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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1893)
LÌ» PL¡PPÍ k Ó t T ü )M^^ fiPUDLIMD ^5PKIAL4CTWW~MTñTrSO CHAPTER III. It was close njam 11 when at length he quitted the house. The mood of the night had changed. A light drizzle filled the air. A red vapor rolled across the sky, broken in places and giving glimpses of deeper lnnrkiness lieyond. Fog horns bellowed from the river. Freight trains like dingy serpents crawled past the western boundary of th« college campus and went hissing into the fog. Hejauised irresolute for n moment after the gate clanged liehind him, then crossed the street and entered the college grounds. An unquiet spirit possessed him as he strode along the familiar ¡«ths. He was ouly a trespasser in this place where hitherto he had roamed at will, but whether he was seen or not was of little consequence. He had escaped from lus qniet room into the wet, massy darkness to question himself. The vapor that garbed every tree in ghostly robes, the light sweep of the wind passing his ear like a woman s sigh, the peace liere and the reminders of life on the river and market places lieyond were nil old and dear to him. They had helped him be fore. It was not of his rejected play he was thinking. Somehow the keenness of the sting left by failure had subsided. Iu fancy lie saw a woman's face—Virginia's face. It seeimsl to float ls-fore him, sometimes the eyes hidden as with a veil, sometimes the sweet, proud month. He was tilled with this new feeling that in the twinkling of an eye had rushed over him. Was it love? Love! Oh, the ecstasy ringing in the soft vow els as lie murmured them in a tender semitone! Hitherto he had written of love, had believed that he understood it. But to night in every fiber he felt the illimita ble, untranslatable difference. He had been like a blind inun dwelling on the beauty of the light be had never seen—a stay at home describing the marvels of lands never journeyed through. His heart had been sleeping while in his writings lie had prated of passion. But this sweeping forgetfulness of self even in a bitterly critical moment; this reaching out to and flooding immersion in the personality of another; this mad ness that shook him, trailing its seduc tive sweetness over his sonl and making him light headed; this insistent burning in his blood; this yearning newly born— this was love. He flung himself into a restful position against a tr-e and looked over at the win dows where at times Virginia's shadow touched the shade, liis face had grown haggard; his eves were alight. Oh. he loved her! It seemed now he had always loved her. “To tell her—oh, to tell her!” was his nnuttered cry. “Oh, if I had something to offer worth her taking—not my beg- gar's portion. not 11 le ashes of my dreams, Virginia—dear, tender, sweet voiced, strong hearted Virginia, I am not fit U love you,” And now a state of feeling lieyond ex pression or definition as-ailed him and held him as in a coil. It was strange, subile. exqniifltely sad. The mist and rain were part of it, the blustery dark ness, the troubled breath in the trees, the longing and indecision in his soul, the ache of passion, the ambition so limitless and unavailing, the dull acquiescence of the conquered. How merciless destiny seemed in that moment! How empty the world! The race so long, so tiring, ending—even at the best—in what? He was stirred to an ecstatic sadness. Something vital quickened in his coa- sciousness. The serenity of his fair, untempted years sank from sight, and he seemed to look down an illuminated ddpth into the very heart of life. Love and death were there; agony and sin; joy, derision, temp tation, despair; the curse of the suicide, the laughter of young girls, the sorrow that cries in the night. It was all so ter ribly clear. It racked him, inundated him, knitted itself to him. One after another faces arose, young and old; hands seemed outstretched. He heard words that contained the glory and tire of diamonds, so real they were, so trenchant. Oh, if lie conld but write them as they thronged into his mind—if be could tell the wonderful story that unfolded itself ls-fore him like a scroll upon the darkness—might not some stand and listen? Heshivered and looked around, emerg ing from his waking dream as from a trance, and almost startled to find him self alone. What was this marvelous change? He seemed on the threshold of a secret, the door open to his hand. lie was as one born again under new conditions, with keener faculties for reasoning and feel ing. A fire had touched him—a fire of love. It lightened the dark places of his nature, melted the crust that held the currents of knowledge imprisoned, and he felt stimulated to walk victorious where before he had stumbled. He thought of . he play that hut »short while since had been so dear » thing to him. Crude, false and sterile it seemed now. And yet to venture egain—dare he doit? Even while he questioned he knew lie must. Hix fingers tingled tograspapen. The delight of the artist, the creator, quivered through him. It was tempered by a sickening edge of dread, but still it was delight. In a little while lie was again in his own room tearing the leaves of tlie re jected play to pieces. He flung them into thegrateand tonched them with a match. "Virginia was right." he said, his voice broken, as if he had run a long way. and indeed his inner self had journeyed to far, undreamed of heights that night. "Yon are false. Notaword of you shall “Veil are faine Eat a word of ynw shrill lire.” He stood with bowed head watching the papers. They rustled in a swirl of wind and flame, snheided into spasm, «lie flickerings. and nothing waa left bnt a handful of charred fragments light ae thistle down. "Qod. help xae! (live me my dream.” as she »poke—look»’ until *icr eyes fell under the tire in bis. “It happened this way,” and Mr. Kent ambled drowsily on, ignorant that the splendor of youth and love was eddying in warm glances around his frosty head. “I had just cashed my check and was walking up Broadway. As I came near Bond street I chanced to look up and saw an auctioneer’s flag over» dim shop in a basement. I went down. The place was packed, the bidding was brisk. Pieces of quaint pottery went for a song, old min iatures. shawls and rugs. I went nearer. Ah, how I longed for money, money, money!" He paused, and Virginia gave an un easy glance at the package. DOWN TO DEATH. A Bit <4 Word Painting that Bring« a Shud der to the Header.« It is three o'clock in the afternoon as ' the race is finished—a race which be gan six hour» ago, nearly fifty uillox away. Over the barren plain, over the ridges which remind you of waves, across th« narrow valleys and dry ra vines, the scout has ¡kept the lead to the dozen Indians who have pur mail him. For the first ten miles it wax a hot race. Then the scout and warrior drew rein to husband the strength of his horse. They had bins cut off' from the fort; be was heading for some spot where he might get cover. Here is th« haven—here at the foot of Bald Mountain. The great hill was in sight this morning when the yells of the Indians first rang in his ears. He has lifted up bis eyes every five min utes during the long race to scan its crest of dark pines, and w ish he were hiding uniting them. Ott'your reeking and pauting horse—turn him loose— and dash into the bushes which grow among the black rocks and make your way upward. You am only five miu- utes ahead of the first warrior, and he turns and cheers the others on. From the plain to the mountain— from the saddle to the cover of rock and bush. There is more hope now. At noon the chances were as nine to one; now they even up. The scout is no novice. The Indians know him for it veteran and a cool hand. He made uo mistake in his riding—he did just the right thing in heading for Bald Mountain. He will take cover up there nnreng the rocks, and then let them look out. The ludains come up and throw themselves from the saddle and start up tli« mountain side at different points. Their aim is to get on the right and left above anil below him. He cannot fiud cover against their bul lets when they have him thus sur rounded. It is a still hunt now—uo war hoops, no shouts, not the sound of human voice among the pines. It is a quarter of an hour before the report of a revolver is heard, and It is yet rever- Is-ratlng among th.i rocks, when there is a yell from every Indian. The scout had his Winchester in his band when lie started up the mountain. He has lost it as he leaped same of the yawn ing fissures in his path, or he has struck it against a rock and the mech anism will not respond to bis touch. A revolver, a score of cartridges, a ref uge behind a rock. The scale tips the other way again. If he lets them get above him he is lost. He realizes this and advances. Up, up, over great ledges of rocks, between huge boulders, through undergrowth so dense that he has to drop down on hands and knees. With a little more start 11« could bear off'to the right or left and flank them. If his rifle was all right he would take shelter here rmoBg these detached masses and hope to stand them oft'. What’s this? His further progress is suddenly barred by a chasm, so wide that a deer would not attempt to lump it, and so dark that a shudder passes over him as he glances down. His halt Is a brief one. He follows the chasm to the east, but at the end of a hundred yards he stops again. Another chasm comes in at right angles and joins the first, as two rivers come together. The same convulsion of nature that heaved up these mountains wrought those deep dark Assures from top to bottom, The scout has rushed into a V-shaped pen. Retreat is his only hope, but he has not taken ten steps when the yells of the Indians prove that he is cut off'. There at£ but few trees growing in this triangle, and the half dozen boul ders will shelter the advance of the In dians. They yell and shout and show theinselves, but do not fire. They have the scout in a trap and hope to take him alive. He stands intheopenand raising his revolver fires every charge in it, but his aim is uusteady and the distance is great. With the last shot he hurls the weajion away and walks to ¡the point of the “V.” There is a rush to get nearer, but not a gun is dis charged. There is no escape for the scout. By this hour tomorrow they will have him a captive on the banks of the White river. The scout turns and notes them springing from rock to rock and from tree to tree as they close in around him. Captivity means insult, blows, death at the stake. The chasm means only death, and that will come quickly. The bronze on bis face fades away and lie catches his breath like one in pain, hut the weakness passes away in ten second and his eyes flash and his An gel's clench. The Indians are not a hundred feet away when he hurls a shout of defiance at them and turns and disappears. They rush forward with shouts of surprise and horror, but no sound comes up from the yawning gulf liefore them. They bend forward and try to pierce the darkness with their keen eyes, but th« black shadows hid« their victim and not the faintest sound come up out of the awful depths. Here are the victorious warriors, down there somewhere a mangled corpse. The race is finished and the hunt is ended.— Detroit Frqd Prrso.'. lie murmured, his Ups scarcely moving. A unstained buret of deep toned sound from ths organ floated to him through the closed doors. It thrilled him to the heart. He seemed to hear Virginia's stanch words in their delicate intona tions: "I lielieve in yon, Tom.” Louder the music rolled, higher, sint er, one keen minor note transc ending the heavier volume and crowning it like a star. The man's longing eyes brightened as he listened. The festival of harmony augmented his strength. His love rushed out to meet it like flood meeting flood. Virginia seemed playing a piean of sanc tified victory fit for a crusader who holds his standard aloft, though a rankling wound pales his lips. “There 1» somethhitf else I must tell you Ho would accept her message. first.1’ Until the last vibration had sunk to a “But you didn't buy any of those love caressing whisper he stood entranced. ly, useless things?” she luterjsrscd in a whisper. “You didn't, surely, dad? Yon CHAPTER IV. know the quarter's rent”----- The inspiration did not desert liim. All “Never mind the quarter's rent, Vir day and far into each night he wrote ginia. Yon always will drag in these with felicitous ease. No hint of his love purely private matters before our passed his lips to Virginia. Pride, with guests.” a promise of ultimate victory in its warn With a delicate impatience lie moved ing voice, bade passion wait. to the stove and hold out his white "You are nothing, yon have nothing hands to the warmth. now, but some day you will. Some day "Where was 1 when yon interrupted you may dare ask her to add her love— me? Ah.” and die took off his glasses, the richest jewel—to a measure already lightly flicking his coat sleeve with full." them, “I remember, I controlled my And so the time went by with an out self. I bought nothing until I saw a ward seeming of eventful quietude, and gem that almost made me give a cry ot October came. recognition. Against the red cloth in Virginia sat alone one bright after the lamplight and dust Btood a piece of noon. She was painting a panel for a statuary that I parted with in an evil fashionable shop that was pleased to ac day long ago.” He looked at both his cept her work and pay as little as was listeners with a dim smile, and his voice possible for it. Her head was bent low, became retrospective. “How it recalled and a lisisened strand of hair swept her the bright spring morning I pickedit up cheek. Her figure in its inclined posi in Paris! Ah, dear me! I commenced tion revealed a supple strength and com bidding for it. plete repose. “At last only one voice was heard The little maid who helped her about competing with me. The owner of it the house had departed, and the room peered at me through the crowd. I was quiet, save that a tiny white kitten peered at him. Who was it but the son purred before the stove and the clock of a dear eld friend! Ah, it was a sight ticked upon the mantel. And how a to see him look at me only half con clock can tick in a silent room! Ques vinced. 'Is your name Kent?1 ‘It is, tion it: it answers yon. Sit mute, and Snd you are Richard Monklow,' I an it voices vonr thoughts. Virginia laid swered. Well, he withdrew, and the her brush down and listened to it. There bust liecame mine. I spent the rest of was something pathetically childish the day with him. We lunched at Del- about her ws she sat there, her chin upon monico’s, played a game of poker in his her open hand, her dilated eyes couched rooms afterward. Ah, he's a tine fellow, under the delicate brows, mirroring the this Lieutenant Monklow. He's just left passionate regret that of late had poi the navy to inherit a great fortune. Oh, soned all her days. what a life he lias had! Teeming with She was not in Tom's confidence now. adventure, with experience. Lucky dog! She did not share his walks. The gay But opeu the packages, Tom, and see familiar companionship so unutterably ‘The Masker.' It cost me $60 to regain dear was end»!. He did not know—he it. What matter? It is worth hun never must know-how often she hail dreds.” crept to his door late at night to listen to In a moment Tom had the wrappings the scratch of his impetuous pen. off. and the bust was placed on a little Perhaps her words had stung him to stand. The head and shoulders of a girl such violent activity lie would soon leave gleamed whitely in marble. She was them to fight fortune in a wider field. A represented laughing with unrestrained startled breath broke upon her lipe. gayety, her eves hnlf closed from sheer What would this place lie without him? weariness of so much mirth, her curling What would her life be? The clock an mouth with its range of little teeth just swered with a cynical, knowing tick. showing above the small mask that one A shadowy wave of desolation rushed daintily curved hand had pulled down in over her. and the room grew dark. Her a capricious moment. hands fell down helplessly. The clock A lovely thing, indeed, but sadly out ticked louder, like a garrulous crone of place in that poor room. It seemed foretelling disaster. strange to Virginia that her father did "Virginia!" fell upon her ears with a not recognize the singular unfitness. soft suddenness that startled her. The The girl was laughing at them all! panel slipped from her knees, and grasp And to have spent $60 for it! Oh, it was ing the arms of the chair she turned her wanton, cruel! head to find Tom standing aliove her. “Touch it reverently, Virginia; it be .“I have lieen watching you for a fnll longs to my past,” sighed Mr. Kent. minute,” he said, throwing his hat down “But, father dear, how—how could Ind drawing over a low stool, so that he you do it?” she burst out with uncon faced her. trollable reproach. “Sixty dollars, and In the hushed, masterful whisper she so many things needed here!” recognized something unusual. Some Tom saw the old man's eyes flash, as thing unusual in his face too. Repres he straightened himself from the waist: sion was there, excitement, joy. “That will do, my dear. I do not see “I didn't hear you come in." Virginia that we lack any of the plain comforts— answered, her voice sounding thick and which, alas! are all I can at present pro far away in her own ears. vide—and if I choose to add a luxurious She half stoojied to draw back the trifle, sofnething associated with the dear piece of satin on which a bunch of daisies dead days, I will not,” he said in a clear, was still wet. He caught her hand and studied voice—“I will not be interfered with gentle fingers that brooked no re with. Now. if you please, my child, sistance took the thing away and placed we'll say no more about it. Whenever it out of her reach. you want to talk over household matters “Dear little hand!" and his voice was with me, I am always at your service— heavy with love, “dear, faithful little in private.” hand! Let it rest awhile here, Virginia." Nothing more was said, and the bust The girl shivered as one does who was placed near the melodeon. But rushes from a cold vanlt into the sun Virginia conld not bear to look at it. light. Poverty was biting, their needs urgent “Look at me!" she heard him saying and debt abhorrent to her. How many in a lial f suppressed voice of intense ex panels she would have to strain her eyes ultation. "I am the happiest fellow in over before half of $60 was earned. A New York. You told me you believed burning mist fell over her sight. She in me. Yon told me that. Oh, Virginia, looked np and met Tom's compassion how those words have staid with me! ate eyes. They counseled her to be pa And yon were right. I have succeeded. tient. Ah, what did these small briers My last play was accepted and by the matter since he loved her? man who rejected all the others." There lay her hope, her refuge. A boyish laugh of pure delight left his TO BE CONTIXI EIl. lips, and lie sank on his knees liesideher. "I'd like to set all the bells in the The Kneipp F r <I. cliapel pealing, call ont the fellows and You cannot lie half a day in Germany tell them the exchange was not so bad without discovering that “Kneipp" has after all. Not so bad. eh, Virginia?" he there become a great power. Half the asked, thinking how lovely were the population talk “Kneipp"—they walk velvety deeps of her eyes. “Kneipp." dress “Kneipp," bathe "It is so sudden, so strange. But, oh. “Kneipp,” feed “Kneipp," and the more there is snch gladness and light in my nimble among them even dance heart for yon. Tom! Tell me more, tell “Kneipp.” Ladies invite their friends me all about it." as a matter of course—just as naturally He leaned closer, She felt his hand as here they would to partake of a cup upon her shoulder, His month, in its of ten—to divest themselv»» of their shoes lithe, boyish curves, was very near her and stockings and indulge in a walk in own. the river or in some near pood. People "There is something else I must tell ; whose sleep is troubled, ns a ¡natter of you first." he said slowly. course, supplement their habitual “night- In that long, sultry look she knew all. l cap" with a “Kneipp" footbath—all cold Her pulses qnickened. a fire grew in her I —out of which they draw up their feet War on Closets. heart. He loved her, then? Oh. he did. I and calves, all moist and dripping, into he did! ■ the sheets which we lienighted islanders Of eourae, it is not easy to change Their faces were so close there was a i assiduously study to keep dry. houses already built, but I give a hint resistless impulse, a moment of con If you may believe the new god of toallwhoare building to suit them fused, delirious joy. and their lips clnng healing and his votaries, there is no com- in a kiss that drew Virginia's heart with ! plaint which "Kneipp” will not cure selves, not to have a closet in the house it. , from simple dyspepsia up to cholera and —at least not without a window. Phy Tom's lids fell heavily. He was very even lunacy. And it is all. or most of sicians condemn all dark closets as white. A great sigh came from his lips- ’ it, accomplisheil by water—a merciful haunts of vitiated air. Were I building “Virginia"----- I dispensation of Providence it may seem. there would not be a closet in the house Bnt thedooropened. Tom had scarce I under the peculiar circumstances her ly time to stand up Is-fore her father came alding an era of universal cleanliness.— unless it were large enough to have a «ash window. Have a trunk room and in. followed by a hoy with a package. Gentleman's Magazine. an airy linen press, if you please, where The old man was aglow with pleas- nrahls excitement. He eloeed the door the mother can sit and mend and sort Catherine de Medici’s Doctor. after the messenger, crossed tire room in Pharnelins. like many other physi sheets and table cloths in sunshine, but his graceful, stately way and shook hand.« cians. was much addicted to philosophy no dark closet. with Tom. and mathematics, but having taken to Instead, all bedroom« should have “I have had a pleasant day.” he said medicine he speedily attained a great hriskly. “Snch a deligbtfnl coincidence! practice. Henry II ns danphin and aft large pine or cedar wardrobes, with What would life be without the unex- erward as king waa his constant friend. double doors to open the whole front. Have yon ever thought of that, | Among the most grateful of his patients These can be made at the time of build ■ was < ntherine de Medici, who believed ing much cheaper than closet« can be 1 am thinking of it now. sir," and ha that his skill had saved her from a state built into the walls, ami they remain excbang.-.l «fleeting glance of arch mean of chibUonsnees. and who gave him on movable, always sweet and every way ing with Virginia. "Bnt I differ with the birth of her firstborn $10.000. order convenient. Added to this, clothes are yon slightly. Th» oaexpected can prove ing that a like sum should be paid to him —well, at »one i>v men'«—an ont and al the birth of each succeeding son or lietter kept from ifust and insects in them. They can be built quite as large ont nnisance." daughter. I think that Cardano likeil “When it's of in nnplmsnnt nature, Pharnelins better than he liked Sylvius. J as closetn,with a drawer for shoes.wbile yes. of course— ir »Uppers. Virginia— He says he wax a pale, lean man of about the top 1« useful as » shelf.— Chimf/a thank yon. my -ar—bat when it car 50. who loved his study and was full of Journal. ries you back lo a pleasant time and sur domestic affection. He was the profess The Anglican church has started a rounds yon vii.i happy memories—ah. or of medicine in the university and labor colony in South Africa, much like then!" the first court physician, but be must "Tell me n “»i.l Virginia have puzzled Cassanate greatly, for he that which Gen. Booth ha« projected ' had an undisguised contempt for court in England. society —Blackwood's Magazine. rut up In neat w«te«l-shaped hntttax.«■>««> •uated. 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Nay, it would be a distinct disadvantage, because it would render them liable to be robbed of their honey and pollen by in sects which are not capable of fertilizing them. I have ventured to suggest then that the closing of the flowers may have reference to the habits of the insects, and it maj be observed also in support of this that w ind fertilized flowers do not sleep, and that many of those flowers which attract insects by smell open and emit their »cent at • particular hours. Thus Hesperus matronalis and Lychnis vespertina smell in the evening, and Or chis pifolia is particularly sweet at night. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. U e Preneh—Yoc 1* r n e (i e e. In other words, vre will teach you FKKK, and atart you fn bunlnesa, at which you can ropiillv aatberin the dollan. Wo can end will, if you please,teach you quickly liow I to earn from ■a to S1O a day at the »tart, and- inore aa you go Ou. Both MIBB, • II ayes, in any part of America, you can com mence at home, ftiriiiff al) your time, or spare moments only, to the work. What we offer ia now and it haa been proved over and ovea again. Hint great pay ie ,ure foi every worker. Eeey to learn. No epecial abili ty required. IteaBonalile in dustry only nec- eeeary for euro, large cue cote. We etart you, furniriiing er erytliing Thia ia one of the great ------- ; ,---------- 1 --------------- at ridee foi we i d tn useful. Inventive progreea, that enriches all workers II it probably the greateet opportunity laboring people have ever known, bowk the time, belay meant loot. J-nil partlcuhre tree. Better write art once. Addreet, OFOKGF ÄLPREASb Oo.,HoX 4MA.r..rilnnd, WaineL' THIS W.^^Y b TF*»5 n . OU* lmhori«,’ii Ä i ..CSMSI STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES .. FINE imported FRENCH OPERA GI,ASSES. MOROCr-n HOllY, BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROJ1 ArlC... SB! IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADE» POCKET KNIVES......................................................................................... -J»l Ji2cK'-LU °OLD WATCI1 CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTII LARGE PICTURES (14x26 inches) IN ¿.EVEN COLORS'-, for I ramiuf, no advertising on them.......................................................... .................... $173,250 261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO The above articles will be distributed, by covinHes, amon? parties who chew SPEA1 HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the TIN TAGS t.iKen therefrom. We will distribute 2?« of these prizes in tills conn:y as follows: To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of i^PEAR HEAD w»«« TAGS from this county we will give.................................................... 1 GOLD WAHI To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of ZXT,T,„. SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPEllA GLASS....5 OPERA GLAM To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number . of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET 1,1 55 5.775 ’ 23.100 * 115,600 1 1 5,500 To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHABM TOOTH PICK........................... 100 TOOTH BCD To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending vs the next greatest number of HPE.AR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 LARGE PICTURE £N ELEVEN COLORS................................................ 100 PICTUli Total Number of Prizes for this County, 226. CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 18W, nor 1894. Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, too County, State, and Number or Tags in each package. AU charges on package» rnuai prepaid. _ READ.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than 1WM plug tobacco produced, ft is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest SPEAK absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other ping tows A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact It is the largest seller of any «»" shape and style on earth, which proves that it has caught the popular taste and people. Try it, and participate in the contest for prizes. Hee that a TiM TAG iaoaeij 10 cent'piece of BPEAR HEAD you buy. Rend in the tags, no matter how small ■ quantity. Very sincerely, , _ a « THE P. J. SORG COMPANY, M iddlito WI, 0» A Hat of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published in H sape>: uuucdlately after February 1st, 18M. DON’T SEND MT TAGS BEFORE JMUMRY I, 1834. aü D SMES TO FIND HAVE YOU TRIES ruomaafls of Cu -is ; rj ov. Helts are persoli» wlio have done BO, DR. SARDEN’S ELECTRIC BELT I DTX5XG S’CTSX’E j STSOIVZ’. The Crowning Triumph in Medico-Electrical Scieow It cures all diseases curable by Electride It is a complete battery, as used by the most physicians, made into a Belt, so as to W easily worn during work, or at rest. It giM i, soothing, prolonged currents, which can K carried to any part of the body where theft » pain, and will give instant relief, as ElectnOT permeates the entire system with a naturtl glowing heat, rejuvenating every weak orp* or part of the body. J Tlie Value of Old Books. A young man writes from St. Joseph, Mo., to a dealer in this city that he is offering for sale, through stress of hard times, a very rare book, presumably “the oldest book in America.” The vol ume is printed in Dutch, is in perfect condition »nd was published more than 300 years ago. The present owner, whoee letter proclaims his illiteracy, believes that he has n veritable treasure. He will lie terribly shocked when he discov ers that his treasure is worih in the mar ket not more than $5. Age alone gives value to but very few books. Yet the average person has an idea that if a book was printed long ago it must necessarily be valuable, and. what is curious, different people differ as to the dates that make a book old. There are those who fancy that a volume printed 100 years ago must be esteemed very old and very rare and very valu able. Others show you with pride a Hudibras printed—we will say—in 1750. or a Bible printed 200 years ago, and these volumes are cherished because of their antiquity. A very worthy lady living in Massa chusetts recently exhibited with an elab orate flourish a volume of sermons bear ing the date of 1785—a volume she rev ered, loved and treasured because of its age. A few moments later she gave up to the writer without any hesitancy a charming little 1827 reprint of the New I England primer.—Chicago Record. Karl's Clover Root, the new blood purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the complexion and cures constipa < tion. 25e, 50c and $1. Hold bv How i orth A ( o. 1 "•W, Improved, Patented Anni: Ine from Nervoi» Debility, RcminnI Wenknew, I s, Mervousnem, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, 6l<-epl<>aanem, Lame Back, Bacx. Kidngr »‘"‘T' * vm , or senerai 1» health, rexultltur from »'ir-taxatkmott’J cxoex«-«. worry or exposure, will fl nd a spe«J J.«*'" ’ i .““treious invention, which requires but a trial »»¡J •>u mav hav,Co*^!pt1'eal- J" I'1'1“'ignorance of effects or by fleet'leh f- l nC thu?mn»2y? "n<ljlZ dra.ned your system of nerve force and vitallty-jme r-k-mrai: l «»./raloif h« " nf force. If you replace into yqy.gjgL. health, atntigtliuiK: vL-or wll|BrAir”,U ."M1,orvlinro","tr”n,t’h' r0" wlllr''ro",v<’i2M!isl c. j “, v'i'J‘wil,1<‘ll"watonceun<llnanaturalway. Tbi.i.o.irplM«^“’“"“ robust les tuS "liror*i?tTi'l^}l ' 1 we have 5 <•«»•« throughout tluVstnto wh„°i^1lre!’iInent4 f-‘Ued, os enn 1» shown by bund"® bf eh««- r.- More Belts Made and Sold and More Sufferers Cured than by all other Electric Belts combined. __ yownq. '"id<lFr^£trt’^??Coldshould be you nutbiug, and be ThJXS'of’tiSiwu* Th* Greate.t Boon on T CENT ***?!_?2 B brings wealth, happiness anil fruitful nurd* READ WHAT OKNTLEMEN WNlTl US- IOUMAYwmTI TO them — se E BELOW. CEMERAL DEBILITY CURED. ..1>- T. "«"A". »Mr St, —R«rore I *‘*™r Ji»l.nd «In,«« . A»«»rt M, 1 ■** tn»ubi? d wHÌ 1ST lame back and rheumatism cured . th« stn.'inTcon“r<1*7 Sir :-TMr. of «rpw° hw5*i'o®«2 whirh /YlJirim! th*’nr of in engine, gavp me a ntrnoot C'-nfiHeacw in foartnmtmRnt r-«P**t- I har$tÍM from «dhdo. »J im i e ’ * d - f ream. ] wm bo bed that I coni I uthMowviUor O.11O« ma. Trnl,,onn., H. A.’BO w V n »'«Id »To "Ji! h',T" twodsw .nd? 1 on* of yoor bell«. H 7^« RHEUMATISM AND LAMEREBB CUB^ Ze two\^rs i ~r i t for f. mr months, hei ff pe f- «. belt weVT d I’frk. ,M we,‘ 1 •'** m -- it, i nd tf th«- w^.ia ♦ P* op,e who ,,nT* b"*'rt care*' by, V' 1 j In »h« woHii ' would find it the eanie aa I di<1 ouetwho w **«<•*• ir rm neetlv, «nd wUlJ* ’no w-nte to inquire ebon. it. liuUEFT b V h KEI a Engw^er LOST VITALITY AMD STRENGTH CUREO NERVOUS DEBILITY AND LOM Krrrett. W* lir. the«tr»n«th to meet ... Klertrtr « »nd to ,,e ***• bona ever <lTrn <• w s¡.sana» ZJÜ'SZ ar ca. SANDEN ELECTRIC CO., I7. Flrgt 8tr„,, PORTLAH_ OREC0K.