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Take no Substitute for Royal Baking Powder. It is Absolutely Pure. AH others contain alum or ammonia. A CAREFUL BUYER. he Wanted Her Hooka Guaranteed Uofora She Purchased. "You you keep book beref" she naked M tbe entered a Uetrolt bookstore and tim idly slanced around. "Yes'm, we keep books," replied the clerk as be softly rubbed blshnnds together and wondered if they bad sold the last copy of "Bunbful Bewilc; or, tbe Heroine of Har per's Hills." "I I want a book," she continued, "but I want to look at the lust page before I buy It." "Certainly, miss, certainly. We have no objection to your looking at all the pages If you wish. Have you bought a book here in which something was wrong with tbe last pager" "No, sir; but a friend of mine bought a book In Chicago which ended by advising the reader to try somebody's liver purifier, and you don't know how dreadful she feels bout It. Have you 'Paradise Lost?' " 'Yes'm." "And will you guarantee that It doesn't refer to somebody' aarsaparillar" "I can't possibly believe that it does." "How is Dickens I wanted his 'Dom bey and Son,' but I'm afraid be'a got In something about corn cures or porous plan ters. Are you sure he hasn'tr" "Why, I never heard of such a thing iu a standard book I" "Nor I.until lately. Shakespeare wouldn't be apt to have anything In about stomach bitters or headache cured In five minutes, now, would ber" "I've read bim a great deal, and I never came across any such thing. However, you might glance over that set and satisfy your self." "It would take too long," she sighed, as she glanced at tbe backs of tbe volumes. "I have sometimes thought I would like to read Homer's 'Iliad.' There is such a book I believer" "Oh. yes." "And you can guarantee It?" "I can, ma'am positively guarantee that you will find nowhere In that book tbe lightest reference to germs, microbes, bac teria, consumption, asthma, bronchitis, I curvature of tbe spine, varicose veins or in digestion." "If there Is" "You can return It and get your money." She took it and went away smiling and happy. Detroit Free Press. Costly Wedding Presents for Bale. It to a pitiful item In a etory full of pathos that several of the presents origi nally bought as wedding gifts for the Princess May should now be once more offered to the public, their intended designation lending them a special charm to a cortain cIors of buyors. One feels additionally touched when one remem bers the dollght with which the princess Is said to have received those which were sent hor before her terrible trouble Yet in a little shop in tho Strand, well known to connoisseurs, can be seen the cele brated Tiffany necklace, a riviere of mugniliceiit diamonds, which was bought In New York to present to the popular princess. Another particular treasure is a sapphire.-.! was going to say a priceless etone, but tjnith to tell it is priced, and its value is 5,000. It is a perfect stone, without flaw, of exquisito color, two inches long and ljjf inches broad. At present it is sot around with fine bril liants and forms a royal looking brooch. The other day a would be purchaser brought his wifo to see the present he proposed to make, but she would have nothing to say to the jovvel. "No, tlinnk yon." she excluinied; "1 should feel like a church window if I wore that." So the treasured heirloom of an old noble Russian family is still in the market. London Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph. Newest Mode of Ilurglury. The other day a gentleman in a north' era suburb found a stranger ascending his staircase, who, without betraying any emotion, said he had come about the repuirs. "Oh, yes," replied the own er, "but 1 am in a hurry to keep on en- gagemont just now. Come out with mo, and I'll tell you what I want done." Tbe two walked out togothor, the house holder talking about wnterpipes nnd tanks, and the stranger answering with a glibness that showed considerable ex perience, until they came, to a police man, when the former at once gave the pretended plumber into his custody for being in bis house with nnlawfu! in' tent Upon him were found the usual in struments of the burglar's business, mid when taken to the police station he was soon identified as an expert crib cracker, who was already wanted on several charges of housebreaking and burglary. People will do well to view with suspl cion men who come to their dwellings to do repairs which have nevor been or dered. Philadelphia Telegraph. Telephones for t'se In Hat tie. Particulars of the behavior of the field telephone system in the French autumn maneuvers have now been published. Magneto telephones were used, as no delicate microphono or battery is re quired with them. Tho transmitter was held in the hand nnd tho receiver was affixed to the "kepi." Combinod re ceivers and transmitters wore also em ployed. A bare bimetallic wire 0.0 mil limeters in diameter was unrolled from a drum and laid out of harm's wny on hedges, branches, walls and in trenches. A line twenty-three kilometers long was thus laid, with the addition of ten posts, in five hours; speech was good, and the whole was taken up again in an hour. During a sham fight a cavalry division passed over n long line without interrupting the communication. A bayonet stuck in the ground made a good earth circuit, so did tho body of a cavalry horse if the wire was attached to the bridle. London (Jlolie. Rnaalan Discipline. llnch comment has been excited by a recent occurrence at Wilna, in western Russia, The men of one of the batteries of an artillery regiment stationed at Wilna mutinously refused to salute one of their officers when he come among them. He summoned them more than once to pay him the due sign of respect, but the soldiers paid no attention. The officer, enraged at this behavior, at length dre his revolver and shot two noncommissioned officers, one after the other. He was taking aim at a third when the soldiers, in fear of their lives, at length gave the proper salute. The Incident is being hotly discussed in mili tary circles, some officers maintaining that their confrere was justified in his act. while diliers condemn his extreme conduct. London Times. Amateur Economy. Little Dick-Papa, didn't yon teD mamma we must economize? Papa I did, my ton. Little Dick-Well. I was hinkin that mebby if you'd get me a pony I wouldn't wear out so many shoe. Oood New A CIii-iiu Hull Ureas. This is one of (he ilwimruHzliig little stories that IiiihIhiihIk. cut out of the pa per and carry homo in llioir letter books with one or two inevitable results a disgusted wife, who says he is "stingy," and gets up a wiiiiliiilo they are both sorry for. or a IhiithI. Imngly little frock she will never wear ami which repre sents a couple of days' nervous fussy work. The lioroiiie entered on a discus sion ubout the prices of gowns, and, hav ing artfully led up to her point, declared that sho could make an uttructive even ing gown under two dollars! Hands were hold up in horror, but she declared he would do it, ntul show them that she was right. "But," said ono fuir one, "will yon promise to wear the tiling after yon get it done?" "1 will," an swered the indomitable damsel, "and I'll wear it to this dunce, and defy society, and if I don't succeed I'll treat every one of you royally ut Delmouico's." It was agreed, and great w as the expec tation thereof in several maidenly minds. Well, not to keep yon in suspense, sho made unci wore the gown, which cost her just fl.lm. It was a pule green Ja panese cotton eruK of which she bought unie yunls ut hftccn cents a yard, ilieu there wus a cambric skirt, live yards ut five cents a yard, a yard of waist lining for ten cents and a spool of silk for ton more. That was all there was to it. It had a little shirred decolleto bodice, with pretty puffed and shirred sleeves, a full skirt, decorated with a festooned Muiinco and a queer little pocket suspended from ber waist. Of course she hud her own dainty gloves unci shoes to finish off with, which counts for u good deal in effect. But the gown itself was as graceful as any tho other debutantes wore. 1 ho delicate green became her creamy skin beautifully, and she looked like a bewitching picture, and only the little charmed circle of girls knew t lie secret, which they kept for a long time (the next day), when somehow it leuked out. Now stories of this kind are ab surd. The beauty of a bull or iu fact any other toilet depends absolutely on the perfection of the adjuncts, such as shoes, gloves, ribbons, unci so on, which cost ever so much more than tho uctuul material of tho gown, and which are novor included In the estimates, Now York Press. The Treacherous 811k Purae. The other day quite a commotion was caused in a Walnut street cur by what is known as a "miser's purse." Not u miser with a purse, you know, but one of those affairs made of silk and heads and given the namo because they hold the money so tight. Too tight in this case, for tho woman who owned it evi dently had her doubts about it us she gave tho purse u gentle pull, shaking her head dubiously. Then she pulled hard, then she shook it. By this time the. conductor -was culling, "Fares, plouse," and all eyes were turned upon the unfortunate woman. Again the conductor cume in. "Fare, madam." Getting desperate, she held tho purse out to him, tfiying, "There; take it." After he Lad struggled with it for a time he gave it back to her and mum bled something about "trick pocket books." This brought tours of vexation to her eyes, whereupon American chiv alry showed itself by three men offering to pay ber fare. But, niudum would have none of it, and said if she did not get that pockotbook open she would send hor fare to the depot. Then some would be kind people offered to open it for her. From band to hand the little purse trav eled, but it kept its secret. Meanwhile a pretty girl got in the cur, and seeing the state of affairs said to the owner; "1 think 1 can open it. While I was at school ono of my punishments was to receive a ball of tangled threud and have to unravel and wind it up without breaking it. This silk is knot ted." As sho was working with it a small boy leaving the car yelled, "Say, if you want to pay your fare, why don't you cut tho old thing." I left tbe car then, but even if she did get her money out or It, 1 wager she niailu a vow never to use that purse again if sho had to carry every cent in her glove or lied in a comer of her handkerchief.-Philadelphia Music nnd Drama, The lluctor'a Preacnce of Mind. "Speaking "f doctor's bills," suid Cooper us he elevated bis feet ami lit a cignr, "I have recently had revealed to me a depth of nerve which I supposed wus possessed only by gas men and plumbers. You know young Dr. de 1'lotnaf" "Yes." "Well, you know when lie wnsiinicluiittcl and came here to practice he was pretty sweet on my daughter (irace for awhile!" "Yes." "Well, one rousting day last summer she met him down town while she was out shopping, and he asked her in to have a glass of soda water at Fizz & Foam's." "Very nice." "Wait. MttlewlilleHfterthnt lienoppeil, and Grace threw him over." "Poor fellow!" "Yes. Poorfcllowl But he had his w its about him, and yesterday I got this bill: .Umes Ai.riiEti 1R I'lJim, M. D. i (mice Hours, 12:111 a. m. to lh.Wp. m. ii. CoilFKH, I Ml. July 4-To treating daughter &I.H0 -Puck flatting Itid of an Annoyance. Frayed Fagin Ijtdy, will you kindly give me a little rough on rats on a small piece of bread? Mrs. llumsted (In alarm) Utws, maul You ain't so low that you want to com mit suicide, lie ye? Kriiyed r atitn "So, liulr, lint there s bin a nioue In the linln of my runt for mure 'n a w eek, and I want to get rid of it. Puck. The Banana of Malayan Origin. The banana goes back to the earliest ' days. Alexander's soldiers, as Pliny says, I joined the sages of India seated in Ita shade ' and partaking of its delicious fruits. Hence ' the name. Sapient um, given the name. Sapient u in, given the plant, which likewise bears tbe name of Jupiter's fair daughter, Muaa. Now it baa been shown that tbe banana Is of Malayan origiu. How did it get to India and South America and Mexicot The feet of birds have borne seed a full 10,00 miles, while the cocnanut has floated well nigh the world around in tbe great ooeao currents. But the culti vated banana has no seesla, nor ha it a casing like the globular coconnut to Dual It around over the waters. Then it must have been carried by man.- - A MN'S HCPLY. I stand at the bar nf your pure wotnata soul Condt-mi.id in ihe iiMoe tin. I ;i pier,.!; My only dilcnse la Hit! simple hmju .1 That you'll Jwlr me by motive, nut ilcwt. For remember li cit man's but a child In Hit dark. Though formed by Ihe hand from alcove; He will full many time, but shall walk fori h al l"l In tbe siiiisliinu of lallnlie lore. Ho I'm lulilened to atuwor your cuetlon to fair, And glvo you "A .Mali's ltcil)':" That for the prize of a true noinan 's love I am ruacly to live or dlo. Vou say Hint the man who giilns your love SI list be brave, mid true and good: 1 answer Hint die alio ivlim my luiart Must be a type of true womanhood. Vou say Unit you look for a "man and a king." A very prince of lite race; I look for a kind ami a generous heart. And not for a queenly face. You rcuulre "all things tbnt are good and true. All things tbnl a niau annual lie;" 1 ask for a woman, Willi all that Implies, And that la aulllclent for uic. You ask for a inan without a fault. To live with beruun eurth; I aek for a woinuii. faults ami all. For by faults I may Judgo of worth. 1 ask for a woman uiuilo oh of old, A higher form of man; His comforter, helper, adviser and friend. As In the original ptau. A woman who bas an aim in life, Wbo Hilda lire worth the livlnic. Who makes tho w orld better for being here, And for olliera lier life la giving. I wilt not require all that I have asked lu tbeae lines so ioor and few: I only pray thai you may be all That (loci can make of you. For your heart and life and love Are sacred things to me. Aud "I'll slake my life" that I'll be to you Whatever I ought to be. Oood Housekeeping. AWEATIIEJIPKOPJIET Miss Sophia Nichols was a lady of great modesty and of a very retiring (Im position, and as she had passed the ttge of "fair, fut and forty," wasted few glances on men. She had lately established herself iu a suite of rooms on the southeust corner of Laurel street, facing the lovely little Beech park. It was just the place for a quiet spinster who loved nature and re tirement, and she enjoyed it with iinnl loyed quiet for a few days. Opposite her new abode was a quiet old house with four immense windows, wherein were set tiny panes of glass, to each room. The inhabitants seemed very quiet persons, und she seldom saw them except in tho evening. After she had beeu domiciled ubout a week in her new pluce her attention was attracted by a very queer action of an old gentleman who lived in the quaint house. After finishing her 1 o'clock dinner she always established herself cosily with work or book ut her front window, and the old gentleman would us regular ly appear in his yard and, drawing out of his pocket a red biindunna, raise it solemnly high in air! lie did not scorn to wuve it, but let it go at its own sweet will, or the wind s will. On moonlight nights, always ubout 10 o'clock, he repeated this mysterious rite, or whutever it was. His eyes were nearly always turned toward her win dow, and stared fixedly. .Sometimes he did not use the handkerchief at all, but gazed stoadfustly at her window. ' This performance he kept up every day, until Miss Sophia began to be fear fully nervous. She was really afraid it would draw down the gossip of the neighborhood on her. So she tried in many mild, well bred ways to let the old gentleman understand that she did not like his very open attentions. ' She pulled down hor blind, and on popping out to see what effect it had found it hud none; he still waved. Or she would retreat to the farthest corner of the room, out of his range of vision and her mirror told her he still gazed. Finally tier nephew cume to tnuke her a week's visit, bvery spinster has a fa vorite nioce or nephew, and Jack Brown was Miss Sophia's. She admired his youth (he was only twenty-four), his courage, his well shaped body, aud even his impetuous (to put it mildly) temper. He was rather good looking, too, al though his hair was auburn and his mustache, such as it was, undeniably red. The first day of his visit Miss Sophhiu kept him engaged by showing him her photograph albums, of which she had half a dozen. But sho cotililn t keep this up a whole week, so the second day Juck remarked as the bandanna and its owner appeared: "What a queer old chap! What's lit? doing?" To which Miss Sophia tremulously re plied, "1 don t know, which was liter ally true, for she had her back carefully turned to the window. The next day Jack observed the same performance and said: "C'oufound the old scoundrel! Auut Sophia, I really believe he's trying to flirt with yon or else he's a lunatic." Jack wus a senior ut college und had tuken his (Ut.rce in the urt of flirting. The following day Jack's ire reached a climax as the old gentleman appeared as usual, and not only waved the offend ing red rag (Jack was a fiery Hepubli can), but actually gazed Hxedly ut Miss Sopliiu's window for fully rive minutes. He grabbed up his hat and said to his aunt, "I'll know the meaning of bis con founded impudence or my name's not Jack Brown! ( He dashed down stairs, paying no at tention to his aunt's pleudings, "Don't, Juck, don't! you will only make matters 'worse!" She pulled down her curtain and peeped from behind it to see what Jack would do. He was striding angrily across the street, und iu a few moments was at the old gentleman's side. With a wrathful face and sternly determined manner, be 'said: I "Sir, what is the meaning of your in femal iuipn lem e; It is n nice thing that a quiet lady cannot sit at her win dow without being insulted!" The old gentleman cleared his throat, wiped his mouth with the offending handkerchief, smiled gently, raised his hand to his eur and said in a soft, mild voice: "Hey! please sjieak a little louder. I'm quite deaf." TherenHn Jack, us is customary with peoplo who are unaccustomed to talking j with the deaf, roared loudly nnd rapidly, 'prefacing his former inquiry with "1 lay," conscious that he wax making a l etude f himself, ami that in all probability the whole iieighlHirhiHsl nearcl null. Still the old gentleman shook his head despairingly and said: "Come into the house. My daughter will make me understand; you talk too rapidly and loudly." Just as he said it a door opened softly and a girl's voice, trembling vi,!i laugh ter, said: "What is it, father? Uwa the gen Human want something?" "I think he does. Bertha, but I cannot understand what." After one glance at the girl's face Jack "sized himself np as an ass," as he would have expressed it, and he knew she bad overheard the whole interview,. He really had m l Hie coitragi' to tell her outright Hint Iter father wu accit-i'd of flirting with hin Aunt Kophia. or else be was a litiiutlc, unci that neither lienor his until approved of bis conduct. '1 he girl let him flounder and get red i'i the face fur about leu minutes, enjoy ing the situation as only a mischievous girl can. but he miiiiaged to convey his moaning. Then alio said: "I understand ymi perfectly, und can k-iIiiiw explain it satisfactorily to butli you and your until. Futhor keeps a weather record, and ho has as long an I can remember, lie takes observations three times a day at 'i in the afternoon, at 7 in the evening and early in tho morning, probably la-fore your aunt gols up." Hero two irre pressible dimples broke out ami hlnled that laughter was not far In-hind. Jack, who had recovered his equanimity, ad mired them immensely, but ho was not to be diverted from his pui'Hse, so he said judicially: "But why does he use a handker chief?" "For tho very simple reason that if there is a light wind stirring he cannot tell its direction any other way." "Well, why does he sturo so ut my aunt as she sits at her window'" "1 think it is not ut her but" hero sho paused long enough to itiuko impressive what should follow "ut tho smoke stack from the furnace. The smoke that comes from it makes u first rate weather vane." Thisexphtuation woe made so demure ly and with such evident enjoyment at the ludicrousness of the aituaijo.i that Jack wus slightly provoked at her und said rather sharply: "Well, you must admit that it looks queer to a fellow not accustomed to it." "I've no doubt it does." she replied with a smile, "but wo have always lived here, and father has always taken observations just iu this way, and every body knows his peculiarities, so of course it awakens no comment." As Juck had no reply ready, sho suid: "Please make my oologies to your auut for any annoyance sho may have felt," and as the comical side came up permost again she broke into u laugh and suid: "Poor old father! The idea of him being accused of flirting!" Jack joined in the laugh, und the innocent cause of all tho trouble and fun sat star ing out of the window us mild and placid as though no such charge lay ut his door. As yet he did not even know the reason of the visit of the erstwhile angry hut now smiling young man. Jack iqiologized humbly, but he hud no idea of letting tho story get out ou him, so he tried iu an elegant manner, which turned out u flat failure, to inti mate to the girl that it should be a secret between themselves, as he said: "I hope you will not I mean, uh.er but you won't" "Won't tell it on you," she said, with unfeeling bluiitness. "Father would bo avenged rather more than the case culls for if tho students should get hold of the story." Then taking pity on him she said sweetly, "i will never mention it again of course, and will not even tell father." Jack asked her to cull on his aunt which she promised to do, and he took his departure to explain to Miss Sophia that she h id oulv made the same hliin der that muiiv another woman hud done jumped at a conclusion too readily. Jack visited his aunt with great regu larity, hut spent the major portion of his time at tho weather prophet's across the wuv, so that the iieighliors concluded he was taking a postgraduate course iu meteorology or something. Rochester Times. lndiiiue lluy Meat for the Itrand. A dealer dowu on Ihe desert on his last trip to tho city for supplies found a new brand of cunned meat which bore a high colorod designation of two lions rampant, in token that it was of the lion brand. This, ho thought, would bo just tho thing for his Indian custom ers, aud he laid m a largo supply, fancy ing that tho gaudy labels would induce an immense demand. At first he sold quite a quantity of tho meat, hut soon noticed that there was no further de mund therefor. No Indian who had bought a can over culled for another. He was puzzled to account for this, and he opened and ate several cans htm self to ascertain whether there was any thing the matter with tue contents. But the meat proved to he of good quality and linully, utter vuiuly trying to per suade his copper colored customers to purchuse more of the delicacy, ho asked one solemn looking buck who understood English what tho trouble was. The buck put his finger on the picture of the lions, shrugged his shoulders and re marked: Huh! Indian no like-um dog meat!' And no amount of tulk could persuade urn or Ins companions that the trader had not laid in asupplvof canned dog! San irancisco Chronicle. Novel III The Weehawken tunnel of the West Shore railway in New Jersey, which is 4,200 feet in length, has a ltuvel block signal system. Tho arrangement con sists of a line of incandescent electric lamps uliout 800 feat opart and placed on a level wun uio eye ot the engine driver. lien tue lamps are all might it is an indication of sufctv. Each train passing through extinguishes the lamps for a distance or 1,100 feet in its rear, a result which is automatically effected by an electrically connected track cir cuit, whereby the lamps are kept under the continuous control of the train. The operators 111 the signal towers at each end of the tunnel can also extinguish the lights 111 any section of tho tunnel if oc casion requires. I his system appears to embody a utiinbcr of exceedingly valu able features, and if successful in prac tice cannot but increase the trunk ca pacity of a long tunnel largely bovond that which is possible by the methods of signaling heretofore in use. Engineer ing Magazine. .1 lroioft!llou. A miser was once heard to say that he would do anything to secure another Al,- eXJ. A wancr was laid privately that he should lie asked to allow himself to Is killed for il.ouo. It was mcmioned to him. He tisik 24 hours to consider. The time having expired the parties called on bim again, and his answer was: "Well, I have considered your offir nnd have come to the conclusion that your i'l, 000 would uot be of any service to me after my decease, but I tell you what I um pre pared to do. I will consent to allow j ou to half kill me for i-Vm." Tit-Bils. All Kiplalned. A Xew York clergyman who w as preach Ing In a neighboring village astonishid the congregation by saying. "I w ish t,, r.Miii u to Xew York by the llrst train, as 1 tave a wife and live children there anil have never seen one of them." This declaration ex cited the most painful curiosity among the people, which wae allayed, however, when it became known that the "one'' which tbe clergyman had never seen whs one that bod been born since he left home the day before. Argonaut. (Inly Half. The man bad a scheme ou foot in which there was going to he big money to bim, and be had tried to get backing, but with out success. "Why don't you organiie a trust compa ny: sugnesieu a Iriend. ! tan t, he said. "I can get the com ua- ny, but where in thunder con 1 get the trust?" Detroit Free Press. MHS. PHILIP H. OMEHIDAM. fthe l.ltes In VlaliliiglMii Surrounded by Mementoes of the lleneral. The wlilow of (iencnil hlierldatl and his three children still lice In the large and handsome burnetii which I he general passed the last years of Ida life. It is III the center of (he fashionable district In Wosliliigton, and its site Is one nf the moat desirable of the iiiinierniis ti lnngli-s Into which the Cap ital City is cut up. The exterior of the lioiist) is of plain Mil brick, but it Is relieved of monotony by all sorts of happy archi tectural expedients, while the Interior Is cut up lain rooms of many picturesque shapes, with quaint and cozy corners that enhance their art Isllc value. The furniture ami decornt Ions are rich, handsome nnd luxurious, hut In the best of taste and show ing a keen appreciation of the iilcetle. of coinhliiHllotis that could easily he iiiade Incongruous. Mementoes and portraits of the general nlxiuud on er .'K MliS. Kllll.ir II. SIIKIIIDAN. cry side, as might lie expected, and amid the pnlty brlc a-hrac are scattered many souvenirs that have for his family a value far beyond I heir artistic or intrinsic worth, though that is not Inconsiderable,. Mrs. Hlieilclau is a (lurk haired little woman, with dainty features and llurk gray eyes that look out upon the world It smiling coulidetice. Her lieuriug is easy and composed, and her manners quiet and retlned, hut it is easy to see that there Is no lack iu her composition of the tire that should characterize the daughter of one great soldier and the wife of auol her. She was, it will m remembered, the daughter of General Daniel 11. Itueker and may lie said to have beeu of Ihe army all her life, having been born on the .Mexican frontier during her father's service there just prior to tho civil war. She was many years Gen eral Sheridan's Junior and (lid not meet him till many years after the war, when her father was serving in the west on Slierl dan's stalf. They were married in 1870. Mrs. Sheridun has three children two beautiful twin girls and a boy (another "Little Phil"). The girls are at a convent school near Philadelphia, but tbe boy at tends a school In Washington, near home. Mrs. Sheridan bus lived in Washington for many years and freely expresses her fond ness for the city und its society, though she does not tuke an active part iu its gayeties. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. How That Anvlenl and Conservative Insll lution Is Conducted. Mrs. Grundy has been saying mean things about the Old Lady of Tureadneedle street again. There is never any lack of tattle about the Hank of England, but Mrs. Grun dy seldom gets such an opportunity for really srtlstio tongue wagging as was af forded by the recently exposed mismanage ment of Cashier May. "A man they had trusted for 3 years, my dear, and he could have retired on a pension a year ago, but didn't, and now lie retires on nothing at all, just lMeatise he loaned money to his own son, or to his sou's companies, which is the same thing, I am sure, and nolssly knows how much the hank will lose, for some say It's only ':!0,0no aud some say it's il.doo.DOO, just as if (i,i mi wasn't enough, and 1 do ho'ie the directors will have to make a statement, but they are so mealy mouthed and close fisted that it won't amount to much anyway, and the govern ment jits,t ought to Interfere, for things are certainly! going to eternal smash," and much noire to the same effect from Mrs. Grundy. The bunk certainly bus its weak spots from an American banker'sstaiidpoiut. Its directors are a self perpetuating liody of limited official tenure, and a bunker Is not eligible to the position, though the governor of the hank, who Is responsible for its pol icy, and who should he an expert, is chosen from the directors in rotation, according to seniority of service. That it should huve beeu concluded so wisely and successfully DAVID POH Kl.l,, OOVKItXOH OK THE BANK 0. KMi LAN 11. under such a handicap must be attributed to the great conservatism exercised iu the choice of its membership. It is not lung since Walter Hagehot vouched for the fact that there had "never been a suspicion that it was 'worked' for the lienetit of one mau or any combination of men." Iicmembering that the hank has beeu do ing business since the year luiHnnd that Mr. Hagehot could read more between the lilies of its history than any selected score of ordinary men, that statement means a great deal. The hank was founded to bol ster np the moribund ftnani-es of the gov ernment of William and .Mary and was in stituted as a joint stock company with a capital of jt'l.'.HKI.lKHj, all of which it loaned to the government at 8 per cent interest. Its charter has been renewed und modified at various times since then, the last time in IS44, when the limit of the notes to be is sued against the government debt to the hank was tlxed al 14,U0n,lNil). licsidesthis he bank has legal authority to issue notes or securities to the amount of i'ltl,a),000, but alsive that sum notes can only be is sued in exchange for gold. The amount of notes ill the hands of the people averages TO.OOO.otKI, David Powell is the present governor of the bank, and his salary is tU,UijO a year. I hedeptity governor, I bnrlcs igram, gets ir.jlW and each id the .' directors y,5U). A strange Explosion. Seth Williams and Morris McClelland met death in a mysterious explosion at 'ave City, Ky. They were digging a istern and hud reached a flat rock eight feet down. Williams struck the rock with a sledge hammer, causing a terri ble explosion, which buried McClelland beneath flying bowlders and killed him, and threw Williams into a tree fifty yards away. McClelland lived just long enongh to tell what had happened. Sev eral persons have closely examined the scene of the explosion, but discovered nothing U-yi.ml bluish vaimr with a sul phurous smell issuing from between two large rocks. Exchange. An Knglnrer la Rare Lark. By tho death of Patrick Costello, in Detroit, Tom Costello, of Wichita, an engineer on the Atchison road, will get $tJ0,0O0. Patrick, the elder brother, left Ireland forty -five years ago for Austra lia, and ten years later Tom came to America. About 163 Patrick wrote to his family that he was rich aud that be was leaving Australia for America, and thev never heard from hint again, ile had lived in Detroit, it seems, for many years, bnt no one knew much about him. Kansas City Times, L mm "boat, Weal, Hume's Beet." It is a pleasing weakness of human na ture to assume that every good thing be longs in a ieculiur to one's one country or to one s own special part of it. Frenchman who hud been spending considerable tune iu Oermuny excluinied immediately ufter crossing the frontier buck Into his owu country: "There are birds singing in the trees. We are in t ranee again! This story is matched by a true one of New England woman who spent two years in Illinois, and returning to her beloved home wrote as follows to friend in tho east: "It is so nice to be back in the east and hear the locusts, katydids and brow: thrushes onco more. All these creatures hud mode the sum mer air musical in the part of the coun try which she had been visiting, but during her banishment she had never heard them. Youth's Companion. Figures Never Lie. Foggins, Sr. My son, yon know that of all things I hate falsehood, and you sir, have had the face to tell me it was quarter of VI when yon came home Inst night when 1 myself heard tho clock strike 8 as yon entered. What can you say for yourself? Foggins, Jr. Figures may lie, but I am truth itself, and if my memory fail me not I hare always been taught, even by you, thut 3 Is a quarter or U. MIIKN WA It IS DKCHItKII Aifciluat a nmu'a hrii nlnesa bv hla atoroscli. the cueni y mar tie nct en sua uruuiriit tixeilil and esslly to teriaa. That potent regulator or llKcaiioii. iioiieiiers iMom en nillera, niaci- pliuea Die rebellious orgnu thoroughly J ticll- vcstlon arises from weakness of the, atomttch ami Ihe fix nl In It, for wiuil of Ihe ioer to ill gest, deromisMsHi and aeldlileii. giving rie to t enrtiiurn. iiiiiuienee unci num. nesniesii mull tmleof symptom both i hiiiiKeful ami iKrnlex b.g. hat iwaeeiooii relg..a w hen the great alo- iniieiite la rcsoriecl to ami us.-d wun nersiatenee vmcmIh wives rise to morbid iliceompoanre ol mum, aim even aas'iacssucsN aim iiyiiocnonarii In chronic ('tine. To the eouiilele dismissal o: these the Hitlers is folly aiiopiiiie. l.lver com pluliit, eonsijiinli.-ii, detillily, rlie tmntlsm anil niiiliirln are ccuiiilclcly salsliied ny ililsgeiiln luciiieiiie. Sure. Iiuner- la Intoxication always I lowed by u aw-plleo head? Jiimuiippe-Yes even wueii n tiinn baa been Intoxlenled by sue cess. I XKIK'ISK. Cine rea'on for the fact that the general health of the cominunitv is growing lietU c,ri jr j rni in iiib, iiiui" .,r,..,r , ,,,. exercise. Kxercise, however, has Its dim culties. If indulged ill a little too long, or so viuieiitlr as to make one liable to take told, it results in stillness and soreness of the mutcles and loints. Au.cocs's I'oR.ct s Pi.astkr are invalu able in such cases. Placed on the buck the chest, on the limbs, they all'ord instant relict aud leave the muscles free trom an soreness. Home athletes cut them into I strips and apply them to parts ol the limbs where they could not put a whole Hi.astkb and find that they are a gnat relief and as- sistunce. IIkaniikktii's Pills cure constipation He Wlivilovou regard mnrrinee as a failure She So many make use of it to get money be longing in otners. For coughs, sore throat, asthma, catarrh and other disc-aces of the bronchial tubes no more useful article can he found than "fiiiieii'n llrtmrhiiit Tnirhrt." A Testimonial." I understand you Irled the faith eire nltli sveoi? "I did. My fccltli w ase Tea. " the last tiling vel." ilmt is Ihe nay young man nut It who uinde srniiigeineiits to Work for 11. t . .lohnion .1- t o. ol Kiciiuionu, a. Yon can get farther information by dropp:ng (item a enru. HOWS THIS! We oltVr One Hundred Hollars Reward for any case of cnlsrrb that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh tlurj. F. J. I'HKNKV & CO., Proprietors, Toledo, O. Wo. the tlnders'Klled. have known F. J. (Mle ney for the Inst tifteeti years, and believe him perfectly honorable in sll business lrauaotlons and rimiuciniiv able lo carry out nny odiikhiioii made by their tlrm. WKST tv Tlir.tX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, l. WAI.OIND, KIN'NAN M.VKVlN, Wholesale Drurolsl. Toledo. O. Hull's Cnturrli Cure is taken lulernnlly, acting dlteetly upon the blood and mucous sin laces of me system, rru e, 7- cents per ooinc. isjhi ny all druggists, Te.tlmonliiU free. Dae Euamelltie Store Polish; no dust, no smell. Tax Gehhsa for breakfast. THE WEAKEST .YOT - iu your whole system, iierhaps, is the liver. If that doesn't do its work of puri tying the blood, more troubles come from it than you can re- 1 nietiiuer. Dr. Pierce's Uolden Medical Discovery acts a lion this weak spot as nothing else can. It rouses it up to healthy, natural action. By tborougmy purirymg tue uiooa, it rescues. builds up, and Invigorates every port of the system. For all diseases that depend on the liver or tho uiooa tiyspeusia, indigestion, Bilious ness ; every form of Scrofula, even Con sumption (or Lung-scrofula) in its earlier stages : and tue most stubborn hkin and Sculp Diseases, tbe " Discovery " is tbe only remedy so unfailing and effective that it can he guaranteed. If it i doesn't benefit or cure, you have your money back. On these terms, It's an insult to your in telligence to have something else offered as "Just as good." i ULCERS, CANCERS, S SCROFULA, V V SALT RHEUM, RHEUMATISM, BLOOD POBSON. these and every kindred disease arising from Impure blood successfully treated by that never-falling and best of nil tonics and medicines, SesSisSSS Books on Blood and Skin d and Skin niala sent on TW cific Do., . OA. Diseases free. Printed taUmonials application. Address t Swift Specific ATLANTA, HAVE TTCHTNO PILES known br moUMite Ilka jxraplraU4p.ooiiie lairase ivuiae when warm. Taw form and ULlMn, BLAaillKi or PHOTBUDltf 3 fUO. TIVLII aTOSCS TO DR. B0-SAN-K0 S FILE REMEDY, whk-S act dlrtsif on pa"a arfeclcpd. absorbs tumor. Allavsltciung.oirnTig YOU GOT mi r-o l tCO sxiaaO. Sr.Bonko,rhlidliilu,f, apsrTnaontour. l-rlc tsv. aririni CURES PROMPTLY LAMENESS, li: 8QOTHE8, SUBDUES, CURES. DROP IT to as, ..lall DON'T BORROW TROUBLE." BUY SAPOLIO 'TIS CHEAPER IN THE END. Good Qualities l'o(ieil by IIikkI'i rarsnpa rill are almoat beyond meu Hon. licit of all, It purines the blond, lima rtrenitliciiliig the nerves, II regulates Ihe dlges:lv organ, Invigorates tho Wdiieyi and liver, tonui aud builds up the cullru system, enr.'t scrofula, Hysp 'puIn.Cstarrli, Itlicumadam. Its enreerof iinecpiallud suooess proves beyond a question tbat HOOD'S Sarsaparilla CURES Hood's Pill elite sll Liver Ills.blck Head ache, Jaundice, ludhreatlnn. Try a box. 3te. Kobk (Outs., and fl.Ouper Bottle; Om cent a dose. Tun Obiat Conn a where all others fail. Coughs, Croup, lor Throat. Hoarsonaaa, whoopinsT Couth and Asthma. For Consumption it baa no rival: has cured thousands, aud will curb TOU If taken In time. Bold by Drugglsta on a guar antee. For a Lome Mack or Cheat, use HILOH'I BELLADONNA PLASTKRJSo. 1L0H' i CATARRH REMEDY, Dave you vou catarrh y This remedy laamaran teedtooureyou. Prioo,6Ucu, lujeoiorfres. "German Syrup" My niece. Emeline Hawley, was, taken with spitting blood, and she became very much alarmed, fearing that dreaded disease, Consumption. She tried nearly all kinds of medi cine but nothing did her any good. Finally she took German Syrup and she told me it did her more good than anything she ever tried. It stopped the blood, gave her strength and ease, and a good appetite. I had it from her own lips. Mrs. Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn. Honor to German Syrup. 6 The Best Watemroof Coat In the WORLD I SLICKER The FISH IlttAND SLICKER Ii warranted water proof, and will keep yoiidry In Uio hRrdeatatorm. Th new rvtMHLu si.u ivtvn it a pencci riding coat, ana coventneenuroiauuie. uewnreoi luiiiaiiuiia. uonii bur a coat If the " i'hh Brand" Is not on ft. Itlu.tn-I ted ?atalo:uo fivf A. J. TOWEK. boston, Miut. CAN Bt'Y JKWKLUY Irom A. FEIiDEJfJ.EIfl.ER, The Portland Jewele-, With perfect nud'tv. Kulr dealing nnd lowest rates to nil. ' l.aixi'st stock. Newest ii- Ikii.-. la it Hiking I'ow lcr that leads all oth -rain purity and leaven ing power. Ak your grocer (or list ol prizes, or write to CUTSET A IlKVEKH, Portland, Ol. RUPTURE I'KRMANKNTI.Y CI'RKIios NO 1'AY. No l-AY UNTll. u'KRli. tV refer to 8,000 nitieuts. Nuoi'kkation, No DKTKNTION FROM W.'alKHIS. Write or rail lor circular and hank relurenee. cumiaitm tm. TheO.E. MILLER CO., Marquam Building, POHTI.An, OHKHUN Incorpori'ed Capital Surplus. 1 1 ."UP 000. DR. GUMS IMPBOY11J LIVER PILLS MILD PHYSIC ONE PILL FOR A DOSE. mnT4tmTit of tha bowels eaoh da? la neoaMMT for health. Thete pillt supply wbat the eyatem laoki to make it regular. They cure Headache, brighten the Byes and clear tbe Complexion bettor than oos metlos. They act mildly, neither gripe nor aicken at ir puts do. to xnvince you 01 meir mvnw w I asmnlM fna fill I ho for fifi OCDtl. Bol trer where, Itosaoko Hod. Co Philadelphia, I MDC WINCIIWC Sooth i nq IIIIIU. IIII1ULUII U SVHUP - FOR CHILDREN TIITHINO . Far sale br all Vronlat. t'eau a twill, J WANT THT BEST, Send tr our t'ntalosrtie of INCUBATORS ' liiwi makea. l.uw price!, t'tmy iitf 'ff. Address t t'. tlettcli, Kli-oti, California. LOOK! tr YOIT WAST AN I N C T BAT O R, yon I surely want a goiK I one. Ho send for cat I alogue and testlmo nliils, free, to 'hi " tlfKKS t ITY INfT good 1 cat Imo 'he Il.tTOK CO., Fremont. Vah. N. P. N. TT. No. R28 -R. F. N. TT. Nr. 6C5 SWELLINGS. if voi'R BrasKss pons not r.w. Chickens sre easily and aucreaafull; raised by Oilng the Petal lima In cubators snd Brooder. Our il- ltuiratea catalogue ttlia all about IL '. S'm.JISBSIaaiTalaaWI a w-a as I s 1 V I ('una timmtitlv mirea WOT Pfli Kill 1 you Don't bny anv bat the PetaJuma if you want tront. Tlirorou. chicks We are Pacific Coaat Headquarters lor B .ne and Cio.erLutters, Mark era, Booka, Caponiilng Tools, Fountains, Flood's Roup Care, Morris Pnniirv i nr. Croaninii. the neat chicken-lice killer and every other artlcle'requlred by poultry raisers. See the machines in operation at I our exhibit with the Nerwalt CMrlrn rarm.-uidwinierrair. natrninf os riches and all kind' of rags. Catalogue free: if von ant it, write PETALUMA INCUBATOR CO. , 750 7x2 1M TS Haiu slieet, IVUlnma, CaL SKATES! SKATES 1 1 Aiisiiuaiia I, t esrrv a full line nl llenla' mill l.mllcn' Itlnli Hkateic, llnymoud Kxlo aioit, Kxm Islor Hint, Knrekci chili, Hoolh ttrny and bill nickel. Aha a bargain lu Parker llauiiiur Otitis. The I T. Hudson In s Co., 0!l Kir.t Mires', Portliuid, Or. Keod teen's for lil-iigo oataloKitc. elegiiul Illustrated Blfid-ler, Urinary hml Liver PIm-ahoh, Prupuj (1 ravel and J)fabeltv are cured by HUNT'S REMEDY THI BEST KIDNEY AND LIVER MEDICINE. HUNT'S REMEDY Cures Brlehl's Dlacarc, Keteutkm or Nou-re-tenttou ol Urlnu, fain, lu the Uai.k, Uilns or Bide. HUNT'S REMEDY Cures Intemperance, Nervous Dieeaaca, (letters DeUlUy, Female Weakliest ami Kxcubaes. HUNT'S REMEDY Cures Biliousness. Headache, JhuiicIIco. Bnttr Stomach, Dyspepsia, Coiutlpatloii and i'llca. HUNT'S REMEDY AVIS T O.NOU on the Kldliot , l.lrnr aud HowcIm, restoring them to a ueiilthy no lion, and II ICS when all other uioiliclnca (ail. Hundreds have been aaved who have been given up to die by friends and physicians. noi.u hv All, lltr;;iNM. THE GREAT CURE FOR INDIGESTION -AND- CONSTIPATION. Regulator of the Liver and Kidneys -A tSPKl'IFU: FOR Scrofula, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Neuralgia And All Other Blood and Skin Diseases. It is a positive cure lor all those painful, deli cate complaint and cotnpllciued troubles and weaknessea common umoi.g our wives, mothers and dauifhtera. The effect Is Immediate and lasting. Two or three dosea of Db. Pardkk's Rkmkhy taken dully keeps the blood cool, the liver and kidneys act ive, and will entirely eradicate from the system all traces of Scrofula, Hall Kheum, or any other form of blood disease. No moiliciuo ever Introduced in thla country has met with such ready sale, nor given uri univei'BHl satisfaction whenever Used as that ol Dr. Paroki's Rkmkuy. This remedy has been used in the hospitals throughout the old world for the piiat twenty live years as a speciflo tor tho abovo diseases, and It has and will cure when all other so-culled remedies fail. Bend for pamphlet of testimonials from those who have beeu cured by lta uae. Druggist tell It at (1.00 per bottle. Try it and be convinced. For sale by MACK & CO., 9 and II Front St., San Francisco. PRINTERS PUBLISHERS WILL FIND A FULL LINK OF- TYPE, Presses, Printing Material and Machinery For sale at l.west prices and moat advantageous terms at Palmer & ReyType Foundry. Cor. Front , and Alder Streets, PORTLAND, OR. Write for prices and terms before baying els, when. M1SQUERA0ES, PARADES, AUtTIIKTIIF.il ltlll, ETerythlng in the a bore line. Contmnes, W iirs. Beards, Properties, Opera and Piay Books, etc., furuiahed at greatly reduced ratea and in snpe rior quality by the oldest, largrst, best renowned ana inereiore oi rrtiaoie lAratrieal Siippif Home e the Pnetfie OxuL Correspondence so licited. Goldstmsi A Co., as, MandaoO'Farrell street, also i2 Market street, San Francisco. W. supply alt Tieattrf on Uu Coast, to whom w. re specif uliy refer. CQUfGf Portland, Oreffoa. . f. AT05, Principal. J. A. Vt'tano, Secretary. T Beantiral Catalogaa Free. ... Remedy Ibr Catarrsi to the n I f UK, n I I sWa t in T. anil Oiiif. By dnaDrntt or ant by T. Haaairtrs, Wanac. fa, ff?ERRY V SEEDS J UW HMflM, Tilt"' iner- SpiX Jtm r hvrry'n Hrriln BaSjf-v Tr Jiirin ttu liiiliiiliilli'li iiHBiV w f on utiiuh Iiun tutu limit the InrHMMt M-iil tiiiHlni"(t in iln world. T i ferry Seed Annoal for 1694 I I CUMIUlllH tilt Milll 1.111 HIiHIHIIL'H of &4 II the liUfMt hti miiiK hiiuwiuUit. f 'rvo KM lor l lit unkind. VV D. M. FERRY & CO., J? 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