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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
quickly as he had appeared. Hurtf
No. only n few bruises from the fall,
but the close shave took my nerve for
some months. Philadelphia Record.
The Kamr's wives.

The aborigines of this vast eoun-
try (the TransvaaD were black
men-the Kaffirs. They have lost
dominion Of the country and are
but serfs to the burghers or citizens.
The Kaffir is day laborer and reckons
his wealth in the number Of heads of
cattle he may be able to acquire. He
works for couple of years until he can
get eleven oxen or cows. Then he HES
himself to the Zululand on the east or
to other countries controlled by black
men, and there buys himself wife.
Ten cows Is the price Of wife. The
eleventh Is killed for the wedding feast.
The Kafflr remains a few months with
his wife, then off to the mines he goes
to earn the price Of another. When he
possesses half dozen wives the Kaf-
frs menlal toll is over and he becomes
a gentleman. His wives plant the mealy
(corn) and look after what cattle their
lord and master owns. With Il kraal
full Of daughters the Katiir must be-
come rich and important person. The
daughter of a chief costs twenty-five
cows and the daughter Of king sixty,
no matter how old or ugly. The chiefs
are severely strict in their watchfulness
over the morals Of the Katfirs. If one
is found guilty Of dishonesty he is fined
SO many oxen. The Katfir is said to be
butruf ShAhis original state than when
contaminated with what they call CIV
lization.--Interview In the Columbia
State.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
Saved bv Ammonia.

"Pretty fierce brutes, eh? remarked
soldierly looking man who was one
of little group watching the three big
tigers at the zoo restlessly pacing their
dens in anticipation of feeding time.
YES" agreed the person addressed. Il
don't think I'd care about meeting one
at large" mo, 1t wouldn't be pleas
ant experience, but yet I've had 1t, and
that I'm able to tell the story is due to
nothing more nor less than a bottle Of
ammonia. Fact! 1t happened years ago
in India. was attached to troop Of
Punjab light horse, on police duty
about Chawald, and my little expert
ence was the result of days leave Of
absence. With several companions |
was on my way to visit some native
friends in nelghboring village, and as
the jungle paths were the shortest
route we made the trip In chairs slung
eH carriers shoulders. l was about
half asleep from the swinging motion,
when was rudely pitched out by the
natives dropping the poles and scam
pering off. That's how | met my tiger.
With a bound he was on me and had
taken mouthful Of my coat, intend
Ing, no doubt to carry me into the
dense underground. Fortunately for
me, | had a big bottle of ammonia in
my coat pocket carried 1t for snake
bites, you know, and when the brute
took the mouthful he broke the bottle.
The Whit he got made his whiskers
curl and one was enough. He rolled
over a couple of times gasping and
waving his paws, aud then made of as
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
%ss!jBB1S!s77S
u M. 1AMaIISI{@
eNHY1R'E I B0H

One great disadvantage Of smokeless
gunpowder, tending to offset It's many
advantages, is Its corrodlng action Oh
the interior of gun. Prof. Roberts
Austin recently made a report on the
subject, showing that fine weapons are
liable thus to be quickly ruined.
A paper recently read before the Lin.
mean Society in London describes spe.
cies Of seal, attaining enormous dimen.
sions, to which the name Of sea elephant
has been given on account Of trunk.
like appendage on the fore part of the
head. A specimen killed In the Falk.
land Islands was nearly nineteen feet
In length. The trunk is only foot long.
These seals are peculiar to the southern
hemisphere.
An italian court recently, after trial,
ordered the removal of some wooden
yachts, whose bottoms were sheathed
with copper, from the nelghborhood Of
iron warships anchored in the harbor
of Leghoin. 1t was alleged that an eiec-
trio connection was established through
the ships cables whereby the copper
bottomed warships were turned into the
poles Of a galvanic battery, the result
being a rapid corrosion Of the iron In
contact with the sea water.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, inven-
tor of the telephone, Is now devoting
nearly the whole of his time, according
to Ele4-+-rity, to experiments with fy-
Ing machines, and rs confident that he
is not only on the right track, but within
measurable distance of success. He is
developing the kite idea, experimenting
with planets Of various sizes and
weights. He has discarded the gener.
ally accepted principle that the ma.
chimes must be of extraordinary light.
ness, and is calculating on securing sta.
bility and steadlness from weight"
When the eggs on the ostrich farms
of California are at the point of hatch.
ing, says Charles F. Holder, a curious
tapping of the shells may be heard.
This the keepers call "telephoning.
The sound is caused by the chicks in.
side the eggs endeayoring to break out,
Those which cannot easily emerge are
assisted by the mother bird, which will
sometimes break an egg from which the
telephoning Is heard by pressing It
carefully, and will then aid the chick to
get out. At the Pasadena farm, the
sight of boy riding an ostrich as he
would pony may sometimes be seen.
"a method of producing anesthesia
by the direct application of an electrical
current without the use Of drugs was
recently described by DR.. E. w. Scrip
ture, Of Yale, before the American AS
sociatlon for the Advancement Of Sci
ence," says the Scientific American.
"An alternating current with equal pos.
tive and negative phases was made to
traverse the nerve. At a proper fire.
quency of about 5000 complete periods
In second, 1t can be made to cut off all
sensatory communication by this nerve.
Needles can be run into the part of the
body supplied by this nerve without any
pain being felt"
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
Bound 90 Depart.

A youthful Stockton man rushed tc
catch a river boat for San Francisco
but was about two minutes late. The
steamer was six feet out as he reached
the dock. He swung his grip aboard
and jumping, caught rope and a post
and held fast. Everyone imagined he
had fallen In. The captain, peering
over the side, saw his intrepid pas
senger. Here, you," he shouted, "by
Jimmy crickets, don't you ever do that
again. The passenger had hauled him
self aboard by this time, and, turning a
look Of scorn at the captain, said;
what do you think I'm going to do
jump back and try 1t overr'-San
Francisco Wave.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
The Dencon,s Interruntion.

"W'en Moses tell de sun ter stan
still began the old deacon.
dat warnt Moses" interjected a
brother in the amen corner, dat wus
JoshuaF
"Ez said" continued the deacon,
'w'en Joshua tell de sun"
"You didn't say dat at allp said the
brother who had corrected him. Hit
waZ ne dat said It'll Hit waz me dat
tuck you up on it!'
The deacon's patience was exhausted.
He folded his brass-rimmed spectacles,
laid them carefully on the table before
him, walked over to the amen corner,
took the objecting brother by both
arms from behind, and with the swish
of cyclone swept him forward to the
door landing him precipitately in outer
darkness.
'Ez waz sayin', TO dis little Incident
occurred" he continued, "w'en Moses
tor Joshua ter tell de sun ter stan
still
Some of the older, learned brethren
moved uneasily in their seats. They
looked like they wanted to correct him,
but they did not. They let it go at that!
Atlanta Constitution.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
Word MAdmiraI.r "

The word admiral Is of Arabic
l1gln, and dates back to the time o.
le Crusades; 1t is but another for
If the familiar Eastern titles, Emir an,
Ameer, and simply signifies prince,
The D Is intrusive and there is no con-
nection with the Latin mare" the sea,
or with the root from which we get
admirable. In European mouths the
word has been variously contorted; the
Teutonic races have introduced the D
and sufixed, instead pre1xing the ar
tlcle; or we may consider 1t as con-
traction of some such phrase as Amir
al-Bahr, prince of the sea. The POrtu-
guese, again, have taken the article for
the first syllable, and make 1t Almi-
rante, but there can be no doubt as to
the identity of the word. AS a nation
the Arabs were never a maritime pow
er, but after their conquest of Spain
they found 1t necessary to have ma
val force, and from them both Office
and name were adopted by the neigh
boring powers.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
PROGRESS OF AUSTRALIA.
rhe First English Settlers in That Fail
Land We're Couvicta.

hN AHN oGANtGIF III nat
Land We're Convicts.
When the Endeavorer reached Eng,
and, the enthusiastic accounts given by
the explorers Of the eastern shores OF
Australia aro,.sed no little interest, and,
when the independence of the American
States had been achieved, stimulated a
desire on the part Of many to undertake
what Bacon calls "the heroic work Of
colonization" of the great virgin con
tinent In the southern seas.
In 1888, when the Pitt ministry was
In office, a bill passed Parliament au-
thofiglng the transportation of Offend
ers across the sens, and Viscount sgd
ney, the Secretary of State for the Col
Onies, selected Botany Bay as a suitable
site for the new penal settlement. He
appointed Captain Arthur Philip, Il. N,
as the commanderof heexpediton and
first Governor, and on May II, 1887,
the flotilla set sail, having on board
miserable contingent of 564 male con-
vlcts, 1872 female prisoners, 16S marines,
with ten officers, and few mechanics
and others, amounting altogether to
l,017 souls. 1t will be always n matter
or regret that the colonization e.
Australia should have originated IN col
victism; but as Sydney Smith pointed
out a few years later, under that lnfam-
GUS term were comprised most df-
ferent degrees and species OF guilt.
Many Of the offenders a century ago
were transported for trlfling breaches
of the law, which no one would now in
clude In the category of ofrenses, much
less of crimes. Strange as 1t may seem
to say so, the new policy was conceived
In a spirit of philanthropy, and marked,
In a sense, n benefcent revolt against
the merciless severity of the criminal
laws.
The liberality of the government has
endowed Sydney with an extent of
parks, public gardens, and recreation
reserves which few even Of the great
European cities can equal. In the met
IOpOllldH HTed luSIS uIc O,oOt uClco Scb
apart for such purposes. In addition, a
magnificent reserve, situated sixteen
miles south Of the city, but accessible
by railway, has been dedicated to the
city as a national park. Its area is
36,320 acres, and 1t surrounds the pic
turesque bay of Port Hacking. 1t is
covered with splendid virgin forest, and
the scenery is charming. Another large
park, situated ten miles to the north of
Sydney. and known as Kuring,gat
Chase, is also dedicated to the public.
Its area is 35,300 acres. The Sydney
Botanical Gardens are much the Oldest
and finest in the British colonies. They
are forty acres In extent, situated with
In the domain surrounding Farm Cove,
one Of the most charming indents Of the
harbor, and the anchorage Of the
Australian squadron.-Pall Mall Maya
zine.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
PACIFIC COAST TRADE,
Seattle Markets.

seattle Mhrkotss
Onions, new, $1.00@1,25 per sack.
Potatoes, new, $l6@20.
Beets, per sack, 75@S5c.
Turnipe, per sack, 60c.
Carrots, per sack, SOC.
Parsnips, per sack, 75@85c.
Caulifower, 75c@$l per dozen.
Cabbage, native and California, 70
@9Oc per 100 pounds.
Peaches, 05@80c,
Apples, $1.26@1.50 per box.
Pears, $l.00@1.25 per box.
Prunes, 60c per box.
Watermelons, $1.50.
Nutmegs, 60@75c.
Butter-Creamery, see per pound;
dairy, l7@22c; ranch, 22c per pound.
Eggs-Fir1n, S0@81c.
Cheese-Native, leo.
Poultry-9@l0c; dressed, 11@ 18c.
Hay-Puget Sound timothy, $l2.00;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$l7.00@18.00
Corn-Whole, $4,000; cracked, $23;
feed meal, $23.
Barley-Rolled or ground, per ton,
$21; whole, $22.
Flour-Patent, per barrel, 1885;
blended straights, $9.10; California,
1926 buckwheat -four, 5000; gra-
ham, per barrel, $3.50; whole wheat
flour, $S, 10; rye -four, $S.S0@4.00.
Millstuffs-Bran, per ton, $1,000;
shorts, per ton, $l700.
Feed-Chopped feed, 5000 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $22; oil cake meal,
per ton, $4,000.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
BOY BABIES WANTED.
PRINCIPAL REASON WHY THEY
ARE PREFERRED.
Reasons offered by Readers Do Not
Seem to BE the Real One An Old
Oriental Sentiment that Still Sur
vivss Among Modern Parents.

We have lately received number of
letters from readers discussing this
question which the intense Interest In
DIR. Schenks discovery suggests-Why
are boy-babies preferredf The writer's
offer these reasons:
l. That It is more expensive to bring
up girl than a boy.
2. That when they are reared boys
can earn more, and hence that they
sooner become self-supportlng and able
to give helping hand to their parents.
3. That girls, after they reach their
teens, are a greater source Of care and
anxiety than boys-simply and solely
because of their sex.
In our judgment however, none OF
these explanations, nor all Of them to-
gether, completely accounts for the
strong desire Of the average father and
mother to have more male than female
children.
1t is only the mature parent, with the
experience gained In raising family,
who is seriously impressed with the
fact that daughters are more expensive
to bring up than sons. Young married
people are, as a rule, far too sentiment
al, sangulne and buoyant in their out
look upon life to figure closely on the
comparative cost of rearing boys and
girls.
Yet the desire to have more boys born
to them than girls is manifested, as a
rule, more strongly by young parents
than by parents Of ripper years. Why2
The true explanation is a sentimental,
not mercenary one. 1t is the modern
survival of an ancient idea-the idea so
strongly prevalent In the East even to
this day-that a son represents the
strength Of the family, its defense, Its
protection, its hope Of perpetuation, the
carrying on Of its name and fame to
future generations.
You will find this idea In all the old
Hebrew writing. A traveller in modern
Syria relates how he talked with the
head of large family on this subject.
How many children have your he
was asked. "Three," he replied. "But
l see seven standing around you now,"
said the traveller. "Ah, but four of
them are daughters only"
The feudal lord was eager for sons
heirs to succeed him, to go to the tour
ney and the wars with him, to bear his
name, wear his coat-of-arms, to help
him hold his castle and his lands against
his foes. He loved his daughters, but
his pride, his glory and his hopes were
In his sons.
Unacknowledged, and unconscIously,
the average American man and woman
are still thinking this old Oriental and
feudal thought, and that Is why, as a
rule, they would rather be the parents
Of four boys and one girl than four girls
and one boy.-New York Evening
World.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
FRIGHT IN DREAMS,


Every One Appears to Have His Own
Private Nightmare.
Il have never been able to understand
the philosophy of fright In dreams" I"
said New Orleans lawyer chatting
after Office hours. "As a rule 1t Is in
splred by something very simple or at
least altogether out of proportion to the
effect produced. Almost all Of us have
our own private nightmares, which are
usually more grotesque than awful, yet
the vision, whatever 1t happens to be, is
certain to plunge one into paroxysm
Of mortal terror. My own pet night
mare Is rather curious. At the begin
ming Of the dream always find myself
In long, gloomy hallway that seems to
be In some huge, squalld building, like
q cheap tenement, The place Is ap-
parently deserted, and ! walk along i'm
PEELED by an irresistible impulse, yet
feeling that am certainly approaching
something frlghtful. At the end of the
hall go down steep, dirty flight of
stairs, my fears growing and swelling
at every step, and pause before door
that opens upon little, square landing.
| know perfectly well that what l dread
is behind that door, but something
makes me open 1t, and l look into
plain, bare room, perfectly common
place, with small white kitten lying in
the corner. What there is about It to
throw me into such panic am unable
to say, but rush out filed with blind,
inhuman terror, and always wake when
! am stumbling up the stairs. l think
this is fair sample of the foolish
things that are SO appalling In dreams.
Why is it, l wonder2 | have talked
with a great many others, aud find that
their own nightmares are generally of
the same ineOnsequential nature. OF
course, the whole subject of dreams IS
hopelessly cryptic, but this seems to
me its most puzzling and Incompetent
slble feature."-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
Northwest Notes.

Postmaster Winter, of Colville, has
resigned.
Spokane saloons are compelled to
close at midnight now.
The enrolment of pupils in La
Grande's public schools ia GAL, with 10
teachers.
Dogs killed 26 head of sheep for a
Kentuck slough rancher in Coos county
last week. He has killed one of the
dogs.
The money orders issued from the
Tillamook postofiice last month num-
bered $50, amounting to 1899, while
the money orders paid out numbered
100, amounting to 81 ,465.
II. II. Lazard has been appointed
county clerk of Coos county, to sue
ceed w. f. Rackleff, who violated the
office-holders' rule that few die and
none resign, by vacating the place last
week.
Fairs of the second Southern Ore
gon district, embracing Coos, Curry
and Douglas counties, have heretofore
been held at Roseburg. This year an
effort is to be made to have the fair
held at Marshfield.
The Great Northern will keep 500 to
1000 men employed all winter, and
expend $l50,00O in laying new track
and improving its right of way through
Spokane. Besides this, new depots are
to be constructed there, and new
bridges built.
The Syrian colony of Tacoma is
aroused over outrages recently perpe-
trated on their countrymen. One of
them, peddler, was robbed by high
waymen few days ago. Sometime
previous another peddler had mysteri-
ously disappeared, and they now think
he was murdered and robbed, as he was
known to carry quite sum of money.
So now the colony is raising a fund to
pay for a search for the missing ped
dler's body and discover in what man
,ner he came to his death.
Tekoa graindealers are in a pool,
and refuse to sell wheat for less than
40 cents per bushel.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
The WORST AND THE BEST.
Wall street Suffered. But General Busi-
ness Was Good.


ness Was Good.
r. G. Dun & Co. g weekly review OF
trade says: The worst day in Wall
street in many years was in part the
legitimate result Of the best year in
business ever known. Because the
country had prospered 80 greatly and
50 expanded its business that it could
no longer afford to have many millions
locked up in carrying stocks represent
ing imaginary values, the question
was not one of monetary supply. When
the country found ample use for its
capital in regular trade and productive
industry, a contraction of loans became
necessary, which would have been
more painful If the volume OF stocks
had been larger.
The business of the country close to
the holidays is necessarily smaller than
it has been, and yet larger than at the
same date in any other year. Ex-
changes through principal clearing
houses for the week have been 1871
larger than last year, and 504 per cent
larger than in 1892, including S2, per
cent gain in payments outside New
York. There was not oven suspicion
of unsoundness in any considerabl,
branch of industry or trade, the e.
traordinary expansion in some being q
we'll warranted as the material gail.
in others.
Cotton suffered in speculation for a
day with stocks, but the great decrease
in receipts from farms since September
over 1,500,0 600 bales-gives strong
support to prices, as does the increase
of 200, 900 bales in takings by spinners.
Wheat has fallen both in foreign de-
mand and in prices, in spite of still
larger loss in Western receipts, for the
week only S,806, 2s6 bushels, against
7,340, l70 bushels last year.
Failures for the week have been 220
in the United States, against 25S last
year, and 26 in Canada, against 81 last
YEAR
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29

lie had come into the ofiiee to secure
a game license. Before making np.
plicatIOn be did considerable blowing
about what luck be had always had aud
how much greater II was 10 be this sea
son. Briefly. be made the clerk tired.
He was nskod the usual questions
when be applied for the license.
whats your namef'
''Iiow old are your
"Whatsyour mothers maiden namer'
"whats your fathers nameT'
"Where do you liver
"say. look here" eald the hunter
bold. "what's all this nonsense Tor. any.
wayf What difference does II make
where live and sii thatr'
"Juatto assist The coroner In tilsposlnr
Of the remains when you age returned" /"
replied the clerk without booking up.
And three OF four IN the room. with
great unklndness. laughed harshly.-
Detroit free Press.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
40 Rnsls of Anreement.

"Your church. am informed" said
the man who was In search OF infor-
nation, takes care of Its preachers
when they become too old for active
serviceT
'It does" replied the man who had
the information to give out.
"At what age is 1t usually consider.
ed they ought to 60 on the retired list r.
"It is hard to tell. There IL frequent
ly a difference Of thirty years between
the estimate of the congregation and
that Of the preacher."-Chieago Jour.
nal
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
Modern improvements.

Irate Tenant-It's colder than all get
out In our apartments this morning.
Why isn't the heat turned ONT
Janitor-It's turned on In the rooma
occupy and just as soon as they gee
warm I'll turn It on In the rest Of the
building.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29

"T think" remarked the front-r0w
patron Of burlesque shows, as he climb.
ed into the barber chair, "that ri have
q hair cut"
"Yes, sir" answered the tons0rial
artist. (Which one. pleaser'-Chlcag0
News.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29

Observation-Disclosures thls7 Another S25
milliners billf thought we had de-
cided to be more economical.
Wife-Well, didn't spend two days
looking for your new winter suit, and
didn't l finally get one for $6.9S that
they wanted 81 for2
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
The Tip that Failed.

Haven't you forgotten something.
sirf" asked the walter who expected
a tip.
Every likely" replied the feeder.
you kept me waiting 80 long that I've
forgotten who l Philadelphia
North American.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
Wanted II from the stnrt.

Little Willle-say, pa. was the earth
created before MANI
Pa-Yes, my son.
Little Willle-Why was III
Pa-It was probably known that Il
would be the first thing he'd want
when he arrived.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-12-29
Those Inouisitive Youngsters.

"Papa, you took the scientific course
in college, didn't you"
"Yes. dear; l spent two years on
science"
when you look in a mirror the left
side of your face appears to be the
right side, and the right side seems to
1e the left. The looking-glass reyerses
It, doesn't lt?'
''Yes."
'eThen why doesn't 1t reverse the top
and bottom of your face the same
way?"
"why-er-ahF' = Trained Mother
hood.