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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1887)
walking raised a questton in my mind THE RIVAL LOVERS. ns I Io >k>d down ou her from niy posi tion on the ladder. It was solved by Story of a Thrilling Adventure on a the lime shj reachoil a wind >w. Sue House-Top. " put out ore of her little white hands and rested it on the window-sash. At The center of the main roof of the the same time the young man ex Ocean House is capped by an octago claimed, ‘Mi.s----- , Clara! What are * nal cupola or lantern. Inside it is a you doing?' “She made no answer, and he large room, with eight windows ex Vending from floor to ceiHng. --You ac- sprang toward her. “ •Clara!' he cried, in an anxious «ainpauja the cur ot the elevator as far as it goes in its upward j »urney, and manner, ■wbat is it? Why did yon then there are several precipitous come up here so late? Let me assist flights of stairs to be climbed. Once you down, please.* “She turned toward him. and a sud tip, and you are well repaid for your trouble by the glorious outlook over den change came over her faoe. It land and sea. All Newport lies at was one of confusion and surprize. I don't know how you would describe your feet In old times the cupola was a favor It . •• ‘Where am I?’ she cried, and then ite resort for newly-married coupl e. They used to get themselves out of she gazed about the cupola In estrange breath scaling the steep stairs, and sort of way. Before the other person then they would sit by the windows oohld speak she rushed into his arms, gazing forth, mooning and spooning .which were quickly outstretohed to catch her. The pretty llttje blonde by the hour. - The other evening a trip was made was a somnambulist. •• T threw myself on the bod. and to the cupola to ascertain if possible the whereabouts of the becalmed must have fallen asleep,' she said, ex yaohta that were sailing or drifting for citedly. “"The gentleman—for he behaved the Citizens' cup. The octagonal room was deserted save by the presence of a like an honorable fellow through it miiddio-aged man of powerful propor all—endeavored to sooth her and per tions, who sat in a cane-chair gazing suaded her to go down to the lower toward the sea, occasionally refresh regions, but she grew hysterical and ing liis visual powers by a peek he could do nothing with her. “.‘I saw you gc up the stairs as I through a binocular glass. Conversa tion arose over the probabilities of the was going to my room,' he said. 'I termination of the race, and one topic cpuld not understand why you went led to another until the stranger ob Up toward the cupola, and I followed you. Thank God. I did, Com'e below, served: ' •This is my fii*t visit to Newport ih Clara. Do come.’ "She answered him by a nervous many years. I came here to the cupola es soon after my arrival as possiblo, sort of laugh. In anothqrJflSMuit there for the place possesses a strange intcr- was the sound of some one rushing up the ladder, and tire othor-ftdmirer, his .-est to me. ” There is nothing wildly fascinating faoe furio„s with passion, sprang into about the bare, plastered, cobwebby the cupola. .He shouted out: “ ‘Miss all is over between you " octagon, and the speaker's manner implied that lhe varied landscape did and me. Any girl who will moot a not attract him. Ils was, therefore, man in thia piece al this lime of night asked what was the particular»attrac can't be my wife, As for you, sir, you tion lliat gave rise to his desire for an must settle with me foryour conduct.’ Then he jumped oh the other fellow immediate visit “I saw something up here that wdhld like a tiger. I could tell by his utter make j'our hair stand.” he replied. ance that he was full of champagne “It was my first visit, to the town; and and that lie was crazed with, jealousy. “The »fury of that onset neariy I passed several weeks at lliis hotel. I found out tho capita, and I enjoyed threw the attacked party to the floor, climbing Up—there was no elevator byt ho struggled in solf-defonse,'and then—to look off into the moonlight the two were locked in a moment in a sort of catch-as-catch-can embrace. wlsilo I smoked. ‘Ono night I had an adventure The giri was dazed at first, and then which I will never forget. Neither she gave a little cry and sank on the .would you if you had taken part in it. floor in a ¿Lead faint. The young men. Do you see that ladder?” lie exclaimed, who were too much engaged to notice pointing to an unpainted stair to a me, charged and floundered about the trap-floor in lhe roof used to reach the cupola like two dogs in a fight. It halyards of the flagstaff on the top of was rough and tumble, hit"and gouge the cupola. “Well, something pos on the part of tile assailant, and resist sessed me to climb up there and look as best he might on tho part of the otlior. offlhe top of the lantern. The night The two got on their feet, whon a sudden was close and sultry, and all pf these idea seemed to seizo tho furious young windows were open, with nothing to man, who was frantic with excite prevent any one from walking directly ment. Get! Ing a fresh hold, ho dragged out unless they had a care. Observe his rival toward the open window what a dosoent there is! Tho long, which looks down on that steep roof steep roof has nothing ou it to prevent of the L’ there, a “ Out you go!’ ho said, as he panted ■ one from sliding with terrible speed to the edge, and then tire fall to tiro earth' dram the violence of his exertion. “Noitherone of the pair was what would be at least eighty feet. “I wont up to the trap-door and you would call powerful. The fellow ton id it fastened. Ritiirning slowly who was assailed, especially, was like down the ladder, and pausing when many other city young mon of the down a little way to take a few whiffs time; lie was better fitted for a. waltz of my cigar. I saw something in white than such a contest. The other was coming up tho flight of stairs loading clearly stronger, and his rage made to the cupola from the attic story be him overwhelmingly so. Quicker than low. The time was past midnight; I am telling you of what they did, he and tho moon was obscured by clouds, had jerked the weaker one to the win to that every thing was indistiuct, but dow. *“Out you go!1 fro again exetatmod. I was enabled tb determine* that the while object was a woman, and that I The other one. who was pretty well bad often seen her face about the house winded, grasped lhe side of the win during my stay. Site moved nolseloss- dow casing there and held on, strug ty along and approached one of the gling hard to prevent his grasp being •»pen windows and stood loaning her torn away. But it was useless, and in another moment he would have gone bead against the frame on the side. out, to stop only when he reached tho "I felt myself in an awkward posi ground of the back yard, away down tion. I did not like to make a there. noise for fear I might startle tire young “I had watched the whole affair with lady, and the thought flashed across a strange fascination. I had kept iny mind that she would be terribly quiet until the time had come whon I frightened and, perhaps, fall out of the could do so no longer. I sat on that window. So I concluded to keep quiot ■until she moved away from I ho <1 vigor stop up voider. It is about eight' or nine feet above the floor. I gave a ous spot before speaking to apprise her leap as I sAw the hold of the young -of my preaonco and going down, leav fellow give away. I landed witti a ing hur in full possession of the cupola. crash on the boards at the foot of the Shy was in full evening dress of white ladder and seized the lunatic around muslin, or something of tho kind, and the waist The next thing he knew there were sonio disarranged flowers was that he was on the floor on the In her light hair. She was ex- opposite side of the cupola. I am pret tremely delicate, of the pale ty strong now but then I was able to typo with a blonde little have handled two or three such fel red spot on cither cheek, but she had lows. been very gay during her stay at the “As I stood over him I said: Tf bolol, mid the men about the house called her the prettiest girl of the sea you stir I will throw you out!’ and then 1 turned to the other. He half won. There were two young men in leaned against the window, with one constant attendance on her. One was from the South somewhere, and the hand pressed over hl« heart “ ‘Pray take her up!’ was all he yarn in circulation was that he was could utter, so exhausted was he. engaged to her. The other admirer "I picked Qp the girl, and, telling was a good-looking fellow from New the crazy man that if he stirred from York. I beliovo. ••The girl remained by the window the spot from which he had picked but a few minutes when I heard foot himself up I would pound the life out of him, I motioned to the other one to steps on the stairs, and the young'man who was not regarded as the accepted go ahead and lifted the sleep-walker lover emerged through the opening. to the stairway. It wu bard work to Me was in evening dress and held a get her down, but we carried her to pair of white kid glovos in one hand. her friend« I saw the young man He was about to speak whon the girl safely in his room. On the floor be slowly left the window and passed neath I met the jealous lover. He was across the cupola toward the opposite sobered by the shaking I gayo sida Some thing in her method of and having had time to cool off scU what no nan enaeavorea to an. He attempted to explain and to apolo gise, but I let him off by telling him lliat 1 would have him arrested If he did not get out of town in the morn ing. When I got to my room it, was just two o’clock.” There was a long pause after the narrator ceased. Finally the question was asxeat g “Wnat Became ot mein aHP DAI the girl marry either one?” “I "believe she was consumptive." was the response. "No; she died a year or so afterward.”— Newport IM- . ter, in N. Y. Herald. SUBSTANTIAL fOOO- PERSONAL ANO IM —Tha violinist. August Ca«M ot t«» ’ t ari» Consumati«« ài bas rented his luuch-admired MnU by Hard-Worblus Maa. the Rhine for a numbet of I well remember how the sen will take up his permanent and thrifty New England people am in Berlin. whom my boyhood was spent used _ Dr. Jessup, of the British talk about ' hearty victuals." and iatlon, says that the _________ prevalent were the doctrines that -heeled shoes so alters th« hard-working man wants real hearty vity as to cause a retuni food," “and that children ought to f ••tailless apes, who have hearty food, but not too hearty.” babit With these eminently orthodox tenets their •ed, of Ocals, Fla., J the science of nutrition in its newest -Dr. .Baltimore XclwrhJ developments is in fullest accord. B it August 23, 177jJ there always used to be an unsatisfac copy of and advertii««J tory vaguoness about them. I never Journal da SOME ODD 1UHNOU1S. • o“**®! oould make out exactly what were is a graphic Ships of the Desert with Deeldedl/ Out- “hearty” foods, and in just what their George wflMM e finest ufi thousand aoraa ■■«Utah Vehlelee In Tow. rid and ii;J heartinoss consisted. It baa since oc At the time of my longest cruise curred to me that these words express «st land In CM W. Vs. 1 among th« West Indian islands, I spent one of the ideas which the unerring ths Kanawha Vai enta of several weeks in Barbadoes and found sense and instinct of man have wrought —Recent that private enterprise had established out of his long experience, but have fins show that in its queer little toy capital, Bridge waited for scienco to put into clear and Roman oould not ha town, a small omnibus which plied definite form. The’ synonym with five feet five inch along the sltoce road between the town which our science defines this idea is of Cleopatra me and a favorite bathing place a few energy. Hearty foods are those in Inches. Within the miles boyend it, sheltered by a friend which there is an abundance of poten years the height of the ly coral reef from the embarrassing at racy has considerably i«i tial energy. tentions of {he sharks. A very pict —Chauncey M. De The lumbermen in the Maine forests uresque turnout it was, woll worthy of work intensely in the cold and snows ceived a couple of band that plucky little islet, which, accord of winter and in lhe icy wnter in the vases from the French ing to Captain Marryat, announced in spring. To endure the seyere Inbor recognition of his the crisis of the N'apoleonio war that and cold, they must have food to yield Bartholdi statue celebri “if all de world fight against England, a great deal of * heat and strength. graceful complimont for England nebber fear so long as Bar Beans and fat pork are staple articles orator on that occasion, badoes ’tand -tiff.” The negro driver, of diet with them, and are used in very quisite specimens of wo with his smart suit of navy blue, his large quantities. The beans supply —“One of the droll shining "stove-pipe” hat, his magnifi protein to make up for the jjjear and things,” writes a London cent show of white teeth, and his tear of mnsclfl!‘flflfl(t'ihey, and more ent, "is a statement by cheery shout of “Here, John, ear.” especially tire pork, are very rich in that many years ago he le would have made a choice study for energy to be used for warmth and work. paintings seven feet high any painter. But for some reason or I .can not vouch for lhe following, size figures of young other the venture' did not pay, and I which lias just struck my eye in a daily sentry duty on a cliff, a: have since heard that it has been paper, but, if it is true, the workmon it not been returned, b abandoned. were sound in their physiology.* able to remember whom he Even more picturesque, though in a "A, lot of wood-choppers who worked —While Mrs. Shepherd, widely different style, was tirepeculiar for Mr. S—in H — shopped work conveyance which wo found, in oper tire other day, and sent a spokesman to William II. Vanderbilt, ation in the streets of Allahabad dur their employer, who said that tho men Francisco she di nod at a fan ing our journey through -Northern "wertT satisfied with“ ItieTr wages'and restaurant. ^Birds’ nest so fins and «mperor’s tea we Indht to Afghanistan. Even for India most other things, but did like~*ybur the high-priced dainties it was a deadly outlandish affair. One fresh meat; that’s too fancy, andhain’t especially rulishéd. She bo can fancy wbat a crowd would be cob got strength into it' .Mr. S----- gave tea of that brand the res looted in Broadway by the first them Balt pork three times a day, and bad, the price being sev glimpse of a two-storied omnibus with peace at once resumed its sway." pound. its upper coinpartmeut filled with Tho usp of "oily and fatty foods in —The famdus English "bo bifliwn-faced Hindoos, arrayed in all arctic regions is explained by the great colors of the rainbow, and piloted by a Mr. Hutton, who died recentl potential energy of fat, a pound of chocolate-com plexioned driver in learning. He neither “ which is equal to over two pounds of blue turban, long, whiton-i robe, and hospitals” nor ever learned t protein or starch. I have been greatly crimson sash. But as if an this t were of all the crevices in the hum surprised to see, on looking into the not enough, this singular vehicle was ton. If lie had had all tire . matter, how commonly and largely the drawn by neither horse nor mule,- but fatter kinds of meat are used by men the‘human body thrown don by a genuine Bactrian caynel. whose engaged in very hal'd labor. Men in ' him. he would have been at gi huge ridgy back reached almost as IrHininsJor al h le t i e con tests, a s pa l 's- to arrangetfhem tn order. Y< high aslhe top of the double-tier car mon frvrrd foot-ball teams, eat largo men sent patients with disidt which *íie drew.'“ Tire sight of the quantities of meat I have often him. camel as a beast of draft was not, in —C. N. Fain, of Carrollton. deed, wholly new to mo, for in crossing queried why so much fat beef is used, In his possession the inaugure tire deserts of central Tartary duiing and. especially why mutton is often delivered by ex-President Poll , the Khiva expedition 1 had had a teanrof recommended in preference to beef for ber 14, 1839, after his elect! training diet Both the beef and the , camels harnessed to my wagon three mutton are rich in protein, which I gubernatorial chair of Tenneq abreast, and the spectral outlines of makes muscle. Mutton has the advan- | address is handsomely prin their Jong, gaunt limbs and misshapen | tage of containing more fat along with I piece of white silk, eighteen! bodies flitting over the interminable I een inches, and was prtj sands in the fitful moonlight form a the protein, and hence more potential 1 Captain Fain's grandfather! case I picture worthy of Vasili Veresht» energy. .Pf'. Perhaps -p this ? is . another anomer cast no doubt pass through the] 1 • a *i 1 however, I in which experience has led , to 1 practice, cnagin. A camel i omnibus, , tnn mol grounds rviazMirtri2 tai n •> tro . later lornr many generations to come, the real for ’ whinli which have was still jy Moxqltx. to tue. .but . before. firm erpruW'dl^r-fentmc resenrctt — ■ relie worth ■ preserving. II our Indian tourroded I had seen the I is considered as one of the j t'rof. Atwater, in Century. “Ship of the desert” figuring in j delivered by the distinguish another capacity more extraordinary j I dent still. While we were at Cawnpore one ■ HOW TO GRADE LOTS. of our acquaintances there, a young | — The following query civil engineer had"to start’off Vnex° I Th’T"’’1’ * R“1' peared in the Boston A ' -- - ”............. — — ------ — ------ | pectedly one evening just after night- . The advantage in appearance which I swered: A clergyman fall in order to survey the route of a a house has that stands up well above I from a bridegroom for th projected railway to tire border fortress I the level of the street or roadway, is . of the marriage ceremon of Jhansi. We went out to see him now very generaljy understood, and ; man used most ot the off and found to our no small amuse consequently we find the. foundation 4 ■table deeds. Wilk the ment thaV the “dakgliarri” (post walls built higher than was customary j gel credit the good deed chaise) which he had hired for the some years ago. In order to increase groom orlheclergyman? journey was drawn by a full-grown the effect still more, it is now a very ! —Men are apt to camel of trucdulent appearance, pro common practice in ordinary suburban testing against the duty assigned to it lots to fill in soil sufficient to.raise the strength of their arg ime with a succession of those harsh, un surface a foot or two above the street, <d mind resents the chill pleasant screams which, like an En I. thus farming a terrace at the street lentles- scrutiny of logi glishman’s oath, seem to express every j line. We do not advise this practice possible variety of emotion.— Cor. N. > for general adoption, but in some Y. Time». j cases the peculiar circumstances make ■ it desirable. Where the fall of the A Canary's Four Notes. ! drainage is very slight, it is even nec- In the song of a canary four notes ! essary; where the grade of a street is are recognized by dealers, and they I lowered, and the grounds have al- t can tell by listening to it for a very I ready been planted, thereTs usually* Is the Oriental | no other course but to terrace at^he few minutes whether the bird is Ger knowing that : time. But a course that is man or American. They arc the water necessary under the conditions cannot exist ,wi note, which is a rippling, gurgling, at 1 named has been meauinglessly copied healthy Liver. tractive bit of warbliug like the mur in many instances where there was no Liver is torpid mur of a rill; a flute note, clear and occasion for it, and we see the lots els are sluggish ringing; the whistling note, of the along the whole lines of streets piled same class, but very much finer, and up sometimes as much as three feet or stipated, the the rolling note, which is a continuous more above the general level, even in the sto melody, rising and falling only to rise where it is necessary to build within a Eted, poisoni again.. It 1 is in the last-named note few feet of the line, thus requiring the t>d; frequent that the ! American birds fail. They entrance to the house to be by a flight ensues; a feeli can not hold it Another difference of eight or ten steps. On larger tude, despond between the two is that the German grounds where are built villas or resi nervousness indi canaries are night _ singers—they will dences of much pretension in style sing until the light is extinguished. »and finish, and which occupy a suffi the whole But American birds puttbeir heads ciently elevated site, and at consider ranged, i under their wings with darkness. — N. able distance from the street, this Regulator has ~ World. Y. method of grading up the front and means of reetori terracing at the line is sometimes people to heal A Candid Author. adopted, but the appearance is far less happiness by givi A. —I see that in the preface to your pleasing than an even grade over the a healthy Liver book you state it is written to fill a whole surface; one effect is to shorten agency known on! long-felt want. apparently the line of distance from It acts with the street to the house, and thus di B. —Yes; and so it is. dinary power and J A ** What do you mean by filing a minish the size of the grounds. nxvir bexn oiaami gentle and gradual rise from the long-felt want?” •• What do I mean? Why. I've been street line to the front of the house is Torpid Uver, Constipation, needing a square meal for the past two" the handsomest surface a residence lot }?*“ dlsappetnten In the rtl years, pon't you call that a long-felt can present. — Vic ft Magazine. it seems to he almost a perfr diseases ot the Stomach and waut?"— Texat Siflinaz. W. J. McEuw How Your Li