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RWt v; »<* a s I _ 1 I COUNTY ITEMIZER. *T* B h IE E . G O O D . Ipliou Iliiirai folti'*.................. J*T...................... Devoted to the Best Interests of Polk County in Particular and to the Padflo Coast in General. i.U>>i.llid . . . ................ VOL. BIST BK BAIL) IN ADVANCE. V ili. ÌOCEi |ATH OF FIRE. would divide rather scriinpily, among three; and mamma is the »e people of Chicago, last person in the world to be happy nul Detroit talk, on that iu poverty.” {s' Purnliki •She has piol*bly advised you when Reuben March to throw me over and smile upon eat mill-owners, capi- Mr. Hansford,” exclaimed, Misael, a * 1 'A S ^ w ] peculators, failed, one sudden light breaking upon him. | there had never been I met the fellow, to-day, and noticed n sw are , how he sneaked out of my way.” rophe. A painful blush burned all over happened on the fif- Edith s face. But an angy light, p a ,» p s , LiinifS pril, and a good many also, leaped to her eyes. She said, Lt, made very witty re- stiffly: |t h e Ides of March hav- “ You needn’t call it sneaking, A US AND- month too late, that Misael. You must expect u good Iter Reuben March was many people to avoid you, now.” Etc., Etc. In his bedroom, with a “ T hat is enough,Miss Musgrove,” trough his poor, broken said Misael, “ Poverty is a crime, utoro r.rw w l, |y laughed any more, I see—at least in the eyes of Mr. D allas , ( lody sympathized, some Hanaford and ’’—tin words were their eyes, when they spoken bitterly, and with emphasis, Ison’s white, stern, face, —“ his friends.” 'Ck U I “ Yes, it is quite enough, Mr. | gleam of his desperate S t r i c t l y for] March," exclaimed a new voice, as ill Edith do about her Edith’s mother, who had been listen enalilnl u offer WDrtoi g public. ? ” society asked. For ing behind the folding doors, swept yove was a somewhat into the room. “ It is very nice to 'ASH PAID FOR COniJj ling. Her widowed threaten two women, and talk big ioni her the place and s all the world knew, had about an absent man, but I can’t luppliea at Uie ry nerve, and begged have you doing it here any longer. tl of all her friends, to My daughter, (Edith, if you cannot »v Cash Groo*i ler social position, and control yourself” for Edith had ■accoutre her beautiful burst into tears, “ you had better H.j.l fNor had her scheming leave the room,) my daughter feels a as , Oregeo. Notante sj t result. For had not that, under the peculiar circum phantly come forth from stances in which you now stand, it A T . HOL! for neither iter advantage nor ’a campaign leading cap- son and heir of Reuben yours, to continue an engagement ( Succewor to Boli richest man of the West? contracted—” “ While I was rich and prosper this, everybody knew anaford, the millionaire ous,” broke in Misael. “ I under i * i o n e J as ready at any moment, stand all you would say, Mrs. Mus million at Edith s-pretty grove. But I will accept no dis 'out was stout, and short, missal, except from my promised ,nd ill-bred ; and Edith wife. Edith, do you agree with I V E R Y ,1 iven him or his posses- your mother? Is it your wish to nev 1 thought; being really break your engagement ? ” -----AND- His voice was stern, his attitude e with Misael, who was ight, handsome fellow, commanding. But the poor girl i, hazel eyes, and a merry made no reply. .She only sobbed F E E D ST * jaw the more. “ Speak, Edith, love, and assure iling iu Street, essiotfc, as was well proven, Mr. March,” said Mrs. Musgrove, whem his troubles had come “ that what your mother has said is I aviso mtr neither a fabrication nor a mistake. him. I eaUlili.slinient, aohapu. Always few days after the fail- Tell him your own decision, and let lisael, who had hitherto him see that vou speak your own O O 1) desperately driven to mind.” “ Yes, speak ycur own mind, and lent to himself, threw AT LOW RA aside and betook hiin- God’s truth,” added Misael, as the iusk, to Mrs. Musgrove’s shrewish voice ceased. Thus adjured, Edith, at last, lifted e house; dear, in spite i r l i o u l i i r Attention • i e u t Su sty, from its fashionable her woful, tear-wet face from her hands, and faltered out: ve uh call. “ Yes, Misael, it is better that we i ttawn at once, to ______But there was a flutter, part. Mamma is right. I am so rtiveneBs of aspect., a nameless sorry to lose you. But I never ethingjlin her demeanor, that could be a poor mart’s wife.” A stern voice interrupted her. 1HS & MORRISiepoo^J lisael catch his breath, “ Give me that ring off your fin a moment, and hold back from -ring thmaccustomcd caress. At ger." Edith, too frightened for reply, , I Y R Y S T A I he u ld , “ Edith, have I lost drew off the magnificent solitaire, , with all the rest ?” which she had worn with sulli he answered nervously. Mftitl.eet, D a lla s, 0: Why, Misael! S.t down," she pride, and handed it to Misael. The latter made two strides to “ Put down your hat. Don't ; so dreadfully. Didn’t you get the window, threw it open, and tossed the glittering bauble into the e kindly wouls of crowded street. A drayman, trudg ch as any courteous ing beside his horses, saw the act, t write. No promise, ami ran to pick up the ring, turn of faith. I had never ing, as he did so, an inquiring look ¡rood Tims at Lo-^Tj doubting vou until I at the window. With a nod and a gesture of assent, March drew down 1 that." u r stables aro l . ^ j n every me? You couldn’t the sash, and turned again to Edith. tont and e-inghnstlenire1* ® “ Will you send me my letters, ■at sympathy, Misael; way* to lerve the bt : ar.d the chain that was nry moth _ —and*—” 11 do, Edith. Your ers ? Send them to-day,” he said. JIVE THE Iff STABL*T,iafc e, tell me that your “ The other gifts you are welcome d. I gave myself to to keep, or to sell, if you like,” he H. f U N | soul, for better or for added, scornfully. “ The proceeds :her or poorer. Noth- will, perhaps, help out your tros- CJ n d e r t a f c r and •*«; (1 have befallen you, seau.” that Then he was gone; and Mrs. le me go l>ack from Cabinet» ou know best whether Musgrove, white with rage, ran to t vow. is like that. But, see if she could distinguish the A lw ays lias on 1„,1 »finelr COI is only by your own man who picked up the diamond ; in y ra bond can bo broken, but lie hail turned the corner, and Borough Caes she never found him. It is good to say them ? ! you twisting a bracelet to know that he was an honest fel -ALSO-Idith Hst, and examining it, low, and the money, about a fourth und Pletnrea. sment, as if she had of its value, which he received for before. But Misael the diamond, bought him a little F lf tire f^er tiled for her to speak, home of his own. 3rti: “ Well, we are rid of that brute, oked up, met those l&st AlUiffl’ jdfast looked down again, at least,” exclaimed the irate moth ts ashes, even to her er, finally. “ And now, my dear, UCtl V| C abinet V/orR D-:\ aiMj you will be very cordial, nrind, to o u t: Very unkind, Misael.” Mr. Hanaford.” t-fuSowing machine, r ^ 111 “ I—I don’t know,” sobbed Edith. ean to be, dear,” he iiairetl. < ■y; “ but I am very “ We have been cruel, and—and—I lied, .Store n m ler iT K M O U i • Bt. In the last week, like Misael—ever so much the best.” snee, Or. 11 Mrs. Musgrove rose to the occa I has gone out of me. the yi sion. I different.” F. A. “ Don’t Le a fool 1” she snapped. |y o u going to do— for minered Edith, finally. “ Which do you like best: horse- W AGON A N D C A I I f i " ! '' -y.'W-has the large cars, or an elegant barouche, with Grand street, has en- two men cn the box ? And which East Sid« of Main iOl manager. I have a do you like best: cheap alpaca or een hundred a year—’’ Lyons velvet ? Sham jewelry or ALL OF MY Ol.D F R IB ® i. T O lie 3 c 1! And you have real diamonds ? Pray tell me, love.” in general. I trpuld »niw v V to do all kinds of vag-on and Edith, if not eonvinced, was thousand or more, all workmanlike manner and at ' L |»ri-.i*s. 1 have on lia if U silenced; and tried to stifle the but I am young and { ache at her heart. She made an S e a s o n e d I< liavc hope, too ; I shall ! effort to smile, and be cordial, as ___ m se end. But the ques- her mother bade her, when the pros REPAIRING MADE A®, I you he satisfied, as the perous merchant called, that even Satisf Art ion (Diarantecd. S | erk, who had only fif- ing, with a big boquet and an un- j derbrerl smirk. n 1 id a year ? ” D allas , January 2 , I SSL Misael, meanwhile, went away l»d more than that, our- I we are so poor—so hor- raging,half desperate; aimoatcursing PORTER, SLESSIN and in debt cvery- i fate. His better nature conquered, |d mamma so worn out at last. He threw himself into his work with an intensity of purpose, 117 B a t t e r y S t .f I kaned, rather than said an energy of action, that carried M anufactunrs and Jobbers [glanced contemptuously all before i t ; and at once delighted threadbare, yet preten- and terrified, plodding John Rob- ertson, the new owner of the mills, as she spoke, uld take her home and i and one of the heaviest creditors of kid age comfortable and the late firm of March k Son. It was just aboafiayear from the egan Misael. softly, kh interrupted him with ' great failure, and nearly as long riw E S K o o o d s ark from the rupture of Misael’s en lie laugh. 1 rip »ml » r . Ih» hert r M . r» Il in u V m J a jn S I en hundred a y e a r! It gagement, and Miss Musgrove’s ac ! S T ,\y ISOS CUD U B / 'l U POLK COUNTY ITE ■TVICU* UTIISUAV, n o t io M j DALLAS, OREGON. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 4 , 1882. ceptance of Mr. Thomas Hanaford’s five-thousand-dollar solitaire dia mond rin g ; it was, in fact, in the beginning of April, that Rawlins, the old foreman, who had begun life under Reuben March, while Misael was in petticoats, and had hoped to finish his days under the new-old dynasty, accosted his young master, as be passed through the still-room of the great distillery, in the last of the afternoon. “ There’s something wrong, air,” he said, “ with this still. You’ll see the runs are not above half what tln-y should be, and a heavy charge of grain in, and splendid fires.” “ I see,” replied Misael, after a moment’s oliservation of the scanty stream of liquor that flowed from the worm. “ There’s a stoppage somewhere, or perhaps that peg in side has got loose agnin.” “ We’d best knock off work, to morrow, then, and look into the thing, hadn’t we?” “ Knock off work? Lose a day? What’s the uso of that?” demanded March. “ Let down that fire now, and draw the charge from both chainl>cra. Everything will be cooled off by morning, and I will be here by six o’clock to look into it, myself.” “ But, Mr. March, I don’t think it would he safe for you, or any man, to go into that still, twelve hours from it being all nlive, so. The foul air, and the fumes from the liquor, would take his breath, long before he’d get at his work.” “ There’s no work to do, if what I think is the case. It’s only that peg, in the lower pipe, dropped out,” interrupted March, impatiently. “ It won’t take two minutes to do the whole thing, and nobody’s life will be risked but mine, and that’s He stopped short, it not being his style to make confidences, or to bemoan his hard lot. Rawlins, scratching his head without remov ing his Glengarry cap, replied: “ Well, sir—I don’t know—I sup pose a quick, strong man, with his wits all about him—if lie held his breath—” “ Yes, it’s safe enough,” broke in Misael, impatiently. “ At any rate, I shall do it. You just see to the fire and the charge. Get them out, as quick as you can, and leave everything open to cool. Be here in the-morning yourself, at six o’clock, and I will be along by the time you’re ready for work.” “All right, sir,” replied Rawlins, wisely abandoning the argument, and subsiding into simple obedience. That evening Misael happened, in returning from a walk, to pass Mrs. Musgrove’s house. The win dow was a littteopen, and he heard Edith singing a plaintive, little German song, of which ho had once bet n very fond. He stopped for a moment in the darkness, and lis tened. When the song was ended, a coarse voice cried : “ Why, anybody would think you hadn’t a friend in the world, Miss Edith, to hear such a mournful ditty. Give us something more lively, can’t you ? ” “ Idiot! ” muttered Misael, drag ging his hat over his brows and striding away. “ He can’t he con tent till he has dragged her down to his own level. Well—better so; better so.” Then instead of returning homo, as he had intended to do, ho struck off into the country, and Walked as if on a wager, through mile after mile. Finally, partly through fa tigue, and partly because the gentle country sounds had tamed the fever of his blood, he went home, and slept a few hours of heavy sleep, before the toil of another day began. At six o'clock the next morning, master and man stood together, be fore the black and silent still, with its gloomy litter of extinct coals and ashes, not yet removed, and the reeking fumes of crude alcohol breathing from its every crevice, like the horrible atmosphere sur rounding a drunkard. “ Where’s the Davy lamp,” asked Misael, throwing aside his coat, and standing, a model of athletic and supple manhood, in his dark flannel shirt and trousers, with a leathern belt around his waist. “ Why, Mr. Misael, don’t you re member? You flung it in the fire, one day, when it wouldn’t light for you? You said it was no good. There ain't another to be had,.short of Broad street; and not this hour in the morning, even there. You’ll have to give it up, now, sir, spite of fate.” Perhaps the old man’s tone of triumph annoyed his master’s irri table nerves. Perhaps it was only the reckless and impetuous temper possessing him in these days. But without replying, save in a black and bitter word, crushed between his teeth, Misael snatched a candle from the shelf, and lighting it, sprang up the steps leading to the second story of the still-room,where was the entrance to the upper di vision of the chamber, which con tained the charge, or grain, from which, by the use of steam and pressure, the poison is extracted which, after various other processes, goes forth to the world as whiskey. A round aperture, perhaps eight een inches in diameter, called a NO 49- THE WHM That lissom, girlish shape, with kill » i t manhole, gives admittance, in cases But, not daring to open hia eyes, like this, from the second i.tory of lest ho should lose them, he groped its rounded throat anil waist, and A fresh anecdote of John T. Ray Pierced with the still-room, to the upper chamber wildly at the top of the ladder for the graceful fall of the shoulders ; mond, never before printed, ie re •airing what were that perfectly moulded head, with the manhole. As he grasped it, he of the still; and a short ladder, lated by one who was a member of ead wires, Joseph pulled in after him by the inspector, felt the skin, on the bactc ofs both its little, weary droop, after the bis dramatio company and who ia instantly killed yesterday, gives him the means of descending hands, split from wrist to knuckles; night's watching; that wealth of now in this city. It waa in 1877 that in hia body the full force of to the lower compartment. In this and he beard, as if through tumult- nut-brown hair, coiled heavily and Raymond, as the immortal Sellers, rifle current with which the * lower division lies the principal nous waves, the voice of the old low, at the back; that tiny ear; was doing the Western country. At «barged. Joseph danger ; for the foul air, strongly man, rUering an inarticulate cry of that line of cheek, just visible be Evansville, Ind., the hones waa filled, seut to repair a defective yond. Ah. it could not, could not and the audience, the critics say, waa he elinbed up tbe high pole and be impregnated with the fumes of al Korror and amazement. And indeed it was a sight to be; and yet how like; how sweet en rapport with the acton, th e gan operations on tbe «nr cohol, is naturally denser here than above ; and the manhole admits a mke a stronger brain than that of to fancy it might be her. Uncon play went along swimmingly until leading from tbe depot at 3 the denouement was reached. This, both street to the store of wlins, to see the ghastly figure sciously, the thought took form, it certain amount of pure air above, is well known, occur* in the jury Buokley A Co., at Broadway aud, half aloud, he murmured : merging from the sea of tire : the which does not penetrate below. scene which closes the drama. At Worth street. Theee wires are heav “ Edith!” es closed, the lips drawn away But, also, it was in this lower cham every village a new jury >• obtained ily charged with electrioity, as they The figure turned, with a start, from the papulae«. Leading per supplied in the clenched teeth, the fiames ber that this mischief lay, as Misael forty lights of 80,000-candie and came swiftly toward the bed. suspected ; and yet hither he was feeding upon hair and flesh. With sons of the place a n sometimes hon power. Stommans waa directed to a blind instinct of doing something Yesl it was Edith. The face was ored with a place in the box, and it climb the old polo and make what bound to penetrate. Rawlins, standing for a moment to help, the faithful follower rushed thin and won; the eyea were weary waa ao at Evansville. The eotisetion electricians term a “ loop," so aa to aghast, recovered ,his breath and forward, and seiaed Misael'» hands, with long watching; a nameless was one of the finest « n r on the lengthen the wire. Electricity waa tongue in the next, and following which were clenched upon the edge look, born of heroism, had replaced etage— docton, lawyen and inch passing through the wire at the time. up the stairs as fast as his old legs of the opening. He tried, but at the frivolous girl-smile; but it was like. The foreman wna n six-foot Btammaaa waa ao told when bo Kentuckian and a judge, too. He climbed the pole. On reaching the would take him, almost screamed first vainly, to drag his master out* Edith, his own Edith. All the past was forgotten, all had for yean adorned the bench, third eroes-tree, about thirty-five feet but the crisp and blistered skin o u t: and was never known to quuil ia pub the street, and on which the “ Master! For God’s sake, stop 1 slipped from under his grasn. For the old love caine to life again, all lic. It was from hie mouth that from wire ran, Stammans first unoo»ared the old tenderness was in his voice, an instant, it seemed that tne pur Don’t think for a minute of carry “ not guilty” was to be reeaived, and ths Dositive wire, stripping it of its ing a candle into that hell of a suing flames, even there, would drag as he whispered, vainly stirring his he had been duly cautioned as to bis intulation and making the half con place. It’ll explode before you’re their victim back into their deadly poor bound hands, to try to touch lines. As soon as the verdict is ren nections of the “ loop.” Having fin fairly inside 1 Stop, stop, for God’s embrace; for Misael tottered, wav that head that was bowed beside dered Sellers throws up hia hat, ished one-half of tbe positive connec bugs the sccused and performs inanv tion, be cut tbe negative wire for tbe ered, staggered backward, and al him. sake !” “ My darling! My own—” wonderful side plays, after which purpose of making tbe corresponding “ Nonsense, man, there's no dan most fell into the abysa. But at “ Thank God, to hear you speak the curtain descends. At Evansville naif connection of the “ loop,” and ger,” replied Misael, laughing, grim last, with a wild cry of despair, he ly; for he was not insensible of the succeeded in flinging himself vio again, and to speak so to me,” cried Raymond did his prettiest, gyrating by some mischance he seized both the judges like a madman wires, one with each hand, and there oor fellow’s homely devotion. “See, lently forward. There, for a mo the girl. “ Misael, oh, Misael, can before and “ fixing the jury” in his inimita by made an arc of connection be 'll test it, to satisfy you.” And ment, he hung on the edge of tho you forgive m e?” . manner. When the oaae bad tween the tube. The instant hia A look of pain and doubt crossed ble lighting a bit of paper, he tossed it manhole, half in, half o u t; a limp, closed and the jury were expected to hand touched the second wire, the lifeless, scorched body. Had he his face, as he said: through the manhole. return the cut-and-dried verdict of that was feeding tbe forty “ Darling, I. do not remember “ not guilty” the foreman—this six- eleotricity Both men craned their necks for been alone, that would have been lamps passed through his body, giv everything yet; and there are some ward, and saw the cheerful yellow the last of him. But he was not foot Kentuckian aud a judge to boot ing him a terrible shock. He Tost blaze suddenly turn to a ghastly* alone. As he fell, Rawlins seized things I do not want to remember. —was attacked with stage-fright and consciousness, and bis fellow-work blue, and then expire, as the wisp hint again; and this time, with There was a cloud between u s; do Btartled everybody by shouting: men were horrified at seeing him “ Guilty!” clinging to the ends of the two wires, went floating downward into the more discretion; and dragging him not lift i t ; you are hero, you are ' ‘ What?” inquired the disconcerted ono leg thrown over the crosspiece of through the manhole, laid him, a mine and I ain yours ; when I am dense blackness of the pit. the pole while the other waa across tbe “ You see it don’t explode,” said blackened, senseless heap, upon the a little stronger we will be married. Sellers. “ Guilty,” said the forgetful fore wires underneath. There he hung Misael, throwing ono leg over the floor of the chamber, alive indeed, That is all I want to know.” “ Oh, Misael, it is enough ; and man , thinkiug he was doing himself writhing and struggling, totally un edge of the manhole. “ Here, hold hut so scarred that it seemed doubt and the Evausville psrty proud. able to release hiB hold on the wires, on to the candle, till I ’m in ; and ful if he had not been saved from you are so, so good,” sobbed Edith. In vain Raymond giggled; the ver which sent the racking and the death For some happy moments, no more a sudden death to perish in more pass me the end of the ladder.” dict was plainly, “ guilty." There dealing current through his entire was said. Then he asked, suddenly: fore the play couldn’t go on as it was frame. A large crowd of people “ It burned queer, though,” per cruel and lingering torments. “ Dear, are you hero with your laid down; there was no chance for gathered beneath the pole, watching Some early workmen, meantime, sisted Rawlins, mechanically doing that throwing or hugging. The the sad spectacle, while two of tho had fortunately collected in the nroth.er’s consent ? ” as he was bid. She fell on her knees beside his audience was not slow to cateh the linemen clambered nimbly to bis aid. “ You’ll see queerer things than lower part of the still-house. Hear that, if you don’t look sharp, and ing the cries of Rawlins for help, chair, and hid her glowing face in mistake, and a wave of hearty laugh It would have been certain death for ter began to sweep over the par- them to have caught hold of the give me that ladder,” replied Misael, they rushed up, at this crisis. The her hands, as she murmured : “ No. I have no friend but you, quette. At last Raymond seeing writhing body of Stammans until the so impatiently that Rawlins made flames, stifled by closing the man things to be in a desperate state, be circuit was broken, which one of the no further audible comment; but hole, soon expired, and without in all the world. When we heard gan to “ fix” the jury again, and men did by severing one of the wires you were dying, I told mamma, and further damage. A doctor and a passed in the ladder, and gave the buttonholing the big foreman, whis with his pliers; The other lineman candle into the hands of his young carriage were summoned in haste. — and — ami — that man, that I pered the proper vernict in bis ear. seized Stammans’ limp body, and The poor, senseless, unsightly body, should come and nurse you, till you Whereupon the big six-footer mildly fastened a rope around the waist, master. The latter, after a moment of an hour before the embodiment of died. They said no, and he said I stammered out: lowered it gently to the ground. hesitation, set the candle upon a manly grace and beauty, was re should choose between him and “ Mot guilty." Life was barely perceptible, but his projecting beam, just below the moved to the comfortless lodgings you. I ditl choose. I said that Tbe hat went up, ths lucky ac breathing was only spasmodic. His manhole, where its light would pen for which Misael March had ex one day, beside your death-bed,was cused was congratulated, and tbe eyes bulged from his bead aud his curtain rung down amid the laugh jaw was firmly set. No time was etrate feebly indeed; but, as he changed his luxurious home. Raw more than all his wealth to me.” “ My darling 1 My true-hearted ter and npplause of the audience, lost in carrying him to tbe Sixth pre thought, sufficiently, to the pit be lins begged a day’s vacation, to re That big Keutuckian, however, was cinct station-house, where Sergeunt low. Then, putting his head out cover his shaken nerves, and look love' ” “ Then mamma said, if I left her nover again foreman of any of Ray Luerson telegraphed for an ambu of the hole, Misael took a long in after his young master. Then the mond’s juries.—New Haven (Conn.) lance, but before it arrived the un spiration of fresh a ir ; or, what men went back to their tasks; bus house, to come to this, I never Register. fortunate lineman was a corpse. passes for such, in a distillery; iness hours began; and the world should como hack. I waited, for a When tbe body was examined by moment, to see if I was strong nodded goodhumoredly to Rawlins, went on the same as ever, just as if tiT i i n u a t r u m . the surgeon, it wab found that. Stam- dragged his woolen cap firmly over a strong, brave young man had not enough for that te s t; ami I found man's bands were burned and blis his brows, and rapidly descended been been brought down to tho I was ; and I came. Mrs. Simpson Somo sight or tsn years ago a tered on both palms where the elec- was vary good to me. She knew silvery-tongued chap, who claimed trio ourrent had entered, and they the ladder, his mind bent upon ac gates of death. It was about ten days after this We had been engaged; and she likes to be a fruit-tree agent, swindled the looked as if a redhot iron had been complishing his task, and returning to upper air before the vitality of that Misael March opened his eyes, you, ever so much ; and she let me farmers of this oonnty in a shameful drawn across them. There were no that long breath should be ex late in the afternoon of a sweet stay; she said she would stand by manner, and one resident of Nankin other marks visible m the body.— April day, and 'ooked languidly, me in everything; and if you had was so mad about it that he came to New York Star. hausted. Instinct, rather than sight, led but intelligently, about him, while not got well, I would have stayed Detroit, searched tbe raeoal out and THE m V SY STEM . him straight to the spot at which a crowd of ideas, half memories, here the little time I should have gave bim a popnding on the street. After he got through with bis work he aimed. Here he found the half fancies, came trooping around lived—” In tbe November Century Albert Sho broke down, here, and hid ho told the fellow that he would lick Stickney asks; “ Is the Jury System loosened peg, lying beside the hole his bed, and sat beside his pillow, him twice as bad if he ever put eyes her face in her hands. it should have stopped, which con waiting to be questioned. on bim again, and it wss a threat to a Failure?” and makes a suggestive “ But now you will stay with me, be long remembered and nursed. and striking argument to prove that He was sick ? Yes, evidently ; firmed his suspicion that this was the scat of all the trouble. Two and his hands and wrists were my own, my darling ? ” said Misael. About three weeks ago ths Nankin it is. Ho advocates a radical reform quick movements sufficed to insert swathed into two great, white par “ And this very day, good Dr. Win- man was traveling in 'Washtenaw by substituting a permanent jury or the peg in its place, and drive it cels. over which ho Seemed to have throp shall marry us. He will be County, and ms lrs journsyed along oonrt of judges for n jury of laymen. the origin of tbe jury system be well home, which he did by means no control; and his head was ban so glad Ah, my dear, that was a the highway be met a travaler who Of says, in part: so closely resembled the fruit-tiee happy day for me, when, through of a little hammer which he had daged ; and how oddly his face felt. The whole system of trial by jury brought in his pocket. Then, not By-and bye, when he was stronger, that bath of fire, I struggled back swindler that he baited and ealled never was anything but a clumsy out: sorry, in spite of his bravado, to he would think about it more. But to life, anil you.” “ Hero you are again, yon bold moke-shift. In its origin, tbe jury “ Oh, Misael, you are so noble, so have finished his undertaking, he not now. Thinking made iiim diz was not a court of justice for bearin'* faced rascal!” was turning toward the ladder, zy. And the room? It wasn’t the generous, to forgive me ! All my causes, but only a feudal court of “ Yes, I ’m here,” was tbe calm re when his eyes Were almost blinded lofty, frescoed ceiling, at which his life shall be dedicated to proving ply. the lord’s vassals. These vassals first by a sudden glare overhead. At waking eyes had stared, boy and my gratitude.” “ Well, so am I, and I’m going to became something in the nature of a judical body merely for the purpose A happy silence fell, and through lick you until you can't boiler! the same moment his ears were man, for some twenty years. Nor stunned by a succession of snap was it the heavy walnut furniture it each loving heart saw the fair said I’d do it, end I always keep my of deuiding disputes as to landed estates or feuds; and in deciding ping explosions, as if the air were to which he had been accustomed, vision of a future, that should word. Come down beret” Tbe stranger “ elumb” without a these disputes they served mainly as all at once impregnated with in in that stately, old, paternal man amply atone for all the p ast; and glad are wo to know that these fair protest, shedding his ooat as he witnesses to facts within thsii knowl numerable fire crackers. A quick sion he remembered now. and not as judges to hoar visions were not exaggerated pic struck the ground, and a fight be edge, Oh, yes, lie lived at Mrs. Simp pang of physical fear, such as may causes of evidence. This court of gan. In about two minutes be had take the bravest man by surprise, son’s boarding house. But still, tures of the reality, which has since used up the farmer and was ooolly vassals was, in time, converted into for an instant contracted Misacl’s this was not quite his impression come to pass. something like a court of justice, replacing his coat. of the comfortless cell, where the heart. For, looking up, he saw the but meroly for lock of better ma “ See here,” said tbe man from chamber above him filled with a last sad year had dragged along its Nankin, ns he wiped his nose with a chinery. No doubt the jury system The amenities of journalism are lambent blue flame, and he realized home hours. Ah, well, he was too not strictly observed in tho rural burdock, “ you fight better than you was sn advance on ths methods it superceded. Trial by jury, .as a that the gasses from the lower crypt, tired to think any more of that, or districts of Missouri. The Marple did eight years ago.” drawn up into the tipper one by of anything. And so the swollen Hill Reflector refers to a rival as fol “ Well, I dnnno. This is my first method of ascertainingtlm truth, ra something better than trial by bat the draft through the manhole, had eyes drooped again, and lie slept. lows: “ The ignorant, contemptible, affair with you.” “ Didn’t I wollop you in front of tle. Tt ausnerod very well Tor titer taken fire from the uncovered can Yet he carried into dreamland the mean, sneaking, cowardly, self-im simple transactions <5f a tudo* Tan« dle flame, and would burn until all impression of a delicious odor of portant, low-flung, dirty, outlandish, tbe Detroit Postoffioe sight years just emerging from tho lighting era cologne water, and a cool, soft touch back-biting, self-styled ‘politician,’ ago?” was exhausted. of existence. Bui how does it sur.v« “ No, sir; I was in Australia up to dead beat, whisky bloat, backwoods upon his head, whence the hair had But that pang of wild terror was the needs of a great working pe >nle bummer, log-cabin child of misfor a year ago.” soon over. The real courage of the been shaved. in this nineteenth century? This “ And you never saw me befors?” tune, beer-inflated, big-headed, soft- When he woke again it was in man asserted itself. The mind, re system cf having lawsuits heard by “ Never.” overrated swamp angal, who suming its sv.’ay, took a rapid and the early morning, and the soft, skulled, i men who know nothing of law, tlu* “ And was never in Nankin?” claims to edit the Swamp paper, gray light fell gratefully upon his thinks the editor of the Reflector mixing of one lawyer with twelve exhaustive view of the situation. “ Never.” The manhole, ho knew, was the heated eye-balls, and scorned to terribly ignorant. Let him look at “ Well, I’ll be hanged! Come to laymen and calling them a court, id only passible exit from .he trap in soothe the weariness of his brain. the twenty seven mistakes in bis last look at you 1 can see you’re not the about as sensible as to try to drive n which he had placed himself. That Lying quite still, he again looked issue; lef him remember the ‘blat mnn. Why on earth didn’t you *x- wild elephant and a thorough-bred manhole was only to be reached about him, and remembering clearly ant’ in the issue before; and let him pluin, or ask me to? You must have in double harness. The combination is not a useful ono. Need it be said through The flames. Ho could not his late surroundings, perceived not forget that ho used ‘adorous’ for thought me mistaken.” that this marvelous monstrosity is “ Ob, yes, I knew you were mis live for more than a minute, with that he lay, now, in another, and arduous in a leading local in bis the morganatic device of that grand out breath; to draw in the noxious much pleasanter bedroom, with issue of August 24. Oh, yon dirty taken, but I bad just discovered thet old blundering, synthetio English vapors about him was certain death; soft, dark curtains at the windows, whelp; you poor, crawling, creeping I had driven seven miles on the people, which, in affairs of stute al wrong road and waa wishing some there was momentary danger that and many a graceful article, of viper; you dirty scum of the dirty, one would come along and give me ways insists on adapting old ma stagnated swamp; you the gas above would explode, kill mingled uso and ornament, soften stinking, two words of sass.”—Detroit Free chinery to new uses, which trice te mean, big-jawed, slab-sided,knock- convert an antique feudal tin-pot ing him by the shock; if not this, ing the formal utilitarianism of kneed, bow-legged, bander- shanked Press. into tbe cylinder of modem legal the flames would extend downward, boarding-house furniture. pup; lost, as you are, to honesty, to and which produces aa “ It looks as if a woman, a lady, principle, to justice, to common de and reach him; or, the woodwork “ Why is Mrs. Brown puttie on locomotive, its masterpiece in political machinery would ignite, and bum him, like a I wsre about, was the thought drift cency, do you imagine you can rule ao many airs of late?” asked ing through the languid mind. God's country—the hills? Go hack Jones of Mrs. Smith. “ Haven’t you that wondrous thing called perlia- rat in a hole. rejoined * »*■** • rejc ’ ‘ ? ” *"7 g°"V»-.»ut, Death was certain, if he stood | Suddenly from the deep chair at into the cesspool from which you h e rd of their windfall?” still. There was one bare chance t the other side of the bed a figure have crawled, and there remain. | Mr*. Smith. "No; what ia it?*’ said come out of your den to abuse Mrs. Jones. “ Why, Mr. Brown's of escape, P° however, if he acted at | rose, and went to open the windo* Don’t respectable once. If he mimt die, it was better I to let in the sweet, morning ata • - people. - , Go to school, uncle in the country baa just died and left him forty bushels of pota to die struggling, than cowering.1 Standing there for a moment,! » ■J*}/?11 !oarn • 1 with her back toward him, Misael 17*‘;’ _ Kelly * " H * “ " ,tE toes. Being independently rieb, Perhaps it took him fifteen seconds they are catting all tbeir acquaint to think this ajl out. It was not studied this figure, with the same | interest. ances, you know." weary, incurious gaze which he had more, certainly. Then, with a sud Requires practice: Lady customer den rush, and a cry, “ God have fixed upon the curtains. . But, „ as —“ Will you please direct me to the mercy on me,” he seized the aide* he gazed, a rnoi mmorv, rising from the drMa detrim ent?” Obliging floor- of the ladder and run up, never of life, and quivering w alker-' Certainly; walk along this shrinking as thedeadly snnnKingas uicucauiy flames names licked iicwcu . wiwi in» deadly sorrow, and the way.” Lady customer—"My dear his face. He felt his beard ignite, living joy, that dwell there, began I couldn’t walk that way if I and burn crisp, close to the »kin, I to wniaper in hia ear. practiced for two year*. •* \ Veql f • I i