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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1894)
Take no Substitute for Royal Baking Powder. It is Absolutely Pure; Ail others contain alum or ammonia. Spontaneous Combustion of the Body. The theory of spontaneous combustion of the human body In former times was held by almost every expert. . French sci entists in particular supported it, and sev eral of them published pamphlets in which numerous cases of alleged spontaneous combustion of the human body were de scribed at length, but there are three very significant points to be noticed in connec tion with such reports. One is the invari able admission that there was a light or fire in the room where the catastrophe occurred; another, that the alleged in stances always happened in families com posed of ignorant persons; and another, that in no case was there any actual wit ness of the occurrence. Something like 75 per cent, of the human body consists of water. This fact in itself is sufficient to discredit any of the alleged instances of spontaneous combustion. It is just conceivable that persons who drink an enormous amount of spirituous liquors may become so saturated, as it were, with this inflammable material that their bodies burn much more easily than would those of people who do not overindulge in this way, but it is perfectly certain that the fire would have to be applied from without, for no such thing as spontaneous combus tion could be possible in any article con taining so great a preponderance of the liquid element as does the human body. Pearson's Weekly. She Wouldn't Be Alone. A female teacher in a New York school was on very intimate terms with a male teacher in the same school. He "was in the habit of strolling into her room during the recess and chatting with the object of his affections. His name was Smith. One day the lady teacher endeavored to make the class comprehend the omnipresence of God. She explained to them tbut God was everywhere. ''Now, my dear children, suppose you all go out of this room except myself, do 1 Btay in here alone f" asked the female teacher. ' "No," exclaimed one of the little girls, "you will not be alone, for Mr. Smith will be with you." Texas Siftings. , Out of Observation. Miss De Fashion I've been having a perfectly lovely time teas and parties and music and dancing and private the atricals and everything you can think of. Haven't had so much fun for a year. Friend (shocked) What? During Lent? : , . Miss De Fashion Oh, it's all right, dear. We were in the country. New York Weekly, i A Smart Old Lady. A Rmart nld ladv of crnr villacrA. in hfir eventy-fif th year, spun five skeins of yarn one morning and then went out eliding with her grandson in the after noon. Farmington (Me.) Chronicle. Vassar's share of the Fayerweather bequest, $50,000, is to be used in build ing the new dormitory made necessary by the increase in the number of stu dents. . ' . ,' A petrified human body was taken from the Phillipsburg (N. J.) cemetery one day recently. The body was buried sixteen years ago. ' ) lyrup 99 My niece, Eineline Hawley, was, taken with spitting blood, and she became very much alarmed, fearing that dreaded disease, Consumption. She tried nearly all kinds of medi cine but nothing did her any good. Finally she took German Syrup and she told me it did her more good than anything she i ever tried. It stopped the blood, gave her strength and ease, and a good appetite. I had it from her own lips. Mrs. Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn. Honor to German Syrup. O Ot ULCERS, SSi CANCERS, KS, SCROFULA, SALT RHEUM, RHEUMATISM, BLOOD POISON. these and every kindred disease arising from Impure blood successfully treated by that never-failing and best of all tonics and msdiolnes, " SliggSEEgfHgSSS Books on Blood and Skin Diseases free. Printed testimonials sent on application. Address The Swift Specific Co., ATLANTA. OA. ant boy CAN BUY JEWELRY from The Portland Jewel , With nerfent safetv. Fair denllntr and lowest rates to all. Largest stock. Newest de signs. CORD-WOOD.' Heecules Gas or Gasoline Engine Best Power fur the Purpose.' Palmer & Rey, S. F., CaL aud Portland, Or. Character of the German Kmperor. .- The new emperor, on mounting the throne, was of course expected to sus tain the policy of a1 minister whom his grandfather , had honored with every uiavk that a loyal subject or even a money loving one could ask. The reign of Frederick III, less than a hundred days, had been too short and too full of phys ical suffering to let the world know the strength and breadth of the ruler whom Bismarck next appeared to represent. In his successor the Germans- have an tmperor who has not only abundant physical energy and endurance, but has with it a contempt for humbug, social ism and the crooked police methods that always suggest a feeble or rotten execu tive. He is a practical manager and does not pretend to be a savior Of so ciety. He has no quack nostrum for poverty, .crime, prostitution or the dis content that sets class against class. , His business is to see that the govern ment machine runs smoothly, that com petent men are employed, that the peo ple's taxes are spent for the public good, that the law is administered without favor and that reforms are inquired into. He has the mind of a Yankee, he loves experiment, bis methods are direct.- He is the sort of man that forges to the front in a new country. . We can imagine him learning his trade in some machine shop, then rapidly rising to a position where inventive talent, thor oughness, patience and, above all, hon esty tell say, at the head of some great manufacturing or shipbuilding enter prise. On his succession to power, 1888, he did what most intelligent young men do when suddenly placed in charge of an estate. He inquired how the previous manager had done his work; he exam ined personally into cases of alleged wrong: he uoted carefully the testimony of qualified observers; his eyes were opened to the need of reform in many directions; he suggested these reforms to his manager: the manager did not agree with the master; the manager re signed and now spend his time in em barrassing as far as be can the move ments of the manager who has super seded him. The immediate cause of Bismarck's resignation will be known when the emperor chooses to make the matter' public. Today we can regard only the official acts of the minister, and from these infer what reason there was for his being retired. Poultney Bigelow in Form . . . ' '. ,' - Modern Cloud Conipellers. A curious and interesting experiment was tried early one morning at the Jar dine d'Acclimttation. . Some ingenious person has hit upon a scheme for mak ing artificial clouds for the warming of fields and preventing damage to crops. A number of stoves had been placed ten yards apart around the spot selected, and when they were lighted a thick black smoke was produced. Unfortu nately for the successor the experiment, there was too much wind, and the "clouds" , were dispersed immediately, the smoke being blown toward the in closure occupied by the seals, who did not seem at all to appreciate it. . It is said that some experiments car ried on in the Gironde were far more successful, and that the system will be largely used there to protect the vines. It is said that a vineyard could be made two or three degrees warmer. Several officers attended the experiments yester day to see whether the process could be utilized for military purposes. Galig nani Messenger. ' He Knew All About It. The British legation building in Wash ington is draped in mourning for the late Duke of Clarence, but everybody doesn't seem to know it. Last week when a visiting delegation was there, two dele gates, whether they were from Chicago or not it is not necessary to state, were showing each other the town. As they passed along Connecticut avenue one of them said: "That big brick over there with the portico-chere in front of it is the English legation." ' "Is that so," said the other, taking it in carefully as tourists do. "It's got mourning on it, 1 see." "Yes," explained the first one with an air of superior knowledge, "that's for Justice Bradley, who died recently." Detroit Free Press. Growing a New Hoof. A singular condition has developed in the buffalo herd at the Philadelphia Zoo. Late in last year the hoof and mouth disease affected the cattle of Europe very seriously, and there were slight visitations of it in this country. One of these was at the Philadelphia Zoo among the buffalo. Eight of the herd were isolated. Since then the symptoms of this disease have disappeared from all but one of those isolated. This one, however, has lost a hoof,. and is now hard at work raising a new one, hobbling around on three legs. This is the only case on record in America of a buffalo losing a hoof and growing a new one in captivity. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Scared Tourists. The recent.earthquake' gave a good many eastern tourists at Los Angeles "a bad half hour." One guest at a leading hotel rushed panic stricken into the bar room, clad in a night shirt, over which he had buttoned his vest, a pair of boots, and carrying an umbrella under his arm. He would have rushed out into the street but for the clerk. San Francisco Call . . HELEN. . : . I am Helen, and my nam - Is a glory and a shame; For my beauty was Earth's crown. And my sin shook cities down. Oh, the days, and oh, the dances When I was queen. By the glamour of my glances And the splendor of my spleen! y My Ufe was all romances, - : And no dull days between. From the golden dais - Where I reigned alone. As a woman's way Is, I descended to a throne. And my life, that lately Leapt as a mountain stream. Now crept still and stately As a river in a dream. r He came; In his eyes was flame; , And a new desire, Unknown by name. The godhead dire No god can tame, . Took all my trams With fire. The years, the ten swift years, are fled; Troy is fall'D, and on my head Lies the guilt. Her princes dead In the darkness throng me round. Showing each his bleeding wound. No word speaking. No wrath wreaking, . They pass In silence one by one; And when 1 think the dream is done. Lot the white haired king appears, ' Kneeling, as he bathes in tears The hands that slew his son. F. W. Bourdillon in London Spectator. HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. The Prevailing Fault Among American) of All Grades Is Extravagance. If the question were asked what one quality in a woman most conduces to a happy home I should say frugality and economy, and if what quality in a man most conduces to home happiness I should repeat economy and frugality. The great American crime is want of rational econ omy. The woman wastes in the parlor and kitchen. The man wastes everywhere. There is no class that is careful of outgoes. No one man or woman in one hundred keeps an account of personal expenses. If our schools, instead of the rule of three, would teach the children the simplest ele ments of plain bookkeeping, mathematics would be of some value. The farmer who once puts down in figures his expenditures and his income and honestly writes down his losses by bad management careless ness will be on 'the road to amendment. Every bousekeeper should have a slate hanging in the kitchen, on which to jot down daily expenses, and a pocket account book to see how quickly $100 slips away. -: When statistics prove that average life is provided with far more comforts than fifty years ago, and I look about at the amount now expended in a year compared with what was formerly needed, I wonder how much it will take to satisfy the wants of a family fifty years hence. There is not a question but half of our boys and girls are harmed by too free use of money and the other half by being jealous and dissat isfied. . Where will be the end of indulgence? The antidote is twofold. We must educate them to restrain their desires and very early to earn in proportion to their expen ditures. Every child should be brought up to feel a responsibility for the house hold. I see girls daily that are surely pre paring for misery. Heaven help a man who is inveigled into marrying such a wo man. She has and can have no idea of earning or saving. She only considers a husband as a purveyor and provider. - He in turn loses his highest aim in life. Home is a hopeless idea never to be gratified. His ideals drop down. He becomes a club man if rich, a soured man if poor. This one thought ought to be uppermost in training to make our young people help ful, 'and the girls to comprehend the duty of being helpmates. - But about necessity: It is true that most of those who are supposed to be above the necessity of kitchen work really are sot I know the inside truth about many fami lies, and the slave, in the majority of cases, is the husband. He has no leisure in life from money making. We women are creating a .detestable class of men money makers. On a moderate income they know that their family is ,not consti tuted to be happy. The outgoes are from one-fourth to three-fourths for things that could be spared without suffering. Their is nothing so honorable as toil, and this every one without exception should be made to feel. The work of the world should be evenly distributed as a privilege and a joy. As for menial work, it is gener ally such by inference; it is that which shows skill. Why should so many thou sands of our women consider cooking and cleaning as out of their province? A woman that does not need to sweep a floor should nevertheless do it, and do it well. Into Vassar and into our common schools must go the inculcation of a nobler spirit. It makes very little difference whether it be in a rich home or a poor one, but a com plaining spirit and a wasteful one spoils all comfort. Some one has said that one half of the production of the United States gets wasted. 1 He laid special stress on the bad habits of those who cultivate the soil and handle crops. My special trouble is with those of us who waste in the house hold. I am not urging penuriousness, but economy there is no escape from. Our young couples should be trained formally to a study of ways and means. It is in sanity to start out in life ahead of income, or even flush with it. I wish all young married couples were compelled by law to go to a school of domestic economy for one year after marriage. St. Louis Globe Democrat. ' . Scarf in Place of the Tidy. The day of the tidy is over. In its place is the silken scarf, which may be just as troublesome, but which has this good feature, that it is not the result of the toil of hours, perhaps of days, as the old fash ioned embroidered affair often was. Many women find great comfort and . pleasure in doing piles of fancy work, though it seems to be a fact that embroidery is not such a hobby as a few years ago. So beautiful for decorative purposes are the manufac tured fabrics, designed solely for this pur pose, that women are finding out it is fool ish to spend their time in counting stitches and cross -stitches when they might be reading a book or riding a . bicycle. Men never seem to like to see women stooping over intricate patterns of fancy work. They think it is wasted time. Brooklyn Eagle. .' ' Worse Than Heathen Parents. There are heathen parents who expose their weak and sickly, children to wild beasts. How much worse are they than the parents in our land who do not provide wholesome reading matter for their chil dren? Ram's Horn. The Only Way to Bring Up a Child. The only way you can bring a child np is the way you're going yourself. Womankind. WHEN WAK If) IKCLaKJC1 Against a man's happiness by his stomach, the enemy mav be paolfied and brought speedily and easily to terms. That potent regulator of digestion, Hottetter's Stomach Bitters, disci plines the rebellious organ thoroughly. .Indi gestion arises from weakness of the stomach, and the lood in it, for want of the power to di gest, decomposes and acidifies. Riving rise to ceartburn, flatulence and pain, besides a multi tude of symptoms both changeful and perplex ing. But peace sooti reigns when the great sto machic is resorted to and used with persistence. Dyspepsia gives rise to morbid discomposure of mind, aud even sleeplessness and hypochondria in chronic cases. To the complete dismissal of these the Bitters Is fully adequate. Liver com plaint, constipation, debility, rheumatism and malaria are completely subdued by this genial medicine. , Sure. Jasper Is intoxication always fol lowed by a swelled head? Jumpuppe Yes; even wtien a man has been intoxicated by sue oess. ' . EXEKCISK. ' ' V . 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