AN INSURGENT VICTORY
Spaniards Suffer a Crushing
Defeat in Matanzas.
10WN OF HOLGBIN CAPTURE!
Conflict Fe Many Point WU
Unabated. Fary Spanish Lou
. CoToy la rinar Del Bia.
New York, Nov. 8. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana says: Th
inftirgent troops in the field are very
active. On October 80 the Spaniards
austnined the moat severe loss they
have met for eome time. On the bord
ers of Matanias province General Mo
lina whs defeated by the insurgents un
der General Betancourt. General Mo
lina was on his way to Havana with
brigade of troops to participate in
Blanco's reception. At Aguacate he
heard the rebels were encamped in
Purgatory hills, and broke his march tc
attack them. The fight vras a long
one, and the Spanish loss was large.
He was finally forced to retreat.
In Pinar del Bio province the rebels
under command of Captain Lorr at
tacked a convoy that left San Cayetano
and oaptured a large supply of clothing
and ammunition.
A report apparently well-founded, is
current in Havana to the effect that
Holguin has been oaptured by rebels
under Gen real Oebreco. That it has
been attacked, and that 75 Spaniards
were killed is admitted, but the capture
is denied.
General I-uque with heavy reinforce
ments left Havana yesterday for Hol
guin. In a book on the Cuban war just pub
lished here, General Weyler writes the
introduction. In one places be says:
"The system of warfare carried on by
me during this campaign is not a new
one. It is the same as that pursued
by the Americans of the North when
they fought their brethren oi the
South." "
- A million dollars in paper currency
has mysteriously disappeared from the
treasury here. The money was intend
ed for the payment of the navy, and the
troops. This fact, coapled with am at
tempt to deprive the army and navy of
their pay for the months of April, May
and June is causing great indignation.
RELEASED FROM MORO CASTLE.
Two Survivor of Macao's Original Ejc
pedltloa Bo Free.
New York, Nov. 8.The Journal
ays; Of the 43 persons who landed
with General Maceo near Baracoa,
nearly two and a half years ago only
three survive. The others, including
Maceo, have perished on the battlefield,
or in hospitals in Cuba. Two of the
survivors are young Americans, Frank
Agramonte and Julio Sains. Word
has been received in this city that
through the efforts of Dr. Pulaski
Hyatt, United States consul at Santi
ago, they have been released from Moro
castle, and will sail for New York next
Saturday.
Agramont is trie son .of Professor
Emilio Agramonte, of this city. His
family is one of means, so that the
burden of his imprisonment has been
lightened through their efforts.
Sains is an orphan and Dr. Hyatt
hB provided him with food and com
forts out of the 50,000 fund appro
priated by congress for the relief of
Americans in Cuba.
The young men, both about 24 years
of age, sailed with Maceo. The party
was intercepted near Baracoa. In the
skirmigh 10 soldiers and a Spanish
officer were killed. Agramonte and
Sainz were separated from their com
panions and were captured a few days
later.
Owing to the death of the officer,
the affair assumed a serious aspect.
The boys asked help from Mr. Hyatt
. M . 1 ,1.1 J-SUbU -"J' " ' ...... B.U1.
he saved them from being shot. They
were imprisoned in Moro castle. For
two years and a half the boys have been
inmates of the prison. The governor
of the prison allowed any artiole with
Hyatt's stamp to be given them.
Just before General Weyler left foi
Spain Hyatt wrote to him, recalling a
promise to release the boys. Now
news comes that the release of the
young men was among the last official
aots of the genreal. The boys hav
sent word that they will sail for New
York on the Niagara. ,
Or From New Discoveries.
Salem, Nov. 8. Some large speci
mens of gray quartz ore were brought
out from the claims located by the
Gesner party near Quartzville, and are
on eiphibition in Salem. The epeci-;
mens are of free-milling ore, and it ii
the purpose of the party to have them
tested soon. It is hardly probable
anything can be done toward develop
ing the mines before next spring. The
new discovery has been named the
Khoda. .
Barcelona Anarchist Murdered.
Madrid, Nov. 5. -A dispatch from
Barcelona says that 112 persons who
have been confined in the fortress of
Montjuich for a year on suspicion of
complicity in 'anarchistic plots and
outrages were released today.
Investigating the Ute Trouble.
Washington, Nov. 5. The war de
partment is investigating the recent
reported uprising among the Dtes in
Utah. It has been practically decided
to send an inspector from the interior
department to investigate and report
on the trouble.
The water is so clear in the fords of
Norway that objects an inch and a half
in diameter can be distinctly seen at a
depth of 150 feet
French Evacuated Sakl.
Lagos, Coast of Afrioa, Nov. 8.- The
French have evacuated Saki. one of the
posts in the Lagos Hinterland, which
was occupied by their troops in contra
vention, it claimed here, of the
Anglo-French agreement of 1889.
When it was announced that a French
expedition had occupied Suki, Gov
renor JHcCullutn, the British official
under whose jurisdiction the place is
situated, flispatched a force of British
troops from Lngos to Saki, . Upon tho
arrival of the British force near Saki,
Jjie French troops retired.
A KNIFE FOR MORAES.
Attempted Assassination af the l
dent of Braiil.
New York, Nov,-8. The Herald's
corresiomlent in Rio Janoiro telegraphs
that an attempt has been made to assas
sinate the president of Braiil, Dr.
Prudente Jose de Morses. The presi
dent's brother, an army officer, was
probably mortally wounded while
shielding the chief executive. General
Betancourt, minister of war, who was
one of the president's party, was shot
and killed.
Kio Janeiro is now under martial
law, every BoMier having been ordered
to arms, and it is feared another revo
lution is at hand.
The attempt to kill the president,
and the killing of the minister of war,
it is believed, is the workof monarchial
sympathizers. Another rumor ia that
they were the result of the feeling
aroused by the proposed arbitration
treaty with France.
Wild excitement prevails in the city.
Startling rumors are heard on all sides.
The belief is general in certain classes
that tt followers of Antonio Oonseil
heiro, the leader of the fanatical move
ment, who waa recently killed in
Canudos, have invaded Kio to strike
their first blow for revenge.
It was the day set apart by President
Moraes and his cabinet to do honor to
Krear-Admiral Barbosa, one of the con
querors of Conseilheiro'a friends in
Caundos. Admiral Barboca was one of
the chiefs of the Brazilian troops who
several weeks ago hacked and shot down
thousands of the followers of the fierce
Conseilheiro, who had gathered his
forces in Canudos.
It was believed then that the crush
ing defeat of the fanatics there and the
death of Conseilheiro had put an end to
Brazil's monarchist enemies. "
Thousands of persons gathered to see
President Moraes and his oabinet extend
publicly the thanks of the republic to
Barbosa and his troops, just returning
on the steamer Canudos. Many mem
bers of congress and persons high in
naval, military and ecclesiastical circles
were present, as were also the diplo
matic representatives of several foreign
countries.
The victorious troops were passing in
review before President Moraes, when
a soldier dashed out of the naval arsenal
toward the president's party, drawing a
dagger as he went.
Fearing his intention, and unable to
atop the soldier. Colonel Moraes, brother
of the president, stepped between the
executive and his assailant, and tried
to ward off the dagger thrust. In this
he was successful, but the colonel re
ceived the dagger in his own body, the
soldier in his frenzy striking several
times before he was seized by those in
the rear. The troops were thrown into
a line in front of the president's party
and tried to force the crowd back.
While President Moraes and the
members of his cabinet were bending
over the body of Colonel Moraes, a shot
was heard and General Betancourt, the
minister of war, staggered and fell be
hind the body of Colonel Moraes, with
a bullet in his bead.
This added to the excitement of the
crowd, which was, by this time, wildly
surging to and fro, the troops using
their bayonets to keep it back, and
those behind pressing forward.
Finally, fearing another attempt to
kill the president and the members of
hia cabinet, more troops were called,
and a strong guard was formed around
the official party. Then Colonel
Moraes and General Betancourt were
lifted and borne to the palace. Colonel
Moraes was seriously, probably mortally
wounded.
General Betancourt died a few min
utes after he was taken into the palace.
In the meantime, fearing an attack on
the palace, President Moraes ordered
that the crowd be dispersed, and the
troops finally succeeded in doing so,
though a serious conflict at one time
seemed imminent, owing to an attempt
to lynch the president's assailant
The news of the affair spread with
remarkable rapidity, and within 10
minutes the city was in a fever of ex
citement. Bumorrfof a revolution were
rife on all sides, and there seemed good
reason to fear an uprising.
In order to avoid a possibility of this,
orders were issued from the palace
calling all the troops in the city to arms
and declaring the city under martial
law.
The soldier who tried to kill Presi
dent Moraes is under arrest. He be
longs to the Tenth battalion. He re
fused to give any reason for his attempt.
The person who shot General Betan
court is unknown. No one knows
whence came the fatal bullet
The citizens generally attribute the
deed to revenge on the part of Conseil
beiro's followers. Some well-informed
men have brought up the theory that
the attempt on the president's life grew
out of the proposed arbitration treaty
with France on the Ampapo question.
This tveaty the president vigorously
upheld despite tremendous opposition
in congress and among the people.
Big, and Yet It I Sound.
Long Creek, Or.', Nov. 8. There is
on exhibition in a store at this place a
monster turnip. It was raised in the
garden of Mr. Allen Porter, near this
city; weighs 1934 pounds, and meas
ures 39 inches in oircumference. It
seems to be perfectly sound, and not
pithy, as is generally the case in veg
etables of its size.
Hop Sale at Dallas.
Dallas, Or., Nov. 8. H. G. Campbell
sold 153 bales of hops here today at
cents to T. A. Farley, represent
ing HorBt & Lachmund. A number of
other sales are reported at prices rang
ing from 6 to 10 cents.
A Steel Work Explosion.
Milwaukee, Nov. 8 By an explo
sion at the Illinois steel works last
evening five men were injured, two
fatally. The fatally injured are Peter
Hundt and George Kolinski.
KlileeTky Hi Pupil.
Sedalia, Mo., Nov. 8. James Allen,
a teacher in a school at Wheatland,
Hickory county, was beaten to death
yesterday by his pupils. Ab a punish
ment for misconduct, Mr. Allen kept
several hoys after school was dismissed
last night. When released, the youths
went away angry, and later, as the
schoolmanto. was on his way home,
they waylaid him, pelting him with
stones and clubs. Mr. Allen was
knocked down and his skull crushed.
He did not regain consciousness, anil
died this morning. The youths have
been arrested,
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
tOUce of PowlrtT, rtr-fVIn Co., CMcsre
Board ol Trad Brokers, 711-714 Chamber, ol Com.
werce Building, Portland, Oregvu.J
Facts established sooner or later con
trol wheat values. Speculation may
temporarily advance or depress values,
but in the end the laws of supply and
demand art sure to assort themselves
and control vulues. It has been a self
evident proposition for several weeks
past that conditions warranted higher
values. Speculative infiuonoes have
repeatedly driven prices downward, bul
the market has rebounded With the
buoyancy of a cork upon tho water.
The news announcements of the week
have been uniformly favorable to high
er values Crop advices at home indi
cate less than an average acreage seeded
to winter wheat, owing to tho pro
tracted drought, which has been broken
only in certain sections of the winter
wheat belt. Receipts at primary points
are falling off and promise from this on
to prove smaller than last year. Ex
port clearances continue large, 6,991, -000
bushels for the week, which is
largely in excess of our exportable sur
plus weekly. The export demand shows
no signs of diminution. On the con
trary, it is urgent and increasing, the
last 'few days of the' week having re
sulted in very large sales for export.
Foreign advices continue extremely
bullish. The reports of our own con
suls in Kuropa more than confirm the
maximum estimates of European im
port requirements. Advices from Lon
don assert '.bat Mediterranean ports are
outbidding England for Russian wheat
The Frenoh chamber of deputies has
been petitioned to reduce the Import
duty on wheat, and some action in this
direction will probably be taken sooner
or later, although not necessarily at
present, Rusnian advices, although al
ways unreliable and largely mythical,
are extremely bullish and must neoes
sarily have some foundation on fact
The Argentine crop is still an unknown
quantity. Reports are conflicting.
Drought conditions have prevailed.
Locusts have caused some damage, and
in the absence of reliable reports it can
not be assumed that the orop will be a
large" one in yield. Local speculative
conditions are extremely favorable for
hither values. Stocks on contraot grain
are very small, practically exhausted,
and there is no immediate prospect of
their being replenished. oan dis-
cover nothing in the situation at home
or abroad warranting any declines in
values, and would regard any decline as
but temporary, unwarranted, and
therefore a good speculative opportun
ity to buy wheat, the final outcome of
which we aniticipate to be much higher
prices.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 79 80c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 8183c per bushel.
Four Best grades, $4.00; graham,
$3.70; superfine, 12.40 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 34 35c; choice
gray, 32 33c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $1920; brew
ing, $30 per ton,
Millstiffs Bran, $14 per ton; mid
dlings, $31; shorts, $15.50.
Hay Timothy, $12 12.50; clover,
$10 11; .California wheat, $10; do
oat, $11; Oregon wild hay, $910 per
ton.
Kg?s 22 H'c per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 4550o;
fair to good, 8540c; dairy, 2535c
per roll.
Cheese Oregon, lljjo; Young
America, 12)fc'c; California, 910o
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed,
8.00 per doezn; broilers, $2.002.60;
geese, $4.00 5.00: ducks, $3. 00 3. 60
per dozen; turkeys, live, 9 10c per
pound.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 85 40c
per sack; sweets, $1.40 per cental.
Onions Oregon, new, red, 90c; yel
low, 80o per cental.
Hops 8 15c per pound for new
crop; 1896 crop, 67o.
Wool Valley, 14 16c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 712o; mohair, 20
22o per pound.
Mutton Gross, best bheep, wethers
and ewes, $2. 50 2. 60; dressed mutton,
5c; spring lambs, per pound.
Hosts Gross, choice heavy, $4.60;
light and feeders, $3. 004.00; dressed,
$5.506.00 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 75 3. 00;
cows, $2.25; dressed beef, 45)cper
pound.
Veal Large, 45o; small, 6
10 per pound.
Seattle Market
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 24 26c; ranch, 1618c.
Cheese Native Washington, 10
11 c; California, 9c.
Ei'gs Fresh ranch, 28c
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
hens, 10c; spring chickens, $2.50
3.00; ducks, $3.603.75.
Wheat Feed wheat, $25 per ton.
Oats Choice, per ton, $20.
Corn Whole, $22; cracked, per ton,
$22; feed meal, $22 per ton.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$22; whole, $22.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef,
steers, 6c; cows, 6)40; mutton sheep,
6c; pork, 7c; veal, small, 7.
Freeh Fish Halibut, 6c: salmon,
8)jc; salmon trout, 7 10c; flounder!
and sole, 3 4; ling cod, 4 5; rock cod,
5c; smelt, 24c.
Fresh Fruit Apples, 50c$l per
box; peaches, 7680c; prunes, 8540o(
pears, $1 per box.
Ban Francisco Market.
Wool Nevada ll12c; Oregon, 12
14c; Northern 1416o per pound.
Hops 10 14c per pound.
Millstuffg Middlings, $2022; Cal
ifornia bran, $15.6016.00 per ton.
Onions New red, 7080c; do new
silverskln, $1.00 1.15 per cental.
Butter Fancy creamery, 27 28c;
do seconds, 2526c; fancy dairy, 24
25c; good to choice, 2123o per pound.
Cheese Fancy mild, new, Mc; fair
to good, 7 8c per pound..
Eggs Store, 18 26c; ranch, 87
40c; Eastern, 16 24; duck, 26c per
dozen.
Potatoes New, In boxes, 85 80c.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencies,
$1.50(2 3.00; Mexican limes, $2.50
8.00; California lemons, choice, $2.00;
do common, 76c$l per box.
Hay Wheat, 12 16; wheat and
oat, $11 14; oat,. $10 12; river bar
ley, $78; best barley, $10ll;
alfalfa, $8 9. 80; clover, $8 10.
Fresh Fruit Apples, 85 85o per
large box; grapes, 2080o; Isabella,
40 50c; peaches, 60 3 860; pears, $1.00
J1,60 per box; plums, 26(80
MRICULTUHAIi NEWS
f HING3 PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME,
Proper Shelter for Stock-Carina; for
Cabbage Advantage of Covered
Barnyard-Method of Washing Butter
-Uarveatiim Weedy rotutoee-Notee,
Shelter for Stock.
One of the most Important and oft
neglected matters for fall considera
tion ou farms where a few awliio are
kept Is that of a proper shelter for
them during the Inclement weather of
late fall ami during the winter season
This Is a question Into which both bn
ruaulty and profit enter. Nesta made
In heating manure piles and at the base
of straw stacks furnish warmth, but
are very Injurious to the health of the
animals; while low, dusty shelters un
der buildings breed vermin and disease
and should be avoided. Dry, floored
pens raised from the ground so tho
wind can blow under are very uncom-
fortable In cold weather, and the ani
mals will not thrive therein until the
wind Is excluded below. Every farmer
knows how to construct comfortable
shelters, but It Is too often neglected
and the pigs not only permitted but
compelled to "rough It," often under
the most unfavorable conditions.
Cabbage in Winter. '
The old plan of burying, or putting
cabbage iu trenches during winter, or
for winter use, has become obsolete,
and a more simple and easy plan boa
been adopted. Where cabbage is grown
on a large scale for shipping purposes,
the best plan is to lift the cabbage and
stack them two tiers deep and as close
ly as-they can be plaet-d in an orchard,
or wood If convenient, and cover with
leaves to the depth of two or three
Inches, the leaves to be kept In place
by a slight covering of earth, says
American Gardening. In this way the
beads will keep perfectly sound all
winter, and they can be easily taken
up as wanted for shipping. For fam
ily use cabbages can be kept In the
same way, only It will not be neces
sary to make the second layer. It Is
quite important to keep them a little
below the freezing point. It has been
suggested to keep them In some con
venient building, but this plan has al
ways resulted In failure, as the dry at
mosphere Is fatal; cabbage must be
kept moist and cool, the slightest wilt
ing renders It unfit for the table.
A Covered Barnyard.
The barnyards during the winter are
often so wet and filthy that the animals
are uncomfortable, which difficulty Is
sought to be remedied by the use of
cornstalks and other materials as ab
sorbents. The barnyard can be ren
dered dry by having It higher than the
level of the surrounding ground, but
in the arrangement of the barnyard
for the comfort of stock the next point
Is how to preserve tho manure from
loss by rains, heat, cold, etc. The only
remedy Is a covered barnyard, but that
Is expensive, though farmers would
find that the saving of food, better pro
tection to stock In summer and winter,
and the saving of manure would repay
any outlay In that respect, as any kind
of roof that would turn water from the
barnyard would answer the purpose.
Washing- 11 utter.
In washing butter either extreme Is
to be avoided. To wash It even In
granular form, until the water runs
off clear, will give us a butter that will
not decay or turn strong so soon as that
not washed so thoroughly, but it
washes out much of the flavor. On the
jther band, while the flavor Is enhanced
by not washing, the buttermilk left In
after working will tend to putrefac
tion; for, as we all know, there Is noth
ing which more quickly spoils and be
comes ill-smelling than buttermilk. To
work out all the buttermilk breaks the
grain, makes the butter salvy. Of
course, we do cot want to do this, so
we will wash It In granular form
through two or three waters (depending
upon quantity of water used, and also
upon temperature of butter), work In
the salt until thoroughly Incorporated,
and call It finished. Jersey Bulletin.
Harvesting Weedy Potatoes.
That sins of neglect will follow a man
until be Is duly punished Is never more
conclusively proven than when the neg
lected potato field comes to be harvest
ed. Not only Is the crop greatly les
sened, but the labor of harvesting has
been Increased. As a matter of fact,
the farmer who can and does keep his
potatoes free from weeds saves labor
by the operation. Sooner or later the
weeds have to be uprooted. It costs
less to do this while they are small. If
done then, the yield of marketable
tubers Is so much Incrensed, rfnd tli-? ex
pense of harvesting Is decreased so,
that It really costs less to harvest a large
crop kept free from weeds than to har
vest a crop failure made so becauite
overrun with weeds.
Weaning; Young; I.ombs.
It Is always best to wean lambs from
their dams before cold weather or
droughts Injure the iasturage. But,
however good the feed, some grain
should be added to keep the calf thrifty
and In good condition to enter the win
ter. Oats nre the best grain to feed to
lambs or sheep, and when at pasture a
gill a dny Is sufficient, as It la not de
sirable to fatten them. Much of he
future value of the sheep depends on
how It goes through the first winter.
It should be kept growlug, and It Is
also making a fleece to be shorn In the
spring. Both of these operations re
quire rich food with a large proportion
of nitrogenous nutrition. Out or beans
will supply this. When lambs are to
be fattened add corn meal with bran
and a very little linseed meal. , The
latter Is especially good to Increase the
wool growth, and some may safely be
given with oats and wheat bran to
lambs that are to be kept for breed
Ing. ,
Making Bmall Cheese.
A great deal of Inquiry has been
made for some means by which fami
lies with perhaps only two or three
cows could make full-cream cheese of
their milk whenever they might for
any reason choose to do so. Families
want cheese as well as butter. Some
times butter Is very low, and again the
weather Is too warm for the ordinary
farmer to make a good quality of but
ter, because he has not the necessary
conveniences -for keeping milk and
cream at the proper temperature. At
raeh times and undo-- sflcu elrcum,
stances If the milk could easily bv
made Into ft good quality of cheese al
home, It would he a matter or much
importance, nominally In the North,
but especially In the South, where, a
a rule, lee 1 uot to be had to aid In
butter-making.
The Pennsylvania Agricultural Col
lege has been working on the line of
making small cheese to meet the exi
gency of these conditions. They have
been making a cheese of about seven
pounds weight. Thin makes a cheosn
of good slue for handling and for fam
ily use. It Is reported that Prof. Hay
ward, of that Institution, says there
has been a ready sale for all that has
been made In that Vicinity, and more
could have been sold. The price re
ceived Is thirteen cents a pound, equal
to twenty-six cents for butter. It Is
not stated whether a bulletin has been
Issued detailing the process, but If uot,
most likely one will be ere long. Prac
tical Farmer.
l'otatoee Under Straw.
An Indiana farmer who bn been
quite successful In growing potatoes
explains hta method of doing It some
thing like the following: He breaks up
his ground deep and works luti tho
soil well-rotted compost. Tho surface
Is made level and smooth and the pota
toes are dropped ou top of the soil In
straight lines. The whole Is then cov
ered with alx to eight Inches of nli'iiw.
During the season ashes are liberally
sprinkled over them twice; the result
Is tubers of the fluent klud. We have
no doubt whatever of the succens of
such a plan and of the production of
flue tubers, but we venture to suggest
that the piece waa not large In extent.
When potatoes are grown by acres, any
thoughtful farmer can see that tho
amount of straw required would be Im
mense. No doubt for gnrden purposea,
where smooth tubers are desired, this
course would give them, but no better
than to plant furrows, covering with a
layer of straw and then of earth which
would require very much Ipbs straw.
The matter of expense sometimes gov
erns farm operation. Germuntowo
Telegraph.
Onion from Seed.
To grow onions from seed the pric
tlce now la to sow the seed In hotbeds
or cold frame In winter, In ordur to
get seta, which saves the coat of seta.
Maggots do not Injure the onions
grown from seta as seriously oa they do
from seeds. A fly doposlU ejfgs on the
sides of the young alioots, the maggota
from the eggs going down into the
bulbs and destroying them. When sets
are used they grow rapidly and get
ahead of the maggot. Seed am be
sown almont any time, the acts can be
transpalnted in the spring. After the
seeds have started the young onions
should not lie kept too warm, as It la
not necessary for the seta to be of
large size.
The Lettuce Seed Crop.
Always In saving lettuce seed, choose
that which has moat leaves, and which
has grown without Interruption from
the seed. The practice In many fam
ilies Is to pluck the leave three or four
times, and when at last the leaves be
gin to be tough, let the plant send up
its seed r-tulks. Usually the largest
crop of seed will come from the plant
that has the fewest leaves. But It will
not be worth planting. Grown as let
tuce for seed should be without dis
turbing a leaf, each plant will produce
very few seed. Yet seed from this
nearly seedless lettuce Is worth any
amount of the seed which la produced
la the usual way.
Farm Notre.
Those who are congratulating tho
farmers on the higher price for wheat
have overlooked the fact that potatoes
are bringing three times as much as
they did two years ago, and the potato
crop Is no small one In this country.
The quality and size of fruit on old
bushes Is much improved by severe
pruning or thinning of fruit, and this
applies equally well to nil tree fruits.
The demand of the times Is for quality
In everything, rather than quaetlty,
and this certainly applies to fruit grow
ing. To destroy weeds la pavements and
garden walks make a strong brine with
salt and boiling water. Apply with a
watering can. A moderate quantity of
salt stimulates the growth of all vegeta
tion; It Is, therefore, a mistake to sup
pose that a sprinkling of salt will ex
terminate weeds.
The best way to treat clover In the
fall is to spread manure over the Held.
The frosts and rains will pulverize the
manure and the covering will protect
tberoots.tbeaoluhle matter going below
to assist In giving the "lover a good
start and vigorous growth In the
spring, Increasing the yield and bene
fiting the hind.
To keep bees In the winter tho. hive
must be under shelter ami protected
against the cold. At the same time the
hive must not be kept too warm, as the
bees give off considerable animal heal
In the hive, ami may thus be tempted to
come out should the weather be mod
erate, perishing with cold before they
can return. Enough honey Hhould be
left In the hive to supply them until
spring.
Fall plowing la frequently resorted
to when the late summer and fail have
been very dry and the ground Is hard.
The winter may bring but Utile rain,
not enough before the spring planting
season to thoroughly souk the ground,
but If the land has been plowed It wlli
aliHOib and retain more moisture than
If left unplowcd for the water to run
off from the hard and packed surface
T, II. Hale, the great peach grower,
says that In setting out pencil trees you
waut a thoroughly prepared soil, medium-sized
trees; neither a very large uor
a very small one; that the roots want
pretty close pruning, and hey want
good, clean-out pruning not such as the
nurserymen give them with their ma
chines, but a careful cutting; and If
you cut very closely you will get fut
more rapid and sure growth,
When barreling apples prewt them Iu
so that no apple can move from Its po
sltlom If the apples are sound they
will not be injured by slight pressure.
It Is when the skin of an apple Is brok
en that It begins to decay, but If In
dented and the skin In not punctured an
apple will keep In a cool place during
the whole winter, and If closely packed
a barrel of apples may be shipped aa'
distance.
A HCHIATItnt.
That the world Is coming to an tud sud
denly at a given time Is not what li re
(W to. There are dlftVrent kinds of sen.
sutlons, as very many people know who
feel sharp twinges ol pain in in og nerve
.uiu u.,UH., Km a vsrv natnful
sedation, and tho torment of it make one
UUnk lonieiiung ' ramie hi oh .
Just at the llrst sensation or twinge Is the
ht time to use Bt. Jacob Oil. The less
pain the more easily it Is cured, and the
Oil prevents Its development by soothing
the nerve. At any stage It will our.
aanltary Meform of Bombay.
The Indian government has formulat
ed mi important scheme lor tho sanitary
reformation of Bombay City. The
control of government and municipal
lands will be vestod in a nominated
body, which will bo empowered to lay
now streets through orowded localities
and to erect dwellings at low rent for
the poor. The scheme involve an ad
dition to the municipal rates of not
more than 2 per cent.
SLAIN BV POIOK.
Not the polsn that the corerl usamln
mliiUu-ra In the ilrluk, Ihe (t, of siiins oll-i-r
r u lt, but Ihs ihiImhi ol malaria horu-iit Hi
lv- ol mirlsifs, There Is ( ' ottalu
sntlilolu. lliwtetler's Mtomaoh Milters, wiilcli
not 011W fortifies the nyntein snatml mslsrla,
but ruutu out Iw mwils when Ibey tisvs ormli.
ated. lvHMla, eontlllun, rlii-iimalle,
liver and ll.Uiicy trouble are couquorcJ by the
Hltturs.
A Minneapolis genealogist reckons
up four billion of person between
William the Cuiiqueror and oue of his
dosoondants now living.
200022
Economy: save 10 'cents on
a package of "cheap6 baking
powder' and eat the cake.
You couldn't do better for
your doctor.
Schilling's Dtst money-back
baking powder ia at your
procer's.
A SchHlIni Cnraaaae
eae rraariurn
KO
A dnguerrotype of Louis Philippe,
taken In 1840 by Oaguerre himself, has
been presented to tho Cainavalot mu
seum in Paris,
AN OPEN LITTER TO MOTHERS.
We ere ssserttue in the courts our right to the
excluttve u of the worU -CASTOKIA," anil
- HI CHKK H CAttt'OKIA," as our Tiale Mara.
I, Dr. Rsmuel Pitcher, of Uysanis, UassachuMtU,
wasthc originator of" rrrCMliR'aCAftrOKlA,"
the tame that bus borne Slid doe now bear the
fac simile sliinslureorCHA. H. HLKTCHHR o
every wrapper. This is the original " PITCH KR S
CASTOKIA" which has beta used In the homes
of the mothers of America for over thirty years.
Look Carefully at the wrsoper aud see that It I
tht kind you M almtjrs ton?!, and has lh
siffiistute of C It AS. II. VLKTCHKR on the
wrapper. No one ha authority from m to use
my name eacept The Ceataur Company of which
Chas. H. Fletcher is -resident.
Marc $, iSfJ. BAM UM, HTCHKR, If JX
A St. Louis paper i marvelling over
the case of a septuagenarian whose
white hair turned black in a single
night recently.
HO MB I-KODUCT AND I-l'KK FOOIH
AW F.a.tern Svnip, so-called, usually re
light colore-! and ol heavy body, Is mads fr-Ciuc-e.
"Tt'ti HarilrH liriftt" is mad fr
Hutrsr Csne and Is strictly piire. It Is lor ai
by ttrjit-eis-id trroe-rs, In cans only. Maitutse
tured bv the Pu-tric '.uT fcYsurdo. All n.
nine "trn ilwilm Itriftg' have the manufac
turer's uame Uiuoifrsplied on every can.
It is said that the flesh on the fore
quarters of the beaver resembles that of
land animals, while that on the hind
quarters has a fishy tits to.
"Klnsftolnmon'sTr'-Mure,' only A ptarodlolaral
Tonic known. (He Dictionary.) tvoo a bol. S
wtti-kH- tratutnt, Maaon C'bsmlcal Co., P. O. Uos
7-17, 1-bOadolohia, Pa.
"Ancient" coins, many of which an
tedate the Christian era, are made in
lurge quantities in London, and find
salo all over the world.
4V ivin iv a irw sv vmi. an till- rmj ttiv tin lilt?
t'mt will cure consumption. Anna M.
1 k. U.T. ti'i Pitea U r V.. -...I. wf ..a
nose, iiiuiiuspon, 11., imiv. 12, TO.
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Bixth mid Murrlxon street., MMLAM0, OR.
tnst1at.l lineal t)t. -
I? FOR
MFN
now to Restore Lest Manhood and
Perfect Devaloemmt.
-I?,1" ffeet work, plainly wrlttsn by hleh
iedlcr authority, shows how manfv vlaror
can be regained n obstacle to mirr
removed. It is a modern work for men w so
aulf.r from n.rvous debility caused bv over?
work, youthful lduinco. or latsr excesses
It points out hew to Ce cured of nirvS
dc.,,snd.ncy, impot.ncy, . Li3
Interfering with buslnc... WUuou
This li5 OLUTBLY PRRB.
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I nil IliLML DUUA
WHY B0 MANY KE0ULAB
PHYSICIANS FAIL
To Cure Fomalo Ilia Boma Trua
Reasons Why Mr. Flnkham
ia Morn BuooeaafUl Than.
t Family Doctor
A woman 1 lclc Bom dlseaM poon
liar to her sex U fust developing- in her
ystottt. Hha gite to her family physi
cian and toll him a story, but uot tht
wholo atory,
She hold lomnthlnif back, lose her
head, become agitated, forget what
lis want to say, and finally oonoeala
what aha ought to hnva told, and thus
completely inysMQc tho doctor.
I It any wonder, therefore, that tha
doctor fail to oure tha disease Btlll,
we cannot blama tha woman, for it la
Tory einbarraanlnff to detail lomo of
tho symptom of her sulfurlng, even to
her family physlolun.
It waa for this reason that year
.rrn Hfra THrilfham. efc T.von S t a -.
f, , J , .
determined to step in and help her
ex. Having had considerable ex
perience in treating female ill with
her Vegetable Compound, hi encour
aged tho women of America to wrlta
to her for advloa in rcjrard to their
complaints, and, bring a woman, tt
wa easy for her ailing sinter to po-.ir
into her ears every detail of their uf
ferlng. Over one hundred thousand
women were auccesafuUy treated by
Mr. Plnkham laat year. Such are tb
grand reult of her axporionoa.
There are 71,000 mora women than
men In tho state of MassiioliusHtt, and
thi execs 1 all in persons over 14.
HOWS THIS
W olfer One Hundred Poltar Reward for ny
esse ol Catarrh that Cannot be eurvd by Hell
Catarrh Cure.
K. J. f'HKNKY A CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undents, ued.hav known K, J licnsy
for ths last IA years, and bellrva 1tl 11 perlectly
hororable In all butlnes tramaultons snd
nuniieiaDy sble In osrry out any vblifallou
made by their ftrm,
VviseT.t imux.
Wholal Prints-Ms, Toledo, 0.
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Hall's Catarrh t uru ! taken Internally, set
Init directly upon the blood and mueous sur
(aatia ot th yatem. Ttiimmltt Irv. t'tic
7;k. per bottle. Hold by sll driiKslsts.
Hall's family I'llls are the be!.
Broken Down Men
Men Who Havt Wasted tho Vital
Power of Youth Who Lack
Vigor Can Be Cured by
Electricity.
This Is an appliance which is known sll vet
the world tor Its aomlerful Ionia tnlluetieeup
un the wsuIiik vitality of men and women,
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ten days. A iiuruisnetit ourv of all HesknrAs
roMoratlnn of new lll I ssmired In the lonf
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Ik Fomous Itoi M His
Yield- double tbe amount of tiy oihor rrrni
for hay or j.Mtiir. Will ilanA Uto diyswawun
ViKTtn Uass and VstJSl tt
trim Ma-"4" tvi.oMnKK. ii-w
I ZM w n J mL c
I ii 0 t-avr 'tro..Brriif f-r.tsvwm
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mi irvwt TiKorotiliy 111 nepieinrntr mn in
June. It growl ou dry lillln wlmre nothing
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