A. Dangerous HandfaL A Georgia farmer, living in rather' an obscure part of the state, whose labors are such as to compel him to be in the field mach cf the time, says that one day he was engaged in clearing op a field covered with a thick undergrowth of bushes and briers, and had employed two negroes to help him. The three men built a fire in the middle of the field, and gathered the brush in their bands and burned ft up. I was working at some little distance from the fire, and of course had to travel back and forth with every handful. I had just returned from the fire, and had stooped to pick up another handful of brush, when I was conscious that I had hold of a snake, and mechanically tightened my grip. I looked down and saw that I had a good sized rattlesnake. I had grabbed him by the neck in such a position that so long as I kept a tight hold he could not strike. As soon as the snake saw that be could neither get away nor strike me, he wound his body around my arm, which was bare to the elbow, .and attempted to pull his head through my fingers. I tell you, I never until that moment realized what tremendous strength there was in a snake's body; it seemed almost as if my arm were being pulled to pieces. I had grabbed his neck between my fore and middle fitogers, so that I was at a great disadvantage; but I knew that if he once got his head free I should be struck not once only, but as many times as he pleased; so I held on and squeezed for dear life. I shouted to the negroes to come over and kill him, and they came at once; but as soon as they saw what it was I had hold of they would not come near me. Nothing that I could say neither threats nor per suasions would induce them to give me help. So all I could do was to hold on and squeeze my snake. After what seemed an age, and when I was about ready to drop from exhaustion, I felt the coils begin to loosen, and with that encouragement I squeezed harder than ever. Gradually the snake relaxed its grip, and at last the body hung limp and motionless from my hand. I walked over and dropped it into the fire, and I tell you I watched it burn with a mingled sen sation of relief and thankfulness. Youth's Companion. Silk .That Is Dangerous. The recent discussion as to whether ocean liners should carry cotton as well as pas sengers, and at the same time, has brought out another fact. It is that they carry other kinds of freight that make the danger of fire just as great as from cotton. A per son who knows something of such matters states that just at present there are being made large importations of French silk that are especially dangerous as freight. "At present importers here," the gentle man said, "are receiving large consign ments of a heavy dyed silk known as French twist The French manufacturers do not spare the dye on these goods, for it adds to their weight. In this dye chemi cals of a peculiar kind are used, and it is this fact that makes this silk dangerous freight. , ' "There is always fear of spontaneous combustion unless the greatest care is taken in packing the goods. These come in bales of various sizes, but generally aver aging about 500 pounds. They are wrapped in cotton bagging, with underlaying lay ers of straw and brown paper, and are made compact by hydraulic pressure. There is constant danger of fire origi nating from them, and they must be watched with care while in transit. There have been cases where bales have been de stroyed from the causes mentioned, and not many years ago a serious fire was caused on a French steamship by these same goods." Steamship men generally say that they are aware of the danger of carrying these silks, and that the greatest care is taken whenever they are carried as freight. One or two lines, indeed, discriminate against this freight and will not carry it. New Tork Recorder. Medicines In Coal. "It may fairly be said that most of the new medicines produced are products of ooal tar," said a physician. "Until lately remedies freshly added to the pharma copeia were obtained through novel dis coveries in the plant kingdom. Even now from time to time such lucky finds are made; but the science of botany has pretty nearly completed its list of things vegetable that grow upon the earth, and the prop erties of their active principles have become more and more thoroughly understood of late years. Thus it happens that new medicines today are nearly all products of the laboratory. "In coal tar is found a simple organic substance which is readily worked with for the production of varied chemical re sults. It is what chemists call a carbo hydrate, of an unelaborate character, which Tenders Itself readily useful in laboratory processes. Therefore, workers in the line of therapeutic research employ it to an al most unlimited extent. Of the new reme dies which the apothecary keeps upon his Advertising slate a majority are such coal tar products. Many of them are of a dangerous char acter and should not be taken without a physician's prescription; but that does not prevent them from having a large sale, Slid t,l firmtt W1 iVl frAf. t )un .n -n. wuv uuuci patented names make fortunes by selling them. Most important among these rem edies are sleep producing and antifever drugs. A number of them are admirable -when properly and judiciously adminis tered. Washington Star. Cosmetics Used Many Years Ago. ' Philological critics have observed that the words translated as "soap" in the Old Testament and in Bonn's Pliny mean prop erly alkali and that the ancients generally used only mechanical abstergents, such as bran and fine sand. Perfumed ointments, however, were considered an indispensable requisite of every civilized household, though they have now gone as strangely ' ont of fashion as the incense of the Medi terranean nations. The Greeks and Romans usd a special . ointment, often mixed with mineral dyes, ior the hair and another for purposes of general inunction, and, after returning from a journey, even travelers of moderate means took a bath, followed by an all-over rubbing down with vegetable oils. Black hair dyes were prized by the towheaded Visigoths, while the Roman ladies coveted the golden lockB of the transalpine bar barians. Felix Oswald in Philadelphia Times. . Wordsworth a Great Eater. It will surprise many admirers of a great English poet of this century to learn that he was a great eater. In the' latest edition of Lamb's works it is stated that the per son with whom the Lambs boarded at En field charged usually one shilling extra when they had a friend at dinner, but when Wordsworth was the guest they charged one and sixpence. When Lamb remonstrated, saying: "He's a great poet." the practical landlord replied: "Don't know about the great poet, but he's a great eater." Boston Traveler. I HE WANTS A FLOATING HOTEL. An Enthusiast's Vision of am Ideal Mid summer Boarding; House. - "Now that another summer is upon us," said the perennial crank, "let me urge upon you newspapermen that you have an opportunity to do a great act of philan thropy for many hundreds of New York ers whose incomes will not allow them to spend the dog days ont of the heated city, by persuading some capitalist to fit up a big steamer for a hotel. There's money in it. "Get a big steamer, or, better still, build one with plenty of roomy staterooms, well ventilated, with ample dining, smoking and lounging saloons, and two or three decks for promenade and chairs. Charge the customary summer hotel rates, and let the steamer have a pier near the Battery. "Let her start from that pier every eve ning at the close of business and steam slowly ont of the bay while her guests are at dinner. Then let her touch her pier again in time for those who want to spend the evening on shore. After these people are landed on the pier let the steamer put out from the shore and steam slowly about in the cool evening air, while her passen gers amuse themselves in her Baloons and staterooms and on her decks just as people do in hotels. Just a little before midnight let the steamer steam up to her pier and take on board those people who have been at the theaters, etc., and then drop away down the bay again for the night. "What refreshing and invigorating sleep a man could get in that salty air. Quiet and order could be preserved on board just as well as in a hotel, and in the morning passengers could be landed fresh for busi ness, while those who had no business in the city could spend the whole day on board if they liked. "There need be little unpleasant bump ing and noise of machinery, as only enough steam would need to be kept up to insure steerage way. No one would look for speed. The expenses would be as small as any other city hotel's, and I am certain that people would just tumble over each other to get quarters on the ship. On those rare occasions when the water was too rough or the wind too boisterous the ship need not leave her pier at all, as the atmos phere would be cool enough-then down by the Battery to render the night agreeable. "Think of the thousands of New Yorkers who must stay in the reeking hot city all summer. How they would jump at such a boarding house! I tell you there's money in it for the first capitalist that takes it up.'.' New York Tribune. British Eccentricity. . It is hard for an Englishman to say whether his own countrymen are really more eccentric than other people. He is told they are; but how is he to know that the information may not be built solidly upon prejudice? The saying, "Oh, he's an Englishman," with the shrug of the shoul ders that means so much, is often Indeed commonly put forward abroad when there is talk of the doings of this or that man, whose ways are not like the ways of the herd of mankind. Some Englishmen don't appreciate this sort of thing. They get in a rage with the foreigner who charges them with being of an eccentric race. But, for my part, I always take it as a compliment, bow and express my obligations and assure the speaker that I trust he does not intention ally flatter me and the countrymen of whom 1 am so proud. On the other hand, however, every one who has been even but for a few months among the people of the Continent can not help coming to the conclusion that we English folk have not the monopoly of ec centricity. All the Year Round. Tea Will Detect Poisons. "Tea," says a woman who knows, "clear tea, without sugar or cream, is - one of the best of agents for the detection of suspected poison. I remember stopping once, in my travels, at a little country inn, whose buxom landlady offered me some beautiful looking waffles, beside which she sat down a small pitcher of sirup. There was talk at that time it was several years ago about the adulteration of some sirups, and this par ticular pitcherful had a peculiar color which I did not like. So I asked her that a cup of tea be brought to me first, and when it came I took a teaspoonful of the sirup and put it in. . "Instantly the tea turned perfectly black, showing the presence of a mineral poison. I don't know that there would have been enough to have done me serious harm, but as I don't care to take poison, even hotneo pathically, when I know it, I ate my waf fles that day with butter and sugar. More than that, I called the landlady's attention to the circumstance, which resulted in ban ishing all of that, sirup she had in the house." Her Point of View in New York Times. ' The Bright 'Side of Misfortune. There is a woman in Bellevue hospital who, though sick of a remarkable diffl- CultV. is hnvinir n. first, rnto Hma ' Cha doesn't suffer any pain at alL Her right eye is paraiyzea, also tne ngnt side ol her mouth, the right side of her tongue and the entire richt side nf nvarvt.hlncr vol. aha sleeps well, eats well and enjoys being an uuject oi interest, fiaving only one-alf of her senses, she very wisely devotes all that remain to her in sensing only the pleasant things of existence. She sees things only out of her smiling eye; doesn't smell anything that she doesn't want to smell; only tastes of what is good, care fully putting obnoxious medicines over on the right side of her mouth, where there isn't any taste. ' It must be quite charming to have this power of discrimination and separation. Think what a comfort a blind spot in one's eye may be, and then fancy the joy of being able to shut off half of- one's whole being so that it will be dead to the disagreeable things in life. New York Commercial Advertiser. Tired Standing. Old Lady (in electric car) Dear mel We're going to have a thunderstorm. Bad Bov fhancrinc to trm.nV T i!nnt no signs of it, mum.- . Old Lady No signs t Why, the light ning is beginning. . See the flashes and bear the thunder. Bad Boy That ain't outside, mum. That's in the car. I guess something's wrong wicn me electric connections. Old Lady Goodness mel Conductor) Conductor! Stop the car; I want to get off. Bad Boy (taking her seat) I guess the old lnAv Mil mat: InlA osmA n-AmA 1 .r. i .1 J P " " V1B UIVIO BUB KCU3 wet. Good News. Insuring Eleotrio Curios. The collection of electrical aDnaratus on exhibition at Frankfort-on-tbe-Main has been insured against fire and damages bv explosion to the extent of 8,500,000 marks. The risk has been undertaken by twenty three of the principal German insurance offices. The value of the exhibition as a whole is estimated at 7,000,000 marks. New York Telegram. A Copper Plate Pound. It was a piece of shining, bright metal, and the fisherman's eyes were sharp. And thereby hangs a tale. ... " It will be remembered that when the barkentine Thomas J. Stewart the ways and refused to take to the water one aay last .November, the tug boat Ralph Ross went to her assistance. After one or two sharp ptfQa that were Ineffectual, all further proceedings were stopped, by the sudden breaking of the post on the Ross to which was attached the tow line of the T. J. Stewart. Now, to this post was secured a large copper plate weighing about twelve pounds, bearing the inscription of the builder's name, date of building and so on. This plate dropped overboard with the wreckage and was lost. Wednesday a fisherman attending his weirs at Sandy point saw a glistening object in the water, and after much dif ficulty succeeded in obtaining possession of. it. It was a copper plate bearing the inscription which proved to be the one lost from the tug Ralph Ross last No vember. The plate was returned to Mr. Ross on Thursday at his office. The query is, How did that plate reach Sandy point, twenty-five miles away? It is hardly, reasonable to say that the current could have carried bo heavy a body so far down the river, and it is readily explained by stating that the ice in some underhand fashion obtained pos session of the Ralph Ross passport, and in its hurried journey to the south spring forgot to leave it behind. It did not travel far under false pretenses, however, but has dropped its booty, which is now returned to its proper owners. - Mr. Rosa is to have the plate polished, handsomely framed and hung on the wall of his office on Exchange street as a reminder of the queer things that Dame Nature will sometimes' do. Bangor News. t How Old Masters Are Made. Apropos de bottes, I find two curious bumness advertisements in my foreign papers. One is that of an ingenious per son whose address is at the Batignolles, and who announces himself as a "sig naturisf and a "monogramist," and guarantees signatures of any artist at any period of his art at a franc apiece. Only think of itl For t.h. pony of brandy at Deimonico's one may convert any uniaentinea and of the junkshop into a Rembrandt, a Velas quez, a Millet, or whatever else one chooses. Moreover, this expert announces that he "identifies" pictures for his clients. A wizard capable of transforming pic tures could naturally identify them by the same process. There are some "col lectors" in America whom it would pay to make a trip to Paris and a visit to the Batignolles. The demand for old mas ters has stimulated the ingenuity of boum German genius in another direc tion. A standing advertisement in the leading art magazine of Germany is that of a "competent artist," as he signs him self, who offers to furnish copies, that cannot be identified from the originals of any pictures in any of the public col lections. Collector. Annihilated In Midair. About 8 o'clock, just before the heavy shower, several gentlemen were sitting in front of a store in West Nashville when one of the party observed a large turkey buzzard that was sailing majes- ticallv across the &kv. and remarlrwl tmt if the buzzard did not look out he would get wet Their attention was thus called to the bird, and all were lazily watching its flight, when suddenly, just as it was op posite to and above them, they were blinded by a flash of lightning, which seemingly exploded on thejback of the buzzard. They were astonished some what, but recovered themselveB and looked for the hnzza.rri. tint ulna ha majestic bird was out of sight. All that was jert oi mm was a few black tail feathers, which fluttered pathetically to the ground. Those who witnessed the phenomenon succeeded in catching several of the scorched feathera. which thv eitiirwr. fn corroboration of the story. Nashville American. Mr. Sears' Imported Baaorbacka. The Tamworth hogs, which J. Mont gomery Sears has imported for breeding purposes, are an old English breed char acterized by the large proportion of lean meat to the fat in its make up. It has of late been overlooked in the effort to breed for fat, hence has seldom been mentioned or heard of. Mr.' Sears has called public attention to the breed by his importa tions, and still others now have them under trial They are medium in size, light in the shoulder, deep sided, and rather fat as compared with the modern models, and "red" in color. Their recom mendation is that they are unlike the rounded balls of fat that have been fur nishing us our models. Bangor Com mercial. A Boy Treed by a Wild Cat. Charlie Heath, of Brooks, a boy six teen years old, was attacked in that town the other day by a strange probably a wildcat. The boy saw the animal in a tree and threw a stone at it. Thereupon the nni-mai sprang down upon the boy and they had quite ' fight, in Which the clothes of young Heath were torn, his head and face and parts of his body badly scratched. The boy then managed to climb a tree and with his heavy boots would kick the animal down as it tried to get to him. After some .time the beast became tired of this and slunk away. Lewiston Journai.' j " ' . Millions In Sawdust. A well known mechanic of ' Portland, lie., is about taking out a patent on an invention for .converting the sawdust and other waste from mills, into a wood pulp of peculiar strength and' quality that he says can be utilized for nearly every purpose in which wood is used. If half his claims prove true his invention is a most valuable one." One of . the largest business houses in Portland have offered the inventor the free use of one of their factories for a year for experi menting purposes. New York Telegram. ' Old Words and Mew. some of the words used bv old fash ioned country people, and laughed at by those who hear them, are not corrup tions of language, but merely survivals of old forms forms so old that many educated persons have forgotten, or per haps have never known, that they were once in good and' regular standing 'as English words. If an old woman "axes your pardon" she is speaking as the most careful Eng lish scholars spoke for hundreds of Tears. down almost to the end of the Sixteenth century. Thus in Wycliff e's New Tes tamentabout 1380 we read, "What man of you is, that if his sone axe hym breed, whethir he wole take hym a stoon?' ' And Coverdale's translation of the gospel according to St Matthew. published in 1535. has "Axe and it shall be given you." So, too, when .'the 'same old woman says "piny" instead of peony, she is only following the ancient usage. In William Browne's "Britannia's Pastorals," print ed in 1616, the poet contrasts "the ruddy piny with the lighter rose." ' It amuses the schoolgirl of the pres ent day to hear lilacs called "laylocks," but Walter Savage Landor always said "laylocks," following, as his biographer tells us, a pronunciation "traditional in many old English families." When an Irishman speaks of his "fader and moder" he is guilty of nothing worse than talking older English than we are accustomed to hear. "Worschiue thi fadir and thi modir," says Wycliffe'i JNew Testament "Axe" "laylock" and the like are now vulgarisms, and as such are to be avoided, but it is well enough to know that they were once as well received in good society as their . successors are at present Youth's Companion. Chinese and Tbelr Burials. The Chinese of this city and New York, it is said,' will hereafter bury their dead in Cypress Hills cemetery instead of in the cemetery of the Evergreens, as has been their custom. This action is said to be taken because the . Evergreens cemetery officials have increased the price of graves from ten to twenty dol lars each. They have purchased an acre of ground in Cypress Hill cemetery for $1,000 and will have cheaper rates in the future. ' The Chinese allege that twenty dollars is too much to pay for a grave which is tenanted for only five or six years, , as every Chinaman makes a con tract with the company that employs him under which the company agrees to send his body back to China. This transmigration of bodies takes place once every five years, the skeletons being packed in tin cases when the proper time comes. The last shipment was made only a short time ago. The skeletons then came from some of the old graves ia the cemetery of the Evergreens. N STIPATION. Afflicts half the American neonle vt tha i- only one preparation ol Sarsaparilla that acta on the bowels and nirhM f rW imTw. nd that is Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. It re lieves n, m nours, ana an occasional dose prevents return. "Ve refer bv wminimi n v Elklngton, 125 Locust Avenne, Ban Francisco; . ii. crawn, reuuuma; a. b. Winn, Geary Court, Ban Francisco, and hundred nf nihamri)..n. used it in constipation. One letter is a sample of i. .... mi . .. uuuuieuB. xaaingion, writes: "I nave been for years subject to billons headaches and constipa tion. Have been so bad for a year back have had to take a physic every other night or else I would have a headache. After taking one bottle Of J. V. 8. . I am In nr.1 AnriM ihon. . T. v.n wonderful things for me. People similarly uuuuieu buuiuu iry n ana oe convinced. Joy' q Vegetable b Sarsaparilla Most mouersi, lmmt i-i".cri . largest bottle, same price, $i.ij. :.; i,.r oi. For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY. 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 m the fact may be, It is nevertheless artificial; mineral coloring matter being msed for this parpose. The effect is two fold. . It not only makes the' tea a bright, shiny green, bat also permits the maa of " off-color " and worthless teas, which, once ander the green 'cloak, are readily worked off as a good quality of tea. ' . . An eminent authority writes on this sub ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give ; them a'flner appearance, is carried on exten- ' lively. Green teas, being in this country especially popular, are produced to meet the , demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by glasingoTfaclDgwlth Prussian blue, tumeric gypsum, and Indigo. ' Tftit method it to gen eral Oat very little genuine uneolored green tea it offered for tale." It was the knowledge of this condition of affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's Tea before the public It is absolutely pure and without color. Did yon ever see any genuine uncolored Japan tea? Ask your grocer to open a package of Beech'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 yon have been accustomed to and the black teas. It draws a delightful canary color, and Is so fragrant that It will be a revelation to tea drinkers. Its parity makes it also mors economical than the artificial teas, for less of it is required per cup. Sold only in pound . packages bearing this trade-mark: Tfcre'AsWdhood: If you grocer does not have it, he will get It for yoo. Price COO per pound. For sals at Xslio Butler's, THE DALLES, OREGON. CO tub Dalles CltioqiclB " III " ' ' is here and has come to stay. 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