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
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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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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.
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