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An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon
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GRANT'S PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11. 1897
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|‘‘ 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
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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‘
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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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