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IE TELEPHONE. THE TELEPHONE. DILM OCJ It AT IC PUBLISHED ZERY FRIDAY PUBLICATION OFFICE: Dcor North of epr «r Third and E Sta , I MCMINNVILLE. OR. 8UB3CRIPTION RATES: year ... punt he ■ ■. be months WEST SIDE TELEPHONE (IN ADVANCE.) VOL. II MCMINNVILLE, OREGON, NOVEMBER 25, 1887. STOVES! S. A. MANNING LOVES county, the new acorn . iese stoves, without doubt, are the best •ve manufactured. One of these stoves will given to the new cash subscriber to the ilephone who guesses nearest its weight. fin Stove sriven away. 5 ■UU COME AND SUBSCRIBE $1,50 A YEAR. Schofield & Morgan, 87 Washington St., Portland, Oregon. all and Ceiling Papers Of all Grades and the Latest Eastern Styles ¡AMFLE3 MAILED OIST JAFE’ILICJATTOIsr: ISÆ’lÆITSr 1ST VILLE JNSORIAL PARLOR, ing, Hair Cutting and- - - - - - - - - Shampoing Parlors. C. H. 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Ct Shipments to San Francisco, but standard Calcutta Sacks kept Det on the most reasonable terms. CITY STABLES, Third Street, between E and F McMinnville, Oregon. Miest Weight. Fair Dealing. OTiJAG-E 3 The Best Rigs in the City. Orders Promptly attended to Day or flight. CENTS. M. HOLL, Henderson Bros. Props. First-class accommodations for Ccmmer- cial men and general travel. Transient stock welT cared for. Proprietor of the iiilli Jmlry ta, Everything new and in First-Claas Order Patronage respectfully solicited ltf The leading ILRY ESTABLISHMENT, -OF— MHILL COUNTY, 'hird Street. McMinnvil’s Or. ---- THE LEADER IN----- MILLINERY, “WHEN” want any thing in the line of Hair weaving and Stamping. )b Printing Opposite Grange Store McMinnville. Or. lall at the office of the WEST HIDE TELEPHONE We will guarantee you WORK, LOWEST PRICES. We make a specialty oi Fin» : and Card Printing. —Dealer in all kinde of— Flour and Feed —Goods sold at— The Lowest (ash Price S, A. YOUNG, M. 0. Delivered Free! ’hysioian & Surgeon, rwriiL«, - Oaiaos. « »nd residence on D itreet •omptly answered day or night. All . V. PRICE,’ PHOTOGRAPHER. Stain in Idaas’ Building. MeMianrille. Oregon To all partons reaiding within city limits. Lyle Wriari 11 Dealer in Harness. Saddles. Etc. Etc. Bepalnng naatly Anna at r.aaonabla rata. Wright’, n.w building Carnsr Third •ad F «trwu M«Mia■ Till. ®r. NO. 31 Brantford, had exhausted the bed of ore they ¿book lfrantford. It soon came to the ears of bad been working for over forty years, aud Foljambe him&elf. He bad paid no attention A youn*' girl walking by a stream hud to bring tbo crude material some dis- to the popular comment on Lis purchases, but In silent thought, a maid's day dream, ' tauee by rail and water. Il began to be a this was a different matter. He hunted up A CYCLIST FINDS TOKIO SWELLS Knelt down upon the glistening sand J question whether it would not pay to build Bill Cowan and found him in our shop, where And there wrote with her soft, white haud< “gO ENGLISH, YOU KNOW.” i a new furnace near the source of supply and ire and some of his cronies were discussing I “I love thee!” abandon the old one. Suddenly, however, a the thing at the time. A youth lay in a great tree’s shade. new oi*e bed was opened close at hand. “Mark you, Co wan!” cried Foljambe, his Just on tho border of the glade. Tbo fo.ty-two acres of clayey hill on the eyes blazing with wrath, “you huvo been A Fashionable Mikado Rail Bereft of And when the maid had gone away Local Costume and Color—The Loudon Peabody farm was found to cover a heavy talking too freely about me in connection He wroto below, the seif same way: deposit of limonite. As that ore generally with a young lady. If I learn of your wag Drawl Transplanted to tho East— What “I love thee!” contains impurities only fitting it for “cold ging that long tongue of yours in the same Amerlcau Legations Lack. ” iron, little attention was paid to it. But way again, or find you eavesdropping, 1’11 Years after, in a great arm chair, I j | short A woman sat with silver hair; when the chemist of the company mude three give you a pounding, and you know that 1 Last December, when at Yokohama, tho A manly form stood by her side, separate analyses and discovered that the usua , can do it. Things _ have got to a pretty pass famo of my bicycle tour around the world, And said: “I love you still, my pride,” phosphorus was replaced by nearly 3 percent, in this community when slander is set afoot just theu completed, attracted considerable And soft the gray haired dame replied: of manganese oxide, the thing took another because some sneak sees one bestow a caress notice in Tokio. A Jajianese gentleman “i love thee!” sha.ue. The company offered Foljambe a ) on a young lady whom ho is to marry within named Suyematau, occupying some high •Donald R. McGregor in New York News. handsome royalty, which be at once declined. f a month. And I’ll hold any other man who He would sell outright or not at all. After meddles with my affaire to a strict» account.” official position at the capital, sent me down Here was a settler. Becky Peabody to be his card together with an invitation to come some chaffering and a rough survey of the bed, they took all the farm but the widow’s I married by a Foljambe! Why, the Foljainbes up to a swell bull that was coming off on i turned up their noses at tho country folk, and Monday evening. Expecting to see something five acres, and paid $75,000. If we may trusr. general opinion, it was a “A fool for luck” was the general comment. took their wives from abroad. Gossip left of a compromise between the Geisha of series of follies, beginning in boyhood and But the reputation of Foljambe for down the rosin and cotton, and took to the match. Japan and European danoes, I readily continuing during life. Jumes Foljambe— right folly was at its height when it leaked But it was admiring, ana not offensive. accepted the invitation. An hour’s ride Tho wedding came off and was a great “Fool Jim,” as the boys nicknamed him at out afterward that he had settled $35,750 on by rail and ten minutes by jiurikisha affair. Miss Elton was first bridesmaid, and Mrs. Peabody — that is, the interest during school—and the epithet clung to him—did, in the gentleman she married with afterwards, through the level streets of Tokio brought me life to her, and the principal to her (laughter popular judgment, the most silly things, and afterward. No words sufficed to express the a Mr. Leamington, was Foljambe’s best man. to the Rokumi Kwan, a swell European like yet prospen?d. At school he was noted for There was a reception at tho house—the club house, where all the high toned hops of liis folly as well us for pluck and coolness. If wonder, contempt and disgust at this act of young couple took no tour, but remained at Tokio take place. The Rokumi Kwan stood folly. a big boy maltreated a little one, instead of Old Figgs died about this time, and Foljambe place—and I, of the few Brantford in the middle of a large flower garden, a flood minding his own business, as a sensible boy folk invited, was there. So was David Pea should, Fool Jim would take it up and thrash Oalchieze offered me a share in the business body, of course. Ho was got up in a suit of of light streamed through the windows and I if I could put in $5,(XX). I had saved a little the bully. fine broadcloth, and his shoes shone like a the strains of a European orchestra greeted When that wretched little Dick Greene, the over half of that by pinching and screwing japanned waiter. Every one knew this the ear. The jiurikisha coolie halted beneath but I was puzzled about the rest. Foljambe son of old Gorney Greene, a sort of odd job found it out, and gave me the money on my raiment came from the bridegroom. Oh, of tho big portico and a fluuky in swallow man about town, broke his leg by a fall from coat, patent leather highlowa and Some folk may think this folly on bis course! There were a number of costly and tailed a cherry tree, Fool Jim used to go around note. elegant presents displayed. But these came, white cotton gloves promptly advanced and part, but I did not. Neither did he, for t and cheer up the little brat, and spend I ms with the exception of an odd looking Japanese requested my cord. There was nothing Jap pocket money, of which he bad plenty, for have paid it back long since. cabinet, given by the Widow Peabody, from anese about this individual but his face and When the Widow Peabody got her money Dick’s 1 enefit. All the leading big boys of the Foljambe friends and connections. Un< le shape. The delightful deference and more the school thought him a fool, but no one she sent Rebecca off to boarding school, as i David examined them. than French politeness that had charmed me she could well afford to, and there the girl re dared tell him so. for, though be was not “Becky,” he said, loud enough to attract from lieginning to end of my 800 mile ride quarrelsome, he was quick to resent an in mained for four years, barring visits home at attention, “the Peabodys don’t seem to shine through Japan had been supplanted by the sult, and was a tough customer in a rough I vacation. When she came back to stay slit’ in the way of making gifts to the bride. formal stiffnres of an English “person.” Plac had grown into a handsome, self possessed and tumble fight. Your Uncle David ’ll have to put in his ing my card and that of Mr. Ruyematsu on Foljambe left school for an academy where young woman, and she wat quite admired by mite.” Then he drew a bulky package from the proffered salver, I requested the imita the young fellows around. In addition to they prepared boys for college, and went his capacious breast pocket, which it fitted so tion English footman to seek out the latter afterward to college. I left it at the same good looks and good manner*, she would have tightly that he withdrew it with difficulty. gentleman and hand him my card. While a nice sum in hard cash in time — a good time to become under salesman and general “Oh, thunk you, Uncle David,” said th> he departed on his errand I loitered in the en thing to add to a young man ’ s family re drudge in the grocery shop of Figgs & Oal- trance. Several other flunkies, all in the bride. “Anything from you”---- phieze. I lost sight of him then, except at sources. But she was of a domestic turn conventional swallow tails and snowy gloves, “Open it, child.” stayed at home with her mother and rarely Vacations, until be was graduated, and had The newly made Mrs. Foljambe undid the stood around and speculated among them come home. His father, a confirmed invalid, went abroad. No suitor seemed to meet cord and removed the wrapping. It was a selves upon (he fact that my boots were only favor in her eyes, though she had several. was very rich, and made a great fuss over plain unpatent calf, and my black diagonal During Rel»ecca’s absence at school Fol Russia leather covered casket, with the lettere | coat of other shape than theirs, and the him. when he returned, and was very proud R. P. F. on it. When she opened it she gave of the fact that Jim was at the head of his jambe had been going along quietly, and a cry of delight. servants wore so startlingly English, you class. There was no nonsense about Jim, I people bad ceased to talk of him; but shortl) “They are old mine stones,” said Uncle know, that I was prepared at once for must say. He remembered all bis old school after her return he broke out again. David, quietly. “Don’t drop that scrap of sundry modifications in what I had mates, and put on no airs. He would come I One day an old man in a dusty suit and paper. 1 don’t want you to be running to l>eeu expecting t> see at the ball. Jnto our shop at all times and talk with me boots that had been blackened a week Itefore, your husband for pocket money, and yoji’d I was scarcely prepared, however, for the ex when I was not. busy, and, as he would be and who carried a small gripsack, got out at better invest the amount of that check for treme English lines of behavior and deport very rich in time, old Figgs, though he did Brantford station and inquired if the Widow ; youreelf, as he advises you.” ment adopted by everybody present. Mr. )¿eep his i>eople’.s noses close to the grindstone, Peabody lived at the old farm yet. Wo soon ! This was a surprise. Few had seen such a Ruyematsu, whom 1 had been picturing as learned that he was the long lost David Pea | pever grumbled at it. set—a necklace, bracelets, ear rings and pin, coming out to me, with the profuse polite Not that Jim was an idler. He took a vast body, who had come back after all thes | mède up of the finest brilliants, some of them ness of his countrymen in general whom I years, apparently as poor as a church mouse, off bis sickly father’s hands in managing quite large. They must Lave cost enor had met, turned up in the shape of a young urge plantation. No little job that was, and doubtless with intent to sponge on tin I [ mously. Where did Uncle David got the man about 25. The only difference in his aj»- Widow Peabody. He was not so very old 1 either. Foljambe place embraced over 1,900 pearance from the flunkies was a button hole I money? acres, and with the exception of 100 acres of either, but looked like a man whom hard I 1 I found out before any one else. I was bouquet, and diamond studs, except that he poodland, and about 300 of pasture and luck and a hot climate bad dried up and down iu New York to purchase tea, and allowed his thick, black hair to fall a la neglige about his eyes. meadow, was closelv cultivated. There was wrinkled. To our surprise he was made welcome by Carleton, of the jobbing firm with which 1 n fine herd of Jersey cattle, then coming “Er—aw, Mr. Stevens, the er, er, bee-see- did business, said to me: *nto vogue, and over forty blooded horses, the widow and Rebecca, and took up hif clistf* Mr. Ruyematsu said in the finest, “ David Pealxxly is rusticating at Brant abode there. He was a queer specimen. tiesides others for plow and wagon. drawl ever heard outside of London. “Er— ford, ain’t he?” For four years there was nothing worthy of After the dust of travel had been brushed off “Old Uncle David?” Lsaid. “Yes, he is a aw, cam ap.” Mi\Ruyematsu’« manner quite be was clean enough, but his clothes wero of note, except that I got to lie head salesman and sort of hanger on to his sister-in-law. She nonplused me for the moment. For the last, month I bad been knocking «bout among his a sort of general manager in our concern, ordinary material and well worn. It was feeds him, I fancy.” evident that he was poor, but he didn ’ t seem which, considering my age, was a big lift for “Feeds him? What do you mean? David countrymen and had found every one of them to mind it He walked about and held him me. Blit old Foljambe died at this time, and Peabody could feed a dozen sistere-in-luw aud profusely polite and deferential. Instead of bowing bis bead nearly to the floor, as I had as Jana^s was motherless and an only son he self up as though he owned one-half the | not feel it.” succeeded to the property. Then began the town and meant to buy the other. He was “Well,” I said, “I recently began to suspect expert^!, Mr. Ruyematsu merely advanced languidly, as though it were rather of a Imre follies of this son, which made talk for the i ready with his tongue, too, and if any one be was rather well off.” said a disagreeable or impertinent thing coulu country around for veal’s. to have to come down theso beastly stairs, “ Rather well off! ” exclaimed Carleton. The first exhibition was in the matter of repay it with interest. Foljambe took a great T’hat’s tho best joke out. David Peabody don’t you know, and drawled out an invita the Peabody mortgage. There had b^en two 1 notion to him and told me that the old man well off! Is it possible you don’t know how tion to com'» up. I didn’t know under the cir Peabody brothers, Nathan and David; but i was keen and had wonderfully practical bus rich ho is? But ho hardly knows himself. cumstances whether I had lietter accept his David, the younger one, on his father’s death | iness ideas for one who bad not profited by He has been for over eighteen years tho prin invitation to “cam ap” or not. I pointed out had taken $1,000 in cash for bis share, and : his precepts, a thing I have observed to be cipal stockholder in a great Mexican miue. to him that I had on neither swallow tailed gone off to Mexico to seek his fortune. He ' not uncommon. A man can pick up more It is an English company, and ho is tho only coat, white gloves, nor p .tent leather shoes. was not heard of afterward, and was believed valuable hints from the unsuccessful around American in it. But he owns two-th rds of “Er—aw. nevah mind, er, oatn ap,” replied to be dead. Nathan stayed on tho old place. ! him than he can from sharp business men. it. Why, it is one of the most successful Mr. Ruyematsu. So, following his guidance, Ho was a shiftless man, and though be mar i So the two grew quite intimate, and almost mines in the country. Well off! Why, he is wo entered an ante chanilier, whore a number tied Ben Merrit’s daughter, who was a tidy | any fine evening they might be seen in com away up iu the millions, and it keeps pour of young and middle aged representatives of “New Japan” were lounging about smoking housewife and a prudent woman, he could fab together on the widow’s front porch, witl. ing in.” cigarettes. Mr. Ruyematsu introduced me to not get along. The farm was pretty well the widow and Rebecca seated near, inter Of course this was too good to keep. Brant ested listeners to their chat. worn out and he did not improve it nt all. ford had the benefit of it, and, except nn oc r Count This, Viscount That and Mr. So and 8o, The crops grow less and less, and Nathan ! This was in August, 1860. The whole casional dash at the rosin and cotton, David’s a» “er—aw, Mr. Stevens, the er bee^ see-cl 1st." grew a crop of debt. To wipe that out he ' country was in a state of excitement. It was great wealth was the subject for discussion Many of these gentlemen could talk English Quite fluently; some of them had lieen edu borrowed another $1,000 on bond and mort known that reconciliation between the war and comment. gage from the same party who held the first ring Democratic factions was impossible and The civil war bad come and was going ob , cated in America; some in England. One or that Lincoln would be elected. The question mortgage to raise David’s money. Things and Foljambe and his follies faded before it. two of them had been on diplomatic service grew woi’se, and at last the interest remained was, would there l>e war? Foljambe suddenly At last, in 1862, Foljambe’s cotton began to in Europe. All were as thoroughly English as put the plantation in charge of old Uncle Unpaid for two years and proceedings were be moved. It had risen in price exceedingly, Mr. Suyematsu himself. Some even sur- taken to foreclose the mortgage. Nathan j David and went off south. He visited Vir and Brantford found that there bad been passed Mr. Ruyematsu in the ; perfect ion of ginia, North Carolina and Georgia, and wa> took sick over it and died. The doctor said i method in the madness. But therein, though their drawl, and put him rather in the shade it was typhoid fever, but every one thought | gone about two months. When ho came buck it bad risen too, remained undisturbed. At by regarding me through the medium of a it was the trouble and that Nathan had given i I nsk d him: ‘‘Does the south really mean length, I think it was in August, 1803, 800 big round eyeglass. Some of (he gentle up the ghost because he could not face his | fight, Mr. Foljamlief’ barrels of the rosin were shipped to Boston. men towards the other end of the room difficulties. At all events, lie died, leaving | “It really does,” he replied, sadly. “I don’t The next day 150 went to Philade 1 phia, and a contented themselves by adjusting their his widow with one child, a girl of 14. She : think they’ll be able to keep it up more than 100 went to Baltimore. The next day 800 eyeglasses and surveying me across the was very pretty—the image of her father— • a year or so, unless England interfere, for we were sent to New York. And so it continued length of tho room. Every one of and all the l’eabodys were fine looking peo have the most money and the most men; but to move, sometimes in smaller, sometimes in these Tokio exquisites bad mastered the art it will be fierce while it lasts. It is going to pie; but she had her mother's ways. larger quantities, until by the latter part of of appearing insufferably bored with things Everybody pitied the widow, for it was disturb values very much, as well as domestic November, every barrel was gone. I took up in general, and only to be mildly awakened relations. ” by a ball or something very novel. Rome well understood that the farm would bring The first thing Foljambe did on coming The Price Current and ran over the file for were undoubtedly men of brains and energy, no more than the debt and law expenses; the quotations on navul stores. To my sur home was to build a number of long wooden in fact, that the mortgagee would be obliged prise the price bad varied from August to but they were now in society and their con to buy it in. With the exception of one spot, sheds, some of them inclosed; and be kept the Novein tier from twenty-five to forty four versation consisted of the merest common- the farm was a worn out sandy loam, over carpenters going day aud night. The whole dollars per barrel. And then it went down place remarks. “Er—aw M. Rtevens has been run with sedge grass, the sign of sterility. neighborhood was aroused. Was he going below the flret figure. Foljambe bad stocked round the-er-aw world,” one would remark. “Y-a-a s, er-aw, long journey,” would lie the The exception was a hill, covering al>out into sheep raising on a large scale, or what the market. drawling reply. Mr. Suyernatsu got off a forty-two acres, apparently composed of a crowning folly was Fool Jim at now? I was There was little talk about Fo!jambe*8 fol tough, gravelly clay, unfit for even brick ! his only partisan Every one said be was lies after that in Brantford. On the con mild joke on Count B-----. The count, with making, and incapable of cultivation. To I n ) | going stark, staring mad. But the excitement trary, tiie Brantford people admired the out deigning to remove his eye glass or smile sure, the five acres around the house, which grew to a hubbub when there carie carload shrewdness of “Fool Jim,” and that name at the witticism, explained to me, “Er-he, was at one end of the place, had been used as ¡ after carload, by the railway, of barrels of dropped. Well they might admire him. He er-aw joked.” Several army officers were a vegetable garden, and that was in a little Í rosin «nd bales of cotton—the former stored rnd Uncle David lictween them have built up t’loro in g iy regimentals. These seemed less better order. It was a sorry piece of property. ‘ under the open and the latter in the inclosed the placa, which has doubled in population dudish and more inclined for intelligent con 8o when sale day came, and I happened to be sheds. The cotton did not excite so much and is thriving in ever}’ way. As for Fol- versation, but they bad not learned well their over at the country town, I dropped into the I astonishment, but the rosin! Snch an amount janibe himself, he is very quiet for a man w part. They had not yet acquired proficiency court house where the sheriff was to sell. I of it! Some one had the curiosity to nose immensely rich. Beyond a year’s visit to in concealing their brains and in appearing found only a half dozen persons, and one of i around and count the number of barrels piled Europe, and two or three months’ travel indolently indifferent to things in general, al these was Foljambe and another was Phipps, in one of the long and high sheds. Ten thou every year to some part of the country, be though some of them had mastered the drawl sand of them! And there wero five more such who held the mortgage. stays principally on the Foljambe place, and the eye glass to perfection. But why do people imitate the Britisher at The sbei iff, taking that every one knew the sheds, and jammed fuJL Sixty thousand where ho has enlarged the old mansion and place, which had been w ith the ppabodys for barrels of rosin! And no end of cotton bales! devotes himself to bis family. Rebecca Fol all? The Jape are popularly understood to over 100 years, asked for a bid. The amount What would he do with it? What could he jambe is ns handsome, I think, as ever, though regard America with more favor than any other country. As they will imitate some against the property, including the legal do with it? The only partisan he bad, as I have said, more plump than she used to l>e. They ap- western state of society, why don’t they aff««t costs, was $3,3<S4. Phipps put that in as a r'ar to be as fond of each other as ever, and the purely American? The renron is not bid, but remark«! that he didn’t want it at was myself, and I picked up a dozen quarrels dare say that they are. any pnee. and any one advancing on that about it. Some one asked old Peabody about it. One day, when be dropped into the shop, 1 very far to seek. Through a ride door Mr. “ Uncle David, is Fool Jim gawn to set up might have it happened to say something complimentary to Ruyematsu led tho way into one end ot the ball room. Iloro about 100 couples were “That leaves nothing for the widow,” ob- a cotton factory an’ a ship yard? Mebbe bis foresight. He laugher!. he ’ ll sen ’ bis ships down by the railroad." served Foljambe. “Coffey," he said, “most of my wurmwes gracefully threading tho measures of waltz, “ Sonny," said David, “ park your hrad In polka, square and round dances—all Euro- “Su[>pose you bid more, then, on her ac- ice. James Foljambe knows more in one were unexpected. I had, it is ti ne, a suspi- |iean. Every Japanese lady on the floor was count," said Phipps. rion amounting almost to a certainty that minute than you’re likely to know in a year." “I shall," replied Fl jambe; “*3,500." was a l>ed of iron ore on the Tealxxly dressed in fnil ball room costume. Only one In the midst of this clamor came a bit of there “Is that your bid, Mr. Foljambef inquired farm, but I bought it solely to give thè widow or two onlookers nt tho end of the room were gossip not too pleasant. There was venom in the sheriff. a lift, for Nathan Peabody had petted me in nativo costume, and th«y looked lonesome it. Bill Cowan, who was always nosing “That is my bid, Mr.” when a boy, and was always ready, poor fel and chagrined, as though painfully impressed So the farm was knocked down to him. about, and kept bis eyes open and his tongue low, to leave his farm work to join me in with a sense of being behind the times. When we were coming away Foljambe said busy, came into the shop one day to get a hunting, or fishing, or nutting, or anything Every native gentleman present was arrayed plug of chewing toljacco. to me: The fact that I w » m almost certain, in tho conventional swallowtails. A dozen “Tell you what. Oalchieze," he said, ad else. “Coffey, you go past the Peabody farm on however, made me divide the profits with or do foreign ladies and gentlemen were pre your way home. I wish you'd stop and tell dressing my partner, “I guess they’ll call Fool ’ the widow as a matter of equity. 1 never sent, dancing among the gay throng, with no Mrs. Peabody that the place has brought Jim, ‘villain Jim,’ afore long." suspected Uncle David*» wealth; but the cot distinction save their own personality. Some “What do you moan, you scampf* I de ton and rosin purchase wfj a matter of cal of tho foreign gentleman were six fe*t tall or over *l,J?00 more than the debt, and *he must take out letters of a/iministration. And tell manded angrily. culation, particularly the rosin. It was then more. Tho Japanese Indies averaged pro “Scamp your*e|f, an* see how you like it," i drug in the market. It had accumulated in ljstly four feet eight. They looked like mere her for me not to think of moving. Si e can be retorted. “ Whatdo I mean? Hl tell you, have the bouse and the carden iron nd It free large bills wherever they made turpentine. children, and tlieir tall portners had to bardie of rent. Sne’s a shifty woman, and with that nn* I ain’t afraid to. I was erossin* by ; It could l*e bad almost for the taking away. them nlmot like dolls when waltzing. It Widow Peabody ’ s last night, and what does ■ «tart she’ll g*t along." I knew that war would come, bui I never was Gulliver and the Liliputians. Every foreigner present is English, except I folt that Foljambe’» conduct was through I see but Jim Foljambe with his arm around | dreamed that rosin would go beyond |5 or an impulse of generosity which be cou.d well Becky Pealxxiy’s waist, an’ she a-lean in’ up *6. I buiit the sh*ds at Brantford, because ono, and he is a Russian. W uere are the afford. But the general verdict was that he to him like a sick kitten to a hot brick. ‘ that wri cheaper than storing it in New American diplomats? Why arc they not bore? For the simple reason that the Ameri was a fool. Had he bid a hundred over Stands to reason he’s foolin’ the girl. E vary York, and that’s all the foresight I had.” Phipps, nr even two hundred, it might have l»ndy knows he’s sweet on Miss Elton, an* “You must have made a good thing out of can diplomat, properly speaking, does not pa«sed, tmt tn throw away—absolutely throw she’s got dollars to Reky Peabody’s dimes. it, anyhow,” I rejoined. “It is not my busi exist in Japan or any other country. The American representatives abroad, ebb away—*1.2fiO! When ti>ey beard afterward You don’t suppose Foljambe means anything ness, and I don’t ask, but you must have ing and flowing on the tide of presidential that lie had given the widow a life aetata in but foolin’ Becky, do you? That’s why br netted a good round sum.” tiw bouse ami garden it waa generally agre«»d was so liberal with his money to the wxiiw. “Oh, I don’t ini nd telling you," said be, “I elections, cannot afford to spend their time that he should have a guardian over him to It's well enough for you to stan’ up for him. have figured it up. On the cotton and foein in cultivating the good graces of the natives. an* we know why, but fax is fax." save bis property. together, 1 netted just *3,700,010. But ! Before they have made a gcod beginning A ih I off went Cowan, with hie Vbareo. In am not so rich as David P«*sbody by some they find themselves included in the category Talk died out, bnwavtr, to be revivad agali triumph. Il did not stop there. The new» million» by another astounding act of folly. T hew as Duns English U The of “rascals to be ’turned out.’"—TbomM bteTsna in New York WoikL The E jioouü » Uoh <Wik_£rotr spread^a’id a ^>a>r» of virtuoue Udijpatfor I LOVE THEE. CABBIES THE FUSTIEST T.TKT~m OF II RATF8 OF ADVERTISING. MORNING. “FOOL JIM.” ■4 ANGLOMANIA IN JAPAN, One square or let*», one Insertion ...... *1 00 One square, each subsequent insertion.... 60 Notice» of appointment «nd final set dement 6 00 Other legal advertisements. 75 cent» for first insertion and 40 cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. Special business notices fn business columns. 10 cents per line. Regular business notices, s cents perline. Professional cards, *12 per y oar. Special rates for large display ■’ads.” Beautiful Women in Wall Street. Curiously enough, it is in Wall street that one is eertaiu to see the most stylish und beuutiful womeu who are now to be met with in the streets. They drive down the four streets that inclose the brokers’ offices and the Stock Exchange in delightful little victorias, lolling ou the cushions as lightly as if their bodies were really the mere clouds of gauze that their drapery makes them seem like. A liveried man drives each wagon and a gaudy parasol shielda^each haughty beauty. Always, as each lightly balanced victoria approaches Trinity church, at the head of Wall street, the teams are reined up until their pace is the very next thing to a standstill, and one sees the brokers lifting their bats on either side of the street. Here and there a victoria is seen to stop as a young speculator in white flannels stejw into the street to greet the fair lounger on the cushions. Yet you cannot help but notice thut such sights are infrequent and ex cite a great deal of comment from the on lookers, just as you also are sure to noth?« that most of the polite men who lift their bats do so very hurriedly, with apparent awkward ness ami without looking fairly at tho car riages. Their manner is exactly what you would look for in a man who expects to be guyed for his behavior if the people around, him chanced to see what he was at. The truth is that those who bow to these daily apparitions of lieauty are very awk wardly placed, for “the street” is greatly dis turbed over the victorias, and their occupants know it so well that many do not halt until they are at least a couple of blocks away, where the more timid brokers, having seen the slow moving carriages pass their doors, have gone hastily, by back alleys aud short cuts, to meet them out of sight from Wall street For these women are adventuresses roiuing down to speculate with their lightly gotten incomes, ami their daily presence in such great nunil^i-s as now come there has scandalized t he mo-e circumspect operators on ’Change.—Julian Ralph’s Letter. An Engineer on Steam Whlstlen. “There is something almost human about a steam whistle,”said a will known engineer to a reporter. “When you cross the river to night pay particular attention to their various sounds, ami see if I’m not right. You will hear the *look-out-for-me-I’m a-big fellow’ whistle of the steamers that run up the sound, and tho little steam launch, hugging the «lock as it dances over the water, will give answer in its ‘don’t-forget-me-I’ni-a-sti'anier-too* style. As you ride in the cars on a rainy day the loco motive whistle seems to say, ’I’m sorry it rains!’ The short, sharp screech indicates clearly that something is wrong ahead. Whistles that announce low or high water in the boiler have a threatening sound that makes the engineer jump to his feet. Steam whistles at times sound mournful ami at other times gay. You can hear angry whis tles and good Matured whistles. To the un-» employed meebanio the 7 o’clock whistle in the factory has a despondent wail, and the thrifty workman lays aside his tools with a light heart when 12 (»’clock blows. The sound of many steam whistles adds greatly to the effect of a public demonstration or celebra tion. The ooarse whistle, with afrogin lta throat, can lie heard onco in a while; am! tho jolly whistle, which seems to say, ‘I’m as happy as a clam!’ is ever with us. A disabb d boiler gets sympathy from its whistle, and a cracked whistle tells you to use it gently, for it isn’t strong. I have made a study of steam whistles, and—ami, well I tell you they’re al most human."—“R. W. S." in The Safety Valve. J — < A New In.trumnnt for Ocnll.ti. Dr. Georgo Bull, of New York, baa ma.l. an optometer, which enables an oculist to tell what kind of glassea are required for far sighted. The instrument has i>een presented to the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. Javal, of Paris. It 1ms met with conaiderabl. favor ami will 1»extensively used. Tho sub ject is compelled to look through a small leua ami a|»erture, and from this leads a graduated scale, on which flgnrea are marked. When the instrument Is held before the eye«, the figures appear elongated and irregular, but oil lrx.king through the aperture, with tha optometer bald as ono would hold a telescope, they resolve themselves into «mall .lommoes. These dominoes are placed in such a manner that tbo farthest one seen indicates the de gree of far or near sightedness. The number of dominoes seen indicates tho focusing power of the eye Examined. Tliero is a curi ous feature about the optometer, and that is that the age of a subject can bo told by tha numier of dominoes seen. As age advances, tho focusing power of the eye diminishes Tho lalmratory of Sorbonne lias taken bold of Dr. Bull’s instrument, ami appropriated • largo sum of money to perfect it.—Demorest’s Monthly. lie Wanted a Change. Mi. Frank R. Stockton at onetime suffered much pain in hi» eyes and was forbidden to read. The first day that the doctor grant«! him half an hour with a hook his friends were curious to know what book lie would select. “Give me some ail vertlseinente,’’ lie demanded; and explained, as a shout was raised: “Yes, I am pining for advertisements. My wife has reaiI everything else aloud to me; but I hadn’t tho heart to ask her to read advei tisements.” For severnl days he devoted the whole of that precious hslf hour to advertisements.—The Enoch_______________._________________ i ■ i r-------- j DYSPEPSIA Up to a fcw weeks ago T considered myself the champion Dyspeptic of America. During the years that I have been afflicted I have tried almost everything claimed to b. a specific Ibr Iiyspejmia in the hope of finding something that would afford permanent relict I had about made np my mind to abandon all medl- •Ines when I noticed an endorsement of Nimmons Diver IU-*tilator by a rromtnent Georgian, s Jurist whom knew, and concluded to try Its effects In my case. I bave need but two battles, and am satisfied that I bave struck the right thing at last. 1 felt Its beneficial effect« almoat im mediately. Unlike all other prepara tions of a similar kind, no special Instructions are required as to what one shall or shall not eat. Thia fact alone ought an commend 1* to all troubled with Dyspepsia. J. N. HOLMTB, Vineland. N. J. CONSTIPATION To <te«nre » Re<nlar Habai of B mijt wlthnat rhan<inf tha Diet er Dle- or*anlsln< the Aysteaie take SL4MON8LIVERRE6UUTOR UM «CNUINI s.scerras» n J H. ZHUK A CO.'