DOINGS OFTHE WEEK
Current Events of Interest Gathered
From the World at Large.
General Resume o f Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
Deposits in the Portland Postal Sav
ings bank have reached $33,765.
Mexican soldiers killed a number of
rebellious Indians near Chiapas.
Canadians oppose reciprocity on the
ground that it is a step towards an
nexation.
Latest official returns from the
Maine election give the “ wets’ ' a ma
jority of 26.
Fire destroyed nine large oil storage
tanks near Los Angeles, causing
loss o f $500,000.
The State bank examiner of Ohio
has closed the Metropolitan Bank &
Trust company o f Cincinnati.
Premier Stolypin, o f Russia, died
from a bullet wound inflicted by an
assassin, and Russian revolutionists
are becoming active.
C. P. Rodgers, the aviator who
making the trip from the Atlantic to
the Pacific in an aeroplane, struck
tree and smashed his machine, and has
returned to New York.
A lioness at Lincoln Park, Chicago,
gave birth to two cubs, and then re
fused to care for them, and a Boston
terrior whose eight puppies had been
drowned has adopted the cubs.
Dr. Inazo Nitobe, o f the Imperial
University o f Japan, says California’s
need of laborers will overcome her
race prejudice against Japanese and
she will be glad to have them come
there.
High officials o f the province o f Sze-
Chuen have been arrested as instiga
tors o f the present Chinese rebellion.
A Russian patrol boat arrested sev
eral Japanese sailing schooners who
were poaching seal skins on Russian
islands.
Premier Stolypin, o f Russia, is shot
and mortally wounded by an assa
J. J. H ill says empty stomachs will
soon be driving people back to the
farm.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATEi
PREMIER S T O L Y P IN DEAD.
Anti-Jewish Riots Feared and Nation
in Turmoil.
K iev—The Russian Premier, Peter
A. Stolypin, died Monday from the
wounds caused by bullets o f an assass
in at a gala performance at the Mu
nicipal theater Thursday night.
A l
most until the last he was conscious.
Towards the end Stolypin suffered
greatly. Finally the heart action be
came weaker and as the body grew
cold, the premeir realized that death
was overtaking him. In a lucid in
terval, the priest administered ex
treme unction.
The Metropolitan
Flavian blessed and consoled him in
his last moments. Frequently the dy
ing premier called: “ Give the letter.
Take it away. Give me a red pencil.’ ’
* His last words were:
“ L ift me.
Light up. ”
He died |>eacefully surrounded by
several of his relatives and state offi
cials.
A ll hopes for the premier’s recovery
was abandoned early Monday morning.
Indications ¡were noted Saturday of
peritonitis, which became aggravated
Sunday. The bulletin issued by the
attending physicians early Monday de
clared that the patient’s condition was
hopeless.
Premature reports o f the premier’s
death were current for hours before
it occurred.
Several missions and
embassies were misled by these re
ports and notified their governments.
The auhorities at first decided to con
ceal the news o f the premier’s death
until morning, fearing anti-Jewish
outbreaks. This was found to be im
possible and after the announcement
was made, all the attention o f the
authorities was centered in the protec
tion of the Jews.
The Jewish population was panic
stricken and begged for protection
and 3,000 troops were poured into
Kiev to prevent rioting. The city is
depressed hut calm.
M. Kokovsoff,
the minister of
finance, who was appointed acting
premier after M. Stolypin was shot,
has sent a peremptory circular to the
various governors on the maintenance
o f order.
It is believed that M
Kokovsoff will be appointed premier.
Governor General Trepoff has issued
a public notice that disorders will not
be tolerated and stringent regulations
are published forbidding the carrying
o f arms.
It is officially announced
that the maneuvers are ended and the
troops returning to Kiev.
Discontent Strengthens
Hanks
Russian Revolutionists.
Fruit Not in Danger From California Hops and Prunes Not Damaged, So
Competition.
Growers Report.
Forest Grove— H. C. Atw ell, o f
Forest Grove, president o f the State
Horticultural society, has just re
turned from a trip to California,
where he went to judge the fruit at
the second annual Gravenstein Apple
show, held at Sebastopol, in Sonoma
county, where the Gravenstein apple
is extensively raised.
Several car
loads o f apples were exhibited and
more than $2,000 disbursed in prem
iums.
“ Oregon apple growers have noth
ing to fear from competition o f Cali
fornia apples,” said Mr.
Atw ell
"A s id e from two or three mountain
valleys o f very limited extent, the Pa-
jaro valley produces virtually all the
winter apples grown in that state.
“ The apple trade there is entirely
in the hands of Slavonians. It is said
that only one American has ever been
able to break into it.
These foreign
dealers buy the crop on the trees, pick
and pack it themselves and cater, for
the most part, to the cheaper trade.
Such methods are not conducive to
careful packing or high prices.
This
Pajaro valley is the only California
district shipping winter apples beyond
that state.
“ As a past and prospective prune-
grower, I was encouraged at being as
sured by leading California horticul
turists that successive years o f low
prices and the growing popularity of
the Oregon prune in Eastern markets,
has led to the uprooting and neglect
o f large areas o f California prune or
chards, so that the production is now
not much more than half what it was
ten years ago.”
Mr. Atw ell declares that,
aside
from apples, prunes, pears and logan
berries will be the horticultural lead
ers of the Willamette valley, since the
land in this locality is admirably
adapted for these fruits.
He urges
that more scientific methods be em
ployed, both in the raising and in the
packing and shipping.
RAIN AID T O FRU IT.
Hood
A N AR C H ISTS ARE AC TIVE.
of
LANE C R O PS IN GOOD SHAPE.
OREGON A P P LE S SAFE.
River Orchardlst
Sees
Crop Next Year.
Big
Hood River— “ The heavy rain of
the past week will go far toward in
suring a good crop o f apples for the
Hood R iver valley next year,” says C.
R. Bone, one o f the valley’s pioneer
orchardists.
“ It was the heaviest
early rainfall that 1 have ever seen
for this section o f the state or Eastern
Oregon. In 1893, we had a similar
but the precipitation then was
not so great.
“ A t that time the grain farmers of
Eastern, Oregon handled their crops
rather lazily and when the heavy
downpour came, they were all caught.
Except what was threshed, the whole
crop was entirely ruined, and with
few exceptions every merchant from
Portland to Spokane went broke. The
rain taught the wheat farmers a les
son, and since then they have hastened
the harvesting of the crop.
“ For the past decade the fall season
has grown more erratic. I think that
the clearing o f the timber o f the Hood
River valley has had an effect toward
decreasing the summer rains.
Over
in Central Oregon, however, the culti
vation o f the soil has increased the
summer precipitation.
“ The soaking showers o f last week
will strengthen the fruit spurs.
It
will take the place o f September irri
gation and w ill be far more valuable.
With a few more showers and sun
shine and intermingling frosts to color
the fru it the present year’s crop
should mature in excellent condition.”
Eugene— In spite o f the recent un
precedented hail storm and the unus
ually heavy rain o f the last ten days,
I.ane county’s hop and prune crops
have not suffered disastrous damage.
In many o f the hop yards the storm
blew down the poles and vines, but by
quick picking the crop can be saved.
The hail apparantly shattered very
few hops from the vines, more dam
age resulting from the blowing down
o f the poles.
The chief difficulty confronting the
hopmen is to keep the pickers in the
yards.
Large numbers of them are
breaking their camps and leaving for
their homes because o f the extremely
disagreeable weather.
Growers will
probably have to offer bonuses to the
pickers, as under the weather condi
tions rapid picking is imperative.
The amount of damage done in d if
ferent yards varies. A t the old Neis
yard just above Springfield, the un
picked crop is virtually ruined.
At
the Campbell & Walker yard, between
Eugene and Springfield, the damage
was heavy, the vines being blown
down and badly damaged.
A t the
Seavy yard on the McKenzie, the lar
gest in the county, the damage was
slight.
Seventy acres o f vines fe ll to the
ground whemthe rain first began, but
most of the hops were saved. The
Bushnell yard, just north o f town, has
suffered little damage as yet, and the
Thornsbury yard on Patterson island
is only slightly injured.
Prunes and peaches have so far been
little damaged, owing largely to the
fact that the season is very late
and the crop has ripened slowly.
BENTON C O U N T Y WINS.
Gets Prize for Best County Exhibit
for Fourth Time.
Salem — Benton county, for the
fourth time in succession, walked off
with the capital prize o f $300 for the
best county exhibit at the State fair.
The display was collected and arrang
ed by W. F. Groves, and the exhibit
was financed by the Corvallis Com
mercial club. The other winners in
the order o f award were: Clackamas,
$250; Polk, $200; Columba, $150
Clatsop, $100, and Coos, $100.
The display o f the winning county
is largely o f fruits and vegetables.
Mr. Groves says that in considerable
degree the award was the result o f the
great care taken in arranging the
fruits and vegetables so that the col
ors harmonized, making it easy for the
judges to pick out their good points.
I. L. Smith, o f Spokane, judged the
exhibits.
St. Petersburg— According to police
The British consul at Ichang, China, reports, the revolutionary bodies are
predicts the worst famine ever known showing signs o f recovering from the
severe blow dealt them two years ago
in that country.
by the exposure of the dual role of
Governors o f 24 states have written Eugene Azef, who was at once head of
to the U. S. Supreme court against the fighting Socialists and police spy.
the Minnesota rate decision, alleging The revolutionists are closing up their
it is a violation o f state rights.
ranks, the officials say, in preparation
Spokane brewers have raised the for a new campaign.
MAY T A L K T O 1,000,000.
Some time ago Russian agents
price of beer and it is believed brew
abroad repored that a new outbreak
ers everywhere will do the same.
attended by terrorism was impending.
Oregon Will Have Chance to Get
A Missouri stockman tried to kill Recent acts o f violence have appeared
Settlers From East.
the children o f one his neighbors by to give some substance to these re
Salem—
Oregon is to have an oppor
giving them poisoned chewing gum.
ports.
tunity to [talk to at least 1,000,000
The assistant public prosecutor o f
J. A. Shrimp and I. B. Crab occu
persons who desire to settle in the
pied a stateroom together on the St. Petersburg, Alexander Skopinsky,
West.
It is up to Oregon to prepare
steamer Rose City on her last trip was murdered in a train on the Sim
the prettiest speech possible and il
pheropol railroad August 2 by two
from San Francisco to Portland.
lustrate it with the pictures which
men who evaded detection.
The 18-
tell more plainly than words, the de
A San Francisco judge has granted year-old son o f Commander Kurosh, of
lightful character o f the climate, the
an injunction stopping the pay of the cruiser Admiral MakarofT, was
wonderful brotherhood existing within
about 800 city employes who are al murdered at Oger August 12. On the
the borders o f the state, and the lux
leged to be on the payroll illegally.
eve o f the assassination he received
uriant crops which are to be gath
a letter saying that the Riga fighting
ered from a minimum o f work from
organization, on the demand o f the
PO R TLA N D M ARKETS.
horticultural land which may be pur
Helsingfors
fighting
organization,
chased new as cheap as agricultural
Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, wished to inform him that he had been
land.
860/87c; club, 820/83c; red Russian, sentenced to death, “ to expiate the
This was the basis o f a special mes
810/82c; valley, 82(0 83c; 40-fold, 83 blood which your worthless father
sage conveyed to the public at the
(/£84c; fife, 820/83c.
spilled Helsingfors.”
semi-centennial o f the Oregon State
MillstufTs — Bran, $24,500/25 per
Fair by William McMurray, general
ton; middlings, $32; shorts, $25.50(0)
Japan'i Desire Friendly,
passenger agent of^the Harriman lines
26; rolled barley, $33.50(d 34.50.
San Francisco — A fte r four years’
in Oregon.
Corn— Whole, $33; cracked, $34 ton.
diplomatic service in Japan, Ambas
Barley— New feed, $31(o32 per ton;
sador O’ Hrien has arrived here on an
LO SS A T LEBANON IS SIO.OOO.
brewing, $36(o37.
Oriental liner. He will remain, pend
Oats—N ew white, $29 per ton.
ing instructions regarding his new
HOP A N A LY S IS PLANNED.
Hay— No. 1 Fastern Oregon, tim
Crops
Injured,
Gardens Wasted,
“ Relations between
othy, $15.o l6 ; No. 1 valley, $14; al post at Rome.
Windows Broken By Hall.
the
United
States
and
Japan
are
most
falfa, $12; clover, $8.50; grain hay,
Oregon Agricultural College Students
Lebanon — Lebanon and vicinity
friendly,” he said, “ and there is no
$9(o 11.
to Study Samples.
reason why they should not remain so.
were visited by the worst hail storm
Poultry— Hens, 160/il7c; springs,
The United States has a good friend
Corvallis— Professor H. V. Tartar, ever seen here. The damage done in
17c; ducks, young, 16c; geese, 11(d)
in Japan.
That nation’s most sin of the chemistry department at the this city by the wind and hail will
l i t ; turkeys, 18(o 19c.
cere desire is to perpetuate friend Oregon Agricultural college, is now in amount to at least $10,000. Hardly a
Butter— Oregon creamery, solid pack,
ly and commercial relations with this the hop districts, where he will collect house in town escaped without broken
31c; prints, extra.
country.”
samples o f hops to be used during the windows, and there are ten broken
Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, candled,
coming winter by the students in panes in the home o f Mayor Reeves
27c dozen.
chemistry in making analysis.
Pro alone.
Pipe Aids Entombed Men.
Pork— Fancy, 1040/Uc pound.
Melons and tomatoes were just be
I.eadvilled, Colo.— A note carved on fessor Tartar’s investigations during
Veal— Fancy, 13(o.l3Jc pound.
Fresh Fru its—Cantaloupes, 76c(d) wood, in the Finnish language, tied to the past year have shown that the ginning to come into the market, and
$1.25 pe* crate; peaches, 500/75c the hoisting cable in the Morning Star chemical qualities o f the Pacific Coast all those that were in the line o f the
box; watermelons, 75c0/$1.25 per mine brought the information to the hops, especially in the amount o f bit storm were destroyed. The telephone
hundred; plums, 75c crate; prunes, surface here that three miners were ter they contain, are equal to any lines are so badly crippled that it is
He intends to hard to tell the extent o f the damage
75c box; pears, 650/,90c box; grapes, entombed .'150 feet below by a cave-in grown in the world.
that shaft. Rescuers set to work put the judging o f hops for commer in the country.
7ban 1.25 box ; apples, $lo/2.50.
Vegetables— Beans, 5o/;10c; cab immediately and if no unforseen diffi cial purposes on a scientific basis.
Fruit Blown From Trees.
bages, $1.50(0 2 per hundredweight; culties are experienced, the men will
Fine Apples to Be Shown.
Brownsville— A terrific wind, rain
corn, 25(o30c dozen; cucumbers, $l(o soon be released. I.aborers are work
I.akeview— Ilavis Creek, the distrib and hail storm that passed over this
1.25 sack; eggplant, 15(o, 18c pound; ing in short shifts, but the work is
An iron pipe uting center o f the famous Goose Lake section Monday damaged telephone
garlic, 10(o 12c pound; lettuce, 40(o slow and dangerous.
50c dozen; hothouse lettuce, $1,250/ was driven through the cave-in and fruit belt, is preparing to hold an ap and electric light poles and wires and
ple show the latter part of this month. blew considerable fru it from the trees.
1.75 box; peppers, 50/ 6c pound; rad food and coffee were lowered.
A fte r a few days display at that place, Grain and hay in the fields not yet
ishes, 12^c dozen; tomatoes, 36(d'75c
Fire
Ravages
Oil
Tanks,
thoroughly
the apples will be forwarded to Wat taken to shelter were
box; carrots. $1.50 per sack; turnips,
$1; beets. $1.75.
I.os Angeles—Nine immense storage sonville, Cal., and entered in the Cali soaked and will undoubtedly suffer
Potatoes— Oregon, l j c pound; sweet tanks o f oil have been destroyed and fornia annual apple show. The Davis greater damage than from the preced
firemen were fighting desperately to Creek territory last year sent six var ing rains. The storm, which was ac-
potatoes, 2Jc pound.
save several others from fire which ieties o f apples to this show and car om panied by a high wind lasted about
Onions— California, $1.50 hundred.
Hops — 1911 contracts, 35((/36c; started Monday night at the Hercules ried away four first and two second 30 minutes and the rain fell in sheets,
1909 crop, nominal, olds, nominal.
Oil Refining company's plant between prizes. It is asserted that every var- so that roads and streets were con
Wool Eastern Oregon, 9<n 16c per I<os Angeles and Vernon. The loss so ety sent is destined to be awarded a verted into running torrents.
pound, according to shrinkage; val far totals a half million dollars and blue ribbon this year.
Prune Crop Not Injured,
ley, 15(i; 17c; mohair, choice, 36(n the officers of the fire department said
it was certain the large quantities of Siuslaw Country Worries Over Roeds
374c.
Albany— Prospects are good for an
Cattle— Choice steers, $5,500/ 5.80; oil in the tanks still intact will also be
Florence— Speculation is rife here average prune crop in this part o f the
good, $5.25(0 5.50; fair, $5(05.25; me consumed by the unconquerable Hames. as to which or how many railroads are state.
The prunes have
suffered
dium, $4.76(o 5; poor, $3.75(0 4.60;
to gain an entrance to the Siuslaw slightly from the recent rains, but
Alaska
Cannery
Collapses.
choice cows, $4.25(0.4.70; fair, $3.85
country.
Right o f way has been unless heavy rains continue the loss
0/4.10;
common,
$2.50(o3; extra
Ketchikan. Alaska The Ketchikan bought in the vicinity o f Mapleton by will not be great.
Aside from the
choice spayed heifers, $4.75(0 4.90; cannery, built on piling over the salt a representative o f the Hill lines, and damage from the rain the hop crop in
choice heifers, $4.50(o4.75; choice water o f the harbor, collapsed during several ranches in the vicinity o f the few yards in this part o f the state
bulls, $3(o 3.25; good, $2.75(0)3; com a furious gale, the whole building, Woahink lake have been sold to par is about 25 per cent short. What
mon, $2(0 2.50; choice calves, 200 with 200,000 cans o f salmon, being ties thought to be acting as agents for hops have been picked are said to be
pounds and under, $7.25(o 7.50; good thrown into the water, entailing a loss railroad companies.
The Southern all right, but the rain may seriously
to choice, $6(o 6.60; common. $4o/5; of $100,000. The cannery was owned Pacific has announced that it will damage those yet in the yards.
choice stags, $4.50(o4.75; good, $4.25 by the Fidalgo Island Packing com build here.
Dead Grouse Penalty Big.
((£4.50.
pany
Extension Work Begins.
Hogs— Choice light hogs, $8.25(o.
Pendleton — The sum o f $87.60 is
New Liner Brings Silk.
8.50; good to choice $8(o 8.25; fair,
Albany— Actual work on the grad the price George Mottett, a prominent
$7.75(o 8; common, $7(o7.25.
San Francisco — The steadily grow ing of the Oregon Electric has begun Walla Walla resident, was compelled
Sheep — Choice yearling wethers, ing fleet of modem transpacific liners in Linn county. A crew o f 65 teams to pay for the privilege o f killing a
coarse wool,
$3,350/3.65; choice received an addition when the Japan and 125 men has gone to work just grouse in Umatilla county, Oregon,
yearling wethers, east o f mountains, ese triple-screw turbine steamer Shin- south o f the Santiam river. The con- before the season opened.
A few
$3 36hi3.6S; Choice twos and threes, yo Maru docked here at the end of tractors in charge of the work say minutes before Tom Vaughan, a well-
$3<vi3.25; choice
mountain lambs, her first voyage. She brought a silk that the crew will be increased to 100 kmwn Umatilla Indian, paid $78.80
$4 .50(o4.65; good to choice lambs. cargo valued at $2,000,0011 and $375,- teams and about 200 men as soon as for the privilege o f killing a deer be-
000 in gold.
$4.25(d4.50; culls., $2.50<o3.
poasible.
I fore the season opened.
how many already have perished!-
Sadly his face he averted, and strode
up and down, and was thoughtful.
The C ou rtsh ip °£
M ile s Standish
Fixed to the opposite wall was a
shelf of books, and among them
Prominent three, distinguished alike
fur bulk und for binding;
Barlffe’s Artillery Guide, and the Com
mentaries of Caesar,
Out of the Latin translated by Arthur
• Goldlnge of London,
And, as if guarded by these, between
them was standing the Bible.
.
* ,
Musing a moment before them, Mllee
Standish paused, as if doubtful
~
Which of the three he should choose
for his consolation and comfort.
Whether the ware of the Hebrews, the
( C o p y r ig h t. T h u l i o b b j - M e r r i l l C o m p a n y )
famous campaigns of the Romans,
wistfully gazed on the landscape, Or the Artillery practice, designed for
Washed with a cold gray mist, the
belligerent Christians.
M iles Standish
vapory breath of the east wind,
Finally down from its shelf he dragged
Forest and meadow and hill, and the
the ponderous Roman,
steel-blue rim of the ocean,
In the Old Colony days, in Plymouth,
Lying silent and sad, In the afternoon Seated himself at the window, and
the land of the Pilgrims,
opened the book, and in silence
shadows and sunshine.
To and fro in a room of his simple
Over his countenance flitted a shadow Turned o’er the well-worn leaves,
and primitive dwellihg.
where thumb-marks thick on the
like those on the landscape,
Clad in doublet und hose, and boots of
margin.
Cordovan leather,
, Gloom Intermingled with light; and
his voice was subdued with emo Like the trample of feet, proclaimed
Strode, with a martial air, Miles
the battle wus hottest.
tion.
S.tandish, the Puritan Captain.
Burled in thought he seemed, with his Tenderness, pity, regret, as after a Nothing was heard in the room but
the
hurrying pen of the stripling,
pause he proceeded:
hands behind him, And pausing
Ever and anon to behold his glitter “ Yonder there, on the hill by the sea. Busily writing epistles important, to
go by the Mayflower,
lies buried Hose Standish;
ing weapons of warfare,
Hanging in shining array along the Beautiful rose of love, that bloomed Ready to sail on the morrow, or next
walls of the chamber—
Cutlass and corselet of steel, and his
trusty sword of Damascus,
Curved at the point and inscribed with
its mystical Arabic sentence,
While underneath, in a corner, were
fowling-piece, musket, and match
lock.
Short of stature he was, but strongly
built and athletic.
Broad in the shoulders, deep-chested,
with muscles and sinews of iron;
Brown as a nut was his face, but his
russet beard was already
Flaked with patches of snow, a*
hedges sometimes in November.
Near him was seated John Alden. his
friend and household companion,
Writing with diligent speed at a table
of pine by the window;
Fair-haired, azure-eyed, with delicate
Saxon complexion.
Having the dew of youth, and the
beauty thereof, as the captives
Whom Saint Gregory saw, and ex
claimed “ Not Angles, but Angels."
Youngest of all was he of the men
who came in the Mayflower.
W ith Illustrations by
H ow ard Chandler Christy
Suddenly breaking the silence, the
diligent scribe interrupting,
Spake, in the pride of his heart, Miles
Standish, the Captain of Plymouth.
“ Look at these arms,” he said, “ the
warlike weapons that hang here
Burnished and bright and clean, as if
for parade or inspection!
This la the sword of Damascus 1
fought with in Flanders; this
breastplate.
W ell I remember the day! once saved
my life in a skirmish;
Here in front you can see the very
dint of the bullet
Fired point-blank at my heart by a
Spanish arcabucero.
Had it not been of sheer steel, the for
gotten bones of Miles Standish
Would at this moment be mold, in
their grave
in * the Flemish
morasses."
Thereupon answered John Alden, but
looked not up from his writing:
“ Truly the breath of the Lord hath
slackened the speed of the bullet;
He in his mercy preserved you, to be
our shield and our weapon!”
Still the Captain continued, unheeding
the words of the stripling:
“ See, how bright they are burnished,
as if in an arsenal hanging;
That is because I have done it my
self, and not left it to others.
“ Look at These Arms,” He Said.
for me by the wayside!
She was tho first to die of all who
came In the Mayflower!
Green above her is growing the field
of wheat we have sown there.
Better to hide from the Indian scouts
the graves of our people,
Lest they should count them and see
day at latest, God willing!
Homeward bound with the tidings of
all that terrible winter,
Letters written by Alden, and full of
the name of Priscilla,
Full of the name and the fame of the
Puritan maiden Priscilla!
(TO HE C O N T IN U E D .)
High Degree of Devotion
told him that was impossible, he
said:
"W ell, If I can’t go with you,
I will go back to Mis’ Lizle” (my
wife).
When he was leaving I gave him
$200 in Virginia Valley hank notes (It
was before the days of Confederate
money), and he walked 263 miles— by
way of Staunton 150, and down tho
Dick was a nigger. Just a Virginia valley, a hundred and thirteen— to my
slave nigger. When a little boy, he home in the valley, and gave my wife
waa scullion In the kitchen. He car 106 of the money.— MaJ. A. R. H. Han
ried the wood and water tor the cook, son. Late Major of Artillery, C. S. A ,
and scoured the pots and kettles, and In Harper’s Magazine.
turned the spit when the turkey was
roasting, dipping and basting the
Optimistic.
gravy from the pan. and nodding In
Rome time ago there was a flood In
his work after the manner of all small
British Columbia An old fellow who
darkles.
When the war came the carriage had lost nearly everything he possess
rested in the carriage house, the ed was sitting on the roof of bis house
horses were taken by the Yankees, as It floated along, when a boat ap
and Dick became my servant In the proached.
’’Hello. Jim."
army of the south— a gentleman's gen
“ Hello, Bill.”
tleman, as he called himself.
“ Are your fowls all washed away,
No man ever had a more faithful
and devoted follower than I had In Jim?’’
“ Yes, but the ducka can swim,” re
Dick. He was captured twice with me
by Union forces, and each time re plied the old man.
“ Apple trees gone?”
fused the freedom which his capture
“ Well, they said the crop would be
gave him. " I don't want to be no freer
than I always has been,” he said on a failure, anyhow.”
The Puritan Malden, Priscilla.
“ I see the flood's away above your
both of these occasions. Once I dis
charged him for being drunk. Think windows.”
Serve yourself, would you be well of discharging a slave!
“ That's all right. Bill. Them win-
It was at
served, is an excellent adage;
needed waabln',
anyhow."—*
Chattanooga, and Dick hung around ders
Bo I take care of my arms, as you of headquarters for several days and was Housekeeper.
your pens and your lnkhorn.
very unhappy. Finally he came to me
Then, too, there are my soldiers, my with a Bible In his hand and said: ” 1
Physical Limitations.
great invincible army.
wants to swear on this that If you will
There was a very stupid play pre
Twelve men, all equipped, having each take me back I will not drink a drop
sented early In the New York seaaon
his rest and his matchlock.
during the war.” He took the oath
Eighteen shilling a month, together and kept It faithfully to the end, at an "adaptation" It was called by tht
author. Even the best-natured crltlci
with diet and pillage,
Appomattox.
went away In disgust Ona newapapei
And, like Caesar, I know the name of
When 1 was captured at Rich Moun representative turned to another and
each of my soldiers!”
tain I was 111, and was sent to the said: “ If thla Jumble had been pre
This he said with a smile, that danced Federal hospital, an Immense tent. I
sented on the other side of the watet
in his eyes, as the sunbeams
had not fully recovered when we evac It would have been hlaaed. Aa then
Dance on the waves of the sea, and uated our position, and wandering
were a lot of foreign visitors preaanl
vanish agAln in a moment
about the mountains in the rain for I wonder that It waa not."
Alden laughed as he wrote, and stlii two days and two nights without food
"It really la a wonder.” waa thd
the Captain continued:
had brought on a relapse. And be
“ Look! you can see from this window sides enduring the exposure, we had other's reply. “ I would like to hav<
hissed myself, but—you can't yawl
my brazen howitzer planted
forded the river nine times in the and hiss at the same time.“ —Metro
High on the roof of the church, a vain effort to avoid large bodies of the
polltan Magazine.
preacher who speaks to the pur enemy's troops. The sand had got
pose,
Into my boots, and when my socks
True Sympathy,
Steady, straightforward, and strong, were taken off, the skin came off with
The thin man darted across the
with irresistible logic.
them. I was a pitiable objecL Dick
Orthodox, flashing conviction right stuck to me. He was free now to go platform.
"W ill you hold the train a moment
into the hearts of the heathen.
where he pleased, but he never left
Now we are ready, I think, for any me. He was by my cot all day. kept for my wife, conductor?" he gasped.
off the flies from my raw and skinless "She la Just crossing the street”
assault of the Indians;
“ Can't do It," snorted the conductor
Let them come, if they like, and the feet, and did what he could to allevi
ate my sufferings. At night he crept aa be raised bis hand to signal tho
sooner they try it the better—
Let them come. If they like, be it saga under my cot and took his only rest engineer.
"B-but, conductor, she's going away
more, sachem, or powwow,
on the bare ground. When 1 was well
Asplnet. Samoset. Corbitant, Squanto. enough to go north with Colonel Peg- to stay six months," cried the thin
ram. 1 asked Dick what he was going man. "If she doesn't go now she may
or Tokamaharaon!”
to do. now that he was free. Ho said change her mind."
Long at the window he stood, and that he would go with me. When I
“ I’ll hold It,” replied the conductor.
Fidelity Shown by Virginia
“Darky" That Annals of
History M xy Be
Searched to
Match.