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GOETHE’ S FORESIGHT. ERY few persons are aware of with hUn. and If any one thought that the fact that after John Wilkes < had any connection whatever with Booth shot President Lincoln h the tragedy. Edwin Booth was practically taken in " 'I would rather die than go to Wash- to custody by agents o f the Govt-ni- intftou,’ lu* said. ineut. He was released as soon as an | i« pli»'d that I know of no one who examination showed that he knew uotli- in the least that he had lna»f tae conspiracy. This story of the , “ I , ' li in any way connected with the af affair Is related by Ivory M. Blood: fair. ••At the time Mr. Booth resided In ( hi introducing me to his counsel he hast fourteenth street, near Broadway. said to him: I was lu the United States secret ser “ ' Mr 1{lotMj will tell you his business vice of tin- W ar Department and I ad with me.' been deta'led by Chief Baker to take "I told the lawyer that I was going to jlr. Booth Into custody. It was after take Mr. Booth to Washington by or- the assassination o f Preskfent Lincoln, tlu‘ " "shlngton authorities. anil Mr. Booth's brother. John Wilkes '"Die lawyer declared that I had no Booth, the assassin, had been appre right to take Mr. Booth from the city, hended by Baker's men and mortally and If there were any charges against wounded by Sergeant Boston Corbett, him he ought to lie tried by the United hi .Mr. Ca-rett's hnrn In Virginia. States court here. “Secretary o f W ar Stanton and Judge ' I lie Covernment has authority,’ 1 Advocate Ceneral Holt, under whose replied, ’to send any person to Washing iDitrui tions I acted, wished to question ton, and Mr. Booth Is not the tirst per Mr. 1 tooth In regard to his knowledge. If son I have taken there.’ my. of the movements ami conversa " ’ I don’ t care what you have done tions ol Ills brother, John Wilkes Booth. with other people.’ the lawyer exclaim Upon toy gom g to Mr. Booth's residence ed in an angry tone, punctured with an the door hell was answered by a colored occasional oath. -| am here to defend lervaui. I told him that I wished to I the rights of Mr. Booth.' gee Mr. Booth. He went up stairs and ’ “ ’ •''<* one objects to your doing that,' upon returning said that Mr. ltisith I responded, 'lint I shall obey the orders wished to know if I would not tell him of tin Government.' Ike mi* ere o f my business. " 'I want.’ continued the lawyer, ’to ■"No.’ 1 replied, 'I must see him u see Mr. Booth alone.' person.' and 1 sent up my card. "'Y ou cannot do It,' was my ansyer. “The servant returned to Mr Booth’s “ ‘ " b a t are the charges against, and room and shortly afterward that gen- what dots the Government want with tlci.eiti panic dow n and Invited me into him V asked the lawyer. the parlor. I shall never forget his ap- j " 'To examine him as to when lie saw pearanee. lie was pine and haggard. ! his brother last, and if his brother had treatly agitated and trembling from ever Intimated to him anything about lead to foot, lie had apparently an In- the assassination. The Government is uitinii tha' something serious was to not going to spare any pains or expense iap|H'ti to him. When seated I opened to get at the bottom facts of the affair.’ the conversation by saying to Mr. " 'I f I should set forth Mr. Booth's Soot It: rights as a citizen under the constitu “ ‘You sis* by my card that I am in tion you could not take him to Washing he secret service, and am obliged to ton.’ said the lawyer, with much as ake you to Washington. I). C, If you perity of language and a show of im visli to see any other authority I have pudence lu Ills manner. ny paiiers lu my pocket.’ "I replied that I would take Mr. Booth V Uni ted States to Control Nicaragua Canal and Britain *uea Canal. It Is not generally known that Goeth« foresaw not only the construction of tlu* Suez Canal, but of the Nicaragua t anal as well, and foresaw also that the former would have to become the possession of England and the latter the possession of the United States. A writer in the Loudon Spectator trans lates from Eckermauu the following re port of Goethe’s conversation at a din ner In his house: ' ‘ Humboldt,’ said Goethe, ’has Indi cated. with great local knowledge, sev eral points where, by making use of some rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, one might, perhaps, attain the object in view, even more advantage ously than at Panama. The decision of all this is reserved to the future, and to a grand spirit of enterprise. So much Is certain, that If a cutting be possible of such a character as would allow ships with any kind of cargo and of every, even the greatest, size to pass through such a canal from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean there would result for the whole of the civilized world, also for the not civilized part of mankind, the most incalculable advan tages. I should, however, be astonished If the United States were to let slip the opportunity of getting such a work Into their own hands. One may foresee that that youthful country, with Its pro nounced tendency toward the West, will have seized upon and peopled, within thirty or forty years, even the wide stretches of land beyond the Rocky Mountains. One may also fore see that along all this coast of the Pacific, where nature has already cre ated the most spacious and most secure harl>ors. there will gradually arise very Important commercial towns, which will become the Intermediaries of a great intercourse between China and the East Indies on the one side and the United States on the other. But in that ease it will be not only desirable, but almost a matter of necessity, that merchant vessels as well as men-of-war shall maintain a more rapid communi cation than lias so far been possible by the wearisome, disagreeable and costly navigation round Cape Horn. I repeat, then, that it Is absolutely imperative for the United States to effect a cutting from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. And I am certain that they will achieve that aim. I should like to live to see it. But that is not possible in my case. Secondly, I should like to live to see effected a joining of the Rhine with the Danube. But that were another gigantic undertaking, and I doubt its being carried out, more es pecially when I contemplate the small- nessof the means that Germany can dis pose of. And. thirdly, I should like the English to be In possession of a canal of Suez. These three things I should like to live to see .and it would be really worth while to hold out here, for their sake, another fifty years.’ ” —Literary Digest. Not Used to Luxuries. The peculiar sorrows o f a Pennsyl- vanla colored man are thus set forth by the Itecord of Philadelphia: A tall and heavy-footed colored man llmped painfully Imo a large shoe store In Phoenlxville one day recently, and began to complain to the proprie- tor that he had been swindled. “ Dese hyar shoes," he said, "suhtlnl.v is de wu'st I ebab see. Dey Jes' natchelly got me all tied up In knots.” “ What seems to be the trouble?” In quired the proprietor. The colored man scratched his pate for a minute, and said. “ F o’ de Lawd, I doan’ know. Ilit sho’ly seem laik somebody done cast a spell on dem. Fust dey feels all right, an’ den de nex’ day dey hu’ ts mos* drefful.” The dealer took a look at one of the shoes: then he began laughing. “ You’ re not used to wearing shoes, are you?” he asked. “ Well, boss,” was the reply, “ I doan’ weah dem much, da’s a fack.” “ Well, the trouble is, you’ve got them on the wrong feet.” “ No. snh! No, sab!” cried the negro, “ dey ain’ nuflin’ wrong w lf mah feet.“ ITE FLL’I TH AT SOMETHING WAS TO HAPPEN TO HIM. The denier explained the difference and the lawyer, too. If lie Interfered ' 111 i a tremulous voice he replied: with the orders of the Government, If It between right and left, and the custo 1 do not care about seeing them, took all the soldiers at Governor's Isl mer went away happy. ral times during our conversation Knots Tied by M achinery. tld: ’ It is an aw ful thing.' 'It bas and to do it. •• 'Well, Mr. Booth,' said the Irate If Inventions continue to multiply nt eased me greatly.' ‘ I feel as If 1 counsel, turning to him ns he sat 111 a the present rate, the day may speedily going to tile.’ *1 cannot under- chair In the office, without taking part come when man will have to sit with il why my brother did the terrible whatever hi the foregoing dialogue, folded arms while his work and even ■vou had better go with this man to his pleasures are turned out for him. r. Booth wished to know If he Washington and if you need my ser Science has lately given us a marvel In 1 give bonds, and I replied In the the shape of a card-counting muchlue. vices you can telegraph me. tlve. Then he asked If he could "Oil being driven hack to Mr. Booth s Two of these most Interesting automa ult counsel, and I told him lie could residence luncheon was served to us. ta now working are used for counting r the follow ing conditions: That he after which he changed his costume and tying postal cards into small bun l not leave my presence; that he .,nd had some things put Into a satchel. dles. Tw o of the machines are capa 1 not have any conversation with We went In the carriage direct to Des- ble of counting 500,000 cards in ten person. Including his counsel, ex prossi-s street ferry and took a train hours and wrapping and tying the same in my hearing, and that all such In packages of twenty-five each. In for Washington. ersatlon would lie strictly eonlblen- ••Upon arriving In Washington early this operation the paper is pulled off on my part, giving him ns a rea- the next morning I turned Mr Booth a drum by two long “ fingers” which tliat the habeas corpus act was over to Col. Baker, after we had break come up from below, and another finger suspended mid that the Oovero- fasted at an all-night restaurant ami dips In a vat of gum and applies Itself I did not allow any conversation 'f,er we had waited several hours at to the wrapping paper in exactly the right spot. Other parts o f the machine ’e parties were under arrest, Willard’» Hotel. He w a, put through r. Booth at the time hail on his j a course of examination by Col. Bak. r twine the paper around the pack of ting gown. He returned to his room and afterward taken before the Judg. cards and then a “ thumb” presses over came down wearing a black suit Advocate General. There were no dis the spot where the gum Is. and the ... tied with the paper slip, is silk lint, and said he was ready to crepancies in his two statements. A f inpnny me to his lawyer In Wall | ter he had been examined by the Judge throwu u[K,n a carry belt ready for , whose name I do not at present | Advocate General he was disehargetb dellvenr.-ri/siilar- Science New». Before leaving the house I j There was nothing whatever in his human race is but ■ contest oí 0 him that I would not, as was statements to show that he knew any- toll sirs. nary, put the handcuffs on him. ’ ,mg at all about his brother s terrible hat no one on the street would „et before it bad been perpetrated. - that he was under arrest, adding, j annot get aw ay from me, because New York Son; Y our grocer will sell you Argentin'» inned.’ pledge m yself as a gentleman. tea, anti re 1 Mr. Booth, ’that 1 will not try to i n l i n e territory by the creation tay.’ turn your money in full if iked him If he had a pistol, and i * 'regular line of steamers between o I aitcs and the southern ports. you don’t like it iwered: , Bahia. Bianca. Port Ma have not.’ He is our agent to this ^ Crux, l-u. rto P l i e g o , and ? servant was dispatched for a extent; and we want no ge. and upon Its arrival we were to the office o f Mr. Booth's conn- S*vanj an American who boast» of better business. Wall street. Mr. Booth asked me liberty^ A SiMlW * e was much excitement In " ash- ^ ¡ ¿ a » every time he * « - • t u Fli t wbat I thought they woold d o j *• ^ t ^ u t ^ ^ r e X S chilling's B est J - •"» <aD hU SCHOOL C H IL D R E N ’S SPORTS. 'fownbfill anil Cntbitl >■ uneraeded b j t h e Diamond and G ridiron. Have you ever noticed how regularly school children revert year after year to certain games an I pastimes? One morning there is not a marble to be seen on tlie streets, the next day every lad almost conies out and is ready for a game o f “ bunk up” or “ bull rin g.’ School children’ s games have their reg ular seasons. T o Introduce any of them out of their fixed dates is to doom C L1NA1A A M ) P r o g r e s s iv e them to ignoble failure. The boys will not take them up. Football i« invaria bly taken up in the fall term. It reach es its climax at Thanksgiving. In the same manner baseball comes up in the spring time. Top spinning is never more popular than during the crisp, cool, bracing October weather, but mar bles are played In the early spring months, beginning during the bright days of March, after the snows have disappeared, and lasting sometimes a*s late as early June. Even the girls fo l low tills unwritten law. Hop scotch, the greatest of h 11 favorite outdoor pastimes, is played In the spring, as is the rope Jumping and hoop rolling, but jack stones are played in the fall. The oi l game o f three-old-cat is to-day out of (late. School children have almost given it up. Iu its place the regular baseball nine lias been substituted. Such are the games of the school children o f to-day. There are few nov elties because young America rather prefers to imitate his elders than to think out new pastimes. That, is also the reason why youngsters have taken so readily to football iu the fall and K A I .S K I O nrO H T. W IT S L H S K *. There are knaves now and then met wfti . Either way, whether we are to have a certa in loca l b itters an d pelsoV prolonged winter oN»xtreme cold ora mild • represent stim u li as id en tical w ith or possessing pro* one, through the dunYjmess and chill neu- > ties akin to those o f H ostetter s stom ach b l t - \ ters. These scam ps o n ly succeed in foisting their ) ralgia will find its victims, and a great trashy upon people un a cq u ain ted ople uimctpiiiiuted com p ou n d s U(>oit many imprudent people will find neuralgia. w ith the g en u in e article, w h ic h is as m u ch In either case, when it does come, with its their opposite as day is to n igh t. Ask and take n o subatltute for the grand * rem edy fo r in a aria, ’ titi ’ | racking torture, let’s look about for the be.-t dyspepsia, stip ation , rheum atism and k id that uun be done. We need not go far. ney t r o u b con l e . ____________________ The reputation of St. Jacobs Oil as a cer tain cure for neuralgia has gone "before it, Chioago university has jost received and it is an established fact that it c u re s a gift of property worth 1500,000 to be surely, soothes and restores the troubled nerves. To enjoy, therefore, a comfortable used for a new biological station. winter, whether it is cold or mild, be ar in S tate of O h io , C it y of T oledo , > mind that for this complaint one should L ucas C ounty , ! have the great remedy for pain ready fi*r F r an k J. O iknky m akes oath that, he is tha use. It is by putting off that the ailment senior partner o f tlie firm o f K. J. C hen ey A Co., grows worse* and the worst cases grow less- d o in g business in the city of T oled o, County an d M ate aforesaid, and tiiat said firm w ill pay as soon as it is used. C iv iliz a t io n . A lady recently took into her servlet a Chinaman, and begun to Cbrisriannize him. Shortly afterward some silver apoons were missing. Then she taught him the Apostles’ Creed, and It was discovered that a valuable piece of plate had beeu stolen, ills benefac tress, loath to suspect her new convert. Started lu to teach him the Ten Com mandments. By the time he was able to repeat the First Commandment, the scamp stole her watch. Then the phi lanthropic lady’s sou rebelled. “ Moth er," he exclaimed, ’’for heaven’s sake, don’t teach that plg-talled scalawag any more, or by the time you’ ve got him to the Tenth Commandment he will have stolen the house and taken the cellar along with It!” th»F sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for eacn\ and every ease of C atakrh that ca n n ot be cu red by the use of H a ll ' s C atarrh C u r *. FRANK J. CH ENEY. Sworn to before m e and subscribed in m v presence, (h is tiih day of Decem ber, A. D. 1MJ6. A. W. GLEASON. ’ N N otary Publlo. H a ll’s Catari^h Cure is taken in tern a lly, and acts directly on th e blood and m u cou s surface* of the system , f-opd for testim onials, free. K. J. ( \HENLV «* CO , T oledo, O. Sold by dru ggists.xoc. H a ll’s Fam ily P ills ^re the beet. * Bricks of glass are now manufac tured in Silesia. T h «y are cheap and rnoro durable than mud bricks. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is the best of all cough cures.— rge W. Lots, Fubucher, La., August 26, 181)5. A scheme is on foot to have a geneial census of the whole w orld taken to d a rk the end of the century. The highest claim for other tobaccos is " J u s t as good as D u r h a m .” E v e r y old s m o k e r knows there is none just os good as ■ g ia c k w e ifll BULL DURHAM ■ S m o k in g T o b a c c o H You will find one coupon inside each two ounce bag, and two cou pons inside each four ounce bag o f Blackwell’s Durham. Buy a bag c f t h i s cele brated tobuccoatid read the coupon—which gives a list o f valuable presents and how them. to get them. V M SV R "* M ARIII.ES. “Contains More Flesh Form ing Matter Than Beef.” liaseball iu the spring. To have :t match game with another school ie productive of more real pleasure to them than ail individual game of mar bles. Their vanity, too. is touched, for to be in a football or baseball team is a greater honor to them than the win- nlng of a pocketful of marbles, for they receive the plaudits of their rel- lows and not Infrequently that o f their elders. --------------------------------- W an ted to Be f logged . Gen. Osborn Wilkinson, of the British army, after describing his experience See that Imitations are not palmed oil on you. when as a schoolboy lie was “ birched” at Eton—and a decidedly painful expe rience lie makes It out to have been— proceeds to tell a singular story of an- other Etonian, who «ought the switch in vain. This boy was sentenced to be flogged for some misdemeanor, but fortified by the knowledge that his father was greatly opi>o«ed to the system o f cor IN GU A RA N TE ED O R D E R ...... ..... FOR SALE C H EA P poral punishment, refustd to submit, lie was at once expelled, and went ! home aud reported what had taken place. “ Well, well,” said his father, “ this is San Francisco, s c a T . most unfortunate. I have just succeed ed in securing for you a commission in the Guards, and now, being expelled from Eton, you will no longer be eligi ble to her m n joey's service.” THE LOW ER! NO OF The boy was distracted. His whole PRICES..... heart was set upon a military career. Seeing his son’s grief, the father advis W hich we have effected in these ha* ed him to hasten back to school aud Invaluable In Office, .School, and iTome. been even greater than in oth er good«. They are n o lon g er exp en sive, beg leave to be flogged and reinstated. A thorough revision o f the i f you have not p urchased recently Unabridged, tho p rpo*e o f The young fellow set off nt once; but we have a surprise In store for you. i-VI \ _ \ the proM:«i«.n < f rial f< It is a alas! vacation had l>egun, and the mas '•'»»Tfiil and Bliowv showy B«lvr?-t!a* odvertüw WEBSTER'S ment, but tp# due' funlrlcns. ter had gone to the continent. Not to i IVTEPXTnONAL f sclmhirly, thorn-*], reftrcC Ing of u work which iv rll the be balked, the boy followed, and hav Special Offering to , DICTIONARY ■tyre« of iu i r ’V th Fra eb- ing overtaken him in Paris, explained tntnedinen *,,r r| d e n re Uie M ail Order Purchasers f . iv o r C ud ro n fite n e » » ».f *vli« ]. the situation and begged a flogging. arsand of tho gene re 1 pci,lie. “ But I can't do It.” said the master. T h e C h o ic e st o f Gifta a t $ . , $ “ I’ m sorry for you. hut It would !>e too fo r C h r istm a s. h V arious B ttles o r D ix o n e . Irregular, and beside I have nothing $ and $ a pair for | ^ “ Specimen pages sent r-n application to with which to do it.” G. * C. M K K H t A ,W r O „ / » U l i t u i L n it r it i Ite ri, I, Harm.. P .0 . A The boy had provided for that emer 8% Yard length ~~ 1 < X X ---------------- w hite or cream gency. and when he produced a birch lace curtain « rod the master, seeing his sincerity, de th orou g h ly to-date style*. T o any addresa, ou r . . . . Ex p r e s a g e or pontage . . . . S p eclM i I 'r l e « l ist o f clined to use the switch, but rescinded aid by us. H O U S E H O LD C O O n S . ETC the sentence of expulsion, and the boy hey are such good« and values an we are certain w ill be was able to accept the desired commis frien d m akers for us. This circu la r is issued for the benefit o f nnr As a holid ay g ift sion. __ That is what an eminent physician says of good cocoa. The Cocoa made by Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorchester, Mass., is the best. Cheapest Power.... Rebuilt Gas and ... Gasoline Engines. ^ Hercules Gas ....Engine W orks LACE CURTAINS. 1 00 1.55 1.35 1.85 M U L E D FREE f M exican Burials. The Mexicans have a queer way of burying the dead. The corpse Is tightly wrapped in century plant matting, and pi „ ^ In a coffin hln-d for a l,,at a .h i I- im . or t v . n stlr,«. na tho rn w ’*’• Pb,p* ,he ''ortln on ,h,‘lr and go at a trot to the grave, whole the laxly Is Internal, and the coffin I» then returned. The wealthy class use the tram ears as hearses, and the friends follow beside the ear on fo o t T r a c k T o t in g . Iu noe OD the electric street railway at Biddeford. Me., Is a peculiar track tester, based upon an adaptation o f the telephone. A man sits In a car and talks continuously Into a mouthpiece which is connected electrically with a receiver held by a man In the power house. A break In the conversation shows where the track connection, are faulty. * /" k l W e b s t e r ’s ’In te r n a tio n a l D ic t io n a r y to a housekeeper they w ill la- am ong the most w elcom e selections. We w ill send ou r new Fall ca ta lo g u e Free for the asking. Bend you r order at on ce. fY C O. « 30* w.>hi*,i«« St. K I I M f* r V 11 J U , POSTLSNO, 0». Make nw nev by auc- e v u fu l up«*« u lation In C h icago. W® bu y and ■ell w heat there on m argins. Fortunes have »seen m ade o n a sm all b eg in n in g by tradin g In futures. W rite for full particu lars. Rest o f referen ce given . Sev eral years’ exp erien ce on the C h ica g o B«»ard of Trade, and a th orou gh k n ow led ge o f the busi ness. D o» nlng, M od kins A Co., C h ica g o Hoard o f Trade Broker«. Offices in P ortlan d, O regon, and Ppokane, Wash. WHEAT. cou n try custom ers w h o c a n n o t avail theniselrea of ou r Daily Hpeclal «ales. Send us your ad dress. Y ou w ill find t*»th goods and p rices right. W ILL A KINCK c « . , k!8-tUU M arket Street, Han Fran cisco, Cal. Fancy dre*«ed and jo in t e d , 2<c; seven-in ch drum s, ’¿fie; Xma* m« ss, A c ;' h obb y $1.45; dozen em broid ery silk, 1 c ; tinsel ta ils , any c o lo r , J “ r : ph otograph albu m , ftoe; nn n’g socks, 4»' a pair- em broid ered sDk han dk er c h i e f , 7*$c; c h ild r e n ’s rings, lc ; lin e n thread. Jtc a s p o o i; c h o ice bovfl heavy •>» oe*. $I.2-V Maff orders prom ptly atten ded t< L L • K V ’ 1 T I I K F % I K , 312 W ash in gton street, P ortland, Or.