I
INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON.
VOL. I.—NO 22.
THE TWO MYSTERIES.
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ASHLAND, OREGON:
seventy feet to the surface, giving a
fine ventilation to the whole mine ; the
timbering is put up in a substantial and
workmanlike manner, which fact, after
viewing the firm nature of the wall
rock on either side of the veins, gives
permanence and security to the
works. Leaving the old tunnel we
went below and examined the new ono
on a
$2.50 PER ANNUM,
BESSIE.
Tile Bank Cheçk.
D anger of R ushing T hings —The
proposal. They weut out like two
officer
at tho hearing was about to add
children,
aud
he
offered
her
his
arm.
[In the middle of the room, in its
It wps a warm, bright day, and
It is rather difficult for an ignorant I
the
charge
of vagrancy, said tbe Read
white coffin, lay the dead child, a
pretty IDssie Willis looked longingly
The church was decorated, the sweet man to understand the ways of doing
ing
(Pennsylvania)
Eayle, when tba
nephew of the poet. Near it, in a
out from her window in the great breath of flowers filled the air, aud tho business at a bank, ft', like the colored
prisoner
said
:
I
great chair, eat Walt. Whitman, sur
hotel, with a home.ick feeling at her deep tones of the organ seemed to in citizen of this story, told by the De
“ Hold on, hold on, don’t you go that
rounded by little ones, and holding a
heart.
vite them to enter. It was early yet, troit /><-/ /’/r.xy, he cannot wr.te, and is
far.
I’ve been a citizen of Reading
beautiful girl on his lap. Tho child
“ I wish I could go out," she sajd and few people were there. They went asked to endorse u check, he is apt to |
twenty-five
years, aDd am no vagrant."
looked curiously at the spectacle of
softly to herself. “ 1 wish I dared go iu quietly, aud took a seat in a vacant be disgusted.
The
officer
then testified that for tho
death, then enquiringly into the old
out alon?, for Herbert never thinks of pew*. Something in tbe hushed and
A colored resident of Detroit, who is
past
five
years
be had pieked tbe pris
man’s face. “ You don t know what it
me any more than ho would of a statue holy cbarrn touched Bessie’s homesick the owner of a cast-iron horse and an
LOWER LEVEL,
oner
out
of
the
gutter time and again,
is, do you, my dear ? ” said he, adding,
heart, and, dropping her face upon her old wagon, was hired to draw some dirt
set ia a niche."
and
that
he
believed
tbe prisoner wai
Eighty
feet
deeper.
This
tunnel
iB
“ We don’t either.”]
Herbert was her brotbor, lodging in hands, she wept quietly.
for a yard on Beaubien Street, and
ont
of
work
and
had
no
regular bom“.
We kno# not what it is, dear, this Bleep bo deep and now in 118 feet with sixty feet yet to go i some remote room of that same big
It was a curious position for a grave when the work was completed the own- (
still ;
before striking the vein. The work on bouse, aud sometimes she would not and dignified bachelor to find himself er of the premises handed him a check
“ Hold on, hold on ; that’ll do ; don't
The folded hinde, the awful c dm, the cheek bo p;i.le
this
is
still
more
substantial
than
above;
go
any further," said the man.
and chill;
■ see him for days together.
in, sitting beside a 6trange young lady, for S7 50.
“
Well if you’re a vagrant," said tha
The lids thu will not lift agdn, though we any call there is & track laid over which the
They were all alone in the world— hearing her sob, and yet uot knowing
" Is dut a seven dollar and a half
and cdl -
rock
from
the
excavation
is
run
out
on
mayor,
“ we might send you up for
this bright young sister and her merry- what comfort to oft'er her.
bill? ” asked the colored man, turning
The etr.i ng-, white solitude of jieace that aettlei
I
hand cars. The work on the mine is I i hearted careless brother. There bud
thiity
days.
Has be got any money to
over ail.
Presently she raised her head and the check over and ovey, and regarding pay his fine, chief ? ’’
pushed
forward
with
all
dispatch,
run
We know Dot whit it mean?, dear, this desolate
been a littlo property left them when
it will» great curiosity.
ning night and day. I omitted to men I their parents died, and as soon as Her smiled.
Be art p-i i.
“ Eighty cents,” said the chief.
?»
< *
“ That is a check on a bank,” was the
“ Please let’s go out,” she said . ‘T
This dre.ul to take our dt-ily walk.*ul walk iu it tion, while speaking of the ore, that it
“ That is not enough/'continued the,
bert was twenty one years of age be do not want to slay here any longer.” reply. " Take it down there and get
a® in;
contained
a
considerable
amount
of
mayor,
“ and I guoss we’ll have to—’’
AV e ku >w nut to what otter sphere the loved who
sold it, and, taking tho proceeds, hur
So they went out again into the cool your money."
le.'iVe us g >,
silver to which the blue color spoken ried away to London uitii his sister in
“
Hold
on, hold on, your honor," said
“ De feller at de bank owes you, does
Or why we re wfi to wonder still, or why we do not
Spring air; and Bessie talked of her
of
heretofore
is
due.
The
rilvc
r
prospect
the
prisoner,
“don’t be in too much of
know.
! charge, only too eager to make his old home—of her mother, who was oue he ? ” was the next query.
increases
as
they
go
down
on
the
vein.
fortune iu tho world.
But this we know ; Or loved and dead, if they should
"I have money there, and he will a hurry. Don’t be too sudden about
of tbe sweetest an.! kindest of women ;
Fearing that wo should exhaust the
this thing. We’ll see about eighty
c >uie Luis day—
He thought he could easily obtain uf her preseut loneliness, and by and hand you §7 50. ’
Should come at <1 aek u«, “ What is life ? ” not one patience of the obliging superintendent !
“I dunuo ’bout dat,” slovly re cents.”
f us could say.
we again mounted our horse and started some pleasant and lucrative situation, by of IlvrbCtt, her handsome, cheery marked the colored citizen. " S'posen
Tbe man then stuck his left band mi-
I.fs is a iu)8ter> deep as ever de tth can l>*,
Yet uh, ho* sweet tide life to us, this life we l.ve for tho mill men ; we found Mr. J. K. but situations were not so easilv found, i brother, of w hom sue was so proud.
der
his vest and drew nut a roll ot
He ought to be a very happy fel I go down dnr an’ he says dis yere green- backs as thick as his wri^t.
uad < ee !
Glasby, superintending engineer, who and prudent, practical little Bessie
document is an order on a hardware
Then must they any, these v mished ones-and hies eel had just arrived from San Francisco, knew tLat their small fortune was low* to Lave a sister so devoted to him,”
“ Whut do you call this ? ’’ said hi%
8 tor©.
us the Uiougui—
wasting slowly, week by week.
said the mau.
and
Sir.
E
D.
Thorn,
foreman,
of
the
“
does that look tramp or vagrant-like A
“So de .th i. »weet to us, Iteloved, though we may
“ Oh, it will be all right," replied
“ Everybody loves him,” was the en
She knew it was useless to talk of
tell ye u.ught;
works, busily engaged with a oerps of
Guess
not I bow much is my fine? ’*
We may not tell it to the quick -this mystery of workmen energetically pushing the ♦ his to Herbert ; it only fretted and thusiastic reply. “ But, oh,” and her, the cit’zen, and he started down town and he unrolled the bills, took out
deal h —
voice fell again, “ho does not know any- ! and leit tbe negro looking at the back dollar and a quarter, paid it over an I
Ye m >y uot ’ell us, if ye would, the mysUry of work forward. We found them both annoyed him, and he told her often
of tbe check. When he reached home
breath ! ”
courteous and affable gentlemen, ready what a paltry stock it would all be thing about money; be is paying out ut night his creditor was there and put tbe rest in bis pocket, He
The child who en ters life c >mes Dot with knowledge and willing to answer our most imper compared with the wealth he was go all we have, and making no provision
waiting. Holding out the check the then discharged. In going ont ha
or intent,
ing to accumulate. So she drew away for the futnre ; he pays now more than negro
tinent
questions.
We
cannot,
of
course,
said : “ Always remember to hold oq
said :
Bo th
who eu’er death must gj as little children
three
pounds
every
week
for
our
board,
from
him
and
only
answered
his
merry
give
our
readers
an
idea
of
what
thia
$ent,
“ Dis yere paper doesn't seem to be a bit. Don’t Tosh things." He smiled
kiothing u kuown. Jiut I believe that God is over mill will look like when completed ; at “Good morning, little pigeon,” or and he ought not to.”
good-naturedly and departed.
ite» >;
“ But what can he do?” asked Mr. ! worf a cent. I took it down dar, and
careless
“
Good
night,
sis,
”
with
a
present
the
building
is
all
framed
and
A -d (.8 hie Is to the living, so death is to the do d.
de feller in de bank looked at it and
P rizes .—L. Samuel, publisher of the.
as soon as the excavations are completed pleading smile or a grateful nod. But Herbert.
“ I waut him to take two or three looked at it, and den looked at me,
VISIT TO THE L'. C aì ’ QUEEN.
will be raised ; the building will be this Sunday she was so tired and lone
SJioret offers in prizes tbe 6um of
and den he stuok up his nose and
ly, she wondered if .she could not win rooms unfurnished, aud let me keep yelled
eighty
dollars, for best articles for
21x69 feet, The mill will have
out, ‘What’s yer name an’ whar
house ; it would give me something to
Herbert's
attention
for
a
little
while.
On the morning of tho 18th inst.,
publication.
The first prize, a “Web
TEN STAMPS
and be ever so much cheaper for you live ? ’ I tole him mighty straight, ster’s Unabridged Dictionary,"-yalued
They did not even sit at the same ta do,
after a very pleisiut entertainment at And tho ore will be worked by the A.
an’ den he wanted me to write my name
us."
on
de back, an’ fool around, an’ fool at §13, is for the best composition by
the h me of Mr. J. I*. TilTi and lily, B. Paul dry process. Tue ore is first ble iu the long dii.ing-room. for Hur
The man smiled at her wem inly plans,
bert
had
grown
iutim
ite
with
a
party
around, an’ I jist picked up de manu any boy or girl under 18 years of age.
wo set out iu the direction of the f.ir- heated an.l then thoroughly pulverize! of young gentlemen who boarded there and cordially said ;
The second pri^e is a §12 writing desk,
before water is applied. It passes from
" Yun aie right child, very right, script an’ wulkod out. De family is for tbe best composition by boys or girls
f a me I
and
there
were
no
Lelies
at
their
table
;
out of ’taters an’ meat, an’ I’d like to
the pulveriz r to the amalgamating
ft ky qrr.'.N’.
but, thinking ot the dear old home and Meanwhile, what is your brother do- settle dat account for postage atrfLps under 13 years, ’fhe third pri^e isSl.5,
barrel,
where
it.
remains
from
20
to
10
ing?”
Z The morning was intensely foggy
gold pain, for the best article on the
minutes au 1 is discharged into the of how long it was since they had
“ I do not know,” she said, in a very or shinplasters.”
resources of Oregon, written by any
talked
together,
Bessie
wrote
her
with a prospect of a bright afternoon. settler. At different pou ts connected
low voice ; “ I am afraid nut much oi
resident of the State. Tbe fourth
brother
a
little
note,
and,
stealing
down
I mproving on the . T ent . In the prize
. . , ,
,
anything.”
ajcording to tue ru’es of old aud with the settlor are globes connected
is §15 gold coin, for tbe bebk
from the bot om, filled with quicksilver i tn t’.,e ^'^»g-ronm just before time for
“ Well, we will see about that," was sensational play, “ Le Venguer,” an article upon thg resources of Washing
weather-wise inhabit.iiit-i ; but fur once
i
the
be
1,
she
1
tid
it
cluse
beside
bis
from within the sett'era ; the gold,
the reply; "but there is a bouse in actor, Hua d, bad to enter with three ton Territory. The sixth prize, is §25,
those indications proved d'lu.sive, and flu ling the openings into these globes, I plate. As she took her own place bo- Fort
Street, where the people are going or four other French sailors upon a
tho suu broke through and scattered sinks; when these globes are »¡.led with . side old Mrs. Yanders, she failed to away ou the first of May, and some one spune representing a ruined Bietou gold coin, for the best Christmas
story.
ttye maming fogs b it to make way for amalgam a plug uuder lock aud key is notice that some of the people at the must stay there duriug their absence. v.llage ; there they were to ambush
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other table had changed places, and a
A S hrewd E vasion —Two literary
noonday clou Is aud afternoon showers. opened and the contents discharged iu strange gentleman,-with a stern, pale There is a good housekeeper there, aud themselves and prevent tbe English
Leaving the Btaco r<>ad a half mile be- a gold-pan. The whole machinery is face, had taken her note from under you aud your brother can have what from landiog. Ricard bad do lines tq ladies were lately witnessed in a trial.
repeat, but considered it bis duty to Qne of them, uj>on hearing tbe usua(
youd Jump Off Joe, and traveling up
SELF ACTING
the edge of his plate. He read the ever rooms you please—”
distinguish
himself from his compan questions asked, “ What is your
‘
‘
Oh,
rir,
”
interrupted
Bessie,
“
are
the creek over a well beaten wagon Aud the o:e, after being sh vid n 11 e name on the outside—‘‘Herbert ”—
ions,
and
so
broke out :
you
in
earnest?
Can
wo
really
have
a
name?” and “How old are you?"
road, tpne and a half miles brought us j hopper, requires no more handling ; it und, looking vciy much puzzled, put it
"Great
Ciesar
1
behold
our
hearth
home
?
’
’
turned to her companion and 8aid,—
to the site of the future Luekv
Ouceu
ar
V
| only
requires two men on a watch. ii.t j his vest pocket. While waiting
“ Certainly, ch id : and I Jo uot won stones devastated as if the thunders of
“ I don’t like to tell my age ; not
Mill, where we found soma uozeu or The machinery will be driven by for the dessert he took the little missive
more men with hammers, saws, picks, Knight’s pat nt hydraulic wheel under out again, and, screening it by an ap der 30U long for a home after your iso the Almightv God bad been out for a that I have any objections to its bein>$
known, but I donl want it published
«hovels, frying pans, camp kettles,etc., ; fifty-seven fact full. If Winter does parentlv c.irelegs arrangement of bit! lated life in that great hotel ; but, to tell walk ! ”
“What’s that? what’s that?” said in all the newspapers.”
you the truth, I went from the Fort
busily engaged iu the various depart uot set in too early the mill will bo in napkin, read :
Struct house down there to board, be tbe author, who was conducting the
“ Well” said the witty Mrs----- , “ I
inputs of quartz mill building. Anx operation by t u first of December.
“
D
ear H erbert :—I would like to cause I was so confoundedly tired of rehearsal ; " hold your toDgue, go off will tel! you how to avoid it. You havo
loustoset’k the source of all th»sbustle Tho company commenced operations
some of the churches, if you do not parties aud receptions, aud flummery I and come on again.”
heard the objections fo all hearsay evi
wo deferred interviewing this portion ou the 12th d iy of 1 ist May, aud have see
mind
taking
me
in
my
Winter
dress.
liicard
considering
the
censure
vis
that
I
did
not
c
ue
a
straw
for.
I
will
dence
; tell them you don’t remembex
of the works uutil oar return from the , done a vast amount of work up to d ite.
I
will
wait
for,
you
in
the
parlor.
ited
on
tho
particular
form
of
words
go
back,
aLj
take
my
old
room
for
the
when
you
were bom, and all you know
mine which was located one aud a half Their stock, whio'u was started at ten
Please
come
up
immediately
after
<lin-
only,
retired
and
returned
jvith
the
ex
Summer,
”
of
it
is
by
hearsay."
Tbe ruse took, ami
miles above. Oa arriving in sight of cents a share, has long since been with
oer,
end
I
will
liav->
my
b
it
on.
aud
be
clamation
:
be
“
Can
jou?
Will
your
friends
the
question
was
not
pressed.
the mine we must confess to a feeling drawn from market ; it would now I
a'l
ready
to
start.
Yours,
lovingly,
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-------------
-
“
Ha
!
ha
!
the
English
brigands
willing
?
”
of disappointment. \Ve hi l been iu the readily bring §1 per bhare if offered I
B
essie . ’
have
again
come
here
to
shed
the
blood
D
idn
’
t
U
nderstand
F
rench . — A
The
man
laughed.
Labitof associating ste *p¡zigzaggrades, but no considerable amount could be
of
France
!
Let
U3
pulverize
England
facetious
Scotchman
s^me
time agQ
“
It
is
evidently
a
mistake,
”
the
man
he
“ My friends never dictate to me,”
over rugge I mountains, around pro- bought even at §29 per share. Before
to
death
!
’
took
a
trip
over
to
France,
and
aston
said
to
himself,
“
but
how
to
rectify
it
said ; " but we aro talking too much
cepitous cliff-», with the very name of closing H’G widi to say that tho Lucky
“
Enough
!
”
cried
the
author,
hold
ished
the
natives
there
in
no
small
de«
I
do
not
know.
”
So
he
went
up
to
the
business for Sunday."
jich geld and silver mines. But Lere Queen njine is a native of Jackson
ing
Lis
sides;
“
I
am
sorry
to
do
it,
gree.
In
the
hotel
where
be
put
up
iu
pnL>r
with
a
sort
of
guilty
feeling.
The girl grew thoughtful again, but
we found a good, level buggy road, C >uuty although tho mill is a mile aud
but
we
must
remove
Ricard."
Boulogne
tbe
servants
werp
newly-im
There
was
the
sweet
faced
girl
he
Lad
when they went up tbe steps together,
tunning bitween the gold ladeaed a 1 half below, iu Josephine C runty.
Ricard
did
not
unbosom
himself
for
ported
cockneys,
aDd
Mr.
M
,
who
is
a
i-een
at
the
table,
just
fastening
ou
her
and parted at the door, her face was ra
mountain ou one side and a fertile
I
hat. She djd not notice him ; but diant with a now light. She was goiug some days, till he met the manager. sterling wag, mystified them not a litt!,Q
MILTON ON HELL GATE.
grain full on the other, to the very
presently a group of young gentle to have a new home—she and Jlerbeit. “ Look be^e," fip said, “ that author is by his broad Scotch.
mouth of the tunuels. Here we met
John
Milton,
in
“
Paradise
Lost,
”
Getting np one moming rather earli
The great bouse was beautiful to look a good fe]low — I don't deny it, but
for tho first time Mr. Alim Asseil, the prophetic.illy anticipated tho achieve men came in, aud the sweet face
upon
my
word
be^does
not
allow
sn$i-
er
thau usual, he called a waiting maid,
superintendent of the mine, to whose ments of General Newton, when he de brightened visibly as the gill stepped upon, but the upper story had never
cient
independence
to
tbe
supes.
”
and accosted her with, “ Ftteh me mu
forward, saying :
been furnished. Here Bessie set up
courtesy w ^ k acknowledge ourselves scribes the opening of Lull by bin
to
+ ♦
—
shoon, lassie.”
“
Are
you
going,
Herbert
?
Did
you
her
household
shrine,
and
gathered
her
greatly iudebtud. He conducted us to permit the egress of Satan :
D
aniel
O
’
S
haughnejsy
,
six
weeks
“Ah,” said she, “I don’t understand
find my note?"
home-like treasures about her. Aud
his comfortable office, and, after see- “ Thus s iy rgt froui hfr side the f.it-1 key,
in
"
Ameriky,
”
thus
writes
to
his
sweet
’
French."
"
Note
!
”
qne
of
the
young
men
said.
here
her
brother
au»l
Mr.
Herbert
camo
fhg us fairly started iu on one eud of a Sid instrumeir of allotir wee, she took,
i I
< ♦
I bave seen no note ? "
every evening, to chat awhile—to pro heai t in Ireland :
£ue “ IJavana,” he called our attention And toward the gate re lit g he.-1> -ti »1 tr: i 1,
A
n old gentleman "Went out to shoot
“
Bridget,
dariinf,
come
across
to
Forthwith the h ige [ o.* curie h g i lip dre
“Allow me please,” suggested tho pose a ride, or plan some pleasant ex
io a large, blue looking piece of qurtz Wuich but herself ir>’. di t';e S j^i iu p.» vers
me—it’s rueself that’s doing a nate bis- partridges, accompanied by his son.
stranger,
taking the note from his pock carsiou.
taken from the mine but au hour be Could oil' e h ive move) ; then in th- k y bole turns
Tho gun was charged half way np to
’ iutti: i‘.e ward-, at d every l> ?lt and bar
et.
“Herbert bad gone to work in earnest ness with a son of Father Malone’s; the muzzle, aDd when at last the olj
fore, and weighing probably GO pounds, Th
i »r uaBsy ir.n or sold ro.ui with e ;se
sure
it
’
s
with
his
brother
I
mano.
He
“ Mr. Herbert ! ” said one of tLo Lis a wbitiou had taken a tangible form,
which, by a close tlamination with the i'nf is't-ns: on u sad 1-n o;>en fly
young
gentlemen, in a respectful tone. and f EJesSie fretted uo more about the keeps a w hiskey store and I does the gentleman started some birds be took
VV1
h
iin.ietu
ms
reioil
and
Jani'
r
sound
naked eye, we found free gold all over
’ in ern d djors, and on their hn "■ s gr U.e
“ 1 found this letter neside in y plate, future ] but, one day (the Summer had walien, lie tould me the ether even a rest and blazed away, expecting to see
it, and by means of a glass it proved Th
Hir-h lliunler, that the I • west bjlto.n etojk
and, as luy name is really Herbert, the passed (away, and the Autumn was wan ing that he had no money, and I tould some fall, of course ; but not so did it
to be literally studded with fine gold Of I-.reb'.i-. She oi»eued, but to shut
him that I would take part of the happen, for tbe gun recoiled with so
Excelie 1 herpoxer ; tt.egues wide open etojl,
idea did not occur to me that anyone ing latV), she said, suddenly :
on every inch of its surface. We next Tuat
much force as to “ kick " him pve5*.
wHh exiended wiuge a binnered Uo?t
“ MrAlIerbert, when your friends shtopk every Saturday as wages. ‘But,’ Tbe
proceeded to the various dumps and Under spread eu-ij 1« marcliiLg m’ght pass through else could bear the same name at the
old man got up, and while rubl in»
same table. Allow me, now, to deliver come back, who formeily lived here, ! says ho, ‘i-ure, Pat, if I pay yon that
examined the ore on them. There is With hqrse and cuarioie ranked in loose’ arraj
tbe
sparks
out of his eyes inquired of
The parallel between this splendid the perplexing missive to its rightful they will wimt their bouse, of course. way, I will soon have no shtock at all his son, “ Dick, did I point the rigb|
pn these dumps now from s:x to eight
We ought to be making some prepara left, and yon will soon have it all.’
hqndred tons of ore assaying from §7 poetry aud the superb prose of yester owner.”
Says I to him, SAys I, ‘sure you can end of the gun to the birds ? "
"And
that
is
me,
I
tako
it,” said tion to leave, ought we not? ”
to §32,000 to the ton, as shown by pa day is remarkable. The “ fatal key ’* is
Herbert
Willis,
laughing
merrily,
“ Oh, no,” he auswered ; “ they came work for me, then, and earat it back
pers in possession of Mr. Asseil. Qne the electric key ; the “portcullis,” the
L ighting S choolrooms .—Repeated
dump contains about 35 tons of select bombproof where tho batteries were I “ He re, Bessie, you know my two home a month ago, and are living some again, and so keep it up, aud be mas experiment lias proved that in school
ters month in and month out, anj
ore principally from the whintz (down stored ; the ‘ iutricate wards" ure the friends. Willson and ^Vaters ; und this where else.’.’
rooms lighted by windows on both
of us.’ ”
“ But what do they propose to do wages w ill come aisy to both ---
ward shaft) now being sunk. Ou wires and circuits ; the bolts aud bars is Mr. Herbert. My sister, Alisa W »1-
sides, the children suffer more or less
with thiir house? "
of “massy iron or solid rock” flaw open lis ”
entering tho
F amily P ortraij .— A gentleman from injured vision ; and so important
Mr. Herbert bowed, aud Bessie said,
“Well, they don’t own it. To tell in A Paris
suddenly in both gates, with the same
CJLD tunnel
paid a visit the qther dqy, to a has the subject been considered m
as Herbert twirled tho note in his lin the truth, Bessie, I own it, aud I pro
jarring
souud,
aud
ou
their
hiuges
grat
Our attention was called to a seam of
lady, in whose parlor he saw tbe por Germany, that a law has been pa»s< 4
gers :
pose to give it to my wife fur a bridal trait
ore struck at the very outset, eighteen ed harsh thunder, aud finally through
of a lovely woman, of, say, five- forbidding such disposition cf win
" Uan’t you go with me Bert ? ”
inches thick ; in the next 62 feet three the Heli Gate of the East lliver ships I “ I’m afraid not, to-night, pigeon,’’ present.’’
and
twenty.
Upon tho entrance of the blows in schools.
“To your wife?"
Other seams were struck, 12, 6, and 66 with “extended wings" will pass like a was the slightly hesitating auswer.
lady
her
visitor
asked her if tbe pie
Bessie’s face grew white as she spoke.
I roning S hirt «.—A correspondent
inches w’ide, on the letter of which baunered host. We regret that the
tare
was
a
family
portrait, and was told
“ Well, never mind,” she said, drop
if she would-like it. Tell me,
sends
this bint : “ One of the nicest of
they are now sinking their vybintz and comparison, to be complete must pre ping her wistful eyes, and loosening little Yes,
wotnau—it is you I want for my that it represented her deceased dangh laundresses gave me this fragment of
procuring their marvelously rich ore. sent General Newton as the counter her shawl.
ter. “ Has it been lon^ since you lost
wife—would you like the house ? ”
her experience in reference to starch
Mr. Asseil estimates that the ore taken part of siD ; but as he uulucked Hell
After
a
few
more
careless,
polite
“I don't — t iiuk — I caro much— her?” as-ked tbe peLt.eman. "Alas, ing shirts. She bqs noticed that the.
out from the commencement of their Gate on’a Sunday, Mrs. Grundy will be words, tue yoi;n« gentlemen went out
tho house/' said JLssie, her color sir,’ replied the lady, “shedied just bosoms never blister if she starches
old tunnel will more than pay all ex sure to discover the resemblance.—A'. together ; but Mr. Herbert lingered. about
after her biith aud I had her portrait
coming back again.
penses as they went and that the ore F. Herald.
painted to represent her as she would them on the right sidp, but if they are
He spoke some pleasant words to Bes
“
Bat
you
would
like
the
owner
?
Oh
!
wrong side out when stanched they are
already taken from their large vein will
“I think I'd like to see tlioso busy sie, and she tried to answer him with a Bessie, darling, don't flatter me so , havq appealed if she ^iad l^ved until ; apt to do so."
pay the entire expenses of the oompany little creatures at work,” said a city fel «steady voice ; but she was thinking much. Siv you.woul.1 like me—”
now."
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to this time, including the completion low gnziug at a beehive. "Further how long and lonely the evening would
“ 1 do like you now.” whispered the
“ Johnnie, does you love me?”
W hen a tiee is allowed tp bear too
of their ten stamp mill. They have more, I thiuk I will see them at work.” seem ia her little room upstairs.
happy girl, Llushing more aud more ; much fruit at one time, it is not on]y
“Well Susie, I does?’*
prospected these veins to a depth of So he opened the baak door of the
“You are disappointed ?” he said, “ 1 always have."
“
How dpps yon know that you I ova
injured by the breaking cf overladen
seventy feet and have run back on their hive and in thirty seconds ha not only gently.
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me?
”
largest vein a distance of 198 feet. saw but felt the busy little creatures
“ Oh, I am foolish, I know ; but my I E lderly agriculturist (to season branches, but the fruit itself is apt to
“
Kase,
whenever I look at yoi^
Their whintz ia now down below their at work. Novel reading has now no brother is always so bury aud happy ticket holder iu the train): “You don’t be of a smaller size than if the tree my heart Susie,
jumps
and knocks agin my
upper level 30 feet and the ore still in charm for him.
with his friends, he docs not t’uiuk of have no ticket?" Ticket holder: “No, bad been relieved of at least half its stomick so hard, that I don’t have any
burden in the earlier stages of the fruit.
creasing in fiohne88 ; their veins will
me.”
I travel on my good looks." Agricul The
in sizj and quality more appetite for a week afterwards.”
average ihree feet in thickness, and
“There is a church near here,” he turist (after looking him over): “Then than increase
A M ichigan editor, on discovering a
compensates for the loss in quan
should there be nothing more than is fire, rushed out into the street, shout said, referring to her note ; “only the probably you ain’t going very far."
T elling of a man who had lost bis
tity.
in sight it would be a very valuable ing, “Conflagration ! conflagration ! 1 next corner ; let’s take a peep at it.”
life
in a riot, a Belfast paper said.
General smilo.
investment* There is au
She
drew
up
her
shawl
again,
and
conflagration ! 11 Approximate hither
I f you want to secure the attention “ They fired two shots at him. TLa
f
AIR SHAFT
with the implements of deluge and ex smiled gladly, not thinking if there
F orty one cities of the United States of a pretty woman, siu s au old 4»cb, first killed him. The second was n$tj
fatal."
Raised from a drift iq the old tunnel tinguish this combustioE.”
i was any lack of coprenUonality in his bave delti aggregatisg §000,010,000. step on her train.
I