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A SONG OF THE SEA. Oome oat where the billows are oool and deep,. Where the waves never rest and the winds never sleep. Where plumed . steeds coarse the ocean's breast, . Each flaunting a pennant of foam at his crest; Where the zephyrs are practiced to try their wings, -. -. -. And the sea mew shrieks and the mermaid sings When the moon is low, and, with shudder and. sigh. The tides are turned 'neath her watchful eye! Come down on the sands where the plaintive snipe Shrills a mem'ry of Pan and his reedy pipe. Where the ripples that lap on the shelving beach Seem to welcome a continent to their reach: Where the great brown rocks i in their trailing weeds Seem doing penance for guilty deees Centuries since, when the pirate's sail - Drove a bark to seek help in the teeth of a gale. Leave sorrow behind when you'd frolic With me, . . . IVjr there's never a grief that can sadden the sea, And never a burden too heavy to throw Away to be lost In the ebb and flow; Come down to the marge of the seething earth And bathe in the surges, where Love had birth. Where the fountain of youth in a crystal cave Plays, hidden for aye, 'neath a laughing wave. New York World. Her Bargain. The following true story is told in the ""Journal of Emily Shore:" A little girl near ns was one day play- tag before the noose, wnen a woman ap peared ' and begged a few pence. She had a baby in her arms. And the child was bo delighted with the little thing that she asked the woman if she would eell it to her. "What will yon give for it, miss?" was the counter question. , "Half a crown." "Very well," said the woman; "let's see the money." It was produced, and the sale made. The little girl took the baby, carried it up stairs and laid it on her bed, and after she had fondled it "enough for once," scampered down stairs, calling to her mother. ''Mamma, mamma! I've got a live doll! -I always wanted one, and now I've got it." The baby was found, and the story frankly told, but though the beggar woman was sought all over the town, no trace of her could be discovered. Meanwhile the baby's little "owner" begged so hard that it should be kept that the parents yielded, and the living doll became a household blessing. Advlee to Young Authors. Get originality into your work, my friend. If your .forte is writing articles choose a new, bright, popular topic and treat it freshly. Don't affect the dull and stupid essay style. Use few words. Make your sentences brief. Be crisp and make your thoughts crackle. Tell the public something it doesn't know and is trying to find out. If you lean to fiction tear away from old plots and take an in cident that a reader will recognize at once as being fresh. Make your dialogue natural and bright; let your characters move around and have a being. Stop when your story is told; a lively story of 2,000 words, full of life and snap, has in it more prospects of success than a drawn out tale of 5,000 words. If you feel poe try to be your forte appeal to the heart rather than the mind. Don't fail at blank verse when yon can succeed at popular . poetry. E. W. Bok in Ladies' Home Journal. Chinese Children. The Chinese give their boy babies a name in addition to their surnames, and they must call themselves by these names until they are twenty years old. At that age the father gives his son a new name. The Chinese care so little1 for their girl babies that they do not give them a baby name, but just call them No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, according to their birth. Boys are thought so much more of in China than girls are, that if you ask a Chinese father who has both a boy and a girl how many children he has, he will always reply; "Only one child." Cin . cinnati Commercial Gazette; Some Feminine Advice. This advice was given by an old lady to a young wife going out to the colonies and looking for a maid to accompany her: "Take a pretty one, my dear," said the, old lady, "for, ugly or pretty, Bhe will have an offer of marriage before she has been out a week, and while your ugly girl will say 'yes' to the first offer she gets and leave you, your pretty, one will be harder to please and will say 'no' several times before she consents." San Francisco Argonaut. Power of Will. Expectant Nephew How is my rich uncle today? Family Doctor Much better. His will keeps him alive. . Nephew (sadly) I'm afraid . that's so. He made his will in my favor twenty years ago, and I don't believe hell die while that will .is in existence. kJood News. It is not so hard as is supposed to pro nounce the name of the queen of the Sandwich Islands. That "n" in Liliuo kalani has the value of a "w," and if one says "Lileewoka-lanny" he will hit it about right. What was long supposed to be a wax figure on a crucifix in the Burgos cathe dral turns out to be a mummified human body. The church record shows that , it has been in its present position since 1140 A.D. - . "In winter," says Yuan Mei, a Chinese writer, "we should eat beef and mutton. In summer, dried and preserved meats. As for condiments, mustard belongs spe cially to summer; pepper, to winter." A Vermont man claims to have a squash vine, on the end of one branch of which grew a cluster of eighteen full grown squashes, all well developed. . Jhe silk industry shows that a single cocoon from a well fed silkworm will often produce a continuous fiber more than 1,000 yards long. BILL NYE AS A . JUSTICE. An Account of a Remarkable Marriage Ceremony In a Wild Country. I f orarot to say that the office of justice of : the peace was not a salaried one, but dependent upon fees, the county furnish ing only the copy of the revised statutes and a woolsack, slightly and prematurely bald. So while I was called Judge Nye, and frequently mentioned in the papers with great consideration, I was out of coal about half the time, and once could not mail my letters for three weeks be cause I did not have the necessary post age. Friends in the eastern states may possibly recall the time when my corre spondence, from some unknown cause, seemed to flag. That was the time. Of course I could have borrowed the money, but I had, and still have, a foolish horror of borrowing money. I did not mind running an account, but I hated to bor row. ' The first business that ' I had was a marriage ceremony. I met the groom on the street. He asked me -if I could marry people. I said that I could to a limited extent. He said that he wanted to get married. I asked him to secure the vic tim, and I would get the other ingredi ents. He then wished to know where my office was. It occurred to me at that moment that there was no fire in the stove; also, no coal; also, that the west half of the stove had fallen in during the night. So I said that I would marry them at their home. . He maintained that his home was over eighty miles away and that it would consume too much time to go there. "Where are yon stopping at? I in quired using the Pike county style of syntax in order to show that I was one of the people. . ' ' . "Well, we met here, squire. She come in on the Last Chance stage, and Tm camped up in Gov'ment canyon, not fur from Soldier crick. We can go ont there, I reckon." I did not mind the ride, so I locked my office, secured a book of forms and meet ing the young people at the livery stable went out with them and married them in a rambling, desultory sort of way, The bride was a peri from Owl creek. wearing moccasins of the pliocene age. The rich Castilian blood of the cave dwellers mantled in her cheek along with the navy blue blood of Connecticut on her father's side. Her hair was like the wing of a raven, and she wore a tiara of clam shells about her beetling brow. Her bracelet was a costly string of front teeth, selected from the early set tlers at the foot of Independence moun tain. With the shrewdness of a Yankee and the hauteur of the savage she com' bined the grotesque grammar of Pike county and the charming naivete of the cow puncher. She was called Beautiful Snow. But I think it was mostly in spirit of banter. She was also no longer .young. -1 asked her, with an air of bad inage, if she. remembered Pizarro, but she replied that she ' was away from home when he came through. The cave dwellers were a serious people. Their plumbing was very poor indeed; so also were their jokes. . Her features were rather classic, however, and I was about to say clean cut, but on more ma ture thought I will not say that. Her nose was bright and piercing. It resem bled the breastbone of a sandhill crane. The groom was a man of great cour age- and held human life at a very low figure. That is why he married Beauti ful Snow without any flinching; also whj I have refrained from mentioning his name; also why I kissed the bride. did not yearn to kiss her. There were others who had claims on me, but I did not wish to give needless pain to the groom, and so I did it. He had- no money, but said that he had a saddle which, if I could use, I was welcome to. I did not have anything to put the sad dle on at home, but rather than return empty handed I took . it. Bill Nye in century. Love of Old England. When Mr. Christie Murray started for Australia the anchor of his vessel in Plymouth sound brought up a quantity of Devon mud and ooze,' which in the course of a day or two, under a summer sun, baked into a stiffish earth. Half by way of a sentimental joke and half seri ously, he took a cubic inch or there abouts' of this English soil, placed it in an envelope, and determined to carry this morsel of old England with him on his travels. Many months afterward a pastoralist up country, whose guest Mr. Murray was, begged this bit of earth from him, "You'll be going back there," he said "ana l never shall, l ve been away from home for sixteen years and I'd value that bit of Old England more than the Kohinoor. "When next I pa his way," says Mr. Murray, "I found that he had ridden sixty miles (out and .home) to buy a little plush stand and a glass shade for the precious trifle." London News. ... ... Steel Divining Sods. A man in San Francisco has some queer, divining rods. They- are four slender pieces of steel, tapering to point at. one end and flattened out at the other, with notches in the extremities like the notches in an arrow. . Two are an inch shorter than the others. Two persons, use them, each taking hold of one long and one short rod with the thumb and forefinger and holding them out horizontally with the hands close together. The notches are pressed to gether. In a few minutes the rods move from side to side, or up and down, point ing, it is said, to that part of the room where coins or. jewelry may be conceal ed. Some persons cannot use the rods, but those who can may easily find the hiding place of any valuable. New York Sun. . - - . Worth Thinking Over. Young Mr. Garter Is your sister in, Harry? Little Harry Clasp Yes. " But she isn't going to receive any gentlemen after this unless he comes in a dress suit. Mr. Garter Why? What brought her to that decision? Harry I guess she must have found out that you didn't have one. Clothier and Furnisher. The Cabman Was Afraid. Mr. Walter Besant .tells the following story of a disputed cab fare: "A friend of mine drove from Piccadilly to some place in the suburbs outside the radius. On getting down he tendered three shil lings and sixpence for his fare this was a little over the proper fare. . The driver wanted five shillings. The' passenger re fused. 'I'd like to fight you for it,' said the driver. 'The very thing!" cried my friend, who had never in his life put on a boxing glove, and was almost as ig norant as Mr. Pickwick even of the fight ing attitude. 'The very thing! Capital! We'll have the fight in the back garden, my brother will look on, hold the stakes and see fair play.' The cabman got down slowly. ' 'I was pleased, continued the nar rator, 'to discover that he appeared al most as much afraid as I was myself, perhaps if that was . possible even more. - He followed into the back gar den, where there' was a lovely little bit of turf, quite large enough for practical purposes. I placed my five shillings in my brother's hands, took off my coat and waistcoat and rolled np my sleeves, all with an appearance of cheerful alacrity.' Now, my mend, I said, 'I am ready as soon as yon are. rne anxiety of the moment was, I confess, very great. But it decreased as I watched the man's face express successively all the emotions of bounce, surprise, doubt, hesitation and abject cowardice. 'No,' he said, 'gimme the three and six; I know your, tricks, both of you. I've been done this way before.' And so, grumbling and swear ing, he drove away." A Reminiscence of Carlyle. Mr. Robert Harrison, who has been librarian of the London library for more than thirty-four years in the course of his presidential address at the Librarians' conference at Nottingham, gave some interesting reminiscences of Carlyle, who was accustomed to frequent the library. He said: "Carlyle often visited the li brary. His conversation was most amus ing, full of extravagant and exaggerated statements, and always ending with a loud laugh, apparently at himself. He used the library books expensively for his later works, and was guilty of the reprehensible practice of writing on the margin of the books. I must admit that his remarks were never meaningless, but chiefly consisted of corrections of date or errors in the text. "One remark of his, however, which was pretty well known, was a criticism. It occurred in Charles Dibdin's collection of songs, the last page of which contained the ordinary version of 'Rule Britannia.' At the foot of this boastful song Carlyle had written 'Cock-a-doodle-doo, with. a small forest of notes 6f exclamation after it. In a case like that the librarian would be a martinet, indeed, if he effaced from the book an expression so charac teristic of the man of genius who wrote it." Pall Mall Gazette. The Cultivation of English Walnuts. Great success is being made with the cultivation of English walnuts in Cali fornia. It is believed that they can be produced profitably in the eastern states as soon as more experience is had in the fertilizing of the flowers. This is always a great difficulty, and it has been found on the Pacific coast that a very effective remedy for it is to plant among the trees black walnuts, or even the common but ternuts. They are all cousins and the plentiful pollen of the butternut or black walnut trees fertilizes the blossoms of the English walnuts, which would not otherwise be impregnated. Before very long this country will be shipping English walnuts abroad) and the same is likely to be the case with al monds. . Of the latter very big crops are now produced in California and Arizona. They require a dry climate. East of the Rocky mountains they do not do well, because of the frosts and dampness. Washington Star. . Didn't Lose Mucli. One day a gentleman named Fleming called on Mr. C , and both being mem bers of the same society the conversation drifted in that direction. "You were not at the last meeting," said Mr. C to Fleming. '. "No," replied the latter, "I was un avoidably absent. I have lost my wife." Now Mr. C , who was somewhat deaf, failed to hear the last remark, and said, emphatically, "Well, you didn't lose much!"" referring, of course, to the meeting of the society. When Miss C , who was present, explained the situation, her father was overwhelmed with shanje, and made most humble apologies. Fleming under stood at once, and had,no'thought of be ing offended, as Mr. C- was known to be scrupulously polite and tenderly con siderate. Harper's. The Food Supply Is Measureless. . The fundamentaljnistake out of which grew the gloomy doctrines of the older theorists was in measuring the possibili ties of production by what they knew of soil culture. Science had not revealed to them that, aside from proper tempera ture and moisture, the essential factor in vegetable production is plant food; that this may be given to the plant with out the aid of the soil; that what they understood by soil fertility is a compara tively unessential factor of agricultural production; that, in short, the possibili ties of the food supply in the future are measureless. Professor Atwater in Cen tury. " - Point for Wheelmen. - Wheelman I believe ril give np bi cycling. I am as careful as can be, but every now and then some accident hap pens. This is the second time I've been arrested and fined for running' into peo ple. Business Man Fll tell yon how to man age. ' J ust yon get a job as bill collector. Everybody H dodge you then. New York Weekly. Corroboration. "Lighthouses are very expensive," re; marked Mrs Dimling. looking up from a government report. . "Yes, any theatrical manager will tell you that," replied her husband. Detroit Free Press. J . Experiences of a Great Singer. I have often had requests to sing be rdde a deathbed or a person very ill. I gong to the old bishop of Albany when he was suffering. . The first festival I ever sung in was at Norwich, and when I returned to that place after six years I had a letter from an old gentleman who heard me there, and who was now bed ridden. He wanted to hear "The Last Rose of Summer," and I shall never for get standing there by his side and sing ing that beautiful song. And many a time have I had to convert the balcony of the hotel where I was staying into a temporary platform, and appear at mid night, long after the opera was over, and sing "Home, Sweet Home," or some such popular ballad, to - the people wait ing outside. . .. That was the case at Dublin a few years ago, when the students there took the horses ont of my carriage, and I was told that if I didn't sing they would break the windows of the hotel. I stood on the balcony wrapped up in great shawls, for it was a bitterly cold night, and it was no easy matter to sing "The Last Rose of Summer" under these cir cumstances. . I have sung, too, in 'the quiet little church at Braemar in the choir, and it was there that I 'received what I have always considered one of my greatest compliments. The speaker was one of the mountain folk, and had never been in Edinburgh. When the service was over a friend of mine heard him say, "I never thought anybody could have such control over one's voice." That is all, but that is the whole secret of a singer's success perfect control. Mme. Albani in Strand Magazine. The marble capitol building at Hart ford is 800 feet long, and the engineers declare that it is three inches longer in summer than in winter. Qld People. J. V. 8. is the only Sarsaparilla that old or feeble people should take, as the mineral potash which is in every other Sarsaparilla that wc know of, is under certain conditions known to be emaciating. J. V. S. on the coutraiy is purely vegetable and stimulates digestion nud creates new blood, the very thing lor old, delicato or broken down people. It builds them up ajd prolongs their lives. A case in point:. Mrs. Belden an estimable and elderly lady ol 610 Mason St, S. F. was for months declining so rapidly as to seriously alarm her family. It got so bad that she was finally afflicted with fainting spells. She writes: " While in that dangerona condition I saw some of the testimonials con- cerning J. V. S. and sent for a bottle. That marked1 the turning point. I regained my lost flesh ana strength and have .not felt eo well in years." That was two years ago and Mrs. Belden is well and hearty to-day, and still taking J. V. S. If yon are old or feeble and want to be built up. Ask for niiV-. Vegetable Uy w Sarsaparilla " Most modern, most effective, -largest bottle. Same price, tL00, six for (5.00. For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY THE DAIXE8. OREGON. BEAIi 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.-B. Medicixe Mfg. Co., Dufur, Oregon. A Severe, Law. The English peo ple look more closely 'to the genuineness of these staples than we do. In fact, they' have a law under. 'Which they make 'seizures and de stroy adulterated - products that are not what they are represented to be. Under this statute thousands of pounds of tea have been burned because of their wholesale adul teration. , Tea, by the way, Is one of the most notori ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifi cially colored, but thousands of pounds of substitutes for tea leaves are used to swell the bulk of cheap teas; ash, sloe, and willow leaves being those most ' commonly used. Again, sweepings from tea warehouses are colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea leaves gathered from the tea-houses are kept, dried, and made over and find their way into the cheap teas. : The English government attempts to stamp this out by confiscation; but no tea is too poor for u. and the result.is, that probably the poorest teas used by any nation are those consumed in America. Beech's Tea Is t resented with .the guar-, anty that it Is nncolored and unadulterated; In fact, the sun-cured tea leaf pore and sim ple. Its purity insures superior strength, about one third less of it being required tor an luf usion than of the artificial teas, and its fragrance and exquisite flavor is at once ap parent. It will be a revelation to yon. In order that Its purity and quality may be guar anteed, it la sold enly in pound packages bearing this trade-mark: , BEEC 'Pure As -Childhood: Price 60c per pound. For sale at Leslie Sutler's, THE DALLES, OREGON. im. I CM IUM SC- - . Still on Deek. 'hcenix Like has Arisen From the Ashes! JAMES WHITE, The Restauranteur Has Opened the Baldwin - Hestaurant ON MAIN STREET Where he will be glad to see any and all of his old patrons. Open day and Night. First class meals twenty-five cents. . . YOUR ATTEUTIOfl la called to the fact that ' Dealer in Glass, Lime, Plaster, Cement ana .building Material of all kinds. Carries the Finest Line of- To be f octnd in the City. 72 CUashington Street. . ANEW UndertaMng Establishment! 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 tne undertakers' Trust our prices will be low accordingly. Remember our place on Second street, next to Moody's bank. Hugh Glenn Picture mouldings -: DEALERS IN: Staple and Fancy Groceries Hay, Grain and Feed. Masonic Block, Corner Third and THE DALLES, OREGON". Best Dollar a Day ; First-Class Meals, 25 Cents. First Class Hotel in Every Respect. None but the T. T. Wa shington SITUATED AT THE Destined to be the Best Manufacturing Center In the Inland Empire. Mora For Further Information Call at the Off Ice of Interstate Investment, Go., 0. D.ITAYLOR.'THHDAILES. JOHN PASHEK, J - Tailor, Next door to WaBOo Sunx-. Madison's Latest System used in cutting garments, and a fit guaranteed each time. xepaiping and Cleaning : Neatly and Quickly Done. R. B. HOOD, Livery, Feed and Sale Horses Bought and Sold on Commission and 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 K. B. Hood's office the eve ning before. R. B. HOOD, ProDrietor. Opposite old Stand. The Dalles, Or. THE Dalles, Portland & Astoria NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Elegant Steamer KEGUliATOR Will leave the foot of Court Street ' every morning at 7 A. M. for Portland and Way Points Connections Will be Made with the Fast Steamer DAItltES GITY At the Foot of the Cascade Locks. For Passenger or Freight Rates, Appljt to Agent, or Purser on Board. -. Office northeast corner of Court and Main stree NOTICE. R. E. French has for sale a number o improved ranches and .unimproved lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood in Sherman county. They will be sol very cneap and on reasonable terms Mr. t rencn can locate settlers on som crood unsettled claims in the same neigh borhood. His address is Grass Valley! Sherman county, Oregon. Court Streets, The Dalles.Oregon House on the Coas- Best of White Help Employe JSlieholas, Pvop. Washingtoi HEAD OF NAVIGATION. TV Best Selling Property of the Season in the North- west. 72 WASHINGTON STVPORTIA! Dalles