SO, MOON, DON'T TELL.
OMoonl did you see .
My lover and ma
la the valley beneath the sycamore tree?
Whatever befell
O Moont don't tell;
Ttm nothing amis, you know very welL
O Muonl yoa know.
Long years ago
Ton left the sky and descended below
Of a summer night
By your own sweet light;
You met your Endymion on Patmos height
And there. O MoonI
Yoa gave him a boon
Ton wouldn't, I'm sure, have granted at noon.
'Twos nothing amiss.
Being only the bliss
Of giving and taking an innocent Ussl
Some churlish lout, '
Who was spying about.
Went oft and babbled, and so It got out;
But for all the gold
The sea could hold.
-O Moonl I wouldn't have gone and told!
So, Moon, don't tell
Whatever befell '
My lover and me In the leafy delL
He is honest and true.
And, remember, too.
Be-only behaved like your lover and youl
New York Truth.
Minneapolis Larger Than Paris.
The existing Paris covers 19,275 acres,
or about thirty square miles, while met
ropolitan London, with 4,000,000 popula
tion, contains 118 square miles, and Chi
cago provides an area about as extensive
for 1,100,000. The average distance from
the center of Paris to the circumference
is only three miles. Minneapolis, with
only 165,000 people, has a municipal area
more than twice as large as that of Pans.
Almost the entire population of Paris is
housed in the flats of tenement struc
tures averaging from four to five stories
in height.
According to the revised figures of the
census of 1886 there were nearly 75,000
houses in Paris, and the average number
of people in a house was about thirty.
In the old arrondissements of the inner
Paris there are probably about 80,000
houses, accommodating about 1,000,000
people. "
For a total contrast in the plan of
house construction we have only to cross
the channel and to examine London,
where we find an average of about eight
persons to a house for the whole metrop
olis. But the people of Paris are better
housed, all things considered, than those
of London. A population of 2,500,000
within a circle whose radius is only three
miles is certainly very dense, but it must
be remembered that Paris is a many
stoned city. Dr. Albert Shaw in Cen
tury. Sighs on Bridges.
The front stoop offers facilities for
courtship, and among the young "people
of Brooklyn the front stoop is a popular
summer institution. The Brooklyn bridge
is a bridge of sighs. It is the high bridges
over the Central tracks in upper New
York, however, that are most ardently
worked for this purpose.
An evening stroll that takes the ob
server over one of these bridges will show
dozens of couples leaning against the
rails and apparently investigating the
myriad tracks and colored signal lights
and passing trains below. A manly arm
will be withdrawn from a slender waist
as you pass, to be stealthily slipped back
again within the moment. The skirmish
of hearts is going on there while you are
asleep or at the theater. It is the engage
ment ground of the poor and lowly who
live in tenements and have no front gate
and no doorsteps. ' For them the bridge
on these warm nights is a dish of ice
cream with two spoons in it. New York
Herald.
All on Aeeoant of n Dog.
A devoted husband who was lately
asked after the health of a dog by a
friend who had presented it to his wife
exclaimed: "De dog! De dog! You
question me about dat dogl De dog
veil enoof ! Mein vif e, she vant to go to
baratoga, unt she take the dog mit her.
nut ven she take him into de car de con
ductor he object! Unt vot my vife do?
She ride in de baggage car all de way
from New York to Saratoga mit dat dog!
Unt ven ve go to la hotel de proprie
taire he say, ' Ve take no dogs here!' but
he make me pay for my room vot is en
gaged! Unt we go to some other hotel.
De same vords, 'Ve take no dogs here!
Unt my vife, who like always de best,
she go into a cheap boarding house and
make herself so uncomfortable for dat
dog! You tink somebody shoot him by
mistake? I vill gif one huntert tollars
to someboty if he shoot dat dog by mis
take! Dat dog! Yoa question me about
dat dog! New York Times.
How to Get Ink Out of Clothe.
JN early every housekeeper has many
garments spotted with ink. Here is
good way to get the ink out. Ink spots
may be removed from linen with tartaric
acid while wet. To remove ink from
cotton, silk or woolen goods, saturate the
spot with spirits of turpentine and let it
remain several hours; then rub between
the hands. It will crumble away with
out injuring the color or texture of the
article. New York Journal. :
Velocity of Meteorites.
The singnlar fact has been demon
strated that, while the most rapid veloc
ity of cannon balls scarcely ever attain
speed of 600 meters a second abont 1,500
miles per hour meteorites arc1 known to
permeate the air with a velocity of 40,-
-000 or even J9,000 meters per second.
This unthinkable speed instantly raises
the temperature of the air to 4,000 or
6,000 degrees centigrade. St. Louis Re
public
Belgian railway - officials, after three
-years of investigation, report that under
ordinary circumstances the average rail
way train in passing over one mile of
track wears from it two and one-fifth
pounds. This natural destruction ' of
track amounts for the whole world to
about 1,830,000 pounds daily.
; Headache may be due to; defective ac
tion of the liver, constipation, inactive
condition of the ekm, poor blood, excess
ive mental exertion, exhaustion from fa
tigue, the condition of the stomach; eye
strain or rheumatism of the scalp. Some
headaches are purely neuralgic
A CAVE DJ THE WOODS.
NEATLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLING
WITHOUT A TENANT.
A. Cave That Was Probably the Haunt
of a Sneak Thief Evidences That Show
the Builder to Have Been a Skillful
Mechanic Contents of the Hat.
Saxton's swamp has its head in the
woods between Islip and Brentwood.
Whortleberries are plentiful in the vicin
ity. George L. Benjamin and Alexan
der Combs were roaming carelessly
about in the vicinity and made a discov
ery that interested the town not a little.
They saw smoke curling up as if out of
the ground and began an investigation.
They found a fire and a kettle over it in
which beans, potatoes and chicken were
simmering. There was no one visible in
the vicinity.
The boys went to Bay Shore and spread
the news, and a score or more of men
went to the woods to see the surprising
sight. They concluded Lj advance that
the swamp was a thieves' . in, and soma
of the men carried guns, others revolvers
and a few hayforks. They found the
simmering pot and the fire almost out.
For the fun of the thing the men began
playing robber, and several shots were
fired as part of the pantomime. They had
reason to conclude later that this was a
mistake, for it served as a signal to the
occupant of a cave in the woods to make
himself scarce. A man with a pitch
fork kept jabbing it into the earth and
detected a hollow spot.
A little digging threw a large sheet
iron tray up from under the leaves and
left exposed a hole about two feet square.
It had wooden sides ' leveled so that the
tray set in snugly. Over the tray were
leaves, grass and brush, in keeping with
the surroundings. Through a hole in
the tray was run a piece of telegraph
wire, and at each end pf the wire was
fastened a nicely rounded stick which
served as a handle to lift up the tray on
the outside and pull it down on the in
side. The hole in the earth was four
feet deep and eight feet long under the
ground, forming an alleyway.
CONTENTS OF THE CAVE.
The earth had been . carefully cut out
and must have been carted away, as no
evidence of it could be found in the
vicinity. There could not have been less
than several wagon loads of it. At the
end of the alleyway there was a depres
sion of two feet, running a distance of
six feet and being five feet wide. The
roof was six feet high. This was the
bedroom. It had a bunk on each side
filled with leaves and grass and both had
been slept in. The walls were lined with
logs, and the ceiling, so to speak, was
covered with muslin.
There were two closets and several
brackets and a fireplace at one end, with
a capped pipe running up to the top,
which could be raised for use and lower
ed at will, to prevent detection. Five
tin gutter pipes were so arranged as to j
admit light and air and enable the oc-
cupant to observe what ; was going on
about him in the woods. On one side of '
the passage a post was driven down and I
into it a staple had been bolted, to which
was attached a trace chain. It was a
mystery what use could have been made '
of this, and the belief is that it was used
to keep some person a prisoner at some
time.
The cavern had undoubtedly been in
habited up to within a few hours, and if
the men who went out to see a sight had
not made fools of themselves instead of
watching the hole in the ground they
would nndonbtedlv have discovered the
tenant of the queer abode and perhaps !
made an important discovery. j
A tub in the farthest west corner of
the cavern contained salt pork, and sliced
chicken meat had been put into the brine
to pickle. A silver spoon was found
marked "The Austral. " It was prob- ,
ably stolen from the Austral hotel, at
Brentwood. Among other things were a
muslin shirt, a flannel shirt and a pair
of lawn tennis shoes, which are supposed
to be the ones stolen from Mr. William :
M. Van Anden's house.
EVIDENCES OF ROBBERY.
No evidence was found that the cave -dweller
committed the robbery in the ,
house of Mr. Gibb. A copy of the Bay -Shore
Journal was pinned up against the
wall with a mark drawn around an ad- i
vertisement offering $250 reward for the !
arrest of the butcher who killed John H. '
V ail's cow and carried away a part of
the meat. Fastened to the paper was a
slip giving an account of -the robbery in
Mr. Van Anden's house. -Copies of city
papers were strewn about. The cave, it
could be seen, had been occupied for a
considerable time. ' It was constructed .
by a good mechanic.
It may be interesting to state that soon
after Mr. Vail's cow had been killed by a
thief, who was in need of meat, a bog ;
was killed in a pen on the premises of Mr. ;
Marvin and the hams carried away. A ,
few nights later a dozen chickens were
stolen from Justice Clock. The thief cut
their heads off and threw them on the ,
justice's back stoop. . ' : . j
A colored man known as "Long Steve,"
otherwise Stephen Ctreen, was arrested
for stealing- Mr. Marvin's hog and inci-. !
dentally he was suspected of committing
the other crimes. The proof against him
did not positively establish his guilt, al- '
though a boy who lived with him accused
him, but he had so bad a reputation that
Justice Clock came to the conclusion that
the public welfare required him to be in
carcerated, and he was committed to the
county jail at Riverhead. ..
Notwithstanding there have been no
robberies since Green was deprived of
his liberty a circumstance which was
thought pretty clearly to establish his
guilt the people are now wondering
whether, after all, the dweller in the cave
was not the real culprit. He was not
Green, that is certain. Brooklyn Eagle.
.--Answered. v-
'What would you do if you had a
voice, like : miner said Binks, who is
rather proud of his basso prof undo.
"I'd take it out into the woods and
yell with it till it bu'st," said De Garry,
who prefers- his own tenor. Harper's
Bazar." J '- ; '
HIS FIRST ASSIGNMENT.
Initiation of a Fresh Tonne Man From
College Into Beportorlal Work.
Horace Greeley once said, "Of all
horned cattle deliver me from the col- j
lege graduate who wants to break into
journalism.' The commencement sea
son had hardly opened, but the advance
guard of the graduate crop walked into
the city editor's room the other day, ex
hibited his college diploma, said that he
had "written several pieces for the
county paper," and asked for a chance
to show what he could do. Like all
writers of his class he did not want a
salary so much as he wanted an' oppor
tunity to jump right into the middle of
journalism. The annual vacation sea
son had left the city force short handed,
and the editor decided to try the new
man.
"Go down to the Illinois Central depot
right away," he said, "and see what
there is in a case of mayhem there. I
know nothing about this except that
some one telephoned me a few minutes
ago that there was a case of mayhem at
the depot. Go down there and see what
you can find. . Ask the railroad and
depot employes about the case, and if
you strike a lead follow it up and inves
tigate the matter thoroughly.'
Two hours later the would be journal
ist reported at the office with a very
long face.
"Well, what was there in that case,"
asked the editor.
"I do not know, sir," replied the new
reporter.
"Don't knowl Why don't you know?
Didn't I give you instructions to look
into it?"
"Yes, sir, but I couldn't find it."
- "Did you canvass the subject thor
oughly? What did you do?"
"1 went down to the Illinois Central
depot and told the freight agent that I
was looking for a case of mayhem. He
asked me the name of the consignee. I
told him I didn't know it. He asked me
where the case was from and wanted to
know if it was shipped alone. -1 couldn't
tell that, of course, so we went over the
whole stock of shipping bills, but we
didn't find the slightest trace of it.
"I don't believe there is any such case
at the Illinois Central depot, but I didn't
look for it anywhere else. I found that
it would be useless for me to stay there
longer, however, because the agent as
sured me that unless 1 had an order
from the consignee he would not permit
me to look into it, even if we succeeded
in finding it What shall I do next?"
After a moment's reflection the editor
slowly replied: "Well, as there is no va
cancy just now in our janitorial depart
ment, perhaps you had- better step
into the composing room and ask the
foreman to let you clip the bangs off the
hair spaces in the cases. If you escape,
come back and I'll let you answer the
telephone until it is time for you to
draw your salary tonight." Chicago
Mail '
Relative Strength of Men and Women.
By means of a specially devised instru
ment a French scientist has carried out
some experiments for determining how
the average strength of the two sexes
compares. The palm of the hand is
placed on the instrument, and then the
greatest downward pressure which the
individual can give is exercised upon it,
and the force thus produced is recorded
by the usual clockwork device. Fifty
robust men, and the same number of
healthy women, both belonging to the
middle class of society, with ages vary
ing from twenty-five to forty-five years,
j were tested in this way by the
scientist.
Fans
The strongest man of the company
was able to produce with his right hand
a pressure equi valent to eighty-five kilo
grams (a kilogram is rather more than
two pounds) and the weakest to forty
kilograms, the average being fifty-six
kilograms. One curious result was ar
rived at: The short men were all very
nearly as strong as the tall ' men, the
average difference between equal groups
of two sizes being only three kilograms.
The force of the strongest women of the
fifty who were selected amounted to only
forty-four kilograms, and that of the
weakest to sixteen kilograms, while the
average was thirty-three kilograms.
Herald of Health.
Dynamite for Foundation Work.
A correspondent of Indian Engineer
ing says he recently witnessed a very in
teresting mode of obtaining a foundation
for a new building. A hole was bored
in the ground (which was previously
damp) from ten to twelve feet deep and
an inch and a half wide, and a string of
cartridges was lowered into it. The
subsequent explosion not only produced
a -cavity a yard in diameter, but also
drove tbe water out of the surrounding
earth by means of the expansive action
of the gases. The water did not return
to its former place for fully an hour, so
that an opportunity was afforded to fill
up the cavity with quickly settling con
crete, and a rapid rate of working was
thus attained.
A New Antiseptic Acre nt.
"A new antiseptic agent called microci
dine, which is composed of 75 per cent,
of naphtholate of sodium and 25 percent,
of naphthol and phenyl compounds, has
been tried in France. . It is a white pow
der, soluble in three parts of water. The
solution, which is cheap, is said to be a
very effective antiseptic, without being
poisonous or caustic or injurious to in
struments or linen. Its antiseptic prop
erties are inferior to those of corrosive
sublimate or napthol, but surpass those
of carbolic and boracic acids ten and
' twenty times respectively. The solution
, has given excellent results in dressing
wounds. St. Louis Globe-Democrat
A One Sided Contract.
The Hon. Benjamin H. Field was re
lating the other day how he induced his
son to abstain from chewing tobacco.
"When my boy was at college," said Mr.
Field. "I agreed to pay. for all of the
cigars he might smoke, provided he
would not chew tobacco. He entered
into the agreement, and although that
was several years ago he still holds me
to the contract. New York Times.'
The Supply of Whalebone.
About 200,000 pounds of whalebone were
secured from the Atlantic catch of whales
during 1890, and less than that amount was
secured from the Pacific waters. -: Fine
whalebone is worth its weight in silver,
and only the wealthy woman can afford to
use it. The ordinary principles of produc
tion and trade are overturned as regards
whalebone. Modern appliances ' and im
provements appear to have decreased rather
than to have enlarged the amount of the
product. The price of whalebone fluctuates
The price of whalebone fluctuates
the stock market, owing to the
it is impossible to calculate upon
worse than
fact that
the amount of a season's catch until the
bone has actually been extracted.
There are only seven manufacturers in
this country, according to the latest report
five in New York and two in Boston.
They pay $10,000 for a ton of raw material,
and split it up and prepare it for market.
Quantities are used in the silk mills where
ribbon is manufactured. It is used there
for .the edge of . the ribbon in ' weaving.
Some of the best hat manufacturers use it
in the sweat bands of their silk hats. Al
though the corsets and dress stays of wom
en still take up practically abont the whole
supply of whalebone, yet fully 90 per cent.
or me corsets manufactured, here are
braced up with something else. Mercer.
A. Tear's Work at the Royal Mint.
The number of coins struck in the royal
mint last year was 88,000,000, of which 17,-
500,000 were rejected in the welching room.
The total coinage issued was 7,680,156 in
gold, 1,694,688 in silver, and 90,285 in
poumfand two pouVid jubfie grfd coins!
and the four shillinz . Dieces will be with-1
bronze. There was no demand for the five
and the four shilling . pieces will be with
drawn. The metal manipulated weighed
193 tons of gold, 888 tons of silver and 74
tons of copper. The theft of a small quan
tity of gold by a lad during the year was
the only case of theft in forty years. Lon
don Tit-Bits.
Ellaee Recliu' Prize.
It is now more than ever probable that
the Academy's biennial prize of 20,000
francs, which the Due de Broglie declined
win oe awaraea to ai. or, aa tie prerera
to becaued, citizen-Eiisee Reciul The
Msfavor. The only objection to the
LUUlUO UL kiUa UttlU WUIB.1UK MtVttUb, W I
is just on the point of bringing out the
seventeenth volume' of his immense
work, "La Geographie universei." is to
oe lounu, oi course, in ma puuucai I
opinions, which are frankly communistio
cuiu autu uuiuu. i
He is, moreover, not only a theoretical
out a practical advocate oi ireeuuui in
everything," for some years ago he gave
his two daughters in marriage to their
suitors with ho other ceremony than that
of linking the hands of the conples and
giving them his paternal blessing. M.
Reclus, however, has abstained from all
twenty year so that it is not thought
lilroW that t.h AcftOAmv will be mfln-1
enced by his previous history, and its
members probably will vote the 800 to
the learned man who is aptly described
by his intimates as "a lay monk." -Paris
Cor. London Telegraph.
Bad Blood
Impure or vitiated blood is nine
times out of ten canned by some
form of constipation or indiges
tion that clog up the system,
when the blood naturally be
comes impregnated with the el-
fete matter. TheoldSarsaparUlas
attempt to reach this condition
by attacking the blood with the
drastic mineral " potash." The potash theory is
old and obsolete. Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is
modern. It goes to tbe scat of the trouble. It
arouses tbe liver, kidneys and bowels to health
ful action, and invigorates the circulation, and
tbe impurities are quickly carried off through
the natural channels.
Try it and note its delightful
action. Chas. Lee, at Beamlsk's
Third and Market Streets, S. F.,
writes: ' I took it for vitiated
blood and while on the first bot
tle became convinced of its mer
its, for 1 eouM feel it. wits work- i.iSy?-
ing a change. It rtcasirail, purl- wikj-rJ
ued ana braced xuc u; generally,
and everyt'ains is now ivoi king full and regular."
Vegetable
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY.
THE DALLES, OREGOM.
A necessity.
Tbe consumption
of tea largely in
creases every year in
England, Kussia, 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 grada-
ally discontinue its nse, and anally, cease it
altogether.
This state of things is due to the fact that
tbe 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, tbe 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 Toe nn-
colored, nnmanipulated, - 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-1
herent strength than the cheap teas you have
been drinking, fully one third less being re
quired for an infusion. This yoa 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 tea-drinkers. JBald only in packages
.bearing this mark:."
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The
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issued every evening, except Sunday,
and will be delivered in the city, or sent
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developing" our industries, in extending
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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 not from
rash assertions of outside parties.
THE WEEKLY,
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It will Contain from four to six eight
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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 ike them ever intro
duced in this country, especially lor l-
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., - - "
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politics, and
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ad in its
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to give all the lo
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and if you - wish to get the best quality
and a fine color use the
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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
nm'nto tr Panl ITrafr
Snipes 4 Kinersly are agents for the
above paint for The Dalles. Or.
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W. H. NEABEACK.
' PROPRIETOR OF 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. Glu
me a call, and I will guaran eatiRfactini,