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The Laziest Man.
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ALL grasses on the bank wnvctl It, leaving only the twisted Ironwork to he soinothlug hotter than conn
Koiitb; n blundering bumblebe' hanging to the pillars on elthir liiiitc. ! dentin! clerk to Page & Jcssop If you
T
tutnhlcd Ukin the brum! face of
n hurdock lenf, too ovcrlnden with pol
Ion to tly; Interloeketl hrnnchcH t raced
n laeowork luttctn on the groun 1, nnd
the September sunlight shimmering up
on the bank nnd water was like n b.'iie
d Union.
ltlnpdd Iny nt length beside the foot
path, flat uikmi his back, one leg over
the other, thus thrusting n very trim
urn! well shod foot Into the nlr, and
with his hands clasped behind his head
pillowed on a hammock.
He watched a spider busily spinning
n thread so line that as It was carried
further and further out over the watir
on the bosom of the breeze Its end whs
ilnally lost to sight. Such n busy Itttlu
creature as that spider was, too! It
positively made Mucoid feel n desire
to be doing somethtnc himself, Just to
see the spinner nt work. So he lit an-
. other cigarette and puffed steadily. A
man can always ilud i-omethlng to do
when he's In the country on u vaca
tion. Hy and by the spider, evidently be
lieving his aerial ship, or kite, or what
ever he was making, of sufficient
strength, cut himself tooe nnd went
' Hying away at the end of his thread.
Up nud up the spider soared, and
nwny over the river; and having seen
the ascension Mngold was able to fol
low the track of the cunning Insect at
the end of his floating thread for tame
yards.
"That's n line way to cross n river,"
he said to himself. "Wish I could do It
ns easily."
Simon Sholes, the storekeeper, came
trotting along the path. "Ill, Hobby!
What ure you doing there?" he asked,
casting a rather suspicious glance at
the recumbent llgure.
"Sawing wood, Mr. Sholes," respond
ed the lazy one.
Sholes chuckled rather doubtfully,
and went on. Mngold knew he would
go down to Ids store nnd report that
Hob was Just as lazy ns ever. Three
years hi the city hadn't changed him
n mite!
Dr. Newell hove In tight n moment
later. Itcnlly, the river path seemed u
favorite wny to the village today!
"That you Mngold? Taking It easy?"
"Oh, no, sir! I'm plowing for oats."
"I reckon you would plow for oat
this time o' year, Mngold. It would be
Just like you," said the old physlclau
dryly, ns he went on, his coattnlls flap
ping over his locked hands.
"Makes these folks Jealous to see a
man resting," declnrcd Mngold to him
Keif. "Humph! Working Just nliout ns
you uscter, hey?" was old Peleg Mur
iiny's sharp remark as he passed a
minute Inter. And he scowled down nt
the mnn of rase. Ho remembeied
-when Mngold had stolen his golden
russets.
"Hnrdcr." wns the reply. "I'm mnk
Ing liny while the sun shines. I'll sell
you n ton nt a discount. Peleg," said
Mngold. Ho knew the old man's fall
ing. Hy and hy there wns another step on
the path. Mngold had been waiting
for It, hut he did not raise his head.
"I thought I would II ml you here,"
mid n voice scornfully. "You ure. Hob
err, the very laziest man In the world!"
"Think so?"
"I know so!" The girl tapped the
patent leather toe of her shoe with the
tip of her parasol. "And you mean to
say that they pay you ?3,000 u year In
New York.
That's the llgure."
"What for?"
"For thinking."
"And I suppose you have been think
ing nil this livelong afternoon Unit you
have lain here?"
r "Noj I've been doing belter."
"What, pray?"
"Watching spiders!" exclaimed Mng
old, laughing and getting lazily ukii
his feet. Then he walked along by the
girl's side. Hut she kept her fnce turn
ed loftily from bin nud that evening
she went to th church sociable with
young Sholes, the storekeeper's sou.
"I like n man who does things." she
told Mngold when he complained.
The last week of his month's vaca
tion coincided with Mngold's hopes.
To say the least, the weather wns un
certain. Most of the time It rulneel.
When It did not rain It iwured. The
river rose enormously. The water had
not lK-eii so high (these be the words
of the oldest Inhabitant) since the
great storm In 'CO. The meadows wero
allood. Where Itlngold had lain nnd
dreamed nwny the sunny afternoon the
water was two feet deep. If ho had
not mado up his mind to abandon n
part of his Ill-gotten gains the bumble
bee must have been drowned, nnd the
spider had shown his good sense In
changing his ejuurtcrs.
Tburday night the foot and carriage
bridge went. The next morning the
dam burst, and the onrush of the great
flood which swept the valley carried
the timbers of the railroad trestle with
H-M-H-fr
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At the village ntntl 11 n long, vo-dlhul-
ed train had been held Just In season
to escape destruction. The wire told
then that retreat was cut off by the
loss of the bridge over the ravine two
mllis up the road. Perforce the pas
sengers were obliged to submit to u
considerable stay at this one-horse
town.
"If It looks ns menu and small to
them as It does to me, they won't like
It," thought Mngold. He strolled down
to the station, "for the privilege of ee
Ing n well dresid woman and n silk
tile once more." he said. Kverylxuly
seemed so glad to have escaped the
wreck of the bridge that they were not
jet troubling over the delay. All but
one man. lie wns sipiM. ruddy faced
white haired, quick motioned. Mng
old's eyes opened wider. He knew
him. And Wall street knew him. Mug
old hnd not quite lost run of llmtuclnt
affairs. A New York paper was waft
ed Into town on occasion.
"He was going home In a hurryand
I don't blame hint, coiMlderlug the way
U. nud P. Is dropping," muttered the
lazy mnn. "And- I'd bet that he won't
gain anything for being held tip lure."
The ruddy faced man thought so, too,
He went down to the edge of the river
which had now become a lake. "Is
there any way of crossing?" he asked.
Tho natives stared at him. "I reckon
not. A loat wouldn't live it minute In
that current. And It's like to rain
ag'ln 'fore night."
"I've got to get across now; I can't
wnlt." said the ruddy faced man.
"Whore's the boat?"
"There ain't none nearer than the
sea-shore fifteen mile nwny. What
we had was lost In the fust flood."
"Hut I've got to get over," declared
the man, Insistently.
The bucolic citizens left him. They
made up their minds that he wasn't
exnetly "right," Itlngold went over.
"What's It worth?" he asked calmly.
"Put me across the river I can get
n special to meet me there, I And nud
I'll give yon
He looked Mngold over, nud finished;
"A hundred dollars."
"These aren't my clothes," Mngold
said softly. "You see. I got my own
wet. I nm connected with Page &
Jessop. They call me their coufldcutln!
clerk."
"You misunderstood me," said tho
ruddy faced man, quickly. "I said a
thousand!"
"And expenses?"
"And expense," with a sigh.
"All right. You wire for your train.
You'll need It about 1 o'clock."
He troIled nwny as calmly ns ever,
but there must have been something In
his eye that Impressed the Wall street
mnn more than It did Mngold's old
uelghtKirs and friends. At any rate he
telegraphed for the speclul.
Mngold did n little wiring himself.
Luckily there wns a roundabout wny of
telegraphing to the other side of the
river, nud Al Cuslck II veil there. He
could depend uikmi Al to do Just what
he wns told no more, no lets.
Then Mngold made somo purchnses
nt Sholes's store. Young K holes told
the girl when she happened In n little
Inter that he guessed Hob Itlngold
must be getting Into his second child
hood, buying children's toys!
"And hi nud nut thought them left
over balloons we had fur the picnic
was n dead lo.s," said the store
keeper's son. Ills grammar was one
thing that made the girl wish Mngold
wns not so lazy!
Of course, she could not kesp nwny
from the edge of the overflowed mead
ows. Half the population and uioht of
tho delayed passengers were there. At
onu side was Mngold uiul two men
busily nt work. On th other shore a
wagon had driven down to the edge of
the water, and she hen id sotnihody siy
that It was Al Cuslck's tram. Hy and
hy titber people noticed Mngold's ac
tions. They exclaimed In wonder and laugh
ed not a little when a bunch of toy
balloons, fastened to a strong silk
thread, rose In the nlr'nitd was wafted
over the water. The wind blew direct
ly nerts the stream, witch was yellow
and angry In Its central channel. s Hut
tho bullous -floated the silken sl'ratid
high ubove II. Hy and by the pressure
of the air causing the balloons to leak,
they dropped down. Hut It was on the
further bank, and Al Cuslck caught
tho thread.
In a moment Mngold signaled him to
pull nwny. A cord follow d the silken
thread over the river, Then a small,
strong rope followed the cord. Several
men mid Joined Cuslck on the further
shore. Mngold attached a new cablo
to the rope, and under the lusty
"heave-hoss!" of the group on the other
side the yellow maullit splushed
through tho flood. With It went an
other cord, which, when the cablo was
fast on either shore, was used to pull
n block nnd breeches buoy which Mug
old had mado from a soil
There was a banner of snioko against
the overcast sky on the other slde of
tho river. "Your spe'chil's JiiHt In, sir,"
Itlngold on hi to the ruddy faced limn.
"It's it ijunrter to t, I guarantee you'll
! not ncross without ho much its wet
I tint; your booMo."
Tito ruddy faced limn shook bauds
I "You cull t tny office when yon conio
, to town," he suld. "I think you ought
want to chance"
The girl heard him, nnd she squeezed
Mngold's arm In delight.
"Oh. ohl" she whispered, "Did you
hear that, Itnttcit? Isn't that splendid?
Why, we can"
'That extra thousand will furnish u
pretty decent Hat In Harlem," llulsh
iil the tailed man Philadelphia
Ledger,
A DICKENS GRIEVANCE.
Tom
I'lnch'a Heat Itcmoveit from
Koantnln Court.
Dickons worshippers ore lamenting
tho mysterious disappearance of the
seat from Fountain Court, In Uie
Temple, wnjs the loudon Hxpress.
Always numerous hire they have n
real grievance to discuss, for this now
violated shrine had hitherto been held
sacre'd to the memory of lovers' meet
ing and .Martin Chuxzlewtt.
It Is easy to Imagine that Itntli
Pinch and John Westlock John so
bold nud ltnth so shy may have wit
on these Identical seats. And what
would Tom Pinch, who so loved this
fountain refuge', have said to tho grat
uitous Impertinence of their removal?
Some of the mint delightful senti
ment In nil Dickens Is associated with
this spot. Here It wns that John West
lock's secret assignation with Itnth
was stumbled upon by Ingenuous Tom.
"'What nu ix tra ordinary meeting!'
said Tom. 'I should never have drenuit
of seeing you two together here.'
"'Quite accidental,' John was heard
to murmur.
"'Kxactly,' cried Tom: 'that's what
I msHU, you know. If It wasn't acci
dental there would be nothing remark
able In It.'
" To be sure, said John.
"'Such hu out-of-the-way place for
you to have met In,' pursuit! Tom.
quite delighted. 'Such nu unlikely
spot.'
And so on, until ItuUi managed to
get around on the further side of her
brother and squeeze him, as much ns
to say, "Are you going to stop here i
.ill da-, you
dear old blundering
Tom?"
"Afterwnrds enmo another, a
"in a
more fateful meeting.
Why they e-aitte toward the foun-'Pnsa
tain nt all was a mystery, for they
had no business there. It wns not their
wny. They had no more to do with
the fountain, bless you, than they
had with with love, or any out-uf-
t!ie-wny tilings or mat sort."
"Howerer. there they found them-
selves. And another extraordinary
part of the matter wns that they
seemed to Imve come there by a silent
understanding. Yet when they got
there they were a little confused hy
being there, which was the strongest
part of all; because there Is nothing
naturally confusing In a fountain.
"Whnt a good old place It was!'
John said. With quite an earnest af
fection for It.
"'A pleasant place, Indeed,' snld
Itutli. Why tly that tiny, precious,
lilessed little foot into tho cracked
corner of nn Insensible old flagstone
In the pavement, and bo so very anxl-Jfalr,
otis to adjust It to a nicety?"
I'niiionilini) hy Mitt eVitcll.
"When Mux O'ltell came to Montreal
some yitirs ago," said a man from that
city to a Detroit Journal contributor,
"we llxtl up a llttlo Joke on him. We
hnd noticed how gracefully he could
unite a cnun(lr criticism with n compli
ment, a facility that enabled him to say
the sharpest things without offending
the people he was criticising. We
were going to put the faculty to a test.
"We had hint lunch with us, uml
there were at the table beside Idmxelf
an Kugllshmuii, u Scotchman, nu Irish
man nud a French-Canadian. When we
got our guest off his guard wo demand
ed nu honest opinion of tho different
races we renresenti'd. As the otilulon
had to be given In the presence of nil
fmir. tin. .IImmHoii fur him was '
mther delicate one. Hut It never
seemed to trouble him, and he gave his ,)or Tloro w )0 no,nB iackR In
opinion without moment s hesitation. tna now equipment of tho homo sol
"The Seotcluuiiii,' he said, and he .dlery. Tho sedertlon of nn nncnmp
clenched his right hand tightly and ment sltn hangs flro on account of tho
pretendeil to try ami force It open with , rnllrond ratos. It Is oxpoctod that n
his left. The Kiigllsliinuti'umlhe went! 'oc'"l,on w?' ,)0 renc'ted this week as
through the same performance, open
ing the hand nt the end after nu appar
ent struggle, vl'he Irishman ' and he
held out his hand wide open, with the
palm upwards, Tho Frenchman'
and he mudo n motion with both hands
us If he were emptying them on tho
table.
"There was not a word of explana
tion, but wo all understood thoroughly,
nud had n hearty laugh. Max O'ltell
had maintained his reputation."
Tliun Ho Mudo Up.
Ho (urter u tiff) Going homo to
your mother, eh?
Sha Yes, I am.
He Huh! What do you suppose
she'll say to you?
She She'll sny: "I told you so."
New York Weekly.
l fliaa iy
HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
5UMPTHW. MINUS.
Improvement nnd Development Work
Progressing Kapldly,
Another crosscut tunnel la being
driven on tho Modoc initio In tho
Cougar mine. This tunnel will open
up the three veins on the property.
Ore assaying $100 to tho ton Is being
taken from the old workings.
A complete hoisting plnnt has been
uriiereii ny tun Prnlrlo Diggings man
agement, which will ho Installed Im
mediately upon Its arrival. Thu'shnfl
la now down 80 feel.
The vein of tho Dixie group has de
veloped n width uf 00 feet. This
property Is located nu (Iranlto Ileal
der Creek about four tulles from tho
wonderful Morning mluo In (ho
Greenhorn district.
Tho May Queen management Is
now erecting u hoisting plant on the
property. It will bo capable or sink
ing to n depth of fiOOifeet. Tho May
Queen Is in the Hod Hoy district. The
machinery recently received here for
the hoisting plant of the Midway
group Is now being rapidly Installed
A sawmill Is also being erected.
An order for f00 more cords of
wood has been given by the IC. & K.
management. This wood Is being de
livered nt tho hoist building, which
no doubt menus tho extensive oper
ating of tho plnnt.
Ore for shipment Is now being
snckeMl by the Vnlloy Queen manage
ment. A winze Is being sunk, nud
has encountered n high grndo of
quartz,
Tho now sampling mill recently
erected hy Arthur & McKweit Is com
pleted nud n test run has Just been
made on ore from the Flora M. prop
erty near town. The mill worked to
the complete satisfaction of the
owners.
The management of the Copper
orndls property located In the Quartz
burg district, announces that work
will be resumed in n few days. The
main crosscut tunnel Is now In over
000 feet. A drift has also been run on
n copper lodge. This drift will be
extended over 100 feet.
sucukbs HiaiiT op way.
People Who are Ilehlnd the Oregon ft
Pacific Hard at Work.
Whlle they nro snylng but llttlo the
. peoplo who nro behind the Oregon A
pacific Kallrond are working diligent
Iy, nnd a rnllrond line from Ornnts
to Crescent City will undnubt-
odly bo n reality within the next year
Colonel T. Wain-Morgan Draper, chief
engineer of tho proposed rond. Is n
very busy mnn. looking after tho sur
veying of tho line, ntul tho manage-
ment of tho Waldo Smelting tc Mln-
ing Company's copper properties nt
Waldo, who are the principal hackers
of the new road. Colonel Draper
"tntca Hint they hnvo secured right of
way for more than three-fourths of
the road from Ornnts Pass to fins
quct, Cal., and hnvo selected nil of
the stations on the line. At each of
the places where stations hnvo been
selected ample rights of wny has been
given not only for n depot but also for
sidings.
Coming Uvmts.
Ninth annual reentta, Astoria, Au
east 19-21.
State fair, Salem, September 14-19.
Second Southern Orsgon District
Kugeno, September 29-Octoher 3.
Summer association of the North
west Indian agenclM, Newport, Au
gust 17-27.
Klamath county fair, Klamath
Falls, October C-9.
flood roads convention, Jackson
ville, August 16.
Fruitgrowers' convention, Jackson
ville, August 15.
Teachers' Institute, Tillamook, July
29-31.
Knights of Pythias convention, A'a
torla, Aueust 20-21,
Teachers' Institute,- La Grande, As
Ctiat 17-31,
Trapplncs'for National Ousrd.
Tho ndltitnnt-genorurs office of the
Oregon National Guard has been no
tified that n shipment of 9R9 United
States rifles and GO carbines, to
Kethor with hnyonets, belt, scabbards.
aiings. inc., oil wio wny hi rorunnii,
nnd will arrive hern In amnio tltnn for
tho annual nnrnmpmont In Septom-
in WIIUTU IIIU llllJUIIIZUUUIl Will UIHIl
place.
Warships at Hegctta.
A tcloarnm tins been received by
tho Astoria rcgattn rommltteo from
tho socrctnry or tho navy, stating that
tho gunboat Alert hnd been ordered
to Astoria for tho rogattn. Assur
ances hnvo also boon received from
Socrctnry Moody thnt tho Now York,
Mnrblehnnd nnd Hennlnglon will bo
orderod horo ir they roturn rrom tho
Alaskan crulso In time.
To Train Kindergartens,
Thn professional department or tho
Weston Stato Normal School has
linen onlnrgod hy tho addition or tho
chnlr of applied kindergarten, MIsb
Vlolot "Kllzaboth Howlby, of AstorliC
haa boon elected to this position.
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NI1W NATUHAU7.ATION LAWS.
(Iocrnor Announces Provisions Against
lllegsl Immigrants.
For tlm Information of all concern,
ed In Oregon Governor Clitimherliilu
Iiiih made public n letter received by
him from tho department of state nt
Washington, I), C, calling attention
to tho now provisions of tho United
States naturalization laws. Tln.nn
now provisions took effect July a,
1903, and provide that, In order to bo
valid, n court record of naturaliza
tion must show Hint the person tint
unitized la not opposed to nil organ
ized government nor alllllated with
any orgnnlzntlon so opposed; that he
does not advocate tho unlawful as
saulting or killing of oftlcora or thn
government; thnt he has not violated
any of the provisions of tho said net
o regulate tho Immigration of aliens
nud Unit he has compiled with the
terms of previous acts on the subject
of unturallzntlou.
The new net also require that
every certificate of unturallzntlou
shall specllleally recite that the pro
visions of this and previous nets hnvo
been compiled with, nnd If It falls In
any particular It Is null nud void. Thn
act making the nddltlonnl regulations
was approved on March 3,
ll.NLAKUIl TIM WIUSUKVU.
More Lam Withdrawn Prom Settlement
In Oregon City District.
Nine township of laud In Clwekn
tuns. Marlon nud Dun counties have
been withdrawn from settlement uhjii
telegraphic orders from Acting Com
missioner of tho Lnnd Olllce Flmpls.
The townships are from f to 13 In
clusive In range 4 east. Immediately
adjoining the Cascade forest reserve
on the east. Karli township contains
23.010 nrres, nnd the whole number of
ncres In the nine townships with
drawn Is 307.300. All of township 11
nud two thirds of township 13 are on
surveyed land Of the whole area
withdrawn from settlemwnt. NI.3I0
nrtcs are vacant hind, of which 3R,
400 ncres nro iiusurvoyed.
The nctlon of the general lnnd office
Is construed to moan that the Interior
department Is desirous of extending
the reserve.
Insane Population Onmlng.
The report of Siiporlutetfdont J. F.
Cnlhrenth. of the statu Insane asylum.
for July, shows that during the month
the population of that Institution In.
creased from 1334 to 1332. During
the month 38 now patient wero re '
celved nnd one escape returned.
Fourteen patients were discharged,
in men ami one einpitl. or the pa
tients enrolled July 31 thero wero
939 males and 393 females.' The nv
erago expense of maintenance wns
$9.31 per month, or 30 cents per day
The totnt vnluo of articles consumed
was J631C.39.
In IUhlf of Slnssw Harbor,
Tho Commercial Club or Kugone
has Indorsed a petition priquired by
O. W. Hurd. or Florence, which will
be presented to tho secretary of war
nnd congress on behalf of the cltlzmts
of Oregon, nsklng the government to
continue well commenced Improve
ments on tho Jetty In tho Sluslaw har
bor. Tho petition boro tho Indorse,
mont of tho Oregon delegation In con
gress. Mr. Hurd Is at present In
Portland nnd will bring tho same mat
ter heroro the commerclnl bodies of
thnt city. Later ho will visit San
Francisco and securo aid from titer
shlppors thero.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 7737-0' yal
luy, 7Pc.
Ilarlsy Fnod, .110.00 r ton brow
ing. ISO.
Flour Best grades, (4,10 efl 6.60;
graham 13.36(93.76.
Mlllituffs ilran, 123 per tons mid-,
dllnrs, 27( shorts, 23; chop, 118.
Oata No. I white, $1.07 9 1.07K;
tay, tl 06 percental.
Ilay Timothy, $1020j clover,
nosslnal; cheat, (16010 per ton.
Potatoes neat Hurbanks, 7076r
por sack) ordinary, 364lo per cental.
growers' prion; Msrcod swsets, (SQfr
a.ou per rental.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, 11012c;
young, ltift 17iV, lions, 12o; turkeys,,
live, 10312c; dressed, 14lncj ducks.
(4,0036,00 per dozen t roe bo, $0,00(3
6.60.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 16J
10a; Young America, 16K(Sloo; fact
ory prices, KftlKo less,
nutter Fancy creamery, 2023Ko.
per pound extras, 22o; dairy, 20
il2fo store, 1 Oca 17,'
Kgifs 2021o per dozen.
Hops Choice, 15QJflo par pound.
Wool Valley, 1718o; Kastorn Or
egon, 13016c; mohair, 8637Jo.
Jleef Oross, cows, 34o, per
pound; steers, 66J0 dressed, 7Ko.
vsat 7tfG58o.
Mutton Gross,
dressed, fHe,
Lambs Gron,
drcaesd. 7o.
So per pound;
4o per ponnd ;
03o per pound
Hogs Gross, OtJOo
tfresMd, 0X7e.
kr