LIGHT ON THE LAKE..
A MIGHTY HUNTER DEAD
i t.h ftntjimnul fftaaminff. aad and r.hlll.
Tbe moorland mere in silent slumber lay:
Unruffled were Its waters, darkly gray.
And all its sentinel reeds stood stilt and still; :
lae peewit's last good night (ell clear and.
shrill.
Tbe west was dusky brown with dying day. . ,i
When came across the heather far away.
The gleam of moonrise o'er the distant hilL j .
lik fl amji thiLt flttichfMt t.hrnntrh ttm mnnon I-
smiAe
A fall moon climbed above the swaying firs I
The rashes felt that herald breese of hers;
They whispered to the water that awoke.
Athwart Its face a golden ripple broke.
And the queen kissed her nightly worshipers.
jr. O. F. Nicholson in Chambers1 Journal.
HE FOLLOWED THE .TRAIL OF , THE
LAST PENNSYLVANIA ELK. .
In a Street Car.
There was a typical bit of life shown
In a recent incident in a Brooklyn street
car. Two fashionably dressed women,
strangers to each other, and each with
a child on her lap, found themselves
seatmates in a crowded car. The hand
some blue eyed boy on one knee soon
fell a. victim to the coquetries of the
dainty little maiden with golden curls
and soft brown eyes on the other, and
to the mutual satisfaction of the parents
a pretty little flirtation went on.
plump, rosy cheeked miss of two years,
a comfortably clad but evidently poor
child, stood against her mother and ad
miringly watched the pair. At a certain
street the mother of the boy signaled to
stop. "Kiss the baby," she said, as she
stood the little fellow on his feet, mean
ing of course Miss Golden Hair, and he
turned to obey.
At that moment, however, the other
little jrirl. making her way out with her
moth-r. was exactly abreast of him, and
Master Blue Es'es, finding this little face
before him, promptly bestowed a sound
ing, hearty smack upon it. And every
body smiled, while tbe prince was led
out, the beggar maid wonderingly went
her way, and the disappointed princess,
who had leaned forward for the royal
salute, buried her face in Tier mother's
cloak, learning thus early in life the bit
ter truth that tbe kiss is not always for
the one who expects it. Her Point of
View in New York Times.
It TO as In the Early Part of the Winter
of ISO 7-8 That the Xst Hull Elk Was
Tracked ta ills Death by the Tireless
SporUmao of the 8inuamahuning.
- "The man who was iu at the death of
the last elk killed iu Pennsylvania died a
few days ago in Potter county," said a
former resident of, that part of the Key
stone State. "His name was Ira Par
menter, and .he must have been ninety
years of age. He was born near the f ork.s
of the Sinnamahoning, where his father,
who came from Connecticut with his
family before the close of the-last cen
tury, was one of the first settlers. The
old hunter just dead was the last of his
race. He had followed the life of a huu cr
and trapper until three years ago, when
he became partially blind and was forced
to hang up his rifle. He had lived during
the times when elk, wolves and panthers,
all of them now extinct, were numerous
in the Pennsylvania woods, and he, prob
ably more than any of his contenxoru
neous woodsmen, aided in bringing
about their extinction.,
"For many years he insisted that he
had killed the last panther ever known
to be in Pennsylvania. But Jacob Ben
sley, an old Pike county hunter, finally
brought such evidence to bear that he
and not Parnienter was entitled to that
honor, that the latter acknowledged
Bensley's claim. That he was in the
hunt, though, which resulted in the kill
ing of the one lone elk that clung to its
native hills and fastnesses in the Penn
sylvania wilds there is no doubt, al
though the elk was killed by another
person, and an Indian at that. This elk
hunt was Pamienter"s favorite reminis
cence, among the hundreds of stirring
ttories of his life iu the woods that hi
was always ready to relate, almost up :
the day of his death.'
ON THE TKAIll
This elk hunt occurred as late as
stock, of
only the
' 'Bogus Mutumlai.'
In laying in your -, winter
mummies be careful to buy
genuine. ,
The habit of making imitations of ar
ticles has extended even to the produc
tion of counterfeit back number subjects
of the defunct Pharaohs.- Now, ordina
rily when one buys a thing he wants it
fresh; but this rule does not hold good
in the," mummy trade. The staler they
are the better, from a commercial point
of view. ' .
The high price of authentic mummies
in a good state of preservation has led to
the practice of manufacturing them to
order, and the man who contemplates
the purchase of a dozen or so of these
cheerful objects should see that he gets
what is left of something which once
walked and talked in Egypt 3,000 or
4,000 years ago.
The mummy . trade lias been very ac
tive of late. Ordinary Egyptian citizens
who have had no further use for them
selves for thirty or forty centuries can
be bought for about fifty dollars at Cai
ro, but a bettes quality of individual a
prince or a high priest, for instance
comes as high as $500 or even more.
If you should find in a mummy fox
which you paid $100, say, a lot of gold
and jewelry worth about $1,000, you can
be confident ' that the thing is genuine.
An Egyptologist named Moscooas once
made a small fortune in the purchase of
one mummy which had once contained
a rich man's, vital spark. The chest,
which had been separated from the vital
organs before embalming, had been filled
again with gold and precious stones.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Why Meat Costs More Than Vegetables.
Meat is a manufactured product for.
which a large amount of raw material is
required. The manufacture of meat is
a process of transforming the vegetable
protein, fats and carbohydrates of grass
and grain into the animal protein and
fat of beef, pork and mutton. The same
principle applies in the production of
milk, eggs and other animal foods. In
the most economical feeding of animals
it takes a number of pounds of hay or
corn to make a pound of beef or pork.
In other words, let the farmer make ani
mal protein and fat from vegetable ma
terials in the best way he can and still
he must consume a large quantity of
soil product to produce a small amount
of animal food. Hence animal foods are
costlier than vegetable.
This is the simple explanation of the
fact that in most parts of the world
meat is the food of only the well to do,
while the poor -live almost entirely on
vegetable food. Thus ordinary people
in Europe eat little meat, and in India
and China they have none at alL It is
bard - enough for them to get the nntri
caent they need in vegetable forms.
Heats they cannot afford. Professor At-
vrater in Century.
About Pronunciation.
The dictionaries are not reason enough
for any one's making himself utterly
singular among his fellows. On the
same principle we in America continue
to say "skedule" instead of making peo
ple open their eyes by saying "schedule.
When we are in England we may say
tong" instead of "tung for "tongue,'
lint, t,h wise American will co with all hit)
countrymen in such a matter when he is
at home. Very few people, either English
or American, ever say "dyuty, "con
stityutiou," and so on, and yet that is
undoubtedly the way we. ought to pro
nounce them if we are going strictly
by the authorities. It is better to be
idiomatic, either in writing or speaking,
than to be just right by the book. Bos
ton Transcript.
Explaining; a Shower of Blood.
. No phenomena of nature have excited
more widespread consternation in -an
cient and even in comparatively modern
times than the so called rains of blood,
stones, fishes and reptiles.
.The peoples of antiquity regarded such
occurrences as dire warnings and por
tends, and at the present day their occa
sional happenings gives rise to much
wonder and actual fear. Nevertheless,
science has been able to -ascertain the
these remarkable
1807, although it was supposed that the causes which produce
last of the Wapiti race in Pennsylvania precipitations, which are. accounted for
uau met ua ueaiu iweuiv iciira uciuic.
Three American' Queens."
Three little dirty, half .clad girls made
a brief sensation on upper Broadway the
coldest day recently. The eldest was
not more than eight, and her companions
might, have been six and seven respec
tively. The eight-year-old carried a
faded, rib rotten parasol that had once
been pale blue, and her two companions
were trying to squeeze their heads un
der it, while they carried the rear of
their short dresses in one hand, as ladies
manipulate their trains at a muddy
crossing. '
The eldest divided her attention be
tween the proper angle for the parasol
and getting her little skirt down low
enough to .touch the sidewalk, . which
she occasionally accomplished by stoop
ing. . Three pairs of feet were visible
through the dilapidated shoes, and the
shabby old July hats wouldn't have
been . picked out of the gutter. And
these three little girls playing lady on'
Broadway were evidently delighted at
the good humored attention of stalwart
gentlemen . in heavy, ulsters,' . ladies ; in
costly furs and carriage drivers muffled
to the ears in warm livery. New York
Herald.
An Extensive Salt Mine.
. The most extensive salt mine in the
world is in Wieliezka,' near Cracow,
Austro-Hungary. For 600 years it has
been constantly worked, and from it
65,000 tons of salt are annually taken.
The mass of salt in it is estimated to be
500 miles long, 20 miles broad and 1,200
feet in depth. ; Its collective galleries
are fully 30-miles in length, and its
lower levels contain streets and houses,
making it a complete underground vil
lage. Yankee Blade.
Several days ago a child was bitten in
the finger by a black spider at Madison,
Ind. A few hours later the little one's
arm began - to swell, and death ensued
on the following day.
Still on Deek.
Phoenix lake has Arisen
From the Ashes!
JAMES WHITE,
The Restauranteur Has Opened the
Baldwin - Restaurant
ON MAIN STREET
Where he will be glad to 6ee any and all
of his old patrons.
JOHN PASHEK,
it
MM
r .
Tali,
Next door to Wasco Sun.
Madison's Latest System used in cutting
. garments, and a fit guaranteed
each time.
i Repairing and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done. '
Too Much for Belief.
Old Dickey S., a very wealthy but very
illiterate East India merchant in Lon
don, took a pair, ef compasses and set
about examining a large map of India,
the margin of which was illustrated with
drawings of the wild and domestic ani
mals of the country. Suddenly Dickey
dropped the compass in amazement. "It
can't bet It ain't in the horder of nature
that it should bel Impossible! Ridicu
lous!" "Why, Dickey, what's the mat
ter?" "Wot's the matter? Vy, this
Bengal tiger is ninety miles long!"
Dickey had measured the tiger by the
scale of the map. New York Advertiser.
London's Yearly Fruit Supply.
In one year the quantity of fruit un-
' loaded at London bridge was no less than
17,716,000 bushels, the value of which
was esedmated at $28,940,000. This
chiefly consisted of .apples, oranges,
' lemons, onions and'- potatoes, the two
latter, though not strictly coming under
the appellation of "fruit, being reck
oned in with the rest. Exchange.
For fourteen years a "Son of the
Marshes" in Scotland has been trying to
.get a sight of a wild animal in the act of
Kuarding its young in time of danger.
He has tramped day after day for the
purpose, but without success.
The sewing machine has opened a wide
field for the employment of more women
by making sewing so cheap that the
... poorest shop girl may have a dozen tucks
in her skirt if she wish them.
Not any of the animals nor any sign of
them had been seen since 184o, when
Seth Nelsorf, of Elk county, shot what
was supposed to be the last one, and its
immense head and antlers for years were
exhibited at Peale's museum, in Phila
delphia, as those of the last Pennsylva-
cia elk. In the fall of 1807 this same
Seth Nelson and Ira Parmenter Were
hunting along the headwaters of Ben
nett's creek, in Play Swamp, from which
water flows on one side to the sources of
the Susquehanna, and from the other to
the Alleghany feeders. They were on
the trail of a deer, when suddenly they
heard the peculiar whistle a bull elk
sounds only at that time of the year, the
whistle being the call for a mate.
two hunters got their hounds ou the
elk's trail and followed it all day, when
a heavy and prolonged rainstorm came
up and the trail was lost.
The hunters roamed the woods for
weeks trying to strike the lost trail, but
did not succeed. The news that there
was still another elk left in the Sinna
mahoning woods spread throughout the
region and clear to 1 i" Indian reserva
tions over the Nw York state line..
Among these was a hunter and trapper
famous on the Cattaraugus reservation,
known to the whites as Jim Jacobs. One.
day iu the latter part of November Ira
Parmenter and Seth Nelson started out
to try again to find the trail of the lone
bull elk of the - Sinnamahoning. Thew-
was a good tracking snow, and on the
south edge of Flag Swamp they discov
ered tracks in the snow that they recog
nized at once as an elk's, and at the
Bauie time they were surprised and by no
means pleased to see the Indian hunter,
Jim Jacobs, appear on the scene. . j
: THE INDIANS PRIZE..-'
Jacob was an old man even then, I
although he lived and hunted for ten
years longer, when he was killed by the
cars at Salamanca, N. Y. He had
hunted elk for fifty years, and knew all
their habits and instincts perfectly.
Parmenter and Nelson objected to the
Indian joining.theni in the chase of tho
elk; and he was forced to leave the trail.
The two white men followed the elk for
four days; and it led them , through the
almost unbroken wilderness of western
Pennsylvania clear down to the head
waters of the Clarion river, in Clarion
county. There a blinding snowstorm
came up, but they kept on, knowing that
the elk would not travel iu the storm.
At last they discovered that the elk had
taken refuge in a laurel thicket, and
they felt that the prize was almost within
their grasp, when a rifle shot rang out
npon the snowy air from the thicket.
They made their way into the thicket,
and in an opening in the center stood
the Indian, Jim Jacobs, one foot on the
dead body of the elk, and his " rifle held
threateningly as he faced the white
hunters creeping through the laurels.
The wily Indian had read the course
of the elk by bis knowledge of the ani
mal's instincts", and bad followed it as
surely as if he had been on its track
in the snow, and had actually reached
the laurel swamp where the animal took
refuge before tbe elk reached there itself.
The two white hunters, although dis
appointed and chagrined over their fail
ure to capture the prize they had follow
ed for a hundred miles, were forced to
acknowledge the wonderful skill and un
erring judgment of the old Indian, and
aided him in carrying his prize home.
The head and antlers of the elk were in
Jacobs' house at Salamanca at the time
of his death, and are probably in that
place yet." New York Sun.
by reasons entirely commonplace.
In 1670 a "rain of blood" fell at The
Hague. The citizens got up in the morn
ing aud found that a shower of crimson
fluid had fallen during the night. There
was great excitement aud the occurrence
was looked upon as foretelling approach
ing war. One level headed physician
got a little of the strange water from
one of the canals aud examined it under
a microscope. He found that the fluid
had not really a red color, but was sim
ply filled with swarms of small crimson
animalcules.
Further investigation showed these
animalcules to be a species of water flea
with branching horns. Presumably they
were brousht from a great distance bv
The ! wind and deposited with the rain. 'How
ever, notwithstanding this explanation,
the Hollanders persisted in regarding
this affair from a superstitions' point of
view, and many declared afterward that
it was an omen giving' warning of the
desolation which vas subsequently
brought into the country with fire and
sword by Louis XIV. Washington Star.
Picture
3T I PAT ! O N. T0 158 '"M" Clty"
Open day and Night. First class meals
twenty-five cents.
YOUR ATTEJ1TI0I1
Is called to the fact that
Hugh Glenn,
Dealer in Glass, Lime, Plaster, Cement
and Building Material of all kinds.
-Carries the Finest Line ef
R. B. HOOD,
Livery, Feed and Sale
ruouiaings
Horses Bought and Sold on
Gornrnission and Money
Advanced on Horses
Left for Sale..
OFFICE OF
The Dalles and Goldendale Stage Line
" Stage Leaves The Dalles Every Morning
at 7:80 and Goldendale at 7:30. All
freight must be left at R. B.
Hood's offioe the eve
ning before.
R. B. HOOD,
Opposite old Stand.
Proprietor.
The Dalles, Or.
A." "cr linlf tho Amerliau jH-njik" vol there is
iy o.io jirri.-.rutio:i of Sursa)ur;;i;i ;!int ar.tg on
t;.c Nov.-cls n;nl icnL'lios this i::;: -irt:iu! trouble,
and that i: Joy's Vegetable ft. i:;;a::ila. It re
lieves it In 21 hours, end r.n oeensional dose
prevents return. A'e refer by tK-rutissiou to C. E.
E!k"n;'tf)ii, 125 Vootist Avenue, San Fruneisco:
J. 1!. l:twii, retalnraa: II. S. Witin. Gearv Court.
S-.iu rrar.cisoo, and hundreds of others who have
usc.1 it i:i constipation. One letter Is a samplo of
hundreds.- ElklnRton, writes: ' "I have been for
yeurs subject to bilious Headaches and constipa
tion. Have been fo bad for a year back have
had to take a phytic every other night or else I
would have a headache. After taking one bottle
of J. V. 8., I am in splendid shape. It has done
wonderful things for me. . People similarly
troubled should try it and be convinced." .
72 tUashington Street.
Joy's
Vegetable
fiSarsapariHa
A NEW
Undertaking EstabKshment!
THE
Dalles, Portland & Astoria
NAVIGATION COMPANY'S
Elegant Steamer
KEGUliRTOR
Will leave the foot of Court Street
every morning at 7 A. M.
' for
Portland and Way Points
Connections Will he Made with the
Fast Steamer
DftliltES GITY,
At the Foot of the Cascade Locks,
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IX-
Most moder-.i, m t KflerU largest bottle.
same price, tl.Cu. .si t (.r I vo.
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON.
The New Club Member.
I read conscientiously Sunday after
noon at the club the weekly rules and
regulations laid down in the newspapers
concerning the details of life, that I
might regulate my behavior thereby;
and I notice that "initials are not con
sidered good form on note paper, not
even moaograms." This did not particu
larly interest me, as I have for years
used a firm, plain and unruled paper
though I do not delight in two sided let
ter writing, and the, only notes I am
punctilious in answering are dinner in
vitations, and the good wishes of Miss
Porphyry sent to me at the beginning of
each world's year and mine own.
But looking up and across ' the' hall I
saw young Spriggles busily engaged in
the consumption of club paper and en
velopes. ' Letters stood in high stacks
upon the table. And I formulated this
maxim: The newness of club member
ship is in direct proportion -to the
amount of daily correspondence. The
clubling parades the club stamp as the
newly married man his wife: And 1
should regret this thrusting of such dan
gerous weapons as pen, ink and paper
into the hands of the wise and the fool
ish, were it not that club paper had oc
casionally its uses; as when Thackeray
wrote that delightful Roundabout in de
fense of Lord Clyde. Boston Post.
REAL MERIT
The creature having the greatest num
ber of distinct eyes is the chiton, a spe
cies of mollusk, in the shell of which has
been found as many,as 11,000 separate
mobile eyes. "
The largest farm in Georgia is owned
toy Colonel J. M. Smith, who- has 16,000
.eres in Oglethorpe and Madison coun
ripn. His annual crofits amount to
f31,000. . '
Making a Market.
Stranger Say, Sambo, ni give yon
five dollars if you'll go through this vil
lage tonight and carry off all the roosters.
Sambo (indignantly) am t no chick
en thief.
"I don't want you to steal them. Just
remove them for a few days. Then you
can bring them back."
"What good'll dat do your"
"I am peddling alarm clocks." Good
News. '
The Klaa In History.'
What a nee ting, intangible, evanes
cent and altogether delicious thing a lass
is!" Ho savant' can analyse it- The
genius that fathoms star spaees cannot
measure it; the science that weighs the
fraction of an atom cannot determine its
specific gravity. .' And yet what an im
portant part it has played in history! as
well as in romance. It has been the re
ward of genius for was not .Voltaire
publicly kissed in the stage box by the
beautiful Duchess de Villars in compli
ance with the demands of an enthusias
tic fit to thus reward the author of
"Merope?" - .
It has been the bribe of politics, for
when Fox was contesting the hard won
seat at Westminster the beautiful Duch
ess of Devonshire offered to kiss all who
would vote for the great statesman. And
the inspiration of patriotism, for did not
the. fair Lady Gordon turn recruiting
sergeant when the ranks of the Scottish
regiments had been depleted by Sala
manca, and tempted the gallant lads by
placing the recruiting shilling between
her lips for all who would to take it with
their own? New York 8un.
Furniture and Carpets.
We have added to our business a
i complete Undertaking Establishment,
and as we are in no way connected witn
the Undertakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly.
Kemember our place on becond street.
next to Moody's bank.
For Passenger or Freight Rates, Apply
to Agent, or Purser on Board.
Office northeast corner of Court and Main street
SOTICB.
R. . 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.
: DEALERS IN:
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.
Staple and Fancy
Groceries,
Hay, Grain and Feed.
A-
Eqnlna Aristocracy.
"That fellow is awfully r stuck up,"
remarked the cob to the polo company,
as he wagged his ears in the direction
of the new tandem horse. "He refused
to recognize me today in the park. He
may be a society leader" now,- but I re
member when his mother used to be
driven by the grocer's son." Harper's
Bazar.
Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
to the genuineness
of these staples than
we do.. In foe, they'
, have a law under
which they make
seizures - end de
stroy '. adulterated
products that are
n"t irhat tbey are represented to be. Under
' tl:!r. statute thousands of pounds of tea hare
Lce-i burred because of their wholesale adul
teration.. ,
Tea, by the Tray, is one of the most notori
al' ly adulterated articles of commerce. Not
aioiie are the bright shiny green teas' artlfl
f;hi::y colored, but thmrsnn of pounds of '
n;bst i Me fur tea leaves are used to nvell
the bul- oC di. ; tcu-i; ash, loe, and willow
kaves b.-'nj those most commonly .used.
Aii:i', itreupisisJ fr tin tea wareurin'XM are
colored aud sold as t-a. Even exhausted tea
leaves gathered from t he toa-houses are kept,
dried, and made over and Cud their way into
the cheap teas. '
The Eus'irh jyovrnraflrtTt at:cn,j)U tn Mamp
thU out by -o:if,E,-ii u; but no tra is too
poor f r u, i.l tie result i, 'list u-i.bably
tl-.e ii.n rfct te'.icd by any untiou are ihuse
suus'imcd lu America. , ' . : -
Eet-fU's Tea fit pnj ented with the guar
anty that It lsu!ifr k.iodand nuadulteiated;
In fact, the uiu-t-ure.l tsa leaf pjhre aud sim
ple. Jis purity in.:ires superior strength,
biii:t one third lv of i l elnT required for
: as Infusion than of the u-li!i If! teas, and Its
fragrance and exqui.::c Savor 1a at once ap
parent. , It will be a revelation to you. In
order that Ha purity and quality may be guar
anteed. It la sold only in pound packages
bearing this trade-mark : . ...
BEECHviTEA
Masonic Block, Corner Third and Court Streets, The Dalles.Oregon
ffeu o. Columbia J-lotel,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
Best Dollar a Day House on the Coast!
First-Class Meals, 25 Cents.
First Class Hotel in Every Respect. .
None but the Best of White Help Employed.
T. T. fiieholas, piop.
ington flOf til D$ll6S, Washington
SITUATED AT THE HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Destined to be the Best
Manufacturing Center In
the Inland Empire.
Best Selling Property of
the Season in the North
west. . '.' ..
if iUH
TareAshTdhood:
Price 60c per pound. For sale at
Iieslie XSTX-tXex-'js,
THE DALLES, OKEGOS.
- For Further Information Call at the Office of.
Interstate Investment Go. ,
1 0. D. TAYLORATHE DALLES.
72 WASHINGTON SI, PGRTUKO.