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UNQRANTfcD.
FROM THE PLAINS,
Whre do they go the unran ted prayers.
The baffled hope, lost love. and waatod jern-
TheiwMt vain dreams, the patient alighted cares
Cut on the tireless tide that has no turning I
ipv. .ipAnless niehU. the weary, anxious day.
The eaKy tht blossom, but for blighUnsr.
The mocitn gleam that "0h'"-
To yanlan in one moment ol delighting?
Arw they utored np In some great solemn bank.
Where Time holds or Eternity the key?
As the rich hues that In the westward aans
. Miy sleep, enshrined beneath the sleeping sea?
Or do the, blended In a gracious breath.
Pervade the atmosphere of common are.
Softening the terror of the door of death.
. ,ho f.t and fever of the strife?
f .yjiuuft w
Who knows, who know? Our darlings from us
Imploring clasp and passionate prayer, are
Our trust betrayed, mied aim, or shattered
ThePgreat dumb river sweeps them to the snare.
And jet. for something every gift Is given.
Thiough age on age, o prifcst and poet salth.
Cling fast, fond hand; look up. true eyes, te
H V CD
Through dusk and doubt hold to the raving
faun!
PASSION FLOWERS.
"Take them away? "Why, Mr. Lin
den!" And then Misa Nettie Darwin
pouted most becomingly. "I thought
thev were just the thing! And I am sure
Tiothincr could be more appropriate for
Easter Sunday than passion flowers!"
"Appropriate to those who admire
them only." replied Wesley Linden,
slowlv. the red stain dying away from
his face once more. "Miss Nettie, take
them away, please. I can never preach
to-morrow with passion flowers near
me."
"Ill take them to poor, sick Eva Gray
then: I do not think she dislikes them,"
said Miss Darwin, not quite satisfied.
"Then the church is all ready?
"Yes, I think so," the rector answered,
his grave blue eyes growing tender in
expression as he viewed the decorations.
Flowers, flowers everywhere; the pil
lars hung with smilax, roses, carnations,
sweet heliotrope and callas; "the holy of
holies" separated from the rest of the
church by sprays of English ivy and
smilax, intermingled with pure white
lilies. Just before the altar, against a
background of crimson velvet, stood a
vcro6s of ivy leaves; only that, no decora
tions about the cross, nothing but the
plain symbol in ivy, almost directly
under the golden crown that formed the
central fieure of the beautiful stained
window in the chancel.
A fine church, truly, was St. Paul the
Apostle's in the village of E. on the
Hudson river, and Westley Linden,
standing just outside the altar, looked
' earnest and spiritual enough to be its
pastor, lovely as it was.
He was tall, slender, but finely pro
portioned man, with a certain tenderness
in his serions blue eyes that captivated
the entire female portion of his congre
gation, while his frank, earnest ways
went far to win for him the admiration
of the male portion.
Miss Darwin, gazing half awe-struck
into the noble face, thought that he
looked amazingly youner for thirty -seven,
despite the silver threads about his tem
ples. He had been rector of St. Paul's
for seven years, and he was thirty when
he came, and she oh, Miss Nettie, you
were a school girl, scarcely fourteen,
then, with no thought of being Wesley
Linden's wife, but all these seven years
that subject had engrossed the ladies of
E. . and no one did he seem to like
as well as fair-haired Nettie. But to
marry her was far indeed from his
thoughts in his heart was a grave where
the only love of his life lay buried.
- The rector accompanied Miss Darwin
to visit the sick friend, and stayed long
er than did that young lady, in order to
talk with the invalid on the only subject
that could interest her, now that she
would never mingle with the world
again.
The bright Easter sun peeping into
the windowsof the rectory library,found
Mr. Linden sitting by his desk, where
he had been all night long, bis head
. bowed in grief and prayer, whilo his
cold lips were pressed to a withered
bunch of flowers.
"My darling, my darling!" he whisper
ed at intervals. "God forgive me that I
cannot forget yon, even in his work!"
Once more, in fancy, he stood beside a
slender, haughty girl, in a wide garden
in the sunny South; the perfume of
orange and magnolia camo to him as he
eat there alone, and again he saw under
the trees Leda St. Cloud, in a fleecy,
amber colored dress, a light scarf of
Ml a 1 11 m 1- V 1
crimson siixnung ugnuy irom uerfnoui
ders, and a bunch of passion flowers (his
gift) fastened in her throat.
- No one but Leda St. Cloud could
have worn that combinatiou of brilliant
colors, but in some way they enchanced
her royal beauty. They deepened the
crimson on the dark cheeks, brightened
the light in the great warm brown eyes,
and made almost too tantalizingly lovely
the mouth that was uttering hasty,
haughty words.
Ah, those words! Wesley Linden
shuddered as he recalled them.
He left college at twenty -five, and gave
his whole energy to his work.encouraged
by his only relative, the uncle who edu
cated him, himself a clergyman, and
rector of St. Paul the Apostle's. But he
worked- too hard, and in two years he
was obliged to accept a parish in Florida
for his health's sake.
it was--a poor parish enougn, a little
Tillage on the St. John River, composed
of lazy,thieving negroesand a few lazier,
more thieving "white trash." Bat it
boasted one wealthy aristocrat, old Her
bert St. Cloud, who, at the first sus
picion of war, had converted his negroes
'into money, and came out of the war al
most as wealthy a3 he went in. His
household consisted of himself, his only
son, another Herbert St. Cloud, and his
niece, who had lived there ever since her
N father was killed in the war. And this
girl was Leda St. Cloud.
Wesly never knew how lie came to
fall in love with her, though she was so
warm and brilliant' and lovely of face
and form; for she smiled at his efforts to
convert the negroes, told him that he
would never succeed, and that he was
I foolish to try.
But he did succeed in making the par
ish orderly and God-fearing; and in more
than that were his efforts crowned with
success; when, after two years and more,
he yielded to his love for the brilliant
Southerner, and begged hers in return,
she gave it without hesitation.
They had been betrothed five months,
and never quarrelled.for Wesley was too
cool and practical, and Leda too deeply
m love with him to permit that.
Then his good old uncle died and Weslev
was summoned North.
It took some time to settle his affairs
and then, after accepting a call from the
vacant pulpit, he returned temporarily
to Florida, reaching there late on Satur
day of Passion Week.
Early on that Easter morning he
gathered a large bunch of passion flowers
and sending them to Leda, repaired to
the church, where he fully expected to
ee the flowers and his betrothed daring
service, .out aDoatn scnooi ana aiter
noon service passed, and still no Leda
"What of the St. Clouds? Tliey are all
absent to-day," he said to a .respectable
oolored vestryman.
"Well. Mas r Lm n, returned tue old
man, "deSt. Clouds am not turnin' from
de error ob dere ways, I'se sorry to say.
Been habin all sorts ob gimcracks dur
ing Lent, and las' night all ob 'em went
down to Jacksonville to a Dull, and came
back after five dis mornin'."
Mr. Linden did not speak, only shook
his head in a half-dazed manner, and
walked away. It was a mistake, of
course.
But a little further on he encountered
two ladies from Jacksonville, discussing
"how beautiful Miss St. Cloud was at
the ball quite the belle, in truth."
"My cousin Alice knows her well,"
said one, "but she never knew that she
was engaged to young St. Herbert St.
Cloud."
"Well, everybody knows it now," re
plied the other, with a peculiar laugh.
Wesley waited to hear no more; the
blood in his veins seemed on fire as he
rapidly passed over the intervening
ground to the St. Cloud place.
Leda met him in the garden, near
where the St. John River flowed Leda,
the glorious girl who had won his heart
would cast it aside! Lieda, his love, in
her amber dress and crimson scraf, and
could he believe his senses? his pas
sion flowers on her breast!
He simply told her what he had heard,
did not accuse her, but the hot Southern
blood boiled in an instant. Her faoe
grew that ghastly prey color that only
dark faces ever assume, and then a
fiteadv red flame colored her cheeks.
A shudder ran through the rector's
form as those words that she uttered that
Easter evening came back: to him with
all their original force and cruelty.
"A man who cannot trust me is un
worthy of mv love! All our intercourse,
Mr. Lindon, ceases from this moment; I
will send all your gifts and letters to you
to morrow, and request you to do the
same with mine. You never loved me,
else you had not condemned me without
a hearing! But I would rather die than
explain to you ! You dared to distrust me,
and I fling our troth to the winds
your ring there!" She drew the little
gold ring from her finger and threw .it,
with all the might ot her beautiful arm,
into the heavy waters of the St. John.
"And your " flowers, passion flowers.
truly, back to you!" She loosed the great
purple blossoms, gazed steadily at him
for a moment, nung them deliberately in
his face, and was gone forever.
The morning sunlight fell upon the
rector's head as he felt again, in fancy,
the tender blossoms strike his face. That
warm touch aroused him, and rising
slowly he opened the window.
"And she was innocent, he said in
bitter self-reproach. "Innocent, dear
God forgive tool bhe had kept Ijsnt most
rigidly, her uncle told me, and all for
my J sake. It was Mrs. St. ClouJ, the
bride of the young heir, who was bei'.e of
the Jacksonville ball. Leda, Leda, while
you were watching by little Ctesar's
dying bed, I was censuring your absence
from service. May God forgive me! She
never, never will!"
.Freshening his toilet, but without
Wreaking his fast, Wesley went to the
church to gain strength for the day. He
was kneeling by the altar, the flowing
folds of his white surplice falling about
him, his lip3 moving in prayer more for
her than for himself when a long, low
moan broke upon the stillness of the
empty sanctuary.
He raised his bead. A woman was
bowed before the altar, her heavy fur-
lined cloak concealing the outlines of
her form. He watched her as she stag
gered to her feet and almost ran to the
door. Leda! No, that could not be; but
the motion of the receding figure re
minded him strangely of her.
Wesley walked slowly over to the place
where she had knelt; it was just in front
of the cross of ivy leaves and there, at
the foot of the cross lay a boquet of
passion-flowers, yet wet with dew.
"I thank God!" he said reverently.
Miss Darwin looked spell-bound at the
exquisite bunch at the foot of the cross,
and even more so at the grave-faced cler
gyman, whoso eyes, after resting on that
beautiful symbol, were dazzingly bril
liant. Such a sermon Wesley Linden never
preached before. It was strong and elo
quent, tender and beautiful, breathing
of his love in an undercurrent that
touched them while they could not un
derstand it.
The Bermon was ended, the minister
gave the benediction, and the entire con
gregation remained on their knees; one
man, an old, white-haired "pillar," rose
first and lifted his face toward the front
of the church. j
"Good Lord deliver us!" he ejaculated,'
and at that fervent quotation from the
Litany the people rose to their feet.
Directly above the kneeling clergyman
was an old-fashioned pulpit, that, al
though he did not use it, he would not
have removed, as his uncle had used it.
Underneath it, half hidden by a curve in
the wall, stood a lady, her slim hands
holding in place a tottering beam that
had long been loose, and was now just
ready to descend upon Wesley's head.
Even in that moment of horror they
all acknowledged her loveliness. Her:
cloak had half fallen, forming a back-;
ground of fur for the queenly form in its
rich dress of ruby velvet, a single purple
blossom fastened in the lace about her
throat. The hands that held the beam
glistened with diamonds, but the lustre
of the great brown eyes outrival! ed
then.
A moment they gazed speechless, then
cries were heard from all portions of the
church, and the minister arose. She
smiled at him, a glad, sweet smile, as he
looked and comprehended what she had
done for him!' ;
"Leda!" j
It was all he could articulate, though
he tried to say more; butthere were tears
in his eyes and tears choked him.
"Yes, Wesley," said the dear, familiar
Voice, "and if you please, -my arms are
tired!"
He reached up his strong hands and
held the beam in its place. '
"Take your hands down, my passion
flower! my passion-flower!'' he said, very
low, and in a voice still choked with
tears. ;
But a dozen or more gentlemen pressed
forward and relieved the rector. i
"Wasn't it splendid?" inquired Miss
St. Cloud, coolly, taking possession of
Wesley s arm. "(Jome, let us hnd Uncle
Herbert-; he must be half dead with ter
ror."
"Well, he isn't!" affirmed that venera
ble gentleman, approaching them.'
"How do you -do, Wesley ? I declare I
am rejoiced to see you! But Leda, I shall
never go to church with you again if you
cannot conduct yourseil properly. I
Leda only laughed, and by the time
the excitement had subsided Mr. St.
Cloud was willing to acquiesce to any
plan Wesley might offer, the first being
that they should go to the rectory to
dine.
I lit was not until Uncle Herbert was en
joying his after dinner nap that Wesley
and ljeda were alone.
Tell me, Leda, how did you do it?"
asked the rector, seriously, lifting his
eyes to her face.
"Why, you see," she answered, with a
nervous little laugh, "I did not kneel
with the others, but looked straight at
the altar. I saw that the beam would
fall, and Wesley, in that moment I saw,
also, that I did not hate you, as I had
fondly imagined for seven years. Well,
I just slipped up there, and caught it as
it was falling, indeed."
i She stopped, and put one hand over
her eyes. When she removed it, he was
looking earnestly at her.
! "Of what are you thinking?" she
asked.
"Leda, I know about my dreadful mis
take, seven years ago and, forgive me,
but can I hope you still care for me?"
Her pride was up in an-instant.
"Wesley, do you think I came here to
ask you to marry me? To tell you that I
still love you, and crave your love? In
deed, you mistake me; I came solely on
my uncle3 account, and and you in
sult me so dreadfully!"
The beautiful brown eyes were full of
angry tears, and the red mouth quivered
like n child's.
"Oh, my passion-flower," the rector
said gravely, taking the restless hands in
one of his. "Leda, you seem to think I
do not love you, but am offering you
myself as a sort of reward for your
heroism this morning; is not that it, my
darling? Look! here next my heart, have
I worn this for seven years!"
And he held up the withered flowers.
"Passion-flowers!" Leda gasped, her
color fleeing. ' Oh, Wesley, you can
never, never forgive mel"
"Only on one condition," he rejoined,
still very grave. "Give me one passion
flower, and I shall be satisfied."
"This one?" asked Leda, mischievously,
touching the one that nestled in her
laces.
"Yes, this one," Wesley laughed,
raising the tiny hands to his lip3. "And
tell me, Leda, that I may have it."
"Well, you may, if ' she stopped,
thought a. moment, and drawing a long
sigh that was a curious mixture of dis
may and happiness, added if you are
willing to take the most passionate of
passion-flowers."
Mothers and Daughters.
Said one dark-eyed woman to her
neighbor, in the public conveyance
which accommodated a throng of passen
gers: "She had completely effaced herself
for her daughter. Everything is done to
accommodate Helen and Julia, and Mrs
is superseded. It don't seem just
right to me that a mother should be kept
altogether in the background.
"Oh, said the sweet-looking lady to
whom this was addressed, "self-denial is
easy to mothers. What is a mother's life
auy way but a sacrifice all through?"
I agree with the first speaker. It don't
seem right to me that the Helens and
Julias, bright, beautiful, bewitching
though they may be, should step to the
front in selhsli absorption and monopo
lize the best things, while "mother." a
pale, colorless, wornout figure, is wear
ing old dresses, reading old books, or
none at all, seeing few friends, and
living a humdrum life of routine, chiefly
enlivened by conflicts with Bridget's
stupidity and Noah s impertinence. In
deed, it is not right, and Helen and
Julia, flashing like butterflies in the
sunny morning of youth, would be the
last to enjoy their warm and cosy home
if they fe:t that they were responsible
for the monotony of their mother's ex
istence. Mother is herself the person
most to blame, x or seJi-cienial is easy
indeed to a real mother. From the hour
when her nature first over-brimmed with
the tidal rapture which sweeps full
blooded into the heart that cradles i
babe, through the weary, watching hours
of teething and whooping-cough, mumps
and measles, on through school davs.
and vacation days and courting days.
the mother's life is poured out and given
incessantly for her children. So itshoulu
be in a sense. In every child the mother
renews her youth, and each son and
daughter is an addition to the homo
wealth.
But some of you mothers, to whom
am tauungr. carry your sen sucrince so
far that you forget that you have any
Hie ot your own, for which you are re
sponsible to liod. xou spend your
strength so freely and so recklsssly
during the year's of children's childhood
that you have no elasticity, no resources
no health left to spare by the time they
are grown up. lou so devote vour skill
and talents to the material eide of the
house that you have no time to keep up
with the current of the world's thought,
or to grow up intellectually with your
young people.' Many a good woman
suffers her religious life to droop and
languish because in her thoughtless
giving up of every moment of time and
of every remnant of nervous force to the
daily demands of her households, she
has absolutely no opportunity left for
sitting at the Master's feet. Society is
not, in our cities, given up so wholly to
the young as it was a few years ago. In
fact, there can be no social success where
only the crudity of early youth appears
on the scene. Older people who bring
to the front the tact, the experience, and
the knowledge which they have gained
through the years, must mingle in the
social gathering if it is to be witty, bril
liant and attractive. The mothers must
be in the van, and the daughters, as be
fits their age, a little in the sheltering
shadow if we are to have the ideal social
life growing out of the ideal home life.
I am very fond of the Helens and
Julia?. I like their sparkle, their
vivacity, their Ssprit, but I do not like
their want of consideration for mother,
if she is, perhaps, a little old-fashioned,
a little tired, a little diffident and fright
ened in the blaze of their splendor. True
and tenderly-loving daughters will never
be contented to let mothers efface them
selves, even though self-denial be an
easy maternal duty.
Stories of Sanjj-Froid and Shyness.
It is not every one who possesses the
coolness of the Ambassador whose im
pertuble sang-froid so piqued Louis
XIV. The monarch vainly attempted
to impress him with the glories of his
Court, and then thought to embarrass
him by interrupting Lis first speech by
calling upon him to speak louder. The
Ambassador merely bowed low, raised
his voice and went on unmoved. There
is a companionable story of a modern
American debutate, at her first appear
ance at a drawing-roOm, remembering
that she had omitted to courtesy to one
member of the royal group, and turned
back to rectify the error with perfect
sang-froid.
But such people are the exceptions and
not the rule. Sir Arthur Helps re
marks that the manners of the majority
of English people in society is the de
meanor which Confucus prescribed to
his disciples in the presence of their
superiors "an air of respectful uneasi
ness, in one of the eighteenth
century magazines is an amusing de
scription of the agonies endured by the
shy man who has written a book or a
poem, and becomes the fashion in con
sequence. But "this fictitious story is
fully paralleled by the event in the life
of Gay. The Princess of Wales, hear
ing that he had written a tragedy called
"The Captives," desired to hear it read
by the author. He accordingly attended
her residence. Unfortunately, the poet
being an extremely nervous man, was so
overcome by the excitement of the intro
duction that he never observed a large
Japanese screen until he respectfully
backed upon it, and sent it crashing to
the ground, amid the screams of the
Princess and her ladies. It is naedless
to say that his subsequent reading of
tragedy did his work little justice, and
the Princess appears to have been
but slightly impressed with his genius.
The Bath.
A man who resided not half a hundred
miles from Pontiao objected to taking
the warm bath which J prescribed for
him a few years ago, declaring that a
drop of water had not touched his back
in fortv years. What must have been
the condition of his system, leaving out
all aesthetic considerations, and what
must have been the condition of the
great unwashed multitudes of Europe
during the thousand years when the bath
was absolutely unknown? In cold
weather, this poten poison, or the
moisture in which it is dissolved, may
be seen condensing upon the window
panes, sometimes forming a dense layer
of frost, and often woven by the mys
terious fingers of nature's silent workeis
into the most fantastic designs, some
times presenting views of startling
beauty, as if thus designing to conceit
the deadly agent of disease and suffer
ing hidden .within its sparkling folds.
A few weeks ago I stepped into an un
ventilated railway car when the ther
mometer was several degrees below
zero outside, and found the accumula
tion of this frozen filth upon the win
dows nearly an inch thick. Did it ever
occur to you that the same condensa
tion is constantly taking plaoe upon
the walls and ceilings of our homes?
A layer of frost such as covers the win
dows on a cold day would be also visi
ble upon the walls were it not for the
fact that our walls are porous and ab
sorb the filth as fast as it condenses,
thus preventing its visible manifesta
tion. The accumulation goes on in a
house, the rooms of which are not
freely exposed to the disinfecting in
fluences of air and sunlight, until the
plaster and paper covering its walls
are completely saturated with decom
posing filth, which pours out contin
ually upon the occupants of the house
a stream of noxious gases and other
forms of dirt. But the lungs and the
skin are not the only sources of gaseous
and organic filth, the cesspool, the
gutter, the vault, the .neglected cellar,
the wood box, .the back yard, the sta
ble, the pigsty, the garbage barrel
all theee and a hundred other sources
constantly pour out a deadly stream of
poisonous gases and organic filth. San
itary News.
The Diamond Rattlesnake.
Of all the snake varieties of which we
have yet any knowledge the diamond
rattlesnake, as it is called, seems to be
most deadly. It grows to a length of six
or seven feet, and is somewhat thicker
than a man's wrist. It is armed with the
whitest and sharpest of fangs, nearly an
inch in length, with cisterns of liquid
pjison at their base. A terror to man
and beast, he turns aside from no one,
although he will not go out of his way to
attack any unless pressed by hunger. A
description of his movements by a trav
eler who has encountered him, states
that he moves quickly along, his gleam
ing eyes seeming to emit a greenish
light, and to shine with as much bril
liancy $s the jewels of a finished coquette.
Nothing seems to escape his observation
and on the slightest movement near him
he swings into his fighting attitude,
raising his upper jaws and erecting his
fngn, which in a state of repose lie
closely packed in the soft muscles of his
mouth. This snake is not so active as
the famous copperhead of North Amer
ica, nor so quick to stiike, but one blow
is almost always fatal. His fangs are so
long that they penetrate deep into the
muscles and veins of th victim, who
has ltttle time for more than a single
good-by before closing his eyes forever.
In one instance the fangs were found to
be seven-eighths of an inch in length,
and though not thicker than a common
sewing needle they were perforated with
a hole through which the greenish yel
low liquid could be forced in considera
ble quantities, and each of the sacks
contained about half u teaspoonful of
the most terrible and deadly poison.
London Times.
The Boston Herald wishes to revise
its opinion that the President has a tal
ent for recreation. A man, it says, who
can be satisfied with two days' splendid
fishing and can't stay contented in ouo
spot for more than six hours, ha3 no real
genius for repose.
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sent to this coast has Just been received at Harrison's
sewing machine store, 197 Third street. The White is
McadiT increasing in public favor Eight years tie
in Oregon has proved it to be one f the most desira
ble machines in the world. Agents to sell wanted in
every town in Oregon. .
USE ROSE PILLS,
XII K BOW BOOTH
Akin, Selling k Co., the proprietors of the
"Boss" boots, have established an immense trail:
in the northwest for that standard article. Thes
boots are all stayed seams, and made in the bes ,
manner and always give satisfaction to thu
wearer. They are solid and comfortable and so
far seem to wear better than anv boot heretofore
put on this market. The firm that handle the
"Boss" boots are thoroughly reliable, and mer
chants dealing with llicm are sure ot lair treat
ment, as 110 houss in Portland stands higher. 1
commercial integrity than Akin, Selling & Lo.
TAKK XOXICK.
A new feature of Tort'and is a homrpathic
pharmacy, lately opened by Mead rs. Paul J. A
Semler fc Co , at 93 Morrison btreet. Their twi-
dollar medicine case should te in every lamiiy
for emergencies. Sent free on receipt ot price to
any part ot the country, liomoepatnic coug
ana croup syrup n the remedy lorcougns an
colds. mi-im
DON'T BUY BOSS BOOTS UNLESS
YOU WANT THE BEST. SEE THAT
OUR NAME IS ON EVERY PAIR.
AKIN. SELLING & CO.
For the best photographs in Oregon; go to F,
G. Abell's ffallerv. 167 First ttreet, Portland. H i
work will bear the most searching tests, for it js
made by genuiue aitisbs, who understand their
business.
Roarinsf cataracts of honest applause, foamin
oceans of fun. and the best show ot the seaso
now being held at the Elite theatre, PortlandL
Oregon. Kegular prices and o) cents.
Turkish Rugs. Send to Jobn B. Garrison
167 Third street Portland, for catalogues of ie-
aigns. '
Garrison repairs all kinds of sewing machine!
Take Wm. Pfunder's Oregon Blood Purifier.
WILLIAM BECK & SON,
WholegaJe and retail deal, rs In
Sharp's, Remington's, Ballard's, Marl M
and Winchester Repeating Rifles.
Colt's, Remington's, Parker's, Moore's an
Baker's Double and Three-Barrel
BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUNS.
TrsTTT xrn t a nxrT .tti t
Of every description and qualitr.
LEADERS, FLY 1IOOK. HASRETS,
Braided aud Tapered Oil Ollk JLlne.
SIX SPLICED SPLIT BAMBOO RODS,
Sturgeon Llneaund Hook of all Kind.
165 and 167 Second Street, Portland.
Phillip
MILWAUKEE BEE
Bottled expressly for tho
PACIFIC COAST TRADE,
Superior In quality and purity to all others
One Trial Will Convince.
SOLE DEALERS,
CHARLES KOHN & CO.,
4 4 Front Ntreet, Portland. Or.
NORTHERN PACIFIC
Laud and Immigration Company.
Offices llooin 40 and 41 Union BlorkL
PORTLAND. OREGON.
P. O. Cnn.TROM.
fresidi nt
Frank Owe
Secretary,
This Company operates tlironuhout Oregon, VA.ih
lngton, Idaho ami Montana.
Ijinds ol all kinds liouglit and sold.
Immigrant Colonization a Specialty.
Headunarters f.,r all land seekers.
T)i-H.-riitlon of (Jovernmenl and other wild lutids
furnLshed free.
Information Riven on all branches of business.
Correspondenre sulioiied ami couimunioat
promptly answered.
I.0. box MOO.
$1000 .HEW AUD
WJ ILL BE PAID TO ANY PKRSON PHODTIC-
T T In? a more effectual remedy than
Dr. Keek's Sure Cure for Catarrh,
Which has utood the test for fourteen yearn. Physi
cians, .Druggists, and all who have used and thor
oughly tented It, pronounce it BpevlOe for the cur of
mat loatnsome aisease. Trj 1U xour druggist
it. price tl.
Dr. Keck thoroughly understands, and in eminently
uccessiui in me treatment 01 an ettrame ano din
call diseases of both sexes and till ages, having
made a BDeclsltT of their treatment for fourteen veara
He treats Caaeer without using the knife. His fayor
Its prescription is furnished to Indy patients Frjee.
No lady should be without it. Young. mlddle-age I or
old, male or female, Itisanity or a life of sufierln ? Is
your inevitable doom unless yoa apply In time to the
physician who-understands, and Is competent to treat
your case. Waste no more time nor money with In
competent physicians. Ail communications atten led
to with dispatch, and are strictly confidential. Mi dl
class sent to any part of the country. Circulars, te jti
moniala, and a list of printed questions furnished on
application. OO SfSl'LTATIO.N I'KKH. Incite
a three-cent stamp for list and add res- JDK. JA-MJiS
jl is-ck.. xno. i nrat street, Portland, or.
EYE & EAR INFIRMAlifr
SANITARIUM, OR HOME FORTHESICK
Macadam Baud. be. lrl-r and Wood Nka.,
Month Portland, Or.
Dr. Pilklngton, late Professor of Eye Ear Dlseises
in the Medical Department of Willamette I nivert.ity
has erected a Hue hiiildliK. on a heauumi eievauc
tlio vY.ntti imrl nt the oil v. und Ls irenared to
in
rl.itu mill. nt miir-i-1iitr from all diseases of the K
pio-
K,
KARnrTHIWAT. Also will pay sjx'cial alteutio
oersons laboring under Chronic JNervous aifecti'
l to
n.s
Uli-
and to diseases i-cullar to women. and receive al
iiwi imiiitior of riuM ex Dectiiiir ctiiitiitemeiit.
The Intention is to provide a Houie for such ciLses
with all the best hvglenic agencies combined with thi
best medical skill to be had in the metropolis.
( ViriHiiltlnir ithvsiciau and surgeon Dr. Philip Iiarvey,
Prof, of diseasi-s of women and children In the medical
riunartment Wllhirnefte I'niversit v.
Also Dr. J. M. t Hrowne, Prof, of Physiology nled.
clep't. Willamette University,
for any amount of references and circular, add
nic. j. ii. piLKiKu ni.v,
Cor. 1st and Wellington Mia., l'ortlxnd. Ok-,
LAND PLASTElt,
For Male by
EVE III) I NO & FAR 11 ELL,
Aider and Front slrects,
Portland, ------ Oregon.
GRS FRFELAND &. ROBERTS,
Cor. Flrt fo Yamhill Mi., Portland, Or.
(lavidson's Photi;rain Gallery. ).
S-Firtt-cias4 work st the mofet rtastnikbl?
rates
Have both bad msny years experience in Oregon
and can forms.
lUO. !
J. A. STR0W15R1D0E,
DIRKCT TMPOHTKR AND DKALKR IX
LEATHER & FINDINGS.
NO. 1 FRO.T aTHKET,
ortland. - - Orefroa.
NTISELL O
10 000 Pianos HP'
l.uuu Organs. II
f'f i..nr.i-ti.r..i. la
CaUlos... 1-W tl jJ&Wfl Fit 1
C. E. McHREEN'S
vmiTivn nr ti ti iii7
lAIt
1 Morrtann Rtreet. Portland. Or..
THE L,EATIVO AVn
furnishing Ktore In Tori
rilKAPKRT irOU
SE
aer 'ortlrtii.l. Tea and III
Vets a saeelxlly.
All Woods twlow Flrt Street Prices.
Best'
o
t1 USE ROSE PILLS
GL WESnHGHQUSES CO
r . - ,
Hi f1
Schcuectadj, 'ew York. i: : :
BRANCH HOUSE, I J J
PORTLASD OREGON Vi' Li ft
G. P. DART, Manager. fe rj??
MANCFACTVF.EK.S of TIIRESIIERH, LEVER
TRACTION ENGINES, DRAU SAW, Ac. We do
But we'll say we can prove that we have a machine the
fn rvinH. We claim we can thresh cleaner from the
work in general than others. Neither do we have to rebuild our machlMes In the field at the TIME and EX
PENSE of the FARMER. We warrant all machinery sold by us. We V I'RTIIER GUARANTEE that our
Engiue will do the SAME WORK with ONE-THIKW LESS FUEL and WATER than ANV ENGINE In
this MARKET. Do not buy without seeing our Koods or hearing from us. For circulars or Other Information
addressl. . Weatlnirhouae fc Co.. Portland. Oregon. Office foot of Morrison (ft.
i FKTrtCJt TlIAf .L.I.
CALIFORNIA FRUIT SALT.
A Pleasant and Efficacious Remedy.
IF YOU HAVE ABUSED YOURSELF
By over lndiilKer.ee in eatine or drinklnir: have sick
or nervous headache; dryness of the skill, with a
feverl.-h tendency; nujht .weals ami sleeplessness; by
all means hmi;
S'ayeh's California Fruit Salt,
And f-el young otico more. It Is t'ie woman's friend.
Vrv It: 1 ter bottle: f. hou'es fur i r or hale ov ail
druKHiwts. IKHXiE, DA VIM & CO., Wholesl
Portland. OrtKori.
:ue ov an
l A gen if,
MAX
X"" liotograplio
t'orticr First ami Motrinon Streets.
tnn.ANl OKKUON.
IS I if
11
- - ."rr 'M?-Ctrl-,,. t "IT'S.
AN UXPAKALLKLEI) OFFKK !
1st -fJi'Pts' Or!de Guard; usual price, 7 SO; price
2 50. flit represents section. h',.'.
'2d Elegant brilliant Scarf Pin ; regular p:lce.
J5: i :m.
3d-Gents Ring: fit card over finger for size, f'2:
usual price.
4th Itreiistn'n. ft gem. l ': nsunl price '..
5th A beautiful lios'im Stud, Very brilliant, 1 .7);
usual price.
tit Ii Ladies' brilliant Ear Props.! .10. usual price.
We will return money on any of these goods If they
are not sup-rlor to your a'ltii-ipatioin, knowing that
no such oflVr has been made before Send nionev or
der if possible, and address Tl! K MORTON AGENCY.
Portland, Oregon. P. . box StUtf.
H. P. GREGORY & CO.,
Xo. 5 J?orth Front St., lie t ween A and li,
l'ortland, Oregon.
SawMills
AND
HAWK,
Woodworking
M.ulimer.v,
teim I'nfclnea
und llul era,
Mi'iing
W achinery
lleltlng,
Pnrklnit
nnd Hoae
r'lonr Mill
Muclilner3',
"Vuler Wheels
Etc.. etc.
ENLARGED PICTURES
MADE IN TUE
Highest Style of the Art,
BY
I. G. DAVIDSON,
PHOTOGK A PJ riil ; .
l'OUTLtXl), OKKUON.
THE BALDWIN
1 TIIK OSI.Y F1K.NT I.1S
Family ISestanrant i rortlsmiL
"SFes' Snro Garo for Catarrir
IEHIC
JLJ Insutilator-." (trice -Sue. I'rv Vp and InsulMa
Urs malksl on receipt of price, with full direction foi
use.etc: s. G. SKIlJ.MOUK i Co.. Drugt 151 rlrst
Btreet. I'ot'ai'd. Or. rM- AFeois for the N. facit.i
a miTl II hi: 1H . I'lliriv Ii -rii rtfiusrui
pel !rfM
MMmi
WA PimuH w!
mmmm
"-r.:.-UJJ:J:::::-. .. - Jf -I .!- ' -.(7)- 1 -r T - 3
FRAXCISfO (JALLKBY,
4 V
n
AlnoWeneral Agents forTks
W eatln g U o use U a a a
'o.'s Srw luubl f lliMtrr,
Mingle Art Ion, Mr.C.ll
ed 1'jiglne, Vneaeelled for
Kconomylu Mury particular.
Skilled Kiiglneera unneces
sary. No Tucking, no Adjus
lug, no rounding in boxes.
and TREAD IIORSE POWERS, PORTABLE and
not cla'm to have the O.M,Y TH RKMIIEK In Oregon.
best adapted to the wants of the farmers of the Pa-
straw, save tne train ueuer, auu au more ana Better
F. N. Akin, Bkn Skllino, 11. E. Dost H .
BOSS BOOTS ARE BEST-
THEY A HE ALL STAYED SEAMS.
II V V AO OTHER.
See that Oht Name Is on Every Pair.
AKI.V f)EM.I.U fe ..
l'ortland, Oman,
- . saT arfV . M s.r'j, ' ,
107 Third SU, rOKTLA.NU, OKKOON".
JOHN B. GARRISON, Propr.
All llio Iallnff ScwIiik Machines, OH.
JScctllo. Attuclniieiit4 and tienu
Ino 1'ai ls for sale.
All kiiitN of Sewlnif Machines Kepalr!
aixl ar;-ant'il.
okm:kal agknt von
Ihs Boueloli and White Seving Xuli&ei.
(il-NKKAI, AOKM VOll
THE TURKISH RUG PA TTERNS.
;i;m:i:ai. aoi:nt roie
T.1E UNIVERSAL FASHION CO'S PERFECT
FITTING PATTERNS.-
DR. SPINNEY,
BTo. 11 Kesu-ny street, . T.,
Treats lUl Chronic and 8peelMl Dlae
YOUNG MEN
WHO MAY RK, SI TFKRINO FROM TIIE KF
feets of vootlu'ti' follies or Indiscretion, will do
well to avail t Uen.selvi s i,f thN, the arestest boon
ever laid ut the altar of HiitlViinK humanity. UK.
SPINNKY wid Kua-aiiiee to for eit f-VW for eery
case ol Seminal W'eaknoM or private diieases of any
kind or character which he undertakes and fail to
C"r' allOOI.AOF.I) MEN.
There are many nt theatre of thirty to sixty who ara
troubled with t o Ireii'ient evueualions of tliebiaddsr.
often afcolii,a'M"il ' a sii. ht sniurtliiif or bnrnlnrf
sensation and a weaVeislin; of the system in a mannsl
the patient cannot af eciiii.t for. On examining tha
urinary deposits a ripv se limeiit will often he found,
and Komelimes omuli ji-irtU h sol albums will apiear,
orthec-olor will be f a thin m Iklsh hue. Afalo
eiiunclne to a dark and io' pl-1 pl-araiu'e. There rs
msny m-n who die of tnis :ilhi u!ty. Ignorant of ths
eatise, which Is the second st:ine of iseiniiiHl WeaKness.
Dr. H. wiil Kuarunt-e a perteet cure in all such rasas,
and a healthy restoration of tho fenlior unlnary of
Vrtice Hours 10 to 4 and to . Kundsys from 10 ta
It A. M. (,'oi'sultail n free, lhoroush eamlnauoa
and advice, t.
trail or ad.ire s 1IX- M'ISMKV AfO..
No. II Kearny nr-- t, Sail 1 ranc.sco, OaL
OHEGO'I BIO CD PURIFIER
JOHN Aa CHILD. WALTER A. GRADOJfi
John A. Child
& Co.,
TiwimniMTH.
DKAUcka nr
Fine ChemlcAls.
Toilet Article,
KabbrO4s u4
DRl'COUT'
fCHBIIM.
Ppeclal attention glr
ea to
CASH OBDEIU
Ky KfalL
11 Meoml Nt., lm'M-nd. Or.
TIIE PHOTO QK API IER,
riUNTAMJ T.VYI.OK T11EET.
I'url lud, Ortvitn,
Till I Sit of Teeth for $10.
lleat Net, 91S.
TEETH FlI.I.K.n AT LOW HATE": HATISFAO
tlou (;uarautei'd. Gas adnilnlsteicd. Ilenlal grad,.
uates.
1'ortlund, Oregon.
Itoom M. Union Uluck, atark ntrtet entrance.
ltseIr, o k pills.
cW! '
Bam unurOA ' i
liiiiiiEii
l k'pi IAD
t-'-p ?Vi -