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TWITTERING SWALLOWS.
In and oai and under the eaves.
Blown aboal liko the falling leaves.
Twittering swallow spend the season.
Now the days are shorter and chill.
There come from many a musical bill
Notes of instinct that sound like reason.
Well have they dined on bug and midge.
Now they are perched upon the ridge , .
Of the old barn, that's warped and hoary.
There they sit, bright birds of a feather.
Holding twitter-talk all together.
Each telling an after dinner story.
They will follow the summer bland;
To them no land is a foreign land.
One exclaimed, with a Joyous flitter.
Trwe cosmopolitans are we.
Bone is where we happen to be.
And swallows understand our twitter."
Then, in soft notes t scarceonld catch.
One spoke of a nest wider the thatch. .
Of a cottage where waves the willow.
Another shook his velvet head,
And with his noisy neighbors plead ' '
To fly with him o'er field and billow.
They talker about all sorts of things;
Sharpened tfeetr1 bills and preened thetr'Vrlnga;
Then away, away, the tourists started, . ,
Ballini? over'rtver and main.
Will they -over-return r iaAn i
To tbe-nld home from which tbrxtefpar ed?
O happy' tourists of the air. ' ''
Unburdened, free of debt and osire,'
Woold that 1 had swift wtegs to-ToUow
In the flight over land and see.
With heart as light and wtag as free
. As'the happy traveling swallowl
-George W. Bungay i Warper's. Bazar.
SMscespearo KnowteAse-wf Insomnia.
Torching upon the ooestion of insom
nia. Dr." Charcot, the great troecialist,
made a remark which, was not only in
teresting in itself, tat Which proved his
thorough acq uamtamca With the works
of' England's greatest 'dramatist. "It is
carious tx note," tie ' remarked, "how
feelingly Shakespeare dwells on the
-question of sleep, Qt-only in the famous
; passage f 'Mdkth' beginning, Mac
' beth haJbh maundered sleep,' but in many
-other "taces tm this plays. I made at one
'time m. . coUeotien - of fifty - Quotations
' from toia works -on' that -subject. So 1
am istclined $ think that be suffered
' from insomnia." '
: I remaTvleed that- perhaps the death of
the great poet when so few years past
' middle po anight have been caused by
". the vast -mental Strain consequent on the
" prodactMiBi -of his marvelous works, and
' in that -case ensomni woold certainly
bare formed ene of the symptoms of his
condition. G-reftt genius,'" remarked
" the doctor, -is almost invariably the
offshoot of dM health, either mental -or
i physical." 'That was hardly the case,'
. I responded, "with Victor Hugo, who
lived to be past eighty and was always
as sturdy as m oak. "Bat you forget,
madam, that he came of a family of
: maniacs. " was the response. "His
brother died dnsare and his daughter is
' the inmate f an asylum for lunatics."
Pans Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Tlie Natmefc Tree.
The nutmeg is the kernel of the fruit
- of severe! species of trees growing wild
in Asia, Africa and America, The cul
tivated nutmeg tree is from fifty to
- seventy-five feet high and produces fruit
for sixty years. The fruit is of the size
and appearance of a roundish pear, yel
low in color. The fleshy part of -the
fruit is rather hard and resembles can-,
died citron.
Within is the nut, enveloped ia the
carious yellowish red aril known to us as
mace. Up to .1790 the. Dutch, being in
possession of the "islands producing the
- only valuable variety of the nutmeg,
. jealously tried to prevent the carrying of
' the tree or a living seed of it into any
territory independent of Dutch rule.
Food and Beverages, i
Til Painstaking French Soldier.
It is said that a French soldier, sta
tioned at a picture gallery, had strict
orders to " allow no one to pass without
first depositing his walking stick., A
.gentleman came with his hands in his
- pockets. The soldier, taking him" by the
'.- arm. said: "Citizen, where is your
Ktack"" "I have no stick." "Then you
will have to go back and get one before
1 can allow you to pass. r
As this man read his orders the inten-
tion was that, as a preliminary to ln-
spec ting the gallery, everybody was to
-deposit a stick not that those who had
a stick should not be allowed to carry it
-with thetn into the gallery. Temple
.Bar
A fish That Tarns .to Water.
A curious animal is the medusa.. Writ
ingin 1701, Reamur says: ;lt is a true
ea water jelly, having little color or con--aistence.
If we take one in our hands,
the natural heat is sufficient to dissolve
-it into water." . A medusa looks more
like a mushroom than anything else, and
is often of a pale blue or rose color, while
in some localities it is violet. The tissue
of a medusa is "so fragile that when
abandoned by the waves on the beach it
. melts and disappears, without leaving a
trace of its ever having existed." They
are found principally in the'arctio seas,
and constitute one of the chief supports
of -the Whale. London Tit-Bits. ,
About one-third of the earth's popula
tion belongs to the various Christian
sects. A . reliable French - statistician
estimates that there are 1,195,450,000
people on the earth, and that 42 percent,
are of the white race. 44 per cent, of the
yellow race, 11 per cent, of the negro
race, 3 per cent, of the mixed Oceanic
races and 1 per cent, of Indians.
tival among the Jews- in which they
commemorate their deliverance from
. the wiles and stratagems of Haman, as
recorded is the book of Esther. It is
held in February.
Four counties in- Illinois Douglas,
Moultrie, Coles and'! Edgar supply, a
large proportion of the world's stock of
broom corn namely, about 12,000 tons,
valued at $1,000,000. , -.- " : .
The surface roads of New York city
carry more passengers annually than are
carried by the cor-bined steam railroads
of New York Rtate in the same interval.:
Darwin has said that a large per cent,
of all sweet rcented flowers are white:
now Michelet has proved that there are
no poisonous sea plants.
VWO TYPES OF BAD MEN
THE REAL THING IS IMITATED BY
THE PLATED . ARTICLE.
Sometimes It Is Hard to Tell Them
Apart, Though, and : In Experimenting
One Is Liable to Run Up Against the
. Wrong Kind Two Striking Examples. ,
"Bad men in the west break into two
classes," said a gentleman, late of Silver
City, "the sure enough and the imita
tion bad man. One is a killer ana tne
other simply blusters. The two sorts
look alike, talk alike, 'garb themselves in
big hats, belt guns on their hips, swear
and guzzle and follow each other's suit
from first to last, lor which, reasons it is
hard to tell the real thing from the coun
terfeit. The only sure way of. distin
guishing the true, solid- silver bud man
front the plated fellow is to' test them'as
fast as presented. . -".
"Russian Bill, who, a fae earty
eighties was a rustler m the valley of
San Simon In ,Arizoua, svntl.a singularly
industrious horse 'and cattle -stealer of
that shadeless region, was an .imitation
bad man. lie was a great talker, and
hear him , tell it had filled more graves
than an epidemic It is -doubtful, how
ever, if he ever drew human -blood, and
the otker rustlers' similarly regarded
himtaman of k courage. It turned
out a-ease of the magpie and the pea
cocks -with the Russian though, for one
evening - the impulsive 'denizens of
Shakespeare, A. T, took Bill's word for
it and incontanesitaUy hung him de bene
"The Russian had 'Company, though,
for they stretched -another gentleman,
time and tree the jsame, yclept Sandy
King. There was no-discount, however,
on King. One could -have taken a brace
and bit and bored clear through him and
struck nothing 'but .clean . strain game.
King and Russian Bill were together on
the occasion of their apprehension and
taking off, and were decided specimens
of the two types -of 'bad men.
THS KaJUC OF BILL.
"Bill, as x name, has been the prop
erty of a -good many of the fighters of
the west. Frequently some affix or pre
fix went with, it to - keep the blood be
dewed Bills from getting all mixed up.
There have been, a Curly Bill, a Wild
Bill, a Navajo Bill, a Buffalo Bill, a
Poker Bill, a Cheyenne Bill, a French
Bill, an Antelope Bill, a Russian Bill, a
Broncho Bill, a Canadian Bui, a Monte
Bill, a Butcher Knife Bill and Bill Bon-
ney, or tsuiy tne ivia, tnat l nave Known
of.
"Cheyenne Bill was and is one of the
false killers referred to, and always try
ing to 'run a blazer' upon some -tenderfoot
and scare him to death: Raton, N.
M. pronounced 'Rah toon' does not, as
a community, rise early of a Sunday
morning, and as 1 once, back in 1883,
came out f the hotel in the still and
early hours of that holy day,. I heard a
voice over on the next street raised . to a
point between a threat and a command. .
My attention was at once attracted, and
.getting out where I could see I found
Cheyenne Bui . in slow but threatening
pursuit of a reluctant tenderfoot who -I
had come in on the train the night be
fore. ... What the row was about I didn't
know., . .. ' . f -. ',. ,
"'Stop whar you be, or Til pull on
yon!' commanded the vaporish Bill in a
fierce tone,' his .hand on his six-shooter
and following along after the stranger
some two rods behind.
, "To give the tenderfoot his due while
he kept walking away from Bill; he ap
peared more disgusted than scared, and
while he said nothing and did not turn,
on his would be captor, nevertheless he
received his orders to' halt with becom
ing contempt, and kept straight on. -
BILL AKD THB TENDERFOOT.
"Except for my presence, Cheyenne
and his victim had the town to them
selves, Jack Hixenbaugh, the marshal,
and the rest of the citizens being sensi
bly in bed. I bad seen a -Chinaman run
Cheyenne around once over in Trinidad,
and knew there was no more to be feared
from him than from the last calf on the
range, and shouting over to him I so in
formed the person from the east and ad
vised him to go after the doughty Chey
enne and pull his head off. 'The tender
foot had about made up his mind to do
it anyhow, and . my vote settled it. He
turned and started for Bill, whereupon
that person at once lost all his valor and
fled briefly. . : ... ; . ,
'.'The tenderfoot caught up with him,
however, and eased his surcharged soul
by three or fonr forceful and very meri
torious kicks. This seemed to do both
Bill and .the shorthorn a world of good,
and the former avoided the "fifth by
plunging up a 6tairway. The tenderfoot
wanted- to charge after Bill and kill-him
completely, but 1 urged a different view
and pointed but the fact that - Bill took
his gun with him and that if he found
himself cornered he might shoot.
"Curly Bill was another of the riot
ous and desperate sort. His range in 1881
and' 1882 was southwestern New Mexico
and eastern Arizona. No one knew
where Curjy Bill hailed from, but if
there's truth in Scripture, where he was
going was plain to all.' He was reputed,
when I saw him, to have killed nineteen
men, and had the air of one who was
looking hard for a chance to make it a
score. Curly Bill has found his grave
somewhere out in the arid wastes he pa
troled, as nothing has been heard of him
for some time." Kansas City Star.
' Gave Himself Away.
. One day in-a chat with a friend he
said to me: "Has it ever occurred to you ,;
that when old age deprives you of much'
of 'your present ability to earn a living :
yon will t be obliged to .- look to your
friends , for support,:' or else' become-a
charge at some one of the charitable in-'
stitutions?" I confess I am neither a
money maker nor a money saver, but "it
is dollars to doughnuts" that the person
who thus twitted me of my weakness
simply echoed as- he did so the general
plan which he, in the cold blood of mid
dle age, is counting on as his resource'
when he shall get too old to be indis
psnsable. Detroit Free Press.
" : Photograph !nz a Batii? ,j ..
After running horses, jumping ath-1
letes, flying cannon balls, flashes oVj
of revolvina: double stars have been
cessfully photographed, the air- --p
bubble has furnished a stumblir
that the scientific photograph feas had
great difficulty in snrmourjjj, Lord
Rayleigh, in a lecture befc Royal
Institution of L.oncion. igaja . that for
some lime it had bet ambition to
photograph, a soap 1-jnbble a the act of
breaking. . . .
He anticipate! great -difficulty because
lie knew the time occupied in the disap
pearance of jv breaking bubble must be
but a sniall firctiun. of second. ,
- Whoever h.-As watched a brilliant soap
bubble burst knows Irow instantaneously
it vanishes. Lord : Rayleigh thought it
might, take one-tvpeutieth of a second,
"but oy repeated 'experiments he found
that the time occupied in the disappear
ance of the iridescent film was not more
than one three-bundredth of a second.
- To catch .and. picture a vanishing film
between the instant of its breaking and
that of its complete extinction proved a
most . difficult undertaking, bnt it was
accomplished. . , . . ... . ; ,
Some persons may think that it woald
be equally , difficult , to photograph a
lightning flash, but it must be recollected
that lightning makes an intensely' vivid
impression, while the soft reflection of a
soap bubble is evanescent, even in the
bright glare of an'electric spark. ,-' .
From printing the image of the flying
edge of a broken bubble in the three
hundredth of a second to disclosing the
existence of great nebulas in the heavens
by the cumulative effect of several hours
of continuous exposure, 'the modern
photographic plate is performing many
wonders in behalf of science, and prov
ing itself one of the most powerful means
at man's disposal to unlock the secrets
of nature. Youth's Companion.
. . How Pomades Are Made. . - ,
. The transforming of flowers, ' once
grown and picked, into marketable per
fumes and pomades is not an' affair re
quiring great skill. You can do the
thing yourself on a small scale if yon
have a garden. Take a frame like ; a
window sash, holding a . single pane of
glass; wash the glass carefully and cover
both sides of it with a thin .layer of
grease made of two parts of lard and one
of tallow. Pick off the petals of a lot of
roses and violets, throwing the rest of
the flowers away, and lay them over the
grease. Have a dozen such frames thus
prepared and stack them up by laying
them evenly on top Of one another, t
Thus yon will have a series of closed
ehambets, . each containing a layer of
flower petals between a floor and a ceil-,
ing of grease. Fat or oil of uny.kind
has a strong affinity for perfumes, and
go' the grease absorbs the smell of the
viojets or roses. Put in fresh petals
every day. smd at the end of two or three
months the grease will be intensely im
pregnated with the odor of the flowers.
Scrape it off the glass and then put it
in alcohoL The latter has an affinity
for the perfume even stronger than, that
which the grease possesses, . so it will
quickly absorb .it from, the grease, and.
upon pouring the alcohol off into an
other vessel you will have exquisite eau
de cologne. Washington Star. .
Three Carious -Bells,
' There is a curious .legend connected
with the bells of Messingham church.
It is said that a long, long time ago a
traveler was passing through Messing
ham when he noticed three men sitting
ou a stile in the churchyard And saying,.
"Come to church, Thompson, come to
church, Brown," and so on: - Being very
much surprised, he asked what it meant,
and was told that, having, no bells,, they
called folks to church in this way.- The
traveler remarked that it was a pity so
fine a church should be without bells;
and at the. .same time asked the men if
they could make three for the church,
promising to pay for them himself. . c ,
They undertook to dp this. They were
respectively-, a' tinker, a '-carpenter; and
a shoemaker. When next the traveler
passed that way he found the three men
ringing three bells, which said, "Ting,
tong, plufiy being made respectively of
tin, wood and leather! 'London Tit-Bits.
Two Foreign Lans;aasTes Necessary.''
A professional man ought to know at
least two foreign languages. If he lias
a decided penchapt for lingual studies
and a strong bent of mind usually indi
cates special capacity it may be worth
while for him to extend his list to Italian
and Spanish., even to go outside of these;
but French and German he ought to
possess as part of tue very means of "bis
-contact with modern, life.. These. Ian-
guages will admit him to everything that
is valuable in the . newest thought of the
time, since it may be truly t said that a
production which does not-.-speedily see
the light, either originally or by trans
lation, in English, French of German is'
cither not .worth special attention or can
be calmly waited for.-Interview in Bos
ton Herald. "- ' : '
Sainy Iay Costumes for Boston Women.
The Woman's Dress Reform club in
Boston numbers some 200 members, com
prising -teachers, doctors, . writers and
other professional workers. The first
rainy day all the members are pledged
to appear in a stormy weather costume,
consisting of a kilted skirt in waterproof
cloth reaching a little way below the
knees and revealing gaiters of water
proof cloth or riding boots. A . reefer
coat will coyer the upper part of the
figure and a tarpaulin- hat complete the
costume.- New York Sun. . i
. The. Chinese lay down bamboo rods
for young oysters to cling , to, aad give
them no specisJ attention. .-. When a fair
number . are mature, thej- pick up the
rods and carry large and small to market,
without separating them from the rods.
The day of the ignoramus is over for
ever' There is no longer any room for
him in civilized lands, except in the
kinds of work that no one likes to do,
and even from them he is sure to be
driven at last. i;
Just
21.
In 'Just 24 hours 3. V. & relieves constipation
and Blck headaches, After it gets the system
under control an occasional dose prevents return.
We refer by permission to W. II. Marshall Bruns
wick Bouse, & F.; Geo. A. Werner, 531- California
Bt, 8.F.; Mrs. C. Melvln, 136 Keamy St., 8; J".,
and many others who have found 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 Sanaparilla. I recognized in it at
once an herb that the Mexicans used to givo ns
in the . early 50" s for bowel troablcs. (I came to
California im 1839,) and I knew it would help ma
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
w Vegetable !
w Sarsaparilla
For Sale by SNIPES: & KINERSLY.
. THE DALLES. OBEGON.v
Db. E. C. West's Nkkvk Akd Bba.iK '.TRxkif
hent. a Imuran teed snecific for Hvsteria.izxi-
.. V-) X . . .- XT 1 I ..
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
oi aicoaoi or woaooo, wajcesuiness, jueniai xw
prcsEion, Boftening of the Brain, resulting in in
sanitv and leading to misery, decav and death
Premature Did Aee. Barrenness. Loss of Powei
in either sex, Involuntary -Losses and Spermat
orrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain, sell
abuse or over indulgence. - Each box contains
one month's treatment. 11.00 a box, or six boxes
for xa.oo, sent by mall pre pain on receipt of price,
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES ,
To cure any case.' With each order -received by
ns for six boxes, accomnanied bv S5.00. we wili
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re-
runa tne money 11 tne treatment aoes not enec
a cure. Guarantees issued only by. .. .(
ULAKELET & HOUGHTON, .
F-rescrlption Irng;gist,
175 Second St. The Dalles. Or.
REAL MEKT
.'-.".'." PEOPLE ; .:
Say the S. B. Cough , Cure is the. best
thing they .ever;, -saw. .v-.T Wevare not
nattered for we known Real. Merit will
Win. All we ask is aa honest tiial.
For sale by all druggists. ,. .
S. B. Medicine fg, Co,,;
Dufur,- Oregon.
A Revelation.
Tew -people know that the
bright bluish-greea color of
the ordinary teas exposed in
Hie window Is not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the--
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; mineral coloring--,
matter . being used lor this
purpose. The .effect- ia two:.
fold. It. not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, hat also permits the
as of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are .readily
worked off as good quality of tea. : , '
An eminent authority writes on - this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a'flner appearance, is earrled on exten
lively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the '
demand by coloring chearcr black kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian bine, tumeric. .
gypsum, and indigo. ThU method ia so gen
eral that very little genuine uneolored green tea
i offered for tale." - -
It was the knowledge of this condition of
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech'
Tea before the public It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did yon ever see- any
genuine- nncolored Japan tear Ask yout
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and you
will see It, and probably for tho very first
time. It will be found In color to be J ust be
tween the artificial green tea that you 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 purity makes it also more
economical than the artificial teas, for less
of it is required per cup. Sold only in pound
packages bearing this trade-mark
BEEC
TureAsWdhood:
If your grocer does not have it, he will get
it for yon. Me too pec poaad. For sale ai
Ijeslio OB-ix-tiLor'iei,"
Kl THE DAILES, OKE1GON.
$500 Ee-ward!
job
Health is Wealth !
' 'n'''L
Hi&:;TEA;
SUM C ! ,
V e will pay the above reward for any case of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, 8iclc Headanhe, In
digestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot
eure with West's Vegetable Liver Pills, when the
directions are strictly complied with. They are
purely vegetable, and never fail to give Batisfne
tion. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing 30
Pills, 2i cents. JBeware of counterfeits and imi
tations. The genuine manufactured only by
THE JOHN C. WFST COMPANY, CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS.
UT.AKEI.ET & HOUGHTON,
' ' Vrcritfon Druggist k,
175 Second St. The Dalles. t.
THE DflliliES
is here and has come to stav. It hores
to win: its, way. to public favor by ener-
-' . j -- ... .
gy, lnaustry ancl merit; and to this end
we ask that you s:ive it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its
support.
will be to advertise
city, and adjacent
Its
Obi
eveioping1 our industries, m extendine
and opening1 up new channels for our
trade, in' securing an open river, and in
helping THEDALLES to take her prop
er position as the
City of
Leading
forir pages of .siy'colnmns eacli,. -will "be issued every
evening, except Sunday, and will "be delivered intjie
city, or sent by mail for the moderate sum of fifty
cents a month.
JUST, FAIR AND IMPARTIAL.
We -will endeavcr to give all the local news, and
we ask that your criticism- of out object and course,
"be formed fr.om the contents of the paper, and not
from rash assertions of outside parties.
THE WEEK Y, '.
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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.
flSMilitepuBrca;
Office, N. W. Co'r. Washington and Second. Sts
Dry Goods arid Clotliinr at Your Own Price;
The entire stock, of N. Harris consisting of General Dry
Goods, Clothing,-Boots and Shoes, Hats, Capsarid
.., Gents' Furnishing Goods will be. sold at
Auction to the highest bidder for .
; ; ! ; ' cash in hand".
Saies ricid'cVciry night commencing at 7 o'clock.
J: B: CROSSEN, Auctioneer.
THE DAIiLES, OREGON.
Best Dollar a Day House , on the Coast!
First-Class Meals, 25 bents.
First Class Hotel in Every Respect. .
None but the Best of White Help Employed.
T. T. Nicholas, Prop.
Washington Qftb iDllBSy
.SITUATED AT THE
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center in
the Inland Empire. ' ' -
For Further Information Call at the Office of
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eets
the resources of the
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west. -
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