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CCLECTRtCi i NO EXCEPTION. VtiTturi Attend lta I'm Just u in the Cose -t" Oili'T Arcucies. Ever since electricity left its experi mental stage in the laboratory and be came a potsible source of energy and power to man in advancing the com mercial prcgTcss of tliu arts and sci ences, the questions of the dangers to life and property have been brought prominently before the public just as the dangers attending- lite u.-;c of steam, of rapid locomotion on i-cilrcads, of il luminating gas and ox dynamite v.-ere brought to the attention of the world,, when these powerful agencies passed . through their infancy and entered into the active serviite of mti.ii. In each in stance there v.;is aiv.vr. ;; a cT;rr. who took the partial or n;:r.uv; view that if thenew at-cnt-j ere da.J porous i t sliould be excluded i'rom tlv. yn: 11L r if ad mitted, it should be h:::::iorcHl by such limitations and e::clr:i ::y. ::s to render it almost useless for ir :ti -u! purposes, as well as to. retard its fu'.vive procrress and advancement. It I the introduction f si-, laws were parsf.l iiiMii. ,1 upon m in I. p.xsr-.src i,v i v h. i:i the v.:il- am i-ii'.-:-; :vr ".. a j :m .. l-.- ino :. i:;:!t;on to i f vc irirr.ontal to thirty p vnr. . t- I... Passcngxrs were v ... : "hig-h rate of spi-eu"' of lv. . hour; the sugrgcslirn cX iluv .- ixoor was considered oial of that time staling i'.:it ' would as soon be shot or. t ti as to travel at such a "liih r locitv." it beintr considered d "to respiration and the viUrl lai-"; of the body. Great cxeitemei.t e.-'-in-e?1 "through the daily xjless v. Mt ;i mite was first mtrot.;-ced loner asro. strinercnt lav.-.s i.ynii not Ik !: passsed in regard to its i-n-a transportation, a result of s:tte::v . to evade which caused many ia..ro mud dangers by carrying nr.d l:tv. ' .it in everyday and unsusputcd p. wi.es. manner of objections were brrujjht against the introduction of .'tin 11 an illuminant, such as explosion, iuipuiity of air by combustion and suffocation. Hearly everyone remembers, v. hcn the mrc lights appeared in Nov.- Ycrc .l'.y, " of the startling account in the papers of flames issuing from the body of a horse Chat had accidentally come in contact . "with one of the light wires. All the old matters, however, have ettled themselves with the laws of uni--versal progress and the diffusion of . Jcnowledge, and we now find fewer acci dents with steam pressure of one to two Jrandred pounds than with thirty then, and fewer accidents also with :.i:cty to eighty miles per hour passenger travel ing, considering the increase in the number carried, and fewer fires from gas than from candles or ciL Elec tricity thinks we may conclude then that the power or danger of any new 4brm of energy should not, and will not, 'ebar it fr n universal adoption, that feeing only a question of ' time. Intelli gently managed and controlled, the most powerful and otherwise dangerous agency may be turned into man's best mad. most efficient servant. Thus, in dealing with the problems concerning the generation and distribution of the electric current, it should not be re stricted by unintelligent legislation, limiting or fixing certain voltages, quantities, insulation, etc., but rather the aim should be to perfect means by "which its full force may be realized, Sostering its growth into a higher range of intensity and usefulness and thus to increase its efficiency. REPEATED FAREWELLS-.? n Knsslan Habit or Hugging and Klaa l lug at Parting. JF in Russia a great deal of emotion is -expended over a railway journey. To nine-tenths of the people a trip of a liundred miles by rail is a tremendous event, and they accordingly bid their friends farewell with a solemnity and effusion unknown to the "globe trot ting" American. Rough men and stout old women hug ' one another with the lervor of bears, and half the people are either kissing or shedding tears. .Not the least amusing part of the spectacle to the beholder are the ludi crous mistakes of the uninitiated. Sev eral warnings are given before the train leaves, and many persons take each warning forthe final one. Thomas Stevens, in his volume en titled "Through Russia on a Mustang," mentions a woman who was saying hei parting word to her husband through an open window of the car. The bell was rung. The lady leaned out; her Jmsband's arms were placed about her neck. They kissed each other with resonance, once, twice, thrice! She drew back into the car, and both ex pec ted the train to move off. It did not stir, however, and an offi cer told the man that there were still fifteen minutes to wait, and that 'another signal would be given. Instead of one signal there proved to be two, and so this loving couple treated the by standers to their little tableau no less than three times, two of which were tlx result of false alarms. The English Army. It grows harder every year to get re emits for the British army, chiefly be cause army life has not improved witl the advance of the nation. Wages hav risen mtil the average is three or foui times that of a private's pay, and so a little intrigue has to be used. An ordet lias been issued requiring all boys whe apply for the place of telegraph mes senger to agree to join the army at th expiration of their term in the messen jer service. An English paper calls at tention to the immense importation or fcoys in the ranks of the army, and th increasing difficulty of obtaining re . exults owing to the smallness of th pay, the poor chances of promotion foe those without influential friends, am the chilling manner in which the sol diers are treated where they ought U fee welcome. The nip of a poisonous snake is but a eligtat remove from being more danger ous than the poison of scrofula in the blood. Ayer's Sarsaparilla purifies the vital fluid, expels all poisonous sub tances, Eand supplies the elements of life, health and strength. AN -EXPENSIVE TOWN. Bill Turley's DUeouraging Experience In a Chicago Restaurant. Bill Turley, of Erwin Township, Ind., came to Chicago on business, writes Eti R. Pritchard in. the Arkansaw Traveler. Bill fancied he knew it all, and a thing or two besides, so he swaggered around with his pants in his boots and his hat on one side of his head, swore , at the bus drivers, knocked over a couple of hotel runners at the Union depot, and " 'lowed Sheecavvgo wuzent so dad-durned big 'at he couldn't find anywheres he wanted ter go, by jing." So, with an impudent go-to-thunder look in his eye and a rolling stand-back-here swagger in his gait, he mowed hia way along Canal afreet and past a long line of bacumen, who, sizing him up as "no bloody good," allowed him to go unscathed. He turned east on Madison street, crossed the bridgo, and a few minutes later brought up at Clark; here he stopped, and, for tho flrst time, showed somo signs of doubt and uneasiness. At length he stepped up to a policeman, and, accosting, httn, said: "Say. I want ter go to a tavern or some place where I kin git suthin' ter eat" "Right across the street," answered tho officer, pointing with his club to a largo building on which the sign, "Restaurant Breakfast Now -Ready," was conspicuously displayed. Our Hoosier friend crossed over and entered. As he sat down to the table a waiter rushed up, poured out a glass of ice water, shoved a bill of fare under his nose, and hurried away to perform a similar office for another patron who sat opposite. A minute later he returned to Bill's chair and said : "Well, sir, what will you have ' "Well," said Bill, slowly, "bring me some steak 'n' onions, bam and eggs, baked ta ters, plate o' toast 'n' er cup o' coffee." The waiter had him repeat the order, and theu finding he had gotten it right, he sailed away to have it filled. Twenty minutes later, during which time Turley had grown not a little fidgety and nervous, the waiter appeared with an enor mous tray-load of eatables. First he de posited on the table a large sirloin steak on a huge platter, flanked by an odorous rim of fried onions ; then he placed beside it a huge slice of ham and three fried eggs, then a dish of baked potatoes, and, lastly, a plate of toast, steaming hot. Bill fell to work with an air of a man who meant business; while all unconscious to himself he was the target of uot a few in quisitive eyes, he proceeded to dispatch tnat breakfast in about the time in which an ordinary man would have disposer" of a ham sandwich and a toothpick. Having finished his meal he shoved back from the table, picked up his hat from the floor, where he had deposited It beside his chair, and made his way to the cashier's desk. He threw down a quarter and was passing on out when the waiter came up and, plucking him by the sleeve, said: "You've forgotten your check, sir; here It is ; please pay the cashier." That's all right," said Bill, gruffly, "I've settled with the cashier. I gin him a quar ter jess now." "But, my friend," expostulated the waiter, your check is for two dollars. You don't expect to get a feed like that for a quarter, do you?" "Two dollars 1" echoed Turley in blank dismay, "I thought twenty-five cents a meal was the price everywhere." . "Not much it isn't," returned the waiter. "Bo you can just walk up and settle and save trouble." Bill saw he was in for it, so he walked up and paid like a man. But as he went out he remarked: "Two dollars ter bre'kfus an' do great shakes of a meal nuther. Well, I kin live on cheese and crackers an cove oysters till ter-morrow; but. Lord, won't I make the grub look sick when I git back to old Erwin t" Bill got back home all right, buthe wonders yet how people In Chicago manage to pan their board bills. SOMETHING ABOUT BLONDES. An Observing Gotham Conductor Say! They Are Careless About Their Hair. She was a big, tall blonde, witl square shoulders, a narrow waist, pat ent leather shoes and a swagger air th:- would have taken the train alon-j by ii self. She got in the car ;-.t L'w.iiy eighth street, got off at Fou-'tssath street, and between the two stations she picked up four hairpins from th? cross seats of the car and hid them ia her taffy-colored back hair. The bij brakeman in charge of the car said to Xew York Telegram Reporter while lie stood near the platform: "Did yea see the big blonde pick up the hairpins' Well, there are a great many women who do that same thing every day, and there are some of them that we know simply because they seem to find pleas ure in taking odd hairpins and using them." "Are there so many hairpins to be found on the elevated cars?" asked the reporter. "Why, their name is ' legion," said Ned, "and most of them arc to be found either early in the morning or late in the afternoon. It is peculiar how man j of these same hairpins, which are f ounO all over the car seats, are the" gilt ones used by blondes. It is generally sup posed that there are three brunettes to one blonde, yet it is a peculiar fact that we pick up more hairpins for the use of blondes in the elevated cars than we do black ones, and that is the reason thai the lady who just got out of the cai found so many hairpins that she could use." Canadians in the United States. According to Le Guide Francais des Etats Unis, the French Canadians in the United States own $105,328,500 worth of real estate, and 10,606 of them are in business for themselves. There are now 896,000 French Canadians in the United States, half a million of whom are in New England and New York. The number of French Canadians in Canada is 1,700,000. though when England acquired Can ada they only numbered 65,000,' a fact which strikingly indicates the fecund ity of the race. In Boston they num ber 11,000, and in various parts of New England they have flourishing schools and societies,- and they now. talk pf es tablishing a college. They have repre sentatives in tho legislatures of five states, and they have nine newspapers in New England and New York. "In polities," says the authority quoted, "the majority are republicans, though a good many are democrats. They are naturally conservative. They favor order, discountenance radical views or experiments, and oppose strikes and secret societies. They also strenuously oppose divorce." The CHROKicLE?is prepared to do all kindB of job printing. A.T THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. Wrecked Vessels and Drowned People Al- ' . ways Sink to the Ground. There is a rather common but erro neous notion to the effect that a human body or even a ship will not sink to the bottom of the profounder abysses of the ocean, but will, on account of the density of the waters at a great depth, remain suspended at some distance above the surface of the earth. This, according to Seribner, is an error. No ather fate awaits the drowned sailor or his ship than that which comes to tht narine creatures who die ' on the bot tom of the sea in time their dust all passes into the great storehouse of the aarth, even as those who receive burial jn the land. However deep the sea, it is but s few hours before the body of a nan who finds bis grave in the ocean is it rest upon the bottom; it there re ceives the same swift service from the igents which, in the order of nature, ire appointed to care for the dead, as ;omes to those who are reverently i il lumed in blessed ground. All save the hardest parts of the skeleton are quick ly taken again into the realm of the .iving, and even those more resisting portions of the body are, in large part, ippropriated by the creatures of the sea ioor, so that before the dust returns in ;he accumulating water to the firm-set ;arth it may pass through an extended ;ycle of living forms. The fate of animal bodies on the sea floor is well illustrated by the fact that oeneath the waters of the gulf stream, where it passes southern Florida, there ire in some places quantities of bones, ipparently those of the manitee, or sea :ow, a large herbivorous mammal, which," like the seal, has become idapted to aquatic life; these creatures plentifully inhabit the tropical rivers which flow into the Caribbean sea, and ire, though rarely, found in the streams jf southern Florida. At their death hey drift out into the open water anc ire swept away to the northward by she ocean current. For some weeks, perhaps, the carcasses are buoyed up by the gases of decomposition which, are retained by their thick, oily skins; as these decay and break the bodies fall.tc the bottom. SLAVERY IN PERU. It Goes by Another Kame, But Is Bondage Pure and Simple. Slavery has no recognition in Peru vian law, but there are ways of main taining and explaining it not unworthy if some admiration for their cleverness. Take, for instance, an established jhacra or hacienda any hacienda. Ac cording to law the Indian is a free man. Certainly. Also, according to law, no man white, mestizo ' or Indian may leave the place where he has contracted i debt until he has paid it, if his credit ors choose to enjoin (embarger) him. Now it happens that the Indians are all ind always heavily in debt to the owner of the chacra where they live, and said owners do choose to enjoin them. Wherefore, concludes Harper's Maga zine, the Indian remains perpetually embargoed. AVhen the young Indian has grown large enough to do what may be regarded as a man's work he enters service.. He receives the habitual recompense of nine soles per month. Dn this sum he cannot live., The master knows it, the Indian knows it; but what Is to be done when 'such is the estab lished stipend throughout the length and breadth of the valley. The result is, receiving none of the commonest necessaries of life gratuitously, he over draws from the first. A strict account is kept of all that he obtains from his master of food, clothing, implements and knicknacks; papers of injunction are duly served, and he -is compelled to work on day after day in satisfaction of the debt. Consider another phase of the matter. If a man desires to establish a new hacienda he can obtain all the land he may need by simply "denouncing" it in due legal form, occupying and building a house on it; but he cannot secure laborers by spreading the rumor of his wishes and summoning a crowd of ap plicants from which to choose. For this he must repair to some well-stocked hacienda where there are Indians to spare, pay the debts of such as he se lects, thereby transferring the Indian with his obligation and its attendant bond of servitude from one master tc another. BLUFFED BY A DUMMY. Clever Scheme of an Old Timer to Ward OIT the law Minions. The Trinidad (Col.) Chronicle relates an incident of Joe Simpson, an old timer, who recently died in that city. Joe owned a piece of land near town, on which he one day found a corps of sur veyors running a line. He promptly drove them off with a 44-caliber re volver. A warrant was sworn out for his arrest, but the deputy sheriff who attempted to serve it was held np by the furious frontiersman, his gun and belt emptied and himself sent back tc town quicker than he came. Anticipating a visit from a posse ol men, Simpson took an old . suit ol clothes, stuffed it with grass, placed the dummy in a chair at the door of his cabin, surmounted the figure with a wide-brimmed sombrero and arranged a broom to give the innocent effigy the appearance of preparing to send a bullet through any one who might approach. Simpson then hid in an adjacent corn field and awaited developments. The posse finally arrived," and, catching sight of the figure in the doorway, held a hurried consultation and . fin ally beat a retreat. Simpson was a highly amused spectator of the performance, and the next day he came to town tm1 gave himself ud. In a Cow's stomach. In the stomach of a cow which waa butchered at Washington Court-House, O.. the following articles were found: Several nails two and three inches long, screws, hrau n;i and a number of ..small stones. There was fully a quart of these articles in the cow's stomach. Tie cow was s.r- butchered. """"" 061016 Dei MUTE SOLDIERS. &. Military Company Composed of Deaf and Dumb Members. fiie Drilling Is Conducted Entirely bj Signals and the Work Performed Is Described as Simply Wonderful. The only deaf-mute military company in the world is now the leading attrac tion at the Illinois institute for deaf mutes at Jacksonville, 111., and the work performed by this silent company is simply wonderful. Every member of the company, with the exception of the captain, is deaf and dumb. A few years ago Dr. Gillett, the superintendent, em ployed as storekeeper George. H. Scur lock, a pupil of the state normal school at Carbondale. . Mr. Scurlock at once began the study of the sign language, and in due time made himself familiar with thatdifScult mode of communica tion. He put it to a use little dreamed of by the superintendent or the trus tees. At the university he had been drilled in military tactics by- Lieut. C. G. Starr, of the United States army, and he conceived the idea one day of form ing a company from the pupils of the in stitution. The first thing to be done was to in vent a code of signs representing the orders given in the marching, drill and manual of arms, and to this he bent his energies for some weeks, and at last had it so far perfected that he deemed it safe to begin his experiment. It was early in the spring of 1891 that he collected thirty boys together and told them his plans, and they at once entered into the idea with all the eager ness of youth. Some of his signs are as follows: "About face!" is given by raising the hand and making the letter "r," which is by holding the index finger behind the middle one and then turning the hand round. "Right face!" is by hold ing the hand up and turning it to the right, r.nd "Left face!" by the reverse movement. "Forward march!" by, ex tending the hand forward on a leveL "Halt!"' by a r.imple cut with the sword, or the letter "h," which is made by ex tending the. first two fingers, forward "Fours!" right or left, by holding th hand up and the fingers separated and then turning them to the right or left as the case may be. "Form triangle," by pointing the index finger toward each. "Form square," by indicating the side of a square with the hands in the proper position. "To the rear," by holding the open hand up and quickly reversing it. "Mark time," by drawing the right hand slowly over the other hand, doubled up into a fist. "Bight dress," by two fingers pointed in the di rection desired, and as explained, these and many more constitute the code of preparatory signs or orders and when the captain's sword goes up they are executed. The more intricate orders are given by combination of signs. All the drill is executed as promptly as by hearing soldiers and it will be readily seen thas a quick eye is necessary and a close at tention to business. The cadets never turn their heads, but maintain a true soldierly bearing, and when they or any of them are so situated that they can't see the captain the order is repeated as quick as a flash. ON THE SARGASSO SEA. . A German Tilareographer Has Sailed There and Iinotva All About It. , The Sargasso sea, or floating masses of gulf weed in mid-Atlantic, which im peded the ships of Columbus four hun dred years ago, according to the London Globe, has been the subject of careful study by Dr. Krummel, a German mare- Lographer, who takes a different view of its origin from that commonly accepted. He shows, to begin y.'ith, that the sea is much mere extensive than Humboldt supposed. The middle or thickest part is elliptical in form; the great axis lying along the tropic of cancer and the foci at forty-five degrees and seventy degrees west longitude. Around this are more extensive but thinner accumula tions of the weed, which vary with the prevailing winds. The gulf weed (fucus natans), which, with its little round "berries," is not unlike the mistletoe in form, but of a brownish-yellow color, has been thought to have lost its property of rooting on rocks and to have acquired the power of living afloat. It has even been suggest ed that the sea marks the site of a sub merged continent, apparently the lo6t Atlantis. Dr. Krummel holds that the weed has simply been drifted to its pres ent position by the gulf stream and its affluents from the West Indian islands and the gulf of Mexico. It is now proved that the gulf stream is not a single narrow "river of the ocean," as Maury poetically described it, but consists of a number of currents not only from the Mexican gulf but the Antilles. The weed, according to Dr. Krummel, would take fifteen days to float as far north as the latitude of Cape Hatteras and five and a half months to reach the Azores. In the Sargasso sea it becomes heavy and sinks, but the supply is kept up by the gulf stream. Dr. Krummel is. cer tainly right in giving the Sargasso sea. a much wider area than Humboldt did Kand than our maps usually portray. It has been encountered some two or three hundred miles northeast of Barbadoes; but whether this weed is solely carried from . the West Indies and the gulf la perhaps open to doubt. - Catting Fine Veneers. Few people have an idea how thin a sheet of veneer may be cut with the aid of improved machinery. There is a firm in Paris which makes a business of cut ting veneers, and to such perfection have they brought it that from a single tusk thirty inches long they will cut a sheet of ivory one hundred and fifty inches long and twenty inches wide. Some of the sheets of rosewood and ma hogany are only about a fiftieth of an inch in thickness. Of course, they can not cut all woods so thin as this, for the grain of many varieties is not sufficient ly close to enable such fine work to be done, but the sheets of boxwood, maple and other woods of this character are often so thin as to be translucent. A RUSSIAN BELL. & turned to Its Old Hone After a Ha ishment of Thrco Centuries. A distinguished Siberian exile snugly packed in a wooden bo?r and honored with the regretful farewells of a whole population hao just been returned to European Russia, under an escort ' of a committee cf citizens glad to receive it back after its many privations. The said exile is no ether than the famous bell of Uglich, banished to Tobolsk in 1593 by order cf Czar Boris Godunoff for having rung the signal for the in surrection in Uglich at the time of the assassination cf Crown Prince Dimitri. Writing of it iu his book Mr. Kennan says: "The ceiled bell has been purged of its iniquity, has received ecclesiastical consecratio;-., and now calls the orthodox people cf Tobolsk to prayers. The inhabitants cf Uglich have recently been trying to recover their bell upon . tho. pica that it has been sufficiently punished by three centuries of csilc for its political un trust worthiness in 1593, and that it ought now to bo allowed to return U its home. The mayor of Tobolsk argues that the bell was exiled for life, and that consequently its term "of banish ment has not yet errpircd. He contends, furthermore, that even admitting the original title of the Uglich people, three centuries of adverse possession by the city of Tobolsk have divested the claimants of all their rights, and that the bell -shall bo allowed to remain where it is. The question it is said, will be carried into the Russian courts." The latest news from Tobolsk, besides showing that a decision has been reached in favor of Uglich, illustrates, says Free Russias, the inconsequential character cf Russian justice, which, closes its tribunals to the vrongs of thousands of sufferers in Siberia and opens them to a miserable squabble about a bell. 1 WHENCE CAME -THE FROGS? A Recent Shower It Sow Jersey Sug gests Some Scientific Speculation. During a thunderstorm in New Jer sey the other day it . "rained frogs" to such an extent that, according to the testimony of multitudinous witnesses, the streets of Port Morris were alive with hundreds of these creatures. Here's a state of things which the Bos ton Globe says science can no more ex plain to-day than it could two thou sand years ago. It is still said, of course, that these frogs were sucked up in marshes and carried into the clouds, but no human being ever yet saw a frog thus taken up, and it is odd that noth ing is ever "raised to eminence" in this way except the frog, though plenty of other living things may be near by all ready to be sucked up. A good many observers hold to the curious and interesting opinion that under certain very rare electrical con ditions life seems, generated spon taneously. . The frog is a peculiarly electrical creature, . and in fact first suggested the existence of animal mag netism as a distinct force to science. If any animal could be thus suddenly and strangely called into being it might well be the frog. Now that the univer sity extension professors are about set ting to work teaching the people science, it would be interesting to bear them explain mysteries such as the de scent of frogs, which has been the talk of Port Morris and all the region round about. Boils, abscesses, tumors and even cancers, are the result of a natural effort of the system to expel the poisons which the liver and kidneys have failed to re move. Ayer's Sarsaparilla stimulates all the organs to a proper performance of their functions. Examining Newspaper Men. r The Institute, of Journalists at Lon don has recommended that candidates for admission to membership shall pass an examination. Subjects of examina tion shall be: The English language and literature, English political and constitutional history, political and physical geography, Latin end eithet French or German, universal history and the principles of the law of news paper libel. If the proposal be adopted there will be. in future no recognized journalist in London that cannot boast of a very fair liberal education. MAKES ITSELF FELT the great, griping, old-fashioned pilL Not only when you take it, but unpleasant, from first to last, and it only does a little temporary good. The things. to take its place are Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel lets. One of these at a dose will regulate the whole system perfectly. They're tiny, sugar coated granules, scarcely larger than mustard seeds. They, act : in . Nature's .own way. ! No reaction- afterward. Their ' help lasts and they do permanent good. Constipa tion, Indigestion, Bilious At tacks, Sick or Bilious Head aches, and all derangements of the liver, stomach, and bowels are prevented, re lieved, and cured. They're . the cheapest, for they're.- gtiaranteed to give satisfaction or money is . re curned. Nothing can be "just as good." fV' Mi-IM I i t "fr THE PREVENTION CURE., Ireserving the Health of Schoolboys by Daily Attention to Their Condition. "A Headmaster's Wife," in an uncom monly ' sensible letter to a London paper, describes a plan whereby the health of schoolboys or . young col legians can be more thoroughly taken -care of than is usual. In normal school practice' all boys "reported sick" are excused from football and other sports, but the question is, to what extent must a schoolboy feel ailing before he f reports himself sick? It is the very pluck that one admires in boys that generally works the mischief, and they . often will t complain until the delay has more or less seriousl- aggravated the case. Though so unready to report himself "sick," a boywiU usually admit that . he ."does not feel very gay" if the question is put to him directly, and it is this fact that has given rise to a system which has been found to an swer excellently well. One boy in each dormitory is appointed to report each night upon the condition of the boys in his dormitory. He writes on a slip of paper: "All well in such and such dormitory," and adds the date, or: "All well except so and so, who comnlains of thin nr t.h.t. malaise " These slips are placed nightly on the desk of the lady manageress. . Suppose that a boy complains of headache or sore throat, ' he is at once summoned, the slight ailment is in quired into, a simple remedy ordered, and in nine cases out of ten nothing more is heard of the matter. . If, how ever, it seems to be a case of chill, the boy is kept warm in the sick room for a day or two. i "I am convinced," says the "Head- , master's Wife," "that being kept warm . for a day or two often wards off a seri ous illness, and in this opinion I am supported by one of the most eminent of London physicians. A plan some thing analogous to this might be car ried on in nearly aU educational insti tutions. The preventive' takes only a day or two, the 'cure' may take weeks, and that means a serious loss of valua ble work and possibly precarious health for years to come." . THOSE WHO WISH Glass, Lime, Cement, PLASTER, LATH. . Picture Frames, Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Engine and Boiler, CiXL AND SIB is:- G-XjiEiasritsr- SHERIFF'S SALE. Notice is hereby given that under and by vir tue of an execution issued out of the Circuit Court Of the State of Oregon, for the County of Wasco, in an action theretofore pending, where in Martha Perkins was plaintiff and A. Wilson was defendant, in favor of satd Martha Perkins, plaintiff, and against said A. Wilson, defendant, and George Krauss, surety, I did on the 24th day of April, 1894, duly levy upon and ill on Batur- ' day, the 16th day of June, 1894, at the hour of two o'clock F. M. of said day, sell at public auction at the front door of the county court bouse in Dalles City, Wasco County, Oregon, to the highest bidder for cash in hand, all of the following described real estate, to-wit: The south half of the northeaBt quarter (SV of . the .NE!), and the south half of the northwest quarter (8 of the NWJ) of section two (2), in township one (1) north of range fourteen (14) east of the Willamette meridian, containing one hundred and sixty (160) acre, together with the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto betonging or in any wise appertain ing, or so much t.iereot as shall be sufficient to satisfy the sum of $47.50. together with interest on said sum at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum from the ;th day of March, 1894, and the further sum of 1105.22 costs of said action, and also the a corning costs and expenses of sale. Dated at Dalles City, Wasco County, Or , this . 8th day of May, 1894. T. A. WARD, myl9 Sheriff of Wasco County, Oregon. EXECUTOR'S SALE, Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of an order of the County Court of the State of Ore eon for Wasco couDtv, made on the 7th day ef May, 1894, the undersigned, executors of the last will and testament of H. Staley, deceased, will on the 23d day of Jane, 1894, at the hour ot two o'clock in the afternoon of said day. at public auction, ell upon the prem ises hereinafter described, all of the real estate belonging to the estate of said deceased, to-wit: The northeast quarter of the northwest quar ter, the south half of the northwest quarter, an the west half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-fonr, township four south, range twelve east of the Willamette meridian, situated in Wstro county, Oregon, to the highest bidder for cash in hand. B. SAVAGE, . T. J. DRIVER, W. M. MCCORKXE, , Y W. R. CANTEKLL, my26td ' and C. J. VAN DUYM. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. XT. 8. IiAH D Omcl, The Dalles, Or., ; - May 1, 1894. ( Notice Is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and ' that said proof will be made before the register . and receiver ef the V. 8. land office at The Dalles, Or., on June IB, 1894, vis: Ferdinand Weiteram, ' Homestead No. 4667, for 8EJi BEJi, Sec. 81, Tp. 8 S. R IS E and SWW NWJi, Sec 6, Tp. 4 8. K 13 E. He nrunea the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of ' said laud, viz. : Geo. Maloy, R. D. Pitcher, Henry Swelgler, Thomas Jeffries, Tygr. Valley, Or. mays JOHN W. LEWIS, Register. NOTICE FOR'PTJBIICATION. Land Omo, The Dalles, Or., " 1 May 11, 1894. Complas't having been entered- at thisoffioe by Joharv Fischer against the heirs at law. of , William -if. Murphr, deceased, for abandoning his Homestead Entry, No. 4571, dated October 12,1892, upon the V4 BE, and N'H 8WJ, Sec 31, Tp IN, R 10 E, in Wasco county, Oregon.with a view to the cancellation of said entry; the said parties are hereby summoned to appear at The Dalles, Oregon, on the 14th day of July, 1894, at 9 o'elock . M., to repond and furnish testimony concerning said alleged abandon ment, i JOHN W. LEWI9, , jum-9 Register.