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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1894)
IN all receipts for cooking requiring a leavening agent the ROYAL BAKING POWDER, because it is an absolutely pure cream of tartar powder and of 33 per cent, greater leavening strength than other powders, will give the best results. It will make the food lighter, sweeter, of finer flavor and more wholesome. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., Tho Word Vim. According to my opinion, the r.ae of this word u.s a (synonym of energy, vigor, etc., LiiHurisen iu this way: Some pedantic jour nalist, considering perhaps the Anglo-Saxon uoun "strenKth" too vulgar, and wish ing to overawe his readers with a Latin ex pression, choso the word "vis," probably in connection with a verb governing the accusative case, but reluctant to offend against the sacred rules of Latin grammar he employed the accusative "vim." This mode of expression may have been repeated several times, and as the pebplo liked the sound of the word, even without knowing what it meant, they also em ployed it in instances in which no accusa tive was required, and thus the misused word became a current expression. Notes and Queries. TVlllIn to Kick. The major was telling how he had won battles which others had claimed the glory of when suddenly one of his hearers said, "I saw a man yesterday who would give the world to kick you." "Kick mel" shouted the major. "I de mand his name, sir!" "Well, if you insist on knowing but, mark you, major, it must go no further the man was old Sergeant Billy Waters of the First artillery, who lost both his legs by the explosion of a shell. Faith, he'd give all he has or hopes to have to be able to kick anybody." London Tit-Bits. Til. ..1J mmMntAA KW Mil riimflrW cists. It cures Incipient Consumption and is the best Couah and Croup Cure- AMH The MONARCH and RED STRIP are supe rior brands of BELTING, which, together with Maltese Cross, Rldgewood and Wal lnbout brands of Steura and Wa'er HOSE, are fall guaranteed by the manufacturer. Your dealer keeps them; if not, write us. Gutta Percha and Rubber Mfg. Co., Established 1855. Portland, Or. BICYCLES. Swift, Light, Strong, Keliable and Beau tiful. A live agent wanted in everv city and town in Ore gon, Washington mid Idaho, (end for cutalogue and terms. . FRED T. mill CYCLE CO., 887, Washington St., Portland. Or. is wanting in most foods, or, If presc at, is not assimilated. The result is loss of flesh and strength. Scott's Emulsion the Cream of Cod-liver Oil, is a palatable, easy fat food that any stomach can retain and any system assimilate without effort. It gives flesh and strength. Physicians, the world over, endorse it. Don't bo deceived by Substitutes! Prepared by Soott A Bonne, N. V. All Druggisti. TAKE IT W.PrUNlDCR'i Oregon Blood Purifier. -CURES- kKIDNEY OLIVER DISEASES. DYSPEPSIA. SVPIMPl-ES.BLaTUHtS AND SKIN UlbtAbLs. K'i;-fSWHEADACHES CQSTIVENESS T, P, V. V. No, 645-8. F. N. TJ. No. 622 6ri" . take Rambler llpl 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK, ON THE GREAT PRAIRIES. Vastness, Isolation nnd Monotony Reign In the Treeless Plain Stretches. If there be any region in the world where tho natural gretwrious instinct of mankind should assert itself, that region is our northwestern prairies, where a short, hoi summer is followed by a long, cold winter, and where there is little in the aspect of nature to furnish food for thought. On ev ery hand the treeless plain stretches away to the horizon line. In summer it is check ered with grainfields or carpeted with grass and flowers, and it is inspiring in its color and vastness, but one mile of it is almost exactly like another, save where some wa tercourse nurtures a fringe of willows and cottonwooils. When the snow covers the ground, the prospect is bleak and dispirit ing. No brooks babble under icy armor. There is no bird life afterthe wild geese and ducks have passed on their way south. The silence of death rests on the vast landscape, save when it is swept by cruel winds that search out every chink and cranny of the buildings and drive through each unguard ed aperture the dry, powdery snow. In such a region you would expect the dwellings to be of substantial construction, but they are not. The new settler is too poor to build of brick or stone. He hauls a few loads of lumber from the nearest rail way station and puts up a frail little house of two. three or four rooms that looks as though the prairie winds would blow it away. Were it not for the invention of tarred building paper the flimsy walls would not keep out the wind and snow. With this paper the walls are sheathed un der the weatherboards. The barn is often a nondescript affair of sod walls and straw root Lumber is much too dear to be used for door yard fences, and there is no inclo sure about the house. " A barbed wire fence surrounds the barnyard. Rarely are there any trees, for on the prairie trees grow very slowly and must be nursed with care to get a start. There is a saying that you must first get the Indian out of the soil before a tree will grow at all, which means that some savage quality must, be taken from the ground by cultivation. In this cramped abode, from the windows of which there is nothing more cheerful in sight than the distant houses of other set tlers, just as ugly and lonely, and stacks of straw and unthrashed grain, the farmer's family must live. In the summer there is a school for the children one, two or three miles away, but in winter the distances across the snow covered plains are too great for them to travel in severe weather. The schoolhouse is closed, and there is nothing for them to do but to house themselves and long for spring. Atlantic Monthly. A Curious Phenomenon. A most curious phenomenon the action of solids held in suspension in moving wa ter may be practically demonstrated, says M. Gallois, by taking a bottle of white glass, about S inches in diameter and with a flat bottom, putting into it to the depth of about one-fifth inch some fine and very clean silicious sand, such as will not inter fere with the transparency of the water, filling the bottle with this and corking it so as to exclude all air. On giving the bot tle a rapid movement of rotation around its owp axis, either by placing it on a turn table or by suspending it from a previously well twisted cord, all the sand will be pro jected upon the cylindrical sides of the bot tle by centrifugal force. This rotation movement of the bottle will gradually communicate itself to the water, progressing from the sides to the axis, the rotation lasting as long as the sand adheres to the cylinder. As soon as the water turns with the same velocity as the bottle containing it, the sand will, on the bottle being suddenly stopped, at once quit the sides and precipitate itself toward t'be center of the bottle in the form of a cloud, and then reassemble its particles on the bottom in the form of a cone, having the same axis as the bottle, and being high er as the velocity of rotation is greater. Finally, the cope flattens as the velocity of rotation grows less, until the slope of the conical surface is the slope of equilibrium of grains of sand in still water. New York Sun. . The Colon and Its Uses. A son of Horace Mann, who lives in Wash ington, has an unusual fashion of signing all documents. He is Mr. B: Pickman Mann and is well known as a writer. Mr. Mann is a graduate of Harvard and holds an important position in the patent office. The colon which follows the first initial would be Greek to the wayfaring man, but it is only a symbol for Benjamin. Some years ago the American Librarian associa tion, of which Mr. Mann is a member, was much exercised over some manner of ab breviating names so as to decrease the work of cataloguing, which in large libra ries is enormous. They adopted a list of common names of persons which should be abbreviated by using the first letter of the name followed by a colon. For the sake of consistency, and believing the custom would be a good one, they adopted the fash ion. The late Mr. Ben: Perley Poore, known so long and so favorably in Washington, used this style long before the company of learned librarians approved it. The list now in use is a large one. Some of the most com mon signs are W: for William; H: for Henry, and J: for James. Washington ?06t HE GOT IT. Story of s Faithful Servant Who Obeyed Orders. There is a man in this town who has a male servant who is more faithful than anv dog that was ever born. lie never questions an order. If the man was to tell him to walk down to the foot of Main Btreet and jump off a dock, he would do the walking and the jumping with a simple and unques tioning faith. The other day a friend of the man came Into his office and asked the man to lend him his servant for a short time. The friend wanted a package which he had left t his house. The package was too valua ble to intrust to a messenger boy, and he was too busy to go after it himself.' The man loaned the servant, and the friend gave him these instructions: "Now, John, I want you to go up to my house and walk right up the front steps. . The door will be open, and yon go right up stairs. You go in, and you will find a big package on my dresser. That's the package I want, and if you get Jjack, in an hour I will give you a dollar." xne maie servant listened attentively and said that he understood his instruc tions. He hustled out and in less than an hour returned with the package. He was not in very good shape. His face was bruised, and his coat was torn. One of his eyes was, blackened, and the skin was off the knuo kles of his right hand. "Holy Moses, John I" exclaimed his em ployer. "What have you been doing?" "Been in a fight," replied John grimly. "With whom?" "Fellow up at that man's house." "What were you fighting about?" "Why," said John in the most matter of fact way, "he didn't want me to walk up the front steps. They had just been paint ed." . . "Well, why did you walk up them then?" John looked reproachfully at his employ er. "Didn't he tell me to go up the front steps for that package?" he asked. "Yes, but" "They hain't no 'bnt' about it. He told me to go up them front steps, and I went np 'em, paint or no paint. I had to fight the coachman, but I went up." "He seems to have given you a pretty hard fight," ventured the employer. ; "Huh I" sniffed John contemptuously. "It wasn't a patch on the one the housekeeper and the chambermaid gimme." The man began to get alarmed. "Do you mean to say you fought everybody in that house?" he asked severely. "I dunno," replied John gravely. "I lick ed the coachman, and the housekeeper, and the chambermaid, and the cook. It they was anybody else, I didn't have no truck with them. But," he added triumphantly, "I got the package, and I done what I was told, and I'll go back and lick the rest of the folks if you say so." Buffalo Express. What's In a Name? . "Great heavens, man, what have you been doing?" "Riding a safety bicycle." Once a Week. Well Prepared. The organizer of an arctic expedition was approached by a delicate looking fellow who wanted to join the party. "You don't look as if you could stand it," ventured the organizer. "You'll find me a kind of a singed cat fellow," he replied confidently. "Have you ever been in the arctic re gions?" "No, not exactly." "Have you had any experience in that line at all?" The applicant got a brace on himself. "Well," he responded, "I should say I had. I was en gaged for two ears to a Bos ton girl." And the organizer accepted that as a recommendation. Detroit Free Press. In Training;. "And what is your youngest son doing?" "He's preparing himself to teach school in Idaho," replied the young man's mother. "He's quite busy with his books then." "No. He has given up his books and spends most of his time in the gymnasium and at the shooting gallery." Washington Star. Too Much to Ask. ' ' He Will you love me if I give up all my bad habits? . She (protesting) But, George, how could you expect me to love a perfect stranger? Tit-Bits. The Truth. First Blind Man Ho ware you feeling to day, Tom? Second Blind Man Out of sight. Hallo. The joker's Paradise. Things co by contraries in China, we're told. We'd like to be there for a day. We're weary of writing of incidents old That occur in the same prosy way. There the kind servant girl she explodes, we presume, -And blows up the kerosene can. While the mule is kicked into a midnight of gloom i By the hoof of the meek hired man. The buzzsaw rubs up against some one to set If he's really and truly alive. And is all mangled up to such a degree That it can't lor a moment survive. There sons all are staid, sober, earnest young men. With giddy and profligate pas. And husbands find wives who can; bake lew and then A cake quite as good as their mas. The old, wayback farmer comes into the town With a Btrange deck of cards in his sleeves. And falls on the sharpers and does them up Drown, As their pockets of cash he relieves. t The gun which so often brings sorrow and woe Because it has strangely exploded Is blown out of sight, since it really don't know That the man whom it fools with is loaded. In China our jokers could take their old jokes. And turning them t'other end to Might work them all off on susceptible folks As something entirely new. The reason there's nothing fresh under the sun In the newspaper columns today :, Is because everything that may happen is dona In precisely the old fashioned way. Nixon Waterman in Chicago Journal. Sentimental Suicides. The crop of suicides is larger this year than ever before. Hardly a day passes that tlie morgue ' does not claim several victims, and the coroners are kept busy issuing permits for the burial of aristocratic suicides who shed their mortal shackles amid wealth and luxury. It is remarkable that these un fortunates should choose the summer time for their ghastly work, when life seems to offer so much to the weary, the oppressed and the disappointed. I asked one of the keepers of the morgue today how he accounted for this. , His reply confirmed my own opinion. Said he: "You notice that most of the 'stiffs' are women, don't you? Well, them's all 'sentimental suicides.' The gals has been disappointed in love or suthin o' that kind, and when they sees other folks enjoying life th' singin o' th' birds, th' flowers, an all that sort o' thing, ye know it makes them feel wuss'n ord'nary, an they go off'n jumps into th' river or cuts their throats." New York Cor. St. Louis Republic. Snap Shot with a Whip. F. M. Pitcher and A. L. Beckwith. are two farmers who are both well known in Americus. Tuesday they were to gether in a buggy coming here, and when they were near Joe Roney's place a chicken hawk lit on the side of the road. "Look at that hawk," said Mr. Beckwith. "Yes, 1 see him," said Mr. Pitcher. They drove on, and the hawk didn't move. They drew nearer and nearer and finally were almost up to the bird. Mr. Beckwith took np his whip and as they reached the hawk made a crack at it. The blow struck just right, and the hawk was struck full in the neck. The crack was so well made that the full force was executed and the head was cut clean off. The gentlemen brought the hawk and its head to town with them. Americus (Ga.) Times-Recorder. " : The Summer Toung Man. Primarily speaking, the summer man is not a fool by any means." He is boil ing over with business, but was never known to have done a day's work in hi life. Fortunately he has inherited con siderable money and is there to add an additional sum to that already on hand by marrying one of those western young women with pretty face, musical laugh and a rich father. This kind of men generally become very corpulent as age increases, and aS good natured as well, and why shouldn't they? Exchange. , Took Big Chances for Twenty-five Dollars. A Captain Blondell at Oxford, Ala., offered twenty -five dollars to any one who would get into a boat and allow it to be blown up with dynamite so that Blondell might show his lifesaving methods. A young man named Neely accepted the offer and was blown about forty feet into the air unhurt, but on his return to the water's surface he alighted on the fragments of the wreck and re served a f raetured leg and ofher injuries. MAN'S INHUMANITY TO HIM8KI.F. The most Inhuman outrages, outrages which would disgrace the savage, man perpetrates upon his own system by swallowing drastic; pur- f atives which convulse his stomach, agonize his ntestines and weaken his system- Man? people constantly do this under the impression that medicaments only which are violent in their action, and particularly cathartics, are of any avail. Irreparable injury to health is wrought under this mistaken idea. The laxative which most nearly approaches the beneficent action of nature is Ilostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is painless, but thorough, and invigorates the in testinal canal instead of weakening and irritat ing it. The liver and the stomach share in the benign discipline instituted by this compre hensive medicine, whose healthful influence is felt throughout the system. Malarious, rheu matic, kidney and nervous complaints succumb to It. . Carson Seeing is believing. Volkes -Nonsense. I tee Wetherell every day and I wouldn't believe him on his oath. Students, teachers (male or female-), clergy men and others in need of change of employ ment should pot fail to write to B. F Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va. Their great success shows that they have got the true ideas about malting money. They can show you how to employ odd hours profitably. MOT and those soon to be come motherSjShould know that Doctor Pierce's Favorite Pre scription robs child birth of its tortures. terrors and dangers to both mother and child, by aiding nat ure in preparing the system for par turition. Thereby 'labor" and the period of confine ment are ereatly shortened. It also promotes the secretion of an abundance of nourishment for the child. Mrs. Dora A. Guthrie, of Oakley; Overton Co., Tenn., writes: "When I began taking your ' Favorite Prescription,' I was not able to stand on my feet without suffering almost death. Now I do all my housework, washing, cooking, sewing and everything for my family of eight. I am stouter now than I have been in six years. Your ' Favorite Prescription ' is the best to take before confinement, or at least it proved so with me. I never suffered as little with any of my children as I did with my last, and she is the healthiest we've got. Have in duced several to try ' Favorite Prescription,' and it has proved good for them." use ST. JACOBS OIL FOR And all tba DROP article required by our exhibit with the ostriches and all kinds to US. "DON'T BORROW Printed with Jaenecke-Ull- man Ink. PALMER & REY, Agents, v i. ". , SAPOL O PAINS AND ACHES. We all have pains and aches, but they needn't last long not any longer than it takes to put on an Att-cocx's Porous Plas ter. The only thing to look out for is that you get the right plaster, for when you need a plaster you need it, and there is no time for experimenting and rinding out mistakes then. Ask for Allcock's Porous Plasters and see that you get them. If they say that some other is just as good, tell them that only the best is good enough for you. Allcock's Porous Plasters are quick and sure and acknowledged by the highest med ical authorities to be the b?st outside rem edy for pains and aches of every descrip tion. Brakdreth's Pills invigorate the diges tion. Dibbs Swelton says he isn't afraid of work. Sarcas Why should he be? He never got near euough to any to find out how he'd feel. Throat diseases commence with a cough, cold or sore throat. "Brown's Bronchial Troches " give immediate relief. Sold only in boxes. Price, 25 cents. "Is Smarter ju-t right n saying th&t he leaks French without any noticeable accent? ' "Yes, indeed. Without even a French accent." HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars' Reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall s Catarrh Cure. ' F, J. CHENKY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and tiuauolnlly able to carry out anv obligation made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX; t Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDINU. K1NNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druagitts, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting directly upon the blood and mucou surfaces of the sy-tem. Price, 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Fred Cheer upl You may win her yet. Ar thurNo; there's no chance for me. Why, she even refuses to go to the theater with me. Guard yourself for summer malaria, tired feeling, 'by using now Oregon Blood Purifier. Use Knamellne Stove Polish ; no dust no smell. - Try Girmea for breakfast. OXB ENJOYS Both the method and results -when Syrup. of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts fenily yet promptly on the Kidneys, jiver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures hahitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, LOUISVILLE, AY. NEW YORK, H.Y. m3-sreaft w-1" DOUCUVS 3 SHOE equals custom work, costing lrom m iu uest vaiue lor me money in me worm. .Name and price tamped on the bottom. Every unwarranted. Take no substi tute, bee local papers for full utn.uj;iiuiiui our complete V lines for ladies and gen- giving m sr. ructions finw nr derby mail. Postage free. You can get the best bargains of dealers who push our shoes. Bee Supplies. PORTLAND SEED CO., 171 Second Street, - Portland, Or. Send lor catalogue. E8 Dr. Williams' Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles. It absorbs the tumors, allavs the Itching at once, acts as a poul tice, elves instant relief. Dr. will- lams' Indian Pile Ointment Is prepared rues ana i toning oi tne private Every box is warranted. Bv drug gists, dv mall on receint ot nr ee. 50 -cents and $1.00 WILLIAMS MANUFACTURING CO., rropnerors, i;ieveiana, umo. Wovld Ifnous the CURH is SURH. IT IF YOUR BUSINESS DOES NOT PAY. Chickens are easily and successfully raised by using the Petal u ma In cubators and Brooders. Our 11- lustrated catalogue tells all about it. DIL Hior Darts. Don't buy any but the Petaluma il you want strong, vigorous chicks We are Pacific Coast Headquarters for Bone and Clover Cutters, Mark ers, Books, Caponizing Tools, Fountains, Flood's Roup Cure, Morris Poultry Cure, Creosozone the great chicken-lice killer and every othei poultry raisers, see tne macnines in operation at Norwalk Ostrich Farm, Midwinter Fair, hatching of rggs. Catalogue free; if voh want It, write Kb I ALU m A INUUDAIUK VU., 750752764766 Main street, Petaluma, Cal. TROUBLE.' BUY 'TIQ nHPAPER IN THE F.MO- CORD-WOOO. 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Hood's PHIS become the favorite catbartio with evety one who tries them. '25c. per box. THE ERICKSON PATENT SQUIRREL BOMB Is sure death to Ground Squirrels, PnclcAt. ftmthnrR. Pnhhttfl Ann nil Ani mals that burrow in the ground. Sim- I nnmhfl? hnved fomhlnment. Samnle cartridges, with directions for using, sentree on application For sale by SHIELDS EXTERMI NATOR CO., Moscow, Idaho. , DOCTOR THE GREAT CURE FOR INDIGESTION -AND CONSTIPATION. -A Regulator of the Liver and Kidnsys -A SPECIFIC FOR- Scrofula, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Neuralgia And ill Other Blood and Skin Diseases. It Is a positive cure for all those painful, deli cate complaints and complicated troubles and weaknesses common among our wives, mothers and daughters. The effect is immediate and lasting. Two or three doses of Da. Pardee's Remedy taken daily keeps the blood cool, the liver and kidneys act ive, and will entirely eradicate from the system all traces of Scrofula, Salt Rheum, or any other form of blood disease. No medicine ever introduced In this country has met with such ready Bale, nor given such universal Batistaction whenever used as that of DR. Pardee's Remedy. This remedy has been used In the hospitals throughout the old world for the past twenty rive years as a specific, for the above diseases, and it has and will cure when all other so-called remedies fail. Send for pamphlet of testimonials from those who have been cured by its use. Druggists sell it at $1.00 per bottle. Try it and be convinced. For sale by MACK & CO., 9 and II Front St., San Francisco. 1 The launch CYCLONE, one of the speediest boats of Its size on the Coast. Length, 30 feet ; depth, 3 feet; beam, 6 1-2 feet; 7 feet from top of cabin to bot tom of keel; half -glass cabin, this launch,' fitted with the celebrated HERCULES Gasoline Engine, 8-horse power, in per fect running order, is offered for sale at a great bargain. For price and particulars address PALMER & REY, - Portland, Or. WffTT BAKING POWDER. It makes a lisrht. live, sweet loaf, ncnior. soli It on the manufacturers' guarantee, CLOSSET & DEVER8, Portland, Or. SHMMnnH Consumptives and reople who have weak lungs or Asth ma, should use Piso's Cure for Consumption. It has eared thousands. It has not in Jm ed one. It is not bad to take. It is the best cough syrup. bora everywnere. Sac 1U OPII'.ll 4 50- uread made with QiOLMEi WEST