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About The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1898)
iiii iii jijiiiij ii mil '1 1 1 1 rr " " 2i I A COUNTRY CRACKER. 5 m EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC. ACCORDING to his schoolmates, Bubber Ramp was a country cracker. And who knows better a child's social and financial standing than Its schoolfellows. His face was not round and rosy like other jolly, sweet-tempered boys, for Bubber was a slender child with face pale and lanky, straight hair, streaked in color with the shades of half-pulled molasses candy. He was subject to chills and fevers which kept liim away from school about balf the time and gave his teacher an excuse for scolding him whenever there was no one else in particular for her to scold. His father was a section master on the Georgia railroad and they lived in the "ten-mile shanties," which were built on the side of the railroad and on the edge of a deep cut, through which the wind blew a perfect gale the whole year round. But if by living on the cut Bubber acquired the chill and fever habit, he also gained the knowledge which en abled him to save the lives of some 500 people Sunday school children with their friends and teachers. It was the picnic of Bubber's Sunday school, but because It fell on his chill day his mother said he could not attend. So he contented himself with walking five miles up the rilroad to Belair, the near est station where the train would stop, with a huge bunch of flowers for his Sunday school teacher. This teacher, be it understood, was one of the people who did not know about Bubber being a country cracker, but considered him a jolly, amiable boy. After handing the bouquet through the car window, Bubber stood for a while looking wistfully at the train load of happy children. Then some thing occurred which made his school mates rorget forever that he was home ly and poor, and this is how it happened. for their lives after shutting off steam and putting down brakes. They came off without a scratch." "It was a miracle, " said the preach er. "It was Bubber Ramp," cried a child ish voice. "I seen him when he opened the switch." Then the crowd surrounded the pale faced lad, pushing and shoving to shake his hand, to touch him, or even to get a look at him. What was said or who said It no one could ever tell, but in the midst of it all there sounded the shrill whistle of a nearby sawmill. "It's 'leven o'clock," said Bubber, looking up at the sun. "It's 'bout time for my chill, so I d better be gittm- II. "it's 'bout time fob my chill,'1 BUBBER. SAir Southward from Brazelia the road drops down steadily for five or six miles. There follows the little rise to the top of Habersham hill; and then comes the sharp sag of a mile or more to Belair and the level valley of the Savannah. . John Johnson, or "Yucker," as he was called for short, was the most dar ing engineer on the Georgia and had the best run on the road until he joined the strike of the Knights of Labor. Af ter the difficulty was settled and the Btrikers went back to wdrk, Yucker, for the sake of discipline, was put to hauling way freight between Union Point and Augusta. There was nothing at Brazeua but the siding and the dull red station house, and little else at Belair. It wasn't often that Yucker had to leave or pick up anything at either p'tvcw ' and he liked to sail by both -ouiUons at top speed, nhd loaf fuather down the "line 10 avAT UP' for rfc. On this particular day, while his fire man was taking water at the big red tank at Thompson, Yucker went into the station for orders. He found that there was nothing for him at Brazelia or Beliiir. He had nothing to leave at either station, so ho climbed back into his cab, meaning to go through to Wheelers to meet the up freight. Some times he met it at Belair, but whenever he got the chance he ran by and trust ed to luck that it would be held for him at Yheelers. home." And he hurried off down the track toward the ten-mile shanties as complacently as though nothing un usual had happened. The following week the Sunday school superintendent accompanied the railroad official when he went to tell Mr. Ramp of his appointment to a bet ter position on the road. The superin tendent, in behalf of the people on board the excursion train, presented Bubber with a bicycle and a gold watch. "Why, Mr. Brand," Hid Bubber, re garding in awed astonishment the handsome wheel and timepiece, two things above all others he had most longed for, "I never done nuthin' but turn the switch key. Anybody could 've done that. I've been doin' it ever since I was goin' on seven years old." Omaha Bee. MANY PRIZES III. The people nt the station were be numbed with fright. They stared with horror-stricken faces at the oncoming engine as some great demon hurrying to destroy the excursion train with its load of human freight Paralyzed with fear, they could neither move nor cry aloud. In the whole crowd there was but one who could think and act. He was a slender, pale-faced boy, and he rush ed up the track towards the coming train. "Git out, git out," his shrill voice shouted to the men In the cab of the up freight. "Jump and run. Jump and run." He was tugging at a switch key, and they saw what he meanL So down the men jumped from the engine, while the boy ran on to the switch. His hands seemed paralyzed, so long did it appear before he forced It open, then he stepped back just as the way freight rushed by and ran full tilt into the up freight. There was a tremendous crash. The engine of the way freight rode over the other and smashed It Into frag- Awarded Aa-'y In T3rls tt Curi ous Reasons. The city of Paris each year distrib utes a number of prizes, consisting of sums of money derived from funds be queathed by certain charitable persons for special objects. There are prizes for the father of the most numerous family In a given arrondissement; sums to be bestowed on promising young art ists, uhsupplled with funds to prosecute their studies, and so forth. Another prize has been aided to this list It Is for the best Instance of a wife's help ing her husband by work. The founder Is a M. Achille Couronne, formerly chief in the Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, whoso hard-working wife was of Immense help in his career. The sum bequeathed returns a yearly in come of over 6,000 francs. The condi tions necessary for competition are: To be Parisian by birth, and to have been married ten years to a husband em ployed In a state bureau, and earning not more than 3,500 francs a year. There were 100 applicants for the prize, and, as may be imagined, some little difficulty was experienced in as signing it Finally, however, the votes of the committee fell to a Mme. Clerge rle, who, though the mother of five chil dren, has never ceased to contribute to the family funds by working as a flor ist Legacies of the above character, however good their intent, do not al ways have the result anticipated by the testator, a case In point being the Goncourt will, which has done nothing up to the present time but give rise to fights and dissension. After a series of legal battles the executors of the will and the three nearest relatives of the deceased man of letters have set tled their differences out of court The net result is that the relatives get 400, 000 francs and the academy 1,000,000 francs. Galagnani's Messenger. Spanish Ships Cruised In It for Years, but Discovered Nothing. The first European explorer who looked down upon the broad waters of the Pacific saw them stretch away calm and unruffled into the apparently endless distance of the south, and It was from this circumstance that the greatest of the oceans got the two names by which it has ever since been known, of "the Pacific" and "the South Sea." We can fancy what visions of wonders hidden behind that vale of sea mist must have floated before the imagination of Balboa on that peak In Darien when he fell upon his knees and thanked God that it had fallen to his lot to make the great discovery. It is easy to suppose that his imagina tion pictured new continents rising out of the vast expanse of ocean contain ing empires greater than Cortez found In Mexico and treasures more rich than wero ever dreamed of by the Incas of Peru, anti whatever these might bev they were all the inheritance of Spain. But whatever those dreams may have been, it is certain they were doomed to disappointment In the first century that followed the discovery of the great ocean Indeed, a good many of the adventurous ships of Spain sailed the waters of the South Sea, but their efforts ended in failure for the most part: the reports they brought back from their voyages were for the most part of sea nothing but sea. One or two, Indeed, discovered and landed upon Islands, but not one ever reached the shores of the only continent that lay hidden in the unknown waters of the South Sea. It is easy to understand their experi ence when we look at a map of that part of the world, for we shall find that a line drawn around the globe ten de crees south of the equator would pass through more than 20,000 miles of ocean and lethan 4,000 of land. South of this line the only large pieces of land are the south point of Africa and the narrowest part of South America and the island continent of Australia. Ex cept the Island of Madagascar, there Is no land of any considerable extent in all the great expanse of the Indian ocean, and the still more vast extent of the south Pacific is only dotted here and there by groups of beautiful but widely scattered islands, lovely In form and lavishly endowed with a marvel ous variety of natural productions, but so diminutive in size that they must be sought with all the advantages of mod ern science In the vast wilderness of ocean by which they are surrounded. Harper's Round Table. Bacteria. In talking with a practical farmer the other day about his haying, he re marked how great a difference was made In the curing of hay if it was wet by rains. No matter how quickly the hay was spread out and dried after be ing wet, it would be badly colored, and if put, while at all damp, in large heaps would rot. The reason for this, un doubtedly. Is the presence of bacteria in the rain water which Is gnrKeTcd in its passage through the air. These bac teria in any damp body increase with enormous rapidity. The juices In hay or other vegetables are free from bac teria, except where they are cut or bruised, and as most of these julce3 are sweet their drying down Inside the outer shell of straw has a preservative effect. But In the work of gathering, the stalks of grass or other vegetation aye usually more or less uruiseu, u that some air can get to tne juices asiae from what enters at the base. All know how quickly cornstalks will rot, even In the stook, if exposed to heavy rains. Then, though the stalks may seem to dry out, there is enough damp ness Inside to keep the outside bacte ria alive, and the stalks will rot when put in large heaps. Green stalks, if they have been got In without ram, will keep much better. The Itfoat Common of All. The most common of all ailments L'rom sports of all kinds are sprains and bruises. The most common and surest cure of them is by the use of St. Jacobs Oil, which is prompt in its action. The Art of Walking. To be thoroughly graceful long steps and quick short steps should he equal ly avoided, remarks a French woman. A stiff walk is also very ungraceful, and that is the great fault of English gills. The walk too stiffly and take too long strides. Spanish women have a very pretty walk, naturally, as also have Italian country girls and all accustomed to carrying weights on their heads. The French are also very graceiui walkers. Study. your walk, girls. Take dancing lessons to begin with and then repeat your lessons before your long toilet glass. A pretty walk is a beauty in itself, and every one who will can acquire this beauty. Do it, then, at once now without losing another day. Good Blood Makes Health And Hood's Sarsaparilla makes good blood. That is why it cures so many diseases and makes so many people feel better than ever before. If you don't feel well, are half sick, tired, worn out, you may be made well by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla America's Greatest Medicine. Hood's PIUS cure all Liver Ills. 25 cents. MORE OR LESS IMPERSONAL- THE 'TO THIS BKA.VE BOr IOU wwjs PRESERVATION OF TOUR LIVES. ments. Then it sat down on its own cab with the forward truck in the air and one wheel whirling around like a millstone. The following cars piled up IB a great heap, and over it all rose a great cloud of dust The terrified excursionists scrambled from their own train rushed over to the wreck and stood in speechless hor ror and amazemen. Then the freight conductor came up and searching among the crowd led out a slender, pale-faced lad. "To this brave boy," he said, raising his hand to attract attention, "yon owe the preservation of your lives. But for his presence of mind" Here1 his voice choked. With tears streaming down his face he finished the sentence by mo tioning toward the excursion train. "There were more than 500 on board," said the Sunday school super intendent "The majority of them children." "Not a life lost," cried one of the trainmen, running up. "Yucker, bis firemen and both Jmakemen Jumped A Kins Taken for a Gambler. "Sir, this is not the first occasion up on which I have observed the attentive scrutiny you bestow upon me. May Inquire the reason?" "Sir," responded the candid captain, "you took passage on my ship as Dane; I don't believe you're anything of the kind." The passenger smiled; the smile was full of perspicacity and confidence, and was followed with: "Pray tell me, tnen what you believe me to be?" At this question Captain Ewing fidgeted, hesitated, and finally blurted out: "Well, to be honest, I think you are a ! cambler. You've well nigh ruined your self at home, and are now coming to fleece the fools you'll find on shore." The young man's smile broadened; the next minute he turned grave again, lowered his voice and replied: "Captain Ewing, as you have studied me during this voyage, so I have studied i you. 1 have come to tne conclusion i that you are a man to be trusted. I am i Louis Philippe, Due d'Orleans, eldest son or tnat Liouis i-nnippe a vneans who was slain by the guillotine on the seventh of November, almost three years ago." Ladies' Home Journal. Dangerous. Fashion Is the idol of the Russian woman. Art is a stranger to ner. one loves admiration and flirtation, but her heart remains cold, though she may be burning other hearts with the fire of her eyes. Nowhere is woman more dangerous than in Russian society. To begin, a Russian girl seeks a husband only for the position he gives hr. Matrimony is only a question of fash ion, and If a Russian girl cannot find a husband witnin a reasonaoie ume, she can fill no place In good society, and she is ridiculed by all her acquaint ances; thus, she watches with agony the approach of the end of her youth. Every effort Is thus made to win the grand prize of matrimony. Her friends are as anxious as she is, and as fear some lest she may be an old maid. Then, when all efforts have failed, when no more hope remains, she takes advantage of the sole remedy lert to her "maiden widowhood." She travels. She goes to Paris and Nice. She stays away three years, maybe, then returns in Russian society, no longer an old maid, nor even a wife, but a widow. Nobody asks whom she married, nor how she became a widow. She Is a widow; that suffices. And as a widow Bh. Is received everywhere, and Is somebody. A Pretty Pickle. There is sometimes good luck coming out of apparent misfortune. As an 11 lustration, there Is the story of a fire occurring In a gentleman's country house In Maine. There had been prolonged drought, the well was dry at the time, and there was no other water within a half mile. The woman of the house discovered the fire burning on the roof, and help was as scarce as water. She began wringing her hands and saying over and over to herself: "Here's a pretty pickle! a pretty p!c klel" The word "pickle" unconsciously repeated itself, and then, like a flash came the recollection of a barrel full of pork pickle in the cellar, saved for boiling over. She darted down the eel larway, and soon began deluging the ronf with brine. Every one who has tried knows that salt water is an ex cellent fire extinguisher, and In this case it worked like a charm. Before the supply of "pickle" was exhausted she had the fire out and the home was saved. She never will get over the thought that uttering the word "pickle' turned disaster into relief. Corsets in Russia. Bogoljewow, the newly appointed Russian Minister of Tublic Instruction, has begun the duties of his office by issuing a drastic order to the effect that corsets must not be worn by the young women attending high schools, univer sities and music and art schools; they are to be encouraged to wear the na tional costume. The Minister says that! he has spent much time In visiting girls' schools, and has made the dis covery that the corset as an article of dress is distinctly prejudicial to the health and physical development of the wearers. ' A doctor may give a patient hpe, but he charges for the time tt takes him to give it Where the Ballets Struck. Dr. Ludwig Brandt investigated the deaths of over 100,000 men killed in the Franco-Prussian war In 1870-71, and learned that their Injuries were receiv ed in the following ways: Forty-three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-two were wounded in the lower extremities, 83,014 by wounds in the upper extreml ties. Wounds In the head caused the death of 11,041; in the chest and back, 11,495; abdomen, 4,553; In the neck, 1.922. Rifle balls Injured more men than artillery projectiles. Saber wounds were extremely few In numbers, and ihe tawbone. of all the bones In the head, was oftenest Injured. Golden Weddings. Only one out of every thousand mar ried couples live to celebrate their golden wedding. A sign before the door of a dentist reads thus: "Teeth extracted while you wait." A farmer neat Cotton burg, Ky., has trained a terrier dog to remove the worms from tobacco plants. An artist in a New York paper pic tured the Vesuvius in action and en shrouded in dense clouds of smoke fiom her neumatic guns. That artist needs to be informed that the Vesuvius uses only smokeless air in discharging her dynamite guns. A little surprise awaited two women who recently met in the office of a Chi cago lawyer. They had never seen each other before, but ere they left the office the discovery was made that each had called to begin proceedings to obtain a divorce from the same man. No household is complete without a bot tle of the famous Jesse Moore Whiskey. It is a pure and wholesome stimulant rec ommended by all physicians. Don't ne glect this necessity. The beautiful colors seen tn the soap bubble arise from the faot that the bubble, being very thin, reflects light from the outer and inner surfaces of the film. itq Fermanently Cured. No fits or nervouenes ill after lirst day's use of Dr. Kline's Oreat Nerve Restorer. Send for FRKK Wt.OO trial t ,A . ..... e TV tf k'T.!:. TM cwn I Men street, PkUa-lelptila. Pa. It has been calculated that oridnary gunpowder on exploding expands about 9,000 times, that is, fills a space this much larger as a gas than when in a solid form. In the fall cleanse vour system by using Dr. Pfuuder's Oregon Blood Purilier. Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder. It is said that a striking outline of the features of George Washington has appeared in a knotty protuberance of a tree in Portland, Me. It is not a cher ry tree. We will forfeit J1.000 if any of our pub lished testimonials are proven to be not genuine. The Piso Co., Warren, Pa. Ardent in epite of his 80 yeais, Francis Watkins, of Anderson, Ind., proposed to Lydia Bethel, a good-look- ng young woman of Bethel, O. She accepted him and they intended to elope, but his daughters prevented. Then the aged lover became cool, and the result was a $10,000 breach-of-promise suit, which he has jnst com promised for 13,000. Mrs. Polly Owens, who was lately married to William Owens, of White River lownship, near Noblesville, Ind., is now living with her 13th hus band. Mrs. Owens has six children as the fruits of her former marriages, no two having the same name. She is over 50 ye3rs old. She was separated from the larger numbei of her hus bands. She is part Indian, her mother being a half-caste. Speaking of Spanish girls, a corre spondent from abroad has said of them: Spanish girls are convent bred, iheir education consists largely of acquiring the art of embroidery, which they learn to perfection. Early marriages among them are seldom happy, but di vorces is unheard of. People unnap pily married simply separate and live out their lives as best they can.' Corks for bottles were first manufac tured in Spain and Italy, some time during the fourteenth century. Cork screws were contemporaneous with corks. FAMOUS TRINIDAD PITCH LAKE. It Immense Deposit of Bltnmen Is Practically Inexhaustible. The famous pitch lake or great bitu men deposit at Trinidad Is situated at Point Librea, on an elevation at about a mile from the sea. It covers an area of nearly 100 acres, and its appearance Is that of a dull, still, dark waste. It is regularly circular, and its surface perceptibly covex; being more elevated in the center and thence insensibly de clining on all sides. In the center the pitch is quite soft in fact, semi-liquid but It becomes more and more hard ened as Its circumference widens out. Except the soft central parts the sur face Is intersected In all directions by numerous fissures or chasms, varying In breadth from two feet to sixteen, and from half a foot to seven feet in depth, widening also at the bottom, thus producing, as it were. Inverted angular hollows, while the sides are regularly rounded. These crevices are at at all times filled with fresh water. Here and there, where the bitumen is mixed with earthy matter, grow lich ens, mosses, grasses, etc. xne wuki of the lake the pitchpot or chaudiere, as it is called is at all times soft that it would be impossible to venture on it without incurring the danger of be ing engulfed. The lake Is government property, and Darts of it are leased out to private in dividuals, who have to pay royalties according to the amount of pitch re moved, which amount is checked by the ttovernment. The lake Is, practl- ahIIv inexhaustible. No matter what Quantity Is taken out it is replaced by fresh pitch, which always wells up to fill the .hole. The surface of the outer edges of this most wonderful of lakes Is nulte hard enough to walk upon; but a curious result ensues if you stand still for any length of time on one spot. For some yards around you the pitch bodily sinks until It forms a sort of basin. It Is quite different to sinKing In sand, -where your feet gradually dis appear without making any apparent difference in the level of the ground. Wide World Magazine. fl Benefactress' $tfld Bet. From the Evening Xeirs, Detroit, Mich. Mrs. John Tansey, of 130 Baker street, Detroit, Mich., is one oi inose women who always know just what to do in all trouble and sickness. One that is mother to those in distress, lo a reporter she said: "I am the mother of 10 emiuren and have raised eight of them, bev- eral years ago we had a serious time with my daughter, which began when she was about sixteen years old. ne did not have any 3erions illness but seemed to gradually waste away. Hav ing never had any consumption in our family, as we come of good old Irish and Scotch stock, we did not think it was that. Our doctor called the dis ease by an odd name wliich, as I after ward learned, meant lack of blood. "It Is impossiblo to describe the feel ing John and I had as we noticed our daughter slowly passing away from us. We finally found, however, a medicine that seemed to help her, and from the Money Spent on Cubans. In addition to the $50,000 appropri ated by congress and distributed by General Lee for the relief of the people ot Cuba, the central Cuban relief committee appointed by the president distributed food, medicines and general supplies to the poor and suffering Cubans to the cash value of $321,619. Of this amount $175,032 was in cash contributions and $146,587 in supplies. The total shipments of supplies was 9,942,032 kilos, or 3236 tons, of which quantity 2,856,833 kilos were food, 66,- 753 kilos were clothing, 16,652 kilos medicines and 4,864 were miscellaneous supplies. - The Fields of Sport. From the fields of sport we go to bed and get up full of pains and aches. The next night, by the use of St. Jaoobs Oil, we are soothed to sleep and get. up cured. Smokers are less liable than non- Emokers to contract diphtheria and other throat diseases in the ratio of one to 28. So says Professor Hajak, of Vienna, Austria. If vou want the best wind mill, pumps, tanks, plows,, wagons, bells of all sizes. boilers, engines, or general machinery, see or write JOHN POOLE, foot of Morrison street, Foreland, Oregon. A Frenohman, M. Bleunard, uses the X-rays for measuring the adultera tion of flour with chalk and sand. "I DO MY OWN W0KK." t Bo Ssya Mrs. Mary Rochiette of Linden, New Jersey, In this Letter to Mrs. Pinkham. I was bothered with a flow which, would be quite annoying- at times, and at others would almost stop. " I used prescriptions given me by my physician, but the same state of affairs continued. " After a time I was taken with a flooding, that I was obliged to keep my bed. Finally, in despair. I gave up my doc tor, and began taking your medi cine, and have certainly been greatly benefited by its use. ' Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has indeed been a friend to me. " I am now able to do my own work, thanks to your wonderful medicine. I was as near death I believe as I could be, so weak that my pulse scarcely beat and my heart had almost given out. I could not have stood it one week more, I am sure. I never thought I would be so irrateful to any medicine. I shall use my influence with any one sufferino- as I did, to have them use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable fYimrmund. Every woman that is puzzled about her condition should secure the sympa thetic advice of a woman who under atanrla. Write to Mrs. Pinkham al Lynn, Mass.. and tell her your ills --IHM.SM"riSlrl nitptv Mfutut ail n M ra I Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good, use in time, sola ty oniggistn. RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Warning Notes Calling the Wicked to Repentance. GREAT heights are won by lowly stens. The well-behaved boy is seldom motherless. Adulation Is the bridge some walk over to reach our good graces. Morning prayer opens the gate of duty. Old Testament types were prophetic Jewels. Don't parley with wrong. The fretting horse galls easily. There Is no civil service bar to salva tion. Forgiveness Is Love giving birth to Mercy. Blind men can walk over gold, and not know it. A rainy Sunday prevents many a nap In church. The day opened with prayer will close with praise. Garments for church wear usually have small pockets. Habits are strong as hell, but Christ Is mighty as heaven. Regret Is the compound Interest we have to pay on hate. Mercy was not born until Justice girded on its sword. The list of man's failings Is the dev il's choicest reading. That man is wise who makes a wise use of his knowledge. One fact is worth more than a thou sand Improved theories. The place where we love to be de cides what we wish to be. Walking on the stilts of pride soon leads to a fall from grace. ' If God knows when you are in trou ble. He knows when to help. rinse vour eyes to truth, and you tumble Into the ditch of error. iwnrnln( over present troubles makes us forget past blessings. Burning Incense on the altar of sec tarlanism Is not worshiping uou. Tk nrwiphor who conceals Biblo truth to please men offends God. Some people lose all interest in good work as soon as the bills come in. a rvmimon task may become a holy service by doing it to please God. Rome losses are true gain: the gold gains in value what It loses in dros3. Men are willing to pay a high price for damnation when salvation is free. The shuttle of rrovidence weaves mnnv n HIM till I Iflreuu m LUC nxzu v. life. Ienorance loves to wear borrowed garments, and go out riding with wis dom. It Is the heart-strings of earth that oftenest point our petition neaven- ward. Those who are always looking for favors are not the most willing to give them. Professing Christians more often consult weather bulletins than the di vine oracles. Some people are so anxious about their neighbor's religion that they ne glect their own. If you are a fisher of men yon will have to toll all nlgbt, but Christ will appear In the morning. The pulpit that would preach heav enly ethics without a knowledge or earthly economics is poorly prepared for the work. Most of the Time She Was Confined lo J?' d. first we noticed a decided change for the better, and after three months' treat ment her health was so greatly im proved you would not have recognized her. She gained in flesh rapidly and 6oon was in perfect health. The medi cine used was Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I have always kept these nills in the house since and have recommended them to many people. I have told many mothers about them and they have affected some wonderful cures. "Every mother in this land should keep these pills in the house, as they are eood for many ailments, particular lv those arising from impoverished or disenped blood, and weakened nerve force. ' ' There were 16 shocked and angry maidens in Whiting, la., when they learned that the young clergyman of the Christian ohurch in that little town was about to become the husband of Miss Annie Bigelow. He was engaged to be married to every one of the 17. He has resigned from the church. Oo dr n Wedding. Only on a out f every thousand mar ried couples live to celebrate their golden wedding. Uhall We Keep the Philippine!). While public opinion is divided as to tht wisdom of keeping the Philippines, it is, however, all one way in regard to the wis dom of everybody keeping their health. For this purpose Hostetter s Stomach Bitters is widely used. This medicine is both preventive and cure for malarial fevers and stomach disorders. A ton of gold is worth 120,000. A ton of silver, at the present rate per ounce, may be said to be worth about 6,400. " 100 KWAUD 81O0. The Teaders of this paper will he pleased to Jearn that there ie at least one dreaded disease lhat science has been ablo to cure in all Its itages, and that iscatarrh. Hall'sCatarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires a constitutional treatment, flail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the founda tion of the disease, and civing the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Thepro prietors have so much fattii in its curative powers, that thc-y offer One Hundred Dollars icr any casethat it fails tocure. Send for list of testimonials. Addres3 F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Fills are the best. When coining to San Franeiso go to Brooklyn Hotel, 208-212 Bush street. American or European plan lioom and board $1.00 to $1.50 per day ; rooms 50 cents to $1.00 per day; single' meals 25 cents. Free coach. Chas. Montgomery. The Austrian state railway carried 5,100,945 passengers and 2,593,641 tons of goods during the month of June. Use Dr. Pfunder's Oregon Blood Purifier now. Now that it is all over, women war correspondents who wore in the cam paign of Santiago are beginning to be heard from for the first time. Miss TEETH WITHOUT PLATES Roots Crowned. Bridges Made. Painless filling and extraction. T H Whiff 271 Morrison, I. It. WIIllC, Portland, Or. Dr. Buy Direct JOEC -FROM THE WOOLEN MILLS And save middleman's profits. Men's fine tail-or-madc suits, ?3.95 to flL Fit guaranteed. Cata logue, samples, self-measurement blanks, etc., mailed free. Address J. LANDIGAN, McKay building, Portland, Or. Mention this paper YOUR LBV Is it Wrong? Get it Right' Keep it Right1 Moore 8 Revealed Remedy will do it. Three doses will make you feel better. Get it from Anna Northend Benjamin, a Southern your dru!rgist or any wholesale drug house, girl, is the latest of these, and she is going to lecture about her experiences to various women's clubs throughout the New England and the Middle states. She was actively in the cam paign, and to judge from the difficulties she surmounted in getting to the front her silence while there or, at least, her anonymity was due to a fear that she might be sent away. torn Stewart & Holmes Drug Co., Seattle. WHEAT Make money by succesfui speculation in Chicago. We buy and sell wheat on mar gins. Fortunes have been made on a small beginning by trading in fu tures. Write for full particulars. Best of ro erence given. Several years' experience on the Chicago Board of Trade, and a thorough know ledge of the business. Send for our free refer ence book. DOWNING, HOPKINS & Co., Chicago Board of Trade Brokers. Offices in Portland, Oregon and Seattle. Wash. " Why doe3 my take smell so queer?" Too mjch soda or per haps alum or lime. Use Schillings Best baking pow der. "Hunter stones" wore seen in the Rhine last winter. They appear only when the river is very low, and the date of their appearance is then cut nto them. They are believed to fore bode a year of bad crops. Dear Emtor: If vou know of ft solicitor or canvasser in your city or elsewhere, especially man who has solicited ior siiuscripiioms, in surance, nursery stock, dooks or tailoring, or a man who can sell goods, you will confer a favor by telling him to correspond with us; or if you will inserthis notice in your paper and such parties will cut this notice out and mail to ns, we may be able to furnish them a good position In their own and adjoining counties. AMERICAN WOOLEN MILLS CO., Chicago. The Maledive Archipelago, west of Ceylon, embraces 14,000 coral islands, few of which are more than six feet above the level of the ocean and only 175 of which are inhabited. A Short Flclit. The damp autumn nights and morn ings stirs up sciatica, and then comes a tug of pain. Use St. Jacobs Oil, and then comes a tug to cure it. It is a short fight and the cure is sure. Miss Daisy Feaiing, the young col ored woman appointed a teacher in the Jersey City schools, will retain her plaoe and the school to which she has been assigned, according to the super intendent, no matter what objections are raised. She is a graduate of the schools, bright and capable. It has been stated that the residents of the district in which her school is located had filed protests to the appointment of a colored woman as teacher. A queer state of affairs has developed in the City of Monroe, La., which is building a bridge across the Ked river at that point. The work on the bridge is now practically completed, and it has just been discovered that the struoture will he 90 feet too short to reach all the way from bank to bank. The city has declined to be responsible for further work on the structure un less it be made lone enough to be of use. - Bicycles are taxed in Shoreham, Mass., the average assessment this year being $50. " . The oldest steam engine in the world has lust gone off duty after working 120 years. It was built in 17-77. Bedouins Content with Tents. When the French came into contact With the Bedouin in Algeria it was thought that a ready way of civilizing him would be to assist him to build himself a permanent habitation. A sheik who was thus favored was full of gratitude to the French engineers who had built mm a nouse. "since my bouse was flnlsneV' he said, "I have r.ot lost a single sheep. I lock them np in my house every night, and next morning I find them all in safety." "Then where do you sleep yourself?" asked an officer in amazement. "Oh, for myself a sheik can live only in his tent!" said the other with dignity. Hard on the Plcldes. Virtue Isn't always Its own reward. The English pickle manufacturers have been making their pint bottles hold a little more than a pint to be on the safe side of an English law on the subject But when they send these pint bottles to Canada they run against a law which provides that any package meas uring more than a pint must pay duty on a quart. There is a period in every boy's life prior to which he can't be pot to sleep t night and after which it's difficult to get him op In the morning. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the California. Fig Svbup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon ail the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the California Fig Syrcp Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of e Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. BAN FRANCISCO, C.L LOUIS VIXLX. Kjr. MEW YOKE. IT. Y. $45 $45 $45 $45 $45 1899 ccW BICYCLES "Kest Wheels on KartH." With 10 per cent discount for cash. 1899 Ideals 22.,"0, ?25, $10, with 10 per cent discount for cash. Kend for catalogue. Live agents wanted exery where. FBRD T. MERRILL CYCLE CO., PORTLAND. SPOKANE. TACOMA. ...Willamet Iron Works... INCORPORATED 1865. Manufacturers of Marine and Stationary Engines and Ecilers, Saw Mill, Flour Mill, Mining and Dredging Machinery, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers Water Wheels, etc Agents for the John T. Noye Co. Flour Mill Machinery. Huntley Mfe. Co.'s Monitor Grain Separators and Scourers. Dealers in Excelsicr Bolting Cloth, Mill and Elevator Supplies, Cotton and Leather 'EeXiing, etc. Bend your orders direct to us ana get the bone fit of manufacturers' prices. ... STEAMBOAT I5UILIERS ... Front and Everett Sts. PORTLAND, OR. Cawston & Co. Successors to H. P. Gregory & Co; ATLAS EKOINES AND BOILERS. 48 and 50 First St., Portland, Or. 304 First Ave., Seattle, Wash. A Beautiful Present In order to further introduce ELASTIC STARCH (Flat Iron Brand), the manufacturers, J. C. Hubinger Bros. Co., of Keokuk, Iowa, have decided to GIVE AWAY a beautiful present with each package of starch sold. These presents are in the form of Beautiful Paste! 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