How to Make Ice Cretin at Home.'
Put one pint of milk in; a double boiler
with a. piece of vanilla bean one inch in
length. ' Cream together. the yolks, of
four eggs, half a cnp of sugar and two
tablespoonfnls of flour until very light
and Btir gradually into the milk when it
reaches the boiling point. Cook ten
minates, stirring, frequently. Add a
pinch of salt; turn into a stone dish,
beating while it cools. When cool add
one and a half jrints of cream .and half a
oop of Bngnr. ' Before freezing remove
carefully the bits of vanilla, beau. Use
rock salt with the broken ice, putting
the can into the center of the tub.
Fasten the lid very securely. Three
pints of rock salt is sufficient for a gal
lon freezer. . The ice- and salt should be
in layers, : Turn the crank slowly at
first until the ice is well packed about the
freezer. Twenty minutes . will usually
serve to ' freeze the cream. When it is
firm enongh take out the paddle and
beat well with a wooden spoon until the
space left by the beater is filled. Cover
with a blanket and set away for two
boars. Then dip the can in warm (not
hot) water, wipe it off and turn the con
tents into a cold dish. Well sweetened
strawberry or raspberry juice or a quar
ter cnp of black coffea may be used if
ther flavors are desired.
Now to Oil Whrtnlonn. '
Kerosene is best, as it keexs the stone in
" better condition and assists the process
of sharpening.
How to Oct OfT a Moving Car.
It is always best to have a car stop be
fore getting off, and specially so when
One is no longer young and nimble. But
when one must jump off a moving car
there is only one way to do it. Face iu
the direction the car is going, but
lean back a little, not letting go the
handrail of the car till one foot has
touched the ground; then step forward
in the same directions oue, two or- three
steps, according to the momentum the
car has to yon. To jump off backward or
sideways nearly always results in a fall.
i How to Make Hranuled J'eaclien.
Take four xonnds of peeled fruit, four
pounds of sugar and a pint of white
brandy. Make a sirup of the sugar in
enough water to dissolve it. Let this !
come to u boil; put the fruit iu and boil !
five minutes. Remove the fruit care- i
fully and let the sirup boil fifteen mm- j
utes longer, or until it is quite thick; j
add the brandy, and take the kettle at j
once from the fire; pour the sirup over ;
the fruit anti seal. j
How to Shake Hands.
Americans are the greatest imuciKhak;
ers in the world, and it is likely that of
.recent days there has not been a presi
dent of the United States who has not
secretly wished that George Francis
Train's style of shaking hands with, him
self when he greeted an acquaintance
was the universal custom. Common
tfcovgh the habit is, many do the act
awkwardly. The right hand of each
party to the greeting should be extended
boat twelve inches forward midway
letween the waist and breast, and the
bands should clasp each the other firmly
but gently, and then a slight movement
up and down and the greeting is over.
A hand should never be squeezed either
rom exuberance of spirit or in play
fulness.. Neither should a hand when
given in salutation be inert and dead.
Nor should either party to a handshak
ing merely give the finger tips. In En
rope, some little while ago, in circles of
high fashion, it became the style to reach
out the haud at an elevation of the
breast and then raise the hands. This
bad some vogue i u America, but it was
' silly and awkward and the style has
passed away. A gentleman when intro
duced to a lady should ' not offer his
hand, but he should be on the alert to
respond if the lady should choose to do
him the honor of shaking his hand.
Uuw to' Cure a Bolting: Saddle Home.
Many ill mannered horses and especial
ly livery stable hacks frequently are dis
posed to choose at a road crossing which
road to take, and invariably the road
the horse chooses is not the one the rider
wishes. If he .is obstinate and insists on
having his own way, the rider should
dismount, take the bit in both hands,
standing in front of and facing the horse.
Then back the horse in the direction he
has selected to go for 100 or 200 yards.
Back him as rapidly as you can. Then
mount and start on your way. Nine
times ont of ten this one lesson will be
all that is desired, but if the brute be
unnaturally willful it may have to be
repeated several times.
. Bow .to Preserve Kid Gloves from Sweat.
Dust the hands, with cornstarch (dry)
just before drawing on the gloves.
How to Make Taffy.
. To one quart of molasses add one gill
of cold water and Bet it over a moderate
fire. Let it boil steadily until nearly
stiff, then add one tablespoonful of but-
. ter and one tablespoonful of brown
sugar. Boil ten minutes longer and then
pour into battered pans.
How to Prevent Wrinkle.
Wrinkles, of course, cannot be entire
ly prevented, bat there is no use in hav
ing as many as most people in middle
life and old age are decorated with. One
does not think any the better or clearer
for wrinkling up the forehead and screw
ing up the eyes, and yet nine people out
of ten. contract this habit in early youth.
: This indulgence soon fixes the wrinkles
and they never go away. The habit, too,
of making faces indicative of the various
emotions contributes . a great many of
these spoilers of beauty. A placid ex
pression is certainly very much more
lovely either in man or woman than one
disturbed by useless grimaces. An even
temper and a patient mind will do won
ders in the way of smoothing oat the
'wrinkled brow of care.
RIDING ALLIGATORS, i
A NATIVE WHO THINKS NOTHING OF
, ... MOUNTING A SAURIAN.
According;. to This Man In Florida, All
You Have to Do Is to Vault Lightly to
- the Animal's Back, Press Your Thnmbi
Over His Kyes and Say '"Clans;."
If 'the ancient writers and painters
who depicted men on horseback as cen
taurs were now living what a field they
would find in Florida for - originating
new forms of life, provided they fol
lowed the idea developedjn the produc
tion of the creature that was "part man
and part horse! Here, for instance, they
could see men riding huge saurians
across a lake without either Feins or sad
dle, some coming from the depths of the
ocean mounted on gigantic turtles
weighing as much as Clydesdale horses,
and others straddling a jewfish, shark or
porpoise, or being towed behind an enor
mous sea devil in a cockle shell of a boat
or in a large schooner'.-' "
Tampa boasts of a colored citizen who
has no more fear of an alligator than he
has of the harmless lizard, and will at
tempt to ride oue any day for a small
sum of money. His method of riding
the reptile is to enter a lake or pond
where the species congregates, select a
large one, jump on its back quickly and,
pressing his thumbs on its eyes, urge it
shoreward.
An employee of the South Florida
railroad, whose name 1 have received
permission to use, informed me that he
had often mounted old bulls in the lakes
of Hernando county and ridden 'them
ashore without any trouble by simply
pressing his thumbs on their eyes and
urging them forward with his heels or
shouts. He found it far easier work to
mount than dismount, for as soon as his
saurian steed touched the shore it tried
to seize his leg by bringing it? tail and
head suddenly together and rolling over
and over like a barrel going down lull.
This is the ordinary method employed
by alligators for capturing' their prey or
enemies, and as its efficacy depends on
the prompt conjunction of j iws and
tail, the stroke may be readily avoided
by a little "figuring," to use Mr. Staf
ford's expression.
According to Mr. Stafford, all he had
to do when in want of an aquatic mus
tang was to enter a half dried pond, pick
out the largest and laziest saurian he
saw there, mount it promptly and point
its head landward. The mounted ani
mal, according to his statement, makes
no fuss about moving wherever it is
directed'while in the water, but the mo
ment it totiches land it uses every effort
to throw and devour its jockey. '
It is possible to ride an alligator' some
distance overland by tying its muzzle,
as it does not attempt to do any injury
until it can throw its open mouth and
long tail together by a suddea sweep to
one side. " Mr. Stafford, who is. I be
lieve, a native of Florida, a veteran
hunter and an expert alligator jockey.
relates an anecdote which shows that
eaurian riding is as dangerous as Irish
stecplechasing when the mount is sulky
or wounded. He had ridden an alligator
ashore during one of his hunting trips,
and as it was rather large and its skin,
as a consequence, usually valuable, he
decided to kill and flay it near the pond.
After emptying the contents of his ri
fle into its head and assuring himself of
its being dead, he drew his knife to flay
it; but he had hardly' touched the head'
ere the alligator returned to life, and
seizing hint by the coat sleeve com
menced rolling over and over. . The" sec
ond or third roll took the sleeve off bi.s
coat awl dislocated his arm. and on be
ing set free in this unexpected manner
it did not take him long to scramble out
of reach of the furions reptile. A phy
sician who was hunting with him set his
arm in a few moments, and when that
was done the jockey poured lead into his
late mount until he was sure that its
ferocious spirit had fled.
A man who has shbt alligators for
their hides told, me that the animals
were harmless in winter and inclined to
avoid a contest with men at all times
unless they were wounded or defending
their young. They are worse in the
pairing season than at any other, the
bulls being then unusually petulant,
more than ordinarily stupid and stub
born and inclined to resent any intru
sion m their grounds. Yet by boldly
facing them they can be forced to run.
and may even be mounted and ridden
ashore, provided there are no females in
the vicinity.
He once tried to ride an old bull to
ward a landmark that loomed above all
other objects on the flat shore of a lake
on a dark night, and wondered why his
steed tried so hard to turn away from it
whenever the thumbs were lifted off the
eyes, but he was able to account for it
readily a few moments later, when an
enraged female that was guarding the
landmark, which was her nest, rushed
open mouthed and grunting like an in
sane grizzly, ana sent ner conqueror
precipitately to the rear and its jockey
deep into the mud. -; ' - V. ; . . -
Fortunately for him the assailant was
more enraged at the bull than at the
jockey and followed it several hundred
yards, charging at intervals and thrash
ing it vigorously with her tail whenever
she got an" opportunity. The male was
driven almost across the lake before she
decided to return and attack the man.
but he was running on shore for dear
life long before she had given up the
pursuit of the steed.
The rider said he had Been many des
perate charges during the civil war, but
mat no never was m one that so com
pletely benumbed his faculties as the
charge of that . "big mouthed squaw
'gator." He thought he could ride a
male saurian at any time of the year,
but that no man living could retain his
seat for any length of time on the back
of a female that was defending her nest
or was accompanied by her young. Cor.
St Ixrais Republic. .
Nice "tablecloths and napkins should
not be allowed to become much soiled.
so that they will require vigorous rub-
PRESENCE OF. MIND.
Hew a Man Who Had It Profited by the
Scheme of One Who Hadn't It.
. Presence of mind and bravery in the
face of peril was being discussed in the
office of W. B. Busenbark, general man
ager of the Maple Leaf route. The cap
sizing of a yacht off the lake front the
day before suggested the theme. After
listening to the thrilling experiences
which each of the group present related
and somehow on the occasion of an
exceptional accident people are prone to
talk thrillingly of what they have passed
through themselves Mr, Busenbark told
a story.
He did not need - to call our fancy to
his aid to give interest to his tale. He
had been the central figure in the well
remembered burning of the Newhall
hotel, in Milwaukee, being the only per
son above the second floor who did not
perish in the terrible fire.
Referring to the manner in which he
escaped, he said he owed his. life to the
fact that a man who was burned to ashes
in the flames the same night told him
how he would try to save his life in case
of fire. , . .
. "This is how it was, boys," . said Mr-.
Busenbark. - "I got orders from my road
to meet one of our agents named Ware,
who was to be transferred from Detroit
to Milwaukee, and introduce him to our
patrons in the Cream City. 1 joined
him here in Chicago, and we went , to
Milwaukee together. It was the day of
the Newhall hotel fire. On thj trip, by
a strange coincidence, we began talking
about fires.- Ware, I think, brought up
the topic. Yes, it was Ware; and what
started him on the subject was the fact
that he had witnessed a big fire in the
Western Union building at Detroit, at
which five lives were lost. 'Isn't it curi
ous. Busenbark,' said Ware to me, 'how
common sense will desert a man in the
hour of danger? I saw the trig fire in
Detroit.
" 'A number of operators could be
seen standing helplessly and in wild de
spair at. the windows of the Western
Union building. There was a perfect
network . of telegraph wires within
fwenty feet of them, by jumping on
which they might have saved their
lives. But they didn't jump and they !
perished. What is puzzling is that the j
telegraph wires as a means of escape for
the poor fellows did not occur to me
until after all was over.
'No accounting for thesn things,
Ware,' said I to the Detroit man, and
then we talked about other matters.
"That evening, after arriving at Mil-
wauKee, we went to the theater. 1 re
member it lis if it was but yesterday.
About 11 o'clock we reached the New
hall and were given a double bedded
room. When I was awakened by the
heat and stiSing smoke I pulled Ware
out of bed. iKid. the poot fellow dashed
from the room and toward the staircase.
I never saw him again, alive or dead,
for he was burned to ashes, ' I rushed to
one of the windows of my room and
stood for fully half a minute, dazed and
bewildered. Right under the window
was a network of telegraph wires. Poor
Ware's story of tho Detroit incident
flashed across my mind.
"I jumped toward the wires, and all
that I remember is that I grabbed them.
They told me afterward that I hung on
for about a minute and then fell to the
pavement below. I was put among the
dead in the old bank across from the
hotel, but 1 revived, and two months
later I was able to walk.
"Ware inspired me with the idea that
saved my life, and while he had the
same opportunity as I had he did not
avail himself of it. -
'It is idle, boys, to talk of what one
would be sure to do under given circum
stances. There is no accounting for
jvhat a man will do when he is looking
into the jaws of death."
All the boys looked thoughtful and
agreed that it was so. Chicago Herald.
directive Use of English. '
No accomplishment excels a thorough
mastery of English. Those who have
acquired it are the most cultivated and
scholarly men and women of our age.
This superiority frequently passes un
noticed, for it has a certain subtle qual
ity like the delicate odor of roses. On
reading or listening to the best English
we never think of the form of expression,
and not till afterward, when the clear
ness of our conception reveals itself, do
we notice the beauty and the appropri
ateness of the language. To use English
appropriately, elegantly and forcibly im
plies not only a thorough knowledge of
the language itself, but also a broad cul
ture. It implies both connected, logical'
thought and. the ability to 'clothe the
thought grammatically, rhetorically and
connectedly in tit language., . A style as
massive and majestic us that of Burke or
Macaulay renders any man immortal.'
The grace of Irving and the copious flu
ency of Scott fascinate the reader; and
the power to write with the eloquence of
Mr. George William Curtis, -President
Eliot or ColonerHigginson would recon
cile, almost anybody to being a Mug
wump. Education.
The Face of a Clock.
An excellent way to "test a man's pow
ers of observation is to ask him to draw
the dial of a clock. Most persons set
down IV for four, instead of the four
straight lines usual on dials, and few
remember that all the letters of the dial
stand with their bases toward the cen
ter. It has been demonstrated that all
persons ordinarily read a clock dial by
the position of. the figures and disregard
the figures themselves.
One of the best known public dials in
a provincial town has no mark save a
st raight line at each of the places usually
occupied by the Koman numerals, and
the maker of the great clock of the
houses of parliament made another great
dial, upon which he indicated each hour
by a single straight line. It has been
found, however, that while most persons
have no accurate knowledge of dials,
any marked departure from the usual
rule in the marking of watch faces or
house clocks is easily detected. A dial
bearing IV instead of four straight lines
at once attracts attention. London Tit-
One Better. -..-'...''.
. People in the waiting room of the De
troit, Grand Haven and- Milwaukee
depot were more Or less interested the
other afternoon in the conduct of a mid-,
die aged couplo who were evidently very
much in love. As they sat together on
a seat the man had his arm around her
waist and she leaned confidingly on . his,
shoulder. The depot policeman might
have looked at them rather sharply as
he passed through the room, for soon
thereafter the man came outside and
queried: . ' " -r
"Do you remember me?" '.
"Cant Bay that I do," replied the offi
cer after a careful scrutiny. . .. ,
"I was in here last summer on an ex
cursion.' -
"Yes
"Had a girl with, me girl with long
curls and a white drees." ,
""Yes."
"She was a widow's daughter and had
forty acres of land in her own name." '-
"I see.
' "That was the' best I could do at the
time, but that's the widow and mother
inside, and she owns the rest of .the farm
and all the stock. Tve gone one better,
and do you. blame me fur kinder squeez
ing around, even if folks do laugh at us?"
The officer assured him it was all right
and according to Hoyle, and he returned
to business much relieved and encour
aged. Detroit Free Press.
How Man Mid Nature Uses Carbon. -
Man uses carbon for the same pur
poses as nature uses it. He employs it
as fuel: so does she. but he in the crude
form of coal, from which, also, he pro
duces for other purposes different useful
products artistically applicable as color
ing substances, in which art, as he may
one day find out, he is following some
undiscovered natural design. Long
man's Magazine. -i
Just
24.
In Just 21 houn J. V. S. relieves constipation
and sick headaches, After it gets tho system
under control an occasional dose prevents return.
We refer by permission to W. H. Marshall, Bruns
wick House, 8. F.; Geo. A. Werner, 631 California
St., B. F.; Mrs. C. Melt-in, 136 Kearny St, S. F.,
and many others who have found relief from
constipation and sick headaches. G. W. Vincent,
of 6 Terrenes Court, S. F. writes: "1 am 60 years
of age and have been troubled with constipation
for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I recognized in it at
once an herb that the Mexicans used to giro us
in the early 50' s for bowel troubles. (I came to
California in 1839,) and I knew it would help ma
and it baa. For the first time in years I can sleep
well and my system is regular and in splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs in this remedy
are a certain cure In constipation and bowel
troubles." Ask for
Iriii'c Veetable
uUy O Sarsaparilla
For Sate by SNIPES KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON.
IK GRIPPE
By using 8. B. Heodnche and Liver Cure, and S.
B. Cough Cure as directed for colds. They were
used two years ago during the La Grippe epi
demic, and very nattering testimonials of their
power over that disease are at band. Manufact
ured oy the s. u. Meoicine Mig. Co., at imiur,
Oregon. For sale by all druggists.
A Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
' to the genuineness
of these staples than
we da In fact, tbey
have a law under
'which they make
seizures and de
stroy adulterated
products that are
not what they are represented to be. Under
thin statute thousands of pounds of tea bare
been burned because of their wholesale adul
teration.. , ' "
. Tea, by the way, is oue of the most notori
ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not
alone are tho bright, shiny green teas artifi
cially colored, but. thoufands of pounds of
substitute! for tea leaves are used to.swell,
tiio bulk ot cheap teaj; ash, sloe, and willow
!o:tvi;s being those most commonly used.
AK:in, sweepings fr..n tea warehouses are
colored and sold as tea. liven exhausted tea
leaves gathcicd from the tea-houses are kept,
dried, and mode over and find their way into
the cheap teas.
Tho LuglLt-h government attempts to stamp
fhib on: by co:ifla aii.-u- but no tea is too
poor lor u' and the result i. that probably
the poorest teas used by any nation are those
Consumed iu America. -
Beech's Tea is presented with the guar
anty that it is uucolored and unadulterated;
In fact, the sun-cureo. tea leaf pure and simpler-Its
purity insures faperlpr strength,
beut one third less of lit being required fox
an infusion than of thea-liflclal teas, and its
fragrance and exqaisice flavor is at one ap
parent. It will bs a -reflation to you. .Ia
order that Its purity and quality may be gaar
anteed, it la sold only in pound packages
bearing this trade-mark:
BEELm TEA
'Pure As -Childhood:
HceCOeperpoBsd, Tor sates
am Vr '
tub Dalles WW&
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Of the Leading City of Eastern Oregon.
During the little over a year of its existence it
has earnestly tried to fulfill the objects for which it
was founded, namely, to assist in developing our
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 people an-i 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
Commencing with the
vc lume 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
moi e reading matter for less money than any paper
published in the county.
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