Does No Ktnrn to Dust. .. .- .
Many strange things have been told ,
concerning . the secrets of the grave.
Within the past few months discoveries
have been made in Missouri and Iowa
that people have been Iraried alive, but
the strangest discovery was made in
Jolchester a few days ago, viz., that,
after having been buried twenty-one
years, the body of MiBS Flora Hnme is
In as perfect a condition as the day she
died.
Twenty-one years ago the lady died in
St. Paul of pneumonia and the body was
brought to Colchester and buried in the
Argyle cemetery. That cemetery has
long since fallen into disuse, and recent
ly it was . laid out iu nicely improved
grounds. The few graves in it were re
moved, and among the dead was the
body of Mi s Flora Hume. It was in
closed in a metallic case: This was cov
ered with a heavy coat of rust. When
the cover was removed there lay the
body perfectly intact. The features
were readily recognized by relatives,
and the clothing looked perfectly fresh.
Even a ribbon of delicate tint about the
neck was as bright and fresh as when it
had been first put on.
The face was not in the least discol
ored, and the body was full and round.
In fact, the corpse looked as though it
might have been buried only a few
hoars. Quincy (HI.) Herald.
'In a Miser's Hat.
A dispatch from Columbia, S. C, says:
''Uncle Billy Bost, an eccentric char
acter of Cabarrus county, IT. C, is dead.
He was a bachelor, about eighty years
old. His only companions were two
dogs and an old negro. His real estate
consisted of 1,800 acres of land, which he
left to his nephews. He had a safe
which was thought to hold thousands of
dollars, but when it was opened the only
money found was a nickel. However, in
bureau drawers, in old cupboards, in
pitchers and .jars, in old clothes closets,
in old stockings and in cracks in his
miserable house was found $10,000 in
Cold, besides a large quantity of gold
dust and bullion and a few hundred dol
lars in greenbacks.
"In the search a package from a Char
lotto bank was found containing. $ 700
that had never been opened. This was
received by him in 1880. He had corn
and bacon on hand four years old, and
aome hay that had been stacked for
twenty-five years. He made his will
only three weeks ago, and there is much
talk of contesting it, for some of his kin
have been left without anything."
1 Choked by m Cow's Tall.
A peculiar and fatal accident occurred
recently to the seven-year-old son of Mr.
Tramal Carter, who lives four miles
orth of town. ..The little fellow was in
the habit of driving the cows to pasture
every morning, and one morning after
he had eaten his breakfast he started oft
with his cows as usual. About an hour
later a. member of the family went in
aearch of him, and was horrified to see
a cow dragging the almost lifeless body
over the field. The boy had tied the
cow's tail around his neck, and the cow,
a gentle one, had become frightened and
hi off, dragging- the little fellow with
ker. The little fellow was released only
ky cutting the cow's tail, and was barely
five. Louisville Courier-Journal.
A Tough Mala.
The vitality of the mule is little short
of amazing. In Memphis one fell twenty
five feet down an opening in the street.
It lauded on its head and, the hole being
marrow, it was unable to change its posi
tion. It was supposed that the beast had
broken its neck, as a sharp, clicking
noise was heard when it struck bottom.
After half an hour the mule was hoisted
ont by the heels and laid on the ground.
It showed no signs of life, but, notwith
standing, it was given brandy liberally.
and in a little while, to the surprise of
the thousand spectators who had col
lected, the mnle rose to its feet and
walked off as though nothing unusual
"had happened. Philadelphia Ledger.
Summer -Revenge.
Tradesman (to old gentleman who has
purchased a lawn mower) Yes, sir, I'll
oil it and send it over imm
Customer (imperatively) No, no, no!
iii uiusiii i. ims uuku: i won s nave it
oiled! Mind that! I want noisel And,
look here pick me out it nice rusty one.
- A. , 1 -1. Jit I .
My neighbor's children hoot and yell till
10 o'clock every night, so (viciously)
1 mean to cut my grass from 4 till 6
every morning! Exchange.
City Lighting from .Small Stations.
The city of Glasgow is considering the
establishment of au electric lighting sys
tem, by which private buildings and the
public streets shall be lighted. In this
connection the gas companies in the city
nave made a unique suggestion in pro
posing 'that small electric substations
operated by sas motors shall be Dlaced
at numerous points. New York Tele-
gTam.
Not In the Wood.
Summer Boarder I think, consider
ing the price I pay and, the poor accom
modations you have, you might at least
.treat me with respect.- - -. '
Mrs. Hayfork Well, mum, to tell th'
'truth,' I can't feel much respect for
people what pays the big prices I charge
for the sort of accommydationa I give.
Hew York Weekly.
An old Irish woman, Mrs. Hurley, has
recently died in California, at the age of
one hundred and eight, who always
prided herself upon the fact that as a
child she had been kissed by the patriot
Robert Emmet. ' She could distinctly re
member the Irish rising, under the
French general, Hoche, in 1798.
Seven of the nine justices of the 'su
preme court now occupy their own house
in Washington, and the other two, the
new Justices Brown and Brower.-ill
soon be similarly situated. v -'.-
. When in the country you may imagine
that ypa help the haymakers by jabbing
the horses with the pitchfork and getting
tangled up in the reins, but you do not.
nr1 thpv will probabir teM you so.
PLEA FOR THE CUR DOG.
ONE OF LOW DEGREE THAT IS A
GENTLEMAN AMONG DOGS.
A New Yorker Who Loves Docs Because
They Are Dogs Tells Why Be Does Not
Take the Wont of a Dog Fancier In
Making a Choice of a Pet for Himself.
"I wonder," said a New York gentle
man whose love for dogs of all kinds,
but chiefly for those that nobody else
seems to care for, makes him rather un
popular in his neighborhood, "what con
stitutes a well bred dog? I don't mean
from the fancier's and breeder's point of
view. We all know that the long haired,
silky Skye, the smooth, bright eyed
black and tan and the aesthetic York
shire are supposed to be 'born in the
purple' and have nothing in common
with the yellow and white creature with
a black badge of demerit over one eye
the animal we call a cur.
"But what would the dogs themselves
have to say about it if they could speak
They ought to be the best judges, and
their opinions, so far as I can gather
them by watching their actions and bear
ing toward each other, do not corrobo
rate human sporting sentiment in the
matter at all. The question I want to
hear fairly answered is: Which is the
gentleman and which is the blackguard
'among dogs?
"You see this dog beside me, and no
doubt you wonder, as all my friends do,
why I keep 'such a cur' in the house.
Well, I keep him because I believe him
to be a canine gentleman. Appearances
are certainly against him, but I have
seen gentlemen with ugly faces and un
gainly figures, shabbily clothed, before
now.
"Can he -fight? you ask. So far as his
own personal inclinations are concerned
he would rather run ten miles than fight
for ten seconds, but if an ability and a
willingness to fight are necessary quali
fications for a gentleman, then John L.
Sullivan's name should stand high on
. Ward McAllister's scroll of social fame.
THE BOTCHER'S DOG.
"Can he hunt rats? I allowed one to
escape from a trap under his nose a few
days ago, and he wanted to play with it.
He will harm no living thing, and in
that sweetness of disposition, I hold, lies
his chief, claim to the rank of gentle
man. "Of course, I don't expect sporting
men to agree with me, but that all the
dogs in the neighborhood share my opin
ion, about him is plainly indicated by
his extreme popularity among his kind.
Being utterly unsuspicious, he is frankly
fearless of them all, and only once have
I seen his trust betrayed. That was
when the butcher's bulldog (an animal
. that is called well bred, though he is
brutal in appearance and disposition)
seized him, without a particle of provo
cation, and would have killed him if the
butcher had not interfered with the
cleaver. .
-. "Do you suppose that Lazarus (that is
my dog's name) harbored any malice
against that ugly, vicious beast? Not an
atom. As soon as the first soreness of
the attack had, in some measure, abated,
he trotted back to the big dog without
the slightest appearance of distrust, and,
I suppose, in his guileless way, reasoned
with him. His gentle nature prevailed,
and he has, in a great measure, refined
that rough savage character.
"They are good friends now, and the
bulldog shows a certain subserviency to
ward Lazarus, and when he is present
will refrain from exercising his great
teeth upon the flesh of any other dog.
TWO DOGS COMPARED.
"I have no doubt at all that he recog
nized the true canine gentleman in
stinctively and bowed before him. That
he did not detect it before it was almost
too late was due to the well known in
tellectual dullness of the bulldog, whose
small modicum of brains is usually car
ried in his fangs. All the other dogs de
fer to him at the first meeting, and
though, marketably speaking, he is 'a
cur of low degree, he has become the
guide, philosopher and friend of every
animal, around us whose friendship is
worth having. And if you imagine for
a moment that they have been mistaken
in choosing such a leader you know very
little about canine intelligence.
"Now, look at that Belf satisfied fel
low taking a sun bath in the garden.
He is said to be a pure Dandy Dinmont,
though he is a little too large to have
been what the dealers call 'finely bred,'
but even from their point of view he is
none the worse for that. That dog cost
seventy-five dollars when he was a pup,
and I have been told he is worth $250
now. But, though 1 won't sell him, 1
have no affection for him, because he is
not a gentleman. . He is quarrelsome,
without much power to fight his own
battles, and he is intensely greedy and
selfish.- He growls all the time he is
eating a meal, just with 'the general
principle of deterring any animal within
the sound of his ' voice from trying to
share it with him. '
"Why, if the cat wants to eat off the
plate with Lazarus,. she is always wel
come to a share of the food, or even to
all of it if she is in a particularly grasp
ing mood. Now, which of those two
dogs is the blackguard and which the
gentleman? . Let the dogs spe?Jf and the
dealers hold their tongues." New York
Recorder. '
How to Imitate a Singiuc; Bird.
According to La Nature, with any
glass tube whatever it is possible to easily
reproduce the song of a bird. It suffices
to rub thertube lengthwise with a piece
of -wet cork. In order ' tq imitate the
song of a bird, the cork must' be moved
with a varying rapidity, now slowly,
.now, rapidly, and abrupt stoppages must
intervene. The experiment can be made
more simply by rubbing an ordinary
bottle with a piece of cork.
Baby Speaks.
Bjones Our baby said his first word
today. Mrs. De Gush came in. and the
minute she saw him exclaimed, "What
a perfect image of his papa!"
Bjinks What did the baby say?
Bjonea "Chestnut" Harper's Baaar.
Books to Read in a Hammock.
Some people never take books to the
country with them. They either feel no
need for the strength or relaxation'- they
might gain from reading, or they rely
upon chance for their mental pabulum.
Few are the readers who carry with
them anything but the lightest of sum
mer novels books that . can be . thrown
away without regret when finished.
Perliaps it is too much to ask that any
one not a student should expend much
energy in hot weather upon mental im
provement. Yet it does seem as though
something better might be read than the
merely ephemeral novelette. How many
of the rising generation are really famil
iar with the novels of Scott, of Dickens,
of Thackeray, of Cooper, of George
Eliot, of Miss Mulock, or with the
charming long and short stories by our
own American authors?
There,, was a time when. - the heavy
binding and high cost of standards ren
dered them undesirable books to read in
a hammock, but the recent issue of the
works of many of the best English and
American writers in paper covers does
away with this objection. Good books,
hi good type, on good paper," at a price
that practically puts them within the
reach of every one, are to be had on
every hand.
In purchasing an outfit for the sum
mer vacation the hammock books should
no more be overlooked than the ham
mock itself, but let both be of a kind
that will stand wear. Trashy reading
provokes a mental dyspepsia akin to the
physical malaise produced by a diet of
sweetmeats unaccompanied by substan-
tials. Such a course of treatment unfits
either niiud or body to do the winter's
work, for which strength should be ao
cnmulated during a summer vacation.
Harpers Bazar.
The Edelweiss in London.
It may lie interesting to some to hear
that the Edelweiss can be cultivated in
London. Last August a friend who
lives near Belfast gave me a small plant
with, one bloom, raised by himself from
seed. 1 he directions given with it were
"Leave it in the corner of your garden;
it requires no special care."
Unhappily, London gardens are the
hunting grounds for innumerable cats.
so I ' placed my treasure, for such ' I
deemed it, on the sill of my drawing
room window, aspect southeast, and
there, fhrough the dismal sunless win
dow, now buried deep in snow, now
frozen hard, 'the Alpine stranger re
mained, always reported dead by all
who saw it, but toward the end of March
life showed itself, and now it is a large
neaitny plant, with five lovely blooms,
the admiration of all who see it.
Surely, if this fair flower from the
lovely mountain air of Switzerland can
thrive in the 'smoky, sooty atmosphere
of London, our climate is not so bad as
some would say. Cor. London Stand
ard. "Too Mau a Red a Shoes." -"I
make from two to tree dolla' day,"
said au Italian bootblack with two chairs
under the Elevated stairs. "Bisna no
good. -No good lasta yeah. Foa I maka
tree, fo. fiva and sometimes sixa dolla'
day."
"What's the reason business is not so
good how?"'
"Harda times, red.i shoes and pata
leatha shoes; too many mena in bisna.
My besta custama no mor blacka shoes.
Weara reda an' pata leatha shoes. See?
Lasta yea. dis yea, same. I paya man
dolla' day helpa, an! boarda him. Maka
no moil'." i
"What did you do before you came to
this country?"
"I farma. My man he farma, my son
he farma. Parma no good, Italy. I
maka dolla -week. Sacre!"' New York
Herald.
Policemen Losing; iu Height
The first batch of twenty policemen
have been examined under the order re
cently issued by the mayor. Of ' the
twenty men examined but one has re
tained the same proportions throughout.
This man is Officer Jim Eggleston, of
the First district. He is exactly the
same height as when he was examined
for appointment under this administra
tion, and weighs not an ounce more or
less. Of the others one was almost an
inch taller than when he went on, but
the rest had fallen away. One was found
to be more than an inch shorter than
when appointed. All were over weight
except Officer Eggleston. Cincinnati
Commercial-Gazette.
Modification- Extraordinary.
The hen of farmer who lives near
Tionesta and a wild pheasant have both
been laving eggs iu the same nest. After
the nest was full with about an equal
number of both kinds of eggs both fowls
began to set. They occupied the nest at
the same time and there was a constant
struggle going on. The farmer conclud
ed that neither could accomplish any-
tning at the rate they were quarreling,
and he thought to solve the difficulty by
removing the hen's eggs from the nest.
This only served to make "matters worse,
and now both fowls are trying to hatch
young pheasants. Philadelphia Times."
A Youthful Idea.
A bright little fellow, hearing his
grandfather talk of the almshouse,' pon
dered in his 3-outhful and Tiiquisitive
tmnU what that might be.' Aunt Alice,
a young lady of the household, was the
other day. made the confidant of hjs con-.
elusions. "I know," said he, "the arms-
house '8 where all the girls wears dwesses
. thou,t ; any ' sleeves m "em.'. Hartford
Post. .--- - -
. - . . ; . .
' Frtui loys of Birdseye, Ind.; found an
-ohl coat near the" -railroad aiid began
tossing it about, iind beating each other
with it.. A bank inote slipped from be
neath' one of the patches. The boys
ripped the coat to pieces and it panned
ont $1,711. - ' ; , :
The other morning while making re
pairs tS a residence in Moulton township,
O. , carpenters came upou a nest of bats
in a window casing. They killed 250 of
the animals, which ranged in size from
j an in to ven inches in length.
'' ' He Didn't Get Any More ShadJ -
A young man went todinea the house
of a friend. Now, this young man does
not profess to be a skilled anatomist, and
says the only way he can tell whether
there are bones in his shad is by getting
them into his mouth. And so when the
fish came he plunged it into his mouth,
without regard to its bony structure.
And when a bone revealed its presence
in bis mouth he took it out.'
; Now, he likes shad very much, and he
had set his heart on having a second
piece. But he wasn't asked to have any.
After dinner was over his hostess came
and sat down by him. "Did you want
some more of that fish very much?" she
asked. "Well, I do like shad very much,"
he admitted.
"I saw you wanted some more," she
said, "but I didn't dare give it to you. I
was afraid you'd, die on the premises.
Really, in courtesy to your hostess, when
you go ' out to dine you must bone your
fish before you eat it, and not after. ' I
was cold with horror all the while you
were eating your fish, for fear you would
choke and die right there, and you see,"
she added naively, "that would have
been a frightful damper on the success
of my dinner party." New York Even
ing Sun. .
; The Origin of Three Balls.
Three reasons are given, to account for
the origin of the pawnbroker's sign, . One
says that the balls are used because they
were the emblem . of St. Nicholas, who is
said to have given three purses of gold to
three virgin sisters to enable them to
marry. Another legend attributes the use
of the three balls to the members of the
Lombard family, the first great money
lenders of England. They were druggists'
before they became capitalists, and used
the three golden pills in memory of their
old calling. Still another story attributes
their original use to the Medici family of
France. The Medicis were money lenders,
who used the three pills as a pun on their
medical sounding name. St. Louis Re
public. A Way Lords Have.
It would appear that there are lords
and lords, as the following dialogue may
illustrate:
Commoner (approaching peer) Allot
me, my lord, to introduce you to my
friend, Lord Tadburst.
Peer, (bowing ' coldly) Your' friend
happens to be my nephew, and taking
commoner aside allow me to give you
a piece of advice. When I want to know
a fellow peer I can introduce myself, but
I don't want to know every one of them.
London Truth. .-'-
Benzoin is an excellent polish for the
finger nails.
-Twenty-two newspapers in Kansas are
edited by women.
A man who will deliberately run away
from God is not to be trusted anywhere.
There is not now- a ship in the British
navy without a temperance society on
board. '' - -
I
Head-
Aches. 5
ick-hcudaches are the outward indications of
clrraiii'enienf! of the stomach and bowels. As
Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is the only bowel
tl- :n:iun preparation of Sarsaparilla, it is seen
why it i the only appropriate Barsaparilla in
i--'.-:iN'.ila-hes. It is not only appropriate; it is
mi :t!i-luto cure. After a course of it an occa
sions! dose at intervals will forever after prevent
return.. ' k . . "
J no. M. Cox, of 735 Turk Street, San Francisco,
writes: " I bavc been troubled with attacks of
tii'k-lirHdat-be for the last three years from one to
three times a week. Some time ago I bought two
bottles of Joy's Vegetable barsaparilla and have
only bail one attack, since and that was on the
see-onti day after I began using it.r- -
-Vegetable
O Sarsaparilla
For Sale by SNIPES &. KINERSLY.
THE DALLES, OREGON.
A Revelation.
Few people know that tbe
bright . bluish-green color of
tbe 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 being used for this
purpose. Tbe effect Is two
. fold. It not only makes the
tea bright, shiny green, hat also permits the
ase of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this tub
ject: "The manipulation of poor tea, tocjye
them afiner appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring (-nearer b'aek kiuda by
. glazing or facing with Prussian blue, ru:r.eric,
gypsum, and indigo. Thin mrthod it so gen-
' eral that very little genuine ttncolored green tea
' i offered for tale." . .
It was the knowledge of this condition r.1
affairs that prompted the plac.ug of Beech's
Tea before the public It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever see' any
.. genuine uncolored Japan tea? Ak your
grocer to open a iiackage of Beech's, and yuu
will see It, and probably for- the very first
' time. If will be found iu color to be jut be
. 'tween "the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to aud tbe black teas;
, . It draws a delightful canary color, and User
fragrant that it will be a revelation to tea-.
. drinkers. Its purity makes it also -more
economical than the artificial teas', for lest
of: It is required per cup. Solionly in.pound
! packages bearing this trade-mark' i .
re-iihood:
If your grocer does not hare it, ha will get
it foe yoa, FxJoeflOo per posuid. For saVs al
Iieslle Xltxtler's,
THK DAT-LKS, OREGON.
GK
JOU'
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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
support.
The
four pages of six columns each, will be
issued every: evening, except Sunday,
and will be delivered in the city, or sent
by mail for the moderate sum of fiftj
cents a month.
will be to advertise
city, and adjacent country, to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening lip 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 obj ect and course, be formed from
the contents of the paper, and not from
rash assertions of outside parties.
THE WEEKLY,
sent to any address for $1.50 per year.
It will contain from four to six eight
column pages,' and we shall endeavor
to make it the equal of the best. Ask
your Postmaster for a copy, or address.
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Office, N. W. Cor. Washington arid Second. Sts
Health is Wealth !
Db. E. C. West's Nervk and Bbain Tkkai
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ness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervdus Neuralgia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
of alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental De
pression, Softening of the Brain, resulting in in
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death.
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Powei
in either sex. Involuntary Losses and Spermat
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abuse or over indulgence. Each box contains
pne month's treatment. $1.00 a box, or six boxes
for fo.00, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price.
' WK GUAKANTEK SIX BOXES
To cure any case With each order received b
us for six boxes, accompanied by $5.00, we will
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re
fund tbe money if the treatment does not effec'
a cure. Guarantees issued only by
. BIAEEIET St HOUGHTON, '
'Prescription Druggists,
175 Second St. Dalles, Or.
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124 UNION" ST., THE DALLES, OR.
. : Keep? on hand a full line of . ; "
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' - June 19th, 1891. S
S. B. Medicine Co.,
' Gentlemen Your kind favor received,
and in reply would say that I am more
than pleased with the terms offered me
on the last shipment of your medicines.
There is nothing like them ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La
grippe and kindred complaints. . I have
had no complaints so far, and everyone
is ready with a word of praise for their
virtues. Yours, etc., '
.''.. M. F. Hacklet.
The Dalles
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orders from all parts of the country filled
on the shortest -notice
The reputation of THE DALLES CI-V'
GAR has become firmly established, and
the demand for the home manufactured
article is increasing every day.
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