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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-09
An Indiana Snake Cbarmer.

Joseph Freibur, of Cincinnati, has ac-
quired a reputation in this vicinity as a
snake charmer. Yesterday was his first
opportunity to display his powers. He
and Samuel Benz hired rig, and ac-
companied by Mrs. Benz drove to Tas-
well. seven miles distant. En- route they
alighted to gather some wild raspberries,
when they were attacked by rattlesnakes.
They were in a rattlesnakes' den. A
small terrier which accompanied them
was bitten, and almost instantly swelled
to twice his size. Mr.. and Mrs. Benz
fed and called for Mr.. F. to follow, but
he stood his ground, and the snakes.
which appeared to gather from every
quarter. began to huddle round his feet
and act as If they had found a long lost
friend.
Mr.. F. now picked up one and ordered
Mr.. B. to get an old barrel at q house
near by. This was procured and Mr.. r.
put the reptiles into it and brought them
back to English While in English Mr.
F. gave several exhibitions Of his power
over the snakes, such as wrapping them
round his neck and body, and stirring
them around in the barrel with his naked
arm.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
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A statu. Of Andrea. Hoser.

The emperor Francis Joseph has Wis
tied the sculptor Matters studio to in
spect the statue which he Is completing
OF Andreas Hofer, the heroic Tyrolese
who defended his country and was shot
by the French in 1909. The statue is to
be the central figure Of a monument to
be erected on Mount Isel, facing Inns
bruck, with tablet bearing the inscrip-
tion, Fur Gott, Kaiser und Vaterland. /"
The figure of the handsome peasant in
the picturesque Tyrolese costume will
stand bearing on high the Austrian flag.
The bearded face surrnounted by the
simple broad brimmed hat is copied
from good picture of Hofer taken dur
ing his life, and now the property of the
Count of Meran, who has lent it to the
sculptor. The emperor was very much
pleased with the statue of the popular
national hero.-London News
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Free delivery of Newspapers.

II believe in the extension of the free
delivery system" said Mr.. Wanamaker.
Free delivery is like gas or water to a
town. 1t increases its metropolitan
character. It adds TO its attractions as
"a business and residence community.
believe that the introduction Of the
free delivery extends the circulation of
newspapers and increases letter writing.
It is not convenient for man to go to
the postofice for his newspaper.
"If he could get it delivered at his
door 1T would be welcome visitor.
But take a young couple, for example,
living in a small town. The husband is
at work all day. The wife does not care
to go to the postoffice, or perhaps she
cannot go. especially if there is a baby in
the house. That man would like to take
a. daily paper perhaps. But he is too
tired to go to the postoffice for it every
evening, and SO he takes weekly paper
or no paper at all
Gas said, the extension OF free de-
livery system would increase letter writ
ing too. It is astonishing to me how
hard it is to convince the people that you
can increase the business of the post
Office. ."-Washington Cor. Philadelphia
Press
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Arrested, rhen married.

Monday William Jones and Chester
Smith, two young Canastota men. came
to Utica to enjoy days pleasure. They
devoted the day to seeing the sights and
expended their money in various ways.
They thereupon decided to pawn two
watches which were in their possession,
and by attempting to do this they fell
into the clutches of the law upon sus-
picion. At the police station they said
their sweethearts, Minnie Perry and
Hattie Daley, of Canastota, had given
them the watches, and Chief of Police
Dagwen used the telephone to find out
whether the story was true. The young
women Immediately swore out warrants
for the arrest of the young men. claim
ing they had simply loaned them the
watches, and United States Marshal j.
E. Stimson came to Utica Tuesday and
took the twain back to their native town.
They were arraigned before Justice
Northrop, and the young women were
not able to establish their charge of lar
ceny. 1t appeared. however. that while
they had given their hearts freely and
wholly to the young men. they had only
loaned them the watches. but the crime
of larceny was not proven, and the young
men were discharged from custody.
At this point of the proceedings con-
sultation took place. Remorse was dis
played on both sides, and some one of
the four proposed that the whole affair
could be nicely arranged in few minutes
by a couple of weddings. The parties
most interested agreed to this pleasant
way out of the mess, and Justice North
rop tied the double knot with dispatch.
Miss Daley became the bride of Mr..
Jones and Miss Perry was welded to
Mr.. Smith.-Utica Observer
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Wa. I. . Big Sea rur.lsY

Captain Edward Reeve has the con
tract to light the beacon on the break
water near Greenport, Me-, every night
On Monday. while pulling leisurelJ
toward the breakwater, he was attracted
by acommotion in the water near him
He rested on his oars and looked to see
what it was. He saw what looked like
the hard shell back of monster seq
turtle. A moment later he saw the heac
and eyes of the strange object. AS the
head protruded above the surface the
water was churned into foam by the
happlng of what appeared to be long
h1ppers. The head of the marine anima,
was covered with protruding horns.
The monster came toward the boat
and apparently meditated an attack,
when the captain hit at it with an oar.
1t paid no attention to this assault, but
ran its head against the boat with a
force that caused the slziff to keel over.
The captain weighs over 200 pounds, and
managed to keep the boat right side up.
Then the fight became. fierce. The tide
was carrying the contestants toward the
breakwater. One after the other the oars
were broken by the captain by striking
on the hard back of the monster Final
ly. without anything to defend himself,
the captain managed to throw a moose
over projecting rock on the breakwater
and SO pulled himself ashore.
The monster continued its attacks on
the boat, and remained in the vicinity
for some time after the boat had been
drawn up out of the way. When last
seen the ferocious marine monster was
churning the water into foam as it sped
off toward Gardeners island. The cap
tain puts the monster down as sea tur-
tie, but of enormous size.-Boston Her
aid
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The Reported Cure of Cancer.

DR.. 81. j. Hardwicke, surgeon to the
Sheffield Public Hospital for Skin Dis
eases and the Ear and Throat hospital,
who has studied for twenty years the
treatment of cancer and lupus, believes
that he can now cure both diseases
without resorting to the surgeons knife.
He has been in Communication with
Professor Won Moretz and finds that his
system is similar to that recently an
nounced by that gentleman to the Soci-
ETY. of Physicians at Vienna.
DIR. Har3wicke has hitherto for vari-
GUS reasons refrained from publicly ex-
planning his treatment, but having now
almost brought his method to state of
perfection he is anxious and willing to
place the details before such Of his med
ical brethren as express to him any de-
sire to be acquainted with them. With
this object in view he will be glad to in
vite such would be inquirers to visit a
selected number Of cases now under
treatment and carefully examine them,
and also to examine number of persons
who have been cured during the past
eighteen years.-Pall Mall Gazette.
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EIectricity I'm Europe.

q aInstead of leading the van, we are
from ten to fifteen years behind Europe.
Even in our own field of electrical meth
eds, as prominent American electrician
assured me in Paris, we are now five
years behind the-continent.. He declared
that the difficulties our American cor
porations still complain about, when
asked to bury their telegraph, telephone
and lighting wires, were all met and
vanquished in Europe several years ago,
and that our fellow countrymen insist
upon remaining in a state of invincible
ignorance rather than learn anything
from the technical and scientific achieve
ments of Europe.
But perhaps he stated the case too
strongly. Doubtless we shall in time
learn to be ashamed when we come to a
realizing sense of the fact that the one
city of Paris has at its command larger
and more brilliant array of engineering
and architectural talent than all the inn
portant cities of the United States taken
together can show. and that many a
small European town is better supplied
in this respect than many large Amer
lean city.-Dr. Albert Shaw in Century.
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He Kept His Youth.

There was one man in New London
before the college boat races had ended
who was a refreshing treat to those who
were in the Connecticut town. He had
a son who was rowing in one of the big
university boats, and he was an example
of the paternal college spirit which may
grow old, but which seldom dies. Here
was man sixty years old, who spent
three weeks in New London following
college oarsmen from one end Of the
town to the other. You might see him
with couple of young men whose arms
were locked in his No years could rob
him of the sentiment which hung around
his memory of his college days.
He was an undergraduate again with
the Undergraduates who were classmates
of one of his sons. Whenever he saw a
college man whom he knew, whether the
youngster were 100 or 500 yards away,
the old man would hurry off, crying
after the other, 'Halloa, old man, wait
a minute" That college boy forty years
a graduate was one of the most popular
men to be found near the famous old
four mile course on the historic Thames.
New York Tribune
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Venerable Prelatss.

Tho announcement that Bishop Hunt
ington at the age of seventy-two asks for
assistance because the duties Of his dio-
cese are beyond his ability to discharge
them, reminds MS that this active and
indefatigable prelate is one Of our ven-
cradle men, Bishop Clark, who is the
acting diocesan in Massachusetts, today,
is over eighty and exhibits but few Of
the marks OF old age. Bishop Coke il
already several years beyond threescore
and ten, and is still vigorous and active
man. Bishop Williams, Of Connecticut,
the present primate Of the Episcopal
church, is very nearly seventy-five and
is still in charge Of his diocese. though
his duties fall heavily upon him. Bishop
Littlejohn, Of Long Island, Is not far
from seventy, and must be classed among
these older men.-Boston Herald.
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a VERY Hungry Frenchman.


Fin de steele in everything, Paris has
discovered that she is the proud possessor
of the very latest thing in cannibals-a
man who eats his own flesh. A police
man on duty on the Boulevard day or
two ago was astonished to see an itin-
Grant vender of some commodity or
other deliberately and without apparent
suffering cut off long strip of the mus
cular part of his left arm with a pair of
scissors. This eccentric individual, who
is only twenty years of age and goes by
the name of Leon, was taken to the po-
lice station. whereit was discovered that
he had in a similar manner removed
large slices of flesh from his thighs and
calves.
So far as could be CLEANED from the
poor fellows incoherent talk he has for
six months past been under the influence
of a mad desire to eat the body of q
girl. He related how on many occasions
he had followed little children with an
open knife concealed in his hand, ready
to cut off and devour portion of their
flesh, and how he had Just, and only Just,
control enough to prevent him from car
rying out his desire. His mania, how
ever, remained, and in order to satisfy
it he had recourse to his own limbs,
which are mutilated shockingly. This
extraordinary case of mental alteration
is being studied carefully by the medical
authorities at the Sainte Anne hospital
London Graphic.
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Hero is characteristic story about
the great Partisan man milliner: A lady
OF high position once ventured to remon-
strate with tho great man because he
had charged her e120 for q ball dress.
The material" she said, could be
sought for twenty pounds, and surely
the work of making up would be well
paid with five pounds more
Madam" replied the milliner, in his
loftiest manner. ''Go to N. Meissonier.
the painter, and say to him, Hero is a
canvas. value a shilling, and hero are
eolors, value four shillings. Paint me a
picture with these colors ON that canvas
and will pay you one and threepence.
What will he say? He will say, Mad
am, that is no payment for an artist.
{ say moro. | say. if you think my
terms too high, pay me nothing and
keep the robe. Art does not descend to
the pettiness of the higgler."-London
Tit-Bits.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-09

A Cows MotherIy Love Betray,s Her Calf.
In a pasture on a farm in East Hart
ford. recently. one of the cows had calf
which no one of the farm hands was
able to find the day after its birth. A
search proved failure until some one
suggested novel scheme. It was to
bring dog into the lot, when, in all
probability, the,cow would return to her
calf to defend it. The dog was brought,
and sure eiiough the COW started for a
clunp of bushes. and among them the
calf WIS found, where the leaves had
concealed it.-Hartford Courant.
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A Companion Hero.

A day or two before Frederick Brokaw
lost his life there was enacted at Wash
ington. Pa. scene more tragic and
not less heroic than that. Walter Jones,
aged fourteen years. and three younger
companions went in bathing and got be-
yond their depth. Jones could swim,
the others could not. But, instead of
saving himself. as he could e9sily have
done. he set about trying to rescue his
drowning companions. He succeeded
in plotting one of them safely to shore
and was in the act of landing the others
when the death grip of the boys about
him bore him down and they all three
perished together.-Pittsburg CONNER
cial Gazette
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WHICH oNEi

One OF Us. dear
But one
Will sit by a bed with a marvellous face
And clasp n hand,
Growing cold as it feels for the spirit land
Darling. which one?
One of us. dear
But one
Will stand by the others coffin bier
And look and weep,
While those marble lips strange silence keep
Darling. which one2
One OF Us. dear
But one
By AN open grave will drop tear.
And homeward go,
The anguish OF an unshared grief to know
Darling. which one?
One OF US, darling, it must be;
1t may be you will slip from me.
Or perhaps my life may just be done
Which one2
Old Song.
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New York Produces tn. Most Bea,

Can tell You something about
beans?" said B. B. Smith, the bean
broker, to a reporter on the floor Of the
Produce exchange. sWell, think !
can. About the acreage-it is larger in
New York state than it has been for the
last ten years, and the Empire State pro-
duces practically all Of the beans pro-
duced in the United States. Last year
the domestic crop was small, and the
foreigners made handsome thing by
sending their beans here. But this year
think the New York farmers will get
the benefit of the market. New York
Tribune
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A German Baby's Adventure.


A party of German peasants set out
for the christening of new baby, the
baby being swaddled and wrapped in
to the church and the weather was cold;
indeed, snow lay on the ground. The
anxiety of the christening over the
whole party = parents, sponsors and
friends-adjourned to the village inn
to warm and cheer themselves with
schnaps, or what the Londoner terms,
"a drop of something short" They then
set off on their return home lightly and
gayly, and their hearts being merry
within them they essayed a snatch or
two of song and step or two of dance
Home was at length reached, and the
interesting christened bundle was laid
on the table. The whole party-parents,
sponsors and friends-stared agape and
in silence; there was the pillow, the
ribbons and the bows all complete, but
where was the baby?
Some one ventured to raise the bundle;
it was quite limp and emptyl Baby was
gonei Back the whole party hurried on
its lonely track, and baby was found
asleep in the snow, about midway be-
tween me church and the village. He
was sturdy child, and the story runs
that he escaped with violent sneeze or
two, which, it is said, the anxious pa
rents strove to allay by popping him
into the oven. There can be no doubt
that the German child that could sur
Sive the pillow, and the snow, and the
oven must have been sturdy indeed
Strand Magazine.
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Money wanted by the pope.

The Catholic world of France is dis
turbed by the news that the pope will
soon be obliged to make a new appeal to
their generosity. The damage done to
the Vatican and ST. Peters by the recent
explosion Of the power magazine at
Rome is calculated roughly at e32, 900.
His holiness cannot possibly apply to the
Italian government, and has no doubt
that he will not be placed under the
hard necessity of seeing his palace and
the church of the Prince of the Apostles
falling to ruin for want of imperatively
needed repairs. = Paris Cor. London
News.
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A curlou. Freah of Llghtaing.

To strike and shatter into splinters a
dozen telegraph poles, one after the
other, is rather curious. Lightning did
this ON Cemetery Hill road, near Coates
vile. It did not select pole here and
there, but took the twelve in regular or
der, and splitting some in two it shat
tered into splinters the others 1t is
quite sight toSsee them as they stand
in their present condition West Ches-
ter tPa.) News.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-09

Swimming is tonic and bracing ex-
ercise 1t assists in the development of
the muscular system, and exerts favor
able influence on the bodily functions,
such as digestion, nutrition, respiration,
circulation and innervation. 1t is ex-
cellent in getting the body. in what
sporting men call condition" Aside
from the physical advantages. swimming
gives moral courage.
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over On. Hundred and FIN, Year. Old.

Over One Hundred and Fifty Years Old.
A man resides at David, in the prov
ince Of Chiriqui. Isthmus of Panama,
who is one hundred and fifty-one years
old. according to his own statement, but
his neighbors claim that he is older, and
that document is in existence which
he signed 142 years ago. He works hard
every day on his coffee plantation, and
is in excellent Philadelphia
Ledger
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-09

The frequently quoted 81 do not pin
my faith upon your sleeve" is traced in
sentiment to feudal times, when the par
tisans of leader used to wear his badge
pinned upon their sleeves. Sometimes
these badges were changed for specific
purposes. and persons learned to doubt,
hence the phrase. You wear the badge.
but do not intend to pin my faith on
your sleeve"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-09

Block island fishermen are having
poor luck with mackerel, and several
boats have given up trying to catch the
fish, Thus far the total catch is about
half what it was at the same time last
year
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Old People.

}. v. 8. is the only Sarssparilla that old OF
feeble people should take, the mineral potasl,
which is in every other sarsaparilla that we know
Of, is under certain conditions known 10 be
emaciating. J. v. s. on the contrary is purely
vegetable and stimulates digestion and Greater
new blood, the very thing for old, delicate or
broken down people. 1t builds them up and
prolongs their lives- A case in point:
Mrs. Belden an estimable and elderly lady OF
6lo Mason St., s. F. was for months declining 10
rapidly rs to seriously alarm her family. 1t got
20 bad that she was finally affiicted with fainting
spells. She writes: while in that dangerous
condition I saw some of the testimonials con-
corning J.V. s. and sent for bottle. That marked
the turning point Iregained my lost flesh aud
strength and have not felt SO well in years"
That was two years ago and Mrs. Belden IL well
and hearty to-day, and still taking J. VS..
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OF all his decorations. the late Emperor
Frederick most priced the medal which
was given him for saving a man from
drowning many years ago
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OF the 219 B. A. of London univer-
sity this year fifty-two are women. OF
the M. AS five out of twenty are moth
ers' daughters, and eight ladies have re-
ceived degrees of B. Sc. and nine that
of M. B.
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The largest regular orchestra in the
world is to be found in the Grand Opera
honse. of Paris. with 40 performers
The New York Grand Opera follows
closely with one of 1852.
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Jules Verne did not at once discover
: the road to success, for he was thirty-five
years old when his first novel appeared.
and he had previously tried his hand at
various tLings
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a Severe Law.

not what they are represented to be. Under
eiis sta.ute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul-
reration.
Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori-
olgly adulterated articles of commerce Not
s.oae are the bright, shiny green teas artii-
cially colored, but thousands of pounds of
substitutes for tea leaves are used to swell
the bulk OF cheap tea; ash, sloe, and willow
leaves being those most commonly used.
ASni.i, sweepinGs fr IN tea wareh uses are
colored and sold as tea Even exhausted tea
leaves gathered from the tca-houses are kept,
dried, and made over and find their way into
tas heap teas.
The EnSiish government attempts to stamp
this out by confscaii n; but no tea is too
poor for u. and the resGls is, that pr badly
the poore ttcasused by any nation are these
CONSUMED in America
Eeech's Tea is presented with the guar
any that it IS uncolored and unadulteI ated;
in fact. the sun-cured tea leaf pure and sim
pie. is purity insares superior strength,
about one third less of it being required for
an infusion than of the artificial teas and its
fragrance aad exquisite favor is at once ap-
parent II will be revelation to you In
order that its purity and quality may be guar
anteed, It is sold only in pound packages
bearing this Trademark
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The youngest daughter of the Duke of
Argyle is to marry wealthy Quaker
cotton spinner of Lancashire. His name
is Emmott.
Chicago win build home for working