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VOL. XXV. Entered at the Po^toffice in McMinnville, a- Second-class matter. THE .Mc.'HINNVlLLK National Bank —McMinnville, Oregon.— By ALFRED R. CALHOUN. Paid up Capital, £30,000 [Copyright, 13M. by the Author.] Tren«*' t« a General Banking Entine?». M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY Her companions said she had fled into the hills when the fighting began, but this certainly did not seem in accord with her character. These women and children were kept in the same place under guard till all their outlaw kinsmen who had not fall en in the first fight were either shot or hanged. The gangs of Champ Ferguson and Tinker Dave Beatty were of the same character, though at first the Con federates claimed them as regular troops, but after the summer of 1864 they were given over to the destruction that over whelmed them. That night there was another carouse. Tho supplies just brought in were bro Présidait - - 7. W COWLS. ken open iu the most reckl« S3 way, and Vice President, - t/i’Á LAUGHLIN. excepting the rations, which were taken (Ja*hier, - E. C. APPE ESOS charge of by old Kit, the people helped . Ant. Cashier - - IF. 8. LISK themselves as they pleased. Some raid- 1 ers from tho direction of McMinnville THE END. Board of Directors: had returned that day with a number J. W com Î. LEE L -.1 '-HI ! • of fat cattle, one of which had been 1 A. J APPER^ON, WM. CAMPBELL killed in anticipation of young Kit’s re- 1 J I. ROGERS. turn, and as soon as it was dark the ‘ Hell Sirbt Exchange and Telegraphic Trans fi. -h meat was being roasted at a half j fer* on S> .v York, Sun Francisco and Portland. dozen huge campfires. The nearly naked i By VIOLA ROSEBORO. Deposit* received subject to ch.rt. Interest paid children ran about with half cooked I on Time Deposit**. Loan« money <-n approved security. Collections made on ail accessible chunks of beef in their hands, and they 1 [Copyright, 1S92, Ly the Century Com|»uy.] point*. flung it at each oth> r, after their hun- | It was a sunny May morning, and tho ger was appeased, and shouted like Baltic was steaming out of New York THE young savages, as, in truth, they were. Even the yellow dogs had a happy night bay for Liverpool. It was the old ship’s of it and lay down, gorged, by tho tiros. last trip in these waters, and sho made Old Kit’s private table fairly groanod it under special conditions. She was under its heap of food. A dozen bayo given up entirely to second class passen nets driven into the rough planks an gers, who, of course, as a result, had iu swered for candlesticks, and, as was his rome respects first class accommoda LIVERY STABLE. habit, he asked a blessing before eating tions. The consequence was a social aud seemed to regard his prosperity as mixture perhaps a shade odder raid more GATES & HENRY, Props. a reward from heaven for leading an varied than is usually seen. Two weeks before my friend Miss Milman had hap upright life. After dinner, or rather supper, though pened to see this arrangement adver E Street, north of Third. Everything New and tho gang had the savage habit of disre tised, and wo had suddenly aud happily Fint-claas. Conveyance of Commercial Travel- ' garding fixed times for meals and eating discovered that at the rates given we era a apecialty. Boar.* and stabling by the day or ; month. We solicit a fair share of the local pat whenever they wcro hungry, Molly Mc- could afford to drop work (our painting ronage. Gco brought her father his fiddle and and writing) for a mouth or two and to perched him on tho head of a barrel gether “run over to the other side.” We were on deck in that May sun near the fire. Whisky having been dealt out with unusual liberality, tho people shine, our hands full of flowers—for our were wild with excitement, and the friends had graciously ignored our low dancing that followed was oven more ly second class estate in their farewells fast, furiou.s and abandoned than that —the bright waters dancing around us, PROPRIETORS which Collins took part in on the night the workaday world behind us, enchant ed lands of romance and beauty before of his arrival. ‘•Although 1 told Molly I was sick, us, aud at our elbows anew aud hetero she would have me out, and then she geneous representation of tho dear, dull, hung on to mo and danced me about till , supremely interesting human race. By I felt sick in earnest. She mado mo lie ! tho time we had spent an eternity of FRESH MEATS OF ALL KINDS. down on a blanket in one of tho tents two days in a universe of water aud and said sho would bring me some sky wo had discovered beneath the pre CHOICEST IN THE MARKET. medicine, and she did. It was boiling vailingly commonplace exteriors various _________ hot whisky, sweetened with sorghum | pleasing features among our fellow pas South aide Th ini St. between B and C. molasses. I objected, but she would sengers. The Irish ward politician’s ob have her own way. She lifted me up in vious moral bcinon.-ncss, taken together her lap as if I had been q sick baby with his tender devotion to a little sick aud she a drunken giant of a nurse. wife, gave us an enjoyable incongruity. Then sho held that tin cup to my mouth Wc relished the simple aud profound —AMD— and told me if J didn’t drink every moral patronage wo received from a TO.WRI.U PARLOUS, <1----- d drop of it she’d hug me to death. trio of professional feminine philan I preferred to die drunk, so I swallowed thropists, well meaning souls, dripping Logan & Kutch, Prop’s. all tbo stuff I didn’t manage to spill.” with self esteem, who were goiug over Collins had now learned all that it to investigate the workings of some so was necessary to know about the ren ciety for the promotion of some sort of For a Clean Shave or Fashionable Hair dezvous, strength and methods of these good works. Wo delighted in their people, but to get safely back and com genuine horror of a stunning, bouncing, Cut Give Us a Call. municate his knowledge to his superior good looking young woman who was Bath» are new anil flrst-elass in every re officers at Cumberland gap would re said to be an actress, but whose normal aped. Ladle«' Baibsand shampooing a special- position, it was perfectly clear, was at ty. Employ none but first-class men. Don't quire more tact and daring than it did tho head of a column of lightly clad forget the place. Three doors west of Hotel to join the gang. amazons in a Kiralfy spectacle, and wo The next day he was a sick man, sure Yambill enough, but to avoid Molly’s attentions liked her as a perfect specimen of her and her medicine ho kept on his feet. kind, but we had most pleasure in tho On Saturday another raid was to start i -implo admiration and respeot we felt Manufactures and Deals in in tho dircotion of the Kentucky line, 1 for a shabby, gentle, intelligent mis and Collins, who now felt that ho had sionary from China, who was on his won tho confidence of the gang, insisted way to a gnat Exeter hall meeting in on being one of the party. Up to this London, and in the curiosity aroused in time he had supposed that Molly Mc us by a dumb, wooden youth with wa SADDLES, BRIDLES, SPURS, Gee’s attention was such as sho might tery, palo eyes and a red head, who Brushes and sells them cheaper than have bestowed on any recruit to her fa looked rough aud “horsy,” and whom they can be bought anywhere else in ther’s force, but as soon as he asked to we repeatedly saw sitting in Lis state the Willamette Valley. Our ail home go north with this expedition the old room—it was opposite ours—reading a small Bible. made sets of harness are pronounced man startled him by saying: unsurpassable by those who buy them “Molly and nie’s done talked hit all I We thought it piquant when we over. She’s a mighty lino gal, is Molly, i found he knew the spectacular amazon, and thar ain’t a unmarried man in the but that was but the beginning of satis mountains ez she couldn’t have ef so be factions, for we soon discovered that he she’d say tho word. But she’s mighty was himself a circus clown. To look upon a little dull, faithful ticklar, is Molly, and from the fust sho Proprietor of The McMinnville sot her eye onto you, so I reckon you looking creature like that, to see him uns mout’s well git married. Ned absorbed in reading a pocket edition of Owen uster preach afoah the wall, aud the Holy Scriptures and to bo able to I reckon he remembahs enough of the reflect that lie lived by the violent vi business to make the hitch so she’ll hold. vacities of a sawdust buffoon was a Situated at the Southwest corner of the Fail [ And so, my son, 1 think yon uns hed privilege that, among other things, Grounds. bettah not go this trip, for hit wouldn’t made mo laugh till I cried. Perhaps the All sizes of first-class Drain Tile kept constantly j look deceut to git married and then run step from the one expression to the oth er was shorter than usual. off. ” on band at lowest living prices. The sight of him gave mo new thoughts Collins on his arrival had announced MCMINNVILLE, • - OREGON himself as a single man, so he could as to the possible value of rites, of form not well take refuge under the plea of al observances. There was nothing in being married. In tho circumstances his aspect as he read to suggest keen in ho must get married if I10 remained, so tellectual or spiritual activity. On tho he determined to got away that Friday contrary, I could imagine him turning night. He still retained the arms he had two leaves at once and being never the brought with him, and, like his lawless wiser or tho less wise. Tho occasion QUINCY, MASS., companions, he carried them about with was plainly one of ceremony, but it was Wholesale and Retail Dealers in him as ho did his hat or any other arti equally plain that it was ceremony ob cle of clothing. It was old Kit McGee’s served with religious feeling, and with orders that tho meu should always have out going into the gloomy question of their arms within reach, but even with- I how far religious feeling may be re out these instructions they would havo moved from a sense of moral obliga tions I felt very suro to such a boy as ’done so' from force of habit. About 1 o’clock tho next morning, this, English or American, and unflat and when even tho tireless curs appear- j tered by the public opinion of his world, ed to be asleep, Collins slipped from the ceremony of Bible reading was the blankets on which ho had been ly morally conserving. AND ALL KINDS OF ing, aud, with his boots in his handa, 1 The third flay out I did a highly rep rehensible thing. I had seen the clown been valuable to the extent of his single on deck as I came down to my state CEMETERY rifle only bad he been present, for his room, and when near the open door of FURNISHINGS father had entire command, aud his men his I saw the Bible lying on one of the obeyed like veterans. theatrical trunks with which the place They were evidently surprised—that was filled. Tho temptation was irre- is, they did not expect an attack that listible. I took it up aud opened it at All work fiilly guaranteed to give perfect satis morning, nor wcro they falling back by the front fly leaf. Yes, there was the faction. Refers by permission to Win. Me Chris tho route that had the promise of great inscription in a half formed, schoolgirl- man, Mrs. I.. E. Bewley, Mrs. E D. Fellows Holl'* Old Jewelry Stand, 3d Street. est security in front. A h it was, with ish Italian hand. American schoolgirls an hour to spare they could have thrown wrote something like it 40 years ago: up defenses along the valley that might “To my beloved brother Teddy, from M c MINNVI ü UE have enabled them to hold at bay a lar his loving sister Emmy. Remember thy ger force. But then, outside a certain Creator in the days of thy youth.” savage, reckless daring and the ability I called softly to Amy and held up to shoot, they were not soldiers, aud, as the page. we know, valor is not a substitute for “How could you be such a hr”— experience and discipline. Jordan’s men brute she was going to call me, but she B E COULTER, Prop baited to fire their spencers when with stopped to avail herself of my miscon Goods of all descriptions moved and iu less than 200 yards of the outlaws. duct and to read tho words, and then McGee—I have spoken of him as “the we laid the book where I had found it careful handling guaranteed. Collections old mail” to distinguish him from hi.< and slipped away. will lie made monthly. Hauling of all sou, though he was not more tliau 60— “Yes, ” she said as we exchanged a kinds done cheap. showed himself the bravest of his gang. look and a smile, “it would have been He swore at them and called to them to a pity to miss that because of any small stand when the soldiers again dashed scruples. And now you’d better stop. W. J. CLARK,D.D.S forward, but as to stand meant a ballet A little circus clown traveling over the Graduate University of Mich. or a halter many of the wretches broke earth like that is too picturesque an away and fled into the hills. When our men closed in, they shout object for investigation. He’ll ucver H rs opened an office in Union Elock, Room 6, aud is prepared to do all work in the dental line ed to McGee to surrender, but he an come up to the situation.” I thought she was probably right. swered by calling them dogs and yell CROWN ANU BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY. ing for them to tako him if they could. Still my curiosity was not slaked. During the several years spent by my Iu such circumstances quick work was LaTtar M cthoo or P*iaurss E xtraction . made of the fellow, and he was shot self “on the stage” I had occasionally down with the last of his mon who had come in touch with circus people. To some extent they recruit the stage, and the pluck to remain with him. An hour after this the horses and cat though actors affect a great superiority Can Qet tle, with the women, children and dogs, there is a degree of common under and on occasion of good fellow Ferry’s Seeds at your dealers came pouring back into the valley. They standing W as fresh and fertile as though ship between show folks. I consider had been headed off by the party which myself to hold all rather r ycu got them direct from Ferry’s 1 originally favora ' Seed Farms. Collins accompanied. As soon as they ble opinions of the sawdust performers saw their dead they sent np their pecul as compared to other nomads, but I am iar deathcry, which resembles very .much the keening of the western Irish to this not accustomed to see religion flourish L are known and planted every- j day, and they forgot that they were among any such class, except semiocca- k where, and are always the J in the case of Roman Catholics. prisoners in realizing that so many of sionally a lx»». Ferry's Serd Annm.l S One effect of Puritanism on Protestant lor 1S»5 tells ail about 4? them were widows and orphans. them. — Free. Collins dreaded to meet Molly McGee ism has been to unfit it for many Christ- D. M. Ferry A Co. IJ^fcs^Omrolt.M tch even more than he did to fight all the like ministration which the old church men under her father, but he did not still better or worse performs. It was 6ce her then or at any time afterward. I the loneliness of the little clown’s re- 3 »» COMMERCIAL Mattbies Brothers, CITY MARKET. CITY BATHS ELSI A WRIGHT, HARNESS! JOHN F. DERBY, TILE FACTORY, E. J. Qualey & Go., GRANITE MONUMENTS Truck and Dray Co. fiRRYS 5EEDS The United States Official Investigation of Baking Powders, I authority •V -» The Clown and the Missionary. I 1 Made under of Congress by the Chief Chemist of the Department of Agri culture, Washing ton, D. C., shows the ROYAL SZ g ®1 to be a cream of tartar baking pow- der of the highest quality, superior to all others in strength, leavening power, and general usefulness. The Royal Baking Powder is thus distinguished by the highest expert official authority the lead ing Baking Powder of the world. Royal Baking Powder makes the finest, sweetest, lightest and most whole some food. It goes further in use, and is more economical than any other. ligious aspirations that touched me most. I reflected on how many good people would be disconcerted to hear of them, on how many would feel that in some mysterious way such aspirations most irritatingly and unjustly weakened their own position of condemnation toward clowns and oircuses in particular and the world, the flesh and the devil at large. I smiled at tho thought. I was lying on deck in ray steamer chair, aud just then the captain of the amazons, in much nautical splendor of blue serge and White anchors, whirled down the deck and collided in front of me with tho shabby missionary. The girl turned pale. It was pleasing to see the awe with which the cloth in spired her. In the confusion of her Let me give such an outline of their history as I can in orderly sequence. The father had been in charge of the workroom of a china painting firm. “That’s all knocked oft now,” said Teddy Catty, and he explained lamely and naively how people wanted ‘ ‘high art” nowadays, and how consequently his father’s old firm had gone out of business. His father had been with it 40 years, and “he died pretty soon after he lost his place. ” The mother had been a ballet girl before she married, and she had num bers of relatives iu various branches of the “show business.” The children, four of them, were all put on the stage in pantomimes and such things when they wero little. Of the family there were now left only the one brother and sister. No, Emmy was not on the stage, ■ “not in no way. ” Though his accent was so good, the little clown’s gram mar was not upon a dull level of. cor rectness. “Emmy never exactly liked tho stage, her mother never exactly wanted her to go on it,” and just when they did not know what she should do she solved the problem tho old way and married—married a scene painter at the Lyceum theater. “You may know by that that he’s a good one. He was only in a small posi tion when Emmy married him, but he’s one of tho head ones now. Then, you know, he knew some real artist paint ers, and Emmy—she didn’t have any children, and she thought she’d like to learn to paint pictures, and sho did. apologies she dropped a pack of cards. Her husband’s awful proud of her.” It was the fifth day out when, after The missionary picked them up, and with a kindly, faintly humorous smile much narrative that, as is the way of handed them to her, and she got herself talk, did not advance the story, we off expeditiously, though, so to speak, reachod this point. We were again on deck, and Amy with much sail taken in. It occurred to mo that perhaps this and I were lying in our chairs gazing preacher did not illustrate the points I over a tossing dark sea at a red sunset, had been making against the pious. We while Teddy Catty sat facing us. “You wouldn’t think Emmy was my had arrived at a bowing acquaintance, the missionary and I, and now when ho sister, ” he said. “She’s liko another glanced my way I smiled my recogni kind. She’s a beauty, and she’s just tion of tho moment’s accident. Ho smil like a swell, a nice swell, in her ways, ed, too, and said, “When I first went to and then she’s good. My, she’s good I” “Is she religious?” I ventured. China, I found that for tho work I “Now, you know—yes—butthen it’s wanted to do I must dress liko a China man. ” Tho conclusion of his thought— hard to say exactly what different peo that the clerical broadcloth might still ple mean,” and the boy gave himself interfere with his usefulness—ho ex up with grave pleasure to the serious pressed only by a quizzical glance down business of accurately informing us as the deck toward the young lady wfiose to Emmy’s spiritual life. "She is as re ligions as she can be one way,” he normal costume was tights. Later in the ling, fair, ocean girt day went on, “and then the other she only as the ship glided on between two still, goes as far as she can without feeling blno wonder worlds—the water was as if she was throwing over the rest of like satin—Ajny brought her water col us. Her husband he thinks religious peoplo ain’t his kind, and of course I’m or box on deck and began to sketch. Everybody was on deck. The clown, nowhere with ’em, and Emmy can’t with a white bell shaped soft hat pulled make herself up to contract with them down to his ears and his hands in his that despises us. You wouldn’t believe pockets, was doggedly taking a consti what she thinks of me, you wouldn’t indeed. So she just goes without reli tutional aud chewing a toothpick. I was planning to use my past con gion except what she can get reading nection with the stage to help me to his the Bible and”—half hesitating and acquaintance when it appeared that we softening his tone—“and praying. She wero to win that privilege through a says she believes we can be good that quite different appeal. As I lay, drowsy way. She wants me to try. She is good, with content, watching the dashos of good. I wish, though, she could be with color brighten Amy’s pad, I became real religious people, some kind. Our aware that Teddy Catty—that was his grandmother, one of ’em, was a great delightful name—was circling about chapel goer. She was an independent. us, his pale, white lashed little eyes I think Emmy would be happier that blinking fixedly—if you will permit way. ” He turned his face toward the angry the paradox—upon Amy’s work. I looked up at him amicably as he gloom of the sea and the fading western camo nearer. He touched his hat. There sky, and we were all silent. What a was a touch of the grotesque, some comforting glimpse of human nature! Presently Amy said, with an odd lit thing clownish, in his very organization, and the way he touched his hat was tle accession of formal courtesy in her faintly funny, was dimly Audreylike. tone: “I hope, Mr. Catty, you have a He came nearer shyly, cleared his throat picture of your sister that you can show and said, with a very good accent and us. I should like to know how sho looks. ” iu quite the usual English way: Yes, he had her picture in his state “Beg pardon. I hope you’ll excuse me for watching, but I take such an room. He wanted us to see it. The limitless night was darkening interest when I see any one painting. ” “Do you paint?” I concluded my re around us in momentary pulsations. We left the wild, soul searching scene ply- “Oh, no, no, no, indeed, but I have a for the petty, pretty glare of the cabin. sister who does. She paints wonderful While we were drinking cur tea Teddy ly. ” Then, lowering his voice, he add Caddy brought us the photograph. It seems out of harmony now with ed hesitatingly, as if it were really im modest to speak of so much glory, “She the fleshly reaction from the infinite has a picture in the Royal academy this things of the spirit that had just come upon us. We had to give our poor flag year. ” Now, this was exactly what I wanted ging souls a tug to make them respond to hear about. Amy was painting away. to the unconscious awe that looked, She had recognized the clown’s presence Madonnalike, upon us. You never saw by a civil glance only, so I encouraged a little child’s face more deeply, simply him te draw up a stool and wait till her | serious. The next day I took tho picture to sketch was done. I soon learned much of the little all show to the missionary. He smiled be that my week’s acquaintance with him nevolently as I told of the quaint broth disclosed. The sight of a girl painting er aud sister, but being a missionary had melted him into a mood as commu and not an artist and seeing nothing to nicative as a child’s, and he only want do for them his mind inclined to wan ed a sympathetic audience to enjoy der. 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They think a circus He pointed out the picture. though I wished to ask the missionary man ought to repent a lot, you know, that I ought to throw over the show about his interview with Teddy Catty, and business for good, and I don’t see how I and had, of course, rational human mo can, I don’t know that I want to. tives for such an interest in the lad, ona Long and Emmy didn’t cut it altogether puerile triviality after another preoccu I don’ as t know as I want to.” pied me, so that I had just a word with “But—what—how are you going to Haw the little fellow draw back over him before tie ship's company parted manage out in China?” awed he readily enough, with a shade at Liverpool. “Why, you know, the mfcr iouary’s of relief perhaps, abandoned the gentle We wero in the custom house. The different from most religious toll's. He attack. missionary’s wife, thin, pale, shabby, just takes things naturally, and I’ve This trio was not often in session, so quietly executive and a lady, kept or to say, for Teddy Catty was very mod der among her children in a corner of some money by me, and Emmy left me est and was scrupulously careful not to the great, bare, overlighted, ugly plaoe, a little”— He stopped a moment and intrude upon us, but he was sure to be and beside her sat Teddy Catty, with stared fixedly into space, then shifting his position a little went on in a differ within beckoning distance whenever his hat pulled over his eyes. ent tone: “I can go out there, and then Amy was sketching. The sight exercis I felt that I could not speak to him says he can give me things to do for ed an absurd fascination upon him. there. To do so would, it seemed, em ; he It was easy to see that he regarded phasize the cruel, bold publicity of the him as a lay worker—that’s what he me a3 of an altogether inferior race of place. So I went to where tho mission calls it—and that I can be some use to beings as compared to Amy. With me ary stood over bis bags and boxes, a him, and that it’ll be easier for me to be could talk on occasion, but to her he queer lot, and asked him, if the worth be in good standing there than here. I could scarcely more than speak when he lessness of the words did not choke him, don’t care how it is, but I’d like to stay was spoken to. This dumb shyness, to- to tell the boy goodby for us and to say with him awhile and do something getlier with his professional position, that we felt for him. I stopped short, gome way for religion, you know—the ‘ real thing. Yes, ” in answer to a ques puzzled Amy. shamed with the thought of how little “Do yon suppose, ” said she, “that he we felt, realizing for once not only the tion, “I suppose I’ll come back and go is anything of a clown, that honest lit- powerlessness of human sympathy, but in the circus after my money’s all gone. [ tie owl?’ ’ its painfully absurd deficiency in quan They’d never want to support me as if In truth, there seemed nothing clown tity, the unnecessary thickness of our I was a real missionary. I wouldn’t be like about Teddy Catty except the wadding of stupidity. Then I reflected worth it, but they’ll let me be a Chris clownishness of which I have spoken, as I stood there that this whole little tian there. " We shook hands with Teddy C3tty at the touch of oddity that made his iden episode of our acquaintance with the tity seem a. little humorous. But then I missionary and the clown, 60 slight, yet 1 the door of Burlington House, and I had seen successful comedians flourish so dyed in the primary colors of life, saw him no more, but when I called on on nothing more than a lesser degree of its grotesqueness and comedy and in the missionary he confirmed the story the same thing, and I knew, too, what consequence, its mystery and tragedy, of these queer plans. “Yes, ’’ he said, “Teddy seems so lit is always puzzling to the world, that tho was ending, or rather, as is the way of possession of the technique of any art ' life, fading, passing, like a cloud, into tle capable of the ordinary ways of en i enables the possessor to mold into ex something else, and that soon the tering Into and feeling about the reli pression much of his naturo which he quaint pair would exist for me no more, gious life that I don’t know what chan ! may lack either freedom, will or desire and I rebelled against the mutability of nel of usefulness would be open to him here. He wants to come with me, and ' to express iu bis life. So, you see, I was not surprised when my interest in existence. I said to the missionary: “I it seems to me it is a good step. Things Teddy Catty’6 artistic side was gratified shall be in Loudon in a week or two. I are simpler out thero. About his own by a chance verdict, but not a worth don’t suppose I’ll ever be the least good ing back—I don't think he’ll come less one, that he was a good clown. It to you or to Teddy Catty, and there is back. I think in time he can be taken came from the spectacular amazonian no reason in keeping up such an ac fully into the work. If he does return, captain on the occasion of my first con quaintance as ours, but for no smaller why, he’ll have a fuller religious expe versation with her. It happened one aft reason than that we are all human be rience than he has now to fall back on. ” And so, thanks somewhat to two mod ernoon as I was walking the deck that ings”— The missionary's oyes respond 1 stumbled, and simultaneously the ship ed so adequately with humor and a good ern young women professing grave philo gave a lurch, and I was thrown upon deal beside that for a moment it did not sophical doubts of the wisdom of for tho histrionic amazonian breast. Upon occur to me to finish my sentence, and eign missions, this curious transaction such a provocation to unreasoning re then I concluded: “Let me oorne to see jame actually to pass, and the only sentment her boundless good nature in you or your wife a moment to hear how eircus clown I ever knew, without re stantly asserted itself, with pleasure in things are. You’ll probably know some nouncing what I shall call his art, sail thing of Teddy Catty for as much as a ed away to China as a Christian mis sionary. lhe opportunity, and then in an instant fortnight longer.” more she realized another opportunity No philosophical doubts could stop us Yes, he thought his friendship with —she would gratify a thirst for knowl the clown might survive all devouring from bidding him godspeed, nor have edge. Having helped me to my feet, time so long, and he said he would be they quenched since that day a high she hurried to say: degree of interest in Chinese missions. glad to see me again. “I’ve heard Teddy Catty speak about Teddy Catty has not yet returned. Yet I had been iu London a week and you. He said you’ve been on the stage had not looked up my fellow passen We feel it would be piquant to see him yourself. He’s awful taken up seeing gers, when one day as Amy and I were again fill his place in the ring, but that friend of yours paint, ain’t he? going through the amazingly crowded withal other than artistic sentiments He’s dead proud of that sister of his rooms of the Royal academy whom will make us contented if the mission a-paintiug. Did you know anything should we see but the little clown. He ary’s predictions come true, and the cir about him before he came on board? was sitting on one of the divans, dress cus knows him no more. Did you ever see him in the ring? ed in the conventional mourning of a THE END. He’s a good clown, a real good one. law loving Englishman, 3 frock coat They say he’ll get with Barnum next and crape banded silk hat dignifying Having Fun. likely. There’s some fun to him— : Teddy Catty’s little figure. We saw A boy who was recently sent to s not all just as if you’d pulled a string. him furtively wipe his eyes as he gazed I tell him he ought to go on the stage— ; at the gilt and canvas covered wall be boarding school has just sent the fol comic opera. He can’t sing much, but fore him, and we knew Emmy’s picture lowing letter te his loving and anxious that don’t matter for a funny man. I’ve was there. We soon found it It was a mother: “I got here all right, and I for been in comic opera some, not a princi little one, hung rather high, and like got to write before. It is a very nice pal, of course, but I can get more with several thousand ethers in that home of place to have fun. A feller and 1 went the Kiralfys and in pantomime over English art it was of a baby, and, again out in a boat, and the boat tipped over, here, ” with a toss of the head toward like the majority of them, it was a poor and a man got me out, and I was so full of water that I didn’t know nothing for the bow of the ship. picture—dull, conventional. Whatever a good long while. The other boy has After having dreamed away half a had been in poor Emmy’s heart when lifetime in this little world upon the she painted it was concealed under a to be buried after they find him. His waters aud having all but forgotten false, frigid method faithfully carried mother came from Lincoln, and she cries all the time. A hoss kicked me over, and previous states of existence—at the end out. I have got to have some money to pay of ten days, that is—we anchored off Teddy’s face worked convulsively for Queenstown. There, according to ex a moment when he saw us. Then he the doctor for fixing my head. We are pectation, we met a party of pleasant pointed out the picture and gave us his going to set an old barn on fire tonight, acquaintances of both sexes, and straight place to sit in while we gazed. There and I should smile if we don’t have way we sank—rose?—were transformed was plainly no need of talking about it bully fun. I lost my watch and am very from the lofty epicene patrons of Teddy He did not think of comment as becom sorry. I shall bring home some mud turtles, and I shall bring home a tame Catty into something perhaps more like ing the occasion. woodchuck if I can get ’em in my conventional young ladies than some “It belonged to one of the dressers at old fashioned people would suppose pos the theater,” he said softly after a trunk.”—New York Tribune. sible. time. “She had a lot of Children, and Practical. It is 6trange now to think how unim her husband died, and—Emmy—Emmy pressively on this changed mood fell helped her, and she was tremendously Sweet is sympathy, and thrice wel the news that Teddy Catty at Queens fond of that baby. She used to keep it come are kind words, but there are town had met dark sorrow. A letter at the house days aud days to get times when the heart craves recognition had come telling him his sister was chances to paint it.” Teddy’s voice more substantial. dead. Not that we were indifferent failed him again. In a western city not long ago a gen No. I remember feeling his bereave After awhile in the moving of the tleman was surprised to recognize the ment with one of those appalling throng he got a seat beside us, and I face of a person who was hawking shoe thumps of realization that visit most of noted, as if it were something surpris strings and buttonhooks on a street cor us often enough to point the blessing of ing, that in taking it he arranged his ner as that of one of his regimental our usual “wadding of stupidity. ” But, coattails with the same odd funniness oom rad es during the war. He went up after all, this heart stopping sensation of movement as of old. It did seem 1 to the man, greeted him warmly and —as usual, I think—came rather from quite strange for a moment that his assured him of his sympathy. He was a sudden vision of the tragic conditions grief had not lifted him into ideal grace. much grieved, he said, to see an old sol of all life than from direct, simple sym Ho looked from one to the other of ns dier in such a case. pathy with Teddy Catty. Poor Teddy and said: “I was going to try some When he had expressed himself at Catty had all at once become a very re way to see you ladies, but the mission some length in this manner, he was mote little figure, all but invisible, and ary said you wfere going to come to see suddenly interrupted by his former ac there was so much to talk over with our him. I wanted to tell you that I’m go quaintance. friends. News waB to be heard, expe ing back with him to China, and I’d “I’m much obliged for your pity,” riences were to be exchanged and plans never have known him if it hadn’t been he remarked dryly, “but how many to be made. pairs of shoestrings will you buy?”— for you. ” It was a relief when his roommate, a j Youth’s Companion. “Going with him?” young man—we knew nothing more “Yes, Miss Milman. I’m goingto see about him—came to me and with stam if I can help him—help him be a mis An Odd Custom. mering, misplaced apologies asked if I sionary, you know. ” Teddy’s unfamil An old custotfi in still in vogue in thought, if I supposed, that the mis iarity with the phrases of the “work” High Wycombe, Bucks. After electing sionary would not mind, or did I think pleased my ear. “I’ve got a little mon the mayor for the year the corporation he would mind— “Does Mr. Catty, ey, ” he went on, “and I feel as if I’d solemnly proceed to the borough offioe wish to see the missionary?” I asked, like to do something—something reli of weights and measures aud are there with a sense of relief, and I went glad gious—some time, and it seems as if this severally weighed, and their correct ly to summon him. was my chance. I fancy Emmy would weights officially recorded.—Liverpool The missionary was, as usual, oc like it. But I never could turn in with I Mercury.