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haps, the soft job hung out. I've my own
view of this old party; but l was just as
glad he had kept Una clear of Apia and
Papeete and these flash towns. AT last
he struck l'aleali OF this is
land got some trade--the Lord knows how.
-lnuddled it all away in the usual style, and
died worth next to nothing, bar IL bit of
land at Falesa that he had got for Il bad
debt which was what put it i'll the minds
of the mother and daughter to come Cnere
and live 1t seems Case encouraged them
all he could and helped to get their house
built. He was very Kind in those days,
and gave Una trade, and there is no
doubt he had his eye on her from the be-
ginning. However, they had scarce set
tied when up turned a young man, native.
and wanted to marry her. He was q small
chief. and had some fine mats and Old songs
in his family. and was very pretty, Una
said: and altogcthcr.it was an extraordinary
match for Il pennless girl and an out
islander.
At the first word of this / got downright
sick with jealousy.
..And YOU mean to say you would have
married him." | cried. -,
Toe. yes" says she. II like too much
"WelI,'' / said. And suppose L had
come round after"
Il like YOU more better now, sad she:
"Rut. suppose | marry loanc. l one good
wife. | no common \anaka. Good girl.
We'll. I had to be pleased with that; but
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greatly appreciated at home and admired

Among the street scenes is the universal
cab. AT the depot on arrivals of trains
the cabmen are the self-appointed COM
mlttce of reception for tourists. One re-
Allies by the strange language dinned in
his ears that he is in a foreign city, al
though no ocean rolls between him and his
home. The cabs are generally drawn by
two horses and are about like Billiards.
which do similar service at the "cyar she'd
in Atlanta, the drivers have the cone-shaped
hats which are so common in Mexico.
1t would be an advance for Mexico to
have a great steam laundry with neat lit
tie call and delivery wagons as we have,
but their methods are not at all ahead of
the old auntie and her washtub, wash
board, I've soap and battling stick and great
bundle of Monday morning clothes. The
Spanish name for them is lavanderas, they
hold forth down on LaViga canal and
great rows of them gather under poorly
constructed covers and work away with
the rudest possible utensils. They scrub on
rocks for washboards and souse and rinse
and wash away for dear life and, resting
and they lose breath. they chatter and CAB
in quaint lingo and then fall to their work
again. The washpot is a stranger to them
and the dirt is removed from the clothes
by dint of main strength.
The Mexican laborer is more like the
Chinese or Japanese than any other | can
recall There are few beasts of burden,
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CHAPTER III.
Tho Missi,pary

AS l came out Oh the veranda the mis-
sion boat was shooting for the mouth of
the river. She was a long whaleboat
painted white, bit of an awning astern,
Il native pastor crouched on the wedge of
paddles flashing and dipping true to the
boat song, and the missionary under the
awning, In his white clothes, reading q
book, and set him up. 1t was pretty to see
and hear; there's no smarter sight in the
islands than missionary boat with II good
crew and II good pipe to them; and | consid-
cred 1t for half a minute, with II bit of
envy, perhaps, and then strolled down to-
wards the river
From the opposite side there was another
man aiming for the same place. but he ran
ana got there first. 1t was Case; doubtless
his idea was to keep me apart from the mis-
slonary, who might serve me as an inter
prefer; but my mind was upon other things.
/ was thinking how he had jockeyed US
about the MARI; &c ond tried his hand on
Una before; and at the sight of him rage
flew into my nostlils.
Get out of that YOU low swindIinp
theft ! cried
whats that you say?" says he
l gave him the word again, and rammed
1T down with u good oath And if ever [
catch you within six fathoms of my house,
cried. III clap Il bullet in your measly
carcass"
You must do as you like about your
house. said he, where told you had no
thought of going. But this is public place
Its place where / have private bust
ness" said l. Il have no idea of a hound
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l promise you that ] didn't care about the
business one little bit. And ] liked the
end of that yarn better than the beginning.
For it seems this proposal of marriage was
the start of all the trouble 1t seems, be-
fore that, Una and her mother had been
looked down upon, of course, for kinless
folk and out-isanders, but nothing to hurt;
and, even when loane came forward, there
was less trouble at first than might have
been looked for. And then, all of a sudden,
about six months before my coming, Ioaue
backed out and left that part OF the islai,'
aud from that lay 10 this Una and her
mother had found themselves alone. None
called at their housc-nono spoke to them
on the roads. If they went to church, the
other women drew their mats away and
left them in 4 clear place by themselves
1t was regular accommodation, like
what You read of in the middle ages; and
the cause or sense of it beyond guessing
1T was some talo pepelo, Una said, some
lie, some calumny; and all she knew of it
was tEat the girls who had been Jealous of
her ludll with Ioane used to twit her with
ms deSerton, and cry out, when they met
her alone in the woods that she would
never be married. They tell me no man he
marry me. lie too much 'frad.' she said.
The only soul that came about them after
this deserhon was Master Case Even he
was c!ary of showing himself and turned
up mostly by night: and pretty soon he be
gan 10 table his cards and make up to Una
l was stIll sore about Ioane. and when Case
turned up III the Same line of business |
cut up downright rough.
wen, said, sneering, land I suppose
too much? "
'Now Won talk silIy,' said she. white
man, he come here. | marry him alI-a-s,Irne
knnakar very well then he marry me ale
same white woman. Suppose he no marry.
ne go way, woman he stop. All-e-same
thief, empty hand, Tonga heart--no can
love. Now you come marry me. You big
heart--you no 'shamed island girl. That
thing | love You far too much. | nroud'
don't know that ever | felt sicker MI
the days of my life. | laid down nv fork
ana / put away the island girl" | didn't
seem somehow to have any use for either
and | went and walked MP and down in the
house, and Una followed me with her
eyes, Tor she was troubled and small won
der. But troubled was no word for it with
me. L so wanted, and so feared to make
a clean breast of the sweep that | had
been.
And just then there came a sound of
singing out of the sea; it sprang up sudden
~ clear and near as the boat turned the
headland, and Una, running. to the win
dow, cried out it was "A1isi" come upon
his rounds
| thought it was a strange thing / should
be glad to have missionary; but. if it
was strange, it was still true
Tina, said /, you stop here in this
room, and don't bulge a foot out of it till
l come back
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top, almost a short mile the longest way
acrcss and it is about quarter of Il mile
deep. There IS no snow i'll the crater, the
volcanoes hot breath stops that. The smell
OF Sulphu"Ous fumes is strongly suggestive
Of the internal regions and the fires that
you read about.
There is Il mine within the crater from
which great quantities of sulphur have been
removed at an immense profit. Indians
were the workmen; they Were known as vol
caneros and they camped in rough huts at
the bottom of the crater, where it was per-
fectly light. Sometimes, of course, earth
quakes disturbed their slumbers or the vol
cano would warm UP III some unexpected
quarter, but their camps were never de-
stroyed or deserted.
This mountain top is the very workshop
of nature, the battle ground of the elements
of heat and cold. The kissing, SulphurouS
steam and the thunderous bcowings from
within the crater We're in great contrast with
the frozen, icy cone which held this fury.
Many descriptions have been written of
the volcano and its ascent, from the time
when CorteZ crossed the mountain down mt
La Cruz, where the horses are left, to this
attempt. All agree that it is the one great
exploit in Mexico, and that it fully repays
all the toll and danger attending the
trip.
While in the City of Mexico I saw two
great professions or demonstrations of the
people for and against their government.
The one against l,laz seemed to be com
twos and tours in a procession about two
blocks long. They bore tlansparencies crit
cising the present administration, they
hooted and yelled their complaints in
Spanish and their noise was tumultuous.
The procession favoring Diaz was largely
of representative people of all classes, the
streets We're thronged and all the people
in the full half mile over which the pro-
cession stretched seemed glad. 1t was a
good natured, happy crowd, hilarious in
many ways, discharging fireworks and
shouting like boys in mild snow storm
at IL rabbit hunt. Occasionally as the pro-
cession passed a speaker would mount a
convenient fence post and make quite
a speech to the crowd who cheered him and
who would catch up snat" from his adj
dress and cry them a, ~ went. In
the crowd Miss Johnson and ! met one old
fellow exploding fireworks. told him
that I was an American, thinking that he
would know that l had no special interest
in the demonstration except as Cooker
on in Venice but his good nature made
room for me and he replied, "Americano
shoot. tiz, bang! Obtaining some of his
mas time in short while.
President Diaz deserves all the praise
which his people offer him. His many
strokes of policy, his observation-disclosures and
sturdy good common sense seem to be
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tower with easy grace above, all the
glorious scenery which l have at
tempted to desc rlbc of Mexico.
They are the first to greet the eye
and impress themselves upon the enrapt-
ured traveller as he comes into Mexico's
capital;thcy are the first and the last things
he sees every day while there. Sixty miles,
or twenty leagues, as they express it, stretch
between the City of Mexico and the quaint
little town of Amecameca, at the foot of
the volcanoes. Arriving at Amecameca, we
see nearer the town the volcano of lxtacci-
hautl, La Mujer Blanca, the white
woman The name is a literal description
of the mountain She covers a long portion
OF the ridge with her white shroud and is
really suggestive by her shape Of dead
g;antess robed III white stretched upon her
bier The nccl1 looks trihe too long, but
the dead face is perfect and the hair streams
in silver locks from the snowy forehead
back over the head and down the sides of
the bier. At her feet stands the grim old
giant Popocataped, with his glittering snow
crown.
An Aztec tradition has it that these n'oun-
tains were once giants, with whom the SUI
1reme deity became offended and changed
them from humans to great volcanoes TX
taccihautl lies today just as she was strick-
en-, Popocatapeu stood at her feet express
ing his wrath by pouring forth streams of
fire and lava, and his grief by the streams
of tears that trickle down his shoulders
from the eternal SHOWS above. The Indians
in their. awe named him THE Hill That
Smokes" which is expressed in the awk-
wardly spet name today, popocatapetl
Leaving Amccameca. the road winds up
through great fields of corn along the foot
hills, higher among wheat and barley fields
then among great pine forests, to an eleva-
ton of about thirteen thousand feet above
tide
Then begins the great stretch of volcanic
sand about the base of the conical top of
he Volcano Horses sink nearly knee-ieep
r climbing this tremendous steer TIE ali.
~ tiag nearly - degrees, the point at
,@ll,h sand slides. Every little while it
is necessary to stop and relieve the la-
bored breathing which the least exertion
brings on i'll this rarefed almost Gere.
used to call it getting my win when
school boy, tired with running, aging base.
leapfrog or bullpen.
The limit of vegetation is perhaps a thou
sand feet above the last pines. The horses
are left at the snow-lne on Il sort of back
bone ridge of black volcanic rocks $1,000
feet up. Now for half a mile of the most
perlous climbing over snow blocks and ice,
up--up to the great crater. 1t is about Il
fiyc-hours' task and you grow so tired of
the monotouous pull that when you reach
the crater you can hardly realize that you
are really there.
The edge of the crater is of the black vol
canic sand through which the horses toiled
so laboriously. The crater is oblong at tho
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CHE BER@p 0G FacESR.
Narrative Of South Sea Trader.

and meant the word simple and serious.
She stood there straight as she said it. l
cannot justly say that ever l saw q woman
look like that before or after aud it struck
me mum. Then she made a kind of obes
ance, but it was the proudest kind, and
threw her hands out open.
Il 'shamed' she said 81 think you
savvy. Else he tell me you savyy, he tell
me you mind, tell me you love me too
much. Taboo belong me" she said, touch
ing herself on the bosom, as she had done
on her wedding night. "Now / go way,
taboo, he go way, too. Then you get too
much copra. You like more better, /
thiuk. Tofa, alii,' says she in the native
Farewell chief
Hold on l cried. Don't be in such
hurry
She looked at me sidelong with smile.
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Mummicd Victims Of War;
NV Orleans Picayune.

From Tho NV Orleans Picayune.
Il South Arlt rican traveller says that On the
battle field Of Tarapaca, in the Andean desert,
the dead stn lying just as they fell in the
s;ngunaI.y conflict between the Chileans and
Paruyians, many years ago. There We're 1000
me-, uld ahout one thousand horses killed In
the ilsiit aud they were left unburied in the
h.,-i .,4 f,., ii. torouS ChleanS to escape from
the waterless desert, 1t never rains in Tara
paca AM tie has dried the corpses, and
the nitrate in the soil has preserved them, and
upol TIL plateau 5000 mummies lie in CHASTITY
confu, n With their broken swords and bayo-
nets all a. fresh-ioolling as on the day of that
memorable battle. There is no bird or beast
or insect in that terrible desolatton, and II
nobody iuterfcres with the relics they will -.
main the same for centuries.
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plete enforcement of church and state, has
at last given place to peace MeXlcos
nulse beats more normally than ever be-
Fore Tier energies, instead of finding vent
in rebellions. are now devoted to arts of
peace. Encouraged by this peace and by
M government, foreigners are investing
their capital and enterprise III railroads,
mines and manufactures. Steam and AM! cleo
tricity render the success of rebelIlonS at
most homeless. The scream OF the loco
Motive is breaking even the profound quiet
of the snow-crowned mountains. me bur bur
ros and cargadores, Nexico's, traditional
burden bearers. look in wonder as their
occupation vanshes. The electric, 1;rea. light in
the Grand plaza of this city SHINES on eY,
columns and sculptures OF the Old
Aztec temple, as well as on the heoary, ca
thedral and deserted in4uisittion building:
as if TO rebul>e the deeds OF darkness or
the past. just as marked is the transition
in religious matters The more Intelligent
liberals, disg listed with The Church, are
naturally making their transit into intidel-
ity. The common classes are more. and
more asserting their liberty of conscience.
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Franklin wrote the following letter to man
to whom he was lending money II send you
herewith Il bill for ten louis dors; L do not
pretend to give such a sum, L only lend 10
TO YOU When you shall return to your coun-
trv YOU cannot fail of getting into some kind
of business, that will in time enable you to
nav all your debts. In that case when you
meet with another honest man in similar
distress you must pay me by lending this
sum to him. enioining him to discharge the
debt by n like operation when he shall be aoiss
and shall meet with another opportunity.
hone 1t mayt then go through many hands,
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Mediaeval bigotry has to struggle with
modern liberalism in q constantly increas-
ing number OF towns The Bible and it's
religion are daily growing in favor. The
within the same walls the blood-staincd
sacrificial stone of the Aztec paganism
and two skeletons of victims of the in-
quisition."
The fame of the City of Mexico has gone
out to all the world. Nearly five hundred
years ago the story of its spendor the
glory of its temples, the civilization of its
people and their wealth, the pomp and
circumstance OF its rulers, the beauty of
it's climate, went across the seas and reached
the royal courts of Europe This story
brought Cortez and his Spanish army across
the ocean, and to possess this great jewel
for Spain were set some of the deepest
plots and enacted the bloodiest deeds in
all history. The story is not less famous
now. OF course, no one expects Monte
yuma and his tawny princes decked in daz-
cling jewels, attended by hosts of vassaIs
and plumed and feathered warriors to meet
him at the depot. Yet the City of Mexico
is there, the temples are less imposing,
the people are not less curious, the glorious
spnngtlme is just the same and the beauty
OF spreading plain and lake. circled by high
hills, deeply and darkly blued by u Won
drous atmosphere mary elorIsly clear, high
hills with camel backs outlined against the
sky, d silent, never-ending caravan led on by
tto hoary leaders with heads uplifted
l1SH ABOVE the others ana WhItenod by
eternal SHOWS still charm the eye and COM
pei our admiration.
There records and evidences within
the city in hieroglyphcs, images, affairs,
sacrlfcial stones, parchnents, picture writ
inss and deposed gods, which faithfully
speak the story of O. people once high end
mighty, conquered and crushed in their own
land.
noted carefully the relation of master
and peon, servant of debt, of Gauchipine
and creole, of me5tizo and lepero, Castihan
and Aztec and from the great object les
son ! bad studied | could only decide that
l had seen an American Egypt, great in
its ruins, yet glorious in its modern deyel-
opment.
| am especially indebted to my kind
friends who opened their home to me, "a
stranger in a strange land" I bear their
faces and good wishes in clear memory.
I found the officials of the Mexican National
railroad courteous and capable gentlemen
who spare pains 20 make the traveller
comfortable their excellent line The
trains, with the finest Pullman sleepers, are
speedy, punctua and in every way reliable.
Returning, / found some scenes which |
remembered well, but as a rule the route
is as delightfully."- pleasant the second time
as it is the first.
] babe goodby to Mexico resolving that
at some future time ! would revisit these
scenes and enjoy once more the rapture
of that beautiful valley, which is SURPRISING
i'll it's loneliness. *. a. II.
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POPOCATAPETL.
4 TOURIST TELLS OF THE GREAT
MEXICAN VOLCANO.
Political Professions, Lavandcras, Cabmen
and Mestizos Things That Attract a
Travellers Attention.

OPOCATAPETL is
the highest mountain
in Mexico. He lifts
snow-coyered top H.
500 feet above tide.
The companion OF
this volcanic giant is
Ixtaccihuatl, about
sixteen thousand feet
high. One naturally
compares them and
mentions them to-
gether. They are the
twp grandest objects
in the wall Of noun
tains surrounding the
beautiful valley of
Anahuac and they
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4 Dialect story.
William Henry Siviter in Puck.

81 wish to gracious" observed Constant
Reader, with some display of warmth, that
editors would quit printing these COMPOUNDED
dialect stories. Here's 1 can't make head
or tail of, and 1 doubt If anybody else cam
LET me see 1t, dear" cooed Mrs Reader.
"Oh it's of no use. If l can't make any
thing out of it, you don't suppose you can, do
you?'
Perhaps not; but I'd like to see It, all the
same"
He handed her the paper; and this Is whas
she read:
"roilet of fancy foulard. The corsags
crossed, and of guipure. Little sultane vest
held in barettes of velvet with bows. High
sleeves Of fouard. terminated in yolants OF
guipure Flat skirt, trimmed with high vo
liant of guipure, surmouhted with bows Of
at
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before it meets with knave to stop Its pro.
cress This is a trick of mine for doing
deal of good with little money. "-Humanttar-
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The people of The Dalles are putting
forth every effort to make this occasion
the 'grandest celebration of our Natal
Day ever attempted in the Inland EN-
pire, and they invite everybody to come
and join with them in making it grand
success.
One OF the leading orators of Portland
has been engaged to deliver an oration,
and all the best vocal and instrumental
music OF the city has been secured for
literary exercises and procession.
By arrangements with the u. p. r. r.
Co., travel to this celebration has been
placed at one fare for the round trip,
from Portland and intermediate points,
and from Heppner, Pendleton and inter
mediate points. Tickets will be sold.on
the I'd, Sd and 4th of July, good for the
return until the 9Th.
Free ferriage has been also provided at
The Dalles from Sunday noon the Sd,
until Tuesday noon the 5th, for all at
tending the celebration from north of
here.
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auction Parties.

Auction parties are something of a
novelty On entering the guest is pro
bags filed with beans, every bean TAX
ing to itself dollar value. The s1ots'
are carefully concealed from view, and
are being put in boxes and tied up in
varicolored tissue paper. 1t is not safe
to trust to bulky appearance, as often
the most promising parcel reveals an in
significant result Some of the pur-
chases are dainty trifies, many absurdi-
ties and jokes. Funny catalogues add
to the amusement of an auction party,
which is really simply another way to
bestow '.favors. Her Point of View in
New York Times.
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Brass in England in Chaueer's Time.
Y A metal resembling brass, but said to
have been superior in quality, was
known in England as "maslin" as early
as the time of Chaucer, and in the reign
of Henry VIII an act of parliament was
passed prohibiting. the export of brass
out of England. Whether the earlier
monumental brasses still to be found IN
our churches were made originally in
England is not absolutely certain, the
probability, according to some anti
quaries, being that they were of French
or Belgian workmanship. Chambers
Journal.
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a snake that swallowea a Man.

Large specimens of boa constructors
have been known to swallow men whole
The case is related by the traveller Giro
Mere of a criminal in the Philippine
islands who hid from justice IN cav
ern. His father, who alone knew of his
hiding place, went sometimes to see him
and to take him rice for food. One day
he found instead of his son an enormous
boa asleep. He killed it and. found his
sons body in the snakes stomach
Washington Star
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Notice.

All persons Indebted to the late
frm of Mr.. Farland and French will
usiease call at the old store, new Messrs.
Pease & Mays. where Mr.. French will be
in waiting that they may make i'm
counts.
s. FRENCH,
6-3-d&wIm For the company.