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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21

be obliged to Use in my difficulty with
my much-respected friend, Gen. Jack
SON.
Before he had concluded his uncon-
scious mimicry of Benton's presenta-
ton speech he recognized the fact that
he had caught the solemn pomp of that
statesman's carefully-modulated peri
DDS. The incOngruity of the idea grew
upon him, and as he turned one of the
pistols over and over in his hand he
almost smiled at the utter lack of log
zeal sequence in his own mental
processes. simultaneously he seemed
to have reached a conclusion, for he
replaced the pistols and locked the case.
NO" he said, 81 will not do it. He is
a good boy and 1t is not his fault nor
hers either. She is as good n woman as
ever lived, and l am n fool"
He spoke now with the d~ecisiveness
lie had shown at Horseshoe Bend,
where, us everyone knows, Gen. Jack
o had called him the bravest man in
the army. lie was almost cheerful as
he rose and left the house, walking
towards the bluffs, as was his morning
habit, with the light, swinging stem he
had learned on the trail with the Che
r0kee friends of his boyhood. He did
not return until IL o'clock, and goipg
straight TO his office he found John
Endicott, his secretary, waiting for him
with Il formidable bundle of papers.
use your own Judgment, my boy. on
all that will not keep until tomorrow.
| am busy to-day with work that an
moi wait"
lie passed into his inner rooms Ms no
said this, and began sorting the papers
III his private p~igeonhO.es. Endicott
could hear him tearing them. but if he
wondered he asked no questions, and
the Governor kept up his work long
after his usual dinner hour. When he
went home he found what he had OK.
pected. His wife had gone TO her
mother, and he never saw her again.
1t Is said he wrote her a most affec.
Tomato letter, but il he did. nothing he
said in 1t changed the course of his life
or hers. Nonsense. His heart did moi
break said my grandmother. WHY.
all the world heard Of him at San in.
clnto' A brave mans heart never
breaks while he has work to do"
rerhaps she was right. At any rate,
there was NO tremor in the Governors
voice as he spoke to her that morning
riding with his horses head turned to.
ward the old Cherokee trail that led
across the Mississippi through Arkan.
sas to the Indian Territory.
Good morning, Mrs. Tupton." he
said as he bowed to my grandmother
1t is a beautiful day, and your rose.
are almost beautiful enough to be
worthy Of yOu."-Utlca Globe.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21
THE OLD LOCKE MILL.
out of King solomon's cave 300 feet

out of King Solomon's cave 300 feet
the level of the valley.
1t comes from the mountain side n
veritable torrent, foaming, kissing,
SETTLING, carrying huge powders be-
fore 1t and cutting a channel through
the everlasting rocks in its mad rush
to the valley below. This torrent, ac-
cording to the estimate of mechanical
engineers, would furnish 100 horse
power, and although old man Locke
harnessed only a part of the turbulent
stream to his wheels he secured suffi-
cient power to operate the machinery
Tor many years. At his death a few
years prior to the war John G. Newly
bought the plant and he owned 1t when
the, war broke out. He furnished the
Confederacy with thousands Of bushels
OF meal and hundreds of barrels of -four
ground by these old mills. and when
the Federal army took possession Of
the Gap the same burrs made bread.
stun for Uncle Sans men. When the
Oonfederates began storming the Gan
prior to the Federal forces evacuating
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21
Origin of "Blue Blood"

The origin of the term 'blue bnl
Is most suggestive. After the w
MOors were driven out of SPAN \
aristocracy of Spain was held ton'
sist of those who traced their lla'
back to the time before the Mof'
conquest. These people were WIN
than those who had been mixed y
Moorish blood. The veins upon y
white hands We're blue, while the y
of the masses, contaminated U !
Moorish infusion, showed black y
their hands and faces. So the w
Spaniards of the old race came %
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21

Gen. George Morgan ordered the d
to be fired, as he did not wish thenI
remain in operation and give sucmI
the Confederacy. Accordingly aq1
of men was detailed to do the Vd
They had just set fire to the fOuI
mill when the Confederate bat1l
from the adjacent mountains Gsl
fire on the Federal works. The SD
lost no time in getting under cove, .
as the wind blew the flames away IN
the corn mill it was saved. 1t hST
been in operation for several Yeas y
may never grind again.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21
THE GOVERNORS
TRAGEDY.
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attraction between him and Virginia
who did not know her mother expected
it to be a match. But Virginia, before
any one knew of her engagement to the
Governor, had begun to hold Endicott
at arms length, and after the climax
there vas never the slightest scandal
connecting her name with his.
She was not more than 20 at the time
of her marriage. Six weeks later, when
she stood before the fireplace of her
sitting-room as the Governor entered
at II O'Clock at night. she wore the
muslin whose contrasting wilderness
had so heightened her brunette beauty
on the day after her marriage. The
Governor had just come from a con-
ference of his political friends and was
flushed and hopeful. His wife did not
as he entered the ROOM. Her
face was half averted when, with his
usual impressive gallantry, he took off
his hat at the door and crossed the
room to kiss her hand. He had taken it
in his and his lips had almost touched
it when she hastily-almost violently
withdrew 1t. Slipping past him, she
stood in the center of the room facing
him as he turned, not understanding
her at all and thinking that she had
begun to develop an unaccustomed
p!a%yfulness.
She did not leave him long in error.
DO not toucn me" she said in a voice
which, though it tremb,ed with excite
ment, showed the decisiveness of long
reconciliation. 'Do not touch me. l
cannot bear it,"
The Governor stood motion!ess, with
the puzzled look of one whose intellect
Is overcome. She might have pitied
him and receded had she been capable
either of seeing or understanding, but
she had become a mere automaton,
governed by long-suppressed emotion.
Il cannot bear it" she repeated. IL
do not love you. | have never loved
you. | have tried to learn. | cannot.
| have tried to become IA true and duti-
full wife to you. | cannot. | have tried
to forget the only man l ever loved.
cannot. There must be an end of it all.
and it must come nOw!'
"Nirginia!' said the Governor, help
lessly. "Virginia-"
do not stop mew she went on, with
increasing rapidity. Il am rot insane,
though am near it. | am a good won
an, sir. At least, | have nothing with
which to reproach myself, except the
shame of having allowed them to make
you believe | love you. 1t was all my
mothers fault and yours. Why did
you follow me? Why did she force me
on you, when did not love you, when
| never can love you; when l have
ceased to wish to love you?"
She paused a moment for breath. The
Governor did not move. He had leaned
his elbow on the mantel, and now, with
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21

his hand supporting his chin, he stood
looking at her blankly.
II will not be stopped" she said.
catching her breath with a sob. 81 will
tell you everything, everything, the
whole miserable truth that is killing
ne. l love John Endicott. | have never
loved anyone else. l never will. He
does not know 1t, and he never can
know II, unless you tell him. Now you
know what Il wretch l am, and you
know what you have done to make me
so.'
AS she stopped she drew herself I'm
and threw back her long black hair.
which had escaped from her comb au.i
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21

clare that their blood was 4
while that of the common peVT r,.I
black. The phrase passed w.
where it had no such slgn ,b,]
was, in fact, quite arbitrary aIu
it came to England and Ameri'"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21
The Reason,

Bessie-ls your friend Lonchoir 90.
Ing out to play football?
Barbara-What made you think sog
why, he's headed that way."-Yonk.
ers Statesman.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21

The only way to success ,ons'
with q woman is to keep SN
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21

People around a drug SOY ss5A
know something about
They never use them.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21
Revival of old JewelrJ'

The old style jewelry Is CUM s.ns1
fashion again. Women are sod
the old curio shops, trying w.
beautiful old canoes like 'uV ..,Y
by their mothers and gra Ia
years ago. The old-fashloneu N
is rarely changed, the quainu
and twisted gold being con, M,vd
tremely beautiful, The OLD %
and rings are especially soosD, :, ,
and bring remarkable pr''"
found. .
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Cannibalism has been regarded as the
lowest depths of degeneracy, but obser.
vations made by f. Nordlinger prove
that in animal life conditions are exist.
ing which are worse than cannibalism.
This zoologist relates that he at one
time, when digging in his garden, hap
pened to cut in two large cricket, which
he thought had been killed by the acct
dent Looking ten minutes afterward
at the supposedly dead cricket, he was
very much surprised when he saw the
forward end of the cricket busy eating
up the rear end. 1t takes pretty good
nerve to do that, but we cannot Judge
OF the sensations of pain in animals of
low order by our own sensations and
feelings. Interested by what he had
seen, Mr. Nordlinger placed the two
halves Of the cricket in a clot of earth
and some roots, and he actually found
that the cricket not only got entirely
well and grew a new end, but, Judging
from the disappearance of every vestige
OF the other part, he concluded that the
cricket had disposed of that part of its
former anatomy by eating it up Phil
adelphia Record
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20
Life In a Lighthouse.

Lieutenant John M. Ellicott, u. S. N,
contributes to ST. Nicholas an article
about lighthouses which he calls "The
Lights That Guide In the Night" Lieu
tenant Ellicott says: One seldom thinks.
when he watches the brightly cheering
and safely guiding light of lighthouse,
what ceaseless watching and patient
heroism it takes to keep the light burn
ing year III and year out through all
weathers. Generally there is for each
light only a keeper with two assistants
and often the keeper is assisted only by
his wife, sons or daughters Even the
most comfortably situated lighthouses
are generally on lonely headlands, with
no human dwelling near.
Others are on outlying rocks or islands
swept by the sea and wholly cut off
from the land except in fair weather.
There are even few which, built upon
sunken reefs, seem to rise from the very
bed OF the ocean and against which
storm driven seas break with shocks
which shake them to their foundations.
Such are the Eddystone lighthouse, off
the coast of England at the entrance to
the English channel, and our own
Minot's Ledge light, near the entrance
to Boston harbor These two are the
most isolated and exposed lighthouses
III the world. They We're built at the
utmost peril to human life. Each was
swept away by storms after completion
and had to be rebuilt,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20
Mountain Mahogany.

One OF the most remarkable products
OF Nevada is a species of wood known
as mountain mahogany, which, when
dry, is as hard as lockwood, very fine
grained, of rich red color, and in
weight very heavy. IL has been used for
boxes for shafting. and in some in
stances for slides and dies in quartz bat
teries. 1t burns with a blaze as long
lasting as ordinary wood, and it is then
found, almost unchanged in form, con-
verified to charcoal that lasts twice as
long as ordinary wood, giving an in
tense heat, greater than coal gives. An
other notable species of wood, having
extraordinary durability, is said to be
the quebarcho wood of Argentina. Posts
that have been in the ground for $50
years in soil alternately sodden by trop-
ical rains or parched by intense heat
are found to be in sound condition.
New York Commercial.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

"My boy My boy! Do you not know
your motherY" Large tears began I,
roll down his pale face as be tremble,
In every nerve. IL was strange, sa,
scene; his snowy hair showing In con
trast to his young face. Mrs. Blanch
ard ran up to him and said; "Deal
Dick, Annie and Mira have come I,
see you; shall they come in?n
YES, my angel mother" he said
''Are we in Heaven and has jenny
come too?r
They thought best to humor him and
said; mot yet, Dick, but your father
has come, and they have found the
man that killed Black, SO your name is
cleared my dear boy"
And then the Captain came in saying,
My son, do you want to see me-"
oh. yes father, very much, but my
head aches 50.
When Mira and Annie came in there
seemed to be light Of reason dart
through his brain. He kissed them
aud said 81 have longed TO see you my
sweet sisters; now we will never be
separated again.
The keeper said the best thing he
knew of was to take him TO California.
A change might help him if done right
away. He had had but one violent fit
since he come there,
Uncle Bill said he had been wanting
to go on business for sometime and
they would go on before and be ready
for them when they came. They
selected little place in southern Cal
liornia called Dover and soon the fam
ily all arrived there safe, with Dick.
"A band OF Gypslcs were encamped near
by and among them was II beautiful
child about two years old that took
Dicks fancy. He would play with it
for hours ab n time and seemed lonely
without IL. The Gypsies declared that
the Indians had killed its father and
mother and they had taken care of it
ever since. He improved slowly but
surely until pronounced well by the
best authority, mentally as we'll as
but he was still subject To
by spells, when he would
mourn for his little bride as he called
ler. Now we will leave him for
while and see if it is really true that
Jenny is with the angels.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20
CURRENT MISCELLANY.

The Gentleman's Magazine, in an
article on the cage Of Genius. 4" tend,
to disprove the assertion that brain
power is incompatible with health
Once we were told that if we wished "a
become octogenarians we must lay aside
ambition. We must be careful i'm our
diet and temperate in our wishes. We
must wait upon our bodies and as much
as possible keep the mind out of sight
In order to disprove that counsel we
have only to turn from empty words to
solid fact
First, TO take the great men celebrat-
ed in war and conquest, since theirs
also is a species of genius, is to find the
list headed with Xenophon, Dumouriez
and Wellington at SO, "a and SO. Thence
it continues to Charlemagne at II. From
him the numbers decline, though not
hastily, to Napoleon at 81 and, lowest
Of all, Alexander the Great at 32.
Nearly go per cent Of warriors chosen
at random reached the Biblical standard
of threescore and ten.
Then, beginning with the great names
OF statecraft, there are Franklin and
Talleyrand, both at "a, Palmerston at
81 and Washington at 81, with the list
keeping well up over the fifties and
at the end slowly falling to AZ. This is
imposing, especially if we add Glad
stone and Bismarck, both well over
their eightieth year.
Science aud philosophy begin with
Humboldt at 80 and furnish an impos-
ing list of men whose brains were
worked to the fullest extent and of
whom no less than 63 per cent complet-
ed their 20 years.
In short, almost one-half the greatest
geniuses the world has yet seen have
attained the age of 70 years. Let no one
DO deferred from becoming genius by
the fear of early death
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

A inrinlinn.

Having recently recovered from al
attack Of typhoid fever, which caused
the loss of her hulr, young woman o.
this city is obliged to wear wig. In {
moment of frolic she took it off ant
! hung il on the chandelier.
Take it off the gas jet, quickl" ex.
claimed her husband.
"Why?"
Ii may make you light headed"
She gazed at him in deep admiration
and said:
That's just splendid You are ever
and ever so clever! I'm going to re-
member that and tell it to mother when
she comes. -
When the visit occurred, she waited
until there was lull in the converse
ton, and with great delibeIation hung
the wig on the chandelier as before.
Then she coughed until she had attract
ed her mother attention.
what made you do that?" was the
natural inquiry.
"Ohr' exclaimed the daughter.
"How very reckless of me- | shouldn {
think of doing such thing"
why notY' inquired her husband,
coming to her rescue
Because-era-th is to say, for
the reason that it may make me dizzy"
She never made reference to the calm
fortitude with which her mother met
the sally, but she did have something
very caustic to say about the egotism of
a man who laughs immoderately over
his own attempts at humor. Washing
ton Star.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

among them Paul. He was carried
home To his family In a sad condition
He had been hurt inwardly, the doctor
said and IL was doubtful il he could
live long. He sent for his lawyer anC
decided his property to his wife anc
then said he wanted To see her alone
They all went out, even to his poor ole
mother, who was nearly wild with grief
and left the two alone. ''Dear Jenny
! know | cannot live and / must have
your forgiveness before die"
II have nothing to forgive, my hus-
band. You have always been the best
Of husbands To me, but you may get
better, Paul, what makes you SO dis
couragcd.r
1.-The doctor says | cannot, besides
| have feeling within that tells me to
hurry. Dear Jenny, have confes-
sion to make that will make you hate
me and | dread to tell you. Will you
forgive me? DO, dear one, for the sake
Of our boy"
es, Paul, anything you wish"
"First tell me if you had come to
love me little?"
why yes, Paul, "A great deal; how
could | help it when you were always
so good?n
II am growing weaker and cannot
last long, SO | must tell you that wrote
to Dick and told him that you was dead
and that is the reason he did not come
after you. | even had your death put
In paper and sent to him TO complete
my work. | wrote to the postmaster
mt Denver and told him if he would
write to you that Dick was going to be
married, | would send him check for
one thousand dollars, which you know
he did"
Jenny sat like one dumb. She could
not move muscle Dick not married
and she belonging To another. oh,
madness. She could not bear it. "Oh,
PAUL How could you.'
Dear Jenny, my love for you is my
only excuse. know you will hate me
but have one request To make of you:
do not tell my dear old mother, and it
is now my wish that you find Dick and
tell him the truth. After ii decent
length OF time has expired, marry him,
and forgive and forget your erring
'aul, whose chief fault was, he loved
you too much. | am going, call
mother"
Jenny FASTENED to do so and in a very
ew minutes he breathed his last. So |
hey were alone in the wide world with |
10 kind and loving Paul to lean on.
With all his faults he had been true to /
hem and how could they do less than
mourn.
Six months has passed away. Jenny
las written to Denver TO Dick but no
Inswer came. She felt as if she must
ind him and set herself right, SO tax
NJ her boy with her she started on her
uest.
continued Meet Week.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20
A Queer Egg Story.

An ostrich egg with romantic his
tory is the curiosity owned by Miss
Marie Lopez Of 40 South Fortieth
street. The egg was presented to Miss
Lopez by Joseph Pulsiver, to whom it
was sent by his brother, who is super
! intendent of an ostrich farm in South
Africa. Accompanying the egg was the
following letter from the sender: II
send the ostrich egg and know your
longing for peculiar curiosities will re-
ceive a boom when you learn its his
tory We had man on the farm named
Carr, who was noted for his skill In
breeding and rdisiL ostriches. He had
raised the mother Of the egg send, and
She had been one of his greatest pets. This
was thought strange, as she was known
TO be II savage bird and would allow
no one but Carr to 90 near her. Breed.
ing time came, and the ostrich was soon
watching over setting of eggs. Our
farm matches artificially, the eggs being
removed from the mother and placed i'm
an incubator. Carr was the one selected
10 secure the eggs, ON account of his
great command over the bird He enter
ed the pen and began picking up the
eggs In an instant the treacherous pet
became furious and started to strike
him with her powerful feet We had TO
shoot the mother before we could get
her away and then found we were too
late, Cars skull having been battered
in. In the struggle all the eggs were
broken, with the one exception, which |
/ send to you. philadelphia Record.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

Mr.. w. lie @. Beard writes in st.
Nicholas of pet eagle named Moses.
which he caught in the Arizona desert.
Mr. Beard says: Moses had a language
OF his own, which, by the constant prac.
tice he gave us, we soon learned TO un.
derstand. 1t consisted Of series of cries,
all harsh and nerve rasping, but perfectly
distinct. each one expressing different
emotion. Thus rage, entreaty, excite
inent and pleasure were each easily dis
tinguished by those who knew him well.
His one syllable note of greeting was
more explosive and perhaps shade less
disagreeable than the rest, and he had
also n low, grooming sort of murmur.
but this he used only in soliloquy, so IN
us II expressed only the fact that Moses
was talking over things with himself
The BANNER and the Detroit Weekly
one year 81 35
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20
he Michigan and Gladstone

y. We SELL direct from factory To
Rers, saving them the agents profit.
/ ink what this means.
I. We GUARANTEE all our wheel,
L two years.
Il. We USE no castings on blazed
ping in our frame construction
!. We HAVE been in the business
years.
We SEND catalogue upon receipt
postal.
/. We ARE
| The James Cycle Mfg. Co.
White Cloud. Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

There IL III New York city a little
German barber shop the proprietor OF
which has a grievance against the Irish
race that will not be wiped out for
some time. One evening in his hearty
German way he welcomed a customer.
a bury son of Ireland, with an enor-
nous shock of hair, who roughly cried:
81 want hair cut. Do yez moind?p
Yah, Won hair cut init der head?,
fls, that's IL, wan hair cut" And
with ayawn the Celtic gentleman threw
himself in the chair.
While the barber was preparing his
scissors the Irishman nodded few
times and i'll "a short while had appar-
emily dropped into doze. The barber
went industriously to work. and the
locks fell with every clip of the scissors.
Meanwhile the Irishman slept on. At
last the hair was cut and brushed, and
the barber EXCHANGES:
Ach. dat is goot You looks joost
like Won gentleman.
With start the man of Ireland awoke
and gave a glance in the mirror.
Say, Germany, did Oh ask yez to
cut my hairf''
"Yah, dots vot do. /"
Whats that? Did Oh say Oh wanted
my hair cut? Did Oi?'
Yah, yah! Dots right.
With rush the Irishman grabbed him
by the collar
Look here, Germany. Oh said Oh
wanted hair cut. That's one hair-do
yez hear?-the long wan that was hang
in in front For what do veg want TO
be cuttin all of thin? OH have the
law on yez at once fer that" And with
a wrathful countenance he slapped on
his hat and left the place before the as
barber could recover from his
fright
When the rollicking Irish wit turned
The corner, he was heard to remark.
Faith, that's chape way to git a
hair cut. "-Harper's Round Table.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-20

he People. of the Pcopfc, md
by the People.