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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
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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» <dono iu tl^s
and
the unhappy man cleared
The very first requirement nt the , tbo vineyard. But none of the boys
Before lie had circulated round a listen to her teerful thafike* '\ Uu
»•aid:
with tho muQotonous yjfrye* it’s too late.
throat with tremendous forco
Charley came out of his stupor Boston school is that the girls shall seemed to care to pitch on to a sick
“lies’ wait till 1 dit to Y»# toan, lralf-a-dr>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 .
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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
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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
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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 - ,
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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)<r
¡nt ther(;
u
lha Son nnd th* H*ly Ghost ■
A eoupl* got marnad at Portland
th. shattered fragments falling right over it. Nobody escapes but the great obstacle to butter farming
his eye*.
_
clothing, provisions, etc., in almost
reporter and the in the south, will, it is believed, be the
- question, r and - figure
-
--
down and out; but t be busim
la
*
t^turday
without
th*
parmm-
on
tb,
^
Xhe
otber
,
tnlck
th*
the
new*
paper
it
up
“ Where's our ^ cl*-an stockings, endless variety. Arranging tbeir
| largely done away with another cordingly.
be continued by the Father,
mgmtna' I’m going to hang mine gifts in proper shape and securely ■ ion of tb# lady t doUng father, who oaUlde He heard no report, and book agenta.
year by the large crop unmortaged
head of the firm, and on* j
up anyhow; m ay!* he will come tying the bag of coin the party got into Portland joat ia time to note u ( BO OB# jn the street. No ax-
That
a
fellow
that
deliberately
and
i
»¡tb
Pyspepsi*
Will yoa *alT«r
have trusted. Th* 1
the planter will be at liberty to
th* fact that tb* fond yoaag people planatiou can be found of tbe affair,
n
t
a
li
n
r
i*
I
V
*
Vitalia
Com
plaint
?
Shiloh
oplsiut
?
like he did before, just because we noislessly repaired to the widow's were occupying apartment* at a
Liver
plant a variety, and do a safer as propoac* matrimony to a young 1 m 3 sffeied for sal*,
which
ia
decidedly
myatariaus.
gnartn
lady when he can’t support himsvlf tinue to deal in cl
try to 1 * good children, said Totty. humble cabin. The Lag was first hotel The old maa could not balp
well as more profitable busiac«*.
R. M iller, D s llu .
"It will l * no use. my darling. iab| on the steps, and other article* t himself and *o gave tbe couple tb*
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is either a fraud or * fool— unless love and all lov* 1
Urne Beek. Hide e r Che*« IH Hhi-
The« b eckin g eoo«h enn be so quickly
I am sure he will not come." and piled up in a heap over it. On the ueual forgiveness, in such cases made . loh P ’ e e r Poro**
Gov.-elect Ireland,of Texas,start- he marries for money and become* we appeal to *11
Ptester.
P rie* i 5 o n t a
eared by Hbilob * Cere. We gaerentc* il.
oontinue tbeir I
tear* gathered in the mother's eye* top was laid tb* lid *f a large. and provided.
ed life as a hostler at $8 per month. | her hired man.
i Per eel* by J»p. B. Miller, Dalle*.
Far eel* by J»p. B. Miller.
SANTA CLAUS IN THE MINES.
i
and
in
you
the
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