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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
KISSES.
" Are kisses spiI its, mother ?"
ratlln NValAnr nsks

Are kisses spirits, mother ?"
Little Walter asks,
lsaising great dark earnest eyes
To others, blue as summers skies,
That brighten for her eager boy,
Through her life of hope and joy,
And tender woman tasks.
Fearless little questioner,
What knows he of kisses
Save caresses soft and sweet,
Each fresh hour of life to greet;
Blessing kiss of sire and mother,
Clasp of sister. hug of brother;
Thanks tor baby blisses.
Happy cherished darling,
He nor knows nor cares:
OF passionate lips that press in vain
On those that cannot glow again,
OF wild despairing kisses pressed
On damp sods where our idols rest:
Mid sad unanswered prayers.
Can true-hearted childhood
Guess such things can be,
As kiss tween secret foe and foe,
As hands that clasp DER CULTS below,
As kisses with no loving leaven,
Coidiy taken, idly given,
In custom courtesy
Can frank-hearted childhood
Dream that kindred lips,
Lips that have met thousand times,
Warm and true as oet's rhymes,
May for each other learn to frame
Scorn or hatred. mock or blame,
Loves unwarned eclipse?
Dim not chndhood's golden faith
With such lore as this is;
Let him trust the gladness round,
Trust the love as birthright found:
Soon, too soon, the world will teach
Stings may lurk in honeyed speech,
Treason hide in kisses.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02
FAIR PLAY


The following anecdoto is related of
tar who once had narrow escape from
imminent peril. He was in ship frozen
in, in the Arctic regions, and, like
young Nelson, had strayed on the ice
Needless of danger. He was far from
the vessel when he cav, coming round
block of ice, huge polar bear max
ing directly towards him. Totally un-
provided with any defensive weapon
but his knife, he bethought himself of
an Old World weapon for extreme cases
prayer. But how? And what? There
was no time to deliberate, the monster
was near, and delay would be fatal to
the poor fellow. So he opened his
knife and grasped it irmly-hurriedly
uttered few words-how earnestly can
hardly be imagined, but their rugged
ness speaks forcibly, of mingled ter
ror, desperate courage, and dim-twink-
ling faith 80 Lord, I dinna trouble
ye often but ye see me an ye see this
bear. o Lord, an ye Wilma help me,
dinna help the bear. An if yen help
neither the ane nor the ither, stan by
an see fair play: for this1l be maist
awfu' fecht. Amen His prayer was
answered, for he lived to tell it.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-02

HHDROPHOBIA INDUCED BY FEAR.
It is we'll known fact that several
persons may be bitten by mad dog,
and only one, or none of them, die from
the disease. Such was the case when
Mrs. Noyes, of New York, was attacked
few weeks since. Two or three per
sons were bitten at the same time by
the same dog, who are alive now, and
likely to be for many years, and who, in
all probability, will never suffer the
slightest inconvenience from the bites
they received.
Rydrophobia is not unfreqently q
disease purely of the imagination. Some
time since a man in Chicago was bitten
by dog that was known to be perfectly
well. The victim, however, brooded
over the idea that sooner or later he
would die from the effect of the wound,
although there was no manifestation of
a serious character. But his apprehen-
sions made him anxious and restless
and almost frenzied, and in few days
he brought upon himself fits of an
alarming type. From all the circum-
stances it was evident that the man was
in a dangerous condition, and needed
some medical attention. Physicians
were called, but he soon expired in
great agony. From beginning to end,
this mans ease, SO far as tue dog was
concerned, was one entirely of imagina-
tion. DIR. Marx, celebrated German
physician, writing to the Clinic, says
that he regards hydrophobia as a NOR
bid affection, induced by fear, aud in
support of his opinion, cites many inter
esting cases. DIR. Luke, ia his work on
the Influence of the Mind on the Body,
supports the hypothesis that hydro
phobic symptoms are often developed
without previous incubation and he re-
lates a notable instance of a physician
of Lyons, who, having assisted in the
dissection of several victims of the dis
order, imagined that he himself had be-
come inoculated. On attempting to
drink he was seized with spasms Of the
pharynx, and in this condition roamed
about the streets for three days. At
length his friends succeeded i'll con-
vincing him of the groundlessness of
his apprehensions, and he at once re-
covered.
No dog will bite unless he is pro
voked, or is disturbed in his guard over
his masters property. A mad dog seeks
to avoid the highway, will never go out
of his course to bite, but will finally, il
let alone, drop dead without doing the
least injury to any one.
Lastly, the disease is not, as is gen
orally supposed, incurable. There are
many persons who have had hydropho
bia and have recovered from it. DR.
Buisson, distinguished French physi
clan, says he never knew Case to fai
of recovery where the patient was re
peatedly placed in steam baths varying
in heat from 81 to So degrees centigrade
Wet-sheet packs will take the poiso1
out of person much more effe ctually
than can be done by any amount o
physieking or dosing. In the bite of {
mad dog there is a poison virus, which
may or may not kill, depending OF
temperamental conditions in the man
It is quite true that Sc the mind kill
and it cures" When. this thing come
to be understood by medical men, ther,
will be less dependence on poisonou
drugs and more on common sense.
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THE CALIFORNIA WHEAT CROP.

THE CALIFORNIA WHEAT CROP.
Ten years ago California produced
only wheat enough for her own con-
sumption, if, indeed, enough was raised
in the State for that purpose. The i'm
mense proportions which that crop has
reached in e single decade is one of the
most astonishing events of the century.
The Chronicle well remarks that 's if
this immense mass of wheat had come
down upon US in shower from heaven,
it could not have been more unlocked
for than it was few years ago. The
surprises in California in an agricultural
way have been greater than those of the
mineral, astonishing and bewildering as
they have been"
The amount of the surplus is stated
in figures at 2O,0OO,OGO bushels, or
about 600, 900 tons. To form definite
idea of what these figures mean is very
different matter. The New York Herald,
in order to assist the understanding,
says that, If loaded in carts, each con-
tanning a ton, to be hauled to New York,
the first would be at its destination
when the last was leaving San Fran
cisco. This, at first thought, seems ex-
travagant; but, in order to travel COM
fortably, not much more than 200 could
be ranged upon mile, and hence the
statement is not very wide of the mark.
The Bulletin suggests that, if loaded
into vessels of 1000 tons burden, and
the 600 ships were to sail in sight of
each other, say twenty miles apart, the
line would extend $4,000 miles, or half
way round the globe. The last one
might just be leaving the Golden Gate
when the first one was entering the har-
Dor of Liverpool. Such illustrations,
though not very original, may serve to
show how great an element in the econ
omy of the civilized world the wheat
crop of California has become.
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TARIETLES.

COMFORTABLE quarters--Silver twenty
fve-cent pieces.
SP1NsTER CRY is one of the Oldest
made towns in Missouri.
THE most steadfast followers of our
fortunes-Our creditors.
A FIRsr-RATE axiom-A man should
always grind his own axes.
A BROOKLYN man has named his roos-
ter Robinson, because he cru-soe.
WHAT portions of the body are the
best travellers? The two wrists (tour-
ists).
How to tell fresh shad. First decide
what you want to tell it, then whisper
in its ear.
In pocket picking. as in everything
else, man never succeeds until he gets
his hand in.
AN editor who speaks with the air of
man who has discovered new fact
by experience, says the new way to pre-
vent bleeding at the nose, is to keep
your nose out of other peoples bust
ness.
"DocroR," said man to Abernethy,
ssmy daughter had a fit, and continued
half an hour without sense or knowl-
edge "Oh," replied the doctor,
sc never mind that; many people con-
tinue so all their lives"
A DOCTOR and a military officer be-
came enamored of the same lady. A
| friend asked her which of the two suit
ors she intended to favor. She re-
piled that 6. it was difficult to tell, they
were both such killing creatures"
| RETR1BUTIvE justice sometimes fol-
lows faster than we could expect. An
evil-minded Brooklyn boy propelled
SNOWFALL at his aunt the other day, and
lodging into a neighboring area, sat
down on a scuttle full of hot ashes.
A COUPLE of neighbors became SO in
| imical that they would not speak to
each other but one of them, having
been converted at a camp meeting, on
seeing his former enemy, held out his
hand saying: "How dye do. Kemp?
I am humble enough to shake hands
with dog"
In a little town in Missouri lady
teacher was exercising a class of juven-
lies in mental arithmetic. She COM
menced the question 6 IF you buy a
COW for ten dollars" when up came
a little hand. What is it, Johnny ?"
"Why, you can't buy no kind OF a COW
for ten dollars. Father sold one for
sixty dollars the other day, and she was
a regular old scrub at that"
A METROPOLITAN housekeeper adver-
tised recently for wet nurse. A young
Irish girl offered herself. "How old
are you, Bridget?" said the dame.
"Sixteen, pleas, ma'am." "Have you
ever had baby?" No, ma'am, but
1 am very fond of them" Then I'm
afraid, Bridget, you will not do for me.
It is aUet nurse want" Oh, plase,
ma'am, know I'll do ; I'm very aisy to
tache."
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CINCINNATI has a curiosity of the
Quilp variety in the person of deaf
mute printer known as IS Dummy Davis. "
The lack of other senses was made up
in him by temper of rare brutality,
and a disposition violent, vindictive,
and irresponsible. He has broken
women's legs, mutilated children,
manned men, and established a reputa-
ton for "ugliness which found ex-
preston in the general belief that he
would yet kill man. His offenses
have always been lightly punished on
account of his natural .ff1iction. HIS
father is one of the proprietors of the
VIENNA Circus, now on exhibition at Gin
cinnati. Davis was allowed the free
run of the place, and on the occasion
which justified the popular expectation
was in bad humor. He was stirring
up the monkeys in a cage, when hls
father ordered him to desist. Dunn
my Davis" refusing to obey, police
man was ordered to eject him. The
officer endeavored to do SO, when Davis
shot him dead. The corpse lay in the
tent during the performance, the Dunn
nay coolly joining the audience in the
main amphitheater where he was ar
rested. It is q curious fact, which
meets the charge against Dickens of
exaggeration in the character of Quilp,
that Davis, with all his hideous moral
deformity, was married to very de-
ent young woman.
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(Friend from the couatry)-Howdy.
Frank. What ye at since you quit
college?
(Pedanttc F5'asak)-I am a merchant
in that desiccated and convoluted exotic
foliage which yields your crepuscular
beverage.
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OUR NATIONAL GAME IN ENGLAND.

OUR NATIONAL GAME IN ENGLAND.
Considerable interest " in our ma
tional game has been excied in
England by the recent visit of the Bos-
ton and Athletic clubs. The game
comes in competition with the British
game of cricket, and it was thought by
many that the prejudice in favor of the
latter sport would prevent the former
from being patronized. Such, howev-
er, has not proved to be the case. An
English paper speaks as follows of our
fayorite American game of ball:
OF the game itself, as seen during the
week in London, little can be said, ex-
cept in praise. It was generally fan
cied that the cricketers would be rather
inclined to deprecate and ignore, but
the cricket world has been the first not
only to welcome, but to applaud. To
cricketers, indeed, base ball presents
many lessons that might judiciously be
accepted. In one respect alone the
Americans have shown the Englishmen
what can be done in accuracy of throw
ing. Here you rarely find cricketer
who can be relied upon for accuracy in
returning the ball to the wicket-keeper.
It is returned somehow, and that
seems quite enough. Sometimes at the
head, and more often at the feet, it
comes in at great pace probably, but
still in a manner calculated to disturb
the whole system of wicket-keeper by
the constant 1unges, and often vain at
tempts to reach the ball in an impossi-
BILE position. With the base ball player
matters are different. There is no un-
wise haste in the effort to throw, but a
moment to steady before the ball is sent
| in. Then there is no need for the
baseman to move either to the right or
to the left, as the ball comes as straight
| as an arrow, and the base runner is as
certain of his doom as if it were thing
of course. Perhaps to Englishmen, the
only drawback at present is, that the
different details of the game are so
poorly understood. The score is kept,
it is true, and the telegraph-board
shows three lines of figures that repre-
sent nothing except to the initiated. It
has been amusing throughout the week,
indeed, to hear the stories with regard
to the exact Interpretation of these
signals on the board. With a better
comprehension of the rules, base ball
would have become more popular, and
met with better reception. AS it is
the Americans can have no ground for
dissatisfaction at the enthusiasm that
their visit has created in metropolitan
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" OMANS FAME.

The great deeds that make the fame
of men are often of questionable moral
ity ; woman's fame must be founded on
goodness to become glorious for her
and endurable as an example of great
ness for women.
When the wife of Lord William Rus
sell stood by her husbands side, cheer
ing and assisting him in his dark hour
of trial, before his unjust and cruel
judges, were not her devoted love, her
firm faithfulness and pious fortitude,
d beautiful realization of the purest and
noblest feminine character which poet
ry in its most divine strains has imaged
forth I? Is the actor of such lofty
part less inspired than one who could
describe it?
We would, therefore, impress on all
our intelligent and gifted countrywo-
men, more particularly on the young,
that there is field, and wide one, too,
open for their genius, besides that
which is afforded by the present facility
of feminine authorship it is that oi
carrying out, in actual life, the beauti-
full ideas they would depict, and thus
showing that cultivation of mind and
refinement of taste are true sources of
happiness in the domestic circle, and
not merely requisites to shine in the
world.
A CHICAGO lady was robbed of her
watch in a street car. and advertised it's
loss, offering $50 to any one who would
return it to her at the corner of Dear
born and Randolph streets at certain
time, and no questions asked. The
sneak-thieves put in an appearance, de-
livered the watch, took the reward,
and in three minutes thereafter had
stolen it from her again. If there is
anything meancr tnan q Chicago Alder
man, perhaps it is Chicago thief
Detroit Tribune.
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/ WAS notreared mid sylvan soitudes
to be terrified by strigine Mutations, is
the very latest.
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THE VEGETABLE BITTERS MAN.
Whenever man g1ts ded broke, and
kant think ov nothin to raze the wind
with, and hiz unkle won't hav him
boarding at hiz house emmy longer, and
his boots want tapping the wust way,
he takes sum rubarb root, fu katnip
blossoms, and some black cherry tree
bark, and sokes them IA hours in cheap
whisky, and goes hedlong into the life
renovating tonik bizzness.
he plasters every fence, saw-mill log,
stun wall and cows back, from Port
land, Maine, to San Francisco, with red
yello plakards, offering to heal the halt,
make the blind talk, and the deaf see,
and renew the ivers OF all kreashun, fol
one dollar and a quarter bottle.
He takes rooms at sum fust- klass no.
tel, drives four in hand, and never il
seen only on the jump.
He iz az phull ov bizzness az the su
perintendent ov Sunday skool on
piknik day and call on him when u
will to collect yure little bill ov eigh
dollars, he haz just left for Baltimore
or won't be home from Nu Orleans unit
week after next.
Theze men are not all ov them ur
skrupulous; sum ov their kompound
are too simple to do emmy hurt or good
and the worst perhaps that kan be SCI
of them IL. that they knowingly prak
tiss upon the kredulity ov poor huma,
natur.
The vegitabel bitters man IL kuninf
kritter, full ov pomposity, frequently
ackumulates fortune, but never kar
entirely outlive certain kind ov rubart
and katnip smell that scents his reputa
shun.-Josh Billings.
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RAPID RAILWAY TRAyELNa.-The
RGitrood Gazette says: IS Fast time in
Germany, as the English railroads count
fast time. has been almost unknown
heretofore, but by the first of next
month it is reported that train is to
run between Berlin and Hamburg, $50
miles, in 81 hours, or at the astounding
rate of 523 miles per hour, including
three stops for water. Heretofore the
trains have taken six hours to make this
trip, but they had to stop at twenty
three intermediate stations instead of
three.
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TmToN's children are Florence, 16:
Alice, "A; Carol, II; Frank 5,
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mend it to the careful consideration of
the boys and young men who are among
our readers The first thousand dollars
that a young man, after going out into
the world to act for himself, earns and
sdves will generally settle the question
of business life with him There may
be exceptions to this statement yet,
for rule, we think it will hold true.
The first condition is that the young
man actually earns the thousand dol
lars in question. He does not inherit
this sum. It does not come to him by
streak of good luck, as the result of a
fortunate venture in the purchase and
sale of hundred shares of stock. It
is the fruit of personal industry. He
gives his time and labor for it. While
he is thus earning and saving it, he
must earn two or three, or perhaps four
times as much to pay his current ex-
penses. He is consequently held stern.
~ to the task of industry-impatient
persistent, foIe-casting and self denying
effort, breaking up all the tendencies
to Incidence and frivolity, and making
him an earnest and watchful economist
OF time. He not only learns how to
work, but he also acquires the love of
work; and, moreover, he learns the
V0tue of the sum which he has thus
saved out of his earnings. He has
| toiled for it he has observed its slow
increase from time to time and in his
estimate it represents SO many months
l
or years of practical labor. His ideas
OF life are shaped by his own expert
ence. These natural effects of earning
the first thousand dollars we hold to be
very large benefits. They are just the
qualities of mind and body which are
most likely to secure business success
in after years. They constitute the
practical education which a man can
have as a worker in this working world.
They are gained in season for life's pur-
poses, at the opening period, just when
they are wanted, when foolish notions
are most likely to mislead an inexperi-
enced brain, and when, too, there is
full opportunity for expansion and de-
velopment in later years. Men have
but one life to live; and hence, they
start from opening manhood but once
And the manner in which they start, the
purposes they have in view, and the
habits they form, will ordinarily deter
mine the entire sequel of their career on
earth. To succeed, men must have the
elements of success in themselves. One
great reason why there are so many
useless, inefficient, and poverty ty-stricken
men On earth-or, rather, boys seem
ing to be men-consists in the simple
fact that they did not start right A
prominent reason why the children of
the rich SO frequently amount to
nothing may be found in luxury, ease
and Incidence which marked the COM
mencement of their lives. It is the law
of God that we should be ecorkers on
earth and no one SO well consults the
best development of his being as when
he conforms his practice to this law.
The workers in some suitable sphere
are the only really strong men in this
world.
THE VEGETABLE BITTERS MAN.
Whenever man glts ded broke, and
kant think ov nothin to raze the wind
! with, and hiz unkle won't hav him
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