MILITARY : TRAINING' FOR ATHLETES, i
Advantages of Discipline and Restriction
la Muscular Development.
Americans take a special interest in
athletics and all forms of outdoor exer
cise. In this they partake of a habit of
most of the northern races. The En
glishman indulges in rude sports in the
field, and in his hunting will travel as
far as India to have a brush -with the
tiger or lion in his native jungle. In
Germany societies prevail everywhere
for the purpose of physical training, and
the German is fond of dashing into the
forests to hunt the wild boar. The fa
vorite diversion of the Americans in the
west has been the hunting of the buffalo
and grizzly bear. The excitement of
such sports amply compensates for their
danger. "It doth more stir the blood to
rouse a lion than to start a hare." .
The case is very different in most
southern countries. In southern Europe
the sports consist principally in hunting
small game, involving no very great
physical exercise. The favorite amuse
ment is billiards or cards, which can be
played within doors without exertion or
exposure to the elements. Americans
being among the most prominent people
in pursuit of athletics and conspicuous
in their disposition to indulge in manly
sports, it is always an interesting ques
tion as to what training it is best to pur
sue in that direction. For youngsters
the hoop, the top, marbles and . tag an
swer every purpose. While young men
are in college football and baseball fur
nish ample means of physical exercise.
. At West Point and Annapolis military
and naval drills, swimming and occa
sional outdoor gardes insure the perfec
tion of physical training, and send the
graduates of those institutions out into
the world with muscles of iron and con
stitutions fitted for almost any strain.
But after the college days the training
ceases, a reaction sets in, and a breaking
down in health is often the consequence.
Gymnasiums, bicycles arid long tramps
. may serve a good purpose for a time,
but these are soon given up, as there is
little incentive for exercising unless the
exercise be systematic, part of some well
organized plan and stimulated by asso
ciation with one's fellows.
In casting about we find no better
physical advantages to be gained than
those derived from the military exercises
which young men undergo in the militia
services. Camping out in summer in
well selected camps gives them an out
dobr.life which is a much needed change
from the indoor life led throughout the
long winters, during which, so much
Vitiated air is breathed in crowded
places of business and ill ventilated
sleeping apartments. Marching is the
most rational exercise for the legs; the
manual of arms always insures healthy
chests and well developed arms, and
moving at the double quick improves the
breathing power of the lungs.
Unlike the athletics in college there is
no overtraining, which so often injures
the subjects by excess, and no breaking
down after the training has ceased. The
marchini? and drillinsr under irnnnntent
instructors improve the gait of the re
cruit, and give him a firmer, easier step
ana a more graceful carnage.
Military service has many advantages
mentally. It cultivates intelligence
among young men and does much to
ward improving the memory and curing
absentmindedness. The necessity Of be
ing alert, listening for each word of
command and acting promptly upon it,
quickens the wits and cultivates the
habit of fixing the attention and concen
trating the thoughts. .Marching to the
ound of music gives a young man a
better idea of measure and rhythm, and
is calculated to make him more method
ical in all things. His entering upon the
duties of a soldier leads him to study
military , history, which embodies the
chief history of nations.
The hardest lesson to be learned in life
ia that of amenability to discipline. In
a land like this, where there is very lit-'
tie restraint among young or old, where
elf abnegation is but little heard of, and
where the race of life is pretty much a
"go as you please," there is scarcely any
school in which subordination and obe
dience are taught except in the military
service. General Horace Porter in Cos
mopolitan. Kdison and His Visitors.
About Orange you can hear number
less stories of Edison. Everybody likes
him. One man, who had for years been
in his employ as an experimentalist, told
of a visit a number of men Jay Gould,
Sidney Dillon, Cyrus Field and others
paid to Edison at the laboratory one
day. Edison came out of his workroom,
where he was busy, and shook hands
with Mr. Field. At that instant some
thing popped into Ms head Apropos of
the experiment he was at work on. He
never gives an idea time to escape him.
"Without . a word of excuse to the mag
nates, he turned on his heel and hurried
into his den again. They waited and
waited, and by and by, tired out with
delay, wended their way down stairs.
Shortly afterward Edison came out and
asked:
"Where did those paupers go?"
"Down stairs."
"Did they walkT
"Yes."
- "That's right. I don't want 'em to
wear the oil off my elevator."
- Then he stood around and told stories
to his men. He is a great man for
stories, and it is a tradition among his
employees that they can tell him the
same story every day for a week and he
will never tire of it, nor in fact show
any sign of having heard it before.
Drake's Magazine.
Naval Officers' Clothes.
American naval officers are' men of
many clothes, and the official etdauette
of h-ess aboard ship is appalling to a
landsman. Every officer must have four
or five styles of hats and caps, at least as
many different kinds of coats, and even
prescribed styles of neckties in consider
able variety. - The captain ordinarily
prescribes the uniform of the day, but
when a flagship is within signaling dis-
tancr of another man-of-war, the admiral
is the authority on clothes as on other
things. Yankee Blade.
& GARDEN OF A QUEEN.
VICTORIA HAS ONE SPOT SACRED
FROM HER SUBJECTS.
England's Sovereign Has a Mania for
: Planting Trees A House That the
, Prince of Wales Built and in Which
' Many Royal Children Have Played.
Queen Victoria considers herself really
at home in the private garden of Osborne
only. For in this little corner of the
Isle of Wight alone does the sovereign,
whose possessions cover one-seventh of
the globe, have powers absolute. Else
where, and especially in the parks of the
royal residences, she is under the re
straint of the officials of a constitutional
monarchy. .-..'.' . ,
The commissioner of public buildings
and works treats the crown as an insti
tution of which the rights are strictly
limited. Her majesty cannot cut a tree
without the consent of the proper official.
To escape this vigilance the queen has
bought in the neighborhood of her castle
at Osborne some acres of ground where
she may have a gardener not subject to
changes of administration. She has
even gone so far as to disregard for once
her position of political impartiality and
chosen a former gardener of Lord Bea
consfield, a man accustomed to the grow
ing of Tory flowers.
But any imprudences which he might
commit will not easily reach the public.
For while it is easy to get permission to
roam about the grounds of the castle,
this little garden is carefully shut off
from visitors. A correspondent of an
English paper recently had the good
fortune to get into the Swiss chalet,
which her majesty has made into a
family museum, and to walk about the
aisles of trees where each tree commem
orates an episode in the history of the
royal house and recalls a day of happi
ness or sorrow.
A short distance from the entrance to j
this private garden is a wooden play
house, built with their own hands by
the Prince of Wales and the Duke of
Edinburgh in 1851 The heir to the
crown has missed his vocation. He
clearly had in him the making of a nota
ble carpenter. Even to the present day
the prince is very proud of his work,
and whenever he visits Osborne he goes
straightway to see if the playhouse is
still standing. Not a nail has fallen,
not a plank has sprung. , The house is as
solid as at first.
A HOUSE BUILT BY WALES.
In the little house are preserved the
playthings of the royal children. Each
of the children had little carriages of his
own, and all are here preserved with the
initials of the owners' names upon them.
The Duke of Edinburgh was a jack of
all trades. He was a carpenter with his
older brother, a mason with his younger
brother, the Duke of Connaught. The
miniature fortress they built together is
still preserved in this same garden. I;
is made of stone and brick, and is at
least strong enough to brave the seasons.
The princes worked under the eyes of
their father, who was trying to teach
them the art of fortification.
This fortress has undergone some as
saults. The Prince of Wales, having
his five sisters and the youngest of his
brothers under his command, attacked
its garrison, the Dukes of Edinburgh and
Connaught. Almost always the heir ap
parent carried the parapet and drove the
two dukes into a casemate, where they
had plenty of arms and whence hunger
alone conld dislodge them.
Nowadays the children of the Duchess
of Albany and of the Princess Beatrice
attack and defend the fort which their
parents, their uncles and their aunts
have so often captured with great valor
after long and glorious sieges.
The day of her oldest daughter's wed
ding Victoria took a sprig of myrtle from
the bride's bouquet and planted it in this
garden. It rooted itself so firmly that
now it is grown into a great bush. Every
time one of the grandchildren marries,
the myrtle bush at Osborne is called into
requisition.
MEMORIAL TREES. .
Not far from the matrimonial bush is
a row of mourning trees. In February,
1862, every member of the royal family
planted a tree to perpetuate the memory
of the prince consort, who died in the
December just before. Of the eight
trees those of the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Alice have grown most
luxuriantly. - A little distance away the
queen planted the parasol pine, which is
her memorial of her husband.
. In another place are the trees com
memorating marriages the trees of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, of the
Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, of the
Duke and Duchess of Connaught, of the
Duke and Duchess of Albany and of the
Princess Beatrice and Henry of Batten
berg. It is in the shade of these trees,
whose foliage murmurs the memories of
happy times, that the queen likes to
take tea during the hot days of August.
Now it is the new generation which is
taking its turn at tree planting in this
garden devoted to royal highnesses. The
children of the Prince of Wales and of
the Duke of Edinburgh have the place
of honor.. But the invading family of
Prussia casts not a little of its shade
upon soil which should remain exclusive
ly for British. Although the children
of the queen's daughters are not repre
sented, the descent of the Empress Fred
erick has taken root there. The Prin
cess Victoria of Prussia, her sister, the
Princess Sophia, and the Prince W aide
mar, who died in 1879, have each a tree.
The collection lacks nothing but the tree
of the Emperor William. Paris Figaro.
A Big Insect.
The biggest insect of its kind in the
world is the Hercules beetle of South
America, which grows to be six inches
in length. It is said, whether truthfully
or not, that great numbers of these
creatures are sometimes seen on the
mammaea tree, rasping the -rind from
the slender branches by working around
them with their horns until they cause
the juice to flow. This juice they drink
' to intoxication, and thus fall senseless
! to the ground. New York Journal.
TRIUMPH OF. THE AUTO.
She Knew the Soprano Would Have to
Get a Screen to Keep the Files Oat. -
"From all envy, hatred and malice,
good Lord, deliver us," slowly continued
the minister. '
"Good Lord, deliver us," echoed the
congregation.
It was a day of triumph for the so
prano of the choir.
All the city folks who were passing
the summer in cool Berryville were in
the congregation, and the alto, her
deadly enemy, had such a cold that she
could not sing a note.
So she soared aloft in highest notes of
gladsome praise, while the unfortunte
alto sat upon , the back bench in the
choir loft, consumed vrMi envy that even
her dampest tears could not quench.
"Glory be for evermore!" droned the
bass with gusto.
"Glory be for evermore I" shrilled the
tenor with fervor.
Then the soprano took it up, took up
the glad - strain, "Glory be forever
morel". Took it up and held it fondly;
took it up and played with it among the
lower notes. Snatched it again from the
deeps and ran up the vocal scale with it
in her teeth, throwing it out above the
heads of the enraptured congregation
and catching it again before it could
strike bottom, as she swept up the scale
and over the measures in triumphant
joy. It was a day of triumph for her
indeed.
Again she took up the fervid cry;
"Glory be forevermorel" Striking the
lowest note in her compass, she glorious
ly rolled up the chromatic scale with the
paean of victory up up-up with her
swaying head far back, her straining
eyes half closed, her mouth round and
open with the full crescendo of the
pouring flood of melody. Up up up
higher and higher, till the air quivered
in unison and the souls of the listeners
lo3t themselves .in ecstasy. . Up up
up
Then suddenly, without warning: .
"Yeuch yeuch! Chow-uch uch
uch chow-whickerren !"
Her voice broke into a choking gasp,
a thin, reedy wheeze, a horrible, eye
staring gurgle she turned black in the
face and fell backward into the choir
chairs behind the green curtains in front
of the loft.
The minister glared wildly from his
place, hanging over the pulpit's edge.
The entire congregation rose as one
man to leap upon the pew seats and
strain into the unknown horror ' with
bursting eyes.
The Press representative dashed out
the side door on a dead run for the tele
graph office to wire in the death of a
choir singer from a bursted bloodvessel.
When from the deathly stillness which
hung over the fatal loft came a hissing
whisper that stung the farthest ear dis
tinctly. "Ah h ! Swallowed it, did she? In
deed! I told her once that if she would
open her mouth like that in the summer
time she'd have to get a screen door to
keep the flies out! Why don't some one
chunk her in the back once or twice?".
It was the alto's voice.
- . ,
"From envy, hatred and malice, good
Lord, deliver us! Cincinnati Commer
cial Gazette.
People Who Did Not Kill.
The inhabitants of the Canary islands,
the Guanches, were, it is supposed, but
the mountain shepherds of a submerged
world. Though so strong physically, the
Guanches were, nevertheless, a very
gentle race; tney rarely made war on
one another, and when the Europeans
fell into their hands tbey did not kill
them, but sent them to tend sheep in
the mountains. So tame were the birds
in this happy land, that when the Span
iards first landed they came and fed out
of their hands.
To kill an animal degraded a man; the
butcher wad a reprieved criminal and
outcast, and lived apart, he and his as
sistants being supported by the state.
No woman was allowed to approach the
shambles, and in such horror was killing
held by these giants that no man could
be ennobled until ho had publicly de
clared that he had not been guilty of
killing any animal, not even a goat.
Their standard of morality was high;
robbery was almost unknown among
them. St. Louis Star Sayings.
A TROUBLESOME : TAME OSTRICH.
A Pet That Generally Makes Itself a
Terrible Nuisance to Everybody.
When, as sometimes happens, a soli
tary ostrich chick is reared at the house
it becomes inconveniently tame. We
had one called Jackie, and it was often
a terrible nuisance. All the little darkies
about the place had a lively dread of
him. As they sat on the ground at
meals with plates of boiled pumpkin
and rice in their laps Jackie would come
up and, stretching his snakelike neck
over their heads or under their arms,
would coolly help himself to the con
tents of one plate "after another. Occa
sionally he would make for the unhappy
youngsters in so menacing a manner as
to frighten them into dropping their
plates altogether; then, while his vic
tims ran away crying, he would squat
on his heels and regale his enormous ap
petite at leisure.'
But one day retribution came. Being
free to run into the kitchen simply be
cause no one could keep him out he was
not long in observing that the pumpkin
and rice always came from one particu
lar pot, and the idea suddenly occurring
to him that he could do no better than
to go straight to the fountain head for
his favorite dish,, he walked np, full of,
joyful -anticipation, to the fixe where
this pot was boiling. The cook who,
being mother to several of the illused
children, did not love ..Jackie offered
no friendly interference to save him
from his fate, and plunging his bill into
the pot, he greedily scooped up, ' and
with the lightninglike rapidity of os
triches, tossed down his throat : a big
mouthful of the boiling rice.
Then there was what boys would call a
"circus." Jackie began dancing around
the kitchen, writhing with agony, shak
ing his head nearly off and twisting his
neck as if bent on tying it in a knot.
Finally he dashed wildly from the house,
and the last seen of him was a little cloud
of white dust vanishing on the horizon.
He returned a- sadder and wiser bird,
and it was long before he would venture
again inside the kitchen.
When about a year old Jackie was sold
to a farmer . that had long coveted him.
No doubt he soon repented of his pur
chase. The bird was now now strong
enough to give a good hard kick that is
the way ostriches fight and being a
more daring freebooter than ever, and
no respecter of persons, he would march
up and attack any one he saw carrying
what he thought might be food, endeav
oring, by a well aimed blow, to strike it
out of their .hands; and he was gener
ally successf uL
At last his master, tired of hearing
complaints about his conduct, and impa
tient of his perpetual intrusion indoors,
tried putting him into a camp inclosed
by a wire fence. There, however, he
obstinately refused to remain. As Boon
as he was put in he would squat down,
laying his head and neck on the ground;
then, making himself as flat as possible,
he would squirm out under the lowest
wire of the fence.
But Jackie soon ceased from troubling.
His end, as may . be imagined, was
brought about by no other cause than his
own moral obliquity. One day he wan-dered-down
to the river where some Kaf
fir women were washing clothes, their
children, a group of little animated nude
bronzes, playing near them. One little
fellow, who was eating, was of course
instantly spied out by the greedy and
covetous Jackie. The marauder, how
ever, this time paid the penalty of his
lawlessness, for in rushing to kick the
little darky and thus capture the food,
he fell down the rocky bank of the river
and broke his leg. Then Jackie, like all
other broken legged ostriches, had to be
killed. Philadelphia Times.
STiPATIQN.
A "li; ts half the American jt'Op!o yet tbere la
only o:ie preparation of Sarsa;.ri;!a that acts on
the bowcl3 ana reaches this iir.rorlaut trouble,
nud that is Joy's Vegetable Paif aparilla. It. rc
Hcres it in 21 hours, aud aii occasional dose
prevents return. . "Ve refer by permission toC.E.
Elkington, 125 locast Avenue. San Francisco;
J. II. J.rowii, Pctalurna; H. S. Winn, Geary Court,
San Francisco, and hundreds of nthAnnliniiiiva
used it in constipation. One letter is a sample of.
nuuureus. .tijungton, wTites: "Ifcave been 1 oi
years subject to bilious headaches and constipa
tion, nave been to bad for a year back hare
had to take a nhvsic everv nther Tiifrhfr nr aIqa t
would have a headache. A f ter taking one bottle
of J. V. 8., I am in splendid shape. It has done
wonderful things for me. People similarly
troubled should try i; and be convinced."
Joy's
Vegetable
arsaparilla
'Host modern, imM. effective, largest bottle,
same price, il.00. hi t fur tu.00.
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON.
KEAL 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. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
Dufur, Oregon.
Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
'to the genuineness
of these staples than
we da In fact, tbey
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, hut thou-ands of pounds of
substitutes for tea leaves jtre used to swell
the bcilk of cheap tea; ash, sloe, aud willow
!;sv be! nff those most commonly used.
Again,' sweepings frm tea warehues otc
colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea
leaves gathered from the tea-houses are iept,
dried, and madcovcrand find their way into
the cheap teas.
The English government at enspts titamp
this, out by t o:iii?t ttfi u; but no tea is too
poor for U and the reaU If, that pri txibly
the y'oroot tous rbed by any natiou are thise
oohV.tfccd iti AinetTct. " -"
l'?crV Tea is rrcEntcd with the guar-
:,fta?y that it is u-u loicd and unadulterated ;'
in fact. The un-cnr: leaf pure aud eim
ple. Ls purl: inw5i-i superior strength,
atuut one third lez oi is ir. Inx required for
au infusLiti Ihftv of thua-UL.'irl teas, and its
fragrance and exqaiiiUo ilr.ror is at once ap-
. parent. It will be a revelation to you. In
order that its purity and quality may be guar-'
anteed, it is. sold only in pound packages
beariug this trade-mark:'. .
'PureAsrhbod:
. if an fe
Price eoe per pound. For sale at -
Xieslie Bixtler's,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
Still on Deck.
Phoenix Like has Arisen
From the Ashes!
JAMES WHITE,
The Restauranteur Has Opened the
Baldotin - Hestaofant
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 ATTEflTIOIl
Is called to the fact that
Hugh Glenn,
Dealer in Glass, Lime, Plaster, Cement
ana uuuaing Material of all kinds.
-Carries the Finest Line of-
Piciure - inoumings
To be found in the City.
72 CUashington Stfeet.
ANEW
Undertaking 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
the Undertakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
Remember our place on Second street,
next to Moody's bank.
: DEALERS IN:-
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Hay, Grain and Feed.
Masonic Block, Corner Third and
jvfeu Qolumbia j-lotel,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
Best Dollar a Day House on the Coast!
First-CIass Meals, 25 Cents.
First Class Hotel in Every Respect.
None but the Best of White Help Employed.
T. T. Nicholas, Ppop.
Washington flOf th DUBS, Washington
SITUATED AT THE
. Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center in
the Inland Empire. - "
' For Further Information Call at the Office of
Interstate Mestmeiit Go,,
0. D. TAYLOR,THE(DALLES.
JOHN PASHEK,
-Tailor,
; Next door to "Wasco Sun.
Madison's Latest System used in cutting
garments, and a fit guaranteed
each time.
tepairdng and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done.
R. B. HOOD, i
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;S0. All
freight must be left at R. B.
Hood's office the eve
ning before.
R. B. HOOD, Proprietor.
Opposite old Stand. The Dalles, Or.
THE
Dalles, Portland & Astoria
NAVIGATION COMPANY'S
Elegant Steamer
REGULATOR
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
DAIiliES GITY,
At the Foot of the Cascade Locks.
For Passenger or Freight Rates, Apply
to Agent, or Purser on Board.
Office northeast corner of Court and Main street
NOTICE.
R. E. French has for sale a number of
improved ranches and unimproved
lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood
in Sherman county. They will be sold
very cheap and on reasonable terms.
Mr. French can locate settlers on some
good unsettled claims in the same neigh
borhood. His address is Grass Valley,
Sherman county, Oregon.
Court Streets, The Dalles.Oregon
HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Best Selling Property of
the Season in the North
west. .. . -
pic
72 WASHINGTON ST., PORTLAND.