Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1892)
Ifow to Inciilcvkte Gossiping. , '. If yon wish tf o culfivata ' ' gossiping meddling, censorous spirit in your chil dren be sure when they come home from church, a visit or Hny other place where yon do not accompany them, to ply them with questions concerning what every body wore, how everybody looked and what everybody said and did, and if you find auything in this to censure always do it in their hearing.. You may rest as ' surfed, if yon pursne a course of this kind; tkey will not return to you unladen with intelligence, and rather than it should be uninteresting they will by degrees learn to embellish in such a manner as shall not fail to call forth remarks and ex pressions of wonder from you. ' You will by this course render the spirit ef curios-' Ity, which is so early visible in children, and which, if rightly directed, may be the instrument of enriching and enlarg ing their minds a vehicle of mischief which will serve only to make them nar row and mean.. T Saw to I'nliftli Wood Carving. Scroll lYork, Kte. t. Take a piece of soft and pliable wad ding and drop on it white or transparent or French polish, according to the color of the wood. . Then wrap this wadding in one thickness of linen, holding it by the surplus linen, so as to form a pad. Touch the pad with two drops of linseed oiL As the only object of the oil is to make the pad work smoothly over the wood very little should be applied at a time. . While using the pad on the scroll work add another drop or two of oil and then wet it in the polish as observation may show it to be necessary. Bow to Make Mother Kre'n luiliiiC. If you would have a good'pudding, observe what you're taught: Take two pennyworth of eggs, wheu twelve for the groat: And of the same fruit that Eve had once chosen. Well pared and well chopped, at least half a dozen; -Six ounces of bread (let your maid eat the crust). 1 The crumbs must be grated aud small as the dut: Hz ounces of currants from the stones you must sort. Lest they break out your teeth aud sixiil all your sport: Five ounces of sugar won't make it too sweet: Some salt and some nutmeg will make it com plete: Three hours lei it boil, without hurry or nut ter. And then serve it up wit hout sugar or butter. (Note A groat is fourpence, therefore two pennyworth of eggs is half a uuzen.l How to Kescue a lrowninic I'ersun. A person in danger of drowning usu ally becomes panic stricken, and in such condition is very dangerous to handle, however strong may be the swimmer who has gone to the rescue. A rescuer who tackles a drowning person who has lost presence of mind should not hesi tate to knock the man or woman into in sensibility. Then the rescuer will have chance to take the burden to shore. If, however, he struggles with the drown ing person in the water he, will .be very apt to fail in his effort at rescue and also run a great chance of losing his own life. Having reached shore with the insen sible person he or she should be placed face downward on a barrel aud rolled back aud forth, so as to force the water out of stomach', aud lungs and induce respiration. The hands ami feet should also be rubbed vigorously so .is to start circulation, ami these efforts sbonld not be relaxed until a medical man had pro nounced it impossible to resuscitate the victim. When animation has been suf ficiently revived, the sufferer should be given a plentiful dose of brandy. Bow to. KxtinifuUh a Burning Chimney. Shut all the doors aud windows so as to prevent any current of air, and then throw a few haudfuls of tine salt upon the fire whether in grate or stove. The philosophy of this is that in burning salt muriatic gas is evolved, which is a prompt extinguisher of courined fire. : How Sirs. Fry Killed Her Conduct. That excellent Englishwoman. Mrs. Fry, who Combined in her character and conduct all that is truly excellent in woman, formulated these rulesr "1. I never lose auy time; I do not think time lost which is spent in' amusement or recreation some part of each day, 'but al ways be in the habit of being employed. 2. Never err the least in truth. 3. Never say an ill thing of a person when thou canst say a good thing of him; not only speak charitably, but feel so. 4. Never be irritable or unkind to anybody. 5. Never indulge thyself in luxuries that are not necessary. 6. Do all things with consideration, and when thy path to act right is most difficult, feel confidence in that power ulone which is able to assist thee, and exert thy own powers as far as they go." How and When to' Wear a NeckUe. Neckties, that is, narrow bands of muslin, silk or satin, have gone out of nse except for clergymen and other gen tlemen when in evening dress. -A clergy man appears to be privileged to wear cither a white or blutk necktie upon any' cession. But other persons who wish to be in the fashion should never wear them except when in evening dress, that is, when the swallow tailed coat is put tm. And then, the cravat should always bo of plain white muslin without 'any embroidery, on. the.ends. Sometimes white satin or' white -Bilk neckties are. seen with this formal fall dress. Bat it is not good, form, nor is, itJhe proper , thing tot wear black satin or silk -neck- ties upon such; occasions. '-.Ini' -the sum mer," when- conventional rules of dress are maoh relaxed, a- flowing necktie of light material may be worn . with a sack coat, but never with a coat with tails. Ties already mads op and to be buckled i over the collar are considered to be very' ' bad form, and are: therefore to be avoided. .( . BoK to Keller a Cat Bite. Bind fat salt pork on the wound for a day or until all the soreness is relieved A TALK WITH A BTJRGLAE 1 MEANS c AND-' METHODS USED j- BY ' SUCCESSFUL . CRACKSMEN!"," How m Man Who Has "Done Tim." for Safe Breaking Operates Ho 8ay That to Open Safes Is Comparatively Easy - Work Time and Money Spent on Tools. Did you ever meet a real live flesh and blood burglar? -' I mean a man who has made a living by cracking other people's safes, by housebreaking and robbery who has "done time" in various prisons and ' who is under police surveillance everywhere-be goes? The man with the cast iron countenance, the shifty eyes and the hunted look?. r Of course, no. . You would shrink from such society. Yet there is a cer tain novelty in the sensation. Such men pass yon on the street and leave no more distinct impression than the touch of a bank president who has absorbed the money of his depositors, and is yet at large unexposed. It is ' only when you are brought face to face with, the bur glar in a dark room, with his. blinking bnllseyer shining in your face and the cold muzzle of his pistol pressed against your temples, that : the sensation is ex perienced in all its blood enroling in tensity. And I feel sure you would rather be excused from such a meeting. To have an old friend "on the force" say to you -suddenly some day: "Would you like to meet a burglar? Here he is now," and raising a significant finger draw a plainly dressed and shambling figure from the passing Broadway throng into a back room and say, "This , man is a bank sneak and burglar? That con veys a different and perhaps more agree-, able sensation. . And that is the sensa tion I have just experienced., ( EASY WORK TO OPEf ANY SAFE. , "When'll you fellers let up on a man?" was the . first . and , rather plaintive in- quiry of the ex-convict. His face took''! on an innocent and woe begone look. I .The policeman addressed him familiar- ly, asked him what he was doing on Broadway and a string of questions; i not severely but rather inviting con- ; fidence and conversation. When the. man found he was not wanted, and that ; I a newspaper man was his other auditor, he talked glibly.. He had . been reading a recent interview with a well known ' safe manufacturer. "There isn't a bank vault or eafe lock I made," said the burglar, "that can't be ' J opened by an expert. I became an : ' adept at the business while in the em- ; Py ' safe manufacturer.- 1 picked ; locks as a legitimate business from New i ! York to San Francisco. Every safe ' I company has men who can do the same 1 thing. The first thing a bank official or ' anybody else does, when the safe lock i ( gets out of order, is to Bend to the manu- ! j factory and they send an expert, who ' opens the safe. The ordinary combina- : tion lock is easily picked. There are ! time locks which cannot be workad so . easily, especially modern ones. Some combination locks have a micrometer proof attachment. That? . Why, it's an arrangement which is supposed to pre vent the successful nse of the micrometer, a little machine which can be attached to the handle of the lock and has an in dicator which shows the thickness and"' variation of the tumblers. ."Some of , these cheap 'combination i locks have a bell-like sound or click and these can be easily read. And some com--'' binations run in grooves and can bede -j tected at once. . You might as well have ' a house door lock and latchkey on a safe ( as one of them. The latest and best com bination lock gives ont no sound what ever, and, while it may be opened, it ! would take an expert a good deal of ! time. .There is a good deal of sameness about the old style combination locks, j and when you get used to them they are ; as easily opened as a street door. , ' - BADLY MADE SAFES. - .- ."While the modern bank burglar must - be and usually is an expert on combina tions, he by no means relies upon that. A dozen years ago I could open any lock within forty-five minutes. , The improve ments have been such, however, that that method cannot longer be depended ' upon. It isn't true, as stated in this safe manufacturer's interview, that the safet operated upon successfully by burglars are simply fireproof safes, and that no so called burglar proof safes are being cracked. All that formidable looking array of bolts you see on a burglar proof amount to nothing if you can pick the lock. The two side bolts are the im portant ones. The others catch the eye, but don't make the safe any stronger. - ."The weight of material is not so for midable to a burglar as the quality, and there is much poor, material put into safes. Now, there is a weakness in al most every safe, and it is the burglar's art to find it oat. Some have better steel in the back than in the front, and sometimes the steel is tougher and bet ter tempered in one part than' another. I can tell at once as to the hardness and thickness of steel plating. I've had drills, however, that would go' through anything. I could put a hole through two., average steel plates in thirty min utes. The skill and genius that have been expended upon burglars', tools is something : extraordinary, and the pains that are i taken sometimes to lay the foundation of great burglaries or a sys tem of small ones would be astonishing to honest people. 5 --v -j "I know of a case where a valuable safs was purchased for the experimental wor" or instance, 'several , country banks may be found using the same safe. By the purchase of one of the same kind and make the experts had an indefinite lime to stndy out its weaknesses. They then descended upon -the selected spoil and got away with the boodle. '. U ."Another way is to go right to the manufactory and see how they are made, Just like the fellow did who wrote that article. Yon have read accounts of re peated burglaries la ' certain sections within a very short time?. Well, they are usually on a certain set of safes. Nt:w York Telegram. Uestk sf ts Old Piteairn Islander. - '-'A' NortolkiBlaudcorrwspeMient reports the' deathat' the" "age of 'ni hety-f our, of Mr.' Buffett, an old and 'much respected member, of the island community. He had been connected .with the Pitsairn community for the long period of nearly seventy years. .. ' -'",L '' : '-. .'" Early in the twenties (1822) the " Eng lish whaler Cyprus, on her way home after an extended and successful cruise, and before starting on the then lonely and perilous passage around the Horn,; called at Piteairn Island for fresh provi sions and to recruit. Just at that time the island elders began to feel the want of a school teacher for. the young com munity fast growing up, and expressed their, wishes to that effect to the captain of the Cyprus, who, without' hesitation, willingly agreed to help them, if possi ble. ':.-? -.'..;,,:- j-jie result was mat tsuttett, tnen a young man on board, of fair education, was sounded, and he gladly fell in with the wishes of his captain and . the com munity, went ashore with all his belong ings and thenceforward threw in his lot with, the islanders. He. was not long,,, however, a schoolmaster, as on the ad- -vent of Mr. Nobbs, some few years later, u majority of the parents wished, for a change, and of course Buffett had . to ac quiesce. ; ' , .s- . . ,Mr. Buffett's residence, even. on peace ful Piteairn, was not without its. excit ing episodes. In 1831 occurred, at ,the instance of the English government, the exodus to Tahiti, and the community's return some, months , later ; curtailed,. through sickness , of many of . its mem bers. Then again, in 1836, during -.the "reign" of Mr. Joshua Hill, Buffett and his two compatriots, Nobbs and Evans, together with their families, were for a short period banished to the Cram bier islands by ' this . - arbitrary gentleman, where the exiles were kindly treated, and remained until ' the storm blew over. Lastly, the. final departs re from loved old Piteairn to the new home at Norfolk island, 3,000 miles away. Buffett was an ingenious worker in wood, and his handiworks in the shape of cabinets and such like are widely dis tributed, the old familiar legend, "made from the wood of John Adams' house," being always kept up and no doubt add ing attraction to the goods. Until three or four years ago Mr. Buffett had the full use of all his faculties, but for the last eighteen mouths he has been totally oblivious to passing events. Chilian Times. A Soldier's Bible. While Miss Winter, of Emmittsburg, was overlooking her childhood's treas ures, she came across an old Testament which' she found on the site of a soldier's camp near there during the war, after the soldiers had left for the field of Get tysburg. On examining the book her eyes fell on the name "Samuel Wolcott, Griffin's Mills. Erie county, N. Y.," and Miss Winter decided to write to the ad dress, thinking the owner would like to recover the book. . - iu a few days she received a reply from Mrs. Weaden, of Clifton, N. J., stating that she was a sister of the sol dier and the only living member of a large family. She said her brother had returned home from the army in 1863,' and died in 1864, and Miss Winter's let ter had- been forwarded to- her- as his nearest of kin. Mrs. Weaden seemed much... pleased at the. idea of j recovering this long lost memento of her dead brother, and . Miss Wiri ter " sent 'the Tes tament to her.. Baltimore Sun( i . A Chapter.on Oysters.' ' Oysters are fatter this year than I ever saw them before," said a restaurant oyster opener. "I don't know why, but usually the fatter an oyster-is the poorer the flavor. This is becanse the fat oy ster has generally been out of the water too long and has been fed. That is not wholly the reason this year. They are fatter anyhow. . "An oyster is best on the half shell, about twenty-four to forty-eight hours after he is ont of saltwater. Eaten be fore that time they are apt to give cramps. Yes, the male oyster is the best, but we don't come across a male more than an average of once in fifty times." New York Herald. -Why the Opening Was Delayed. The opening of the recent church con gress at Rhylin, Wales, was delayed for half an hour by the nonappearance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, aud every body wondered what had happened. The archbishop had lost his crozier. This emblem was locked up in a leathern case, and was carried off by - a servant, whe thought it was a gun, and locked it up in a room full of breechloaders and car tridges. Whether the congress would have been adjourned if it had not been discovered is a question which -does not call . for . immediate reply. Christian World. '.'' ' '- - - ----;;.,;. t . 13 ruin Boarded m Band Car. ' A section man was coming into Colum bus, Ind., on a hand car on the Pennsyl vania road, when he was attacked by a large bear. A terrible storm , was in progress at the time. - The man and bear had a terrific struggle, but the man finally struck the bear, over the. head with an iron crowbar, and as IhS animal rolled from the car. the man got it in motion- and escaped. , He .was- badly scratched and bruised, but not seriously injured. Cor.' Philadelphia Record.). ,f Blew Open ss Umloeked Saje. ! Cracksmen played a singular joke on themselves ' in blowing open gie safe in L. Q. Blair's store, fiio.j-Uls- ;; Mr. Blair , has been the victim of so. many robberies that he . has , been leaving the safe open, and sending the 'money to' Qaleeburg. The burglars drilled into 'and blew open the empty unlocked safe. Cor. St. Lotus QTubeJtexoocratu. ' . ,, ,v . . yjL ri.. X ' riu, i(? J JCalslfic Tea ! North Caroliaa.' ' "Tne ' result of the recent attempt to raise tea in North Carolina indicates that the soil and climate are, favorable to such an industry, but that, owing to the expense of picking and curing, none but the highest grades could be produced profitably. New York Times. j. 5J'v ! f -",-.--;i . t - . Tito Highest Railway heppenjrig of a new Alpine railway the Brienzer --Bx-4bhornbahn---i9-'"an nounced.;K4.t.is. the, highest .railway in. the : Alps and commands' ' magnificent views;, It is 2,851 meters (7,838 feet) high at' the summit level,1 ' and ascends 1,682 meters (5,600 feet), or -sixty-seven meters (223 feet) higher than the Pilatus railway. The journey occupies an hour and a half. . The gauge is. 0.8 . meter. The line is a pure rack and pinion rail way on the Abt system, and is similar in construction to the Mont Generoso railway. . ' . ' ' The steepest gradient is one in f our that is, less than the maximum Pilatus ascent. ' ' The railway has been built in a remarkably short space of .time; it was begun so recently as the - 1st of October, 1890. No fewer than ten tunnels were bored; . numerous ; streamlets ' were bridged and heavy stone dams had - to be erected. Iron. - -. ' :: . Cuaaiced Hi Opinion of the Jury. !' A gentleman who served on a jury that tried a prisoner tlef ended by General Henry Morgan tells a good one on that counselor. In his speech in arguing the case, General Morgan complimented the jurors highly, telling them that he se lected 1 them siiecially for their - intelli gence. The jury was not out. five min utes before .a... verdk-t. of guilty was returned, , whereupon General . Morgan exclaimed. "They are the worst set .of fools 1 ever saw. Albany (Ga.) News an'd Advertiser. . . : . V. -A " ' ; ; : - . - in Chicago a horse car, a red hot stow and thirteen passengers were struck . by an . engine.. The car was ; reduced , to kindling wood . and took fire, but . not a passenger was killed.. And yet people will go right on insisting that thirteen is. an unlucky nnmbwr.- " 1 ' '" 24. '' In justl hours J. V. S. relieves constipation and sick headaches, After it get the system under control an occasional dose prevents return. We refer by permission to W. H. 11 arshall, Bruns wick House, 8. V.; Geo. A.Werner. 631 California Et, 8..F.; Mrs. C. Melvln, 136 Kearny St., a! F., and many others -who hare found relief from constipation and sick headaches. G.W.Vincent, of 6 Terrence 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 arsapariUa. X recognized in it at once an herb that the Mexicans used to give us in the early 50's for bowel troubles. (I came to California In 1889,) and I knew it would help me and it has. ; 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 ... ; SV Vegetable Sarsaparilla Fob Sate i by SNIPES & KJNERSLY V-T.' THE DALLES. OKEGQN.i - LHiCRlPPE v,i:.i s.,,:..T VJil By using 6. B.Headachend liver Cure, and B. B. Cough Cure as4irctcd, for eolds. , They were BTJOCSSaiFTJIjXj-S- used two years seo.dnring the La Grippe epi demic, and very fluttering testimonials of their power over that disease are at band. Manufact ured by the S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur, Oregon. :Kor sale by all druggists, i ; . AS eve re La w. 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 mike seizures and de stroy adulterated - products that are ont what they are represented to be. Under tins ntutute thousands of pounds of tea have been burned because of their wholesale adul teration. . .. ,-. . ; : : ' .Tea, by the way, is one of the most otorf o:i.ly adulterated articles of commerce. ' Kot alone are the bright, shiny green '.teas artifi cially colored, but thou'nnds of pounds of ubgtitutM for tea leaves are used to swell the bulk of , cheap teat; ah, loe and willow Ifayus bsin those jnost. comin.mly used. Again, sweepingi friu tea warehouses are colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea leaves gathered from the tea-husos are kept, dried, and made over und find their way Into . the cheap teas.. ; The Euglinh government st'empts to stamp (his out, by xoiifiscali. .u: but no tea is too poor for u-. BQd the result ir. that probably : the poors. t teas ued by any uation are those . eousumed iu America. . , , Beech's Tea is presented wttb the gam. . anty that it te.BDCoiored and unadulterated; In fact, xhesuu-cu reo tea lea pure and sirr. pie.. Its ..purity Insures superior strength, 7 about one third "leVs of it. being reqsired lot : aa Jtifvurioathaaof thesnrificial teas, and Its - -fragrance and .exquisite flavor Ja at' Once ap-' parent, ilt will -be a icvelatioaito you. I In order th at Us purity and quality may be guar anteed, it la sold only ia pound; packages. - oeannr mw traae-mari(f ; : t ;' ildhood: Just Joy' . .. i t.-l -f'f"lffi'l sTSiSl?f sfS.se K.. KWB I Jm . . " B E!sm M ''vlrlkeMtjWrMlKLjVoiMltBl.i Zieslle Sutler's, " THB DALLBS.ORSOOS. ' ' v-i STCOi?f- --'ls . . tub Dalies IS J i 3 f r y ai J ' .-B-J..'-.".- .A it Isb.'tSi'' A j ."j il M j . Of the Leading City 1' : C " i. During the' little over a year of its existence it has earnestly tried to fulfill the objects for which it was founded n in developing our industries, to advertise the resources of the city and adjaTOnt country' and to work for an open river to the sea. Its record is before the people and the phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the expression of their approval. Independent in every thing, neutral in nothing, . . . . for what it "believes to be j fV Commencing with the first number of the second vclume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages while the price ($1.50 a Thus both the weekly moie reading matter for published in the county. GET YOUft DONE AT THE CI1R0IIICLE JOB BooK apd Job pripHr; Done on LIGHT BINDING Address all Mail .Orders to C&tfonicie i; t.. : - jr.. 5 ?i j v f THE DALLES, if-jr -j - Ciiioiiicle III. Jtstiu " ,M 'i )( '. i: r a.-j : . of Eastern Oregon. it will live only to fight - ust and ri z ht. year) remains the same. and daily editions contain less money than any paper PRINTING Short Notice. NEATLY DONE, - n .::. v.:. Pub. Co., OREGON. r