SORROW.
r the post's heart has wruna.
t yea blame his song were it sadly sung?
wounded bird that with drooping wins
tsaosxnfal plaint can bat feebly sing?
) In her beauty smiles not so hric-hi
Wfcew the son has withdrawn his kindly light,
his mimic orb. with the night dews wet
tears that be sheds when his god has set.
T may hare lost that which yon love the
best.
Ast chide not your bosom's deep unrest.
and flower and heart may be
pore and sweet for their agony.
Exchange.
DISENCHANTED.
Of all things,' a night iournev is the
Mt tedious. said Clarence Hatfield as
-ke let himself fall heavily into the stiff
mmt uncomfortable seat of the railway
-aw, with its faded velvet cushions and
tfes back at exactly the wrong angle for
cnt approacmng a nap. "1 say, Ulif-
M, do yon think we might smoke-
""Well. I rather imagine not," said 1,
win a motion of my head toward the
otter passengers. "There appears to be
meo on board.
Hatfield shrugged his shoulders.
"Soch ladies!"
-Well," laughed I, "they don't appear
fee particularly stylish in manner or
Mtame, bat nevertheless, my dear fel
las, the divinity or their sex hedges
asnsa aroana iixe a wall.
"Divinity of their bumbngr shortly
wi uptea ttatneia. "As if these ill
id dowdies, with babies and band
, could Dossiblv belomr to th same
1 with Beatrice Hale!"
To this I made no answer. It did nnt
Mm to me exactly appropriate to lag
ww sacred name of Beatrice Hale into a
ttacsssion in a nlace like this. Yet whit
Kl 1 do, except to feel my cheeks flnsh
i ne roots or my naur tingle? For I
nnmistakablv in love with Ftm JTaJ
mi ma was Clarence Hatfield.
If I were to waste quarts of ink and
I of rjaner in trvmo tr n mi)m tio.
oifold charms and excellencies to the
r, it wouldn't do any good. Such
shave been tried before, and failnrl.
m him imagine the fairest brunette
sun ever shone on, and he may
u somewhere near the mark. Suffice
to amy that she was as beautiful as a
-tow lu, and that Hatfield and I were
aa&h slaves at her feet.
Which of os did she like beat? Ah!
was the unestion! It was
: like the children's old game of see-
ip i go, aown yon come. Some
1 1 fancied I had a ghost of a ehun
Betimes I was convinced that TTat.
I was altogether the preferred, and
i naa better emigrate to Australia
"Hello r cried Hatfield, breaking un-
noniousiy in apon tne thread of my
nga, "there goes the whistle. We
ill be off di recti V. Thank amdnm
-r thatr
AbswI Ka Mtr kia .S- 4.1
. UU MM VipuSiM9
mmr hoars' ride as possible.
Clarence Hatfield and I, be it nhder
tas)d,wr employes in the extensive
hwfoeas of Messrs. Jenkins, Jnmpertou
-JfcOs., auctioneers, and had been down
the country "putting up" a sale of
awampy lots, cut into streets and squares,
kim ding to the most approved metro
aitan methods of doing such things.
It had been a dismal business. No
ssber is not an inspiring month at the
"haat, and a three days' fog had conspired
-ajEsinat the success of 'Mount Morra
Ark," as Jenkins, Jumperton & Co. had
christened the new speculation. Yet we
ha4 done reasonably well, and were now
Thankful enough to get back to New
. Tack.
As the train gave its starting lunge
the door flow open, and in came a tall
d lady, in a prodigious black bonnet
"d fur cloak, surrounded by a perfect
atevanx-de-frise of squirrel cages, leath
er bags, brown paper parcels and sand
wich boxes. She was followed closely
ay younger lady, dressed in black and
lesely veiled, and paused hesitatingly
front of our seat.
"Tonng man," said she, in a low voice,
as gruff as that of a man. "is this seat
csigaged?"
"Yes," said Hatfield; "it is."
- "For your feet?"
"No matter what for," superciliously
replied the head clerk of Jenkins, Jump
erton & Co. "Please to pass on. old
lady. You'll find seats enough beyond."
But this was a stretching of the truth.
There were no seats beyond, as the "old
lady could easily perceive, unless she
hose to sit directly opposite a red hot
owl fire or upon one of those corner ar
langements close to the door, which was
equivalent to no seat at all
The old lady hesitated and changed
her heavy carpet bag from one wearied
am to tho other. I thought of my own
good Aunt Polly at home, and rose at
"Pray, take this seat, ma'am," said L
""And let me put your parcel up in the
rack for you."
"Clifton, what a fool you are!" cried
Hatfield, in an impatient sotto voce.
"Why couldn't you have sat still and
minded your own business?"
"It is my own business," 1 answered
hrusquely, "to see that evety ladv is
Made as comfortable as it is in the irnt
r of things to be. Now the squirrel
oage. ma'am it'll go very comfortably
under the seat. I think." - ' .
Hatfield uttered a contemptuous grunt,
bat he never offered to trust his feet off
the opposite cushions, although , the
younger woman stood in the aisle, un
comfortably swaying backward and for
ward .with the motion of the train, uutii
a woman beyond, observing the state oi
affairs, drew a sleeping child into hei
lap and beckoned the other to take the
place thus vacated.
By this time my old lady ' had estab
lished herself to her entire satisfaction
and opened her sandwich lox. -
"Much obliged to you. young man.
said she. "It's easy to see that you've a
mother of your own at home, and that
you are in the habit of doing reverence
to her gray hairs.. As for this person,"
-with a nod of her poke bonnet in the di
OMMto
fhawJE1
SSt,
OB
rection of Mr. Hatfield "if bV.
mother, I can't say much for her bring
ing or nun up. Perhaps he may be old
himself one day, and stand in' need of a
.'little politeness and consideration from
the young."
"When Tm anxious for your good
opinion, ma'am, I'll let you know," re
turned Mr. Hatfield, rather flippantly.
The old lady could only express herself
by a vehement sniff. And even I was a
little annoyed at his manner.
"Hatfield," said I in a low tone, "you
might behave like a gentleman."
"So 1 will," he retorted, with a shrug,
"when I find myself in company that
calls for such measures."
I said no more, but leaning np against
the side of the door, prepared to make
myself as comfortable as possible until
the train should stop at Stamford, its
first way station, and some descending
passenger might make room for me.
Reader, did you ever stand in an ex
press train in full motion? Did you ever
feel yourself swayed backward and for
ward, bumping one of your phrenolog
ical developments against one side of
the car, and bringing the base of your
spinal column against the top of a seat
at the opposite swerve of the train? Did
you ever grasp blindly at nothing for
support? Did you ever execute an in
voluntary pas seul, by way of keeping
your balance, and then grind your teeth
to see the two pretty young ladies be
yond laughing at your antics? If so
yon will know how to pity me during
the hour and a half between B. and
Stamford.
Hatfield went to sleep and snored; the
old lady in the gigantic bonnet ate sand
wiches and drank from a wicker flask of
excellent smelling sherry; the young
lady sat as noiseless as a black veiled
statue; fretful babies whimpered; old
gentlemen ' uttered strange sounds in
their sleep; the lamps flared like sickly
moons overhead; and the shriek of the
train as it flew through sleeping villages
sounded like the yell of a fiery throated
demon.
"Stamford!"' bawled the conductor.
At last I succeeded in dropping my
weary and stiffened limbs into a seat,
where slumber overtook me in just a
minute and a quarter, for I had been
asleep on my legs once or twice even in
my former disadvantageous attitude,
and I could scarcely believe the evidence
of my own senses when we finally thun
dered into the echoing vastness of the
Grand Central depot in New York.
Hatfield, alive to the necessity of
catching a car before all the world of
travelers should crowd into it, stumbled
over the old lady's ankles with small cer
emony. "Oh, take care! You have knocked
the squirrel cage over!" cried she.
"Confound the squirrel eager shouted
Hatfield, gnashing his teeth as the an
cient dame placed herself directly in the
aisle to set the furry pet up again, there
by completely blocking up bis egress.
"Serves you right, Hatfield," said 1,
as 1 Rtooped to assist.
Just then the young companion of our
lady advanced, flinging back her veil.
"Grandma," said she, "the carriage is
waiting. Ill send Thomas for the par
cels. Mr. Clifton, 1 am very much
obliged to you for your politeness to my
grandmother, who is unused to travel
ing. As to Mr. Hatfield, the less said
about his courtesy the better." And
Beatrice Hale's black eyes flashed dis
dainfully on Clarence's cowed visage.
"Miss Hale." he stammered, "if Pd
had the least idea who you were" -
"You would have regulated your con
duct accordingly," impatiently inter
rupted Miss Hale. Thanks I prefer to
see people in their true light Mr. Clift
on," turning graciously to me, "youH
call and see how grandma stands her
journey tomorrow, won't you? Oh, thank
you! The carriage is close by."
And to this day I believe that is the
way I won my wife, for Clarence Hat
field was a brilliant, showy sort of a fel
low, who far outshone me in general so
ciety, and I think Bee was inclined
rather to fancy him until that night.
But she was disenchanted now for good
and .all. And Grandma Hale comes to
see us every Christmas with a hamper of
good things from Hale farm. Boston
True Flag.
.
Cariosities About Boots.
Boots, which are onlv a lencthenAd
variety of shoes, were among the most
ancieut articles of attire. Shoes extend
ing a certain heiirht un the leo- I
ornamented and of fanciful colors, were
in use Dy the aucient Egyptians. Greeks
and Romans. Different kinds of half
boots were worn bv the Anrln-Kana
and Anglo-Normans. In the reign of
Edward IV the boot nroner. with tniw
and spurs, was established as an article
oi anignuy areas.
In the reisn of Charles I a honr. urirla
at the top, made of Spanish leather, came
mio use. unaries 11 introduced a high
ly decorated French rmnt
gay courtly attire. Meanwhile the boot,
or jack boot, as it was called, had be
come indispensable in the mutnmn nf
cavalry soldiers and horsemen generally
a - . . -
ana was regularly naturalized by Will
iam HI and his followers in England.
The jack boot was strongly made, ex.
tending in length above the knee, was
large at the top and had a very high
heel, and around the ankle hA fl
leather band bearing a strong spur. St
I r , i
uuuui evepuuue.
An Kiperlmm with Hot Water..
In support of the theory Oiat retentiou
of waste is a potential cause of corpu
DUlencv. it is instanced that raw nhvai.
cian cured himself by the use of hot
water. While under treatment he was
careful npt to overeat, and excluded
from his diet some of throw rivl! nrtii..i
are richest in fat producing elements.
out ine dietetic restrictions were not at
all severe, so that the credit m-.ist 1.
given to the hot water, a mil Inn
of which was drank daily. By thus
means the accumulated waste was well
washed out of the system, and a r-9Tti?
reduction in weight took place. Ami
wnnt is even more important, a perma
nent cure was effected, for when lie
stonued the treatment and
and everything he craved, there was no
re i urn oi me rronoie. lioston Herald.
HOW FIFTY ESCAPED.
CONFEDERATES WORKED -,A CLEVER
SCHEME AT -CAMP BUTLER:
Disguised as Citisena In Smarc'ed Clothes
and Armed with Forged Passports m
row at a Time Passed the Vigilant
Onards on Visiting Days.
A man in prison is like a man without
hands, whose brain is constantly contriv
ing to overcome physical deficiency. The
ingenuity of a brain unrelieved by dis
traction of employment is capable of
schemes which rival fiction. Many
thrilling tales are told by prisoners of
war about their privations and advent
ures while under the espionage of an
alert and relentless enemy. An experi
ence worthy of record was told an Amer
ican reporter, the other night, by a man
who now stands high in public life in
Tennessee.
He was once a confederate soldier. He
had the misfortune to be numbered with
the captured at Fort Donelson, and with
hundreds of his . comrades was hurried
across the Ohio and incarcerated in Camp
Butler, a spot which will long be remem
bered by those who were so unlucky as
to be imprisoned within its battlements.
After pining for several weary months
for an exchange that was never effected
these southern patriots set about to ac
complish their own deliverance. Vari
ous plans were concocted, but were all
successfully thwarted by the vigilance
of their custodians. Finally the inspira
tion of this story hit upon a scheme
which for audacity and cleverness is un
precedented, and won for its originator
a title and distinction among his com
panions which time has not yet obliter
ated. Among the prisoners at Camp Butler
were a number of boys who served the
Confederacy in the capacity of "powder
monkeys," a t function well known to
heavy artillerists. . -
IT WAS A ULRVKB PLAN.
The duties of these youngsters were
to convey powder charges from the
magazines to gunners in trenches or to
assist in like manner on the floating bat
teries which annoyed the federal gun
boats in the Mississippi river.
Two of these little fellows, who had
fallen into the hands of the enemy, were
treated with the dignity due prisoners of
war, and consequently found themselves
hundreds of miles away from home and
mamma and subject to all the heartless
discipline of military prison. The manly
fortitude of these two juvenile warriors
attracted the martial soul of Colonel
Morrison, who commanded the post.
To make their imprisonment less ardu
ous he made them his office orderlies,
and sent them on; the hundreds of er
rands' which a commanding officer finds
a daily necessity in the discharge of his
duty.
The Utile fellows were true patriots,
and no persuasion or punishment could
dissuade them from the cause of their
fathers. It was through them that . the
hero of this story accomplished bis de
signs. The boys had access at all time
to the colonel's office, likewise the adju
tant's desk. One night they were bidden
to steal from the adjutant's desk a lot of
blank passports.
But what good were passports to a
soldier whose very .uniform forbade exit
from the inner stockade of the prison,
might be asked. Fortunately, however,
hi the prison there was a sutler who pos
sessed all the venality characteristic of
his cloth.
Among the prisoners in Camp Butler
there were several confederate soldiers
who were the sons of wealthy parents and
occasionally received money from home.
From this element a general fund was
collected and appropriated to the use- of
the plotters for deliverance. With the
sutler, whose loyalty to the American
dollar exceeded his fidelity to the Ameri
can Union, it was an easy matter to
smuggle in a suit of citizen's clothes now
and then.
A FEW GO AT A TIMS.
On visiting days hundreds of people
from the country around would throng
to the post to look at the fiery rebels.
They were shown, under the escort of a
guard, through every part of the prison,
and on several occasions these parties, in
some unaccountable way, would number
one or two more on . coming out than
they did on coming in. Each individual,
however, displayed his passport to-the
guard at the gate, and retired unques
tioned from the portals of the fort into
the loyal prairies of Illinois. .
Had the guards counted their guests
npon their arrival and departure some
startling surprises would have resulted.
On one occasion two confederate officers
escaped by the guard with forged passes
and had taken seats in a carriage which
was waiting to serve visitors at the gate
of the fort when Colonel Morrison him
self came out and, addressing them,
asked if they had Been all they wanted
to see. : '.,'. '
"Yes, sir," replied one of the fugitives
suavely. ' "They are a hard looking set,
ain't they, colonel?" At the' same time
he was so alarmed that his tongue al
most refused to articulate.
By this process half a hundred Con
federates were released from custody and
returned to their commands in the field.
The reader must not imagine that these
men were not missed by their guardians,
for after every muster the guards were
doubled . and many commissioned and
non-ronmiissdoned officers relieved, it be
ing suspected that they were responsible
for the mysterious disappearance of the
prisoners.
So cleverly did the plan operate under
cautious restrictions that the leak throngh
which the human contents of that noto
rious pen- escaped was not discovered
until the man who created it had been
duly exchanged and was fighting under
his own flag on the fields of Georgia,
where he was known to the army as Colo
nel Morrison's adjutant -Nashville Am-
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Slasher I hear that Jawkins has taken
wife from the washtnb.
Stabber That is not so; she U thars
yet. Ram's Horn.
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ITS TERRITORY. '
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hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
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The Dalles is the largest original wool shipping
point in America, about 5,000,000 pounds being
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.1 ITS PRODUCTS.
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yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 which can
and will be more than doubled in the near future,
r 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.
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niore farming country than is tributary to any other
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