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This Space Reserved For SHELLEY & VANDUYN, TMB KELET0N AT THE FEAST. Om at the Irn-mwl Tomull ( rath lontbla Lift, A maid used to b considered a luxury. Now eh it the tormeut of th fashionable woman's life. If sh U English her manners r very good for while she doet her duty ana Is well behaved. But lis month In this en lightened country and her quiet m Mi ner become) Insolent; ihe can't dress you without' referring to the Duchesses ud Conn tease a poo whom the has waited before; he scorn your table and reads your letters, and knows xaotly bow much money yon hare Id iiour pocket-book. If you should ob ect to any of her weaknesses and sum mon up courage nough to discharge ber, yon had better hare her trunks examined before she leaves, ami you will bo wise if rou tell your husband! alt about ber, for the ehanoes are that, pretending to know something about you. she will attempt a little scheme of blackmail Immediately after sbo has j, ' If the Is French she stays jut long onough to get acquainted with Amer!- emu habits, and then the leave you In a hurry either to marry the cook and n I..,,,. ,A the halrdressinir business. Tho Irish orSootob maids are usually honest usually Impertinent, usually know little, but aro a faithful as dogs, so that because of their virtue you for give them tho rest. There are women In Now York who do not dare to dis charge maids who live In deadly ter ror of what they are going to do next; who bava been foolish enough to let them find out something, it may bo a little something, that they do not want either mother or husband to know and so tho maid levies tribute, get frock thai have only been worn once, has her wages paid to her In advance, and is worse than any skeleton at a feast, became she Is with you nearly all tho time. Not long ago at smart luncheon served by a gorgeous butler and three foot-men, a woman said: "O, dear, I think I shall go crazy if they put it In a paragraph about me." Tho reference was made to a personal paper. The hostess looked silence at her guest, and after the servants had left the room said: "My dear, why In the world did you say that before the servants? You evidently do not know the English one. My butler i perfect ly apabl of writing you a letter de manding a certain sum of money or threatening lust such a paragraph as yon dread. The English servant has no more Idea of honor than a cannibal, and not as much, for a cannibal ents yon out and out, and doe not make life horrible by spinningout the agony." When it was thought what an easy life a good maid has it seems strange that more women, by learning to be systematic do not apply for such po sitions. She is seldom asked to eat . with tho rest of the household; she has muoh time to go out, and her work is always easily done and not dirty. A good maid is far beyond rubies when it comes to a question of value to her mistress, and rather than stand all day long behind a counter, get small wages and poor food to eat, aud no time to call my own except when I was so tired I could not enjoy it. I would stndy the art of dressing people, saving them steps, of doing their hair, of keep ing their wardrobes in order iu short, of nelng a perfect treasure of a maid, and a perfect treasure of a maid can get oO a mouth, a pleasant room, a great deal of time to herself, and a number of presents. The perfect maid, like tho perfect woman, is bard to find. N. Y. Hun. Single Blessedness. A German paper some time ago In vited all masculine readers over forty who had remained single to make a publio statement of their reasons (or not entering into the matrimonial al liance. The best and wittiest piece wa to receive a prize of twenty marks. ! The jury appointed to decide upon tho merit of the statement consisted of three persons a young girl, a young married lady and a mother-in-law. In response to this invitation 121 answers were received at the ofllce of the pa- Iter. After a long discussion and de iberation the jury awarded the prize to the author of the following declara tion: "From my earliest youth I wa hot tempered and vain, and never was sat isfied with the good things which I en Joyed, but always wished: and atrived for better things; therefore I was guid ed by tho words of the gospel, which say that he doe well who gets a wife onto bim, but that he who doe not do o act still better. As an idealist I could be perfectly sure that tho poet' word in reference to 'two heart that beat a one' would never be justified in matrimony. . As a realist I could un derstand that marriage wa a lottery, and that, in view of the small obanoe for success, it was not worth while to take any riks. As an egotist I can say: 'I entirely gratify my own self, and why should! make any sacrifice?' For marriage ia nothing but a sacrifice of the ego. As a crank I add that a girl without a dowry I do not wish to marry and a girl with a dowry I can not get." The African Faliu Oil Industry. An Interesting report come from th Governor of the Cold Coast ou the palm oil Industry of the West Cos.it of Africa. In cultivating the iitm. rle nuts aro scattered over ground well raked, and are then covered lightly with earth. The planting lakes plat lo the rainy season. Whan the young shoots have grown about a fnt they re carefully removed In the evening, and transplanted at lea.it fifteen feet ) apart The tree grows luxuriantly, I snd bears most abundantly at a height I of from 10 feet to li feet In damp, ' MmLnt.wtk. iaII Tl.. -..(,,,1 ..9 tillla tit for use Is biennial, anil the most abundant supply of commerr ial oil Is obtalued from nut gathered during the rainy season. The bunches of nuts sre out (Sown snj placed in a heap iu tho air, where they remain for a week or ten days, The iolnt of the nuts aro thus weakened by decomposition, and : they can b detached by simply beat- lnf '1"u Kln,t " ' i When tho nuts are collected, those with a hard.uny leldlng pulji are plsced hole about four feet deep, which ; U wit,h plsnuln leaves, snd they i oovrd over with these leave, and : with palm leave and earth, llieyar llo'",d 10 ,nln !r lrimU Trl."A between three weeks and three months. nntll a certain decomposition has taken place, so that when removed the pulp Is soft, and spjiears as If It had been boiled. The nuts are now put Iu trough made by digging a hole In the ground and paving It with rough stones. Here they are pounded w ith wooden pestle until the pulp is quit removed from the surface of the hard nut. The whole Is then removed from the trough, pnt In a heap, and tho stones taken out, leaving the oily fibrous pulp, which Is put into a pot with a small quantity of water under a good fire, aud welf stirred until the ollbegins to melt out. The pulp is then put Into a rough net opened at both ends, to which are attached two or three short sticks, by turning which In opposite directions theolllssqueesod out The longer the nuts are nndor ground the thicker the oil and tho worse the quality. This alone accounts for the dlffereut qualities of oil exported from different places along the coast Other methods are employed to pro duce the oil for home consumption; but that hero described is the mode usual in the production of the palm oil of commerce. Kew Bulletin. Sir. Grady's Boyhood. When we returned to Athens from Washington In 1800 was the lint time I remember to have known Henry Grady. I remember the first time 1 ever saw him. The boys in Athens were in the habit of goingin swimming it Trail Creek, which runs into the Oconee River at the lower bridge at Athens. As I approached the wash- hole I heard different boys calling out: "Look here, Henry Grady;" "Watch this, Henry Grady,'' and so on, and I was at once impressed with the idea: That must be a fellow of some Im portance, as they are all trying to gain Lis approval and commendation. I re member his beautiful form snd face a he swam in the water that afternoon. He was always a leader in everything he went Into. In every kind of game, football, shinny, baseball, which was just coming into vogue, he was at the head. At one time 1 remember him as captain of a military company of little fellows armed with uroomst ricks, tin horns or some other weapons. August ((a.) Chronicle. Don't Pull Out Superfluous hair. Young Padelford of Philadelphia, who was at Newport last summer, has met with a curious and perhaps fatal experience. Some time ago lie dis covered a small tuft of hair growing on his neck which seemed to nave no relation with the hair of his head. Last week a barber whom he patron ized suggested that he should take th tuft of hair out by the roots, and Padel ford told him to go ahead. The bar ber performed the operation, and Padellord is suid to be lying now at the point of death from ao attack of blood poisoning which tiie operation lias In duced, N. Y. World. A Hand Kxpedltlon, The Lowiston Journal says a Maine constable had a hard experience the other day. He went out alter a gang of poAoliors, and was not only cor dially received by thorn but was in vited to coconipnny them, on a hunting expedition. The reason for so much cordiality was not apparent until th oflicer found that his late companion had managed to leave him alone on an Uninhabited island, where they kept him for two days and nights. Wanted to Know. A mountain fanner of Wert county, West Virginia, wandered into a country store the oilier day and in quired who was successful at the last presidental election. He had voted for Harrison that day and then retired to bis mountain haunts, and until then did not know that his candidate bad been elected. Those Old Camp Meeting Day. The times tin' ss they ud tab uul verf Uiliia tstliaiiinli . . Ours-ml, old (sshiim of the past are wo dmtitly ilersnsmL Awl wliil I hops Uie world tt tvttlni totter ail aloes, . ... , It twins to m that mnh of this mm fuMtrol But ni,vl if l wkmIIiI I m flsrvtsh of 1st , Aud tliinar Ui wliloli t fondly ulltiar srs-sdly out el dsns, Bui I insist wltffcm, with It oold, new flwl WKJfS. , Catt uever ishm'Ii mrn't heart as did Hint old iMUup niwUiif . W used to lather la tin woods from sil'Ji country 'lieu .... To plmii our pl bstteiy snd Sslta put to We'd 'm7i our rntw of (tory In Uw Jordan Iran and nU, ..... A nd vt our twins-scuti -wroitutt full of bun ud imt&tr ll. . . . , Ws IrM in p WKHish of fines heroes bft To tnt yer until the next camp aiesUnc dm wuiild whims ... And ilmiisli i ilium stumbled Into talsn't thorny wsy Wstroitiiowtmrisirory ywif at Uiuwosnp HuwUUf dsjrS, Ho wore In Uiundor tunas the wm hurls hit Uirwii ..... !uboimuuuildiM served on UlUsehlpsof li- He dolM out mute and f lory with isiinosi to imifmiml You'd ihiiik lis fmml there wasn't quit enough hi so around. And I wily tttum at my wind (net btvk to Wlieu Ws all joined In th (errlces, each thniltliig hlt'smeiil" What wmuto Uit I sometimes tlh at stent rv fondly tirtyt tut Jui a (otittli of Ire front Wioae old ounp aimMtus (tny. TIIEMISS1XG milDE. Up on the hill, In a quaint, beautiful, lonely little himsn,llvd young Madams Vinton, quite alone save for her ser vant. The village lay below her, like a toy town out of a chip box from Hol land little white homes all alike, a little white church with pointed stee ple, aud rows of poplar tree, stiff and black along the streets. The stinis house, with It painted glass window aud Gothic doorway, looked quite like a miniature castle from below. Hot It had not taken th fancy of Ihe resident of Potilnrtowu. It seemed to them queer and lonely, and since its builder aud owner died. the executors had found no one to buy i or lease It, until young Madame Vhe ! ton, iu her velvet divM.drove up to the gate one morning, aud Interviewed the ' care-taker. - It was her very soon after lhat, and i she lived, a we have said, aloue with j her servants. I For guardians, she had two great Siberian blood-hounds, lierea as dogs ; could be lo all but her. It was well known that, at a word from her, they f would tear any man In pieces; and they ; lay serous the outer dour at night She needed HO other protection. Youiig.lieauliltil.aud a widow.charm ' tug la her manner, uo wonder that the j gentlehien admired her. Rut the ladles S fought shy of her. They made uo j calls. They looked solemnly away as : they paisud" her Iu the street, hen she en m i lo church, and sit in the pen ' she had hired, tin one took any heeil of ' lier presence. The clergyman called, ; as in duty hound, and liok his wile i with him. Unhappily, they found th : pretty Frenchwoman ittiioltiiig a clpir ' vile. That sealed Imr duiun, Nhe was scut to Coventry by all Ihe reiiwt 1 able society of Puiilartuwn-the ladies' society, lint, soimhov, llm.iiu'h her ' landlord, a coim)Hiliinu bachelor, s gentlemen were luirudiieed. It was lint tier fault that theiw) only came, nod that they sang her praie and defend ' ed her u'giiioit the hints of their female rchilln'x. She did nothing but adhere ; to the habits of her ooiwin. I'oplar : town had Ihm'u uutmrto"ii to her, not she to it Her maid sat in the window : sewing when she had gentlemen call ers. .Mm never received them alone. "A cruel thing of yon koiiicii," said i Squire GiUieit to hi mother "a rniel thing to be no hard mi Mailainu Vin ton. What iloe nhe do hut 'hue to be i beautiful? I upHi-.c (ind iinole her so, as he made the lii ti Mi"c t'lioiiey, ! who bate her so blltcily, uly as ! vltches. What do yon know against i ser, mother?" "I know nothing, child, said Mr. , Sllbcrt "nothing but that no ladles go ! io see her." I "Why don't they, then?" said tho ' iqulre. . j "There mint 1 some reason," said ! the old lady; "Mr. Pray good saw a ' :igar on tho tablu near her. Ladies : iou't smoke." "Eillsh laities do not," replied the ' quiro. "But iierhaps she does not know that. Why don't you call and ll her?" j "My dear, I nover call anywhere," j replied the old lady. "The young peo ple oome to sen inn. I dmt't say any thing against Madame intuit. I nop she's all right; Indeed' I do." But she resisted the entreaties of her son to drive with him, lo call ou Madam Vinton, nevertheless; and so one day (tie squire went aloue. He was a handsome, active, elegant man, but he was uo longer a young one. At twenty he had been in love, but his weetheart died. Hn hail ever since remained true to her memory. At forty-eight he lived with his mother still, her only son. Ho had, peniaps for this reason, something of tho frank and careless manners of a boy, He had not bardcued, as most men do be fore his age. The squire called on Madame Vin ton from a spirit of chivalry so he thought, at least; but he left the door with flushed cheeks and sparklingeyes, and he callud again because he could not keep away. Soon, to his mother's coustoiTiatloan, rumors reached her that be went to Mudamn Vinton's house every day; and at last alio, as well as all Poplartown, knew the truth. Hur son was engaged lo be married to th French lady, with whom he was desper ately in love. The live Misses Chcsnny shrieked Id chorus when they heard it. Alt the other marriageable single ladies were equally shocked; but old Mrs. Gilbert bore herself bravely. "My son," she said, "I give you credit for balng a man of sense. I know you wouldn't marry a person who would disgrace our good naiiio I'll go with you to sou her once.und I'll welcome hur kludly. Nothing must come between us, my dear nothing." Ana Airs, Ullhort saw no cigarettes near Madam Vinton's elbow, when she called, aud could lind no fault with her manner. She relumed home great ly comforted, and sot herself to put down the talk iu Poplartown, to t lie great disgust of hur neighbours, who had hoped to be entertained with the items of a family quarrel. It was September when the now, first reached Mrs. Gilbert's ears, tie fore Christmas day her son would bo married. She tried to fool happy ovor it. but In reality hor heart was very heavy. An undotlnnblo presentiment of impending trouble filled her with sadness. It could not be the coming of this handsome wife, with hor swoot, courteous, loving manner, she thought She was old. A daughter would be an addition to her borne. Yet she tossed wearily on her pillow at night she who had always slept so well; and could not read or tow a she had doue. Somehow she felt all was not well, and never could be agaiu in this world for her. - In spite of this, she took her pearls from the worn oaso of blue velvet, in wbloh they had been hidden for, yean, and lent them in a shimmering best of white satin, to "My Daughter soon to be;" who answered with loving thanks. The wedding-day wa fixed, The wedddlng guests, old friend of Mr. Gilbert, who said to moo other that they accepted for her sake, wero bidden, Mt avu lb flowers ordered. Tho happy pair were to have a week at (ho bout ou th hill, and thou "com home." Mdanwlill. the two dogs, lino and Ino, were to N bsitlshnd. The village people wort afraid of thorn, and they wore lo be takcu away during tho llm of tho wedding, loan old hou In th suburbs, whom a dog-fanoiot' lived. Your mother shuddurs at their vary light," Madam Vinton had laid to her betrothed husband; "and I uo longer used inch Uarv protector. I am not to be a loo woman any mora, I will oil th dogs If any on can bo found to bur thorn." And tho day before th wedding, sh with htr own hand, led them to their new homo, and knelt before them and talked to them a thouirh they were buuian beings, bidding them be good and obey their new master. "Only on night more." laid Squlro Gilbert a h. took hi beautiful brWi hand In his, "Only ou. ulglit mor. dearest To-morrow you aro mint." lit kissed her aud turned away, ......i iu. i... ..,. l ... u,t over agntu, lingered stilt, very loth to go, until at last she playfully drew to tit door, ssylng that she never allowed htm to remain so Isle, and that he must go borne; and lis went down th garden path. It wa past ilersn o'clock, Th full moon shun overhead, oast lug th shadows of the bar wintry shrubbery In dark outline ou Ihe white paths. Th Iron gate, set deep In th sum wall, looked Ilk jet against snow, In contrast with the smooth road without A screech owl In th grov near by uttered It melancholy wliol who! whnl and th lover looked lack at bis lady'i house regretfully. It teemed so louely a smit to lean her lu. Stepping back, he looked up at th windows, where a lltfht now shone, aud ran against tuiuiiutli road. who utter d a foreign oath snd struck at him. Squire Gilbert turned, bla baud In voluntarily going to his pistol-bolt; aud th stranger, on whose toes he had troddeu, followed lh motion with hi eyes. "Kxeuse me," he said, with a strong French secant "You came out of (his bona. In such a hurry. at this late hour, I believed you were, imrhsps, a thief. Pardon." "It I my place to lieg pardon," laid th qulre, whom Ihe very accent of hi beloved one's native language mnl Illicit. "1 mylf fancied I might have met some dangerous xtrtou. 1 hope I did not hurt you." "Oh. no." said th other. "I was only startled a little. a little. A thousand par- i. passed on. The squlr i nuns. ' Aim lis p ! also went his way After a few steps he looked back, j The stranger seemed lo have vanished , mysteriously Into the earth, lint it i soamed to Squire Glilwrt that he uever should forget bis long, booked uoe, I his pointed oldu, th narrow eyes, set ; ulosa together, the straight Hue of his : small mouth, and the Intense blackness i o( his hair and moustache a very Mephittophele lo modern costume, j On the morrow, bright and early.th f household was sstir. ihe bridegroom dressed in his new garmeiits;his mother . lu ber elegant gray satin and point lace. Hut just as lh moment cam ; i for th carriage to be called, a iiicmcu- j ger from the house ou th hill cam to ! i tho door in vloleul haslo. j ! That morning, wheu th servants j ! awoke, they found the hall -door open, j j and iiietr laity gone, one nod not re I turned. Her clothing had not been taken. Her weddinifdross was rnsdy i to put ou; but bar jcwul-caws wer all I uu locked aud empty, a was the tiny , ornamental safe lu which she kept her I mouey, Th wedding company was coming , In; Ihe lady had out returned; uo ou I knew what to do, j Words canuoi descril" th consler j nation of Ihe iquire. 11 hurried to j Madame Vinton s house, aud found all I a dusurlbed. He sent for Ihe police, for dutecliies froiu th nearest oily, i lie searched frantically far aud Meat', j fearing to Hud his love lying dead in ! some part of her garden, or the wood near by. It mos many, many days ba for be gave up his htiules wuiulvr low. lie only thought of accident It seemed plain to others that she had left tho place of hi))' own free will, having some unkmmi) motive. At last th soillro himself ih'C.aivii mat ir .M.uliim VI ilou had inet nilh violence. her body must haic Im'i'U fmiiid; but he Mill fell j perfect faith in her, and, lo hi miser able lov and longing, clung l i the re- newed hope that ll gave him to believe j her still all i' s. He took possession of i the house on the hill, dismissed the I errants,and went thither to live alone, i "She will return sum day," he said, I "and she shall lind me there waiting for her." i , unheeded before, he clung to his rcsoltt ! lion. i On man only wailed upon him, an j old aud faithful servant; but on day ! ho sent to the dog-fancier lo reclaim th blood-hounds, and Uuo and Inn, led j In a leash came eagerly up the vitiligo street about noun, ou windy March dnv. . ' They dashed Into Ihe house wild with joy. They fawned on Squire Gilbert whom they had learned to love. They searched everywhere for Madame Vin ton, and at lost went down to lliulr old haunts in the garden. Longing for home joy at their return, icemed to have softened llielr nnttiros. Hut sud denly Uno, the Hereout of the two, put his nose to the ground, uttered a low ory, and begun to run about the placo iu circles, milling strangoly, A mo ment more and no imitated him. Their eyes changed ami burnt like coals of' lire, their frninus seemed to stitfen. They onursnd about the gnrdcu and out toward a Held which had been planted with vegetables, and which ky fallow under Its lale autumu plough ing. About this fluid they circled, each circle growing narrower, their nose till to the ground. Then, with a trumpot-llke cull, they began to dig, throwing up the soft earth about them with fury. The itiiilre, his man and the dog fanoier had followed. All were pale with horror. Sudduuly the laltur sprung forward. "Take your master away 1" he shouted to the servant; but the sqitire, with an awful ory of "They have found hor!" dropped Ilk a stone upon the ground, It was, iudced, the body of Madame Vinton that they hud discovered, A cord was tied about her neck and twisted tightly. Sh had evidently boon strangled, Itobbod and murdered by some burg lar, people said; but burglars do not usually bury tholr vlotinis. The ser vant were evidently innocent two quiet village girls, whom no one could atispect Lator, when after a sovere lit of Ill ness, through which his mother cursed him, the squire wns able to go feebly about the house, he found in hi dead bride' escritoire a small box, In which lay a package of letter addressed to her, aud slgnod,"Your husband.Emil," and a photograph. The latter wa the portrait of the man ha had mat at th gate, and had been taken in Paris. Afterward he hold communication with the Parisian police, and lent them tho photograph. Th information he received from them caused hi in a re lapse. But he never revealed It to any one. He lived to olose bis mother's eyes, aud died, a lad and silent man, In th house upou th hill, his only friend th two dogs, Uuo and Ino. It I probable that thu Indie of Poplar town had Imicii right in their opinion of Madam Vinton, put tills good man uever uoosed lo love her for all that por to baliov thai she had slnMiely loved Is I lis. EFOM THE ANCELU8. CrtfMtms of Mlllsl's (Irest Work Heard rruia VUllort Iks duller;. Millet, so the story goes, when ho bad Hulshiid "The Angelu," invlled ao old friend In th church to com and see It "Ah," isld lh old mnn, as he gnxed at tiie plot ii re. "It I 'Th Augeiu;' I bear th bells." Whereupon, of course, the artist ws really iileascd, and promptly deolsr- th ' ' ''" 00'"" . ., . . i . . m f nrfonliimt. ,hd deemwl wonderful for paint- IKITTI. l whlh the bird cam to Il I'"1"1"' VJW ' a ;lroh laplra, aud a priest reiHignUed th wonls of Ihe Invocation and heard th sound of the bell lu the steeple. if Millet were living now, and could com to stand befor lit picture In lh exhibition rooms, layi a writer In th N. Y. Ami, h might b lets pleased, but h certainly would b as highly en tertained by lh comment mad by th continuous throng that passes be for the picture. Of course, tiluspeo pi out of very ten ar surprised to lind bow (mall it Is. Somehow no amount of culture or training in art I abl to eliminate entirely from th mind th idea that picture ar valua ble according to their tlse, and lh comparison between the price which "Th Angelus" brought at lu last sak, and lh number of square inches ia lh canvas Is so si art ling that It shocks th unprepared mind. Everybody ha a different way of expressing this dh satisfaction wltb the site of the master piece. Ou old lady puihod up befor It during on of the most crowded hour of the exhibition. She wa rich lv ilriuseil and evidently felt herself fully oo.iiielent to orltfcls nyililn( lu in art line. It could be seeu a approached that her eye. wer focuwed for ometlilug yery targ snq sisri Hug. When th had reached th front sh gased blankly at lh ex pant of red drajierle. Flually she caught sight of lh picture, aud placing a lorguntt to bur eye, leaned her head well back aud gated at the picture In tently, and, at last scornfully. After a few moments she put down Imr glasses, and, half turning lo th tpeota- ' , I. t.l l.. . I I .11. '"" 1 - M" j ""w,, aUlt,W..l.l." Nobody seemed interested In the an oounciniieut and sh turned aud look another look. Yet, 1 am disappointed," she re pealed lu su sveu inula disliuct lone of yoii'o. Nolatdy answered her. I , very much disappointed," sh . . 1 1 . ... ! ventured again, alter another look, in th same aggress! v tone. Still uobody paid any attention to ber, aud she looked again. "I dou't know wheu I've been so dis appointed," was th way she put it this lime. Ther wer a few dlsresiectful gig gles, aud theu a woman ueur her re marked lu a coldly unsympathetic yolcei "Would you kindly keep tour ditap. polutmeut to yourself aud let us enjoy Hie plcturer ' Th dlsapiwlnted woman evidently had aslouislHiiHul added to her other findings at this unexpected sally, but she made uo reply and strode haughti ly away attar another scornful look at (lie helpless littl canvas. A she passed out of th building she was uotiood slopping before a gorgeous red ami black llocky Mountain sccu iu ths front room and exclaiming: "There, that' what I cull something like!" Very comical are th mistakes mad by spectator as to the meaning of th picture. It would break Millet heart to know of some of these. One appar ently Intelligent end cultivated woman came iu the oilier day, aud after gaa lug a long time at the picture sat down lu a chair beside the girl who sells cata logues at a table in front of "The Au gulus." "That's a lov subject?" remarked the woman, opening a conversation. The girl discreetly made no reply. "Yes. and I think It's so beautiful." continued the woman, "Just tee bow modest the young woman Is." The paralysed catalogue girl ventur ed a feeble "Yes?" "I do lov such subjects; and hasn't he painted it exquisitely?" the woman went on. Just here the catalogue girl ws saved from danger of hysteria by Ihe arrival of the woman's" husband, lie bad a oalalogue In his hand, and be led his wife arouud to look at the other pictures. Presently the woman came back In a grent hurry. She had evidently been reading the catalogue. "Why, that isn't a lov subject at all," she exclaimed sharply to lire girl. Ih girl was arranging hur cata logues. "No, that's a religious subject; It Isn't a lov subject at all," repeated lh woman. Tho girl saw a bit of paper on the floor on the other side of her table and bent over to pick it iiu. The woman eyed her for a moment, aud then said, with subdued Intensity! Did you know that that wasu't a love subject when I was talklug to you?" The girl Is usually truthful, hut there was no help for lltlils lime. She raised ber eyes to those of the woman and (aid uublushlngly, but somewhat fee bly i "No, ma'am." Tho woman gave her mother sharp look, but went away apparently satis lied. Witt; and Jtlttlilooiis. It is related of an old-time Balh school I oy that alter the master had given him a good Hogging ihu young ster suld to Ihu toucher lu a melancholy and serious voice: "1 thank you sir. ' "Thank mo! What are you thanking mo for, you young riisculr replied old Master Whulstono. "I thought you did It for my good, sir," replied Joshua. The tone, manner and the wolds matin the school ruar, while the tern old pedagogue uoulil take no ex ception lo ihe retort, and had to ac knowledge Its righteousness as well as 'ts wll I.t wistoH ,uunntt. A Ubost A mini In BnnuorMe., who tarrlod in a cemetery alter dark in order to liniHh a loo ot tugging, nnu an on- coiuiier with a ghost It was of the regulation whiteness, ami gnuimd just as did i hose encountered iu similar places by some of our gruat-graud-inothurs. The liaiigor man was fright ened and Hliu'lcil to run, but managed to run against the ghost and both tell to the ground together. It was an In nocent while calf that Hrst recovered its feet after thu collision. ' Throe-Story Wages, A three-story wagon was captured at Martinsville, Md., a few days since. The first story under the running gonr was a coop of live chickens; thu sec ond, sandwiched between the tlrst aud third and hidden from view, was de voted to. "moonshine spirits; the third was laden with tobauoo and fodder. In a Dilemma. A woman who was riding down-town on a Third avenue train recently, says th N. Y. Hun, becnui Involved In an Interesting dilemma, which afforded amusement to all those passengers who became awar of It lis wa sealed directly behind th last cross lest In th ear. in front of him wa a young woman who wa devoting ber time to watching th window ou th opposite lid of lh street a lh train spsd along, She wa young snd pretty; without ber knowledge a few trosc of Iter bloude hair had escaped from under ber bonnet ud had fallen over the shoulder of th man behind ber, and bad in some unexplained uuiuuer become fastened around on of the button of hi oust Ho msd on or two delicate attempt to remove th wanderings tresses, but was so timid that he only entangled them th more. He sat there with a frightened but nieuk expression upon his face, not daring lo move, A climax wa put to his predicament by th young woman's arising, or rather attempting to do so, at Fourteenth street She had only trot half way out of her (eat when Sh lul oil a violent tuir at hur hair. Sh re sumed her seat and lurusd around In dignantly to learn the true situation, lu a moment hor complexion rivaled that of lh unfortunate young man, aud her attempt to release herself convulsed th witnesses with laughter. Her linger trembled, and after fum bling away until the guard bud closed the gat in vain attempt to release herself she gave on violent yank at th two tresses, breaking them off and leaving th suds still entwined arouud th niiscrabla butlou. Although th uisa saw thorn and wa painfully con Scioui of their presence lie did not dur remove them until the young woman bod left the car at th next station. For the rest of tho way to the city hall b kept bis head buried in his news Pr. Only a Mttla Newaboy. Ten o'clock lo th biilldlntr of th C itluffMu 'k of tv , Jl big city pster. The electric light ar il me wiuri ot presses and pes niake a busy scene. Ed itors. reiHiilors, proof -readers ar busy preparing th day' doing for th morrow. Th door of th elder o flics Is pushed carefully o;ien and a blue eyed, flaxen-curled maiden of six sum mers and as many winter enter, No body know how she got there. No body saw her climb Ihe stairs or walk through th hall. She li ragged, dirty and has been crvlnir. j "I you the wlir manf I "Yes, little one; what can I do for you?" i "Hul Is dead, an' I thought maybe you'd like to tell a Unit it "Who is Hulief" "Why, didu't you over bear of Rulier loo see. there are are to many ! P"l,ls. ,'t mn j"'" ! 1 1 tin Itlr- !iMt-ftiw! man Wiit tnlnit The big, bearded man Was actually ashamed of his Ignorance, "tint Rube wasn't ieoplo h was my brother. He sold papers an' blacked boots and all that, lie wasn't very rich an' ma said Ihe city man would burv him but he was good to m." "lld you sell papers, loo?" "No, I Stayed home; but Ruts brought me candy dogs an' oandy roosters, aud licked bad bovs that made me ory. An' If you tell folks how good he ws, may be they'd think better of him." "What do you want mo to say, littl one?" "Why, that he was IU years old, an' was bvlplu' mother an' oil, I don't know but 'member be was always good lor me." Before the little mourner loft the of fice she was the recipient of a handful of coius donated by "th boys" of the ofllce and th big editor ordered th Janitor to accompany her home. Thus It wa that the reader of th great ptxir were mildly astonished to resd on lh morning's local psge; Wed Yesterday, Hub, Ihe news boy, aged IS years. He was the sup port of his widowed mother and loved his little sister better than his life al most He was buried in tho (Milter's Held last night JktroU t'rrt 1'rtu, Balancing the Account. Mr. Vernon, like many other subur ban residents, amuses himself by keep ing fowls. It was Ids Intention when he first began it to muke it a solf-sii-porting source of entcrtaimcnt aud he had some hope of saving a little mon ey in the supply ot poultry aud eggs for his own table. tint "chicken food" costs money, and all the coops aud fences and roosts which Mr. Vernon thought necessary cost much more, so that it was only by great Industry that he kept from loosing Instead of making money lu his raising of chickens. One day he found that his account for the week did not balance. 11a was behind In his accounts. He snt and pondered over his column of tip res fer a little while, then put on his hat aud went down to the hen-yard. Pres ently his daughter Eva saw him com ing back to the house bringing a big rooster headless. She ruu out to meet him, "Why, papal" she exclaimed, 'what did you kill old ttrahma for?" "For dinner, my dear," answered hor father. "Ho worth and I'm 3 behind In my chicken accounts this weoK.' Hu took the fowl Into tho kitchen, then wont on into the library, and took up his account book, credited himself wllh the price of the big roost er, aud announced with pride that he bad balanced his account! yuuth'i VotnpunioH. An Interesting Time In Maine. The skunk is mighty. He always Is for that matter, but just now he rules three or four villages In the vicinity of Bangor with an irresistible and odorif erous ruin. Hampden has been over ridden of late with a hord of active and strong-brcathod skunks who have made things interesting for folks who ventured out at night. A whole prayer-mooting was demoralized by them recently when the worshipers were returning home. That was the only nice thing about it. Hud the attack been made on the way to prayer-mooting it is doubtful if the exhortations would have been delivered in th same spirit of good will and peaoe. They might have been more earnest and fervent though. The up-river towns have had similar xperienoe. A fallow and his girl go ing to a ball mot a skunk and didn't go. The fellow swore and the girl cried, and then they wont home aud put their ololhos In pickle. The skunk can be spared. He is unuice. Bangor Veto. Drolbiiiul. The term "drolbund" is appearing In the Gorman cable news, and, us It la somewhat Btrauge to American ears, it may be well to explain that it means an uudorstanding or a compact, a alli ance; among tnrcu persons, or stales, or governments. The "droilmmi" In the present instance is the alliance be tween the three sovereigns of Gcruiauy, Austria, and Italy. l'rlntcd Iinllot. The first printed ballot was used In Massachusetts In 1830 by David Hon- ihaw, and was refused. It took a dcol ion ot the Supreme court to establish IU validity, RSSj-y To J- m T ilMtflWS STMltyfoD STOCK BOOK. DON'T DELAY IN taCUPIINO ItftRIICRY. Finest Book on Earth for tht Farmtr, Stockman and Blacktmith LARGEST PROFITS! rt CnlnhHiMtt and Sl' trrm tpplf U . L PEABLEE, 307 SarjsomeSt., $37 frarjoitoo.ga). WIT AND HUMOU. Th model husband are th oieo who nver marry. fund lu Jm It porter. Best place to hold th World's Fair Hlghl around th waist BoOon Ihruld. Is the woman who goes to church to exhibit her waUkiusacque-rellglous?-Hmnt Rentiml, Laughter may lie the poor man's plaster, but It is not very adhesive. VhUatklihia fVess. llouesty is doubtless th best policy, but It seems lo list expired long ago. Lawnnot American, Th serpent was th most subtle of all the beasts of the Held, but the army trailer Is sutler, Button Jratmmpt. While the English drum beat I heard around the world the American dead beat Isn't far behind. Taut ttiflingt. Women rarely ar great Inventors, though lliey are often th Hrst to dis cover new wrinkles. 2rr Maul lit pre. When you truly and devotedly lov a girl who is as rhh a sh Is pretty it's hard to lake no for an auswer. Kpoeh. "It's a wise Joke that know its own father after the religious paicr bav minted It once or twice. HomrrvUU Journal. Some women like a whispered tnlo of love, but a Mb! prefers a declaration made lu ringing tone. Baitiinort American. When a woman loves a man she goes the whole ho.', even to the wart ou his uose. It isn't this way with man. I'hUatkljjhui Imjuirrtr. It is very strange that among those j who set themselves up as great gun j the ones of the smallest caliber ar th ! biggest bores. Button IranneripL "What Is sweeter than to have a ; friend you can trust?" asked Saw kins. 1 "To have a friend who will trust you," i replied Dawklus. Hartford Time. I Minnie "And you say you shed no i tears at the play lost iiiyht? I did. I I was in affected." Mamie "O, of course. You always are."5fVrrs UauU j A'tpnt. I It's concent ration of thought that I tells iu our daily endeavor. Just watch the luce of the small ixiy when be ts taking aim ut a tramp cut. VufW- ; plua Imuirrr. j Jaggs "Did you swear off the 1st?" I Baggs "Well, I did. you know, and i this time it goes." "Come lu and have j one?" "Don't care if 1 do." I'liUudcL Am Inquirer, First Man (excitedly) "Our board-Ing-liouse is tiliro!" Second Man (calmly) "Come, then, hurry up, and h'i haps we may be able to get some thing hot." -Jurg. lllomlgood "Travis dresses well, doesn't he? I wonder what gives such tone to his costume?" De Smith "It must b his trousers. They are always loud." Burlington fret 'raw. Suitor "1 love your youngest daughter, sir." Pater "L'niph! I suppose you've heard that 1 have set lled a dowry ou my eldest daughter?" Suitor "In that case, sir, 1 loe her." Kpofh. In the mission class: Teacher "Can you tell me anything alxmt the niau who went down from Jericho and foil among thieves?'' Thu New boy (tentatively) "Wus it McGiuty?" Button Time. Mr. N. Peck (slapping his pocket) "Here's a nice stale of atlairs!" Wick wire "What's, the matter? Forget your pockutbuok?" Mr. N. Peck "Yes; 1 forgot to leave it at home." Tern Haute Etprast, Young Sulfast "Had a weal advent ure tho oilier day, Miss Sharplcigh. Went lishing and a gweat bwmu of a farm dog made me stay w ith him ihwee hours." Miss Sharpleigh l'uor old doggie." Uraht'l Magiuiim. An enthusiastic exchange refers to the dresses of some actresses as "per fect poems." It would tie nearer the mark to call them epigrams; because well, there Isn't much to an epigram, you know." I'hiUuklphia Press. Mabel "Hal, dear, what makes voo always call me your little lamb?" Hal "Because you alwavs return to the fold," and lie opened liis arms with an expectant aud satislind look upou his smiling face. Kearney Enterprise. Arthur (just beginning his French) "Papa, is the French word for money of tho feminine or masculine guilder?1' Father "Feuiiniue.of course." "Why, papa?" ''Because, haven't you hoard that money talks?" Lowell Citizen. Mother "You don't seem tired, Jen nie, for a young ludy who attended a dunciuir party lost niirht?"' Jennie "It was a plumbers' ball.you know.and everything went so slowly that one could not get tired." Boston Herald. Inquisitive Citi.en "What's the matter with the man? Been ruu over by a railroad train P" Ambulance Sur geon "Worse than that He was caught among the women iu a bargain rush at Seller's." . IhiUutelphia In quirer. Belinda "Dearest, what was the real mvouu vi juui uiaii in nier At phonzo "I think it was because I un derstood you. And what was the rea son of your marrying me?" Boliuda "I think it was because 1 did not un derstand you." America. Physician (to Mrs. Col. Blood of Kentucky) "How did your husband pass the night Mrs. Blood?" Mrs, Blood "Ho seemed quite oomfortable, sir, and asked for water soveral times." Physician (with a grave look) "H'ui -still Ulghty." UoMon Beacon, Mrs. A. "I think Mrs. Smith's death I such a sad one. Mv heart fairly aches for Mr. Smith." IMrs. B "Yes, and the poor little children. It is a terrible visitation. Will you be at the fuiioral?" Mrs. A "0. yos." Mrs. B. "What are you golug to woarf" Jipoch, 'You shouldn't have takeu 'No' foi an answer so readily, Charlie," sail hi more experienced friend; don't you understand that a girl's 'No1 ofton means 'Yes'?" "She didn't say 'No.' Jaok," responded Charlie, utterly with out hope; "she said 'Naw.'" Boston Beueon. CampnIgningMamma (to ooBfldeuHa) fileud of Mr. G.)-"ttottlly, young Mr. Greenbacks is one of the most cult ivated men I ever saw." C. F. (desiring to please) "Yes, and I honestly beHevs your daughter Eva is succeeding at il better than auy of the rest" MempUti Avatanolie. Miss Chestnut "la il true that youi EIPEB1EHCED CODSTT CAHVASEBS 1,01$ -J..VE fllCED make meres when tbey iiav under. ian in sie I ION CO, MsauSsctam ol Printers RcDsrs, -r- AMD - r PXDDINB CEMENT ETC. Rolkr Catting a Specialty. 1107 Fourth St., East Portland, Or. niarriag with Mr. Callowhill ha oee iudeUultoly postlioned?" Mis Walnut 0. no. not ludeliuiuily. Poor, dear Fldo, you know, wa attacked with la gr ppeand died.aod of course I couldn't Think of marrying year." 'a. tietphia Inquirer. 'Yoo ought to b glad that you will b electrified losload of hanged." said a prison visitor ta a convicted mur derer. "Why r asked tiie felou in sur prise. "You suffer greatly from rheu matism, don't your "Ye." "Well, electricity 1 the best known reined for that" Kpock. "Where is the ploc to find a good talklug parrot?" write a subscriber. In the uewspaper. too; lu lh news ptert. You 11 find wouderful parrot saying things iu the miscellauoou columns of lb paper that ar never. nevr, never heard from the bill of livlug parrot auywlmni else. Gu I th same place for trained aud ga oiuu dog. BurtktU. Visitor "Do you like going U school, mv little dear?" Little Faiintleroy "tea, indcwl." Visitor "Of course. You love your school, dou't you, my pet? aud you like jour leai ber, too, don't you?" Little Faiuitleroy "O, jes.1 wouldn't want any ollierleacber." Visitor "Of cuiir uot" Little Fauullcroy "No. indeed. She's awful Beat sighted." A'. Y. Wrrklu. , Flayed Sucker fu Parpuo. There are any number of good story tellers iu Cotisrresa, Evervlsidy know of the fame of Allen, of Mississippi, and "Hilly" Mason, of Chicago, in this re gard, and now that Kcprescutatlve Spinola and Flower, th on gray bearded and the other rotund, (it clos together, they are always sure of a crowd around their desks to hear them swap their varied and interesting ex periences. Genera! Spinola regaled his friend with a good poker story recently. "I was coming down the Hudson one night," ha said, "in com pany with Cornelius Vanderbllt Thur low Weed. Dean Richmond, and Ueorge Law, when Weed projiosed a game of poker, and I wa asked to oome In 1 hesitated, for 1 bad only about HOOD in my pocket and I knew that it was to bo game without a limit I mentioned the state of my Hnsuce to Law. but he told me to take a hand, and said that be would back me to any amount 'I am willing to lose 130.000 or 140.000 to-nigbtr h said, 'and to-morrow I will tellyou my reason.' So th gam started and I stayed ia, hogging th shore pretty close and gettiug startled every one in a while when com on went $1,000 blind. When we quit at daybreak I had won about ft.OOO, but Law bad lost ten time that amount The next day I met bint ! will tell you, Frank. be said, 'why I lost that money. I wanted Vanderbllt to think I wa a sucker, and so I played like one. Th result was that to-day I sold bim a lot ot steamboats for nearly ftiOO.000 mor than 1 ever expected to get from bim. Don't you think the money was well in vested." H ashiuyton iwt II Kind to Children. Children should be taught obedience and bad habits should be corrected. But many a parent has remembered with deep sorrow instance of undue severity and unwise punishment when too late to correct it or make amends. "The following incident related by a father illustrates this: "I shall never forget though I bav wished a thousand times that I could, how I punished little Mamie for continuously pronouncing a word wrong as , thought willfully after I had tried hard to make her say it correctly. She was quiet for a few minutes after I had punished her, and then she looked up with a quivering lip, aud said: "Papa, you will have to whip m again. I can't say it' "Yon can imagine how I felt and how 1 kept on remembering the look on her face aud tbetoue of the sad little Tolce." Little ones ar often timid and grown people do uot sutllcieiiily svmpathise with them. Th following iucident Illustrate th;si A well-meaning father once whlped his little girl, attempting to overcome iu this way ber whimsical terror of the dark wheu left aloue at night Tho poor little maid sobbed herself to sleep that night But the next eveulng, live miuiitcs after she had been loft alono with the. to her, fearful dark, ber terror over came her dread of puuishmont aud a mum 1 uuo voice was beard at the head of the stairs. 1 "O. papa, please come up here and whip uicl 1 ni so Traid of the dark I" This convioced tiie father that the child's terror was more than a whim, and he deeply regretted his hasty puu lihinciit, which was never repeated. Many Mocking Uli-da. '.' i A.irjl,8M 7.,m haTrooontly visited th Bridal Veil tails iu the Yosomite Val. icy thus describes the mocking birds iu that vlciuity In tho New Yofk V "Millions of brown-coated birds thur were everywhere, until the whole of our very nature seemed perm' nted with their musio. Sometimes low aud sweet again sad aud plalutive, and then full, rich aud triumphaut like a ptoan of joy and gladness, while we looked at each other iu wondering silunca. Just as it seemed that the melody was uu supportably sweet and that our heart could not ooiitain mow without the re lief of team or shouts, the wiud died away and the water agaiu struck with au awesome roar iuto lu rocky hollow with a fo. -0 that made tho earth trcm bl. and was again lashed to furious foam aud th song of tho mocking birds hushed. Thus it goos on ever aud ever, a ternatcly. and has for ages, tho aoug of the birds and the thunderous revr beratlou of the cataract" The atatnmnnt la n....in ,1.... than 66.000 olophants are killed iu oyoiy year, rnoir Ivory in tha raw state is worth $1000,000. Craislil