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HEPPNER. MORROW
The raising Stranger Aliray, luTlted la
and Taken Cartt Of.
"The latch string hang-s out" ex
pressed the hospitality of the southern
frontier in the day9 "before the war."
If a traveler rode up before the fence
that separated the log cabin from the
road he was greeted by " 'Light,
stranger, 'light!" Without .this salu
tation no one dismounted, but it was
rarely withheld. Mr. Williams, in his
recent book, "Sam Houston," thus de
scribes the impulse of hospitality,
which made every traveler a guest
during the early settlement of Texas:
The traveler who rode no to the
front fence was instantly invited to and even poor people employ barbers
alight. Ilia horse was staked out or to shave them, partly from conscious
hobbled to feed on the prairie grass ness of their own clumsiness ("What
and the vf- itrr sat down m e'-ehnnTe j do you give the man who shaves you?"
the news with his host. The couce
mill was set going, if there were any of
the precious grains in the house, and
the hopper in the hollow log to grind
ing the corn. The venison or bear meat
was put on the 'coals and the ashcake
baked.
After the meal and the evening pipe
the visitor stretched himself on a buf
falo robe on the floor with the mem
bers of the family and slept the sleep
of health and fatigue. In the morning
the response to any inquiry as to the
charge was: "You can pay me by com
ing again."
The story that a certain hospitable
settler used to waylay travelers ou the
road and compel them to visit him at
the muzzle of a double-barreled shot
gun was only a humorous exaggeration
of the instinct for hospitality which
characterized the community.
The visitor was a living newspaper,
who brought the only news obtain
able, and was a welcome relief, to the
monotony and loneliness of the wilder
ness. DEATH bY LIGHTNING.
A Theory That It Is Caused by tbo Upward
Electric Current.
The phenomenon of lightning is the
signal that announces the coming to
Tether of different electric currents in
iho restoration of equilibrium. All
ife Is electricity, the stomach is a re
generator, the brain is a battery, says
the ntt'jburgh Dispatch. When one
is killed by lightning, death is due to
absorption to a loss of this vital fluid,
or whatever it may be termed, that im
pels the physical engine. A thunder
cloud is charged with positive elec
tricity, the earth, below is charged
negatively. Any object below this
eloud is similarly charged with this
negative current.. A Hicni....- t ,
ignition ensues, the expansion of the
jasos produces a vacuum, the air comes
together again witn a report ana mis
is thunder.
A Into view is. when one animate ob
ject is struck dead by lightning, that ;
the upward and not tne oownwara !
current is the agent The fact that no
bird on the wing has been known to
be killed by lightning Is not con-
elusive in sustaining this latter view
of the method of lightning in produc
ing death.
When a tree Is thus struck, the sod
is frequently lifted away from the
roots in such a manner as to indicate
the downward passage of the stroke.
PEN03SC0T THEOLOGY.
Indians Ileileve That tlbd Had an Adviser
at tlto rreatlon.
In the beginning Ood made Adam
out of the eorth, but he did not make
rrlus-kahe (the Indian God), says Abbe
L. Alger in the Regular Science
Monthly. Glus-kabe made himself out
of the dirt that was kicked up in the
ereation of Adam. He rose and walked
about, but he could not speak until the
Lord opened his lips.
God made the earth and the sea, and
then lie to k counsel with Glus-kabe
concern'-.;- them. He asked him if it
would lv 'net tor to hme the rivers run
up on oiie side of the earth and dowu
on the other, but dlus-kabe said: "No,
they must all run down one way."
Then the Lord asked him about the
wean, whether it w ould not do to have
it always lie still. Glus-kabe told Him:
"No! It must rise and fall, or else it
would grow thick and stagnant."
"How about fire?" asked the Lord;
"can it burn all the time and nobody
nut it out?"
Glus-kabe said: "That would not
do, for H anybody got burned and fire
could not be put out, they would die;
but if it could be put out, then the
burn would get well."
So In; answered all the Lord s ques
tions. AN OLD-TIME "PERSONAL."
A Baronet Advertised for a lluronea and
Without Success.
Those who believe that the matrimo
nial advertisement originated with the
modern Sunday newspaper should con
sult the Ipswich Journal of August 2L,
1802, which contains this advertise
ment: "To the angelic fair of the true Eng
lish breed, worthy notice. Sir John
Dinely, of Windsor castle, recom
mends himself and his ample fortune
to any angelic beauty of a r--ood breed,
fit to become and willing to be the
mother of a noble heir, and keep up
the name of an ancient family en
nobled by deed ot arms and ancestral
renown. Ladies at a certain period of
life need not apply. Fortune favors
the bold. Such ladies as this adver
tisement may induce to apply or send
their agents (but no servants or
matrons) may direct to me tt tne
castle, Windsor. Happiness and pleas
ure are agreeable objects, and should
be regarded as well as honor. The
lady who shall thus become my wife
will be a baroness and rank according
ly as Lody Dinely of Windsor. Good
will and favor to all ladies of Great
Britain. Pull no caps on his account,
but lavor him with your smiles, and
paeans of pleasure await your steps."
Notwithstanding this tempting offer
to the fair sex Sir John Dinely died a
bachelor in 1808, an inmate of the poor
!,.,,,, ,., i wi,w,r eotlt.
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The tkadebakar wagon badt them all.
For tale at Gilliam k BUbeVa. a
COUNTY, OREGON,
Whether Ton Do It Yourself or Go to a.
Barber, There Are llangorh
There is a story told of a French no
bleman who, when he had been shaved
in the morning, always heard the man
mutter: "Thank heaven!" on leaving
the room, lie inquired thecause. "It
is the money, my lord, you always
leave on j'our table over night (for he
was a gambler). Ev.-ry morning I say
to myself: 'I must cut his throat,' and
am truly thankful to have escaped the
temptation." After which confession
the nobleman shaved himself. It is
quite extraordinary how many people
inquired some one oi Mucuulay "Sev
eral cuts on the face," was his reply).
but chiefly from their inability to strop
the razors. If thore is an industry that
makes nse of old strops (with cuts) I
shall be happy to supply thorn at whole
sale prices, says a writer in the Lon
don Illustrated News. That there is
no machine for stropping razors speaks
volumes for the power and intelligence
of the Barbers' company.
Nevertheless, for a man who has al
ways shaved himself the employment
of another person to do it for him
seems for the first time, apart from the
humiliation of being taken by tho
nose, rather a serious business. One
wishes to make groat friends with
him to start with, but the usual meth
ods are closed to us; genial conversa
tion is out of the question all the soap
is on his side and we daren't offer
him liquor. It is the greatest confi
dence trick known to man. The per
former may be an expert or he may
not; but it is certain that at one time
or another these gentlemen must have
been new to their trade With whom
did they begin? With whom, indeed!
Dead men tell no tales. I ventured to
ask the question tho other day of a
professional. He replied, with some
confusion: "We begin with one an
other;" and it was only the day before
that he had observed, with an air of
pretended indifference; "We are rather
short-handed at the shop just now."
COST OF A CILLIARD DALL.
About Ten Dollar, lo Cash and t'sually a
Large Amount or Human IComl.
The globe of ivory which is knocked
about a table in a game of billiards
costs, if of good quality, at least ten
dollars, says the Million. This repre
sents its cost in money. There is.
has been paid for it The billiard ball
of pure ivory represents, as it lies
white and glistening upon the cloth,
i an expenditure of human life blood as
well as of money. Llep.iants tusKS
are brought down to the African coast
oy caravans, Kcut-"".y u
Arabs, whicn nave Docn irauing in in
Interior, very onen tney nave jicueu
up slaves as well as ivory. Hut this
piiase OI llie manor mny uu iv:iv uui,
of the account. It is estimated that
i every larTC caravan brin'TinT ivorv to
i,ue coast lias eoi more laan one hun-
drcd and sixty human lives through
fights and murders in the course of the
expeditions. Thirty more men are
likely to have succumbed to fevers or
other diseases and the fatigues of the
march. The hunting of the elephants
and the capture of the ivory are very
likely to have caused the death of ten
men altogether. Such casualties are
the rule in elephant hunting rather
than the exception. An average tusk
does not furnish more than enough ma
terial for two good billiard balls. (If
course the remainder of the ivory in
each tusk is made use of in other ways;
a perfect cut billiard ball requires spe
cial quality, or so-called "nerve,"
which is found only in one part of the
tusk. The chances are that a billiard
ball of the first quality has cost at
least one human life; and there is not
one such ball which may not be tru'y
said to be stained with men's blood.
They can hardly be considered, there
fore, a cheerful accompaniment to a
sensitive person's diversion.
PROMPT REPLY.
Tho Chock Olven to Farmer Jooae an
His Matrimonial Intent,.
Some business is best done quickly
and with few words. Other business,
of a more delicate nature, is commonly
entered upon in a more leisurely man
ner. Now and then, however, a man
is found who makes no such distinc
tion. Farmer Jones sought an interview
with Widow Drown. Ho had long
prided himself upon his shorthorn cat
tic; she was in her way as proud of her
poultry and pigs. '
"Widow Drown," said he, "I am a
man of few words, but much feeling.
I possess, as you know, between three
and four hundred head of cattle. 1
have saved up eight hundred dollars or
so, and I've a tidy and comfortable
home. I want you to become my wife.
Now, quick's the word with me; I give
. you five minutes to decide!"
"Farmer Jones," said Widow Brown,
"I am a woman of few words I 11 say
nothing of my feelings. I possess, as
you know, between three and fonr
hundred head of poultry, and about
ten score of pigs. I have nigh twelve
hundred dollars well invested my lato
iusbaud'a savings and my own carn
intrs. I toll J'bu I wouldn't marry you
If it were a choice, between that and
goincr to the scaffold. Sharp's my word,
,n(j I give you turecmmutestocicarou
fay premises!"
In the Itronx Valley.
French suburbans in the) Bronx val
ley delight in holding old world fash
Ions, ood the peasant blue is still
seen, anaong ' them, while doubtless
there are sabots in every house, called
into use on wash day and at otlitr low
barptuettr seasons. It is a pretty
habit of these simple aliens to keep
English rabbits, anil a family of
French people, at Woodlu.wn travel
over aft the country round digging
green frrf'ithes creatures."" The rab
bits, by the way, are kept not aa pete,
but for food.
FRIDAY. AUGUS T 10
A NOVEL OCEAN RACE.
The Steamers l ire l p 1111 tlm Draft Alone
l.lcUs In Tons of Caul. j
In these days of ocean racing the i
speeding is nearly always done against j
time. but. there was a battle royal
ended a few weeks ago bet-veeu tin
American steamships Carib Prince am
Muri.-I, s:iys the Cardiff Mail, tha'
would have started the goosefiesh o
excitement on the most collected o
seamen. The Carib Prince left Den
erara on November 17 and joggc
leisurely away on her journey north
ward. Three days later the Muriel ac
sail for' Ilnrbadoes and journeyed ii
the same direction. Uoth vessels wer.
about abreast at this time but sepa
rated by a wide patch of ocean. Thre
days later, however, they narrowet.
the angles of their courses down ti
the apex, nnd when they were in sight
of each other it was pull devil pull
baker for the lend.
Lioivn in their vessels' holds their en
gines banged and rattled in countless
revolutions, twisting their screws a
they were never twisted before, an
out of the mouths of their smokestack
came inky clouds. Neck and neck the-,
cams up the coast, and everj- mai
jaeli aboard, in the parlance of th
wa, "rot.od hard" for victory. In tip
stokehold, according to one of th
firemen, they didn't have to shovel i.
coal they just opened the furnaci
doors and the draft licked in tons a
a time. For seven days they were ii
sight of each other, and the Muriel,
with a magnificent burst of speed,
crawled up on her rival and then quick
ly ran out of sight
. SUICIDE PARTIES.
Entertainments That Would Not
I'av r with American Oil' s.
Find
Mr. Mcdhurst, formany years British
consul at Shanghai, tells, in the Lon
don Million, of a singular "card of in
vitation" which he onco received in
China. It was from a lady, intimating
her intention to commit suicide on a
specified daf. She was very young
and attractive, and belonged to a
wealthy family, but the Chinese gen
tleman to whom she had been affiinccd
from childhood having died just before
the date fixed for thoir nuptials, she
gave out that she deemed it her duty
to render her widowhood irrevocable
by dying with her betrothed. So she
sent cards around to the local gentry
giving notice, of her purpose. No at
tempt was mode by her relatives or
the local authorities to frustrate her
oinr t!irH Phe was "about to pevfei -.-- '
meritorious act. Eventually, on the
day named, the woman did deliberate
ly sacrifice her life in the presence of
thousands of spectators. A stage was
erected in the open fields, with a tent
ed frame over it, from which was sus
pended o slip of scarlet crepe. One
end of this slip she fastened round her
neck, and then, embracing a little boy
presented by one of the bystanders,
she mounted a chair and resolutely
jumped off. "her little clasped hands
saluting the assemblage as her body
twirled round with the tightening
cord." The woman was not hounded
on by a fanatic mob, as was the prac
tice at suttees in Indio. but immolation
appeared to be an entirely voluntary
act. Sacrifices of this kind, according
to Mr. Mcdhurst, are not uncommon in
certain parts of China, and, strange to
say, they are rewarded with monu
ments, sometimes erected by order of
the emperor.
Rome t.eriiiau llu.le.
A German newspaper man, evident
ly jealous of the Irishman's reputation
as a maker of bulls, took the trouble
some years ago, says the London
Figaro, to look up the German record
in this line. Among others he found
in the published works of certain Teu
tonic writers the following curious ex.
amplcs: "Among the immigrants was
an old blind woman, who came to
America once more before she died to
sec her only i,on." "After the door
was closed a soft female foot slipped
into the room, and with her own hand
extinguished the taper." "Both doc
tors were unable to restore the de
ceased once more to life and health."
"The Ladies' Benefit association has
distributed twenty pairs of shoes
among the poor, which will dry up
many a tear." "I was at the table en
joying a cup of coffee when a gentle
voice tapped me on the shoulder. I
looked around and saw my old friend
once more."
When the World rail, to Piece,.
The leading English scientists, Jones,
Hilton, ct al., are figuring on the prob
abilities of the earth finally collapsing
as a result of the modern craze of tap
ping nature's gas retorts. They argue
that the earth is a huge balloon held
up. in part at least, by heat and inter
nal gases, and that when nature's
great gas main is eventually exhausted
the earth's crust may break in and fall
into millions of fragments. Ugh! The
very thought of such a calamity is
startling. They argue that the steady
belching forth of millions of feet of
gas every hour of the day and night
iu surely causing a great vacuum some
where not far beneath the surface, and
that sooner or later the thin archway
of earth crust will give way. Then
will occur the grand climax ot all
eartbl" "
What Makes a Gentleman.
It is well for womankind to be up tc
the national term "gentleman." Mem
bers of tho ax, when touring over th j
world, may find It handy to under j
stand just what sort of thing is meant
by this supposed refined degree of the
"animal man." In Russia they. say he
drinks liko a gentleman; In France, he
acts like a gentleman; In Spain, he
makes love liko a gentleman; inGer-,
many, ho eats like a gentleman; In
Turkey, ho tmells like a gentleman;
in America, he spends his money like a
gentleman.
i.r.eti .VaM.eas. east aide of Mhln
street, hna a nst bsrber ahop snd does
wnik at popular prieia, 2 oenta abave
or bair oat. Tb'se have been bia cbsrg
ea for months. Don't forget blm.
1894.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Absolutely pure
SIOUX FAMILY LIFt.
Qoarrol, and Punishments Are Very Bare
Among Kelatlvee.
A writer in Outing gives an amusing
account of "Sketching Among the
Sioux." He says that the kindness and
patience of these people in their do
mestic relations are very noticeable
l'he women have certain duties to nor-
form, as among other races; but the
men do not disdain to help them on oc
casions any more than does a white
man of good disposition.
We never saw, during our whole resi
dence m the Sioux village, a single
family quarrel, and the children were
rarely, if ever, punished.
One example to illustrate this char
acteristic pleased and amused us not
a little. One day Flying-by's wife
mmc to our tent and asked us to lenil
her a small hand-mirror which wo pos
lessed. We gave it to her, and then
watched her to see what she would do
with it About a milo and a half or
two miles away a horse race was in
progress, watched by three or four hun
dred mounted Indians.
The squaw took the mirror, stood in
'ront of the tent, and reflected a beam
if sunlight from the glass along the
.round in line with the group of In
iians. It was only two or three minutes be
'orc a solitary horseman left the band
nd came tearing over the prairie
oward us. It was Flying-by, who
prang off his horse at our door and
ooked inquiringly around. His wife had
rone back to her cooking, and was ap
larently quite heedless of his coming.
To his question whether some one
iad not sent for him, we could only re
ly that we had seen his wife playing
leliostat with our mirror, whereupon
le went over and spoke to her.
In a moment he returned, and with a
grin told us that, knowing he had
noney, his wife hud called him home
for fear he might be tempted to iram-
ile it away. He chuckled over her
irtidenee, and told us that he
he might
if ho had '
lave uin.de a lot, of money-
' w,'d
not a cross word
was
A Characteristic of Florence Mghllogale
from Her KarllesC Toutli.
: Florence Nightingale, the world
famous nurse, was born in Florence,
Italy, in 1823, says a writer in the De
troit Free Press. Her father, William
Edward Shore, of England, inherited
the estate of his grand-uncle, Peter
Niir'nt.inrrnle. and. m nursuance of his I
will, assumed the name Nightingale.
As the child of wealthy parents, Miss
Nightingale was well educated. From
early childhood the care of the sick was
a favorite occupation of hers, and in
1840 she entered, as a voluntary nurse,
a school of deaconesses to qualify her
self to minister to the sick. In 1851, at
the solicitation of Secretary of War
Sidney Herbert, she went to Constant!-
nopie as the superintendent otasiair or
nurses to care for the soldiers of Great
Britain who were wounded in the
Crimean war. By her rare executive
ability and thorough knowledge of
what was necessary she made the hos
pital, which was in a most deplorable
state, a model in thoroughness and
perfection of its appointments. So
immense were her labors that she fre
quently stood for twenty hours in suc
cession giving directions. Notwith
standing this her pleasant Binile nnd
kind words to the sick made heralm-'st
idolized by the army. She returned to
England September 8, 185(1. Her serv
ices have secured her the slnccrest
gratitude of the English people and a
world renown. Queen Victoria sent
her a letter of thanks, with a superb of the purest English, and hinted that
jewel. A subscription of two hundred the child might have had some assist
and fifty thousand dollars ws raised ance in the preparation of her wonder
to found an institute for the training , ful letters. But Mr. Anagnos disposed
of nurses under her direction, and the
soldiers of the army, by a psnny cou- I
tributlon, raised a sum suilicient to
erect a statue to her honor, which blm
refused to allow.
INQU.SITIVt FLCWEHS.
Uotanlst, Now Affirm the l arw'nlan As
sertion That Si me Plants Can See.
Now it is the botanists who bring us
a weird story calculated to send terror
to the hearts of bucolic lovers, by af
firming the asfcrtinn of 1 orwin, that
ome plants can tec. Only to think of
it! I'hrebe and Phyllis and Daphne,
how your innocent confidences have
been violated irreverently and heart
lessly in all these bygone centuries!
Think of the treachery f the three
leaved clover, and the cold, calculating
cruelty of the innocent-looking liver
noccnt-iooliing liver-
g and perfidy of the
wort; the ctinnin,
hyacinth, and even the knowingness
of the demure primrose! Who after
this will wear a boutonnicre. knowing
that every act, every innocent flirta
tion that may happen while it is being
worn, may be indelibly recorded upon
the floral retina? rclcnce hns shown
as monsters in our drinking-w ater, and
created the undreamed terrors of tho
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Baiting
o rob kyivun sweetness of its sanctity,
md to destroy the sweet illusion that,
when we left "the madding crowd" be
hind, and turned from our Mayfairs
ind Murray Hills to the unfrequented
ways of field and forest, we could shun
the espionage which grows so weari--une
towards the season's end. Now
where shall we turn? Deductions ap
pal us with their suggestions. Plants
can sec! Can they not hear as well,
like other forms of created life? If
only we knew what our dogs and our
buttercups said about us, what a shock
it might be to our impervious vanity.
POLAR BEARS KEEP COOL.
Tropical Animal, In Captivity Suffer
Most During the Heated Term.
"It will surprise most people," said
Superintendent A. E. Brown, of the
Philadelphia zoological garden, to a
Itecord man, "to learn that the polar
bear stands the hot weather of the dog
days iu this locality better than the
African lion. On hot days the lion
will get ou nis icea; tne near will not.
Tho tropical animals in the garden,"
continued the superintendent, "are the
ones mostly affected by the extreme
heat of midsummer, strange as it may
appear. I suppose the reason of it is
that the heat there is more moist than
that of tho tropics, and, as it were, of
a different character. Whatever mor
tality occurrs among our animals dur
ing a heated term is mostly among the
tropical animals, especially the African.
In hot weather I have watched the
polar bear go into his tank, and then,
instead of lying in the shade, extend
himself in tho direct rays of the sun,
where the water on his skin would
evaporate. He found out for himself,
I suppose, that evaporation causes a
lower temperature. Again, it is Boine
what astonishing, at first, that our
polar bear should suffer sometimes as
he docs from the severe cold of winter
f ut . . .
Z ", "'vrmK one of
0 bittcrly coltl days, when the Bky
uvunuuuii uuu tne air tun of mois
ture. The moisture was evidently what
heat. It makes them perch with
drooped wings. Ileut affects not only
the animals in the garden, but the
finances of the garden itself. A differ
ence of ten degrees in the thermome
ter, ray if it is ninety-five instead of
eighty-five, means a loss of several hun-
"feu uo.iars in our gate receipts !or
vuu
REMARKAs-u-
ns.iiil KELLAR.
The
Iltlo l.lrl Whose Case l'ltrallels That
of Lnurtl llrlilgman.
Helen Kellar, the remarkable child
who. although born blind and deaf and
dumb in Alabama, has accomplished so
much that is beautiful and inspiring.
numbers among her friends many per-
sonant royal station in European courts
w no never saw ner. wne oi tnese, says
the Boston Post, Is the queen of Greece,
who learned of Helen through Michael
Anagnos, the director of the institution
for the blind, when he visited Greece
some time ago. The interest which the
queen took in Helen was so Intense that
she exacted from Mr. Anagnosapromise
that he would let her rend every letter
that Helen wrote to him while she was
at the Greek capital, and when he was
about to return to this country she in
, t-I hlti t'i tvrnilt h"r t- f-'t-ln ov
erol of the letters that she hod read,
which are treasured very highly at the
court. Tho queen expressed on more
than one occasion her surprise that
Helen, who Is not yet In her teens.
should have so remarkable a command
of that thought by Informing her maj-
etity that there was no pvrsou connect
ed with tho institution who could write
English so faultlessly sweet and pure as
Helen wrote, since the little girl never
had had an opportunity to form ac
quaintance with any but the loftiest
models of the language. Helen has
learned to arti-julute anil can speak as
freely and fully as any unalUiutud per
son. When she wishes to hold a long
conversation with anylwdy dear to her
she places one finger across the lips of
the speaker and another on the throat
at the larynx. In this way she under
stands every word thnt is uttered as
rapidly as could be understood by a per
son with good eyesight and hearing.
Ioiin C. Hopes, of Boston, the maga,
. i- .!. r.r of what is
zinc writer, in hj
probably the , greatest collection of
America. He is considered an authority
on the subject. j
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