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
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PHONE 51.
TRAVELS OF A CAT.
"suvcr," Bora at tea, Haa Sail
Mur Yorwaje. and Waa Rwul
fraas Ihlpwraek.
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"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
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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
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MANUFACTURERS
No Order too Large for our Capacity.
None too Small for our Consideration.
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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
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THOSE 111.
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