MAN’S IMPOTENCE.
It 1« Mad* ttrih-ngty Msnifsst Wh«a
an Earthquake Com»l
A traveler -ivea t - thr
riz ac
count of* an < :!. ... .. n '... far
ea«t.:......... ' ......................................
“Th* one occasion I «aw a panu*
wna in C»lcutta in June. IS.
it
w.i« a Satnrdaj
o’clock
It wn* panting!/ hut. and
I tai one of a party of j i . . >
I
men sitting on the roof of a high
house living tea
“We were in the midit of a mm/
chatter when the whole building
begun to tremble.
We were in
•tantlv hushed and looking at one
another with blank face« until n
feeling of terror took p>>M«*« on of
•a and amnabody abo it u. ‘Mj «■ 1«
an earthquake!’
“We stampeded. There were three
flights of stairs to go down, and of
course the fattest and slowest num
was m front and blocked the way.
The walla were cracking and uwu
>ng; the pluster was falling in
chunks.
“We were all barefooted, but that
didn’t matter. In front of the
house was the mcldan. the gr<*ut
open space in Calcutta. We ran
there. A great part of the adjoin,
ing house came down with a roar.
The who!* front of a newspaper of
fice crashed into the street. The
top of the cathedral spire came • ff
and fell through the roof into the
chancel.
“llorscs were stricken with mad
ness and were careering furioudy
beyond ail control. Tha natives
were shrieking. European«, blanch
cheeked, tore from their houses,
and many of the women fainted
“The thing I will never forget
was what followed. There was the
crunch of ripped walls, ami the
whole earth wa« le aving and trvni
bling very much like a ship that has
banged against a pier and taken
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tlon was the feeling of linpotetii e
“The earthquake lasted only five
minute«, though at the time it
teemed like hour». Men could only
stand on the heaving, seasick
ground absolutely helple».«, unable
to s[>eak, but staring into each oth
er’s white countenance waiting for
the earth to yawn. That was the
terrible thing—crowd« of folk re
duced to mute horror, help!«-»,
just standing with bic, wide op« n,
affrighted eyes, and the brain
crumped in contemplation of what
might happen next moment.’’—
Exchange.
mid* inter."
“And why not?" she asked,
"Because." replied Field, “thav
might spoil my ap|H-tiie for pruned. ’
— New York Telegraph.
GERMANY AND ALSACE.
Vary
S
«pc «««
D«<l
»«d
a
Rui»
T> »1 Ss»se a Life.
F»r many year» after it »a« tak< n
liver bv the German» the pruvtuce
fliíMt I . t las* -
i »f Al«ace had many dit.fi
¡Every posaihh* pre. anti >n was taken
». guard again t air demoiistra
n
>f tre Frem ii ii.it..>ibu •:• it,
i '.
hough the children wore allowed
o learn the language ol their an-
-rstors, they wci< not allowed to I»-
aught it by Firm h in- ru< l<«r«.
rim following mntatv >'» tmlii .it«'
he extent to v. Inch th«' •overnim’nt
'arrictl it- practi««' <«f watching the
leople;
Icelanders and Inuit.
Ic>'»mb r* have a w.i> of their
owu fur taking snuff The »nuff i-
made into l>ur* after the manner of
plug tobacco and is »old in that
shape t<> the ti.lines. nearly all of
whom .ire addicted to it» il*c .in«l
prefer it thn> prepared The Ice-
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bund thumb to grow long fur the
purpose, and when u»mg the snuff
• -ntches it off the bar with hi« nail
tm the bac of Ins left band and
applies it to hi* nos«.
'of at
i the phen lUlfU na that coiifront
! us h * tüí* tilt»
i nature timi t' <■
i tail oí th«' cu inH . visible through
' »uch a vast ti ' «* f «pa-.-«-, is on«' of
the :n>-t tr,i' ’1* Jhi Wilt of object ».
net is tinu-h more
The t.l 1 f ll."
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: tram
the garth's st
at it- lirai would
m ■; »here, as t
‘ illl i ««piiqiir curtain
i III b ulk a> t
r- ■ •tur» ari MN- ii alm wt as «ha
linci li thro gl ll tl lf' coiio't*« tad as
ut <ii<>»p(i<re
orni nod ap-
'i
u «th th«* ut nost rapidity
v back utn '■dilv awav from
like a courtu»r <>ut of the
Snaskm* Personal.
i
“
What
kind <>f u fellow is thit
« doil which was dre- .-I in r«d.
man ll«>!i. hv ?” a.«kc<l th«' travel-
. a -
ll
-.i
■ i ill of the corner gr.M .-ry
i .he ofli.-ial were ar.nts.'d, for it «•er-
man.
lardr was <Ir>- d/tll to «<••> ti >' . ' ■
“I! inc-t n- the day is Ion.-,” as
if tir«' G«-rm ll. empire «<• Gnd!v
i ! i
»
it
lhrratene«l. The child a i« tra> *«-l »' .<-.*• I ! '
,»»
“ll'iW «lo voli I I or thi«t I • I-
o it. lion»*, nml th«'r>' tin i. !«« er
earmd that the <|.>il wm« n pr<«. nt i “Ile sava -o him-elf But, sp
He immvdiately procc«-d.-d to the in' per-oiiu!. I'd advise intere
roman »lot had gi «-n ,t to the > hi d part i-« t«» k iep an ev«> on
in«i obt iin«’«! the addr. -* of the after -ai.down." -t’levolatul I
.hop where th«- dangi'rous plaything lb i!, r
A*8tr«ng- Survival.
It i< illegal tn sing, hum or whis
tle the “Dead March” outside of u
church or a cemetery in England.
At one time this law
ret)
•truth enforced, and even today a
«oldier found guiltv of singing or
otherwise rendering the famoi s
march other tl an nt a military fn
neral would la* ••v»rr>lv censured.
l.ld I mi -H IxlUgilt It w.l .. >»-i-l< -t
L.FE IN THE ARC..C.
tittle «•«l.lbli-.lli-«-lit, hilt the «>•’ er
An Adventure In a VY a's’oit end •
futind it nt la«t m ff tli«'n «!:■ ->v
A Flight Dowwn a Mountain Sid* In
Night of
•red that till doll hud lx en lll.tde
Front of a 8nuwol«do-
Mr
II
if
Uh ? ri» .
i <!opt-
and «Ire*-«'.! in Ixipxig. Tin« wns n
That living alone in the high surprise, but the v rerdnl not end •d l! • i
I l> -l<- of ilfr .. ”>|
mountain« in a tiler is not nc- •» In r-', for th«- tranuf.i tnr-r m I.« ip- shared with th«- native* their daily
sunlv monotonous t!rs experience, lig wa« otlii lully reqtiv-tcd uot t • privation« ami llieir duiigvrs. till«
«Ic-cribed by Mr E. A. Mill« in «end any more red, white ami blue in In«
<«k, ' limit.iik* U itn the E»
"The Spell of the Hockics," suffi lolls ll» Al met*.
kiinn»,” tin* itorv of an adventure
ciently proves. Going into the Sen
in mi op« ti w li„li')»>at mi arctic
'I he o'lu r ■ t rr is ll. it tv •> «!< r
Juan mountain- during the firat nmn< were walking one .•old d.ir <m seas aii'i of tin- unhappy night
week in Man ti to Icurn aoniethmg the banka of a large p ml when which foll-'uisi on l.md:
of the luws that govern snowslide«, niv of them fall in. Ii«« < >ui<l not
st if brci'/e was blowing, an-l
he climbed on ski* well to the tup «wm and rirsm- l for nd. I
W -Il we p, -<d tu.
..Ill Iltxo c
uf the range. Thoiijnd» uf tun» of ither, who was an odicer, <ii«l not
Etuh it |w-K «-pt.bly incrvas d SmG
snow that rovered the precipitous fr«-l incliiicil to tai«' so cold a were *<-t and we wore making good
peak« were ready to plunge down plunge and > ilmly riut. lied the . progr«--» wlvn. without warning, a
and sweep the very spot on which struggles «if the «inking .•nan. All puff broke the step it hu b held the
lie stood,
\lniost U< fore be realix it Ollc«' the mull in ill«* wal>- began tn. -t in place, ami la-fore tin- -ml
cd I iis danger th«- snow on the up to »mg a ver»«- <>( tin- "Maro-iF <-ot:ld la- low« rr<l two laxir«!« Hi tile
per st<q p<-s suddenly flew up as if lai»«-,” urn! th«1 offi< .-r jiimp. d in la>tti>m of the la>.tt split, and the
from <m explosion. A general Elide forthwith, fur h>« »tru ' >>n
- w. .<• boat la-gan to leak «<> ) mi ..:> that I
had started.
j to urre«t any per« >n whom he lo-iin! fcaretl it would lid with water m l
I whirled, pointed my »kis down in..'." • tl t | .-a •-»..• I
nil- sink (for it wn« lictivily loaded) be-
the slope and went. In less than fortunate cihz . ii was imp. i»..*i«-«l for fore we could mule the nv.'ire-t
half a minute u tremendous »now •ight months, but that r. <- i>< tier Inml. which w«> headed for nt m.<r.
n \ a lune lie. I sms or perhaps ?<>0 feet than dr«»wmu-'.■ X«-w Y >rk I'r. •«.
F«»rt.ine favored ns. however, and,
deep utid 500 or <>00 feet long, thun
although crew aril outfit got a tlior
W>lh>a Celli»»' Fat Villa.n
dered over the spot where I had
ough s'laktng, we readied shore
Hero i> it »torr that wa- t«>ld hv L^ suïl I a .
stood.
Th< re was no chance to dodge, Hail < ame eonii-rnmg Wilkie < ««I
“Although the temperature wa«
no time to s Innb out of the way. dim: "The most sun«---ful charac- but 31 <!."_';< ■•«. the . r u.i» cutting,
My only elinucv of escape lay in out • ter ¡n ‘Th«- Woman In V>',.it< un» ami I wn* «liilii-d through with the
n«>t a woman, but a man I'«>*<<>,
runtun/ the »'ide
wetting. In vic* of thia, ll-«' *tcii<l
.
As I «hot << r<>ss the lower part of t «• fat rilla n. \\ <- ii the l<- k wa
ily mi reusing gale mid tin- fuel thnt
was
talking
the ridge, about to plunge idtndly produce«! cvervlxxlv
we luul no facilities for nuiknig re
Wlul- the
into the gorge, I thought of the pos about the fat villain.
pairs, it was decided to walk buck
author
was
staying
with
hi«
mother
sibility of liecomtng entangled in
to E'eli and return in the morning,
<1 to
the hedgelike thickets of dwarfed, a visitor came. The ladr
if weather furore«!, to iih - ih I th«.'
Ths Great Amaxon River.
i
Collins:
gnarled ti.ni»r line t.ee». I also
Ixi.it mi l resume our journey. Six
“ 'You M«em to lime m.ide a great
In South as in North America realized that I might d i«h against a
miles it was over the lull«, uml a
nature tiw» her work on the prund cliff or plunge into a deep canyon. i «ma-«’«« with to.ir li'.un m “ I'll«- hard «it mile«, too, u! loig.'i the
W
oui
.
ui
In
Wi'ite."
I
Imre
r
»1
the
scale, and one of her nofivat Of course I might str ke an o|w-n
i - xi r> -e was m-«-de«l and w ■•o|c»«»iiir.
achievement» is the Amazon river. way, but it was certain that I could ' mi •». I hare -tndiid tin- villain,
“ I’h.it night I will long remem
'but
he
i«
not
half
a
rd
1
.mi
You
Rising in the Andes, it Hous acroa not «top or ace the beginning of the
ber. With every minute the wind
the contim-nt and discharges into gorge or tell what I should stride lon't k'l-er a r< d rillnri, nml f
incrciU I m velocity until it at
next t-nie you r.ant t<> do ii villain
the Atlanta ocean at the equator. wheu I «ent over the c«!ge.
tained the proportions «f n terrific
•i, ■ to me, 11
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The vastnes« of the area which it
As 1 shot through the air I hail
gale, uml ut the same time the tein-
drain*, amounting to 2,368,000 a glimpse down into the pointed I Imre gut om* con-tuntly in my
i«erature fell rapidly. The roof got
»•ve
—
in
fact,
it
is
my
own
hualuind:*
square miles, will tie evidcut when snow laden top« of a few tall tir
l.Mwe,
ami we cmle.ivnrcd to fix it.
"Wilku- t'olli i« often to!«l this
it is borne in nnud that this is more trees that were firmly rootcvl among
Then th«' Stovepipe bl«'W off, and III
»tor«,
but
wilhlu'l«!
th«-
nil'll»'
of
the
than the urea of |{u»aia in Euro|xr the ro< ks at ttic bottom of the
the gale it was found impossible to
and Austria-Hungary.
It has a gorge. Luckily, 1 cleared the gorge Indr. It wit» th«* w if«« of Sir Ed-
get it hi place again. At length,
Btilwer
Litton.
”
ward
length of nearly 4,000 miles, is nav- and landed in a pla< c where the
only partially clothr«l, 1 hud -to
igablc for *.’,300 miles from the sea snow was unbroken.
climb out on the r<x>f to hold that
Tha Curia o< Srotlaed,
and is fed by numerous stream«,
The heavy slide thundered after
nine hi place until it couhl lie secund
Among tin reasons why i
which in any other country would me with umliminishcd sficed and
of diamonds ha« l«c«-n < all« «I the and in the process was half frozen.
be rauki-d us great rivers. In the came crashing into the dead trees
curve of S<oliami lire the follow i ng: Then, as a last straw, the fire went
wet season, which lusts for about so close behind ms« that broken
Diamond«, nine of, culled th«' out. The only way then to get
eight months, it» w dth varo-s from luubs went tlymg past me as 1 shot
curse of S-otinml, from a Scot, h warm was by retreat to my sleep
five miles to 400. No wonder the down off a steep moraine.
member of parliament, part uf ing l«ag. and so the night passed."
Amazon has been called a gigantw-
At the b -ttoin of the moraine 1 whoae family arm« i« tiic nine of
reservoir rather than a river.
was force«! between two trees, flung diamond», voting for th«- introduc
off my lailunce, and my left ski tion of the malt tax into *- «tlaml
Why Ms R-tused.
«inavhcd against a tree. Two fret — “Chronology ; or. Tlo' Hinman'«
The following program wm given be
\\*lnle the late Eugene Held was
of the heel were l«r»ken off an«! ths* Companian,” Fourth Edition, by
fore an appreciative audience at the
yet a struggling newspaper man he '
remainder split. The slide did not Thomas Tegg. Lomlon. I*<.’•>
Christian church, last Thursday, eve
once accepted an invitation to din
slow down. 1 could hear the rocks
There i« n Georgi* Campi» ' m«-n-
ning:
ner from a woman famed for her
and splintered timbers in its mass tioned in Burton’s “History of S< <>t-
epicurean art. Among the rare
«ong. America, !e«l by school chorus.
grinding together and thudding land * a* having canard the nine of
dainties stirred were strawberries,
Invocation, W. H. McLain.
against the olwtruetions over which diamonda to Im called t ■
ir»<- of
which, being out of season, were ex
l»uet. Just Before the Hattie Mother.
it swept. I threw away my staff Scotland lie. .io- he stole nine '11 1-
ceedingly axpenaiva.
Addreaa.
Rev. J. M Morris.
and “let go." I simply flashed down monda out of the rovai crown in
Field passed the costly fntit
Solo and pantomine, Star Spangled
the slope, rounded a cliff, turne«! the reign of Mary Stuart, in <-on-e-
The hoetesa noticed the incident
awkwardly into Aspen gulch and qtlence of which «II S<>t It nd wua Hanner. Mrs. <’. W. Warner and Em
■nd was disappointed.
meline Carwon.
tumbled heel« over head into safety. taxed.
“0b, Mr Field,” she said, “you
Song, school chorus.
Then I picked myself up, to see the
don’t care for strawberries?"
Tail •< th« CAmet.
Duet, Tenting Tonight.
slide go roa'.ng by within twenty
imr1»®- 1 never eat them in
Benediction. W II McLain.
wonderful
It IS our *>f the
feet pt me
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Saoliao Farm Tames
Art (¡ii ix'S of St. Johns haa a
man hauling th«' 500 cords of oitk
grub wo « h |, cut on the M. C.
Gaines* furin, to Cralitrc«« and
loading it on the cars for «hi|>-
im nt to Portland.
Cecil < ’mines and wife of Provi
dence were down Sunday «>n a
vi .t with Yin. t’rutnes* mother,
Mr ti«-«». Bilyeu, and called nt
th«' Fat in for a supply of berrien.
Mrs. Annie Gaines and daugh
ter Hazel of St. Johns, also Mrs.
1. ..I <’. rues «if Portland, were up
the (al w«. k <>n a visit with the
former’s sister, Mra. .M l’. Gaines
a id retun «•<! h°me Sunday.
\\ i'.ii«' liife they calli*«i ever for a
ipplv of lurries, Mrs. M. (’.
tiaim sav I mother. Mrs. Poin
dexter, went with them and will
vi it with Mrs, Anni«* Gaines.
Mr. and Mrs. Price Neel of
Scio, spent Sunday with the Int-
ter’s sister, Mrs. Roe Shelton of
Racoon Hollow.
(¡«■o. Bilye't ami S. W. Gaines
are i-ontempliiting a trip up to the
Brightinb-i-h h .t spring» as they
I «' of but little account at home
or any pin«’«' «'Ise. They think of
staying until harvest.
John Davenport of Roaring
!liv« r wa.. down l<> th«« Santiam
I arm Friday fora load of hay.
lie ha ien a|.|M>inted tir«' war
den for th«* Roaring river to the
Cleveland rock, where he has to
mnk«- daily trips to and from the
rock, a distanc • of twelve milea.
They will have a telephone in
stalled at Ch'vciand rock so as to
notify any out break of fire at
abort notice.
B -ri i«' • Santiam Farm, straw-
berries in the patch 20c, gath
er« ■ I 21K'. (;>>>:.clM«rries 20c on
bushes, gathered 25c. Logan
berries and currants in season.
S. W. Gaines.
P ie E ater .
S dc
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sobers and Their rnends
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