on
THE SLEEPING SEA,
Far Away ships are sailing- - '
Far and faint and dim
Gleams of white, or glints of light.
On the vague horizon' rim.
And the ocean, only varied
Whero the breakers cry '
From the straml f gleaming sand.
Stretches level lo the sky .
Cloudless azure heavens bending
O'er I he sleeping sea
Pulsing heat about her fcet-
Whero call peril be?
, Can it Ihi that tempests gather.
' Strong winds lash the deep?
Tossed in pain this tall ships strain,' '
Maddened billows shoreward leap;
Trust the lion, trust the serpent :. -When
he sleeping lies;
Trust thy hands to flaming brands
Trust not fickle seas and skies.
Overland Monthly
. The I'ruper Way to Walk.
As soon s a man comes into my shop
and takes off his shoe I can tell whether
or not he is a good walker, and it is as
tonishing to find how few men know the
proper way to step otit. If Che shoe is
worn down at the heel not on the side,
but straight back and the leather of the
sole shows si qns of weakness -at the
ball of the foot, a little greater on the
inside just below the base of the great
toe, I know - that the wearer is a good
walker. If, however., the heel is turned
on one side, or is worn . evenly through
out, and the sole is worn most near the
toe, I know that 1 have to deal with a
poor pedestrian. i
The reasou of the difference in posi
tion of the woru spots lies in the' fact
that the poor walker walks from his
knee and the good one from his hip.
Watch the passerby on the street, and
you will at once see the difference. Nine
men out of ten will bend the knee very
considerably in ' walking, stepping
straight out with both hips on the same
line, and the toe will be the first to
strike the ground. The te'nth man will
bend his knee very little, just enough to
clear the ground, and will swing the leg
from the hip, very much as the arm is
swung from the shoulder and not from
the elbow. By so doing he calls -upon
' the muscles which are strongest to bear
the strain, and increases the length of
his stride four or six inches.
The heel touches the ground first and
not the toe. A slight spring is given
from the ball of the foot on making
another stride. Men who walk in this
fashion cover the ground 30 per cent
faster with the same exertion than those
who walk from the knee. In pugilism
the old rule is to strike from the shoul
der and not from the elbow. In pedes-
trianism it is to walk from the hip and
not from the knee. Interview in St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
How the Estate Was Divided.
'- Once, while Mamonn was conversing
with one of the most famous scholars in
his realm, a' woman claimed an i inter
view. ' "Justice, oh, prince! Justice. I
implore t My brother left 600 pieces of
gold, and his heirs have given me but a
single one." "That was only proper,"
replied the caliph; "each of your broth
er's two daughters is entitled to one
third of his property, or 400 in all. The
widow's share is one-sixth, or 100 pieces.
Your brother's mother should .receive
one-eighth, or 75 pieces. You and your
twelve brothers are entitled to the re
maining 25; but, as the law allows a
double portion to the male, they had
each 3 pieces of gold and you i. "-rSan
Francisco Argonaut.
H Understood.
Anton
Bubenstein, the Russian com-
poser, in
his autobiography tells of the
confusion which overcame a certain
architect of his acquaintance, who had a
habit of interlarding all his remarks
with the phrase, "Yon understand.'
On one occasion he was explaining
certain architectural matters to the em
peror, and according to custom made
free use of his favorite expression.
"Good heavens! exclaimed Emperor
'Nicholas at last irritably, "of course 1
understand. My dear fellow, how could
I help itr
Megroea tm aoudon Fast life.
In London a negro can go into the
finest restaurants and be served just like
a white man. He can sit at any public
table if he is quiet and can pay the bilL
White waiters serve him without a mur
mur, and the American darky imagines
' he is sitting sideways on a cloud, picking
a harp with one hand and eating honey
with the other, when he is turned . loose
in the English metropolis with fifty dol
lars in his pockets. Richmond Dispatch.
Poultry.
Dr. Canning has a clay bank yellow
hen which hatched -eighteen white chick
ens from sixteen eggs. He also has a
Texas rooster three feet high. Charles
Graham says one woald think it waa a
horse to hear it walk. Siloam Springs
(Ark.) Locomotive.
The farmers in the Palouse country,
Washington, have straw roads, which are
pronounced excellent. ' They take the
straw after it is thrashed and scatter it
over the roads, and, after awhile, when
it is settled, it makes a road like papier
mache. smooth and dnstless. .
Hanifah, the founder of the Hanifites,
the most ancient of the fonr sects of
Orthodoh Mussulmans, did not accept
the doctrine of absolute predestination.
His commentary on the Koran was en
titled "The Help."
The most ' powerful telescopes now in
nse magnify 2,000 diameters. As the
moon is 240,000 miles from the earth, it
is thus, to all intents and purpones
brought to within 120 miles of the earth.
In the ten years that elapsed between
the'eensus of 1880 and that of 1S00, Seat
tle increased in population by more than
1.000 per cent.. Tacoma by 3.000 nii.i
Spokane. Falls by 5,592 per cent.
. A compound composed of oxygen and
hydrogen has been discovered which
will dissolve metals, and when unittd
with mercury and silver it forms a por
rful explosive '
! . Jocko's Sunday Recreation.
A few pedestrians who were out for a I
morning stroll witnessed a Drier dui
bloody battls through the windows of ,
the Market street bird store Sunday
morning. , -'
Among the denizens of the placer is a
monkey called Jocko,, whose proclivity
for mischief has led him into disgrace
before. On the morning in question
Jocko determined to go on a lark. He
succeeded in picking the lock of his cage,
and once free turned his attention to
his feathered companions. It took but.
a few minutes to unlock a dozen of the
various cages in the room, and soon a
funny procession of monkeys and par
rots were strutting about. In a few min
utes trouble began to brew. One of the
parrots, in a spirit of mischief, probably
bit Jocko, and a 'lively battle, ensuea.
Polly soon found that she was getting
the worst ofit and made a rush for her
cage, minus her tail feathers and part of
a wing. , -
Jocko, who was 'then thoroughly
aroused, sailed in for a general massacre, !
and in a short time had the floor to him
self, save for Minnie, a little nightin
gale, who was too dazed to escape. With
one blow the bird was stretched lifeless
on the floor. The monkey then offered
battle to a big stuffed owl which had
been gazing solemnly upon the scene,
and receiving no answer to his chal
lenge, threw the bird off its pedestal.
Jocko's Waterloo was awaiting him
however. A huge vampire bat, which
had been watching the battle, jumped
down from his perch, and Jocko started
for him. The contest was brief. The
sharp beak and talons of the bird buried
themslves like a flash in the monkey's
flesh, and Jocko was glad to make his
escape with the blood flowing from a
dozen wounds. At this juncture the
proprietor appeared and hostilities
ceased. San Francisco Chronicle.
A True Hat Story.
' ' Here is a new and absolutely true hat
story. A New York gentleman, dining
at a hotel in Boston, found on coming
out that he was the last to leave the
dining room, and his hat had been taken
by somebody who had preceded him,
leaving one very similar, but unmis-'
takably not his, in its place. It was a
sufficiently good substitute to allow of
his wearing it for three weeks after his
return home, when, after dinner one
day, three weeks later, he said to a
friend with whom he had just been din
ing: . '
"I must replace this hat; its not mine,
and it doesn't fit. Come with me and.
I'll do it now."
Together they sought a neighboring
shop and began to examine" hats. One
after another was tried on by the intend
ing purchaser, none quite suiting him.
"It's too bad," said his friend. "Like
you, 'I am hard to fit. Now, this one is
the most comfortable hat I ever had."
"It looks so," remarked the hat seek-:
er; "let me try that on." The hat was
handed to him. It adjusted itself per
fectly to his head. "Man alive!". he
ejaculated, "this is my lost hat," and he
took it off quickly,' turned back the in
side band, and, sure enough, there was
his name and residence in indisputable
proof. ' It turned 6ut that the friend had
been in Boston the same day, though j
they had not met, had dined at the ho
tel, but had not discovered that he had
worn away another man's hat. And the
shop lost a sale of a hat. New Yofk
Times.
Xot an Eleemosynary Institution.
"It's' funny about some people one
meets traveling," remarked a drummer
at the Cadillac as he threw his feet upon
the writing table.
"How?" inquired the man next to
him.
"On' a dining car,- for instance, the
other day," he went on jerkily.
"What?" asked the other man en
couragingly. "Coming over from New York. Odd
sort of a genius across the car from me.
.After he left the car the waiter who had
served him brushed the crumbs off of
my table.
" 'See dat man, boss?" he asked.
'Reckon he nevah was on a dinin car
tasfoV :
" 'Why? I inquired..
" 'Caze, boss, he axed for a second
helpin, Gemmen what eats on dese yer
dinin cahs, .boss, knows dey ain't no
char'tible institutions fer givin victuals
.away in no sich inanuah as dat.' ,
"I had been thinking. I wanted a little
-more than had been allowed me, but I
'didn't ask for it after that," and the
drummer-sighed. Detroit Free Press.
Kless Her!
There is a family of little folk not far
away who are delightful from their love
for each other. Vin has the greatest ad
miration for his sister Molly, and will
.do anything for her "You's so pitty,
Molly." He is five and she is three. One
old morning Molly's mamma set her in
her high chair, while baby had her neces
sary care and papa ate his breakfast. It
was rather chilly, and Molly was in her
nightdress.
Vin wanted to make her warm, so he
wrapped up her feet in a newspaper, but
poor Molly slipped and fell solidly on
the floor from her high chair. "Oh,
Molly," -said Vin, in tears, 'did yoa hurt
yon?" "No," e&id Molly, winking back
the tears which would come; "No,
braver, t fell on 'e paper." Gardner
(Mass.) Home Journal. .-
Cousin Jennie Wholly cured of yonr
love, did yoa eay? -''
Cousin Tom Wholly.
Cousin Laura What killed it this
time? ..
' Cousin Tom I asked her a simple
question. And when her faultless lips
formed the words "I disrememher," mj
love became a corpse. Pittsburg Bul
letin.' . . : ' -. .
Handicapped.
"Poor little soul!" said Uncle CJeorge
gazing at the baby. . '
''Why poor?" asked the proud father.
"Nature has given him a black eye to
start with." replied George. Harper's
Bazar.
THE OLD PRINTER-.
He Was Short of Type and When v"Thll
ty" Came, His Spirit Had Flown.
' And so, year after year, he wrought
among the boys on a mftrning paper. He
went to bed about the time the rest of
the world got up, and he arose about the
time the rest of the world sat down to
dinner.- He worked by every kind of
light except sunlight. . There were
candles ' in the office when he came in;
then they ' had lard oil lamps . that
smoked and sputtered and smelled; then
he saw two or three printers blinded by
explosions of camphene and spirit gas;
then kerosene came' in and heated up the
newsrooms on summer nights . like a
furnace; then the office put in gas, and
now the electric light swung from the
ceiling and .dazzled his old eyes and
glared into them from his copy.
If he sang on his way home a police
man bade him ''cheese that." and re
minded him that he was disturbing the
peace and people wanted to sleep. But
vftien he wanted to sleep, the rest of the
world, for whom he has sat up all night
to make a morning paper, roared and
crashed by down the noisy streets unier
his window, with cart and truck and
omnibus; blared out with brass bands,
howled with hand organs, talked and
shouted, and even the shrieking news
boys, with a ghastly sarcasm, murdered
the sleep of the tired old printer by yell
ins the name of his own paper. - -
Year after year the foreman roared at i
him to remember that this was not an !
afternoon pappr, editors shrieked down !
the tube to have a blind man put on that j
dead man's case, smart young proof
readers scribbled sarcastic commejits on
his work on the margin of his proof slips
that they didn't know how to read, long
winded correspondents learning to write
and long haired poets who could never
learn to spell wrathfully cast all their
imperfection upon - his head. But
through it all he wrought patiently and
found more sunshine than shadow in. the
world: he had more friends than ene
mies. . Printers and foremen and pressmen
and reporters and editors came and
went, but he staid, and he saw news
papers and sanctum filled and emptied
and filled and emptied again, and filled
with new strange faces. He believed in
his craft, and to the end he had a silent
pity, that came as near being contempt
as his good, forgiving old heart could
feel, for an editor who had not worked
his way from a regular devilship up past
the cases and the imposing stone.
He worked all that night, and when
the hours that are so short in the ball
room and so long in the composing room
drew wearily on. he was tired. He
hadn't thrown in a very full case, he
said, and he had to climb clear into the
boxes and chase a type tip into a corner
before he could get hold of it. One of
the "boys, tired as himself but a printer
'is never too tired to be good natured .
offered to change places with him, but
the old man said there was enongh in
the case to last him through this take,
and he wouldn't work any more tonight.
The type clicked in the silent room, and
by and by the old man said:
Tm out of sorts."
And sat down on the Jew window sill
by his vase, with, his stick in his hand,
his hands folded wearily in his lap. The
types clicked on. A galley of telegraph
waited.
"What gentleman is lingering with 18
D?" called the foreman, who was danger
ously xolished and polite when he was
on the point of exploding with wrath
and importance.
.Slug nine, passing by the alley, stop
ped to speak to the old man sitting there
so quietly.
The telegraph boy came running in
with the last manifold sheet, shouting:
"Thirty!" '
They carried the old inau to the fore
man's long table and laid him down rev-.
erently and covered his face." They took
the stick ont of his nerveless hand and
read his last take:
"Bosto.w Nov.' 23. The American
bark Pilgrim went to pieces off Marble
head in a light gale about ' midnight.
She was old and unseaworthy, and this
was to have leen her last trip." Bob
Burdette.
"' Various Uses -of Oue Tree.
One of the strangest of trees is the Ita
palm, found abundantly on the banks of
the Amazon and other South American
rivers. In the swampy regions, which
cover iinuieu.se areas, the Ita palm fur
nishes food, drink, clothing and com
fortable homes for the natives.
The Indians that inhabit these swampy
districts make a tolerable wine from the
sap of the palm, and they distill a strong
er stimulaut by crushing and ferment
ing the young fruits. The food is de
rived from the soft inner bark o the
stems, and is a substance that in taste
and iipiearance closely resembles sago.
The soft and fibrous bark is used for
garments and for making strings, ropes,
hammocks and the like. ; '
In times of high water, often lasting
two or three months, the natives make
floorings in the trees with the bark ropes
and live there in comfort and -eontent-
, ment. Philadelphia Times.
Hard Work Mudc Mackny Klch. -John
W. Mackay was born in the
humblest circumstances .in Dublin, Ire
land, some fifty -five years ago. Coming
to this country, very early, in life, he
worked for a time on board ship. Dur
ing the years that followed in whatever
occupation he engaged he labored indus
triously and faithfully. He saved his
money and watched his opportunity,
which so very few people do. . He is now
twenty tiin.s a millionaire. Henry
Cteivs in. Luiies" Home Journal.
Tu Devil's Knell.
- Among the famous bells of Dawsburg,
Yorkshire, England, is one known as
"Black Tom of Soothill." which was
presented to tliechnrch in expiation of a
murder." "felack Tom" is aljvaya rung
on Christmas! eve. Its solemn tolling" as
it strikes the first tap at exactly mid
night is known all over Yorkshire as the
"devil's knell," it being the notion that
when Christ was born the devil died.
Ht. Lonis Reirablic
Tfce Inventor Dream of Fame.
Every inventor has some idea of dis-
-covering a great useful article, which
will benefit the whole human race and
carry his own name down to posterity as
a great man of genius. Often these am
bitious schemes are never realized, but
the best . part of the inventor's lif o is
spent in vain efforts to accomplish this
great result. Such high aims ennoble
and dignify his work, and, though they
may never" be realized, he has the satis
faction of knowing that others will come
after him to take up the work which he
has left unfinished. -'
Many of the great inventions of today
have not been the product of one man's
genius, although he may enjoy all of the
rcredit, but the result of generations of
thought, experiment and suggestion of
dozens of scientists and inventors.
George E. Walsh in New York Epoch.
ead
Aches.
.si.-k-hrmlaches are the outward indications ol
iioniiimciits ol the stomach and bowels. As
Joy's Voyctnblo Sorsaparilla Is the only bowel
rerriilariiis preparation of Sarsaparilla, it is seen
u-iiy il is the only appropriate Sarsaparilla in
Nirkrfiemlnchcs. It is not only appropriate; it is
n:i :'.!js!iito cure. After a course of it an occa
sional tioMC at intervals will forever after prevent
return. v .
Jim. M. Cos, of T3o Turk Street, San Francisco,
rki-s: "I have been troubled with attacks of
nh'k-hvndaehc for the last three years from one to
thivc times a week. Some time ago Iboughttwo
hot tlirs of Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla and havo
only lnul one attack since and that was on the
se-o::!l day after I began using it."
JniVQ Vegetable
Uy w Sarsaparilla
For
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Dr. E. C. West's Nerve and Brain Treat
ment, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi
ness, Convulsions,. Fits, Nervous Neuralgia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
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sanity end leading to misery, decay and death.
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ItLAKELEY HOCGHIOX,
Prescription Druggists,
17B Second St. - The Dallos. Or.
S.JE3.
Cleveland, Wash., )
June 19th, 1891.)
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 yonr 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., .
. i M. F. IICKXEY.
A Revelation.
rew people know . that tn
' bright bluish-green Color of
the ordinary tea exposed.. In
the windows is not the nat
nrsl color. Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; .mineral coloring '
matter Icing tined for this .
purpoe. The effect i two-
fold. It not' only makes the .
tea a bright, shiny green, bat also permits the . ;
ase of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once wader the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea. J1
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give -them
a'nmer appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsnm, and indigo. TM method it to gen
eral that very little genuine uneolored green tea
it offered for tale." ' "
It waa the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. It Is absolutely j-nre
: and without color. Did yoa ever see any
genuine nncolored Japan tea? Ask yonr
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon
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 hare
been accustomed to and the black teas.'
- It draws a delightful canary color, and is so
fragrant that it will be a levelatlon to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes it also more
economical than the artificial teas, for le
of It is required per cap. - Eoldonly in pound
packages bearing this trade-mark:
BEECHSTEA
Pure As WdhoodT
SICK
If jroar grocer does not have It, he will gd
it for you. FxiceGOo pet poand. For sale ml
Leslie Bixtlere,
' THE DAI LES, OKFOOX. ..'
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