A PICTURE IN FROST TIME.
A window, with wide panes embayed
And half moon seat of old gold cloth,
Looks forth to where the trees are swayed
By winds whose breath is chill and wroth.
Aad on the glass a filmy veil
Extends, on if to shield the bloom .
That nods in greeting to the gale
From midst the warm and cheery
Haeea and lilies, hothouse pinks -And
pansies that no garden dew
Ver wet, and ferns whose fragile links
No woodland pool with shade did
And showing multi-colored tiuta.
Fall clusters of chrysanthemums
Ylash back the roseate flame that glints
Where cosily the hearth log hums.
While near at hand sits one who reads
The pages of a book of art.
And naught outdoors or indoors heeds, -
Ist in some spirit realm's fair mart.
William Strutters in Detroit Free Press.
Plain Living.
To the ordinary hoiuekeeping youth
plain living is usually the every day
-diet to 'which he has always been accns
" tomed, with little regard to its fitness or
wholesoinenees. With a royal contempt
Jor divergent tastes, he is 'apt to give a
domestic version of the old saying, "Or
thodoxy is my doxy, so heterodoxy mast
1m yours." What suits him. should suit
every one.- The same spirit animated
Ht. Johnson when he gave his famous
definition of "oats" as "in -England, food
for horses, in Scotland for men." But
the whirligig of time has so twisted af
Sairs around that the food at which the
great lexicographer sneered little more
"than a hundred years ago is now an ar
ticle of daily diet in thousands of En
glish homes. The plainest of plain liv-
-ing it is to as nuwauays, out mo uija
thinking of the Seventeenth and Eigh-.
'"ieenth centuries was cultivated on a very
different aliment. Vet who is prepared
to say that greater intellects have ever
"been known in the English nation than
were produced in the days of roistering,
wine bibbing and high living, when
such minds were developed as those of
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Dryden. Addi
son, Swift. Pope and countless others
whom time fails even to mention?
"Christine Terhune Herrick.
Sbstanee nil Form in Literary Judgment.
And is it not true that from the nature
of things the contemporary judgment
lays most stress on substance, and that
kte "final" judgment is favorable to
form? Substantially speaking, how many
historic things of immense contemporary
- vogue seem insipid to us, whereas scarce
ly anything of very great formal merit
: has been allowed to perish?
.In other .words, is there not an element
of universality about perfection of form
which significance of thought does not
jHHesr ur, at any rate, is not pen ecu on
more nearlv attainable in form than it ia
. au Bouiuiuuer ahu . notuing is so pre
servative as perfection or any approach
to it.
One thing is very certain neglect of
form involves the sacrifice of an element
mt positive attractiveness as well as of
fending positively by perverseness and ec
centricity. Whether rhyme and rhythm,
cadence, purity, lawlessness, melody
are essential or not to poetry, the aban
donment cf the artistic quality which
they imply is obviously a loss. Scrib-
i i j
An Indian Challenge.
Two tribes of Indians in the upper
pmxt of California had as boundary be
tween their districts a low ridge where
the streams headed. If you should go to
where one of these streams. Potter river,
rises you would see still standing a tall
pile of stones beside a. never- failing
spring. On one side of this cairn, was the
territory of the Porno Indians, and on the
other the "land of the Chnmaia. These
tribes were enemies, and were often at
war. When the ; Chumaia wished to
challenge the others to' battle they took
three .little sticks, cut notches round
their ends and in the middle, tied them
at the ends into a fagtrot and laid it on
this cairn. If the Pomoe accepted the
challenge they tied a string around the
Kiddle of the three sticks and left them
ia their place. Then agents of both
tribes met on neutral ground and ax
xmnged the time and place of battle,
which took place accordingly. St. Nich
olas. Origin of an Old Saying.
In the Sixteenth century it was gener
"ally stated that "spiders be true signs of
great stores of gold." a saying which
- arose thus: While a passage to Cathay
was being sought by the northwest a
mariner brought home a stone which
was announced to be gold, and caused
nch a ferment that several vessels were
fitted out for the express purpose of col
lectins the precious metal. ' Frobisher.
in 1577. found on one of the islands
.' where he landed similiar stones and ' an
enormous number of spiders. Cornhi 11
Magazine. -
' A Brazilian parrot once succeeded in
making a railway party believe that they
had run over a child. Sudden cries, fol
lowed by a low moaning, rang out from
beneath the wheels. The train was
stopped, and the employes nervously
searched the track, but no child was to
r-be seen.' No clew to the situation could
he found until a large green parrot.
' swinging in his cage, uttered a mocking
laugh.
There has been some dispute as' to the
descent of the dog whether it is an im
proved progeny of the wolf or a distinct
-variety. That it is not a different species
is proved by the fat that the dog and
the wolf will mate and produce offspring
Nevertheless it is probable that the dog
is merely descended from the same orig
inal stock with the wolf.
It was not until about fifty years aa;o
that cut ice became a commodity ad
quitting of purchase by persons of mod
crate means. In New York city alone
at the present day, the yearly consump
tiou of ice amounts to about . 1.000.000
"tons.
The small bronze bells found in the
-ancient palace . of Nimrod contained
ninety parts of copper and but ten of
tin. In our day the proportions are,
ay, eighty parts of copper to twenty of
41a.
ABOUT DARK AFRICA.
MISSIONARY HORN TELLS ABOUT
HIS EXPLORATIONS.
The Climate Is Health -Many Phiiw of
Physical Character Are Seen The Pen
ple Are Grown TJp Babes Slave Trading
Is the Curse of the Continent.
There arrived in San Francisco from
Australia an English gentleman, who
with , his wife, has passed the major
portion of the last thirteen years in
Central Africa. His name is Capt. E.
C Horn, and under the auspices of ths
London Missionary society he has been
employed building vessels on the great J
Lake Tanganyika and traveling through
the dark continent.
Capt. Horn in a conversation with a
reporter said: "Reports on the land and
people of Africa are varied, but all who
have penetrated into the inmost recesses
are unanimous in their conclusions that
the slave trade is the chief obstruction to
civilization and commerce. Africa had.
until the past twenty years, the name of
being an arid, unheal thful country, be
cause outside of a given distance little
was known of the land. While it is
true that great tracts of country are
barren and no water exists, still by ex
ploitation it has been proved that
abundant supplies of water can be ob
tained which will make the country blon
som into a perfect garden of flowers.
'In the most arid part I ever visited
Ogogo-the people dig wells and find
water, which is carefully stored for a
time of drought. Perhaps no tropical
country has a more healthful climate
than Central Africa. In the interior the
land rises to a high elevation. The
many deaths and sickness among Euro
peans are caused more by the conditions
of life, absence of accustomed food and
good doctors and nurses than from cli
matic causes
OCCUPATIONS.
'On the shores of Lake Tanganyika
there are at least nine tribes distinctive
in physical characteristics, language and
fashions and weapons, clothing. 'archi
tecture and domestic life. They are all
expert fishermen, rising seines and traps,
and as the lake teems with fish their
ventures are well repaid. Iron and cop
per are smelted for manufacture, but in
the crudest style. Both of these metals. -J
in the form of small bars, ivory, rubber,
palm oil and dried fish are articles of
circulation among distant tribes. Pot
tery of a rude description is also made,
while the art of weaving cotton cloth if
well known.
"The character of these natives is in
fantile. In confidence and suspicion, in
easy anger and reconciliation, in, unde
veloped instincts they are essentially
children. Under evil influence, such as
the introduction of spirituous liquors
and other vices of civilized nations, they
rapidly become demoralized."
' The idea of regarding these Central
Africans in the same light as Australian
or Indian aborigines is absurd. When
better known they will be looked upon
as healthy children, imitative and eager
to acquire knowledge.
Deprecating in every possible manner
the horrible features of the slave trade,
the explorer thinks that by honest trade,
a selection of good employes by the
many organizations now engaged in
Central Africa, on the Congo and the
great lakes; by justice, development of
the resources of industries, together
with the earnest co-operation of the mis
sionaries, the prosperity of the great
country and its people will be an assured
fact.
THB SLAVE TRADE.
! have lived in Africa.' continued
Capt. Horn, "long enough to assure my
self that many a so called 'savage attack
by African natives was in reality 'a gal
lant defense' from their point of view;
that the low type African of whom we
hear is often but a noble savage degraded
by contact with Arab ivory and slave
dealers. During the past ten or twelve
years many white men and women huve
lived among the tribes of the far interior,
and it has been discovered that they are
people of much the same passions as
Caucasians. Although easily degraded,
they are also capable, when surrounded
by favoring circumstances, of rising in
civilization and of grasping higher and
better things.
' 'In the far interior numbers of people
in every tribe are slaves. Prisoners of
war. those condemned for witchcraft
and other offenses and their families,
weakly persons or those in distress, be
come slaves. They pass from hand to
hand, traveling toward the coast as the
direction where the value is greatest.
There they are collected by traders.
Arabs, half caste and African. This
system of slavery can be abolished with
the aid of the Arab - traders. Assure
them other . modes of living and they
will cease to barter slaves with the
tribes that exchange ivory.
'That the Arabs have been invited to
the slave trade by the natives; that they
prefer ivory, and frequently take slaves
only as the alternative; that the natives
suffer more at the. hands of each other
than of the Arabs: that the great traffic
and most horrible features of the same
are essentially African and the interior
'are facts testified to by Burton, Baker,
Livingstone and Stanley. The slave
trade is in my opinion an African, not
an Arab question, and while stories
nave been published of horrors and pil
lage committed by Arabs at the south
end of Lake Tanganyika and the north
end of Lake Nyanza they were untrue
and ' exaggerated. - The depredations
were committed by the Wawemba and
Wagaraganz-.' tribes after the departure
of the Arab trader, who kept peace
among them." San Francisco Chron
cle. . - - v
- Maeanlay's Memory.
It is well known that Maeanlay's mem
ory was prodigious. He could pass from
the minutest dates of English history or
biography to a discussion of the compar
ative merits of different ancient orators,
and repeat whole 6trophes from the
Grreek dramatists. He could rehearse
every word of every article he had writ
ten without prompting. New York
Ledger.
Strangely YoigeUUI.
'A poor memory for names and faces la
a serious disadvantage to a clergyman.
Dr. John Hall was leaving his house in
Fifth avenue not long ago, when he saw
young man looking at the numbers on
the doors. From something in his dress
and manner Dr. Hall concluded that he
must be a recent immigrant from the
Emerald Isle, - and therefore a fellow
countryman.
The stranger was evidently at a loss,
and Dr. Hall asked him if he could be of
any assistance.
"I am looking for Dr. John Hall,"
said the young man.
"I am he." modestly replied the cler
gyman. "Are you Dr. Hall?" .
"I am."
"Did you come from Ireland l
I had the -good fortune to be born !
there."
The stranger looked at him for a mo
ment. "Don't you know me, Dr. Hail?"
said he.
"I regret to say that I cannot place
you at this moment, though I may have
seen you before." -
"Well, I think you have. Why, you
baptized me twenty-five years ago in the
old country, and yet you have forgotten
me entirely!"
"It was not a time for levity," said
Dr. Hall afterward, in relating the inci
dent; "otherwise I might have reminded
the young man how strange it was that
he should have forgotten the face of one
who had sustained such an important
relation to him in his infancy." New
York Tribune.
Swift Fijian Sailing Craft.
We saw to windward a native boat
bearing down upon us under full stress
of sail. A Fijian boat is made of a hol
lowed cocoanut log, sharpened at both
ends. About ten feet on one side of it
is placed a long and slender log of lighter
wood, both parts of the craft being at
once connected by and supporting a
raised platform of bamboo. Such a
boat floats on the water like a cork, and
offers no more resistance than a racing
shell. A mast set in the center of the
platform supports a triangular sail of
matting, with the base of the figure up
most. A very top heavy effect is thus
produced, but nothing can overturn the
light vessel owing to the breadth of its
base, and it flies through the water like
the wind.
The catamaran that pursued us easily
kept up with the launch, although we
drove it at full speed to keep ahead, and
with the huge, misshapen mat sail flap
ping and rolling like a great bat's wing
as the boat thrashed through the billows,
and sent showers of spray over the glis
tening bodies of the dozen natives who
stood or squatted upon the deck, the pict
ure was something fascinatingly strange
and barbaric and never to be forgotten.
When the boat was near us our launch
ran under a jutting point, where thickly
clustered palms cut off the wind, and the
catamaran becoming becalmed got out
oars and turned in for the shore. Cor.
Boston Journal.
, Held by Etiquette.
When Dom Pedro, then emperor of
Brazil, was entertained at the White
House he had been told by a confused
senator that it would be expected that
he, the emperor, should be the last of
the guests to depart.
The president's wife, however, inform
ed her other guests that they would be
expected to follow, not precede, the
royal party in leaving the house.
The result was that no one dared to go
for fear of a breach of etiquette. But at
3 o'clock in the morning a tired woman
pretended illness and the deadlock was
broken.
Great is etiquette, but common sense
is sometime allowable. Washington
Anthropologist.
The Inn In Literature.
The social importance of the inn in
days of old is proved by the conspicuous
position it holds in our fiction and poetry.
The "Canterbury Tales" of Chancer
start from an inn, along with the motley
company of pilgrims bound for St.
Thomas' shrine, to whom the genius of
the poet has given an immortal life. Its
site and name, the "Talbot," or "Ta
bard," still preserve the memory of the
famous inn thus associated with our first
great English poem. It was not, how
ever, until the reign of Elizabeth that
the tavern attained to a permanent place
in literature, reflecting the important
place it held in the daily life of the ;
people. All the Year Bound.
A Very Old Hat.
Mr. George Allen, the Auburn second
hand dealer, has a hat in his possession
which he estimates must be over one
hundred and fifty years old. "The hat
my father wore," "grandfather's hat"
and "where did you get that hat?" aren't
a circumstance compared with this an
cient tile. It is a beaver, with a genuine
bell top, and was made in New. York
city. A bit of silk facing is on the top
part of the rim. This was to allow the
raising of the hat without ruffling the
fur. Auburn (Mass.) Gazette.
They TPrefer Old Styles.
One American manufacturer ships
1,000 lumber wagons to South America
every year, and yet the natives come
into cities like Buenos Ayres with carts
of the same style and make as were used
1,000 years ago. It takes one yoke of
oxen to draw even an empty cart, but
the people don't care to experiment.
Detroit Free Press.
Crawling- Oat.
Wife (in a new costume) What d
you think of this?
Husband (in disgust) What a gown I
Wife (angrily) You brute! This is
the very latest style--the Watteau gown.
Husband (scared) That that's what
I said, m' dear. Watteau gown. New
York Weekly.
Probably Satisfactory.
. Sharpson Phlatz, what makes youi
nose so red?
Phlatz It glows with pride because it
never pokes itself into other people's
business. Chicago Tribune.
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THE DALLES.
The Grate City of tlie Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and
is a thriving, prosperous city.
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 thousands
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.
ITS WEALTH
It is the richest 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
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