PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Commercial and Financial Uappeiilngt
of Interest In the Growing
Western State.
Butchered Seven Whale.
W. C. King, of Sand Lake, write! to
the Titlairiook.Or., Headlight, the fol
lowing atory' of the killing of seven
ttranded whales:
Oa May 10, at O. K. Chamberlain
was walking along the Leach, he dis
covered some black objects in the edge
of the water, and upon approaching
nearer he discoverer! that they were
whales, which had become utranded
from some caue ot other. There were
wven of them, and they were making
tremendous effort to get buck into deep
water, without avail. The tide was
leaving them. They would open their
months and draw in about a barrel of
water and then spurt it through the
hole in the top of their head 20 feet
into the air, and lying sometimes on
their sides it was like getting in the
croM-fire of a hose company. Mr.
Chamberlain made tracks for home to
get bis gun and a batcher knife to
carve them op. On bin return he
turned loose with bis goo to kill them,
but after wasting few shots he saw
that he could not kill them in that
way, m he sailed into them with his
butcher knife, and stuck them as you
would a hog. That did the work, and
he soon bad seven whales strung on tiie
beach that were from eight to 1H feet
long.
lie at once commenced to strip the
blubber from the outside of the body
and inside the bead. The fat was cat
into six-inch strips and thrown across
a borse'i back and taken home and ren
dered oat, w hich will amount to several
barrels. It has ft market value, and
Mr. Chamberlain will likely realize
considerable from it.
Insurance Kate Leu.
Representatives of the Pacific Board
of Underwriters have finally lowered
the rate of insurance on all business
property in The Dalles, Or. This in
cludes the larger portion of the build
ings below the bluff, and the rates in
tome cases were lowered much more
than the citizens hud reason to expect.
This action on the part of the insurance
companies is taken as result of the
increased facilities for fighting Are here
above the other cities of the class in
the Northwest. A perfect fire alarm
system is now in or.ler, and the lecent
chemical enigne and hook and ladder
tests bave proved very satisfactory.
TRADE IS QUIETER,
Quarantine at Athland.
George II. McGeer, M. D., acting
assistant surgeon of the United States
marine hospital service, has been
ordered from Ban Francisco to Ash
land by the quarantine service, to in
spect all Chinese and Japanese passen
gers of the f-onthern Pacific passenger
trains coming into Oregon from Cali
fornia, and see that they have certifi
cates showing tbm to have been ex
empt fiom the contagion of the bubonic
pltigue before entering Oregon.
Valuable Onyx Mine.
Spokane, May 22. O. M. Rosendale,
a mining engineer of Portland, tells of
the onyx quarry, about 60 miles north
of here, in Stevens county. Two steam
drills and a saw mill are at work min
ing and cutting the onyx, which is the
finest of its kind in this country. It
takes a high polish and the colors are
rich green and black. The deposit is
about 800 by 1,000 feet and the saw
mill is fitted with huge gang saws for
cutting the mineral slabs. This Stev
ens county onyx will rival that of the
old world.
In a banch of beef cattle delivered
in Arlington, Or., by Josoph Frizzeli,
there were three steers that weighed
6,000 pounds. An Eastern buyer who
saw them said be had never seen finer
steers in the Chicago market. The
steers were photographed in Arlington,
and before an hour 40 copies of the
pictuies wore ordered. They were
grade Hereford! of the Danneman
stock.
The season at the United States fish
commission station, at Baker lake,
Wash., situated at the headwaters of a
branch of Skagit river, is practical ly'at
a close. It is estimated that upward
of 00 per cent of the salmon taken pro
duced young fry and that more than
10,600,000 healthy young salmon, of
the sookeye or blueback variety, were
liberated as a result ot the work at the
station.
The Belgian hare craze has struck
Baker City, Or., says the Democrat.
Bela Kadish and Moses Fucha have
gone into the business on a limited
scale, with the chances of enlarging
their business into ponderous propor
tions off a small capital. Messrs. Kad
ish and Fuchs received a day or so go
two does from a rabbitry in California,
and the pedigrees attached to them
would make a Peroheron stallion
ashamed of bimselt.
Work is progressing nicely on the
water works at North Bend, Coos coun
ty, Or, Water is being brought from
Pony slough and a reservoir of 100,000
gallons capaoity will be constructed
on the hill back of town. From this
reservoir water will be carried in
pipes to every residence in the place
and will have a pressure of 65 pounds
to the inch.
The Grant's Pass, Or.. New Water,
Light & Tower Company is erecting on
the west side ot their power house a
building for the making of ice. This
plant will be supplied with the latest
improved horizontal compressors, with
a capacity of making six tons of ice a
day. The company is also making
arrangements to operate an irrigation
nitch this summer, that will carry 600
Inches of water in an open ditch, to
irrigate many hundred acres of land
below the powpr house.
The flouriug mills at Chelan Falls,
Wash., is now running night and day
to keep up with orders. The greatest
difficulty is transportation up the river.
All three steamboats are now loaded
to their fullest capacity every trip, and
still freight is piling up at Wenatchee.
The Inland Telephone & Telegraph
Company, of Spokane, Wash., will be
gin work in a few days on a new line
from Coulee City, in Grand Coulee, to
Waterville, Douglas county, in the Big
Bend country. This new line will be
5 miles long.
Quotation! Have Weakened In Scleral
Mace til Bualaee.
Bradstreet's eayc Trade is, if any
thing, quieter and prices are lower than
a week ago, while efforts toward a re
adjustment of productive capacity to
present conditions, are noted in several
lines of industry, notably iron and steel
and lumber. Unsettled conditions in
the cotton trade, and a large failure,
due mainly to overstapling the bull side
of the staple, has tended to weaken
quotations in several lines of speculative
bnsiuewt. Backward crop reports, and
the backward demand for cotton good
are of course partly responsible for the
sharp break, but statistically the staple
remains very strong.
Advices from the dry goods trade are
of backward dernan J at retail, affecting
orders in many lines, but cotton goods
production is still heavy.
The boot and shoe market is dull
with manufacturers firm but with job
bers asking for lower prices.
Lumber is on the whole weaker,
partly owing to the unsettled conditions
in the building trade and partly to the
feeling that prices have been pushed
too bigb, and this feeling is likewise
true of a number of other lines.
Almost alone among iron and steel
products, structural material is firm
and much is hoped for in the direction
of new business. The weakness in cas.t
iron pipe is inducing some curtailment
of production, notably at the South.
Wheat, including flour, shipments for
the week aggregate 3,698,968 bushels,
against 5,178,422 bushels last week. .
Business failures for the week num
ber 167 in the United States', compared
with 155 last week.
In the Dominion of Canada business
failures for the week1 number 18, ai
compared with 24 last week.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
fteettie Market.
Onions, f 9.
Lettuce, hothouse, 40(2 45c doz.
Potatoes, $1617; $17018.
Beets, per sack, S0(J0c.
Turnips, per sack, 40 COo.
Carrots, per sack, f I.
Parsnips, per sack, 50 75c.
Cauliflower, California 85 90c.
Strawberries $2.25per case.
Celery 4060oper doz.
Cabbage, native and California,
11.00(11.25 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 12.00(3 2.75; $3.003.50.
Prunes, 60c per box.
Butter Creamery, 22c; Eastern 22c;
dairy, 1722c; ranch, 1517c pound.
Eggs 18c.
Cheese 14 15c.
Poultry 14c; dressed, 14 15c;
spring, $5.
Hay Puget Sound timothy, $11.00
(212.00; choice Eastern Washington
timothy, $18.00 19.00
Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23;
feed meal, $23.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$20.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.25;
Mended straights, $3.00; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat
flour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.804.00.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $13.00;
shorts, per ton, $14.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $30.00.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef
steers, price 8c; cows,, 7c; mutton 8c;
pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 8 a
10c.
Hams Large, 13c; small, 13;
breakfast bacon, 12ac; dry salt sides,
8c. .
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla. 61 52c;
Valley, 62c; Blueste'm, 54c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.00; graham,
$2.60; superfine, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 86c; choice
gray, 33c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $1-4 14.50;
brewing, $19.00010.50 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $13 per ton; mid
dlings, $19; shorts, $15; chop, $14 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, $9 1 1 ; clover, $7
7.60; Oregon wild hay, $07 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 80 35c;
seconds, 45c; dairy, 2580o;
store, 22J25o.
F'ggs 13c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 13e;
Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $4.00
4.50 per dozen; hens, $5.00; springs,
$2.503.60; geese, $0.608.00 forold;
$4.606.50; ducks, $6.007.00 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 14 15c per
pound.
Potatoes 40 65o per sack; sweets,
22,l40 per pouna.
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 76c;
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, lo per pound; parsnips, 75;
onions, 3c per pound; carrots, 60c.
Hops 28o per pound
Wool Valley, 1213o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 10 16c; mohair, 27
80c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, Bc; dressed mutton, 7
7!uC per pound; lambs, 6,'jo,
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
light aud feeders, $4.60"; . dressed,
$5.00 0.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $4.004.50;
cows, $3.60 4.00; dressed beef, 6)i
7 ?o per pound.
Veal Large, 6,SJ7,lsc; small, 8
8o per pound.
Tallow 55,,sc; No. t and grease,
8'4o per pound.
Ban Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 1416o per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 12 16c; Val
ley, 2022o; Northern, 10 12c.
Hops 18'J!) crop, ll13o per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 17 17 Si c;
do seconds, 16 16 Si c; fuuey dairy,
16c; do seconds, 1415o per pound.
Eggs Store, 15c; fancy ranch,
17c.
Millstuffs Middlings, $17.00
20.00; bran, $13.60 13.50.
Hay Wheat $6. 50 9.50; wiieat and
oat $6.00tS9.00; best barley $5.00
7.00; alfalfa, $5.006.50 per ton;
straw, 2540o per bale.
Potatoes Early Rose, 60 65c; Ore
gon Burlwuks, 70c $ 1.00; river Bur
banks, 40 75c; Salinas Burbanks,
80c 1.10 per sack.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia,
$3.753.25 Mexican limes, $4.00
5.00; California lemons 75c$1.50;
do choice $1.752.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.50
2.60 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; Persian dates, 66.lo per
pound.
Max Pemberton'i serial novel, "Feo,"
will soon be published In book form.
"Toomey and Others" U a rolume of
short stories of the East Side, by Rob
ert Shackleton. 1
The manuscript of "Lorna Doone"
was submitted to eighteen publishing
firms before It was finally accepted.
"The Black Wolf"! Breed," a romance
of the time of Louie XIV, li by Harris
Dickson, a young Southern writer only
31 years old.
The Dear Irish Girl," by Katharine
Tynan Hinkson, is published by A. C.
McClurg &. Co, and la pronounced a
very cbarmlng story.
Mr. Anstey has made a play out of
bis really humorous Punch novel, "The
Man from Blankley's," and it will soon
be produced in London.
Constance Garnett has made a trans
lation of "The Jew and Other Stories."
by Ivan Turgeneff. This volume com
pletes this edition of TurgenefTs nov
els, and contains an Introduction by Dr.
Garnett, In which be places the Rus
sian above all other novelists as the su
preme artist.
William Pett Ridge's new noveL "A
Breaker of Laws," will be published in
this country by the Macmlllan Com
pany at once. Many people will remem
ber this writer's clever work hi a story
of the east end of London called "Mord
Em'ly." He has already written four
or five other novels, among which "A
Clever Wife" and "The Second Oppor
tunity of Mr. Stapleburst," attracted
some attention. "A Breaker of Laws"
takes Its name from the chief character
In the book, a cockney burglar.
Apropos of the rogue of the historical
romance, It Is related of "To Have and
to Hold," Mary Johnston's story of the
Jamestown settlement, that It bad
been folowed throughout its career In
the Atlantic to within a month or two
of Its conclusion by a practical, hard
beaded man of business. The practical,
bard-headed man of business one day
bad occasion to call on the publishers
of the book. He espied the book upon
a desk, and tbougb be bad come to sell
paper, not to buy books, be refused to
do anything until be had sat down In
an out of-the-way corner of the office
and finished the story which had so
seized upon bis fancy.
CRONJE'S SURRENDER.
TROUBLES OF POOR LO.
This Indian 6oya John D. Rockefeller
Wants Hie Land.
Waw-aleep-eshee-ka, the Delaware
chief, who is at war with John D.
Rockefeller, declares that It there ever
was a time when citizenship was de
sirable the time has passed. He does
not wish to be a citizen of a community
which pays rent to foreign landlords
and receives wages from foreign task
masters. He says that his tribe has
been moved again and again by the
greed of the white man, and will move
no more. He Is wealthy and educated.
and Is willing to use all his money and
1
WAW-ALEEP-EBHK1S-KA.
brains to preveut the Standard Oil
magnate from grabbing the 300 square
miles In the Indian Territory, where
oil Is smelted by the keen-scented
monopolist. He has engaged Walter
S. Logan and Harx E. Harby, of New
York, to lay his case before the United
States Court of Claims, but has little
hope of Justice. He says the white
man has never kept faith with the In
dians since William Penn's treaty in
1082. and probably never will. Waw-aleep-eshee-ka
Is known to civilization
as Richard C. Adams, and be has writ
ten a book, which be calls "A Delaware
Indian Legend and the Story of Their
Troubles."
L'ncoinproiuisinir.
Small boy Wauter buy a dog, mis
ter? Mr. Dlgneflde Not that kind of a dog.
Why, he looks as If he had fleas!
Small boy He has got 'em, but yer
got ter glv' dat dog credit fer wun t ing.
Mr. Dlgueflde And what's that?
Small boy He don't like 'em. Ohio
State Journal
Germs.
"Doctor, I wonder If Pm not getting
old?"
"Quite possibly. The bacillus of old
age Is very prevalent this spring."
Detroit Journal.
Two Schools of Vegetarians.
There are two schools of vegetarians.
One favors vegetable food which grows
below the earth's surface, and the oth
er favors that which grows above.
. Toor LI Hun Chang.
Li Huug Chang Is reputed to be
worth 100.000.000.
A woman can make a mental Inven
tory of another woman's attire hi half
a minute but she usually wastes a
whole afternoon In telling her nlego
bora the details.
The average man appreciates bis
wife's temper so much that be doesn't
like to bare her lose It.
British Writer'e Graphic Description
of That Dramatic Event.
.One of the uiost dramatic events of
the war In South Africa was the sur
render of the brave Boer leader, Gen.
Cronje, who for nearly ten days held at
bay the vastly superior army of Great
Britain, while he and bis followers
were cooped up In the bed of the M od
der River, near Paardebnrg.
Describing the surrender and the ar
rival of Cronje In the British camp a
British correspondent says:
"Presently & body of horsemen came
past the hospital tents Into the camp.
MaJ. Gen. Prettyman was one of the
leading horsemen. By his side a great
heavy bundle of a man was mounted
on a wretched little gray Boer pony.
And this was the terrible Cronje? Was
It possible that this was the man who
had held back the British army at
Magersfonteln? Great square should
ers, from which the heavy bead was
go naked for the first two or thr-f
years of their life, and ice aiu.c
adults is rather scant. The Govern
ment is liberal with concession In or
der to encourage the development of
the country's resources, but there is
no general rule governing the granting
of privileges; It all depend on how
good a bargain may be driven. The
climate Is very salubrious, and laziness
Is about the only prevailing disease."
TO WIPE OUT MALARIA.
Two Englishmen to Experiment-Their
Live a Possible Penalty.
Two Englishmen, Dr. Sanibon and Dr.
Lowe, of London, are to make an inter
eating experiment and take their lives
in their hands for the sake of human
ity. These two men are to go to the
Roman campagna. the deadliest place
in the world, with Instructions to stay
there all summer and see If it kills
them. If they return home unharmed,
then the world's most fatal disease
fill WlmMM
its u m
THE SURRENDER OF GEN. CRONJE.
thrust forward so that be seemed al
most humped; a heavy face, shapeless
with unkempt, gray-tinged black hair;
lowering, heavy brows, from under
which small, cunning, foxy eyes peered
shiftily. A broad brimmed gray Boer
felt bat was pulled down low, a loose
brown overcoat, ordinary dark trou
ers; nothing military, not even spurs
Dn his brown veldt boots. The only
thing be carried that seemed to speak
authority was a thick, heavy stocked
whip of hide, which he grasped and
swung as one accustomed to use It. By
his side rode his secretary and Inter
preter, a long, bony young man, with a
straggling red beard and very light eye
brows and eyelashes. They passed Into
the square of highlanders, who bad
been drawn up to receive them.
" 'Commandant Cronje,' was the brief
Introduction, as the Boer leader swung
himself heavily off bis pony and, curt
ly answering Lord Roberts' salute,
shook hands.
" 1 am glad to see you. I am glad to
meet so brave a man,' was Lord Rob
erts' brief welcome.
"The two generals sat In chairs al
ready provided and the formal surren
der followed.
. "Gen. Cronje sat deeply sunken In his
chair, with his hands in the pockets of
bis overcoat, and sullenly regarded the
scene. Every consideration was paid
him, but until the last was seen of his
bulky form driving away to Modder
River In the close carriage which had
been provided for him, his set, hard
ened face only suggested that the bit
terest hour of his life was being
barely endured by the man whose
pluck, whose capacity and whose
straightforwardness we, his enemies,
are the first to admit."
ON HIS DIGNITY.
Mr. Williams Haa Notice that He la Be
ncath Editorial Notice.
Just after we went to press last week,
and while on our way to Abraham
White's grocery, we met Dan Williams,
next to consumption malaria will be
at the mercy of science. If they die,
the government will pay the funeral
expenses and the theory about malaria
will be upset. ,
The theory relative to malaria Is that
It is caused by a special kind of
mosquito. This mosquito abounds in
the campagna, lying seven miles out
side of Rome, and the condition of that
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region Is such that no person can re
main exposed there during a summer
night without contracting the disease.
aDrs. Sanibon and Lowe will take
with them a mosquito-proof building,
and In it they will make their home
during the summer. If they manage to
live and keep their health where no one
else has succeeded In doing so, and yet
have no advantage over the others ex
cept protection against mosquitoes.
then the case against the mosquito will
be considered complete, and the gov
ernment will set about prosecuting the
pest wherever he exists in the colonies,
and will give ail possible aid to other
countries to do the same, with the ex-
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THE MOSQUITO-PROOF HOUSE.
who owns the livery stable on Violet
street. Mr. Williams did not return
our bow of recognition, but advancing
upon us in a threatening manner said:
"Mr. Colwell, you owe me two dollars,
and you either hand it over or I will
take It out of your hide!"
"Mr. Williams," we kindly replied,
though much astonished at his abrupt
ness, "we know we owe you two dol
lars, but we cannot pay it at present
As soon as the money, comes in on sub
scription you shall have it."
This was the best we could do, but
so far from letting the matter drop he
knocked our hat into the middle of the
street. Then he knocked us after the
hat. Then he kicked us and called us
mimes.
We did not fight back. Our editorial
diguity was at stake, and we maintain
ed it. Even when Mr. Williams hit us
in the back with an old tin can we d!d
not turn to bandy words with him. We
think Unit an editor should maintain
his dignity at all times and under all
circumstances, aud our wife Is highly
pleased at our conduct In the affair
'Mentioned.
The li'nd of tlie Ltizr.
"In a late sojourn In Honduras," said
L. B. Giveus to a Washington Post re
porter, "I came to the conclusion that
it was a paradise for a lazy mau. Every
thing grows luxuriantly, with but little
labor on the part of the natives, and
many crops do not need replanting
more thau once In eight or ten years.
The country offers fine inducements to
enterprising men. but it is hard for a
white man used to civilized ways to go
'-mi there and dwell among an ignor--t
sf natives who are 100 years be-
hiud the times. A man would have no
congenial society, and might as well be
lit exile. The natives usually live In
bamboo houses, though in the towns
the dwellings are of adobe. Children
pectation that malarial fever will be
wiped out and millions of human lives
saved.
As the mosquito Is a night worker,
the doctors will quit their houses only
when the Insects are off duty, and then
they will protect themselves from the
danger of being stung by a chance
mosquito.
Few people have a correct Impression
of the frightful ravages of malaria. It
is the great disease of the tropics. It
is the principal cause of sickness and
death there, and of social stagnation.
It, and practically it alone, Is the rea
son w hy Africa is the Dark Continent;
why some, in fact most, of the fairest
and most fertile regions of the earth
are but howling wildernesses covered
with worthless jungle and Inhabited
ouly by wild beasts and a sprinkling of
wilder men. Five millions of people die
anuuall.v of fever, principally malarial,
in British India" alone. That figure,
heavy though it is, gives no idea of the
amount of suffering, of invalidism and
poverty caused by this one disease.
A Great Glac:er.
The largest glacier in Europe Is the
Josledalsbroe, In Norway. With Its
numerous ramifications it covers an
area of 3r0 square miles. This enor
mous field of Ice sends Its branches
down the valleys In all directions, often
coming Into close proximity to the corn
fields. One of the most accessible of
its branches is the Brlgsdalbroe. From
a distance Its effect Is extremely grand,
surrounded as It Is with dark, bare
mountains, fringed with birch trees
a perfect setting for the mighty mass
of snow andVice.
An old bachelor says that widows are
the only second-hand articles that sell
at par.
After a man once reaches the top be
never talks about the surplus room on
there.
HUMOii OF THE WEEK
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.
Odd, Curioua and Laughable Phaaea
of Human Nature Graphically Por
trayed by Eminent Word Artiata of
Our Owi Day-A Budget of Fu.
Coroner Why are you so positive the
deceased was accidentally klled? Per
haps it was a case of suicide.
Col. Bourbon Youn seem to fohget,
sah, that a quaht bottle full of liquor
full, I repeat, sah was found In his
overcoat pocket, sah.
Over the Limit.
"Your greatest enemy Is whisky,"
said the parson to an Incorrigible mem
ber of bis flock.
"But." said the wayward one, "you
have always told us to love our ene
mies." "Yes," answered the good man, "but
not to swallow them."
Eleijjhr of Hand.
I km fer
The Point of View.
Biggs FIggs has the clearest head of
tny man I know.
Diggs That's right; there Is asbo-
lately nothing In It.
Unmasked.
He Who is that ugly old woman over
there by the piano?
She Oh, that's Mme. Cosmetlque, the
famous beauty specialist.
A Natural Question.
Four-yenr-old Harry, noticing that
the clock had stopped, asked his father
a question that has puzzled some older
folk:
"Papa, when the clock stops does
time stop?"
A Disastrous Pmash.
"I understand It's a very disastrous
smash."
"Yes, there Isn't enough to pay the
receiver's divvy." Philadelph:a North
American.
The One Thing Needful.
Fair Customer This cook book ap
pears to be all right, with one excep
tion.
Bookseller rray, what is that, mad
am?"
Fair Customer It has no pictures In
It"
Bookseller Of course not, madam.
One seldom sees a cook book with Illus
trations.
Fair Customer But what's the use of
telling us how to serve a dinner with
out plates?
Abont the Size of It.
"Money," said the political orator, "is
a great lever, and "
That's right, mister," Interrupted a
nan In. the gallery, '.'It's such a great
leaver that most of us can't keep it."
Two of a Kind.
Hix What would you think of a man
who divulged a secret Intrusted to him?
DIx YY elL I should thlnU he was on
an equal footing with the man who in
trusted it to him.
The Prettiest Picture.
101 I I WH
1 1
you
this
Charming Hostess
consider the prettiest picture in
room I
Isitor The onp I enn son nnm in
mirror before which you are sitting!
Vleggendorfer Blaetter.
Very Similar.
"A good woman," said the lecturer,
"is like pure gold."
"That's right" lnrernmto -
tious man In the rear. "Money talks."
Unappreciated Liberality.
Mr. White Mis' Jaekann ihn.M
ollahs foh dis here ring.
miss Jackson-Hit am vehy cute Mis
tab White, but whv difln't i'..
- ju &f i uue
ob dem kind dat cums in a popcohn
r-v-0.r . iuu huow now Ah lubs dod
cobn. '
Not as It Should Be
The Parson-Learn to be content my
good man. The little mn,,tt, J
v.. o uie never
sent without food to feed them.
The Laborer (fatner of ten)-Ah par
son, but the mouths are sent to my
home and the food to yours.-Chicaeo
News. "
Truly Surprising.
"Look," said little Bessie, who had
never before seen a mule used for any
thing but hauling.
"What Is it my dear?"
"A man ridin? hnrei.K.i, . ..
ot.. i " -"""- uu a muie."
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph,
T. H;a Las Request.
The Captain Thro i u-.
are lost: It is now hni(-.. oP " ... .e
.nhourwewil,beatthe;;Te
RathkoDfskv TAni.in'f
to sink her hr " " V manage
- 6nn.it, captain? I
owe Rosenberg here a hundredt dol
lars on a note dot falls due at half-nast
KrrL'Vofpay-
' the Church STJMi'
"Wby can't you be obiiI S
the facetious music rack. Jt
play when they're tolled. Cg- 'l
us a tune."
"No,! grumbled the organ,!
diapason, "I'll be blowed if 1
Philadelphia Press. '
- i,
Very Spicy. j
Ida When the hero sw
he climbed to the edge of the r
clove the air.
May My fellow has a less f
of doing it.
Ida Doing what dear? I
May Why. when he wanhj
the air he goes out between tl!
Chicago News. '
A Change of Fetus, 1
"Why is that Filipino runnb'
precipitate fashion?" asked th
"Oh." answered the native,!
"he's merely traveling for hli?
Washington Star. I
Impossible. j
Husband Why do you p..'
wearing shoes that pinch your (i
Wife Oh, I never could feel,)
able In a comfortable shoe.-iji;
A Tribute.
"I want to stop In front of u
dow," said Mr. Blyklns.
"Why, It's full of milliner!
claimed his wife. "I didn't i
admired such things." 1
"I not only admire; I marveif
off my hat to genius, and tltf
who can get $20 apiece for if
bunches of odds and ends ln.
are qualified to give lessons to
leon of finance." Washington!
Some Other Kind Prefcn.
"Your system is generally rut!
said Dr. Kanard, the eminent!
1st "but I think I can promfe
in a short time. If you follow t?
Would you prefer a home treaf
"I think not" responded Mr,
involuntarily lowering his vobl
It's jny home treatment, I aiif
that really ails me." Chicago t
Breath and Brush Act
"Can you give a first-class pot
pair of shoes?"
"Shud say so, boss. Why, rf
polish a ge'man'8 shoes de ladle.
down at his feet to see If deb i
on straight" 1
The Domestic Skeleton,!
"Herr Merzer, what Is the?
from the seat of war?"
"Sir, I object to hearing anyalif
to my family affairs!" Der D
ber. t
Change the Style. ' j
Mother Look out you don't i
stitch while you are knitting
stockings. I
Daughter Well, if I do thej4;
drop-stitch stockings. I
Not the Place.
Cholly I think in me heawt I
Daisy Why, Cholly, you wsi
freak. Every one else thinks Ii5
head. .
Like the Original.
An old family darky was
hauled over the coals for scratclilc
portrait of his past master wlttf
whisk broom.
"Marcus," said one of the fam!?
verely, "what ever prompted ra
that mischief?"
"Pardon me, sah," responded
fender, "Ah Jes cudn't heln It,
Ah caught sight ob all dot dust
marse's coat, Ah Jes had to rush
brush it off. Ah felt as doush ol'
wud rap me wld his cane if Ah d
About the Size of It f
Little Wrillie Say, pa, when i
fails In business what is meant
liabilities?
Pa The sum for which his citf
get left, my son. I
Willing to ObliRe. jj
She Ah, how nice It must be"!,
famous. How I wish I had a mi
He (interrupting) Permit me to;
you mine. i
Haunted. j;
Ida I am afraid of this old K
They say skeletons hold high ca.
in we next room. , t
May But how can they get lif
Ida They might use skeleton?
A Prixe Thought.
A teacher of music In one of tlfe
lie schools of the South desired t
press the pupils with the meanit
the signs, "t" and "ft" in a sons!
were aoout to sing. Alter exi.
that "f" meant forte, he said:
children, if "f" means forte what
'ff mean?"
Silence reigned for a moment
then he was astonished to hearaK
little fellow shout:
"Eighty!" New Llppincott
The House Habit.
"When," says John Muir in W
lantle, "I asked Mr. Emerson's m
if we were not going up into the
to camp they said: 'No, It would "i
do to lie put In the night air; Mr.Eij
son might take cold, and you t
Mr. Mulr,.that would be a d
thing.' In vain I urged that ofcf
homes and hotels were colds 1
that nobody ever .was known to i
cold camping in these woods, tliat
was not a single cough or sneew-s
the Sierra. Then I pictured titf
climate-changing, Inspiring firel ;
make, praised the beauty and fraf ;
of sequoia flame, told how the
trees would stand about us transfix
in the purple light while the stars
ed down between the great dom
ing by urging them to come
make an immortal Emerson niga" -"But
the bouse habit was not j
overcome, nor the strange dread of
night air, though it is only coolrfj
air with a little pure dew in it & i
carpet dust and unknowable reeks 'J
preferred. And to think of this
a Boston choice! Sad eomuienU?
culture and the ulorious transc?6
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