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v. why Many shoes Are Not Mates.

Il wish there was law to compel
manufacturers to tie each member of q
pair of shoes to its mate" said well
known jobber to the writer few days
ago. IT do not believe there is shoe
dealer in the country but that has lost
customers, patience and money through
the vexatious mismating of shoes.
Years ago all shoes were tied in pairs
and tied together they remained until
they were sold to the wearer. Then
cartons came in and tying went out.
"The old way was not as neat as the
new, and it was supposed that the carton
plan obviated the necessity of tying; but
if you could see the amount of bother
and trouble which comes from mismating
in store you would not wonder at my
dissatisfaction. It frequently happens
/ that goods become misplaced-a case is
overturned or several cartons are indis-
crininately tumbled together Then the
matching and mating are hurriedly done,
with the natural consequence of separat-
ing the mates.
''These goods go to our PENSIONERS, and
when the mismating is discovered the
carton is sent back, often hundreds of
miles, at our expense, and allowances
demanded. tell you the manufacturer
ought to be obliged to tie each pair to-
gether, carton or no carton, and am
thinking seriously of demanding this of
every manufacturer who makes goods
| for u.s.
THE tying can be neatly and quickly
done by machine nowadays, and the
benefit is SO great that there is no reason
why it should not become universal. p
Boot and Shoe Reporter.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
Cares for the Blues.

Do you ever have the blues? OF course
you do, for there never yet lived man
or woman whose soul cast no shadow.
These times of depression, from which
we all of us suffer more or less, are moth
ing more than the shadows cast by our
souls in the road along which we are
walking heavenward. Sunshine rays
produce shadows, and the fact that our
souls go into eclipse now and then
proves that there is sunshine just behind
US. But what do you do when you get
the blues? Do you cry or scold or NOPE?
Is it hard to live in the same house with
you while the shadow falls athwart
your way? Do the children get out of
the road when they see you coming? l
have found one excellent cure for the
blues which mean to tell right here.
Go straight to work and do something
for some one more miserable than your
self. Whatever your trouble may be,
there is always some one to be found
who has a harder lot to bear. The other
day a young wife was deserted by her
husband and taken to the hospital to face
terrible illness, without a friend to
stand by her in her hour of need, and
with not cent to defray expenses or un-
lock the door of the future. Suppose you
go hunt her up and offer a helping hand.
Such betrayal. and desertion discounts
your puffs of vapor. A mother watched
the coffin lid close the other day forever
and forever, SO far as mortal time
counts, between her yearning eyes and
the face of her only boy. What is your
transient depression compared to the
heart anguish of such a grief as hers:
Don't you think it would help cure you
of the blues if you sat down and wrote
that mother letter, or dropped in for
an hour or two to keep her company? 1t
seems such a selfish thing to be so exclu-
sive in, bearing trouble. A load shared
is load lightened, and the deepest
gloom takes on bright tint now and
then if overshone with the sunshine
of love-Chicago Herald
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
NUGGETS Good Reason.

Our Midget is little over three years
old. She was taken down to Coney is
land, and after an hour or two spent in
seeing the sights it was ordained that he1
nurse should give her dip in the salt
waters of old ocean. In the bathhouse
the object of her visit to the beach was
made known to her, but when she
reached the waters edge she fatty re-
fused to be taken in.
'Nursey," said she, I'm all over
feared"
But, Midget, you bathe in the waite,
every day at home"
Yes said Midget, that's in my little
tub. This tubs too big, too big entirely
And we brought her home without hel
sea bath.-Harper's Young People.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
a Simple connndrunn.

The mathematical smart Alecks are al
ways proposing some new and puzzling
question with which to confound those
whose bump of calculation is not well
developed, but the most exasperating ,ef-
fort iii this direction was sprung on a
small company the other evening, when
one of these human calculating machines
inquired: IF five cats catch five rats in
five days, how many cats will it take to
catch 100 rats in 100 days." Every an
swer was given, from 100 cats to 100, GOO
cats, until it happened to occur to some
one that if five cats caught rat day
there was nothing to prevent their con-
tinuing to do so till the end of time if
their patience and the rats held out. But
before this conclusion was reached over
ten dollars had changed hands in bets
on the subject, and three quarrels were
started which have not yet been settled.
Unfortunately, however, none of them
involved the originator of the problem,
who escaped before matters had gone sc
far.-Interview in st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
A High Priced stamp.

The highest priced postage stamp in
existence is the famous Dundee stamp,
worth $1,000, and not purchasable at
that price. James Chalmers, of Dundee,
was the inventor of the adhesive postage
stamp in 1884. The stamp is in the pos
session of Sigmund Friedl, an extensive
postage stamp merchant of Unter Dol
berg, Vienna. 1t was exhibited at the
Vienna Jubilee Stamp exhibition. The
postage stamp museum, held ON May 25,
1891, at Vienna, displayed this gem as
the greatest attraction among 5000. 600
stamps and other objects exhibited there.
Yankee Blade.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
A treasured Hoof.

A very interesting relic has fallen into
the possession of the well known Bir-
mingham physician, Sir James Sawyer.
1t is-one of the hoofs of the identical
horse that Lord Cardigan rode in the
charge of the Light Brigade. Lady
Sawyer's father, who was Lincolnshire
rector, received this precious relic of the
historic charge from Lord Cardigan, and
it bears an inscription to this effect. The
four hoofs are now disposed of as fol-
lows: The Prince of Wales, an honor
ary colonel of the Tenth Hussars, has
one; another belongs to the officers of
that famous regiment, and it is brought
out at mess on state occasions; the
Countess of Cardigan owns third; and
the last, which is the off hind hoof,
graces the sideboard of Sir James Saw
yer. 1t is beautifully mounted in silver,
and is naturally highly priced by its
owner.-London Tit-Bits. -
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
old Actors, Stage Fright.

One of the queer things in the dra-
matte profession is the nervousness that
occasionally affects an entire company.
A friend of mine who has been on the
stage several years and on the road in
the same piece for the last two years
played last week in Broadway theater.
1t was the first appearance of the com
pany in New York, though most of its
individual members had played here be-
fore.
with one or two exceptions, said
the actor, 'sthey We're scared to death.
Every person had played his or her part
hundreds of nights. As soon as the cur
tain went up on Broadway audience
they acted like a lot of amateurs. Some
of them actually had stage fever and
lost their lines. They were nervous.
They wanted to make good impression.
They never played worse. 1t is the ex
perience of many of the Oldest members
of. the profession. 1t is as humiliating
to them as getting seasick is to an old
sailor, but it Is true and can't be helped :"
New York Herald.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
The isrotherless Girl


The girl withouta a brother is especially
to be pitied. She is the girl who is never
certain of getting the pleasures of life
unless she is very attractive. OF course
she has no brother who she is certain
will take her>everywhere; she is apt to
get a little bit vain, for she has no
brother to tell her, as only a brother
will, of her faults and mistakes. 1t is
only the somewhat doubtful tact of a
brother that announces, 81 wouldn't
walk up the street with you in that
frock," and the girl whose brother says
this to her may be certain that he is only
expressing the opinion of other girls
brothers. He may not do it in the most
gentle way, but he does tell the truth,
and if you ask him why paying a visit to
another girl is more desirable than to
one you know, he will sit down and look
at you, and then he will say:
'.Welf, you see, it is just this way.
From the time you get there she is nice
girl who gives you pleasant welcome
and yet doesn't gush over you. She is
entertaining, and yet she has fashion
of putting down nasty gossip or silly talk
among whoever is there. She is rest
full sort of girl, she is not always want
ing to do something that tires you half
to death and where the game isn't worth
the candle, and when she says goodby to
you you feel certain that she is pretty
glad you came and that she will be glad
to see you another time, but that she
doesn't look upon you as the one and
only man in the world" That is the
kind of a description that the brotherless
girl can't get. Then she doesn't hear of
men that a fellow would rather not have
his sister go with. Probably the wisest
course for her to pursue is for her to
choose as her most intimate friend girl
who has a wise brother; then she can
reap the benefit of his counsel-Ruth
! Ashmore in Ladies' Home Journal.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
sawdost for Generating Electricity

In parts of the country where coal is
dear electric light and power companies
are looking for the cheapest substitute
they can find. An electric corporation
in Oregon has the good fortune to be
near the sawmills of a great lumber
company, and has promptly seized the
opportunity offered of securing an eco
nomical fuel for its power plant. The
refuse of the sawmills is taken direct
from the saws and conveyed directly to
the boilers of the electric company with
out any handling whatever.-Pittsbur
Dispatch.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
FlRsT.
If should fan asleep one day.

: II should fall asleep one day,
All overworn,
And should my spirit, from the clay,
Go dreaming out the heayenward. way,
Or thence be softly borne,
pray you, angels, do not first
Assail mine ear
With that blest anthem, oft rehearsed,
Behold the bonds of Death are bursti''
Lest should faint with fear.
But let some happy bird. at hand,
The silence break;
So shall dimly understand
That dawn has touched a blossoming land,
And sigh myself awake.
From that deep rest emerging so.
To lift the head
And see the bath flowers bell of snow,
The pink arbutus, and the low
Spring beauty streaked with red,
Will all suffice. No otherwhere
Impelled to roam,
Till some blithe wanderer, passing fair,
Will, smiling, pause-of me aware
And murmur, welcome homet"
So sweetly greeted 1 shall rise
To kiss her cheek;
Then lightly soar in lovely guise,
As one familiar with the skies,
Who finds andn need not seek.
Amanda t. Jones in Century.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
Use of Pigeons for Speculation.

In modern times the pigeons have been
nsed for purposes of commerce and spec
ulation as well as war. In ITO a shrewd
italian had the>winning numbers in the
lotteries thus sent to him, and it is a
well known fact that the London branch
of the great Rothschild banking. house
was able, by means of carrier pigeons, to
receive news of the victory at Waterloo
three days in advance of the govern
ment, and to realize an enormous profit
by buying up government stock, then
very much depressed, and selling again
when the rise came.-Denver Repub-
Aican.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
Quito a Commitment

Two New York society bellies were dis
cussing a ball at which both had been
present.
"Oh, had such d compliment paid me
by Gus De Smith" said Miss Bondclip-
per, giggling historically.
Yes? What did he say!" asked Miss
Murray Hill
81 had on my new bangs and just a
little face powder, and my new silk dress
fitted just as if was poured into it, and
ma said she never saw me look SO we'll
a-n-d,s
What did Gus De Smith say?;.' asked
Miss Murray Hill impatiently.
.He whispered to me, Miss Bondclip-
per, you are fixed up SO pretty tonight
that hardly recognized you.' Texas
Siftinps
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
How She Described Her presses.

A young lady, en- route for the sea-
side, sent her box on by s.goods," and on
the consignment note she prepared
actually condescended to describe her
wearing apparel as zone box of rags
the charge for which would, of course,
be much. less than if the goods were
correctly Observation-Disclosures Tit Bits.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
life Too Short.

According to scientists, this earth viii
only exist million years longer and
then go to naught. This is pretty tough
on the man who is in debt for few thou
sands and only gets twelve dollars a
week, with big family on his hands at
that. He'll hardly have time to pull out.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
A Living orchestrion.

There is said to be musical freak In
Columbus, Ind, who plays in peculiar
manner with his lungs any tune, with a
distinctness and clearness that brings
out every note as fully as it can be
brought out on any piano or other musi-
cal instrument by the most accomplished
performer. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
A Girl,s Idea.

s'Rosalie has adopted plan that
makes all the girls awfully jealous. -
"'What is that?''
why, she has taken all her engage
ment rings and had them made into a
chain for her pug. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22

In Samoa the kings adviser lives in a
handsome house and the king in a shed
alongside. The adviser receives salary
of Sc, 900 a year and the king $40. The
chief of police even gets 81, 800 year.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22

The largest animal known to exist in
the world at the present time is the
rorqual, which averages 100 feet in length;
the smallest is the monad, which is only
liz, 900 of an inch in length
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22

The late Archbishop Magee used to
divide speakers into three classes: The
speaker you cannot listen to, the speaker
you can listen to and the speaker you
cannot help listening to.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
The LEADING Paper
Of the Leading City Of Eastern Oregon.


During the little year of its existence it
has earnestly tried to fulfil the objects which it
was founded namely, to assist in developing our
industries to advertise the of the city and
adjacent country and to work for an open river to
the sea- It's record is before the people AMI the
phenomenal support it has accepted as the
expression of their approval Independent in every
thing neutral in nothing it will live only to fight
for what it believes to be just and ri hit.
Commencing with the first number of the second
volume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages
while the price ($1.5o yeat) remains the same
Thus both the weekly and daily editions contain
mole reading matter less money than any paper
published in the county.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-22
a Severe Law.

not what they are represented to be. Under
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul-
teration.
Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori-
ously adulterated articles of commerce. Not
alone are the bright, Shiny green teas artif-
cially colored, but thousands of pounds of
substitutes for tea leaves are used to swell
the bulk of cheap teas; ash, sloe, and willow
leaves being those most commonly used.
Again, sweepings from tea warehouses are
colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea
leaves gathered from the tea-houscs are kept,
dried, and made over and find their way into
the cheap teas.
The English government attempts to stamp
this ont by confscation; but tea is too
poor for us. and the result is. that probably
the poorest teas used by any nation are those
consumed in America
Beechs Tea is presented with the guar
anty that it is uncolored and unadulterated; |;
in fact, the sun-cureo tea leaf pure and SIM
PIE. Its purity insures superior strength,
about one third less of it being required for
an infusion than of the artificial teas, and its
fragrance and exquisite flavor is at once ap-
parent. 1t 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:
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-07-01
HER REAL OPINION.
What Pretty Girl Was Heard to Observe
Feelingly.


Most of us have not the courage of
our own convictions or opinions, but
follow blindly in the wake Of others
who have set the pace for us, says the
Philadelphia Times. We always adj
mire the outspoken sentiments, but are
afraid to venture ourselves for fear of
wounding public opinion. A pretty girl
who is considered one of Philadelphia's
most charming buds, with Madonna
face and an air of sanctity that is much
at variance with her real nature,
shocked but at the same time stirred up
a party of young folks who make so
ciety fads their laws by announcing in
public that she despised German opera.
81 know it is very bad form to say SO,
but l do. l think there is ten times
more harmony in one line of the 'Mika-
do than in The whole opera of Lohen-
grin always excepting the wedding
march. I think the fashionable hand
shake is silly and unnatural, and love
peanuts With these three terrible
announcements she gazed calmly on
the astonished hearers, and expected a
right royal drubbing until, to her sur
prise, the most punctilious one Of the
lot said in half-frightened way, as if
startled by her own temerity: Il quite
agree with you, but I would never have
dared to breathe it to a living soul if
you had not spoken first"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-07-01
How Horse Flesh Tastes.

you never ate horse flesh, sup
pose?" said Lieut.. Russell, of the Sew
enth United States Cavalry, ut the
Southern. Il have seen the time
when | ate it with a genuine relish,
and that, too, without any salt. 1t
was in 1877, during Gen. Miles,s NeZ
Perces campaign. We had followed
the renegades up the Missouri to its
confluence with the Yellowstone, and
the chase was SO fast and exciting that
we didn't realize how low our larder
was getting until it was drained, and
we were getting too far away from the
base of supplies to replenish it. The
game had all been driven out of the
country ahead of us by the fleeing In
dams, and when we finally caught up
with the redskins and forced them to
fight we had almost nothing to eat for
several days. We captured about
seven hundred ponies from the Indians,
some Of them so round and sleek and
fat as to appear to US the finest meat
in the world. Our butchers killed the
youngest and fattest of the ponies that
night after the battle, and as soon as
they were skinned and dressed we had
a feast that would have made Lucullus
turn green with envy. We lived on
this pony meat several days. 1t was
cooked without salt and roasted over
spit, like barbecued beef. The meat
had a peculiar sweet taste, not at all
palatable when | think of it now, and
it was so tibrous that we could pull it
apart i'll great strings. But it kept us
from starving. and |, therefore, can
heartily recommend pony meat to
people in dire straits" = 81. Louis
(ILnLl- u M m.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-07-01
How Mutes Make Love.

A gentleman who enjoys a wide &C
quaintance among the deaf of Phila-
delphia told Record reporter that the
courtship of a pair of mutes was one
of the most singular things on rec
ord. Il know a young man who is
now deep in the tolls of fair and
speechless girl" he said, "and he has
taken me into his confidence. lie is
perfectly happy in his infrmity, for
from conversations held with ordinary
lovers he has come to the conclusion
that silence, after all, is the best form
for lovers. During the progress of his
affair de ceur he experienced but one
difficulty, and that in short time he
surmounted. The thorn that lay in
his bed of roses was gas JET which,
as he, of course, conversed with his
adored one in the sign language, it was
always necessary to keep ablaze-a
woefully EMBARRASSING thing for low
ers. Finally they discovered that, like
Laura Bridgman, they corld utilize the
sense of touch in deciphering their
sign language. By holding one an
others hands they found that they
could carry on a conversation with toll
cradle facility, and in about a week
were adopts. Thus deaf, dumb and
practically blind, they enjoyed all the
pleasure of love. They have spread
their discovery among their friends,
and | believe that the idea has taken
fast hole upon deaf lovers and has be-
come quite fad
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-07-01
QUEER TABLE MANNERS.
In Argentina the Natives Have NotionA
of Etiquet.

Probably there is no people in the
world so uncivilized as not to have
among themselves code of manners,
more or less strictly defined. Mr..
Bishop, while on his thousandmile
walk across South America, was i'm
pressed with this fact. He describes
a rude meal which he shared with a
company of cart-drivers almost saw
age gauchos"-in whose company he
was then travelling.
eve camped near a swamp, and
supped upon sliced pumpkins, boiled
with bits of meat, and seasoned with
salt. The meal was served in genuine
pampa fashion; one iron spoon and
two cows horns, split in halves, were
passed around the group, the mem
bers of which squatted upon their
launches, and freely helped them
selves from the kettle.
even in this most uncivilized form
of satisfying hunger there is peculiar
etiquet which the most lowly peon in
variably observes. Each member of
the company in turn dips his spoon. or
horn, into the center of the stew, and
draws it in a direct line toward him,
never allowing it to deviate to the
right or left.
"By observing this rule, each per-
son eats without interfering with his
neighbour. Being ignorant of the GUS
tom, l dipped my horn into the mess
at random, and tished about for some
nice bits.
"My companions regarded this hor-
rid breach of politeness with scowls of
impotence. They declared, with some
warmth, to the cook that gringos did
not know how to eat, and, as they
lived upon dogs in their own distant
country, they came to the great
Argentine Republic to get food and
grow fat on the gauchos.'
II apologized as well as | could, and
endeavored thereafter to eat according
to gauchs etiquet.