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."
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Uumbolt Bay.
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fare from Albany or points west to San
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To Coot Bay and Fort Oxfords
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Round trip, good for 60 days.
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same day at 5 p. m.
, Returning, boats leave Portland same dayi
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The above trains stop at all stations betweer
Portland and Salem, Turner, Marion, Jeffer
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