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About The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1902)
nAOTHD A PASTOn WHO WAS BEFRIENDED BY AN EMPEROR his voice said: “ Come Into the kitchen, A Nellie.” “ What is it, Ted?” she asked anx iously. •T v got the sack, Nell!” he said, with a sob. For some moments they stood in si- lence, then he sank on a chair and buried his face in his hands. “ Well, my little love birds,” cried K D W A H l) LE S LIE kissed bit» damper hollow. Hut you’re uot eating Uncle Mac, vnteriag from the garden. w ife fondly when she ran to much!” “ Why, what’s the matter?” i lie door to welcome lilm home “ Oh. I ’ve plenty, thank you.” she In a few broken words Nell told him «from business, but wh *n lie reach* d stammered, but Uncle Mac silently df this last and greatest trouble. their c( zy kitchen he dropped wearily noted that the meat had been served to “ Well, well,” said Uncle Mac, when Into the easy chair by the tire and Ted and himself, while her plate made she had ended, “ keep a brave heart, rest» d Ids head upon ids hand. lie a brave show with little else than a my dear, ami things may be all well was tir» d after a long day’s work, with j potato, yet. I think Ted and I will take a lit nothing but a couple of buns to stay tle walk up the street aud talk matters the inner man—tired and worried. They - Nearly a week passed and one day over.” had been married now nearly twelve Nellie was just wondering whether she When they came back she was lying months, and they found housekeeping would have an egg or her lunch now, on the bed, where she had been crying more expensive than they' had antici or wait till 5, w hen a ring came to the bitterly, but she tried to meet them pated, and the better times they had door, and she ran up to find—Uncle with a qiulle. hoped for seemed as far off as ever. It Mac. A fter dinner she seemed to become “ Bit surprised to see me so soon, ah, was nearly the eud of the month, too, tired and heavy, aud she felt as though my dear?” he says cheerfully, “ but the and the rent would soou be due. The she must go to sleep. Presently her coal, also, had yet to be paid for, and fact is. I ’ve run out of cash, so I head nodded, and as she lost conscious then there was the iuterest^ju some thought I w ould drop down earlier and ness she thought she heard Uncle Mac “ tickets” which must be paid, or his have a bit o f lunch with you.” say: “ Carry her to something.” Pres “ Have lunch with me!” cried Nellie little w ife would lose the little jewelry ently, iu her sleep she had a beautiful eke treasured so, but which she gave j in a horror-stricken voice. “ I ’m afraid I dream. She thought that she woke up up so willingly to help the man she I have nothing in the house, Uncle and found herself in the house at High loved in the hard struggle to get their gate, furnished just as she always pic “ Oh, anything w’ ill do,” he replied, lirtle home together. tured it, and Uncle Mac and Ted were “ Dinner is nearly ready, dearest,” carelessly, “ and if you have nothing iu there, and they were talking and laugh said she as she stroked liis hair back the place, give me two hob, and I ’ll run ing joyfully. from uis forehead. “ And you are huu down to the butcher round the corner “ Isn’t It a lovely dream?” she said, and get a bit of steak, eh?” gry and tired, dear, and worried.” turning to Uncle Mac. “ I ’m sorry. Uncle Mac, blit—but Ted- Presently the postman’s sharp rap “ It Is uot a dream, my dear,” he said, caused him to spriug up uud run to the dle went off in a burry this morning, softly. “ I am not poor, as you think. and—and he took my purse aw’ay iu d^or. He came back more slowly. I am very rich. I have bought you this “ It’s from Uncle Mac,” he said. his pocket.” house ami furnished it as you de “ Silly boy! Silly boy! And yet he “ Well. I am surprised. lie arrived iu scribed, aud we brought you here in doesn’t know it,” replied Uncle Mac England yesterday morning, and—oh, your sleep. We shall all live here now “ For when I called at his good heavens! we must put him off. ruefully. —that Is. if you will tolerate your old office to borrow five shillings off him We can’t do it.” uncle—aud to-morrow Ted w ill come he said he had left all his money at Mrs. Leslie took the letter. up with me as manager to my business “ My Dear Godson Ted—I have come home. But there,” he added cheerfully, in the city.” Rev. H. Stubenvoll, o 1 Elkhcrn, Wis., is pastor of the Evangelical Lu back to England after tifteen years iu *‘I have a sovereign, and we must “ Is it true, then Uncle Mac?” she theran St.John’ s Church ol that place. Rev Stubenvoll is the possesor of two Australia. As things ure not too well spend that. My lucky sov. must go.” bibles presented to him by Emperor William of Germany. Upon the fly cried. “ Y'our lucky sovereign ?” queried Nel with me, I propose to come and stay a “ It is all true, little woman, and you leaf of one ol the bibles the Emperor has written in his own handwriting a lie. few mouths with you. 1 suppose since must forgive an old man’s deceit, but text. “ Well. I call It my lucky sovereign,” you are married fortune is smiling This honored pastor, in a recent letter to the Pernna Medicine Co., ol I wanted to see the metal my boy’s said Uncle Mac, “ because it w*as the upon you, and they say three can be w ife was made of, and—and that riches Columbus, Ohio, says concerning their famous catarrh remedy, Peiuna: first sovereign I ever earned, and it kept as cheaply as one. Expect me to would uot turn her head. But I know The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. night at Si. All news then. Your happened to have the date on of the now. my dear, that as wealth has come Gentlemen : — « / had hemorrhages of the lungs for a long time, very year I started to w'ork as a boy affectionate uncle. MAC.” in at the thingummy, love will not fly and all despaired of me. I took Peruna and was cured. It gave me of fourteen. I ’ve kept it all these “ Why, 1 always thought your Uncle out of the wbat’s-lts-name.” —New York strength and courage, and made healthy, pure blood, ft increased Mac was doing so well, Ted,” she said, years.” News. m y weight, gave me a healthy color, and I feel well. It is the best “ Oh, you mustn’t spend that,” cried slowly, as she tinished. medicine in the world. If everyone kept Peruna In the house It C O N C ER N IN G THE O Y S T E a “ So did I,'* »aid her husband. “ But, Nellie. “To-night Ted will be paid and Come would save many from death every yea r.” — If. S TU B E N V O L L. then, everyone abroad is always doing we shall be all right again. A S h o r t N a t u r a l H is to ry Lesson on Thousands of people have catarrh I f you do not derive prompt and eat- well. I must write at once and put down stairs and have some more ba T h i s T i m e l y S u b j e c t . con.” who would be surprised to know it, be- isfactory results from the use of Peru- him off.” Now that the oyster season has ar Uncle Mac said he had never enjoyed cause it has been called some other na, write at once to Or. Hartman, giv- “ No. Ted, dear,” his little wife said, rived a few remarks concerning this The fact is ca- in a full statement of your case, and ha bravely. “ Because you are married I any meal so much as he did that bacon, popular bivalve might not be amiss. name than catarrh. don’t want him to think we are quite and after he had tinished he proposed Epicures naturally like to know what tarrh is catarrh wherever located; and will be pleased to give you his valuabis eo poor. We will manage somehow.” that they should go for a walk to they are eating and If those who are another fact which is of equally great advice gratis. importance, is that Peruna cures c a -; Address Dr. Hartman, President of But she sighed a little as she thought gether. addicted to the oyster habit will fol tarrh Wherever located. I The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. “ As we can’t afford a tram ride,” he how quickly, even now, the weekly pay low this brief scientific treatise closely dwindled to a shilling or two before said, laughingly, “ we will Just walk they w ill be made familiar with the round and think we are millionaires. Establishing His Value. Dangers of Modcra Education. Friday night habits and eccentricities of the oyster. Barely an hour later Uncle Mac an Nothing like building castles in the “ Was he a valuable man to the com Fond Mother— Oh, I am so glad you The oyster belongs to the genus of nounced his arrival with a performance air, my dear, when you are dow'n in lamellibranch motlusks of the third munity?” came in! I don't know what on earth on the little brass knocker which start the dumps. I f you can’t actually en order monomya and may be at once “ W ell,I dunno. His wife's suit for ails the baby. led several of Mrs. Leslie’s quiet neigh joy the things wealth would bring you distinguished by the bilateral sym $5,000 damages because he was lynched Caller— Shall I run for the doctor? can look round the shops and see all Fond Mother— No, for an interpreter. bors. metry of the heterogeneous convexity. hasn’ t been decided yet.’ ’ — Judge. His French nurse left suddenly todsy, “ Glad to see you, me boy. Glad to the pretty things, and then by a little The labial ganglia are very minute, Quite Intelligent. and nobody cun understand a word he see you. Nice little place you g o t but imagination Just consider they are while the parletosplanchnic are well Watts— I tell you, old man, I saw says.— Wave. awkward to find. Took the wrong train your own. Now, as money’s no object, developed. W e hate to say a thing the most remarkable exhibition of an at Broad street, so had to come up on w'here shall be say we live?” like this about an oyster behind Its imal intelligence today that could be “ Oh. at Highgate,” cried Nellie. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's 8ootb- the tram. And 1 say, Ted, my boy, back, but the truth may as well lie imagined. ing Syrup the best remedy to use tor their “ Why Highgate?” asked Uncle Mac why on earth don’t they put the pave told now. because some one would hud children duriug the teething period. Potts— What was it? ment all the way along the street? seriously. Watts— A bride and bridegroom “ Because there’s such a lovely hov*e out later, auyhow; there Is no excuse H alf way down I got mixed up in a for beating about the bush. Coin Profiles. started from the house across the street mountain of mortar, quite lost my there to be le t It stands in its own In spite of all the hard names applied in which I live, and one cf the horses Where a face is used on a piece of tenqier, and nearly uiy umbrella. As ground, and I ’ve often looked at It, to the oyster, however, It Is considered attached to the carriage threw a shoe. money it is always in profile, because I said to a man who came down with long before we were married even. I one of the most toothsome dishes that I Now what do you think of that? the cameo is more readily struck with me, ‘That’s an Infernal ugly looking think I told you about it one day.” the die in that manner, and if a full or Finding the gate of the house open come out of the sea. A few fat oys- j thing---- Your wife, eh. Ted?” broke ters In the prime of life, seasoned to three-quarter face were represented off Uncle Mac, as he caught sight of they ventured to look over i t Nellie taste with salt, pepper and a dash of the nose of the gentleman or lady Nellie in the halL “ Glad to make your waxed quite enthusiastic, and as they vinegar, make a really appetizing re would get damaged in circulation and acquaintance, Mrs. Ted," he said, walk w£nt from room to room she furnished past: an oyster needs no other lubrl- j produce a ridiculous effect. ing into Nellie’s dainty little drawing them sumptuously in her imagination. cants save the condiments mentioned room—the pride of her life—bringing The drawing room would be in gold nbeve. I f placed in the mouth It will r|TQ P«rm anonnr rureu 5o lit* er nervousMl »1 IQ after Iirst ia y > u *eo fD r. K line's (¡real Sent with him sufficient of the much-sized and white with, Louis X IV . style fur be found that a well trained oyster will ¿Restorer. Send for F R E K S ‘i . 0 0 trial bottle and treat> mortar on his boots to build a small niture. is*. D a .B .H .K l in k . L td..v31 ArchSt..Philadelphia,?* burrow Its way down a man's gullet “ Never heard of him,” said Uncle sized villa. “ Come over to the light and Into his vitnls with the dexterity Mac, with conviction. “ You must show and let me look at you.” The Solano. of a toboggan on a shoot-the-chutes. me some of that on the way home.” “ Nice face, but tired,” he said, quite The solano is a hot southeast wind, The oyster Is a creature of sedentary Nellie replied with a laugh that she loaded with fine dust, which blows audibly, although intended only for habits. It will sit in the mud by the across Spain. It produces great un himself. “ Smart girl, but no strength would show him the very thing she month at a time thinking nut beautiful meant In Dormans &. Brown’s Empo easiness throughout the country. The or backbone. Novel and the sofa and and ennobling thoughts without assist rium. and on the way back she pointed Spanish have a proverb which says: pretty fa 1-da Mala Wonder why he out many things she would like and ance from outside sources. In addition “ Ask no favors during solano.” married her T* have, “ if only they had plenty of it also possesses a great amount of per “ Because he loved mo and I loved sistence. The oyster never gives up; money.” At the Zoo. him.” said Nellie, proudly. When they got back Ted was waiting it w ill cling to a rock during the entire The Cockatoo — Hev, down there! “ I beg your pardon,” said Unde Mac, for his dinner, and while the chops lierlod of Its existence without com What the dickens are you laughing hurriedly. “ Silly habit, speaking your In were grilling Nellie told him the ad plaint or becoming discouraged. about? thoughts aloud. Learnt It in the ventures of the day. fact, the oyster's motto seems to be, During dinner The Hvenn— Yon oughter seen the lonely bush. No offense. Hope yfm’re Uncle Mac, amid many bursts of laugh "H ang on.” stork when he heard that seventeen happy anti your love w ill last, but they ter, described the wonderful home in There are varlons humane ways of pairs of twins had been born into the do say when poverty comes In at the which Nellie would, in imagination killing an oyster, says the Ohio State crocodile family. By gosh! he went what’s-its-name love skoots out of the live. Journal, all of which are highly com straight up into the a ir!—Judge. thingummy.” mended by the clergy and societies for Uncle Mac started off early next “ That’s wrong, my dear, isn’t it?” morning to get work, or, as he said, the prevention of cruelty of animals The String. ealtl Edward, slipping his arm round "die in the attem pt” Toward the end throughout the country. For Instance, I f 7 0 S taATen t a regular, healthy m ovement o f tM day you r « «Ick, or w ill be K eep yoSf “ Y'ou know you said before election her waist. “ Poverty only make our of the second week Uncle Mac ob an oyster may lie stewed, fried, baked, goweU every °P fn , Force, In the shape o f violent physic or pill poieon. is dangerous. The that you were a friend who would di love the brighter. But come. Uncle tained a “ Job.” “ Of course. It isn’t ex steamed or pickled, according to the smoothest, easiest, most perfect way o f keeping the Sow tit clear r aod and clean n is la to taka vide his last dollar with me?” U a c , m j little girl has some real old actly the thing I wanted,” he ex caprice o f the consumer. I f eaten raw “ That’ s right.” said Senator Sor Irish stew for supper, and I ’m sure plained. “ but then, beggars can’t be an oyster should be stabbed before CANDY ghum, “ that’ s right. But it’s going you’re hungry.” choosers. I ’m to get thirty-five shil taken. | w s M g a CA T H n A A R H T i I i C to be a good many years before I g** “ You’re right. Ted. my boy.” cried lings a week, so I thought Nellie, I Mphlnx in America. down to my last dollar.” — Washington Uncle M a r . “ I ’ m absolutely raven could pay a pound every Wednesday The suggestion that the ancient Star. ous.” toward the housekeeping expenses.” Egyptian Sphinx be reproduced In St. “ You won’t mind the kitchen, will Matters were so arranged, and Nellie Louis for the world's fair has been re T S a o « MASS s f o i s n s t o It Didn’t Matter. you. Mr. —er----?” Nellie l>egnn. began to feel quite rich. It was sur ceived by Mayor Rolla Wells from “ I have called, sir,” siad ths young “ Mac, my dear, plain Mac; ;that is, prising how much help that extra sov Mrs. Bertie Cortland Longworth of man to the editor, “ to request you to o f course, Uncle Mac, to you.” he re ereign was. and Nellie’s nightmare of Paris. France. Mrs. Longworth Is a make a correction. I sent in an its® plied. “ Personally 1 prefer the kitch the end o f the week began to vanish. sculptor, and has made a plaster model referring to my recital, in which I Uncle Mac continued to come down of the sphinx after four years of study, fo r f I’M «anop.a aod booklet on healtn. A d d re i, en.” u - -----.------------ described myself as 'the amateur During supper he kept them all mer at 5, and Nellie and he still amused this being the only model In exist ry with stories of his life in Aus themselves by “ building castles In the ence. according to the Pittsburg Dis tralia, but Nellie's eyes noted with ap air” and with looking in the shops. patch. The idea Is to reproduce the ---------------------------------.--------------- “ Oh, w ell,” said the editor, “ why prehension that his appetite was likely A t last when everything seemed so sphinx In cement, thus making It more ^ ^ not let well enough alone?” — Jodge. to be a serious strain on her limited happy. Edward came down one night endurable thin stone. Mrs. longworth with a hard, drawn look upon his face. says the sphinx Is crumbling, owing to larder. New Turklah Edict. “ Good tack, this,” he said presently, He kissed Ills w ife with great tender the brtngini of rains Into Egypt as the Owing to a Turkish imperial order srpj) appreciation. “ Knocks billy and ness at the door, and. with a shake In result of ths extension of Irrigation. the teaching of Armenian history SAVED BY PE-RU-NA BESTFOBTHE BOWELS KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN S E i E S r . ’S’"