SSP^Sf^s^jB, wpiWfmaiimfiSjS&aSfgS^^Zg 4 t, Once more I would hear even the fearful along sort of place, so far aa business HE COWED TH E AUDIENCE. They Were All Swells. "Right about face!" a3 the man said tale that cut deeper than your was concerned but its windows displayed when he asked his friend to publish a treatise sword that night tell me the truth!— a wondrous medley of valuables An amusing story is told in club on physiognomy. An Actor W O Wa Hissed Remove the truth!" he repeated, advancing and rubbish, which, to an observant circles of Lord Beresford and Mr. It is a great pleasure to watch the self His Mask and Cries for Revenge. yet, closer upon the pirate. "Your eye,' spoke eloquently of reckless jack binders cutting down the golden grain, and OR Gerald Coxe, says Eugene .Field in 'Tis seldom that an actor is hissed, words have haunted me day and tars, who in their stay ashore, used watch the smile on the happy farmer's face night—day and night, since that up to the last penny, had been forced but recently the patience of an Albany as he thinks of all the good he can do with the Chicago News, two of the most THE FISHEKMAFS BBIDE. hour and I have sought you, have to part with their watches—sound, the money he derives lrom this year's crop. audience gave way, and the soul-stirring conspicuous swells about town. They Although the crop is the best we ever had planned this meeting. I would know solid articles, no make believe—their efforts of two mediocre actors not in Towner county, not a kernel will be were walking in Piccadilly one afternoon, the last of her and whether, in her ear-rings—though that must bea hard long-since received well-merited hisses, purposelv wasted. And this is proper for dying hour, if indeed she be dead, she push—and other belongings of their CHAPTER L—CONTINUED. when a dirty little crossingsweep it is by saving we make, and if a farmer can according to the Argus of that city. Ifc was not only the terrible malformation class. Strange old-fashioned, solid ever thought of me. Tell me, even save by shipping his grain he would be For a moment the artists were dumb, importuned them for tu'pence. of the limb, the hand being metal tobacco stoppers two pipes and veryfoolishifhedidnot, If he has 5,000 at the last, that the horrible tale then one of them, advancing to the "No, I'll not give you a penny," bushels of wheat to sell and saves five cents toent and twisted, the fingers stunted tobacco pouches from Turkey or was false! tell me that it needed all a bushel by shipping it, it would make him footlights, said in tremulous tones: said Sir Charles, gruffly but then, as India, wonderful antediluvian jewelry, and cramped, and destitute of the your devlish arts to win her from her $250. We know ot farmers that shipped from every known quarter of the "Friends, I'm sorry. We've done the if a bright idea occurred to Mm, he least shape or purpose of utility but, lawful love! Tell me that you lied, their grain last year and got 20 cents a globe and, again, some of more modern added: "But I'll tell you what I will dreadful to behold! around the wrist best we could to amuse you. We've even now, and I will forgive the rest, bushel more than they could have got here. make, though, perhaps, of less do, You see that constable yonder? Last year we shipped to Woodward & Company, •ran a broad red mark having at that so that I can but think her less thrown ourselves about the stage and ot Minneapolis, and every time got value, and much of it telling, I fear, of Well, if you'll run across the street moment the appearance of a newly«nade guilty. worked hard, and is this the return good prompt returns. the faithlessness of certain Molly? and cut, from which the blood and mop your broom up and down "Fool!" sneered the pirate, with we get?" He stopped for a moment. Susans, whom honest Jack's ill-advised seemed just about to start. She scorn expressed in his scowling features, his back I'll give you half-a-crowny Happiness depends upon the prudent Then his anger and resentment generosity had failed to hold "August.habitsethfonconstitutio made a feint of unconsciously grown black as night while the "I'll do it, sir," said the boy, and overmastered him. "This is the first leal and true in his absence, to himself Arranging the buds, it was but other spoke. "I told you all that away he started. or his gifts. time," said he, in a ringingtone, "that -a feint, for the stricken member night and what were my thanks? I Of course the policeman very properly the American Macks have ever been was nerveless to fulfill the lightest desire did but warn you of the immaculate resented tlie shocking insult of Arms and warlike accoutrements, hissed. I'm sorry that you'show such of its owner. virtue ot your lovely wife, and you having a small boy mop a muddy too, there were daggers, upon whose Flower* It was but a few moments her companion little courtesy to a fellow man, but if rushed on me like a demon, and, but jewelled hilts and damascened blades broom up and down his constabulary looked upon the ghastly sight, but for my stronger arm, who would have there is anyone amongyou," he cried, we might, with no great stretch of uniform. He laid hands upon the that was enough and, as she drew on lived to tell the tale, and deserve the tearing off the beard and wig, revealing fancy, detect strange, dubious stains, small boy and proceeded to drag him the glove again he turned away, muttering name of murderer? Your name in her the close cropped head and square unlike all others:" traitorous little to the station. His conscience pricking something about hoping to dying hour! pshaw! As she, lived, she wand like sticks, from which, at a jaws of a prize fighter, "who wishes to him, Sir Charles stepped across »have the pleasure another day. died, loving the man who was worthy touch, started the lance-like blade back up what he did let him step up the street and remonstrated with of 'her, and. who she could not but Ho he feel ?—He feels She would not, as she might have pistols, in the curve of whose embossed here." the officer, but, so far from tolerating bless to have freed her from such a •done, take advantage of his discomfiture cranky, and is constantly experimenting, stock you seemed to trace the calm, dispassionate argument, The nerve of the man captured the jealous, hasty fool as yourself. Go to to expose to himself his shallow syllable-death. These and many dieting himself, adopting audience. Those who had hissed him the officer took Sir the churchyard yonder, if you seek heart but, as he trifled with the more were there, all heaped in a reckless strange notions, and changing the now cheered and applauded. They Charles into custody, too, upon the your child. It lived long enough to books upon the table, trembling with profusion, as I say, eloquent to cooking, the dishes, the hours, and admired the pluck of the man. The grounds that he sought to interfere confirm the truth of all I told you." haste to get away, she even helped those who might choose to read. But applause emboldened him, and as he manner of his eating—August with a constable in the performance "Villain!" Aaron ground the word him with an apology, and, with thanks his was a listless glance, which just so threw aside his coat he called again Flower he of duty. About this time Air. Gerald out between his teeth, and, at the moment for herself and her mother, "must decline took all in, and was again passing on, for any person in the audience to meet Coxe came up and protested against of uncontrollable excitement his considerate offer." when suddenly he started, and, with How he feel ?—He feels at him, but he must have a parting shot, and hatred, he wrenched the pistol the arrest of his friend. Then, with regrets studiously polite, an exclamatian, stopped, and drew times a gnawing, voracious, insatiable and as he turned to leave the stage he from his breast and fired. "Aha," quoth the officer, "so you the honorable gentleman bowed himself close to the window, upon a certain yelled: "If any of you want to see me appetite,wholly unaccountable, The shot failed its echoes rebounded out and rode off, swearing to himself want to interfere, do you? Well, I pane of which, and on one particular after the performance is over you will unnatural and unhealthy.—August from the rocks above, and the fiendish that "By Jove, the girl must be fancy I'll have to run you in too." article behind it, his eyes were fixed— find me at the entrance'" But no one Flower he Remedy laugh of Meghorn replied to them, bewitched! A splendid cweature, and not with mere curiosity, nor admiration, "I don't mind," said Mr. Coxe, indifferently. saw him. His brutality captured as his sword flashed like lightning all that but, by Jove! aw—turn a nor inquiry, but with amazement, more applause than his acting. How he feel ?—He feels no above his head, and he threw himself './ fellaw sick! Aw, no could stand a trouble, nay, anger in their gaze. So the procession moved to the police desire to go to the table and a fiercely upon his adversary. good deal, but, hang it all—aw!" A moment more and. he was within station. The inspector in charge grumbling, fault-finding, over-nicety At that moment a hollow sound •4 1 "There, mother, it is done," cried the shop, and hastily, more by gesture AMMONIA OR ALUM gazed at the three culprits austere! issued from the rocks—a loud splitting about what is set before him when Ida, as she re-entered the room where than words, had indicated to the man he was a shrewd and august man—he noise, as it rent asunder, and a he is there—August Flower he her parent sat. "We shall not be behind the counter what he desired. had dealt with crime in all its phases heavy mass came crashing to the Baking Powders Remedy -troubled with the captain again: and Like a good man of business, he upon all his life. earth. There was a shriek, an oath, in less than no time the story will be difrty, attracted by the glimpse of HOW TO DETECT THEXI. "So you've been interfering with the a cry at the last for mercy then all How he feel ?—He feels out with all due additions. I shall be Ammonia and alum are the most this new customer to purchase, had constable, eh?" said he solemnly. "A was still, and when Aaron Franklen a monster no doubt but none will after a spell of this abnormal appetite quitted another, whose errand, if common adulterants used in the manufacture serious charge—a most serious recovered from the momentary alarm I dare to think of flirtation." an utter abhorrence, loathing, pi'ofitable, would, he well knew, suffer of baking powders. The Government charge. Now tell me, sir, what's your that had paralyzed his senses, he beheld She.laughed, but there was a painI and detestation of food as if a nothing by waiting awhile and, accordingly, name?" a bleeding and unsightly corpse, report shows that a large fui constraint in her tone. the lower end of the counter mouthful would kill him—August half covered by the fallen rock, one "Mr. Gerald Coxe," answered the "My darling Ida, why didn't you let percentage of the baking powders on —screened off from that where the Flower he Remedy arm extended, still grasping the sword gentleman addressed. i, me see him?" said the mother. newcomer stood—was quickly left, the market contain either one or the that had so lately threatened his existence. "Oh, better so it will save much Now, even this august and solemn with the invisible customer, to the exercise How he feel ?—He has irregular other or both these pernicious drugs. trouble," said Ida. "They are all inspector had a certain sense of humor, of patience. bowels and peculiar stools— It was all that remained of the pirate Ammonia particularly is in very general alike, I doubt not and they must and the thought that any It was a small box containing a Augus Flower he Remedy Meghorn. know me for what I am. There was use. man charged with interfering with ring, which the man set before the I one, though, did not turn away shocked, a constable should masquerade stranger, in accordance with the latter's This wholesale use in an article of when he saw it, I remember—poor CHAPTER LII as the swell Mr. Coxe struck the august request. daily food, of one of the most injurious Tom!" and solemn inspector as a joke Tutt's ILiver Pills act as kindly on the poisons is simply criminal. Slow He lifted it eagerty, gazed upon it The last words she said half to herself. ON THE TRACK. cBiill, the delicate female or infirm —a rare and mighty joke. from side to side, then peered within ammonia poisoning produces diseases old age, as upon the vigorous man It might be some three weeks after "Oh, you're Mr. Gerald Coxe, aro the massive circlet, apparently in of the stomach and is particularly injurious "Mother," she added, after a pause, the events related in the last chapter, search of some motto, or graven sign, you?" said he sarcastically. "Yes, to the complexion. The presence "are you still in the mind to spend my when, towrardsthe close of a wet and you look like Mr. Gerald Coxe very by which he might further identify it of ammonia in a baking pow der, birthday at your old village?" gloomy day, in a small seaport town all the while the shopkeeper was running good—capital—ha, ha! And who however can easily be detected. "Yes, dear,"returnedISTelly. "Idon't on the English coast, a man might on in praise ot the stones, the are vou, sir?" know why but I have a strange longing have been seen walking slowly down setting, the gold, but the stranger TO DETECT A30IOXIA. "Sir Charles Beresford," said the to see the dear place once more. I one of the close and dirty streets never heard him, as with a trembling Mix one heaping teaspoonful of gentlem an. ought to bear it, and I believe I shall." give tone to the wcnU stomach, bow* which led to the quay—at that hour, hand, and with eyes that seemed unable, baking powder with one teaspoonful els, kiduej and bladder. To these This, to the thinking of the august "How glad I shall be'" said Ida, even now, to assure his reason, of water in a tin cup boil thoroughly ordains their strengthening qualities and in such weather, almost the only and bolemn inspector, simply deepened, with a sigh of relief. "I long to see are vionderful, causing them to per* he continued his investigation of the for a few moments stir to prevent part of the town giving signs of lite ramified, and complicated the form their functions as in youth the places where you say I used to trinket. and animation. Several vessels lay burning and if ammonia is present Sold Everywhere. joke. climb and gather flowers. I will make you can smell it in the rising steam, in the harbor, outward bound, and. "It is," he gasped at length, "it is! no engagement for that v\ eek to please "So you're Sir Charles Beresford, Office, .S* «o 4-1 a Place, N. Y. or place a can of the suspected powder the preparations attendant upon Where did you get it?" he asked, turning any one. It wants but ten days of eh?" he chuckled, grimly. "Sir top down on a hot stove tor a their sailing involved a good deal of to the man, but still looking at the time." Charles Beresford, eh? Well this is minute or two then take off the traffic to and fro, while upon the quay the ring. Nelly had taken the deformed hand splendid—you look like Sir Charles, co\er and smell. was gathered groups of sailors with Meanwhile, the man was officiously of her child in hers, and tenderly drew you do: splendid, splendid! And their friends or acquaintances, passengers lighting a lamp at the stranger's elbow7, TO DETECT ALUM. off the glove, then held the limb soothing now tell me, my boy," said the inspector, who lingered to the last moment to assist him in his investigation Alum powder can be tested by putting to her breast. "Yes," she repeat-ed turning to the small boy, on shore, and many others having the latter turned towards it, a couple of teaspoonfuls ot the "but ten days." "what's your name?" more or less interest in the departing and the ring shone and glittered in its powder in a glass of cold water. If no vessels and their freight, inanimate light. The shopman had. opened his The ragged little urchin was in a CHAPTER LI. efferevescence that is bubbling or simmering, or human. wrhen serious quandary. He looked at Sir lips to reply to the question, an takes place, condemn the VENGEANCE. The solitary straggler whom I have exclamation proceeded from the other Charles and Mr. Coxe. goods and return them at once. mentioned had not long since formed side the partition screening off the adjacent For some moments the men stood "Look a-here," said he, "I don't Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder TREATMENT. a portion of such a group, in tact, had corner. •eyeing each other in silence, as strange know who yez aro or wat's A er game, is reported by all authorities as free Dr. E. C. West's Nerve and Brain Treatment lett the inn where he had. slept and thoughts flitted rapidly through the ''Why, it's Nelly's ring!" cried the but if I'm goin'back on a pal!" from alum, ammonia, or any other dined with the intent of going on mind of each. voice of a woman "dear, poor Nelly!" A guaranteed specific for Hj steria, Dizziness, Convul-u Then, turning boldly to the inspector, adulterant. n*, tits, lurious Jieuialgm, Headache, Nervous board the vessel in which he had taken Saul spoke first. "Who is that?" cried the stranger, I lostration caused by the UbO of alcohol or tobacco, he said, in a tone full of heroic .ikcfulness, 3Uiit.il Depression, Softening of the a berth, and the news that it would "Treachery," he gasped "base, unworthy excitedly "who speaks of her?" he repeated, confidence "I'm der Dook of Well liiiin lesultun? in insanity and leading to misery, deij Fruits in Summer not sail for the next four-and-twenty anddtath, Premature Old Age, 15ai rennc-s. Loss of deception for what purpose endeavoring to obtain a sight insrton." I'owei in cither sex, Involuntary Lo scs and Speimatoi Contrary to the popular notion, the hours had been the most unwelcome are you here?" of the speaker. rhoea, caused by over exertion of the brain, stlfabuso or o\ei indulprence. Kach box contains on© intelligence he could have received. "There comes a time," Aaron replied, free use of good, ripe fruit in summer month's treatment, 1 00 a box, or six boxes for 8J.00, Immediately after, the small door in And yet, with that inconsistency Huntin in Maine. bent bj mail, prepaid on receipt of price. still in that low, frigid, measured does not tend to give rise to bowel the partition opened, and the woman which forms so striking a trait in Even the women and children tone which might have been that W E OUABAIN E E S I O E S whom he had encountered at the entrance trouble. It really tends to prevent it. are most characters, he had declined the To cure any case. With each order received by us for of the apparition the pirate had at participating in the present good of the pawnbroker's stepped Fruits when rightly indulged, are SIN bpxes, accompanied with (5x00, -no will send thepurchiM. opportunity offered him to go first assuredly supposed him—"there hunting up in western Maine. The out. our written pruarantce to I efund the money if the easy of digestion they promote the aboard and spend the night, which he ticatmrntdoes not cftecta cuie Guarantees issued $omes a time when all villains turn other day, Mrs. George Brown, of "Who are you9" exclaimed the onlj by O S A O I I I I might well have done, his score at the fools as well, that those they have health of the organs which dispose of is a IWXixizx. stranger "do you know this ring?— Guilford. in Piscataquis county, while inn being settled, and. chambermaids wronged may obtain satisfaction. I gg-THE GENUINE IN YELLOW WRAPPERS ONLY. them, and keep the intestinal canal did you know her you spoke of?" looking out of her kitchen window, and boots remembered, and his back hardly dared to hope my shallow "A Land That Flows With "Know her!" repeated the woman, free and open. Of course unripe or saw a large and handsome fox come fairly turned on all demands. scheme might succeed, but it has, and in a trembling voice "oh! indeed I did Milk and Honey." out in the field near by. Her husband spoiled fruits are a menace, and liable He would, perhaps, have been puzzled you are here." and for the ring. I could never mistake PORTLAND, OREGON, to answer to himself what cause being away, she took down his rifle "What do you want? what would to excite summer complaint but beyond it. Poor Nelly'—oh, my good, good he could have for lingering on a land and pointed it out of the windotv you have or me?" Meghorn asked, all a doubt, this is far the most friend!" and the woman fell to sobbing, he had made up his mind to quit for bis old stern and implacable nature at the fox. The window being as she looked at the ring in the often caused by milk and meats that The Great Western Railway ever unless, indeed, that might be in returning. low, she found she could not rest hand of the stranger "ah! it seems have undergone poisonous changes. "What! was the bitter retort of itself a reason. However, turn his back Terminus! the gun on the sill and take good but yesterday that she was telling me he did, having sent his luggage—not the other. "Suppose I were to ask of The Great Pacific Seaport aim, so she raised it and held it at all about it. Poor Nelly! it almost very abundant—aboard, and, entering you my ruined home, my injured The fact is universally recognized broke her heart when it was stolen." arm's length, fired and killed the fox City! into none of the subjects of conversation happiness and honor, nay, my life— that flesh of all kinds decomposes "Stolen!" echoed the stranger. instantly. She then went out and Real Estate is the Basis of all Wealth. or interest at the quay, he for in all intent you had it? Suppose I very rapidly on keeping in hot weather. "Then she did not brought her trophy into the house.. wended his way slowly back into the -were to call upon you only to atone It cannot be as well known that AN I\'ECTME2TT THAT V, ILL SET. TO BE CONTINUED. The Portland Press, from which this town, and sauntered up a bye street to 30 for this?" He threw aside his cloak, the same kinds of food also decompose paragraph is taken, says that the and held out a maimed arm, amputated wholly deserted, and in which his more quickly within the body O A NEAT PROPOSAL. meditations—not over-pleasant, as it above the wrist. "For years of during that season than they do in distance, being measured, proved to '.19 per cent, of those invesrinp in Real Estate seemed—ran no chance of being disturbed, gainful, anxious weary life, made cold weather. The poison which results be thirty rods. make money, 87 per cent, of those investing in Business lose money. for, save the sound of his own ateful by your crime and treachery, Ho Bloobumper Secure His from decomposition acts powerfully, A commercial center is the safest placa to invest footfalls, none broke the silence. He in real estate, especially when such place is you ask me what I seek. Ha!" With Spouse both as an emetic and a purgative a sreat railway center, has good river transportation was evidently prepared for a rough a powerful effort he controlled the a of he Let Alon Polic The company had been discussing in a word, it causes severe cholera and laige foreign and domestic shipping and prolonged journey, with all tlie, Portland is that place. impulse which would have urged him morbus. Fortunately, the liver is different ways of popping the question The newscomes from Siam that the Portland, Oregon, is now pre-eminently the experience of an accustomed traveler to rush upon his enemy yet he still able to destroy some of the poison. and nearly evfery one had related his commercial center of the Pacific Northwest No king has'granted valuable concessions other city in the United States is so •well sitna over his other apparel he wore a cloak, clasped the hilt of his pistol, and There is however, a limit to such or her experience, or that of somebody in mines, railroads and banking ted respect to natural resources as is Portland, ample and sea-worthy, which his right Saul, whose fierce eyes glittered with power and if too much enters or is and it leads all other cities west of the else. to A mericans, having previously refused Mississippi Iliyer in its phenomenal growth in arm held firmly around liis body, fury, had half drawn his cutlass from generated with the system, the liver "•It's your turn, now, Bloobumper," population. Located at the confluence of two them to Englishmen. The as its resting-place. leaving the other at liberty. great rivers, and being the terminus of more cannot turn back, but some passes into said Gazzam, turning to the gentleman tute monarch feared theEnsrlish were transcontinental railways than any other eitv in His face, half hidden by the tarpaulin "'These things are long nast," h'e the general circulation, where it named. thelinited States. In fact, every Ad vantni* plotting to seize his kingdom, while, hat he wrore, was lined and furrowed which insures the solid growth and prosperttl •said, hurriediy "why recall them?" does serious mischief. To forego "I only know the way I proposed of a city is abundantly enjoyed by Portland of course, he had no such fears as to and in his hair and rough, uncared-for "Past!" retorted the other. "An meats entirely, and live upon fruits, myself," replied Bloobumper, "and These Advantages Guarantee Constantly increasing this country. This is suggestive, bea rd, but few traces remained to tell injury such as mine is never past. It vegetables and farinaceous foods, is Values in Real Estate my wife might object to my telling THE TAWOOD REAL ESTATE COMP4.N1Y'^ of the dark hue they once could boast. The nations of the east are not suspicious grows in the memory of it, and the the wisest and safest plan to follow KJ -ar family secrets" PORTLAND.OREGON, His head was bowed forward as he of the United States. They Fast recollection of it is more frightful during the hot season.—Boston Has the best plan for investors vet devised "I shan't mind," Mrs. Bloobumper You never read anything more exDlicrt an.i «ven than the first. But with me it walked, like a man with whom anxious know we have no designs upon their, Journal of Health. added, and then her husband went simple It le absolutely safe, and cannot Jan to 1 and solitary thought has become be profitable to all who invest. -annoi ian xo has never slumbered. I tell you, independence. Of all European countries on: CAPITAL $300,000. 6.000 SHARES AT $50 a habit yet his step was firm, his form Saul Meghorn, pirate, villian, murderer they are distrustful. Americans "When I was courting Nellie, another fe* athletic. He could not be much past as you are, 1 would have had your A Would-Be Joker Squelched, S A & A A VALUE, $50 00 young man named Higgins was ought, therefore, to find the east a wl A PLLLPAID NON-ASSESSABLE forty but our years should be rather life within the year of that night you also paying her a good deal "of attention. bountiful field for their enterpriseWashington We will not sell a share of stock at less than Been a deacon in a church for fifteen numbered by the cares which have ?„a£i?3lu? f50J«0- Bhare). as the Company" cast me bleeding and mangled, I was pretty sure I was preferred Critic. 0 0 infl SSSll"^! *'J.* ated or watered, but years?" echoed the passenger in believed,marked them, than by the sun's setting a corpse as you Pf/i7i?a?11?r,ont8xcapltal i8 backed by Solid before Higgins, but still I wasn't Real Estate investment. investment down yonder cliff but the and rising, or the seasons' course. the check suit. "That's a long time. absolutely certain, and I didn't give A FAIR OFFER, At the corner of the street, the man, If you Providence that sa^ed me destined in Often Feel at W a own stock, and at any him any chance to be with Nellie that I daresay you have passed the contribution time wish to deep in thought, and with eyes downcast, that I should be taken far from this A man who has always resided in I could prevent. One evening I had basket through the congregation v?& a 4 0 5 a ttnd a yo° ^i Real had like to have fallen over a country and when I returned it was Estate at the price at which the company is selling called and Nellie and I had commenced Delhi and is well known answered an a great many times." lots to other parties. person—the first he had met in that to find her He stopped the one of those conversations advertisement for an agent and received or Prospectus giving fall explanation street—who, turning the corner somewhat "Hundreds of times," replied the words seemed choking him—"To find ot the company's plan and all information regarding chiefly interesting to two, but of no a request to have some of the how stock is paid for Ac. hastily, was about to enter a the confirmation of all that you passenger in black alpaca. particular value to a third party. -w vr REFERENCES. business men to recommend him to shop, the steps of which the moody tad. told me* You may thank the Just then the servant came in and announced Josep? A 1 ^Melrathr,y re 5 S PortlanEstatedlaeK "And I suppose—ha! ha!—you oo. Secretary Rea be honest. He procured some signatures, passenger had stumbled over, and so wretched woman, whom your villany Mr. Higgins. Now I didn't have found a great many—eh?— S&£ ^S I 5 Capitalist which he sent the firm, and received came in contact with the other. seduced, for your life so far. You W. Scott. Editor '"Oregonmn:" H. L, Pittock want Mr. Higgins there, and I didn't what's this?" Manage8rl anndt Treasurer "Oregonian:" S. J. Ba£ Hurriedly recovering himself, and a box of goods. Not having were spared for her sake. But it is think Nellie did either. So I said to The deacon, with an intensely ^A'^f XfS*^Portland Park Association^ courteously apologizing to the young _Aong since I found that you were again the money to pay the express charges E A E A the girl: 'Tell Mr. Higgins that Miss TAT&or? CO.'. Portland^. 9 E S weary look on his face, had drawn TATE Oregon. womap, he restored to her a small ^pursuing your "old course, and that Nellie is engaged'. As the girl went to (70 cents), heappliedto his indorsers from his pocket and was holding oui bundle which had slipped from her she and the fruit of your accursed sin carry this unwelcome message to Mr. for that amount, but he could not for inspection of the man in the check grasp upon the steps then, as she !. had been abandoned by you, or had Higgins, Nellie looked at me with a get a cent from any of them. He suit a time-stained card, on which passed in, he was continuing his walk, perished. Better* that than to live knowing smile, and said: "0 George!" vrs l»st war. 15 *cbndi«i.ting ehmm afty.taS: was printed in large letters the following 3M was honest enough to handle other but his eye had involuntarily followed the life of misery she must have done. I clasped her to my manly breast, and inscription: people's goods to the amount of $50, the woman, and now fell on the window And this is what I would know of before the evening was over we had "Never* found in the contributionbox but couldn't be trusted with 50 centsof of the shop.- & you. Saul Meghorn—where is that unihappy the wedding day fixed. Happy a button of any sort or kind in their money. It was a pawnbroker's—a dozy, jog- creature who was my wife? thought, wasn't it?"—Brooklyn Life. my life,"—Star Sayings. vu 8 I %4S fc& ii-11 ft nf ii Vi