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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1893)
I THE WOMAN'S YEAR. the bantering of lira crowd and rather nightfall fuiiud very Hear th? earth, anxious to lie off. while Pierce nervous. Til» miuw wr»all}»*1>arkl» In '!>• CTBfo. making might}' bounds up and down ly busied with the last arrangements. I Tbe night wa|il» in tha »kt: and driving along at the rate of a mile At three o'clock he carefully scruti The year wait» in the »ky. a minute. The anchor was thrown out, nized the car and ill contents, took a Turn, Tim», thylgl«». and thon, year, paaai but failed to hold, the only reanlta be last look aloft, sprang into the oscillat Thin» lio»r 11», romo Io dte. ing to make th? bounds and jerks more ing basket, aud in another moment the The uoi.e nt bet/,. L’"»* »werping paal fierce. balloon was shooting up in a sweeping And nakra ihn world to hear— “It was totally dark, and about eight slant toward the clouds and toward the Tho whole world wake, to lu-ar. o'clock at night the cur was dashed White mountains. The shouts grew Oh, h.lla, 1. paat the old at laat? againBt the ground with such force as fainter and fainter as the earth receded, 1, dawn w» wall for near? . to tear apart several of the ropes, throw and the men below grew into moving Oh. womanh»Hid (the bell, replyi, ing Eric Gilbert out, withall our instru specks and disappeared entirely as u Lift up tilinu eye, aud aee; ments, tlie pigeon crate and ballast, in gray veil of cloud intervened, and they Look Ihri.uch the night and seal ) cope f au instant. The loss of so much weight ■ « WIIH ruf .y J floated alone in the ether. Thu »hadoiv.’dic, I ho light is nigh caused the balloon to rite at once and And full lay walieth thee. The search hail liegun. dash away again, going higher every > BE CONTINUED. J What time t aou lookest, lo! the dawa moment. I was almost crazy and lost Light, all tho gleaming shore— control of myself. I looked down, and I “The I»« > i iu the land!’’ readily replied Light, mountain, plain aud shore. CHARTER I. fancied I saw lights and dwellings WOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS. Cale. • Anyiliing in reason from aoda Take up thy c rown—the cauw la won; TH I MF.SSAGK. down in the canyon, people and cattle Thy InnT fvatchnight is o'er. crackers to canvasback ham. We're Virginia Penny, 1« Whom All Women The sun had just sunk l»**hiiid the running about when the lightning il ( liiir.TA Lomu: Cntt.nz. Owe a llelH. ont of whiakv, but there's jot« of beer in hills, leaving Evans Gulch in a soft camp vet. Come in. stranxer. while we lumined the scene, but as I knew that it Forty years ago the ocenpations open shadow aud its prominent citizens in a was an uninhabitable wilderness I laid An Ear test Woman Udi lor. to women were three—housework, sew brisk discussion on the merits of an <>I<1 lie your boss.” Mrs. Haryot Holt Cahoon, editor of This proceeding, however, the strauger it to excited imagination, and I knew ing and teaching. They dij not do map which Sheriff Woodruff had pro . directed and assisted in explaining that that poor Gilbert’s bones would be much nt teachiup except in primary the woman’s ¿»age of the New York Re duced to confirm one of his statements. lie feare<l lest unpracticed hands might whitening under the burning snu in a schools. About this time Virginia corder, has co^ne to tho top in journal An old map it looked to be: greasy ami few days. It was impossible to help ism in a most ¡unprecedented manner. marked by the fingers of imMy pros, cause the loss of precious gas. He then him. 1 could only hold on and let the Penny, a gentlewoman born mid bred, Her literary career commenced in the entered the building, a one story struc became interested in the industiial ad pectora; almost aaancient in appearance ture, with a very wide doorway, where balloon drive. It became frightfully vancement of her sex. She liecaxne Chicago Herald, and in America, the Mun Egyptian papyrus that had lain cold, aud I found that I had also dislo convinced that the glorious world of weekly jourmi.l of Chicago, her articles pretkYbd closely to ths bosom of a mummy the faro tabk», in full view of tlie street, cated inv arm. ! occupied the central spuce. xvith many achievement, held a future for ambitious appeared side jiy side with those of Jos for ages. Yet the sheriff had sworn by “After a time 1 became unconscious Howard. IleA short stories and novel- it for years, and he dared to produce it stools and narrow chairs scattered about. and fell to the bottom of the car, which girls as well ns boys. She believed that The lean boy who had first espied the the time had come for opening to wom and lay it side by side with one of the Avas covered with ice. When I recovered government’s newest, that was aimobt balloon had been dispatched to procure consciousness 1 found myself in the en new avenue, of self support. With the guest some lunch, and he made such thia belief came tho resolve that she as unintelligible from its plexus of red, haste that he returned with it by the hands of a Mexican cattleman, on whose lierself would do what she conld to blue and green lines, dots and sjieeks, time the stranger ha«l seated himself. ranch the balloon had descended, near Al- ward opening these new paths. Then squares and circles, figures ami names. Surrounded by the crowd of rough, long buquei*que, New Mexico. I was with him she threw lierself into the task with all The sheriff proudly slated that his haired and bearded men he presented a for several weeks, very ill and delirious the enthusiasm of a gifted woman. At map was made in thirty-seven, a fact striking contrast to them iu his neat at most of the time. But I recovered and her own expense she traveled throughout that, for him, was proof of its virtues, tire. Had he walked into Evans Gulch returned to San Francisco, where, to my the Union, visiting factories, schools aud for he believed that a map, like whisky, iu a Norfolk jacket, knee breeches and surprise, 1 fonnd that all but one of the commercial establishments. There were gathered a virtue with years. It showed a cork helmet it is highly probable that carrier pigeons had returned before me. not many railroads in the country then, vast vacant Npacrs marked ‘ unexplored he Avould have met with a far different I heard nothing of Eric and naturally and no elevators at all in business territory,” and in spite of the fact that reception and been treated with the mourned him as dAd, for no man could houses to shoot yon up ten stories the chimneys in Leadville smoked in the scorn and contempt of the entire popu exist in the region three days. It is a in half a minute. Miss Penny jour distance, three miles away, where his lace in their own wild western way. waterless, burning, alkali desert. “Now for the strangest part of my neyed by stage and wagon and elimbed reliable map showed an arid region, he But his attire was befitting his advent, the staircases afoot. She met and still affirmed his faith in ii. 1I<* had his the first of the kind that the Gulch had story: braved insult, snub and sueer in get supfsirters. three or four, who swore by been treated to, and the Gulchers saw “One evening two weeks ago I ob- ting information. Of these slie took no rhe sheriff, and they stoutly backed him nothing inappropriate in his costume. served a carrier pigeon, evidently a note, but she did make careful note ev in his assertion that ••there’s just as stranger, endeavoring to enter my coop, Balloons were unique, so were bal- many unexplored tracts in this ’ere loonists’ clothes, was the natural ver- with a message fastened lo his tail in erywhere of wages, facts and possibili country as ever—or nearly as many diet, unspoken, almost unthought, Yet the usual manner. I went up and let ties—all that, could liear on the question anyhow." ('ale Whitley had the ma all eyed him curiously, while kindly, and ' him in and recognized him at once as of woman’s work. The information was jority with him as with fluent gestures waited impatiently the completion of bis the bird that had failed to return. My written out in forceful, elegant English aud few words he spread the new map, modest repast. heart sprang up in my throat, and my and published. It was issued once, I re member, under the title, “Five Hundred gaudy, butterflylike, on the faro table MRS. HARYOT HOLT CAHOON. His eyes were busy, too, roaming I hands trembled so that I could scarcely and said scornfully. “Put your thumb frankly from face to face in a way that 1 detach the message. It was written on Ocenpations for Women.” It opened the ettes have been translated into French eyes of thousands to the opportunities on a spot, where there’s no names of somehow told them he was “sizing them j some kind of a small akin and read thus, and appeared in the Parisian journals. that lay before working women and all hills, towns, rivers or camps!” The up,” as Cale expressed it afterward, for here it is.” In all her writings there is discernible a aronnd them. But. this fine, strong book sheriff, whose thumb was none, of the glancing at the faro table, the specimens Pierce took from his pocketbook a vein of sentiment that marks her ever profited its author scarcely a dollar. smallest, would have found it a difficult of quartz, porphyry, lead ores and car white parchment and unfolded it upon as a stanch advocate for women. An task even hail he essayed it, but he bonates upon the narrow shelf on the the table. The others watched hiniAvitb She spent all her money in preparing it earnest lover of home, her Sunday even and lost her health besides. Happy would not deign to bestow a glance upon wall ami the big broken roulette wheel an intense gaze. Then holding it up to ings, when she receives her friends, are working women are following in the the ‘‘circuschart” as he called the paint in the corner,tilted up on its side to af the light he read: crowded with welcome guests, children paths she pointetl out, some of them ed thing. ford more room to eager gamblers around “H. R. Pierce, San Fraucisco, Califoruia: and elderly people living conspicuous in All Evans Gulch knew what this dis the faro table. “If you are alive, help me. 1 tun in a city of earning »3,000, ».5,000 and »10,000 a the number. "My first duty.” she said, year. Miss Penny is destitute. I found cussion was about. Jt was an old sub ancient people in a canyon, latitude thirty- When he had finished (’al»* tossed the “lies in my home, mid it is here 1 find ject, and the new map had been pro paper in which the lunch had been three degrees thirty minutes, longitude thirty» her tlie other day living on bread and strength to enable me sneer., fully to degrees thirty minutes west from Wash coffee, and even that had given ont, and cured as a clincher to Cale's oft repeated brought into the street ami said: “Now, two ington, as near a* I can make it. There is nc combat with life's lined work. 1 have assertions that “the whole country was stranger, let’s hear your story. This i.s way of escape. The people know of noothei she liad tried to borrow twenty-five found lnv work nml will follow it." explored, and no use talkin." A few of the first time we've had a balloon up ' world or race anti believe me supernatural cents to buy more. She is sixty-five . C. M. W. but it can’t last much longer. There’s million^ years old. We women must raise a fund the least interested stood on the out- here, and we’re naturally interested.” of dollars here in solid gold. Il will pay a re to make Virginia Penny's last days com WouK'ir Traveler». The stranger, with a good natured ! lief party. The population is about twenty- It is remarkable what travelers women smile, looked around at the eager, toil ■ five hundred. I have learned the language fortable, and we must do it at once. I anil written a book that will make people ’ s will take charge of it unless some bet hardened and sfn hardened faces—many i eyes open. If this falls into the hands of any are becoming. ami how many of them of them—ami began: white man, for «¡od’s sake forward to II. R. ter way can be found. Any sums sent travel alone. No longer do they need a to me I promise to see faithfully turned protector—they can assume tho role “My name is Fierce—H. R. Pierce, of | l’iercc, San Francisco,or,if he is missing,scud E ric L. G ilbeut . over for her use. Address Eliza Arcliard themselves if need be. Railway con San Francisco. I left Deiner the day I help to me at once. Conner, 89 and 31 Vesey street, New “ Well, that's all there is of it. I am ductors say they travel about almost as before yesterday in the balloon, aud was carried south till near < ’olorado Springs, I going to find hint, and you are the kind York city. freely as drummers do, and everybody where the current changed and carried I ! of men 1 should like to have join me in When men go to dressmaking it is must admit that this is making the sex the endeavor, for I believe he is alive. I time for women to go into law and gos me northwest. I was compelled to re-1 more independent and self assertive than main in the car. tlu* nature of the coun i believe every wor<l of this message. 1 pel. our grandparents would have dreamed try not permitting an easy landing. I I should like to have you organize a wag I have heard of u society woman who possible. It is not so certain, however, am making an attempt to cross the con on train and search for him while I studied law in order to make herself that its members will therefore make tinent in a balloon. That i.s my story, make the attempt in the balloon. It’s more brilliant and accomplished in con better wives ami mothers. gentlemen, all there is of it. ami I thank risky, I know, but I’ve a feeling that it versation. It is better to know some In her enlarged sphere woman has in you for your kindness." will succeed. I lielieve that it was the thing, even from such a motive as this, eomo instances become a shrewd dealer Finding so tarn»' an explanation of the I same city that I saw as I was whirled than not to know anything at all. and capable of driving a sharp bargain phenomenon, most of th»» crowd soon dis-1 I away that night when we struck the When I see a girl stenographer going with the best of men. Yet what will persed. ' cliff. As I figure it, my friends, tho lo- this sharp practice culminate in, trans Cale Whitley and the sheriff somehow ‘ J cation of this unknown city must he in to her work alanit half past U in the mitted to a son or daughter? Should felt themselves to be in a measure | the Sau Francisco river region, one of morning, wearing white gloves, a bunch one be considered an alarmist, who Pierce’s hosts, and felt I he impropriety of i I the most inaccessible places in the of artificial violets in her buttonhole, would look forward to the penitentiary indulging in Evans (inlch's only amuse- i United States. Jr lies north of Fort her hair curled all over her head in a for the young man by whom this feel inent while their guest refrained there-! 1 Dorie, where, I think, we might make way that indicates an hour's use of allot ing is inherited, ami in whom it has iron, and wearing little toothpick point from. The car irax tlanhctl atiahad the ground j our start, and is bounded by tlie Black been cultivated through several genera with tnich force as In t'hroie Gilbert out. When Pierce inquired for the hotel I j river on the north, the Gila range on the ed, peg heeled shoes, so tight that she tions? In the present age, and with our cannot walk at all — only totter — I know they both “smiled loudly,” and stated ! 1 west, and on tho east by th? Rio Salarosa skirts of the little gathering, half in the that that girl will never be a successful present environments, it is a painful wide doorway, watching, with idle that the pla»-e had not risen to that dig and the White mountains. necessity for many of our girls and business woman. smiles that now ami again broke into nity yet—fourteen saloons, nine faro “Clifton is the nearest settlement, I young women to struggle with the world laughs ms either disputant scored a banks, a postoffice, a provision store(also believe, to this arid wilderness, and I Mrs. Emma Beckwitli lately gave a and fight their way. point, the big. quivering, fat figure of a saloon) and a •■lockup" constituted, find that the chances for a successful lively lecture before the Brooklyn Phil They are forced to give and take hard the sheriff—bis red brown face, covered apart from sundry quartz crushers, the balloon search would be best if begun osophical association on “Woman in knocks. Each one must take the place with freckles, pursed up into oleaginous entire borough; but they wished to “ex in that locality. The air current seems Politics.” Mrs. Beckwith is a strict of some man or be pushed aside wrinkles as he listened—ami (’ale’s wiry, tend to him the hospitality of their own more steadily southwestern than other Republican, but she says when she con by him. When such girls become nervous form and excited ryes as he ‘shanty’—the best, in the place too.” wise, and I wish to start from there. It siders what man's “protection” hsz done shrewd financiers, driving hard bar ran his thin, calloused bands through Thither they conducted him at once, is a ♦ougit country in which to travel, for women it is almost enough to make gains for a dollar or a dime, every one his long, leather colored hair. The ar seeing therein a way out of their di from all accounts, bur. I think we can a free trader of her. recognizes that ir is—necessity. But if gument was emphasized, punctuated lemma. lor they both felt the agony of overcome all difficulties, and the venture Tho Roman Catholic college of St. this capacity for making close bargains and rounded out at frequent intervals witnessing the game while being pre will pay us if successful. 1 want to Francis Xavier, in New York city, has is to become a national characteristic of by the most, astonishing ami unneces vented from playilig. make a business proposition to you our girls and women, one of the sex’s »ary profanity. A long, rambling conversation ensued, without calling for any feeling or sym made what really seems to me the most greatest charms will have disappeared. Remarks of a highly personal nature during which the characters of the two pathy on your part at all. I will give advanced step on the woman question R. B. interlarded the discourse, ami names men unfolded themselves to Pierce’s you each ten thousand dollars it' we suc that church lias yet taken. This is and adjectives were applied with an un eyes, and he recognized their thoroughly ceed in rescuing Gilbert, and five thou- nothing less than admitting women to A Crescent City Beauty. conscious natural freedom that won Id practical American worth. The sheriff sand if we fail after making all proper its free post graduate course in moral One of the most beautiful and accom philosophy. Father Halpin, vice presi have arnaz *tl any one nuused to Evans was transparent; simply a big, good efforts. How does it strike you?” dent of the college and lecturer on moral plished of the many belles of New Or Gulch. But remarks as to one's mo natured Jerseyman by birth, who had Cal? had already felt his blood stir leans is Miss Helen Pitkin, daughter of rality. sanity, parentage or nativity, lived in various parts of the west since with the spirit of adventure and had philosophy, was the first to give his as Hon. J. R. G. Pitkin. United States en when applied as aids to the <q»en discus boyhood, having made several small for made up his mind long before Pierce sent to tho petition that women might voy extraordinary and minister plenipo* sion of a subject, were unnoticed in that tunes. spent them ami expected to make ceased speaking, and as lie concluded attend. "I have no jiersonalobjection,” he said. “It only lacks precedent.” locality, ami were considered only as so another—a tyt»e frequently to b»» found said emphatically: Archbishop Corrigan was consulted. He many flowers of metaphor, brightening all over the continent. Cale Whitley “I am with you. heart and soul. It’s laid the matter before the superior of the dull path of logical argument. So was not so easily read. He was more just th? kind of work I need, and I be Cale Whitley, in applying to the sheriff beneath the surface and was harder to lieve this old gas bag here is as anxious the Jesuit order and in due time sent an autograph letter to the brave young the title of a “driveling old windbag,” get at. but Pierce had seen too many men as I am to undertake the search.” woman who had applied to him inform in nowise reflected upon hi* official ca- of learning ami refinement adrift in these ! The sheriff, slow minded, as most men ¡►acity, and likewise, when the sheriff western wilds to prol>e too deeply into of his size and kind are. was. however, ing her that her request liad been grant pointedly pronounced Whitley ••an es any mystery he might imagine in Cale’s as willing as Whitley, but he was older ed. A graduate of the Harvard annex caped lunatic from sonic eastern asy past. H»* was content to find in them and more lethargic, more prone to see is among tho ladies availing themselves lum,” he did not in the least influence both materials that lie might use. It the difficulties, if not the dangers, than of this opportunity to obtain instruction the opinion of his hearers, who knew was nearly ten o’clock when he said: Cale. and. too. he relished the ease and from the accomplished scholar who lec Cale to be a good prosjiector and min ’•I am here for a. purpose in which you comfort of the seinicivilization of Evans tures on moral philosophy. Bachelors eralogist ami a man of varied accom might, if you are inclimul, aid me ma Gulch, preferring it to hard riding and of arts who take the course and pass plishments. I terially. it’s rather a long story, but I hard sleeping on the sunburned plains. examination successfully receive the de gree of master of arts. Standing nearest Io the door, with his will make it as short as possible.” For him, however, the money considera ~//¿A face turned upward toward the western He lighted his pipe, as the other two tion was the motive power; the prize was A girl BOinetimea fancies she is dying -I sky. stood a lean, tall liov watching the had done, ami smokctl a few minutes in too glittering not to be worth an effort— of a broken heart when it is simply a golden light wear off the hilltops ami silence, while they <lr«*w their chairs such plums came in his way all too rare case of amentia. Girls with plenty of turn leaden in the fading of the day. closer. Then he began: ly nowadays—and he signified his assent rich red blood never die of a broken His face, which was neither dreamy nor “Two year.« ago I ha«l a balloon made by asking Pierce how soon he wished to heart. When we fancy ourselves pass bright, wearing rather a listless, tired ami left San Francisco in the month of start. ing through a profound emotional expe look, suddenly fillet! with startled and i June, with the wind taking ns rapidly “At once," he answered. “ rience of any kind it is a. good plan al MISS HELEN PITKIN. fearful awe as s|wrchles* he raised his I eastward. W itli me was a young man lin nt is prrciou*. While we ways to ascertain whether we are not tentiary to the Argentine Republic. hand and pointed toward the sky. The named Eric Gilbert. He was a I »out Gilliert may l»e in danger. 1 merely ana»mic. Miss Pitkin is a decided blond. She is man nearest to him. who hatl ¡»een an thirty years old and one of the bright some way. and 1 ani anxious The voting women of Boston are not stately, dignified and particularly grace interested listener, catching the aston est men I ever knew. A linguist, a work." Besides conversing fluently in falling off in numbers as much as they ful. ishment ami terror in the buy» eyes, scientist, a mechanic, an artist; in fact Cale's mind had been busy for some ____ turned quickly, ami a shrill shout es he waspossvssedof more practical knowl time on the pr»d>leni. and bringing ont were. This year 10.ism of them regis French. Italian and Spanish. Miss Pitkin caped his lips. At the same moment a edge and cultivated accomplishment» the new map was intently studying its tered. a gain of almost I. imio over last performs beautifully upon several mu year. sical instruments. She is also not un hoarse sound of many voices arose, and than any other man I have met; one of lines, in which th? others joined him. known io fame as a writer, her contri all hurried to the doorxvay to behold the most daring yet genial, good tem 1 always like to recall an extract from Before them in imagination spread sweeping up the s 1 o | nj an object new to pered fellows in the world. He was the desert of the San Francisco—only a Mrs. Potter Palmer's strong and grace butions having graced the pages of sev Evans Gulch. nearly six feet in height ami weighed little space npou the map, but full of the ful little speech at i he Columbian cele eral prominent magazines. Miss Pitkin It was a large silk balbwm. The «lying about a hundred and sixty pounds, and unknown and mysterious, surrounded bration in ( liicago: “Even more im has dabbled in amateur theatricals, and •nil’s rays, already lost l»ehin«l the hills, | he was an athlete* ten». He couhl shoot by lines ami «lots, with oft heard, well portant than the disi-overy of Columbus several comediettas xvhich she has writ fell on its sides, causing it to resemble a well an«l ri»le well, just th? kind of man known names printed lH*si<le their. It is the fact that tho general government ten have received favorable mention huge ripe pear hanging in th? blue vault I in fact to undertake such an adventure seemed impossible that there could be a has just discovereil women. It has sent from competent critics. The basket hail a solitary occupant, as w? meditat«*d. It was to cross the city full of inhabitants in that little space out a flash light from its heights so in The I»ctl icatory <>»le. who was making signs to the people at ! continent to th? Atlantic, and for a and the world know nothing about it. accessible to tis. which we shall answer Diparliug from the precedent estab the eastern end of the gulch to catch liis while all went swimmingly. But Pierce declared that few people had by a return signal when the exposition lished when the preliminary arrange anchor rope. They stood in amazed de ••\5«» had rrossed th«* Rockies success ever penetrated even the border land of is opened. Whst will be its next mes ment for the recent dedicatory cere light. however, au l the monster t ain? fully and were in tilt* Wasatch range, or this wilderness, ami that it was extremely sage to its?” monies were made, it has lieen decided sweeping along, the rope s end trailing rather l»etw<*?n the Wasatch ami the probable. It is reported that a woman has been to pass by the younger aspirants for the up the street until Cale, seeing the ob Elk mountains, when the current, which Not for an instant did these two men. elected road overseer in Clay county, ject of the aerial voyager’« shouts and had lieen almost uniformly westward shrewd and wily a* they nndonbtedly Kan. If she is one of the many women laurel wreath and request the veteran signs, cried: for days, suddenly changed ami carried were, shaiq<ened by the grinding of years who are kept closely at home on the Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to furnish an appropriate ode for the May Day cele “Get hold of his rope, lmys, ami atop ns «lown toward Arizona. We were not of struggles, question his sanity or sin farm for six months of the year liecanse bration of the opening of the exposition. him!” alarmed, although onr supply of water gleness of purpose. They somehow felt of almost nn]>assable roads, she will It seems to lie the nnivcrsal opinion of A moment more a laughing, rolling was somewhat scanty; yet the gas held i at once the honesty of his aim and* ob make good* use of the opportunities af the directors atid of the cominissioners mass of men hilariously fumbled over ont well, and we knew that we would j ject. and debated only the Ijest measures forded by her office.—Woman's Journal. that the last member of America's first each other in their efforts to seize the •trike water at intervals. We had on to insure their success, and l»efore they It is lietter to teach u woman liow to school of great writers should be paid rope, like a lot of frolicking hoys, and board when we start«*«I a dozen carrier i slept they had forme«! their plans. earn money enough to buy a new dress this compliment. an instaut later the giant mass swayed pigeons, seven of which had already A week later fonml them together at After Miss Harriet Monroe had been and tossed a few feet from th? ground been released and return?«! home. than to tell her how to make over an old Tombstone. Arizona Territory, gather commissioned to prepare the dedicatory in front of “Keenan's joint.” E liza A rchard C oxxiol ’’We released one in the Elk moun ing up a wagon train—men, horses ami ode. and until the young lady had her The aeronaut, leaning from his laasket tain* just before the current changed. self disarmed criticism, many harsh car. directed them to draw him down, We drove south all »lay. passing over provisions—for the expedition. Another Displaying a t.rnin. for Trading. week and the big Ivalloon swayed and things were said of the committee's ac and alighted among them with a grate the wildest ami most magnificent canyon Lewis Strodtbeck left Martinsville tion. In this case it will l>e iuipissible •truggle«! at its moorings as though ful word of thanks. He was a man of scenery at a high altitude, in a cloudless yearning, like an impri.««»m*d Uni. toMmr three mouths ago. Up to this time he for the most exacting to find fanlt with about forty five, brown bearded, pale ■ky. until nearly sunset, when there aloft on its errand, surroumle«! by a crowd had been looked upon as a little Ires the choice. Tins has lieen the idea of aud serious, but there was a firm look cam? np a terrific storm. of men making betson the snccesaof the than incorrigible lad. He is alxmt six- in his blue eyes that showed pluck and “In spite of our attempt to rise above undertaking ami giving large raids teen years old. When he left with a those who have made the decision. No direct promise has been received from skill, and his month, « lean < nt. a trifle it WH were hurl?«! along with dreadful lot of gypsies lie hail a good suit of Dr. Holmes, still it is nndemtood that if thin, but graceful, gave evidemvof de velocity and fonml ourselves nearing against the retnni of th? airship. At the same moment almost tin* |M»opl?of Fort clot lies, anil thrre ended the extent of termination and perseverance. the request is made he will consent to the earth rapidly and in danger of being Bnrie were watching a little train of pock hi» pon . .session-, u,. trailed his cli ches Tlie first w«>n1a of th? aerial visitor dashed against th? enormous cliffs of, serve the exposiiion. It is also said that mule« and horsemen climbing th? moun for an ttifrriorauit anil a p of ahorse. he will make the ode his final master after thanking “the la »vs’’ were enrthh the canyons. wh«><»> cavernous depths I tain. with th? sheriff in the lead, going t*im a then |lt. ;!ajl pmvni tiunaelf an and fleshly. yawned below us. The lightning flash?«! I north umi waving their hats as they aihrpt nt tradim. and tolar Ire owns » piece.—Chicago Inter Ocean. “Can I get anything to eat here, gen around ns, and 1 feared every moment vanished beyond the distant hilltops. To at I Digrotton take one Small nite Bean Matanrant in Viimain.■«, Eva hones. and tiemen?” instinctively addressing Cal? ! i that the halloon would l»e set on fire. It after eating. ttie. per bottle. Cale sat in the car. cool and calm, an-1 dotho to wear to clintrh.—IndL-uiapn- Whitley. became darker every moment, and swering with pointed western sarcasm i lú Journal. • ""‘I General De bility . Small Bite Bean,. 25c. per bottle. gl. if THE WOMAN MEN LIKE. I She Muwt He Cheerful, Tactful. Sensible and Sentlroeutal. Avery remarkable personage, who was called in her tiny and by competent crit ics the most brilliant -.roman in America, aaid once to a young girl admirer, “My dear, if you aspire to the position of ra- vorite with men, be n fool! It «tight be objected that this bittei outburst was the result of tentperamen- I tai rather than intellectual differences, as in the cane of Margaret Fuller, whose tactlessness anti not her wisdom formed an obstacle to friendship. The first men tioned woman, however, differed widely from Margaret Fuller Sho was cheery and sweet tempered as well as witty and amusing, only—and therein lay very possibly the secret—she had not an atom of sentiment. She was a good comrade to men, but when the sense of fun was strong upon her sho would laugh at them as well as with them. Aud this is an offense for which it may be doubted whether the offender is ever forgiven or forgotten. Men like a jolly woman, but they rarely love her. They laugh a good deal among themselves, and feminine jesting appar ently is considered rather weak diet. Then, too, it is apt to be tinged with satire, and that in itself is terrifying to say tho least. Yet its untithesis—fault finding, querulousness or the mildest expression of sorrow—they flee from as from the jaws of death. But men don’t like a fool! For a fool is apt to tease aud torment in ti thousand forms, like u human gadfly. It requires not a little intellect to know when and how and what to speak, also how to sup press one's knowledge. To be brief, tho woman who is a mas culine favorite is invariably cheerful in public, keeping her woes for private con templation; has tact enough to manage a state; cares a great deal more for dress than she pretends; is never monotonous nor slow, although she scrupulously keys her voice below sharpness or complaint; will not fur any consideration speak ill of a friend; asks a great many innocent questions, and none that may be difficult to answer; can mako others do the talk ing and exploit themselves, while she serves only as a whipper in, and last, but so far from least that it is the mosj im portant of all, cultivates all the senti ment of her companion to the utmost. This ideal character is not only liked by the other sex, but, what is infinitely more to her credit, she is loved by her own. Infinitely more to her credit— Mary Clemmer wrote of Alice Cary and her strong hold upon all the lives with which her own ever came in contact, “For a man to love a woman is of na ture; for a woman to love a man is of grace.” R uth H all . for Infants and Children • ■ Ca.to.la la «o well adapted to children that I recommend It aa .upertor to any prescription known to me." 11. A. Aucur.'i, It. D-, 111 6o. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. X. The u«e ot ‘ Castor!»' is so universal and a- uierita so well known that it seem» a work ^.^wJttontoendorwit. Fewatwthe MMUnnt famine« who du not keep Castuna re«h?; -New Vork City, tatu Pastor Bloomingdale Eeformed Chuixh. Castorin curse Colic, Oonstlpatlon, Hour Stomach, Diarrhö»». Eructation, Kill. Wonne, given Bleep, »nd promot« Without Injurious medication. “ For avverai years 1 have recornmfo your ‘ Castori». ' ami aliali always conUs, do so as it has invariably produced bng results.” E dwin F. P àrdbs . M. D, “ The Winthrop, 1 ISth Street and "th An, New York (j. T ub C kntaur C obvahv , T7 M urray S trut , K rw Ydi nsumption 71 That dreaded and dreadful diseasel What shall stay its ravages? Thousands say Scott’s Emulsion of pure Norwegian cod liver oil and hypophosphites of lime and soda has cured us of consumption in its first ¿ages, Have you a cough or cold acute or leading ? Make no delay but take to 'consumption coi* 1 Scott’s Emulsion euros Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Scrofula, and all Anaemic and Wasting Diseases. Prevents wasting in Children. Almost ns palatable as milk. Set only the genuine. Pre pared by Scott A Bowno, Chomlsts, New York. Sold by all Druggists. \£s X’í.W Sqrtt’s Emulsion — g g errh SS HAY-FEVER ‘ j W C old head Mrs. Frank T. Lynch is editor and proprietor of the Leavenworth Standard, supporting herself and two children. Mrs. Lynch is a granddaughter of Hon. 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If your face appears in a fashion magazine over a dress pattern of a gymnasium suit, a full dress costume, or anything else the fash ion designer cares to represent in the line of women's clothes, all yon can do is just “to grin and bear it” and sav nothing at ail.—Nev.- Orleans Times-Democrat. P resident C. W. Eior The Forum A h Ainuaing Newspaper Blunder. Edmund Yates writes: ‘’One of the most amusing newspaper blunders I have recently met with occurred in con nection with the manifestations at Brus sels. On the line of the route followed by the procession stands a marble statue | of General Belliard, a Frenchman, who fought at Waterloo and died in 1832. Somebody placed a universal suffrage placard in his hand. Upon this the Paris papers, misled by a telegram, an nounced that the insurgents had at tacked the king’s escort, seized General Belliard and forced him to carry a sedi tious handbill against bis will.” "TnE FORUM ia to the United State» what T hk N tne . 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