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DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY. MARCH 17, 1883,
VOL- IX.
I'B HJRIPTION If (JET BE PAID IN ADVANCE.
Tin: LOST « A R I A .
iMsi'iPuxc ex au m u s m m « .
and redeemed the dull gray sky by dent. While crossing single file, n still more gravely “our ammunition ease their pain.
“The liver!” »creamed one, and
a gorgeaus golden sunset. When small stream spanned by a huge is getting low— have vou noticed
Nearly two years ago one fine
We went down
U y M a ky E . lillC.Sll.
like a pack of infuriated animnls
Since tho year 1652 various arti­ morning I sat on the hurricane deck
its bright ray illumined the panes fallen log, the latter gave way; for, it?”
I wish all young women wlioare o f the window, Elsie turned from unknown to us, tho branches fas­
“ Yes,” said Eisie, with a little away they: rushed down the slope, cles have appeared in print, not only of the steamer City of Brussels speed­ mootin' to the Ben
dissatisfied with their peaceful the fireplace, saying:
tening it to the other Lank had choking sob. “Father was intend­ hopping to relieve their burns by in this stnte, but have found their ing toward old England. I said to met Jim Withers an’ l
way into the journals of the east as the captain, who sat near me, “ if es we got past l
Lome-life, coillil liave known my
“ There! It doesn’t need anything been cut by the enemy, and we ing to get some moic at the fort plunging ¡R the cold stream. c.
“ Whioh way
But in litis instance the oIAsav- well, concerning the far-famed sto­ this boat were suddenly to find it
heroine.
Elsie Meyer was her more only to Iioil slowly. Peter- were suddenly precipitated into the this vciy day when ho came home
we stopped uh
ries
of
the
"L
ost
Cabin.”
This
necessary
to
go
to
the
bottom
of
the
ing,
‘out
of
the
frying-pan
inlo
tlie
i nine, and a hundred years ago she kin, you see that it doesn’t run water. This occasioned only mer­ from the mill.”
much sought for cabin has been lo­ Atlantic how many of thetn would an’ soil howdy.
lived in the Mohawk valley.
“ Help me down stairs, dearest,” fire,” was verified, for, scarcely had
over, though there’s no danger un­ riment, until we discovered that
“ O goin’ ter
cated,
according to the different
Hither had her father and moth­ less the fire starts up. Hans, you our enemy, hidden in the bushes, said Nicholas. “ I will stay by the they readied the river's hank, tales concerning it all the wav from you expect to save?”
tin’ one foot up on
“
All
of
them."
said
the
captain,
er come from Germany a year or i stir the cradle while 1 run down to were pouring a deadly fire in our door, and, believe me, no ono shall when tlu-yweceived such a volley the Gulf StTearn to the wilds of
reetin’ hie elbow on bis l
aomewhat briefly. The captain was
“ You’uns be a goin’
l ao beforu Elsie was hum. A rude ^ the spring and get a pail of water. midst. Struggling in the water, enter except over my dead body! of bullets tfcat two-thirds of their Montana and Colorado, and the first not u talkative man, but as it was
number fell to the ground killed or searching party starting from various early and we had the deck to our­ I reckon. Fokea all ■
hut had been tlio first home, but
And a minute later Elsie was vainly trying to keep our ammuni­ Put the loaded guns beside me.
“ Yes; how’s yourn?”
'butin Meyer worked hard, and! tripping down the little footpath tion dry, and at the samo time help
Pale nr.d exhausted after bis ex­ fatally wounded.
points along the coast. The last ac­ selves I thought I would like to find
“ All alive an’ kickin’ ’
It was Herr Meyer and a party count of the locality given appeared out something about what would be
'•hen Elsie was just growing in to' leading to the spring. As she held our wounded companions, our con- ertions, Nicholas reached the lower
womanhood he built a new house j the j ail under the flowing water, ditit-n was not very jileasant. It story, and there propped up by cush­ o f soldiers from the fort. They in the Chicago Mirror of a late date, done in an emergency. “ At a time chawin’ a straw.
I do low Jim Wither is t
for his family.
she was startled at hearing a slight was everybody for himself; then ions, his eyes glittering with fever­ had come across the river in boats, headed “ Tons of G old.” This cabin like the present, when nearly all of man on erth. He’s i
however,
was
in
Montana,
aDd
had
and
had
c->*ne
ashore
just
as
the
the
passengers
are
in
their
«late-
Y’ iuo , it was of logs, with the noise near her. She glanced ner­ I scrambled up the bank, and just ish light and his hands tightly
lank an’s thet lazy h e '
it iffit been for the names of persons
sujjjsose ^ue first
vi issy bark still clinging to them; vously around her.
then a stray shot struck my leg, grasping the guns, he listened to savages earnb rusning down.
mentioned
in
this
description
“Thank God that we are in
I <:t it was stoutly built and had a
Away in the distance were the and I fell backwards into the wa­ the movements of the enemy out
time,” said Herr Moyer when, a to be the same as those who figured deck.’1
good roof and a substantia! chim- hills, and through the white mists ter. I caught at the roots of the side.
in the “ Lost Cabin” excitement in
“ Not the first thing,” answered backed things thet went (
J.oy. The inside rooms were made rising from them could lie seen tree, and as I drew myself up I saw
A faint smell of smoko crept few moments later, he entered the the early times ir. this state, we
minit they stopped.
the
captain, “ but one of the many
“ Wud ye blieve W a n Seman-
warm with a thick plastering of faint gleams of the scarlet and yel­ a deep hollow in its trunk. Wound­ through the crevices. The case besieged house and fondly euibiac- should have thought it another cab­ simultaneous things that would be in­
< ay. The four small windows low autumnal foliage.
At their ed as I was and unable to help my seemed desperate indeed! And as ed his family.
in altogether. All those who were stantly done. Certain officers of the thy Withers, “ Smitber’s fokees bed
“Ah, but yon wouldn’t have been in Crescent City at an early date ship are detailed before we leave a party tother night an’ never give
were protected by heavy oaken feet was the Mohawk, its silveiy companions, tho best that 1 could Elsie beheld her brave and wounded
shutters,and the two doors massive curves undotti d by canoe or betean. do was to crawl into this hole, and lover, her coregeous little brothers in time,1’ said Elsie, half laughing will recollect distinctly the excite­ port to arouse the pussengers should us an invite nor nothin.’ ”
“ Dear sukes, inebbe they forgot
in structure, wero well secured by Nearer still were the fiats, as fresh thus I escaped. But oh, Elsie!”— and sweet baby-sister sleeping and half crying— “you wouldn’t ment created by the report in circu­ it become necessary. Each one haa
it.
lation
regarding
this
“
Lost
Cabin”
have
been
in
tiino
if
it
had
not
a
certain
number
of
passengers
for
holts and bars.
calmly
in
spite
of
the
noise,
her
and green as in springtime. Back and Nicholas’s voice quivered— “ it
“ No, they didn't; we i
and the time nud money expended whom be is responsible, and in time
Scarcely was the house finished of the house loomed up the vast was horrible to hear t he red fiends lieait wss torn at the thought of been for iny kettle of soft soap.”
in searching for it. As the first per­ of danger he has to produce those the road the day befoi
butchering my friends and neigh­ the fate threatening them!
ere tho vague rumors which hail forest of Junes and hemlock-.
son who went in search of it hap­ passengers at a certain place on tbe never so much es sed dog to »«».
a roTOMi.ve,
Seizing one of the loaded guns,
liccn floating about for some time
Again she heard the noise— a bors! After it was all over, they
“ Wal, we we must be agoin.” sea
pened to bo well known to us, hav- deck, and have them ready to go
staid there a few minutes talking she hurried up stairs. In the hope A u iaftlD c
turned into stern realities.
War rustling— then a hoaise whisper:
l u I n O h io JitHflee’* C ou rt iug lived in our family for some time into the boats.
If you are on deck Alsinus a startin’ tbe borsea jest es
over their plans. They djd not of seeing a foe she might shoot, she
i as declared between Great Britain j “ Elsie! Elsie!”
Ito o ill.
and whose wife is now a member of this time to-morrow you will see the I wuz agoin’ to ask her what wue the
and America. Of course, the val- j Broken and unnatural as its ac­ wish to linger longer in the vicin­ jieered through one of the loopholes
tho family, anil as we consider that practical working of what would be matter twixt her and the Smitherees,
• y in which tlio Meyers lived ' cents were, Elsie "knew the voice, ity of the fort, and so concluded to and as she did so she felt the high
but Alsinus he never keers to hear
The attorney, at the date of the we are probably better posted in done afterwards."
v ould, liktPeverv other frontier, be j arid impetuously she sprang toward move in a northwesterly direction heel of her slipper caught in a hole story, was serving the commonwealth the matter than any one now living,
Next morning all hands were or­ what's agon on. We got down to
‘Ätei
objected to frequent invasion of j the clump of bushes whence it pro­ — up this way, you know— and in one of the planks of the floor. of Ohio and comity of Vinton in the except it may be one person, who dered on deck.
Each one was the rneetin’ house ’fore
I »hinder and kill all they could. She stooped to dislodge her foot, and capacity of prosecuting attorney at a number of years since was living promptly and quickly at bis place. gun an’ Mis’ Batten and Mis’ Ji
ceeded.
the enemy.
Poor Frau Meyer, however, es-
There, stretched on the damp 'I he tory who led them spoke about then some impulse made her ex­ the little town of McArthur. He in a lower county, we propose, brief­ Even the stable stewards had special they cum to where I was an’ shook -
eaped all coming dangers, for just ground, was the form of yound your father, Elsie, and what tine amine the hole. Evidently there theu bore a rather youthful and ly, to give our readers a statement, duties for this occasion, At the hands an’ passed the time o’day, an’
sez Mis’ Jankin:
about this time she lied, giving j man, whose face was paie and hag­ booty they would find here. Their had once been a knot in the timber. possibly somewhat verdant appear­ of the facts ns they actually occur­ word of command every move was
“ Wal sister Kitsap did you feel
red.
In
tho
year
1849
Colonel
Sam­
made
that
would
have
been
required
ance
for
a
man
holding
so
responsi­
. iitli to her fourth child. F ora gard, and whose clothes were torn words juit new life into me. 1 de­ This had fallen out and rats had
that earthquake last night?" yes, we
termined to hasten here and warn gnawed the aperture until it was ble a position. The most conspic­ uel C. Hall crossed the pluius from bad there been an accident. Every­ felt a leetle shake but it didn’t
time the husband was prostrated and travel-stained.
Missouri to California, and drifting
Smoke was uous personage known to the Vinton from the tide of emigration to differ­ thing worked ns smoothly as if the amount to much,” see I.
by grief; then the fast approaching ! “ Oh, Nicholas!” cried Elsie, fall­ you. Fortunately, the Indians were considerably larger.
whole had been a perfect piece of
bar
at
that
time
was
a
grave
and
to.
take
a
roundabout
route,
other­
curling up through it, and Elsie
dangers and the duty of caring for ing on her knees beside him and
I tell ye,” ses she, "w e may jeat
pompous barrister from a neighbor­ ent parts of the country in search of mnehinery. For over ten years this
his family compelled him to lay pressing her lij»s to his brow, “ how wise my attempt would have been knew by this that she was stand­ ing town—a ninn who had reached the precious metal, in the summer splendid steamship has crossed and look out for a heap more uv it, old
All, you are useless. As soon as they were out ing just over the j»lace where the the middle age of life, and with it an of 1852, found himself at Trinidad. recrossed the Atlantic, and, no mau Mulkins, he ses thet the inside
aside his sorrows and to take up ' came you here?
she saw bloodstains of sight 1 started, ani! nearly all enemy’s fire was kindled, for as lias extensive practice, profitable alike in While there, n party of thre^4ben doubt this performance has beeu uv the world is a gitten hotter nnd
wounded!” as »tie
again the responsibilities of life.
these ten miles I have crawled ou been already stated the upper story fame and pecuniary gain; a man came down from tho mountains, one gone through with several times on hotter an’ hotter an’ he sea the rea­
His daughter olsie was his g rea t: on bis garments.
help and comfort. Barely 17 yenrs ! “Don’t be frightened, sweetheart; j my hands and knees. A hundred of the house ['rejected over the low ­ whose eloquence bent juries to his of whom, Venile Thompson, was an every voyage. All those years of son uv earthquakes is the
burnin’ nearer the oi
old was she, yet the household ma­ really, it’s nothing serious. It is j times 1 sank down exhausted; then er, the space beneath forming a will and whose logic pinned them old acquaintance of his from Mis­ training and discipline were in vie*
After the usual greetings, of a contingency that might, when it gits a holler place
chinery went on as smoothly as only a slight wound, though, to be j the thought o f you nerved me to sort of a porch. And it was in fast; whose invective and pointed souri.
questions wero asked and answered never
happen. The fact that suthin explodes an he aes li
during her mother’s life.
The sure, it lias caused me much incon- j : start again. Had there been a hot this poicli that the Indians were sarcasm blanched the cheek of the
witness or tho prisoner, as might be in quick succession, and finally for years the voyages were complete­ ii’ul) explode any day an’
sun, 1 would have been overpower- ! gathered.
spinning, the weaving, the baking* venienee.”
all inter the middle uv nex’
Thompson produced a large quanti­
and brewing, the watching over i “ But how did it happen.and why j eil by it; but the rain cooled and ] “The wretches!” muttered Elsie. necessary to gain the case, and was ty of gold dust, nud confided to him ly uneventful, did not cause that ’then when Jewpetor an’ then
vigilance
to
bo
relaxed
even
for
n
alike
dreaded
and
hated
by
his
fel­
the 10-year-old twins and little are you here? 1 thought you were ■ refreshed me, though the ilatnp- “ I can hear what they say! Burn us
fellers get so dost to us they’ll dn
the secret-of where it had been found
I ness made my limbs still'. When I out. will they? If I could tear away low practitioners. Tho attorney re­ sayjRg at the snme time that there moment. The supreme emergency the heat out tell we'll jest frizzle all
baby Liza, were all done most twenty miles down the valley.”
at last arrived. The circumstances
ferred to is living yet, one of the
“ I was, yesterday morning. But leached the sjuing l think I must a few of these boards without the most prominent jurists in southern was plenty left at tho place where could hardly bo more unfavorable. up an’ there won’t be a grease spot
faithfully.
redskins knowing it I might fire- Ohio. His ability has not diminished they had been mining. They hail The fog was dense as midnight. The left ur ary one uv us, and now this
you liave fainted, for— ”
Very little titno had Elsie to never mind now. I ’il
“ Elsie! Elsie!" interrupted Peter- j down and.'kiil one or two. Ah!” nor has hi knowledge that he pos- built a cabin which they had left, disaster came, unexpected, sudden dipthery thets rngin’ all over the
spend at the quiltings, hu.sking-bccs about it as soon as i get to the
They had and complete as a stroke ol light­ country, taint' no usoatryiin’ to stop
kin, “ when I was up stab* jest and the exclamation wasjubilant for esses ability. One day the'young and also their tools.
and other festive gatherings of house. Call you r father.”
it; it's a sign of the times an* O f c
now, looking _t of the loophole, I Elsie's quick wit had suggested a prosecutor hud a riot ease to try, and three pack mules pretty well loaded ing.
“ Father isn’t here.”
those primitive days.
But, al
to his consternation, be learned that
dust. and with the usual prodi-
Tho foresight of none on the City murders an' sich like, well yo« knpw
What! Are~you iTTdwtd
S!W two er u,,**. dark figures steal p!an,
though so seldom mingling with .
*
tbo88 days of Brussels «ould have averted it. the old un is to be'loosod rer '
Hurrying down stem , she snid thia perseti referred to bad been ye- 1
There are only the children, around the barn!”
the young people of the valley, her
j ’ an
_ »to last Ou« ........ 1 —,f t lie gsaud steamer rode an’ be lowed to ' go
I n iiiA il by
bv H
ia »lefA
iiu A
T
i m t-ii-Ac/*-
t t n n „ Y i » g 1 bAy lii»«
tained
the
defense.
The
prose­
Just then a loud knock resound- to the boys: “ peterkin, carry my
company was eagerly sought by Father will bo here to-night,
them the remainder of their lives, tho water staunch and perfect, the
cutor
handled
Ids
case
with
greut
wash-tub up-stairs— make no more
i ed on the front door.
though.”
many a gay gallant.
Mia’ Batten, she stuck ju:
• .. t
never expected to return. They had
“ They’ve come!” gasped Elsie, noise about it than you can help. care, but from the first did not hope left jiapcrs in the cabiu with full in­ next she was cut almost iu two, and
And no wonder, for Elsie was in - ! Her lover groaned.
“ Law now Sister Junk in, I 'low
twenty minutes later die lay a wreck
to oonvict tho j'risoner. He was
Hans come with me.
world's 'bout the same t ^ ------------ i£ .f
“ And then it will l»e too late, grasping her lover’s arm.
deed a pretty maiden. Tall andj
stirred nji somewhat, however, by structions where to locate, should on tho bottom of tbo sea. Short as
While Peterkin obeyed the com­ j tbe sneering allusions made to him they wish to direct others to the the time it was long enough to dis­ Es fer dipthery Gabe I
straight, with a lithe, graceful fig- Those red fiends were to be here at | He stooped and kissed her.
Col. Hall became greatly play the wonderful discipline of the italor knock it higher than
ure, clear red and white com plex-j sunset. Even now they may b e ; “ Be brave sweetheart!” lie whis­ mand of his sister, tlio Inkier, with i during the examination, by the im- place.
pered. “God has helped me so far Han’s aid, began carrying u{>- j ported counsel, nnd so, when he interested, aud having entire faith in Inman crew. The fact that it was Hain’t you never seed Oabe's
ion, soft blue eyes, and with the within a stone’s throw of us.”
“Oh, Nicholas! l)o you mean to-day, and I do not believe that staiis pailful after |»aiiful of tLe came to making his opening speech their representations, obtained from possible under the circumstances to itator, law now, is thet so? Wal, I ’ll
thin braids of hair about her
jest tell ye bout it. It’s a kind uv
shapely head as bright as sunshine. In
si” and Elsie’s face grew he will desert us now. Courage, boiling hot soap, which was then be indulged a little in bombast him­ them a diagram of the country which save tho passengers, who at the time
square fixiQ,’ an’be puts it on yer
was
reputed
to
be
so
rich,
together
of
tho
crash
were
asleep,
renders
self.
He
expooted
to
lie
torn
up
by
poured
into
the
tub
waiting
for
my
Elsie,
and
we
will
make
as
Pietty and geipt'e, tidy and in­ white. “Then we must get to the
m
arm’er body an’ turns a handle an’
with
written
directions
how
and
anything
that
could
be
written
in
the
imported
counsel,
but
was
utter­
Help
“ Elsie,” whispered Nicholas,
dustrious, she did not lack for sui­ house as soon as we can. H ere,! brave a defense a we can
lots
uv
leet’s
needles
stick
rigbt
into
where
to
find
the
cabin
they
had
praise
of
the
conduct
of
officers
aud
ly unprepared for tbe simoon that
me up stairs, for if I am placed by j she passed him on one of her u
tors; but to Nicholas Stelly, an take my hand and I’ll help you.”
ye. Oh. Oabe’s hed worn
swept through the court room when left but a short time before. They men superfluous.—Luke Sharp.
lionest young farmer, was her heart, With a great effort Nicholas a loophole and have one of your ward journeys— “ Elsie, the door
success, haiu’t lost a case yet.”
stated that the place was in hearing
tbe
imported
counsel
got
fairly
un­
given. Then the* cruel war sepa­ struggled to his feet— or rather one father’s muskets I can make some beginning to burn! I can boar tl
“ I did think some o’ tryi:
of the oceau’s roar, but, as at that
STATE I t S S U J H I S I I U .
der
way,
he
paced
up
and
down
in
self fer my cliist, but Doe.
rated them, as it did many others, foot, for the other was wholy dis­ of the red- skins bite the dust! wood crackle. As a last rest
freut of the judge; he sawed the air time but little exploring had been
when the crash comes, you ta1 in front of the jurors; he shook his done on the northern coast, they
A number of our exchanges have he sed it wuz ruther ha’sh fer
and Elsie’s betrothed marched away abled— and partly hobbling and Hurry! ’
■
Again the loud knock resounded little Liza and tlio boys and rus
isti fingers in the face of the young prose­ could not give him the exact locali­ referred to the State Normal School I’m so delikit.”
partly crawling, he worked his way
to tight for liberty.
Wall” sea Mis.’ Junkin, '
out. of the back door. 1 will try cutor and shivered in imaginary hor­ ty. The three men then left for the at Monmouth recently in such terms
at the door.
“ Father,” said Elsie, one morn­ along the path.
“ I’ll answer,” whispered Nicho­ and detain tlio savages as long as ror at the thought of so youthful a cast. He immediately organized a as to give to persons uninformed in kinder scornful like, I didn’t
ing, as they sat down to breakfast,
How long the distance seemed to
Qabe set hisself up fer a doctor;
“ father, the meal is nearly out.”
Elsie’s beating heart! Every in­ las. “ They may think that there’s I can, so as to give you a chance. youth undertaking to measure swords small coinpnny anil started in search tho matter the impression that there
is but one Oregon State Normal es lieve bav a cat to doctor me.”
“Ach!— so?” said Herr Meyer, as stant she executed to hear the yells no man in the house;” and elevat­ Make for tlio river as fast as you with him. The voice was loud and of the rich diggings. They followed
1 wuz afeard Mia’ Batten 'ud
ing his voice, he called out: “ Who's can. If your father’s boat is still bitter in its denunciation; tbe gestic­ the directions us best they oould, School. Whether this was an in­
l.o took another spoonful of supaan. ‘ of the enemy.
taking a northerly course, and keep­ tentional slight of the one estab­ hurt, an’ ses I: “ How’s Lowry;
ulations
wero
violent
and
demonstra­
there
get
in
and
row
across.
Keep
there?”
• .'.'oil, to-day I ’ll take two bags of : At last— oh, heaven be thanked!
ing within hearing of the ocean. lished in Southern Oregon, we do »be here to-day?”
iurn down to the mill and liave; — they reached the house, but when | “ Friends of the King!” was the in tlio shadow and coax Liza so tive; the manner threatening and They spent the summer in fruitless not know, but tbe paragraphs we
“ Oh, uv course,” sod Mis’
awe-inspiring,
nnd
with
a
face
of
them ground. Tliinkest thou w ill; scarcely inside the door Nicholas i answer, while Nicholas sturdily re­ that she won’t cry. Kiss me good­
search, nnd by winter, tbe story have noticed might fairly be so in­ “ she’s the ongratefullest tl
scorn
he
sat
down
nnd
with
folded
bye, sweetheart, and tnay the kind
1 .• afraid to stay at home alone fainted from pain and exhaustion J joined:
Tbe bill establishing ever wuz. She's got a good
arms awaited the verdict which he having gradually leaked out, other terpreted.
Peterkin ar.d Hans uttered shrill j
“ We want none such here!
J God above watch over and protect did not suppose they dared to refuse parties started in pursuit of what state normal schools for Oregon pro- to marry an’ won’t take it.”
with the kinder?”
An’ the old lady oouldn’t ha'
idod that the “ Oregon Normal
Fortunately, the door was able you?”
“ Oh, no.” ’ was Elsie’s reply, j cries o f terror at his pale face, pros-j
to render. Tlio young prosecutor was was known as tho “ Lost Cabin,”
“ There arc no Indians about, are : trate form and blood-stained gar- to resist all attacks made upon it, | Elsie stooped and pressed a kiss mad. He felt that he would like to mooting, however, with no better School” at Monmouth, Polk county, madder ef Lowry bod
merits. But Elsie had no time to and at last the besiegers had t o - ujion his pale, jiain-wrought face. thrash the imported counsel out of success. In tbo spring search was and the “ Ashland College and Nor­ some one.
there?”
“ Preechin* begun pnrty soon, bat
“ Our scodts report none. How- give way to her emotions. Telling content themselves by firing at the “Oh, Nicholas! 1 cannot leave you ' licij'oots- Ho nsose to his feet, un- resumed, and the story having by mal School” at Ashland, Jackson
county, be declared State Normal I cuddn't help a noticin’ Lowxyr
ani'i for a moment what to do. *A this time beeD circulated that enor­
Son i Freni’1
► ver, the redskin is a wily repti- Peterkin to place a pillow under' four windows in the hope that a | to die here alone— no, no, not e fen
mous wealth awaited the finder of School^ Both schools were already she got atween her aunt Be “
Icand there’s no knowing where Nicholas’s head, she immediately chance shot might hit some ono of: far the sake of the children! Per-* happy thought struck him, and, tho “ Lost Cabin,” parties were form­ established as normal institutes, but an' Mahaly Jana Smitherz;
l.e’s lurking in the grass. I like set to work to secure the house in the inmates. In return, Elsie and Imps we may all be saved! I liave j throwing bfs head back, ho cast his ed and startfed out from different had not previously enjoyed any rec­ Jane she’s one o' them bii
not leaving you alone; still, 1 might ease o f an attack l»y the Indians. Nicholas fired on the savages with a j»lan— oh, pray that it may not 1 hani1 behind him and thrust his parts of tbo country, having but ognition from tho State. The Ash eyed wimmen werth red ol
get the meal to-day as well as at | The two thick oaken doors were t considerable success, although the fail”— and with one more passion­ right in the breast of his vest, while very little idea whether it was in land State Normal School now has looks like the queen o’eheeby
under over-arching eye-brews ho
over eighty students in its different Lowry, she eet me tbinkin’ o’
any time. It is cloudy, and should bolted and barred, the Shutters | trees in tho yard afforded shelter to ate embrace. Eisie again ruihed up
•cowled at the jury who ‘ dropped California region or Washington ter­
the narrow, oaken stairs.
departments, and tbe prospecte are pale wild rose bloomin' ont by a
it rain, I could do no harvesting. I drawn to and fastened, and then I the lattor.
on it’ in an instant. So did the ritory. Col. Hall becomiag discour­
Reaching the place where the judge, so did tbe spectators. There aged, returned to his native state in good for uearly double that num­ great bunch o’ wild sunflowers. She
her father’s two muskets taken
Presently all the Indians with-
vviil start right away."
drew to the other side of the barn. knot-hol« was, she knelt down, and was the familiar pose of the imported 1854. In 1855 ho again came to the ber next year. Tbe school is now looked mighty sad did
And accordingly, fifteen minutes down and the priming examined.
Then, after one peep through the
“They are up to some mischief, with a small hatchat, begun to tear counsel, perfect in its imitation country with his family and settled uudor excellent management and haa ef her eyes hedn’t ben
biter, Herr Meyer jogged away oil
she’d ha’ ben a purty eni
loophole
to
see
that
there
was
no
1
1
1
warrant!" said Nicholas, un­ away the boards. Ere long a faint Then the young prosecutor began, at Crescent City, where ho remained. rapidly recovered from tbe unfortu­
I is old brown horse, with a big
“ Pore motherless thii
see I to
nate
plight
into
which
it
had
been
Ho
finally
moved
to
Lakeport
and
gleam of tlio tire blazing below was and, without opening his lips, pro
sack fastened panier-like on either enemy in sight, she brought out a j easily.
thrown by the blunders of tbe Alinus, “ I wish’t we cut
there
met
Thompson
who
bad
again
side; and Elsie, after she had seen basin of water, a soft towel and a | “Oh! they’re making a fire! seen through the cracks. Then a cceded to copy the gesticulations coma to California and settled at administration which preceded that fer her.
l.is figure vanish over the hill, went fla sk o f spirit«, and, kneeling down j They’re going to burn the barn, little more careful Work and she and movement of the eminent attor­ that place. He immediately called on of the present Principal, Prof.
“ ’T would be right hi
beside her lover, tried to restore cried Hans, w hose sharp eyes had could see the plumed heads and ney who had preceded him. He the colonel, who, after a long in­ M. O. Royal. Tbo special normal some young body to take
1 ack to her housework.
snorted
aud
cavorted
and
stamped
copper-colored shoulder* o f the
1 seen sn-.okc curling up.
“ What a pity it rain«!" she said ; him to conciousness again.
terview with him, could never again training department now haa a large the house, ’ ses I.
But Alinus didn’t say
In a few minutes he revived and i “ And that won t be tho worst of dozen savages, who were so intent and rolled bis eyes. He strode up be induced to talk upon tbe subject class of students who are determined
to herself, h a lf an hour later. “ I
and down in front of the judge und
to complete tbe full normal course and more.
it,” said Nicholas gravely. The next on their task of feeding the lire
of
tbe
“
Lost
Cabin.”
It
is
sup­
did int;nd making my soap to-day. was able to speak.
jury, gesticulations precisely those
thing they’ll do will lie to set tire | and battering the door that none of which they had just seen the copy, posed to be located somewhere near obtain state certificates. A normal
It is time that it was done. Fraii;
“ Is your father back, Elsie?”
i:\H IS ITI.\tl
to the house!” and scarcely had the of them flaw the work that was gw- ffn shook his finger menacingly tin this place, and year after year it has school diploma in'most of tbe eastern
Webber and Fraii Heine, as well as
“ No.”
states enjoys prestige over any other
Trick doga are
many of the other women, have
“ I would he were here. Ho would j words left his lips ere a brawny ing on over their heads.
der tbe nose of the eminent gentle­ been searched for, but no trace of
“ Elsie,”
whispered
Peterkin, man, and then assuming tbe states­ the cabiu ever having been discov­ certificate; for the examination pre­ trick children are a
1 heirs made, and surely I do not lie so much help in our defence, j savage, bearing a lighted brand,
ered, many have supposed that tho scribed by the State authorities is so tbe fond father or mot
v. ant them to think me a lazy Oh, if I had only come in time, so came from behind the barn. An­ “Elsie, Nicholas says that th e /1 man like pose, he looked down upon
men who appeared at Trinidad with stringent and searching that a stu­ bis or her precocious
other
followed
him
with
a
bundle
have
nearly
burned
and
cut
a
hole
him
disdainfully.
Then
he
would
I , »usewife! The lye is ready and that it would have been safe for
such large quantities, had become dent wbo can pass it ceuld not fail a car seat to recite or
stop
nnd
twirl
on
his
finger
a
mar­
the soap greesp, too; ar.il if father vou and the children to have start- of hay. Carefully keeping out of : through tlio door, and that you I
possessed of their gold in eth to obtain a state certificate of the forever be ostracised I
were here and the weather fine, I cd for the fort! The only thing we the range o f bullets they went to must come down and got ready to tingale ring, which he had drawn er ways than by honest labor first grade. This will be tbo case of the sane. It is
would have the lig kettle swinging can do is to try anil defend our­ the corner o f the house, and just flee! Oh! what’s that!” as the re­ from his pocket, and which was in However this may be, the above are in Oregon.
The State Normal of indirect egotism,
on the yard. As it is, I believe I selves, if need be. May lieaven where the wooden gutter came port of a musket was heard below. tended to represent the large seal the facts as they actually occurred Schools are a most important branch up of tbs old Adam, i
ring
on
the
small
finger
of
tbe
left
For Nicholas, seeing that a small
of the public school system, and we «ign of ill-breeding,
will try and make it in the fire­ grant me strength to fight!” And down, they lighted the hay, and
hand of tho opposing counsel. It concerning the “ Lost Cabin” excite­
place. Hans, yon watch little Liza; over Nicholas's face came an ex­ then eagerly watched to see the opening had been made in the door was to much. The eminent attorney ment in early times, a revival of trust that tbe next Legislature will one’s children is
i placed liis musket to it and fired a appealed to the Court for protection which has from time to time caused supplement the action of tho last in fortunately so for ten
flames catch the building.
i nd you, Peteikin, take a pail and pression of stem determination.
“Do you think they can make it random shot, which was attended while the judge laughed until the much excitement along the coast this direction by extending some ous specimens of
draw the lye out of the leacbing-
“ But now tell me your adven­
bum?” Elsie whispered anxiously. with excellent result», for one of tears rolled down his cheeks, and and a great amount of hunting by substantial aid to tho institutions comes aerose.) b a t'
Larrel.” And with a busy, bustling tures,” said Elsie, anxiously.
“ Scarcely,” was Nicholas's reply. the savages fell wounded to the jury and spectators chuckled audibly. those in search ofimmediate wealth which have thus been fstbered by long suffering
housewifely air, Elsie set about her
“ Briefly, then, for we must be
tho state. Normal schools have a with a torture!
Tbe judge replied that tbe young —Del Norte Record
thinking of the danger that threat­ “The rain has made the wood too ground.
«lay's work.
far mare urgent, and more demo­ sscepe? Many of
While the air resounded with man had done nothing, bad aaid
Rinds o f Pork, bits o f tallow- ens us. The soldiers at the lower wet. Still, in time it will dry.
cratic, claim upon tho publie funds mitted by 5
1
nothing
to
him,
and
be
did
not
feel
Hsjipiness
is
inborn.
It
is
not
an
the
wrathful
yells
o
f
the
Indians
“
I
wonder
if
father
will
see
the
candles, and all the odds and ends fort received orders yesterJay to go
than the university, and a sagacious and cars may
called
upon
to
interfere
with
the
ar­
outward
trait.
It
is
generated
in
and fair minded legislator cannot Sooner a sudd
o f greene that had accumulated out and drive away a small pnrty blaze,” said Elsie, peeping down as they bent over their fallen com­
rade, Elsie, with the boy’s aid, tip* gument. That settled it The im­ the s o j I . It is never bought and fail to recoguize tho claim when it ing torture.*
«luring the year, were tossed into o f Indians who were prowling the road. “ I hope he wont come
ported
counsel
broke
for
the
door,
sold as an article of commerce. You i* presented to him. An appropri­
the big black kettle, and as soon as about, destroying cattle and trying those merciless wretches would kill ; jied up the tub over the whole in and the jury, after fifteen minutes,
may fill your house with all manner ation for apparatus and other facil-
they wore “ tried out, dipperfuls of to capture stray persons. Captain him before our eyes! Now, what door, ami the next instant a stream absence, brought in a verdict of
of beautiful and curious things, but j "ticVwould greaTlj enhance tho value
I of scalding hot soap was poured guilty.
Brown, with a dozen men, myself are they doing?”
lye were gradually poured in.
] yon cannot
norm,j
.cfco to the state.—
h lay in
■ a » stock
■ of happi- j of the
__ ___
___ schools
| down upon the eneftny.
Nicholas's face was grave.
It was interesting work for the nnnypg the number, started out.
ness in the same way. If you are I AshlkD(1 Tiding*,
“They're going to do what I’ve
And then what howls of pain!
l«>ys. and even little Liza was kept We anticipated an easy victory, for
_____
If the philosopher be happy, it ia happy, your happiness ia that which |
Minuse«l by the bubbling sizzling our scout had said that there were been afraid of— build a fire against What rnad caperings, as the In ­ because he is tbe man from whom you are able te make by the uae of
the mind itself. A fundamental con- i Be graceful, if
« you can. If you
going on in the mysterious caldron. not more than six or eight of the the front door. It is perfectly dry, dians vainly strove to free them­ Fortune can take tbe leaet.
dition of happiness in tbis world it can’t be graceful, be true.
•Out side the ram poured down enemv. But when he tracked them you know, for the roof projects selves from the burning mas» that
steadily all day. Late in the after­ we found double that number- over it. They have the advantage, | hail fallen on their heads, should-
Many men claim to be firm in their activity, and that kind of activity
is on a
s stsnd l
noon, however, a brisk western I Still, we would have conquered ; too. for when they are there we ^ er», arms, and bodies. Everything principles when, reall/, they are [ which carries with it «11 tho facul-1 The Mississippi river u
l ths people feel that tin w**t is over.
was forgotten in their effort« to only obstinate in their prejudice*.
1
btecze swept away mist and vapor. i them, had it not been for an a oci-! cannot see te «hoot them. Besides,” |
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OF
SOFT
SOAP.
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