0 CHI AFTER DEATH. , h tkim the oouch where she lay yesternight. With awed, pale face, and fleeting, painful breath,-' And great, sweet eyes that would not shrink from Deatbr Is this the pillow, soft as down, and whitev ' Oa which her dear face lay, turned from the light? I downward li'iiu, and lot could almost swear I feel the old, soft goldne&sof her hairl Kind Heavenl if but for one dear time, I might Acin press trembling lips upon her cheek . Jier slim, pale throat her whiter brow her hair Her tender eyes wherein the love-light shone! . - Bat once but once to hear those sweet lips speak! I should be glad that she is free from But oh. this first and awful night alone! Ella Higginaon in Overland Monthly.: CoITm la the Eiiit. ' How long coffee was in' use amofeg astern nations before being introduced Lato Europe is not known. Aljeziri Air fammbali, a noted Arabic author, states that it was first made known about 870 of the .Hegira, and so quickly did coffee booses and booths multiply throughout Arabia .that the government several times made strenuous attempts to sup press them, fearing they wonld lead the people into idleness. Notwithstanding these efforts, the "cof fee habit" took such a firm hold on the . people that the beverage was mode and drank in secret. They even went long distances into the desert and there pre pared the seductive concoction without fear of molestation. Some pious Mohammedans thought it might be included among the intoxi cating beverages forbidden by the Koran, bnt Alhambnli, in an able pamphlet en titled "The Support of ' Innocence," proved that it was not in the prohibitory section of that book. As a consequence the followers of the prophet once more returned to the delights of coffee. De troit Free Press. Que Woman's Bedtime Hours. A lovely woman who was talking with a friend one day about the enjoyments, disappointments and heartaches of child hood,, said: "The sufferings I endured when a child were more acute than any I have known in later years, and the ' pleasantest remembrances ' I have of those far away times are of the bedtime hours, when my mother sat by our beds in that low roofed chamber and taught us the songs she sung as a child, told stories, some of which were of her child hood, while others were conjured up in her own head. Some of the sweetest hymns and sacred stories I learned then, and there ever comes to me when I close my eyes a faint' picture of my devoted mother sitting there in the twilight. I think the only reason that the darkness had no terrors for me was that it nearly always came while she was with us.. The Bound of her voice dispelled all fear; it was associated with tenderest words, sweetest lnllabys, softest good nights." Anna P. Payne in New England Home stead. Art in Tell lug Lies. Telling the truth is an art, hat not nearly bo difficult an art as telling lies. It is within reach of any man's power, if he will take time and pains, to relate tbe thing that Is. It takes a man of im agination and strong memory to bring forth the thing that is not. Besides, the Bar cannot carry his He all over the world and back to the creation; at some point or other he must piece it on to the universal truth, and to do that neatly he ' must be a good workman, bnt this is only part of the greater question as to j Xice and virtue generally. Virtue is for all who love it; in order to become an accomplished villain a man must have i natural aptitude, careful training and immense powers of application, and at any time the villian may be ruined, as a villain, by the -unexpected coming to life of conscience. All the Year Round. Silver Dollars C?3 Miles High. The treasury counts its silver by weighing it, which is part of wisdom, iu view of the fact t'rtat a man, counting at the rate of 200 dollar pieces per minute steadily for eight hours per day. Sun days included, would be kept busy for considerably over eleven years. Piled one upon the other, the $400,0fK), 000 in the treasury would attain a height of 675 miles, and placed side by de they would carpet a- room 60 feet wide and nearly 24 miles long. David A. Wells in Harper's Weekly. The Uses of the Sword. The uses to which the sword has been put seem to have been almost as varied as its appearance, when we recall the anecdote told of Charlemagne, who said, as he used the pommel of his sword to put his stamp on treaties, "I sign them with this end, and with the other I will take care that they are kept." Kate Field's Washington.- Her Hubby's Teachings. friend Why do yoifget married so soon after the death of your husband? Widow My dear, if there was any one thing that my poor dead and gone husband insisted upon, in season and out, it was that I should never put off till tomorrow what I could do today. New York Weekly. It is now suggested that many dwell ing house fires caused by lamp explo sions might be averted by keeping some of the ornamental vases in the rooms filled with sand, so that it would be always at hand and ready fpi use in case of need. "He who discovers a new dish confers a greater benefit on mankind than he who discovers a new star," says, a fa mous writer, and the majority of per sons would be willing to accept the statement without dissent. The artificial honey is becoming a formidable rival of natural honey. Its composition is sugar, water, free acid and a small proportion of mineral salts. Every Japanese workman is ticketed. He bears on his . cap and on his back labels giving his name and business, aa well as hi3 employer's name. Abomt Keeeivlag CHIU."'".-"T " ' From tbe receiver's standpoint all gifts. may be divided into things that we want and things that we don't want. It takes no- particular skill or grace to receive things that we want, but as, in times, of general giving, like Christmas, the larger part of the .gifts we get are things that we don't want, that branch of , receiver -ship.is worth attention. The two ordi nary reasons for not wanting things are tbe vulgar one that they do not strike us as intrinsically desirable, and the more complex reason that' we don't want to re ceive them from the particular giver. A general remedy applicable to reluctances due to either of these causes is to keep strenuously in the mind the happiness of the giver in giving. ' Remembering that, you are delighted with a trifle from some one yon love, be cause it makes yon happy to have been even passively instrumental in procuring him the happiness of giving; applying tbe same principle, yon can accept ever so costly a gift from some one for whom yon care little without any irksome sense of obligation, since of course the giver had the best of it any way, and: it is a great deal kinder and more generous to sacrifice one's personal inclinations and accept, than to refuse. Remember per sistently that by receiving with due grace you secure to another person a desirable form of happiness. Scribner's. V Wedded at Last la a Cotton Patch. About a year ago C. W. Strickland, a young farmer living about six miles southwest of Paris, fell in love with Miss Ida Porter, a charming young lady of the same neighborhood. The lady's relatives objected, but the young.folks resolved to elope. Mr. Strickland got a license, bnt the issuance of the license was published in the papers and before a chance came to use it the relatives of the lady saw it and sent her away to Missouri. A few weeks ago she came hack. Her relatives thought the affair was ended, but the young folks still loved each other. There were some private negotiations of which her relatives did not know. An other license was procured, but the fact was not published in the papers. The same minister was engaged again. Miss Ida Porter, who did not usually pick cot ton, suddenly became very industriously inclined, and concluded to help pick ont the crop. She went into the field and began work. Pretty soon her big brother, not suspecting anything, went to the gin with a load of cotton, and about the time he was gone Mr. Strickland and the preacher came along, and right in the cot ton patch the ceremony was performed that made the blushing maiden and the gallant lover man and wife. G-alvestor News. The Zodiacal Light. The curious phenomenon of the zodi ncal light may now be seen in the early I morning skies a little before sunrise. In this latitude it takes the form of a por tion of an ellipse whose longest diameter is.inclined 'somewhat from the perpen dicular, and may be looked for in that part of the sky where the sun is about to appear. Its pearly gray light is caused by the reflection of the sun's rays from countless swarms of meteors which re volve about him at different distances. It has recently been suggested that these meteors are the medium by which the electrical connection between the sun and the earth is established; in fast, that they play the same part in the solar sys tem that the copper wire does in the con veyance of electric energy from the dynamo to the electric lamp. New York Recorder. Kidding Tesans to a Wedding. This morning an unusual sight was seen on Brenham's streets. It was a horseman gayly decorated with ribbons of every hue of the rainbow. These rib- ' bona were hung in clusters and festoons all over the rider and horse. The horse's I ears and forehead were covered with a I sort of cap in which were stuck feathers IT . l" ro5elles nuunuuuiginuixras. The rider was Fritz lesepappe, and ; questions about his startling decorations elicited the information that he was tbe inviting agent to a marriage a sort'of animated wedding card. His brother, Herman Wiesepappft, and Miss Bertha Schultz are to be married next Thursday at the home of the bride, in the Post Oaks, five or six miles east of here, and he was summoning the guests. Galves ton News. . To Exhibit Aborigines. Anthropologists all over the world are said to be aroused by the proposition of Professor Putnam, of Harvard, to gather at the World's fair in Chicago living rep resentatives of every race of . aborig ines to be found on Jhe American con tinent, in their own houses and costumes. Should the proposal be carried out, stu dents of man from all over the world will flock to America for the occasion and seise eagerly this only opportunity ever offered. The cave dwellers, whose mode of life Walt McDougall treats with much historical correctness in fiction, will then be either demonstrated as ac tually existing or proved to have died out. New York World. . . - In Jail for One Hour. - ' The shortest term of imprisonment ever given in Massachusetts was im posed on Lemuel E. Demelen a few days ago in the United States circuit court in Boston. The prisoner, - charged with in terfering with a United States officer in the discharge of his duty, was fined $100 and imprisoned for one ' hour in the county jail. Exchange. The yield of the orange crop in Florida this year was over 3,000,000 boxes, and an average box holds 150 oranges. About half of the crop will be sent by rail to tbe western states., . Ifamanabuseshis wife in Butte, Mon., half a yard of crape is tacked on liis door as a reminder that any trouble in the fu ture will be followed by a call by an undertaker. The development of the industries of the south is shown in the fact that it now has 1,5200,000 more spindles than it j had eleven years ago. -an" Acrobat's Fall.' An act was given akCordray's audito rium performance recently that was not ' printed on the programme. Stanley and Mason do a perilous act in midair on the trapeze. - There are two bars suspended by ropes from the ceiling, one large and one small. Stanley was on the small trapeze near the ceiling, and Mason on the lower one. The man on top was preparing to hang by his legs, let go, drop, and, falling, catch his partner by the feet. Stanley, who had a boil on the inside of his leg, slipped. and felL His partner could not save him. . Every eye was riveted on the falling scrobat and every heart stood still. To the man himself it seemed an age. Ma son, who was below, as quick as a flash measured the distance, and saw . that if his partner fell in that position nothing could save his neck from being broken, so, as Stanley descended,, he gave the falling man a quick turn, somewhat broke the fall, and the performer fell to the floor with a hard sound and struck on his back. - : A dozen men rushed up the aisle to pick- up jfche, man, and for a moment quite an amount of excitement prevailed. He was picked up and carried behind the scenes. He had fallen twenty-five feet, and his only injury was a rough shaking np and a bruised back. Two minutes later George Stanley appeared before the f oot ! lights and bowed. Seattle Post-Intelli gencer. An Eclipse Dinner. "I have been to an 'eclipse dinner,' " said a young woman. "There were any number of them, you know, of course with the part of Hamlet left out. At the one at which I assisted three gilt boys at each end and in the center of the table held aloft, respectively, in flower figures, the dates of the last, the present and the next eclipse, garlands of flowers passing from one to the other. At every corner lay a pretty sketch, showing earth, moon and sun in space and in the proper positions to produce the eclipse. "The ices were served in gilt stars. The host, who is an enthusiast in as tronomy, had a small telescope mounted ! on the roof for use had the night been ciear, ana, to oe iranK, l nail crammed all the afternoon to be equal to the occa sion. It was love's labor lost, however, for we did not even go up to the roof, messengers being dispatched from time to time to return with the invariable cloudy report. But it was great f nn, and everybody laughed when lobster ! cutlets a la totalite were served." New York Times. His Intention Misunderstood. ' There is a certain small boy living in the vicinity of the armory" who has con cluded that the finding of a pocketbook is a misfortune. He picked up one the other day on the street containing about ten dollars. Being on his way to the baker's he generously paid a score of f 1.25 that was "hung np" there against the family, and then meandered down town to invest another dollar in a Buffalo-Bill gun and ammunition. - But' when he reached home maternal per suasion so quickened his conscience that he again started out in a sorrowful quest for the owner of tno money, who was soon discovered. , And it is further alleged that this owner would not abate anything; from thefull aniOCTt lost and tiat the man I who sold the little fellow the gnu refused . to take it back after all the circum stances had been explained, so that even ' to this day the mention of that pocket book causes a shadow to creep over the countenance of that bov. Springfield '(Mass.) Republican. Effective Work by a Lawyer. A very amusing incident occurred at the city hall a few days ago. A conple of men, while in a state of cheerfulness, became boisterous in their wordy warfare and were taken before V Judge Cavin , . . ,, . hail alao llwn ,, thn ' inn when it was red, appeared as counsel for them. The self constituted attorney had talk ed but a moment, however, when Judge Cavin said, "Ifischarge the prisoners and lock up their attorney." The order was complied with amid an. outburst of laughter. Galveston News. - Mr. Klein's Private Kit in. The story of a wonderful phenomenon comes from . Ross vi lie, nineteen miles west of Topeka, on the Union Pacific. For nineteen days, it is said, rain fell in cessantly on the orchard belonging to H. Klein, a prominent Rossville resident. This orchard is in the town and is bound ed on the east by Mr. Klein's residence, on the other three sides by lines of fences. The rain did not fall outside of Mr. Klein's premises, but for nineteen days there was no intermission in the fall, and it was only stopped by a cold snap. . Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean. " A Ileal Saving Farmer. There is a farmer iri Massachusetts who got his corn husked this fall with out cost. Last spring he sowed a quan tity of red corn in his field among the yellow, and then incidentally mentioned the fact to some of the male pupils of a neighboring high school. At once they solicited the privilege of busking- his corn and furnishing the refreshments besides, and he granted both. The young people had a good time and found enough red ears to satisfy them. Phila delphia Ledger. - ' ' The i-:ige for blond loclcs has infected Italy to such an extent that even the' children's heads , are blossoming out in golden curls. At this, rate the raven tresses of Italian song and story will soon bo a misnomer. ' This country has nearly 2,000,000 acres devoted to the raising of flax and hemp. It is proposed to make a grand showing of these industries at the World's fair. Steam whaling vessels are oon to try the waters of the South Pacific, as recent reports show that whales are again fre quenting that locality. - ' - , . ;-; Never Heard of Kins. , Telegraphers' stories are unique some times,, and they do not hesitate to tell them to one another. . It is said that the operators in New Haven, having always lived there, seldom hear of anything be yond the limits of the city and their oper ating rooms. The fact was illustrated recently when an operator in New York remarked to the man he was working with in New Haven . that . Parnell had just died. ' "Who?" was the inquiry. "Parnell, was the reply. . ' . After . a short interval, during which, it is supposed, the New Haven operator was in conference with somebody, this message was sent: "If you mean P. T. Barnrun, we heard that long ago, but no one knows who Parnell is." Telegraph Age. . . " ' New Alloy. ' Two new alloys for making boring and cutting tools have been invented in Eng land. The metal equals steel in hardness and temper, and does .not lose its temper, when heated by friction.' Tbe alloys con sist of pig iron, ferro-manganese, chromi um and tungsten in proper, proportions, melted together in crucibles under stick charcoal and calcined borax. This com pound is then reraelted with bar iron and proportions of nickel, copper and alumin ium are added. It is then cast in sand molds. New York Times. ' Stage Coach Dreams. Losses are presaged by a dream of rid ing in a stage coach. If you run after one yon will be out of employment for a long season. To see one pass will rid yon of troublesome friends. If you are in a stage coach and it turns over with out injuring you, yon will be lucky in your speculations, but if yon dream that yon are killed by .the fall yon must ex pect misfortnnes. New York Herald. Dimples, The old ides of 40 years ago was that facial eruptions were due to a "blood humor," for which they gave potash. Tens all the old Barsa parillas contain potash, a most objectionable and draBtio -mineral, that instead of decreasing, actually creates more eruptions. Ton have no ticed this when taking other Sarsaparillaa than Joy's. It is however now known that the stom ach, the blood creating power, is the seat of all vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach clogged by indigestion or c onstipation, vitiates the blood, result pimples. A cleci stomach and healthful digestion purifies it and they disappear. Thus Joy's Vegetable Sareaparilln is compounded alter the modern idea to regulate the bowels and stimulate the digestion. The effect is immediate and most satisfactory. ' A short testimonial to contrast the action of the potash Sarsaparillos and Joy's mo.lern vegetable preparation. Jlrs. C. D. 6tuart, of 400 Iiayt." fee., 3. F., writes: " I have for years had lnilic.-:ioii, I tried a popular Bsrsaparilla but it actually aw oil more pimples to break out oa my face. Hearing that Joy's was a later preparation au J acted differently, I tried it and the pimples immediately disappeared." - Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla Lars est bottle; most effective, same price. For Sale by SNIPES Ss K1NERSUY - THE DALLES. OREGON. GRI OUHED By using 6. B. Headache 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 and. Manufact ured by the S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur, Oregon. For sale by all dm ggists. Severe Law. The English peo ple look more closely to the genuineness . "V?2S5 ol these staples than X- we do. In fact, they '.! " K. fJ have a low under which they moke seizures and de stroy adulterated - l I I.' Mi products that are hot whet they are represented to be. Under (liifi ::ute thousands of pounds of tea have b?en burned because of their wholesale adul tcrntion. 'j;-. ..;-,; . w?.-.; Tea, by the war. Is one of the most notori-" j ;u!y adulterated articles of commerce. Not ' . a.oiie are the.hright, shiny green teas artifl c!ily. colored, but tlinu-nnds of pounds.. ol i,lulK:ti..ittut for ten leaves ara used to swell. the Lui of clunp teai; ah, sice, and willow '; !'nye tH!n -these taoit ' commonly used. .Viui!!, swci't.i'.iM fr. ia' tea warehouses 'are ' .colored and sold as t -a. -Even exhausted tea leaves gathered from tho U';i-hniaes arc kept, dried, und SDtuleuvcrtiml find thvirw'uy info lUdcboip leas. . 'i'lic IIi.'k U y? rrra-:i!t a!'',:npl;s t;x?amp. hi o;u ly -.o".j: but no tea is too pivir fi r u--, sad the rcrtJc is 'Jiat probably p.K;rp-1 te-s ucd by uuy j:utiou are riio&e C'juisuiinid iu Auicricp. Ucoch's Tea is prs-ented with the guap mr.y that it it uuo'lored and unadulterated; in'fact. the sun-curea iaa leaf pure and sim ple. Its purity iusjrcs superior strength, l;i;;t one third les of it VyjinK required for a '.i Infusion thaa cf i':k :.i tificial teas, and its frarunce and exquisiie lli'.vor la at once ap parent.. It will be a revelation to you.. In , orde.r that Il3 purity cud quality may be guar-" anteed, it is sold only in pound package bearing this trada-mark: - Pure As -CHifdhood: Price 60c per pound. For sole ot -TtrJS UAl-UKB, VKUUS. . BEECH'TEA K C Tfie Dalles IS Ti f . LEI lip& Oi the Leading City of-Eastern Orepi. 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 and the phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the expression of their approval. Independent in every thing, neutral in nothing, it will live only to fight for what it believes to be j Commencing with the vclume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages while the price ($1.50 a Thus both the weekly more reading matter for published in the county. GET YOUR DONE AT THE GnB OHICLE 1 B6o apd job priptip Done on LiGHT BINDING Address all Mail Orders to Chronicle THE DALLES, cnronicie ust and rig ht. first number of the second year) remains the same. and daily editions contain less money than any paper ' PRINTING Short Notice. NEATLY DONE, Pub. Co., - OREGON. phi. A'- .V