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A LOVER'S EVENING PRAYER. 'I
BT CHARLES 0. BAHII.
| 0, God! I love her. keep her Rate, I
Altboagh it be Tbise all-wise will 1
That I may never Bee her more? |
, Yet keep her safe I pray Thee still. <
O, shield her from all evil wiles 1
_ And keep her pure in heart within; '
D'or me sue may not jteepner jove,
But keep ber from all barm and sin.
' Let angels walk with her through day.
j Nor leave her with the Bun's last gleams; 1
Let angels watch around ber bed 1
And give ber peace and angel dreams.
1 BpTCBiNSON, Kan. ]
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BT A HE IE C. ll'KEBVEB. 1 '
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H I were an artist I would paint 1
* A face so fair, a face so true, <
With a hidden something like a saint? 1
And that face should picture you. 1
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'Jf 1 were an artist I would know
Oust where the strongest light should touch
rflK> bring out all tbe wonderful glow
In the, one face I love so much.
IS I were an artist I would give
? , A hungry soul a crust to eat,
In the long years that I may live
In which, my love, we may not meet.
If I were an artist I would place
Always above my mantel-tree
Ifelne own sweet face; but It cannot be?
Only my dreams may picture thee.
| Whxiambburg , Ohio.
Ir.EiiisIissi
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f'-; i Remarkable Romance. !
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BY EMILY THORNTON.
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CHAPTER XX. C
' SIR RKGJSALD'S RAGE. C
' - The next morning Ethel attempted to
rise, as usual, btlt found herself so ill 1
with a sick headache that the attempt s
was vain. Every time she lifted her head s
from her pillow it throbbed wildly,
t while a blind dizziness came over her to 1
such an extent that she felt it were bet- t
tor-to keep: still for a tvhile, until It t
passed away. % . i,
Ak/v tioii hofnrft in h?r liffl
- JErom the same cause, and she knew It t
lad been brought about by intense ex- f
?Jt?meirt. v . - ; g
She knew also that It would take several
hours, to restore her to her usual ?
vigor. a
While certain of this, the most anxious
feelings were aroused at her un- '
happy position, as regarded Sir Keginald f
.filendenning's sacred trust.
That the baronet should be at once informed
of his dreadful loss, she well F
;knew, *in order that steps might be taken b
~ lor the redovery of the missing treasure.
But with this dreadful pain, how e
v ehoukl she reach him? e
" Finally she decided that the only way
before her was to lie still until she was c
hi* tn ri?o. H
}> At nine o'clock a servant came to her
iopom, and she sent an excuse to the fam- b
% for. her non-appearance. k
^ About ten ^ message came from Sir
BftginaTd Asking ho# soon she could a
w)ine to him.
She returned for answer that her bead f,
wa&stUL in such p^in, that she feared not ^
"tmffitffernoon. h
About five Dr. Elfensteih called to see <j
i hit patient, and his lordship at once re
quested him to look After his secretary, Q
Baying that she was noc able to come to
Jilp. while he wap most anxious to see jj
. Mfci 5 j ,
'' Hrs. Predon Was then dispatched to ^
fcfies Nevergail's room to prepare her for
m Visit from the Doctor.' ?
. > k^fttfhe young man entered he was real- |j
. If #(,artled to see how wan and pale the 4
ixcitement of the night before and a few
hours' illness had made her. " j
She had made several attempts to rise, 0
And had succeeded in dressing herself, Sl
but the exertion had overcome her, and
. once more she had been obliged to re- r
-cline upon the bed, while her large dark ^
ayes and black dress made her cheeks t
teem almost iike snow.
"Oh* Doctori" she sighed, as he adtonced
and took her hand in his. "Can
you give me something to stop this head- ^
ache, SO that I can go to Sir Reginald?
Be has wanted me all day, and has sent 0
, for nejseveral times, and 1 must see him, f
^nt I cannol seem io get there." f
Are yon subject to such headaches?" v
.^?)iflve bad them a number of times."
W "You have done right to keep still. J c
will give you a remedy that I think will ?
tause you relief in an hour's time. Dn- *
til then you should try to sleep."
Preparing a liquid, he carefully held ,
, 4he tumbler to her lips, saw her drink it, J
. then throwing a light shawl over her,
left, saying as he did so:
' "If you sleep now, 1 am almost certain
you can visit bis lordship in the jecgtn
of time I mentioned." '
It seemed that the medicine and bis ?
? calm, kind words did sootbe her, for at ?
once she fell into the restful sleep so 1
much needed.
' The nap proved quite a long one, and *
it was seven o'clock in the evening*be '
fo^e she crept through the ball, and, with
a trembling frame but head greatly re- *
lieved, entered Sir Reginald's presence. 1
At Once she saw that her illness had 1
^discomposed him, and that he was un- '
usually irritable and nervous. 1
"I am sorry I could not come to vou as
osual," she began, but he interrupted '
her by saying, crossly:
"Oh, yes; I dare say. Stop all apolo- 1
gles, and while we are alone tell me if
you obeyed my orders last night."
"I did," faltered the poor girl. '
Did the thing work well?" asked he, 1
tagerly.
, "It did. I had no trouble in the Tower !
*t all; but, oh, Sir Reginald, something
terrible has happened!" 1
."What2" exclaimed the sick man, ,
starting up in so sudden a manner that
1t caused him to fall back with a groan,
.. Although he kept a firm grip of the arm
.fee had seized in his excitement, regard- ,
less of the fact that bis tight grasp
caused her to turn pale with pain.
"I dread telling you; but just as I left
the Tower to push back the panels a
frightful noise of a heavy fall came, then
?large monster darted out, dashed the
fcandle from my hand, and, with a howl,
disappeared."
"My God! Girl, girl!" yelled the infuriated
man before her, his face turn.
^ug purple with rage, "what is this you
tell me? Gone! Escaped! Speak!" added
he. roughly shaking her by the arm.
"Tell me it is a lie?a lie that you said
just now!"
"No, Sir Reginald," returned the pallid
Ethel; "it is the truth. Whatever you
had there got out last night, and ran off
through the ruins!"
"You jade! you hussy! What did you
do wrong that made this happen? An .
?wer, or I will tear you to pieces!"
"Release my arm, sir. You are cruel in
your rage; you hurt me!"
nSp5lK,~lhgh. jTow did he get out of
,his prison?"
With a faltering voice, the frightened
girl, while writhing in his grasp, murmured:
"1 dropped the knife on the shelves a
' lew .nights before,, a^d forgot. Jt Jt
WfrirteCT aTbuMr?vr"iill(fW"ByTT3e cry
be-gave that lie bad it."
"Idiot! fool!" returned the enraged
being before her, as he gave her arm
Buch a fearful wrench that it dislocated
the elbow. "Out of my sight! out of my
bouse this instant! You have ruined me
with jour cursed carelessness! .Not another'night
shall you sleep under
roof!" .
Once again he raised his arm?this
time to strike. But fortunately, with a
moan of pain at the injury she had already
sustained, she had darted back,
and so the blow descended on empty air.
Without another look at the man before
her the poor young girl cre.pt from
his presence, ancf driggfng hersefl CSfcft
to her room, fastened herself in, wMe
she sought to prepare for her departure.
With her arm hanging motionless by
tier side, and nearly wild with pain, she
apened her trunks and thrusting her
valuables inside as well as she could,
cvith ore band, sbe locked them, and i
iropped the key into her pocket
Fearing, she scarcely knew what, she
put the package of papers her aunt i
aad given her, with her purse also,
n her pocket, that she might be certain i
>* cofotw Thon hast.ilv nuttinl?
JI tUVil C?*V?J AMVM r- u
:omb, brushes, and night apparel id a
aand-sachel, she paused to rest. 1
Advancing to her window, she found
;hat a heavy rain was still falling, and
ihat darkness was sven then over the
:arth.
Throwing her waterproof over her i
ihoulders, with its hood drawn over her
lat, she opened her door and glided
through the hall, down the stairs, and
>ut of the front entrance, fortunately '
vithout being seen by any of the family.
As she had passed the sick man's room,
;he knew by the sound of many excited 1
roices within that they had gone to nis
assistance, and she judged be must have
njured his hip by his passionate frenzy.
While she pitied the man, sho feared
lim, and never breathed freely until outiide
the door.
Then with a hurried step she passed
lown the ramble.
CHAPTER XXL
ETHEL'6 FLIGHT.
The darkness, as I have said, had come
m early, in consequence of the dense
Jouds and falling rain.
It was after eight when Ethel left the
lall, and then it was so dark under the
hading trees that she could not see a
tep before her.
Unaccustomed to be abroad alone at so
ate an hour, her heart beat fast and
ears coursed over her white cheeks,
irougbt there by her fears as well as the
tcute pain in her arm.
Once away from the house and beyond
he reach of Sir Reginald's wrath, she
laused to consider whither she should
;0, and what she should do.
* ? ?* ? ? A ' ?r? rnAma/) rvloin
AS Silt} piiuaeu uuc tuiug kcuicu piuiu.
ibe could do nothing until a physician c
,Mended to her wounded arm. f
In order to have this accomplished it c
?as evident that she must seek Dr. El- t
enstein at his home. r
She shrank from doing this. t
Remembrances of their mutual exlerieacesof
the evening before caused i
ier liear1( to flutter at the very thought, c
fie might think it bold and unmaid- ?
nly thus to push herself into his presnce.'1!'
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Still it could not be helped. Her arm
ould not be raised, and on that arm she d
epended now for her daily bread.
Bitterly she upbraided herself for r
er strange neglect in reference to that
nife. , , , c
Ob, that she had been more careful,
nd less easily unnerved. d
She ought to have expected movements I
iside the room, where a wild animal was i
ept, and therefore counted it silly to i
ave been so overcome as to forget her r
of tV.o fifet. cm'inrl cVia hn.H hftarri. I I
Regrets, however, were useless; she c
just hurry od.
How dark it was, and how difficult to ?
eep in the path! i
The rain beat upon her in torrents, and ^
i> seemed a weary way before she passed
be porters lodge.
Once in the road beyond, she could see 1
ghts jn windows of dwelling houses far i
6wn the road. t
The first .of them she knew was where
)r. Elfenstein lived, and hope revived t
nee more, and she pressed on, thinking 8
oon to be there.
But the road seemed very rough. Great *
uts bad been made in the earth, softened f
y the long rain, and these caused her to i
rip <*uu jaw i/wjw.
Both times it had jarred her arm, and 1
rawn forth tears of anguish. c
Wiping them away, she struggled to s
icr feet and persevered.
At last the gate was reached and t
pened with difficulty; then again a dizzy a
eeling came over her, and just as her s
eet stepped on the Dorch she fell for- I
rard in & Jong, death-like swoon.
Dr. Elfenstein had gone out into the
Qunior. after Uis call .ftt^the .baronet's,
6 visft a rather critical case, ana did
lot return until quite late. As he passed
he porter's lodge one of the servants beonging
to the Hall stepped , out, and
tailing him, bade him to drive there at
mce, as bis master was in terrible dis- i
ress. 1
Without waiting for a second bidding ]
le turned into the grounds and had just j
intcred Sir Reginald's room when Ethel |
glided past it in her flight from the i
louse. . . .
It was with surprise aDd intense wonler
that the physician saw the change a
ew hours had wrought in his patient.
That something of a startling charao,er
had produced the effects now mani'ested
was perfectly apparent, and that
.he good work of the past few weeks had
jeen entirely destroyed in some fit of
passion was too obvious to be denied.
At once he saw that Sir Reginald was
n a worse condition than he had found
him in the first visit he had made after
J)6 fall.
"What has done this?" he asked of
Lady Con9taiice. "What excitement has
tie undergone since I left him doing well
it 4 this afternoon?"
"No one knows. Miss Nevergail came
to his room about 7. We then beard
bim speaking in a furiously angry way,
and after awhile his bell rang a /oud peal
for assistance. On reacting him, he was
alone, suffering as you see him now."
Where was Miss Nevergail.
"She must have returned to her room.
She has been sick all day," was the
i-eply.
"Yes; I know," returned the Doctor.
Not until the clock struck ten could
Dr. Elfenstein leave the Hall, and then
bo was anticipating for the baronet a
sleepless night.
He himself felt tired, and greatly unnerved.
The strange events of the
night before could hardly yet be thought
of calmly. All day he had deeply regretted
no following up and learning the
cause of their mutual flight; but whenever
he had thought of it, Ethel's pleading
tones and shuddering form had
pleaded an eloquent excuse.
How pleasant was the remembrance of
her depehdence"clju TUni fij~ tiToSe TeTTiLie
moments!
Once or twice he found himself longing
to be thus able to protect her all
the remainder of his life; but then he
had been obliged to thrust the yearning
from his heart, and remember that his
stern duty lay in a rougher channel, and
that love could not be his guide, at least
for years to come.
So thinking, he had reached his home,
given his horse to the man in waiting,
and then turned to enter bis door,
But what was this he saw lying in a
heap uj>on the^porch? - ^ t
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SGbepTujHZ)trrscover if ft might n ot "be
a large; sWa&ge^dog, his fingers came in
contact with a human hand, and from
its .small size ho knew it belonged to
child or woman.
Throwing open the door with his latchkey,
the light from the hall revealed
Ethel Novergail's pale, unconscious face
to his astonished gaze.
"Ethel here senseless! Oh, my darling,
my darling!" he murmured, as he
lifted her in his arms and bore her to the
parlor sofa. "What can this mean?"
Placing her there, he ran to the foot
of the stairs and called Mrs. Clum to his
assistance.
This person, fortunately, sat reading
in her TiwnToomr waltTng Ws return,
that she might give him some refreshments
after his long detention, knowing
that he had eaten nothing since noon;
therefore she was immediately by his
side, and after hearing him state where
he had found the poor young girl, proceeded
to unbutton and remove the wet
waterproof, while Earle brought camphor
and other remedies, and then at
once devoted himself to her recovery.
With joy, at last, they saw her eyes
Dpen; but the cry of pain that followed
filled both with surprise.
"My arm! my arm!" she cried. "You
hurt my arm."
Seeing that something more serious
was "the"matter Than"a""simp"ieTaTST, Dr.
Elfenstein released the hand he held, as
it seemed to paiu her, asking, as he did
so, "if she had injured herself anywhere?"
"I cannot stir my hand, or arm, and
fn" ic Krnl/on " cho rnnnncrl in rAnlv.
"I came here to show it to you."
"Then it was hurt before you left the
Hall?" returned the Doctor, passing his
band over the useless member, in order
Lo see the nature of the injury.
She bowed her head, speaking no word
in reply.
"Is it broken, Doctor?" finally she
managed to ask.
"Not broken, but dislocated at the
;lbow. In order to replace it, I fear I
must cause you pain. It will be impoajible
for you to go out again in thiu
itorm, therefore Mrs. Clum, my houseieeper,
must prepare you a room, and
fou will remain here to-night. After she
las made you comfortable in your bed I
nust replace the bones, and then you
nust keep perfectly quiet, or, after all
,his excitement, you will be thrown into
i fever."
Giving Mrs. Clum several instructions,
le saw her leave :the room to prepare
>ae for poor Ethel's reception; then, and
lot until then, he bent over the sofa
vhere she lay, and asked her in a low
roice:
"Why did you not tell me this instead
>f coming out in the storm, when I have
jeen at the ^all since eight this evenng?"
"I did not know you were there, and
:ould not have seen you if I had known
t. Sir Reginald flew into a furious pas;ion
as soon as he saw me to-day, and
>ade me instantly leave his bouse. As
ny arm was hurt, 1 was obliged to come
o you."
"Miss Nevergail, how was your arm
llslocated? And what means the mark
if those fingers which I see upon the
uriacev
"Do Dot ask, Doctor, for I cannot tell
rou."
"Well, if you cannot tell me that, why
lid Sir Reginald bid you leave his house?"
"I cannot tell you!" was still her only
eply.
"Was it for any willful fault you had
ommitted?"
"No: oh. no! I bad met with an accilent
the nature en" whTcTT r~cannoc, ex>lain.
In short, I had. without Intendng
it, neglected a duty ne had charged
ae with on the day of my fright by the
ailroad. My nervousness then caused
De to forget something. He had just
liscovered it, and flew in a rage."
"Then the brute seized your arm and
rave it this wrench! You need not tell
ne, child; I know it by Instinct. It i3
pell I was not there, for one reason."
"Why?"
"I should have struck him as he lay
telpless in bed. I could not have helped
t But you are safe now; he shall never
ouch you again."
"No; for I shall never go back. But
vhere sh^ll I go? What shall I do now?"
he sighed, in reply.
"Stay here, of course, tfntil you are
veil; then a place will be provided, never
ear. Promise me one thing now, which
s, not to worry about the future. Leave
verything of that nature for time and
^ovidence to make plain, and try to
:ompose yourself in order to recover the
ooner. Will you do this?
He took her well hand kindly, almost
enderly, as he spoke; and, meeting his
tnxious, beseeching gaze bent upon her,
he blushed faintly and gave the required
>romise.
[to be continued.]
TEMPERANCE.
theib worst enemy.
"Gather up all the money that the wortdc
classes have spent for ram during thn
ast thirty years, and I will build for every
nan a house, and lay out for him a garden,
md secure him a policy of lire insurance so
hat the present home may be well mainlined
after he is dead. The most persistent,
the most overpowering enemy of the working
classes is intoxicating liquor. ?>ew
i'ork Observer.
at.rOHOT. AN'D ATHLETES.
SJr Benjamin Ward Richardson, in an address
lately published, mentions that he one?
Interrogated a noted tight-rope expert as tc
his art. The acrobat stated that all good
trainers and skilled performers agree that
abstinence from alcoholic beverages is absolutely
necessary. His advice to athletes is
''So long as you are in courso of preparation
touch not the hurtful thing; it will be sure
to undermine all the qualities on which you
depend for success ; it will injure your precision,
your decision, your presence of
mind, and your endurance."
/torn t.?X5M K0T72XXESS'. "
New York hospital surgeons have found a
di&ease that has become alarmingly prevalent
among bartenders. It is the rotting
away of their fingers, caused by their coming
in contact with the Deer they draw for cuslomers
during the day. If tnere is any sore
an the bartender's hand be has to be especially
careful in handling beer, for the sore
will rapidly spread. It is the acid and rosin
which is used in makj|yr-the beer that causes
this disease. It rots leather as well, and a
jair of shoes worn behind the bar will soon
be entirely destroyed. It ought to bea question
for beer drinkers how this drink must
affect their stomachs. Many bartenders who
sell hundreds of glasses of beer a day will
not drink the stuff themselves. This may
help to fortify some one's good resolutions
for the new year 1894.?Boston Cultivator.
THE MODERATE DRINKER.
How many men who once flattered themselves
that they could let it alone when they
had a mind have filled a drunkard'e graveV
What man becomes a drunkard intentionally'"1
No man takes the glass in his hand, saying,
"I have a good character, a loving wife and
fond children, but il I take this glass it is the
first step to break my wife's heart, my children
will walk the streots half clad and begging
for bread, my health an-l reputation
will be lost. '
Drunkenness and its host of evils come/
slowly but surely. Warn a man who drinks
a little of the danger, and he will say, l,Do
you think 1 will ever so far forget myself as
to lose all self-respect?"
The lowest drunkard sunk to its deepest
depravity, reasoned similarly with himself.
The low and red-faced, drunken, brutal
sot. who breaks his wife's heart and starves
bis children, once repeated the same words.
Then be guarded against this besetting evil
of onr times; touch not the first glass ; enter
not the drinking saloon, "that strips manhood
of its glory and old age of its crown."
-C. T. U. Herald.
KMfOF GAME FISE.'
THE NOBLE SALMON OF THE
COLUMBIA RIVER.
He is Goliifr the Way of the Buffalo
?Caught Dy the Thousands in inhuman
Wheels?3Iay Very
Soon Be Extinct.
FAR out beyond Nebraska's
mighty plains?where but late
was wont to roam the king of
American beasts?lies the Columbia's
scenic land, known still to
fame as the home of the monarch of
our inland waters, the Bplendidly
royal salmon.
Every American sportsman knows,
says the Washington Star, something
of the keen delights of spearing a Chinook
or a steelhead, to say nothing of
AN ORIENTAli FISHERMAN.
the pleasures of landing a blueback,
even if he doesn't know that their
scientific names, the oncorbynchus
chonchia and the salmo gairduert, are
nearly as large as themselves.
Bat few of as seem to realize that
the salmon is in the same danger that
overtook the buffalo, and that, unless
their senseless slaughter be retarded,
they will become extinct. Unlike the
buffalo, the salmon has no means of
protection afforded him by nature, and
he can be murdered by machinery, a
THE DALLES. C
thing that was not resorted to on the
land.
Fortunately, tli3 salmon's enemieB
are not as numerousas were those of
the buffalo, but they are more wanton
and less merciful. There is not even
the excuse of the savage who shot
down half a herd of hoof and horn and
found something' of brutal satisfaction
in the spectacle. The salmon's enemy
has no eyes to see the havoc he
works in hie way, but he has more
arms than Bjiareus to work with. He
is a monster of wood and wire, senseless
and sordid, and though controlled
by man in a measure, onoe Bet in operation
is no more within man's government
than i6 the guillotine when defectively
constructed. And yet from
the Dalles to the stately Palisades these
insensate monsters go unchecked,
staining the queenly Columbia with
their victims' mangled flesh and defiling
the stateliest streams in all America
with their blood.
It is but just to say that only sportsmen
see this shame to its full extent
and that commercial considerations
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LANDED.
seem to the short-sighted fishermen
to be dependent upon their persistence
in their nee of the inhuman wheels.
Four years ago the writer protested
to the general Government only to
learn that the protection of the river
fisheries of the United States, being
dependent upon the* ordinarily defective
laws of the several States, nothing
could be done even by Mr. Marshall
MacDcnald, Fish Commissioner
of the United States.
It was and is, however, the opinion
of the Fish Commission that the use of
fish wheels in the taking of salmon
ought to be prohibited, as they not
only maim hundreds of fish unfit for
food, but being operated on the upper
reaches of the river near the spawning
grounds, they capture thousands of
fish who have escaped the nets lower
down.
The destruction of one such female
fish meant; the loss of hundreds of
eggs. When it is seen that the Government
is able to afford but two stations
on the west coast for the maintenance
of the salmon, the one on the
McCloutl in California the other on
the Little Clackamas, an Oregon tributary
of the Williamette, and that
the average number of eggs taken at
the Oregon station is only about five
million per annum, decadence of the
upper Columbia fisheries would seem
to be painfully near.
Ae a matter of fact it has begun. |
Four years ago splendid fishing existed
everywhere along the upper portions
of the river. Mow it is becoming
rare. The fish are thoroughly j
frightened and even that moat patient
(4 anglers, my Chinese friend, Wing,
finds the still water sport of the tami
est In order to understand juet how
tame my celestial friepd found it, h
if&cfcld be seen like the prehietorii
"bump on a log" at Rooster Rock
where some superb fifty-pounder
have been speared; with a half doze:
"sprats" as he calls them, beside him
Then one should watch the splendi
formed Indians from Umatilla an
nearby as they stand at "the eels" o:
their swaying platforms, ready t
Bpear a swift-scudding chinook, o
lower down stream, with ever-read
balanced dip-net, watching the foar
for "a racer." The Indian has th
sport as it ought to be?the Chiname
as it soon will become. Following th
river down to the casoades, one ca:
see the cause of what our celestis
friend feels in effect. It is wonderful t
us as we view the effalgent splendor c
the scene, that men are not shame<
by so close a communion with the vif
ible forms of nature into a less bruts
and unsportsmanlike method of kill
ing God's creatures. But there in thei
worst form and fashion stand the fisi
wheels. "Number forty," the ver
worst on the river, is clean and harm
less enough externally, but no mor
sickening sight to a sportsman couli
exist than is discovered within. Jus
about Bonneville and vicinity the fisi
wheels simply swarm and the write
could but call to mind the cordit
hatred of them expressed one day i:
the terrible blizzard of *88 by th
heroic Conductor Lyons of the Orego
Railway and Navigation Company, o
whose train I was trying to travel o
to San Francisco by this route. A ma:
who runs a fish wheel and a trai:
wrecker were about alike in Lyons'
opinion, and as Lyons's ideas are en
tn ihfi VAi'fflif nf r?o?> nf o mo."
" ? ?
who saved some forty lives at the peri
of his own that winter they are coi
dially shared by brave men every
where.
That the fish wheel is not a necessit;
for those who follow Simon Peter'
profession for a living is shown a]
along the lower reaches of the river
?oth the stake and draw Beines ar
used successfully, while the sports
man with a landing net, in addition t<
his guff and rod and line, can enjoy thi
grandest possible pastime with less t<
annoy and more to enjoy than in an;
other American waters. Of course,
sturgeon may be now and then en
countered, even in the upper stretche
OLUMBIA RIVER.
of the river, but this adds to the zee
of the sport. A sixty-six-poum
salmon is no small game, either. A1
Kinneye, near Astoria, in Oregon,
they frequently catch them this size,
Such fish, of course, never leave th;
lower waters of the river. They ar<
safe from fish wheels and such snare;
and there is something regal in theii
abnegation as they lie on the wharvee
at Astoria, in season, before they are
taken away to be canned. There is nc
more splendid spot on the river eithei
than this same Astoria, rich as it ii
with recollections of the great estate,
the foundations of whose fortunei
were laid there, and the scene of Wash
ington Irving's picturesque accouni
thereof.
They are cosmopolitans of the worsl
class to be found there during the fishing
times, but they have energy
enough to set seines and not to resorl
to the wheel of torture. They realizi
that, like Othello, their occupatioi
will soon be gone if the fish do noi
spawn in season, and they would b<
among the very first to advocate th<
surest salvation for our salmon?th<
calling together of an intestate com
mission with powers to act in framing
an effective law against the use o:
wheels, providing for a uniform seasoi
in all the States, regulating the catci
or cannery for a few years and th<
providing for increased propagating
facilities both at the McCloud anc
Clackamas stations.
The United States Commission die
some good work in July, 1887, on th<
grounds above Astoria, but there i
room for more.
As the commission has itself said,
"nrn+odhvp /Miltrirp ie pn.sipr than arti
r ?-?
ficial culture." It is cheaper to save
our salmon fisheries from destructioi
than to be obliged to restore them.
Such a restoration would require yeari
of toil and millions of money.
In the meantime the cost of salmoi
as an article for food would far ex
ceed any ordinary means aB Scotlam
could not begin to supply herself.
The sportsman would be robbed o
his rights and a sport which no lea
an authority than Earl Dufferin sak
to the writer he considered only i
little less thrilling than hunting th<
tiger when the tiger is also hunting
vou, would be gone from our day anc
generation, and, perhaps, forever.
r
A FAST WHEEL.
Vrrez my half-breed Indian guide,
Pierre Loti, with whom 1 have thuf
fished, "where rolls the Oregon^ anc
gives no sound"?would protest againsl
such a possibility did he understand
its proximity. We who have noted
the experience of Norway must, however,
so understand and it is the pari
of common prudence to act in the defense
of ourselves and of posterity, ae
well as of our right royal king game
fish and his Oregon friends.
Deer have been unusually plentiful
in Maine this year.
i / ; >. p. y.' s
! THE CZAR'S MUSCLE. z\
1 at Mi
B RUSSIA'S RULER SAID TO BE A egty
a VERY STRONG MAN. heig]
arm.
d Miss Bentley Relates Her Experiences eice<
3 Among Europe's Crowned Heads Iciov
& ?How She Baffled the Czar? . He. \
0 A Muscular German King. more
r and 1
1 It fl^ISS PHYLLIS BENTLET, "Pon
e \ /I 8ay? Strand Magazine, ?rm
n j \/ I is -well known to the public 2,.
e ? by her clever exhibition of . 18 j
q experiments in lifting and balancing. ?w
j These experiments she has had the x^?
0 honor of performing before many of
,f the crowned heads of Europe, and in . a
(j the following interesting article re- ^ ^
? lOSS BE3OTFI LIFTING THE GtMM, CROWN It
D PRINCE Of DENMARK, PRINCE GEORGE strOE
D OP GREECE AND DUKE OP CUMBERLAND, has I
s Up0n
i* lates her experience of these royal sever
Q personages: moaf
il The first court I had the honor of tellig
' visiting was the Danish Court, last upon
summer, during the celebration of the singl
King and Queen of Denmark's gclden with
Y wedding. Among those who tested all m
b my experiments were their Majesties been
II th? Emperor of Russia and the King 0bjec
of Den mark and their Royal Highnesses
P I tlio rrnmn PrinrtP nf Dflnm&rk. the
- Duke of Cumberland, Prince George
o of Greece and Prince Waldemar of
0 Denmark.
3 Of the Czar's enormous strength I
y had heard a great deal. I had been
a told of hie ability to bend together
with one hand the points of a horse0
shoe and of his accomplishing feats
~ which even a Sandow might envy, and
it was naturally a matter of great interest
to me that His Majesty should
try his strength upon me. The Czar,
who prides himself upon his physical
powers, too, was, he assured me,
anxious to see. whether his strength
eould be as readily nullified as that
of otherB who had taken part in my / ^
experiments. jf
To say I was not a little anxious when
I placed myself before the Czar, for him
to essay the task of lifting me, would
not be true; I was just a bit nervous,
for there flashed across my memory
the long record of the wonderful .
things he had accomplished, and of ^
his alleged lack of gentleness when his f1 118
purpose was thwarted. But there was . ?jT'
in reality no sort of cause for anxiety. 1, .,
His Mnjesty took me by the elbows, s!
1 ~ Ma
t the oi
eipr<
er m<
guesa
| windi
i an ev
reach
I rHE CZAR LtFTTNG PB1NCES8 OP "WALES, to
1 land
with the object of lifting me; to him sycan
1 it at first, I think, seemed an eaey task, more
3 and he did not put forth all his towei
3 strength; but finding I remained Saint
standing on the floor he commenced to Nortl
lift in earnest. so d>
But in spite of His Majesty's efforts threa
) I did not go up. That he wa6 consid- A fe^
i erably astonished was evidenced by Strati
the look on hie face, and he plied me of th(
3 fwith questions ae to how I had ar- great
danced to bo completely defeat his en- j *
i deavors to lift me. I explained to him
- the principle of the angle wherein the
1 feecret }f the power of resistanoe lies,
and he at once commenced operations {
f :with the ladies of the royal party to j
3 see how far they had mastered the se1
cret of that angle. Hie first effort was
t with the Princess of Wales, who, with
J charming readiness, had placed herj
self before His Highness to be lifted.
I Quite easily Her Eoyal Highness, who
had not yet mastered the secret of the
- angle, went up, much to her aDd the
j 'Czar's amusement.
Then followed the Czarina, who
went up with the same ease as had the 7^5
Princess of Wales. But the task of
lifting the Crown Princess of Denmark
?who is, ?f I may be permitted to use -f
the word, of almost masculine build?
was, His Majesty discovered, some- ! ^ ?.<
what more difficult; but iD the end the j
Czar's Ktrength and the Crown Prin- 1/
| cess's lack of experience told, and she, || | I
I too, was lifted. i
I In all the other exjjeriments?those I |
with the billiard cues and the one of, jyL
j while gasping my shoulders, endeav- .
! oring to push me .against the wall?
, that he tried with me I experienced the
j same gentleness and strict observance 6^ruc^
1 of the conditions as in the lifting test.
k | His Majesty assured the company ! c"urc
I (which assurance was not necessary for see<* *
1 me, for I felt itj that in each test he soon 1
had put forth his full strength. But roots
; it was the strength of a man who had Pu^etl
approached the subject scientifically, fr0IU
i and not the indiscriminate empioyi
rnent of brute force. The
The last King whose strength of techn:
muscle 3 had the opportunity of test- reach*
I ing was the King of Wurtemberg, and 37,89(
. that only a fe*y weoke ago. His Maj- "Gr?f
_
did me the honor of inviting m&
is villa?locally termed schloae?
irienwhal, Ludwigsburg. HisMajis
somewhat above the medium
it, broad of cheat and strong of
He, like all German officers, is
jdingly fond of gymnastics, and
rs exactly how to use hi* strength.;
therefore, approached the subject
i as an expert than as a novice,
--- 1 1-J .4 ill ?
JIB AUUWICU^tJ U1 tilt* pi. lUVsXjJxu
i which my experiments are pered
was greater, I think, than any
y previous experimenters. But
Majesty did not for a moment allis
knowledge to infringe upon '
onditions under which the various
can alone be effectively demoned.
It was all the more interest0
me to do my experiments with
who h id such an inside knowledge
e question, especially a3 I was alllier
successful in everything I atited.
hat 1 think most interested Hia
sty was the chair test, in which I
1 four members of the court seated
chair, whilst his hands were
>d between my hands and tho
of the chair. *
;new he was looking forward to
test, for the first words he adted
to me after tho presentation
: "'Have you brought the faj
chair?" I had brought the "fai
chair" and I pointed it out to
who examined it with consideraoterest
is an ordinary looking chair,
iwItt Knilfc and -naintpri black, and
x '
teen made famous from the fact
it I have lifted one Emperor,'
al Kings, Princes and other fai
folk. In fact, more royalty, in;ence,
and more wealth have eat
. that chair than upon any one
e chair in the world. It has been
me through all my travels, andt
y public and private tests have
performed with it. It is not aa
it of admiration, but it is certain
HISS FUYLiLdti JtMUTUiCX. mb
a object of interest, and it ifl H
ing to bear in different countriee Bj
arions remarks people, knowing I
story, paee upon it as they see it H
e railway station or standing upon H
,ny people have been anxious to H
t, but it is not for sale. Only H
ther day an American millionaire Rfl
jseed a great desire to take it H
with him to the States.
d he: "I guess I ought to have H
hair; it ain't much to look at but H
ot a mighty interesting history. Efi
don't grow chairs like that in 4he H
s, and I should have what no oth- 9
in could either buy or steal. 1 H
i if I stuck that in my hall at home H
.-iende would just glue themselves H
What, you won't sell it??well, H
have another squat in it; it ain't H
- day one gets an opportunity of H
;ting in a chair as a Czar 'and a
> lvMin' r>f TTinofB hftvfi been lifted
And he squatted. H
owth ot Flantn In Odd Places. H
the city of Norwich, England,
hurch of St. Benedict is provided
a round tower having a series of
DW8 at the top. From oue of H
issues a tree that rises several H
iabove the platform of the tower,
rhich is growing very vigorously. Ifl
icknoller, id Somersetshire, upon
jwer of the churcb, there grows
ergreen oak which has already
ed a height of five feet. Xt ia BB
mown and is much wondered at IH
urists who visit the west of Eng- BB
There may bo observed, too. a Iflj
aore which hac been growing for
than half a century upon' the
of the little parochial church of
Petrochius, at Clanaborough, in
1 Devon. It has inserted its roots
eeply into the masonry as to
ten the solidity of the building.
* years ago tho city of Stony
ford possessed a plant curiosity
; same nature. In the wake of a |H
fire in 1742, one of the few^H
TREE ON NORWICH TOWER. UnM
a ret* that remained standing was
wer of the Haint Mary Magdalen MB
b. A bird doubtless carried a|^9
0 the summit of this, and there^H
ippeared a tree that buried its^H
so deeply that it had t? be^HB
1 up in order to save the iowex^Hj
falling in. 3u
population of what is znowuMB
ically as the "city" Lo-don,^H
js 301,384 by day, but crops toHK
5 at night. Tho populate j vlH
rtfr' London is 5,633,99'J.
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