Portland Library iX-AVKj PAPER limtiHiHiiitinuw nwiimHnimun OFFICIAL i MY SUCCESS I a Is owing to my liberality in ad- vertising. Robert Bonner. ' ; FREQUENT AND CONSTANT Advertising brought me all Ij own, A. T. Stewart. 1 1 II I II II 1 1 III I II 1 1 II I l.l Mil I MMUM mwtt 'iTiiuiiiiMut.iMiiniiimuil THIRTEENTH YEAR HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1895. I WEEKLY WO. 646 I SEMI-WEEKLY NC,3M.f OF s. SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE. PUBLISHED Tuesdays and Fridays BY HE PATTERSON PUBLISHING COMPANY. OTIS PATTERSON, A. W. PATTERSON. Editor Business Manager At $2.50 per year, $1.25 for six months, 75 ots. lot three moucas. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. THIH PAPER is kept on tile at E. C. Dake'n Advertising Agency, 64 and 65 Merchants Exohangs, Ban Francisco, California, where cou raote for advertising can be made for it. Union Pacfic Railway-local card. No. 9, mixed, leaves Heppner 3:30 p. m. daily except Sunday. Arrives at Willows Junction 6:20 p. m. No. 10, mixed, leaves Willows Junction 7:15 S. m. ArriveB at Heppner 10 p. m. daily except iinday. East bound, main line arrives at Willows Junction 1:46 a. m. West bound, main line, leaves lllows Junc tion 12:15 a. m. West bound Portland fast freight with pas senger coach leaves Willows Junction 6:38 p. m. and arrives at The Dalles at 12:01a m. Here passengers from the branch lay over till 3:15 a. m. and take the fast mall west bound which ar rives at Portland 7:25 a. m. The Dalles and Portland passenger leaves The Dalles dally at 2:15 p. m. and arrives it Portland 6:30 p.m. Leaves Portland 8:00 a. m. daily and arrives at The Dalles 12:15 p, m. This connects with the east bound way freight with passenger coHch which leaves The Dalles at 1:30 p. m., arriving at Willows Junction 6:58 p. m. OFFICIAL DXK.ECTOXaTT. United States Officials. President Grover Cleveland Vice-President Ad ai Stevenson Hscetary of Htate Kiohard 8. Olney Heoretary of Treasury John Q. Carlisle Secretary of Interior Hoke Smith Beoretary of War Daniel 8. Lamont Beoretary of Navy Hilary A. Herbert Postmaster-General William L. Wi'son Attorney-General J udson Harmon Secretary of Agriculture J. Bterling Morton State of Oregon. Governor W. P. Lord Beoretary of State H. H. Kincnid Treasnrer Phil. Mehtchan npt. Publio lnatroction (t. M Irwin Attorney General C. M. M'eman ( G. W. MaHride ( G. W. Mo. 3. H. Mi ( Hinger Her Dounium J J. H. Mitchell ( Hinger Hermann V VUKreonuieu 1 W. K. Ellis W. R. 1 W. , Printer.. W. H. Leeds i Supreme Judges., ( R. B. 1 O . A. ! I C. E. 1 R. B. H win. , Moore, Seventh Judicial District. 1 Otcfenit Jide W. L. Bradshaw ... I'joastouting Attorney... j.. ..,.... A. aY. Jajius Morrow County Officials. i Joint JBenator... ... ........... A. W- Qowaa. Reprosentative. J- B. Boothhy ''mnty Jndge Julius Keithly ' CommiMinners J.H.Howard J. M. Haker. m " rierk .T.W.Morrow " Sheriff G. W. Harnngton " Treasnrer Frank Gilliam Assessor J. '. Willis " Bnrveyor Geo. Ixird ' School Bup't Anna Halsiger " Coroner T.W.Ayers, Jr HEPPNIB TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor Thou. Morgan Ciuncilman O. E. Farnsworth. M. l.ichtenthal. Otis Patterson, T. W. Aysra.Jr., S. 8. Horner, E. J. Blocuin. ..... Itaoiinler F. J. Hallnck rriHisnmr E. L. Frwlsticl Marshal A. A. Roberts Pre met Officer. Justice of the Psao E. L. Freeland Constable N. . Whetetone United States l.nd Officers. TBI DALLES, OE. J. F. Moore ltegister A. B. Biggs Kajoeivnr LA OBASDt, OE. B. F, Wilson Raster J. H. Robhin Receiver ESXrT OOCIXTIES. KAWLINB POST, NO. 11. G. A. R. Mta at Lexington, Or., the lut HaturtUy of ark month. All veterans arc Inrltorl to Join. : C. Bonn. Geo. W. Smith. Ailiotant, tf Coin mender, L U M BE It ! tTt HAVK FOR HALR ALL KISDH Of CN m drtiHl Lumber, l miles of Ueppnar, al what Is known as the SOOTT 8A.WMZZjIj. PER 1,000 FEIT, KOl'MU, mm m CHAR, I t 00 i; 4o TF PKUVERFD IN HFPPSER, WILL ADD X S.VUD par I.UU llwl K'cliuonsl. 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Kinfa II. .m I., m.ka .. - U.e h,,!. l t U u in. i l li n,..,ine J.4al U.e rt l.t U na i ik i l I r ti. ir.aT Juat f urUt any Uuv cL owe' "I Uie '-icrlttua e ' j .,.', f l l- , tt'1 tr li). new ( A t -ee aW:atr'. v. -a I ..t t .a ! 1,. a." aw..,....,.- i v ... ta ..i I...II. .. S ttaa4M. I'., a .. . ' M a-a.aav v . a Mvf c Hef. I. a lal I" a. a... a a a aa. l 1,, 1 -I I I n. t.a M.a l. S' L -a a .a. a . ... a a- a - I a... 4 faai tlth Su Ntw York. I I iJ, iCSt.i... til !! '. I, ita s I rl A TERRIBLE FALL. Ed C. Allen's 6-year-old 8on Now Lies in an Unconscious State. Little Diok Allen, boo of Ed 0. Allen, proprietor of the Golden Rale, lies in an UDconeoious state at the hotel, says the E. O., constantly watched and at time passing through severe convulsions. Friday evening a 4 o'clock he was play ing about the balustrade on one of tbe upper floors and fell to the first floor, striking on bead and shoulders. It can not be said whether he was on the seo ond or third floor, as no one was near him at the time of the aooident, and the first that was known, the little boy was picked np by a gentleman standing near and carried np to a room on the seoond floor. Medioal attendance was secured and as complete a diagnosis as was possible was made. There were no broken bones, though the physicians fear the skull is fractured. All the night long the oot valsioDS continued, bat toward morning the patient rested easier and theoonvul sions came less frequently. There ap pearB to be small room to hope for re covery. Halfway up the first flight of stairs there is a dent in the woodwork which is thought to have been made by the boy as he fell and bounded back, striking on the fl or on his head out of the range of the opening down through the winding stairway. Whooping Congh. There is no danger from this disease when Chamberlain's Oough Remedy ia freely given It liquefies the tongb mu ous and aids its expectoration. It als lessens the neverity and frequenoy of paroxysms of cougbing, and insures a speedy reoovery. There is not thd least danger in giving the remedy to children or babies, as it oontaios no injurious substance For sale by Slooum-Jobn son Drug Oo. LATE LITERARY NEWS. "O. will he paint me the way I want, As bonny as a girlie, Or will he paint me an ugly type, And be d d to Mr. Nerll. But still and on and which ever it is, He is a canty Kerlie. The lxrd protect the back and neck Of honest Mr. Nerll." Tbis, one of the latest verses ever written by R ihert Louia Steveoeon, is in reference to tbe portrait of himself, which in given to the publio with hie verge for the Qrst time in the July Cos mopolitan. Tbe lines m'tibt have come from the pen of Birn aud are inimita ble in their way. Tbe portrait was de clared by Htevenson himself to be the bfst ever painted of him. In this same number of the C"Btuop"itHn 1? ml yard Kipling tells an Indian atory, to whiol Reminxton adds charming illustration; Mrs. Barton Harrison makes a si riout study of New York society in ''The Myth of the Four Hundred," aud Kale Dong laa Wittgin contributes a story of one nf the moat delightful of Welch retreats. The Cosmopolitan was with this number retluoed to 10 oeuts per copy, anil as a cnnsiqoence, notwithatandiiiK ita large editi'n, It was "out of print" oo the third day of pnlilioa'ioo." A isabtt wt uKKTLi A yonng lady created a street sensation a few evenings sinoe by olutohlng wildly at one ol ber balloon sleeves, throwing ber self into the arms of ber escort and split. ting the atroosphsra into shingles with s snoneaaion of shrieks of the nvisl blood- rurdliog rl araoter. iinr escort bad all lm eoald do to support the sufferer, but passer, seeing ber wildly leering at ber aleeve, ripped il tiff with an amount if energy and alarnly that showed he was perfeotly willing to rip every rsg off ber, if neneamsry. He was not railed oo to do tbie. as in tbe voluminous fnldaof tbe diaeevered sleeve was found tba cause of all the trouble a monster witb claw like a lobster and goggle eyes, long prickly legs and a gl-aay back in abort, one of thoae huge water beetles wblob flume out at night lo J-iio in a fairy dance around the are lamps "II till me, ws ell Ilia eiotien tba )ooog lady bad fur ber natones, but tbe clomat search rs vealed oo arra'ch or puncture of lbs snowy skin of bar shapely arm, ami, hastily pinning oo lbs unfortunate aleeve, h gave tbs arm It oover to In r ea eirt and gut nut of aiglil as quickly as poaaibls. Orrg itilan. Twa Mvea Hve4. Mra. I'brietM 1 bonus, of JtlCCtjon City, III., was lol.l by her doctors she bad cxitianinplloo and that Ihera waa on bopa for ber but Iwo bottl-a of Ir. Kiiig's New lliaiviVery rompletely cured ber and Sha Sts II saved l.ef life, Mr. Tlioa. FWgera. i:tn Florida Hi., Han FrannMvi, n(T'red from a dreadful rl1, ..noli Itig eaiiianmpt oo, tiled without1 regi eeer)llttig ! then b'lUglil nna Ifittle of I King's New Iheeovrry at4 In two wea-ke woa rnd. lie Is tiatuaally lliabk lul. Ilaaeiili raaulte, ol wbirti ttiei ere orriplee, II, at prove tt.a Wondetfol eITi 'aey of this rn.iclr.e in sniielii and I e.. I-. trial hMa al T W Ayera. ! ' , drug store. IWgulsr site .'), and I- ! "II rkv M'.nol.tu" Htm'h baa taken ! h' l I f IU adit-rial fair s of Iba Mitchell i Mfa tr. Unco- a l fartiifb. If yen want lor.nl ableaelenr get re ,ir.loe..n, k F.t.nls at h I iMi e- lie. a 7 mf .. -I ri a t 1 u ' t e ' r' - l -at t- l-aj' Ca., I lt,,g bavlly auHaooH. THE ROSE JAR. I remember In my childhood, in a quaint, old- fashioned room. A rose-Jar, flushed with crimson, like the colors of the dawn; It stood upon a little shelf, filled to odorous brim, With roses that hid blossomed in the sum mers past and gone. Oh, what a charm swept o'er me, when some times sitting there, I held the ir in careful hands, and breathed Its fragrant scent; I heard the bees go humming, and 1 felt the breezes blow, I saw the river flowing where the drooping willow bent. Sweet friend, you say the roses that bloomed for you are dead, You only have the withered leaves to hold within your heart; The summer's warmth has gone, and the golden suns hi e fled. And the snows of oruel winter, their blasting chill impart. I only know that now and then, your heart has stood ; jur, And thoughts like perfume sweet and rare across your soul have swept; Dear thoughts, like summer blossoms, swift thoughts, like eager birds. Shy thoughts, like blue-eyed violets, where summer showers have wept. Then keep the withered rose-leaves, preserve them in your heart, Their perfume blesses other lives with thoughts of summer hours; And friend, dear friend, though winter snow lies white and chill to-d.vy, Yet, after winter comes the May, and sprlnf time brings the flowers. Gussle P. Dubois, In Chicago Interior. CAUGIIT BY A CLAM. BY CHARLES STCAKT IB ATT. "One does not usually repard the clam as a dangerous animal," re marked my friend, Jack liallantine, as he shook a silver pepper-box over a plate of the delectable Little Neck bivalves, "yet the narrowest escape of my life was from a clam." Jack Ballantiue was an old school mate. I remembered him as the ad venturous spirit anjonff the boys, but had not seen him since we graduated from the Latin high school, a dozen years before, till that very day. Coming down town to business in the morning, I had met him face to face by the frog pond, and we had engaged to dine together and bring our life-stories up to date. "Not being a dyspeptic, or otherwise impaired in your body," said I, smiling across to his sturdy bronzed face, "your terrible clam could hardly have been of the Little Neck sort." "Hardly," replied liallantine, with a laugh. "The clam tlmt captured me would have made a meal for a regular fairy-tale giant. It weighed probably twenty pounds, and its tremendons sheila four or five hundred pounda more." ' "You must mean tho giant clam of East Indian waters'?" observed I, in quiringly. "I believe the single shells of that great bivalve are somotimea used for holy-water fonts in Catholic churches." "Yes, and In the islands of Oceana for babies' bathtubs," said liallantine. ll.o purncuiar li.ilao.i gigus in ciucn- tion. however, with which I had a brief but fearful acquaintance, was alive, and a dozen fathoms deep in tropic waters in the Torres strait, between Queensland and New (iuinca." No, while we waited the next course, Rallantino la'gnn the atory of bis ex traordinary adventure. "I believe you went to your uncle in London, after our Latin school ac quaintance," remarked I. "You wrote me on arriving there, but not after ward." "Yes. Uncle Ilalluntlne bad mining and pearling intercuts in Queensland, and I went out aimont immediately aft er reaching laoiuhm. I was located at Cook tow n, on the northeuht count." "The region and the life were full of Interest to me, and 1 soon In-calm fain lliur with mining on hind and M nrling at aca. We had quite a licet of luggers -vi-HM-la of live to twenty tons, two abort mnata, and miuim-d with crew s of half a dozen natives, Kanukaa, Japs, Chinese, or Malays, mayUt. 1 "One of our captaina waa an old Nan tucket whulcr, and I now and then went out to the liahltig (trounda with bim. "On onn of these) pearling trips we went up the coa-tt, around ( ao York, Into Torres atrait. It waa them i bad toy narrow eM iiN- from a clam. "Almohl at the start we at ruck rich bottom, and our diver waa bringing up three or four hundred pairs of (.hells a lay worth about that number ol dot are. Hy the end of the month we bad a cargo of eight or ten lone. Of rourvi (he inolher-of M-url lining of the ahella 1a the bread and ImtU-r of the bunim-ita. The round p- ar I-. of the Jeweler am thn cake (or perhnp-t I xhouhl aay thn pio, larliig in New Lngland ) "I always it id have an IrrealMiblei tlealre to pet at the inoideof thing, and 'aaa tba AlieeU go round.' and I bad long wanted, fur onre at !-at, to touch ileep-kea twit torn, and la hold the mar- Vi la of whirl) Int. I beard. "Thn ci.pt 1 11 tried to ill-juiadr me. lie hod been a diver himself, and knew ' from personal nicouiilcr the dangers of the des. cut. Iiut sa usual. I had my own way, though il waa tuglt to bring for the last time j "At last the farn glass was art In place, and I trpv over the aide of the lugt'er. I allppa-d off the wet lower ; round ant sank. sank, down, down,! down. Into the depths of water. "That sudden delirious drarent waa measured by ereotida, Jet I lived an ag of vision and aensai.on, a a drown ing man does-all the oighlinare Im agining tha rapiam a black talea and warrilng had pr.Jcted Into my ilrrsin of the ti ght twfore Seiil about to liej realised In double terror then, la a Dash, all mental distress waa blotted but by overpowering pbyakal acnsat.oua, u2 rauog presa- j VawUieli Vm l.ua.l.00 cbea,b.r 1 wars par y'..a- I a!rugjf,ea aamoiieaii, I ? t f' at-' 1ie a," ,!l I i 'l pe . , e ,r :'t,,, tt. am.' e, a.i-l wet.t, la.ni ,tij iiof t'.e a. oottuta l.e a IbJs rubier Highest of all in Leavening Power. I U We? Absolutely pure "In the midst of this exhilarating spurt I pulled up suddenly. "As if it had instantly materialized from the sea water, I was face to face with a gigantic shark. I quickly re membered, however, that while naked native divers are occasionally devoured by these demons of the deep, they never attack the armored diver. "Indeed! I fancy now that the shark was quite as startled as the diver, for after a second lie wheeled and glided off to one side. "As I started on once more I was stopped a second time, not by an ob stacle before, but by a sharp pull on the air pipe behind my helmet, which jerked me over sprawling on ray back. "My first thought was that the shark had attacked me in the rear, but on scrambling to my feet and facing about I saw that the air-pipe, which, in my first sudden stop, had probably slack ened till it lay on the bottom, was ap parently caught against some protrud ing object. "I hastened back to release it, when, to my surprise, I found it held fast be tween the shells of a giant clam. "I gave the stout wire-lined tubing a twitch, then a strong pull, bracing my feet against the great bivalve. Then I clutched the rims of the shell and strove to separate them. Iiut the vise-like jaws were relent less. As easily 1 might have rended a granite ledge at some seam in its center. "Then I turned to the life-line tosig nal the tender in the boat. As I did so I saw that it, too, had become slack, and was tangled in a branching coral. 1 dashed forward to disengage it, but before I reached it I was agaiu twitched backward by the air-pipe. "Then, for the first time, I realized the full significance of the situation. My air supply was stopped, communi cation with the upper world cut off, and I, Jack liallantine, in all the vigor of young manhood, chained to my death at the bottom of Torres strait. "And now a sudden sense of suffoca tion warned me that my struggle was limited to seconds. "In a flash of memory I recalled the tale of one like disaster, where the diver cut his air-tube with a dash freed his life-line, and was drawn up half dead, iiut I had no knife; in that sud den backward fall I had lost hold of it. "Then, as I lifted my eyes in a lust tlcspainng seurch for succor, I beheld, resting in the branching coral before me and to this day I marvel at the miracle of it an iron bur, pointed at one end a veritable crowbar. "In an instuntl was prying at the laws of the giunt clam, with the lever ugu of the bur and thu strength of des peration. For a sutTocating moment the struggle was unavailing, then one rim split away and the pipe was free. "1 turned toward the life-line, stag gored and fell across it, insensible! "I NupiKttte the weight of my falling body gave tbe line thn one jerk which waa the signal to tho tender to 'pull up.' Anyway, the tndrr got the sig nal, ami tini next l anew l wu. .. on the deck of the lugger, the old Nun-tuckeU-r on bin knees at my side, and all the acared crew atanding alioiit." "Truly a most extraordinary tale, as well aa a tcrrililo experience," I ex claimed, aa Hiillnntine ended his story, and the waller brought on the dessert. "That crowbar, for instance, is a strain on an everyday businessman's creduli ty," and I looked past my friend's fuca to the bron re face of l'rauklin across the street. "And yet it la only another Instance of truth stranger than fiction," assert ed Hiillnntine. "Why, thn first time the old Nantiicketer 1 hove mentioned I went down, on recovering from the du.n of audden descent, ha aaw In a crotch of the coral la-fore him a bottle of pale ale, and If a Ihmt, why not a crowbar7" lhmton lilobe. A FAMOUS PAINTING. The Enarmoae Raneora Mfrertx) for Iba I'lrlsr el at. J.ruane. tin the throne of M.xletia was aa Austrian archduke; Ma government waa remorselessly shattered a"d vir tually destroyed. The ransom waa fixed at ten million francs and twenty lUeii at len million francs and twenty of the liest pictures In the principality. Hut on that or l a rin a waa a r-pamsli prinee wilh whose housei Frame had male one trrltty and hoaei to make a better one. The grand duke, there fore, waa graciously allowed to pur j chase an armistice by an enormous but ossilile roiitrihiilion or two millions in money together with provlsioua and horses lii quantity. The famous M Jerome of 1 orrrggio waa anmng the twenty painting aalrd in Modern. Tbe arelcluka repeatedly offered to ranaotn II fur one million franc, the amount at which Ita value waa eall- iimUi.l, but hi request was not graoled. Nr it renin llologne and IU aurioutid Ing territory. brnli bad been the tyranny of ee rleslastiral control that the subjects of the ope In that most ancient and fmou seal of learning welcomed the French with unfeigned joy; and the fairest J.irtion of the papal stales passed by It own desire from onder the old yoke. The Successor of hL l eter wa glad to ransom his capital by a payment oomlnallr of twehty-oti mi 11. on frst.es. la reality It waa far , evi for b,e galleries. I.ae tho of , Modene. were strip,.. 4 of their gerna. wnoe tim mmi e is.-! in government - -r ' I v . ' '-a -. .If . r.t I" ciitri. pUitrf '1. U Hat Ol tal Vsl-ie f .itt.r ! I to I' u' ii' t ic li in h , I 1 '"II. A'l II. a. H-pita-m'to e. wai 1 a largmuii, t;, 1 aMiUaliaa laOa '"llaa af-iale Latest U. S. Gov't Report Powder tice," he wrote to Paris on June 21, 1796, "being concluded with the dog star rather than with the papal army, my opinion is that you should be in no haste to make peace, so that in Sep tember, if all goes well in Germany and northern Italy, we can take posses sion of Rome." Prof. Sloane, in Cen tury. AN vJcJD uMiolT. At Which a Fashionable Londoner Barlael Hie Bachelorhood. Most men experienced in dining out have attended what might be aptly called "crank dinners" where some hobby came into play or an odd eccen tricity was grotesquely indicated. One of the queerest banquets of this char acter took place a few years ago at a fashionable restaurant in London, where an acquaintance engaged a cab inet particulier to celebrate what he called the "burial of his bachelor hood." The table was laid with a black satin cloth, the flowers in the epergnes were immortelles, the menu was written in a dead language on mimic tombstones, the name of each guest was inscribed on a cardboard coffin which opened and contained a dark cigar to represent a corpse ond the wine appeared draped in crape and was served by mutes. When the guests arrived they came in two mourn ing coaches drawn by huge black horses with long tails, such as one sees wending their way to the cemeteries. The host was dressed in deep mourning, wilh sables around each arm. He was evidently in some respects a morbid man who reveled in his mortuary wit, for when tho mana ger of the restaurant knocked at the door (it was getting late) and desired to know if tho obsequies were quite over the giver of the feast was reading the burial service with mock solemnity over an empty claret bottle. He addressed the manager as a "potent, grave and reverend seignior," requested one of his guests to play him out to the strains of the "Dead March in Soul" and protested that the dinner could not be completed "until it was half mourning." Tills comedy or farce, interlude or whatever one may call it, was kept up to the very end by the convives departing ns lugubriously and solemnly as they had entered. I ENGLISH WOMEN. A Tribute to Them from the Pen of On of Englaiul'B Old toes. The Temps bus a correspondent In London who has evidently been most favorably impressed by the charms of the Kngllsh ladies, says the London Daily News. Nothing could be more ridiculous, he declures, than the fancy portrait of an Knglish womun as seen in the mind's eye of a Frenchman who knows nothing of F.nglund. Mussvt said: "Ah cold as an F.uglish woman," and the French picture her as a creature with enormous feet, a jaw like that of a gorilla, loiiy bands and a flat neck, wearing a round hut, a green veil, spec tacles, a plaid hhawl and loose, ill-fitting NtockiiigH, falling over Insula like those attached to a diver's dress. Such an idea could only have lieen produced, he declures, by hut red of i'ltt or the defeat at Waterloo. The gallant correspondent proceed to compare Kngllsh women with French women, not ut nil to the disadvantage of the furim-r. What smxTfl.-lril ob servers tuKc lor coldness m the Kugllsli women, be ili-elures. Is rcully calmness, no easy bearing, a Imld, grave, confi dent uiid nun ITi t.-. iniiiini-r, which ex cludes coquetry In favor of N'rsoiial dignity. The lmduii woman, he adds, Is brought up in a spirit of imleM-nd ctue which la wanting In French fe male education. She may appcur a lit tle more muuulsh, crhapa, hi conse quence, but one gets used to this, and one finds aim la none the leaa pretty or fair or fresh-colored or graceful or tender. THE FUTURE OF CHINA. John Will Now Kaplilly fall la with the) I sleet Imlueirlal Methods. The hinese have a grand old litera ture and philosophic Ih.Us by thn aide of whlili I'luto ami lim Memora- i oiiia of Narrates scent mere iin- I cliures. Tliet bou se are rssi'iitlally re rsM'titlall a literary and aesthetic people, although they, t', can boast of iiimii.v cmiipaigna and a-i hiti' tural Uioiniini tits. 1 In r public liuililms In brl k are few, but I liusa- iii imi l st ill Lll us with admira tion, '1 In Ir tni lii ...ns are wholly op m . to ours. 'I In ir tradition are very old, very theoretical. I.uthiirous traditions, grown up la the rough pr tuc of life, ate tnurw easily di.plue tlmll th'aset which bate their root imla-d led in an an- lent but ever gre. n pliihasopliirnl literature. Hut when the public examinations, on whh h sin . In life ! ieuds. aha!) eeaiae, lio loatla r by what blow, to rain fine tin um Wcs lo I hlncsat rlawii-e alone, linn tontlcmau John will ! noma aa laborious. ! iie aud enterpris ing In modern sir and finance and poll'-y. and in. Mary and Imlualri. mctliodaand training, a humble cma John air'a-ly Is In lio,.! 1 ping In halt Francisco and Australia and the htra.t. Then we ahail have Vt k out An atu.ri.ry at L fprlnp-a, Mo., uri tho ni'r.l loya! S'nl atrbtil marriage re-renaony pronouncel In th t'totaa.1 s-n'.a is tbe i.ne iim l.y a ("la ..o. r j 1 ( 1 . ft: 1- ,1 1 , n I,. U run i I t. . t ht ., , i of ( ' ' 1" . .ii of the B'cl ll.at ) c Wi.J vUlai of tiUaV k. I 1. f4 ) taSI I. .1 si , cf M li. f .a J- rf 1i 1 a- ! - f ea