A SMALL WISH.
If I might do one deed of good.
One little deed before I die.
Or think one noble thought, that should
Hereafter not forgotten lie,
I would not murmur, though I must
Be lost in death's unnumbered dust.
The filmy wing that wafts the seed
Upon the careless wind to earth.
Of its short life has only need
To And I he germ fit place for birth:
For one swift moment of delight
It whirls, then withers out of sight.
F. W. Bourdillon.
BILL KINN Y, OF DRY FORK
Bill Kinny, of Dry Fork, killed a prom
inent man of the community, and the
authorities, after some 'little medita
tion, decided that he onght to be arrest
- ed. ; But Bill objected, and vhen three
deputy sheriffs called on him he laid a
"Winchester rifle across one corner of his
nomestead, killed one of the deputies
and so painfully wounded the other two
that they strolled back to the Shady
Grove court house. Several days later,
while Bill was sitting in front of his
door, Mark Townsend, the sheriff in
chief, walked up to the fence and lazily
placed his arms on the top rail. Bill
reached back and took up his rifle.
KJood. mornin', BilL"
"Hi, Mark."
"Had a good bit of frost last night."
"Yas, ruther. Which wav you trav
lin Markr
Oh, no way in particular. 1w.ed
,tyou mout be lonesome, an' I thought Td
drup over and talk with you a while.
Don't make no difference how lively a
feller is he's apt to get lonesome once in
a while, 'specially this time of the year."
"I reckon that's true," Bill replied.
"Some fellers come out here the other"
day, and one of them got so lonesome
that he just natchully had to lay down."
"So I hearn," said the sheriff. "By
the way," he added, "them fellers . that
yon speak about wanted, you to go to
Shady Grove with them, didn't they?"
"Yas, they lowed that a jedge down
thar wanted to 'make my acquaint
ance." "You don't say so!" exclaimed the
sheriff. "W'y, the jedge is a mighty big
man, an' Td think you'd like to meet
him. Bill."
"I would, but you see I ain't in so
ciety this year."
"'. ."Sorter retired, air you?" '
'Yas, thought I was a-gettiu' a leetle
too old fur the bright foolishness an' yal
ler trimming of this here life." i
"Yes, that mout be," the sheriff "re
plied. "A feller does withdraw might
ily as he gets along in age; but, say, the
jedge is a friend of mine an I waht you
to meet him."
t" "No. I'm obleeged to you. I never
hankered after these here fellers that
pride themselves on their book larnin'."
"I don't exactly crave them," the
sheriff rejoined, "walloping" his tobacco
about in his mouth, "but still I think
we ought to meet them once in a while.
But say. Bill, there's a man down at
Shady Grove that I do want you to
eet."
"Who is he?"
"Sam Powers."
"He's the jailor, ain't he?"
"Yes, an the best one you ever seen."
"So they say," Bill replied, fondling
ais rifle. "In fact, them fellers that
was here the other day wanted me to
meet him."
"So I hearn, said the sheriff; "but 1
''lowed that mebby they didn't extend
the invertauon in a soft and gentle
enough way.
"Oh, I didn't have no fault to find with
the invertation. I jest didn't wanter go
an' sorter pulled back a little, an' then
one of them laTu down an' the other two
limped might'ly."
"So I hearia" said the sheriff. "Still
X thought there mout be a easier an'
smoother way of puttin' the invertation.
Gentleness always pays. You can some
times lead a man with a string of beads
when you couldn't drive mm with a
aoop pole. You recollec old Wash
Bowles, that was once the sheriff of this
county, don't you?"
"Mighty well."
"Ah, hat Well, that old feller had
store gentleness and consideration for
the feelins of other folks than any man
I ever seen. One time he had to hang
a feller named Brice, an' Brice sorter
kicked against it, bein' a feller that was
hard to please anyhow, bo Wash, in that
soft way of hisn, stepped up to put on
the rope, an says, .'Brice, youTl please
excuse me, but 1 11 not detain you but
moment.' So I thought that if I'd come
here today with strong consideration an'
smooth gentleness you mout accept the
jailer s invertation to come an' spend
While with him."
"No, I'm obleeged to you. I don't
care about goin' today. I've got to go
ver the ridge an' whip a feller tomor
rer, an' if I don't do it I'm afeered he
mout be disappointed. Well, now
Mark," he added, "ef you ain't got no
further bus ness with me I reckon you d
better be shovin' along." ' " ' "
"But I have got some further busi
stess with you, Bill. I want you to go
with me an' see the jailer."
"Wall, I ain't goin'."
"I lowed you would, Bill."
. "You don't say so."
"Yas, an' I want you to go with me.
"How many men did you. bring with
.you?"
"None at all, but you air a-goin'."
"Mebbe; after all these here cartridges
im shot off."
"No, I thought you would go with
me without having to waste any of the
' ' cartridges. You know ' the price of
brass an' powder hav rix mighty of late.
"Oh, now here, Mark, i don t care
stothin' for expenses. I don't mind
shootin' a few balls into a feller that
wants to put me in jail and afterward
hang me."
"I am glad you ain't stingy, Bill.
Some of the boys over at the store said
' that you was mighty economical, but
. I'm glad to see you ain't. It hurts
man mightily, you know, to have it
aorated around that he is close."
t "I know that, Mark, and I'm alius
trvin' hard to keep that charge from
iiein' flung agin my reputation." . .
Tin tdeased to know you think so
much of yo'self; but say, I told the boys
over at Shady Grove that you would
come back with me, an' I wish you
would."
"I'd like to accommodate you, Mark,
but I don't feel like strollin' today."
"Sorry to hear that, for I told the boys
that I'd have you in jail by 12 o'clock
today." . '
"I wish you hadn't told them, Mark,
an' you oughtenter done it, fur you
didn't know how busy I mout be."
"Yas, mebbe I done wrong," said the
sheriff, "but I didn't know after all that
you couldn't fling aside your business
and come along with me. The boys air
all expectin you;"
"Yas, the boys up the river expected
Gineral Jackson once, but he didn't
come." ,
"So I hearn," said the sheriff; "an' you
air not comin' with me?"
"That's what I ain't."
"I'll bet you fifteen dollars. Bill, that
you do."
'Til take that bet, but in the mean
time if you don' take yo' arms offen that
fence Til drop you right in yo' tracks."
"That's the way I like to hear a man
talk, Bill., Say, last night the jailer and
his two sons went 'possum huntin'. "They
called up the dogs and they have got
some of the finest hounds you ever saw
and here they came with brightness in
their eyes an' deep music in their voices.
You ought to have heard them go 'ounk,
ounk, ounk. Well, they went out. an'
about midnight they came back with
two of the biggest and fattest 'possums
you ever saw. Well, they dressed them
right thar an' then, an' put them out on
the top of the house so the frost could
fall on them, an' this marnun' they took
them down an' began to bake them along
with some sweet potatoes. Then the
jailer's son he says, says he, 'Pop, we
ain't got no regular wildcat licker to go
with these here possums. So the old
man, havin a mignty eye lor art, gave a
jug to the young feller an' told him to
go up in the mountains.
"The young feller went, but he couldn't
find no licker, an' at last he seen a ole
feller drivin' a wagin, an' when he asked
the ole feller if he could git any licker
he swore that be didn't know nothin'
about it; 'but,' says he, 'if you will take
jug up the hillside an' put a dollar un
der it I don't know what mout happen.
but when you come back I don't be' 3ve
the dollar will be there.' Wall, he went
up on the mountain side an' put a dollar
under a jug an' went away, but bless yo'
life when he came back the dollar was
gone, but the jug was filled with the
best licker that had passed its teens.
An so at dinner today they are goin' to
have them possums an' sweet potatoes
an' that old licker that's got a bead on it
like a dewdrop; an' say, the jailer says
that you may share the feast."
'Look here, Mark, you ain t trym' to
trifle with my feelin's, air you?"
'No, Im tellin' the Lord's truth; an'
say, that ain t all. The Perdue boys
caught a big bear down in the bottoms,
an' after dinner they air goin' to set the
dogs on him in the jail yard right in 1
full view of yo' cell. Think of that."
'Look here, Mark, I am about con
verted, an 111 go with you if youll let
me take my rifle along."
'No, can't do that, Bill, an' besides
IH have ' to handcuff you. Possum,
sweet potatoes, licker with a bead on it
like a dewdrop an' a bear fight in full
view of yo' cell."
"Mark," said Bill, as he put down his
rifle, "fetch on yo' handcuffs. Blamed
if I ain't with you." Opie P. Bead in
New York World.
One Kind of Teaching.
A good story is told by Mr. Montagu
Williams concerning an argument that
took place as to whether or not a certain
boy of very tender years was old enough
to be sworn as a witness. : At the sug
gestion of one of the counsel engaged
in the case he was interrogated by the
judge-, when the following colloquy took
place:
"Now, my little man," said the judge.
"do you know what will become of you
if you tell an untruth?"
"Hell fire, said the boy, without mov
ing.
"Well, and what will become of you,"
continued his lordship, "if you play tru
ant and do not go to school?"
"Hell tire," said the boy.
"What if you don't like your brothers
and sisters?"
."Hell fire," again said the boy.
"What if you stay out late when your
mother sends you on an errand?"
"Hell fire."
"What if you spill the milk?"
"TT11 fir "
His lordship ran through a long list of
faults, some of them of a very slight de
scription, but the penalty was always
the same "hell fire.
At the end of the examination the
learned counsel said:
"My lord, I hardly think this little boy
sufficiently intelligent or instructed for
his evidence to be admissible."
"Indeedr exclaimed the judge. "Well,
now I entirely differ with you. He seems
a very good little boy, and if he grows
up in his present belief, and thinks the
direst punishment will be visited upon
him for every fault he may commit, he
will probably make a much better man
than you or I."'
- The boy was sworn. Pall Mall Ga
zette.
A. Man Who Has Worked Hard.
Sir Henry Partes, the premier of New
South Wales, commenced to earn his
own living when a' child nine years of
age, and he has been a hard worker
from then till now. He never went to
school for more than three months in his
life, and from the age of nine he has
been entirely dependent on his own ef
forts. Je arrived in Australia a young
man without friends, without money,
and with no letter of introduction to any
one, and lived in the country for nearly
two years without seeing a human face
that he had seen before coming out.
Now he has been premier of New South
Wales about ten years. He does not be
lieve' there is a man in all Australia who
has worked harder than he has at man
ual and other labor. He is close upon
seventy-five years of age. London Tit-
Bite.
WHAT DISINFECTION IS.
PEOPLE GENERALLY DO NOT. UN
DERSTAND THE PROCESS.
Deodorants and Disinfectants Axe Com
monly Confused Facts About So Called
Harmless Preparations Simple Boles
for the Sick Boom. '
"There is a common error in the pub
lic mind which confounds the idea of
odors with that of disinfection," said
Mr. Cooper McGinn, chief clerk of the
department of public health. "When
ever the question of disinfection arises
deodorants and disinfectants should be
removed as far as possible from one an
other in consideration. Disinfection is
one thing and deodorizing another.
It is all very well to supply an odor
that is agreeable in connection with the
use of an agent which accomplishes its
purposes as a 'germicide,' but the idea
that substituting an odor of carbolic
acid, or I might say 'attar of roses,' for
any one of the indefinable odors or putre
faction results in the purification of the
atmosphere upon , which the two are
borne is entirely fallacious.
"People do not think of using oil of
peppermint, oil of sassafras or any one
of the numerous agents whose pungency
acts acutely upon the membranes of the
nose, but they take it for granted that
the carbolic or pine tar odors accomplish
something different. They do not. ' )
"The agents employed in disinfection
which accomplish results are generally
injurious, and are to. be handled with I
care. Whenever a person tells you that j
he has a disinfectant which is absolute
ly harmless, then set it down that he is
telling you the truth in every respect. If
it cannot harm the human in any way
then it certainly won't do any damage
to the micro-organisms' it is intended to
destroy. If you can give it to the chil
dren to play with, then the best thing to i
do with it is to put it in the sewer and j
look for something that is dangerous to j
the 'bacteria, and which you can, under j
proper instructions and with an intelli
gence supposed to be superior to that of
the infinitesimal enemy you are combat
ing, use to destroy him.
ABOUT DISINFECTANTS. :
''The unquestioned authority in the
United States on this subject is Dr.
George M. Sternberg, and the informa
tion evolved from his research, taken in
connection with that of his colleagues of
the American Public Health association,
forms the text book which is followed by
every health officer, health organization
and intelligent practitioner in the land.
"He has told us of the misapprehen
sion and the injurious consequences
which result from such misapprehension
and misuse of the term disinfectant.
He cites as an example the use of sul
phate of iron, a salt which has been ex
pensively used with the idea that it is a
valuable disinfectant, and he informs us
that this salt in saturated solution does
not destroy the vitality of disease germs
or the infective power of material con
taining th.em, while, nevertheless, it is
very valuable as an antiseptic, and its
low price makes it one of the most val- j
uable agents for the arrest of putre
factive decomposition.
"The health officer has issued a cir
cular giving information in extensoare-
garding the methods to be employed in
disinfection of various kinds, and this
circular may be obtained upon applica
tion; but to give as briefly as possible
an idea of what, in the information of
the present day, it is proper to use in
order to secure results in the work of
disinfection, I cannot do better than
condense from Sternberg about as fol
lows:
In the sick room, in case of diph
theria, scarlet fever, etc., the sputa of
the sick can, and should be, destroyed
by fire. Excreta may be disinfected
with a solution of chloride of lime,
made by dissolving the chloride in the
proportion of six ounces to a gallon of
water. -
DISINFECTING THE SICK ROOM.
Clothes- can be thoroughly disin
fected by; boiling for half an hour in
water. If the heated water is not at
hand,, the clothes should be immersed in
a solution containing one dram to the
gallon of corrosive sublimate (mercuric
chloride), or one ounce to a gallon of
pure carbolic acid, care being taken not
to place the mercuric chloride solution
in metal vessels, but rather in a wooden
tub or earthen crock. This method does
not apply to clothing or bedding which
cannot be washed; this can only be
properly disinfected by being subjected
to superheated steam in a suitable steam
disinfecting apparatus.
"The general plan employed in disin
fection of the atmosphere, together with
the surroundings in the room, is by means
of sulphurous acid gas, secured by the
combustion of sulphur. ' The sulphur, in
powder or small fragments, is placed in
a shallow iron pan (about three pounds
for each 1,000 cubic feet of air space),
which, after being moistened with
alcohol, is ignited, all measures, for thor
ough closing of. every aperture in the
room having been previously taken. In
order to guard against fire, it is advised
that the pan should be set upon a couple
of bricks in a tub partly filled with water.
"After the room has been thoroughly
fumigated the walls should then be
washed with a disinfecting solution, such
as that referred to for use in immersing
clothes previously to their being boiled.
There are any number of other agents
employed in the field of disinfection, but
this is about all I should consider it
necessary to refer to. - :
"Prevention, it should be remembered,
is better than cure, and cleanliness is
certainly better than godliness in ward
ing off disease that comes by means of
infection." Washington Poet
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Chicago Child (a few years hence)
Ha, mayn't I take a little walk in the
suburbs?
Mother (to norse) Jane, dress little
Nellie for a suburban walk. The Okla
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THE DALLES.
The Grate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on
is a thriving, prosperous
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agri
cultural an ". grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over twe
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET;-
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
of the the Cascades furnishes' pasture for th&Jfeands
of sheep, the wool from which finds market here.
The Dalles is the largest original -wool shipping
point in America, about 5,000,000 pounds being
shipped last year.
ITS PRODUCTS.
The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia,
yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 -which can
and -will be more than doubled in the near future. '
The products of the beautiful Klickital valley find
market here, and the country south and east has this
year filled the warehouses, and all available storage
places to overflowing with their products. -i
ITS WEALTH
It is the rihest city of its size on the coast, and its
money is scattered over and is being used to develop,
more farming country than is tributary to any other
city in Eastern Oregon.
. Its situation is unsurpassed! Its climate delight
ful! Its possibilities incalculable! - Its resources un
limited!" And on these corner stones she stands.
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the Middle Columbia, and
city.