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About Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1898)
THE COUNTY COUIiT Jin Adjourned Term Held Last Saturday. The Jar; List and Tax Levy for 1S9S Occupy the Court's Attention "Fire Centals Inch." Id the mutter of the tax levy (or 1893 the following was made: County, 12 mills ; road, 4 ; school 7 ; state, 3.5 ; total 2G5 mills. Commissioner Marks dia euted in regard to the road tax, as he desired to make a 23-mill levy (or county, school and state, and permit the road tax to be worked out. In the matter of the county printing for the year 1S98, (he compensation was reduced to five cents per inch, and the Enterprise and Herald designated as official papers. In the matter of the jury list (or the year 1898, it is ordered by the court that the following named citizens and tax payers of Clackamas connty be, and they are selected as the jury list of said county for 1898 : Jame Occupation Precinct CMB Jonos brickmaker Abernethy 8 heeler farmer G W Waldron Tbos Mann " Ed Thayer " VT II Smith Henry Jewell " J K Cole millman J R Marks farmer HJ Oglesby " 11 Campbell " II Kocher " II Hornschuh " Thos Daniels " W T Kirk C Spangler " W Grithentbwate " Mike Moehnke " Carrick Cassady " Gene Cummings " W H Fitxpatrick " Win Boring " E Richey " ffm Bonney " Barlow Beaver Creek Borings ii J Gorbett millman Slim Hedges farmer Frank Walkev Canyon Creek Cherryville George Knight 41 " James Evans " O W titurgis " " Led re w Mack " ' E W Howard " " John Burns " Herman Lee " " J Molzan " ' E Hunter " Clackamas J A Talbert " John Robinson " " HLoncoy " " Ed Dedman " " Fred Gage " Dan Talbert " " -iJ Johnson ' " .Herman Brans ' " T A Seperby ' -John Eri " Cascades K Nelson " " Paul Meinig " t D Coalman " " A Andre " " W M Fine laborer Canemah Geo Lazelle farmer . " Geo Kidder " D P Martin " " Jas Partlow " " W J McCord " " L E Wise " Damascus A W Cooke " " J B Johnson " " A M Lovelace " E II Burghartd millman " J R Morton farmer " H Gibaon " Eagle Creek II Wilburn merchant " Isaac Gordon farmer " Samuel Heiple " " J A VanCuren " ' Charles Ballaw " W1IH Wade Garfield John Inglisb " Geo Lockerly ' " Hans Paulson " George Waller Kirchem " Harding BTToom " ' L Patterson " Frank Wilson " Fouie Funk " " Fisher miller " E Harrington farmer Highland O Wallaca 1 " ' S Hutchinson " " H Kleinsmith " " Wm Buckner " " AI Wing Lower Molalla John Barth " " J Smith merchant " T L Dibble farmer Upper Molalla M Johnson ' " John Cole " ' Ilarl Engle " " John Everhart " " Jim Dickey " " lievi 6tehman " " Charles Holman " " "W II Darnell " Milk Creek John Denison " " A L Jones ' Abe Larking " " Del Trullinger millman " John Labour farmer Marquam K M Hartman " " Vfin Bird " " O D Larkins " " M Grosling " Tom Rogers " Milwaukee J D Rusk " " J 8 Rialey " " II Thiessen " " John WVtiler " Thad Williams " John Oatfleld " " 8 C Priestly " " W H Counsell " A Mauta " Maple Lane W W Myers " Tom Davis " " H Henriel " " MMMcGeehan " " C Toner " " T B Killin Needy J K Miller " " Fred Smith " " David Y'oder ' " CBair ' Sam Kauffman " " Robt Thompson " Frank Mathews " " J L Waldron " New Era Enos Cal.ill ' " H Gregory " " J Burgoyne " ' Tom Blanchard " " J L Matlock " A Walling nurseryman Alfonao Shipley farmer Oswego ii H Gans " " L M Davidson " " Louis Eaton " " James Coou " " Chris Boylan ' " Win Hallinan " " Frank Busch merchant Ore City No M A Willoughby laborer " Clarence Farr butcher " Joe Stesrk laborer " C W Vonderahe carpenter " John Sbadle clerk " M J Broderick laborer " W A Huntley merchant " Petzold butcher " J C Bradley farmer " C N Greenraan drayman Ore City No 2 COT Williams real estate agt J G Porter capitalist " G II Bestow millman " Jas Wilkinson laborer " F F White carpenter " E C Hamilton merchant " E E Charman druggist " J R Williams laborer Ore City No 3 G W Boylan WMAIdridge " FA Ely capitalist " John Gillott " " C Moran blacksmith " C W Fredericks " Ed Baker farmer Pleasant Uill V M Murray " " Samuel Hillman " " Neal Heater " " Sam Westfall " ' A Molby '' Seivers H J Thomas " Soda Springs AVDavik " ' EP Carter " Ira Bell " Springwater W J Lewellen " " A Lacey " " J L Kruse " Tualatin FT Larson " " John Schivie " ' " OP Sharp " "( Jacob Miley " Union J Vaughn " " Win Stone " Viola Geo Armstrong " F 8 Baker laborer West Ore City E Mass ' " George Brown " " J K Morris " ' Otto Olson " " Chas Catta dairyman " Skaguay Wants Lumber. Building improvements at Skaguay are distressingly embarrassed on ac count of the apparent impossibility of obtaining lumber from any source The Elder, on each of the last three trips, has been unable to carry lumber which it was intended to send from Portland to Skagway, and the steam ers from Sound cities seem to be equally freighted with passengers and packs alone. Hundreds of tliousandx of feet of lumber now await shipment from Portland to Skaguay, and the people of Skagway are anxiously awaiting its arrival. Business of every kind in demand there is be ing established daily. The population the town is increasing with almost unexampled rapidity, and the commun ity is in various ways becoming i metropolis; but it is noticeably em- bryotic in appearance, a condition which may be attributed very largely to the absence of material with which to give it a more substantial and per manent aspect. The last Elder north carried four merchants, two barbers, one doctor, one lawyer, two cabinet makers, three blacksmiths, one wagon- maaer, two sign-painiera and one "corn-shaver," . all for Skaguay, each, except the two painters, intending to establish a business for himself. For Young Men and Young Women There is nothing that will arouse the re of a young man or woman so quick as to haye inferior laundry work put off on them. They may dress ever so well, but if their shirt front or shirt waist is muHBy their neat appearance is spoiled. The Troy laundry makes a specialty of ladies' and gentlemen's fine work. There can be no better work than is done at the Troy. Leave your orders at Farnsworth's barber shop. Books Cheap. Everything required in the school room, books, slates, tablets, sponges, ink, pens, pencils, etc. at Daniel Wil liams, cornet Seventh and Center streets. Full stock of nuts, candies, notions etc., fresh and of good quality. Bold at reas onable prices. FORGIVENESS. I sat In the erenlng pool Of lh heat baked city street Miming ami watching a little pair Who played on the walk at my feet A boy, the elder, of strong, rough mold) 11 la sister, a blossom iwni When, Just in the midst of their play, Okine an angry ory and a blow That bruised the cheek of the little maid Anil caused bright tonrs to flow Anil liruuitht from my lipaquick, aharp reproof On the lad who had acted so. And he etood by, sullen and hint. While the maid soon dried her tear. Be looked at her with an angry eye. dhe timidly drew near. "Don't be cross, Johnny t" (a little sob). "Let me furdlT 'oo, dearl" And the elond ia pawed and gone. And again In their play they week. And the etrong, rongh boy wearn a klndur mien And brighter the maiden iweet, While a whisper has oouia from the heart of Ood To man man on the treet, -Engllnh Illustrated Magaalne. THE OLD OFFICE DEVIL. He Telle Bow He Evolnted Into Conn try Editor. The old time devil was keen to loom. He had gall. He wasn't afraid to ask the milliners for advertising or print lug. He dreamed of owning a paper of bis ovej tie experimented In a thon sand ways. Ho lived in the ofllco al most, bemg there early aud lata He made a battery aud copper platod types before the first type founder thought of doing it. Ho did stereotyping in a rudej way, making a matrix from blotting paper. Desiring to do his work better, be tried to buy proper materials for stereotyping, but he was bluffed so easily by tfce prices or talk given hun by the dealers that for many years he supposed be was the victim of some Infamously Jealous trusts. A tramp printer from Chicago made him believe that gasoline could be made. The Chicago man pointed to a big can of the fluid and insisted that ho had made it Gasoline was high priced then. The devil sold the gasoline the printer said be bad made to a rival office, and the two divided the money. 'Make some more," said the devil. There is a deuiuud for it " Tho Chi cago pnuter left that night, and tho editor mado the devil pay for the gnso lina The editor can recall his last rink from the tramp printer be "learned the trade" with, the one who made gaso line. He came into the "shop" Bnd was denied work by the foreman. He saw: at glance that the old days and looso ways were gona .Neatly dressed, well kept young men and women were at work in an office as clean as a parlor. ' bosermium this sheet now?" he inquired. Jack Hill, " was the reply. I know him," he said laconically. i tangbt nim bis biz. And then they saw him drift into the sanctum and heard him say: "Hello, Jack! You re doin welL I waat somo thin to eat and drink." Gasoline" got what he asked for, net as all tourists do who apply. The next morning be called on his editor friend again, and when he fonnd bim discussing prohibition with two or three ministers and one or two of the elders of the town he lurched right into the editorial den and joined in the talk , .1 . 1 erw nejp me eaiior along, ne was very drank He cried and said that naturally be was a prohibitionist, but he really longed to die and go to heaven, only he had become "such a d d skeptic be diun t believe there was snch a place, Then be went to sleep. The preachers looked at him in pity. The editor spoke kindly of him as a comrade who had seen better days. As the editor talked "Gasoline" awoke and said: "Jack, if yon don't gimme a quarter to buy a drink with 1 11 sit here and holler." And "holler" he did. tie "hollered" ' until the ministers left. This may or may not account for the fact that prohibition has prohibited in Editor Jack Hill's tow n since the last visit of his Chicago printer friend. Chicago Times-Herald. A Tale of the 8a. Two American captains were recently relating their experiences on different voyages. One of them told the follow ing story: "About 1 p. m. on March 2 my ship was proceeding under full sail when a cloud about the size of a man's hand was observed on the horizon. It came on, and as it neared the ship wo discovered that it was composed of lo custs. They settled on the sails, and yon couldn't see a bit of canvas for them. When they flow away, there was not a stitch of canvas left on the yards. " Ah," said the other captain, "I can quite believe that, for at abont 8:30 p. m. on March 2 my vessel was pro ceeding under full sail when we ob served a small cloud on the horizon. As it approached the ship we discovered that it was a cloud of locusts, and as they passed our vessel we saw that every man Jack of them had a pair of No. 1 canvas trousers oa " Brazil Nut. Stagnation. Stagnation is more dangerous than revolution, but sudden change means a house on sand Action and reaction is the miserable seesaw of onr child world If these extreme men had their way, the end of the century would be plunged in blood, a universal French revolution. What we have to bear in mind is that, even in a republic, there must be a guiding hand; men of education, ex perience, weight and wisdom must con tinue to come forward. They who will net be ruled by the rudder will in the end be ruled by the rock. Tennyson. Liquefied air can now be ordered by the dozen bottles in Munich, but just what it ean be nsed for in a general way is in donbt. It is so cold that it blisters the skin at a touch, but its ex cess of oxygen Is a valuable feature. At present chemists are the only customers for It A BEE'S RESTLESS LIFE. It lleglui Work When Th Days Old and llee at furly-llve. G. W. Reyuolda of Los Angeles, one of the oldest traveling nmu iu the United States, haa a ranch of which he enjoys tolling evcu more than he does of the experiences through which he has paused during hla half century npou tho road. Tho ranch Is near Kau Diego, CaL The chief product is honey. This f roduet ia gained from two apiaries, which Mr. Reynolds visits every time his business penults him to go to south ern California. "In my aplarlea, which are cared for by my son," said he. "there are MO stand of beoa The honey season huits from April to July. Last season my Does yieiuea u,uuu pounds or honov. which sells in that country in bulk lota at 4. cents a pound. Two of tho hive gave over 000 pounds each. For te years I have beeu Interested in bees in small way, aud I take greater interest lu them every year. A hive or staud n: boos is worth f i. 60. Iu it are the queen the drones aud the workers, a total population of from 20,000 to 35,000 bet. "This very good slwxl colony," he continued, "resides iu a hive or wooden box. lu tho hivo are a dozen frames 13 by 7 inches. Iu tlieao the bees make or deposit tho honey, a foundation, of wax having been first placed iu each frame by the beekeeper, so that the bees may have something to build upon. The honey is taken out of tho frauios every otuer wecic during the honey season, hile doing so there is little need of protecting tho hands. The bees seem to be most inclined to sting oue iu tho face. So, as a precaution, tho man who is removing the honey from tho hives weara a straw hat, from the brim of which is huug a silk veil, like they have to do op in the Klondike country to ward off tho summer mosquitoes. The queen is an absolute monarch within her dominions, tihe is the un disputed boss of tho Job. An ordinary Dee lives during tuo working season on ly 45 days. Young ouea are beiug hatch ed ont all the time. A bee goes to work ai me icmicr ngn oi a days and bustles like a veteran for 43 days. Then it is just naturally all tired out, I sunpotie. for it diea The queen lives longer, anil when a young queen conies into exist ence In the hive she drives the old queen out Her loyal subjects follow her in her banishment, and that is what makes the swarm. "In southern California tho bees make water white honey when the black sage is in blossom. When tho white sage is flowering, the honey haa an amber tinge. Iu winter tho hoes ninko no bun ey. Soveuty-flve carloads of the article are shipped out of San Diego county in good years. "Denver Republican, GREATEST OF COLONIZERS. Much of the Earth Owes Its Hettlemeat to the rinding of Oold. It haa been well said that gold is the greatest of colonizers, and this has prov ed especially true in the last half of the present century. To what lone regions the footsteps of man were attracted in the earliest times by the discovery of gold we may not know, but within the memory of living men great regions of the earth's surface have owed their set tlement and occupation solely to the finding by search or accident of a few shining particles in the earth. California was a remote and outlying province of Mexico, inhabited by Indi ans, gathered in missions or scattered abroad, and cattle barons and their de pendents, visited by a few ships each year in starch of a freight of hides, when tho picking up of a few grains of gold in the banks of a mill race called tho gold seekers from tho four quarters of tho earth and transformed a wilder ness into a populous empire. Australia was a corner of the earth selected ou account of its remoteness from their former homo as a place of banishment for British criminals when the gleam of gold illuminated it and filled the distant harbors with sails and their shores with cities. South Africa might have remained forever a grassy waste, tho home of sav ages contending with the Boers aud the British for the possession of illimitatde pastures, hud not gold called the miner and those who follow him to build Jo hannesburg. Kansas City Timea The Hea. It is the sea which ennobles every thing. Between the line aud the surf there waa but the ancient foreshore, covered with prickly tamurisks and manve colored heath, with yellow sand conspicuous here aud there. At the lim it of the foreshore the rugged border line cut clear into a deep and somber blue. It is she blue us any gnine ou this cluster which hangs in the cooling breeze. The azure deepens, filling up a good half of the range of sight; the white sail of a fishing smuck floats alone, like a hollow shell; the eternal monotone of ocean is borne upon the ear. J-h-aw near and see the lcamutf sil ver foam. Above this intense blue the sky is trans parently, superbly pale, and tho stars are hurrying to light their lumps. There is not a living soul, nor a pluut, nor any sign of the hand of muu. There might be neroids and fanns dancing on the strand, as iu tho days when tho world was young. II. A Taiue in "Journeys Through France. " Caught Napping. did the police " Where man?" catch their "Found him asleep on a seat in the park. " . "Oh, I sea Then, I presume, they arrested him on a bench warrant " Philadwlphia Bulletin. Nipped In the Had. Mndge Which is proper to say "Lend me $10," or "Loan me $ 10?" Wickwire It won't do yen any good to say either. Indranapolis Journal Looking forward, A Cleveland clergyman who is wit given to putting mi a long face either lu hla pulpit or out of it saya that bo foro ho ciiiiio hero from tho south ho was one day akcd by a young man to tinito him with tho woman of his choice lu tho holy bonds of wudlwk upon the evening of a certain day. "I am very sorry," said tho reverend gentleman, "but I shall bo out of town upon that day, Tho young man was crestfallen, said that ho had set his heart upon having perhaps lisvu heeu not useless members that particular minister perform the of the body politic. Formerly lu tbo ceremony and asked if there waa no United Btntes wo used largely to rid possible way la which it could bo ar-, ourselves of this element by throwing ranged nieu of that type out on to the frontier. "I thought tho matter over," said Whllo millions went West with un tho clergyman iu recounting tho ex perl- ilauuled resolution, boundless ouorgy euco, "and finally agreed to return for, and strong ambition to inukti for them- tho express purpose of complying with j selves aud their children homes iu the his wishes, lie was greatly pleased, as- lauds newly opened to settlement, there Hired mo that it was very kind of me' went along with them no Inuousidera aud hinted that I would bo well repaid bio number who were simply uuooiu- for my trouble mid consideration. "So upon t ho day set for t lie ceremony I traveled nearly S!00 miles, paid out 8.60 for my railroad ticket and other accommodations mid guve tho happy couple one of tho best marriago services iu my repertory. "After the ceremony tho groom came to mo, blushing furiously, slipped a 5 bill iuto my baud aud iu all serious uess said: " 'This is all I havo to give you now, but I hopo to be ublo to do better next time.' "I was a.60 out of pocket ou tho transaction, and I guess I'll let him hunt up somebody else 'uoxt time.' " Clevelund Leader. The Karly London Omnibus. Wheu the qtiecu camo to tho throne. omnibuses were a new but already pop. olar institution. They wero longer, nar rower and lower than tho present ones and had no seats on tho roof. Tho tuts - M'ligirs wero carefully shut lu by a door at tbo end, as if to make quite sure of them, once they were ennturud. till they bad paid their farea Ou a little round pi rch behind stood tho conductor or "cad, hanging on by a leather loop ' example, a letter of tho Duke of Wei passed over bis arm. Plxpcnco was tho llngton'a ran be had for 10 shilling, usual bus faro tiO years ago, w hether whereas a letter of Lord Nelsou's will yon went from beginning to end of the cost you i'5. " journey or only a few hundred yards. As there was very little regulation ofj the street, trufllo of Loudon iu thorn days, if tho bus was tilled up at start- lug it went like a fire engliio iu order to get in nu extra Journey, but other- wise it crawled and pottered about till the requisite number wus obtained huch omnibus was licensed only for a particular route. It paid the stage- coach duty of i'5 when first started aud a shilling a year1 for keeping tho license in lorcti, besides a mileage duty, varying with tho number of passengers it would hold, but coming to about threcpeuc per mile on the average. Gentleman's Magazine, A Mean tkg. He waa a small boy not such very small boy iu an out of town school Ho had written a composition. It was upon the subject of doga Now the teacher of the school was a man, aud he was not popular. Ho was what the boys called "mean. " They dislikod bim thor oughly, from the tips of his shining shoes to the ends of bis pompadour comb ed hair. In the composition thoro was a. story of a dog. It was tho story of a very mean dog, and as the composer of the literary effort came to the last line he read it emphatically aud with great distinctness of utterance, and tho hearts of all the other small boys iu tho room, as they listened, quaked, half with do light aud half with fear, knowing what was to follow, and gazing, fascinated, at the upright coiffure of the master, as tho reader ended, "And that dog was so meau that his hair stood ou end. New York Times What Is NtyleT The fact thut wo use the word "atylu" speukiug of architecture uud sculp ture, painting ami music, dancing, play acting ami cricket, that we can apply it the careful achievements of the househreaker aud the jxiiMoiicr, and to the spontaneous nnimiil movements of the limbs of man or beast, is the noblest of unconscious tributes to tho faculty of letters. Morals, philosophy and u-s-thetio, mood uud conviction, creed and whim, huhlt, pusHion anil demohstru lion what art but the urt of literature admits tho entrance of all these uud guards them from the suddenness of mortality? All stylo is gesturo, the ges ture of the mind and of tho soul. Other gestures chungo uud flit; this is tho ul timate uud enduring revelation of per sonality. "Stylo," by Walter Huleigh. How Urownlug llred I'olitliwl Matter. I huve reud tho newspapers only through Robert's eyes. Ho reads them In a room sacred from the foot of wom an. And this is not uiwuys satisfactory, as whenever Robert fulls iuto a state of disgust with uny political party he throws the whole subject over livery now aud then ho ignores Franco alto gether, uud 1, who am more tolerant and more curious, find myself suspend ed over a hiutua 1 ask about Thiers' speech. "Thiurs is a rascal," bo saya "I mako a point of uot readina a word 'of Thiers." M. Prudhon. theu'r "Prud- hon is a madman. Who cares for Prud hon?" Tho president? "Tho president is an ass not worth thinking of. " And so we treat of politics. Letters of Eliz abeth Barrott Browning. A Fredlcament. nin in un awful nredica- Mario 1 went. I urn iu love with two men Mcrtie Aud you can't choose bo- tween them? How cmbarrussingl Marie Oh, I can ohooso all right, but aeiiher of the men seems able to doses New York World. Characterised. "Coufound thut cuddio, he's never room! except at the tee I" "Sort of a tea caddie, eh?" Brook lyn Lit I Vagabond lloneere, I In Tho Century tliero is an article by the Into Francis A. Walker ou "The Causes of Poverty." General Walker ' snyg : I will not Inquire how many mute, inglorious Whitmans or Thoruaus there mny bu among the tramps of the United States, but it cannot bo doubted that tho outcasts of a highly sophisticated soolely embrace not a few who in a trlho of hunters or herdsmen or fisher- tuxn would have had a plneo and would fortablo under tho requirements of an old society. They sometimes mado ex oelluut pioneers up to a certain point. Ho long as all, tho poorest and tho best, hud to live in huts, wear shabby clothes and live meanly while opening tip the country nnd mukitig tho first hurried Improvements 0u tho soil, these men felt at homo. Hut when tho mere camping out stage wws ik1, when public decency began to liiuke its requirements and social distinctions rose into view, straight way they enino to feel uneasy, uncomfortable, unhap py. Dally they cast more and more glances toward tho setting sun, aud be fore long they went again ou the move, "seeking a country" where they could be as shiftless, irregular ami shabby as they liked. The story of tint reputable ploucr has been told lu prose aud iu verso, but tho story of the plmieer vag abond, sturdy, courageous, (sissihly giKKl ' uatured and honest, but intoleruut of 1 fear uclghhora and offcuaivo to gissl so- ciety, has yet to bo written. Valoee of Autographs. "Tho different values of different au- j togrnphs seem astonishing at first. For "How is thntf" "Well, Nelson is, of course, tho more popular hero. Hut the main reason Is that Nelson, who wus generally at sea, wrote few letters comiiared with Wul- lington, who was generally ou land Aud yet neither of these reasons holds good alwayi Hero are a d w prices that may puzzle you: A letter of Lord Hencoiistleld is worth guineas, but a letter of John liriiiht's Is only worth 5 shillings, and letters of 1'ahucrstou, Wr liobert Peel and George Canning aro all , frequently priced under o ahlllimis." "What is a letter of Charles Llckeua , worth?" "About 8 guineas." Aud olio of Charles Lamb?" "From 8 to "Byrou?" "A letter front Byron la worth fully 10, but a letter of Hind ley is worth more than double thut sum. " ' "And Burns?" "Oh, 125 to 110 at least" Acad emy. Question of Headline. Ouo who has douo institutional work among tho Italians for years wonders why tho printed stories of affrays among those people always are headed "Htubbud by au Italian," etc Wheu the Irish or the Germuus fight, attontiou ia nut called to their nationality iu headlines, yet whenever a man w ith au Italian sound ing uamo commits a crime this distinc tion invariably is drawn. Italians fall to see the justice in it This particular muu whoso life has beeu aieut among tho Italians is sure thut they do uot havo recourse to tho stiletto as often as is represented. They aro quick and sud den iu quarrel, but so uru tho Irisli. Why, then, should tho Italiuu bo singled out for obloquy? Often, too, it is a Greek with a mu tilated n an mi who gets into u row and ia credited with being tin Italian. In tho lower Italian quarter tho Greeks aud tho Italians uru hated rivals, and their similarity in names leads frequently to confounding their nationalities, when there is no need, according to this ob server, of bringing tho nationality iuto tho question at all. Now York Press. first l'rle For l'gllnss. This is the story of un ugly muu, aa told by u veteran of the lato war : "My cousin was tho ugliest man in tho regiment, "said tbo raconteur. "Ho wus tho ugliest muu, iu fact, I ever saw. A general suw him uud offered a prlzo for the ugliest man in tho army to encourage competition. A rival regi in en t had its ugly man. The two wero brought together. The general wus there to act as referee. My cousin camo up smiling aud looked contemptuously at his adversary Tho other freak guvo oue look ut my cousin. 'Take him away, ho shrieked, 'ho tin t buuiuu.' Then ho covered his fucu and fled. It ia needless to suy my cousin took tho prize. " Now Orleans Times-Democrat Her Father. A little girl whoso father was dead Hid whoso grandfather pursued the cull ing of shoemukiug hud often been told thut she bud a Heavenly Futher who would euro for Iter in tho absence of au earthly father, and had got things some what mixed in her small brain. One day the village sowing society mot at tho houso where she wus staying, and some of the good women began talking about her, a "poor, fatherless child." Slio boro it for awhile, but finally burst out with : "I ain't oitln r. I've got u Heav enly Futher, mid hu's a shoeimtUer. " Waterbury American. Trulhrul Wltimiia. Judge Do yon n"'im to swear that you wero tho lust pus.-m to pluy ou the old opera house stnye? Witness Yes. your b r. I'm a pipe.man iu a bose company. Detroit Free Press.