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. uid Q.-et? at Rosebar?, Or., October 23, 13)3.
g fticrf 13 -nereoy gvQ mia ne iouovin
untl htettler baa 4led notice of Hhe intention
5j i6ie Hoal proof iaka jprt of she 'claim, and
iriat said itoo will be'x&ade before the Judge
ir bouutv Cl.;rk of Jitckiion c6'jnty, Orepon, at
J iclsoniiler Oregon, -oa Paturchy, Dectnater
f. lxu. vi ?: Ainii &istrom oi re-emptioa
. &. r o. tor the bo meant 14 of southeast
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Veitof soacheut eectioa rf, township 31
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: jtf mimes the following witnesses to prove
hit crmununnH resld''.n nprm-and cultiva
tion of HRi'i land, viz: Luther G- Porter, of
3?earr(, J-.;x5i-ioa county, Oregon, awin B.
I or. ildsr-iX D. Riitf aud Rasmus asmutt6en
all of Prosiect. Ja;k-ofi count v. Oregon.
f' ik) John IS. Coyie. Ciaimanl under Soldiers
X. S. N-y. and fundi Salatrom, Claimant
q tidnr LL, E. No. 74ti. you, and each of you are
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c arad dats ao-1 oluce. and'thow cause, if any.
tff 'ay the said proof of AninvC. Salstrom should
pot ne acoutea. -
p-27-d-l ; John H, SflPPK, Register.
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Land (jiflceat Kosebuny, Oregon. October a3,
Wft&JI Ntice !fc hereiy given thitt the foHowing
med settler ha tilod notice of his intention
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tha m'1 prxf will )e made before toe Judge
z lioutity Clerk -of Jjckson counry, Oregon, at
sjucirstrfiville, Oregon, on Halurday, December
y. IKtcl. viz: Jh:i A'ltert Sabitrom, on Bre-enip
ion d. s. No.Ti1. for the north of northeast
,1 ind uojch s of i6rtu fcdt section 33, town-,
"II .T. leant. .' ..
? fie n;mu9 .h following witnsaes to nrove
hisrconiiD'Kii's reSiJento upon, -and cultivation
'ct k&M land; 'viz; Latner ti. Porter, of Med
jord;'Jclr.ou county Oregon, Edwin S. Moore.
6.v D. Rfwe aud K smu Kasmilasen alb of
j rihpf '-t, J:if nft-in county jOtvaoii-
Vo.Joun I Ooyle, (Uaimant uuder Soldiers
-. 3. s. No: .'i7, yoa are h(nxby summoned' to ap
pear at the -above motioned date and pluce
and show canse. if nny. why Hie said proof of
fl ohn Vlbert riaisu-ooi should not beacceptoui
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SUNSET APTER A WORKDAY.
The skies are dark, the rain drops fast,
The dreary ranks of foil Qlo pas V ' ' '.
The workroom's hum souhds tired and slow,
.The hand moves listless to and fro; ' '"
ven our u.eeuies beeui uuoueu
With rnstiiy fobeiUqusjniood, '
And dull Revolt against bir wllL
Like teasin g sprites, io.work us ill,
Envy and discontent steal in.
.Whispering to us through tho din.
None but ourselves, say they, must climb
Rough paths, w-hile others have free time
ForaUlife'sioys.lts Ueautiesraro, "
Its mudio soft, its Bowers fair.
Knowing no tasks for whose lard sake
Tired heads Juust throb and curved spinas aahe.
We hail the whistle's blatant scream" V
That wakes nat.fromjhis bitter .dream.
Break oft the thread and fold away
.Our work, 'to wait another day.
Plod homeward through the darkening strecf.
With chiUy hands aa mud-soiled eet. " ' '
.The clouds seem frowning heaviest,
When, lo! .they open in the west:
A faint pink touches smoke and mist:
One spire," its crowning cross atwlsj. .
.With golden rays, points upward to
A vapor-edged, raro glimpso of blue.
'And through a narrow, brick-framed space
.Smiles suddenly the sun's dear .lava
i.ife looks so livoab!! again: '
.Whero are .tho loaj-druwn hours f rain?
.Courage and confidence draw near,
"Whispering to us, calm and clear.
None but ourselves, say they, m'&y know
-The fullness of this sunset glow, '"
for we alono, who ilrudgcd aU day
Twixt streets of icud and skies of gray,
,Can read the symbol fair aright: '
."At evenlngtimc it shall be light. "
Back, to the heart 'comes, Hoavcn-senti
That guest it cannot spare Cbnteut.
Ruth Hi .Sessions, in Far and Near
WmTJM A WIFE.
Cow a Deserving Young Man Won
pm swaetneart.
A GhMtly FUlon That MatarUUsed Into
Beantlfai Substance An Incident
" .That startled a Ilousehold Oat
of siumbor.
Three o'clock in the jnornin? is an
Bncanny Lpnr the world over except at
police hedqu ar.ters of In the office of a
jnorninjr newspaper, und it was in this
latter place,' at u liour named, that
lour or five reporters, having' sent in
'aU their copy nod listened to the forej
roan sw.ear for fiXtecn niinntes because
fie had two columns bJ snace and ten
columns of matter that '.'must t'o in,"
sat with their feet on the tables and
their chairbacks knocking- the plaster
ing off, talkinjf .over the Mibject which
ts just as new to-day as it was when
Adam doffed-his beaver aud said: "llow
d'y' doy to Eve. Every followia the
crowd was a- bachelor, and each one
was informing the other in all serious
ness that he should marry.
-What for?" inquired Claude Brown
of Frank Jones.
'."Because." replied Frank, "it's the
only proper way to live."
"A nice husband a reporter wonld
make," said Claude in rebuttal, "com
ing in at three o'clock a. m. and leav
ing home as soon as he got his, f;vc!Te
o'jclock breakfast.
"But his "wife would always know
where he was, and if she didu't, she'd
know wherever he wasie was after an
item and had to be back at tho ofiioo
on time," remarked Charlio Smith.
.'Well,? put in Claude, "if you think
it's stjch a great snap why don't yon
et married?"
VCant," said .Charlie, very positively,
."Whynot?"'
"Thunderation, man, how's a fellow
to buy a wholp steamboat when he
hasn't money enough to bay a splinter
off a stage plank? How's a man to bny
a house and lot when he can't buy a
shovel full of dirt? Haw's a msn-r-"
"That's it," interrupted Claude;
.'how's a mas to do anytUiug if he
doesn't do it? What's the matter with
marrying a rich girl?"
"Where's the girl?'' queried Charlie.
"Pleuty of thcra. Girls with money
always need a disbursing acnt and
fhey will trust a hasbaud when they
won't" trust an elder iu the churclt. Be
sides, what's the good of her money if
a girl has her heart spf. on a husband
and can't get him?" . '
Smith argued awhile against matri
mony and at bali-past three started for
home, lie was thinking the conversa
tion over, and as he trudged along if
occurred to him that a bachelor was net
only a knot on a log, but he was a very
lonesome knot.
His" way led him through the aristor
eratic portion of the city. and. as he
passed a fine house his reverie was dis
turbed by the peculiar click of a turn
ing lock and the" matrimonial line bt
thought was' all knocked awry by the
reportorial instinct, and he saw, in
stead of a blushing, blooming jlrs.
Smith, a burglar c rucking- a million
aire's dining-room and making off with
his silver, lie thought of the beautiful
scoop he was going to have on the other
fellows and, slipping into the shadow,
be waited " and listened. Click
went the lock again, as if the
burglar was nervous and was
more anxious to open the door than
he was to preserve -the ordinary bur
glarious quiet. The reporter scrutin
ized the door closely and discovered
that the robber was not on the outside,
"but -was evidently within and was
working his way out, and he felt a
thud .of excitcmont nt the thought of
"being able to capture his man with the
boodle on his- person." " lie slipped his
revolver out of his pocket, trained it on
the door and an instant afterward the
'door swung open and Charlie was
ready to "throw up your hands." when,
instead of a burglar, a ghost enme out.
"It can't bo a ghost;'.' kc whispered
in an assuring tone to himself, "for
"ghosts don't unlock doors. " They just
come right through them. But if it
sn't a ghost, 'what the deuce is it?" .
He had long to wait, for whoever or
whatever it was came out into the ves
tibule and down the steps slowly, as if
uncertain of its movements, and when
about half-way ' to " the ' payemeut
stopped, ' : '
"'.'.'By garry." said the reporter, Vit'3 a
woman, and she's got on a night gown.
I'll have" to see about this," and with
Uis revolver ready in case of accident,
he stepped out of the shadow and rpoke
to the ghostly walker
' "Good evening,' he said, nervously.
"No, excuse me, I mean good morning.
If you're going to market, maybe you'd
better go back and put on an ulster." "
' 'Ordinarily Charlie would Vave' Iieen
more gallant, but this was anything
but an ordinary affair, and he didn't re
quire newspaper instinct to tell him so.
' The sheeted figure made no reply,
but moved again and came toward him.
The cold chiils chased each other down
his back and he loqked for a policeman.
With the usual resultf"
"Stand'back." he said, fthis pistol
ain't loaded, but it might gp off." '
- But on it came and Charlie found that
bis legs' wouldn't move in spite of all he
could do to make them.
' One stpp more and ho stood fane to
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fn.ee .with his strange discorory, and
Charlie saw that it was not only a
-woman, but a young and handsome
one, and he began to feel better.
-'I beg your pardon," ho said, "but
tho night air is cool and you appear to
bo dressed rather lightly. Can I ren
der yon any assistance? Is there any
One in the house that has frightened
you?"
Still no answer, and Charlie, embold
ened by his own words, stepped to the
young woman's side and gently took
her by the arm.
She turned her face to him and then
the mystery was solved.
"Another Amino,"' he said. " 'La
Sonnambnla' oif the stage with a re
porter as first tenor and leading man.
Well, this is a go!"
"I've got to take her in the house,
anyhow, that's plain," he said to him
self, and he gently led tbe willing yvalk
er back up to tlic door and rang the
bell, and rang it with a forty-horse
power draft.
Tbe noxt minute the beantifnl sleep
walker was no longer asleep, but wido
awalec, and Charlie had a very plump
young woman in his arms in a dead
faint, and he made a dash -with his
burden into the hall, only .to meet a
healthy young man in even less dis
habille. "What's this?" he shouted, making a
grab at Charlie's throat.
"Shut the door, yon idiot!" gurgled
Charlie, dropping the girl on the floor
and almost putting Vis foot on her,
after the manner of sic semper tyrannis.
''What does this mean?'' again
shouted tho young man, and the re
mainder of t'.io family came tumbling
downstairs, none of them fixed to see
company.
"iet go of me and shut that door
and I'll to'J you!" wheeie-l Charlie.
"You don't want to raise t!ie neigh
borhood and bring the patrol wagon,
do you?"
Some of the other members of the
family by this time had rescued the re
porter and shut the door, and, while
the mother and the servants carried
the unconscious girl upstairs, Charlie
told the father and son how be bad
met the young lady and what the
trouble was. Both men knew him by
sight and had met him on 'change and
elsewhere, and it was not difficult to
explain the situation.
Half an hour later the reporter was
at home, in bed and dreaming sweet
dreams of pretty girls and all sorts of
rom-.intic things.
When he reached tho office next day
a note was waiting for him and he was
invited to call that evening on the
mother of the young lady.
lie called, of course. He saw the
mother; he saw the daughter, blushing
and beantifnl. and now if Charlie is a
bachelor much longer there will be a
breach of promise suit or some other
dreadful calamity, for Charlie's mind
is made np. Detroit Free Press.
SHORT SCISSORING.
Bum is made from the refuse of sugar.
The best comes from the West Indies.
The South Sea islanders make an in
toxicating drink from corn and decayed
fish.
At the royal mint at Stockholm a
woman for years has been the engraver
of medals.
Thirteen tons of postage stamps are
said to have been sold in New York city
last year.
Col. r.EEDiLAjfD, of Mexico, will in a
few day3 marry Hiss Bossman, of Min
nesota, The groom is seven feet two
inches in height and the bride six feet
eleven inches.
Tiie largest horse in the New York
show was a Clydesdale stallion from
Toronto, whose wcijfht ia 2.2C0 pounds.
The smallest animal was a Shetland
pony which weighs only 70 pounds.
A pie served to Charles II. was made
of sparrows, potatoes, cringocs, lettuce,
chestnuts, . oysters, citron, artichokes,
egtrs, lemons, barberrjes, pepper, nut
meg, cloves, mace, currants, sugar and
wine. -
Capt. C James, of the Rcdditch (Eng.)
Town Cycling club, died recently, and,
in accordance with his lust wish, his
coffin was borne to the grave on four
bicycles and attended by his friends
riding on their wheels.
The Dog tVns 2,'ot "Touoh.d.
In a parlor car on an eastern train
sat a richly-dressed young woman,
tenderly holding a very small poodle.
"Madam," said the conductor, as ho
punphod her tipket, "I am very sorry,
but you can't have your dog in this car.
It's against the rules." "I ahull hold
bim in my lap all tho way," r.ho re
plied, "and ho will disturb no 6n."
"That makes no difference," said tho
conductor; "I couldn't allow my own
! dog bore. ' Dogs must ride in the bag
gage car'. I'll fasten him all riglit for
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RAPPUyft COYOTES,
DlfflouA Way Fojr pno to lok?
a'Wyinar.
Getting Traps In tho Sierra foothill?
TJnwoJqomo Gutiiti That Aro Plenti
ful Traits of the Western Terrors
Talks with an Old Hunter.
George Pock 4s an .old-timer, having
come to California some time in the
early fifties, and has had the usual ex
perience of fortune and ' misfortune,
mostly misfortune. He has leng since
quit hoping for a "strike," and is now
a wautlering, poverty-stricken old
chap, keeping himself as much as pos
sible out of tho way of the world,
never looks at a book or paper, mines
'at odd spells,'' and hunts f,hfi greater
part of tho year. Lately he has been
.trapping ralong. tho Yuba, and has
pitched his tent on a little flat known
as the Keystone. '
' There are no valuable furs jto be ob
tained in tho lower foothills, but the
coyotes are numerous on the Keystone,
and as the state pays a bounty of five
dollars lor each scalp an expert trapper
can tuako enough to keep body and
soul togethor aud have a little left over.
But ho must be an expert The gaunt,
hungry, snarling coyote is more diffi
cult to catch than a fox, and his habits,
likes and dislikes, runways and noc
turnal prowling? must be learned by
the trapper beforo he can expect to
take more than an occasional scalp.
The Keystone is a favorite yelping
ground, and the rugged hills, with
thiolf undergrowths, chaparral, cliffs
and caves that abound along the Yuba
at that point, furnish cozy retreats for
hundreds of coyotes, foxes, coons, pole
cats and now and then a mountain cat
ior lynx. The polecats are perhaps the
most numerous, and as they are not
suspicious, prudent animals, relying
upon their offensivencss to carry them
safely through life, aro a great
nuisance to tho trapper, who must,
when he has caught one, thoroughly
disinfect his trap, not a pleasant or
easy task in the hills where water is
' scarce and deodorizing mate rials not
easily obtainable.
j "Coyote" Peck, as -he is called,
I thoroughly understands the habits of
coyotes. When I met him, a week ago,
ho was crrrying four traps on his back
and doing his best to keep out of sight
behind a clump of manzumta bushes.
At first he was surly and gave short re
plies to all my queries, but persistent
efforts thawed the icincss of his man
ner and he asked me to accompany him
and see how coyot trapping was car
ried on.
It was quiU early in the forenoon,
and the canyon down which we picked
our way was yet oooL On either side
were jagged, rocky steeps, gasbed with
'innumerable cracks and crevices in
.which many nocturnal creatures were
! probably asleep. In the dust one could
seo the tracks of coons, foxes, coyotes,
j polecats, rats, mice and beetles.
"They preys on one another," said
! Peck. "Thcr's thousands on thousands
1 o' beetles yere, an tho coons an' foxes
) an' polecats is great fer sich things.
They s in the rocks now.
"Do yon catch the coons?"
"Ho, he! I should say I da They's
no harder to catch than skunks. Y'ou
catch one by tho end of his littlest toe
an he'll jist get right down an stay
there lookin' at his toe an' studyin' the
trap, an' like as not he won't be
through studyin' when you come in
the mornin. Coons is easy, an foxes
ain't hard, but they hain'twuth nothin'
to me, so I generally lets the coons lay,
an" the foxes, too, 'ccpt in the winter
when it's real cold. Then the foxes'
hides is wuth thirty cents apices.
They's no good till the fur's on, sec?"
We tramped on for half an hour, and
then, leaving the canyon, crossed a
little ridge where the undergrowth had
been burned away and a few scrubby
pines and oaks clustered about a little
spring. Handing me his traps. Peck
stole cautiously ahead with his rifle
and a minute later made a rapid shot
at something sitting In the shade not
far away. The animal shot was a jack
rabbit. "I nearly alius gits one here," said
the old man. "They's the best kind of
bait for coyotes. I've tried venison an
beef an all kinds of meat, but jack
rabbit beats 'em alL Coyotes is very
particular about their vittles. You'd
think a chicken would bo better, 'cause
coyotes is awful rough on chickens
when they finds 'em in a coop, but
'tain't so. The coyotes knows that
chickens is domestic fowls, an' when
Jhey sees one a-hangin' by its legs on a
Jree four or five miles out in the woods
they jist looks at it in a suspicious way
an' sez: 'What you doin out yore, any
how?' an' they goes on. They knows a
chicken ain't got no business hangin'
by its legs to a tree in the woods. But
they knows a jack belongs in the woods,
and they don't never seem to think
there's anything .crooked when they
, - - , . , 1.:- 1 .
; nnos a jacu uaniu uy uu av.-& a.
' lack's their nat'ral food, for sure.
That's why coyotes is sich powerful
runners. Whenover Uioy catch a jack
they's got to earn him fust, sec?"
A3 Peck talked he gathered his traps
and .the jackrabbit together, threw
them over his shoulder and trudged on
again. We had easier walking now,
and it was not long before another hare
started up in front of us. Peck dropped
his traps, and as tho jack, which had
not been much frightened, loped softly
up the hill shot it dead. It was a fine
shot and well worth praising, but tho
old hunter smiled knowingly and said;
"That's nuthin. A boy kin do that
artcr ho knows how. That makes
! bait enough for these four traps, so
j we'll jist set one of 'out yere."
I With z. swipe of the hunting knife
I pne of the jackrabbits was neatly di
I vided and then one-half was fastened
j to an oak sapling about four feet from
1 the ground. A lew bits of the flesh
j were scattered about the foot of the oak
! and then a. trap was set directly under
I tho hanging bait and made secure with
the chain. No effort at concealment
was made and 1 asked Peck about it. '
I "Lord, man, what's the use? If I
digs .a hole and buries- my trap ever so
nice the coyotes '11 sec there's somo.
thin' buried there an' they'll get sus
picious right away. No, sirec. Never
bury your trap for coyotes, .list set
the jaws open an' lie it fast and flop it
down an' tho coyotes '11 jist think it's
sometliin' tho jackrabbits has dropped
there, an' when they jumps after that
jackrabbit down they comes with their
forelegs into it Tho way to catch coy
otes is to make 'em think you thinks
they's all durn fools, sec?"
Another hour of tramping and at its
expiration the other three traps were
set nnd baited.
' "Now," said Peck, "if you don't mind
goin' we'll take a look at the traps as
was set yisterday."
' Again we set off across tho low, roll
ing hills, nt right angles with the
Canyon, and tramped through a tangled
maze of chaparral until we reached tho
Jowcr edge of the Keystone range As
wo slcirtcd the flat the ' pungent aroma
of the mephitis was wafted to us and
Peck swore long aud loud.
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J've caught more'n twenty this week,
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Sure enough, tho first trap held a
skunk, and the little animal, which bad
pulled and squirmed for hours, was
standing still, looking at us with piteous
eyes nnd trembling with pain. The
smell was sickening, and Peck stopped
me at a safe distance.
"You stay yere, lest you get tho smell
on yer feet, an I'll fix 'im."
A well-directed shot killed the
skunk, and the old man pulled it from
tho trap and heaved it away with a
grunt of disgust. Then he untied the
i trap, and taking from his pocket a
'!a 1 2 - 1- 1 - 1. 1
naunci-rufr dim m juivip u
neck rubbed tho contents over the
trap.
"What is that stuff 7"
"Alcohol an' asafltty," returne4
Tcck, testily. "It kills the smell,
some of it, an' the coyotes like it too,
but 't ain't as good as it might be."
The disinfecting process did not re
quire much time, and when it was
finished Peck had acquired a new
flavor which was not pleasant, but ho
did not seem to mind it. The trap was
taken up and carried to a new location
and set in a runway without bait.
"It'll be a day or two afore I catch
anything in that trap," said Peck.
'.'Some fellers buries their traps to
make 'em clean, but I jist uses alcohol
and asafitty. Tbe best stuff for clean,
in' is sulphuric acid an' water, 'cause
that cuts off everything, but you've got
to put asafitty on anyway to kill the
smell of the acid, see? Coyotes likes
the smell of asafitty an' I've caught
some by dragging a little bag of it over
tbe ground fer a milo or so an' then
settin' down with my rifle to watch tho
trait. They'll toiler it sure if it's early
in the mornin' on' the grass is damp."
Nino more traps were visited. Five of
them held skunks, one a fox, two were
not sprung and one had captured a
coyote. The skunks and the fox were
killed at once and Peck was fairly wild.
"It docs soem's though there ain't
nothin' here but skunks. If they was
worth ten cents apiece an' didn't smell
so infernal I'd make a fortune sure.
The ornery things is jist swarmin',
and they gits caught to spite me. I
know it."
The coyote was a large specimen of
muscular starvation. The long, lithe
body, with its shaggy hair, the small,
furtive eyes and sneering, snarling
mouth made a threatening picture.
Long before wo reached the trap we
could hear the chain rattle as the coy
ote, frantic with fear and pain, sprang
back and forth in fruitless efTorts to
escape. Peck was in a better humor
now. and when he had shot the captive,
taken off the scalp, flung the carcass
away and reset the trap he "talked coy
ote" at a raoid rate.
"It's funny, they alius gits caught by
the fore feet; alius. Now. a fox or a
coon or the wildcat '11 get caught by the
hind legs sometimes, but a coyote never
docs. It's alius the front foot that
goes into the trap. This yere feller is
the third 1'vo caught in the last week.
That ain't bad; but I expect to do bet
ter afore long, 'cause the sheep's comin
down from the mountains cow. an the
coyotes follcrs the sheep. No. I
couldn't do better on the plains. I've
tried it there. There's no trees to bang
your be it on, an' it's too settled up;
there's too many dogs."
"Did you ever try to raise any coy
otes?" "Yas. onct. I had two cubs in the
mountains last year. I thought I'd go
into coyote raisin' on a big scale an'
bankrupt the state, but it wouldn't
work. As soon as tbe cubs was crowed
up they kep me so busy hnntin' for
feed for 'em that I jit got tired an'
shot 'cm. They's treacherous brutes
too, an" they bites wicked. A big
onc'U whip a pretty good dog if he's cor
nered. "I've seed a good many different
ways of trappin' of 'em, but this way,
with steel traps "baited with jackrab
bits, is the best I c'd tell you an aw
ful lot 'bout coyotes but I ain't got
time now. I've got to go out an hunt
up some meat for myself. Come to my
shanty some day 'an mebbe we'll have
some o' the state's venison."
And "Coyote" Peck, giving his Win
chester a flirt that landed it on his
shoulder, turned quickly away and
tramped out of sight in the thickets,
leaving mo alone, tired, hungry and
burdened with the faint flavor of some
thing which makes the most fearless
ehlckcn shudder with fear when it
steals over the roost San Francisco
Chronicle.
WELL UH IN TEARS.
Mrs. Nasct A. Owes, of Ithaca, N.
Y.', has just celebrated tho 101st anni
versary of her birth.
A loso married couple dwell con
tentedly in Biddcford, Me. They are
Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Landry and
they were married seventy years ago.
His age is ninety-six, and hers ten
years younger.
Ai.vijza Hayward, one of the earli
est of the gold millionaires of Califor?
nia, is very old and feeble now. He is
worth probably f 20,000,000 or more, but
has dropped completely out of sight
behind tho new bonanzaists.
Mr. and Mils. Ika Ward, of New
ITIaven, Vt, who recently celebrated
their diamond wedding, have had ten
children, seventeen grandchildren, and
nearly tweuty-four great-grandchildren,
nea.ly all of whom arc living.
Tnu Society of tho War of 1813,
which was chartered in Philadelphia
recently, numbers fifty-five members,
of which David McCoy, .of San Bernar
dino, Cal., 10'J years of oge, is probably
the oldest. Another very old member is
Abraham Daily, of Brooklyn, who sees,
without glasses nt 07.
As interesting old man who is living
near Wotnlvillo, in Rappahannock
county, W. Va,, is J. W. Yancey, now
in his 00th year. Mr. Yancey taught
reading, writing and arithmetic to
Alexander II. Stevens, nnd ho was one
i of tho young men who composed La
fayette's escort in 1824.
Nathasiel S. B.utny, of Bristol, N.
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tho.. with .aUow oomplaxlon. who oanuot tko
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raw
n., is said to be 'the .oldest living ex
governor of a state in the United
States, If he survives until September
1, 1890, he will be a centenarian. He
was a boy of very humble parentage,
became a tanner, as Gen. Grant did,
and in 1801 was elected governor pf
New Hampshire. .
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MERRY MATTERS. '
T AiLon 'Cheeks, I are not to be
used this spring." Customer-r-"W.cll,
that suits me; I always jilted credit far
better." Inter .Ocean.
"Is A vessel a boat?" "Yes." "Pa'''
"What is it?" 'What kind of a boat Is
a blood vessel?" "It's a life-boat. Now
run away to bed." Tid-Bits.
"What's tho matter with Cholly?
"lie's in a dweadful fix." "Do tell"
"He's so pwoflciont in tying Ascot
scawfs that every person takes them
fah weady-made ties." Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Old Mrsaoerie Moxket "Well,
what do you think of the white people
so far?" New Monkey "The" most
striking trait about them seems to be
their intense curiosity." Indianapolis
Journal. .
"Those cigars I gavo you have lasted
you a long time, haven't they, dear?"
"Yes," replied her husband, "The
clerk who sold them to me warranted
them to wear," she said, complacently,
Washington Star.
STUDYING NATURE.
Stabfisii have the power to change
their color to that of surrounding ob
jects. We owe to Dr. Gibbs the discovery
that humming birds are ' not, as has
been supposed, insectivorous Their
uormal nourishment is derived from
honey.
Sciettibts are beginning to believe
that digestion in the case of carnivorous
plants is due to the activity of certain
micro-organisms which are always
present in the sap of the mature plant,
und that their secretions are favorable
to the development of such minute or
ganisms. Pitch pine beams will shrink in thick
ness from lS?i inches to IS'4"; spruce,
from 8.' inches to white pine,
frora 12 inches to 1 IX; yellow pine, a
trifle less. Cedar beams will shrink
from a width of 14 inches to ISM"; elm,
from 11 to 10?f.andoak, from 12 to 11 X-
Cincinnati Tunes SUr, ,
Tho Congo's Deep MoaUu
The London Society of Telegraph
Engineers and Electricians have been
making soundings along the coast of
Africa with a view of laying a cable
from England to Cape Town. At the
mouth of the Congo they found a re
markable state of affairs their taaps
and soundings showing that that riviY's
mouth is on extraordinary marine gnliy
of no less depth than fourteen hundred
and fi f ty-t wo feet! The month of the M is
sissippi at an equal distance from shore
would only show thirty-three feet and
the Thames forty feet The Congo's in
credible depths were traced for more
than one hundred miles out at sea.
La Grippe.
During the prevalence of the Orippe
the past seasons it was a noticeable fuct
thst those who depended upon Dr.
King's Now Discovery, not only bad a
speedy recovery, but esca;ed all of the
troublesome after ;Teets of the malady.
This remedy soeius lo have a peculiar
power iu effecting rapid cures not only
iu caes of La Grippe, but in all Dis
eases of Throat, Chest and Lungs, and
has cured casts of Asthma and Hay
Fever of long standing. Try it and be
convinced. It won't dUapoint Free
Trial Bottles at G. H. Haskins, Drug
Store.
SACRED PIGEONS OF VENICE.
Tons of Grata Required to Car for tbe
Doves of St- Mark. Chorea.
It may be of interest says the St
Louis Eepublic. to such the readers as
like to sentimentalize on sacred subjects
to know that the "Holy Pigeons of St
Mark's" have been recognized as such
by the authorities of Venice for more
than a thousand years ever since tho
year STT. In olden times it was the
custom of the sacristans of St Mark's
church to release doves and pigeons,
fettered with paper, after the religious
services of Palm Sunday. The paper
fetters partially disabled the poor birds,
and such of those cs did not escape
were caught by the people, who fatted
them for Easter dinner. Sometimes
one and sometimes a dozen of the poor,
fluttering creatures would manage to
break the paper thongs which bonnd
wings and feet together, whereupon
they almost invariably sought refuge
on the roof and m the steeples of the
historic old church. All cf the escaped
birds assumed a certain saerodness and,
it being against the law to kill or harm
them iu any way. incr -ascd to enormous
numbers During the timeof the repub
lic the "(sacred Ilgvxins of St Mark's
became objects of national solicitude,
tons of grain being annually supplied
for their maintenance. After the fall
of the republic thousands of them
starved to death and all would have died
but for provision made by a pious old
lady, whose wild perpetually provides
for them.
Tho Color of Indiana.
The color of the Indian race varies
much individual!?, ns di-ire tlit nf st
own Caucasian race, and it also varies
much with tho different tribes It is
safe to diiscribc them in general terms
as brown. Some tribes are of a deeidiJd.
ly light shade of brown, while others
arc so uarK uie lamornia coast tribes,
for instance as to almost KiiT-n?it th.
negro. Numerous individuals have
uecu noiiccu oy- travelers la some In
dian tribes as the Miindmi. Zvirn nnil
others, who are so light that the idea
oi tneir aesccnt irom European peoples
gained currency. It was chiefly this
fact that lent weiirht to tho tlvirv
pounded less than one hundred years
ago tuat colonics oi l elsli had been
planted in the wilds of A morion Ac
we now know, however, these light-
colored Indians are simply of a natural
li?ht brown, or sn nlhinnt nt v.
latter class perhaps those at Zuni sire
4l,n 1 v. l -. Im.-,.....' '
Hereditary Influence
It is a fact well established by stu
dents of heredity that children arw apt
to inherit not only the physical, men
tal and moral traits of their parents
but to lie influenced by their age as
well. Children born of very young
fathers nnd mothers never attain so
vigut-ous a growth of uiind or body as
those of older tueu nnd women, whilo
children of old people aro bora old.
Oue of the most surprising cases in
medical history is that of Marguerite
Cribsowno, who died in 1763.' aged one
hundred nnd uight years When ninety
four she was mar ricd to a man oge,
one hundred and. five. Three children
came of this union, but they hud gray
hair, no teeth, were, stooped, yellow
and wrinkled, decrepit in movement
and could eat only bread and vegeta
bles ' '
Sick VTkadache and a sensation of
oppression and dullness in the head,
are very commonly produced by indi
go tini; morbid despondency, irrita
b.lity and ' over 8en3itiyoness of the
nerves may, lh a majority of ra-Jes, be
traced to the 'same cause. Di J. II.
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Is it dry or in a heated condition ? If these are some of a
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a Curious Uanquct Ball,
Some time ago the labor of deepening
the harbor of Ciotat was completed.
On that occasion tbe contractor gave
to the members of his s.taff and the rep
resentatives of the press a banquet un
precedented for its originality. The
table was set eight meters below the
level of the sea, at the very bottom of
the harbor, inside the caisson in which
the excavators had been at work. ancj.
only tho narrow walls of this caisson
separated the guests from the enor
mous mass of water aronnd and above
their heads The new fashioned ban
queting hall was splendidly decorated
and lighted, and but for a certain
buzzing iu the ears caused by the pres
sure of air kept up in the chamber in
order to prevent the inrush of water,
nobody wonld have suspected that the
slightest intenxption to the working
of the air pump wonld have sufficed to
asphyxiate the whole party. After fhe
banquet an improvised concert pro
longed the festivity for several hours,
after which the guests rcascended into
the open air. Chicago Dispatch. '
A Too "Freeh" Conductor, .
'Where are you going, aunty?"
asked a conductor 'on one of the in
coming trains Saturday, of an elderly
lady passenger.
Tbe lady looked at him indignantly
and the conductor stammered out:
"Y'ou know that we always call elderly
ladies 'aunty' out here."
"If you do," said the lady, severely,
"you are very ill-bred and the railway
company ought to employ men who
know better."
Strength, and Health.
If you are not feeling strong and
healthy, try Electric Bitters If 'la
grippe" has left vou weak and wearr.
use Electric Bitters. This remedy
acts directlr on the liver, stom ach and
kidueys, gently aiding those organs
to periorin tneir functions. If you are
affected with sick headache, you will
fiud speedy and permanent relief by
taking Electric Bitters. One trial will
convince you that this is the remedy
you need. Large bottles ouly 50c. at
i. ti. ttasKins a rug store.
IN NEED OF REclAPANNING.
Japon Said to Be aat tuosrac It. National
Ctuaraetariaties.
It seems that the Japanese are grow
ing aweary of barbarians and their bar
barons ways For two hundred and
fifty years says the Pall Mall Gazette,
no European save an English sailor and
a tiny Datch colony on an island dese
crated their shores Then came Com
modore I'crry unloading models of rail
ways and other civilized appliances at
Yokohama, with the notice that he
would return in six months to see how
they liked them, and that if they were
uaappneciative he wonld blow Japan
out of the water. And then for thirty
years the Japanese' denationalized
themselves with a vengeance, even to
the point of top-hats and a house of
commons But now. because a native
pilot has brought an English steamer
into collision with a Japanese cruiser,
the mikado is petitioned to expel everv
Englishman from the country. We
should not be sorry if the mikado did
so, and included other Europeans in the
expukion. The Japanese need a rest to
get themselves re japanned. The conn
try and its people form, as it were, one
of the national treasures of the world,
and should be carefully preserved and
"restored." Sir. John jlubbock and his
Ancient Monument society should inter
nationalize themselves and see to it
California-. Die Tree.
The vandal woodcutters in the Cali
forma sequoia forests used to cut the
trees at a distance of from a dozen to
twenty feet above the ground in order
to avoid the gnarled and knotted base.
But it has lately been found that these
stumps are as valuable as the straight
wood. The gnarls present most beaur
titul figurings and the wood is sawn
into thin sheets and used for interior
decorations Now. these stumps are ber
ing dug out and soon not even a ves
tige will remain to show what was the
appearance of some of the most majesr
tic cat-.-rsl monuments of this wonder
ful com-ucat
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have used them tn my family and
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employes for more than tjrenty years.
To my certain knowledge, many cases,
of the following complaints have been
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sick headache, rheumatism, flux, dys
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EAST AND SOJTJEt
BY THE
The Shasta Routs
OF TU3
SUQTHES5 PiStfiU C9SPAST.
EXPRESS TRAIXS LEAVE POUTLAXD
DAILY.
Sonth I I Xonh
ftiip.mLv. Portland Ar. I fea.m
9sj. m I Lv, Sledford Lt I p. m
acid am ax. Qao t-rancisco x.v. f , w p. ra
Above trains sta at all station f-oa P-rt
land to Albany indu-rw-. Ah To?it,
Sheddi Halsey, Baxrtbnre;. Janet ion ctv,
Irvine. Enerae aad at aU v;knt from Bose-
barg- to Ashliad inclusi-e.
ROSKiJURl? MAIL DAILY.
8-Yla.m I Lv
JaO p. ni j L v
Portland
Koseonrs
Ar J i33 p. m
Lv 7sX) a. m
Diaiar Cars on Ogdsn Route.
Pnllman Bnfifctt Sletrpers and Second Class
Sleeping Cars atcachod to all through trains. -
.Between Portland and Corrallis.
WEST SIDE DIVISION.
Mail trails dally, except Sunday:
,S0 a. ni I L v Portland Ar I p. ra
12.15 p at I Ar iXrvallis Lv lxn p. m
At Albany and CorvslHs connect with trains
of Oregon Paeihe railmod.'
Express Trains dsily. except sundsyr
4:t0p.tnLv Portland Ar ' S:3-a.m
Tp.mAr Slc-Miunviile LvjoaUa.ni
Cat-Throajch tickets to alt poicts in the
Eastern s:au-s, Gn&ada and Europe can be ob- -lainrd
at lowest rates from W. V. Lipprcostt,
Agent. Mcdfoni.
R. alOEHLHK.' K.P.ROGERS,
Manaxer. Asst. O. F. & P Act
PORTLANQ, OREGON.
Prom Terminal or Interior Points .
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Is the line to take to
All Points East and south
It is the Dining Car Route. Tt runs
through Vestibule Trains every
day in the year i.o
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p-illman L rawing Kroom Sleepers
Latest Equipment
Tourists' :-: Sleeping :-: Cars
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and ' ,
Elesarrt Day Coaches.
A continuous line connecting. with
' all lines, affording direct and ut.
interrupted service.
Pnllmau Sleeper reservation caq be,
secured in advance through any
agent of the road.
THROUGH TICKETS
ica. Kii?iaml and Uulvpe can be purvaascd at
any VickeJ.OOlco of this Company.
Full particulars concerning rats time of
tr inW. routes out) other details turuishCi on an
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131 First-St, cor. Washington,
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