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ILLUSIONS. . bright sold mine of the sunset hills. n para, sweet promises that star the stems When quick foot May her emerald garment ' hems wish apple blossoms: diamond shower that nlh , "Winter with 'white forgetfnlness of ills- ' All cheats! fJold dross! May's imitation gems! ... Aad where u re all the frail, snow diadems The world hat- wept away in annual rills? r T has the hand that framed oar stately dwelling Hklden in beauty architrave and beam; "Ttoued no ultu-k orbs in hopeless heavens knell- Bot azure arch with studded stars agleam: spirit voices keen on softly telluur T doubt thft Doubter and to trust the Dream. -Charles H. Crandall in Youth's Companion. -A GERMAN BKIDEGROOM. I had spent the .evening with a friend "who lived a little out of Hamburg. As my horse bore me in sight of my home J was surprised to see a light in my lather's counting honse, for it was nearly 3 o'clock. I threw myself from my horse sad entered the room. My father was t his writing desk, evidently waiting for me. "Good morning, Henry," said he, with at laying down his pen, "I am glad that jroo have come. . I want yon to make ar--Tangements to go to France tomorrow at "noon." ' ' "To France. ; father? and on what errand?" . Yon are to be married." "Married!" I cried in astonishment. "Yes: a daughter of Merchant ' Peter son, -of Bordeaux." ' - "But, father! Marry a girl whom 1 -do not even know?" "Certainly. It is a good family, and yon can have your choice between three -daughters. " But suppose I don't like any of them?' "No nonsense, Henry," said my father sternly. "You are to start at noon." I could bat obey my father's order, so noon found me on board ship, with Ham burg gradually fading from my sight. Instead of going directly to the house of "my future father-in-law, I left the ship t Bologne and went to Paris. I rented furnished room, assumed the title of . "Lord .Johnsbury," and tumbled about Jor two weeks, seeing, hearing, and tasting whatever pleased my fancy. I fonnd the solitaire which my father bad destined for my fiancee had become loose, so X carried it to a jeweler's store to be repaired. While there, two ladies came in. one of whom was advanced in years and the other young and extremely beautiful. She examined a pair of T ear rings, but the price was', too high, so she reluctantly handed them back. I quietly ' paid the price demanded and begged her to accept theni. , , ,-.-:,' "You are very kind," she said, blush ing, and these jewels are very lovely; "but were they still more' beautiful 1 could not accept them from a stranger." ' j 1 nr&red in vain, and strain ArnrMninir their thanks, they went away. To my delight a few days later I met the ladies -walking in the Tuilleries. - 1 hastened to them with earnest questions, requests and assurances, and after a long conver sation their cautiousness seemed grad ually to give way to sympathy. I took advantage of this fact to offer her the olitaire. and it was placed firmly on her finger before she. could think, of any -opposition.- '..-; v 5 ' N I am doing as great a wrong to listen to you as to accept ' this diamond," said she, "but you are binding yourself to an ungrateful girl, for I accept this against tny will." . r,. .., .r My happiness was to be rudely inter rupted, for , three days after this I sud-'. denly fonnd that my money was reduced to five Iouis. 1 thought the matter over seriously, and finally derided to go to Bordeaux. As 1 could not appear before itr. Peterson like a beggar, some bra.?e- Jets, also intended for my fiancee, came in just right, though they brought me only eighty louis. ' The ionrnev to Bordeaux ii.-lskpi! nniVk- )y enough, and Mr. Peterson welcomed me warmly. In the course of our con versation he spoke of a letter from iny father, and I started to offer an excuiie -for my delay in arriving, but he would not listen to it. "My youngest daughters are away from home."' said he. "but if my eldest does not suit you they shall be sent for." We drank to the health of my future bride, and Mr. Peterson then showed me to my room. "1 was amazed when 1 saw Constance the next morning. I could find not a de fect anywhere. The build, the figure, the complexion belonged to no country, but to that of beauty: and the brown hair which fell over her white neck in lux uriant locks, and the sparkling --brown eyes were the only signs which showed ter relationship to France. Was it so wonderful, then,' that two weeks after my arrival' I went to Mr. Peterson and .asked him for the hand of his daughter?" The old man led me to her, and placed her in my arms. "That's right," he cried. "Tomorrow, Constance, I shall write to your sisters, lor tney must De noma lor the wedding. Aageliqne, the second daughter, came in a few days, but Victoria still remained away. This delayed the marriage, and J had sufficient opportunity to become' ac quainted with the two sis ten. in their differences. In Angelique each woman ly charm was on a smaller scale than had been apportioned to Constance, but she was somewhat cast down in her manner. Gradually this apparent sadness left her and only the ghost of it remained in the charming body which nature had equip ped with irresistible interest. . - We gradually became more intimate, and I awarded my kisses and sighs to Constance au3 my conversation to Angel ique. As often as I saw the one I lost my heart wiiii love; as of tea as I listened to the other tay whole soul fled to the -charming conversationist.' Each time it hong in the balance. ' Boon the scale began alternately to sink and rise, and again two weeks after -my engagement J loved the beautiful Constance when I saw her, while the image of the charming JLngelique shared my dearest thoughts. One evening I' set out for the summer ionise.' where 1 thought the company j was. tnd wheu nearer 1 distinctly heard , the melodioa voice of ray, fiancee. "1 am sorry myself about it, said Constance, "but it cannot be changed.". "If you only wished to haveit changed." Constance," said her companion. "But I may not Wish it, Mr". D'Argenet: My father is nuder . obligations to tho father of Mr. Waltmann, and I must be content with t"JSa unworthy stranger f'r my husband." I had heard cnongh, and betook my self to the house by the same way I had come. Next morning I went to Mr. Pe terson and told him. that I could never have the sli sjhtest claim upon ,the -hand of the girl whose heart1 -"wa I already given." He was so angry that I hid trouble to hold him back, and yielded only when. . I suggested that . perlm-ps Angelique might, console a disappointed lover, and I thought that in a short time I should love her passionately, if I were authorized to do so.--; Thus the matter was finally settled. Angelique, however, did not receive the news with the pleasure I, had hoped to see, and from that hour she did her best to make me-, repent of my. bargain. I regretted a thousand times that I had changed an agreeable sister-in-law into a cruel betrothed. The uncle from Rochelle, in whose house Angelique had been visiting, came with a young man who was said to be a cousin. Angelique embraced them both, and my keen lover's eye thought it saw a feelingtoo tender for merely a consin. My patience was at an end when she treated the consin with great kindness, while she showed only stubbornness to ward me. - k "Merely to put you to the test, sir." she said, when I complained. ; "That means, that, you cut me to the quick to see if my heart still beats," 1 cried in anger; "but I will soon find A way to put an end to 'it." ' , Highly enraged, I went to my room. There I came across a letter of my father's, inscribed, "To the beloved fiancee of my son." I thought these loving words of a future father-in-law would soothe her. so I took the letter to her. : ' - - "It is not for me," -she do not love me, but as 1 of one more beloved, 1 letter." ; said, , "for you take the place will open the "Beautiful! Bplendidr she cried, when she had read it. "You .have a very worthy father,, and his goodness sur prises me. He must know how gladly girls adorn themselves,' and ' brides inost 6f alL - : Will you not show, '--tfe ! the jewels?" ' I looked at her in terror, and the real ization of my thoughtlessness s'ttnck'me so forcibly that I could not speak a word. 'Well, you have not lost them?" "My father - must have -forgotten them," I said at last "Will you let me see the letter?" 1 -. The letter read: "The solitaire and the bracelets, which my sOn will deliver to you with this letter"- 1 stood as if annihilated, and cursed in my heart a thousand times the hour in which I entered Mr.; Peterson's house. - -.-' Victoria arrived late one evening, and the impatient father set the weddings for bothjlaughters for the next day. In the morning D'Argenet came, em braced me as his brother-in-law, and led me into the room where the marriage was to take place. The father, the -two sisters, the uncle and the cousin were there besides the priest. Victoria was absent. Soon two ladies entered the room, "and 1 was greatly astonished when, as the reader has already guessed, I recognized in them the aunt of Paris arid her beautiful niece. I could contain myself no longer. I flew away from the table to Victoria and seized her hand, which she gave me. Diustung deeply. "Is it-possible?" said L! "I have claims upon your forgiveness but the love which vou . first tamrht ma i i know " - "I am inv own no ln,,Wr " r.i with irK ,n i i- 7 1 jewels, "1 bear the purchase money upou my hand." "Come, cousin," said Angelique, "since my bridegroom has deserted me, let us go through the ceremony together. He may do what he wishes." My embarrassment was over. I looked at the father inquiringly, but he could not speak from agitation. He placed our hands together and led us to the other couples. The priest then began without waiting for command, and in ten minutes the three sisters became three 'wives. . Victoria, who was with the aunt in Paris, learned wbat news had been re ceived from the German bridegroom, and she now knew how to explain the sudden disappearance of Lord Johns bury, whom", contrary to the' promise she had given her father, she had learned to love. She wrote quickly, to her sistef ' Angelique, who understood everything and drew up a plan for my punishment. Four weeks flew by in, this delightful family gathering, which seemed like four days. When the time came- for .separa tion I begged my father-in-law for-hia blessing. "I have no blessing for vou excent .what you yourself have taken," salQ he. . "You are taking from me my dearest daughter, but still 1 thank jrou, for I first, through you, became au entirely happy father." Adapted from theGer man by William Dana Orcutt for Boston Globe- . . v . A Drastle Remedy. , ' An amusing case has just been tried at Kasan, -in Russia. A woman of the name of - Outchakine was summoned be fore the 'judge qn the charge of beating a cousin' of tiers, mimed Kniazef. ' But the accused had a complete answer to the indictment. ."My consin gave me leave in the pres-. ence of witnesses," she said to the judge, ' L "to trounce him well if ever he broke the solemn promise he gave me' at church, to give up smoking altogether." Kniazef could not deny this. His austere relative had come upon him un awares when enwreathed in a cloud of smoke. . The judge acquitted the pris oner, but admonished her not to lay on o hard in tho future. L'Autorite. OF -i CAR SEAT SELFISHNESS. Why a Far Collaret! Dade Was Made to Bide Two Stations Bevond His Own. 1 It is very fanny to see a selfish man in the present ' keep-yoar seat' era of city travel laboring to establish a system of ethics, or what my friend Jinks, calls eti quette, which will Ratisfy an uneasy con science. ' '- . .. - Soon after 6 o'clock the other evening a crowded Third avenue car : train Vent northward, and, as .is always the case, there were more men than women sitting and more women than men standing. . Among the latter were . three . Grand street, shop girls Jond . roonthed, . slangy and pretty. They made no secret of what they thought" of 'the men who would hot rise and give them their seats. It was not complimentary; .- At Twenty-third street a remarkable specimen of humanity one of your smooth faced . cigarette, smoking... fur collared tribe having reached the end of his .ride, arose, and with an elaborate smile offered his seat 'to qn'e of the girls. ' A nimble footed man near by slipped Into it. Every-, body laughed but the girls and the dude.' The latter turned a look upon the en croacher which "was calculated to crush him to earth so that ' he would not rise again, and as he passed the maidens said'' with a deprecating air: ' - s "That fellow is an awful cad -an '' awful cad." ' ' ' v, "He's got a face," said one of the shop girls, and all three collected about the cul prit and proceeded to pass high flavored remarks about him, which he listenet to with apparent amusement. ' ; Stung with indignation,, a- yonng tnau" sitting next to him got up and gave one of the girls his seat. ' . . Another man who ' had not- thought of giving up his own seat turned around and said: "You ought to be ashamed of yourselfl You- bad no right to that seat. A man can do with his seat what he chooses." "That's what I did," said the culprit ud blushingly. - "I sat in it." . '.: "You ought to be ashamed"- "Oh, give us a restl" cried another pas senger. "Get up, and give the lady your own seat if you are so troubled about it." Indignant passenger subsides. By this time Mr, Dude,. feeling that be had made rather a ueat exhibition of him self, got near to the door, when, a strong hand was laid on-his collar, lie turned and saw a very angry wbrltingraan looking into his eyes. . "See here," said the latter in a tone which made the- fur .lined fraud quail, "I've n good mind to black your eye for you."- . "Wa-wa-what is the matter?" gasped the fellow.' ' .... ., - "The idea of your trying to do the purty after . riding all the. way to your own sta tion! .. You deserve a cowhiding. JJo, you don't! -. Ye'll ride to the next station." . And amid the plaudits of the entire ear ful ..the indignant workman gave the fur lined collar a twist that made its owner black in the face; and would not let him Dflf until the train . reached .Thirty-fourth Street, two stations beyond where, he want ed to go, . "'. . .. .',. ' ; .'' ,'' It was a grand revenge. New York Her-, aid. ' '"'- A General Passenger Agent's Storr, ' Colonel Al C Dawes is general passenger agent of a- system of western roads with headquarters in 8t. Joseph. Mo. Before the days of the inter-state Commerce law the colonel was easy of access to the editor, who was always In need of transportation. One night he was called out of bed by one of the profession, who informed thecolqnel that he, the editor, was broke, and that he had received ' a telegram ' .from home an nouncing family sickness, and that he.was expected to leave on the first train. The colonel took out a map and -saw that the price of a ticket to the point of destination was about "$1.65. He handed the editor a two dollar bill, explaining that he had no blanks. As the editor left the colonel thought of him in every way except the complimentary way, and hoped he would never look on the man's face again. Two years later a bill was before the leg islature of Missouri in which the colonel had an interest. He was. there to put the measure through. In casting about for assistance he came upon the country edi tor whom he bad favored and asked him if he could be of any -service. The editor - turneii in.'tmd through his: influence the measure was passed. "It was a Iessoh to me 1 never forgot," said the colonel. "tt ?uKLt me never desPise the day sniall things. The man whom I could thought-an impertinence turned out to be an angel." Chicago Tribune. - A Petrified Monster. WhileJworkmen were digging near the hillside above McKeesport Saturday they Struck at a depth of twenty-five feet a pe culiar looking lody that had been nu earthed by the blasting of the rock. It at first resembled a vein, of dark clay or shale; but ou close examination it was found that it was covered with scales. The in terest of the workmen was aroused, and by careful digging they finally unearthed a stone body twenty-eight feet loug' and tapering at both ends.. A close examina tion showed it was that of an enormous reptile that had become petrified. The tail end was first found, and twenty five feet of it have been taken out, but the head is yet imbedded in the rock. The fos sil rested In a fissure in the solid rock, and about it were also discovered dead leaves. 'ne remains have been seen by a number ui icnpuuHjuii: ptsupie, wuu wiu HKe care or them for further examination." This find recalls the famous' McKeesport snake that had been seen in the vicinity many years ago, and which was described by those who had seen it as being over twentjv-ft ETHICS (''"rlfeeniabout twenty-fi ve years ago, and there are people-utill laving here who say they have seen it. . There is no doubt the body just found was that of an enormous snake, and it is thought to have been the same as the one which created such fears vaars ago. Pittsburg Dispatch. -An Old Saying; Not .Indorsed. . It is singular how the copybook texts of our childhood do occasionally get a severe contradiction in after years. For instance, on Monday I was obliged to spend an hour or more in the office and company of one of the most successful business men in De troit. . "Order is Heaven's first law" came into my mind the instant I glanced over his desk and around the room. The desk was a litter of penholders and pens, ink scrapers, pencils, cards, paper weights, mucilage bottles, spools of tape,, seals, a whetstone, a pair ot scissors, letters and contracts filed and not filed, old and new calendars, blotting pads and so on. - The office looked as though it had not been dusted or swept in a month,' and yet check books and files filled with bonds and mort gages told that the man was successful in a business way. What haa this tp do with heaven t Why the man in question is a very prominent member of a very promi nent church. Detroit Free Press. 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"e ill endeav"or to i've'' ail tlie lo cal news, and we ask that; your criticism the contents of the paper, and not from rash assertions of outside parties. the Weekly, - . , . ' ...... sent to any address for $1,50 per year. It will contain from four to six eight column pages, and we shall endeavor to make it the equal of the best. Ask your Postmaster for a copy, or address. THE CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Office, N. W. Cor. Washington and Second Sts. THE DALLES. The Gate City of the Inland Empire is situated at the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and is a thriving, prosperous city ' ITS TERRITORY. It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agri cultural, au grazing country, its trade, reaching as far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over twe hundred miles. THE LARGEST WOOL-. MARKET. . ; The rich grazing country along the eastern slope of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands of sheep, the -wool from -which finds market here. The Dalles is the. largest original -wool shipping point in America, about 5,000,000 pounds being shipped last year. .... : . ITS PRODUCTS. The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia, yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 -which can and -will be more than doubled in the near future. The products of the beautiful Klickital valley find market here, and the country south and east has this, year filled the -warehouses, and all available storage places to overflowing -with their products. ITS WEALTH , It is the richest city of its size on the coast, and its ( money is scattered over and is being used to develop," more farming country than is tributary to any other city in Eastern Oregon. . Its situation is unsurpassed! Its climate delight ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources un limited! And on these corner stones she stands. a MM u