The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-11-23
BY THE WAY

serted by their husbands in New YORK
last year.
At the Seward county (Kansas)
teachers institute each teacher was
called on to answer the question
'Why am / teacherY" One replied
Because / can make better wages
than by working out as hired girl. "
The Paris correspondent of the Pail
Mall Gazette writes that, thanks to
the recent anti-tuberculoais congress
there, half the people of Paris are at
this moment suffering from imaginary
tuberculosis.
Tom Powers was known as the most
unlucky teamster in Southern Oalitor-
MIA, and seldom ade trip without
being kicked, bitten or trodden upon
by one of his mules. One day he took
q contract to haul q load Of supplies
so miles, from the railroad to min
ing camp. The read runs along the
edge Of deep canyon, and for miles
Ia only foot or so wider than wag.
on. On one side is perpendicular
cliff of several hundred feet in
heighth, and on the other a gorge
several hundred feet deep. Tom got
half way over the heaviest part of the
grade when one of his wheelers, "Old
SAM" the meanest mule In the team,
stopped dead short and began to kick,
without any apparent reason. Tom
expostulated, according to the habit
Of unregenerate teamsters, and used
his blacksnake whip with great free
dom. But he could not pursuade the
beast to move Finally he climbed
off the wagon, gathered a bunch of
dry grass, tucked it nnder tine ami
mails hind quarters and set it ON fire.
The flames had scarcely singed the
hair of the mule when something hap
pened, Tom doesn't know exactly
what 1t was, but in less time than 1t
takes to tell he found himself Mt the
bottom of the canyon, covered with
bruises and nursing a broken shoulder
blade. But all's well that ends we'll,
IN Death Valley as elsewhere, for
when he was serambling up the ledge
he uncovered a streak of gold from
which he has already realized more
than s75, 900. The first thing he did
after the mine began to pay dividends
was to purchase "Old Sam" from his
former employer, and make the mule
his mascot William h. Curtis In
Chicago Record Herald.
A woman rushed into the telegraph
office the other day;says an exchange,
and informed the operator that her
husband had gone to New York to get
banner for the Sunday school, but
she had forgotten to tell him the in
scription, and how large the banner
was TO be. She then wrote tel Agram
containing the needed information
and handed it to the operator. 1t
road my Dear Frank, Savoy Ho.
tel, New York City; Unto us child
is born, eight feet long and two feet
wide. " The husband Is still in the
city, and 1t Is rumored he isn't com
ing back
Have any of your neighbors any of
the symptoms of smallpox II they
develop anything of this kind, it may
be possible that 1t would be wise to
make inquiry into their morals before
allowing the children of the two fam
lilies to mingle. Because il is pretty
certain that somebody that is accus.
toned TO stealing Is going to become
i'll of the dread disease some time in
the next few weeks. Health officer
Shellworth yesterday said his first
visit for several months to the pest
house, which is situated in the hills
back of the barracks, and which has
long been unused, and found that the
place had been burglarized. Some
person who was not afraid of the
brand of smallpox which has been
more or less prevalent in the west for
several years, had forced an entrance
aud had carried away practically ev-
erything of value that the pest house
contained. Even the blankets upon
which the persons who had the dis
ease had slept aud the quilts that Gov
cred them, had been carried off, and
even the bedstead itself, an iron bed
of simple construction, had been
hauled from the place. Chairs, some
of the dishes that had been used for
the serving of meals to persons atflict-
ed with the contagious disease, and
the pipe from the cook stove were
among the things that were carried
away. Except by the thief or thieves,
the place had not been visited for per-
haps eight months, and there are no
clues to the person who was seized
with an uncomfortable desire to sleep
on a smallpox bed, between smallpox
blankets, beneath smallpox quilts, and
eat from smallpox dishes food that
had been cooked on stove fitted with |
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