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He who thinks to please the World is dullest of his kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half is yet behind. TOL. IV. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 0. 1891. NO. 52. W. B. DONACA, -DEALER Groceries and Provisions, Cigars, Tobacco, Furnishing Goods, -p, , Rose burg; Mall lally. JbllCi X!itC 8:00 A. M. ILt Portland . Ar p. M. 7 U :30 P. M. Lv Albany Ar , :40 P. M, Ar Roweburg Lt 6 fJO A. M. Albany Local Dally (Except 6anday.) S r. t. I l.v Portland Ar I Saw A. M. 9a f. K. I Ar Albany Lt a A. M t 11 d 1 I " 1 1 "TV Loral Passenger Trains Dally Except lrst-Glass Gols at Reasonable Prices, g. ' . - 8 - M. I Ar Lebanon i.T S AP p. 11. GIVE ME A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED. PUUMAN BPFFET Country Produce Taken in Exchange for Goods. KEEP ON HAND A STOCK OF Shingles, Posts, Boards and Pickets. W. C. Petersox, Notary Public. PETERSON & Real Kstate Brokers HAVE ON choice 3A.iaisrs In Large and Small Farms. Best Fruit Land in Valley. Finest Grain Ranches in the World. Improved and Unimproved Land, from $4 per Acre and up. Satisfaetien Guaranteed. Have on hand some CHOICE C1T PROPERTY, Residence and Business. Bargains in all Additions to the Town. Houses Rented and Farms Leased. IrSTSXJElIS"CE AGENTS London Liverpool Globe Insurance Co. Guardian Assurance Co., of London. , . Oakland Home Insurance Co.. of Oakland, Cal. i State Insurance Co., of Salem, Oregon. - Farmers' and Merchants' Ins. Co., of Salem Collections Receive Prompt Attention. pleasure in giving our patrons an information uesireu in uur imo ui uu. J. A. BEARD, Druggist and Apothecary. DEALER IN Pure Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oil, Glass, STATIONERY, FINE PERFUMERY, BRUSHES AND' COMBS, CIGARS AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. MAIN ST.. PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY COMPOUNDED. DR. C. H. DUCKETT, E K NT 1ST LEBANON, OREGON. J. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. ALBANY. - - - - - OREGON. W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBANY OREGON. G. T. COTTON, Dernier in ies and Provisions. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Street. Lebanon, Oregon R. L. McCLURE (Successor to C. H. Harmon.) Barber : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting and Shampoo ing in the latest and best style. Spec "jal attention paid to dressing' Ladies' hair. Your patronage respectfully solicited. IN- Sam'l M. Garland, Attorney-at-Law. GARLAND, HAND FOB Notary Business a Specialty. We take LEBANON, OR. J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON. Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. Exchange sold on New York, San rancisc o, Portland and Albany, Org. Collections made on favorable terms. I. 11. BOllTJM. Tonsorial Artist A Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair Uut, gleaned or Uressed. Hot and Cold Baths at all Hours Children Kindly treated. Call and see me. LEBANON Meat Market ED. KELLENBERGER, Prop. Fresh & Salted Beef, Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. BACON ASD LAED ALWAYS M HAND f Street, tebamia. Org. EAST AND SOUTH -VIA- Southern Pacific Route. TUE MOUNT SHASTA ROl'TE. EXPB1SS TRAINS LEAVE PORTLAND DAILY: IfllP. M. I I.V Portland Ar I ;3l a. m. Albany Ar I 6:15 A. M. San Francisco Lt OO p. X. 10:28 P.M. I Lv 10 M A.M. 1 Ar Above trnlna stop only at the following stations north of Kosetmrg: Fjmt Portland, Oregon City, Woodburn, Salem,. Albany, Tangent, pnwiua, Ualsoy, Haniaburg, Junction Cliy, Irvine and Eugene. Tourist Sleeping Cars For accommodation of Seoond-Class Passengers. WEST SIIK DITISION. BETWEEN rORTLAXD 1XD C0RVALL1S. Mall Train Daily (Except Sunday.) Lt Ar Portland Corvnllls Arl B Lt I It IS :10 P. X. p K. At Albany and Corvallls connect with trains of Oregon Paotflc Railroad. (Express Train Daily Except Sunday.) lJf..I.V T : P. M. I Ar Portland Ar I 8 ri A. n. McMinnvlUe Lt 5:45 A. X. a-Through tickets to all polnta East and South. For tickets and full tnfonunllon rfgarding rates, mnps, etr., call on C'o's agent atlebanon. K. HUEULEK, , J . KUUtKN Manager. Aaatt. F. P. Agt UTarm Botes. A Bnbstitnte Tor the Potato. Albert Meyer, a chemist, while in conversation recently with the editor of the St. Fault Globe, spoke quite en thusiastically of a new tuberiferous plant which he thought would do ex ceedingly well if introduced in the northwestern states. He said : A few years afro a scientist discov ered in Japan a plant resembling: the potato, and sent samples of it to Ber lin and Paris to be experimented on These experiments have been decided successes, and the new potato has been extensively introduced in Berlin and Paris, especially in hotels and restaurants. A number of fanners in our vicinity, with whom I conversed on the subject, are willing to experi ment on the plant next season. The Royal Prussian society of Berlin has taken pains to make experiments with the plant. The scientific name of this plant is stachys tuberifera, but as to their form they might be called pine cones. Stachvs affinis is another name, and lately they have given it the name stachys Sieboldii. The cul tivation is the same as the potato, and there have been found over 100 knolls in one hill ; some say as many as 300, but this is probably exagger ated. They are, of course, not as large as our common potato. Ac cording to the Garden Flora, the organ of the society, the analysis of the fruit is : WatPT 78.33 Protein 1.50 Amide 1.67 Fat. 0.18 Carbon hydrate ( Frlnclpl galactan ) 16.5" Cellulose 0.73 Ashes 1.03 There is neither starch nor sugar, but galactan, a substance between both. Stachys afilnis or tulerifera is an agreeable tasting vegetable when boiled in salt water and served with butter and parsley sauce. Some ieople ike them seethed in oil, but that is merely a matter of taste. Prepared like ponimes de terre frites ( potatoes cut in small slices and fried in butter), they are claimed to be a delicious dish. The taste is at first like that of a sweet potato, but one will soon feel a very fine piquant taste. They do not need to be peeled, but are only washed clean in water, which is another bless ing to the housekeeper. They are kept in the ground as late as possible, and preserved packed in sand in the cellar during the winter months. Exposed to the air they will shrink and lose their nice, white, mother-of-pearl-like color. The dant is winter hardy, and thrives in any soil. Frost does not hurt them, and to have them always fresh they are left in the ground and dug as wanted. In our climate it is best to keep them in a ditch or in sand in the cellar. W. Perring, inspector of the royal botan ical garden in Berlin, informs me that the production is very large, and that there are many enthusiasts in favor of the new plant in that city, which prophesies for the plant a great future. The expectations of high prices and large yields will induce a good many farmers to make a trial with the new plant. I have already quite a uumber of orders for seed. To make honey vinegar 1 gallon of vinegar, 1 pound of honey and 1 gallon of water is required. That is, 29 pounds of honey will make (water being added to it enough to fill a regular 32 gallon barrel) 1 barrel of the best vinegar. Use common alcohol bar rels ; saw out one of the barrel heads and paint the outside to prevent iron hoops from being destroyed by the vinegar. Keep it in a house cellar, so covered with burlap as to keep the dust out and let the air in. One year converts this water and honey into the choicest vinegar. A bill has been introduced in con gress to improve the channel of Snake river from Lewiston, Idaho, to the mouth of Burnt river, in Oregon. The population of the state is 349,390. W. C. Cunninffton, a San Francisco faro dealer, committed suicide with I poison at Tacoma Feb. 20. Dread Making. I wisli to draw the readers ut ten lion to the fact that from the time the yeast is mixed with the flour till the bread comes from the oven there is a chemical action which requires some mechanieal skill to secure good sweet bread. Hops are often used by yeast makers, but they have no agency in the chemical change necessary to pro duce good bread, on the contrary they are more of an antiseptic than a fer ment and are not used in making much of the good yeast found in the market. The first chemical action taking place Is the action of the dis astase on starch, which Is soon con verted into dextrine and sugar. The next chemical action Is the fermenta tion of the sugar, which develops car bonic and alcohol which divides the particles of flour nnd swells the dough to the proper point of lightness for the oven. Here comes in the mechan ical skill to know when it is ready for 3ie oven, for if the gas and vapor rupture the outer crust of the dough the gad (carbonic acid ) eseapes, per mitting the air to mingle with the vapors of the alcohol and quickly aldehyde is formed by the acetic acid and the result heavy sour bread. To Ik? sure of sweet bread all the working of the dough should Ik? done when the yenst is added, the dough placed in the proper pan and when light placed In the oven, avoiding a second working as many good house keetwrs insist on doing, which neces sarily deprives the dough of the first fermation of carbonic acid and the vapors of alcohol, which thereby en dangers the oxidation of the alcohol into acetic acid, more or less of which Is almost alwa-s found in bakers' bread. The next chemical change is in the baking, which breaks up the grain of starch not changed by the disastase or yeast and by a certain degree of heat converts the starch into soluble starch, gum and sugar, which are more digestible than pure starch. The mechanical part is to know the proper degree of heat to do this ; between 4O0 and 50i) degrees of Fahrenheit is necessary to deprive the starch of a certain amount of water, leaving the carbon in excess over normal starch. If not hot enough the bread will not be sweet and only fit for toast, which completes the baking. If the stove is too hot, too much of the water is driven of.', and common charcoal or burnt bread is the result. Sour bread is made more desirable for the stomach by toasting, which evaporates the acid and converts the starch into dextrine and sugar. Hence the sweet ness of a well-toasted slice of bread, which does not require any great mechanical skill, as the change is i sight and the color indicates the necessary heat. The first consideration is good yeast, for without it good bread is out of the question with the best of flour, while with good fresh yeast good bread can be made with inferior flour. In all cities there is no trouble to secure good yeast, as it is furnished daily in the form of small cakes, and I have never found any better than what is known as Fleishmann yeast. It will not keep long, hence the importance of being furnished daily to the dealers. From its nature it cannot keep long, being a plant which must be kept moist. When dry the plant is likely to be killed and lose all power of changing the starch, the first chem ical change mentioned. The same rules hold good with all doughs raised by yeast. In raising flour with yeast powders, so called, there is no chem ical change, simply a diffusion of the carbonic acid set free from the soda used, mixed with some acid, usually cream tartar. This is a chemical action, the acid of the cream tartar (tartaric) uniting with the soda and forming Rochelle salts in the bread Alum is sometimes used, aud in one of the popular powders phosphoric acid i.j the acid used, and this mar ic considered the most harmless as it one of the Important agent of animal life. A. P. Sharp in Now England farmer. Buckwheat Cakes. Nice buckwheat cakes are made of four cups of buck wheat flour, one scant cup of yellow Indian meal, a teaspoonful of salt mixed up with three cups of hot water and one cup or cold milk, making the mixture about blood warm. Beat this batter vigorously, and add a cup of liquid yeast or a yeast cake dissolved in a cup of warm water. Buckwheat cakes, alter the first rising, should be raised with some of the batter. For this purpose, thero should always be made at least a pint more than is used each time, and this should be set away in a cool place to serve as yeast for the next batch of cakes. These cakes raised with buckwheat batter will be better than the first raised with yeast. Apple Pudding. Pare, quarter and core six tart apples. Put them in a porcelaine-lined kettle. Add half a pint of water and grated rind of one orange and six ounces of sugar, cover the kettle and simmer continually, until the apples are reduced one-half. Stir frequently to prevent scorching. When clear and thoroughly done, turn them into a dish and put them away until very cold. Then beat the whites of six eggs to a stifffroth. Add four ounces of powdered sugar. Beat again, until white and dry. Pour this over the apples, dust thickly with chopped almond. Sprinkle with pow dered sugar. Wrap a piece of brown paper around the dish and place in oven until it is a golden brown. Serve cold with cream. Fried Salsify.- -Wash and scrape well two pounds of salsify, using the crowns also which are the most del icate parts of the roots. Boil them in salted water until half done, then take them up and grate them. Add to the grated salsify two gills of flour, a quarter of a pound of butter, salt and pepper to taste, four eggs beaten separately very light, and sufficient cream to make a very thick batter. Drop from a spoon -in boiling lard. When brown, remove to a hot aish and serve at once. i V (general Betas. UNITED STATES. "Unprecedented floods were caused in Virginia, Pennsylvania and south ern Ohio by heavy rains Feb. 17. Riverside. W. Va.. a town of 1000 In habitants, was washed away. The people escaped. Last summer Federal Judcres Phil lips and Foster enjoined the state authorities of Kansas from prosecut ing criminally persons charged with violations of the liquor law in that state. On the final hearintr Judcre Caldwell has dissolved the injunction to mteiiere with criminal prosecutions in courts of law, because the act of congress expressly prohibits United States courts from enjoining proceed ings in state courts except m cases or uanKruptcy. Two prisoners, one colored ami one white, were taken from the jail at Gainesville, Fla., Feb. 17, by a mob and hanged. They had been arrested a short time berore lor complicity in recent crimes conynitted thereabouts. A gang of sympathizers with the Farmers'" Alliance wrecked the office of the Wichita ( Kas.) Advocate, de stroyed Its contents and threw the press in the river piecemeal. They attacked the Echo office but were driven away by the use of firearms. Charles Foster, erovernor of Ohio. has leen nominated secretary of the federal treasury. Barrundia's widow says she will sue the United States for 1.000.ooo in demnity for Mizner's letter which caused the death of her husband. The free coinage" bill has been squelched in committee. The steamer Sherlock struck a bridge pier at Cincinnati Feb. 17 and was wrecked and lour or five lives were lost. The calaboose at Schell Citv. Mo.. burned Feb. 16 with John Trout t, a drunkard, In it. The attempt to graft a piece of lone from a dog's leg into that of Johnnie Gethins at the New York charity hos pital is now reported to have proved a complete failure. Gottleib Jacob was lieing lowered into a well at Oswego Feb. lit when the windlass broke and he fell to the liottom and was fatally injured. Secretary George J. Gibson of the whisky trust, who was arrested by United States officers for conspiracy to blow up the anti-trust Shufeldt dis tillery at Chicago, has since leen in dicted in a state court for the same offense. Cuptain Francis L. Norton, his wife, his neice and a crew of seven started from New York for France in a life boat Nov. 24 and are believed to have perished at sea. Spain is trying to get Blaine to ad mit Cuban tobacco free. The strike at the Chicago steel works has collapsed after three months struggle. Leurssen, who modeled the bust of Garfield, died of apoplexy at Berlin Feb. 20 aud his wife died of grief the same day. Resubmission of the prohibitory clause in the constitution of South Dakota has been defeated in the sen ate, 19 to 12. Joel S. Jones, a Tacoma saloon keejer, tried to get a divorce from his wife on the ground of cruelty but she disproved his charge and proved that he had deserted her and he was or dered to pay her $50 a month. He then went to Chicago and sued for divorce, swearing she had deserted him in 1888, and now he is in tlanger of prosecution for perjurj . FOREIGN. Houses were unroofed and trees torn up by the roots by a storm at Presburg, Hungary, Feb. 18, and an earthquake followed which destroyed two large buildings, one of which was a girls' college. The shipping federation, organized to resist demands of union men, now embraces seven-eighths of the ton nage of Great Britain. Union men, who control the hand ling of freight in Australia, refuse to handle goods going to or from ships loaded aud unloaded In England by non-union men. The Argentine troops have revolted and taken Cordova. A stranger snatched $GO,000 from a clerk in the bank of Scotland in Lon don Feb. 10 and escaped with it. Tadlewskl, tho nihilist who killed the Russian chief of secret police, Seliver skoff, in Paris, has been drowned and otherwise killed several times in the Associated Press dispatches, and now he has been eaten by wolves near Phillippopolis and his remains identi fied by pajers found in the pockets of his clothes. Portugal will borrow $15,000,000 from French bankers. Smallpox prevails about Belfast. Troops have been called out In the Charlerol district of Belgium to pre vent an uprising of workmen demand ing universal suffrage. The National League at Cork has adopted resolutions declaring Parnell the sole leader of the Irish people. Sadler, arrested for the last White chapel murder, declares that tho police arc suppressing evidence in his favor, being determined to convict somebody to partially retrieve their reputation. The Cuban government captured a band of supposed robbers under the leadership of Domingo Montelongo and murdered them all without trial Feb. 7, after setting them on board a steamer under promise or giving them their liberty if they would leave Cuba. The Chilean rebels are still gaining ground. They have captured Iquiqui. After the czar got his debt refunded by the aid of Jewish bankers, under implied promises of ceasing the per secution of the race, the persecution increased in ferocity and now the Rothschilds threaten financial war against Russia. A woman whose throat had been cut and her chest cut open was found dead in London Feb. 7. The populace said Jack the Ripper did it, while the police still claimed that they had Jack in custody and that the woman com mitted suicide, until it was proved that five of the Jack the Ripper crimes were committed while the man they now Imve was at sea. President Bogran of Honduras thinks no Central American war is impending. Strong forces of police and troops have been called out to prevent riot ing by striking dockers at Cardiff. The strike collapsed. The resolution disestablishing the church in Wales was defeated iiijpar liament, 235 to 203. Buenos Ayrea is in a state of selge. The Summer Fishers. Three flahcrs went sailing out in the lake, Out into the lake as the sun went down; Each thought on the biggest lie ha could make And the reporters stood watching them out of the town: For flnhers will lie and reporters believe. For 'twas ever their wont though they seldom deceive For we've all been fishing ourselves I Three editors sat in their offices high. And they made up their sheets as the moon went down; And each murmured, "I'll glance at the usual He," And they picked up the "copy with dark some frown; 'For papers must print the fisher's tale Though it calmy tells of booking a whale lor we've all been Huhing ourselves. Three Journalists lay on the office floor la the gaslight gleam when the foreman tH me 'round. For each had rend the tale from the shore A nd each had sunk down In a deadly swound. For the fisher had said and the scribes had written That all that eve not a fish had bitten And truth was stranger than fiction 1 Dnkoka Bell, A WC-IAX'S EUUOU. The young people of Groveland were baTing a picnic. It was in a pleasant grove just at the edge of the main road. Most of the village girls were there, dressed in their crisply-starched and neatly-ironed white dresses; some with bright-colored sashes and bows to match, others wreathed with wild flowers gathered in the woods, which stretched invitingly awav in the shady coolness at the back of the grove. Conspicuous among the rustic beauties was Barbara Wildman. She was a tall bright-looking girl, whose great dark eyes usually flashed back a merry answer to the jests of the rustic beaux, who generally hovered around her like moths around a flame. Just now, however, their brightness was under a cloud; for Mark Everson was standing at her side, and the tete-a-tete she had for some time been endeavoring to avoid was inevitable. She was sorry to lose Mark's friend ship, and with a woman's instinct she knew that it must be all or nothing from henceforth with him; and with a newly-learned insight into her own heart, she now knew that she did not love him. Her answer must be "'So. With all her gay friendly ways she had not an atom of intentional co quetry about her, and with a sudden resolution to end his suspense she turned towards him. 'Well, Mark," she said gently, "what is it you want to say to me?' "You must know without my telling. Oh, Barbara, it is your own sweet self I want! I have been as true to you as the needle is to the pole since the time when, a little boy and girl, we used to go nutting together. "Poor Mark! I am sorrv." There was no mistaking the express ion of the soft brown ejes. Genuine pity was in them for the pain she was causing, but no love. "Don't, Barbara! I can't bear it! Give me a chance before too say a decided 'No. I'll do things for you no one ever did before, if you'll only promise to try and love meJ' Just then a young rain rode by on a powerful black horse. Mark saw a euddeu change pass over Barbara' face. Turning, he saw, with a bitter pain tugging at his heart-strings, that the eyes of the girl that he loved were resting on the strangers lace with a rapt Tinfrerinj; expression in them which had never irradiated them for him, her old-time faithful friend. There was no mistaking the answer ing look in the eyes of the equestrian, as, bowing low, he rode lingeringly by, turning ever and anon to smile at the j fair face which Mark knew now was not to be the light of his home. "So it is that stranger whom you love! You need not deny it," he said almost fiercely. "I saw it in your eyes." Barbara answered, proudly; "I do not wish to deny it." Then, with a sudden change of manner, she held out her hand: "I love him as I love my life, and have promised to marry him; but, dear old Mark, let us befriends for the sake of the pleasant days ol our happy childhood, lie my brother, Mark! Mark hesitated; but he could not re sist the pleading wistfulness of the eyes, whose brightness shone through a mist which suggested that tears were not far away. He took the soft little hand in his great brown palm, hardened by manly toil. "I will be jour friend, Barbara, but I cannot see you and be in your society as I have been. I could not bear it. I shall sell the farm, and leave the place." "No, Mark; you need not do that to avoid seeing me; for we are to be married next week, and and I shall go with him. Mark looked at her in pained sur prise, as, blushingly and hesitatingly, she told him this, overcoming her maidenly shyness and reserve so that the honest heart, whose friendship she coveted, would not drive its owner to take a rash step which might mar his whole future. "Going away so soon, and with a perfect strangeri" Oh, little .Barbara! what do you know of him? He may be a fraud, for augrht vou can tell." A sudden anger flashed up in the girl s eyes. "I know this, Mark: I love him, and it is cruel in you to make such a sug gestion." "But you know nothing of his family of his past life." "Ho brought letters to auntie. His mother was an old friend of hers. Don't be worried, dear old Mark. He is as good as gold. I would stake my life on it." Mark sighed heavily and turned away. The joy of the afternoon had gone for him, and another hour found him on his way home. He did not see Barbara ajrain until long after her marriage, though her wedding was quite an event in the quiet neighborhood, lor the friends and neighbors were invited for miles around, but poor heart-sick Mark stayed away. For weeks after the beauty and happiness of the bride was the village gossip, and Mark heard it talked oyer until he felt as though he must cry out in his agony. Several years passed by, during which Mark led a lonely life. His dis appointment, while not souring his kindly nature, had made him indiffer ent to social pleasures. But after a time his uncle Clifton moved with his family into the village. He had a number of daughters pleasant lively girls and it was not long before they drew Mark "out of his shell," as they called it. He rew to enjoy their merry chat ter, and found his way to their home quite often. 'r" of the cousins had formed frit. nip with a young girl named Al' 'arron, while, away at .school. It had proved more lasting than the ordinal liking between schoolmates. and she was to spend toe summer in Groveland. She was a gentle little thins1, whose shy blushes at the most trivial word ad dressed her by Mark at first amused him greatly. He tried to draw her out, ! and in doing so, found, after a time, j that Alice, with her childish ways, I had broneht teace and hanniness into ! tne heart once so mieu witn tue imace of the lost Barbara. From the first, Mark had seemed to Alice all that was good and noble, bo his wooing was a speedy one, and in a twelvemonth after his introduction, Everson Farm had a gentle mistress. tjomtort and luxury Joined hands in beautifying the quaint old homestead, for the prosperous young farmer had plenty ot money, and "Alice must have pretty surroundings," he thought tenderly, "to make up for such a com monplace workaday sort of s husband." lt would not have done to say the concluding clause aloud, however, for he well knew that the little woman would not have changed him for a king; though he considered himself sadly overrated in her mind, it was very sweet to have it so. Barbara had fallen completely out of the Groveland world. The aunt with whom she had lived died sudden ly soon after her marriage, and all trace of the village beauty seemed to have vanished. If Mark ever thought of her it was to wonder at the poignancy of the old sufferings. His wedded happiness had been without a cloud to mar its bright ness. Alice, as a matron, had grown. even more attractive than in her girl hood. Uare sat lightly on her white forehead, and her soft pink cheeks seemed made for dimples to play hide- and-seek in. One evening Mark came home from his weekly marketing expedition to the neighboring town seemingly strange ly thoughtful and troubled. Alice noticed it. and, after a time, said: "Has anything gone wrong with you to-day, Mark?" He looked up in surprise. "Why, little wife? What put that into your head?" "1 don t know, 1 m sure; unless it is that vou seem so quiet and unlike your self. Mark thought a moment, then he said." "The truth is, Allie, I am sorry and pained, but not for myself. Did vou ever hear anyone speak of a girl who was once the beauty of the village Barbara Wild ma n. Alice had heard the whole story of Mark's infatuation and disappoint ment, but she made no sign, though her heart gave a great throb at hearing the name from her husband's lips. "Why, what ol her? she asked quietly. "1 saw ner to-day, and it made my heart ache. She is the mere shadow of what she was, and she is alone and friendless. Think of it! Barbara Wildman looking for employment! Couldn't we find a place for her, Allie? She was a notable worker in the old times, and could help in the butter and cheese making." Alice would rather have died than let Mark see the keen pain that his words had caused her. The thonght of his first love domiciled in her house! It was like a dart aimed at her heart. But she was too noble not to strive against the unworthy feeling. and as soon as she could command her voice, she answered: "Certainly, Mark. If it would please, you, bring her here. There is always room tor an extra helper. So it was arranged, Barbara came. A quiet reserved woman still beauti ful but not with the winsome bright ness of old. Suffering and sorrow had set its stamp upon her high broad fore head, and the great bright eyes seemed looking away into some unapproach able distance. Her lips were enut so tightly together that the pretty pouting curves which Mark remembered so well had merged into straight red lines suggesting an idea of firmness which made her face too severe-looking to be attractive. she went about her duties with a pre-occupied air, as though her thoughts were far awav; but they were faithfully performed. She made no effort towards sociability. Alice at first regarded her with mixture of feeling; but she soon grew to feel only a sorrowful pity for the lonely nn happy woman moving about in her sombre black robes. The Everson household was a strange ly happy one. Sometimes Mark's quick temper made him unreasonable and exacting, and hastv words would escape his lips; but Alice had sweet loving ways of her own that he conld not resist, one would go up to him and thread her fingers through his curly brown hair, and put up her lips for a kiss: so what with some would have ended in a quarrel, invariably made Mark feel that no one' in the wide world had such a dear little wife as his own cross surly self," as he would mentally stigmatise himself. Barbara, being constantly with them was often an nnthought-of-witness of these scenes, where a loving word turned awav wrath. Once she disappeared suddenly, and when in a few moments, Alice had need of her services, and went to her room to call her, she found her kneel ing by the bedside, sobbing convul sively. Going to her, she put her tender arms about her, and said gently: "Tell me your trouble, Barbara. Perhaps it will make your heart lighter to speak ol it. The woman raised her head and looked wonderingly into the kind sym pathetic face for a "moment. At first she made no answer, but rocked herself to and fro, moaning to herself: "I am unworthy, and God has pun ished me." Alice caught the words, and said goftly: "If you have done wrong, and are sorry for it, He who chastiseth the chil dren He loveth will also forgive." "Can He bring the dead to life?" said Barbara, suddenly looking at Alice with eyes that seemed to read her very soul. "It is past the time of miracles; but He can bring healing to the afflicted heart of the mourner." The woman's dark eyes filled with tears. " 'There is no death like that of love, and I have killed that in my husband's heart. He hates me! and I I am to blame, I see it all now. Had I been like you, the gates of my paradise would never have been shut upon me. But I drove him from me with my hateful wicked temper, and the rest of my life will be joyless and wretched fl it deserves to be. Ik "While there is life there lipe, said A' ee solemnly. The wor ..: r'-"ie to h' f " --qtinctively. She was g sV-'' . ' fto learn that BarbarVa, - band sim lived, as, judging from Tier deep mourning, she had thought her . widowed. "Are you in earnest? Do vou reallv think whatvou sav?" Barbara's whole soul seemed concentrated in ber eager eyes.as she looked at Mark's wife. "You are an angel, and 1 will believe what rnti 6a- It ift vnn wrtrt ha-v nnrhr . - . ' r mj whprpin mv wpnnAi hnmnMH wai wrecked. I should have given my hus band loving words and caresses, in stead of anger and neglect. I would give ten years of my life to see him, and tell him of ray love and repentance. But it is too late. ' ' They were interrupted by a sudden sound of hurrying footsteps. 1 he door opened and Mark entered. followed by a stranger to Alice, but not to Barbara: She sprang forward with a wild cry. and was canght to his breast. "Oh, Elmer, forgive forgive V "My poor girl! It is I who should plead to you for forgiveness. Canyon let the past be as a sealed book, and begin our life over again?" -"Oh. so gladly so iovfullv! If vnn only knew now I longed to see yonr dear face since my wild flight away Irom you anywhere 1 thought, so as to relieve . you of my unwelcome presence. "And 1, too, my darung! iiile has seemed a blank since I lost you! But, please God, nothing shall again divide us. . Explanations followed. Elmer Haughton was wealthy; and in her wild anger at some fancied neg lect of her handsome worshipped hus band, Barbara had thought to punish him by leaving her elegant home, and going away from him penniless. As she bad told Alice, her temper was fiery and unreasonable. Its con stant friction had worn upon Elmer until his fervent love had apparently merged into indifference towards the wife whose beauty and bright ways had first attracted him. But mutual absence had proved to each how great was their love for one another. Owing to the influence of the example which Alice had unconsciously held before Barbara, all is now peace and happiness with the re-united pair. THE MONKEY AND THE MIRROR. Some years ago an "aqaarium sad menagerie" in Boston came to grief and was sold under the hammer. After the Sheriff's visit there remained nothing on the premises bat m few mir rors, which bad lined a passage way, and a cage filled with a forlorn lot Of monkeys which nobody had bees willing, to bny. Mischievous boys broke the mirrors and threw pieces of them into the monk eys' cage. And so it befell that fot want of something better to do one of the monkeys took up a piece of the glast and held it reflectively in his paws. Suddenly the monkey started and hie countenance assumed an expression of mingled astonishment and rage. He saw soother monkey or he thonght he did boldly looking tufoagh the glass at him, as he had seen people look at bins through windows many a time and oft. Disturbed by the fancied approach ol this phantasmal monkey, which wai nothing more nor less than the presenta tion of himself in the mirror, he chatter ed at it and extended a warning paw. To his immense surprise the other monkey did the same thing, which was at once construed as an insult. The monkey holding the glass thereupon put forth a sudden paw, with a view to grasping the adversary who was derid ing bin But although the paw went around the side of the glass like lightning, it encountered nothing, for the simple reason that nothing was there. Again and again did the angry mon key endeavor to come at the enemy, which chattered when he chattered and threatened when he threatened. He reached over the top of the glass, he threw down the glass and tried to flatten the enemy beneath it, bat all was of no ar'' HOLDING THE MIRROR XTP TO XATTTKK. To his apprehension there was a mon key behind the glass which conld make himself visible or invisible at wilL He sat back on his haunches and stared blankly into the glass the picture of bewilderment and baffled rage. At this juncture a small, soft-hatred monkey, who bad been observing with great curiosity the maneuvers of his elder, descended deftly from his perch to the floor and slid quickly to the back of the mirror which the despairing monkey held. There he sat, cnddled in a little brown heap, blinking and wondering why he conld not see through to hia elder, who was lost in such a brown study. After a few moments the elder mon key's features assumed an air of intenso decision. He bad determined to make one more trial for a solution of this great question and if it failed he would own himself vanquished by magic. No, it could hot be; he wonld feel once mora behind the mirror. There must be a monkey there. . In another instant his paw had de scended upon the little soft-haired mon key. His face shone with triumph. He threw away the fragment of mirror, jumped to his feet, grappled the little monkey, and proceeded to give him a most tremendous thrashing. As he flew round the cage, wiping np the floor with the little monkey, it was easy to see he was convinced that he bad been right all the time. This was the mon key who bad been there and had derided him, and he meant to teach him a lesson that he would never forget. Sagacious Horse. It is related of a horse at Janesville, Wis., noted for his intelligence, that daring a recent store- finding that his Hi" tvnro -V-V orvtn.t k Yap aamfarr 1nr. ing a slippery trip, he pushed the barn door open and started on a steady trot for the blacksmith's. Once in the shop r he stood back and waited his turn as-. decorously as though "going -a-sbop ping" on his own hook was an evec day occurrence. Finally one-of tf men brought out his tools and beg tapping on the fourfooted custom shoes as though putting ou ajiiii -. The animal showed unmistakable sig of approval, and vchen the 'liatumert; -was finished troVrd out and made -way home, jierf.. contented. HI