A FLIRTATION.
Ire been flirting today with a baby
In the window right over the way.
And the neighbors are gossiping may be:
Bat I dont care a bit what they aay.
He's a dear little early lashed fellow.
With eyes that are laughing and sweet:
His hair was like grain, golden yellow.
He'd blue shoes for he showed me his feet
He glanced at me, pleasantly smiling.
As though saying, "I wish you'd remain."
Then he tapped on the window beguiling
And flattened his nose 'gainst the pane.
He threw me a kiss for a greeting.
He showed me the lace on his dress;
But, ah! why are moments so fleeting?
The time came for luncheon, I guess.
Then 1 waved him goodby oh, the saddest.
And smiled to him over the way.
And he looked, of all babies, the maddest.
When the nurse came and took him away.
But sometimes ho will peek thro' the curtain
And hold the lace edges apart.
So I'll watch every day, for I'm certain .
That baby has broken my heart!
Kate Masterson in Once a Week.
"Wliert Reporter Gets the Worst of It.
1 sometimes think that the newspaper
reporter has a little more to contend
with than almost any other man in busi
ness. Take the commercial drummer,
for instance. He goes into a town to sell
goods. If he finds his man out of sorts
all he has to do is to move on to some
other town and try another, or he can
wait for his customer to get in the prop
er mood. If the deal between two specu
lators is of any moment the man who is
engineering the deal can maneuver it
according to circumstances. He may
wait until he gets his man down to a
dinner where the wine is flowing freely.
But the newspaper reporter must tackle
his man wherever he can find him. The
man may have had some terrible mis
fortune, trouble, or a death in his fam
ily, or he may have just had an allured
poor dinner. But that is none of the re
porter's business. He goes at the man
with questions. He must tackle him
where he finds him. If the man has had
a smooth day of it, all right and well,
But if he hasn't the reporter must get at
him in some way. In doing eo he runs
the risk of making an enemy for life and
losing his reputation as an interviewer.
The commercial man has the time to
work his customer to the proper pitch.
The reporter must get his man instanter
no matter what obstacles are in the way.
Chicago Tribune.
Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Says a literary man of some note: "It
took me a long time to appreciate the
beauties of Shakespeare's sonnets. On
the first reading I found little in them
to attract, but on the advice of a friend
I kept on reading them. After a score
of readings I began to see new mean
ings, and soon I became fascinated.
procured a small 'vest pocket' edition
and carried it with me wherever I went,
reading the sonnets in the street cars or
wherever I happened to have a few
minutes leisure. They are really won
derful. "Some of them I have read hundreds
of times, and have made them my own
so far as memory can appropriate the
thoughts of auother. Now I can under
stand the enthusiasm of my friend, who
says that if he had to give up either
Shakespeare's sonnets or Shakespeare's
plays, it would be the plays that would
have to go. I can think of no literature
in so small a compass that so well re
pays reading and studying." New York
Tribune.
A Curious Name Combination.
"What is in a name?'' has been a ques
tion sumciently unanswered to still re
main a subject for discussion, but what
is in two names should have a double in
terest. If you don't think so, take two
names as well known as any in American
history and look at them. . They are the
names of Lincoln and Hamlin. Of course
there is nothing peculiar about them as
they stand, but set them differently and
observe the result. For an instance.
place them thiswise:
HAM LIN
LIN COLN
Bead up and down and then across
There is something in that, isn't there?
Now, again:
ABRA HAMLIN COLN.
Can you find two other names of two
other men whose official lives and names
combine as these do? St. Louis Repuh-
lie
A Mohammedan Marriage In Kngland.
The first Mohammedan marriage ever
celebrated in England took place at the
Moslems' meeting place in Liverpool, the
only mosque in England. The bride, an
English lady, not being a Moslem, the
ordinary marriage service was previously
gone through in au Episcopal church in
CamberwelL The bridegroom was the
son of a Nawab of India. London Tit
Bits. '
If the cover of the kettle is lifted, the
, boiling water seems to be covered by a
cloud of white steam, but this cloud did
not exist before the cover was raised; it
has been formed by the sudden cooling
of the vapor. In a glass boiler which is
either completely sealed or provided
with only a narrow outlet for the vapor,
the space above the water is perfectly
transparent and apparently empty.
The Daughters of Israel is a society re
cently organized in Baltimore, modeled
after the Kings' Daughters., Several
hundred young ladies have been formed
into bands of ten for the purpose of "do
ing little deeds of kindness" at home
and in the neighborhood. Each member
will wear a medallion or decoration with
"Love thy neighbor as thyself" inscribed
in Hebrew letters.
At only five points can we just touch
each other, and all that is and that
only by the function of our poor senses
from the outside. In vain we rack
them that we may get a little closer to
the best beloved and most implicitly
trusted; ever in vain, from the cradle to
the grave.
Nitrade of soda has again been tried
as a fertilizer of tomatoes. The result
was a very marked increase of crop in
every case, the most profitable increase
coming from the use of nitrate alone.
LOCATING THE QUEEN.
A MAN FROM AWAY BACK FALLS
IN WITH A THREE CARD SHARP.
Bat He Was Not the Green Countryman
That He Looked, and He Taught the
Professional Swindler a Lesson That the
Latter Will Not Soon Forget,
The performance in Forepaugh's circus
tent had just ended. Within the side
show tents the hand organs set np their
loudest and liveliest music and the loud-
voiced fakir - outside redoubled bis ora
torical exertions as the great crowd
8 urged past his grand aggregation of
wonders. At the southern end of the
lake front, away from the noise and
hurly burly of the big show, sat two
tired looking individuals, whose every
appearance indicated that they had left
their work upon the farm to enjoy a day
with Forepaugh, and had done it so
thoroughly that they were half dead with
fatigue. A three card monte sharp's
eagle eye caught the rustics and he
swooped down upon his prey like a
young rooster after a potato bug.
Pretty hot, isn't it" he began. "You
haven't seen a man around here, have
you, with a long white linen duster on,
tall white hat and plaid suit? No? Well,
I'm looking for him. Friend of mine.
Left me about an hour ago. He's going
to have some fellows arrested down
there in one of the little tents. Darned
fool, I tell him. You see, he was swin
dled by a couple of men three card
mon what is it? Oh, yes, three card
Monte Carlo. Taken into camp just as
slick as grease. Lost a couple of hun
dred on it in less than a minute. Bob
bery, nothing else; but a man's a blamed
fool to bet his money on another fellow's
game. Served him right, I say."
"Cleaned him out, eh?" drawled one
of the rustics. "Well, that game is as
old as the hills, and a feller that hasn't
more sense than to try to beat it ought
to be turned out to pasture for a while."
PRETTY GOOD BAIT.
"Looks simple enough," continued the
fakir. "I saw the whole thing. Of
course I wouldn't bet not a cent but
blamed if I wouldn't have put my money
just where my friend did. Darned
sharp, these show fellows. Sleight-of-
hand trick, I guess. They mix up the
cards some way when they throw them
down. That is , the only explanation of
it I can give."
The farmers laughed. "Well, you've
guessed it," said one of them after a
hearty burst of merriment.
"Oh, laugh away seems funny enough
now; but it isn't so darned funny to the
poor fool who loses his money. It isn't
an easy thing to do, let me tell you. I
can't throw the cards just as those fel
lows did, but they took three cards, just
like this, and threw them down, like
that? and then bet that my friend
couldn't pick out the queen."
"Straight three card monte, as sure as
you're born," said one of the rural visit
ors. "I've read all about it a hundred
times. Never saw the thing done
though."
"Well, this is all there is to it 'the
showman did nothing more than this.
See? Simple enough, ain't it?"
"Why, I should say sol I don't see
how your friend lost his money."
"He picked out the wrong card, that's
alL" - ;
"Couldn't have been watching very
sharp, I guess."
"Well, don't you fool yourself. It
ain't such an easy trick to pick out
the right card. Do you think you can
doit?"
"I could if the other fellow didn't do
better work than you do."
"Bet you a quarter you can't pick out
the queen, just as the cards lie there
now." .
. For an answer the farmer turned over
one of the cards, showing the smiling
face of the queen.
THE SWINDLER CAUGHT. -
"Well, by jingo, you did it the first
time. There's your money. Now, then,
watch the cards closely. There! Pick
out the queen. I'll bet you a dollar you
can't do it, or 5 or $10 or $25 or $100."
"Well, put up your money if you want
to walk home with your fool friend.
I've just $100 left and it's going to win
$100 more for me right here and now."
A moment later one of the grangers
held in his hand $200, while the other
bent over the cards preparatory to pick
ing out the royal winner.
"Hurry upl Locate the queen and the
money's yours; if not, it's mine." And
the professional hungrily eyed the
Btaker. But his victim was inclined to
move rather leisurely.
"Let s see, he said meditatively, "you
stood here just like this, and you held
the three cards in your hand like this,
with the queen on top. Then you gave
your arm a swing like this and"
"Well!"
"Palmed the queen, dropped the nine
spot in its place, and shoved the queen
up your right coat sleeve, where it is
now. A very bad job, too, partner, be
cause it's dead crooked and so easy that
any schoolboy might catch you dead to
rights and shoot you full of holes before
you could square yourself.
"I shall always remember the last time
worked that lay myself," he continued,
as he stowed away the roll of bills. "It
was in the summer of 1880. I was do
ing outside work with Barn urn's show
that season, and when we struck Louis
ville I caught a sleepy young fellow with
work the 'switch' on him-justas you do'
it, precisely. I had not finished tie ex-1
periment before I made a rather start
ling discovery. . . '
"I found that my left lung was inhaling
air through a large hole near the fifth
rib. For the next two seasons I did not
take an active interest in the circus busi
ness. But I eventually took to the road
again, and rve been with Sells Brothers
ever since up to a week ago, when Joe
and I came here to wait for Forepaugh.
How are they
coming, partner?' Chi-
cago Mail.
The Dear Girls.
Ethel Now, how old would you sup
pose me to be? '
Maud I shouldn't like to say. Life.
OUGHT TO SEE HIS PARTNER.
Olsen Well Used Up In a Bear Fight, bat
.Nothing Like the Other Man.
A man who looked as if he had been
trying to hug the cylinder of a thresh
ing machine when it was in motion was
seen offering a pack of furs "to a dealer
lip town.
"You are rather late getting your furs
to market," said a reporter who hap
pened to be present.
"Yes," was the reply, "but I have
been laid up and could not get to town
before."
"What has been the matter with you?"
asked the reporter, who was anxious to
know how the man had been so fearfully
scratched.
"The matter with me was an attack of
bear.'"
"You had it bad, judging from your
looks."
i "Yes, 1 had it bad, and no mistake,
but you just ought to see my partner."
"Is he in a worse fix than you?"
"A great deal worse. He had so much
meat scratched off one side of him that
he has to carry a weight in his jacket
pocket to enable him to walk straight.
The sale of the furs having been com
pleted the old trapper was asked for the
story of his encounter with the bear.
He said his name was Hans Olsen, that
he lived on the edge of the big burn in
Clackamus county, and he went out on
the headwaters of the Clackamas trap
ping with Peter Hansen, who lives in
the same section. They had ' good luck
for a while, caught many minks, some
fishers, and found a swamp and small
lake where there were many " beaver,
and were getting many of them, when
deep snow came on and about spoiled
I their trapping.
After a while the snow became so deep
that they could hardly move around, and
could not get out of the mountains at
all. Then provisions ran short, and they
had to rustle and try to kill somethin,
to eat. They went out on the lake one
day and cut a hole through the ice to see
if they could catch 6ome trout, but - did
not get any.
On their way home toward night, as
they were crossing a little ravine on a
fallen tree, Olsen slipped and fell near
the roots of the tree- and came down
plump into a bear's den. The bear was
very lively for an animal supposed to
be asleep, and at once attacked him. He
had a knife and a small hatchet in his
belt, and he got out the hatchet and be
gan to chop and yelL Hansen, who was
behind, had a gun, but he was afraid to
fire down in the dark for fear of killing
his friend, and at length, drawing his
knife, jumped down with him and the
bear. There was a lively time there for
a while, and the fur and clothing and
flesh flew, but finally Hansen, who was
the worst used up man of the two, man
aged to reach a vital spot with his knife.
The bear keeled over and the two trap
pers keeled over also. They managed to
make a little fire with some of the leaves
and twigs from the bears nest, and there
was plenty of rags to bandage their
wounds, for they were all rags. It was
several days before they could crawl to
their camp with a hunk of the bear s
flesh, which had been their only food
during their stay in the den.
Olsen says be intends to go trapping
again, but he never wants to meet an
other 'bear in his own den again. His
partner, Hansen, is able to walk around
and go down to the creek and catch
few trout and look after the beehives.
Portland Oregonian.
Coffee In France,
Thevenot, the French traveler, on his
return from the Orient in 1058, treated
his guests to after dinner coffee. To
Parisians this was merely an eccentricity,
that would not have become fashionable
but for a similar example set by Soliman
Aga, the gallant Turkish embassador, in
1669. He enlisted the enthusiasm of
court ladies in favor of the black and
bitter liquor. Philosophers and littera
teurs gladly gave in their adhesion.
Boileau, La Fontaine, Moliere, Voltaire
and the encyclopedists, together with
the chess players, found inspiration in
the coffee houses, which thenceforward
assumed conspicuous position in the so
cial life of Gallic cities. "Racine and
coffee will pass," is a prediction 'of
Madame de Sevigne as yet most unlikely
of fulfillment. Richard Wheatley in
Harper's Weekly. r
Electric BarnlsuluK Machine.
An interesting application of electric
ity has been made in the electric bur
nishing machine for giving a gloss to "the
bottoms of shoes. The shoes are painted
with a dye, after which a cake of spe
cially prepared wax is placed against a
rapidly revolving brush, which absorbs
just enough to yield a coat of dressing
to the shoe bottom. The sole, hitherto a
dull black, - is speedily polished by a
wheel worked by an electric' motor.
This wheel consists of a rubber cushion
inflated with air, covered with cloth and
fixed on a grooved pulley. The reduc
tion in the cost of the process is remark
able, as from 600 to 800 pairs of heels or
soles can be burnished daily by the. new
machine. New York Commercial Ad
vertiser. A Tragedy In Battons.
Little Johnny West, of Detroit, is now
in good condition to play "Button, but
ton, who's got the button?" His mother
gave him half a dozen horn buttons to
hold while she thread ed.a needle and got
ready to sew them on his clothes. Master
Johnny swallowed the buttons, one and
aJ? dof8n't hedldf't
a waI,kln" bntton x f3.
As
be a
complete success. Detroit Free Press.
- "Oh, My! That Toothache."
Toothache, caused by a cold in the
facial nerve, may often be relieved by
wringing a soft towel out of cold water
and sprinkling it with strong vinegar.
This should be laid on the face like a
poultice, and will often be followed by a
refreshing sleep. JNew xoric Journal.
Folly Explained.
City Boarder 1 notice you keep a big
bar of soap outside by tne pump, it is
for the farm hands. I presume?
' Rural Hostess Yes; farm hands and
faces. New York Weekly.
Where Babies Are Buried In the Snow,
The Swedish child or barn (compare the
Yorkshire barn and the Scottish bairn), is
swaddled in more complex fashion than
the German. It is wound about with six
inch wide bandages, sometimes with the
arms free and sometimes not, sometimes
the legs included in the whole bundle, but
usually swathed separately. The band
ages are traditionally supposed to make
the limbs and figure grow straight. The
bandaged barn is then wrapped in a pillow
and tied about with ribbons and bows like
the German child, except that frequently
his arms are free and his legs are shortly
and stoutly suggested by the tucking in of
the pillow. After that he may be fastened
flatwise to another pillow, and slung per
pendicularly from a supple pole stuck in
the wall, so that he looks like a very queer
fish indeed, fit to be shown outside the shop
of an angling tackle maker.
Lake the German, the Swedish child al
ways wears a cap, which is borderless and
of special fineness for its first Sunday,
when it is christened. Then also it wears
beads upon its neck and gorgeous gar
ments with gay bows of ribbon, all of
which are provided by the godmother. In
the remoter parts of both Sweden and Nor
way it is still the custom every Sunday to
carry these swaddled infants to church,
which is probably a long way off. They
are not taken into church, however, but
buried for warmth in the snow, in which
a small hole is left for them to breathe
through. Strand Magazine.
Oddities About Fleas.
Nothing curious about a flea, ehf Let
us see. Put one under a strong micro
scope. What a transformation! It seems
to be clothed in armor "from head to foot,"
formed of. brown, overlapping plates, that
are so exceedingly tough as to be almost
indestructible. Its head is small and very
thin, with a single black eye on each side,
the rays of light scintillating through the
tiny optic like sparks of fire. Puget man
aged to look through the eye of a flea with
his powerful glass, finding that its surface
diminished objects in size while it multi
plied them in number a man appearing
like an army of fairies, and the flame of a
candle becoming a thousand tiny stars.
: From the shape of its head and for other
reasons the flea is supposed to use but one
eye at a time. The offensive weapon of
the little creature is composed of two
palpi, or "feelers," two piercers and a
tongue. When ic feeds it stands erect,
thrusting this sucker into the flesh, and
will eat without intermission if not dis
turbed. . The flea's manner of breathing is still
undetermined, but is thought to be through
two small holes at the end of the palpi.
St. Louis Republic
Comforting.
"I can't understand your father. Marie.
He doesn't like me any better than he did
at first, and has always created me as if
was a blockhead."
"I know, Tom, it's too bad, but it takes
poor father such a long time-to get over
first impressions." New York Truth.
Men who are constantly going around
trying to borrow a quarter should be in
terested to know that the Bank "of England
aas reoucea iuf discount raws so o per ceuw
pimples.
' The old idea of 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a "blood humor," for
which they gave potash. Thus all the old Sana,
parillas contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that Instead of decreasing,
actually creates more eruptions. You have no
ticed this when taking other Earsaparillas than
Joy's. It is however now known that the, stom
ach, the blood creating power, is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion or constipation, vitiates
the blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
healthful digestion purines it and they disappear.
Thus Joy'B Vegetable Sarsaparilla is compounded
after the modern- Idea to regulnte the bowels and
stimulate the digestion. The effect is immediate
and most satisfactory. A short testimonial to
contrast tho action of the potash Sarsaparillos
and Joy'n modern vegetable preparation. Mrs.
C. D. Stuart, of 400 Hurvs St.. S. F., writes:
have for years had 1::iU;jc:.Toii, I tried a popular
Sareaparllla but it ecl't:-.:.'.. un-cJ mure pimples
to break out.o-.i m y face. 1 i i a. ; 1 13 that Joy's was
a luter prcpar:i-.n r.uJ actol uiiVc-iontly, I tried
it and the pimple immediately disappeared."
a Vegetable
w Sarsnrasilla
Largest bottle, moat clU-ctive. same price.
For Sale by SNIPES & K1NERSLY.
THE DALLES, OREGON.
A necessity.
The consumption
of tea largely in
creases every year In
England, Russia, and
the principal Euro
pean tea-drinking
: countries. - But it
does not grow in
America. And not
alone that, but thou
sands of Europeans
-who leave Europe
ardent lovers of tea,
upon arriving in the
United States gradu
ally discontinue its use, and finally cease it
altogether. .
This state of things is due to the fact that
the Americans think so much of business
and so little of their palates that they permit
China and Japan to ship them their cheapest ;
and most worthless teas. Between : the
wealthy classes of China and Japan and the
exacting and cnltiva' ed - tea-drinkers of
Europe, the finer teas find a ready market.
The balance of the crop comes to America.
Is there any wonder, then, that our taste for
tea does not appreciate!
In view of these facts, is there not an im
mediate demand for the Importation of a
brand of tea -that Is guaranteed to be nn- .
colored, - nnmanipnlated, and of absolute
purity? We think there is, and present
Beech's Tea.' Its purity is guaranteed in
every respect. It has, therefore, more in
herent strength than the cheap teas you have
been drinking, fully one third less being re
quired for an Infusion. This yon will dis
cover the first time yon make it. Likewise,
the flavor is delightful, being the natural fla
vor of an unad jlterated article. It is a revela
tion to tea-drinkers. Sold only in packages
bearing this mark:- ,
BEEC
7ureAsOTdhood:
Mm VC 1 .
Price 60c per pound. ' For sale at
Xjojs1o 33u.tlor's,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
Trie 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
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 fiftj
cents a month.
Its Objects
will be to advertise the resources of the
city, and adjacent country, to assist in
developing1 our industries, in extending
and opening up new channels for . our
trade, in securing an opn river, and in
helping THE DALLES to take her prop
er position as the
Leading City of
The paper, both daily and weekly, will
be independent in politics, and in its
criticism of political matters, as in
handling of local affairs, it will be
JUST, FAIR AND IMPARTIAL
We will endeavor
cal news, and we ask that your criticism
of our object and course, be formed from
the contents of the paper, and hot 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. GO.
Office, N. W. Cor. Washington and Second Sts.
I. (J. fllCkTLgEN,
DEALER IN
SCHOOL BOOKS,
STATIONERY,
ORGANS,
PIANOS, .
WATCHES,
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June 19th, 1891.)
S.B. Medicine Co., -,
Gentlemen Your kind favor received,
and in reply would say that I am more
than pleased with the terms offered me
on the last shipment of your medicines.
There is nothing like them ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La-
grippe and kindred complaints. - I have
had no complaints so far, and everyone
is ready with a word of praise for their
virtues. Yours, etc., '
: , M. F. Hackxet.
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OIG-AES.
PAINT
Now is the time to paint your -ouse
and if you wish to get the best qtlity
and a fine color use the
Sherwin, 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 Kref t.
Snipes & Kinersly are agents for the
above paint for The Dalles. Or.
W.'H. NEABEACK,
PROPRIETOR OP THE
Granger Feed Yard,
' THIRD STREET.
(At Grimes' old place of business.)
Horses fed to Hay or Oats at the lowest possi
ble prices. Good care given to animals left in
my charge, as I have ample stable room. Give
me a call, and I will guarantee satisfaction.
W. H. NEABEACK.