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Troti-Lane, the artist, ha8 leased rooms ftver the First National Bank wiiclr he has converted into STUDIO nd is now prepared to instruct a large n ,::'-.lcr of students i:i oil Tai:ii: -,"T ' ' ? free band j dravr- ;mto rooi Prices 1 r:ar. FALLING LEAVES. Around me fly the falling leaves . In rain their fate my spirit grieves. For nature grants us no reprieves. Throughout the world she holds her sway. Her laws must men aad leaves obey, From dust they spring, to duet decay. Tet while this requiem we sing, Our faith looks forward to the spring That shall the Keaurrecttoa bring. . ' Back to the earth for earth's own sake The falling leaves themselves betake, But soon in beauty shall awake. Awhile they mingle with the soli. Till nature's unremitting toll Shall reproduce with nought of moil. Aa fall the leaves our dear ones tall. When cornea to each the silent call ; , Nor long the grave shall them enthrall. Ah, why begrudge them nature's sleep? Why deem the grave so dark, so deep, Or tears of hopeless sorrow weep For sleeping mortals comes the spring And joy with morn's awakening; Immortal lite the day shall bring. E'en death Is part of nature's plan, And hath been since the world began, Sweet death, unerring friend of man. Suoh are the thoughts my fancy weaves With brightest hues of falling leaves No more myth ouphtf ul spi ri t grieves. Robert H. Oflord, In N. Y. Observer. JENNY LIND'S .ROMANCE. The Love Affair In the Life of the Niffbtlnarale. No one could Bee Jenny Lind and not fall under the charm of her perfect naturalness, freshness and originality. Although her features were irregular, she was anything but plain; her com plexion was fair; she had abundant flaxen hair and the most wonderful gray eyes, a beautiful figure and hands and arms and graceful movements. Hers was not the slow, sinuous grace, which has its own charm; her movements were light, decided and expressive. She always seemed to do everything more quickly than anyone else. At this time she was studying the part of "Susanna" a "eweet part" she said it was, and had the partition of the "Nozze" always on the knee. In the evening she sang her Swedish songs, and then we all went out to listen to the nightingale's singing under the magnificent old beeches. She had a passion for the song of these "little sisters' of here, and used to mimic them and excite their rivalry, so that the alt was filled with music. It was strange that it should have been the fate of my father, writes C. M. Simpson in the "New Review," who was entirely destitute of musical sense, to be of use to the most celebrated singer of the day. It was in 1849 she had resolved to give up the stage and had affianced herself to Mr. Claudius Harris, a young Indian oflicer, brother to Mra Joseph Grote, whom she met at the Palace, Norwich. My mother and I had just returned, from . our drive one cold afternoon in April, and I found in the ball a note from Miss Lind for my mother, askinc hfir tnJtnrr m'v fnt.lio. tn - . . , -f aooui ner marriage fsemements, eittier at three, or, if that were not possible, at nine, p. m. It so happened that he was not free at three, so he went to hee at nine.'! She did not expect him, atj( wu'a quite alone. Thejr entered at once upon , business, and .. my father soon found out that she was very half hearted about the "matteraltogether. Indeed, she could scarcely'have found ' a partner less suited to her, Mr, Har ris and his family, were intensely Jow church,' and they thought that the re mainder of the great prima 'donna's life could not be more appropriately tpent than . in atoning 'for ' her theatrical career.' The, attraction to Jenny was iij her lover's goodnesa .; She said he liad such a "pure mind." t j f A But when she was first Introduced to him she said to Mrs. Stanley; ."V.'hat dull young, man!", Nothing coittl' bd more true. He Was heavy and stupid, but tal?, fair and good .looking.! 4'he Stanleys supported iTenny in icrr('; lution to give jip ttse stage, amlto fni deed did Mrs. -Uroto fron a dUT jisjilj ; reason, for, iri spite of hetnteieVin4 pathy with her young'frieu sliScs al career, she saw that the stiai'fs too great Jenny was worn out, by, fatigue and emotion. She threw fier-' self into every part as if she herkwlf were suffering the woes of the hiro- t me, uniiue otner great' actgrs; and actressesr who succeed in mskipaf thoir representation to a certain de-ee mechanical- But her essentially truthful Bpirit could not do this. The tears she wept id "La Sonoambula" came; from her heart We had mote than once the tage.box, and could see that tW was almost overpowered by her Jeidings. She had led this trying life few upward of ten years, end sljo longed , for rest and the peace and regularity of domes-' tic life. The manager Of Her Majesty's ineawsr, Mr. imnyey; was to despair. It" was almost ruin ,to, him to lose her, t and he urged for at least fq'lr fare Well performances; she pfifered Instead a series of dramatic concerts; Only one took place." ' : t " ' . :, Altltougbthe "FlautoMagico," which was chosen for the first performance, would seem to be Independent of, act ing, the libretto is so eminently stupid andundramatic, yet, in6pit of Jenny Lind'a splendid singijjg, the 1-hola af fair fell flat, to her" great disappoint ment" Never, before had ".the '.met with a cold reception. .Mr. Grata and Lumley entreated her to give the oper atic performances but she 1 u-ould. not yield At length my fayinr succeeded where they failed. .They suggftstedthat . Harris could, not'.objvct Jf he rtally loved her; ho" urged the. untairn&s of disappointing Lumley, and finally the unwitufaetory termination! which a failure would put to her wlmle career. Sj'Biie promised to give t,:x: fire well uigbK Luml. y was overjnyed, and w-iitp-jboscsf-r all ix. n-j,e enthu siasm of tl;e au lii-nce knew m bounds. xt no on coul'l 1 ' licve tha the hing er, ia the very pVnitudo of iti-r powers was fjrly Uvruty-rihi), really in-teoJ-d tiie-.e to be theiost t.f.hcrtri Uifiij'if. Ii!it it H"a- so, an 'r th4 curuin fell on tie K.-t ci r.. -ix r.4 never appeared ayaiu on r.? tago.' Mr. Harris ha.l ' ) t'.. performances, and he and Jenny were once more on good terms. She lived at this time in a little house very near us. It was called Clairville cottage; it was covered with roses and creepers; it had a pretty garden, and was thoroughly rural. The backs of the houses in Brechin place now oc- Lcupy the ground. She and Ciaudius Harris often joined our country rules. He generally fell to my share, and I did not find him exciting company. Lord Lansdowne sometimes joined us and also came to meet them at dinner, but we did not venture to invite anyone else, except the Grotes and one or two others of Jenny's intimate friends. All seemed to be going on swimmingly, and Mra Grote went oil to Pari, followed soon after by my father, but before he went ho said to Jenny Lind: "Some thing tells me that your m arriuge will not take place. . If it should be broken off again, write no letters and have no farewell interviews, but join Mrs. Grote in Paris immediately." Affairs . had not been going on so smoothly as appeared. Mr. Harris had asked Jenny insert hi the settlements a promise that she would never act again. To this my father objected, and he also insisted that Jenny was to have uncontrolled power over her earnings. Mr. Harris said this was unscripturul, and the engagement was nearly broken off, but renewed in consequence of the despair Mr. Harris exhibited. He also terrified her by threats of torment here after if she broke her word; and last, of all, when in the joy of reconciliation she was singing to him, she turned round and saw that he had gone to sleep. Not long after Mr. Senior reached Paris there was a tap at the door of Mrs. Grote's apartment one evening about seven o'clock, and in came Jenny. The ill-assorted marriage was finally broken off. " The emotions of the last few mon ths had told heavily upon Jenny Lind, but with the sense of freedom the power of enjoyment soon returned, and she rode in the Bois de Boulogne and walked on the boulevards and in the Tuilerics, and listened to the nightingales. One day she took my father to a house in the place d'Orleans, near the Rue St. Laz are. It was built round a courtyard, with . a fountain in the middle. Jenny gazed at it without speaking. After ward she said: "I was so miserable in that house; I envied the fountain be cause it was not obliged to sing." The house had been the residence of Manuel Garcia, the most celebrated master of singing in Europe, and she alluded to the time when, in despair at the loss of her- voice from fatiguo and bad management, she slowly re gained it by means, first of rest, and then of skillful practice under Garcia's teaching. ; ' ; , ' . The domestic happiness for which she had so long sighed was soon to ue hers. After singing in concerts and oratorios in Germany, Sweden and Liverpool, she sailed for the United States on August 21; 11850. , Her success in the New World was as brilliant as it had been in the Old, and" her .xhari ties ost -riiufiificeut . , .MTowtiuvy was 2iinM In J8.V,y iir -Otto Gqldisehinidt; who suctiuoded Bene dict as" pianist A deep and true attache ment sprang np between the two young artists, aild they were married on Feb ruary, V1852. ': " , Her horror of being lionized led her sometimes to reject overtures . which were mado in nerfectlv iroocl faith to express the respect and admiration felt for her; hence she was not always pop ular. She delighted in giving chil dren's parties. I remember one in 18(55, at her house in Wimbledon, and her joyous participation in the . amusement she hadf provided, and again in' More tons gardens," when she waltzed like a girl with' her eldest son. The last time I heard her; si ng was at a concert the gave at her own house in 188afor the prince o Sweden. She had become very', nervous about hervoice, and it was not . certain whether in the .end she would summon up courage. At last she yielded to the persuasion of her friends and sang the splendid cantata,; with violin accompaniment, from Mo zart's "Re Pastore." It was a thing to .remember for the rest of one" life In her later years she took a little house called, Wiudspoint, which she ar tawud and improved till it resembled a SwitssJ cottage on. the. top yf the hills "above Malvern Wells, We? ;fcad, in tile summer ot ' lSHi,& house,' -:wt below hers, !&nd we saw her jnuch more fre- . quently than was possible in the tur moil $f London. - IW9 often usedtd stt with her in the garden enjoying the magnificent view. She was always un easy lest she should be stared at, and if any presumptuous wight pcepod in at , the gate, she would instantly shoot up a large, red umbrella and shelter her-' self beneath it My elder daughter,, who is devoted to music, frequently went .to ' see hep, alone, and one day ventured to ask h, r to write her name in' her birthday 'book. . They were in tba drawing-room. Jenny Lind rose up, aaying; "Well, I did not think you had been a cotnmonplaceperson," und walked through the, window into the' garden, leaving my daughter to repent her indiscretion-' Presently her hostess came backh and gave her a beautiful rose, and went on talking as if nothing had happened, and when Gaynor was taking leave, Mrs. Goldschniidt said cheerfully: "Now, where is your birth day book?" and wrote her name in it. It must have cost her more than many an apparently greater sacrifice. f - 1 like to think of her as she stood in the hanging balcony of her cottage waving, good-by, the sun setting be hind her picturesque figure. It was at Windbpoint that she died in 1887. At the very close of her life, as she lay on her death bed at Malvern, in weakness and misery, once, as her daughter opened the shutters and hit in the morning sun, she lust let her lips shape the first bars of the old song she loved: "An den Sonnenschein." They were the last notes she sang on earth. -When Princess Anne, afterward queen of England, was , married shk wore a headdress two yards high and three yads i a circumference. "r-I'a. engcr elevators were p use In iJ;.ru in the seventeenth century under t'a- uaoa of "flyiug chairs." NOT ALL rLEASUKE. Even the Sport of Yachting Haa Its Drawbacks. There Is No Place So Hot as a Ship's Deck and Nothing 80 Exasper ating as an Inexpe rienced Crew, One commonly thinks of yachting as the most delightful of summer pas times, says the Boston Transcript, and the very word calls up visions of a "wet sheet, and a flowing sea, and a wind that follows fast," smells of salt things, and whistlings through the rigging, blue sky, white caps, driving clouds and all that sort of thing, to say nothing of the possibilities of delight ful companionship and the delicious unconventionally of meeting , one's fellow men and women with aU the formality and restraints of on-shore life thrown off; no making talk or any thing of that kind, but knocking about carelessly and easily in flannel suits and having "a real good time." Or, again, racing, with all its excitements, and cruising, with all of its possibili ties of adventure, to Bar Harbor. Such' is the popular and accepted view of yachting, but there is another and gloomy side to the picture which the writer, wLo is sometimes inclined to growl, can set forth clearly in three distinct statements, with an open chal lenge to contradiction-flrst, that to "go and take a sail" in a small boat belonging to some one else and to sail aimlessly about on the open sea is "an awful bore;" secondly, that- to go as "amateur crew" on a rowing yacht under sixty feet long is not only a bore, but a hardship, and on yachts over sixty feet in length it is not cus tomary to have an "amateur crew,'! unless an occasional and almost always1 useless passenger can be considered such; and, lastly, that cruising is a lottery absolutely dependent on the weather. Fogs, calms, storms and head winds are quite as usual as free winds and sunshine. j - Observe that nothing has been said about seasickness, which makes yacht ing impossible to so many. ! : There is no place on earth where the sun can strike down out of the sky and bleach and blister and sizzle as it can upon a yacht's. deck. There is no place that can be hotter or more Btuffy or more uncomfortable than a yacht's cabin on a hot day, when there is no wind or when the wind Is dead aft, rid when it is rough, and the water is driv ing across the yacht's deck in a sheet of white foam, and the crew are all hud dled behind the shrouds, Intoawhich old oil skins have been stuffed to make a screen and the man at the wheel has life lines running from the main sheet to the main shrouds on cither side of him to keep him fiom being washed overboard, and the oil bags are hung t windward to .keep the, water front breaking, 'and th fire is out, in the galley, and thefjAk: imS itfjpit .scalded v the Swift stu!LVurutinii&.out of tlw , boiler, 4 the bi remoter is dropping like Aiad, and ; tin skylight leaks so. that ;fe very wave which comes aboanj sends bucket! uls of swash down infc the cabin, and when, every now an then a wave somes aboard and-pounds down on her, deck like a load of pig. iron, and those below are shaken about like corn in a popper, and .those on deck simply hold on and,1 duck thei heads when such is the condition ofj affairs yachting would not be considi ered a pastime.- ' -':-vv-;;"!:.?-'-';"'i" The delights of being "amateur crew" can be briefly summed up. They consist in lying flat on your f ace ei the", in a hot sun or a pouring rain, and if you turn over having the owner shout at you: "Keep still! Do you think; that you're a wild elephant? - Yoi jarred her all over that time.'J Further more, all yachts are not rigged alikej and if the amateur crew is told at a critical ioint in the race say just be4 f oro rounding the" leeward mark tq let go the spinnaker halyards ahd leti the balloon jib halyards go instead,' Bd that the whole sail goes over to loc-f ward, the remarks which will be mado to him will bo "unfit for publication."; John Humming, V -: WESTON, OREGON,' ' has Trie Largest' " A.' . .and Best, Selected -Stock; . -r -GENERAL MERCHANDISE IN THE:' COUNTY, New Goods i T for at Fall Trade, . T Arriving . fiPER CENT. DISC0UN1 Daily.. : ' f I V-wfOR CASH PUR "Dry Granulated Sugar, Extra C Sugar, 1 ' ' 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH. ehoo Oregon Curyd Beow,8hmMers,'& eaaes. lc, Hams, lBa tx-r 1U.' JiestQuclityIr4,jn" JO ft chiTs,81.70 - v' 10 PER CENT, DISCOUNT, FOR CASH. Comforto. UMmufa and upward, Blauicptii, Jl JO jxrpalr and upwara Meti'g Mcol itoci,'3gc pr pair, Jjuliw wool Uoo, re per pair, Jiien'i wool undershirts nnd draw-' ero, 81,fiB each ,. ' , ' ' , - .U 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH. ' : AND EVEBYTI1ING ELSE AT PROPORTIONATE LY LOW PRICES. COME, 8E15 FOR YOURSELVES. ' . JOHN GUMMING, ' ' ' " Weston, Ovcr ANCit.nr titles: The Jewish title rabbi meant master or teacher. Tns most dignified title among the Hollanders was Stadtholder. ' The word captain, so often used in the Bible, simply means officer. The name Ptolemy was adopted as a title by the later kings of Egypt. Tub shah of Persia pretends to date his title back for a thousand years. Moses appointed judges for the Jews to aid him in the administration of justice. '.... The Jewish scribes were the lawyers, registers and notaries public of their nation. The most splendid and substantial title of the middle ages was that of doge of Venice. The title prince is from a Latin word signifying leader, and dates from the Roman empire. The judges who governed the Jews were for the most part the heads of their families or clans. . Tub centurion, as the name implies, was the commander of a hundred men in the Soman army. Globe-Democrat NEWSPAPER WAIFS. ,- - Ada "Are you going to sue him 'for breach of promise?" Iilsie "No; my lawyer says I haven't any case. You see, Dick always signed his letters 'Without recourse.' "Life. , Figo "Goodman is dead, ne has led a roo&t beautiful and a correct life. Everybody praises him." Fogg "But, confound him! he trumped my ace once when we were playing partners at whist." Boston Transcript. "I thought you said you were going to bring a friend home to dinner with you," said Mrs. Chugwater. "He couldn't come, Samantha," replied Mr. Chugwater, as he sat down with great satisfaction to the first good dinner he had had chance to attack for a long time. Chicago Inter Ocean. Miss Middleaislk "Your new rec tor ia lovely." Miss Alice "Oh, yes but he's very bad form, though." Miss Middleaisle "Why do you say that? I think his manners are perfect." Mias Alice "Well, anyhow, he will talk nothing but shop whenever he calls." Brooklyn Life. - FLOWERS,-SHRUBS AND TREES. Spikes of pampas grass should be cut as soon as they are fully expended, if they aro wanted for winter use for decoruting the house. ' , Olk-fashioned hollyhocks have sprung into favor for decorative pur poses since Mrs. W. K. Vanderbiltused them at the grand fete given at her marble house . . , A HYimiD has been procured between Azalea mollis and A. yiscosa which pre serves the agreeable fragranp of our native, plant with the brigflt colors of its " Asia,tie parent .a- new race of swect-ticented azaleas would be a ;cj?riKB shrub equals the hydrangea pujneulata. grahdiilora for- tuakspi"' a. displat in August. The laire he: ' white dowers last for a Uuig tii'f 7 when thev fade it is to'-a II CL. . color Whiuh is still attrikoUw. 1 i. "tt this, the headu -may ba cut latet used in their dried state as 'oniameji "3 lor the house, placed in, vases. !.(t ; ,, uf ,. - v , y. POINTS OF SCIENCE.. , j- ' Ants are provided with a' poison bag, which disehargos a fluid having. a strong sulphurous , smell, suSlcient to drive away most insect enemies. " Camphor is the resutf of evaporating' an essential oil found in two different trees, - the oinnamouium 1 camphora, which grows In China and Japan, and flirt 1 5 ri nrn(Hi vt-iii a jinmrk1mtn r4 fituvin- tra and Borneo, , . , A letter from Prof. Garner, dated from his' steel cage, which ho has named Fort Gorilla, has been received in England from Fernandez Varz, Af rica.. The professor claims to havo made great progress in his study of the monkey language. ", And they will be sold vcryJ?lovyest figures: - F0SI0V1NG ARE SAMPLE PRICES: . T PURCHASES ! il iioumUforji.OO . or 87.50 jr ack. 18 " ' " " " ': 7,00 per sock.