, 1890-06-08

ground and 5000 men began TO conneci
Townsend with the Portland terminus o.
the great transcontinehtal roads. Har ily
had this been done when the gentlemaply,
genial and urbane Union Pacific secured
terminal facilities. ana began to strike out
for the gro wing city. This means that
the other roads will follow. and this quiet
town, modestly seeking to do what was
right, yet seldom footing her own horn,
has the door open for her future pros
perity and commercial Importance.
Speaking of Samuel Davis a moment
ago reminds me that some years ago be
joined the Knights of PYthias. BE looks
uniform of the knights, and little chill.
dren gladly go and conceal themselves
when they see him coming. And yet he
he is a kind hearted man and woald never
bite 4 child unless irritated or unduly pro
voked.
Mr.. Davis was greatly impressed at his
initiation by the chief officers earnest
charge TO ever throughout his lite over
come all obstacles that might lie in the
path Of honest success. Over and over
again this thought was dressed in new
terms and in earnest language, this idea
of eternal perseverance, being the price of
victory. Day and night it qwelt in his
memory Sleeping or waking, ''perse-
verance, perseverance" sang in his
breast and stirred him up to do and to
dare in the great struggle for success.
One evening he strolled down the street
and, seeing the lodge door open and mem
bers standing about the entrance, be
stepped around into an alley and having
Iehearsed the signals and passwords for
the current quarter, he boldly stepped to
the p~ortcullis and having pounded on the
door according to directions on outside of
wrapper, he poked his Grecian beak
through tn. little martin box leading into
into the vertibule aud calculated:
"Messopotamial'
An angry man rose to his feet inside
and said, smothering his rising wrath by
means of the fried onions which had
formed a part of his supper
do you take this for a bean refractory
or what2 You better go night away from
here now. If you want to get a messo-
potamia, why don't you go where they
keep such ~tbings2'
Il don't want anything to eat" said
Samuel Davis. Il am not hungry, you
old baritone ass. L raw you the pass
word OF our order, and l desire to enter.
Do you know your business or haye your
think works slipped a cog2"
That's no password" said the other
man, and them's no kind Of knocks.
You cannQt gain admittance. He then
closed doSn the little wicket, and Mr..
Davis could hear him and his breath en-
gagged in a deadly hand-to-hand conflict
inside.
Samuel Post Davis had been taught in
that very lodge room the lesson Of perse-
verance, and 80 he would not give up.
Suddenly the idea flashed upon his mind
that this was merely done to test him.
He would show them the kind of stuff he
was made Of. So he pried opcn the wicket
with an old dirk which he had and sent
in another order for q ~messoptamis.
The guard now came out aud caught
Mr.. Davis BY the collar and began to
eject him. The ejectment was only sue.
cessful in a measure. however, resulting
in the ejectment of the guard, after which
Mr.. DAVIS, with teeth marks on his ear
and bloody bugle, strobe inside the first
door. He told the inside guard what
annoying delays he had submitted to.
and was Just in the act of giving the
second password, viz ''Tush. tush,"
when he was thrown out by the inside
guard, who was a very powerful man.
Still determined to carry out the teach
ings Of perseverance, taught in the lodge
ROOM, Mr.. Davis made a break for the
door again just as the Most Worthy
Breath Tester came out and asked what
he sought II seek an entrance" said
Mr.. Davis, ito this lodge Of Knights of
Pythias, of which | am a member in good
standing"
You are in error said the Most No
BILE Breath Tester softly. This is a lodge
of the Independent Order of Red Men.
We meet here on Thursdays and the K.
p s on Fridays. Try it tomorrow night,
and Your beautiful, large, rectangular
Perseverance, will doubtless catch the eye
of the speaker"
Mr.. Davis then went home. thought
fully, via the drug store. and his boudoir
smells OF %arnica aud gargling oil even
unto. this day.