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The Oregon Scout. VOL. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1SS5. NO. 2, o o 1 O SB i A. THE OREGON SCOUT. An. Independent weekly journal, issued owry CUV u ilia j JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers nnd Proprietors . K. Jones, I Kdltor. ) j H. CilANCKY ( lorcmnn. KATES OF SUI1SCMPTION: Ono copy, one yenr Jl W) " " Six months 1 ' " " Threo months Invariably cash In advance. Rates of advertising mado known on nnpll Correspondence1 from all pans of the county solicited. Address all communications to A. K. Jonc Editor Oregon Scout, Union, Or. l.oluc Directory. f5llANI ItONKK V.VM.EV I.ODOK. No. 50. A. TV nnd A. M. Meets on tho second and fourth Saturdays oench month C. E. Davis, Secretary. O. F. Bi:lt., W. M. ITniov I.nimK. No. 30. T. O. O. F. Iteirula meetings on Friday evenings of each week at their hall In Union. All brethren in good standing are Invited to attond. Ily order of tho lodge. S. V. Lo.vo, N. ( G. A. Thompson, Secy. Cliurcli Directory. M. 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HUltLEKJJf, Attorney ut I.nw, Itcal Kxliilt jiimI .'ollolli;r Ak'MI hand OUIqo HusinoM a Specially. 0Hijjj AJr, ui0n Co., Qrewu, XaXTE, DEATH AWD ETERNITV. And what is Life? I pray you toll; A sluggard's paradise, Whoro fools and idlers ilourteh well And troubled winds ne'er nso? All, no, my child 1 A battle-field Whore each must tako a sido; And 'midat tho strifo a sabre wiold And to the vanguard ride. Then what is Death? I beg vou tell; A pall, a shrou4, a bier, OV sudden dirgo, n Mineral knell And friends t1io xateh and fear? All. no, my child ! 'Tis but a night Of quiet, peaceful sleep; When morning brings the golden light, Sad watchers coase to keep. Etornitv! Say, what is it? A cold and darkened tomb, Whoro hopo is vain and honors sit And wait long yoars their doom? Ah, no, my child! Ono common breath Will waft you to its ehoro Thero sickness, sorrow, pain and death Are felt ana feared uo more. SHE IWWOOD. o The last Chapter of a Story, BY EVELYN Tllonrn. For tho Now York Mercury. Dr. Irving was in some, respects n peculiar man. Other men wero not al ways snro that they liked him. With women it was generally different. They did like him. There was no possiblo doubt of that. They maintained that ho was handsome; a statement which never failed to call forth from their husbands or lovers nn emphatic protest; and they still moro vehemently aflirmcd that his manner in a sickroom, the stimulating magnetism of his presenco, tho soothing influonco of his strong yet gentle touch, wero unique and un rivaled and moro than sufficiently ac counted for his extraordinary suscoss in his profession at which tho hus bands would again, below their breath, pish and pshaw. Dr. Irving was thirty-nino and still unmarried. It could bo said of him, as in tho case of sundry young women, that this was not from lack of chance. To those to whom ho ever spoke on the subject ho would laughingly assert that his profession was his mistress, and that ho should never marry at all. lint there wero very few persons indeed to whom Dr. Irving unburdoncd himself as to his inmost thoughts. Perhaps thero wero nono at all. IIo was not a cummunicativo man. Somo of his lady patients wero suro ho had a history ; thero was something mysterious about him, tho moro imaginative would aver. Had Dr. Irving known of these things ho would have- been amused ; but they novcr came to his ears. His brougham, with tho superb pair of grays, now drew up boforehis door and ho camo in for his dinner and evening ollieo hours. As his koy turned in tho lock a shad ow passed across tho curtain that veiled tho lighted interior from tho passer-by, and a small, slight, dark, palo girl, scarcely moro than a child, pressed closo against him tho moment the door opened. "Well, Nita " ho said kindly, and Dent down to kiss her on nor lorehead Tho girl had his hand tightly clasped in both her own narrow, slim ones, and was looking up at him with the dumb pathetic oyos of a faithful dog. Sho 11 V I mi una no penutv save ner oves. nioso wero largo, black, full, luminous, with an intensity of expression that some times half-startled and half-amused strangers who chanced to seo her. Tho rest of tho face, with its swarthy skin its irregular features, was quito plain Sho was a singulnr littlo thine:, this ward of tho doctor s, whom ho had brought .to his homo twolvo years be fore, after an absenco of somo time in Europe, a fatherless and motherless hud, tho daughter of Italian parents, People understood that Dr. Irvine had taken tho weird littlo foreign girl undor ins protection to fulfill tho last wishes of a dead friend, and then they well nigii lorgot ner existence, blio was so quiet, bo mirthless and almost speech less at All times, so unliko other elm dren in every way, that it was not dif ficult to do so. And so Nita had grown up to the threshold of womanhood, and had had low or no companions of her own ige, but spen t the long daj's in tho qniet house on Lexington avenue in tho company of tho doctors old housekeeper, all rolled up in a ball on tho lounge in tha library with a book uu iiur jtuceo. Something in her face that night as she sat opposite to him at the dinner tame, perhaps the fact that nor shocks had a flush of color unusual to them. which briprhteninc her skin, made Jior look for the moment almost pretty, causing the rdoctor to look attentivolv at her an instant and then to say laugh ingly: "Iiy, Isita, you're getting to be a woman, ana a nieo looking little woman too. We shall have to bo hunting up a husband for you very soon." Tho girl dropped ller fork, oponed her lips as if to speak, suddenly got up.and, without uttering a word, rushed from thoroom. Doctor Irving looked aftor her in considerable surpriso for a rnomont. Nita had always been odd; buteho had novor dono anything of this cort be fore It was Edwin Jrving'u way al ways to look or tho cauoo of thing He wont on quietly with his dinner, but ho pondered yaritroi subjects in bin wind whilo doing so. When tho door opon ed and Nita camo back to her soat as ho was eating his dessert, ho raised his eyes with ono keen, noarehing glanco. Tho color in Nita's chocks was all gono now; they wore paler even than usual, and the heavy eyebrows wero drawn to gether in a way that ruado tho faco quite old and hard. After his ollieo hours, as Dr. Irving was preparing to start on his night rounds, he called tho girl to him. Sho came, still with the samo look in her faco. "Nita," ho said, "I want you to ox plain your rather extraordinary conduct. What on earth is tho mattor, child? You don't supposo I want to marry you off to any ono vou don't caro for, or" "I do not want to marry any one," said tho girl, brusquely and fiercely. "Upon second thought, 1 doubt wheth er any ono would want to marry you," remarked tho doctor drjy, taking up his hat. Nita stood sullenly, with drawn brows, until he had reached tho door, then sho suddenly Hew after him and caught him by tho arm. "Oh, don't don't don't bo unkind to mo 1" sho cried. Thoro was a sharp sound of pain in her voico which caused Doctor Irving to look nt her attentive ly. Then he said, gently and kindly, as ho always spoke to her. i "My dear littlo girl, you aro nervous vund irritable. Go to bed.sleep soundly, and wako up q'h tho morning yourself again." Nita said nothing ;but her arms crept higher and clasped tho doctor's neck, o "ion aro not angry ? You will for givo mo?" sho insisted, piteously, nil the rebelliousness gone, and with tho peculiar pathetic look in her oyes again. Tho doctor stooped and kissing hor, said, "Yes, of courso, dear child," and went out; nnd tho girl, as tho door closed behind him, throw herself faco dowmyard on tho loungo mid burst into a passion of tears. Q After that night lifo did not go on quito as beforo in tho doctor's house hold. Thero was a difference Nita had ceased suddenly, through somo mystorious process, to bo tho weird, curious, clf-liko child sho had been; sho seemed to havo developed into n woman. If possiblo tho was moro si lent, moro reticent than beforo. Her eyes, in her small, hnggard faco, looked moro intenso than over. Her manner toward tho doctor had changed a littlo. Sho watched for his coming just as eager ly, but when ho appeared sho would shrink back with a shyness now to her. At times sho had passion ato oulbVoaks of temper which consid erably startled tho old housekeopor. who had always known her "as quiet as n mouso;" at other times sho would shut herself in hor room nil day, nud tho housekeeper, listening at her door out aide, wouldCllear tho sound of mufllcd sobs. Dr. Irving apparently took no noto of any of these things. 13ut ho had way of seeing and studying much with out giving any sign of having dono so IIo camo in one night bringing with nun to mnucr a young man. The lat ter made himself rather agrooable to Nita and seemed bent upon producing a lavoraolo impression. IJo roturned after that many times. IIo called in tho evening while tho doctor was mak ing his rounds, and when the doctor found him thero he liscroetly disap peared after a fow pleasant words and left his ward to entertain her visile, un molested. Nita neuhor expressed pieasuro nor tiie reverse at this now state of things, and thus a fow mouths pussed. limto abruptly ono day tho doctor said : "Nita, Henry Payton has proposed for you. "lea, I know, said Nita, and oaid no more. "Well," continued Dr. Irving with one of the rare, peculiar smiles his lady patior.ts found so fascinating, "what answer aro you going to give the poor ieuow .' Instead of replying Nita looked steadily at her guardian a momont "Do you want mo to accept liim?" she asked, "If you think you might bo happy with him it might bo a good thing," said Dr. Irving in a quiot matier-of fact way. Tho girl tumod brusquely away, Dr. Irving took up his newspaper and feigned not to seo that she was fighting against ono ot tno passions of sobs and tears that had become almost habitual with her of late. ,n i (i i i-avion, no went on in tli-e same tone, "is a vory fino fellow; he is ex tremely fond of vou : he is well enouch off to give you it most dcsirablo home. 1, my dear child, shall in all prob ability, noi live forever. In ten years' time, when you will bo still, as tliiiics go now, counted asayounglady, I shall uo wen, prouauiy, a stoutish. florid. prosaic old fellow with a look of more or less comfortablo middlo ago stamped all over me and plenty of irrav hairs in my head. If anvthintr happened to mo you would bo quite alone in tho world. Moreovor, I might marry mvsolf somo daj, and then I could not givo you tho T 1 , i, , i duuiu cum x nave jiunerio always ueen too happy to bestow on you " Dr. Irving was a very clover man: he had had a sot purpose in his mind as ho talked, but ho had for once mndoa mis tako; he hnd overdono his part: lie had gono too far. With a cry like that of a woundod animal tho girl sprang to him and grasped his arm. "Dou't say that" tho word camo thick and indistinct between short gasps "you ahull not marry I Nono ono! Do you hear? You shall not!' Tho fierce Italian blood blazed in her great burning eyes nnd her thin small fingera closed over his arm liko a vice. "You shall not hurt mo so 1 You havo no heart, no pity, no morey oh I" her hands relaxed their hold suddenly and sho throw them over her face. "What havo you mado me say," sho moaned; "oh, forgot it, forget it I For tho merciful heaven's sake 1 am not well I don't knqw what I said " Dr. Irving had stood motionless nil through tho sceno. IIHooked dawn at tho cowering figure of tho girl ono mo ment nnd camo to a decision. Firmly, nlmost sternly, ho took her by tho arm, and loading her to a chair, mado her sit down. IIo waited ono in stant, standing erect in front of her, then ho said : "Once yenrs ago I loved a woman. Aro you listening to mo? I havo not spoken of Iter for twelvo yenrs. I would notrhow but that I want you to under stand. Shejwas tho wifo of another man, and she had n child. Sho wns beau tiful. I loved her tho first timoTiiy eyes rested on hor. I loved her till sho died only ono short year after as I nov or loved before, novcr havo loved since and novor shall Jovo as long as thoro is breath in my mortal body. I told you sho was married. Well, sho loved mo. Sho loft her husband. Sho fled in tho dead of night. Sho expiated her sin. In a fow weeks, or months, sho began to sicken. Itoinorso killed hor nt tho last. It was all wrong. I havo oxpitit cd, too. My lifo has been lonely, over will bo. Tho skeleton in my closot peers nt mo day aftor day, night after night. I thrust it back, but it is thoro." IIo stopped; his faco was very pale. "Well, shortly aftor her death hor hus band died, too died of a broken heart. Tho child was loft alono in tho world. I took it. I sworo to myself that I would bo father and mother to it. Tho woman was your mother, Nita. Thoro was a dead silenco in tho room for the spaco of soveral seconds. Then Dr. Irving moved, and took up his hat. "Now you understand," ho said, "You understand why you can novcr bo any thing to mo but a, daughter, Nita, nl tliough as a daughter dearly loved." IIo hesitated a moment, nnd camo over to her. Tho girl stood up muVjiutchor hand in his. "Yes, I understand," sho said, in a voico that sounded unliko her own. Sho bout over his hand nnd kissed it softly. Her lips woro cold. Dr. Irving went out. Nita watched at tho window, hiddon bohind tho cur tain till tho carriago door closed upon him nnd tho sound of wheols had died away. Then sho cropt up slowly, as ono who walks in his sleep, to her own rocm, and closed and locked tho door. The npxt morning Nita was not at hor accustomed plaeont the breakfast table. After waiting a fow moments tho doctor sent to her room to know if sho woro not well. Tho servant camo down with awhito, scared jftoo. Tho door was fast locked, sho said.0 And thoro had been no nnswor, and no sound, when sho knocked. Dr. Irving stood nt tho bodroom door fho noxt moment. With a mighty strain of his poworful shoulders ho burst tho door open. Thoro lay tho girl on her bed, stark and rigid, with hor tangled, black hair falling over I ho small, weird faco. On tho table besido tho bed was a bottlo, labeled chloroform. It was ompty. And this closed tho last chaptor of Dr. Irving s story. Tho Age of Somo Charming Women. From Tho Now York Citizen. A charming woman has no ago. nis tory is filled with tho adventuros of women whoso ago, if not their conduct, was respcctablo. Holon of Troy over forty when that famous clopemont took plnco. Ten years after, when the fortunes of war restored her to Mono- laus, ho received hor withlovo and grat itude. Cleopatra was past thirty when shomado.tho conquest of Antony, and Diane do Poictiorsat thirty-six, and for mnny years alter, was considered the most beautiful woman at tho court of Henry IL of Franco. Mme. do Main tenon was forty-three when sho mnrried Louis XIV., nnd Ninon do l'Enclos re ceived a declaration of lovo on her eightieth Jbirthday. Tho names of many othor ancient socioty ladies might do added to tno list. A Young Lady's Adyico. From tho Witneui. Belfast. Ireland. A young lady at a party at Bobington tho other night gave tho following ad vice to a young man in reference to tho two of big words; In promulgating your csotorio cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities, and philo sophical, psychological observations, bo ware of platitudinous pondorosity. Let your conversational communications possess a rarifled conciseness, a compact comprehensiveness, a coalesccnt con sistency nnd a concatenated cogencv. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulitv and jojnno babblements. Lot your extemporaneous doscanthigs and unpremeditated expatiatlons havo intol- gibtlity, psittaceous bacinity, ventnlo- quial verbosity, and vuniloquent rapidi ty, bliundnnnioeutciidres, pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent. In other words, talk plainly, briefly. aturallv, sonsibly, truthfully, purely. Hay what you mean, mean what you say, and dou't use big words. DOCTORS AWDDOCTOIIIMG. A Fow Words of Advice to roopls Wh3 Aro IncllnrA to SrTodlcatlou. From tho Iioudon Truth. Do wo believe in doctors? Whether wo do or not, wo generally send for them when wo aro ill. Still, if I wero asked my opinion, I should sny tho pro fession is lnrgoly over crowded. Phy sio is hugely overdone. Half tho com plaints peoplo especially idle people sillier from uro imaginary. 1 do not deny that men and women get ill, and occasionally die, but I hold that, in n vast number of cases a doctor is unnee csaary at first, and quito helpless nt last that is, so far as his physio is con cerned, and I havo pretty good author, ity for what I say. Sir William Jenner lias tho conrago to declaro that "the seienco of medicine is a barbarous jargon every doso of medicine is a blind experiment!" When tho great Majendio assumed tho Profes sor's Chair of Medicine- at tho Collogo of France, ho thus addressed th-3 aston ished students: "Gontlemon, inedieino is a humbug. Who knows anything about inedieino ?I toll you frankly ,1 don't. Nature does a good deal ; doctors do vory littlo when they don't do harm." Majendio wont on to tell tho following pungent littlo professional talo out of school: "When I was head physician nt tho Hotol Dion I divided tho pationts into thfjjto sections. To ono I gavo tho rcgu hitiouQlisponsary inedieino in tho regu lation wny;to another I gavo bread, milk and colored wntor and to tho third section I gavo nothing at all. Well, gontlomen, ovory one in tho third sec tion got woll. Nnturo invariably camo to tho rescue." Now, of courso, wo must allow some thing for tho obstrusivo enndor of pro fesgirtjjal confession which is always nptto overleap tho mark and givo tho opponent a fow moro liQiiitfjtlinn ho nsks for, really for tho sirko of placing him nt n disadvantage Still there is truth in the candid jest, if jest it bo; nnd tho truth is this: "Tho doctor is often superfluous, sometimes mischiev ous and occasionally fatal, l'hysicking as Sir Win. .Tenner (quoted by Dr. Ilidgo) ndiniti, is largely a speculative operotion. Tho ingonious "dosoist," ns Artemus Ward would say, has theo ries about what is tho matter with you; ho physics according to his theory, and thou physics to correct his theory. This ho calls "changing tho trentment." Wrong again! Try back; alter diet; then phymo away at tho now diet. Wrong again! Pationt gets worso Perhaps ifc is change of air, not chango of food nho wants bright idea! bend him out of town. Off ho goes into tho country; forgets to tako his physic; feels better; gets woll; doctor looks bland, nods his head and says: "I told you so; chango of "air that's what yon wanted." What ho really wanted was to bo lot alone. Leave off worrying nnturo that is what is required ; not in all cases, but in a good many; and that is probably what Majondio and Jenner and all tlm wiso doctors think. They nun ut diet and disciplino they assist, they do not try to force, naturo's hand and thov every now and thou admit this in a burst of confidence. There is ninthor dubious sido of tho question. Doctors often say to you "Ho suro you como to mo at onco. I can arrest diseasa at an early Btago ; but delay hositnto! hesitato! and you aro hist!" This is just ono of thoso tlangerouB hnlf-truths whoreout doctors do sucic no small advantago. it you call tno doctor in for ovory littfo nil mont, you will got into nn artificial stato. Natnro will striko work, nnd you will novcr bo well without tho doc tor nor with him either. If you nl ways tako opiates, you will novor sloop without thorn; or tonics, you will never eat witnout tnem; or stimuinnu, you will never work without thorn. It is a law truo in sociology nnd physics alike that dopendonco grows by what it loeds on. Tiiero aro doctors who al ways Bend peoplo to bod directly they navoa little cold and thoso people aro lorover catching cold thoy havo no re sistanco left, lou nro somowhat out of order, instead of oxorciso and modern tton, in comes tho doctor with his doso and, next time, nature will rofuso to huvo anything to do with you. "I am not going to trouble mvsolf about you." she virtually says. "Send for tho doctor; vou prefer lna physics to my moro slow, but more suro nnd more healthy, recu perative powor. Tako physio I striko worK. Not only do wo often begin too soon. but wo go on too long with tho doctor. He calls and calls again : ho refines his prescriptions until its gradations of efll cacy are quito imporceptiblo, but thoy ;....t 1. i i i ... ing-strings and to tnnko each stop do pendent upon tho therapeutic art. ui courso, I admit that thoro aro many oasos to which these romarKs are wholly . ..... . . nappucaulo. iironcliitis, incipient can- cer aim others, both functfonul and or gnnio to tuko tlicso in tiino may bo ovory tiling. Thoro aro cases whoro the diagnosis of a good physician is simply luvaiuanie; ms nuns unout food aro not to bo neglected, yot thoy should bo taken, perhaps, cum grano. and checked by personal oxperienco. Thero aro cases, too, whero cod-Jivor oil, quinino and ono or two otlior drugs aro absolute specifies. Who can not realize Dr. Livingstones gloomy death worrnut when ho determined to go forward offer nslng his medluino-o host of mi nine in klJD 11 tO Hi 111 11(11 I i. .i:.,...i j In a Readitifir-Room. I supposo thoro is nn immense amount of niisory in somo lives. Thoro is somo iji nil. Tho other day, early in tho niornlnir, n friend of niino went iuto the reading-room of tho free li brary to look at a paper. It was en gaged. IIo went back to work, and worked on until lunch time, when ho walked into tho library onco more. Tho samo man sat thero read ing tho samo paper. Uo thought it was curious, but ho did not disturb him. IIo wont in again at 3 o'clock. Tho samo man sat in tho same placo rending tho samo paper. He walked up behind him .and took a look. Tho paper jvns upsido down. Thero is a chance for speculation over what condition that man's mind was in. Tho successful man of business would naturally say that ho was lazy nnd "lacked energy, and would despise him. It is so easy to believo because you niako money easily, everybody ought to bo nblo to do it.O I am a be liever in fuck. I have seen a great many men whose abilities woro far bu yout! tho average whoso energy was unceasing, struggle, and fight, and work, and fall." I linvu seen men in seedy clothes, poor ami hungry, starv ing half the time, upon whom thoir successful fellows looked with con tempt, who wero purely tho victims of bail luck. Thoy aro iiion who never complain. If you meet a man who wliinos ovor his condition and his luck you may sot him down as entirely at fault himself. Hut tho charity of this world takes no account of tempera ment, of physical conditions, or of mental eccentricities. Somo peoplo pure broken all to pieces by shocks that would hardly atleut otliors. bomo peo ple will breaK whoro others only bend. There aro good Sainiritnns to-day, as 2, 000 years ngo,but the good Saninritians of this ago nro vory apt to pick up tho wrong inati, and thero nro many lying by the wayside. Who is to say what niisory this man who sat for seven hours with tho paper upsido down was enduring? Who can say what ho was thinking aboitt how many accusatious ho was making against himself how grateful ho was oven for tho convonienco that reading room afforded him to bo quiet and hiil tlonP Thero are ninny men wandering through San Francisco. Thoy aro kicked from bar-room to bar-room; they are driven from post to pillar. They aro called bummers and loafers. Many of them havo gono too far to bo drawn back to respectability. Hut somehow tho worst of them can offer some excuse for his downfall. A wise dispensation of Providonco has dead ened their sonso of shnmo and mado them forget tho lifo of brightness, of manhood, thoy onco led. And nobody is so hard on them ns thoso wno helped them to thoir ruin nobody so kind to them as thoso who havo endured pov erty and hungor themselves. San Francisco Chronicle. Cooking in it Normal School. At tho noxt mooting of tho board ot public education, says The Philadel phia Ledger, a plan" will probably b reported by a committee, and pressed for final notion, for tho introduction of cooking us ono of the branches of study in tho girls' normal school. It has been found and so stated in the olliciat reports to tho board that tho time triven to sowing iu that school, which was taken from tho time for merly devoted to other studios, has not lowered the standard in thoso studies, nnd that, on tho contrary, the chango of employment has reacted bonolicially upon thoiu. Prof. George W. Fetter, principal of tho normal school, is of tho opinion that cooking may ho added by slightly modifying the curriculum, with results equally advantageous to tho school. Prof. Fetter considers that two or three hours n week, aftor tho ncttinl instruc tion in cooking begins, will bo sulli cient time to duvoto to this subject. He thinks that tho oxpunso of such a school would amount only tixtlio pay ofQiQoadliorCand to tho outlnyfbr tho necessary fixtures, nV thoro aro four or live rooms with ranges, oxit upon the street, etc., iu the basement, which nro not used as class rooms, and which nro admirably adapted to this purposo; and ho says, as tho food can bo readily disposed of nt cost to tho lat go number of irirls who attond tho school and who would no doubt pre fer thoso woll-proparod hot meals to mo coin nineties which thev now bring with them. This consumption of food is not opened to tho objection raised by all educators to production as un end in industrial education. Fulso Prophets in Egypt London lettor to Toronto Glob: It is related that when tho nronhet Mahommod lay dying an angel ap peared to him with tho choorlng in tollixunco of tho assassination of hh: rival and enemy Aihula, called Al As wnd, nnd that upon tho founder of Islam predicted that, ore tho day of iidgmunt, tho world would be trou lod by thirty other impostors, am! that not until aftor tho rising and Bet ting of all those should tho truo Mttlull proclaim himself. Since that day uo many protenders havo arisen that Mahonimed Ahmed, of tho Soudan. may reasonably assort that tho field is by this time open, and that tho pro jihooy rather supports than oppose his declaration that ho is indeed tka limn who is to lend the whole uni verse to a ktiowlodgo of tho toiivthitigi of lsluni nnd 'tlio-io enemies ghitll, Iu tho near future, bo oast from tha nar row bridge- Al Shut, into tho bottom less pit, O