s to business what !ena povr
llifre 1 but one ,ivi,iUi i ' .., li , ,
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dnery the grand mutlve power.
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NUMBER 50
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Hany people take pills, which
grips and purge, "weakening the
. EMyStake Simmons Liver,
&! " or powder, be
.aae m, . JL- to take, does
not grip,. .a mild laxative,
that also tObtfS up-the system.
The relief is quick. It is Nature's
own remedy, purely vegetables
'I never found anything to do me any
good until I lined Himmons Liver lloguia
lor. It has been three years since I first
used It and I have not had Sick Headache
since. 1 seutmy sister (who had from one
to two attacks or Hick. Headache every
week) one-half of a package, and she haa
not bad it Bluce."-C S. iloKBia, lirowns
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i '4aEVEBT'; PACKAGE-fa ;
Has onr Z Stanm In red an wrapper.
4. II, itEUJLK & CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Malls.
. Mall closes for Pendleton, Portland, and all
poihts east, except the Dakotas, Minnesota
and Wisconsin, at 5:30 p. m.
For Walla Walla, Spokane and North Paci
fic points at 7 8
Mall arrive from Pendleton, Portland and
the east at 7:45 ft. m.
From Walla Walla, Spokane and North Pa
cific points at 8 :5 p. in.
Offloe hours General delivery open from 8
a. in. to 8 p. m. Bundays, 8 to 11 a. in. Money
order window open from 9 a ra. to 4 p. m.
Geo. Hansf.ll, Postmaster. .
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A F. ft A.-M. NO. 80 MEETS THE
. First and Third Saturday Kvenlngs
of each months : Visitiug bretherett cor
dially invited to visit the lodge.
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10. 0. f no. 73, meets eveey
.Friday night. 'Visiting Oddfellows
in good slanding always welcome,
0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE
Second and Fourth Saturdays of
ach month. L. A. Oithens, . ; .
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PYTHIAN, NO. 29,
.Thursday Night.
MEETS .EVERY
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Cu:c::est akd; best route
Between Eoxtern Oregon and ashington
ana riigei souna rotiits. as wen as me
i'opninr niul -mrivl, itne to all
Points East & Southeast
Pullman Sleeping Cars.
Superb Dinning Cars.
' Tree 2d-Class Sleepers.
Til ROUGH TO cnil'AOO VIA THIS LINE
Pahsenger trains of this Company are run
, , nlng regularly between
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uyton, Wattsburg, Walla Walla Wash,
and Pendleton, Oregon.
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Mltin?ckwecomifv.tl(-iiialr Hunt's Junction
with iSorllicrn parnlo trains firr Tncrm,
S'-tt!, i' i,H. ('., Elhnsbnroh, Noritk
Yakima, Piio. -ormn, Jhtnf. f.nun-
wort, hpokttne, butie. Itvleua, SH. Paul and
M in til n 'Wilis.
AND ALL POINTS EAST
HirttioTi ui Second-'Glass
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ro'". -.3 over the i Fir.-1 , National
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A HISTORIC 1IARKET.
OLD CLOTHES IN LONDON ALL DRIFT
TO A FAMOUS PLACE.
Old CUtlief Start In Heandsditeh Attracts
Hundreds of Thousand! of People Who
Want to Wear Expensive Apparel, bat
Can't Pay Very Much For It.
Down In the unsavory and ill favored
quarter of Houndsditch. behind the area
cf the city where countless gold is made
and turned over, there is an inclosed
epace; part of the bo called Phil's build
ings, which goes by the descriptive name
of the Old Clothes Mart. - Admission to
it 's obtained on payment of a penny as
entrance fee, collected by a man stand
ing at the barrier that divides tho street
from the emporiums beyond. The gen
eral aspect is far from inviting, and a
hrst cursory glance seems i reveal only ;
a collection of rarrcd,decTer-irn(je Ta
floor is nothing. Xe'tliaE-iyiavenvent.
The roof is the eky, and in rain sun-
fdtirtA tliA hpnnq nf lnthfa nro t-vrvacJ
trirtmit iirntertinn tr. thn rhanrma f VhJ
capricious London climate. On slushy
days they present a lamentable appear
ance.', r;. j ''.'"
There are no benohes or stalls, as in
other markets, only lines of wooden rail
ing running along the inclosure marked
out in. lengths and apportioned to the
different vendors. The goods are packed
in sacks or , bundles '.deposited o5 the
flags, and at the open month or top of
each is displayed a sample of its con
tents, which is also temptingly laid
across the rail, whence depend the legs
of trousers, the sleeves of dresses, the
frills of petticoats, the soles df-boots or
the handles of sticks and umbrellas. The
goods vary considerably in quality and
aspect Some are moldy, tattered oi
colorless; others are in fairly good con
dition,' clean and serviceable. ;' '
Old Clothes Mart is victualled by hawk
ers who haunt certain suburban districts
to purchase the cast off garments of the
more modest inhabitants those who do
not hesitate to discuss the conditions of
the -business in person at tueif front
doors, t The dealings are not carried on
in casnt' Ufa L&wkors, with astute knowl
edge of human nature, offer in eXchaiige
crockery, plaster figures or even flowers
in pots, experience having successfully
proved that a bust, a pair of vases or a
water bottle worth sixpence is infinitely
more tempting than a shilling, and the
buyer has the satisfaction of emptying
the barrow laden with flashy, worthless
Mticles af a profit of EO per cent. - -
When his original stock in trade is re
placed by wearing' .apparel,1 the hawker
adjourns to the - neighborhood of. the
mart, where he finds a group of men
calling themselves commission buyers
who bid against each ether for the whole
lot The successful corp-gtitor forth
with distributes his bargains among the
holders of the railed off compartments
vsjde, who endeavor to retail them to
the Yustomera who have pam the en
trancet.ee. The best of these customers
are alwajs Irish buyers. They carry off
wholesale canities ten uUfast, Dublin,
Cork and oth JpclitiA .yyond- the
channel, Taldngintocoll.i, 'ion the
nature and general appearance of iie
consignments,, it, 'starring! to learn
on good authji iiy that ocaasionally 30
and even40 have .been pt.i4 down isf
cash f cbne lot. Credit is never given,
and payment precedes the delivery of
the goods. -
Hats, which, si a rule, are the most de
plorable objects, fetch but little, yet are
eagerly bought whatever their state.
They are sent to Paris for the sake of
the silk on them and there manufactured
into new ones. Coats vary more in price
than any other article; some go for a
penny, some for sixpence and npward to
5. There was a legend on the mart that
one coat was actually sold for 'a tenner."
Clothes that have been worn by the
highest and richest in the land have
found their downward way to Hounds-
ditch, not excepting those once i belong"
intrta the Prince of Wales, not
uo Die owners are a party to tue desecra
tion, but because the valets whose per
quisites they become know of this way of
realizing money for them. The bargains
are advantageous to1 all parties. Some
of the shabbydisreputable and poverty
stricken looking railing holders at the
mart, the men who haggle desperately
over a sixpence, are veil to do capital
ists. .'.One of, them is the proprietor of
several bouses in a good quarter of Lon
don., Others have a large balance at the
bank, and ethers still own considerable
property in stocks and shares. - They
turn over thousands of 'pounds' in the
course of a year, which Is not surprising,
aa the mart is opened every day and vis
ited by 600 or 700 people on week days
and by 4,000 or 5,000 on Sundays. A not
able particularity is that while on week
days the stalls are free and a charge is
taade for the admittance of the public
on Sundays the stallholders pay a small
fee and the customers enter gratuitously,
I Th"eTiisrti5en from 11 to 6,, It is a
favorite lpnnge Ir the dwellers in the
district, while tho on business intent
flock to it from great d; stances.
The old clothes mart o, Honnsditch is
not comprised in the list of the 100 mar
kets mentioned in the report of thd coin-
fmittee of public control, and it may
therefore continue to exist with impuni
ty. It has jbeen in working order for
about 60 years and la an important one
in its line. Its trade extends to Spain
and the Cape, whither go the renovated
costumes and repaired goods. France
and Scotland receive their consignments
in their nnregenerate state and treat
them according to their own require
ments. London Cor. 2-Tow York San.
Curious People la Buk
"The Christa" are a curious sect in
Rossis. They worship each other! The
chief ceremonies are a crazy spscies of
dancing, yelling as loudly as possible
ais-l pem: l.v stores with sticks.
TLs "j',lriry$'' LvIIwe ia sulf inati
l&ticn, bit will not rl-:tlt to S'xy ntatioa
er tLcv :, it wot.1 1 sits 1..-.'. LIVe V e
"Cbrlsts," ttey &mm and yell for h
Inuaatl Taste I Baa Franc! mo. -
A San' Francisco audience will be
much more amused by tha manner in
which V the professor breaks down Mrs.!
Brooklyn Bridge's ceiling than it will
over the splendid merriment of Sir Toby
Belch, Sir Andrew Agnecheek and Mal
volio. It is like tha French audience,
which is infinitely more amused by wit
than by humor. . - : ' -
But comedy Is not held in gieat favor
here. The San Franciscans being the
most pleasure loving of people, prefer
tragedy, A good, old fashioned, blood
spilling tragedy, : where every one is
killed in the last act, is highly approved
Cf, If Edwin Forrest were alive today,
he would count his most frantic admir
ers in the city by the Golden Gate.
Tragedy as he must have understood
it tragedy played with all the force of
the lnngs tragedy where the murdered
victim and the despairing suicide took
balf an hour to die and died acrobat'
ically from the footlights to the door at
tiie back of the stage would meet with
tha heartiest approval here. The ele
ment in the theaters which loved and
worshiped Forrest and his enorgetto
hods is larger in San Francisco than
in most cities of it3 size. , It is not that
the audiences here do not conUin in
dividual spectators of the highest artis
tic insight and cultivation, it is that the
majority of tho audience is formed of
spectators whose taste in the drama is
very much on the same lines as the taste
in the drama of the gods in the gallery.
The spectators of insignificant education
and uncultivated taste are more numer
ous than the spectators of cultured mind
and trained powers of appreciation, and
the majority rules. San Francisco Ar
gonaut. - -.' ' . - '
"Toad Bone" Was a Wonder.
I All early writers attribute wonderful
qualities to toads and frogs and the va
rious parts of their bodies. jPliny be
lieved, for instance, that if a toad was
brought into the midst of a mob or other .
large and nnruly concourse of people
"silence would instantly prevail." , A
small bone found in the right side of
toads "of the proper age" was also be
lieved to have powers over the various
elements. "By throwing this bone into
a vessel of boiling water,", says Pliny,
vvill ijr-nvjdiately cool it, the water,
refusing to bo:l again until tha ben? ha
been removed.' To find this bone, ex
pose tho dead toad on an ant hill. - When
the ants have eaten her ail away-exrept
the bones, take each bone separately and.
drop it into boiling water.; Thus may the
wondrous toad bono be discovered.!
This antiboil bone of course had its op I
posite. , ;'.'.::" "'.:,-! '
; In another portion of his work Pliny
says; "On the other hand, again, in the
left side of this reptile there is another
bone which when thrown into water has
all the appearance of making it boil.
The name given this bone is 'apocynon,'
which signifies 'dog averting,' because it
has the power and property of assuaging
the fury of the fiercest dogs." .It was
also; a sovereign remedy ! or . love . and
other trouble, would conciliate es
tranged friends, and if water in which a
"toad bone" had been steeped be used
mixed with lamb's tallow as an ointment
the person using the same might with
out the least effort see ghosts and divers
spirits both by the day and by the
night." St; Louis Republic, j
' ,1 , Blaming the Dentists.
i "Talk about ttie exports of gold upset
ting our financial' system," said the eco
nomic reformer as he bit a crescent out
of a doughnut in a Park row lunch ba
zaar. "It isn't the exporting that is driv
ing our gold out of the treasury. No,
air. ' The trouble is with the pluggers
the high toned tooth pluggers. They are
ramming a cool 1, 000,000 worth of gold
away into the back teeth of. the Ameri
can people every year, That means just
so much of the yellow metal lost to trade
and commerce every 13 months lost
completely and Irretrievably. This must
be stopped. Let congress pass a law pro
hibiting the nse of gold in filling teeth,
and the monetary nresBure will bcirin to
earn up , iu uu uuio. r utu vuc ,iu is
drawn away frem us by. business trans
actions with foreign nations, we can: get
it back in due time through the natural
processes Of trade, but when it is plugged
away in the cavernous molars of our
!mrse proud dudes and millionaires it is
ocked tip so tight that a writ of foreign
attachment couldn't reach it. This busi
ness must stop, or the government will
slump before the next shad season opens.
Eew York Herald. , ,
' A New Car Fare Befcijter. . .,
In a new fare register tho main regis
tering train ia returned, to zero at the
end of each trip by pulling out a knob
and turning it once around, when it
springs back into position. The number
and the direction of the trip are changed
at the same time. The register is said
to be absolutely accurate in action, mak
ing it impossible to ring without regis
tering or register without ringing. It
has a . locking device, which prevents
fares from being rung up during the ab
sence of passengers, and a 4-tumbler
lock with special key. The register , is
thoroughly tested at 185 fares before leav
ing the factory New York Telegram.
Iasuralea Against Accident.
. The usual odds laid by an accident
company are 1,000 to 4 that you do
not die from an accident in a year. Sup
posing that the whole population of the
country were insured against accidents
in one office, each person paying 4 and
being guaranteed 1,000 in case of death
by mishap the prsminma would reach
the figure of 149,740,868, and the sum
to be paid for deaths would amount to
14,908,000, leaving, after the deduction
of a few millions for working expenses,
the very respectable profit of 130,000,
000. London Tit-Bits. - ;
Effect of Heat and Cold on Bodies. -
The body of Prince Mensehikoff, a
favorite of Peter the Great, on luring ex
hcml after Di years' burial in the frozen
soil tf northern Siberia was found to
tsve'trnderrjona haru'y any chanere.
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THE GOSPEL OF WORK
EMILE , ZOLA'S STIRRING ADVICE TO
FRENCH STUDENTS.
Extracts from a Masterly Speech Dellv
red Before a Body of Voung Men In
Paris The Relation " Between Science
' and Happiness Explained.
Emile Zola, the famous novelist, pre
sided at a dinner given by the Students'
association of Paris. In the course of
the evening he f poke as follows;
Did science ever promise happiness?
I do not think so. Science promised the
truth, and it is questionable if happiness
can be made out of facts. To be con
tent with them even for a day one must
possess a stoicism, an absolute unselfish
ness, a serenity of intelligence possible
only to the highest minds. Therefore a
despairing cry goes np from suffering
humanity. How,, it aske, can we live
without delusions and illusions? If there
is not somewhere a world where justice
reigns, where the wicked are punished
and the good rewarded, how endure the
abominations of human existence? Na
ture is unjust and cruel. Science ends
in the monstrous law of the survival of
the strongest. " Reasoning thus, recoiling
from realities as yet ill explained, they
seek a dream, put confidence in the out
of sight and hope to satisfy in the be
yond their yearning for fraternity and
justice. '-- ,
This despairing appeal for happiness,
rising on every side, moves me infinitely.
Already music has responded to- it, lit
erature is trying to satisfy the new thirst,
and art is changing to show its' sympa
thy. It is the reaction against natural
ism, which is, they say, dead and buried
At any rate the movement is undeniable.
It is felt in all the manifestations of
mind, and unless it is taken into ac
count, studied and explained the out
look for the morrow is hopeless. 5
. I, being an old and rugged- positivist,
see in all this only a halt in the march
ahead, i Indeed it is not even rot
our libraries, laboratories, amphithea
ters and schools are not deserted. What
reassures me most is the fact that the
social ground is unchanged. , For a new.
art to flourish, for a new belief to give
humanity a new direction, there must
be a ii5W soil for them to germinate and
grow; in. Ours is still the dcuiooratjc
soil whence the century rose. ' Faiths
, are not resuscitated, and' only a uaythol
ogycan be made of a dead religion. The
next century will affirm this one. What
I will concede is that in literature we
brought the horizon too near, and per
sonally I regret having endeavored to
limit art to proved verities.
The new men, by re-extending the
horizon, have regained possession of the
unknown and the mysterious, and they
have done well. : Between the truths ac
quired through science, which are not to
be shaken, and the truths to 'be con
quered tomorrow from' the'nnkhOwn;
which in their turn will become immov
abla, there is a land of donbt and inquiry:
This land belongs as much to literature
as to science. Into it we can go as pio
neers, doing the work of precursors and j
interpreting, according to our talents,
its unknown forces. - The ideal is only
the unexplained. It is well enough to
invent solutions for the unknown, but
we have no right to pnt in question and
so deny. facts already verified. As sci
ence advances the ideal retreats, and it
seems to me that this slow conquest,
though we have the melancholy certi
tude Of never knowing all, gives life its
only reason, its only joy. ;
In these troublous days youth is told
to believe, but nobody tells it exactly
what to believe. Believe, they say, for
the sake of the happiness that comes
from believing, and most especially be
lieve in order that you may learn to be
lieve. The advice is not bad in itself. . It
is certainly a great joy to reposetipon
the assurance given by any faith, no mat
ter what. The difficulty is that one can
not believe by being willing to do so.
Faith is a wind that blows where it list
eth, and there only. - , --r
, . In conclusion let me offer you a breed
the creed of Work. Young men, work!
I am aware that no counsel could be
more banal. In every school at the end
of every term it is given to every boy,
and every boy hears it with indifference.
But let me, who have never been any
thing except a worker, tell you the re
ward I have gained from the long toil
whose effort has filled my life. The
world was harsh to me at first. I have
known poverty and despair. Later my
existence was a battle, and even now the
fight goes on and my work is questioned,
contradicted, insulted. Through it all
my support has been incessant work,
regular, daily, for an end never forgot
ten. How often have I seated myself at
my table, tortured by some great pain,
physical or moral! And each time, after
the first minutes of agony, my task has
proved a solace, has given me strength
to cokiUnu4 the struggle and await the
morrow.
Work is the law of the world the
guide that leads organized matter to its
unknown goal. Life has no other reason
for being, and each of us is here only to
perform his task and disappear. - Calm
comes to the most tortured if they will
accept and complete the task they find
tinder their hands. This, to be sure, is
only an empirical way to live an honest
and almost tranquil life, but is it nothing
to acquire moral health and by solving
through work the question of how to
secure on earth the greatest happiness
thus escape from the danger of the
dream?-. ..'.
I have always distrusted chimeras.
Illusion is bad for a man or a people; it
puts an end to effort, it blinds, it is the
vanity or the weak. J o remain among
legends, to contemn realities, to believe
that dreaming of strength gives force
we have all stn to what disasters these
things lead. ' -
: The Only strong men are the men who
work. Work alone gives courage and
faith; it alone is tho pacificator and the
ITborator? "
When ret tsikea from the mines, opals
are so tender &d fiiall t".i"t thf-y tnsy
I ';'' to rie:'j vr.3 th 0- t J.
.ENGLISH TRAVEL EXPENSIVE.
Why Batea- by Itail Cor Passengers and
! Freight Are So High. ,
The eminent English railway author
ity, Mr, William M. Acworth,"Toints out
many causes for the differences between
railways in this country and the United
States. The higher rate of charges on
English roads are thus explained!
The very large capital outlay of Eng
lish railways is of course one main rea
son of the high standard of rates and
lares in England. Exactly how high
that standard is we have no means of
knowing, for our railway statistics,
made up in a form that was laid down
by an act Of parliament about 80 years
back, carefully suppress the information
that iWs most necessary for us to have.
Ton miles and passenger miles are not
here recorded. We know that each ton
of goods carried pays the railways on tbje
average abont 60 cents. If wa guess that
the average distance is abont 35 miles, we
arrive at an average rate of 2.40 cents per
ton mile, which is not very far from
three times the average rate in tha
United States. So in the case of passen
gers we may guess that the average fare
is about 1.75 per mile, which though
lower than the American average, is
higher than in any European country;
Such a result seems very far from satis
factory. High cost of construction might
have justified a high range of rates and
fares at the outset, but year by year the
per mile of line open increases in den
sity, and yet the goods rates hardly come
down at all in the last year or two their
tendency has been all the other way
while the passenger fares only cpme
down very slowly. , . -
; And yet the explanation is not far to
seek. Our services have always been ex
pensive to work. They are becoming
more expensive year by year. In Amer
ica trainloads are mainly limited by the
capacity of tho engines ours by the
weight of goods or number of passengers
that have had time to accumulate in the
very short interval between one train
and anpther. Lot me illustrate: If a
man is sailing from New York to, Eu
rope, he will choose his favorite line or
his favorite boat, regardless of the time
of day or day of the week at which it
starts. On the other hand, if the Man
hattan elevated were to try to run Its
trains only pnee in 10 minutes in the
slack hours of the day the street cars
. otud ton it of the hulk of its pasaen
'gem -.: .'" 'jt ?:" f'. "r' "
Now, in England onr lousiness is all
between places which in America would
be regarded as close together. We call
Manchester "the north of England," yet
Manchester is only 4T hours from . Lon
don. Consequently there must be trains
between the two points at all hours of
the day, to suit the convenience of pas
sengers wanting to go at any time. Con
sequently, too, each train runs with very
much less than a trainloadof passen
gers. Then these trains must be rori at
high speeds, for though a few minutes
more or less are of little importance in a
journey of hundreds ox miles, a quarter
of an hour, out of four hours ia a.very
considerable percentage. ! High speeds
mean few stops, and few stops mean ad
ditional trains to serve the second class
stations. Then high speeds and frequent
expresses for passengers mean high
speeds and short trains for good that
is, half loaded engines, for an engine
loaded to its full capacity moves so
slowly occupies the line, that is, for so
long a period that it is impossible to
find room for it. . , ,,
But it .would not be true to say that
the goods are worked at high speed sim
ply for the convenience of the railway
management. On the contrary, the de
mand for speed in the case of merchan
dise traffic is fully abreast of that in the
case of passengers. Broadly, it maybe
said that the English goods ' service is
based on the supposition that, between
important towns at least, whatever is
handed to the railway company at thi
forwarding station over night will be def
livered to the consignee the first thing
next morning. Now, a service such as
this, in the nature of things, can never
be a cheap one. Engineering Magazine.
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Two Hundred aht ef rUlrtiaU.
, Cherra Punji, irjj the Khasi hills, As
sam, British India, is the "pole of the
greatest known rainfall," In other words,
it is the wettest region on the face of the
earth. Mr. Blandford, at a meeting of the
London Meteorological society, read a
paper entitled "Bainf all at Cherr Punji,"
in which he presented incontestable proof
of .the extreme moisture of the country
in question. The records go back for
nearly 65 years, but prior to 1873 are
rather incomplete, there being several
whole years in which no record was kept.
Carefully compiled data from these
weather journals, however incomplete
as they are, prove that quite frequently
during the summer, say from May to
September, the rainfall for a single month
ranges from 100 to 212 inches. Think of
it! , Nearly 18 feet of precipitation in 80
days. Colonel Sir Henry Yule's register
for the year 1841 shows that there were
2G4 inches of rainfall during the month
of August. That was something phenom
enal even for Assam, however, and is
not taken into account in the deductions
made above. St. Louis Republic.
1
What Froebel Discovered. : i' .!
Little Teddy, who is most regular in
his attendance at the kindergarten, was
very much interested in the approaching
celebration of Froebel's birthday, f The
day before the event he came roshing
into the house crying, "Mamma, mamma,
I must have some flowers to take to kin
dergarten tomorrow!" "Certainly, my
son, but why do yon want them?" "Why,
don't yon know? , 'Tomorrow is the anni
versary of the day that Froebel discov
ered the first kindergarten r New York
Tribune. ' '
- ; ' An Experienced Attendant.
First Waif (at the mission) Why did
yer ask the preacher to i ell us a story
wid er moral?
Second Waif 'Cause them's always
th moe' interest in ones. They pick out
the gA cue to make th" morals go
down eny, an we're near 'norli to Va'
doer t '.!? ovt 'fore th mrti tt,s.
Good KoW'i. - . , '. :.! ',. -' ''
jaappiucsa auiX ('oVoriy.
It is amusing to read tha answers in a
late newspaper letter to tho- question.
How. can one be happy, though poor?
Noah Brooks, Dr. O. W. Holmes and ex
Senator John J. lngalls declare that
happiness is a matter of temperament
and dependent neither on poverty nor
riches: Mx. Ingalls concludes with the
classic quotation: ,
More true Joy Marcello exiVd feels
Titan Cnsar with a senate at his heals.
All the same, however, Marcellus
Would not probably have refused to
come back into the senate house again
and take another whack at Casar.
Mrs. Henry Ward "Beecher believes
that true happiness is to be found in
true love, whether one is rich or poor,
which is a credit to her. good heart.
Dr. John Hall thinks that the practice
of godliness makes a man happy. Ills
to be observed, though, that in this
world the godly people seem to be about
as unhappy as anybody else. "'Cardinal
Gibbons affirms that the best instruc
tion on how to be happy, though poor,
is furnished in the sermon on the mount.
That blessed man, Dr. Edward Everett
Hale, says that if one sleeps nine hours
out of 24, spends two or three hours ev
ery day in the open air and works on
steadily on the Bide of the divine will ha
will be sure to have a good time. "As
to happiness," writes Dr. Hale, "or be
ing happy, that is something that 'hap
pens.' The minute a man seeks for it he
loses it." Hamlin Garland is not far out
of the way when he says that happiness
depends , on good health first and work
next.: ' : ; :...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox thinks happiness
consists in being useful to others. : That
is a truly noble sentiment. ''Happiness
is immensely a matter of the will,"
writes George W. Cable, and he, too,
hits the nail on the head. "I believe in
the. superiority of mind over matter,"
says Bishop Newman of tho Methodist
church.. John Burroughs, Rhea and
Fanny Davenport recommend work as a
cure fpr.'uahappiness work and a good
breakfast, Miss . Davenport says. But
most of all, the answers of T, V, Pow-
derly and Dr. William A. Hammond
will commend themselves tO the average
erring mortal mind. ."I know of no way
in which a poor man may remain hap
py," says Powdorly.v"I dol not believe
in the possibility of happiness with pov
erty unless the person concerned is weak-
minded," replies Dr. Hammond. t ' '.
For 8ouio time rubber tiros have bean
employed on tho wheels of hunsom cabs
in London to reduce the sound. The re
sult was satisfactory, but now comes
another trouble, The noiseless cabs, so
grateful to weary nerves, are vomplained
of because they run over heedless pedes
trians who do not hear their approach.
It is to bo hoped the rubber tire will not
be abolished. ; Let the walkers learn to
look out for themselves. It is better to
knock over a stupid, careless person once
in awhile than to kill half a hundred by
slow torture from the constant thunder-
j tag, grinding noise.'
Anything that tends to lessen the roar
of a great city should be welcomed. A
number of American inventors are now
experimenting with pneumatio tires such
as are used on bicycles, hoping to adapt
them to light ' road wagons. An extra
rubber tire has been placed outside the
pneumatic , one by one inventor to pre
vent the cutting of the air tube by a
stone or sharp knock. ' A New York bi
cycle manufacturer thinks he has suc
ceeded in making a pneumatic tire that
will work admirably on light road
wagons. If so, it will add much to the
comfort of Carriage riding. But if the
attachment can be applied to light
wagons why not to heavier ones? The
gain to the city part of the human race
if the roar of beer and milk wagons alone
con Id be abolished would be incalculable.
; . John "Gumming,;- -
.WESTON, OREGON,;
. has the Largest . - '
. and Best Selected Stock
?r GENERAL MERCHANDISE" IN THE COUNTY.
NeW GOOdS V " ; And they will be soU
for ' t a the'very lowest figures. - a '"
Fall Trade,
Arriving
Daily. .
..... j .:,'. . . ;y.;.
try granulated Sugar,
Etxtra g Sugar,
10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
Choloe Oregon Cured Bcori.Hhoulders, l2Jc, Rides, lHc, Hams, IfiJc per lh,
Jicst Quantity Lard, in 10 cans, I1.7S . , ' , I.. ,
10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
Comforta, 11-25 atf'h and upward. . IJIankcts, 1j0 each and upward. Men's wool
lioctsTMcper pair. Ladies wool hose, 20c per pair, men's wool undershirts und dmw
' ers, 11.00 each. . . " r -
10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH.
AND EVERYTHING ELSE AT PROPORTIONATr.l,V
PRICES. COME, BEE FOR YOURSELVES.
JOHN CUJIMING,
Four Sad Sauuuer Deaths.
Four of Biy friend3 during tho ter! i
heat of last July died1 ia Lome wht-w
every convenience was possible, biufr u
which women were absent itli ir
families scattered in tho country those
men were forced to remain "in 'the city.
In each case the thousand and cn '.,'Ue
attentions that a man's homo receives at
the hands of woman were cegleotr i Yy
the servants. Meals were. irntf .l.rly
served and more irregularly eaten; t v 9
were ventilated just as theaorvan it
tnembered or forgot them. That U -i-
ble week of incessant heat, which wt 'i
remember, came and exhausted thc-c j
men. V
Dysentery and kindred' summer ills .
are not far behind a man when he is r.m
down by sleepless Rights, harassed by
business, living in a cheerless, disman
tled, ttneared for homeundertorrid days ..
and stifling nights. In one instance it
was a young man in theflnsh of. sue-
Cess, who came home one evening only -to
die during the night, too weak even
to ring for 'assistance. In ' another c -j
a man of millions, with hti family away
at one of the fashionable resorts, suc
cumbed to the heat and was found d-.'.id
the following afteraoou. In the other
two cases the blow came not so sudden
ly, but yet within a week. And in each
instance the families, knew not that the
mainspring of their support were ill tin- .
til they were dead. Perhaps' tho prc5-
ence of mother, wife o? daughter might
not have staid the hand of death, but
who will deny the efSoiemey of womanly
care in sickness? E. W. Bok in Ladies'
Homo Journal. . I ,tr, . . 1
j Much fun has , been poked at the
weather reports on account of their oc-
oasional bad breaks, bnt after all they J.
are accurate enough to furnish a guide
to advertisers. . If the signal service pre
dicts raging hot temperature,' thou tho
shrewd dry goods man announces in dis- -play
type that he has on hand a groat .
assortment of pajamas,- paliakaf ftu;i
and lawn shirt .waists, and the erate
ment comes exactly in time to meat the''
requirements of perspiring weather. If,
on the contrary, the report says a cold '
Wave is coming down from the north'
pole, then next day appears the news '
that the iherohant will open an nnsur-, f
passed stock of latest style overcoats and
sealskin capes, -and ho hits the demand '
tnuoh of tener than he misses. ' -
iA . Canadian ha invented a combina
tion cable boat slti. for the lumber dis-
tricts thatraayTe recommended to sum- -mer-"
campers. In water it is a fcuat
containing an' engine of 22-hor3tpower ',
and propelled by side wheels forward or .
backward, at, the rate of six mi!eaa ,
hour, On land it is a sled with steel
shod runners and containing a dmm
wound with five-eighths of a mile of steel
cable, after the manner of a street car'
motor. The cable ia fastened h a Uto '
or other stationary object half n mile in '
front, and then the steam engine winds
up the cable, drawing the sled forward. '
, ; SNAP SHOTS.
For photographing winter light is not es
good a the light of warm weather, for the
sun is farther away, requiring longer ex
posure of the plates.
It would be difficult to make a positive
statement as to why films are not as good
aa glass plates. The fact would seem to be
that it is not an available medium for re
ceiving the emulsion. -
The application of photography to as
tronomy has been productive of especially
noteworthy results In the discovery of the
small bodies which move in orbits bctweea
those of Mars and Jupiter. ,, ,
A "photo corrector" has been Invented
and is in practical use by an English artist
by which the dimensions of any photo
graph can be altered "and the whole made
harmonious."' A person 6 feet in he!bt
can be made to look B feet high or 6 feet
high,-as desired, and hands, feet or any
other part can be similarly corrected.
WHITE CITY WAIFS.
t
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is on tha pro
gtamtns of the World's fair for uo less than
18 nanera and addresses. -
FOHOWIKQ ARE SAMPLE PRICES:,
i n PER CENT. DISCOUHT
I U FOR CASH PURCHASES!
12 pounds fur 81.00
13 H n
, J7.75
per kai'Ic, .
per suck
LOW
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