tY SAILOR LOVfeR.
I watch and wait. ' .
My ship is lata
That brings my sailor lover. '
. I watch the sails as they go by
I . Bat dimly outlined 'gainst the sky, . -Bnt
none brings back my lover.
. " To me alone
The waves low moan
Tells of my sailor lover.
Tears have I watched, bnt all in vain; '
Oh. shall I see on earth again
My long lost sailor loverf
With weary beat
The waves repeat, . ,
. "Gone is thy sailor lover.
J They tell to me in monotone,
.. . Of sorrows that are rarely known
. Tell of my lone lost lover.
I . Ere life's sad day
Shall pass away
, Bring back, O sea, my lover.
(. OVr mountain, hill and winding stream
y I see the Ban's last, fading beam - .
l ens snail my soul pass over
i..
The Stygian "river,
: Gone, irone forever
To meet my long lost lover;
Bnt still (, watch, but watch in vain,
.While at my heart grows keen the pain.
For my departed lover. , . .
Byron D. Burdick in Yankee Blade.
I ' Pleasant Games for Evenings.
A pleasant game for an evening at
home, among . a few reading' people and
their neighbors, is called ' Quotations.
A card with some appropriate lines' may
announce ' tbe evening to your friends,
and for an hour the hostess or some one
else assigned tbe duty may read quota
tions, the guests giving the author r
Well known lines should be written on
alips of paper and put in a pretty ribbon
basket. The guests are seated in a circle,
and after the first quotation one is given
a minute to name . the author. If he
fails, the reader gives the right name
and No. 2 reads the next quotation and
passes to his nest neighbor.
To give variety an author's name may
t given, and a point is made by the first
on.e who responds with a quotation from
that writer: or a subject may be given
and appropriate quotations called for.
The one making the greatest number of
points wins the game. Another game
that calls for- quick thought is called
"Observation." On the card given to
each person is a list of ten articles that
he is given ten seconds each to see. An
evening devoted to curios, after the
fashion of some of the clubs, is also both
delightful and .profitable. Each guest
brings a curio and tells the history of it
In the same manner a geographical
club sometimes varies its evenings by
having each member bring a picture of
some spot where he has traveled and
give a little talk about it. New York
Post. ,
.;' ; ' ' :
Iglitiiig a Fashionable Dressmaker.
Iu reference to obstinacy in .dress
makers for carrying out ideas I had an
amusing experience. My sister's stay in
Paris was too short for my dressmaker
to undertake all she wanted made. For
the best things we went to a big dress
maker, whose importance lies in great
pretensions. Among the things ordered
there was oue for which I wanted my
own way-. The woman exclaimed: "But
that is not practical. You women have
ideas, but they can't be carried 001."
Well, if it cannot be carried out I will
-be responsible for spoilt cloth if there be
any." I knew she opposed it because
the idea was not her own, and that it did
not go to swell the bill with yards of
lace, feathers, f nrs, passementerie, etc.'
She consented at last; the dress was a
great success. A few weeks after I had
occasion to call on the dressmaker, and
what was my surprise to find several
dresses in the showroom with my idea
ery practically carried out, and what
was my greater surprise, when the wom
an came in, to find she was wearing my
idea practically demonstrated on, her
own back. Brooklyn Eagle.
What "Uncle Isaac" Was Doing.
Tommy was sent off on an errand one
morning to a farm lying just on the edge
of the town, the owner of which was fa
miliarly known as "Uncle Isaac." The
hour was rather early, and when he ar
rived such members of the large family
as could be spared without seriously in
terfering with the running of the domes
tic machinery were gathered for family
worship.
Keturniug home, his mother ques
tioned him about his errand, and with
the curiosity about one's neighbors which
takes deep root in village soil, she asked
him what was going on at the farm. He
told her of the occupations of one and
another, and added, "and Uncle Isaac,
he was in the settin room a prayerin on't
just as tight as he could prayer." New
York Tribune.
Evolationof the Saddle..
Tha evolution- from cloth coverings to
the saddle were as gradual as they were
natural, finally "bringing us to the saddle
of today, consisting of the wooden frame
known as the saddletree, the skirts -or
padded underflaps, the Beat (generally
made of tanned pigskin), the rirth or
belly band, the stirrnp straps, the stir
rups and the crupper loop. This com
bination is the saddle proper, no matter
how varied its shape, how near its ap
proach to elegance on the one hand or
to awkwardness on the other. Detroit
Free Press.
England exports large quantities of sad
dlery, tbe most of which is made at Wal
sall, in Staffordshire, or in the imme
diate neighborhood. The value of the
export, including harness, exceeds $2.
000,000 annually. .
f "
Every portion of soaps tone lost in cut
ting is utilized in other ways. It gives
the dull color to rubber goods, is used
in paper to gain weight, and is also an
excellent article to use in making fire
proof paints.
"Yoti can never put too much water
la milk if you always put it -through the
cow's mouth." This is one of many
analogous aphorisms by Prof essor Rob
ertson, the Canadian dairy commissioner.
The druggist is no longer a manufac
turer of his compounds, and has ban
ished mortar and pestle to be a dispenser
f the products of laboratories where
' whirling machinery Ates the work. '
YARNS ABOUT THIBET.
STORIES ABOUT LIFE IN AN AL
MOST UNKNOWN. COUNTRY.
A Section f 9IilIIe Asia That Has At
tracted Many'Able Chinese Story Tell
' era Some Remarkable Accounts . of
Strange Doings iu Clilnese Writing. '
A curions collection of facts respectr
ing Thibet, as represented by vari
ous Chinese authors and travelers, has
been made by Mr. Woodville Rockhill.
who has himself explored that mysteri
ous country of middle Asia. '
On New Year's day at the capital city,
Lb'asa," there begins a senson of festivity.
One of the entertainments is called the
"Spectacle of the Plying Spirits.1' C.Tht;
performers stretch an enormously large
rope made of bide all the way from tbe
top to the bottom of .Mount Potala; then
they fasten grooved blocks of wood to
their chests and sail down the line like
so many swallows. On top of this-same
"mountain dwells the pope of the. Budd
hist religion, who is called the tale lama.
Ho is also the incarnation of the god
which chiefly protects mankind.' y -
On the GOth of the month there is an
other great sport when the king of tbe
devils is driven away.'. A priest is chosen
to play the part of the tale lama, and a
layman, selected for his wit and activity,
takes the role of the demon. - The latter
smears his face with black and white
paint, and goes before the pretended tale
latna for the purpose of mocking him.
The two have an argument on religion,
the issue of which is finally referred by
mutual agreement to a cast of dice.
These dice are very big ones, about i
the size of apples, but the poor fiend has
no show at all in the gamble, for his die
is blank on every side, while the lama's I
has the highest number on each of its i
faces. In Thibet, as in Christian conn- !
tries, it is always laudable to defraud j
the devil. '-.-'' I
"Being beaten, the king of the devils is
frightened and runs away, with all the
people after him, firing guns and cannon.
so that he-is obliged to hide at length in
a hole in the mountain, where provisions
have' previously been placed to feed him
for a few days while he remains in con
cealment. -There are nearly as many
demons in Thibet as there are human
inhabitants, and the priests or "lamas"
are kept very busy exorcising them, be
cause otherwise they would swarm every
where and do no end of mischief.
POWER OF THE PRIESTS.
If. any one is sick or annoyed in any
way the devils are responsible, and 'the
only sensible thing is to go and hire a
priest to frighten them off. For this
purpose the lama reads aloud from the
sacred writings, blows a horn made
from a human thigh bone, beats a drum
manufactured out of two human skulls,
rings a bell and tells over a rosarv of
disk shaped beads cut out of human j
SKU11S. -
The lamas also do a large business in
fortune telling. Sometimes they ascer
tain the fates with barleycorns; at
others they burn sheep bones for the
same purpose or gaze into bowls of
water. 1
According to one author there is. a,
very astonishing curiosity in Thibet in
the shape of a plant that flies. It re
sembles a dog in shape, is the color of a
tortoise shell and is very tame. If lions
or elephants see it they are frightened,
ynence it is the tang of beasts." There
is a kind of black donkey -which can
cope in fight with the tiger. On the icy
peaks of the Himalayas, says this imagi
native writer, there is a "snow maggot
resembling the silkworm in appearance
and weighing nearly a pound. It is ex
cellent to eat, but too much of it will
make one bleed at the nose.
Seventy li from Lh'asa is a convent on
top of a bill, and a great hole full ol
white cluy that is good to eat. As fast
as the clay is eaten more takes its place.
tsermia the convent is a largo lake, and
evildoers who go near always tnmble
into it. The ThiDetaus used to cast
Baddhas in copper, and the smaller they
were the more they were worth.
POLITENESS IX THIBET.
Chinese philosophers say that manners
differ every hundred li of distance, and
customs are no longer the same everv '
thousand li. Thus the ways of the
Thibetans vary, but in most parts it is
usual for a woman going to see a priest
to smear her face with molasses. If
this is not done it is said that she is try
ing to captivate the lama by her comeli
ness an unpardonable crime., A sign
of politeness on meeting a person is to
hold up the clasped hands and stick out
the tongue. When a man dies one-half
of Ids property goes to charity and the
other half to the lamas. His -family
gets nothing.- - - , ,
One of the writers quoted observes
that in case of death the corpse is tied
up with - the head between the knees,
and buspended- in a rawhide -bag from
the rafters. A few days later it is taken
to the corpse cutter's place, where it is
tied to a post. . The flesh is then cut off
and given to dogs and the bones crushed
in a stone mortar and made up with
grain into balls, which are also thrown
to dogs and vultures. Both these meth
ods of burial are considered highly de
sirable. .
: For small misdemeanors men anil
women are stripped and beaten in the
market place. Great criminals ant
bound with ropes and whipped with raw
hide lashes. If this does not persuade
them to avow their guilt boiling battel
is poured on their chests. Supposing
that they still protest their innocence,
they are suffocated with water or splint
ers are driven under, their nails. Wash
ington Star. , .' ,
Machinery Has AflTecte! the Shoemukar
A man called a shoemaker thirty years
ago made shoes; today, except . in rare
cases, he makes only a part of a shoe as
he labors in some factory guiding oue or
the other of the numerous labor saving
machines, . and is known as a beater,
binder, eyeleter,. heeler, laster, pegger,
stitcher, trimmer, filler, cutter or dresser, j
What is true of the shoemaking trade is !
true of other trades. St. Louis Repub- !
lie. ,.
'. Mnse. Bartholul. ;
'.', The late Mme. Bartholdi was no ordi
nary person, and oh her ninetieth birth
day she looked so full of life and beamed
so with mental vigor and heartiness that
I wonder she did not live to a hundred.
She -was left a widow early, and devoted
herself to the education of her sons and
the stewardship of their paternal prop
erties, which under her management
were increased to fortunes. Though so
well endowed with the money making
faculty, she was a person of a generous
disposition and given to hospitality. -'
In youth she was reputed the hand
somest girl in Alsace; , As an old woman'
she was more than handsome..' The pure
outlines remained, and the fire of the
Kindest, quicKest and most lambent pair
of eyes imaginable was never quenched
so long as life remained The son must
have had her in his head, as he remem
bered her in her younger days, when he
was sketching the design of" the statue
of "Liberty Enlightening the World.'
It was her idea that Liberty should not
be en pate de guimauve, but. of a grave
and severe aspect. Liberty was the best
of all conditions, she used to say, for
those who were severe upon themselves,
and the worst for the self indulgent.
One never saw a trace of self righteous
harshness in the old lady. . She was very
indulgent toward the erring; but that
grace, she safd, came with the wide ex
perience of old age. It was a source of
enjoyment to her to drive to the Isle of
Swans, in the Seine, and look at the re
duced copy which was set up there a f few
years ago of the famous statue which
now stands at the entrance of New York
harbor. One of her sayings was, "Do
not repress badness; crowd it out with
good ideas."-London Truth.
A Paris Candle Story.
"Every traveler who stops at a Paris
lodging house," laughed a woman the
other day, "has a candle story, and here
is mine: We were served with two
candles every morning, which we never
half used up; these would be taken out,
however, and fresh ones appear in their
places. Knowing that we were being
charged for every candle we determined
at least to enjoy added illumination, and
my husband looked around for a place to
hide them during the daily doing up of
the apartment. On the top shelf of a
cabinet arrangement in a corner stood a
large Japanese vase, wide and deep. Up
to this Mr. - climbed, to discover that
we had been forestalled, for in its capa
cious hollow, we found seventeen can
dles, every" one burned down perhaps an
inch. ;
"Some former lodger had resented
the candle swindle like ourselves, and
had put his daily allowance where it
would do the proprietor no good. That
night a brilliant illumination of nineteen
candles, each set in its own grease on
the marble top table, gave us something
like light. ' During our 6tay we hid and
accumulated candles, so that we had
always enough to read by, and when we
left we deposited our overstock in the
vase for -. the benefit of some searching
successor." New York Times.
The Religious of China.
The three great religions of China are
Confucianism, Buddhism and Taouism.
The bulk of the people are Buddhists
rather than Confucianists, and there are
millions of infidels. The tomb of Con
fucius is at Mecca, for many of the Chi
nese, and they make pilgrimages to it.
Confucianism is more a philosophy than
a religion. It contains many of the beau
ties which we suppose to be exclusively
the properties of Christianity. . The
golden rule in a negative form was an
nunciated by Confucius, and as a system
of morality it is beautiful. The Taouists
have more superstitions than the Con
fucianists. They began about the same
time as Confucius, their preacher being
one Laou-Tsze. " -
The state religion, in connection with
which all these religions come in, is the
worship of .the emperor, who is the son
of heaven and the prophet, priest and
king of the people. He worships for
them in the temples at Pekin. When
the great Temple of Heaven was burned
down a shudder ran down the 300,000,000
spines' of the great Chinese nation. It was
thought that this' was a warning from
heaven that the emperor should be de
posed. Frank G. Carpenter in National
Tribune.
Begging Letters from Ixndon.
- "Ever since I was abroad," said a well
known New Yorker, "I have been pes
tered with all sorts of begging letters.
They are mostly from the managers of
English charitable institutions of vari
ous descriptions, though some are from
private individuals. The former inclose
a variety of printed matter illustrating
the purposes and work of the institution.
The latter are abject -appeals of appar
ently professional begging letter writers,
with which - London abounds. I was
talking with a friend abbut it and he.
said he had the same experience for
about two years after he had built a fine
house here, a description of which and
his wealth got into the local papers. He
was deluged with begging letters from
almost every capital in Europe and es
pecially from London.
"Those people are the worst and most
persistent beggars in .the world. Fancy
an American mailing begging letters to
Londoners! I suppose there must be
money in it or they wouldn't do it."
New York Herald. -
.".'".-:'.'' "Bravo." .
- The 'intelligent foreigner is -highly
amused at - the indiscriminate way in
which English audiences use this word,
regardless of . the number and sex of the
performers whom they wish to applaud.
A tenor is, of course, bravo; but a
prima donna is br&va. . More than one
male artist can- only be bravi, and if
there are more ladies than one on the
stage, and no man is to be included in
the applause, they should be hailed as
brave at least according to Italian
grammar. Notes and Queries.
The art of longevity, all the - world
over, is a regular life, temperate in all
things, with abundance of pure air and
water, and freedom from anxiety, care
and worry. . ',
They trash One'e V Tear.' "
- The facility- with -which washing U
done by the use of borax: accounts for
its popularity in the low countries and
In' Germany, where to many . families
washday comes but once a year. The
notion' of cleanliness ' which -' prevails
among the better class of Germans for-bids-the
storing or accumulation of soiled
linen in the dwelling house, hence the
necessity of the "schwartzwaschkom
mer,", built near by, where the soiled or
unwashed clothes are hung up, exposed
to the air, on poles or lines. We cannot
but commend them for this custom, and
it would be well for,, those housekeepers
to take a hint who store soiled garments
in the closet of sleeping rooms and un
der the beds..' , -. ".;'- '
The humblest German hausfrau does
not feel her poverty if she has an abun
dance of linen, and this she will have if
possible, to the exclusion of other things
which we might regard almost as need
ful. She is rich indeed if at the end of
six months or a year she can display
long lines' hung with immaculate linen.
We can thus understand . how even at
this day a chest of nen is regarded
among the peasantry as a part of their
dower or marriage portion of the bride.
For these washings a week is usually'
taken and the event is regarded as no
ordinary oner It is something of a jubi
lee in which the entire family takes
part. An American lady traveling in
Germany witnessed one of these "frol
ics, 'I. where four or five women were
washing from one capacious tub. When
asked why they did not adopt the easier
plan of washing weekly, one of them re
plied that "they feared the people might
think they had but two garments
apiece." Pittsburg Dispatch.
pimples.
The old idea of 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a " blood humor," for
which they gave potash. Thus all the old Sarsa
parillas contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of decreasing,
actually creates more eruptions. You have no-
ticed this when taking other Sarsaporillas than
Joy's. It is however now known that the stom
ach, tho blood creating power, is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion or constipation, vitiates
tho blood, result pimples., A clean stomach and
healthful digestion purifies it ami they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable SarsapariUn is compounded
alter tho modern idea to regulate tho bowels and
stimulate tho digestion. The eCect is immediate
and most satisfactory. A snort testimonial to
contrast tho action of the potash SarEaparillas
and Joy'B moilcm veg taL-!6 preparation. Mrs.
CS D. Stuart, cf t Hart St., S. P., writes: "I
hive for years l;cJ i-.H;::;c-:'iti, I tried a popular
SarsanarilJa but it cf:u.".'.;..-1 r.n-ei more pimples
to break out on my ftu-e. lUu.-iii tbat Joy's was
a'.Tater preparati'vn an.l aetc.I 'IlSerontly, I tried
It and the pimplci immediately iit!i;peared." .
Joy's
Vegetable
Sarsaparilla
Largest bottle, most clK-cUvc. same price.
For Sale by SNIPES A KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OBEGON.
173! GRIPPE
:. cured ;
By using S. B. Headache and Liver Cure, and S.
B. Cough Cure as directed for colds. They were
STJCOBSSI'TJIjIjV
used two years ago during tbe La Grippe epi
demic, and very llattering testimonials of their
power over that disease are at hand. . Manufact
ured by the B. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur,
Oregon. For sale by all druggists. .
A Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
'to the genuineness
of these staples than
we do. 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 -r
-Veen burned because of their wholesale ad ul
, texation. . . .. '-. ,
. - 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 thouxand 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 madeover and find their way into
the cheap teas.
- The English government attempts to stamp
this oat by confiscation; but no tea is too
; poor for us and the" result it, that probably
the poorest teas used by any nation are those
Consumed fu America. . " -'
Boceh's Tea is presented with the gaar
anty that it is uncolored and unadulterated;
in fact, the stin-curca tea leaf pare and sim
ple. Its purity insures superior strength, '
about one third less of it being required for '
an infusion than of the a-.ificial teas, and its
fragrance and exquisite flavor Is at. once ap
parent. It will he a revelation to yon. "In -order
that Its purity and quality may be gnur
anteed, it fa sold only in poaod packages
. bearing this trade-mark: -
BEECHS1 tEV
Price 60c per pound. For sale ax
3Loislie Butler's,
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