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NOBLESSE OSLIGE.
V I if you and had pink shells (or tin,
Ami eyes like violets dipped In dew;
sM hatsing mr love's love I'd bare no fears.
M I were yon.
3t t were you, with such flower like (ace,
. ' And all a flower's own -grace to hold it too:
r keep my heart as. flower pare In its place,
S I were you,
W t were you and looked to be a queen.
I'd keep myself, as thooifh I knew,
Vha what's beneath should equal what Is
seen,
tt 1 were you.
M I were you. and Uod had made me fair. '
So fair that 1 seemed made to woo;
1M be as gracious as my graces were.
If I were yon.
It I were you but no, alas! I see
I oould not lore you as I do;
Sh toll you all I'd strive to be,
JC I were you.
. Brooklyn Life.
' "- The Oldest Family,
fa matter of antiquity Mohammed
-awk yield precedence to the Chinese phil-
ispher, Confucius, who died 479 yearn
"heioce the Christian era. ' There is no
i race that can boast of an antiquity
Itis. On the occasion of the death of
Chinese statesman, known in Europe
1 America as the Marqms Tsang, we
that his title of noblility was
ae not to any connection with Con
'Isjuiuu himself, but to his descent from
a of the four chief disciples of the
IP ml teacher.
There are, however, very numerous
litiag descendants of Confucius; and al
Hiosujh he has been dead 2,370 years,
awporior rank is conceded to them in
China solely from their relationship to
Moreover, when Confucius was
, 550 B. C, his family, was already
the most ancient of the empire.
t bad a recorded history of more than
time centuries. Tradition goes still
farther back, extending the probable
taration of the family to little less than
XflOO years. Chicago Times. i
Vespucias' Descendant.
It is rather remarkable that so many
mso identified with the early history of
tibia continent should have living de
scendants. Many of us remember the
1a4y who visited New York some years
go who claimed descent from Americas
"Veapacius, and had a conviction on her
-aslad that the Congress of the United
States ought to bestow some kind of
paeaniary recognition on the name.
'Oongreea was not in a pensioning frame
mt mind and she returned home no richer
tsaui'she came.
Her visit, however, led to a close in
wtigation of the career of her ances
or, which resulted in the discovery that
tfsa word America originated in a name
Siren by the natives to a portion of the
-snaa which he visited. Nevertheless
the lady is believed to have been lineally
descended from Americas Vespucius, or
Maer the person whose name was Lat-
l into that form. Chicago Times.
The Page of the Czar.
little Kapioff had made a bet with his
' pages that he would pull the Em-
Paul's pigtail (which was held in
r poet by the highest persona in the
Malm) tike an ordinary bell rope at the
net court bauquet. Accordingly, when
th czar took his seat at the table, sor
iMiiiilud by the members of the imperial
family and the dignitaries of state, Kap-
ioff took hold of the qneue and gave it a
jmxk as if he were pulling a belL The
aaperor tittered aery of pain and turned
iwnd in a desperate rage. Everybody
trasnbled; only the little page stood' there
ol and impassive.
Who did that?" inquired his majesty
ia a passionate tone.
I did," said the youth; "that queue
mi always awry; I put it straight down
ti middle."
"Why, yourscamp, couldn't you do it
without pulling so hard?" and there the
atmtter ended. Le Petit Moniteur.
How Plies Multiply.
From where do all the flies come? The
jueKtion is often asked, and seldom re
mrea so satisfactory an answer as has
'"been given by a contemporary.. Tho
common fly lays more than a hundred
egga. and the time from egg laying to
maturity is about two weeks. Most of
have stndied geometrical progression.
Hero we see it illustrated. Suppose one
tty commences '-to multiply and re
plenish the earth" about June 1. June
. IS, if they all lived, would give 150. Sup-isr-
seventy-five of these are females,
Jnly I would give us, supposing no cruel
. wasp or other untoward circumstance to
interfere, 1 1 ,350. Suppose 5,635 of these
are females, we might have July 15.
43.720 flies. Rarebits.
A device is used by traveling men for
f 'w- the name strap on their valises. A card
-bearing their name and address is slipped
' -into the leather card pocket in .the usual
way, but now in addition a piece of mica
'- i" slipped in oii top of the card, keeping
it neat and clean, and at the same time
permitting it being read by" reason of its
transparency. ,
. A grim relic of the Maxwell murder,
preserved at the Four Courts in St. Louis,
is the dilapidated trunk in which the
nmrderer stored the remains of his mur
dered friend Preller. The interior of the
tmnk is covered with bloodstains. .'
The first gun made fpr the Confeder
acy is now in the possession of Mrs. H. 1.
Miller, of Chattanooga, whose father
made it at Holly Springs, Miss., in 1861.
M originally had a rifled barrel, and is
atm in good condition.
The royal standard of Persia, it is said,
is an apron. Stout old Qao, the Persian
blacksmith, raised a revolt that proved
wacoesaful, and his leathern apron cov-
ered with jewels is still borne at the van
mt Persian armies.
Tbe .best talking parrot is the gray
bird with scarlet tail that comes from
me Congo. -A few of these have a scar
let breast as well as tail, and are known
mm king birds. They are very are.
grain. of fine sand would cover one
1 of the minute acaiea of the hn-
i skin, and yet each of these scales in
i covers from MO to 600 pores.
THt. PA,rtON3. OF INDUSTRY.
An AMoeintion Which Has Much lnt!n-
enee In Polities and Business.
A farmers' association which has grown
to immense proportions In many of the
western states is known as the Patrons of
Industry. In Michigan, where it was born,
it has snch a large ' membership that it ab
solutely controls the politics of the state,
and at least 150.000 names appear upon tta
U. ft. LAKE,
lists. At a recent national convention
there were delegates from twelve states
who represented a membership of nearly
400,000. The association was started three
years ago. and has for its aim the relief of
the fcmners. At the stores- belonging to
the Patrons all goods are sold at a profit of
only 10 per cent. Its constitution and by
laws are secret, and its lodge business is
also kept dark.
The chief, man in the order is U. R.
Lake. He was born in 1836, at a little
town called Phillips, Franklin county.
Me. In the winter of 1842 he went to the
wilderness of Aroostook county and al
lowed his parents to go with him. Later
he moved to New York state, and there
earned his first wages, which were forty
eight dollars for seven months' work. He
continued to labor at this rate for five
years, attending school whenever there
was nothing else to do. Then he decided
there was more mooey in teaching, and he
signed as the instructor in a little district
at a salary of seventeen dollars a month.
He kept this up for about five years, and
then with what he had saved and a very
large amount of mortgage he bought a
$7,000 farm. This he sold in 1867. He next
moved to Rose, Oakland county, Mich.,
and there bought a 180 acre farm. This is
where he now lives. He was one of the
original founders of the order and helped
frame the constitution.
The supreme- vice president is F. M.
Ames, who tills the soil at Brooklyn, Wis.
He is not handsome, but he has a head full
of brains. He is posted upon polit
ical affairs, and knows all about the
farmers' burdens aud taxes. He was born
at Oregon, Wis., fifty-four years ago, aud
he knocked clods into fallow soil until he
was twenty-eight years old, earning a few
dollars as a country pedagogue when the
summer crops were light. He married
Alice Main when he was twenty-nine, and
the couple bought a 250 acre farm, where
-they now live. They went into debt for it,
and the supreme vice officer says he knows
p. M. AMES,
all the ins and outs of hard times. But the
mortgage is now paid, and seven children
have been raised and educated. He has a
big heart for the men of his class, and is
willing to spend the rest of his life in work
ing for what he thinks will help their con
dition.
A Moslem Weds an "Infidel."
What a mellowiug influence time has on
prejudices and creeds! In the days of Mo
hammed one of his followers would have
thought us soon of eating pork as of wed
ding with an "infidel," according to Chris
tian rites, but the fierce fanaticism of that
era of conquests is gone. Recently a bar
rister at Ijondon, who is a Turk and a Mos
lem, married an Englishwoman. A Prot
estant ceremony was first performed at a
South London church, aud the happy pair
then traveled at once to Liverpool to lie
united by the nioulvie, or vice president of
the Moslem congregation. The ceremony
was very simple. The couple stood upon a
carpet facing Mecca, while the bride re
peated after the inoul vie the terms of the
marriage contract: "I stand here in the
presence of God and all who are assembled
to unite my heart to your heart aud my
destiny to your destiny, and to be called by
your name. Your sorrow shall be my sor
row, your happiness, shall be my happi
ness." The bridegroom made similai
promises, after which the moulvie preached
a sermon bidding the wedded couple copy
Adam and -Eve, Mohammed and Khadija,
Fatima and Alii and the putting on of the
ring concluded the service, which was
partly conducted in Arabia , -----
An -Editor's Startling; Headlines.
, The English editor is rarely given to the
sensational "beading up" of news which
his American confrere so murn affects.
But occasionally he crawls out of the rut
of the commonplace, as witness a story re
cently told at the Sheffield Press club by
Sir Algernou Borthwick, proprietor of the
London Morning Post. Sir Algernon has
a fine place in Aberdeenshire Invercauld
House, which is close to the Prince of
Wales' Highland home. Seven days' fish
ing with his son, Mr. Oliver Borthwick,
resulted in the big kill of fifty-five salmon.
The information was sent to his paper, and
a "live" sub-editor, in acknowledging the
receipt of the news, wired to Sir Algernon
that it was proposed to head it, "Miracu
loos Draught of Fishes! Peter's Record
Broken 1" ,
" A Pension for Nasby's Mother.
For years David R. Locke (Petroleum V.
Nasby) was one of the foremost men who
wrote humorous articles from a political
standpoint. Vet he left but a small estate
when he died, and bis aged mother has
lost been saved from absolute destitution
by receipt of a pension granted because bar
bnaband yrmm a soldier la the war of ISIS.
CHINESE URBANITY.
CIRCUMLOCUTION THEY. DISPLAY IN
LETTER WRITING.
The; Bdaeaced .Chinaman Can Give the
. Ameriean Points', on Politeness and Re
finements In the Conduct, of Epistolary.
- Correspondence...
It has probably fallen to the lot" of
most, of us to have, met people who,
without the' excuse of an unconscious
habit, have the knack of asserting un
pleasant truths, and who value the' 'un
gracious practice as a sign of honesty.
There are others, such as the Quakers of
bygone days, who regard every, expres
sion which may not be in strict accord
ance with absolute truth as a sin against
their consciences. . To such people the
idea of subscribing .themselves "Yours
truly," or of beginning a letter to a
casual acquaintance, "Dear So and So,"
is abhorrent. But public opinion has
been too strong for them, and we con
tinue, and shall continue so long as so
ciety holds together, to address one an
other in terms of endearment and respect
which are not required to correspond
with our sentiments.
Orientals have surpassed us in this re
gard as much as the brilliant sunshine
to which they are accustomed excels the
murky atmosphere of Europe. The de
scriptions of ourselves and of our .corre
spondents pale before the glowing ex
pressions of objective admiration and
subjective self abasement which adorn
eastern epistles. We are content to con
fine our wishes and compliments to the
present life; but snch a limit is far too
narrow for an Asiatic, who delights' in
wishing that his friends may live for
ever and ever, and that the ancestors of
his enemies may be condemned to ever
lasting disgrace.
We are satisfied to speak of "I" and
"You," but an oriental loves to heap ad
jectives of contempt upon himself and
of glorification upon his correspondents.
KLKVATINQ AND DEMEANING SIMILES.
In all cases he avoids the use of the
personal pronouns. By a system of cir
cumlocution necessitated by this omis
sion, he describes himself as "Your
younger brother," the character repre
senting his expression being written
small, and partly at the side of the col
umns of words, and he designates him
self and others conjointly as "We ants."
But the person he is addressing figures
as "Your excellency," "My benevolent
elder brother," or "Your honor." liter
ally, "You who are at the steps of the
council chamber." His own bouse is "a
mean dwelling," or, as the parts of the
character signify, "a stricken and broken
dwelling;" but he is nnable to think of
his correspondent's habitation as any
thing but "an honorable," literally
"basket-of-pearls palace." In the' same
spirit of self abasement he feels obliged
to wind up his, epistle with the phrase,
"Your stupid younger brother, So-and-So,
bows his head to- the ground." The
character for "stupid" is drawn' for ns
by two hieroglyphics, meaning 'mon
key hearted." To bow to his friends' is
also pictortally expressed by: a colloca
tion of "a head" and "turf ," suggesting
the act of bowing the head to the earth:
If his correspondent proposes to icall
upon him he hastens to assure him that
"at the appointed hour, with bowing
hands, he will await the time when his
excellency shall abase himself by driving
his chariot to his office." His friend's
letter is 'the ' revelation of his hand,"
and he takes pains to moke him aware
that holding it "with washed hands he
had chanted" its contents. " ' 3:-
On expressions of thanks particular
emphasis is laid by the Chinese, and
with true Oriental instinct, in their effort
after hyperbole, they are accustomed to
give a physical interpretation to-their
mental feelings. .
POWKRFCI.. HYPERBOLE. '
For - instance, a correspondent who
wishes to say that he is profoundly grate
ful, writes, "Your kindness Is very deeply'
engraved and en veined in my heart.'- If
he hears of the illness of a friend "he
cannot help being hung up in suspense,"
and the symbol he uses shows to the eyes
the heart of the writer tied up, while at
the same time he urges him "to take care
of his person as a pearl." And on the
receipt of better news he breaks' out,
"How shall I bear the joy and pleasure!"
Having finished expressing the object of
his letter, ha wiuds up by "availing him
self of the opportunity to wish his corre
spondent all the blessings of the season,
and," if he is on the road to honor, "all
the promotion he deserves." . .
But, if not ferocious, a sufficient lati
tude still remains to a Chinaman for the
development of much plain speaking. It
is as possible to "slit the thin spun life"
with a stiletto as with a broadsword, and
in the most finished periods a Chinaman
finds himself quite able to express either'
withering contempt or remorseless hate.'
But he has other ways also of giving
vent to his ill humors. The very punc
tilious rules of letter writing enable him'
to couvey his dislike by omissionas weir
as by commission.
Chinese is, it may be explained,' writh.
ten in' vertical columns, beginning on
the top right hand -corner of the page.
In . ordinary circumstances each column
is completed to the bottom, of the page;
but long usage has established the cus
torn that, if the name or attributes 'of the
person addressed occurs, the column is
cut short, and the characters representing
these subjects of honor begin the next
column at an elevation of the space of
one or two characters, as. the case may
be, above the general level of the text.
It will now be seen what a ready weapon
lies to the hand of a Chinese letter writer.
To write "Your Excellency" or the name
of the correspondent's country or. sover
eign in the body of the column is to in
flict a dire insult upon him, and is equiva
lent to the expression of the bitterest
contempt in European epistolary style.
London Saturday Review. . .
Ho Is Dead.
Mrs. Scriblets I see that the Aristotle
manuscript has been published. .
Mr. Scriblets I fear that the payment
for it will be too late to do Mr. Aristotle
any good. Pock.
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THE DALLES.
The Grate City of the 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 fwc
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 m arket 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
limited! And on these corner stones she stands.
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