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A HUNTER PEDAGOGUE. ONE EYE ON THE OTHER OgT. SCHOLARS, FOR GAME. THE ; a w nua kqdwij nnera wild uer ' Stmpered Near the School House, and j tbe Teacher Constantly Watched Both It and the Mischievous Too th. Nicholas . Church, one of the oldest hunters in the Pocono mountains, said to the .writer the other day: '"Sixty-six years ago I went to school to Alexander Dunbar in a little log school house down in the Pocono valley, near where Tan liersville now is. An odd character -Dunbar was. He stood over six feet in liia socks, he was lean as a crane and he voald run like a deer. lie always kept loaded rifle standing by his chair in the school house. A few yards up the Toad there was a runway where deer crossed the creek. During school hours Dunbar always seemed to have one eye a the runway. He was crazy for hunt ing, and whenever he saw a deer dash across the road or heard a hound baying ' in the woods he appeared to forget all about his school for the time being. Without saying a word to any of the scholars he would grab I lis rifle, rush at Of the house bareheaded and away 1101 go ucr vua ueer, iikb an luuiau. Sometimes we would, see him coming back in less than an hour with a buck or a doe slung over his shoulder, and then again maybe we wouldn't see anything of him till the next morning Dunbar always got a deer if he had to stay on the trail till dark. While he was off on um of his exciting hunts the children generally staid in the little house and had a great play spell. When it was time to go home, if Dunbar didn't make his appearance, we dismissed ourselves. After a. while some of the parents found out' how Dunbar was 'neglecting his school, and they hauled .him over the coals for it. But they couldn't break Dunbar of his mania for chasing deer. Nothing could, -and after that Dunbar told one of the big boys to take charge -of the school when he dashed out with liia gun. A NARROW ESCAPE. "Qne day Dunbar had a terrible fight with a wounded buck on Pocono creek. . tie came within an ace of losing his life, bat he was just as crazy to chase deer iifter that as he was before. I'll show you what kept Dunbar from being killed," continued Mr. Church, and he brought out an old bent and rusty fills barrel that had once sent bullets flying after game from a flintlock. "Dunbar's gun was out of kilter," resumed the old hunter, "and I. took this rifle to the school house for him to use. It belonged lo my father, and Dunbar got a chance to use it before. - night. That afternoon he saw a buck trot down the runway, and he seized the rifle and gave chase. The buck was tak ing it easy, and the longlegged school master banged away at him near the creek. TI19 buck plunged forward and plowed in the snow and Dunbar ran up to cut his throat. Just as Dunbar got to him the buck roused up and "pitcllel at him savagely. He had been shot through the nose, and he was as full of fight as a wounded panther. There was no charge in the rifle, and Dunbar dropped his knife and went' to beating the angry bock off with the gun. He soon broke stock and then he fought the buck with the barrel, bending it in the fight as you see it now. Every time the buck pitched at him Dunbar knocked a spike from his antlers, and when it was all over Dunbar had trimmed every spike from his horns. He finally stunned the buck long enough 'to cut his throat, and when he lugged the bnck to the school house he was the raggedest schoolmaster I ever saw, for the game animal had torn his homespun suit into strips with his sharp hoofs. Dunbar declared that he 'enjoyed . the fight and was ready for another of the same sort. ' ' i SCHOLARS LIKED bl7lAK. ; "Every other Saturday there was no school, and Dunbar took tho whole day for hunting. He got in the habit of . coaxing a tame buck that belonged to my . folks to follow him into the. woods when he went after deer. The buck soon got so that he was tickled to go with the schoolmaster, and before long he formed 1 1. .. 1 0 , : . r t. wo usuib ut wauueriug away I rum uan bar, making friend? with wild deer and leading them around where Dunbar could get shots at them. D unbar thought the trick was very cunning, and so did . -We boys, but my father didn't think so. When he found out what Dunbar was doing with the buck he put a stop to the fun by fastening the buck in a pen when- think about it I'll tell you what an in genious way Dunbar had to stop whisper ing in the school. He had a yarn ball. ana every time lie caught one ot us '. whispering he threw the ball at the whis perer, hitting him 'or her. The scholar - that was hit had to stand in the middle of the room with the ball and throw it at the first one he caught whispering, . ana bo on ail day. we-liked the way - . Dunbar tried to keep a still school. Cor. New York Tribune. . I Cm of Pigeons for Speculation j In modern times the pigeons have been naed for purposes of commerce and spec ulation as well as war. In 1770 a shrewd Italian had the-winning numbers in the -lotteries thus sent to him, and it is j well known fact that the London branch of the great Rothschild banking, house was able, by means of carrier pigeons, to receive news of the victory at Waterloo three days in advance of the govern pment, and to realize an enormous profit by buying up government stock, then - (very much depressed, and selling again when . the rise came. Denver Repub lican. ! Living Orchestrion. t There is said to be a musical freak in . , r . , ; 1 iVOIumous, 1DU., wilo piays in a peculiar !xnanner with his lungs any tune, with a distinctness and. clearness that brings lout every note as fully as it can be brought out on any piano or other musi 'cal instrument by the most accomplished performer. Philadelphia Ledger. Cures for the Bl Do you ever have the bines? Of course you do. for there never vet lived ' a man or woman whose .soul cast no shadow. These times of depression, from which we all of us suffer more or less, are noth ing more than the shadows cast by 'our j souls in the road along, which we are walking heavenward:, . Sunshine rays produce shadow, and the fact that our souls' uo into eclipse- now and then' Proves that there is sunshine just behind us. jsui wnat uo you uo wueu you gei the blues? Do you cry or scold or mope? Is, it hard to live in the same house with yon while the shadow falls athwart your way? Do the children get out of the road when they see you coming? v I have found one excellent cure for the blues which 1 mean to tell right here.' . Go straight to work and do something for some one more miserable than your self. Whatever your- trouble may be, there is always some one to be found who has a harder let to bear. The other day a young wife was deserted by her husband and taken to the hospital to face a terrible illness, .without a friend to stand by her in her hour of need, and with not a cent to defray expenses or un lock the door of the future. Suppose you go hunt her up and offer- a helping "hand. Such : betrayal, and desertion discounts your puffs of vapor. A. mother watched the coffin lid close the other day forever and forever, so far as mortal time counts, between her yearning eyes and the-face of her only boy. What is your transient- depression compared to the heart-anguish of such a grief as bers? Don"t you think it would help cure you of the blues if you sat down and wrote that mother a letter, or dropped in for an hour or t wo to keep her company? It seems such a selfish thing to be so exclu sive 111 'bearing trouble. A load shared ; is a load ' lightened, and the deepest gloom takes on a bright tint now and then if overshoue with the sunshine of love. Chicago Herald. ' . The Itrotherless Girl. The girl without a brother is especially 4. . t. : .-:. . .3 L-1 - j-i 1 , - " vj vks imlivu. oue is gin woo la never j iTiuiiiw gctuug uie pleasures oi me unless fche- is very attractive. Of course 6he has no brother who she is certain will take ber-everywhere; she is apt to get .a little bit vain, . for she has no brother to tell her, as only a brother will, of her faults and mistakes. It is only the somewhat doubtful tact of a brother that announces, "1 wouldn't walk up (he- street with you in that frock," and the girl whose brother says this to her may be certain that he is only expressing the opinion of other girls' gentle way, but he does tell the truth, ! K,,Wo .n v. i and if you ask him why paying a visit to j another girl is more desirable than to i one you know, he will sit down and look at you, and then he will say: ' . I "Well, you .see, it is just , this way. j From the time vou et there h i8 . .nr- . girl who gives you a pleasant welcome ana yet uoesn i gusn over you. Bne is entertaining, and yet she-has a fashion of putting down nasty gossip or silly talk among whoever is there. She is a rest ful sort of girl, she is not always want ing to do something that tires you half to death and where the game isn't worth the candle, and when she says goodby to you you feel certain that she is pretty glad you came and that she will be glad to see you another time, but that she doesn't look upon you as the one and only man in the world." That is the kind of a description that the brotherless girl can't get. Then she doesn't bear of men that a fellow would rather not have his sister go with. Probably the wisest course for her to pursue is for her to choose as her most intimate friend a girl who - has a wise brothers then she can reap the benefit of Iris counsel. Ruth Ashmore in Ladies' Home Jonrna. A Simple Conundrum. n., i,. , ' ... . - j-iie uiaiuemaucai smart AiecK are al ways proposing some new and puzzling question 'with which to confound those whose. bump of -calculation is not well developed, but.the most exasperating ef fort ill this direction was .sprung on a small company the -other evening, when one of these human calculating machines inquired: '-If five cats catch five rats in five days, how many cats will it take to catch 100 rats in 100 days?"; Every an - swer was given, from 100 cats to 100,000 cats, until it happened to occur to some one that if five cats 'caught a rat a day. there was nothing to prevent their1 con tinuing to do so till the end of time if their patience and the rats held Out. But before this conclusion was reached over ten dollars had changed hands in -bets on the sumect, and three quarrels were started which have not yet been settled. Unfortunately, however, none of . them involved the originator of the problem, who escaped before mattex-s had gone so far. Interview inSt. Louis Globe-Demo crat, s A II I eh Priced Stamp.' The highest priced postage stamp in exisceuce is the famous" Dundee stamp, worth $3,500) and not . purchasable at that price. " James Chalmers, of Dundee, was the inventor of the adhesive.postage stamp in 1834. ' The stamp is in the pos session of Sigmund Fried!, an extensive postage 8 tamp merchant of Unter Dol berg, Vienna. It was exhibited at the Vienna Jubilee Stamp exhibition. The postage stamp museum, held on May 25, 1891, at Vienna, displayed this gem as the greatest attraction among 3,000,000 stamps and other objects exhibited there. Yankee Blade. ' . ' Bow She Described Her Dresses. ' A young lady, en route for the sea-, side, sent her box on by "goods," and on the consignment note she prepared actually condescended to describe her wearing "apparel as "one box of rags," the charge for which would,- of course, be much, less than if the goods ' were correctly described. London Tit-Bits. ' : A. Girl's Idea. . . "Rosalie has' adopted a plan that makes all the girls awfully jealous." . Whatisthatr . wny, sne nas tauen all her engage-j mem rings ana naa - tnein maae into a chain for her pug." Harper's Bazar. Why Haijr Shoes Are Mot Mates. ': wish' there-' was' a law to-compel manufacturers to tie each member of a pair of shoes to its mate,! said a well known jobber to the writer a few days -ago. . "I do not believe there is a shoe dealer in the country "but that has lost customers, patience and money through the vexatious mismating of shoes. . , "Years ago all shoes were tied in pairs and tied together they remained until they were sold to the" wearer. Then cartons came in and tying went out. " "The old way was not as neat as the new, and it was supposed that the carton plan obviated the necessity of tying; but if yen could see the amount of bother and trouble which comes from mismating in a store you would not wonder at my dissatisfaction. -. It frequently happens that goods become misplaced a case is overturned or several cartons are indis criminately tumbled together. Then the matching and mating are hurriedly done," with the natural consequence of separat ing the mates. .. " These .goods go to Ourcustomers, and when the mismating is discovered the carton is sent back, often hundreds- of miles, at our expense, and allowances demanded. I tell you the manufacturer ought to be obliged to tie each pair to gether, carton or no carton, and I am thinking serionsly of demanding this of. every manufacturer who makes goods, for us. ... "The tying can be neatly and quickly f done by machine nowadays, "and the 1 "benefit is so great that there is no reason ; why it should not become universal." Boot and Shoe Reporter. - Old Actors' Stage Fright. One of the queer things in the dra- i matic profession is the nervousness that occasionally affects an entire company. a ineuu oi mine wao nas oeen on tne stage several years and, on the road in the same piece for the last r two years played last week in a Broadway theater. It was the first appearance of the com pany in New York, though . most of its individual.members had played here be- !- "With one or two exceptions," said -f the actor, "they were scared to' death. Every person - bad played his or her part i hundreds of nights. As soon- as the cur- J I tain -went up on a Broadway audience-? i they acted, like a lot of amateurs. Some of them . actually had stage fever and lost their lines. They were nervous. They wanted to make a good impression. They never played worse. It is the ex perience of many of the oldest members of. the profession. It is as humiliating -.wuior, outio isxrueanu I can't be helped." New York HeralcL . . A , - A . ?resured ""f- . A very interesting relic has fallen into tne P?um of the - weU known Bir- "l"S"" pnyoiuiau, oir James oawyer. It is-one of the hoofs of the identical horse that Lord .Cardigan rode in the charge of the Light Brigade. Lady Sawyer's father, who was a Lincolnshire rector, received this precious relic of the historic charge from Lord Cardigan, and it bears an inscription to this effect. The four hoofs are now disposed of as fol lows: The Prince of Wales, an honor ary colonel of the Tenth Hussars, has one; another belongs to the-officers oj that famous regiment, and it is brought out at mess on; state occasions: the Countess of Cardigan owns a third; and the last, which is the off " hind hoof, graces the sideboard of Sir James Saw yer. It is beautifully mounted in silver, and - is naturally highly prized by . its owner. London Tit-Bits. .' Quite a Compliment. Two New York society belles were dis cussing a ball at "which both had been present. " - ;;' . " "Oh, I had. suuii a compliment paid me by Qus Do Smith," said Miss Bondclip per, giggling histerically. , : "Yes? -What did he sayr" asked Miss "Murray Hilli' r "I had on my new bangs and just a little face powder, and my new silk dress fitted just as if I .was poured into it, a-n-d ma! said she never saw me look so well a-n-dSA : .- - "What did Gas De Smith say?'.' asked ! Miss Murray Hill impatiently. "He whispered to me, 'Miss Bondclip- per, you are hxed up so pretty tonight that I hardly recognized you.'" Texas Sittings. - - Midget's Good Reason. -Our Midget is a little over three years old. She was taken down to Coney is land, and after an hour or two spent in seeing the sights it was ordained that her nurse should give her a dip in the salt waters of old ocean. In the bathhouse the object of her visit to the beach was made known to her, but when she reached the water's edge'6he flatly re fused to be taken in." "Nursey," . said she, "I'm all over feared." ... "But, Midget, you bathe in the water every day at home." "Yes," said Midget, "that's in mylittle tub.' This tub's too big, too big entirely." .And we brought her home without her sea oath. Harper's Young People. ' Sawdust for Generating Electricity. In parts of the' country. where coal is dear electric light and power companies are looking for the cheapest substitute they can find. An electric corporation in Oregon has the good fortune to be near the sawmills of a great lumber company, and -has promptly seized! the opportunity offered of securing an eco nomical fuel for its power plant. The refuse of the sawmills is. taken direct from the saws and conveyed directly to the boilers of the electric company with out any handling whatever. Pittsburg Dispatch. ' - - Ufa Too Short. . -' -. According to scientists, this earth will only exist a . million years longer and then go to naught. This is pretty tough on the man who is in debt for a few thou sands and only gets twelve dollars a week, with a big family on his hands at that. Hell hardly have time to pall out. Cincinnati Enquirer. . . '" -- AT. FIRST. " rr,; ". ; : , ." ' i .i - If I should fall asleep one day. All overworn,." " . . And should my spirit, from the clay, - - Go dreaming oat the heavenward, way, V Or thence be softly borne, , : I pray you, angels, do not first - Assail mine ear . With that blest anthem, oft rehearsed, . "Behold the bonds of Death are burstr Lest I should faint with fear. But let some happy bird, at hand, -The silence break; . So shall I dimly understand " " That dawn has touched a blossoming land, . And sigh myself awake. - From that deep rest emerging so, , To lift the head And see the bath flower's bell of snow, 1 .The pink, arbutus, and the low Spring beauty streaked with red. Will all suffice. No otherwhere . Impelled to roam, . TIB some blithe wanderer, passing fair. Will, smiling, pause of me aware And murmur, "Welcome home!" " So sweetly greeted I shall rise To kiss her cheek; Then lightly soar in lovely guise. As one familiar with the skies, ; Who finds and" need not seek. Amanda T. Jones in Century. In Samoa the king's adviser lives in a handsome house and the king in a shed alongside.. The adviser receives a salary of $5,000 a year and the king $840. The chief of police even gets $1,800 a year. The largest animal known to exist in the world at -the' present time is - the rorqual.which averages 100 feet in length; 'the smallest is the jnonad, which is only 1-13,000 of an inch in length. ,- , t - The late Archbishop Magee used to divide speakers Into three classes: The speaker you cannot listen to, the speaker, you can listen to and the speaker you' cannot help listening to. Bad Blood, Impure or vitiated blood is nine times out of ten caused by some form of constipation or indiges tion that elo up the system. when the blood naturally be-, comes imprcRnatcd with the el- fete matter. TheoUlSursapariUat attempt to nnt-Ii this condition by attacking the blued with the drastic mineral " potash." . The imtasli theory I old and obsolete. Joy's Vegetable Sursiiparilla is modem. It goes to t!je scat cf the trouble. It arouses the liver, kiduws and bowels to health ful action, and invigorates the circulation, and the impurities ar quickly carried off through the natural channels. 4Try it and note its delightful action. Clias. Lee, v.t Bcamish's Third and Market Streets, S. F., vritcs: " I took it for vitiated bloo" cud while ou the first bot tle became convinced of ta mer its, for 1 could feel it. was work ing a change. It rlransud. puri fied and braced me up generally. aud everything is now wo: king full mul rcguia ' Joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla For Sals by SNIPES & KINERSLY THE DALLES. OREGON ." OTTHEX) By .rising S. B. Headache and Liver Cure, and S. B. tough Cure as directed for colds. They were ' STTCOXiSSX'TJZilj'x" used two years aeo durine the La Grinue eti demic, and very nattering testimonjitls of their power over that disease are at band.,-- Manufact ured by the 8. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur, irregon. r or sale by all druggists. A Severe Law. ' The English peo ple look more closely ''to the genuineness oi these staples than we da In fact, they hare law under 'which they make seizures and de stroy adulterated products that are not what, they are represented to be. Under this statHte thousands of pounds of tea hare been burned because of their wholesale adul teration. Tea, by the way, ia 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 substitutes for tea leaves are used to swell the bulk of cheap tea,; 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 madeovernnd fud their way iuto the cheap teas. The English government attempts to stamp this out by confiscation; bat no tea is too poor for u and the result is, that probably the poorest teas used by any naliou are those . consumed in America. - Beech's Tea is presented with the guar- anty that It is uncolored and unadulterated; in fact, the sun-cureo tea leaf pure and sim ple. Its purity insures superior strength, about one third less cf it being required for an infusion than of the artificial teas, and its fragrance and exquisite flavor is at once ap parent, vlt will be a revelation to you. In order that its purity and quality may be gmar - an teed, It ia sold only In pound packages bearing this trade-mark : BEECHTEA rPireAsHTdhopd: Price 60o per pound. For sale at Iieslle Bntler' m LK GRIPPE aim v-. THE DAILE8, OBF.COW. Dalles m - Of the Leading City During the little over has earnestly tried to fullfil the objects for which it was . founded, namelv. to ' mS 7 industries, to advertise the resources of the city and adjacent country and to work for an open river 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 or what it believes to be just and rig ht. Commencing with the first number of the second vclume the weekly has been enlarged to night pages . while the rrice ($1.50. a Thus both the weeklv moi e reading matter for published in the county. GET YOUR DONE AT THE CHICLE JO Boor apd Job priptir; Done on LIGHT BINDING Address all Mailorders to Chronicle THE DALLES, lilli i. - ;. of Eastern Oregon. a year of its existence it assist in Avxrrf - -w w w.w pi I lf-f V V.A. before the neonlfi nn tho received is accepted as the ... 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