THE TWO AGES.
Folks weif liannv w day wr long
In the old A rem I Inn limes;
Wlum Ufa wminwl tflily h dance and a wing
iu thu sweuteal of all tiwral oilmen,
Our world grow iiluuur, and. tii by stage.
Ah Mik ittilHn yum have rolled.
We've quit furuntien Lhettoldeu Ae
And some lo Lint Au of (told.
Tims went by In a aheeiilith way
Upon Tlinwaly'i plalim of yur.
in the Nineteenth nenrury, lainh at play
Mmo mutton, and iioUiing mom
Our hwkIiih 141 lirwenl are far Urn Rage
I'd live w one lived of old; .
So limy coupled theormik of theOolrien Age
Willi a hook tn thu An of tiold.
Fmnt Onrydon'R read the mountains round
Hoard new of hta latent flame,
And Tltynut made the wontla resound
With echoes of Daphne's name.
They kindly left m a laming tiatige
Of thidr mtiHlnal art, we're told,
And the I'midaan pine of the ttoldeu An
Hrtbiff utlrth U tkie Age of Uold.
Dwellera in hut and In marble ualla,
Prom HlmiihnrduM ui lo uumm,
Oared little for bonnets and Imh for shawls.
And nothing for crinoline.
Hut now Mltupllitity't) not the rao,
And H'h funny lo think bow oold
The drew tliuy worn tn the (J olden Ags
Would aeuin In the Age of Uold.
Clemrie telegraphs, printing, gas.
Tuhatin, ballnnn and mourn
Are little evtinia iliat have Mime tn paw
81m the (lays of the old reiflme;
Ami, spite of Umpriero's damcling patfo.
I'd Rive, though It might stmin hold,
A hundred year of the (tohtun Age
fTnr a year or the Age of Oold.
-Henry H. Ultfh.
to the dcior jiun t. upload my blanket Just
inside the door and lay down, with tuy
Drwious bitir of cofftw for pillow
T Intra aiun t mum to oe atiotner soui
on the pint, but 1 wtked do qnefltionB
for conscience's taka. I jam laid there
winning for 11 bite to out, and a-watch-
in K that old woman hunkered over the
arc pi a smoking like a tar kiln.
"Well, 1 kept on a laying there trying
to foriwt how mortal hnngry I was and
mebbe catch forty winks of sleep, hot
the male outside wo an hungry as 1 was.
and every now and then he'd fetch a low
kind of a whiokenn' he-haw, and then
be'd let in to knaw on the door jamb.
I
A BAG OF COFFEE,
"Talk about feeling bine," Raid the
oolonol odd day, whim the blue pencil
brigade rusted at noon from their labors
f (HlitiiiK postmasters' "accounts cur
rent," "ubont the bluest time lever saw.
and most of you are aware 1 ain't no
spring chicken, was when 1 surrendered
with Johnston tn No'tn Ca'liua and
started for home."
"Tell ns about it. colonel I" said the
boys.
"Well, you see It was this way. Durin
the wan I'd left the old woman on the
plantation down in South Cn'lina, but
when the surrender come I hadn't beard
sword from home for more than six
months, an I didn't have the least idea
whether there was a soul left alive on
the place, nor whether tJheriuan'B army
bud left anything of the old place more
than just the naked dirt.
"Well, I started off for home, or to
wards where I thought home ught'r be,
with my parole in my pocket, and riding
the pooresf, orneriest mule it was ever
my misfortune to become acquainted
with; and i do assure you, gentlemen,
bave had a large, variegated and pic
turesque experience in that particular
line.
"We moseyed along, tho mule and
and one or two of the other buys, until
we got down to Charlotte, and there the
officer in command pressed me into serv
ice to help him parole a big lot of the
prisoners.
"It took ns a couple of weeks to get
through the job, and when 1 was getting
ready to start the colonel in command
aid:
" 'I can't pay yon anything for yonr
services, but 1 think if yuu were to take
that beast down to the corral and swap
him off for a better one it would be a
good thing for you; and 1 gnuss the gov
ernment will be able to stand it.'
"Well, yon fellows bore who know
my liberal disposition will probably im
, agiue I wan't slow to take a bint like
that I turned in my crow bait and took
the beat in the let, and I flatter myself I
know a good mule when 1 see one.
" 'Purty good animal you got there,
said the ofticer when I rode up to his
quarters, "thor's some coffee down in
the commissary, and that mule looks
strong enough to carry a bag of it'
"Well, Bir, half an hour later I left
town on the best mule I ever straddled,
carrying a bag of coffee worth (HIM) in
Kdld, and altogether feeling tike the
richest man in the late Confederacy.
"1 travuled by myself on the first day
out just me, and the mule and the bag
of coffee.
"1 got along all right until along
toward dark, when t began to look out
(or a place to put up for the night. It
was the dismalest prospect you ever saw
the pourest pine barrens It made you
hungry to just ride along and look at
the country; and the houses were mighty
wide apart
"At Inst I saw a light, and rode up to
a cabin by the side of the road, and
found an old woman sitting in the door
smoking a pipe. I boned her to let me
stay all night She fetched her old pipe
a few more whiffs, and finally said:
' Yon'll hatter gwy on to the next
bouse, stranger.'
"Howfarisitr
"Puff, puff. "Bout four or five miles
mebbe six'
"But, my good woman, I am tired and
my mule is tired let me stay, if 1 have
to sleep on the Boor.
"Pnff, pnff. 'Hain't got no grub.
" 'I do not care for myself, if yon can
onlv give my mule something.
"Puff, puff, 'Haint got nothing for
the critter.'
"Well, we will both do without if
we can only stay I do not want to lie
down by the road and maybe wake up
mnrdered bv some guerrilla.
"She finally consented to this moved
oat of the door and took up her station
bv the fireplace, where she continned
her labors with the pips, as if that were
the chief end and aim of existenoe.
"1 took, off the saddle, tied the mnle
got tired of bis capers after awhile.
and finally said:
1 know yon arehnngry,old man, and
if 1 thought you'd eat it I'd give yon
some of this coffee.
"Well, sir, 1 happened to have my eyes
turned toward the fireplace when I said
this, and I'm a sinner it 1 didn't actually
see that old woman prick np her ears
like she'd heard something drop.
She straightened up, looked at me a
moment, and said:
" 'Did yon'ns say o-o-f-f-e-er"
" 'I did, madam.
" "G-i-n-n-y-w-l-n-e e-o-f-t-e-ef
" '(tannine coffee, madam.
" 'A gwym to give it to the m-e-w-e-l?
" 'The mule is tired and hungry
madam, and so am I.
Stranger, 1 hain't seed no g-i-n-n-y
w-i-n-e coffee for nigh onto three years.
bit would seem sorter onr iigus.
somehow, to feed hit to a ineweL'
1 supposed she'd actually told me the
truth about having nothing to eat, bnt 1
said at a venture:
Madam, I've got 160 pounds of coffee
right here under my bead, and if you II
get something for me and my mule to
eat yon shall have some of it
Well, sir, it acted like magic, bhe
went to the bed in the corner, turned
back the cover, turned down the mat
tress, and I'll agree to never put good
victuals in my chops again if she didn t
bave a regnlur commissary in there, All
the nnder part of the bed was planked
up solid, and was lust tilled with ham
and side bacon and meal and corn. She
even fetched out a little poke filled with
flour, in five mmntes my mule bad a
good feed of corn, and in half an hour 1
sat down to the best dish of tried . nam
that ever went down my throat
"While she wus cooking supper,
poured hor out about a quart and a half
of the green coffee, and yon ought'r seen
that poor old soul. Bhe was just tickled
to death. She whirled in and parched a
skillet fnll of it, pounded it up in a rug
on the heurth, and when i went off tc
sleep with a full stsmach, Bhe was a sit
ting there hnnkured up over the fire
place, with an old rusty pot steaming
full, and drinking like she'd never get
enough. You better believe the pipe
was laid on the shelf, and about every
fifteen minutes she'd say to herself:
" 'Hit's the fust ginnywine coffee Tve
seed for three years.
"Well, sir, 1 won't undertake to say
that Bhe sat there all night and poured
hot coffee down her throat, because
slept like a top and don't know what she
did do but I'll agree to never tell the
trnth aguin if she wasn't sitting there
the next morning bunkered np over the
ashes and a-driuking away, and the first
thing I heard wub:
" "(Jinnywine o-o-f-f
"She stopped drinking long enough to
cook me some breakfast, and then i gave
her another quart of the green berries
and rode away The last 1 saw of her
she was making n fresh potful, and the
last words I beurd were:
Uoodby, stranger. Thank the Lord
fur ye oomin. Hit's the fust ginnywine
coffee I've seed in three years.'" Milton
Adkins in Yankee Blade.
Male. Oeflffrln'i Raabaint. 1
Mme. (ieoffrin married, at the age of
fourteen. M. Geoffrin, a wealthy glass
manufacturer and lieutenant colonel of
the National Guard. His doty as hus
band seems to bave been to provide the
funds for her social campaigns and to
watch over the details of the menage. It
is related of bim that some person gave
him a history to read, and when he asked
for the successive volumes, regularly
palmed off upon him the1 first, as if it
were new. At Inst he was heard to say
that he thought the author "repeated
himself a little."
Abookprnted In double columns he
read straight across the page, remarking
that "itsoemed to be very good, but was
rather abstract." One day a visitor in
curred after the silent, white haired old
gentleman who was in the habit of sit
ting at the head of the table. "Oh, he
was my husband," replied Mme. Geoff
rin, "before he died." San Francisco
Argonaut
HOW WB OHOW OLD.
The thread that binds us to life Is mwt fre
quently severed ere the meridian of life U
reaisneu in toe uanv 01 penum, wno neglect ou
vioiiB means to renew (ailing strength. Vigor,
no less the source of happiness than the condi
tion of long life, can bo created and perpetuated
where It does not exist '1 housands who have
experienced or are cognizant including many
pnysicinns oi cimneice-i tne cnects oi uos
telter's Stomach Bitters bear testimony to its
wondrous citicacy as a creator of strength in
feeble constitutions and debilitated and shat
tered systems. A steady performance of the
bodily functions, rt-newed appetite, flesh and
nightly repose attend the use of this thorough
and standard recovant. Use no h.cal tonic rep
resented to be akin to or resemble It In effects
in Its place. Demand the genuine, which is an
acknowledged remedy for indigestion, malaria,
nervonsnoss, constipation, liver and kidney
oompiauiM ami rneumatism.
Scallop! In Maine.
A He scallop from Mount Desert has a
diameter of nine inches, and the edible
portion will weigh ten ounces. How
long the scallop takes to grow before
reaching maturity does not seem to oe
known, bnt it is believed to be of age at
its fifteenth year. The mollusk, with
other pectens, is not chained like the
oyster to the rock, it enjoys locomotion.
-New lovk Times.
Wbv One's Stneilera Are Useful.
Amone some of the Malay tribes any
man who may suddenly meet a relative
or intimate friend greets him by snuff
ing ail around him, very much as a big
bouse dog might do with a strange
visitor. David Ker tn New York Epoch.
THE 11EST OF REASONS.
Emma What's that noisef It sounds as If
they were pounding beefsteak. Jane You
guessed right, but we always speak of the per
formanee here as tendering a banquet.
100 REWARD, SHOO.
The readers of this naoer will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure tn all Its
stages, and that Is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
is tne only positive cure now Known u tne roea
ical fraternity. Catarrh, being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treatment.
Hsll's Catarrh ure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing Its work. The proprietors have
so much faith in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It
tails to cure. Sena tor list oi testimonials, aq-
dress F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O.
JPSP Bold by DruggUUi; 75 cents.
PRINTERS
AND
llBIiISHEHS
-WILL FIND A FULL LINE OF
TYPE
V
Presses,
tinting Material and Machinery
For wle at lowest price nd mort advantageon
verms m ,
aimer &ReyTypeFoundry9
Cor. Front and Aider Streets,
PORTLAND, OR.
Write for nrloei and termi before baying else
where.
Dae EmuaeUiie Btove Poliih ; no dtift, do unell.
Tar 0 mme a for breakfast.
The reaBon why Allcoci'b Pobous Plab-
TKBfi are popular is that they may be relied
on to cure:
1, Lamo back, sciatica, BtiffneBfiortwikh-
ing of the muBcleB,
2. Ghent troubles, Buoh as pleurisy, pneu
monia, ooiiHumption.
a. inaigeaiKm, dyspepsia, imiousnwB,
kirinev ftomDlaint.
The BUcceHB, however, will depend upon
the erenuineneKB of the plaster uned. The
popularity of Allcock'b Poboob Plasters
nas been bo great inai muuiiuues ui imiw ;
tions have sprung up on every hand. The
only Bure cure is to get the genuine All-
OOrK'B rOHOTJB rLATKBa.
Brandbktu 6 Pilu improve tne diges
tion, "Oh, dnarl" (troaned a buiitc manajrer one
mornliiK an lie tore ytenlay'B leuf off the nW
matinc In his private otlioe, " another coupon off
my Life goiter
My Health is Solid
Ai a dnclfi foot In the
mud, thanks to Bood'g
Saraaparllla, 1 was
formerly in a wretched
condition, with Uravl
and Ind street! on.
Couldn't eat alhiiiR that
would stay on my
aUimHoh. X beRnn to
take Hood's SarsaiinriUa
and found it did me
Eod. Ho 1 kentoti till I
Imve taken lourtet'U bot
tled and I am perfectly
enred." Frbok. KiaNraau, 64 Bo. Carpenter
Direct, Chicago, 111.
PURELY VEGETABLE
Dr. Pieroa's Pleas
ant Polio ta. They're
a compound of re
fined and concen
trated botanical ex-
'tracts. These tiny,
sugar-coated pellets
the smallest and
the easiest to take
absolutely ana
permanently core
Constipation, Indi
gestion, Sick and Bilious Headaches, Dizzi
ness, Bilious Attacks, and all derangement!
of the liver, stomach, and bowels.
They cure permanently, because tiiey act
naturally. Tbey don't shock and weaken
the system, like the huge, old-fashioned
Sills. And they're more effective. One
ttle pellet for a corrective or laxative
toree lor a cacnaruc
They're the cheapest pills yon can buy, for
they're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or
your money is returned.
Yon pay only for the good you gel
f'r. r
I " .
'4 4
III neururit the number of VlsitorB at
wv ih Worlri'H Fair. Purtiftiilars
and onr treatieon Prevention.
and Cure of private Male anaFnn
remain aiNfiHrjefs rui msiil t
Agenta wanted. Standard Remedy Co., 8eattle.
$3
SOCIETY
Hood'. Pills cure all liver ills, biliousness,
Jauudi.e.Tudiguitlou, sick headache. 250.
Odd Definitions.
"What would have happened if Henry
IT of France had not been murdered?'
asked a teacher of a sharp looking boy
The prompt reply was, "He would prob
ably have died a natural death. " In a Sun
day school the question, "What did the
Israelites do when they oame out of the
Red scar drew forth the answer, "They
dried themselves.'' -
Stability was recently defined as "the
cleaning up of a stable. " "What comes
next to man in the scale of being?" in-
quired an examiner. "His shirt, was
the reply. Asked to give tne distinction
if any, between a fort and a fortress, a
boy nicely denned them, "A fort Is a
place to pnt men in, and a fortress is a
place to pnt women In.
A teacher asked a very juvenile class
which of them bad ever seen a magnet
A sharp urchin at once said he bad seen
lots of them. "Wherer asked the teach
er, sarprisod at his proficiency. "In the
cheese." Being asked what conscience
was, a boy replied, "An Inward monl
tor." Asked what a monitor meant, the
ready answer was, "An Ironclad vessel.
-Loudon Tit-Bits.
tSots,
COotS.,:
tl.OOiw Bottle?
Ooeoenta
Tins Orsat Oouob
V Jl W.T. ...W..RV4lI
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EK, Leading Jew
eler of the Pacific
Horth west, kee pea
large stock of all
SECRET SOCIETY
BA1H.E on nana.
Best xoods at low
est figures. Badges
maae to oraer,
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Soothing
FOR CHILDREN TEETHING
Fr ! 47 all lrrfflU. 6 Cato Iwttta.
luKH DromDtly cures
here all others faiL Cougha, Croup. Sore
Throat, HoaraeoHs, wboopinsr wougn ana
Aathma. For Consumption it has no rival:
has cured thousands, and will CURB TOD If
takenintlme. Bold by Druggists on a guar
antee. For a Lame Baok or Chost, use
8HiLOH'8 BELLADONNA FLASTER-BiQ.
CHILOH'SACATARRH
Have you (JutArrhr This remedy lfl fruarart-
teedtoeureyou. raocsucta, injector iree.
Wound by felie Sun.
A clock l to be seen at Brussels which
comes as near to being a perpetual mo
tion machine as 1b likely ever to be in
vented; for the sun does the winding.
A shaft exposed to the solar rays
oauses an up draft of air, which sets
fan in motion. The fan acts upon
mechanism which raises the weight of
the dock until it reaches the top, and
then puts a brake on the fan till the
weight has gone down a little, when the
fan is again liberated, and proceeds to
act as before.
As long as the sun shines frequently
enough, and the machinery does not
wear oat, the dock will keep going.-
"German
Syrup"
ResrisTeblanc is irench Can
dian store keeper at Notre Dame de
Stanbridge, Quebec, Can., who was
cured of a severe attack of Congest
ion of the Lungs'by Boschee's Ger
man Syrup. He has sold many a
bottle of German Syrup on his per
sonal recommendation. If you drop
him a line he'll give you the full
facts of the case direct, as he did us,
and that Boschee's German Syrup
brought him through nicely. It
always will. It is a good medicine
and thorough in its work.
11
lit
Fishing Tackle.
tn.fi
6
l.ro
2M
Oregon Trout Files, per do
Benn'B Files, per dot ......
Split Bamboo Rods, each
aem oy mail on receipt oi price.
THE H. T. HUDSON ARMS CO.,
Portland, Oregon.
Catalogues on application.
Brooklyn Hotel
201-212 Bosh St., Sag Francisco.
This favorite hotel is under the management
of CHARLES MONTGOMERY, and is as good it
livi (.lit; uroi r auiu ctuu uubiuubb iucu a u.um
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Home Comforts! Cuisine Uneicelledl
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aay
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uui
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ternal remedy. Cures wheu everyUilng else
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DROPSY
TRKATinn FRvne.
Posltlv ly Cured with VoBUbl KmeilM
Have anted tho awn da of oaeea. Cure oaaes pro
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-WHERE DIRT GATHERS, WASTE RULES."
GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF
SAPOLIO
RHEUMATISM CURED BT THE USE OF
Ftloore's Revealed Remedy.
VHtJUII, HIUM, IWl.HW.lW UWUI. NUM. H IH U. OS
MOORE'S REVEALED REMEDY my husband was relieved Irom an old ease ol
RHKUMATIHM and mv roundest boy cured ennrely of INFLAMMATORY RUED-
juuifua iroea us osn aoowr . uuuw set uu aim no gooa.
n aratt
MRS, , V. REEL.
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