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About The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1892)
C H-) . -a,- A -CURIOUS., OLD . i.jviK , SYSTEM POETS AND UVED STATESMEN LONG AND" WHO HAVE well: ' la witb Varied Occupation Find More Ea)oait In Declining Year Th BuImu Men, e4 Their ! Br la Developed Id More Way. all 'James " Crichton-Browner ' haa -enumerated instances of long lived; per sons possessing all their faculties unim paired, and opened up a subject full of Interest andwhich even thfc large space Dccapied by bis address did not allow -- " him fully to develop.' It seems a physio logical.' law that the functions otl the ixxiv must be kept in exercise in order to maintain their efficiency, and it is as ' true of the body as of the mill or any other machine that it. y-ill rust out from , ilirnme sooner than-wear out oy empioy turat. --. .. - - - fhe fact is constantly observed in per-, sons engaged in commercial pursuits, who retire at the age of sixty and then ; fall into rapid decay, while professional uen remaininpat work preserve their . vigo' often fotv another twenty years.' It is a sad thing to see the nerve centers si - iiecay; with a corresponding weakness f body and mind, but it is still sadder "towitaiess.-with a wrinkling of the skin. ... i i , .1 vaSm Tt raMTespouuuig auruming ui .mo uiam,. ..Sallowing vanity and some or tne weakly XMssiohs, which had been kept in sup pression, to come agaitrto the forev. - different is the "spectacle when the organ is kept in its integrity by con ' - stant use, and the mental faculties' pre . oerved in all their pristine force. We have only to look around and to see our ' poets, bish).t judges, ministers of state 'and medical iSteh long lived and'still in mental, vigor while working at their re spective a.vocations. Very remarkable, too. is "it that, as Bir James Crichton-1 fSrotrne observed, the freedom f lan guage will remain as good as everj- an example of this was observed but lately in a discussion on the London uuiver r" vity questions, when two of the most logical and well expressed speeches were Tuade by octogenarians. OLD AGE SHOULD !OT BE UNHAPPYr We van at the present time -point to statesmen and lawyers of great age still before the public; as not long-ago we . could see Lord Palmerston, . Lord Brougham, LoYd Lyndhurstand others.- la former times . we. may , remember Newton living to be eighty-five, while . iJophocles is said to have lived to be - ninety, and Plato not much short of ,' this. It is clear 'that-hard work does not kill. The toil, however, must be genial and diversified. - The man of , business often has no occupation besides !resmit8. - tiis Dreauwiuuuig, wuertsao u mcuiuii mart has a variety of subjects to interest him. - i ' . ' " . ..A" speaker at -the international" con- ' gress showed by experiments upon school . children, when three or fouf sums in arithmetic . were given in succession."' that each sum: showed an inferiority to the previous one, both in correctness, and as regards the time in which it was i . ' completed. -The One faculty-employed ' was gradually exhausted, a- fresh piece, of evidence showing- the necessity for; . diversity of work. In the treatment of persons with mental trouble or .worry ' the very . worst method is to t rely, too much on what is called rest, meaning thereby leaving, .the . patient . .withont J other employment than to brood over his sorrows.,, True rest to the mind is only to be obtained by the occupation of other faculties roused into action by. mv surroundings. . - I There is no reason why old age shuliii ' Hot be as happy and as enjoyable as anv , other period of life. Jlf old persons be, - asked as to the consciousness of nge fliey ' will all with one consent .declare that. - there exists uothing "ofTherfcmd. An old person has' a "knowledge of his age in the came way as his friends: hesees it bjr . looking in the mirror, by remembrance, of past events or the loss -of conteinpo . " -caries, but he is not constantly carrying . about with him the conviction or feeling - that he is old; ie is thus still able to oc-' tmpy himself .in the business andt plea- "res of life. ' . .. AVTHORITATIVE TESTIMONY. ; Snffon spoke of his green old age as ... one of the happiest periods in his life, al though the kind of pleasures then expe rienced are, of course, different from those of youth; and even when decay comes, and a man is becoming free from the remembrance of all earthly things, i then, as Sir James Paget says (and no better example could be found of- full --mental activity' by- continual .work), it ."-jnay be sifordered on 'purpose that the v spirit' may be invigorated smd undis tnrbed in -the contemplation of the brightening future. Another writer, 1 f. i speaking of old ago in reference to the de cease of an eminent Ixtrrister, also'mftin tained that the highest faculties are kept - keen by constant exercise, and the brain vigorous by constant action And renewal. The understanding has often been in the highest perfection in quite advanced ,:.' old age, and that has been the best period of human life.' It is the time when the rage and storm of passion have died away, when the jealousies and cares of a career have ceased and been forgotten, when memory lingers upon -all that is - bright and charming in the pastand When hope scatters her most glowing tints over a fast approaching future; or. In "the words of Sir. J. Crichton-Browno himself: "We are able to see in old age glimpses of the truth that its chief glory consists not in the remembrance of feats nf prowess nor .in the egotistio exercise - of power, but in the conquest of peeyish - weakness, in the brightness of hope and tn the discrimination of happiness around. ' Depend . Upon it, the best anti Septic against - senile decay is an' active Iatereet in human affairs, and that those beep young longest who love most," -British Medical Journal. . . Is Fessersal Enpoyen,HTe l ld Against Each Other for Laborers. T'.The British Consul -a Stettin, in the course of g very interesting report on Ppnlerahiu"enerally, describes ,an .Old World system of ' labor still : to some ex tent prevailing ' there. " There are two classes ,-of- laborers the permanent (or Instleute) and the ' free' laborers. ". The former,- for the most part, are those who, '.. having been born on the estate, remain on, it all their lives, their contract with their employer being, however, renew able from year to year.' Each family receives : a free . dwelling, consisting of . two rooms, a kitchen, a loft and a cellar, also outhouses for pigs, goats, poultry, etc' ' Ju land they receive 1,020 square yards for a'garden, 2,550 square yards for pota to and rye growing, 24 shillings yearly for firine and free carriage of fuel. In waares a healthy man . receives Is. 3d. . daily from April 1 to Sept.oO, and 1 shil ling daily from Oct. 1 to March 31. &ach. family is obliged to provide one "Hof- ganger,""either boy or girl, to assist in work on the estate. They receive trom their employer as wages from 3 pence to. 7 pence per day, according to age. . The wife is not obliged to work in the fields, but : she is' expected to milk the cows, for which she receives from one to two quarts of milk per day. If she does work on the estate she receives l smiling per day from May 1 to Nov". 30, and is generally paid according to her .value as a worker. - . The Instleute have oppor tunities of increasing their yearly wages by taking job work. ' - For example, in spring". there is hoe work, in the summer harvesting and mowing, and in autumn gathering roots and fruit. ' For job "work a man can sometimes earn an much as 3 shillings to 4 shillings extra per day; the wife and "hofganger" together, from 2 shillings to 3 shillings extra, or they may be paid in kind, as in wheat, hay, etc. . - Should aTaaiily bring more laborers, these are paid and treated as free labor ers. This system now only remains on a few of the larger estates. Free labor ers are those who do not live on or be long to an estate and are under no obli gatiops whatever to the estate holders. THeir engagement during busy times Sb to Always Beady. There- arenas we "all " knowi-and too ; often assert--bOth men and women' who recall nanas "ana reet. ; a u tbiui is simply ! pitied;5 but 1 the woman -heaven "help the woman! She is Scoldedpecked at,, sat1 down' on by'every Doay to tne fourth cousin and the third generation. She is nejrt to a martyr. ! The bowelis of 'our " compassion "ftiiriy yearn when -we 'picture the reveries of the tactless wom an. In sheer eagerness to avoid contem plating her" we' seek " her antipodes the . . - . : : 1 . . , ' ' csreiiu wuillttirur mo nuxfiu 111111. - Whether-it is a merrymaking "or the, last ' sad rites; " a - picnio, a charity, a birth or ' a wedding, the precision exer cised by certain 'careful men and women we 'have met is worthy of a-monument. The provision is equal to all occasions, vanquishes all seasons, trom trie warm ing of a bed in the coldest' night of .the season to the laying on of a poultice,' the exactness the precision and provision of the jnan or-woman who thinks of every thing is so "marked that it excites the admiration ' of the average, while the tactless one takes refuge in silence and can only look on dumbly. Should a fire startle the family in the early morning hours the caretaker, - we are prepared to maintain, will be found with -the right garments ' On ready to direct the boseman just where to squirt, while the tactles&one is tossing a hat box and a music box out of a Window or carrying an armful of shoes down stairs. V ' Nothing short of an earthquake or tor nado could disturb the equipoise of the caretaker of the family. He or " she knows ' precisely , where to . put their hands on pins and matches in the dark. The woman never forgets to salt any thing. The man never was known to fail to post the letter intrusted to him promptly, ferto. If .,;". . ..naCsjaCftraie,:"-' ; --Half a dozen of our lads have lately had the cave craM.;; They 'have been reading' dime Uteratureand became the slaves of an ' intense - desire to Decorate robbers and live in caves.-. One day a few weeks since they took shovels, picks and hoes and went into a piece of woods near: the city, and without even think ing whose the property might be, "began to dig a cave. A hole four feet square and seven feet deep' was "dug. 'At the bottom the hole was' widened to nearly eight feet Over -this was placed 1 old "planks and brush and leaves, so that the "cave"- was- completely - bidden Here thev crawled into their "wild , abode" and imagined all sorts of terrible things of themselves. ,..., About a week ago thewner .'of "the woods happened .to be going by the spot and noticed smoke rising from- 'the ground. . - Hepoked around in the leaves and discovered the boys smoking . ciga rettes. "What are you doing .- down there?" he. called. ; "We are robbers and well cut your throat,'' said one youthful voice. "No we ain't either,'' said another rather frightened boy; "we're only boys and we won't hurt you. This is. 'our pave." '--""-' '- -'"'' .-' -i-. '.:?;: The owner of the. land, made the boys get up oUt of the pit,' and while they were crawling up cut a brace of birches. But when six lads in knee pants stood before him he relented- and " punished them by making them immediately take ! shovels and fill up the hole,' into which 1 some of his cattle might have fallen and ! broken their necks. --Lawis ton Journal. From the earliest times' camphor has been a piactical necessity to man. - Its ; pleasant perfume,' its destructiveness to ! insect life aTid its many remarkable the- TIioca ara tKo rwwnlA urn Ia. iraueutic virtues have more than earned we had our way we would ts great popularity. .- fllilslliiiiilB erect monuments to them and see to it that their virtues were engraved in a fit ting manner. Pittsburg Bulletin. "Fruit Manners." "J Fruit manners," as a girl aptly desig- V nates them, are a distinct department of Bad Blood. table etiquette. Strawberries, hulled. j are eaten with spoon or fork; unhulled, ' tllC UlliCU 1U uug&7 wij uu I daintily and -dipped in sugar before be- - ; t t - A- a. i "& w XT- J )i is occasionally suoject io seen competi- pears and peaches should be divided be-F lion between the various employers, and j foro attempted in mouthfuls al- It 13 oolu imerestiug huu aiuuamg w ctru the agents (the wages on the- various estates are often announced by the police officer stationed in the village) of various estate holders rintring their bells in the ' principal street of a village and de claring that they will give 6o much a day, and opposition agents overbidding each other, the laborers calmly awaiting But railway communication so rapidly extending, laborers from the -1 soutn are aoie to nnisn worK ai me.ear . i lier crops in their own districts and -et ,be in ample time' for the later harvesting in the north. , - : - - Thus the local laborer is now becoming of less value anu tuis nas uau a tendency Impure or vitrated bfood is nins times out of ten caused by some form of constipation or indiges tion that clogs tip the- system, when the blood naturally be comes Imprcgnutcd with the ef fete matter. TheoldSarsaparlllas attempt to- reach this condition by attacking tho-blood with the Z , , . , , I drastic mineral " potash. The potasu tneory is though anpe pear maybe halved and 4 Vc.fbtoSa.parinais eaien wuu a epoou. xue. nuub uwmm moderu. It goes to fac seat of the trouble. should be employed; with melon, though th0 Iircr vidm-vs and bowels to health- a fork which has one tine slightly broad- fui action, and invigorates the circiilationand i - . j m ..1. " F " A. nil . . . . . j . r .i ..V. I eneu is orcen seen lur liiu uuiu jii cho rmimntics aro. quicitiy t ameu uu ujiuubu. English tables spoons are served f or-4 the natural chaunuls. - I bananas as well, although when these J Try it and noto its doUgUtful I are served as a single fruit course sherry etiou. chas. Ic, at Beamish's V. ,.t.,rCf Jo ncnallv cent ornnn.l mritli th Third and Market Streets, S. F.f whole fruit. A few drops are poured on,; ; the plate, and the banana, stripped ot ifa cVin i a tf)i-nnrl in f-liA xnriA , -- tvlts. Tor 1 coma R-ei it iva.-. -orb-g j eaten." . . , - ' ' lug a change, it rleanKwl. pnri- tf uranges seem -to oner as many metn-r-; nedand bruccd mo npccuismiiy. -j h1s of eating 6 there are yarieties of the"3 and everything i now ivorting full ind regula V ; fruit. .- The Florida fashion of halving it,1 i across ' the grain and taking out the III writes: . " I took, it for vitiated bloo- and while oil the first oot- and thuai . . - - lt r, :nrk. x Of the Leading City of Eastern Oregon. During the little over a year' of its existence it has earnestly tried to fullfll the o"biects. for which it ( was iounaea, namelv. to assist in develo-nm ovit industries, to advertise the resources of the city and adjacent country and to work for an open river to the sea. - Its record is "before the neotDle" and the phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the 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 rig ht. Commencing -with the first number of the second volume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages " -- ; - - ; i , . ' - ' . .' while the "price ($1.50 a year) remains the same. Thus both the weeklv and dailv editions contain moie reading matter for less, money than any paper published in the county. : . to lower wages to sucu an exxenr, annag juice and fine j a dessert spoon winter and spring months that the village iaftneat wav d ,-ives one all the de- laborer is constantly ' seeking employ- .-,,, rt. nf t.h frnit: rm eat an or ange quite as daintily by tearing it in 'small sections and taking the fruit in uient in the towns. Indeed, so difficult has it become to obtain laborers at har vesting .times that " some fit the -estate holders engage railway wagons to bring laborers from distant parts. .These gangs of men and women aye generally led by a head worker or "vorarbeiter,'" whO'receives" the' Orders and the wages' for the whole of his or her gang. 1 i ' . "They are usnallyBmployed by the job. for. wee,dingn and j potato 'gathering women are aloue needed, and therefore gangs of women are often engaged separately. "During the potato-gathering season the tittle town of -Kallies, in Pomerauia, which is estimated .to contain. 1 from three thousand to four thousand in habitants, and - where the people are celebrated as potato workers, is com pletely' deserted, only the- mayor and bellringer being left in the town. The people, who are all of the laboring class, go out to the harvest and potato gather ing and are'scattered airoyeWPonierania. leaving their houses locked and the"keys in the hands of the mayor J a they oftpn do not return' for ' months. --l6ndon Times. , ' ' ' v i - lnouthf ulsr this method needs a " 'little practice before being attempted at form al tables, as. the inexperienced, with a juicy Havana or India river, speedily gets himself into trouble. HerPoint of View in New York Times. .' For 'w Vegetable O Sarsapamla Sale by SNIPES A KINERSUY - THE DALLES. OREGON . 1 ? joy GRIPPE Lost HU Aching Tooth. . David Riindabauirh.who is reputed to f to sit at table- at be a veracious and prominent citizen of Woman's News. Mechanicsbnrg, O., relates , a strange tale of personal experience.--. He says that the other night he went to bed with a raging toothache, and on waking; in the morning he was startled to find tis pillow and shirt , bosora covered with blood and the offending tooth lying-upon the bed clothing .close. by. He declares he had suffered no -pain sufficient - to awaken him during the night, and how the tooth became detached from his jasv remains 1 a ". mystery. Philadelphia complete hotel kitchens, manned by an 1 army of more than 1,000 waiters, cooks i 'and scullions. The ' dining room will i becuny above- five acres of space, and it wili. be possible . for abovo 8,000 people one time. Chicago Lost Anyhow. -.;-. ' " Wife And so you've failed and Joet fcverything? ' - . -- Husband (sadly) Everything. -'.' "I don't see why you couldn't have hut your property in my name." ; - "I was afraid you'd never let me have ny of it." New York Weekly. - To ToughesGlauwsre. A simple method Of toughening any glassware is to immerse it in a gallon pot of colu water m which a half cup of salt has been dissolved. Let the water boil thoroughly, then lift the kettle off the fire and a Qow it to become perfectly cold before you remove the glass. When the water is perfectly cold take out the glassware, wash it and wipe it dry. (ilaaa treated in this way is protected against changes . of . temperature . and sudden drafts, which, striking against a super heated lamp chimney, are liable to crack it. New York. Tribune. ; - " , If tbe Groom Washed His Hand. In certain parts of -Africa- a custom once prevailed (and may still) of the in tended bride bringing a bowl qc calabash of water for the bridegroom to wash his hands in If he condescended, tp do so she then "and there acknowledged .him as her lord and -master,, ana vinoreover drank the water as a proof of her love and fidelity, and cases have beem known where a copious shedding of tears of joy FeeUiug- the Crowd. at the World's Fair. The visitors to the exposition will be fed. The study of how and where to feed the crowds at the big fair has been an incident of the work of the construc tion department for the past six weeks, and is as. complete as possible. . Food will be served in ten of , the principal buildings in restaurants, private dining rooms and over lunch counters. ' There will be three characteristic lunch coun ters, twenty-seven principal restaurants or cafes, and in connection with them 115 dining rooms. Th Rurmlies will issue from seventeen I uned two vears aeo. durlntr the La Grippe epi lmrlt hntel Iritchena. manned bv an Tdeinic, and very ffattering testimonials ipf their " 0 ; otjubxj By using 8. B. Hefldache and IJver Cure, and fi. B Cough Cure us directed for colds. They were STJCOESSPUrjIj ears verv riowr nv that diMttueavt-atrband. Manufact ured by the S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur, Oregon. " For sale by all druggists. Severe Law. A . The English peo ple look more closely to the genuineness of these staples than vre do. In fact, they " have a law under y'l ; which' -they make ceizures and de stroy . - adulterated '.' products that are I . niot tKhat thev are represented to be. Under . . 1 - . . . i . a . this, statute thousands of pounds of tea hare - Leciburned because of thelrwholesaleadul- finrl thaTikfnlnfRB pr!r)mT)anied the latter I . terallon. - . - . ,. -. te-ated articles of commerce-Jot act.- San Francisco "Exarnine?."' The Buci and the Barbed Wlre.-sJ W. C. Green was coming across the country near Hereford, accompanied Tof others, when he came up with a large buck deer tangled up in the barbed wire of a neighboring fence. His horns were so completely tied up in the wire that it was with difficulty that they were ex tracted after abullet"had ended his life. He had evidently struggled for many hours to regain -his liberty. Tombstone (A. T.) Prospector. ; - . Jr -"Anrt ;sr.Itt!e After AIL ' . ' A certain clergyman of Halifax, N. S., while sxMrrtPsing his congregation on the subject of the Prodigal Son, is said to have affected his hearers even more than he anticipated : when, with tears in his eyes and pathos in his voice, he pictured the aged father, overjoyed at the return .of bis long ost boy,. commanding them to bring forth and kill . the little calf which had been : fattening f or-y ears and years and years.; Harper's Bazar. " ' Bow One Man Speaks of His Child. A baby is the member .of the family that always cries when wanted to sleep, that always bleeps when wanted to keep awake, and invariably sulks when wantr ed to show off." Cor. London Tit-Bits. ". Energy.-Almost Inaccessible. It has been computed that in a single cubic foot of the ether . . which fills all space there are locked up 10,000 foot tons of .energy which have , hitherto escaped notice. To unlock this boundless store and subdue it to the service of man is" a task which awaits the electrician of the future. The latest researches give well founded' hopes that thivast storehouse of power is not hopelessly inaccessible, Nature. N- ' - . ..v- '' Asking for Information. "v - ;V " " In Germany teachers are very poorly: paid. At a teachers' festival somebody! proposed the toast. "Longlive our school teachers t". ' " 'i "What on?" asked a cadaverous look-j ing specimen rising in his seat. Texas' Sittings. ; . : . ' phsly adulterated articles of commerce alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifl- . fi daily colored, but thoiis-ands of pounds of - substi-.utet for tea leaves aro used to swell . the balit of cUeap tea-.; ash, sloe, and willow . leaves being thosQ most commonly; used. Agaiu, sweepinga "fr.ui tea warehouses are -colored and sold as tra. Even exhausted tea leaves gathered Iron the tea-houses are kept, dried, and made over nud find their way into the cheap teas. -; . .;.. " : - The Eug'.Uh government at:empts to stamp . thU out bj- .co:)fiscUj; but no tea is too , poor for u', and the lesjilt is, that probably the poore.it teas used by any nation are those ' consumed in America... '. Beech's Tea Is prenerited -with the gaav auty that it is uncolorerl fend Bnadnlterated; .in fact, the sus-cureo tea leaf pare and sim ple. ; Its purity insures superior 'strength, about one third less of It being required fof au iufasion than of the artfflcial teas, and its fragrance and exquisite flavor is at once ap parent. It will be a revelation to you. In order that it purity and quality may be guar anteed, ft is sold only in pound packages bearing this trade-mark: ;:- ' - i GET YOUR PRIPING DONE AT THE CIWICLE JOB IDIH. Boo r( a rd J ob p r i 17 ti 9 Uone on Short Notice. BEEC sun t . GHTdhoodr "Pure As Price 6O0 per pound, yorsaleat' Io JsXlo OB-IJLiiioi-' 1 THE DA1U8, OREGON. LIGHT BiriblNG NEATLY DONE Addre all iiaillOrders to Pub- Co., THE DALLES, OREGON,