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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
TIE LONE WIDOWS soLAcE.
By Louisa S. urHAsr.

Yes, she sat there alone, with the daintiest cap
Perched atop of her soft brown hair;
The deep weeds of mourning, though sombre as
night,
But rendered the widow more fair.
She thought of her welded ones grave far away,
Meath the cypress-tree's evergreen shade,
And wondered if she would not happier be
When sne by his side should be laid.
Then she sighed as she looked at his vacant chair
BY the hearthstone waiting him still;
And she wondered iE ever another guest
That long-honored place would I'LL.
And she sighed, when cracked the cozy wood-hre,
That she now must enjoy all alone;
For the blessings that ye have received, freely
give
Was afavorite theme of her own.
Then she thought of her neishbor across the way,
Who rnourned his departed wife;
And she sighed again, but not for herself
For the dsacon's desolate life!
He was chastened, though why she never could
tell;
Who in prayer was so gifted as he?
And in singing soul-stirring psalm or hymn,
Who seemed nearer heaven to be?
The while she unused thus. the deacon. too thought
OF \ lesson he had learned in his youth,
To love IL his neighbors well as himself"
And he asked Have done this in truth ?"
Another old adage arose in his mind
"a What ought to be done to-day,
Defer lot till Tomorrow He started at once
To comfort poor lone Widow May!
In comforting Others griefs may grow less;
The deacon forgot all his own!
In all that said, only text he heard:
'' It's not good that man dwell alone!"
If only he dared and his heart beat fast,
For the widow tis suit might decline:
Would you-or might I-that is, now, mean
Your home is so lonely-and ntiae!"
And the widow blushed as his eager eyes
His meaning at last made plain;
And one lonely house, where once there were t,co,
Gives token he wooed not in vain!
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.

Tt is astonishing what fund of in
formation some young men acquire,
despite their misfortune of being born
rich and boosted through life on the
end of long rent-roll. Sometimes we
see young blood who has been to
school all his life, who can tell you the
name of every billiard expert and trot
young men are exceptional. The aver
age young blood can't tell you much of
ANYTHING. The two bloods we are about
to introduce belong to the exceptional
few, whose fund of information is vast.
The other day the two learned bloods
under discussion were seated in the
midst of throng of kindred spirits Ill
one of the high-toned saloons of our
city, and the subject of the Indian war
came up for discussion.
Blood No. said the Indians were a
race of catawampuses that ought to be
xterminated-wiped off the face of the
earth.
Blood No. 2 said the Indians had
been sadly abused. When they were
fairly treated they dealt fairly in return.
"Look at William Penn" said he
sc didn't old William buy the great
State of Pennsylvania from the Indians,
and didn't he always use them well, an6
didn't they always live in peace will
him ?'
"Oh, well, now," rejoined blood No
1, "the Indians used old William pretty
rough, in the face of all his kindness tx
| them"
Blood No. 2: We'll, what did thu
Indians do to William Penn, I'd like t.
know?"
Blood No 1 Why, you don't know
anything about the history of you
country Didn't the Indians make olC
William stand up one day and shoot al
apple off his little boys head with
bow and arrow ?"
Blood No. 2 .sThat's so I forgo
all about that !"
Blood No. (triumphantly) Well
what do you think about the Indian
now ?''
Blood No (crestfallen) 81 expec
you are right. They ought to be wipe
out
They all take little sugar in theirs
The truth of history is vindicated.-
EXCHANGE.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
MOON. AND EARTH MErEoRs.

Prof. Newton has estimated, bv a
fair estimate of observed facts, that
each day on the average 400 millions of
meteors fall of all sizes down to the
minutest discernible in telescope
upon the earth's atmosphere, so that on
the moons unprotected globe-with its
surface e-thirteenth of the earth s.
about 80 millions fall each day, even at
the present time. OF large meteoric
year on the earth, and, perhaps, about
hundred on the moon but still, even
at the present rate of downfall, millions
of large masses must have fallen on the
moon during the time when her surface
was plastic, while presumably much
larger Misunderstanding many much
larger masses-must have fallen during
that period. Thus, not only without
strain1ng probabilities, but by taking
only the most probable assumptions as
to the past, we have arrived at result
which compels us to believe that the
marked by meteoric downfall, while it
renders it by no means unlikely that
large proportion of the markings so left
would be discernible under telescope
scrutiny so that strong evidences exists
in favor of that hypothesis which one
or two writers (who presumably have
not given great attention to the recent
progress of meteoric astronomy would
dismiss s. without consideration (the
way, doubtless. in which they have dis
missed it,.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
YARIETIES.

BRISK takers are usually slow think
ers.
KEEP your own secrets, if you have
any.
To REMOVE stains from character
Get rich.
IF man doesn't take care of No. 1,
he will soon have to take care of.
WE believe that the time has arrived
when every energetic journalist should
begin to gather up and publish prog
nostigations in regard to what sort of a
winter the coming one will be.
NEW JERSEY is little disappointed
that thirty million gallons of water
should have been lost all at once, but
then, as a Trenton paper remarks,
s'posen it had been good whisky -
Susan B. ANTHONY says she is only
fifty-fve, and she brands all stories
about her having been in the ark as in
fernal lies. Anyone who says she is over
ffty-fve must pass over her dead body
after the figures.
PEOPLE talk about the Christian spirit
Of forgiveness to be met with in
America, but let young man sit down
on plug hat at Sunday-school excur-
sion and it mars the harmony of the
whole assembly.
AN interesting little boy, timid when
left alone in dark room, was over
heard recently by his mother to say in
his loneliness, s'Oh, Lord, don't let
anyone hurt me, and will go to church
next Sunday and give you some money"
A PAISLEY manufacturer got, by some
accident, a severe cut across the nose,
and having no court-plaster at hand,
stuck on his unfortunate organ one of
his gum tickets, on which was the
usual intimation, Warranted $50
yards long"
ssAND when in after days." sad a
learned counsel in the courtroom, eve
meet together around the social hearth,
where / shall no longer be oppressed
by tue heat and burden of the day, and
you, gentlemen, will find yourselves in
other scenes than this, at rest from ar
duous labors, then, as we talk together
of bygone times, may you be able to
say that the first thing you did on re-
turning to the jury-room was to unani-
mously agree that you could place no
reliance whatever upon the testimony
of the man Smith
A YOUNG lady thus describes her feel
ings, and courts sympathy:
| My heart is sick, my heart is sad,
But, oh! the dare not tell;
not grieved, not glad,
| I'm not ill, Ina not well
I'm not myself, I'm not the same;
an indeed, know not what:
I'm changed in all except my name
Oh when shall be changed in THAT p
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
THE PRACTICAL LOVER.

I did not purchase for my bride
Rich jeweled rings and costly fans,
But what thought would be her pride
set complete of pots and pans.
I would not win sweet Jennie's love
Bygolden gifts. of magic power;
IF she proper wife would prove
She would prefer some bags of -four.
I did not play with Jennie's heart,
Nor try to fix it were it tickle,
But sent, mistrusting modern art,
A side of pork for her to pickle.
I did not give her rNbies red,
To lend her raven hair relief.
But what would charm when we were we'd
A good supply of potted beef.
did not wanton with her love,
That pined to nestle on my breast,
just like dropping, tired dove,
But sent couch where it could rest.
did not, when the moon was bright,
Take Jennie out for tranquil walks:
But took her-what would more delight
A dozen each of knives and forks.
did not send her flowers bright,
Whose brightness, ah SO quickly wanes,
But sent her, in the darkest night,
set of sheets and counterpanes.
And so at last our little store
Would furnish well an ivied cot.
But then-I should have said before
She Tilted me, and kept the lot.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11

all necessary information concerning
Charles Austin. His body was placed
in the family vault, beside his parents.
A few years more, and beside him lay
the wife, for whom he had forsaken
home. friends and country. Next to
Nell, Fido retains the affection of Ed
gar Austin, who declares that his
(Fido's) nature is more noble than most
mems; and, if he could only speak, his
intelligence would surprise the world.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
HDOS CHARGE.

In an upper room of a miserable
lodging house, man lay dying. Be
side him, her hand clasped in his, her
ear strained to catch the low words of
the rapidly-sinking man, was little
girl of eight years. On the opposite
side of the bed, his head pressed close
to the sufferer, was an immense New
foundland dog. Through the long
night he had remained thus-a faithful
watcher-while little Nell slept. At
early dawn a token of Fido's uneasiness
awakened her, and she sprang up to
catch the feeble tones.
'' Little Nell, papa wants to speak to
you," he whispered and you, too, my
faithful Fido"
In an instant the dog moved around
the bed, and stood beside Nell, the
eyes of both eagerly gazing into those
of the speaker.
4" Here y drawing from his bosom a
little leather bag, he placed it around
the child's neck, saying: "Look to it,
Fido, old fellow y
The dog understood him. The little
bag was smelt and licked, and Fido
turned 20 his master with eyes full OF
intelligence.
Take care of Nell, Fido,' the man
whispered, his voice growing fainter.
Then, hiding the little bag beneath he1
dress, he said !:
Don't let her see it; keep it. It is
mammals ring and some papers. Give
her anything else she wants, to pay
what we owe her, Fido." He placed
the child's arm around the dogs neck.
Take care-mind her, dear old fel
low! Kiss-papa-good-b -by-darling
God, bless-care- Then deep sigl
escaped his lips, as Nell's warm kisse.
were pressed there. Terrified, sht
called
'Papa, open your eyes! Speak tc
Nen again -
When no answer came to her, wild
terrified cry, followed by piteou.
moan from the dog, brought the land
lady to the room.
What's it now ?" she asked, in
sharp, shrill voice.
Another spell, suppose"
She stopped as she saw the CLOSED
eyes and pallid face. Then quick,
stepping to the bed, she placed he
fingers on the brow and wrist, with al
awed expression on her hard face. Sh
said:
" Dead for certain. It come awfu
suddent. II I'd thought it was SO nigl
I'd have hustled him off to the hospital
just my luck And how am I to b.
paid ,"
She glanced around the room as if il
search of something to pounce upon
Fido's eye was upon her. AS she an
preached Nell, and laid her han,
upon the child's shoulder. he drey
near, a slight sound of distrust escapin.
him.
s. What's the matter with you Tn
not going to hurt your mistress" th
woman said. Turning again to ittl
Nell, she asked:
g Did he leave nothing 9''-she wa
going to say ito pay me,'' but hesi
tated the presence of death somewha
subdued her, and she continued: "N
wishes-I mean, didn't he say nothin
about what he wanted done ?"
"No, mol Only told Fido to tax
care of me, and said you could hav
anything we had to pay you. Oh
naoy6e he is not dead. Please see, Mrs
Brown. IT might only be faint. Oh
papa, open your eyes-call Nell again
Obi if I had only kept awake las
night r.
Mrs. Brown again approached th
bed, bent over it moment, and the
said :
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11

WHEN Adam met Eve he was smit,
and when Eve met Adam she was smit.
Then they were both smit, which is
German for Smith. Now we know why
it is that, when a man IS not named
anything else, his name is as above.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11

AN Englishman named Parry is the
preacher for a Worcester church, who
is endeavoring to become famous by
eccentricities in the pulpit. Sunday
week he preached in Hartford, and in
the middle of his sermon suddenly
paused and pla- his hand over the
region of his heart. There was pang
there" said he, as though my heart
were in the grip of greatlobster claw. !"
He looked at one of his hands. "Oh,
it's mosquito he exclaimed Hart
ford is an awful bad place for mos
quitos." He went on to say that he
shouldn't know that he had heart or
hands without such reminders, and it is
not the object of this paragraph to dis
pute him ; but until this eccentric
Parry takes his proper place in the
economy of the universe, the canal and
railroad-makers on the earth, or the
miners for coal and iron under it, are
deprived of the fellowship of one who
was designed by nature to hold SUBJ
ordinate position in companionship
with them.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11

QUARREL with dead men and you
won't get hurt.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11

A PREDICTION ABOUT THE BLUEGRASS
REGION. unprecedented drought
in Kentucky has brought to the mind of
a correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
naerciaz startling story promulgated
by some geological and meteorological
writer, to the effect that within one
hundred years the beautiful bluegrass
region of Central Kentucky would be-
come an arid desert, a waste place. CT
do not remember now," says the CORE
spondent, "upon what he based his
theory, but his conclusion was that this
direful state of things would be brought
about by protracted droughts, which
would come every year, and gradually
prolong their stay until what is now
the most beautiful part of Kentucky
would become parched desert, unin-
habited by man or beast.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
A SPJRJT-MADE WILL.

A woman in Maine, a believer in
Spiritualism, made will which she
supposed her deceased husband to die
tate, or to approve. The will was con-
tested, on the grounds that the testa-
trix was of unsound mind and was un-
duly influenced in making it. A jury
sustained the will, and the Supreme
Court sustain the verdict of the jury,
because the question whether her belief
in Spiritualism, and her supposition
that she WAS guided by the spirit of her
| dead husband, amounted to an insane
delusion, and affected the terms of the
will, was rightly left to the jury to de-
| termine as matter of fact. The court
also said that it could not say, as a
matter of law, that such belief is ipSo
fucto proof of insanity or insane delu-
sion, SO as to void a will and that if
the testatrix retained her own judgment
and free agency, so as to be ultimately
governed by her own will, it did not
make any difference whether she fol
lowed any given advice or rejected it,
nor can the source of the advice make
any difference, if it did not overcome
her own will. She was at liberty to fol
| low the advice of a living person, or
that supposed to come from one de-
ceased, provided she regarded it simply
as an opinion. This opinion, though il
will bind only the courts of Maine, is
one of the greatest Importance, and
will, doubtless, aid in settling ques-
ton in which thousands of Spiritualists
are personally interested.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-09-11
not AIR AND COOL ROOMS.

Because, when the air of the streets
make 80 or 40 degrees on the Fahrenheit
scale, a room overwarmed by fire can
be cooled by opening the windows, the
average householder adopts the ready
conclusion that whenever a room feels
hot the way to cool it is to let in the ex-
ternal air. Accordingly in these piping
times he, and still more often she, opens
the sunny side.of the house and lets in
air of a temperature varying from 100
to 100 degrees or SO. Then, because in
very short time the room naturally be-
comes much hotter than it was, it is con-
sidered that the windows are not opened
widely enough, and the supposed error
being remedied, and a larger quantity
of hot air is then let in. And so we find
materfamilias sitting with great deal
of perspiration upon her upper lip, her
face the color of an Orleans plum. and
her condition of mind in the last degree
detected, simply because she persists in
disregarding the most elementary prin-
ciples of natural philosophy. We tell
her that if she will open the windows on
the shady side of the house only, and
keep the others closely shut, her dwell
ing will be at least not hotter than the
shady side of the street, whereas by
her arrangement it acquires the heat
of the sunny side. We tell her, also,
that if her house be large and inmates
few, she may live in delightful state
of GOODNESS by only opening the windows
at night and keeping them closed dur
the day. Her house will be then some
ten or fifteen degrees lower in tempera-
turc than the streets, and convey very
much the refreshing effects of a cool
bath upon entering it. We tell her all
this and she is very much interested.
At our next visit we find every window
open and the house full of red-hot air.
:" 1t stands to reason" she says trium-
phantly, ''that you cannot possibly cool
a house without plenty of ventilation. -
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-27
The Richest Man i'm England.

The new Duke, until lately Marquis,
of Westminster, is probably the richest
man in England. He is the elder sur.
viving son of Richard, second Marquis,
by the Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson.
Cover. He was born in the year 1926,
and was educated at Elton and at Balliol
College, Oxford. He represented the
city of Chester in Parliament from 1S47
to 1869. He has had family of ten
children, seven of whom survive. His
eldest son is Victor Alexander, Earl
Grosvenor, who was born in 1853, and
was educated at Elton. The Grosve-
nors, of whom the newly Duke
is the head, descend from Gilbert lie
Grosvenor, of whom the heralds tell lis
that he held in Normandy, before the
Conquest, the post of LIE eros Veneur,
the chief hunter, under the Dukes of
that province.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-27
A Good Deed Brings 100000 to a
Florida Man.

We find the following in Jackson.
vile Ella paper of recent date !:
More than twenty years ago Major
Waldo A. Blossom, who is now in
Jacksonville, was a resident OF Wash
inotou. While there chance cast in his
way a Young man named Larimer, in
whom he became deeply interested.
Larimer had been led astray by the in
fiuence of wicked associations, and was
utterly dissolute and dissipated-to all
appearance a moral and physical wreck.
1t is more than probable that Major
Blossom discovered redeeming qualities
in the young man, Notwithstanding the
depths to which dissipation had brought
him, for the Good Samaritan res
cued him from the gutter, gave him a
pleasant home, assisted him by counsel
and the aid of fine social influence to
make himself new man. After his
reformation was affected, the young
man returned to his parents. who re-
sided in Colorado, and for number of
years his generous benefactor heard
nothing of him.
In December of last year, Major Bios
SONS attention was called to an adver-
oioSihShp III ~ bOotoh BbPOi ONOi phc
signature of Larimer, inquiring the adj
dress of w. A. Blossom. He responded
to the inquiry, and soon received let
ter from the parents of his former
protege in CASTILLO county, Col, inform
ing him that their son in dying had
willed his property to him, in gratitude
for the kind deed of years agone.
The letter which feelingly alluded to
this act, gave the sequel to the reformed
mans life. He applied himself Wig
orously to business after his return to
Colorado, became an honorable and
useful member of society, and in few
years amassed large fortune, all of
which, valued at 100000 will fall
into the possession of Major Blossom
next June.
No act of genuine charity is ever lost.
Somewhere in the conservatory of good
deeds the plant will put forth its bios
SONS and shed its perfume, perhaps in
the balm and brilliance of the Eternal
Morning, perhaps in the subdued light
and murky atmosphere of the mortal
life.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-27
A Cure.

To the unfortunate victims of drunk
enness we recommend the following
cure: A mixture made up as follows,
and taken in quantities equal to an or
binary dram, and as often as the desire
for strong drink returns, will cure the
worst case of drunkenness Sulphate
of iron, FIVE grains peppermint water,
eleven drachms spirits of nutmeg, one
drachm. This preparation acts as
tonic and stimulant, and partially sup
plies the place of the accustomed liquor,
and prevents the absolute physical and
moral prostration that follows from a
sudden breaking off from the use of
stimulating drinks. 1t is to be taken in
quantities equal to an ordinary dram,
and as often as the desire of dram re-
turns.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-27
A Strange Story About an Owl.

An old friend of James Case tells the
following strange owl story: 1t seems
that James Warner, residing near Mr..
C.'s has been doing considerable
amount of trapping for the last few
months. While setting his trap some
time ago he concluded that he would
bait for large bird which he believed
had been bothering his chicken roost of
la days. He accordingly did so, and
upon the morning after, upon going to
visit his traps, was much surprised at
finding one of them gone-bait and trap
both gone, and no owl !; but the sequel
is TO come. The other morning, Mrs.
Rogers, who lives some ten miles away
from Mr. Warmers, hearing some dis
turbance in the hen house among the
chickens, arose quickly, and taking a
light went to see what was the matter
with them, thinking it was probably a
fox. BY making a careful and sudden
effort she succeeded In catching the OBJ
ject, and to her great surprise found it
was huge owl. But the strange part
is to come. Attached to the owl was
Mr.. Warmers trap and about ten inches
of chain. 1t seems that two teeth were
broken out OF the steel trap, and Just
where the teeth were broken out the
jaws of the trap had firmly held the leg
OF the bird, cutting all around quite to
the bone, but without injuring the lat
ter. The leg, however, was by this
time recovered and well, the wound
having had ample time to cure during
the two months that had passed since
the owl had first flown away with the
trap. What wonderful tenacity of life
exhibited by the bird What tortures
must have torn the poor owl as he
passed along his way dragging the ter
rible strap and chain.-Bath County
(hy.) Ne,US.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-27
Instinct of Ants.

Each ant in an ant-hill knows his
companions. Mr.. Darwin several times
carried ants from one hill to another,
inhabited apparently by tens of thou
sands of ants; but the strangers were
invariably detected and killed. Think
ing there might be family odor by
which they were recognized, he put
some ants from very large nest into a
bottle strongly perfumed with ASA
fntlds, and restored them after twenty
four hours. At first they were threat
ened by their companions, but soon re-
cognized and allowed TO pass.