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NIGHTLY EPISODE. Crispy air, Lovely night; Twinkling stars; Spirits bright; Bashful man. Timid maid; Both in love, Half afraid; Bob tail nag. Shining snow; "Git along!" Away they go; Narrow sled, - Cosy rug; "Nice!" she said. Little hug. Coming back, Laughing moon; Yum yum Smackl Wedding soon. New York Evening Sua. repty. HE June sunshine poured generously in at tne wiae doors of the Merritt "great barn," and the large, cleanly room partitioned off for a carriage house was full of the breatn i summer. ODDOsite the door stood the family "surrey," wearing the drapery pro ifWl for Its hours of retirement, and In one corner was a lofty pile of .ldcrha of various Datterns and sizes. On the same side of the door stood v crnvmt frame of an old-fashioned hand-loom, and high in state before It was seated the mistress of the farm knnsA Manv haDDV solitary boura Hfra Morntt intent there. She "loved to weave," she said, in her gentle, meditative voice. But this love was not merely for the weaving. It was more for the pleasant Bights and sounds of the summer weather, and for the kindly leisure f life's afternoon. The peaceful task hoinmred to summer as much as did the swaying of the daisies and the hum of the bees, in winter xne iwm food neglected and forgotten, but in the late days of May, when the grass was already deep and green by the footpath, and the apple trees had shed their last lingering blossoms, the long lnir for the dreamy, delightful task would awaken, and Mrs. Merritt would bestir herself to set up a The old loom had come to her by Inheritance, and she valued it as she treasured the ancestral homespun 'linen, and the family traditions which xtended back even to the inevitable "three brothers that came over irom England." ' - She had often told her daughters of the remote grandmother who, when the men of the family had inadver tently carried off the pick of the house hold armament on an excursion to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, de fended her home and babies with an axe.. To such deeds the Merritt sis ter felt themselves quite adequate, had need arisen, but they could see no reason why their mother, should sit in the barn and weave rag-carpeting In the fact that the loom had been framed of oak timber cut when all the hillside beyond Roaring Brook was a wilderness. But it "motner" pieaseo It was all right And Miss Sarepta Toker even was welcome to bring her knitang-worK and sit in the doorway, and tell who was dead, and who was married, from Roaring Brook to the Nepash. For Sereota possessed married sisters and ; vantage asVcornSof news. : - She was a meager little woman, who had never been credited with mucn alertness of mind or body. It added a little brightness to her existence even to look on from the outside at the life and stir, and coming and go ing, at "the Merritt place." And in the intervals wnen "s repty at and knitted, with her eyes shut to risible things, she was no more hin drance to the placid musings of Mrs. Merritt than would have been a cat. dozing in the sunshine. Back and forth moved the shuttle, then followed the dull stroke of the batten. Occasionally the weaver would descend from her seat to turn the ratchet of the beam upon which the fabric was wound. "How nice you do beat tip your weavinT exclaimed S'repty, rousing herself to admiration. "Mis' Minki don't do her'n, and Rosala has said time and ag'in, she wouldn't send any more rags to her; but then she's klnd'er sorry for her." "It's hard for her to struggle along," said Mrs. Merritt "If her children had lived, it would have been differ ent" "Your loom got kind o crowded out of the house, didn't it?" said S'repta "The old f urnitoor has got to go. Re minds me of what cousin Spencer Doo little said when Square Lane fugled round an got him turned out of the gallery to the Baptis' meeting-house, He'd played the bass viol to lead the alngln', for forty year. 'There auv no room left for the stable foundations of order,' sez he. 'Folks mus keep underminln an' countermlnin', an' Improvin',' sez he." "It was my notion having the loom set up out here," said Mrs. Merritt. "He says it's my amusement for sum mer weather, that I have to have, just as the girls play croquet and ten nis. Another long, dreamy silence, ex cept for the shuttle that went on and on. There was a sound of wheels ,and all semblance of slumber fled from Sarepta's eyes as there appeared at the front gate a very shiny top-buggy. And when in a few moments a slender shadow fell across the doorway, and Lois Merritt entered, no detail of her appearance was unobserved. The girl was tall, like her mother, with the same large, serious cast of counte nance. vviiAb nniui ai lira uuuuius lurj LKT a-wearin'J" said Sarepta, as if obey ing an irresistible Inner prompting. Lois received placidly this implied criticism of her new summer millinery, and her mother thought complacently: "Lois don't mind S'repta. Emma and Lucia ain't so even-tempered. They'd have flared up." It required but little urging to in- tea. It had been one of the great treats of Sarepta's childhood . to go UUIIltJ UVU1 MJllUUl WJLU AJUCWUU. "I don't see. mother." said Emma Merritt, as with a sigh of relief she watched Sarepta's departing foot steps, "how you can like to have her come here so much. It's just to see and hear, and then go and tell. And she doesn't miss anything that's going on, for all that she keeps her eyes shut" "There Isn't any harm In S'repty," said Mrs. Merritt 'Tve always known her, and it kind o interests her to come here." . "She takes too much interest In my affairs," persisted Emma, "And every where she goes she tells about 'Si,' and 'Em,' and 'Lucindy,' and so on, as If we belonged to her." "Never mind. Emma. .Tane" iwllorl ner motner, i guess tnere s room enough In this world for you and a repty. too:" , "Oh, toother, mother you're too good. You make excuses for every body, ana tnere s noooay you'a reruse to speak to. I do believe you would visit with a caterpillar, if you thought it would be pleased." .'. This seemingly absurd conjecture was verified. The next day. as Mrs. Merritt sat in solitary state at her loom, there came upon the windowsill a great fluted green caterpillar, mov ing with dignity, as became a creature whom splendid destiny was to trans form into a still more magnificent green moth. The shuttle lay idle as ror some minutes Mrs. Merritt watched, and admired, and even talked softly to her guest All this would have seemed but foolishness to sarepta, naa sne been present Her mind must have been constructed on a larger scale, after all, for she reserved her curios ity for the human species. Within a fortnight sne was again spending the afternoon at Mrs. Mer rltt's, but she . did not occupy her usual "seat, commanding a view of the house. She had crowded her chair Into a narrow space beside tne loom, xne window was above her head as she sat unobtrusively busy in darning a des perate rent in her brown alpaca dress. She had caught it upon a stane wnicn was driven beside the path; one of several stakes which were visible from the doorway. Though her place was humnle and retired, S'repty was run of lofty indignation. Her own special grievance, of the torn gown only add ed to her wrath at what she deemed a great public wrong. For months there had been talk of a proposed new railroad. At last the line had been surveyed, and It crossed the Merritt farm, running between the house and the "great barn." S'repty had lost no time In going to condole with her friend. "Here I be a-settin', mendln' a dress on me, sne remarked, "it s a sign somebody's goin' to tell a lie about me, but I guess I can resk it If they can, 's long's 'tain't the truth, wish I could make them railroad folks buy me avnew dressl But you oughter git big damages," she went on. "It jist spiles your posy garden. It's lucky the girls is growed up big enough to keep offn the track." Mrs. Merritt assented. "An to have 'em comin' along screech in' in the middle of the night, shakin' the very pillers under your head! I know how 'tis to Sister Church's. But the wust was when they was diggin an' blastin', an' great stones a-flyln', an' Ketury's folks had to live all cluttered up in the ell-part, an' all nerved up when a blast went off. An when they went to meetin', the road was all blocked up in f ront of Eben Clay's house, an' they had to drive up over the bank, expectin' the kerridge wonld slip off'n the aige. An' her a-lookln' out o' the front winder, crosser'n time, because there was wheelmarks on the terriss, as she called it" "The road will be easier to build here," said Mrs. Merritt And now they've begun, they say they're going to rush it through." 'But . the emigrants will have to come, them Eyetalians," said S'repty. An' the shanties will be right under your' nose an' there they'll be cookin' themselves, an' llvln' on black bread." Even this mixed statement, hinting at cannibalistic tendencies on the part of the workmen, did not seem to shake the placid nerves of Mrs. Mer ritt "You're making a good, workman like job of that tear," she said kindly. "There s very few can beet ya at mending S'repty." , - s repty drew ner tnread witn a steadier hand. She was used to less disinterested compliments than this; hints pointing directly to great- bas kets full of tattered garments which had accumulated ready for her needle. Mother," said Lois Merritt one morning some days later, "here is Bradford Toker. He says S'repty is very sick and wants to see you." Yessum," r" in a small boy at the door, "S'rep"" ---vs if you wanter see her alive again, to come scon's you can." "How long has S'repty been com plaining?" inquired Mrs. Merritt "Oh, most a week an' las night we was kep up with her 'bout all tho forepart of the night," said the small boy, with a careworn air. "She was out of 'er head, an took on pretty bad." "I'll go over to your house as soon as I can," said Mrs. Merritt "She's been dretful flighty," said Azariah's wife, before she led the way to the sick-room. "She's beer goin on about bein took up, an' about your bein' run over by the engine, an' such like. She begun with a sort of Influential cold a day or two after she was over to your house. Monday she couldn't git up. I had my hands full, so I ken' Bradford home from school, an' that most killed him. But hes a great hand to read. Bradford Is. an' he took the last Roaring Brook Argus upstairs an read it through to S'repty, advertisements and all. Some thin' in it seemed to excite her, and she begun to act kind'er wild then. he thought But of course we all know that the intellex of S'renty's mind ain't over keen at the best of times, an' havin so much read to her right out klnd'er dazed her." It wa3 a very pale, drawn face which Mrs. Merritt encountered a moment later, that of the supposed victim of too mucn learning, but there was in the eyes a feverish brightness which gave them more expression than usual. S'repty said but little, and that In very feeble tones, until there came a call from below which her sister-in-law was obliged to heed. Then the invalid started promptly into a sitting posture and drew from under her pillow a newspaper, which she handed to Mrs. Merritt.! "I got Bradford to bring it up here, an' say nothin'," she said. "Now read that Itum," Mrs. Merritt read as follows: "A considerable number of the stakes which were driven by the of ficials engaged in surveying the pro posed route of the R. B. & S. V. R. R. were surreptitiously removed during the night of June 16th. We under stand there are strong suspicions as to the identity of the perpetrator of this outrage." "Now. how dew yew s'pose fhoy found it out" said S'repty. "These newspaper folks is great hands to make up' new words, but when I heerd my own name read right out so, it did give me an awful start Who couTd 'a' told 'em?" "Oh, the correspondents make it their business to find out about all these little happenings.1 "But what made 'em think I did it?" persisted. S'repty, in. a tremulous whisper. "You?" said her friend. "What did you have to do about it? We sur mised it was those Clancy boys did AX for fun." "It was me that pulled up them stakes. An' I dunno but I'd dew it agin. P'r'aps It's just as well I sha'n't git up ag'in. But that sca t me so when Bradford read it out so loud, 'Srepty-shusly,' just the same as say- in' It was me." "Don't worry a mite about it," said her friend soothingly. "That's a real dictionary word, and didn't mean any thine About you. And I won't my a word about It, even to Sllar." S repty's eyes lost something of their distracted look. "That's just like you, Lucindy," she said, feebly. "I should hate to have it In everybody's mouth, arter I was gone, how. I jus missed bein' took up, by dyhr." ' But, S repty, what in the world did possess you, a woman of your years, to cut up such a crazy caper?" ' '"Twas all on your account, Lucindy. Comin' home from your house, I got thinkln' about the railroad track run nin' between the house an" the barn, an' if I didn't run ag'inst another stake an' tear my dress wuss'n 'twas before. . An' that night I dremp how you was goin acrost to the barn to do some weavin', an' the cars come along an' run over you "There', there, don't think any more afout it," said her friend. But e'repty "So nex night, when Azariah an his wife was gone to the strawb'ry festival, I cut asrost to your home-lot I knew your folks was gone to the Center too, but I was afeared some body's be round an' see me. Still, I hed to reek it. I'd no idee how hard it would be gittin' them sticks up, but I remembered how good you'd alius ben to me. I tried to come home a shorter way, thlnkin I heerd somebody follerin'; an' I got Into that springy place in the Lloyd lot, an' got my dress wet an my shoes, "You poor thing,. you!" said the ob ject of all this ill-starred loyalty. "To think that you should have so much trouble on my account! The railroad folks have acted real fair by us. And I wouldn t say anything about It yet, for you know how every thing goes, but we expect to move In the fall." "You don't say!" exclaimed S'repty with considerable animation. "Yes, hes been thinking for a long time the place is too large for him to carry on, seein the boys ain't ever going to take to farmin. And the creamery folks want it, and he had a good chance to buy the Ford place at the Center." "What! the house with the pillars in front?'. inquired S'repty, much re vived. "Yes, and so I gave my consent It's home to me where my folks are. The girls urged me real hard. I sup pose, if nothing happens, Emma will live right next door to us " "What, has Emma Jane an' John Kilborn made up?" queried S'repty, forgetting her feebleness and sit ting up. xes, and I suppose there will have to be a double wedding!" said Mrs. Merritt Well, I never!" said S'repty. "Loia ain't goin' to be married, too?" The girls wouldn't thank me for telling, but you won't mention it That's the plan now." "When you move, I can't go an' set with you an' see" you weave, even if I should ever git up ag'in," sighed S'repty, drooping on her pillow. Oh, he says there's room enough in the house for my loom, and when we get moved, I want you to come and make me a good visit" The Invalid brightened again. "Hain't you told anybody you was goin' to move? Not Mis' Peters, nor Viny Smith?' Not yet," said Mrs. Merritt S'repta breathed a sigh of content An' I know Rosalia ain't heerd of it," ehe said. SEARCH - FOR CHARLIE ROSS. & Rascally New York Police Captain Prevented Success. . So many years have passed since the child Charlie Ross was . : stolen from his home in Germantown that the crime is lost to the memory of many people, but that has not deterred some people from still mak ing the attempt to palm off a bogus youth upon the afflicted family as the lost son. The latest effort of this kind was made by a woman who rep resented herself as the widow of one of the two burglars who were killed at Bay Ridge, L. I., while trying to rob the house of a judge of the courts. The woman brought with her a young man who, a relative of the boy says, was flat-headed and beetle browed, and could in no way have borne resemblance to what little Charlie would have been at manhood. She had the story of the disappear ance pat enough how the two chil dren, Charlie and Walter, . were de coyed away from the lawn of the house, at Washington lane and Chew street by the two men in a wagon, Mosher and Douglas; how they were driven into the country, where Wnlter, the elder, was dropped, and b-r 20, 000 ransom had been offered tnj the recovery of the younger son. rer facts she seemed familiar with l it her scheme had nothing else in it Many believe the boy to be flarf. There have hundreds or more alleged Charlies, but in no one instance has the father, who has traveled all over the country, had any hope after once seeing the alleged child or youth pro duced. The secret of his fate prob ably died with the Bay Ridge burg lars, one of whom expired immediate ly after being shot, while the other had lived only long enough to say that his companion had known where tne child was, that the' lad was still alive, but that he himself knew noth ing of his location. In narrating some of the facts the relatives of the Ross family also shed more light upon the efforts to find the boy, and made the important statement that once when success seemed assured they were frustrated by one of the police captains of New York, a man who was charged before the Lexow committee with having ac quired wealth by the most corrupt means. It was there, he says, the kidnappers had arranged to deliver their prisoner upon the payment of the $20,000. They had exacted the condition that Mr. Ross and those helping him should leave New York upon board of a special train, a loco motive and one car. bound for Albany. At one point along the road a col ored lantern light was .to be waved nnd the money, at this signal was to !e dropped by the side of the track. Further up the line there was. to be another ' light shown and there the boy was to be delivered to them. According to the relative's story, the rescuing party took along with them an expert rifleman, with the object of maiming the kidnapper, whoever he might! be, and effecting his capture.1 They made the trip as directed, but nothing came of it No lights were shown and no other clew was ob tained. The police captain in ques tion, the relatives say, gave the tip to the thieves that the sharpshooter would be on board the car. Walter Ross, the son who was- dropped by the country roadside, was married about two months ago. Philadelphia Inquirer. . THE SITUATION AT BOISE. Boise, Jan. 28. Two ballots were taken today for United States Senator The result was: Shouj 19, Sweet 18? Claggett, (pop.) 15. There are rumors of a trade having been made by the populists to lect Sweet Tonight the populists go Into caucus, SNAPSHOTS ATSfYTONS OlilXOIiVAO Al rr XT mrwnt TnmciT iiminn TTTTrro nu nr ruii ij&uioijai unci r uiyivo THE DEADLOCK. Wliat a Little Pitcher Saw aul Heard from Her Desk in the ' . - House. Viewed from tne desk of a lady clerk, the Oregon legislature ia a queer Institution. I am just row engaged In drawing the princely salary of $3 a day In the service of the state, and my uiub is ruuy ocoupiou u iw.ui5 ; our dignified brothers drawn up in I battle amy to prevent the election of an U. S. senator. I The committees have eill been ap pointed and their clerks selected, but although more than one-third of the session is gone the committees have done nothing because it takes all the time of each member to see that no other member's vote shall counit any thing toward .the election of a senator. My admiration for the astounding fortitude with which our tired brothers grasp and discharge their mighty in tellectual duties each day actually knows no bounds, and I am sure would be shared by everyone who might wit ness their dally sessions. Each session is opened by prayer, and as the minister implores the assist ance of the Giver of all good to inter pose his daily assistance the "tired feeling" which overspreads the coun- tetaande of the averagte member shows that he is fully conscious of being able to cope wiith the situation without invoking the aid of any for eign power. The true American! citl zen is nothing if not independent, and especially if he is an Oregon legislator, he patriotiieally resents any infringe ment on the time-honored principles of the Monroe doctrine. -The first thing of an exciting nature that occurs each day is when a meas ure of some Importance comes uip and if the author of it dioovers that a sin gle member is absent 'he immediately moves a "call of the house," the proper officer is directed to lock the door, the roll is called, and the sergeanit-at-arms ordered to proceed to the committee room where H. B. 104 is being con sidered and bring forth the delinquent statesman. However, before the of ficer gets out of the door the gentle man who made the motion at once moves that "further proceedings un der the call of the house be dispensed with," which motion always carries unanimously and the great work of law-making goes on again with accel erated slowness. ; Just why "a call of the house" is always "dispensed with' before the object of it has been at tained, seems strange to a lady clerk, but we know it Is wise or our poor; tired brothers wouldn t do it, Too much cannot be said in praise of our esteeir.ed speaker of the house who takes every means of making It easy for the new . members. Every i time he puts a motion to the house he tens eacn memper. now to vote. There are so many new members that tms or course seems to mm to ne nec esary. If the member from Marion moves that the rules be suspended, the speaker at once says: "The gen tleman from Marion moves that the rules be suspended; those who are in favor, of tha motion will say aye as your names are called, and those op posed will answer "no.' This makes it easy for the country members who otherwise wouldn't know how to votr Ordinarily if a member is in favor o a measure he knows enough to vote 'ay' without being told so by the speaker, and that officer would only have to say: "The clerk will call the roll ou suspension of the rules." But there are so many new members this session who might favor a measure and still vote "no" unless told by the speaker that the way to kill a propo sition is to vote against it that the affable presiding officer deems proper, to look after all these details. There -are those who have always thought the Lane delegation could not rise above the back Alley of ward politics, but some incidents-of this ses sion have shown that even the hor ticultural shades of Hood river do not furnish a more cunning Coon than the ever green slopes of the Siuslaw; be sides this the Lane county delegation contains the only member of the house of whom it can be said that he is Moorhead than anything else. It seems to me that the charges of corrupt methods in the senatorial con test must be unfounded, because the delegations from every county in the state are absolutely without Price, excepting that of Umatilla and there Is Hope for it as long as the gentle man from Malheur comes to its res cue. . There are those who think the gen tleman from Baker is too Young to accomplish anything, but when he unites his forces with the Burleigh gentleman from Wallowa his point is always carried if an alliance with the member from Washington can be af fected because it makes a triumvirate that the Gates of hell cannot prevail against I notice one good-looking member from Multnomah who sometimes talks so long he almost Myers in the Beach. During one of his oratorical displays he was Huston the verge of going down for good in fact was getting as black as a Cole, and was shouting Hofer help because he had burned his Bridges behind him, when the senator from Malheur appeared, proclaimed himself King, and with the assistance of the senator from Jackson got a good Holt and jerked him higher than a Keyt This was all Dunn in the presence of the Butler who said he was informed that the gentleman from Lincoln was decidedly opposed to such Daly occurrences. This brought the gentleman from Klamath and Lake to his feet, but his voice was so low that I couldn't tell whether he was talking pro or Conn, the speaker, however, seconded the motion, and everybody said: "The Moores the pity." While there are many things that puzzles a little girl like me, I am enjoying the session hugely, and de vote all my time between meals ad miring the great display of intellect that occurs every day. I don't see how these over-worked mgn can en dure such a mental strain "all for three dollars a day," but of course with -them it Is patriotism first and mercenary considerations afterwards. I think the me a are so nice to sacri fice so much for the good of the state. - LADY CLERK. ' DIVERSIFIED FARMING. From ' a Woman's Point of View What Is It? Does It Pay? . ; Diversified farming from a woman's point of view what is if certainly not the opinions advanced by agricul tural editors of city newspapers who are usually as capable of advising farmers as an Irish hod-carrier is of Instructing a Jewish merchant Farming is a business that requires some capital and much judgment, and not every inexperienced person who enters it ia successful the old ways are dispensed with and we must pro- jgrees ia that as la everything eje, u we would prosper. We must beered the land of imagination, of ro satisfied with less profits, raise a rr t While this is satisfied with less profits, raise a ! i greater variety or produce, ana not j , cutuita -"- in- Merest in. "For he who by the plow would thrive Must either hold himself or drive." If a farmer lives within his means and is a good manager, he is a most independent man. The Oregonian some time since had an editorial on I the farmer and his hired man eating Ph,no nhAOeont( whilA thrt nian . . . . . a'tn irtrf!d it nn1llst and rfArr1 tn rural pp as peasants." j We are m f ree-born American cit- ;lsiena and know no peasantry; that savors too much of landlordism and who has a better right to enjoy the game on his own preserves than the man who raises and feeds it Our forefathers were a nation of farmers and their descendants constitute to day the backbone and strength of this grand country of ours. Diversified farming this fall seems to mean a great many "Irons in the Ire" at-once and most of them burn ing your fingers, there seems to be so little In anything farmers can raise no profitable market for prunes, hops, wheat, for butter, beef or pork. Still this is not usually the case, and in these times of general prostration the remedy would seem to be that we must learn, on farms, to sell what we can, and use ourselves what can mot be disposed of to advantage else where. The day for exclusive wheat farming must be practiced if success is attained. One trouble is: Many undertake branches- of farming they are not prepared for raise sheep and do not provide shelter and food in Inclement weather buy expensive machinery and do not properly house it, raise poultry and let vermin prey upon It and then say: "There s notn Ing in sheep" "there's nothing in chickens" "there's nothing in rarm Ing!" Some of the diverse work iaiis on the wife: It reads so easy in the pa pers how "A man and his wife can make money on a lew acres or iana and lay something up! She dries fruit on shares!" Well! 1 know a farmer's wife who dries fruit every summer, lots of it (she's not far off as I write) and while her friends enjoy the balmy air of the mountains or sea shore, ana compiain oi mes and heat, she mounts her airy wood shed roof and spreads her precious fruit thereon (imagine her reelings when a shower comes! imagine her taking it in when It rains and putting it out again when the sun once more blazes forth In all his glory, and neat. Imagine, no. it's no imagination just hard reality. The imagination comes in when she takes it to tne village grocer and he says there is not much demand for sun-dried fruit but he will give her something for it so sne exchanges it for bean?, calico and clothespins, and goes home rejoicing, She raises chickens and they lay when eggs are cheap, and insist on sitting or doing nothing when eggs are dear. Diversified farming is tne .- rule around Jefferson. It is a great ship ping point for immense quantities of potatoes, hops, prunes', miner ana gram. The Statesman advocates a cream ery at or near Salem. Salem is sup plied with more gilt-edge butter than the city can assimilate, and a cream ery established there at the present time would be a failure, working- men generally take their lunch with them and they but the best quality of butter. When "the dinner pail hnngs on the wall the butter market suffers they go ; without or use eheao article. If there Is nothing In farming, there's nothing In paying a board of equalizers to raise the taxes m iia rion county, and the present legisla ture would do well to abolish all such unnecessary things as that and the railroad commissioners, who ride around in Pullmans and diversify farming by running over live stock once In awhile. What shall we do when it costs more to produce an ar ticle on a farm, as well as elsewhere, than said article will bring in the market? Shall We create seats in universities for men who have al ready been well paid for their services by the state? Let us abolish every unnecessary thing and bring all sal aries from state to county officers down to a local commensurate with the times. Many farmers cannot sup port their families and pay their tax es, living in the plainest way, without mortgaging their farms. . We pay dearly for our Independence, and look anxiously to this present legisla ture to make crooked paths straight, and hope the new members from Marion will make as good a record for economy and reform as has Hon Tilmon Ford when he has held a seat in the legislature. HARRIET C. LOONEY. HOP TRADE. There Is really no change to note, A. steady enquiry for medium qua! ities is maintained, and for such par cels 4d percent seems to be about the prevalent price. Of the 80,000 cwts. which it is estimated remain unsold out of 1894 crop, a considerable pro portion will, probably, never see the inside of a brewery, owing to their inferiority, as for these low hops there is no sale. The values of sound and coloury hops are still upheld, finest Goldings being easily saleable at 90 percent to 95 percent with a firm tendency. The continent is sending us practi cally none, and there are compara tively few Pacifies and states on offer.. The American and continental markets are firm. English Hop Grow ers. . HOPS GROW FAST. As an instance of the way hops grow in the Puyallup valley a farmer here has a hop yard that grows close to some tall fir trees. A vine ran off a pole and started up the tree. The farmer's boy climbed up the tree to disengage the vine, but, slipping, caught on the vine between the top of the pole and the tree. He began changing hands rapidly on the vine, struggling and kicking until the farm er called to him: "Why don't you come down?" "Come down!" cried the boy, "I'm trying to, but the darned vine grows so fast it's running me up faster than I can come down!" They had to cut the vine close to the .ground to stop its growth and let the poor boy back to earth. JAPAN'S VICTORIES A BENEFIT. If the world had not mo,ved forward in a wonderful ratio of progression during the last thousand " years, then might China have hoped to maintain her conservatism aa an independent empire. But in the evolution of na tions ft' is impossible for any to stand still. China has . been satisfied with her institutions. Standing still is death, and unless she entirely changes her policy, emerges from her deadly conservatism, she must share the fate of empires as greait as her own whose glories have passed 8-way, or he over whelmed by the great billows of pro gression ever sweeping aH things, laws, customs, religions, nations and em pires . before their resistless sway. Ths orient h Always been consjd. mance. of ooetrv. While this is largely ture, far-ofE Cathay, our amti podes, is preeminently the land of prosa. The philosophy of Qcnfuciu3 WoS matter of fact; he dealt not in imagination; he tamght of temporal, not of eternal things, not even profess ing a balief in the immortality of the soul. Yet strange paradox, he and his nation have come nearer to found ing immortal institutions than any others in the world. But through China's conquest by ) Japan must, come, her awakening into; new and more useful r ational life, f Western civilization permeated Japan! and Core&, breaking down their con-! servatism, whicn has sur-rounaea tne former like her now useless but won derful great wall. China, the oldest existing nation of the world, has been called the type of permanence. Her nstitutions have outlived everything. Kingdoms and republics have risen, flourished nd fallen, but China in her national life has ' ever continued the same. While Japan formerly gained most of her ideas of civilization from China and Corea, yet it now becomes her mission to reconstruct their laws, on a mor-i practical modern basis. It has generally proved true, that i every great revolution has in the out come proved to be a great evolution. This will be especially true of Corea, a fertile but much oppressed country, where the nobles have been the only class entitled to consideration, and the masses little more than slaves. But Invigorated , with Occidental energy, nterprise, scientific ideas, labor-Saving machinery, railroads and the telegraph, she will 'take her place among the na tions of the world, borne , forward upon the tide of progression that is sweeping eastward with a force that must create or destroy, while China Is not likely all at once to lose her pres tige as a great empire, yet in the evo lution of things she must either pro gress or eventually lose lier national existence. In either case the world will be benefited. BY THE LITTLE ONES Those of our readers who remem ber a book that was published some years ago, containing remarkable an swers given by school children will agree that the following collection would form a valuable addition to it; they are all local, having been re cently collected and compiled especial ly for this edition of the Statesman: "Cromwell was a man who, after being decapitated five times, said to Weller: 'If 14 served you as you ve served me, I wouldn't have been here.'" . "Hydrophobia is when a mad dog bites you; if a man catches it, it is called 'hydrostatics.' "Esau is the man who sold his copy right for a bottle of potash.' "A fnrt is si nliipa tn nut men in when there's a war; a"fortiess is where women are put." Teacher: "Which of you can name a small ammai mat crawis: - Johnnie: "A little worm.' Teacher: "Anyone else?" Lottie: "Another little worm." Kindergartner: "Do you know what a carpenter is Small boy: "It's a man that sells meat and puts down carpets." Teacher: "Can you tell me what a legacy is?" Pupil: "I i don't . kuow zactly what- it is, but it's something to a stocking." A little boy who was writing tho gender of nouns wrote: "Masculine, Duke, feminine, duck." Teacher, trying to impress on the children the meaning of the word couple. "Johnnie, if you and Jennie were walking down the street togeth er, just you two alone, without any body else,, what would you make?" Johnnie: "Tracks." Sunday school scholar: "If God was mad because Adam and Eve et apples, they must of et 'em between meals." During a thunder storm Little girl, very much awed: "Who makes the thunder, does God make it?" Big boy, derisively: "Course God makes it, who'd you spose made it, John L. Sullivan?" A little boy watched his mother take a pumpkin pie out of the oven, bubbling and sputtering with sup pressed heat looking at it sympathet ically he asked: "Mamma, do you 'spose it's sufferin'?" Edith: "Mamma, must we always thank God for everything, whether we want to or not?" "Yes, dear, we must always thank God for every thing." An hour later: Edith: "Mam ma, thank God I've broken your glass pitcher." A whale's bones, whitening on the sands of Long Beach, caused a panic among the cottagers' children, who ran up to camp with the announce ment that God was dead. "What makes you think so?" asked someone. "'Cause we found a lot of bones on the beach and they're so big we think they must be God's." Small boy: "Who made those pig eons over therei " Answer: "God did." Small boy: "Who made the clouds?" "God did." "Did God make everything?" "Yes." "Did he make the world?" "Yes." "Is there any other world besides this?" "Not that we know of." Smaljl boy, ' triumphantly: "Th,'en what did He stand on?" A .little Salem boy has recently been presented with an engine and train of cars; not long ago he beard his mother describing the gownsr worn at an evening party, and innocently asked: "Mamma, did any of ..the ladies' trains have engines to 'em?" THE FIKST SMILE. Only a baby, fresh from God " Formed In His image, and nature s child, Flower that sprung from the sacred sod "Warmed - to life when it's maker smiled. ' Gazing back in the Father's face, - Bending o er it in perfect love, , Catches the dim, reflected grace Only a baby's smile can prove. Least of heaven, and best of earth Linked in a life so pure and sweet Gray dawn breaks, at the baby's birth Pale where the dark and. daylight meet. :". Rich with promise, the morning gray Heart of the waiting world beguiles, Rich with promise the happy day - Dawns and dies, when the baby - smiles. Glad as a message from Paradise, V " Budding wisdom and baby wiles r Come, when first In the hazel eyes Laughter wakes, wid the baby smiles. 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