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ENTERPRISE SUPPLEMENT Oregon Oily, Or., April 1, 18U8. sj no governor nun at Vj culled Dexter. p spirited, Hotter wii jit ntnl win petted I OUT OF THE FIRE. On llurae Thai W Nut I'aiilo Ntrlikeu When III Maeler Went to Iteaime Itliu. Tlio common In Hi f tlmt homos In n burning building nra always pun iu Irlckmi nml refractory, nut ricognly.iug tlmlr friend mid rrfuxiiw cila-dlonou to tbow who would ri'Hi'iiii thorn, In nut ittlutly true, uk In proved by uu incident related hy a Comjiuii lull contributor. Tun governor liml a lino blink driving Although strong a (luclln mill oho- nml mudii imii h y hi it jmiNtor. Ai Urn governor kitiit utbr Lorn, LYktt r bad tlm ituUo o himself with a (liuiii Ntnll una n manger. Iin atnblowu ncnr Clio hoiom, and In I Hi in to Debtor's itull und linrtictM in cniitalnd a largu currlugo room at bin ami a haymow over tho Mull nu night, when tlio family mid thu mil wore away from homo nml the Timr win lu tlio In i line ahum, La awakened by an ominous cruckling a bright glaro on his chamber win t, nml before ho could collect hi iy wiu bu wu iturllml by a cry uu uuy auiiud bu hud ever hcurd. An he kug out of bed thu cry cntiio again. Iiuetoiilng Id the wlnduw ho burned cuiiiiti. Tlio itublo wim all ablaze, out of tlm mnoko mid flumes Duxtvr culling III innater to iila roacuo, limiting ouly to cliiu ctit ninl kIIpimtii, governor rubbed nut. lite oulmilo k of thu Uilili) IfudiiiK into thu Hull already blocked by tlio fluim, mid ouly i'lilrniii'o to bu hud wmt through curriagu room, tlio ImnicMi room mid krrow entry leading iiukt tlio itt bin, Imi rex mm wore on fire overhead, mid jiing wlspi of liny mid shingle wero ing ilimu In shower. Minded hyiiuoki), tlio governor ituiu bled ulrng thu roundabout wuy und, retching tlm Mull sootier tlimi hoc xpect- nl, Ml liiuidlong down tlio step oguiiiht I lio rxiltvd auininl, who wus vainly itiKging at I'll Imltcr. Thinking wine now duvger thri'iiUJiud him, Dexter gave a mighty kirk that sent hid muster sprawling and luimd him for a month. "Whim, Dttxuirt" shouted thu govern or. "Don't you know ine, sir? tfteady now, old ftlluw, and we'll gut out of this," KtTognizing h( matter's voice, Dux tur tunnel hit hi'iul towurd tho iirontrato diud ami uttiiHlaooaxiiiKw hiuuyquita unlike hia orcvlmu loud crioi of alarm. KimwiiiK ho Ufvl fi ar no moro kii lex, tlm governor in-pt up and cut thohaltor and, calling lH'Xtur to follow him, liiiiM'd blindly throuKh tlio mnuko llllud ntry ami tlio two blazing room ho yoml, and clono ufu-r him wont Duxtor, hiii uoixi jirciuii'd HKiilimt bin mahtur'i ulinuldnr, limn uud homo rcm hluB the Kiifl outur air tnirt'tln. "It wan Doxlcr'aolicdiuiicothutiiuvcd FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. writ ftjMint Two Vnnr la Vlrnllaatlng III Itrnthar llonMlf. "I pruoticrd law 01100 in BilTiirton, lOlo.," nuld ono of tho piimengnr In tlio mnokiii room of tho Pullman, "and hud a nmo thnt utruck mo ai a model exhibition of fulthfolniM, A Bwoda wm tnnil currier over tho puna to the othnr nido of tho rmiK". It wui cot a long trip, hut It wni a anvnro one, made on foot and with the diuiiir In winter from heavy wiowa added to ita dlffl colly. Atnlmw carried die mall for a your, then one day he foiled to reach homo, Tlx ro wero valuuhla letter! In hia inok, and tho infereuco that he bad deemiH d wai utroiift. On the night he ahould have cuma Into Hilvorton hi hrother, frciili from Hiidiiiav1a and unublo to upenk ICiigtliih, got off the itn'o. Am county uttoriiny I hod to break (ho new to the boy and etood ly whllo hu wept "Rownrda were offered for Andrew, and I wilt out purtiea ton urch the pan, but to no t lTiHit. A miner claimed to I huvo mtn him a week later iu Lendvilln, A PIANO FULL OF WASPS. Thf Kopl OaUt Until the Trottmor Htnek th Load MofaM. Tlio piano waa an old grand. It bad not boon naod for month The compa ny bad arrivod in town bnt a abort time before the porforroanoe began; bnnoe there bad boon no time to tout the inutrumont NevcrtholeM, tbe profeas or boldly opened wide tbe llda of the long unuaod grand and then aat down to the key. The flrat touch convinced him that the notea were atlll clear and atrong, and that whatever dofeota in tune there might be would be very alight, ao ho began the aoul inspiring eoleotion. Now, it happened that in all the month! in which the piano bad remain- od nnuied a colony of yellow juckot waipi had luduitriouNly built them- lelvoi a borne in the ahape of a noit ai large ai a good aizod aauoor. Tbe aof t piauiiwimo prelude to tbe aulection gen tly woke the waupa from their eweet drcama But when tbe aoft pedal waa releaned and tbe notea grow vigorous and tho piano began to reverUirate to WHEN I GET TIME. but we got no mora truce of him. The ' the heavier paaxagee tbe diiturbed waupa brother rcfom d to bclievo that Andrew hud done wrong and iprnt hia dnyi tramping tho cunyotm peurching for hii trollier'i iKiily. We tried to get him to go to work, but ho did not yield nntil by hi chortucM of fundi ho wui atnrved to It In the mimmer, when moet of the now wm off, ho aeurcihed aguiu, but in vnln. During tlm winter ho worked, but when tho mxyind Kpring cume ho re newed hia lonely trumiiiiiKi op tho trail, Wo thought him demented, but he cared not for our opinloim. One dr.y lu Auguit ho walked along at the bane of a cliff and aw a Uxit Klieking out from aome dobria, IIo tinroverad it, and hii search wai rnded, 'flint evening ho came into town with tho muil luck, much itaiucd but Intact, and hii brother's coat Tbe grnvo ho dug, with tho rotinh stono bo aftrrwerd put at its head, li up tbe canyon yet. It took two yuuri to vindi cate hii brother'i namo, but bo did not begrudge it. When it woidono, be went buck to hii native land. "Chicago Timcillerald. AN ANECDOTE OF LINCOLN. iu nun," Kaiil tho governor. "I could not lead him, mid bud ho ihown t'jo leitNt olmtlnucy ih- uny leu n udinewi to fol low ut a word through all that round about, uiiiuTiihtnnii'il way I iiuibt huvo It ft him to perinh in thu IIuidoh, but ho followed like a wull truiued mldier, uud , wo eM:uNd from our burning, fiery lurmiee ahnoHt ui uufuly u Hhudriich, iMenlnieli uud Abediiego did from theirs." Youth's Coinpuulou. A Thurouali ( ur. iiiero in no H'liuini'iit uiout lirizh r. lit in clono mid U not eunily ulariiiud. It h ii imt inrpriMiiig, then, that tho doctor axHuiiind tho utinoht gruviry when (h'iz- Jrr culled to present tho cumtof hii w ifo. I m gruutly ufruid," mid tho bus bund, "tlmt her mental equilibrium is ulHttirlH d. Shu in not like other woinuu mid not uh hho lined to bu." "Wluit uro tho aymptoiiiH;"- , "You niuy ngnrd thum of u in gutlvo character, doctor. To begin with, ulie lieVeropmiB her fuhlou pupnra of Into." "Iiudl Uud! Very bud I" "I fcareil ui iiiuch. Tho woman who lives next door culled hint nigLt and wore ono of tho moHt elegant lmts l ev er saw. You kuow tlmt 1 am not given j to noticing: such thiugH. Mm. Uri.lor I never H'liinod to huo it uud Kiid nothing ibiout it after tho oullur hud gono. " t ('Awful, " oxoluimoil tho doctor, "uw ( fuf.) I've kuowu your wife, Orl.lcr, ev- or hIiicb slio wai horn. No ono over hud I n brighter mind or n happier dispiwi timi. I cun't unilurHtiind it. Used to bo thu life und bcouty of every combuiiy alio wai over in, Dues nbu go out' ' "No, nor entertain. Never locutions tto tlioutor, burim all InvitutioiiH mid ii W.thout the Hllglitust luteriiKt, in tho mi '.il whirl. I would givo half I'm worth iy hpo hor tho girl I nmrried. " I'fs "Douo," anuppod thu diu'tcr, and ho , otnout tlio HtrungoHt preicriptiim on "conl. It onlled for horses, carriages, ," 'no ruinioiit, jowola and it well tillud M urao. At tho bottom wai a receipt in Nl for $250,000 Thoro wuh no i l.mioo tr (irl.ler to weuketi, mid now hij w.ifoii ono uf tho nioht brilllnnt women in. tho iwiai. When alio. und tho old doo tf f niuut, bo wiuks und hho wbinpurn. , im dear old soul." Detroit Freo ' j . i Mruortd llrlght With a Miner In a I'vniujIVBoln Tuko. In the course of an article in St. Nicholoa Mary Lillian Hurr relatea tbe following oburacteriatio anecdote of Lincoln: Ouoe while on bis way to Waihing- ton as president the train stopped a lit tle time In tbe town of Alleghany, Pa. Around the station a great orowd gath ered, eager to see tbe new president They shouted and cheered uutil Lincoln bad to appear on the rear platform of his cur. IIo bowed and smiled, but tbe crowd was so noisy he did not try to speak to them. ery neur to the plutform stood a miner, wenring a red shirt and blue overalls and currying a dinner nuiL Like the rent be had stopped hoping to see Air. Lincoln. Tho workman was al most a Riant in sizo and towered bead and shoulders uboro the crowd. No doubt be had heiird that Lincoln alio wua very tall, and, encouraged by tno inauuiy lace, tlio workman sudden Iy waved his bare arm above bis head and called out: "Hi, there, Abo Lincoln I I'm taller than you yes, a sight taller I" This loud speech silenced the crowd by its boldnen, nml a laugh nrono. But Mr. Lincoln, leaning forward with a gixid humored smile, suit! quietly: "My mini, I doubt it in fuet, I'm euro I am tho fuller. However, comoup anil lot a measure. The crowd mude way and tho workman climbed to tho plutform and itood back to buck with tbo prcNidout elect Each put up a bund to see whose head over topped. Evidently Mr. Lincoln was the victor, for with a smilo of sutisfuotiou ho turued und offered bis hand to his beaten rival, saying cordially: I thonght you wero mistaken and I was right, but I wiHhed.to bo sure and to have you sutislleil However, we are friends any way, nren't wo?" Grasping tho outstretched hnud In a vigorous grip tho workmitn replied: "Yen, Abo Lincoln as long as live," I Value of the F.gg In Slokneu, Tho vnlno of epg ulbumen ni food in certain diseased couditiom ii poiuted ont by Dr. O. E. Boyntou. Mfceu fovcr is present and appetite is nil, he says. when wo wunt tin (inept io urticlo of diet, the white of uu egg raw serves both us food nnd medicine. Tho way to give it Ih to drain off the ulbmuon from on opening nbont half un inch in diam eter ut the small end of the egg, tbe yolk remaining inside the shell Add a littlo wilt to this uud direct tho patient to swallow it Repeat everv hour or two. in typhoid fever this mode of feed ing materially helps us in carrying out an uutiseptio plun of treatment Fur thermore, tho ulbumen to a certain ex tent may nntidoto tho toxiues of tbe disease. Patients tuny at first rcbol at tho idea of cuting a "raw" egg, but the quickness with which it goes down without the yolk proves it to be less disuareeublo thnn they supposed, and suspected danger. Tbey curled their backs and stretched and shook their gauzy winga viciously. Tbe profess or, nnhoodf ul of the fact that tbo ma sic, far from soothing tbe savage broast of the vicious wasps ambushed within that piano, was rousing their ire, play ed on. From pianissimo to piano and from piano with one bound to fortius! mo the composition ran. All tho while tho wasps fluttered their wiugi wicked ly, viciously, and all the while tbe pro fessor played. Now came tbe climax; now bo waa throwing together vast bondfuls of notes in the basso profundo region of the instrument Just as the grand was belching forth from its inner most soul the musical thunder of that great YVagucriun opera the vengeance bunting army of yellow jacket wo.ips wept out of tbe instrument, with a buzzing war song, down the hallway and upon the audience.' Suddenly aoul rending shrieks resounded through the ball. Men and women were striking about their beads, benches were unset. and a general stampede for windows and doors ensuod. Over tho terrible up roar a abrilL piping voice could be board shrieking: "Sharlie, come mitl Acb, Bharlio, coma mitl Long before the outraged burghers of Kcrrville were up a little band of men with baggage galore wended their war out or the town and aat down on the railroad track. Tbey were the atereopti oo-mnaicai aggregation of Ban Antonio, and their faces, as ther recounted the horrors through which ther had passed, were tbe image of that of Napoleon on the night of Waterloo. They flagged the south bound, passenger train and took passage for Ban Antonio. Their wisdom in slipping out of town nnder covej of night has never been question- ea ban Antonio Express. Wba I time, I know what I hall do. I'll eat the leave of all my book! And read then through and through. Whn I st time, I'll write acne letters then Thai J bare owed for weeks and weeks To many, many men. When t set time, I'll par thoee bllU I owe. And with tboes bills, thosa eooatloM lillla, I Will not be ao aW?. When I set time, I'll regulate my life la eooh a war that I may set Acquainted with my wife. When I get time Oh, glorious dream of bllael A month, a year, ten years from now! But I can't flnUh this- I have no time. Vogue. FRANKLIN'S GRAVE. Olvea For Allowing It te Remain la It Present Condition. Benjamin Franklin's grave is in a neglected condition. No appropriate stone rises over it tbe ground round about it is uncared for, and tbe tomb of the great scholar and statesman is aa obscure aa that of a man whose name and fume were no part of the glory of bis country. His grave is destitute even of a bead stone. It is ooverod by an old fashioned marble slab which was placed thore 100 years ago and is &ov7 worn and discol ored by age. . Nothing has bees done to it since i Franklin wai buried there, and even the modest arrangements of the grave are not kept in tbe perfect condition that is expected of a great man's tomb. Tbe earth on all sides is bare of grass. the common thatching of tbe common eat grave, and an air of desolation is about tbe whole place. Tbe sexton said thut tbe descendants of Franklin would not do anytbiug to repair the gravo; neither would tbey al low anybody else to do anything. Ev ery day be bos received offers of sub acriptiona from visitors, wbo are dis tressed by tbe forlorn appearance o! Franklin 'a resting plaoe and who woula like to ace it improved. In reply be says, aa be bas been Instructed, thut Franklin wished it so, "being a plait man averse to display of any kind Hot long ago, at hu own espouse, b bad tbe fading inscription recut, or el even tbe ouly distinguishing mark, tut name, would be gone. If be bad not done so, tbe last rest Ing place of tbe greatest man, ontsidt of Washington, in American history would bave been forgotten and un known. Who is responsible for this con dition of affairs? Not the living rela uvea of Franklin. Tbe responsibility rests witn tuo American people, to whom the man belongs. Ther should to it in the future that what little U A rroeeielon of Worms. In some of the Hungarian forests and In the pine woods of Norway there ex-( ibis a uny, wormlike insect called the sciara, of the genus tipola. During tbe month of July or early In August they gather together in largo numbers, pre paratory to migrating in search of food or for change of condition. When set ting out on this journey, ,they stick themselves together by means of some glutinous matter and form a huge serpent-like mafi, often reaching a lenpth ef between 40 and CO feet and several inches in thickness. As tho sciara is only on an averago about three thirtf- seconds of an inch in length, with no sppreciable breadth whatever, the num ber required to compose a continuous line of the sine above mentioned is al most incalculable. Their pace is, of eoursc, very slow, and upon meeting an obstacle, sucb as a stick or stone, tbey will either writhe over or around it, sometimes breaking into two bodies for this purpose. M. Guerin-Meneville, a celebrated French naturalist, says that if the rear portion of this wonderful snakelike procession be brought into contact with the front part and a sort of circle formed tbe insects will keep moving round in that circle for hours without apparently noticing that tbey are getting no "for rader" on thoir journey. If tbe proces sion be broken in two, tbe portions will reunite in a short time. Tbe Norwegian peasants, when tbey meet one of these trains, will lay some article of their slothing, such as a belt or handker chief, on the ground in front of it If the procession passes over it, it is re garded as a good sign, but if it makes a way roand the reverse ii believed. In the Moravian districts a similar experi ment is supposed to foretell a good or bad harvest Popular Science. Teaching; Children. Noah Webster of dictionary fame would not have been in favor of the kindergarten, so people wbo sometimes revert to tbe beginning of the un abridged edition find by his memoirs there. "He felt, "the writer says, "that children should learn to acquire knowl edge by severe effort; that the prevail ing effort to make everything easy is un philoiophical and wrong; that tbe great effort of early training is to form the mind into a capacity of surmounting intellectual difficulties of any and ev ery kind. He wished at an early period of ready memory and limited comprehension to store tbe mind with : many things which would afterward; be found of indispensable use. thincsi which are learned with tbe utmost re- i luctance, or rather iu most cases are not ' learned at all, in tbe more advanced rtagcg of intellectual progress. He felt there must necessarily be much cf irudgery in the formation cf a ther- 3ughly educated mind." New York rimes. Th laoej Way. There are some society girls who like to marshal together all the trophies of a season, in the shape of euchre prizes. german favors and invitations galore to all aorta of functions, where thoy may do aeen or men and bring green eyed glances of jealousy into the eyea of other girls not favored quite so much. but tne queerest effort of this kind that ever came under the notice of the writ er waa a pyramid of empty candy boxes stocked up from floor to coiling in a cor ner of the parlor. The largost was, of course, at tho ham, and there was every make ana stylo, gradually diminishing to tbe top. This dashing girl, with the lmmonse capacity for destroying candy, exceptoa every male visitor to add to the number aa she started a plant in eacn or. tbe other corners of the room. Of course a tromendous rivalry went on among her visitors and admirers to get the finest and most unique native and imported boxes. Strange to say. she married a man who bad never added a lone box to the pile, but he heltxd to oostroy aome of the most toothsome offerings of other follows. New Or leans Times-Democrat there to mark the grave is kept in bet ter order than it haa been in the Dost JBerore be died Franklin provided for M or Fcher. hia own gravestone and instructed al be West Indian negro is a bom stonecutter of bis acquaintance in every poacher. He catches the quail by tho detail, even to the inscription which crooJ expedient of strewing finely pow waa to be placed upon it Uo diwed to derod cayenne or bird pepper in the lit re buried beside bia wife, who bad He dust pits where the birds "wash." died some years before, and a common be burning powder gets into the eyes alab was to be placed over thorn both. I9' toe birds, which, confused and help- lue Inscription arranged as he ordered less are ,nen easily caught it reads: BENJAMDf 1 and FRANKLIN DEBOKAH ITOO A Woman's Movement. The presidents of the 33 literary clubs which compose the Federation of Wom en tiuDa in Kentucky at a recent meeting whioh ther hold for the pur pose of interchanging ideas upon club work divided among other things to en deavor to establish a bird day in the publio schools of the different cities of the state. This will be one effort in a movement to preserve the birds. The presidonta will also use their influence to have literature npon the subject dis seminated, as they believe women are Ignorant of the vast destruction of birds caused by their foatnor trimmed bats. An English writer asserts that there never waa any Grnb street in London, the name having boon invented by Popa Hungry authors became identi fled with that stroot because they were always trying to find it In Mexico the school childrou who have done best are allowed to smoke clgun Wl3 pursuing thvfr leeaona When be wants a wholesale supplv ot fish, be explodes a piece of dynamite. which was probably intended for tbe making of new government roads, over a hole in a mouutain stream, and the Qsh are killed by the concussion. But his favorite resource is the bark of the dogwood tree. This he drops in-1 to a river hole, and the mullet, intoxi aated, comes to the surface of tbe water. This singular property of the dogwood bos caused it to be employed as a nar cotic. It is particularly useful as a lo cal anesthetic and it has been recent ly proposed to apply it in dentistry. Pearson's Weekly. Th Actor and the Man. Great painters, sculptors, musicians and actors are careful not to lose their hoods in the tumult of their emotions. Edwin Booth, so for as is known, never threw himself into bia character but on one occasion, and then he was playing Bortuccio in "The King's Fool." It is related that he came off the stage at the conclusion of the performance con vinced that he had surpassed all of his previous efforts, and that he was ex oited, thrilled, tingling with the emo tions of tbe character into which he ' bad blindly cast himself, but his daugh-1 ter, Edwina Booth, who hud been sit-! ting iu a stago box, told him she bad never seen him act so badly. For that one performance Booth deliberately had chosen to be tbe man and not tbe art ist San Francisco Argonuut Leather and Keroiene. There is one use of kerosene which is leldom mentioned. It often happens I mac wnen a neavyshoeor boot has been 'old nnole" began to hum wot it hardens and draws so that it a quaint negro camp meeting tune and onrtt the foot If the shoe is put ou stopped to look at a piece of liver in a "nd" the leather thoroughly wet with butcher's stall as the best substitute for kerosene, the stiffness will di hia loved possum or as best suited tn and the leather become TiH.ihlo Ailnnt. ! ing itself to the foot If oiled while j wet the leather retains its softness ai longer time The kerosene does not in Hnro the leather at all Everything waa done as he desired. and tbe work waa paid for out of his estate and stands today tbe same as when be died. Philadelphia Times. Wabbled When Ha Cam to Poaanm. Old Uncle Claybrcok is a very reli gions old darky and holds converse with his Maker twenty tinea a day or oftener. His habit is to pray and thou turn off into what appears to be a one aided conversation with the Lord, but it is evident that there is another party to it as far as he is concerned. To hoar him reminds one very much of a tele phone conversation. The other day he was coins throneh hia customary devotions, and when be got to the point of expressing thankful ness for the many blessings of life he broke off into a recounting of thorn, says Ulcere T. Sutton of the Owens- boro Inquirer. "An den. dor's nossnm. Lord how'd you ever think of makin possum? Possum joe beats alL You Jea' couldn't beat it ef you tried ag'iu. Possum, be, be I Yes, dar's watahmil lion. I hadn't thonght of dut Hit's jes' great Yon couldn't beat hit neither, oould you, Lord? Now, hones', couldn you jes fix it so dey bofo git ripo at onoetf Ef you was to do dot you niought go out an ahet de do'. Dey wouldn't be no mo' sin an no mo sorrow an no mo' tribelation. Jes' try hit oncet Lord, an jea' see whut a diffunce hit would make. And then the small piece of money which repre sented his total movable wealth. Pitcher's Castorla. I-
