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