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JIbnrv J_ Jhompson,
PROPRIETOR.
TERMS—11 Per Annuni in Advance;
50 cents for 8 mouths; 25 cents for
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One Square first insertion $1.00
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DEGENERATE CAPTIVES.
Where waters tremble Into hillside tights
From rocks crevices and shaded pools
The wild stag pauses, watch, fulwblle he
cools
His shapely limbs. His prond head towered
the heights
He lifts to look In contemplative mood
On his companions feeding freely there
From nature’s lavish feast, spread every
where,
And asking no man’s friendship or his food.
Where men betake themselves In tacit shrifts
Of city foulness runs a deer glen girt
With close set barriers. Here, tame, Inert,
The deer caress men’s hands for paltry gifts.
—Clara Dixon Davidson In Godey'a
POINTERS ON THE GRIP.
A Description of the Disease by One Who
Has Suffered.
Ever had the grip? I will give you a
few pointers. Vou will imagine you
have a bad cold, and you can wear it
out, hot you need not try it. The grip
has fastened his fangs onto you and will
not let go. Yon have got to give np, go
home and go to bed. In a short time
yon will realize Beecher's dream af bell.
You will think your head has boon re
moved and an old beehive with the
empty comb left in its place. Your
mouth will taste like a pail of sauer
kraut. You have the grip.
The doctor comes, looks you over,
puts his thermometer in your mouth,
finds your temperature 104 degrees in
the shade, your poise going at the rate
of two miles and three laps to the sec
ond. He orders you to stay in bed and
gives you medicine that is so strong and
sour that simply setting the bottle on
the clock shelf stopped the clock. He
will tell yonr wife that she may give
yon warm drinks and try to get yon
to sweat and take his leave. Now, all
wivea are family doctors by right of
their position in the bonse, and as you
have gone to sleep, delirions and ex
hausted, she begins her treatment by
putting a belladonna plaster across yonr
lungs, a flaxseed poultice on one side
and a mustard poultice on the other,
a hot flatiron and a jug of hot water to
yaar feet, and a sack of boiled corn In
the ear, piping hot, to your back. Yon
sleep and dream of being away to the
far north in search of the north pole or
out in the center of some beMiiti'il
sheet of water, like Lake Superior or
the lawn tennis skating rink, helpless
and alone, with the ice breaking all
around yon and yon slowly sinking.
Yon finally awake, burned,bliatered and
baked. The doctor cal la, finds your
temperature about 80 degrees at the
north side of the house aud your pulse
normal, not needing a pacemaker. He
pronounces yon bettor, convalescing;
orders beef tea, chicken soup, gruel
and toast us a diet. Yon take the big
rocking chair exhausted, tired, dis
couraged and ugly; you feel like lick
ing your wife, kicking the dog and
breaking up the furniture, but you
won’t do anything but sit there day
after day weak, helpless and tired.—
Wiqona (Minn.) Herald.
Making Hilliard Cuahlons.
The making of bfllard cushions ia an
important indnatry, but la carried on
by two or three firms alone, and while
the story of the difficnlty which has
been overcome in preventing the ball
from sinking into the robber and thna
destroying the angle desired to be taken
la an Iniereeting one it has been told
before and will not be repeated now.
In the early days of the indnstry the
manufacturer employed valve rubber
and obtained a mneb better price for it
when it waa worked np into the coah-
ion.
Then the cnahion maker set his wits
to work to get the valve robber cheap
ly. bat in those days it was strongly
held, and none was allowed to pass to
that Industry nnleaa It paid the en
hanced royalty. Finally the combina
tion was broken by a firm In Pittsburg
ordering the valve robber ostensibly for
ordinary nae, bnt shipping it back to
New York for the intended purpose.
So skillfully and patiently waa thia
done that a great quantity was accnmn-
lated, and the valve robber man threw
up the sponge. Now billiard cushions
are made of molded rubber, an evolu
tion which came along later.—Hard
ware.
La Fontaine’s Opinion of Himself.
”La Fontaine,” aaid one of the most
brilliant critics and wits of the famous
fnbla writer's time, "is such a fool that
he does not know he has more genius
than ASsop or Phaedrus.”
In troth, he was a severe critic of his
own work. He attended the first presen
tation of his ‘‘Astree,” and sat near
some ladies who did not know him. At
soma of the important paseagea he ex
claimed: "That ia wretched! That ia
absurdl”
When they protested that it was
good, and that it was by the great La
Fontaine, he rejoined:
"That makes no difference. The
piece ia bad. I know tnat La Fontaine
you are speaking of. He's a stupid fel
low. He’s myself.”
Then he went ont, entered a cafe and
went to sleep in a corner. Some of his
friends found him there and inquired
why be wasn’t listening to "Astree."
“Ob,” said the author, rousing bim-
•elf and stifling a yawn, "I jnst came
away. The first part displeased me
greatly. No one agreed with what I said
about it, bnt I didn't care to hear more.
I admire the patience of the Parisians."
—Youth's Companion.
Coyots sad Eagle.
W. C. Plummer of Prineville onoe
witnessed an exciting fight between an
eagle and a coyote. The eagle bad
canght a rabbit, and the coyote under
took to take it away from him. The
eagle defended his prey manfully for
some time, bnt the coyote was too much
for him and finally got away with the
rabbit, bnt not until after the eagle had
clawed several handfuls of hair ont of
hit back and left him somewhat disfig
ured.—Portland Oregonian.
THE CHINESE AT HOME
MANY OF THEIR CUSTOMS ARE THE
REVERSE OF OURS.
How They Compare With ths Japanese.
Whet Constitutes an Education—No He
reditary Aristocracy la China The Peo
ple Vary la Dlffereat Sections.
The samples we get of China in onr
country give ns very inadeqaate ideas
of the people. We have here to contem
plate a civilization entirely unlike onr
own, bnt in itself much more complete
than onrs. In the presence of the Chi
nese, all Enropeans and Americans are
parvenus. These people burned coal
before the Christian era. They invent
ed printing 1,000 years before Guten
berg and Fanst flourished, and they
knew the use of gunpowder when onr
forefathers were using bows and ar
rows. In most things which appear on
the surface they are onr antipodes.
They raonnt a horse from the right side
instead of the left, read from left to
right, say west south instead of aonth-
west, their mariner’s needle points to
the south, the men wear petticoats and
the women tronsers, they shave the
fronts of their bends and not their faces,
shake their own hands instead of each
others as a greeting, write their family
names first and their given names aft
erward, have their marginal notes at
the top of their books, place a distin
guished guest on the left and are care
ful not to nncover in his presence, wear
white for monrning, the men aew and
the women work in the fields, and soon
to the end of the chapter.
We shall find in China the origin of
mnch that we have seen in Japan. The
position of womw in the family and so
ciety is about the same, except that the
Japanese women do not cramp their
feet, and therefore can go abont more
freely. The domestic architecture is
similar, so far as external constroction
goes, bnt tlie Chinese honses have no
mats, and the {leople do not sqnat on
the floor. Both wear loose, flowing
robes, which the Chinese button, bat
the Japanese do not. In the conversa
tion of the people the Chinese indnlge
in honorifics as much as the Japanese.
It is the correct thing to ask yonr friend
to condescend to come from his elegant
house to yonr miserable hovel, or to al
low his distinguished enp of tea to de
scend to yonr nn worthy self. The Chi
nese classics are also the classics in Ja
pan, and the Chinese ideographs are
need by Japanese writers. Education
ia mainly etiqnette. The Chinese have
8,000 rales of behavior, which the edu
cated man must know. If a man have
bad manners, they say he ia not edu
cated.
The Chinese sages, like Confacins,
Mencius and others whose works are
classics, enunciated a high grade of
ethica. Confacins stated the golden
rale, thongb negatively, thna: "If there
is anything 1 do not want done tome, 1
will not do it onto another." His eth
ical teachings take rank with thoee of
the Greek and Roman moralists and
the Hebrew prophets, bnt are without
reference to a Supreme Being who re
quires us to keep his commandments.
The family customs are similar to the
Japanese. Society is patriarchal. The
family, not the individnal, ia consid-
ored. Marriages are arranged as in Ja
pan to perpetuate the family, and go be
tween! are employed to settle the terms.
There is only one wife, bnt concnbinea
are taken into the honae at will. The
wife finds life burdensome when she is
the servant of the honsehold, especially
of her father-in-law and mother-in-law,
bnt when she becomes a mother-in-law
she gets her own innings and makes it
warm for her danghter-in-law.
The Chinese have as many genuflex
ions as the Japanese and nnmerons
grades of obeisances to be employed ac
cording to circnnsttnces. Three prostra
tions, each with three knockings of the
bead against the floor, are supposed to be
abont the extreme exhibition of respect.
The people vary a good deal in the dif
ferent sections. The aonth of China ia
monntainons, and the people there are
smaller, more volatile and brighter
than in the north, where the crowded
dwellers on the plains and paddy fields
are heavier, leas excitable, not so quick
to see or act. There is no hereditary
aristocracy in China. All the people
are bound to obey the will of the em
peror and have no rights he is bound
to respect. There is no caste, as in India.
The people are classified as nativea and
aliens, the latter being subdued peo
ple In the provinces; conquerors and
conquered, with special reference to
the prohibition of marriages between
the Mantchoo and Chinese, and freemen
and slaves. There are no laws against
slavery. Every native is allowed to
purchase slavee and retain their chil
dren in servitude, bnt the number of
slaves is small, and their condition is
comparatively easy. Probably there are
no better mannered people in the world
than the educated Chinese. They are
also very competent business men, and
as such enjoy an excellent reputation.—
Cor. Boston Herald.
Maori Women.
The Maori women are a potent factor
in Island life and must not be forgot
ten. Liquid dark eyes, soft voices, af
fectionate and merry dispositions, light
brown skins of ivory smoothness and
gracefnlneM in every movement are
their most striking characteristics. Sel
dom are they to be seen in a passion,
and not a single “caas word" for man
'or woman is to be found in the vocabu
lary of this charming people. In the
most furions rage they can only call
each other cat, bollock, dog, goat, aheep
or pig. The most deadly is wild dock,
implying a child whom nobody will
own.—Fortnightly Review.
Chawl.g Gam sad Mai da Mar.
An English woman baa made a dis
covery which she communicates to a
magaxine aa follows: "I wonder how
it is we know nothing of the wonderful
America chewing gum aa a remedy
against seasickness. The other day,
when cro«ing the terrible si’-Ter streak,
an American lady kindly offered me a
piece which ehe had obtained in New
York. It was of a wafery looking con
sistency, flavored with pepain, and it
carried me safely over from Dover to
Calais with perfect comfort. ”
The prisons of Morocco are the worst
i ihv world. No care or attention
ver is given to the prisoners.
ii> y are left dependent ou their friends
for food, and If they have no friend*
the government provides only a bit of
bread or a handfnl of grain daily to
keen them alive.
TEACHING CANARIES.
•oW Occupation of Sevan Hand rad Fami-
lloa la a Small Town of tmmomy.
In a small town called St. Andreaa-
berg (Saxony) some 700 familiee are en
tirely engaged In the task of rearing
and educating good canary singera. A
great proportion ef these singers is sent
abroad, fai or near—to London, to Aus
tralia and to the United States, where
one single firm ships 100,000 birds each
year. These canaries are the inferior
birds, the sebreir, as they are called in
Germany, on account of their notes.
These schreir, which are bought from
70 to 80 cents in the Harz, are sold for
$2, $8 or $4 in America. The best birds
are kept in Germany, where they are
called bohlroller. A good bohlroller
cannot be had under $8 or $10—in the
Harz—and $20 and $25 are no nnnanal
prices. Bnt Bach birds are certainly
splendid singers. The Germans have
quite a number of words, each of which
applies to a different sort of tune, or
intonation; the benlrolle is in minor
key; klingerolle applies to silver tones;
koller to a warbling which reminds of
the murmur of water, gluchrolle is
similar to the nightingale's notes, and
one may say that every detail of the
canary’s song has been named, and that
for every one there ia a standard of per
fection which the expert fancier knows
perfectly well. The song of all canaries
is not exactly similar. Each race has
its special 'mints, and while the one is
great on benlrolle, for Instance, it is
weak on glnchrolle, while the case is
reversed with another race.
Of conrse singing is a natural feature
with canaries, but the influence of edu
cation is considerable. The educational
curriculum begins in May for the yonng
canaries, and they are, as soon as possi
ble, separated from their parents. Ed
ucation is all in this: Keep the yonng
bird from bearing any bat excellent
singers. Borne 15 or 20 yonng canaries
are put in one cage with an older bird,
an especially good singer, and he teaches
them the elements. They try to Imitate
him, and hence comes his beneficial in
fluence. In Angnst each of the yonng
birds is pat in a small cage and kept
In the immediate vicinity of the cage
of the teacher. At this time the fancier
tries to gather some idea of the prog
ress achieved and of the aptltnde of the
different birds. The best are pat in the
nearest vicinity of the teacher. In or
der to prevent the yonng birds from
getting disturbed their cages are wrap
ped with cloth, so aa to prevent them
from seeing what is going on aronnd
them, and in order to encourage sing
ing the cages are generally shaped in
form of a dome; this shape intensifies
the sound, and the birds are pleased
with their own mosic.—Popular Science
News.
Swedish Men and Women.
What enormous fellows and what
leviathan persons some of these Swe
dish men and women are! Nowhere will
yon see snch noble specimens of adult
humanity as in Stockholm’s streets.
The feature seems to pervade all classes,
thongh it is not least striking among the
nobility. Six feet ia a common height
for a man here, and really 1 do not be
lieve I exaggerate in saying that men of
6 feet 8 or 4 inches are as abundant in
Stockholm as men of 6 feet with ns.
The tallness of the women ia jnst aa
noteworthy. Yon remark it leas, how
ever, because they are so well propor
tioned. They say it is easy to tell by
the size of the boots ontside the doors
which rooms of a hotel are occnpied by
the Swedish fair. This is a very endor-
ablehit at the Swedish ladies. Thongh
they do wear sixes or sevens in shoe
leather, no scnlptor would find fault
with them on professional grounds.
Moreover, they have most winsome
complexions, and of conrse bine eyes
are nowhere more Intensely bine than
here.
It is comforting to know—I speak on
the evidence of one of thepensionnairea
—that Swedish maidens have a great
admiration for English bachelors. They
read French novels, bnt they believe in
English bridegrooms. The blood bond
still exists, I suppose, between them
and ns.—Cornhill Magazine.
Tkc Scat af tha Brain.
At a certain 5 o’clock tea the other
day one dashing creature demanded:
“Do tell me, Mabel, what organ we
think with? 1 know we love with the
heart and bear with the ear*, bnt I’ve
entirely forgotten how it U abont
thonghts."
Mabel’s pretty face was suspended
over the samovar, “Papa saya I think
with my tongue.”
“Impossible!” breaks In a college
sophomore; "it is done with the mind.”
"Oh, I know better than thatl"
frowns the dashing creature. "The
mind is what yon make np when yon
want to do things."
"The head, then," insists the sopho
more, "if yon like that any better—the
seat of the brein. ’’
"Oh, dearie, mel” sighs she at the
samovar, "that explains something. I
didn’t know brains had aaeat. It mast
be, then, that mine never get up.’’—
New York Recorder.
Haiaaa Clocks.
"You know," said a man, "there are
some people who seem to be able to
tell the time of day without the aid of
a timepiece; I don’t mean by looking
at the sun or that sort of thing, bnt
right offhand. If you ask one of theee
people what time it is be says, ‘Twen
ty-five minutes past 4,’ or 'Twenty
minutes to 12,’ or whatever it may be,
and he gets within five minntes of
right It teems aa though time had left
upon their minds some impress of its
flight’’—New York Pree*
Under Crass Exaniinstloa.
Counsel—Yonr age, signorina?
YonngLady (bashfully)—Ok, I hard
ly like to tell yon.
Counsel—Yet I mast insist on know
ing It. Pray tell me how old you were
10 years ago.
Young Lady (cheerfully)—Oh, 28!—
Fanfulla.
HU Vic* of tho Coco.
The editor of a daily to his reporter,
who looks savage, “ What ia the matter
with you, friend?"
"The matter? Jnst thia: 1 was told
there had been a collision on the west
ern line—10 killed, 20Injured! I wired
for particular*. Notbing;nottbesHgbt-
eet accident—isn’t it vexing?”—Pa
triots Normand.
Rather Premature.
In the first number of a new German
periodical appeared a letter to the edi
tor signed, “A Snsbcriber of Many
Years’ Standing. "—Hamburger Frem-
denbiatt.
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Office in brick building south of
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Sewing Hachi
Some of them almost as goo.
are now offered at the D
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