A MEMORY.
LM alr.bt, M I MA Id the shadow
That ratheml on woodland and hUL
I beard, rhiguig out In th distance.
A ablatio ao clear aud to thrill
That II (tartlad in from my drowning.
Well 1 knew 'twa a Iotw'i oo(
That wo whuttlixl In time to heart beau,
Ajad bunted hit fooutep along.
Twa th old Mm ong, "Mollle DarUnf,
And over and over attain
Tha clear now rang out la tli atiUneea
And echoed o'er hilltop and glea,
I wondered U ah would b waiting
And watching fur him at tha gala,
And thinking how fondly iha'd chide him
For being a few mlnutoa lata.
Tha note died away in tha distano.
I waa bumming the sweet refrain,
J waa wiping away the tear dropa
And fighting the old Mm pain.
I prided tnyaelf la forgetting.
But the note of that dear old tun
Bad opeaed the flood gate of uiom'ry
And brought book toot far away Juaa.
The year had rolled back and I waited
To bear hia dear whistle again. "
The signal to tell he waaooming
To greet ma, my king among moo.
lorno A. Jon In St. Paul Pioneer Pre
FRENCH GAS.
It was 011 the seventh landing, half
war up the lourtu lliffht. Mat 1 met
faithful Sally, with lior expression at
half ntust, and a dungorous looking
document in her band. Our Sally was
the tyrant of the cony little apartment
in the Faubourg St. Germain, and
played in addition the dual role of
nursemaid chef.
"I cannot think what it is," said
he, rolling her eyes mysteriously. "It
wag a kind of soldier that brought it,
and he was pretty stiff about it, too.
And so," she continued, "I've just
busied myself packing up a bit."
"Packing up," I groaned, "'and we
paid our three mouths' rout in ad
vance but yesterday I Why, what are
you thinking off"
"I'm thinkin'," said she, turning
red at the idea of being questioned,
"that it wasn't fornotliin'thira Frinch
frogs was singin' and juuipin' Bou
langer in the streets all last night" By
this time we were in the parlor and
he bad closed the door. "I'm think
in'," she went on, solemnly holding
up the document, "that thim Germans
have declared a war, and we've a right
to go home. God knows. I want no
foreigner givin' me the last sacramint
in Frinch r
Sally's lip quivered; she fell into
the best chair, fanning herself with
her apron. She realized that there
was no time for etiqutte in the hour of
death.
It was a long document. From the
beginning to the argument proper was
about twenty-five centimeters a little
more than a yard of "whereas, where
fore, in the name of the French Re
public , liberty, equality and
fraternity the august muni
cipal government of Paris
the government officers of the eight
wara the sacred provisions
of French law," etc. In short, if I
wanted gas in the house, 1 would
please comply with the formalities
prescribed by law.
Sally weut out to broil the beef
steak, while I made an unsuccessful
attempt to drown uiy excitement in a
French newspaper without any news
in it
In France there is much that is con
trolled by law. Among other things
the government is gas, and gas is the
government. A month before our war
excitement a slippery, smiling land
lord had called to say that the apart
ment house in which we lived had
changed hands, and he had become
the owner. A noble old gray stone
structure was the house, with solid
oak stairs that were the pride of my
heart
"True, the building is over a hun
dred years old," said the new landlord;
"but as it stands it will outlast two
new ones. We no longer build good
houses; we modern Frenchmen are
too hurried, above all in Paris, where
everything is done with a rush.11
! I looked at him with interest
' "I shouldn't say a word. I am an
enterprising young chap myself," he
continued, soothing down his embon
point the result of over half a cen
tury of French, cooking. "Now, al
though mamma considers it a danger
ous risk, for once I am going against
her advice. I want to do something
for my tenants, and 1 am going to put
gas into the bouse." - .
When he left I gave him a good
American handshake. Sally and I
were delighted. No more spots of
glimmer in oceans of gloom. No more
.Rembrandt dishwashing one-half the
plate in light the other in blackest
hade. No more candle grease on the
furniture. No more struggles with
those wound up French lamps that
are useless unless you can afford to
keep a clock maker. No more sitting
down to read or write like an Irish
corpse,
With a doien o' candle around hia bead.
' "By next week at the latest" said I
to Sally, "we shall have gas."
During the next week our anxious
lookout discovered no signs of the
promised luxury., 'ihe week follow
ing we saw two workmen talking in
an airy French way with two others.
Toward the end of die following week
it resulted in an amicable breakfast on
our sidewalk. After that it went on
swimmingly according to the French
standard. In less than a month there
were breaks in the sidewalk ; at the
end of six weeks we entered the court
by means of a plank that bridged a
chasm four feet deep. ' As time rolled
on, and we had by force of habit al
most become attached to candle light
we had a message; rich centenarian
smells, born of the garlic of dead em
pires, rose up from the cellar to tell
us that something was going to hap
pen soon. It happened.
Again tb" faithful Sally met me on
the stairs, t iis time all in smiles and
her best embroidered apron. "It's
Gen. Boulanger," said she. "He's
been waiting half an hour; but it's all
right; besoms interested in the pic
tures and things,"
''You re nad, I gasped.
What are
jrou talking? About!'
I3'
"He's come because we're neighbors
and Americana, ot course," she went
on. "Heaven be praised 1 for if there's
k war he'll look after us himself, and
see that we get home all right."
The Frenchman who rose to meet
me, with his pointed beard, cocked
tat, frock coat gold stripes and brass
uttons, did not look unlike Bou
langer. -
"My dear madame," said he, with
one hand on bis heart, very like an
imitation Frenchman in an American
lay, "I have called to see you on be
ball of the city of Paris, to attend to
th municipal regulations iu connec
tion with the city's Mutual Parisian
Com pan v of Heating and Illuminating
bv Gas." .
"Uli!" Mid 1, innocently. "Well,
inn ni.:Ki; t.ul llie receipt, and I will
y.ay 1 1 n- dcpoMt. You cannot have
thi' j;ns iu 111 loo anon to pionsenie.
He iv:vinve books and bi-ic-a-
bruc from the ceulor table, puling tho
articles caretuiiy 011 mo Hour, one by
01m. l lion lie inu! las cockinl hat on a
chair, and oneninira porU'olioof docu
incuts spread them all over the large
round tamo.
"It is not so easy, mndaine," he ao
sweisxl.
Ho whs riirht : it was not easy.
camo to this conclusion when he went
away, papers and all, about nightfall.
In addition to a deliberately written
chapter concerning my plain, un
eventful career set now 11 111 a leager,
Sally's Gen. Boulanger carried away
three documents, promising to deco
rate them with the state seal, and re
turn them to be signed in a new place.
The first was au elaborate description
of our family tree, no detail so small
as to bo unwelcome; the second waa
devoted to personalities concerning
uiyseu my uiouvesiu iivittir iiijruna,
or livinsr at all. future intentions, as
sets, liabilities and political views;
the third was a solemn promise on my
nurt not in anv wav to maltreut or
abuse the Mutual Parisian company of
Heating and Illuniiuating by gas, nor
10 DreaK or sieat lis possessions, sucu
as meters, lead pipe and iron gratings.
Moreover I had nersonallv to write
down in a book tuat gas was wanted,
aud that I, no other, desired this par
ticular gas.
A few days later I thought the
chamber or deputies bad strayed from
their quarters when Sally ushered in
five larse. round Frenchmen in heavy
overcoats and high silk hats. They
were the landlord, his secretary, an
architect a builder and a representa
tive of the Mutual Parisian company
of Heatine. etc. Such a powwow at
once bo trail as would pale a ward pri
mary. The upshot of it was: "Where
would I have the gas jetsi"
"Center lights in the parlor and
dining room, said I, "aud side lights
in the other rooms.
A roar went ud like the board of
brokers in harvest time: they shook
their fists in each other's faces and
shook their canes at me. Then they
held each other dowu and argued with
me, one a time.
I waa so small, so inexperienced;
nothing but a poor little foreigner 1"
"Did I know that gas was a very
dangerous thing?"
"Did 1 realize that ir l slept in a
room where there was a gas jet not
one of them would be responsible for
my health?"
"But gentlemen," I ventured to re
mark, "iu America we have gas in all
the bedrooms." ".V
"Impossible! thundered the five.
Contrary to all law." "It would be
danirerous to children." ,"Friffbtful
catastrophes would result" "Why,
in America, of ftew lork, we are told,
they have not even enough of gas to
properly light the streets!
Overwhelmed for a time, 1 feebly
wondered if we did have gas in all the
bedrooms. The big five, outwardly
01 11c, oui inwardly convincea Mia. 1
ad tried to deceive them, squeezed
single file through the little doors of
all my small room, tapping walls.
measuring spaces, and talking against
time. They finally consented to one
gas jet in the dining room, one in the
hall and in the kitchen two one each
for illuminating and cookincr. Sally
sooncd learned to say "gaws or
"gozz," her equivalent for ie gaz, and
the word, however uttered, became the
household synonym for interminable.
French law provides that gas pipe
hall be laid on the outside of walls.
even if they are frescoed by sfBougue
reau himself. And to discourage sui
cide, every room where gas is burned
must nave a grating about six by
twelve inches connecting with the
ball, and the hall must have a grating
connecting with the outer air. Some
times Sally used to laugh until she
cried, and stand wiping the tears away
with her apron, while she watched the
workmen. A couple of masons would
come aud dig a hole in the wall. In a
few days a carpenter would come and
put a casing around it Later on an
other kind of a workman would come
and set an iron grating in it By
and by a plumber would amble in,
and with the help of two or three as
sistants would run some iron pipe
along the wall. Sometimes a paper
hanger would come in twice or three
times with samples; ultimately, with
the idea of concealing the gas pipe, he
would paste over it some strips 01 wall
paper that did not match. One room
being thus well begun, they would go
on with the next one. The masons
would dig another hole, and the pro
gramme would be repeated.
The big five dropped in often to cheer
the work along aud admire its prog
ress. Toward the end I could see they
felt worried about leaving a family of
helpless foreigners alone with the gas,
and finally they sent a nice old gentle
man to give me gas lessons. He
taught me how to light the gas with
the aid of a match, aud how to turn it
off. I was obliged to solemnly repeat
the formula after him, and prove my
proficiency by going through the mo
tions. He instructed me, moreover,
as to the danger of blowing out the
gas, pointing his carefully worded
phrases by a most ominous and terrify
ing pantomime.' At the close of his
lessons he gave me a key to a lock box
in the main hall, and charged me
thirty cents for a kind of a French
monkey wrench. Iu case of fire I was
not to think of saving my family, my
self or my valuables until 1 bad
opened the lock box, and with the aid
of the monkey wrench turned off the
gas from our apartment'
We will pass over the return of
Sally's Gen. Boulanger with a bill of
seven dollars and twenty cents for the
government stamps that went on tho
documents alreadv described, a tax
that made me thoroughly appreciate
the people who once made tea in Bos
ton harbor. There was, as a matter of
course, a deposit of six dollars to guar
antee the gas bills; but it is needless as
well as painful to dwell upon another
man in brass buttons who got three
dollars for installing the meter, or still
another with gold 1 , jid on his sleeves
who collected thirty cents a month
each for the care of the gas burners.
The banker and the family doctor as
sured us that all these things were le
gitimate and customary, and all I
could do was to lie awake nights and
assure myself we would enjoy that gas
enough to make it pay.
We had only been trying to enjoy
the gas for a few weeks when there
was a murder epidemic in Paris. It
culminated in a horrible affair; the
inhabitants of a small apartment were
murdered in their beds servant, child
and all. The Herald and Galignani
warned Americans not to admit to
their homes any men who did not
com on authentic and well under
stood business,
One dav I was invited to the Ameri
can quarter for a noonday breakfast
"It mav be late in the afternoon be
fore I return." said I to Sally; "and
now, above all things, be very careful
whom you let into the fiat when you
are aloue with the child."
"You know you can depend on me.
she answered, with au expression like
Joan of Arc at the stake, it was easy
to see she did not like to be left alone,
but was nervinir herself for the worst
As usual. I waited in vain for an
omnibus that afternoon, and came
home in one of those little victorias
that cost tlnrtv-flve cents a trip in
Paris. When a block away from the
house I observed that there was an
unusual excitemont in our street"
looked up to see if I could catch
glimpse of the child. High up, hang-
mo nut of mv bedroom window, waa
crazy Frenchman, yelling at the top
of his lungs. It seemed to me I was
years payiug the cabby and climbing
the stairs.
When I arrived at our laudinsr the
trial was just becinnine. and I had
only to join the crowd, une gendarme,
whose sword clanked against the oaken
.. 1 . . .. .1 r. ... . : o.. 1 1 . u
the arm. The concierge, his wife and
nil the neighbors chattered in concert
There were the butler from tho minis
try of war. the two gendarmes who
. . rv. 11 n I
were arresting otuiy, 1110 umu auu uia
wife who kept a creamery hard by, a
footman from the Spanish ambassa
dor's, two niou-pious, or common sol
diers, an aged maiden lady of rank
who was having hysterics in the arms
of her maid, and several little errand
boys in blouses.
A perspiring, disheveled French
man mopped his brow and pointed at
Sally. "This woman," said he, "is a
murderess. She locked me iu a room.
and, had I not summoned assistance,
would undoubtedly have assassinated
me.
"You are our prisoucr." said the
two gendarmes to Sally, who was
luckily none the wiser for what they
said, but went ahead with her expla
nation. "The murdering villain come in an'
pertended to be a gas man come to take
tho meter, whin sure I'd a right to
know him for a thafe whin the rale
gas man had just left from takin' the
meter and puttin' that same in the
book. Uaws, ses be to me in i nnch.
ie can t come in. says I. An whin
he paid no attintion to what I said, but
walked by me into your room, I knew
him for a murderer, an' I turned the
kay on him like a cat 'Aha!' says I,
ye'U find the gas book an' the jewels
in the desk; but it isn't farye'll go
with 'em.' An' thin, the child bein'
nslape, I laid her in my room and
locked her in, bless her heart I an' thin
I called out the parlor windy fer the
police."
The gendarmes, consulting each
other they always travel in pairs in
France adjusted their swords and
enpes. preparing to moveon with Sally.
" vv ho are you? ' 1 asked the alleged
murderer.
"Madame. I am an official of the
municipality. I represent the Mutual
Parisian Company of Heating and
Illuminating by Gas, and I demand
justice."
"But a gas man had just been here
and made an entry in our book."
"Madame, it is my place to r 01 low
him, and see that no falsification takes
place."
Slowly and unobtrusively I slipped
a four dollar gold piece into each po
liceman's hand; slowly and unobtru
sively they relaxed their hold on Sally.
"This poor girt" said I, "ignorant
of your language, has made a dread
ful mistake. But she is an American,
she loves France, and I promise you
it shall not happen again."
"He looks the cutthroat he is." said
Sally; "just a fit one to live in this
hathen country. Small loss whin
they cut his head off with the Frinch
machine." Harper's Weekly.
Conanmptlon la Cow. a
In Berlin every animal slaughtered
at the public abattoir has to be de
scribed, with the name of its owner.
Portions of the animal, as of the vis
cera and muscles, are taken to an in
spector's office and subjected to micro
scopic observations. Should there be
any indication of a tubercular char
acter, of trichina or cancer, the meat
is declared unfit for food and is de
stroyed. Careful inspection of the
cows of Dutchess and Westchester
counties kept for their milk shows that
there are very few cows over nine
years of age that do not show con
sumptive tendencies. On farms where
milk cows are fed on distillery swill
and brewers' grains, in a year and a
half they are found to be far gone with
consumption, and are then killed for
the New York market It is horrible
to think that those parts of the ani
mal which are evidently unfit for food
as fresh meat are converted into Bo
logna sausages. Herald of Health.
Done Up by HI Own Hand.
There Is an author in this town, though
tha world perhaps hardly knows it, who
writes a worse hand than did Horace Ores
ley. He hugs the delusion that he writes
beautifully all infernally bad writers do.
About a month ago a newspaper man
made tbs author you will observe the dis
tinction a bet that if be sent a short story
to a certain magazine in bis own hand
writing ft would be returned to him witb
or without thanks, and that the same story
type written would be accepted.
The bet was accepted, the trial made, and
the newspaper man won the bet. The story
written with s pea came back. Witb it
was a polite note stating that Mr.
must not suppose that the story was re
jected for lack of merit, etc., etc The
type written story was accepted, and tb
check somewhat recouped the author for
the money lost on tbe wager. Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Slaying Engliia Sparrow.
The English sparrows increase so rapid
ly that they have become a nuisance. In
Chicago a prize of two cents is paid for the
bead of each sparrow killed. Last year
20,000 sparrows' heads were paid for. Tbe
$400 waa divided among 215 boys. An In
genious paragrapher in Chicago makes this
computation: "Here, then, is tbe ramming
Dp of tbe first Heaaon of sparrow law: Two
hundred and fifteen target guns, at an av
erage coot of three dollars each, 145; am
munition for same, 164.50; doc torn' bills for
little girls wounded by mistake, 430; total
expense, $1,139.50. From which deduct
$400 total receipts and it is seen the spar
row law is worth $T3D.50 to the father of
Chicago, and not a noticeably bad thing
for the sparrows,"
Electricity aud Horticulture.
It is said that a Paris electrician has
succeeded in forcing violets by mean of
electric batteries. Tbs first bunch of tbess
flowers was sent to ths ex-Kmpn-n
Eugenie, as tbe violet was emblematic
of tbe empire, Tbe first Napoleon, witb
other kind of batteries, forced this flower
not only npon the French people, but npon
ths world.
NOVELTIES IN SLOT MACHINES.
Cher Snu to II No Itud to tli Inge
nuity of Inventor Iu That Liu.
"The slot and nickel busiuoss is yet
In its infancy," remarked a Jerseyman
who is engaged in manufacturing au
tomatic machinery of the most per
massive kiad to coax people to part
with their nickels. "This country is
the greatest field in the world for this
brouch of industry for two reasons,
l'ho main one is that Americans are
Improvident and never stop to think
that twenty nickels muke a dollar. The
other oue is that tho nickel is tbe ouly
lout 111 this world whiou is bunt in
the right way to encourage genius in
this direction. No other country has
a standard coin adapted to the devices,
and ono which is so popular, so uni
form, aud so slightly valued. The
five cent piece of this country was
made for automatic machinery, and
not the machines to suit the money.
This may sound queer, hut I mean that
tho changes in the size and weight of
the coin have been so slight since it
was first put in t'iui'iilution that it en
courainHl inventors to make slots and
other devices to put it in,
"The first slot muchiim I remember
seeimr was a race course in a southern
hotel. A uickel started tho horses. I
think I first saw the inueliino iu 1873,-
and I believe it to be ono of tho first
devices of the kind in this country, but
I have no douiit unit historians can
rake up testimony to show that Attia
drachmas were dropped into slots by
ancient Urerks, who sought to learn
their weight or test their grip, and
that in Cu-aar's time tho Romans drop
ped small coins into Riots aud thus pro
cured their confictiouery.
"It is only within a few years that
the slot machines have assumed any
prominence. People are beginning to
think now that the field of ingenuity
is about exhausted, but they are mis
taken. It has really just begun to
open, lhere will be something now
every few mouths, for I know half a
dozen like myself who are puzzling
their brains over now tieviecs. 1 am
so thoroughly identified with the busi
ness now that people stop me and ask
what I am going to get out next aud
try to engage machines in advance
without kiiowing what they are going
to be.
"I receutly had a queer call from a
man who wants to be a monopolist
He asked me if I could devise au au
tomatic machino to sell hot Frank
furter sausages, and I told him that I
thought I could. He wanted a ma
chine actuated by nickels which would
deliver a hot sausage incased in a
split roll, just as the peddlers do it on
the streets. I said that it could be
done, and when he wanted to talk
terms I said 130,000 down to be put in
preliminaries and (30,000 to come
when the machine was a success. He
couldn't flirure fnoutrh out of it to
talk business. I have an application
from a man who wants a machine to
deliver, consecutively, numbered and J
dated cards, which, in addition, will
show the exact hour at which the card j
is taken from tho box. I am working ,
on a model. I think he wants to use
the machines for accident policy
tickets. I saw a machine a few weeks .
ago which for a nickel sold a cheap
edition of novels. Pens, li!ad pen-1
cils, chewing gum, mutches, electric .
shocks, etc.. ure so commonly dis-
penxed by automatic machines that
they cease to be remarked.
"Now I am getting up a decided
novelty an automatic doctor filled
with pure drugs in capsules, which
will drop out as the pennies are drop
ped in. Eaeh machine will have from
a dozeu to twenty compartments
marked with the name of the drug,
tho quantity to take for a dose and the.
ills tliat the remedy is supposed to al
leviate. Of course poisonous drugs
cannot go in it but others can, and I
believe it will be a success, J ant think
what an accommodation it would be
to be able to go up to a machine and
get your dose of quinine, a headache
cure, a remedy for the grippe or a dose
of salts without having to disturb tho
reposo of a drug clerk. Then I am
thinking over a fountain which will
deliver a good glass of lemonade, or,
in fact, soda water, with assorted sir
ups. There is really no end to the ap
plications that can be made of auto
matic machines and no limit to tbe
field of operation. They go every
where, from the church fair down, and
all sorts of people drop their pennies
aud nickels into them.
"I know of weighing machines which
take in from $18 to $20 a week. Now,
there is an impression abroad that au
tomatic machines are receptacles for
bad coins, brass checks aud other
things which will operate the levers.
In fact, the percentage of bad money
is not one-tenth of 1 per cent Tbe
machines ore not complicated, but
safeguards lie inside of the slot to pre
vent the introduction of wires. Small
er coins than five cent pieces fall aside
after entering the slots and are caught
in a separate receptacle. The good
coin falls a certain distance and strikes
a lever just hard enough to release the
machinery, A lead "nickel" will do
this, but even so the loss is nothing in
the majority of machines. None of
the machines are sold, They are usu
ally put out on shares running from
10 to 20 per cent, and this satisfies
those who have the machines in
charge." New York Sun,
. Coiuunptlan Cured by Warm Milk.
The fact that consumption can be
cured is daily becoming more and
more impressed 011 the mind of the
layman. Oue of the simplest and best
methods of fighting this dread malady
is the warm milk treatment, and while
undergoing it the patient is advised to
go on some farm, where he is sure to
get it fresh, and where, moreover,-he
can pass his days in horseback riding.
When the entire treatment is under
gone, recovery from consumption
would not only be possible, but would
verv likely occur, unless the lungs
had been too seriously diseased. An
outdoor life in pure air, good whole
some food and plenty of it are the sur
est cures for the malady, and no one
of these features is mora important
than either of the others. New York
Telegram,
Tb Host Wonderful Kittens,
A most wonderful toy has been on
private exhibition In Paris. Fancy
seven life sized kittens, covered with
real skin, but with eyes of emerald set
in pearly white enamel and each play
ing on a musical instrument a dute,
a zither, a violin, a drum, a harp, a
cornet and an accordion, all perfectly
harmonized and playing the most dif
ficult operas, then you nave the pict
ure complete. Tho mechanism is sim
ilar to that of a musio box. and the
whole apparatus, kittens et al., is 1
valued at 20,000 francs. St. Louis
Republic. .
FROM THE STATUE TO ASPINWALL.
A Llvoly Vnyaaw Orapliloally PwmtiihiiI
by a Laily Tuurlut,
Precisely 808 miles from the God
doss of Liberty and her uplifted torch
lies Sail Salvador, the little island
where Columbus made his Urst laud
ing iu the New World. Some sacri
legious Yankee of later days has dub
bod it "Waitiug Island." but for our
selves, readers mine, let us stand by
the ancient uame conform! by the
treat discoverer as he knelt undor
the shadow of the cross. '
Passing this historio bit of laud,
whose Hash light may he seen far over
the ocoaii, a run of eighty miles brings
us close to the revolving beacon 011
Biid Uock. Like others of the Baha
ma group (except Huyti), this small
island is owned by England and cov-
erned from Nassau, the revenue from
it being barely sufficient to support its
lighthouse. And thus it is, by bits of
territory scattered all around the
globe, that the favorite boust of Bri
tain is true. "Upon her domuins the
sun never sots."
A few hours tutor we reach For
tune Island, at which point if the
weather be favorable, letters mav he
put off, to be afterward picked tin bv
some northward bound steamer of the
Atlas or Puctlio Mail lines. But no
body is advised to pin his faith 011 the
reliability of this postal service in com
munications of importance, such, for
example, as a tartly proposal to your
sweetheart or words of reconciliation
to a oue time friend. The chance,
however, brings blessed relief to those
who are suffering tho first pangs of
homesickness, even though the hasty
love messages never reach their desti
nation. Letters sent iu this way go
without stamps, ship mail being al
lowed to pass free in tho United States,
to the other end of tho line, where
double postage is collected. Two boat
loads of Jamaica negroes cume rowing
alongside by the dim light of a cres
cent moon, aud the engine suddenly
stopped, as if the throbbing heart of
tho ship stood still with anxiety lost
tho precious budget of letters be lost in
its perilous transit to the tossing bark
below.
About thirty miles beyond Fortune
Island the nodding of palms that
fringe the shore or Jamaica may be
seen, "through a gloss darkly," if you
happen to reach the place on a clear
day in the passage between that island
aud the western end of Cuba. None
need to be told when the Caribbean
sea is entered, for the foci is at once
emphatically attested by the boister
ous waves. The faces of our neigh
bors grow pale and paler, then blue,
then ghastly gray; the nautical crank;
the flirtatious Spaniard; the patriotic
Englishman and American who had
been warding off this same emergency
by imbibing no end of champagne,
even those who had oftenest asserted
they were "never, never sick at sea,"
stood not upon the order of going, and
iu less time than it takes to tell it the
deck was comparatively desorted.
Then that sound that is so familiar to
sea goers, that word that is the same
in all languages, and is always given
with a rising inflection of more or loss
Intensity (pronounced u-r-r a-o-o-o-p)
is heard 011 every hand. When, din
ner is on, racks bavins been put on the
tables to prevent the dishes from Hy
ing across the cabin, tho a-r-r-o-o-o-ps
are loudest as if the organs of smell
were somehow in collusion with Nep
tune's stomach pump causing all the
oomnopent parts of the ship s gener
ous menu for a week past to rise in re
view before the strickon sufferer, as
the sins of a dying man are said to do.
But nobody ever dies of seasickness,
though its victims may wish them
selves a thousand leagues below. It is
surprising bow the first glimpse of
land acts as a curative. The moment
Manzanillo Island heaves into view,
the most helpless and hopeless of an
hour before begin to bestir themselves
aud presently appear upon deck. And
here we are at last bumping against
the dock at Aspinwall. lannie B.
Ward in St Louis Republic
JeatouA of Ell Donkey,
Although jealousy Is the most un
reasonable of passions, few persons
fear the rivalry of creatures far be
neath them in the scale of being. It
would be possible, one would think,
to be jealous of a man, but not of a
donkey. Mr. T. A. Trollope writes:
'We took one morning a little excur
sion to TuscuJum, on which my wife
rode a donkey belonging to a very
competent guide. This man knew
every point where it was desirable to
draw rein in order to enjoy the lovely
and varied views. The donkey, who,
no doubt know all these halting
places as well as his master, once
turned aside from the path, in a very
business like fashion, and planted
himself before a gate from which a
specially pleasing outlook was to be
seen. Sly wife, thinking to please the
man, said: 'How well your donkey
knows his business. . He came of him
self to this lovely view, just as if he
enjoyed it' But the effect of her words
was very startling. The man became
suddenly and furiously angry. 'No,
not he! I I know how to make ladies
and gentlemen see the views, and all
that is to be seen. Hot he is an ass,
and knows nothing. I I am the
guide I' he cried again and agairi. 'The
beast is an ass, I toll you 1 lie knows
nothing.' In short, he was furiously
jealous of his donkey, and bitterly re
sented the compliments paid the beast's
sagacity as so much taken from his
own praises.'" San Francisco Argo
naut Do th Pitcher Plant Eat Meat
- Notwithstanding the admitted fact
that bits of meat insects and other an
imal substances are more quickly de
composed in the leaves aud other trap
like appendnges of the pitch or plant
sundews, veuus fly traps and various
insect eating plant than they are in
open air, there is a body of scientists
who deny that the plants themselves
have any agency in the matter, or ex
ercise any vital power in capturing tbe
prey that fulls in their nets. - Dr. Mo
stedt is one of these skeptics. He fa
vors the idea that the decomposition
of the imprisoned insect is owing to
chemical ac ion simply, and that the
effect is produced iu almost exactly
the same way that a person is poisoned
by coming iu contact with a poisonous
plant St Louis licpublio.
, Bemorlof Shin from Cloth.
To remove shine from black silks and
diagonal, lay tb garment on a table and
witb a flannel wet with cider vinegar rub
tb shiny places well until tbey bars dis
appeared. It does not matter bow wet the
garment gets. Hang it up in tbe shade to
dry, and the shiny gloss that made a new
garment look old will bav disappeared,
leaving it as fresh and erUp as if just from
th tor. New York Journal.
ST. HELENS
Prescriptions
A Specialty.
kdwiist noss, druggist,
MALKK IN
PURE DRUGS,
MEDICINES, TOILET FANCY GOODS,
ARTICLES, CHEMICALS, STATIONERY,
CONFECTIONERY, NEW NOVELS, ETC. ,
FINE PEEFUMBO
And every thing uauslly found In s Flrst-t'lsM Drug Blurs,
riiyalclan' Preicrtnlhma carefully coiupoundtd st any hour, day or nlf lit, by s
competent snd Rtiwrlrnved DniMglol.
MUCKLE BROS.,
-Manufacturer of
LUMBER
A SO
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
ST. HELENS, OR.
Joseph Kellogg &
Joseph Kellogg and Northwest.
FOR COWLITZ RIVER.
NORTHWEST leaves KELSO Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday at 6 am. Leaves PORTLAND Tuesday, Thurs.
day, and Saturday at 6 a. m. m
JOSEPH KELLOGG Leaves HAINIliR at 6 a, m.
daily, Sunday excepted, arriving at Portland at 10:30 a. m.
Returning leaves Portland at 1 p. m., arriving at 0 p. m
Don't Buy Your Drugs
ANYWHERE BUT AT A REGULAR
DRUG ; BTQRB,
YOW WILL TINI) TJIE-
Freshest, Purest, and Best of Everything "
' AT TUB
Clatskanie Drug Stgre.
DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor.
CLATSKANIE LINE,-
STEAMER G, W. SHAVER.
J. VV. SHAVER, Master.
Leaves Portland at Alder St. dock Monday, Wednesday, Friday
for Clatskanie, touching at Sauvies Island, St. IIelens,Colurabia
City, Kalama, Neer City, Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt Coffin,
Bradbury, Stella, Oak Point, and all intermediate points, re
turning Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
til Ml flit M
loar until
fi IT IS I
bu
i lor like pnrfuwe.
I Kllll Imll on their
J isLJ . OK.NTI.KMfcr.
j m nnupuuniiint- auinuon MM u aci'i'ieinijr .,,uim on lh hand
ana nil abli alM;rrU U m aurnvrred thai lit. heir w a m
4r lli't. lv n nin il, Wii ! ours 1111 llili ...ixl.ti.il nl. .......
!J t iy in. nHOTTiii myyiw in ronniw lor a lew MIBnH
7"yr n.lrtHpirll hjr mm(lc without th. llthteat Minor li
, i J Hiillr-ilurevvralterwanl. Itllunllkt.nroil.M pr.i.rotloi
PriaofQiienani iLix. .wl"' ",,T". T rHifl.rlnir " future gnm lb an mirr iiiiibllii .
Boiirtnr rtleiiSiU.."?n,,JS7,,,J """n" b-ilir with full eitdremarlit.il rlnlnlr. Owri- ,
c.hiUIiu. We lllul ""'1'-1n,l1Thl"ii1vrlliii.iTieiit In botioal .r.rl lrnlhl loi w.rrl In every wold II
nd " "diir rZlllI Ji.'.'lr"- I"" "" ""' ' "" Ter.rthln, feprenentod ut lltfl oul Jjd
of fullnr. .:,i 1 ." fT f,m "'"tire lie Mfa dell-pry. U c will iy .no for auf
.''"'""'"''"'''tlnJiiry to any purchaser. Kye-ry I). .til mini teed.
Kii ZtZlJ.vn'?2 J""1 . Jyerd b. .Ilk r f,enra eVittl and muaf'
,a1taMotfreaiHaiwitkrdr, Oood ialary or OoaawMi fit ataattv ..
. . . . jj- imiii a Drioeiow uofin
DRUG STORE.
Orders from tho
Country filled by
Return Mail.
OPTICAL C10ODH,
DStLtSS IS
Co.'s River Steamers,
NEW DISCOVERY by ACCIDENT
md mi arral bu been thu tlrouaud lhal art uu Intrmlunltic
hiiui the world umlei tin. u.ci of uen'a Aall-lialrlue'
PERFECTLY HARMLESS AMD
oiwiri.it ANT CHILD CAN USE IT.
. and in
ijnry when
never ti wtl
llionnanot nf LA II I KH bo hT been an no) ell
PATIC. MICK end aitMH atleat III meilfal.
wbii do nut atiprrt-laiea beanl or htlrno tbelr nef,
in uii.en'a i.i . Hal. 1 1. wiitrn aoea away