The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, July 24, 1891, Image 4

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    Her w1nurasnill fxiotad ao
The brief a&it faappr white ago
When 1 believed forever mine
Tbe radiance of its temier hinec
But now another dot en. I trow
Well, let hiin lavishly bestow
On her hie dream-wealth well i know
The light -Una makes his dream divine.
Her witchintf smile
, Bat nme day when tt arrows go
AU slant-wise, and its tender glow
Falls elsewhere, though he make no sign
1 know the unspoken countersign.
Be won my Joy. be shared my woe.
i . . All through her smile. ,
.1 ( ; -itosaline K. loueo.
6oo?"f ""t&ridtM gS bSk dublf Ijiirji;: tay Fanny! ,Ba, for the sake of mercy.
HE LOOKED LIKE ME
One evening, in tbe winter of 1874. oil
r -way home in' a Pendleton street car
nj attention was attracted to two elder
ly ladies, who sat near where I stood.
The only reason 'for my-noticing them
was the ' fact ' that 'they seemed to be
quite agitated about me
t : They shot glances at me and pat their
heads dose, together and talked in ear
test : tones, and they carried it so far
that, while no' one else in ; the car no
ticed it so far as 1 saw. I was so con
scious that'' t ' was being observed and
disuoased that 1 was on the point of get
ting ont ( They , were not unladylike,
bat were evidently so much occupied
"With what interested theui. whatever
it ' 'was, that they 1 did ' not ' realize ' 'that
they were making things uncomfortable
fur a person of my sensitiveness. '
t They left the carat the Miami railroad
-Station, and both, as they went ont, took
square look ' into my face, averted
though it was.
; Some two weeks after this affair one
of the same ladies came into my office
and introduced herself as Mrs. Seymour,
and desired some professional advice and
assistance. I recollected her at once as
one of the street car ladies, although
neither made the least in tarnation that
we had ever seen each other before. I
did a little, writing, and she soon took
leave of me, to come again in a few days,
when something farther was to be done
At the next interview both the ladies
came, and I had an opportunity to ob
serve them closely They were both past
fifty one not far from sixty I imagined
them to be ladies in good circumstances
as afterward appeared and both were,
without the least doubt, thoroughly well
bred and intelligent women The second
lady gave her name as Miss Susan Tim
ber lake.
Their business did 'uot amount to
mnch. and had. in fact, very little in it.
but they saw me several times, and ai
rways increased the air of- mysteryand
suspicion which surrounded them from
the first.
At the last interview we had in my
office, while we were together a patrol
man came in, to whom oue of the ladies
said in a quiet tone. "This is tbe man:
take him along." .
The officer said he had a warrant for
xny arrest, and wished me to go with him
' to the Hammond street police station.
1 should shirk the truth if I did not ad
mit that I was appalled and frightened
.However I looked, I felt very pale, but I
asked to see the warrant, which was pro
duced : It charged one' Charles Wilson
.Murray with being a fugitive from jus
tice, with the usual formalities 1
quietly informed the man that 1 was not
Charles Wilson Murray, but one of the
ladies, more by a gesture than by' any
spoken word, ordered him not to hesi
tate. . It was quite dusk, and we made a
aoleinn- . little procession along Third
street and up Hammond to the bastile.
Arrived there. 1 observed that 1 was
not unexpected, and then . I was con
fronted by a comely young woman, who
evinced from the first a degree of m ter
cet in me which seemed like a volcano
of suppressed affection The charge
against, M array was that he- had desert
d his wife, but had omitted to desert a
Jot of her money and bonds I was sup
posed to be Mnrray, ami the young wo
man was Mr .Murray , ;;v ; -
In vain 1 assured them that i was not
Murray, and that I had no stolen money
or bonds. They cared nothing for . the
propertyi" but -tbey Implored; me ; to ' ac
knowledge my identity and "to return
with them to the home which was deso
late without me Ail that 1 aaid.to con-i
vinos them that 1 was not Mnrray
eemed tohave aq. effect whatever, and
finally Mrs. Murray told the officers that
. J had a mark on my left side, above the
Ll.l. 1 J . 4-1 .1 4-1 1 .
UP FUUlU.WLtWWQ l UPtlUUU, UUl
before they seized me to examine my
person the late Captain James L.. Rnffin,
who knew me well, and 'whom, of
course, the officers knew, happened , in.
. and upon bis assurance 1 was' dis--ejharged..
: ; it was .solemnly promised on
all sides that nothing should be said
about the affair, and all record of it, as
Xar as possible, was then and there de
stroyed. ...
Before we separated,, however,'.. Mrs.
Murray spoke in- tba -tenderest way of
the baby, and the next day. at their re
quest. 1 called at the Oibson House and
there 8w the baby, and confirmed my
self i in- toe 'belief t haj'they were good,
very well to do people, in ;a frantic, search
of the absent Mr. Murray, whom. they
;jwiBbed not to'pnnish for any wrong, or
supposed wrong that he had "done, bat
rather to induce him to return to them
and receive from them nothing but love
and kindness.
, i As 1 could be of no service to "them
Jfurther. thex offered tojpay me berally
-Jior the "professional worir wmcn 1 was
.., jejxpected -to do, . -which theysaid . was
naught. TJieybadfpiiowea me Dy in
WniriM ftnMein,p me in the streetcar.
.-and had come to the outc onlyto assure
.themselves- that 1 was- really, tbe ma
.J tlefkmiwft.hihe fact impressed on
" imy mind that there was a man at large
(who so closely .resembled .me that hw
iswn wue t. .oeceiytx , iruuiwu
(would always behave well
In the early summer ,of 1876 -l-,was
,Jinarrie4,i an4.iny wiie antT Imperii the
summer and fall at Csfreen 'Lake, in cen
tral Wisconsin. In, -the latter par$ of
' September' i joined a "party made ap of
- Dr. KinbaM, of the United States anny.-
Ueneral Ben. Harrison. " now ' Senator
Harrison, of Indiana, and Mr Lock
on Lake Pnckaway. some twenty minn
further fiato'rtr'wttdBrneTw
" 'Lake Pucka way" is an extensive, shal
low lake, overgrown with wild rice and
celery, and is a-' famous breeding place'
for aquatic fowls. We had to go in a
wagon.'and the morning after pur ar
rival General Harrison seduced away'
my man;- Sam Marshall, and went off
into the lake, leaving as. to hnd each a
boy to push his boat for him. .
The weatfter was windy and . bad, and
Or. Kimball and L not having any sport
at all, returned to shore and to the' house
where we had all found lodging - We
were down in the mouth and somewhat
pat out by.' Ctenetal" Harrison's flank
movement, and the doctor opened his
gripsack and produced a real bottle of
real champagne," which we sucked dry
in the -general's absence. -. '
: There were a few .straggling houses at
the place, and a small -country store, in
which'could be fbhad' something in eve ry
line Strolling around.' alone that after
noon, f "met a. native who addressed: me
familiarly as Myers I did not '-correct
tell me about it - When, where and how
was it? ' - - r.
I I then, told him what I have already
related about my arrest, and I also re
.peated 'much -of what was "said "at tbs
; Gibson House when 1 called to see them
1 there, and 1 Spoke of the baby. ' ' ; ; '
The mention of the baby transfixed
. aim it eclipsed all thought of every
i ather person 1 told ' him that the child
I ooked like him,' for all the ladies said
. ihat it looked like me.
1 cahnot take time to give all the de
tails; his story was this: -j
- His Aunt Susan and he were all that
! were left of their family Neither had
another relative upon the face of the
.earth..-' She' was well off. and he had
taken to roaming" when .: a boy and bad
I not seen her 'for many years. She lived
: in a Httle towh called Angelica.'in west
ern New York. ; ; . : :.'"; :.- ::
-In 1870 he went to see her and was
deluged with affectionate attentions.
His. aunt's most., intimate- friend . was
Mrs. Seymour, who had a pretty daugh- ;
ter, Fanny' and the two old ladies han-
- ;;7- r; s::r ----rr '--
-DEALERS IN-
! Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
him, and when we went into tbe store died the matter so adroitly that almost
the man there altxy called me Mr. Myers
and when 1 left them they both had no
doubt they knew me. and that my name
was Myers ' .' ' .,':.', ,.",..; .
That evening Itev.-- Oeorge Beecher
and his wife and mother, and all his
dogs and guns, arrived at our lodgiug
housey and from him 1 learned, that the
prairie chicken shooting was as' good as
the duck shooting, and 1 determined to
try it the next morning early 1 found
a man who knew the country and hail a
horse, a wagon and a dog. He agreed
to take rue out. But before 1 concluded
with him 1 asked him if he knew where
Mr. Myers lived He said that he had
never seen the man that he knew of, but
he knew that a man by that name lived
in a cabin some six miles back in the j burg on business.
woods He said that we would pass
over some fine prairie going in that di- ;
rection, and we arranged to go.
' That evening, while Dr. Kimball was
chatting in another room with Harrisou,
Lockwood and the Beecher family. I !
took theempty champague bottle, filled it '-,
with water, drove in the cork, tied it
wttb twine from a guncase aud then
pressed over it some tinfoil which
off from a package of cigarettes.
before he knew it he married 'the girL ;
j """Then '; Mrs,- Seymour : broke top ' her
j house' hnd they all set - up' together at
Aunt Sue's. ' .
" The ladies had between them an abun-
dance of money. , He did nothing but
idle the time away; and they did noth
, ing but pet him. They all made a small
god of him. and he soon felt himself
! being suffocated with an. excess of affec
tion. - He ueither went out nor came in.
I never conghed or sneezed, without
patting all three ladies into more or less
' exci tement. They pampered hi hi with
j food, fussed over his linen and Other
! garments; satiated him with petty 'pet-
tings, until his life was a burden. After
! two months of it. he had to go to Harris-
und this little sniff of
freedom brought back the charms of a
Bohemian life and he did- not return.
He wrote them from different places,
but never waited to hear from them,
and now over two years had passed since
he had written at all
I suggested that he go back to them,
and he at oiice asserted with great ve-
PAINT
' Now is the time to paint your house
and if yon wish to get the bost quality
and a fine rtjlor use the'
Sherwin, Williams Co.'s Paint.
For thou- - wishing to sec the quality
and color of the above paint we call their
attention to the residence of S. L. Brooks,
Judge Bennett,'Smith French and others
painted by Paul Krcft. 'i
Snipes & Kinersly. are agents for the
alwjve paint for The Dalles; Or. i
is here and has cdme to stay. It hopes
to win its way to public favor by ener- f
gry , industry and merit; and to this end
we ask that you give it'a fair trjal-'aliid
:'itiedwiihlts' course a generous
support.
The
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hemence that if that baby was a boy he
I t Kk would go back: if it was a girl he would
1 then i go right away to China or . India, aud
took out the doctor's only remaining but- j never allow them to hear of him again,
tie of real champagne and put the harm- In Mr. Murray's opinion a household
less water in its place The wine I hid j made up of three women and one man
in my kit for use the next day. was too uneven. He was too much in a
We were off long before daylight, and j minority. He said that he seemed to be
spent a pleasant morning in beating the put off from companionship, and wanted
prairie. We bagged a number or oiras.
We traveled toward the residence of Mr
Myers, and about noon reached it. It
was a log cabin of three rooms, one of
which looked like the summer camp of a
gentleman. There were guns and traps.
btots and books, cigar boxes and some
old magazines lying about in careless
confusion We found a woman in
charge, and an old man who seemed to
be nearing the shore line: . -
1 asked the old fellow if Mr. Myers
was at homei and he replied only by a
quizzical look and an idle wave of the
hand'. But the wonian eyed me from
head to foot and disappeared hastily.
The old man thought i was Myers him
self with different clothes on, but the
woman took me to be his twin brother.
Presently Mr. Myers himself appeared.
It is not worth while to describe hiin.
Whoever has seen me has seen him. and
after that ,no.one. will doubt that he ap
peared well and behaved better Ac
cording to tbe custom of country people,
he. gave us the. best entertainment the
house could furnish, 'and appreciated
with rest the flavor of a cigar which I
nothing in the world so much as a male
friend and the society of gentlemen. ""
He said if that child was a boy he
would not feel so much alone and so
lonesome: the women could uot smother
him entirely; that he and the boy would
soon conspire and confederate for mutual
comfort and protection.-
Unfortunately I could not tell him the
sex of the child, but 1 promised, without
disclosing the fact that I had met him,
to get the baby's gender, and let him
know. When 1 took leave he said that
he understood that .he had been charged
with theft of bonds and money. . --You
tell Aunt Sue," said he, "that the stnff
is in Mr. Lockhart's safe in his store
where she told me to leave it. 1 may
have omitted to mention this to her." .
1 wrote to Miss Timberlake when 1 re
turned home, and the baby proved to be
a boy, which fact 1 communicated to
Mr. Myers at Puckaway. ' He replied,
giving me leave to write again to Aunt
Sue to say that he was coming home;
and in my letter to her 1 ventured to
hint that if she and Mrs. Seymour would
expend tho wealth of their affections in
Dr. E, Wrst's Nekve .me Beaik Treat
ment, a guaranteed wiiecitit: for Hysteria, Dizzi
nesB. f onvulsioiiB, Kit, Nervous Neuralgia,
Hmdaehe. Nervous Prostration caused bv the use
of alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental De
pression, Hoitenmg oi tne urain, resulting in in
sanity aud leading to misery, decay and death,
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Lioss-of Power
in either sex, Involuntary lisses and Spermat
orrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain, self
nbnse or over indulgence. Each box contains
one month's treatment, f 1.00 a box. or six boxes
for $5.00, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price.
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To cure any case. With each order received by
us for six boxes, accompanied by $5.00, we will
send the purchaser our written- guarantee to re
fund the money if the treatment does not effect
a cure. Guarantees issued only by
KLAKELEY Sc HOUGHTON,
lreacrlptlon Irng;g;ists,
175 Second St. Tlie Dalles, Or.
was aole, to otter, mm, Atter ainner. one house, on each other, ana let ; M.r.
while we were lingering on the bench ' and Mrs. Murray and the 'boy occupy a
by the old cabin door. 1 bethought me cr j
my stolen . wine - and - proposed , that he '
join - me in a post prandial glass, which ;
tasted very well out of a brace of tin I
cups.
I. t flldklLEN,
DEALER IN
SCHOOL BOOKS,
STATIONERY,
ORGANS,
PIANOS,
WATCHES,
JEWELRY
Cor. Third and Washington Sts.
four pages of six columns each; will be
issued every evening, except Sunday,
and will be delivered in the city, ot sent
by mail for the moderate sum of fiftv
cents a month.
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When a good flow of good feeling bad
been established by the cheering wine
and byiftur pleasant conversation, I tried,
as adroitly as 1 could, to draw Mr. Myers
out. He did not seem to be suspicious,
nor at all reticent, but seemed most of
all to enjoy a friendly meetjngrfio mat
ter how-short, with' a person inearer his
own level than those with whom his life
was spent,- He told me that he had Jived
in the cabin' for two years, doing noth
ing but passing the time. ' He amused
himself, at fishing sndj hjunpni(p, reading
and sleeping. . In the summer time the
members of a shooting club came up to
Puckaway,, an he, epenj aay now and
then in their congenial society. His
long winters however, were tedious and
desolate enough, and I did not fail to ex
tort 'from him - that the l-easbri Why he
endured them was because he had be
come soared, and was disgusted with
the world' and had turned his back on it.
Wben.l tboughtit.safe.to venture it.
the conversation suddenly took this
turn. ! ' '
.. .1 Murray.,,, you' ought., not to bury
yourself in the woods like this.
i He' (with a look of mingled alarm and
surprise HrMurray, did yon say? 5 j
z 1--Yes; and to give it all -might 'say
Charles Wilson Mnrray, alias Myers. ,
He Who -are 'yon and -what are you
after? j 4 Li 1 ;
I 1 am nobody in particular, and I
am after, nothing. f .
, JHe-Eftd, lever meet you in Philadel
phia? -: 1 Never: 1 never saw you before to-
Xi.' OOL- i-k ' '
' He Did you' come ont here ont pur
pose to see me? .
1 Yes. I was mistaken ..for you in
he village yesterday, and 1 wanted to
ee'what yon looked like.
. He How did. you icet my name? ...
I WRSncsl before mistaken for you,
: and wai arrested in conseqaencd- 1 wag
confrohied by three ladies "and charged
with theft but $heharge was made
me, or rather you not' anything which
they thought they had lost. , . '
He'Thre ladies! ! 1vo elcferlynaaiet
and one about twehty-tfwo? , .'' '
1 Yes. .They called themselves Mrs.
fe'ymobi, Jtfiss Snsah'Tmiberlake and
Mrs, ilnrrsy, your.wife. .. .. I
Be-My mother-in-law, Mrs. Seymour;
my Aunt Sae bless her old soul and
mansion to themselves, there would be
no further separations. . .1 ' kheiw 'that !
Murray would soon make a genteel Bo- j
hemian . out of the boy, and the two
would make up a working majority.
In 1880 I got the "oil fever" and in
vested some money of my own and more
for other people in ' petroleum in Penn
sylvania. .1 spent some time in going
over the field, from Bradford. Pa., to
Richburg. N. and at Duke Center.
Pa.J I had quite extensive operations.-.
One day at the little tavern - in - Duke
Center who' should come swinging in but
Murray,; alias Myers. ; He had. grown so
much stouter that he. was hot '. mistaken
for me.: nor 1 for him ; but . he knew me
instantly and iwnen I'JaskeidV."How: is
Aunt Sue? and how is, the, boy?" the fel
low smiled to his fan capacity. He as
sured me that Aunt Sue was sound to
the core; that the .boy was a "gusher,
and so was his little brother.
'. '. hevL,". said 1, "you 'are no' longer in
a hopeless minority." . . ' . v . '."
v ; "No, sir," answered he, with the em-,
phasis of a driller: "Aunt Sue and Mother
Seymour -don't count, and we are three
toonenowi'v;. 1 '.....
"Do you never reflect," I asked,-"that
that second boy may not just as well
'have been miner - Whea t "was taken to
fbe the father , of the first one, I was as
( footloose as a cowboy, and 1 could " have
gone rijght into the ' bouse and been its
hero, as long as I did not expose my left
side, and perhaps I should have been
there yefc";- 7. .': " ' 'j;
". -''What ails your left sie?", be' skea.1';
,'i' No$,hing,",4 said-' i '."Only(that. I have
no mark there,, anq(, yon nave inat
would have given me away, ; .-.
"Well! welll well!" h muttered in a
muring ay.''tftisrold coW thaJfeored
me: . when ' I .was' a, child ' and,' Was' the
d.E.Bprfffib.,
Real Estate,
Insurance,
and Loan
Agency.
Opera House Blbek3ciSt.
will be to advertise the resources of the
city, arid adj acent country, to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
trade, in securing an open river; and in
helping THE DALLES to take her prop
er position as the
Leading City of Eastern Oregon.
The paper, both daily and weekly, will
be independent in politics, and in its
criticism oi political matters, as in its
handling of local affairs, it will be
JUST, FAIR AND IMPARTIAL
We will endeavor to give all the lo
cal news, and we ask that your criticism
of our object and course, be formed froin
the contents of the paper, and not froin
rash assertions of outside parties.
sent to any address for $1.50 per year.
It will coiltain firbin four to six eis:ht
column pages, and we shall endeavor
to make it the equal of the tiest. - A.sk
your Postmaster for a copy, or address.
Office, N . W; Cor Wash 1 ngtbn and Second Sts
HURRAH !
eame day killed for,' ne'j; yiciotisneteB may
after all have marked' me'fpr gopd luck.
.But yon must come to -Angelica and see
Ins altogether." " ;
' "11a86uredTumthT'ffiould be glad to
do so, -but I Waa . not able ,then, to, spare
the tiinV.'-ari'd:a visit Wtheurrkys' Is
still uia rif t.h rttMfiTvrpn which 1 hone to
' enjoy in the future perhaps in my next
summer's V atfdn. -Amos Flmt m tsiii
cuniSl3"Ga2ette. J 9; ,W-it'J o er'
jiXtt&iiili a vnfi. -rif i ,i ;',' ' r -ifxi st'z ai'Ktt
The first six months during which the
Brooklyn bridgq wag'open 1,000,000 pas
sengers crossed.' In "1884 'the total was
8;5()0,0'1883;"ntK)0;(Kh-Bin'w188a,
W,0k);000; in! 1887 SS.OOO.OOtf; in';i888,
80,000,000; in 1889, 84,000,000; and ' in
1890, 87,676,411. New York Bun.
' FOR
If you get Colic, Cramp,
the Cholera Morbus the &
is'a sure care. ' 3 " "
lharrhoea or
B.' Paih' Cure
If you" need .'the Blood 'and "liver
cleansed yorfwilT find the 8. B. Head
ache and Live? Cure a perfect remedy
For sale by ail'draggi'sts;' "
Cas.. Staling;
. . : IT) - 'radrancToa ovtbs ni L'3
i WHOLESALE- AND BETA1L , .
Liqudr v p&aler,
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MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT.
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. The , Gate , City of the Inlanti'1 Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on fhg Mifidle ' CbiuiH'b.i,',4
l It is the supply city for ah extensile axtd'rioh'.a&ri
ctdttiral an grazing connti, its , trde, reaching; as
far south as Summer Lake, a . distance " of over tvrc
hundred. miles.: ( M; ,;,. r,.t , . ;:; ': ..'
; . : THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET. .
: The richieraihg 'country along the ; astern slope
of the;tte".;pascidef pasture for thousands
of slieep eipoL'ixbia'wMch tods' market here. ' '
The DaUes; isatne largest priginaV wool., snipping ,
haoint'" ; in " America.' alaouf 5.000.000 pounds beine
snippea Jastiyearz. ' " " ; . -
"'u ' :- " rrs PRODUCTS. M r v" -'- 't:Ji -:"
yieldinlg this year1 a revenue of $1,500,0.00 .which can
and 'wiU1 ue laiorethan'dou plea w,t4e,near:utuyeiv:
TufyjBrQpy nntt
faa$u&&e south and east has this
yarinlled.thawarehouses,:',alid all ;aVallahle- stbrage t.
..i-iv -.';.M cava (.rn .aov;v3Jt ctni 1 . , , . .v-.
It is the richest tcity of its size on the coast, aud its
mQnexlacattere ovj944:.id twise4'rto; d-vteldp;
nre.farniingcountryi than' is tiriutary, to auy Qtlier
city in Eastern Oregon, .-'tjiitw, .'-i
i ' Its situation Lis unsurpassedl i Its climate: delight
fol! its possibilitiea ihcalculable! Its resources xm- .
limited! And on these corner stones she stands.