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. . ' '
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.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.
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