THE POLK COUNTY ITEMIZER. IS S U E D J. S. EVLBV POLK COUN U TCSD ST, M cC A IN . K u b s r r l| ilio ii K ito l «'.•In Cup'»« On* Year.............................................»1 50 *• •• Mix U.Hilli*............. .......................... 1 9 1 •• Tim * Aluitths .................... 75 Inri* Number.......................................................... 10 SUBSCRIPTION MI ST UK PA111 IN ADVANCE. V O L . IX. Devoted to the Best Interests of Polk County Particular and to the Paoiiic Coast in G eneral. - - J -------- --------------------- — ---------------------------------------------- DAXLAS, OREGON, S A T U R D A Y . FEBRUARY 17, 1883. A M AM L C E I U I '. U SCH O O L. as she thought of her empty putM. pmsteboard box on which Was writ­ W h ig sometime* out teet grow w eary ten with a piece of charcoal: 1 Not long since, a railroad tr “ [ don’t care. I’m going to try .1 t'ullfoiula fckiirh. Results of the very latest and It was given out in clnuch £ [ A month after his mother's On tb* rugged b ills of life— “Santa Claus doesn't always give loaded with over six hundred | anyhow. Please get one of my T b * path stretching long and dreary day thut school would be open ou most authoritative investigations death, Charte Giles came home sengers, was running across Ne stockings, mamma,” pleaded the poor folks The shake in Tbir camp." W ith trial and labor rile— [B y K err A d n m i.] Monday morning. After the even­ and experiments by medical speci­ drunk. Deacon Giles was terrible Jersey. Christmas morning dawned We pauea on tba toilsome jou rn ey, little girl. ly some mishap to tl A California mining town, away tugry. A son of his in such a alists would seem fully to warrant ing service the boys got together aud machinery, a lack draft drove tl OlaucinR back at valley and glen, bright and bsautiful. The night talked it over, and decided to give “Your clean stockings are on the up amid the snow-clad, rock-bound And sigh with an infinite longing the generalization that the illhealth Condition! It was shameful! had been a stinging cold one, and •steam nnd Dames injo the cah tn T o return and begin agaiu. peaks of the Sierra Navada uioun- line outside, and I cannot go out “ Don’t talk to me in that way!” of Americans is due, four-fifths of tho new teacher just a week. It had forced tho fiicman and engineer been thawing for a day or two, and and hunt for them this bitter cold whan the rising sun peeped over Por behind is the dew of the m orning tai ns. Charlie cried when on the follow­ it, to the sucking of cigars by men I ho boys were tired of skating, and retreat from the locomotive to i] the chain of mountains to the east, In all its freshuesa and light, The town was irregularly laid night. You may limng up your old ing day his father began to upbraid and hoys, and the wearing of cor­ they thought they could afford to baggage-car. Tho tender was a and shot its beams upon the west­ And before are the doubts and the shadows. out, and was scattered along a ones, but oh, darling, I fjar, you ern range, and sparkling frost flash­ him for his conduct. “I wanted to sets by women and girls. Every­ »pend a week cduoating themselves on Dec, and the train daahud alor Aad the ch ill and gloom of tbo night. creek which emptied into the Ccn- will be so teiribly disappointed in ed from the snow-clad peaks as We rwmember the enuny places to try and be a sober boy, but you body, especially every person of the how to break up a school. On that without control. sunines river several miles lielow. the morning? Please let it go until We passed so carelessly then, wouldn’t let me. Mother's gone, male sex who has an eye for fem­ evening we were duly elected a mem­ though their towering heads were And An attempt was made to get 1 next Christmas, and then we may ask, with a passionate lon gin g. Beth the dwellings and business M d there's nothing to keep me inine lieatity, knows that about ber of the class of hard citizens, and the air-biakca in the rear of sprinkled with pure diamonds. To return and begin again. houses— or, more properly speak­ bo richer.” we were to open tho ball, and do two-thiids of American women ut­ from being a drunkard now. I’tn Mrs. Stewart arose, and a shade train, but the block of frig “ No, mamma, I’m going to try Ah, vain indeed is the a sk in g ; ing, cabins— were constructed of not strong enough to tight down terly spoil their figure by tight something bad, get the teacher to lick passenger* interposed an of pain crossed her handsome face L ife 's duties press ns all on, anyhow.” us. and then the boys were to jum unhewn pine logs, the crevices be- When- -Uta avai awe N y craving for drink along, who dare sh rin k from the U bor Jack Dawson’* great, generous as the empty little stockings eanght And twesn the timbers being “chinked” can’t blame me so' much, tor you comes in at the door, symmetry of in and help. Monday i Or sigh lor the sunshine th a t's gone? her maternal eys. She cutt a hur­ and plastered with mud. Thu town heart swelled until it seemed burst­ ried glance toward the bed where And, it may be, uot far on before ua gave me the first drink; and I’ve form goes out at ths window— and school commenced, and proved to be a sickly-looking, slim W ait fairer places than than; combined at least a dozen saloons, ing from his bosom. He heard the her darlings lay sleeping and whis­ L ife heard you say, time and again, yet tho blessed saints think they sort of a fellow. Every time he hundred lives, the engineer, . ’s paths m ay yet lead b y still waters, are improving upon nature by im­ or saloons and gambling houses patter of little feet upon the cabin pered: there was no harm in drinking a Though we m ay not begin again. looked nt one of the boys, there A. Sieg, rushed through the 1 cotnbind, and in these hells much Door as Totty ran about hunting little. Only I can’t stop with a prisoning themselves in a straight- seemed to be an expression on his and flame back to the burning “Oh, God, how bitter is poverty!” F or evermore upward and onward hers and Benny’s stockings, and of the hard-earned money of the little. Tho moment a drop passes jacket and reducing their waists face as though ho would soy, ‘ *1 Be our paths on the h ills of life. She built a glowing Are and set Nearly a minute pa miner parted company with him to after she had hung them up heard about preparing the grugal bieak- And soon with a radiant daw ning my lips, I’m lost, I can’t sto p -T m from flve to fifteen inches below hope you will be good.” When ho seemed an age to tho paralv Transfigure the toil and the strife. take up temporary abode in the her sweet voice again as she won­ fast. When it was almost ready so weak, and the craving's so the normal size! had anything to say to tbe scholars, passengers, penned up, and swif our F ath e r's baud will lead us aaloon till, or the pocket of the dered over and over if Santa Claus she approached the bed and kissed And Dio Lewis, who may not I ks the he said “ please,” and gave other rushing to a horrible death- strong. I’m ruined, and I know it; Tenderly upward, then would forget them. He heard the most eminent of physicians but e.idoncoa of beiug pretty soft, we all irofessional gambler. The dwcl- and I can’t help myself.” the little ones until they were wide In the joy and peace of a fairer w orld then the tialn stopped. Tho pa: t ie 'll let us begin again. ings of the town were scattered mother in a choking voice tell her awake, and lifted thorn to the floor. Deacon Giles answered not a who is certainly a high authority thought. That morning the weather sengers knew that' tho enginer treasurers to get ready for bed; changed, ard it froso hard, and nt along the creek or built on the ad­ wotd. He went out with a strange on the general subject of hygiene, With eager haste Totty lan to tho had succeeded in putting on tl T U t: J I S M l L I L T 'S C H IL D H O O D . jacent mountain, the majority of heard them lisp their childish pray­ stockings only to turn away sob­ altered fact, his eyes were full lias recently written both sensibly recess the boys got together, and air-brakes and in reversing tb said we would wiud up tho school ers, the little girl concluding: them being rough bachelor dent, Letter in Chicago Inter-O cean. and forcibly on the corset as a of trouble. before noon and go out on tbe ice. engine. “And, O Lord’ please tell good bing as though her heart would All amusing incident occurred in for women were scarce in the newly “I’ve been thinking the matter principal cause of female invalid­ tho big boys had to carry iu tbe break. Tears blinded the mother, which our heroine thus early in life The stopping of the train nllowe Santa Claus that we are very poor, discovered diggings. and clasping her little girl, to her became the star. As our American over,” he said one day, when Charley ism. He calls attention to the wood and lay it down quietly by the tho flame to shoot upward and 1 rich children do, i t r dear Jesus’ In a small cabin near the upper heait she said in a choking voice: . readers can have but little idea of a was recovering from the effect of a fact that about every lady who is stove. Wo took in an armful, and disclose the tender. A man’s he* questioned will aver that she wears dropped it ou the floor so that it was seen in the water-tank. Tw part of the town sat a woman, in but that we lovo llj« i as much as Nevermind, my darling; n e x t, j ersey pigsty, we will give a descrip* long debauch— “that p’raps I was a uorset simply to keep her olothes shook the building aud lousenad the widow's weeds, holding upon her sake. Amen. wrong not kitin' jine Christmas 1 ' ant “ “ sure mamma will | t,ou , f one. They are round and men rushed forward and lifted 01 After they were in bed, though a he richer, and then Santa Claus knee a bright-eyed, sunny-faced several feet high, lodge. I can't bear to see you goln' in shape, but it is so loose it stove pipe. The pipe came out of the half-consumed engineer. built of stone, the chimney and filled the room with “scarcely touches her,” while as a little girl, about live years old, 3 mall rent in the plain white cur­ will bring us lots of nice things.” covered with a top or root, aud con­ on this way. You’d better try an’ He had jumped into tho wati while a little cherub of n boy lay tain, Jack saw the widow before tain a huge flat stone trough. In reform, an’ inebbe jin ’in' the lodge matter of fact not one woman in smoke, but it was put back, nnd tho to extinguish his burning clothe “Oh, mamma!” slim teacher only reprimanded us, twenty wears a corset at all with­ ufrfiti * liearskin before the open the fire, *her face buried in her The exclamation came from little the extensive grounds of Colonel w’ud help ye." His flesh was scorched oU. over h fireplace. It was Christmas Eve, hands, and weeping silently. On a Benny, who had opened the door Bishop the Jersey childreu were “It's too late,” answered Charley, out being injuriously compressed and said that it must natocour again. Jiody, ami from both hands it hu> Wo just ached to go after some peg, just over tlm fire-plaee two and the woman sat gazing abstract­ and » at standing gazing in amaze­ wont to gather on Saturday to pluy. “I haven’t any control over myself. or Injuriously restrained by it. Or­ more wood, but there was no oppor­ in shreds. edly into the lire. She was yet little patched ami failed stockings, ment upon tho wealth of gifts there In tho rear of these grounds near a If I joined the Templars tn-night, dinarily the wearer of a corset has tunity. Pretty soon tbe teacher In throe days he died, a mart] clump of trees was the reuowned I’d break my ['ledge to-morrow if consciously, or unconsciously re­ young, and as the glowing Haiues and then lie could stand it no displayed. * said we might go and get a pail of to duty. “ stv” in which the Jersey Lily made longer. He softly moved away duced the size of her waist from lit up her sa<^ face they invested it water, aud while at the well wo de­ i f is. Stewart sprang to his side her debut. Can you imagine her iu temptation came in my way. I’m Our railroads h a v e ___ from the window to the rear of the four to twelve inches. The inevi­ cided to stumble ou entering the class of men as peculiar in with a weird beauty. lost father. and looked in speechless astonish­ Mary Stewart was the widow of cabin, where some objects ilutter- ment. (she read the card, and then such a position? These children, Deacon Giles groped his way out table result of this compression is school-room, and spill tlio water nil anil speech as the ol<‘ like all others, were in all places, out Alex Stewart, and l.ut two short ing in tho wind met his eye. Among causing the little ones to kneel of order and in order; so ventured to of the room like one stricken with to force downward many of the over tho Door, and thus give the sick­ years ago. And they i years before they bad lived com­ thc«e he searched until he found a down with- her in the open door-1 climb on the top of the sty, when sudden blindness. A t last he real­ organs occupying the abdominal ly looking teacher a chance to show tax», when duty calls fortably and happy in a camp on little blue stocking which he re­ | way, sho poured out her soul in a behold, tho fair Lily disappeared aud ized the fallacy of his arguments. cavity, producing displacement, what he was made of. The teacher fife or limb, the American River. Alex was a moved from tho line, folded ten­ torrent of praise and thanksgiving was found among the swine. Was All these years he had been fight­ derangement of function, general was near tho stove, nnd we stumbled, typo of a noble 1 ■ brawny miner, but the premature derly and placed in his overcoat to God. ing the truth with eyes that would weakness, and the thousand ills and tlio water went all over every­ ; this “ casting pearls before swine?” The writer thing, wetting his boots, and making •eiplos'u n of a blast in an under­ pocket, and then set out for the Jack Dawsou’s burly form moved ^ er shrieks of “ I tn killed! Im not scu and ears that would not with which the feminine sex is him pretry mad. Iu sizing him up knew an ongiua afflicted. Dr. Lewis quotes, in the ground tunnel bad blotted out bis main street of the eamn. He en- from behind a tree a short distance killed!’ ^ °.u8ht tbe otber8 to ber hear. passengers by* American Review for Decern- we had not noticed before that his down, with > ilife in an instant,leaving bis family tered Harry Ilow k’s gambling hall away and sneaked off up the gulch re9CU«' and Charley was taken sick in win­ North tttte“>Ptln8 to , , eyes were as black as coals, and that the largest in the place, where a * " a-' “ P VI < J j her footing she grasped the cheek of without a protector,and in struight- ter, and all through tho dreary ber, a leading specialist in diseases £ sftelw1 to bo about oight feet llij;b. t ' -' f . * 1 ‘‘aniiig eac 1 ue of the children, who t umor says months and far into the spring he ot women and a professor in n | bl,t as lie looked at us, we oould see yawning chasm, •ened circumstances. His daily host of miners and gamblers were <[!? r •?' t ... »an the Miss Price who became the kept to the house. When the May medical college as saying: “ 1 am it very plainly. Ho seemed to read on the Cincinnati wages Iuvl been their sole support, at plav. Jack was well known in which was thon 1111 camp, and when he got up on a I , 16 ,f1!'1 - V a.lose l01/1 111 j first Mrs. Langtry, and now that ho had gone, what winds blew, strength began to come sure, without being able to demon­ k new that it was artloue by the high chair, and o ile d for attention, the ! '««an to .neve the stores ; It is to be hoped our fa.r readers •could they do? I • a i li i • ' f into the cabin. 1 here were several will not come in contact with the hack, and he was soon able to walk strate it, that 00 per cent, of the done on purpose, and have nlwnys over wide ravines. With her little family Mrs. Stew- j about the fields. One day he so-called female weaknesses have believed v.o heard the boys talking One day, lie was ties t e r checks suddenly ceased - * 7 ' * « " • fra ls , » » ¡ . .I M i." art had emigrated to the camp in ! ivory Lacgtyy 1 walked down the lane to the road. their origin in corsets and heavy it over ut reoess. Any way, lie downward gaado, ho saw that pounds and pounds of coffee, tea will loag remember the •which we find tneui"Jall Western 1 hen in an earnest voice, he told ami sugar, new dress goods, and a scratch.” Years rolled on, and these A young man was passing. He skirts. They not only depress the jumped clear uc£q>s tho room, trestle which bridged n ; pelvic organs by tlieir pressure and grabbed us by the neck, und sat us hundred feet deep,] mining towns arc called camp»,) what he had seen and heard, re­ handsome, warm, woolen shawl, for children became men and women, stopped when he saw Charley. down in tho water, then ho lifted ua and there she earned a jnecnrioua peating every word of the conver­ the widow, shoes, stockings, hats,| ^ j r Le, Breton spending her days "Iloilo! Out again I see,” he said weight, but weaken all of their up and shook us so that it made oiir out of Irn*. TTe could easily ha normal efforts.” After declaring livelihood by washing clothes for sation between the mother and , mittens, and clothing for children, {» tbo. obi * 7 coming up to the bars. “U kd of it . r.eclpTJ u,uiel teetli rattle, then lie seemed tfi grab saved himself, as his fireman d tthe luiuxars. Her’» was a hind Jot, children. In conculsion he said: old boy. I te)l you what, we’ve that a girl who lias piacticcd tight us all over unit just maul us. We by jumping. “Boys, I think I know every one lacing should not marry, Dr. Lewis had some gay times down to %ut til* litwve Jittlc woman toiUsl got a ebanea, onco or twice, to look But he whistled “down brake Blood’s since you were sick. He’s thus sums up the four causes of iiromiil to the hack neats, as I10 was reversed the engine, and wt on, cheered by the thought that of you, an’ I know j u t . h . t k i n j : ?“ i ' , ‘Z r ! i T \ I " E S : “ i ,1 •"J «»» j -. » « - i * ? u w caUtl^U • r? • ^ol .^enn/* All tending the ancient church of St. got the best saloon in town, lie tli© general breakdown in the health revolving us around on our own axis, her dailv lalwis ouood between her if jnetal yer made of. I’ve an idee i were carried inside amidst alternate Savior, with its gieat, carved, high down, with his hand on th« thrott of American’ middle class women: to sea if tho other boys were coining keeps number one liquors.” darling little ones end the gaunt tlmt jS/inta Claus knows jist whar’ laughs and tears. backed pews— listening to the same valve. He saved his passeng« “( 1 .) The corset, which reduces to help us put him out of doors, but wolf of starvation. T'deir clothes that cabi;)’* sitiwated, and I’ve an A hungry, yearning look canto “Bring in the sack of salt, Totty, words from her father's lips. The for tho cars stopped on tho hri the waist from three to fifteen they wore tlio most studious lot of were patched and shabby, their idee iie'i! fjnd it afore niomin’. and that is all,” said the mother. same walk home uuder the trees and into Charley’s eyes, of the of the abyss. Thoy fsu food plain, and sometime* . Hyar';; one o’ tlm little gal's stockin’ “Is not God good to us?” “I haven t tasted a drop since I inches, nnd pushes the organs with­ big boys we evor saw. They had him at the bottom, with a brok down the village street, shunned by tlieir heads down in tlieir books, aud they were never reduced to * W í-kat I hooked otf'i« the lino whar’ I “I con’t lift it, mamma, it’s frozen ber citildish companions wbo had was sick," lie said. “They won’t in downward; ? 2 .) Unequal distri­ tlieir lips were moving ia silent thigh, arm, collar-bone and ri bution; while her chest and hips ¿lute starvation. heard the widder say «he’d hung to the step!” grown to womanhood, and thereby let me have any.” prayer. After the teacher had Thanks to the skill of Aincrit Jack Dawson, a strong, honewt, 'em with-tjie washin’. The rjn-Jdy “I h’liev« ’twould do you good,” are often overloaded, her arms and mopped the floor with us, lie took surgery, he recovered. Tho mother stooped and took arrayed in the armor of convention­ ality. Shunned, yet by no fault of ¡miner, was nursing the cabin this' & JÁfcUe jms was a good, hal'd hold of it aad lifted harder anil said the other. “1'vo got some. legs are so thinly clad that their us by tlio slack of the pants, just ns It is well for passengers to tli 'Christinas Eve, when the voice of workjil’ loiAWI'.yi#’ lie crossed the harder, until she raised it front the her s, but by tbe blighting frost of Take a good drink of it and see if imperfect circulation compels con­ a dog would carry a duck, amt went of these facts when they see scandal’s venomous tongue, which range in ¿by feipe.y ,4v»ty jist as any gestion of the trunk and nead; ( 3 .) it don't strengthen you. tli« little girl attracted his atten­ to bis desk and got a big hickory grimy man, with soiled clotl step. Her cheeks blanched as she M1 danger­ .noted its groat weight, and breath­ hovered over her home since child­ Charley clutched the flask eager­ Long, heavy skirts, which drag ruler, niul proceeded to dry our pants. looking out of the cabin-wind tion. Jack possessed an inordinate of us is liable to hood. Mr. Langtry visited tbe island love for children, and although his ous business, flypu-' .gQisjijt^tqnty- lessly ahecarried it in and laid it and married Miss Price, a friend of ly. He did not take it from his upon the body, and impede the Well, it was the meanest way to dry naHcntrii u islsiu iu c p . movement of the legs; ( 4 .) Tight pauta that over was, and while it nianlv spirit would abhor the dollar piece down io Abe ^toejkLu’, .upon tl}e breakfast table. With Lily Le Breton, one who had never lips until he had drained it. Ctiiragu Tribune. dried them well enough, it left great shoes, which arrest circulation and and hyar’ lays the stoeikiw’ ,W tjhi? "You must he able to stand a : sneaking ¡practice of caves-dropping, jjutnbíing fingers site loosened the forsaken her aud for whom she was The Rev. M r.-------was one ridges that mado a corrugated chair make walking difficult, with high good deal when you’re well, if you he could not resist the temptation card table— now chip in wptcji r>r string and emptied the coti cop tents 1 bridesmaid. almost a necessity. Tlio lioys did the most bashful men in the ] to .«teal up to the window ju st a little, as ye kin aford.” I ” In one year’s time Mrs. Langtry can stand that now," said his friend, heels, which increase the difficulties not fulfill tlieir part of the pro­ fession, and was constantly gotf ypon _t(i_e ¿able, tiold arid silver, i in walking, and so change tho cen­ ■ moment to listen to the sweet prs.t- “Hold them checks o’ mine oil ' of diet). " In the following year Mr. with a laugh. "It's Blood's best. gramme, and when ^ho teacher got into scrapes through his nerv • tling twice. The first words he tlRiaee, Jack,” said Brook Clark, a jn 'j^ . wildest dreams of comfort, L a ^ O ' marned the “ Jersey L ily,” Huriy up and get down to see u* ter of gravity in the body as to through drying our pants, nnd said, mistakes. At one time he rose produce dislocations of the provic as soon as y eu can.” «caught w.Tere: gambler,and leaving the faro table, anJ a|WOit buried in the pile of ¡"b° ,ef‘ hir 8lrlLoo‘l 8 unhappy “ please return to your seat,” we foil liis pulpit to give out tlio by viscera.” And lit went on. “Before papa died we always had he piek.od the little stocking up I treJU|Ur„ j AyV Tottv’s little blue h?“ 8 ,or the a,bei er Protf ct,on ns though his politeucss was a sham. Referring to the results of the Wo looked nt the boys ns wo went to “This world is all a fleeting slit Deacon Giles found Cbarlcy in a (Christinas,«didn’t we mantma?” carefully, J.ookeJ at it tenderly | ¡ K ™ ^ •' £ lb e “ an, W,‘° 1 " aC‘e “be beur8' physical training of girls at the our seat, but they never looked up. nnd after clearing his throat '"¡Yes, Totte’, darling, hut papa and when he kid it down another j \V0 will not inO#dP VP<»n only moderate,' rented Noirmont drunked stupor at the foot of the • earned money o/jough to afford to twenty had gone into the toe to gucj, happiness, but wijjl jeaye the ’¡ffauor, which has since been ren- lane, when lie came home. With well known Boston Normal School Wo have witnessed contested seats struck a high pitch of voice 1 1 ------ r A » ■■ n r . . . r j » V ILLSW i , 11 U I C U O IIIO O L fO O U A v i began solemnly: .wake his pets happy at least once keep company with tile Olle placco joyful family sounding praises to Jered immortal by Mrs. South worth • : trembling bauds he lifted his hoy for Physical Education, Dr. I«ewis in tlio legislature sineo, but never “This world is all a fleeting si saw 0110 that was so exciting ns that declares that there, although the :a year. You must ranemher, Totty, there by Dawson. story of “ The Deported Wife.” After into the wagon. When lie stopped '.heaven and— Santa Claus. Everybody smiled except one in the old white school-house at young women entered school greatly lihkt we ate very poor,«.ml although Another and another came up The whole story soon reached | Brief space of happiness at the at the door liis face was wet with the inferiors of the young men in the f ot of tho bill. The teacher deacons, and the minister was iMBnntta .works very hard she can until the foot tif the stocking was Mrs. Stewart’s ears. She knew j “ manor,” Lily was left alone with tears. physical development, never spoke dining tbe proceedings, ered with confusion as he hi “I found him down by the road, health, scarcely «upplv us with fowl and well tilled, nnd then came the cry Jack Dawson by sight, and when nothing but the sea-beaten shore and strength and endurance, they come and when it was over be looked again: from the gaining tables: clothes.” next she met him, although the ^ lle ,Mr' he said to hi* elder son. “ Don’t "Thi* worhl i* all a shou out fully their equals in all these even paler and more sickly than blame him too much, John. I'm “Pass her around, Jack.” Little bregfet-iaeoti' Benny' tA'JMrJ when lie lmd one hand in tbo hair flow.” h o n „ u . i i o . , rw w * j . w S i r « — s j - ”“i s t ; the one that deserves it. I made respects, and in every class the host 1 ^ O11eo grew where wo are now A t the word ho lifted it from the his curly head f*BW) its soft nest in This only made matters w her »lie caught hold of h.»« jjjfe ^x>lled on with little coin- an awful mistake, and I see it, now gymnast lias ween a young woman. while tho other was nt work in the warm bearskin ¡null .cheerily uj.'le and started around the ha.ll. and compelled lain to I W panioe*hip» zen tables it showed signs tears shed ware not all hars, for ever boating against the shore. At began once again: It was torture to throw away corsets and discard | mnn, and ho taught thut school two niamtnn. an’ ’on won’t have (t° of bursting beneath the weight of when Jack moved away there were last a young lady enlivened the in delirium “This world is ail a floating I terms, nnd never bad to whipnnotlier long skirts. wort. I’se doin’ to lie a dreat big gold and silver coins, and a strong , grops of liquid crystals hanging to \ manor with her cheering presence, Deacon Giles to listen to his Then lie slammed tho lij ‘ “ | * l “ boy. That was tlio last school we Doctors aside, common sense and j miner, like papa was, an’ dit ’oo eoicibag .sgch.as U used for send- - his ravings. • rubby 1 • cheeks and then their pranks began. Tbe book down, and, wiping bis clai ever broke (?) up. n rudimentary knowledge of the | "Father gave me my first drink,” • ever so much money, but I wouldn’t ing trua,siire by express, was pro­ brow, said: F o .r months from that “Merry two *irU d*cid.ed ‘ ° haTC, 8o“ 0^ n: he would say over and over. “He human anatomy should teach nny- ,, l f a . . . J b o proourod a donkey and cart, filled • do near ’em hateful blastin’ tings cured, and fc}y>toi;king placed in-1 n v . . “Brethren, for some reason I Chrtstmaa Mrs. Stewart became thel cart with fruitJ and , egtablegi m i w m:\ and (.iHi>. ::i:*i; tiin s. said I ought to get used to it, and one that a bandage made of whale­ -an’ dit tilled like papa did.” side of it. Tluc epond of the large not read that hymn as it shou Mrs. Jack Dawson, and every even- anj w^jie ono mounted the seat, the bone, steel and canvas cannot b e ! I can’t stop. If mother’d lived (Jack Dairwn lingered upon the hall was made, and in the mean­ That clothes don't make the man. read. We will omit it, and ■ outside. He could not have, al­ time the story had spread all over ing, when tho hardy miner returned 0ther walked alongside erving *'Ap- she’d have helped mo, maybe. fastened about the middle of the 1 That their fathers know more than choir will plea.se sing the gran from his daily labor to his comfor- ples and tators for sale.” They were Mother loved me. Mother, hold human form and drawn together1 they know. though he felt ashamed of himself the camp. Front variour saloons fines, beginning: table and happy home, Totty and so disguised that the townspeople my head, niuther, it aches so.” until it lias greatly reduced th e ; came messengers saying: tor listening.) That if once they get into debt "Just as I am, without one Benny will climb upon his strong were some time in discovering who «latural size of tho body at one “ Why, bless my little man, what they may never get out. “Send the stockin’ round the knees and almost smother him these dark-faced gypsies were. They He died one day at sunset. Dea­ .1 iiis iii l u * r i t t m i M i i i point, without producing mischiev­ con Giles no longer the stern old That they will need something a bravo future he has planned! I catnp, the lioys are waitin' for it! with kisses, while they lovingly made a successful teur of the town, ous and finally destructive results. Tlio Jewish temple called inure substantial than cigars, tight man he had been so long, but a do hope and pray, darling, that you With a party at his heals Jack address him as “our Sant* Claus and drove homa in the dark, tilled will grow up a strong and good went from saloon to saloon. Games •• with laughter and their purses with brohen-heaited one, brought in a If nothing short of coercion will kids, and a comb to start house- of Hope,” on fifith street, was eated recently in Now York. man and one who will be a blessing ceased and tipplers left the liars as , * * pennies. So ends the second act ot cluster of the s^ice-pinks his wife work a reform in this direction the keeping That an employer who hears of a buildiDg was Guilt by the Metlic rilmne counsels the formation of had loved, and put them in the m r tho “ Jersey L ily.” and a comfort to mamma when site they entered each place, and miners, and used by them for several; boy's hand. Th* Datne of life was Anti-Corset Clubs among the bach- j clerk living in style abovo bis means Jsrrv Lewis, an old tesmster who .- 7 7 ; • 1 • gets old.” gamblers, speculators, everybody It bocanio too *mu!l for them is very apt to show him the deor ! clore of America, whoso members exhibition of skill with the flickeiing into darkness, but the “We hung up our stockings last crowded to tender their Christtnas baa followad teaming from l ’rine- was sold to the Jewish coogreg wnen ho least expects it. villa to The Dslles for several years l»riat at Austin, Tex., a few days aliali sign a pledge never to marry sweet acent of the flowers rooted Christmas, didn t we mamma? gift to tiic miner’s widow and That a girl who decks herself in who remodeled it. When the past, was drowned last Saturday in ago, drew a crowd of 10,000 per- a woman who has not for at least one lingering memory in tho dying questioned the little girl. monies began the lights wore t orphans. Anyone who has lived I one year last past discarded the the latest thing out, and parades down and the shutters closed. “Yes, Totty, hut we were poor in the far western camps and is ac­ a small stream just south of Fifteen- sons. Ten cow boys contested for boy. the streets while her mother does mile creek, on tbs Canyon City road, a silver triiued saddle worth 8300 , If young “So swei-t, so sweat!” he said, ! death-dealing corset. Hcv. Dr. Brown preached the •lien.and Santa Claus never notices quainted with the generousity of It seems that Mr. Lewis drove into te be given to him who roped, threw faintly, holding them up to his j women choose to get even by form- the family washing isn't worth cation sermon odo of the m< l eai |KX>r people. He gave you a western men will feel no surprise, tb* creek sod tbst hit lead horse* wasting much love on. msrkuble in the history of th little candy then, just because you or doubt my truthfulness when I turned down the stream and became and tied down a steer in the short­ face. “ Mother loved them. She I ing anti-nicotine clubs, and vowing est spaee of time. The winner ac­ loved roe, too.” That tlu^y can’t reckon on their pit. He said he would addri I never to marry a man who is will- were such good children.” say that after the round had been entangled in the harness, and in at­ Then the light flickered and 1 ing to deteriorate and imperil poa- father’s foi tune alone to bring them hearers as business men. “ Tl “ Is we any poorer now,mamma?" j made the little blue stocking and tempting to cut the horses loose, complished the feat in one minute went out, for his mother had called. I tcrity by demoralizing his vita! through life. Fortunes are slippery gregntion,” ho said, “ bad ta “Oh, yea, much poorer. He would the heavy canvas bag contained Mr. Lewis wa* kickad and stunned, and forty-five seconds. force# with tobacco, so much the things— l«tter havo something ba­ house that had been used by 1 . _ " ■ ever notice us at all now.” Poor boy. over 88000 in gold and silver coin. which caused him to fall into the dist Episcopal worshippers;!)» better, and a double advantage will sides to fall !>ack on. water and drown. The wster we* Aatonan. 27 th: Yesterday after- Jack Da wson detected a tremor Horses were procured and a party in business parlance, this is uot more than three feet deep, but noon while Captain Roger* was ait- They don’t have rain* out west, result to the race. T[,at if they wish to fall in love s re-opening. The old firm of sadness in the widow's voice as dispatched to the large town down ren verr r»Did l,ng at his desk, just under the front A cloud just saunter* up and e x - , ---- ------------- . with a girl because she is pretty ed of tho Father, Sou A Ho I t ahe uttered the last words, and h e ' on the Consumnes from which they 3 “ window, reading, two bullet* struck amine* a town, and then collapse* 1 lie mortaging of gurwing crops, tjiey ought to be sure how much and in the new partnership 1 wiped * suspicious dampness from returned near daybreak with toys, , . tbe building; one broke a bol# in tbe d)