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WORLDS.
Hillllin i -t Oat from the Cuimrjr T1- j
LGEttDARY
ttiil to Dlnowr Tncro. .
Stories of legendary worlds have at all
tones ponpetwod a fascination for most
aainds aud formed the subject of inuch
curious Hpwuliition. However childish
. jsucb tales iii:iy sueiu at the preseut dayr
"they onc wielded sufficient sway,"
says M. FliMnnriiMi in his "History of tbt
Heavens,!' "Over men's minds as to gain
' their belief in the veritable existence of
the places MUTilied, and in this way to
- influence their astronomical and comiio
. graphical ideas. .
- j Mauy sncli legends originated w'aeu
"geography was in its infancy and the
greater part of the world's snrface still
snknown. From that time, tio, travel
era like Sir John Mandeville excited
j cariosity by relating discoveries which
' "they professed to have made in their disr
J tant journeying, and which those who
1 received them readily accepted' as facts.
In process of time these mythical ae
' counts were gradually circulated from
- one country to another and became in-
- terwoven with the traditions of the
. people among whom they . were told.
Hence, in one form , or another, we find
- in most parts of the world numerous
' stories of legendary worlds still current,
' survivals of which may be traced to the
literature of modern times. Thus, go
, .ing 'back to early days, the poets and
philosophers of Greece and Rome gave
;V detailed nccounts of the land whither
mortals wend their way when this life
as over, ennmerating its rivers, its lakes,
its woods and mountains.
Accordingly, Ulysses ' was said to
- reach the place of the dead by crossing
. the ocean to the Cimmerian land.
JEneas to have entered it by the Lake!
Avernns, whereas Xeuoplion informs ns
that Hercules went there by the penin
sula of Arechnsaide. In early times the
Canary Islands were regarded as" the
neighborhood of the terrestrial home of.
the blessed dead, and many wonderful
stories were told of this enchanted lo
cality. Thus, as Washington Irving writes:
Occasionally this . enigmatical spot
would be visible from their' shores,
stretching far awaj- in the clear bright
west, to all appearance substantial like
themselves ami . still more beautifnL
.Expeditions would'' launch- forth from
the Canaries to explore this land of prom
ise. For a long time its sun gilt peaks
and shndowy "promontories . would, re
main distinctly visible, but in propor
tion as the voyagers' approached peak
and promontory wopld gradually" fade
way until nothing would remain but
. bine sky above and - diep blue water be
low." , '
This legendary land was, as the Portu
guese and . Spanish declared, an island
-which had sometimes leen lighted upon
by accident, but when sought for could
not be found. But a king of Portugal is
said to have made a conditional . sur
render of it to another when it should be
discovered, and when the kingdom of
Portugal ceded to the Castilian crown
its rights over the Canaries the treaty
included the island of Brahdam, de
scribed as the island which had not yet
been found. London Standard.
There are numbers of dentists in New
York who aught to be -sawing wood. -. 1
had a friend tell me about (i week ago of
a severe pain in a tooth which he had
nly recently had filled. He argued that
it could not be the tooth, because, he had
-only a few days before satin the' den
twt's chair. The dentist was unknown
to him. aud had been selected because
his office was next the place where -my
friend boards. I ad vised him to go. to a
first class dental practitioner, which he
did. Ne day he said to me: "Do yon
know what was the matter with my
tooth? That fellow up by my boarding
"bouse did not clean the tooth out before
Joe filled it. Ho had left pieces of cotton
in the cavity and had piled the gold in.
on top of it No wonder it ached."
New York Press.
Knglund'H Early Coins. '
When England was being .made into
mince meat and blocks of real -Estate by
the Saxons and Danes silver and brass
were in use as ' currency, but the Nor
mans subsequently installed the aristo
cratic metal and left the democratic
brass to take care of itself. Gold was
first coined by Henry FH, and copper
. made' into British coin in 1672. Tin was
Tosed for coinage iu 1680, and the national
farthing was made of this Cambrian
product; with a stud of copper set in the
center. In 1690 and 1691 tin half pence
were issued in considerable quantities.
The only pure gold coins issued in En
glish history were those of Henry III.
Age of SteeL . -
Cuttlng Behind.
When we charge a youngster with
'"cutting behind" we make a charge that
cannot be proved. - Every boy knows
that the cutting behind"is done by the
xoan who sits in front with the whip.
He cuts behind at the boy who hangs on
behind,' hut the latter is used to it, and
enjoys his ride as . much as he does the
jealousy of his companion afoot, who
oat of revenge yells, "Cut behind!" to the
driver, and then maliciously ipforms the
teacher that it was the boy wto cut be
hind. Harper's Young People. ...
She Never Had Seen it.
The other day a little girl was saying
ber commandments. "For in six days,"
she repeated rapidly; "the Lord made
heaven and earth, the sea and allthatin
themiz." Then the stopped, "Mamma,1
she said, "I've seen the heaven, and the
earth, and' the sea, but I -never saw -any
t allthatinthemiz. Where does God keep
that?" The child had really believed
that i there -was a certain separate ere
at ion nailed "alTthatinthemiz" ' that she
Jaad neyetf been able to find. kew York
. Kvening Sun.'
The Sailor's Lot. '
Merchant You made , good time. froni
the Fever Islands. How -is the crew?
Ship Captain Half of them are sjek.
"Sick of the fever?" -
"No; of: ,the fumigations." .Opod
jjiews.
i i I100S1NG :A SERVANT; i
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OPIKHONS OF SEVERAL INTELLI
GENCE OFFICE KEEPERS!"
With Ordinary Unskilled Help the"Clii- ,
' Trouble Ik Generally with the Employ- j
or. Who I Unually a Woman In- I
Justice to llijrd working tiirln. o '
A small tow headed bov,' with a vacant i'
look on his face, and a thumb worn old
blankbook in his dirty hands, sitting on j
a short stool before a littered desk, whis- j
tling in a lazy, half hearted tone; a small
stove erhitting a tierce heat in an ind'. - i
naut sort of wav, as if disgusted with
itself and its surroundings: nine rickety
chairs, set in rows along ; the walls: a
faded old carpet, a smoke stained ceiling
and rickety table these are the ob
jects of furniture in a small .square room
one one of the east side avenues, i
The interior of the room 'is screened
from the view of passers by a dingy blue
curtain drawn over the ; lower half of
the windows. A legend in faded yellow
once gilt letters over the door and on
.the. windows iurnoiihces that servant
may be- hired there. '.' This is a typical
"Employment Agency.
A reasonably careful olxserver will see
many curious things iu an hour in one
of , these agencies-. - It always easy to
get high priced help.' There is plenty of
it.,- But the less-skilled aud lower priced
service is hard ' to' Obtain. That is tho
kind most of the agencies have to do
with. Nine out of ten of the agents will
tell you that the great trouble in secur
ing satisfactory help is with the employ
ers. A casual investigation goes to show
that they are right ,
VARIOCS OPISIONS. - -
. The agents say that the business has
changed greatly in the last few years.
""Twenty years ago, said one of them
recently, "when a yonnrf couple set up
housekeeping they expected to start a
permanent establishment The women
in those days were familiar with house
work from their own house training.
They were not ashamed to go into the
kitchen occasionally and give the green
help a little instruction. Then, too. we
got a-great .: deal of green help from the
constant immigration which stopped
here.. ' "- ' t .. , ' '.".
' Now", all that is changed. The women
either don't , know enough, or are too
'high toned to go into their kitchens and
give their cook a pointer when things
don't go right And the supply of green
help from immigrants is cut off. ; They
don't stop here any more. , .They go on
out weBt, where . the old way has not
changed so much for the worse. It's
almost impossible to get the ordinary
plain help now." - ''"'
"Very few people know how to engage
help." said another agents "They come
here and talk to the girls for an hour at
a time, and they don't know enough to
pick out. the one . who will snit them.
Four-fifths of the tiine.they go to telling
what I said to my last cook, or "what
"she said to me.'.and.the npsbot of it i:
they make the girl think the place is too
hard and she won't go. whereas if they
went at it in a businesslike way they
could soon be suited." "
. '"'.Yes,said a third -agent, "the ever
lasting shifting is making a lot of trou
ble now. : It's a rare, thing for. a girl to
have a .place mure than a few months,
even when she gives the best satisfaction.
People go to Europe for the summer and
go to Florida for the winter, and keep
house iin the ' intervals between their
pleasant tripn. .-Then they growl because
they can't get first class help. They're
the people that do the kicking. They
want servants to show - references for
years of service when they only expect
to hire them for a few weeks or months."
'-'. TWO AGENCIKS.
-' There are two inside rooms at the place
above described where girls looking for
work wait for possible employers.' They
come early in the morning and wait un
til the. office closes at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. When an employer comes
the agent politely offers a chair and in
quires into the - needs pf his customer.
He then goes into one of the inner rooms
aud looks over his supply. The accom
plishments and : pedigree of each one in
the inside rooms have been' fully noted
down when they applied to the agent,
and he is pretty familiar with them all.
He selects what one he thinks will 1est
satisfy the visitor, and indicates with a
graceful wave of the hand the 'onet
whom the aspirant for .work' is to ad
dress herself. Sometimes a bargain is
struck almost immediately. '
There is an employment office in Sixth
avenue that is just a little different from
any of the rest of them. It is run by a
woman, a clear headed, gray eyed Eng-
liah woman, who was for years the
housekeeper for a well known New
Yorker. - Her clientage is almost wholly
among the wealthy people. And the
peculiar part of it is that they -scarcely
ever visit her office. She T has a whole
deskful of letters which say, ' You know
just what I want, and I trust you to get
it for me." - " . ,
Some day this woman will 'wake up to
the fact that she has a valuable lot of
autograph letters from many of the best
known women of this city, with not a
few. fromj Philadelphia, Washington,
Baltimore and other towns. An auction
sale of. these autographs would interest
a great many people and be very profit
able to her. New York Sun. '"
' . , A Practical Joke.
Tramp You gave me a counterfeit $."
bill a few moments ago.
... Practical Joker Hel he! he! ho!
ho! : Found it out, eh? .
Yes,"iri and orr my "information an
officer is now looking for you. Gim'me
6 in good money and I'll throw 'em off
the track. Thanks. , . Ta. taH Good
News, i '
Slie Craiad Appreciation.
A little threeyear-old" girl'; was i taken
to church for the first time.'After prom
ising that she would sit still and not
talk. C For. some .time she was as quiet
and as prim as possible, when suddenly
she turned to her mother and said aloud.
"Mamma, isn't I v a . good girl not to
talk?" Boston Traveller.
A -WOMAN'S ODD CAPRICE
' ! '
UNACCOUNTABLE, YET IT MADE HER
SUPREMELY HAPPY.
A SnidM ;-WHoi': iteiim ' Her ' ami She
Started on a Visit to Mew. York by a
Cirraitou Konte She Meet a . Long
Lotst Brother.
"My aunt, Mrs. O. P. Smith, of St.
Louis, started east Ut visit relatives of her
husband .in Dutchess county," said one
of those relatives, a well known railroad
man. "Her direct route was by the
New York Central's system to Fishkill.
and that was the way the trip had been
laid out. " Half an hour before starting.
however, Mrs. Smith surprised her . hus- '
band by saying that she intended to go
toy the Erie route. ,
That would necessitate a roundabout
way by New York city or by Newburg
and across the Hudson, and her husband
tried to argue her out of her sudden and
unreasonable determination. She stoutly
insisted, however, that she must .go by
the? Erie. " " . .
. "f I can't tell you why J. have such an
inclination to go that way, she said:
'but I have that feeling, and 1 do not be
lieve i(. could bring myself to go any
A4.U ...'.'..
"Of course her husband gave in to her j
whim, and nut it down to woman's ca- ;
price. My. aunt is. . native of Rich-:
mond. Va. aud during the war, being ;
about sixteen, her only sister 'died, and ;
her brother was- killed in the -defense of i
Richmond. This, left- "her without a 3
known relative, unless the oldest one of j
j the family, a brother, who had gone to
California in itio.5. was living.---
. "She found a home,' however, with j
a Richmond family, who moved west
after the war, where the orphan girl. ;
whose . name . was Allison, subsequently j
met and 'married my Uncle Smith. . She
was ten years old when-her brother)
went .to California.-, and he was then
twenty-five. : She had never heard any
thing from him since the war broke out.
A 14-lr.nfrll tit fuf-H VtrV, t,Tl alio' IVad i
" " "-' . .. ..u WUV ......
Tnnf oio-Vit- alia rot-iiinml a viirirl emom-
put eight, she retaine.1 a vivid remem- 4
brance of his face. and manner.
A STKANQK MEETING. . :
' "At Meadville, Pa.', the next morning
after leaving St Louis, my aunt kept
her berth. While she was making her
toilet the porter had made up the sec
tion. When she returned and sat down
a sprightly but elderly man sat down in
the other seat of her section and said:
"Excuse me. , madam,, but. Ill,; just
drop down here while the porter fixes up
things in my section. Pm only going to
the next station any way. , .
. "My aunt opened her mouth to reply,
but she didn't speak. She simply fast
ened her. eyes .on .the old .manopposite.
He was tall and bright eyed, with a sil
vegraytnustache and goatee the' latter
long and pointed. He wore a wide
brimmed -felt hat My aunt's manner
seemed to nettle him. and he exclaimed,
rising: ' ' :
,AIf "1 annoy you, madam. I will go to
some other seat." ;- "- "'- '
- 'fMyi aunt managed ' to; loosen-'-'bet
tongue then; aud putting out her hand
begged him to be seated. - He sat down
again, and iny aunt looked out oi-tne
window, or at least she days she tried
to, but she felt herself drawn irresistibly
to look . covertly at the gray bearded
stranger, ..When the porter had. arranged
the stranger's section, and he arose and
went to it, my aunt's . eye followed him.
- She tried to speak to him as he went
from her seat, but she didn't seem to be
able to get out the words she wanted to
say- ..''.
The next station was Union City. It
was only half an hour's ride from Mead-
ville. and as the train drew nearer to it
my aunt says she could hardly breath,
her heart beat so. and she felt as if sin
must speak to the old man or die. But
somehow she could not. At last the
train wh&tled for Union City. The gray
bearded man took his valise and pre
pared to leave his seat The train be
gan to slow up. The old man walked
toward the front end of the car. He was
passing my aunt's section.
.THE RECOGNITION.
"She pressed one hand on her thumping
heart and, almost choking, she touched
the stranger's arm and gasped:
" 'Sir, isn't your name. Allison? ......
"The man looked surprised and said.
Why, yes: inv name's Allison.
" 'Charles Jasper Allison? . . '
'Yes,' said the stranger, looking still
more surprised. j
" "Uian t your sister ume used to
call you Jass?" ...
'She didr he exclaimed. 'But
why '
" Oh, Jass! fin your sister Carrie!'
I exclaimetl tny aunt, and her arms were
around the old man's neck and he was
holding her to his breast, while both of
them sobbed like a couple of children.
"The long lost brother did not get off
at Union City. He was the very image
of her father when he died, my aunt
said, aud that is why she felt from the
very first that he was her brother Jass.
The brother is still a Calif orhian, an ex
tensive ,.vineyardist, and while, in , Chi
cago he suddenly remembered that an
old friend of his was in or near Union
City, and he resolved to visit bim before
returning to the coast. This had occur
red about half an hour before the train
he was to take left Chicago, and he was
just able to catch it by an extra effort. '
'suppose ray aunt badn t .suddenly
taken that whim to travel by .the Erie?
Or suppose her brother hadn't suddenly
bethought him of his old friend in Union
City? -And how do you account for it
all, anyhow?" New York Snn..
Deri -ration off Two Common Words.
' Our common word abridge has no. con
nection with, a bridge. It, is a modifi
cation of ; the Greek brachus,. short,
through the French abreger to; shorten.
Nor has mildew an j-tning to do either
with mill or dew. The word is the old
High German militon, rust on corn. -The
likeness between mili and niel t (honey)
suggested a connection which resulted iu
the translation of the second part of the
word into, dew., as .hinting at :ther. ruo
etance known as honey dew. Harper's
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Th.e Grate City of the Iniand Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and
is a thriving, prosperous cfty.J ... I
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 nvool from "which finds marlcet nere.
The ' Dalles is the largest original -wool i shipping
point ' in America; ' atoout. 5,000,000 pounds Demg
shipped last year..:. ... ' , .;
.. v: ' . ITS PRODUCTS.
"The salmon fisheries are
yielding this; year b. revenue of $1,500,000 -which can
and j-will. be .more .than doubled in tne near, iuture. -
The 'products of the beautiful lUickital valley find
market here, and' the country, south and east has this
year filled the warehouses;
places to uveraowiflg walxi wich: .jjiuuuui.a. -
' ' :- ITS WEALTH .
;! It is the richest 'city; ;;of its;s
jnoheyi 19 scattered oyer and is being used to develop,
more farming country than is tributary to any other
city in-Eastern Oregon. , j ;
Its situation is" unsurpassed! Its 'climate ' delight
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limited! And on these' edrner' stones' she stands.
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