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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1892)
Farm Notes. Plants, Seeds, Etc., Free. For purposes of experimenting Pro fessor Hilgard of the state university will send from the Berkeley experi ment station many plants, seeds, cut tings, etc., which may prove valuable. charge is made for postage, or one of 25 cents for packing when the r . articles are to go by express. Among those now to be had on application ".are the following, specified in the - latest bulletin issued by Professor .Hilgard:' " v -' Cassava. This plant (sweet cassava) -.-'"a has recently been especially inquired about by Californians who have heard or read of its commendation by those who use it for human food or for cattle in the gulf states. Through the courtesy of Dr. W. C. Stubbs or the Louisiana sugar experiment station, we have secured a supply of the stems, by which the plant is readily propa gated. Cassava is chiefly grown in the West Indies and tropical America, and in Florida and Louisiana. As California conditions are quite in con trast with those prevailing in these moist regions, it is not wise to fore cast wide success for the plant in this state. It is quite possible, however, that it may prove satisfactory in some situations. It is commended in Florida as a kitchen vegetable used as potatoes are; also the grated root is used for bread, puddings, etc. For cow feed both the leaves and roots are used, the latter being described as far better than sweet potatoes as a milch feed. The fleshy roots grow to a length of three or four feet, and are readily pulled out of the loo e soil, which is best suited to its growth. The roots must be pulled only as de sired for feeding, and the supply is continuous the year round. It is es timated that from ten to fifty tons can be grown to the acre. The plant is most readily propagated by stem cuttings which are made about six inches long; the cuttings placed four feet apart each way and wholly buried in the soil to a depth of three or four inches. In the south it is usual to . give but little cultivation, except hoe ing to keep down weeds until the plants get a good start. In this state summer cultivation may be necessary rTto retain. moisture. In locations free . j from frost, and where the soil is well - - drained and warm enough to admit of planting of tender vegetables dur . in the winter, the cassava cuttings . v may be planted as described above as soon as received. Where there .: --danger of Irpst or likelihood of cold water-soaked ground for some time, fZ,- the cuttings should be stored in damp ; .. sand and planted out when the soil is ' . in good condition in the spring. We . - will send a package of cuttings by - mail for 10c V:' Taro. This plant, which will be recognized by most readers as a lead ing food supply of the natives of the ".'.-' ' Hawaiian and other Pacific islands, is grown here and there throughout Cal ifornia as an ornamental plant. Be cent experience reported from San Diego county creates a presumption that in some localities in California taro may become of economic impor tance. The tuber or conn is highly palatable and nutritious either boiled, baked or made into bread. The leaves are also said to be palatable cooked as spinach. Thorough cooking is necessary with both leaves and roots to iid them of acridity and poisonous principles. Taro may be grown in ordinary garden soil and with garden culture, or it may be planted along the sides of streams or in marshy places. It will endure complete sub mergence of the roots, and is some times grown on beds artificially flooded. Quicker and larger growth of the conn may be expected in the moister situations. Heavy frost cuts the leaves to the ground, but does not kill the plant. A plot in our experi mental garden has survived a temper -ature of 25 degrees, and the plants have grown undisturbed for several years, filling the ground with tubers, which are rather small because of the crowding and scant moisture in a heavy soiL Planted singly, and grown under more fevorable con ditions as to soil and moisture, great increase in size may be expected. The tubers should be set in rows about a foot apart. We will send a small package by mail for 10c. A Waste Land Forage Plant. El liott's Sida. The demand for plants which will catch and hold on upon the wild pastures of the state is con stant. We have already introduced several which have won approval in some localities but have failed in others. This year we offer seed of another, which may prove useful to some of our stock-growers. Our at tention was called to this plant in 1889 by Hon. G. D. Tillman, M. C. from South Carolina, who has given much attention to the introduction and growth of forage plants suited to his own state. His communication, Aug. 31, 1889, was as follows : " I inclose some seed of a new plant, which made its appearance in my . yard about three years ago. It is a number one pasture or green manure shrub or little bush, which grows spontaneously to a height of 18 inches to 2 feet. Cattle, and hogs are very fond of it; horses and mules as yet do not seem to like it. The plant has a long tap root. I believe it will prove a godsend for your stock ranges in California, taking possession of all ' your waste places and wild lands. It seems .to prefer hard clay or rocky land. It is also a wonderful honey plant for bees. Just scatter the seed on the hills, and in a few years it will cover the whole surface. In the mean time pasturing does not hurt it, but the plant is worthies for either hay or soiling." . The seed received from Mr. Tillman was sown in our garden and ger . minated readily. It grows finely in the heavy clay of our garden, and the plat which' received no irrigation whatever looks more thrifty than an . other plat, which' was moderately watered, during the summer. It - Bends down a long tap root, and while i - young is , -quite leafy and succulent. .f ' . It seeds freely and promises to extend ; V itself as Mr. Tillman .describes.- We ,do 'not. apprehend thafr'if would be ' v - djffioult to kill out by cultivation, bnt jo dotadytee; sowing tUe;Seed ex- 'paused by leaking gas. t-)-.S'::;.:.'..U... . cept on places designed for permanent pastures, and -not on meadows de signed for mowing.' Scatter the seed, as Mr. Tillman advises, on hilly pas- f-.liraa coenfrttilrir it- ?r 1,a-a ti n . 1 f li .1 i-il '"VU) UL'lUUVIUUg III 11 iH.ll.. iiuvi IIIULV I with a rake. Mark the places, so that it can be looked for afterward. Seed will be sent by mail in small packages for 3e. Texas Blue Grass.' We furnish root-sets in 8-oz. packages for 8c. each by man. ay planting a small plot, the grower will soon have roots to plant a large area if the grass com mends itself. Japanese Wheat grass. Tall Oat grass. Schrader's Brome grass. Hungarian Brome grass. JUairy-Jt lowered l'aspalum. Millet grass. Snail clover. Esparcet or Sainfoin. Jersey Kale. A. tall-srrowins col- lard producing a vast weight of feed on moist land, flants glioma oe grown and set out like cabbages. Each or the above will be sent by mail in 4-oz. packages at 5c. for each kind ordered. PACIFIC COAST. About a dozen men perished in the late storm on the Sierras between Placerville and Carson. The British Columbians complain that American vessels are poaching on halibut grounds within the three- mile limit. ARIZONA. There is another Apache scare caused by a reported outbreak from San Carlos. Palmer. Bennett and " Hobnob." horse thieves, escaped from ja at Flagstaff Jan. 3. All the indictments against mor mons forregisteringand voting under the test-oath law have been dismissed. The law provided that mormons could not vote as long as the church they belonged to countenanced polygamy, and were set aside on account of the difficulty of proving that the church had not renounced polygamy beiore the accused registered and voted. MONTANA. Seven felons broke jail at Silver Bow Jan. 6. Francis L. Patterson has been ar rested for robbing the mails at Butte. F. L. Patterson, a postoffice clerk at Butte, nas been arrested with a stolen money letter in his possession. A stage was robbed bv three men near tne Idaho line Jan. 3. They got $100 in money and $13,000 worth of jewelry from a Chicago drummer. NEVADA. While deranged from illness Henry Gerkin escaped through a window at Truckee and wandered ou in five feet of snow and froze to death. NEW MEXICO. The switch which wrecked a train at Querino was opened with the inten tion of wrecking a .passenger tram, which escaped because it was three hours late. A freight train was wrecked by a defective switch at Querino canyon Jan. 3 and Engineer Neil Evans was killed and Fireman Silva George and Brakeman Robert Hineman were in jured. OREGON. Somebody threw a bomb into a Chinese camp at Canby, on the Southern Pacific, which blew off the head of one Chinaman and injured several others. In the storm of Dec. 7 the waves swept clear over Tillamook Rock lighthouse, washing away the boats and tearing loose and carrying away the landing platform and tramway, which were bolted to the rock. On the 29th the waves were still higher, and streams of water poured into the lantern through the ventilators in the balloon top of the dome, 157 feet above the sea level. The lighthouse was shaken to its foundation by the impact of seas against it, and the water found its way into the house. The railroad commissioners sav the accident at La Grande was due to the negligence of the railroad company. The steamer Telephone sank on the breakwater of the mouth of the Wil lamette Jan. 5. " The supreme court has reversed the conviction of Dominico Coella of murder in Jefferson county and severely censured Judge Sachs, who tried him. J. T. Brszer. a Southern Pacific brakeman, was thrown across the rail road track at Salem and a train run over him and cut his head off. A company is being formed to build elavators at Panama and Aspinwall and Hhip grain in whalebacks, in bulk, from .Portland to .Liverpool in GO days by the isthmus route. John L. Sullivan took' the total ab stinence pledge while at Portland. WASHINGTON. The new Xorthera Pacific shops at Tacoma, consisting of fifteen brick buildings, nave been opened. The hotel and opera-house at Blaine have been burned. Luigi Galio jumped from a moving car at Spokane Dec. 11 and, making a miscalculation, was caught and dragged and killed. The mill property of J. A. Bauman & Son, at Deep Creek Falls, eighteen miles west of Spokane, has been burned. ine loss is 12,000; in surance, $8000. This almost cleans up the village, as it is the third fire within nine months. WVOMING. A murderer, a horse thiei and a seller of whiskv to Indians escaped from jail at Cheyenne Dec. 31 by knocking down and gagging the deputy sheriff. The French miners abandoned all they asked for. . Brazil still lacks much of being at perfect peace with herself. The czar is kept in ignorance .of the condition of the people in Wie lamine stricken districts of Russia and he re cently refused to permit money sub scribed by a regiment for their relief to be so used, declaring that there were no starving people in the empire. The officials who keep the czar in ig norance are responsible for the theft of the greater part of the money and food contributed to save the lives of the starving. The $40,000 in bonds which the bank of England some time ago declared had not been stolen have not been re covered, but the gang of thieves who stole them are in limbo. ' Two German doctors have dis covered the grip microbe, but they don't know what the dickens to do with the little cus-tomer.- He is the smallest microbe ye,t discovered, and he is making all the world cough. People and horses are dying of grip in upper Austria. ; Martin D. Loppy, a wife murderer, was electrocuted at Sing Sing Dec. 7. :An explosion. destroyed a portion of Dublin castle ec. 31 and there was a dynamite scare, though it appears the , explosion was an accidental one Women's World. Why the Cook Units. - Depend upon it, when a woman says she is willing to give $r or $C a week for a good girl and can't get one there's something the matter either with her or her house. The kitchen arrangements, for Instance, make a great deal of trouble with the help. In many or these agent-built houses the kitchen is in the basemen, the dining-room upstairs and a dumb waiter between. Suppose the mistress has ordered griddle cakes for break - fjvst. Then the girl must cook them downstairs, send them up in the dumb-waiter, and then come up her self to serve them during a meal. After the meal there are all the dishes to be taken downstairs and washed aud be brought up to be it away in the china closet. Now, do you blame' a girl for preferring to woik for half a dollar a week less wages in a houss where the kitchen and dining-room are on the same Uooi? Why, it's next to impossible to supply a family with help that will stay in a house where there's a dumb-waiter. I know a woman who is wearing her life out all on account of an ice-box. The house is old-fashioned aud the large, roomy ice-box is built into it in such a way that it cannot be changed. Other things have been changed about the house, however, and somehow the kitchen has drifted a long way from the ice-box. If the cook in the kitchen wants lard or but ter or milk or. anything that needs to be kept cool she must go down a long basement hall, up a flight of stain, through another long hall ami down another flight of stairs to get to the ice-box. When she is cooking on a hot hay and needs a great many things from there she is almost cer tain to "give warning" before night. That woman could save enough from the money she spends in cab hire when hunting for cooks almost every year to build a new Ice-box, but she is not far-sighted euough to see this, so she goes on believing cooks to be a most unreliable species of humanity. Another woman is nearly distracted herself, and her family endures many discomforts, all on jiccount of the dearth of frying-pans in her house She is a good-natured, lovable woman, engaged in benevolent work which takes her much away from home. The desire or her heart is to get a competent cook who can go ahead with the work and can be depended upon to attend to everything faith fully in her absence. For such a ser vanl she is willing to pay almost any price. uutjUniortunateiy, nerKitcncn is lacking in kitchen utensils, and is especially deficient in frying-pans. Every few weeks she will get a new cook, and after a trial is pleased with - her. She thinks she has found a treasure, and boasts of it to her friends. But presently there eomes a morning when she orders fried chickens, fried potatoes, and fried mush for breakfast. There is only one frying-pan in the house, and in her efforts to cook three fried dishes in one pan the breakfast is spoiled, and immediately thereafter the cook gives warning. The 1 idy then spends two dollars in cub hire ami one dollar fee at an employment bureau in her efforts to get another cook, when the same amount of money stK-nt in kitchen utensils would have saved the whole trouble. The irregularity of meals in some homes is the source, of unending trouble with the servants. " Now, Maggie," said the agent at an employment bureau, "Mrs. B. says I don't send her good cooks, and I want you to go there and do your best and see if you can find out what is the matter." A week later the cook returned, having given warning and retired from business. "Well, what is the matter? " asked the emyloyment agent. "It's no wonder she can't get a good cook! Who could have vitunls good and never know when a family is; coining to a meal? One day I thought I'd give the mistress a bit of a surprise, so I asked her what time would she have lunch. 'One o'clock,' says she. At half-past 12 I sent up stairs to see if she would be ready for lunch at 1 o'clock. Yes, she'd surely be ready. So I made the pudding I'd been planning for and ut 1 o'clock rang the bell. She didn't come down, so I rang the bell again. Still snc didn't come, so I went upstairs my self to see what could be the matter, an' would you believe it? she was in the bathroom giving the children a bath, and couldn't come for half an hour. I told her I was sick and would have tf leave that day. I won't work for folks that don't know .when to eat." The lack of frankness between mis tress aud maid increases these petty troubles. When a cook or other ser vant wants to leave a place she gen erally says she is going to be married, or her mother is sick, or she feigns sickness herself instead of telling frankly the ' true reason. Chicago Ledger. A strong rebellion is in progress at Tangier, Morocco. There is another insurrrection In India. This time it is on the frontier of the neutral Pamir plain, which lies between British, Russian and Chinese possessions and into which Russia has recently been moving troops. The natives captured Chalt- fort, and a stronor force of British recaptured it. Catarino Garza, dead or alive, the subject of a good deal of alarm along the Texas-Mexico frontier, and several small fights have occurred between bandit bands aud Mexican and United States troops in which a number of lives have been lost. The reports received from the regions are greatly exaggerated and utterlj un trustworthy. The Princess of Monaco hates gam bling, and is a sworn and powerful enemy of all the gamblingestablish ments that come within her dominion. She has prevailed upon her husband to close the gambling establishments n his principality as soon as th,e leases expire, and she has resolved to con vert ..the beautiful casino' at Monte Carlo into a hospital for consumptives. Guatemala has the duty taken off rice, beans, peas, corn, hay, vegetables and cattle. Current News. Value of Foreign Colon. The director of the mint has esti mated and the secretary of the treasury has proclaimed the valueof all foreign coins to be followed in estimating values of foreign merchandise ex ported to the United States after Jan uary 1, 1892. The following coins have been changed in value to the figure indicated : Florin of Austria Hungary, .341 ; bolivano of Bolivia, .091; peso of the Central American states, .091; Shanghai tacl of China, 1.031; Haikwan tael of China, 1.137; peso of Colombo, .091 ; suere of Ecua dor, .091 ; rupee of India, .328; yon of Japan, .745; dollar of Mexico, .75; sol of Peru, .091 ; rouble of Russia, .503 rouble of Russia ( gold ), .772 ; manbub of Tripoli, .023 ; bolivar of Venezuela, .138. For the first time the director of the mint has estimated the value of the gold rouble of Russia, and our consuls in Russia have been instructed to cer tify hereafter to the depreciation of paper money, which is practically the currency of Russia, from a gold stan dard, instead of from the value of a silver rouble, as heretofore. Crooked Kducatom. Indictments have been found of the against McEwen, treasurer state board of education, ami Pro fessor Fred Lucea Squiers, ex-principal of the Boise public schools, for ob taining money from teachers id' over the country by promising them situa tions to fill vacancies in Idaho schools which did not exist. Harroum, the sueriutendent of public instruction, anil Moody, state auditor, were not indicted, owing to the fact that, as is rumored, .the jury thought they were made innocent parties to the swindle by Sqniers and McEwen. Squires is supposed to be in New Orleans and McEwen somewhere in Honolulu. Retaliatory Reciprocity. The sugar-producing countries ex empt from the provisions of the presi dent's retaliatory reciprocity prochi mation are Germany, Brazil. Cuba. Potto Rico ami most of the British West Indies and Sandwich island, but other countries have leen hurry ing up their negotiations, and it is said that by the middle of February nearly all Central and South America will have concluded arninginenes which will give them a continual free market for their sugar; -coffee and molasses in the United States. Theory-Wrrkluic Foil. A party of explorers who have len spending the vear in the Blue moun tain?, south of Heppner, sent out by a museum in the east to search for fossils, have found a veritable bury ing ground of animals and birds which are now extinct. The gentle men have secured over a thousand specimens of cretaceous fossils, and will spend the winter in classifying and packing them for shipment cast. It is claimed by paleontol agists that fossil boues of birds are very rare, and in no instance previously has there been a perfect specimen ob tained. South of the Blue mountains is what is known as the Sagebrush desert, and in this desert is a small lake called Fossil lake. Such is the condition of the earth, air and water in its vicinity that Uie bones of the extinct animals and birds have lcen kept intact for centuries and now come forward to confound the theories of savants who have expounded learnedly on fossil remains and from one bone constructed whole animals. There are !ones of fowls of a char acter that makes it evident that the region was once tropical, although it is now cold and Ixirren. Horses of a rare shape were there and three dis tinct siecies of camel, the smallest no larger than a deer, llamas, mammoths, giant sloths as bigasoxen, with many extinct species of wolf and dog. It is an evident fact that the savage was here when some of these strange animals lived, for there was found imliedded in the thigh bone of a mam moth an arrow head made out of volcanic glass. A Diabolical Crime. The scandal arising from the dis covery of adulterated Hour at St. Petersburg is apt to make trouble for a numlier of people. Theconsimunent comprised 300,000 poo. Is i,wh',000 English pounds) of barley-flour pur chased from dealers in Libau with a view of regulating the price of wheat in the St. Petersburg market, as well as to afford relief to the famine suffer ers. An investigation proved that the entire consignment was adulter ated with chalk dust and other sub stances. These comprised such a large proportion of the consigment that the use of the alleged Hour would have constituted a very dangerous menace to the health, if not the lives, of -those who partook of it. In speaking of this gigantic fraud the Novoe Vremya remarks that if such frauds can be perpetrt-d in the capital of the empire thu appalling accounts of similar crimes in the famine-stricken provinces cannot be exaggerated. Labor Union Note. Aearload of non-nulon niilrontl men from Indianapolis and Louisville to All the places of the strikers on the Han Antonia and Arkansas Pass road wore driven from tho ear thoy were in by union railroad men at Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 1. A hundred men rushed into the. sleeper, driving the oceu pants, some forty telegiaph operators, machinists aud train hands, from the ear and into the swamps near by. Most of them wore driven Into a pond, through which they floundered, fol lowed by the infuriated men. Another crowd of mon boarded tho ear and with kniyes cut to shreds all the bag gage of the unfortunate men. The labor element of West Superior, Wis., is in control of union plasterers, and contractor James Cullen and his men, taken from St. Paul a few days ago, were driven from the town, one of them being probably fatally injured. The Chicago Trade and Labor assembly denounces President Gom pers jil the .national federation as dictatorial, selfish and autocratic -... i ; ..'. it ' General News. Matta's offensive note in reply to Harrison's message has been recalled and Chili will apologi.f. for murdering American seamen at, Valparaiso. The United States government has receded from the prosecution of the appeal against the Itata. The Chileans are angry over Har rison's message and the' majority of the Chilean congressmen are averse to making any concessions to the United States. Military preparations are going forward rapidly, as if in anticipation of war. Minister Egan is accused of charg ing refugees $100 a day for the pro tection of the American legation at Valparaiso. Chile has withdrawn the insulting letter issued by her late foreign min ister in reply to President Harrison and wants to arbitrate the difficulty with the United States. Three Chileans have been found guilty of stibbing Americans during the row at Valparaiso. Five Americans who were anested in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, in A.igust, lHH'.i, on suspicion of being pickpockets, aud lay in jail live days, are about to sue the canton for dam ages. American salt pork is hereafter to be admitted to entry at. Boulogne, France. The new Chilean cabinet is likely to make reparation for the outrage against American sailors at Valparaiso and t hus avert wai. UNITED STATES. John Johnson, a farmer of Whar nock, having read the biblical adviee tha if a member offend you, cut it off, took an nxe and amputated his little linger. He has liceti declared insane. R iee gamblers in several cities were bled Jan. 5 by a gang who had fixed up a scheme as wide as the continent. A telegraph operator in Chicago was hired to send out ti:e wrong name as that of the winner. The trick was discovered, but $75,ihhi had already been paid in different cities on the false dispatch. Sneuk thieves got from Wells, Fargo & Oo.'s safe at Houston, Tex., which had lieen left unlocked while the attaches of the office were Iran fen lug a carload offish and oyster? from one train to another Jan. C. inirty-iive newspaiier men have been arrested at Pittsburg, under a law passed loo years ago, for workinj1 on Sunday. Tho peach orchards of Delaware are living oh 1- wholesale of the yellows. John Apderson. who married Mrs. Ellen Purct-U of San Francisco and then ran away with $1" which she had accumulated, has played the same game with at least six other women, with several other counties to hear from. He has wife No. 1 in California, No. 2 at Cherokee, la.. No. 3 in Bos ton, Mass., at 129 Concord street. No. 4 at Kansas City, No. 5 supHKel to be in Chicago, No. c in Elmira. N. Y.. i and No. 7. Mrs. Puree II. who is still in Cleveland. O., where the much-married man is in jail. The town of Frayetteville. G i.. was almost entirely destroyed iy a c clone Jan. 6 and three jx-rsons were killed. Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress, is not a howling success. Her creditors cauuot collect a ceut from her Ten years ago $7:ti was stolen from the office of the United States Express company at Lima, O., and then' never was a known clew to the roMx-rs, who battered oien the door and got the money while the night agent was at tending a passing train. Now the company has sued William C-dvin. who was town marshal ut the time, and his son Thomas for the $7:tnu ami intereM. from the time of the robbery. Four colored firemen were crushed to death under a falling wall at Nash ville Jan. 2. Th lire is believed to have leen of incendiary origin. A large wildcat chased a pretty young schoolteacher for over a mile in the hills near North Yamhill. Un able to distance her foe. site turned on him with a parasol ami he tied. The cat was afterwards killed, and was found to Ik- the largest ever wrn in that section. J. I). lv of ht. Lmi-. supposed to ! the leader of the (tlendale (Gl.i train roblers, has U-en arrested at Los Augeles. A twelve-story building c.nnxs-i whollv of steel, iron and gloss, so that the sunlight will i-ciietntte its inm. st recesse-, is to be enx-ted on William street. New York, to be occupied l.y manufactories. New York has a Chinese hicvele club. Twenty Methodist Episcopal South preachers have lecn transferred from Georgia o California, where the lalMin-rs in the field are t few. Ctrl Schmidt while drunk at IVnver " confessed " that he was one of the mysterious Greenwood murderers at Napa. He was promptly arrested, but when he got sober he said he had never Ihhmi in California The People's party had acmitri tiling vote in the supreme eoiincil nl the Faiin-rs' AiliaiH'f. A fii-ti..ii opposed to the sub-treasury seheiiie ami I gov ernment ownership f railroads se ceded. The Farmers' Alliance pro ixise.s a poliiieul federation with all trade and labor unions. Tht attorney-general denies the rtiiht r the interstate railroads to issue free passes und will In ing a suit ti test the matter. The interna! revenue -paitment promises a vigorous waron bull butter at San Francisco. The cnttik who attempted Itus-ell Sage's life ut New York but. killed himself has been idcntitlcd n Henry L. Xorcross or Sniuerville. Mass., "a broker. Will D. South worm, whom the New York police arbitrarilv ar rested after the affair, without a war rant or a particle of evidence to con nect him with the affair, has been ex amined by mi insanity comiuissiin and declared s.-ine. The French consul at. liioJauciro Mas been instructed lv his govern ment to demand reparation for tin ; Killing of twelve Frenchmen at. the lime of the recent uprising. Twenty-five hundred women in the United States possess inedicnl diplomas. The coroner's jury finds the South ern Pacitlc. responsible for the acci dent at La Gtando which cost the lives of an engineer and II reman ami two tramps. The road was not properly ballasted aud tho ivgine was too heavy to be jiifely run over such a track at mail-train speed. The law prohibiting the owning of land iu Texas by aliens lias been de clared unconstitutional by the state supremo court. Miss Aimee Tourgee, the daughter of tho author of "A Fool's Errand," has been awarded the prize for .superior excellence in illustration by the Philadelphia school or design lor women. This prize is given by George W. Childs and consists of a linely en graved medal of the value or $50. Miss Tourgee's painting exhibited at the academy of line art.s last winter was highly spoken. of. She is an in telligent young lady not yet 21 and gives promise of superior excellence as an artist. She expects to study at the Art League in San Francisco this yenr ml then go abroad for neveraj years. -. . . t . SCHLOSS HAPSBURQ. The triitlit of tho Hoimd at 1 nutria to II Sold An Iiiterrpllnv Relic Archduke Ferillmimt d'Este, the pres ent lieir-nmmrriit to the Austrian crown, lias Just taken stops to buy from the Swiss (tovprniiieiit tlie ndns of the castle of HupslMirii. The younc Arch duke in so iluiiiK is actuated chlelly hy a desire to fulilll one of the last earthly w ishes of Crown Pi lu.te Kuilolnh. The lutter. a few months before his tragic death at Meverlliu:, says a correspond ent of the New York Tribune, under took a trip to the Ciuton of Arcaii under the strictest incognito, to vis t the place wucro his Illustrious am ea or, Kudolnh I., founder of the House of UupHbiirt; an 1 Hi st Kmperor of Austria, lived in the year 1'iV). Accompanied only by C.unt l'otoeki an. I two oillcors of hl household, Uiiilolph walked from the radwuy sjation at Hcbinznach to the melancholy und densely wooded heights where the crumbling towers of the xrand old fortress profile their still forbidding battlements auainst the sky. The Prince spoke but little, and when he caught sliiht of the ureen masses of the castle, with its moat tilled with aquatic plants and its Ivy-crown towers above which two (treat white owls were t-lrollnn bii?b up In. the air, be slopped short, awed by the many thoughts of the past and isone glory which the view of the cradle of bis family brought to bis mind. The view was truly a maiinilluent one, for Sell loss llapshurg is yet a iniixlity place, set anion); the endless woods and grassy hills of Arcuu, a huge rumbliu struc ture, half fortress half palace, with trees centuries old clustering near by. as In the days when armies of ku ghts Were wont o sweep down upon it like vul tures, to be gallantly received on the points of the lances of the founder of the place, the Chevalier Ibidbot, who built It In concert with his brother. Area Abbot Wi rner, iu the year 1UU. A silence like death enveloped the ruin. Nothing 61 rred in the balf-wild gar. leu s which extended to t le edge of the woods. Solemnly the moon arose above the turr-ls. aud battle ments and the vast expanse of ruossy stones gat icreil a great dignity an 1 au sterity from its mellow, funtustic light. Iu his heart the Crown l'riuee registered a vow to make the old place his own and to restore it to its depurted glory, but wheu some days latt-r he offered a Ms sum for its purchase to the ll-publb au Govenmeut of Switzerland, his advances were met with a curt anil not over polite re'usal. and this jewel of the past is still In the hands of the H lvetian, like a brok.-n eagle's nest in the grasp of a cowherd. It is stated that Archduke Frauds d'Ksle has been more lucky in his negotiations, and that the antique remains of Schloss Hiipsburg will once more become the property of the de scen lants of Rudolph I. It is 6a d to think that the room once inhabited by their famous Ancestor the only apart, meat, by the way. yet in an almost per fect i-ta;e of pres rvation 6 now used as a liriukiug t-aloon. The rest of tbe spacious but half ruined chambers an t bails have been converted into stables for the cows and pigs. No won der that when the Crown l'rince visited Seblcss llapsburg tears of n:ortlflcotion si ould have tilled bis eyes at tbe view of so unparalleled a piece of vandalism. Turning toward the old guardian of the place, who was showing blm round, the Archduke Inquired what use was now made of the North Tower, the highest of the four still remaining. "Ob. that's from w here we s gnal Ores." replied the man. "Indeed. niurniure 1 his Imperial Highness musingly- Then be added, with a s g"'i : "Yes. one can see far from there, but not far enough, however, to discover the fire which will one day con sume Europe from one end to the other. " The dull-witted S iss gared with some astonishment at the young man, whom he supios-d to le som ordiuary lourit, lilt e thinking that the words be was un a le to undc n-tind bad just been pro nounced by the descendant of the great Rudolph, whose name, which was so o'ten ou his lips, meant grand deeds and no ile works, even to his limited intelli gence. Uont Carry a W'atfean Fan. I heard an Instructive little story the other day of one of our American mil iiona.res wives who tried to get into scietv iu London this Summer, and who after a arti l suces was surprised to find herse f shelve . dropped further from her goal than she had ever been, writes Fedelino in the New York Satur day R view. Perhaps she does not know why this was her ill fortune to this day, but I could tell her. having beard the story from one who b.ard a certain great ..ersonage give tbe verdict that crushed her ho;.es. Tae great personage t&id : '"That woman, a wom m who does not know any belter than to carry a Wat tea u fan I don't wish ever to meet such a vandal." Poor Mrs. Millions bad made the sad mistake of carrying to tbe opera a genuine Watt. au fan. which she alas conceived o' as rather a splendid sort of thing to do Other ladies of ner type and tastes sho.ild make a note of it that she made a great mistake. Such conduct is coii-iidered and s a disrespect to art. Not only is no Watteau fan ever carried. but neiiner is any i.in signed By any modern artist of standing. Such fans are fr- quently mounted beautifully and then framed under gliss. Modern water co'or fans with tlie signatures of Petoille, Mourier. Lel-dr aud Duhofe frequently tiring as much as $'iO-U. The taste of such works being done on fans when the fan Is never to be used as such Is cer tainly questionable, but of that fashion and etiquette take no notice. Klgtit or Ln Handed. Theories as to tim origin and cause of rilit hamliMaess may ! divided as fol lows: Aeeordiiitf to one elass of theories it rests on an anatomical Uisis. and depends on a physical cause which exerts its in Ihietice iu every one of us. According to another class, man originally had no pref etvneo for either hand, but became right handed hy conventional usages, which may or may not have had their origin in some aiiatonii.at features. For any theory of tho first class to bo satisfactory it must, first, account for dif ference in sensation as well as iu force or dexterity; secondly It must accouut for the occasional appearance of left handed ness, and. thirdly. It must not bo inconsist ent with tho fact that most of those who have their organs transposed the heart ou the right, tho liver on the left, etc are right handed. Scrilmer's Magazine. Kit India i Indirect on. Tho following request for a holiday is from a lint ive clerk iu India : " Most Ex alted Sir It is with most habitually devout expressions of my sensitive re spect that I approach tho eleinoiicy of your material position with the self-dis-praisiug utterance o: my esteem, and the also forgot teti-hy-inyself assurance that in my own nrud 1 sir II be freed from the assumption that lam asking unpardonable dentitions if 1 assort that I dosiro a short respite from my exertion-: Indeed, a fortnlglvfs holiday, as I am suffeiiug from throe bolls, as per margin. 1 have ttio hum ruble delight of Biil'sex blng myself jour exalted rever ence's servitor. (S gnod) Janabol Pan- lamjaub." In addition to the regalement of the ear from tho i ha! in of stylo In bis communication the eye Is gra.illod by rough but graphic illnstnitiou of three boils. Alw-ty Afraid o' rolac.n. The food for the Sub an is cooked by one niau and his aids, and no others touch It. It is cooked iu silver vessels, and when douo each kettle is sealed by a slip of paper and a stamp and this is broken iu the presence of the Sultan by the High Chamberltitu, who takes one spoonful of each separate kettle before the Sultan tastes it. This is to guard against poison. The food is almost always served up to the Sultan in the same vessols in which it is cooked, and these are often ot gold, but when of the baser metal the kettle is set into a rich golden boll-shaped holder, the handle of which is held by a slave while the Sultan eats. The Sultan never uses a plate. He takes all his food direct from the little kettles, and never uses a table, and rarely a knife or fork a spoon, his bread, a panoake or fingers are fouud far handler. ' IF WE COULD KNOW. Whither ilo our foottep tend? More and more we yearn to know, Aa life's shadow), longer frrow. And the eTonlng hour dencend. And before as llos the end, Wben the door shall open wide. And behind usaoftly close. What to our expectant eyes Win the future lite dlnelose? Shall we soe a momlnic break. Fair and f raKraut and serene. Seeming like the blesmd dream Of some unforgotten eyes Shall we walk In gladness on. Dndur smiling skies of blue. Through an ever-deepening dawn. Into wide fluids, fresh and new. Meeting those whoramo before. Knowing each familiar look And each well-remembered tone. Though so many years had flown. Since each olhnr s hand we took. Haying farewell o'er and o'er. Shall we talk of earthly days. Speaking low. with bated breath. Of the awful mystery Of our human life, and death; Khali we wonder to recall. How our hearts were prone to fear, How we scarcely dared to hope. In any heaven, so fair, so near? Ah I If we could only know. As the shadows deeper grow. Whither our swift footsteps tend. As they surely near the end t Eatbertue S. Mason. In Boston Courier. Superstition About Storms. . Caverns were supposed by t!ve Romans to be secure places of refuge during thun der storms, and they believed that light ning never tienetrated more than two yards in the earth. Acting on this super- etition, tho Emperor Augustus used to withdraw into some deep vault of the palace whenever a tempest was feared, and it is recorded by Sueumius that he always wore a skin of. seal around bis body as a protection against lightning. That both precautious are equally unavailing needs scarcely to be mentioned. Lightning has been known to strike tea feet into the earth ; but not even the mar velous accuracy of modern science can de termine at what distance from the surface a safe retreat may be found from the de scending lluid; aud even were this ascer tained, the daugers from ascending elec tric currents remain the same. With re gard to seal skins, we Und that the Romans attached so much faith in them as non-conductors that tents were made of them, beneath which the timid used to take refuge. It is a curious fact that in the neighbor hood of Mt, Cevennes. in the Languedoc, where accidently some Roman colonies were known to have existed, the shepherds cherished a similar superstition resecting the skins of serpents. These they care fully collect, and. having covered their hats withal, believe themselves secure against the danger of the storm. M. La bossiere is disposed to sink a link of inter esting analogy between the legend wnich yet lingers in the mind of the peasant of Cevennes and the more costly supersti tion held in reverence by his Latin ances tors. Tbe Emperors of Japan retire into a deep grotto during the temp-'Sts which rage in such severity in their latitudes but, bot satisfied with the profundity of tbe exca vation or the strength of the stones of which it is built, they complete their pre cautions by having a reservoir of water sunk in their retreat- The water is in tended to extinguish the lightning a measure equally futile, since many m- slautes have been prserved in which tae Uuid has fallen upou tb water with the same dtruetive effect as upon laud Phil adelphia Inquirer. - So sir." i-am u ma.. . . tlie dyed n- inkers. - i never go tpial-ri'ilog Sun ilty. If 1 win: a ySicdiv r.musemeut I gi-i til-' par.. ! miy 1" j st as bad a.- 1 eoiber 1 ut if ' li L r-l w.u Is to pun me 'o Sttblst - .eali.ng. i.e cm t get i: e h dt a- e-i i 1 u t be an if I'm in :-. . - tut lii.-ag- .l b. tie. CONSUMPTION. I bare a posture reeaedj for the abewe daeaae: by he txse inoasaade of canes of tbe wont kiad and of looj; etaadma have beea cored. Indeed eoetronr J faita in ita eAoacr. tnat 1 will send rw nomjut raxx. anth a VALUABLE TRfcATISK oelhadm-euujsil-ferer wbo iii send ae laea Kxree and P. O. addnea. T. A. Sloram. .M. f . I S3 PrmH S, N. V. Ulmeatteu of Heaven. The "Brethren," or Duakards. publish what is railed The Brethren's Annual, and from tnis is taken the following singular computation of the dimensions of heaven, whien illustrates very fairly the extreme literalism for which this denomination is famous: "Twelve thousand furlongs, which equal T.WO.OW feet. Cube this num ber, which mates 4M.733.OS3.O0O.OI.W.O00.CICO cubic feet. Half of this we will reserve for the throne of God and the court of heaven and half the remainder for ave nues, and then remains 12-t.13S.2nO0O.0GO.-OOO.iVO cubic feet. IHvide lids by 4.0S. the cubic feet in a loom sixteen feet square, and there will be .S21.S1S.7j0.0O0.C rooms. Suppose the world always did and always will contain 990.000.000 Inhabitants, and that a generation lasts for thirty-three and a tliiid years, making in ail, S.97O.0OO. 000 every century, and that the world wiil stand lob.uoo years, making in all 237.0iX), 000,000.000 inhabitants. Then suppose there were 100 worlds equal to this in cumber ot inhabitants and duration of years, making a total of SOT.OOOAiO ,000.000, 000 pciT-ons. aud there would be more than 100 rooms sixteen feet square for each person. AHanv Journal. The roarer of SI ing. In Saco some of tho young people have banded together to keep from tbe use of slang. Thoy find It pretty hard work, for the United States language has such smattering of quostionab e idioms that to pick out the wheat from tho chaff is a trying task. Every time they slip it costs a cent, which thoy deposit in the strong box of the society. A few even ings ago a young lady member who had been so unfortunate as to break the bvt laws forgot herself while in the very ae of dropping t he required amount into the treasury, and exclaimed, "There she goes!' Site was obliged to add another penny to the fund. The sons; that touched his heart. A pure Virginia plug cut smoking tobacco that docs not bite the tongue and is free from any foreign mixture. More solid comfort in one package of Mastiff than you can get out of a dozen others. Packed in canvas pouches. J. B. Pace TbaccoOo,.HtcliiueiMt, Virginia. Drouth iiith has destroyed the cu fighboxliood of Madrid, Spi eiops m the ue uiu. It is reported that Lord Salisbury, in return for tho surrender "f all Freuch rishts in Newfoundland, rwtsbes to cede to Frauce the Herver islands and t he colony or Lagos. Will Perry, one of the Kio Grande express robbers who held up a train two mouths ago, has made a con fession, telling about the robbery and where the robbers planted their booty. Railroad and civil officers visited the spot aud fouud valuables worth $t!KK). It is thought the entire gang will be ronvleted. R. HALL'S Pulmonary Balsam. A Riqierlor Remedy torn Throat anil Lnnir Trouliles. Couirlis, Colds. Asthma. Croup. Influenza, lirom-hitis, W leniiini; Conh and Incipient Consumption, lir-adlly yield to Us healing ouaJlUe. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. PRICE SO Cta. J. R. GATES Sl CO.. Prop's. 417 SAHSOME ST 8 AH FRANCISCO. Test t sean5 of your Bcfor Buying. POCR vm water In the tleere boidtBC the end ti-r'it a bre titown or vny- u twa itu sLltvs iw a aifn irwl sW-s tf tt a -witrTt-trfU- TlcTcreiT'JoIlnUcmarktl ti at Inok tctt nke. bat will mttrcrr temm. 1 V warrant Towcr5 IMPROVED Pft 1 Brand CMirker to be water turhtatererr 2:a and every here d: aio noi to peel or ttiek. artdartto-f-ize oar dealer to make good any SlrckcrtU.it fails m either point, Tnereaxe two wan rnq can tell tbe ijenolne Improved Fiih Brand sUckr. I st. f Soft Woolen CoIr. 24. Trjis Tr4 SArH (below.) Watch Out for both time polwiat S-f:l IT C'atalofiie free. U. TOWER. Mfr, Boston, Has. BLAZE, MOFFITT & TOWNE, mr-oirrrBS and mjileib? rs.-. BOOK. NEWS. WRITING AND WRAPPIKA F A F E CABD STOCK, STRAW ASD BIKDERS' BOARD. Patent Machine-made Bags. 512 and Sir, Sarramentft St. Saa Frmndsrub fCU RE FITS! Waea I r care I do not nma awrelr to scop them for tune lad liftea bin tbcm rutera aBin. I liune radical con. I bat-e aade the d aeaae of FITS. tt IJIPSV or FALLING iiICK.-itSSlile-loulj. I nnul mj mnodj to care tbe vorat i i.e P - others hive fiud ti eo reason for m A now leeenun m care. SzA at oree tx a treiuaB end a rroe b-cxjee mj j'? -l remedy. Give Expeet and Pt O&oa. H. C. BOOT, M. C, IS3 Prarl SL N. V. JOE P0HE1P THE TAILOR MAKES THE BEST CLOTHES IS THE STATE At 25 PERCENT LESS THAN ANT 0THEB HOUSE. PANTS iiieBOfisrtra 5 FINE TAILORING A T MODEBA TE PRICES at-Baks for Mf-Mafanoait and Samp of OotJb vcot five for all orocfa. 203 Montgomery, 724 Market, IllOt 1112 Maitot8tH S.4A" FHASCISCO. A. Zellerbach Sons, PAPER WAREHOUSE, PBJ!TEKS STPPtalKS A Sfkxaitt OR. JOUmm 4Kt COS - ca.iorai Masuaftr AsatoiRy M rTtvkT. Wt Uk 14 Tib. &. r --? ttfc4di f Wrr-i Tt thr am. Ma-rtsl Im Unpm m p4 t TXwt -W Mmtrmm "vv -, IN .. MvtlW ft- --. i aaf-J ta-ffct ba ---.. i ya -w mm -. 4 to- wttf CAREFUL MOTHERS w ntti-a hair r.m. W must kwp busy. Wa in usl haw tin itT. ant quk-k. and this mean slauliu-r. 1 tviiiH-Uoaa, sacrloo; cam t ' -tir .air!-.: it-Kl everything but ptuAls to,tuix-!r but htr mut be put In ,rter tw sb-k-:aA!nc right away. We ffrr: 5' tt-s o dry "aWies SI ltd tt.s Ytille Micar 1 ta tt-s white r rokifwl beau. leo 22 tt. S.-ICHW ta't..-A. 1 M it-- Chrb-tmas candy, mixed . tort tks Krvii.'h prune. n.t larg. 1 li, ' sevttii tr ilnnilnjr needlm.. ... 1 uu s rails table aprk- fc tine ItW ritits table plums, gra!-s - applet 1 tat I siir Ijtdleei flue bliper3 1 UJ 1 pair Misses' line Oxford (tea. : ( 2 iwiir Misses utee sandais. 1 lA I pair nk-e lace curtains 1 Al " Iultes line liuen otilars and culls . 1 om o da-n assorted buttons, f.ir family use 1 IW -JS h.-Midltoivhlefs men's, wvicieu's, children' 1 O 'i yards handsome Otstimens. 36 in. vide.. 1 tM Scud r-irvmr price list if mlier bargtans. SMITHS CASH STORE. 416-4 IS Front Street. Saa rYandaco. CaL S The Tan-house or the Coal Biuff mine, the onlv one which has con tinued running in the Indiana field despite the strike, was destroyed with a dynamite lomb Dee. 11. The sixteen anarchists recently ar rested and tired for holding a meet ing in Chieagu, but whose tines were remitted for Tar they would appeal at d Inciter i"ourt would de-ide their arrest illegal, hav,? appealed any way. Dr. O raves uis Unn convicted of the murder of Mrs. ltarnaby, who lied fr.5n drinking poisoned whisky vltit-h had been sent to her by m-til. ln-oluenei4tale 1'oMilMct. A Detroit :riv. li-itf man met a Kentucky onlo'i'-; r ce - I ' "ii -t Main thai. i Hiwnri To U. - ii'l. t a-.cl iu: :i:-u are liable to 'Ut, lie liiii.le li iutptaiir.aiKe of tbe Ken titrkmt. u!! t c ;:vl to tnll.iuj; about t'n-la.elt I a i r:ic et. ".t i"Ut all t.ver. cit her. said the drum mer, "I notii-e I o;il- a day or so no tb&t a lot of Italia i su New in. k tmd beaten a doctor aim s: iu i.e.itli tV.r refusing to ta'.e a tiri i ." "Is tint sd? " esc aim dt e colonel, ex citedly. "Of course ii 1." a seer..te 1 the drum mer. "By sal. si: "-ami th co'ouel slapped his iiaii-l ! wn on his 1 -r with a thwack "whv tadu't lhev kit: him?' Detioit Free Press. .-vueeuic, ii.u-i .t uofio.is experience oi thirty-sis yen s in t he body of a Sprliur lield. Mo., woman, came out through her side the other day. Th needle had lost its temper aud was as pliable as a piece of wire. Catarrh Cant be Cared with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach ' the s Al of the disease. Catarrh is a hlinxl or onslttuttoual disease, and in order to cure tt Jf'U have to take, internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, ami acts directly on the blood aud mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is no quack medicine. It was prescribed by oue of the best physicians In this country for years, and Isa regular prescrip tion. It Is composed of the best tontas known, combined with the best blood puritlers. acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The iwrfect combluaUou ot the two lutrredlenls is what "pro duces such wonderful results In curing catarrh. Send for lesUuioulals free. F. J. CHESET A CO.. Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price Tie 8 -J - 4 'J : f'V alAi