a third logperhaps several logs, overlying these. When the current sucked them through the rapid, between the center rock and the shore ledges, the .outward ends of the crossed logs struck on beth sides. The warps were brought, and Villate alled for volunteers to go down, or rath- r be let down,- tlie ledges and prize oft the shore ends of the jammed logs with peeviea." . There were plenty f bold JaQowa; but every man hesitated. Mtn mnrsof "cextainemort," "aurmort," " porta da tombeeu," "parte d'enfer," xose and were .repeated,- - " It's a hard world, but I wants to tar ty in it a spell longer boss 1" said one grizzled old Yankee from the Maine riv with a sage shake of his long head. We all knew that when the jam started it would go through like an avalanche. Who mever - was dowa there would have to go with it into the glut-hole. ' Bt noon'' all' the crew had come. up. Xhe iam filled the whole river for a third f a mile back from the fall, so com pletely thai during the afternoon the west bank gangs crossed on it to tne east side. We lighted our fires Oil the ledges; and as the evening advanced it was a pic turesque sight the red-shirted drivers - ai . . .11. camping mere via . aumug in meases boiit their oo&ise fare. All the next day we worked with the warpck Nooses' were dropped over the npnght ends of the logs at the foot of the jam, and the gang was set to pull on them.'' AAter.in the oay a nevy capstan -was risked, i The hawsers broke like twine. - It was impossible . to start a log; mo tremendous '- was the weight of water .and lumber. eonujtoed., .-s"'- Next day the jam , was mined witu powder placed in. water-tight molasses easks ana connected with fire at the top of the l&drre by means of tarred fuses. The blasts blew out splinters freely, but . . . ... .. . 5 . i Xaued K Dress or amiouge me large -atieka.' vHiate lamed and sweated. Unless the drive went down to market, nt a. Hollar would be paid to one of na. so i he declared. -' If you want your pay, break the jam, was hia constant : . exhortation, enforced by vigorous curses and, iadeedV 'Wo had Iseen hired on these terms: wags to be paid " when Cms rive ! reached Montreal not before. i a common rule, or used to be; Via rai have thus stronsr interest in tie driving. ' ' i A r1sa was moots!' macms0m.mBmm tie ft; --iwirT nili to cut oat the front 1 ,--(, Tiie t-no sc. erne f-ai peeu oxsen 4retchinsr wsrp-Iine across rsne rapios, . imm cliil to diif, directly4' over the foot f tLe ;ira, a man might be lowered oa iiL witu an ax, ami. ens away .ua a lno, "b'-,-Bt" 1 it wss talked jni-L"t be rams; on the cable. By tck esuT"r tbe iiise, the ax-man could be ! towered tO'thelccs md Tthe. iastaait.the isiicks cracked caJer taeetrofisshe comd ieep to -tlie ba?cet -end bspued up ' out of 1 rra d lot te jn go tlron- tffVCT. v.--- t JkT -- I... - lon ii . foot o T!S'er i.-U . Aiie kiuu fcauu : i f:"iwl" racrsir the end s ears en i e j'T to toe 'iiirv men ti 2 - V. k a 'SZatCr in JL. .hon mfeove- the 'i - KO. & it -8s V.' t 1. iSot tne Indian '"vers, 'mamid' I ' . tf-i novel c.'ii-. 3 waa fia- ished and slung on the cable, the project n inuj ivl uuu . Y I11W UU3 project was beinflr talked over. "several of the drivers had declared themselves willing to undertake the feat, but now . that the basket was alung, and' after seeing it drawn out over the abyss, they were less disposed to proffer their services. It needed strong nerves and a stout heart to gaze into that foaming gulf and 'not turn dizzy. There was among us a youngster whom the old drivers called. HYounc Moll's Peevy.'? - Younsr Moll was a half- breed (French and Indian) girl, or rather woman at una tune, of thirty . ot thirty three, and the mother of this boy. Borne of the drivers said that his rightful pat ronymic waa Skeily; but this was a rather obscure -matter. ' , " The PeevY." as he was. half-humor- ously christened, must have been nearly ur uuiw eiiiniii. - ioa name was - sua to have come to him one day in boy hood, when a " peevy " was dropped off a glut into ten or a dozen feet of water. Several of the drivers were trying to hook it up, but kept missing' it. The boy, then eleven or twelveyears old, had come alone unobserved. : Presently, and without savmcr a word, he dropped off the logs, brought up the . peevy and ran away, dripping. The men laughed, and not knowing his ' nam e called him " the peevy-boy." Afterward, when they found out his mother, they named the urchin " Young Moll's Peeyy." But his mother called him Ixtte. A' stranger would not easily have, believed him the child of the fresh young person who had cared for him ; for he was unusually stal wart and bronzed by exposure. Seen together, they rather resembled lad and lass. I thought so, at least,' when first I saw her, coming to fetch him dry fee ting and a dean shirt. She had walked twenty miles to bring them, through.the woods, following our traiL And the way she kissed the young man, aside, was, or looked to be, rather lover-like than ma ternal. Afterward, on several similar oc casions, I was much struck by the genre picture they made ; the youth had the great black eyes and black curling hair of his mother. The drivers used to chaff the fellow unceasingly J about Young Moll and the care she took of him, all of which he bore silently, with a troubled, resentful eye ; though, other wise, a great noble-hearted boy, gener ous and inclined to jollity. Really, the rough fellows thought the more of. the young woman for this motherly affection and wealth of care for her boy. It was in their uncultured faces, all the while their tongues belied them. The " basket was alung and ready. The gang on the other side were ges ticulating, with random tugs at the line. There was something whimsical in the way the proposers of the project shrank the one behind the other, with assumed bravado and covert glances at " each other's faces. "I shall have to go myself , Villate exclaimed, with his characteristic French oath. "I will go myself, fat as I am I" when bashfully, as if afraid of giving offense, young Lotte said he would go "if bo better man wanted the job." There was at first muttered " non nana " of a discussion in the crowd, but nobody claimed the "job," and Villate was but too glad to get a man to go. In a mo ment the young man cad stripped to ma shirt and red drawers, taken his ax and stepped to the basket, but it was found to be insecurely attached; and afterward several better modes of t handling tae hue were suggested, in all 'causing a de lay of an hour or two"" .-ii And now. as if the birds of spring, just flitting past, had carried thcrword, or seme presentiment of evu nad found its way to the Pfeevy's mother, she inop portunely made her appearance. Bad Gates privately, touched my elbow and nodded back, up the bank. I then saw young Moll standing partly in the cover of a shrub fir, a hundred yards off, in tently watching the gang and the ex tended warp, x , ; h j 3v; Several of the men 'saw her, but did not look or notice her after the first glance. "Parbleu t a pity she's here !" one said, and they closed in aoout J-ioue to prevent . his seeing her. But the woman eoon came nearer, going partly around the crowd, keeping aloof. She had a new plaid shawL gayly colored, pinned closely about her neck, and her long, black, Indian-like curls showed be neath a beaded scarlet hood. There was an intently anxious look in her eyes; vhe appeared worn and tired. -. " "The Peevy" was much too tall a man to be shut up in the crowd. Presently he espied her, and his eye f elL After a time he casually, as it were, 1 made his way back to her. - None Of us heard what was said. The most instinctively kept their eyes to themselves. The gang on tae other side was staring across me chasm. Villate ripped out an oath,and I saw Ixtte push the girl aside so roughly that she caught at a shrub to. save her self. He walked straight to the brink of the cliff,.,, j.;.J:,',--,,fj-j' - -vffc' i- "I am here," said he. Inever saw him look so manly. - We knew his eye was quick and his hand sure. I had little doubt that he would out the front logs and come up safe, We did -not know what the danger was till afterward. He stood upright in the " basket,", with one hand on the hawser to steady himself, and his ax in the other. . At a signal the gang on the west side straightened the hue. We paid it out slowly. They dre him5 out from the brink of the ledge, till the basket was directly over the center rock. Then gradually we slackened - it, and - let him down foot by foot, down under the rain bow, where the hot, mad midst flew up in fierce gusts, bearing the strong odor of crushed spruce fiber. He seemed to bear -the deafening roar without con fusion, and glanced about quite coolly, as it looked. " - 1 Our attention was given closely to his signals and to our task, yet I saw Young Moll eonung forward, step by step, as the " basket went deeper and deeper into . the gorge, her eye riveted on it. Che was very pale and her hands were tiielsacliaaVB The 'drivers cast mi nous glanoea-at hat. rr'.-- . .c... . : ! dent half like the looks of ' the woman !" I heard muttered, and I think the sight of her filled every one with a sense of the foreboding. . ' As soon as the basket was down to the logs we saw him step out upon .them, and thence to the rock. From moment to moment the mist hid him, and tran sient jets of water, from betwixt the lows, squirted Mgh over his head. Guard ewp he planted one boot, shod with the shftrp corks, upon one of the large logs the one he judged it best to cut away first ; the other rested on the rock. The "basket" he had placed on his back. We were holding it steady from both banks, ready to pull it up when signaled. Before and beneath him raged the cata rvt. We aaw him' raise, his ax and 'e it into the log. The blight steel fU. .ed in the narrow chasm. At the fourth stroke the great log erackedr He tLs.rw the ax 'and clutched the basket. A Eiijhty crash rang up. The jam had Btewt -was moviag going down maL?y splintering thundering into the glDt-hole I The wet splinters all along (the rapids went no a hundrmi f.f. in air. ; , On both sides the gangs were run ning backward, hoisting the " basket." It - rose twenty feet a second I A hun dred and fifty strong men pulled with might and mam 1 As he rose he waved his hand to ua. .-. f-. Ah, Godl we were too slow! It was all done in a trice. One great stick, ending over like a fagot, barely missed the basket. Another longer log, whirl ing up struck the warp farther but, and hurled him down with it 1 ' The cable was torn from our hands J Gone like a flash,- into . the gulf below ! - From the one great rough human heart on either bank a groan of pity blended with the roar. ,.. "Too d- n bad !" they cried out in all sincerity, and stood staring. Tnen all eyes turned toward the poor fellow's mother. She had thrown up her hands when the timber swept him down. as. if to shut out the sight, then'c dropped them on a sudden, with a moan. " Oatob her 1" some one shouted. Half a dozen standing nearest sprang forward for she was standing on the very verge of the rooks. ; Her eyes had fallen on old man Villate. They were like the eyes of one in mortal agony. The blotched and bloated old rum-butt turned his face aside and downward, and thrust out his hand as if to fight off flame. For their lives the men durst not lay hold of her. She seemed to waver m soul betwixt grief and fury.,''- '-'': A moment after, the men gave a loud shout I She waa gone from where she had stood, and the echo of a smothered shriek tribute of . a woman's heart to death came to our ears. i . We sprang' to look over. There was a glimpse of the bright shawl whirled amid the foam. " Did she fall ?" some cried out. " Threwed herself down !" said those who saw it. . We never saw trace of either of . them. But the jam went out, to the last log. Two hours later the gangs were follow ing the - thrive down the stream on to Montreal I But .the men had turned sullen. Scarce a laugh or a cheery shout was heard for three days. jScrib ner. '.: . - - The Fashions. The present fashionable bonnet is simply a large hat with flowing brim, and upon it and inside of its upward front rests a . conservatory of flowers. There are numerous other shapes, each Eretty, some coquettish, all becoming, ght and graceful withal. Straw is dis appearing and in its place is chip of the ugliest and finest ecru, dust color, drab, black and white. The English round hat will be very popular as affording pro tection to the eyes. All of the hats have drooping streamers behind, but there are no strings and very few feathers are seen. As the beauty of the bonnet consists in the heaped-up masses of flowers on the front, there is evidently no room yet for the proposed change in vails. The stiff, scrap of lace or tulle will, therefore, con tinue in use placed under the hat, to the injury of the eyes, and with the loss of the grace given by floating lace. The newest shapes-imported are called La j Brune, Lucia, the Kiatori, the Bon Ton, and in Tflngliah, the Warwick, with a high round crown and flaring brim ; the very piquant Girofla turned up at the left! side. A coquettish sailor hat is called Castalia ; and there are other shapes, the front or back being decided by the trnmTftin- -r r- y- . . J For early spring and cool summer days there is a large display of " suitings," so called from being made up simply with other fabrics in a suit. These are in all wool broken plaids, extremely soft and fine, of single width, called camel's hair ; twilled, damasked, diamond-blocked,- bird's eye and diagonal, in drabs, grays, blue-gray, and neutral-j tinted ground, with thread-like bars and broken lines of blue, red, dashes of green, dull blue and gold color. The overskirt and basque are made of these fabrics, and the skirt and sleeves of silk, the color of the darkest or most promi nent dark shade of the plaid. These cost 80 cents and $1 a yard. All Oriental stuffs are fast gaining popularity ; deli cate grey Japanese suks of this season have tiny black figures- scattered over their surface with here and there an em bossed white flossy silk figure, giving an exceedingly silvery look by gaslight. ; . Black silks are more lustrous than they have been for many years past, and much finer in the reps. American silks are steadily gaining in popularity on account : of their rich appearance, durability .and freedom from all chemical dyes and mixtures. The colored silks of this man ufacture come in all the new fashionable tints the Oxford, a cold, blue- gray; a Russian gray of pinkish hue; seal brown and beige brown; jujube, a red brown like paste; all shades of steel and dust color and olive and bronze greens, deep green, and violet merging into plum shades. Besides these are all the light evening shades. ' The colored American silks are especially adapted for street wear. ,''. :1.. . .--. -n - - A novelty this spring is guipure gren adine, or called by others ecru hnen, open worked in Hamburg designs, or like - Tfingtiwh embroidery, so very open that scarcely any of the fabric is to be seen.. At present, fashions seem to have set tled, into the cuirass and long apron, scanty skirts with much less trimming, and quantities of shirr. Shirring is in troduced in sleeves, . waists, aprons, headings of flounces and ruffles. The figure will not be disguised by volumin ous drapery and quantities of tarimming. It is impossible to do away with the use ful, -pretty and ; economical polonaise, covering as it does a multitude of evils in the way of shortcomings in tbedreeses of a past season. So they come again in cashmere, silk-trimmed, and jet-embroidered, and in braided and embroidered camel's hair. " "v t - - ' ? ;, , There are several important changes m. fashionable jewelry. .- A taste for oolored stones is revived, in accordance with the ' passion for everything Oriental in dress. --iVew York Tribitne. t s "; , - " How He ExplaJnei.'- . h. resident of the Sixth Ward has been missing wood from his pile fox several weeks past, and the other night be watched and caught a negro loading up a big armful. ; Springing- out, he cried: . " Ah ! hah ! I've caught you, have I!" - "Is dat .youf" asked the negro as he dropped the wood. . . "Yes, this is I, and I want to know what you are doing here 1" "Doin heah?" Yes, sir." You see dis yere wood-pile, doesn't you f" inquired the darkey. "Yes, f do." - Well, dere's ; a new famSy moved into dat shanty over dar, and I don't like dere looks one bit. I believe dey'd steal wood quicker'n lightning, and I cum over to warn ye. If ye miss any wood don't say I didn't tell ye what kind of people dose are I" , And he walked away leaving the man dumbfounded. Detroit Free Pre, ., Abkhxs is projected from Staten Isl and to New Jersey, : and also a double track railroad tunnel under Newark Bay, 2 miles long, and costing 3,000,000. .The Pumpkin. . - The pumpkin iz a large, yello fruit, about one foot in diameter, and not far from being round. The seed ov it is shaped like the hed ov an Injun arrow and iz about the size ov yure middle finger naiL The seed iz inserted into the ground about the 15th ov May, and. cums to light in about 6 days. The pumpkin keeps on bizzy growing tin till the fust day of Oktober, and then gives up the contest. Pumpkins gro on to a vine, and thar iz but few if enny smarter . weeds than a pumpkin vine. On ritch ground they will gro four inches a day, besides grow ing about two inches . each night, and they have large, yello 'flowers an them about the size and shape ov the other end ov a key bugle, or French horn. - Kach ov these flowers means a pump kin, and I hav seen ,16 able-boddyed pumpkins on one vinei. ' , This is called "sum pumpkins.'' Pumpkins are ; planted among corn, and after the corn haz been got off I hav seen the . pumpkins so mutch on the ground that yu couldn't count hem.,, j," -. The most remarkable thing about the pumpkin iz the pi that iz in them. Each able-boddyed pumpkin haz from 6 to 8 pize in them,'and there ain't no food, anshunt . or modern, kan outstyle them.;;.-- -;.'T'.'' . ' , Pumpkin pi iz az hard to beat az the simple truth 'iz. Pumpkins are kut up into strips and hung up in the kitchen for winter pi. . , : . ; I dont kno whare or when the pump kin waz fust diskovered, or who it waz who fust worked it up into pL . Christopher Columbus found Ameri ka, Newton waz the father , ov gra vita shun, and menny a man haz spent hiz whole . life and talent on perpetual motion and never kaught up with it, but who fust found a , pumpkin or invented it iz a mistery . up to this hour.' Pumpkins grow the most cheerfully in Na England, . bekause folks are most kind to them thare, but the pumpkin iz a good-natured plant, and will gro enny whare if people ain't sassy to it. Josh Billing. A California Goose. " The season of wonderful fish and bird and snake stories is fairly inaugurated, and, as might have " been expected, the Pacific slope, with its big trees and its big vegetables and fruits, produces also the prize zoological romances. . The last story which comes is of a wild goose of the past and the present. One Mr. Abe Green, a mighty hunter, went forth to hunt lately on Cache creek, near Yolo, Cal. , and saw in the course of his ram bles a wild goose sitting at the edge of the water. Mr. Abe Green crept up as close to the bird as he thought prudent, and the thunder of his overloaded shot gun reverberated up and down the creek, but the wild goose didn't budge. Then Mr. Abe Green went up to fathom the mystery, and discovered a wonderful j thing. The goose he shot at was a pet- j rifled goose, and the load from his gun had only clipped off a tiny fraction of its wing. He lifted the goose from the ground, and as he did so a piece of its breast dropped out, disclosing a hollow inside, from which pure, dear water commenced running. The feathers of the goose, though of stone, were natural in appearance, and the general look of the bird was altogether life-like. -Mr. Abe Green took the solid curiosity to his cabin, where it is now undergoing in spection by the curious.. Scene in a Cincinnati Barber Shop. Enter a oolored man " I say Boss, has you heard obde Civil Rights bill f" Barber "Yes, certainly." " t Cord man An' ye know u s become olawob de lan'J " ; i Barber" Oh, yes." Col'd man" Nigger jes' much rites as de white man eberywhere I " ; Barber" Seems so." : . Col'd man-" Well, den, (dropping in to a vacant chair), you jes' shave me, will you," boss t " - Barber" Of course, sit still and IH shaveyou. The lathering was duly performed and the barber got ready to apply the razor. , " Look-a-heah, ''cried the civil righter ; " what makes your hand tremble so ? " Barber "Well, I am a little shaky this morning, that's a fact, (vibrating the razor in dangerous proximity to the customer's juggler.) You see, I've been drinking ' pretty hard lately, and last night I had an attack of delirium tre mens? but " ; The darkey didn't Btop to hear any more. ' " Gosh A'mighty 1 boss, you can't shave me," he yelled, and slipping out of the chair, he made for the door, lathered as he was, and disappeared. Moody and Sankey.- There is no hesitation, so beating about the bush: Mr. Moody's earliest request is an eminently hopeful and prac tical one. "Jjetus praise uoa, ne ex claims, " for what He is going to do in London;" and forthwith, without more prelude, he. gives out the 100th Psalm, the 16,000 people rise together, and, led by the harmonium, sing the grand old lines which all have learnt from their childhood. It may be that " all people that on earth do dwell ' are objecting strenuously to comply with the request the chorus makes; the adjuration is none the less determined, and the wave of sound rolls round and round the build ing, forming a very ocean of melody Buch as may scarcely be imagined.' " Preachers and their people alike throw back their heads and shout out the refrain , with heart and soul, gallery answers to gallery, the singers on the platform to the chorus below, and when Mr. Sankey calls for renewed expression in the last verse," the audience makes one more grand effort with tremendous effect. A Mr. Billing now offers a short prayer, and with this the " revival " service is inaugurated. London Daily Telegraph, , Facts Worth Eememberlng-. ,One thousand shingles laid four inches to the weather will cover over one hun dred 'square feet of surface, and five pounds of shingle-nails will fasten them on. t , - One-fifth more siding and flooring is needed than the number of square feet of surface to be covered, because of the lap in the siding and matching of the floor. One thousand laths will cover seventy yards of surface, and eleven pounds of lath-hails will nail them on. Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen bushels of sand, and one bushel of hair will make enough mortar to plaster one hundred square yards. A cord of stone, three bushels of lime, and a cubio yard of sand will lay one hundred cubic feet of walL - . , Hve courses of brick will lay one foot in Light ca a chimney, six bricks -in a course will make a flue four inches wide and twelve iackes long, and eight bricbs in a course will make a flue eight inches wide and sixteen inches long. . . . Teerb is a horrid rumor of the restora tion of crinoline. Tlie Spelling Mania. Dr.-Mess was about right when he said, at a late spelling-match between two Christian associations, that the man isn't entitled to much respect who cannot spell any word in the English language in more ways than one. There are cer tainly two ways in which every English word may be spelled one as pronounced, and one as it is written. But conven tionality is a dreadful thing. , The man who pronounces an Tfrngliah word as it is written makes himself about as ridicu lous as the man who writes an English word as it is pronounced. One would think that so palpable a contradiction as this might be corrected in the interest of more than 100,000,000 people. The En glish language is spoken . and written by more people than the language of any other civilized people. Yet none other is so barbarous in its othography and orthoepy. The language is a jumble, from the complex character of its origin. A mixture of Anglo-Saxon,; Norman French and German, aerniring ite Greek through the Latin, and its Latin through the French, it is a composite of richness and irregularity. We uve departed from the almost universal rule of cul tivated tongues in the relations between spelling - and pronunciation. Sanscrit, Greek, Latiny Italian, German, Spanish are all written as they are pronounced, and pronounced as they are written. Having acquired the organic sounds peculiar to the different nationalities, it is an easy matter to spell the words cor rectly in any of these languages. . Even in the French there are rules which gov ern the discrepancies between orthogra phy and sound. Not so in English. Hence the English-speaking people are necessarily "pad ' spellers." To spell English correctly comes by nature much more than Dogberry's reading and writ ing, for the accomplishment is the result of a retentive memory, as well as long application. The most serious applica tion will fail without the assistance of this natural gift of a tenacious memory. The new amusement of spelling matches, old. and familiar in the country-school districts, has, in its present form, a wide field of usefulness as well as entertain ment. As if in keeping with the con tradictory character, of the language, nothing brings one into ridicule as quick ly as bad spelling. The printers and the proof-readers get an excess of abuse which they do not merit. If they would put into type and pass every word as it is written in editorials, local articles, advertisements and ' communications (especially the latter), the issue of a large morning daily would be a more wonder ful orthographical product than the wildest efforts of Josh Bflling or Arte mus Ward. Chicago Tribune. live Stock and Population. Prof. Thorold Rogers, of Oxford Uni versity, England, has made up a curious return of the proportion of domesticated live stock to population in the most prominent countries in the world. .It shows the following results: Great Britain has one cow to every twelve persons, a sheep for everybody, and one pig for every six. - France has a like proportion of sheep, a double share, comparatively, of cows, but only one pig to every six persons, i. The Swedes have a cow between three and one-half of them, a sheep between two and three-quarters, and a pig to a baker's dozen. " There ae as many sheep as , there are Norwegians in Norway, when they are all at home; and two and one-half of them the Norwegians axe entitled to a cow. They can have only one-eighteenth of a pig each. Denmark has a cow for three persons, as many sheep as persons, and a pig for four and three-quarters persons. Prussia, with her usual uniformity, has an equal number of cows and pigs, one to every five inhabitants, besides a sheep apiece all round. Wurtemburg has a quarter as many cows as people, a sheep to two and three-quarters, and a pig to every seven. Bavaria rates the same as Wurtemburg as to cows and sheep, and is as much bet ter off for pigs as one-fifth is better than one-seventh. . ..--..--'.'" Saxony has a sheep and a pig for every eight persons, and a cow for every six. Holland has a cow to every four, a sheep to every four, and a pig to twelve persons. :-;k"- .:-:' - Belgium a cow to six, a sheep to nine, and a pig to eight (which is an Hiber nicism.) .:::-, ." Austria has a cow for every six persons and a sheep and a pig for every five per sons. .'..'- - : Switzerland runs up to the Swedish standard on cows, one to three and one half persons, and has a sheep for five, and a pig. for "every seven and one-half persons. . :. , We Americans close the list with a cow for every four of us, a sheep apiece, one pig to every one and one-half. Ru ral New Yorker. . Her Yapor Bath. Says a writer in the St. Louis Repub lican : 44 She will not take a vapor oath again very soon, though the one she took recently was by no means lacking in re sults. One of her friends had been tell ing her of the beneficial effeota of baths of this kind and giving definite advice re garding; ita preparation, so she resolved to try it " The extemporized bath was arranged by filling a sanoer with whis-' key, in which' was placed some boneset and sassafras. Then she pl&oed the saucer on the floor, and over it placed a cane-bottomed ohair, taking a seat in the chair dressed a la Eve, save that a huge blanket enveloped the whole outfit. An attendant then lifted a oorner iof the blanket and applied a match to the whis key in order to. produce the gentle, soothing vapor, which was expected to arise and do worlds of good. - Would that . weil could be drawn over the sub sequent proceedings, but an ordinary veil wouldn't cover 'em. The gentle, soothing vapor didn't arise, but a red hot, soorching t flame did arise, " like lightning, tv the height - Of about five feet from the saucer, there was a terrific report,' and the bath-taker was lifted off the chair on the wings of a sirocco, and deposited, half grilled, in a corner of the room. And now she is nearly well, but opposed" to extempore vapor baths." Thx following table shows the leading 8smoultural products in " the - United Siates in 1850 and 1870 : .' 1880. 1870. a Cash value of farms, ' CerStaTbn' 867:3,a6T I,SOT,a79,SM 7,74JS,6'J6 ay, tons ... v f!8-'?; Butter and cheese, lbs. Animals slaughtered or 18,ua,lU C77,017,6UO rJonbaieaof a00S. v a,toS ,011,fr Cane susar.fehaa : Wfilt 87,9x3 S-roSoosa of ail menu Stores Sl,01,tOe,slS $t,z33,83B,iSS At the former of these periods the popu lation of the United States was 23,191,873 and at the latter period it was 83,558,871. Vices are often habit lather than pas sions. BUSINESS CARDS JOHN CONNER, arm. rr w ml ft'TO-vjar M-(7 adW Vs SnWiS rnmmtm . Bra mmrnm " AND -4- Exchange Office, ALBANY. fQBEGON. PepoaHa neeived mbjeet to check at aiirhi. Interest allpwed on turn depoaica in coin. Exchange -on Portland. San granctaco and Haw York t v aala a lowaat raiaa. Collection made and promptly remitted. Refers te-H. W. Corbet t, Henry Failing,. W. 8. Xdd. : - , i Banking houra from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. Albany, 781.1,187., 3M - ' J. W. BALDWIN, Attorney and Counselor it Law, Will practice in aU the Court in the Second, Third and Fourth Judicial Piatrtota, in the 8nprame Ooart of Oregon, and la the U. 8. Pietrict and Circuit Ootirta. S" - Office in Parrish brick (ap-etaira), in office occu pied br the late N. H. Oranor, ilral street, Albany, Oregon. - tolSrt , D. B. RICE, M, SURGEON AMD PHYSICIAN. Office, Fir -.', Beiioeen Ferry and Wathington. Residence, Third street, two blocks below or east of Methodist Church, Albany, Oregon. r6n40 J..O. FOWXIJj. ' .4-. FLYNK. v POWELL & FLYNN, Attorneys ana Counselors at Law. AND BOUCITOBS IN CHAHCKBY, Xi. FUnn, Notary Public), Albany, Oregon. Collec tions and eoneyenoea promptly attended to. 1 Albany Dock Gtore. JNO. FOSHAT, ' Denier In MiteeUaneouM Book, School Boolct, Blank Books, Stationery, Fancy Article, dbo. , Books imported to order at shortest possible no. ioe. - T6n.. DR. GEO. W. GRAY, DEN T IS T 9 .. AiiBANT, Oregon. ; Office in Parriah Brick Block, corner First and Ferry streets. Residence, corner Fifth and Ferry streets. Office hours from 8 to 13 o'clock a. m. and 1 to 5 o'clock p. m. 18vS Epizootics Distanced. THE BAY TEAM STILL LIVES, And is flourishing like a green bay tree. Thankful for past f avora, 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. . t Delivery of goods a specialty. aovfi A. N. ARNOLD, Proprietor. W.. C. TWEEDALE, S Dealer In Groceries, ProTisions, Toliacco, "Cinars, Cutlery, Crockery, ana Weed ana Willow War, AiiBANT, OrlKOON. tM- Call and see him. ' SavS The ITJctzler Chair ! .. Can be had at the following places t Barrisburg........... Junction City....... Brownsville. ...... .. Halaey....... Bam May . Smith a Braaneld . ..Kirk Hume J. M. Morgan scto, .4. J. Jurown Albany............ ................... Oraf a Collar A full supply can also be obtained at my old shop on First street, Albany, Oregon. . . J. M. MITZLEB. " ilXeoughton, m. D.r GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, and lata member "of BelleToe Hospital Medical College, New York. " Office in A. Carat hers ft Co.'s Drug Store, Al bany, Oregon. I Pile3l Piles I Why aay thia damaging and troublesome com plaint eeanoe be eared, when so many esideueee of success might be placed before you every day cares of supposed hopeless eases f Your physician informs yon that the longer you allow the complaint to exist, you lessen your chances for relief. A. ptrienc ka taught thi in all com. L Caifitliers & Co.'s Pile Pills & Ointment Are al they are recommended to be. Will eure Chronic, Blind and Bleeding PUea in a very short time, and are eoneetwm to ea. This preparation is sent by mail or express to any point within the United States at 1.S0 par package. Address A, CABO FHE&S CO , S7v6 Box S3, Alabany. Oregon. JOHN SCHMEER, DXAIiZB DC ' ' Groceries and ProvisiGiis, . ,' ALBANY, OREGON, -l ": Bm just opened his new grocery establishment, on Corner of Eilsworth and Fire Streets, With a fresh stock of Groceries, Provisions, Candies, Cigars, Tobacco, ate., to which he invites the atten tion of our eitiaene. - In connection with the store he wiU keen a Bakery, and will always have on hand a full supply of fresh Bread, Crackers, Ac tar-Cell end eee me. . : JOHS fCHMXIB. February 1L ' ThiiOldStoveDopol . John Rrigg8, ' JjWaJjJ ":''?' Cc:l, Pd:r ail E:i Stra! T. " : OF THE BEST PATTOTJW. AL80,: Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware, And th usual assortment of Furnishing Goods to M ODSaiSMNI IK a AW Diwrv. . Benairs neatlv ana Dromptly executed on reason. au Short Reckonings Slake Long: Friends. FbOITI STKKXT, AiiBANT. . Dec a, 1874. A. WHEJCEUE.B. ' - O. P. ROVQ&. 9. B. WEIZLEB, CO., SHEDD, OKEG01T, . 1IEECHAIITS. Dealers in Merer, aedtsa and Prod no. A good assortment of all kinas of MOds always in orv aA loweet market rates. A gears for sale of Wagons, Oraia Drills, Cidev HUis, Churns, sea.. Ice. OaeH paid for WBKiT, OaTS, PORK, BCT TEB, avOas, and POVLXKr. . Dealer in ... '' A ' " l " j ,,.3iais t vf A. W. GAMBLE, M. D., PHYSICIAN, SURGEON. Etc - , W on Firtt SL, over Weed's Grocery Store- denhSI'fFJF0 Ut "sldence of John O. Men- -Foundry, Km street, Albany. . VI e b foot Har k etc CHARLES WILSON SfSif n'-Li"' WJWoot Market, on First street, . adjoining 0radwohls, respectfully aska a share of ' EQl aui. with sil kinds ef fresh meats. Call, tW The highest cash price paHf Iw Rifles. Albany, Angust li, 1874. . GEO. E, IIELII, lli. 0 ' "BtJ ea AiiumBj m .uBMssiisr ai imy, ALBANY, OREGON, Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Offlos in Vox's Brisk Building (ap-stairs), First . street. T7 . ALBANY; Mary MarllaclmB Slopn A. F. CHERRY, Proprietor, ALBANY, OREGON, Manufactures -- "' ' . Steam Iilngijies 1-Tw Tl sr-j W S 9 xiour ana caw mm xoacmiiery, - Wood-Vorldiigfi '..". . '," , And sU kinds of ', Iron and Brass Castings. Particular attention paid to repairing all kinds oft -machinery. eiv3 A. CAROTHERS & C0., dkaTiTOi nr Drugs, Chemicals,, Oils, Paints, Dyes, Class, Lamps, Etc An the popular " "" PATENT MEDICINES, FINE CUTLERY, CIGARS, TOBACCO, NOTIONS, PERFUMERY, And TOILET GOODS.. Particular care and promptness given physicians' " A. CABOTHEBS A CO. Albany, Oregon. 4v6 GO TO THE BEE illVE STORE ! to Btrr- Groceries, Provisions, notions, &c.,ic.s &c.,, Cheap for Cash, li 4 Coantry Prcdnce of All Kinds EOuifetL For Merchandise or Cash. Th-'e is the p'sos to get the i " Best B&rg-aina Erer Offered la Albny Fartles will always do well to oaU and arc for them selves. H. VEE1). First Street, Albany, Oregon. save DJJL-JU LIEXICA1T ustang Linimonr Was first known In America, Its merits are now well knows throughout the habitable world. It haa the oldest and best record of any Liniment la tba -world. From the millions upon mil I tons of bottles' old not a single oomplaint has ever reached na. As a Healing and Pain-Sabdning Liniment it has no -equal. It is alike ' RNFICIAL TO MAN AN E2AST.. Sold by an Pruggfta. . ST --IPflftla-- f Hi IUUU aC.h Y' OLD UOmOSlGQQ lUillC: Plantation Bitters ; Ts a nnrelv Veeetabla ' Preparation, coronoaed of' Calisaya Mark, Uouta. .Baris a4Ht ran r.n'm vhKh wtU be found bares parriian, I.u .1, Hlid. Cherry, tassifraa, Tansy, ! ftwews etc.; also Tamarinds, Dates, .prune ead Jimipeif orrSes, preserved in a samoeac quantity (only) of Ui spirit of Bogar dane e awp m any ium& -a. ney junrK ably relieve and eure the foiiowlee; ooBiplainte Dyspffpaia, Jaundice, XAvar OomrMainta, horn of Appetite, Headache. Bilious Attacks, Fever and Ague, Summer Coin plaints. Sour Mr:io.b, Palpita tion of the Heart, Oeneral Debility, etc. They arsv estwoiaUy adapted as a remedy tor the dhM-aeea to which... . . 7 O LI C tl Are sub.lectfd ; and as a tonic f .r t'e Agri, Feeble and Debilitated, have no eqRl. They a r atnotly in tended aa a Temperanoe Tome or bitters, to be need as medicine only, ea4 always aoeording to Ureoiiona. . .... v . Souo bt iu. Fibst-Cijubs DsuaotsTa BR00II FACTORY. "W. ID. BELDING, Who manufactured tiie first pood Bmora every naade in Albasy, has returned ir-a Osnita, s loealad perntauectiy iu tills city, wtiere be 1. agaia cotscaoeit the njaaufacture of nil amos t,f Brooms, Bmslrcs o..at hie factory on ITrs KTEfJTT MetKlrS o!d stand, east of -.eWi b"rr he invitee those wnusg a ii-lee broom to cu and secure it fhu. . sr. D. BKUDIKO. Albasy, Oct. 14, 167a. . ,T