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EMINENT CHINESE WHO WILL HAVE PART IN GREAT WAR IMPENDING IN FLOWERY KINGDOM K CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. 3eneral Resume o f Important Eventa Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readera. Taft urges California women to use the bailot. now that they have won it. Henry Hona, a laborer, completed a walk from Jersey City, N. J., to San Francisco, in 71 days. The Wright Brothers are working on a new type o f aeroplane, safety being the first consideration. PEKIN IN TERROR; REBELS ADVANCE The Panama canal commission pre diets the early opening o f the canal and urges congress to fix tolls. A woman agent has been sent by the government to study the price of foodstuffs in Portland markets. Birth of New Republic Declared in Wuchang. Sixty-five thousand Chinese rebels are marching to meet the imperial troops, being sent against them. Suffragists trailed a candidate for governor o f Massachusetts through five towns and broke up his meetings. Revolutionist Forces en Route to Meet Imperial T roop«--F ore ig n Consuls Notified. London—A dispatch from Shanghai to the Central News says that a re public has been declared at Wuchang and that the rebel leader at Hankow has notified foreign consuls that a new government has been established. The rebellion is spreading rapidly. Formidable outbreaks have been re ported at Tientsin and Paotingfu, and similar outbreaks are expected at any moment at Canton and Nanking. The authorities at Pekin are in a panic. A strong force o f rebels has left Hankow to meet the imperial troops from the north. The rebels have commandeered trains and forced terrified engineers to take them where they demanded to go. Revolution Nears Capital. Pekin— With a revolution nearing the gates o f Pekin, the government has partly abandoned its efforts to minimize the situation, and it now ad mits not only that the republican up rising has gone beyond the confines of the more central provinces, but that the entire imperial army is honey combed with disaffection. Not a di vision is absolutely to be trusted, it is said in Pekin. The revolutionists are well organ ized and have formally proclaimed the republic. It is reported here that the president chosen is Li Yuen Hung, lieutenant commander o f the new im perial army, though it is believed that if this is so his election is temporary. Dr. Sun Yat Sen is still reganled as the man who eventually will have the place. Dr. Sen was reported to be in the United States recently, but is said by some to have returned to China, by way of Singapore, which for some time past has been headquarters for the revolutionists. Hankow has been ravaged by out laws, who are not connected with the revolution, and the revolutionary authorities are making every effort to restore order. The announcement was promulgated officially that rioters caught in acts o f lawlessness will be dealt with summarily. The revolu tionary army is strongly entrenched and it is the policy o f the heads of the movement to give protection to foreign ers o f all nationalities, hoping thereby to demonstrate that they have the situ ation in hand and to win sympathy from abroad. It is no secret here that the dynasty is regarded with more or less contempt by the repre sentatives of other governents, and the consuls are continuing their policy o f insisting upon strict neutrality. The rebels are under command of General Li Tuan Hong, who is an ac complished military strategist, and are otherwise well officered, despite reports to the contrary circulated by the government. Above (L e ft I» Might >, M inister o f W a r Y ln -C h u n g , Prince T n a l-F n , o f the Im - perlul G uard«} Prince Twal-Hunn, M ln la ter o f the N nvyj Prince Taal July Pre«l<1ent o f the W a r C o lle g e ; Pr lace Taal T ao, C om m ander Im p eria l (suardm llu k c Lin, o f the Im p erial G u ard ai Prince Pu and A d m iral Tauy V ic e -M in iste r o f the N a v y — llr lo w , L a r g e r P ictures o f G eneral F u and Prince Taal Ilnur» and P ortrait o f Prince T a a l Claun- ELECTRIC TRUST BEATEN. Big Monopoly Can No Longer Dictate Retail Prices. Washington, D. C.— By the sweeping decree entered in the United States Circuit court at Toledo, the backbone of the so-called electrical trust was broken and in the judgment o f Attor ney General Wickersham the govern ment was equipped with precedents o f genuine value in its prosecutions of commercial combinations forbidden by the Sherman law. Meeting the government's charge that the trust controlled the lamp business of the country, regulating by agreement prices at which all lamps were sold, the decree severs all con nection between the General Electric company and the National Electric Lamp company. The latter concern and all its subsidiaries are ordered diBSovled. The important principle was laid down, according to the attorney gen eral, that once a lamp is sold by a manufacturer, the price at which it is resold by a dealer or jobber must be open to free competition. The decree was acquiesced in by the defendant companies and this gives the govern ment the moral certainty that there will be no appeal. After the Supreme court’s decision in the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases, Mr. Wickersham Haid, the electrical companies ex pressed a willingness to withdraw their original answers and submit to a decree, Mr. Wickersham added: "T he National Lamp company and all its subsidiary companies are or dered to be dissolved, and the General Electric compuny is forbidden hereaf ter to conduct any business in the manufacture or Bale of electric lamps except in its own name. The practice of fixing the retail price on any style o f lamp is hereafter forbidden. "T he method by which competition in unpatented articles has been sup pressed through the use of a patented article is declared to be unlawful and is forbidden. The practice consisted in a system of contracts with dealers, jobbers and consumers by which they were compelled to agree to purchase from defendants all their supply of carbon lamps on which the patent had expired, as a condition to the right to purchaae certain lamps known to the trade as tungsten, tantalum and metal- ized filament lamps, which are patent ed, it is still asserted. "B y means o f aggregating dis counts on lamps claimed to be patent ed with discounts on lamps not patent ed, another weapon was used to sup press competition in unpatented lamps. “ Both these practices had the effect o f continuing a monopoly on an aritcle long after the patent had expired, by tieing up its sale with a patented arti cle which the trade required. Women "Gloriously Happy.” New York—The National headquar ters o f the woman suffrage organiza tion are in gala dress over the news of the victory in California. “ We are gloriously happy," declared Dr. Anna Shaw, national president of the suf frage party. This is the beginning of the end. The victory in California gives to the cause as many voters as in the five other states where we Fruit Fly Real Menace. have previously won. Kansas, Ore Sacramento— In an effort to prevent gon and other Western states are the Mediterranean fruit fly from en bound to follow the lead at the next tering California, State Horticultural election.” Commissioner Jeffery has cabled a quarantine order to Honolulu directing Cadet Candidates Unfit. that no bananas or pineapples shipped Washington, D. C.— Legislation au to California until a method o f pack thorizing the president to appoint four ing which shall insure that no pest is senators and representatives to nomi carried in the wrapping ia adopted. nate candidates for admission to the The reports brought back by E. K. West Point military academy, and a Cranes, superintendent of the State $3,000,000 appropriation for complet inseetary, who returned from the is ing buildings there, is recommended, lands recently, indicated that atrin- and admission of foreign students to gent precautions are necessary. West Point strongly disapproved, in the annual report o f Major-General Schooner Olson Lost. Thomas H. Barry, suerintendent. Gen San Francisco — The four-masted eral Harry complains that many of the schooner Oliver J. Olson, lumber laden candidates this year were totally unfit from Gray's Harbor to Guayamas, was to pass examinations. Mown ashore at Cap«1 Kalso, Lower California, during the recent hurri •1,000.000 in Gold Coming. cane in Southern waters, according to Nome — The steamship Victoria, advices received here by the owners, which sailed for Seattle Tuesday, with Olson & Mahony, of this city. Captain 600 passengers, has more than $1,000,- C. W. Stream and his crew o f 10 men 000 in treasure aboard. The gold is escaped, hut the vessel is a total loss. the output o f several mines in the The schooner encountered the same Seward Peninsula district and is the storm which forced the Panama liner second large shipment sent to Seattle City o f Panama, to return to this port within the last few days. Two more to refit. steamships are to sail for the states before navigation in Bering Sea is Fisher Appoints Brooks. closed, and it is expected that they Washington, D. C.- Secretary of will carry large amounts of treasure. the Interior Fisher has selected Alfred H. Brooks, for ten years geologist in Bomb-Dropping Aeroa to Be Tasted charge o f all work in Alaska, to suc Rome- Four aeroplanes have arriv ceed A. Willard Hayes as geologist in The ed here from France. They will be chief o f the geological survey. sent to Tripoli, where it is proposed appointment will he made immediate to make experiments in the use of Hy ly upon the arrival here o f Mr. Brooks, Mr. ing machines in actual warfare. They who is returning from Alaska. will be piloted by Italian officers, who Brooks ia a native o f Michigan an«1 will undertake to drop bomba into the haa been in the geological service of the government IS years. enemy's encampment Promoters o f the Pacific highway from Oregon and California met and exchanged greetings in the Siskiyou mountains. Mexican Federal troops surrounded a force o f Zapatist rebels and killed over 200 of them, wounding and cap turing several hundred more. The captain and third officer o f the steamer Santa Rosa, wrecked off the California coast in July last, have Dr. Wiley Begins Inquiry Into Ingred been suspended for 12 months. ients Used. An alleged plot to dynamite a rail Washington, D. C.— An order for road bridge in Southern California the immediate consideration o f the just before the presidential train was perplexing questions, “ What is beer?” due, was frustrated by a watchman. “ What is vinegar?” and "W hat is a The Chinese rebellion is growing soft drink?" was passed by the board and seems to be well directed and well of food and drug inspection at a meet financed ing in the office of Dr. Harvey W. Arbuckle will make war on the sug Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemis try and chairman o f the board. The ar duty, declaring it only helps the three problems have been under con beet sugar interests. sideration nearly two years, but mem A tremendous submarine landslide bers o f the board have been unable to is believed to have caused the recent agree. Vinegar will be the first sub break in the Alaska cable. ject considered by the board. Hear Italy is rapidly landing troops at ings have been held on the subject of pure beer, vinegar and soft drinks. Tripoli and will proceed against the It is the contention o f Dr. Wiley that Turkish forces in the surrounding pure vinegar should be made only country. from cider, and that vinegars made The Great Northern railroad ex from malt, sugar, molasses, wine and new construction and other ingredients should not be brand pended for ed as " pure vinegar. ” Dr. Doolittle equipment the last year, $6,404,037.- 83, the largest sum ever expended in is said to hold similar views. Action against “ soft drinks" sold one year for that purpose. from soda fountains will be taken. A tidal wave leaped the sea wall at The government police power will Guayamas, Mexico, causing several give Dr. Wiley the opportunity to deaths and immense damage. enforce his rulings in Washington by T aft’s car looked like a florist’s confiscating impure drinks at local shop when he left Oregon and his soda fountains. "T he pure soft drink should contain voice was husky with speechmaking. only a pure fruit extract, sugar, spice Late returns from the California and pure w ater," said Dr. Wiley. election changed indications and mako " I f I had my way, no other soft it practically certain that woman drinks would be permitted on the mar suffrage has carried. ket.” _________________ Vice President Sherman severely CORN CROP WILL BE SHORT. rapped Pinchot’s conservation ideas in a speech at the opening of a new mu Flax Only Leading Staple to Show nicipal power plant at Sturgis, Mich. Increase Over I9IO. PORTLAND MARKETS. Washington, D. C.—The govern ment's crop report estimates that corn W heat— Export basis: Biuestem, will yield 256,000,000 bushels less than last year and that flax is the only 88«/85c; club, 80<irt81c; red Russian, important crop to show a greater har 79(«j80c; valley, 80ftz)81c; forty-fold, 80C<D81c. vest than in 1910. Millstuffs — Bran, $24.600(25 per Official preliminary estimates o f ton; middlings, $32; shorts, $25.500/ production of crops follows: 26; rolled barley, $33.50(8)34.50. C rop 1911 1910 Sprlnir W h e a t................... 200.SS7.000 231.999.000 Corn— Whole, $33; cracked $34 ton. W in ter W h e a t.................. 45S.149.000 4S4.044.S00. Barley— New feed, $320$32.50 per A ll W h e a t.......................... «55.616.000 696,443.000 O u ts.................................... S73.4S1.000 1,120.765.000 ton; brewing, $37. H arley.................................. 146.951,000 162.227.000 Oats— No. 1 white, $300/31 per ton. Ity e ....................................... .'10.677.000 33.089.000 Hay ( t o n s ) .......................... 46.S94.I3I0 60.97S.000 Hay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim The indicated total production of othy, $170/18; No. 1 valley, $150016; $12.50; clover, $100011; important crops not yet harvested, as alfalfa, shown by the condition on ^October 1, grain hay, $110/112. Poultry— Hens, 14c; springs, 14c; follows: ducks, young, 150016c; turkeys, 18(3 1911 C rop 1910 C o r n .......................... . 17W .3 48 .20 0 1126.718.000 22c. 17.239.000 H u c k w h r a t ............ .......... 16.WB.600 Butter — Oregon creamery, solid 838.811.000 P o ta to * «................. ........ 278.561.000 T o b acco (llm ) __ ........ 716.641620 984.349.000 pack, 33c; prints, extra. 14.116.000 Flax .................... ........ 24.046,400 Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, 24.610.000 H ie« ............................ 22.682.400 340036c per dozen. Revolutionist* Beheaded. Pork— Fancy, 9JOOlOc per pound. Hankow— Much firing is heard in Veal— Fancy, 13«/.134c per pound. the direction o f Wu Chang. Several Fresh Fruits — Peaches, 350065c large fires are seen. Twenty-eight box; plums, 600075c crate; prunes, Chinese revolutionists have been ar 2002Jc per pound; pears, 76c0/$1.76 rested at Wu Chang, which is the cap box; grapes, 86c00$1.25 per box; ap ital o f the province o f Hupeh. Four ples, $10/2.25 box; cranberries, $9.25 of them were beheaded in front o f the 00.9.60 per barrel; Casabas, $1.75 per viceroy’s yanien. The arrests and ex dozen. ecutions followed the discovery o f a Potatoes—Oregon, l j c per pound; revolutionary plot in the Russian con sweet potatoes, 2|c. cession here. A bomb was exploded, Onions—California, $1.25 hundred. whereupon a search revealed a factory Vegetables — Artichokes, 76c per for the manufacture of explosives and dozen; beans, 50010c; cabbages. Jot) a plan for an attack on Wu Chang. l j c pound; cauliflower, 75c«/$1.25 dozen; com, 26oz 30c dozen; cucum bers, $10/1.25 per sack; egg-plant, 6 Italy's Fleet to Attack. garlic, 100012c per Rome— It is officially asserted that (08c pound; Italy has notified the powers that she pound; lettuce, 400(85c per dozen; will send a fleet to attack Smyrna and hothouse lettuce, $1.25001.75 per Salonika if other massacres of Italians box; peppers, 5o(6c pound; radishes. should occur like those reported by 124 c dozen; sprouts, 8c per pound; to consuls to have taken place on the matoes, 40 (075c per b ox .; carrots, Hodjas railway on the boundary be $1.25 per sack; turnips, $1; beets, tween Syria and Egypt. The consul's $1.75. Hops— 1911 crop, 330i35c; olds, report stated that 30 Italian laborers were massacred at Kerak, Syria, dur nominal. W ool-- Eastern Oregon. 9(816c per ing October. General Valleric has been entrusted with the entire work o f or pound, according to shrinkage; val ganising the forces occupying Tripoli. ley, 16«/ 17c per pound; mohair, choice, 36^037c. The cost is estimated at $6,000,000. Cattle—Choice steers, $5.25«t.5.50; good, 96.1O06.SO; fair. $4.75(85; Navy Band Wrecked. San Francisco— Run down by a gas medium, $4.60«i4.75; poor, $3.76«t oline launch a cutter from the flagship 4.50; choice cows, $4.25(84.60; fair, California, o f the Pacific fleet, which $4(84.15; common, $2.50«/3.60; ex was returning to the ship with 36 tra choice spayed heifers $1.40«/4.60; members of the band aboard, was up choice heifers. $4.26(i/4.40; choice set in the bay and J. R. Charlie, one bulls. $3.50(83.76; good. $2.76(83; calves, o f the bandsmen, was drowned. Roats common. $2«t:2.50; choice from the fleet rescued all the other $7.26(87.50; good, $7«i7.75; com men. but their instruments, valued at mon, $4<86; choice stags, $4.50(8 several thousand dollars, were lost. 4.75; good, $4.25«t'4.50. Hogs— Choice light hogs, $7.400 The band had taken part in the recep 7.50; good to choice, $7«£7.25; fair, tion to President Taft at Oakland. $6.75«i7; common, $6«/6.50. Madaro la Conciliatory. Sheep — Choice yearling wethers, $3.25«z3.60; choice Mexico City Deairious apparently coarse wool, o f conciliating all factiona, F. I. Ma- yearling wethers, east o f mountains. $2.75*i3; dero has issued a manifesto declaring $3/(/3.25; choice ewes, he will accept for vice president any choice lambs, $3.76(34; choice year- to choice one op the three candidate«, even Dr. ings, $3.500/3.75; good iambs, $3.50(<l3.76; culls, $2.50(33. Gomel. WAR ON "S O F T DRINKS.” Courtship °l M iles Sta W ith Illu stration s by Howard Chandler Christy ( C opyrigh t, T h e B o b b j -M e r r i l l C o m p a n y) Sailing o f the M ayflow er Meekly, In voices subdued, the chap ter was read from the Bible, Meekly the prayer was begun, but ended In fervent entreaty! Then from their houses In haste came forth the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Men and women and children, all hur- rylng down* to the sea shore. Eager, with tearful eye6, to say fare well to the Mayflower, Homeward bound o’er the sea and leaving them here In the desert Just In the gray of the dawn, as the mists uprose from the meadows. There was a stir and a sound In the slumbering village of Plymouth: Clanging and clicking of arms, and the order imperative, "Forward!” Given In tone suppressed, a tramp of feet, and then silence. Foremost among them was Alden. Figures ten, In the mist, marched All night he had lain without slowly out of the village. slumber. Standish the stalwart It was, with Turning and tossing about In the heat eight of bis valorous army. and unrest of his fever. Led by their Indian guide, by Hobo- He had beheld Miles Standish, who came back late from the council. Stalking Into the room, and heard him mutter and murmur. Sometimes It seemed a prayer, and sometimes It sounded like swear ing. Once he had come to the bed, and stood there a moment In silence; Then he had turned away, and said: "1 will not wake him; Let him sleep on. It Is best; for what Is the use of more talking!” Then he extinguished the light, and threw himself down on hts pallet. Dressed as he was, and ready to start at the break of the morning,— Covered himself with the cloak he had worn In his campaigns In Flanders,— Slept as a soldier sleeps In bis bivouac, ready for action. But with the dawn he arosG; In the twilight Alden beheld him Put on his corselet of steel, and all the rest of his armor, Buckle about his waist his trusty blade of Damascus, Take from the corner his musket, and so stride out of the chamber. Often the heart of the youth had burned and yearned to embrace him. Take His Musket, and 8o Stride Out. Often his lips had essayed to speak. Imploring for pardon; mok, friend of the white men. All the old friendship came back, Northward marching to quell the sud with Its tender and grateful emo den revolt of the savage. tions; Giants they seemed In the mist, or the But his pride overmastered the nobler mighty men of King David; nature within him,— Giants In heart they were, who be Pride, and the sense of his wrong, lieved in God and the Bible,— and the burning fire of the Insult. Aye, who believed In the smiting of 9o he beheld his friend departing In Mldlanites and Philistines. anger, but spake not. Over them gleamed far off the crim son banners of morning; Under them loud on the sands, the serried billows, advancing, Fired along the line and In regular order retreated. Many a mile had they marched, when at length the village of Ply mouth Woke from Its sleep, and arose, In tent on Its manifold labors. Sweet was the air and soft; and slow ly the smoke from the chimneys Rose over roofs of thatch, and point ed steadily eastward; Men came forth from the doors, and paused and talked of the weather, Bald that the wind had changed, and was blowing fair for the May flower; Talked of their Captain's departure, and all the dangers that menaced, He being gone, the town, and what should be done In his absence. Merrily sang the birds, and the ten der voices of women Consecrated with hymns the common cares of the household. Out of the sea rose the sun, and the billows rejoiced at his coming; Beautiful were his feet on the pur ple tops of the mountains; Beautiful on the sails of the May flower riding at anchor. Battered and blackened and worn by all the storms of the winter. Loosely against her masts was hang ing and flapping her canvas. Rent by so many gales, and patched by the hands of the sailors. Suddenly from her side, as the eun rose over the ocean. Darted a puff of smoke, and floated seaward; anon rang Loud over field and forest the can non’s roar, and the echoes The Common Cares of the Household. 3aw hlnf go forth to danger, perhaps to death, and he spake not! Then he arose from his bed, and beard what the people were say ing. Joined in the talk at the door, with Stephen and Richard and Gilbert, Joined In the morning prayer, and In the reading of Scripture, And. with the others, in haste went hurrying down to the sea shore. Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had been to their feet as a doorstep Into a world unknown,—the corner stone of a nation! There with his boat was the Master, already a little Impatient Lest he should lose the tide, or the wind might shift to the eastward. Square built, hearty, and strong, with an odor of ocean about him. Speaking with this one and that, and cramming letters and parcels Into his pockets capacious, and mes sages mingled together Into his narrow brain, till at last be was wholly bewildered. Nearer the boat stood Alden. with one fool placed on the gunwale. One still flrra on the rock, and talking at times with the sailors. Seated erect on the thwarts, all ready and eager for starting. He. too. was eager to go. and thus put an end to his anguish. Thinking to fly from despair, that swifter thar keel Is or canvas. Thinking to drown In the sea the ghost that would rise and pursue him. , But as he gazed on the crowd, he be held the form of Priscilla . Standing dejected among them, uncon scious of all that was passing Fixed were her eyes upon hit. aa if she divined hts Intention. Fixed with a look so sad. so reproach ful. Imploring Xnd patient. That with a sudden revulsion bis Standing Dejected, Unconscious of All. heart recoiled from Its purpose. Heard and repeated the sound, the slg As from the verge of a crag, where one step more Is destruction. nal gun of departure! Ah! but with louder echoes replied Strange Is the b- art of man. with Us quick, mysterious Instincts! the hearts of the people! j Strange ts the life of man, and fatal or fated are moments, Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine! "Here I remain!" he exclaimed, as be looked at the heavens above him. Thanking the Lord whose breath bad scattered the mist and the mad ness. Wherein, blind and lost, to death he was staggering headlong. "Yonder snow-white cloud, that floats In the ether above me. Seems like a hand that Is pointing and beckoning over the ocean. There Is another hand, that Is not so spectral and ghost-Uke, Holding me, drawing me back, and clasping mine for protection. Float, O hand of cloud, and vanish away In the ether! Roll thyself up like a flat, to threaten and daunt me; I heed not Either your warning or menace, or any omen of evil! There Is no land so sacred, no air so pure and so wholesome. As Is the air she breathes, and the soil that Is pressed by her foot steps. Here for her sake will I stay, and like an Invisible presence Hover around her for ever, protecting, supporting her weakness; Yes! aa my foot was the first that stepped on this rock at the land ing. How Good You Have Been to Me. So, with the blessing of God, shall It be the last at the leaving I” Meanwhile the Master alert, but with dignified air and Important. Scanning with watchful eye the tide and the wind and the weather. Walked about on the sands; and the people crowded around him Saying a, few last words, and enforc ing his careful remembrance. Then, taking each by the hand, aa If he were grasping a tiller. Into the boat he sprang, and in haste shoved off to his vessel. Glad In his heart to get rid of all this worry and flurry. Glad to be gone from a land of sand and sickness and sorrow. Short allowance of victuals and plenty of nothing but Gospel I Lost In the sound of the oars was the last farewell of the Pilgrims. O strong hearts and true! not one went back In the Mayflower! No, not one looked back, who had set his hand to this plowing! Soon were heard on board ths shouts and songs of the sailors Heaving the windlass round, and hoisting the ponderous anchor. Then the yards were braced, and all ■ails set to the west wind. Blowing steady and strong; and the Mayflower sailed from the harbor. Rounded the point of the Gurnet, and leaving far to the southward Island and cape of sand, and the Field of the First Encounter. Took the wind on her quarter, and stood for the open Atlantic, Borne on the send of the sea, and the ■welling hearts of the Pilgrims. Long In silence they watched the re ceding sail of the vessel, Much endeared to them all, as some thing living and human; Then, as If filled with the spirit, and rapt In a vision prophetic, Baring his hoary head, the excellent Elder of Plymouth Said, "Let us pray!” and they prayed and thanked the Lord and took courage. Mournfully sobbed the waves at the base of the rock, and above them Bowed and whispered the wheat oa the hill of death, and their kin dred Seemed to awake In their graves, and to join In the prayer that they ut tered. Sun-Illumed and white, on the east ern verge of the octan Gleamed the departing sail, like a marble slab In a graveyard; Burled bei enth It lay for ever all hope of ascaping. Lo! as they turned to depart, they saw the form of an Indian, Watching them from the hill; but while they spake with each other. Pointing with outstretched hand., and saying. "Look!" he had vanished. So they returned to their homes; but Alden lingered a little. Musing alone on the shore, and watching the wash of the blilo'we Round the base of the rock, and the sparkle and flash of the sun shine. Like the spirit of Ood. moving visibly over the waters. (T O BE C O N T I N U E D .) T h e H id d e n P u rp o se . A young lieutenant from a New fork regiment surveyed /he Texas scenery gloomily and reflected upoe hi* great distance from the lights of Broadway. Tbs amoks from e smelt- ei and he swirling sand from the low lying hills bad spoiled (he lieutenant’s disposition ‘ Tell me." said an editor from HI Paeo. "isn’t there some hid den purpose behind this mobilization?” “There la." replied the lieutenant ‘We are aolng to force Mexico to taka pack Texan."
