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TutuIla. but I made no doubt it was some
holy day not observed by Protestants. and
that the bell was ringing in the dark from
the far side of the harbor, whence the
Catholic missionary looks across upon his
Mormon rivals from Salt Lake. | had
sharp mental picture OF the church all
lighted up, the priest in his robes. and \
scanty flock gathered for the noe
turnal celebration. All night the
squalls succeeded. With the decline
OF each the bell began TO sound again
from the same distance, till | perceived at
last it was no more than an eavesdrop fall
ing close by my ear on tin pan. The
morning dawned; mist was on the hills, a
fresh accumulation of rain imminent on
PIoa. and the whole harbor gray and seri-
Gus, like a Scottish loch. As / ate and
wrote In my diary the beat on the wooden
drum-the paie-from the next village
told me that the Protestants were gather
ing 10 worship, and | smiled at my last
nights illusion. a bell on Tutulis
what an idea" / was thinking, when a
bell began indeed. For some while il
rang from the far shore, and boats were
seen 10 pass the harbor in the showers;
then it ceased, the congregation was
within, the mass begun, and | was left
to retiec. upon the war of creeds. The
wooden drum collects the Prote-
stants; an iron drum in beifry
calls the Catholics. To the Catholic the
barbaric. idolatrous. perhaps unclean; they
Wild not use IL themselves. they wish TO
have others prevented; and the politics Of
Samoa we're not long since conyulsed on
this question of the pate. How various
must be the message Of the bell In such
place; 10 the natives, a loud ontiandish
thing. Of money value scarce 10 be com
puted; in the ears of the priests calling
mp memories of French and Flemish cities;
in those Of my NJ 1rinOn neighbors, sound
ing With a voice of Utah; IN mine. talking
of the gray metropolis OF the North, OF
vanished faces and silent tongues. And
there we're yet others within hearing.
High up on the wooded mountains harbor
certain melancholy maroons. laborrrs eve
do not say siayesb from different ae>I-
eriy and norihcrly islands. They say
they are very well used: bat It seems
they do not like good usage. or not that
Kind The woods Of Upolu. our chief
island, are titled with ruuaways; much IF
my land was cleared by their hands; 4
round dozen were arrested OF Iny property,
and often when | take my walks - the
bush a pair OF bright eyes will b. watch
ing me from the thicket. Sometimes their
ham.ets are found IN remote places Of the
forest, sometimes their plantations, and
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songs enlivene

music of a gentle waterfall to the pessi-
mlstlc and austere cynic you see before you.
Tonight will guard against this much
talked-of sleep. | will stay up all night"
L got up at 2 80 a. m. yesterday and
thought OF his remark. If anything can
be more injurious than sleep | think it is
early rising. Early rising and an illv-
lighted tthis word got at fall opening
in Chicago) an illy-lighted stairway threw
me at Benton Harbor and spraiued nv
ankle so that I could not get TO the depot
without assistance. At that hour it was
impossible to get a carriage, for the city
was yet young. like the newborn day itself.
The clerk tried TO rouse every or any liv-
cry stable in town, but he could not.
Meantime | lay moaning IN the arms of
an attendant. Ny breath came in quick
but invisibly checked pants. The train
would be due in eight minutes. What to
do? Anon heard a dull thud as the clerk
broke in the door of blacksmith shop
and pulled out piano-box buggy valued
at $3.50.
Hastily placing me in this with the aid
of my attendant and valet, he started on
run for the station, neighing joyously as
he met team that he recognized. In a
trice, or possibly a trlce and q half. we
were there. | was taken out and placed in
a berth, where | moaned the balance of the
night away; but | can not be too grateful
TO the clerk of the hotel at Benton Harbor,
where this melancholy accident occurred,
for he showed tact, ability and kindness.
TO say nothing OF the fact that | found
him to- be thoroughly gentle and good
roadster.
AS ne left US wrang his hand two times
flor ice water) and, turning away my
head so that he could not see my tears,
presented him with my autograph. When
get home an going 10 send him q nice
new red tiy net Tor next summer.
The Hight from Benton HarbOr was not
much like our triumphant entry in the
evening. All the previous day We had
batiled against disaster and delay. As We
left Manlstee the engine broke down So
that We could only use one side of il.
Rapidly We lost time. Once We lost over
three-quarters of an hour in less than
twenty minutes. This meant that we
would fail TO connect at Grand Rapids,
and so miss Benton Harbor, where We had
agreed To lecture 70 a man for whom We
had great deal OF respect. Every time
We stopped we had to LOOK out or We would
be on the dead point OF the engine, and
then it would take half an hour with q
plnchDar and some profanity 10 start
again.
Finally we got desperate. l tod the
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conductor how we were situated, and
ASKED him # he could hold the Grand Rap
IDS train. He seemed 70 fear he could not
as We we're already three hours late and
rapidly falling farther back into the early
fall However. he said that al would be
we'll
Ii is very trying 70 sit and suffer that
wav. snoSing that there has been en- ad-
vance sale Of 5. with the chances Of a door
sale running 1t up t. Sii or $ll.Ji. and that
bitter disappointment i likely 20 fall upon
people wao have come from = distance
Our tesg people. too.
When We got % Grand Rapids an order
was there from Superintendent CCnIeF 70
,,rnyiFe gls vv{th srecial engine. baggage
car and coach. and n nfteen minutes We
we're travelling al = high rate OF speed
toward our destination.
Dear reader, did you ever travel by
means Of your g IN sreoiei frsiaf IL not
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so young that they are hardly out of their
short clothes. Dubois, of Idaho, and
Hansbrough, of Dakota, are the babies of
the senate. 1t is ali Dubois can do to raise
a mustache, and Hansbrough does not
look to be over 80. Still both of them have
been in the House, and Hansbrough was
editing a paper at DEVILS Lake when the
state of North Dakota was admitted, and
he became its first congressman. Both
Dubois and Hansbro Ugh were born in
Illinois. Hansbrough's parents were
poor, and he got his education in the
printing Office. He left Illinois after
learning his trade, and went to California
There he published a daily at San Jose,
and worked for time on the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. He was news editor of
the Chronicle in 1879 and left it to go to
Wisconsin and edit the Baraboo BuItetin
From Wisconsin he went to North Da-
kota, about nine years ago, and he comes
to the Senate as the successor of Gil
Pierce. He is a straight, clean-cut, rosy
checked young man, with red mustache
which looks for all the world like that of
Dan Lamont. He weighs about $50
pounds, has good address, and is a fair
type of the practical young business man
of the West. He still owns his paper at
OeFIi Lake, ana varies MS CONGRESSIONAL
work by writing editorials for 1t.
Dubois is younger man than Hans
brough. He weighs twenty pounds less,
and he is a brunette, Hansbrough is a
straw berry blonde. Dubois parents were
welI-to-do and he received good educa-
ton. He went TO school at Yale, and he
was there noted as an athlete as well as a
student. For four years lie was the
catcher of the baseball nine Of his class
His ambition grew with his muscles and
after his graduation he found Illinois TOO
small for him and he moved 10 Idaho. lie
put his muscle into politics, and during
his first congressional campaign he spoke
in every settlement in Idaho, travelling
over its s. 900 square miles Of mountainous
territory on mules and in stage coaches.
and being at times nearly a month away
from the railroad. His interchangeable
energy enabled him 20 beat the older poll
ticians Of the state, and this viii make
him one of the hard workers Of the Senate.
He is an unpretentious man, and his chief
pleasure is in his work. He is a bachelor.
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evident from their looks and whispering5
which were, of course, noticed by the
patient-that they regarded 1t as danger
Gus. They went into an adjacent room to
exchange views in private, and when they
returned after time. TO take another look
at me, saw by the increased sobrletv of
their faces that there was no hope. What
is the prognosis ?" | asked. the reply to
which was dry smile. and What is the
price OF it?" the answer 10 which came
next morning in the shape of a bill for $50
for the consultation. In order to settle
the whole business beyond doubt, another
highly distinguished medico, whom We
will call DIR. PantagTnei, and who has the
reputation OF always being able TO fore
cast the result of an illness that is sure
to be fatal was next called in. He
gazed at me, felt my pulse, smelt my
forehead, asked few questions, and gave
his opinion that the sufferer was in serious
straits. The prognosis was unfayorable,
and the price of it vas $50. lis he dead
yet?" asked an enterprising newspaper re-
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WITH sponting blow holes, the geysers of
NE beach: and at last, where the high
tnds begin TO descend abruptly to the sea,
fErned to the north, entered between two
Agsoded mountains. and was swallowed in
fx bowels of the island. Half an hour
hef she issued forth again, and trimmed
~ course for Tonga and New Zealand.
lsr GRAND was done: she had set on shore
hthe deep harhor of Pangopango guam
Pity Of stores and baggage, a reliable Chi
kese cook, a land surveyor, the American
lSnsul general, known among natives
rs the American judge, and an elderly
Ifnileman of notable tenuity of person
Jailed This own name being unpronounce-
IRle By Polynesians) the Writer of Tales
lhsitata. This is the same person who is
hw trying. about o'clock of a sunny
corning. and diverted by the chiruping of
sany birds, TO string together his unim-
prtant information for the readers bene-
~
\ The harbor of Pango-Pango written in
hmoan spelling Page Pago) cuts nearly
nrongh the narrow, steep and crooked
NE. A single ridge divides il from the
sher shore and the bay of Fangasa. A
BAD which Is good road for Samoa, hut
Iegenerates at last into 4 ladder OF roots
nd rocks, carries you through the midst
forests TO the top; twenty feet IN front
ne opposite deciiyity piunges sheer. II
lfems you might roll boulder on the roof
the unseen village at your feet. and
Iarongh clouds OF foliage the sun shines
Hpon blue water, rock and leaping spray.
The basin, some haIf-mlle in width, lies
[nencased with mountains that the breeze
! frequently shut out. 4 draught enters
N the sea mouth, squalls burst IN at times
~ The gullies 81 the mountain. but the
balm river of the Trade scorns that crater
he depression and streams overhead.
!lay and night the scroll OF trade wind
ltoud is unroliei across the sky, now In
Jiage continents. now IN thin drift Of
aehrls, singular shapes Of things pro-
IEaeted and deformed. beasts and trees.
Ishd heads and torsos OF old marbles,
buried at high speed from hill 10 hill.
md changing. fainting and vanishing as
aey fly. Meanwhile tie surface Of the
ssfoor lies below unrulfied. nos of
heavenly blue. now green like forest
Poi bright in the shadows. dark in the
MIDST with the reelected sides % woody
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THE AUTHOR OF "THE RAVEN"

"The Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe" is the
theme OF poem in which We are told of
Poe's magnetic face transparent
brow, ""sweet, imperious mouth, "''pianet-
calm ewes" dark floating hair" poetic
presence" Now L would like to know
from which of Poes portraits this descrip
ton was drawn. There are in this city, so
far as / know, but two portraits of that
wonderful, weird, wild American genius,
Edgar Allan Poe, author of THE Raven"
One of them is an oil painting in the gal
lery of the New York Historical Society,
and the other, which Is a water color,
cabinet size, showing half the figure, be-
longs TO me, and is now before me. The
oil painting does not accord with the
above description of Poe's appearance,
and the water color is very far from
being in accord with it. | was once
told by the late Charles F. Briggs,
who was Poe's partner in the editorship
of the Broadway Journal, that this water
color is a capital likeness of its subject, in
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kTEVENS0N IN SAMOA.
vhe Island of Tutuila and the
American Harbor.
(aNpl ocKEo PAGo-PAGo BAY
the United States Is to Establish
CoaIing notwithstanding
study of the Natives.

p,ao-Paeo. Samoa. Nov. Especial
11orresnoudence. Tine island of Tutuila
\ The least visited and the most often seen
u the Samoan group. A while ago the
I;nsrs between San Francisco and the colo
riss passed by the east end, and several
L;vb,s in the month bonfire burned for
Ehe;y guidance on the islet Of Annuu The
ourse is now changed. Annuu is dark
throughout the year. and the steamer
asses. and the globe-trotter has an oppor-
Inuity to see West Cape, with its rocky
N.Ie,s and the village of Leone, with its
1soxn roofs. green bread fruit trees, and
HACK. volcanic beach. To see and lose
Irain. Ii is bat glimpse and away; q
1e.sing cutter receives the mail and a few
rssencers: the screw, which has scarce
rsted. turns again; Samoa sinks in the
1gue ocean, and the giobe-trotter returns
lose his money in the smoking-room or
Idre over novel on deck.
On the morning of Tuesday, March 2,
IAe Union Company's steamship Walnut
dew near the place of call; sighted West
/ Care and Leone; and, instead OF bearing
Immediately TO sea, held on along the
|suthern coast. steamed awhile by black,
tnken cliffs. by cocoanut groves. by fire.
ment villages, by fats of lava diversified
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roSrESr WITH PROVIDENCE.

IL farmers in the country, as the season. 90 and
come.
Is ugrt. Iauch Ike other iolks-we're apt 70
The .r..r'g's 100 back ard for us, or too forsrd
Wen i4w about Il anyhow, and have our way eg
The tbsws set IN too student; er the irost's
STAYED - the soil
Too long 70 y.ve the wheat q chance, and crops
IS found 70 spoil
Tie yxea+harts either nloet too mild, er TOO out
FageoaS rough -
and Altogether too sRueh rain, er not half rain
enough.
Vow what ID Ike and what you'd Ike il plane
er.glwh - see;
It's issJ = have old Providence drop round On
yug and ne
Ard at - what our views Is i1ss, regardin
And pet en- when 70 sbst her 81, er let her on
And vii Ii rather, after au-coas-dern' other
got oa hand, s-tendln' both to ny affairs snd
I'd ruler miss the blame ID git, ru!In' things
CD there,
And spend nv extry time IN praise and graft
tude and prayer. J1fa>s Hh5t5ya.5 Rl.sy
Under the wlnter schedals Pullman cars WI
leave seattle daily 81 Is e "a. over the Sorth-
err Pacific for the East, sane as during sun
s-er F!r.t-class accommodation n PglILlza
and diaIag-Sa- service. 40 changes 81 fgy-
A.lGn
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have had some lively times with my
doctors in New York. and there can Re no
harm in telling of them Some time ago
20: back here from 3 foreign country. 10
which 5hey had sent me as
last resoYs, and from which they
thought would never return
had been laid up for Z long time
with a complication Of ma,a3ies which
Threatened 30 plt an end n life. and an
eminent member of the medical faculty.
worthy aHa wise practitioner. looked atIer
the case. Months passed away without re-
cove-y. IL came u think thai the ease
looked desperate. and made ms thought
know With proper gravity 20 Others than
himself "N "a; Is the p-oEaoslS 90 l asked
him one day. and he admitted thas Is was
NOT favorable, soon after y Aich Il seemed
proper u provide FOR his fees In order -
make sure ~ tae case and 70 see whether
anything farther could he done az Is,
he suggested the calling of q c3un-
eli Of higbIy distinguished me3icos. and
next dsy she council waS he!i n the
sick chamber aS i IS soei. They ex-
aniaed the case. in which they tc@2d
anomalous syn'cus, and II soon became
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occasional disappearance and the oCcA-
ional discovery If Tones keep alive Ia the
minds 81 rhe native profound terror ot
these bIack-SAinuei and csnuibal alien
refugees. And on Cpo,u, round the great
establishments II the German nrm,
the thing Is natural; here, on Iu-
tuiia. the presence ~ escaped laooT
j. miraculous. They were I've IN
number. Rbo hai grown weary OF good
usage: under cloud of night they fash
toned q rude -a!t uut Of tsmher on The
beach. ana pat - sea without food or
compass. Ii must have blown from the
Ieeward. Tor the course oi their random
voyage lay due east. Auf the raI5 was cast
on shore near the mouth ot PanEo-Fango
hsrbor. Al the tiBle OF thelr landing the
refugees hsd leader. : man frola tie cal
berts. OF great stature and courage, -
tCcasisEsi Oh Rcgs IL
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body to stuff pin cushion, and most of
the new senators are under fifty. Many
of them are poor, many of them have
strange histories, and altogether they form
a most interesting set of congressional
curiosities.
TWO SENATORIAL BABIES.
Some OF the brightest of the young men
come from the West, and two of these are
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people. Half of
it's II e ~ b ers
have not been in
office more than
two years. aud
there are sixteen
sen ators W h o
take their seats
in the chamber
for the first
time. The old
men of the Mill
ionaire's club are
passing a W ay.
I b ere is II OF
e n on g h white
- I,g, -, ~
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Senators Blair, Of New Hampshire, and
Hearst. Of California, are succeeded by two
men who served together IN the House Of
Representatives. These are DR.. Jacob Gall
iinger and Mr.. Charles FELTON,. Galhnger
il a bright-eyed, Dlack-mustached, semi
bald little man whose frame is packed full
Of nervous activity. He IS a smart pol
fti~ian. q ready speaker, and q cordial
hatred exists between himself and his coli
LEAGUE. seat0r Chandler. lie began lie
uoo- and has been s. printer an editor and
Z doctor. He has made money IN ali his
trades and professions, and he - now
yel!-to-fio man for New Hampshire.
Mr. Charles Felton, also started n LIE
with nothing and he is now a rich Nan IN
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and lives very quietly at Washington
City, apparently caring nothing for So
ciety.
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OUR NEW SENATOR'S.
The Seventeen Amateur States
men of the Upper House.
YOUNG MEMBERS FROM WEST.
FELTON, and His Miliions-what Kyle and
PETER Will Do-General Palmer
Enters at the A &c of -.

WASHINGTON CRY. Dec. 1.-TSpecial Cor
respondence. New blood. New brains
New men. Tue Senate which meets on
Monday Will be practically strange to the
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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-01-14

n TiiE
JErFERSoNc UNITY FARMER
OFFICE VALLEY FERTILIZER CO,
CHAELEsrowY " "a. August l. Ios

CuARLrsrowy " VA. August l, 1859.
DEAR Strive are prepared To furnish our
regular Brands OF Fertilizer, VIZ: Snenan-
dtiah." Vir.inia. Potomac" Valley Bone,
Special Wheat Mixture. Raw Bone, MS
solved Bone. .sSnuth Carolina. our own man
uf..clure The '~henandoah' IS the best fer-
tiizer sold: the farmers wh. have used II year
after year have had the best wheat and grass
and their land h,,, improved. b'-ctlIse It IS a
strictly Bone Fertilizer. We have averaged 4
wear since l>S3 Two Hundred amd Fifty Tons
of Shenandoah" n Jefferson 'ounty-tnis
speaks for itself The Virginia has Dissolved
Bone where the Shenandoah has Raw Bone,
and Is sold AT the same price Potomac -
mis- rIade is we'll for years II has been a favor
it, with our farmers Valley Bune cnsts less
than Potomac and Is used by number ni
our farmers Bnth of these brands Anaiyze
high ia Bone Phosphate 81 Lime special
Wheat Mixture prepared and put this
brand on the m .rket in 1888 10 meet the de-
n and for cheap Ammoniaied Phosphate.
We have been surprised 1T the demand created
for ii; last wear we sold is tons al il IN Jeier-
son county II runs over u IN Ammonia and
costs only So per ton. We have on hand q
large supply of our own Manufacture nf South
Carolina. also large supply OF { manuiac-
tnred in Baltimore. either ct which we VIII
furnish at the market price. We furnished ii'st
year III TINS COUNTY over fV't'lS ~ - W. ~
hundred of which we manufactured We VIII
guarantee it TO be Ia fine drilling condition.
We run it thruu.h the Rollers before baggiug.
We have on hand a supply of Animal Bone,
Raw aud Dissolved of our own manutaci uTe.
We would he glad tn have YOU inspect II. M
better can he found on the market. We are
prepared To mix on short notice, any Special
Formula. at Il small cost.
The Valley Fertilizer Company Is strictly
home institutions. Jefferson county capital and
Jefferson county people, and we are gratihed
nj the encouragement given the Company by
our farmers since its organization As an evl-
dence of our standing al home. we sold in JEFF
fersnn county the fall of lsSN over .201 Tons
of Fertilizer 10 three hundred farmers We
will be glad to have YOU call and examine our
stock Respectfully.
VALLEY FERTILIZER COMPANY.
Aug % lSs9.
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1891.
HarperS Young People.
ANILLCSTHATED WEEKLY.

The Twelfth Volume of Harpers Young
People begins uu November T. l~,J. This best
and most comprehensive weekly ln The world
for young readers presents rich and attract
i've programme. ln fiction there vii. be-
"Campmaies Story of the iaus D., hirk
Munr0e Men OF Iron, a ronaEcc by How
ard Pyle with illustrations bs Che author,
Flying Hill Farm oy sophie SWEET, The
Moon Prince by g. X MuuSi1ricS, aud
''Nel0wtoT. by Annie Bronson hIus lu ad-
dition % these five serials, there wiii be stories
in two or three parts oy Thomas Nelson ta-c.
Hnlmar Boyesen. Eiwin i.,>,ettcr Nyuucr
Harriet Prescott Spodnri, Mary +. WiIkius.
Nora Perry and Others short stories aud ar-
ticles on science. hi tor., travel adventure
games and sports with hundreds ui i,ius,ra-
tiOus OF the highest charaCtrr, wii. render har-
per's Young People tor 1901 uarivalled as o.
miscellany Of the beet reading tor boys snu
girls
The bes, weekly publication FIR youu-
people in existence 10 Is edited with >DIupu-
ious care and attention and instruction and
entertainment are mingled in lt~ pa-e, 100 JUST
the right proportions 90 cantivate Che minds
Of the Young. and at che same time tn develop
their thinking power ~ ols~rc-.