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PASSING.
(Il the dark vafley thoo wilt Xmms to
aigbt: Ta the drear labyrinth of troubled years.
The fruitless sighs, the unavailing tears,
M laat the end grows slowly into Bight.
i doth, bat wait for day's retreating; light
r that tntnoed hoar when eve's first beacon
peers, I
L vespers gently fall on jaded ears.
tasjgrre thy soul the signal for its flight,
an, with a brow unclouded as of old,
heart no longer scathed by Sorrow's scars
Na of Life's mists and vapors manifold,
taio that clime no shadow ever mars
Was. wilt emerge, and rapt communion hold
With the beloved, long gathered to the stars
William Toynbee in Murray's Magazine.
' The Critic's True Function,
Tour individual self perfection is the
aaast laudable thing in - the world tc
attire for, bat as the nucleus of a gospel
4fc fa insipid. Frequent the busy haunts
aT amen who occupy themselves with kin
4nd pursuits not literally, of necessity,
ant sympathetically and in imagination.
It is in onion that there is strength.
"11 mark tendencies, try to stun them up,
la point out their significance and direc
aVan. Few men can be Raskins et en-
And do not imagine that you can per
manently attach and benefit your kind
'lay 'the mere force of correct, gentle and
i diction on the one hand, or of set-
: an example of repose and serenity
flat the other, because nowadays warfare
-af any kind even literary criticism is
Jaocustomed to weapons of more robust
anas and reality, and in this sphere
yeaching by specific precept is far more
-oflkaeiit than preaching by general ex
ample. And the most important of all
: ' aMags is to be in harmony with one's
and environment. Be sure, O critic!
i is something magical in this, how-
rer it may transcend consciousness.
See, for instance, how mnch finer is Mr.
Wood berry's essay on Browning a piece
f real criticism than are his lucnbra-
i about "the ideal life." Scribner's.
Demand for Larger Dynamos.
Professor Thomson, in speaking before
" X aa National Electric Light association,
amfied to mind the great work in the
aaectrical field which has been accom
plished in the last few years, and, refer
xing to the ever increasing business and
the call' for "larger machines, said that
- aynamoa up to 500 to 1,000 horse power
are now frequently called for, where, a
, fw years ago it was thought an unusual
thing to speak of a 150 or 200 horse pow
ar machine, and the tendency is toward
- machines of much larger capacity in
future electric installations.
With regard to heating our houses by
electricity, Professor Thomson thought
it not at all likely that we will ever heat
extensively by electricity, unless we can
'. . iiad some way of converting the energy
af coal into electricity- far more directly
' aard less wastefnlly than is done in steam
anginas of the present day. Boston
- Transcript.
V , ' T1 for Tat
The following story is told of Dr. Ma
gee, the archbishop of York designate.
" 9mis time since the bishop was dining
with a total abstainer, who provided
aly water as the beverage of his guests
at dinner. The host, however, leaned
forward and whispered confidentially to
, the bishop:
' ' ""Too will find some wine in your bed-
- An amusing look passed over Bishop
Magee's face, but his thoughts, such as
they were, were kept to himself till the
fttting time should come. . Not long af tei
this same gentleman was dining with
the bishop in return at the palace at
Peterborough. This time the only bev
erage was wine, but the bishop leaned
Jorward and whispered confidentially to
his guest:
"You'll find some water in vrmr hel-
Toom. " London Tit-Bits.
' Minute Collections.
f There is a naturalist whose hobby con
sists in collecting the fine dust with
which the winga of moths and butterflies
are. covered and forming them into artis
... "tic and picturesque designs. He mounts
each single grain of dust separately, so
aa to make boquets of flowers and fern
leaves with butterflies hovering round.
This he does in a space occupied by the
eighth of an inch. In another design he
has a vase of passion flowers made of up
ward of 300 grains of dust: and again he
has represented a pot of fuchsias, with
butterflies and birds, in three-sixteenths
af a square inch. Illustrated American.
Something Greek. .
Modern literature, so far as the old
fashioned scholarship could misguide it,
has imitated the Roman imitators of the
Greeks, so that we have not even had
advantage of aping at first hand, and
we are only just beginning to feel the
' true influence of the Greeks, which is ai
ways toward the study of nature. Wher
ever one of us succeeds in' representing
life, he is seen to have cone something
Greek; that is, something true, some
thing free, something beautiful,, some
thing novel, something temperate.
. William Dean Howells in Harper's. -
s : '
He Missed His Chance.
A couple of property owners were in
specting some plots of land near the Lux
emburg palace, when one of them re
marked, "Look here, I remember the
time when I could have had a good slice
of this land for the price of pair of
boots." .
"Why didn't you buy it then?"
"I wanted the boots worse." Le Petit
.Journal.
' .. In localities exposed . to the north
J ern-k is better than in those exposed to
the south, and it is seldom found in cal
careous soil, preferring always that of
, the felspar; this being fonnd principally
in the province of Gerona.; It grows
and develops in ground of, very little
depth, and sometimes in' very stony
(round.
It is stated that in 50 per cent, of the
eases which go through the Bankruptcy
court in England no dividend is ever
aid at all. A grocer and provision
dealer failed in Glasgow. His liabilities
1,470, while his assets amounted
one-sixth of a penny per pound.
FELL AMONG MIND READERS.
A Young- Bridegroom's Embarrassing Ex
perience at the Board of Trade.
A day or two ago, a few minutes be-,
fore the opening of the board of trade,
there stepped into one of the elevators in
the building a well known commission
man and a country customer. The coun
tryman was a young, fresh faced, un
sophisticated looking chap, who was in
Chicago for the first time looking after a
couple .of . cars of wheat that he had
shipped in. As the elevator rose he casu
ally remarked to the commission man:
"I was married last night, and this is a
sort of a bridal trip.''
Congratulations were extended by the
commission man as they stepped out into
the hall leading to the exchange. Among
the others who rode up in the elevator
was a certain blonde young man whose
love for a practical joke has made him
rather famous on the floor.' He had
chanced to stand back to back with the
young countryman, had overheard the
confidential admission made by him to
his friend, and as they stepped from the
elevator be managed to get a good look
at Mr. Younghusband.
An hour or so later, when he had a
few moments to himself, he stepped over
to the telegraph counter and wrote upon
a blank: "1 have bet $100 to $10 that
you were but recently married. Do 1
win my bet:" This he folded and placed
in an envelope, and, calling a messenger
boy, pointed out Mr. Younghusband.
and bade him deliver the message. . "
He told a few of his cronies on the
floor what he had done, and the yonng
countryman was watched with consider
able interest by a dozen or twenty trad
ers in various parts 'of the crowd. He
received the message from the boy with
a half doubting look, opened it slowly,
and as he comprehended its contents his
face was dyed a deep crimson, while a
foolish smile lifted the corners of his
mouth.
He looked about him sheepishly to see
if he could discover the author of the
message and then beat a rather precipi
tous retreat. He failed to put in an ap
pearance again that day. Subsequently
the author of the note asked the yonng
man's broker if he had said anything
about it.
"Yes, he did And he was the most
surprised man you ever saw. He could
not imagine where the note came from,
and when he said goodby to me he ob
served: 'Dick, these board of trade fel
lows are too all fired smart for me. 1
don't wonder that ' they can skin us if
they are all mind readers, as some , of
them seem to be." And, he went "home
just a little bit dazed. "--Chicato Trib
une. T ' . ,
A City Fonr-o'Clock. '
"It is just 4 o'clock," remarked a gen
tleman who was standing on the steps of
the Astor House.
"No, it is not," said a friend who stood
there with him looking at a watch. "My
watch makes it a quarter after 4. and 1
only had it set yesterday."
A bet was made between the two
friends as to what the hour was. "1
know it's just 4 o'clock, because here is
Dr. Norvin Green, the president of the
Western Union Telegraph company, and
he always gets here at 4 o'clock to the
minute," said the first speaker.
An investigation as to. the hour was
made and it was found that it was just
exactly 4 o'clock, as any one who is
acquainted with the movements of Dr.
Green would certainly have known. If
he is well or in the city he very seldom
deviates a minute in the time that he
reaches the Astor House. He always
leaves his office in the Western Union
Building at 8:55 o'clock p. m. and stroll?
leisurely up to the Astor House.
The regularity with which he reaches
this place every day has become a hobby
with him and he prides himself upon it
He says that all his movements have the
same clock-like precision as does his
appearance at the hotel. He is so sure
that he will never be mnch out of the
way that he has an understanding with
a number of people who frequent the
Astor House that they can always expect
him to treat if he is ever five minutes
out of the way in his arrival, unless he
should be sick or out of town or on days
when there is a directors' meeting of the
Western Union. New York Recorder
Whistled to Death.'
It is alleged that for a generation the
people of Alexandria, Va., have been
afflicted with the whistling distemper.
It has often puzzled the good people of
Alexandria to know why General Albert
Pike changed his place of residence from
this place to Washington a few years
ago. His residence at the corner of
Cameron and St. Asaph streets was one
of the nicest in this town. He had his
magnificent library there, and when a
few years ago he announced that he had
determined to remove to Washington
many were the conjectures as to . the
cause of the move, and many were the
causes assigned.
Only a few days before his death the
matter was cleared up. In a conversa
tion with a gentleman from this city the
general was asked why he had left this
city for Washington, and his reply was
because "the Alexandria people whistle
too much." Cor. Richmond Dispatch.
A Bit of Advice.
At a big shooting party in England
Gerard Start, now Lord Alington, was
one of the guests. One of the party who
had not succeeded in making himself
very popular said to him on the morning
of their departure, "Would you .mind
telling me, Start, what yon generally
give these fellows in the way of tipsF'
"Certainly: IH tell you with pleasure.
I give the gamekeeper so much, and the
butler so much, etc.." but," he added, "if
yon will allow me to give yon a piece of
advice, if I were in your place I wouldn't
give them anything at alL You'll never
be asked here again. What's the user
Cecil Clay in London Truth.
. Rivalry.
First Boy- My ma is educated. She
has "Ecce Homo" in the original.
Second Boy Pshaw! that's nothing.
Mine has eczema in the arm. Journal
of Education.
BIG CRIMINALS GONE.
INSPECTOR . BYRNES TELLS WHY
THEY LEFT NEW YORK.
The Police Followed Them Too Closely.
Metropolitan Detectives Advertised by
Photograph Well Known Crooks Both
In This Coantry and In Bsrops.
If Inspector Byrnes is to be believed,
high class professional criminals are a
passing generation. The inspector does
not mean by this that high class crimes
have ceased, nor that they are any less
numerous than heretofore, but that the
professional who had the skill to plan
great crimes and the daring to execute
them is no longer a distinguished feature
of city life. .
"Twelve years ago," said the inspector I
"there were bold, defiant and skillful
bands of criminals in this city. They
followed crime as a profession. They
lived by stealing large sums of money in
the lower part of New York. They were
to be seen daily on Broadway, parading
their ill gotten gains in diamonds, in fine
clothes, and in lavish expenditures of
money. They scarcely took the trouble
to conceal their method of gaining a
living. In fact, there was little neces
sity for concealment. ' In many cases
they so carefully covered their tracks
that the law was not able to fasten crime
upon any one of them. In other canes,
and these were the more numerous, they
avoided the consequences of their acts
by compromise.
"The person, who was robbed preferred
to get. back some part of his money
rather than to take high moral ground
and punish the thief. So they made New
York their headquarters and their chief
field of operation. These men were,
many of them, well educated, and all of
them clever. Their plans and their ob
ject were on the most extensive scale.
In this way millions upon millions of
dollars were stolen. They worked in
gangs of from four to six. Each gang
formed a close corporation, and there
was no fear of betrayal.
BREAKING TJP THE PROFESSION.
"About twelve years ago this began to
change, and has continued to change
ever since. The police officials began to
pursue new methods with the criminals,
and the new methods were successful.
These professionals were brought in and
photographed, and their photographs
were spread abroad, so that their faces
became pretty well known. They were
sent, up to the penitentiary whenever
there was a chance for conviction, and
an impression became prevalent ' among
them tha the old time 'honor among
thieves existed no longer. They began
to suspect that there were traitors.
Whenever four men came together to do
a job each looked askance at the three
others' and each- feared that one of the
others" might be leaking to the police.
When their confidence was gone the
stampede began. They soon were con
vinced that New York was not the place
for them to operate. They still made
New York their headquarters, however.
"With this city as a base of operations
they worked the inland towns and Balti
more and Boston and such cities along
the coast. My business then became the
work of following them up there. When
ever a crime was reported from another
city, and the criminals were thought to
be New York thieves, our force helped
to hunt them down. In this way many
of the high class criminals were arrested
here and sent to other cities, where they
were convicted and sentenced to good
long terms.
"Another field which they could work
with New York as a base was Europe.
When they no longer found it profitable
to work in New York some of the best
of them crossed over- and forged and'
robbed in England and Germany and
France 1 have, known these men to
make two trips a year, and to return
each time with the spoils they had gained
somewhere or other.
THE THIEVES OV TODAY.
"We did not lose sight of them, how
ever, but opened communication with
the authorities over there. Sometimes
we got information that a raid was to
be made, and forewarned the officials
over there, so that the thieves were cap
tured, or the attempt thwarted at least.
"So it has come to pass that the great
professionals, so notorious fifteen years
ago, are no longer heard of. They are
. in other parts of this country or in Eu
rope. - Many of them are in peniten
tiaries. Nor have they left any suc
cessors behind them. The men of the
present generation who are criminals at
heart do not pursue professional methods.
There have been few graduates of late
years into the high class stealing busi
ness, and there will be fewer stilL No
one should infer from this that there are
no more professional criminals. There
are thousands of them hundreds in New
York and they are breeding all the time.'
But the new criminals are all young.
They are not nearly so dangerous as the
old generation, because they have neither
the intelligence nor the adroitness. - '
"The professional thieves of New York
are today an insignificant set, stealers of
small things, clothing, a few bits of
jewelry, the contents of a sidewaTk
showcase. When they commit highway
robbery it is upon a poor map. walking
through the darker parts of the city.
But it must be said for them that in
these little thefts and crimes they are
more daring than were the big thieves
in their great crimes. For the big thieves
were wary as well as bold, and knew the
consequences and feared to take desper
ate risks. But these young small thieves
know nothing of the consequences of
crime and so do net- care." New York
Sun.
-- What War Has Cost franco.
War, without counting the Tunis and
Tonkin expeditions, has absorbed 13,641,
812,008 francs, and the naval movements
8,473,761,853 more. Independent of these
runs we mnst add the expenses on ac
count of liquidation namely, 1,575,633,
933 francs for the replacing of materials
and stock annihilated during the war of
1870-71, and 98,026.148 francs allotted to
the navy for the same purpose, which
shows that war has cost France $3,040.
000,000 since 1870. Chicago Herald.
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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 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 herei 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.
to stay. It heroes
open river, and in
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