The Daily Reporter. »•. n'Miivi is ..km a great cowaru. i dr w the trembling and terrified girl nto the lions- h.» following with a n. O. IBEI.ANI» it CO. PUBLISHER^. storm »f ths m l threatening*. At .ast I tori'. >ly sii .. '.he door up n him, McMinnVille, ()r - '- Feb. 14. 1SS7 an * b->|te«| h tn • if. Whether this in dignity was to.» m teh for t -* valorous soldier, or win tu a' he felt s re t u.t all ehmce was over. I know <»t; but when I >.»ked »’it ten min ,te.s after th •ion.-; w is clear. I took my erring, wr : d. yet st !! more wronged '.han .-..-.ar eld’d nto my Itosorn, and thanked i i- avi‘!i she w as saved. 1 e .>xt ’iinning Mr. Slither «nd ar AN OLD GOVERNESS’S TALE— rived. Arter Chis n -Jit's events I have lit t ie FO'NDED ON FACT. to a ,. or rath» r 1 prefer to s;iy but ;. •,«»:’ vl 1 s • I during the remain der of tl a; -.iiiim. t . M e a traveled to Eng i together. going round by RY MISs MUI OCK. Y uk-iine ,n order to leave Mr. Lo- laughters .it Ill ’ll' IWII hotD’*. " leil me.'iny cniiu, the plain trutn, as you always do—where were you go r.i s u is Mr. Sultiei'l.u I’s kind plan, • g.r!s ;nig!.‘ :»•• <eptin ig th " ing?" ni 1 e.sp •<•- . tie ilfl She stammered out: “I was going : »F U'. >! ■ : itimr's iil->te eds. A liât to—to Belfast—to be married.” • » ted 1 know not; they wei e “Married to your cousin?” ..» 1 'li it it was th rt desire <>i' She hung her head and murmured: / . : i s g •.:• 1 ■<'! tv» take her md her; ‘Yes." na w t |i ■ At this frank confession the bride- . so v-’ p > ired Halifax ami 1 neve: froom interposed. He perhaps was all siw my u'’tie ar. family again. I ha« I no he braver for rede ting that he had only women to deal with. He leaped ■i.-iupl.’s diout tir.s quit.ng them, is i from Nt. ■ '. 'hat 1' in at the ohamber-window, and angrily had been engi.i s<»!-»lv is governess asked me by what right 1 interfered. “I will tell you,” said I, “if you have to his w ild, an I t n q) bil himself enough gentlemanly feeling to leave my paid my salaty in ulvm .a: the whole apartment, and will speak with me in of which, in some way or other had been Intercepted by Mr. Le Poer. The the open air.” He retreated, I bolted the window, money of cour.s« was gon«*; but he had written to me with each remittance, and still keeping a firm hold on the and I had lost, his letters. That trembling girl, met him outside the was thus hard! front door. It ceitainly was the oddest I also foitutl out. with gt ■ it joy and place for such a scene; but I did not comfort, that my Zillah was truly Zil wish to admit him inside the house. lah Lc Poer—her father's legitimate “Now, Mjss Pryor,” said he impera daughter and heiress. All I h id been tively, but still politely—a Lel’oer could led to believe was a cruel and wicked not be otherwise—“will you be so kind lie. The whole history of her father as to relinquish th it young lady, who mother w is one of these family has confided herselt to my are. and In and tragedies, only too frequent, which,the tends honoring me with her hand?” in them being dead, are best for “Is that true, Zillah? Do you love actors I shall not revive the tale. this man, and vottntarily intend to gotten. Ih 'ate autumn Mr. Sutherland sailed marry him?” for India. Before he quitted England “Yes, if you will let me, Miss Pryor, he made me sole guardian in his stead lie told me you would be so pleased. over Zillah Le Poer. assigning for her a He promises always to be kind to me, and never let me work. Please don’t handsome maintenance. He said he we should ill live happily togeth be angry with me, dear Miss Pryor! hojted er — she, my mother amt 1—until he Oh. do let me marry my cousin!” came back. He spent a short time with “Listen to me a few minutes, Zillah,” Baid I, “aad you shall choose.” And us ill at his country seat—a time which, ’ookihg back upon, seems in its then I told her in as few words as I eight days like eight separate years. could, what her position was—how that I ought t<» speak of Zil!ah, the un it had been concealed from her that stw center of so many convolving was an huress, and how by marrying moved fates. She remained still and silent as her. her cousin Augustus would tie master over all her wealth. So un ever—dull, grieved, humiliated. I told worldly was she. that I think the girl her gradually and gently the whole herself hardly mid rstood me; but the truth, and explained from how much she had been saved. She seemed grate lieutenant was furious. “Lt is all a lie—an infamous cheat!” ful and [»enitent; it was clear that her he cried. “Don't believe it, Zillah! heart had never been touched by love; Don’t l»e frightened, little fool! I she was yet a mere child. The only promised to marry you, and, by Heav evidence of womanly shame she gave was in keeping entirely out of her en! marry you I will!" "Lieutenant Lb .Poer,” said 1 very guardian’s way ; nor did betake much quietly, “that may not be quite so easy notice of her except in reproaching him- as you think. However, I do not pre Betf to me with being neglectful of his vent you, as indeed I have no right; I charge; but he had so thoroughly trust only ask my dear child Zillah here to ed in the girl's uncle as being her l>est grant me one favor, as for the sake of protector. The only remark he ever made on Zil mv love to her”—(here Zillah sobbed)— “Ï doubt not she will; namely, that she lah’s personal self was that she hud should do as every oth'-r young woman beautiful eyes, adding, with a half sigh, of common sense and .elicuey would “that he liked dark Oriental eyes.” do. and wait until to-morrow, to ask One day his mother told me something the consent of one who will thou prob which explained this. She said he had ably be here, if he is not already ar been engaged to a young lady in India, rived—her guardian. Mr. Andrew Suth who on the eve of their marriage had died, lie had never cared much for erland.” Lieutenant Augustus burst out with woman’s society since, and his mother an oath, probably very mild in the thought would probably never marry. mess-room, but very shocking here to After his departure 1 learned the whole two w omen's ears. Zillah crept farther Story. My heart bled over every pang he had suffered; he was so good and from him* and nearer to me. noble a man. And when I knew about “I’ll not tie cheated so!” stormed he. “Come, child, you’ll trust your cousin? his indifference to all women, I felt the You’ll come away to-night?” -and he more grateful for the trust he showed tried to lift her oti the car, which had in me. by making me Zillah’s guard approactied—the Irish driver evidently ian in his absence, and wishing me to write to him regularly of her welfare. much enjoying the scene. “No. pousin, not to-n ght,” said the The last words l»e said were asking me girl, resisting. *‘I’d rather wait iuid to go and see his mother often; and have Miss Pryor with me, and proper then he hade (rod bios mu. mid called bridemaids, and a wedd ng-di ess, and me “his dear friend.” II • was very always! all that—that is. if I marry you at all, kind We had a quiet winter, for my health which 1 wont unless Miss Pryor thinks you will I m * kind to me. sb good-bye was not good—I being often deiieste in winter limo. My motini and Zillah till to-morrow, cousin.” He was so enraged by this time that took care of me, and I was vt ry grate he tried forcibly to drag her on the ar lui for their love. I got w 11 at last as springtime advanced. and went on But I wound my arms round iny dear the in mv old wav». child's waist and shrieked for help. There are sometimes long pauseV/m. “Faith, sir.” said the sturdy Irish ’s life—deep rests or sleeps of years man. interfering, half in am seme.nt, one in which bioiil I i alter month and season half in indignation, “ye’d bettlmr lave after float on each the same: thq w«>iuyi* alpue. I d rutfiey npt med during season, which the soul lies either ouiet dle with ."tn abduction.'’ torpid, as may l»e. Thus, without So Zillah w as set free from the Heu- | or any trouble, joy or change, we lived for tenqnt'a gust». for. as I said before, a several vears—mv mother. Zdlalu-Ix>- THE HALF-CASTE. Fottr and I. (flie' nlorun'ig T Tdffud, If you want your piles cured with a curious surprise, but without and are willing to pay for it, any of the horror which most women are auppoMd to feel at that fact, that I call at the office of Dr. Johnson, was thirty years old! We discovered by the same reckoning t on (’ street. I am not working that Zillah waa just nineteen. 1 re for fun, or for glory, but for member she put her lang.ung face be money, No charge for consul - side mine in the glass. There was a great difference truly. I do not mean tation. 1. C. 'I'aylor, M D. the difference tn her from me, for I > never compared that, but in her former I ; N’EW TO-DAY self. She had grown up into a woman, and, as that glass told me. uid my own JOHN J. SAX, eyes told me, a very str king woman t<»o. 1 was little of a jud re in lieauty I i Has his myself; still I knew well that every body wr« met thought her handsome, l.ikew is , she had grown up Iteautiful in mind ¡is well as m body. I was very proud of my dear child. 1 well remember this day, when she was nineteen ami 1 thirty. I remem-1 -AND— ber it, 1 say, because our kind friend in India had iemembered it likewise, and Will chop Feed for $2 per ton sent us each a maguilicent shawl; tar or one-tenth toll. too magnitkent it was for a little body like me. bul it became Zillah splendid ---------- <<»)---------- ly. She tucked me under her arm as if Farmers and others having grain to chop Iliad been a little girl, and walked me can come to my mill, and attend to any up and down the room; for she was of a bnsineas in the city to (»ettvradvantage than cheerful, gay teni|*r now -just the one driving two miles out of town to get their JOHN J. SAX. to make an old heart young again, to chopping done. McMinnville, Or. flash upon a worn spirit with the I brightness of its own long-past morn ing I re«’olleet thinking thus at the time —1 wish I had thought so oftener! But it matters little; 1 only chronicle this day, as being th« first when Zillah un consciously put herself on a level with McMinnville. Oregon. me, becoming thenceforward i woman, F. Multner, Prop. ami my equal—no longer a mere pet and a child. I.ate of the <t. Charles.) About this time—1 may as well just This Hotel has just been refitted and new state the fact to comfort other maidens of thirty years’ standing 1 received an ly refurnished throughout, nnd will be kept otter of marriage, the first I had ever in a first class style. had. He who asked me was a gentle The table is supplied with ail the market s, and gm sts oan rely upon good oleau man of my own age, an old acquaint ' affor, and comfortable rooms. ance, though never a very intimate tM'ds, Special accomodations for commercial friend. I examined myself well, with ■ traveler*. great humility and regret, for he was an excellent man; but 1 found I could SEVENTH ANNUAL not marry him. It was very strange that he should ask me, 1 thought. My mother, proud ami pleased—hrst, be cause 1 had the honor of a proposal; j secondly, that it was refused, and she kept her cliild still would have it that t he circumstance was not strange at all. She said many women were handsomer and more attractive at thirty than they had ever been in their lives. Mv poor, fond, deluded and deluding mother, in whose sight even I wiis fair! That night I was foolieh enough to look long into the glass, at my quiet little face, ami my pale, gray-blue eye* -not dark —OF THE— like Zillah’s foolish enough to count narrowly the white threads that were coming one by one into my hair. This trouble—I mean the offer of marriage —I did not quite get over for many weeks, even months. The following year of my life there befell me a great pang. Of this, a grief never to be forgotten, a loss never to be restored—I cannot even now say more than is implied in three words— my mother iliedl After that Zillah and I lived together alone for twelve II months or more. There are some scenes in our life LIST OF PRIZES. landscai»e scenes I mean -that we re member very clearly; one strikes me There will be prizes given on the following now. A quiet, soft Mayday; the hedg utimed exhibits: 1st and 2d prize for best and 2d beat ex es jiust in their first green, the horse chestnuts white with flowers; the long, hibit of Kensington painting. 1st and 2d prize, for best and 2d beat ex silent country lanes swept through by a of Kensington embroidery. traveling carriage, in wliich two wom hibit 1st and 2d prize, for best ami 2d beat ex en, equally silent, sat Zillah Le IV»er hibit <>f outline work by a child under ¡4 and I. years of age. It was the month liefore her coming 1st and 2d best, for Lest nnd 2d teat ex of age, ami she was going to meet her hibit of work of any kind by a boy under U guardian, who had just returned from years of age. India. 1st and 2d prize, for best and 2d liest ex Mrs. Sutherland had received a letter hibit of ornyon work. There will also be a prize given for the from Soiitliampton, and immediately sent for us into the country to meet her heaviest, lightest and prettiest baby under 1 u»n. her “beloved Andrew.” 1 merely year of age. Following is a lint of prize* offered: For the lejieat the words as I rciuiunber Zillah’s I g, while she laughed at the ugly prettiest baby, gold necklace; lightest and heaviest baby cm er one year of ape, each a name. 1 never thought it ugly. ring; outline work by a , hild under When we had really started, however. gold years, first urize, ear rings, second Zillah ceatwal laughing, and became fourteen prize, strap Look; Kensington «mbroidery, r ive, probablv at the recollect ion of first prise, napkin ring, second prize, box that humiliating circumstance which writing paper; ktnsington pa riting, first hrst brought her ae<|uainted with her prize, manicure set, second prizt- bracket; guardian. But despit ■ this ill-omened crayon work, first prize, papi r holder,sect nd hegiuiiing, her voutli had blossomed in prize, pitcher; boy s work, first prize, paper to grej.t p 1 icci n. \s sue sat there holder, second prize, inkstand. Ijefore me. iair hi p”rs»»n, well cnltui <1 PitrHde «»I l'iretn«*ii T iu - m I b } h I- in mind, amt pure an I virgin in heart— tern«*«»n. .or 1 ii:ul so kept, her out <»f harm’s way hat, ihough uc.jly twenty-one, I knew Doors will be «»pen hi 7 o'clock, sl;e hhd fiever been “in love” with any p. in. «I h II j , «luring ||i<> iian -as she sat thus, I felt proud and I'alr. glad in her, feeling sure that .Mr. Suth —All an- invited to Attend— erland would say I had well fulfilled the chanre he gave Admission 25 Cents. Feed. Chopping Mill In Running Order, The Central Hotel, „ Dining Station of the 0. C. R. R FIREMAN'S FAIR Garrison Opera House, To be Continued. By Order of C ommittcb ,