VOL. 2.
SCIO, OREGON, AUGUST 9, 1890.
“Dear me! dear me!” he kept saying, girl’s character to associate with such
softly, “I have seen nothing like this people. They make you do an awful
since the donation parties in good old lot of lying for them. And then there’s
Podunk. I’m.sure you’re all quite wel > the uniform—the servant’s...dress. That’s
come. I’ve been out with the two ladies the thing that does the real mischief.
looking for you, but we failed to find It’s all the time .saying, to the girl that
you. However, we encountered a young wears it: ‘You’re .only a slave., VZhat
man called- Jimmy, who is connected difference does it make how you behave?
with the press, and he told me to return You can’t go to Heaven ip such clothe?,. ,
home and wait for you. Now I do hope anyhow.’ I got to: thinking that. I
that all this quarreling 1$ over, and that wasn’t as good as the éther women be-,
you, sir”—pointing to Drane—“have de cause I couldn’t dress as well; and so,
when I saw the chance to steal your
cided to be a man.”.
“Such is my present intention,” said dresses I said to myself that it would
Drane. “lam getting a little tired of make a good girl of me.”
Rev. Mr. Knowles held up his hands
being a lunatic.”
.
“You seem to have suffered some vio . in horror.
lence since you were here before,” con . / “Young woman,” said he, w“the ob
tinued Mr. Knowles. “I trust that you liquity of your moral* vision is really
gan
to
peép
t
i*
ó
ugh
his
trousers.
His
CHAPTER XI.
are
seriously hurt. It often hap shocking.- Did you think that stolen
economical suit was coming rapidly and pens not
VIRTUES OF NECESSITY.
that harsh experiences of this clothes could make you good?”
At this point in Mr. Drane’s adven naturally to pieces.
“And to-morrow will be the twenty-
“Yes, sir, I did,” replied Nellie, firm
kind are wholesome, and necessary to
“Boes it look very bad?” he whispered bring us to a proper state of mind. In ly, “and what’s more, I was. right; they second?”
tures he ought to have met the emer
gency with calmness and a ready wit. to the tramp, as he felt a seam in the deed, they always are, if we could only have. . Since I’ve worn them I haven’t
“Of course.”
. ,
■
He had certainly experienced quite1 back burst.
“Weil, in that case, I would avoid ex
had an envious or wicked thought in
see it.”
“It looks like bloody murder/’ said
Enough of encounters with the police;
Meanwhile the other members of the my mind, except when this man dis tremes and suggest the twenty-first.”
but, law-abiding* citizen that he was, the tramp, in an undertone; “and party
“You mix mo all up With-..your arith
were looking askance at each covered me and I saw the prospect of
having an innate and cultivated respect speaking of that, how do you. think other. Johnson was beginning to real big cuffs and a cap again. I tell you metic,” said Bessie, frowning .prettily.
for the guardians of the peace and faro those Kansas City made pantaloons of ize that the new-comers were the Kan that if I’d ha(J another , week in Mrs. * ! “Oh! dear; why, it’s to-day/. No,. I realiy
banks, the more he encountered their yours fit me?”
City relief expedition, and that his Harland’s dresses not even that tempta ! can’t think of such an awful hurry. You
power the weaker he was to resist them.
‘Tell ’em you’ll give ’em a check at sas
own usefulness and opportunities were tion -would have been strôïîg enough to •know I’ve givori. away all my dresses,
Therefore, when he was hustled out of the Beaver House at three o’clock this nearly over. He was meditating a quiet make me do wrong.”
Lawrence. But on: the twenty-first of
the good old parson’s study he went afternoon,” whispered Lawrence.
“You have discovered a great moral ► next month, if you please—” ■
and
inoffensive
exit
when
he
chanced
with a blind acquiescence to cruel fate,
The tramp knowing that Lawrence had to catch Nellie’s eye, and it riveted principle.” said Johnson. “I too, stole
“Lawrence,” said Uncle Sanford,,
mens conscia recti, but very much cast lots of money fell into this plan, and him
a chance to begin a better life, and, I “when I look at the woman you will
to
the
spot.
She
was
looking
at
down nevertheless.
the police, knowing that they had no
with a real tenderness of expres trust, if Mr. Drane doesn’t take this suit marry I cease to doubt your sanity,
In the hallway of the parson’s house,, authority, immediately disappeared. him
*
sion,
and a certain admiration, too. In away from me, that I may : yet reform arid—”
however, he pulled himself ¿together But not so Jimmy. Jimmy hung on un
“And begin to doubt hors, I suppose,’’
entirely before it wears out. I feel bet
deed,
Johnson
in
Drane
’
s
clothes
was
and demanded the cause of his arrest. til the tramp assured him that he and worth looking at. ho had an intelli ter now. Already I have discarded the Lawrence broke in. ‘‘You are .mistaken,,
„The policemen were by no means will Brane were going to the parson’s house gent and not uncomely visage, which language of a tramp, and the mendacity , uncle. She is the only woman I ever,
ing to explain; they really Believed | to elucidate together one or-two prob had been much improved of late by the of a politician. A few days more and 1 I met who was level-headed enough .tqr
that they had a dangerous maniac on lems that were not yet clear to either of
of more food and less drink. Arid shall be as goo'd a manas Drane himself; I recognizo a tr-uly good, man under a
hand, and Jimmy, the reporter, was on them. Buring all the conversation that effects
Nellie looked at him, thinking of the and Larry, old boy, let me tell you that | ragged coat. I say this modestly, brit
the qui tire to get a good news item and i this involved, Lawrence discreetly kept
which had joined their hands: if you don’t get rid of that Bowery suit I’m ready to stick to it.”
a reward at the same time. Hoy.-ever, . his mouth’shut, and presently Jimmy words
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
and
she
grew quite pale, but not with before it falls to pieces altogether you’ll
as Mr. Brane resisted, Jimmy finally ! dashed off presumably to give a column
be a moral wreck. Every time a button
fear
or
regret.
It
may
be
interesting,
to
record,
in
produced this, telegram from a New Í of copy to his newspaper for the last
Bessie was pale, too, for she felt a falls off the finger of Satan is stuck conclusion, that tho pension which
York newspaper:
i edition. After this the two men paused very painful interest in the scene; She through the empty button-hole.
Drane had promised; to the reformed
“Rush interview with Drane. Man I on the sidewalk and Mr« Brane began:
“And as 16 this marriage.” he contin couple was always paid promptly on the
knew that the strange men must include
held here proved to, be sane and not the
:“My dear man, there is something those who had known Drane in the West, ued, “I.am proud to say that I was the first of every month. Within a year,
tight one.’
about you, in addition to my clothes, and she took Johnson to be a distin bridegroom. I confess with shame that however, a series of inheritances raised
Just one fay of joy shone against the which makes me th ink that you are or guished
representative of the family, I married Nellie bélieving her to be them far above the necessity for any
dark background of * Mr. Brane’s pros ought to be a gentleman*”
whose
words
would be a full explana rich, but now—now—Nellie, I have such charity. But they kept right on
pects in this dispatch—the tramp, im
“Sir,” responded the tramp, “there is tion of Drane’s mental condition. She nothing in the world that I can call my drawing it just the,same; and thus by .a
properly confined as insane ,at his in something about you' besides that ill- tried to attract his attention; to call own. Even my clothes, as you know,
stance, had boon released. f Thinking of fitting Bowery suit that . makes ine re him to her side, and ask him whether do not belong tome. But if you can love little harmless dishonesty varied the
monotony o^their otherwise exemplary
that as.of one sin which had been .for gard you as destined to better things
was truo that his unfortunate kins me, if you truly wish to be my wife, I lives, wisely avoiding that excessive’
given, Laurence bowed his head and ac than you have endured during the past it
will do the best I can to make a home virtue to which progressive good fortune
man was unbalanced.
companied the' policemen out of doors. week.”
Mr. Sanford Drane, the genuine, was somewhere for you—for us—in which is the only real temptation in this world.
An officer was at either elbow and Jim
Then both men laughed and after that thp. first to break the silence which had whatever dress you wear will be.the
' the end .
my pranced along behind; As Mr. they shook hands heartily.
robe of a queen, and I a humble, but a
fallfch upon the party. ?
Brane Was very quiet no especial at
“1 say,” said Lawrence, “what is you?
“I beg your pardon,” said he to Rev. faithful subject' always.”
tention was attracted until they camo name, and how the unmentionable Mr.
A BRAZILIAN LUXURY.
“Dear Richard,” said Nellie, laying
Knowles, “but. I really do not see
to the door of the Beaver House. There fiend did you get into a tramp’s life?’’
her
head
upon
the
breast
of
Lawrence
’
s
why we have all invaded your house.
Apt to Kill If Satén and to Burn If Han
a man was slowly descending the steps,
“My name,” responded the other, “is
late coat, beneath which the heart of
dled, Yet Very Refreshing-.-'
looking vastly worried and out of sorts. plain Johnson, baptised Richard J. Ha? this unhappy young man—” point Mr.
Johnson was beating very hard in
to Lawrence—“had any dealings
A Sun reporter found biniseli in a
It was the tramp. He had Mr. Brane's I was at one timé a country schoolmas ing
you during his recent wanderings? deed if one might judge by the expres crowd that stood staring into $ . fruit
clothes on and lie appeared to be in ter, which may account for my lapses with
I
should
tell you that I am his uncle, sion of his face.
store window tho other day. In the
hard luck. When he saw the officers into fairly correct English when I talk.
But you forget, Richard,” she said, window, hanging by a string, was some
and their convoy sailing down the Schoolmastoring, I found, did not pay and that I have come to take- him home at “ length,
“we. must both go to: prison thing that locked like a big Bartlett
street he stopped suddenly and locked for a man who had acquired champagne with me, where I trust that rest and first. We can
not expect to be reformed pear, except‘that’ its colors was deep red.
hard at the prisoner with a wildly tastes on a beer income, and so I deter medical treatment will restore him to without paying
the penalty.”
tho
full
command
of
his
faculties.
”
On tho big end of the fruit was a jjulpy
angered expression on his face. It ■was mined to travel. Experience of an un
“Well, I am ready,” said Johnson.
“And is he. then, deranged?” asked
looking protuberance^ Pushing his way
but a moment that the tramp stood usually severe nature undermined my Mr.
“My dear fellow,” cried Lawrence, into the store and. pointing to tho
Knowles. “Ah! that explains much
thus, but in that moment his reasoning convictions respecting meum et tuum,
“you need have no fears of me. I have strange fruit in the window, the re
faculties went through a tremendoiis and I therefore descended to theft. But which had been dark to me. I fear that too
much to thank you for. But for you porter s.sked the dealer:
I
have
done
serious
wrong.
I
should
operation. This was about the sub it is only fair to explain that this de
have made more careful inquiries be and your amiable wife I might have
“What kind of a pear is that?”
stance of it:
scent in morality came from the fact
I married him to thi? young lady.” gone through the wide world from one
“It’s no kind of a pear,” replied the
“Hello! there’s Lawrence Brane! I that soon after I gave up school-teach fore
“Married?” cried Uncle Sanford, end to the ôtheï'i àriçL yet have missed fruit mam /It’s a Brazilian caju.
stole his clothes and his name and mar ing I went into politics.”
aghast. “Oh, Lawrence, I did not think the one woman for’ whom my heart was
“Oh, indeed!” said the reporter.
ried in both of them an awfully rich
“Unfortunate,” murmured Mr. Drane. your wretched fate would have led you waiting. Bessie £ taking . her hand in
“
Yes,” replied the dealer, “that’s
widow. Ho got back at me by stealing
“I was an aiderman,” continued the
”.
.
his), shall we forgive them?” •
caju, and it’s tho only one in tbo city, i
his clothes again and getting me in tramp, ‘‘and I voted various franchises to “ this.
“Indeed, inde.ed, we will,” cried Bes guess. It’s a curious kind of a fruit, too.
My
very
dear,
but
deplorably
mud
hock. He even inveigled me into an to railroad corporations and escaped in dled uncle,” said Lawrence, “do not dis sie, heartily. “Nellie, I owe you a debt
insane asylum. He is even now sue-' dictment I, never-knew how. -Then, tress yourself unnecessarily. I am not such as only a womari Can understand, for whilb it is one of the most delight
fully cool and refreshing of delicacies
pected of being a lunatic. Now I know having my hands in the public treasury,
and—and—I can’t tell you how much I it will make you deathly sick, and may be
that he is not i>nly Sane, but that I have otherwise the people’s pockets, for two
thank you; but if a yrhole Saratoga kill you, if you eat iL The Brazilian
been the cause of his misadventures. ) or three years, I lost all sense of de
trunk-full of dresses can serve as a sym caju wasn’t made to be eaten. Yotf have
further know that the Kansas City me: corum and honesty.”
bol of njy gratitude I—ah, you dear to drink it to properly enjoy it/*.
who declared this morning that I wa
“You are to be pitied, not ^con
gir!’>
“Ah!” said the reporter. “What aro
not Brane, will be hero by the nex; demned,” said Mr. Brane.
Bessie closed the sentence somewhat the habits óf this peculiar fruit?”
train from'New York and will free thi:
hysterically and fell on Nellie’s neck.
“So,” continued the tramp, “1 am not
“Well,” said the custodian of the
man from; all his troubles. Ho is tre altogether
Lawrence, too, was overpowered with caju,
bad. That, with your kind-
“that one in the ^inflow is. what
mendously rich and good-natured. B— •ness, you seem
to
; see; but the fact is
joy
they ealí a garden caju tfecause it is a
me if I don’t do him a good turn.’’
“
Dick,
old
boy,
”
said
he,
“
cheer
rip;
that if I had always worn as good
one, but- it grows wild, very
This chain of reasoning AvaS sb speedi clothes as these of yours, I would not
I’ll give you carte blanche with my cultivated
wild, They riraltè a claret wine out of
ly accomplished that by tbo time Lu.
tailor, and you shall wear as many suits the
have been tempted to commit th ó
wild' caju down in JIrazil that thè na
renco ana tho policemen wcr/s oppas*
a day as a society belle on a week’s tives dote on. It will, stand you on
crimes that have brought trouble upon
the Bba^ef Ildhso dooiy the tramp r.,
yon?’;
visit to a watering place. And that isn’t your head in less than ten minutes.
resolved upon his course of action. L
all. I’ll give you—”
“That is doubtless true,” answered
The cultivated- fruit, sometimes turns
ran down the . steps pell-mell;., seized /Mr. Brane, dubiously recalling his pe
“Only a chance to work, Larry; it’s all out red like that one, but ft is also apt
Lawrence by the hand and exclaimed:
I ask,” said Johnson.
culiar adventures; “but it was very
to be yellow,’ arid perhaps pink; ’ The
Well, well! toi see you again and in wrong of you to take away not only my
“Work?” cried Lawrence; Mnot if I ways of the caju are in no way in
this shape!. I’m' delighted and everlast garments but my name and credit as
know it. A man who can’t find any fluenced by its color, though. *. A red
ingly relieved!”
.
THE MAN WHO WAS MARRIED.
thing better to do in this world than one can’t discount a pink one, and a yel
well.’’
4 “Oh! you are,’ are you?” responded
“Ah, sir,” replied Mr. Johnson, smil married. This whole complication re work is defective in imagination. I’ll low one is as much of a thoroughbred a3
tawronee/ as the policemen paused. ing, “it is an old saw that ‘necessity
give you a pension of two hundred dol
“I see that you are at the upper end of ^knows no law.’ But' let us no: sults from an inexplicable error of Rev. lars a month for as long as you need it— either of the others. The pulp of the
Mr.
Knowles,
who
married
this
man
”
—
most luscious,.orange isn’t half as tempt
ihe’teeter-board at present.” ,
I—I—-old man, my feelings overcome ing as the inside of the caju, but the
waste time in argument. 1 came
He would have said more in expres here to seek my Wife, and whon indicating Johnson — “to that young me!”
cajii pulp is poison’. Jriiòe is what the
sion of his bitterness, but the tramp I have found her you shall be woman in the corner.”
And he fell on Johnson’s neck just as caju is for.- I’ll bet tiiat-red one yonder
“Poor fellow!” said Rev. Mr. Knowles,
interrupted;':
Bessie had done on Mrs. Johnson’s.
fully repaid in money for the misery “he is wandering again.”
has more than a pint of Juice in it, and
“Officers, I don’t' think you have any which I have caused you.”
There was a crash over in the corner if you ever tasted it .you’d never let go
“
I
am
not
wandering,
”
said
Lawrence.
right to hold this man.' I know him.
of
the
room,
and
the
voice
of
Jimmy,
They had been walking along inde-
until you engulfed the whole <5f it.'
He is my only brother. His name is torminedly, and here Mr. Drane stopped. “The fact is that this woman, taking the reporter, was heard,, saying:
advantage of Mr. Knowles’ error, now
There’s nothing finer. The. swell Bra
Lawrence Brane, of Kansas City, and I
“I didn’t quite catch that last remark. zilian sucks the juice but of a caju every
“Johnson;” he said, “you aro in a bad
me as her husband because she
am his brother John, come on to take fix. Yqur wife is not only poor fipan- claims
What wag the amount of that pension?” mornirig before breakfast.”
knows
me
to
be
rich.
”
care of him. 1 demand, that you show •ially, but so badly off that she wants to
They looked up and saw the enter
“What does.the caju wear that ro
“Rich!” put in Uncle Sanford, “if prising
me your authority for arresting him be claim me for a husband.”
young man’s head sticking sette for on its big end?” asked the re
money is all that is needed, perhaps we
fore you take him any further.”
Johnson-opened h’s mouth wide with may yet rescue my misguided nephew through the face of the tall, old-fash porter.
This, of course, was a stumper for the
ioned clock. His right hand, with a
amazement,
ana as no Knew not wliat to
“Well, that isn’t exactly a rosette/’
policeiibn. They had no authority what
note book, presently appeared, also. Ho
from
these
perplexing
entanglements.
say,
Lawrence
continued:
replied
fruit-dealer; “but it looks
ever.
eviaentiy ueén improving ms time. like, one, the doesn
’t it? That is the
“Whatever claim she had to riches sho Young person,” he continued, approach ñau
.“But,” said one of them, “how about
“
I
’
ve
got
every
thing
down
straight
abstracted from another person, as you ing Nellie, and shaking his finger in her "up to that point,” he said. “It’ll be the seeds of the friiit. They are put on
that reward?”
x»k my.clothes. I have seen her this face, “what do you want?”
the outside to make room for moré juico
At this moment a button in Mr.
“I don’t want you, you old bear,” said greatest work of my life.”
.orning. She claims to'be Mrs. Drane,
I suppose, and for another very
Brane’s Bowery suit gave way.
“But, my young friend,’* said Rev. inside,
Nellie, beginning to cry nervously, “not
important reason.' If they grew on tho
Jimmy, of course, had explained the . nd—”
Mr.
Knowles,
in
some
trepidation,
the sucking of a caju jvould bo
“You infernal scoundrel!” exclaimed. evemif you’re richer than Croesus.”
prospective re Ward to the policemen
“what have you done with the works, of inside
Johnson laughed.
followed
by the instant arid completo
and had held Out its terms as induce Tohiison, and he seized Mr. Drane by
clock?”
.'.ip collar. “Rich o? poor, sho is my
“Come, Nellie,” said Bessie, some my “They
annihilation
the sucker’s stomach.
’re down at the bottom,” Jimmy You can’t see of the
vifp, and if you havo gone and got hei what sharply, “explain this mattei explained;
seeds because they
“
I
’
m
standing
on
’
em.
Seé?
”
.bvray from mo I’ll break ‘vour back aiid fully and you will do much to atone for
are covered up by pulp. That pulp has
He
kicked
the
machinery,
and
the
yotir conduct towards me.”
put you in the asylum again to boot.”
a juice of its own, and wherever it hap
“I didn’t know he belonged to you,” clock struck twenty-seven.-
Mr. Drane shook off his antagonist
pens to ioubh your flesh a big blistor
“
I
fear
that
you
have
seriously
de
sobbed Nellie, “or I’d never have tried to
easily.
will rise up and burrow itself into tho
ranged the delicate and costly mechan flesh like the burning head of a parlor
“Don’t you call me names,” he cried, catch him.”
Here Johnson laughed again, but ism/” said Mr. Knowles.. ,“I must re* match. They don’t seem to mind it
“or I’ll have you arrested for theft!”
gard your conduct as reprehensible.”
Lawrerice bliished and looked foolish.
Johnson cooled down at once.
down in Brazil, though.”
“Forgive him, sir,” pleaded Bessie,
“Do you intend to introduce the caju
“Where’s my wife?” he asked pres
“I'm sure I had no ill will agairist “and
I
will
bave
the
clock
repaired
as
in our markets?” asked the reporter.
ently.
'
you,” Nellie continued. “liffact, I al
good as new/. I do not like to think that
“Well, we had thought of it some,”
“Come with me,” said Mr. Drane, ways loved you ever since I’ve been any body should be reprov’ed upon so
said the fruit dealer, “but I have an
“and I’ll show you,” and ho forthwith your maid. I was sorry after I’d stolen happy
a
day.
”
led the way to the parson’s house. Just your things and would have taken
“I have not looked upon it hitherto idea that we can’t hòpe.to make a luxu
as they arrived at the door two men them all back to you only I was afraid. as an occasion of rejoicing,” said Mr'. ry popular up here that is liable to kill
hurried up who^greeted Lawrence effu I’m going to tell the whole truth now, Knôwles; “nevertheless I will grant you if you eat it and burn you up if you
handle it. I’d like to have a quart of
sively. They were relatives of his and 1 don’t care what happens. I was your request.”
caju juice right now, though, all the
from Kansas. City, arrived by a way not a bad girl to begin with, but when
“I suppose I’ve got to go now,” said same.”—N. Y. Sun.
train from New York, Johnson hav my aunt died and I had to get my own
ing caught an express at the same living, I became a servant, for there Jimmy, climbing out of the clock.
ments for tjieir actlofi. Neither Mr. hour'. The relatives looked’ at Law was nothing else to do. I couldn’t teach, “But, Mr. Drane, if you really have any
THE MAN HE WAITED.
soul about .you, drop me a postal-card
Brane nor the tramp knew exactly what rence sharply and seemed to wonder because I didn’t know any thing—’’
to do?
“That is not always an impediment,” when you’vo fixed the date of your wed How a Bright Young Fellow Won Hiu
whether he was all right or not, but he
■Employer's Heart.
“Well,.the fact is,” began Mr. Brane. refrained from explaining himself until Johnson interrupted; “I have been a ding. It.won’t be anv trouble at all;
and, for Heaven’s sake, don’t let me get
Old Simmonsly advertised for a secre
“You understand ” said the tramp at they had come again into the parson’s teacher myself?’
tary, arid when a young man prescribed
the same moment, “Mr. Brane is not a study.
“I could'ii’i Write novels, as some I beaten on my own story.”
crazy man; he is my friend1 and rela
women do,” Nellie continued, “because I “What date shall we put on the card, himself, the old fellow looked at him
sharply and in a gruff voice asked:
tive.”
CHAPTER XH.
.
I’d been brought up quiet and proper i Bessie?” asked Lawrence*
“I don’t know,” protested Bessie, hid
hWell, sir,’ what can you do?’/ . .
THE REWARD OF THE WICKED. '
“But,” interrupted again one of the
and hadn’t seen any of these horrid,:
“Don’t know, exactly—haven’t si2ed
policemen, “that reward? We don’t pro
Rev. Mr. Knowles was nothing if riot frantic things they write about. So I ! ing her face. “I never was good at
pose to stay out all night looking for hospitable. When this uninvited com just got a place as a maid. It was with dates when I went to school. You’d myself up in a complete way yet, but' I
think that I can manage to hold my end
this gent and the reward without some pany invaded his humble but com a rich woman in high society, and I’ve | botter fix it yourself.”
re turn, ”
fortable 4 welling he bustled about with
been thrown in just subh company for i “Let mo see,” Lawrence said, reflect up.”
“Yes, you think so. Now,, sir,’ I want
And here Mr» Brane’a right knee be genuine anxiety fortheir entertainment. years. It’s an awful strain on a young [ ively; “yesterday was the twentieth?”
“Yes?*.
>- " L.. Á -..x- •
~
- a man to do my writing, and I want him
ï
NO. 11;
to be a man of Judgment. Do you'un
derstand?’
‘‘Yes.”
• “I don’t want any namby-pamby fel
low about me. I want a. man to batch
my ideas at once, and fri expressing
them to my-7 correspondents to use as
few words as possible.”
“Think I’m your man,' sir.
.“I doi’t Want any scollops, under
stand. ,E want plain 'words—want a
spade to'be called a spad^.’’
; “All right, sir, and if I don’t suit you
I. don’t think there is any body that
can.” .
’
,
“What is your name?”
‘‘Spires.” ’
i
. “Very good,. Mr. Spires, yori may go
to work.”
t When the old man took up the first
letter that Spires had written, he looked
at . it. a moment and then uttered an
angry exclamation. “Why/ what do
you mean here? After signing my name
yori have. put .the word ‘Sweats? What
did you'dor that for?”
.
“Why, to c?rry out your idea ?of. call
ing a spade a spride; for, instead of say
ing per" Spires, I have simply added
Sweats, which, you know; means the
same y thing, expressed iri a simpler
way.”’ /
“Mr. Spires,” said? the old man, and
his voice, trembled, “I shall take you
into full’ co-partnership at once. Mr.
Spires, I have a beautiful daughter, sir.
Como with me to my home?’—Arkansaw
Traveler/
GENERAL NEWS.
re’s a few census returns sò? far:
New York city, 1,627,227;
Dròoklyù, 810,000.,
Ph ilacieiphia, 1,040,000«
Milwaukee, 235,000.
Minneapolis, 185,000.
St. Paul, 130,000.
¿an#sas City; 160^000/
Denver, 120,000.
Omaha, 134,742.
Li neol n, Nq0., 55/000.
mn Ffancisco, 300,000/ and she
kicksl
Bostón, 417,720<. > „
India na pòi 125,000.
Columbus, Ohio, 113,707.
Louisville, Ky., 180,000.
Detroit, 1Ó9,000—cla i ms41 fiOf) shò¥ti
Ptttsbrirg, 2<Q,0bo.
Cleveland, Ohio, 248,0001
Baltimore, 442,500.
District of Columbia, 229,796;
The row in Buenos Ay íes was
criused by the’bad admrinistfation of
the Jourfeta pafty, and as the next
presidential election does not còme
olT ufntil €>ctober, 1892, the people
would not wait for a new election to
rectify their wrongs. In fact the
anti-Jouristá party had little hope of
winning the elections, and therefore
resorted to force. In other Words,
hard times and discontent afe the*
main caàsès of Jhe present crisis/
The fighting on Monday Was fefo-
cioòs; and the Insurgents' seem to
have bóóh the winners.
The fire at vZallape, which5 èTattéd
at 5 o’clock Sunday night, destroy-
e'i e^ery business house in town
eight or ten blocks. The fire burned
everything so clean that there is no
debris to remove. The Indomitable
citizens hrive refused all outside of
fers for aid, by telegraph and other
wise, and many of them harie startè’d
in to rebuild in a more solid and sub-*
stantia! manner. The losses, as far •
as reported, foot up $412,450, With a
total insurance of $38,750.
The Argentine Republic cover's an
area of òVef a million square miles,
with a population less than four mil
lions,• a regular army of 10,000, with
war footing of 375,060 men, a navy
of 40 vessels and 2,000 men. The
revolution will be settled in Buenos
Ayres/ which has a population of
467,000.
According toGeronirnio Fori, agent
of San Salvador at City of Mexico^
eleven battles Have been fought by
the Salvadorans up to: July 29th, in
which they were victorious over the
Gautemalai^s, Who are fleeing in all
directions, noft a soldier being left on
tho frontier.
Two workingmen’s trains collided
on the Manchester ship canal, thro’
some unexplained stupidity of the
switchman, on Monday, killing four
men outright and injuring sixty oth
ers. of whom, it is feafed, thirty are
fatally hurt.
Kroemer, secretary of the Johns
town flood relief committee, has is
sued his report, showing that$2,912,-
346 30 was received by the commit
tee, arid $2,845,140 83 was paid outj
leaving $67,205 47 cash still on hand.
It is reported that an ex-colonel of
the 7th Missouri infantry has offered
to raise and equip 3,000 recruits, in
two weeks, for'Gau temala, if $30,000
was placed in a New York bank to
the credit of the trustees.
A private telegram to a commer
cial house in the City of Mexico,
states that in Saturdays’s battle the
Gautemalans were victorious, killing
60 Salvadorians, wounding 200, and
taking a large number of prisoners.
On Monday the Senate passed the
bill pensioning all the officers and ~
men of Powell’s battalion of Missou
ri mounted yolunteers, raisedduring
the war with Mexico.