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f M'ORTHERN li nAoinn m PACIFIC RY. R N 8 Pullman Sleeping Cars Elegant Dining Cars Tourist Sleeping Cars ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS OULIITH FABUO TO GRAND FOHK4 I'HOOKSTON WINNIPEG HELENA and BUTTE THROUGH TICKETS TO CHICAGO WASHINGTON 1'HILAUKLPHIA NEW VOKK HQS TON and nil POINT KA8T and SOUTH. For information lime sards, maps tad (Jrketa, call on or write A. D. CHARLTON, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Portland, Oregon SSB Morrison Street, Corner Third. ttt hi. E. HcNEIL, Receirer. TO THE IE AST QIVK8 THE CHOICS OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL EOTJT E S VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL VIA UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER OMAHA AND KANSAS CITY LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIE8 OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLANO EVERY 5 DAYS -...FOR SAN FRANCISCO For full details call on or address W. H. HTJRLBURT, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Pobtlamd, Ob. Train arrive and depart fiom Portland aa ollown: . Depirt So. 2-For all Katern point! ....7:10 rat N t. 8-TnsDillr local 8: 0 A.M Arrive No. i-Krom the East 8:30 . No. 7 From Tbe ualles 6:00 P M EAST AND SOUTH VIA The Shasta Route OF THE SOUTHERN PACIF1U CO. Express Trains Leave Portland Daily. South, j I North. :50r.a. Lv Portland Ar 8:10 4. at :S,ir.li. Lv Oregon City Lt 7:28a.n 10:4fi.. Ar 8an Francisco Lt :00f. The above tralna Mop al Bast Portland, Orefron City, Woodburu, Salem, Turuer, Marion, Jefler on, Albany, A'oany Junction, Taugaut, Shedde Halsey. HurriaburK, Juucuou City, Irving, ugcue, Creawell, Drains. KOseBURO MAIL DAILY. S:M a. M. Lt I'urilanil Ar 4:40 r.ai S:27A.. L OresonOlly Lt :F.S t.Wr.u. Ar Boaeburg LT :Wa. "iTLKJI USSBVdKB DAILY. .n r t:4 r Lt Portland Ar 10:15 a at Lt Oiwon City Lt t:27 a Ar Salem Lt 8.00am DINING CARS ON OODBN ROUTE. PULLMAN BUFFET 8LIBPBBS AND SECOND-CLASS SLEEPIN0 CARS Attached to all Through Trains. WeatSlite Division, Between POKTl.ANl and CORVALL1B HAILTaAlD DAILTlICrTiUIDAT. 7:WA.M. 12:11 P. It Lt Portland Ar! 6:40 P.M. Ar Corvallia Lv I 1:00 P.M. At Alhanv and Cnrralile connect with train fOre(nn PaHflr Railroad. srsa ts.i pn.T(irtrroipT. 4 4p w i Lt Portland Ar-25A.a IMP. ! I Ar tOHInnville LT :M A. M THUOrOH TICKETS T iu mnrrs n nri EASTERN STATUS. TAlADA AND FXROPB Can be obtained at the lowest rate from L- B. -yeat, Oregon City B. KOEHLKR. X. P. ROGERS. Mana'cr. at.8 ' F- Ar-nt, nana sr. Portland. Ot. THE OFFICE SEEKING HORDE'. General Harrison Saya It Makes the PoaV tloo of l'realdrnt One of Many Trial. At the begiuuiug of every udtniuistra tiou Washington 1111a tip witb porsous who desire gome office either in the state, iu the departments or in the for eign service, writes ex-President Harri lou iu The Ladies' Home Journal, dis. cussing "The Presidential Office. " Many of theso pmcus huve a liuiiled purse, and oh the duyx tiuhg ou this ih ejihuust ed, aud impatience and ill temper come in. Many of these persons lire deserving and well lilted to till the offices they de tire. Bnt it Ih impossible to tiud places for all the deserving, uud the position of the president Ih toll of trial. The sus pense aud nucortuinry that the office seeker suffers ure illwhlrutod by the enso of a man from i-y own state who thought be had good reason to expect ail appointment M'oju Frcsidont Garfield After he had been weeks at Washington, and had brought to bear all the influence be could command, I met hiui one day on the street uud asked iiim how be was getting along. His answer was, "Very well, very well, but there is nothing focal yet It was wonderfully express ive and hug remained in my memory as a type of the state of uncertainty Which accompanies oilice seeking. "Nothing focal yet," but a bope that is bard to kill. There are few offices at Washington tbe salaries of which enable the incum bent to save any money, and the average experience of those holding places in tbe departments, I am ssre, is, if they would express it, that private business offers better returns and gives a better chance for advancement. An Impossibility Aoeouopllshed. From time to time a good deul has been said by orators and writers about the impossibility of damming Niagara. Yet it baa been done. Nature accom plished that feat recently, and just above the American fall, acccording to reports, one might have comfortably waded that usually tremendous torrent. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. A Consolation Event. New York couldn't get either of tbe national political conventions, but she is going to have a oat show next month. Minneapolis Journal; What They Moat Do. The other scientists will have to either meet the oathode raise or retire from the game. Chicago Times-Herald. That Cherished Delusion. ' There are other candidates for tbe presidency who are as completely out of the race as if tbey had also written let ters to that effect, but they do not know it. New York Advertiser. WANTED-AN IDEAKr.. thing to patent Protect your ideas : theymav bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDER- BUKN& OOi Patent Attorneys, Washington, D. 0.. for their $ 1.800 prize offer. TO CON3TJMPTIVEO I'm nnflaralffned havlnc been restored to health by simple means, after suffering for several vears with a severe lung affection, and that dread disease Consumption, is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To thore who desire It, he will cheer fully send (free of charge; s copy of the prescrip tion used, which they will And a sure cure for Consumption, Asthma, Catarrh, Bronchi tis and all throat and lung Maladies. He hopes all sufferers will try his remedy, as It is Invaluable. Those desiring tne prescription, which will cost them nothing, aud may prove a blesaiug, will please address, Rev. Edward P. Wilson, Brooklyn, N.Y. Oregon Central & Eastern R. R. Company. YAQUINA HAY ROTJTJC Connecting at Yaqnlna Bay with the San FrauciBvo and Yauulna Buy Steamship Company. Steamship "Farallon" A 1 and first-class in every respect. Sails from Yaquina for San Francisco about every eight days. Passenger accommodations unsurpassed. Fan irom Albany or points west to San Franoisco: Cabin 112 00 Steerage - 8 00 Cabin, round trip, good for 60 days 18 00 For sailing days apply to H. L. WALDEN, Agent, Albany, Oregon. CHAS. CLARK, Supt, Corvallis, Or. EDWIN STONE, Mgr., RIPA-N-S The modern stand ard Family Medi cine : Cures the aaaaasaaBBBBBBaaaaaai common every-day ills of humanity. CAVTATS. TilAOaT MARKS. DESICN PATCMTS, COFVMIOHT. 0. For Infnnnatlna and free Handbook write HVXV A CO, M BaoaowiT. Kiw Voat O'deat botrao for aeenrtng paimu in Amertra, Everrnatrnt taken oat by at la bronchi betora tbe puDUe by a aotue (trea (rae ol ebanr la tttd IanmerrpitetVofanT arVntlffe pmprr tn Ae woraL tplcnuiilly lilustratetl. Ko latrlllr'nt laaa ahoold be without Ik Warlcly, X.OO a rrar; SI JO six raonlh. A'tdma, MDXV A UA. a-ist liaise, 3t Bruadway, w YorK City. T Scientific American f Aoency fofa GROWING NORTHWEST Progress and Doings in the Pacific States. CONDENSED B01tKT OF NEWS from All the Cities aud JTowns of the Pacific States and Territories Washington. Stftna huve been taken for the forma tion of a mining stook exobange in spoKane. Am n.illiinnnn hmI, lt Mnam 111 itt f AU VIUIURIIUQ piwUlwllllig j5 w B was defeated by tne Ulympla oouuon last week. The Blankenship mill at New What oom has been ordered sold to satisfy olaims amounting to $9,000. A six-pound howitzer baa been sent over from Olympia by Governor Mo Graw to t'ue militia at llwaoo. Cashier Taylor, of the Puget Sound National bank, of Everett, has prao- tioally arranged witb Controller Eckels to take the bank oat of the bands of Receiver Cburoh in the oonrse of a few months. A recent deoision of tbe superior oourt in Clallam county was to tbe effect that school directors could employ teaobers beyond the term of offloe of the directors with whom the oontraot was made. Tbe Walla Walla firemen are making great preparations to attend the annual meeting and tournament of the Eastern Oregon and Washington Firemen's As sociation, which will be held in Pen dleton June 2, 8 and 4. Hal Diokson, of Poineroy, Wash., is packing a large number of eggs accord ing to directions given him by Rev. Sproat, who says they will keep two years if desired, and then no one can de tect them from a fresh egg. The May term of tbe United States district court oonvened in Walla Walla last week, Judge Bellinger, of Port land, presiding in plaoe of Judge Han ford. There were four criminal oases on the docket and several civil suits. J. C. Wallace, of Chelan Falls, will experiment with sorghum this season. He will plant seven or eight sores, and several of his neighbors will plant from one to four aores eaoh. A full manufacturing plant has been ordered. The Whitman bounty commissioners recently offered $800 for the arrest and oonviotion of tbe party or parties guilty of administering poison to horses in the Creston neighborhood, which seems to have had the effeot of stopping the deadly work. About 800 trout were sold on the streets of Ellensburg last week by two Indians, for 40 cents for the lot Tbey averaged about three and a balf inohes in length and the venders claimed to have oaught them with hook and line, but an investigation would probably re veal some carefully concealed traps in the waters about town, says tbe Capital. Dayton is proud of her water works. For ordinary use tbe supply well at the springs three miles above the oity fur nishes all the water needed by a oity twioe tbe size. In case of fire, the reservoir holding 700,000 gallons is made use of. Tbe water has a fall of more than 160 feet, and tbe foroe is so great that three men are necessary to bold the nozzle of the fire hose. Senator Squire telegraphed to N. H. Bloomfleld, of Portland, that the appro priations for all river and harbor im provements in tbe state of Washington, aa reported from the committee on com merce, bad passed the senate, includ ing the full amount, $67,000, for tbe Columbia river at Vanoouver. A small amendment was adopted extend ing tbe survey of the north fork ot the Lewis river to the bead of navigation, or Etna. Treasurer Mish, of Snohomish coun ty, says that he will soon be able to tarn over to tbe county all but about 15,000 of the money which was tied up in tbe failure of tbe Puget Sound Na tional bank. This will have a good effeot on the oounty's oredit The com missioners had entered an order remov ing the treasurer from offloe on May 1, but this showing is so good that they have oonoluded that it is to tbe ooun ty's interest that Mr. Mish remain. E. W. Purdy, treasurer of What com, has begun suit against tbe per sons on the gurantee bond for tbe coun ty money deposited in the Bellingbam Bay National bank. Tbe amount looked up in tbe bank ia $7,898.18. Tbe parties who stood good for this amount and bonded themselves for its repayment to the amount of $35,000 are J. J. Donovan and wife, J. J. Eden and wife, M. MoMicken and wife, J. W. Morgan and wife and C. Wheeler. Eaoh of these is held for $5,000. United States Sealskin Inspector Fowler has been busy at Port Town send, inspecting tbe catches of six In dian sealing schooners that have just returned from the cape. The catches are not large, but the weather has been so rough that it has been impossible for tbe sealers to get more than 25 miles off shore st any time, and tbe best bunting grounds have therefore not been visited by them. The skins are all prime ones, and the sealers are satisfied with their work, considering the uniavorable weather. Oregon. Umatilla county has $14,809 in its treausry. A map of Jackson county has inat been completed and published. Baker City wants tbe next meetins- of the State Press Association. Subscriptions are beinsr asked in tbe upper Rogue river valley for helping to improve the road from the summit of tbe Caoadt to Crater lake. Citizens of Cottage Grove have be gun active work on the Bohemia wagon road. Tbe ooutraot bas been let for tbe ereotion of a Presbyterian church at Brownsville. Walter Denny, an Ashland boy, ex pects to be a fireman on the new bat1 tie-ship Oregon. A tie train recently took about 8,000 ties from Henderson to tbe oreosote works at Latham. Klamath Falls is setting a good ex ample to more ambitous towns in Oregon by forbidding bioyole riders to ride on sidewalks under penalty of One. Lane county warrants are now in demand. Local capitalists are paying 1 per oent premium for them. This has happened occasionally for the past three years. The trapdoor (f an Astoria streetcar was carelessly left open one day last week, and Mrs. J. P. Swenson, carry ing a little ohild in her arms, boarded tbe oar. She stepped into the opening, injuring herself severely. Tbe new flume of the Klamath Wa ter Ditch Company is progressing rapidly. Tbe ditoh is being raised to run around the foothills, and 125,000 feet of lumber bas been sawed at Care's mill, to be used in the flume, of which 98,000 feet is already on tbe ground. Tbe sewing machine oompany that threatened to contest tbe right of the oity of Aasbland to impose a peddler's license fee on its agent has compro mised by taking out a lioense for three months, under protest, to give it an opportunity to fight tbe ordinanof later on. R. C. Kiger, Benton oounty's stook inspector, is urging upon sheepraisers the necessity of clipping sheep in or der to eradicate soab. There are sev eral bands in Benton yet afflicted with the scab, and these Mr. Kiger wants dipped a few times immediately after shearing. If this matter is given proper attention now, be says the dis ease can be entirely wiped out. Thoams G. Keene has petitioned the Marion oounty court to refund the taxes paid by bim in the years 1803 and 1894, on tbe southeast quarter of section 22, township 10 south, range 8 east It appears that laboring under a misapprehension, he paid taxes to the sheriff of Marion oounty instead of Linn oounty, in whioh the land lies. Meanwhile the land has been sold for taxes. The Prineville Review says the oity fathers are very eoonomioal, judging by the furniture In the oity hall A Review man was in attendance at a oase before the recorder one day last week. The only articles in the room were two benches, one table, two pine boxes and a goods box with shelves in it, nsed for a secretary, and a good stove, so that a person can keep warm if the marshal suoceeds in capturing enough old sidewalk boards for fuel. Umatilla oounty is to follow Mult nomah county in making a test of the salary ' law. Aotion bas been brought whioh will bring a deoision on a direct issue as to whether the sheriff is en titled nnder it to draw from the ooun ty treasury mileage and fees in exeoss of the $2,500 salary allowed him by law. Suit has been commenced in the oironit oourt, injunction being prayed for to stop the oounty court from allow ing, and the olerk from issuing scrip for suoh pay. Charles Brown field has sued out the injunction. . Idaho. Star mail service has been estab lished from Bruneau Valley to Wioka honey, thirty-one miles and back onoe a week, by a schedule of not to exceed ten hours running time raob way. This is operative from July 1 next to June 80, 1900. , The miners employed in the De La mar mine are out on a strike, and ask that their wages be restored to the amount paid them before the out two years ago. No disturanoe is anticipat ed, and the Miner's union says that none will be tolerated by them. The Idaho Mining Journal says that the mining outlook in tbe various camps tributary to Boise is very en oouraging, although on aeeount of the rains and oold weather, work is several weeks behind. Those mines i that are being developed are reporting their ore reins wider, rioher and better defined as work progresses. To hear of a rioh strike in this mine or that mine is an every day oocurenoe. The old Nioolia mining camp whioh bas lain comparatively idle for tbe past seven years, will make quite a respect able output of ore. Tbe original Viola mine, owing to its being in litigation, will probably remain idle, but there are other mines in that vioinity whioh have prodnoed sufficient ore during tbe past winter to justify the letting of contraots to freight the output to Du bois, where it will be shipped to Den ver. Montana. The recent rioh strike in the Helena mining district in tbe Overland mine bas to a great extent aroused some of the old-time spirit of enterprise. Hel ena will yet be a mining camp in all its glory. The Rossland Miner ssys that it is now definitely decided that the C. P. R. will build directly into Rossland this year. It will build from opposite Robson to Trail and will utilize the narrow gauge for whatever Rossland business it may get It is proposed to lay a third rail on tbe ties of tbe nar row gauge and haul standard gauge cars over tbe road with tbe narrow gsuge engines of tbe Colombia & West ern. ' Australia has furnished more crimes and disasters this year than in any previous year for over a quarter of a century. PORTLAND MARKETS. The volume of business has not been large, but shows an improvement over last week. Sbeepshearing if in full blast all over tbe Northwest, and, while the prioe is very low, the clip gives promise of being a large one, so that a considerable amount of money will be piaoed In circulation and ma serially help matters. . An average of $500 a day is being paid out for pota toes in Portland, and this is proving very acceptable at this time. Wheat Market. The focal wheat market ia nnohancr. ed, with practically nothing doing. rrioesare: walla walla. 50 to 67: Valley, 68 to 60o per ubshel. Produce) Market. Floob Portland. Salem, Cascadia and Daytoa, are quoted at 13.00 oer barrel ! tiolddrop, 2.U6: bnowfiake, $3.20: Ben ton county, 13.00: graham. $2.05; super fine, 12.25. Oats Oood white are Quoted weak, al 27c: milling, 2S(330c; gray, 23(3240. Rolled oats are Quoted as lollows: Bags, s4.265.25; barrels, 14.50(37.00; cases, $3.76. Hay Timothy, 19.00 oer ton: cheat. $0.00 ; clover, $0($ 7 ; oat, $6(36.60 ; wheat, $6.50U.60. Haelsy reed barley. 113.60 oer ton: brewing, $16(310. MiLWTorrs Bran. 113.00: shorts. $16; middlings, $18(320.00; rye, 2V per cental. Bottir Fancy creamery is Quoted al 30c; lancy dairy, 26c; fair to good, lOic; common, iZ)to per roll. roTATOKs Mew Oregon. 25(3300 per sack; sweets, common, 6go; Merced, 3,4 per pound. Unions rancy, $2.26 per back. Poultry Chickens., bens. 13.60 Dei dozen; mixed. $3.00(33.60 per dozen; ducks, $6 00g0; geese, $6.00; turkeys, live, 15u per pound: dressed 15(gl7o. .baas Oregon, 10c per dozen. Cuiegsg Oreiron lull cream. 11c per pound ; hall cream, 9c; skim, 4(2 6c; Young America, 126c. iaopiOAi, taciT Uaiiiornii lemons. $3.00(33.26; choice. $2.00(32.50; eicily, 0.60; bananas, $1.76(33.00 per bunch; Calilornia navels. $3.26(93.50 per box; pineapples, $5(30.00 per dozen. Ubkuon V KOJtTABLits Cabbage, lc per lb; garlic, new, 10c per pound; artichokes, 35c per dozen; spiouta. 6c per pouuu ; cauliflower, $2.70 per crate, 00CtSv$l lr dozen; hothouse lettuce, 40c per dozua. tBKbi. t buit a ears. Winter JNellis, $1.60 in-c box; cranberries, $0 per barrel; ntncy apples, $1(31.50; common, 50(375c,per box. Dbikd r buitb Apples, evaporated. bleached, 44c; sun-dried, 3(34c; pears, sun and evaporated. 60c plums, pitlrss, 3(j)4o; prunes, 3(36 pr pound. Wool Vallev. 9c, per pound; East ern Oregon, 67c. hops Choice, Oregon 2(fl3o per pound; medium, neglected. Nots Almonds, soft shell, 9911c per pound: paper shell. 10(312k'c: new crop California walnuta. soft shell, U(3iZ)ic ; standard walnuts, 12l3c; Italian cnesnuts, 1(3 14c; pecans, 13(3160 ; Brazils, 12(3 13c; filberts, 12s14c', peanuts, raw, fancy, 6(3 7c; roasted, 10c; hickory nuts, 8(3 10c; oo- ooanuts, 90c per dozen. Pbovuiionb Eastern hams, medium. llji12o per pound; hams, picnic, 7k,c; breakiast bacon 10i10o; short clear sides, 8)4 9c; dry salt sides, 7)8c; dried beef hams, 12 (Sloe; lard, compound, in tins, ; lard, pure, in tins, 910c; pigs' feet, 80s, $3.60; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.26; kits, $1.26. Oregon smoked hams, 10o per pound; pickled hams, 84c; boneless hams. 7c; bacon, 10c; dry salt sides, 6c ;lard, 6-pound pails, 7c ; 10s, 76c ; 60s, 7)c ; tierces, 7c. Country meats sell at prices according to grade. Hubs. Dry hides, butcher, sound, per pound, ll12c; dry kip and calf skin, 10llc; culls, 8c less; salted, 60 lbs and over, 6c; 60 to 60 lbs, 44c; 40 aud 60. 4c; kip and veal skins, 10 to 30 lbs, 4c; calfskin, sound, 8 to 10 lbs, 6c; green, nnsaltsd, lc less; culls, l-2c less; sheepskins, shear lings, 10 16c; short wool, 2030c; medium, 30(340c; long wool, 6070c. Merchandise Market, Salmon Columbia, river No. 1. tails, $1.25(31.60; No. 2. talis. $2.26(32.60; fancy, No. 1, flats, $1.761.86: Alaska. No. 1, talis, $1.20(31.30; No. 2, talis, $1.96 2.26. Bbamb Small white, No. 1, 2o pei pound; butter, 8c; bayou, loj Lima, 4c. Coboaqb Manilla rope, 1-inch, u quoted at 8c, and Sisal, 6o per pound. Sooab Oolden 0, 6c ; extra U, 6o ; dry granulated, 6c; cube crushed and powdered, 6c per pound ; Jc per pound discount on all grades tor prompt cash; half barrels. &o more than Darrels; maple sugar, 16(3 16c per pound. Oor-rBB Costa Rica, 20234o ; Rio, 20 22c; Salvador, lg(322c; Mocha, 2731c; PadangJava. 80c ;Palem bang Java, 2628c; Lahat Java, 2325c; Ar buckle's Mokaska and Lion. $20.30 pet 100-pound case; Columbia, $20.30 pet 100-pound case. Bics Island, $3.50(34 per sack ; Ja pan. $3,750)4. Coal Steady; domestic, $5.007.5C per ton; foreign, $8.60(311.00. Mant Market. Bur Gross, top steers, $3.25; cows, $2.25(32.60; dressed beef, 46,o pei pound. Motto it Groes. beet sheep, wethers, $3.00; ewes, $1.602.75; dressed mut ton, 6c per pound. Vbal tiroes, small, 4c; large, 8(3 3)$c per pound. Hoos (xross, choice, heavy, $3.003 3.26; light and feeders, $2.60(32.76; dressed, 3!4o per ponrnl. SAN FRANCISCO MARKETS. Floob Net cash prices : Family ex tras, 13.75(23.85 per barrel; bakers' ez tras, $3.A633.66: superfine, $85fti3 00. Bablst Keed. fair to good, 7le choice, 73 'c; brewing. 8tf!c. Whbat Shipping. No. 1, $1.07): choice. $1 10: mil. in. $1 17(31.22'. O'Ts Milling. 75a)82!c; mrpnse 00(295; fancy feed, 837: goo to choice, 7680.:; poor to (air, ttff 72c; grav. T2 0 . PoTATOss 8wt, $2.5002.78; Bur banks. Oregon. 30(365 . Ho Wnntahie at 2f34e per pound. Osioss $1.75 per sack. WOES OF A RESTAURANT KEEPER. Bis Kapklns and Even II ia CaaUrs Call lea1 Off by Customers. It was during tho second half of th rush for dinner iu a restaurant near Washington tuurknt, where soveral thou sands persons are fed duily, when a great clamor a rone for napkins, and waiters ruHhed about gathering op what few could be found on the tables and distrib uting tbeso, and others were dispatch ed to the lanrxlry for more. Henry, tb head waiter, went around meantime trying to pacify the people, who wen angry and declaring that it was a sbama that tbe house couldn't give a man m napkin to wipe his month witb. Sons customers fell back upon the time hon- rtrii.l nnalnni nf lha tmiff lihnthvu1 .nit used the corners of the tablecloths ia lieu of the missing napkins. "It's a curious and au annoying mat J"r how we run out of napkins every? little while," said Henry. "You might suppose that because they are laundered so frequently they disappear in tbe reg ular way by wearing out, but that la not true. Yon will seldom see napkin in a restaurant which show the effeot ot' wear. Tbey go because tbey are stolen. This is true not only of suoh popular restuurants as this, but also of every res taurant in this city. Who takes them X do not know. All we know is that they disappear regulurly, and our supposi tion is that some are carried off by peo ple who deliberately intend to steal them and others by persons who pot them into their pockets by mistake. I know ono suoh person as this. It was av wuujuu ui uuuuumtnj uuucbijt, vui ae was a joke among tbe members of bar' own family that she never dined at a hotel or restaurant without carrying off a napkin which she had unconsciously stuffed into her pocket We got 18 dosext big dinner napkins a few weeks ago. Within three weeks tbey had all disap peared but five dozen, and now then isn't one in the house. -a a .. 1 unnHn. ut it "Tableware goes in the same way sometimes. A little while ago we go- eight dozen of these salt and pepper c ers. " Hore Henry pointed to some i little out glass casters with silver plated , tops. "We put them on the tables dur ing tbe time tbe wagon boys were oom- i i . i . . . . ,i j . IUK u iierti jur urvoaiuas ma inii, jiaaw before tbey would start out to sell their day's buyings on the streets. 'Holly gee !' they would say. 'That's a pretty nioe thing. I guess I'll swipe it just foe luck see?' And when they left every AnTf Tn A ewarirttfl vt 4 aa fa 4aTlt AQO f nra 1Haa dozen of them were lost within a few weeks. "New York Sun. HIDING HER DIAMONDS. Take a Lesson From the Woman Who rae. Hers In Her Old Bboea. A group of Washington women haeV been telling each other where they hid . their treasures from possible thieve. One used her pillowoase, a aeoond bad a pocket on her stocking, another the llnlni. t9 Km ntntnm hnf wtinn m tHivd. said she always tucked things in her old shoes. "xnen yon want to taxe warning nam tbe experience of a friend of mine," aM . Mm Tnvmfli rtf Misennrl "Kha. BHIU Win, .Hinuuj ... m.huwh. i bad beautiful diamond rings, ornaments, earrings and other articles, and when aa epidemic of burglaries oame along she -'. . . i a- 1. 1 jj 1 Ji ; I. i.a IOUJC iu liming hot uinmuuuD iu UVi imu est shoes. One night she was awakened . i j nL xl Li IMl' py Durgtars nown siaim. oaa mourns u tbey heard some one moving about they ' would take frigbt and run away with out attempting to come up where she titoa Mai a ita wnnr rn r.nn nann ni rnssw stairs, but the burglars kept on and didn't mind her in the least. She har ried back into her room, caught up tbe trot articles that came bandy and sent . them over the balusters. After they bad.: . . - . A I ' ' leic ner nana sne was uirucs. who oisiw to discover her old shoes bumping down the stairs, attended by a shower of bar , diamonds. Luckily the shoes did that work. Tbe burglars dido 't stop to inves tigate, and ,the woman bad strength enough to gather np her jewels, all of Which she found except one earring. Tbs- next day tbe maids bad to sweep thevt entire floor to discover that. But sbs doesn't use her old shoes as diamond safes since. "Philadelphia Press. A Brsnlt of Fortune Telling. The girls employed in one of the WsT ' department stores of New York amuse themselves during lunch hour by telling . each other's fortunes in teacups, "fet tle," said one of them the other day. peering intently into a teacup, "is ge- 1 a. . I 1 J JJ C'l. 111 Wa ino in nm an mil mum. dim wiu aaai taken away from home over the water somewhere. Sbe will go out of her mind She I can't read any more." Then that' gong sonnded and tbe chattering work ers scattered. Today Yettie is at bomav aAfn A..nt.n UVia n.lna fn . Ati-fe t.1 laVlUf 1UIUIIHU. UU9 WIIC wu. wu don't want to be sent over tbe water; Vn a n l,a fuara nnT I - tbe evil spirit born of tbe folly of for tune telling. But a new role hasbeea posted in the lunch room of tbe big? store. Pleaanree of Playing "It." Mr. Ferry Wby on earth do yoev rpend so mucn time running arounea priuing things yon have no notion or buying? Mrs. Ferry For the same reason, I' suppose, that you sit around reading the sporting column of tbe paper and figur ing np bow much yon might have worn if yon were a betting man. It is a sot of mental diversion. Cincinnati Ea- quirer. Oeealatloa Explained at last, . i m a 1.1 t , I 11 U , A4J UAU. IU. wuuivu .M " Aw yon meet?" "It is a sort of apology in advance ror what we mean to say about each other -after we port." Indianapolis JonrnaL To tbe thinker, tbe most trifling ex ternal object often suggests ideas which extend, link after link, from earth la heaven. Bolwer. 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