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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1903)
Kood Iftver Slacier "THURSDAY, APRIL"Sori903T Blind Children Enact a Play. A company of blind children enacted the play, "Jack, the(jiant killer," atSt. Luuis recently, report! an exchange of that city. It wai their first attempt in the hia trionic line and was pronounced th tucceai of the season by the theater goers. Tha children belong to the Missouri school for the blind, and the entertainment was arranged in cali bration of the Institution', fifty-first anniversary. The teachers made all of the cos tumes and trained the performers for weeks beforehand. The latter entered into the spirit of the occasion with all of the zest which more favored chil dren might haa exhibited. The re markable feature waa the keenness of perception which they displayed. Guided by soma instinct, they never made one false step, bat pasted and repassed each other on the stage and always found their respective placea without a collision. Their movement, were all ease and freedom and grace and their stepa were as firm and full of confidence as though they had been blessed with the brightest and keenest of eyes. Sightless lords and ladiea bowed to a blind king and queen in courtly style. A blind fairy waved her wand over their majesties without once touching theircrowns. The blind Giant Blunderbore marched in all hit terrible might across the stage with the most threatening strides and blind Jack the (iiant Killer strutted gloriously up and down with his trusty sword. It was all done with such astonishing accu racy, and never was there a mistake in word or action. The orchestra which furnished the music was composed of 15 blind boys, and the attendants of the king and queen numberad some 20 sightless little one. So that it was a company which real ly crowded the narrow stage and mad the excellence of the performrrce all the more notabla. A particularly pret ty scene was the part in which Jack led the Princesa and Fairy Good in a dance which waa very much iike the Virginia reel. After the play S. M. Grei, auperin tendent of tha institution, wa. tha re cipient of many congratulation, upon the histrionic achievement, of hi. pu pils. "They can do things and accomplish good in the world just the same a. people that have eye.," ht Mid. proud ly. "Our motto is thi.: 'Itiatheaoul that sees.' "We took that motto .everal year, ago to impreaa on th. public the fact that blind people are not a lot of hap less, unfortunate creatures, aa some suppofe. Aside from the misforuneof being deprived of their sight, blind children are9 just like other children. They are affectionate, they like to romp and play, they want to b out la the f-e-v r and mnh'r. t r . - - trrr t ' '' '. t I f pr'"! t MT Band Sawed Lumber, Red Cedar Shingles, Flooring, Ceiling, Rustic, Ship Lap, Pickets, Laths, etc., etc. ESTIMATES FURNISHED PHONE 51. TRAVELS OF A CAT. "suvcr," Bora at tea, Haa Sail Mur Yorwaje. and Waa Rwul fraas Ihlpwraek. "p "Barney" i. the name of a remarka ble cat, the property of Capt. O. W. Look, of Jonesport, Me. Barney wa on the schooner E. I. White, which waa wracked off the Bahama islands a few weka ago, and was saved and brought to Mansfield by Edward Wilson, stew ard of the boat, and shipped to Jones port, where she will spend the winter with her mistress, the wife of Capt. Cook, going to see. again a. soon as op portunity offers. She was born on the ocean on board the schooner 4 year, ago, and ha. al ways been to sea. The picture was taken on the voyage from the Canary islands to Barba- am o BARNBT ON HIS TRAVEL. do... She has been to moat all tha West India islands, South America, a.ndt several southern porta. Twice in midocean ha. Capt. Look hove the vessel to and rescued her, sha having fallen overboard, once from tha spanker boom and once from the taf frail. In speaking of tha cat Mr. Wilson said to a Boaton Globe reporter: " 'Barney' was the strangest acting cat I ever saw. She would not allow any cat. or dogs to come aboard the boat while in port. She wa. what might ba termed the monarch of all she sur veyed. "If we passed a steamboat at sea and th. whistle wa. blown, 'Barney' would at once seek a hiding place. So fright ened was she that at times she would remain in hiding two or more day. "She i. a great bird catcher, fin. mou.erand will tackle a rat as large a. herself." Jaat aa4 Fair. Ton will not ba sorry for hearing be fore judging, for thinking before peaking, for holding an angry tongue, for .topping the ear to a ralebearer, for disbelieving moat of the ill re ports, for being kind to the distressed, for being kind toward everybody, for doing good to all men, for asking par don for all wrong., for .peaking evil of ao one, for being courteous to aii. At the Lyle ituitneiv rrp.-e he remain, of a once well-known Klickitat author, Frederick Balch, whose moct PCCR PRINT famous romance, "The Bridge of the Gods," is now a classic in the realms of literature. According to the monument over his grave he died on June 3, 1891 , at the.early age of 30 years. Agricul turist, STRAWBERRIES FOR GOUT. j t rreh Ckeml.t. Have Dl.cover.4, th.Pe..e..flterlleA.U 1st the rrult J ' From aa alimentary point of view th trawberry is variously appreciated Some say that it is difficult of diges tion; other., on the contrary, maintain Unit it is refreshing and diuretic. Although it is not unusual to meet with persona incapable of swallowing a single strawberry without being at tacked with nettle-rash, and there ia eveii a case on record -f a young girl having an eruption -. the sjght of strawberries, it may be remembered that Font (telle, who was nearly a hun dred years old when he died, was a large consumer of thi. fruit, to which be attributed the good health which he enjoyed during his long and bril liant career. But a really remarkable example of the therapeutic value of the st rawberry j they were quite young, and the other was furniehed by Linnaeus. Arursuf- when he waa under 21 year, of age. fering from gout for several years the I These eight children are the par illuKarioua Swedish naturalist was ent. of 126 children. Eighteen of seized at the end of June, 1750, with an these grandchildren of old Mr. and attack of unusual violence. Having Mrs. Fernett have among them 61 suffered atrociously, having lost hi. children, and one of the latter i. the appetite and being unable to sleep, mother of a ten-day old child, mak and feeling his strength failing, he re- ing it a great-great-grandchild of igned hiiutelf one day to tasting some Peter Fernett, Sr. The remarkable etrawberriee which were brought him. record of the Fernett children ia as ile found them palatable, and ate a follows: large quantity of them. I Mr. A. La Bonne, 18 children. To hia surprise, and. it need scarce!-1 Mrs. L. La Bonne. 13 children. be said, to his great satisfaction, his! paina diminished, and he was able to 1 ileep. His experiment appearing to! him sufficiently precise to warrant' him in going on with it, he continued ; to eat a plate of strawberries daily, and he improved so much that in a few days he was able to get up and walk, jne gout qnicaiy aisapperel, ano n great-grandfather down to the general health became good. During youngest baby are hale and hearty, the four following years gout reap- When the aged woman died a ihort penned, but In a less aggravated form, time ago she had been iQ for less Linnaeus resumed the treatment than a day. which had proved so successful, and again experienced the same results He! ' . therefore adopted the preventive "It's wonderful," said th. meditltive atrawberry cure every year, and the man, "how one .mall word, insignifl result waa that for X) year, he never cant in itself, may Indue an endlesa had the slightest return of gout, saya train of thought, speaking volumes, in the Paris edition of the Sew York Her- fact." aid. "Ye.," replied the caustic man. Nothing mora wa. required to con- "Take the word 'but, for instance, atitute the atrawberry a apecific for when a wnrran says: 'Of course, it', gout. MM. Portea and Desmotilierea )c "f tJ business, but.' " Phil.del (of Paris) have found in ten varieties phia Pres.. of thi. fruit the reactions ch.ractrris- tic of the presence of salicylic .cid, and on carrying thia analysis further succeeded ia obtaining thi. acid in a cryMaline form f i-im atrawhrrriea. It la now understood that the straw berry ran act OB got. Doubt Ire. ow ing to the infinitesimal quality of saly eylic acid which it eontafaa. it will re HiQr the consumption nf a very jrpe r. , ,...t., .. j v., fruit tt. . ! !,. f - . Mt it , p ' '-'-it -r-- ' I . Sri- !-?f-i' - I :.i-!.ti f ft, ... MANUFACTURERS No Order too Large for our Capacity. None too Small for our Consideration. , j,- Thus the researches' of chemists from time to time furnish by the isola tion of the- active principle the expla nation of the therapeutic value of cer tain remediee, hitherto applied empir ically. AMERICA'S LARGEST FAMILY. A Wlaeoaeia voap nf lmsaeaia.te Re lavta-ea Wklah ITaaabera 18 ea.be ra. Prairie Du Chien, Wla., boasts of fam" w4ulchrTiB1b!"rd to largest in the United Statea. It con- Uts of 188 member., and until a few week, ago, when Mr.. Peter FrneU died, there had been no aick- nea. or death in the family for near- ,T nRlf a eentury, report, the Wash- '"fr1"" 1 imea. Peter Fernett. Sr., the head of the family, ia nearly 90 yeara of age, and ia in splendid health. With him to mourn the loss of a faithful wife and mother are eight children, 126 grandchildren, 81 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. The family now consist, of the fol lowing members: Peter Fernett, husband; Mr.. An thony La Bonne, Mrs. Loui. La Bonne, Mrs. Frank Porrier, Mrs. Cota, Mr.. Theodore Cota, Mr.. Hu bert Obln, Paul Fernett and Peter Fernett, Jr. There were four other children born, but three of these died when Mr.. F. Porrier. IT children- Mr.. Cota. 16 children. Mr.. T. Cota. 17 children. V Mrs. n. Obin, 18 children. Paul Fernett. 13 children. Peter Fernett, Jr 14 children. All the member, of thi. remark able familv, from the old ereat- AdterUM-s loiter List, April 27, 1903. Campbell, Mrs John Prathar, Mrs Leah Smith, Mis. Mollis Gray, John Necklewn, M C Xystrom, A E Reee, Chas Smith, Ed Thompson, Chas Willoughby. Rev WD W. M. Yates, Postmaster. PROMPTLY. Will Langille arrived from Washing ton, D. C, Thursday of last week. Sat urday he left for Seattle, and Tuesday he took passage on the steamer Spokane, for Hitka, Alaska, where lie goes with a government commission for the pur pose of making a report on the foreBts of Southern Alaska. Weekly Crop Biillelin. Portand, Or., April 28, 1!)03. The weather during the past week has been favorable for all crops, except that more raiu is needed in the Grand Kounde val ley, and in the stock country east of the Cascade mountains. The soil works nicely and the farmers ary busy plow ing summer fallow and preparing the LOW PRICES BEING TRADE Hardware. 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