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The Princeton union., 1880-02-11
THE LOST KISS.
I put by the half written poem,

put by the half written poem,
While the pen, idly trailed In my hand,
Writes on, Had words to complete it,
Who'd read it or who'd understand
But the little bare feet on the stairway
And faint smothered laugh in the hall,
And the eerie-low lisp on the silence
Cry up to me over it all.
So I gather it up-where was broken
The tear-faded thread of my theme,
Telling how, as one night sat writing,
A fairy broke in on my dream.
A little inquisitive fairy
My own little girl with the gold
OF the sun in her hair, and he dewy
Blue eyes of the fairies old.
Twas the dear littls girl that scolded-
For was it moment like this"
I said-"Wlen she knew was busy
To come roLl ping in for kiss?
Come rowdying up from her mother;
And clamorlng there at my knee
For Zone little kiss for my dolly,
And one little uzzer for mem
God pity the heart that repelled her,
And the cold hand that turned her away
Aud take from the lips that denied her
This answerless prayer of to-day!
Take. Lord, from my memory forever,
That pitiful sob of dispair;
And the patter and trip OF the bare little feet
And the one piercing cry on the stair!
l put by the half-written poem
While the pen, idly trailed in my hand,
Writes on, Had words to complete it,
Who'd read it or who'd understand"
But the little bare feet on the stairway,
Aud the faint smothered laugh in the hal
And the eerie-low lisp on the silence,
Cry up to me over it all.
II. W. RileY .
The Princeton union., 1880-02-11
Good Versus Bad PLAYERS.

Two good whist players were matched
against two bad players, and the same
arrangement was made in another room,
in which the bad players held the same
hands as the good players in the first
room, and vice versa. Thirty three
hands were played. In one room the
good players held good cards and won
four rubbers out of six, in points q bal
ance of eighteen in the other room the
good players had the bad cards, and
played seven rubbers with the same
number of cards, winning three out OF
seven, and losing seven points on the
balance. The difference was eleven
points, or nearly one point rubber in
favor of skill DR.. Pole, working by q
statistical method, has arrived at nearly
the same result; but he estimates the
advantage of superior personal play,
among players all playing by system, at
about quarter of point rubber. So
that the combined skill of two very
skillful players against two very un-
skillful ones would be more than half q
point rubber.
The Princeton union., 1880-02-11
9 cry and heavy splash, and I knew
father had gone overheard

/ was in the boat in q moment. and
had the skull over the stern, padding
away in the direction that the CRY had
come from; but, though I fancicd that
In those horrible minutes / saw a hand
stretched out Of the water asking as it
were for help, I padded and skulled
about till l was far from our barge, and
then sank down. worn out, to utter a
moan Of horror, and sob, "Oh, fatherl
What shall I docs
us that you, Prudence?" said voice
near me.
eyes, John, yes,'' cried, looking out
through the darkness out of which a
boat seemed to steal till it was alongside,
when John stretched out his hand and
took mine.
"Quick," ] gasped, s'save him, John
father-gone overboardv'
"When you shrleKed out, Prue2"
eyes, yes; oh, save him save him!''
"My poor lass,' he said, ssthat's good
quarter Of an hour ago, and the tide is
running strong. I've been padding about
ever since, trying to find you, for I went
to the barge and you were gone.''
''But father" walled, s'father-save
hlm!'
"My poor little lass" he SAID, tenderly,
I'D jump into the water Wv if you bid
me, but what ean I do, you know, Pru-
dence, what can do9
did not answer, for did not know
that he must have been swept far away
before then; and was beginning to feel
that was alone-quite alone in the world
1t was quite SIX months after that
dreadful night that one evening John
came ashore from his barge to the cot
tage, where l was staying with his moth
er and had been ever since he had
brought me there, without seeing him to
to speak to only to wave my hand to him
as he sailed by. That evening he came
and looked wistfully at me, and said but
little, and at last his time was up and he
rose to go.
I walked down to the boat with him
and On the way he told me he had got
leave to alter the name of his barge, and
it was called the Prudence, too; and then
without word about the past, he was
saying good-by, when put my hand in
his and said quietly.
"John, dear, haven't forgot my prom
ise."
"And you are alone, now, Prudence
my iass," he cried eagerly.
mo, John, no,"I said softly, as the
tears ran down my cheeks: II never shall
be while you live.' -...-..
"Never, my lass, never" ne cried.
"And you will be my little wife.
"Yes, John, yes; promised you"
"When 1 come back from this voyage9'
"Yes, John, when you WILL" said,
and with one long hand pressure We part
ed, and went back to wait another
month and then was his happy little
wife a.
And there seemed no change, for was
once more on the river or out at sea
leaning upon the tlller and gazing
straight before me, with the gulls wall
ing as they wheeled and dipped and
skinned or settled upon the water while
the soft wind gently stirred the print
hood that was lightly tied over my wind
ruttied hair. Only a bargeman's young
wife living on the tide but very happy
tor John often points to the great ships
that pass us, with their captains in gold
laced caps, and as he does so he whispers
Not with the best among them, Pfue,
not with the best; wouldn't even change
places with the king"
And if he is as happy as I, dear John
is rlght.-Casse1ps Magazine.
The Princeton union., 1880-02-11
THE ARTLEss ART.
BIZ THEODORE T1LroN.

1sang my lady many a lay
To win her by the music in it,
But word and tune were thrown away.
Ill haply on morn in May,
Glanced to hear singing linnet.
II II.
Now many bird of brighter coat,
May plume himself on his apparel,
But never in warbler's throat
Was trilled more enchanting note
Than quivered in that linnet's carol.
"Oh tiny, passion-tortured thing!
Thy song," quoth /, "hath all it's rapture,
Because thou amorously dost sing
In tnese, the wooing DAYS of spring
The velvet-mantled mate to capture
".
With song like that, 0, bonny birdl
II could sing it half so sweetly,
Then happy, if my lady heard,
Her stony bosom would be stirred. &.
And would win her love completely.
$50 implore thee to impart r-..%
Unto your ruder brother poet, "
The secret of the songful art ~ .
10 charm a lady's naughty heart.
I'll on the singer she bestows it,
vi.
mo art is mine to tell the Of"
The songster said, "for disdain it;
10 ask the robin--ask the dove
Ask every bird that sings of love-:
We feel it, but we never feign it
Then go and WOO as song birds do.
Who, from the seed-time to the sickle.
Love faithfully the season through,
Nor change the old love for new,
Nor prove. as men do, false and tickle.
Viii
"Forbear poets fatal pride
In praising every charmers beauty,
But ever to thy chosen bride
10 her alone, and none beside
Sing thou thy song of love and duty"
.. ... TX.
On that same day, with hope elate,
eneath an arbOr green and shady.
10 that same maid who held nv fate.
sang my lay and won my lady.
The Princeton union., 1880-02-11

IT is hard to decide which Isl the most
pestilential-the young bore, who is
forever Dragging what he is going to do,
or the old bore who is eternally bragg
ging what he has done.
The Princeton union., 1880-02-11

STEALING q $40 horse cost Colorado
man his life, although he had been tried
and acquitted Eve different times for
murder. @
The Princeton union., 1880-02-11

Hyoq would have clear vision new
er put your . rye in your mouth.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-13
THE OREGON RAILWAY.

From long interview With Chief
Engineer Eastwick the Portland Bee
learns much Of interest concerning the
new Oregon Railway. According to
Mr.. E., the surveys have been conduct.
ed 20 that given points desirable to
reach are reached by lines OF the short.
est possible character. the effect Of
which will be to give his company .
line OF road cheap of construction and
operation. After giving comparisons
Of distances that seem conclusively in
favor of the company represented BY
Mr. E.. the accouns Of the Interview is
ended as follows: g
The effect will be-, when both roads
are 10 operation tilrous b 5Yalnhill and
Polk counties, that the narrow gage
road will take nearly all the passenger
trade 10 and from Portland and these
two counties, because its trains will
leave Portland at 81 PM, while the
Western Oregon's tsains will start at Q
PM, and the narrow gage train will
reach Lafayette before the Western Or.
egon train has been sighted at St Joseph,
aud be at Dallas before the Western
Oregon train has reached Derry, both
trains travelling at the same rate Of
speed.
With such great advantages. besides
The cheapnsss Of constru .tion and work.
ing expenses VI the narrow gage System,
we do not wonder at the confidence
manifested by the managers Of the Or
egon Rail way Company ia their eventual
success. They do not desire to compete
either With the river steam boats or with
tho broad gage roads in Western Ore
gon, and with that view have kept their
two narrow gage roads on the east and
west sides of the valley as close to the
foothills Of the Coast and Cascade
Mountains as was found practicable,
except where they necessarily must cross
the Willamette river and cross the two
broad gage railroads. But there ID mo-
Disgusting the fact that the original
owners (,he Holiday ring) Of the . &
@ r r and W y R r made great mis-
take in locating their lincs on the east
side 90 near and sleng the Willamette
river. and on tue west side making such
. long circuit Of fifty miles to ret 10
Ysmhill county, when thirty miles was
oil that was necessary to reach the cen.
ter Of that county from Portland.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-13
OVER THE WIRES.

hear faint low singing
Like the sound of distant choirs;
IT'S o message gleefuHy winging
Over the telegraph wires.
And what are the glad wires hnmmiog
AS they stretch in the sunlight away:
II am coming. conf q. coming,
am coming homs todayr'
And now hear sobbing.
Like some sonl sitting alone,
With heart that is wearily ttrobb;ng
And lips tina. can only moan.,
Oh! what are the sad wires sighiug.
As they reach through tbs darkness
of night?
He 10 dying. dying. dying
Come on the wings Of lightr
The Utilization of laughter
Next falls upon my ear,
And burst Of mad mirrh after.
Like the sound of q distant cheer.
And what is the gleeful story
That the round wires spread afar3
"Our Nine is crowned with glory
Hip. hip, hip, hurrah"
Oh. what are the wires relating,
Morning. noon and night 2"
"Ths market ID fuctuasingr'
Report Of the Senate fight!'
"Cashisr K defsulterl'
ARREST man named Brown
"Jones died to Eight BY the haltcr!'
wheat went suddenly down. Il
"Deadp "Born!" "Goingl" "C6ming!
"Deluger' and "Drought!' and
"Fire!'
Singing. and sobbing. and humming
Over the telegraph wire.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-13
AUGUST FLOWER,

The immense sale and great popular
ity Of Green's August Flower in all
towns and villages In the civilized
world has caused many imitstors to
adopt similar pames. expecting to reap
O harvest for themselves st the expense
of the afflicted This Medicine was
Introduced in 1868, and for the cure of
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, with
their. effects. such Is Sour Stomach.
Costiveness. Sick Stomach. Sick Head.
ache. Indigestion. Palpitation OF the
Heart. Vertigo, ETC.. etc. Il nerer has
failed to our kas,e6dgs. Three doses
will relieve any case of Dyspepsia. Two
million bolt es sold last year. Price as
cents. Samples 10 cents. For sale by
all druggists.
GREEN's ATLAs AND DIARY ALMA
MAC. the most expensive free Almanac
ever published. sent free on receipt of
two cent stamp.
G. G. GREEK,
Woodbury., N. j., q. b. A.
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Emission, Aversion to Society. Dimness of Vision,
Noises in tho Head; the vital f1id passing unob-
served tE the urine. and many other diseases that
lead to insanity and death.
DIR. NINTIE will agree to forfeit FIVE Hun.
DRIED DoLLARs for 9 case of this kind the VITAL
RESTORATIVE tunder his special advice and
treatmentl will not cure. or for anything impure
or injurious found in II. DIR. MiNTIE treats all
Private Diseases successfully without mercury.
CONSULTATION FREE. Thorough examination and
advice. including analysis Of urine. s. 90. Price
of VITAL RESTORATIVE. $500 . bottle, or four
times the quantity. $1,000; sent TO snv addr 50
upon receipt OF price, or @. o. D., secure from
observation, and In private name If desired, by
A. e. MINTIE, III. D.,
e II Kearny Street, San Francisco, Gal.
Dir. MINT3Es KIDNEY REMEDY, NEPHREr.
ICIIM. cures all kinds Of Kidney and Bladder
Complaints, 0onorrhoea, elect, Leucorrhpa. For
sale BY all druggists: $l00a bottle, six bottles for
$500.
DIR. MINTIE's DANDELIoN PILLS. are the
best and cheapest DYSPEPSIA aud BILIOUS cure
in the market. For sale BY all druggists.
4a e@A 1t j4ahw1y
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-13

"a Z
SEVENTY Tons OF WHALE. "A whale
in the harbor of New York 10 . rare
eight. One was recently killed of the
Massachusetts coast, and by some en-
terprisiDg fellows was bought for $500
and towed TO New York. tia charge for
towsge bringing the cost of the whale
up TO $lO50. It was IS feet long, Is
feet around the body at the hump and
weighed 10 tons. Twenty barrels of
herring vera taken from its otomach.
In calculating the value of the fish TO
the enterprising New Workers.. $500
may be Get down for oil and bone.
People poured into the exhibition yard
b. the thousand to see the wonder, and
though the admission wss only ave
cents, the men are supposed to have
taken four. or ave thousand dollars in
this wsy. It was profitable spec "
to them.
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6HERxAN HYDK & Co. Racifc Coasl
Agents. Also agents Tor the celebrated
Estey and Standard 0rgsna For 6hsst
Music and Brass Inssfumeuts, addrem
6HxRMAx. HYDR D Co.,
augSl-dAwiy Fan fFancisno.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Woodbury.. N. j., q. b. 4
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-13

Four or i've enormous blocks have
been removed by order OF the Khedivs
from the great pyramid for the pospose
OF building . mosque. This mutilation
has been severely criticised BY The
Egyptisns. whose faith. II pinncd 70
anything. il pinned to the great relics
VI the Pbaraohs.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION,

LAND OFFICE AT OLYMPIA. W. TIL
March 22d, 1880.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
In following nam settler has n!ed notice Of
his intention 70 make ANAL proof Ia support Of his
claim. and secure final entry thereof. and that
said proof will be made before X. Eiverson, Esq.
Justice Of the Peace. at his once at Stsnwood.
W. T.. on Monday, the Sd day Of May. A. D 1850.
HERMAN HI. RoTsRMuNpT, Pre- .emption D. 8. No.
464S, for the LOT 8. Sw. 4 Of NV. 4 and W. y Of
SW. Of Section s. Township 81 Nor b. Range 8
East. and names the following IS his witnesses ~
prove continuous residence upon aud cultivation
Of said tract viz: J. Thompson. O. Fri ks. A.
Lammars and A. strotx. all Of Stsnwood. snoho.
niish county, w. T.
1T. BROWN.
m27w5t RegtAler.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
LAND ovv1c. At o.rnrA. ". TIL

LAND OFFICE AT OLYxiA, W. TIL
stsa March 26sh, 1880.
nj OTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN following-nsmed settler has fled notice Of
his intention ~ make nal proof In support Of his
cistln. and secure ANAL entry thereof, snd that
said proof will b made before the Judge, or in
his sbsence the Clerk Of the Districs Court 1t
Of May. A. d 1s8n.
JAMES O PURcELL. Homestead application No.
1873. for the lot and NV. Of NE. 4 Of Section
70. Township "a North. Range East. and names
nous residNpce upon and euitivstien Of psid
tract. viz BenjaDin Stretch. Of Bpohomish, sno-
homish county. W. T.; George Bfsckett ana
Samuel Dawssn. Of Pert Madison, Kitsap county,
W.T..
1T. BROWN,
s3-vse RsgistsS.
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81 a box, six boxes fora $6g'


OLyxPrA. WAsSuH0rvx Tn1SIresy.k y
NIOTIcE Is HEREBx GIVEN THAT. IN coz
In pliance with thA pEoyjsieas of ne Acs3 u
Congress approved June 3. ISIS. satitlsd "An Ace
for the ssls Of Tibsr Lands In the etstes Of csli.
fornia. Oregon. Nevada and Washineton Terri-
70 y. Daniel J. 1scAman. OF xitsap ecAnty.
washingtcn Territory. Ass this day Afed 81 this
once his applicstiOn to purchase The NE. y Of
Of section No. IL. II Township IA. IS Moeth.
Range No. ] East Of the Wiilamslto Naridiau, -
Any and eli psrsuns claiming sivsrssfy ne ssid
Described lad % any t0ssoon tAeteof, AfNheso.'
In sixty i60) days nnm dAts hereof.
Givsn under ny hands - my oAles, - Olympic
". T.. THE the u Aay ct ApsiI a. b. assn .oy
t-.s,...3 - J. =. BR0WN.
s!0w.1ow. Register q The Land ONCE.
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A mother propped mp her baby in q
chair in photograph gallery 10 Colum-
bus. Ohio. to have is picture tskcn.
and then excused herself for moment.
She has mt yet rssusnsd.
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THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY

Il o never-failing Cure
for Nervous Debility,
Exhausted Vitality,
Seminal Wes L n ess.
8permatorrh9s, LOST
MANHOOD, Impoten.
cy. Paralysis, and all
the terrible effects of
Self : Abuse, youthful
follies, and excuses in
maturer years - such
IS Logs of Aemory,
IAsSitude Nocturnal
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

LAND OFFICE AZ OLYMPIA. ". TIL
March 18th, 1880.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN following named ssttier has fied notice of
his Intention to make Anal proof IL support Of his
claim. and secure hnal entry thereof. and thai
said pfoof Will Be made before the Reeistee md
keceivsr Of the Land Once. st Olympia, w. r., on
~e0nesdsy, the sth dsy Of May, 4. D. 1880
BExyANn 3. rHEgD. Presumption d. 3. 10.
se,s, 70 the n Of .. Is Of section I. Township
IS North, Range East and namsA The foIIovins
~ his Witnesses " prove continsous rteidencs
upon and cultivation Of said tract Wig: Christisn
Slougn. y. I. wesdin. n. D. Rsrk.r and n. II.
casrk. eli o. Seattle. King county. y e.
,. :. BROWN.
MsSs Register.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-06

stabbed him to death with her parasol,
and an unbiased jury would have ac-
quilted her on the ground of self-de-
feDse.-NorrtstoUas Herald.
When Naples was ruled by King
Bomba, His Majesty one day paid a
visit to the ship of an English Commo-
dore lying in the bay. While the Com
modore was receiving his royal visitor
on the quarter deck a member of the
Neapolitan suite cruising about amid
ships mistook a wind-sail for a pillar,
and, leaning against it, suddenly went
below head foremost. The only wit
ness of the accident, an old tar, there
upon made for the quarter deck, and,
having saluted, said: 81 beg pardon,
Commodore, but one of them ere kings
has fell down the hatchway."
The Agricultural Department has
published comparative table of the
crops of 1878 and 1879, together with
the prices obtained by the producers,
which shows an increase of about
$415, 900, 900 during this one year. But
there is also a gain in other values be-
sides those of The crops. The statisti,
clan of the department, who is reported
to be gathering material upon which to
base careful estimate of the total in
crease OF certain other values during
the last year, to include the increased
price of real estate and mining proper
ty, expresses the opinion, based upon
material already gathered, that it will
not fall below $1,000, 100000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-06

but with the advantage that his two
mounted friends fired also; consenuent-
ly she, like her lord, was placed hevond
all further harm doing. The other
lions and cubs made off.
They now turned their attention To
the human victims of the raid. and
found the prey of the lioness to he a
male Catfre, badly mangled and ouite
dead; that of the lion proved to he a
woman, stunned and bruised. Int 9TH
erwise unhurt. The Caffre youth. now
coming up, threw himself PROSTATE be-
side the woman, evincing the most in
tense grief mingled with the deepest
affection as he patted her, and, in Ian
guage untintelligible to his deliyerers.
attempted to arouse her. Overton soon
changed his grief to joy by placing his
brandy flask to her lips, with almost
magical result; and the youth seeing
her restored, hurried off to the other
body, but, finding life extinct, was once
more in despair.
However, savage as he was, he was
philosopher in his way; his father
was dead beyond doubt, but his mother
was alive; therefore he cast aside his
grief for his male parent and INDUCED
in joy at the safety of his mother, al
ternating his caresses of her with CRATE
full demonstration toward our friends,
particularly Hardy.
One of the Hottentots now coming up,
he acted as interpreter, and soon the
hunters were in possession of the facts
attending this evenings adventure. 1t
appeared that the lions had raided their
herd of cattle, and on their flying to
their rescue, the savage animals had
turned on them with the above result:
their Catfre friends, instead of aiding
them, incontinently fled, and had NO.
since returned. Such being the case,
and seeing now their utter restitution,
the hunters offered them the shelter of
their bivouac, which they gladly &C
cepted, first burying the husband and
father under a large pile of stones; and,
while they were thus engaged the hunt
ers secured the skins of the lions, and
then they all returned TO the bivouac.
On the way back they learned that the
woman's name was Sozemi, and that
of the youth Kallula; that they were of
the Griqua tribe, and that the dead
warrior had been distinguished chief.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.