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CRAMPS ON RAILROADS JTHEY GET' OVEft GREAT DISTANCES "ON SCHEDULE. TIME. 'Wheat They Can't Oet Inside They Have l Best That the Kxterlor Affords, and I fissnetlmes That Is- Very Good, Though - m Trifle IanErons. 'While trainmen are of one mind in re gard to the annoyance which tramps fcanse the railroad companies they dis agree about the methods of these indi viduals in . "doing" the , country. In. pite of the strict rule of all railroads prohibiting tramps, these professional travelers get over the road somehow or other with astonishing rapidity. They have been known to come from San Fran cisco to New York in but a trifle longer time than it took Mr. Mackey on his record breaking trip. It is by no means certain that one of these nomads didn't accompany Mr. Mackey part of the way across the continent on the fast mail train. Tramps are partial to . mail trains. The tracks are roomier than those of the ordinary coach or freight car.. Whatever doubt there was about Mr. Mackey's beating the record there certainly wasn't any doubt that Mr. Tramp beat the railroad company. ; There are tramps and tramps. Many a poor fellow who has spent his last cent i and is out at the elbows, wants to try his lock in another part of the country, but he has no means of getting there except his heels. These will not carry him far without hunger staring him in the face. He slinks about some freightyard, and -when a train is pulling out begs a train man to carry him, along a bit. He ad mits that he is a tramp, but he isn't; he's n beggar and a tenderfoot. There are others, who havejust got their hand in, traveling from town to town, and when trainman catches them stowed away .in a boxcar they whine piteously and recount their sunerings or those or a nick family miles away which they are anxious to get to. HOW REAL TRAMPS ACT. "These are no tramps," said a brake- man. "There is nothing interesting about them and they are a nuisance. The professional tramp is a character, and sometimes yon meet with one so slick that he deserves to beat his way, The real tramp makes no excuse' when he is discovered. Nine times out of ten he makes a threat, and as a ' good many of thein go armed it is dangerous to meddle with them. For if there is a human being who might be expected to value his life cheaply it is a tramp rather than a bnrglar. How many times have I had a tramp snarl at me with u string ' of; oaths and wind up by threatening to. put a hole through me! ' VI'rehabTy tramps . will hang tm to most anything, from the brakesh'oe to the wheel box," suggested the reporter. "No," said a trainman of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. "Many people have erroneous ideas about the habits of tramps. Personally I never saw a tramp nn a. t.rnolr. ltiir.fir.hpra siiv tftpv Iuiva Tramps generally pull for au empty box car, ir there is one open, it is curious . i . . , -. i i about the departure of trains and - their destination and the stops they make along the way. Why, Saturday night, just before leaving for Phillipsburg went to search my train for tramps, and I .found an empty Fall Brook car full of them, right next to the train shed. They Knew soinenow tnat tne car was going home, and that it went to the end of the journey. . They always E'eein to want to go as far as possible. "These fellows set up a whining and begged mo to let them go along. They all had sick families, or something just as bad, to go for, and one of them said lie wanted to go to Phillipsburg to attend the funeral of his brother. .1 drove them . fcll out. None of them was a professional, They didn't know one another, and they tall scattered in different directions. REVENGE FOE ILL TREATMENT. i "Of course they will get iiito any car that is left open, and if there is anything eatable they always help themselves. If , there isn't an open car they will try to Jfind a car of lumber. That is more ex posed, but there are always some vacant xtooks between the piles of boards, and Xhey make very good bunks. When I . ,.;fwas running ou a Long Branch-train we ' !had an experience with tramps at Mata- . jwan. ' We picked up a car of lumber jthere. A gang of tramps had learned of .. jits time of departure and that it was a through car, 'which just suited them, hey always try to get a 'through sleep ier, like passengers who pay their way: One of them, who had a wooden leg, they put on top of the lumber in plain sight, land then they appeared to go away. Of (course the trainmen wouldn't put a de- t tried man off, and apparently he was only one who was going along. Bui sooner did the locomotive signal to rt than the gang lit upon the lumber like a swarm of bees. We went back land pulled them all - out from the crev- nces, an(Twe got curses in return. . "The next night when a freight train team Along the switch at Matawan was pen, and the train smashed a lot of cars an. a siding. The tramps were around later to see the results, and they asked lie agent whether that was Porter's in. . No, said the agent, and they were very sorry that they had made a' tnis- "An empty box car or car of lumber g, they look for a car with a good at the end. But not many cars are milt that way now. Where a car has ders within . reach, of the bumpers pa will stand on the .bumpers and ake ' a long journey sometimes in that position. But generally there is nothing to cling to at the end, and many a pro fessional will stand between two cars with a foot on one bumper and the other (foot on the other bumper. Of course this as reckless, for trains often break in two, and down goes the tramp and one sec tion goes over him. Probably more tramps are killed in this way than any lather. " New York Sun. . v Too Slew. . ' ' . . . ...... . .A music teacner who fives in a smau town in central Ohio tells a delicious story.'which goes to ,show what xmap preciative ears classical music sometimes falls on, when the owners of the ears think that nothing is good music unless it is "fast and lively." The incident oc curred during a concert given by August Wilhelmj, the great German violinist. Wilhelmj, as is known by musicians, partieuli-rly excels in rendering andante or adagio movements, containing much. pathos and deep feeling. The proprietor of the town hall uau heard of the great artist, and although; he had no more idea of what the per formance of a solo violinist of the first rank would be than he had of the pres ent system of political economy in the planet Mars, 'he thought it would be a paying speculation to engage the great violinisS for a concert, and. accordingly did so at a price which looked ruinous to his townsmen. ... The attendance on the night of the concert proved, unfortunately, that the musical culture of the place was not suf ficiently advanced to nil the house, for there was only a handful of people in the hall at 3 o'clock, the time for com mencing the concert. . . .- The music teacher who tells the story arrived after the concert commenced. He found tiie manager taking tickets at the door. . . . "Well, Jim," he asked, "how's it go ing.- The manager looked up with an air of deep dejection. He said nothing, but plucking his friend's sleeve he led him silently to the door of the hall and looked in. On the stage stood Wilhelmj with all the classic repose of a statue. He was playing a soulful adagio. As he drew his bow slowly across the strings he drew forth tones which 'seemed almost like melodious sobs in their 6weet pathos. His great lemon colored Stradivarius violin, "the Messiah, seemed to sing almost like a thing of life. The few . people who were there sat entranced and- breathless drinking in the matchless tones. "Well, you see for yourself, 'prof.,'" said the manager to the music teacher. "I'm paying that chap $300 for this con cert, and lookee how slow he's a playin." New York Herald. Household Xeodorissrs. A deodorizer, - it should be remem bered, simply neutralizes the unpleasant odors of a room, and is in no sense a dis infectant. Where a disinfectant is needed, as in case of sickness, it is always better to obtain one from a phy sician. Coffee is one of the best deodor izers which we have. It should be sim ply ground and passed around the room ou a hot shovel, on which two or three live coals have been placed. Burned cotton or cotton rags are -also vluable for this purpose. Aromatic vinegar and coinphor are both excellent deodorizers, and may be sprinkled freely in a sick room. The practice of some nurses who ; use cologne water, sprinkling it freely ; through the room by means of an atom izer, is very commendable, as it proves grateful and refreshing to a patient. A pail of clean cold water set in newly painted rooms is said to have a neutral izing effect on the poisonous odor given out by new lead paint. It is safer, how ever, not to occupy such a room until it has become thoroughly disinfected and deodorized by pure fresh air. One of the simplest and safest deodorizers to use about the house is chloride of lime. Care should be taken to buy only the best quality and to purchase it only of a thoroughly trustworthy chemist or drug gist. Even fresh whitewash is a'power-; fnl purifier and disinfectant of the at mosphere, and for that reason the cellar and the outbuildings, where there is any. danger of poison from decaying animal or vegetable matter, should be frequently whitewashed. New York Tribune. -. Dinners in New York. There ia one enjoyment of life possess ed by New Yorkers . which is rarely fonud in any other of the large cities of this conntrv.. The resident of 'the me tropolis who prefers to live in furnished apartments and dine wherever his fancy suits him a practice common enough in London aud in Continental cities can make a selection from among a hundred or more restaurants where meals are served table d'hote at prices consider ably less than would be demanded for the same meal at au ordinary American restaurant. These places are to be found ' in nearly every section of the city, but they are most numerous in the neighbor hood of upper Broadway.' There are French, Italian and German resorts of this -description and the price ranges from fifty cents tenhree or four dollars, including wine, so that the most impe cunious individual can take his course dinner regularly at a small expense".' In Boston, Philadelphia, and even in Chi cago, table a hote restaurants are prac tically unknown, while in New York they are as numerous, and many Of them quite as excellent in every way, as iu any of the principal cities abroad. New York Cor. Brooklyn Eagle. Little Known About Birds. . ' . For nine successive summers a pair of red wings built at the base of a button bush, and year after year more and more nests were made until every spot was oc cupied for many a rod around. In Au gust the clau gathered, and, as a little flock that seemed scattered by day, but reassembled at sunset, these birds were a feature of the meadow for two Veeks or more, then they disappeared. I never saw them unite with a passing flock, but this is what they did. .'Suggestive as is every flock of birds, we really.know but little about them. No naturalists hJs yet fathomed the mystery of bird life, and bird slaughter has accomplished nothing. Dr. C. C. Abbott in Montreal Star. How He Felt About It. - The sermon had been long and prosy. Finally the Rev. Mr. Pounder cried out, "And is this to last forever?. . . - "It looks -that way," growled the sleepy parishioner. "If it is, I'm going home." Harper's Bazar. . BEATING-. , TIME, Whea the- Baton Was First Csed It Was - a Formidable Six Foot Club. . Investigations into the origin of the baton, or stick for beating time, which 1 is used nowadays by the conductor of every large" orchestra, have brought out the interesting fact that the first conduc tor's baton was a formidable staff, about six feet long, which the old time French musician, Lully by name, who invented it, may have used as mnch to intimidate the members of his orchestra as to mark the time. In the. very oldest orchestras, as in Chinese orchestras of the present day, there was no conductor in the modem sense. Every performer played as well as he could, and the man who played upon the loudest instrument the kettle drum, for instance marked the time for the rest. When music became nrBre systematic and refined, the chief command ' of the orchestra was given to the member who was regarded as the most accomplished and skillful. He assigned the other mem bers', their parts, drilled them at re hearsals and supervised the final per formance. . To produce a good effect it was neces sary of course that the musicians should play in time, and the chief of the orchestra, who himself played one in strument, was accustomed to mark the beat by stamping on the floor with one foot. For this reason the conductor of an orchestra was at that period called the pedariusV . . - Afterward it became customary for him to give the time by clapping the fingers of his right hand against the hol low of his left. The beater of time after this fashion was. called the manuductor. Meantime experiments were made in marking the time by striking together shells and bones. The bones were soon given up as instruments tc be used by the conductor of an orchestra; but they survived as an independent instrument. Boys and negro minstrels "play on the bones" with great gusto to this day. In the early part of the Seventeenth century the musician already alluded to, Lully by name, arose. He found all these instruments of leadership ineffec tive, and in order to reduce his perform ers to complete subjection, he procured i a stout staff six feet long, with which he ! pounded vigorously on the floor to mark the time. . . ... One day, becoming particularly impa tient, and pounding with especial vigor, Lully struck his foot instead of the floor with his baton. The wound gangrened, and Lully died from its effectn in 1687 The baton continued in use through out the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries, but though it gradually de creased in size, there is no evidence that conductors marked the time in any oj;her way than by pounding upon their music stands or some other hard object All this pounding" must have 'had anj unpleasant effect upon the music, and critics and musicians began to ridicule the practice. In course of time, there fore, we find musical conductors no longer thumping upon the floor or their music stands, but beating the time en tirely in the air. It seems to have taken players a very long time to learn that they could . get the time as easily by means of the eye as by means of the ear. Youth s Companion. Not Wholly Complimentary. A certain Mrs. Malaprop, who lives in a large eastern city, is noted for her skill in unconsciously embarrassing oth er people, while she herself remains per fectly at ease.' - Not long ago she was in troduced to two Bisters, young ladies who had long been known to her by name, though she had never met them. "Now, my dears," she said, addressing them collectively, with her usual bland smile, and regarding them earnestly through her glasses, "I have often heard of the bright and the handsome Miss Ratcliffe. Now I am so glad to meet you both, and I want you to tell me at once which of you is the bright and which the handsome one." . . - On another occasion she was dining with her nephew and his young wife, who had just set up housekeeping. . The dinner did not go off quite so smoothly as the young couple had hoped, and the cooking was by no means perfect. The hostess tin wisely began to murmur apol ogies and 'her- husband joined in,; half laughing, with references to his wife's youth and inexperience. "Don't .say another word, my dear children," interrupted their kind hearted guest. .- "I can assure you I've eaten a great deal worse dinners than this in the course of ray life; a great deal worse. Yes," she added meditativelyv."I've eaten some pretty bad dinners, you may, be sure V' Youth's Companion.- - - '-,. The Flavor of Co flee. Real coffee- is a very delicate - sub stance and 'will readily not only lose its own flavor, but also take up the flavor of other substances.. Thus it is quite necessary in shipping coffee to make sure that no other odorous snbstauce'is placed near to destroy the flavor of .'.the coffee. Tne aroma is volatile. - Jjet a quantity of pure ground coffee be ex posed to the air for a considerable time and the best of the coffee will go out into .the atmosphere.' The careful house wife who wishes to mace good, pure coffee of fragrant aroma buys it in the green, bean, roasts it herself, keeps it tightly canned after roasting and grinds it the morning it is used. Coffee so made is a totally different article of consump tion from the great bulk of ground cof fee that is sold in the stores. Some time ago an official analysis of some ground coffee exposed for sale dis closed the fact that there was absolutely no coffee in it. New York Sun. . ' . . That Fatal Number. .' Superstitious Boarder Yes I like the rooms very much and will pay you a month's board in advance. ' Is this your little girl, ma'am? Nice child; how old is she? - . . '. ' Landlady Just thirteen, sir.-j-S, B. Give me ; back that money. Here's your receipt. I wouldn't -live to a house where they had a thirteen Good day, ma'am. Detroit Free Press. Few Colds from JBxposara. I remember some curious facts of my own experience in the army in 1862 and 1863. I was not strong, and indeed was hardly fit to be in the army at all. -- And when I found myself exposed all day long to a steady ram, and at . night to the outdoor air, with no fire, no change of clothing, no shelter but a canvas cov ering open at both ends, through which the rain dripped constantlv, it seemed certain that the "death o' cold" so often predicted must surely follow. . .. t Why it did pot follow was more of a mystery then, however, than it Is now. For I was in a place where the art of man no longer excluded one of the prime principles of health. ' I breathed purs air because I could not help it. During a service of fifteen months, with severe exposures, but fresh air constantly, the same immunity from colds prevailed. - r remember, too, that when I came home from the army the blessing and the curse at least one of the curses of civil life came back together. I had comfortable rooms to eat, breathe and sleep in on the one hand, but very soon colds, sore throats and related troubles on the other. Rev. J. W. Quinby in Popular Science Monthly. A Small Leophole.- Housekeeper I know that milk fresh from the cow is warm, but that you left here yesterday was hot hot and thin, too, just as if boiling water had been poured in it. . Milkman Oh, the milk's all right, mum no water in it; no, indeed, mum. Housekeeper Then how came it to be almost boiling hot? Milkman Why er you see. mum, some o' the cows has typhoid fever.. Good News. . Dimples. ' The old idea ol 40 yean ago was that facial eruptions were duet 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 ot decreasing, actually creates more eruptions. You have no ticed this when taking other Sarsaparillas than Joy's. It is however now known that the stom ach, the blood cresting 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 healthful digestion purifies it and they disappear. Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparil)a is compounded after the modern idea to r'cgulatetne bowels and stimulate the digestion. The effect is immediate and most-satisfactory. A short testimonial to contrast the action of the potash SarsapariU ad Joy'ti modern vcgeta'oie preparation. Mrs. C.D. Stuart, cf 400 Hayes St., S. F., writes: have for years had indigestion, I tried a popular Sarsaparilla but it actually raed more pimples to break out ou my face. llcaringTbat Joy's was h.ter preparation .d ac differently, I tried a Kim tiiv Tiii;iie- iniiucuiuiuiy uiMi'ivarvu. Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla largest bottle, most efTucMrc. same price. For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY THE DALLES. OREGON. L-H GRIPPE . OTJriEIJ By using 8. B. Headache and Liver Cure, and 8. B. Cough Cure as.directed for colds. ' They were STjccsssFTJriXjir used two vears asro durincr tbe La Griore epi demic, and very nattering textimoniulB of their power over tnat disease are at rand. Jianuiaet ured by the 8. 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 da In fact, they have a law under which they" make seizures and de--stroy ' adulterated ' products that - are rJot what they are represented to be. Under this stature "thousands of pounds of tea have -. been burned because of tbeir wholesale adul teration. ' ;.Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori-." ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifi cially colored, but thousands of pounds of " substitute for tea leaves-are used to swell , the bulk of cheap tea; asb, 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 madeoverond find their way into the cheap teas. . The English government attempts to stamp ' this but by confiscation; but no tea is too poor for u, and tl)e result is, that probably, the poorest teas used by any nation are those, consumed iu America. ' . Beech's Tea -is presented with the guar anty that it Is uueolored and unadulterated; -In fact, the sun-cured tea leaf pure and aim pie. Its purity iunuses superior strength, about one third less of it being required for . an iufuslon than of tho a-tiflcial teas, and lti fragrance and exquisite flavor is at once ap parent. It will be a revelation to you. .In order that its parity and quality may be gnar t an toed, it is. sold only in pound packages -. bearing this trade-mark; ' .r ' ". ' .- " BEEtiTEA 'Pure As Childhood? Price 60e per pound. For sale a Xieslie Sutler's THE DALLES, 0RFGOI. ; Tne Dalles Of the Leading City During the little over has earnestly tried to fallfil the objects for which it . was founded, namelv .' to assist in develoni Tier mir industries, to advertise the adjacent country and to the sea. Its record is phenomenal support it has expression of their approval. Independent in every thing, neutral in nothing, it will live only to fight for what it believes to be just and ria ht. ' Commencing with the first number of the second vclume , the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages while the price ($1.50 a year) remains the. same. Thus both the weekly and daily editions contain moi e reading matter for less money than any paper published in the county. GET YOUR DONE AT THE CHRONICLE JOB ROOfH. Boo ai?d Job priptir; Done on LIGHT BINDING Address all Mail'Orders to Chronicle THE DALLES, icie of Eastern Oregon. a year of its existence it resources of the city and work for an open river to before the rjeoule and th received is accepted as the PRlflTIflG Short Notice. NEATLY DONE. Pab. Co., OREGON: cm on