Th3 Dalles Daily Ctonieie. SAM WAS ALONE. The Were Five of the Clay -tore 'When. Trouble Brgu. " Back of the mountaineer" cabin was a 'great plum tree, and under this tree was a grave without a headstone. I noticed the mound as I wandered about in the afternoon, but it was evening and we sat at the door smoking- our pipes before I made inquiry. "Yes, that's Sam's, grave," replied the old man. as he looked away into the gathering1 twilight. "Sam was my son my only son. We buried (him. there five y'ars ago." I saw from the look wihich passed be tween husband anid wife that I -had touched on a painful matter, and I was about to change the subject when the woman said: "Joe, he may hevlheard sunthin 'bout it. Better tell the story straight." "Wall," said the old man after a long pause, "they had- a boss race up at the Co'ners. and our Sam was thar and got into a dispute with one of the Clay boys. Thar was five of the Clays, and Sam was all alone.. He was only 19 y'ars old, but when them Clays begun to elbow him around- be stood up to the hull five of 'em, Thar wasn't no slhootin' right thar. at the Co'ners. The Clays waited till Sam had got started fur home and then rid anter him and opened fire. He . had the sense to put -his boss on the dead run and look fur kiver. They f oi-lered- Sum right along home, and his boss was shot as he jumped down' at the gate. Mary, yo' tell the Test." "I . was all alone yere," said the wife, 'and when I heard the shootin' I knowed what, it meant. . I got down the Win chester and stood at the door, and as Sam cum up foe took it and run to the big plum tree fur kiver. Thar was five of the Clays, and" they dodg-ed about and kept shootin' and paid no 'tenshun. tome. I was that scaxt that I sat down on -the ground and kivered up my face with my apron. I can'tisay how long it all lasted, but I reckon not mo' than ten minits. When the ahootin stopped I got up, and1 and " "And Sam was lyin dead under the plum tree!" said the old man. Tears ran down the face of the worn in and -the husband's cfhin quivered, and it was a long1 minute before he added: ''Yes, Saan was lyin dead on the ground, hit by five bullets, but out thar and over thar' and right out yan f o o them. Clay boys was lyin on hheir backs . with, their sightless eyes .ookin' up at the sky, and the fif tta one srawlin on hand and knees up tJhe 'oad! "He had killed four!" I exclaimed. "Killed fo', eah, and wounded the 31th one tiH he was a cripple fur life! rhat was our Sam, sah, and we buried him right whar he fit and' made his record. Fo dead men on their backs wounded man crawlia' away and cry ' as he went!" "And tlhere were no other Clays?" "Nary a. man nor boy! The wimen lad to cum for the dead, and I had to jelp lift em into the cart!" Detroit Free Press. lease Hew Notions for L.mdleav cos tumes. Dog- collars of velvet, more or less covered wren jewels, are much worn with evening dress. One of the novelties in jewelry is a diamond snake with sapphire eyes wound around a velvet collar band on my lady's gown. It is made in. three divisions, which slide in such a way that it appears whole. Little tablet set in diamonds are made with slides to fit on the velvet collar. Spiders, grasshoppers and all sorts of winged insects and groveling bugs are the popular designs in jeweled pins. A narrow .black nioire ribbon is set forth as the successor of the gold chain, and the "Incroyable." eyeglass or the lorgnette it attached to the end. Old-fashioned pink cameos are com ing into vogue again, and the old-time etting is to be retained. Felt hats covered with a large meshed black silk net are .one of the features of millinery.- Added to the brooch in her back hair, adopted to hold the short straws in tidiness and free from her coat collar, every second woman now carries dangling- from her long- neck chain a gold latchkey. Some of these- futile and frivolously pretty trinkets that were never made to open any lock ever seen by land or sea have the hoop in the handle set with jewels. . Less expensive ones are of silver, with enameled tops, and some of these do turn in the locks of escritoires, or open pretty boxes where, jewels and . precious letters are kept, i Their purpose, however, is a small matter, and they promise to be-f-orne as all nervadinc as the heart lockets were and the clover leal pen dants now are. The jeweled belt, the sash and the velvet girdle with a bow on the left side, resplendent with a jewel buckle, are the novelties ift finish at the waist Pretty revers for cloth . gowns are maae 91 wnite ailk finely tucked cross- 1 wise, having a hemmed frill on; the ! edge nearly two inches long. j A flowered silk gown can be brought op to date with a velvet blouse waint !' of some dark color in the Bilk. The sleeves , may be of . silk,, and with a guimpe neck of lace the effect ia very pretty. . If the velvet bodice is black, row of velvet ribbon on. the skirt are an improvement. N. Y. Sun. NEW SLAVERY AT CAPE TOWN. Beehuaaa Prisoners Are Bought by the Farmer. The "slave -mart," judging from an article in the Oape Times, appears to .be definitely established in. Cape Town, says the London .Chronicle." The slaves, pf course, are the Beehuana, prisoners,' and although there Is no suggestion that these wretched creatures are treat ed with harshness while in the gov ernment care, they are clearly consid ered and disposed of precisely as if they -were mere bales of goods or cat tle. Careful watch, and ward is kept over them and the writer says that "it is not easy to pass the strict guard at the gate unless you are a farmer coming to pick your labor. Round three sides of the square court yard men and women are squatting im passively or standing chattering in knots. They are ill-clad and exceeding ly ill-favored, but not ill-nourished, like the first batch of skeletons that came Jown to town. A dhild here and there s even bonny. There is no very obvi jus dejection. The nearest to It is a cnoody, passive look." The fanners, too, quite enter into the spirit of the "slave mart." They go round the market scanning the men and "sorting out those of the largest size," as did the walrus and the car penter with the oysters. The natives cast expressionless, sidelong glances. at their possible masters while 'they are being appraised like goods in a store. Having selected- one or two from a group, the farmer is chagrined at be ing told by a harried- official: "We can not break this lot for you," as if the knot of negroes were a dinner service or a suite of bedroom furniture. Back goes the farmer and looks, the natives up and down again, and at length de cides "to take the lot." When the na tives are duly indentured for five years their master unhitches his ..cart and mules, outside, bundles his "labor" in and drives his bargain home. THE BULLDOG A GOOD DOG. ret We Do Not Care to Take Liber ties with One. Xo member of the canine family has been more persistently maligned than the bulldog. Writers who have no inti mate knowledge of the dog and his at tributes have described him as stupidly ferocious, and illustrators have pic tured him as a sort of semi-wild beast, til the general public has come to look upon him as dangerous, says Ou.ting. "Give a dog a bad. name," is an old saw and perhaps a t rue one, but when it is applied to the bulldog, it is manifest ly unjust. Writers, too, have fallen into grave error in claiming' that the bull dog is deficient not only in affection, but in intelligence. No greater proof of the falsity of the latter could- be' given than was wit nessed at the late Westminister Ken nel club's dog show, when Col. Shults exhibited his trained, dogs, with the bulldog Nick performing all sorts of wonderful feats, especially that of walking a tight rope, and, when in the center of it, turning round and retrac ing his steps, amid the applause of an admiring audience. Stonehenge, who is .considered one of the greatest of canine scientists, claims that the bulldog's brain is relatively larger than that of the spaniel, which dog is generally considered to be the most intelligent of the canine race, while the bulldog's affection is never to be doubted. JUDGED BY THEIR WALK. Paee Sometimes Indicates the Char acter of the Girls. You have 6een the woman-who jerkf her head as she walks, I suppose? Th habit is not uncommon, and on close ac quaintance you will find that a womai so afflicted is given to fickleness. Sh. trifles a little too much with love, ant is just the woman to miss a good hus band and be sorry afterward, says th Doston Traveler. The quiet man will never be happj with the woman who digs her heels intc the pavement and scurries along as i: ihe.were running a race. She is busi ess-like and most likely the woman is succeed in trade affairs, but her man ner is. one of those simple things tha' worry the quiet man to death. . The girl who cannot walk withoui skipping is a very cheerful girl and en ioys life with much the same gusto ai ihe girl with an elastic step who tips or her toes at every stride. But perhapt she girl we like most is the girl with the srisk, musical walk, who loves to peep for a moment into shop windows and ;hen walk briskly on, and who goes ihrough life with the fixed resolve of jetting the most pleasure out of every thing. Irish Donkey in Africa. ;The Irish donkey has covered him elf with glory in South Africa, where le is in, great demand, says the Phila lelphia Becord. His toughness laughs o scorn the tsetse fly, so fatal to cattle ind horses, and all the other insec dvorous pests of that region, and in the natter of diet he is as accommodating is at home. There is, in consequence, a rreat boom in thp Trri n "mnlrp" Tnnvl.-a Bnglish and. Dutch syndicates- having Uready invested $25,000 in donkey aesh in Clare, Tipperary and Limerick done, and a new branch of industry ia pemng up to the Irish farmer. , Late to bed and early to riee, prepares a man for his borne in the skiee. But early to bed and a Little Early Riser, the pill that makes life longer and better and iaer. Snipes-Kloersly Drag Co. OAK IS GETTING SCARCE rhe Visible Supply I3 ; Rapidly Disappearing-. lacKMCd Consumption During the Hard Times Period on Ac count of Its Being a - Cheap Wood. No one who is at all familiar with existing conditions in tlhe lumber trade can fail to note that there is already considerable complaint of the dearth of desirable oak. Both in quartered and plain stock fairly good lots of dry oak are notably scarce. The leading job bers have had their buyers out for months picking up anything good they could find, and the result is that a very large proportion of the oak cn sticks has already pr.sr;d into second hand and is held by the present cvnors for distribution to consumers. 'i'l men ia the scutlh nre cutting it all the time, but they do not Lavs to wait until it is dry, or evera partly dry, before sell ing. If they choose to do so, they can usually negotiate for it fn advance of the sawing, ar.d on terms that a few years ago would have been regarded as extremely liberal. Oak is, perhaps the must readi.y salable cf any saw mill product, which fact-indicates that it is now, and is bcMeved likely to be hereafter, relatively a scarce article. While there is no occasion for alarm as lo the present adequacy of the oak supply, it is a question if the time (has not come when serious consideration should be given to the possibility, not to say probability, that in the not dis tant future oak may become one the scarce woods. Considering the wide distribution of oak, this may strike many. lumber men as a remote con tingency, but that it i3 not an impos sible result, or so distant in point of time as to be removed from present consideration, is suggested at least by the existing conditions of rlcmr.nd and supply. Oak has been called for stead ily during most of the hard tiu:e c-ilou. The consumption has been large, and has even increased, while that of ollher woods has fallen be!ov the nor mal quantity. This shows aa increas ing popularity and a growing .require ment which, it is obvious mur.t be met from the constantly-lessening supply. The growth of ozjl is too slow to count much in adding to our stock. Practi cally we are restricted for supplies to the wood already grown and ready for the saw. That there is cf this no in exhaustible stock is readily proved by the difficulty, which has increased rap idly within the last five or ten years, of buying tlhe standing timber in bunches large enough to make them the basis of a lumbering operation. If oak can not be bought ia quantities now, there is no reason to suppose that it is ever going to be any more plentiful. If it cannot be found now, it never can be, and within a comparatively short time the lumber trade and the users of oak must face the fact that it does not ex ist in sufficient quantity to warrant the liberal and even wasteful use that is now made of it. It is the eonviction of those who have given the closest study to oak that its present market value is based upon an incorrect idea of v.lhat is left, aud that we shall wake up some morning to find that we have sold almost for a song the most valuable of our timber pos sessions. Oak, except in the finest grades of quartered stock, is still a cheap wood. Is it not too cheap for a variety that is in universal demand and in only limited supply ? St. Louis Lum berman. SAWDUST EXPLOSIONS. The Ottawa River Is the Scene ol Queer Upheavals. . Who ever heard of sawdust explo sions? They are common enough in C-tnada. Navigation on the Ottawa river has been seriously impeded at times by explosions of sawdust, and the Dominion government has at last decided to take steps to prevent any practice which will enhance the possi bility of these explosions taking place. One would hardly suppose that saw dust dumped into the river would in course of time reform itself into a gas generator which would keep the surface of the stream in a constant state of upheaval., But it is true to suoh an extent that small boa ta have been capsized and large vessels ha" been injured by the submarine convul sions. The bottom of the Ottawa river Is covered with a deep layer of sawdust dumped there by the lumbermen who have carried on their log cutting in dustry on its banks and tributaries for years. The dust becomes water-soaked, sinks to the bottom, and in the course of time, rots and generates a highly explosive gas. The water rises to the surface, each bubble being joined or re-enforced by other b nibbles' on the way up. Contact with air seems to be as destructive as touchfire to this gas, and the moment the surface is reached it explodes with a loud report. Leg islation may in time do away with the annoyance, but even if no more saw dust is thrown into the stream, hence forth the millions of tons already there will take a long time to work off their gas-generating qualities. . Aatec. Survivors. Among the natives, of Mexico there are, according to Lumholtz, about 150, 000 survivors of the Aztec race. Chi cago Inter Ocean. HIS - NOSE WAS HIS EYE, Strange Result of an Accident to a Sixteenth Cemtnry Man. Several authors of the sixteenth cen tury mentioned the existence of a man who, lading lost his eyesight, could see thrcu.i his nose, says the Philadel phia Record. The story, much doubted at the time and pronounced fabulous by physicians, is nevertheless true if the researches of E. Douliot prove cor rect. It seems that the victim had lost his right eye early in life, and later on while climbing on a cherry tree fell upon a fence, the pickets horribly muti lating the left eye, the cheek and the nose. The surgeon called in consdd- ered the eye entirely destroyed, sewed up the wound and it healed in time. forming a arge scar .where uhe eye had been. A year later the man, then considered- stoneblind, lay in the grass, when he surprised himself by discov ering- that he could perceive .through the cavity of the nose the sky and the color of the flowers on the meadow around- hLra. From that time on he practiced fcr five cr six years to see with his nos?, which to him became practically the organ of vision. . He gradually became more proficient in seeing in this way and could-see every thing benea.th him while he remained quite insensible to the light from aboVe.' The condition of this man can be explained sc-rantifieally. Although- the lens of the eye had been torn- from its socket by the fall, the optic membrane and the nerves at the rear of the cavity 01 the eye had retained some of the seeing power. When the eye had healed together a small hole in the bone over the nose must have formed which acted as a lens in the same way as a pinhole can be used to take a photographic pic ture. This also proves that the retina of the eye acts like a camera obscura where the objects from the outside be come visible when the rays of light arrive there after passing through a small opening. HOUSEHOLD NOTES. A Pew Items of Information for the Housewife. If a piece of rare .beefsteak is left over from breakfast, it makes an excel lent sandwich filling for luncheon, if chopped very fine and seasoned with salt and pepper. In this condition it is much more digestible than when re heated in the universally detested stew. Housekeepers who cook dried fruit properly. prepare it by washing it thor oughly, letting it soak in cold water until all dirt or sediment has been loosened and washed off, then rinse it thoroughly and put it to soak for 24 hours in clear water. Cook it slowly snd not very long in the water in which it has been soaked. This process brings out the real fresh fruit flavor better than any other. There is a legitimate reason for the preference at dinner for candles as a means of lighting. A single gas burner will consume more cxygen and produce more carbonic acid to destroy the pure atmosphere of the room than six or eight candles, - Some one advises that the stringy coat left 011 bananas after they are peeled should be removed before eat ing. Ifis this, like the white, pithy Hnderskin of an orange, which is in digestible. - To those who study the niceties cf de tail in the preparation cf even a sim ple dish, it may be suggested that choc olate used as a th-Ir.k is much improved ir bler.dJ several hours beforehand. It is better 10 break even the lumps cf un sweetened c-hoeo'.ate into an earthen bowl the night before, addiag cold wa ter and covering closelv. In th:s v.-av the flavor of the chocolate is b?st ex tracted. A French cock never, it is said, washes the pan in which an omelet is made. It is wiped e'ean with pieces of paper. then rut) dry with a elolh. In this way the cr.;clets made in the pnn ore rot so aj-t to burn. These artists in cookhig lay great Ftress upon the qual ity and care of their ools. X. Y. Tost. "THEATER SICKNESS." a New Disease Discovered by a French Physician. jTheater sickness" is the name of the new disease recently discovered by the eminent French physician, Dr. Morti cole, whidh is at present a topic of a good deal of discussion in scientific and lay circles in Paris. The doctor declares that "theater sickness" and sea sickness resemble one another, take their vic tims entirely unawares, and prey espe cially on women The symptoms con sist of giddiness, loss of consciousness, a deep faint, amd in perverse cases the malady causes death. It seizes a victim after he has 'gazed long at the stage, and more commonly in tragedy than in comedy, and, in brief, it constitutes a species of asphyxia. When men feel "theater sickness" coming on they be come, according to Dr. Morticole, obliv ious to all considerations of locality anid put their heads between their knees, while women feel an inclination to re cline with their feet at an acute angle above their heads, so excessive ia the vertigo. Fortunately, cases of "theater sickness" are as yet the exception rather than- the rule. A theater where all the men's beads would be bowed down between their knees,, and where all the women were to have their feet in the air, wouM furnish a strange mix ture of the mournful and of the hilarious. NEW USE OF THE KANGAROO. The Tendons of His Tail Serving an Important Purpose iu Surgery. Surgeons of Oakland, on the bay op posite San Francisco, have resorted to the use of Kangaroo tendons to tie up the fractured, bones of a broken leg. in order that the patient may have use of his knee, while the .bones are knitting together, says an exchange. He is a painter, and this is the second time he has broken a bone of his left leg in the same place. To reset the fracture and place the limb in a plas ter cast, until the bone knits would de stroy the use of the knee joint." said Dr. Stratton. "The knee had already become somewhat stiff from the first setting. We have decided to make ar. incision in the leg a the point of the fracture of the bone and will bore holes in the broken bones. Through the holes we will draw kangaroo ten dons, and they will hold the bones together until they knit, without the use of a plaster cast about the knee. This will enable the knee to be bent each day while the bone is knitting. Kangaroo tendon is as strong as sil ver wire. It is taken from the tail of the kangaroo, and being animal in its nature, it is absorbed, and the leg does not have to be again cut open, as is necessary when silver wire is used." PRAYERS BY TELEPHONE. A Young Mother's Way at a Dinner of Remedying an Oversight. At a small dinner given recently in a western city the guest of honor was a young married woman who is the proud mother of two handsome boys, both under five years of age. In their education she endeavors to follow a system, after the manner of most young mothers, and is very particular t live up to any rule she has made for them, says the New Yorit Sun. During an early course in the dinner. and in the middle of an animated con' versation with her host, she suddenly paused- with a startled look and cried "There, if I did not forget those boys again I Have you a telephone in the house, and may I use it?" She was taken to the telephone by her host, and the murmur of her voice is earnest conversation floated back to the dining-room. After a short pause she returned. "I do hope you will pardon me," she said. "But, you see, 1 always have Georgia and Eddie say their prayers for me before they go to sleep. forgot it to-night in the hurry of get ting off, so 1 just called up their nurse. She brought them to the 'phone,, aDd they said their prayers over the wire, so my mind is relieved; DUNS DELINQUENTS. Silent Monitor Used by a Blethoalst Church la Orearon. After careful consideration th fVn. tenarv Methodist church of TWtJnnil Ore., has decided upon a novel plan zor raising iunas necessary in conduct- iner the affairs of the cnnm-piratinTi iv. ports the Chicago Chronicle. It was nuggcsieu Dy me pastor, xtev. J. J. , TT . . . .. . . Hsiers, who nas aeterminea to run his church s a. drmnoraKv sicinc vra- j j, c - - & . body opportunity and inducement to i-uuu-iuuie. ai a meeting 01 innuential wemoers ne explained His plan. He members of the churph on S. nniwi( -ri . . - ivi - viCUIb marks. The roster is placed in the parn ti n rrx a fa kj .mAs . . j: i. vestiouie oitne chiurch, where it re mains, and is in nlain vipw rvf prArvAna entering the church. At the close of every monin xne roster is taken down and all who have contributed . thing to the current expenses of the church are checked up in the spaces op- pusiie xne names. . The amount paid i3 no given, Dut tne check indicates that some thine. . however small. n v,wr. paid toward the support of the church. The contributions p int tha of the clerk by means of envelopes, iiuu i ue amount; ana name are obtained in this way. The roster will shnnr who has paid anything and who has not. t ; t - . . ib is auimea mr tup avetam fh.t .1.. delinquents eet tired after wfcn coo ing the row of blanks after their names aim uKgm to pay sometning in order to All . .1 . , i J . . "1 " oianit spaces, it is a sort of ever-present dunning board. It looks down with significant silence on every member who enters the church door, the delinquent cannot escape its all seeing eye. Whether present or absent, he knows it is there,, and the blank spaces seem constantly to say: "Pav something.". The meeting adopted the plan unanimously. , Boone-- una, "We have an old relic up in our coun try," said a gentleman from eastern Kentucky, "which could tell a thrilling story if it were only provided with tongue and brain. It is an old rifle which is said to have been owned by Daniel Boone, the great pioneer. On the stock 15 notches have been cut and these are said to represent the number of redskins the indomitable Daniel slew during his numerous expeditions in the wilds of the then young state oi Kentucky. On the stock is cut this in scription in rude letters: 'BoOnes bEst fHIN.' The old flintlock was given to an uncle of mine by a trapper named Dedmon, who lived on Powell's river in Virginia, and whose grandfather had hunted, fished and trapped with thi hardy Kentucky woodsman on many at occasion." 9w fi m pQ r ata M! IJi.yy Depart tixi schiduli. Abbiyx fob From Dalles. F&om. Fast Salt Lake, Denver, Ft. Fast Mail Worth, Omaha, Kan- HaiL 11:50 p.m. saa City, St. Louis, 8:10 a.m. Chicago and East. Spokane Walla Walla, Spokane, Spokane Flyer Minneapolis. St. Paul, Flyer. 6 :30 p. m. D u 1 u t h, M ilwaukee, 6:50 a. m. Chicago and East. 8 p. m. From Portland. 4 p. m. Ocean Steamships. All Sailing dates subject to change. 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