She Wouldn't Detain Him. . .
At a famous and charming salon a oer
4ain western woman, jnst now inakinga
little stir in literarydom, was the hon
ored recipient of marked attention on
tfce part of the gracious hostess. Quite
late in the evening there was a small
hubbub at the door, and in strode one of
New York's most prominent .journalists
and diplomatists. Tall, military, white
paired, ruddy cheeked, distingue, . .in
faultless evening dress, he bent, over the
hostess' hand, explaining that he . has
'Just stolen away from an . important en
gagement a moment to pay his devoirs.
"But," said Mrs. ,"now that you
are here, you must meet Miss , of
"Whom I was telling you.". .
He My dear Mrs. , a thousand
thanks, but some other time I shall be
- delighted, - I really have not a moment
"so spare. -I
She (fairly dragging him across the
room, if so rude a verb may express so
dainty an action) -Colonel , this is
Miss , of , the coming woman.
Miss (whose keen ears and ready
"wit had grasped .the situation, gracious
Ij but deprecatively) Pray, do not let
her detain the going man, Mrs. S -
nd presenting his much in demand
3ughnesa the sidewise curve of a white
shoulder, she continued the laborious
eustainment of an Englishman in con
. versation. New York World.
' Treatment of One Eton Hat.
It has been seriously proposed that
American boys shall wear Eton suits
tuita that make any human boy look
like an ostrich. The Anglomaniacs will
adopt these absurd costumes for their
-children, if they have excuse enough.
irat there are lots of Americans who are
tiot Anglomaniacs. I went . to school
with some. One day a lad came . to
.school with an Eton hat. Murmurs
nd whispers of surprise and disapproval
"were heard when he entered, and looks
'full of meaning passed from boy to boy.
At 11 o'clock came recess, and precise
ly at ton seconds past 11 there was a
not That was the moment when the
lad appeared with his little "plug" hat
on. He was a quiet, shrinking boy, and
I pitied, him from the bottom of my
heart, for his parents were to blame of
course. Directly that he set foot in the
.yard he was seized, pulled this way and
that, tripped up and despoiled of his hat.
That article went immediately into use
as a football, and in less than a minute
had become a shred of black beaver and
pasteboard. At last it was pitched over
"the fence with a yell of triumph and the
boy went home bareheaded and in tears.
American honor was maintained and
the injurious influence of British custom
effectually defied. That is what is go
ing to happen here every time a boy tries
to wear Eaton clothes. Spare him, ye
parents. " Consider his bones, if you don't
respect his feelings. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Design on Oar Honey.
The director of the mint, authorized by
act of congress, has recently issued a
circular letter to artists inviting them to
mbmit "new designs of authorized em
. bloms or devices to be prepared or adopt
ed for the coins of the United States."
Tins on its face is. highly to be com
mended, for our coinage at present is
calculated to make the judicious weep
and the lukewarm patriot sympathize
-wijh the strictures of the foreigner on
car degree sof civilization. The criti
cisms on ourcoinage could indeed be ap
plied with equal force to all our moneys,
for the treasury notes, with their wealth
f turning lathe tracery and their sign
painter's lettering, are no better than
our coins. The one excuse for their ex
istence has been the difficulty which
iey were supposed to oppose to counter
feiting; but this.it appears from late de-
velopmenta, - is largely imaginary, and
their ornate ugliness is therefore with-
..ut extenuating circumstances. Scrib-
'
' ;V The Cities Help Pay.
'k "The country towns generally manage
to make the city pay the freight," re
marked a prominent wholesalerthe other
day. "When they build their churches
liiey often send delegations to the city
after subscriptions, and their civic and
military organizations and charitable
institutions are never backward about
"striking the city business or professional
man for assistance. But the latest
scheme is to make the jobbing houses
in the city help pay for the Fourth of
July celebrations in the various villages
where they have customers.
The jobber receives a letter from the
subscription committee to the effect that
his customers, Messrs. Doe; Roe, Jones
x and Smith.-will consider it a favor if he
will do something toward the ' celebra
tion. The letter says that the celebra
tion will call a great many people into
town, and of course the sale of his goods
will be increased, for special pains will
' be taken to push the sale of the goods
purchased of those who help the celebra
Vv tion by subscription. ' ' - " :
"It is a species of blackmail that the
jobbers must wink at, and the result is
he sends his little check for five pr ten
dollars, at the same time bottling bis
' wrath. You can see that if he receives
f similar letters from four or five towns
-the draft upon him is not mll and
that he pays tribute to. four or five of
them is an assured fact, as 1 have letters
t prove. There are very few flies on
- the country subscription committees, I
an assure yon." TJtica Observer.
Xu'i Two Kepatatloms.
I am always interested in what may
be called the two reputations which each
man has; one ie his public name, the
other his personal or private eminence;
the one is the distinction which he his
' among people, the other the regard paid
to him by his own immediate set or fol-
lowing. - Archdeacon Farrar has a great
reputation among the ordinary people of
America and Great Britain, but scholars
look upon him with much of suspicion
as aa accurate and profound exegete.
Bishop Westcott. however, has a small
reputation among the people. Probably
Bot one in twenty of those who read this
paragraph ever heard his name, bnt the
respect in which he is held bf scholars is
of the highest. Chicago Advance.
How to Prevent Crust in a Teakettle,
Keep an oyster shell in it, changing it
as soon as it is well covered with crust.
How to Be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise,
Before the days of good lamps, illumi
nating gas and the electric light there
was much truth in the old rhyme which
enjoined man to be very economical of
daylight, but nowadays one can be
healthy, wealthy and wise without im
itating the habits of the barnyard
fowl. Outdoor exercise taken in modera
tion, temperance in eating and drinking.
and sleeping, for that matter, too, are
great contributors to health. Wealth
can only be-attained by fixedness of pur
pose. Let a man decide that which he
wishes to do and adhere to it, and if he
be not a fool in his choice, he will be
pretty sure to get wealth. Having the
ability to get wealth in such a legitimate
way ne will need no rule for acquiring
wisdom wisdom will come of its own
accord; and without health neither wis
dom nor a fixed purpose will avail much,
though any observer can mention nota
ble exceptions to this rule. But we
should all strive for the whole three, for
Reason's whole pleasure, all the Joys of sense!
Lie in three words health, peace' and com
petence. How to Take Care of Goldfish.
Poor results in the care of goldfish are
said to be caused by. one of three things
bad water, handling the fish or starva
tion. The water should be kept as clear
as crystal, a fresh supply being poured
in each day after most of the other is
poured out. When necessary to remove
the fish to clean the globe do not handle
them, but use a net made of mosquito
netting. For food use anything they
will eat and as much as they will con
sume, including worms, meat, fish spawn,
flies and bits of bread. A little watch
ing will enable one to know whether the
fish are in good condition or not.
How to Clean Matting.
Wash it with a cloth wrung out of
salt water or sprinkle it with Indian
meal, and then sweep thoroughly.
How to Make Paper Comforters.
Fasten two layers of soft paper or
newspaper between two sheets of cheap
calico or cheesecloth. This will make a
warm and very light coverlet for winter
use. .
How to Keep a Pipe Sweet.
A pipe should not be smoked, too con
tinuously. When a bowlful of tobacco
has been burned up the pipe should be
taken apart, the bowl cleaned, the stem
swabbed out with a straw or wire and
the joints wiped free of nicotine. . If
this be always done the pipe will never
get strong or foul. This is a deal of
trouble, but a good smoke is worth some
pains. A good plan for an inveterate
pipe smoker is to have a pipe for each
oay in ine week. One for Mondays, one
for Tuesdays and so on. Tn. fhia wnv
each pipe has a week's rest, and if each
one is ciean ea Deiore its vacation the pipe
smoker will get delieht from his
which he never realized before.
How to Keep the Finger Kalis In Order.
It is a verv bad habit to Kcrann trio
fingernails either on the' out or inside
wiiu me uiaae or a Kmre. When there
is dirt under the naila it Klinnld Vu -re
moved with the nails of the other band,
witn an ivory nail cleaner or even an or
dinary wooden toothpick. But never
use a steel knife rilarlo Tr. Wsl-s
skin of the nail, and then dirt catches and
adheres definite evnr oflFnrt TF tku
be left hard and the ulrm rmrlianflWl tn
ordinary washing of the hands will clean
mem morougniy. uon t Bother with
manicures. They do more harm than
good, for they destroy the enamel of the
nans, xn trimming the nails, whether
with knife or scissors, be Rnr that rhn
instrument is sharp, so that it will make
a clean cut. Do not trim down into the
a nick, and never nnrler unv rannm.
stance bite the nails. Children contract
ing this habit should be broken of it,
even though frequent applications of the
rod be necessary. If you get in the
habit of staining your nails with ink, get
a shallow inkstand or see that the one in
use has only a small quantity of ink in it.
flow to Hare in Every Room a Place for
:. i Scraps.
A scrapbaske't is not needed in each
room, but some place where tinv order
destroyers, such as bits of lint, ravel
ings, lime or paper can be dropped out
of sight, is worth having. Those in the
chambers can alsd be -used for hair
combings. Take small boxes of any
shape, say stocking or soap boxes, re
move the edge that goes around the lid,
ana cover all the rest of the box and lid
with colored muslin,- over which dotted
swiss is to be placed. Frills of narrow
lace are put around the bottom and the
lid,' the latter being sewed on at one
side and furnished with a loop to lift it
by. .These dainty scrapholders can find
places on bureaus or tables.
How to Deal with a Case of Poisoning:.
Salt and mustard are the great reliance
for many reasons. They are found in
every house; they cau be given instant
ly; .they produce vomiting quicker than
other substances in common use, and
the danger of overdosing is practically
nothing.. Another reason is that: they
are almost equally- good whether the
poison be a. narcotic (opium, laudanum,
etc.) or like arsenic or strychnine. The
main object in either case is to get as
much of it as possible out of the stomach
at once. After thorough vomiting is
produced pour in hot, strong coffee for
an opiate or two or three whites of raw
eggs for acid poisons. Raw eggs and
hot coffee suit a greater number of poi
sons Umh may other artialea ia , ooucnoB
A LEGEND OF . CAMP- HORfiOh.
A Terrible Incident of a Bivotia) in the
Conntry of the Sioox Indiana. .
" You will wonder, of course, why a' sol
dier's camp should have received-such a
name, but it is on the military records,
and no man will ever attempt to explain it
to you without grieving over the recollec
tions aroused thereby. ...
- It was out in the Indian country, on the
Kansas frontier, when the 'red men were
making such a fight against the . troops
sentout after the close of the rebellion.
They had swooped down on the Smoky
Hill stage route and scalped' and slaugh
tered right and left,' and our command
had been hurried forward "to protect such
settlers as might have escaped and to open
the route again. Day after day the red
men hovered an our flanks, and night
after night they crept upon ua like ser
pents and sent their silent arrows' into
cahip to find living targets. ' .--.;.
One night, when the day had been full of
excitement, and when it seemed as if the
Sioux had determined . to retreat no fur
ther, the sentinels were warned to extra
vigilance. We knew that peril menaced
us, and we who stood sentry after midnight
peered into the darkness with bated breath
and were ready to fire at the first suspicious
sound. At 1 o'clock I thought I heard a
light footstep on the grass. It was a dark
night, with now and then a gust of wind
sweeping up with lonesome sound, and I
could not be sure I heard aright. ..... . ..
I waited, with finger on the trigger,
ready to fire if I heard the footstep again,
but it did not come to me. Scarcely ten
minutes had passed when the sentinel on
my right, who was only thirty, feet away,
fired into the darkness. The report of his
carbine had not died away when a loud,
wild scream rang out upon the night, and
every man who heard it knew that it was
uttered by a woman. .
It is a good many years back to that
night, but I remember every incident as
well as if only a week . had passed. Now
and then I have dreamed of it, and that
scream has aroused me and taken all my
nerve. As soon as we could investigate we
found an amazing thing a woman-lying
dead on the grass with a year-old baby in
her arms! The sentinel had shot her dead
in her tracks, but the baby was still asleep,
with one of its mother's arms hugging it
to her breast.
We looked and looked, and it was hard
to believe we saw aright. It was a set-tier's
wife, as was afterward known, who had
escaped a massacre more than forty miles
away. She had wandered around for five
days, suffering with hunger and thirst, and
had no doubt become crazed with anxiety,
and exhaustion. - . . ..
There was none but old veterans in. that
camp, but there were tears in all eyes when
that poor dead body was brought into
camp, and when the wakened baby cried
with fright and hunger and held out its
little hands to the very trooper who had
fired upon the mother. No one could
blame him in the least, but he blamed him
self. When he realized what he had done
he turned away from us without a word
and walked away as men walk in their
sleep. -
. We had washed the mother's life blood
off the baby's hands, and the colonel him
self was feeding it with the gruel hastily
prepared, when there came anot&ear shot
and another alarm. The trooper had gone
just without the lines of the camp .and
tired a bullet into his own heart. . Remorse
had driven him to it.
Somewhere in the west that boy baby,
now grown to manhood, still lives, but the
two graves we dug next morning were
years ago leveled and obliterated from all
sight but that of God. 'At the last great
day be wilL awaken the dust of their dead.
M. Quad in New York World. -v?-.
Whirled Aitoand Inside of a Bis Pulley."
Blacksmith Kd Keough lately had a
miraculous escape from instant rtooth at
the Holyoke Paper company's inilL The
machinery was out of gear, and in order
to fix it Keough got inside a big wheel.
The machinery was stopped, and he. had
given orders that it should not be
started until he signaled.
He was at work inside the wheel when
the machinery started. The steam had
been turned on by a man who thought
that was the thing to da Mr. Keough
was tossed about pretty lively in the
wheel where he was at work for a revo
lution or two, and then the momentum
threw him out. He landed on a wide
belt that travels along ' near the floor for
a distance of sixty feet before passing
around a big pulley. Keough was car
ried along toward certain destruction.
Had the belt been traveling in the op
posite direction he would have been
crushed between it and a wheel before
he had been on it an instant. He almost
reached the wheel toward which he was
rapidly going, when his struggles tipped
the belt a little and he fell off. At .h;a
point he did not. "fall on the floor, but
went down a considerable distance, land
ing on a pile of debris, receiving numer
ous bruises in consequence.
His horrified - fellow workmen stopped
the machinery as quickly as possible,
and then picked up Keough, expecting
to find him far more seriously hurt than
he really was. Holyoke (Mass.) Demo
crat. ' ".:'
A Story of Iove and Marriage.'
The statement of the marriage license
clerk in Covington to a young lady yes
terday afternoon was one . that . would
disappoint even an ardent- lover of the
male persuasion. She applied for a mar
riage license, and was told in cold, judi-.
cial accents that it was not yet leap
year, and that it .was a custom, sanc
tioned by the laws of Kentucky, that
the gentleman in a marrying . affair
should call for the license and do the
necessary oath taking.- She was some
what abashed, but soon recovered her
serenity and went on to explain. Her
name was Leonora Schloenker, she said,
and the gentleman, to whom she was to
be married was John J. Baby. It was
almost impossible for him to leave his
occupation before dark, and then it
would be too late to get the license.
Therefore, she had consented to come
over and secure the paper. .v
It seemed a deserving case in- the eyes
of the clerk, and he proposed a plan to
circumvent the difficulty . He agreed to
hold the office open to a certain hour
and secured the promise of Judge Shine
to be present at the appointed time to
perform the marriage ceremony.-. Miss
Schloenker went back to consult Mr.
Enby, who was more than delighted
with the arrangezoent and ' readily as
sented to the proposition. Last evening
they met -and went across the bridge,
and a half hour later returned husband
and wife. Cincinnati Enquirer. ,
' . ' ' . David's Coat.-, ,
David BobertBon, the Scotch1 natural
iet, had, when a boy, rather an -unusual
experience in clothing himself, and the
method he adopted seems amusingly
different from that of boys in ' our own
day, who when they want a new jacket,
ask for it or go without -.'
David was early apprenticed to a farm
er to herd the cattle, . and one. day he
'went to a fair with his master and there
gained a prize of ' twenty shillings by
running a race. .When he reached home
- his mistress offered him . for ' the pound
enough of homemade woolen cloth for a
coat, but though David joyfully ' ac:
cepted it, he was disappointed at finding
that the tailor would not make his year
ly visit to the house for some time. '
With the impatience of youth he
begged his mistress to let t"' make the
coat himself. At first she refused, but
when David persisted, she agreed to the.
wild project, stipulating, however, that
he should take all the responsibility and
ask help of no one. .;'
The boy began by carefully ripping
Ms old coat in pieces for a pattern, and
by this he cut the. new one, first num
bering the pieces in chalk that he might
know how to put them together. As all
his time belonged to his master he was
obliged to take his sewing out into the
pasture, and there after a month of
laborious work the ' new coat was com
pleted. Its buttons came from an old
coat which had been discarded by bis
master, and the thread with which it
was put together had been spun - and
dyed at the house. ...
When David showed his mistress the
new coat she' was loud in praise of it,
and declared that not even the tailor
could have done if better. One thing,
however, it needed, and that was a care
ful pressing, which he was allowed to
give it at the house. -.
The hardest task of all remained, for
he was obliged to remake his old coat,
and as the seams were frayed and deli
cate he had to exercise great care in join
ing them again. Another month and
this task also was done. Then was
David the proud possessor of two coats.
Youth's Companion. '
Qumd Victoria's Spider Dress. :
In February, 1877, the queen received
from the empress of Brazil a dress woven
entirely of Bpiders' webs, which for fine
ness and beauty is said to surpass the
most splendid silk. Notes and Celeries.
It Can't Be -Helped.
Twynn What makes the wealthy
people in the boxes chatter so noisily?
Triplett Money talks, you know.
New York Epoch.
A Desperate Order.
Nppdles Say, there, bring me a pro
fessional burglar! I want to see if ha
can break into this spring chicken. New
York Truth.
Just
24.
Ia jurt at hours J. V. a relieves cnniitinstfnn
and sick headaches, After it gets the system
under control an occasional dose prevents return.
We refer by permission to W. H. Marshall, Bruns
wick Bouse, a F.; Geo. A. Werner, 831 California
St, 8. F.; Mrs. C. Melvin, 136 Kearny St, & P.,
and many others who have fonnd relief from
constipation and sick headaches. G. W. Vincent,
of 6 Terrence Court, S. F. writes: "1 am 60 years
of age and have been troubled with constipation
for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparllla. I recognized in It at
once an herb that the Mexicans used to give us
in the early SO's for bowel troubles. (I came to
California In 1839,) and I knew it would help me
and it has. For the first time in years I can sleep
well and my system is regular and in splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs in this remedy
are a certain cure in constipation and bowel
troubles." Ask for
S' Vegetable
Sarsaparilla
For Sale by SNIPES St, KINERSLY.
THE DAZXES, OREGON..
A Revelation.
, Few people know ttiat tha
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 being used for this
purpose. . The effect .is. two-,
fold. . It not only makes the
i a bright, shiny green, bnt also permits the
use of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once mnder 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'finer appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this conntry
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
. glasing or facing with Prussian bine, tumeric,
gypsum, and indigo. Thit method is so gem
eroX that very littlt genuine uneotored green tea .
U offered for tale." " .
It was the knowledge of this condition of
aflairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever see any
genuine nncolored Japan tea? Ask your .
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yuu
will see it, and probably for the very first
time.. It will be found in color to be ost be
tween the artificial green tea that you hare '
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 more
economical than the artificial teas, for less
of it is required per cap. Sold only in poand
. packages bearing this trade-mark: , ,
BEECjgyTEJY
TtirAshood:
If famt gxooer does not hav it, ha wiB aai
M far yoa. BriewMa per pessWL tenses
Xjeslle IF3xx-tl.exs,
Joy
Bales
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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 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
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 D ALLES to take her prop
er position as the Itk
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
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
your Postmaster for a copy, or address.
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