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OCHOCO REVIEW
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Coaaty Official Dirvetorr.
BapreMatatlve,
CooaiT Jndse,
T. J. RnmaaoB
J. 0. Bomkbb
(0 BrBiMou
IB. R. Burroa
Coanry Clerk,
SamM.
Tfiinf,
School riuperlaterideiit,
Abthub Hodos
W. A. BOOTH
Ed N. Warn
C. M HCDOrBTH
W. A. Osaow
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Ooroner, -
i. T Prtnerlll. Precinct.
CocetabU,
H. K JiUSToa
L. W. Woous
M. H. Bill
B. BLACK
Arrival and Departure of Malls.
Dai.lks akd PBtiravru.s Um Prlnevule everr
oav eso.pt Bundiy at 6 a.m.; arrives erery day except
Monday At 8 r. M.
Psikivills ad BVBXS -Imi Prlnsvile Mondar
at S a. K.; erri,e at PrioeTille SetiirrUj at 9 JO r. u.
Pbisivillb and lUnr Poj.a-Lee,fe Prlnevitte
Monday at 6 A. M.; arrive, at Prmeville Tuesday at
. M.
MrrcHlLL AKD PSIHS VILLS -T ravea Mitchell on
Monday and Frldar at A. arrives at Priuerdle at 6
r M. of ammo dar; returns to Mitchell on Tuesday and
Saturday.
Psibsvilli asp HARDiy Leaves Prinevllle
Wedno day at 6 A. H.; return, to Ptinerllle on Satnrdar
at I r. it. A. 0. FALMBB, P. M.
MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES.
pHINKVlLAK LODOE, No. 78, A. F. a A. M..
ueete on the aecond and fourth Saturday of each
Bonth. T. M. BALDWIN, W. M.
P. B. Da via. Secretary.
f-CHOCO LODGE. No. 46, L O. O. P.. MEKT8
v every Saturday night.
QUHnOO LODGE, No. 101. A. 0. U. W MEETS
on the second and but Monday of each month.
-pBINKVILLK FIRE COMPANY, No. 1. MEKT8
the ftrat Monday eveniug oteverr month.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Dr. Henry E. Center,
Physician and Surgeon,
Mitchell, Or.
AU salli attended promptly. Office New Central
hotel.
C. A. CLINE,
Dentist, Dentist,
Prinevllle, Or.
All dental work done In the most approved style. Lo
cal anmthetles applied tor the painleel extraction of
Jeeth. A11 work done at Portlaud price.
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H. P. BELKNAP, M. D
Physician and Surgeon,
Prlnevllle, Or.
OfBee In Belknap's drug store.
GEORGE W. BARNES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Prinevllle, Or.
Offloe on Third street.
da. F. MOORE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PrlneTllle, Or.
Oflee on street leedini to Courthouse, near planer
D. L. PATEE,
Contractoi' 7 and v Builder,
Prineville, Oregon.
Knox Huston,
County Surveyor,
REAL v ESTATE
AND
Employment Agent.
ar'SiHL7l,Mnt to W or rent wot receive prompt
iTS,0 hdp U1 ve time and expanse by
School Teachers, Farm Hinds and Sheep
Herders, In fast all manner of help furntahed on short notice
ADDlioationA bv mail nromntiv at ended Ia.
' O&Voe First door north of Dew Drop saloon, Prlne-
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HEW SADDLE SHOP,
PBINKTILLK, OR.
M. H. Bell, Proprietor.
A PCIi AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
Saddles, Harness, Snaps, Spurs, Bits,
v. Hons Blankets,
epaktof done on reasonable terms ana toework-
fHE PACIFIC COAST.
Work to be Resumed on the Astoria
and South Coast Railway.
The Oakland Saloonkeepers Contemplate
Starting an Opposition Brewery
to the Syndicate.
Wrk on the jetties at Yaquina bay
baa been reanmed.
Ground is broken at Sacramento for
the new Federal building.
The cry for more cars to move lumber
at Portland is still heard, and Union Pa
cific officials promise early relief.
People in Southern New Mexico
threaten to organize and kill Indians if
the renegades do not cease their raids.
Olympic mountain explorers report an
unlimited quantity of the finest of tim
ber, indications of coal and auriferous
minerals and swarms of fish in the
streams.
James Sunn and George Martin, who
were collector and bookkeeper in the
agency of the Santa Fe Company at Los
Angeles, are missing, and so also' is about
$6,000 in their accounts.
Citizens of Modoc county, Cal. ; Lake
county, Or., and Washoe county, Nev.,
have petitioned Congress against the
proposed abandonment of Fort Bidwell as
a military reservation.
It is estimated that wheat and hops
will bring into the State of Washington
this season about $12,000,000, lumber
and coal about $15,00.1,000, and that rail
way construction will bring in $2J,000,
000 more within eighteen months.
A site has been given Whatcom coun
ty, Wash., for the erection of a county
hospital or infirmary, and the Commis
sioners have ordered a vote to be taken
at the general election in November on
the proposition to expend $20,000 in
erecting an adequate building.
The gross earnings of the Southern
Pacific system for August were $4,483,
769 ; ana the gross earnings for the vear
up to date were $30,130,000. against $29.-
497,600 last year. The total operating
expenses to date for 1890 were $20,396,
000, against $20,117,000 last year.
Thomas Nolan, second mate of the
ship Yorktown, has been acquitted at
San Francisco by Commissioner Sawyer
of the charge of cutting adrift a boat
containing Boatswain James Weston
during a recent voyage. The testimony
went to snow mat iNoian nsxea Ms lite
to save Weston.
Work is to be resumed at once on the
construction of the Astoria and South
Coast railway, and the contract has
been let to Chinese trom Portland for
grading seven miles out from Hillsboro,
and at Astoria to another Chinese firm
for grading several miles up the Lewis
and Clarke rivers.
One day laBt week ten masked men
took a land lawyer, James Herrington,
from the jail at Bakerslield, Cal., gagged
him, conveyed him to a lonely spot,
stripped him and applied a coat of tar
and feathers to him. He had been ar
rested on complaint of a settler, whom,
it is charged, he had engaged in a con
test of perjury.
Sturgeon are reported as very scarce
in the Columbia above Astoria. The
reason assigned for their scarcity is the
myriads of sardines that are at present
being caught at the mouth of the river.
This is the spawning season with the
sardines, and the sturgeon, living prin
cipally on small fish, will not ascend up
the river until the sardines disappear.
A scheme is on foot among saloon
keepers of Oakland to start a new brew
ery in opposition to the English syndi
cate, which owns all the breweries in
that city except one small one. Some of
the former employes of the Oakland
brewery are in the movement, and about
one-third of the money needed has al
ready been subscribed', largely by sa
loonkeepers. The bill for the exploration of the in
terior of Alaska, to which the House
Committee on Military Affairs has de
voted considerable time, has been re
ported to the House with a recommend
ation favorable to its passage. The re
port was made by Mr. Rockwell of
Massachusetts, who briefly reviews the
object aimed at by the bill. He says
that while the coast of Alaska has been
followed and mapped almost nothing is
Known oi me interior.
In the Superior Court the jury in the
case of Mrs. W. L. Coencne against the
Los Angeles Cable Railway Company
found a verdict for the plaintiff and
awarded her $15,000 damages. In No
vember, 1888, the plaintiff and her hus
band were riding in a wagon in East
l .os Angeles. A double horse car of the
cable company collided with the wagon.
and Mrs. Coenene was thrown to the
ground. As a result she -sustained ser
ious injuries and is now bedridden. '
The Southern Pacific passenger de
partment will ahortlv send some of its
employes to make sketches or photo
graphs of the Sequoia National Park
Tact of land, about forty-five miles east
of Fresno, Cal., containing the forest of
big trees which Congress recently re
served for park purposes. Photographers
aro flint ti re BAnf tn Prater lata t:
sixty miles northeast of Ashland, Or.
liut mue is Known oi mis lafce, which is
Hnarri Ko.1 a a rtfino A larofk ahaAt nf
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in the crater of an extinct volcano. A
person standing on the edge of the crater
is said to look down upon a lake 2,000
leet Deiow mm.
The annual report of the Northern Pa
cific, to be presented at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders on October 31, is
said to make a splendid showing. The
company has in its treasury $3,000,000,
the earnings accumulated during the
past five years, and moet of this amount
will ultimately be paid to preferred
stockholders. The proxy committee this
year consists of Charles L. Colbv, C. B.
Wright and Thomas F. Oakes. the Ta
com Land Company has arranged to
give entrance into that city to all rail
roads converging at that point, and
President Wright has approved of th
j sale of thirty-five acres of land for ter-
HII,M"M at lawuia u uie L. mull Jracinc.
EASTERN ITEMS.
An Idwa Prophet Augurs a Long,
Cold, Snowy Winter. '
An Appeal for Aid Made by the Americn
Committee for the Relief of
Famine in Ireland.
Over 12,000,000 bananas are distribut
ed in Chicago every week.
Saratoga is to have a new bathing es
tablishment to cost $100,000.
An opposition water works company
has been organized at Topeka, Kan.
A colored evangelist of Brockwayville,
Pa., is said to be a second Sam Jones.
There is talk of spanning the Missis
sippi at Burlington with a pontoon
bridge.
The census bureau has announced the
population of the Territory of Oklahoma
as 61,701.
There are fifty-one different postmas
ters within the corporate limits of the
city of Chicago.
It is reported that one of the largest
banks in Great Britain ia to establish a
branch at Chicago.
The ship yards of the lakes will this
year turn out 125,000 tons of excellent
cargo-carrying vessels.
Jones, the Iowa weather prophet, pre
dicts a long, cold, snowy winter, starting
in early and continuing late.
Buffalo Bill's ill treatment of his In
dians is to be investigated by the Indian
Department at Washington. -
All the little towns in Oklahoma are
presenting their claims to the Legisla
ture for the Territorial capitol site.
A monument is to be erected at Lex
ington, Mo., in memory of the dead sol
diers of the Union and Confederate ar
mies.
The President has approved the river
and harbor bill and the joint resolution
lor the purchase of nickel ore for the
navy.
A just retribution has overtaken the
inventor of the pigs-in-clover puzzle.
He has been sent to an asylum in St.
Louis.
Washington authorities denv that or
ders have been sent to the revenue cut
ter Wolcott to proceed to Behring sea
and make seizures. ,
The postoffice authorities have seized
the entire weekly edition of the Cincin
nati Yolksfreund because it contained
lottery advertisements.
Jersey City has a law under which
fines of $100 each are to be imposed upon
persons detected drinking malt or alco
holic liquors in her new parks.
The report of the Statistician of Kan
sas shows that mortgages in that State
slrA Vrfii ntr lifrprl nr. trio rata nf 3d rur
cent, and $10,000,000 for the year.
Representative Vandever's bill con
verting the Yosemite Valley region into
a grand national park has been signed
by the President and is now a law.
The work of classifying the sections in
the World's Fair will be completed by
November. The whole exhibition will
occupy nine buildings.
House Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds has cut down the ap
priations for buildings at Reno, Nev.,
and Oakland, Cal., to $40,000 and $225,
000 respectively.
Secretary Noble has christened the Big
Tree reservation " The Sequoia National
Park " and promulgated rules and regu
lations similar to those now governing
Yellowstone Park.
The Constitutional Convention of Mis
sissippi has adopted a section which for
bids the Legislature authorizing any lot
tery, nor shall the sale of any lottery
tickets be allowed in the State.
In the suit for a limited divorce
brought by the wife of McKee Rankin
at New York the latter pleads compara
tive impecuniositv. He owes much
money to Joseph Jefferson, Stuart Rob
son and others. ;
As a result, it is alleged, of inordinate
greed on the part of the gas trust, Chi
cago's City Council by unanimous vote
has declared in favor of municipal own
ership and operation of aU the gas and
electric light plants of the town.
The Manhattan Club of New York
City has at last taken possession of the
old A. T. Stewart mansion, which is to
be its future home. Nearly all the fur
niture and carpeting owned by Mr.
Stewart was bought by the club.
The Chinamen of New York have
given to their Joss at 16 Mott street a
new umbrella, which they had brought
over from China. It is covered with
dragons and other monsters with glitter
ing eyes, and is said to have cost $400.
An - -peal to the people of America
from the American committee for the
relief of famine in Ireland is published
in New York. It says the point of ac
tual suffering from 'hunger is not yet
reached, but the day of starvation, un
less help comes, are' not far off.
The rush of foreign goods to the United
States to escape the increased duties of
the McKinley bill has turned the bal
ance of trade against the country. The
government statement of foreign com
merce shows the exports from this coun
try for August to have been $66,000,000
and imports $61,200,800.
In the Mississippi Constitutional Con
vention the committee to which the
subject of securing conciliatory race
legislation was referred has reported
a number of resolutions which claim
the incapacity of the negro to govern,
and recommend that Congress be ap
pealed to to resubmit the Fifteenth
Amendment to the States.
The Board of Bureau Chiefs have gone
over the figures of the San Francisco's
trial and decline to designate the speed
. bkwu mat me
i final decision will be that the San Fran-
I V. n- awwl a t . It m
uouj um bww e x;cl us atf.tfz Knots.
L.' I !Tf 1L-. '
j wnicu wlu wean uuu me contractors
wm receive less wan iij,uuu in pre
miums. They will probably appeal to
Congress for relief.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Russia Making New Laws Against
the Hebrews.
The Pope Reported to be Adrerse to Crema
tion, and Prohibits Catholics to
Attend Them.
English opinion indorses the Burchell
verdict.
Napoleon III.'9library is soon to be
sold at auction.
Michael Davitt says Parnell's position
is stronger than e er.
The recruits for the November entries
to the Germany army number 215,000.
The last performance of the "Passion
Play" at Oberammergau occcurred Sep
tember 28.
The Socialists of Germany are greatly
rejoicing over the expiration of the anti
Socialist law.
Emin Pasha has not yet received the
vo,uuu arrears one to mm trom the .Egyp
tian government.
The Pope dees not believe in crema
tion, and has forbidden Catholics to go
to the fiery furnace.
Cyprus is suffering from a scarcity of
silver coin. ne government prohibits
the importation of silver.
It ia reported at Buenos Ayres that
Dr. Celman, the late President, has $10,
000,000 invested in London.
Russia has ordered six torpedo vessels
and 200,000 rifles of the latest pattern
from French manufacturers.
The new Austrian torpedo ram, which
has just been launched at Polai, is con
sidered a match for any ironclad.
Every night 23,000 houseless and
homeless people sleep by the Thames in
what they call the Port of London.
England has formally notified King
George of the Tongo islands that his
country is under British protection.
It is reported from Ceylon than an at
tempt is to be made to introduce Cey
lonese cigars to the American market.
It has been arranged to convert the
Cuban debt at the end of the year
through the French and Spanish banks.
It is reported that the French forces
have subdued the natives of the Society
islands and established protectorates
over them.
Prominent French Socialists declare
that Boulanger promised to cast his lot
with the revolutionaries in the first civic
commotion.
A London dispatch from Algiers says
that a cyclone has swept over a large
portion of Algeria, .doing an immense
amount of damage.
Scarlet fever is epidemic in many
places in Silesia. It has been found ad
visable to close schools. Numerous
deaths have occurred.
It is a matter of public congratulation,
but no more than was to be expected,
that the popular elections in Brazil have
fully sustained the Republic.
The English Admiralty is engaged in
constructing an armored battle ship, the
Balfour, intended to be more powerful
than any of its class yet constructed.
Emigrants are returning to Euroge in
large numbers from the Argentine Re
public, finding the country at present in
too chaetic a condition to settle in it.
According to the recent census of
Switzerland the Rennblic mntni
000 Protestants, 1,200,000 Catholics, 8,300
jews ana iu,uuo non-reugious persons.
The Emperor of Austria has decided
that the electric light shall be intro
duced into his palace at Vienna. Eight
thousand incandescent lights will be re
quired. President Reichs of the Icheralbach
Orphan Asylum at Nuremburg, Bavaria,
has been arrested on a charge of selling
orphan girls to a life of shame. The
government will close the institution.
New Zealand has agreed to be repre
sented in the Australian Federation
Convention, although the feeling is
strongly against a union with the Aus
tralian colonies.
A convention of 600 midwives is now
in session in Berlin. They represent all
sections of Germany and Austria, and
are engaged in listening to lectures by
eminent specialists.
Prince Bismarck and his Secretary,
Herr Burcher, are engaged at Varzin in
compiling the memoirs of the events in
which the Prince figured while in the af
fairs of State.
The proposal to raise funds for the
construction of a steamer for Lake Vic
toria Nyahza, which took shape at the
banquet to Major von WisBman at Ham
burg, is practically accomplished, a sum
of 75,000 having been subscribed.
It is said that the Russian Czarowitz,
who is about to start on a tour to India,
China and Japan, terminating at San
Francisco, will return to Europe through
the United States. It is expected that
the Rnssian squadron will meet him at
NwwYork.
A Russian law is being prepared to au
thorize deportation to Siberia, without
trial, of all foreigners who have been ex
pelled from their own countries and
whose governments refuse to recognize
them. This law is directed against Rou
manian Jews who come to Russia.
The Executive Board of the Spanish
party in Cuba at a recent meeting de
cided to send a telegram to Spain, point
ing out the heavy damages which man
ufacturers will suffer from the new tariff
biU adopted by the United States, and
asking as an immediate remedy reform
of the Spanish tariff and negotiations of
a tteaty with the United States.
A dispatch from Erzeroum saya the
situation in Armenia is serious. The
.Russian government has massed 7,200
troops on the frontier. The Turks are
expecting attack, and are rapidly sup
plying Kurds with arms and ammuni
tion and making other preparations to
resist the Russian forces. Russia is also
increasing her frontier guards on the
boundary of Austria, Turkey and Persia
to provide for more effective suppression
of smuggling. .
THE DECLINE OF POKUMVILLE.
Poknmrllle stood on the hlu.
One echool-houae and m store.
JCnoogh to eat of eon an' when.
An' didn't want Botbin' more.
W had enough of garden staff.
An' sometimes sass an' pie,
An' PoknmviUe stood on the nlU
An' let the wort' go ay.
INtlnunTUle stood on the hlu.
Its dots an' girls were wed
An' settled down, an' tilled the irons'
As their forefathers hed.
An children grew, a children do,
Boys ttved at home until
The; took 'em wlvee, then aU their lives
They lived In Poknmvllle.
We lived np there In pure air,
Upon the good ol' hlu.
Tul the railroad came with smoke
An oat through PolramvUle,
We caught the stride of the wort' outside,
Our young men heard its roar.
An' they left the biU of Poknmvllle,
An' we aes our boys no more.
An' all the girls, with smiles an' curia,
Her gone an' followed the hoys ;
The Mg wort's din there's magic In,
There's muslo In its noise;
They've felt the arm an' left the tans.
They wont cou; back strain.
An' Pokumvule upon the hill
Is a village of of men.
The engine shrill through Pokumville,
With Its demon screech an' cry.
Has carried away our hope an' stay,
An' left us here to die.
But one thing will stay an' not go away.
One or man's tired bones.
Upon the hlU in PoknmviUe,
Shall rest beneath the stones.
a W. Fobs, in Yankee Blade.
A JOLLY BRICK.
Dick's Death the Turning' Point of
Little Cove's Fortunes.
Business? Well, it hain't been what
you'd call rush in', so's to speak. We'd
fot our plans all laid fur retirin. an'
goln'on a trip to Urop; but I guess,
'eordin' the present outlook, we may
hang 'round 'til next month. 'Hit's
mostly luck, this kind of work. We
has our ups an' downs, same as Jay
Gould, an' the rest of the kind; an' jest
now Its down.- Easy therel Shure, an
I'm givin? yer boots a shine so yer can
use them to see the curl of your mus
tache in, all the way down the street
'Fellers stay 'round in this kind o'
business very long?" Sometimes they
do, an' sometimes they don't I bed
one pard in the city for the matter o
three years, but he's gone now. Tain't
'xaotly up to bein' alderman, you see.
The wind an' sleet is bad for our seal
skin cloaks an' white kid gloves, so we
has to leave 'em off. An' the same
with our buttonhole bouquets. But
What become of my chum?" Dick
Corwin? Well, now, look a here, ain't
you glttin' a little inquisitive? Who
be yer, anyhow? A newspaper re
porter? Yer needn't be tryin' that
game here. Billy Smith was writ np in
the paper once: A specimen of the
New York bootblack;' an' never a cent
did he get to pay fur the laugh we had
on him. If you want somethin' to fill
up, though, boss, an' is willin' to pay
reg'lar fur the information, I'll put yer
onto some stories that'll make yer eyes
tick out But they won't be about
Dick Corwin. No, sir. Why, ther ain't
a feller 'round that wouldn't knock
another sky high if they tried to make
money tellin' of him. 'Fond of him?"
We-el, yea, we did have a pretty good
tikin' fur the chap But 'you ain't a
newspaper man?' Well, then, look a
here, boss, as long as it's a rainy day,
an' you give me your word fair an'
square, you ken sit down an' listen, an'
I'll tell yer all about him. Ready now?
All right 1 ain't jest used to tellin
stories. A leetle out o' practice 'o
writin' editorials, so to speak. But I'll
rattle it oft as 1 think on't, an' you can
fill up the chinks.
"Good lookin'? Naw! If you think
yer goin to hear 'bout one o' yer swell
kind, why, then, you've got to the
wrong place. Red hair an' turned-up
nose an' squint eyesl But yer see our
palaces where we sleep nights ain't
hung with lookln'-glasses from top to
bottom. We read in the Urop news that
'twas old style, an' so we pitched 'em
out; an' it don't make much odds how a
feller looks, since then. An' myl I
tall yer what, if you like a feller that
can jest knock another into the middle
of next week when he says a word
against him, then you'd ort to seen
Dick. Wrastle? Why, ther wa'n't one o
the boys could come anywhere near him.
An' none o' them as much as dared to
open their mouth 'gainst that little cove
of a Jamie he was lookin' out fur. That
was one o' Dick's queer streaks. If he'd
ben a wrastler, or his brother, or sum
thin', we'd stood it better. But Jamie
he was one o' them softy boys that
ever know nuthin' 'til it's knocked
into 'em, an' no relation at all. Come
to think of it be was more like your
well kind, though. Kinder wbinin'
'round an' alwers makin' a fuss if hit
didn't happen he could wash his face
v'ry day. But, mister, if yer want to
find some one to make a story out o'
him, 'twon't be me. 1 never did take
overmuch of a fancy to the little cove,
an' ther ain't one o the boys could bear
the sight of him after
"Well, they always worked together,
them two. Jamie, he was one o' tbem
wouldn't push out for himself (no sand,
yer know), an' if he ever made out to
sell a paper, 'twas hangin' onto Dick's
elbow. His mammy was one o' them
well kind herself. Dick said, an' used
to do aewin' 'til she dies all to once with
the heart disease; so I s'pose 'twa'n't his
luck to take to it as if he'd ben raised
ther. BuT ther wa'n't no sort o' use
makin' a gentleman of him. an' seein'
he alwers had a comb for bis hair, the
way Dick did.
"But bis lookin' out fur the little cove
waa the only queer streak Dick bad. an'
he was my pard ofTn on fur three years,
fun? WelL now, yer shoutin'l The
top waa after as more'n half the time
tor disturbance an' such. But we wa'n't
no softies to be caught by them. The
minute they was huntin' Dick an' me
would start fur the dock; an' It didn't
take long ter lose track of 'em. Run?
W-aL you last hold up ver bottom dol
lar on that Why, mister, you never
M such a runner as Dick was. An' he
aid jump equal to a circus-rider.
That waa what he was alwers lala' out
to be. An he'd he gone, toe, if it
hadn't ben fur that bloomln' little core.
He said ther wouldn't be no place fur
him without 'twas the clown's baby; an'
he was a gentleman, as' wouldn't take
to such work. But me an' Tiick Jest
made things lively fur the teachers
down ter the mission chapel, you'd bet
ter believe. They'd alwers light on
him the first thing to answer some of
their questions; an' he'd draw his face
down sober, a a' pretend he could'nt
quite make out what they said;
he'd alwers ben hard of hearin'.
Jest turn the words 'round a
little so the whole school would git to
laughin', an' the teachers would holler
till they was red in the face tryin' to
make him understand. We took Jamie
long with us once or twice; an' there
was one of the teachers there a reg'lar
well she was, with her silk dress, an'
feathers on her hat she said he bad a
face like a Rater's angel, an' she wanted
to paint him. But Dick, he said he'd
promised his granny that boy shouldn't
go out of his sight till she got back from
her trip to Urop, an' if she took Jamie
she'd hev to take him, too. An' she
didn't say no more about it But she
vai a swell, thought The countess, we
used to call her; an' pretty near every
day we'd see her drivin' through Broad
way with a widder lady in crape an' a
hoss that held up his nose as if be
wanted to sniff the stars out of the sky.
Lots of go that hoss had! He got scart
t sumthin' one time an' come t'arin
down the street like all possessed, with
she a hollerin' whoa, an' pullin' back
on the reins, an' the next minute they'd
gone whack into another team if it
hadn't been for Dick. 'My eye!' he
yelled to me, when he saw her comin,
she do' know nothin' about a hoss. Jest
wait till you see me stop him!' an' the
next minnit he was in the road, grabbin'
hold of the bridle; an' before he let go
he'd brought that hoss down ' into a
walk. Stopped him quick as that! But
Dick w'an't none o' them softies to be
babied fur what he'd done. 'My boy,'
says the widder lady, a-takin' out her
pocket-book, wlll you tell me what is
your name? An' how could you be brave
enough to stop our horse?
" 'We-el,' grinned Dick, 'yer see.
ma'am, I couldn't help it I was shot
up in a lunatic 'sylum once jest fur
Btoppin' bosses. Whenever I see one
goin' out of a walk sumthin' takes hold
an' pushes me right in front of 'em, an'
I've got to catch hold o' the bridle to
ave bein' run over. As fur pay, a
quarter Ml about make up fur the dam'
age done. Thankee, ma'am.' An' then
he turned an' took off his hat to the
countess as perlite as yer please.
Good-afternoon, ma'am. May be you
don t recognize me, but I'm of the opin
ion you're the lady I've noticed down to
the mission school. I have a class
there myself Glad to see yer enterin
into the good work.' An' with that he
tipped bin hat again -an' . walked away
as solemn as an owl. ,
ine worst Doy in my class,' says
the countess, talkin to the other wom
an. 'But did yer notice . the little lad
with him? His face reminds me so
much of little Georgie's.'
" 'Faith, Jamie,' grinned Diok, when
ne toia mm, tneyre takln such a
fancy to yer they'll be takin' yer ter
live with them next If 'twan't that
the countess ain't any too fond of me.
An' after that, whenever he see her
a-comin' he'd wink to me an' say: 'D'ye
mind how I'm spilin' the bye's pros
pects with the countess?
"If I'd ben standin' in his shoes I'd
elared out fur a few days, an' see if she
wouldn't got him off my hands. But
Dick alwers was the queerest fish. He
liked that Mttle cove 'round, an
treated him like a king, when he didn't
rake in enough to pay fur tryin'. He
wa'n't no chum o' mine.' No, sir. Tell
yer what it is, boss, when Billy Muran
goes hunks with anybody it ain't with a
milk-an'-water baby. Jamie couldn't
see anybody look at him without a
Bnivelin', an' he hadn't the sand of a
cat. If he had 'twouldn't hev well,
I'm a-comin' to it
"We'd ben bavin' a reg'lar smash-up
that Sunday down to the Plain. 'Twas
too hot to go to Sunday-school, even to
rattle the Countess, an' 1 s'pose our
raisin' such rim made us tired, an' we
slept a little harder than usual come
night Me an' Dick an' the little cove
we had a room up in Old Marm Sally's
attic (we'd been flush that week) an
was sleepin' there as swell as yer
please. I guess 'twas the smoke that
woke me. We'd ben bavin' so many
fires 'round them parts I'd got to feelin'
sort o' shady of the smell. But the old
hell was jest a-blazin', an' all the folks
puttin' in their best licks a-hollerin'
firer when I got to know any thing.
Git up! I yelled to Dick. Git upl
Can't yer see the house is on fire?' An'
in less'n a minute we was jest a-sallin
fur them rattley old stairs. They'd
jest begun to kindle, an' the smoke
was com in op like a hurricane. Come
alongr I yelled to Dick. 'We'll make
'm! He was follerin' tight to my heels
with the little cove hold of his hand.
an' he grinned. 'Drive ahead,' says he.
We got half way down all right an
then well, 1 s'pose 'twas the smoke an'
the blaze scared Jamie. It kept comin'
up thicker an' faster, an' first thing we
knew he'd pulled away his hand. 'I'm
not goin'f he yelled, an' went tearln'
back like all possessed an' as if the
room was the safest place in the world,
instead of where you was sure of bein'
roasted. Dick stopped. I'm goin' back
after him,' says he, turnin' white 'round
the gills.
"Yer bloomln' idiotP yelled L "can't
yer see yer won't git down these stairs
If yer don't come now? The little fool's
hid nnder the bed. Yer can't git kiin
out
"He looked down to where them
tairs was beginnin' to blaze, an' then
trinned a little. He wa'n't no coward.
Well, IH try,' says he, an' if I don,
good-bye, Billy;' an' the next aecond
he'd given one of his tarin' leaps right
Into the smoke.
" Went down? Met 'Course I did.
Twouldn't made it no easier for him
my tayin' there, or mebbe I would; but
I ain't none o the kind what throw up
the sponge far nothin. I went oat en'
rohed ap the road yellin' fire with the
rest of 'em, an moat erasy 'till the lad
ders eorae, an' then I showed 'en. the
winder-the only place he eoeli H eel
of. an' helped fix the ladder. A fir.
man waa Jest .tar tin' op when I aawAsai
a-etandin there by the winder with
that same grin he alwers had when he'd
donee good thing, an' fooled the oops
out of a job. He stood there lookia'
like e soldier, with the little fool
eryin' en screamin' In his arms. He'd
wrapped him ap in his cost, or sum
thin', so he wouldn't git scorched, an'
Jest as he reached down an' handed hint
to the fireman he see me tber in the
crowd, an' give his hat a wave the way
we'd 'greed on to let the other knew
if things was goin' all right with as.
An' then there oome a crash the too
ne was standin' on give way, an' that's
the last I ever see of Diok.
"We-eL I do' know as hold on, boss,
what yer givin'ua? I wa'n't snlvellln'.
I ain't one of them kind that goes round
eryin like a gal; but when you talk of
bricks, he was a jolly ons, an' no mis
take. 'Jamie? The Countess took hint
to live with her, same , as Dick said ah
would. Said he made her think of her
little boy that died. Naw. Ther
wa'n't nothin' said about it In the pa
pers. I was the only one knew what
made him go back, an I didn't blab.
Dick wa'n't the kind that wanted any
sweU made over what he did. But I
told the other fellers, an' we're gettln
him up a stone, with his name on an
the year. - Ain't goin' to have no slouch
of a thing fur a brick like he was. But
it makes as stick to business pretty
elose, an' keep on a lookout fur the well
dressed coves we think Shine, ir?"
Pauline Phelps, in Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper. ,
GEOLOGICAL MYSTERIES.
opposed OrlKln or Some or the Preeioesi
Stones or Oomm.roe.
Geology has been a revelation to man
kind and has told us wonderful things
of the past history of the earth. But
geology has secrets of its own that are
as hidden from comprehension as the
atmosphere of the moon or the belts of
Saturn. Certain things have been done,
aays the geologist, through voloanio ao
tion or the agency of fire, and that is as
uaur as ne can come to it Bo that,
after all, we see effects, hut know little
or nothing of the causes. There is e
rock known as amygoaleid, one of the
igneous rocks, which in some of the gl
gantlo transformations of nature, we
will say in cooling from a melted state,
formed within itself cavities from the
size of a marble or bead to that of the
closed hand. Now, as nature abhors e
vacuum, she set to work to fill these
cavities, and in doing so she used other
materials, and these combinations pro
duced some of what we call the "pre
clous stones of commerce." Exactly
how this was done we can not tell, but
we see some bint of the. operation la
every subterranean cave where stalae
tites and stalagmites are found. Every
student Knows mat this ts the result of
dropping water which contains carbon,
ate of lime. The water evaporating,
leaves a minute particle of lime, which
takes something to itself from the earth
or atmosphere, and in the course of
ages bodies are formed of a most re
markable character. In probably some
what the same fashion have these
cavities filled in the igneous rocks,
and then come time and storms and
other agencies, earthquakes, perhaps,
and the rocks are rent-apart, and out
drops a bead or a bowlder, and s curious
man picks it up and hammers and
breaks it and then he puts a polish on
It by some process more or less ad
vanced, and lo! he holds in his hand an
agate or an onyx. Many of the stones
used in the arts have no other origin
and are deposits of silica, alumina,
oxide of iron and other coloring sub
stances. It is the color or arrangement
of colors that gives the name, and thus
we have agate, onyx, chalcedony, oar
nellan, sard, ohrysoprase, sardonyx and
others, all members of the quarts fam
ily and all having a family resem
blance. The agate has veins of different
shades of color in parallel lines. Some
times these are very close together, as
many as fifty to the inch, but this la un
usual. When there are alternate bands
of color and a transparent medium we
have the onyx; but the latter may be
obtained by cutting the stone in s dif
ferent way. Agates are used chiefly
for ornamental purposes, such as cups,
seals, rings, handles for naraanla. -
swords, table and mantel ornaments.
dui me material is so hard that it can
only be worked by those who have prac
ticed skill. The onyx was valued by
the ancients for its application to
cameos and intas-lioa tha flr an h.
ject in relief the latter '"cat in
process; ana tnese objects are still
made. Nature nrodneiM anm ..m
strange forms occasionally, and agates
are touna wun exact resemblances of
moss and other natural objects and
figures, which are very curious end
often very valuable. American An
alyst
Toads as Isweet Trap.
Not a single creenlmr. crawlln? as
hopping thing is to be seen in our tome
to not rtea oi lour sasnes, except one
toad, which in realitv la notTsfnv lu
than a wandering (bopping) insect trap,
nd gobbles up every hapless smell eree
tare tost gets into it Of coarse we
make a net of our liwins inaMdRM.
and have almost learned to admire Its
handsome color end its intelligent eye.
Sometimes we eira It an inawilitw
dainty morsel, such as a large May bee
tie, or even a potato beetle, s centipede,
etc Our guest takes them all with
equal gratitude and appetite. There
can be no doubt that toads may be eolo
nixed and pat to good use in encumber,
melon and squash patches. We intend
to aSBio-n to them the dntv and rwarrwMiai-
blllty of keeping the vines free from
bugs this year, and believe 1$ will be'
safer to trust to their watchfulness than
to danand on noiannona mnmllmttAwei
Popular Gardening.
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swim?" Tseht Skipper "Ho. seam.
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vends If Bnv thin anml taw
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saw muwwDON IM asdUn'oaSTtSWats
ne-s mignty jtereral not to let any tr'.-t
happsn.-Good Sows, Tii