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LADY OF THE CLICKER.
"aily Bound, and Hedced Up Dignity ot
. the Woman Who Telegraphs.
It occurred to a citizen the other day
m approaching the fair telegrapher in
am uptown hotel that a woman in each a
place most often have her temper and
her fortitude taxed by thoughtless mem
tests of the opposite sex.
The young woman in question was
possessed of a personal makeup that
would attract attention in a crowd, yet
through all the rush of business and hur
ry of work she never once seemed con
scious of herself. Men came and went,
their messages were received, the words
picked off by the lead pencil measurer,
tiie charges announced, and her seat re
sumed without, as Francis Wilson has
it, her "moving a muscle or wincing a
wince."
To the inquirer after facts she turned,
and for the first time raised her eyelids,
that disclosed a pair of sharp, honest,
-Mae gray eyes, full of business, yet sag-
etave of a happy, laughing tempera
ment, if you only knew her outside her
eage."
Oh, no," she said, "we are too busy
for idlers, and always of necessity too
deeply interested in our work to allow
tm to pass the 'conversation lozenge.'
r mere are tnose who fancy we are
tare only to look pretfy and impress the
gentleman guest with the idea that he
has delayed for a whole week to send a
telegram of utmost importance."
"This is not the case, however, and
the man most likely to forget liimse'f
and bother us is not the fellow who
spends a quarter for an unnecessary tel
gram as an opener to conversation. We
see him, of course, occasionally, but his
business generally amounts to inquiry
as to tho location of the perfectly visible
hotel desk or of the nearest postofSce or
letter box. We make short work of
him, and in a discreet way can force the
. lalnsh on him that sets him on his gen
tlemanly feet again.
"Others there are, and thank goodness
they form the great majority that rules,
whose business is transacted promptly,
politely and with an evident sense of the
fact that they are dealing with a lady,
xnese persons it is a pleasure to serve.
lor there is no superfluous dialogue or
attempt at jesting, or suggestion of any
thing but the perfect gentleman.
"A Door gets loose at us once in a
while, to be sure, but we manage him
on the plan of 'the quiet answer that
turneth away wrath.' He's apt to be old
and gouty, and to find fault with us for
that his 'd'arter hasn't tellygraffed' him
since his arrival. On a suggestion to
Bnch a one that perhaps his worthy girl
at home has not been informed of his
topping place in the metropolis, he is
frequently awakened to his own sense of
-carelessness, and then rises the smile
that shows the good heart underneath,
and all is serene again.' - -
xes, we woric constantly, ana we
must work well, for oftentimes much
-depends on the correctness of our trans-
muuwon; but we have no cranky over-
aeer, we are well paid for' young wom
en, ana our trials are fewer and not so
- spirit rending aa those that fall to the
lot of the saleswoman." New York Her
ald. -
The Yosemite Valley.
For every hundred persons living west
of the Mississippi nver who have seen
St. Peter's at Rome hardly ten, I think
it may be safely said, have visited the
Yosemite. Two small hotels in the val
ley are ample for all who may at any
one time seek accommodations, and on
aa average two coaches a day during the
season will carry all who seek convey
ance to that place of grandeur. One
thing is certain, the foreigner "doing'
the United States seldom omits the
Yosemite; yet many an American tourist
"traveling in California leaves the coast
in ignorance of the wonders and beauties
of the famous region. On a beautiful
Sunday in May, out of sixty-five guests
at the Stoneman house over forty-five
were foreigners, most of them on a trip
around the world; and that proportion is
not unusual during the season. . To the
foreign tourist the Yosemite ranks with
Niagara, and from those who have seen
the wonders of nature on every continent
the verdict seems to be that the Yosemite
stands pre-eminent the greatest of all.
New England Magazine.
The Wandering Jew.
Calmet's "History of the Bible" has
this to say of the Wandering Jew: He
was the porter of. Pontius Pilate, and
was called Calaphilus. When the mob
was dragging Jesus to the judgment
hall Calaphilus struck him, saying: "Go
faster, Jesus! Go faster. Why dost
thou linger!" Jesus replied, "I am in
deed going; but thou shalt tarry till
come." Soon this man was converted
and took the name of Joseph. He is
supposed to live forever, but every 100
years he falls into a trance, upon awak
ening from which he finds himself at tho
same age as when the Saviour said these
words to him. The Wandering Jew is
grave and stern, is never seen to smile,
and perfectly remembers the death and
- resurrection of Christ. No place is his
home for more than a few hours, and
thus does he fulfill his title of "Wander
ing Jew." Detroit Free Press.
Canada and Kewfoundlusd.
When was the Dominion of Canada
constituted? Is not Newfoundland in it?
The Dominion was formed in 1867,
and is composed of the provinces of
Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince
Edward's Island, New Brunswick, Mani
toba, British Columbia, with certain
territories and arctic islands. New
foundland was invited to come in by the
act of confederation, but she holds aloof,
and remains an independent crown col
ony. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ,
Better Not Sigh.
A chemical analysis of the food coolied
by our grandmothers, which men sriyh
for once in a while, would show it 3
per cent, more dangerous to the stom
ach than food prepared in the modern
kitchen. As a matter of fact, American
women knew nothing of cookery up to
twenty -five years ago. Detroit Free
Press. '
NOTED BOOK THIEVES.
HISTORICAL
PERSONAGES WHO
UNIQUE VOLUMES.
STOLE
The Well Dressed and Intelligent Look
ing Class Which Librarians Fear A
Bishop, an Inspector General, a Pope
and a Noted Priest Were Thieves.
Book stealing is an art upon which
much ingenuity has been expended. One
never knows in what form it will next
break out. It is an incident by no mean?
uncommon in Booksellers' row for a
bibliopole to be offered a book which
had been stolen from his next door
neighbor. There is something more than
a tradition to the effect that a bookseller
has on occasion purchased a book taken
a minute or two previously from the
shelves outside his shop!
A favorite mode of stealing books from
public libraries is to procure a book, sit
down to read it and then wrap it np in
an overcoat, and after this to take up a
paper or magazine. The rest is easily
guessed. The public libraries suffer in
all sorts of ways, for here the accumu
lated wisdom of the thief finds plenty of
scope, some of the tribe have a mania
for old directories. Librarians complain
frequently of the clerical thief of ser
mons and theological literature.
Novels and "books of the bibliophile
(as the French call them) one can under
stand being stolen: but sermons and
theology! Women, more or less gen
erally more respectably dressed, are
often objects of suspicion with libra
rians; for the "receptivity of cloaks is
infinite, and the "feelings" of the culprit
must also be considered. As a general
rule, the thief is well dressed and edu
cated, and frequently well to do.
HISTORICAL THEFTS. j
Whatever may be the causes which
prompt a person to steal books there is
always this consolation he is in good
company. This balm may not be a very
healing one to the soul of the person
whose books are stolen, but it must be
consolatory to the thief, when repenting
in prison, to know that some great and
good men have been touched with the
same species of insanity. Hearne, in his
"Johannes Glastoniensis," more than
hints that Sir Thomas Bodley had a
weakness in this direction. . "If you
hold," he warns Sir Henry Saville, "any
books so deare as that yon would bee
loath to have him out of your sight, set
him aside," etc Moore, Bishop of Ely.
has likewise come nnder such a stigma.
The anecdote runs to this effect: A
gentleman calling on a friend who had a
very choice library found him unusually
busy in putting his best books out of
sight. "Upon asking his view in this he
was answered, "Don't you know the
Bishop of dines with me today?"
The very king of book stealers was
Libri, who, as inspector general of
French libraries under Louis Philippe,
had special facilities for helping himself
and whose known thefts have been
valued at 20,000. The most interesting
illustration of this man's depredations
was exposed in 1868, when Lord Ash
burnham issued a translation of the
Pentateuch from a Latin MS. which had
been purchased by the late Lord Ash
burnham from Libri, who had sold it
under the condition that it was not to
be published for twenty years. It had
been stolen in 1847 from the Lyons
library and the last clause of the agree
ment, therefore, could be easily under
stood. Libri evidently was not one of
those whom Jules Janin describes as
"people who don't think it thieving to
steal a book unless you sell it afterward."
. POPE AND PRIEST.
Innocent X, when still Mgr. Pam
philio, stole a book from Du Moustier.
who was himself a book thief, and ought
to have been en courant with the de
vices and designs of his own weaknesses.
It is refreshing to come across an ex
ample when the tables are so completely
turned; and if any thing would induce an
honest man to turn book thief it should
be the exhilarating fun of stealing from
another thiet. It is reported, however,
that Du Moustier recovered the book,
and kicked the Cardinal out of the
house. Catherine de Medici went in for
stealing . books by wholesale and bare
faced ; she seized the fine library of
Marshal Strozzi and promised to pay his
son for it in installments, but never a
farthing did he get.
Of another and equally extreme type
was the Spanish priest Don Vincento,
who sold books and then murdered the
purchasers to regain possession of his
coveted treasures. Like most of the
biblioklept tribe he came to grief at last.
The original edition (1482) of the "Furs
e ordinacions fetes per los gloriosos Keys
de Arago als regnicois del Regne de
Valencia," was offered for sale by auc
tion, and after a long and obstinate com
petition was knocked down to a book
seller named Paxtot.
A week afterward, Pax tot's shop was
burned down, and he was suffocated at
the same time. Suspicion was directed
toward Don Vincento, whose residence
w.is searched, and there at length was
discovered the incunabula above named.
The priest was arrested,' and at the
hearing he confessed not from contri
tion or the fear of torments in the
next world, but because it appeared that
the volume was not unique, as had been
supposed. He sobbed violently when he
was condemned to be strangled, and the
only defense he vouchsafed was, "Ah 1
your worship, my copy was not unique."
St. James Gazette.
Married Women Don't Work.
As to married women working there
is a bit of statistics that shows how few
married women do work for wages. Out
of -over 200 women who had received
training as professional nurses thirty
five afterward married, and only one of
these thirty-five ever- again worked at
her profession of nursing the sick for
pay. Boston Transcript
Those who say that our soldiers cost
as much as Germany's count the expense
of the pensioners with that of the regu
lar army. On the average there is about
one commissioned ofilcer to every twelve
enlisted men in the United States army.
Thronging tbrousii tlt j jud-rirs. whose aro they
the faces ! plu
Faint reveoleJ, yet -sure divined, the famous
ones of old? -"What,"
they smile, -'our names, our deeds, so
soon erase
Time upon hU tablet, where Ufa's glory lies en
rolled? ........ , ..
"Was it for mere fool's play, make believe and
; mumminjc - - - - -
So we battled it like men. not. boy like, sulked
and whined - '
Each of us heard clang God's "Coms!' and each
was coming; .'
Soldiers oil, to forward faoH, not it to lag
behind!
"How of the field's fortune? That concerned our
- Leader!
Led, we struciuour stroke, nor cared for doings
left and right;
Each na on his sole head, failer or eucceeder, -
Lay the blame or lit the praise; no care for cow
ard;, fight!" , .,
Then the cloud rift broadens, spanning earth
that's under. - .
Wild our world displays its worth, man's strife
and strife's success;
All the good and beauty; wonder crowning won
- der, - ' . .... .-
Till my heart and soul applaud perfection, noth
ing less. i Bobort Browning.
Cupid vs. Clothes.
When Elizabeth held the fort in Eng
land, and Sir Walter Raleigh used to go
abont with clothes on that if he had got
hard np he could have gone around to
bis uncle's and put them up for thou
sands of pounds, not to mention a cer
tain pair of shoes of his which were said
to be worth 6,000 crowns, then it be
came the fashion for a man who was in
love to neglect his apparel, as if he were
too much occupied to bother about such
trifles. . "
There was one mark in particular
his garters were not to be tied. So that
when an Elizabethan dude walked down
the Mall with these useful appendages
hanging on behind him it was equiva
lent to saying that his heart was gone.
Here we have Shakespeare in "As Yon
Like It" putting these words into the
month of fair Rosalind, "There is hone
of my -uncle's marks upon you; he
taught me bow to know a man in love.
Then your hose should be ungarted,
your bonnet nnbanded, your sleeves un
buttoned, your shoes untied, and every
thing about you denoting a careless des
olation." Clothier and Furnisher.
The Personal Pronoun In Conversation.
The inordinate employment of the
possessive case is a vulgar solecism, and
not used to excess by those of gentle
breeding. There are both men and wo
men who are forever talking about "my
carriage," "my house," etc., until they
disgust their hearers. One is apt to im
agine that such persons are the possessors
of newly acquired wealth and its appur
tenances, when this small, two lettered
word slips from their lips with unseem
ing frequency.
The pronoun "I" Bhonld not be too
often repeated, as it gives too personal
and egotistic a turn to conversation, and
the frequent recurrence of "I said so and
so," ana "I did so and so," reveals a nat
ure weighed down with a sense of its
own importance, and caring little about
what other people are doing or thinking.
Jenness-Miller Magazine.
People Who Eat Alone.
In all thoroughly civilized countries
the members of a family and their guests
partake of meals while collected around
a central board, but this is not so with
the majority or even a fraction of the
semi-civilized and barbarous nations.
The Mardivian islanders dine alone, re
tiring to the most secret parts of the'r
huts for the purpose of eating their food.
This custom probably arose among them
in an early period of their history, for
fear, perhaps, that another with equally
as sharp an appetite and more bodily
strength would deprive the feaster of
his meal. St. Louis Republic.
Declaration of War Not Necessary.
Wars are often engaged in without
any set declaration. This is the case in
Europe, and has been so here. The Unit
ed States made a prononciamentoof this
sort when it entered into the contest
with Great Britain in 1813, but no such
formality was observed by us in the con
test with Mexico or in the civil struggle
of 1861-5. In each case the government
recognized that a state of war existed
and acted accordingly. St. Louis Globe
Democrat. Canine Intelligence.
One of the intelligent dogs lives in Bar
Harbor, Me. He was carrying a paper
the other day when several canine com
panions began to bother him. " He put
the paper down on the ground, ani when
a dog attempted to touch it sprang on
him and gave him a good shaking. These
tactics he repeated several times, till at
last he could not get any dog to touch
the paper, and then he craickly picked it
np and walked away. Kennebec Jour
nal. A "Hello!" Raise.
One telephone was put in at a small
town in Kansas, and the owner of a
house to rent immediately raised the
price $5 per month. Then he went over
and called up a 6awmill half a mile
away, and burst a blood vessel trying to
keep up a conversation over the wire.
Detroit Free Press.
A Mournful Accompaniment.
Best Man (at churcb wedding) Gee
whittaker! You addle-pated old apology 1
What in the creation are you tolling the
beU for?
New Sexton Sure, didn't' Oi hear
th' young leddy say wid er own lips
that she'd be married wid a ring? New
York Weekly.
A Sew Plate Glass Polisher.
Thomas Todd, of Eutler, Pa., has in
vented a method of fire polishing plats
glass whereby the grinding and polish
ing of one side of the sheet is saved, and
the fire polished surface is said to be of
brighter polish than is obtainable by
artificial polishing. rNew York Journal.
A Touching AppeaL '
"Were you touched at the minister's
eloquence last night?" inquired Weeks.
"Yes," returned Wentman gloomily,
for $10." American Grocer.
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO.
Abstracters,
Heal Estate and
Insurance Agents.
Abstracts of, and Information Concern-
ing Land Titles on Short Notice.
Land for Sale and Houses to Rent.
Parties Looking for Homes in
COUNTRY OR CITY,
OR IN SEARCH OF
Bugiqe Location?,
Should Call on or Write tois.
Agents for a Full Line of
Leaiii Fire Insurance Companies,
And Will Write Insurance for
on all
nESIEABLE RISKS.
Correspondence Solicited. All Letters
Promptly Answered. Call on or
Address,
J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO.
Opera House Block, The Dalles, Or,
JAMES WHITE,
Has Opened a
Lunoli Counter,
In Connection With his Fruit Stand
and Will Serve
Hot Coffee, Ham Sandwich, Pigs' Feet,
and' Fresh Oysters.
Convenient to the Passenger
Depot.
On Second St., near corner of Madison,
Also a
Branch Bakery, California
Orange Cider, and the
Best Apple Cider.
If you want a good lunch, give me a call
Open all Night
C. N. THORXBURY,
Late Rec. U. S. Land Office.
T. A. Hl-DSON.
Notary Public.
THORHBURY & HUDSQJI.
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pilings, Contests,
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Promptly Attended to.
We have ordered Blanks for Filings
Entries and the purchase of Railroad
Lands under the recent Forfeiture Act
which we will have, and advise the nub-
lie at the earliest date when such entries
can be made. Look for advertisement
in this paper.
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