Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1875 — The Adventure of Two Oregon Ladles. [ARTICLE]

The Adventure of Two Oregon Ladles.

The Portland Oregonian tells the following: Yesterday Mrs. M. and Miss C., a couple of well-known ladies of Eakuna, went out into the woods back of town to gather mosses and leaves for ornamental work. Busily intent upon the objects of search, they paid little heed to the route they traveled, until the approach of night warned them erf the necessity of returning. Looking about, they failed to And the path by which they came and realized that they were lost. Every step added to their bewilderment, and as darkness soon set in their situation became painfully unpleasant. Hearing the movements of some animal in the brush near them, they ascended an alder tree with a celerity that would astonish the average female. The animal, whatever it was, remained in the vicinity some time and the ladies remained in the tree, where, with pen* knives drawn, they determined to make it warm for any foe that might attack them. About midnight they heard the welcome shout of Dick Sorter, the veteran hunter, who was at the head of a party in search of them. A few miqptes more and Dick, with his lantern, was at the tree. The thankfulness of the ladies and the joy of their friends can be imagined better than described. This is the kind of weather that makes the dashing young man wish that instead of spending a dollar and a half for that massive diamond-pin last summer he had judiciously invested it in a pair of winter drawers. —Norwich Bulletin. * Ore evening spent at home in study is more profitable than ten lounging around country taverns.

heretofore been prescribed for him. Havdrank it he laid down with his left side on the pillow, as if with sudden exhaustion, breathing heavily, but uttering no words, and in a few minutes died without a struggle.”