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. ,-
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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
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During the little over
has earnestly tried to fullfil the objects for which it
was . founded, namelv. to
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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.
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