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THE OREGON SCOUT.
JOME8 CHANCEY,
Publishers
UNION OREGON.
THE CALIFORNIA GIRL.
XJka the Flowers of Ifor Nntlre State, fihe
Lacks KlneneRs and I'liilah.
Tako her all In all, Puolla Californlca
Is really tho nicest kind of a girl. Of
courso aho has faults, and one of tbom
is a very tender vanity tho most inno
cently obvious vanity which you can pos
sibly imagine, Sho has been told so
many times that sho is tho finest and
most luxuriant product of tho finest and
most luxuriant State in tho Union, that
Bho has becun to rcirard it as an abso
lutely established, incontestable fact,
llko tho revolution of tho earth or tho
law of gravitation. It Is also a staple
topic of conversation, especially with
tho Itinerant from tho Kast In fact, it
is hor weather and crops. Not to say
"I have been much struck, Miss Bonan
za, by tho beauty of tho Callfornian
girls," Is to make an unpardonablo social
omission. Sho will receive it with tho
tranquility of Btaled custom, assent
placidly, and glvo an instanco or two
where taste, eolobrated for its culture
lias arrived at tho samo conclusion.
Sho goes ovon further, for sho resents
a criticism or a comparison. Matthow
Arnold, In his articlo on tho United
States, deplored tho Inability of tho
Amoricans to brook criticism. Puolla
Californlca has this National falling in
Its worst form. In a drawing-room where
you stand on a ploasantly lntimato foot
ing it is as much as that footing is worth
to admit that you admiro tho beauty of
I'ifth avonuo moro than tho beauty of
California street, ovon though you con
fess that your tasto is bad, and excuse
yourself from tho wrath to como on tho
ground that you woro brought up in Now
England, whero a sonso of tho boautiful
is not cultivated. Still tho fiat has gono
forth, and though you must not exactly
dio, from that moment on your glory is
extinguished.
Undoubtedly Puolla Californlca has
beauty a sumptuous, splendid beauty,
tout, llko tho fruits and flowers of hor
native State, lackintr in iincness and
finish. California fruit, while oxquisito
to look at smooth-skinned, richly-col
ored is wanting in delicacy of flavor,
In piquancy of tasto. So with tho flow
ers tho roses aro tho largest, tho doop-cat-hucd,
tho closost-loaved In tho
world, but thoy havo llttlo swootness.
They havo all run to stzo. Their main
charm hns boon sacrificed to ovordo
"volopmont. Puolla Californlca, llko tho
roso, is in danger of running to sizo. In
tho rich, warm olimato of hor .natlvo
Stato sho has grown too rapidly, shot up
llko a weed. Sho ought to be grown
under glass for a fow yoars. Thon sho
would bo perfect. Sho would havo
pointed onds to hor Angers, small wrists
and llttlo, dollcutoly-inoldcd ears. As
it is now, sho is rather roughly finished,
but sho has tho prettiest comploxion
and hair in tho world.
In hor attitude toward hor "gontlo
man friends" Puolla Californlca is again
original. Sho is without tho instincts
of a flirt. Sho likes men to toll hor
that Callfornian girls aro tho hand
somest in tho country, and that of Call
fornian girls aho Is tho flowor but this
Jsmoroly regarded as a fucon dn parlor.
Conversationally she la too straight
forward and mattor-of-faot. In somo
cases aho is absolutely heavy. Make no
xnlstako about hor not talking for
liours tho wolkln rings with hor elo
quence, but thoro la talking and talking,
as all moil know. Puolla Californlca
talks aa tho English do states u good
many solid facta and muscular opinions
with pondorous ournestnoss. Tho art of
conversation as tho French understand
it, ' to say nothing in partioulur and
say it vory well," la to hor an art yot to
bo ucaulred. San lranulsco Argonaut
ri
NOT A NEW IDEA.
A HuKccitlon of the riiniiogritpli In it Her
euteenth Century Futile.
' The idoa ot tho magnetic telegraph is
Bald to bo certainly throo hundred years
tld. Hut tho phonograph was believed
to bo comparatively u now notion.
Wary Somervlllo, indeed, predicted that
boforo tho ond ot tho present century
wo should probably possess a moans of
recording and reproducing speech; but
tho llko connoution turns out to bo far
older than that.
In tho middle of tho seventeenth cent
ury M. do Uorgorao,a well-known French
writer of his day, and a forerunner of
Jules Verne, published a fabulous ac
count of a visit to tho moon, whloh con
tains an account of two tueoliiinlcal
books loft In a city of tho moon by a
visitor from tho sun. In opening one ot
these books thu narrator Btatus that ho
found "somewhat of metal almost llko
to our clocks, full of I know not what
llttlo springs and Imperceptible engines.
"It was a book, Indeed, but a strange
and wonderful book that had neither
loaves nor letters. In lino it was a book
made wholly for tho ears and not tho
eyes, bo that when any body hns a mind
to road It ho winds up that machine
with u grout many llttlo springs; thon
ho turns his hand to tho chapter whloh
ho desires to hoar and straight us from
tho mouth ot u man or a musical Instru
ment proceed all tho distinct ami ill Ho r
cnt Bounds which tho lunar grandees
muko uso of for expressing tholr
thoughts Instead of language. I no
longer wondered that tho young men of
that country woro moro knowing at six
toon or eighteen years old than tho gray
boards of our olimato, forhiowlng how
to road us booh as speak, 2oy aro never
without lectures,"
A suggestion of tho olectrlo light la
also contained In tho samo work, whero
ono of tho ohuractjrtt appears with two
bowls on tiro "sosparkllng that all won
dered ho burnt not hi fingers." Tho
philosopher of tho Bun who composed
ono ot those speaking books Is thus do
bcrlbod; "lie provos in It (tho book) that all
things aro true, and shown tho way of
uniting physically tho truths of ovory
contradiction; as, for example, that
white is black and black Is white; that
ono may bo and may not bo at tho sumo
time, proving ull these unheard-of para
doxal without any captious or sophistical
rirument." -N. V. Tiunw,
THE PACIFIC COAST
An Epitome of the Happenings
on this Side of the Rockies.
A California Sheriff Kills a Man
Traducing His Wife Other In
teresting News.
for
Vancouver sawmills have resumed op
erations.
Astoria lins a new morning patier, the
Columbian.
The Olyinpia Water Company linn sold
out for ?50,000.
Scnttlc had soven burglaries m two
days last week.
Portland's Y. M. 0. A. gave n recep
tion to GOO tradesmen.
An immense brewery is to bo built at
Puynllup, Washington.
Dr. Gilbert, formerly of Sulein, died at
Sweet Homo of the grippe.
Thoinna It. Brown is tl.o now United
Stntes inurHlinl of Washington.
Frank Byron and Samuel Newton,
burglnrs, dug out of balem jail.
The famous N. It. & N. lense hns mat
been put on record m Portland.
Capitalists lire asking AHtonu lor a
thirteen-mile cable road franchise.
Driftwood in tho Willamette impeded
ferry travel hiHt week at Portland.
Pelilo, the Umatilla Indian, i'h sen
fenced to hang at Portland June 0.
The Builor'H boarding house war be
tween Portland and Astoria, is raging
liercely.
On account of tho heavy rains, tides
at Tiieomu aro reported higher than ever
before known.
Hazel Nelson, n common woman of
Portland, was Hentonced to two yeurHlor
u SJ570 robbery.
Tho Canadian Pacific Bteiuner Cnnubo
carried nwuy 1000 tons of flour from Vic
toria for Claim.
The bark Kitty has Bailed from Hong
Kong for Portland witli a cargo of this
BeiiBon'H ico crop.
Steel rails aro to take the pluco of iron
on tho Union Pacific between Spokane
and Walla Walla.
During the blockade usteanierpassen
ger liHt between San Francisco and Port
land footed up $3,000.
MoAulifrb is kicking for tho first
match with Jackson. Ho is ready to
fight him again at once.
Hilly Smith, the Australian, knocked
out Joe Bowers, of London, at San Fran
cisco, in tho fourth round.
Tho body of u supposed murdered
man, well dressed, was found buried in
tho Band at Ocean Beach.
All tho overland trains which havo
been blockaded in the Sierra snowdrifts,
aro now running all right.
The home of Judge Nelson, in North
PaHadena, Cal., was burned. Defective
flue. 1x)hs, $ 0,000 ; insured.
A nostofllco has been established at
Buna, Crook county, Or., with JaincaM.
Montgomery as poatuuiHtor.
J. W. Mend, Union Pacific agent at La
(trnndo, Or., Huh returned to ills post
niter a vacation of two niontliH.
Diirini; tho Southern Pacific snow
blockade, Wells, Furgoife Co. carried mail
on the run rruncisco steamers.
Thoro aro 51000 beef cattle boing fed in
Boiso valley this winter. Most of this
stock is ready for tho niarkot now
The monthly supply ot Louisiana lot
tery tlcketH lor victoria ana Vancouver
were destroyed by customs authorities.
Paul Stein, 25 yours of aire, despon
dent from physical BiiHering, suicided at
Butte by hanging himself witli a packing
cord.
A building in courso of construction
opposito tho Occidental on Tower avonuo
Contruliu, was blown down by a wind
storm.
" lie auction sale of seats and boxes for
tho opening night of tho Murqiiutn
Grand opera house, Portland, realized
fllOl.
Tho schooner Ellen Adelaide went
ashore at Bowcu's Landing, Mendocino
county, and is a total loss, Hie crow
woro saved.
Tho body of ono of tho imprisoned
miners in "tho Utlca mine, at Angel's
Camp, Cal., has been recovered, but not
yot liioutitled.
Tho steamer Virginia went ashore at
Smith's Cave, a mile from Seattle, and
ih a total wreck. She was blown by
strong wind on to the rocks.
Conaut Bros., ut Kelton, Idaho, sold
100 tons of hay for $1600 to Patrick
Hayloy, tho sheepman, who will move
his band to Spring valley to feed.
Tho Northwestern Exposition Com
pany, of Tacoiiui, have deferred taking
subscriptions to stock, owing to tho
stringency of the money market.
J no. Faneliiiann, of Weaverville, Cal.,
has been found dead in his cabin. The
roof had fallon in owing to great weight
of snow and crushed him to death.
Tho directors of tho San Francisco
Theological seminary have not raised
thu $50,000 upon which the gift of Alex
tinder Montgomery of $'-'50,000 dejends.
Cluing Cow, n Chinaman, was mis
taken for n robber in tho Chinese theatre
dressing rooms at Portland, and shot at
by Ia'o Cluing, nil actor. Ho will re
cover. Titcoinu sent Nelson Bennett, Samuel
Collycr, Eugene B. dishing, S. M.
Nolan ami V, T. Olds as delegates to the
Pacific Coast Board of Commerce at Ban
Francisco.
Mrs. ltosario Itiibihir, alleged to have
been 102 years old, tiled ut Oakland, Cal.
She was u native of Valparaiso, Chili,
and is said to havo Wen of Ciistiliau
jMirentago.
Thomas Brohaii, younger brother of
Itcv. William Brohaii, a Catholic priest,
committed suleldo at his room in Oak
laud, Cal., by oKining tin artery in his
w rist with a razor.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Silcott, the Defaulting Clerk, In
terviewed in Canada.
A lire in the Navy Yard at Ports
mouth, N. H. Nitro-Qlycerine
Explosion at Alton, Fa.
Silcott has been interviewed in Canada
hx-Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Il
linois, is dead.
Most has been liberated on 5,000bail,
pending nn appeal.
Senator Daniel eulogized Jeff Davis by
invitation of the Virginia Legislature. "
Iarysbaugh, Queensland, is inundated
by floods. Six neoole have been
drowned.
A passenger train at Oswego, N. Y.,
was run into by imothor. Three nersons
wero killed.
Blaine's, oldest daughter. Mrs. Gonnin-
ger, is lying at tho point of death with
tho grippe.
Col. John Mason Brown, one of the
most prominent lawyers of Kentucky.
died in Louisville.
A fatal plaguo, resembling meningites
is carrying oil tho population of Cook
county, Texas.
Fred W. Fuhrmau. purser of the
steamship Oceanic, shot himself fatallv :
cause unknown.
Peter Jackson has cone back to New-
York. Ho weiuhs 201 pounds and savs
he never felt better.
John It. Lullande. cotton factor. New
Orleans, has failed. Liabilities. $504.-
000; assets, $544,000.
Professor Karl Mertz. director of tho
musical department of Wnoster univer
sity, Ohio, died of la grippe.
The directors of the Conwnv Snrincrs.
Kan.. Sugar Comnanv. have settled witli
their former creditors and laborers.
A firo in tho Portsmouth. X. II.. navv
yard in tho construction and repair de
partment, resulted in $100,000 damage.
Formal recognition of Brazil bv the
government lias been completed, and the
president has received tlie new minister.
An explosion in the Stimdrd Oil Works
at Hunter'H Point destroyed several
tlioueaud gallons of oil and "other prop
erty. Captain lloudlctte. of tho steamer
ustriilitt, pleaded gniltv nnd was fined
$11150 for carrying nn excess of passen
gers.
Georee Tobler. colored, was lminrod at
Fort Smith, Ark., for tho murder of Er
win Richardson, colored. Inst Sentem-
ber.
W. J. Alkoll and Runm..11 TI nrnstrm
have advertised for three journalists and
aix able-bodied men to go on an exne-
lition to Alaska.
Charles Williams, wanted ut Fmdnnln.
Ohio, for the murder of Will'utnMoLuin,
a farmer, seven years ago, baa been ar-
esteu at jjcuvor.
favorable report lias been ordered
y tho house military committee on the
nil to retire General Fremont w ith the
rank of major-general.
Secretary Windom has issued a hc
ond call to national banks for tho sur
render beforo March 1st, of 10 per cent,
of thoir public deposits.
Tho adjutant-general of the nrmv has
recommended the passage of Carter's bill
giving part of tho Fort Keogh reservation
to Miles City for a park.
Row Fufhor St roup, provisional of the
order of the Holy Ghost of tho Roman
Catholic church in America, died at
Pittsburg of pneumonia.
A seven-story building at thocornerof
Fifth and Sycamore streets, Cincinnati,
belonging to tho Glenn estate, was
burned. Loss, 300,000.
A charge of dynamito failed to explodo
in a Chickis, Pennuylvimiu epiarrv.
Win. Mestenhofler went to investigate
when his head was blown oil'.
Charles Emery Smith, of the Phila
delphia Press, has been offered tlin Rus
sian mission and is considering the ad
visability of accepting tlte place.
I . Lucia Zarate, tho Mexican midget,
said to bo tho smallest human adult in
tho world, a paespng-ron theC. J', train
died at Truckeo from gastric fever.
Tiie house comm'ttee on Indian affairs
has decided to repo t favorably on Car
ter s bill to throw open the west end
tho Crow reservation for settlement.
ol
The Union Pacific and Northwestern
railroads huvo givm notice of with
drawal in thirty davs fmm tho Inter
state Commerce Kailwav Association. i
Senator Stewart's hill uuthorir.inL' nnv-
ment of coast states civil war chums ap
propriates for California, $-1,40,8111;
Oregon, $350,271, and Nevada $402,000.
By an explosion ofnitrn-ulvcorine near
Alton, Hradfonl county, Pa., William H.
MeHcnrv and Alex Connors, two well
known torpedo, men wero blown to
atoms.
Chairman Goshorn.of the national ex
ecutive committee of tho Union Ijibor
party, has cabled u conference of the
party, to be held at Kansas City Feb
ruary 2.
Hon, William Critehfield. who was u
member of Congress in 18711-74. from the
Third district of Tennessee, and noted
for His eccentricities, died at Chat
tanooga. Pat Grant, correspondent of the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean, has been arrested in
Detroit for libel, at the Instanco of Dr.
Charles O'Reilly, treasurer ot the Iriih
umu lA'nguo.
Tho mayor of Montreal has written to
tho secretary of tho British embassy at
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.1 tiomiiKiiui. ..BRuit; nun iii mum uiu
South American delegates invitations to
visit .Montreal.
The league baseball manaL'KrMhavmlo.
cided to begin formal Eiiits against the
players in all the state and federal courts
necessary to restrain them from playing
with the brotherhood.
Mrs. Mary Irish, mother of tho Into
Colonel lrlsp, of tho national bureau of to parliamentary duticx is especially nec
printing nnd engraving, and of Mrs. essary the coming Bession, because op
Henry, the evangelist of tho W. C.T. U.. nortunitics uro certain to uriso fur render.
died at Kvansvllie, Intl.
IN FOREIGN LANDS
Death of the Bishop of Tuam
England.
Davitt Declares Confidence in Farnel
Oholera Eaging in Persia
A Grand Duke 111.
Einin Pasha is improving.
The bishop of Tuam, England, is dead
Terrific gales are reported on the At
lantic.
lhe Chinese
1, 'JOOOOmeii.
army now numbers
Grand Duke Nicholas is hopelessly ill
ai jonuon oi cancer.
Tho resignation of Senor Robeiro has
caused a commotion in Brazil.
Advices have reached New York of a
G,0J0,000 failure in Buenos Ayres.
Dr. Heltmger, theology professor at
Wurzburg university, Benin, is dead.
The .Jelagoa railroad has been com
pleted to the frontier of the Transvaal.
Mr. Spurgeon is so far improved that
no win ue uu;o to leave Jientone, France
Sir William Gull, of Ixnidon. who biiB
jiioi uiyu, nun jiiBiumii in orutnury to
me xriiico oi vates.
Cholera or an intestinal disease is raj-
ing in Persia, and over three thousand
deatfia are reported.
The American squadron of evolution
will urrive at Toulon next week, and will
remain twenty days.
French priests from the African inte
rior, ciaim 10 nave recently seen Dr,
PeterB in good health.
Sir V llliuin Gull, tho noted English
physician, had a second stroke of par-
uiysis aim uieu a,, jondon.
SuergeffeR, an important firm of cotf
spinners, of St. Petersburg, have fai
cotton
tiled
ior several millions ot roubles.
Stanley's expedition has cost $100,000
tuns inr, and uuditiomu expenses will
bring the totul up to $160,030.
Telegrams from Mozambique announce
that the local authorities are rapidly ac
ceding to Salisbury's demands.
There lias been a prolonged snowstorm
in Hungary and Styria. Houses were
demolished and many lives lost.
The King of Portugal has the dengue,
an inflammatory fever which so nearly
resembles inlluenza that diagnosis is dit
ficult. fc-ir C. DeLuey Evins, one of tho most
eminent physicians of Fngland, pre
scribes orange juice as the best remedy
for la grippe.
A match has been made at London for
$1000 a side betw een Kemp and Matter
Bon, to bo rowed over the Parumalta
courso in April.
There lias been a great storm of wind
nnd ruin in Southern England and Glou
ccstervale is submerged, and there is a
great loss of property.
News is received that Neill Miitt.erson,
tho oarsman, has challenged Peter Kemp
to row a raco for tho sculling champion
ship of tho world and 1000.
Tho Freeman's Journal savs that
Michael Davitt, in a lecture at Cork, de
clared unabated confidence in Parnell
and feteiidfust loyalty to him.
Captain William Kennedy, who com
manded tho first relief expedition for
Sir John Franklin, the arctic explorer,
died at his home in St. Andrews.
A young American artist in Paris has
suicided because he found himself hope
lessly in Iovj with the novelist Amelia
Rivos, sho being tho wife of his friend.
Judge Mansol, of tho Queen's bench
divibion of the English high court of jus
tice, was stricken with paralysis while
sming on ine nencn, ana died shortly
after.
Henry Gladstono. son of Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, has married tho d .lighter of
htuart uenaeil, Homo rule member of
tho house of commons for Montgoniery-
siurc.
1'iicatelli, u prominent man in the
clerical world and treasurer of the
Aciulemiii del Linee, has absconded
from Rome. He is a defaulter and
forger.
Hurricanes continue in northwest and
central Germany. Much damage has
been dono to forests in those sections
Heavy snowstorms prevail in Erz-
Gehirge.
Tllft Kfttllfllllila nf Pnrin lm'n yrt-
fused lo negotiate the new Russian loin.
I'.uropean papers iiiiuae to tins us a sig
nificant circiunstanco pointing to proba
bly war.
Five hundred striking glass workers
at Galelon, Bohemia, destroyed in a riot
all tho fae ones in the town. Manv were
fatally injured beforo timet was restored
by the jHilice.
The commercial house of Viihson it
Paul, at Bugomiivo, acting in behalf of
the German Last African Company, is
founding a commercial factory oil the
west coast system.
Tho Portugese government has au
thorized tho opening of the entiro Del
agoa Bay railroad to tho frontier of tho
Transvaa'. The road will bo under con
trol of state officials.
Thoro were Boulangist and socialist
meetings at Paris ono night lust week,
which ended in a free tight. Several
persons wero badly injured. Some wero
stoned and some stabbed.
Telegnims from Crete Btato that there
have been lately in various parts ol tho
island many murders. Both Turks and
Christians, fearing tho effects of Turkish
revenge, are takin: refuge in tho hills.
Watts, the artist mid husband of Ellen
Terry, has decided to give his paintings,
about fifty in uumlier, and including
jHirtraits of some of the most celebrated
men of the time, to the British gallery.
Fivo war-ships for the Turkish navv
have jtiBt been launched ut Constanti
nople, ono corvette, thr.e guuboats and
ono torHHlo boat. Tho minister of
marine, and many military nnd civil
officials wore present.
' Parnell's circular to bis follower!! bavh
that constant and un-emIttliiL nttontimi
ing effective service iu tho Irish case.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Commercial affairs are still more or less
controlled bv the same quieting Influences
that have prevailed since the beginning of
the year, hen e there Is no expansion yet
to note In the volume of trade. The gen
eral thaw lias brought through some
trains, but very little freight yet, passen
Kers liavlDg the flMt consideration. When
the freight accumulated on the Union and
Southern Pacific doi s get here it will be a
deluge for the merchants, but orders
awaiting fulfilment will soon reduce It.
The Northern Pacific has been especially
fortunate In keeping their main line open,
and there has been very little delay In the
handling of freight on that route.
A;itieU!.TUKAI I.Uri.K.1IKXTM.
Breaking Plow 8 35o
Broadcast Seeders 0 'fa 1 10
Binding Twine 10 per ct dls 18c
Binding Wire " " 12'c
Grain Drills HOtolOl
Gang Flow 100115
Osborne's Mowers . . . .2Uper ctdls 75
Reapers . . " " 120
" ComMwrs&Rprs " " 150
" Droppers... " " 130
" Steel-frame self
bind'g Harvesters " " ISO
Railroad Barrows, iron wills tfdoz 4S(?65
Railroad Barrows, wood whls ' 150
Road Plow 303fJ
Solid steel scrapers 12'tfl4
Steel disk harrows f OSOO
Soring wagons 125 "170
S ilky Plow 7505
Walking plows 0(&2o
Wagons, all makes HOglGO
HAOH,
Bnrlaps. 40 In 7
Burlaps, 45 in 74
iiurlaps. Utiln ill
Gnnnles, : 8x40 10
Potato bags, net cash 5feOJ
Wool 4 lb, "
Wool 34 lb, '
Wheat sacks, spot, net csh 71
Wheat sacks, extra, second hand . . 0i
co'Fi:i:t4
Urern.
Guatemala. V lb 214?23
Java, H lb 25 1
Mocha, V ? 28 W31
No. 1 Costa Rica, lb 22 5
Rio, tj tb 22 23
Salvador, lb 2Ufe22J
JtouHtt-il. in HnuH.
Arbuckle's Ariosa, t lb 25J20
Closset & D.'h Columbia 1 lb prs . . . . 25 Ca20
Costa Rica 20 27
Guatemala 25 J (2; 23
Roasted Java 31 (?32
Roasted Mocha 35 37
tVOOli.
KnNtcrn Oregon.
According to shrinkage 1014
Valley.
SpriiiKcllp 1018
Uiupqua 10g20
Umpqua, lambs and fall 1014
VeuetableM (Frtfwh).
Cabbage, V lb 221
Carrots, per at 1 25
Oarrots. voung, t? doz 15
Celery, doz 001 00
Lsttuce, ? doz 12J
Onions, 100 lbs 2 002 50
Potatoes, p 100 lbs 1 251 60
Potatoes, sweets, lb 2 J
Radishes, P doz 12
Spinach
Turnips, b sk 1 36
IMMIl.TltV.
Chickens, large young, t? doz. .. 4 SOWS 00
Chickens, broilers 3 '5-5)4 00
Chickens, old 4 5 (gs 00
Uucks. kdoz i PU'ftM nu
Geese, young, V doz 10 00U 00
Turkejs, younc. W lb lo
Grouse and Pheasants 3 00
Kit KM II Kit It IT .
Apples 1 50(52 00
Bananas. bunch 3 504 00
Lemons, California, V bx 5 01'iti 00
Lemons, Sicily, t? bx, new 0 50ig7 00
Limes, kcwt 1 50
Quinces, If bx. 1 001 2"
Oranges, Riversides 3 2i(53 50
O alines, Seedless 4 75 5 00
;hai.v.
Barley, whole. V ctl 80 00
Corn. tfUOOtbs I 50
Oats, good, old, il bushel. .1
Oats, new, " 38 O 40
Uve, t? 100 lbs. nominal 1 Tl(w 2.1
Wheat, Valley, If l'Otbs 1 1741 20
Heat, JSast-ern Oreg in I lcst lo
oAiitv vitoiHJCi:.
Ilnttcr.
Oregon fancy creamery- 30
Choice dairy 274
Common 8 12J
Pickled, California 18 20
Eastern fancy creamery.
California choice
CIlCCHC,
Oregon full cream
Oregon skims and old
Swiss Cheese, domestic
Young America, Or
F.iflfN.
Oregon, t doz
Kastern, doz
Fl.OUIt.
Portland patent roller, V bbl
Halem patent roller
D.nyton patent roller
Cascadia patent roller
Country brands
McMlnnville
Supi'rflne . ,
White Lily
Graham
22 25
15
10
15 10
14
40 45
32 35
.... 3 75
.... 3 75
.... 3 (15
. . . . 3 05
. ... 3 50
.... 3 75
.... 2 50
.... 3 75
3 25
Ryo Hour 0 00
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JrunH NecilM.
Timothy 0 O 0J
Orchard GraBS 1H12J
Red Top 7J 0
Blue Grass 12 (3:14
English Rye Grass 7f(5) 0
Italian Rye Grass Oail
Australian Rye Grass 7J 0
Mesqulto 7 (10
Millet 5 0
Hungarian Millet 5 fa! 0
Mixed Lawn Grass ) 12&15
Clover NeeilH.
Red Clover 1011J
White Clover 10nz18.
Alsyko Clover 154174
Alfalfa 0j5gl0J
.tllMCellUllOOUM,
Canary 4(5) 5
Flax 44(5) 5
Hemp 5 (2j 5J
Rape, California 3 4
KKKII.
Bran, V ton-.. 17 00
Hay, ton, baled 15 00M0 00
Gnmnd Barley, f ton 22 50$2t 00
Mill Chop, fc'ton 18 00&20 (0
Oil Cako Meal, t'tou 30 UKS32 60
Shorts, t ton 10 00 a 20 00
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Rough... PerM, 10 00
Kdged 12 00
T. & G. sheatkluR 13 00
No. 2 flooring IS 00
No. 2 celling 18 00
No. 2 rustlo 18 00
Clear rough 20 00
Clear P. 4S 22 60
No. 1 Mooring.
No. 1 celling...
22 60
22 60
22 60
25 00
No. 1 r wtlc
Stepping
KAI.T.
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2001bb.gs Plon
100-lb Lags, f ton
Ground Rock, 60-tb bag f ton.
17 00
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:., i
STAMPS WITH A HISTORY.
They
Help to Tell the Story Thmt Led t
the American Herniation.
Thoro havo lately como into tho pos
session of the National museum two
articles which nro of p-reat interest to
every American, and of particular
value to every student of American
history. These nro nothing; more nor
less than two of the original stamps
engraved in England for u&e iu tho'
American colonies in accordance witn
the provisions of the stamp act of
February, 1705. This was tho act which
caused such an uproar among the col
onies, and was one of tho main causes
of all the trouble immediately preced
ing tintl leading up to tho Revolution.
It was intended that the revenue to
bo raised by the stamp act should come
from tho 'sale of stamped paper and
stamps which wero required to bo
placed upon all papers used in com
mercial transactions, suits at law, pub
lications, transfers of real estate, in
heritances and marriage licenses.
Thus a tax was placed upon the colo
nies without their consent, and the
money derived from this tux was to bo
used "for the support of a standing
army, which iu turn was expected to
enforce the payment of the tax. Ap
parently no Englishman dreamed of
any resistance to the act, utid it is said
that Grenville, the minister under
whom tho act was passed, afterwards
tnado the statement that he would havo
staked his life on the obedience of tho
colonies to the measure. Of cotu-se,
however, there was a decided resist
ance, as every American knows, which
led to the repeal of the act in March,
1700. under tho Rockingham minis
try. The stamps themselves wero hand
somely engraved, and ran in valuo
from a half-penny up to several
pounds. The two stamps now in the
museum aro of the value of a half
penny and a penny. They aro uncan
cel leu and arc two of eight whi
ich wero
preserved
bv tho heirs of Hon. wel-
bore
Ellis, who was commissioner of
internal revenue for Great Britain in
the year 1705. After his death they
came into the possession of his son,
Welbore Ellis, jr., who was a partner
in the famous banking house of Walk
er, Maltby, Everett & Ellis, which
failed in tho great financial panic of
1S27.
These two stamps remained in the
Ellis family up to a few years ago,
when they wero given to Mr. E. J.
Walker, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, by his
grandfather, tho senior member of the
above mentioned banking linn, who
was interested in antiques and curi
osities. A short time ago the two
stamps were given by Mr. E. .J. Walk
er to Mr. John A. Brill of Philadel
phia. Very soon after the stamps came
into his possession, Mr. Brill received
an oiler of 10 from an English col
lector for tho two, but declined it at
once, whereupon the Englishman
cabled him an oiler several times as
large, which was also declined. Mr.
Brill came to the conclusion that if
tho stamps were of that much value
loan Englishman, tliey would bo of
much moro value to an American mu
seum of historical relics, and he
promptly presented them to tho Na
tional museum here, where they will
bo appreciated and properly preserved.
They will bo installed in a handsome
frame, which will have pictures and
proper legends that will help to tell
the story of the causes that led to the
American Revolution. Washington.
Star.
Hie Teiichins4 nf Death.
There is nothing, no, nothing, inno
cent or good, that dies and is forgot
ten ; let us hold to that faith or none.
An infant, a prattling child, dying in
its cradle will live again in the better
thoughts of those who loved it, and
play its part, through them, in tiie re
deeming actions of the world, though
its body bo burnt to ashes, or drowned
in the deepest sea. There is not an
angel added to tho host of heaven but
does its blessed work on earth in those
that it loved here.
Forgotten I oh, if the good deeds of
human creatures could be traced to
their source, how beautiful would oven
death appear 1 for how much charity,
mercy and purified allection would
be seen to have their growth in dusty
graves. When death strikes down the
innocent and young, for every fragile
form from which ho lets tho panting
spirit freo a hundred virtues rise, in
shapes of mercy, charity and lovo to
walk the world and bless it. Of every
tear that sorrowing mortals shed on
aiieii graves, somo good is born, Some
gentler nature conies. In the destroy
er's step spring up bright creations
that dely his power, and his dark path
becomes a way of light to Leaven.
Charles Dickens.
A Sort of Joint Proposal,
A short timo since, at a wedding in
South Carolina, a lawyer moved that
one man should bo elected as presi
dent; that this president should bo
duly sworn to keep secret nil the com
munications that should bo forwarded
to him in his ollicial capacity that
night; that each unniarried gentle
man or lady should write his or her
name on a piece of paper, and under
it placo the naino of flio person they
wished to mavry, then hand it to the
president for inspection, and if any
lady and gentleman htuj reciprocally
chosen each other, the president was
lo inform .each of tho result, and tho
names of those who had not been re
ciprocal in their choico were to bo kept
entirely secret. After tho appoint
ment of tho president, communica
tions wero accordingly handed up to
the chuir. It was found that twelve
young ladies nnd gentlemen had
made reciprocal choices-, aud cloven,
of the twelve matches wero solem
nized. In the l'artaiiHCC.
"Henry," cried Mrs. Smithfc
"thoro are burglars in tho house I tii
Jot
right up, and go downstairs."
"No, my dear," returned tho revrr
ond gontlemun. 'I hoar them in tin
study now. Perhaps thoy will get
away with a few of thoso dreeing
gownsnnd pieces of knitted brie a brao
wo have received. 1 dou't know what
elso to do with thetu." Harper's Ba
lar,