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Show ArHrri Koa Great lands, bow I suffer!" The case Is Just like this, dad: Tho wldder is at least ten years older than me, but we love each other, r.nd want to git married. You married U please yourself, and I shall do ths same thing. You and ma have had a heap to say about it, and you've said some purty bard things, but 1 guess you're willin to take them all bacd now aad keep shet. Do I understand it that way, dad? Never, Dick never!" Then yon stand quiet and IH go In to dinner. If I hear you yell 1 shant come, as it will be too late. Do you want a big funeral, dad? Dick, have I got to chaw my words?" pleadingly queried tho father. Or else let the bees chaw you. . Then, Dick then git that hive up here In lessn a mlnlt and begin to gently scrape them infernal off, fur I'm right, on the pint of faintin' away. And the wldder, dad the wldder?" Harry the wldder, and be domed to you! Charles Crawford in Bow ton Globe. Cradle Song. Iii tNi and low, and tow. Wind, of tks veatirn aaa. Low, low, breath, and blow, Wind or tha waatera aea! Over Uio rolling waters go. Como from the dying moon, and blow. Blow bira a sain to mo: While my little oaa, while my pretty one sloops. and root, stoop and root, will coma to thee aoon: Rest, rut, on mother's breast. Father will corns to time soon: Father will eome to his baba In tbs nest. Silver sails all ont of tha west Under tha silver moon: Bleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep. Lord Tennyson. . Bleep rather ossnarflftsn nsdjfr sgfjfrlg BEES iSH!4RMED y(7MlS GSAWR35D A food many thins had happened before the bee swarmed back of the house on that June day. Dick Scott, son of the d old Fanner Scott, and had fallen In lore with the widow He was Lapham months before. 21 and of working age, years barely for his father as a hired band, while she was 22 and owned the next farm I on the east It was easy to get up an argument on their respective ages, showing that the disparity was too great and on the wrong side, and the father used it for all it was worth. Farmer Scott had called upon the widow and charge her with seeking to trap bis guileless son, and had been promptly turned out doors. The neighbors had mixed In after that, and the affair was the leading subject of conversation for live miles around. Dick Scott was no talker, but he was a good hand to think. He was very much In love, and he was as determined to marry that widow as he was to live, but he couldnt stand up against the arguments of his father nor witness the tears of his mother, so he kept quiet and waited for an earthquake, cyclone or some other dispensation of Providence to help hard-heade- . d hard-hearte- Jeminy, no wonaer that me and your mother have bln havin cold feet fur the last three days and buntin up verses for our tombstones! Ill have one more talk with you when we go up to dinner, and if you cant be made to listen to reason then Ill be through with you. Dick had nothing to say In reply. He was as much astonished as his father at hls sudden outbreak, but it had given him confidence. The pair worked along for the next two hours without a word, and when the dinner horn blew they started for the house. The father led by a good fifteen rods. Hls head was down, and he was thinking up new arguments to advance, when a strange, bussing noise suddenly reached hls ears and made him halt He was passing close to one of the beehives, and the bees were, swarm- - working Habit Waa the Result of Confidence look at the sky with' a squint, take a farewell glance around the farm, and then solemnly remark: "Dick, It seems awful that Ive got to die In my prime and leave all this, especially before them young pear trees begin to bear, but Ill have to do It Ill have to do It Whats the use oo dylnf Dick would ask, knowing that he must say S g y , something. I dont want to, but Ive got to. Cant live a week after youve went and married to the wldder Lapham. The idea that my only son has gone and married his grandmother; and a women with feet like an elephant at that, would break my heart and send me to my grave. Didnt you marry who you wanted to when you married ma? That was different In them days women didnt set traps for young men, and wldders wasnt schemin day and night Dick, gol dura ye, what dye want to make a hyena of yourself fur and send my gray hairs down to the grave In sorrerT Dick would change the subject or refuse to talk back any further, and, after muttering to himself for half an hour longer, the father would get The bees were swarming. tag. They put out by the thousand, flying around and around, like a corkscrew, and as farmer Scott hesitated which way to rui the whole cloud began settling down on him. His straw hat was covered In an Instant, and then the little workers roosted on hls shoulders, clung to hls shirtsleeves and covered him down to the knees. He reached out hls right hand and 'grasped a young peach tree to support himself, but that was all he could da Dick came swinging along about the time the last bee had settled down, and he stopped short with a look of amazement . Then the look tired out On this June day, however, when changed to a grin, and he sat down on the two were repairing the rail fence the frame of the grindstone, crossed between the corn and the potato hls legs and. said: Dad, I wouldn't be In your place field, and all nature was reveling in the balmy sunshine, the usual discus- for three of the best cows In Hillssion opened with a different prelim- dale county!" Dick, I'm a dead man! replied inary and became red hot at once.-peddler came down into the field the father in a hoarse whisper. You surely are. You aint goln to to see if he couldnt make a sale of a pocket knife or a pair of suspend- die of a broken heart because I marry ers, and he had a little Joke to get the wldder Lapham, but because off about the widow Lapham wearing about 1,000,000 bees are goln to Jab their stingers Into you at the same the trousers after marriage. He waa still grinning when Dick time. Youll feel wussn that peddler knocked him Into the thistle patch did fur wuss. and seemed sorry that there was not Dick, continued the father, you more of him. must git one o them new hives and ex- By thunder. Dick Scott! put some fresh honey around it and try to coax them bees off. They may begin to sting me any minit Yes, dad. they may, and they'll hear your yells dear down to Scheuf-erhorn'as the first fifty stingers go In. Ill see about the hive bimeby. i want to talk with you first How old do you think the wldder Lapham s is?" For heavens sake, but what has the wldder Lapham got to do with them bees? Get that hive! After we've had our talk. How old did you say she was? A leetle over 10, I guess, but Im nigh, dead of fright You keep still and you'll be all right How big are the wldder's feet? Dura you, Dick, will you see -- our own father perish this way?" Ynur not perlshln'. How big are her feet?" Same as your father's, or smaller. Now git the hive." Whata the use o dyln7" claimed the father as the peddler Purly soon, dad. How about the picked himself up and started off, wldder settin' nantraps? Dick Scott! exclaimed the father but you appear to bring eternal disgrace on this family, it wasn't null In as loud tones as he dared use, that you must go and git all tangled them confounded bees are crawlin' up with a wldder as old as the hills, down my hack and Into my ears! Yes. they are naturally curus to but you haul off and hit a peddler know who you are. Do you reckon the wldder set mantrap for me, dad? NORTHWEST NOTES. THOUSAND JAPANESE TWENTY In the Paster. Billings, Mont now has a population of 6,443, This la an Increase of 2,400 KILLED AT PORT ARTHUR. There is no greater stickler In this aloce the censes of 1900. district for constant church attend-- , ance than a certain lady who resides Mon Brown Devs Kevins of Melville. Mont la and Big Battle Fought In northeast Washington not many Fearful e from a badly lacerated foot,' el but Gain Buffering Position, squares from the Congressional LI- caused by the accidental discharge of of Human Life. Cot brary. 0 gun. : There le one little eln, however If A battle of huge proportions raged Judge Bell, in the superior court of It le allowable to call it a eln that 14 King county, baa decided that tha Port Arthur August this devotee to regular church service around law passed by tbe last leg.frequently allows to get possession of and IS, and U waa reaumed eight-hou- r 'her, and that Is the fault of taking a August IT. Tho Japanese, tt to islature of the state of Washington la furtive nap frequently during the more void. 20,000 sacrificed reported, preacher's discourse. advantage bat rlned important Forest fires are ravaging valuable A friend twitted her upon thle men, matter of position. The above standing timber two miles west of In the weakness the other day. Why la It, Mrs. C.," she said, "that you, such a news was brought to Chofoo oa Junk, Barlow Pass, on the Monte Crlato rail'regular churchgoer, should go to one of which, boring on board three road. in Washington. The fire was sleep In church so often? I feel that Russians, concealed in the baggage started by a parks from a passing ear I have the right aa an old friend to of Chinese to escape the Japanese, left glne. let you know that people are begin- Port Arthur at nljbL and was blown Charles Johnson, the freak character ning to notice It" to Chcfoo by a gAla rapidly who haa twice escaped from the Jail at Well, my dear," was the response, The main force of tbs attack waa Hamilton, Munt, by digging hls way you know I have every confidence in reour beloved pastor. I know that he directed against the loft wing and through the brick wall, haa turned out poct tbe sulted bay in Pigeon capture will preach a first-clas- s sermon withto be an escaped lunatic from tha asyout having my eye on him all the sitions and some of tbe forts at Uao lum at Warm Springs. TONNAGE AT INLAND PORT. time, and I am not afraid to truat Italian. At Palungcbang tbe JapanScoabzl Seraplno, an Italian boy, 19 him. So don't wake me np when I ese hastily mounted guns which did Deputy Collector Evidently Had Nev. am nodding In church unless I should excellent service In aiding tbe storm- yean old, waa drowned at Bozeman, er Been 8eafaring Man. happen to snore. In that rasa yon ing of tbe right wing, whore tbs Jap- Mont He bad gone swimming in the West Gallatin river, and venturing too In Whitehead Appraiser discussing are at liberty to atab me with your anese are said to have captured two far out in the stream, and bring unthe other day some of the peculiari- hatpin. Washington Star. forte of minor value, mounting eight ties of the tariff law, told the followable to swim, be waa drowned. four-incgune, two elega guns and six of a ing story newly appointed deputy Giving Away Cigars. Jack Campbell, who waa arrested al collector at a sub-poInto a cigar store came a man to quick-firinon the Canaguna. man dian border. The pot was In ths whom, after a few words with him, On the night of the ISth tho battle Helena os suspicion of being the revolver with a le Gravel who furnished from which and hundreds of miles the dealer handed over a cigar, woods, tailed somewhat, when tho Japanese the coast. the man lighted and walked off smok- sent the terms of surrender to Lieu- with which he did such fearful execuThe customs officials are furnished ing, but without paying for it haa General 8 toes tel. Tbe term tion during bla attempt to escape, with blanks on which to make their Do you give away cigars?" asked tenant for Jail from been the released county should reports, and in cases like the one la a customer wpo had Just bought a provided that the garrison lack evidence. of march out with the honors of war aad point there are many items on ths cigar. that all Between August 21 and September blanks which it Is never necessary tq Why, sure," said the dealer! Join General Kuropatkin; fill. The new deputy collectors resometimes" ' civilians be brought to a place desig- 11, Inclusive, 146 care bearing 1,294 port contained the information that Tramps?" nated by the Japanese admiral; that people will pass through Portland ea he had collected $4 for tonnage, No, not tramps. We couldn't have the Russian warships In the harbor, route to and from the twenty-nint- h dues on vessels. Temtramps in the store, and If we gave to battle-hip- s triennial conclave of tbe Knights The treasury department had vis- tramps we'd be filled with them. But numbering aeven, namoly, the FranBaa convenes In which Retvlzan, Sevastopol, Pobleda, plars, ions of a tidal wave which had chang- we do occasionally give a cigar or a 6. ed the Dice of the map on the north- piece of tobacco to somebody that Just Peresvlet, Poltava and tbe armored cisco September out the track washed A cloudburst cruise ern frontier and made the little port r.lmply hasn't got any money and cruiser Dayan, the protected in the woods a veritable seaport An wants a smoke. Ive seen the time Pallada and ten or more torpedo-boa- t at Mlnto, ten miles east of Cal tents, agent was dispatched to the scene to ;when I'd give a dollar for a cigar, and destroyers and four gunboats be Nevada. Tbe westbound train was deHe found no change in I know what It la to want a smoke. investigate. to tbe Japanese. layed four hours. There waa no damthe physical characteristics of the re- So to one In those circumstances I set S toes is at General age to train or passengers. Six miles Lieutenant gion, and the first question which he will give a cigar. below Calient two work trains colwith terms received to the have legsd asked the new official was how he had lided hi and alx laborers were injured. wonderful of buret a profanity, for to collect $4 Tribute. A tonnage. managed Touching He of tons I collected duty on two . In a tiny country village In New habitual taciturnity deserting him. hay It le officially announced that Comat 92 a ton," he replied, and if that England a woman died recently and strode tbe floor until be become missioner Rva Booth, the daughter of Isnt what you mean by tonnage os her relatives, friends and neighbor! calm or and then remarked that if the General William Booth, who for seven your old blank Ill be d d if I know decided that a woman who had been has been In command of tho Japanese proposition waa a Joke it was years what It is. New York Times. Salvation army work In Canada, Alasso popular In life deserved something taste! In bad ka, eastern Washington, Montana and out of the ordinary In the way of a Idaho, will be transferred to other GAVE HIS FLOCK WARNING, funeral. JAPS SAIL FOR SHANGHAI. Work. j The village did not boast of a band, Zealous Old Minister Certainly Made but it had a dram corpd, which was Are Determined to ' Selxe Rueolan A Bellingham, Wash special says Lesson Impressive. the mystery surrounding the disaphired to do honor to the occasion. Cruiser Lying In Harbor. The little town of Bethlehem, Pa Solemnly it played on the way to the pearance iff William McKern! e, who M. Odaglri, the Japanese conaal gen- was last seen two weeks ago ta comonce contained a half-crazminister cemetery, but on the return it was known as Ranting" Ranker, who had asked to play something livelier aa a eral, haa notified tho taoUl of Bhang pany with Misa Kate Bast, has been been educated beyond hls intelligence, sort of quickstep home. , ha! that a Japaneso fleet le coming Is cleared away by the discovery of both the bodies floating in tbe water of and was at times hysterically fanatic. a had made to seize the Russian cruiser Askold Lake Whatcom. But the drum corps His strange doings were as numerous .specialty of serious music and knew and the Russian torpedo boat deThere Is "great excltem ent "over the as they were well known, but probably only one lively air. However, it was Orozovol. of free gold on Whistler the wildest freak was during the last perfectly willing to play the only stroyer Tbe chief engineer of the customs discovery year of his eventful life. mountain, thirty miles from Lake cheerful hit of music It knew, and . The quiet little vlllsge was deep In the funeral procession went cheerily department reports that the Russian Chelan, Wash. This la stated to be easels are not seaworthy. Ths reslumber one night when It was arous- home on the strains of "The Girl I tho first free gold ever found In that ed by peal after peal from the bell In Left Behind He. pairs being made by the Russians on district A rich ledge twenty feet the Moravian chnrch. Hen and womtho Grosovoi will be completed la wide, which haa been hidden by snow en rushed from every side to put out A Clock for Calculators. about ten days. It la uncertain when and ice, is reported to have been unthe supposed fire and the local fire Dr. W. 8. Ralnsford Is a great salm- the repairs to the Askold will be fie covered. brigade sallied forth with all Its par on fisherman. Nearly every summer Michael Collins and Roy Owens The crowd assembled he goes salmon' fishing among the Ished. puernalla. Thcro Is 'no uneasiness at Shanghai, wore killed In the Minnie Healy mine about the church, but the bell never Canadian rivers. In a wild and remote ceased its frantic summons. At last a country where the people are quaint although the situation la thought to at Butte by falling from the 800 to tbo 900 level. A blast had been prepared delegation was sent up to see who the One day In Canada Dr. Ralnsford be scute. Ranting Ranker stood lunched with an aged farmer. Hie ringer was. The foreign consul! are determined on the 800 and the two men made a there, half naked, pulling the bell rope watch had stopped, and he took it out to preserve the neutrality of the port rush for tho ladder running to tbe BOA with all his strength. to set It by the tall ball clock that Upon the recommendation of the chief level, when one of the men missed bis What Is It? Where's, the fire?" stood In a corner. But this clock of customs the taotai of Shanghai will footing and came down on the other, was their excited query. upon inspection, to be three allow the Russian cruiser Askold and both falling about 100 feet Fire In hell! Fire In hell! shout- proved, or four hours wrong. Samuel C reswell, while driving bom ed the zealous old preacher, and If Your clock Is wrong. Isn't It? said the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Orozovol to remain in port until Au- from Shohomlsh, Wash., met with a you dont look out you'll all be burned Dr. Ralnsford, politely. up In it Not a bit wrong," replied tbe gust 23, when one days notice to strange and serious accident. On the How many souls were converted farmer. Ita you that don't under- leave or disarm will be given them. road near Machlas hls team dropped that night has never been known. stand it . When the little band's The arrival at 8hnngha! of Chinese through the log forming the road for- r ie expected. matlon into a bed of live coala left straight np and the big hand's A Social Tragedy. 10, but tha It strikes down, traight a forest fire. One horse wa burned She flrst put on a dark blue dress, by UPON RAIN ASUNCION. 8HELL8 Then changed It for a purple one: right times 5 o'clock. Then," he addto death and the other frightfully Then changed again, in her dlatreaa. ed, youve nothing to do but calcu- Three burned. Creswril himself waa painfully To one 'twlxt chestnut-ba- y and dun: Vessels Bombard Insurgent late. And yet once more she made a change burned and the wagon completely deAnd put a pale pink rigging on; Capital of Paraguay. stroyed. Her hustinnd growled things strong and The Natural Birds. Three Insurgent vessels bombarded strange A moat distressing accident, resultHls patience was completely gone. waa Gilman Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, on In the death of a young boy named ing househer They went to call upon some friends advocating August 17, for forty minutes. Tba Uno Blom as tbe result of a bunting That she was anxious to Impress ' the cooking keeping plan, whereby Tls ever thus when woman spends of tbe damage Is unknown. Tbe expedition of three lads, all under IS A lot of time upon her dress. and laundering of squads of 100 or government This time her plan succeeded not artillery replied to tbe In- years of age, took piece near Red more famllea is to be done simulIn stunning folks, for O, alas! one gun burst, wounding Lodge, Mont One of tbe boys fell and surgents staIn Her hostess said: It's quite too hot big housekeeping taneously, And bla gun was discharged, practically To think of turning up the gas. tions, centrally located, at a low cost. several government soldiers. B. W. Glllllan In Baltimore American. blowing off the face of young Blom. The ministers of Argentine, Brazil She paused for a moment In her reA special from Cody, Wya, says a marks to advocate marriage and to Italy and France boarded one of tbe Made Name aa Astronomer. One of the most noted of Ruaslai condemn celibacy with a striking fig- Insurgent vessels and held a long and company financed by Denver and eastern capitalists will shortly undertake astronomers died In the person of ure. secret conference, at the end of which the construction of a plant at the falls Who ever saw, she said, "an old a truce of twenty-fou- r Theodore Bredlkhlne. He had been dihours was de- of government dam being built on rector of the observatories in Mos- bachelor robin, or a young female clared In order to give the women and thethe Shoshone river. Power will be gencow and St Petersburg. It was hls bluebird who waa determined to die children an opportunity to leava the erated for a smelter and will also be capital before further bombardmenL unpleasant duty In the latter place to an old maid? transmitted to the mines at Klrwin. oust the Germans and Swedes who Lewiston has been growing rapidly Wander-Thirs- t. had made it famous. Ills own speHungry Strikers Try to Kill Cattle. stimulus of the development under not where white road know I the runs, was comets tails, regarding the cialty Tbe fiercest riot of tbo stock yards of Ita the nor what the blue hill are. country. It now has formation of which he had an electric But a man ran have the Hun for a trike occurred In Chicago Thursday some tributary 6,000 population, while. Just hi and for star: h friend, which guide hls attention theory, occupied And there's no end of voyaging when night, when hungry dwellers of the across the Snake In the Clarkston setto the time of his death. heard. once tha voire tlement. are S.Bnri more. The For the river rail and the road calls, packing house district sought to cap- of the latter section are settled people mainly oh! the call of a bird! and ture and klil eight steers that had es-- I Memorial to Great Scientist Tonder the long horizon lie, and than upon small tracts of frnlt land. from numThe the mob raped yards. An appropriate memorial to the by night and day Tha old ship draw to home again, tba bered 4,000 persons, and tbe streets Among the Improvements of the past great geologist and scientist, Joseph young ahlpa mil away; were cleared only after 120 policemen year at l ewiston are the supreme Le Conte, has been erected In Yose-mlt- And come I may, but go I munt, and if in five men ak yon why. squads bad rharged the rioters court building and the Carnegie It valley by the Sierra club of Ton mayput tha blame nn the tars and on four aides. Shots were fired and Another new building Is the California. It Is a lodge, built strongthe Sim and the white road and tha scores of rioters were clubbed. Few brary. house, probably tbe finest in the opera aky! ly and simply, containing one large --Gerald Gould, in Spectator. arrests were made as the police con- state. It cost $55,000, the money being room, 25x36 feet, with a large stone tented themselves with dispersing the furnished by a syndicate of local mob. Inherited Literary Ability. fireplace at one end, and a small people. room on either side the entrance on Ellis Meredith, one of the beat Bald Eagle Had Made Systematic the opposite end. It Is at the upper known political writers In the west, Reign of Terror In Georgia. Raids Upon Vineyard. end of the valley. cornea very justly by her literary abilThe developments In the situation ity. Though born on the Wyoming at Statesboro, Ga., following the burnFor some months It has been susPrincess Has Many Godfathers. stock. frontier, she la of Ilugm-no- t of the negroes Cato and Reed on pected that a hawk haa been doing a Josef ing Probably no person In the world bad One of her ancestors show no killings have been considerable damage to the grapes In Tuesday, as many godfathers as did Princess Saurin, who wrote a satire which was Irene of Prussia, wife of Prince Hen- credited to Voltaire and for which reported from the country districts. the vineyards on the Neverslnk mounry. When she was bora her father re- Voltaire was sent for flic Erst time to Two negroes, a man and a woman, tain, says a Reading, Pa., dispatch. were whipped near Register on Thurs- Walter Freese suffered the most damquested the members of the Hessian the bastile. regiments forming a portion of hls day. It la reported also tbat several age and he doclded to keep a watch. cavalry brigade to be sponsors for the Senator's Nickname. other received lashings at other lo- Sunday he shot a large bald eagle When she was christened baby. Senator Scott of West Virginia likes calities. Many negroes have left, and which waa In the act of pouncing about 4.000 soldiers stood for her as to be called "Scottle by hls Intimate tt I eald that a scarcity of labor in one of the largest vines. The j tbe fields la sure to follow aa the cot-bo-a upon sponsors. friends. bird fought furiously when wounded. picking season la at band It was killed and brought to Reading. -- In be- SACRIFICE MAST MEN . the fields together the father would who'll have you In the county Jail fore Saturday night I i rt him out Whenever they were HER NAP IN CHURCH. men-of-wa- : ax-te- nt 1 ; e ' |