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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1900)
W Tf ? rr nn iMtr allot CM GP S3 IS laOOD-LOOKINQ MEN WANTED cffSUEP 0J THE CARS. p 1 e e 0 w e CrpIIAT Is provoklngl" II The exclamation escaped my lips tn spite of the fact that I was traveling alone. Yet not alone. Tor In the seat with tne sat n pretty young traveling com piuilou, oue whom 1 hail not seen be fore and who must have come In ami occupied the place while I had dozed off. Yes, I had heen tlve minutes asleep. and in that brief interval there had hap pened something which caused me to exclaim la the way I did. When I lay back my head In the fast whirling train, to think a moment, I held In my hand a photograph. It was In a cahluet envelope, and, strange to say, I had not yet looked nt It. I leaned forward In the seat and tried to search the aisle past my traveling companion, then I looked under the seat, then back of It. "It must have fallen out of the win not get Into conversation with hor, for she kept putting tne off and engaged In a running lire of words with some stu pid young cousins of hero. I could not QnniUninr, Vluoroim Persons Desired for 1'iiMitloiiN nf I in i r l ii itcc. "Wo hear n lot of talk of pretty ivomen getting nil the best positions ait? dorks, stenographers, and ho on," re narked thu tindeislxod llttlu nmn to his (hum. "It never scorns to occur to leoplo that good-looking men get all he best Jobs In men's work. Hut they lo. A tall, portly, well-dressed man ilt make his way with half the hialiu f an iuslgulllcant-looklug, carelessly lressed fellow. In nlnety-nlno cases lut of n hundred u successf ill pjlltlclau, jrofosslonul limn, or business man I ,!T,Z. ... handsome, or b.g'nnd 'tine looking.' as iviii aiv it itit iuu(iiivi iliiil till' derstnml girls. What Is the matter with hor? What have I done? Send mo back her photograph. I tlnd I am really lu love with her. Yours, "CHAULEY." The next day there came this letter by messenger: "Go with me to-night to call on her. I sent her some flowers this morning early. Half an hour later I saw the children carrying them to school those stupid little cousins, probably, to give Jioy say. "A few days ago a friend of mine lost i Job that pays $10,000 a year simply )eeauso ho Is homely and weighs only ISO pounds. A inauufactuier wanted u lupcrlutcndcnt In one of his mills. lie vrote to an editor, an old friend, lu Chicago, and asked lilm to recommend loinebody. Tho editor wrote back: .lames Gregory Ib tho very man for roil. IIo has had experience, ho In' lever, and I can recommend hint HEROES OF W 0 WARS ,? XrZl sent lo lilm liu bogitu ono of 1 , famous marches In lilsturv A . RODEnTS AND KITOHENER, WHO HEAD ENGLISH FOHOE8. Ono Keniicd ItittlyliiK Viinio In tho Colclinttiil March t Kiiniliihiir, tlio Other Won Glory on tlio llluoily HiiiiiU of the HiiiiiImii. The seriousness of tho war sltundon in .South Africa has stirred up Kuglnml as she has not been stirred up before In three-quarters of n century and has led to her ordering to the scene of lios tlUtles two of her ablest generals, Klold Marshal Iord Itoberls, ami MaJ. (Ion. Lord Kitchener, tho one the hero of Knnilahar. lu Asia, mid the other tho hero of Oimltirmiin, lu Africa. Lord ltoberts, who will assume chief command lu South Africa, Is the Idol of tho Ilrltlsh army, and Is popularly known as "Hobs." Ho Is regarded by tho military authorities of the lending countries of Europe as tho foremost llllllllin iini.tnvn ... iiinini'y OVfp i cilng ii) n tut tit I ii ni hitch mill ... hostile territory, straight front if.." tmrch j to ICiiiiiliilnir days. At lit" .'100 ItlllCH i'"d of tho to the teacher. You must go with me 'n)ux veuty years' acquaintance.' The iianuracturer telegraphed immediately lor Gregory to come nud take tho place. Sregory reported for duty nt a ninnu- That evening, unwillingly, but to picturing town S00 miles away. Ho to-uight. Maybe you can tell what Is tho. trouble. Yours desperately. "CHAULEY.' dow," I said to myself. At this the young lady murmured: "Have you lost anything?" "les," said I, "and, to make the mat tor more embarrassing, It was tho pic ture of a y.ouug and beautiful girl, the finest of her sex." "You pique my curiosity," said my companion. "Well, mine was piqued also," said I, "but, owing to my stupid fashion of falling asleep in a railroad train, I am afraid it will never be gratified unless I am fortunate enough to see the orlg- iginai some day." "How Interesting." said the pretty gin beside me. Seeing that she was In a mood to al low me, a chance traveling companion, to converse with her. I said: "It Is too utterly provoking!" Here I hesitated "Tell me about It," said she. "Well," said I. "as you prohably live In the East, and as I live In the far West, and as there is no probability of our ever seeing the people or even of Knowing, as rar as you are concerned, who they are, I will tell you about It. 1 think I can do so without Impropriety," laughed I, "specially an It Is a love af- lair, and all the world loves a lover." At this the pretty glr! looked Intensely eager, and I prepared myself to tell the story or tne lost photograph." "I can best begin," saia I, "by rend Ing you a letter." . Taking from my pocket a letter in a man s writing, I read aloud this para graph: "She Is a beauty, Ned, and no mis take. I am wild for you to come East and meet her. She Is a Southern girl, but comes North now and then to see her grandmother or mints, or something of that sort. Make3 her headquarters at Boston. "But that is not the best part of It, Ned. I could love her for her pretty face and for her good qualities. But. trutn to tell, I am loving her Just a little Sicily, Sardinia msu ior ner money. Think of it! A cool million, nil In her own name! Came into it last January. She Is very gen erousiy Inclined. Talks a great deal about charity and all that. But I think her charitable Impulses could be curbed. At least, I shall try It. "My chances are excellent. Her folks, oblige my friend, I called for him, and together we went to make a social call at the homo of his former friend, the young lady who had suddenly frowned upon bis suit. The house, a very lenutlful one, was gayly lighted, and from the Inside came sounds of music. "Looks as though they were having a party," said my friend. "They did not invito me." "Never mind; we will go anyway." A butler admitted us, and we were shown Into the parlor. There was a ripple of feminine laugh- tor, a rustle of silk skirts, and the next minute I found myself bowing low to the prettiest girl I ever saw. let her face was strangely familiar. and so was her voice, when she held out her hand and said sweetly: "I be lieve we have met before." "Why, why, so we have." I easned. forgetting my mnnners. For tlte young woman was mv trav eling companion of the week before. I think," said she, later In the even ing, when we found a minute to chat alone, "that I have some property be longing to you, I picked up tho photo graph as It fell off your lap. It had come out of the envelope, and seeing mat it was a picture of myself. I kent It." "You must have been Interested In the letter I read you on the cars." "I was." I will not try to picture the sumr-lse ui my inenu unariey, nor will I tell now i won tne girl, ivoro his best clothes and was through ! well groomed But Gregory Is small i ml pale and looks like n school boy. " 'I am James Gregory,' he wild whun lo nrrlved at the manufacturer's olllcc. " 'Oh, are you? Well, nh! tho fact Is. ill! the fact Is. Mr. Gregory. I didn't ?xpect ' And the manufacturer hook Ills head lu despair. " 'Expect what?' " 'Well. I thought you'd bo u big. line looking fellow. The fact Is, you won't lo nt all. Gregory. I'm sorry, but you won't do at nil. Why, the men won't so bossed by a man who doesn't weigh aiore than two sticks of Hour!' "That ended It. Gregory lost tho Job, uid ho was an expert, too, as rar iu tnowledge of the work In hand wns :oucerned." Chicago Inter Ocean. riKt.II MA 1IH1! AT. 110IIKIITS. Ilrltlsh commander of the Victorian era, his celebrated forced march to HOW HE GOT HIS CLOCK. Siivcd a Muii'ii Life Who Wim Dyliifc if (Jul nny. In tho hallway or n Philadelphia loctor's house stands a lino example or grandfather's clock, tho possession of which the medical ninir owes entirely :o a pinch or snuff, says the Philadel phia Itecord. Some yours ago the doc tor lu question set Ills heart upon such i timepiece, nud devoted two of hl mentions to clock-huntliig. He visited oiauy New England fnrnihouses with out success, as old rurulture lias been pretty well gathered up by the dealers down east," and then carried his juest Into Delaware and Maryland. where ho found many old clocks, but But I will mention that the proudest aonu of them for sale. ornament of my library table Is n enh. Inet photo from which the sweet face or my wife looks at me. and the cart. It has hnpponed recently thnt m. Albanian whoso relative had been killed Jiy a Turkish vizier shot the strictest of Boatnnlnn.. ilk. m i. L "- "' " m least a partial not Indifferent; writes to me regularly : ?"Z T f V'0 vMta Accepts the trifles I send herf Ami A,ab'a, th Ttem '8 ln f"'1 seems to think there may be somebody !V Wh,ch " 80 wo worth having up here in the .North, i V m, off-fllut to start even if she is a Southern girl. I tt of nre nirely committed. "Well, Ned, I deserve her. I can , a consI,I,iIble degree of order Is make n woman happy, thouch I nm i lh?rcb' ' Preserved. afraid that I should never have fallen 1 AS 11 18 Kcnel'a"' understood the ven so desperately In love with her if ahe (letUl orI8luatl;(1 ln the following prac had been poor. j t,cu: An assasslu wns never allowed "Good-by. Glad you are coming East ' to escaPe- TUo responsibility of punish fioon. I Inclose the picture of my beau- i ,nout wns nssuniel by the nearest blood tlful heiress. Send it back to me. I reIatlons of his victim. There must bo want you to see how she looks. Yours. t)l0011- a ucuth for a death. Now York Vendetta of tlio Present. It Is through lack of Information Him the vendetta is referred to to day as an institution of the past. Vendettas blood feuds exist to-day not only ln Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, but In Kentucky and other of the southern and western states, and a.'so nt rim. - hi England, Irelaud nud Trance, Italy throat that was choking him to death. Stliiitilnntfl were udmlnlstered and thu lick man recovered. Tho Philadelphia doctor left the place tho morning after this remarkable operation, but ho had not been home n IIo was about to return homo dls :onsolnte when ho wns called Into con lultatlouovcrapntlcutdylng of quinsy. The resources of medicine had been ex hausted, when the Quaker city doctor bethought himself of nn old snuffbox be had picked up during his wander ings, ln which still lingered n modicum of snuff, pungent ns of yore. With this powerful tobacco tho doctor assailed Iho nostrils of tlio sick man, who, sneez ing violently, broke the nbsccss In his week before the grateful Marylander lent him a grandfather's clock, tie lompnnled by n enrd, upon which was written: "This clock, which struck tho hour of my birth, would have tilso marked the hour of my death If your iklll and knowledge had not stayed tho Hand of the destroyer." ''CHAULEY" "Now. isn't that provoking?" said I. "I read the letter, took out the photo, laid back my head and fell asleep. Now, when I wake up, I find It gone." "That Is really too bad," said the ycung lady. "I can see how badly It places you. What will your friend what' wan his name Charley, say?" "Guess he won't worry himself to death," laughed I, easily; "ho can ask the young lady for another. Lucky doir. Charley always was." "Almost too lucky," murmured tho young lady sweetly; "one would hard- ly expect so much." "Well, Charley deserves It; he de serves an no will get." "Yes, all he will get," said the young laciy; "no seems so frank and all that sort or thing." After this the conversation branched out on general topics, and before loni.' the young lady began to gather up her traveling nag. "I get off at Brookline." "Allow me." And with nil graco I assisted her off the train, sorry to lose .so interesting a traveling companion. A few days later I received this lettet from Charley: "Dear Ned: The heiress Is stone cold on me. I went to call on her tho first night of her arrival north, and found her pleasant, but that was all. I could World. Objects to KootbnJI Hnlr. Phlneas T. Lounsbury, ex-governor of Connecticut and president of tlio Merchants' Exchange National bank In New York, is a Yankee of the old school. Some time ago an advertisement was inserted in New York papers that tho bank wanted a clerk. Several ap plicants presented themselves and were ushered into the private oUlce. where sat the doughty president in charac teristic attitude, his feet perched on the desk and a big perfecto between his wlskered lips. Tho cashier had decided on his man, when Mr. Lounsbury stop ped him with n gesture. IIo whispered a few words to him and tho clerk was not hired. Later It developed that thu reason for the president's action was his antipathy to tho applicant's hair, which wns of tho football variety and parieu in tuo middle. After this dlc covery it wns noticed that the colffuro of several of tho bank dandles under went a change and the Harlem barbers did an Immense business. When a man walks down tho street with a woman wearing a rnlnv day skirt he looks ns ashamed us if ho had been caught stealing something. Some men never cet done helm? mmi about Christmas. Kiuiy Dictioiinrlits. The first dictionary recorded In liter ary history Is the standard Chlueso dic tionary, compiled by Pa-out-sho, who lived about 1100 B. 0. It contained 40, 000 characters, each of which stood for a word, mostly hieroglyphic or rudo representations resembling our signs of tho Zodiac. This was four centuries before writing was employed by West ern people. Antlclldes, a contempor ary of Alexander the Great, published a Greek dictionary of tho words In an cient writings 1530 B. O. Another Chi neso dictionary wns produced about ICO B. C, nnd Varro's Latin compila tion of nn English dictionary wero made by Bullokar In 1010, and by Cockcrham in 1023, although a glossary Of old English words was prepared In or about 075. Boont of Lobsters. Lobsters can smell as well as animals that live upon tho land. A piece of do cayed meat suspended ln the water In tho locality where lobsters a to abun dant will soon bo surrounded by a greedy, fighting crowd. Alcohol in Lemon Extract. Lemon extract has become a favorite beverngo with tho Ponclia Indians, owing to tho quantity of alcohol which It contains, nnd it is said that thev have been able to got roaring drunk on a fifty-cent bottle. At 2 cents a mllo a trip to tho sun would cost $1,828,004.40. We under stand there will bo no cut-rato excur- etous this season. Kandahar constituting ono of the lin os t feats of English arms In modern times,. Lord I'rederlck S. ltoberts was born In 1&I2 and wns educated at the I loyal Military College nt Sandhurst. lie was only 10 yenrs old when ho went to In dia nnd entered the Bengal artillery as n lieutenant. Here he Inlsired un known to fame until the Indian muti ny, when he was attached to the col umn which was sent to nttnek Delhi, the forces of the rebellion. Tho posi tion of the small British force before the capital or the insurrection was ror mouths ti perilous one. l-'lghtlug was or dully occurrence, the mutineers hav ing nn Inexhaustible supply or ammu nition, ltoberts came under lire for the first time In n skirmish, when eight of his party wero killed and thirty wounded. Soon nfterwanl. In another or the engagements near tho walls or tho city, tho young lieutenant was hit by n bullet near tho splnu ns ho was helping tho drivers keep the horses quiet whllo limbering up the guns. A leather pouch had somehow slipped behind his back and prevented the bul let penetrating deeply. At the Hcllcf of I.ucknow. Arter the capture or Delhi ltoberts Joined tho army or Sir Colin Camn. bell, which ndvanced to the roller of Lucknow. When tho relieving army got close to tho rebel lines outside Lucknow Sir Colin, wishing to let tho British commander, Outrain, know of his progress, wanted n Hag raised on tho mess house. Within plain view of the mutineers, Lieut ltoberts climbed to the top or tho building, and, amid n rain or shot, raised the ling on tho turret nearest to the foe. It was shot away, and ho replaced it. Again It wns shot away, nnd he raised It again. But It wns not ror tills deed thnt Bob- erts won his Victorian Cross. That wns done nt Kliodagunge, .Inn. 2, 1838. He saw In the distance two sepoys go ing away with n standard. Piittlnir spurs to ids horse ho overtook them. They turned nnd presented their inns kets nt him, nnd one or the men pulled tho trigger. It snapped, missing lire, nnd tho sepoy was cut down by Bob erts' sword. The other mutineer rudo away, and tho young lieutenant brought tho standard back to camn. Tlio same day lie rescued a wounded comrndo under nlniost slmllur circum stances. In tho yenrs that followed tho muti ny ltoberts saw ulmost continual serv Ice. Ho was nt IJmebyln, In tlio fron tier campaign, ln 1803; In 1807 he had chargo or tho embarkation or tho forco for tho Abyssinian campaign. In 1871 and 1872 ho was tho senior staff ofii. cer In tho Luslml campaign, nnd from 1875 to 1878 ho wns quartermaster general. All his promotions wero "for merit" It wns toward the end of 1878 thnt tho great opportunity of Gen. ltoberts' career enmo to lilm. Tho Ameer of Afghanistan rebelled against tho au thority of Great Britain, and ltoberts was sent nt tho head of tho nrmy to subduo him. Ho carried tho enemy's stronghold nt Pelwnr Kotal with a splendid rush nt odds of almost 10 to 1. Tho next year tho nows of Sir Louis Cavagnnrl's murder In Knbul lint-rlflnrl nil T.'. ..In ...1 . .. . ' ""s'ii mm notions was called upon to lend nnother nvenglng force. With 0,000 men ho cut his way straight through tlio hostile In thirty dnys placed the British tlag crushed Ayooh Khnii, mm u,u einplro rung wllh (ho prnin(.N 0,7 mail who n few months befom ! been almost unknown, M Sliico then ltoberts lum nAnni through hiktossIvo sliigeN i0 tl(S tilfl.lll lt fMllltlllllllt,i. ! ..I.I... . 14. forces lu Ireland. Now in hU seventh year ho In culled uji,,,, lo , m Hi.. Iiiir.lnut ti.ulr . I.I. '! t.i.r .....,'n. ,,",. ... inn fill 1 1 tltf w ,,l .u. ' " irliiiM.i.r. ii,...., .f i.. li ... . . ' " ""'Willi, Lord Kitchener, elder or Mnrr Lord ltoberts, Is KiikIiiiiiI'n intent i; iimm iiiiuiiir iviir iiern. IllH MCC((J ml conquest of (ho Egypiian n,i,.i..l It'llll fMtf llllll (I 11.111, k III I...... . " ' ' " '-''Klllllll (0 . compared wllh (lint of Admiral (vr. in tins country, in return ror tfci services (leu. Kitchener iciidemt W country lu Kgypl ho was r.iUed t0 n, peerage nud whm voted u gift or tyju IUUI In- liu. Ilmtyii nf , ' Ho was born In Kerry County Im laud In IK.1I, nud nt the age f tMlilt. received his coiiiiiiInnIoii iih llctttemij: or engineers. For it long tltim ,0 w lu tho civil servlco In Kgypi, but lij 18.SU entered (he regular nervlc It! Egypt under Sir ICvelyn Wood, ,r(, wns then engaged In the rinrcntiln lion or the Egypt la n army. 0 fbl eel veil an appointment on the lntHftl geuco staff when the troubles In ti.! Soudan liimle necessary the illKtiatrtj of trustworthy English olllcer uoiigoin in iidvaiico or urd Wobt ley's Nile expedition fifteen years ag Thero Kitchener wiim always tin. selected for any work tint t deinninlfj great force of character. i-oinhlntJ with (net mid resourcefulness In iletl lug with Intrigues of dlsloyul olllcUli or winning over the ciders who warn cd between fear or Egyptian powti and u hankering nfter (he good tlilngi promised liy .Miiudlsiu. With the Nile expedition Kltehenefi promotion wns rapid. IIo became ou of the two majors of cnvnlry lu ItvSti was made lieutenant colonel in iym ami became colonel In ISHS. Ik. wtil lu command or u brigade or the Kgr'! Ian unity in the ojmtkiIhiih near Kim klm lu Decomlter. I.HSS, nud was prw cut In tho engagements ut Gemalul mid at Tohltl. lu ISSO. At tho beginning of the campaign J 1MMJ ror the rccoiiquest or the South MAJ. OK.V. KITCIIK.VKII. Kitchener wns uiiulo commiiiiilerTn" elder or the rorcos lu Egypt. IIo led a successrul expedition uti tho Nllo against tho Khalim, surely conducting his troops up cataracts mid throiiKh marauding tribes mid burning deserts until Omdiirinan wns reached. IIer was fought a terrific battle, between tho Anglo-Egyptian troops nud tho dervishes, the hitter being cut down llko grass before tho scythe. In ono charge tho dervishes lost -1,000 men nnd when the battle was over 10,000 of their dead and dying strew the ground. Tho Khalifa mid ids chiefs wero fugi tives nnd hnvo recently been killed. Kitchener, on returning homo after this brilliant expedition, beciimo tlio popular Idol. 1I0 Is tho youngest ma. Jor general lu tho British nrmy. Not n General' Kit v. Tho freshness Of cuts Is enrefnll graded In tills country, but our distinc tions nro surpassed ln delicacy by thoso iuk Hineo in vogtio nmoug tho British residents of India. Soon after Arthur Wellesloy, nfter ward tho Duko of Wellington, was ap- i-uiiueu a mnjor-gencral for his great services In India, ho hapicncd to stop In Calcutta. At breakfast tho hero was served with boiled eggs. He took one, broko tho shell, and dropped It with an nlr or disgust "Laurel!," he cried to his vnlet "wliatl do you mean by giving mo a bad egg?" (' Tho valet hurried to his innstor, nnd V exiimlned tho egg with tho utmost seri- ousnoss. "I entreat your rorglvoncss," said ho, "bUt It's all ft inlsfnt-,, MMir. I.l .....-. .iiu oiuiiu m:i - vnnt litis gone nnd given you nu nld-do-camp's egg by mistake." Art. above tho citadel or Kabul, after rout- in uio Arguan army, which outnum- "Spreader pawned his overcoat to gel luuviia iu iimm a picture." "Did ho sell tho nlcturo?" "Yes; what ho got ror It Just enabled! mm io got ins overcoat back." Iudlaul apons journal. ii 12