; REACH THE j VAN.
Beach the van! let nut tlie rrar
Ever be your uiarehinti plare.
Poster courage, banish fear.
. Wear a brave, determined f;
lieat ri Hit van!
Only tliey, the brave and true
' Nature's noblemen--tun hope ' '
By the klorious work I hey do
To reach fulfillment widest scope
Keacli t he vau! ...
lJUtgards, druiiua ami slaves of ease,
Binggard's long beyond the dawn.
Ne'er the golden moment seize
Which to grand suceesit lenda on- ,. --.
; Reach the ran! . '
' - ' - " " ' 'i
Man was uiude to show his might.
Not to grovel iu the dust;
Sfan was made to work for Right,
Not in sin and sloth to rust '
Iteach I he Vanl
111 may come, lint ne'er so dark
tVaa a cloud that did not hold
t 'Nealb its kIooiw hope's thecrliiK.siars, -
Soon to low tike beaming gold '
. - ' ,,' . liuai'h the van!
: i .
Do your best, I hen. use your power,
' Be content uot in the reart 4'
Full improve each golden hour
Be the first in all your sphere
licach the vanl . . - '
, -i New York tedirer.
History of Worcestershire Mauce. -
Many years ago Mrs, Grey, .author of
The Gamblers Wife." ami other novels
well known in tueir day, van on a visit
atOuiberbley Court when Lady.Sdnds
chanced to remark that she wished she
ooald get some very1 good curry ' powder r
which elicited from Mrs. CJrey that she
had in her desk an excellent recipe which
her uncle. Sir Charles,' chief justice "of
India, had brought thence and given her.
Lady Sands said that ,' there .were' boiue
clever chemists in Worcester- who. per
haps, might be able to make np the pow
der; at all events, when they drove in
after luncheon they would see. One
fem looked at the recipe, doubted if they
could procure all the ingredients., but
said they would do their best, and in due
time forwarded a packet of the powder.
Subsequently the happy thought
struck some one in the business that the
powder might, in solution, make a good
sauce. - The experiment was made, aud
by degrees the thing took amazingly.
All the world to its remotest" endtr-niVir
Vnows of Worcestershire sauce 'as an
article of coiujinerce, and, notwithstand
ing that, in common with most good
things, it is terribly pirated, an enor
mous trade is done in it. The profits
amount to thousands of pounds a year.
London World. .
How to Roll an Uiubrella.
"Certainly, but yon don't need any."
said a salesman in a Chapel street nt"ire
recently to a customer who had just
bought aii umbrella, and who had asked
for a rubber ring. - -
"But 1 want to keep the ends of the
ribs from spreading when the umbrella
is rolled up," and the customer held up
for inspection the umbrella he" had just
rolled. . '.
"Let ine show you," said tlitr sales
man, as he unfastened the band and
hook out the folds. Grasping the stick
o that his right hand . held the ends of
the ribs close to the wood, he began roll
"ing the silk in the curve of his left haiid.
"Whenever he gave the umbrella a turn
he kept the ribs in their original posi
tion, and when the rolling was complete
he lield up the umbrella and showed that
the metal tips pressed as closely to the
stick as if riveted in place. New Haven
Palladium.
, What a Fried Pie Is. '
Fried pie is a Philadelphia dish "that
cannot be found here. The dish is pre
pared with dried peaches inserted be
tween haf moons of pastry turnovers,
they are called with a particular sort
of crumple at the edges, seemingly iden
tified with their tiiste. . They are f ried
in hot lard, and afterward sprinkled over
with sugar and cinnamon or nutmeg.
They are served hot, "and to make them
richer butter is inserted between the
smoking ends. They are very good and
desirable if you are armored to resist
their ravages. New York Evening Snn.
A Natural Church Steeple.
A remarkable pinnacle of rock, some
thirty miles from Grant s Station, in the
San Mateo region, is the "Cero de las
- Alesena," Or- Shoemaker's Awl moun
tain. It rises 4,000 feet above the vallev.
and the upper 2,r00 feet is of hexago
nal prisms of columnar basalt, standing
up like a church steeple. Its summit is
totally inaccessible, and like the deserted
heights of the Mesa Escautada of the
Acomas, a host of traditions have gath
ered about it. Goldthwaite's Geograph
ical Magazine.
liaised the itoof. - r
A delicate youth iu Walling, a Colo
rado settlement, where he had gone to
recuperate his health, succeeded in lift
, ing the roof of a friend's house without
much effort. He was smoking a ciga
rette near a keg of gunpowder. A spark
lighted On some Iivika o-rin- art it in u
instant the cigarette, the young uian
juiu vue root were nymg skyward.
Yankee Blade. : ;
Walk Straight. "
My dear sir or madam, if you cannot
walk briskly along the pave, 1 don't see
that you are to be blamed for it But
there is one thing you can- do, namely,
walk in a straight line. .'. Give others a
chance: .toypass youi-- Don't wdrry the
life out of .them byvibrating like a pen
dulum, from side to C side. Keep in a
straight Ijne. Don't wabble. Exchange.
in Berlin, XJermany, not long ago, the
pupils in one of the public schools saw a
ghost" Soon others began to see:sim
ilar apparitions, and 'ghost -seeing"-extended
from school to school as a regular
,: epidemic, '- : - 1 1 . ; , ,;
When a gun is fired absolutely in the
vertical the ball will fall a few inches
south and west from ' the gnu in the
northern latitude, due west at the equa
tor and northwest in the southern lati-
tudes.
In the island of Madagascar the dis
satisfied husband has . only to give his
wife a piece of money and to say.
"Madame. 1 thank yon." in or.ler to lie
XONIMXN ZOO,
HOW THE CHILDREN ENJOY THEM
; SELVES ON A SATURDAY.
Seeing the Animals in -London's Great
Csrdes Take Their Daily Meal la a
'. Weekly' Attraction In the Big City.
Watching th e Create res Eat.
No day is more animated at the Lon
don Zoological gardens than Saturday,
when tne children appear in full force,
marshaled by papas and mammas, who
are doubtless glad enough to visit the
scene of their own early "larks," but
who try to look. as if they came only as
guides and guardians. The little peo
ple begin to appear early in the forenoon,
some or them, brinemg a lunch basket.
wherein .may' be found not only their
rown bread and; butter ..but biscuit, and
I buns for feeding' the animals. k- -
' '; Those who are to take their noonday
meal in the refreshment room; .- how
ever, need not be destitute of provender
for -their four footed acquaintances; a
bun may always be bought for a penny.
and -biscuit are , abundant on many a
convenient counter.
First comes the preliminary ramble,
ana then a skurry back to the fish house.
where at 12 o'clock the divine birds are
, fed.' A large glass tank of clear water
occupies one end of .the. room', and into
this precisely at ' noon an ' attendant
throws a handful of tiny .fish, a few of
them still "living. Then the side of .an
adjoining cage is removed, and down
plunge the penguins to seize their nrev.
It piust be confessed that their table
manners are not fine. They literally
gobble ban after fish, and then hurl
themselves about in the water, evidently
aeugntea with their bath.
Another bird a slender, graceful
creature, familiarly called a "darter"
is admitted alone to the tank, and his
motions in eating , his fish dinner are
wonderful to see. He sweeps through
t . i 1 - T ' ' . . .
me water iikc an arrow, ana impaling
eacn nsn upon his bill lifts his head,
ana tn some mysterious and litrhtnine-
like manner' catches the victim and
swallows it. .
THE RIDR OV THR riUPHlVTV:
Later in the afternoon the pelicans are
fed in the little vard whr tVmv
soiemniv an nav inne a umiii mn.)
occupies its center, and into this bits of
t? i , , , ...
usu are mrown, m search or which the
birds rush pell mell, covering the water
wim a oonrusion or gigantic wavina
wings. As the attendant approaches to
carry out . this ' pleasing ceremony, the
birds awaken from" their ilmvcr !-.
and it is a sight not soon to be forgotten
li one can watch a stately old pelican
lift his winers and bearin '
curveting in token of his joy. -
in tne bear pit, a deep and well lighted
inclosure. dwell two hM.rs Wli
wield V with the farnma nnuln.ul
many ouns. iney have-i)een so per
sistently fed by visitors that when one
looks Over the railinrr hl Vir!r:hir ilm.
ly rises, holds out two entreating fore
paws anu sits in pleased anticipation of
a feast.'. - : - '
He catches liitn nf linn In liw mnntl.
with, the unerring skill given by long
Dractice. and Will PVPn flim'h fha nnlain
the center of the pit, If one will but hold
a nun over it snsneiKiivi fwim a chvt
- how will Ha 1rntw I want l,i,n .
climb?" said a little girl, who had just
been provided with this plummy bribe.
: "Just hold it near the pole where" he
can get it, said ah attendant, "and hell
do tlie rest. Ho knows as much as we
do." . , .
So, heavily and with much panting,
the awkward creature mounts his pole,
seizes the bun. and descends to munch it
iu" content. ''
The crowuiny joy of all perhaps for
mue visitors is that or riding the ele
phants, which, provided with great sad
dles, large enough for a dozen people,
take their load of shrieking, laughing
children and go lumbering oif down the
walks, waving their trunks this side and
that in the hope of receiving a stray tit
bit from the neighboring crowd. - -
FEEDING TOE LIONS. '
Later in the ' day - comes one great
event, to which, even the -most serious
grown person: must-be interested. At
half past 4 the lions are fed! Long
before the time visitors begin to pour
into the building where, in large cages
against the wall, lions, tigers and leop
ards are pacing restlessly up and down.
The creatures themselyes need no
watches t j tell them dinner time is near.
At the appointed moment a man en
ters, pushing a barrow of bleeding meat,
and wheels it past the cages to the very
end of the room.- At the -smelL-'and
sight pandemonium, breaks .loose. One
awful concord, fills the place. -At the-
last cage the barrow stops, a bar is
thrown back, and two large pieces ef
meat aae thrown in- The lion seizes them
in his paws and lies contentedly down,
to "gnaw andi heir them with the delib
eration of a well fed animal.7 i : .. ,
- So the programme "goes on," until one
voice after another is silenced' and the
barrow is empty. " One very interesting
fact is always to be observed. The
animals do not, on receiving their first
piece of meat retire to devour it; they
wait f or;the second and' then turn away
with both held securely in their paws.
They have evidently learned how much
to expect and can count up to that
number..'? ?'.?. f:,-;; ,t
'Indeed the delights of the Zoo are
almost inexaustible to animal loving
children. There is the monkey house,
where those grave,,: wrihkl-half , hu
man creatures sit. picking fleas "from
each other with an air of funny absorp
tion. There is the chimpanzee "Sally,"
who will count five for her keeper by
passing hiinthe requisite number of
straws, and who, at request, will eat
with her fingers, as she "used to do,"
and then with a fork, as she does now
that she is civilized. ' "Queer old Sally,",
as one little boy said, and happy children
who can see her! Youth's Companion.
Fish swallow their food whole because
they are obliged to keep continually
opening and closing the mouth for the
Walt: Whltmaa in New York.
- Notwithstanding : .-. his . residence . in
Washington; his tay in New Orleans,
where- he ' did ' some good newspaper
work, and not counting his long" vegeta
tion' in: Camden, N."J.,' Walt' Whitman
is in every fiber' a thorough .New Yorker. '
Why not?' He was born, 'seventy-two
years ago,' in. a .little village:, over ' on
Long Island, and, like lhost Long Island
ers, naturally drifted to this town. My
old journalistic friend remembers, him
here' thirty-five years ago,wheu! he first
put out his "Leaves of Grass." This
city was comparatively small then, and
JWalt Whitman ' was as conspicuous a
citizen as any knew everybody and
everybody knew him. He was a marked
figure on Broadway a most manly man,
as vigorous and virile as his own poetry.
His very personality impressed itself
upon all passers by, and men, and even
women, turned around to look at him.
He was almost the first to make the now
fashionable fad of the flannel shirt in
summer his all the year round - conveni
ence and comfort, and .the broad collar
was turned- over a silk " American flag.
His ordinary wear was a neat suit of
workingman's clothes. Whatever he
might be called, a Democrat or a Repub
lican, he prided himself upon being
"one of the people." Brady, then fa
mous as a photographer, was the first to
capture Whitman, and thereafter every
photographer in. town displayed- colored
pictures of Walt, especially to show his
American flag scarf.
. There were omnibuses in those days
"stages," theycalled them and every
driver knew Walt - W.hitman; and up
and down Broadway the poet was promi
nent; often for hours, beside a driver on
the box. The lively street was his studio
in which he made his pictures of the
people and his studies of humanity.
New York Cor. Brooklyn Times.
Tlie Development of &iaro.'
- The Siamese sovereigns have usually
been men of considerable ability and in
energy and enlightenment are superior
to most Asiatic potentates. The late
king of Siaui and his successor have
done what, they could to introduce the
forms of westerh civilization." Bangkok,
the capital, has the electrie light, tram
cars and government offices of European
architecture, and the present king has
also shown himself a reformer of abuses,
especially of the worst of Siamese social
evils, the universality of serfdom and
the prevalence of slavery.
Further and much needed reforms are
expected from him, but even were the
political and fiscal administration nf t.h
kingdom very much better than it is the
oiaruese, a iignineartea nation of .Bud
dhists, fond of amusement and accus
tomed to frequent holidays, are little
fitted to develop the great resources of
their country. -'. ' 7 '
The internal trade is chiefly in the
hands of Chinamen, who.- with the
Malays, add some millions more to the
estimated bbnulation of fi.nnn:nnn " Rail.
ways'are, being constructed, and' Euro
peans; nave oeen encouraged by the
policy of Siamese royalty; to settle at
Banzkok and to dtrrnlrm the, '
trade of Siam. St." Louis Post-Dispatch.
. Explosives in Mines.
It has been claimed that " the use of
modern explosives in mines leads to the
production of such poisonous fumes that
a grave danger to the workmen isJhus
incurred. A short time ago a commit
tee was appointed by the . Durham Coal
Owners' association., consisting of repre
sentatives of both masters aud men, to
consider this important question. Care
ful experiments having been ' made, the
committee came to the conclusion that
the fumes produced are not more dan
gerous than : those from gunpowder;
that carbon monoxide the irrespirabla
gas which is produced by the combus
tion of charcoal, and which has led to
so many deaths is present only in
traces; that an interval of fave minutes
should be allowed to" elapse before the
men re-enter the gallery' in which the
charge has been fired; and that as they
find a portion of the deleterious " gases
are due to the fuse employed, the charges
should be invariably fired by electricity."
New York Telegram.
A Uuiiue Social Organization. -
The latest departure in clubdom is tne
formation - of the Annie Lynch Botta
Conversation club, a purely social or
ganization of literary and artistic men
and women, founded in memory of Mrs.
ootta 8 famous Sunday evenings. . The
topic of the evening's conversation is
known only to one person, who selects
it but does not-announce it until after the
company has assembled, -which pre
cludes all possibility of preparation and
secures the charm of spontaneity to the
talk. -
'.:The person who selects- the torric is
called the 'director," and leads the con
versation,. ilThis office is not held by the
same person on consecutive evenings.
.Membership to the club is obtained only
-through: the medium of friendship with
those Already .admitted to its privileges.
aew xoric sun. "... - - .
A Successfal 1 rummer.
A. B. Cnmmings, who was famous
in ; the gentlemen's furnishing - trade
throughout the country and . was re
gard ed as - in some: respects - the . most
brilliant: salesman in New-:York, is dead
quite suddenly from an attack of the
grip. "He was able to command "a salary
of fl0,000, Abesides handsoTne'commis-siens'-on
his 'Bales, and- he earned more
money sellipg, neckties than a majority
of the bank presidents receive in salary,
or nine-tenths Of the lawyers here coin
in practice at .'the bar. New York Let-
- ,
One Year's Patents.
Some months ago the American patent
office had' its 1 00th' birthday and the
last half of the century has witnessed
wonderful strides in that direction.. In
the first fifty years only 12,413 patents
were issued, but last year there were 22.-
080. '
The - variety of patented ' articles is
really -wonderful, and American inge
nuity seems to be in no danger of ex
hausting itself. " Every year shows a
larger number of inventions than the
' . Bard for" .Foreigner to ftnderataad
The constrnttion wf the EngHsb lan
guage must appear niost formidable to a
foreigner. One of them, looking "at a
picture of a-nnmber-of-vessels, said,
-"See what a Hock of ships!'' ' He was
told that a flock of ships was called a
fleet, and that a fleet of. sheep was -called
a flock, ... ;. J.
; And it was added for his guidance in
mastering the intricat ies of ' our lan
guage that "a flock of girls is called a
bevy, that a bevy of wolves is called a
pack, and a pack of thieves is called a
gang, and a gang of angels "is called a
host, anda boHt of . porpoises is called a
shoal, and a shoal of buffaloes is called
a herd; and a her'd' of children is called
a troop, and a troop of partridges is
called a covey, and a covey ofi beauties
is- called a. galaxy ; . and ; a galaxy-of
ruffians is calletl a . horde, and a' horde
of rubbish is called , a heap, and a
neap of oxen is cailetl a ' drove, and
a drove ..of llackgnards is called 'a
mob, and a mob of , whales is called
a school, and a school of .worshipers
is called a ' congregation!, and ' a ' con
gregation' of ' engineers ' is called : a
corps, and a corps-of robbers is called a
band, and a band of locusts is called a
swarm, and a swarm of people is called
a crowd. Boston Commercial.
. Diogenes' Tart IronjC
Diogenes" indulged in a "tart irony"
when, observing1 over" the' door of a
schoolroom this inscription", "Let no de
ceiver enter here," he quietly asked,
"How does the teacher go -in?" New
York Home Journal. "- '
The whitebait, the sprat, the sardine
and the anchovy are the smallest of the
finny tribe, and yet the collection and
sale of these' form important arid very
profitable industries, - . - 1 ; , : - .
Afflicts half the Amerloau people yet there la
only one preparation of Sarsaparilla that acts on
the bowels and reaches this important trouble,
and that Is Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. It re
lieves it In 24 hours, and an occasional dose
prevents return. "Vc refer by permission to C. E.
Eltlngton, 125 lxrnst Avenue, Bau Francisco;
J. H. Brown, Petaluma; H. S. Winn, Geary Court,
San Francisco, and Jmudreds of others who have
used it in constipation. One letter is a sample of
UUUUicu.. X.1K1UKWU, writes: x nave been tot
years subject to bilious headaches and constipa
tion. Have been to bad for a year back have
had to take a physio every other night or else I
would have a headache. After toting one bottle
f J. V. 8.. I am In snlendiH t vn. a
M . w UIM UUMO
wonderful things tor . mo. People similarly
if " eusnouia try nana De convinced."
VegetaWe
Sarsaparilla
Uost modern, mxt crTcrtir". largest bottle.
Bne price, Jl.O-i. ! , r..i " . - -
For Sal by SNIPES & K1NERSLY
.. .. U,1B DAIXES..ORESOX.- i ' r
By using S. B. Headache arid Liver Cure, and S.
B. Cough Cure as directed for colds. They were
nsed i two years- ago during the La Grippe epi
demic, and verv flattering tRKtimnniln nt ihfir
power over that disease are" at band. Mannf act-
j Meaicine Mig. CO., at Du fur.
- - JJ OUWUUIh , . .
A Severe Law-
The English peo
ple look more closely '
'to the genuineness
of these staples than
we do. In fact, they
have a law" under
.-'which they make
seizures : and - de
- stroy adulterated
- . . - - , - products - that are
not what they are represented to be. J Under 1
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have -been
burned because of tlielr wholesale adul-
- teralion. . . - .- " .
: Tea, by the way, is one of the most noto'ri-
." ously adulterated articles of commerce, - Not "
alone are the brfght, shiny green teas artlfl- -
' clally' Colored, but thnnands of pounds of.
substfetitet for tea leaves tire used to swell .
the bulk of cheap tea ash, sloe, aud willow
'leaves 'being -ahose most '.commonly used. '
-.Again, sweepings from tea . warehouses are -colored
and sold as tea. ' Even exhausted tes,
leaves gathered from the tea-houses are kcpC
dried, and madeoveraud And their way into
' the cheap teas. . " ; ;
. The Eiiflish governmea't at'empts to stamp .
this out' by cooficatf.jn;birt nb'tea ls too
poor Jfor'uV and tbe; rclulE i,'that probably"
l' fhe poorest teas ned' fcy any nation are rhosa ;
Consumed In America. ?'V r"rH
"Beeeh'r Tea' is presented "with the gaar-
auty that It is uncolored and .unadulterated; '.
in fact, the sun-eurea tea leaf pare ;aiid,slm- '"
r pie. Us purity insures saperior- strength, .
.about one third less of it 'bejng" required for .,
a 'Infusion than of the aiflcial teas, 'ahcflU '"
fragrance anil exquisite flavor Is at bnceap-'
:parenti It Tvill be a revelaUoii roybui Hn -order
that lb purity aud quality may be gaar-
' anfeed, it:'lm sold only In 'pound -pafcttages.
earinK'this trade-mark :M ' cHi -txs '
'PureAs-Ghifdhoodr
Price 60a per poind. For sale at "
STIPATION.
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Of the Leading City of Eastern Oregon. -
Paring the little over a year of its existence it
has earnestly tried to ftdlfll the objects for which it
was founded, namely, to assist in developing our
ftdes, 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 people an 1 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 riht.
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.
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