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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1903.
Tnmuine Bincer Hermann being
elected Senator, and then going
back to Washington with a sharp
stick for Secretary HitcncocK.
Wouldn't he do things to the head
of the Interior Department who
.1 T 1
kicked him out from tne t.ana
Commissioner s h i p! P o r 1 1 a n d
Journal.
The government is going to buy
$25,000,000 worth of new warships.
A few purchases like that and tne
Monroe Doctrine will not smell so
musty to European powers that
occasionally have to witness the
uncovering of the venerable old
document of President Monroe in
his message to the 1823 Congress.
The suggestion of those battle
ships will be in need of no inter
preter. Portland Journal. v
In the death of Thomas H.
Tongue, western Oregon loses an
indefatigable worker for the inter
ests of that part of the state.
While Mr. Tongue did what he
thought to be his duty to the
whole state there is no doubt but
that his interests were with his
home people and Portland has lost
a friend indeed. This may lead
to a special election or Governor
Chamberlain may decide to ap
point a democrat to fill out the un
expired term or vacancy which
ever it may be termed.
What Utile Difference?
er all the day before together with
other duties devolving upon a farm
hand, but had been suffering fur
some time with a dillieultv simi
lar to asthma. Retiring to bci
that night, he did not rest am
arose in the morning with iucreas
ed difficulty in breathing. A
neighbor was in to call upon him
during the morning and he had
passed some pleasant remarks to
which Charles responded with
bland and jocund disjiosition.
The neighbor took leave from him
and Mrs. MeMeen went up stairs
to attend to the household work
returning in about ten minutes to
find his spirit fled and a corpse
sitting in the chair where she had
recently beheld the smiling form
of Charles Mishler. With remark
able nerve she closed his mouth
and eyes, straightened him up and
propped up the rockers and walked
about a mile into the field to call
her husband. There was no one
eke in the house at the time.
Charlie had accepted Christ as
his Savior and had been living a
consistent life from that time
which was about six years ago.
His brother, A. R. Mishler took
the remains to urora, for inter
ment. Rev. E. A. Child, was call
ed to conduct the services at Hit
home of Mr. MeMeen. Rev. Jacob
Mishler is a Mennonite pastor
near Aurora. These people are
very consistent deciples of Christ,
with a primitive faith and practice
similar to the Christan Church.
Why is that people will condemn
a dance, and carrv the idea
that all who attend are to blame
for the conduct of a few. When
there is bad conduct, or worse at
other gatherings, and not one word
will be said.
Last Sunday evening at the
Haystack -school house, the min
ister made the statement that
the reason that the young
people of Haystack did not
join the church, when he held a
series of meetings here before the
holidays, was because of a certain
thing that was to come off, (mean
ing the Christmas dance,) and
that, that thing had come off and
that all who attended it were
ashamed that they were there.
Now we will say that if that
dance was a disgrace to our neigh
borhood, and we' think it was, so
also was the Christmas entertain
ment that was held in the school
house the night before, ar their
was as many, if not mere drunks
there, than at the dance, and be
sides they were among the crowd
and disturbing people who wanted
to hear the program, and the air
around the housa and up the road
after the crowd was dismissed was
fairly blue with profurr.ty, while
the greater part of the crowd had
gone home from the dance before
their was any disturbance, and it
all happened outside the hall.
Now why the difference, if whb
key is the trouble, it is just as bad
one place as another. If tlj.
authorities should fine a few fm
disturbing the peace, there would
be less drinking at dances and
other gatherings.
Mhs. M. E. Peck.
tayitac-lt Happening,.
The fog is thick enough to cut
up into gun wads.
Perry Read visited vour citv on
the first of the week.
Charley Wrenn. of Joseoh. Wal-
Iowa county is visitine friends at
this place.
The Rabbit drives are postponed
awaiting stormy weather.
Born to the wife of Neil Miliean
on January 12, a dauehter.
Standard weight.
The Haystack Sundav . school
elected the following officers for the
ensuing term: Superintendent,
Mrs. Homey; assistant, Henry
Gillam; secretary, Retta Peck;
treasurer, Bertha Homey;, or
ganist, Mrs. M. E. Snook and .Mrs.
F. E. Rodman; chorister, Mrs. M.
E Snook.
On Saturday, 10th inst. the D.
of H. and U. A. Lodges (rave a
joint installation installing the fol
lowing officers; In D. of H. Mrs.
Annie Armstrong, C. of H.; Mrs.
Virginia Collver. L. of H Mi.
Retta Peck, C. of C; Mrs. M. E.
Peck, usher; G. Springer, Sec; D.
w . JJarnett, financier; R. F. Arm
strong, I. ; Mrs. Rebecca Win-
dom, O. .; Mrs. Addie Hoffman,
f. U. ot xl.
In the U. A. W. H. Peck. M. A.:
.Mrs. fclla Osborn, superintendent;
Miss Ella McCoin, inspector: F. C.
Osborn, secretary; O. G. Collver,
treasurer; Lee Peck, senior con
ductor; Pearl Osborn; junior con
ductor; P. Pead, M. C. J.; Lilly
Read and John Brown, field com
manders; Jesse Windom, warder;
Mrs. Sadie Windom, instructor: I).
G. Rodgers, P. M.
D. and L.
DIED.
MISHLER, Jliatks Albert Mil
lar, the son of Rev. Jacob Mish
ler, of Aurora, Oregon, died at the
home of James McMci-n, near La
monta Post Office, Friday morn
ing at about ten o'clock, aged 22
years.
He had been working for Mr.
MeMeen and had driven the seed-
To offset the big price now asked
for Yakima alfalfa and other liny
some of the sheeiimen over there arc
feeding .mall potatoes. They enn be
purchased at J a ton and the sheer.
men figure that three tons of them
qual two tons of Iwv. They nre fwl
r.iw and are considered the most
economicaljieed that can be i-eciired
at thin time of the year. Alfalfa in
the stack fin jiniipi-d lip to $10 mil!
fit a ton. One sheepman said thai
he hud lieen all over the valley dur
ing the week trying to buy hay in thc
stack, but the farmers not sell.
They are holding out for higher
lijjiirm. The otto ration is con
quered quite ns good as any other
root that can be l,d to Mu-k and the
animals will readily Jfntiei, on them
thissea-i.il. Th'-ru r thousands of
t ins of potato in that valley this
year anil should a shortage in hay
rjsult l,v' rafun of the cold weather
they will I used for sheep tinting. !
Dalles Chronicle. I
captain signaled to back Uie ship, t
he should come up afoul of tilt propel
ler, lite rope flostl lack on the
water. Thsre vnm a minute or two of
ilent.expertantatiipe me. Then, right
in front of thebow.mcltiss Ioouldhav
poked my flngvr against th flabby
tilmitVr, up roe the Ka"t miss up, up,
up till he towered full 14 fee above
the roll! 1 jumped bock lu gmuln
fear that h would topple over on tlis
deck. Then be turned a somersault
with 4 aptaeh and drenched ua all. He
roae again, churning the water white,
reload hie tail quit 20 fret ami slapped
the water wltii a noiae like a thunder
clap at our rery toes. He turned round
and round, wrapping the rope about
hie huge body, then allot straight for
ward on the aurface, skipping from
wave to wave . like a swallow. He
reached the end of hia alack rope with
a jerk that ahook the ship from atn to
stern. There waa an instant tug of
war between the w-hale and the re
versed engines. Then the whale wn
and for a minute pulled the raassl for
ward with hlra.
Again the windlass whirred' and
whizzed, but with diminkthlng apeed.
Far out at the end of hia two tnllee of
rope, thewhalechurnedand lashed the
water and blew big blaata of hi vapor.
Thecrew aawthe end and relaxed their
tenseness. They gave him half an hour
or ao to end hia convulsions. Then thc
captain shouted the order to wind In
that rope.
As the whale felt the pull he gave on
feeble, dying jump. The men stopped
a minute, then continued slowly 1o pull
in. Finally, the huge, inert, fhthhy
body floated belly upward, juyt off the
bow. They lowered a boat, pa.ied a
ohain about the narrow circumference
where the tall widena, and grnppled
him to the aide of the vessel. 1 could
see a dozen quarreling porpohca eat
ing the tongue of the monster that
had been an hour before alive and. to
those scavengers, invincible. The cap
tain gave a sigh and a smile of content
and leaned over the side to menrure
with his eye the size of his prize. The
crew busied themselves with loading
the harpoon gun again and putting
things in order.
All this waa before five in the morn
ind and before breakfast. After the
meal, when we came fi deck again,
there hud risen a heavy Iceland wind.
The captain sniffed H and glanced at
the choppy sea. " 'Twill lie n had day
for the feeeh," he laid: and went aloft
to his bridge to wntch with his glass
es for another "blow." With the wnd
came rain, and the two did. indeed,
make bar! fis-Mng. Not that the whales
went in out of the wet, as nn irreverent
sailor must tell the guileless lands
men: there was scarce a time when we
enul.'l rrt see a doen "blows" within
a five-mile radius. Often, when we
were not prepared for them, they
would swim right part us with all the
riignilv of an ocean line rsnreiHoiY past
a Is-.hhintf fishing craft. Thev never
seemed M be merely browsing idly
around thsy were always swimming
in a tfrnight tine, anil always very fast,
as if they had important hi-siness
somewhere on the coast of Sweden.
When they were etrse bv we could fol
low them readily with the eye. and see
them risimr and dipning at regular In
tervals. Farther off. milestones of
their course were their "blows." It Is
the one conspicuous mammal charac
teristic remaining to this expatriated
land onimnl who has chosen the en
vironment of fish f ir his abode: once
in so "'ten he must breathe. And as
his takin? breath involves blowing a
20-foot high pillar of white varvr into
the air. it is this "mark of the beast"
and of the beast's notnral habitat that
betray" him to his enemies,
Lite !n the afternoon the captain on
the bridge swept the see with his
ir.asee. and saw no sign of a blow.
He ghneed at the sinking sun and
mea-ured with his eye the SO miles to
he harbor. He dropped his glasses
snd gave a quiet order that meant the
day's work was done. The deck was
put in order, and the stocky little
whaler, with her trophies grappled
close In her side, set her bow towards
the mainland. It was not for the want
of "fish" that we had fisherman's luck
that day. But the whaler was no
larger than a tugboat. The heavy sea
tossed her abont like a eork. and aim
ing a cannon with so unsteady a base
as the whaler's bow was difncuH. busi
ness even for the expert captain.
Three times be fired and missed; and
as it took an hoar or two to rekssd the
gun and prepare the harpoon and
bomb, it was two o'clock in the after
noon before we got our second prize-
Th,e ptoses was in sll respects like the
first: but there was thesamefrencytif
excitement aboard the ship. '1 he one
appetite that never becomes satiated,
the one instinct the-t'ie never satisfied,
the one experience that no amount of
repetition dulls, is. it seems, the in
stinct to hunt and kill. In primitive
man it was the first law of his being;
and, like the whale's breathing, it
stays w ith him In a wholly changed
environment.
The captain alowly paced the bridge
and puffed a long ciirar in profound
content. I judged, by what he bad
told me, that his individual share in
the day's catch would be a successful
lawyer's income for a week. Boston
Transcript.
Sarlee Wasted.
Young Man I came to ask you for
the hand of your daughter, sir.
Old Man (the father of seven)
Which one of my daughters, young
man?
"That's another thing I wanted to
ask you. Now, as a friend, which one
would you advise me to take?" Chi
cago Daily ews.
Rsora Is the Proeessloa,
Clara Hear Isabel, you are at last
a successful artist.
Isabel Oh. Clara. I don't feel my
self a success; I've just moved up a
little, because a lot of ohitrstmgglers
have got tired and quit. Detroit Free j
I rets,
The Waal Rlttiatlon.
Those who look for higher "dices
for wool huso their view upon u
variety of facts, chief among them
being the admitted scarcity of good
wools, Their argument is that the
people will have to pay higher
prices whether they want to or not.
On the strength of this line of
reasoning they are predicting high
er (imitations for wool in UKJU, and
the western grQwer has had his
opinion strengthened that it will
bo possible for him to secure, for
his HKX! clip a very pronounced
advance over 1902 figures. A short
time ago wo were iuforme'd from
Montana that growers in that state
were looking forward to 20 cents
for their next year'B wool, hut dur
ing the past week advices from that
section place the grower's expeta
tions at 20 to 21 cents. It will be
recalled that the maximum quo
tations in Montana this year were
between 10 and 17 cents, and the
difference between this level and
20 to 21 cents shows tlie extra
ordinary confidence which certain
persons have that the industrial
prosperity of tho country, instead
of reeeeding or remaining station
ary, is going to keep on expanding
by leaps and bounds.
Another thing to which the be
lievers in higher prices for wool
call attention is the strength dis
played at the last Iomlon Auction
sales. The long series of droughts
in Australia, and the heavy inroads
which have heon made in the last
year or two into the neciitnulated
stocks of wool, have impressed the
speculative element on thu other
side very profoundly. It has trans
pired recently that much of the
wool that was bought at the earlier
sales this year in London was not
bought for consumption, but for
resale later. It mav be stated in
cidentally that London is not al
ways it safe speculative guide in
wool. They are apt to bank too
exclusively, in that market, on the
so-called "statistical position" of
the commodity, and their policy in
this particular has not always been
.Mended with success in fact,
there have been times when the
outcome lias supriscd them greatly.
All told, the outlook is ballling.
The most that can lie said is that
if there is any futher advance in
wool, it is likely to be confined al
most exclusively to medium and
low wools, fine wools having al
ready, it is quite generally believed
been enhanced to their full limit.
The points to bo determined are:
How far has the purchasing power
of thc public been endangered by
the high level attained by general
commodity prices, and what, if
any, effect would an impaired pur
chasing power have on the demand
for wool? These questions will lie
more satisfactorily answered a few
months hence than now. Wool
and Cotton Reporter.
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good year like that must he headed the wrong way.
COME TO THE BEE HIVE
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of sincere thanks to my customers for the very generous
business given me during the year just closed.
Respectfully,
I. Michel
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