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UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1SS0.
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THE OREGON SCOUT.
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RKD liEITJOn DAYS.
"llonicnts tnlM the year, and trifces life."
"Wait just a minute, Frank," said
Carrie Dean, as her husband drew on
his overcoat in jireparatinn for his
nightly twri-liotir-s' trip to the "post of
fice," (tfcrce minutes walk from tho
door).
"Well." said lie, for she hesitated,
"What is it now?"
"O, nothing, but have you remem
bered," paying a little unnecessary at
tention to the clasp of her bracelet,
"to-morrow will bo our sixth anniver
sary?" "Let's see the twenty-first No. I
hadn't thought of it. Why?"
"Why, I've been thinking and wish
ing we might plan some little celebra
tion, just to recognize tho day."
"Didn't wo celebrato our fifth, last
year? There's nothing now until tho
tenth. Are you getting out of wooden
nutmegs?"
"Oil. 1 don't mean anything of that
kind" witli a litilo faltering of tho
voice, unnoticed by IIr. . Dean, who is
already in the hall "just a little some
thing to make it in some way different
from other days."
"Why, what ails other days?" he in
quired dryly. "I don't think we want
to make any fuss. I'll send down an
extra course or two for dinner, and I
hope you'll see that they come on all
right, or get a cook who can serve a
dinner decently without being watch
ed," and closing the hall door, ho join
ed the crowd of comfortable pilgrims,
setting towards tho "post-oflice"
Bhrinc."
Mr. Dean was not unkind at heart;
on the contrary he considered himself a
very remarkable husband indeed; possi
bly not in tho matter of sentiment
that was an uncommercial commodity
with which a business man could havo
little to do but of his indulgence there
could be no doubt. Had ho not estab
lished a model home, well located, fur
nished, and appointed? Did lie not
promptly respond to every application
made hy his wife for financial aid, and
leave the matter of domestic service
wholly to her? Furthermore, was not
his own life well ordered and irre
proachable? Beyond doubt his wife
was fortunate among women. He had
not much time for home life, himself,
lie went every day to his oi'ico when
real or fancied emergencies did not call
him out of town; and evenings well,
evenings there were always errands to
be done, and one must keep tho run of
things at tho club, and lodge meetings
must not be neglected, and at this sea
son there were at least local polities of
interest- Clearly, his evenings were
fully occupied. Carrie had the best of
it. She had tho home all to herself.
But to night tho highly-favored wife
was not in a mood to appreciate her
blessings, particularly the crowning
one of solitude, nor did the prospective
pleasure of the morrow produce great
exhilaration of spirit'.
"Another course or two for dinner;
that is, a Utile more timo than usual
spent in tho kitchen," she sighed,
"that is only a tpo of what my Hod
Letter Das have been, anil" the sigh
grew heavier "what 1 suppose thoy
will always be."
And then, though tho chandeliers
shod soft light on the home, made lx;au
tiful by tho exquisite blending of Orient
al tints, though the last now book oon
tostod claim with tho latest craze in em
broidery, though an obtrusive little
whito-pawed kitten rubbed and purred
against her bowed head, tho loneliness
of her heart found vent in tears.
"Unreasonable!" every strong-mind
ed woman will declare. Very; yet tho
return of a joyful anniversary with tho
joy left out, has been known to wring
stronger hearts than that of poor Car
rie Dean.
"What could I have said," she ques
tioned, "to make him take sonio inter
est in tho day?" but tho whito-pawed
kitten, hor only auditor, answered not.
Ho would hardly havo rogardod a pro
position to spond tho day, or oven the
evening, at home, in the ligiitof an on-
tortainniont they had been six yours
wetl and she was deterred from pro
posing any outside expedition, by a pe
culiarity of tomperamont, none too
common. She had retained ono char
acteristic of her girlhood, which is com
monly supposed to boconio oxtinctwith
marriago a delicacy which prevented
hor from making overtures. Frank
Doan had counted it ono of her sweet
eft graces in tho old days, l'orhaps
since marriage his perceptions had
dimmed, and he may not havo noticed
that situ had novor invited him to taKo
her out, or solicited from him any gift,
tmlufis tho occasional laying before him
of an cmptiod purso might bo held so
unfathomable is the domostie partner
ship to the uninitiated to be Hsoliciting
of alms! As a natural result of this re
ticence, she was much at homo, and tho
charming little belongings that sur
rounded her. were not tho gifts of af
fection, but li.ul for the most part been
ordered in much the same matter-of-fact
way as ilie daily bread. Frank
had often told her that he preferred to
buy what tilings lie needed, and she
might do tho same; and she. who loved
gifts, and invitations andsurprises, with
the fresh heartedness of a child, felt
that somehow all her life was prose,
not the leat pvo page being that on
which was just inscribed tho pro
gramme of her annhcrsary day.
And Frank Dean went on with the
rest, thinking of to-morrow's business
and to-night's relaxation. As ho was
just turning to ascend to the spacious
apartments of the "Federal Club." Ids
old friend Al Worthington, passed, and
then turned back.
"Say, Frank! Come over to Cray &
Green's with me, will you? 1 want to
get something in the pottery line, and
your foreign sight seeing ought to have
educated you up to a critical .stand
point. Come over and give mo tho
benofit of your experience.
"Are they open to-uight?' said Dean,
not displeased at tho prospect of in
dulging his taste for ceramic art.
"Yes, and every evening till after th
holidays," replied Al, "but I must maki
mv choice to-ni'dit, as to-morrow will
be Delia's birthday, and 1 like mv gift
to be timely."
"Do you always observe birthdays?'
inquired Frank Dean with uncomforta
hie recollections.
"Every time," said Al, promptly
"litey only come once a year, you
know; quite often enough at that, mos
of us think, even when the pangs of
antiquity are softened by the appliea
tion of ;i little balm."
"Do you observe any otner anniver
saries?" inquired Frank, thankful that
Carrie was not in hearing.
"Should think we did! Fact is, oh
fellow, life is humdrum enough, do Hit
best we will to brighten it. Delia'
family always used to have great tinn
at Christmas, and every other holiday
that was ever invented cheery kind of
folks, you know and I began that way
to keep her from pining for home, (you
know I took her front all her friend
and I find I look forward to the jrood
times almo-it, or quite as much as she
does."
"What in the name of sense do you
do to celebrate? demanded Dean, with
more severity than tho ease seemed to
warrant.
"Well, for one thinjr," replied the
imperturbable Al, "wo exchange pres
cuts, on every occasion wliere we can
work ti present in."
"Gimcracks, I suppose," growled the
uncomfortable listener.
"Well, some gimcracks," replied Al
placidly. "Of course, Delia, being
woman, must have spells of makiii''
canvas slipper.-, and such, but thoy tire
generally thrown in as extras, rewards
of merit, you know,. but the fact is, yon
would take it as a grj'at joke if I toh
3-ou how we really do manage tho mat
ter of gifts,"
"I should probably laugh out of tin
wroti'' siile of my mouth," said Franl
to himself, adding audibly, "make
clean breast of it, old boy."
"Well,' said Al for. tho first time
showing some confusion "wo tiro two
children, may be, but it makes a mighty
lot of diileronce with a woman s happi
nes whether you indulge her little on
thusiastns, or .suppress all hor freshness
of feeling, and it fellow likes to keep on
terms with himself, besides."
"Well, well," said Frank, in a goad
ed lone, "this moralizing will keep;
how about the grand tccrot? "
"All easy enough when you know
how," said Al, who had quite recovered
his composure. "You know whon v
began housekeeping wo did not start out
with everything tho shops would alibrd
we Jill in along by degrees. Now, when
we got ready to buy a picture, or a faucj
cuair, a caomci, set or nooks, or even
some attractive pieco of tablo furnish
lug, it is purohaticd in the form oi i
gift, on some of our calendar days,
How is that for gonoroity?"
"I must confess I fail to see whore
tho fun comes in."
"Well, it is largely in tho complete
uncertainty what the gift will be, added
to tho certainly of receiving one. For
example, on my own birthday, a few
weeks ago, I had a great hunt on mj
return 'homo, for my 'surprise,' and
when I fairly gave it up and took a eont
at tho table, I found my wayfaring feet
reposing on a llnfe, toft, fur rug my
ospocial delight. Delia knows my
weakness for fur. I must have be mi
an Esquimaux, at iuiiiu atuge of my ca
reer. "
"Or a moth," mggcutod Frank, "but
when do your feet find timo to extract
tho virtues of tho rug?"
"O, I stay in evening and got the
good of tilings," said Al, breezily.
"Tli is is an exception, but it will show
to-morrow on the mantel cabinet. Lot'r
walk back now to Ur.iy & (iic n -, am
make sure of it."
"Well, just one thing moro. Do yon
do an tiling but furnish otir house by
piecemeal, on your holidays?"
"Why. we like to do something to
break the monotony, if circumstances
admit, and they can usually be made to
bend. 1 believe as many women die of
monotony, as of any organized disease.
I don't want to see Delia's face take on
tlie look that two-thirds of the faces of
women wear in repose."
"And so?" questioned Frank, in a
constrained tone, as his companion
seemed to relapse into thought.
"O, yes; and so 1 plan my business
now and then, to take little trips out of
town on some of our thus, and take
Delia along. She never knows any
thing about time, if she can shop, visit
art galleries, and :dl that, and then
after business hours no have the even
ing at our disposal."
"Do you do that every timo?" per
sisted the inspiring listener.
"Bless yon, no! site likes to go to
her homo whenever she can, and though
it is quite a trip, we take it once a year,
usually on our wedding anniversary.
You see, Dean, a single bad habit would
absorb more money, twice oyer, than 1
spend in all these directions, and be the
smallest part of the cost, at that. I
don't recognize -my expense that goes
toward keeping a home what a home
should be!"
"Well, all you two babes lack is a
fairy god-mother," laughed Dean, after
an uncomfortable pause. "I feel like
tho proverbial lieast in a china shop,
coming in hero to eliooso pottery for
Utopia, but 1 will at least keep you
clear of jars!" And with tho expression
of this laudable design, ho passed with
hifi companion into the alluring depart
ments of Gray Si Green.
Carrie Dean, not being of the scenic
order, having had her cry out, did her
best to remove the traces thereof a
penance which go"s far toward spoiling
the "good" of any woman's "cry."
She hail so far succeeded before her
husband's return, that, had not his eyes
lieon opened in an imwoutcd way, he
would have been blissfully ignorant of
tho entertainment she had enjoyed. lie
noticed it. however, with n pang not
rcMlered less mark this, ye wives by
the smile with which she greeted him.
"Well, Carrie," said he, seating him
self beside her, capturing tho hand
nearest him, "how is it about bonnets,
and gloves, and gowns and tilings?
Could you start east to-morrow on the
BMf) express?
"Why Frank! are you going to dis
patch mo without mercy?" sho ex
claimed between a smile and it tear,
her nerves having not yet regained
equipoise.
"1 thought of going along, if you did
not objoi t," lie answered gaily. "We'll
spend tho day with your Aunt .Marion,
and gut some of her good doughnuts
and pumpkin pies." (Thus the man,
whose probable descent from heights of
sentiment to gastronomic considera
tions is a matter of history.) "So you
will not have to bothc rarutiud the stove
hero. A bride ought not to work, on
know, on her wedding day."
"O, Frank! the best of it ail," said
Carrie with a rising sob, "is that you
cure, ami that you will como too."
"Yes, dour," said he gravely, "I do
care. Havo jou felt that I did not?"
and not waiting for the dreaded an
swer, he drew her to himself, saying,
as he kissed her quivering lips, "If to
morrow is our first lted Letter Day,
darling, it shall not bo our last."
That was years ago, but tho promise
held, even after tho fairy god-mother
came to their home, to add her steadily
recurring birthdays to the illuminated
list. !coria A. I'cck in Good House
keeper.
Tho King's English.
The correct expression is "King's
English," we nowadays transposing
this to "Queen u," because a woman
sits on the throne of England. Many
huvo ascribed it to a revision of the
Bible, ordered to bo miiilo by King
James, stating in corroboration of Hie
theory the fuel that many poojile ob
jected then, as they do to-day, to tho
new version on the ground that it con
tained many eivors, and referred to it
contemptuously as "tho King's Eng
lish." Subsequently, it is claimed, this
term came to be used in referring to all
abuos of tho English language. I can,
I think, show conclusively thnt this
theory is erroneous. James I. was
King from 1G0.'J to 1025, hut Elizabeth
was Queon from lfifiS to 1C03, yet wo
iind'tho term used by Shakspoare in his
.Merry Wives of Windsor," which was
written during the Elizabethan period,
and, of cotiro, beforo James was olo
vated to tho throne. In act I, scene '1,
of the play, I have namul occurs tho
words: "Hero will bo nn old abusing
of ' Bio King's Englkh." I
am Inert l to the belief that tlio ex
pression i d its origin right thure in
Shaksp s day. Dyatamlcr in mia-
tkiphtu J
MR. RUSKIN'S FIRST LOVE.
A Story That Is Told in Ills AutobtoR-raphy--A
Coiuliliuittoti of Twml
illes, Toots tiud YVlnlclc.
Tho early love of great men is a fa
vorite topic in these days with tho mi
nor fry of literature. Mr. lluskin is
depriving them of at least ono opportu
nity, for ho is himself telling his first
love story. In tho new chapter of his
autobiography, ho turns from music
and dancing to love. Air. Domecq's
four daughters came to stay al lierno
hill. They were Clotilde and Elise and
Cecilo and Caroline "a most curious
galaxy, or southern cross, of uncon
cohed stars floating on a sudden into
my obscure firmament of Loudon sub
urb." How my parents could allow their
young novice to bo east into tho fiery
furnace of tho outer world in this help
less manner the reader may wonder,
and only the fates know; but therowas
this excuse for them, that they had
never seen me the least interested or
anxious about girls novor caring to
stay in the promenades at Cheltenham
or Bath, or on tho parade at Dover; on
tho contrary, growling and mewing if I
was ever kept there, and off to the sea
or the fields the moment I got leave;
and they had educated me in such ex
tremely orthodox English toryism and
evangelicalism that they could not
conceive their scientific, religious, and
George 111. revering youth wavering in
his constitutional balance toward
French Catholics. 1 was thrown,
bound hand and foot, in my unaccom
plished simplicity, into tho t ho fiery
furnace, or fiery cross, of these four
girls who of course reduced me to a
moro heap of while ashes in four days.
Four days, at tho most, it tool; to re
duce me to ashes, but the "Alercrcdi
des cendres" lasted four years.
It was Clotilde ("Adelo Clotilde in
full, but 1 called her Adolo bocauso it
rhymed to shell, spell, and knell") who
reduced the poor boy to ashes; and hero
is tho description that ho gives of his
love-making:
In my social behavior and mind
was a curious combination of Air. Trad-
dies, Mr. Toots, anil Mr. Winkle. :
had tho real fidelity and single minded
ncs3 of Air. Traddles with tho conversti'
tional ability of iMr. 'Toots, and the ho
roie ambition of Mr. Winkle all these
illumnined by imagination like Copper
field's at his first Norwood dinner. . .
My shyness and unprosentablcness were
further stiffened, or, rather, sanded, by
a patriotic and Protestant conceit,
which wtis tempered neither by polite
ness nor sympathy; so that, while in
company, I sat jealously miserable like
a stock fish (in truth, I imagine, looking
like nothing so much its a skate in tin
aquarium trying to get up the glass), on
any blessed occasion of tole-a-toto I en
deavored to entertain my Spanish-born,
l'aris-bred. and Catholic-hearted mis
tress with my own views upon tho sub
jects of the Spanish Armada, tho battle
of Waterloo, and the doctrine of tran-
sulislantiatiou.
To those modes of recommending
himself Mr. Huskin did not fail to add
an imposing display of his literary pow
ers, and itis to his curly love that we
owo most of those scattered poems
which were originally interned in
"Friendship's Offering" antl other an
nals, and are now so highly treasured
by Ituskinian bibliophils. The first of
them were "The Last" Smile" and a
prose legend (containing a song) called
"Tho Bandit Leoni." "whom I repre
sented as typical of what my own san
guinary and adventurous disposition
would havo been if 1 had been
brought up a ImmliL" Those ap
peared in tho "Friendship's Oil'or
Ing," in 18.17, and as lalo as 1810
wo seo thero was a poom "To Adolo."
It may interest the reader to soo sonio
specimens of the songs, which wo ac
cordingly reprint from tho 18117 annual:
"TJIK LAST SMILH."
Sho sat beside iiik yesternight,
With Hp and eye, so blandly sinlllnsr
Eo full of boiiI, of life, of light,
Bo sweetly my lorn heart lu t'iilllii'',
That fcho had almost inailo mo K!l'
Had almost charmed the heart away
(Which, like the poisoned desert wind,
Came ttlcU and lieuvy o'er the iiilnU)
That memory soon mliiu ail would be,
And blio would smile no more for me.
BONO IN "LKONI."
Full broad and bright Is tho silver light
Of moon and stars on flood and fell;
Hut In my heart Is t-tarloes ulgtit,
I' or I am come, to say farewell.
I do not ask u tear, but wlillo
I linger where I must not stay,
Oh, give mu but a parting iiulle,
lo light mo on my lonely way.
To fcblue a brilliant beacon star,
To my reverted glance, afar,
Through midnight, which can hare no morrow,
O'er tho deep, efleut, surge of torrow.
Tho fair Adelo accopted tho verso
not, alas! at all in tho spirit in which
thoy wore offered. Oyor tho "Maiden
Glulotta," in whioh nil perfections wore
portrayed, "sho laughed in rippling
ccstacies of derision, of which 1 bore i
tho pain bravoly, for the sake of seeing I
her thoroughly amuod," and whenher
lover sent after her to Var'is a letter,
"seven quarto pages long, descriptive
of tlie desolations and solitude of Herns
hill," sisters wrote to say that "she had
really read it, and laughed immensely
at tho French." As for the old people,
they took it all very quietly.
Mr. Danieoq, who was extremely good
nntured, and a good judge of character,
rather liked me, because ho saw that I
was good-natured also, and had somo
seedling brains, which would como up
in time; in tlie interests of tlie business
he was perfectly ready to give mo any
of his daughters I liked, who could also
be got to like me, but considered that
the timo was not como to talk of sncb
things. My father was entirely of the
same mind. My mother who looked
upon tho itlea of my marrying a ltomart
Catholic as too monstrous to bo possible
in the decrees of heaven, and too pro
posterous to bo even guarded against
on earth wtis rather annoyed at tho
whole business, as she would havo been
if ono of her chimneys had begun smok
ing, but had not tlie slightest notion'
her house was on fire.
With the boy himself it w:is very
difl'erent. He was "not a whit dashed
back out of his daily swelling foam of
furious deceit," and lie had at any rata
gained "a true and glorious sense ot
the newly revealed miracle of human
love in its exaltation of tho physical
beauty of tho world ho had till then
sought by il own light alone." But
for the rest lie sat under the mulb rry
tree in tho back garden writing a Vene
tian tragedy in which the sorrows of his
soul were to bo enshrined in immortal
verse. Mr. Buskin forgets all els.( that
took place in that year: "it is now all.
blank to me except looking out over
Shooter's hill, where 1 could see tho
last turn of tho road to I'aris.'- Hero
is ids frank summary of tho situation:
"I had neither the resolution to seo
Adele, tho courage to do without her,
tho sense lo consider what was at hist
to eoino of it all, nor the grace to think
how disagreeable I was making myself
at tho timo to everybohy about mo.
Thero was really no more capacity nor
intelligence in me titan in a,just-tledgcl
owlet, a just open-eyed puppy, discon
solate at the existence of the moon."
Pall Mall atactic.
Travel in Florida.
It wtis easy to come to Do Land, arT
it had not occurred to us but that it
might be equally easy to leave it, when
once one had decided to go. It is true
that tilings are not managed here just
as they are in some other places. Not
long tigo two gentlemen stopping at a
hotel near us had resolved upon leaving;
hero upon tlio early train which is cur
rently supposed to meet tho early Iwnt
going up t ho river. When they reach
ed the station I hey found tho fire in an
asleep, and the engineer I know not.
where. This drowsy ollicor was arous
ed and persuaded to "got up steam.'"
Now, this is not the operation of a mo
ment, and it was half tin hour before the;
engine was ready to start. When thoy
reached the lauding tlie boat had been
and gone. Everybody save tho
strangers was perfectly placid over Hum
ciremustamc. What if the boat luul
gone? In the eourso of time anothor
would como up the river.
It may bo that a like circumstance
will not so readily occur now that there
is a railroad to which ono can lleo in
such a disappointment. When wo h:v3
set the time to depart, wo remembered
this incident, and stud we would make
sure. Wo chose the night boat, and tho
train had started heretofore at,1) o'clock
in the afternoon. Tho station agent,
on being questioned, appeared surpris
ed, and said ho "didn't know what lime
the train .would start tho next day.
BY tips wo had bottor como down to
morrow and soo." This seemed inex
plicable to us, but wo had to mako tlo
best of the oracle. Tho next day wu
went and inquired what time we should
come down in tho afternoon, so that wo
need not miss tho connection witlt the
boat. Tho man looked up in si startled
antl dazed way, and then remarked
that "ho did not know; ho reekoncct
about 5."
"No," spoke up another man who
was present, "if you are hero at (5, it
will bo ample timo;" then, making un-
othor calculation, "half-past G will do."
So wo wore, in a moasuro, left to
select our own time, and naturally iru
soleetod It so early that wo waited an
hour and a half at tho station. Tho care
started 7, and tho boat had been wnit-
' a long timo for us. This urrangw
ment is inscrutable. Wo stop thinking .
of It, witlt the conclusion that It is un
necessary for ns to understand every
thing, ami I challenge anybody to
fathom tho mysteries of tho complica
tions here. Vor. Xtw York Evening
I'ost.
Mr. (ilud.tono lias declined to appoint a
coiuiulnfioii to Impure Into the advlmbillty iT
tiaiixpluiitiiig to tin- colonies the turplus popu
lation ot (iriut lirhaiu.