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THE INDEPENDENT
IS ISSUED
Saturday mornings,
BY THE
DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
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These are the terms for those paying la advance.
jup muitriftuKiiT okm sn inducements to aa-
veruaeo. lunna reasonaoie.
bJ. JASiCULEK
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL WORKWARRANTED.
Dealer la Wiitcbti, Cloeka, Jewelry,
apcicira a r. jrgiaaaca,
And a Fall Line of
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Goods.
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
proper adjustment of Spectacle ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacle and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE FIret door south of poet office, Rose
uurg, ureffon.
LANOENBEEG'S
'. Boot and Shoe Store,
nosEBURo, oar.,
On Jacknn Street. ODPoalte the Postoffice. Keep
on hacd the largest and best assortment of
Eastern itod Ham Franelteo Boots and
IhMi, Oalters, Slippers
And everything In the Boot and Shoe Line and
SELLS CHEAP for CASH.
Boots and Shoes Made to Order Perfect
Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warrant all
my work.
KEPAIRINU Neatly Done
On Short Notice. I keep alwars on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
swMnsfoal Instrument and Violin Strings a Spe
cialty. l.OUlg LAAOKSBKKG.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST.
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
OFFICE-Otf JACKSOX STREET.
Up Stair, over 8. Mtrki & Oo.'s New Store.
(VIAHONEY'8 SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jas. Mahouey, I?roir.
The finectof wines, liquors and cigars in Docs'
las oountj, and the best
BILLIARD TA.DIjB
in the Btate kept in proper rapain
Parties traveling on the railroad win find tUt
place very handy to visit daring the etep
. ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Give me aoalL
IUsSSSSBWSaSSMSaHBMMHMIMMBHMaSMMBSMS)
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constant! on hand.
rilRMITIIRET I have the bt stock of
run II 1 1 Unc. lurnlturesoatU of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give ine a call before purchasing elsewhere.
j-ALL, WORK WARRANTED.-
DEPOT HOTEL-
OAKLAND, . . OREUOH.
Richard Thomas, Propr.
rfiHIS HOTEL HAS BEEK ESTABLISHED
for s number ol years, and has become very
popolarjrith the traveling public. First-class
SLEItPINQ ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. H otel at the depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
, Keeps constantly on hand a general assort
ment of
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND tiLASSWARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
HCHOOL BOO K8
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY AUTICLKS,
To suit both Young and Old.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS sSEEDS 1
SISSIES !
ALL mm OF BUST QUALITY
ALL OKDEBS
Promptly attended to and Goods ehipoed
with care.
Address. H&cheney Reno,
Portland. Oregon.
The Riverdale.a Hudson river steamer,
while in New York harbor, on the after
noon of the 28th instant, exploded her
boiler. Over 100 passengers were on
board at the time and many were thrown
into the river by the force of the explo
sion while others jumped into the water
to escape scalding from the hissing
steam. The steamer sank in ten min
utes after the explosion. The loss of life
is variously estimated at from ten to
fifty, and would have been much greater
were it hot for the assistance rendered
the unfortunate passengers by the large
number of orafta ia the river at the
time.
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LATEST NEWS 8UM8KABT.
BY TELEGRAPH TO DATF.
At a horse race in Rossville. Kansas.
recently, an Indian shot and killed in
crld blood one John Hote.
It is reported that John Roach has din
posed of the steam yacht Yosemite, built
lor Mr. icaymond,to ex-Uovernor Tilden.
The briarantine Ruthal L.. owned Irr
James it. jjeumon and K. r. Archibald
of Halifax, was burned at Little Glace
bay recently.
Captain A. H. Barlow, of Effingham.
Illinois, who was one of the immortal
"306" in the Chicago convention, died
September 1st.
Harry Packard of Hartford, Conn., an
employe of Barnum's at Cincinnati, was
crushed recently by an elephant, and
died at the hospital.
All Philadelphia pool rooms where
pools are sold on horse races, were
dosed recently - by tne police. An in
junction is threatened.
John Connelly, a watchman on duty
in the U. S. treasury department, shot
and killed himself in one of the coal
vaults in the basement of the treasury
building September !.
Lording & Avery's tannery, at Sandy
creek, Uswego county, H. x., the stock
in it and hundreds of cords of bark,
burned recently. Loss, $150,000. Eighty
men are thrown out of employment.
At the town of Logbs, in Mexioo, a
few days ago, while services were being
held in the principal church, there was
a severe thunder storm, during which
lightning struok the building, killing
the priest, four women and a little girl.
A New Haven dispatch of September
2d says: A disastrous fire oocurred yes
terday in the large building occupied by
the New Haven Staple Manufacturing
Company, Strong, Cartridge & Co. and
Charles Brown, scroll sawing. Loss,
$100,000; insurance, $65,000.
The steamer Queen of the Pacific
which has been laying up for Alterations
to her machinery at San Francisco for
some time past, has been thorougnly
overhauled, and it is claimed that by
reason of certain improvements, has had
hor rate of speed considerably acceler
ated. A San Saba, Texas, special says: such
a drought has not been experienced in
the surrounding country for many years.
From San Saba through Mount Cul
longh and Concho counties extensive
prairie fires have raged, destroying a vast
extent of pasture. Stock men will suffer
heavy loss.
A New York dispatch of Sept. 1st
says: A young man named Tulley, who
recently distinguished himself by saving
several persons from drowning dnring
the great fire at Harbeck's Brooklyn
wharves, and who has a great number of
medals giyen for life saving, was him
self drowned to day in this harbor.
A Newbergh, N. Y., dispatch of Sep
tember 1 nays: A cattle disease termed
bloody urine has broken out on a farm
here, baffling the efforts of veterinary
surgeons. Fourteen cows have died.
The doctors say those are the only cases
of the disease ever occurring in this
country, though common in Eupope.
A Frankfort, Dak., dispatch of Sep
tember 1 says:. A steam engine attached
to a threshing machine exploded in a
grain field six miles north of here to
day, instantly killing Wm. Bonnell,
Clarence Reed, Qeorge Storm and an
unknown, and injuring five others, four
of whom are in a critical condition.
A New York dispatch of September 2
says: Detective Sergeant William F.
Hinds killed himself to-night in a bath
room in the house in which he boarded
with his wife and two children. He had
lately been drinking heavily and was
financially embarrassed. He was a
nephew of Steven B. French, president
of the board of police commissioners.
A correspondent at Amsterdam says:
It is believed 100,000 persons perished
in Bantam in the recent calamity. It is
also believed that the garrison and fort
at Aajer were swept away. An exten
sive plain of volcanic stone has formed
in the sea ner Lam per g Samoha, pre
venting communication with Telokbe-long-and
southwest Java.
A Baltimore dispatch of September 2d
says: A collision occurred at Highland
Park station, on the Western Maryland
road, this corning, between a regular
and an extra freight train. The regular
train stopped on account of a hot box a
few minutes, and was afterward run into
by the extra. Joseph Crcse, engineer of
the extra, jumped from his engine and
escaped with a sprained ankle; Wm. A.
Belli brakeman, was killed; Joseph
Dorsey, a oattle driver, was fatally in
jured; Wm. Fleigh, fireman, was slightly
injured. The verdict of the coroner
jury charged the eollision to gross negli
gence. A Council Bluffs, la., dispatch, of Sept.
1st says: A terrible accident occurred at
Crescent city, a station on the Chicago
and Northwestern road, near this city
this afternoon. Freight train No. 19
coming west, ran off the switch, ditching
the engine and six cars. Conductor
Wesley Munn and Engineer John Mabin
were buried under the cars and instantly
killed. The fireman escaped by jump
ing clear of the wreck. A tramp aged
75 years was buried beneath the train,
but was taken out alive. It is not known
who is too blame for the switch being
left open.
A Boston special says of the Citizens
and Telegraphers' Company just incor
? orated under the laws of Massachusetts:
ts projectors assert that they will break
ground within 30 days after the stock is
subscribed. The books are opened Sep
tember 15 tb, and the company will have
100 wires in four cables of twenty-five
wires eaoh in operation between Boston
and New York before January. They
will extend lines throughout the coun
try. They may combine with the Balti
more and Ohio, but will not under any
ciroumstanoes unite with the Postal Tel
graph Company. They will use the
straight Morse system, and will have
nothing to do with any patent which
practioal operators say have never yet
proved successful. The corporators
named in the document are E. J. O'Con
nor, Chas. E. Chute and Thoa. W.
Green of Boston.
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ROSEBUKG. OREGON, SATUBJOAY,
.auo iioemiuKers convention opened
'I'h A f.A.lU. 1 . f
av xfcuuueBier, x., on Aug. isyth.
About duu deaf mutes attended the
nrst triennial convention at New York on
Aug. ztn.
mere was a large diminution in the
number of deaths from cholera in Egyp
during the past week.
The Pennsylvania greenback oonven
tion convened on ! the 30th of Auaust
uw attendance was only moderate.
Over 1000 old soldiers of the Confeder
ate and Union armies met in reunion at
jenerson uity, jvio., on the 28th inst.
A J
a iurious nan storm in Rock county,
Wis., on the 29th inst., completely de
stroyed the tobacco crop of that oounty.
Gen. J. A. Ekih, of Colorado, and the
assistant quartermaster general, has
been placed on the retired list of the
army.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 28th
inst., says the official estimate of wheat
and otuer crops of Russia is generally
sttiiBidciory.
The treasury department on Auor. 29th
purcuased ai.uuu ounces of silver for de
livery at the San Francisco.NewDrleans
and Philadelphia mints.
The fourteenth annual camp meetinor
at Ocean Grove, N. J., olosed on the
30th of August. The managers claim
for it a success spiritually.
A war on passenger rates is in progress
between St. Louis and Louisville, and
the railroad companies are vieing with
each other for the cheapest passenger
rates. j
A New York dispatch of the 28th inst.
says that the new play of "Vera," by Os
car Wilde, is a 1 complete failure, and
after one week's run has been called
from the stage, j
A San Francisco dispatch of Aug. 29th
says that the work on the Panama canal
is progressing rapidly and that the facil
ities are to be increased and the work
hurried to completion.
Carl Sohura, in an article in the New
York Post on the! 28th inst., joins in a
crusade against :the church bill. He
calls it a useless' survival of medcevial
times, a barbarous cruelty and an out
rage.
James Dods, the Oakland embezzler.
was, on tne zstn met., sentenced to five
yeara in the slate j prison. The nrisoner
received the sentence calmly. It is
stated that an appeal will be taken to the
supreme court, j
Recent dispaches from Victoria re
port that the news from the mines is oi
a discouraging nature, and that placer
mining near Hamsburg is turning out
badly and the quartz mills in that local
ity are shutting down.
A Washington clispatch 'of August 28th
says: The plans t are completed for the
proposed new silver vault, under the
cash room in the treasury department.
The storage capacity of the vault will be
23,000,000 silver dollars.
A Paris dispatch of August 29th says:
Placards appeared in several parts of '
Paris to-day, inviting citizens to rally
to the support of a monarchy under
Louis Phillipe II. The placards were l
destroyed by tne police.
James O'Donnell, the slaver of the
informer Carey,! arrived in Capetown,
Africa, on the 23d inst. O'Donnell
wishes to be tried for his aot here, but
the English government will demand
that he be sent to London for that pur
pose. J
The British steamer Poonah from Cal
cutta, via Fiji islands, arrived in San
Francisco on the 28th inst. During her
voyage cholera broke out on board and
carried off a number of passengers and
attacking others.; She was quarantined
and fumigated, j
A New York dispatch of August 29th
says: Hee Ying, a Chinaman, applied
to-day for naturalization 'papers. Ashe
had taken out his first papers in 1880,
he did not come : under 'the operation of
the aot of congress of 1882, and his ap
plication was granted.
A San Francisco dispatch .of August
the 29th inst. says: The City of Pekin,
which sails next Tuesday for China,
has on board a large shipment of war
material. The manifest shows a con
signment of 375 cases of 1000 cartridges
and 100 cases of fire arms.
A San Francisco dispatch of Aug. 25tb
says: At the evening session of the
grand encampment last evening, it was
unanimously decided that the next eon
clave be held at St. Louis, to commence
the third week in August,1886. No other
business coming before the body, it ad
journed to meet at St. Louis on the
above dfte.
A Washington dispatch of the 28th
instant says: General Sherman recom
mends that the Twenty -first infantry.now
on the Pacific coast, with headquarters
at Fort Vancouver, Washington Territo
ry, change stations with the Tenth infan
try, now on the flakes with headquarter
at Detroit. If approved by the secre a
ry of war the change will be made this
fall.
A Kansas City dispatch of August
25th says: The Missouri free trade
league has issued an invitation to all
who oppose a protective tariff and favor
a genuine reform of the revenue laws, to
a conference at St. Louis on the 2d of
October, 1883, for the discussion of this
question. The meeting will be non-partisan,
and all organizations who sympa
thize with the movement are requested
to send delegates.
A Vandalia, 111., dispatoh of August
28th says: A fatal encounter occurred
early this morning near London City
between Louis Phillips end Jacob Ro
senbrook, in which the latter was killed
instantly, and the former wounded so
badly that he died in j a tew hours after.
The affair had its orign in a grudge of
long standing, growing out of disre
spectful remarks by Phillips concerning
Rosenbrook's sister.
A dispatch of the 29th inst., says the
inhabitants of Rnshville, 111., are greatly
excited over the rapid growth of a so
called religious movement which started
about a year ago, and threatens much
danger to the younger portion of the
community. It bears a close resemblance
to that of the Mormons and free-lovers.
and already claims ! a membership of
over ow. me society nas considerable
money m us treasury ana nave erected a
temple at the cost of $50,000.
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Ah Deacon Smith was anions man
I kind o' guess as you'd seldom find
A. leveler fcead o' the orthoiox plan.
Or a much more reeuiar tuin-o' mind.
Scripture he'd qu tely book ani'verse;
From Adam and Eve to Kevelation;
An' as for the hymns he'd rehearse.
When once set goin' t'nd beat creation. '
An' when the summer came reekin' hot.
An' things in the city were kind o' btlln
An' the whliiin wheels o' life bed rot
Rusty an' stiff an wanted -'llln';
Then board ud ro up an' nary a one
O' all tbem homesteads in yonder vale
As wasn't crowded an' overdone ;
By folks as oome down from tawa by rail.
No depot, you say? I rather (TOesa not:
But twenty miles over Qrayioc k hill, j
By Glenway creek you know Use spot '
Close to where Hulburt owns the mill i
Stood a tumble-down shanty as ever I seen.
An' the deacon staged aver thca laat season.
In a kind o IUmsbacklebattlne maeMna
As he called a coach 'thout rhyme or reason, -
Mow the deacan drav a wall-eyed mare,
A flea-bitten gray, a uwul critter.
As 'ud do twelre miles wi'out turnin' a haiar
I' less nor a' hour, if he would bat hit 'or
But the deacon wat slow and methodic l some.
An' the beast got into the way o' her master,
Till you'd think to see her joe; (in' to hum
At a ten-iorty gait as sue couid't go faster.
Wall one day last fall the down train brings
A citv vounr gDort a eloriotia hpl no-
Fixed ud wi' watch chains, pit s an' rings !
Lie a jewelry store gone out a nreeln'.
An' he off wi' the deacon over the hill i -
An' they fell a-talking- o eettin' reliclnn-
An' this here young chap he arzved u ntil ,
The deacon sotrufTd like a moult In pigeon.
He Rev him Bob IorptsiH hot an' strong; j
tie d sed mm wr Darwia'D evolution;
An' prayers in the public schools was wrong;
An' he'd hev no Ood in his constitution ,
An' be talked o' advancement in Reason' i
An' his tongue ran on like a streak o' llphtnin'
An' the deacon was btlin' over wi' rage
An' hi? lips grew white an' his breath kept tight
'nin. -
Fur he hsdn't the words to answer him back
'inouga bis hair ww if tin' his hat wi' horror.
As the young nn' kep' the inside track.
An' poured out his vials on sin an' sorrarJ
Then the deacon thought he'd givofcim away
xlu put & nop to dm nign 'aiiutin ,
So he let the whip into his flaa-bUtea gray
b way dowd mil went tne crittsr scooun'.
I guess 'twas a sight to see the old stage
Hock like a ship in a storm v ocean.
An the gray mare's heels wall. I'll engage
sue can kick iiko a muie wnen sne's got tne
notion. ;
Then white as death grew that young man's face:
An' he clung to the seat ia desperation, i
An' he prayed the deacon to slacken the pace,
But tho deacon was sot on his soul's salvation.
i
"D'ye believe in Adam? be screamed in his ears.
"In Eve h tern Dta tion an' Noah's storv? i
In Metbulah livin' eight hundred years,
n miinn nam' 10 nesven id giorjr' l
I don't!'1 yelled the youth. Bat there lay just
there
A corderov road oer which thev fliw. sir.
Which sfjot the poor lad olean up in the air,
au- wnen ne ut down, says ne "l do, sirl"
Now the deacon made him eat every word.
iase an oi it oaca as ne air d to say,
An' promise he'd ne'er again be absurd I
As to sneer a religion in that sort o' war
TKen the gray mare stopp'd an' that child o' sin
Started sfoot to his distant goal,
While the deacon druv' on wl'a placid grin.
Bight plea.ed to hive saved an immoital foul.
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THE LOU WAY. !
In the winter of '1880,' Ralph Shepuard
was foreman of a logging gang in North
ern Michigan, and, as i iluck would
have it, bis own townsman and worst
enemy, JJeane rage, was foreman of a
similar gang in a similar lumber camp
three mile3 away.
Both men worked for the same com
pany, and on pay days once a month
were forced to meet when they went to
the general office at Sank Rapids, to
draw the rations and money for their em
ployes. ; At these meatings each man
was distinctly courteous, as distinctly
cool, and most plainly antagonistic.
Naturally enough there was or per
haps had been a woman in the case. In
a word, Ralph had wooed and won the
belle of! Rivertown, where they both
ived, thereby defeating his rival.Deane,
and incurring his bitter enmity. !
This animosity, far from being singu
ar, might, and doubtless would, have
died a natural death in the course of
time, had not Page, with a finesse of
hatred, at several times made unpleasant
remarks with legard to Mrs. Shephard.
he result of which was at first angry
words, and later angry blows, between
the men. .
Three times already the two had
fought, and at the time of our story it
was whispered among the lumbermen
hat a duel, pure and simple, with axes.
or knives, or rifles, would doubtless re
sult before the winter was over: if the
contestants met too often; and because
of this, it must have been ill-luck alone
that cast the lot of the married man.
with a wife and child to support, so near
that of his deadly enemy for the eight
long months that go to make a Michigan
winter.
Notwithstanding this unpleasant, and
even dangerous state of affairs, however.
neither foreman would leave his work.
but each adopted a system of watohful-
ness rendered necessary by the threats of
the other, and both went armed.
It is but fair to say that no murder
was in the heart of Shephard. Indeed,
at times he felt a sorrow for his enemy,
knowing how great a priza the other had
lost in the true, sweet wife he had won.
but it was his duty to care for himself,
and so, with a determination not to be
oaught napping, and to strike first, if
striking was to be done, he performed
his daily duties.
As the winter grew, he became aware
that his life was constantly in danger.
Twice he had been fired at in the woods,
once a bear trap was set in the very path
he must travel, and once he received a
heavy blow in a dark thicket, that all
but brained him.
One day In the timber, Zack Brown, an
old chopper, called Shephard one side.
"Yell do well to keep about with the
men, boss," said he, quietly. "I've had
my eye out for some time back, and
there's that in the air abroad that's bad
for ye."
Rilph smiled.
"Zack, I thank you for the hint," he
returned; "but am I not as good as the
next man?"
"Yes, and better, if the next man's the
foreman at Camp Number Two. But
the panther may kill the bsar if he hides
long enough, and jumps right. A shot
in the daytime is worth two in the
night."
"I see," responded the foreman. "And
you honestly believe that there is danger
for me?"
"I know it," concluded the old man.
"I can not tell you why, but a wink's as
good as a nod."
Feeling that his employe had strong
cause for the waroinff. Rhsnhar
irgmded by it, and for several days
was
re-
t mained near the choppers, and out of
the heavy timber. During this time
i nothing new ooourred.
SEPTEMBER 8. 1883.
" It so happened, however, that upon
one dull, clou4y morning, when the air
was thick with coming snow it 'became
necessary tor nim to make a trip of sev
eral miles through the forest tn i
distant point in search of heeded timber:
ana auer a nearty breakfast at early
uawu no startea.
Ihe way was through the unbroken
umber, away from all paths add trails.
so mat aitbougn he earned rifle and
pistols, he hardly deemed it possible
mat uis enemy con id una him. t "
Rapidly he urged his w ay over the
rolling ridges, of ten tufted, with dense
thicket of pine and sometimes cedar, and
across the intervales of hemlock and
black ash, and following the line of his
wiapMn am d rtherHbM-XrrveOTs1bSatXr
on the trees, until, several hours before
noon, he found himself upon the ground
he wished to examine.
Until now the air had been clear; but
just as he concluded his inspection of
the timber on the tract, and seated him
self to eat his lunch, snow began to fall.
This was unpleasant, and might prove
even dangerous. Good woodsmen were
sometimes lost in these mighty solitudes,
and Shephard hastened to begin his camp
ward journey.
"I'll strike for the river," said he to
himself. "It's a bit longer, bnt I can
follow the stream up to the log-way,
then find the trail, and so have a direct
oad to camp."
The river ran in a wide circle some
three miles to the west of where he was.
At a point about two miles from tho
camp, on a high bluff, wrs a storing
point for timber, from which, to the
water's brink perhaps a third of a mile
distant, and 500 feet below there ran a
log way, or rough, strong trough, built
of heavy planks, down whsoh the logs
were shot in the early springtime, or, in
fact, at any time when desired, to be
gat tiered into rafts at its foot.
Shephard's plan was to find the river
and follow it ud to this noint. from
which he could travel the beaten road
home.
Without delay, having formed his
plans. Shephard tbrew his rifle to his
shoulder, glanced at his compass, and
started.
For a time his path ran along the
ridges already spoken of, where the
snow was not particularly heavy, and as
the storm increased but elowly, he made
fair progress. At length, however, he
found himself upon lower ground as he
approached the river, where the depth
of snow was much greater, and at the
same time the wind increased and the
storm swept through the mountain
forest.
Still the man kept bravely on. He was
accustomed to the work, and thought
but little of danger in connection with
it, his whole mind being given to the
care and watch of his path, when sud
denly, as he climbed a fallen pine to
gain a little better view through the now
fast-failing snow, he heard a low growl
almost at his very feet. The next instant
the brown and shaggy form of a gaunt
bear arose before him, and with a snarl
of rage and surprise, bruin strnck
vioiously at Shephard's legs.
Ihe foreman was taken completely un
awares, and the blow threw him back
ward into the deep snow, his rifle falling
from his hands as he fell. ,
He heard the angry brute crashing
through the dead branches of the piue
toward him. He felt that but a few
seconds only separated him from those
vicious and hungry teeth, and with a
desperate effort he regained his feet and
turned and seized his rifle; but, to his
horror, the muzzle was full of snow, and
he dared not fire it.
Snatching a pistol from his belt, he
turned again, just in time to meet his
eneny face to face. He could not retreat,
and, as the bear arose with another
terriflo growl, and struck a sweeping
blow, the man bowed himself, and press
ing his weapon full against the shaggy
body so near him, pulled the trigger.
There was a sharp report, mingling
with a'shriekof agony, a smell of burned
hair, and then, without a sound, but
with the bright blood welling from her
side, the monster sank, quivering and
lifeless, to the ground. Shephard's bul
let had found her very heart!
To say that the man had not been
frightened would be wrong, but he did
not stop to glory over his success. The
storm and the coming night were his
most dangerous enemies, and he
hastened on.
An hour later he stood beside the
river, silent now in the ice chains, and
rapidly he forced his way up stream
toward the log-way.
Tne short winter s day was drawing to
a close, and already night was beginning
to creep from the tangled thickets along
the bottom land, while . the snow still
fell, though not so fiercely as before.
A sharp walk of another hour brought
Shephard to the foot of the log-way, and,
to his astonishment, he saw that the men
had been running logs dnring the day;
for already a large number were at the
foot of the trough, and the way itself
was almost clear of Bnow.
Even as he looked ho heard a distant
roar, increasing each moment and then,
far up the narrow pathway, he saw some
thing flying toward him, a snow-cloud
hanging above it, and as he orouohed to
avoid it, the great log reached the end of
the slide, struck heavily against others
that stood or lay near, and flew into the
air, falling, at length, a half dozen rods
away in the snow.
"What in the world do the boys
mean by running to-day?" queried the
foremen of himself. "The snow will
cover the legs so that it will bother us
to find them. I must stop it at once."
The night was now cloe at hand, but
Ralph cared little for that, for all dan
ger was past. Rapidly as might be he
began to climb the hill by the side of
the log way, hoping soon to be within
calling distance of his men, so that he
might cause them to cease running.
Onward and upward be panted, with
no thoughts of trouble, no remembrance
of any enemy brute or human when
just as he rounded a little thicket of
cedar, there stood suddenly before him
the one man of all the world whom most
he dreaded. -
He saw the cruel light in his eye, taw
his uplifted hand wielding his olubbed
rifle, heard one soornful laugh, and then
the blow fell and all was blank.
Slowly consciousness returned, and as
the light orept usdsr his eyelids, Shep
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rd strove to turn liia head to rise, but
could not; and then, 'bending above him
te.f?T eaa Sfl and, he remembered.
Mine now, curse you!", hissed the
other, gloating; "and I will marry your
widow, or kill her, too! Do you know
where you are?" . .. - s
He smiled a devifcsh smife; " 1 v - r
. Shephard . ?ould not move," bound
hand and foot; but he knew where he
fj. ' It was on' the, log-way. He ahud
dered. "You do know," said the other.
"And only think tLere'il not be enough
found of you to bury. Nobody will
jlame meyou Tell in yourself. Good-
Kei.ias iog a, coming!'
It was comihsr. J
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"19 rumOUQg matt. AH Hi a rr.t
trunk gathered momentum in its down
ward plunge.
It was coming! Great heavens, it was
hard to die thus!
He closed his eyes with a half prayer
there was not time for mora onrl than
the roar increased, became terriflo. The
trough trembled, the flying snow fell
upon his upturned faoe, and then
He lived! Slowly, almoat
ingly, he opsned his eyes. Yes, alive
and unhnrt: and as he tnrnari Vita head
his enemy was gone: bnt eloaa in trm
side of the way lay the great log, and be-
iionuu iW Biient ana crushed, lay what
had been Dean Page.
Fate had saved the viotim and punish
ed the would-be-slayer.
Writhing desperately, Shephard at
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'" muow uimseir out oi tne way,
and released his hands ancl feet. Then
he saw what had happened.
The bottom plank of the trough at the
point where he had lain was loose; his
weight upon its lower end had raised its
upper end two or three inches, and this
lower obstruction had hurled the sliding
log out of the 7ay, through the air onto
the man who had planned his death.
Thus was he saved.
A Beautiful Monument.
The most beautiful monment in the
world, save t at of Queen Louisa, wife
of Frederick William IV., in Cbarlotten-
Hurg, near Berlin, is that of Princess
Charlotte, daughter of the Prince of
Wales, afterward King George IV., and
wife of Prince Leopold, lata King of
Belgium. It stands in St. George's
chapel, Windsor, England.
xior Buuueu ueatn ana tnat or her in
fant son, who was the heir to the throne
of England, at Claremont, near Windsor,
in 1816, caused deep and universal sor
row throughout the kingdom.
She lived a sad life until her marriage,
when, emancipated from the heartless
bondage of her parents, and the tyranny
of her domestics, she really entered
upon the true enjoyment of life. But
death destroyed the hopes of a sympa
thizing kingdom.
She not only stood high in rank, but
higher in the Christian graces, and a
noirning and grateful nation erected
this splendid monument to her memory.
ine monument is of white marble, and
attests the skill of the artist. Matthew
Wyatt. The vault is found in Urswick
chapel, at the eastern end of the build
ing, ihe cenatoph consists of two parts,
the front, or lower one representing mor
tality, and the higher one, back of the
former, representing the resurrection to
life and glory.
The body of the princess is carved
auuvB me uarcopuagus. covered with a
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while robe, her right hand falling gently
over the edge of the sarcoDhtgus.
It is so finely executed that the out
lines of her figure, and even her counte
nance, are admirably preserved.
At each oi the four corners a female
figure with head covered has fallen upon
ner taoe in passionate grief. In the back
ground tho princess is represented as as
cending in joyous aspect from the tomb,
between two winged angels, one of them
supporting her child.
A canopy of carved gilt-work encircles
it above, on which are intertwined the
arms of ! England and Saxe-Coburg, to
whioh Leopold belonged. On the win
dow back of the monument six of the
apostles are painted, an 1 a rich purple-and-orange
light streams down through
the invisible side windows upon the ris
ing figures, giving them a most beautiful
celestial glow, and representing to the
spectator a strange contrast with the dim
and shadowy figures in front.
It gives one a vivid idea of the differ
ence between the earthly and the heaven
ly, and unfolds to his enraptured vision
the glories of immortality. The visitor
may study it in its finely executed de
tails for hours with increasing interest.
Philadelphia Saturday Night.
Starting Out in Life.
Speaking about boys. Did you ever
notice how some boys make an effort to
get along in the world? When a young
man starts out in life he commences by
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iwimgiur a position in wnion na may
earn his daily bread and find clothes to
cover his nakedness. If he is one of
these reckless, vagabond sort of boys
whose thoughts don't run a rod into the
future, ori hardly keep pace with the
things going on around him, or has
grown up about as does a lonely and
isolated weed in the garden that obtains
its strength from a rich spet in the
ground and draws nourishment from the
better fed plants and vegetables that
from their value receive care and atten
tion, it is safe to say that he is one who
never thinks of what the next day, month
or year may bring forth, and though
nearing the age of manhood he is about as
capable of filling the position of a man
as a mulley oalf. Still, he makes a pre
tense at caring for himself and claims to
be doing all in his power to get along in
the world. Such a boy starts out to ob
tain a situation. He is reckless about
his personal appearance. His hair is un
combed, face and hands unwashed, and
the general appearance of a tramp in his
exterior recommendation. If he applies
for a position, the man who happens to
need a young man sizes him up and con
cludes that he had rather employ a Dig
ger Indian, if he has got to reform and
make clean the person whom he hires.
And again, he will wander around for
days and weeks, hanging around places
where they have no more use for a boy
than a dog has for two tails. He spends
one day loafing about the depot, expect
ing some one will oome around and offer
him a fine situation at four dollars per
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day and board. He will s'and around
and talk with the baggage-man at the
depot,; or help fhe lunoh-counter clerk to
carry in ooal for ? his dinner, and in the
afternoon, he" loafs arxmnd some more '
and aorapes theacc uaintance of the
brakeman in the yard and helps hira
couple cars and .unload freight, while
the brakeman filla him Jull ot taffy about
how easy it is to get a soft 'thing work
ing' for a railroad company. The next
day he spends at the police court listen
ing to the cases tried, loafa an hour or
two at the postoffice, awhile in a billiard
nail, and winds up with a visit to a
saloon. All the time he is fairly aching
to have some one give him a position
and he -curses the country where ay bun
man -can find nothing to do. When you
see that kind of a young man you can '
set it right down that he don't amount to
a row of pins. Men don't hire boys from
under the eaves of a saloon, and when
they are looking for a young man to do
a job of work they do-not go through the
crowd loafing around the depot with a
search warrant, and piok out the dirtiest
young tramp among the number.
No one ever heard of a man who
wanted to hire a young, bright, active. .
stirring boy, with fire in his eye, energy
and vinegar in his constitution, looking
over the loaf wrs at the police station for
suoh a boy. At such places all the boys
you would find would only have enough
energy to masticate a chew of tobacco,
or hold down a dry goods box on a street
corner all day and swear through the
evening about the cursed country where
there was nothing for a boy to do. When
a farmer comes into town looking for a
boy to help at the spring work, at fifteen .
dollar por, raon tli axul. -loariL,hajdon't
look through the corridors of the poat-
office and pick out the slouohiest looking,,,
loafer in the crowd, or hunt up a billiard
hall and hire the boy who can "pocket?
the most balls at pool or drink the most
beer. ;
Though a boy may wear a ragged coit(
or his pants may be out at the elbows
because he has no one to mend them, it
is no reason why he should not be a
trump, and take the highest trick. Many
a boy with holes in his boots and his
coat torn, but whose face and hands
were clean, his eyes bright, and his sys
tem full of energy, has carried off the
persimmons when others and better
dressed boys have stood around with,
their hands ' in their pockets, cursing
their luck. But the boys can makoup
their minds that while a business man
sees them loafing around depots, police
courts, the postoffice, or street corner,
he would not hire any one of their num-.
ber to carry swell to his pigs. That's
about the way business men feel about
it, and it is time the boys knew it. The
cleanest, brightest boy is the one who
catches on every time. Milwaukee Sjin.
Dancing With a Duke.
The other night the young duke of
Newcastle danced with five gorgeous
partners. It was a special ball night,
and so the toilets were such as to illus
trate the newest developments in the sum
mer styles. His first partner is an Alge
rian striped muslin, transparent, lined
with pink silk and looped over a short
underskirt, of white satin cut into blocks
around the bottom. Each block is hand
painted with a spray of pink morning
glories and foliage, this block' trimming
falling over a deep flounce of Oriental
lace. The satin bodice has a spray of
morning glories, starting from the left
shoulder, crossing the waist diagonally
and falling in a garland over the sides of
the paniers.
His" .second wore a dress of heavy
white corded silk, hand-embroidered in
white sadler silk bouquets. The front
is a breadth of splendid chenille embroid
ery in the proper colors for roses and
drooping clusters of wisterias and their
foliage. The long train is split up the
back, and from the opening there rushes
a sweeping of this chenille-embroidered
silk.
The third is in purplish blue and
bluish French gray, both materials tho
heaviest satin, and at the smallest calcu
lation twenty yards of eaoh is gobbled in
the manufacture of this stunning cos
tume. Newcastle's fourth waltz was with
a girl in a toilet of oak satin merveillenx,
trimmed on the bottom with a puffing of
the same stuff, surmounted by a flounoe
of old-rose silk, embroidered in open
work. The corsage, of oak armure, is
pointed at the waist, with a flounce in
large pleats set on all around.
But the most gorgeous dress pressed
by the duke's son's arm is gendarme
blue, with huge biocaded flowers of
shaded gold nearly covering the surface.
This superb material is" puffed, looped
and draped from the waist to the end of
the train, with a freedom utterly regard
less of cost. Besides, there ran up the
front, across the breast and down the
back, an exquisite trimming of floss em
broidery of flowers and leaves in natural .
colors, cut out and thickly studded with
pearl beads. The fellow might easily
have imagined that he was danoing with
a duchess. Long Branch Cor. Cincin
nati Enquirer.
A Western Mystery.
A letter from Milwaukee, Wis.,' says:
A great sensation was caused lately by
the publication of statements concerning
one Michael Holmes, who died in this
city a few days ago. Holmes came here
bnt a short time ago, and no one ap
peared to know anything about his ante
cedents. He was non-communicative in
regard to his history and made but few
acquaintances. About two weeks ago
he had a misunderstanding with a fellow
countryman named Patrick Johnson,
which ended in his receiving such in
juries that he has since died from them.
It now appears that he made a partial
confidant of another Irishman named"
Fitzgerald. So much of his story as Is
known is now made public With three
others he secretly left Dublin the night
following the Phoenix Park murders and
came to this country, and after drifting :
about from plaee to place finally came
here. He told Fitzgerald in confidence
that he had not written to his wife in Ire- .
land for fear that his wheaeabouts would
be learned, and also said that some of
those charged with murder were inno
cent men. The opinion is universally
entertained here that Holmes was con
nected with the assassination, if not
actually engaged in it.
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