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DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY. JANUARY « 7 . 1883.
VOL- IX.
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MR. JENKINS.
walked sorno distance. In teiupt-
ing proximity, at the corner o f a
B Y J O B » L K U W lC K .
side street, was a house, over the
,
I was fortunate in my uncle. door of which, in great gold letters,
F.o every body thought,
Uncle gleamed the words "Luncheon
Into this, ar.ito instinct
Braithwaite ivae a . Veulthy ami Bar.”
thriving a manufacturer ns any in ively, I half dragged half hustled
i^iinbeth, anil I, his dead sister’« the man.
non, Cyril Vaughan l»y name, was
It was the middle of the day,
not merely d.awing a fair salary, luncheon-time, a brisk hour for
with the prospect of a partnership, business in the City, in th« eating
l.ut was actually engaged to he and drinking line at least, and the
married to my second cousin, re- pi *o I had entered was fall of
uted a great heiress— dear, sweet customers, young men mostly,
iuc,y Braithwaite— the old man's noisly chatting ever their sand
only child.
A severe, just man wiches.
Ae I flung open the
was John Braithwaite.
He had ■winding doe- I felt sure that I
won his own way in life by rigid caught a "limpee o f my uncle's
self-denial and unwearying ipdus- confidential clerk on -he pavement
'joyless youth, and I onUidv.
“ Mr. Jenkins'” I called out, but
doubt if lie over thoroughly en
joyed the fruits of iiis well-earned he evidently did not hear me, and
prosperity. It was only when his passed on.
There was a 1 u»h o f excited
•■ve rested on his daughter's pretty
face that his stern look relaxed. young fellows toward us— "Bet
"Four to five
Lucy reminded him, doubtless, of you he's drunk!"
“ Run over?" and so
her gentle mother. But he was a lie's dead!"
good master to a good servant, forth— and it was not immediately
notably where he, who was by that I could get some lecto.ative.
nature and habils suspicious, could But tho poor countryman's face
repose full trust. He Jid so in his was livid, his eyes dosed, his ieetli
confidential clerk, Jacob Jenkins. fast shat, and he could swallow
That head clerk was one out o f a nothing. Then a doctor was sent
¡ft
thousand. “ Ilcspcctable Jenkins" for, and the doctor was slow in
wns the nickname by which coming, and I had e planation
irreverent youngsters in the count after explanation to give, first to
ing-house spoke, with bated breath, the dull-witted landlord, who came
o f that pearl of clerks; but even blinking out of a back parlor, then
those pert office lads had a belief to inquisitive customer*; and when,
in the man— he wns so respectable, a breathless surgeon, hastily sum
with his lean, wcU-shav.n face, his moned, cam« panting in at -he
neatly-brushed suit of formal black, heavy swing-doe , amid -he sur
and his square-toed boots. Never, ging crowd, there was a neccssi.ry
as I have heard, in the twenty-nine word or so with him.
“ But where is my patient?”
years of his toil had honest Jenkins
been known to ask for a holiday, as ed the bewildered man of
to shirk extra w o r ;, or to make a science; and, indeed, the “ poor fel
blunder as to tare and tret, a thing low" who was the object of all this
o f moment with a firm like oil s, stir had disappeared in the midst
of tho hubbub, and with him had
huge exporters as we wei e.
As for myself, I am afraid t mt vanished the heavy, steel-clasped,
my poor merits, if I had any, were black morocco pocketbook, which I
quite eclipsed bv those of the com remembered too late to have incau
mercial comet, Jenkins. Indeed, I tiously laid on a table ia tbe
know of no reason, except my hurry and confusion of our sudden
blood relationship to our principal, and awkward entry, and which was
licad of the house of Braithwaite, gone, pitilessly gone.
“ Cyril Vaughan, I always deem
Berry Sc Co., for any comparison
Le.ween that veteran of the desk ed you to be a simpleton— a soft,
and my inexperienced self.
But as wo Yorkshire chaps say— but
I
know
you
to
iny uncle often said, in his gruff now
way
be
a
knave!"
thundered
"Take Jenkins for your model! ’ out iny irate uncle, the north
or “ Cyril, lad, it will lie ono while country accent :u bis wrathful
bolorc \ ou tiir j. i.k. “ 'a J,<yv,w‘,~ ' ...
-ecom.nq unusually predomi
how neatly he settled that basiness nant. ' Had you Pot been my rela
with Cliauvinet Fils, of Boidsau;;, tive, hail n'iiKjJ'y kirl— who shall
and how cleverly he t.voided the never be the
of «-<*h a scoun
heavy loss of that shipment when drel— begged yon off, 1 wonia ♦•ave
Krakow and Kindergarten of Ham prosecuted you as I would any
other rogue, and sent you to quarry
burg, were going to smash."
Y et I stuck to my work, yo’ung stone among convicts at Eartmoor
as I was, and did my best not to be nr Portland. As it is, I won't heat
undeserving of the prospective another word of your lies or your
partnership, and somehow I sot a excuses. Go, go! or I shall forget
vogue impression in my head that, Lucy's pleadings, and act as a citi
instead of m3' la in ; jealous of Jen zen, and not as a father. The ‘con
fidence trick,' eh? The country
kins, Jenkins was jealous o f tae.
One day there was a hig check man— the------ 1 am no! your dupe,
to I.e changed— nearer lo three lad! Go and get yourself hanged
thousand pounds than two— and it elsewhere! You won't starve on
was my task, no unusual one, to the sum of which yeu have rohbed
present the draft at I’eabody & me.”
Sons.’ In a house like ou s, w.iere
Thc-n came a terrible three
the furnaces were alwa.vs aglow, months— it was that er more— a
and taU chimneys always suin'.ing, time o f depression, of crushod spir
the outgoing for wages, horse-keep, it«, a half-broken heait for me.
and fuel were, I need hardly say, That I was wrongfnlly suspected
gave me cold comfort. I was inno
very large.
One day— how well I remember cent, but Lucy was lost to me; my
it!— I was in exceptionally high prospects were blighted, no one
spirits. I bad been talking with would give work to me, and I was
dear Lucy, and though her father, poor, and sinking fast into the
w io said that we children need not direst depths of want.
I remem
1« in a hurry, would never consent ber how pale, and thin, and shabby
b^sienie even an approximate day I had become, when I received a
for our wedding, still there was a visit from iny uncle’s lawyer, Mr.
vague prospect o f eonnubial bliss Mordaunt.
nest S pring It-gras tine, bright
“ Mr. Vanghan, you wonder t«
weather, and on j^ esdey there was see me,” said the shrewd solicitor,
to be a garden party at some Rich as lie took the broken chair I
mond villa to which we* were all offered him— my wretched room in
• ----- to •$(>.' Altogether I was in excel a suburban lodging-house contained
lent »pi 1 its, and •» far as any man but one— "but I come new as a
could ho from dreaming of the evil messenger of good tidings. Do you
remember a serving man, Enoch
that was to line.
"H ow will vau take itf" asked Clint by name, whom your undo
my client, Mr. Braithwaite, engaged
the bank cashier.
“Short!" I answered, with a aort some six weeks before the unlucky
of lioyish pride >n mT newly- affair of the stolen money? B e
acquired familiarity with l.i-ainess was a smart young fellow with ex
phiaacs, and with my gold and cellent testimonials— all forged, by
the bye— and made himself useful
notes T left the hank.
As 1 did «0, a man staggered both in the house and in the sta
toward me, jostled me, then reeled ble-yard, and was vastly popular
away, muttering, “ B*g pardon," with his fellow-servanto on account
ard would have fallen but for the of his powers of mimicry and the
support of my arm. I saw in a juggling trick« which he could per
moment that the mail w*s sober. form.
I bod an indistinct recco1 lection
But he looked ill, very ill, haggard
and hollow-eyed, though
still o f having seen Cfiti hoard o f such
young, and he was decently clad in a person in my uade's household,
a well-worn veiveteen suit, with and I said so, wondering how lhe>e
la-ge bronze buttons. There was a could be anything in Enoch Clint
•J
smack of the country about him, to concern me.
"
waif as he was in the midst of
"This Enoch Clint,” said Mr.
London, and his accent, so far as I Mordaunt slowly, “ was a north
could judge, was that of Yorkshire countryman.”
1 stared at him.
sorely puxxled.
“ He was your
or Northumberland.
“ Yon are ill, I fear," I inquired, countryman,” drawled out tns
"and pei haps a stranger to J>on- shrewd lawyer, and then a light
broke in upon mo, ar.d I grew, eick
- v_.
dour
Ni^h clemmed in this blessed and dimy, and could hardly hear
London o f yours, |>aved wi’ golden Mr. Mordaun-'s friendly voice as
guineas, as our old crones aar up lie »aid, shaking my passive hand
iu Craven,” mntiered the eonnB-y- ■ the while. “ You have been sorely
man in ike same thin, reedy Tome; ' wronged, Mr. Vaughan. I. for one,
"paved wi' traps, oay I, ami co n e j believed you guilty, for which I
for it, since all that granfeyther ' heartily beg your pardon. Now,
stiued up, whether for Bess and ! listen to mo. This poor »notch,
Bell or for me— ” and then he Enoch Clint, was two days since
would have fallen but for my ao- run over by a heavily-laden van,
not fifty yards from his master's
aiatance.
Clearly the man was fainting, door, and carried back to the house,
blood-stained
and from starvation.
We had . tho crushed and
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the pub-
ril—meat
Kendall*
from the
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»neared la
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he .id rr
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credulity.
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had berat
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Diseases,
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wreck of a man. He asked for his
master, and, Mr. Brathwaite being
absent, he prayed to see Miss Lucy.
To her, in the doctor’s presence, the
dying man gasped out some inarti
culate confession, clearing you from
all blame but that a credulity, par
donable at your age, and implicat
ing most seriously another person.
At his own desire his broken slate-
meut was, l>y the docier's help,
taken down in writing, but he died
before th« narrative was coinpl«te.
Miss Lucy hail an interview with
her father, 1 need scarcely say, on
his return home, as a sequel to
which, Mr. Brathwaite, more agi
tated than I had ever L iown him
to be, culled on me, and laid the
matter before me. We, too, had a
long talk, and the result of it was,
Mr. Cyril, that on the following
morning I received a visit from—
have you guessed it?— the confiden
tial clerk, Mr. Jenkins.”
“ Our Mr. Jenkins?” I returned,
perplexed by the half-comic ex
pression of tie solicitor’s face.
“ You*- M”. Jenkins, if you will
cling to i,he ancient formula,” as
sented the lawyer, with twinkling
eyes. “Tnat commercial luminary
came to me blandly, unsuspecting,
for, as it turnod out, he had not
even heard o f the death of iiis ac
complice. My fimt aet, when lie
had made his uow and seated him
self in the client's c - a i w a s to
shut Lite door and lock it. When
lie heard the click o ' the lock lie
started, and turned us pale as iiis
shirt-colla^.
“ ‘Now, my friend,’ I said to him,
in a frank, pleasant wey, ‘my ad
vice te you is, for your own good,
to make a clean breast o ! it at
once.’
“Then you slioald have seen tbe
ingenuous wonder of iiis interest
ing countenance.
“ ‘Excuse me, M \ Mordaunt, but
I cauuoi. have heard you aright,1 ho
said, after a parse.
“ ‘Oh, ye», you have,’ said I, shak
ing a finger at him. ‘Come, come,
Mr. Jenkins, it is time for you to
d op the sheep’s clothing, and stand
fort 1 as the wolf you are— only
this I promise, in M-. Biathivaite’s
name, that if your revelations be
full and ample yon shall have gen
tle' and nio'e generous treatment
than you Jcierve.’
“A stormy colloquy
ensued.
Once I thoi'jj.'.tu tbe man meant to
»trike me, lint there was *ome,hing
in iny eye that restrained him, I
suppose, fo • ne t he began to sob,
and then to whine like a beaten
fl»und, as, sitting ou the edge of
i . iv wiitiugrWrtuV, anil ¿daring at
tnc carpet, be stammered out a con
fession, which I reduced to writing,
end to which he presently affixed
his reliiciant signature.
“The levtlarion, when this slip
pery \ itnesswasat length brought
to make it— lie did not know, you
see, M-. Cyril, how much Iiis col
league had confessed— was a lole •-
able complete one. He l ad, it seem
ed, an eg »ecial malice against your
self, as the kinsman and future
partner anil heir of the employer
whesi it had b«en the business of
his life to dupe by a show of zeal
and a disp’ay of mock honesty— I
say, mock, becarse, probably, when
the book* coine to Le overhauled,
it will be found that this was not
the fi-st time of a betrayal of
trust. And Mr. Jenkins thought,
too, that young as you were, you
did not share Mr. B athwaite’s
high opinion of him, and might
one day ask troublesome questions.
“ Wherefore, by the help of a
forged character, he got this fellow
Clint into your uncle’s service, put
him up to the trick which he had
pla3‘ed on you— C'int bad been n
low comedian, mountebank, and
thimble-rigger in his time— and
received from Clint himself, at the
door of the city public heuse, the
morocco pocketbook containing the
gold and notes which you in the
hurr^ and excitement of the mo
ment had— Why, Mr. Vaughan,
you are ill f”
But if he liad said more I heard
it not, for I was weak with long
privation and aleepleasness, and the
blood surged up to ray temples, and
there was a roar as of waves in my
ears, and I souk fainting on the
floor.
I have not much more to tei*.
How cordial, ant! aeif-rep.-oachful
even, was the reception which my
umle, Mr. Biaihwaite, extended to
me, or with wbat tearful jo y my
Bucv’e eyes met mine, are easy to
imagine, but difficult to describe.
“ I wronged you, my bov, and I
thank heaven that I was wrong in
what I thought," said the old man,
witii a sob in his imperious voice;
“ Lucy, here, knew you beat."
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An old toper waa locked in a police
ceil at Dallas, Texas. In ths night
hs ysllsd for help, declaring that a
msnksy waa in tbs room. A police
man thought bo had the delirium
tremens, and aano-ed him that he saw
ncthing. After that ba became more
fraotic, and in the morning be wea
found dsnd. Ths monksy was no
•leiunion, howsvsr, but had got into
the osll alter escaping from ita owner,
an incarcerated organ-grinder.
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SI U N I O N * :
M V IN X i.
A ro . RCi'l L «IL L
The first sensation in descending
“ I tell you,” said Col. Holcombe,
A sailor, roughly
Vn-IMIM I« » « .M l. Arcar» 1« IS «H ST
is tbo sadden, bursting roar in the "that smoking istbo worst habit that s* rolling through tbe
XaliSMlIlr.
ears, caused by the air driven .nto a man can contract. You kxow I Orleans then in rather a
the helmet from tbe airpump. The loan very affectionately towtrd liter dition from recent
Knowing ¿he •« is a cause for
flexible air hose has to be strong ature and that I write sketches oc tide. Turning the (
every
c-y ( effect, a Ch.onicie reporter
enough to bear a pressure of twenty- casionally. Several day. ago I re frequented and nan
sought
117ht an interview with Coroner
five «r fifty pounds to tho square ceived an order from a literary paper served a young lady i
Livingston. Saiu the man of death:
inch. The drum of the ear yields to lor
for a story, I l was nattered
flattered by the
tb plexity, evidently
During the past year there were
the strong external pressure, the cempliment and immediately bega: in depth of mndilv water I
seventy suicides in this city, of
mouth opeue unvoluntorily, the air work. For years I have been an in and the opposite
which number only nine weiw
rushes in the tube and strikes the veterate smoker, and knew Un.t the very satisfied cou
women, showing a proportion of
drum, whieh snaps back to its nor effecls of tobacco was injurious ta
Tbe eailor panseu, for 1
mal state with *a sharp, pistol-like my brain, and when I began the great admirer of beanty,
about seven and a half men to one
oraek. Peering througu the goggle story I resolved to i_ait. I have a fair faee that peeped fr
woman.
O f the aixty-one men,
eyas of glass in bis helmet, the diver strong will, let me remark, but I little chip b a t -----1 1 *
thirty-six were married and twenty-
sees tbe strauga beauties about him was surprised at the ease with which miring glance. " g *
live were reveling in single bless
clearly, and in their own calm splen I crushed the habit. I wrote with a
edness. Of tne nine women, four
dor. Above him is a pure golden vigor which I never felt before, and gallant sailor, with
wem married, three were single
canopy, while around and besiu« wheu night came I went to bed feel exclaimed:
and tivo weve widows. Tho pro
him are lints and shimmering hues, ing like a hero. I thought of men
“ That pretty little foot,
portion of
married su’eides is
¡Deluding all colors, which are iu- who had struggled with tbe habit should not be soiled with the
scarcely large enough to admit tho
d«8cribably elegant. The floor of and smiled when I contemplated my the lane. Wait a moment, only.
argument t.iat marital unhappiness
the sea rises like a golden carpet, superior strength. The next day I I will make a path for you.
was the main cause. O.i the other
inclining gently to the surface. The began work again. I wanted to
So, springing past her into •
hand, it is argued that family tics
change in familiar objects is wo lder- smoke, but frowned at the desire penter shop opposite, he
ful.
The
wreck
of
a
ship
seems
tend to check suicidal disposition.
and bent my mental energies to the for a plank board that st
studdsd with emeralds, glittering siory. I soon conquered the desire doorway, and, coming back to
O f the women who put an end* to
in bees of gold; piles of brick as and worked with almost nervous smiling girl, who was iust
their e..is.cnee, all we e below 30
sume the nppenrance of ciystal; a rapidity. Looking up auddacly I enough to accept tbe eervioo
yea.-j of age, except two widows,
ladder becomes silver; every shadow saw ray mcevsahaum pipe lying on handsome young sailor, he bl
o^ed 5C aud 58, who chose hanging
gives the impression of a bottomless tbe inautlepiece. My victory was tbe narrow, black stream, aad
and drowning respectively. It is
depth. An instance of cool deter not complete. ‘ Ah.’ I thought, ‘ I ’ll tripped acroea with a merry
noticeable that women generally
mination aud courage in overcoming show myself that I am master ef the you,” and a roguish smile.
select poison, while men take the
unforeseen dangers occurred to a stiuatiou,’ and arising, I filled the
Alas! Onr young eailor
pisUi1, 01 some method equally as
diver who was engaged in the recov pipe and placed it on the desk be feetly charmed. What el*
tragic. Yet F ere is one instance
ery of the dry dock at Pensacola. side me. ‘ Now I am master,' I make him cfitch and shouldar
of this number where a young mar
It had beeu constructed in water mused. ‘ The enemy is under my plank, and follow tbe little
tight compartments, aud it was nec very nose nnd still I resist him.’ through the streets to her home.
ried woman of 28 yeaia cut her
essary to break into the lower edge The victory will soon grow common
throat with a razor. The others
She twice performed the
to allow the water to flow evenly in place. I took up the pipe. I would of walking the plank, i
used strychnine and laudanum, and
to them. Huge beams and cross-ties go farther. I would light a match thanking him with one of her protty
ono gi.i of 18 years wanted to bo
formed a network so clo.e that pas anil hold it over the tobacco. I took •miles.
sure, and so swallowed ca’ bolic
sage between barely admitted the the stem between my teeth and
Presently our young hero Mar tho
acid. With women, jealousy and
diver’s body. Through an aperture smiled again. Talk about conquer ledy trip up the marble stops of a
betrayed love are assigned as the
the diver had crawled, tearing off ing a desire. I struck a match and palace of a bouse and disappear with
prime causes for crossing over into
the casing and prosecuting bis la held it over the.| ipe.”
in the rose-wood entrance. For full
the unknown hereafter. Being of
bors until time to return to the sur
“ W ell,” remnrked one of the com- a minute he stood looking at the big
a more refined nature than man,
face. He attempted to back out, pauy when tbe colouel had stopped. door, and then,with a big sigh, turned'
and less inclined to the tragic or
but could not. The armor about
“ I smokbd,” he continued. W ho’» away, disposed ofh is drawbridge and
bis head and shoulders, acting like got s match?”
heroic, she naturally selects the
went back to his snip.
the barb of a book, caught him; he
easiest and less barbaric methods
The next day he received notice o f .
Subject for a Student of Humau romotion from tbo captain. P oor *
could go uhend but could not retreat.
ef death; besides, shooting d is 'g -
In attempts to twist h’mself out he Nature.— Up iu tbo Sitting Boll
uck was speechless with am
u’ cs the body, and a woman likes
■pent so much time that the men oountry n while ngo an Indian who He had not dreamed of bein.
to be beautiful even in death. B is
lmil
never
scon
any
of
the
paleface
above begau to be alarmed, and in
to the diguity of a seco
argued by some that she, being less
creased their work at the pump. style of food came in from the war office on board one of the moet splen
courageous than a man, selects these
path
lo
the
reservation
and
drew
his
This swelled up his armor aud in
did ship* that ever ended out of tho
easier methods. But on the other
creased the difficulties and dangers rations. He made a light meal of port of New Orleans. He kosw be
side, it is a question whether suicide
of his position. He signaled for unground coffee tbe first day, and, was compstent: for. iosteai’. of
is not more a matter of cowardice
the pump to stop. The cock at the ns lie overnte, aud the coffee swelled ing his money for amusements
than bravery, in thus escaping from
back of his helmet, to let, the nir iu Iron, ho had difficulty in button ing tbealreH anil booting Alleys,
the trials of life. Many hold that
out, was beyond hie reach. His ing his |innts around the pain he had his return from nea, ho pm
only chance wt^ to open his dress on hand. In a day or two (as soon books, and had become quite a
it requires no heroism to commit
round tho wrists. At this point he as he succeeded in getting his interi dout, but lie expected year« Wqi
suicide, but that the great ma
found himself affected by breathing or department quieted down alitfle) intervene before his itebitiofis
jority of self-killings are done iu
over the air in his armor. The car ho tackled his ration of caudles. would lie realized.
moments of intense frenzy and
bonized air made him dreamy, creat Those he decided to parboil, in or
His superior officers favqred
without delilieration. The absence
ing au intense desire to sleep. This der to avoid trouble from indiges aud gave 1dm opportunities
A K 1 IT R U IM1IIL1T.
of deliberation accounts for ao
he oTorcuue by a strong effort of his tion. The dish was not so much of nautical knowledge, j,nd
many failures.
The failures are
wit'. Hi* effort to loose" his dress a gli Ben ing snecess aa li« had autioi- the genlhcmnalfyouiqj
A
young
man
who
bad
Wen
on
perhaps 50 per ceut.
and, ae hefroiucreefirfly picked nnireC unusual favor in
succeeded, and with a supreme effort pàtbd, nr
a
three
days'
debauch
wondered
O f the sixty-one male suicides
the diver escaped from Iiis narrow iflie candle triolein* out of bis teeth, the poriljr commander, Capt.
into
the
reading-room
of
n
hotel
fo; tv died of pistol wounds in the
limit* and was drawn to the surface, he made some remark that grated
ho had taken the smart bL
head, and two shot themselves in where he was well known, sat dazed and only half-conscious of the harshly ou the mstbetic ears of those fellow ns a cabin boj'.
who stood near. He then tried a
Ono night the young
t’.ie heart. The men were nearly down and stored moodily into the peril he had uudergone.
On another occasion a divor was meal of yeast powder with vinegar. the other officers, was invited
a!l of midd<e ago, only a few being street. Presently a liula girl of
He
ate
tho
yeast
powder
and
then
about
10
yeais
came
in
and
looked
entertainment at the Captain's'
at work on the wreck of a Spsnish
fxstween 50 and 00 year» of age;
took a pint of vinegar to wash it
and one man, beooiaing tired of life ll.niiWy a'xujt whe room. She was man-of-war in West Indian waters. down. At first there was a feeling He weut, and, to his asto:
at the ago of 70 years, hanged him dressed in rags, but had a sweet, Tho safe containing $3,000,000, was of glad Hui-prise in bis stomach, mounted the same steps that
tbe object of the diver’s search, nnd
yours before the young lady
self. The record shows that com intelligent face that could scaicaly
after hours of patient labor tbe which rupidly gave place to unavail- lasHed over—a vision he had
fail
to
excite
spinpathy.
There
paratively few rewn-ed to poison.
Thump, thump,
treasure was found, While engageiEl iuK remorse. A can of yeast powder orgotten.
Those who did not u e t.io pistol were live perrons in the room, aud in shackling chains to
■ the
•• cumber
■
ih an Indian’s midst don’t soem to be his brave heart as he was ushersd
she
wont
(o
each
begging.
One
selected the knife, razor, drowning
some box, a dark shadow, long and prepared for a pint of vinegar, nnd into the parlor, and like a sledge
and hanging. One tried the nevel gentleman gave her a five-cent motisuless, suddenly attracted the the result of Strcli an unfortunate hauuner it beat again, when Capt.
and successful method of b'owitig piece, and she went to the gentle attention of the operative. Glancing circumstance is not gratiying. If" Hume t'flwJftht forward his daughtW^ ~
himself up witii powder. Three man spoken of and asked him for upward, he beheld a hugo spotted look him about a week to get baok aud with a pleasant »iTrrlc.^aith^
“ This young lady was ones in
Ceiostia's became disgusted with a penny, adding: "I haven't had shirk, tbe most dreaded of all to where he dared to get np another
themselves and crossed over, one by anything to eat fur a w’n o'e day.” species, poised above and watching meal for hiaiHelf. Than he fricasseed debted to x<rar kindness for a safe
a couple of pounds of lsundry soap
d .owning, one by friendly st-ych- The gentleman was out of humo", every movement. The divor thought And ate that. Soap is all right for and dry walk homo.”
His brown cheek flushed hotly M
l'ine, ».ad the other took the mor and he saiu crossly: “ Don't bother no more of tbe treasure, butwalkiug external purposes or for treating a
a short distance was on the point of
the Captain sauntered away, leaving
me;
I
haven’t
had
anything
to
eat
phine route.
giving tho signal to rise, when a pair of soiled socks, but it doesn't Grace at his side; and in ail the as
The analysis shows that the e :- in three days.’’ The child opened glance sufficed that to do so would assimilate with the gastric juioe readi sembly there was not as handsome s
her
ej’es
in
sheer
wonder
and
scared
trune poor class furnish the greater
be sure death. The shark lmd ly, and those who have tried laun couple ax tho gallant sailor aad the
percentage of suicides, owing prob at him for a inomen*, and then watched every movement, and with dry soap as a relish do not seem to "pretty lady.”
ably to the trials and disappoint walked slowly toward the door. a scarcely perceptible motion of his think that it will ever arrive at any
It waa only a year from that tims
ments of their hard life. The mid- S'ne tinned the knob, and then, tail o’ersbadowed his victim with degree of prominence as an article that the second mate trod the quar
afior
hesitating
a
f«w
seconds,
his huge propoitions. The diver, of diet. This is why this untutored ter-deck second only iu
d'e classes furnish a ve-y small per
cent, and only in ra"e instances is walked up to him, and, gently lay although terrified, never for a mo child of nature swore. He had never and part owner with tbe
there a suicide among the people of ing the five cents ou his I nee, said, ment lost his presence of mind. A receivod the benefits of early train not only in hie vessel, bnt
ing in profanity, and hie language,
wealth. Not having to combat the with a rone, of i ‘uo giriish pi«y in layer of mud attracted his attention, therefore, v us disconnected and factious of his daughter,
toward
which
he
moved.
The
shark
tier
voice:
“
If
you
haven't
had
always cherished a respect fo:
world, pride of position, and a de
eilently glided through the water, rabbling; bat when we eonsider handaeme tailor. Thievery
sire to further revel in the luxuries anything to eat for tii ee days you
that
he
was
ignorant
of
onr
language,
resuming his post, a thrill of horror
but earnest act of politeness
tnat wealth can purchase, even for take this and g'o and buy you tom« running through the veins of the and every little while bed to stoi his child had pleased the Captain,
the miserable, is the cause of their bread. Perhaps I can get some operator. Bv means of an iron bar and hold on to bis digester with botl and, though the yosth knew it nst,
scarcity in the wealthier classes. more somewhere." The young i.ian ho set to woric vigorously stirring up hands nnd dig great boles in tbe was the cause of bis first promotiM.
Fully 50 per cent of the malo sui- blushed to the roots of his hair, ths mud and ooze of the ocean's bed. earth wiili his toes, the remarks Tbe honest sailor is now one of Uto
ciu?s are aUributable to drink; the and, lifting the cnild iu bis arms, Thick and fast it rose about and didn’t Reetn altogether out of place richest men ia the Crescent Cit
next cause in numerical order is kissed her two or three times in above him, tbe clear, golden light or iireWnnt. When a gallon or he owes, in part, his prosperity to
jealousy; then business disappoint delight. Then he took her to the disappeared, in the midst of which two of agitated baking powder aud bis politeness.
vinegar is singing its lit.le song in
One bai opportunities to bs cour
ments. Willi women it is love, then persons in the room and those ia the diver rapidly ascended to tbe
tho innormost recesses of an Indian, teous, however, every day, and noth
the
corridor
and
office,
asking
con
surfaoe
nnd
was
saved.
jealousy. Nearly three-fourths of
and
this
has
been
followed
by
i
ing i» ever lost by it.
the seventy suicides wove foreigners. tributions himself, giving all tbe
treatment of laundry soap, the etu
a « e o o nr.Asas.
O f the several Frenchmen aU se money ho had with him. He suc
dent of human nature can find a
s i s wmasasa.
"L ook hers,” snid the Governor
lected poison. Owher na.ionalities, ceeded in raising over 940, and sent
wide field for observation in that lo
to
s
high
State
official,
"when
aro
the
little
one
on
her
way
rejoicing.
Failure
of
memory is apt to be st-
especially Americans, -ciiosu more
cality.--Bill Nye.
you going lo pay me that $10?”
teudsd with very embarraaaingrs-
violent weapons— the knife and the
s e s n »/< «».
"Upon my honor, Governor, I
sults sometimes in social life. Th*
pi»o>l, the Americans almost inva
ltoseburg Plsindssler: We are in sister of an eminent clergyman, ac
don’t know.”
riably choosing the cheerful pistol.
The Willamette Fannor. save:
“ Why, sir, the other day when I formed of a horrible affair that hap companying ber brother to • disuer
San Francisco Chronicle.
"Mr. W. S. LaiLl is e.igagad in mentionod the fact of your indebted- pened one day last week on the Siut party, entirely forgot that sh*< ’
“
* below Cart
—
opening a model dairy >.vm upon nest you asked ms where I would law, about five miles
not at ber own table, and ap
A e il-u c c x * « i l l e u .
wright's. The facte ns told ue are for the abominably bad dinn
bis fa. in at Read vide, wLich ».ill be Tuesday.”
aliout
these:
Mrs.
Roork,
wife
of
“ Yes sir.”
was "quite ashamed” to see
A wild man o f fierce and pecu eclipse anything of In« kind on t’.ie
"W ell, wasn't that a promise that the Rev, Roork, left borne to visit dishes sent to the table. The
Pacific
slope,
iiis
he
d
will
consist
a
neighbor,
who
lived
near
24
miles
liar shape has been discovered by
you would pay me Tuesday?”
of tho house did not enjoy the I
away. At a point about equal dis der quite as much as the otbet
t avelers in a forest sixty ini es of seventy cows of the Jeisey and
“ No, fir.”
Holstein
breeds,
forty
of
which
are
west of Onkapa.inga. The trunk
Why, then, did you want to know tance between the two bouses she | guests. Lately, in New York, a dis
met the neighbor’s dog, and it im tinguished English gentleman i "
of his body terminates in a single already in stall. A patent machine where I would be Tuesday?”
"Because I wanted to know where mediately attacked ber, threw her on a big morchant who
leg, which is more i.han twice the propelled by a two lio.se pewer en
thicknes» of an ordinary leg. Tbe gine will be brought into seivice yeu would be, so I could mako ar down, broke one of her legs and tained him two year» ago.
gnawed the flesh therefrom, after
heel of a sing'e foot projecls some for separating the c earn from the rangements to be somewhere else.” which it terribly mangled ber breasts d’ye do, Mr. — —?” be eaid,
mill;.
As
soon
as
milking
is
done
ing a cordial grasp. "W h o ar* ]
five or six inches behind the ankle
A clergyman met a rustic, and and tried to got at her throat, but rejoined the merchant, who
boues, while the foot itself is broad „he lacteal fluid is poured immedi
thinking it a good opportunity to could not succeed, as she firmly nor* are at time« bruaqu*, '
and flat and of extraordinary ately iato the inachiue, and m a make a religious impression asked: clasped her bands ovar that portion
know you.” "Sir O. C .," replied
trice
the
rich
re
a
m
poms
from
length. So quick is the man in his
"John, if Satan were to suddenly ap of her body, and although they the other. “ I hail the pleasure of
one
spout
anil
the
skim
milk
fioin
actions that he can get over the
pear which of ue two would be take?" were terribly torn and mangled, she dioing with you two J“ “ *«••*•
ground with much greater rr.pidit;
litv another. The latror can ba used Tbe rustic thought a moment and kept it from choking her to death or “ A miatake, air; I neveiM
than a men can run blessed ri ,h for making cheese aad the former than replied. "M e, sir.” And why?” cutting her throat. The continued fore," and poor Sir.
ta g »tout legs.
He moves i.i a cilt-edied butter. The invention "W ell, sir, because it might be bis cries of tbo woman were finally confounded.—Chioago!
series of long nop«, and he ha« been is English, and is said to work to only chance to get me, while he's heard by tbe owner of the dog, who
A South End worn*
seen to hop «crons stream« twelvs perfection. The whole establish pretty sure of yon, sir, all tbe time.” arrived in time to keep it from kill
ing her outright, as she was almost telegram, and her face l
and fifteen feet wide.
Tbe at ment will be under the manage
"G et right out of this!” shouted exhausted. Tie killed tbe dog end
tempts of travelers to effect the ment o f a gentleman frern across an irritated merchant to a menda cared for the women as beet he could, ber hand trembled a*
unopened envelope fe
I the Atlantic, who fully understands
man’s capture proved ineffectual.
cious clerk; "this is the third lie I but there is little hope of her recov- ing it to her dang
j all tbs details of the business."
have caught you in since 10 o'clock
Read it.” The p
•Ty’
.
No a t * living walks in a straight.
a policeman this morning!” "O b , well,” said tbe
The
latest
nsms
for
An exchange remarks that during has broken his leg
line.
Tbe squarest- ootad walker
new
man,
"d
on
't
hs
too
bard
on
me.
hospital." ehe
walks to tbe right or laft a distance is “ tbe uniform liar.”
Give a fellow time to learn the rules the cold spell "the skstist himself face brightened. " 1 1
by perambulating ovar the congealed
of Unrty-aix feet in a mile. In case
of
tbs
house.”—Oil
City
Derrick.
Will yea *sff*r with Dy.prp* » *ad
surf ace of the equeons element/' is no wor»«,” eh* i
there is a saloon on tbe way ha may Liver Complaint? Hbiloh • Titaiixar I«
might be going to 1
divarga ae mneb ae 160.— Detroit
rsstM» te rare yea. For tale •; Jep. , r.rrt cigars is th* city St J*p. R. Mil- That's a long way to say “ skating to dinner.’’—I
on
tbe
ice.”
Free Prese.
tor's
Miller, Dallas.
Here is an old anecdote, very fa-
mftiar many years «go, ana old
enftugh to be new to many of tnis
generation, which was a regular
Thanksgiving night stand-by. No
gathering about the fbe ever sepa-
ia ted wi.hout its being told. It
meriting in this war: A new
ay had oeen opened through
leak aud unsettled section of
try. and had b«en in operation
a short time when a heavy
snow began fading and soon com
pletely blockaih;«! the road, stop-
pin-^ihe train with its single pas
senger ear f t “ from any place of
habitation. Thu. e were a dozen or
mors travelers, but as the prospect
of relief within a few hours was
good they were taking the unpleas
ant situation calmly. Among them
Was a tall, tank, !av-p> eacne; ,
whose countenance was clu ed / -e-
inarkable for a pretei iiatc-ally
large mouth. Soon aKer the train
came to a standstill he arose at the
forward end of the ca|4, and with
his blandest professional smile be
gan: “Now, brethren and »'»ter«,
we’ve got to stay he’-e shut up to
gether for an hour or two, so let us
make the best of it. I say b’xrih-
ren and sisters—ain’t that so? V e
are a'l Ca'istains, ain't we? Of
cou.se we are. Now let us have a
little experience mealing he e.
Why not? We all love the Lord,
don’t we? We all believe He knows
best w'nat is best, what is good for
us, don’t we? Of course we do?
Well, let us talk about Him a little.
To begin with, we all be'ieve where
is nothing the Lord couldn’t do if
He wanted to— we all believe that,
don’t we?” At this point a green-
looking countryman, who had been
watching the smiling speaker with
clese interest, startled him by say
ing: “ Waal, now, I dunno ’bout
that. I think I know one thing
the Lord couldn't do”
“ Oh! do
you?” exclaimed the preacher with
great delight.
"Do you, indeed!
Well, let’s hear it. Speak up loud,
and let us all hear what the Lo<’d
couldn't do?”
"Waal,” said tbe
countryman, with great delibera
tion, “He coilidn’t ha’ made your
mouth any bigger onless he’d iia’
sot your «a t back!” That ended
the conference meeting.
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