The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-12-01

leys OF ms face, darted within the door,
and halted motionIess, with finger on
lip, and head and body bent in listening
attitude.
No sound was heard. Still he lis
tened. No sound. Then he turued
the key in the door, and came elabor-
ately tiptoeing toward me till he was
within long reaching distance of me,
when he stopped, and after scanning
my face with intense interest for awhile,
drew folded copy of our paper from
his bosom, and said:
'There, you wrote that! Read it to
me, quick. Believe me; / suffer {"
/ read as follows, and as the senten-
ces fell from my lips, | could see the
relief come. I could see the drawn
muscles relax and the anxiety go out
of the face, and rest and peace steal
over the features like the merciful moon
light over desolate landscape:
"The guano is fine bird but great
care is necessary in rearing it. It should
not be imported eallier than June or
later than September. In the winter it
should be kept in warm place, where
it can hatch out its young.
SIT is evident that we are to have
backward season for grain. Therefore
it would be well for the farmer to begin
setting out his cornstaks, and planting
his buckwheat cakes in July instead of
August.
Concerning the pumpkin. This ber-
rY is tavorite with the natives of the
interior of New England, who prefer it
to the gooseberry for the making of
fruit cake, and who likewise give 1t the
| preference over the rasberry for feeding
| satisfying. The pumpkin is the only
esculent of the orange family that will
thrive in the North, except the gourd
and ore or tW b varieties Of the squash.
| But the custo m OF planting it in the
| front yard is fast going ont of vogue,
| for it is now generally conceded that
| the pumpkin as shade tree is failure.
"Now, as the warm weather APP
proaches, and the gauders begin 10
! spawn"
| The excited listener slrang towards
me to shake liautls, and said:
ssThere, there-that will do. I
know, know am all right now, be-
| cause you have read it Just as | did,
word Tor word. But, stranger, wien l
first read it this morning, said to my
self, | never bvlieved 1t before, not
withstanding my friends kept me urler
watch so strict, but now believe am
| crazy and with that fetched howl
| that you might have heard two miles.
/ ard started out 10 kill somebody-be-
cause YOU know, I knew it would
come to that sooner or later, and SO
might as we'll begin. read ore of
| those paragraphs over again So As to be
| certain, and then | burned my house
down aid started. | have crippled
several people, ard have got one fellow
up tree where | can get him it | want
him. But thought would call IN
here as passed along, and make the
thing perfectly certain; and now it is
certain, and | tell you it's lucky for that
chap in the tree-I should have killed
him as sure as L went back. Good-hy,
sir good-by; you have taken q great
load off my mind. My reason Las
stood the strain of one of your agricnl-
tural articles, and ] know that nothing
can unseat it now. Good-by, sir"
/ felt little uncomfortable about the
cripplings and arson this person had
been entertaining himself with. for I
could not help feeling remotely acces-
sorry to them. But these thoughts were
quickly banisl1ed, for the regular editor
walked in. | thought to myself--now
if you had gone to Egypt, as l recon-
mended you to, l might have had a
chance to get my hand in, but you
wouldn't do it, and here you are.
sort of expected you.
The editor was looking sad, perplexed
and detected.
He surveyed the wreck which the
old rioter and these two young farmers
had made, and then said
s'This is sad business very sad
business There is the mucilagel bottle
broken, and six panes of glass, and a
spittoon and two candlesticks. But
that is not the worst. The reputation
of the paper is injurcd-permanently, /
fear. True, there was mover such call
for the paper before, and it never sold
such large edition or scared to such
celebrity, but one does not want to be
famous for lunacy, and prosper upor
the infirmities of his mind F.? My friend
as am an honest man, the street out
here is full of people, and others arr
roosting on the fence, waiting to catct
a glimpse of you, because they thinl
you are crazy. And we'll they might
after reading yonr editorials. The,
are disgrace to journalism. Why
what pnt it into your head that 20,
could edit paper of this nature
You do not seem to know tho frs
rudiments of agriculture. You speal
} of furrow and a harrow as being tn
same thing you talk of the moultin
season for cows and you recommen,
the domestication of the polecat on aC
count of its p!ayfulness and its exec
{ lence as ratter. Your remark tha
; CLAIMS will lie quiet if music be playe
to them, was entirely 81
per1uous. Nothing disturbs clam
CLANS always lie quiet. CLAIMS cal
nothing whatever about music. An
heavens and earth friend ! IF you ba
! made the acquiring Of ignorance ii
study of your life, you could not ha,
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