C3) Tha Dalles Daily Chronicle. JCBBCKIfTIO-N rBlCB.. One week . . . 15 One month , 50 One year 6 00 Government Breeding; Them tor the Purpose of Producing New Kind of Silk An Interesting Experiment. Some very remarkable bogs axe bet ing- hatched and reared just at present by the experts of the government bu reau of entomology at Washington, Most people would suppose that there were enough insects in existence with out resorting to artificial propagation.; but the fact is that this kind of scientific work has a very useful purpose in view. This, too, notwithstanding thefact that the species selected for breeding are the most pestiferous that can be found, The bag aatchory, or m-sectary, as it is called, is a brick building close by the department of agriculture. In con struction it resembles a greenhouse, the upper part being of glass, so as to admit plenty of light for the insects. It is divided into two compartments, one of which is artificially heated for the ben efit of tropical and other species that require warmth, while the other is cold On shelves all around the interior, and on the floor as well, are glass jars and queer glass-sided boxes containing a great variety of odd-looking objects. The objects in the glass jars are parts of plants, fruits, dried-up vegetables, pieces of branches or roots, etc. One does not see any bugs at all, and the reason why is simply that the veg etables, fruits and so forth are the natural food of the insects, and the lat ter are either inside of them or else are "done up" in cocoons for the win ter. For example, there is a huge cocoon nine inches long hanging from a twig in a jar of exceptional size. This is the temporary communal dwelling built by the so-called "gregarious butterfly" in Mexico. More correctly speaking, it is the caterpillars transformed later into butterflies that construct the cocoon for a residence while they are under going their metamorphosis. The co coon looks and feels as if made of thick parchment, and at the lower end of It is a small hole that serves for a door. The labor employed in building it must be enormous. Under a powerful mag nifying glass, it is seen to be composed of an infinite number of shining and very slender silken threads, crossing each other in every direction. When cut into, the nest is found to contain 100 or more chrysalids, attached to the walls on the inside each one repre senting a future butterfly. The habit of combining together to build a house seems to be peculiar to this species among butterflies. The silk composing the, nest is exquisite, and from 20 to 25 sheets of it can be stripped off from the great cocoon as if woven in a loom. If the silk could only be spun, the "gregarious butterfly" would soon displace the silkworm, and the silks and satins of commerce would be of butterfly manufacture. Unfor tunately, the difficulty remains un solved, though many attempts in this direction have been made. Could a so lution of the problem be found, silk would become at once enormously less costly, inasmuch as the cocoons of this kind of butterfly are to be gathered in immense numbers as a wild crop in. the forests of Mexico. Boston Transcript. TOOK A COLD SHOWER BATH. A Sew anil Elderly Pnptl Stayed Under It Nearly Fifteen Minuteu. A gentleman about CO years cf ape en tered a gymnasium and physical cul ture school in Brooklyn the other day and announced his intention of becom ing a pupil to "build himself up," re ports the New York Times. After hard exercise for an hcur it is customary for euch pupil to take a warm or 'cold shower bath r.nJ thou be rubbed (;wr. T)y an attendant with coarre towels, thus promotir.g the ircv.lati-n of tac blood and putting lis b-d;.- ir. a hso-Uhy glow. The shower bnth is in a small compart a-.c:it, and the r'-TU enters and closes the door, manipulating the spig ots to suit himself, while thattendant waits outsids until he is tan.u-rh. The elderly pupil vns told after his first lenson that he had better tako a cold shower, and he eatrrcd the com partment and closed the door. The at tendant waited for rcarlj- 15 minutes outsiCi-, and wendcred what the man was doing, as he could hear the cold water runr.ir;;, but no other sound. Finally frcm tha compartment came the chattsriii-r query: "How longmust 3 stay in this pTaeo? I'm !"rt ezirjr." The new ni:pil was pvcrr;:t!y rescued and resuscitated, and it w.-3 explained to him that it was :ict customary for a man to stay under the shower longer than two or three minutes on a cold winter day. Dotted Veil Home. A doctor has moved into a new house, one of the finest in Washington. He calls it the dotted veil house. When people seem surprised he explains. This physi cian is a specialist. He devotes himself to diseases of the eyes. The money to build the mansion was accumulated from fees which were earned in the treatment of eyes injured by wearing dotted veils. . Not all of the profession are so frank as this Washington oculist. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Aztec Survivor. Among the natives of Mexico there , av accord in f to Lumholtz, about 150, 000 survivors of the Aztec race. Chi cago Inter Ocean. THEY AEE DANGEROUS GUNS: THe New Hunting Rifles a Menace to Human Life. They Throw a. Ballet So Par There Is No Telllnjr What Damaore They May Do Narrow Escapes. When one comes to discuss rifles, range and the average distance at which game is shot one is likely to strike con tradictory opinions. A prominent hunt er, in speaking recently of the great ef fectiveness of the American rifle, said that in his experience elk, moose, bears and white-tailed deer were most gen-; erally killed within a range of 175 yards, j andi that this was so because they were apt to be discovered' within this dis tance, not because of any lack of car rying power in the rifle. Wben this j statement is contrasted with the pros-j rwtns et flip lntpst. riflp Tvliioli tine n fiwrf Ricrht nf 2SO nrrie n flat, traiontnrr and a maximum range of 2,200 yards,.. "After we had placed our bait carcass what is the average hunter to think? e set UP our tents and th canvas flies Of one thing there is no room for ' that concealed us and our horses from doubt, and that is that this year many i the vlew of the condors. Breakfast was people are preparing to go to the woods : 9 soonr over th we could see from deer shooting, and will take with them j Peepholes in the canvas that hid us the new rifle. Itswonderful range and penetration are due to the new smoke- : less powder employed in conjunction with a bullet sheathed in copper so a to present a harder surface to the rifling than lead. This projectile is forced through a barrel from 20 to 24 inches long, the rifling of which has about one i turn to every eight inches. The great objection raised by experienced hunters . v:. 4i.t u. I to such an arm as this is that with the long range one never knows where the bullet is likely to bring up once it has left the gun. A few years-ago a hunter fired at a deer at a distance of 183 yards as measured after death. The animal was standing at the foot of. a slight bluff of loamy sand in which not a stone or rock was to be seen. The rifle was fired and the deer fell, the bullet having gone clear through the heart and missing- the ribs on- both sides. Immediately after a hail was heard from a point about 200 yards back of the shooters, and an angry man was heard asking where in thunder they were shooting.as the bullet had just skimmed over his head. A close examination showed graze and l?af holes aboee the heads of the ether partv of hunters. and it would seem that the bullet had traversed two sides of a triangle, from the rifle to the quarry, and back from the quarry to the ether base cbrneT ol the triangle. If such a thing-impossible with an ordinal rifle sighted to 100, 150, 300 and 500 yards, what would be the. possible result with the corner- sheathed bullet, low tralpctorv and 2,200-yard .range in a wooded district? In still another case a well-known hunting writer from the west now re siding in New York chanced upon a moose feeding about 200 yards, awav and, with the idea of taking the second snot Himself, told: his companion, an amateur, to try the first shot. The bul let was seen to strike the ground nearly four feet in front of and about six feet short of the moose. When an examina tion was made' it was found that therp had been two moose feeding within a nunarea yards of each other, and that on th trail of the far one wbr Vilrxi Following the trail, the moose was eventually bagged, and it was found that the bullet had entered' at the lower side of the stomach and ..was lodged in the fat of the hump, showing clearly that the animal had been hit by the ricochetting missile. An exam ination of the spot where the turf flew showed a flat piece of rock an inch or so under the surface which the bullet naa nit and glanced from. Many similar stories might be related of the vae-ariea of glancing bullets, and the possible dangers are making a number of hunt eTS very chary of going out with these new rifles, which, whatever advantages they may have in other places, are not believed to be suitable for d-eer shoot ing in- the eastern states. English sportsmen are also entertain ing similar fears, for a prominent big game shot recently advocated a re striction in the matter of the riflinov Both English and American- hunters appear to hold the idea that the wound inflicted by the metal-sheathed bullet fired from the exceedirre-lv Ionr-ranm rifle is not of the type best calculated to stop the game, but that the bullet will rather pass completely through the body without shatterinc onnnsi no- bones or tearing a large hofe in tha softer opposttne substance, fan lia it the animal be not hit in the brain on heart it may travel a loner wav off hofm-. loss of blood brings it down. The ex-i perience of most hunters is in- favor of a 45-caliber bullet composed of, one part tin and! 40 of lead, weiehinc- 350. grains and' propelled by from 90 to 100 grains or good black powder. Thishnl- let will not have the same ricochetting puwer as me omeT. JN. x. Sun. - The Wise Drnaarlst. Youth I would er like a bottle of some er good hair restorer. Druggist Want it for your sous tache, I suppose? "Er yes." "T guess it's hair originator want." Chicago Evening News. you , In the Arctics. Walrus Bill Klondike Ike's wife didn't know him when he got home from our little swarray this morning. Sealskin Sam How could you expect her to, after he had been out all night and grown a beard six months old? Indianapolis Journal. - CATCHING CONDORS. K Pries Upon the Ferocious JJlrds I In Chill. j Chili offers a bounity for condor heads, and an. American in that country has ' made from $700 to $800 a month killing1 ' this bird of prey. One month he got a warrant for $1,080. Condors steal sheep and calves. , He writes, says the Chicago Chronicle: "How did we capture these ferocious birds? Our first job every morning be fore we had even a peep of sunlight , over the mountains was to carry the j, carcass of a dead animal a horse or a ' jow out on the plain, where it could ! easily be seen from all points of the ! compass. We sometimes made a car cass do service for a fortnight but it required a strong stomach and indiffer ence to stench. We moved about every few days from one locality to another, and .never put the rotting body twice in the same place, because of the extreme suspiciousness of an average condor. Generally we would move three or four ' miles every 24 hours. , uwimug wn mrougu the clouds from the mountain, crest straight toward our bait. When- the birds had eaten heartily we sprang to our horses,, which stood near, bridled and saddled, ready for the chase. . When a, condor has gorged itself with food it nOT rlse running to give it- m exper lassoer eou,ld send hls rop over a condor's head ana so manage it that it was slinned 'down until it touched the shoulders of the wings before it would be tightened on the bird. Then the rider would turn the horse about and lead the chase him self, forcing the unwilling bird along until tumbled, spent, to the ground, and was dragged to death at the horse's heels." . , 4 E5 HE LOVED TO GIVE. i The Touching Lesson of a Very Chart . table Life. The. story of George Francis Train sitting in the park surrounded by birds and children is a familiar one. It is not so generally known that North St. Louis was the home of a child and bird lover who died some years ago, says the 3t. Louis Republic. It was this gentle old man's custom to leave home every morning directly after breakfast with his pockets full of bread crumbs and rock candy. He would go to one of the parks near his home and sit down on one of the bench es there. No matter how cold it was he never forgot those bread crumbs. 'At sight of him the birds would fly toward him. There were not so many 3parrows then -as now, but sometimes hundreds of them would flutter about him. He has often" been seen sitting there quietly -with the little birds perched on his hat and shoulders. When the birds had collected he would bring out his store of bread crumbs, and then there would be af east. The rock candy he kept for children and poor people. He was always gener ous with it. He would say that it was pure and would help the poor wretches to keep warm. It is told of him that he once paid a debt of $150 for an old friend. The creditor was told to say- to inquirers that the bill was paid by "one who loved him." When they asked the old man about it he smiled, but did not acknowl edge that he had paid it.. He merely iaid: k"Ah! Love has paid many a debt." FATE'S LEFT-HANDERS. of Them Was Delivered to the Omo Millard Family. ' 'Sometimes fate deludes one into thinking there is such a treasure as justice on earth, but she generally caps it by dealing a blow more stinging than the first. At least that is the sentiment of the Millard family. The Millards live on a fashionable South side avenue, in a row of quiet, unpretentious houses. Their residence had always been the abode of peace and harmony till the fetal day when the daughter of the people next door came from California for an extended visit. Her husband came also; he wore a silk hat rigidly at every outdoor appearance, and had a fondness for frock coats at 7 a. m., but nevertheless he has nothing to do with che story. The daughter proved to be musical. The Millards had not known that the people next door possessed a piano till the daughter came, and at the first were rather cheered by the ripple of tttve piano keys which generously penetrated the thin wall. After a week the pianist settled down to hard work. Previously she had scrambled through a varied reportoire, but finally decided on her life work, the Millards assumed, wfoen they heard Paderewski's- "Minuet" one day from three a. m. to luncheon time, and from then till dinner Wag ners "teigmund's liove Song-" The Millards' brows wea slightly corru gated at dinner, but they did not com plain. After a few days, however, a feeling of nervousness, restlessness and even acerbity of temper made itself manifest. "I really don't know what ails me!" said Mrs- Millard, fretfully, irritable." I am so. i "1 can t settle down to anything!'" growled Mr. Millard. "Anne, for Heav- J en's sake, don't touch the piano!" .. . A. LAWYER'S DARING ACT. How He Risked His Own Life to Save That of a Client. In the Presence of the Jury He Swal lowed Deadly Poison Bnt Was Pumped Oat and Win His Case. Two old-time Chicago lawyers were lalking the other day about some noted cases which had been tried in Cook county and of the attorneys who had shone at the Chicago bar. The name and fame of "Billy" O'Brien, once one of the most eminent criminal lawyers that ever stood before a jury in this state, came up and then- followed a flood of stories about him. "O'Brien," said one of the lawyers, "defended in the Cook county criminal courts," 260 people, and during all his varied and exciting career never lost a case. He was one of the quickest men to see and take advamtaere of a point in favor of his client and when pressed to the wall would somehow squirm out and make what seemed certain convic tion a point for triumphant acquit tal. ' . "O'Brien- once had a client who was on trial for murder and all the evi dence had apparently gone to show con clusively that malice and the coolest of deliberation had prompted the pris oner to take the life of the victim. He had administered poison. The elements of the deadly drug had been taken from the decedent's stomach, and on being analyzed were found to be identical with the remainder of the poison in the bottle, which was offered in evi dence and which stood before the eyes of the jury. The horrid skull and crossbones glared from the side of the bottle, which was turned toward the 12 men who were soon to decide whether the prisoner at the bar was to. live or to be swung into eternity. The court room was crowded with an interest ed throng, which was at a loss to know what sort of an attempt O'Brien could possibly make in behalf of his client. "The state's attorney was just about to close his opening argument and in a. few moments more the attorneys who had never lost a case would certainly meet his Waterloo. But O'Brien was not to give up without a struggle. Ne cessity inspired him, and he had already, before the evidence was completed, pre pared an outline of the manner in which he would approach the jury. ''O'Brien knew a physician, an ex pert chemist, whom'ihe could trust, and this man had examined the poison, and the attorney knew too well from his lips that it would kill him. Furthermore, he knew it was this drug that had killed the person for whose murder his client was on trial. O'Brien called this doctor into the seclusion of a private room and said: "Doctor, this is a desperate case. Tell me candidly and .to a certainty how long I can live after drinking the re mainder of the poison in that bottle? " 'Why, O'Brien, you couldn't live more than three minutes, "The face of the great criminal law yer lighted up and he saw hope that he ....... might yet win the case, " 'Three minutes,' said he, 'that ie enough.' "Then it was finally arranged that the doctor should be in waiting for the attorney after the latter had got through with his argument' He took a station in an adjoining- room, where 0'Brieni could quickly reach him and waited with his preparations to conn- teract the poison. The state's attorney closed his argument with e,n apparent triumph, the hangman's rope was al- most dangling before the eyes of the prisoner. Everyone in the courtroom craned his neck as O'Brieni rose and faced the jury.. All were surprised to see the calm, and confident look which clothed his face. It seemed impossible that he could have any hope of acquit tal or even of saving his' client's life. He paid more attention to the medical witnesses than he did to the others and labored to break down their testi mony. "After a pretty good argument from the facts which he had to work upon he drew his address toward a close and, picking up the bottle which contained the remainder of the drug, held it so the 12 men could see it. " 'Now, gentlemen,' said the attorney, as he paused and significantly looked at the bottle, 'just to show you that this is not the deadly poison which the -witnesses for the state have said it is, I will drink it and prove that it is harm less.' "There wasn't a person in the room whose hair did not stand on end and the people sat as motionless as if dearth had grasped them. O'Brien, confident and composed, raised the bottle to his lips, drained it ,to the bottom, set it on the table and, as coolly as if he had. been j sipping wine, turned to the men in, wuukc iiamia tne uie oi tne prisoner rested and said: " 'Gentlemen of the jury, I thank you very kindly for the attention which you have given- to my argument.' hen, making a graceful bow, he -walked quietly from the room. This much the jury and audience saw. but J the physician in waiting knew the rest, t By the use of antidotes, empties ' anti skillful use of the stomach-pump, he jj naa in a few minutes removed all the poison from O'Brien's stomach and -quickly the lawyer came back into the room, coolly sat down and listened c the closing and disjointed remarks of the prosecuting attorney. "The jury retired. It had believed that the bottle contained poison, but O'Brien had taken it and was not dead. How could it be? Anger, malice pre pense, deliberate murder, long-plotted homicide, every element of criminal in tent vanished at the thought that O'Brien was still clive. In'five minutes after they had retired the 12 men re turned a verdict cf not guilty. O'Brien is dead,- but to-day the murderer walkf the streets of Chicago." Chicago News An Englishman's Impression Greater New York. - of Americans Come In for a Generous Share of Praise for Their Cor- -reet Conduct Some Curi ous Thlnars. Had the initial stage of existence been, ordered under different circumstances, and I had been given the choice of a birthplace, I might have elected to be born an American citizen somewhere outside of New York. For what is oi.e to say of a city that will cot peimityou to carry pickles through the streets cn the seventh day nor allow you to kiss your best girl on the sidewalk on any of the others? I might not want at ar.3 period of life- to do either one or the other of these proscribed acts, yet if it should happen that I did' I should hate to call my own that city which forbade me. Indeed, the niceties of life in New York have been somewhat of apuzzle to me. I have not been permitted to smoke a cigarette while walking along Fifth avenue with a lady, but I have been allowed to take her to the theateT and occupy a front seat in the stalls without donn in g even in g d ress a thin g no lady would tolerate in London. Spanish cities are famous) for their noises, but New York I found to be noisier than any three of them. My nerves were at a tension during the whole of my visit. It is not an unceas ing, distant rumble that soon becomes no discomfort, as in London, but a suc cession of jarring, jerky noises, dis tracting to the senses. Why you tol erate it I cannot understand. What with cable cars, the "L" railroad, the cabs and carts rattling over roadwa-r with no pretense at paving, and the thousand and one street cries, New York is a perfect inferno of clamor. Indoors I find another curious thing curious, you must remember, to the Englishman. You heat your houses to suffocation and then drink gallons of iced, water to keep cool to the ruin of your digestion, temper and nerves, un til you have become the most dj-speptic people under the sun and the special prey of the quack-medicine venders. You claim to be a sensible people, and yet your candy stores are filled every day by crowds of struggling women who eat indigestible pastry to such an extent that the graveyards of America contain more tons of gold than of teeth. The New York man d'oes not hustle as much as vnn wrmlrl-hnvp nthprc Vip- . Heve. In fact, you don't work, man for man, so hard as the Englishman. But ! you think quicker and larger, and you ! think more than you work. You have a ! A ' J a; . 1 . great idea, tire of it halfway through because another greater, idfea has come i to you, and leave your subordinates to ( work out the minor details of the first schem.e, with the result that it is never wholly finished. The average Englishman : will see the thing through from begin ning to end, and give his whole attention i to the smallest detail. Yours is a city of i diversified thought and aspirations. j Tne one thinfcT in which you seem to j have co1111 mind is that you should I wear a crease down- the front of an old ' Pair of trousers. ' .As to Jon generally, you are the .J"1"31165 and most hospitable people on the face of the earth- This I say with- : out reervation, and every Englishman who has visited' your shore will bear me out in my statement. You never seem to tire' of extending to him civilities and courtesies such as overwhelm a sensi tive man, whether it is in showing with, just pride the wonders and resources of your greatcountry, or spendingyour dollars or your time in his service. To one gentleman, who would no wish me to identify him by name, I owe a deep debt of gratitude for all he did" for me) a strangei and his, I believe, was a spirit that pervades you all. Leslie's Weekly. The Foot of the Reindeer. Everything in any way connected with Alaska and the Klondike is of spe cial interest at present, and among other items the foot of the reindeer de serves particular mention. The forefoot oi the horse' to a great extent deter- mines its value, as upon this portion ! of its anatomy its speed and endurance i depend. The foot of the reindeer is most peculiar in construction. It is ! cloven through the middle and each half . curves upward in front. " They , are j slightly elongated and capable of a , uuoiucrauie amount oi expansion, (When placed on an irregular surface, i wticb. is difficult to traverse, the animal - contracts them into a sort of claw, by which a firm hold is secured. When moving rapidly the two portions of the foot, as it is lifting, strike together, the hoofs making a continuous clattering noise, which may be heard at a consider . able distance. It is this peculiarity of tne feet that makes the reindeer so sure footed and so valuable in that rocky and uneven country, where almost any other animal would prove a failure as a beast of burden. N. Y. Ledger. ii B Depart for tihi schedulx. From Dalles. Arrive From. Fast Mail 8alt Lake, Denver, Ft. Fa-t Mall. 3:10 a.m. 11:50 p. m. iiuiui, vuioua, mu-1 8as City, St. Louis;! iOic&go ana .East. Spokane Fiver Walla Walla, Spokane, Bpokane Flyer. 6:50 a. m. 5:30 p. m. Minneapolis, fct. raul, uniuiD, Milwaukee, .Chicago and East. 8 p.m. From Portland. 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