IMPRESSION DE MATIN.
The Thames nocturne of blue and gold,
' Changed to a harmony in gray;
A barge with ocher colored hay
Dropped from the wharf, and chill and
cold .
The yellow tog came creeping down
The bridges, till the house's walls
Were changed to shadows, and St. Paul's
Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
Then suddenly across the clang
Of waking life, the streets were stirred
With country wagons, and a bird
Flow to the glistening roofs and sang.
Bnt one pale woman, all alone.
The daylight kissing her wan hair.
Loitered beneath the gaslamp's flare.
With lips of flame and heart of Btone.
Oscar Wilde In National Review.
- Bow the Pyramids Were Built.
A moneyed man, who was looking at
the' process of laying an artificial stone
pavement in front of one of his many
properties, startled the friends who were
standing about him by remarking, "I
believe that the Egyptian pyramids were
built in just that .way." Pressed for an
explanation, he said that while he had
never been in Egypt he had read the
works of all ' Egyptologists, including
Brugsch and Piazzi Smyth, and had
never found in any of them a theory
which would satisfactorily account for
the manner in which the pyramids were
constructed. ,
"Now," he said, "you must remember
that the pyramids are built of stone
which bears no resemblance to anything
found within 500 miles of their location.
It is incredible that the Egyptians of
four or five thousand ' years ago should
have possessed the mechanical ingenuity
to move these enormous blocks of stone
from the granite quarries of Abyssinia
or Syria to the pyramids. Is it not m eh
more natural to suppose that the anc ent
Egyptians possessed the secret of mak
ing artificial stone, and that the pyra
mids were constructed by layer upon
layer of Nile river mud, hardened by
just such processes as we employ to
make artificial stone?
"It is a much more plausible explana
tion of their construction than the la
borious and unintelligent suppositions
that the stones were carried across the
desert to form the foundation and base
ot the pyramids. I firmly believe that
.the Egyptians of the ante-Christian era
understood the manufacture of artificial
stone, and that they built the pyramids
out of it." Philadelphia Press. "
Lake Winnipeg Wolves.
In the winter of 1890 deer were unusu
ally scarce in the forests east of Lake
Winnipeg. A wet, cold summer had de
stroyed an uncommonly large proportion
of fawns. Consequently, wolves were
without their accustomed food supply.
Their distress made them forget their
fear of humau beings.
One morning in January news reached
Winnipeg City that a band numbering
100 wolves had slain many Indian hunt
ers along the east shore. This turned
out to be true.
Several of the men were caught on
foot. One climbed a tree and shot
twenty wolves. Another clubbed a dozen
'to death before they palled him down
One hunter mounted a platform erected
on noles for the-nnroose of keerrihff Rlrinn
above the reach of wild beasts and ver
min. He had hardly begun firing when
the wolves pressed and leaped about the
posts in such numbers that they threw
Mown the platform and tore the man to
pieces. '
The saine band had visited other
camps. How many Indians in all were
" devoured could not be exactly ascer
tained, as more than one hunting party
was said to have been completely wiped
out. outh s Companion.
Why Olrls Are Tall.
Why are there so many tall girls now
adays, and why is the tendency of the new
generation toward unusual height and
gracious slimness? Women are tall and
becoming tall simply because it is 'the
fashion, and that statement never needs
nor is capable of any explanation. Awhile
ago it was the fashion to be petite and
arch; it is now the fashion to be tall and
gracious, and nothing more can be said
about it. Of course the reader, who is
usually inclined to find the facetious side
of any grave topic, has already thought
of the application of the self denying
hymn, that man wants little here below,
and wants that little long; but this may
, be only a passing sijjh of the period.
Charles' Dudley Warner in Harper's
Weekly. '
- .
Oh, These Uonest Little Fellows.
Eddie was very fond of raspberry jam.
One evening when the parson dropped
-into tea mamma opened her last jar,
with emphatic instructions to Eddie not
to ask for some more jam after getting
his share. His papa, net knowing the
circumstances,, offered to replenish his
dish, when Eudie mortified his mother
by saying, "'Mamma said I musn't-ask
for any more, 'cause that is all there is."
f
A St. Louis physician recalls the case
of a young man who had been dumb for
five years, but who, while out hunting
one day, began, in the excitement of the
chase,, to yell at the top' of his lungs.
Afterward he was able' to speak with
perfect articulation..
When Julius Caesar fell, as he was
landing on the African coast, he is re
ported to have said, to banish the fears
of his soldiers, who accepted the occur
rence as one of ill omen, "Land of
Africa, I take possession of thee!"
That compositor was something of a
. humorist in his way who set up the
title of Maurice Thompson's pretty syl-
. van. poem, "Pan in the Orchard, as
"Pain in the Orchard;" "but the associa
tion of ideas was serioos. " .- '-
The ancient Greeks and Romans had
their beds supported on frames, but
not flat like ours. The Egyptians had a
couch of a peculiar shape, more like an
old fashioned easy chair, with hollow
back and seat. ' ; - ' . - '
A farmer in Jefferson county, Wis.,
dislodged a huge rock at the bottom 'of
bis well,' when it sank out of sight, re
vealing a subterranean lake.
A BLACKING MONOPOLY.
THE PADRONE SYSTEM HAS IN
VADED NEW YORK'S FERRIES.
Blea Wlio Control the Bootblacking Privi
lege on Board the Ferryboats and in
Large Business Buildings A Business
Tbat Has Grown.
The unfailing law of business is that
wherever there is an opportunity for the
profitable investment of capital the
money is forthcoming to keep that busi
ness booming and to seize upon the most
advantageous sites. And so it has come
about that capitalists have not disdained
to take hold of the bootblacking busi
ness. While waiting for a boat outside
of the Twenty-third street ferry to Jer
sey City a Sun reporter got a shine from
a remarkably bright and efficient Amer
ican boy, whose mode of cleaning and
shining indicated a good deal of experi
ence. "Why don't you go inside and pick up
business on the boats, where your cus
tomers can get comfortable seats?" in
quired the reporter.
"I wish I could," said the boy, "but
they won't let me do it." " - .
"Why, I have seen boys on the boats
blacking boots, and they seem to make
lots of money. "
"Yes. They don't see a day that they
do not pick up at least a dollar, and
from that all the way up to three or
four, or sometimes five. But they can't
keep the money themselves."
"Why not?" . .-
"They have to give it up to the Italian
pad rones. There are three Italians who
have bought the right from the railroad
company, and they are the only ones
who are permitted to black boots on the
ferryboats. They have hired a lot of
Italian boys, to whom they pay three
dollars or four dollars a week, and the
boys are compelled to give up all their
earnings to the padrones who hire them.
If the boys do not turn in an amount
that is believed to be all their earnings
the padrones put on spotters and watch
them, and see that they do pay up.
BOOTBLACK PRINCES.
"Well, why don't you go in and buy
the right to shine boots on the boats?"
"Me? Why, do you know what those
padrones pay for the right to black boots
on all the boats? They pay over $2,000
a year, and keep the men's cabins clean.
A poor boy hasn't much chance 'to get
that job. I used to work for them, but-
I find I can make more money by stand
ing outside and catching some of the
customers before they get on the boat.
Then all I get is clean profit, and I don't
have to pay over to any padrone.".
On all the steamboats and steamships
and railroads, at the hotels, in front of
saloons in fact, everywhere where men
go there are to be found capitalist boot
blacks who hire the best places, or there
is an arrangement by which the owner
of the boat or hotel or barber shop hires
some, one to do the bootblacking and
takes the money himself. There have
thus arisen several bootblack princes,
such as the enterprising Italian who has
the monopoly of the bootblacking at the
Produce exchange, or the happy colored
gentleman who does up the business in
the Equitable building.
Many of the bootblack princes have
wives and families and nice homes, and
they dress well and live well. At the
big hotels the income from the privilege
of blacking boots is a considerable part
of the revenue of the house. It has long
ceased to be a perquisite of the servant.
A chair in a good place will yield five
dollars a day. for bootblacking," and on
extra occasions a good deal more. The
bulk of the work is done by men. It
really requires considerable bone and
sinew to black a pair of boot3 well, and
the man who has once noticed the differ
ence between . the way an average boy
does it and the way a man takes hold of
the work will not care to risk the boy's
work again.
ART IN BLACKING BOOTS. .
There are a "good many points about
blacking boots . that give scope to the
genius of the workman, as in all manual
occupations. -The bootblack who once
establishes a reputation for quick and
good work has his fortune made. Men
will go out of their way to' meet him,
and will wait their turn as for a favor
ate barber. -.'
On hot days bootblacks' chairs are
very tempting on the street corners in
the shade, and many a man stops and
takes a shine just f or a rst. The sum-J
mer is the bootblacks harvest, because
there is so much traveling and so much
dust. Some saloon keepers exact rent
from the Italians who have chairs for
bootblacking in front of their saloons.
Others are content to use the Italians'
services in cleaning up the place or for
running errands. Sometimes the pro
prietors come out and occupy the chairs
as lounging places, to the great chagrin
of the Italian owners. - -
Some time ago it was pointed out that
a good many women would get tnejr
shoes cleaned and ' shined as men do if
they could have the. same facilities.
Nobody seems to have acted on this sug
gestion, yet. t But it seems likely that
there would be money in it. When one
man finds out that there is money in it
others will follow. As it is, many women
are ashamed of their shoes, and long to
get up on the chairs and have a shine.
Occasionally a venturesome girl does so,
but she generally finds herself an object
of considerable curiosity. .
Improvements may be seen in the evo
lution - of the bootblacking business.
Fancy chairs, better blacking, a man at
each foot, the use of chamois bands for
finishing, little points of attention to
dress, the varnishing of russet shoes, the
oil shine all these show that the boot
blacks are in harmony with the spirit of
the age; that they have their eyes open
to the necessity for keeping pace with
the progress that is going on in other de
partments of human activity. When
the chorus of the nations calls upon each
business to show what it has done of im
portance in the evolution of society the
modern bootblack will take no subor
dinate place, but he will shine like one
of -his own moat polished shoes.- New
York Sun.
imples.
The old idea of 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a "blood humor,"-for
which they gave potash. Thus all the old Sassa
parillas contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of decreasing,
actually creates more eruptions. , You have no
ticed this when taking other EarenpariUas than
Joy's. It is however now known that the stom
ach, the blood erecting 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 and they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is compounded
after the modern idea to regulate tho bowels and
stimulate tho digestion. ' The erect is immediate
and most satisfactory. A short testimonial to
contrast tho action of the potash Sarsaparillas
and Joy's modern vegetable preparation. Mrs.
C. D. Stuart, cf 400 Doves St, 8. P., writes: I
hare for years I'.a'l iuui.-youtlnn, I tried a popular
Sarsaparilla bet it actually aH-cil more pimples
to break out ou my face. If earing that Joy's was
a later preparation and acted difTcrcutly, I tried
It and the pimples immediately disappeared."
Vegetable
Sarsaparilla
iMreetf. bottle, most e tractive, same price,
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY.
THE DALLES. OREGON.
Health is Wealth !
'
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TR E AT M C fcT
Dr. E. C. West's Nerve ahb BbaiX Tkkai
vent, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Dizzi-
1 WUTUIBtUllD X'lkB, lu HUB .'CUJ I .ft a
f Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use
or aiconoi or ioducco, waneiumess, .Mental ue-.
pression, Softening of the Brain, reuniting in in
canity and leading to misery, decay and death.
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Powei
in either sex. Involuntary Losses mid Spermat
orrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain, self
abuse or over Indulgence. Each box contains
one month's treatment, f 1.00 a box, or six boxes
fur fO.00, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price.
WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES
T cure any case. With eacb order received b
us for six boxes, accompanied by $0.00, we will
send the purchaser our written guarantee to re
fund the money if the treatment does not effect
a cure. Guarantees iBsued only by
RLAKELET Jk lTOCGHTON, ''
Prescription Druggists,
ITS Second St. The ralles. Or.
REAL MERIT
. PEOPLE .
Say the S. P.. Cough Care 19 the best
thing they ever saw. We are not
nattered for we known Real Merit will
Win. All we ask is an honest tiial.
For sale by all druggists.
S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
- Dafur, 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 as .the
fact may be. it Is nevertheless
artificial: mineral coloring
matter leins used for this
purro?e. The effect Is two
fold. It not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny greea, but also psrraits the
use of " off-color " and vortl1le5s tess, whieh,
once under the green cloak, are readily
worked off a a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "Tho manipulation cf poor tea-, to give
them a finer appearance, is carried ou extou
sivoly. Green teas, beir;g in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet ti:a
demand by coloring t hen- er b!n.-l Ui::dsl:y
gl&zing or facing with Prussian l;i.t.;. tumeriv.
gypsum, and indigo. This itifViod is so gen
'eral that very litil: Bin-Mat unrolordi jrccn tea
j offered for sale."
It was the knowledge cf this cen.lition cf
affairs that prompted tbe p'acu-g f Beech's
Tea before the public. It isabr.o!:i!ely pure
and without color. Did you ever fee nny
. genuine nncolored Jnvan tea? A:U yom
grocero open a package of Eecch's. a:idj- -u
will see It, and probably for tho vtry rat
time. It will be found ia co'or to be 'just be
tween the artificial green tea that yo; have
been accustomed to and the black tas.
It draws a delight! al caiiary color. t.ud Is so
fragrant tbat It wiil ba a revelutiiin to tea
drinkers. Its purity makes it '-: more
economical than the artinciul tc&i, for lent
of it is required per cup. -Sold only i-i pound
packages bearing this trade-mark :
'Pure'As
iidhoocu
Jt mm
' If yoar grocer does not have it, he will get
ft for you. Price tOo pec pound. For sals at
Xieelio Butler's,
THE DAILES, OK? i:"N.
$500 Reward!
We will pay tho above reward for any case of
iiver ompmim, uyapepsra, sick lieanacne, in-
oigeiaion, i;
cure with W
directions are strictly complied with.
Tnev are
rmrety vecewiDle. ana never fail to irtve satisfac
tiou. .Sugar Coated. J-arge boxes containing 30
riiiK, i- cents; ijeware 01 eoumerieits ana 1ml-
tnotiK ine g"nniTie manufactured only b'
THIS JOHN Wl-'ST COMPANY. CHIGAG'
Bf-.1f-tSST.KV it ilOUKHTOS,
I 7 Swniiil St.
The Dnlles. Or.
Joys
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mm
v.'v;' THE -V;-
Dalles, Portland & Astoria
- .
, NAVIGATION COMPANY'S :
'' ' Elegant Steamer : ' i '
Will leave the foot of Court Street
' '.. every morning at 7 A. M. :. '
Portland and Way Points
. Connections Will be Made with the '
. , Fast Steamer .-.
DJLItliES
GITY
At the Foot of the Cascade Locks.
For Passenger or Freight Kates, Apply
to Agent, or Purser on Board.
Office northeast corner of Court and Main street
R. B. HOOD,
ivery, Feed and Sale
JETorses Sought rin d Sold on
Commission ana Money
Advanced on-Horses
Left for Sale.
OFFICE OF-
The Dalles and Goldendale Stage Line.
Stage Leaves The Dalles Every Morning
. at 7:30 and Goldendale at 7;30. All
- freight must be left at R. B.
- Hood's office the eve
ning before.
R. B. HOOD,
Proprietor.
The Dalles, Or!
Opposite old Stand.
VJt. &T.JVlGCoy ,
Hot-:-and-:- Cold-i-Baths.
HO SECOND STREET,
A NEW
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IN -
Furniture and Carpets.
We have added to- our business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
r 1, 1 An dA ..-
ivciuciiiucr U 111 ;ioi;t uu otwhu CLICCL,
next to Moody's bank.
Pipe Work, Tin Repair
ing and Roofing.
Leave orders at L. Butler's
Grocery Store.
JOHN PASHEK,
liiGf
- Tai
i,
Next door to Wasco San.
Sys
ad a
garments, and a fit guaranteed
each time. ,
tcpaifiiiQ anci Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done. '
The Dalles
-b'.J. K3T STREET.'
FACTORY NO. 105.
fTf A'T? G of 016 Best Brands
VyXvXx.XVO manufactured, and
orders from all parts of .the country filled
on the shortest notice. -
The reDutationof THE DALLES CI
GAR has become firmly established, and
the demand lor the home manufactured
article is increasing every day.
A. ULRICH & SON.
Undertaking: Establishment !
GflOfl!
10
Gigar
fmoN
THE DALLES CHRONICLE
is here and lias 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
will be to advertise
Obi
city,' and adj acent country, to assist in
developing our industries, in extending
and opening1 up new channels for our
trade, in securing" an open. river, -and in
helping" THE DALLES to take her prop
er position as the
Leading City of
four Daares of siv columns
evening, except Sunday, ana will be delivered in the
city, or sent toy mail for the moderate sum of fifty
cents a month.
JUST, FAIR AND IMPARTIAL.
We -will endeavc r to cive all the local news, and
we ask that yoxir criticism of out object and course,
toe 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 of the "best.
Ask your Postmaster for a copy, or address.
THE CHRONICLE PUB. CO.
Office, N. W. Cor. Washington and Second. Sts
: DEALERS IN
Hay, Grain and Feed.
Masonic Block, Corner Third and
JNfeu
Columbia
THE DALLES, OREGON".
Best Dollar a Day House on the Coast!
First-Class Meals. 25 Cents:
First Glass Hotel in Every Respect.
. None but the Best of White Help Employed.
T. T. Nicholas, Pvop.
Washington 0tll DcIHBS, Washi"gton
SITUATED AT THE
. Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center In
the Inland Empire.
For Further Information Call at the Office of .
Interstate In vestment Go. ,
0. D. TAYLOR, THE DALLES.
eets
the resources of the
Eastern Oregon.
each, -will "ha issnfirl fiverv
Court Streets, The Balies.Oregon
HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Best Selling Property of
the Season In the North
west.' -
.72 WASHINGTON ST., PORTLAND.