A ROSE.
"I fkcMmd a roe on the stones today
This midwinter clay, with its lowering sky
Asd miry streets: yet the white rose lay
la its whiteness, starting to meet my eye.
And wherefore, O Kosu. with your faint
breath sweet.
And your fairness, lyinn 'ncath careles
feet'
Dropped trom I be breast or a bride, my fair.
As they brought her home from the hoi;,
shrine:
The bridal music haunting the air,
Deep thrilling the soul with a rhythm divine.
Till her full heart throbbed with a new joy.
sweet.
And you left its warmth for the wintry
street?
Dropped from the bier of the blessed dead.
Do your folded leaves hold the dew of tears?
Is your fragrance prayer, soft murmured
By some pleading soul for the (iui.ihed years)
Was the sullen chill of the crossing stone
Uesscold than that pulseless heart, my own)
Howe'er it be, U you white, white Rose,
I will lay you down on a girlish breast
"Tmmt has nevrr thrilled 'nenth bridal snows.
Nor yearnc-d for the peace of unbroken rest.
You shall linger there till your bright, briet
day
Of beauty and bloom breathes itself away.
A. Ktgar Benet in Kate field's Washington.
Wide Streets as Health Promoters.
Dr. Anders has been investigating the
influence of the width of streets in cities
-on the mortality from phthisis, and as
th results of examining into the locali
sation of 1 ,500 deaths he hits arrived at
tine conclusion that the number of deaths
from phthisis is smaller in proportion to
the population in the wide than in the
narrow ones, and that in narrow streets
the mortality is greatest where they are
long or where they form a cul-de-ssu:.
la other words, complete movement of
air about dwellings is a point of prime
importance in connection with the ques
tion of pulmonary phthisis.
It is on this principle that all modern
bylaws as to open space about houses are
based, aud it is as important to have
"wide open spaces behind houses as in
front, so as to secure a proper through
current of air. The existing tendency
to put up an undue limit on the needed
area behind dwelling houses is Btrongly
condemned, as constituting a distinct
' Tiolation of one of the most vital es
sentials to the promotion of health and
prevention of a certain class of diseases.
Jfew York Telegram.
Mew York Horses.
"Do you know what I consider the
most remarkable thing in New York?"
asked a man frrn the west who had
been spending a week in the city.
His metropolitan friend suggested the
Brooklyn bridge, the hurrying crowds
on Broadway, the Stock exchange, the
Oerman opera and other stock marvels,
bat each time the countryman shook his
head.
"No," he said finally, "you haven't
hit what I mean, though you see it or
could see it if you looked a hundred
times every day. To me, now, the most
amazing thing in the whole' big town is
the wonderful ' indifference the horses
abow to the elevated trains. Why, if
one of those things should go roaring
ver the heads of my plow horses they'd
imply have hysterics. As for my little
mare Kitty, she wouldn't stop running
till she got into the next state. Your
horses, however, don't even 'look up
when a train passes. I really can't un
derstand it" New York Times.
. Elopements In Luuuoa.
A careful . newspaper reader, resident
ia London, who has given' much atten
tion to elopement statistics, states that
n an average four elopements take
place in London every week. This would
give a total for the year in round num
bers of 200 in a' population of 'something
like 5,000.000. Presuming that the num
ber of elopements all over the country is
in the same proportion we have a total
elopement list of about 1.500 per year.
Now that a Gretna Green marriage is
a thing of the past elopements seem to
be on the wane. It is stated that at
Gretna Green toll house alone 200 cou
ples were sometimes united in a year.
London Tit-Bits.
A New Way to Shell Eggs.
At a meeting of the Royal Meteorolog
ical society Mr. R. H. Scott, F. R. S..
Srew attention to a curious case of light
aing stroke which had occurred at Bally
glass, County Mayo. The eggs were in
a basket on the floor of a room when the
house was struck by the discharge. It
was found that their shells fell off when
they were put into hot water, leaving
the inner membrane unbroken. On be
ing cooked they tasted quite 'welL
CasseU's Magazine.
The sun spot periodicity is a subject of
universal interest, and little has been
Bounded of its unfathomable depths.
It is known that the cycle is completed
in about eleven years, containing a max
imum of activity and a minimum of qui
escence; that the spots are cavities in the
-j solar photosphere, filled with gases or
vapors cooler than the surrounding por
tions: that the spots move with a vary
ing velocity, and that the - spot produc
ing activity has a direct influence on the
magnetism and electricity of the earth.
Purse thefts seem "to be the common
thieFs special weakness, more than 10
percent, of the larcenies, etc.. brought
before the courts being ' for "thefts of
parses. .Watches stand secend favor
ites. Z, More ' than three-fourths 6f 'the
'purses" Stolen are the property of ladies,
the thieves seeming to find ladies' pock
ets more suitable for picking than men's.
The army of the United States con
aista of 2,167 commissioned officers and
"a little "over 20,00ff "private "soldiers," ex
clusive of those v performing civilian
dufs; thus one-tenth of the force boa
mata of its officers.
A new method of preparing wood pulp
wmpoeittonraf 'moldings'is described. i
-which fhtf Vobd rpufp is mixed ! wrth
l)Totiz'pwdeTA.iiaiiiimv,6r metallic cb)
ore," Sp'as'W give'a! uniform color of any
desired shade to the pulp. . ..
The brownish discoloratiion of 'ceiling
where gas is used is caused by dust car-,
ried against them by the heated" air cur
xentsplTfc by the gaiC
EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
A Boston
Preacher Who
Has Calned
Wide Fame.
Boston is particularly well provided with
clergymen who are celebrated in their pro
fession, or literature, or the cause of ed
ucatiou. No one sect or denomination can
claim them, for they vary in faith from
Episcopal to Unitarian. Some of them
have written books that have liecome fa
mous, and have started more than cue
train of thought toward the uplifting of
the race.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale is probably
one of the most famous of Boston clergy
men. His fame is by no means local, and
his name is respected over a wide range of
territory. He was born in Boston, April 8,
1822. He is sprung from an old New Eng
land family that have figured largely in
the history of the country. An ancestor of
his was the martyred Captain Nathan
Hale, whose last words were a wish that
he had more lives to offer on his country's
altar.
The early education of Mr. Hale was
under the most favorable circumstances.
From the Boston Latin school he went to
Harvard, and graduated from that cele
brated university in 1839. H'e then became
an usher in the Latin school. During this
time he read theology aud church history,
and in 1842 he was licensed to preach by
the Boston Association of Congregational
Ministers. His first regular charge whs
the. Church of the Unity, in Worcester.
He remained pastor of this church from
1846 to 1856, when be became pastor of the
South Congregational (Unitarian) church.
in Boston, where he still remains.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
Daring his pastoral work in Boston he
has been identified with many charitable
bodies and movements. A book published
by him in 1870, "Ten Times One Is Ten,"'
led to a movement which now exists ill a
club or series of clubs with over 50,000
members. . Another society due to his ef
forts, the Ixok Up Legion, numbers some
5,000 members. Several magazines are
under his charge. He is a thorough news
paper man, having served in every capac
ity on the Boston Daily Advertiser from
reporter to editor-in-chief.
ALEXANDER E. SWEET'S HUMOR.
A Man
Who Began to Write Joke When
a Child.
Alexander E. Sweet, who edits Texas
Sittings,-and who is prolific as a humorist,
has been described as "a typical hayseed,
with his loose, rough looking clothes, heavy
movements, full uncultured beard and rich
complexion. One would judge he knew
more about crops than human nature. In
conversation he says funny things that de
serve places in print with a countenance
marked by ineffable solemnity." Mr.
Sweet is a modest gentleman of mild man
ners, with a kindly face. He lives in New
, York city with his
: family. . He w a ti
born in Canada in
1841, but when he
was a mere child
I jLrX parents moved
tySV San Antonio,
sasS'-. T ' Tex., and settled
: there. At sixteen
he went to school
at Ponghkeepsie,
after which he vis
ited Germany and
was a student at
Carlsrube, Baden,
ALEXANDER E. SWEET.
for several years.
He returned to
Texas in 1863 and joined the Thirty-third
Texas cavalry as a private, and served un
til the war ended.
"After the war," says Mr. Sweet, "1
practiced law, but not with any bewilder .
ing degree of success. I drifted into jour
nalism, and for several years furnished a
column of San Antonio sif tings for the
Galveston News. These items were much
copied, and I started Texas Siftings in 1881
in Austin. My life has been comparatively
blameless, except for a short time when I
was learning to play on the flute." In re
gard to his methods of work Mr. Sweet
once remarked:
"Unlike other alleged humorists, I can
not recall my first downward step. I be
gan going down from my cradle, I believe.
The propensity to write funny things was
contemporaneous with my first successful
struggle with the alphabet, and has accom
panied me through life, bringing with it
all the' misfortunes which have blighted
my career and made me the pensive creat
ure yon behold. How do I build my jokes
I think my jokes build themselves. They
even get into my business correspondence.
Of the different styles of humorous writing
the brief paragraph is the most difficult.
A column of such paragraphs daily would
put any man under the sod in twelve
months, whereas humorous sketches, es
pecially if they are in a series, are the easi
est work a professional humorist can do.
I can write a couple of columns of sketches
. without any great mental wear and tear.
but a half column of paragraphs makes me
long to be a popular preacher."
- Floriculture rn the United States.
A recent bulletin issued by the census
bureau gives some timely statistics' regard
ing, floriculture, which has been carried on
as a business for upward of a century, and
which in the last twenty-five years has as
snmed large proportions. Out of a total
of 4,65$ establishments, 2,795 ' were started
between 1870 and 1890, and of these 1,797 be
tween 1880 and- 1890 There . are - 312 com
mercial floriculture establishments owned
and managed by-; women. '- These 4,659 es
tabUshmenta.bad huspiir' the census year
38,823.247 square feet of glass, covering a
space of more than 891 acres of grounds.
The establishments, including fixtures and
(CbelnK apparatus, were "ralued ,c$38.855,
J 72SJ.43; tool ami rmplemeptetl,5OT,S,ftt,
and gave, employment to' 18,847 ?men ami
1.958 wom'en.fwho .'earned ,Hn ,tbt year $8,
483X57. Fueffbr'heating 'cost W,if0, 152. 6T..
The products for the year were 49,056,253
froaet pusnes, fo,opo,sce naruy plants ana
rihrubshtieaH4taer plants amounted to
to&Btars, 38,880,872 hardy plants and
163,835,283, reaching a total value of $12,036,-:
477.76 for plant. Cat . flowers brought an'
addfttiBhal Income ot tl4,tis,m.9L
!
IS LYING NECESSARY?
An Experience In Truth Telling That
Wasn't a Gaody Sueceas.
A great many persons pretend to sadly
deplore the fact that society is ever tell
ing a great many little white lies. Frank
ness is strongly recommended and people
are praised for saying just what -they
think.
Frankness appears very admirable in
theory, but it is quite another thing in
practice. A certain amount of deception
seems really necessary for the welfare of
society, and the man or woman who tries
to get on wholly without it is likely to
have few friends and many enemies.
It is said that the minister of a certain
Chicago church became disgusted with
the un truthfulness of mankind and
prteacbed a vigorous sermon in denuncia
tion of society falsehoods. He declared
that lies told out of politeness were just
as wicked as those told with deliberate
intention of deceiving. In fact, these
society lies get folks into the habit of
lying, and they readily pick up the other
kind.
The sermon made a great impression
upon the hearers. Many of the congre
gation resolved to reform then and there.
Coming out of church Deacon Jones
said to Judge Badger, who sat in front
of him, "Judge, 1 hope yon didn't mind
my putting my feet tinder your pew?"
The judge was about to reply, "Oh, cer
tainly not:" but he thought of the ser
mon and answered:
"I did, though: your old boots took up j
ail tne room and were a fearful nn
sance." "Well." said the deacon, "the hair oil
you use smells so it nearly forced us to
leave the pew."
They glared tt each other, and just
then Mrs. Badger and Miss Jenkins came
along. Miss Jenkins had asked:
"How do yon like my new bonnet?"
"Oh. I thought it just lov " began
Mrs. B.. and then she thought of the
sermon and continued:
, "No. I didn't either. It is a horrid
thing, and 1 wouldn't be seen with it
on."
While these honest conversations were
going on Mrs. Smith had said to her
next door neighbor, Mr. Murray:
"1 hope the crying of onr baby last
night didn't disturb you?.
And Mr. Murray replied: '
"No that is yes. I wanted to brain
the brat." ,
And then Mrs. Smith called him a
wretch and wept Then the minister
came ont and asked young Symonds how
he liked the sermon. Symonds said:
"It was a grand ef er . ' No, parson,
it was blamed nonsense."
"Sir!" said the parson, and he drew
himself up very indignantly.
Just theu Smith and Murray, after
being real frank with each other and
telling a few plain truths, clinched, and
Deacon Jones was trying to hold Miss
Jenkins from scratching Mrs. Badger.
It took tremendous efforts to stop the
rows and prevent a scandal, and as it
was. every one went away mad with
everybody else.
The minister went home and meditated
in a gloomy frame of mind for three
hours, and finally concluded that society
lying was wicked, but he would :not
preach against it - again. It was alto
gether too handy and necessary a sin to
be given up. Chicago Herald.
A Peculiar Fate.
The 'supporters' of the much disputed
theory of spontaneous combustion have
received fresh grounds of belief from the
case of Milton Hardcastle.; of Baltimore,
whose remains were found nearly con
sumed in his shanty on the outskirts ot
that city.
Hardcastle was an old . negro of un
known age, enjoying a small monthly
income left him some years ago by his
former owner. Colonel Eustace Hard
castle. Itris said that the negro consumed a
gallon and a half of whisky a day, and
would often buy and drink the pure
alcohol in large quantities, often for
days at a time partaking of no other
nourishment. .
He lived alone, being of a singular,
taciturn disposition, so that it was some
days before' he was missed, but his
shanty was observed to remain closed,
and search being instituted he was found
in his bed burned nearly to a crisp, while
the mattress and clothes were only slight-
lv scorchml.
The room was in perfect order, and no '
trace of fire was found on the hearth. !
which was swept clean, and as Hard
castle was known to have been unique
I among" negroes in never smoking the
j whole affair seemed shrouded in mystery.
I Dr. Everhardt was called uppn by the
auLiiui iLitjo w luaKu an investigation,
and gave as his opinion that it was a case
of spontaneous combustion. ... (n this he
has been supported by several other
prominent physicians, who agree in de
claring - the circumstances adinit of no
other explanation. Exchange.
v A Hint to Teachers.
Don't give up the boy who sits in the
back seat and wears his coat collarless,
his hair non a la Pompadour, and his
finger nails in mourning, who won't
learn his lessons and who' will get into
mischief. I knew a teacher who had a
pupil just like. him. She showed inter
est in him: she visited his parents, and
didn't act as if their language and man
ners made them -devoid of -all fine feel
ing. She "asked him to' help' her about
some work after" school' one night, and
said: "By the way, John, we know each
other pretty well now. I like you and 1
hope you like me. I want yon. to do
something for me, will you?"
: "If I can." wa the answer,
v Come to school tomorrow with a col
lar,' comb your hair nicely and pare your
finger nails: " 'ton' see I like you aa you
are now. but 1 want other people to like
t yon too, and the; won't if yon are care-
lees' about your appearance. .
Da you think the boy hated her? No.
He was, never seen untidy after 'that
evening.; He 'graduated from the high
a'reeporiBfbie" pbtfoh'in'"'sbciety. "iHe
wears by that teacher. - She' made a
man .of .him. Lucy : Agnee Hayes' in
Journal of Education.
Wholesale and Mall Dripts.
-DEALERS IX-
Fine Imported, Key West and Domestic
CIG-ARS.
PAINT
Now is the time to paint your house
and if you wish to get the bept quality
and a fine xIor use the -
Shenviii, Williams Co.'s Paint
For those wishing to see the quality
and color of the above paint we call their
attention to the residence of S. L. Brooks,
Judge Bennett, Smith French and others
painted by Paul Kreft.
Snipes & Kinersly are agents for the
above paint for The Dalles, Or.
Don't Forget the
E0ST E)1D SJP,
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THE BEST OF
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
ALWAYS ON HAND.
Real Estate,
Insuranee,
and Loan
AGENCY.
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PROPKIKTOR or THE
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wholesale' and retail
Liquor v Dealer,
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ment, a iruaninteed specific for Hvsterla, Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuratyia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
of alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental De
pression, Softening of the Brain, resulting in in
sanity and lending to misery, decay and death.
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of' Power
In either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat
orrhoea caused Try over exertion of the brain, self
abuse or over indulgence. Each box contains
one month'B treatment. 1.00 a box, or six boxes
for $5.00, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price.
WE GUARANTEE BIX BOXES
To cure any case. With each order received by
us for six boxes, accompanied by $5:00, we will
send the purchaser our written- guarantee to re
fund the money if the treatment does not effect
a cure. Guarantees issued only by
, HLAKELEY & HOtJGHTOX, .
Prescription Druggists,
175 Second St. . The' Dalles, Or.
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ji.U "1 .
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Dm Vandkrpool: Your S. B. Headache and
Liver Cure sells well- here. : Everyone 'that tries
it comes for the second bottle-, -.People are -coming
ten to twelve" miles to get a bottle to try It
and then they eotoe brick and take three or four
bottles at s time. Thank you, tor sending dup-i
ilontebillasmrnadU'plaeed. - c .
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D. E. BiYAI(P flO.,
5 !
' For eeiltf by aill DrttaTKlets.
tne Dalles
is here and has come to stay. It hopes
to win its way to public favor by ener
gy, industry and merit; and to this end
we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its course a generous
support.
The Daily
four pages of six columns each, will be
issued every evening, except Sunday,
and will be delivered in the city, or sent
by mail for the moderate sum of fifty
cents a month.
Its Objeets
will be to advertise the resources of the
city, and adjacent country, to . assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for our
trade, in securing an open river, and in
helping THE DALLES to take her prop
er position as the
Leading City of Eastern Oregon.
The paper, both daily and weekly, will
be independent in politics, and in its
criticism of political matters, as in its
handling of local affairs, it will be
JUST, FAIR AND IMPARTIAL
We will endeavor to give all the lo
cal news, and we ask that your criticism
of our object and course, be formed from
the contents of the paper, and not from
rash assertions of outside parties.
THE WEEKLY,
sent to any address for $1.50 per year.
It will contain from four to six eight
column pages, and we shall endeavor
to make it the equal of the best. Ask
your Postmaster for a copy, or address.
THE CHRONICLE PUB. m
Office, N. W. Cor. Washington and Second Sts.
THE DALLES.
The Gate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on the Middle Colnmbia,.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 sheepv the wool from which finds market here.
, The lalles ' is the largest original -wool shipping
point ! in America, about ' 5,000,000 pounds being
shipped last, year.
'.''"';,:'""'; : ? .'ITS PROI)TrCTS.
l't ..The salmon fisheries are the finest onthe Columbia,
yieldingvthis year' a revenue of $1,500,000 "whichcan
and 'will 'be more' than doubled ' in the near future.-
The products of the beautiful "Klickital valley find
market here,, and r the,cpujitfy south: and this
year filled the warehouses, and all available storage
places to- overflowing? withitheiri products.
Jt is the richest .6iiy of its'Mz6n the coast, ahd;its
moiiey is: scattered over'and is being, ' usedtq develop,
more farmingcpunttiy than is tributary-to any other
eityinr.Easterji ;Qregonr
Its situation's -unsurpassed! Its ' climate 'delight-
l1! Tt.h TYftHsffiiliTiea infjTWldiVTo ' rJttsrvArHfieta 'tin-
" 7 - - rwpfco iVT iis aBxw HaTdfcV , .sp. WW A VIKV fWSf
limited! And on : these corner stones she stands. .