THE GATE OF SLEEP. Xiytng between the dusk and dawn of night. Upon the borders of the sea of sleep, Lo. oft there cometh in the fading light The break of surges in the eternal deep. The soul of me Bwims oat across the space That yawns between the poise of life and death; The senses fall; the spirit seeks its place' With those that dwell beyond the gates of breath. A touch, a start; the passing power is broken; The soul is moveless midway in its flight; The body claims it, and there is no token Brought oat from that haven of the night. If I could hold the light that on me grows -When o'lr the brink of sleep my spirit , . . speeds, . Then could I voice the mystery that flows Twtxt life and death, 'tween truth and hu man creeds." But lol upon the sacred door of sleep There is a graven law of Import high: "He who would sound the secrets of this deep Most lay him down in solitude to die." W. J. Henderson in New York Times. A Ball Fight with Fan In It. In ordinary accounts of bull fights yon hear of the sickening sight of. disembow eled horses and bleeding men and butch ered bulls. This went on with ever changing fun, shouts and laughter, but no one was either hurt or got the co cardes. Whoever thinks it is merely a joke to go down into one of these enor mous arenas and snatch the tiny rosette from between the horns of a beast who has been trained all his life to keep him from getting it, will find that he has a large piece of work cut out for him. For fun a Provencal bull fight beats a panto mime. For danger and expertness it is far ahead of anything I ever saw. As it goes on every Sunday in the summer time all over Provence, Frenchmen regard it as ' too common an affair to be worth de scription. Foreigners, never going there at the proper season the summer and autumn never or scarcely ever see it. And even down in La Camargue, on the banks of the Rhone, in little towns, all of which save Aigues-Mortes are unknown, the courses, like baseball matches, are held every fete day. They are the sport of the people, and have much more char acter in the small towns. Joseph Pen nell in Century. How Expensive Tea Is Selected. Mr. F. K. Andrews writes to the Lon don Times: "It may be interesting to some of your -readers to know how the - tea sold at almost fabulous prices is se lected. Every chest of very fine Ceylon tea contains a great quantity of "flowery Pekoe," i. e., small golden tipped, unde veloped leaves. A tea of this descrip tion is usually sold at about four shil lings a pound. A handful of such tea is spread on a piece of satin about 24 inches by 6 inches, the satin is then lightly folded and the tea' lightly shaken to and fro half a dozen times, which process causes the fluffy tips to become entangled in the silk; the heavier black leaves are then shaken out. The flowery Pekoe ' thus obtained still has mixed with it some of the coarser leaves, so the process is repeated again - and again until the product is quite golden and flossy. About half a pound may thus be obtained out of every chest of choice Ceylon tea. Newspaper Enterprise Unappreciated. You may talk about .the necessity of newspaper enterprise, but what good comes of trying to originate something grateful and pleasing to the public when such a protest as the following meets the effort of a well known journal to print a more convenient sheet as well as a hand somer one? "Please use those large sheets again," writes a subscriber, "be cause they were so handy to do up bun dies in. Mother and I quite ' miss them when we go to1, put away our winter cloaks and othgr clothing. Of course, I know they were a little harder to read, because they had to be turned, but just think- how handy they were when it came " to doing up' bundles." Macon Telegraph. -. - i ' When Women Did the Grinding.' While women Were milling they usual ly relieved the monotony of their work by singing songs of a lively and cheerful character. , Ordinarily they prepared much meal in the morning as would be required for the day. On this account Hebrew members aasocted the noise of the inorriing mill with prosperity and happiness. If, on the contrary, this work was performed in the : evening, they im agined there was the sound of adversity and sadness in the notes of the song. Detroit Free Press. . -. The causes of headache are many. Some grave headaches afe-Vdue to. cere bral disease meningitis, tumor, abscess, softening of the brain. . In these. cases there will be other .Symptoms pointing to the cause. Other causes are over'f Al ness of the blood vessels,, caused "by. the condition of ( the. hearty a plethorip con dition of the body; mental excitemenisT Such cases are marked by a flushed face, glittering eyes,' a beating in the-ears and ,Z ?v " , 1' giddiness on stooping.- - J It is imagination rather tha-n reason, that distinguishes man from brute ; And no.person who is devoid of, 'iniaginatioh can know extremes of happiness or mis-, ery. Happiness greatljr depends oh the faculty for forgetting. No age is so old fashioned. 9' child-, hood. That childhood was Lap'py may be one of the illusions which is fostered, if not engendered, by lapse of time. ' Of the happiness of second childhood "there can be no question. . Humboldt calculated the mean level of North America to be 743 feet above the sea, and he found that in 4,500,000 years the . whole . of . North - America might be worn down to the sea level. ,- ' - The young czarewitch of Bussia has been a most industrious' students and is now one of the best informed men of Tiia age in Eastern Europe. , He is. especially'; well versed in the higher sciences. A Liverpool (England) man was, re cently - sentenced tq five " xears"; penal servitude Tor obtaining a shilling under the pretext that it was to be used for a charitable purpose. AMERICA'S BEAU BRUMMEL. Reminiscences of Colonel Richard Hick man, s Famous Character. Washington's most famous character, if selected by popular vote, would be de cided to be Colonel Hickman, known the country over, as Beau Hickman, the Prince of Bummers. . Colonel Hickman was born in Virginia, presumably, as he came from that state to this city, arriving here in the year 1834, about twenty -two years old. From this date for about three years may be included the beau's joyful period of fx-, istence, when the world was seen only through rose colored glasses, and life was but a merry game of love and lasses, amours and petty "affaires." He swung the old globe about as quickly as possible, and was as gay and merry a high roller' as the city has ever seen. . In a short while his name was as well known in Washington as that of Beau Brummel in London. He moved in ex clusive circles, had all . the polish and graces and spent his patrimony with a lavish hand. At the races he was a valued tipster and knew more about horses and their merits than a paddock full of jockeys. He was a frequenter, j too, of the theaters, and was as much at home behind as before the scenes. .' For the short three years of affluence and high flying indulged in by the beau he was compelled to repay more than thirty years of what would have been to any other a most humiliating and wretched existence. From the society reveler he . was red need to a state of pitiable penury. , He never learned the state of his finances until he had none, and then, it being too late to retrieve his squandered fortunes, it became necessary for him to adapt, himself -to his altered fortunes in the ( most expedient manner. . There was but one course left open to him, to become a dependent upon charity. To his high strung and sensitive nature this was an achievement so difficult of execution that he at one time even admitted that the sums he extorted by his bumming methods could be characterized as offer ings of charity. His fall from his high estate was not as sudden as his financial wreckage. He did not cease his swell existence when he found that all his resources had be come exhausted, but kept on spending the money that he had not as recklessly as he had spent the money that he had formerly possessed. Where he had be fore liberally bestowed gold and green backs he now distributed notes and "L O. U.'s," trusting to the recalcitrant Dame Fortune to visit him again at some time in the hopeladen future. He at this time patronized the most exclusive hotels, kept up his social connections and was as great a beau as ever. His reputa- tion as such was the .only thing that pre- i vented his creditors from swarming in ; upon him. j - Beau Hickman's few years of pros- perity left but faint impress on the pub- ! lie rrftnd. It is as the prince of bummers that he is best remembered. For years, the principal . hotels .knew him but to fear him, afterward they looked upon : him as a sideshow feature to be pointed i out to visitors to the national capital as i . the famous Beau Hickman. Every new J visitor was legitimate prey and liable to , assessment. , Beau's' home seemed to be : in the lobbies of the hotels. . . He was often seen at the capitol and other pub- j lie hostelries. ' :-4 ' " . : ' : Here was always an opportunity to pick out his man, and as this meant ; often meals and bed to him be naturally devoted a considerable portion of his L time to selecting his victims. The asses-1. ments mulcted were seldom more than a quarter or a half dollar, and these ex i torted with such a good grace that the '; victims felt truly, it was more blessed to give than, to receive. . He also had a regular.list of patrons, mainly congress men, on whom he levied assessments at regular periods. Indianapolis Journal. Self Possession Is a Strong Trait. . "'.' , There, is nothing like, self possession in : all emergencies; Not long ago a clever ; . woman was dining at a handsome board i in an interior city. She had never, as it j ; happened, seen lime juice offered in the j y course oi a meat, w nen tne ootue was : handed around, some salad had just been ' served to her, and without, giving the matter any , thought, she assumed the liquid to be a sauce piqu'ante f or the salad ; , and dashed a few drops on ner n,race hearts. . - . . In an instant she oecame aware, by ( derricka tral Une which runs to that sort of intuition which m in the air hold of tbe thev we , Utaxi. at.8uch times; that she had done some- nished b m6torf;,t& horse thing wrong, and whence saw her poty oI .the mojMT. being 'fwfw ST f f e??f , 500 volts and making 1.600 revolutions the bottle to his glass of water, she di- ne mjnu - - ; : vined at once what her blunder - had ! A ecta the' mo)V with the ween.--.--" , ' , . - . !T .shaft which operates the' drums," the t .The meal progressed and she fmished r t to the by .her .salad with; 'apparent jelish.,. Her, J?ij L hostess pressed more upon her, and'she accepted a.serond "Lseryinlj,. .Then,; with a4,little- air. oinot hWing- 'everything quite to her.liking. stie-looked np and f down the table and sigiSaled the waitress:'! 'i TlA '!li'-rnA'.'.-inir-:' i-ilfakft-.-shfl'''Raid --Tion-i Who 'lime -i nice, please, she said -non-1 J - ., :& -Thia bit of ddfoitness at blice'set.' her in,- a niche : among ike ooinpany.as an epicure of oo- i cult and unquestioned knowledge. -Her i Points of View-in; New. York Times. '' . "--'"'' - -' . ."' ' Pretty stingy. - The-Augusta Journal, tells, v a, deaf man mere wno is too stingy to Duy an ear trumpet or much ; of i anything else i d is-notorious for his niggardly, traits, and wanted to know how. much he could purchase a certain soup bone for. The i proprietor is a generous fellow and re- ! plied, "Oh, ni give you this." Then the . old man witu his nana on his earner claimed, y Can't yon take a little off from that?" - Poor old fellow, he hadn't heard, nd the dealer taking ..pity on him said.'! ."Yes, call It ten cents." ' -" " .' .J(Vi; "a. Specialist.: '' Miss Maber (to -young Mi D.) And what particular branch of the profession do Vou ' practice chiefly. Dr. Shinyseam? -Dr. "Shinyseam ' a little saoUy)At4.eiftirelvi unbedunied. present,: Miss Mabel, I an maldhg a specialty of vaccination cases. New York Times. , ' TACT 13 -THE : THINGS. How a, New fork Boy Got -a PosltUm When Times Were Different from Today. Tact is one of the first qualifications of a business man, and the following little incident in the history of one of the most successful merchants shows a develop ment of this trait early in his business career. . ' . Coming to New York from the coun-. try, without friends and with very little money, he found ' his way : to "lower Wall street," and walking into the store of W. & Co., passed back into the count- mg room and waited modestly and pa tiently till he should divert the attention of Mr. W . who was at the moment busily engaged , with some friend. At last the frank, open face of the boy at tracted his notice, and he addressed him with: . . - "What can I do for you, sonny?" "I want a place, sir." "Well, what can you do?" The boy answered eagerly: "Most anything, sir." Mr. W . partly for a joke and part ly to rid himself of the almost too confi dent boy, said: :- ;. ' : "Ah, ah! Well, just go out and bor row me a couple of thousand dollars,? The lad placed his hat on his head, walked out of the store, then passed slowly down Front street till he came to another large store in the same line of business, our friends of the past, Messrs. S. C. & C., then, with a bold but honest look, he walked up to the head of the house and said: "Mr. W , of W. & Co., sent me down to borrow $3,000, "He did, my son? How is business up at your placer The boy, having 6een the appearance of large shipments, answered quickly: "Very good, sir." ; .'. "Two thousand dollars did you say? Will ..that, be enough?" "Well, $3,000 is all he told me, but if you have plenty I think he would like it if you sent him $3,000. "Just give this boy a check for $3,000 for W. & Co.," remarked Mr. S to his cashier. The boy took the check and with it re turned to Mr. W , walking back into the office with an air of successful pride, and said: - 'Here it is, sir, . Mr. ' W , taking one look at the check and then at the boy, said: "Young man, come in here; you are just the one I have been looking for." And giving him a desk he set him to work; New York Recorder. '"'"' Odd Epitaphs. While strolling, in trie nelds near a small hamlet not thirty miles from Rochester I came across an antiquated graveyard overgrown with ivy .and mosses, the stones of which bore dates between 1796 and 1820. I scraped the mold from a few. of the stones and brought to light these inscriptions. This one is modest: .' - My boddy to the grave i give, . My soul to God I hope is fled; ' When this my children :' You do see. remember me. This, on a child's grave, is not without pathos: This lovely bud bo young and fare, Cald hence -by erly doome, . Just caught to show how sweet a flower in Paradise would bloom. This one also preserves the phonetic method: -. r Youth like a morning floor, 5-. -- - Cut down and withered in an hour. . Notice the unexpected word : division Ihese: To worlds of sperits 1 am gone," - And left my mends ben- - ind to mourn. '.-,.-. V ' ' My body lies here in tnens... . "X . My soul Is stationed wi- k ' th the blest. Hark, my gay friends,' to you my votee has been. Refrain from folly and forsake your sin; i'""' Still from the.dead I fain would send my cries. Trust in ttu Saviour, don't Bis grace despise.' This cote is as gbod as' any I have seen: ' ' A ttousand-ways'cot short our days,- '' ' None are exempt from death, - "t A honeybee by stinging me, . " Did stop my mortal , breath. . .-. . ... . . Rochester Union. A Wblphoistlng' Drntn.' . A novel machine called a trhiphoisting drum has been invented' in Rhode Island for unloading lumber and - other freight from vessels, and is found. to be a great - improvement' on ordinary methods inf the of .time- and labor. The ma- i Vi4-rtA Vina fVtKAlimtna mVfinri nnorafA inrn what is called a paper ; friction;' each drum is operated by a lever., and can1-be stopped in, an instant. The-, motor is self oiling, machine, a drop of oil falling, on the bearings- pvery thirty ' seconds. When the -lumber' is ; drawn -V from "the vessel, a large hook from the" wharf der rick is attached, and the sticks are trans ferred in the most ready .manner to any. part of the, yard. r-New York. Sunt v - . --.v Qaeer Provlslons-.M.. ' .: - - - The will of the Earl of , Pembroke, of ! the-English civil -war notoriety; does not ! portray a mind exactly in tbe-state it : should be when he proceeds to say: "As regards my other horses, I bequeath , thtem to mv Lord Fairfax, that when j Cromwell and his council take away his commission be, may still nave some horses to command. 1 Above all, put not my body beneath the church porch, for I am, after all, a man of birth, and would not that I should be interred there where, .Colonel Pride ..was ; born-San Francisco Argonaut. . '- '" ''. - ' . ,A..Cold Day. ,' Gentleman (on railway train) Pardon me, madam; is this eeat beside ' yon en gaged?" . ;.- - ' ::!' Lady .'(distantly) I presume I - can re move my satchel and, bundles and make room; but 'h& three seats behind ine are j " iBentteman Yes, niaaataV; ' Yourv6pen window is in front of them. New York -Weekly. r , . ODDS AND ENDS. Germany bricklayers average $200 a year.; To. make one pound of honey' the bees must visit from 90,000 to 200,000 flowers. Don't try swimming in creeks' where the water is two feet deep and the mud six feet. It is estimated that : 100,000,000 tons of ' water pass over Niagara Falls every hour.. In ' Scotland, it is said that to rock the empty cradle will insure the coming of oc cupants for it.; ; ; ' ' - The most recent steel rails have a. higher percentage of carbon -and the steel pro duced is harder. ,'y.:'i. No English sovereign, except George II and George III, ever attained the age Queen Victoria has reached. She is seventy-three years old. ...... A New Eaglander who bet that he could eat over a hundred eggs- in one hour", won the wager by making a hearty meal, of shad roe. . , ' ; Stanley is reported to have made (181,000 from his American tour. One-half of this sum came from his book and the other half from his lectures. , . ..'. .. A hotel keeper in Florida is said to have offered a reward of five dollars for the best treatise on how to make outdoor life at tractive to the mosquito.. ,-. -.. At Hantsholm, on the coast of Jutland, in Denmark, from the lighthouse situated at that place, there is flashed nightly an electric light of 20,000,000 candle power. .Mrs. Malaprop sometimes hits the nail on the bead. It rained in torrents as she left church on Sunday morning without an umbrella. "How irrigating this isr she cried. ' Gold and silver leather for very costly evening shoes, that show a pattern upon the metallic surface in place of the grain of . the leather like silver silk, moire, dia pering, etc.. are worn. .: .Alr Cutters" on Trains. - Master Mechanic Buchanan, of the Van- derbilt lines, has been at work on an idea for a new coach and engine for a long time. He is experimenting on a steel coach, with both ends shaped similar to a ship's prow. -He wants his cars lighter and his engines heavier, for greater speed. He believes steel cover can be arranged on the engine so that the air cannot eddy around the cab and the boilers. The entire scheme would be on the line of the least possible resist ance to tne atmospnere. He believes the railroad train of the fu ture will make seventy-five or eighty miles an hour between this city and Chicago. New York Telegram. . Three Ways of Putting It. ' Harry came in from his play roaring like a little bull of Bashan. He cries so often and so easily that little anxiety is felt when he is heard screeching his hardest. On this occasion his. 'mother said: -. .. '. "Well, well, Harry, what now?" ' "Oh,' I have skint my knee." - "Skint it, Harry?" -" "Oh, yes, yesl 1 was walking . along and I fell down, and when I got upmy knee was all skun upl 1 Just see how it is skindedl" Detroit Free Press. Bad Blood, Impure or vitiated blood is nine times oat of ten caused by acme ,orm of constipation or indiges tion that clogs up tbe system, when the' blood naturally be comes impregnated 'with the ef fete-matter, TheoldSarsapariUas attempt to reach this condition by attacking the blood, with the drastic mineral "'potash." "'Tne -potash theory is' old and obsolete. Joy's Vegetdbh) Sarsaparllla is modern: - I t goes to -tbe soot'tif the trouble.' . It atoiises the liver, kidneys and .bowels to health ful action,, and invigorates tne, circulation, ana this impurities" are quickly carried off through tne hatttral channels: - Try it and 'notaj-lts delightful action. Chas. Ijx', at Beamish's Third and Market Streets, 8,. tV? writcs:r, 'MtypkOt forvitiateil blooil -and while oitthc Mrstoot tl'o became coSivlhccd dfltsinew '' ing acUange., .It ca!s", ll'.WfJ -fled anrt ijraeeii me li.igeiiurally, . ' . ud cvcryUiiug Is iw working full and regular. . .... ... - . v. v . . 3 , .t t -. f ; . : - v Vegetable ' - For Sale iby SNIPES at, KINERSI-yv v " THE DAIiIifiS, 'ORdV: i i'i A necessity . r The -consumption ; of . tea, i! Isttreiyyin- StijWses ere(x,-yfr,ln ;i England,. Kyssia, and the principal luro . . peaii . tea-drjnVln countries., i Bufc Ay; does '-'not " 'gioxf 1 in ' AnterTca. ". ' And ".ii'otj- alone that, but thou- -sandS'of ' Eoropeans " wii'o ' leave Europe ,'. ardent igsers- at: teoV; , upon arriving ia th -. United' States grndu-- ; , iaUy discontinue Its nse, and finally. cease it -..altogether. ' This state of things is due to the fact that -"the Americans thialr so much of business and so little of their palates 'that they permit - Chins and Japan to ship-them 'their cheapest and-jnoat ,worthle. teas. Between the ... wealthy" classes 6f "China land japan and the exacting -..inct' cnltiva'ed ' tea-drinkers "of -' , " Europe, the" finer :tea.ftnd ' ready, market. - The . balance of the "crop comes-to America. '.Is there -any, wonder, then, that our. taste for , tea does, not apprecIateT tn view of Uiese facta, is there hot an lai- . mediate demand for the importation-of a brand of tea Ui&t1 is guaranteed to be nn- colored, nnmanipulated. and - of absolute, parity? We think there is, and present Beech's Tea. Its purity is guaranteed in vevery respect It hav therefore, - more In- . , herent strength than the cheap teas yon have been drinking, fully one third less belflg re quired for an Infusion. This rou will dis cover the first' time yon make it. ' Likewise,' the flavor is delightful, being the natural flar - vorof an unadulterated article. It is a revela tion to tea-drinkers. Sold only in " packages bearing this mark: - -- - - - manood. ioyi .lit) rice 60c per pound. For sale at Xidslie DEXxx-tXex-'ja, - THE DALLES, OREGON. ailes is here and has come IB o win its way to public favor by ener gy industry and merit; and to this end we ask that; ydu give it a. fair trial, and if satisfied with its course a erenerons support. The four paes of six columns each, will be issued; everv evenine. except Sundav V . W 7 X and will be delivered in the city, or sent by, mail for the moderate sum of fifU cents a month. Its will be to advertise Obi city, and adjacent country, to assist in developing" our industries, in extending and opening up new channels for our trade; in securing an open 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 handling of local aflfairs, it will be K JUST; FAIR AND IMPARTIAL We will endeavor to give all the lo cal news, and we ask that your criticism pf our obj ect and course, be formed from the contents of thepaper, and not from rash assertions of outside parties. - to ;any .address :It(will; contain ftomfottr j to six eight: column pages, and ;we shall ; endeavor to make it the equal of the best. Ask (ltfi:(.,f-r iK.;-, - .:A''..t-...; :',S. ".':' ,', ; your IHE BHRONlBtE PUB, GO; .!',, Office, W.rGbfi. Washington and Second Sts; I, (J; m ' r-DEALfcR7lK- -school; mpKS, ORGAN'S; :;J: - ; - '. WATCHES, ' JEWELRY, 'r:; '':'"';'.x 'Cor. Third and. Washington- Sts. T ' ' . ' ' Cleveland Wash., )' ; ' June 19th, 1891.J S. B. Medicine Co. i ' ". -. . '.'". Gentlbmeit 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 erlDbe and kindred complaints.- I have had no complaints so far, and everyone is ready withVaword of praise for their virtues. Yours,' etc., ' 1 . : : ' ' M. F. Hackxey. pep ctiionicii to stay. It hopes eets the resources of the Eastern Oregon. matters, as m its for $1.50 per year. Daily for; a copy, or ddress: 8JIIPES & KTOSLY, - isalc-.-anJ . Retail Dmiisfe.' f;4jEtERS IiJ- ..V; PAINT Kow is -the time to paint your ; house 'and if you wish, to get the best quality and a fine color use the , ; , : , Sherwin, Williams Co.'s Paint' For, tho'se : wishing to see the quality and color of the above paint we call their attention to the residence of S. L. Brooks, Judge Bennett j Smith French and others painted by Paul Kreft. t . . Snipes & Kinersly are agents for he above paint tor The Dalles. .Or. .' PROPRIETOR. OK THE . 5 ' . Granger Feed Yard, . ; , THIRD STREET. fAt Grimes' old place of business.) Horses fed to Hay or Oats at the lowest possi ble prices. Good care given to animals leit in my charge, as I have ample stable room. -ivc-me s call, and I will guarantee satisfsction. W. H. NEABEACK-