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, jimni hibTim,- h iIThimi iii'iil li "iiii" " :, . , -." 1 VOLUME XII. ALBANY, OREGON, MARCH 26, 1880. N0.2Q f .: i I I 1 JWSiyESS CARDS. Oa this Space Pour "Woelcs. Something IS" EW Coming I X. B. HUMPnEEY, Agent. TllnSS JOHN BRIGGS TIKK3 TlttS OPPORTUNITY TO IK FORM bis friend and the public generally, that Is bow settled in nis NEW BUSINESS HOUSE, n the old tantl next doorto P. C. Harper Co , Where can ue rouna as great an asutuacui uu large a atocK 01 Stoves and Hanges as can be found in any one house thia side of s"oruana, ana at as LOW PRICE. ALSO Caitlron, Brass & Enameled KETTLES. in great variety. Also, Tin, Sheet Iron, Galvanized Iron, and Coppcrware always on hand, and made to order, AT LIV- 0.XX on IXim. Albany. October 21, 18755v8 CITY DHT7G- STOBE Comer First aa.3. Ellsworth sts., ALBANY, OBEGOS. X,. SALTMARSH. Has again taken charge of tlio City Drug Store, Rfcvlaa- purcnasea tne enure micrem v,. " Boaw, successor to A. Carothers A Co., ana is few receiving a Splendid ITs-w Stock, which, added to the former, renders H very Complete In all the clitferent departments, reeling assured that all can oe suited in both Quality aacL Price, ha ewrdially In rites his old friends and custom ers t gire bim a call. rUlreeel"-e Immediate and careful attention rt all hsant, rty and night. Pure Wines and Liquors for medlelna R. SALTXABSII. Oct. C. T7-5V10 CITY MAUKET-! First street, 3 doors west of Ferry, AUA.1Y, t 1 OKEGOS. HOIsACSEIl & GCETZ, Prop's. HI rAVIWQ purchased the City Market. I will i inun Minntnnttv on hand all kindaof Meats te Tery best to be obtained in the market. ' in -r .11 HmM to meet the wishes of all who may favor me with their pat ronage. The pnblic genei ally are invtled to call at my hop when In want of meats, fc-fhe highest ' cash price paid for PORK. 5rvlOBl3 - New Good) I Xew Departure ! fJSlLLINERY AND DRESSMAKING. : MRS. O. L. PARKS, HA VINO PtTBCHASKD THE MILLINERY Store lately owned by Mre.C. P. Davis and - having just added thereto a new Invoice or late ? CheAea Hillinerv. Trimffiiasrs, . , Bonnets, Hats, Ac, takes pleasure in inviting the ladies of Albany and vicinity to call ajd ' iaapect for themselves. All goods will bo sold a prices that defy competition. - -Saving secured tbe services of a first class Dressmaker! I am prepared to cut, (It, and make dresses in any ty to desired, at short notice and in a satis- 'TesSak'infflTiothinfc for children a specialty - Store on north side of First.east of Ellsworth tree. You are invited to rall. MRS. O. I. PARKS. ?, 1878 Irfollitlo Iniiaa Uonoiioa. A Sure Snot For FEVEIt & AGUE. URINO A LONO RESIDENCE AMONG tha Indian tribes of th ooast and iheinte- ' rtor, I have baa tne ooa lorwjno ' ' from the "Medicine'7 men of the several tribes, - and from other sources, a number of remedies for diseases incident to this cemntry. constat- initof roots, herbs and bark, and having been aottcltert by many people of this valley, who have tried and proved the eflloaey of them in . -' disease, to procure and "tfur the same for sale, I take this means of announcing to all that, dnrimr the past season, I have made an extend " ex tour through the mountains and valleys. : and have secured certain of these remedies -1 which are a sure cure for ... ": Kever arxcL..A.gro. - Those snfferfnff from Asrne- -Who desire to be ' ' sured,can leave orders at MP. Strong's store on - t lm street, where I will furnish the remedies, ' . warranting a radical care or I will demand no -Jpv. w.H.jony. ; i i Ka medics dona op in tl packages. 13-1 sj 1 a month and expenses g-uaranteed to Asrts I j Outfit free. Shaw Co., Aug-usta, Maine vllnSSyl LEGAL. L. FLIS.N. O. E. CHAMBRRLAIK. FL.IXX & CIIAMBERLIIS, Attorneys at LaAV, -di-B-Vr. - OREGON. , OFFICE-In Foster's new brick block, first door to the leu, up rtairs. vllnlS J. C. POWELL. W. K. BILYBU. PO WELL & BIL YJEU, Attorneys at Law and Solicitors . in Chancery. ALBANY, J,j ORKOOS. COLLECTIONS pi omptlv made on all points. Loans negotiated on reasonable terms. Onice in Foster s new uiouk. iimv.ii J. It. WEATHEBFORD, (KOTABT FUBIXC. - Attorney at Law. a ALBANY. f ' : Jft?OK. WILL PRACTICE IN THE DIFFERENT courts of the Slate. Special attention Kiv- en to collections and probate matlerj. offick In Odd Follows' Temple. nvlO D. R. 3. BLACKBIKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AI.BAW, OKEUOX. nno.ni'T ATTENTION CIVE3I TO ALL a ouainess. Jvs K. B. HCHFESIT. C. E. WGlTtRTOH, Iluraplirey Sc. IVolverton, Attorney and Coansclor nt l.nw. "ITT I L I. PRACTICE IV ALL THE COUSTS T of thisSrute. Opfh-k in t roman's orick (up staii-si Albany, Oregon. nn V.. II. MOXTAXXE, Attorney at Law, ALBANY, OREGON. FFICE Upsiairs, over John Brlggs' storej KJ on First street. vlinlo C. II. HEWITT, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office, Old Post Office Building, Albany, Oregon XTILL PRACTICE in the different Corirts of t Corirti vllnda V T the Slate. I. 31. COX LEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW f FFICE In Farrlsli block, north side First liimi, fiiuiuij, ""- , . All business pron-ptly and carefully attended vl In ri'Z to. MEDICAL. IB. IS. S. CIIfHCIIILL, llemoaopalhic Pfcystelan Sargreou, OFFICE -In Prtrr':sh' brick. Albany. Oregon. Chrmiiu disea-nw a Uptciahy. Can be lining at my office at all hours ot the day or nlht. when not proiessiouaiij 3. SIBSIA , 31. (SUCCESSOR TO BB. HEIWER.I -FFICE AND KESIDESCE -On Second St., KJ near Albany Kngine Co. No. One's engine Albany, Or.. Jan. 9, 1880-vl2nl5 B. II. SAVACS, U. D.f Physician and Surgeon, Fromans's Brick, np stairs, First street. i Albany, Oregon. -I2nlU C. C. KELLY, M. PHYSICXA2T S5 STJEaSOlT. AI.BAVY, onnaosr. OFFICE IN McIL WAIN'S BKIC14 Bi...tv. Residence one door north of broom "te'e ry, Lyon street. llvlS D. W. BALLASD, M. P. t. K. POWELL, . O. BALLARD & POWELL, Physicians & Surgeons, LLBASOJi, OREGON. OFFICE At Lebanon Drug Store. 12n2 JVMIS F. AVIHTIXG, ARTIST, Fresco, Sign, Scene, A U Pictorial Painting. DESIGNING A SPECIALTY. Rooms 6 and 7. Parrlsh block, comer First and Ferry etreets, Albany, Oregon. I. CJr CLARK, SUCCESSOR TO I. B. WT ATT, aealer In Heavy anil Shelf Hardware, Iron, Ktei'l nod SteenanfcV Tools, Firet door east of . E. Young, ALBANY, (vlln9) OREGON. ST. CHARLES HOTEL, ALBANY, : - OREGON, Mrs. C. HouK, Proprietor. THIS HOUSE has been thoroughly overhaul ed and renovated, and placed in first class condition for ihe accommodation of Its guests. ;ood Satnnle Room for Comuiei-cfal Travelers. General Staae Office for Corvallis. Independ ence and Lebanon. Free ConcU to anl fruni the house. vlln4U TITUS BROS Jewelers, Albany, : Oregon. REGULATING TIM E-PIECE9 ft BEPAIP ing Jewelry a specialty. Cajl. vllnl7 Agents far "Aew roe" Sewing? Hbt ohluee. week in your own town, ta otitflt free. edOONorlsk. Reader. II von want a business at which persons of either sex ean isiake jtrreat pay all the time when tbey work, write for par UeTilarVV H. II AXtJUirrr A Co, Portiaad, Me. An Arcadian Ke venue. "Depend upon it, rny dear sir, there is a system of compensation : I, for ex ample, occupy a position in tbe country beyond my talents, wliilo you possess talents that ate considerably above what is necessary ahem to a person of your condition ot life." ; ' This amazing speech was addressed to me confidentially in the smoking room of our common club one night, by Mr. Dornoway-Dicke, after we had dined together for the first time. It was late in August : the club was emp ty, and I had invited him to join tables, though I knew Jfiirn to be an ass, rather than to dine alone. The Lad man may take a solitary meal without moral damage, and even to the public advan tage, since the custom is unwholesome, and tends to shorten life ; but j to the good man it is harmful. His thoughts constant as the needle to the pole to what is pute and good.i are naturally attracted to himself, and his benevolent actions, hi excellent motives, his whole blameless career, pa8 in review before his eye, and he becomes sell coiiEtious ad self-complacent. Rather than run the lisk of this, having ordered my own modest repast, I ; looked j up at Uoriioway-JJicke, who,' with Ins glass painfully fixed in his eye, was scanning the same "limited carte" for the day, in doubt (as I guessed) about the Frtnch dfches, and observed, "Shall we dine together?" and he had j replied courteously, "Charmed, I am sure." As a matter of fact Mr. Dornoway- Diclce was a man not easy to charm ; it was not in genius (though up to that date I don't think it ever had tried it) to do so; and I believe even Beauty her Self would have failed in the attempt, itn- le-s she had had a title to bactt her. Mr. Dicke's weakness was for a lord; a very common ore, of course, but in his case unusually pronounced. His conversation was studded with titles as the firmament is with stars : and he was in refpvet to them what Mr. Car. lyle, in relation to spirUuai things, calls "terribly at ease in Zion that: is, he was shockingly familiar with enrls and viscounts, while as to baronets, he would fefer to them by their Christian j name?. To say that his views upon all matters were commonplace would have been flattering to his intelligence; they were conventional to sublimity. 'Ghost stories are absurd," j argues Coleridge, "bf-canse, though men tell us they have had such an experieneej if a man did really ever see what he actul- believed to be a ghost, idiocy wou'd at once supervene." Tint I firmly believe that Dornoway-Dicke would have seen a ghost without the least injury to his intellectual powers ; not because he was already an idiot, but (independently of that) because so unconventional a sub ject ai the supernatural had never en tered his mind. If the ghost had a title, then, indeed, an impression might have been made ; but it would have been produced by his temporal, not his spirit ual, lordship. In all matters which ex ercise the human mind, from theology to American bowls, he took not the faintest interest ; but I had been inform ed and warned that upon the sub ject ot the digui y and position of the Domowoy-Dicke family he could, ai d would, he very diffuse it yon were not careful. He was a man,, in frhsrt, to nod to but not to speak with, unless the means of escape were bandy, j Slil', late in Aneust at a London club one cannot afford to bo particular;, ami having uch strong moral reasons for not dining alone, I had to dine ; with Dornoway-Dicke. j There waa one circumstance, how ever, which really did attract me tow ard this gentleman and made me wish for a closer acquaintance. It was a much debated question ! in the j club whether he wore a wig or not, and I j wanted to solve it. If he did so (for even after dining with him I wan not sure) they were the best Wigs that ever were. I say wiy, because lie must have had lots ot them, for his hair was sometimes short and sometimes long and sometimes pist as it ought to bo in the case of a fashionable young gentle man of fifty-four, for there was this disadvantage about, the', distinguished position of the Dornoway-Dicke family, thaf, being in the . peerage though it must be confessed in a very remote!! and "presumptive" tashion ithe.nian'sji age was known to a nicety. There! was then this point (as to his wig) to be cleared up, which promised .me some little excitement, and I was also curious to know whether lie - talked ot i"the Land" as it were" iive "which , I j was assured he did. My information up on this point, as it turned out, was cor rect. The one supreme effort ot origin ality which Mr. Dornoway-Dicke had made was to personify the landed inter est in this peculiar fashion. "What the Land wants, sir," he would observe very slowly and majes tically (so that you had plenty of lime to 6nggest to yourself "top dressing'4 coprolites," and what not), "what the Land wants, sir,1' he always re peated this charming phrase, "is fair play." "The Laud" wanted bo many things in the course of oar conversation at dinner, that I had begOu to think it somewhat exacting, - and indeed to get a little impatienf'of Mr Dornoway Dicke himself. But I am never, or at least hardly ever, discourteous, and though bored to' extremity, like a wooden ship exposed to the action of the teredo navalis, I endured it as though I had been made of iron. I had asked the man to dinner, and in one sense had certainly paid for it, ?o telt constrained by the duties ot hospi. tality to be civil till the meal was over When it was finished and we repaired to the smoking room 1 had no such scruple. "The Vine," says the classic author, "is the Evoker of Truth," and this is even still more the case with the Cigar. Imagine then my indignation at that amazing remark of my compan ion, "I, tor example, occupy a pos'tion in . the country beyond my talents ; while you possess ta'ents that are con siderably abovo what is necessary ahem to a person ot your condition in lite." "Pray,' said I, "Mr. Dornoway- Dicke, confine your observations to yourself, as you generally do. As to, your talents, I have no reason to doubt your own modest estimation cf them, but as to your position in the country I was not aware that you had any I hope this was not rude. spoke in the gentlest tones of which the human voice or at all events my voice is capable,, and in a manner that was certainly winning, for I felt that I had tcored. To my astonish rnent Mr. Dornoway-Dicke remained quite unruffled; he carefully removed ihe ash from the erd ot his cigar with hi signet ring, and answered quietly; almost humbly, "You quite mistake tue. I said my position in the couutry. ot which, as you tell me, you know nothing. You are not then familiar with Mangel wurzelshire?' I was certainly not. I had heard of it, of course ; bur I felt myself fortun ate in not having to spell it. "Ah, I thought so," be continued, blandly. "You should corns down to Dornoway Court and see me at borne Then you would understand why I don't ottener visit London. In town I am, comparatively speaking, nobody ; hut in Mangelwurzeishire what do you say, now, to runn'ng down to us for the first week in September ?" Five minutes before I should have said "No'' without the s ightest hesita tion ; but the outrageous vanity ot the man's manner tickled me to the core. I felt curious to ee those natives ot Mangelwurzeishire to whom Mr. Dorno way-Dicke appeared to be a person of importance j and moreover, I had not yet discovered whether he wore a wig or not. "The worst part of a wig," cays the old riddle, "as of love, is the parting ;" but Mr. Dornoway-Dicke's parting was perfect, and so delicate that one would have almost said it had beeu effected by a female hand. Among the simpler inhabitants of Arcadia be might take less extreme precautions to deceive the public ; and he certainly would not get his hair cut, it cut it ever was, so often. "I will come to Dornoway Court with pleas ure," I said ; and on the appointed day I went. Important as my host's position in the couutry may be, it is not ray in tention to describe "Mr. Doruoway Dicke at homo"- as though he were a public character. Suffice it to say, that he was belter at home than abroad, or at least in London ; and as bis family were pleasant people and bis bouse full ot cheerful company, I did not regret my visit. .The . "Court," as beloved to call it, was-, however, so peculiar that I must say a few words about it. It was the only edifice with which I am acquainted which gratified one's sense of humor. . It was quite spick and. span as respects newness, bnt built and furnished in the - medieval style A gravel drive, Boiled to perfection, led np to a frowning entrance,' with a huge oaken portal in which was in-1 serted a little hole "barred with iron for purposes of espial. Through this the porter was supposed (though be never did it) to take cognizance of the approaching visitor, and it peaceful, to unbar the massive bolts of the great door to let him in. Everything in the house was apparently of the same epoch, but in reality about three years old. In the dining-room was a fire place as big as an ordinary parlor, and before which one would not have been surprised to see a pair of trunkhose air ing, or a couple -of jack-boots. The sideboard, to the modern and inartistic eye, resembled a krttlen dresser ; while in the morning-room was a spinning wheel with the flax in it as though the thrifty housewife had just been called away from that occupation to superintend the construction of a venison pasty, or to issue orders for the enter tainment of the company invited to the morrow's tournament. These ridiculous objects as I soon discovered, were designed to pursuade the public that the Dornoway-Dickes themselves were medieval, and had re. sided at the "Court" tor the last six hundred years, whereas, as a matter ot fact, they were new comers. In the country, even though you are distantly connected with the peerage, this is a serious obstacle to "position," and the whole ot my host's gigantic intellect was concentrated on attaining it. He had been "called upon" at once by every one in the country witin a circuit of twenty-five miles, except One. j write it reverentially with a capital O, for it was "The Duke." I am not of course speaking ot the late Duke of Wellington ; in Mangelwurzeishire, as in every other county, the duke was the duke who lived there; His Grace of Turniptops. This divinity was still a young man,, unmarried and not much given to catling on anyljody, and for three long years all the efforts of the Dornoway-Dickes had been unavail ing to induce hini to honor the "Court" with bis august presence. Two months ago, however, he had sent his card by a mounted messenger, and one mouth ago, oh, joy of joys ! he had accepted an invitation to a garden party at the house for one ot ihe very days on which I was to remain its uest. It was just after this gracious promise had been giveu that Mr. Dornoway Dicke had made his appearance at the club to make arrangements with Gunter ; and now that I knew the circumstances, I was not only surprised at the magnificence of hi deportment on that occasiou, but astonished that he should have been so affable as he was. My private impression is, that I e asked me down to Dornoway Court not so much from personal affection as to secure an additional witness to his social triumph; but that t neither here nor there. The Duke was coming, and the family were in a state ot ejc citement rarej I should hope, in Hau well, and not babitnaliy exhibited eyen at Broadmoor. The great subject of discussion among them for weeks had been: Who was to be invited to meet the Duke? and it was not exhausted yet. Everybody -who was anybody had been asked except the Tilbats ; and the knotty point that could not be settled, was, whether those people should be asked or not. Captain and Mrs. Titbat were their immediate neighbors ; their lawn tennis grounds were in fact contiguous, and the two families, though not ab solutely on a friendly footing, were well known to one another. Young Titbat, when a player was wanting, had sometimes even been invited to make up the part at their favorite amusement; and when the balls went over the wire fence that separated the two domains, the juvenile Tilbats did not pretend (as some young people would) that they were lost, but would honestly chuck them back again. Still the Tilbats were not among the county families, nor anything like it. Their efforts far more des perate than those of the Dornoway-Dickes had miser ably and utterly failed in that direction. It was not so much that their man sion was too small to be reckoned as a country bouse ; that their s paddock could not by any straiu of courtesy be called a park ; or that their ornamental lake was an undeniable pond. There was something amiss I never could find out what about Mrs. Titbat. 5 She was a woman I onco beheld her,, and under circumstances I can never forget of large proportions and hirsute aspect (indeed, she bad a very v. - 'J I ; vil':-;: respectable beard) ; . her complexion was rubicund, and to the uncharitable might seem to indicate that she indulg ed in liquor, though I never beard that she did o. Whatever was wrong with her had happened so long ' ago lhat it would have been much ; better and kinder of her fellow-creatures to have forgotten it. My impression is; that instead of rushing into matrimony with the imprudence of most young couples, Captain Titbat and herself had exercised an unusual pradence, and had not got themselves indissolubly united till time and trial bad shown them to be suited to one another. However that might have beerr, Mrs. Titbat was not "vUited," nor would the Dornoway-Dickes have : dreamed of asking her to their garden-party except for that contiguity, to which I have referred, of their lawn-tennis grounds. The Duke, it was known, was devoted to the game ; and it the two grounds could be thrown into one, it was felt by all the family that it would have been an immense improve ment. This could scarcely be done, however, without asking Mrs. Titbat's permission and also the pleasure of her company; and upon the whole it. was judged best to leave- matters as tbey vere. The wire fencing between the two lawns was so very slight that tbey really looked to be one and the" same, and as there was plenty of giound for the Duke to play upon, fie would pro bably never discover that both the lawns did not belong to Dornoway Court. " - In the course of" the intimacy that ex isted between the junior members of the two families, the young Dornoway-Luckes, with a frankness characteristic ot their age. had told the young Titbats that the Duke was coming on Friday to playiiawn-tennis bnt that noboily but tip-top (not Titcat) people were to be asked to meet him ; nor was even this the worst, for it ' had been hinted by elder members of the family, In view of the suggested amalgamation of tha tennis-grounds, that such good neigh bors as Captain and Mrs. Titbat wouhl cer tainly be inciuded in the Invitation list. To explain what follows I must add that Mis. Titbat herself wasT firmly persuaded that she would be among the guests, ' and was transported with the idea of it ; for the being asked -to meet the Duke of Turnip tops' (as was stilted on the cards) was !n Maiigelwurzelsliire like being presented at court, and ot once both whitewashed and gilded the Invites. One has heard of the be ot tlie tigress when robbed of her yonnjj, but 'A hat is that as compared with the state ot mind of a lady ot blemished reputation who ha3 persuaded herself that it will be rehabilitated, and that in the most splen did fashion, and then suddenly finds that she has been given the cold shoulder ? Mrs. Titbat had actually ordered a dress from London in which to appear before II is grace of Turniptops, and the sight of it, as it hiuig useless in her wardrobe, en venomed her whole being, as though she had worn it, and it had been the garment of Jfessus. She clutched the skirts of Hope to the very last, but when Friday morning ar rived and no invitation had come It fled from her soul, and was replaced by the desire for vengeance. If the Dornoway Dickes could but have known what was passing in that Injured lady's mind they might have been reminded of those warn ing lines I,est when our latest hope Is fled je taste of our despair. And learn by proof in some wild hour bow much the wretched dare ; Or even if that quotation had not occurred to them I am quite sure they ''would have asked her to their garden party even at that eleventh hottr. . The guests arrived, and In due course that is to say, exceedingly late the Duke. The meeting of his Grace and my host and hostess was positively-affecting; I thought Mr. Dornowny-Dicke would never leavo off shaking his hand, and that his wife would have kissed it; However, he got away at last to luncheon. About 200 peo ple sat down to it ; a select 20 on medieval chairsj and the rest on much more com fortable but common ones. A dozen of the last had been borrowed, d.tys ago, by the housekeeper without her mistress' knowledge, from the Titcats. The host enjoyed himself as most people do under similar circumstances, that Is to say, he was Intensely miserable and anxious, but buoyed up by the thought that It would all be over presently, and- he would have 'his friend, the Duke ot Turriiptops," to talk about for the rest o'f his natural life. After luncheon we all repaired to the lawn- tennis ground. - - ; "What a capital lawn you have I" ob served the Duke ; and what a . good plan that Is of dividing your ground." ! ; He was referring, of course, to tbe Iron fenclug. . . , a' "It was a plan of my wife's, observed Mr Dornoway -Dleke i for" as the other lawn was vacant theyj was really no '-need to intimate that It belonged to somebody else. 1 ' A gilt youth of the..county with ' 6ne of its gilt young ladles was selected for "one side, and his Graejj a'ud Miss Doruowny. Dicko tor the other. . The rest ot ths . com pany stood round in' attitudes of respectful admiration'.- They were just about to be gin when ; the 1 Duke observed; ' "Hullo, What the duce is this ?" ' -'- The exclamation was caused by the ap pearance ofMrs. Titbat, splendidly stttred. and followed by - all ' her maid Serradts i some of them carried baskets of linen, and others liner and clothes props.' In tbe" few minutes the whole of the Titbat 1 fam- ly linen was hanging on the' line ; some ot the articles were very pronounced- In shape, end became more so when Inflated by the breeze, which also- as .they, were purposely hung close to : the wire- fencing carried their graceful iolds right over i tha Duke' bead ; -'d ' The game was teun, init present'ra ad immense petticoat broke looser ,od-- fW eddying drtfuHy for a -foW- rnonrenU settled nporrthefDUfcetoMl,ti0Bferg ed frota it with difficulty ad with -.fear ful execration." He threw down his racket and said something, I- could not Catch ; indeed, I fled into a neighboring arbor'Atid gave myself up Ho- such paroxyama of mirth as almost threatened me -wlta-dl-olution, j . I was consciou of great 'excitement among the company without, and hearcf what sounded like the burned departure of some of them, but t was positively; mi capable Ot ascertaining what was going on. The vision -of all Mangelwurzeishire' noblest as they1 stood around that fatal place, and pretended to Ignore the fact that the very firmament was darkened - above them by the, Titbat; family linen and then the spectacle of that'pettlcoat descend ing upon his Grace's brow, and , ot- fcim self emerging lrora it, s was always too much tor oe. - I sat In the arbor and Xirh wept. Presently, after several severe, re- lapses, I became conscious of a companion; Beside me sat a little man, bald.as a,- knob on the center of a tront door, and swearing softly, and, as it were, thoughtfully to bin! self. It was only by his voice that I, re cognized Mr." Dofdoway-DIcke. "My dear Dicke," 1 murmured, , for t felt it necessary to say something, "why are you here ? Why are you not entertain lug (I dared not venture to mention the' Duke) your guests ? i "He's gone," he said .jit was plain b was only thinking of on ot them. "It was all on account of that infernal.. Mrs; Titbat. It's her own petticoat ; It is mark ed with an M and a T." " I nodded, and held put my hand, at though to entreat him to spare himself the recital of the catastrophe.; , I fdt ready ti expire. "But are all of the rest of the people gone ?" I murir.u ed. v ' Vhfit-do rWrof Ye. "Wo. .What - ' terrible day !" " "But, mydear Dicke," I said, i)rgin ning sincerely to pity him, "it will never do for you to stop here ; you must not d sert your friends.1'. , " . "Xo that's true," he answered, rising feebly and moving tdward the house.-. . I "But you have forgotten something. i "Havel? What? Oh yes, my wig. w It lay on the floor of the arbor where ha had flung It Iii his frenzy. He stopped and put it on mechanically, " and hind ' be-' fore-... This I veutured to remedy., and b thanked me in feeling tones. "Do you think he will ever come again ?" he whisper ed, eagerly. "He ' was very angry He thought they were our own clothes hing ing out to dry. I showed him the AI and T, but he would pay no attention.- ' It 1a a dreadful Mow.'' - 1 ' K s And it fealfy hurt poof irn'owayi Dicke exceedingly.' He bad not risen tbe next morning when I came op to town, and all the family were very much depress ed, as though there bad been a death to tW house. He bas been to Club once since," In a more beautiful wig than ever,- but ot course it can never deceive mi. -" I asicd. "How are all at home?" ' "Pretty well I thank you,"" he sattj; "that is, as well as can be expected. He" .has never been near the place since." ' Of course I knew that by, tbe personal pronoun lie meant "the Duke. JamM Patn. .. '.:.' Tbey were sitting silently by the parlor fire, intently watching the bands 6f 'tha clock as they slowly crawled aronnd to the biggest striking place.' Suddenly she said: "Mr. Lonrdand, can you tell me wfijf yda are like a century plant?" Mr. ii nerv ously adjusted Jiis. eyeglass, wiggled about in bis chatr and stammered : Be be be caw cause I shsh shall I live Tor" for for forever ?" 'fNo y6u dunce; tt'a because It takes you so long 'Iff leave."" : One of the prettiest belles of a' skating' rink near London was fascinating a whole lot ot admirers by her graceful evolutions in a Canadian skating costtfhje. Sudden ly she had a hard fall, and m ber scram bles tore her left stocking with the points of her riht skate. 8he gracefully recover-1 eo, and was skating away when she beard! them laughing behind her. fche indignant ly looked back, and found she had , marked Iter path by a line of sawdust,; while ber left ankle was no longer as shapely as tor fnerly! """- ' ;----J,- - A Floating bottle picked up at Portland Oregon, a few days ago, a"f Bote atatf n that the trafortuqate writer was at tlie bot tom of the river, and urged" that"" his 'wife be nodfiod of the fact.' The lady In ques tion should hot marry hi fiasJey Jest coai plications' result. - Thia ,. may new Oregen style ot cheap divorces. It will be: better to ,-seea connrumtorv yiucii.w . -..v.. ' ' - y.-.. .'':- y '- A grand sham fight is to coma tZt St. Petersburg,- whtch ws:l f 'K lets a chance to blow tha buL pnntde ground. ' T" V- ' Ue Csat-TS ailure, - i : " 1 i V -v If"? L t V 1 1 . V.