Sooth American Lotb Making. '
All the love making in South America i
Snnst be carried on through a third per
son. If a youth desires to marry he
does not speak of it to the girl whom he
wishes for a wife, bnt to his own father.
The latter, if he approves, goes to the
father of the young lady and the two
discuss the matter together. Each tells
the other what he will do for the young
folks, and between them a contract is
drawn up respecting settlements and all
such things.
The intending bridegroom is not per
mitted to see his fiancee for u moment
before the wedding. As soon as that
event has taken place there is a wedding
breakfast, and usually without the for
mality of a preliminary tour, the couple
settle down to-living, either in an es
tablishment of their own or more often
in the house of .the parents of the bride
or the groom.
One drawback about marriage in
South America is that in taking a girl
to wife it is apt to be considered a mat
ter of course that the young man mar
ries her whole family also. He has no
occasion jor surprise or aisgrunuemem
if, together with his bride, fifteen or
twenty people come to share his house
hold and domestic comforts, including
all her available relatives and their serv
ants. . These Latins are a very clannish race,
and a father is apt to be willing to adopt
a raft of sisters and cousins and aunts,
not to mention a mother-in-law, rather
than have his son or daughter leave the
family roof. It is due to the strength
of family attachment among them that
hotels in -South America are only .for
strangers from afar; the natives always
find hospitable entertainment among the
kindred. Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette. A Sensible View of the Seat Question.
The Question of relinquishing seats to
women in, the public conveyances is,
like the poor, always with us. Said a
man recently discussing is: "There is
just this point which I have come to
realize; either I must make up my mind
never to have a seat in a car, or I must
decide never to give it up. I go and
come to my place of business at the
hours when almost everybody else does;
the cars are invariably crowded and
there are always women standing to
whom it is possible to offer my place, if
I get one. , Such being the case, it is
also possible for me to stand the year
through. I cannot see that this sacrifice
is demanded by . the conditions.
"I am ready to give up my seat at any
time to any person, woman or man,
whose manner or appearance indicates
less ability to stand than I possess, but I
am not willing to resign it every time I
find a woman standing. We are fellow
travelers in a conveyance in ' which the
supply of seats will never, until the
. millennium, equal the demand; today 1
uu luiLuuute, wiuurrow sue will oe,
and I think most women - prefer to ac
cept this proportion of success rather
' than to have seats' continually resigned
to them. At least my womankind have
so expressed themselves to me on the
subject." New York Times.
t7ele SI as a Commentator.
A dozen men who were in the habit of
loafing away their Sundays outside of
the old Penobscot meeting house, while
their wives attended service, were gath
ered by an enthusiastic young pastor
into a Sunday school. They were called
the "horseshed class,' and no members
of the school were more regular in at-
" tendence, or original in response. One
day the lesson was upon the death of
Hoses, and the teacher, having located J
".We bo 8 lonely mountain" upon his map,
; asked the meaning of "Nebo" no doubt
having in mind the tutelar deity in
honor of whom the Babylonish digni
taries bore such goodly names as Nebu
chadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, etc. .
"What do you say, Uncle Si?"
"Wa-al," answered the old man, sol
emnly, "I've beared that them Bible
names all has meanin's, an I reckon 'it's
so 'f a body only jest studies into 'em.
Now this here, to me, is plainer' n two
times two. I calclate Moses called it
Nebo because the mountain was .. so
marster steep it made his knees bow to
get to the top of it. I've clum hills right
down here in Maine, time 'n time ag'in,
as yon could call Nebo and not feel as if
you's swearin. neither. Marster steep!"
Lewiston Journal.
What Buttons Are Made Of.
Do you know of what material the
buttons on your coat are made?
Well, perhaps if you did you would
never recognize it in the raw, for in four
cases out of five it is a material vulgarly
known as vegetable ivory. To the trade
it is the ivory nut. Down on the pier of
the Pacific Mail Steamship company
will be seen long rows of sacks made of
jute, which bear the appearance exter
nally of being filled with potatoes.
These are stacked at the head of- the pier
in the open air. There is no danger of
them being carried away, for they are
.as heavy as lead, and not extremely val
uable, as they are. Potatoes would' not
remain in that exposed position un
touched for a single nignt. The ivory
nut, however, -is valuable only when it
comes from the han of the manufac
turer in the button or the ornamental
pt&te. New York Telegram.
'
' Bm a Bishop Wu Put t Death.
Traces of this primitive superstition,
bewitching by images, are found among
civilized people, for Grimn reports that
in the eleventh century Jews were ac
cused in Europe of having killed Bishop
Kbergard by a sorcery of the kind. They
were said to have made a figure of wax
representing the bishop, hired a priest to
baptize it, and put it into the fir As
seen as the wax was melted,,the bishop
was attacked by a mortal disease. L.
Popoff in Popular Science Monthly
He Had to Keep Him Going-.
Stranger (to car driver, conductor,
etc.) Why don't you stop? I want to
get off! . ,
Car .Driver, Conductor, etc. Til have
t ask ye t' jump off. This mule's balky,
an if he stops onct thar won't be any
starrin 'im inside nv a hour. Harper's
Bazar.
CULTIVATION OF RICE
WATER PLAYS A BIG PART IN THE
RAIDING OF THE CEREAL.
An Industry In Louisiana That Is Very
Profitable to the Grower, but Which
Is Still In Its Infancy How Bice
Fields Are Kept Flooded.
"Tell you something about rice in
Louisiana?" repeated Andrew C. Wilkin
son, the owner of a large rice mill in
New Orleans, where the rice grown on
his plantation is cleaned, at the Gilsey
House. "I see that the papers have just
found out that Englishmen are trying
to buy up and form a trust of the rice
mills in the south, although the agents
have been down there for something
over six months. Nobody is quicker
than John Bull to scent a bargain.
"New Orleans is the chief rice milling
city of America. . Pif ty years ago we
did not have such a thing as a rice mill,
but now we have sixteen, working 220
rice pounders and employing more than
1,200 men. Louisiana has always been
known as the Sugar State, but we also
want to add to it that of. the Rice State
of the Union.
"How is it cultivated? Well, the
first necessity of profitable rice culture
is a comparatively level piece of land,
properly prepared for the seed. This field
must be located so as to be conveniently
irrigated from the prairie reservoir or
the flume in the levee Highland rice
does not pay in Louisiana, the only
profitable rice being thai grown in
water. Water is the first and last want
of sprouting, growing and ripening'rice.
Before the ground is ready for the seed
it is divided up by a system of little
sublevees and watering ditches. It is
then planted in drills dug by machines
or rather I should say that the ma
chine is the proper way to do it, but the
seed is frequently broadcasted with us in
Louisiana.
. "Then comes the moBt delicate part,
in the water manipulation. After the
seed is planted the soil is thoroughly
saturated with water to sprout it, but
the water is at once taken off when the
seeds have evenly germinated, and kept
off until the tender shoots of the plant
rise two 'or ; three inches above the
ground. You can easily see that the
young plants may be either drowned out
or dried up by the least inattention in
regulating the flow. -
DRAWBACKS TO THE WORK.
On the other hand, with too much
water, crawfish invade the fields and de
vour the delicate plants, while with none
at all, rice caterpillars cut them down
and kill them. If you neglect the main
flume you not only risk the total loss of
your crop, but by permitting the water
to get ahead of you there may come a
break in the levee, and away go your
cattle and crops.
"The most expensive part of rice grow
ing comes when it is about a foot high,
after it- has been liberally watered; I
mean the grassing of the rice. -You see,
the laborers wade through the rice, pull
ing up and throwing into heaps all the
weeds and water grasses they find. This
grassing costs on an average about four
dollars an acre, and after that is over
the rice planter has but little to do ex
cept to give it plenty of water. One pe
culiar thing about irrigation is that the
heads of the rice plants never fill out,
no matter how much water you give
them artificially, unless there are plenti
ful rains.
"One feature of rice cultivation would
be great fun to city sportsmen, but is a
terrible nuisance to us. I mean the
birds. Talk about your ducks and geese
hiding the sun. Perfect clouds of rice
birds, English sparrows, summer ducks,
rail and other fowl of the air and wa
ter, come to see if they can't harvest our
crops for us. From daybreak to dark a
perfect f usilade from the guns and old
muskets is heard in hundreds of square
miles of country. Over in this field you
hear the shrill shouts of Creole farmers
shrieking out Sunday school language in
French patois; from the next probably
the deep chested whoop of negro field
hands, and in another the hoarse yells
of the new" American rice .growers
those who have come from the great
northern wheat fields. It is scream!
pop! whoop! bang! boom! in the
noisiest battle from dawn to dark that
you ever heard.
"The rice birds are our worst enemies,
and while we kill millions of them, left
to manure the fields, other millions come'
in to take their places. The ravages of
the rice birds some years are fearful,
the crop being almost a total loss. Per
haps now that the Yankees are coming
down to grow rice they may invent some
machine that will either destroy the
birds or keep them away.
' PROFITS OF RICE CULTURE.
"As boos as a pale yellow tint appears
over the level heads of the opening
grain tHe water is carefully drawn off,
the fields being drained as thoroughly as
possible, and the work of . harvesting is
begun. The dried sheaves are" carted
direct from the field to ' the steam
thresher, where the grain is prepared for
market. ..
"The profits in rice planting, with good
. luck, wUl in .a few years make any man
rich. The yields on good lands in Lou
isiana give from fifty to seventy-five
bushels to the. acre. Bice is a plant
which is generous to the attentive and
industrious farmer, but it resents neg
lect more than any other cereaL A man
can cultivate fifteen to twenty acres of
rice land, and if strong and industrious
he can easily secure from 1,000 to 1,600
bushels of rice, worth at present prices
about , a dollar a bushel. - The work is
not hard, except during grassing time,
and, its good living is cheap with us. a
small rice farmer can easily save one-'
half of his gross income.
"The cultivation of rice in Louisiana
is still in its infancy. Many of the hun
dreds of immigrants are yearly turning
their attention to rice, and at the pres
ent rate of increased acreage Louisiana
will be able to 6upply the entire country
with this most valuable cereaL" New
York Teletrf am.
The Crazy Ball.
Street peddlers have a new catch
penny device on their trucks that ig
quite an amusing thing for old as well
as young folks. They call it the 'crazy
ball," and it is well named. For ten
cents yoq can bjiy one of Jhese things
and see the laws "of gravity dVfied. It
looks like an ordinary wooden ball, abont
the size of a tennis ball, but you can't
roll it in a straight line to save you. Of
course the secret of the thing's queer
actions lie in the fact that it is loaded
on one side. This makes every move
ment of the ball eccentric. It will roll
up hill of its own accord, and it will re
fuse to roll down hill. If you try to roll
it from you it will perhaps start out all
right, and then turn around and roll
back, or maybe it will go off sidewise
and describe a wobbly circle around
you. All its movements are jerky and
spasmodic. Give it to a kitten to play
with and the chances are that the kitten,
will go mad, while a baby will cry with
vexation over its eccentricities. A grown
person who is not up in spherical geom
etry will assure you that it is wonderful.
It is not. It is only some sharp fellow's
way of gathering in the dimes. Never
theless, ere long the city will be flooded
with these "crazy balls." New York
Herald.
An Artist's Mansion.
Sir Frederick Leigh ton, Bart., P. R.
A., is at present enjoying himself in the
beautiful town of Perugia, the air of
which is most invigorating. Electric
light is being laid in the president's
house, in Holland Park road. The splen
did eastern hall, paved with tiles from
Damascus, with the fountains and
couches of exquisite workmanship will
now be lit by the electric light. So will
the drawing room, with its fine speci
mens of Corot's paintings representing
the seasons, and the handsome dining
room. The large- studio, with its price
less treasures, will be properly illumi
nated. The fountain at one time had no rail
ing. One evening after one of Sir Fred
erick Leighton's epicurean feasts, the
hall not being sufficiently lit, several of
the academicians stepped into the foun
tain and got thoroughly wet; a popular
painter had to borrow a pair of the
president's trousers, much to the amuse
ment of his brethren of the brush, as
the garments did not fit him; but the
strong electric light will put an end to
any more of these uncomfortable adven
tures. London Star.
A Dust Storm In Simla.
A. curious phenomenon occurred in
Simla recently on two successive nights.
This was nothing less than a dust storm
in the midst of a downpour of rain, or
rather, to speak more correctly, a shower
of mud. A column of dust seems to
have been carried up into the higher at
mosphere from the plains and to have
been caught and forced down by the
heavy rain. In the morning, as a result,
all the plants and flowers in Simla were
found to have received a thick coating
of mud. There could be no doubt that
the mud had been rained down, for 'it
was freely sprinkled on plants away
from the hillside and at a great height
from the ground.- Moreover a deposit
of mud was found in the rain gauges in
various parts of the station.. It is a
common thing to see the atmosphere in
the hills during the hot season thick with
dust from 'the plains, carried aloft by a
strong wind. But the conjunction of
rain and dust is an accident of which,
it is stated, there is no previous record.
Exchange.
The Smallest Snake.
J. C. Couch, who lives a mile south of
Fox Postoffice, has brought us what is
probably the smallest 'snake ever cap
tured in Bay county. It was caught
about two weeks ago by his stepson,
Theodore Jackson, and is of the black
snake species. . It is only three inches in
length, mid at the thickest part of its
body is only three-sixteenths of anich
in circumference. It is a perfectly form
ed reptile, but with an extra large head.
Mr. Jackson accidentally killed it by
spilling a few drops of petroleum on it.
This snake could not teach 'school or
plow corn like some of his kinsmen
found in Colonel Jim Denton's neighbor
hood, but Mr. Jackson is just as proud
of his find as the colonel ever was over
any of his discoveries. Richmond (Mo.)
Conservator.
A Child Killed by a Pi if. . -
While "playing . funeral" in Kiota,
Kan., Johnny Denner, aged six, met a
strange fate, He and his eight-year-old
sister had dug a hole and Johnny sat in
it. When she had covered him with
earth up to the neck, an old sow drove
her off and then attacked the little boy.
Several times the animal sunk her teeth
in the' lad's head, and when friends came
to his rescue they found him dead. Ex
change. Neglect of a Hero".
The fact that Louis Kossuth is now a
poor, .blind old man, who is dragging
out a miserable existence, embittered by
sheer want and heartless neglect, is not
complimentary to an age of hero wor
shipers which will spend fortunes upon
gorgeous monuments to the dead and
grudge a crust to the living. Boston
Globe. :
It is given out that 50,732 accounts,
claims and cases, involving the sum of
$176,884,062 were settled during the last
fiscal year by the United States govern
menta large increase of work with no
increase of force as compared with the
preceding fiscal year, v
" ' A pair of very economical lovers, in
Los Angelos, Cal., hit upon a plan to
cheat Uncle Sam of his postage. The
young man hired a box at the postoffice
and gave his sweetheart a duplicate key.
They exchanged correspondence through
the box.
hot ships carrying cotton has shown that
coiion seea oil, wnen Held in the cotton
on the outside of the bale, rapidly oxi
dizes and generates spontaneous combus
tion. -
pimply
The old idea of 40 yean ago as that facial
en iptiona were, due to a "blood humor," for
which they gavo potash. Thus ill the old San a
parillas contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of decreasing,'
actually creates moro eruptions. You have no
OccdJhU 'Whch tailing other arsaparlllas than
Joy's. It Is however now known that the stom
ach, tho blood creating power, is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion or constipation, vitiates
the blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
healthful digestion purifies it end they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is compounded
alter the modern idea to regulate tho bowels and
stimulate the digestion. The effect is immediate
and most satisfactory. A short testimonial to
contrast tho action of tho potash Sarsaparillas
and Joy's modem vcgetablo preparation. Mrs.
C. D. Stuart, of 400 Ilnves St, 8. F., writes: " I,
have for years had indigestion, I tried a popular
De. E. C. Wbst's Nerve akb' Bbain Tkkai
Ms nt, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi
ness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia,
Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
of alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Mental De
pression, Softening of the Brain, resulting in in
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death,
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power
in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat
orrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain, self
abuse or over indulgence. Each box contains
one month's treatment. $1 .00 a box, or six boxes
for 45.00, sent by. mail prepaid on receipt of price.
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
To cure any case. With each order received by
us for six boxes, accompanied by $5.00, we wlfj
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re
fund the money if the treatment does not eflec'
a cure. Guarantees issued only by
BLAKE1JY & HOUGIITON, -
Prescription Druggists, -
175 Second St. The Dalles. Or.
REAL MERIT
PEOPLE
Say the S. B. Cough; Cure is the best
thing they ever saw. We are not
flattered for we known Real Merit will
Win. All we ask is an honest tiial.
For sale by all druggists.
S. 6. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
' Dufnr, Oregon.-
A Revelation.
Few people know that the
bright bluith-green color of
the ordinary teas exposed In
the windows Is not the nat
ural color., Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it la nevertheless
artificial; - mineral coloring
matter being used for this
purpose. The effect is two
fold. 'It not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, bat also permits the
aae of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea. .
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a'finer appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kiods by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and indigo. Tlitt method if so gen
eral that very little genuine uncolored green tea
i 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. yoa ever see. any
genuine . uncolored Japan tea? Ask your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yoa
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be just 6e
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas.
It draws a delightful canary color, and Is so
flagrant 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 cnp. Sold only in pound
- packages bearing this trade-mark:
BEEC
TireAs Wdhood:
If yosr grocer does not have it, he will get
tt for yoa. Price apo per pond, rorsaleal
IgjsXo Bxitlor's,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
$500 Regard!
We will pay the above reward for any ease of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, In
digestion, Constipation or Costiveness we cannot
cure with West's vegetable Liver Pills, when the
directions are strictly complied with. They are
purely vegetable, and never fail to gire satisfac
tion. Sugar Coated. Large boxes containing SO
Pills, 2a cents. Beware of counterfeits and imi
tations. The genuine manufactured only by
THE JOHN C. WF8T COMPANY, CHIGAGO,
ILLINOIS. , , .
BIAKJJLET & HOUGHTON,
r
i
HS TEA
r kin v -
Prenerlptlon Druggists,
1 '.'.'- The Dalles, Or.
THE DAMES
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.
Its Objects
will be to advertise the resources of the
city, and adjacent countrv. to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
ana opening up new channels for our
trade, in securing- an ouen river, and in
helping THE DALLES to take her prop
er position as the
Leading City of Eastern Oregon.
four pages of siy columns each, -will be issued every
eyening, except Sunday, and will "be delivered in the
city, or sent by mail for the moderate sum of fifty
cents a month.
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We -will endeavcr to give all the local news, and
we ask that your criticism of but object and course,
be formed from the contents of the paper, and not
from rash assertions of outside parties.
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