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C. II. DUCRETT, DENTIS T . Ukfscs: Between O. T. Cotton and Peteison & Wallace. . Xyiakok, . Oregon. J. K. WEATHERFORD, Attorney - at - Law. Office over First National Bank, ALBANY, - - OREGON. J. M. KEENE, D. D. S. Dental -:- Parlors. Offics: Ereyman Bros., Building, 8XIKM, ORROON. C"-THour ftout S A. M. to 5 P. M. W. R. BIIA'EU, ATTO R N E Y-AT- LAW, ALBANY, ORROON. E. J. M'CAUSTLAND, CIVIL ENGINEER SURVEYOR. Draughting and Blue Prints. Office wilb Oregon Land Co., Albany, Pewersg System and WatrrSupplte a Specialty. 'Estate Subdivided. Map made or copied ou abort notice. fi. L McCLRUE, (Suoeetsot to C. H. Haksion ) Barber : and : Haiitecr, LEBANON. OREGON. SHAVTNtt, HAIR CUTTING AND Shampooing in the latest and best Style. Special attention paid to dressing Ladies' hair. Your patronage respect fully solicited. LEBANON Meat Market, ED. KELLEMRGEB, Prajr Wmtli A 5Alt.1 TWf Pnrt Mitt trot Sausage, Bologna, ana Ham. Baooo and Card Always or jtaod. Main Street, Lebanon, Or. 8. S. PILLSBUHY, i 1 1 i JEWELRY, BROWNSV1LE. OREGON J. L. COWAJI. J. at. RALSTON. Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Baniin. Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. r Exchange sold on Kew Yorlt San rancisco, Portland and Albany, Oregon. " Collections made on favorable term. G.T. COTTON, : DHAiER IN . BroGirles auff Provisions. TOBACCO and CIGARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES. Ferelu and Domestic Trails, Confectionery, Queenswaxe and Glassware, Lamp and Lamp Fixture. 1 frnym CaoFi for Egg. Main Straet, Lebanon, Oregon. t i ' . . ' tr ! t i V,. ...... 1 MUCH THE NEWEST, NOBBIEST AND LAMEST STOCK OF L, tn the County, is now to bo Soon on the Counters of Iv E. BLAIN, ALBANY, - - OREGON, EWhen you want to "dress up," we would be glad to ihow you through aud make the right price. MERCHANT TAILORING A SPECIALTY. Mr. E. A. Schkff..kr, is an evnert, and has charge of this da. partment. We guarantee satisfaction. BEARD & HOLT, Druggists & Apothecaries, j DEALERS IN ! PURE DRUGS AUD MEDICINES PAINTS, OIL, GLASS " . ASH ' STATIONERY, ; Fine .Perfumery, Brushes and Combs, Cips audi FANCY TOILET ARTICLES, Proscription Accurately Compounded. MAIN STREET THE YAQUIHA ROUTE. OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD. brew DeTelopuat Coistij'i steamsUlp Lite. 225 Shorter, 20 Hour Los Time Than by any other Route. FIRST-CLASS THROUGH PASSENGER AND FREIGHT LINE From Portland and all points In the Willamette Valley to and from San Francivcu. Cat. OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD. TIMH SCKDCLR. (F.cept Sunday.) Vr Alhany iso p. tn. I L Yaquitia. 645 a. m. L Corvalfi 1-40 p. m. I L Cur-alli 10 35 a. ra. Ar Vaquiua 30 p. m. Ar Albany 11:10 a. m. O. tt C trains connect at Alban) and Oortralli. The above train connect at Yaqtiina with the Orexon llrvrkiiimrnt Company' line of Steam ship between Ysquina and San Kranciteo. SAIUNli DATES. Steamer. t-"m. R. F. Steamer. Fm Yaq'na Fa ration a -July l.Wilam ?te Val'y JuW 6 KaralK . July Wiltan rtte V'y . July 1 FaraU. . Wilamctte V'y . July t Willamrtte juiy o Farallo mette V 'y Julv 10 Ju'y 5 Willamette Farallou RtaaMBKB the Oregon Paeifle Popular Sum mer Exctsmons. Low kste rtekew are now on sale from alt Valley Points to Yiilna aud return. Thi com psif reereth liiHt to chtnjs g dates without notice. Fawkengers from Portland and alt Willamette t'allry points can make cloaecottnection with the rains of the Yaqmna route at Albany or Corval. lis, and if dentined to Snn Francisco (houUt ar range to arrive at Ycquin the evening before the date of sailing. Passenger and Freight Rate Always the Lowest. For particulars apply to C. H HASWELI., , C. C. H;t'K. Oral Ft 6t Faa. A (ft j Act If .ro F. F. agt. Oregon Devel'pm'nt Co I o, F R R R Co., 304 Montgomery St. Corvalha. Saa Francisco, Cat. i Oregon. HORTH.KOVMU. Leave Corvallis Monday. Wednesday, Friday. 6 a. m. Leave Albany 9 30 a. tn. Arrive Salem. Monday. Wednesday. Friday. 3 p m. leave Salem. Tuesday, Thuriday, Salur day, 8 a m. Arrive Fortland, Tuesday. Thursday, Saturday, 130 p. m r-TH aorao Leave Portland Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 6 a. in.. Arrive Salem. Monday, Wednesday F"ridav,7:t5 p. m. Leave Salem, iSiesday, Thursday, Satur day. 6a. tn. Leave Albany, t'to p m. Arrive Corvallis Tuesday. Tnursdav, Saturday. 3:30 p. m. If anaj lv-r say be ha the W. T.. Dongiae Shoe sTikssi umi and prlca tauipii oa the kMKtoaa, put him dowa aa a fraud. . L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE FOR CENTLEMEN. BMt tn tlte wftri A . FhiiiIm til S.OO OSNtLVK HASIVSKHKD SHOE. 4.00 HAMKSEWKI) Will Ml OK. SJM POLICE AND FtKMKKV SHOK. .60 EXTRA VALUE CALF SHOAS. ),00 sad 1.?S BOVS' M HM1, 8ROE& All mad in Conirresa, BulUii aadXaaa. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE lafd,re8. Rait Hiara4al. Raa avt. lUtf nl 1 tt awe sold by your dealer, write ; W. L. DOUGLAS. BKOCKTOX. MASS "Examine W. L. Douglas $2 Shoe or Gentlemen and Ladies." STOP AND READ! Smooth Shave and Nice Hair-Cut. Shampooing and Spanish Lus ter Cures the Scalp of Dandruff. HOT AND COLD BATHS Gentlemen and Ladies may Indulge in the Luxury. Kezt Door to Peterson A Wallace's Real Estate Office. I. R. BORUM, Prop'r. JLEABANOJi - - - - OREGON. a&LLir-i --i.I.ji. n 1 - - '- -1 '' EI I if - LEAD ANON. OREGON EAST AND SOUTH -VIA- Southern Pacific Route Shasta Line. Express Trains lare PortUml lHiily. Wm I. Portlantl Ar rxi'k.m :F. M Lt Allwny r :U A. M 1 AS a. M Ar Sau t ranrico Lv . O0 r. m Above train stop nuly at following statlotix north of Konehnr; : F.at t'ortlaud,'Ureon t ily, Woodburn. Hatein. Albany, lauseut, iheld. Halsey, Harrtsbure, Juuction City, Irvlti and Eueue. Roteburg Mall Dally: 8l 4, M t.. 12 -iO F. M L e uU r. Ar .Portland. . .Atbtny. , .Koseburg. Ar Ar. Lv 4) p. M . 6:J0. M Albany Local, Dally lExrept Sunday): 6 00 r. M It 6 -00 a. w .Lt Portland. Albany Ar -! a. n Ar OU a. a Local Paaaongor Trains Dally (Exrept Sunday): -JO P. tw a. 11 1 so r. m S M r. 7:m . a :sa A. M Lv Lv Lv . Ar Lv Ar . Albany . l.eltauou ..Aitany . t.etauon. . Altiuy. - letwknon Ar.. A'W A. M Lv , is a. a Ar . a. a . Lv ft 40 a. a .Ar 4:& r. a ' .Lv !t:40 p a Full man Buffet Slecjiers. tourist sLi;i:riN(i caus, For aeetimmodattoit of Second cli FasxeUKers, attached ni Kiprros Trains. West Siile Divtsttm. Bet. Portland and Corvallis. Mall Train Dally tKxcept Buudayl: 7 SO A. H LV .... 12:10 r. M .Ar .... .Portland .t'orvallU . Ar :i0 p. a ..Lv V2 66P. a t At Albany and t'orrallio connect with train j of Oregon. Pacirie Kail road. Express Train Daily (Except Sunday): 40 p..a l.v 7:p a Ar .Fortland .. Ar S.JWr. a Mt-.Mluuville. Lv AVA.a Through Tickets to all Points South and East For tickets aud foil Information regard Inx rate, mans, etc., till ou coiniiauy' aireui at Lebanon. R. KORHLKR, Mauaarr. E. P. RtKif R3, AksU ti. F. A l'aa .-ineot Balancing the Account. " Mr. Vernon, like manT other snlnir- baa resideuU. amuses himself by keep ', log fowls. It was hi inteutiou when i he first began it to make it a self-eu( porting source of entertaiutent. and he ' had some hope of saving a little mon ey in the supply of poultry aud eggs ; for his own table. j But "chicken food" costs monej.and all the coops aud fences aud roosts which Mr. ernon thought ueceasarj cost much more, so that it was only by great industry that he kept from loosing instead of making monejr in his raising of chickens. One day be found that his account for the week did not balance, lie was ' behind in his accounts, lie sat aud ; pondered over his column of figures I fer a little while, then put on his hat : and went down to the hen-yard. Pres ; ently his daughter Era saw him com t ing back to the house bringing a big : rooster headless. She ran out to ! meet him. Why, papa!" she exclaimed, 'what i did You kill old Brahma for'' for dinner, my dear." answered her father. "He s worth 3, and I'm (3 behind in my chicken accounts this week." lie took the fowl into the kitchen, then went on into the library, and took up his account book, credited himself with the price of the big roost er, and announced w ith pride that he bad balanced his account! l'outh'i Companion. An Interesting Time in Maine. The 6k unk is mighty. He always is , for that matter, but just now he rules j three or four villages in the vicinity of j Bangor with an irresistible and od'orif 1 erous rule. Hampden has been over : ridden of late with a herd of active and ; strong-breathed skunks who have made i thinrs interest! US' for folks who vent nrd out at night. A whole prayer-meeting was ueuiorauzeu uy iuem recently when the worshipers were returning home. That was the only nice thing about it. Had the attack been made on the way- to prayer-meeting it is doubtful if the exhortations would have been delivered in the same spirit of good will and peace. They might have been more earnest and fervent though. The up-river towns have had similar experience. A fellow and his girl go ing to a ball met a skunk and didn't go. The fellow swore and the girl cried, and then they went home and put their clothes in pickle. The skunk can be spared. He U uunice. Bangor Hew. Printed Ballot. The first printed ballot was used In Massachusetts in 1830 by David Hen haw, and was refused. It took a deci sion of the Supreme court to establish ita validity. Those Old Camp Meeting Day. The. time ain't a they used to be and every- thin ehnnirtM); Our irixxt, old fuBiiimm of the past am woo droinily deranvtsl. A oil wlillo rttnpe Urn world la awttlng better It twin to me that mncb of this new folderol t wrouir. Hut mnvbe It I poinUle I'm filli of late And llilnir to wliluh 1 foinlly uliiifr are sadly out of date. But I Inst religion, with tta cold, new- fmtirlcd way a, Can never reai'li men' heart at did those old camp aieutlng day. We uwd to rather la th wools from all tha tsiuntry 'bout To plant our roapul battnty and Bmao put to mutt We'd wash our rode of a lory In the Jordan clean aod nlie. And fwt our liome-Kpun garment full of burr and beg-irar- IWw, We tried to m-t enough of grace before we ten for home To 1at a year onttl the next eatnp meeting dar. would tsm. And though at iluu we stumbled Into Patau', thorny way We gui a new rt every year at thus ramp uiorllng day. No more tn thunder tone the paraon hurl I . hi tltrent at vlnet In homeouaUilodoee served on little chips of ! tee i He dole out a-rare and glory with exactnea o profound You'd think he feaiwd there wasn't quite eiumirh to go around. And fto 1 sadly listen aa uiy mind got hack to , when We all Joined In the servu-e, each shouting his "Amen I What wonder that I sometime sigh aa mem'ry fondly stray Forjuat a tomtit of Sre from thuaeoldeamp tneellni' day. THE MISSING B1HDK. Up on the hill. In a quaint. Iieauliful, lonely little houe,lived young Madame Vinton, quite nlone save for her ser vants. The village lay lielow her, like a tov town out of a chip box from Hol ism! little white hour's all alike, a little white church with a pointed tex tile, aud rows of poplar trees. Mi IT and blnt'k along the street . The stone house, with its pnlnted f:las window aud Uothlu doorway, ooked qui e like a minimum cntle from belo.r. Hut it had wot taken the fancy of the renidenta of Foplartown. It seemed lo them queer ami lonely, and since its builder and owner i!U-d, the executors had found no one lo buy or lease It. uutil young M:td:inie Vin ton, in her velvet dresH.drov up to the gate one niortssig. aud inlertiened the care-taker. It was hers very soon after that, and she lived, as we hare said, alone with her servants. For guardian, she had two great Silierlan blond-hounds, tieree a dog could be to all but her. it was writ known that, at a word from her, they would tear any man lo piece; and they lay across the'outer door at night. Mie needed no other protection. Young. beautiful.aud a widow.charm Ing in her manners, no wonder that the trenllemen admired her. Hut the Indie fought hy of her. They made no calls. They looked solemnly away as they passed" her in the street. Vhen she came to church, aud s:tt in the iev she had hired, no oue took any heed of her presence. The clergyman railed, as in duty bound, and took hi wife with him. Uuhappily, thev found the pretty Frenchwoman smoking a cigar ette. That sealed her tliMiin. iShe was sent to Coventry by all the respect able Societv of Foplartown the ladies' society. Hut, somehow, through her landlord, a cosmopolitan bsichelor, gentlemen were introduced. It was not her fault that these only came, aud that they sang her praiite and defend ed her against the hints of their female relative. She did nothing but adhere to the habits of her count rt. 1'oplar town bad bwu tittcourteous to her, not she to it. Her tuuid sat in the window sewing when she had gentlemen call ers. the never received them alone. A cruel thing of you women." said Squire tiiltwrt to hi mother "a cruel thing to be so hard on Madame Viu tou. What doe ln do but dare to he beautiful? I uMise Uod made her so, as he made the lite Miet Chesuey, who hate her so bitterly, ugly as vitches. What do yon know against er, mother?' "I kuow nothing, child, said Mrs. ailbert "nothing but that no ladies go see her." "Why don't they, then?" said the quire. "There mntt lie some reaton. said die old lady; "Mr. Praygood saw a ;igar on the table near her. Ladies too't smoke." "Eili8h ladies do not," replied the quire, ' But ierhaps she does not enow tha tell her?" don't you call and "My dear, I never call anywhere," replied the old lady. 'The young peo ple come to see me. I don't say any thing against Madame Vinton. I hope the's all right; ludeed I do." But she resisted the entreaties of her son to drive with him, tn call on Madame Vinton, nevertheless; aud so one day Stie squire went alone. He was a handsome, active, elegant man, but he was no longer a young one. At twenty he had l?en to" love, but his weetheart died. He had ever since remained true to her memory. At forty-eight he lived with his mother still, her only mm. He had, er!iaps for this reason, something of the frank and careless manners of a boy. He bad not hardened, a most men do be fore bis age. The squire called on Madame Yin ton from a spirit of chivalry so he thought, at least; but he left 'the door with flushed cheeks and sparklingeye. and he called again because he could not keep away. Soon, to his mother's consteinalioan, rumors reached her that he went to Madame Vinton's houe every day; and at last she, as well as all Foplartown, knew the truth. Her son was engaged to be married to the ; trench lady, with whom he was desper ( ate ly in love. The live Misses Chesney shrieked in : chorus when thev heard it. All the : other marriageable single ladies were I equally shocked; but old Mrs. Gilbert ; bore herself bravely. I "My son," she said. "I give you ; eredit for being a man of cue. 1 ! know yon wouldn't marry a person j who would disgrace our good name j I'll go with you to see her once, and I'll welcome her kindly. Nothing must come between us. my dear nothing." And Mrs. Gillert saw no cigarettes near Madame Vinton's elbow, when she called, and could find no fault with her manner. She returned home great ly comforted, and set herself to put down the talk in Foplartown, to the great disgust of her netghltoiirs, who had hoped to be entertained with the items of a family quarrel. It was September when the news first reached Mrs. Gilbert's ears. Be fore Christmas day her son would be married. She tried to feel happy over it. but in reality her heart was very heavy. An undelinable presentiment of impending trouble tilled her with sadness. It could not be the coming of this handsome wife, with her sweet, courteous, loving manner, she thought. She was old. A daughter would be an addition to her home. Yet she tossed wearily on her pillow at night she who had always slept so well; and could not read or sew as she had done. Somehow she felt all was not well, and never could be again in this world for her. In spite of this, she took her pearls from the worn case of blue velvet, in which they had been hidden for years, and sent them in a shimmering nest of white satin, to "My Daughter soon to be;" who answered with loving thanks. The wedding-day was fixed. The weddding guests, old friends of Mrs. Gilbert, who said to each other that they accepted for her sake, were bidden, and even the flowers ordered. Tho happy pair were to have a week at the houttu ou the hill, and then "come home." Meanwhile, the two dogM, Uno and I no, were to be banished. The village people were afraid of them, and tlmy weru to tie taken away timing tite time of the wedding, to an old Iioiho In the suburbs, where a tlog-fattcicr lived. "Your mother nhtiddcts ut their very sight, Madame Vinton had said to her betrothed husband; "and 1 no longer need sunn tierce protector. 1 ant not to be a lone woman any morn. I will sell the dogs it any oue can be found to buy them." Anil the day before the wedding, she with her own' han.U. led them to their new home, and knelt before them and talked to them as though they were human beings, bidding them be good and obey their new master. "Only one night more," said Rnulre Gilbert, as be took his beautiful bride's hands In his. "Only one night more, dearest. To-morrow you are mine." He klsnd her and turned away, turned back to kis her hand over and over again, lingered Mill, very loth to go, until at last she playfully drew to the door, sa lug that she never allowed him to remain so hue, and that he must go home;aud he went down the garden path. It was past eleven o'clock. The full moon shone overhead, casting the shadows of the bare wintry shrubbery in dark outlines on the while paths. The Iron gate, set deep in the stone wall, looked like jet against snow. In contrast with the smooth road without. A screech owl In the grove near by uttered Its melancholy who! who! whot and the lover looked back at his lady's house regretfully. It seemed so lonely a spot to leave fier in. Stepping back, he looked up at the windows, where ft light now shone.aud ran against somr intlie road, who utter ed a foreign oath aud struck at him. Squire UUImm t turned, his hand in voluntarily going to his pistol-belt; and the stranger, on - whose toes he had trodden, followed the motion with his eye. "Excuse me," he said, with a strong French accent. "You came out of this honse in such a hurry, at this late hour. I believed you were, perhaps, a thief. Fardon." "It is my place to beg pardon," said the squire, whom the very accent of his beloved one's native language mol lified. "I myself fancied I might have met some dangerous person. 1 hope I did not hurt you." Oh, no," said rhe other. "I was only startled a little. A thousand par dous." And he passed ou. The squire also went his way. After a few step be looked back. The stranger seemed to have vanished mysteriously lulo the earth. Hut It seemed to Squire Gilbert that he never should forget his long, hooked nose, his oiutdchln. the narrow eyes, set close together, the straight line of his small mouth, and the intense blackness of his hair and moustache a very Mephistophelea In modem costume. On the morrow, bright and early. the household was astir. The bridegroom dressed In bis new garments;his mother in her elegant gray satin and point btce. But just as the moment came for the carriage to be called, a messcu ger from the house on the hill came to the door in violent haste. That morniug, when the servants awoke, they found the hall-door open, and their lady gone, tehe had not re turned. Her clothing had not been taken. Her wedding-dress was ready lo put ou; but her jewel-cases were afl unlocked and empty, as was the tiny ornamental safe in which she kept her money. The wedding company was coming in; the lady had not returned; no oue kuew what to do. Words cau not describe the conster nation of the squire. He hurried to Madame Vinton s house, and fouud all as described. He sent for the police, for detectives from the nearest city. He searched frantically far aud near, fearing to liud his love lying dead in some part of her garden, or tne woods near by. it was mauy, many days be fore he gave up bis luqieless wander iuv. lie only thought of accident. It seeuied plain to others that she had left the place of her own free wilt, having some uuknon 11 motive. At last the squire himself declared that if Madame VI ltou had met with violence, her body must bate Imhmi found; but he still (eft perfect faith in her, and, in his miser able love and longing, clung to the re newed hope that it gave him to believe her still alive. He took possession of the bouse on the bill, dismissed the servanta,and went thither to live alone. "She will return some day," he said, "and she shall bud me there waiting for her." , , - unheeded before, he clung to bis resolu tion. One man only waited upon him. an old and faithful servant; but one day he sent to the dog-fancier to reclaim the blood-hounds, and Uno and I no, led in a leash came eagerly up the village street, about noon, oue windy March dav. Thev dashed Into the bouse wild with joy. They fawned on Squire Gilbert, whom they had learned to love. They searched everywhere for Madame Vin ton, and at last went down to their old haunts in the garden. Longing for home joy at their return, seemed to have softened their natures. But sud denly Uno, the fiercest of the two, pnt his nose to the ground, uttered a low ory, and began to run alwut the place in circles, sniffing strangely. A mo ment more ami Ino imitated him. Their eyes changed and burnt like coals of tire, their frames seemed to stiffen. They coursed about the garden and out toward a field which had been planted with vegetables, and which lay fallow under its late autumn plough ing. About this field they circled, each circle growing narrower, their noses still to the ground. Then, with a trumpet-like call, they began to dig, throwing up the soft earth about them with tury. The squire, his man and the dog fancier had followed. All were pale with horror. Suddenly the latter sprang forward. "Take your master away I" he shouted to the servant; but tho squire, with an awful cry of "They have found herP dropped like a stone upon the ground. It was. indeed, the body of Madame Vinton that they had discovered. A cord was tied about her neck and twisted tightly. She had evidently been strangled. Hobbed and murdered by some burg lar, people said; but burglars do not usually bury their victims. The ser vants were evidently innocent two quiet village girls, whom no one could auspecL Later, when after a severe fit of ill ness, through which his mother nursed hi in, the squire was able to go feebly about the house, he found in his dead bride's escritoire a small box, in which lay a package of letters addressed to her, and signed, "Your husband.Emil," and a photograph. The latter was the portrait of the man he had met at the gate, and had been taken in Paris. Afterward he held communication with the Parisian police, and sent them the photograph. The information be received from them caused him a re lapse. But he never revealed it to any one. He lived to close bis mother's eyes, and died, a sad and silent man, I In the house upon the hill, his only ! friends tho two dogs, Uno and Ino. it j Is probable that the ladies of Poplar I town had been right in their opinion of i Madame Vinton, but this good man j never ceased to love her for all that, I nor to believe that she had siactrel ! loved blm. BEFORE THE ANCELU3. Crttlatam or Millet' (lt Work j Heard From Visitor to tha Unitary. . Millet, so the story goes, when he bad finished "The Angelus," invited an old friend in the church to come and see It. "Ah," said the old men. as he gazed at the picture. "It la "The Angelus;' I bear the bells." Whereupon, of course, the artist was greatly pleased, and promptly declar ed that the aim of bis life was accom plished. The greatest artist of ancient times had been deemed wonderful for paint lug grapes, at which the birds came to peck; but he had painted a prayer and a church spire, and a priest recognized the word of the Invocation aud heard the sound of the bulls in the steeple. If Millet were living now, and could come lo stand before his picture In the exhibition rooms, says a writer In the N. Y. Sun, he might be less pleased, but he certainly would lie as highly en tertained by the comments made by the continuous throng that passes be fore the picture. Of course, nine peo ple out of everv ten are surprised to find how sinafl it is. Somehow no amount of culture or traluing in art Is able to eliminate entirely from the mind the Idea that pictures are valua ble according to their size, and the comparison between the price which "The Angelus" brought at lis last sale, and the number of square inches in the canvas is so startliuglhat it shocks the unprepared mind. Everybody has a different wry of expressing this dis satisfaction v fib the size of the niater- Idece. Oue old lady pushed up before t during one of the most crowded hours of the exhibition. She was rich ly dressed and evideutlv felt herself fully com -teut to criticise anything in the art line. It could be seen as she approached that her eyes were focussed for something very large and start ling. When she had reached the front she gar.ed blankly at the expanse of red dra(eries. Finally she caught sight of the picture, and placing a lorgnette to her eye, leaned ber bead well back and gazed at the picture in tently, and, at last, scornfully. After a few momenta she put down ber glasses, aud, half turning to the specta tors about her, said in a loud aud dis tinct voice: "Well. I'm disappointed." Nobody seemed interested in the an nouncement, aud she turned and look another look. "Yes, I am disappointed," she re peated in an even more distinct tone of voice. Nobody answered her. "1 am very much disappointed," she ventured again, after another look, in the same aggressive tone. - Still nobody paid any attention to her, and she looked again. "I dou't know when I've been sodls apHinted," was the way she put it this time. There were a few disrespectful gig gles, and thcu a woman near her re marked In a coldly unsympathetic voice: "Would you kindly keep your disap pointment 10 yourself auu let us enjoy the picture?" The dUapointed woman evidently bad astonishment added to her other feelings at thia unexpected sally, but she made uo reply aud strode haughti ly away after auolber scornful look at the helpless little cauvas. A she passed out of the building she was uoticed stopping before a gorgeous red aud black Itocky Mountaiu scene iu the fiout room aud exclaiming: "There, that's what 1 call something like!" Very comical are the mistakes made by spectators as to the meaniug of the picture. It would break Millets heart to kuow of some of these. One appar ently iulelligeut and cultivated woman came iu the other day, aud after gas iug a long time at the picture sat down in a chair beside the girl who sells cata logues at a table iu front of "The An gelus." "That's a love subject?'' remarked the woman, opening a conversation. The girl discreetly made no reply. "Yes. aud I think it's so beautiful. " continued the woman. "Just see bow modest the young woman is." The paralysed catalogue girl ventur ed a feeble "Yes?" "I do love such subjects; and hasn't he painted it exquisitely?" the woman went on. Just here the catalogue girl was aved from danger of hysteria by the arrival of the woman's husband. He had a catalogue in his baud, and he led bis wife around to look at the other pictures. Presently the woman came back in a great hurry. She had evidently been reading the catalogue. "Why, that Isn't a lore subject at all," she exclaimed sharply to the girl. The girl was arrauging ber cata logue. "Ho, that's a religious subject; it Isn't a love subject at all," repeated the woman. The girl saw a bit of paper on the floor on the other side of her table and bent over to pick it up. The woman eyed her for a moment, and then said, with subdued intensity! ' Did you know that that wasn't a love subject when I was talking to you?" The girl Is usually truthful, but there was no help for it this time. She raised ber eyes to those of the woman and said unblushingly, but somewhat fee bly: "No, ma'am." The woman gave her another sharp look, but went away apparently satis fied. AVItty and Righteous. It Is related of an old-time Bath school I oy that after the master had giveu him a good flogging tho young ster said lo the teacher in a melancholy and serious voice: "1 thank you sir." "Thank met What are you thanking me for, vou young rascalr' replied old Master Whetstoue. "I thought voa did it for my good, sir," replied Joshua. The tone, manner and the words made the school roar, while the stem old pedagogue could take no ex ception to the retort, aud had to ao knowledgu its righteousness as well as 'ts wit LewintoH Journal. A Ghost, A man In Bangor, Me., who tarried in a cemetery after dark in order to finish a job of diggiug, .had an en counter with a ghost. It was of the regulation whiteness, and groaned just as did those eucouutercd iu similar places by some of our great-grandmothers. The Bangor man was fright ened and started to run, but managed to run ugain.-t the ghost and both fell to the grouud together, lt was an in nocent white calf that first recovered its feet after the collision. Three-Story Wagon. A three-story wagon was captured at Martinsville, Md., a few days since. The first story under the runuing gear was a coop of live chickens; the sec ond, sandwiched between the first and third and bidden from view, was de voted to "moonshine spirits; the third was laden with tobacco and fodder. WGllWS STMiDRD. STOCK BOOK. DON'T DELAY IN SECURING TERRITORY. Finest Book on Earth for tho Farmer, Stockman and Blacksmith LARGEST PROFITS! Far Calalogmei and Agent' Trrmt upplp to D L- PEBBLEE. 307 SarjsomeSt, Sar; Frar?Glseo,$al. WIT AND HUMOR. The model hnshnnds are the men who never marry. Fond Uu Lac i orUr. Best place to hold the World's Fair ltight around the waist. lioMon Herald. Is the wonfan who goes to church to exhibit her sealskiu aacque-religious? Jimne Sentinel. ' Laughter may be the poor man's id aster, but it is not very adhesive. 'titadetphia I'rettt. Honesty is doubtless the best policy, but it seems to have expired long ago. Lawrence American. The serpent was the most subtle of all the beasts of the field, but the army trader is sutler. Huston Tranncripi. While the English drum beat is heard around the world the American dead beat isn't far behind. Texas titliny. Women rarely are great inventors, though they are often the first to dis cover new wrinkles. Terrt Jiaule Ax pren$. When you truly and devotedly love a girl who is as rich as she is 'pretty it's bard to take no for an answer. Epoch. "It's a wise joke that knows its own father after the religious pa-rs have (noted it once or twice. SurvM Journal. Some women like a whispered tab of love, but a belle prefers a declaration made in ringing tones. Baltimore Amfruxtn. When a woman loves a man she goes the whole ho 1, even to the wart on bis nose. It isn't this way with man. I'hiladetpliia Inquirer. It Is very strange that among those who set themselves up .as great guns the ones of the smallest caliber are the biggest bores. Boston Transcript. "What is sweeter than to bare a friend you can trust?" asked Saw kins. "To have a friend who will trust you," replied Dawkina. llartford Time. Minnie "And vou say you shed no tears at the play fast night? I did. I was so affected." Mamie '-O, of course. You always are." Terre Haute Express. It's concentration of thought that tells in our daily endeavor. Just watch the face of the small boy wheu he is taking aim at a tramp eaLttiiladel phia inquirer. Jaggs "Did von swear off the 1st?" j Bajfjjs "Well, 1 did. yoa know, and j this time it goes." "Come iu ami have ! oJ-e?" "Dou't care if 1 do." IttiUtdd- pnia Inquirer. First Man (excitedly) "Our board-Ing-house is alire!" Second Man (calmly) "Conie, then, hurry up, aod perhaps we may be able to get some thing hoU" Jury. Bloodgood "Travis dresses well, doesn't be? I wonder what gives such toue to his costume?' De Smith "It must be bis trousers. They are always loud." Burlington Free' Brest. Suitor "I love your youngest daughter, sir." Fater "Ui'uiili! I suppose you've heard that 1 have settled a dowry 011 my eldest daughter?" Suitor "lu that case, sir, I love ber." Epoch. In the mission clas: Teacher "Can you tell me anything about the man who went dowu from Jericho aud fell among thieves?" The New Boy (tentatively) "Wus it McUiuty?" Boston Times. j Mr. N. Feck (slapping his lnx-kM) I "Here's a nice state of affairs!'" Wick j wire "What's the matter? Forget j your pocketlxtok?" Mr. X. Feck j ""Yes; I forgot to leave it at home." 2'erre Jiaule Ejcprtss. ' Youug Set fast "Had a weal ad ten t- tire the other day, Miss Sharpleigh. ent Usiiiug ana a gweat oh ute 01 a farm dog made me stay with htm thwee hours." Miss Sharpleigh "Poor old doggie." Vruke't Magazine, An enthusiastic exchange refers to the dresses of some actresses as "per fect poems." It would be nearer the mark to call them epigrams; because well, there isn't much to an epigram, you know." Philadelphia Press. Mabel "Hal. dear, what makes vou always call me your little lamb?" Hal "Because ytu alwavs return to the fold." and he opened bis arms with an expectant and satisfied look upon his smiling face. Kearney Enterprise. Arthur (just lieginning his French) "Pa pa, is the French word for money of the feminine or masculine gentler?' Father "Feminine.of course." "Why. papa?" "Because, haven't you heard that money talks?" Lowell Citizen. Mother "You don't seem tired. Jen nie, for a young lady who attended a dancing party last night?" Jennie '-It was a plumbers' ball, you know.and everything went so slowly that one could not get tired." Boston Herald. Inquisitive Citizen "What's - the matter with the man? Been run over by a railroad train?" Ambulance Sur geon "Worse than that. He was caught among the women in a bargain rush at Seller's." Philadelphia, In quirer. Belinda "Dearest, what was the real reason of your marrying me?" Al phonzo "I think it was because I un derstood you. And what was the rea son of your marrying me?" Belinda "I think it was because I did not un derstand you." America. Physician (to Mrs. CoL Blood of Kentucky) "How did your husband pass the night. Mrs. Blood?" Mrs. Blood "He seemed quite comfortable, sir, and asked for water several times." Physician (with a grave look) "H" in -still flighty." boston Beacon, ' Mrs. A. "I think Mrs. Smith's death such a sad one. My heart fairly aches for Mr. Smith." Mrs. B. "Yes, and the poor little children. It is a terrible visitatiou. Will you be at the funeral?" Mrs. A. "O. yes." Mrs. B. "What are you going to wear?" Epoch. "You shouldn't have taken 'No foi an answer so readily, Charlie," said his more experienced friend; don't you understand that a girl's 'No' often means 'Yes'?" "She didn't say No. Jack." responded Charlie, utterly with out hope; "she said "Naw."' Boston Beacon. Campaigning Mam ma (to confidential friend of Mr. G.) "Really, young Mr. Greenbacks is oe of the most cultivated men 1 ever saw." C F. (desiring to please 1 "Yes, and I honestly believe your daughter Eva is succeeding at it better than any of the rest." Memphis, Avalanche Miss Chestnut "la it true that yotu EXPERIENCED CODJITY CAKVASEHS El jilE fUCED To make a success when they have under taken the sale of STAR COMPOSITION CO., Manufacturer of . Printers'. Rollers, - -a Attn Roller Conpslirt PflODINQ CEMENT ETC - Roller Casting a Specialty. 1 107 Fourth St., Hast Portland. Or. marriage with Mr. Callowhlll has oeea indefinitely postponed f" Miss Walnut O, no. not indefinitely. Poor, dear Fido, you kuow, was attacked with la gr ppe and died, and of course 1 couldn't think of marrying for a year." Phila delphia Inquirer. "You ought to be glad that you will be electrified instead of hanged." said a prison visitor to a convicted mur derer. "Why?" asked the felon in sur prise. "You suffer greatly from rheu matism, don't you?'T "Yes." "Weil, electricity is the best known remedy for that. Epoch, "Where is the place to find a good talking parrot?" writes a subscriber. In the newspapers, son; in the news papers. You'll find wonderful parrot saying things in the miscellaneous column of the papers that are never, never, never beard from the bill oi living parrots anywhere e!.e. Go te the same place for trained aud saga cious dogs. Burdette, Visitor "Do you like going to school, tnv little dear?" Little Fauntleroy "Yes, indeed.' Visitor "Of course. You lore your school, don't you, my pet? and you like vonr teacher, too, don't you?" Littfe Fauntleroy "O, ves.1 wouldn't want any other tcaclier." Viaitor 'Of course not." Little Fauntleroy "No, indeed. She's awful nearsighted." Ar. '. Weekly. Played Sucker for Purpose. ' There are any number of good story, tellers In Congress. Everybody knows of the fame of Allen, of Mississippi, and Billy" Mason, of Chicago, in this re gard, and now that Representative Splnola and Flower, the one gray bearded and the other rotund, sit close together, thev are always aura of a erowd around their desks to bear them swap their varied and interesting ex periences. General Spinola regaled bis friends with a good poker story recently. "I was comine down the Hudson one night," he said, "io eom- c any with Cornelius Vanderbilt. Tbur- ow Weed, Dean Richmond, and George Law, when Weed proposed a game of poker, and I was asked to come in. I hesitated, for 1 had only abont 44.00O io my pocket, and I knew that it was to be a game without limit. I mentioned the state of my finances to Law. but he told me to take a band, and said that be would back me to any amount. I am willing to lose 30.000 or 40.000 to-night be said, 'and to-morrow I will tell you ray reason.' So the game started and I stayed In. bagging the shore pretty close and getting startled every once in a while when some one went 1 1.000 blind. When we quit at daybreak 1 had won about tt.oOO. but Law had lost ten times that amount. The next day I niet him. I will tell you. Frank. be said. wfrv I lost that money. I wanted Vanderbilt to think I was a sucker, and so I played like orfe. The result was that to-day I sold him a lot of steamboats for nearly $600,000 more than I ever expected to get from him. Don't you think the money was well in vested?" Washington Post. Be Kind to Children. Children should be taught obedience and bad habits should be corrected. But many a parent has remembered with deep sorrow instances of undue severity and unwise punishment when too late to correct it or make amends. "The following incident related by a father illustrates this: "I shall never forget, though 1 have wished a thousand times that I could, bow 1 punished little Mamie for continuously pronouncing a word wrong as 1 thonght willfully after I had tried hard to make ber say it correctly. She was quiet for a few minutes after I had punished her, and then she looked up with a quivering lip. and said: "'Papa, you will have to whip mm again. I can't say it. "You can imagine bow I felt, aad how 1 kept on remembering the look on her face and the tone of the sad little voice." Little ones are often timid and grown people do not sufficiently sympathize with them. The following incident illustrates th;s: A well-meaning father once whipped his little girl, attempting to overcome in this way her whimsical terror of the dark when left alone at night. The poor little maid sobbed herself to aleep that night. But the next evening, five minutes after she had been left alone with the. to her, fearful dark, her terror over came ber dread of punishment, and a pitiful little voice waa heard at the bead of the stairs. "O, papa, please come up here and whip mel I m so 'fraid of the dark!" This convinced the father that the child's terror was more than a whim, aud he deeply regretted his hasty pun irhment, which was never repeated. Many Mocking Birds. " ' A writer who has recently visited the Bridal Veil Falls in the Yosemite Val ley thus describes the mocking birds la that vicinity in the New York Press: "Millions of brown-coated birds there were everywhere, until the whole of our very nature seemed perm- ated with their music. Sometimes low and sweet, again sad and plaintive, and then . full, rich and triumphant, like a pan of joy and gladness, while we looked at each other in wondering silence. Just as it seemed that the melody was un supportably sweet, and that our hearts could not contain mole without the re lief of tears or shouts, the wind died away aud the water again struck with an awesome roar into its rocky hollow with a fo.ue that made the earth trem ble, and was again lashed to furious foam and the song of the mocking birds hushed. Thus it gos ou ever aud ever, alternately, and has for ages, the song of the birds ami the thunderous rever beration ofthecataract The" statement is made that more than 65,000 elephants are killed in Africa every year. Their ivory in tha raw state is worth $1,000,000.