A July Eplsoda. .
He stood before the shop window gaz-;
J -A. i.1 3 m r '
rug at me oispiay or nreworKS, witn Dig,
bngat eyes. He was a little fellow,
about seven or eight years old, and be
low the usual size for his age. After he
had stood there long enough to count
all the packs of firecrackers and im
agined the grand time he could have
with even a dozen of these noisy red
sticks, he turned away with a tiny, wist
ful sigh, and walked up to a fruit stand
that was close by.'
"Gi'me one yer bestestest oranges an
a peach," he said. The Italian looked
at him; first at the dirty little face, then
down at the bare feet, bine from the
cold pavement and blackened with mud.
The little fellow felt the contempt in the
Jook given him, and drawing himself up
with all the dignity worthy of a perfect
ly dressed gentleman, extended a silver
ten cent piece and said.- "I got the mo
ney. Come, hurry up. now; my time's
val'able."
He received the orange and peach,
which 'he tucked into the pockets of his
ragged trousers without taking a bite.
Just then another small street arab
came on the scene.
"What's yer been getten firecrack
ers?" he asked in eager tones.
"Naw," replied the other. ''Me little
sister's sick, an' the dispensary doctor
ays she ain't a-goin' ter see no Fourth,
so ' I thought I'd give 'er a kinder s'prise
picnio afore th Fourth comes."
"An" yer not goin' ter have no fire
crackers?" ejaculated the other boy.
" 'Course not," was the reply, and the
noble little fellow marched off whistling
"Comrades" in a trembling key, which
betrayed that the victory over self indul
gence had been a hard won battle. New
York Advertiser.
A Secularist "Christening."
On Sunday evening, at the Hall of
Science in London, G-. W. Foote, presi--dent
of the National Secular Society,
performed a 'ceremony which.has of late
become almost obsolete among Free
thinkers "the naming of infants," to
wit: The parents appeared on the plat
form with their child, a baby of three
months. Mr. Footo briefly explained
that the custom of publicly naming chil
dren, which had been frequently ob
served by Mr. Bradlaugh, Mrs. Besant
and other Secularist lecturers, was in no
sense intended to be a travesty of any re
ligious function. If parents desired their
offspring to be publicly identified with
the Freethought party, there was no rea
son why this should not be done.
Then Mr. Foote, having kissed the
baby with due solemnity, named it
"Carlile Bradlaugh Owen Golding." The
first of this portentous string of "given
names" is derived from Richard Carlile,
who suffered ten years of imprisonment
early in this century for asserting the
right of free publication. Mr. Foote ex
pressed a hope that, when the child be
comes old enough to understand the sig
nificance of the names he bears, he may
prove worthy of them. Cor. Public
Opinion.
Coal In a River.
Daring the several freshets which have
occurred in the Susquehanna river the
past spring a vast amount of "culm"
from the anthracite coal fields floated
down the river with the debris coming
out of the North Branch and its tribu
taries. Large quantities of this culm or
coal dirt, which was washed from the
huge banks of that material at the coal
breakers, lodged at the heads of the sev
eral islands opposite and above the city,
and recently parties have secured tons
of it by digging it out of the sand and
screening it, producing a good quality
of pea and chestnut coal for boiler use.
A considerable quantity of egg or
larger sized coal is also gathered from
the bottom of the river, where it has
lodged among the gravel, and is removed
in a perfectly clean state. All the larger
sizes of coal have become more or less
rounded by the action of the water.
Tons of this material are gathered dur
ing the summer when the river is low.
Harrisburg Star.
A Dog's Sympathy.
Saturday afternoon a case of remark
able sympathy on the part of a dog was
witnessed on Church street, near the
postoffice. A Bmall dog strayed out into
the street aud was run over by a passing
vehicle. He was not permanently crip
pled, but appeared hurt across the back,
and at first lay howling and squirming
in the street. Another dog of an entire
ly different breed was standing on the
sidewalk when the t.ccident occurred.
Promptly he went to the assistance of
his injured companion, and by pushing
him with his nose aided him in rising,
and then escorted him to the sidewalk
with every possible demonstration of
mute sympathy, and stood by him until
the partly paralyzed animal was able to
hobble off. Persons who witnessed it
expressed astonishment at the unusual
6pectacl West Chester (Pa.) News.
To Keep Insects On from Trees.
' The tying of a piece of wool round a
tree stem to keep down the bugs and
vermin is a poor idea, because it is based
on the supposition that all these nui
sances ascend from the ground, whereas,
in most instances, the eggs are laid in
the foliage above the supposed guard.
The only actual preventive involves a
delicate operation, which, however, can
be successfully performed by a man with
a steady hand. It consists in boring a
small hole in the tree near the ground
and filling it with sulphur. The sap
carries this over the tree and there will
be few insects settle or crawl on any
part of it. The spring is the best time
to do this, but with a strong healthy tree
it can be done now with perfect ' safety
St Louis Globe-Democrat
Keats a Hundred Francs.
Three hundred seats at a hundred
francs per seat, and all of them filled I
This, briefly, was the result of the re
cent ultra fashionable charity perform
ances given by the Duchesse d'Uze. The
great feature of the entertainment was a
magic lantern display by a noble ama
teur, whose highly original slides are
.till the talk of aristocratic Paris. Lon
don Figaro.
GIVE GEORGE A CHANCE.
HE WAS A BIG MAN IN HIS DAY EVEN
IF HE IS FORGOTTEN.
Am Incident in a Building Which Wtti
Once the Headquarters of the Father
of His Country An Example of the
Changes That Time Makes.
Away down on Broad street there is a
building in which great men used to
meet, but which they keep away from
now.
In it met stately George Clinton, the
no less stately General Knox, and there
General Hamilton drank wine or coffee
with Burr long before they" met on the
fields above Weehawken. Thomas Jef
ferson sat and discussed politics in that
very house with Robert Morris and Ed
mund Randolph, and if they did not al
ways agree it did not matter for the mo
ment. In the same days at odd times a great,
dignified figure would sometimes ap
pear in an upper room of this very house.
This man had a large head, not all
swelled, and large feet, too, for that
matter. ' He stood head and shoulders
above the rest, and in stateliness sur
passed them all. He drank his rum and
water with relish or else he took wine
that was really good with that enjoy
ment that is felt by the man who knows
the worth of good vintage. A dark look
ing man was near to attend to every de
sire of this stately man.
The other habitues of the house treated
the dark man with familiarity. They
addressed him as "Sam," and called on
him from time to time to hotly pursue
his boys from the taproom below to the
room above with the tankards and the
crackers and cheese that were ordered.
The stately man was treated with rever
ence. Hats were off and tongues were
still when ho spoke, which was seldom.
They called him "General," and in his
presence contentious minds forgot to dis
pute. THE HEADQUARTERS TODAY. ,
For this was General Washington, and
the dark attendant was "Black Sam"
Fraunces, and the house was "Fraunces'
tavern."
The other day a newspaper man who
still finds something to admire in Wash
ington visited this old tavern that, until
a little over a year ago, still bore on its
wall a sign that designated it as "Wash
ington's Headquarters." The sign is not
there now. , The old wainscoting is gone
from the taproom on the lower floor.
The stairs that Washington and Jeffer
son, John Adams, Hamil ton and the rest
of them used in their day are torn down,
and a bar, over which schooners of beer
are sold by a stolid German gentleman,
stands where it did.
You approach the "long room," sacred
to Washington and his officers, by an
entrance, on one side of which is a cheap
barber shop, on the other signs to the ef
fect that you can get "lodgings for gen
tlemen only;" also liver and bacon, sauer
kraut, kidney stew and other dishes of
the kind for practically nothing.
These delicacies are served in what
was known as the "Long Room," where
Washington and his generals met in
their day. If Washington and some of
the stately men of his day could now
visit this room at that hour of the day
when kidney stew is most rampant they
might be a trifle shocked.
In one corner of this "Long Room,"
where the lodgers eat, a bust of George
Washington still stands. It shows up
his big head and nose in a very fair way.
But when you see it in a room filled
with the odor of kidneys, sauerkraut and
corned beef the effect is a little spoiled.
SHABBY TREATMENT.
Tradition has it that a man went into
the "Long Room" not many months ago
end saw this bust. It was in the morn
ing, and the cooks had some cabbages
piled about the bust of the Father of his
Country. Perched upon the top of the
head, so to speak, of the figure was the
battered derby hat of some person un
known. This man was a big man, so he
kicked a few of the cabbages away and
threw the hat out of the window. To a
German waiter who then appeared on
the scene he expressed himself frankly
and freely.
"How tJare you treat a figure of George
Washington that way?' he demanded.
"Vot Grorge Vashington?" said the
waiter. Then the American walked out
of the. place in a dazed sort of way and
went up Broad street. Right in front of
the sub-treasury he noted the big statue
of Washington that stands there. He
looked at the brightness of the shoes and
stockings as they are represented as
compared with the general dinginess of
the rest of the figure. He did not know
that a crank came along some time ago
and brightened up the statue from the
buckled shoe to the knee, for he ex
claimed in anger:
"Ef they haven't blacked his feet and
legs with stove, blackin'l No wonder
New York didn't git the World's fair if
she's too mean to give George a fair
show." . -
Then he drifted sadly away. His re
marks were hardly fair. Still the "So
ciety of the Cincinnati" has had its head
quarters in Fraunces' for more than 100
years, and in that particular locality at
least, to use the expression of the rural
patriot quoted above, "George is not
getting a fair show." New York Re
corder. Vienna University Library.
For the establishment of the rich and
rare collection the city peculiarly, hon
ored, as well as the world at large, are
indebted to Maria Theresa. The read
ing room is free to all, and library doors
are open much longer than is customary
elsewhere. In winter, too, the hours are
from 5 to 8 o'clock in the evening, and
on Sundays from fl to 12. Harper's Ba-
Safety Assured.
Mr. Winks (solemnly) A noted physi
cian says that deadly bacteria lurk ir
bank notes, - and many diseases, espe
dally smallpox, are spread that way.
Mrs. Winks Mercy on us! Give me
all yon have right off... I've been vac
cinated, you know. Good News.
The Tradeless People of Paris.
In a great city like Paris there are thou
tands of persons who have no trade or pro
fession, and who are obliged to resort to all
jorts of tricks to get their daily bread.
Some manage to accomplish this feat hon
estly, while others work unscrupulously
upon the credulity of their fellows. Vau
levillists and caricaturists repeatedly exer
sise their wit at the expense of the unfor
tunate Oues whom necessity forces into
strange and improbable callings. Doubt
less these wits often exaggerate the reality,
but the fact remains that there are quanti
ties of' poor wretches here who really get
their living by pursuing the queerest and
most ingenious occupations.
If you question one of these tradeless in
dividuals upon his manner of living he
will reply, "Ob, 1 have a dodge!" It is
very rare that he will consent to give you
more ample explanations. For common
mortals his way of procuring food, clothing
and lodging is decidedly enigmatical.
These men who invent "dodges" generally
live in furnished lodgings, where the
chambers contain several beds.
A "dodger" divines, so to speak, a man
who is in the same line of business, and the
similarity of their characters unites them
on a common footing. They club together
to get rid of the strange merchandise that
others have invented. The one who creates
docs not reveal his manner of inventing to
his partner, and this one in his turn con
ceals as well as he' can the profits obtained
by the sale. The mistrust is reciprocal.
The principal dodgers are the street ped
dlers who hawk about the thousand and
one ingenious toys that are constantly in
vented in this great city, who sell newspa
pers when they have a few francs in their
pocket to buy a stock from the wholesale
dealers in Rue du Croissant, or who traffics
in theater tickets, during the evening.
Paris Cor. New York Epoch.
The Best Lighted City in the World.
Paris is now on the eve of a revolution in
her lightingsystem. Gas lighting was first
introduced in England, bnt Paris followed
in good time and with n splendor unequaled
elsewhere. In like manner America, Ger
many and some other countries have been
earlier in the use of electric lighting, but
the Parisians, with their superior taste and
skill in all matters of municipal arrange
ments and appointments, are destined to
make by far the most brilliant use of the
new illuminant.
Within one year, or within two years at
the furthest, it is confidently claimed that
Paris will be incomparably the best lighted
city in the world, and that electricity will
have superseded gas in public use. In 1878,
at the time of the universal exposition, the
municipal goverment ordered the experi
mental illumination of the Avenue de
l'Opera and several open spaces with elec
tricity; but the new system was not ripe
for large use, and the experiment was soon
abandoned. Its principal effect was the
stimulus it gave to the gas company, which
invented and put into use certain large
compound burners using 1,400 liters per
hour, and giving a most brilliant light.
The great electrical improvements of the
past decade were exhibited in the French
exposition of 1889, aud were studied with
the utmost care by the Parisian authori
ties and municipal engineers. Undoubted
ly the displays at the exposition had the
most pronounced effect in stimulating the
new zeal Paris is showing for the appli
ances of the electric age. Dr. Albert Shaw
in Century.
Women as Physicians. .
Kindred to JEsculapius were those first
women physiciaus, Circe and Medea, but
while all honor is attached to the name of
JGsculapius, Medea and Circe are regarded
with suspicion as enchantresses, dealers in
poisonous drugs and using their knowl
edge of medicine to further their own per
verse ends. Instead of following a legiti
mate business, as men would do, they spent
their time mixing love philters and prac
ticing all kinds of sorcery and mischief.
There are those who claim that Circe and
Metlea are the types of women physicians,
and that whenever women have engaged
in the healing art, whether in ancient or
mediaeval times, they have always abused
the privilege aud degraded the profession
by connecting with it some magic or witch
craft. It is to lie rememlered, however, that
these reports of song and story were writ
ten by men, aud in earlier ti mes there may
have been the Same antipathy against the
infringement by women of the domain pre
empted by man that there is in these mod
ern times. Still the witchcraft argument
is not without some force even at the pres
ent time, for although the days of sorcery
are past, the witchery attractive women
disguised as ministering angels to the sick
must be admitted to be as potent as ever.
Chicago Herald.
The Cuves of Corsica.
Travelers and scientists are greatly in
terested in the recent discovery Of wouder
f ul caves on the island of Corsica. A miner
who undertook to explore them a few
weeks ago found it impossible to do so. He
discovered various small caves close to
gether which led to a mammoth cave some
distance from the original openings. The
roof of the mammoth cave was between
sixty and seventy feet ' hitch. After travel
ing underground for some time he came j
upon an immense laice, which maae Iiir
ther progress impossible.
According1 to his estimates, the lake is
situated under the mountain chain La Re
vellata, near Calyji, and gets its water
from the ocean. In support of his theory
a small grotto was discovered on Cape Re
vellata, on a level with the sea, which is
believed to be connected witli the caves.
The length of the caves along the coast is
estimated at thirty miles. A society of sa
vantrf has been formed to explore the place
thoroughly this summer. Philadelphia
Ledger.
The "Pis or the Rushes."
In Ireland the lizard is called "aire
luichair," which, literally translated,
means "the pig of the rushes." It is held
in great esteem for its curative powers.
When caught the person who is anxious to
receive the curative power tcss the aire
luichair in his hand and licks the" creature
all over head, feet, belly, legs, sides and
tail and the tongue of the person .who
thus licks the aire luichair is said to ever
afterward possess the powerof taking the
pain and sting out of a burn.
The aire luichair crawling across the
throat of one suffering with qtiiuzy, or the
hands of a person who ha licked or even
recently handled one of the little creatures,
is thought to be a sovereign remedy for
that disease. There is also a prevailing
idea that the aire luichair is always on the
watch to crawl down the throat of any per
son who happens to fall asleep out of doors.
St. Louis Republic.
Killed a Joint Snake. -Linton
Richardson, of f irtwell, killed a
joint snake recently. It was about two
feet lonir, and had a horn on its Xail. Upon
handling it after it was killed it became
disjointed. The joints were two inches
long. Cor. Atlanta Constitution. .
How to Kill the Rose Bus;.
The editor of the Rural New Yorkei
announces that he has just discovered a
sure way of killing the rose bug or rose
chafer without injury to foliage. The
bug has increased rapidly in the last few
years and has devastated thousands of
vineyards. The editor says:
Experiments made during the present
week prove that this insect . cannot sur
vive "a temperature of over 120 degs.
Fahrenheit. The next step was to ascer
tain if this method of destruction could
be put to an easy, practicable use.
Water was heated to 170 degs. and
poured into a pail. A small hand force
pump, with eight feet of hose and a half
inch iron tube of five feet (thirteen feet
in all), terminating with a cyclone noz
zle, was then, used to force the water
upon the rose chafers of the magnolia
flowers, in one of which there were not
less than 150 of them. The first spray
upon the beetles was shown by the ther
mometer to be 120 degs.
The rose bugs receiving the direct
spray were dead in about one minute.
The others recovered. The temperature
of the water was then raised so that the
mercury rose to 140 degs. when the ther
mometer was placed within two inches
of the nozzle. This was sprayed into a
partly open magnolia flower containing
fifty or more beetles. All were almost
instantly killed. Neither foliage nor
flowers were injured.
Ko More Free Paper.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany has recently adopted a . new style
of telegraph blanks. The new blank
has printing on the back. The saving to
the company through this change will
be enormous. The old time blanks, with
which every one is familiar, had a print
ed heading, bnt the back was clear, on
which account the public became ac
customed to using telegraph .blanks for
memorandum paper. I have seen men
deliberately step into a telegraph office
and take a pad of blanks off the counter
to carry away for use elsewhere and
otherwise than for sending messages.
Newspaper reporters and correspondents
used large quantities of the blanks for
copy It was smooth faced paper, and
the Sizing was .well adapted to. the use
of a pen. Hereafter the public will not
be accommodated in this respect as the
rules of the company "are printed on the
backs of all blanks, and there is no sur
face for writing anything but messages.
New York Press.
Cotton In China.
In China previous to the Eleventh cent
ury cotton was rare and precious, and a
cotton robe was deemed a fitting gift foi
an emperor. It was grown only in gar
dens, and Chinese poets sang the beauty
of its flowers. It was early known in
Arabia, for its name-7-cotton is derived
from an Arabi word. Harper's Young
People. . .
Head
Aches. ."k-lu ailnolies are the outward indications of
di-nuiKi'meiits of the stomach aud bowels. As
Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is the only bowel
resuming preparation of Barsaparilla, it is seen
v. 'r.y i! is the only appropriate Sarsaparilla In
s; !;-iic;:liiobcs. It is not only appropriate; It is
it. 1 ii!.M!uic euro. After a course of it an occa
'r,::il ilose at intervals will forever after prevent
return.
.I110. M. fox, of T35 Turk Street, Sau Francisco,
writes: " 1 have been troubled with attacks of
nick-headache for tlic last three years from one to
three times n week. Some time ajo I bought two
lioUlesof Joy's Vegetable barsaparilla and have
only hud one nttm-k si nee aud that was oil the
Siteoir'il day after I lcg:ui using it." '
Vegetable
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THE DALLES, OREGON.
A Revelation.
Few people know that the
bright bluish-green color of
the ordinary teas exposed in
the windows is not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral coloring
matter teing used for this
purpose. The effect is two
fold. It not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, hut also permits the
use of " off-color " aud worthless teas, which,
' once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The mauipnlation of poor teas, t..j:ive
them a'finer appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring chca- or black kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, ta:::eric,
gypsum, aud iudigo. Thin method is so gen
eral that very little genuine unrolored green tea
i offered for eale."
It was the knowledge lit this condition of
affairs that prompted tbe-ptae i:g of Beech's .
Tea before the public. . It fcbsolitely pure
and without color. Did you ever see any
genuine nueolored Ja; an tija ? Ask your
grocer to open a package of ficotsh's, and you
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed: to and the black teas. '
It drawsadclightful canary color, and is sa
fragrant that it will be a revelation to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes it also more
economical than the artificial teas, for lesa
of it is required per cup. Sold only in pound
packages bearing this trade-mark:
BEECH TEA
Pure'AsT'fiHildhood:
If your grocer doe not have it, lie will gel
It for yon, Price COp per poand. For sale at
Leslie U-utlex-'s,
" THE DALLES, OREGON.
Joy's
ill
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TUB lies
3j
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 Daily :
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 fifty
cents a month.
Its Objects
will be to advertise the resources of the
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 Eastern Oregon.
The paper, both daily and weekly, will
be independent in politics, and in its
criticism of political matters, as in its
handling of local affairs, it will be
JUST, FAIR AND IMPARTIAL
We will enedavor to give all the lo
cal news, and we ask that your criticism
of our object and course, be formed from
4-T" r rr-rt 4-sirt r- 4-T-4 v vo n1 nn
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.
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Keeps on hand a full line of
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June 19th, 1891.)
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and in reply would say that I am more
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There is nothing like them ever. intro
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orders from all parts of the country filled
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the demand for the home manufactured
article is increasing every day.
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