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* í “ Oh, yes. Sho was up to our V\ aafcington a ail «va y station 13 to tell you niv troubles. I would house to borrow some tea, and pa a euphemism for called Eltopia In the great & give the world to see her once eventually came back to England. “ Are you a Christian?” asked tho patted her on the cheek and bugged tho Hell-to-pay of tho first settlers. which took pi "W hat is that faded branch?” more, for the sake o f my poor, dear Providence sent her to the Severn T l i c l r B i f f i ) I r i n k a n - , Q u e e r bad boy of the grocery man, as that her, and said she was a dear little N u m e ro «» . » n »paper*. you ask. It is a sprig of misteltoe. mother, who loved her so much. I shire hospital on Christmas evo— geutlenmn was placing vegetables daisy, and wanted her to sit on bis Chamber upon I TO O K BIX LAST IIBIN H . 1828, I was in found traces of hsr. She had had sent her, that George Newbold’s It is th# token of our love. out in front of the grocery one morn lap, but when I wanted him to let nullification fever E. V. Smalley, in the February “ How sentiment*!!” you exclaim. a letter from her lover, bidding her last hours might lie solaced with mo bavo fifty cents to buy her some ‘ Henry, I wish you would give ing. frenzy high. Mem “ Well, I hope so,” answered the ice cream he said it was all nonsense. No; it is not culled from the bough good-bye forever. It was believed her tender words and happy mem number of the Century, in the me a dollar or two.’ Mrs. Harris had deserted the under which I kissed her. Ours he had enlisted for a soldier. A ories o f the Christmas days that course of a very interesting article said to her husband as she stood in grocery man. “ I try to do what is He said: ‘ Look at your ma. Eating witness the splint was uot a match of the common detective officer whom I employed were gone. If it were not pre on “ Features of tho New North tho hallway helping him on with right, nnd hope to wear the golden ice cream when sho was a girl was tween Robert Y. crown when the time comes to close what injured her health for life.’ I kind; it was not inaugurated with fancied he traced him to India. sumptions to think that what be Carolina and Daniel west,” mako.'t the following obser his overcoat. my bocks.” asked inn about it, and she said pa 1 entered the hall blind man's buif and kiss in the His name was not to be found on fell afterwards were not accidental, ‘What for?’ he asked in a tone “ Then how is it that you pot out never paid out ten cents for its cream was speaking; he * ling. “The mistletoe hung in the the list of any regiment at home' I could fancy that some special vant remarks: that was not encouraging. the box ef great big sweet potatoes, j or any luxury for her in all the five As a rule, however, the traveler eral youthful app<____ consideration for the poor hospital castle hall?” No, my friend, you or abroad. 'T o gat a doll for Edith. To-day and when we order somo, and they years he was sparking her. She nre quite wrong. Thera were no “That is the story o f my life; surgeon also filled up the Providen from tho East is more frequently is her birthday, and I would like come to the table, they are little bits says ho took her to a circus once, shirt collar turned over and his hair smoothly surprised by the comforts and good to surprise her.’ luerry guest* going hither and this is the story of my wanderings. tial design. of things, not bigger than a radish? but he got free tickets for carrying his forehead. He wa The spring came, also the sum manners encountered on the far tliither under that treasured spiig I am in search of my sitter, in ‘A^ dollar for a doll! what extrav- Do you expect to get to heaven on water for the elephant. She says pa stature and well o f the mysterious parasite. Tell soarch of them lo th — Lucy and mer, and the stars shone once more frontier, than by rudeness and bad ‘-aganco! Besides Edith is too old such sigall potatoes, when you use was tighter than the bark to a tree. sgeakiuge such big ones for a sign?” asked the I tell you it is going t o 'b e different you the story? 1 will. It happened her husband. I have forgiven them above the bell-music that tile winds maimers. People who livo in cabins j for « doll.’ peculiarly If we had | will go to an extravagant outlay I boy, as he took out a silk handker w ith mo. If ¡here is anything that carried down the river, long ago. What right had I to in tliia wise:. ... ------ 'W hy, Henry, she is only ten, tremely pale; he moved up chief nnd brushed a speck of dust off that girl wants sbe is going to have of money to bring, over hundreds \ I was the house surgeon of the stand between lier and the man she been young people, and without a and she is so fond of her old one.’ tho aisle formed between the his nicely blacked shoes. it if I have to sell ma’s copper boiler Severnshire hospital. One autumn loved? Heaven forgive me!” chastened sorrow in our hearts, the of miles o f mountain roads, some with a rapid and energetic ‘Can’t help it; I can't att’ord it. Tho grocery man blushed and said to get the money. What is the use day a patient was brought into the Tho season o f Christmas came, bells might have rung afresh in the articles of taste to remind them of | Y ou’re enough to ruin any man.’ gestures were vehement, and he did not mean to take nnv such of having wealth if you hoard it up peared to be under a high accidont ward, lie was a gentle with its kindly thoughts, its Chris summer that followed; for the their former homes in the East; an ‘Henry,’ the wife said indig advantage of his customers. He und don’t enjoy it? 'This family will excitement. I was peculiarly man. N o one in the town knew tian-like feelings, its genial associa house surgeon married the heroine upholstered chair, perhaps a carpet, nantly, ‘you could afford it, and a said it must have been a mistake of run on different principles after this, was his whole appearane him. He was traveling through tions. We always decorated the of this sad story, ami she sits by an engraving, or even a piano. I great many other things, if you tho boy that delivers groceries you bet. Sny, how much are those tone of feeling evident in the country. In the high street of hospital for Christmas eve. The his side with her sweet sympathetic found pianos, carpets, and pictures would let Jones' liquor saloon “ Then you must biro tho boy to yellow wooden pocket combs in the ber. Mr. Calheun (then the city he had been thiown from patients all seemed to get better in smile, while lie tries to tell you, j in little log-houses in Montana, far alone.’ make mistakes, for it has been so show case? I ’ve a good notion te dent) was in the chair, with liis herse. When ho was picked presence o f the little excitement of without faltering, the history of distant from any town. Often the The man winced. 'You’re always every time we have had iwcut pota buy them for her. How would one grade of intelligence and culture of harping on that,’ he replied, going toes for five years,” said tho' boy. of th m round mirrors, with a zino steady and vigilant eyes w the time. Every ward had its bit these withered leaves. np he said.— the first g.vat battle of his di “Take me to the hospital; I am of holly and mistletoe. The nurses And now let us put back the the inhabitants would be equal to out and shutting the door violently. And about green corn. You have I cover, do for a present for a girl? he seemed the very spirit of eml a gentleman and will pay for at rivaled each-other in the making of Christmas treasure. If you will that of the best class of country But hu knew that what she said a few ears stripped down to show i There's nothing too good for her. interest; not a word, not a how nice and plump it is, nud if we Friends of the rummage over tho contents of old people in New England or New was true. tention; hut I prefer the hospital." festal wreaths. of General Hayne escaped order a dozen enrs there are only two York. They like to show that it So they brought him to us. He patients brought in contributions cabinets, you must come upon look. The Senate was d< 'Papa, papa!’ a childish voice that have got any corn on at all, and was very seriously hurt internally. from the country; winter ever skeletons. Close tho drawer, shut is possible to cultivate the graces called, and Edith Hew across tho terested, as a matter of course, pa nnd mn gets them, and the rest language of General Hayne George Gregory Newbohl was bis greens from their little gardens, down the ancient lid, look out of life in tho wilderness as well as lawn. of us have to chew cobs. Do you ind rigorous, and bis pow< holly from rnral hedge rows, and through the western window, and in cities. In Western Oregon and name. ‘You naughty papa, going with hope to wear a crown of glory on oortrsyal of the effect of the “ I don’t live anywhere in partic luxuries of miuce-pie and plum yonder you may see the sun making Washington, where civilization has out a kiss for me, and on my birth that kind of corn?” aw on the South, tbs descrij. ular,” he said, a week after lie was pudding which it was hard to in- a “golden set” behind the towers of had thirty years growth, manners day too!’ she laughed and lifted her “ 0 , such thiugs will happen,” j.. gave of her people, his own bold and modes of living come pretty terdict. There brought, in. “ I am a traveler; I were some poor the county hospital, in Sabrina’s said the grocery man with a laugh. bright face to his. m<t hazardous elocution and impft well up to Eastern standards. In have been in nearly every nation creatures whom nothing could in classic valley. “ But don’t let's talk about heaven 'i’lre frown on his face faded. He i o u s tearing were evidently ma! deed there is not enough newness stooped and kissed her. in the world. I eati refer you to jure. These had their beef and Lot’s talk nbout tho other place. \ strong impression on the A W E .t r ilF .i: SH AK I-, and roughness for picturesque the hank of England. I have prop pudding, their pies and wine. How’s things over to your house? From time to time attention wo ‘Here,’ lie said, putting his hand Poor Mr. Newbold, lie was among erty in Hertfordshire. I am very On a Woodward-avenue car yes effects; save for a certain breezy in his pocket and drawing out a And say, what’s tho matter with you? oe directed from him to I he gen1 comfortable here, and grateful for these hopeless case*. But no friend terday one of stir solid citizens, frankness of manner and a little silver half-dollar, ‘give this to your You aro all dressed up, have a clean nan who was expected to ans' lain, and whom the General attai ' all the kindness you have shown brought gifts to lay 5ieside his lied. whose weather predictions have carelessness in dress, and a more mother and tell her it is all the shirt on, have go' your shoes blacked, under cover of a terrible and galling He had thanked me, however, for a never lieen disputed since he was heai ty tone in conversation, you change I have. She may get what and I noticed your pants nre not me.” raveled out so at the bottom ef the fire. , lie was a handsome man, with a handful of mistletoe and holly, rated worth §50,000, remarked to remark no special Western stamp she likes with it.’ legs behind. You aro not in love, O dd, serene, dark and melan .tender, sympathetic gray eye and a which I hung up in his ward with an acquaintance that this was un in the people.. Such towns as ‘What did lie mean?’ the child aro you?” choly, that man, thus assailed, oak soft, musical voice. There «’as my own hands, wishing at the same usual weather for the last of De Olympia, on Puget Sound, and asked later, as she handed the Well, I should smile,” said the apni t, black nnd frowning as a moun something aliout him that excited time ull the best wishes of the cember. He had hardly spoken Salem, Albany and Corvallis in the money to her mother. boy, ns ho loo! in a small mirror tain rock. He evidently felt the Willamette Valley, might almost interest at once. It was an honest, season. when an old man with a bundle covered with fiv ‘I wanted to get you a wax doll on tho cour. gigantic influences that were at work have been transported bodily from “I don’t make a complaint, my under his arm hopped up and o: cu, candid face, with lines of specks. “ A a... g .i nmshed on me, around him, but lys profound mind for your birthday present, but— ’ Ohio or Northern Illinois. trouble about the eyes. dear friend,” he said “ but I have a replied: was strengthening itself for the con ‘Oh mamma!’ Edith interrupted, and ma says it in good for a boy, who The fecundity of the far North delighted. hasn't got any sister, to bo in love “ Yes, you arc light, doctor,” he small request to prefer: I am very tent. And how deeply solemn was “ It is, eh? I’d just bet you an said to me one November day, when troublesome, I am sure, very; and even dollar that you are mistaken.” west in newspapers is remai kable. that hour, that moment! How gTand ‘Papa cannot afford it. He has with a girl, and so I kind of tumbled to my'self, and h I io don’t go nowhere Towns which, in the Middle or given this to buy a present instead. that scene! And .what were the lie appeared to have rallied consid it is very hard for my nurse not to “ Isn’t this unusual weather?” without I go with her. I take her to meditations und spirit-rallying of erable. “ I have bad a great deal have a change to some other ward. “ No, sir? I’ll bet you two to older Western States, would barely What shall wo get with it?’ dancing school, and everywhere, and that great, dhrk man? His counten of trouble; not the sort o f trouble Will you find me another nurse— a one that we had just such a De sustain a weekly, have one or two ‘I don’t know, mamma. I do she loves mo like a house afire. Say, ance was the same during the whole which usually knocks a man up— w-oinan with a softer voice, dear cember week three, five am] eight dailies, and mere hamlets of two want the doll so much.’ was you ever in love? Mnlfes a fellow o f that tremendous speech. Assault or three hundred inhabitants sup not money anxiety, nothing of the friend, a softer voice?” years ago. Put up your cash.” Wes, dear, hut you cannot have feel queer, don’t it? Well, sir, the upon assault was ma<le upon him; world’s worry, in truth. Yet I Ho was very ill; lie had grown “Oh, I don’t bet on tho weather; port a weekly to trumpet their ad it now. I will ask Santa Claus to first time I went homo with her I but yhtlie’ nej jr t'PcQt il-ig the right, The bring you one Christmas.’ have suffered tortures almost be weaker and weaker; his end was still I think such soft weather at vantages and aspirations. put my nrm around her, and honest nor tho left,'ljit e^riily..|rtA Vail&nt \ drawing near. She was a querulous this time of tho year is singular.” proportion of newspapers to popu yond endurance.” v, like tiro Yolffcor a '’d&hn*A*»!, But when Edith came home from it scared mo. It was just like when lation in Oregon am!. Washington “Can J he of any sop-ice t* you, but most reliable woman, the nurse ign il, 1# IviflJjl bit ho .r “ Bet you three to one it isn’t .‘ichtiirMilr mother said to her: Lit you take hold of tho handles of an must be twice or three times as tle girl, your .papa sent me home electric battery, nnd you can’t let g6 Mr. Newbohl, beyond the poor pro attached to his ward. She had re singular!” cried the old man. r-.'tahaikrt*2 great as in Iowa or Illinois. As the more money,so [ have bought your till tho man turns the knob. Honest, fessional services which it has been placed an attendant who had ob “ I told you I wouldn’t- bet.” I was just as weak as n cat. I thought . your misfortune to require here?” tained leave to spend Christmas at “ Then don’t he deceiving poeple town precedes the country in the birthday present for you.’ she !md needles in her back, and •‘No, thank you, I think not. I home. Poor Newbold was sensi with your weather talk! Bet you development of this region, the You can easily guess Edith was if ten'think I shall never recover, tive, and the loud voice and some- I four to one you can't tell wlmt the papers must mainly subsist on such impatient for tho return of her was going to take my nrm away, patronage as can be obtained within father, and while she is waiting for but it was glued on. I asked her it could see my sister again I what demonstrative manner of the j weather was in September.” she felt that way too, and sho said j Id die happy; that is, happy as now woman jarred upon his nerves. The solid citizen was bluffed into gunshot of their offices. The four him shall I tell you how he came she used to, but it was nothing when ! a ijnan can die, when death sepa I went to the matron. silence for a moment, ami then he dailies of Walla Walla, for exam to send the extra money home to you got used to it. That made me ple, depend upon a town which, in his wife? “There is a young woman sen t' remarked: rates him from the only "being mad. But she is older than nto, wmotn he loves, and whbsan ^ e re ct here through Florence Nightengale "Looks as if we might have the East, would perhaps sustain With his wife’s reproaches still and knows more about it. When I two or three weeklies; but there in his memory, and his child’s was going to leave her at tho gate, ing hand she may ncedi I will till — a most respectable, kind looking snow.” you my story, doctor*—you are a person," said the matron. “ She had “ Bet yon five to one we don’t are no tributary villages, the sur kisses yet warm on his lips, he did she kissed me, and that was worse guqd man; 1 knew that by your only been here a week; but T don't see a flake this week?” piped the rounding country being an im not enter a saloon on his way to than putting my arm around her. face, and by your great kindness to doubt for a moment she will turn old man. “H ow can you expect mense wheat-field, with three or his store, but about ten o’clock, By gosh, I trembled all over just me, a stranger." out to be the best nurse in the hos snow when the air isn’t cold enough four families to a square mile of being thirsty, he went out to Jones' like I bad chill«, but I was as warm Territory. The three dailies of liquor srfo.'e and called for his usual as toast. Sl.o wouldn t let go for ns “I trust I . hould be none the less pital. Shall I send her up te you?” to congeal this moisture?” much as a m note, and I war as tired Seattle depend upon a lumber town dram. attentive to any patient,” I said, “Thank you very much; pray “Than it may rain.” s. an though I had been carrying coal of perhaps (!,000 inhabitants with a “although I confess you have inter do,” I, said. "Send her up to the “N o it won’t. Bet you six to one While the bar-tender was pre up stairs. 1 didn't want to gc homo wilderness on one side and the ested me much.” ' ward at once.” you never saw rain with the wind paring it the liquor dealer’s wife at all, hut sho said it would 1 o the water on the other. The daily at came in, and going up to Mr. Jones best way for me to go homo and come . The Christmas bell* were ring where it is!” “ You are veiy good^ said Mr. Newbold; “heaven wilhreward you. ing; you could hear the musie wan A M 1K M H 111 H i ll. “ Well, the barometer indicates a Pin t Townsend is supported bv a said in a loud voice, ‘Sain, I want the next day; and tho next morning | When I was an infant my father dering up and down the streets, storm of some sort!” shouted the population not exceeding 2,500, in §20 to buy a doll for Katie. I went to her house before nuy of A hunter with an empty gamo bag * . t r« *»l cluding Indians and Chinese. The died, and left myself and my sister carried hither and thither by the solid man. “Twenty dollars!’ he answered them were up, and her pn came out enters a country tnvern, at nightfall i ha» v» J^ferLhe gb-snj Visitors had all left the to the care o f my mother. It is wind. “ I’d take you on that, too, and fact that newspapers live in such good naturcdly, 'isn’t that a good to lot the eat in, and I asked him and with nn nir of gloom bids the of sumn r lightning raiBiiAng l ,(*. what lime his girl got up, and ho host to serve him with n glass of brow of ‘iff ami mojHitan.--JMd-J only doing the memory of my wards for the night; the patients bet you seven to one that it small communities argues a great deal to give for a toy?’ lnughed nnd said I find got it bad, deal of enterprise and liberality on mother an ordinary justice to lay there listening to the melody doesn't.” win's Monthly. | * ‘Yes, but the child has set her and that J had better go home and wine. say that she was as good as she of the bells, and thinking o f other While ho was drinking it the host The prophet seemed abont to the part of the people and a pretty heart on one with real hair and a not be picked till I got ripe. Bay, A good new spa pel may» full is remarks, confidentially, “ You had was beautiful. She didd tsn years things; the light of the Christmas haul out a dollar, but he changed high average of intelligence. kid body, and I want to get one all error through accident on the part i The general news field of the dressed. It is too much trouble to how much does it cost to get mar bad luck to-day, I ’m afraid?” ago. For five years we lived in the candles fell upon the dark leaves his mind and fell back in his seat ried?” “ Yes, my friend: I did net bag a persona who serve it, saya an ex Pacific Northwest is monopolized bother dressing it. old house, my sister and myself. of the holly; here and there the and growled: “ W ell, I should say you had got single thing. The first time suen a change, but no newspaper worthy prosperous by a single rich and W e had no cares, no ti-oubles; life white berries of the mistletoe re “ Maybe my thermometer doesn't Without another word Mr. Jones it had,” said the grocery man as he the name over makee intentional mio- the “ Portland Ore- opened his pocket-book, took from set down a basket of beets. “ Your thing has happened to me in the statemonts. Its reputation for treat- with us was a continued summer; flected back the subdued glimmer. stand at fifty-four degrees above.” newspaper, courso of my life.” (Sportsman’s 1 weL&O* to make each other hapjpy was our It is a sad picture, a hospital on worthiness is the largest part of it» “ No, sir! No, sir! I ’d bet you gonian,” which controls tho associ it a roll of bills, counted out the getting in love will bo a great thing perjury nt which Jove laughs). only anxiety. It had occurred to Christmas eve; the shadows o f th* eight to one that you are at least ated press dispatches and sells them twenty dollars, and handed them for your pa. You won’t have time capital as a publio journal. It in "W ell, if you are anxious to take to piny any more jokes on him.” me more than once— rtiany times, place seem so significant— such three degrees out of the way. in condensed form to small dailies to his wife, saying, carelessly: something homo, I have a hare out tends every statement it publishes to “ O, I guess wo can find timo to iu the stable that I would not mind be unquestioned and unquestionable in the interior and on the Sound. memories hover about the Come, now!” indeed— that Lucy mikht marry tender men 'I forgot to order the ducks to and leave me, ’ ’ * have re- '.»rrow beds. But the solid man came not.— There is no parrallel case in the roast for dinner; have Jim stop at keep pn from being lonesome. Have parting witli to you for ten francs.” truth; and if it ia led into error, the cause will always be found easy of United States of a single newspa Blander’s and order them, and tell you seen him this morning? You The new nurse came into the Freo Press. “ A hare? Dead?” -gretfed this for . lot but if ; per having an absolute monopoly him to be sure and send some nice ought to have seen him last night. “ No alive. I caught itvosterday.” honest explanation. Aeonscientioua secured and perpetuated Lucy’s ward while I sat there. It was a You see my chum’s pa has got a accuracy is the first essential o f Horace Greeley once wrote a of so large a field of circulation, “ I ’ll take it.” happiness. One day— it only hows sweet face, as I saw it with the celery, and some apples for sauce. setter dog stuffed. It is one that journalism, and this paper keeps it Tho landlord lends the hunter out note to a brother editor in New which is about 1,000 miles square. how blind we men are— Lucy told light upon it— a kind, sad, pitying ‘Yes, ,1 will. By-by!’ and she died two years ago, and he thought constantly in view. The m uch-. An affectation of odd and orig turned and went out to her a good deal of it, and he had it into tho yard nnd brings out the mouthed idea that “ you can’t be face. Newbold looked at her curi York, whose writing was equally ino she was in love.” hare, which lie ties to a stake by a Then he illegible with his own. The r e - 1 inal names prevails among the carriage. “ You are faint, Mr. Newbold," I ously as she entered. stuffed for an ornament. Well, my cord fastened to its foot. lieve anything you read in a news raised himself up suddenly, and cipient o f the note, not being able journals of the Far West. “ Salem said; “ rest awhile.” paper,” is false. When one reflects Mr. Harris looked after this chum and mo took the dog nud put “ Now, sir, blaze away I” to read it, sent it back by the j J)aily Talk,” the “ Reese River upon the number of facts which i “ No, no; I am stronger than you before I hardly knew what had richly dressed woman, not half so it on our front steps, and took some Tho sportsman retires a few paces think,” he avid smiling and waving happened, he was locked in her same messenger to Mr. Greeley for j Reveille,” the “ Pinal Drill,” the“ Las sweet looking nor so lady-like as cotton and fastened it to tho dog’s brings his gun to his shoulder and well conducted newspaper mouth so it just looked like froth, elucidation. Supposing it to be an Vegas Optic,” the “ Colton Semi- me to be silent. “ It was a young arms. * bln/.es away, nnd tho charge takes upon to publish every week, i his own wife. She gave some order “ Lucy, Lucy, my dear, dear sis answer to bis own note, Mr. Greeley Tropic,” the “ Calico Print,” pub to the driver and entered the car and ho started down tho sidewalk, effect in tho cord, nnd the hare innumerable and widely dive fellow who had often been to the house. 1 ought to have known. ter!” he was saying, his voice nearly looked over it, but was likewise lished in the new mining town of riage, and the handsome vehicle, and we got behind tho door nnd bounds lightly over -the fence and sources from which it ne obtains information, it is marvelous and the “Tombstone with its prancing horses and gold waited for pa to come home from the disappears in the azure distance. When Lucy told me I could see drowned in the sobs of the woman unablo to read it, and said to th* Calico, theatre. When pa started to coine that its columns are kept so free from' What Epitaph,'” of the town of Tombstone, how indiscreet I had been. He had whose face was - lying upon his boy: “Go, take it back. mounted harness and liveried up the steps I growled, nnd pa looked A new and nove^ amusement for error. The nverage individual is far does the d— d fool mean?” Yes, Arizona. neither friends nor position. I did shoulder. coachman, drove out of sight. at the dog and said, ‘ Mad dog, by parties has recently t>*< u inveuted. | less truthful than the average news- In Oregon and Washington are The bell appeared to be gaining sir," said the boy, “ that's just what not fordid the match, but I dis Then Mr. Harris cainc to himself crimus,’ and my chum barked like a The boys nnd girls are divided into | paper- ________ he said.” many queer names of towns and He placed his glass of liquor upon dog, and I ki-yu’d nnd growled like countenanced it, expostulated with new strength at that moment. It separate rooms. The gills are seated j streams that testify in some cases the counter untasted, laid beside it a dog that gets licked, and you in a row nnd each one has a chair in , It ia claimed that the potato can Lucy, and privately expressed my- was the wind which brought the Gunter’s incarceration: A gen s# f in severe terms to her lover. soupd close up to the windows on tleman while bathing at sea saw to the quaint fancy of the early the price which was due for it, and ought to see pa run. He went around front of her. A young man is i be transformed into a material for settlers, and, in others, to a blunt, in the alley and was going to get in ushered out of the other room and j the manufacture of mersebanm pipen If it were not that lie believed its way down the river. went out o f the dram shop, saying his lawyer rise up at his side after rude realism still displayed in the basement window, and my churn chooses his sent. As S3on as he is \ of tho very choicest quality, by the “Thank God,” I exclaimed; and Lucy would deeply feel bis leaving simple operation of boiling it for a long dive. After exchanging sal- mining camps. In the Willamette to himself: had a revolver with somo blank my heart ieapod with a strange joy. her, he said ho would go away, ‘ I have tasted my last drink,’ and cartridges, and wo went down in the seated, the lady behind him proceeds thirty-six hours in a certain i utations, says he. “ By the way, Valley y-ou can pass through the to blindfold him with a silk hand since I questioned his honor and I felt like a child ready to weep. j j how about Gunter?” “ He is in jail,” he meant what he said and became basement and when pa wns trying to solution and squeezing i! his love. My selfishness was awak It was as if I had been reading replied the lawyer and dived again. hamlet of Needy, and a few miles an affectionate husband, a kind open the window my churn began kerchief. This being accomplished iu a press till whatever mi the negro cook comes in from the 1 further on arrive at Glad Tidings, ened; I urged him to go, implored some pitiful story. :s r s f i The gentleman thought no more and then, in ten miles more, reach father and a highly respected, pros to fire towards him. Pa hollered kitchen, kisses him and returna to may contain is pressed out. I walked out into the corridor, hiln; gave him money; and he left that it was only him, and not a burg her hiding place. The handkerchief ' residuum ia then declared about it, but on getting his account Sublimity. On Puget Sound are perous citizen. Lucy to her brother in the old opened a window, and put my head he found: “T o consultation at sea lar, but after my chum fired four is removed nnd the youth etruta hard block of a delicate a w rr sr»r. two neighboring logging-camp The stars house that we had known since in into the frosty air. shots, pa run and climbed over the proudly to a neat on the opposite white hue, as suitable to the about the incarceration of Gunter, towns, one called Arcadia and the facture of ornamental and at fancy. When Lucy niscovered the crowded the sky, and the bell-music $3.”— Springfield Republican. “ You mus’nt touch the top of the fence, nnd then wo took tho dog side of the room, where he licss his I other Hardscrabble. In neither of baby’s head,” said a mother to her home and I stayed with my chum all lipa with great aatisfnction and amilea executed pipe beads aa the _ cause of her lover’s desertion, she seemed to belong to their purity!, A South End rnsn set a steel trap them does life appear to be Arca- little four-year-old; “ she has a soft night, and this morning nin said pa r t the girl who blindfolded him. clay. The potato, thus never fit for a hospital tur- upbraided me, called me cruel and i I found to be an excellent seltish, and a month afterward she geon; my feelings were always too in his cellar to catch rats, and his ilian, and Hardscrabble is quite as spot there that is very tender.” The didn't get home till four o'clock, and Then young man No. 2 is led in and for ivory in the manufacti then a policeman came with him, served in a like manner to the great mother-in-law got hor thumb in it, attractive or unattractive as its youngster gazed at it curiously for a little under control. When 1 went was missing. I have never seen articles as brush and umbrella moment, and then asked: “ Do all and pa talked about mad dogs and disgust of young man No. 1, and the back into the ward, she was sitting and it was bitten to the bone, and neighbor with the poetic name. her since.” being taken for a burglar nnd nearly general enjoyment of the female les, fans and eheaemen. babies have soft spot* on tbeir she yelled bloody murder, and he ■ A southim Oregon settlement, Here my poor patient fell back by his side holding his hand. His killed, and she said she was afraid assembly. supi had to go down cellar and bring her where the early gold-seeker* met heads?” “ Yes.” “ Did papa have pa had took to drinking again, and A boy at Columbus upon his pillow. I gave him a face was full of pence and hai a soft spot on the tojv of his head up. And when he got her up stairs, with disappointment, was called A loviag couple in Iowa w ere,' foot of red ribbon In ordi stimulant; and by-and-bv, when he ness. Is was as if an angel nad sbe just pranced with pais and car she asked me if I heard any firing of Humbug, and the name sticks to it when he was a baby?” “ Yes,” re- gunn, and I said no, and then she says the local chronicler, separated might afterward pall it looked up with his gray eyes ex besn there. lied the mother, with a sigh, “ and ried on dreadfully, and he tried to to tnis Jay. Not far off are Louse by “ a cold cloud of frozen realism.” month, conjuror I We buried him on New Year’s pressing an apology for his weak e has got it yet.” And the old put a wet towel on pa's head.” console bar, and told her it was too iah tho family, Greek, Wbiskytown, and Jump-off- ness; I confess to sensations of day. m»n, who had overheard the con "Y ou ought to be ashamed," said It is evident it was not the bash ques bad; but when be left tbs house and tion that disturbed them. However conjuror he saw per s s -sympathy I had never before felt. got around the corner folks were as Joe Creek, the latter named on ac versation from an adjoining room, the grocery roan. “ How does your cold or frozen hash may be, it hoe gees through, every Her history is soon told. She tonished to sea him cling to a tree count of an adventure of old Gen sang out: "Y es, indeed he has, my pa like your being in love with the never been described as a realism.— did, the man earns kie l "I thought I was stronger,” hu said; "pray forgive me. Let me lost her husland in the Crimea and go into a perfect paroxysm of eral Joe Lane, who fought the In boy, or he would be a single man girl? Does he seem to encourago i 1’ euris Transcript. he doesn't want a i you in it?” diane m that region. In Eastern | to-day.”— Argonaut. finish my story; it will do tne good 1 After that sh# joined Florence i mirth.—Boston Post. i X f > I C kj’ V