Are now receiving-their New Stock of Spring Goods, and have reduced thepriceon all goods on hand, so will sell good, stylish CLOTHING AT HARD TIMES PRICES! Look at those-------------------- FINE, LIFE-SIZE CRAYON PICTURES In their show7 window, which are given away With Every $25 Worth of Goods Bought at Their Store. Call and get particulars. Don’t tail to see our NEW SPRING STOCK, and Get Prices Before Buying. KAY & TODD, THIRD STREET, MCMINNVILLE. , great county of Kings. One of these monuments is of white ; marble and bears the name of Francis I Raymond. The inscriptions show that it was upreared by popular subscription. Mangan had thrown the charity of si lence over Raymond's record. The peo ple knew nothing of the politician’s se cret doings. The public manifestation ‘ was all they saw, and they considered his tragic end the natural result of men tal aberration, superinduced I y the ex actions of a public spiiit that assumed tasks of municipal development too I great for one man to fulfill. On Decoration day passersby drop flowers upon his grave, and the warden, morgue keeper and others who bad an in sight of his character, but shield them selves in not exposing it, stop there for a time to meditate. They are serving other masters now, are as useful to the new as to the old, and unlettered and unfeeling as they are they think them selves in the words of the fairy in i "Midsummer Night’s Drc-am:” pieil myself in watching the doings of I help him. I had n£5 not« in my pocket "Certainly I am,” I answered. | quind. It waH a cold, damp afternoon in Oc- The state finances in Russia are recruited the crowd which filled the upper part for which I had no immediate need, and I tuber, . "And anybody but your colonel would and we were lying half way be- i of the town moor. There must have been | 1 made up my mind that he should i tween Bonzonville and Gravelotte, about have recognized as much. 1 am an Eng : l;y a graduated income t ax, commencing at 200,000 peuple present on the stands j have it. As 1 did not desire to pose nine miles from Metz. The Prussians lishman and what 1 represented myself 1 per cent on lucontes between lJHMiaud h ^ uh I 3,000 rubles—a ruble equals 3s. 2d.—aud and in the t ings and on the mour, and as a benefactor, however, I resolved to were slowly advancing upon that city, to be when questioned. ” increasing at the rate of one tenth perceut A _ You cannot K from them came a perfect bable of "I am sorry for you, sir, ’ ’ -said he. adopt a little ruse. "Well, sir, ” said i ■ _ ■ hopetobewfcU» un every additional 1,000 or fraction of the air was continually disturbed sound, above which the stentorian voices I, "these fellows have swindled you, of and 1.000 rubles. A duty of a quarter kopeck by the vibrations of their canuun. A "I wish I could belli you.” of the bookmakers blended with the course. To begin with, you should not i regiment near which 1 had remained "Then promise to forward this packet —about one-tenth of a ¡Knur is al«o im shrill cries of catchpenny adventurers have talked with tho man who professed all day was engaged in skirmishing for me,” said I. "You can show it to posed on the eggs of all kinds of poultry, you are troubled witb-| which taxon food realize-several millions of al] sorts. Here two or three mem to know of a sure tip. All lie wanted operations with a French battalion, and yutir colonel if you like.” ' of rubles. Cycles are subject to a tax of bers of the three catd trick fraternity was your money”—•— He replied that lie would do his best COPYRIGHT BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. I(S. from the top of a slight eminence I was 8 shillings in France »ml of a similar were endeavoring to gull a group of BOILS, ULCERS ok ; "Helas! m’sieur, 1 am great fool— endeavoring to make an effective sketch to oblige me, and 1 set to woik ut my amount in Brabant round faced rustics; there a similar gang ' letter. I wrote out a full account uf yes, ” he interrupted, smiting his fore And they all knew what she meant— "They do thes-things lietierin France” of the scene. Suddenly a white fog PIMPLES, SORES were shouting the praises of a sort of head. "I have a head of wood. But rolled over the valley and wrapped both i iny afternoon’s adventures and ad- —or worse Adwrt< -vin -ut i in the form »your blood is bad. A tew bottles of 9. S. S. will» that tho reconciliation of Mangan and loulette table; yonder a betting man it was the desire to carry home much bodies of combatants in its thick folds. 1 dressed it to the proprietors of my jour 1 of ¡lusters and placards are required to (/thoroughly cleanse the system, remove all im-/ «burities and build you up. All manner ot btem-® Isabel bad given her joy second only to had screamed liimselt hoarse and was money to my spouse and to cry, ‘Behold I endeavored to regain my quarters, but nal. Then 1 took olf my watch and , liear u tax stamp in France, which is dis that of the two themselves. on trad« and publicity, iu reduced to shaking the money in his a fortune!’ ” the fog increased in density, and 1 soon chain and rings and laid them on the .tinctlyatax CLEARED AWAY | "There 1» something going on in bag as a nic-sna of attracting attention, letter, intendng to wrap them all up to Italy, where the people complain that the "And have you really nothing to go found it impossible to make headway by its use- it is the best blood remedy on earth*» which you are interested,” said Dr. taxes ate exorbitant, the volunt try taxes j Beyond the shouti’ig, swaying, bustling on with, sir?” 1 inquired. Thousands who have used it say so. . . « against it. For some time I remained gether. 1 had another l ing in my purse, paid by the poorer classes in th? form of Leland to Inez. •• My Liuod wa . badly poisoned list year, win ’> my\g crowd stretched a long line ot vehicles , and 1 drew the letter from my pocket Ho blushed and hung his head. "Ah, whole system out ui uracr di-.e»»'. i ar. 1 a constant sourceW motionless. The noise of cannon and amounts in a year to over £3,000,- "And what is that?” she inquired. ui suffering no appetite. enjoyment of life. Two bottle«^ of all descriptions, from the lordly look m’sieur,'’ he said, "nut a centime. It musketry died away, and I beard the and opened it. As I did so the bronze ' lottery >00. At Iasterza the Italians recently A “Well, Laurence and Isabel will wed < ease»- . rA ing coach to the farmer’s light cart, is hard work to live on ze £5 a month. bugles sounding a retreat on both sides. medallion eseajied and fell from the ta broke out in ojien revolt against the mu- EKKJi >11:. '.A', i'. ' tomorrow. Shall we fulfill our prom and on these men and women were And now I have gamble heem away, Then I determined to go slowly back ble to the floor. Tho young officer I nicipality, which had increased the hearth 1 lejtise M blood an 1 skin d. ,e.. mall- 11ree-< SWIFT SPECIFIC CO , Atlanta,Ga. 5 ise to each other?” eating and drinking and discussing my beautiful £5 note, and zere will be to my quarters near the village of Bon- stooped, and ¡ticking it tip laid it by my i tax aud took the civic buildings by as- She offered him hor hand and bent tho prospects of the favorite for the no money for ze baker, and ze butcher, zouville. Unfortunately 1 found it im haud. The light from the lamp shone , sault, wounding tho syndic, but they do her head as he drew nearer. He would great race. Across the course rose the and madame, my spouse, will weep, possible to decide which was east and full on the inscription. He uttered an ! not agitate against, tha lottery tax. "In old Madrid” in 1892 there was » terrible lift np her face to his, but she hid it on What fools these mortals be! long lino of stands, thicklj- ¡lacked with and—alt, wretched traitor zat 1 aw!” which west. 1 had been stationed on a exclamation and picked the medalliou and fatal rioting among the im-n and wo his shoulder, and he let her head rest The other monument, of brown gran- fashionable racegoers, and these made "Come, come, sir.” said I; “don’t round knoll or eminence, and 1 had up again. I looked at him in astonish men who hawk vegetables, ft nit and other there, whispering soothing words, while I ite, erected “to one unknown,” excites a dark background to the picture I had give way. Here, you stay there awhile, walked about its crown so many times ment. His face was flushed and eager. , articles in the streets aud markets, owing the tears, suggestive of her mixed emo I curiosity through its anonymity. It in my mind’s ej-e. and 1’11 go and see if I can’t recover during my observations that I was now He stared at me with wide open eyes. tu the imposition of a tax on Spanish tions, relieved her surcharged heart and frowns upon the “whited sepulcher” “Monsieur!” he gasped—“monsieur! hawkers. 1 was noticing all these things and tak your money. Which of the betting men unable to decide on the exact spot at carried on their flow the thoughts that i beyond. It was erected by Mangan over ing a sly sketch now and then of some was it that you gave your note to?” Ju 1889 M. Dunajewski. t lie Austrian which I had ascended it. At last, how For the love of heaven, tell me—thia ' minister brought happiness with resignation. : the grave in which rested the body that lace or figure that attracted niv atten of’tinance, who was described as "The gentleman called Old Toby ever, I came to a tree of which I seemed medal, whore did you get U ?” Sympathetically ho led her into the re I had been represented as Ins own. He tion, when I caught sight of a little gen from London, m’sieur. He zatt stands ‘the nimblest, politician iu the world for "The medal? ” 1 said. “ Oh, I got 1 inventing new taxes,” decided to tax the ception room, where she gathered ■ secured a plot without regard to loca tleman, evidently a Frenchman, who near the refreshments, with a wonder to have some recollection, and I de it some years ago in England.” i totalisateurs. or betting agencies. Total- strength to drive back the welling flood tion, and it was simply a coincidence Beemed very much out of place among ful hat upon his head and a long white scended the bill and walked, as 1 “ But where? ” lie said. “ Where, thought, toward Bonzonville. By that i isateurs areestablishi-d on all German and of feeling as slie said: that the two graves were so near. It the rough crowd. He was very neatly coat." monsieur? Ah, do not trifle with me — Austrian race courses. The system is to time the plain was quiet, and I heard "That promise is sacred.” was not vindictiveness on his part, but dressed from top to toe, but as he passed "Well, stay there,” said I. "and I nothing save an occasional faroff bugle tell me where. For, see you, monsieur, divide all the money invested on the io» “Sacred through him, sacred through there are some who. did they know the me I noticed that his black frock coat will see Old Toby and try to get your I am Jules Malan!” j ing horses among those who backed the onr own love." added Dr. Leland. circumstances, might take it as a visi was somewhat shiny at the shoulders i money,” and away 1 went tank to the note. I walked on for an hour through I looked at him wonderiugly. This, iv inner after deducting 8 per cent commis the thick white fog, seeking for some They all came in, ignoring the inter ble testimony of the certainty of retri and that his carefully brushed hat had crowd. But I had no intention of go familiar landmark. None came. 1 be then, was the Jules over whom the lit sion for the agency. There is no cheating ruption as if all had been as joyous as bution. certainly seen better days. He went in ing near Old Toby from Loudon, and gan to realize that I was lost. I stood tle Frenchman had waxed so eloquent or welshing possible iu the plan. A 10 per cent duty on winnings was decreed. In the beams that suddenly broke through In another cemetery a white shaft and out among the crowd, staring at after I had taken.a turn through the on the race course at Doncaster. France the parimutual, a similar system the windows as if the sun, as it is said points upward, towering gracefully the bookmakers and glancing curiously people I returned to the furze bushes ' and wondered what to do. Then 1 went "So you are Jules? ” 1 said. "Then to do on Easter morning, had danced j above the other memorials within the at the three card fraternity. I thought with niv own £5 note in my hand. 1 forward again. A church clock struck you are tlie son of the man who gave j of betting, is taxed < per cent, 5 per cent of whirh is devoted to the relief of the out from behind the clouds to cast its bronzed railing that mark the spot there was something wistful about his held it out to the little Frenchman, who I the hour, 6. close by. Clearly 1 was me that medal.” AND ALL (mor. Bookmakers are also taxed. There dazzling lights into the room and give to where generations of the Mortimers lie eyes as he looked at the gold which received it with extravagant expressions near a village. I came to a road and “ And yon are my father's benefac is also a municipal tax of 10 per cent de hastened along it and presently fell that circle of friends in the splendor of buried. It is to the memory of Philip those gentry displayed so lavishly. of relief and delight. i into the hands of a French picket. 1 tor,” he cried. "It was yon of whom ducted from the receipts of theatrical and its presence a bright omen of future Mortimer, erected by Dr. George Le Presently I lost sight of him in the public entertainments, which is also as- "There is your £5, sir.” I said, "and walked west instead of east. I was he told us that day when he earnu hottie -igned for bliss. the lieuefit of the unfortunate land, and on days sacred to the remem crowd, but about 10 minutes before the I hope you’ll never be tempted to bet I had from the race. ” at Gravelotte. have we not forgotten Mother brance of the dead—days around which St. Leger was to be run I saw him again.” “Well, this is strange!” said I. ! This revenue is principally distributed in 1 i > ays to St. "But The picket marched me into the vil Gertrude?” asked Dr. Leland. "1 the nation has thrown a sacred halo— again. He was engaged in confidential "But. come, tell me something about {the sha]s> of grantstu publiccharitii-s all 1 "Alt, m’sieur, indeed no! 1 promise 2 CHICAÍJO think I ought to state that 1 mean to four friends of ours, whom the reader conversation with an individual whom you on my sacred word, and I beseech lage and led me before their colonel, a your father. Is he Lack in his native 1 hospitals, thus making pleasure cume to live here in Brooklyn and that her in will recognize, place their floral offer- I eat down at onee as a betting man s ¡you to accept my”— Here he bloke tierce looking militaire, who glared at France? Is lie well? I liavu often the rescue of poverty aud the relief of pain, iu Sweden commercial travelers visiting from behind a table at which he stitution shall be my care.” ! ings on the plinth that rests on a sod tout and against whose wiles and bland off and looked fixedly from me to the me that country Lave to pay 100 kroner— was evidently writing dispatches. thought of him.” LI fitter» TheUuickest to Chica- This news had the effect of bringing i whose beauty Is evidence of care con- ishments I should have liked to warn note, which he had smoothed out. He : "What "Alas, sir, iny father is dead and my ¡iibout ¿511s.-—for every month or ¡.art ’ s this? ” said he. "A spy? ” Mother St. Gertrude and tho two girls 1 stantly bestowed. the evidently innocent foreigner. Pres ! turned pale, then red, then pale again. they may remain for the privilege n0uiS u°an,t,i,fl^a9i- Now, unfortunately for me, I cannot mother also. But let me tell you—we thereof together in a congratulatory embrace, They who are true to the dead are ently, however, there was a great cry transacting their business.—Temple “What’s the matter, sir?” said I. Ypeak French, but my knowledge of i prospered in England, tor my father I of Bar never false to the living. Mother St. i of "They’re off! ’ and I had to turn my ‘Isn’t that right?” Quicker to Omaha and Isabel saying: German is extensive. I replied to the . had money left soon after your meeting “And whatever 1 have is yours, Gertrude could tell you this if yon . attention to the race. "M’sieur!” He drew his little figure j colonel’s question in English. He shook : with hint, and he secured free pardon I nOnished Business. nOlllS Kansas City. mother, when you need it." knew the convent, had her confidence However great the excitement and to its full height. "Zis is n<>t my note. | for his political offenses, and we re- MaLel—V.'Lat is this pile of mauuscript What wonder the hours sped then I and asked her about the characters who uowever long it may have existed prior , See, I take ze nunibaire of heem—it is > his head. I then spoke in German, and . turned to Paris. We were very happy, Pullman and Tourist Sleepers, on the table’ ; his face grew dark. A soldier inter until they parted to meet the next day ' figure in this tale. ! to tho event which rouses it, it takes .’00317. And, see, ze uumbairu of zis preted my answer. I monsieur, until last year, and then my Old l.ady—That is a part of the Bible Free Reclining Chair Care, in the rectory, where the two weddings THE END. I but a few very brief moments to allay ¡.lute is 581683. Ah—m’sieur, 1 see Dining Cars. “So!” suid the colonel. “A pretty i parents died. They never saw me in which my nephew translated for the Sea were solemnized? it forever. Within four minutes of j tow it is! Your generous heart weeps j rtory indeed! He speaks German like j my uniform,” be added, with a broad Islanders 8. H, H CLARK. I There was no display in the ceremony. OLIVER W. MINK. '.Receivers "Why didn't he finish the work' ’ . smile, as lie turned the bronze medal ! the cry of ‘‘They’re off!” the horses ¿or my poor leetle Jules and tor ma- K. ELLERY ANDERSON,) A short trip had been planned, and aft "They ate han, my dear.”—Newport • bad flashed past me and past the win iame, my spouse, and you give me zis a native and professes to be an English For Rates or general information call on or a>l- er the marriage had been performed the News. ning post, and the great race was over, money out of your own pockeet. Ah, man. Everybody knows that an Eng dreu two happy couples were driven to the 1 strulled round the crowd and amused i beautiful sympathy, it makes mu lishman can speak no language other ODDTHrXGS LX TAXES W. II III HI.Hl KT, A Dog s Course IXnuer. railroad station to begin the journey of Asst. Oen. Pass. Agt. — TLe appetite enjoyed by a dog owned by The people who drop into niv studio myself by watching the faces of the , weep. ” And lie began to shed more than his own. An English artist, eh? the honeymoon that promised to be in 834 Washington St . Cor. 3d PORTLAND, OR. lieoplo who had lost their money and John Knox, a well known farmer of West perpetuity their own. ■ and examine the various objects of art the joyful manifestations of those who I tears. I turned to go, feeling somewhat See what papers he has.” 'GOVERNMENT DUES DERIVED FROM Manaynnk, is a matter of pride to the na I drew all my papers from my breast ’ confused. "Good day, sir,” I said. Mangan went to the bookstall to pro and virtu which a long life and a con MANY QUEER IMPOSTS. 1 lives of that suburb. It is a Newfoundland had bet successfully. I passed beyond The little Frenchman seized my pocket voluntarily and handed them EAST AND SOUTH cure some light literature and the little siderable success in my profession have the line of carriages and carts and hand. . dug of more than average intelligence anil "I zank you, m’sieur,” he said over. As ill luck would have it, 1 had et ceterua that suggest conversation and enabled me to collect together would no walked across the moor to the slight limply. "I zank you from my heart." that morning made a plan of the sur Ilali iiiumf Taxed Iu Some 1‘arts of I hlua. . rare digestive powers. < me day he si art. d VIA entertainment in travel by train. His hi.» lunch ou a box uf axle grease. Then he be very much surprised to hear hill at the bottom of the course, from "You are very welcome,” said I and rounding country in my sketchbook. Even Bread and Meat Rare Bad to Con entered the blacksmith shop of Samuel eye caught this flaring announcement doubt that of all my treasures there is none where there is an excellent view of i The French colonel looked at this nar tribute to the Revenue«—refer tbe Great Sturgis and ale with evident relish two hastened to leave him. in an afternoon paper: so dear to mu as the bronze medallion I the crowds gathered before the stands. pounds of putty. A visit to Wetherell's Before 1 had proceeded many yards rowly and nodded his bead. “As I “Raymond a Suicide!” OF THE Levied a Tax uu Beards. grocery store yielded him three pounds of Eagerly he scanned the successive j that lies enshrined within a crystal case ' There were very few people about the ke ran after me. “M’sieur,” said he, j thought,” said he. “What is thia but past it was deemed warranta tallow candles, which he devoured with head lines that hinted at the details. an my mantelpiece. Many of my visit- bill or the furze bushes which cover it, "take zis leetle object as a memento. j s map? Come, Mr. Spy, what have ble Iu to times tax salt, caudles, leather, brick, great gusto. Needing exercise after this, have glanced at it and turned away •md things were quiet there after the You will zink of Hector Malau and his | rou to say!” It would not do to acquaint the young i [ ore lonp. starch, paper and in 1652 even bread he ran over to Ryan’s quarry, where his to examina a rare bit of carving or an roar and bustle of the crowd. I turned gratitude when you see it. It is noth ‘ Tell the colonel,” said 1 to the in »nd brides with the news just now, and his almost meat. Peter the Great of Russia lev attention was attracted to a stick of dy Express Trains Leave Portland Dally priceless example of some for away to the left, intending to go into terpreter, “ that I am uu spy, but the ing — a leetle medal zat my son Jules delay might prompt leading queries as gotten art. To them the bronze medal- ied a tax on beards, with the laudable ob namite that was being thawed out near tho highroad and walk back to the tpecial war correspondent uf a great ject of making his sti bject s wash their faces the stove. The explosive seemed to suit to what was so deeply interesting him. 1 lion suggested nothing. Possibly they town, but I suddenly paused and hesi win at ze school, in'sieur. I zank you LEAVE. ” ARRIVE’ again, and I pray ze good God to re English newspaper, and that what I said and shave. Brass tokens areslill tube hi* taste, aud he promptly liegan tocruDch Portland.........6.13 P M I Han Fremisco..1045 A M He folded the paper, bought the sup- thought—if they gave the matter any tated, for there, close before me, was before is true. These are my credentials bought in that country bearing the wurds it. A stampede of the men followed. They ward you.” Fan Francisco COo P M I Portland..... ...... 6'20 A M thought at all—that it was some medal tho little French gentleman, evidently "Horado piguaia tingóla,” which menus were afraid to kick the dog away from his I took the little bronze medallion —bid him look at them.” ; won in my student days and therefore in distress. He sat on the ground behind which he put into my hands and went Above trains slop at all stations from Portland to ' The colonel tossed the papers aside "the beard tax fins been paid.” Mr. F. meal fur fear of an explosion, so he leisure Albany Inclusive Also Tangent, Shvdds, Hal- I treasured with care. That it represent- one of the furze bushes, with his hands on my way again. That night on my contemptuously. “What of them?” G. C. Lundy, tn“Tbo Fiscal Philatelist," ly consumed the stick and then joined the m>y Harrisburg. Junction City. Irving. Eugene ! ed a whole life history and had the hanging helplessly over his drawn up way to town I looked at the memento of •aid he. "They may have been stolen, gives particulars uf the British hat tax of frightened workmen, wlio for the rest of and all stations from Rossburg lo Ashland Incili- . 1784. req tilling hatters to take out licenses the day treated him with marked consid power to revive many strange memories ' knees and his head drooping forward my somewhat amusing adventure. It forged—how du I know? He speaks and give. imposing an ad valorem stamp duty Koieburj ?I h 11 Daily. they had no idea. Some people per- 1 in abject fashion. It was evident that was a bronze medal lather larger than German—he looks like a German—be ou every hat sold. In those days revenue eration.—Pbiladel phial tecord. LEAVE ARRIVE I haps, seeing it in a place of honor among ' ite had fallen among thieves. I went a crown piece. One side bore a figure has maps, charts, drawings on him — officials meeting a man with an unli •‘Jr.bberwuc'k,*’ a Result of Discussion. Portland......... 8:80 A M I Roseburg 5:50 P M 1 my knicknacks, may have fancied that up to him and spoke, feeling that his of Learning bestowing a laurel wreath enfin, he is a spy. Take him out and censed hat Used to iuquire, in the words The Jahberwock is the organ of the Bos Rossburg........ 7ISIAM I Portlaud......... 4.30PM it was something for which I had the distress warranted me in doing so. of the comic song. "Where did you get ton Girls Latin school. The meaning of on a kneeling child; the other informed shoot him.” DINING CARS ON OODEN ROUTE. thnt hatl ” Iu old times, too, the Scutch same superstitious reverence that other “I am afraid you are in trouble, sir,” me that the medal had been presented " Jabberwock” vws a* much a mystery to A corporal tapped me on the shoulder certificates used to bear a six iu founders as to the curious friend* who men give to a horseshoe. The bTonze I said. to Master Jules Malan tor his pro and tuutioned me toward the door. I sacramental PULLMRN * BUFFST penuy stamp. A tax on religious alma asked questions about it. But from a let He lifted his face from his handsand ficiency in mathematics. I put the little was so surprised at the colonel's last medallion, however, is neither a fetich glass, stone bottles and advertise ter from Mr. Carroll himself, granting per SLEEPERS nor a memento of an early artistic sue- looked np. “Ah, in’sieur!” Bespread token in my purse and thought no more words that I stood motionless, but when nacs, ments was among the fiscal duties of the mission to the girls to use the name, they AND ; cess. It is simply an insignificant ob- bis little fat hands abroad with a ges of it until some weeks later, when I hap 1 realized their full meaning I sudden past. learned‘that ‘‘Jabberwock” was very suit SECOND CLASS SLEEPING CARS, i ject, worth perhaps a few shillings, ture that was half pathetic, half com pened to be dining with a fellow art ly found tongue and rated the whole There tv ns also a tax on the “light of able and appropriate. The letter was as ' which has played no small part in my ical. “ Helas! I have been rob — swin heaven ” in the shapeof an impost on win follows : Attachod to all Through Trains ist at a restaurant and once more came group in forcible English. The colonel i life and on one occasion saved me from dled—I have lose all my money.” L ondon , Feb. 6,1868. TV est Bide Division. across it amid a handful of loose change. shrugged his shoulders and repeated his dows uutil far In the present century. sudden and violent death. Thirty years “Do you mean that some one has I handed it over to my friend and told commands, and the file of soldiers began This odious and insanitary burdeu caused Mr. I»wis Carroll has much pleasure in giv BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS ] ing tothe editress of lhe pioposed magaLine architects and builders to erect houses j ago, when I was a young man of 26 and i picked your pocket, ’' I asked. “If so, him the story as we walked away. to hustle me out. Before we reached Mail Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) 1 with as few windows as possible, and to |>enmssiou to use the title they wish for. He had fame and fortune still eluding me, you should inform the police.” "If that medal were mine.” said he, the door, however, he stopped us. the tax the windows of mauy houses nnd* that tLe Anglo-Saxon word ‘‘v ocer," ur Tort inni AT 1 5:36 P M : >• i y tr I I was attached to the artistic 6taff of "Ah, but it is Dot zat zcy have peek "I should attach a 6ort of superstitious "Spy,” said he, “we will give you a escape ‘‘wocor,’’ signifies‘‘mTs;>rlrig,’'or "fruit.'* Tak Lv 1 3:01 P M were blocked up. Sume of these dark aud ing ‘‘Jabber” iniuordinary acceptation of “ex McMinnville 10.15 A M 1 Lv i The Illustrated Weekly, a journal which my pocket!" he answered quickly. “It reverence to it. 1 should look on it as chance. Tell us all you know of the dismal a bodes are still in existence In Eng Lv 1 1:00 P M Corvallis 1215 r M 1 Ar cited and voluble disc'ssicn,” this would give was just then beginning a career of is zat 1 atn one big fool. I bet—I stake a species ot lucky penny and always Prussian movements, and we will con land. The Russian government a few years ike meaning of “the result of much excited At Albany and Corvallis connect with iiisil/i caught this flaring announcement, ! great success. Black and white work —I gives my money to ze meker of ago decided to tax kerosene oil and match discussion." Whether this phrase will have carry it about my person.” sider your case.” trains of Oregon Pacific Railroad, “Haymond a 5utci<le!’’ any application to the projected periodical It was not then what it is now. but peo books, and, pho! it is gone!” I laughed at the idea, but I put the "I shall do no sneb thing,” said I. ea—virtually a tax on light Express Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) plies he desired and returned. Later, ple thought highly of the illustrations In some parts of China a tax is imposed will lie for the future historian of American “Ah, you have been betting!” "I am a English gentleman, and 1 will bronze medallion back into my purse, to determine. Mr. Carroll wishes □n the car, ho read the story, and de we were able to give them for sixpence, “Helas! m’sieur, yes. You see, I am and there it staid. I attached no sort not do dirty work for either French or on all women entering the boudsof matri literature Ar b 25 A M Portland 4 40 k M Tv mony. Travelers to those parts are obliged all success to the forthcoming magazine. Lv 5'8 A M spite the tragedy of which it was the and there was no lack of encouragement —ah, but 1 am poor. I am professor of value to it, but it seemed somehow St Joseph 7 15 P M I.v Prussian.” -—Boston Transcript. Lv 5¿0 A M record had to smile. McMinnvUU to take a wife, and when they leave the : 25 P M Ar for proprietors or artists. My own spe ; of languages at seexty pounds a year. to become a fixture and had an inner “Take time,” said he. “Think it ladies take fresh husbands, to the benefit It was The Trumpet he was reading, Through Tiokets to all points In Eastern Be Contented. cial forte was animal life, as it always It is ver’ leetle for madam, my spouse, compartment of my purse all to itself. over. Corporal, call in a sous lieuten of the revenue. Those who follow the ad State-., I'auaila and Europe can be obtained at it ascribed Raymond's suicide as the has been. From the time when I could and for Jules and myself, and 1 often Some peuple are always grumbling. Some years went by. I worked hard ant and two men.” vice of the late Adah Isaacs Menken and lowest rates from G A Wilcox. Agent, McMinn act of a man temporarily insane. He first hold a pencil I had spent my hap zink of how I can make lieern more. A ville E P RUOF.RS. A young officer and two privates en "marry young and often” are an acqnisi Tliere is nothing like contentment. A bad everything to live for—power and piest moments in drawing horses. To ; young man say to me: ‘Yon should bet. at my profession and began to be known lady resorted to tears the other day Awt O. F. A P A Portland, Or. tered room <jf the farmhouse in tlon to such a state, in Servia vanity is • | young as a painter of animal lite and especial R KOEHLER, Manager. because her father thought <25 was too wealth. Why, then, should be blow his me a horse wp.s a creature of infinite You should put your money on ze ly of horses. A battle scene of mine, which tlie taxed in the shape of ladies ’ bustles. In we were standing and saluted. brains out if he were not deranged? artistic possibilities. I had drawn him horses. ’ He talk to me, zis young man, Christmas cards are taxed one much to pay fur u hat. If that young lady "You see this man?” said the old Melbourne Horses In War,” brought me an in fifth percent. Christmas, New Year, Eas had only considered that there are thou LOCAL DIRECTORY. tie had been too active of late, the sitting in the ring of a circus and gal of tens to one, of seex to one, and I lis “ vitation from my old friends, the pro colonel, pointing to me. "Keep him 1 ter and birthday cards would doubtless sands of young gtils who don’t speud that itory ran, had labored hard in matters loping at express speed over a raco ten. Zen yesterday comes, and zey pay money iu a year for hats, she would affecting municipal growth, and his . course, and it mattered little to me ze salary at my school. Zey pay me prietors of The Illustrated Weekly, to go safe till daybreak. Then bring him to produce an appreciable revenue in Eug- much have received consolation. Another case me. ” Hu turned to me again. "Think out as war artist during the Franco- | land. It has been stated that in Weimar CHURCHES nind became unbalanced. He had left whether he was a high bred or a shaggy £5, and I put lieent in my pocket and Prussiau campaign. I was disposed to over my offer, Mr. Spy. If you accept the authorities levied a duty on musical j in point is of a youth who grumbled be B aptist —Services Sunday 11 a. nt. and no clew to the cause of his suicide, Shetland pony. 1 had already begun say, 'Tomorrow I will go to ze horse go before the invitation reached me. 1 it, well; if you don’t, you will be shut j parties. The regulations were not given, cause his father could not just at the time 7 3Up.ui , Sunday schoof 9:50 a in.; the young people’s sooietv 6 15 p nt l’rayer snd the theory of The Trumpet was the to paint him in oils, and my first pic race and win much money.’ So I ar was unmarried, 1 had no ties, and in the morning. ” I but doubtless solos, duets, trios aud quar pay for the boy’s shoes being mended, that boy little thought that at the same meeting Thursday 7 30 p tn. Covenant popular verdict. ture, "Young Horses at Play,” was con rive here at ze course, m’sieur, and I there seemed no reason why I should The young officer and the two men tets are subject to proportionate rates. Vi- time he should have been conteuted and meeting first Sat each month 2:00 p. nt. "My theory is this,” whispered Man- sidered worthy of a place in the acad walks ronnd and see the makers of , ollns, cornets and the flute should incur not eee something of war at first hand. marched me out into the fog again and C has . L. B unham . Fustor. put up with what he had, tor his next door emy. It was this success in depicting books, and I talk with a gentleman of Accordingly I accepted tlie invitation, touk me to a cottage close by. I was ¡ special charges. Quite lately an annual ueighlor bail recently met with an acci Si ethodist E piscopal —Services every gan to Dr. Leland, while their fair com tax of 10 francs has been imposed on pi ! horses that led the editor of The Illus- sport who knows what he calls ‘ a sure and within a week I was with the Prus placed in a room where a fire burned on anos in France. Music lias paid tribute to dent, and he had no feet to put shoes ou. Sabbath 11 00 a m. and 7 30 p. m. Sunday panions were wrapped in contemplation school 9 30 a m. Prayer meeting 7 00 p of a particularly enchanting piece of ' trated Weekly to suggest that I should teep,’ and he tells me to put my £5 on sian forces near Saarbuck. 1 am not the hearth and an oil lamp shed some j taxation in other ways. A musical troop I — Philadelphia Call. m. Thursday. S E M eminger , Pastor. go down to Doncaster and make a sketch and takes me to a man who writing the history of that famous cam little light on a plain deal table. My recently crossing the frontier of Saxony- nature’s handiwork on the scenery flit of the St. Leger of that year. There Crocodile How Ingersoll Is Interviewed. gives mo a teecket and lays me seexty paign, and I shall therefore pass over guardian signed to me to sit down, and carried with them a crown of laurels C vmb . PntsarrraiAN-Services every Sab ting by. "I believe Raymond feared It is always n pleasure to interview Colo bath 11 00 a in and 7'30 p m. Sunday I was some famous horse running—I for . to one against ze horse Crocodile. Zen the preliminary events of the war and then one cf the soldiers, niter a whis awarded them at a triumphal performance. school «30 a in. Y. r. C. E . Bunday tl 3b exposure that woujd ruin him, nnd life The custom housa officers taxed the laurels nel Robert G. Ingersoll The shrewd colo p m Prayer mealing Thursday, 7 :30p in. had no charm to him if the adulation of get his name tor the moment—and the I sav zat Crocodile will win mo £300, go on to the time when the Prussians, pered colloquy with the lieutenant, left is ever ready to talk for publication, public interest in the race was greater and we will bo happy, and my leettle having easily recovered from their first the cottage and presently returned with ns spice. Massenet, the composer, it is re nel W H. JoNts, Pastor ■ the populace and the power and prestige than usual. Consequently the propri Jules shall have a new coat, and ma- lated. was also charged duty on a ciown and on general topics he speaks freely, C hristian —Services every Sabbath 11 00 reverses, poured over Alsace and Lor food and drink, which he set before me. of laurels on the German frontier. In his i trusting to his interlocutor's intelligemco a tu and 7 30 p. nt. Sunday school 10 he enjoyed were taken from him-” etors deteimined to give a double page dame, my spouse, will buy herself a new “I imagine that was his nature/’ : illustration to the scene, and I trav gown, and 1 shall have great joy. And raine and began to besiege Strasburg Desperately placed as I was, I ate my case the wreath of fame was deemed to be to report them correctly in poiiti4r mat a. ui. Y<*ng people's meeting at t; :30 p.m. and Metz. 1, in company with several supper and when I had finished filled woven of "medicinal plants.” Iu Mon ters he is more cautious He receives the H. A. D enton , Pastor. said Dr. Leland. eled to Doncaster a day or two before the zen zey run, the horses, and when zey interviewer cordially and comes at once to Sr J ames C atholic —First st., between "Raymond is dead,” said Mangan event and began my work by getting have finish I go to my maker of books other English war correspondents and and lighted my pipe. I thought things treal organ grinders pay a license of 120 i tlie purpose. artiste, was with the advance corps of over and could see no chance of escape. and are only allowed tu ¡day al stated O and H Sunday school 2 '30 p ni. Ves musingly. Then, looking Dr. Leland in “Whit do you want me to talk abuutt ’ pers 7 :ii. Sei vices once a month. an accurate idea of the race course and and request my money. And he say In \ iennu they are also licensed the face, he added words as true today selecting a favorable standpoint from Ciocodile is nowhere at all, and my £5 the attacking army and Lad consider "Munsieur,” said I, addressing the times. . W R. H ogan , Pastor and regulated as to hours. In France a he will ask able difficulty in getting on at all. The young officer, who eat near me on the as then : If it 1« on a political topic, the colonel I is lost, aild ze man zat gave me ze ‘sure Prussian military authorities had small hearth. “I shall certainly have to die certificate of character, a distinctive badge will which to focus my sketch. SE< RET ORDERS say: ‘ The laws framed to please him do and limitation of hours are insisted upon teep ’ is gone, and — Helas! m ’ sieur — The day of the great race came, and K nowles C h APTKI: No. 12. O E. S —Meets a love for special correspondents, and we tomorrow niurning if your colonel per No licenses for street musicians have been “Take out your paper.” Masonic hall the first and third Monday evening not die with him. They still live in durirg the morning I was busily occu now I have no salary to take home.” were indebted solely to ourselves for sists in his toolish conduct, and I should When the note paper or the nob book, In each month Visiting member- I'ofatallv in the statutes of the state, still shelter for nine years in Germany. And here the little man broke down whatever information we gut. To me ! like to write a last letter to my friends. issued pied in interviewing the various horses vited MR». 0.0 HODSoN, Sec. as the case may be, is produced, Colonel In St. Petersburg no outdoor musical fraud and legalize crime and stand as a MRS H L. HEATH. « M. engaged and in filling my sketchbook and wept. Half amused as I was at this official standoffishnesa did not so Will you have the goodness to provide performers are permitted, but in rumantic Ingersoll tells the reporter to wiite down Cram P ost N o . 9—Meets the second and fourth blot upon the fameof a thriving munic with bits that seemed likely to be use his story, I felt sorry for him, for 1 much matter as to my companions, the me with writing materials?” Italy there is a very practical regulation his first question. When this is done, he Saturday of each month in Vnlun ball at 30 ipality, whose name is everywhere the the paper himself aud writes down p m on second Saturday and at to 30 a ui. on synonym of a City of Churches and a ful. When the afternoon came round could well imagine that the loss of £5 special correspondents. My business The lad responded in the affirmative excluding those under 18 years of age ’ takes 4th Saturday. All members of the order sie would mean a good deal to him and was to make pictures; theirs to find j and bade one of his men fetch pen, from the privileges of a license. In New bis own answer. and the racing began, I made my way I City of Homes. ’ ’ eoidially Invited to attend our meetings “In this way,” he explains, "I am cer- to a certain part of the course which to madame, his spouse, and their boy news. Nevertheless I found it haid ink and paper. While he was gone the York wandering minstrels contribute to ; tain B. F. C lvbine , Commander. that I will say in print just what I the revenue $1 each and are prohibited J. A. P eckham , Adjt. Jules. When he had recovered himself had seemed to me very well suited work sometimes to get materials for my young officer, who was certainly not from playing within a certain distance of ; want to eay.” And then he hands the pa- CHAPTER XX. a little, 1 talked further with him anq to my purposes, and there I took sketches, and the risks I occasionally lan more than 18 or 19 years cf age and had specified buildings or dwellings and out- I per back, and the whole interview is bam- C T. I’.—Meets on every Fri- THE TOMBSTONES TELL THE REST. in Wright's hall at 3 o'clock p tn. Two monuments face each other in a my stand. There were two races to be found that he was a political refugee were greater than those which 1 should a frank, open face, looked at me curi I side fixed hours. Barrel music in the open ' mered together in tbismatter of fact fash- T. L. at3p. m. cemetery that within the past decade run before the St. Leger, and while and that he taught French in a boys’ have incurred had I mixed in the thick ously and presently inquired if I was is not allowed to exist in sunny Spain, but , ion Colonel Ingersoll never fails to give Mae. A J Tl hitmobs P iss a "good" interview, whatever the topiq ■ ha» seen the growing city of Brooklyn i these were being got through and dur- school at Doncaster. Convinced that of the skirmishes, which went on con really an Englishman. He spoke Eng | “8aylj the troubadour twangs his gui I ■ may Ç laba G. E mo », Sec y. be,—Chicago Post. tar.” for which, however, a Ucease is re- rush by it in a mad race to.circle the 1 ing the intervals between then} I occu- his tale was genuine, 1 determined to tinually. lish so well that I was surprised. zi Is E ssentials ; Good j Blood ^4 f f A FOT rOR. Tickets DENVER, OMAHA. KANSAS CITY, CHICAGO, ST. 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