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.. Whera Oongreas met arid Freedom flnng IU starry banner to the breexe, Xxoltingly its iron tongue "- : . s .-" ,.".. AJU thro that summer morning song " ' Our new born liberties. Ittold tie ending of the nigh I," The happy dawn of freedom's day, ' And overland there flashed a light Of brotherhood and human right. The end of kingly sway. ' - Oh. how the good old bell sang oat Of liberty and freedom's birth! From east to west, from north to sooth ' ,- The message of its metal month Roiled all around the earth! It told the birthright of the race. The glory of the brave and free. And pealing from its sacred place It set the whole wide world ablaze With dreams of liberty, Alas, it utters now no sound, But yet Its echoes ring sublime. ' - "-- lis resting place is noiy ground. Where Freedom stalks in solemn "round Until the end of time Louis Sverre Auionsnn In Philadelphia -tiedger. .' . -. . -. ... ' -. Inflammable Gowlit. -"My business liere is to sell things," remarked a midjlle aged salesman to his friend, as he made a memorandum of a cash sale in his book; "and of coarse t expect to sell whatever goods people ask for, if I have them in stock. Brit-1 do wish,ttiey wouldn't come here and- buy -Canton flannel for curtains and draper ies. ' There is nothing that I sell that makes me so uncomfortable as this. I lave had some frightful experiences -with these goods, which 1 suppose have made me unusually nervous about them. There is nothing in the whole range of dry goods so inflammable as the fine . grades of Canton flannel, i have had the house set on fire, repeatedly because some one lighted a lamp in the vicinity - of a Canton flannel drapery. J used to be very fond of this sort of goods, but there is nothing that would induce me bow to pnt up a yard of it in my house. .If you want to understand the occasion of my fears,-ju8t take a bit of the stuff and hold it - near the flame of a lamp. The blaze will travel over it faster than a prairie fire. 1 have sometimes thought I would positively refuse to sell the goods, but people want them; and I 6up--poee no one would thank me for advice OA t hp KllhlPf't Virlr T crtr - Sparrows and Blackbirds. Birds, notwithstanding their attract iveness in plumage and sweetness in song, are many of them great thieves. When nest building they will steal the feathers out of the nests of other birds. and are often much inclined to drive off other birds from a feeding ground even where there is abundance. This is espe cially true of one of our greatest-favorites; the robin redbreast, who will peck and run after and drive away birds much bigger than himself. Very different asrthe robin and the sparrow are in other things, they re semble each other in this. On an - early spring morning, when a little touch of frost still made the surface of the earth hard, 1 have seen a blackbird on a lawn at last after great efforts extract a worm. and this was the signal for a crowd of parrows, who,' by dint ' of numbers, managed to drive away the blackbird and carry off the worm, to feed their own young ones, no doubt. CasselVs Maga zine. .. ,. , .... . . . , descendants of Some Noted Men. It is noteworthy what a number of xaen eminent in the era 1861-C5 are now "represented only in the female' line of descent. Neither Abraham Lincoln nor Jefferson Davis has a living grandson. Keither has Andrew Jackson, Thurlow Weed nor Horace Greeley. General Hancock's one son left behind him only small daughter. There is no represent tetive of General Scott's name. -A sin gular parallel runs betwixt two Confed erate generals. Stonewall -Jackson - and John Morgan, prince of raiders. .- Each died before the war ended, leaving one fair dancrhter. Th r.wn mrli imm nn o e'" lamed happily, bore each a daughter and died- soon after giving birth to a second child. New York Press. ' - I'liogphoresceut Infection. The curious discovery has beenmade that the, phosphorescence frequently ex hibited by many species of the Crustacea is infectious. A French naturalist, M. Giard, has traced the phosphorescent light in Talitrus to bacteria in the mus cles, these muscles always showing signs or disease, un modulating healthy individuals the same luminous appear ance was produced. Each and every in oculated specimen, however, died within seventy-two hoursv St. Louis Republic. . College Girls After a Great Game. The Smith college girls were different ly affected by Yale's victory over Har vard t the annual football game. Some draped their rooms in black and went to the church the next day dressed in deep mourning, and one fated all day Sun day. Those who bet on Yale gave a banquet, where the dishes were blue, all the table decorations blue and the wall . paper one of solid blue, bought and put np purposely for the occasion. Boston A Custom Very Like American. -According to Colonel Rockill, the devils are driven out Of the. towns in uorea on Hew Year a eve by firing off guns and crackers. This is a curious parallel, if not an explanation,, of Use ffnfitrtm if rmf mm Van, Von'a nlmnfn " W.M V M ..VTT A VtU O O. Why the Sky Is Mat, , ; 1 The apparent flattening of the vault of the heavens has been found to" have an annual period, and to depend on loads. It seems least flat with a misty horizon, and less by night than by day. New York "Journal. . Semiannual Experience. ' Wife (after' house cleaning) It takes a woman to bring order out of chaos. Husband (rushing wildly around after sua uetongings; n Taaea a woman to mska a nhiuw- that trwfeo. IiIta r,Wlav . New York Weekly.'- A physician says: "All emotions are capable of being propagated from per--on to person, so as to assume an epi demic form. Almost every age has witnessed such epidemics." - A COUNTRY JN ; WHICH RELIGIOUS -rFERVOR IS STRONG. ......... '.i r. . . . . Delicate ' Women Have" Been, Known to Crawl on 'Their Hands' and' "Knees to . Place uf Worship Four anil Rich Bow Together In Devotional Exercise. -' No people in the work!- are more de vout than those of Chili, and " surely if self inflicted punishments, fasting, con fessions and donations will take one to heaven, a vast -throng "tthough -mostly women) will go up from that little re public, ft is uo uncommon thing for delicate females to go to the shrine of worship upon their knees, over the flinty stones that - tear the flesh, and then beat themselves with leather straps tipped with nails. - The, bodies are- -often thus punished until the blood runs profusely and when the .poor creatures can do no more they deposit all the money and trinkets of value upon the altar and go home liappy. though suffering. A few years ago no 'man dare ride through the streets of any Chilian city on Good Friday.' Even the cars Were not allowed . to run; all business -was stopped aud no sound' of wheel or ham mer or human labor disturbed the. reli gious silence. In these days of liberal ism, although' the people still dress in deepest mourning and most of the shops are shnt. the cars and public carriages go about as nxnal and some business may be transacted. - - The strangest and most impressive part of holy week came on the night of (Jood Friday, when a long line of female worshipers, led by the dignitaries of the church and joined by a very few men. crept :to the cross on their knees.' They first knelt in the front yard of the church and slowly crawled on their knees through the gravelly courts, up through the long hall, until they reached the im age of the crucified, and . each in turn kissed the wounded foot.' So solemn was the scene that many Protestants and persons of no particular religions belief, who came merely to look, joined "in the worship. It brought rich and poor, aristocratic and plebeian, on the same level servants and ladies of high degree, both wrapped in mantas. side by side. CKI.F.BBATINQ KOtfV WEEK. "" Later, there was a weird torchlight procession, led T by the chanting priests in Diack robes, followed by a concourse of people who bore in the midst npon their shoulders a "company of life size imageB representing all the saints, each clothed in flowing velvet robes. Among them was the blessed Virgin, arrayed in white tarlatan, attended by four- living maids of honor little girls with long curls, artificial wings ou.their shoulders, and garlands of flowers upon their heads The holy sepulcher was represented by a large box draped in white mnslin, half revealing a recumbent figure. All these were surrounded by devotees -with lan terns and candles, and follovigd by an nn wholesome rabble, running, jostling and poshing oa every side. - ' - . On Saturay morning, the last of holy week, especial services were' again held iu all the churches, which were' still gloomily draped in black. The priests entered 'in procession, and there was a great deal of extinguishing and lighting of candles, tinkling of bells and other ceremonies whose import we did not comprehend, until 10 o'clock, when sud denly the black veils which slirouded the altars were drawn aside, displaying the shrines ablaze with candlesticks afid abloom with flowers: a peal of trium phant music, burst from choir, organ, band and bells, and the glad cry arose. "Christ is risen." The cannon of the fort thundered the joyful tidings and the national ships-of-" war re-echoed the sound, v Closed doors flew open, vehicles once more thronged the streets and business was resumed with Its accustomed noise, while the ex cited populace, as if the tragedy of nearly .1,900 years ago were just enacted, ventral their pious rage npon efligies of Judas l.scariot. Poor Judas -was made to suffer, every punishment that,human ingeuuity could invent he was drowned in the sea. dragged through the streets, burned at corners, hanged, impaled and torn piecemeal on the hillsides. ; vows OF enthusiasts.; " Many devout Chilians take a vowthat if the Virgin will do certain things for thein such, for example, as to restore a sick friend to health they will perform, this or that ceremony, or dress them selves or their children in a certain color for a certain length of time. One day 1 met in the streets of Santiago a hand some, middle aged lady, dressed . entire ly in white woolen, and upon expressing a surprise at her unsuitable choice of color was -informed, in a tone of pro fouudest respect for the matron in ques tion, that she was the wife -of a well known wealthy citizen, . who, " having lost several'children, vowtfd that if her last babe was spared she would dress not only it,-but herself, in nothing but white for ten! years. The child lived and the vow is being religiously ful filled. . . -' - . ; There ' are many" other : pious observ ances in Chili that attract, the foreign ers attention." "There are hundreds of good people who have a cnstAn of expi ating their . Bins for a whole year by a nine days' period ' of penance ' during Lent!" . In every town there is a house provided expressly for the purpose" and in charge of priests, where -the penitent spend their nights alternately praying and thrashing one another, Those who are too infirin to use the, scourge punish themselves by reciprocal piuchings. The lights -are extinguished, and at a signal fr6mthe 'priest the' penitents change places and begin scourging the nearest sinner with a vim .'that cannot leave any doubt of the sincerity of "their contrition. New York Advertiser. .. A Moment of Candor. Mrs. Speakermind (at a chrysanthe mum show) Why ts there 6uch a furor over such' a commonplace flower as the chrysanthemum? Everybody Else-That's just what we came to find out. New York Weekly. T' -:-'-Nothing- Now.: .--- ' 7.' In -the immense parlor of a Fifth avenue house vast as a desert, where he roic tapestries, gilded candelabra, furni ture covered- with antique damask, por traits of captains In- white cravats, and of austere ladies with scarfs -of flowers, evoke vanished epochs, the grandfather, whose hair is white as snow, declaimed, as is his custom every Sunday since "the time when Polk was president. "Noth ing ever happens," he said. "I mean nothing having an absolute, character istic, for the man who was run over " in Seventh avenue yesterday at 3 o'clock might as .well have lived 2,000 years ago and been run over in a street of Nineveh under the" reign of Nebuchadnezzar.- : It is not the newspapers, but the newspaper men that I ftm interested in. Aren't you dazed by them? "Every morning; without a sign of fatigue, they serve the public with the sublime, the' ironical, the gay and' the farcicak They have charming and en thusiastic phrases, irresistible . argu ments, and, like a pianist with long fin gers of quicksilver, they make the en , tire gamut laugh. " murmur, sing j and thunder endlessly. The things that they ignore they - are bound to" know, and they know them; the things that they, could not do, they do; from their exr hausted minds they draw inexhaustible inventions. . They put their hands in their empty pockets and withdraw them filled with gold. They have not the time to dream, and they are compelled to be universal." New York Times. , ' -.' A Family Tree. - A pretty custom which was at one time' common in some parts of New England was the setting apart of a "fam ily tree." This tree was not of a dry, genealogical kind, but was always one of the finest-in the orchard, . selected with a view to its apple bearing abilities and its beauty.' ' In one little village many of the or chards have trees of this description, and the older inhabitants can refresh their memories as to the number of children in - the families which have occumed farms at different times, provided the J period: or occupancy was long "enough to make the setting up of a "family tree" worthwhile. - - ' .' ... . On one farm there is a large old tree which bears seven different varieties of apples: Baldwins. Jeremiahs, summer sweetings," winter pippins. 'Astrakhans, russets and gillyflowers-. The grafts on i this tree were made, not one - at the uirtn or eacu cuiu or . tne nousehom, as was" -sometimes the"' custom, but wjien each boy or girl grew old enough to choose his or her"special favorite among apples. . The tree is now more than sixty years old, and its present owner shows it with great pride, and gives samples -of its fruit to the children of the neighbor hood with a free hand. Youth's Com- panion. .- . - . : . . . j . Well Disciplined Ducks.' During our stay at Hankow we visited a duck farm. The process of keeping the ducks - is 'very' simple. ' . A' large wooden shed stands near the edge of the river, where the owner pf the farm ' or an employee spends the night with his feathered " friends. ' There ' must ' have' been several thousands of ducks in the' farm we visited. . Before ' sunrise the door of the shed was opened, and out run the ducks, scrambling one oyer the other into the river, where they spend the -day feeding. As soon as sunset approaches, from all parts of the river they come, for they wander far among the rushes and islands during the day. and there is still more hurry and scurry to get into the shed than there was to get out at dawn. The reason is simple. Immovable by the door sits the Chinaman, a long cane in his hand, and woe betide the last duck " to enter. or down on its back comes the long bamboo with a pain inflicting thud. In thisway punctuality is insured among the ducks. - Children " could "hardly have learned their lesson better thau the ducks. Blackwood's Magazine. How Man Sleeps. - ' I aquu man is, i oeneve, tne only ani mal who ever elects to sleep npon his back. Some of the lower savages seem to sleep comfortably on occasion in a' crouching position, with the head bent down upon the kneea, just -ns well as the common - tribes of monkeys do. Among the quadrumana it - is not ' until we come to the platform building an thropoid types that we find a recumbent position habitually takeu iluring: sleep. The young orangs. and chimpanzees that ' they have had at the zoological gardens slept with the body semi prone and with the limbs, or all except one arm, which was used as a pillow, curled under them. This 'is exactly the position voluntarily adopted by 80 per cent, of . children between ten and-twenty months " old which 1 have had opportunities of Watching." 1 was fold by the" attendants at the zoological gardens that no ape will sleep flat on his back as adult man' often does. Nineteenth Century. ' Sun. Moou and Earth. " ' When the earth was young; . says Dr. Ball, astronomer royal for Ireland.it spun around at such a rate that the' day was only three hours long: . The earth was liquid then, and as it revolved at that fearful speed the sun caused ever increasing tides upon its surface until at. last it burst in two. The smaller part became the moon,, which has !been going around the earth ever since at an increasing distance. " The" influence of the moon now raises tides on the earth, and while there was any. liquicL to 'operate on . in the moon the earth heaped up much greater lunar tides. New York. Journal. -J A' Remarkable Medal. A gentleman of Canajoharie, N. Y., has a remarkably fine brass medal from an Indian grave there. - It is about an inch to length, and has on one sidethe head of Christ, with the words "Salvator Mundi." On the other side is the Virgin Mary, with . the words "Regina Coeli." The engraving is bold and the medal is in a fine state of preservation. Phila delphia Ledger. ,' ; " ! T'-.V' " Mnsleal 'Sljrnalins;. z " It is a theory which-eems to have been confirmed by practical experiment that a pure tone of voice, such as . that sued. :in' -singing, penetrates -.to a much greater distance than mere noise. - This idea - has given rise to a new system of marine signaling, to be used neither at night or in foggy weather, and based entirely-? upon- -the action of successive musieal tone - -j .-. s "j- . - -r:.- : ; A limited number of combinations of notes can be made to carry on -all the conversation- ' necessary-between ap proaching' vessels to avoid . collision, or between, lighthouses and dangerous points of the coast, in order to prevent wrecks.... h ;: ;:''' -- : - '.-: iV -: :- Four notes, for example serve to ask, 'V Which way are you heading?" and two others mean; "I am steering southeast," - 'The system can be employed on a large scale by means of machinery, consisting of a keyboard, on which .the -Operator would play, and "speaking apparatus. " It-is expected, that -by such apparatus communication may be established, at a distance ;of : two miles. .-The invention can be adapted to the. Morse eode of sig nals when it becomes necessary to spell Out names and words. Youth's Com panion. . r ......... . .'V' :." Cleanhas: Streets by Klectrioltx. 1 An 'electric snow plow1 has been- -de-1 signed -.with-a thirty horse power motor for propelling the -car and independent reversible ' motors? -for running : the ur-iishes. It is intended for use on street railways.-r-New York Journal. -.- . ' j . Knew About Servants.' : Little,girl to her nurse, who has told her the Btory of Adam T and Eve's dis missal from the garden of Eden 1 sup pose they wore both sent- away without a cltaracter. London Tfutbv-'; r- women. : The'eonuiioji afflictions of wdnicu iirusrck-hcnd-acliosr f:i2:gc&tro!i a:T nc-ryOiis lro;:blpsu VIk-jt arise largely irora tt:nl;ich disontc-rs. As Joy's Vocable KarsairtiriDa Is .tho- Onry bowel rcgu laiji:g preparatlou,.ou-au sec v.bylit s lucre plt;ctive than any otlicr Eurniurilla Iti those IrocblosL jt is daily relieving Uundreilsi - The aotio;i is inilU,' direct aud "ciToctlve, ' We have ecbres of IctlorHjrom grateful women. Wo refer lo a few: .- . , " . - Xeryoiis debility, Mrs. J. Barruu, 1 ;2 Ttli fet., S. F. Nerv&ua Oc biiity, Mrs. Fred. I -oy, 827 Ellis St.', S.F. General debility, Mrs. Be'lden, "510 riosou St, &F, Ken-ens (iebllity, Mrs. J. Laniphere, 730 Turk 6t, s- ' " , - i Nervous debility, Miss K. Rosciiblum. 222 17tn' Kt.t.S. V. Stoinaoh troubles', Mr3. R. ll Wbeutou, 701 Post St., S. F. - . - - . - . - Sick headaches, Mr. M. B- Price, 16 Prospect Pliurc, b. l- 8ict headaches; Mrs. M . 'Fowler, 327 Ellis St.,8.F. Indigestion, Mrs. C. D. Stuart, 1221 Mission St, S. F. .-.--'.'". Cctistipati6n, M"a. C. Melviu, 126 Kearny St.. S.F. Vegetable Sarsaparilla -'Most modern, most effective, largest bottle. Bame price, fl.00 or 6 for V5.00. For Sale by SNIPES Sc KINERSLV THE DALLES. OEEGON. By using 8. B. Headache" and Liver Cure, and 8. B. Cough Cure as directed for colds. They were STJOOESSjj'TJIjIjTr used two years ago during the La Grippe epi demic, and very (latceriug - teMtimonials of their power over that disease are at hand. Manufact ured by the 8,. B. Medicine Mfg. fo.,-at Du fur, Oregon. For sale by all druggists. A Severe Law. - Tho EDglish 'peo ple look more closely 'to the genuineness - ' of these staples than we do.- In fact, they - Lave a law under 'Which they make seizures and de stroy adulterated products that are not what the are' represented to be. Under this statute thousands of pounds of tea hare 1 . been' burned b-- caase of their wholesale adul teration. - , .. . .. Tea, by the way, is one of tho most iiotorl- ? . ou?ly adulterated articles of commerce. . Not' aioue are the bright, shiny green teas artifi cially colored, but thousands of pounds of jmbstiiutci for tea leaves aro used to swell the bulk of ch-.-a tea ; ash, sloe, aud willow leaves beint; thosa niOit commonly useL . Agl;i, sweeping frc m tea warehouses are colored and sold as tea. -Even exhausted tea leaves gatheied from the tea-houses are kept, dried, and madeoverucd find their way into tbehcnp teas. The Eugliah govrruTnent allesupts to stamp Ihin out by ro:iflscatLn; but no tea is too poor fur u , a:id flie 'result is, bat probably - the"pouri;.t toa used by any nation are those . consumed fu America. ' ' 1 .""' -' '-t-".-" Beech's Tea Is "presented" witb the guar anty that' It is uiicolored and unadulterated; In fact, the siin-curea tea leaf pare and sim ple. Its" purity insures snperior; 'strength, about one third less of It being required for ; " an iufusion than of the aiifiolal teas, and Its fraTance and exquisite flavor is atonce ap- -' ; parent It -will be a revelation to yon. In ' order that iu purity aud quality may be guar- ' an teed, it is sold only in poand package bearing this trado-mark;:- "Pore AsGhildhoodr Joy's OTJHK30 18 ,.J SUN File 60o per poand. For sale at Loslio 3T3LtX0X,,l . THE DAILE8, ORFGOI. ! J'.i tie Dalles If Of the Iaxling Oty of Eastern Oregon. ; During the iittle over a year of its existence it has earnestly tried to fallfil the objects for which it was founded, namely, to industries, ta advertise the resources of the city and adjacent country and to work ' for an open f iver to the sea. Its record is 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 rijht. . Commencing with the first number, of the second vclume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages while , the price ($1.50 a year) remains the : same. Thus both the weekly and daily editions contain moie reading matter for less ;money than any paper published in the county. GET YOUfi DONE AT THE CIIROillCLE JOS BboK Done on LIGHT BINDING Address all Mail Orders to ChoniQle THE DALLES, cnionicie assist in developing bur before the people airi the PRINTIHG iOPI aid .Job priptip Short Notice NEATLY DONE, Pub. Co., OREGON,