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V O L- IX.
DALLAS,
O R E G O N , S A T U R D A Y , M A R C H 3, 1883.
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Til»: |:\>:>VY th a t » » « feed ».
» « > « flea i m a * » .
( h 1 st: « i i o u r . .
away.
H e was, as I have told you, very
The
energy that wins success be­
“
Do
not
be
angry,”
she
pleaded,
old and infirm; his temples wera
riragtai- » r S ib e r ia » H a i i r r .
“ Cecilo!”
gins to develop very early in life.
“ because I have told you the simple
Or* T . . « , i y . or T r illa s a rtlorr.
covered with thinned locks, which
“ Yes, papa.”
truth!”
When the lamented poet-travel­ The characteristics of the boy com­
the frosts of eighty years had
She arose— a brown-eyed, brovn-
He pressed her little hand to bis er, Bayard Taylor, wrote of snow­ monly provo those of the man, and
Young
people commit more whitened; his sight and hearing, baired girl, with a rare grace and
lips, and without another word ho flakes as "the wild white bees of the best characteristics of young life
faults from thought lessntsa tlian too, were somewhat blunted by sweetness of manner— and approach­
should be encouraged and educated
was gone.
winter,” it is doubtful that he im­ in the wisest possible manner. The
from intent to do wrong; and a age, as yours will be should you ed her father. Mr. Deswood pushed
Cecil© stood silent, for a time; then
want of reflection leads children live to be as old. H e was proceed­ aside the heap of papers on the desk sho went upstairs to the library, agined the poetry fancy contains a following story, given by Judge P .,
as‘ my oftener than want of princi- ing very slowly and quietly, for bis before him, and turned to his daugh­ where her father was sitting. She large amount of truth. Such, how­ strongly illustrates this truth:
About thirty years ago I stepped
plo. Inrlitrerenco to the feelings of horse was old and feeble, like his ter with a look of impatience'
told him all that had passed between ever, is the case, and from recent
“ What brings young Walton here herself aud Mr. Arden; but to her important discoveries luado in this into a book store in Cincinnati in
the aged, a proneness to make light owner. His thoughts reverted to
unbounded astonishment, her father city by students and professors of Rearch of some books that I wanted.
of peculiarities, are, however, oc- the scenes of his youth, when he so often?” he quarried abruptly.
The girl’s face flushed like a sea- uttered not a word of reproof.
the academies, it has been shown W hile there a little ragged boy Dot
cassionly indulged in by the young, had periled his life in fighting for
shell.
The next evening father and that the beautiful snow of poetry over twelve years of age came in
and in the excitement of the mo­ the liberties of his country; to the
“ I — I —cannot toll exactly— not daughter sat alone iu the drawing­
bids fair to become a reality. About and inquired for a geography.
mentary gratification which such scenes of liis manhood, when lie
now, papa— but i ----- ”
“ Plenty of them,” was the sales­
room,
when
the
door
bell
rang.
A
three months ago there arived in
nn-rriment may produce, all thought had preached the gospel of hi* di­
“ Humph! I shall make it lay servant nnnounceil Mr. Arden and
man’s reply.
this city a box which, on being
of the wrong, and all sense o f the vine Master to the heathen of the business to find out! See hero, Ce-
“ How much do they cost?”
Mr. Walton, and tho two gentlemen
opened, apparently, contained about
right arc equally forgotten. Ti.e remote wilderness;
and to the cile; I want no foolishness. Hemcui- entered the room.
“ One dollar, my lad.
a
pint
of
snow.
A
note
which
ac­
proverb of the wisest man saith: scenes of riper years, when the ber you are my only child, and I de­
“ I did not know thoy wore so
Mr. Anlen bustled forward.
“ The glory of young men is in hard hand of penury had lain pend upon your marrying well. I
“ I nm a blunt old man,” lie began companied it stated that the con­ much.”
their strength; and the beauty of heavily upon him. While thus oc- j uni sot so rich as I «■»<, daughter:
H e turned to go out, and even
‘ nml T wish to fifet the busi- tents had been collected from the
old men is the grey head.” The copied, almost forgetting himself another year like tho last will ruin ness upon wliichl have called settled deck of tiie British stsamahip Glen opened the floor, tint closed it again
strength of the young should pro­ in the multitude of his thoughts, uie quite; then I should like to know without delay. Cecile, did you think chc«ter, during a snow squall oft' and came back.
“ I ’ve got sixty-one cents,” said he.
tect and defend the beauty of the he was suddenly disturbed and what will become of you, reared with for a moment that I was brat* j tne banks Newfoundland, while on
old. The hoary head should ever •uvxrn. terrified by loud hurrah» from luxurious tastes, aud with no idea of cnbl??ft' to wish to drag n lovely a TOyage from Hull to Montreal, “ Could yon let mo have a geography
the valuo of money. Heaven help young girl like you into a loveless and thnt the captain, Edwin Man- aud wait a little while for the rost o f
bo respected, whatever may be the behind, and by a furious pelting
you, for no one on earth could be of marriage with an old man. M y | njn_ bad been advised to forward tho money?”
outward condition of its possessor, (and clattering of balls of snow and any service. The fact is, daughter,
How eager his little bright eyes
and neither sport nor ridicule ice upon the top of the wagon. In your only hope lias in a wealthy mar­ dear, when I found how nobly > ° u the specimens to the academy to luoked for an answer, and how lie
stood by your colors, a n d to d me to !
j , ^
tcJ
xbo matter was
should be thrown upon him whose his trepidation lie dropped his reins, riage.”
mv face that you loved Walton hero t
®
» » | seemed to shrink within his ragged
enfeebled strength scarce sufliees to and as his aged and feeble bands
—-no,
child, you need not blush. !
quiet, and only within the last clothes when the man, not very
“ Papa!”
bear the weight of the many years were quite benumbed with cold, he
“ It is quite true, mv dear, aud I thero is no shame in houest love— I day*or so has the result become pub­ kindly, told him he could not. The
with which time has burdened him. found it impossible to gather them am depending upon that hope. It made up my mind that all your lic, and as it undoubtedly is a mat­ disappointed little fellow looked up
The follow ing narrative, which is up, and his horse began to inn rests with you to save your father troubles should be set right. I laid ter of cÆsiilcrable importance we at mo with a very poor attempt to
from actual penury!”
tho plan before your father; and print it at length. Tho examination smile, and left the store. I followed
strictly true, illustrates what has away.
“ Don’t, papa!” she sobbed, throw­ with his approbation went to work. o f the snowy-looking stuff under and overtook him.
been observed, and proves that the
“ In the midst of the old man's
“ Aud what now?”
just recompense of a thoughtless trouble, there rushed by him, with ing Let white nnus around his neck. Mr. Harry Walton is to-day the solo the microscope at once disclosed the
“ I will do anything for you. I have owner of a large publishing house. fact that it was composed o f thou-
“ Tryjnuother place, sir.”
fault may be much more speedily loud shouts a largo party of hoys
no ouo else in the world, you know.
“ Shall I go, too, aud see how you
repaid to those who commit it than in a sleigh drawn by six liorses. But, papa, listen! I must tell you! anil you, Cecile, are to bo my heiress 1 sanda of very minute insects, eov-
am called away
uwav from this
tins | ered
gjlvery scales, and nearly succeed?”
may he either expected or desired ‘Turn out, turn out, old follow!’ 1 love Harry Wulton! I cannot help when I
“ O yes, if you like,” said he iu sur­
earth. I see no roasou why tho
by thsm. The common saying of ‘Give us the road, old boy,’—‘ W h a t!! it. Ho is good and noble and----- ” wedding should be postponed; long all in a vigorous state of health. prise.
“ waking up the wrong passenger’’ you take for your pony, old daddy?’
“ As poor as a church mouse!” engagements ure usually pieces o f , A searching - investigation
Four stores I catered with him,
, - , . . was at
i; peculiary applicable to the case. — 'Go it, frozen nose,’— ‘W hat’s the sneered her father. “ Nevermentiou follv, and delays nro dangerous, j once set on loot,.and sti let secrecy and each time he was refused.
In one of the most populous pi ice o f oats?' were the various such a thing to me again, Decile! It When shall I dance at your wedding, enjoined on all concerned, and it
“ W ill you try agaiu?” I asked.
is impossible! W hy, the fellow is Cecile?”
was soon proved beyond a doubt
cities of N ew Englnnd, a few years cries that met liis ear.
“ Yes, sir; I shall try them all, or
Aud the old man stooped and ¡ that the insects were no less than I should not know whether I could
since, a party of lads, all members
“ Pray, do not, frighten my horse,” only a beggarly newspaper writer,
living on his wits! Cecile, I am kissed the g ill’s snow white brow, I the dreaded snow fleas of eastern get one.”
of the same school, got up a grand exclaimed the infirm driver.
ashamed of you! And there is Mr. but Cecilo could not speak, so in- Siberia, which have never before
Wo entered the fifth store, and tbe
ride. There were about twenty-
“ ‘Turn out, then! turn out!’ was
Arden, who would givo his eyes to tense was her surprise and bappi- |,ecn f ound in any part of the little fellow walked up manfully and
five or thirty boys in the frolic. the answer, which was followed by
win you. He is worth a cool million, !
,10KS-
world more tlian a hundred miles told the gentleman just what ho
The sleigh was a v e r y large and repeated cracks and blows from
and is----- ”
The wedding took place not oug ftQm t,|at coimt,.„
A w eU_known wanted and how much he had.
splendid establishment, drawn bv the long whip of the ‘grand sleigh,’
“ Sixty years old,” interrupted I after. Harry W ulton is a flours lung .
“ You want the book very much?”
.
o
f
Iiat¿ral
history, who
six grey horses. The afteroon was with showers o f snowballs, anil Cecile, indignantly, “ and wears a I publisher now, and doing u fane bus-| t.
„ .
.____ r. .- . asked the proprietor.
i i beautiful as any-body could de­ three tremendous huzzas from the wig, and takes snuff. Papa, there is mess; ami old Mr. Arden died last j formed 'one of tl.o investigation
“ Yes; very much.”
sire, and the merry group enjoyed boys who Were in it."
no use talking! I can never, never | week, leaving Cecile sole heiress to committee, saul yesterday.
Hie
“ Why do you want it so very
themselves in the highest degree.
first specimens we received were much?”
“ The terror o f the old man and marry Mr. Arden. 1 would die first.” , half a million.
She stopped short in sudden con- : Cecile’s choice was between love i sent from Montreal by a shipmaster
I t was a common custom of the his horse was increased, and the
To study, sir. I can’t go to school,
school to which they belonged, and latter ran away with him, to the fusion. The door of the room was l and gold, and she chose the better j named Manning, who discovered but study when I can at home. All
on previous occasions their teacher imminent danger of bis life. He open, and there upon the threshold 1 part. For riches often taketh wings them on his ship’s deck on the the boys have got one, and they will
had accompanied them. Some en­ contrived, however, after some ex­ stoop a portly old gentleman— Mr. and flieth away, but true love— which Atlantic ocean, but we have found go ahead of me. Besides, my father
largo quantities of them about the was a sailor, and I want to learn of
gagement upon important business, ertion, to secure hi* reins, which Arden himself. Mr. Deswood sprang is fur better—enduretli forever.
to bis feet.
city during and after all the snow the places where he used to go.”
however, occuping him, ho was had been out of his hands during
th e
oe i> f .'. k i i i o m : »
e d it o r .
“ Why, Arden!” ho cried, striving
“ W ell, my lad, I will tell you
storms of this season. The snow-
n it at this time with them. I t is the whole of the affray, and to stop hard to conceal his own cliigriu aud
what I will do; 1 will let you have a
quite likely, had it been otherwise, his horse just in time to prevent embarrassment. "W h en did you a r-! YVe were grieved to hear tho flea, or, to give it its scientific
other day of the death of one of name, tho Bisti-Siberius, belongs to geogrophy, then you may pay me
that the restraining intluenae of his being dashed against a loaded rive?”
the remainder of the money when
Michigan’s jolliest pioneer editors—
his presence would have prevented team.
"Y o u r servant announced mo,” j almost tho lust man of tho band who tho family of Produride, or “ Spring- you can, or I will let you have one
the scene which is the main featurs
“ As lie approached Salem, he returned Mr. Arden primly, “ but published weeklies in the State when tails," and, although very much tlint is not quite so new for fifty
of the present story.
overtook a young man who was you were so busily occupied that you a coon-skin would pay for a column smaller than the ordinary black cents.
On the day follow ing the lide, walkins toward the same place, and did not hear. And how is Miss Ce­
“ Are tho leaves all in it, just like
ad.” and throe bushels of corn flea, closely resembles it in form
as lie entered the school-room, he whom he invited to ride.
The cilo, this evening?” he added, ad­ dumped on the office floor would j and habit, one great difference be- the other, only not new?”
“ Yes, just like tbe new one.”
found his pupils grouped about the young man alluded to the ‘grand vancing to meet her.
pay for a year’s subscription. Never i ing that, while it is capable o f leap-
Cecile laid her mite of a hand in a publisher was more liberal with bis ! ing, it does so by means of it* tail,
“ It will do just as well, then, aud
stove, and in high merriment, as sleigh, which had just passed,which
bis for a moment.
space. It was hard work for him to j and not as the flea docs, with its I will have eleven cents toward buy­
they chatted about the fun and j induced the old gentleman to in­
“ You look troublod, little g irl,” charge for anything except tho tax
legs. The leap, in the case of the ing some other books. I um glad
frolic of their excursion. He stop­ quire if he knew who the boys said tbe old man, kindly.
“ You
that they didn’t lot me have one at
ped a while and listened, and in were. He replied that he did; that must keep your smiles and sunshine. list and mortgage sales, and he snow-flea, is performed by doublin
tho other places.”
measured
short,
even
on
them,
One
the
tai]
uj
l(ler
the
abdomen
and
answer to some inquiries’ which he they all belonged to one school, Clouds are not for the young and
Last year I went to Europe iu one
day,
...
the
years
gone
by,
tins
8U(ldenly^
throwing
it
backward,
made about the matter, one o f the ! nml were a set o f wild fellows.
care-free. May I see you after a lit­ paper copied an attack on a county
of the finest vessels that ever
- - - J
°
lads, a fine, frank and manly boy, j
“ Alia!’ exclaimed the former,with tle, my dear Miss Cecile,” lie added oflicial, nml old Mark was dozing at which results in a forward move­ ploughed tho wators of the Atlnutic.
whose heart was in the right place, a heai tv laugh (for his constant in a low tone.
his desk when the injured party ment of the body— in fact it is Wo had very beautiful weather until
Her cheeks flushed and thenfaded. stalked in and began:
thought his love o f sport some­ good nature had not been disturb­
from this characteristic that the very near the end of the voyage; then
times led him astray, volunteered ed), ‘do they, indeed? W hy, their She grew faint and giddy, but with
“ Y’ou are a coward, sir----- a----- name “ Springtails" is derived. They oaiue a most terrible storm that
to give a narrative of their trip master is very well known to me. an effort she controlled herself.
are very tenacious of life and breed would have sunk all on bonrj had it
coward!”
“ I may ns well liavo it over!” she
and its various incidents. As lie I am now going to hi* house, and I
“ Mobbe I am,” was the editor’s very rapidly, especially when the not been for tho captain. Every
said to herself. “ No matter what complacent reply.
drew near the end of his story, he rather think I shall give him the
weather is cold and dry, damp spar was laid low, the rudder was
the consequences may be I shall tell
“ And I can lick you, sir— lick you weather seeming to throw them into almost useless, and a great leak hud
exclaimed, Oh, sir, there was one benefit of this whole story.
him the simple truth.”
shown itself, threatening to till the
out of your wrinkled old boots!”
little circumstance which I had
a stupor. In Eastern Siberia the
“ A short distance brought him to
Outwardly sho was calm, ns sho
“ I guoss you could,” answered people have to uso every precau­ ship. The crow were all strong,
almost forgotten to tell von. T o ­ his journey’s end; the house o f his answered, quietly:
willing men, and the mates were ull
Mark a* lie busted tho wrapper of
ward the latter part of the aftcr- son. His old horse was comforta­
tion against the pests, and many pructicle seamen of the first class;
“ Yes, sir; I will see you in the I bis only exchange.
l.oon. as we were coming home, we bly housed and fed, anil he himself drawing-room just us soon us you are
legends speak of them as the “»now but after pumping for one whole
“ I am going to write an article
saw, at some distance ahead of us, abundantly provided for.
ready.”
calling you a fool, liar, coward, cur, o f Hado’s," and say that tho souls night, and the water still gaining
Tiie old man’s thin lips were com­
a queer-looking affair in the road.
“That son, boys, is your instruc­
slanderer and body-snatcher, and of the wicked are being tortured upon them, all the time, thoy gave
W e could not exactly make out tor; and that aged and infirm man, pressed tightly; he nodded his head I ’ll go over to Ionia and pay five by being exposed to driving storms up iu despair, and prepared to take
what it was. It seemed to be a sort that ‘old fellew ’ and ‘old boy’ (wlio grimly.
o f them. “ As yet,” continued tho tho boats, though thoy might have
cents a line to have it published!”
“ Very w ell!” he returned; and then
< f half-and-half monstrosity. As did not turn out for you, but wbo
“ Hpy?” querried tho old man as professor, “ wc have found but few known no small bout could live iu
Cecilo
stole
from
tho
room.
he wheeled around.
w e approached it, it proved to lie a would gladly have given you tlie
cases in this city where people such a sea.
It was nearly an hour later when
Tho captain; who had been below
“ Yes, I'll pay five cents a line to seem to have been sufferers from
l usty old sleigh, fastened behind a whole load, had he heard your ap­
Mr. Anlen entered tho drawing-
< overed wagon, proceeding at a proach), that ‘old boy,’ and 'old room, to find tho young girl standing have it published.”
the insects, but should a spell of with bis chart, now cauio up. lie
“ Soy, let me tell you something,” cold, dry weather *ct ill it will un­ saw how matters stood aud with a
slow rate, and taking up the whole daddy,’ and ‘old frosen nose' was at the wiudow, pale and despairing,
j replied Mark. “ I ’ve got 200 more questionably be tbe signal for much voice I distinctly heard above the
load. Finding that the owner was your master's father.’ ”
with her soft eyes full of tears. He circulation than the Banner, and I ’ll
roar of the tempest, ordered every
not disposed to turn out we deter­
I t is not easy to describe nor to came to her side, and took one of the publish your attack on me for 2 complaint. The insects, which can man to his post.
mined upon a volley of inow-liall* imagino the effects produced by passive little hands in his own.
only
by
tho
closest
scrutiny
be
“ I will land you safo at tho dock
cents a linn and take it out in mill
"C ecile,” he began, in a kind tone,
and a good hurrah. These we gave this new translation of the boys
feed or corn stalks! Don’t trot over distinguished from fine snow, fas­ in Liverpool,” said ho, “ I f you will
"
I
came
here
to-duy
to
ask
you
to
be
w ith a relish, and they ptoduced own narrative. Some buried their
to Ionia when you cau help build up ten to the clothes of pedestrians be men.”
the right effect and a little more, heads behind their desks; Home my wife. Ia m old; you are young your town!”
Ho did land us safely; but, the
and cling there until tho person
for the crazy machine turned out cried; some looked askance at each aud fair. You cau think it over, i f
Mark would have published it enters a warm temperature, when vessel sank moored to tho dock.
The captain stood on the deck of
into the deop snow by the side of other and many hastened down to you consent I will settle upon you a word for word, just as he said, and they at once begin to bite in the
handsome fortune, and givo your
i throw in n cut of a horse or a stump- most vicious manner, and, although the sinking vessel, receiving tbe
the road, and tbs skinny old pony the desk of the teacher, with apol­
father five thousand a year for bis
started on a full trot. As we pass­ ogies, regrets and acknowledge­ private income ns long ns lie may puller free gratis, but tho official the bite is not poisonous, it is for a thanks and blessings of the passen-
■ gors as they passed down tho gang-
ed, some one who had the whip ments without end. A ll were freely live. I have not a living relativo iu i cooled off.— Exchange.
few minutes even more painful
1 plank. As I passed lie grasped my
gave the old jilt of a horse a good pardoned, but were cautioned that the world. I f you marry me, little
than
that
o
f
the
ordinary
flea.
As
w a r t u id »T F .A K V « 111.) i ur.
| hand nud said:
• rack, which made him run faster thoy should be more civil, for the one, you shall have everything that
TU T A LEE.
a rule, the bites arc mainly confined
“ Judge I’ — — , do you recognize
tha*’ lie ever did before I ’ll war­ future, to inoffensive travelers, and your heart can desire— money, oostly
;——
; to the legs, for the snow flea does me?” I fold him I was not aware
During the whole lime of his resi- n))t , cc(n to possess tha pqifcr to that I aver saw him until I stepped
rant. And so, with another volley more respectful to the aged and dresses, rich jewels (the Arden dia­
, w(*nder over th' U d y of
monds are among the finest in the deuce in Lancaster Mr Htevens was ( ,imb
i.f snowballs, pitched into the front infirm.
aboard of his vessel.
iico iU D ro in iH iiic/ “ teetotaler. , ..
. .
,,
an n
uncompromising
country), an elegunt home; you can an
•
•
•
•
•
*.f the wagon, and three times three
its victim. Ono gentleman, a resi-
“ Do you remember that boy in
This
is
the
faistory
of
Lis
resolution
travel
tho
whole
world
over,
t hen's, we rushed by. V* ith that,
Cincinnati?”
Years have passed by; the lads
to abstain: W hile he was in G et­ dent of Frankford, was a few day*
if
you
choose.
And
in
return
for
all
nn old fellow in the wagen, who are men, though some have found
“ Very well, sir; William Havorly.”
this, I only ask you to be mv wife. tysburg he was a member of a select since much annoyed by them, and
“ I am he,” he said. “ God bless
v.as buried up under an old hat an early grave; tho “ manly boy" is
I d o not expect your love--if you circle who were accustomed to meet | his little boy, who was bitten at you?”
*md beneath a rusty clonk, and is “ in the deep bosom o f the ocean
can give me a little kind affection, around at each other's honses and j the same time, suffered great pain
“ And God bless you, noble Cap­
w ho had dropped the reins, bawled buried." They who survive, should that is all I could hope for. Tell spend the evening in plnying whist , for several hours. Correspondence
«.lit. ‘ W hy do you frighten my this story meet their eye will easily me, Cecile, will you- can you con­ and drinking wine nml choice liquors with scientific men in Montreal and tain llaverly.” -| Youth's Companion,
horse?' W hy don't you torn out, recall its scenes, and throw their sent?”
Ope evening one of tbe party, n g rea t, Boston shows that the pests have
A Philadelphia youth who has
* (Appears)) . at . . those
.
• ■ and •
then?’ says the driver. So we gave memories hack to the ‘school-house
She stood thinking for a moment favorite, who was cashier of the bank also
points,
been to the Hub tells us that the
iiim three rousing cheers more; his in Federal street,’ and to their old with downcast eves; but never for in Gettysburg, becoming a little in­ in th« former city they created intellectuality of the Boston girl
a moment did her loyal heart waver ebriated, wna escorted home by two great discomfort.
Iiorse was frightened again, and friend and well-wisher.
Tbe strangest begins st tho breakfast table and
in its love for Harry Walton.
He of his friends, who, finding his latch­ feature noticeable is the fact that it
ran up against a loaded team, and
lasts until the old folks go to )>ed.
key, left him in the entry supposing
was
good
and
noble,
upright
and
I believe almost capsized the old
is never found more than eighteon A fter that, if the right fellow is in
“ When a oman finds out dat her honorable; his only fault was— that he could find his way up stairs.
creature— and so we left him .'
poverty. He was ambitious and tal­ In tbe morning his wife found him inches aliovc the ground, and ser­ the parlor and tho light is turned
“ Well, boys.” replied the instruc­ best fren’ ain't got a good character
ented; the uphill work of a daily lying lipon the entry floor dead. He vant girls have bean forced to wear low, she “ acts like any other girl.”
,
she
tosses
her
head
an'
«ays
that
tor, “ that is quite an incident. But
newspaper— tbe toil and drudgery had bad nn attack of apoplexy during rubber boots while sweeping off News.
take your seats, and after our morn­ she never did like her, no how, but of it were good discipline for
Lim, tho night. When Mr.
Stevens the sidawalks in front o f their
when
a
man
learns
dat
his
best
ing service is ended, I w ill take my
ar.d the day was coming when Henry heard of it Le went into his cellar masters' residence, professor Jos.
[n gcivd thinks Moses made mis­
fren’
has
been
sent
to
the
peniten-
turn and tell you a story, and all
Walton would be known a* one of with a hatchet, broke ope^ the Heads McAichttchl of this city has pre-
: tiary, he says:
'Poo' ‘feller, I al­ the find editors and publishers in the of lus wine nntl whinkej barrels, and pftre(] an exhaustive article on the take», hut he is very sure Stephen
about a sleigh ride, too.”
W. Dorsey din’t. In spite o f Bob’»
H avin g finished the reading of a ways did like him.’ Dat is do d if­ laud. But now, for the lack of cap­
assurances, the general public w ill
ference
tw
ix
t
tic
friendship
ob
a
ital, he was fettered and could only
chapter in the Bible, and after all
“
next meeting
eting o f the academy.— believe that Moses would hare been
xansas toil along, and hepo for a brighter
hail joined in the Lod's Prayer, he man and a woman."— Ark
Daily News.
a better man in Dorsey's place.—
Traveller.
future.
When you ice a prominent citi­
commenced as follows:
Boston Post.
“
Mr.
Arden,”
the
girl’s
seft
voice
zen,
a
bright
and
ahming
light
in
oon-
British Architect* appear to
“ Yesterday afternoon a very
answered at last, “ I know it is a society and an energetic man in cede that plumbing and other sani-
Dr.
Deuker,
of
St.
Petersburg,
venerable aud respectable old man.
The average life of a farmer is fifty-
great honor that you would bestow business, and all that sort o f thing. 1 tary
of American six years, but it depend* a great deal
arrangements
and a clergyman by profession, was treats diphtheria by first giving the
upon
a
foolith
girl
like
me;
but—
but
patient a laxative, and when it* op­
pause in the middle o f the sidewalk houses sic far bettar than those of on how old he ia when ho purchases a
»in bis way from lioston to Haiem,
eration has ceased he gives cold — I cannot marry you. I love Harry
mowing machine.
to pass the residue » ( the winter drinks, aeidnlated with bydrocloric Walton— we are betrothed. We are and gaze about him with a glossy tbe English.
look in his eye, you needn’t think
a t the house o f his son. That he acid aud then a gargle of lime water poor but we can wait.”
A Russian proverb says: “ Before
Th eir i* nothing like a tnolas.se*-
m ight lie prepared for journeying, and hot milk iu equal parte every
The old man's eyes were on her of apoplexy and paralysis. He is going to war pray once, before going
aa he proposed to do In the spring, two hours. His method has been face with a keen, searching look lim ply trying to remember an cr- to sea pray twice, before getting camly pulling to make young peo­
ple candid when givin g tally.
j .Va abe finished speaking be turned j rami his w ife told him to do.
t married pray tbjee tjrac*.
he took with him his light wagon. very successful.
THE
J*
Devoted to the Best Interests of Polk County in Particular and to the Pacific Coast in General.
SLEIGH
RIDE.
s S J S S s u ’a a s S ?
<
,* •
Too many o f t
principle that
H ow that north wind whistled enough for I
and stung the other day! i t was home. They ar
the first singal of a long dreary does not matter
winter, and even men in over-coats or how we
turned sharp corners to get out of outsider is
tho biting blasts. T w o children, a every-day
boy and girl, neither over nine then. When i
years old, stood shivering in a door on our company
way on Monroe avenue, wishing to different persons,
go to their low ly home but dread­ each other, so gr
raation. W o ore polita I
ing the wind. They crept closer
YYe arc a charming fa
and closer to each other, and their ors probably think,
chins quivered and their noses grew harmony that exist,
ded as they grew colder. Hundreds doors close ou our vii
of men and women passed up and a breath of relief and feel a
rowu without care, but by anil by to relupse into our old ‘
along came a whistling, joval lad YVo are so unused to “ co
of fourteen, who was swinging his that we don't feol at hn
But this is all wrong,
boot-blacks k it by a strap and
picking up the steps o f » umi ¿log to eons:der home
dance. He saw the shivering hit« of ourJio
first consul
of humanity where other's were
Wlmt are those we meet in i
blind, and halting before them with
us that wc should take such ]
a “clig-jigger-rigger” of his heels bu polite and agreeable to I
and a toss o f hi* box, he called out: neglect those who have the
“ K in I berrow them ’ere chins o’ claim upon us? I t all con
yours about an hour?”
becauso we have got into
“ Yes, ma’am,” demurely replied way of thinking. W e havi
the house in the barbgroun
the girl.
“ 1 kin, eh?— ho! ho! That’s a should occupy the foiem ;
We
give away on me! Be you chickens our thoughts.
to mako ourselves such
cold?”
“ Yes ma'am,” sho answered again. members of tho houshold
our absence is like the loss <
“ And that ere cub is your broth­
shine from a Summer day.
er, 1 s’pese? W ell when I ’m cold I do it, and we will do it, if \
g it warm.
W hat do you do— into the right spirit— the
freeze?"
homo. Tho idea seems to <
"Yes, ma’ain, if you please,” she to be polite ia foolish and '
replied.
ting ou airs. We must rid our
“ I f I please— ha! ha!— ’nother of this notion, and act on the i
give away on me! W ell, you au­ pal that whatever helps to mat
tumn leaves, come along with me. intercom*!) pleasanter with th
I liant got no influence on the outsido the family circle should I
weather, but I can smell a hot stove brought into use there. W e the
bring any and everything that)
as fur o ff as the next shinner in
be used to advantage in our da
this town. Come right over to this
teicoui’so.
It is no oxhibition
store.”
weakness or of “ airiness”
lie led the way across the street ‘thank you,” or “ if you
and into an office where there was These little courtesies are ind
a fire. He hail placed chairs for of refinement, and, c o s tin g ____
them when a man came in from a they help to make tho wheels of
turn more smoothly. It
back room and said:
“ What now you children want elaborate attempts at politi
truo gontiliu- consists. It is in
here?”
“ Want some of thi* wasth hot­ simple, honest expression of
genuine feelings of tha heart <
ness.” bluntly replied the shiner.
i* interested ire the welfare of <
“ These ure cubs is
nigh
froze
U)
|s 1 ‘ ‘ " " "
t ‘ «>41- c m ; t * iv pulilflMCV
death and I brought ein here to 1 «uperfivial.i» .-„ute
th
thaw out.
nothing of fu e««
T «*
“And we won’t even look at yon .,
i ).:©
U • k 'i ‘. l 3 l
nor cough, nor sneeze!” added the j inlcresU
little girl as she saw a frown on the Iinxi ius to
we will r.c1
man’s face.
“ That's richness; there’s inm - ’ to that ii
will be doing V
cence!” laughed tho shiner, and the 1
for such feeling
man’s face cleared and he poked i
ed iu HiriiinpiSfra way.:
up the fire and said they could sit i ' alio’i o f !LL a -' i sxpté
nearer.
tho best po -nible education ia
“ S’pose mo’n you chip iu and buy j politeness. —Standard.
’em somepin’ to stay their stom-
aches?" suggested shiner, all o f a \
*: titnnxn titih «.
sudden. “Tell you what, some of
the children in tliis town don’t have
It in not long siuee that a French
a square meal nny more’n you’n
count ire Paris, who married a woalthy
me wear diainonns. Little gal, arc
and accomplished Ahierican lady,
you hungry?”
"‘as detected recsntely pawning her
“ Yes, ma’an, if you won’t be mad diamonds and jewels to raise
at us,” she replied
to gamble with while she lav on ]
Tho man stood irresolute, hut death-bed. lie had spent in
shiner went down in his pocket, sums of hor money in belting
gambling aud living a life of pr
rattled around and »aid:
“ Here’s ten cents that says they’re Racy, and had treated her so cruelly
during their short married life that
hungry!”
“ Well, I ’ll give as much,” replied she died broken-hearted. An nccident
recently hupponed in the k in j” —
the man. “ You go and buy some­
of Wortreniburg which caused <
thing and they can sit here and eat a ripple ire the upper class of i
it.
there at tho time. A German karoo,
Shiner bought crackers
and who lu.d ¡darted with his wife to
cheese anil the children nto until visit her homo in America, had got
he felt obliged to say:
as far as the railway station when
“ N ow you cubs go a little bit he was arrested by his creditors, who
slow and save the rest for supper. su posed ho was fleeing the country
Kin you find the way home alone?” never to return, for heavy debts
which had been incurred through
“ Yes ma'am.”
-*Q0!
gambling and a dissolute life. He
"A ll right then. W e’ro dead to
had no means with him to pay the
rights obliged to tins man ami I'll
demands, neither had his wife, and
black bis boots beside. You’d l>ot- as their li links had been seut on in
ter run along borne now. What's advance, and tho urangements all
yc (join’ to tell yor mother?”
I made for tho journey, be told bi* .*
“ I'll toll her we come awful near I wife to keep ou nud he
. re
going to heaven, and mv little her in Liverpool before tlx baiiiiqfof j
.
\
brother he thanks yon too, nnd now tlicir steamer after ha'ing dìim H
r "
we’ll go, and —and thank you, some arrangements with L’S <;i«l)f-'
«
ma'am, ever so many times, good­ ors. This wife went on to ‘fa.ejj/yel
nn i this baron stayed bdrend. oidat 7. ” t,qT
bye!”
-r .T *
The man looked after thum was four or livo day* I» ;i.rv ho was
able to satisfy bis crei 'ors, «iibor
through a window with softer lines
fay promises or the iuGTrouéù) fa r.i
%
in his face than had been there for : some kind friond so a? « j fri V o dr»
^
months. The hoy stood eutsidu on depart. YY'hile thua detAinrfl t)*&
the walk and watched until they pocket money Ida wifo ! a’, .yvyà Mtfa
, 'r n
liml turned a corner and then ex­ to pay his expenses t b u ..,.r
claimed:
disappeared, but another«
“ Phew! but I most feel that I ate friend was induced to !o
|
by giving security onhiav
was engaged to that g «l!"
| furniture and silver-plate
j was enabled to start on bis journey.
Mr». Dawson Damar, an English ! Bussing through London ho fell
Indy of rank, who traveled exten­ ' among gamblers at one of the clot
sively some years ago made nn uni-1 who could handle cards better tbl
quo collection of locks of hair of jBlio
j
could, nml hi* «GOO i
prime nobilities. A t Alexandria she peared, with th>exception r
begged a lock from Me’reMiiet All. { amount just sufficient to t
who said that in n collection con-1 Liverpool, where he at
taming Neilsen’s, Napoleon’s and j lived to find that his wifi
Wellington’s his was unworthy to be ; a steamer three daja
included, but that if she thought I himself without a doth
otherwise he would leave a request ! Representing to one
to Ibrahnin l ’ nsha to present her I agents who he
with his beard (he l ad no hair on papers that indonfi
his head) and if she did not outlive a veritable Baron hor
him, it was to descend to the son or to take passage on
daughter who inherited her collec-1 with the nnderstan
lion. His secretary took the names ago would be paid a
of her children. Mchemet was a the reuto, where f
grandeise figure compared to the relation would i
pigmy Khedive of to-day.
which it is to lie |
An American
Mr. Malrone, the Virginia senator, » title in
wears no rise waistcoat, but a river several 3
of gold chain triea to make up tbe loot an
deficiently. His customary headgear den flight I
is a white sombrero. He bos a very tho All
long beard, and hit trouacra are board of her
to return to it.
plaited into tbe waistband.
comi
•ays
then
well
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