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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-04-04

I
"Spiritual consolation for tenn
pOrsl misfortune. How did she
take it?"
"She coughed like fits, and then
sat up straight and looked up"
"What next?"
"She said 'Oh, DEAR and tried
to get up, but she couldn't do it,
and then she screamed and fell
back"
pheasant. How did you pro-
ceed ?"
81 talked civil to her. I'd al.
most forgotten how, but my Sun.
day go-to-meeting manners came
back wonderfully, and I tried t.
persuade her | was not a Hood.
lum."
s'In which ! presume you sue.
ceeded."
"Yes. After a while she put up
her back hair, and. then told me
that she had tnmbled off her
horse and sprained her ankle, but
didn't know how to get TO Hutch
ings' HOTEL"
"Charming situation. You en-
acted the role Of ministering angel?"
"You bet. Whipped out my
bowie, and had her boot and stock
ings in tatters in two minutes
Took the sleeves Of my shirt, and
bound a cold water bandage on.
Then kicked Buckef in the ribs,
and when he was getting bis breath
hoisted her up, and 50 we pro-
ceeded along the trail until we got
to Hutchings, where we found the
house in q muss, and papa awful
skeered."
$50 there is a papa in the busi.
ness?"
eyes; good old fellow, too; was
tremendously obliged to me, and
offered me some coin.'
"The reward Of merit.0
II got rlled at that, showed him
my six-shooter, and asked him if he
wanted to insult me, whereupon he
apologized like a gentleman and we
all had . drink"
"Includlng her ladyship."
"No, contound you, the women
folks had taken her off"
"Proceed with papa"
"We had another drink, and got
talking, and | found out that he
was Tom Kemble's father"
"What! Tom that was in our
year! That delicate little fellow
you used to make such pet of?".
"Thats about it. Poor Tom
had petered out, and the old gen.
tleman and his daughter had taken
a trip West"
"The family acquaintance facili-
tated friendship?"
Il suppose it helped. At any
rate stuck to them, and we went
around together, and Nellie and l
(thats her name, Nellie Kemble)
got nuts, and | spoke out to the
old man and showed him my hand,
and told him hearts were trumps,
but that I could spot diamonds il
I'd q mind"
"EIe told me to come up to New
York and he'd see about it."
"Provident paternal. So you
came up, accordingly ?"
"Got in this morning. Went
and got tlued up square, and started
right off to Gramercy Park"
"To be received with Outstretched
hands, and open srma?"
"Missed the post that time.
Sent up my card, but they'd gone
to a matinee at the opera"
"Where you followed without
delay?"
"Straight of. That fellow at
the Office owes me some change, for
/ gave him a fifty and didn't wait
for my stamps"
''Prices are high, but not 50 bad
as fifty"
81 ran around the house until
they wanted to put me out. Said
| was mad.'
"A conclusion uncharitable in the
extreme, but pardonable under the
circumstances
1--WE were having q talk about
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-04-04

Masquerade weddings are the
last feature of connubial fun in In
diana. The minister is masked,
the bride is masked, ditto the groom,
attendants and guests. The groom
trusts to luck, and sometimes finds
he has married the wrong woman,
but trivial occurrences do not make
sadness in that State.
A Tennessee belle lately punished
a suitor who sought to gain her
hand through false asperSiou Of his
rival by going with him to the
altar, and then responding "No"
at the most critical moment, and
completing the ceremony with the
illuminated one.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-04-04

An Indiana paper has already
hoisted its ticket for 1870. 1t is
Oliver p. Morton for President,
and Benjamin +. Butler for Vice:
President.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
Reau Hickman Dead.
DNLN AANNEhHI1IN9"
A Queer Washington Character Gone

Queer Washington Character ""h''
"Beau" Hickman, a well-known
Washington character, died at hospi-
tai in that city, last week, OF pnralsis.
g Beau" or Robert Singleton Hickman,
as he called himself, was born m Mary
land about 1913. After a wild and dissi-
mated career in all parts of the country,
but mainly in the south, lac driited to
Washington and there he developed an
extraordinary passion for dress, his
chief ambition being 10 shine as the Top
of the day. He became an adept IN
personal adornment, and being easy and
graceful in manners, and possessing
some means, which he disbursed with
liberality, he soon occupied the posi-
tion of the American Beau Brummel,
and assumed that wOrtby's title with All
due dignity. He hobuObbed with all
the great men of his day who were
given TO sensual pleasures, and there
were few MP 20 twenty years ago VINO
were not, and numbered among his regu-
lar and occasional companions nm the
! debauch and at the gaming table some
| of the brightest ornaments OF the SEN
! ate and the house. But the time came
| when he could no longer SHINE nut IN
| borrowed plumage, and Bean became
| the walking advertisement OF the lash
! iouable tailors, and the stool-pigeon OF
| the gamblers. Little by little he went
went down in the scale, and when old
age began TO creep upon him he was ire
a1ently dependent for the necessaries
of life upon the maid-servants OF tho
hotels, and upon the charity Of stran,,
gers, whom he leived upon with c3oi
i'm udence that was always irresistible'
His real name was unknown, his iaml-
lv supposed 20 have been one oi tho
Wealtbiest i'm Maryland or Virginia, haV
ing sent TO him stipulated sum every
wear on condition that he should keep
their secret. He never told anybody
even the name Of the place where
was born, and nobody ever knew where
he lived i'm Washington until one night
in T,ouisiana avenue a fire turned him
in the street with his wardrobe IN his
arms. Frequently at the Washington
bars, while tipping glasses with the poll.
ticians, he said IL was poor city thai
couldn't support him like a gentleman
and IL was his intention 20 make Wash
inRton support him and he did, ever
10 the extent of levying % cents iron
each of the young bucks Of the town
and larger sums from the larger ami
mails. For the last few years of his lite
having been afflicted with inflammation!
rheumatism, he made no use whateve
Of intoxicating liquors.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
An Ecclesiastical Difficulty.

Tn the Church of England the High
Cbnrch party. or Ritualists, as they are
called. are also doing their best to bring
Tootters to a crisis. A furious agitation
is now raging OH the subject of bal
ClGcchino in one of the London chnfches'
A baJ0lGcchinO is simply canopy
which may be more or less gorgeous,
over the altar, and is intended to en-
hance the dignity and honors OF that part
of the fittings OF the church. An
application for leave to put mp TINS
canopy has been made to the bishop OF
London. The bishop has gravely re-
ferred the question to his learned asses
sor: the assessor has had solemn slt-
ting to hear the question argued, and
there will, no doubt, be a long, lntrl-
cate, and highly edifying inquiry.
There can, of course, be no DOUBT as 70
tbe grounds on which the Ritualists de-
sire to decorate their churches IN TINS
manner. 1t will carry them nearer tc
Rome, and will supply another outward
and visible sign of the mystic relations
between the priesthood and the deity
Protestant feeling has been keenlJ
reused, and canopies are denounced as
Papal superstitutions and inventions o.
the devil. 1t will very likely be tounC
that baLdacchinO are not illegal, and al
the hot-headed Ritualists parsons In the
country will then insist upon having
their affairs dignifed with trumPetry
hangings of velvet and fringe, ike
shoddy mantel-piece. If this happens
there is pretty sure to be fstlcuffs
Even az II is tbe choir-boys at some o
tbe H;gb Church chapels are frequently
uobbed and beaten by the mop. l
seems that there has been some queess
tion of erecting a bGLd0cchf'o IN ot
PauI's cathedral f; but at present ther'
is no example of this kind or oTnamen zen
in any English church. 1t VIII there
fore be absolutely new and strange, am
it's introduction is sure to be bltterl,
} resented. d.-COr. NJ Y. Times.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19

THE LIABILITY OF EDITORS TO Their
FRIENDs.-What is the liability of an
editor to his personal friends? Strictly
speaking, he should have none; should
attack his own father if he disapproves
his speeches, or lash his wife's last book
IL he thinks it rubbish. This is, no
doubt, abstractly true, as it is also alb
stractiy true. to steal an epigram from
an Australian who once wrote pam
inlet on the subject, that an editor
sbonld live in a cellar, but in practice
n1en will not comply with either condl-
tion and such demands would drive all
tLa men with hearts and tempers ont OF
tbe nrofession. 1t is, nevertheless, ex-
cessiveIv difficult to find rule that shall
be morally sufficient, forsilence, though
it will meet the case of a book, unless OF
the first importance, will not meet that
of grave political action. We suspect
that in this case the practice OF parlia-
ment is still the best guide, and thatthe
journalist is bound, as the statesman
would be bound, to do his duty and take
the consequences. He might be iittie
more gentle in his language, a httie
more apOlOgetic in his tone, but the at
tack must not he deprived of its ell
cheney for any prr-"nai consideration
whatsoever.-LOHoi0H Spectator.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
:. UMBRELLAS UNDER FIRE. y

..TTMRRELLAs UNDER FIRE. "-Sev-
entv wears ago, large umbrella was
usually kept hanging in the hall at good
houses. to keep visitors dry as they
passed to and from their carriages.
Coffee-house keepers provided III th's
wav for their frequenters; but men dl.
dained to carry such a convenience
through the streets. 1t was held ettem-
mate indeed to shirk wetting. Take
that thing away, said Lord CORVALLIS
to the servant about to hold the house
umbrella over him. I" I am not sugar
or salt in a shower. It is hard to I'M
agine the guards under fire and UNI
hTella at the same time. Such thing
however, was seen once. During the
action at the mayors house, near Bay
onne, in 1913, the grenadiers, under
Col. Tynling, occupied an unfinished
redoubt near the high road. Yelling,
ton, happening to ride that way, beheld
the household regiment protecting
themselves from the pelting rain WITH
their umbrellas. This was too much
for the great chiefs equanimity, and ne
instantly sent off Lord A. Hill, with the
the message. "Lord Wellington does
not approve of the use of umbrellas un'
der fire, and cannot allow the gentle
mems sons to make themselves ridlcu
Ious in the eyes of the army. "-L0'aao'
| Halter,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
The Wife Market.

Thus does Vanity Fair morallze
"Iondon this season as yet resembles
heaven in one thing, there has been no
MARRYING. or giving in marriage here
but that is an attribute of the land OF
hope with which mothers whose daugh-
ters are 'out can dispense. Is 1t not
time for them, however, to look matters
boldly in the face and see what remedy
there may be for this husband famine !?
Now thai the lately arranged builders
strike has set us all talking about the
laws of demand and supply, it seems an
appropriate time for them to review the
causes that initiate against their dis
posing advantageously of their stock.
They should learn a lesson from seller
of fruits, who will dispose at any sacr1-
fee of what at the end of the day
threatens to remain unsold, rather than
run the risk of it's turning bad and
quite unstable; and they should re-
| member that the markets are governed
bv two considerations; first, by the
| number of people who want thing
secondly. by the amount thereof there is
| to sell to those people. Young women,
as wives, are not just now very popu-
lar article, and yet they are very numer'
Gus. Suppose there are twenty men IL
one season willing to give the price of
title and some 920, 900 year, forthwith
800 girls are marked by their owners fol
these 20 men only, and $50 would -bt
purchasers are thus frightened off, while
at the end of the season, even If all the
20 do buy, go maidens are left on hand
their value diminished by one season
If mothers would only recollect tina
women are as plentiful as men, and tina
there are on an average three younge
sons to each elder one, we might b.
spared some of those heartrendinn!
scenes in August, when you may see Il
the West End hot and disappointe'
families quarreling themselves away t
the railway stations, all equally eros
and mortified at the result of anothe
useless London season.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
Spirit Forms.

A special reporter of the London
Daily Telegraph has furnished that pa
per with an account of some manifesto
tions by certain mediums which they
are pleased to term esprit forms.
The reporter of the Telegraph relates
the following incident "We arranged
ourselves in a semicircle around the
curtains which separated the small
back drawing-room from the large front
one, Joined hands, sang until we were
hoarse as crows, and kept our eyes
steadily fixed on an aperture left be-
tween the curtains for the faces to show
themselves. The room was In blank
darkness, and, feeling rather tired OF
the incantation, I looked over my
shadow form stood self-illuminated
not far from me. At last / had seen it,
a good orthodox ghost in white, and
visible in the darkness. 1t was the
form of the redoubtable John King
himself, who was, believe, a bold
buccaneer in the flesh, but who looked
more like an Arab sheikh in the spirit.
He sailed about the room, talked to us,
and finally disappeared. Eventually he
reappeared behind the curtains, and for
brief space the portiere was drawn
aside, and the spirit form was seen
lightning up the recumbent figure Of
the medium, who was stretched on a
sofa, apparently in deep trance. 1t
must be borne in mind that we were
forming a Gordon round the passage
from one room to the other during the
whole of this time" Il
He continues "I was invited few
weeks ago to a very select seance, in
deed, where the same medium was to
oficiate. This family, who spared no
expense in their Investigations, had ac-
tually got a large, handsome cabinet
standing in their dinning-room as a
recognized piece of furniture. 1t was
only used, however, on this occasion,
for the Imprisonment of the medium.
The evolutions of John King, who soon
appeared, all took place outside the
cabinet door. He was only materiali-
zed to the middle and, to our utter
amazement, came mp to the table, and
apparently through the table, into the
very middle of the circle, where he dis
ported himself invarious ways, keeping
I'D an animated conversation the whole
time. and frequently throwing himself
into the attitude of a person swimming
on his back. He also went upwards as
high as the gaselier, and altogether did
a good many marvellous things, consid-
ering that all this time Represented the
appearance of only half a man illumi-
mated by his own light" The writer,
in conclusion, remarks: 'Tt is some
what irksome task, it is true; but no
general principle can be arrived at ex-
cept by an induction of particulars.
Let us be Baconian, even to our ghosts:
If there are ghosts, they are a good
deal more substantial than L had
thought. If they are not, let some
BODY, in the name If nineteenth-centu
~ science, send them off as with the
| crow of chanticleer, and let us hear nc
| rnnn,o Of srnirit faces or Snirit forms.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
Living Comfortably in Prisons.

A visitor at the Sing Sing (N. "
prison gives description of life in the
"pood conduct cells" which brings out
some facts not generally known. He
writes
cd sscending flight of steps to the
male prison, and traversing corridor,
the main prison containing 600 cells, IN
tiers of 100 each, is reached. Here
everything is scrupulOusly clean, and
in the first tier of cells, which are oc-'
cupied by the best-behaved convlcts,
the effect of the system of moral sua-
sion, inaugurated by Warden Hubbell,
is apparent. Besides other privileges
extended to well behaved convicts, the
Warden permits them to furnish their
cells with any articles of luxury or re-
finement supplied them by their friends,
and the result is a long range of cells
fitted up with neatness and every ele-
gance, according to the various tastes OF
the occupants. The floors of nearly ali
are either carpeted or covered with oil
cloth. and in more than one instance
luxuri ous little mat stands at the door.
Each cell is supplied with lamp, IN
order to enable the occupant to read,
from the time of retiring at six o'clock,
unJll Qlu6, WuCu Ill W w. 80 AAA~'
cases the prison lamp is supplemented
by an ordinary household lamp, and not
unfrequently supplied with shade;
The single shelf in the cell is covered
in some instances with gally-bound
books or fancy article in Others only
displaying single volume, Bible OF
prayer book, sent by an attectonate
mother. Those whose friends supply
them with the materials decorate their
cells with cheap pictures, and the walls
| in several instances, are papered neaUly.
Looking-glasses are also allowed, and
many of the cells are furnished with
those useful articles, although one
would fancy the owners ought not tc
take much pleasure in contemplating
their altered countenances. Butthe Ded'
| cap the climax of convict luxury. Many
of them are perfect models OF cIeanL
ness and taste, the unsightly PRISON co
being entirely hidden beneath the fold
of drapery. Nothing can surpass tn
snowy whiteness of pillow and bed
covering, which are neatly trimmed AM
so smooth as to suggest the idea tina
the convict is too fond of having his ex
tras present decent appearance {
dream of using them, and in order t
nreyent tn m from getting soiled care
fulIy removes them before retiring. L
each cell large card bearing som
wholesome Scriptural precept is placed
nv direction of the warden, and thes
, in many cases, are prettily ornamente
, bv the busy occupants. Where the col
yicts are unable to procure wall-pape
an attempt is made to fresco the wal
with crayons or decorate them wit
colored wood-cuts.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
English Table Wines.

King James I. took the trouble to
import for his own drinking the strong
G. eek wines, strange to English pal
ates of the seventeenth century, which
had once been sufficiently abundant in
the cellars of the Knight Templar. On
the table of the Scottish Solomon might
have been seen dusky TASKS of cypress,
with its strong twang, due to the pres
more dashing young bloods about the
kings court affected champagne, the
merits of which Charles had probably
learned during his Continental Odyssey,
but at which It is more than likely that
the old cavaliers, who had fought un-
der Rupert, looked with some contempt
Champagne was not, under either the
Stuarts or the early Georges, what it
has since become. At the Regent Phil
ip's famous suppers, the gorgeous
leckeys uncocked a dozen TASKS of
Burgundy for every bottle of the spark
ling grape juice of Epernay.
The conclusion of the Methuen treaty
brought port wine into fashion among
our great-grandfathers, and claret was
displaced to an extent which would have
been mischievous indeed to Gascon
wine growers, had not the latter, fortu-
nately for them, found new market,
that made up for the partial loss of Eng
lish custom. The Marechal de Richie
lieu, sometime governor of Gascony,
really believed to the end of his life
that he owed the establishment of his
health to the good wine of the district,
and his praises of the southern growth,
and his influence with Louis XIV, made
Bordeaux fashionable. Up that time,
the more costly wines consumed in
France hal come from Burgundy and
from the Rhine, while a hundred petty
vintages, thin and sour for the most
part, supplied the demand for cheap
beverage. In England, on the other
band, port was a usuper that rose on
the ruins of its older rival, claret. 1t
came to be considered, economical ques-
tions apart, as a Briton's duty to stick
to port. The punch-bowl had assumed
the dignity of national institution, but
wine was still needed, andit was thought
better to buy it from our allies than to
deal, through the agency OF unscrupu-
Ious smugglers or suspected neutralss,
with the natural enemies of our glorl-
Gus constitution. This port, to the
great encouragement and diffusion OF
gout and other ailments, came to be
drank to indiscretion among us, and
claret gradually grew to be looked on as
an expensive luxury, and to be charged
for accordingly.-AUth the Year Round
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
PATIENCE.
BY PHEBE CARY.

Why are we 80 impatient of delay,
Longing forever for the time to be?
For thus we live tomorrow in to-day,
Yea, sad tomorrow we may never sec.
We are too hasty; are not reconciled
To let kind nature do her work alone
We plant our seed, and like foolish child
We dig it up to see if it has grown.
The good that is to be we covet now.
We cannot wait for the appointed hour;
Before the fruit is ripe, we shake the bough'
And seize the bud that folds away tha HOVER
When midnight darkness reigns we do not see
That the sad night is mother of the morn;
We cannot think our own sharp agony
May be the birth-pang of joy unborn.
Into the dust we see our idols cast,
And cry that death has triumphed, lie Is Nola
We do not trust the promise, that the last
OF all our enemies shall be destroyed!
With rest almost in sight the spirit faints,
And heart and flesh grow weary at the last'
Our feet would walk the city of the saints,
Even before the silent gate Is passed.
Teach us to wait until thou shalt appear
To know that all thy ways and times are JUST ;
Thou seest that we do believe, and fear,
Lord, make us also to believe and trust!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-09-19
BY HoRsLEY BROS. & FIGUERs.
RVESTLNG.

Heavy with the golden grain,
Iithely comes the loaded vain
From the fields of wheat and barley;
Flowing with the sunsets light,
Sending shades Of gold 80 bright
Through the oaken branches gnarly.
Now it winds DER wooded hill,
Now across the ripping rill
Wend the farmers richest treasure;
Till safe garnered meath the caves,
Harvest's store of golden sheaves
Waits the sturdy thresher's pleasure.
Softly on our listening ears,
Through the lapse of many years
Falls the sacred promise given;
TIL the earth shall pass away,
Till the bright eternal day,
Till the rocks in twain are rlveD.
Mid the scenes of war and peace
Seed time and harvest shall not cease"
But blessing upon blessing heaped;
Never changing, still remaineth,
While the Lord in glory reignethJ
HArvests shall be sOwn and reaped.
In the morning sow the seed
And at eve outstretch the hand,
Gather faith for all thy need
From the lesson Of the land;
Forth the sturdy reapers go,
Bringing in the golden grain;
Thou shalt find it ever so,
No good seed is sown in vain.
Forth into the worlds broad fields
Go We at the evening tide,
What of good the harvest yields
Workers will not be denied;
And when the reaper DEATH draws near
To claim the harvest of his own,
Like the full corn within the ear
May ye be gathered to the throne.