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kecently Speaker Reed wished to seo tt man on some pending legislation,-and telegraphed for him to come to Wash ington. The man took the first train available, but a washout on the road made it impossible for the train to pro ceed farther toward Its destination. Going to a telegraph station he sent this dispatch to the speaker: "Washout on the line. Can't come." When Reed read the message he sent back this re ply: "Buy a now shirt and pome, any way." Some years ago Edward E. Rice was presented to Vou Bulow at a club din ner In Boston. It was just -about the time that all Europe was talking of Mme. Von Billow's UirtaUon.wlth Verdi, who had taught the pianist' almost all he ever knew about music. "I want you to become acquainted with Mr. Rice," said a friend; "he doesn't know anything about music, but he has com posed several4 operas." "Delighted, I am sure," murmured the great pianist with a sarcastic smile; "he reminds me of a man I knew at home; his name is Verdi." , v . ,..- ' The followlng-'ls an exact-copy of a letter received by a young lady, who possessing a piano and being about to move to a small country town, adver tised for room and boazxl with a. family "musically Inclined:" "Deare Miss, we think we kin sute you with room and ibord If you preefer to Ik) where there Is muslck, I play the fiddel, my wife the orgin, my dotter Jule the akordlon, my other dotter the banjo, my son lien the glttar, my son Jim the floot and koro net, and my son Clem the base-drum, while all of us sings gospell hims in which we would bo glad 'to have you take part both vocal or Instrumental if you play on anything. Wo play by ear an when we all git started there Is real muslck In the air. Let us know If you want to come here to bord." When Secretary of the Navy Lofig visits his old home " 'way down iu Maine" his recept ion Is hearty, but very democratic, and the people do not at all appreciate the fact that the ruler of Uncle Sam's "navee" occuplvs, a very different station from the boy they knew years ago. The Watervlllo Mail tells this story: "While at his home In Buckfleld this summer ex-Oov. Long employed a woman Iu the neighbor hood to do the family washing. One day as he was driving by the place he called to see If the washing was ready. The man of the house enme to the door In resiHinse to the secretary's knock. 'Is our washing douoV' inquired Mr. Long. The man turned and bawled to his wife: 'Maria, Maria, Is John nie's washing doneV And 'Johnnie' forbore to smile In the presence of his kludly old neighbor." President McCosh, of Princeton, was accustomed to lead the morning exer cises In the chapel every day, and dur ing the exercises he gave out notices to the students. One morning, after he had read the notices, a student came up with a notice that Professor Karge's French class would be at nine o'clock that day Instead of half-past nine, as usual. Dr. McCosh said It was too late, but the Ntudt-n-t Insisted that Professor Karge would be much disappointed if the notice were not read. The exer cises went on, and the doctor forgot all alnut the notice. He started to make the tlnal prayer, lie prayed for the President of the Vnited States, the members of the Cabinet, the Senators and the Representatives, the (Jovevnor of New Jersey, the Mayor and other of ficials of Princeton, aiut then came to the professors and instructors In the college. Then Professor Karge's notice came Into his mind, and tlie assembled students were astonished to hear the venerable President say: "And, Lord, bless Professor Karge, whose French class will be held this morning at nine o'clock Instead of half-jmst nine, as usual." An enthusiastic admirer of Miss An thony says: "I shall always reiucmltcr a maneuver of Miss Anthony's which I saw at a mooting at which she pre sided three years or so ago. She call d UKn several of what she called 'her girls' to address the audience. The Itlrls were exceedingly well-bred, well educated, and well-dressed women. They were logical. They were witty. They were, la short, the very cream of women public speakers. When the last one had finished, Miss Anthony rose, and with what I am sure was n twinkle In her eye, said: 'Now, we'll hear from one of my boys.' Thereupon a Con gressman from n new Northwestern State mounted the platform. He was uncouth, lie wits uncultured. Ills English was painful to hear; his man ners painful to see. He runted. He argued In stump speech fashion, He 1iad neither good taste nor logic. The contrast In'tween the holder of the franchise and the gentlewomen who luul preceded him was marked. Dear dimple man that he was, he could not see that every man In the audience was ashamed of him. He did not see that he was an object lesson for the suffrage movement, but I am quite sure MUs (Anthony saw it. 1 can't help thinking the meant It, too." The Koinnnee oMhe Grout I.akr. Iu the St. Nicholas, W. S. llarwood writes of "The Great Lakes." Mr. llarwood says: There Is much of thrilling Interest. much of romance, much of daring sur- rundlng the shores or these lakes, much In a study of the early periods of their blstorv. for the historian or the novel ist. A long time ngo so long It seems like nnclent history to usthe tlrst white man, probably nlxuit the middle of the sixteenth century, saw these lakes. It Is not so easy to fix a date for this event, but we know that as early as 1530 to 1540 the French priests, t!:e voyageurs and the coureurs de bols, the trappers and adventurers of the day, visited the eastern lake region on the north. They cahio with two mes sages: one bore tidings of the com merce, and proved that the French na tion was alive to the value of the new country; the other told the story of the Christian religion. It were well, per haps, to mention another message a more or less baleful one brought by the adventurers; for there were adven turers among these early discoverers men who had no other motive than to seek the strange and the exciting, and to spend their days in the alluring and profitless occupation of seeing how niany halrbreath escapes they could en joy, in how many scenes of pillage and robbery they could take part. Those who have written so graceful ly and elegantly of the early history of the regions surrounding the northern portions of the Great Lakes have but begun to tell the tales which will be told with more and more freedom of Invention as the writers of the future come to appreciate more and more what a splendid storehouse of material lies In this Northland. JOURNALISTIC DIFFICULTIES. The Work of the Censor and the Press in Austria, There is a censor of the press, and apparently he Is always on duty and hard at work. A copy of each morning paper Is brought to him at 5 o'clock. His official wagons wait at the doors of the newspaper ofliees and scud to him with the first copies that come from the press. Ills company of assistants read every line In these papers, and mark everything which seems to have a dangerous look; then he passes final judgment upon these markings. Two things conspire to give to the results a capricious and unbalanced look; his assistants have diversified notions as to what Is dangerous and what Isn't; he can't get time to examine their crit icisms In much detail; and so sometimes the very same matter which Is sii Iiresscd In one paper falls to be damned In another one, and gets published In fiill feather and unmodified. Then the lHiper'ln which It was suppressed blandly copies the forbidden matter Into Its .evening edition provoklngly giving credit and detailing all Lhe cir cumstances in courteous and Inoffen sive language and of course the cen sor cannot say a word. Sometimes the censor sucks all the blood out of a newspaper and leaves it colorless and liiane; sometimes he lcaves.lt undisturbed, and lets It talk out Its opinions with a frankness and vigor hardly to be surpassed, I think, In the journals of any country. Ap parently the censor sometimes revises his verdicts U)on second thought, for several times lately he lias suppressed journals after their Issue and partial distribution. The distributed copies are then sent for by the censor and de stroyed, I have two of these, but at the time they were sent for I could not remember what I had done with them. Mark Twain, in Harper's Maga zine. Horace Greeley as an Orator, Mr. Greeley was not an orator In any scholastic sense, lie had a poor and somewhat squeaking voice; lie knew nothing of gestures; and he could not take an orator's pose, which adds such emphasis sometimes to the matter and argument to be set forth. Not all his years of practice on the platform and on public occasions ever changed his habits and methods as a speaker, and lie ended as poorly equlpived In the re spects named for the vocation as when le began. But he had one prime qual ity, without which nil the others are exploited In vain. He Invariably had something to say, and he said it In such clear and wholesome English, with such sincerity, that he was an orator In spite of all the rules. ' To state It briefly, of all the eminent speakers I Jiave Introduced and more than onci there was not one who gave lietter satisfaction, different and nota ble as they were, than Horace Greeley. As a consequence, he enme tome often est, and wore the lnt. We might or might not agree with' some of his pe culiar premises, ns when he says: "The moment a drop of alcohol Is received Into the human stonmch, that moment tho stomach reoogntees a deadly ene my," but he set his audience thinking, and Illuminated his theme. Harper"! Magazine. Two llomarknlilo Feats. Henry Wolfsohn recalled yesterday a remarkable feat of memory by Signer Gore, who traveled as eon.luetor with a concert company organized by Cam- paulnl. The music trunk not having arrived In time for a concert. Signer Gore accompanied from memory on the piano the entire third act of "Fnust," at the same time transposing the music half n tone. An Interesting story Is told of Mas cagnl, the composer of "Cavallcrla litis tlcana." One of his friends had cas ually said that there was no work of any of the six most famous composers, whose names were mentioned, which Mascagnl could not play faultlessly from memory. The statement being ridiculed as Iiiqiosslblo, Mascagnl reluc tantly consented. In order to settle the dispute, to make tho effort. A number of musical experts were Invited to at tend the recital, each one In turn se hH'tlng u comiMKsltlon for performance, Iu vain they tried to battle the com poser, who not only answered the chal lenge brilliantly In every Instance, but filled up the Intervals with delightful Improvisations of his own. Now York Herald. Wasps a Fly Kcstroyers. The best fly destroyer Iu the world Is a commou or garden wasp. An expert says he has known oue wasp to kill 1,000 file "u a day. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. OSAY, can you see by the dawn's early light- What so proudly we bailed at the twi light's last glenming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, . through the perilous fight ;' ' O'er the ramparts we watched, were so: gallantly streaming! And the rocket's red glure, the bombs burst ing In air, Gave proof through the night that our flag ' was still there; 0 say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On that shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host In dread sil ence reposes, -. What Is that which the breeze, o'er the tow ering steep, -...- As It fitfully blows, now conctals, now discloses? Now -It catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected; now shines On the stream; 'TIs the star-spangled banner! 0, long may It wuve ; O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where Is that band who bo vauntlngly swore 'Mid the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, -:' A home and a country they'd leave us no more? Their blood has washed out tbelr foul foot steps' pollution. No refuge ciiuld save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave; And the star-spangled banner In triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! O, thus be tt ever when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation ! "BEFORE AND AFTER." Trips to Thibet's Holy City Not Con ducive to Good Looks. Last summer Mr. Henry Savage Lan der, artist, author and traveler, and grandson of the celebrated Walter Sav age Liuitlor, undertook an exploring expedition through Thibet. His objec tive point was the sacred city of Lhas sa, to which entrance Is forbidden on pain of death to strangers, and especi ally to Europeans. 'It was a most dar ing enterprise, but one that appealed strongly to Mr. Landor's adventurous spirit. Mr. Landor had almost succeeded In getting within the gates of Lhassa when his disguise was discovered and he was taken prisoner. All his com panions, except two faithful coolies, deserted him and fled. The Thibetans Inflicted the most horrible torture upon him. Ills body was seared with red hot Irons until he was almost lifeless. Then he was condemned to be behead ed, and was actually taken to the place of execution. The grand lama, who appeared on the scene, however, decided to commute Mr. Landor's sentence. Ills life was spared, but for over a week he was mW 1i if Jf I LAN DO K llEFOitiJ AND-AFTER HIS VISIT TO Til I BET. subjected to the agony of the rack. How he survived can only be explained by his marvelous fortitude and Iron constitution. The torture concluded, he was Initio to leave the country at once, nnd It goes without saying that he did not tarry. When Mr. Landor left for Thibet he was In tli best of health, the picture nltove on the left showing him to be Ixith youthful and handsome. The pic ture on the right was taken after his return. It shows a man seemingly nged and a physical wreck. Of the twenty-two scars of wound's he bears, many are ou his face. Mnrk Twain and a Lyceum Manager. Itefore we left the ante-room he par ticularly requested me not to introduce him to the audience, nnd I told him (for he called It "a whim of his") that this little whim of his should be respected. When we reached the stage I began, after a while, to feel not a little nerv ous for fear that he would uever Intro duce himself. Hut he at last arose, nnd taking a seml-elreular sweep to the left, and then proceeding to the front, oiH'iied something like this: "Uullos and gentlemen: I have lec tured many years and In many towns large and small. 1 have traveled north south east mid west. I have met many great meu; very great men. Hut I have never yet In all my travels met the president of a country lyoe- unt who could Introduce me to uu audience with that distinguish Blest with vict'ry nnd peace, may the heaven-rescued laud , Praise the power that hath made and pre served us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause It Is Just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust;" And the star-spangled banner In triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! ed consideration which my merits deserve." After this deliverance the house, which had stared at me for several minutes with vexed impatience for not "pressing the button," was convulsed at my expense, and gave him unremit ting attention to the end. Harper's Magazine. Took Two Tel e phones. ' "We used to have the best fellow In our employ that I ever knew," declared the head of one of the biggest telephone exchanges In the country. In fact, ho was too good for us to be able to keep him, and now he's a promoter making barrels of money. He could place more telephones than ony other half dozen men In our employ, and I'll give you just one sample of his shrewdness. "There was a wealthy old French man with large Interests that we want ed as a patron. After all the rest of our solicitors had called upon him we sent our best man. He learned that the Frenchman thought the telephone a great Invention and a great money saver, but he could rot' be made to un derstand that they were adapted to any other language than English. He had to converse In French with many of his business friends and employes. "All the others had tried to convert him, but 'Oily Slick," as we had dub bed him, took the other tack and hu mored the old gentleman. lie at once assured him that we had French re ceivers nnd transmitters, and Imme diately put up a temporary line to show that he was not misrepresenting goods. When Freuch was sent nnd received over the wire, the result delighted tho man of wealth, and 'Oily' actually sold two sets of telephones for a dozen places where they could be made use ful In the old mau's business, charging $5 apiece more for the French than foi the English. It was six mouths before he discovered that he had a superflu ous lot of telephones on hand. Then he laughed as heartily ns any one and tried to hire 'Oily' to go ou the road." Detroit Free Press. A lSeautiful I'assage. A very vain preacher having deliv ered a sermon In the hearing of the Iiev. Robert Hall, pressed him, with a mixture of self-complacency and indeli cacy, to state what he thought of the sermou. Mr. Hall remained silent for some time, hoping that his silence would be rightly interpreted; but this only caused the question to be pressed with greater earnestness. At length Mr. Hall admitted, "There was oue very flue passage." "I am rejoiced to hear you say so. Pray, sir, which was It?" "Why, sir, It was the passage from the pulpit to the vestry." t cured If you suffer from any of the Ul of men. come to the oldest Specialist on the Pacific Coast, I DR. 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CIIAItMAN, Trustee, VrtTNOUT c: MINERS 1 Ayr 'i 'Fx - r iv. ..t w . iA " FAVORITE-; MNCfBSTER AMMUMTICN;VSEDB? it . , .... TO THE ..BAST.. GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTES T MHE1N IN. VIA SPOKANE, MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL f AND CHICAGO. SHOUT LINE, VIA SALT LAKE, DENVER, OMAHA . AND KANSAS CITY. OCEAN STEAMERS Oregon, Geo. W. Elder and City ol Topeia Leave Portland Every 6 Days for ALASKA POINTS Ocean Bveameri Leave Portland Every 4 Days for SAN FRANCISCO. Steamers Monthly from Portland to Yokohama and Hong Kong, in con nection with the 0. R. & N. For further Information call on 0. R. & N. Agent, F E. DOSALDSON, or address W. H. HURLBURT, General Passenger, Agent, Portland, Or. DODWELL, CAKLII.L A CO., Gen. Agt. Hot. i'ac. S. S. Co., Portland, Or. Trains arrive and depart from Portland ai follos: Leave for the East via Huntington dally,8:00 nm rrlva from East " " " 7:211 nm Leave for the East via Spokane daily, 2 00 nm Arrive from Ea4t " iu:l5ui X' ANTED TRUSTWORTHY AKD ACTIV1 W nnUtmen or ladles to travel for mpnnslbli tfMbltshed house in Oreioa. Monthly 80S au npvntrs. Position sirady. Reference. Fn close selfaiVlmied stamped envelope, Thi Dominion Couptay, Dept. Y, Chicago. WAHTKD-TRUSTWORTHY AND ACTIV1 ooUeara or ladles so travel fer rwponslbls esialilisbed bout le Orenn. Monthly 8M.0O uii upe"- Pesillen steady. Reference (acle ll-4drss4 itsmreft envelope, Ike DosiiUitei C4spaty, Dipt. Y, &ioo. 0. C. & E. R. R. Co YAQTTINA BAY ROUTHi Connecting atYaquina Bay with the San l'ra,ncinco mul Yaquina Bay Steamship Company. Steamship "Farallon" Sails from Yaoulna every elpht days for Pan Frnncinpo, Coos iiay Foil Oxiord, Triuldad ana Uumbolt Bay. ' Tasseuger accommodation! unsurpassed. Shortest route between the Willamette Valley and California. fare from Albany or points west to San rrunoisco: Cabin, rouud trip , Bteerace To Coot Bay and Fort Oxfords Cabin, To Humbolt Bay: . Cabin. SJ5 00 S 00 ! 00 8 00 Round trip, good for 60 days. RIVER DIVISION. Stftraers "Albany" and "Win. M. Hoag,' newlv furnished, leave Albany dally (except Satur'davH) at 7:46 a. in., arriving at Portland the same day at 5 p. m. , Returning, boats leave Portland same dayi at 6:00 a. m:, arriving at Albany at 7:45 p. m. J. C. MAYO, Supt. Elver Division, Corvallia, Or. EDWIN STONJS.Mgr., PRACTICALLY A PART OF IT; Charman Bros.' Block TAkino AlONO AV . , res HUHTERS EAST AND SOUTH VIA The Shasta Route OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. Express Trains Leave Portland Daily. South. I North. e:00r.M. 1 Lt Portland Ar 9:30 a. m 6:S2p.k. Lv Oregon City Lv 8;ia.m 7:45a.m. I Ar SauFranctsco Lv 8:0Up. The above trains stop at all stations betweer Portland and Salem, Turner, Marion, Jeffer son, Albany, Tangent, Shedds, Halsey, Harris burg, Junction i:ily, Irving, Eugene, Creswell, Cottage Grove, Drains, and all stations from Roseburg to Ashlaud, Inclusive. . ROSEBUKQ MAIL DAILY. 9:S0a.m. . Lt Portland Ar4:80p.ii fi:27 4.M. Lt Oregon City Lv S.Stt P.M 8:20 P. M. I Ar Roseburg Lv I 7: 0 u DINING CARS ON OGPEN RODTE. PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS AND SECOND-CLASS SLEEPING CARS Attached to all Through Trains, West Side Division, Between PORTLAND and CORVAI.LIS XA1LTRAIN DAILY (EXCEPT SUN DAY.) 7:30 A.M. I Lt Portland ArM:0P.M 12:15 P.M. I Ar Corvallis Lv 1 1 :05 P. M At Albany and Corvalils connect with train of Oregon Central & Eastern R. R. IXPRESS TRAIN DAILY(XXCIPTSUNDAT.l 4:WP. M. I Lt Portland Ar I 8:25 A. M 7.80 P.M. Ar McMinnvllle Lt f:Sfl'A.M 8:30 P.M. I Ar Independence Lt4:50A.M Direct connection at 8an Francisco with Occidental and Oriental and Pacific Mall Sleamslilp Lines for JAPAN AND CHINA. Sailing dates on application. Rates and tickets to eastern points and Europe also JAPAN. CHINA, HONOLULU and AUSTRALIA, can be obtained from E. E. BOTD, Agent, Oregon City E, KOEHLER, C H. MARKHAM, Manager, Aufct. F. A P. Agent Portland, Or. Portland, Or. OREGON CITY TRANSPORTATION CO'S Str. Altona Will Make Daily Trips Between OREGON CITY .no PORTLAND Leaving Portland for Salem and way landings at 6:45 a. m., and Oregou City at about 3 p. m. BO YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention Is probably patentable. Communlca. tlnn strictly eonddentfal. Handbook on Patent sent free, oldest agency for securing patents. I .tents taken throueb Munn A Co. receive tpMial notice, without charge. In the Scientific flimrican. 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