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Year: 1877

Ann" he began again. ''lt you finally
make up your mind against me, | shall
clear out OF these parts for the future. |
couldn't stay here" An unconscious tre-
NOR and sadness was in these last words :
and Mary Ann felt it. She saw, in a flash
OF imagination, what Sandy Greek would
be without Jake. Indeed all her own
life, But this did not move her outward
y; she sat quite still on the stone; she
forgot all about the pebbles; she only
thought Of Jake's demand, and resolved
never to yield to it, if she sat there a
week. And she might have sat there
long enough to discomfort her jaiier and
herself both, had not a certain sound ap-
preached her earS--tOr the wind had sud
denly yeered round to the east-a dip of
slowly pulling oars. And in deep, ma
sal voice, which she recognized as Hosv
Longs, the following long shore ditty,
coming nearer, from the direction of Point
Peter:


Uncle keziah and his son Sam


They went to sea in the shell Of a clam


Ao-utside the Pint!


They put up the heum an put her about,


The SEA went in. an sam he went aout


i o utside 0 the Pint


Uncle Keziah he cussed an he swore


He'd nc'er go to sea iii a Shell any more


A-O-utSidc the Pint


Women are 'cUr'uS CrcturS. us IOsy
was wont to remark: whether it was the
terror of approaching observers, or the
ludicrous draWl Of llOsyS song, or the
weary waiting and heat, or some fierce
and subtler influence She kn " not how
to name, suddenly Mary AIMS heart gave
way without her will OF wish, she broke
down utterly, and With an uuconcealed
sob of agitation, stretched out both hands
to Jake.


Come" she said and when Jake took
her in his strong arms and lifted her into
the boat like q big baby, he knew from
the soft, shy look in her beautiful eyes
and the lingering Of her arm upon his
shoulder that Mary Ann had made up her
mind at last, and that he need't go away
forever.


But before either could speak, Hosy
appeared around the corner


'Wa'al," he shouted, this is kinder
upsettn', why couldn't We wait for i fell
ler ?"


eve did wait q minute" laughed Jake.
eve was comm back for ye, Mary Ann
wanted to land on the Rock to look for
somethm she lost other day


Did she find it !" asked the interested
Hosy.


"No-I did" drily replied Jake, and
Mary Ann looked over the gunwale into
The water. She has always protcsscd to
Jake that She never did or would forgive
him, but Jake only laughs, knowing very
well there is no happier or sweeter wife
and mother on all the shore than Mary
Ann Hazard, and that in her secret heart
she is very glad that he made her know
her mind, however he did it.
Year: 1877

From an extended area of observation
and inquiry we incline to the opinion that
in Massachusetts the area under cultiVa-
ton in grain and roots is fully forty per
cent greater than that of any year since
1867. and the old familiar sound Of the
fail, with the more pretentiOus clatter Of
the thrashing- machine, are now heard
quite often in the Old Bay State. Rye is
turning out finely and bids fair to yield
fifteen bushels to the acre, instead Of the
low average Of eleven to twelve that has
prevailed the past few years.


Mr.. Geo. Lewis of Sterling has forty
per cent. Of all the land he cultivates
under wheat culture this season, this be-
ing his first year, though having expert
mented with wheat in California he was
induced to try it here on his return. The
heads OF his wheat measure six to seven
inches, with straw strong and healthy,
and he.Wlll raise seed enough to enable
the farmers of Sterling to raise all the
wheat she consumes for one year. Ster-
ling has increased her cultivation of
wheat nearly four fold this year, and will
raise at least one twelfth of her consump-
ton, while the State of Massachusetts
averages but l76O Of what her popula-
ton consumes. American Cultvator
Year: 1877

The American Agriculturalist informs
its readers that ''Whle the butter made in
September has not usually the rich flavor
OF that made in June, next months prod
uct is mainly that which is put down by
farmers and dairymen for winters supply.
Much OF the success in keeping butter de-
pends upon the quality of the salt used


i'll packing. If the Domestic Society
(there IS much more of the name) of the
little State of Rhode Island was not the
first to discover, it WAS. we think, the first
to publish the fact, that the poor keeping
OF butter was due to impurities in the
salt. They had analysis made of the
various brands of salt, and it was found
that those kinds that We're found best in
practice, were shown by analysis to be
the least contaminated by salts of mag
nesa. Among the various brands of salts
III the market, none bear a higher repu-
tation for purity than that known as
'Ashton's Factory Filled and 50 firmly is
this reputation established that in some
important butter making localities no
other brand can be disposed Of The
quality OF the salt is of so much imp0r-


tance that butter makers, if none is sold
near at hand, had better order it from
New York, than to risk the use of brand
the purity Of which has not been tested"
Year: 1877

The meaneSt man i'll Connecticut has
moved to Canton. Recently two young
men from CRANKY were driving by his
place with a heavy load, when u sudden
shower came up and they went under his
shed for shelter. He game out and ordered
them off, saying, that he wanted his
chickens to go under the shed, and they
We're afraid of strangers.
Year: 1877

SMALL THINGS. Every farmer should
have small room, tight and warm, which
he can lock and where he can keep his
small tools. Then he wants good, solid
workbench, with an iron wise on one side
and wooden one on the other. For iron
working he wants solid piece of iron for
an anvil, seven pound steel-face ham
mer, one large and one small cold chisel,
two or three punches from one-fourth to
threecights inch, rimmer and counter
sink, to be used with bt-stock, a screw
plate that will cut screw from one
fourth to three-eights inch; then, with
round iron of the various sizes, and
ready made nuts, he can make any
bolt he wishes. For carpenter work, he
wants a square, shaving horse, drawing
knife, set Of planes, auger from one
half to two inches, a fine hand saw, with
coarse cross cut and rip saw, large cross
cut saw for logs, and a grindstone.
Year: 1877

TIE POTATO CROP in New HAMP-
SHIRE. The Manchester, n. H., Mirror
and Farmer, of last week, says:-


We are told by farmers living in several
different counties, that during the past
week the potato bugs have almost entire
ly disappeared from their vines and bur
rowed in the ground. We hope this is
generally true, and that for this season at
least, we have seen the last of this most
troublesome pest. He has appeared in
nearly every town in the State but has
not as a rule been very destructive. For
some reason the bugs have not here
grown to more than half the size which
they attained in their palmy days in the
West, and though it has taken Il great
deal of work to do it. they have been dis
posed OF before they have become very
destructive The rust is damaging some
potatoes just now, but we are sure Of one
of the largest crops ever raised in the
State. Even now the best Of Early Rose
can be bought in the up-country towns
for fifty cents q bushel.
Year: 1877

a conjurer recently ordered an English
tailor to make him a dress coat, but when
it was sent home it did not suit him. The
tailor offered to make any alterations that
might be suggested, but could not obtain
the coat, and finally was forced to sue the
conjurer. The defense urged that the
cloth had been furnished by the coniurer
and spoiled by the tailor; that the coat
would not meet in front, and that it was
beyond the power of any mortal tailor to
effect this frontal union; and that in order
to perform his professional duties as a con-
JureF 1t was necessary that his coat should
button in front. The conjurer put on the
coat in court, anu 10! it did not button in
front. The tailor IN rebuttal, maintained
that dress coat for evening wear should
not button in front. "Nonsense y cried
the judge. "Judgcnent for the defend.
ant. The tailor shall have the coat and
the conjurer his bill Of damages on the
materials" So the tailor, who sued for So,
had to pay the cojurer $IO-a very neat
trick for Justice to play.
Year: 1877

DoN'T Box Your CHILpREN's EARS.
The drum of the ear is as thin as pa
per, and is stretched like a curtain be-
tween the air outside and that within
and thus having nothing to support it,
and being extremely delicate, a slap
with the hand on the side of the face,
made with the force which sudden and
violent anger gives it, has in multitudes
of cases ruptured this delicate mem
brane, resulting in the afflictiou of deaf
ness for lite. As the right hand is almost
always used, it is the left ear which is
striken; this aids in accounting for the
fact that the left ear is more frequently
affected with deafness than the right.
Year: 1877

The English are somewhat alarmed at
the danger which their great ironclads
would run N time of war from tOrpedoes
like the Whitehead torpedo. It is in
sisted that the British navy should pos
sess the newest and most varied means of
launching torpedOes of every kind
against the enemy. The Whitehead
torpedo can be directed against an
enemy's ship l 900 yards, and in partial
darkness the vessel bearing it would be
able 10 approach any large ship without
danger. The simultaneous attack Of
three torpedo boats would thus imPeril
the safety of the most powerful iron
clads. Purely defensive measures, such
as enveloping the ship with a skirt of
wire Lets, must be of little avail. The
best means of defense is to give each
irouclad q couple of satellites in the
shape Of fast steam torpedo beats, armed
with light guns and carrying the White
head torpedo.
Year: 1877

Br,T-rER.-At this season of the year the
Walla Walla market is abundantly supplied


with butter of an excellant quality, and at
low figure. If some one wonid arrange to
ship our surplus butter below, in short


time good and paying business could be


built up. Oar dairi turn out excellent but
Ter. and with a brisk demand the production
of the article can be stimulated to an uniim-
tied extent.
Year: 1877

CLOsED.-The branch school III the church
building, corner Of Poplar and Second streets,
was closed yesterday. At the time Of open
ing the branch the main school was over
crowded. The attendance has since been
materially reduced, and hence the directors
ordered the branch school to be closed. Dur
ins the whole period Miss GOSe was IN charge
Of the school aud IL that capacity gave very
General satisfaction.
Year: 1877

DowN FREIGuT.-The Railroad Company
now dispatch two trains per week for steam
er landing at Wallula The freight Is most
" composed Of -four for the San Francisco
markets, each train taking nbout sixty ton
Year: 1877

II was rnmored in billiard circles last night
that Joe Walker had engaged Sexton to manage
the Crescent City billiard team and that he would
coach" that team during its contemplated tour
OF the Northern and Eastern cities The pro-
gramme for the match contests in the North and
East will soon, it is thought. be announced.


To the question as to what army and what
regiment Col. Isaiah Tharp commanded during
our late troubles, we can say only that the cor
respondent, vino addressed communication to
contemporary relative to the information flied
againsl this person for forgery, must have mig
taken his rank. The military aBnsls in our pos-
session do not mention his name either in the
list Of killed or wounded or in the list OF 1romo-
tions. Col. Tharp has been the partner OF the
late and we'll known Judge Hawkins, but beyond
this We do not know OF his participation in any
save civil action.
Year: 1877

REGULARITY IN FEEDING. Stuck
should he fed !, gularly in cold wealth
er. Many who have charge of stock
allow the time to slip by when stock
should be fed, while the hungry ami.
mails are shivering and suffering from
want of food and water; during which
time they lose flesh rapidly. Brutes
are The best time keepers in the world.
They know the very minute their food
should be suppl ed, and are worried
and disappointed when it does not
come. The stock breeder should,
therefore, sec that regularity and
promp,ues prevail in the care and
management Of stock. Their variou,
wants should he attended To daily and
at the same hour. II hired help fail
to do this they should he discharged
at once, and more humane people EN-
ployed in their places. Apart from
motives of humanity, it pays to feed
stock regularly.
Year: 1877

And what is England to do in all this :?
Hold aloof as long as she is able, and
fight when she isn't. That is the long
and short of the story. She will fight if
her Eastern possessions are threatened
and not without. [ do not myself be-
ieve, and L write it with reluctance, that
England is in any condition to make war.
Her commerce where is it all going to :?
The Chancellor of the EXcheouer was
obliged to acknowledge the other night
how could he help it?-that the ex-
ports are falling off with ominous regu-
larity, and Mr.. Baxter stated that the
manufacturing trade was never worse
than it is at present. In fact, [ look for
ward with apprehension to the next two
OF three years in England. What is
there to cause a great revival of trade OF
increase the prosperity of the people :?
A war? That will do you good on your
side of the ocean, for you will virtually
have to supply the combatants with food
if hostilities are at all protracted. We
shall not grow half enough in England
this year to feed the mouths at home.
Year: 1877

Himself Upon His Doom.


[From the Chicago Tribunel


Notified beforehand that she cannot
have the help of any outside power, and
knowing that she confronts power of
nearly three times her strength, which
has more than once before brought
her to the verge of ruin, what has in
duced Turkey to reject the pacific over
tures of all Europe and take the field
against Russia, knowing that it is for
lorn hope? The reason may undoubt-
edly be found in the fact that it does not
expect to lose any territory. From the
very outset of European Intervention, in
order to avoid blow upon the flank,
Russia has declared that she has no in
tention of territorial aggrandizement, and
that her only object in case of war would
be to ameliorate the condition of the
Christians and rescue them from
the horrors of Turkish domination.
The Turks argue, therefore, that even if
they are beaten they will lose no terri
tory, and that the worst that can happen
would still have happened if they had
signed the protocol Therefore, they
say, it is better to be compelled to grant
and guarantee reforms than allow outside
powers to interfere with our internal
affairs, and we will GO ahead and fight as
desperately as we can, and if we are
whipped we shall only have to surrender
what is already demanded by the pro-
toco]


The Turks, however, may find them
selves as badly deluded in these hopes
as they were in the expectation that Rus
sia would not fight at ALL The prime
object of Russia is this war is to estab-
Hsh guarantees for the protection of the
Christians, which she must do, first, by
conquering the Turks and stripping
them of power, and, second, by establish
ing protectorate, which she has a right
to do under the treaty of 1774, which is
once more In operstion, now that the
treaty of Paris is abrogated by the Cars
manifesto. That treaty gave to Russia
the protectorate of the Greek church in
Turkey and the guardianship of the
principalities north of the Danube. to
which she will add the guardianship of
those to the south. Instead of incor-
porating these provinces into the empire,
she viii therefore establish protectorates.
and what essential difference is there
between incorporation and protection ?
I The power that protects viii be in pos
session and hold control of armed gar
risons and remain there Ii the Rus
slams should like Servia and Bulgaria,
fer instance, they will most undoubtedly
take them away from Turkey. If Austria
should take possession of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and like them, and find
that it was no injury to hold them, she
might make up her mind to keep them,
and in no event VIII Russia leave before
Austria, The very establishment OF
Year: 1877

IN EDITOR IN TIE OTHER WORLD.


Editor Jones, who was recently MUIR
dered in Chicago by Phrenologist Pike,
is having very comfortable time in the
spirit land. A. Lincoln, T. Parker, Dr.


Kane, d. Webster, and other spirits too
numerous to mention have taken him by
the hand and made things pleasant and
sociable for him where he now is. He is
recovering his health, gaining strength
every day, and becoming familiar with
his new home and Surroundings. These
facts he communicates by special long


haired medium to the editor of the jour.
nal which he conducted while on earth


The main object of his solicitude seems
to be the circulation and business pros
perity of that journal He thanks his
former subscribers for their patronage
and urges them to give his successor in
the editorial chair cordial support He
promises to watch over the columns of
the paper, to aid the present editor in
many ways, and to uphold the truths of
the harmoniaI philosophy. From the
interest which Editor Jenes manifests in
the prospectuses OF his eaTth-born jour
nal, it is safe to conclude that he can
Year: 1877

protectorates means the end of Turkish
domination, even if the powers should
not dismember Turkey and help them
selves to the fragments. With either
event the world will be satisfied. The
Turks, in rushing madly upon their
doom, are building Tip hopes OH most
insubstantial basis. Between the vast
army sweeping down from the North
through Roumania and the vast army
on the trans Caucasian side pouring
across Asia Minor, they and their doni-
nation will be forever crushed.
Year: 1877

find no employment in that line where
he now is Editors will have to content
themselves on earth with the compost
ton of able articles, and printers with
the decomposition and mutilation of the
same by the substitution of these for
those, for in another sphere their occti-
pations will be gone. There will be no
newspapers there
Year: 1877

The dime novel has been producing
its legitimate effect In New York, by so
depicting the beauties of metropolitan
life as to tempt a young lad OF 10 years
to leave his comfortable home in Albany
to seek his fortune in the great city. For
four years he remained away, enjoying the
luxurious life of tcotblack and news
boy. BY the death of his father, recently,
he fell heir to considerable property,
which led to-his being hunted up.
Year: 1877

Sir Isaac Newton, little before he
died, said 81 don't know what I may
seem to the world, but, as to myself, I
seem to have been only ike boy play
ing on the sea-shore and diverting my
self in now and then finding a smoother
pebble or prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me-"
Year: 1877

A YoUNGsTER being required to write
composition upon some portion OF the
human body, selected that which unltes
the head to the body, and expounded as
follows 81 A throat is convenient to have,
especially to roosters and ministers. The
former eats corn and crows with it; the
latter breaches through his'n, and then
ties it up. This is pretty much all I ca n
think OF about necks.
Year: 1877

Half the people OF the world are idle
for want of some overseeing eye to set
them to work. The advice which Hay
don gave to the erratic poet Keats, to
settle down to some definite purpose,
needs to be given to almost one-half of
mankind. There are very few persons
but would find themselves comfortably
well off if they would take hold of any
one of a hundred pursuits and stick to
it. Industry and economy will make a
most wonderful change in many house
holds. So says one of our exchanges,
and we believe it is the truth.
Year: 1877

previous year. The eastern portion of
the State will also produce an abundant
harvest, and good judges estimate that
Oregon and the eastern portion of Wash
ington Territory viii have 100000
bushels for export.
Year: 1877

a splendid article OF green corn for
table use, can be prepared by dissolving
a couple ot pounds OF blue stone in the
water in which the ears are boiled, add.
Ing little alum to set the color.
Year: 1877

EXCuRsGoNIsTs.- The parties who left
last Sunday for the Falls returned Friday
afternoon. 1t has rained every day and
night since they left; yet they say they
had no occasion to use an umbarella
since they left till on their way home
Friday. They report rain Mt night up
the river since they left, but less in
quantity than fell here.
Year: 1877

LECTURE.-The Rev. Mr.. Calvin and
party returned from their "trip TO the
Falls late Saturday night. He gave n
lecture Sunday evening, on the events of
the day, and the conflict of labor and
capital. The advice he gave laboring
men was the best We have heard for II
long time. Those who were absent lost
most valuable lecture. We hope eer
long that moral lecture OF similar
character will be provided as often at
least as once u week.
Year: 1877

BENEFACToR,-If he who causes, two
blades OF grass to grew where only one
grew before is bencfactor, how much
more so is he who makes happy home
out of "a wild claim in the, far North
West
Year: 1877

TAKE A CLAIM Let all young men
take warning by the eastern riots, In
stead ol spending their time at the card
table and money Mt the bar, let them
take up acclaim Of their own and apply
both to the development Of the same.
In that way they will soon achieve IL
standing and character in the commu-
nitu
Year: 1877

Editors Of the Register.


A statement having been circulated
to day among some OF the members OF
the House Of Delegates By some personal
eneny, that l advocated and aided In
the passage of the act of 1871, amending
the law SO rs take from the Sheriff OF
Ohio county the collection of that por-
ton OF the county school tax within the
city limits, l take this method OF pro.
LouncIng the statement as absolutely
false in every particular. l knew moth
ing whatever of any attempt 90 TO
change the law, was not asked TO aid IN
its passage and should not have done so
had been asked. l was not at Charles
ton at any time in the year 1871, tor
the correctness of which statement l re-
fer the members to the Senators aud
Delegates from this county in the ses-
sion OF that year which passed the act.
Mr.. Barr was one of the Delegates and
could be easily consulted.


l will here correct another false state.
ment which is being industrlously used
to prevent the passage Of the bill, viz:
That the sheriff will get q greater COM
mission than is paid the city collector,
when the fact IS the sheriff will be gov
erned by the same law which regulates
the commission of the city collector ard
Is limited at not over 8 per centun.


GEO K. TINGLE.