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About The Independence west side. (Independence, Or.) 18??-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1890)
Mley DlivSIRH to inform the public that they are still on tkvk tit the old PIONIiKR CORNER Unit has an unbroken record of TWUNTY FOCR YKARS. While many changes have been wrought dui ing aU these years, not only in our City, but among their patrons, as well as upon the methods of business yet with an unswerving policy long years ago established of keeping GOOD GOODS, giving GOOD ; VALUKS and always extending to its patrons, kind and courteous treatment, it has ever occupied a front scat among the Valley Stores, and to-day is a leading factor in the Coinmer cial Circles of Polk County. And while its present Managers, SHELLEY & VANDUYN, are proud of the record of the old Corner, and thankful for the patronage THEY HAVE received during the past, they now desire to say to their friends and patrons that their STRING STOCK is now Complete and will le replenished almost daily with the Latest Styles of GENERAL MERCHANDISE, the items of which are too innumerable to mention, some of which however are as follows: BUSS CONSISTING OF Imported Henriettas, Serges, Almas, Sicilian Cloths, Cashmeres, Broadheads, Satteens, Challies, Ginghams, Outing Cloths, Lace Flouncings, Dotted Swiss And a FULL LINE of WHITE GOODS. FANCY SUCH AS KID GLOVES, SASH and NARROW RIBBONS, ORIENTAL, TORCHON, and the Famcu3 VfUlQlXKE POVttt BUCKLES AND SLIDES, SILK CORDS, ETC -N STAPLE DR Y C00DSs N Sheeting, Muslin, Scrim and Lace Curtains, Ladies' Muslin Underwcar.Shirting, Prints, Ladies' Mens' and Children's Hosiery, Harvest Glcves, Men's Furnishing Goods, Etc., Etc. ALSO Clothing,-Hats and Caps, -AND- BOOTS : and : SHOES In endless variety for everybody. CLOTHING FROM HENRY W. KINC & CO., CHICAGO, At prieeH tlmt challenge competition. Men's Ladies' Misses' Boys' and Children's. Sailer, Lerwin & Co'n Factory at Philadelphia, the most re liable goods in the Market. , ALSO A LINE OF Staple -:- draperies. We are now on the evo of a New Erain Polk County I and SHELLEY & VANDUYN are prepared for the i-unIi which will certainly come this Summer. They have , . purchased thoir immense stock in the lowest markets arid have obtained the largest cash discount possible; mo walk right in and we will give you straight goods at bed rock prices. Iielle v & vanduyn GOODS GOODS Vanduyn. COLD MINING IN CHINA. Tn Thniuftuil llumn OraaturM Who Dig Thru OunaiM of Oold ft U.Jf. Minister IVnby tm sent to the State Department, in a recent report, trnti I til Km of mii article which recently ap iieared In a native newspaper pule llshed at Shanghai, giving nn account of ilia gold mining lu Shanghai. It sayst "There .re gold mines In Manchuria whloh may give a bettor account of themselves than any of our con I or iron mine. Home of the IiiUit, a for In stauco, the Ch'lh-ohow mines of Anliul mut th Sudiow mini of Klmisu. have litar Iwn nnrlhlng I at a success, awing to dUllc littles of It'H' sp U'llug tl t mineral l tin piece where It I re quired. Hill fur gold there I. ft good market everywhere, mid nil lluit U brought out of III" mirth I mi i oil tlitt spot. What ha stood In ilio way of successful gold mining In China it want of method. M'l o P'ltig-tu gold minus, on the Shantung promontory, employ about 10,000 M'roii, ftiul I lio work' lug expenses re 8m) .els dity, hut the output daily in uiily 3 ounces of gold. Hut we mil pleoscd to chronicle the existence of a vary dlffur tiit state of things hi tin Amur gold initio When Prefect LI ftssunied the direction six mouths ago the working of these ttiluo win commenced with sudden and wonderful uuergy, mid a, siibsldnry mine was opened Ht K'l-kitn lio. Here, where tho gold brigands had worked at their forbidden mlues before they were sn disastrously scat tered by the t:iiluono tiovoriiini'iit troopn, uotd mining m now mttively piMcoodlu ttiulir t lie n ni't Ion mid u coiirtiL'tMHunt of tlin linvoi nnipiit. At lli'Ht ihe output wh vitrv iiintll, but It hus aliii'O no liHTniisoil tiuit tliiilnit tlm lntt tun dnvd of llio third moon (April -M-'J'i, IMii), tlm joint production of both nilm's vim IhiIwoch tlfiy mid ilxty ount) of 0 ild dint. Tht'io mn from iiOO to (100 mlnoin mnplou'd. nud tmch U lliidliiit now uliout n ton t h of hu oiiih'h of jfold cvry dny, und It I est pootod tht bufore muiiy more mnntln llioro will l) 3.000 iiilnoin work lii)f thorn and producing Hmi ounuoa of gold ft diiv. Happy uliiuv-holilorst i'lii'Sivniiin" of llol-I.inid KIiiiij 11 neiirtlie fwnth'r 1miwimi that Chinone pmviiioo nud the Kulun Amur tor ritory. Tiiore t I ho Tung Kin Slmu nud the Si Kin liin woi tliy of ImImjj uiuiii'il Iwtiiiiit tii i ulitoriiln of tlm Amoili'itrnt mid th AiiKlriilin of tliu HrllUh, w hloh itru ruinniouly culhil by tut, ivnuivuu'lv, Kill Kin Shun mid Mn llni ".Mi.in, tint old nud miw gold ticid. II'Ot sti'i'tolii' n iold rein of 4K) to CUU U lonjr, whioh If pi-oporly worked will yndd in IiiohIimiIuIiIo woalth, nud in now only waiting for citpUnlixt to count forwunl to nupply too working cupuiii, II muit Iki coii fi'ssinl 1 1 1 tit tin) v;iv tlii'io inline worn iimniigiHl liofoiti l'lcfci'i l.i ennui nhiiig wast anything but r'iiiuiug to liivoni or, but now w limy hoHt that mora coiilldcnco will lie felt and that then.) uobluiiiin my be pi'oni ly duvcliMK'd, "According io tli licit claiiio of' Iho RiH'iinu lii'niv the muo of hllla cnllcd the iling An Ling wnntti our terri tory from tho Itii.viimi. the gold eoiintrv of Tung King Mian lying to lhu nouth. ami that of 8i lliu Shun or Molt lit) to Hit north of that rnngo. Thu nilnoi niitler l'rufect I.I s iiH'i'inleieleiic nrn on lluco motintaliH noiim mivculv or eighty li from Molt Ho. All provision for tlin miiiuit miw In; iiiipoi'lcdovi tlaud from Ai-kcn (ntherw Iso enlliul suglmltu ! Via, or Hlaek Kivur'), n liislaucu of t,- W li, througli Moh Ho, paiwlng Hitsnian tcnitory on iludr way. l'ro ' feet Li intend! to etloet ft reform in ,thl respect, and partly by the employ luont of ateami't'H mid partly by open- lug of new roadfi to render it poiwiblu : to bring from Cblnu iivervthlug ocmwsary for the pronr working of ! '.liu millet and tlie tmpply of thu mt- totiuel with pi'oviiioiM wlthiiul tlm aid if KiiHahtn loadi).'1 llPltlnnliig to Knjoy MO1. Anierlcuns am ut beginning to nn ' joy life. We are not quite, tho iolxr mid aud-choekod rtico that wo once ; wfiie. The utruggle for cxidtenett tiinln ' the people better olf tluiu they were : one mill two hundred year ago, There i mora abundance nud comfort, less ; cold, liuiiger and expoxure, better food, , shelter and clothing. ThinD can be i enjoyed now which could not even exit here previously, for both the comfort : and luxuries thenisoh oh on one hand and the margin for expenditure on the : other have iiioreiiod and come Into being. 'l'hi'Bfl liuve given color mid : inlerc.it to life. Tho religion belief, too, I. more ; cheerful. 'The awful deity of riirilauiKiii lint been tnipplanted by a loving one. i litiligioii now biiHiett itself mora with ' good (leeils and huuiaii xynipathien nud I Feds with gloomy iiitriiHoectioii. It him i Kathercd a larger fullh lu the absolute I benevolence nit well ns jusitiee of God, I mid of the milwtiinliiil Ictory of good j over evil which thin implies. ! Contact with Germans and Jews, who ' have migrated to this country and be come n part or our environment, I 1 having I s Intluunco. Go to Saratoga and vviio iiiuong the visitors are having : the most enjoymeiitP The Hebrews. ' Among the work people who are out for a holiday in the park, or the coun try, or on tlie witter, the Germain show the most hearty devotion to the occa sion; mid neither are tho Irish and other Kuropemis wanting In this re spect. ' AH these Influences of better foed h0', more leisure, a bolter religion, a growing awthutioUm, larger incomes ; and possibilities of bettor living gener : ally, to xay nothing of the contagion ' example of the Germans, thu Hebrew mid other peoples who know how to enjoy living, are bringing the pooplo of ! this country Into n bettor enjoyment of 1,f (It)Mi IJouMkecuiiui "Aunt Nina's" Appeal. i "Zeb" Vaneo was holding forth In I one of the cloak-rooms of the senate j the other day on tho evils of liitemper- mice, writes a Washington coriesnond- etit of the N. Y. Tribune, I don't know whether he intended to "point a moral ! and adorn a tale," or whether ho ex pected that the seed, in the company he was in, should fall on fruitful I ground. Whatever his motive in toll j lug tho following litllo story, I omit i for obvious reasons of delicacy, all I mention of names. Said the genial i senator from North Carolina: j "There was a catiip-meetiiig hold I last year in the immodiate neighbor i hoou of my home in Charlotte. Among the many colored people present was ; I 'Aunt jNin.v wno was noted lor the j length mid breadth of her prayers, la j which she never failed to make moii I tloa of her old master, who was much ' given to drink. On this particular oo i casion, after having disposed of all tho rest of creation, she became more than usually fervent in her appeal in his be half, requesting as a 'special favor that ho bo saved from a drunkard's grave at least, and accompanied the ro quest with this irresistible appeal: "'0 Lord how would it lookl him lit hell, with hU bald head, and dniiik at that?" Home, from being a city sot t seven hills, is likely to be a seaport. The mountain is not to be cast into the sea, but a profane American company is willing, for the sum of 6H,(KKJ,0Ob fiance, to undertake to briug the sea to the moiintaiu by moans ul a canal eleveu miles long. The miiioiiiu was suggested by Garibaldi nud has since beou approved by Lessoiis, Six of the 111 member of th Tl law school tiro Japanese. (JKXKHAIi NKW& Dm) of Ihe Knllun Obelisk In (Vntul Pork, N. Y. PATHS TuTII NKTN II KK $rmi,tKMI. A Kl( Narrlin Twenty New WIvm.-A Wt.lHH) Purl rait. Tho king of Slum hut Just married twenty new wives. Dom l'wlro. ex-emperor of llraull, I mi liniiurnrv member of the New York Historical Society. John 0, Wlilltler. the nged poet, re cently refused t'J.(KK) from a luugiulini (or ft short t'hristina poem, Theodore 11, Weld, the well-known mu l-slu very agltntor, celebmied bis Ighly-sixtli birthday recently. The eldest iluugliler of General Ma lioise has one of tho tiuost mid sweetest Voices Mrs. John V. Mackay has ever heard, i The Kussliiii government gets itbniit thirty-six hundred Miuud of pure gold every year from thu mines of eastern SiWlu. Milluls has received the sum of fiJ, 000 fur his latest port rait of (iladslone. It was paid for by sulmerlplloiii of liift women of Knglmid. Swinburne, Alfred Austin, mid Lew is Morris are prominently nientloned lu conneotlon with the Kug'lish laurenle shlp as successor to Tennyson, Governor-elect Cmnplndl, of Ohio, I ft Knight Templar, a member of the Kutghts of l'ythln. the Grand Army of thu Itepubllu mid the Order of Klks. Rev. T. P. Saudford, who lias be come the pastor of baptist church In lilrniinghaut, Kug., I ft full-blooded negro who was bom slave lu Vir ginia. An wciMilrlo old lady living near Dresden, Temi., has purchased her burial ndio. She Is sovoiity years old and Insists that she can't last much longer. Her Ainciiemi tour will net l'attl I0WI.UO0. This will go ft li)t y to ward her huiiseholtl xpeuses in the Welsh castle with tho unpronouucif iible timiiu. The Egyptian oladlsk In Central Park, Sew l'ot k. is rapidly going to decay, notwithstanding the edorlS made to preserve IU The clinmle Is i loo severe. Chnrloltn M. Yongo, the historical I writer, bus wrilteu and puhllnhed : einctly 100 books. Shu Is now en 1 pged iiion her lulst work, to be unit I ilied shortly. Sir Julian I'auucnfoto I devoting ft 1 good ileal of time to tho study of Auier ; k'uu literature. Ho any that he had ; no wilUatlou of tho riVbmw mid va ; riuly of the work of our niun of letters, ! Editor W. 11. Maldo of tho Vhrutia ' at Murk thinks loo lunch professional ism has crept Into tlm churches, and says: "We tieHildlrllircbinclus,iiiiire shiibliv rliurehes.uiado so by the tllnsset : attending." ! The coiitract for the organ for TU j ningo' new taheniacle in lliiHiklyn has ; Imm'II awanletl to lliellrm that built the ; old one. It will have 5,078 pipes mid A W stops, and It I said it will be th ' largest ever built. A bright young fellow in lAinilna earns his living by writing speeches for ; wedding breakfasts. In England i speeches are still exM'cted from the j bridegi ooiii.andlhey tire generally very : bungling u trail's. The library of the lata Ir. llauer, the CnlcbraleiHiel'illilll scholar of Lelpsic, : has Just been purchased by Ihe 1 liner i ford, IV, vollcgu for n large price. It consists of S.lHHl volnuies on ecclesias tical literature and history. Senator Edmunds of Vermont ha served longer in the I'ul ed Stales Sen ate than any of his colleagues. April , S, 18U0, he will have been in the Sou- ate without a slnglu break twenty-four years, Mr. hilmunils wilt be tri iu ! February. Mrs. Kmiuil K. Forsyth, the daughter of ft former Aim ricaii consul at Samoa, is claimed to oe Iho largest laud-owner ' in the world. She has a plantation of shout t.')0,00U acres on an island near New Guinea and employs over Alio people on it. A Lower Soucnn, XorthumlHirlnud i ! county, feniisylvmiln, farmer, while butchering tlie other day, struck a hul l lock with slcdgo hammer, mid left the animal for dead. When he re- turned from bis breakfast the animal ! was finishing a chest of meal, j Frank It. Stockton, who si anils at ' the head of American short story i writers, is thin, Intellectual-looking ' man, with ft fascinating smile and a : pleasing mode of conversation. He is a typical American In appearance, of i the highly strung, nervous kind. j Charley Crew, a Marlon (O.J jewel ! er, bos completed n modal which Is to be given to Ira Williams. Mr. Wil I limns is the farmer who had tho fol 1 lowing sign posted on bis farm regnrd 1 lug hunting: "Hunt all you please, j mid when the bell rings come In to ilin ! nor." Miss Maud Banks, who figured on the st ago awhile, Is now in Washlng i ton acting as private scorotary for her I fathor, Gen. N. P. Banks. The Gon i oral looks as large nud strong as ha j did twenty years ago, although 74 win ; tors have made his thick thatch of hair ! and bis heavy mustache snowy white. ; A countryman went to ft store la ' : Morgantown. W. Va., tho other day j t ami purennsoa ft Koros ,., "That s the iirst one o' thoni notions that evor come to my house," ho ro markod. "Candles was alius good enough for niarm and me, but darter's got a bemi and thinks we oft to put on a Icetle stylo." A Now Yorker says: "Men marry their secretaries and typewriters so often in tho business world of Now York that there is now no novelty at all shout the performance. I have known dozons of such oasos, In onr house nlone four moil have married typewriters or women clerks within the past twelve months." The schedule for service by tho great guns Is though to bo as follows: The IGO-ton gun, with good luck, can he Ilrod ninoty-Hve times before becoming unlit for service; tho 67-ton gun 12? times and tlin 45-ton gun 150 times. Tho cost of each round for the big one Is 327) 184 for tho 67-tonuer and 1)8 for the 45-toimor. In the past twelve yours something like 400 out of those who have been candidates for the post of olllcor in the English mercantile service have beon unable to distinguish colors. No few er than 2(JO mistook drab for greout over one hundred confounded pink with green, Two persons oould not rooogniise white to thorn It was groeu or pink. An olllccr high in army circles sug gests that as a solution of the Indian question the red man lie enlisted in tlie regular army. lie, says that they ninke tood soldiers but very poor farm ers. The American army lias found the former to be a serious fact, whilo the Interior Department has made al most nn utter failure of converting them Into farmers. When Mr. Browning's friends first made known the poet's intention of be- mg mined liv his wife's side the Flor ence authorities stated that It would require an set of parliament to re-open the old cemetery where Mr. Brown ing was burled but they have sines announced that, out of rosiH-ct to the pool's wishes, they are willing to re move Mrs. Browning's remains mid (be monument over her grave to the new cemetery, ' An American lady who recently visited Count Tolstoi, the great Bus slau novelist, complains that he is uot quite consistent lu practicing whut he preaches. He holds that there I some thing degrading lu tho inert) handling of money mid property, mid according ly delegate to the countess the control of tho household mid the entire man agement of his pecuniary a I) a Irs. hhe observed, however, that ho bits a lux uriously furnished study, nud horses, carriages, and servants at his com mand -"-although they ni ii his wife's. On the whole, the great man would ap pear to have lieeii rather a disappolut UMUl Itiiinlitettiorpn anil thu null. Gen. Buiublelhoi'iHi Is certainly ft very big man -big In slat no and nig ger still In his ow u conceit, brimming over, as ho constantly Is, with bis own Importance, says the Boston 7VuMcri. Gen. Biiiiililctliiii'H) was never In the army; he never was even lu the militia. But he was surveyor-general once, good while ago, and has of course worn the title of general ever since, and has always insisted upon It. Ho has been a shade more overhearing since be lie came a general lu this way, though he was siillleleiilly overbearing before that. One flue afternoon Inst summer Gen, Biimblcthorpo was taking ft walk through the outskirts of the country town which he had honored by choos ing It as his place of summer sojourn. In tho course tif Ids wanderings be cams upon a pair of bars leading Into ft grassy and Inviting meadow, The bars he let dnwu and walked Into the meadow. He had but half crossed the meadow when be saw, to bis horror, ft great black nud white llolstoin bull emerge from the dark shade of an apple tree and advance toward him. Gen. lluinhlet borne is not mi active man, but the sternly advance of the enormous animal stim ulated him for the moment t.. great activity. And his own rapid flight itlso served to stimulate the bull, who lowered his head and charged fero ciously, bellowing the while. It was mad chase, but (ton. R.iiu- blelhorpe had mine gom I roils of ad : vantage In the start, ami tho opposite : fence of the Held was not far away. : The guuerat ran rapidly ami succeeded In turning ft somersault over lhu fence just lu time to escupe tlie Infuriated animal. And then it w is Gen. Bmnblethrope : was Infuriated. From the safe side : of the foiico hn stormed and raged nt tho bull, mid. seeing ft farm-house ! not far away, he stalked over to It. ; The farmer' was choring around tho : barn when the general rtishod up to him. "Is that vour hull over there, sir?" ; exclaimed (ion. BuiublcthorHi, "Wal, I guess 'tis," said the farmer. ! "Well, sir, do you know what it's Wn doing?" i "('liosin' ye. mehbe." "Yes, sir, chasing me; nud it is an I oillrajo I will not tolerate an out rae. I tell you, that I should Iki pur ; sued Hint liiiinlllnlcd in this way?" Wal." siivs the fanner, "It's thing I that bulls wfll do; ye cati't help It, ye know," "Help It!" said the general, black i with Indignation; "do you kuow who I ! Mill P ! "No, I don't." Well, sir, I am Cioti. Bumble ' thorpo." "ls-that sof" said the fnrmer.with i it great delilmratiou; "is that sof ; Whv lu thunder did'ut ye the the bull, ; getiVnir The Jews Htllt Wftndor. ( It Is remarkable that Eniln Pasha should be a Jew by birth, ami one of bis rescuers Vila Ilasson a Jew by profession. But the presence of these j Jews In Equatorial Africa doe not I stand alone. From the timo of Abra- ham downward the migratory Instinct i has been dominant In the race. Me ; sopotamia. Canaan, Egypt, Canaan i once mure, Assyria, Babylonia. Persia, i Canaan ft third time, and then the ; world nt largo such are the successive stages of Israel's national migrations. Tlie Jews, indeed, have ever been tlie "tribe of the wandering foot." lu ail ftga when movement from ouo country to another was a rare nud hazardous proceeding ill the twelfth century, to wit Benjamin of Tudela nud Pe techia of Hatisbon traveled through great part of Europe, Asia nud Africa, and were thereby able to make con siderable additions to the world's knowledge. Tho second Benjamin aud llalovy, who explored the Felashas, may also bo mentioned. The existence of Jews in out-of-the-way comers of tlie globe, tlie Felashas and Bold-Israel aud the Cochin Jews, has only been made possible by the migratory ten dency of the race. Tho four young men who kept last Yom Klppur in so queer, yet touching, a fashion In the wilds of South Africa, are among the latest Illustrations of tho tendency. No doubt the wandering Instinct has been strengthened by persecutions, but now that pence nud quietness are his in greater measure, the Jew still retains his predilection for travel. Jewish Chronicle. The Deadly Cold Bed. If trustworthy statistics could bo had of tho number of persons who die every year or become permanently diseased i'roin sleeping In damp or cold beds thoy would probably he astonishing and appalling, says Hood Housekeeping, It Is a porllthiit constantly besets travel ling men, mid if thoy are wise they wilt invariably Insist on having thoir beds aired and dried, even at the risk of causing much trouble to thoir land lords. But tlie peril resides in the house and the ooltl "spnro room" has slain Its thousands of hapless guests, and will go on with its slaughter till people learn wisdom. Not only the guest but the family suffer the penalty of sleeping in cold rooms and chilling their bodies at a time when they need all of their bodily heat by getting be tween ooid shouts. Even In warm sum mer weather a cold, damp bod will get In its deadly work. It is a needless peril, and the neglect to provide dry rooms and bods has In it the element of murder and suicide. A Sagacious Dog, Rosooe Whltcomb of Waldo, Me., has a shepherd dog whloh be prizes highly. One day a colt that was fasten ed by a halter got his feet through the stall and foil lu' such a manner that he was choklnir to death. The doi? was in 'the barn, saw the trouble, and, run ning to the house, oiuight Mrs, Whit oomo by the dross and attempted to pull her out of doors. The dog would run toward the barn and then catch Mrs. Whltcomb by her clothes. . She Hually went to the barn arriving just in time to suve the -'' 1'oriudioals In Russia, There are 080 periodical publications In Russia. Seventy-eight of them are political aud news dallies, 109 are uioutillo, 80 religious, 16 artistic, S3 agricultural, 82 statistical and biograph ical, 16 pedagogic 18 for children, aud the rest miscellaneous. MARKET IMPORT. Kullnir, Prices of Poultry, Ekrs and Diary Produce. KKKI), rUM'R, URAIX AND WMBKR Wstil, Jrss 8w)s, Clever ti, Misrrlln ifOssSMsls. Kit-., Kt. DAIRY PRODUCS. Butter. Oiegun Fney creamery , . , Choice dairy Common ............... Pickled (Col.) Eastern c.camcry fancy ... Cl. fresh roll 'I't 20 HtolO ltiltS'JO 18tC.'l IIMM-'ii !.!( U 15 to In 14 Cheese. New California Orciton Hkims and cream Swiss Cheese, domestic, Young America Or Ehk. flwiumi lli in Hwr KasUoii do ... VAml FLOUR. Portland I'st. Holler, p. Id Salem tio do Bayton do do Cascadia do do Country Brands. .... . , . . 8 7ft 3 7ft 8 115 3 0.' HM 3 7 ft 2 50 3 75 3 'ift 4&0 McMlnnvllle Superfine. . White Lily. (Irabam .... Hye Flour, . FEED. Bran per ton... 17rW0 Hay " baled ... . . . IHWiSt M Hr'd Itarlcy, per ton W l Mill Chop per ton fi'MM Wil Cake lcal er ton . . ,7 MietaO 00 Shorts per ton ltlgr.1iuu FRESH FRUIT8. Apples . lftlM2(i0 Kananas, p. biiocli 'i '))( 4 Ott Cherries , Imoiis,Cl. p, bx 3 7ft40 do Hicily.p. bx. new.. 6 aft Mines per bun 1 ftO Or. Oranges, Klvershlcs. ... 4 mi " " rHHidless ..... 4 Wl4 7ft Navels 6 2ft Malta Blood 5 00 1'ears p;r box None, I'eacbus ier box , do I'liims per lb..,...,...... do Prunes ir lix do WHteruie.ons V doc , do Htrals'iTies V 11-..," -M GRAIN. Barley, whole, p. i ll Com, per 100 list I 60 Oats, good, p. bu 6:'et"4 live, p. PHI lb nouiliial .. I iitHu I I'."-, V lieal, Valley, p. 10.1 lbs . 1 sml do Kasleru Ure 1 lot'U 17v POULTRY. Chicken, larn young V d. 4 2"nit4.0 do broilers 4 6016 00 do old a.ftwJOO Ducks V dos 7tH)ft0 tiwse. vouiiit V ds.. . . ... N itOnttf 00 j Turkeys, ywiutt, lb IHwUO : SEEDS I Grass Seeds. Tiiuolby I Orchard tirawt Ued'loi i blue (irons FmIish Kyo (irasn i Italian do Australian do ! Mesllllte I Millet ! Huiiicarian do lb It. ,4Ct, MI2 l2i(U 7st M'nC'tll 7.'(? 7(10 fttaO 6w0 l2(tlS t0ViU I.I7 1&W17 10(tll 4'(iift 4((cft 6ft' 3,(rf4, MixeU lwn Urasn, ... Clover Seed. Red Clover While Clover Uyske Clover Alfalfa Miscellaneous, I Canary ! Flax ' Hemp i Kae i LUMBER -ROUGH AND DRESSED. KoiikIi IVr M fill 00 Kilned 12 00 T. A u; SlieatbiiiK No. 'i tloorinx No. i wiling No. 2 rustic 13 00 18 00 18 00 18 00 .0 00 22 50 22 50 22 50 i'2 50 2ft IX) I (XI 2 IX) i Clear round...'... ! Clear I', 4S j No. 1 flooring j No. 1 ceiling j No. 2 rustic Stepping.... Over 12 inches wide (extra) length 40 to 50 " l.eiiKbts On U4 Utd IS, Laid Iiinules, cedar, per 1000. , . 4 00 2 2ft . . . , 2 50 2 2ft 45 OOitfSO (K) red cedar, 1000 WOOL. Eastern Orenon. According to shrinkage. .. ....... 10(jflft Valley. Spring clip loti W Umpipia .... lc20 " l4tinli and fall .... 10tal4 VEGETABLES (Freeh.) Spiuacli Turnip jstr sk Tomatoes ier box . . . Asperngus Itcans V Hi Beets V lb Cabbago V lb Caulillower, per tlox . 175 (KS8 10 I 40( 1 6't Carrots nor rk mo do young V dos Celery per dos , Cucumbers V do. . . Orcen Teas V lb. , . . Lettuce V do Onions V HX) lbs.., I'otatoesP 100 lbs... Hailif lies It do Ubiibnrb ift 0 1 00 75 0 20 3 01 2 2ft lft ft DRIED FRUITS. Apples sun dried qrs 78 do factory sliced Cal. . . . HW 10 do evap. 60 lb boxes. ... 11 to 13 do oiibloa to 7 Apricots 13 to 14 Blsckberrlos 60 lb boxes. , , Uil3 Cherries pitted. . . .-. 40 Peaches hlvs, unpTdncw., 10(i12 do evaK)rnted 12(ilfi Pears macb dried l)(61),' Plums pitted Oreg ... 3(14 " fiictory ft0 Citron, Currants, o. Currants. In bxs or bids., 7VCs8ij' Dates in boxes 10(fU Far Dates, 15 lb bxs 11 Prunes. Oregon French Petite .... 78 The Virt ue of Hot Milk. It Is worthy of reltnration that milk heated to as high u toniporature as it can be drunk or sipped, above 100 de grees but not to the boiling point, Is of great value as a refreshing stimulant in casos of ovor-exortion, bodily or mental. To most pooplo who like milk, it does not taste so good hot, but that Is a small matter compared with the betiolit to be got from it. Its notion is exceedingly prompt and grateful, and tlie effects much more satisfactory and far more lasting than those of any alco holic drink whatever. It supplies real strength as well as exhilaration, which alcohol never docs. Qood Ilousekeep ing. On the Verne of a Paulo. Jackson (whose liniincliil credit Is gouoi "I tell you, Withorboe, we are on the verge of a financial panic". Witherbooi "Pshawl What makes you think thntP" (Confidentially): "Well, lir, Bagloy aud Huberts used to lend me small sums a year ago, but when I go to them nowadays for a five or a ten thoy tell me frankly that they iaveu't got It. Biiffley and Roberts ire two of our best business meu, too. I tell you, sir, we're going to have a JftUlO." isWWElT S SWrojUtD BOOK. r:., Fnrth for th, Farmtr, Stockman and Backtm, LARGEST D. L. PERBLEE, 37 'CAMP-MEETIN' JOHN. A Utile '' T"1'1 " ,"m1" sltl hf Ml Cllf - Rcpre-entatlve Allen, of Mississippi, doesn't have It nil Ids own way. Cou iricssman Burrows, of Michigan, bas uot even wild 1.1m for once, lie gt Captain Allen up lit line recently u4 tired ft whole battery Into his ear. "When Allen was saving Conuectl n..t b..t full." said Hurrows, "be had mi aimolntinru In Wlndhmn county, II., u i nmt at the denot bv all low with a bald face and fringe ...ii..ui.uii,ii.iv wliiskera sorlntriiiir from his oollar-bone over the edge of his collar, like witch grass In tlie angle , of a rail fence. ..",'.., "1'bls is Mr. Allen, Is itr ftsked the old 'un. . "'It lr,' responded the Captain. "Wall, I've come to take ye Ut the moefnV" , , "Without further wlo the Captain climbed Into the wagon. It was one of the kind saved in tlie ark. It bad a rocker body set on thorough braces and with wheels two Inches across the tire. The shaft were straight and run up from low axle to the horse's neck. The horse was a rat-tailed buck skin mare which cantered behind and ambled iu front, She wore an old fashioned collar and li nines, out decol late and smiled with straw. Allen tried to stir the old man up by talking politics, but the patriarch didn't sofiu verv enthusiastic for the Democracy, fttid preferred to talk about foreordiua tion and the mortal certainty ninety nine in a hundred had of Mug damned. "Finally they reached the .place of meeting. There was a good crowd, more women than usual, but a terrible solemn lot all arouud. The hall looked more like a meeting-house then most places, but Captain Allen was accus tomed to expect anything, Old (lab ways escorted him to the platform, where solemn looking mugs shook bauds with him aud didn't utter ft wonl. "Cail,' thought the Captain, 'this looks like ft funeral. I'll have a job warming them up.' "Finally one of the solemn parties walked to the edge of the platform and said: "Uretheren and sisters: It Is my sol emn pleasure to intorjiice to you to night, a man whoso name is ft house hold wont from Maine to California a man who, though upwards, I under stand, of 80 year of age, scarcely looks CO. Kllow me to present Kov. ' John Allen of Main, more ginerly j known "Camp Mceliu'" John Allen, who will 0en the services with pra r. " H'unhinytun fori. Toys of the Olden Time. j A tliotightful-looklnjr little gentle- man sat In the Giranl House, of l'hila- dclphin, one evening watching the j people pass In and out aud listening to I snatches of conversation Miieh were wafted to his ears. He sat alone In a i corner, smoking a pi w ith a long : slender stem. His black ront was ornamented with braid, and his grey : hair was toppod by a black skull cap. ; The gentleman is Augiiste Blare, of Paris, an inventor of mechanical toys. ; He has spent his life in this work, and i each year brings him additional In terest in it. Mr. Blare has a marvel i oils fund of anecdote, especially about ' the wonders of automata, and takes ' great pleasure in talking about the , latter. "Puppet and marioiietts were pat roui.ed," be saU, "i-orh by the Greeks and tho Komatis. and automata, which are the inventions now principally dealt In, also go back to a remote period. Vulcan's tipod on wheels has the authority of Homer; Daedalus made . moving statues; Archvtas of Threntum, in 400 It. C. invented a wooden pigeon t that could lly iu tlin air. Iu the six- teenlli century Rcglnniantmuons made an iron lly which "moved through the atmosphere, and afterward an auto : matie eagle, whloh on the arrival of : the Emperor Maximilian at Nurem- burg. Hew forth to meet him. j "But one of the most wonderful of i such Inventions of which we have record was a croup of automata con structed by Philip Camus for Louis XIV. This consisted of a conch and four horses that started off at the crack of a whip, tlie horses prmiolng, trotting and galloping in turn. It rati along until It got In front of the King, when It stopped. Thou ft toy footman descended, mid opening the carriage door, handed out a lady 'with born f trace,1 as the records "toll na. Tlie adv made a courtesy, presented ft petition to the Emperor, re-entered her carriage and was driven rapidly away. Such is the description of the most wonderful automaton," concluded Mr. Blare. "1 never saw the toy itself, of course, but the description just giren to you tallies almost word for word with an authentic, record. I memorized the latter at one time, so marvelous did it sec m to me." Feeding Canary Itlrtls. A good many people don't know how to taxe care of canary birds, and I, therefore, give them the following ad vice which I got from a bird-fancier: "Never give your bird sugar, or tigs, or raisins, or anything sweet, except a small piece of sweet apple (peeled) twice a week. Put the apple in the cago In the morning nnd take it out at night. It should hare all the rape and canary soed it wants and gravel should be itept at the bottom of the cage. Avoid feeding the bird celery. Twice a week feed it ou one-third of a boiled egg, using both the white and the yellow of the egg. Grate up the egg; that Is better tlian putting it iu whole. Give it the egg the day before It gets the apple aud as large a piece of the former as of the latter. Let it have a bath every other day, using water with the oliill taken off." A remarkable littlo animal has been added to the Loudon Zoo. It is a deer though in si,u but a trifle larger than a. full grown cat. The cloven hoofs pro claim it position in the mammalian world bcvoiid doubt, but it has no horns. In the male two long canine teeth project from the nnper Hps, ami these, perhaps, serve in their stead. A Lively Cripple. A. oue-lcggod man whom the Sonttle (Wash.) police were after the other day took refuge in ft cellnr.barred thedooi and defied the whole foroe. The tire department was called out and the col lar pumped full of water. When it cot up to the man's chin he surrendered, binoe then he lias escaped three times from jail EXPERIENCED COCXTY CANYASERS To make wrei when tbty liv ""'I' takes theaslcof PHOFI 1 si '.ILCir CUT THIS OUT 10 cents receive ten aampl and re turn to I u with .i . 10 cents ft'id receive ten sampie " will make yo more mower in a w than anything ever offered. rVjinetlilng new, dnrsble and itrofilsbl, Hend at once to NoaTMWSSTKM H.'tn.v t No. 326 Fimt Htwt, lortlani, Oregon. -lUsifuiuim of iPWRiKi, Roller cqe PADDINQ1 CEMENT ETC. Boiler Casting a Specialty. 1 107 Fourth St, East Portland, Or. CLIFF DWELLERS. KaratloiM Olsmnrl) l ollir Colo rado bf Tm MarlforJ Ksplarer. Messrs. Frederick II. Chspln and Charles P. Howard of this city, say the llartford VouraiU. have recently re turned from a most Interesting ud fruitful exploring expedition In south ern Colorado. They made special search for and among the various cliff dwelling lu the Maucos can von. Thfy are experienced climber. Mr.Cbapin is a member of the Apftalacdinu club; bas climbed Mount Blanc and the ex tremely difficult Rathhorn at Zormait, and has published numerous article iu the Apjtalafhian and other magazine. Mr. Howard climbed Monnt Uiauo with Mr. Chapin. and made the ascent of the Mallei horn by himself. They went out to the Manco can yon mainly to take photographs of the interesting objects there, but they also made many discoveries themselves. The pictures Mr. Chapin makes are perfect, and he ha brought from this tnp a collection that are simply mar velous and that show u more about the curious cliff dwellings than can be told in words, though the story accom panying the picture, as he tells it, makes the soeues complete. These dwellings in the Mancos can yon were discovered last December, and verv few people bare seen any of them. Tlioy are scattered alt along the lofty walls of the canyon and lis tributaries. You liud them in count less abundance, yet they are almost alt solutely inaccessible save as the steps to them are found. They are far up Ihe side of the gorge, that can not be scaled from below. And they are down below I be ton so far as to be out of sight or reach from abore. and are generally tucked away umler au over hanging ledge. Tliev are not easily noticed, anu me ouiy way 10 reacu them is by the steps cut iu The slone. The buildings are not adobe; they are mortar and mason-work structure. Tlie largest that they have explored is 426 feet long palace or fortress. It was at least eighty feet high and would hare held 1,000 people. Un tlie ground floor 124 rooms were traced. The object of these expiorvr was not relics but photographs, and so they took pictures instead of gathering ma terials, but they saw a great many curious tilings. Corn and. beans are still to be found in the ruins; indeetl, a coru-cob was found imbedded in tlie original mortar, showing it w as as obi as the structure. Skeletons can be found by upheaving the debris. Who ever goes ihere to dig will come away loaded. Aud so, too. on the plains almot the ranch where the travelers stopped the fields yield pottery and other relics, nnd the loose stones prove to be parts of the ruined buildiugs. It is a coun try whose people have gone. Whv they went, why they livedo they did while there these things aud nearly all else about them are matters for speculation. Kiehard Wetherlll, a ranchman of Mancos, was the discover er of the lirst of these dwellings in that locality and found thorn last December. It is assumed th at they are at least 600 years old. IngersuU On Crime. Before the ninth auntial convention of the State Bar association Col. Rob ert (1. Ingersoll delivered an address upon the subject of "Crimes Agalust Criminals," in which at the outset he demonstrated that punishmeut by tor ture nnd death had faled to abate crime. The following were anionic Mr. Ingersoll's utterances: "Degradation has been thoroughly tried, with lu maiming and brand ngs, ftud the result was that those who indicted the punishment became as de graded as their victims. It is safe to -say that governments have committed far more nriuies than thev have pre vented. I am perfectly satisfied that there are millions of others iueapable of pmotioin certain virtues. There is uo reformation in degradation. Who ever is degraded by society becomes IU enemy. A punishment that de grades the punished will degrade the government that procures the Inflio t on. Is there any remedy? Can any thing be done for the reformation of the criminal? He should be treated with kindness. Every right should be given him consistent with the safety of society. Ho should neither be degrad ed nor robbed. Why should these men after having been Imprisonod for years be turned out without the means of support? . Would it not be far better 10 my ftsme nis earning so that when the oonvict is released after five years of imprisonment he will have several hundred dollars of his own, enough to keep the wolf of crime from the door of his heart? If we are to change the couUuct of men we must change their conditlous. Extreme poverty aud crime go hand in ham Ignorance, liltli, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort as lomr as society bows aud cringes before tlm grout thieves-there will bo little oues euough to till the jails." . How to Be a Favorite. ,,B'"wn! ""Dow I, it yon are such h "'Wwhewyoa g"?" White: "Oh, that s easy enough. VVhonever It to myself, so to make nobody en tune I te lR lmy Bml tunes 1 tell to everybody who will hear me. and you can't fmagfne how hjmy they make everybody 1 tell them T I I ey say, you. know, that misery loves company. 1 don't know how that is.