CHAPTER XII
A WILU50 SERVANT,
the.pver. And It wa» fortunate for the larger than au ordinary skiff, but as It
Sing soldier they did not, or he would was in a shadow he could not tell what
yer.even have got half a mile from kind of a craft it was. As it came over
the river at right angles with the shore,
the jail.
He sped onward, running and walking and Mark was drifting toward it, lie
briskly alternately, till he came to a soon found that he was iu danger of
pftce’where a board fence was capped meeting it iu the middle of the stream.
by*a narrow strip. He mounted it and The current was quite rapid, and before
walked as far as the fence extended, he was aware of it he waa close to the
per Veps'a hundred yards, hoping by this boat. Xt was evidently a ferryboat, and
means to’ throw the dogs off the scent Mark, who knew the location of Brown’s
fora few minutes, and thus gain a little ferry from the maps, judged that it was
time. Then he jumped down and hur- the boat belonging there.
But Mark was concerned with other
ried.forwaril. A man passed and called
to him, but he paid no attention to the considerations besides his location just
call, and the man stood looking after then. He was too late to get out of the
him, doubtless suspecting that the girl way unobserved by swimming aside.
He made up his rniud in a twinkling
Was a runaway slave.
At last the grateful sight of the river what to do. Drawing several long
met his gaze. It cheered him and breaths he filled his lungs with air, and
seemed to Hbckon him on to rest upon then ¡tutting his head down and his feet
its bosom, or, as an alternative with the up he threw himself under water. He
dreadful tragedy of the morning, to find had often been beneath the surface for
oblivion beneath its surface. Between a considerable time, but never as long
the riter before him, and the jail, the as now. He remained under as long as
dogs and the gibbet, for a time his feel he thought he possibly could, anil then
ings of hope and fear neutralized each staid awhile longer. When he came
other and left his faculties free to act to light again the boat was a hundred
yards above him and to the west ci him.
with perfect coolness.
Another mile brought him to an i dand.
He stood for a moment beneath a low
clump of trees on the bank listening Ho remembered it on his map ns Wil
and looking up and down the river. A liam's island, and knew that it was
boat was passing, and he felt it neceseury about two miles long. He recalled the
to wait for it to go by. He lost five fact that the only creek flowing into tho
minutes, but it seemed half an hour. river iu this vicinity entered it midway
Then taking off his dress and shoes and between the nortli and south end of this
bonnet he pnt the dress and the shoes in island, and on his right, if he remem
the bonnet and tied the strings around bered aright. He had about a mile to
his neck, resting the bundle on his back. go to reach the moutii of this creek.
Striking out, lie directed his course to
Going down to the margin, and again
listening a moment to make sure he was the eastward of the island and swam
not observed, he waded ont as far as he very near to the east bank of the river.
could touch bottom, and then liegan to Along this he flouted witli scarcely a
stroke, except to keep in close to the
swim.
As it was midsummer he had expected shore, watching eagerly for the moutii
to find the water warm. His expecta of the creek. Fortunately when he
tions were realized to a reasonable de reached it he discovered it, and where
gree, and he felt that he could remain he had supposed he would find it. With
in it a long while withont being chilled. a few lusty strokes he was in it and soon
His plan was to drift down a consider at a place where he could rest in tho
able distance. He might be expected to water with his feet on terra firma.
But the knowledge that the dogs
swim across as rapidly as he could, and
thd current in this case would land would soon be upon him prevented a
him perhaps a mile below the town. rest of long duration.. Perhaps a party
Those who would follow him with dogs would cross the neck of Moccasin point,
wpnld doubtless track him to the thus cutting off a greuter part of the
river margin, then take the dogs across long distance over which he had floated.
and endeavor to pick up the scent some The thought added new terror, and lie
distance below on the other side. Mark began to wade and to swim alternately,
had weighed all these circumstances, as was necessary, up the creek. Pre
and determined to drift down as far as sently he came to the crossing of a road.
possible', land at the mouth of a creek if He drew himself up on to it and looked
he cottld find one, enter It und swim or around. As a scout he had long been
walk up it in the water, thus rendering accustomed to keep his mind fixed on
points along the paths lie traveled, in
it difficult for the dogs to track him.
lie swam Blowly till he reached the order that he might know them again.
middle of the river; then, floating with As soon as he saw the little bridge—if it
scarcely any motion of his hands and could be called a bridge—he knew that
feet, he permitted himself to drift down he was on tho Chattanooga pike, over
with the current. A favorite way with which he had passed a few days before,
hint, when a boy, of resting in the and at the junction of the creek running
water, had been to float on his back. near the Fains’ plantation.
Mark had not considered what he
Unmindful of tho wetting he would give
the clothes tied around his neck, lie would do in case he should succeed in
turned over and drifted with his arms getting safely across the river. While
spread beside him, his eyes turned in jail he felt that once out and across
the Tennessee he would feel assured of
directly to the sky.
It may seem singular that a man who safety. Now this had been accom
was being carried from so dreadful a plished, he began to realize that but half
death should have thought of anything the battle had been won. Indeed there
else. But Mark did not want to think were more chances that he would be re
of it. He had never been unnerved ex taken than that he would ever reach the
cept after his sentence, with an almost Union lines.
He wrung the water from his clothes
certain execution before him, and felt it
best to let his mind drift into other and putthem on, shielding his face with
channels. Then danger is not, and was his sunbonnet, for, thougli he had no
not, especially with Mark, to be com mirror to inspect his features, he fancied
pared with certain destruction. Tho they must be streaked with burnt cork
soldier on the field of battle is a differ softened by water. Then setting out
ent man from one who awaits the bul toward the Fain plantation lie delib
lets of a file of soldiers drawn np in lino erated what he should do.
It was now between eleven and twelve
to take his life deliberately. Mark was
a changed man from the moment he got o’clock—so Mark judged by the moon
into the river, for he then felt that he being on tho meridian—and he knew
that all the Fains were asleep. He
had a chance fo. his life.
In the position on his back he could reached the corner of the yard and was
only look upward at the stars. Thero about to enter it when he heard a clat
was the great dome above him spangled tering of hoofs behind him. He had
with myriads of bright points and hardly time to vault the fence and crouch
spanned by the “milky way.” He had behind it when a troop of horsemen
always been fond of the stars, and in crossed the bridge over the creek. They
order to divert his mind picked out drew rein on the hither side not a hun
Borne of his favorites and traced a few dred yards away from him. Mark heard
constellations with which he was famil a voice:
“Lieutenant, take ten men and scour
iar. In this way he diverted his mind
the bank of the river from this on to the
until his nerves became quite steady.
His observations were suddenly next creek, where I will make another
checked by a sound. It was very faint, detail.”
The lieutenant with his men broke
but enough to freeze the marrow in his
bones. It was the distant bark of a dog. sway from the column, which moved
He listened and presently could hear forward, passing within fifty feet of
more. Evidently there was a pack. where Mark lay crouching.
Mark was for a few moments so com
They drew nearer. Then they ceased
for awhile. Perhaps they had come to pletely overcome by the narrowness of
the place where he had walked on the his escape that he seemed to have no
fence. Then the barks began again, power to move. If he had been five
growing only slightly louder as they minutes later, his capture would have
came, for Mark was floating rapidly beenalmostcertain.forthey would likely
from the point where he had entered the have discovered him between the road
ind the river, which space they were
river.
He involuntarily turned over on his svidently intending to scour.
He got up, and getting on the outside
chest and struck out lustily. The cur
rent was swift; swimming would not if the fence walked beside a portion of
add to his safety—it would only tax his it which led back from the road, design
Btrength and render him more liable to ing to enter the negro quarters in the
recapture on the other shore. Bnt Bwim rear. He feared that the dogs were
he must. With the terrible sound of loose in the yard, and that he would
those dogs in his ears he could not lie have trouble with them; ho thnrefiix
idly on the water and leave the current stole along till he came to tlie wares,
point to one of the negro cabins. A <’.<>
to bear liim onward.
Soon there came another cessation of sleeping in the moonlight near i ..
Bound from the dogs far above on tho house gave a low moan. Mark p.m. ..
shore, and Mark judged that they had »moment and listened; then e;i’ i
lost the scent at the place where he had the grounds he walked iu a stoopi.ig
posture, keeping one of the cabins I
entered the water.
Then he began to think of Souri and tween him and the dog. He wanted to
Jakey. What had they done to Souri reach the rear door.
Mark felt assured that unless ho could
when they had discovered her trick?
Would they pnnish her? Would they be concealed in some place where search
treat the boy harshly? He was com ers would not be likely to intrude he
forted with the thought that there wonld wonld be lost. He well knew that every
be nothing gained by this—it would not foot of ground within five or ten in?’.,
bring the prisoner back—but he mut of Chattanooga would be alive witli peo
tered a prayer for the girl who had ple hunting for him. The negro cabins
placed herself behind those prison bars, would not be safe, for no searching
wbo had^ incurred the rage of his jailers party would respect them. There was
but one chance for him. He must effect
to save him.
He heard no more of Uhe dogs and an entrance into the Fain house, and
floated on, swimming and’resting alter that with the knowledge as to iiis true
nately. The high bluffs of Moccasin character of but one ¡icrson—Laura Fain.
He reached the negro cabin and
poifit were before him on his right. An
owl on their summit, watching the ris knocked.
“Who dar?"
ing moon, occasionally gave a dismal
“Whar Uncle Dan'l sleep?”
hoot, the intervals being supplied'by the
“Nex’ to de lef’.”
melancholy whippoorwill. The current
Mark went as directed and called up
bord him on aronnd the point, carrying
hint in near the shore wihere lie had Uncle Daniel. He heard a movement as
>assed the picket with the sleeping of some one getting up, and presently
Jakey in his arms a few'irightri before, the old man stood at the open door.
“Uncle, I'ze got 3 message fo' yo’
close was he that he could see a man
walking back and forth oiq the very beat young mistress."
“Who from?”
of(the one he had-passed. _As he drifted
“De po’ white man what war hyar las’
away, he'saw the reliof approach ami the
week wid he little brudder.”
picket changed.
“Nice man, dat. Hab he got in trou
He was borneldirectlytnnder Lookout
Biouritain. and on downifor a miieito a ble?”
“Nebber mind dat, uncle. Go in de
point where the river’makes another
bend. Here the bank was low. and\ as house 'n wako tip Missie Lanra."
“Ain't got no key.”
Mark was getting chilled he swam to
"Can’t you wake up some one inside?”
thejtonthern bank for rest. He laid
“Why don’ yo’ wait till tnornen?"
himself down for a few (moments on the
“Can’t do dat no how. De message
dry ground, and then getting ttp walked
back and forth rapidly, swinging his mns' be giben at once.”
“Waal.” said Daniel at last, “I do what
arms at the same time toj restore circu
lation and fit him to endure a longer I I can fo’ dat man; he berry fine gentle
stay in the water. He looked, about for man ef he war po’ white."
Mark followed the old man to the rear
some piece of wood on wltichlhe might
float farther. There were logs .of vari door of the basement. On the way a
ous sizes scattered aronnd, bntjmost of huge dog bounded at them, but seeing
them were rotten. He was so nnich at Daniel his fierceness ended in play.
home in the water that lie was not dis Daniel succeeded in waking a negro
appointed on failing' to find-me suitable woman who slept within; the door was
to his purpose.
opened, and they stepped inside.
Plunging in agaimlie movobon down
“Go tell Misaie Lanra a railed gal
past the bluffs at therfoot-|of the Raccoon want to speak to her right off. Say she
mountains, swimming on his clmst inost got message from de man what war hyar
of the time and keeping a. lookout before wid he little brudder," said Daniel.
“At dis time o’ night?”
him. He had not passed any bo»Us. at
least none near liim. and. did not fear
“Yas; de message mus’ be delibered
this danger, but die wanted to keep his right away," said Mark. “Don’wake
surroundings well in viw in order to no one but Missie Lanra. Tread sofly."
know his location. The moon was now
The woman lighted a candle and went
well np, and he conld see quite distinct off with it grumbling, leaving Mark
ly, Below andito hia right a boat was and Daniel in the dark. They waited
putting out from the «east ehore. It was for perhaps ten minutes, when ther I
watchin fur a chance ter giv y’ my
clothes ter go out with.”
“But what would you and Jakey do?"
he asked hurriedly.
“Th' ain't goen ter hang a boy or a gal.
Pertend ter be sick termorrer ’n ask fur
some medicine. Mebbe they’ll send me
ter git it."
With that she went out. When Mrs.
Triggs came in she was bending over the
stove.
“Whar's the Yank's supper?" she
asked.
“Oh, 'twar gitten cold, ’n I toted hit
in ter him."
Souri made herself so useful that she
was permitted to stay about the jail the
next day. She managed to keep an in
different mien to all about her, but with
in there was a tempest. The next morn
ing Mark was to swing, and prepara
tions were being made for the purpose.
“If there war only time,” thought Souri,
“I mought help him away, but tomor-
rer!” and no one being near to see her
she wrung her liauds. There seemed
but little chance that, having only one
evening to effect her plans, she would
succeed. It could only lie by good luck.
In the afternoon Mark begau to moan.
Triggs went in to see him and asked
what was the matter. Mark told him
that he was ill. As the afternoon wore
away the prisoner groaned and moaned
till Triggs went back to him, and Ma.k
told him that he thought he was going
to die. Mrs. Triggs carried in his sup
per, but he refused to eat.
"What y’ got?’ she asked.
“Cholera, I reckon.”
“Good Lord!”
“I want some medicine,” said Mark.
“If you’ll send the black girl for it I’ll
pay you and her well.”
“Y* ain’t got no money.”
“Yes, I have, bnt y’ don't know whar
it is.”
Mrs. Triggs reported the matter to her
husband, who, fearing that the prisoner
would not be in condition for the hang
ing which was to occur tho next morn
ing, consented. Mark wns furnished
with a scrap of paper and a pen, and
wrote tl^' name of a mixture he remem
bered for cholera morbns. Triggs told
Souri to warn the druggist not to send
poison, for he feared Mark might be in
tending to make way with himself to es
cape the gallows. She was furnished
with money extracted from Jakey's boot
and hurried to town.
When she came back it was quite
dark. Only a faint line of light was left
in the west. As she entered she met
Triggs going ont of the gate. She quick
ly mounted the staircase with her heart
in her throat. As soon as she entered
the building she saw that Mrs. Triggs
was not there; she was in her room.
Souri went oil tiptoe to Mrs. Triggs’
door and looked in. The woman was
sitting on a chair by the window wait
ing her return. Souri went as quickly
as she could go withont being heard to
the prisoner's room.
“Medicine,” she said to the guard and
passed in without waiting permission,
leaving the door partly closed behind
her.
“Here, quick! A burnt cork. Rub't
on yer face,” she whispered.
Mark seized the cork and applied it.
Sonri stood in the corner with her back
to him, and taking off her dress threw it
to him. Mark took off his outer clothes
and threw them to her. Each pnt on
the other's garments, Mark inclosing his
head in the sunbonnet.
Looking the gratitude he did not dare
to speak; pressing her hand and carry
ing it to his lips, Mark passed ont.
The guard wondered why Sonri looked
so tall and strapping.
Going out of the door and down the
stairs, Mark went to the gate and walked
by the sentinel posted there, ns Souri
had often done.
The guard also noticed how tall she
looked and called to her; but by this
time Mark was well out of his reach
and pretended not to hear. The senti
nel, not thinking it worth while to fol
low and leave his ¡>ost unprotected, let
him go and thought no more abont the
matter.
Pressing her hand and carrying it to hl«
Up», Mark passed out.
Sour! determined to attempt to get
»{vice with the jailer’s wife. She
hoped that she might be received with
ess suspicion while the prisoner was
iway. Besides she must communicate
with her brother as soon as possible.
She went into the jail and found a
woman, whose hair was streaked with
¡ray, sweltering over a cooking stove.
"Y’ ain’t got no waslien ner liuffin fur
lie, hab y’?” said Souri, suddenly appear-
ng before her.
“No! git out o' hyar.”
“Any cooken?”
“Cooken? Can yer cook?' 1 don't want
io nigger to cook fo’ me, but there's nig-
¡ers in the ‘black hole' 1 wish 1 had
iome nn ter cook fur.”
“I’ll cook fo* ’em."
“Who owns y'?"
“I’ze a free nigger.”
“Waal, I ain’t got no money ter pay fo'
i cook, and I reckon I'll hev to sweat it
t Git ’long.”
“I don't want liuffin but sunip’u ter
eat. 4 can sleep at mv aunt's, ober de
hill.”
"Waal, take hold hyar fur a spell; I’iu
boilen.” And she drew away from tho
stove aud mopped her face.
Souri took hold and showed a pleas
ing aptitude at baking corn bread aud
boiling some coarse meat which sim
mered in a pot on the stove.
Presently the jailer came in, and tak
ing some of the food lifted a trap door
and lowered a meal to those below in
the black hole.
“Hyar's a gal,” said his wife, “ez
hankers ter do some cooken fo’ me.”
"Ain’t got nothen ter pay with.”
“Don’t want no pay,” said Sonri. "I’ze
starven. Want sump'n ter cat.”
“Waal, y’won't git much hyar," said
the jailer, “bnt I reckon it’s good miff
fo’ niggers."
So Sonri was allowed to help, but
there was no understanding that her
services should extend beyond the pres
ent moment.
She was leaning over the stove when
Mark was brought back. He had just
been sentenced, and there was a hag
gard, hopeless look on his face as he
passed the girl without noticing her.
He was pnt in his room, and it was hard
for Souri to keep from following to tell
him of her coraiaz- Jakey came in with
the party and w^it^vfth Mark into his
room.
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CHAPTER XIII.
In the afterflodn Sonri saw that she
must make work for herself or there
FLOATING FOR LIFE.
would be no excuse for her to stay nbont
the place. So, without saying a word,
she took a pail of water and a scrubbing
brush and began to scrub the Moor.
Then she suggested to Mrs. Triggs that
she sweep her bedroom. The woman
concluded that, as it had not been swept
for more than a month,^onri “mought's
well” do it, especially as the girl seemed
to be willing to do all this work for a
little boiled meat anil corn bread.
,
“Ye1 don’ look right smart, Miss
Triggs,” said Souri, after cooking the
supper and eating her share, “ 'n I don’
know whar I gwine t’ git any breakfast
less I come 'n cook fur y'."
Mrs. Triggs succeeded in getting her
husband's consent to Souri coming liack
in the morning, and tho man went out
to the gate with her and told her if the
guard did not pass her in to send for him. She took the candle and led the. way 10
She was at the jail bright and early
the dining room above.
and got in on telling the sentinel that
Mark had very little idea how long a
she was Mrs. Triggs’ servant. She time would elapse before it would be
cooked the breakfast, and when she saw discovered that Souri was in his place
Triggs about to carry Mark's meat and and he had escaped. It might Ire a few
corn bread into him she offered to do it, minutes, it might be half an hour, it
but Triggs paid no attention to the offer might possibly Ire not till morning,
and carried it in himself.
though of this he had little hope. He
Then she asked Mrs. Triggs when sho believed that within half an hour he
did her washing, and as tho old woman would be pnrsned. and as lie was well
had no regular time and not many acquainted with the methods in vogue
clothes Souri offered to do what there in the sonth at the time he knew he
was. When she went out to hang np wonld be traced by bloodhounds.
the clothes to dry Jakey was in tho yard.
He had lreen about the town enough
She' called him to her and in a whisper to know the direction of the river and
made herself known. Jakey, who was started toward it. During the tlay ho
wondering what had become of the mes had thought over what lie wonld do in
sage he had sent, was both overjoyed case Sonri'» ruse should Ixr successful,
and astonished. He turned two or three »nd made np his mind that any delay in
somersaults on the ground and other getting across the river wonld be fatal.
wise demonstrated his childishness to He was at home in the water, and de
Mrs. Triggs, who at that moment ap termined that he wonld not attempt to
peared at a window, bnt not before find a boat, bnt wonld plunge in and
Souri had told Jakey to inform Mark of swim for his life. The width of the
her presence, and that she wonld try to river at Chattanooga was only about
get into his room as soon as she could three-quarters of a mile, and Mark did
be intrusted with a meal for him.
not regard this a great distance for a
Again at noon she offered to take in good swimmer. Once across the dogs
his dinner, bnt without success. She wonld have to pick np the scent on the
was at her wits' end for an excuse to other side, and if he should permit the
stay abont till snpper time, but think current to carry him far down the
ing that Mrs. Triggs’ wardrobe might stream tl^ difficulty in doing so wonld
need mending she offered to undertake be greatly increased.
the task, and spent the Afternoon over
Though Markrii.nl lieen in prison bnt
the old woman's threadbare garments.
■ few days the transition from dnress
All this while Sonri was thinking of a to freedom was very grateful. It was a
plan for Mark's escape. She learned soft summer evening, and the larger
that he was to be hanged in a few days stars had already begun to shine. Cast
and knew there was little time. The ing a glance to the right he saw a streak
most natural plan under the circum of light over Missionary ridge and
stance« occurred to her—a plan by knew that before long he wonld be at a
which more prisoners have made their disadvantage from the rising of a full
escape than any othr one method moon. He walked briskly whenever
walking ent before the guard in women's any person was in sight, and when he
clothes. Souri determined, if she could thought that he was unobserved he ran.
secure an entrance into Mark's room at When he first left the jailyard his heart
any time after dark, she would give him was in his throat. Hi.« agitation dimin
her dress and snabonnet and leave him ished as he proceeded, and in five min
to make an attempt. Then she began to utes he had come down like one in a
think over a plan to gain an entrance st race to a concentration of all his facul
a specified time.
ties-» gathering of all his forces forth?
In tho evening her patience was re stmggle between life and death before
warded. Mark's »upper was standing on him. With these well in hand the
the stffva, Triggs was not in the jail, dreaded scene of the morrow acted a.« a
and Mrs. Triggs went down the stairs tremendous and effective stimulant.
outside to get something she wanted in
No one of the few people who passed
the' yard.
the strapping negro girl, whose face
Sonri canght up the snpper and walked was hidden within the bine check sun
straight past the guard into Mark's mom bonnet. dreamed that a Union soldier
with it. Mark, who had been informed was passing; that the scaffold was being
of her coming by Jakey, was expecting cheated; that a messenger with the se
her. When he raw-the mulatto girl lie cret of one of the most important moves
grasped her hand.
any Confederate general had made or
“Souri! God bless you!" he said in a wasjieetined to make during the war
low tone.
wrongs way north in the person of
“I ain't, got no time ter talk. Fm the’Begro wofiian hurrying on toward
heard steps and saw the light returning.
The negro woman was followed by
Laura Fain, dressed in a wrapper. She
knew Mark from the moment she saw
him, but pretended only to see a negro
fijrl-
^41
“Hab message fo’ yo’, Missie Laura,
but cain't tell it to yo’ widout dese nig
gers git away.”
“Come with me."
She took the candle and led the way
to the dining room above, leaving the
two colored people below. Then she
turned to Mark:
“Why in heaven's name did you come
back here?”
“It was a choice between life and
death. I escaped this evening from Chat
tanooga, where I was to be hanged to
morrow morning. Every place of con
cealment on this side of the river will be
entered and searched. If concealed in
this house, occupied by a family of white
people and Confederates, I may not be
found. Otherwise my recapture is cer
tain.”
She thought a moment, rubbing her
palms together, as was her habit when
excited. Then she called to the servants
below:
“Go to bed, Uncle Daniel, and you,
too, anntie. This girl is worn out with
traveling, and I ain going to fix a place
for her to sleep.”
Then turning to Mark she motioned
him to follow her.
They went np two Hights of stairs,
stepping on tiptoe, and at last reached a
landing from which a pair of steps led
to a trap door.
“Go up there,” she whispered.
Mark climbed the stairs, pushed the
trap open and entered the inclosure of
the roof. Before lowering the door he
looked back to whisper a “God bless
you," but all was dark. Laura had gone.
Why U® rail««!-
Teacher—I don't see ^’‘“‘y/^own
you lately. You have
do
your lessons perfectly, and n
.
Lt seem able to
A«
no matter how much 1 explain it.
r°Hoy-No, ma am; but papa and ma«v
isn tanyboily home to
J , ra _
planations so I can understand
Good News.
_____
_
CURE
THAT
C ough
S hi lohs
CURE
Needed
Caller-Your daughter is .at1!)<r’®1.
now, is she not? I heard she
uuted at the Artistic literary und scicn
title university.
Hostess—She is not at home,
lias gone to a finishing school.
“Why, what for?”
“Oh, to learn how to cuter a room,
and sit down, and hold • fan. »»<»
blush, you know.’’—N- Y ■ eekly.
POINTS AND SAN FRANCIS^
TÄRRH
REMEDY,
lylgwuaran-
uloctor true.
ve you
Benedick—I’ll give you the money for
your shopping on one condition.
Mrs. Benedick—I know what that
condition is. That I don’t usk for too
Notice to Creditors.
Executor’s Notice.
CASTORIA
Sound from the steps—Zw«i-i—pp.
Voice from above—Tele off yo’ rub
bers ’fore yo’ comes in, Ruby. I don’
want dat hall ile-cloth all mussed up.—
J ud ge._______________
Infants and Children.
for
Not Always.
Miss Ruby—Wasn’t it sad about Mr.
Larrabee?
Mr. Gimp (an old bachelor)—What
“I’ll nevnh
anything against was it?
“He was married on Tuesday and
ladies wearing trailing skirts again, my
died on the following Friday.
dear boy.’’—Life.
“Yes, it's sad; but, then, marriage
doesn't always prove fatal so soon.”—
All a .'intake.
_____________ _
It was about 1:30 a. m. Mr. Rampo Jury.
came tumbling into the sitting-room
Futile Malevolence.
v.b?! > Mrs. Rampo, looking stern, for
“There were more than three hun
bidding and uncompromising, sat await dred people at Gibson’s funeral,” said
ing him. lfis left eye was frescoed in Watts.
black and blue, his right check was or
“I’m not surprised at hearing it,” an
namented with a large and imposing swered Potts, who had once bought a
knob, some of his hair was missing, one lot from the late Mr. Gibson. “They
end of his collar, crumpled, limp and wanted to be sure they had seen the
forlorn, stuck out appealingly over his last of him.”—Indianapolis Journal.
shoulder, and he had the general aspect
There Wai .More or It.
of a man who had gone head-first
Little Mamie, whose parents are
through a corn-sheller.
“Absalom.” exclaimed Mrs. Rampo, poor, is eating dinner with some rich
“you have been mixed up in a fight!”
relatives, one of whom says:
Absalom shook his lie ad.
“Well, Mamie, how do you like your
“No, Nanshy,” he said, with the slow, dinner—better than at home?”
deliberate emphasis of one who knew
“It doesn’t taste much better, but I
what he was talking about, “1—I don’t get through as soon as I do at
wasn’t in it, in' dear.”—Chicago Trib- home.”—Texas Siftings.
uno.
“Caatorla Is so well adapted to children that
I recommend ltas superior to any prescription
known to me.”
H. A. Ancirxn, M. D.,
Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Oaatorla cures Colic, Conatlpnin,
Sour Stomach, Dlarrbrea. EnicttUoa,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and pronote t
gestlon,
Without Injurious medication.
The use of ‘ Castorla * is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach.”
C amlos M abttx , D. D.,
New York City.
I»ate Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
“ For several years I have recommM
your ’ Caatorla, ’ and shall alwayi continue,
do so aa it has invariably produced beadm
reaulta.”
E dwin F. P abdh , M. D.,
“The Winthrop,” 128th Biroot and 7th In,
One reason why .S?a7’v Emulsion of Pure Nor
wegian Cod Liver OH r od Hypophosphites of Lime
and Soda has had such r. large sale is because it is
“Almost as palatable as milk;" but the best reason is
that its curative properties are unequalled, It euro
the cough, supplies the. waste of tissues, produces
flesh and builds up the entire system.
Mr. Wall Suppressed.
Mr. Wall—We'll have to economize
this year, Annie.
Mrs. Wall—Very well, dear; you can
buy my bonnets and I’ll select your
ties and cigars.
And Mr. Wall hasn’t said a word
about economy since.—N. Y. Herald
Hi: rd-Hearted Thieves.
Scott’s Emulsion cures Coughs,
Colds, Consumption, Scrofula,
and all Anaemlo and Wasting
Diseases. Prevents wasting In
Children. Almoat aa palatable aa
milk. Ort anly the genuine. Pre
pared by Scott A Bowne, Chemists, Now
York. Sold by all Druggists.
Scotti
Emulsion
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The Way to »Tork ft.
Anagreeable Laxative and NERVE TONIC!
KO H0ÄF^iLteuÄÄ
HAVE
f A
50c ELnffomWw^stSri^'ffi. 5fc
Aly stream Raimis not a liquid, muff or powder. Applied into the nostrihl»
quidcly abwrbed. Itcleante» the Mad, allay« inflammationy heali — a
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1.« V •< 5 Htior Lost.
''aiLEB TO fl*0 * OUREÎ
y our Vielte arc pirseno wlio lia ve done so»
SANDEN’S ELECTRIC BELT
---------- — STTSE’JSiTSOS.Tr.
The Crowning Triumph in Medico-Electrical Science!
It cures all diseases curable by Electric^
It is a complete battery, as used by the io**’
most physicians, made into a Belt, so al tow
easily worn during work, or at rest It gi^
soothing, prolonged currents, which CIO 7
carried to any part of the body where theft11
pain, and will give instant relief, as ElectricitT
permeates the entire system with a ntturft
glowing heat, rejuvenating every weak org®
<sr part of the body.
.UMHig-iii*: l*».
Agent -
here, my little man. wliat
bcuutif.i't ‘ i igs I have in ray wa on.
I’m selli i ; bicycles. Ask your father
if he d<K . t want to get ono for you.
Farm r !» «y—What's.the price?
Agent - i t i f I y dollars.
B g ,5 -Ph w! I say. Yon tdl pa that’s
a nev, Li .. tine for plantin’ pot toes
and maybe i.e’ll buv one.—Good News.
__________ xmaM
Mor«« Power NcvdcJ.
A Last flrwurce.
First Washington Correspondent-
News is frightfully scarce.
Second Correspondent — Yes. Ill
start the report that .Mrs. General
Logan is to be married again and you
can deny it.—Judge.
An Aatminiting Move.
First Statesman (blankly)—Say, the
farmers are solid (or free mail delivery.
They declare they’ve got to huve it.
Second statesman (du ia founded)—
Great Cm&ar! They'll I m * demanding de
cent schools next— G om I News.
'
j iorw, ab
111 heaJth’ r<*ulting from ovi r-taxationofW
. meut cure in thJ?
w«rry or exposure, will find a BpeedyiW««*
’ tbs moRtHknnti~,irnttT Ve,ous ,,Ilvont*on. which requires but
-
. may ha vo undJi^»«
,«nor’»>co of effects or by exceBR. orex^gy
¿/wr a, !.'
•' iscauwi yO“”
of nerve force and
'“'»e«!, which are i..nri21^%or,’’.ckof fopoe-
you replace into your
health,and vigor will follnwIftS? ior V **0^0« strength, you will remove the caujMj^
Dr. Sanden’c Electri«
,l,C0“tUna“tu™‘
Tbi»i.ourpi«te4«**
mb«t heaiih «»I vl«„rr»tter nluSi,™,Xpenment>
wc have res,ored tho?5!ii 3
More Bolte Made
and Bold and
More SulTerore
Cured than by
all other Blectrlo
Bolte combined.
strong leiiem bearing testimony to
Our 200 -__ —
Fou..w, miiMKgy»*»*
'
Anderson—My! Bow meekly your
wife obeys you. Is she afraid of you?
Billings—Not mneh. She's working
me for a new bonnet.—Texas Siftings
r tc«tiry, und from many of whom
recovery after using our Belt.
CUaaea of Men.” »hould be raid by."«?
gives teuthnonlnU from peoni» in nii
’.fut amlcil, free, it explains our plan of tnitoj*
tml 'ri’T ln N"” ™lfCRy?w"omw«ftn",nfrom all pi"™of tbecountry.lnfl**
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Boon on Earth la
EM en
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LAME BACK ANO RHEUMATISM CUREO.
RHIUMATISM ANO LAMENUS MJWO
’* “*
A Serious Matter.
“Hoffy's met with a dweadfully di»
twessing accident.”
“Deah me!”
“Ya-as Spwained hia cane."
“Howwiblc!"—1‘uek.
KewTekCg.
T b « C zstaub CourAirr, 77 Men bat S trut , N i » Y on ,
..j ^prtthizing• Friend— Your loss by
that burglary was certainly very heavy
—but you know what the poet says:
“Into each life some rain must fall.”
Mrs. De Luge (weeping)—Y-e-s—and
A Fatal Error.
Ringway—What’s the matter, old the mis—miserable thieves even took
my um-um-brella.—Puck.
man? You look troubled.
Featherstone— I have made the mis Dr. Mil«,’ New IïeartCare at Druirelata.
take of my life. You know I have a
rich maiden aunt who lives in the
country, and I sent her up a folding
bed for Christmas.
Ringway—Well, wasn’t she pleased
with it?
Featherstone (sorrowfully)—No. The
old lad.’ i • very angry. She says there’s
no chance for a m.m to get under
it.—Brooklyn Life
Minister—1 think we should have con
gregational tinging.
Organist—Then we must have a new
organ.
"Why so?"
“This instrument isn't powerful
enough to drown 'em out.”—N. Y.
Weekly.
Two Through Trains Dail J
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has been by the County Court for 12 45p
IV. Minneapolis ar 9
Yamhill County, Oregon, duly appointed 1 30p
lv. St Paul . ar 9
executor of the estate of J. II. \\ alker, <le- 10 laa
Iv....Duluth ar 11
1 50p
lv...Ashland . ar 8
teAl'l persons, therefore, having any claims 7 15a
ar Chicago lv
against suid estate arc hereby nodlled to
present them to uie. duly verified, ut tlie
1 ickets sold and baggage clieckeÄJ
office of McCain A Magers McMinnville, to all points in the I'nited .State,.., 71
Oregon, within six months from tins 11th da. Close connection made in (M m /!
all trains going East and South
day of May, 1893,
. v . twp
For full information apply t0_
DANIELA WALKER,
Executor of Said Estate
est ticket agent or to JAS. C PoviT
(len. Pass, and Tkt. Agt
McCain A Magers, Attorneys.
!
Pu’.’.i ‘-Spirited Citizen— I am taking
up a collection for a monument to Eli
\Vhitn<\Y. the inventor of the cotton
gin. (’un.u-----
ladignu t Old L:uly—For tho
sa’*e! T' < y II he raisin’ money iiext to
bui'.d a ru .mm.’nt to tho inventor of
peach hr. id \! You git out o’ here!—
Chicago Tribune.
8MS’'y"‘I'AMKTTEVAILlY
SH San Francisco
Krnn/.iu/.«,
», 1 I
Leavew
Leaves Yaquina.......
Thi» company rewrve, the riehu'?
sailing dates without notice. k ‘‘“'Ml
Wisconsin Central
“Say, chappie, old fel, how in the
leuco are we ever to get across thir
oeastly muddy street?’
Hotel Clerk (to wiki-eyed m
who
wants a room)—I am sorry. >i.- :.nt our
house is full tf> ovorllowinf?1 ulre;.d ,-.
Wild-F-vvl Man (producin ;< !d •...’di e)
— I m • oi;i, t<> stay here, anyhow, if I
have tt> sleep in a chair. Here s m.y —
Hotel < 1<
(looking ut it with
blanched luce)— Front! Show the gen-
tieimin !<»’-arlor A, first floor. Oblige
me, my deursir, by takingyour bag rage
with you.— Cnicago Tribune.
Ocean Steamer Sailing
Kiver Steamer».
Notice is hereby gir»» «}>“' .'Jaunty
Steamer "Hoag" leaues P„rUui J
"lfenediek-No; that you don't ask mo SBiESsus nesiluy und Buturdav atn a
M V
io go with you.—Puck.
,.i lojK Taylor, late of »aid county, ‘le
u i
J.1' 1 ' 1>4Y' °rn 1«
cesseOnd that he has duly qualified as
Salmon Street Wharf
Worth Womblp*
D. R. V avchx , (ien.jH
executor
Chicago Hollo—I fear you do not real- such
Therefore* all persons having claims
C. C. HOGCE,
ly anil truly love me.
against the estete of said decedent are
Ardent Suitor—1 worship the very herabv required to present them to the_un ____ _________ • orvallls, (¿¡¿j
dersièned at his residence near W Intesoli,
ground you walk on.
Chicago Bello—Of course. It’s worth in saffSuntv, with the proper vouchers
id
therefor, within s'x months from the date
S90U a front foot.—N. Y. Weekly.
of this notice.
Dated
May
lltli,
1BU8.
(Northern Pacific R. R. Co. ij
ON A R tlXY NIGHT.
A M. WADDSL. J-xeciuor
Runfeey <t Fenton, Attys for Estate. _ LATEST TI1-TE <- ia j
• BE OO M T U I UEll.]
“Have you fixed up my will?” said the
sick man to Lawyer Quill ins.
“Yes.”
“Everything as tight as you can make
it?”
“Entirely so.”
“Well, now, I want to ask you some
thing—not professionally, but as a
plain, everyday man. Who do you
honestly think stands the best show for
getting the property?”—Washington
Star.
Low Freighf Rat,
BETWEEN WILLAMETTE »Z
The Condition.
EVRIIYTHINO BAS IT* USES.
Anxious to Know.
Direct Line.
Quick Dispatch;
NERVOUS DEBILITY ANO LOH OF Vtoii’?G‘»EO “l “”ul
—
tw . dayw, and Y com 1 boM«ht one of your bells. It help^l
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"«at. to iiutuireabont It. ROBERT BtRKEte En«loe«r Hotal
t-OST VITALITY ANO STRENGTH CURED.
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fteu.forUt.Uu,. , ^■m-.bwre
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than bajor--m.
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c co., 17» First Street, PORTLAND, ORECON.