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WHY DID WE MARRY? Running Why did we marry—you and I? Ah, me! why did we? In our youth I vowed I loved, and your reply. Heart suns, yet silent, seemed the truth. Beside our love's now swelling tone How faint was that first throb, dear heart! It was a babe that since has grown Big as the world of which we re part. Aye, bigger yet, like paradise. For when you fold me to your breast. Or I drink deep from your dear eyes. The world's forgot, with ail the rest. S the Serpent’s Sting CONTAGIOUS In all its «-tage« completel y il iVBLOOO POISON stiliate sores and ulcers A powers'/ ylt remove« the poison and builds up the system Il A vafaabie treatise on the disease and its treatment/// ^mailed free. dl £WIFT SPECIFIC CO , Atlanta, Ga. ^=:^^-si=asiS?8s=s=» 1 E McNEILL, Receiver. TO THE TRANSCONTINENTAL TWO ROUTES VIA VIA SPOKANE Minneapolis DENVER OMAHA AND AND ST. PAUL KANSAS CY LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES. 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BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS Mail Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) 7:30 A M I Lv 10:1 A M I Lv 12:1 l‘ M I Ar Portland McMinnville « orvtUlla At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of Oregon Pacific Railroad, Express Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) E49 I’ M Lv 7:1 P M Lv 72 P M Ar Portland St. Joseph McMinnville Ar 1 8:2 A M l.v 1 :8 A M l.v :0 A M Through Tickets to all points in Eastern States, Canada and Europe can l>e obtained at lowest rates from G. A. Wilcox, Agent, McMinn- ▼Ille. E. P. ROGERS, Asst. G. F. Ac P. A., Portland, Or. R. KOEHLER, Manager. LOCAL DIRECTORY CHURCHES B aptist —Services Sunday 11 a. ni. and 7:30p. in ; Sunday school9:50 a in.; the young iH-ople’s society •’«: 15 p in Prayer meeting Thursday 7 30 p. in. Covenant meeting first Sat each month 2:00 p. in. M ethodist E piscopal —Services every Sabbath 11:00 a. tu. and 7:30 p. in. Sunday school 9:30 a iu. Prayer meeting 7:00 p ni. Thursday. 8 E. SI bmixgkb , Pastor. C vmi . P rks HYTEKIAX Services every Sab bath 11:00 a in and 7:31! p. m. Sunday school 9:30 a. m. Y. I’. C. E.. Sunday 6::jo p. iu. l’raver meeting Thursday, 7 :30 p. in. E E. T hompson , Pastor. C hbistiam —Services every Sabbath 11 :<M) a. ni and 7:30 p. in. Sunday school 10 u. ni. Young [«copie s meeting at 6:30 p. in. II. A. D enton , Pastor. S t . J ames C atholic —First st., between G and II. Sunday school 2:30 p. in. Ves pers 7:30. Services once a mouth. W. R. H ogan , Pastor. SECRET ORDERS. K nowi . es C hapter N o , 12, 0. E. S.—Meets a Masonic ball the first and third Monday evening in each month. Visiting members cordially in vited. MRS. O. O. HODSON, Sec. MRS. H. L. HEATH, W. M C uster P ost N o . 9—Meets the second and fourth Saturday of each month in Union hall at 7:30 p. m. on second Saturday and at 10:30 a. m. on 4th Saturday. All members of the order arc cordially invited to attend our meetings. B. F. C lvbine , Commander, J. A. P eckham , Adjt. W. C T. U.—Meets on every Fri day, in Wright’s hall at 3 o’clock p. m. L. T. L. at 3 p. tn. Mas. A. J. W hitmobk , Pres. C laba G. E ssox , Sec’y. Give more, dear nobler half! I thirst For all the love you once kept hid. What if we did not love at first? Thank God, sweet wife, we thought we did. —Julian Ralph In McClure s Magazine. SENTENC E OF DEATH D earest S tdsey —I must see you at once. I h«ul anrrther frightful scene with father this morning. He got into a terrible pas sion simply because I happened to mention your name in the most innocent way. He ac tually wanted me to promise never to see you again. When I refused, hia rage was simply awful. I am sure he is going mad. I have not been allowed to leave my b«»droom all day. Isn’t it too absurd? But I cannot endure this tyranny any longer. I have quite made np my mind to leave him. I shall go and live with Aunt Mary, who has often promised me a home. I must see you first, however, and this is my plan. All the fearful strain anil worry about you with father has made me so irritable anti uncertain tempered lately that he is sure there is something wrong with me, and I am to go tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock to see Dr. Kelth-Jefferles, the great nerve doc tor. Father says be shall drive me there him self an«l call for me again in about an hour. This is to make sure that I hold no communi cation with you. Did you ever hear anything so childish? It serve« him right to hoist him with his own petard, so you must be in the doctor’s waiting room at a little before 11, and then we can have three-quarters of an hour’s quiet conversation. My maid, who is a very good girl and who is to accompany me to my Aunt Mary’s, is to post this. Yours ever, S ylvia B ulpett . P. 8.—Keith-Jefferies’ address is No. — Har ley street. Don't be late. This was Sydney’s first glimpse of the tragedy of life in the shape of parental barbarism It overcame him for a mo ment. “My poor Sylvia,” ho mnr- mnrod. Then he pulled out his watch. Nine twenty-seven. Ho swallowed a enpof scalding coffee, without milk and sugar, aud ltKikod at his watch again. Nine twenty-eight. “The old brute!” he muttered, walking up and dflwn the room. “I always said it would como to this. I should like to”— Out came the watch onco more. Nine twentv-nino. H<« seized his hat and rushed from the room. Tho hat was a concession to custom, but the morning was warm. It was much too soon to go to her, so ho ran threo times to and from tho park to quiet his nerves. Thon he slackened his pace and fell to reviewing tho position more calmly. “After all, it’s perhaps tho best thing that could happen,” was his conclusion. “Aunt Mary is not friendly with the old wretch. Aunt Mary will help mo. Wo will bo married front Aunt Mary’s. I suppose I shall havo to arrange the running away, «ind it will bo good fun, for old Bnlp««tt would show fight if we cjuno across him. Ho would gratify his bl«xxlthirsty instincts and shoot mo like a dog. What should I do? I could not strike her father.” Ho proceeded to develop tho situation iu viirions ways an«l succeeded in creat ing for himself a very lino rolo indeed in which ho should be th«« maiden’s savior from a brutal parent’s rago and^at the same time spare the old man’s gray hairs. At 10:80 he hastened to the great doctor’s ami rang the bell. A man serv ant, presenting th«« usual combination of butler and undertaker, opened tho door. “Have yon an appointment, sir?” “No, I must take my chance.” “I am afr:iid you will havo to wait some time, sir. There are already a g«xxl imuiy here.” “It d«x«su’t matter, I am in no ___ _..t ” _______ __ _ incoherently. hurry, replied Sydney Ho was shown into the waiting room, where a dozen or so fellow creatures wen« collected. Most of them were young ladies, for Dr. Keith-Jefferies was a favorite with tho sex, and they all had that air of dreary self absorption pecul iar to tho self centered invalid. They turned cold, listless glances upon the newcomer and then resumed their reflec tions ufxin their own real or fancied ail ments, masked by an unread Punch or a Nineteenth Century held before their faces. “Oh, it is so annoying, ” said one vivacious lady, obviously a malado im- agiuaire, “and it always happens. I for get all the most serious symptoms the moment I get into the doctor’s consult ing room. This time I havo written them all out on a sheet of paper. Dear, dear! Which p«x«ket did 1— Oh, how very unfortunate! I havo left it on my dressing table. I thought I must see it there. How extremely irritating. ” Th«« door opened, and the undertaker crooked a ghostly finger in her direction. She arose and rustled out, giddily mur muring that it was really too provok ing. And the others smiled bitterly a smile which plainly said, “There’s nothing the matter with that old goose, but she will keep Dr. Jefferies a terrible time.” But iu less than five minutes she re appeared, pale and tearful, with one h:uid pressed against her side, bleating to her astonished friend: “Oh, take me away, dear, take me away! Oh, it is dreadful, though I have always suspect ed it from tho first!” A deeper gloom settled upon the remaining patients, and Sydney could not repress a glow of sat isfaction as he reflected upou liis own excellent health. Presently Sylvia glided in, looking the picture of health ;uul spirits. She was very young, almost t«x> young to be a martyr to the sorrows she described to Sydney as they took possession of a remote window embrasure. She told him that she really could not bear it. Her resolution was unshaken. She had written to her Aunt Mary to expect her that night. Sydney must have a car riage at the garden gate at 9 o’clock in the evening, when she and her aunt would be waiting. Her stern parent NEW GOODS ! The will was finished by 1:30 aud de would by this time, she surmised, have dine«l “not wisely, but too well,” and posited in the safa. They shook hands, would be in no condition to detect their and Sydney said wearily: “You’ll ex flight. They were then to drive to Pad cuse me not lunching with you today, dington and catch the last train for Ex won’t you? I don’t seem to have any ap petite. And you’ll excuse my silence, eter, where Aunt Mary lived. So far Sylvia, who was a clear head too, for the present. You'll know all ed, managing young lady, had arranged, there is to know pretty soon, 1 expect. »> and her plan of campaign seemed to And he sidled out of the door without Sydney quite excellent. He promised: looking back. “1 wonder what’s up?” muttered the readily to fulfill his share of the busi ness aud then took occasion to urge that lawyer as he went back to his desk. as he was both able and anxious to pre “He certainly looks very ill. Some en- pare a home for her the sojourn at her tanglement? Half his property to Sylvia Bulpett, who will have plenty of her aunt's need be only a temporary one. Sylvia listened, reflected and shook own when the old curmudgeon of a fa her head. “One thing at once,” said ther of hers dies. I shall know pretty she wisely. "When I am safe at Aunt soon, shall I? Poor old Cartwright!” “In the midst of life we ¡ire in death, ” Mary’s, there will be time to talk about the future. Don't forget, 9 o’clock this mutt, red Sydney as he strolled through evening. I depend upon you. Oh, I Lincoln’s Ilin Fields, with the carefully must go! The doctor is at liberty. ” Aud regulated step of an invalid. He wished at the funereal beck of the undertaker the sun would not shine so brightly and the children scream so loud. It affected she vanishetL Sydney was left in the waiting room, his nerves. Sydney had nerves now. He but his excitement anti ecstasy were wanted only to hide away and die in such that he could scarcely behave with peace. Was there anything left to do? sobriety. A golden future lay before Stay! He thought it would be the prop him; his pulses throblxTl as if to music; er thing to say goodby to his elder broth er, whom he theoretically hated, but he «ireaincd rose colored dreams. The undertaker coming to summon who was the only ne«ir relation he pos the dreamer to the« doctor’s presence had sessed. To his brother's grim offices in to touch hisi on the shoulder before he East India avenue Sydney now slowly t«x>k any notice, an<l even then ho fol betook himself. “I'm ’fey,’ ” he thought, with a wan lowed quite mechanically, muttering and smiling to himself in a quasi idiotic smile. “He'll think I’ve como to beg of him. ” way. The prosperous merchant was en “Well, sir, what can I do for you?” A grave, clean shaven, keen looking gaged, but would be at liberty in a few man sitting at a desk was eying him minutes. Sydney sat iu the outer office with tho closest observation, and it watching tho half dozen busy clerks. dawned upon him that ho was in for a Not seldom ho had blessed hisstars that serious consultation—he who had never ho was not a clerk. At this moment he had a day’s illness in his life! Ho had would have changed places gladly with intended to give the undertaker liaif a the very junior, who was copying letters crown anil to depart as he hail come, but and solacing himself meantime with a surreptitious acid drop. He had at least he had put it off until too late. Here was a preposterous dilemma. a future. Suddenly the door opened, and the The doctor, who seemed to bo in a great hurry, felt his pulse, looked at his merchant came forward. “Very sorry, Syd,” he remarked. tongue aud sounded him with a stetho scope before he had in any way recov “Tho fact is I’ve got throe or four men in my room wrangling over some syndi ered his self command. “What excuse shall Imake?” Sydney cate business, and they may be ever so ask«««l himself meanwhile. “What ex long.” “It doesn’t matter in the least, ” ex cuse shall I make when he finds there is claimed Sydney, much relieved. “I had nothing the matter with me?” To his surprise, the doctor, having fin really nothing to say. I only called as I ished his examination, sat down at his was going by to ask how you were. ” The merchant stared. He was not desk to write a prescription, looking very grave indeed and trying not tc used to theso little attentions. “I may be going for a journey—a meet his patient’s eye. “Your heart is all wrong, ” he said longish journey—before long. I don’t gloomily. “You must be very careful. know yet,” remarked Sydney. “Rather sudden, eh?” replied his No excitement, mind; no violent exer tion. Light diet—chop, fish, weak brother. “WheTO are you going?” “That’s just what isn’t settled yet,” brandy and water, no wine, no beer, no smoke. Tiike this three times a day observed Sydney, with a faint smile. and como to see mo again in a week “Nothing is decided. But you needn’t I’m afraid it’s all over with yon. Good bo surprised if you hear—I’m gone. I may have to go ail in a minute at last. morning, good morning. ” Sydney was in tho sunlit street again, Remember me at home, will you? and the tide of London life roared There’s a sovereign I’ve been going to around as before. But to him everything give to little Sydney for the last two was changed. Ho stood a stranger in a months. Do you mind taking it? Good- by.” city he had never seen. Ho rushed away, feeling ho had made “Heart disease—I’vo got heart dis ease,” he repeated to himself stupidly. an ass of himself. But soon they would “It’s all over with me. Ho needn’t have know the reason of his altered demeanor put it in that brutal way. Oh, bosh! and make allow;uuces for him. He re There must be some mistake. Tho man’s turned to his chambers. “His” cham ¡m infornal charlatan. I’ll take no no bers! He had just taken them for an tice of him. ” But a moment afterward other year. A month would probably ho was painfully ««ailing to memory have tx.«en quite long enough. He heaved a sigh and looked mechau- eveiy wortl of the interview, every tone, every l«x>k, an«l weighing them with ically in the box f«ir letters. There was anxious deliberation. II«« could sec noth the brown envelope of a telegram, mid ing but the greatest concentration and his heart beat wildly, dangerously, om seriousness in th«« doctor’s demeanor— inously. He must really cultivate calm no trifling, no nonsense. He evidently ness. “Everything changed. Cancel all ar knew what ho was talking about, and ho ha«l condemned a man to death. rangements. Come at once to Sylvia.” Tho room swam round him, aud the Perhaps it was only the mistaken windows waltzed madly for a few sec brusqueness of extreme sympathy. “No excitement, no wino, no beer, no onds. Then, instead of dying, as he ex smoke, no nothing,” he muttered. pected, he found himself pretty well. What had happened to change every “Why tho thing's impossible—it’s a nightmare. I shall wak«« soon. I was thing? Was Sylvia’s father dead? Had all right when 1 went into his accursed she met with «ui accident? The thought consulting room, or at least I thought I of this last possibility bail made his heart boat dangerously again. In half a was. ” And then he recollected having heard minute, quite forgetful of heart dis« ase, that pt'ople who had heart disease were ho was driving as fast as a hansom often the last to know of their state, could take him toward Mr. Bulpett’s and ho remembered, too, that ho liad house in Hampstead. There all was commotion; the very been troubled more than onco with a curious feeling in tho left side. At that footman who opened the door was in very moment a sharp pain went through tears. “Old Bulpett’s not dead, then,” was Sydney’s immediate deduction. him like a knife. “Who is dead?” asked Sydney of a “Tho doctor is right enough,” he muttered. “I’m very bad. I feel it now. blubbering maidservant. “Neither of them yet, sir,” replied I’ll go and get this stuf? made up at once. No excitement! If I get excited, she, and so hardened was Sydney to I suppose I shall fall down dead. But mortuary reflections that, her remark how am I to get over tonight without seemed quite natural. “Here comes poor excitement? If I happen to dio just as I master. ’ ’ Sydney’s heart jumped, as it always am handing Sylvia into the carriage, there will bo a frightful scandal. How did at sight of his tyrant. “Forgive me, my boy; I’ve done you ever, I must risk that. She must be tak en out of tho clutches of that ohl bruto injustice,” sobbed the old gentleman. of a father of hers at all hazards. And “It was all pride—all infernal pride. then I must say grxxlby to her forever— I’m a dying man, and I beg you to for if I survive—for it’s clear that I can’t give me. ” “Where is Sylvia? Is she well?” ex marry her now with one foot—perhaps claimed Sydney. both feet—in tho grave. ” Bulpett burst into t«3ars. “She’s very Ho had his medicine made np and took a dose. But what could medicine ill, very ill—dying, too, we are afraid,” do in a serious caso like this? Ho was he exclaimed, "and that’s why I want too far gone. He had no doubt it was you to forgive me. I never really dis only colored water, prescribed for tho liked you. I’d rather have seen her sake of soothing him, as if he were a marry you than anybody else. But you chil«L But he would look the thing in wero too independent, and I meant to the face and set his house to order. Ho have you on your knees before I—but went to a livery stable an«l ordered a there, what does it ««.11 matter now?” “Ill?” gasped Sydney. “Since when? carriago to call for him at 8 o’cl«x:k in tho evening. Then ho posted off to his What has happened?” Mr. Bulpett drew him into the re solicitor: “Can you make my will—now—di ception room, and then, mastering his rectly—this very moment—right off— grief somewhat, poured out his tale. “She went to see a great doctor this on the spot?” “Most decidedly I can, "replied the I morning for what she thought a mere lawyer, becoming professional at once nervous ailment, «ind I allowed myself aud pulling a sheet of fair, white fools to be examined, too, as I was there. cap from his desk. Then he l«x>ked hard My boy, I have not a year to live!” “And Sylvia?” cried Sydney impa at Sydney, whom the hours of menial tiently. misery had changed considerably. “Sylvia! Oh, Sylvia is in the last “There’s nothing wrong,” blurted out Sydney, “but I want U out of tho stages of consumption and cannot last way once for all. I should like to have six months—half a lung. You have it signed and finished by 2 o’cl<x_'k if come to a house of mourning indeed. ‘ ’ It. was as well that old Bulpett possible. ” ‘ ‘That is in two hours, ’ ’ remarked the should mourn for himself—nolxxly else lawyer, looking at his watch. “Yes, we would but Sylvia, the bright, the beau can manage that, providing it isn’t very tiful— Sydney sank back upon a sofa and long, and still go to Lord’s afterward. ’’ Anil he began towrite. “You’re not go buried his face in his hands. He was ing to die, old man. Never fear. You’ll incapable of thought, and he felt noth 3heat tho devil yet a bit and have many ing but a burning desire to see her again —to lie with her, if only for a moment mother lark with me. ’ ’ I TRINITY SUNDAY. THE SLEEPWALKER Oh, for one hour of Atlianase the saint! To btaud against a world in error prone. To guard the glory Of the great white THERE ARE SAID TO BE FOUR KINDS Throaa, . OF SOMNAMBULISM. To answer the agnostic's shallow plaint. To hearten doubting souls who sLrink and faint. Stories of Curious Things lioue by Those As fearing to believe on One unknown! Addicted to the Habit- The Boy Who Is it not writ that not by bread alone Shall man have life? His inborn fatal taint Went Fishing—Case* of Sleepwalking Requires each word proceeding from God's Which Had Fatal Results. lips. How shall God’s awful voice reach earthly According to scientists, there are four cars? now can the soul’s dull sense be stirred kinds of somnambulism: afresh? Those who talk while sleeping, but The Spirit’s light dispels the day's eclipse. do not walk or othi rwiae a The Father's speech once more the lost child Those wlg> walk or otherwise act while hear.? sleeping, but do not talk. Translated to hkn by the Word made flesh. —Rev. Walter Mitchell in Churchman. Thoso who both act and talk while I....... ■■■■■!■ Illi—!■ ■■ ITI riWf^WI I HIRTY Tear»’ observation of Castori» with the patronage of niillion«i of person«, permit os ti» speak of it without gneasir.g. It I* unquestionably the best remedy for lufants and Children sleeping IN THE DAYS OF TOM SAYERS. Those who act ntxl talk and have the ilio world has ever known. It is harmless. Children like it. It senses of touch, sight and hearing, mi l Labouchcrc's Description of Scenes at a gives them health. It will save their lives. In it Mothers have it is alleged, in some instances, the Prize Fight Thirty Years Ago. senses of taste and smell. something which i. obsolwtely «afe »nd practically perfect a» * Among my many sins I have attended This fourth kind is never found ex a prize fight, and for tho outixrar of cept child ’* medicine. induced by mesmeric or hyp rank blasphemy aud reckless black notic when influences. Castori» destroy« Worm*. guardism it ran an execution at New It is of the third kind that there are gate or Horsemongcr Lane jail very Castorin allays Feverishness. close. The police wero dead against most queer developments, independent Castoria prevents vamitiag Sonr ^nrd. of voluntary external influences. Often prizo fights, which wero excuses for ¡1 tlio somnambulist will rise in the night Cantoria cures Diarrhœa and Wind Colic. gigantic form of extortion. Two ruffians of tho lowest class contracted to battel mid walk through the vitrions room.’ of Cantoria relieves Teething Tronbles. house, go out on porticos, and, in one another about in order to extract th« the» Cantoria cures Constipation and Flatulency. guineas from tho swells, tho toffs and some cases, on steep roofs, where he the supporters of tho “noble art of self would not dare go when awake. Fre Castoria neutralizes the effects of carbonic acid gas or pn’*nnons air. defense.” A programme had to bo se quently ho will leave the house and walk through street or livid and will Castoria does not contain morphine, opium, or other narcot<c property. cretly arranged, a sp«?cial train had tc and go to lx'«l without knowl bo secured for the army of men, the return CaHto-io assimilate«! the f«»o<l, rcMiilates_ the stnmicli antl bowels. edge of anything having transpired. swells about town and the scum of. th« The celebrated French physician, Bern giving healthy and natural sloe;». metropolis, who lived upon rhe excite tells, in his work on “Suggestive ment or tho pelf of prizo fights. Then heim, Cantori«» Is pnt np in ons-«i?:o bettle» only. It is not sold in bnlh. was a certain official countenance tc Therapeutics,” of a photographer of his Don't allow any one to sell yon nnything else en the plea or promise theso illegal “mills.” The editor of acquaintance who rose in the night and Boll’s Lifo in London constituted him finished the work on which ho had been that it is“.pist as g«md " ami “will answer every porpotc.” during tho previous day ami self tho arbiter on these occasions. This engaged See that yon get C-A-S-T-O-R-I-A. was the organ of tho prizefighter. The was astonished on finding it luiisln'd editor received tho stakes deposited, when he went to work on tho following is on every The fac-similo acted as referee and afterward described morning. Painters have lx«en known wrapper. r içütitora > of th«« fights in a jargon delightfully humor to do superior work while asleep, and ous. “Tapping the claret, ” “One in the essays have been writton and p«x.‘ius bread basket,” “A rouseron the conk,” composed in the same way. A young countryman related an inci were all phrases invented by the editors Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria dent. occurring in his own family.. His of Bell’s Life. Tho night before it was necessary tc brother was a sleepwalker and also fond go to a sporting pub to get “the office” of fishing. For a number of nights in and to receive for a valuable considera succession ho would get up and go down tion tho special railway ticket. The through a long meadow to a creek and will drive a man. vigil of tlio fight was usually spent in seize th«« root of a walnut tree growing tho “wild west, ” for in those days there on the bank and pull and tug with all 1 "He said that his name was Freder his might and at the same time calling was no closing hour. Restaurants and ick Evans, that he was a ship builder for tho hind man to help hint land a public houses could keep open as long big fish. "I had heard,” said his broth SURPRISING DISCOVERY OF A TRAV by trade and one of the California pion as they liked. Races were run in the eers of ’49. H«‘ had never made a big ELER IN DEATH VALLEY. Haymarket at 3 o’clock in the morning, er, “that it would break a sleepwalker strike, but had always kept prospecting, of the habit to wake him suddenly when an«l about 4 or 5 the “swells,” all in ho was out rambling about, mid I de and when tho water rose in Halton hike evening dress, would assemble at the cided to try its efficacy on my brother. A Maa Constructed and Fitted Up a Vessel a few years ago he was at work in tho railway station, each one in charge of a One night I followed him when he left on a Sandy Waste llecause tie Wants to mountains around Death valley. It was Be Ready When the Water Rises, as He then that ho got it into his head that specially appointed protector. house. As I passed by the woodyard Tho scone at the railway station was tho the water would eventually reach that I picked up the ax, aud when we got to Firmly Believes It Will. locality, and he was determined to have indescribable. Tho officials made them the creek ¡«.nd he. began tugging at his “One of tho queerest and most surpris the first vessel to float in the new sea. selves scarce, and the station was hand imaginary fish 1 cut tho r«xjt and let ing sights I ever saw in all my wander ed over to mob law. Oil the platform "Evans w«is not a poor man, but had the pocket of every unprotected man oi him fall backward into about two feet ings over tho wilds of this country," money enough to hire a couple of men not very warm water. He camo out a said E. C. Traver, a well known pros to help him lay the keel of the vessel, youth was emptied, and when the train of started amid a chorus of obscenity and badly disorganized and somewhat, fright pector and civil engineer, a few days put. in tho masts and do th«« other heavy blasphemy no one knew tho destination. ened boy. I have never heard of him :igo, “was a newly «««instructed brig ly Work. At first the work was pushed going fishing or otherwise walking in ing on the floor of Death valley. And it rapidly, but when the water commenced It might be a deserted chalk pit, or an his sleep since his ducking. ” is there yet, so that anybody can see it to recede Evans took things easily and old quarry, «ir a lonely wood, or a river Sometimes sleepwalkers go ov««r places “When 1 first saw it. I was almost did «ill the work himself, Ix-caus«« he marsh. Suddenly the train woulil stop, where they would not dare go when paralyzetL I could not lielieve my ey««s thought the water would not com« again and away went the excursionists tramp ing over field and meadow. The princi awake, and the fact that such things are and thought I must have passed through for a year. Ho has l«eeu disappointed pals were muffled up. The attendants frequently done with safety has le«l «onic mental lapse and was not in Death every yoar since, but still thinks that carried tho ropes an«l stakes, and when many fo believe that, they never hurt valley at all. But, after gazing at the Dc!«th valley will Ixx-ome a s, i, afid ho Ordinarily that may be strange object a few minutes and then is ready for it the ring was pitched every one who had themselves. true, but there is at 1« ast one authentic looking around me and seeing the wastes “I was well treated by Evans.” said a sovereign left was fleeced to bny the record of one «h ath resulting in that 1 of burning sands and feeling the hot Mr. Traver in coucluding. “Hetorik me colors of tho favorito—a s^k handker way. Tho sleepwalker walked off a high 1 breath of the desert wind, I knew that to his aliode, which was a deep eave a chief that could not have cost fourpi-nce. portico and died from the fall. everything about me was most realistic few feet from the brig, with a delight I forbear to describe the hideous blas One of tin1 most singular and nt the ally real. ful temperature. I staid with him two phemy that soiled the morning air oi same time sad cases of sleepwalking oc- ' “It was by the merest chance that I days and found him a well educated tho mail execrations during the mill. curred near Bakersville, N. C., a few | ran across the vessel, ” said Mr. Traver, man and very interesting, but when I When a champion’s eye was bunged up with a blow, his second lanced it and years ago. A young man of the name I “because had I been a few feet farther left him his last words were, ‘When the of Garland had been a sleepwalker from I south I would never have seen it. You water rises, I will lie ready for it.’ then sucked it into fighting condition. 1 childhood. His ramblings had always 1 see, I had been working on the eastern 8:ui Francisco Calk havo seen many a brave young fellow ended without harm to himself or others. : side of the valley for several weeks with faint at the hideous sight of a prizo light and for that reason his wife usually out success and concluded to go to —soldiers, most of them, who would! little attention to his nocturnal ec Mount. Darwin, where 1 would at least Curve Pitching. have gone to battle without flinching. paid centricities. But a new phr.se presented bo sure of expenses. I was crossing tho There arc some people still left who —London Truth. itself when he began to stay away longer valley at tho northern end, which is refuse to believe that a baseball cun at a time and always return “wringing quite narrow, but about the lowest spot travel out of the straight line between Roman Stainlartls. wet,” as the w«»slierwomeii say. His In the Roman army there was a very wife determined to follow him and ex on the earth’s surface. I am not exactly tho pitcher’s lx>x and th.1 home plate on highly developed system of military en plore the mystery. When he left liis certain, but. I think that where the ves its way to the catcher. It has lxx-n it is about 200 feet lx?lowsea level. proved again and again that a ball can signs, which, just «is among modern na house, he followed the road to Tow riv sel “ is After tho first surprise had worn off I xj “curved” by a now well known ex tions, were regarded not merely as a er and then took a rough, narrow pig; I began to figure out how tho craft camo periment Two stak« s are w t tip so that rallying point for a given body of mon. trail leading up tho river. there. That the vessel was a relic of a the pitcher, standing behind one, can but as an emblem of the state, and were He picked his way through tho tan 1 past age never entered my he:id for a not hit a mark on the left side of tho therefore surrounded with a veneration gled hemloi'k and laurel and over stones moment, because it was coustructe«l on other in a straight line, the ball passing which degenerated into idolatry. From ■ and fallen trees ar.d along the summits perfectly modern lines and th«« wool to the right of the first a tactical point of view, tho Roman •of precipitous cliffs. His wife kept in had a yellow app«ar:uice, indicating Indeed a short while ago a noted col- standards were of more importance than sight by means of t he moonlight waver that it had not been cut very long. I am the flag at the present day, for the ing through the trees. For more than a something of n sailor myself, and tin» lop« pitch« r was offered $1,000 by an ohl gentleman of his acquaintance if he movements of the trixips wero entirely mile the sh'eper trudged on until 11««: first glance told me that it was the work could prove to his satisf:ictiou that a regulated by them. came to a large poplar tree which had some modern shipbuilder, but that baseball could be pitched in a curva According as they were raised anti fallen with its topmost, limlis far out in of only made the mystery greater. carried forward, phuitod in the ground tho river. Ho walked tho log till he; “Going close, 1 made a careful ex The pitcher at once s< t up two stakes in or turned toward the rear, in obedience camo to a large limb extending from it amination of my strange find. It prov« <1 his back yard and curved tho ball around them in fine style, lint th«« old to tho sounds of tho horns of tho “cor- over the water; then he got down and to be ¡i perfect brig of alsiut 41)0 tons, gentleman insisted that the whole thing nicines, ” the army broke up its camp began crawliHL’out outlie limb. The that never been in water. Every was an optical delusion and is no more and inarched or retreated and halted. now thoroughly frightened wife scream-1 thing had about it was of tho best style of convinced than ever. In the camp the standards were plant«««! ed and called to him to wake up and workmanship and showed plainly that Every boy knows how hard it is to before the general’s tent, where their come back. Ho was awakened by the the builder had put. forth his l«est ef presence sanctified tho spot, as though it cries, and, doubtless startled and con forts. The keel was laid flat on the sand bat tin out curve or a drop, and after he wero a temple androudered it a safe de fused by the situation, fell into the river and the starboard side placed up against has struck out a few times wants no pository for tho booty collected by the and was drowned. II«« had been getting a small reef of rocks. The port sidowas I on«« to prove to him there is such a thing as enrve pitching. There is little use legion. It was to the standards tho sol up in his sleep, going up the river, supi»ortod in the usual manner. trying to explain th«« theory of this per diers swore allegiance, and th«« first crawling out on that limb, jumping “Climbing onto the deck by a small formance here, as many scientific papers step of a pretender who sought to bo- from there into the river, swimming to rope I found everything ship have written on it, which, after all, como emperor was to seize the stand the bank and r« turning home uncon shape. ladder, The decks were as clean mid would not help a man to toss a tennis ards as ho thereby setmrtxl the fidelity scious of anything that passed. white as a man-of-war's, and every rope ball. Th«« final twist given the ball «is it of the legion.—All tho Year Rounti These f:u ts ar«« well known to a num- L was in place. Entering the cabin, I leave« the hand makes a spinning mo lx«r of people now in Washington.— found everything neat and clean and tian, so that there is mor«« resistance by 8he’<l Had Enough of Them. Washington Star. several bunks with bedding ready to the air on one side or the other, aud tho “Don't you say a word to iuo al>ont sle«‘p in. Such a thing, however, would them life insurance companies,” said Those Wonderful Americans In Lomlou, have been impossible, as tho heat was ball is forced out of a straight lino by unequal pressure on one of its sides.— old Mrs. Redhot the other day. “They The American dentist is credited with simply unbearable, and I had to go to aren’t any good for poor, common folks. many wonderful devices, but a Loudon the door, gasping for breath, before I Godey’s Magazine. Only rich folks and big bugs can do correspondent of Th«« British Mixlical had ««ompleted my investigation. The anything with ’em. Why, when my Journal has discovered an esp«x«ially more I looked the more mystified I be husband lay here with fever two years new and offensive invention. He says: came. It was plain tho brig had been Tobacco Causes L obs of Memory. ago, I sent for tho agent of an assurance “Some Americans ar«« introducing here built, where she was, but by whom and Those annoying and unaccountable company to come and insure him for th«« practic«« of inserting diamonds for for what? lapses of memory experienced when one $2,000 right away, and, do you know, vulgar display into the front teeth. It “I spent tho whole afternoon climbing is unable to recollect some well known that there agent never came near me. is surely enough that our sense of de over the vessel. I went into the rigging word or the name of some perfectly fa and my poor husband up and died. cency and propriety should l>e so often and looked over th«« surrounding coun miliar friend are attributed by a French Don’t talk to me alxmt life insurance! shocked by unsightly gold crowns ami try, but could see no sign of a human physiologist to the excessive use of to It’s all a fraud!”—Pomona Progress. fillings without. lx«ing further ofienrii <1 being. When night came on, I conclud bacco. This gentleman has observed by this new atrocity. I believe it has ed to camp near by, but had no sooner that aphasia and amnesia are at fat-sent The most wonderful cliff dwellers of only just started here, and this, there got fixed comfortably when a voice from almost unknown among the gentler sex. tho Unite«! States are thoso of th«« Man- fore, is tho time to denounce it and is somewhere called ‘Good evening!' You On the other hand, he has nearly inva cos, in a southern Colorado canyon. my excuse for troubling you. ”—Med may be sure I jumix«d, as my nerves riably found these afilicti ms common in Some of these caves are 500 or 600 feet ical Record. were feeling a little weak through my men who are habitually li< avy smokers, from the bottom of the perpendicular strange afternoon’s experience. while in cases where they are only of Appraising Richard of England. sides of the canyon wall, and how their “There was no need to be alarmed, rare occurrence he has frequent ly known occupants gained ingress is a mystery. Cœur de Lion’s ransom, paid to Em though, fora good natured looking man, the extraordinary lapse to have l>een peror Henry VI in 1198, was 150,000 with gray hair and beard, was smiling preceiled by an extra dose of the fra A wedding in the Flowery Kingdom marks, equal, said Hume, to £300.000 of is managed by Do and Hoh, who super our present money, but this must be at in««. Of course I at once concluded grant weed. It is comforting, however, intend the operations of 34!) separate multiplied, and perhaps sevenfold, which that he knew something about th«« brig. to be assured by the same authority I was right, and in a few moments he that a moderate use of pipe <ir cigar is deities that look after tiie details of the would raise it to some £2,000,000. explained the whole thing to me mid in no way harmful to the memory.— marriage ceremonies. unlay Review. also showed to what ends a foolish idea Westminster Gazette. FALL ay $9,000 Worth ! • • Bought at Bed-rock prices. Come cuhile Stock is pull and Fresh and make Your Selections. To be sold at Figures to suit the times for Infants and Children TAILORS • • • • Prices of Clothing are now bed-rock. They are liable to go upward instead of downward. In our Merchant Tailoring Department we employ the best workmen that can be had. A line assortment of new suitings to select from. 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