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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
No Gold in the Black Hills.

Mr.. John W. Clark writes as follows
from Cheyenne to the Detroit Tribune ::
1 arrived here from Detroit last
Wednesday en- route to California, and
concluded to remain over at this point
for the purpose of learning all the latest
news from the Black Hills region.
Some twenty or more persons left this
vicinity nearly month ago with the
understanding that they would join ex-
peditions from Montana and other
places. They succeeded in meeting
only one party of forty-six persons,
which they joined, making the whole
number sixty y-six. They represent that
they have made thorough inspection
of the gold region of the whole country
traversed by the Custer party, and with
out meeting with any success in the
discovery of gold as reported by Gen.
Custer. In fact, not color of gold was
found in aEy of the streams by any
member of the party.
Several lodes of silver-bearing quartz
were found, but as to the real value of
the same no one can tell until proper
test is made of the sample of ores
brought in.
The country is represented as having
every appearance of long and severe
winters, and with the exception of the
gold report by Gen. CUSTER is nearly
the same as that report heretofore pub
ished in your paper.
The company made hurried marches,
knowing that it would be unsafe to re-
main long in any place on account of
the Indians, who are reported as being
very dangerous and numerous.
/ received my information from Mr..
James Dubois, a long resident of Cali
fornia, and thorough miner, who was
one of the party returned, en- route to
Salt City, where he resides. I advise
all persons having an idea of going to
the new Eldorado to abandon the same
at once. Surely there is anything but
bright outlook at this time.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
On Sight and Demand.

Judge C., a well-known, highly
respected Knickerbocker. on the shady
side of fifty, widower, with five chill
dren, full of fun and frolic, ever ready
for a joke-to give or take-was
bantered the other evening by Miss of
five and twenty for not taking another
wife. She urged that he was hale and
hearty and deserved matrimonial
messmate. The Judge acknowledged
the fact, admitted that he was convinced
by the eloquence of his fair friend that
he had thus far been very remiss, and
expressed contrition for the fault con
fessed, ending with offering himself to
the lady, telling her she could not GER
tainly reject him after pointing out to
him his heinous offense. The lady re-
piled that she would be most happy to
take the situation SO uniquely adver-
tised, and become bone of his bone and
flesh of his flesh, but there was one, to
her, most serious obstacle. "Well, 3"
says the Judge, s'name it. My profess
sion is to surmount such impediments. -
" All, Judge, this is beyond your
powers. I have vowed, if ever marry
widower, he must have ten children. %
' Ten children Oh, that's nothing, -
says the Judge, s' Eli give you five
now, and my notes on demand in in
stallments for the remainder. "-NeaO-
ark IN IN Union,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
Max Adeler,s Grapevine.

have not been very successful, says
Max Adeler in the Danbury Nes0s,
with my experiments in grape culture.
/ bought vine some time ago, and the
man who sold the cutting to me en-
Joined me to be careful to water 1t
thoroughly every day. l did so, but 1t
didn't seem to thrive. One day asked
nv neighbor Pitman what he thought
was the matter with 1t, and when 4
mentioned that I watered it daily he
said
"Be gracious, Adeler, that'd kill any
one A grapevine don't want no art1-
fetal waterin'."
Then he advised me to discontinue
the process and to wash the vine with
soapsuds in order to kill the bugs. My
anxiety to know why it still didn't
thrive was relieved some time afterward
by overhearing man in the cars re-
mark that " some men kill their grape
vines by their burned foo1ery in putin
soapsuds on 'em." He said that all
grapevine wanted was to have the earth
about it loosened now and then with
spade. Then I began to dig around
my vine every morning, but one day,
while engaged in the exercise, Cooley
came and leaned over the fence and
said
:" Ade1er, you'll kill that there vine if
you don't stop diggin' at it. Nothin'
hurts vine wuss than disturbin' the
soil around the roots, now mind me.
That vine don't want nothin' but to be
trained up on a trelis an fastened with
wire"
1 ordered trellis that afternoon, and
tied tender shoots OF the vine to the
cross-pieces. The job cost me S34. On
the following morning l read in my
agricultural paper that if a man wants
to ruin a grapevine, the quickest way is
to tie it up with wire, as the oxidation
destroys the bark. So I took off the
wire and replaced it with string. / was
talking about it to the man who came
over to bleed my horse for the blind
staggers, and he assured me that there
was only one sure way to make a grape
vine utterly worthless, and that was to
run it up on trellis. In France, he
told me, the vineyard-owners trained
their vines on poles, and that was the
right way. So I got the ak and knocked
the trellis to pieces, and then fixed the
vine to a bean-pole. Still it didn't
thrive very we'll, and asked a nursery
man near me to come and look at it.
He said he couldn't come, but he knew
what was the matter with that vine as
we'll as if he saw it. It wanted prun-
ing. I ought to cut it down to within
ten feet of the roots and then manure it
well. 1 did cut it down, and emptied a
bag of guano over it but as it seemed
sort of slow, insisted on che nursery
man coming over to examine it. He
said that his fee was so in advance. [
paid him and he came. He looked at
the vine a moment; then he smiled !;
and then he said fBy gosh, Adeler,
that isn't a grapevine at all It's a
Virginia creeper."
So have kind of knocked off on grape
culture and am paying more attention
to my cabbage.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
The FRENCH Military system.

France is putting herself in military
order after the Prussian model. The
catastrophe of 1870 was great edu-
Gator. There is fine lad of IL in my
pension, who has been helping me
with my correspondence. He talks
English, and yesterday he said, 81
must now go to my Professor. sc Your
Professor, Armand how is that ? -
"Why, you see, when am 10 go into
the French army, under the law passed
after the war, by which all of our young
men must serve five years, unless they
show themselves qualified in certain
branches of education, as history,
geography, arithmetic. If they are up
in these, they need only serve one year.
have my teacher an hour every day,
and feel sure of good number and an
early and honorable discharge for su-
perority in geography, algebra, and the
natural sciencies. If prove proficient
in these branches, I serve only one
year SO I am working to get the other
four years to. myself" 1t is unneces-
sary to discuss the advantages of such
a system in a military power. The
government secures good soldiers and
Intelligent citizens at the same time
FOrueu's Paris Letter.
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Scene Of the First Revolutionary Battle.

Lexington (AIass.) Cor Chicago Tr1bune.l
The town is at a stand-still. The
rass-encroachments upon the sandy
streets tell their own story. just as it
was twenty years ago, it is now and,
though I had only the remembrance of
days long since passed to assist me in
nv wanderings, had no difficulty in
finding my way to spots around which
SO many pleasant memories cluster. As
I sat contentedly under the shadows of
the grand old elms lining the streets on
either side, or looked about me to find
few signs of life, could not realize that
here, in this Sleepy Hollow" where a
man might sleep longer than even Rip
Van Winkle did, was struck the first
hard blow for American rights. The
place was more than quiet,-it was still.
Even the twitter of the birds was softer
than in the midst of stirring life, and in
stinctively I trod softly, lest the passing
football might wake an echo it were
painful to hear. This is Lexington at
present. Perhaps it is fitting that moth
ing of newness should enter in, but the
town should be undisturbed in its
dreamy quiet, consciously proud of the
fact that here, 100 years ago, was heard
the birthcry of the nation that back to
this spot, in all time to come, every
mind must revert when it dwells on the
New World made free. On a spring
day in that stormy time, handful of
men gave their life for their country.
To-day, modest shaft marks the spot
where they fell, and tells the story OF
their patriotism in words that cannot
fail to carry us back to the dark days
when the struggle and the sufferings be.
came a solemn duty.
The monument is a simple one, of
granite, and stands upon a small inclosed
mound in one corner of triangular
park called, in good old Anglo-Saxon,
Common. It is protected by an iron
railing, and its outer face bears the fol-
lowing inscription
Sacred to Liberty & the Rights of Mankind!!!
The Freedom Independence of America,
Sealed 4 defended with the blood of her sons,
This Monument is erected
By the Inhabitants of Lexington,
Under the patronage at the expense of
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts,,
To the memory of their Fellow-Citizens
Ensign Robert Munroe, Mess. Jonas Parker,
Samuel Hadley, Jonathan Harrington Jun.,
Isaac Muzzey, Caleb Harrington, & John Brown
OF Lexington, & Asahel Porter, of Woburn,
Who fell on this field the first victims to the
Sword of British Tyranny Oppression
On the morning of the ever memorable
Nineteenth of April, An. DOM, IT'S.
The Die was Cast II
The Blood of these Martyrs
Is IAe cause OF goa q 1le1r CountrS,
Was the Cement of the Union of these States, then
Colonies, gave the spring to the spirit, Firmness,
And resolution of their Fellow-Citizens:
They to revenge their brethren's
Blood, and at the point of the sword to assert &
Defend their native Rights.
Tney nobly dared to be free !!
The contest was long, bloody affecting,
Righteous Heaven approved the solemn appeal:
Victory crowned their arms and
The Peace, Liberty, Independence of the United
States of America was their glorious Reward.
Built L the 1893.
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fun. But sAme way the "falling in -
did not take place. Whether the fac
tory people saw the trap, or whether
they escaped it accidentally, the chill
dren could not make out but certainly
no one stepped into it.
It's too bad /; they just all missed
it, said Tommy, disappointedly, as the
last one passed by. Butch, there
CON some more :"
Mile looked out to see who they
were. "Oh, dear, it's papa !" she ex-
claimed, excitedly, " he'll just fall and
get hurt!"
1t was indeed Mr.. Jennings, and be-
side him walked Annie Burns, a poor.
crippled girl, who supported herself and
an aged mother by working in the fac
tory. All desire for fun had now died
out in the children's heart they only
waited in breathless hope that these
two would escape as the others. But
they did not. Poor Annie placed her
foot on the treacherous leaves, and in
an instant fell to the earth with cry
of pain and terror. At this unfortun-
ate ending of their scheme Mile
sprang out from the bushes, while
Tommy followed more slowly. Their
father saw them approach.
s.Children, did you have anything to
do with that ?" he demanded, sternly.
Tommy did not answer but Millie
sobbed out the whole story. I'VE
were just playing, papa" she said in
conclusion ''.we meant itonly for fun. "
"Only for fun," repeated papa,
gravely "And my little boy and girl
were willing to have fun even at the
pain of others"
He said no more, but lifting poor
crippled Annie to her feet he assisted her
to her home in the village.
That was long sad evening the chill
dren passed-awaiting papa's return.
And when he came and told them of the
sprained ankle, the pain and confne-
ment of Annie Burns would have to un-
dergo. and the expense their fun had
caused, then it was that Tommy took
out little notebook papa had given
him, and.wrote the following:
GA good rule Sc I'll have no fun
that makes folks sprain their ankles. !"
And hope Tommy will keep his re-
solution; don't you ?-17ae Methodist.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
Keen the Farm and Home Tidy.

Somebody, we know not who, wrote,
years ago, the following good advice.
Like other good things it comes to the
surface occasionally and will bear re-
peating /:
Ii you get moment to spare, spruce
up; put the gate on it's hinges, put
little paint on the picket fence you built
last year trim up the door yard make
it cozy and inviting. Do not say you
can find no time to attend to these
things. The fact is, you have no right
to be solvenly. It can do you no good
but on the contrary, it will mar your
peace, wound your self-respect and i'm
pair your credit. Then, by all means,
spruce up a little, at odd times, and at
even times too, for that matter. It will
make you feel vastly better, and, may
be, trife proud of your pretty home
stead. Your wife and children will be-
made happier for it /; your neighbors
will be enriched, beautified and blessed
by it. And your farm will be worth
more money in the market and of
greater value to you at home, if you
spruce up little now and then.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
An Old Adage.

Never cry for split milk" is an
adage venerable for its age, and full OF
wisdom as applicable to a great many
things.
Your favorite dog has suddenly dis
appeared; your most valuable horse has
fallen lame /; the frost has nipped your
corn and killed your early beans the
midge has ruined your wheat, and your
rye doesn't fill well your new COW, that
cost 800, has kicked over the pail just
as it was filed with warm, rich milk !;
don't cry for split milk-what's 8 the use?
It is necessary to your happiness to
bear with philosophic unconcern the
unavoidable and almost innumerable
little ills which beset every human
pathway.
The wisdom of the MAXIM which we
have quoted, however, is incomplete
unless It be coupled with another, not
usually laid down in connection with it.
which is this Don't spill your milk.
IF the milk be spilled through your
fault, and you apply the maxim not to
cry for split milk, you simply substitute
culpable negligence with foolish in
difference.
When any evil or unhappiness befalls
you, look calmly at the causes and oc-
casion of it, and see whether more eau
ton on your part might not have
avoided them; and if you find they might,
then be more careful to shun the pro-
ducing causes in the future.
It is not worth while to waste the pre-
cious moments of this short life in idle
regrets. On the other hand, it is not
well to go on repeating the follies from
which one has already suffered, or re-
newing indiscretions which are sure to
bring renewed penalties.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
Co1netic Centers.

There is no doubt that all the fixed
stars are brilliant suns and the centers
of systems in every respect resembling
our solar system, and that comets are
revolving round and receding to i'm
mense distances from those centers, and
yet they do not Craze or even come near
to the boundaries of our solar system.
The distance of the nearest fixed star is
computed at 18, 918, 900, 600, ,0o0of miles.
Now, supposing that a comet whose
period of revolution is about 2, 900 years
(Which is about the period of our largest
comets) and travels at the rate of a mill
ion miles an hour in every part of its
orbit, which Is never the case, and in a
direction approaching our solar system,
it would recede from It's luminary to
the immense distance of nine billions of
miles, and yet it would be at an equal
distance from the confines of our sys-
tenn. And as comet shines with bor-
rowed light, how family must it be illu-
minated at that distance !; and how vain
the attempt to catch glimpse of it,
even with themost powerful telescope. =
Nea0castIe (Eiso.) C1troa5cte.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
Living in a Light-House.

Light houses are strange and lonely
homes for men to live IN. Some of
them are perched out on the ocean, with
the land scarcely in sight, and the rest
less see forever beating and moaning
around them. The keepers of these do
not sea other human faces than their
own in quarter of year. Night and
day they are on the watch, gladdened
awhile by a sail that appears for lit
tie while and then floats out of sight,
below the horizon. They might be out
of the world. for all they knew of its
concerns, its losses and gains, its bat
ties and its victories, the changes that
each day brings forth. There are other
lighthouses situated on the coast, but
so remote that they are never visited
and others that are surrounded by the
civilization of fishing village, and on
summer days are crowded by fashiona-
BILE people from the neighboring water
ing places. But for the most part, ex-
cept in the approaches to fourishing
ports, they are built out on the farthest
margin of the land, on far-reaching
capes and peninsulas, on iron-bound
headlands, on detached rocks and sandy
shoals. The hght-ships are still worse
OFF, anchored as they are in stormy
waters. and forever rolling, plunging,
leaping in perpetual unrest, clipped of
their wings, while other vessels are
passing and repassing, shortening sail
as they enter port and spreading the
canvas as they start out anew.
The hght-ships are manned by men
alone, but in the lighthouses the keep
ers are allowed to have their wives, and
children are born unto them and brought
up with the sea and the sea-birds and
the distant ships for companions. Many
a pretty story or poem has been woven
about children living in this fashion.
They learn the secrets and wonders of
the sea, and feel glad when it sings
softly on the calm days and sad when
its bosom is rutf1ed and white in the
storms. Their little heads are full of
strange fancies about nature, and I do
not believe they could understand or
enjoy the life you and I lead at home.
Somehow I cannot think of them as
real children. They seem more like
water-sprites that have their homes in
the blue depths among other delicate
plants that blossom there. But they
have lessons to learn from school books,
and great many things to do in their
fathers household. Their life, with all
its romance, is not one of idleness, you
may be sure. - From 's Our Light
houses astd Light-ships, By ". H.
Rideing. st. Nicholas for October.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
Bound to DO a Full DAYS Work.

Mr.. M, of Oxford, don't object to
having hired man do a full day
work at least so we should Judge from
the following story
A short time ago. man went to his
place for work. Mr.. M set him to
plowing around forty-acre field. After
he had plowed faithfully all day, until
the sun was about half an hour high,
he expressed his opinion that it was
about time to quit work.
"Oh, no" said Mr.. M, "you can
plow around six or eight times more
just as well as not
So the hired man p1owed around six
or eight times, then went to the house,
took care of his team, MIXED nine
cows, ate his supper, and found ten
o'clock staring him in the face from the
old time piece.
Said the hired man to Mrs. M,
Where Is Mr.. Mp"
The good woman answered, "He has
retired do you wish to see him ?"
He replied that he did. After being
conducted to the bedroom, he said,
-" Mr.. M, where is the ak %
Why" said Mr.. NJ, "what do
you want with the ak ?''
"Wel," said the hired man, "
thought you might like me to split wood
till Breakfast is ready"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
An Offcer's Opinion of the Black Hills

Lieut. G. D. Wallace, of the 7th
cavalry, stationed at Fort Abraham
Lincoln, arrived in this city by the st.
Paul train Monday night, having in
charge the Indian scouts who accom-
panied Clusters expedition.
Lieut.. Wallace's views in regard to
the fabulous wealth said to be hidden
in the Black Hills are somewhat differ
ent from those of many others who
have expressed themselves upon this
subject. He admits there is beyond
doubt gold in the Black Hills, yet the
statements made by the majority of
those who have visited that country he
looks upon as highly colored. Some
portions of the Black Hills, he says,
would be hard to beat as regards the
natural beauty of the scenery, and
there are inexhaustible beds of gypsum
waiting to be utilized. The pine that
grows among the hills SO plentifully is
said to be worth little or nothing for
lumber, being so brittle that the trees
generally break in pieces when felled to
the ground. They are full of pitch.
The Lieutenant said there was nothing
found in panning the top earth, where
the grass roots were said to be so rich
in gold, to warrant the assertions made
in regard to the rich yield, as thousands
would find out to their sorrow, were
they to rush there with any such bright
expectations.-Siouc city Journal.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

CONSUMPTION AS AFFECTED BY Resi-
DENCE.-Dr. Bowditch, of Massa-
chusetts, in report to the Legislature
of that State, discusses the relation of
cousumptive diseases to the matter of
residence. The first point he urges is
that the cellar should be always dry !;
also, that no possibility should exist of
drinking water becoming contaminated
by refuse; and hence, for the latter,
closely -cemented stone, brick or vitri-
fed tile drains should be used, while
the supply for drinking should be
brought to the house from some distant
spring or pond. The dwelling, he says,
is best situated on an elevated knoll,
open to the south and west winds, bat
somewhat shielded from the north and
east. There should be means of al
lowing sunlight te enter every room !;
and, as regards temperature, about 20
deg. medium is the best, the heat to be
derived from open fireplaces connected
with well constructed chimneys in every
room.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23
The Milkman.

He IL an early bird, and if he fails to
get the worm, it amt the fault ov the
worm, IL it !?
He iz born honest, and dies when hiz
time Gums.
Hiz life ought to be one ov purity.
for he ivs amung the cows, the most
resigned and gentle kreatures on earth.
He haz often been accused ov water
ing hiz milk, but I don't beIeave this.
for never see him de il.
But suppoze he duz water hiz milk,
water IL good, and so liz milk, and what's
the hurt to mix them.
I have lived too long in the city to tell
when milk has been wet, and kant see
why it amt an advantage to it emmy
how for if yu have got quart of milk,
with pint ov water in it, you hav got
3 pints, lain't yu?
This looks Reasonable enough to nae.
But allwuss waz dredphul thin at
figures. Billings.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-23

PHIADELPHIA.-T assessments of
voters in Philadelphia, made at the
beginning of this month, show an in
crease over the February assessment of
-, 1893, and total of 166,251. The
North american infers from these fig
ures that the population of the city
must now be nearly 1000, 1000. That
the city is growing rapidly, especially
in the outer or suburban wards. is very
clear. The new buildings put up every
year would alone of themselves make q
Western city. In every year since 1870
the number of new dwellings erected
has averaged nearly 5000, and many a
Western city has fewer houses than are
yearly added to the grand total in
Philadelphia. --Pitts6asrg Commercial.