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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
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DONE AT
THE CIWICLE JOB
IDIH.
Boo r( a rd J ob p r i 17 ti 9
Uone on Short Notice.
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sun t .
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"Pure As
Price 6O0 per pound, yorsaleat'
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