FIGHTING FOR A BABY.
TWO WOMEN WHO STRUGGLED
FOR POSSESSION OF A CHILD.
One W the Mother, the Other Had
Grown to Be Foster Mother Story
of Mother's Unfortunate Efforts to
Provide a Home for Herself and Child.
A mother trying to kidnap her own
child.
Another woman trying to hold the
child for the payment of a board bilL
And two women rising the two-year-old
baby in lieu of a rope for a tug of
war.
These three different views describe
the spectacle which met the eyes of
passersby 'on Tremont street, in front of
King's chapel, about half past 4 o'clock
on Wednesday afternoon.
It was a noisy incident. The mother
had the baby by the legs; the other
woman clung to it by the shoulders.
Neither would release her hold, and the
frightened screams of the child quickly
attracted the attention of a crowd.
"I want my child," screamed the
younger woman between her gasps for
. breath, as she tugged away.
"You shan't " have her," gritted the
elder lady, as with determined grasp she
maintained her-hold upon the little one.
Then tho crowd grew interested and
took sides, although the weight of sym
pathy seemed to be with the young
mother, and further complications might
have ensued but for the appearance of
Patrolman Maynes, of Station 2.
His arrival was the signal for a cessa
tion of hostilities. The little one was
dropped, and both sides entered upon
volnble explanations, which he cut short
by inviting the entire party to go with
him to Station 2. where matters could be
adjusted.
It was a unique party which presently
stood before Captain Hemmenway's desk
the mother weeping and angry, the
other woman flushed and defiant, the
baby frightened and tearful.
The policeman quickly stated the case,
and then mutual and instantaneous ex
planations began.
"I want my baby," exclaimed the lit
tle woman. ,
""Well, why don't you pay its board?"
retorted the other.
"I did as long as I could, was the re
ply; "but you've no right to keep it
from me."
"Well, you've got no right to snatch
it from me on the street," was the quick
response.
a mother's stort.
Then the captain commanded silence
and propounded a series of questions.
the answers to which revealed one of
those little domestic tragedies so com
mon and yet so uncommon, as the pretty
little woman told her story.
A few years ago she married a young
fellow, who shortly after their union
turned out Jo be a scamp. She lived
with hi in as long as she could, and then
left him to begin a hard battle for life
for herself and her .two little ones.
him nna nv J ri D gu. Olio uucu a
room on a quiet street at the south end,
and kept her eldest child with her, while
ber infant she placed in the care of a
woman in Wakefield, who advertised to
board children.
The mother obtained work in a res
taurant, and out of three dollars a week
- and her board undertook to clothe her-
ocu outs uci ii l i if vuta, ij iur iier ruuuu
-kuu give two uoxiara a ween tor ine
' board of her baby.
' For six months she succeeded. Then
a brief spell of sickness retarded her
efforts, and she found herself unable to
make all ends meet, so she ceased the
payment of two dollars a week for the
little one's board until such time as she
. should be able to continue it.
That time has never yet appeared.
Her other little one sickened, and her
earnings were swallowed in bills for
doctors and medicines.
Her brave light for her child's life was
withont avail, however, and a few weeks
ago the little one died. Heartbroken,
but not crashed, the young mother again
"resumed the battle. She had one still to
live for, although she had been unable
for the last year and a half to do any
thing for it.
A MODERN SOLOMON.
On, Wednesday afternoon she saw her
baby going down Tremont street in the
care of the lady with whom she had
placed it two years ago, and the mater
nal instinct could not resist the desire to
. caress those red cheeks, lighted up by a
nfl.il" s"f ' "Kl n A afm 01-1-I vtvvnryiasl ri-Vi
curly, yellow hair.
She caught the child in her arms and
was about to kiss it, when the Wakefield
woman recognized, her, and thinking
that she intended to take away the baby
by force resisted to the best of her ability.
Then the scene on the street ensued.'
The Wakefield woman was then al
lowed to tell her story, which was that
the mother's statement about placing the
child in ber care was true, but that she
had received no money for the Support
of the baby for the last year and a half.
and that the little one had so grown into
her heart that she wished to adopt it and
would give it a good home.
When both the principals had finished
Captain Hemmenway m a few pungent
words managed to convey a great deal of
meaning. He suggested an amicable ad
justment of the matter, and the child's
parent agreed to go to Wakefield next
Sunday and receive the little one, and to
pay $1.50 out of her three dollars weekly
stipend until the board bill of the little
one shall have been canceled.
Then the Wakefield woman with the
baby started for home, the little one
gazing with wondering eyes over the
shoulder of its bearer at its mother, who.
with red eyes and sorrowing heart.
turned her steps in the opposite direction
Boston Herald.
Self Winding.
The watchmaker had been called from
his work to hear from a customer a long
story about the behavior of her watc.
told several times over.
"Oh. dear!" said he, "I hate to have
these self winding talkers come in!"
Exchange.
GETTING OUT OF RUSSIA.
A Traveler's Anxiety Concerning; I)oca
ments Sent Through the Mall. .
Upon the advice of some of my friends
in Minusinsk, I decided to get rid of all
my note books, documents, letters from
political convicts and other dangerous
and incriminating papers, by sending
them through the mails to a friend in
St. Petersburg. To intrust such ma
terial to the Russian postal department
seemed a very hazardous thing to do,
but my friends assured me that the
postal authorities in Minusinsk were
honorable men who would not betray to
the police the fact that I had sent such a
package, and that there was little prob
ability of its being opened or examined
in St. Petersburg. They thought that
the danger of losing my notes and papers
in the mails was not nearly so great as
the danger of having them taken from
me as the result of a police search.
The material in question amounted in
weight to about forty pounds, but as
packages of all sizes are commonly sent
by mail in Russia, mere bulk in itself
was not a suspicious circumstance. I
had a box made by an exiled Polish car
penter, took it to my room at night, put
into it the results of my whole Siberian
experience most of the dangerous pa
pers being already concealed in the cov
ers of books and the hollow sides of
small boxes sewed it up carefully in
strong canvas, sealed it with more -than
twenty seals and addressed it to a friend
in St. Petersburg, whose political trust
worthiness was beyond suspicion and
whose mail I believed would not be
tampered with.
Thursday morning, about half an hour
before the semi-weekly post was to leave
Minusinsk for St. Petersburg, I carried
the box down into the courtyard under
the cover of an overcoat, put it into a
sleigh, threw a robe over it, and went
with it myself to the postoffice. The
officials asked no questions, but weighed
the package, gave me a written receipt
for it and tossed it carelessly upon a pile
of other mail matter that a clerk was
putting into large leather pouches. I
gave one last look at it, and left the
postoffice with a heavy heart. From that
time forward I was never free from anx
iety about it. That package contained
all the results of my Siberian work, and
its loss would be simply irreparable. As
week after week passed, and I heard
nothing about it, I was strongly tempted
to telegraph my . friend and find out
whether it had reached him, but I knew
that snch a telegram might increase
the risk, and 1 refrained.
We reached the Russian capital on the
I9th of March, and as soon as I had left
Mr, Frost at a hotel with our baggage, I
called a droshky, drove to the house of
the friend to whom I had sent my pre
cious box of notebooks and papers, and,
with a fast beating heart, rang the bell
and gave the servant my card. Before
my friend made his appearance I was in
a perfect fever of excitement and anx
iety. Suppose the box had been opened
by the postoffice or police officials and its
contents seized. What should I have to
show for almost a year of work and
suffering? How much could I remem
ber of all that I had seen and heard?
What should I do without the written
record of names, dates, and all the mul
titudinous and minute details that give
verisimilitude to a story?
My friend entered the room with as
calm and unruffled a countenance as if
he had never heard of a box of papers,
and my heart sank. I had half expected
to be able to see that box in his face. I
cannot remember whether I expressed
any pleasure at meeting him, or made
any inquiries with regard to his health.
For one breathless moment he was to me
merely the possible custodian of a box.
I think he asked me when I arrived, and
remarked that he had some letters for
me; but all 1 am certain of is that, after
struggling with myself for a moment,
until I thought I could speak without
any manifestation of excitement, I in
quired simply. "Did you receive a box
from me?"
'A box?" he repeated interrogatively.
Again my heart sunk; evidently he had
not received it. "Oh, yes," he con
tinned, as if with a sudden flash of comprehension,-
"the big square box sewed
up in canvas. Yes; that's here."
I was told afterward that there was
no perceptible change in the gloomy
March weather of St. Petersburg at that
moment, but I am confident, neverthe
less, that at least four suns, of the larg
est size known to astronomy, began im
mediately to shine into my friend's front
windows, and that I could hear robins
and meadow larks singing all up and
down the Nevski prospect.
I sent the precious notes and papers
out of the empire by a special messen
ger, in order to avoid the danger of a
possible search of my own baggage at
the frontier, and four days later Mr.
Frost and 1 were in London. George
Kennan in Century.
How Kafflrs Smoke Cigars.
Those interesting South Africans, the
Kimberley Kaffirs, are extremely fond of
cigars, but their habit is to smoke them
with the lighted end in the mouth.
When this peculiarity was first men
tioned to Colonel Knollys, an English
man, he supposed that his informant
was cracking a joke, but to his amaze
ment he saw numerous instances. The
native, it is stated, first lighted his cigar
by the ordinary method, then turning it
around he deftly arranged the hotly
glowing end in his mouth, and tucking
away his tongue in his cheek proceeded
to inspire and expire the fumes, very
gradually consuming the whole of the
cigar. The smokers assured their visitor
that the process was warm, comforting,
delicious and far superior to the usual
mode. On subsequent trial Colonel Knol
lys found, he says, that the knack is less
difficult to acquire than might be sup
posed. Exchange.
At the Club. .
Cholly (with unwonted enthusiasm)
By Jove I I see that some fellow has in
troduced a bill into the Btate senate mak
ing it a misdemeanor to send annoying
letters to any one. Deuced clevah law,
that. Til have my tailor sent up for six
months, by Jove! Life.
: Aerial Navigation ami 'Wariare.
. Many .ask what use aerial, navigation'
will be put to in case it succeeds. To
this I would reply, certainly not for car
rying freight, and not, for a considerable
time at least, for carrying passengers.
When the first flying machine succeeds,
its first great use will be for military
purposes. It will at once become an en-,
gine of war, not ' only to reconnoiter the
enemy's positions, as has been attempted
with the socalled dirigible balloons, but
also for carrying and dropping into the
enemy's lines and country large bombs
charge'4 with high explosives.
It does not require a prophet to fore
see that successful machines of this char
acter would at once make it possible for
a nation possessing them to paralyze
completely an enemy by destroying in a
few hours the important bridges, armo
ries, arsenals, gas and water works, rail
way stations, public buildings, etc., and
that all the modern means of defense,
both by land and sea, which have cost
untold millions, would at once be ren
dered worthless. Of course this mode
of warfare would not do away com
pletely with all forms of small firearms,
which would still have to be used -in or
der to enable these future engines of war
to combat one another; but it is safe to
assert that none but small and light guns
would be used. Hiram S. Maxim in
Century.
"Maine's First Bicycle.
The great principle of the bicycle
wheel is that it has tension spokes. That
is, it differs from the ordinary carriage
wheel in that the weight hangs from the
tire instead of being supported upon the
hub by stiff radiating spokes. Hiram
Maxim, the great gunmaker, claims and
is supported by testimony that in 1857
he made a tension wheel. The wheel
was used upon the bicycle that Maxim
constructed. This bicycle was the first
ever seen in Maine. It was the real ar
ticle in prototype, but Maxim confesses
that "it went almighty hard." No one
realized or even inspected the impor
tance of Maxim's discovery, and he was
fairly overwhelmed with jeers as he
rode his strange contrivance about the
. streets of Dexter.
Perhaps it was for this reason that he
gave the toy to his little brother, who
took it into the seclusion of Sangerville.
One day the little shaver left it out in
the highway, and the first horse that
came along that way nearly had a fit.
Finally the driver secured his frantic
beast, and inspired by righteous rage
and thorough ignorance attacked the bi
cycle as though it were some rare wild
beast. He batted and mauled it every
which way, and Maxim's, hopes on
wheels were a wreck forever. Holman
F. Day in Lewiston JournaL
The Horse That Paid His Toll. -r
Many of the older residents of this sec
tion remember the late Dr. John Warner,
of New Milford, and', will appreciate this
little story. When (Dr. Warner was a
student at Yale he used - to come home
Saturday nights ani return to' New
Haven Mondays. Tlatwas before the
days of railways, and as stage coaches
did not leave New Milford Monday
for New Haven youijg Warner used to
mount his father's horse and ride to Yale
on horseback. There were several toll
gates on the route, and at each Warner
would pay the return ipll for his horse.
Arriving at Yale he would affix to the
bridle a card "beari ig these words,
'"Please not stop this lorse."- The saga
cious animal would jogalong homeward,
invariably reaching hisistall at New Mil
ford all right. . The tpll takers got to
kuow the horse, and h was never inter
rupted. On Fridays tb horse would be
started alone to New Haven with a
small ponch attached -o his saddle in
which was the exact ch; nge for the tolls.
Each toll taker would tkke his toll, and
the horse would trotplong, reaching
Yale in the evening. Tais practice was
kept up until the youngioctor was grad
uated. Danbury (Connh News.
Kefortu in Mens Dress.
. "A Business Woinanr writes to pro
test against the agitatioi of drew reform
for women, upon the ground that
women's dress is in no ieed of reforma
tion, and to propose a Oress reform, for
men. She wants to kiow why men's
trousers should not be cut off at the
ankles; she wants to kjiow if there is
comfort in a shiny shirt front or a stiff
collar the growing pr valence of flan
nel, silk, cheviot and t lstarched linen
answers nay; she asks rhy men should
stuff a yard or two of superfluous
cotton cloth into their , rouse ra, instead
of wealing shirt . waisjs as the little
shavers do; she shoots tie hat of man,
so to speak, with a condemnation of its
stiffness. ' I .
Sensible men will welcome the
thought of an effort tj reform their
dress in the direction f comfort and
convenience. But our htpes are damped
somewhat by the memory of the" fact
that, throughout the ages, when women
were the architects of men's shirts,
there was never known a shirt that
fitted. San Francisco Argonaut.
How Some Men Watte Time.
The train stopped at a little town. A
commercial traveler, dealing in groceries
and tobacco, got off; a crate of live chick
ens was put on and the cars started
again. The stopping of a train was no
rare sight in that village, for it happens
two or three times every day. The peo
ple had no welcome for the commercial
traveler, no tears were shed over the de
parture of the chickens; yet on the sta
tion steps I counted forty men and boys
who were there when the tiain came in
farm boys, who ought to have been at
work in the fields; village boys, who
might have been doing something some
where, every interest of economics and
eesthetics alike calling them away from
the village and. off to the farms. Two
men attended to all the business of the
station. The solitary passenger went his
own way. The rest were there because
they had not the moral strength ' to go
anywhere else. - They stood there on the
station steps, embodied ghosts, dead to
all life and hope, with only force enough
to stand around and gape. David S.
Jordan in Fomm. -; -
". A new aluminium alloy, with titanium,
is being manufactured in Pittsburg. It
sells at from twenty-five cents to one
dollar per pound more than pure alumin
ium. It is very hard and elastic and is
an excellent material for making tools.
About 10 percent, of titanium is used.
Some peoples rest the neck instead of
the head on hard pillows. In Africa ex
traordinary Headgears make this practice
necessary, and many a civilized woman
has been compelled by a somewhalgim
ilar coiffure to forego both the pillow
and the recumbent posture.
A wonderful well is on the property
of Colonel W. B. Warsham of Henri
etta, Tex. Its depth of water la usually
eight feet; but when the wind is from
the north the well becomes dry, and so
continues until the wind changes. .
3EH2S
Head
Aches. Sick-headaches ore the outward indications of
derangements of the stomach and bowels. As
Joy's Vegetable Sargaparilla is tho only bowel
reg;ilatiug -preparation of Barsaparilla, it is seen
why it is the only appropriate SarsaparUIa in
sick-headaches. It is not only appropriate; it is
au absolute en re. After a course of it an occa
sion: J dose at Intervals will forever after prevent
return. . .
Juo. M.-C'ox, of 735 Turk Street, San Franclscoi
writes: "I have been troubled with attacks of
sick-hcadachc for the last three years from one to
three times a week: Some time ago I bought two
bottles of Joy's Vegetable SarsaparUIa and have
only bad one attack since and that was on the
second day after I began using It."
Vegetable
Sarsaparilla
For Sale by SNIPES St KINERSLY.
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Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Powei
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for $5.00, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price.
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To cure any case. With each order received t
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a cure. Guarantees issued only by
; BLAKELET Mi HOUGHTON,
Prescription Druggists,
17B Second St. The Dalles. Or.
S . E3 .
Cleveland, Wash., )
June 19th, 1891. J
S. B. Medicine Co.,
Gentlemen. Your kind favor received,
and in reply would say that I am more
than pleased with the terms offered me
on the last shipment of your medicines.
There is nothing like them ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La-
grippe and kindred complaints. I have
had ho complaints so far, and everyon
is ready with a word of praise for their
virtues. Yours, etc.,
M. F. Hackijst.
A Revelation.
"few people kiow tturt tb
bright bluish-green color of
tha ordinary teas exposed in
the windows is not tha nat
ural eolor. Unpleasant aa the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral coloring
matter being used for this
purpose. The affect la two
fold. It not only makes tb
tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the
was of off-color " and worthless teas, which,
onos vnder the green cloak, are readily
worked off as good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a'finer appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand . by coloring cheaper 1ack kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, turn etic,
gypsum, and indigo. TMs method is so gen
eral that very little genuine mcolored green tea
i offered for sale." " -., - ., , ,
It was the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever see any
genuine un colored Japan tea T Ak your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon
' will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
It draw a delightful canary color, and Is so
fragrant that It will be a revelation to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes It also more
economical than, the artificial teas, for less
of it is required per cup. Bold only in pound
packages bearing this trade-mark :
Ture'As imfldhood:
Joys
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If tobt grocer does not hare it, be will get
it for jovl Price fiOo per pound. For sals at
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we ask that you frive it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its course a generous
support.
Its Objects
will be to advertise the resources of the
city, and adjacent 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
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Leading City of Eastern Oregon.
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