am wmmmm^^ S*l?s£!s of Pedro's inaccuracies of speech ran ing on each side as he went. As he An Uncomfortable Situation. A O S CONFESSION. as follows: reached the bottom he thrust his Col. Ryan, the manager of Prescott In the year 1777, when club into the hill opposite rushed He Doesn' a Much Medicine & Varnell's museum in St. Travelers over the line of the Union the people of the eastern down the canon and tore open that and Advises he Reporte No To Louis, tells the following narrow escape part of America were fighting pass in the rocks which is known as Pacific railroad are no doubt familiar "Humbug?" Of course it is. The which he had from being killed "The Devil's Gate." for independence, the Spaniards with the curious rock formaj( by the snakes ot his show: "Wehad so-called science ot* medicine is a humbug had already settled on the Pacific Pedro paused. "tions in Echo and "Weber canons, jjusb ninety-seven serpents on exhibition, coast and founded several missions. and has been from the t^ime of "What became of Father Pietro?" and some weie enormous specimens after the road enters the territory of s1? The fathers, with that devotion and I inquired. Hippocrates to the present. Why eighteen to twenty feet long. Utah. It would seem that here na"tnre fearlessness which has charact erized "He at last found his way back to the biggest crank in the Indian tribes These were confined in a glass covered the priesthood in all ages, had penetrated the Mission Dolores, where he spent had made her playground, and is the medicine man." cage, the top of which, having far inland and made many the remainder of his life in fasting out of pure sport nature had fashioned "Very frank was the admission, converts among the savages in the been broken, was temporarily held and praying as a penancefor having the rocks into all sorts of fantastics especially so when it came from one interior as early as 1725. in place by a stick. Maj. Varnell held communication with the devil!" ot the biggest young physicians of and grotesque shapes. But Among the most zealous and successful and myself had sleeping apartments "Well, Pedro, do you believe that the city, one whose practice is among was Eather Pietro del Torra, at the head of a stairway, directly few, if any are familiar with the legid yarn?" was my next question. the thousands, though he has been a man of great piety, and also as above. One night we returned and "Si, senor it was told me by a which throws the glamours of graduated but a few years," says the social and genial a companion as holy priest, who said in the same dropped languidly into a bed without the supernatural over the quaintly Buffalo Courier. "Very cozy was his one could wish for. In the fall of manner was the devil accustomed lighting the gas. After a little office too, with its cheerful grate shaped crags and gives them their 1777 Eather Pietro had crossed the to tempt us to this day—first by I felt, something encumbering my Both the method and results when fire, its Queen Anne furniture, and its Sierras and was preaching- aud baptising snlphurously suggestive names. flattery, then by making us discontented, lower limbs and heard a harsh, grating Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant many lounges and easy-chairs. He among the Indians of Nevada they by bribes, and finally sound all over the room. Attempting I left the train at the little MorTaon and refreshing to the taste, and acta stirred the fire lazily, lighted a fresh and Utah, He had passed the alkali by threats. And senor, I know that to rise, I found to my horror village of Peterson, just beyond gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, cigar, and went on." plains of the Humboldt region and to be true. Moreo* er, does not the that my feet were bound, and by Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system "Take the prescriptions laid down the cannon, and securing horses and the great Salt Lake, and late one slide, the club and gate attest to its a flash of lightening that passed at effectually, dispels colds, headaches in the books and what do you find? evening was was walking in Weber a guide, I prepared to spend a few trute?" that moment I saw an immense boa Poisons mainly, and nauseating and fevers and cures habitual Canon, when he came to a days trying the trout fishing lor It was useless to argue with such a constrictor wrapped about them. stuffs that would make a healthy constipation. Syrup of Figs is the wall of rock which barred his simple faith, so I crawled into my Striking a 'match I awoke Varnell 'which the Weber river enjoys a local passage. He determined, however, man an invalid. Why in the world only remedy of its kind ever produced, blanket and went to sleep. and we found ourselves shackled to reputation. Pedro, my guide, was a science should go to poisont for its to push on, and after laboriously pleasing to the taste and* acceptable The next morning his Satanic majesty gether by the serpents'. One huge emedies 1 cannot tell, nor can I And climbing the hill he pursued p^. half breed Mexican, of the Sancho to the stomach, prompt in seemed to have got into the anaconda was also coiled on the any one who can." his way along the top. Soon he observed its action and truly beneficial in its j£anza type full of Indian laziness, fish, for no art on my part could Majors breast. "How does a doctort know the a gentleman dressed as a effects, prepared only from the most make them rise to the fly. So to the a "Mexican superstition and a true effect of his medicine?" he asked. Spanish cavalier of the day coming healthy and agreeable substances, its intense delight of Pedro, we packed -Spanish love for the marvelous. He "To make matters worse, the flickering "He calls, prescribes, and goes away. toward him. Father Pietro was not up our camp traps and left the place many excellent qualities commend it The only way to judge would be to bad been brought up in an old monrastery a little surprised to see a white man matehlight in tho gloom had of which he had such a horror which to all and have made it the most stand over the bed and watch the so far from civihzationjand truth, attracted a host of reptiles, anacondas, not far from the City of Mexico, even in the bright sunlight, seemed a popular remedy known. patient. This cannot be done. So, he was not sorry, for being, as we rattles, garters, black snakes, most appropriate spot for the devil and was full of tales of the hardy really, I don't know how he is to tell Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50a have said, of a social disposition, he cobras and copperheads soon began to choose for an interview. friars who braved the terrors of the felt the lack of company sorely. what good or hurt he does. Sometime and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. to congregate, hiss, scrape their wilderness, in order to convert the ago, you remember, the Boston Any reliable druggist who Therefore, when they met Father rasp like, scaly bodies over our ears, Latest Attempts at Wit. Glode sent a reporter with a Indians, and who, if the stories be may not have it on hand will procure Pietro smiled pleasantly and remarked: crawl their clammy selves over our stated set of si mptons. He went to it promptly for any one who "Mamma, I know it's true about faces and breathe their breath upon trae, used to lasso them when milder eleven prominent physicians and wishes to try it. Do not accept any "A lonely walk you are having,my the golden streets in Heaven." our flesh. Great drops of perspiration persuasion failed. brought back eleven different prescriptions. son." stood out on our faces as we substitute. "Why, how do you know, Maud?" We jogged along pleasantly This just shows how It is reverend father, but is it not signaled each other to keep still and "Because, when I was on deck with CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. much science there is in medicine." enough until we were well within the likewise lonely for you, who travel silent. To speak would have been nurse last night something made a There are local diseases of various SAP FRANCISCO, CAL, day after day unattended?" canon, and I selected a grassy spot but to transfer the attention of the noise and the sky split clear across, LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N.Y. characters for which nature provides "Very lonely," answered Father reptiles to ourselves. The snakes in S1GKHEADAGH on. the river bank to pitch our and then I saw the gold shining positive remedies. They may not be Pietro, with a sigh. Then brightening a short time began a fierce battle camp for the night. Then Pedro through."—Electrical Keview. included in the regular physician's up he added"Let between themselves, and the suspense list, perhaps, because of their simplicity, began to show signs of uneasiness. us sup together a crust with Our Village Institute Soiree —Beetor's l*©»ltivelycured by grew awful, as helpless we lay, but the evidence of their curative these Littl Pills. "Senior, I like not this place," he a pleasant companion is better than wife (hysterically): "Here's a not daring to move if we could, and They alao relieve Dia power is beyond dispute. Kidney said finally, as he fumbled at the a feast in solitude." tress from Dyspepnia.In note come from these Wagshaws. listening to the writhing, struggling disease is cured by Warner's Safe Cure, digestion and TooHeartj "You are right," responded the cords which bound the luggage on They ask me to play and sing during forms and fangs in the horrid work a strictly herbal remedy. Thousands Sating. A perfect rem stranger. "I myself can speak the pack mule. "What is the matter edy for Dizziness,Nausea of wasting their hateful venom upon the evening, because, they say—they of persons, every year, wiite as does Drowsiness, Bad Taste with the place?" I queried, as I knowingly of the misery of solitude. each other. But soon our jailers, want the young and attractive H. J. Gardiner, of Pontiac, R. 1., August in the Month, Coated took note of the pools and eddies in I am the proprietor of large furnaces, Tongue Pain in the Side to our delight took a hand in the women to assist as waitresses!" 7.1890: TOKPID LIVER. Thej the river, and made a metal calculation and I came here in search of fuel. I row, and unwound their coils from regulate the Bowels A few years ago I suffered more (Tableau.)—English Paper. became separated from my party, as to the best place to commence Purely Vegetable. our limbs. Once free, it was but a than probably ever will be known Pric 2 5 Cents. and for the last two days I have been my fishing the next day. It must take a long rat to provide few moments' work to light the gas, outside of myself, with kidney and wandering around in this vicinity •CASTSS MZDICINS CO., NEW YOBS. a skin to make an 18-button kid get brooms and by the arts known liver complaint. It is the old story "It is strange senior, the rocks are luckily, I am indifferently well provided glove to grace the rounded arm of Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price. —I visited doctor after doctor, but to the profession, drive them into a works of witchery and the story is with food." As he concluded the pretty girl who mashes the chap to no avail. I was at Newport, and big box that was convenient. We not pleasant to think of." he sat down beside a large stone and who owns the degs, that caught the Dr. Blackman recommended Warner's found that they had knocked the "Well," I answered carelessly, as I motioned Father Pietro to take a Safe Cure. I commenced the rat, that wore the skin, that made stick down, escaped through the saw a big trout, which looked to be seat opposite. He did so, and drawing use of it, and found relief immediately. the glove, that graced the arm of the roof of the glass case and crawled over a foot long as it flashed in the from his wallet a flask of water, Altogether I took three bottles, sunlight, jump from a pool directly charming girl, that trapped the chap, up into our room for warmth.—St. crust of black bread and an onion he and I truthfully state that it cured in front of me, "1 guess nobody will that sicked the dog, that caught the Louis fflobe-Democrat. prepared to make his meal. His companion me." Imrt you we will build a big fire and rat, etc., etc.—Martha's Vineyard laughed, and telling him to Right of Way. it will keep the animals away, and "put away that pig's food," produced Herald. It is of course generally understood the Indians are all peaceable." University students at Ann Arbor, Mich from under his cloak a loaf of A man of experience Stranger— that all the interest the public owns eusnpjed in a general row, resulting in the "It is not the Indians nor the fresh bread, a flask of brandy and arrest of six ot tneir number No one suffered O a "Is the fighting editor in?" Editor bears I fear, senior it is the devil." in the land over which our highways some lumps of sugar and proposed severe mjuiy alogue is beautifully illustrated. Con* —"No sir." Stranger—"Sure? Honest "Pshaw, he does not want you yet to commence the supper with a pass is simply the right of way. The tains everything in the way of footweai a. while," I answered, laughingly, health to the priest. Nothing loth, Injun,' now?" Editor—"Honest land belongs, as it did before the mado from Rubber. It should be in and Pedro submissively began to Father Pietro substituted the fresh Injun. He won't be back for a road was located, to the several estates every family. Send your address, and arrange the camp and prepare supper. bread and spirits for his own hard week." Stranger—"Well, I have a from which it was taken. If at we will mail it. Meanwhile, do nol I unpacked my trout rods with crust and water. As he did so the little poem that my little daughter forget that in Rubber Boots and Shoes care, and busied mvself selecting stranger remarked in a pitying tone: any time the road is discontinued, When Baby vas sick, we gave heY Castoria, wrote. It is not very legibly written the best are the cheapest. flies and rigging my tackle for the When she was a Child, she cried for Castona, "Poor food for a traveler, holy father, so I'll just read it myself." the land goes back to those estates. aport I anticipated on the morrow. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, I marvel that your brethern do Plain as this principle is, there are "Mamma," said a little girl, after I even went so far as to whip the not furnish you with better'" When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, curious questions of right arising pool out of which I had seen the looking for a long time at a dressmaker's Father Pietro sighed It was poor from time to time. An interesting trout jump, but it was too late in wire dummy, "was that a food, the onion and black bread. the day, or his troutship was sullen, one came up in connection with fishing real live lady once?" "I suppose so, And what though the brotherhood and I had my labor for my pains. right a few years ago. An English at the Mission Dolores were poor, replied the mother carelessly, her After we had eaten our supper we road had crossed a little stream still they were rich in the mother mind on something else. The child rubbers fit best, wear best, are best. lay on opposite sides of the camp country, and men who worked as he by a lord from a time so early that relasped into thought for five minutes, Messrs. Dillon, O'Brien, O'Connor, Gill ppTTtTA"P"P of infeiior Knbbcrs sold under other nre,I smoking my pipe and Pedro consuming did eschewed better fare. As the Harrington, Sullivan and the remainder no one knew the beginning of the and then asked: "Mamma, howdid JJ VV XxJAiJQ hrnwls Insiston WooiisoeUet Rubber the lush parhmentary party left Phil ad el villainous cigarettes made of brandy rose to his brain the demon Boots and Shoes I bc\ re the best Sold e\ en where. usage. they go the meat off her skelepum?" pliia for Boston, where they will addicss Manufactured b\ the WOONSOCkh 1? KU11BLK CO., black plug tobacco wrapped in the of discontent rose in his heart. PaoviDENct, 1. Send for Catalogue. In later years, when fishing rights nreetmjrs. coarsest straw paper, and thinking "Bread without meat is but dry became valuable, the owners of land ,^r~at least 1 was—of how well the eating," said the stranger, and extending A former professor of history in along the stream made its waters statural appearance of the canon his hand beneath the stone, one of our conference academies tells private property, as they had a gave color to Pedro's superstitious he drew ap a pair of plump partridges, this: "We had under consideration right to do. The ford, however, belonged notions. The moon was struggling smoking hot, as from a gridiron. in the United States history class to the public as a thoroughfare. though a mass of fleecy cloud which Father Pietro was surprised the subject of early attempts at settlement, Could the traveller cast his did not hide it entirely, but which at first, but the brandy had given and among other topics line for a fish while passing through made the light tremble as it shot out him a feeling of recklessness entirely came that of the adventure of Sir the ater? Clearly this would be an bright and clear through the open unknown to his sober senses. So he act of trespass. Walter Raleigh. I had a boy on the spaces, then was obscured through ate apd joked with his strange entertainer, But this did not settle all the points floor reciting, and after he had given •a cloud bank. The Weber river, at and was is no way surprised at issue before the public yielded. A some account of the attempts" Raleigh our feet, looked in one moment as when he drew a couple of bottles of bridge was built over the stream had made to establish colonies, •bright as quicksilver, in the next it wine and some delicious fruit from AMERICANIZED just below the ford No formal discontinuance I asked him had the queen in no was inky black. The tremulous the same strange larder. After much of the old passage could, moonlight gave fantastic outlines way rewarded him for what he had general conversation, in the course however, be obtained. People continued to the strangely shaped crags and done. 'Oh, yes,' said the boy, 'she of which the stranger had expressed to drive through the stream, ENCYCL0P/ED1A they seemed to move with a sort of gave him a night cap.' Now the toPVRU.HI ,189a a high admiration for Father Pietro's tothe serious injury of the fishing rhymthic swaying, to advance in book had it that she had rewarded zeal and learning, he said carelessly: rights above and below. Gont the moonlight and how, then recede him with knighthood." "You are well acquainted with this Naturally the owners of the land BRITANNIGA —all the painful disorders and into the shadow, The night part of the country, I presume, reverend tried to prevent travel through the winds rustled though the stunted chronic weaknesses peculiar to the father?" Popular Fallacies, water. It was contended, on the pines and sage brush and moaned female sex. They go, with the use "I have traveled throughit several other part, that the hordes were accustomed most uncannily among the mysterous The antique worship of mystic of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. years," was the prompt answer. to dnnk on their way by Complete to 1890, in Ten Large Volumes, fissures and crevices ofthe rocks. numbers still shows its after-effect Periodical pains, weak back, "How would you like to leave the the ford, and that the bathing of The river rippled along peacefully in various popular superstitions, bearing down sensations, nervous priesthood and become my agent? their legs in the water refreshed them. -AND THE- enough past our camp, but the dull for instance, the idea that young prostration, all female complaints The work is easy, the pay is liberal, These were held to be conveniences .Toar of the cataract, where, a half animals born blind will open their and you will be provided with a are cured by it. It is purely vegetable DAILY AND SUNDAY of travel, and were not sm*rendered mile below, it dashed through the eyes on the ninth day. The truth is warm home alter you have done. and perfectly harmless a by the building ot the bridge. E1 PRES S Tock-riven Devil's Gate, made a dull For, by my faith, it pains me to my that the blindness period of pupies powerful general, as well as uteiine, monotone broken by the sharp yelp heart to see a man of your talents varies from ten to sixteen days, and tonic and nervine, imparting "vigor People of Paraguay of the coyote or the cry of a small and learning working for a beggarly that of kittens from six to twelve. 'and strength to the whole system. bird frightened by the prairie owl. The entire population of Paraguay monastery, half clothed and worse My children have a private zoo of It costs you nothing if it fails to id" Pedro drew closer to me, and only amounts to 239,774 persons of fed. Come with me and this will be domestic and foreign rodents, and give satisfaction. It's guaranteed r* id pointing to two parallel walls of changed." both sexes, of which 221,000 are to do so, in every case, or the money after a three years experience have ONE YEAR arock about twenty feet apart, rising "I could not leave the brotherhood," Paraguayans, the remainder being come to the conclusion that the is refunded. It can be guaranteed to a height of about thirty feet and answered Father Pietro. mostly composed of Argentines, Ital-' —for it does it. No other medicine young of white rats never open their extending from tho top to the bottom -FOR- Then followed a long ar^-ument between ians, Brazilians and Germans. The for women is sold on such terms. eyes before the fifteenth day, the of the mountain, he whispered them the stranger using every $2.50 a Month. census taken in 1857 showed that eighteenth day being the usual -ra awe struck voice: *'Tha Devil's argument in his power, promising That's the way its makers prove the population then consisted of upward average. The frequent assertion Slide, senor." untold wealth, a life of ease and the their faith in it. Contains no alcohol of the 230,000 souls, so that Then pointing to a huge monolith, that "colds" will run their natural I gratification of every passion. The to inebriate no syrup or sugar more than 1,000,000 inhabitants shaped like an Indian club, on the course in nine days is equally erroneous. good father persistently refused. to derange digestion a legitimate perished through the war that was opposite hill, he added: At last the stranger rose, and rolling A slight catarrh, characterized medicine, not a beverage. Purely carried on by Topaz and Jourdan. Sample volumes sent for inspection by naving "That is the Devil's War Club," away the rock, showed Father Pietro by ail its unmistakable symptoms, order for same guaranteed by some responsible vegetable and perfectly harmless in The proportion is now as 100 to 140. and he crossed himself so vigorously an immense mass of gold and silver person in your town, you to pay express charges. may come and depart in three any condition of the system. In the entire country there are onlv iS For lull particulars and circulars address and muttered so many strange underneath saying: "This shall be times twenty-four hours, while 23,417 Paraguayans and 3,826 foreigners World's Dispensary Medical Association, prayers in a mixture of bad Spanish yours if you will give up your work THE PIONEER PRESS CO., chronic "colds" are often as persistent who can read and write, say and worse Latin, that I am certain Proprietors, No. 663 Main and assist me. Do you still refuse?" .in,. as their cause, and may worry a ST. PAUt,, MIN'N about 20 per cent, ot the natives and ota that any reasonable fiend would "I do," answered Father Pietro, Street, Buffalo, N. Y. FOR MEN ONLY! whole family from Christmas to the ral, 60 per cent, of the foreign settlers. have fled in terror, at his incomprehensible sturdily. season of open windows. Country A S E I N E patois. "Then die," cried the stranger, in experts in, the pneumonia of rabies His evident terror was beginning a rage, and grasping his staff as if Fdeliver,Efree We are now launched upon the OR ON DOLLAll sent us by mail, we will A POSITIVE&II,0ForE*3'niG HAMHOOD mail we are apt to assure the victim of a make me nervous from sympathy, for a blow. He suddenly grew in size -ine of all charges, to any —a person perso. in lenten season, and many a poor fellow the united States, all the the'followin» fniir«vi«« «-i-i»i«. E SS^*" &&>*y*n Kind: Ef&jfi snapping cur that the bite of a mad the Unite States all articles care^ New and I knew that the best way to restore until he was over sixty feet high he fulir paeked in a neat box paeke in a neat box while trying to do his duty, has oerb Ms mental equilibrium was to dog will show its effect on the swung the terrible club over the n« two ounce bottle of Pnre Vaseline. lOcts found temptation too strong One two ounce bottle VaspJine I'omade, I interest him in some subject not connected priest's head and roared. seventh^,day, after which time and One jar of Vaqefm« Co'd Cream 15 •ea U*Utj from *7&UU%, TerrUorEmTvmA £-?!?_ re NS broken his vows.- Sitting in a One cake of Vaseline Camphor Ice .10 with our uncanny surroundings. "Will you work for me?" *, ». (sometimes extended to the "ninth resthe One cake of Vaseline Soap, nnscented 10 taurant a gentleman o\erheard I tried in vain to turn the "Never!" One cake of Vaseline Soap, sented 2* dav") the dread of evil consequences Paul One two ounce bottle of White Vaseline 2= LAND CLAIMANTS. coHversation upon hunting and fishing. following conversation between The club was poised for a blow." As may be dismissed but the truth is the At last in desperation, Chinkin Or for stamps any single article at the price. man sitting opposite and the waiter: it came down Father Pietro grasp HI that the virus of hydrophohia may CHAS. COWLES TUCKER" If ou ha\e occasion to use Vaseline in any that the sound of his own voice £41 his crucifix and prayed. The c'ub "Brmir me some baked white fi*h." form be careful to accept only genuine goods put remain latent for up by ns original packages A great many might reassume him and that in the LIS fell powerless, and, the devil losing more th».n five "All out, sir." "Out? Then I'll Attorne at a ?r.nRr£l8t?,5:te tl villff Persuade bujers to take years, and after Jgjlft interest of his story he would forget ASELJAE put up by them Never \iId tosuch all power to harm one holding the Webster Law Bnildlng, WASHUffiTOV, I. C. all, develop its take some pork and cabbage. This persuaiiion as the article is an imitation without la fall fcv his position, allowed him to tell r^^ ^f! I O ,^ a a office, the' crucifix, slid down the side of the value and will not ve vou the result you extent germs with fatal results.—Weoki is lent, but the Lord knows I callad Court of Claims and all departments rrompt and A bottle of Bine Seal Vaseline is sold by all drujrgists -i»\3 fcht le'Tjid vhich: Lliorn. of go no. njpuntajn, the two v\ alls of rock ris XiM1* Press, W*i arefnl attention given contested Land Cases for fish.'J at t*n ee'its Mining.CHims and ItaUroad Cases. Correspond-