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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1905)
AN OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN. N clew, briliant thinker she, With college record and deftrpe, Hhe baa not known the paths of fame. The world has never beard her name. Home is her kingdom, lore her dower Bhe seeks no other wand of power. Arouud her childish hearts are twined. As round some reverend saint enshrined. And find all purity and good In her divincst motherhood. Ske keeps her faith unshadowed still Uod rules the world In good and ili. This sad old earth's a brighter place All for the sunshine of her face; Her very smile a blessing throws, v And hearts are happier where she goes, A gentle, clear-eyed messenger,. To whisper love thank God for her! 1 II. Montgomery in Congregation-alifct GENERAL TREPOTF, POLICE DESPOT OF ST. PETERSBURG. ,1113 night was dark and dreary; no moon shone in the heavens to light the paths of the late wayfarer. Even the electric lights seemed to have forgotten to throw their cheery glow over the scene. Down the darkened highway stealth ily crept the deep shadowy form oif a niun on mischief bent. Ills clothes were rough, his hot drawn low down over his eyes, and the collar of his coat was turned up, although it was not very cold. Now and again he would stop and listen, and when the) soliuary po-ilc-e-inan walked his beat near him once, tie darted Into a near-by doorway. Cautiously, keenly, he looked at every bonne until he came to one a little more pretentious than the rest Producing skeleton keys, he silently unlocked and opened the Bide door, let himself In and, by the aid of a dark lantern, he swiftly made his way toward the dining room. There, he knew, was the sideboard; on It would I be some valuable silverware, well worth his pains and he thought the table, too, might yield a rich booty. He was hard up for money, they had plenty and could spare a little just as well as not. But for the very people that house now sheltered, he, too, might be hap py, loving, love! and, above all, hon est His wife should wear the silks, the velvets he knew Mrs. Markham now flaunted. Often had he cursed her as she had passed him on the crowded street, drawing her rich skirts more tightly about her.lest they should locome contaminated by conitact with him. Him! What was ha to her? Nothing worse than nothing! Just such thoughts ran through his fevered brain while hunting for the dining room door. Into the room he went, and cast his light around. At the farther end hung a picture, over the mantel shelf. Going to the shelf be threw the nays upon it, and sud denly started back. He looked at the picture again. It was a likeness of himself! How came It there? "Oh, God of heaven," he murmured, "what does it mean? Is she here?" At one side was a smaller picture. As Ithe tiny ray of light fell upon it he saw the picture of a child, with his own brow, eyes and general expres sion. "My God, thou who hast been so Cood to me, spare my baby now! Oh, don't take my only comfort my only onel My buby, I cannot cannot part .with you!" From the other room, a low, sweet voice In agonized, pleading tones came obblngly to his startled ears. "Father In heaven, bless my baby's papa, he who never saw his child; send him back, oh God! Tell him, Lord, I love him now after all these long, heartbreaking years of silence, Just as nvuch as when I married him!" As the sweet tones became fainter and fainter and more broken, the man in the mask fell on his knees. With folded hands and liowed head, he mur mured: "My little faithful wife! It Is to good to be true. She has kept her love for uie, thank God, but she must never know how low I have fallen. Please God, I will turn about. I will. I swear It. I will be honest from henceforth!" And picking up the little lantern he silently turned, looked once more at the pictured face of the baby, and, making his way out be shut and locked the outside door and disappear ed down the sllont street a wiser, a better mnn. At first, for many a long month. It was hurd, uphill work trying to be honest, but those pleading words, that sweut wee baby face, were his guid ing stars, his guarding angels. One day a sweat, sad-faced little woman was hurrying along the street, and unknowingly, she dropped her glove. There happened along Just behind her a tall, handsome man dressed In well-fitting, new-looking clothes, who, as luck would have It was none other than the gentleman whose counte nance, when ha first appeared to us, iwi well concealed by a slouch hat and a black mask. He saw the glove fall, hurried forward and picked It up. I Bat ttoe crowded street was no place General Trepoff, the man of blood and iron, who now wields autocratic power as governor general of St Petersburg, comes of a family detested in Russia. Ills father, also a general, held the same position In the Winter Capital twenty-five years ago that his son now occupies. He was known as the "Emperor of St. Petersburg," and droshky drivers used to tumble off their seats, go down on their knees and bump their foreheads on the curb stones whenever he passed them in the street It was at the elder Trepoff that Vera Sassalltch, the first woman terrorist in Iiussla, fired a revolver, but the bullet went wild. Four attempts have been made to kill the present General Trepoff, but he seems to bear a charmed life. The present governor general won his gory record while chief of police at Moscow. There his "repressive" tactics resulted in the sacrifice of many lives. for the blessed, tender meeting he hop ed would follow the return of the dainty little glove. It Is said that "drop your glove, you'll meet your love," and when the little lady turned to answer the re spectful words of the gentleman who had touched her arm it proved no un truth in her case. It was just in front of the house. "Pardon me, madam, but I believe this glove belongs to you, as you drop oed It" he said. The words sent a thrill through her entire being. Eag erly she glanced up. "Charley, Char ley, don't you know me? Oh, Charley, It is none other! Don't you know your own Addle?" she cried, In a low, tense voice, looking pleadingly up at him. "Yes, my darling, I know you; it Is your own Charley come back once more, never to leave you again. Say you forgive me, pet and I will make you aa happy as I can." "Come in, Charley, come Into my own, our own, Uttle home, for, darling, this beautiful home is ours once more, I have worked hard for it, dear, but I have something else to show you More precious to me than all else be' side." And she led the way into a little room Just off the dining room, straight toward a small white bed. On It lay a child, sweetly sleeping. The parents knelt beside the bed, those two, long parted and so recently united, and then and there pledged once more their everlasting love. Angels seemed to tell the sleeping child the glad news, for the little face was wreathed In smiles, the blue eves opened wide and a curly head touched theirs. And the man shud dered to think how nearly he had lost all this, had It not been for his plan though not meaningly, or robbing him self and his wife. Truly, the ways of providence are mysterious, and Charles Uoardeau and his wife were drawn together at last. Indianapolis Sun. HONORS FOR NEGRO SOLDIER. Glossing the Boot. The teacher of English was hopeful although he had met with disappoint ments at every turn. "Now here Is an Interesting sltua tlon," he said, eagerly. "Let us analyze Juat what Is the meaning of the line 'Doth not Hrutus bootless kneel ' " "Why, I take it to mean that Brutus, being In a hurry, had come off with out his boots, sir," said the pupil, with bis usual promptness. Some woman somewhere (we regret a bad memory for details) said upon her deathbed: "I have bad a great many troubles, but the greatest never happened." Think of this the next time you are worried; isn't it over something that may never happen ? When Jacobs Oil Tho old monk cure, strong, straight, sure, tackles Hurts, Sprains, Bruises The muscles flex, the kinks untwist, the soreness dies out. Price 25c. and 50c. A Chef of Bolivia. COMMON STREET SCENE. Ia Bolivia a chef, who is an Invet erate gossip, Is enabled to see and hear everything that goes on. His stove Is portable, being made of a great stone hollowed out, with two openings, one at the side for fuel, the oilier at the top for the earthen saucepan; and he sets It up in the street, outside the door. Methods of High Finn nee. "How Is It that the company de clared a 10 per cent dividend last year and had a 10 per cent deficit this year with the same amount of business?" "They had to have the deficit to bal ance the dividend." Philadelphia Telegraph. AmDinon. Have a purpose. Airs less people never get anywhere. Hav ing lost ambition through disappoint ment of the smothering, dwarfing pow er of sin, they wander heedlessly from land to land. Others move home er boarding place regularly. Such folk) can do many odd Jobs, but master no great task. Rev. C. F. Relsner, Met, odlst Denver, Col. Endurance. ratience Is the calm endurance of those changes and suffer lngs that may come to us. Sailors say it is but lying to and riding out the gale. Paul says our God Is a God at patience. His great patience Is shows in the patience and perfection of crea tion, awaiting and abiding Its propet time and order. Rev. C. O. Jonea, Episcopalian. Atlanta. Ga. Abont Time. Father (of large family) My dear. Isn't it about time you were thinking cf getting married? Daughter Land snkes! I haven't thought of anything else for years. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES Itching, Wind, Weeding- or Protruding Pile. Your druKKlst will refund money If PAA OINT MENT lulls to cure you In 6 to 14 Any a. toe A gutta-percha and rubber manufac turing company of Toronto has made a belt for the grain elevator of the Inter colonial Railway at St. John which is on of ths largest ever prduced. It ia of rubber, and measures 3,209 feet. Its weight is nine tons. JAMES H. WOLFF. a mas H. Wolff to Head the Great G A. R. Parade. The parade of the Grand Army at its annual encampment in Denver dur ing the present year will -be headed by James IT. Wolff, a Boston negro veteran. Mr. Wolff has Just been elected Deoartment Com' mander of Mass'a chusetts, and as the parade la al ways headed by the leading officer of the department to which the com mander in Chief belongs, this dinstinctlon goes to Wolff. Gen. Blackmar, the Cominand ei in Chief, being a resident of Mas sachusetts, Wolff Is the first colored man to achieve such a distinction. He was born at Holderness, N. H., In 1S4M. At the breaking out of tht civil war he tried to enlist in a New Hamp shire regiment, but objection was made to bis color, and so he entered the navy, serving four years with great credit to himself. Then he went to Boston and studied law for three years, after which he took a two years' course In the Harvard Law School. and was admitted to the bar In 1875. He went to Baltimore shortly after ward, and after strong opposition was admitted to practice in the United States courts. Returning to Boston in 1880, he soon became conspicuous in Grand Arinv circles. Last year he was chosen Senior Vice Commander without opposition, and his election as Commander was nearly unanimous. The "Sleepy" Woodchuek. If there Is any one of our native anl mals that looks -slow, clumsy, "lazy" and generally unfit to survive In the struggle for existence It is the wood- chuck. After he has built, or, rather, excavated, his home which, to tell the truth, he does in a rapid and busi nesslike way he does nothing but eat and sleep. Yet anyone who sizes him up as an incompetent Is likely to get fooled, for he Is a source of continual surprises. . When your garden is not far from the woods you may be awakened in the middle of the night by a series of most alarming yells and howls, occa sioned by some hungry womk-h'uck that has come out for a nocturnal visit to the cabbage patch and met with a warm reception from our two dogs. The woodchuek usually gets away ap parently unharmed, while the dogs are left to nurse their scratched noses and forepaws. The woodchuek, In fact, has plenty of courage, and will always fight in preference to running away. Throughout the summer this little "wood pi?" spends most of bis time in the vicinity of his burrow, coming out early In the morning to take his break fast, returning to his nest for a morn lng nap, appearing again at noon and late In the afternoon for his dinner and supper, only to return for another snooze. Occasionally he makes a visit to some neighboring orchard of gar den. By October 1, when he is fat, he retires into his subterranean home for a long sleep, until, we are led to be lieve, the proverbial "ground-hog" day, Country Life in America. Motberi will And Mrs. Wlnilow's Boo thing Syrup the bent remedy tome ior their children durinf the teething period. , Hours the Same. Miss Budd When a man's engaged to a girl his Idea of "good hours" Is to stay from 8 o'clock until any time after midnight. Miss Oldun Yes, and even after marriage the hours are the same. Miss Budd Indeed! 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"Here it Is. Now, what do you catch them with?" "Hooks!" Philadelphia Record. A Definition of Marriage. Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, visiting a small parish in a mining dis trict in Pennsylvania, for the purpose of administering confirmation, asked one nervous little girl what matrimony was, and she answered that It was "a state of terrible torment which those who enter It are compelled to undergo for 'a time to prepare them for a brighter and better world. "No, no," remonstrated the pastor; that Isn't matrimony; that the defini tion of purgatory." "Leave her alone," said the arch bishop; "maybe she's right What do you or I know about it?" Overworked His "Best Man." It Is generally supposed that the services of a best man at a wedding end with the close of the ceremony and the departure of the happy pair, but it seems not Bridegroom of two months has Just utilized his best man again, this time to ervo divorce pa pers on the bride. 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