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After I had received diploma from one of tbe oldest American tmiversitiee, I felt that I ceroid not do better than to complete my education abroad. . A I wished to perfect my already excel lent knowledge of modern l&ngu&gee, I thought that a residence in some conti nental town would enable me to accom plish both purposes. Whether I chose the university of Oot tingen or Heidelberg I do not care to state; and if the ingenious reader can learn from internal evidence that I pur sued my studies at neither of these great institutions of learning let him not ba surprised. I prefer not to indicate pre cisely the scene of the strange happening about which I am going to tell, for rea sons which will be readily understood by any one who attentively peruses this story. Let it be enough, then, to say that I entered a foreign tmiversity, was prop erly matriculated, joined one of the numerous student clubs, learned to com ply with its foolish customs, and became thoroughly identified with the strident. We were instructed principally by lect ures. Borne of us took notes, some drew caricatures or scrawled verses upon the otherwise blank pages of our books, and only a very few became thoroughly im bued with the enthusiasm for learning which animated many of the learned men who expounded to us the accumu lated wisdom of the ages and propounded novel theories of their own. While I was not equally utereated in all of the lecturers, there were one or two of them who deeply impressed me none more deeply than Herr Schwartz. He was a short, thick set man, with tightly curling black hair and beard. His na tionality I am not certain about, but 1 think he was a German or Austrian. He lectured upon "Comparative Anatomy and Physiology," and was an advanced and uncompromising evolutionist. By advanced I do not mean an evolutionist of these latter days one of the men of science who admit away or explain so much that they state nothing definitely but one of the old and imperfect dis ciples of Darwin. Herr Schwartz had not the slightest doubt of man's descent from the monkey or from some allied form. So much I soon learned from his lectures; and when my close attention in the lect ure room had drawn his attention to me and we became better acquainted I found his views to be even more downright and avowed than I supposed. ' -. Outside of his lecture hours Herr Schwartz was - believed to spend the greater part of his time in his laboratory a large and mysterious building situ ated upon the outskirts of the town. Much curiosity existed among the stu dents as to the nature of the researches he carried on in this gloomy building, but never, so far as we knew, had any student been admitted within its window less walls. Great, then, was my surprise one morn ing when the learned lecturer wm tak ing a long walk with me a thing that he had done once or twice since be dis covered my intense interest in his bold theories to receive an invitation to come with him to inspect his laboratory. My astonishment must have been evident in my expression, for he said: . "Cornet is it so strange that I should ask a student to my Uboratoryt ' "indeed, no, x answered, wren some hesitation; "but I imagined' "Yes," he interrupted, "you thought because I had never thrown open my working room to the general rabble of students that there was some mystery about it something I wished to conce; Ah, no. You are different; you hav truly scientific mind. To the ordi:. intellect what I am doing would s. but nonsense. Incapable of oomp hending me, they would see in my ex periments but the vagaries of a lunatic. But once I have shown you the plan, the reason, the theory upon which I work, you will seethe logical basis for each wheel and each cog in the whole appar atus." "I am proud, indeed, Herr Bchwartx," I began, but he did not wait for the end of my sentence. "There is no reason for pride," he said, waving his hand disdainfully. "You cannot heJp it. Yon are from the United States. You judge all things without prejudice and upon their merits. It is the result of your environment, nothing more. Will you comer" "MostWiUingly." I anaweft-ed. -When shaUmyvisttbemader "Today," he said promptly.' "But it is your lecture day," X said, looking at my watch; "and in fact you will have no more time than fa even if you should go bow to the room. ' "Bahf" he answered, with a curl of the Hp. "What care I for the gaping taces at those boobies now? It is true I have spent two years in pelting their dough (aces with crumbs of science which not ane of them can receive. But now all that is past. My apparatus is at last ready. Today it will he put in opera tion." Will it not be better, then, for me to postpone my visit for another timer I asked, not wishing to Inconvenience the sserlnaenter. ' "You do not understand," said Herr Bchwarta, turning to me with a smile. "I do not ask you to come into the place so long sacred to my deepest rnxuatnga, my moet important researches, merely as a spectator to be amused, nor a a student to be instructed. I need help. For a long time I have been on the look out among the young men in the uni versity, hoping that when the day of final proof should come I might be able to secure just the right ssTsistant. Well, I have found the man I sought, and you are he. I cannot perform the experi ment, for which I have passed years in laborious preparation, without the aid of the right brain and the right haapd," fly mis rune we aaa amvea at ine top of a alight emineaet from which the laboratory was distinctly visible. It was a large, square boMrjg with a hem iipberical roof not snlilte an astrononv ieal observatory. At this strange, win dowleaa structure came into view Herr Schwarts halted, and, turning his back upon it, solemnly addreued himself to me: "Walt," he said. "It it not yet too late for you to withdraw, You have known me long enough to be cure I am of toond mind, and to know whether yon can rely upon my good faith. I as sure you that is this experiment I am about to make no harm can come to you. I alone will take all rith and be respon sible for all the result, That is but right, since I alone shall reap whatever benefit may spring from the momentous trial Speak, then, and let me know whether I have rightly concluded that I can rely upon your nationality and your Intellect Are yon willing to assist me In this purely scientific experiment?" "Herr Bchwartt," I replied, after a moment's reflection, "only assure me that yon will call upon me to do nothing derogttory to my status as an American citixen, a man of science and a a gen tleman, and I will consent gladly to aid you in any way within my power." "I give you my word as an evolution ist and as a scholar that yon can safely assist me upon those conditions," said Herr Schwarts. "Very well," I answered, "I consent." "There is no time to be lost, then," he answered. We set out for the laboratory, and after a few minutes stood before the heavy oak door. It was secured by a combination lock. Herr Schwarts gave the handle a few revolutions, the bolt flew back and we entered the building, and when the door was shut found our selves in perfect darkness. In a moment, however, I heard a slight dick, and the interior of the lab oratory was flooded with the radiance of an enormous incandescent light I do not know bow I can most oleaiiy convey the impression made upon me by the wondrous sight which was revealed to me. Perhaps the plainest and simplest method is the best. I must trust for the rest to the imagination of my readers. I taw that the enormous hemispherical dome that roofed the edifice had been raised to accommodate a model of tbe globe a terrestrial globs. Its dimen sions I cannot give, but perhaps it was 100 feet in diameter. The electrio light was so placed as to be a representation of the snn. A large parabolic mirror seemed to take the place of our satellite the moon. More distant were other celestial bodies, while tiny lamps were grouped like constellations. In other words, I saw an orrery, but such an orrery as man had never before made. "Go nearer," said Herr Schwarts, "and examine the machinery. It is purely artificial I make no pretensions to the black artv But do not mterfere with any of the mechanism; it is the result of months of careful adjustment'' I was speechless with admiration, for as I came nearer I saw that I was gazing on a dwarfed world. I said something of the sort when I had recovered from my first stupefaction. "Yes," said the maker of these marvels, "yon have comprehended it. As the Chinese and Japanese dwarf oak trees I hare dwarfed a world, or, to speak more accurately, I have reproduced the world in miniature. I have made some won derful discoveries. I have replaced grav itation by electricity; havemade air arti ficial solar body, have produced artificial temperatures, and, in short, have creat ed a world in miniature; but a world that is, save for some few inferior forms of life, uninhabited. You see upon this tiny (for tiny it is compared to the world whereon we dwell) upon this tiny world an ocean rolls, continents exist, vegeta tion flourishes and the seasons pursue their wonted round. The animal life is ricted for a purpose to a few forms such as are necessary to sustain life .ie human being. The purpose of this i eat invention for modesty over - such an achievement would be absurd will soon be revealed to yon," "It is truly almost superhuman," I aid. "It seems to move as I look upon it." "It does," he answered proudly. "It is essentially a new world. Bnt let us not waste time in boyish wonder. ' All this is not a toy, but a piece of sdentiflo apparatus." -. "But what purpose can it server" I asked, after a few moments of bewilder ment "After years of mvestigatiou," said Herr Schwarts slowly, "I have learned the history of the development of man. I have slowly unraveled the links of the chain extending from man at he exists today to the mere potential nomad. You, top, have surveyed a part of that won drous story literally wrung from the heart of the rocks." "Yes," I said hesitatingly, "but the mianiigHnkr" "I have several skeletons of the miss ugUnk,'"said Herr BchwarU. "That it the very least of my disooreriee. My thoughts for years ban not beau busy with tbe past of evolution. My dreams, nay, rather my reasonings, my mveav tions and my discoveries, have dealt with its future. But enough. The ex- ptriment will maksall clear to yoa where words piled upon words would tail to effect a beginning. A few short expla nations and we will proceed to deeds, and you will tee for yourself whatever now obscure., est down." We entered a small side room, from which could be distinguished a slight vi bration caused by the revolution of the Ci globs in the outer room, and set down into two easy chairs. Listen," said Herr Sohwarta, "and unlets it be necessary do not interrupt me. You have seen the apparatus. It only remains for you to know that I have discovered : a method of reducing my own site to such dimensions as fit me to dwell upon the miniature earth you have already examined. This method is sim ple, effective and entirely hanntees. But for the present I shall not reveal ft. Suf Aceittosay thsIahsilnUUiethismath- i od, and shall then allow yen to place me upon that globe, selecting that part of India which is the cradle of the human race. Previoualy I shall have taught you to control and operate the medhanism whereby tbe tittle world k actuated. Having placed me, then, in the proper spot, you wfll by gradual degrees increase the speed of the earth's rotation. The effect, as I know from tome minor ex periments upon inferior animals, will be to greatly indeed, immeamrably in crease tbe rapidity with which evolution operates. Meanwhile the tiny being which I have become will devote him self with all his powers to devdopall his higher and nobler attributes. The re sult, as I am sure, wfll be th production of an unimagined type of man. -1 will become aa m dividual so highly evoru tleuiied, so supremely developed, that wnat i am now, cotopareu mi sut myo, a will be then, compared to my former elf!" . "And then" I began. "Sleoce! for a moment longer," said Herf Schwarts impressively. "I not done. Then you must stop the rev olutions. A bell will strike for a signal. Take, then, the portion of that earth's ernst upon which you know me to b in fact, you might take all of India, as it is hut a light burden and carry it into the open air. There you will see the result of this experiment. What it will be I know almost beyond the pos sibility of error. But you shall not have the supreme happiness of that moment destroyed by anticipation. "But have you counted the risks, the possibility of some unforeseen result!" I asked, with tmeasiness at the great re sponsibility I was called upon to assume without preparation. "I have," aaid the experimenter, with noble confidence. "The risks and the results are alike mine. If you will not all me another must. Bnt to you I offer this unparalleled experience." "I accept it," I replied; for after some few moments of reflection I could see no reason why an American should not be the humble instrument of bringing about this marvelous triumph of science over nature. It was now about noon, and we par took of a light luncheon. After the meal was finished Herr Schwarts took me into the operating room and explained to me the use of tbe electrio buttons, the regu lators, the governors, the switches and brakes, the dials and Indicators which set in motion and controlled the compli oated and beautiful mechanism by which his whirling globe waa operated. Mechanical matters had never offered any puzzles to me, and in a short time he pronounced me capable of performing the role he had intrusted to me. . Then we proceeded to another apartment; he entered a small cabinet, after supplying me with a powerful magnifier, and told me when I should hear the stroke of a tiny bell to enter the room and take from over an alcohol lamp a small retort. "By examining with the glass,'' said Herr Schwarts, "you will see that I have become a mere atom of humanity, too small tobe seen save by a powerful lens. Place the mouth of the retort over the spot In India which you will find indi cated by a metal pointer, and then retire to the operating room and set the ma chinery in motion. The process ought not to take over a few hours, and may be much shorter." "Good:by," said the experimenter with a smile, "and remember, whatever hap pens, the risks and results are mine alone." With a hand shake we parted, and Herr Schwartz entered the transforming cab inet I do not know how long I waited. My interest and curiosity were so intense that I was hardly aware all through the experiment of the time which elapsed. The bell sounded. I entered the little cabinet, found the retort over the tiny lamp, examined the contents with the lens, and fonnd the result to he what Herr Schwarts had predicted. There was a mioroscopio image of the scientific friend to whose lectures I had so long listened! . Realizing the responsibility which now rested upon me, I hastened to carry out Herr Schwartx's instructions to the let ter. I placed the mite of hnmanity upon the artificial globe, returned to the oper ating room and set the wonderful appa ratus (which had been at rest during the preceding preparations) again in motion. Gradually I added to the speed of ro tation, keeping my eyes upon the dials and Indicators. My great anxiety was to keep the speed at just the points which Herr Schwarts had prescribed. There is no need to dwell upon the anxious time that followed, nor to tell the thousand thoughts and fears that pressed upon my throbbing brain. After what seemed an endless time the bell sounded the signal I rushed to the main hall, tore the whole of India from its place, and made my way to the outer air. It was a still, moonlight night I placed the bit of earth gently upon the ground, and from it there arose a figure! But what was it that slowly took shape before me? Was it the noble figure of man, grown to some grander, nobler shape! Alas! no. On the contrary it was a diminutive and far from attractive monkey. I saw at once there was something wrong, and my trained scientific intel lect at once solved the mystery. I had turned the apparatus backward. Tudor Jeuks In the Independent Paper Shall Clams. Of long clams, or paper shells, as some term them, there are several varieties. For these were is also a ready market, but the choicest kinds never find their way to the New York dealers, as not enough are dug to supply the home de mand. When long clams are dug for shipment to New York, the clammer goes to a bar which falls bare at low tide and digs the ground over with a garden fork, having a boy to pick them up. In this way from two to four bushels may be taken in a tide, and for them he gets a dollar a bushel. When he wants a mess for his own table he goes out to the extreme low water limit, and digs even then in water a foot deep. He can get no more than half a peck, and never offers them for sale. These clams are large, and sometimes weigh eighteen ounces apiece. They are young and tender, and the sweetest morsel, when properly cooked, that s man ever laid on bis tongue. The clam catch is estimated at 75,000 bushels a year. The best time to go clamming is after a heavy west or northwest wind, for then the tide falls very low and new grounds may be reached. At Guilford, after a northwest storm, many of the workmen leave the foundry and shops, and lose half a dayl time to get a small mess of the delicious bivalves. Summer visitors hire cheap cottages, dig up the clams, on which they largely live, and then go back to the city and brag how cheaply they can live at the seaside. New York Sun. Clergy la Boasts. The clergy of the Bussian church are divided into two classes, according to their means of sustenance. One portion receive their regular salaries, the other have to work in the fields which the church apportions to them, and to de pend on the gifts and collections from their parishioners. The latter are known as the "white" clergy. Now the synod Is working out a plan for putting the entire clergy on regular salaries and abolishing the system of church collec tions. The sum of 83,841,(00 rubles will be required annually for the salaries of tbe "white" clergy, which win be graded according to their respective offices. A special tax will be imposed upon fra ' orthodox- to raise that mnwi THE NEWS IN BRIEF. The tariff bill has passed the house. Sweden has elected a tree trade riks dag. The Chicago fruit buyerers have com bined. Another Cuban insurrection is immi inuninent. Scotch iron masters threaten a whole sale lockout. The Bank of Madison at Jacksonville, Term., has suspended. Edward F. Reilly, clerk of the county of New York, is dead. The New Bedford market is entirely clean of crude whale oil. John Morley has returned to London from a trip through Ireland. It is definitely known that Minister Mizner will be asked to resign. The It&Hn consul at San Francisco is to be transferred to Amsterdam. The Burrowsville mill at Norton, Mass., was burned. Loss (100,000. Eighty lace factories at Calais, France, are closed in consequence of a strike. The entire estate of Samuel J. Randall, deceased, has been appraised at $5,000. The Bank of England has advanced the rate of discount from 4 to 6 per cent. There is stagnation in the Australian trade id London, caused by the strikes. ' The village of Kinmount, Ont, has been almost completely destroyed by Are. SUvin knocked Joe McAuliffe out in two rounds at the Ormonde club in Lon don. Bonlanger issued a manifesto saying that he is opposed to the present regime m r ranee. France is preparing to send a military expedition to Dahomey to force the king to enbiniegion. - A crisis has been reached between cap ital and labor In London and the condi tion is critical. Seven wealthy pawnbrokers of Pitts- batg have been arrested on a charge of receiving stolen goods. The dock laborers of the union in Lon don cabled 760 to Sydney for the bene- nt or tne strikers, A judgment for $182,000 has been en tered at Pittsburg against the Iron City Bridge company. The western railroads are making an effort to abolish the special agencies on on the Pacific Coast. A man named Easton shot himself in St. Paul's cathedral, London, while the service was going on. . The steamer Bertha has been ordeted to the Bearing sea to stop all seal fishing at this time of the year. Alfred John Francis Egerton, a mem ber of the house of commons for Eccles division of Lancashire, is dead. Frederick Billings, ex-president of the Northern Pacific railroad, is dangerously ill at his home in Woodstock, Vt. England has formally notified King George of the Tonga islands that his country is under British protection. A London dispatch from Algiers says that a cyclone has swept over large por tions of Algeria, doing great damage. It has been discovered that officers of Bussian regiments on the Caspian sea have embezzled the pay of the soldiers. A Liverpool dispatch says it is charged that the Teutonic's captain altered the log in the race against the City of New York. Mrs. Hayes, wife of Dr. Charles C. Hayes and daughter of ex-Governor Mills of Wisconsin, drowned herself at Hyde Park, Mass. The postofflce authorities seized the entire weekly edition of the Cincinnati Volksfneund because it contained a lot tery advertisement Charles J. Edgerly, the husband of Rose Coghlan, the actress, has secured a divorce on the ground of desertion. He lives in Sioux Falls, S. D. Count Von Waldersee, chief of the German general staff, has resigned be cause his recruiting policy did not meet Empetor William's approval. Advices from East Africa represent that the relations between the Catholics and. Protestants are very strained and that a civil war is threatened. Governor Luce of Michigan has or dered all the prosecuting attorneys in Michigan to see that the new United States lottery law is enforced. Another unsuccessful attempt to as sassinate the czar by placing sleepers on the rails over which he pasted en route to Warsaw was made by Nihilists. It has been practically decided to in vite Herbert Gladstone to become presi dent of the Indian national congress which meets this year in Calcutta. - , A cartridge Was evploded under a car riage containing the King of Servia and his father, ex-King Milon in the streets of Belgrade. No one was injured. " The American fishing schooner David Crockett was seized by the Canadian au thorities at Prince Edwards Island for alleged violation of the fishery laws. It is reported that Spain is placing a cordon of troops along the frontier of Portugal in consequence of apprehen sions of a revolution in that country. - The English admiralty is engaged in constructing an armored battleship, tbe Balfour, intended to be more powerful than any of its class yet constructed. - A committee representing over 10,000 men employed in the train service of the Erie system are in New York to confer with the officers and secure a new sched ule. . Prince Bismarck and his secretary, Herr Bucher, are engaged at Vara in in compiling the memoirs of the events in which the prince figured while in affairs of state. The master tailors of Great Britain and Ireland have organized to pursue a defensive policA in regard to strikes and to arrange that the best workman shall receive the highest pay. Alexandre Dumas wrote a play and omitted his name as author. It has rejected by a number otiinanagers and Dumas will now give it To anyone who will produce it on it ; merit. Elizabeth Drexel Smith, wife of Wal ter G. Smith and eldest daughter of the late Francis A. Drexel, died at Torres- dale, Pa, Mrs. Smith's share of bet father's estate was $4,000,000. In the United States circuit Court at Albany, N. Y., George P. Whitney was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for embezzlement of $17,000 from the Albany City National bank. ' It is about certain that the hop crop will not be over two-thirds the usual yield. It is reported that the biggest hop grower in New York state has re fused 50 cents a pound for his crop. More than one-half of tbe extensive stockyards, plant And property of the Anglo-American Provision (jompany was sestroyM try nre. ine loss is si,uw,bbj, and 1,800 men are thrown out of work. Battle Creek, Mich., is excited over the finding of pure gold while drilling a well for city water. Sand brought up from a distance of 140 feet below the surface was thick with nuggets of pure gold. A Vienna dispatch says: One thous and motner-of -pearl button makers have been locked out owing to theMcKinley tariff bill, which manufacturers believe threatens to stop the entire trade with America. Mrs. Celuria Allen, aired 84, of New Woodstock.N.Y., presented ex-President Cleveland a pair of cloves made from the hair of Mrs. Cleveland's pet spaniel. k. t. Allan carded, spun and knit the gloves Herself. Rev. Riohard Harlan of the Firs Presbyterian church of New York, son of Justice Harlan of the supreme court. surprised his congregation by resigning nu pastorate, tie will give no reason for resigning. The proposal of the Louisiana lottery to start a newspaper in Montreal in or der to distribute information in the United States about the lottery has raised a decided commotion in the Can adian press. The steamship companies report that all the tramp steamers have been char tered to bring imported goods to arrive in mew York before the McKinley bill goes into effect. The regular lines are crowded with freight Prepr.tations against socialistic mani festations at Berlin on Oct 1 are equal to the contingencies of civil war. The Socialists ridicule the expectation of an outbreak, knowing the pacific character of the arrangements. Mrs. William H. Hotchkiss, wife Dr. Hotuhkiss, son of the gun inventor, is lying ill and penniless at Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Her husband deserted her be cause his mother threatened to disinherit him. She was a school teacher. The new steamship El Sol, bull for the Pacific Improvement company of New York, was successfully launced at the shipyard of Cramp & Sons at Philadel phia, She is the largest vessel, with one exception ever built in the United States. After months of enforced starvation Dr. Stephen De Wole, an eminent New York physician, is dead. His ailment was a puzzle to himself and his physi cians. He was unable to retain nourish ment and was absolutely without appe tite for food. The Paris Gaulois says that the En glish have bought a large building at Port Said and is transforming it into a barracks and a fortress, which will soon be occupied by British troops. This will give England possession of both ends of the Suez canal. The North Dakota crops are a failure, owing to the drought and hot winds. There is great - destitution among-the settlers. Thousands are leaving ' for other states, and thousands who remain will have to be aided in procuring the necessaries of life. The 8-year-old daughter of of Mr. Cooper of Newcastle, Pa., accidentally fell into a pigsty. In an instant two large pigs attacked her and before any body could come to her assistance they lacerated her limbs and body in an aw ful manner.. The child will die. : A Vienna, dispatch says: 'Polish jour nals assert tht during the recent man euvers of the Russian army at Kovno Krasnostaw a bridge collapsed, and 400 soldiers belonging to the Pnltann regi ment which was crossing the bridge at the time Were thrown into the water and drowned." ' A dispatch from Shanghai says that the Chinese propose sending their mag nificent fleet, now under command of Chinese naval" officers, on a voyage across the fWfic to prove to the world China's ability to handle ft fleet in open, sea. Heretofore 'the Chinese warships have been content to cruise' along the coast, with an occasional Venture into the Pacific or Indian Ocean. ' ' The ' information! ' has been' received! from the German embassy in Paris that PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. Bakersfleld has electric lights. Seattle hod a $40,000 blaze Sunday, The official count of San Francisco is 207,990. Martinez was scorched to the extent of $8,000 Saturday. Los Angeles has a new daily paper The Evening Post. " The Seattle Citizen has been suppressed by the authorities. . Albuquerque, N. M., will soon have free postal delivery.. A State Board of Commerce hat been organized in Oregon. La Blanche wants to fight Dempsey in three months at San Francisco. William E. Norwood, president of the Ban Francisco Stock SxcL ge, is dead. Frequent rains are doing much dam age to drying fruit in Southern Calif or- nia.- Fire in Missoula, Mont, destroyed half a block of business houses.' Loss $10,000. An observation station of the United States signal station has been established at Eugene, Or. 11 The anniversav1 Of the consummation of Mexican independence was eelsbrated at Bakersfleld. Mrs. M. L. Coenin has been awarded $15,000 damages against the Los Angeles Cable Railway company for injuries she received in 1888. ' An immense storage barn on the ranch of Gen. Bidwell at Chioo was burned, Tramps caused the fire. Nicholas King, a saloon keener at Martinez, died from the effects of burns received in fighting fire.'" Fred Miller of Sacramento was elected one of the class day officers by the senior class of outgoers at New York. ' The1 Cedarville stag , Was robbed about miles from Redding by twa masked men. The robbers secured ttiM-.Jr,' Joaquin Camacho' was ' shot Wthe street of Tehachapiby"lJ, Bermurdwayu andl instantly kilted,' Both were drunk. Two men were killed in a rear end col lision on the Northern Pacific at Torino, Wash. One was completely beheaded. Dbminico OoelhY' was fonnd guilty of murder in the first degree at Port Town- send. He killed' John Deletes, his em ployer. " John Rush, a hostler in a Sacramento brewery, was kicked !'on the head and fatally injured by a trick horse in the stable. A Chinaman infected with leprosy hat been discovered at Fresno, t He is in the last stages of the disease and is a disgust ing sight, i ' The commission appointedby ' Presi dent Harrison to select a site for a navy yard on the Pacific Coast met in Tacoma Wednesday.. H. Jones, a livery stable man of Sno homish, Wash., committed suicide be cause his wife left him to live with an other man. Patrick Muldoon was thrown through a wire fence near LoomisrCal,, bv a runaway team and sustained injuries from which he died.. ". ' The jury in the case of Justice W. C. Lock wood of Los Angeles, indicted for harboring J. M. Damron while the latter was a fugitive from justice, failed to agree. On behalf of George Hoyt of Gneme- ville, Cal., Congressman Morrow , pre sented President Harrison with two red wood canes made from one of the mam moth trees. The grand jury hag found a true bill against the mayor and city council of Portland for jointly maintaining and op erating a nuisance in the shape of a cre matory for burning refuse matter. , The largest load of logs ever hauled in Santa Cruz county was hauled at Baird Dougherty's camp at Monta Vista by A. Pryor, who, with five yoke of oxen hauled twenty-five logs that scaled 50, 488 feet of lumber; ; A young woman kuown as Mrs'. Brad- TIERRA DEL FUEGOANS. lav riiif. tarrti 4 si sialyl' t Via Tit. n-tj Qs.m Ribot, French minister of foreign affairs. 1 M K ns.nf . u has negotiated with Whitelaw Raid, the mentg in Ne. York f rOln frat asr-hii. y i American minister, ' for a reciprocity agreement ' between ' France ' and the Raited State. " This summarily settles th8 pVfJset of Count Kalnbky, the Aus-tro-Hungarian premier, for combind re prisals against the United States id re taliation for tbe McKinley bill. The famous Burtihell case has been on trial for a week 'at Woodstock, Ont. The prisoner was accused of murdering a wealthy young Englishman named Ben well. The prosecution depended solely upon circumstantial evidence and built up a very strong case. The defense introduced a novel co nter chain of cir cumstantial evidence, endeavoring to show that two other men might be proven guilty W the crimd by the same sort of testimony. The London Times predicts that the McKinley tariff bill will cut both ways. It will do great harm to America, while dislocating the general industries of the world. The London Daily News says the earlier tariff bill had already para lyzed the American export trade in man ufactures, and the McKinley bill may kill it. " The true danger to England's supremacy will begin only when free trade for the Americans opens to those intelligent and powerful rivals the mar kets af the world. tion. It is not known whether or not her death was accidental. " " . A special to the Philadelphia Ledger says from Bristol says that John Will iams, a coachman, and hit brother Will lam at Blackburn, N. Y., have been left over $7,000,000 by their undo, Theodore Lunderick, in California. '' ' ,,. The great international ' exposition opened at San Antonio, Tex., Tuesday. A parade of United States, and Mexican troops preceded the opening ceremonies. The Mexican exhibit is extensive the art department alone being valued at $100, 000. During the quarter no w about to close there have been thirty-five business fail ures in Los Angeles' county, 'of which twenty-two were in the city. '' In San Bernardino' county, there were" five fail ures and in Orange two. - Thai is favor able as compared with last year. , Considerable discussion Is going on as to who is governor of Nevada. Some hold that Frank Belt, ' being lieutenant governor, becomes acting governor by reason of the governor's death, but ow ing to constitutional provision cannot draw the salary.: . Others hold that the governor and lieutenant governor, H, C. Davis, being dead, the president of the senate takes the place. - Others urge that Secretary of State Dormer is the party who is really governor, ; It is a mixed up affair all around. . Secretary Noble has promulgated rules and regulations for the government of the park in Tulare county,, . containing the mammoth sequoia gigantic, trees, Nutmegs Nutmegs grow on small trees which much resemble our pear trees of six or seven years' growth. The tree is of a pale hne much resembling in color the weeping willow: is very fragrant and hardly ever attains the height of more created by act of congress and approved than twenty feet wutmeg trees grow, 25 1890. The secretary christeui both the nutmegs and the mace of com- j 'the new , a The ; Sequoia" National merce, the nutmeg being the seed of the jp,, xhe nfle for its regulation are fruit and the mace the thin covering arib8tft,ritiauy the sam6 as those covering over the seed. The fruit itself is about Yellowstone Park. " The secretary as large as a good sized peach, and when .aWthatif hi'nnft'iMbabla'hs ripe breaks open and exposes to view the secure froni s3 'aujoimhg Wt to fragrant little nut so highly prized as a the park , gon- of one of the mam spice by all good cooks. , tree, tor exhibition at the world 'I Tbe tree, which is indigenous to sev-. Chicago. J ' end countries, grows most abundantly! - . . on the island of Asia, but few growing' ?t tfw V' kM in America, these being confined to tht 'jUxi -h? tropical parte. After arriving t matur- ihin ? t ' u l ity a treewill bear nutmegs for from 70 "Ug of a to 100 years, having ripe and green fruit PmM by remain the ali nponltebranchesat aU seasons of the ?7TlS tj year. One of the finest nutmeg trees in JJ" Us laboratory the Ac poison the world Trows in a Mblio nark at m question, and hopes to be able to prv Vlr,lnn nrTth- LlarM n) Jamslr-s Am dUC an antidote With Which thS patient Appropriately Named. "fa, what is a blanket mortgage?" : asked Johnny Cumso. "It is one which keeps a man warm working to pay it" replied Cumsa N. Y. Sun. Elizabeth Stuart Phelns SDent two WL 5.000 nntmeM have been irath-. W Inoculated. - He oalU the poison ' la wrmn .-Gates Ajar." and ered from it in a single year. , - I tyrotoxicon and finds it in cluese and . tw0 yoar mon m finding publisher , A century ago the Dutch controlled vk the nutmeg trade of tbe world, as they , . then owned the Bands islands, the only , He Named it. : place It was known to grow. Ten thou-1 D'you know what i to be the new cap- sand bushels of nutmegs were burned at itelof AlaskaT stamps with which her first contrl- one time by the Dutch traders, who -Yes. That's it" ' button was sent away were bought were makiiw a wild effort at keeping op "WhatT with money obtained from picking yv' "(juneau. ra ouure. twrriea. tor it ; Frances Hodgson . Burnett was a country school-teacher on a small salary when the began writing stories, and rumor has It that the Aa Bngllsh Mlestonary'e Aeeouat af a Very Queer People. Rev. C AsplnalL an English mis sionary, who has labored for many years among the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, gives an interesting ac count of a tribe called the Jahgan, ' among whom he had his residence. . The people of the tribe usually go naked, save for a small skin thrown over the shoulders, but they smear their bodies with a mixture of train oil and red .earth as a protection against the cold. They support them selves by hunting, and at the worst feed on shell-fish. Certain disorde -s of the digestion, arising from the latter, they cure by a fungus diet For the most part they move about from place to place, without any fixed abode, in bark canoes, in the center of which a fire always burns. Each canoe contains a family, the wife row ing, while the husband is always on the watch with his javelin. He al ways carries three kinds of spear i with him, one for birds, the secon.l for fish, and the third for crabs. On landing the woman has first of all to carry her husband ashore, he holding the fire carefully above water, and then she begins the erection of their primitive hut The men are rarely able to swim, but the women invariably, and this, together with their constant work at rowing, gives them extraordinary muscular power. To maintain their position as lords of creation the men have recourse to mysterious rites, from which the women are excluded. The men have usually two wives, an older and a younger one. Without writing of any kind, they yet pre serve many rules and customs, mainly relating to the chase. They are good natured and helpful, not addioted to lying or theft but tenacious in de fense of their rights, These primitive people have many amiable traits of character. ' They love long stories and conversations, and in these a good part of their time is spent One of their tales, ol an extraordinary strongman who was ' maae oi stone, ana ultimately was killed by a thorn entering a vulner able spot in bis heel, recalls the story of Aohlllea. Devoid of all religious ideas and duties, they have a vague ' idea of the spirits of the departed wandering about in the world, and greatly to be feared. N. Y. Leader. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. The new freshman class at Prince ton is the largest that ever entered that college. It numbers 200. Congregationalism has ten church es In Denver, CoL , and another is in process of formation, a colored church. When the present church edifice of St Paul's parish, Boston, was built in 1820, Daniel Webster was a member of the building committee. ; : ? The use of tobacco at Yale is de creasing each year, owing to the ex ample set by the athletio associations, which do not allow their members to smoke or chew. Gymnasium have a wide influence over the health ot col legiates. Nearly one-third of the population of Wales is gathered in the Sunday schools. In England and Wales to gether 6,783,825 scholars are taught in the Sunday-school. Of these, 2,5S6 899 scholars are in Church of England Sunday-schools. In England the Baptists are di vided into two sects, known as the General and Particular Baptists. These two were once wide apart but for years they have been drawing closer together, insomuch that a movement is now on foot to unite them. There were added on profession of faith nearly 1,000 souls a week, on an average, during the year ending May 1 last to the churches connected with the Presbyterian General Assembly North. The total number added on examination Is given at 61, 062. One hundred thousand volumes were last year added to seventy-five college libraries in the United States. The largest accession was that of 12,000 volumes to the Harvard library. The libraries of Columbia, Cornell, Boston University, Yale and Princeton also received large ad ditions. . --Like the air, the church muBt press equally on all the surfaoes of society; like the sea, flow into every nook of the shore line ot humanity; , and, like tbe sun, shine on things foul and low as well as fair and high, for she was organized, commissioned and equipped for the moral renovation of the world. Bishop Simpson. Speaking of London Cardinal Manning says: "There are 4,000,000 of living and dying and dead souls. And if every church or chapel or place of worship of every sort and kind were filled three times to tbe full on every Lord's day, they could not con tain more than about 1,500,000. There must be, therefore, 2,500,000 who never can physically set their feet in any place of Divine worship or any place where the name and existence of God are recognized." The Christian Observer draws from a study of the Southern General Assembly two encouraging facts: "One is that the growth in member ship is much larger than usual. The average increase, from year to year, is about 5,000 per annum; this year it is 7,105. This reveals the activity and earnestneus of both ministers and members last year, and God's blessing on their efforts. - But while the in- . crease In membership is about seven percent, the ' Increase in benevolent contributions is from $1,463,478 to $1, 112.865 an Increase of ten per cent."