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THE INDEPENDENCE ststt3J $200,000. Ja UtiprowuivnU will be made' la Independence and vlclultf ...- - ... . , -: - ?" T la e JaaseJe4 Pf"sf : Jan lnnal Idp-ol Devoted to tbo best Interest of I'olk County. 3 umruig iu jar, 1.1 6 ttt VOL. VII. ' . : - $2.00 rer Year. INDEPENDENCE, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, HQOO. Five Cents Ptr Copy. NO. 46. THE WEST SIDE. 1 1 PtXTLANO, mausBU. tsshasiiS at ths Coet-nnW U ludtiadeuee, sSSovev, wNw motor. UBSCKIFTION HATK3. ' tAYABt, 1M ABVAMCB. . Om Year . $t.oa to Month . , i i.oq Three Month ' ' ja When not paid In edvanca I jo TO ADVERTISERS. ssJaeaadanes e leeaten M the ot w4 shos)- syet the y t. m the Wiuiniw 1 (M w Ui Mm lh ftl she UrcAia4 I .as faUfeaa: eoeeassa a piapekeatue ei I pst'W;tatha rto4l shipping prMmt (M eowoay, wbtrk a ewe at the ami 'vtaae UH' FOfOloM Wlltaav Kw need fry IsareMlas eWealallna Die Wm Sift I ettfciyhia lutNn II la be.ooe at III bad at AaveatMettt MediesM, L JOB PRINTING I m raa h Latest and Best -Styles, AW At TUB LOWEST ;t UV1XG i RATES. PHYSICIANS DENTISTRY. LBS & BUTLER, Physioia&s Ac Surgeons. ' ' TJ. S. Examining Surgeons. Otoe: east sldeet Mala at. laMFWbMct, . . . i oaiooa f iE. l, , ictrrciiuM. i Physician and Surgeon. ' OfflcK: Oppoeltt rtnt National Bank, , ' tUMtPaKDMCI, ORIOON. DR. J. K. LOCKE, Physician and Surgeon. t! V !iati'vii, Owfei.' . J. B. DAVIDSON, M. D. Physioian and Surgeon, ' U. 8. IXAMIHIHQ 8UB8I0H, Independence, Oregon. " DR. J. B. JOHNSON, Resident Dentist, AH work warranted to five the beat of Saristectiau. iBDSrSMBSMOt "OaaOOSJ. w. l: WILKIN, Atloror And Coanwlor Ijiw. AilLffAl BtulnHntnuUd U me will rwtilvr , v Prompt Attention, COLLECTIONS A SPLCIALTY. Onto In Opr IlmiM. Inrt.'i'iiileu, Or. A. II. HURLEY, Attorney and Counselor at Law. OrlAti Cor. Mala sad If oniaoath Ma, IKPIPIUDEXCI, ORMOIt Faber's Golden Female Pills. Itina: nothliif llkttliam on th aiarkuL ir tail naci'MaliiUTIMd by lrnmlnnt IuIIm muoiniir. uuwwiimki to rt)Hr mifriHd naiMruAuon. , iuiei rr cuTAwt Tlmo. tlnlth, namoiMr ;uut noatn r. fUnt tn an. addraM. neora by sail oa i eclptoipnot.ixw. AQtirau. THE APHR0 IE0ICINE COIPllir, WtAtmBrMIClt, Bosn.rOHTLAMO, OR' VEGETABLE PANACEA PREPARED FROM ROOTS & HERBS, PORTHC CURE Of AND ALL OTHER DISEASES a nHiDino rrwm m WSQRDEREDSTATEflfTW STOMACH INACTIVE LIVER. ma atalt BVtLL DRU-CI5TS ft 6ENERAL DEAtERSJ The Gelebrated French Cure. f'APHRODITINE" .SKSSa It Sold om a , P08ITIVC 'OUARANTCC to r Any form ofuervouf i dlwwe, or af dltorrtor o( the fnneratlT ' or-" iu of dither , whotlmrar h &ria f V MHtu. ...a a! Utlmulaiiri ri,hani AP flfltlim. or through youthful iudlicretion, over lndulg anco, Ac, iucb u Ijim of Brain Power, WakefoV , new, Durtni down K.lm 111 the Bark, Hemlnal Wealineiu.lfyirterlaNBrwBlProatraUonNpnttirD 1 Kmlln, Im:orrh, l)lrzlnM, Weak Mem ory, Umnl power and Impoteaoy, whlBh II fleeted often Irsd to nrematureold aire and lnian Ity. prlca 11.00 a box, (boiea or 6,00 Hnt br ' wall on receipt of nrlea, ' A WRITKNOIJARANTEforary6,0' order, to refund tha money If A rarmanen. sure ! not effwited. Thonnanda of ttlmonll ! from old and youni, of both exe,' permanently euredbyAPiiaoniTina, (Jlreular free. Addrea THE APHRO MEDICINE CO. WaOTIkK BRANCH, BOX 37, PORTLAND, OB, For lule by Buster k Lookfl, rrnot EARTH'S SHADOW. WhaAAylra darkaa aa btooaief ayt Taa eaMafvd ataadutr an avaaaMai jraMi A ritanea raaa on IAA wAwaaas aaVat Taa wnrbk a Aa((ar4 and gauat aa4 ivajr. Tb otowta drift waarUy enr tha aay Ttw f rala a ylk, U htlta are aara; I A a-akMai tmuda la kaa quUt aAf) Ta aaraamiai ma aa tt aaaet by. Ta 4mf a brtjrkt aad itM irarM yaa Ma m w nun we wraeua aula, AM aa mmt wa atad and tea Sua A auaty AarAJMa tUnuaatn atawarl tm aaka tnaay. AM la aoura are laajl And 1 bear dlra la ine wroaUea aa lir Uu fkwia e) the aaado of thaa, my aaari Chambara' Juuraai. nNkoraiOaMiWiim n 1 wm out of tw, Bra boy and Br girl. Uj UOm, a cuaTgyntt of th EngliAh conroh, wu giateful to Proiri 4hm for having fdled hU qnlvw with t0. but I think that fat, nality ha wm mora gTatorul thy ass tlaraa, The problem of hit Hfi h worry of at temptltig to aolra which helped to brlttf him to hit gray, WM how to prorld Mrtuf far m all-Aj' ha UA bafort ttngla on of a wm prorided for, ha might have mvwI hlmialf uooh aaxjety. I wee not the Mt of the family, trot the etflond eon. The oUast had bean attnt to one of the nnivenitira, and had foUowad the Terr glortoucbat unpeaunt otu profcetton of hi father, without e "living" end without definite htpe of obtaining one, I wm intended for the Indian civil terricst poatihly the viceroy. hip, but the xam Inert at DnrUngton honae failed to recorfniM my fltneM for raeh great pramlbUitiai, therefore I da. tenuimij to tuilgTAte, and friend of my methera hearing of my detornttnav tion eaenred fur tue, by personal mtaratt, berth la the Hudatfc' Day oompeny. 1 wm duly engAged and dgned a doco mentMlongMA deed of tranafer, by which 1 bound myielf to Mrre the oom pany, even to the extent of dofending their property with my life, I eailed to Montreal and preeenting my eredential there WMaooa lufurmed that my eervioM would be required at a post in the far north in charge of one John Mclvor. ThmwMaUointnwtedtomy oare k pair of fowl, Plymouth Rock, with tha requrat that I would deliver them eafely iuto the hand of Mr. Mclvor, 1 mention thi tact (ceing that theae fowl played an Important part In the evente which I am About to relate. On my Arrival at my detiinatiun, after tleeprng about forty nlgbti under eativM, I waa giad of the oomfort which reigned at Port Trial, due chiefly to the domeatie etiergy of Mrt, Mclvor, a bright, pl not little woman, who Memed out of place in the heart of thi "great lone land.- Mr. Mclvor wm (Scotch, m hie name would imply, rough and ready man, with k heart of iteel, but which on occa sion could be m toft m woman'. After reading the dlfpatche which I handed him he taid; . "Weal, young mon, I dlnna see what the likee o you can do In a oonntry like thi. Had na y better gee back before it la too lateT "I wont go back, lr, anlem you tend me back," I anawered. "Ah, weal; boy, it ay where yon are. It't no alwAy the coareast twine that tan da the biggest (train." Bo 1 entered into my donee without another diecouraging word from Mr. Mclvor, who, though a perfect martinet In the matter Of dnty, wm londneM IV elf in the privacy of hi own bonea. There were two other clerk beside my self, who stayed there only during the summer, but who in the fall took charge of small trading establishments, out- poets m they are called, returning to Fort Trial after the winter's hunt wm over. Like most young Englishmen I had formed my ideas of Indians oa a Fenl. more Cooper basis, but the noble red man fell fsr short of my ideal I found him to be s selfish, nngratafnL treacher ous savage, whose power for evil wm lucidly curtailed by hi eowsrdlce. I do not My that there are so good points in aa Indian's chracteri we find good point in the character of a dog or s horse, but we do not set tha hone or dog on a pedestal and proclaim him all that is perfect; rather we keep clear of hi heel and teeth respectively until we know something ot the brute' idloeyn crasiee. One hu to do the same with Indiana. Be thoroughly on your guard until yon have proved that they can be trusted, and don't trust them then, Mb Mclvor had the most supreme contempt for them a contempt which he never tried to hide. He used to say! I "They are cowards, arrant cowards, and are afraid o you, e'en like a dog." i It wm not long after my arrival that I bad a sort of adventure which gave great sport to the other clerks, and even Mr. Mclvor himself would occasionally make joking allusions to it There wm a river running about luo yards from the store) it wm deep and fairly swift Ons day m I wm working in the store I heard a scream which ap peared to come from the river. Iran out and down to the bank, from where 1 saw an old woman struggling in the water: she had been fishing and her canoe had npset. There were about a dozen Indian looking on, trac tney oniy laughed and made not 'the slightnst movement toward helping her. Indians, a a rule, are cruel to the old. They look noon them M Incumbrances from which they are not sorry if an accident relieves them. I saw that this poor old thing wm m distress and likely to be drowned, so i jumped into toe river ana warn out to bet sssUtanoe,' not before, however, relievins my mind by abasing soundly the men who would cheerfully hare let her sink before their eyes. It Wm no difficult tk to bring the poor old thing ashore, and when I had done bo the poor creature followed me m I ralked toward the house, crying in sevrneat wuesi , v. 'Meefrwitch! ' weegwwcnr meaning f'Tbank yoo, thank you.1! ' But I found this very annoying, for the Indians all laughed at me hi my Wet oiotnes ana m the old woman, whose clothes were also wet and very thin, m she clung to me, with her lnoessant "Meegwltch, meeg- witch."":-'. TV ' . I ' The chaff that I suffered from my cotn- ii J ..VI J panions wm merciless, was uuuuw I'Tha Kniaht Errant." "The Hereto Preserver etci, tin til I grew sick of it but to bare lost my temper would only hare made It worse, so I suffered in sj lenoe, and to aggrarate my suffering the old woman thought it her dnty to pre sent me with every extra Isrge fkh that she canght, or if her son-in-law threw her a beaver tail or a moose nose, or any other delicacy especially prised by In dians, they were sure to find their way to my room, and each demonstration of the kind only added to the fun. After a ttmalbegMtoptekttp tha bunaa lan guage, aud m I always had a sneaking regard fur the old woman, I often made MolhfasistAneeinaiuirtnglt la faut we became fwt frtonds, I cemectiag tha friendship by gifts of ehttleflou aagMartse. I received bM chaffing la tha winter, fur the other clerks had long since taken their depart ore for their respective out posta,aad I wm left eole occupant of theolerka qaatton, or "clerks' BouseM it was called. 1 It wm coming on to the end of March whsu aa event occurred which made me glad that 1 had polled the old woman oat ot tha river and treated her with soma consideration, if not Madness. The two fowla which I had brought safely to their destinattoa had fairly survived tha rigor of tha winter. In fact Mrs. Mclvor announced oue day at dinner that aha had found one egg which the hen had laid. . But shortly afterward there was comteraatton in that household. The two fowls had been found dead, and an Indian dogWM quietly makiug a meal off one ot them. Tha hole whereby ha had effected aa entraaaa was stopped ap before heoonld escape, and Mr. Mclvor, neuig bis revolver, had tha satisf action of shooting the brute and pitching his body down on the fruaea river. Now it happenM that tula dog belong ed to Match ee-tilule, aa old Indian elnimlnf to be chief of the band, and who had the reputation or Doing a con juror and a cannibal, in consequence of which the Indians all feared him and obeyed him. lie came into the store that evening and sposs to sr. Molror thuai IIV.-. ... Jl.. t'Kow mouhr asked Mr. Mclvor, ' i "Twenty weeg." The Iladson Bay company use at Inland posts a standard ft value, the name differing la different localities. A weeg equate about fifty ceuta. "All right," said Molror, "I will pay yon fur your dog if yon pay me for my fowio." "How muehr ' "Twenty weeg." The Indian sew that he wm caught, and walked out with a muttered "Kiah," meaning, "llold on, we shall see." Nest evening he again came to the store, and said: "There are bad people about) I have seea a weadigo. Yob pay me for my dog." (Wendigoi a spirit, a ghost, giant, something uncanny.) "CM the weadigo to pay you," said Mr. Mclvor, laughing, and again the man slunk off. Mr. Mclvor knew the Indian net ore well, and ha said to me: "That old fellow is up to some devil meat That's whAt they a! way do when they want to do an erQ trick themselves: pretend that some one else is going to do It We had better keep a watch oa the placet be might set are to It" . We watched that alght, but nothing unusual occurred. After dinner aest day, m I wm endeavoring to reoaperate a bit from night watching by a short saoose, I became aware of a presence, and opening my eye a my old woman standing over me, with her finger oa her lips to enjoin silence. When she saw that I wm awake she whispered hurriedly: "Baal Indian going to kill trader, kill all white people la the store, Match-ee-ttinie keep trader's wife. Yon good to old woman. Runr , And the old woman, cm ting an aniiou look at the door, hobbled away m fast m abeoould. I did run, but it wm to Mr. Mclvor, who wm at that moment walking down to the store with his wife. I breathhealy related to Mr. Molror as nearly m I could remember thera the words of the ow woman. "There's something In it" he said, "and we must be prepared for them Lot us look for our guns. The loons mean business." Hi wife, who had heard all, looked frightened, and be turned to her Mying: "Which is it Maggie? Wi' us, or at the hooser "With yon, John, till the death," she answered boldly. ' Be gave ber a look of admiration and affection, and hastily rose to collect and load our arms. . But we' were too late; while we were talking in the office ths store had silently filled with Indians, their faces siniatjur and threatening m they stood ranged op against the high counter. So Intent had we been on the discussion that we had not heard the soft tread ot their moccas ined feet, and . there we stood, fairly caugnt, race to lace witn aeatb. It is hard to remember what passed through my mind at that moment think that my feelings were more those of indignation than of f oar. It rexed ma to think of death at the hands of those brute, an inglorious death, of which but a passing notice might appear in some newspaper, or, what wm more likely, no notice at all, for the Hudson's Bay com' pany have never cared to-publish abroad such little mishaps m those. How dlr ferent, I thought, would It have been if I were in the amy. Then it I had to die my name would be mentioned with pride by my family u well m with regret, and possibly my portrait might appear in The Illustrated London News. So dear to humanity is the praise it receives when no longer alive to hear it, when the pleas ure of the praise is but in the anticipa tion alone. I watched Mr. Mclvor with a certain amount of curiosity, not unmixed with hope, to see what he would do. He did not hesitate a moment, but drawing his wife to his side and putting his arm around her waist be said: "Yon hare come, I believe, to kill me!" "Yes," answered Matoh-ee-ninla, "to kill you m you killed my dog," "Ail right," answered Mr. Mctror ooollyi "but surely we may as well take a smoke before yon kill," wnetner the Indians were swayed oy the force of a superior will, or whether they were themselves glad to put off a tragedy which they bad pledged them selves to perform, I cannot sayi but they cheerfully complied with the reqnest, and each producing his pipe leisurely filled it and commenced to smoke, m if they had come there for nothing else, In the meanwhilo Mr. Mclvor had quiet ly drawn toward him a small keg of gunpowder containing about twenty-five pounds He deftly removed the head) then taking a candle and lighting it with the same match with which he lit his pipe he thrust it down into the powder to within two inches of filename. So Suietly bad he done this that the In lans, who were at tha moment enanetiA in lighting thefr pipfcs, did got notjpa t, It wm a solemn kin.4 pf iwokq. Not another word wm spoken, on either side, The only thing thai woke the dead sl lenoe wm the occasional "puff, puff" of a pipe that would not draw, I watched the candle with a kind of fascination and saw an inch burn away.. I wm fear ful lest a spark should drop from it, and thus rob us of our full two inches of life: but the candle, burned atAadUr on. There wm but half aa'inch left I remember that I wondered if tha plovers had begun to make their nests In the majrehes at home) if my brother Charley had come home for the Easter holidays, and it he would know where the mtgle thrush always built her nest in the big elm tree) but my reverie were broken by a movement among tha Indians and a muttered "uou-gom," meaning now, Matoh-ee-niule arose and with him all tha rest of the Indians, with their guns la their hands. Mr. Mclvor, who wm watching them, made a movement toward the candle in the gunpowder, Tha movement attracted the attention ot tha Indians, and they now for the first time oomprehended Die situation. A minute later thera wm not aa Indian in the store. They bad gone out M silently and snddenly m they had come In, leaving us In sole poeaeasion, but with the candle banting dangerously near the powder. Mr, Molvor now care fully approached the keg, and with a steady hand raised the candle from its dangerous candlestick. Not one moment too soon, for scarcely had he lifted It clear off the keg when the few grains ot powder which had adhered to it oame in contact with tha flame and were Ignited) but we were Mved. The sudden revulsion of feeling took the strength completely out of my legs, and I Mt down helplessly on a box, wittl the voice of Mr. Mulvor ordering me to shut the door and lock it recalled me to my sensea. Mrs. Molvor clasped her husband around the neck and kissed him passionately, He wm not unmoved fur the moment) bnt suddeuly he burst out laughing, and said In his broadest Scotch: "Did ye see the look o' ths auld die! when he caught sight o the candle I' the pouther, MajorieT But slated did not hear himi she had tainted, and the man who had been cheerfully looking death In tha face fur the last half hour now became m frightened m I child when he saw hi wife In a fainting At, "Will she ooine around, dy'a thiukr be asked In a tone of inteuae anxiety. There wm no need to answer him, for Mrs. Mclvor answered the question herself by sitting np and bursting Into tears. For some time afterward we lived pre pared for a siege, but the ludians never made shrn again of attempting to injure as; la fact they became mighty eivi), and in the spring, when communication by water had been re-established, ws had no difficulty in scouring our friend Match -ee-ninle, who wm safely trans ported to the far west, where he soon pined away and died. Of the old woman who had done us such service I could gather but little information. I never mw her again) she hsd completely dis appeared. It wm whispered that Match-ee-ninte, having found out that she had warned us, quietly made away with her, so that practically slis gave her life for mine, Can It therefore be wondered at that I priM her memory, especially m in her I have found through lung experi ence the one solitary exception to the treacherous ingratitude of the North American Indianaf Shortly after these events Mr. Mclvor received charge of a district on the bor ders of etvilUatJon. Nothing would do but thnt I should accompany him to his new charge, and so favorably did he re port of me to headquarters that I roM rapidly In the service, and ere many years had passed wm in charge of a district of my own. C. U, Carr, uuffalo Zjrpreas. A Newspaper Klsptemaalae, Tiiere is an old, gray haired, venerable appearing gentleman who is often seen snout the -comuors or tue iiomnan house and the Fifth Avenue hotel. He is a newspaper kleptomaniso, Just leave a paper lying on a seat and watch him. He gets up, looks about unconcernedly and soon sits down next to the paper. Carelosaly he pick it np and glance through It After a few minutes, if no one observes him, be folds ths paper carefully, puts it in his pocket then calls for an Imported Henry Clay and pays for it from a good tiled wallet at the cigar itand. In the oourse of the evening he usually gets all the papers, then dlMppears. New York Journal. A Literary Romanes. Winks I understand the woman you are going to marry has been engaged to yon for ten years. Jinks Yes. You see I sin a newspa per writer by profession, and her proud father said I could not have his daugh ter until I could show him my name at the head of an article In some great mag Ailne, .Well, I went to work, and soon got an article accepted, but it wm ten years before it wm published. Good news. A Voted Doetor Who Was Shy. . Abernethy, .an eminent London sur geon of ths last century, wm noted lor his independence and for bis indifference to people of rank and wealth. A certain nobleman once presented himself at the surgeon's office and without waiting for his turn demanded to see Abernethy. He wm refused, and when it oame his torn he entered the consulting room In great anger. "Do you know who I amr he anked. "No, sirr wm the cool roply, "but I am John Abernethy, surgeon, and if yon wish to consult mo, I am now ready to bear what you have to say in your turn." Yet this man, so Indifferent to lords and ladies, when he had to lecture be fore several hundred medical students WM often painfully embarrassed. As h WM about to begin he would be obliged to retire in order to oolleot his tbouBnts, The consciousness of his great reputa tion) ana the anxiety to stand well witn the students, mad Win shy. Youth's wumpatuon, Why Be Cried, Passerby Why do you err, little boy! Little Boy On account of pa. If be eonus horn without me ma will girs him an awful thrashing. Tsxm Blftings, Aa AaatrUn Wit, ' ' Morlts Saphir, the witty Austrian journalist wm once standing in a crowd ed theatre. Some one leaned on hi back, thrusting his head over his shoulder. Baphlrdrew out his handkerchief and wrung the man's nose violently. The latter started back. "Oh, I beg your pardon," said Saphir) "I thought It was nito. "--Sen FranclepQ Amcffldflti Women's heads, says a London writer on fashion, hays. boon growing very rapidly of late, I have seen several enormous heads within the past week. Tue great bunches of curls and French rolls now worn at the back of the bead are anything but attractive. It is to be hoped that, they will disappear before they develop into anything more serious." UNCANNY IMMIGRANTS. POREIONERS WHO COM! HEftl LONQ AFTIff THIY AM DIAD. The Qaastly Udwtry of laaporalBA; Ilea's tWaes sr Dee ta laaret Saalatlae lAel otoaa Are attaag TseASf Cheapo Very few men would oar to die in tha knowledge that their ftkeletons, instead of decently crumbling Into dust, would eventually ha paradina about in a world which their owners had quitted forever, Ooeaalinalty a man gives up tha ghost, and at tha saws tins five bp his bones. for professional or coawMNtel uses: bat such a man la Invariably an abnormal creature, whom no one loved while liv- Iuk or mourned when dead. through poverty and crime many skeletons are available, but it Is seldom that one I articulated in this oonntry except by a clever surgeon, and then wily for bis own use. U is a fact not generally known that all skeletons used by secret societies and in other ways in the United States are imported from EtiMiie. This uncanny traffic over tha sea Is not due to any scarcity of skeletons here bnt to an absence of the peculiar skilled labor necessary to tha proper stringing of the bones together. No doubt the In dustry could be tttcssssfully Introduced here were it protected by the tariff, bnt skeletons being on the free list there la no encouragement to enter Into eompeti tion with the cheaper labor of Europe. A mistaken impression prevails in the popular mind that nearly all strictly secret societies use human skeletons in their ceremonies, the fact being that only a limited number among such or gaulMliotu) oa them, Fur this reason no stock of this sort Is kept on hand, and articulated skeletons are Imported on the receipt of orders. cost or a sxKurroK. The number of firms who import ha- man skeletons in New York Is small probably not more than three aud such importation tonus but an Insignificant branch of a general rmstness either in surgical supplies or society parapher nalia. It Is seldom, too, that ths mem bur of a lodge or oononil, aside from its oittocrs, know by what firm its skeleton Is suovlivd. This fact is to be accounted tor by the reluctance of the importers to figure openly in such timnsactions. They pre fer to conduct them quietly and nnoa- tontationsly. A layman, unless aa inn mate friend, can seldom get a merchant to acknowledge plainly that he deals In skeletons. Be will evade the question, and may compromise on the statement that be once dealt in them, but no longer does so. The average cost of the skeleton of a foreigner, properly articulated and mounted for nee, is about ISO, although they may run m high M 7a, where more elaborate nwtarial la used. The same work, if turned out an this side of the water, would probably cost double the amount , Imported skeletons are always good specimens, and most of tbsm come from France and Germany, where skilled la bor of this sort is most readily found and cultivated. They come m a role In ordiiatry black OMketa, to one and of which the skull is hung, so that the bones msy swing freely, and they pass the customs Inspectors without exciting comment TRKATtO WITH REVEKKtCa, A curious oase of mistaken public ex citement will be recalled, where a skele ton Imported to order fur a secret society of Waltham, Mass., wm duly shipped to Its destination, but owing to some error in the directions oa the box wm refused by the person to whom the express com pany delivered It The box was there upon opened at the express office, and the discovery ot its contents created a positive sensation until the shipper came forward and explained. While there la something ghastly at first sight In a man's bones thus being withheld from the earth and traveling about the globe, it la certain thai, hav lug started on their travels, tbey could not fall Into bettor hands than those of a secret order. Instead of meeting with levity or neglect they are here treated with all the reverenoe and care that would be accorded the dead body in any assemblage. Their office, in conveying a senM of the littleness of human existence and the awfulnvM of death, is too serious to admit of any other treatmsnti and a cam Is known to ths writer where, some years ago, a member of a lodge wm suspended in disgrace for display ing such a skeleton to a party of friends In the lodge room during a facetious mood. Ii one mnst remain a skeleton, better be rererently bestowed in a secret lodge than on a surgeon's table. In some cases, however, where a lodge does not cars to Import a skeleton, a do mestic imitation, poorly and iraporfeotly articulated, can be obtained, and Is easi ly manufactured. Being symbolio it, of course, serves the purpose in a meas ure, but with a majority of men can scarooly be expected to carry the same impression m the gennine article. New York News. , Tired of Shining, "Don't you want to go to the better world, Tommyr asked a Sunday school teacher of the new scholar. "No, mum," promptly replied the frank little fellow. "And why not. Tommyr' "Qh. when I die I want to go where a feller can rest" "well, ray boy, you nan rest there," "Well, in that long wa gang it said we'd all shine there," " Certainly i don't yon want to shin theref" , "No, mum, I don't want to shine there. I get enough of that here, I'm shoeblack, mum," Toronto Empire. . Ones Ceanter Beparise. Smartleigh Will yon guarantee that the oolor of this polka dot necktie will hold on a wet dayf Buddleigh Yes. The oolor will not run, bnt the rain will knock ths spots Out of it Clothier and Furnisher, Inaset Odditis, Earwigs (forfioula) differirom all other insects in both their origin and struct ure, They are hatched from eggs like chickens, Naturalists often report of seeing the maternal earwig with her newly hatched brood crowded nnder her like chickens nnder a hen. The smallest known insect, the Pterat omus Putnamil, a parasite of the Ichneu mon, is but one-ninetieth of an inch in length. The largest insect known to the ento mologist, the Erebus Btrix ot Linmeus, a noctuid moth ot Central America, ex pands its wings from eleven to eighteen inches. St. Louis Republic i OOLO QUIT 84 CARAT! FiNt Kept la a Takle Drawee at la eeverax at eel rvtaStag (MB. Seven thousand dollars worth of gold dust la a table drawer! Poke your fin gers Into the yellow stuff and nottoe how SuA and sarreeable to tha feeling it is, while the attends nt in charge watches you carefully and aeea that yoo do no Caway with any of It It is smooth to touch because it It all composed of gold be ten' Aim, rubbed to almost im- Kpabls powder. For tits same reason, , it is absolutely pure and virgin metal, twenty-tour carat fine. The drawer to in charge of a pretty young girl at the government printing ottoe. Her work there is to stamp gold lettering and ornamentation upon book oorers, The precious substance oomee to her in ths shape of lit tie recUngular sheets of foil lMxtwesaibly thin, laid be tween layers of tissue paper made up to book form, each book holding twenty- four gold ehaete. Handling them Is a matter requiring great skill, though you might not Uuar ne it from casual inspec tion. To begin with, say the young wom an place on the table before ber an ordi nary leather book cover, She takes from the little gold book a sheet of the full, not with ber fingers, bnt by catching it ap with a small pad of raw cotton. Laying down the sheet of pure yellow gold upon a little slab, she outs it into three pieces with a sharp knife. Sue makes It smooth by blowing gently upon It with her breath. One ot the pleeee she apttuss to the back ot the cover where the title Is to go; another she also puts on the back where the name of the author Is to be, while the third biggest piece Is spread over the middle of one Bap of the cover, where an ornamental desiirn I wanted. The operator Is very caruful in rubbing off the loose gold after each stamping, so M to lose noos of It . As she uses the luather tipped stick she permits ths yel low stuff to fall through a crack In the table top into the drawer beneath in the slaps of dust It is allowed to accumu late there until the drawer is full The drawer Is quite big and deep, and will hold 110,000 worth of the dust . Yon would not Imsgine It to be any very pre cious substance if you found a quantity Of It in some odd place) It looks m much like powdered tinsel ae anything else.' However, it is worth 30 an ounce, and when a drawer full is collected ths gold Is forwarded to the mint in Philadelphia, which subjects it to aasay and sends a check for It value. The young woman la held responsible for the safety of the gold In the drawer. She carries the key to It about with ber always, and nobody but herself Is al lowed access to it There does not seem to be any reason why she should not sly-, ly pocket a small quantity of it occa sionally if the desired, though the num ber of books ot gold foil ohariged against har do serve m some sort ot .check In the account m to the metal employed in this way. Washington Star. - " J ' Bvetla Av the First Time. ( , A railroad engineer in Maine saw a auaa oa the track waving at him a few days ago, aud, his mind filled with the poesibiUtle ot impending danger rftopped the train. Every one wm in a high state ot excitement but the man coolly boarded the smoking car without uttering sword. He looked m if be had not traveled far from his native heath, and on being ques tioned said: "Wei, I just waved my hand oos I wanted to get on the keen. Tm Cng tor Wells, and I never been on the its before," He spoke, it is said, with an unmistakable air ot innocence, and raised such a flood of good nature that the conductor silently took his fare, and when he landed at Wells he wm loudly cheered In honor of his first ride. Phila delphia Ledger. i i , Inventions for Smoker. Ths inventions for smokers are so many that a division of the patent office has to be given up to them. One of the most curioui pipe Inventions is rest or brace by which the weight of the pipe is taken o the teeth and rested on the chin. There are nmbrollM which can be turned into pipes and pipes which oan be turned into can en, and there are a hundred inventions for the tutting off of ends ot cigars, some of which are probably valuable. Frank Q, Carpen ters Letter, f eratehlafl Matches oa Olaaa. At a cigar stand the scribe mw a man cratch a match on a convenient pane of glass and, to his surprise, It lighted m readily m though the glass had been sand paper. To those who hav been accustomed to toeing people search for a rough surface on which to scratch a match it would be rather startling. Not only ordinary matches but even the safety matches, usually unligbtable ex cept on the box in which they come, cab be lighted on glues. Brunswick (Me.) Telograph. . , Seeteh Character, At a Scotch fair a farmer wm trying to engage a lad to assist on the farm, bnt would not finish the bargain until he brought a character from the last place, so be said, "Run and get it and meet me at the cross at o'clock," The youth wm up to time, and ths fanner said, "WelL have yon got your oharaoter with yottf . "Nft. replied the, youth: "but fre got yours, and pm no' corain'," Toronto Sniplre, Mo Plag on the Beat. Customer That flag yon sold me must bare been made of rery poor stuff. It wnt all to pieces. l Dealer My stars! Where did you use Customer On my yacht Dealer Ah! That explains it . i Mate rial for American flags is not expected to stand salt air. New York Weekly. If Ths Va of Three Common Word. , "If it be" implies doubt or uncertainty; If It is" indicates an actual fact The rule is: "When a conjunction indicate seme uncertainty use the subjunctive after it; when anything to spoken of m an actual fact, or m in absolute existence, the indicative Is used." Writer. , A Celaeldeaee, Tom--According to : Stanley every1 pound .of Ivory costs the life of a man, Woman or child in Africa. Wllli-Strange ooinoidenoel A pound-, log of ivory eosts the peace of mind ot many a man and woman and child in America. Pittsburg Bulletin, TAYLOR'S Cash Grocery & Bakery ON C STREET. , Fresh Bread, Flei and f akei on baud every day exoept Huuday, , i tali and frouli itiwk of canned goodi, floor, wu, uoibm, aufar, uaudtaa, cigars sod lobaoooe, P. A. TAYWR, Praprtrtee. The Teller's Wladow. It is a great deal saaier to understand what Is being said when we hare soma Idea of what the speaker Is likely to say. Persons who are making their first visit to a bank and are unfamiliar with the directions which are apt to be girea them sometimes hear very crookedly la their bewilderment "An will ye tell me where is the cel lar wtndyT inquired a woman ot one of the officials in a Boston savings bank last week. "The cellar window t What do you want ot the cellar window? There Isn't any that I know of," replied the aston ished gentleman. "Well, I told the gintleman over there that I wanted ter lave my money here, aa be said, Take It ter the cellar windy an' fm looUn' ft it now." "Oh yss, I tea, this next window here. That's the place you want," and the quick witted and experienced official pointed to the toller's window. Not long afterward the same gentle man wm aptiroaohed with this inquiry: "Where la the tolepboneT "We haven't got a telephone. Per haps, If yon go" "But I thought there wm one beret I want to put my money in it I wm told" "Ah yes, I see, this next window Is what you are looking for," and one more depositor wm safely piloted to and made aoqualnted with the teller's window. Youths Compautoa, rreeMeaUal Tip. The biggest railway official in the coon try that I know of told me the other night that "the porters of special oars pick np big money. Whenever a special ear I used the beatporter who Is handy la assigned to It This man expects and usually receives a handsome gratuity, Those who travel in special oars can af ford to be liberal to the one who, for the time being, becomM a valet or personal servant, and generally are. When Qen. Oraut went anywhere the Porter of the special oar always got ISO. He never gave less, whether the time wm a day or a week, and never gave more. It wm invariably a fifty dollar bill. President Arthur always gave the porter two twenty dollar notes or two twenty dol lar gold pieces. He was also liberal to other minor railway officials. President Hayes used a special car pretty often. He tipped the porter 3. When Garfield traveled special the porter got only $9, and considered himself lucky to get that Garfield wm always very close about money matters. He saved money while In congress on a salary that few others were barely able to live upon. Pitts burg Dispatch. Tea and Coffee as Xareoilea. Tea and coffee rank among the worst narcotics used by civilised peoples. Al cohol may be pieced At the head of the list, tobacco next, tea and coffee next and then opium. I do not mean to My that in an Individual instance the use of tea and coffee to usually to be regarded m wore than ths use of opium, but that the aggregate of evil arising from the use of these narcotics to very greatly oa the side of tea and coffee. ' Both ot (hem contain an alkaloid known m theine or caffeine. The sub stances are identical In each and the two name arise from tha fact that two dif ferent chemists were making analyses about the same time, the one on tea and the other on coffee, and each gave a name to his own discovery. It is a curi ous coincidence that the asms substance should be found In the seed of the coffee tree and In the loaves of the tea plant the one growing in Arabia and the other In China. -Dr. J. H. Kellogg's Lecture. Dr. Dspsw's Rapid paauaaasalp. I remember an lnstanoe when I wm at Dr. Depew's house at 1 o'clock one even ing, fie wm to deliver one of his most Important addresses that evening at 8 o'clock. He had not written a line of it He talked leisurely with me m If there wm not a thought on his mind. At 7:15 o'clock he went into his library; at 70 o'olook ha wm reading over bis manu script entirely In bia own writing! In ton minutes more he wm wheeling through the streets to the hall, and at 8;10 o'clock he wm on his feet talking, glancing at his manuscript only three times during ths entire address of forty fire minutes' duration. Buffalo Courier. Correct Advlee. "Charles and George have both pro posed to me. I don't know which ta take." "Is George richT "No, He has 1,500 a year." "How much does he spend!" "11,400." "How inuoh has CharlesT "110,000 a year." "How much does he spend" "118,000." "Take George." Harper' Basar. The Pope oa Bmoklng. His Holiness Pope Leo HU does not consider the use of tobacco m a vice, else he would scarcely hare conferred the Uolden Rote on so inveterate and con firmed votaries ot the weed m Queen Christina aud the ex-crown princess of Brasil, Indeed there is every reason to believe that Uke many other enlightened spirits, he regards the objection to cigar ettes m mere smoke after all. Paris Letter. , Frenee'a Debt to Madmen. The counsel who defended the Russian nihilists recently sentenoed in France said: "People may call them madmen. Yes, perhaps they are; but it to fortu nate for us that there were similar madmen in France, for to such madmen We owe the liberty and justice that we enjoy in 1800. The present madmen dream of procuring the same blessings for their oonntry." Chicago Blerald, Mining Onys. V Mexican onyx to a form of stalagmite, and its oolor are formed by oxides of metals in the earth over the caves through which calcareous water passes. Gold to represented by purple, silver by yellow, Iron by red, copper by green, aud amnio and sino by white. Yoloanio eruptions and earthquakes have almost destroyed the caves in whioh only onyx exists, and the native Indians who mine it have to cut through masses ot ruins. Blocks of the material are quarried in a primitive way, in order" not to shatter the substance, Deep round holes are drilled by hand on A Jne, In each hole to inserted a snugly fitting piece of wood, whioh has been grooved from end to end. Hot wa ter is poured into the grooves at night This swells ths wood, and thv block to split along the line without damage. The natives then saw the blocks into slabs And polish the surface by hand. Each piece is semi-transparent, and when placed between the eye and a strong light presents a remarkably jtcautlfnl at- I fjet in form and ootosv flfta I AN AGE OF ALUMINUM. A CHICAGO MAN BELIEVES HE IS ABOUT . TO CHEAPEN IT. 0s Think! It Caa Be Prod used tor fif teen Ceal lasteaA ef five Del lata a Poesd Varies Usee ae Whleh the Metal Caa Be PatAn laaawrlaat Dissever. Aluminum at fifteen cento a pound! . Such a condition of affairs would revo lutionize a hundred of the useful art and make the Twentieth century aa age of aluminum, just m the Nineteenth hM been an age of Iron, J. M. Hirsch, a German chemist of Chicago, ssyt he hM discovered a process by which he can extract the aluminum from common clay at a cost of fifteen cents or less for each pound, It Mr. Hirsch to right, then bis secret is worth many millions of dol lars. ' Aluminum to the perfect metal It to so plentiful that it composes themetallio base of the earth's crust The soil nnder our feet to full of it It U m bright m silver and it weighs only one-fourth m much in fact, it is only two and one half times m heavy m water. It to both malleable snd ductile, and may be drawn into fins wires or beaten into sheets m thin m paper. Water does not corrode it It does not tarnish or change color when long ei posed to the air. It is not affected by any acid except hydrochloric. It to superior in lightness, strength and resistance to destructive forces to any other metal And yet it to scarcely known to the general public and to nsed rery little. Why Bocsum It costs too much to extract the metal from the tena cious grsjtp of the clay which contains It IMPORT AM CB OP TBI DISCOVEBT. - At S a pound aluminum to found only in the chemical laboratories m a sort of curiosity. - At fifteen cents a pound its uses would be endless. It would be employed In the manufacture of thousand of articles from collar, buttons up to freight cars. Since alu minum wm discovered, fifty years ago, the one great problem in chemistry hM been to cheapen the process of separating it from clay. If the Chicago chemist has solved this problem the most ex travagant statement will scarcely ex aggerate the far reaching results of his achievement Professor Joseph M. Hirsch to not a moneyless adventurer and he is not proclaiming the importance of his dis covery; in fact he is very reticent in re gard to the matter. He to not after subscriptions of stock, for the entire stock of the company which he hM organised hM been quietly taken np by a few capitalists, except the great slice of $1,000,000 retained by the discoverer of the process. Professor Hirsch, a studious, pleasant faced, spectacled German of 45, wm found at his office. , "I have a process by which aluminum may be extracted for fifteen cents a pound," said he. "It is not a matter of supposition, but an established fact I have already, with my small experimental apparatus, made from thirty to fifty pounds in a single day, and there to noth ing to prevent the same process from being applied to secure indefinitely large amounts of the metsfl." fl THI FB0GB8S A SECRET, "Can you give some idea of your pro cess?" wm asked. "That is my secret and I prefer to My nothing about it I have been working with the aluminum problem since 1865, .. and my process is my own. I know that I can produce the metal for fifteen cents a pound. If the pnblio does not believe this it cannot accuse me of any ulterior motive in saying so, for I do not ask any thing In the way of assistance." "Under the cheapened process to what uses can the aluminum be profitably ap plied?" "Well, to freight cars, for instance. Owing to the lightness of the metal fif teen cents a pound is almost as cheap m steel, and the metal can be nsed for building materials, roofing and any where, in fact that sine, iron or tin can tie used. The metal can be made u soft aa foil or tempered harder than steel Aluminum cutlery will be better than teel and silver, for it will not rust or tarnish. I already hare an order for M Beany pocket knives aa I can turn out A bicycle oan be made of aluminum nailed pipe that will weigh only fifteen fannds, and will be aa strong as any one sjaald wish. Water pipes made of the tftstal will last forever. All kinds of sxstchinery, everything made ot any total, will be improved in appearance. exVciency and wear if made of the new tl." Professor Hirsch has put much of his money into the company and evinces fear that his discorerr will prove to a practicable, applied upon the largest aaale. . If Chicago Is soon to have cheap alu minum there is no reason why the main exhibition hall of the Columbian exposi tion should not be built of the bright metal, which is lighter than an equal bulk of either brick, stone, iron or glass. Chicago News. j A Well Behaved Parrot. A gentleman noticed a fine looking parrot on a perch in a bird store. As . the bird was neither tied noraged the gentleman at once made some inquiries. "Now, if I should buy that parrot," he said finally, "1 suppose thera to no danger of its running awayr' "No, sir," replied the bird fancier. "I will guarantee that parrot will stay where you put it, and wont disturb your neighbors with its chatter. It to a stuffed bird. Nice job, isnt itr "Good morning," said the gentleman. aa he hastily left the store. Washing ton Post A Practical Baalneaa Edneatloa, Judge Peterby Where h your son now? Col. Yerger He to with Silverstone. Isn't that the merchant who hM failed several times and been burnt out a time or so? . Yes, that's the man. I want my son to get a practical business education. Texas Biftlnga. I Holmes Business College Of Portland, Oregon will open Sept. Int. J. A. Wiwch), the leading peninun of the const, hna become a purl nor In this school and will mnke It the lending Uualneas College, Bend for Catalogue, . I7C ) By jronr tlcketa Eaar of OOliil K. V. Pentland. Loweat rntea and uioxt favors arranted. Call at the West Bide offlne. MRS, A. M. HURLEY, Next to Independence National Bank. Imdsj-sximscb, - Quo OX.