Farm and Fruit Notes.
From the Rural Northwest.
The price of hides in Eastern
markets is now nealy double what
it was at this time last year.
A correspondent of the Agricul
tural Journal of Cape Colony states
that he has for the last eighteen
years been grafting apples on pear
stock with most satisfactory result.
The scions take well, the union is
good and the growth robust. The
principal advantage of the practice
is the freedom thus obtained from
the attacks of the Woolly Aphis.
In Australia it is becoming a
popular practice to alternate rape
with wheat in place of bare snmmer
fallow. The rape is sown on stub
ble immediately after the first aut
umn rains at the rate of four pounds
of seeds per acre and is harrowed in.
If the season following is favorable
the crop of rape will be sufficient to
fatten from six to ten sheep per
acre. In mineral or volcanic soils
the Errowth of a crop ot rape is
specially beneficial to the soil from
the mould furnished bv the decay
ing roots.
The cherries of the future for the
Pacific Northwest now appear to be
the Bins, Lambert and Iloskins.
These are all cherries of the largest
size, of unsurpassod quality and
stand shipment well. As our cher
ries follow those of California in the
Eastern markets it is necessary to
send fruit of extra size in order to
secure paying returns. The Kings
and the few boxes of Lamberts
whice went East this year brought
twice as much as the best Royal
Anns and Black Republicans ship
ped at th same time.
Thinks Jackson County Is All Right.
A. II. Simpson sends The Mail,
from Paisley, Lane county. Oregon,
the following few items, which,
while not encouraging on all sides
they are 'mighty flattering to Med
ford and Jackson county:
I have traveled considerable and
have not found a place as prosper
ous as Southern Oregon. I have
been informed by parties who seem
to know that settlers are leaving the
state of Washington and other
states. Some are leaving on foot
nnd bv hand carts and everv avail-
". able contrivance that can be thought
of. The people of Southern Oregon
do not know what hard times are.
.' You ask one. or all of those many
1 travelers the cause of such emigra
tion and the answer is tne de-
pressed conaiuon ui smcr. iu iuy
many..friends in Jackson county:
. j r :i t1-
If you are making anywhere near a
living, stay where you are. I have
seen more people destitute in one
month's travel than I ever saw in
my life in Jackson county. Paisley
is quite prosperous! present but
one business house in Medford does
more business in a day than all the
stores here.
Vacation Time
Is st hand and is gladly welcomed by all.
especially by those whose duties in lue
have caused, them to ffreatiy run aown
their system to meet the requirements,
physical and mental, forced upon them.
With these and others, it is importaut.
whether at home, at the seashore or
in the country, that some thought be
given to diet, and as further assistance
to Nature, a pood building-up medi
cine like Hood's Sarsaparilla had best
be resorted to. If the digestion is
poor, liver deranged and frequent
headaches seem to be the rule. Hood's
will change all this and enable every
one to return to their home and busi
ness in a refreshed state of mind and
bodily health.
The Albany Democrat has this:
"Mr. F. M. Redfield received an in
teresting letter this noon from his
eon Charles, now working with a
corps of engineers on a railroad iu
Jamaca. The road was begun
nearly 60 years ago and it is not yet
completed. It will be 1S6 miles
long and cost $12,000,000. They
are now making several tunnels
toward Annotta Bay. He reports a
delightful climate, never warmer
than 96 and never colder than 54,
and yet he will be glad to get back
into Grover's Kingdom. He is fill
ing up on fruit at 3 cents a dozen
for bananas and 3 cents for pine
apples. Cocoa nuts are only a cent.
Imported articles though are high,
floor 19 a barrel, potatoes over a
dollar a bushel, etc. Hence board is
higher for foreigners, but living is
nominal for natives, who in turn
only receive about 50 cents a day,
while Mr Redfield, an expert civil
engineer, gets $75 a month and ex
penses. Jamaca is twice the Bize
of Linn county, 45 miles in the
widest part and 146 miles long.
Its population is 720,000, mostly
back people. A peculiarity of the
natives is their custom of carryng
everything on their heads, the men
even started to carry wheelbarrows
when they first saw them. The
women particularly are very profi
cient at this."
For Sale.
An acre of ground; all set out to
fruit: good house and barn; good well
, . r ; . : nr:n
DientV 01 water lor irrigation, win
aell cheap for cash or on easy pay
meats. Inquire at Mail office.
Legal Blanks for sale at this office
THE GREELEY COLONY.
A Happy People anil a High Standard of
Public Moral.
The Greeley colony was composed of
the best elements of eastern citizen
ship; and the lh-st and most important
lesson it teaches is that people of this
class are responsive to such a call as
Mr. Meeker put forth. He did not ap
peal to the instinct of speculation. He
pleaded for new institutions, and aimed
at high ideals; and he found that men
of culture and of means were ready to
cooperate heartily in such nn under
taking. This fact lends encourage
ment to those who are hoping for great
things to come from the development of
the arid region.
The site of the Greeley colony, writes
W. G. Smythe in Century, was not
well chosen or, at least, it did not in
all respeets meet the expectations of
those who selected it. They were there
fore nnable to realize all their plans.
They3made some serious miscalcula
tions. For instance, they estimated
the cost of their canals at twenty thou
sand dollars, while the actual cost was
more than twenty times as great.
Fruit-culture was mentioned in tht
prospectus as certain to be an impor
tant industry, but the soil anil cliuia'e
proved unsuitable. The dream of an
improved household economy, based on
a plan for cooperative bakeries and
laundries, also proved delusive. There
were other disappointments; but the
fundamental claims of irrigation wen
all vindicated at Greeley, as they hava
been whenever and wherever brought
fairlv to the test.
A few rears of intelligent labor
broiurht a high degree of average prov
perity, based upon substantial founda
tions. Even the severe panic of th
summer of lS:i did not materially dia
turb these foundations. During tluxsa
trying weeks, when mines and smcltera
shut down, and banks and stores closed
their doors, water, soil and sunshine
continued to do-their perfect work in
the I'nion colony. Greelej seemed
like an oasis of prosperity in a desert of
despair. The farmers received as the
reward of the summers Iatxr more
than a million dollars in cash for the
single item of potatoes. Hut this is the
chief crop at Greeley, after the neces
sities of life have been provided for;
and the wide reputation and handsome
financial returns won for the Greeley
potato illustrate the wisdom of a sur
plus crop of the highest quality.
Greeley's civic institutions are like
her potatoes. They represent the best
standard available, and are the pride of
the people. To sell any kind of - intoxi
cating liquor within the boundaries of
the Union colony invalidates the title to
the soil. Thus is one of the original plans
that worked well; and the schools,
churches, lihraries and lyceuins are all
in keeping with thishisrh standard of
public morals. A careful study of the
development of Greeley, alike in its
social and industrial aspects, would
throw much more lie'it upon the prob
lems of arid America; but this cannot
be entered upon now.
CLOWN WORTH MILLIONS.
In Twenty Irani Itarnato ll Acquired
Over ff lOO.OOO.Ooo.
Paris has a king within its walls to
day, one whose subjects do him hom
age throughout the world of business,
for the monarch is none other than
Karnato. the king of mines, who at the
lowest computation is worth one hun
dred and twenty million dollars.
Twenty years ago. says a foreign ex
change, a circus which had traveled.
goodness knows how. from Kngland to j
South Africa, arrived at Kimlerlcy. It
was not a big circus, in fact it was only ;
composed of the manager, the man-j
a?er"s wife, a clown and two trained ,
mules.
At that epoch Kimberley was not the
diamond town that it haslieeoine since.
The circus did a poor business, and one
morning the director and directress
fled, leaving the clown with two mules
and thirty shilling. in his pocket,
which is not much in Europe, but which
is still leas at the Cape of ( iood Hope.
During a ride in the outskirts of Kim
berley he found in the field traces of
diamonds; he took some stones, showed
them to a miner, and. entering into
partnership with him. went to sell
them in the town. Then, without di
vulging his discovery, he bought the
field where he had made his find. tooc
out only a few stones, for fear of arous
ing suspicion, tionght other fields, and
soon found himself a large landholder.
It was with these fields that the fa
mous Society of Iioers was created, of
which Mr. JJarnato is now governor.
with Sir Cecil Rhodes and another;
each of these three gentlemen now re
ceives an annual salary of one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars from
the company.
When the first gold mines were dis
covered at Johannesburg, Mr. Harnato
rushed there, bought as much land
as he could find, organized societies
on the London market and In-come
king of the mines. He also went
in for politics, and. although not a fol
lower of Sir Cecil Rhodes' policy, he
caused himself to be elected deputy to
the British parliament from the Cape of
Good Hope.
Now Mr. Barnato lives in London
and only goes to the cape for the parlia
mentary sessions.
ne is a little man, about forty-five
years old. wearing a slight mustache.
In dress he is very simple, and behind a
pincenez mounted in gold (it is the
only trace on his person of the metal
king) he has two eyes of an incredible
vivacity.
A Household Treasure.
D. W. Fuller, of Ganajoharie, N. Y.,
says that be always keeps Dr. King's
New Discovery in the house and his
family has always found the very best
results follow its use; that he would
not be without it. if procurable. G. A.
Dykeman, druggist, Katskill, N. Y.,
says that Dr. King's New Discovery is
undoubtedly the best Cough remedy;
that he has used it in his family for
eight years, and it has nevtr failed to
do all that is claimed for it. Why not
try a remedy so long tried and tested.
Trial bottles free at Geo. H. Buskins'
drug store. Regular size 00c and $1 .
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.
NEWS NUGGETS PICKED UP WEST
OF THE SIERRAS.
Scaliloil by Rolling Syrup Irrigation
Law to He Tested A Wire Murdera
Her HuNband California Fruit for the
London Market A Proponed Debate.
Four San Francisco youths went to
Petaluma and stole a horse.
Sixty acres of wheat, the property of
James Nelson, was destroyed by fire
near Stockton recently.
John Hughes was stabbed and badly
wounded by George Williams at Sacra
mento iu a quarrel over a meal.
Governor Jones of Nevada has ap
pointed a commission to represent that
tate at the fair in Mexico in 181X1.
Spokane authorities have acquired a
moral spasm and dance halls and vari
ety theatres are iu danger of being
closed.
The Southern Pacific company has re
duced the freight rate on wheat from
Paso Robles to San Francisco from $3.70
to $3 per ton.
The State Grange of California met at
Wrights bust week. Many interesting
and instructive papers were read by
eminent specialists.
At the Ministers' convention at Santa
Cruz a resolution was adopted indors
ing the woman suffrage amendment pro
posed at the hist legislature and recom
mending its adoption.
The stage running between Conlter
villo, in Mariposa county, and Merced
was heM up and robbed by three masktd
men some days ago. The robbers se
cured about $l.U)0 in treasure.
Attorney General Fitzgerald has ren
dered an opinion that Governor Bndd
exceeded his authority iu removing the
board of health of San Francisco and
the new appointments are illegal.
Two men who have been prospecting
on Trinity mountain for some time past
found a pocket near the foot of the
mountain 25 miles from Shasta and
about midway between Trinity Center
and Shasta. The pocket contained gold
valued at $11,200.
J. F. Miller of Marysville. represent
ing the National Frnit association, has
forwarded a carload of frnit for the
London market. The car contained
pears, peach and plums, and the fruit
will arrive at London from California
in 14 days.
All the fruit canneries in California
are reported to le running to their full
rapacity and heavy shipments to the
East will soon begin. Transportation
rntea on canned goo.ls have been re
duced by both the Santa Fe and the
Southern Pacific.
I'pon receipt of news that ex-Senator
Horr and Congressman Bryan were to
debate on the financial question, the
Oregon state fair management U'gat:
arrangements for having the debate
held at the fair in SeptemWr. Bryan
has already accepted the invitation and
will come to Salem. Horr has been in
Yited. It is proposed to have the do-
bate over five davs. Governors Budd
of California. McConnell of Idaho and
Mettraw of Washington will l invited
to act as referees. The management of i in the base of the candlestick. The cau
the state fair is unite anxious to secure dies of course arc extinguished on being
the delwters. It is believed Liorr will 1 taken from the table and arc relighted
consent to the arrangement.
Secretary Alles of tho national com
mittee of the Irrigation congress said at
L Angeles that an net similar to the
Wright art will probably lie presented
for approval at the congress to be held
in S-ptemVvr at Albuquerque. X. M. It
is exacted that at the coming Irriga
tion congress an act will lie prepared
with a view to having it adopted in as
many states of the arid West as possi
ble. It will lw drawn in some respects
like the present Wright irritation law.
but will have eliminated from it such
of the features as would probably causa
the courts to decide against its validity.
Mount Adams, Wash., is 12,402 feet
high, according to figures based on cal
culations made by Professor Edward
McClure of the University of Oregon
who carried a mercurial barometer to
the summit on July 10, with the helio
graphic party. He has deducted the
altitude from figures taken at Seattle,
Portland and Eugene, Or., and finds the
above result as a mean. Heretofore
Mount Adams has beeu thought to be
only a little more than 11,000 feet high,
hut the new figures make it 197 feet
higher than Mount Hood, Or., and es
tablishes the fact that Washington has
the highest and next highest peaks in
the Cascade range from the British Co
lumbia line to California.
John W. Downs, a capitalist of Snn
Bernardino, has appropriated all the
water flowing out of the Grapeland tun
nel and proposes to protect the $2,000
worth of bonds of the district which he
purchased some mouths ago. His notice
appropriating the water was posted on
July 20, and Downs says preparations
will be at once made to use the water.
The law requires that this shall be done
within 00 days from the date of filing
the notice, and Downs says that within
that time water from the Grapeland
tunnel will be flowing out on the land,
and that he will thus, make his notice
good. The whole proceeding is the re
sult of Judge Ross knocking out the ir
rigation district law.
W. E. Bassett, a young man in the
employ of the Flickinger Canning com
pany at Lob Angeles, was badly burned
by boiling syrup. He was in charge of
the syrup room where the large kettles
are watched with the greatest care,
Bassett was standing beside one of the
kettles when the syrup loiled over the
ides. He attempted to stop it and iu
his excitement put both arms down into
the boiling liquid, with the intention of
shutting off the steam at the bottom of
the tank. The heat was so intense that
Bassett had put his arms nearly as far
up a8 the elbows, whan he fell back and
sank helpless to the floor. He snffered
intense agouy for several hours after
and will be unable to use his arms for
several weeks, as the skin peeled oil
wherever the syrup touched.
PLANET COLLISIONS.
Should Star Knock Together the Fir
Would lie Indescribable.
Professor Ledger of London, whose
series of Gresliam astronomy lectures on
"Knocks Iu Their Relation to Astrono
my" has been completed, in his last dis
course pointed out that tho universe,
instead of being fixed, is alivo with mo
tion, each star witli its attendant plan
ets hurrying through space. If star were
to knock against star tho iiiteimo beat
and fierce lire generated by tho enor
mous velocity and vast momentum of
tho two masses would bo such as to pass
human conception.
It may bo that the sun was formed by
tho collision of two stars. The effect of
two such bodies attnwting each other
and meeting would bo to reduce them
to a violently agitated gaseous masB,
which would oscillate, first inward, pro
ducing inconceivable heat, and then out
ward again, ultimately assuming the
condition of tho snn. Tho general re
sult would be thnt tho two bodies would
revolve around their common ceutor of
gravity that is to say, around each oth
er creating a double star. Lord Kel
vin has calculated that if 2!),000,000
solid globes, each of tho mass of tho
moon, should Ik) scattered over a spher
ical snrfiico 100 times tho radius of tho
earth's orbit, they would come together
anil lo raised to a temperature of
100,000 degrees. They would oscillate
outward and inward, reaching to a less
distance each time, and ultimately set
tling down into a sphere.
llio nebnlip wo see nrouiul us may,
Irofessor Ijodger suggests, have lioen
produced by the knot-king together of
two great bodies rather than by the ag
gregation of many smaller ones. The
collision of two huge suns would thus
lead to rejuvenescence and the formation
of new systems. Phenomena indicating
that something very much in the nature
of a collision had occurred are the out
bursts of temporary stars fucIi as those
observed by Tyclio Bralio iu 1372, by
Kepler in 1004 and those of 1S43, 1SCU,
187G, 1SS5 and 1S02, tho hist being the
new star Auriga, which declined through
ten magnitude, or became 100,000
times loss bright in two months. TJie
great increase in the light of a comet as
it approaches tho sun mny bo duo to a
tidal disturbance iu the bodies forming
it, causing them to knock against each
other, and thus generate heat and light.
Iu the same way the twinkling of the
stars may bo caused by tho knocks of
tho molecules of the atmosphere on the
ether, whose nudulations carry their
light to us. The excessively great and
the exceedingly small am all interde
pendent, and the past, present and prob
able future of nebulous bodies all hinge
on the relations they lear to tho knocks
of the molecules of their ir.ises. while
the knocks of immense bodies depend J
ultimately on the knocks of their constit
lieu i atoms.
The Klertrlo Candle.
The electric candle is in great request
in Kngland for the lighting and decora
tion of dining and other tables. An in-
geuious device for lighting the candles is
provided bv placing small jvads under I
I the tablecloth, and taking the current j
from them by means of two pin points j
when they arc rppkicvd in tho pro'vr po
hitiou. They arc so arranged that the
bulb and tho glass imitation of a wax
raiidlo can bo removed, when the can
dlestick can bo used for an ordinary can
dle. When used with shades of colored
silk, the electric candlo makes ouo of
tho prettiest additions to a dinner table
that is possiblo to imagine. Machiuist-
Klnd Offer.
Impoliteness may sometimes perhaps
be answered properly w ith impertiuence.
A struggling author went to an editor
with a uiauuscripL
"Oh," exclaimed the editor, "'dou'l
")other me now. I've other fish to fry."
"Well. I'll fry your fish for yon."
id the author, "while you read my
manuscript. "
So the editor had to rend it. Youth's
Companion.
n OTHERS
recovering from
the illness at
tending child
birth, or who auf
'fer from the ef
fects of disorders,
derangements
and displace
ments of the wo
man! v organs,
will find relief
and a permanent aire in Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. Taken during
pregnancy, the " Prescription "
HAKES CHILDBIRTH EA5Y
by preparing the system for parturition,
thus assisting Mature and shortening
"labor." The painful ordeal of child
birth is robbed of its terrors, and the
dangers thereof greatly lessened, to both
mother and child. The period of confine
ment is also greatly shortened, the
mother strengthened and built up, and an
abundant secretion of nourishment for
the child promoted. If
THE MARRIED WOMAN
be delicate, run-down, or overworked, it
worries her husband as well as herself.
This is the proper time to build up her
strength and cure those weaknesses, or
ailments, which are the cause of her
trouble. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion dispels aches and pains, melancholy
and nervousness, brings refreshing sleep
and makes a new woman of her.
Mrs. Aiiram I. von. of IjomxiHtJtffrrsa Co.,N.
Y., write : " I had Iwon
Buffering from ulceration
and falling ot'the womb,
for several years, or since
the birth ormv vounccst
child. I consulted all the
phvicinns around here
and they ruvc me up and
said there was no help
for me.
At lait. almost discour
aged, I began taking lr.
lMeree's Favorite Pre
scription and took five
bottles. It is three years
since and I have not had
any return of thetrouble.
I feel very grateful, and
Mas. LVOM.
for I do not think I should have been alive now
if I had not taken your medicine.
Aa UaoaL.
Mr. Epsom Downes (seated beside a
itranger in a street car) What time is
it by your watch, please?
Stranger I don't know.
Mr. Epsom But yon jnst looked at it
Stranger Yes. I only wanted to boo
if it was still there. Loudon Tit-Bits.
Memory is the primary and funda
mental power without which thero
could bo no other intellectual operation.
Johnson.
The Chickahomiuy had its designa
tion from an Indian word, Chik-a-maw-hony,
"the place of turkeys."
A dispatch from Colon says: The Pa
cific Mail steamship from Panama for
San Francisco could not get her through
cargo aliourd, it is reported, on account
of the strike. Most of the strikers at
Panama are Colombians. They have is
sued a manifesto to proclaim as their
motto "Unity and Strength."
It is reported at Milwaukee that Ed
ward C. SVall will l)e appointed minis
ter to Japan to succeed Minister Dun.
It is said that Senators Vilas and Mitch
ell are willing to indorse him and that
Wall's friends are active in his behalf.
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