sam. ;
ever had
Was a payin' for a license to git married,' said
my dad.
"Atter that hit weren't so tryin'. for I'd call
upon Elviry.
When my calkilations stumbled, and the road
of life eot miry: "
So hit weren't so very long before we had Ave
hundred dollar
Lord, weren't I Brood! Says I to her. 'a thous
and's sure to follor.
"The thousand came. Says I. "By jing! for
fear wo git in trouble.
We'll rustle 'nd we'll tussle, tel our bank ac
count i double.'
And so we buckled to agin from airly morn tel
night.
Until we had it salted down where intruss wit
all riRht.
But then Elviry she got skeered. and kjw'd we
hadn't onufl
"To live and raise the children up.' said she,
'will still be tough.'
"Down to it then we got oncet more, and
slaved and pinched and saved.
But seemed to me the more wemade, the more
we alius craved.
And when it come to spendln' here and there
an extra dime,
yje novcr could say yes. though wbrkin' harder
all the time.
Then Elviry, she grew feeble with the rheuma
tic and ajrer.
While I was laid up half the time with phthisic
and lumbiiger.
t
"And so the children they took holt, and
thing went wus and wus;
They spent our money right and left, nor never
cared a cuss:
Our workin' aud our scrimpin' and our sarin
' hero und there
All went for dressin'. fuss and fun, and no one
seemed to care,
"Cept Sam. uur youngest son. but he soon
rarkutl ntr to the city.
The rest Lave scattered here and yon, with no
one h'fi i" pity.
"And now wv'r- old and feeble, it seems right
hard to m-
That the pxrl:ouse only's left us: but Elviry
says, wiys she:
'Ef we had thought of others more, and less of
savin' gold.
And l'arned our boys to love us, as we both on
us got old.
We would not be IcfT helpless here, with no
one round to care;'
And I guess. Elviry's hit it 'bout ez clout ez
truth will bear.
"What's uie aud her a goin' to do? P'raps
you're the one can telL
What you young bucks think you don't know
these days hain't much. Oh, well!
Hit ain't no reason you should laugh, kase two
old folks is down
Hey how you're Sam? Well, well: 1 swanl
So you've got rich in town.
Come to take keer of us? Lord, how Elviry'U
cry for Joy!
Wal, Sam, 'twixt us, 1 alius thought I'd raised
up one good boy."
Browne Perrhnan In Yankee Blade.
A Simple Fire Extinguisher.
It is the opinion of experts that much
of the money which is spent by factories,
mills and stores on the introduction of
pipes and valves for fire extinction might
be saved by the adoption of a much sim
pler and more efficient method. Both
sulphur and ammonia are well adapted
for extinguishing fire. Sulphur absorbs
oxygen and forms sulphuric acid, the
fumes of which are much heavier than
air. ' The quantity required would be
small, since seventy grammes of sulphur
can make one hundred cubic meters of
air inimical to combustion. An effective
sulphur extinguishing apparatus can be
made of a large iron box of moderate
depth and open at the top.
It should be hinged at one end or side
to a protected ceiling, and kept close
thereto by a cord or wire connected with
a wire or strap formed chiefly of cad
mium fusible at 144 degs. Fahrenheit.
Inside the box is placed a considerable
quantity of cotton wadding, well satur
ated with powdered sulphur. On the
heat of an incipient fire melting the wire
or strip, the box drops a short distance;
by a simple device the cotton wadding
is ignited at the same moment, and
strong cloud of sulphurous acid gas is
instantly evolved, which extinguishes
the fire bv rendering the air unfit for
combustion. New York Telegram.
Cunning Siberian Natives.
When compelled to travel all night.
the Siberian natives always make a prac
tice of stopping just before sunrise and
allowing their dogs to go to sleep. They
argue that if the dog goes to sleep while
it is yet dark and wakes up in an hour
and finds the sun shining, he will suppose
that he has had a full night's rest, and will
travel all day without thinking of being
tired. One or even two hours' stop at
any other time is perfectly useless, as
the doas will be uncontrollable from
that time forward until they are per
mitted to take what they think a full al
lowance of sleep. St. Lotus Republic.
Strawberries. '
Why are they called "straw"berriesi
Smart men differ on that. Some say it
is on account of their hollow, strawlike
stems. Others think it is because they
have to be covered with straw or similar
protecting material in winter. The most
classical explanation that our Anglo
Saxon forefathers used to raise them and
they gave them this name because the
berries are generally on the ground, that
is, "strewed" or "strawed" around. Ex
change. '
Acres of ground around Sandringham,
the Prince of Wales' country seat, are
devoted to the cultivation of lilies of
the valley, the sweet scented and ever
popular spring blossom. In the little
Tillage near there is little else except a
remarkably fine ruin of a little church,
and hundreds of thousands of the pure
bell shaped blossoms are sent v.p to Lon
don every year.
A man named Green, who, with
others, was wrecked fifty-five years ago
on a remnte island in the South Atlantic
has resided there, living a Robinson
Ornsnrt life, ever since. Green is the
chief of a colony which
eighty persons.
now consists oi
Although cookery is proverbially a
French art, Paris had no school of cook
ery worthy the name until very recent
ly. .. Lectures, are now given in the Rue
Bonaparte, -with practical demonstra
tions by professors skilled in the noble
art. - -
J. W. Midgeley, the .Chicago railroad
man, who is reported to receive a salary
of $30,000 a year, was a newspaper desk
editor not many years ago. Failing eye
eight compelled him to abandon his profession.
WHERE WOMAN RULES.
SUMATRA ISLAND IS A PLACE WHERE
WIVES RUN THINGS.
Customs That Differ from Those of Any
. Other Christian or Mohammedan Peo
ple The Wife Is the Property Holder.
She Never TLeHtVes Her Borne.
A country where the women own the
houses and lands, where gold and silver
are common as flowers in the spring,
where everybody is happy and nobody
does wrong, is the burden of the story
that W. J. Shaw brings from far off Su
matra. W. J. Shaw is one of the men who
modeled things in this country when it
was young and pliable. He came from
New York in 1849, and was about the
first man to hang out a lawyer's sign in
San Francisco. He won the cases that
settled the validity of settlers' titles and
resulted in the Van Ness ordinance, and
he served as a state senator in 854, when
it was more of an honor to be a legislator
than it is now.
"In all my years of travel," he said,
"I never found a happier people than
those who live in Sumatra, in the mid
dle part of the island. The people all
over Sumatra are believers in the Mo
hammedan religion, but the peculiar
customs which make this particular peo
ple unique and different from all others
are confined to one community.
"It would not be correct to term this
branch of the Sumatra people a tribe,
for they do not live in tribal relations at
all, although there is a chief and under
chieftains. These rulers, however, are
not despots, and if the people do not like
the way in which they manage things
they dispose of them very shortly and
put other men in their places.
"Although men .are the ostensible
chieftains, the women are the real rulers.
The customs of the country forbid the
giving of a man's property to his chil
dren after his death. If a man dies the
property he owns is given to his father
and mother. The woman's property, on
the contrary, is given to the children.
Probably that is the custom that is re
sponsible for the turning over of all the
wealth of the country to the women.
" TREATMENT OP THE BOYS AND MEN.
'It is the constant aim of the men to
enrich their wives. Each man has but
one wife, and each wife one husband,
and they live a perfectly moral life. The
teachings of Mohammedanism are fol
lowed upon the question of divorce.
The husband has the right to divorce his
wife whenever he chooses, but must al
low her to retain the property in her pos
session. Divorces are not frequent,
though, and 1 believe that, in proportion
to the population, divorces in this part
of Sumatra are not one in sixteen com
pared to the number in California.
The people are happy there happy
as they can oe. The children live at
home with their mother the boys until
they are thirteen or fourteen, and the
girls until they marry.
'When the daughter gets married she
does not leave her mother's house. An
addition is built on a new roof, as they
call it and the newly married girl
makes her home there, and brings up
her children. This custom, of course,
results in forming quite large communi
ties where there are many children.
I knew one of these communities
where there were a mother and several
daughters living with their children.
The original house had grown with each
marriage until it spread over a large
piece of ground.
"When the boys get old enough to
leave home they are taken to a compart
ment house which is set aside as a home
for them until they wish to marry. The
girl has the right to choose whom she
will wed, a privilege delegated to her in
few Mohammedan countries.
"Once married, the husband for the
rest of his life is hiSwife's lover. He
lives apart from her and visits his home
only in the evening to chat with her and
the children. All the money he gets
and there is plenty of money of Dutch
coinage there he turns over to bis sweet
heart. She dresses herself and the chil
dren and shoulders all the petty family
cares.
"He is bothered only to earn the
money to pay for the things they eat
and wear.
"To get things for them to eat need
not ,worry him much. The portion of
Sumatra in which these strange people
live is very fertile and productive. . It is
a fine country, with beautiful mountains
and streams and magnificent scenery.
All sorts of fruits are grown, and in the
higher altitudes many of the grains.
DRESSES OF THE WOMEN.
"To find dresses for the -family must
oe a different matter, for J never saw
such elegantly attired women as in these
communities. They are very beautiful
boasting the fairest and finest complex
ions and the brightest eyes.
"Never 'in Christian countries do wo
men dress as extravagantly:
' "I remember that once the chief told
me he would have two pretty maidens
dress as they would on their marriage.
The two bright eyed girls were gone
some time, and came back wearing, one
a dress of gold and the other One of sil
ver. They had bracelets one above an
other from the hands and acsve their
elbows. At the elbows they wore pecu
liar bracelets, jointed to permit easily
moving the joint. In brief, their arms
were armored with precious metal. They
. bad necklaces of gems and other costly
. Ornaments, and the ClOth-Of-gOld and
cloth-of -silver .dresses were made loosely
fitting above the waist, and the skirts in
flounces.
"They are not an ignorant people, for
the children are taught in their homes,
and many learn to read the Koran. They
observe the proprieties too, as is appar
ent from the rue as to widows.
"When a woman's husband dies she
plants a post in front of her particular
!door in the family house and hangs
flag upon it. While the flag waves she
may not marry again. But when the
winds, blowing softly off the sea, have
torn it into shreds and scattered the bits
on the ground her term of mourning is
over, and she may accept a second lover's
proffer. "&an Francisco Examiner.
HITCHED TO A CABLE.
The Unique and Startling Experience of
a San Francisco Horse.
A sad eyed horse hitched to a two
wheeled butcher wagon blinked lazily
and whisked flies from himself on Jones
street, between O'Farrell and Geary
streets. He was an ordinary quadruped
with a large head, which he. wore in a
dejected sort of way, as though he was
indulging in melancholy thoughts. Dang
ling from one of the bit rings was the
long hitching rope, which the custodian
of the wagon had neglected.to fasten to
a post .
Suddenly the horse cast his eyes to
starboard and slowly wagged his right
ear. An abandoned newspaper had drift
ed down the street and became caught in
the cable slot.- The horse was interested
He lazily wandered over to the track and
examined the paper. The free end of
the hitching rope dropped through the
cable slot. Suddenly the horse jumped
clear off the ground, jerked his head up,
plastered his ears close to his head, reared
on his hind feet, pawed the air with his
fore feet, gave vent to a loud snort and
stampeded down Jones street.
It was not his fault that he broke his
6peed record, liiis horse was a peace
ful animal, with an inclination to the
plodding career of a plow horse. 1 But he
was compelled to assume a rapid gait
because his rope was wound around the
cable rope and he was propelled by steam,
as it were. On he sped down Jones
street, around the corner and into
O'Farrell street at a gait he had never
traveled before, while veal cutlets, cuts
of beef, porterhouse stakes, kidneys,
lamb chops and liver jogged out of the
wagon and became top trail which the
butcher boy followed frantically in his
efforts to catch his beast.
Nothing got in the way of the horse
but dogs, and they added to his misery
by leaping into the air and snapping at
his nose. An enthusiastic procession of
urchins raced madly in the wake of the
wagon and cheered the animal on to
greater efforts of speed.
Down three blocks of O'Farrell street
rampaged the equine, creating as large a
sensation as, would a mouse in a semi
nary. At Powell street his career ended.
The hitching rope came in contact with
the cross cable of the Powell Street rail
road and was cut in twain. The horse
was holding back so hard that the reac
tion threw him on his haunches, and be
fore he ' could recover his equilibrium
half a hundred citizens were holding him
down.
The butcher boy gathered up as much
of his scattered meat as the dogs had not
devoured, and in a f ew minutes the yel
low horse was plodding in the wake of a
hay wagon, munching purloined hay.
San Francisco Examiner.
Chivalry in a ISootblack.
On the corner of one of the business
streets of the city the other morning a
shoeblack had just finished polishing the
shoes of a well dressed and gentle appear
ing man. The latter was unfortunate in
having a deformity which compelled him
to wear a shoe on one of his feet with an
exceedingly thick sole, thus endeavorin
to make up mechanically for what na
ture had denied him.
'How much shall 1 pay you?' he asked
of the boy. . - y
"Five cents, sir.
"Oh, but you should have more than
five cents for polishing my shoes," said
the gentleman, tapping the thick sole
significantly with his cane.
"No, sir," said the boy; "five cents is
enough. 1 don t want to mane no money
out o' your hard luck.
The customer handed out a com, laid
his hand on the youngster's head for
moment and passed on.
Who says the days of chivalry are over.
Detroit Free Press.
A Coroner's Verdict.
A coroner out west recently reasoned
out a verdict more sensible than one-half
the verdicts usually rendered. It ap
pears that an Irishman, conceiving that
a little pbwder thrown upon some green
wood would facilitate its burning di
rected a small stream trom a keg upon
the burning piece; but not possessing
hand sufficiently quick to cut this off
was blown into a. million pieces. - The
following was the verdict, delivered with
great gravity by the official:
"Can't be called suicide, bekase he
didn't mean to kill himself; it wasn't
"visitation of God" bekasehe wasn't
struck by lightning; he didn't die for
want of breath for he hadn't anything to
breathe with: it's plain he didn't know
what he was about, so I shall bring in
Died for want of common sense."
Green Bag.
Patting It Delicately.
He was a country parson and a good
fellow at heart, and he liked to put it
delieately; and so he finished upjhis ser
mon Sunday:
"And, in conclusion, my friends, we
will now take up the collection, and 1
trust I shall offend none of the cheerful
givers who so regularly contribute to,'
alasl I am afraid, too frequent demands
on their charity, if I suggest that X now
possess a most ample and varied collec
tion of buttons, and what we chiefly
need now is some needles and thread
and a little cloth." Exchange. -
Lonjr Periods
Miss Prime Philosophers disagree aa
to which period of life seems the longest
to mankind. What is your opinion,
doctor?
Doctor (meditatively) Well, it varies.
In women, for instance, the longest gen
erally is between twenty-nine and thirty.
I know, in my wife's case, ten years
elapsed between her twenty-ninth and
thirtieth birthdays. Exchange,
, -. . 1
The First Cloud. '
'Boo-hoo-hoor cried the bride.
"What is it. dear?" asked the groom
from theDther end of the breakfast ta
ble. " Y-y-yon have bub-broken your pup-pup-promise,"
sobbed the bride. , "You
said nothing should ever come between,
ns, and the bub-breakfast table is there
now." Harper's Baear.
The Mexican Swell on Horseback.
The Mexican swell rides on a saddle
worth a fortune. It is loaded with silver
trimmings, and hanging over it is an ex
pensive serape, or Spanish blanket, which
adds to the magnificence of the whole. His
queer shaped stirrnpa are redolent of the
old minea. His bridle is in like manner
adorned with metal in the shape of half a
dozen big silver plates, and to his bit is at
tached a pair of knotted red cord reins,
which he holds high up and loose.
lie is dressed in a black velvet jacket
fringed and embroidered with silver, and
a huge and expensive hat perched on his
head is tilted over one ear. His legs are
Incased in dark tight fitting breeches, with
silver trimming down the side seams, but
mit. SO an in RTimrmWT wpnhhAr s TiTiTiTii-.t-.rkn 1
from the knee down' and flap aside. His
spurs are sUver, big and heavy and costly,
OTlfl 1-itrl-Aa-l -- hnnb-la wn.H kin 1,t1. I
heel. Under his left leg is fastened a broad
uiauw auu ucauiiixuii v curveu swoia, wiLil
a hilt worthy a prince of the blood.
The seat of this exquisite is the perfect
pattern ox a clothes pin. Leaning against
the cantle, he stretches his legs forward
and outward, with heels depressed in a
fashion which reminds one of Sydney-
Smith's saying that he did not object to a I
clergyman riding, if only he rode very bad-
ij anti turned out nis toes, it 13 tne very
converse of riding close to your horse. In
nrliaf.. if- ..-I'motra it- ta T,a4 ... . I
t.uuw . " 'rt"""" . V .11.. V. w gUDOSj UU-
leSS bravado. The
&2EEZ
short seat and long f
SnS'niirKtr.-
Colonel T. A. Dodge in Harper's.
Victories of an Oarsman.
My first great race was also my first !
great victory. When I arrived at Phila
delphia in 1876, there were assembled all
the great oarsmen in the world. I became j
a laughing stock for them because of my
style of rowing and my rigging. The pre
vailing rigging for sculls then was the 8-
lnch sliding seat; oars, 10 feet 3 inches long,
with oiades o inches wide, and lootooard
havmg an angle of so degs. i went there
with 25-mch sliding- seat. 9l foot oars, with
iHJ0
an w uw. uu&ic. vv ueu luo ram uuua uxx.
Since then this rigging has advanced the
speed of racing a minute a mile. I then
went to England, and they laughed there;
but I heat them out of sight. All England
then used my rigging. I met Trickett in
England and won $500,000 for my fjnends
on this race. Then I defeated Laycock in
the same way. I then went to Australia
and was defeated by Beach through a col-
lision with a steamer. The Australian
climate undermined my constitution, and
I was defeated several times there, but I
could never get the Australians to meet
me in neutral waters. Edward Hanlan in
Ladies' Home Journal.
For severe hemorrhage from the nose
try holding the arms of the patient up
over the head for five minutes at a time,
A small piece of ice wrapped in muslin
and laid directly over the top of the nose
will usually give relief.
New York, Paris and BerUn altogether
have not so large an area as London.
imples.
The old idea of 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a "Wood .humor,'? for
which they gave potash. Thus all the old Sarsa
parillaa contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of decreasing,
actually creates more eruptions. You have no
ticed this when taking other Sarsaparillas 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
tho blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
healthful digestion purifies it nml they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsaa;-iila is compounded
after the modern idea to regulate the bowels and
stimulate the digestion. . The effect is immediate
aud most satisfactory. A short testimonial to
contrast the action of the potash Sarsaparillas
and Joy'K modern vegetable preparation. 21rs.
C. D. Stuart, cf -SCO Haven St, S. F., writes: " I
haro for veers hml iiiiij jci'I'ju, I tried a popular
Sarsapariila but it ac'uu::. acil more pimples
to break onfc on my face. lU-aria that Joy's was
a later preparuri in and acted dierently, I tried
it and the pimples immediately disappeared."
'stable
apart. la
Largest bottle, most etlW-rivc, same price.
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSL.Y.
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, bat thou
sands of Europeans
who - leave Europe
ardent lovers of tea,
upon arriving in the
-United States gradu
ally discontinue Its use, aad 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 cultivated 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
brand of tea that is guaranteed to be un-
colored, unmanipBlated, and of absolute
purity? , We think there is, and present
Beech's Tea. Its parity is guaranteed in
. every respect It has, therefore, more in- 4
herent strength than the cheap teas yon have
been drinking, fully one third less being re-
- quired for an infusion. This yon will dis
cover the first time you make it Likewise,
. the flavor Is delightful, being the natural fla
vor of an unadulterated article. It is a revela
tion to teardrinkers. Sold only in package
bearing this mark:
BEECHiii TEA
'PurAsOTdhood:
j Price fOe per pouO. For sale at .
Zieslle Sutler's,
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There is nothing like them ever intro
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PAINT
Now is the time to paint your house
and if you wish to get the best quality
and a fine color use the
Sherwin, Williams Cos Paint.
For those wishing to see the quality
anfl color of the above paint we call their
attention to the residence of S. L. Brooks r
Judge Bennett, Smith French and others
painted by Paul Kreft. ;
Snipes & Kinersly are agents for the
above paint for The Dalles. Or. .
W. H. NEABEACK,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
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THIRD STREET.
(At Grimes' old place of business.)
Horses ted to Hay or Oats at the lowest possi
ble prices. Good care given to animals left im
my charge, as I have ample stable room. Give
me a call, and I will guarantee satisfaction.
. ' W. H. NEABKACE.