THE ' SONG"" OF THE"'FARM."
The popples that peep from the wheat at morn,
'- With pearls of the night dew glittering still.
The shadows that race o'er the waving corn
And the shy little runnel down under the hill.
The hoary old orchard whose trees are bent;
And the clover fields where the honeybees
swarm, -
-Cry, "Come to the cradle of calm content!
Come see Mother Nature at home on a farml
Here are billows of meadow whoso waves are
so sweet
They perfume the air; here are mountains of
hay;
Here are little winds lost upon oceans of wheat.
And butterflies shipwrecked In hollyhock
spray;
Here is peace in the air and a smile in the sky.
And never a fear of deception or harm.
From the cares and the woes of a city JVe fly
. To old Mother Nature, who lives on a farml"
. And so the old song from the cherry tree tops
And arbors where Bacchus might gather a
treat,
From old fashioned sparrows that live in a
copse
' And not in the dirt of an ill smelling street,
From the bees and the klne and the sentinel cry
- Of the cock, whose shrill clarion bodes no
alarm, ,
Rings out to the city folk ever and aye:
"Come back to Dame Nature; she lives On a
farm!" . -New York World.
' Truth au1 Fiction.
Touchstone says that "the truest poet
ry ia the most feigning." Without go
ing that length, we may affirm that the
construction of correct .versification
gives a man so much to think of that he
cannot attend very strictly to the trntb
of what he suys. Blank verse of .the or
dinary sort does not come under this
rule; it leaves the mind very free. .And
hymns-Dr. Watts ruthlessly sacrifices
the sound to the sense; some lesser lights
sacrifice the sound without benefiting
the sense. But no one can read some
parts of Pope carefully those lines in
which, in a word or two, he sums up the
character or achievements of the nota
bilities of his day without suspecting
that uu apt rhyme occasionally beguiles
the poet into a more forcible expression
of admiration or contempt than he would
have given in prose.
The teller or writer of .the story has
the impul.se njion him .so strongly to
make it a good Rtory that it is next to
impossible for him to avoid modifying
its more counuouplace features. And he
adds a little here and h'o prunes a little
there. Point before precision is, it may
be feared, soiuetimes even the historian's
motto. 'There are veracious narratives
we feel bound to accept on the word of
onr friends. We should not have be
lieved the stories had any one else told
them; as it is, we store them in our
memories as splendid illustrations of the
often quoted saying of the poet that
truth is stranger than fiction. All the
Year Round.
" liass Eats Bass.
Colonel Richard Bright had a remark-
able experience at Woodmont, on the
Potomac, while fishing for black bass.
He was casting with minnows of mod
crate size and was slowly reeling in a
small bass, when a hungry three pounder
bhot out from his concealment and bolted
the booked fish bodily. The colonel be
came aware of the augmented strain on
the reel and, by careful management,
landed his double prize. The small bass
went into the maw of his big cannibal
brother smoothly enough, but his sharp
spines stuck in the throat of his captor
and made escape impossible. The two
bass were presented to the National mu-
enm, where they are preserved just as
tney came from tbe .Potomac, the tail of
the small one projecting from the mouth
of the larger. The weight of the two is
34 pounds. "Necessity knows no law,"
and hunger recognizes no relationship.
Forest and Stream.
Charm to Ward On Disease.
For what will charms not be worn? I
know American mothers who buy seeds
-"Job's tears" at drug stores to string
them into a necklace to hang about the
baby's neck to ward off eye troubles.
The Bechuana mother strings beetles of
a certain species and hangs them about
the neck of her baby to help it in teeth
ing. Professor Putnam found metacarpal
bones of birds buried with babies in the
little graves which he discovered under
the hard clay floor of old house circles
in Arkansas and Missouri. From anal
, ogy with modern Indian "customs, he
believes these were charms to help the
child in cutting its teetlu Professor
Frederick Starr in Popular Science
Monthly.
Stopped to Get the Rod.
Joe Jefferson is a devoted disciple of
Isaak Walton. He always has an eye
open for fishing tackle and wants to buy
every new variety of pole he sees. A few
weeks ago he was. on his way to a funeral
with lr..j sons, when he happened to spy
a particularly attractive fishing rod in a
store window. "Boys," said he, in his
best funeral voice, "I think I'll have time
to buy that rod let's go in. It may not
be there when we come back." San
Francisco Argonaut.
A Man Who Eats Glass.
According to the Charleston World,
.the driver of a car on one of the street
railways of that city is a confirmed glass
eater. The driver, although a small,
pare man, appears to enjoy perfect
, health, and his glass diet, while it may
' sot be very nourishing, does not appear
to have been very hurtful up to the
. resent. ' '
, Fasting Fish. .
It is said that a number of the larger
fish never eat anything when traveling
p rivers to deposit spawn, at least noth
ing is found in them when caught. As
the period of the year is about the time
yot Lent, they probably have respect for
the occasion. Meehan's Monthly. -
"One hundred people per day are
maimed in the United States," is the
'astonishing statement from the lips of A.
. A. Harks, one of New York's largest and
most successful artificial limb dealers.
At a hotel, where the bed coverings
are insufficient, or when camping, news
papers spread between the blankets will
nearly atone for the lack of an extra
isoinforter.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN;
f 3 i T r fi ?. ." '
"BUSINESS" IS NOT BY ANY". MEANS
Z THE. CHIEF -AIM IN LIFE.: -
The Voutli Is" Carter Tie Obligation to
Imitate Others or to Do as Others Do.
Kespect the Sanctity of the Soul and
Reware of SuperAuous Friends. '
""; Here are" Some Extracts of. William
Winter's address before the Staten Island
academy : :"-
What will you do with your lives?
We, who are older, who have lived longer-and
traveled further, are usually
ready enough with our counsel; but it ia
yonr ideal that must lead you now, and
not the ndvice of others. Honor and
truth we take for granted. "I would be
virtuous," said an old philosopher,
"'though no one were to know it, just as
1 would be clean, though no one were to
see me." . : . . . ';
The book of commonplace precept
need not be opened here. Yet there is
one word of counsel which now more
than ever -in this Pagan age of denial
and democracy ought to be spoken to
the -youth of America. Be yourselves,
and never abandon your noble aspira
tions! ..
You cannot live in absolute independ
ence of the" world. You must have
affiliations with other persons. Bntit is
not imperative that those affiliations
should be numerous, and you have it !
within yonr power to make them select
'You are under no obligation to imitate;
others or to do as others do. j
You ought never to. permit your
minds to be inundated with the ignorance,-
the crudity and the vapid chatter
of commonplace persons. Do not too
much reverence th6 past. Old burdens
that have rolled from the shoulders of
weary and dying men and women should
not be taken up again by yon.
It is your life that yon must live; it is
not theirs; and now that they rest from
their labors, let their works follow them.
Neither must you suppose yourselves en
joined to assume the burdens that other
persons have created in the present day.
AVOID TOO MANY FRIENDS.
Let those attend to grievances who
have them, and do not allow yonr spirits
to be dejected, your hopes darkened and
your live3 encumbered with the vices,
the errors, the follies 'and the weakness
of failnres and of fools. It is, no doubt,
pitiable and deplorable that failures and
fools should exist and suffer; but they
must not be permitted," merely because'
they exist and suffer, to drag you also
into failure and folly. Respect the sanc
tity of your souls, and beware of super
fluous contact wun other lives. .
- For it is only the temporary and the
expedient that is gregarious. In every
great moment of life in every time of
insight or inspiration or crisis the hu
man being is alone. The object of edu
cation, therefore, should be the develop
ment and building of an original, noble,
adequate character not simply a prep
aration for industrial pursuits, but an
armament for everlasting life.
The occupations of this world, how
ever important, are transitory. The soul
of man is immortal. Other views, I am
aware, are commonly entertained. Peo-'
pie who claim to be practical but are
only narrow are never weary of declar
ing that education must be sensible and
not visionary. An effort to worry the
public mind on this subject is a part of
the errant activity of the complacent
man of business, all the world over, and
has been so, at periodic intervals, for
many years.
I remember its pernicious existence
long ago the jealous sneer at what was
called "book learning," a3 opposed lo
what was called practical knowledge of
affairs; meaning thereby cotton, iron,
coal, the Stock exchange and the Re
vised Statutes. -
SOME SNEER AT EDUCATION.
Not long since in 1S90, in the news
papers of New York thai epidemic of
mean commonplace burst forth with un
common virulence, and various individ
uals, in every case possessed of more
wealth than sense, apprised us 'that
scholastic training is superfluous, be
cause it aims to furnish an equipment
wholly in excess of what is requisite for
business.
My dear old friend, William Warren,
the comedian, used to tell, in his inimit
able way, a story about a pompous
tradesman of the conventi6nal - kind,
who once was addressing the pupils at a
Sunday school. "I knew a little boy,
he said, "who always obeyed bis mother,
always washed his face in the morning,
always came early to Sunday school,
never stole an apple. And where do
you think that good boy is now?" To
this inquiry a small voice piped out an
answer, "In heaven, sir." "No, sir,"
cried the disgusted orator, "not in
heaven! He's in a store!"
That is the mental drift of those ene
mies of the higher education. To their
minds the chief end of man is to get him
self employed in a stoe. They are what
Joseph Jefferson calls "the selfish made
men of our time." Certainly the fact is
significant that the sensitive feeling is
all on one side.
Educated men are . not worried. - If
education has not. always given them
wealth; it has given them blessings that
no prodigality of wealth can buy, and
by this token they know that the prov
ince of education is not to train young
people for business, but to embark tham
upon life of which business is only an
incident. . The best wisdom of the wis
est of mankind has always taught that
lesson...
Make your business tributary to your
mind, and not your mind subservient to
your business. New York Tribune.
Plurals or Several Words."
Knight errant is uot written as one
word, and need uot be even connected
with a hyphen indeed, is not. so gener
ally. Therefore the plural, of conrse, is
knights errant. Lookers on is not one
word. Once that usage has soldered
two words, the resultant word will form
its plural with a final s. The plural of
bootjack ia not bootsjack.--Note and
Queries.
ONE . OP -A'aVANlSHtNa RACE.?"'
He Hants Over Wide Areas and Is at
Home Wherever There Xs Wilderness, '
The professional hunters and trappers
who at one time comprised the whole of
the white inhabitant class in. this sec
tion are becoming so few that a real old
time solitary woodsman who plunges
into the forest and divests himself of
human companionship is becoming a
rare sight. Joe Thomas is one of the
best examples that remain of these men,
and a study of his characteristics is in
teresting. ' .-
Thomas is a man of about forty. . He
is slightly below medium height and is
not heavily built. He appears like a fall
blooded negro, although he says that his
mother was a half breed Indian.- He has
sparse, tightly curled whiskers and does
not look like a Nimrod and a mighty
man among coons and deer. - Thomas
follows as near the life of the red man
as any ono can in these days, and has an
antipathy to human society, though he
is nothing of a misanthrope, and talks
well to any one who questions him.
. In the summer time Thomas works at
whatever he can get to do about the
cities in this vicinity and through to
Ohio. When the squirrel season opens
he is in Ohio, and puts in the first few
weeks of the autumn shooting squirrel.
As the deer season opens, he emigrates
northward, and for the rest of the win
ter lives the life of the solitary banter,
shunning human habitations and Bleep
ing in the woods in the most inclement
weather. His domestic outfit consists of
a tent, blankets and a small stove, and
he declares that he is more contented in
the woods than he would be in town.
When the night is cold he lights his fire,
chains his dog up in the tent and sleeps.
While the deer run,. Hopkins follows
them tirelessly, and when night over
takes him on the trail he lies down in
the woods to sleep; confident that the
deer is as tired as he and will not move
during the night" nnless disturbed, and
in the morning will be so stiff that the
second day's chase will be
tively easy matter.
. a compara-
After the deer season is over Thomas
starts for the open, and traps skunks and
otter and all other fur bearing animals
for the rest of the winter. ' At all times
he is ready in case old Zip Coon comes
racking around, and his dog he alleges
to be one of the best coon dogs in the
country. The animal is a liver and
white hound, slightly larger than a fox
hound, and with no more fat on him
than is required to grease his joints.
Thomas said that the dog got him more
than fifty dollars' worth of coonskins in
one season, and he would, not part with
liim for three times that amount. 'Joe
tells a story to illustrate, the sagacity of
the dog.
He says that one winter the dog treed
a coon in a big tree; Joe always carries
climbing irons, and he skinned np the
tree.- He followed the coon oat on a
branch and shook him off, and he heard
him squeal as - the dog nabbed him.
When Joe got to the bottom of the tree
there was no coon in sight and no dog.
He beard the dog running and called to
him; the dog came out of the bushes a
moment and then- ran back.: Joe fol
lowed and found that the dog was run
ning around a skunk) keeping it from
going into its hole. Mr. Dog did not
want to interview the skunk closely, bat
the skunk was not sure of that, and he
kept his eye on the dog, circling around,
and the dog was gradually getting him
away from his hole. Joe killed the
skunk, but he could find no trace of tbe
coon, and concluded that the dog had
lost it. :-"'.'
The next morning he reproved the dog,
sayingj "You didn't do right about that
coon last night; you lost him. Now you
go get him." The dog looked kind of
ashamed and moved off. Joe followed
him, and they went back to the place
where the trouble occurred on the pre
vious night. After nosing around a
while the dog unburied the coon from
where he bad buried' it,' having been
afraid to leave it while he went after the
skunk, so he buried it, leaving the tail
sticking out of the snow so he conld find
it again.
Some one asked Thomas if ho was not
afraid that the bears would eat him some
night. He said that the only thing that
made him mad -was that the bears kept
away from him and didn't give him a
chance. Joe says that the houses are
getting altogether too thick, and when
he meets up with a house he wants to
get as far away from it as he can and as
quick as he can. Oil City Derrick.
Cheaper in the End. .
Boutton So yoa are not going
to
housekeeping when you get married?
De Boarder No. . We shall take board
for a year. y
"Isn't that rather an extravagant way
to begin?" .
"Not at all. I desire my wife to study
economy of my landlady. Then we will
start housekeeping, and I will make her
an allowance of as much a week as we
paid for board."
"What , do you think will be the re
sult?" - .
"Well, by the time we are old she
onght to have about a million." New
York Weekly.
Tree Toads In Demand. -
Tree toads are in big demand by young
doctors and chemists,-who are anxious
to learn something of the circulation of
the blood. The tree- toad has legs that
are almost transparent. The young doc
tor takes the leg, spreads it out-under a
microscope and can see the blood cor
puscles, chasing each other here, and
there in the veins of the leg of the toad.
We sell hundreds of tree toads .for this
purpose every month. Interview in
New York. World.
Not to Be Taken laterally..
"Ia it your opinion," said the theolog
ical professor, "that the portion of the
parable which represents the prodigal
son as feeding among swine is to be
taken literally?"
"Perhaps not," the thoughtful young
man replied; "maybe it is a reference to
the meals he ate at a railway lunch
counter." W;iehington Star.
- In the case of the trial forwnrder
which is going on at Naples the deceased
some time before his death fought a duel
with a man who is now one of the pris
oners, t At the hearing the other day one
of the witnesses, a government official,
said that on the day of the duel he went
with others to meet ' the carriages com
ing . back, ' for "at Palermo every one
knows everything, and the carriages re
turned as if from a festival, and the peo
ple waited to see them." " ;
-. The public minister asked the witness
how the news of the dnel being about to
take - place was known to the public.
Witness: "First by the Mafia in fixing
on the place and hoar... I have never-
seen such a duel; people went as if to a
feast,and every one knew of it. " Per
haps the circumstance that an officer
was fighting bad some influence, and
that therefore the authorities did not
prevent it." London News.
He Couldn't Be Frightened.
A small boy on Sixth street hates the
washing process worse than snakes. His
mother was scrubbing him and he was
kicking. . .. ;-'.
"Why don't you be a good boy," she
begged. "Don't you know that youll
go to the bad place if you are not?"
"There ain't any water there, is there?"
he asked. ....
"Not a drop," she answered solemnly.
"Then I guess I'll keep on being bad.",
And he kept on. Detroit Free Press.
Fully 85 per cent, of artificial limbs
made are' legs, 15 per cent. arms. Of
legs, 49 per cent, are right, 46 per cent,
left, 5 per cent, both right and left.
Seventy-eight per cent, of legs amputat
ed are of males, 23 per cent, are females.-
pimples.
The old Idea of 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a "Wood humor," for
which they gave potash. Thus aU the old Sarsa
parilias contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of decreasing,
actually creates more eruptions. You have no
ticed this when taking other SarsapariUas than
Joy's. It is however now known that the stom
ach, the blood creating power, is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion or constipation, vitiates
the blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
heaUhlul digestion purifies it ana they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsapari'.la is compounded
after Iho modern idea to regulate the bowels and
stimulate tho digestion. The cHcct is immediate
and most satisfactory. A short testimonial to
contrast the action of tho potash Parsajiarillas
and Joy's moslcrn vegetable preparation. Mrs.
C. I). 6tnart, cf 400 lluvcs St., S. K., writes: "I
have for years l:a;l i;nJ;:;c-t':on, 1 tried a popular
Sareapariila but it actually res -eJ more pimples
to break out on my face. I!cu: i:i3 that Joy's was
a later preparation asttl acted 'liiTvrcntly, I tried
tt and the pimples immediately disappeared."
J SarsapaHlla
Largest bottle, most cflucHvc. same price.
For Sale by SNIPES KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON..
By nsinjt S. B. Headache and Liver Cure', and S.
B. Cough Cure us directed for colds.- They were
SXTOCSSSFTJIjXjV :
used two years ago during the La Grippe epi
demic, and very nattering testimonials of their
power over that disease are at hand. Manufact
ured by the 8. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur,
vrcguji. r or sale oy au aruggists.
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 adulteration.-
. - ,-
- Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori- -ously
adulterated articles of commerce, Not
alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifi
cialljt colored but thousands of pounds of
substitute 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. - x
Beech's Tea Is presented with the guar
anty that It is uncolored and unadulterated;
-In fact, the sun-cureu tea leaf pare and sim
ple. Its purity insures superior strength,
bout one third less of It being required for
an infusion than of tbe a-Uncial teas, and Its
fragrance and exqtiinire flavor 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
bearing this trade-mark: '. j
LH GRIPPE
t:K
sum
'PureAsWdhoodr.
Price 60o per pound. For sale at
Xjesllo Sutler's,
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