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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06
the right Kind. by directing the officers

the right kind, by directing the officers
of the law to the spot.
AS we were moving along cautiously
among the trees at the base of a
cliff, just before striking out into the
meadow, we saw the figure of woman
rapidly approaching. She called out,
in subdued tones
IS Mike, Mike, do stopr" She leaped
into the seat beside him, sobbing ::
"Oh, shall go-I must go and see
where my darling is to be buried. !"
81 faith, mi young woman, ye hadn't t
be afther maxim SO much noise about
it,
Mike was looking furtively about to
is in fear of detection.
The wagon came to halt, and the
man began to dig the grave.
The mountains frowned the winds
sighed and moaned as if in anguish for
this dark, mysterious crime. We were
near enough to be certain that we could
identify the spot.
The box was lowered in the grave,
and soon the work was done. With
difficulty Mike led the young girl away
and assisted her into the wagon, which
soon disappeared in the darkness, but
we heard these lingering words
That's bad an tiresome job done
wild, so it is. Devil one will ever know
that became of him. -
Next morning Judge Fassett was ar
rested on the charge of murder. So
sudden was the action of the civil au-
thorities that no time was allowed for
explanation.
The news sped throughout the village.
The village was electrified. The
knowing ones had their predictions full
filled.
81 knew 'twould be so.''
A posse of officers, in whose wake
were half the population of the village,
were following the physician to the
swamp meadow. Said one, as they were
crossing Judge Fassett's grounds
"There is some great mystery in this
case. The Judge is the very soul of
truth and honor. You addressing the
physician) must be mistaken, and if so,
there'n be something to pay for this
arrest. Col. Burliegh was seen enter
ing the Judges gate last night, it's
true; but what does that prove?"
After a short search, some freshly
turned earth was discovered and the
digging began.
4 wooden box was struck ! The
populace became frantic. It was lifted
out. The crowd was pushing, leaping
upon each other, to get view of the
peaceful form of a dog !!
Erred had shown signs of hydro
phobia, and Judge Fassett shot him.
P. S.-Col. Fred Burleigh and Del
Fassett became husband and wife, and
are now living in their luxurious home
surrounded by coterie of little Bur
leighs, who enjoy lots of fun when they
hear how their papa was shot.-Neat
York Weekly.
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ADVICE to Settlers.

At late celebration of Queen Vic
toria's birthday in Virginia, Mr.. st.
Andrew is reported to have given his
countrymen the following advice, which
is equally applicable to Americans in
tending to migrate. He said
1. Come in colonies, or go in colonies.
2. Bring money in your purse.
3. Leave your prejudices behind.
4. Don't expect too much.
5. For land or business pay cash.
6. Keep two-thirds at least of your
money for working capital.
z. Avoid land-sharks. You can easily
find out the reliable land agents.
8. In buying land don't get too much
of good thing.
8. Adhere to the old fashioned prin-
ciples of British honor. Don't attempt
g smartness." Better-class Americans
don't admire it; but they can beat
you at the game if you challenge them
to it.
10. Remember that success is more in
the man than in the country.
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The Pacific Roads.

Late agreements entered into be-
tween the Union Pacific and Kansas
Pacific railways are of deep interest to
all branches of business in the country.
All the former rivalries and jealousies
existing between the roads have been
done away with, and henceforth they
will run in harmony, avoiding former
delays in transportation, and adopting
q more reasonable system of freightage.
The transm mission of California fruits,
especially, will be affected for good.
The Central Pacific officers have also
united in the general harmony, thus
placing these great thoroughfares upon
a more perfect and sensible footing
than has existed since their construc-
ton.
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Rachel's Ayarice.

Mile. Rachel, the late great French
tragic actress, who, nineteen years ago,
visited this country on an artistic tour,
had well-deserved reputation for
shocking avarice in fact, she would
have cut cent into four pieces. As she
was at supper one night, in a reunion of
artists and authors at Alexandra Dumas
fathers (whose prodigalities and superb
disdain for money afforded striking
contrast with the celebrated Jewess'
covetousness), the company indulged in
playing cards, and Rachel, taking out
of her pocketbook some money for the
game, let silver piece of 80 centimes
90 cents) fall on the floor. Much
troubled by the incident, she immedi-
ately called for Dumas servant to bring
a candle and fetch the important trife.
''Let me do it, malciously exclaimed
Dumas. sending back his servant. "I'll
find it for you, my love- And, taking
out of his pocket bank note of 100
francs $500, he lighted it at the luster,
picked up under the table the half
franc piece, and most graciously ten
dered it to Rachel, who carefully put il
in her portmonnaie as she would have
done with q relic coming from her an
cestor Moses.
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All Sorts.

PARIS has 68, 900 dogs, which last year
were taxed 1927, 900.
Iowa put up 1900 school-houses
within the past year.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA produced 1880, 900
gallons of wine last year.
FoRTY-sEvES thousand Germans have
gone back to Paris to live.
BRooK1YN has twenty beer breweries,
making 1000 kegs week.
NINE million horses in the United
States value, $3.50, 600. 600.
MASSACHUSETTS has furnished twenty
five members of the Cabinet.
OLD PROB. hit it eight light times out
of every hundred last month.
A NEBRASKA paper tells of a flock of
pigeons mum bering 1928, ,764. Close
figures.
CoNNEcr1cUr has twenty-five silk fac
tories, whose aggregate capital IS So
1906
A DEALER in figures says that the
reaping machines of the country net
leg day.
AN Atlanta, Ga, policeman has been
discharged for eating box of sardines
while on his beat.
The ordinary stock " of the railway
companies of the United Kingdom
amounts to nearly 9250, 600, 900 sterling.
Mr.. K1LKUFF, chief engineer of the
Pacific Mail Company, has sailed
], ,7S6, 900 miles in twenty-three years
service.
IT. 1,, aEo4,o-,o1;4ov, ro;1x1ox,
since it's opening in 1868, has carried
205, 900, 900 persons without killing or
iniuring single one of them.
THERE are 10, 500 miles of railway in
Russia. of which 3,48S miles are owned
by the state. There are beside 1,153
miles in progress of construction and
], ,153 projected.
CAMEL's hair brushes have been
found to be capital substitutes for hos
pitaI sponges. Now, let science dis
cover some equally satisfactory way of
doing away with newspaper sponges,
and its triumphs will be complete.
THE city of Rome is said to be honey
combed with about 900 miles of subter-
ranean passage ways cut through the
solid rock, and that these contain the
bodies of from 6,000, 900 to 1000, 900
of human beings entombed there since
| the city was built.
DoN CARLOS has black hair, brown
eyes, slightly aquiline nose, and black
beard, covering the whole face. He is
very handsome. He has an active,
powerful frame, and stands six feet
three in his boots. He is every inch
the oId-fashioned hero-k;ng.
!
The San Francisco Bulletin, in a late
issue, says: Small dealers are COM
planning that enough of five cent pieces
cannot be obtained for the transaction
of business. So great is the demand
/ for these coins that premiums varying
from q to per cent. in gold are paid
for them.
The annual supply of copper from
| the whole of the civilized world is esti-
mated at between 127, 900 and 130, ,O0C
tons. The annual tin supply is stated
at from 25, 900 to $4,000 tons. These
estimates are made by a leading En-
glish house engaged in the tin and cop,
per trades.
THE total area of the 81 United
States, without the Territories, IS l.,
$50, ITO square miles the area of coal
producing sections is 191, 900 square
miles, which is about one square mile
in ten. The area of the ten Territories
is 995, ,O32 square miles, making an ag
glegate of 1915, ,203 square miles.
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A Good Paper.

We do not often give voluntary puff
to any of the many professed family.
newspapers printed in the country.
There is one, however, that possesses.
SO many excellences as family journal
and neaOs paper combined that we can
not refrain from saying word in its
praise. We allude to the Chicago,
Ledger. Each namber is filled with
the very choicest reading, including
stories, anecdotes, sketches of advent
ure and travel, poetry, domestic reci-
pes, and other useful information. It
is printed by the Ledger Company,
Chicago, at 81. so year, which is cheap
when we consider that the paper con-
tains forty eight closely printed columns
of good reading. The Ledger is always
a welcome visitor to cur table. In the
language of Rip Van Wihkle, '' May it
live long and prosper. p Western Econ
ODaiSt
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A Glass Eater.

There is chap in Sta1lnton, Va, who
eats glass. II went out" says the
physician who describes it, sand Sc
cured a piece, about one-third of
broken pane, and brought in several
friends to witness the sight. He took
the glass and deliberately bit out a
piece about the size of silver half
dollar, and chewed it up with as much
gusto as if it had been piece of bread,
swallowed it, taking af.e-ward swallow
of water and bread, be said, to get the
particles out of his teeth. He would
have eaten the whole piece had asked,
as he has frequently eaten tumblers fon
a drink of whisky. He said he would !
eat any kind of glass except the colored.
bottle glass, which had poison in it.
He was first induced TO try the expert
ment about three years ago, at the Cape
of Good Hope, by surgeon in the
British navy, who bet he could eat ALL
the glasses eighteen In number) at q.
dinner party, which he did, and he saw
no reason why he could not do as much,
SO he tried it by eating only three
Since that time he has eaten glass fo1
the amusement of others over a thou
sand times, with no disagreeable effect
The only difference ne sees is it gives
him an appetite" +"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-06

THE MEN WHO CAN FORGIVE. The
brave only know how to forgive; it is
the most refined and generous pitch of
virtue human nature can arrive at.
Cow ards have done good and kind ac-
tions-cowards have even fought, nav.
sometimrs even conquered, but cow
ard never forgave. 1t is not in his ma
ture /; the power of doing it flows only
from a strength and greatness of soul,
conscious of its own force and security,
and above the little temptations of re-
senting every fruitless attempt to inter-
rupt its happiness.
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cooDY GKUNsELL's HOUSE.
BIZ LUCY r.AROoM.

A weary old face beneat1- :. olack mutch:
Like a flame ID a cavern her eye,
Besvsixt craggy forehead and cheek-bone high;
Her long, lean fingers hurried to clutch
A something concealed in her rusty cloak,
whle sound-was it curse sigh p
Smote the ear of the pssser-by.
A dreary old house on headland slope,
Against the gray of the sea,
Where garden and orchard used to be,
Witch-grass and nettle and rag-weed grope-
Paupers that eat the earth riches out
Nightshade and henbane are lurking about,
Like demons that enter in
When soul has run waste to sin.
Tie house looked wretehed and woe-begcne;
It's desolate windows Wept
With dew that forever dripped and crept
From the noss-grown caves and ever anon
Made rickety shutter Of l shinsie nap aap
AS who with jeer should say,
Why does the old crone stay -
Goody Grunsell's house-it was all her own;
There one living to chide,
Though she tore every rib from it's skeleton side
To kindie q fire when she sat alone
through creee and a rent to the be end Gs a51 n "
IOf waves that wild ditties 5roned-
oI winds that nuttered and moaned.
Ahd this was the only booty she hid
Under her threadbare cloak
strip OF worn and weather-st2ined oak;
Then into her lonesome hearth she slid,
Ahd, inch by inch, as the cold years sped,
she was burning the house over her head;
Why not-when each separate room
Held more than hfetimes gloom
Goody Grtinsel's house-not memory glad
Ilu1nlned bare ceiling wall
But cruel shadows would sometimes fall
On the floor; and faces eerie and sad
At dusk would peer in al the broken pane,
While ghostly steps psttered through the rain.
Sending the blood with start
To her empty, shriveled heart.
For she had not been forbearing wife,
Nor a loyal husbands mate;
The twain had been one but in fear and hate,
And the horror of that inverted life
Had not spent itself on their souls alone:
From the bitter root evil buds had blown;
There were births that blighted grew,
And died-and no g!adness knew.
The house unto nobody home had been,
But lair Of pain and shame;
Gould any its withered mistress blame,
Who sought from its enbers spark to win,
A warmth for the body, to soul refused2
Such questioning through her thoughts con-
fused
As she slipped with her spoil from sight
Could the dead assert their right?
The splint5red board, like daggers blade,
Goody Grunsell covering hid,
AS If the house had a voice that child,
When wound after wound in its side she made;
AS If the wraiths of her children cried
From their graves, to denounce her a homicide
Willie the sea, up the weedy path,
Groaned, spUInlnS in word1ess wrath.
The house, with its Iit1ful, haunted look
Old Cfoody, more piteous still,
Angry and sad. the night fell chill
They are pictures of q Iong-lost book.
But the windows Of many human face
Show tenants that burn their own dweiling-place
And specter and fieud VIII roam
Through the heart which IS not loves home.
-Atia5stie MONTHLY.
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SAID that Detroit Justice: cit IS my
solemn duty to warn you, Jane Welch,
that You are on the high road to degra-
tion. This court is going to send you
to the House of Correction for sixty
days, but only with feeling Of kind
ness. You will have time to reflect !;
your nose will lose it's rosy hue; you'll
have chance to comb your hair and
make yourself hustle, and I haven't a
doubt that, before you come out, you
will have such high aims that police
man can't get within ten rods of you. !"
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A Grumpy Convention.

No fictitious characters impress US
with sense of reality Like those of
Shakespeare. When we read of Con-
vention of the Fat Men Of Ohio and
Michigan, which was held at Putin Bay
on the 10th inst, we said to ourselves
"Ah if only Sir John Falstaff could
have been there p He is the ideal of
adipose. Heis the refinement of gross
ness. His wit and his waggery his
mendacity SO enormous that it almost
seems more respectable than truth his
selfshness SO absolute that it has an
aspect of generosity his sensuality SO
little concealed that 1t well nigh
amounts to the spiritual-au these are
qualities which demand large quarters.
We cannot picture him as spare; we
cannot think of his unctlous sentences
coming from a hungry mouth. His
great sides give to his chat and balder-
dash the gravity of sermon. Mauger
many doubts, we respect him as we re-
spect mountain. He talks. it is true,
almost always of himself, but then there
is SO much to talk about Hundreds
of pounds go to his composition, and
there is the wisdom which makes the
best of everything in every ounce of
them.
But we must not forget cur fatfriends
at Putin Bay while dwelling affection
ately upon theirswelling prototype. Such
meeting was of ponderous portent, and
may be called the Apotheosis of Avoir-
dupois. There was, indeed, in the
regulation of the convention, a slight.
suspicion of personal pride aad exclu-
siveness. the standard OF qualification
was high, or at least broad and heavy.
Perfect rotundity alone answered the
completeness of the conception, and nce
light weight could enter there. A con-
stitutional provision (ArticIe I. rigor--
| ously shut the gates of admission upon
every candidate weighing less than 20C1
| pounds. Credentials were in the COR
poration. Nobody concerning whose,
| specific gravity there was the least
doubt could take his seat before going,
to scale, and the hghtest monster of q,
member, John Duleo, Esq, of Monroe,
Mich, weighed 200 pounds the most
| ponderous being Mr.. John Iempleton,
OF Swanton, Ohio, who pulled down 42Ss
pounds, and was accordingly made
honorary chairman. Al but it must
have been sight to see then all seated
in long and biliowy rows-ranges CT
sesquipedality, chaius Of abdominap
fancy the King of the Canuibal Islands.
looking in there with MS mouth full OF
! water Why there were 56 distinct and
separate masses of meat, and the ag
gregate weight thereof, Il we have not
blundered in addition, was 13,61s8
pounds Had they been Aeaped up, It
would have been Pelicr upon Ossa~.
Woman, too, lovely and large, was
there, viz: Mrs. Walter Delerri, Nor
walk, Ohio COS pounds). and Mrs.
Sullivan, North Bass Island, Ohio Co.'S
pounds). Hail to yon, most equal and
most mighty mesdames Joans OF
juiciness noble champions of the
equality of the sexes, at least in the
matter of ponderous plunlpness. Our
souls all love largeness, and the toUt
ensemble must have been imposing in
the extreme !-NeaO York Tribune.
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The Empress JOsephine's Handkerchief.

A correspondent of the Paris Amaeri-
can Register writes s' / have SO often
heard French persons criticise the un-
Willingness of English and American
ladies to name certain articles of the
the feminine toilet that L was quite
delighted few days ago, in perusing
some old chronicles, to find out that it
was possible for the French to be quite
as prndish as we. Until the reign of
the Empress Josephine a handkerchief
was thought in France so shocking an
object that a lady would never have
dared to use it before any one. The
word even was carefully avoided in re-
fined conversation. An actor who would
have used handkerchief on the stage,
even in the most fearful moments of the
| play, would have been numerically
Kissed; and it was only in the beginning
of the present century that celebrat-
ed actress, Mile. Duchesnois, dared to
appear with handkerchief in her hand.
Having to speak of this handkerchief in
the course of the piece she never could
summon enough courage to call it by its
true name, but referred to it as light
tissue. A few years latter translation
of one of Shakspeare's plays by Alfred
/ de Vigny having been acted, the word
handkerchief was used for the first time
! on the stage amid cries of indignation
| from a great part of the house. I doubt
/ if even to-day the French eIegdates
would carry handkerchiefs if the wife
of Napoleon I. had not given the signal
to adopt them. The Empress Jose
phine, although really lovely, had very
ugly teeth. To conceal them she was
in the habit of carry small handker.
chiefs adorned with costly laces, which
she continually raised gracefully to hel
lips. OF course all the ladies of the
court followed her example, and hand
kerchiefs have rapidly become an i'm
portant and costly part of the feminine
toilet so much SO that the price of 6
single handkerchief of the trousseau O
the Duchess of Edinburgh would max,
the fortune of necessitous family"
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BE CHRERFUL.-Onec cheerful face IN
household will keep everything bright
and warm within. Envy, hatred,
malice. selfishness, despondency, and
the door, they may even look within,
but they can never enter and abide
there; the cheerful face will put them
to shame and FIJI 3ht
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A SPRINGFIELD gentleman concluded
to have a bath the other evening, and
in the dark got hold of chunk of stove
bIacking by mistake for the soap. A
more polished man than he was has
never been seen in the whole State of
Massachusetts.
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She welcomed him with all the ardent
warmth of her nature. They spoke of
their betrothal, and wove bright Wis
sions of the day when they would pub
icly offer their phghted VOW of love and
constancy.
But, alas great change was mani
fest in Judge Fassett and his proud
wife.
They received the returned soldier
with great coldness, freezing recogni
ton, that made him feel chilly himself,
as If little agues were running up and
down his back. His position was un-
comfortable
To make q long story short, 1T ap-
pears that damaging rumors had been
! sent from the army against the charac-
ter of Col. Burleigh. He was said to
| be very intemperate in his habits, and
already confirmed drunkard. This,
with many other things, led the Fas-
setts-the Judge and his wife-to be-
l1eve that he was an irredeemable
scamp, and they resolved that their
| daughters hand should not be gwen IN
marriage.
The Colonel was not long in ascer-
| tanning that there was a rival in the
field, who was the author of these cal
umnies, and whose hope of acceptance
was thought to rest on the complete
demolition of the former.
Notwithstanding all ti-e explanations
and assertions of innocence ON the part
of the Colonel, Mr.. and Mrs. Fassett
continued firm in their belief and in
flexible in their purpose to oppose the
marriage.
On one occasion, Judge Fassett and
the Colonel interchanged some very un-
pleasant words when both were in the
heat of passion, when the former or
dered the latter out of his house and
told him that if he ever darkened his
house door again he would shoot him.
The Colonel arose to depart, his lips
| ivid with rage, saying:
''Jndge Fassett, your daughter will
be the wife of Fred Burleigh."
The estrangement became the staple
topic of town gossip, and some predict
ed that this was but the beginning OF
the end.
Let us see.
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A HOTEL out West says, generously,
Of competing establishment, that it
stands without arrival.
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The rebellion entailed a debt of
50, 500, 600, 900 upon,th government to
be paid by the people, and, aside from
the principal of the public debt, and
pensions, there was paid during the fis-
cal year 1873 the sum of 1927, 992, 999.- :
95, on account of expenses growing out
of the late war.
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The Cost of Wars

The Republic magazine presents
some rather startling statistics concern
ing the different wars in which the
United States has been en6egcd. In
the war of the Revolution Q775 to
1888 279, ,021 soldiers were engaged in
the war of 1912 to 1916, 527, ,654 in the
Mexican war, 70, ,26OEmaking a total
of 878, ,935-while in the war of 1860 no
less than 2,757, ,598 were engaged. Dur
ing the rebellion 279,6s9 officers and
men were killed or wounded, while
6, TAO we're missing in action. Since
the commencement of the war the gov
ernment has paid. up to june, 1874, in
pens1.9nee;o .9 eoo o9er 9en ~ ol, Deduct
there is left s246. 900. 600 growing out
of the rebellion. Some idea of the
number of pensions, and the amounts
paid during these twelve years may be
gathered from the following table: