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V * mifief. 5 1 An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon i GRANT'S PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11. 1897 he 4 J |‘‘ SEPTEMBLK MuON-VIEWING." 'from hi« station on the hearth, !• ii.... i use when 1 wish to be slightly patron- j GL âlliJ. tiuiubo'; head fell one side and U i izing. T am Gilbert Dane, of the How- j I A Mo*t Poetical t rstlval In the Little jaws hung loose. ' ard theater,’ and he actually handed me Japanese Inland of Mlyajimn. “Lower him <k>wn,” ordered I 3tn We were talking about spirit mani I uue of my owu cards. UY WILLIAM P. BBOWN. leader. “When he comes to we’ll pul festation* at the Thirty-nine club, and “There was something io the sub- They ware such kindly village and S hoes fci^ cm town's pks T nd ^ bih e t^s,- the wood on him if he don't blub.” retailing the usual second or th ini hand , Ftantial nature of the familiar bit of ' fisherfolk that we soon grew attached Squire Mug le wa* tall and cadav ! A pail of cold water was thrown on Ito our neighbors and one old sendo, or accounts of deceased ladies and gen- i a^teboard that brought back a littK* I ok HJiSStSANO THOI\ BROIHER^; erous. The “Leys ’iu llatershum often the negro, He revived, drenched, shiv- tleinen showing themaelves to their sor of my common sense, and relieved me 5 hoe $- that fit as smooth a *) VVfUSnf^S, called him “Mvvch.u’ Mvgle” because, ering, and lookrd round at hi* master, boatman, and hi* son* were our daily rowing relatives. from the state of stupefaction into P erfect cohort s. ' though locally prou..ueiit, ai d v. il to Then the foolish, faithfal creature I comi»aiiionH. They knew where to take “ It is strange, the tricks which our which the phenomenon had driven mu. us in the morning to see best the beauti >Bi do, he v\ore an us;eel as of one ulwaya brains will sometime* play us,’’ said “ ‘Come, thia Is a very clever trick, I looking for forrlx ui ulice uud toleiuLcn moaned: ful tangled and rocky shores, sculling ”1 hain’t tolr yit, marse!” Dr. Macpherton. “I remember once ».aid, with a smile, which I am afraid the fiat-bottomed sampan into caves rather than expecting honor and re “No—God blesa you. boy—you have seeing a ghost myself, and I can tell wa« rather feeble. ‘You have certainly and tunnels, and under arched rocks spect. •T n’t. I will have satisfaction for this you that the sensation i* a very curious succeeded in startling me. Now i li One felt a sort of pity at sight of hix outrage, men. 1 have been a magistrate, that framed charming pictures; and one. It was a good many years ago, in should like your owu card, so that 1 we never tired fixating about the co T ho! low-cheated, angular form, which ■ 5101 my examination days, and I had been may know whom to congratulate on a lossal torii, the spell of which was was somewhat neutmlistd by doubt, A? , Î I “ Will yer shet up? ’ ’ ahouted Ute sitting up until the early houis‘cram very clever performance.*“ however, when one noted certain hard leader. “Now hoys, throw thet nigger stronger each day. The Miyajima ur ming.* Everylouy in the Louse had “And what did the Mystery do?” I in lines of mioor expression that seemed over a l»arrvl and nax'hilly warp the chins made water carnivals about us, long since gone to bed, where I ought to qui red. with interest, when the actor diving and splashing tirelessly for the \ • • S to denote the possession of more forbid hide offeu him with these hick’rie«.*’ i nJ hare been myself, so I was rather sur ■ V » smallest coins, our sampau surrounded !. 1 ding utu ibutes. paused. 1 Soon the kitchen resounded with * prised when I glanced up from my id ■11 “He did exactly what I should have llis wife was dead, and he lived in a Gumbo’a cries; vet still he would not by these lively little brown frogs with Lxx>k to see somebody sitting at the lard bright, happy faces. On the night of done, if a stranger addressed me in the large, tumbl -down bouse, two miles tell. table where I myself had been a few the great “September moon-viewing” He became angry, and aame manner. from the little Georgia town of Haber “ Up with him! !** shouted the captain. V* A momenta before writing. I felt quite the sendo took us far down the shore I meant, and whom I sham. When the civil war came on he asked r.-e what now- furious. “ “ Put ther rojn* raun ’ hb -r'- startled for an instant, until 1 recog ki solo his negroes, retaining only Gumbo cussed neck. Take him out ter a tree.” at .sunset, letting us see two of the ten calk'd myself. nized the intruder. Ee was a little hazy, • •Well, until to-day 1 have been iu to assist in looking after his impover While this was l>eing done, the forts of the island’* defenses, their but I could see plainly enough who it port holes and casements masked in the habit of railing myself Gilbert ished plantation. His neighbors flouted lenaler ttirn«»d to the squire. >tiq wr«." Dane, of the How ard theater—* I wa< him a* being a unionist, fur preferring n |\ oe ay “Ret* here,’’ he raid, “if yer don’l foliage, and looking innocently down do i “A dead relative?” aaked Maj. Den beginning, keeping a* cool as 1 could, Yankee gold to gotxi negroes. But give up thet money yer’ll Joae a nigger upon the narrow, tide-swept strait that t l.j nett, who was a firm believer in th« w hen ‘mv double* interrupted me iu a slave property was growing uncerta.n; right here. We’re in a hurry. Some of commands one entrance to Ujina. In good old-faahioned ghost. e<¿ Une v. h uh I still recognised perfectly gold was sure, and secret hiding places Wheeler’s cavalry are about and v.e coming junk* seemed to reef their sails Mac|d>eraon answered in his pecul plentiful. as my ow n. haiu’t oxer noxious ter tell ’em howdy purposely for us, fishermen cast and iarly quiet w-ay: “No, it was mvuelf. Gumbo was short, wheezy and tim to-night. So apeak up lively now. er drew their nets, and all of picturesque •••Well! you had better not do so ,»>4» The experience of seeing one’s own any* more,* he said sharply,‘or you will orous. Why th« squire kept him, the ver’ll lx* short one more slave sure us water-life showed until dusk. ghost is not altogether unusual, I be There was only a little time of dark find yourself in the hands of the police. least commercially valuable of his God made little apples.” lieve.” I sec thnt you have been imitating mv slaves, was wondered ut; but the squire “Do* Gord. genTmen! don’t hang a ening gravoess and real night before a “Now, I do not think your experi su:, dress, too, which I cannot help, but the knew, reasoning shrewdly with him po’ niggaJi fo’ stickin* ter his ¡x>’ ole pule effulgence showed behind the ence was half so remarkable as one of heights, ami O’Chiku San rose, tangled self. marscu—** use of mv name is another thing.' mine,” said Gilbert Dane, the well “If I lose Gumbo,” he would say, ' I “We had just reached Vauxhall, our Ah! Gumbo was in the air now. He herself in n piuetree's branches, soared known actor and manager of the How tirât stopping place, as he spoke, and lose* nothing much but a fat bag of was struggling, while merciless hands clear for aw hile as she turned the whole ------ r- ard theater, who happened to be there a ticket ouliectoi who knows me by nuisance. The rest of my niggers were tugged at the rope. The squire leaped bay, the temple, and the torii to silver, that, night. Dane is not a member of worth their price.” at the cord, cut it with his knife and nnd then, like a true Japanese moon, the Thirty-nine, but had come with sight cLiae to the door. My double Nevertheless, when the squire rose •food over his prostrate slave, his eyrs barred herself across with narrow caught his eye first. Macpherson. Most of the brain spe clouik-bnnds. There were quite groups “‘1 wish you would tell this gentle one night and hid his gold anew under a blazing like coals. cialist’s friends are in the profession, a “Hunds off, you heartless dogs!” hr and solitary souls muttering under the man w ho I am,’ he said, and the man great hearth stone in the kitchen, lie fact which is perhaps due to the year save a sight that uiude him, for the mo cried. “You shall not murder the boy. biTHth <m tin* hill bookie th.' r.-iik./s W'hich he himself spent on the stage ns answered promptly: ment, repent having i*etaincd Gumbo to If you will have money, come with me. hall, and looked down upon the temple, “ ‘ Certainly, sir, you are Mr. Dane, the a young man. torment aud wait upon him. That and may God curse the last one of you!” w hich seemed to be truly floating on a "My story begins prosaiwlly,” sail! actor.’ Hr loosed the rope, raised Gumbo up full-flowing silver «ea; every court wa* “He looked startled when I asked him subie worthy, barefooted and in shirt the actor, when we begged to hear it. and draw era, w as staring at Ids old mas and led him toward the kitchen, while a shining space, and no sound was heard [INCORPORATED] "I lost thr latchkey with which I let the same question. save the distant hand-strokes of those •‘ ’I should call you a very good imi ter from the doorway, while each hair the astonished bushwhackers followed, praying before the shrines. myself into the theater, nnd took some of his kinky head seemed to lx» slowly tulking among themselves. The »quir *. tation, ’ he said, when he had recovered body eLse’s to the locksmith's to have a From this vision of enchantment we straightening. still grasping his slave’s arm, entered duplicate made. I agreed to call for it from his »urpriae. A devilish transformation convulsed .»nd strode to th<* hearth-stone, where went by shadowy streets to our maple- “ This was becoming decidedly un the following morning as I was going leaf home, where the witchery of moon Squire Mugle's face. Dashing down his he again faced the* guerrillas. LX’G I up to town for rehearsal. I was living comfortable, and I began to wonder candle, he sprang forward and seized A confused noise was now nudibb* light tilled the little glen with more of how I could prove to anybody that I at Putney then, and we were actively 1er Gumbo by the throat, as he stood in llie dow n the public road. Two men entered fairy-land than ever. At our doorway preparing a ¡»lay which deserved a bet was not a good imitation of myself. The pah moonlight streaming down from and whis|x»red hurriedly with the* cap a little altar- table had been placed,and rici ticket collector ’ s ready acceptance of ter fate than it received, if thought without. tain. The noise Increased to a clatter two plates of the rice-dumplings ---- MANUFACTURERS OE----- symbolic of abundance and prosperity, and preparation go for anything, for my double as the real ‘Mr. Dane’showed )BBi “Did you see it?" he hissed, fairly ing roar. how helpless I should be in an appeal I came near making myself ill over it. I choking w ith passion. “Git outen here*, men!” shouted the nnd a vase of Leapcdeza and the early to anyone who did not know me well. w as feeling out. of sorts on the morning (•umbo gas|»ed, gurgled, and ut hist leader. “Wheeler’s men are comin.’ ” “autumn weeds,” illuminated by the that 1 calkd fur the latchkcv.ar.d when But I felt that it would not do for two managed to say "l>idn’t see nuttin*, Then to the squire: “We’ll be* back flame of a tiny w ick laid over the edge tlie locl.sL..ih RWi)," posit »- ly (hat he Gilbert Danes to remain at large; the ’ceptin* you. marse.” ag’in, fust- yer know. As fer thet of a saucer of oil, were set in silent had given me the thing already—that question which one was to surrender offerings to O’Chiku San. A deer stood Squire Muglc slow ly loosened his grip, blamed nigger--here’« fer him!” It back in the shadows, gazing with shin less than ten minutes previously I had the title must be settled at once. tightened it -.gain, then took his hand A pistol shot Ixdlowvd through the ing eyes at this ••hxpient offering, but conic in for thr Ley, ¡.'aid for it, and struck me that the easiest way to do away, -sita:¡ugly. room. Gumbo screamed, aud the taken it away with me—I will confess it would be to go together to the the Gumbv I new 1 W here else could he guerrillas rushed out pell-mell, mounted nothing disturbed the homely altar intil dawn showed the saucer burned that I Jost my temper, and stormed ar ater, and submit the question to the hide his money? This spot w*as handy and were gone in u trice. Other troojs dry of its oil, nnd th«* greatest r^'on- the fellow; but I could not get him to •ompany assembled for the rehearsal. right under his fingers, so to s|M*uk. surrounded the house. A mulatto budge a line from his story. II»* 1 suggested this course tomy fac-simile, lie desirvd no distant swamp or hollow woman ran in and f«*ll on Gumbo’s nee!, fcstival of the year was over.—Eliza seemed to hav? ar. id* a that I was play and he surprised me by accepting it with tell-tale tree marks, as a place to as he sat disconsolate. Ruhainah Scidinore, in Century. ing a practical joke, and the only re readily. Camphor Hemming Ne-nrcer. “I he irn ’em!’* she cried. “We beam be hunted for or forgotte n, ns the case “ ‘I warn you that I shall detain you sult of my talking was that 1 marly opr. Most <»1 the world’» supply of cam ALSO----- might I « . He loved his gold w ith u ’em et mother’s. I knowed de sojer* when it is settled, and send for the po lost my train to Waterloo. It wa* inov Opj> warm, pure.mal affection. Next to (he vruz in town n-furrngin*, so I up an’ phor comes from Japan and Formosa. ing when I reached tlio platform, and I lice.’ he »aid, in. my haughtiest voice. run an’ let ’em know. One on ’em tool Of lute1 yeurs the demand has begun to : of RIDGE WORK, BOLTS RODS IRON SHUTTERS CELLS had to run for the only compartment “It was what I was intending to do joy of handling it was the feeling that e\ju■•« d the supply, and <he question ha* it was m ar by, unseen, yi t felt* as by a me* up bellin’ him, an’ year I is ble with him ” WINDOW-GUARDS, DOORS. AND of which the door was open, near the sort of delicious sixth sense—dead to Gord! What’s de matter wid yer, Gum- aiiseii hew the hitter ran be maintained. The actor pauaed to light another end of the train. One of the* reasons why camphor is be most people, yet psychologically alive “The compartment contained two cheroot. Gumbo rose to the emergency again, coming ^career and dearer is said to lx* to misers and lovers. “And did you both go hack?** some other passengers, but if I glanced ut But Gumbo gazed at his old master for hi* injuries, though painful, were that ii i extensively used in the liianu- them at all, I noticed noth :.g except body aske-d. fa< ture of celluloid. At present cam with something like moisture in his lit not serious. Dane nodded. that each wa* pretty well hidden be “Why, howdy, Em’line,’* be re phor Is mainly produced from the so- tle eyes. Hr was wounded to thr quick “Yrs, tiigetlier. The third man left hind u daily paper. I hud fcitULatcly by the nature of the squire’s evident sponded. “Yer all come j*s’ in de nivl called camphor tire, which attains a bought my own pa; er before rail i.g at us at Waterloo.’’ he said. “You may not suspicion, and he bore the Intter’s scru ob times- sho*.** gigantic* size in .Japan, one specimen re C orrespondence solicited estimates furnished the locksmith’s, and I speedily followed believe it. but I felt rather uneasy as 1 cently measured lx*ing 115 feet, tall, Grey cemted cavalrymen n >• tinizing look unflinchingly, though w ith approached the stage door, and the fact their t.xample. So far the story is T an aspect of r pronch. The squirr seized swarmed in, and shots were fired alx-u* and having a trunk over that I Lad no latchkey to open it for painfully commonplace. Now comes the in diameter. The tree in Gumbo by thr chin, raised the black face the place. Several bushwhackers w« r truly ten.ar' able experience which myself seemed a calamity. My double and glanced at it harder than ever. captured, and a guard was left, at th in Chhin, but ur yet the calmly produced his, and marched rne tion of camphor in that bits stamped the doings of that day in Thun hr released thr negro and sighed. squire’s request, lest the» H,o»inc1’* into my own theater with the air of a Is very limited. Th delibly on my memory.” “I will trust you,” hr raid, at length. were to suddenly return. Menuwh I member of t hr Inure The actor ; aused to strike a match proprietor. Then he closed the door “But if you s|»rak, or even think much l’melji«' made G uid I h » some corn c IT behind him, and, changing his vo ! <v late d in grr.us to the and relight a cheroot, which he had al about what you have seen and heard, n soldier gave* him a drink of sorghun l-irst-class in and at lowed to go out, and v. c all w¡itched him and manner, suddenly turned quletlv: you are a dead nigger. Is said Ihat rumphe rum, nnd he began to feel quite ch'pn< ‘ And now. Mr. Dane, I will puzzle you in silem r. v.; ndvring what v us coming. lowest prices, again. His muster watched him w 11; from ot'ii r * t»i r’e> c»f trees. In Borneo One night a band of bushw hackers de a very ::ionia e eano’lior is obtained Macphi r .on only had the a.r of a man no more, but apologize for giving you scended upo i them, for thr neighboring kindly eyes. »o much trouble, which I hope you who had heard the story before. •‘I didn’t tell, marse," said Climb« frr.in the riifuial deposit of gum on the mountains werr full of these peste then. ocia will think repaid by the < r joyment of — ALL KINDS OF----- trunk: (*f a » perirs of tree* indigenous to presently. “I had become rather interested in a unique sen.MQtion. The fact is thnt I They were a set of compound rascals, “No, you «lid not, but you have pine ' thnt i. 11ml nnd Sumatra. Borneo cam my paper.” Dane went on, when the clad indiscriminately in blur nnd gray, .■’in \ ' i •. | ■ (I im M to • >' ‘ phor is iare and very costly. Youth’s your old master under a deeper dr cigar was lighted aguin, “nnd did not der your auspices, and 1 t hour’.it that and eq’ir.lly a curse to lx»th confederate than i. err money ran repay. Gum’ Companion. notice my companions talking until one this WO1 ' | I •• the 1«-st n v ti. anfl union sympathizers. They served The Nev Y«*ar is pretty near b *r *. hi . 1 THI of them sturti-d telling an anecdote. I Wrecks of tloe IlHltle* Mr». :ntroduetion to you. and st the same Mammon wherever the aid of rope, bul urn going to s«‘t you free y< cl REST let or Insh could invoke that deity from “The story and voice startled me, but time >h u you a specimen of mv Ao ¡xirt of the world has such a rec lb»- ord for wrecks ns the Baltic sea. In the curious hiding-places w herein war- You ii *g!it have run ttwnx or*S it is difficult to describe my feelings Iftg i ' ’ »• 'art <>f y <»n r and r st iu ' \ th. nr o ><l some* jcurs one wreck a day occurred. when I j ut down my paper to glance at You will admit nt least thnt I under- stricken families bestowed their valua Yankee.-«, hut instead you ha hoo¿ i your master's best friend throng'i th ' the narrator.“ The greute .st nmnbe-rof wrecks record m tl. ! t’-<* nrt of making ap EFt ble«. The M»|uire wne routed out, but «food and thin. If that doesn’t d< serve fi« ed wiu< 425 iji one year and the* least “It wa« yourself?” asked Maj. Drn- you :» r - to give me an engagement .0 ax' dom, I har«lly know what docs. ” stcrs%. Every article bold warranted as represented. ; rol ‘ stdigly «'ii hisdignity. He had . ’ mt 151. About half of these», vessels are Farm Produce taken ; nett, cxeBidly, as the actor paused; --or send for the police?* ** “Den yer won't make me Icnb y r total wrevl ;< and all the crews are lost. ir» i few head of poor cattle left, too poor and Dane nodded. j M CHILES. “An I you gave him the engagement, «rm for army beef. i and* exchaog w’en I’ m fr«*e, marse?” Gumbo l.ioku It. must be rxpln n<*d, however, that, “Yes, gi ntlemen, I saw seated at th* I suppose?** I asked. o«s«'. “Durn yer stock, old man!” «aid the up nnxiouwly, scarcely thinking cneu ' •Cert-— other end of the compartment by th« “Yes; T have always regretted ths1 lender. “We wnnt yer money, so rush <*f the Ixjnn. apparently, tx» «ay “thru;' many of the* ivssc's which sail the Bai sut» lie* sea* are old and worn, having failed window-, opposite his comj union, a fig he threw’ it up before the year was out, you.” to |Miss the* IxMird of trade* survey and ure that van an exact far-» i mile of th« and returned to hi* former profession, aroun’ nnd git it up.” fiXA-l <• “ Not If you want to stay nnd 1 ho; • therefore sold tx» the Swede*« and Nor- Gun.!.«) tood quaking behind his mus reflection which I see in r. y glass cverj ( that of a medical man.’* •Von a j ou do.** we*glans for th«* Baltic* fmmi trade. Chi ter. Though not above pilfering the (lay when I have dressed for the part of “II how ’bout Em’line? Me an’ sli cago News. In squii« *s tobacco, or rifling rome hen a r‘ s; «(.table citizen. It wu* myself 1 A LIBERAL-MINDED LOSER. ‘I rn roost when fare was hard, he was faith wants ter marry pow’ful,don’t we.Em’- complete in every detail of face und at- | .lint th«» Thing. Curt! ful to that one great trust concerning iine ?” Ilia Kz|M*rl04i«ia W m Eiprn»ive an<l He tire.” 8i:¿ patron S< >ee h< re, landlord, look at “ G* way, niggah! I hain ’ t talk l»'<ln't llnve th«* Fun. what !*> under the hearth-stone. t» “An optical delusion. I sup|jose?” I ♦ Biis sirloin steak your waiter has “What in that big l»ook in the cor- All ' • _ ____ ______________ _ __________ __ “I«*-d«*y unyunners er is dey reb«, now." And yet Emrllne looked pl* nv Î |j suggested; and the actor shook hi* S3 ' C1TRRÄFWF «»rvartheM and reatara« «mall weak orgaac l*r<»titelit me, . ju-t when I wanted a f U ak “ W — e IL ” Th«* squire besitr. t i cr? ” said the young man w ho had marse? ” he whispered. , Î , i. Tb* r«Mo i R.iTffren ar« not cure«! by l>orW»ra ta U c * m « wr Mat head. ii II tlw «on * reatatttf*. • ’U1,I DEN K la th*Lonly known r#w*«1y to «wire wlekaat an aitwal uta called al young Mr. Easylad’s ajxvrt- “It makes no difference. They are ft wa* easier to give Gumbo fr« < «1 ODly a. ▲ written rnarantaeflvnn a/* asonay mtamnd if nix Mxw *« mi aut «Stem Landlord “No; that was the first idea that oc MS* think, fir. that t!:n .û*abox,afxf r|r. » • ” mail. S«<n<l for rars otrcular an* teathnosM mei;t:-. saya the Detroit Free Pres*. hieves o hush up. My all is in your 'han ; »Id. Thr negroes would prolml»!y curred to me—that I had been working all be free before long, anyhow. “ Tiin< > tb A daw »A VO I. M KD ICI* ■ (©„ P. O. Box Ran Pr«>.otM ».CO. “That’s my scrap book.** '. ccping. Gumbo. H-a-s-h!” * and worrying too much over the i.< v “Full of picture* and poetry and One of the men, approaching from is mighty tight, but you ran have th< t«F',r ^a'e '*y M Cl.EMKNS. play, and my brain had played me .« stuff. I suppose?” behind, laid n hand on Gurnlx»’* shoul old marc, Gumbo, and yr* hang me iu» i‘ ■ --------------------------------------------------- j trick. The unconcerned way in which if I don’t! Emeline can have $50 for “No. Souvenir*. Take a look into it.” der. irti,* Tx>ofle clothes and the third man glanced nt me encour- house fixings. * Lifting the ponderous volume to a fort* "I ’ ll lx*t this nigger know« where it downy cushions I aged me in the belief, for the likeness, table the visitor ojN*ned it and ex “Fed’rit money, marse?** asked Gum bring only a nega i», ’ ’ he remarked. "We ’ ve hearn *bout i unleo* I was imagining it, was enough claimed “Why, this look* like a collec tive sort of comfort you nn«I ;, « r one man, squire. Yer’ve bo, anxiously. to attract ir.Ftaut attention. I won- tion i f lottery tickets.” to the woman who “No gold!” shouted "Meechin’ Mu got i ( nr y U d away andw«* ’ re jes ’ goin ’ m / ob ia suffering with ' dercd whether there was actually s gle,” desjierately, though he gulp <1 “That show« you never played the boys?“ some disease or de man sitting and talking where I had rat es They’re tickets that the book* to« hei i1 < soniew hat emotionally afterward, rangement of the \n < ho of nss»-nt from the other* fol seen nnd heard rny fac-simile; for the maker* gave me in exchange for a lib organ*» <1 i at i n ct 1 y ext iuv ng* nt -- It’» feminine. Some third man, an ordinary, everyday indi eral im r* <*i)tnge of my incomr. They’re lowed. and the man continued : 1 idso heurn what yer said to this you’ve earned it, lx»i clothes and some vidual. had not spoken a word to him. certificates of st/»ck in enterprise« that Th»* squire burrie positions make the and might from his expression have never declared a dividend. They’re re- niggui j'i *vv. S<>. out w . t h t h»* su.ul* escape thank* an«l tc pain and discomfort er w«- .1 f.i <1 a w-iv t»-r main- him talk. ” lx*en listening tn his anecdote or simply ceii ts for a 111 »eraJ fee in a long course seem les*. Nothing "Bo- * ” exclaimed the leader, "it’s to hl* own liberality, will ever completely thinking. I w*s relieved when hr of tuit on in the school of experience.” arm« ro»jnd Emeline cohl work j slaverin ’ out here! Tote relieve but a radical lsughe«J at the point when ’my double.' “Fifty gole dollah* an* de ole blin’ cure The effects of su< h disorders are not “Most people tear up thing* like tlirr squ re inter the kitchen. I we a* I Ix gan to call his companion, < amr these, do they not?** mar ’ ! ” he »bouted, «« ‘ statically, ” Em ’ - limited to mere local discomforts but ex tbar’s a Arc in thar.” I to thr joke of the story. b»»t when h« Bo- tend over the whole txxiy. Perhaps the line honey - we’s rich!“—New “Yea. But I f>nied them. I wanted Once all were inside, some pine knots tn rves are most affected, and this in turn opened his mouth it was only to in them to rrmind m<* of the gool time* I hemian. 0< •’ dhturbs the dig< ation After that there is creas«- the mystery of the affair, for it [»a:«1 for Mid never had. They represent were thrown on the embers, then the «•1C» no telling what form the trouble may take. »1C"' showed me that ’my double’ po*srs**-«l exjX'i rite»'« that lie long to the poetic leader unwound a coil of rope from hi« I4a*h lie«-1 a ration*. <Tir S ixth stmi kt . G rant ’ s P ass . O r With irritable nerves and poor digestion, a waist. woman is on th* straight road to the grave. my name, as wed as my voter, my dres*. “ I never heard a young girl say, as past and w hirh w ill never be repeated.** an fa’* “Zeb," he coTumsnded, “you and Tom young girls are often fond of saying Women are notoriously negligent in mat rst^c»’ W —- .... my face, my figure. “You mean that you are going to stay ter* pertaining to their h* iltli Too many «curt«»* go ar.d cut vomr hick’rie*.’’ «»»»served an old lady ou the »ninmer “I t»egan to wonder then, not whether away from the rwe track hereafter?“ n i about ‘ r Two r rn left the room. Gumbo’s I boarding house piazza, "what sort of own physical * r»-. , 'lh make up They do not un “Ye*.” 1 hi.. «Le 'Ali .ÍÍM¡ p.» ptiiar Hotel is the Great Headquarter.* for the man st thr window wm a reality, te» ’ h * battered with fear an«l cold, for de mtand th« ir po-sibilities or their limita a man she will marry and what sort “That show* your g»*»d senoe. It but wh«th«-r I us« reality myself, and | i elsd only in a shirt and only, that I do not think of certain tions. and they do not know enough about I'rMUMTIlt Families 1 RICD ■■•■ and Steady Guest*. II certainly would not have «urprised coats a lot of money in the end.” tb'-mselvrs to know when a symptom is dr.iW' r* npeeche* to which I myself have r-ally serious and when it is not This nat- ;,TT. h* McFh i . ati »it insur res rest and quiet from the noise of loco me if I had lo«»kcd in a mirror snd “I don’t begrudge the money *n much **!’ll give yer two minute* ter tell, listened fr«jm pretty lips before thia nra ly makes them overlook the plainest ■ «IiMutiee one Hock from the depot) is not enough to , found It reflec’ beck a face that was un- It wasn’t my cupidity that rebelled. It •quire. Aft« • thet we take* other mean* A *chooi friend of mine so he bi New ci ''anger signals Th -turt of everythin'^ 1 famTar to tn- Tt ia «tran*- how ”»• mr pride.** tb«t yer won’t I»« «• apt ter like so well.” Jersey in detestation that she tore its G “iin'.k The st irt of so called “ re male quickly a sinf !r | h-tiomenon »ill aomc- I M* Ships (in 1 R : »in-» by the Da Week or Month leechiu Muplr*’ bad planted him- map from her geography She used to Complaint*'* may b a very slight thing in- timra <-hao<e all otic*« fixed opinion»on It 1* eetimated by Mr Mulhall in a re ■elf on the hearth-stone, over bi* idol, say that nothing would induce her to a »ubject uf the »«pcrunturaJ. I f-lt cent article in the i on temporary Re J. 0. BOOTH, PROPRIETOR eut?n men.** rsid be, “you are troub- marry a man who was a widower, or I mun >p«*k to the n>*n if only to pro«, view that the »hipping of al! nations is lina xourslertea for nothing. Don’t we wore a wig. or lived in New Jersey of the approximate # slue of 91.100 000, whatfber I waa awake ar dtwain.nf and There in rneal in the And the man of her choice was guilty look poor enough 000 while the Ho >O0 locomotive« at 1 ,»i«d th» opportunity ot introtlucintr cot ner, * little corn in th« cellar snd * of all three of these en«>rmitiea. I myaclf offered by hearing 'my double' work represent a value of I! .000.000.000. »»dr or two of bacon. That i* all - -isn’t use«i to talk over rnj future with two The railway* give employ meat v> called by name. cousins. I we/uld not marry a busiuess it, G umbo?** ite »n<l I. 'tint - ‘Excuse me.' I «aid. addreamnir hla>. S*4 000 people, while shipping employ* I “Fo’ Gord. yr*, marse! We-un» makr* man, 1 said. Kate woulel not think of natural ni only 705.000 The life of a locomotive ‘but I heard y< >ur a clergyman, or Carry of a farmer foff«*»* oi ten co ’ n, an ’ rub* oak axbr* on is fifteen year* It will run >70.000 îo to the ‘‘Mr. Pane “ I And we married respectively, a bus» o rite Pre- miles carry 000.000 tons, or 1 noo ooo dr meat in pla«*r salt--“ related at all* aese man, a clergymar and a farmer. “ She t up, r ill j i r ! ’ ’ ruerrd thr leader. paxaenger». and earn |30n n00 It* first my name, and It I* all like a smart young American enet La tie OWt ar.d It* general average u" -6 tiiiyate* aie auvut up. lioys.grab ii»g Mm oar ii j 'help' fn my grandmother * kriteheg», ’»el e*u»>rd nigr r m 300 hor»c-p<rwer The average Hfe Ml doubW Gumbo wa* srizrd by practirrd hand*. who waa wont to declaim to us chil >f a a ! Tiiiig capacity, enm- )N -pi «tí oí . dren on the scorn in which she held ail t through s » par» d k is not giv< n. and Before ha really realized v hat wa« h*|>- men, always winding up her denuncia amount of v«<u»hle )NS I ed by Mrs. C M Stone, a registered Pha ^»niag to biro, hr *ai swinging to a pi r... ‘ornputed. but ft ia nit health and medicine. It tion* of the sex by No. I wouldn't I ill be «»ent free < n receipt <»( ?i one cent joist by thr thumbs, with hi* tor* barrly ir appr i*ch that of 1 V three ar»' experience, and Patrons can rely marry any man that walk* on two ^trnps to cover ver co*t of mailing orti y touching thr lour Hi* groan* and rn- i may fairly rank leg* ’ And she <li » L She married a A 1; Wu Id . • t 1 Medical .ntruruent of civ* treatie* wrrr pitiful, J*t he woukl tell one legged man •l" oetug served with accuracy and promptness. Y. lime* A haam U u S, buflaìo, N dlzation ever devised by man no*bing The squire rated beipiraaly. 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