How’s
Your Liver?
SALEM
ORüCüN.
L. N. W OODS, M. D.
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PHYSICIAN AND Si' I{<iKOS,
Dull!.*, Oregon.
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B.
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M o C A A .L O N .
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Physician and Surgeon,
DALLAS,
RO.
THE STRONGEST, CHEAPEST, MOST ENDURING AND SATISFAC
TORY AR riCLE IN THE WAY OF
over Urown it 8011 » Hop«.
P a l i .
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H. 0 . Kim.*.
| A L Y , SI3LLY & EAKIM,
YARD, LOT AND FARM ENCLOSURE
Ever seen in the nnrthweelern market. Manuf ictured l>y the rod or mile and
delivered at all points within reasonable distance Call on or address
A
A t t i i r n e y s - u t - l^ u -w .
OHM A R T ,
In rear of C ook’s hot. 1 Salem, Oregon.
! W eh e fe the only n«t of nbstract book» in P>»ik
U g llj* ||eli»bli)Bhstrit.-U fiiriiisl»«a, an-J
to
C„iuiiii,niun oh.irK«a on loans. Kuoim i
C ion's block, Dalliui.
Is the Oriental salutation,
knowing that good health
cannot exist withont &
healthy Liver. When tha
Liver is torpid the Bow
els are sluggish and con
stipated, the food lies
in the stomach undi
gested, p o i s o n i n g the
blood; frequent headache
ensues; a feeling o f lassi-
tude, despondency and
nervousness indicate how
the whole system is de
ranged. Simmons Liver
Regulator has been the
means o f restoring more
people to health and
happiness by giving them
a healthy Liver than any
agency known on earth.
It acts with extraor
dinary power and efficacy.
NEVER BEEN DISAPPOIN TED,
As a général family remedy for dyspepsia.
Torpid Liver, Constipation, etc., I hardly ever
use anything else, and have never been dis
appointed in the effect produced; it seems to
be almost a perfect cure for all diseases of the
titouiacli and Bowels.
W. J. M c -E lro y , Macon, U r .
J. L. COLLINS.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
S o licito r i o d w o c e r y .
in iu practice ut hit profeewlon in thla place
Es»b*«l‘
thirty tears, and will attend tu.ull uuoir.poo
..S S ;
to his car«. Ofllce, corner .Main and Court
». Polk Co, OP
W .L. B utler ,
J.
More Foreign Complications.
H. T ownhknp ,
gpU TLK K & TOWNSEND,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW .
le uptiliiirs iu Oilti Fellows’ new
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These leading merchants of the
count}' now have in stuck a fine
assortment and heatiful array of
the very latest and nobbiest pat
terns in dress goods for spring
and summer wear. They are al
so well-stocked in all other lines.
O B B O O N .
A S T E R IN O !
— OF A L L K IN D S.—
M
If I only had me hands on the mon
that’s holding that du rer—Life.
T ilE - S e t t i n G
faking an Impression In Wax (Wack*).
€ All work gujtrantced firs tela ss.
J. A. B A R K E R ,
Dallas.
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Popular.
Progressive.
t o t a l Fin ni M m
I N S U R A N C E CO.
1-X ea.d. O fiS .c e :
. M W AS1II.NOÏON STREET. I’OMLAND. OR
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The Leading H
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pany.
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tea and Parseniges,
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Schools and other Public Building»,
w Sa.ni¡,vit
ÄirfQER^
I 'f iB Building» and farm Property
ME P O S IT I V E C U R E .
—DIRKCROK 8 :—
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J. ■eCRAKKN, P. K. ARNOLD, L>. D. OLIPHANT
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F. M. WARREN,
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8 . E. fOUNO, E. P. M c CORNACK.
H. M. ORANT.
Secretai y and Manatrei
I . bOH KNBEKO,
President.
D. B. MCDONALD,
TRUCKMAN,
O t l i Jt n O r e g o n .
CREAT SPEAR NSAC CONTEST.
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fair «hare of patronage solicite.i
1 all aiders promptly tilled.
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SAVE THE TACS.
M A R T IN ,
P A I N T E R ,
O n Hundred and Seimtj-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fift) Dollars,
$173,250.00
lou se, sign and ornam ental, grain-
», kalsoming and paper hanging.
I & llas .
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O regon
In valuable Presents to be Civen Away In Return for
W I L S O N 8 l C O . ,
jgists ! i j j f a r i i s .
Dealer iu drug*, chemic 1* and perfumery
iinnery, toilet article-«, meerotuuiiu pip«*»,
ars, tobacc*», etc., etc. Pure liquors for
ticinol purpose* •*«»▼. Phv«»ct»iis pre-
jptions compounded day or nig.it. Main
•et, opp«ieite court house, Dallas, Or.
P EH R Y D A LE
■ D R U G - STORE.
SPEAR HEAD TAGS.
1 .1 6 8
6 775
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23 100
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116 600
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1 1 6 600
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RTEM W IN D IN G ELGIN GOLD W A T C H E S ............................................ IMAM 00
F IN E IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY,
BLACK E N A M E L TRIMMINGS, G U ARAN TEED ACHROMATIC... 2MT5 00
IMPORTED G ERM AN BUCKHORN H A N D LE, FOUR BEADED
POCKET K N IV E S .......................................................................... ..................... *3,100 00
ROLLED GOLD W ATCH CH ARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH
PIC K S................................................................................................... ................... 57.T*1 #>
LARGE PICTURES (14x28 Inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing,
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2 6 1 ,0 3 0 P R I X t S . A M O U N T IN G T O ....................................................... $ 1 7 3,2 6 0 OO
Tbs shove articles will be distributed, b y r*,unties, among parties who shsw SPEAR
HEAD Plug Tobacco, end return to ue tbs T I \ TAON taken therefrom.
W s will distribute s s a ot these prises tn this ron n ty ss follows:
t o THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD
TAGS from 1*1» e e a stjr we will give.....................................................1 GOLD WATCH.
To the FIVE PARTIES sending ue the next gresteet number of
SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to esch, 1 OPERA G LASS... A OPERA ULAWBKR
to the TWENTY PARTIES lending ue the next grestest number
& .“ f 1 AB HBAD TA0^ . ”
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.30 POCKET KNIVES.
t b tbs ONE HUNDRED PARTIES »ending us tbs next gresteet
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to esch 1
ro lled
gold
w atch charm
Total Number o f Frisco for this r o n n ty , M A
CAUTION.—No Tag» will be received before Jsnnsry 1st, 1*4, nor »R ct February 1st,
IMA Each paeksge containing tee* must be merked plainly with N e a r of Aendor, Tows,
County, staler sod Number <Vf Tags In aach package All chargee on packages must be
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A Lutheran Garman Church.
German residents in Puris who belong
to the Augsburg confession are to have
a handsome new oh arch. It is estimated
that out of the 40,000 Teutons in the
French capital 25,000 follow the Angs-
bnrg rites. There is at present a German
Evangelical church In the Rue Chauchat,
and also three smaller places, where di
vine worship is held under difficulties.
The new church will therefore bo a
great boon to those for whose spiritual
needs it is intended, and Pastor Frisins,
who has Initiated the undertaking, de
serves the support and sympathy of all
his fellow countrymen in Paris for his ef
forts.
a
He has gone to Berlin and has seen not
only the head o f the Aug burg consis
tory. but heo been received by the emper
or, who has given him *.000 marks to
ward the funds for the construction of
th# needed edifice. Nearly all the Ger
man princes—Catholic aa well ss Prot
estant— have sent subscriptions to ths
good work.—Paris Cor. London Tele-
graph
t o o t h p i c k ...............................i ® t o o t h p i c k r .
to the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES «ending ue tbe next greeteet
number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to esch 1
, .......... .
LARUE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.................................................. MO PICTURES
HEAD possesses more qualities of Intrinsic value than say other
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test, the touxbeet. th* rieheel. S P E A R H E A D Is
>log tobacco,
sny similar
shops sod styls on serth, which prbvas that Ithasesurbt th# popular taste sod pleases Ibo
people. Try IA and participate In tbe contact for prises. See that s T IN T A ® 1s on every
is rent Stans of SPEAR HEAD you boy. Send in tbs logs, no matter bow email the
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Vary sincerely,
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THE ¥ . J . BORO COMPANY, M iddlstowi », O h io .
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She—But love won’t buy rty clothes.
He—Your father’s love will.—Life.
r e a d .—SPEAR
A list of tbe people obtaining thaw prims la this county will be published la thlf
T h e m other, grandfather, grea t
gran dfath er and great-great grand
fath er o f a 6 m onths old baby at
Rural R e tre a t Va.. all live under the
sam e roof.
Balt and w ater ia one of the best
rem edies fo r sore eyes and if applied
in tim e w ill scatter the in flam ma tio o .
Sponge morning and evening with a
preparation made of one U blespocofol
ot carbonate o f soda and a half plat at
fa it in the universe as we know it. The
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
mothers o f the land are weaving in hand
looms the tapestry which will a hundred Two Extremes o t Eeililon Dellaeoted. w d
You Take Y oer l ’ iek.
M A R IO N H A R L A N D O N T H E IN F L U E N C E years hence be labeled the history of the
th is is the time for every girl to de
last decade of the nineteenth and the first
O F T H E H O M E S O V E R E IG N .
of the twentieth century. While advo cide whether she will bo a flat or a fluff.
Perhaps yon don’t understand those
cates for and remonstrants against female
D rafts Upon H er M ental, M oral and Nerv
suffrage are blasting and counterblasting terms, but if you look at the picture
which
adorns this column yon will be in
ous Forces— Stu ff W h ich First Class W ives legislatures as to who shall make the
A re M ade O f— A Plea For Com m onplace laws and vote upon them our common formed.
A flat is another name for the tailor
f W o m en — Seem ing and Believing.
place woman is forming the men and
made girl. She is trimmed flat, stitched
women
who
are
to
live
out
those
laws—
(Copyright, 1888. by American Press Associa
flat, ironed flat. Not a rnflle or a wrin-
or defy them.
tion.]
Yet I am in weekly receipt o f letters
An English novelist casts a projectile
from women who are wives and moth-
across the Atlantic in this sentence:
“ The Arab who weeps when a female era who cry out against the limitations
child is born to him is perhaps more oor- set to their aspirations after a higher and
rect in his measurement of the sex than noblar life, and almost as many letters of
the American who is prepared to make inquiry to this effect: “ I have such and
her the spoiled and wayward sovereign such talents I have the witness within
me that I was made for something better
of his household."
A smile, ead or acerb, as the reader in- than suckling fools and chronicling small
clinee to optimistic charity with folly or beer. What is, in your judgment, my
to cynicism, stirs the lips o f the "sover mission in life?"
W o marvel at the ascendancy somo
eign" who has held the scepter long
enough to know for herself what the title women, uninteresting to ns, retain over
their
better educated, more refined chil
Implies.
It may be safely and deliberately as dren. Their boys and. girls know them
serted that the duties of the American better than we. W e see the seeming;
THE FLAT AND THE TLUIT.
matron, who is also mother and house they know the being.
Recognizing the solemn force of what klo mars the even tenor o f her stiffened
keeper, are more serious, draw more
heavily upon mental, moral and nervous I have said, and so mnch more to the gown. Not a feather or a flower nods
forces than do the stated tasks of any game effect that strength and time wonld above her sailor hat. She looks as if she
other class of women on either eide of fail were I to attempt to set it forth, had been cut out with a sharp knife.
A fluff, on the other hand, is gay with
the ocean. This I say in view of the re who, next to the mother. Is the most im
sponsibilities*. inseparable from the posi portant member of the household if not frills of lace and furbelows o f ribbons.
tion. the magnitude of the issnee in the daughter to whose hands will be She coquets from under a big, soft leg
volved and the meager facilities afford committed the thinking and acting of horn, over which all manner of flowers
peep at her face, and from head to foot
ed for the right performance of the task the generation yet unborn?
The stuff of which capital wives are she is Boft and cloudy and flattery.
The Eton jackets o f this season are
mode should be chosen as Mrs. Primrose
selected her wedding gown—for qualities elaborated in various ways. In some
that will wear well, which recalls the coses the revers are plaited so as to form
encomium gravely pronounced upon a ruffles. In others the jacket is lined
newly betrothed maiden the other day with a gay silk, which extends out over
by an elderly gentleman. He said ehe the revere and collar. Often the points
"was all wool, the same on both sides of the jacket in front are elongated and
and a yard wide.” W e laughed, but the tiny pockets are set in. Some of tha
compliment was worth having. Our girl most stylish suits have a perfectly flat
should be very much better than the pet piping of block satin, stitched in rows
and toy of the father, the idol elevated to around the skirt and on the revere. These
a sheltered niche by the mother and suits, in a fine quality of cloth, may be
hung with the laces and jewels her votary bought ready made for «29.50. Other
cannot afford to purchase for herself. suits range from the cheap flannels, at
There is too much of this shortsighted »3 or »4, up to the well mode serges at
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Idolatry in American homes
The strictly tailor made girl, however,
It behooves the mother who, forecast
ing her child's future o f toilful respon ia gowned in cheviot or whipcord or seed
sibility. would have her. as the apostle ed rep, with a wide, plain skirt, a jacket
his neophytes, "w ithout carefulness,” to bodice opening over a low waistcoat dot
question herself if she may uot be feed ted with white. Her shirt front is o f
ing her charge with drone’s instead of the stiffest and is, if she be a trifle ultra,
queen's honey. A yonng girl is so fair striped with horizontal colored bands
and sweet a thing, her glee in emancipa- and surmounted by a plain white collar.
MARION HARLAND.
tion from school and compulsory labor A novelty shown in some stores is a small
Her domain iu a microcosm, but at the so rapturous, her term of singlehood imitation vest front of pique or colored
probably so brief, that everybody spoils linen to be worn with a white collar in
beet inchoate.
Husbands point to the clockwork ma while enjoying her. For her the new ; place o f a chemisette.
chinery of store and factory and office. carpets are laid down, the furniture is i
A Spool Flow er Stand.
“ AU that the housewife needs.” accord rejuvenated, the hours of meals altered. |
ing to them. Hs rigid system, a firm She can be young but once, and this is i A pretty flower pot stand may be made
o f empty spools, after the manner sug
hand and a steady bead." In practice her heyday of existence.
the obedient wife finds rigidity yielding
The mother, who dismissed her com gested in the Illustration. Take two
like wax before the hot blast o f tempers plexion when her first baby came, ex
quickened by her ‘system." the reins changing drawing room for nursery
snapping in the firm hand, and the head about the same time, has only vicarious
aching to reeling with the effort to de satisfaction in the new order of things. If
vise ways and means by which to keep the family purse be inclined to leanness,
her family tolerably comfortable amid she turns last year’s gown that Flor
changes many and rows innumerable. ence may have the new costume the
That she does accomplish this; that out dear child longs for. wears 4 or even
of the material supplied she makes a 2-buttoned gloves that Madeline's may
home worthy of the name: that she reach all the way to the armpits, and if
manages and retains her servants for she gets a winter's outfit for herself does
months and years and supplements their it under protest and only that "the chil
deficiencies so cleverly that nobody sus dren may not be ashamed of their old
pects lack of supply, may not be an ar fashioned mother.”
Much may be said on the other side of
gument for what Quids styles "female
suffrage." It does prove that executive the question. The mether is blame
and administrative ability o f no mean worthy If she allows her children to grow
order is an essential among the quali away from her. The divergence may
NOVEL AND USEFUL.
fications for the position of house moth have begun very far back, perhaps •-aided boards and cut u bole In one of
er, and that she possesses these much when yon, her mother, did not think it them through which to put the flower
oftener than her detractors have the fair worth while to tell your little daughter pot. 8ecnre a quantity of empty spools
why you denied her permission to go to o f the same size, string them together on
ness to admit.
From attic to cellar she performs the a merrymaking attended by "all the small iron or brass rods. Wire a large
heaviest part of each servant’s task in other girls,” or when later you took her bead at the top of each column of spools,
planning, inspecting and revising. No sharply to task for letting a nice young (tain or gild to suit the fancy, and you
matter upon what member of the do fellow walk with her from school, and have an artistio receptacle for your fa
mestic force blame descends, she feels it administered to the boy, who only meant vorite plant
first and most keenly This same sense to be kind and civil, a snob which sent
o f personal accountability felt, without the poor girl to her room indignant with j
Cream Frlttsrs.
exception, by the guild is the one weight yon and pitying him to a dangerous de-
Six macaroons, 2 ounces sugar, grated
upon conscience and nerve which our gree. Whenever and however it hap- rind of half a lemon, 0 eggs, one-half
matron never lays by until the deathful pened. yon suffered irretrievable loss pint of cream. Pound the macaroons in
when your girl said to her sore, resent a mortar, then mix the sugar and lemon
body of mortality is dropped.
A profound pathos underliee the daily ful heart:
rind well with it. Beat the yolk soft
"There is no use going to mamma aud the whites o f 2 egg* to a strong
round of her for whom the Saxons in
vented the pretty name of “ loaf giver." with my affairs. She would not under froth, then add the cream and mix well
stand.”
So mnch mnst precede the loaf!
with the pounded macaroons. Fry the
The father provides
The mother
It is your duty and privilege to under fritters on both sides till a light golden
broods over, nourishes, dispenses, gives, stand. The need o f the daughter for the brown, sift sugar over and serve at once.
with both hands and a full heart, fer mother is a perpetual necessity, intensi
vently—give# royally not unto the half fy this dependence by every loving art ut
The Military Skirt.
but the whole of her kingdom The fa your call. Be merciful to her escapades,
The "m ilitary skirt” is cut in semicir
ther may build tbe house Withont the tolerant of her crudities. If you have cular form, the width o f the cloth being
mother nothing can make it a borne. If forgotten yonr own youthful follies, it folded to form the center of the front
the be absent, the family is a watch with would be well to resurrect anil review breadth. Exceptionally wide cloth or a
ont the mainspring that, coiled close be them. It will not be a pleasant but it alight gore added to the back seam on
hind uog and wheel, invisible to tbe care will be a wholesome exercise. Out of each side is newssary tv give a sufficient
less eye, controls the whole Frances the humiliation engendered thereby will fullness to this skirt. There is scarcely
Power Cob be tells ns that we are "human arise tender compassion, abounding char any fullness aronnd the skirt at the waist
beings of the mother sox. ” We accept ity for the peccadillos of the madcap —only enough to make It fit well at the
the classification gladly aud proudly
daughter, patience with the sentimental bock. The back breadth is not perfectly
It ia hardly a digression to introduce passages which are yet harder to brook. straight as it would be if tbe skirt were a
here the expressed regret that there baa If you are out strong enough to climb perfect semicircle, but it is gored off at
never been indited by able pen and gen- with her. keep her within easy speaking the top so aa to make the back seam a
erous heart a "Plea For Commonplace distance.
partial bias and reduce the fullness still
W om en"—women who are not handsome
If tLere be one tendency of advancing farther at the top. This skirt is also in
nor brilliant nor fashionable nor. even in age concerning which we should cry terlined to the knee with crinoline inns
the popular acceptation o f the term, in earnestiy. "G ood Lord, deliver ns!" it is lin and lined with silk.
tellectual; women withont stirring am intolerance with the young—with their
bitions or showy accomplishments, some- headlong blunders, their self sufficiency,
H ath!
times to the hypercritical eye withont their restivenea# under restraint, and,
Baby 1$ sleeping.
Hush!
any sufficient raison d'etre, yet who most trying of all. their patronage of
Mother ia creeping
make their homes happy, hold husbands ourselves. Yontli Is not a fault that we
Out o f the room#
true to noble ends and bring np sons should challenge it so harshly. The
Stilling the rush
and daughters to show to the generation errors of early life are inseparable from
O f i lie children'« feet
And the innocent, «weet.
following the beauty o f clean, beneficent Inexperience and rapid growth o f mind
Shrill sounds o f their pi*?»
Uvea Our Lord set the seal o f divine ap- and body. It ia our sin if, when our
Baby is deeping.
proval upon this class almost 1.900 yean children turn to na for counsel they can
Hush I
ago: "She hath done what she could.”
get nowhere else, we give them flint-
Baby la dying.
Thqjiotency o f wifely influence at its stones instead of bread, aqua fortis In-
Hnah!
height ia weak, its area narrow by con- stead of generous drafts of sympathy and
Mother 1$ cry inf.
There In the room.
treat with the part the mother plays in encouragement.
W atching the Uueh
molding the character and live# of tier
“ W e built that well,” sold an era Trier
On the baby*» cheek.
offspring. Herein lies her chiefest work, to the tourist in the shadow of that mir-
Clasping the i
Little hands In bar o * i
her mission par eminence. In it she Is in- acts of marbled mind—tbe Cologne ca-
Baby ia dying.
cotnparable. It may be true that there thedrai
Hoahl
ls no necessary man Under every roof
"W ^* — surveying the beplastered
Baby ta »leaping.
tree there ia one necessary woman, and blouse and hard banda "W hat had yon
Huahl
that ia the mother The sonla of her ba to do with it?”
Angela are keeping
bies are wax. and the graver ia never
“ I carried mortar for it three years!"
(»ward In the room.
out o f her hand. Tbe minds and hearts
Patiently «
8he who complains that tbe “ daily
The rcbellJooa soha.
of her grownup children are marble round, tbe common task," of the house
For Aomewhere, not here.
carved and lettered by her.
mother are Insufficient to satisfy the
The glortona, clear.
Ths mother makes the child. Like thirst of an immortal son! may comfort
other tremendous truths. It sounds trite herself by asking. “ What would these
T H E M U T IN E E R S .
Home! How the word thrills in a lonely
sailor’s heart, wandering to the ends of tha
earth In hourly peril of the elemental As I
leaned upon the quarter deck rail, casing
pensively st tha beautiful scene about me,
my spirit flew back to my own Nsw Eng
land home, where a beloved wife and two
bright children awaited me. The moon
shone down from a starlit sky, the reflec
tion dancing like stiver on the gently mur-
A>uring waters, while the forest giants of
the darkly outlined shore
" " i « l|( li
ing-me qiysteriously. .The soothij
the gentle sleep of natnrs wrapped their &
1
fluenoe round my eenses, and I slumbered.
From dreamland I again came bock by
imperceptible degrees to a realisation of
my surroundings, and as dawning eon-
set oasneM revisited my eyes I found them
resting Intently on an object floating just
below me. With a smothered exclamation
I shook myself and stared again. Surely
not s boat)
And yet such It was—a rude, native ca
noe St the mercy of the waves without oo-
>t or paddle. Than It rods right In the
' the reflected moon, peculating gen-
on the swell.
After the first moments of silent surprise
I naturally cost about ms for some expla
nation of the phenomenon. I scanned the
waters in sll directions and tried to pierce
the gloomy bleakness of the shore, but the
deeper shadows moving there were the
creatures of my own Imagination. No un
usual object met my view, and when I ran
my eyes over the deek I found It equally
dwferted.
However little credenoe I might put In
the idea of ghosts and goblins, I thought It
best to suppress the occurrence from my
more superstitious metes, and the next
morning the crew weighed anchor and
trimmed the sails for home In happy igno-
ranoe of the mysterious canoe.
But the affair rankled In my memory, and
I caught myeelf pondering on It by fits and
starts In a way that annoyed my own good
sense. Not that I was superstitious, for
the same good sense assured me that spirits
never made use of material objects in the
exercise of their erratic capers, but I dread
ed some mischief which I could sot define
to myself. And I was soon to learn my
fears were not without foundation.
A gloomy day of gusty winds and lower
ing clouds, rolled above each other like a
scroll, had settled down upon the sea
Damp, drizzling, penetrating, the very
masts and rigging seemed to reek and shiv
er under Its depressing influence, while the
men huddled together in their storm ooata
for the purely human desire of mutnsl com
fort and support.
I was pacing the quarter dock alone,
wrapped In meditation, whan a touch upon
my arm roused me. Old Jack Mar ley, my
first mate, stood at my side, his pblagmatlo
features Illumined by an unusual expres
sion of animation. He had wen suffered
his pipe to go out—a sure sign that some
thing was amiss.
“ Cap’n,” he said, ’’there’s foul work
afoot here. I've jest been down in the hold
an heard voices behind the false bulk-
"Voiceaf” I exclaimed.
“ Aye, aye, air!” he responded, nibbing
hie nose with vexation. “ There’■ four of
’em, mutineers, air, aa waa aet ashore on
the Guinea coast,” and then he went on
deliberately to reveal a plot which he had
overheard—a plot to seize tha brig—so dia
bolical in its details aa to bar description.
I listened in dumfounded amazement to
his narration, while my mind flew back
over the various auspicious circui
of the case, now made clear, with
contempt for my own lack of penetration.
The mystery of the empty boat was ex
plained—the convicts had stolen aboard and
secreted themselves while I was asleep.
When I roused myself and asked old Jack’s
counsel, he was ready with it promptly.
"You just let me apeak out, oap’n, and
I’ll spin you a plan that’ ll fetch them out
of there in a hurry. In the fust place, veer
the vessel broadside to the wavwa and let
the wind keel her over. Then let some one
sing out for tha lifeboats, and, mark my
words, they’ll scramble up quicker •• r
they went down. We can meet ’em at the
hatchway and bowl ’em over like so many
ninepins.”
No time wae lost in putting the plan Into
execution. I celled the men to me one by
one in order to avoid suspicion by any un
usual movement and Informed them of the
circumstances.
They certainly brought the ship about
with surprising rapidity, and aa she heaved
over with a violent lurch we stationed our
selves on each aide of the hatchway, armed
with ropes and oluba. I had given strict
orders that the rascals were to be no more
than knocked over, and when all waa ready
I directed old Jack, who had the most ter
rific voioe among ua, to sing out, and, my
conscience, he did!
“ Breakers! Breakers! Breakers to the lee
ward I”
Then I gave the orders in e furious shout
to lower away the boats, and while the
helmsman plunged her nose into the waves
my men raised an appalling yell that might
well give those below the impression that
pandemonium had broken loose.
The effect wae magical. We heard a vio
lent scrambling and cursing as of men in
dire terror, and immediately after seveml
dark forms appeared rushing for ths deck
—ugly looking customers even by the dim
light.
Having seen my prisoners secured, I had
the brig put about on her course again and
then led them below, where I questioned
them. But why attempt to depict their
mad ravings, beginning with dire threats
of vengeance and terminating in cowardly
appeals for mercy? We could get little sat
isfaction out of them and concluded, after
a brief discussion, that out safest course
would be to send them back whence they
had come.
,
Our course lay in the track of vessel» en
gaged in African traffic, aud we were so for
tunate a few days later as to fall in with a
•hip bound for the coast. Tbe captain will
ingly agreed to take tbe prisoners tn hand,
and the «ea being calm we lost no time In
shifting their berths. Not until then did
we sleep In peace.
Well, the voyage terminated satisfactorily
to all concerned, but you may rest assured
that taught me the lesson never again to
fall asleep whileon the watch.—C. C.
in Cincinnati Post.
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