i LOT OF THE FARMER A Prosperous One Compared With Many Callings. SECRETARY MORTON'S REPORT Treats of Foo4 Ioapectloe, Farm " Mortgage, tha Waathar Bureau, Fraa Seed!, Foreign Market. Washington, Not. 24. Secretary Morton, in hit fourth annanl report, Just made pnbllo, ihowi that with 280,000, whioh may be saved from the appropriations for the current fisoal rear, there will hare been covered back into the treasury aince March 7, 1893, over 2,000,000 of a toUl appro priation of 111,179,455. That thii great economy was effected without any loss of efficiency, he attri bute in a large degree to the improve ment in the personnel of the force un der civil serrioe rale, whioh he declares to be "absolutely indispensable to the maintenance of an eoonomio and effi cient administration of the pnblio serv ice." To complete the "already perfect sys tem of oivil tervloe" in his department, the secretary reoommends the appoint ment of a permanent direotor in charge of bureaus and scientific investigations. The inspection of animals intended for food is treated of at length, and stress is laid upon the increased effiol enoy of the work, dne to the extension of oivll-aervioe roles, whioh has been rapid in this service. The total number of ante-mortem inspection of oattle, sheep and hogs j i .v. ok otif Ann m I.. orease over the previous year of over 60 per oent. The total number of post mortem inspections was 23,164,868, an increase of 26 per cent For the sake of eoonomy, the exports of miorosoopioally inspeoted pork to countries not exaoting suoh inspection, have been greatly discouraged. The total amount thus inspected was in round numbers 23,000,000 pounds, of which 21,600,000 pounds went to conn- tries requiring inspection. Clearances were issued to 891 vessels oarrying cattle and sheep. The num ber of oattle tagged for export was oa'f.eou, ana t,oua inspeoiea sneep were exported. The percentage of lost in transit was considerable less than ever before. Mr. Morton urges strongly that gov ernment inspection should be extended to all animals intended for human food, whether for consumption in the United States or abroad. - The oattle and meat trade of Great Britain is reviewed at length.. , Of live meat arriving in the United Kingdom , during the first six months of 1896, the , United' .Sta.tei supplied 76 per oeni of the oattle and 4, per eertf of the sheep. The testimony of the department's representatives abroad is that the oat tie from tne United States arrive in English porta in excellent oonditlon. The Glasgow market is especially com mended to American shippers. ' The report shows a steadily increas ing demand in England for American horses. During the first nine months of the present year, more of these ani mals were shipped to that oountry than in any previous entire year. The secretary again takes occasion to express his opposition to the gratuitous distribution of seeds and to express the hope that the practice will be disoon tinted. The report oonoludes with a comprehensive review of the condition of Amerioan farmers. Seventy-two per oent of the farms in the United States, occupied by their owners, are absolu tely free from mortgages or other in cumbrances. The secretary refutes the idea- prevailing that the farms of the West and South are more heavily bur dened with mortgages than those of the East and Northeast. States along the North Atlantio, he says, are quite heavily enoumbered with farm mort gages, and New Jersey carried a debt of this kind greater in proportion to its farm valuation than any other state in the Union. The frequent statement that the farmers are almost universal ly in debt, despondent and suffering, be says deolares to be without any foundation, a belittlement of agricul ture and an indignity to every intelli gent and practical farmer. The farm ers are not mendioants nor wards of the government to be treated to annui ties, but the representatives of the old est, most honorable, most essential oc cupation of the human raoe, upon whioh all other vooations depend for subsistence and prosperity. TRAINWRECKERS FOILED. Planned to Hold Up the Union Pacific, but Failed. Salt Lake, Nov. 24. Just before the 7:45 Union Paoifio southbound train reaohed Keyesville, fourteen miles north, an employe of the road discov ered men placing obstructions on the track. When he approaohed and spoke, he was answered by several shots, after which the men fled. They had plaoed ties aoross the track, and it is believed it was the intention to hold-up the pas senger train, due-in a short time. The polioe of Farmington have - arrested three suspioious oharaoters found in the vicinity. --- Accidentally Asphyxiated., New York, Nov. 24. An unknown man and woman were found dead in their bed in a room at the Standard ho tel today, having been suffocated by illuminating gas, whioh-was, flowing from an open and unlighted burner in the aprartmetnt. The polioe are still ui v vnvign giusj u u v ejta aata v v ivuuu nothing tending to indioate murder or "k antnlriA. -anir thnv ata nf tha nnfntnn i ii ipiisivi rra ri n it nnr rnav novaa xnnna-i "s that that entire affair ir due to an ao- ' oident: -,: ' , i HIsslHlppl Steamer Sunk. Memphis, Nov. 24. The Lee line steamer City of Osoeola, Captain Henry 'Cooper, on her way from Ashpprt to Memphis, sank at Craigshead point, sixty miles above here tonight. Allot the passengers and crew were' saved. ';" The cause of the aooident was a hidden nr.atmnr.inn which the steamer struck ! - while making a landing. ... Penjaoola, FM.. , Nov. 24. The schooner Red Wing, of Philadelphia,' was lost sixty miles south of Pensaoola last night - She sprung a leak and sank la an boor. RAYS AND THE Kdlaoa to Try HI Experiment Millionaire Ron. New York, Nov. 25. Charles Brad way Rons is arranging with Mr. Edi son for treatment with Roentgen rays in the hope that his sight may be re stored. Since the eleotrioian began his experiments in applying "X" rays for the restoration of sight no one has taken more interest in the subject than the millionaire merchant, who, for more than two years, has been prao tically blind. 'That is a single ray upon which to base my hope," said Mr. Rouss, "I have tried every oculist and every treat ment that promised relief, and offered 11,000,000 for a cure, but it has all been of no avail. If there is power in this man called the "Wisard" to re lieve me I want to know it" John P. Martin has for some time aoted as Rouss' proxy, hoping for a restoration of his own sight, and has submitted to all kinds of treatment, but without favorable results. Now he is to be a subject of the rays. Be fore Martin becomes the subject of the experiment, Edison wishes to investi gate further and solve preliminary problems. When this has been done, a most elaborate and carefully prepared line of treatment will be entered upon with Mr. Martin as patient Every step and effect will be carefully noted and the result reported to eminent ocu lists for their professional opinions. Then if the treatment shows any ten dency to restore sight or even to retard the waste of the optio nerves Mr. Rouss will be given the same treatment THE LOST COLLIER. Bight of Her Crew Lou Their Lives In the Surf. Point Arena, Cal., Nov. 25. The steam collier San Benito, whioh went aground a few miles north of this place, will be a total wreck. Eight of the vessel's orew have been drowned, and the remaining thirty-five, after suffering terribly from exposure, were taken from the wreck today by boats from the rescuing steamer Weeott In the terrible fog of Sunday morning, the San Benito crashed ashore in a dan gerous locality, and is now resting on the rocks gradually beating to pieces by the oombined action of gale and surf, . .When the steamer grounded two boats were lowered, but they were all drowned. The captain and remainder of the orew stuok to the ship until taken off by the resouing steamer. So far as known those drowned are: O. W. Soott, first assistant engineer. C. H. Condon, second assistant en gineer. M. Prendergast, fireman. John H. Sheridan, messboy. Three seamen, names unknown. A Fatal Hunting Accident. ' Oakland, Cat, Nov. 26. A distress ing hunting accident ocourred yester day on the Newark marshes. Matthew Peterson, son of a well-known contrac tor of this oity, was shot and killed by Albert Kline, a San Francisco commer cial traveler, his oompanion in a duck hunting trip. The shooting occurred late in the afternoon not far from Newark. Peterson and Kline were seated near a blind in a duok pond, awaiting a flight of birds. A flock of ducks started near them, Kline oalled to his companion to go to the blind, a small platform hidden with tules. As Peterson rose Kline reached for his shotgun. The weapon was muddy, and slipped in his hands. The oontents of both barrels were emptied into Peter son's head as the triggers were acci dentally pulled. Peterson was conscious almost until he died. He made a statement to the physioians and to the local justice of the peaoe exonerating his oompanion. He said the shooting was purely acci dental. . A Pallbearer Killed. Double Springs, Ala., Nov. 25. John Welton met a horrible death at Shiloh burying-ground near here, while aoting as one of the pallbearers at the funeral of Junius Roberts, a farmer. The coffin was lowered into the grave by straps. The strap held by Welton and another man snapped as the ooffln was being lowered. Wel ton lost his balanoe as the strap broke and fell headlong into the grave, which was six feet deep. At the same time the rear end of the ooffln whioh had been held by the broken strap also plunged downward. The falling ooffln atruok Welton on the head and banged him against the side of - the grave, which was of hard soil. Welton was extricated, but died two hours after ward. A Football Player Nearly Killed Chioago, Nov. 26. During a foot ball game this afternoon, Gavin Wright, 15 years old, was ' taokled around the neck and thrown to the ground, the other players piling on top of him. The ligaments of Wright's neck were snapped and he received a conoussion of the brain. He cannot live twenty-four hours. Busla Propose to Partition. London, Nov. 2 5. The Daily Mall's Berlin correspondent says the Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, on a recent visit to Vienna, took with him a pro posal for the partition ot Turkey among the powers and to make Constantinople a free port Russia to have Asia Minor and England to have Egypt, Insult to the Spanish Flag. New Castle, Del. , Nov. 26. It has been learned here that the Duke of Te tuan, Spain's . minister of foreign affairs, has oabled to Senor de Lome, minister to the United States, to pro test to the Amerioan government against the insult to the Spanish flag in this oity last week, when a local mili tary oompany oarried the Spanish col ors from the armory and burned them. The shortest time for circuiting the globe at present is sixty-six days. Wall Being Sunk In the Capitol. Salem, 'Or., Nov.- 25. The work of sinking a well on the artesian plan was begun on the state oapitol grounds today. Secretary of State Kinoaid has contracted with the Watson Bros , ot Portland, to bore into the earth nntil water to his taste shall be found. Four-inoh pipe ia to be used. The well is being sunk close to the intorsoction of the walls in the northwest angle of the oapitol.: It is hoped to have' the work completed in time for the mem bersof the legislature to drink from "X" the fountain. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST Front All the Cities and Towns of the Thriving Bister State Oregon. Grant's Pass is to have a custom quart mill soon. Cattle are being shipped from Pen dleton to Kansas City. , Having secured the Coos oounty sourthouse the Coqille people are now talking of a $40,000 building. It was shown by the recent election that Wallowa oounty 'a vote tell short about 100 fiom what it was in June. A petition is being circulated for signature in Lebanon, asking the ooun ty court to raise the bounty for coyote scalps to $5. Work of rebuilding the bridge over the Walla Walla river, south ot Mil ton, will be begun at onoe, but the bridge will not be ready for travel for two weeks or more. A Crook oounty man has just re turned from Tennessee, where he went soul time since with a oar load of horses. He reports having found a ready mar ket for his horses, though the prioe was low. The oitizens of Ashland have organ ized "a registration law" olub, the purpose being to secure the enactment this winter by the legislature of a law providing tor a system of registration of voters. On the banks of the Willamette slough, near Soappoose landing, there are nerhans more than 6.000 cords of wood whioh have been plaoed there by people living in the vioinity of Soap poose. This is the result ot one years' work. The Indian school at Fort Bidwell now seems an assured faot The speoial agent who has been looking after the matter will proceed to open the school in a short time. It will require a oorps of seventeen teaohers in all. The woolgrowers of Grant oounty will meet this week for the purpose ot organizing a woolgrowers' association for the mutual protection ot all sheep men, and to oonsider the proposition of levying a tax to be used for the exter mination of coyotes. .Municipal authorities of Silverton are in correspondence with persons at Eaton Rapids, Mich., who are desirous of ooming to Silverton to start a woolen mill, if a sufficient bonus can be raised by Silverton people. The Eastern oom pany wants enough money to pay freight on the machinery, furnish a site and put up a building. As the East-bound overland was leaving Latourell one day last week, a rock was hurled through the window of an O. R. & N. car, striking Mrs. Harding, wife of Condnotor Harding o1 The Dalles, who was ocoupylng one ol the berths. For a time it was thought Mrs. Harding was seriously injured but her injuries proved to be only slight Washington. A number of mutton sheep have been sold in Ellensburg reoently for $1.75 a head. The expenses of conducting the elec tion in Whitman oounty amounted tc $2,408.62. Ten thousand bushels of red obafl and olub wheat . were sold in Walls Walla last week at 73 cents a bushel. Three immense wagon loads of fruit trees passed through Ellensburg last week en route from Yakima to the Wenatohee oountry. Governor-elect Rogers has announced publioly that he will not be a candi date for the United States senatorshij before the next legislature. A wood famine is still threatened in Garfield. But very little oan tx brought in there, and the supply of dry wood in the mountains is said to be praotioally exhausted. The other night a large rook, weigh ing about ten tons, oame rolling down the hill and landed in Herring's ware house in Stella, Wahkiakum county, The fall of the rook shook the whole town. As a result ot two days' hunting on the Columbia, between Pasco and Wal lula, a correspondent of the Walla Walla Gazette says he killed three geese, two eagles, one ooyote, six jaok- rabbits, two cottontails, one sage hen and one muskrat There is talk of organizing a ooyote drive on a large scale in Garfield. II is proposed to make a oirole six or eight miles in diameter, embraoing a large part of the oountry between Garfield and the mountains to the east, and sur round the "varmints. " While digging a well on a farm near Walla Walla last week workmen found a knife imbedded in a olay for mation, eighteen feet below the sur face. The instrument is about ten inohes long, and looks as though it had been fashioned out of hoop iron. It is now in the possession of Colonel Sears at the oounty clerk's offloe, in Walla Walla. v The motormen and conduootri of the Taooma Street Railway Company have been appointed speoial policemen, with out salaries. They are empowered to arrest boys under 16; years ot age who attempt to board cars while they are in motion. . Mr. G. A. Van Anda, of Rockland, has a oow that is capable of making a world's reoorc.( , She id fifteen-sixteenths Jersey, and has made 481 pounds of butter, besides furnishing the family with all the milk and oream tor their own use. Last week the university of Wash ington reoeiyed from Alaska a fine specimen of jade, dark green in ooior, and showing signs of having been used by man first as a sort ot quarry from whioh he slowly and laboriously out stone knives and spear points. Later one end was ground down to an edge to permit the stone to be used as an ax. Along the sides of the stone are deeply out grooves, at the bottom of wbioh are shattered edges, showing where a knife or spear point bad been out out The specimen was found on Kotzebue sound and is highly prized by the officials of the university. HE NEVER MADE MISTAKES. XT. tsalth Couldn't Convince the Tel ler that He Waa In Error. "Excuse me," remarked the little man to the paying teller at the bauk. ;bnt I believe you remember nieT" "Tee,' replied the teller, "I remem ber toxt. Tour name is Smith John Rmlth. I cashed a I2.BOO check for you this morning. " "Tea, air, that's right; and I'm glad to see that you remember me, as yon made a slight error this morning, and "We never make errors In this bank, sir." "But, sir; It Isn't right" "I can't help whether It's right or wrong. You should have counted your money before you left the desk." "I did count it, sir, and It seemed all right; but after I reached my hotel I counted It again, and fouud that you had made a mistake." "I have told you, sir, that we never make mistakes here." "Bat, sir " "Don't but me; I know my business The money was all right when you connted It hero, and you have either lost some of It or else had your pocket pinked. You will have to stand to one side, as there are others who must be attended to." "I would Uko to convince you that n "You can't convince me of anything, and you will oblige me by leaving the premises." "Had I not.better leave my card, so yon may send for me In case you find that you have made a mistake?" ' "Ne, sir; I don't want your card." "Very well," replied the little man. meekly, aa he slowly took his depart ure. The next morning, however, and for a week following, the following ad vertisement appeared In all the princi pal dally papers of the city: "If Mr. John 8mtth, who cashed a check for $2,B00 at the First National Sand Bank on the morning of the 0th Inst will call at the bank as early as convenient, he will greatly oblige the paying teller." The paying teller had Inadvertently overpaid Mr. Smith the sum of f.'SO. Misplaced Admiration. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps gives, In Mc Clure's Magazine, some reminiscences of Whtttler, the humorous side of his nature as well as the serious one. II j Was full' of frolic, tn ft gentle way; no one of the world's people ever had a keener sense of humor. From every Interview with him one carried "away a good story or a sense of having had a good time. He never darkened th.s day or shadowed the heart He Inspir ited and Invigorated. "I like," he wrote to a friend, "the wise Chinese proverb: 'You cannot pre vent the birds of sadness from flylu' over your head, but you may prevent them from stopping to build their nests in your halr'P" A certain Story with which Lucy Lar com Is Connected made one of the amusing Incidents In his life. A caller, one of the "Innumerable throng that moves" to the doors of the distinguished, there to Indulge the weak curiosity of an Ignorance too pitiable to resent, made himself troublesome ono day In the poet's home at Amesbury. ''I have come, sir," he said pompous ly, "to take yon by the hand. I have long wished to know the author of 'Hannah Binding Shoes " Now, Lucy Larcom happened to bo sitting, In her serene fashion, silently by the window at that time, and Mr. Whlrtier turned toward her with the courtly, bow Into which the Quaker poet's simple manner could bend so finely when he chose. "I am happy," he replied, waving his hand toward the lady In the window, "to have the opportunity to present thee to the author of that admirable poem Lucy Larcom I" A Risky Service. The African Lakes Company has be come so careful that It compels Its agents to pay their own funeral ex penses; so many agents died that an order was actually Issued compelling the agents to die at their own expense. For a long while the company has en Joyed a monopoly of trade. PHYSICIANS WISE IN THEIR GEN ERATION. The above class of scientinta rccnKnlae, and have repeatedly borne u-iitlmony, to Iheellleacy ol ilnatc.tter'a stomach Hitters an a remedy and preventive of fever and ague, rheumatism, want of vlKor, liver complaint, and some other ailments and Infirm conditiona of the system. Experience and observation havo taiiKht them Its value. They but echo the verdict long; alnce pronounced by the public and the press. Only the benljjhted now are ignorant of Amer lca'a tonlo and alterative. The banister of life is full of splint ers, and mankind slides down it with considerable rapidity. DEAFNESS CANNOT UK CUIIKD. By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There ia only one vat in cure deafness, and that la tlonal remedies. Deafness la caused by an in tained condition of the mucona lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube la inflamed von ing. and when It ia entirely closed, deafness is ou have a rumbling sotina or impericct near- the res u LI. and unless the nd unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten arc caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous aunacea. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafneaa (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, send for circulars; free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Bold by druggists. 75o. liull's Family Pills are the beat. Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, bnt by years of patience and wisely direoted study. ' nr.ERKS AND SATjERMKN MALE AND FE j male Employed and unemployed; aend stamped aelf addressed envelope at once for registration application blank to Employer! Industrial Association. Home ofllce, 2i6 W ash ington street, Portland, Oregon. We will forfeit $1,000 if any of our pub lished testimonials ore proven to he not genuine.. Tits Pjbo Co., Warren, Pa. , We want your tea-trade for the rest of your life. " Do you see now how we can afford to say: "Get every sort of Schilling's Best of your grocer, and get your money back on what you don't like"? A Schilling St Company baa rrauciace WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Downing, Honklna Co.'a Review ot Traile. t Portland, Or., Nov. 25. Wheat traders who bate their operations on the prospective rather than the present scarcity of wheat have had their posi tion fortified during the past week by reports of unfavorable seeding in Russia and France, it being too wet in the latter and too dry in Southern Russia tor the crop to make good prog ress. They were also enoouraged by reports of damage by locusts in Argen tine. Millers took wheat freely In all markets, and operators bought a few cargoes at Chioago and at the seaboard. The millers appear to have the buying craze about as badly as the speculators, but the oondition ot the Hour trade is not suoh as to make one radically bull ish. In the Northwest the millers have sold so much flour for export that foreigners have supplied their wants for the time being, and export sales for the week shows a decided falling off. While it Is admitted that there ia no big surplus of wheat, and that exports are the heaviest since September, 181)3, and we have sent out 67,000,000 bush els ot wheat and flour from the United States and Canadian ports stuoe July 1, or 20,000,000 bushels more than last year, aud that our exports of flour up to the first of the year will be heavy, there is every possibility of our haviug enough to eat until another crop is har vested. A trade paper is oredited with the statement that, estimating our total crop this year at 400,000,000 bushels, we have loft only about 22,000,000 bushels available for export. That is a trifle less than one-third of the (17, 000,000 bushels already gone from both coasts siuoe the close ot last June. We are not informed aa to the basis of this estimate, but may remark that, even if the orop weie 60,000,000 larger than this, whioh hardly is a supposable oase In view of recent advioes, there still would be left little more to go out in the next eight months than has been taken away in the first third part ot the orop year. There is little use in turn ing out exaot figures tor quantity when so muoh uncertainty exists in regard to the actual yield, but enough is known to make it reasonably oertain that the United States does not contain as muoh wheat in publio and private stores, in cluding those of the farm, aa will be wanted for home oonsumpiton and ex port between this and the time of our next harvest, and we think a good many of our people will waken up to a perception of this faot, and of its vast importance long ere the departure ot the last cargo whioh has been bought by shrewd foreigners at 15 to 20 cents per bushel less than they would have to pay for the artiole today. It well may be said that sharp declines here are in order, but they will only furnish opportunities for buying to greater ad vantage, as we should have to go back many years in the record to find a season when the British people were so completely dependent upon the Uuited States for bread as they are today. THE COMING SESSION. Senator! Look for Little Sara Routine Leglalatlon. Washington, Nov. 25. Members of the senate are ooming to Washington eaoh day, and from Interviews with eaoh of the arrivals it is apparent that the senators expeot little save rontine legislation, inoloding the passage of the annual appropriation bills, at the short session of oongreis. Senators Oookrell, of Missouri, and Hawley, of Connecticut, both gave ex pression to thier opinions today, and both likewise agreed in the opinion that nothing need be expected at the ooming session in the way of helping along an international bimetallic con ference. Senator Hawley does not be lieve the Dingley bill will be enaoted into a law, adding: "The Dingley bill is confessedly a mere makeshift, with all the defeots inoident to horizontal increase or de crease of duties. If it should be passed as it is, it seems to me It would be the duty of the president to assemble oon gress as soon as possible after March 4 for a diligent consderation and revi sion of the whole tariff in a oonsiderate and conservative spirit, to the end that a bill might be passed that would stand the test of years, subject, of oourse, to an occasional oorreotion where new in ventions and changes in trade may de mand it. It ia to be remembered, also, that the Dingley bill expires by its own limitation in August, 1898, and it is impossible to evade the question; therefore, the more speedy action there is taken, the better." An Armenian Borap. Lynn, Mass., Nov. 35. The timely arrival of the polioe prevented a riot at an Armenian meeting last night The meeting was an attempt to amalgamate two branohes of the Hechagist Revolu tionary Soolety, an Armenian organ ization, to whioh nearly every one of the 800 Armenians In this oity belong. Soon it was evident there was a strong sentiment against the movement and one of the speakers was interrupted. He resented this and aroused the ire of some in the audienoe. Some person in the gallery hurled a ohair, which pre cipitated a free fight on the floor, in whioh knives were drawn, but the po lioe lushed in and cleared the hall. Vanoouver, B. O., Nov. 25. A. O. Stewart, a sohoolteacher in the Mount Pleasant publio school, was probably fatally shot this afternoon. He was examining a 88-callber revolver in Bickard's oigar store, whioh was not thought to be loaded, but one oartridge had somehow been left in the gun. He was in the aot of taking the revolver from Biokards when It went off, the bullet striking him in the left breast. The doctors think there is but little hope of Stewart's recovery. Blamarek Warns Germany. Hamburg, Nov. 25. The Hambur ger Nachriohten, Bismarok's organ, flatly aoonses England of trying to kin dle an European blaze under the pre text of helping the Armenians. The Nachriohten says further that Europe, with inoonoeivable blindness, is play ing into England's hands, and warns Germany not to be allured by the dan gerous adventure. With 20,895 newspapers and period icals in America and Canada the people ought not to suffer for information and opinions. ; T Delloate Prints 6b fro. It Is a curious fact that has often been proven by actual experiment, that a delicate fern or other leaf may be placed between two smooth blocks of Iron and have a plain impression of every rib and fiber of Itself left on the hard surface of the tron elates after they have been driven snddenly together by the explosion of sth-k f rtx-nnmlte. Another experiment In this Hue and one equally curtous Is made with a smooth block of Iron or tmi and a cake of compressed gun powdor. 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Oillcea In Portland, Oregon, and Spokane, Wash, . FRAZER caxl BEST IN THI WORLD. VUlCflwE Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, actually outlasting two boxes of any other brand. Fro from Animal Oils. OUT THK UBNUINa. FOR BALE BY OREGON -AND WASHINGTON MKItCHANTB and Dealera generally. ' FOR PEOPLE THAT ME SICK or ''JHRt Dpn't Feel Wall," M.UIVER PILLS are the One Thing to use, Only One for a Dose. Sold brBruitiata at tSo. a box Samplas mailed frea, Aaoraaa Or. Botanko Med. Ce. Phila. Pa. N. P. N. U. No. 677. -8. F. N. U. No, 764 1 1 BaMouljrrovVTaMrG Da USEFUL MOfS GIVEN AWAY. INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING ART AND FANCY WORK. Mr. Nolla Ihnrgett nf Boston tiM recently written a book. "Fancy Work and Art Invur. lion," that glvea practical tuatr uotlona (nt making dolllea, table cmers, acarfa. tray eloiha, inn ouaniona, pip., w.hi nur luusirauona, Tlili hook. tllUKtll. er with "Hui-i'fn. f ill Home Uy InK," will lie Hnl ( to any n-mli-r A who orwanlt tl alUrhrd coupon ml ai-ciMit Hump COUPON NO. iASJth of IMi paper to im copy o "Fltncy War and Art Ore aralinai," and "Sumuul Him Ityrlno." to Weill, Hlnlmnl- noil a l o.. ur- llnutoti, Vt. '1 lie above llbrr. al offer It mail to aitvertlne the mllahle IH. moiul Uyi'i, anil to act their book uiwn home dyclnil Into the haiuli ol women who want to d'ruM well by making their ulU clothing look llko new. The (act that plamond Pyet have tieen the itHiuliiril hotuB ilyen (or nenrly twenty yearn, and that their inle Incrvaiea troui year to year, la nrool uoaltlve that tbey have never had an equal, Many thousand dollars worth of valuable articles 1 suitable for Christmas gifts for the young and old, are to be' given to smokers of BlackwelPs Genuine Durham To bacco. You will find one coupon inside each m Genuine A! IduquJ Tobacco y Rebuilt Gas and .....Qasollne Engines. .FOR SALS CDCAt Prices.. Hercules Gas ....Engine Works Engines, 1 to 200 H. P. We will Pay tin PostaA and aond you J THIS SET OF HOUSEHOLD KNI Conalstlng of a 14-Inch bread knife, 12 Ine.h vil knife and a paring knife, ....At 21 Cents for the Three.... These knlrea cut.bread and cake with out cm ui hi I n if, and If hot aa well as If cold. Also Rogers Bros.' Cicnuiue Triple I'latcd Knives and Forks AT tJ fit; For the act of t knlvea and 6 M I vPOiUJ 'irks, aa shown above. Or same stylo, only single plated, AT SH HO for the set. I'ostage paid hi us. To each cus tomer who has not received our new Fall Cat alogue we will send It lrctt: OLDS & KING, 302 Washington SI. - . PORTLAND, OR. HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL I KIE i, KUPPERT'S FACE BLEACH. Portland, Or. MME. A.RUPrERT aara: "I anoreclate the faot that there are thousands and thousands of the ladle of the United States that would liae to try nr W orld Renowned FACK BLEACH: but have been 1 ktl t from doing so on account ot i U per bottle, or I bottles the price, which fa U per bottle. taken together IA. In order that all of thea mayhavean opportunity. I will mall free a sample bottle, safely packed, plain wrapper, en receipt ef Meant!. FRECKLES, pimples, moth, aallowneia, black heads, aone, toaema, otlineaa Or roughneaa, or any discoloration or dlaeaae ot the akin, and wrinkle (not caused by facial expreislon,) FACE BLEACH removal abaolute ly. It doel not cover up, as eoametlca do, but It la a cure. 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