The Corvallis gazette., October 29, 1880, Page 4, Image 4

Scbwatka's Search.
The graphic accounts given by your
correspondent, dated Hudson's bay. rel
ative to the Schwatka search, have true
points of value. In the first place they
confirm the report hitherto made as to the
fate of the memorable Franklin expedi
tion, and in the second place show that
the last season has not materially dif
fered from previous seasons, and exhibit
nothing, therefore, but what is favorable
to the success of the American expedi
tion now in the Arctic waters. The lowest
temperature recorded by the Schwatka
party, as leported by your correspon
dent, was 71 degrees below zero a tem
perature not unusual in the experience
of other Arctic explorers. Dr. Kane, for
instance, encountered even a lower tem
ature ; so did Capt. Parry and several
Russian explorers, and, without serious
inconvenience, I have traveled at 70 be
low. I allude to this merely to counter
act a suggestion I have met that the
winter has been exceptionally severe, and
that the Jeannette was consequently in
exceptional danger. The truth is that
the Arctic seas are uncertain, like all
others, but not in a general way more
perilous. The expedition of Sir John
Franklin stands altogether alone and
and would long since have been forgot
ten had it net been for the peculiarly
romantic circumstances attending the
fate of himself and crew. The expedition
was sent out in May, 1845, with two
ships, the Erebus and the Terror to ac
complish a northwest passage to the
Pacific ocean the last of many similar
attempts in the interest of commerce, and
certainly in that interest the last that will
ever be made. We know enough of its
history to show that the two vessels,
after passing through Baffin bay entered
Barrow strait, wintered at Beechy island,
sailed north through Wellington chan
nel nearly to latitude 77 degrees, thence
south toward the American coast (doubt
less in consequence of their meeting
impenetrable ice) with the evident
expectation of finding there along the
American shore, a passage from ocean to
ocean, similar to that which Nordeusjold
has recently found by the shore of Asia.
In its southerly course the Franklin
expedition reached latitude 70. degrees,
where, within a hundred miles, or in
deed perhaps less, of water that had been
previously navigated by Arctic explorers
in boats, such as Franklin himself, Dease
and Simpson, Back, Bae, Richardson and
others, the two bhips were beset in the
ice and there frozen fast at the close of
the season of 1846. From that time un
iil the springpf 1848 the ice never broke
up, but they drifted south about twenty
Biles, and in April, 1848, the vessels were
abandoned when about fifteen miles from
land, the crews reduced by death mean
while from 128 to 105, betaking them
eelves to the ice, dragged the ships' boats
mounted on sleds, to King William
Land, an island about two hundred miles
long, the coast line of which they fol
lowed, or the low lands of which they
crossed, with the expectation of reaching
finally at or about the mouth of Great
Fish or Back's river, near latitude 68 de
grees, as the evidence proves, the main
land of America. Then, it was their
evident purpose to ascend Back's river,
-. and then strike the outposts of the Hud
son's Bay company. The distance
that was traversed by the party in
their retreat could have been as shown by
the records of the Schwatka expedition,
hardly more than two hundred and fifty
miles, and yet during that distance every
member of the party perished, and every
record of the voyage was blotted out
save a few buttons, spoons, coins, and
other relics easily identified scattered
along the shore or in possession of the
natives. The first of these relics were
found by Dr. Rae in 1853, and the Gov
ernment award of j10,000 was accorded
him for having solved the mystery. Dr.
Rae's journey was made in the same gen
eral direction as that of Lieut.
Schwatka twenty-six years later, though
not over the same course. A great many
relics were found by Dr. Rae, which are
now in the British MuBeum; but Lady
Franklin, not content with the reports
that he made nor satisfied with the de
cisions reached, sent out the Fox, under
Capt. (now Admiral Sir Francis Leo
pold) McClintook, who found, in 1858,
the only written reoord ever yet dis
covered. This record showed that Frank
lie died June 11, 1847, probably on ship
board, and thereafter the struggle for
the release from the "thick-ribbed ice"
devolved upon Capt. Crozier, who was
Franklin's second in command. As to
the fate of the expedition, a wide gap for
inquiry lay between the points reached
by Dr. Rae (from the mainland of Amer
ica on the south) and by Capt. McClin
took, who had come around by Barrow
Strait and thence descended from the
north through Victoria strait toward the
American coa3t.
This extensive gap was somewhat filled
in by our countryman, Capt. Hall,
but it has now been comfdetely covered
by the spirited efforts of Lieut. Schwat
ka and nis resolute companions. Thrs
expedition, although founded upon in
correct information at the outset, as
would appear by the evidence furnished
by your correspondent, has really per
formed an unparalled journey, as to time
and distance, in the history of arctic
travel. The peculiar feature of the
journey was that the party subsisted by
the way, obtaining abundant supplies of
food, such as reindeer, musk oxen, etc.
Although they did not obtain the records
of which they were in search,
they have secured most valu
able information, not only as concerns
the Franklin expedition, but geographi
cally. They have traversed regions en
tirely unknown, trusting to fortune for
their daily supplies, which seem never to
have failed them during almost a year of
exposure through all the vicissitudes of a
rigorous climate. A singular feature of
their journey would appear to be that a
no inconsiderable part of it was made
along shores nnd over lands traversed by
Franklin's mon, the latter dying from
want, the former living in plenty. Per
haps this fact indicates a change of
climate. There may have been at that
particular period an unusual accumula
tion of ice in that quarter, where is gen
erally supposed to Ue the pole of greatest
cold. It may be that the party had be
come reduced in strength by sickness
and over exposure; but it does seem
strange, after reading the account of your
correspondent, that one hundred ' and
five men should, on comparatively so
short a march, have been swept out of
existence and left no trace by which the
history of their expedition can be read ,
All who have taken an interest in this re
markable incident in the history of
moderen maritime discovery will thank
Lieut Schwatka and his courageous fol
lowers for the contribution they have
made toward the final solution of a ques
tion which has for so long a time ab
sorbed the sympathies of the civilized
world.! N. Y. Herald.
A Chicago girl fell senseless when she
saw her sweetheart with a glass of beer
at his lips. Such cold-hearted selfishness
was enough to make any girl's head
swim.
Riches and Comfort.
m The story is familiar of the man and
his wife who, soon after marriage, fell to
talking of their future. "I want to be
i rich," said he. "I care nothing for
! riches," was her reply. "All I wish is to
be comfortable." They had grown be
! yond middle age, when, calling up the
1 old conversation, the husband remarked
I to a friend: "I got rich twenty years ago,
j but my wife is not yet comfortable."
! The truth of the story is realized every
i day in this country, particularly in trie
great cities, altnougn it is not tne nus
bands, but the wives, who, with the ac
cumulation of wealth, grow comfortable.
It does not require a great deal of money
to make women comfortable, and they
bear narrow circumstances, even pinch-
ing poverty, with a patience unknown to
j men. They are far fonder of beauty and
I luxury than we are, and they are often
1 1 Tl- ! fl..iii,li(ni.n nonollir Via.
very lavisii iu ojhcuuikuio, ucunj be
cause they have had no financial instruc
tion; but they seldom love money for
money's sake, after the manner of men.
Women like money for what it will bring
them; men honor and worship money for
its mere possession.
Riches and comfort, except in a ma
terial sense, are rarely united in man.
How many millionaires in this, the com
mercial metropolis of the Nation, feel, or
can feel, comfortable? They may have
everything that renders life desirable,
including health, domestic contentment,
sincere friendship, public confidence,
private esteem things not purehasable
but they are very likely to be haunted
by a dread of loss, or a feverish hope of
added gain; to be possessed by rather
than to possess their wealth. Their in
vestments, old and new, make them un
easy; they cannot bear to have any capi
tal idle; they are as anxious that every
thousand dollars should draw interest
as if they needed the five or six per cent,
it will yield for their daily necessities.
A great fortune is a great tyrant; it
drives and spares not. Many a rich man
looks back on the time when ho was
poor, and sighs to remember how free
his mind then was from care, how much
he enjoyed the simplest pleasures. But
he would not exchange his present for
his past any quicker than he would ex
change freedom for slavery, health for
disease, honor for infamy. He may con
fess that his vast property, toiled and
suffered for through years, worries and
hardens him; but he would not surren
der any portion of it more willingly
than he would surrender the
use of his right arm. It is
the malediction of superabundant
riches that while they harry their owner,
and may destroy his mental peace, he
clings to them as tenaciously as to life,
and is bitterly tormented by the smallest
fraction of their decrease. The ordinary
rich man does not enjoy what he has so
much as he suffers from what he fails to
get. We have all heard of the New York
Croesus who declined to contribute to a
most worthy charity. The man who had
asked for his subscription expressed his
surprise. "I should be glad to do it,"
was his excuse, "but really I can not
afford it. Why, at this moment I have
more than half a million of dollars in a
bank, and am not getting a cent of in
terest on it."
Most very rich men form a habit of
counting the interest on everything.
When they build a fine house, or buy
books or pictures or furniture ; when
they lay out grounds, or travel, or make
a donation, they cannot help thinking
what the sum expended would have
brought in at a certain per cent. A very
wealthy manufacturer up town put up
not long ago, a palatial country scat,
and made it his home for eight months
in the year. He furnished it at great ex
pense, not because he cared for the rare
and dainty things that filled the spacious
rooms, but because he imagined that
they would add to his social conse
quence. He told a friend one day: "It
is a splendid place; I admire it myself,
but it makes me unhappy when I think
that six per cent, on its cost would give
me twelve thousand dollars a year, and
it yields no return at all. I like that
photograph in my library better than
any of those foreign paintings. It never
troubles me; I gave only thirty dollars
for it, frame and all it was a regular
bargain six per cent, on thirty dollars
wont hurt any man."
Money getting, simply for the sake of
getting it, unquestionably carries its
revenges, which the most sordid selfish
creature cannot wholly escape. No
sensible person depreciates money; it
has an incalculable power of civilizing,
humanizing, refining, of doing good in
all directions. Like fire and passion, it
is an excellent servant, but a fearful
master. No man in the way of accumu
lation, can be too careful of its domina
tion, whose approaches are stealthy and
insidious. At the beginning, we say we
want to be relieved of anxiety, to be
modestly independent; we do not wish
to be rich. A few, a very few, when
independence has been attained, have
strength to pause in the pursuit of gold
and to turn their attention to their higher
needs. Others they are fewer still go
on in search of wealth, and having
acquired it, employ it rationally and
liberally, helping those who need help;
encouraging art, literature, science,
strengthening, so far as they may, the
cause of humanity and freedom. Their
wealth blesses them and those around
them ; it is comforting and comfortable.
This kind of wealth-getting is beyond
the reach of many, as New Yorkers so
completely know. We have any number
ef rich men, though most of them are
poor in spirit and bankrupt of sympathy.
They whose purses are filled with intel
ligence and compassion as well as gold,
are all the more appreciated and revered,
from their paucity in this bustling,
heedless capital. They have learned
that, while wealth is good, very good,
there are better things than it, and
among them is the understanding of the
use of wealth, which imparts and re
ceives comfort, N. Y. Times.
Thb Female Novelist's Hero. In the
old times whon literature was chiefly in
the hands of men, women were elevated
to a visionary pinnacle; but now it is the
turn of the stronger sex, and there are
few things which more surprise the male
reader than the flattering picture which
he finds presented to him of his own
species in the shape of heroes who to him
are very questionable specimens of the
race. Once more we repeat
there is nothing so inscrutable as a wo
man's hero. Being perfect as he is, he
may conduct himself like the basest
hound, and nobody thinks any worse of
him. He remains to all parties as hierh-
souled and magnanimous a being as ever,
even after this extremely silly and futile
attempt to lead the conscientious little
heroine astray. This uncon
scious homage ought to soften the gen
tlemen of the newspapers; but here, we
fear, another principle comes in, and
your critic, who feels himself in every
way a more desirable specimen of
humanity than the much lauded hero.
but who knows that no such appreciation ;
awaits him, becomes jealous of his imag- J
inary brother. Blackwood's Magazine.
Captain Eads's Start In life.
Last December, on the steamship Ger
manic, I played chess with the great
civil engineer, Captain Eads, stimulated
by the thought that to beat him was to
defeat the man who had twice conquered
the Mississippi. But I didn't defeat him.
James B. Eads was born in Indiana in
1820. He is slender in form, neat in
dress, genial, courteous, and nearly sixty
years of age. In 1833 his father started
down the Ohio river with his family,
proposing to settle in Wisconsin. The
boat caught fire and his scanty furniture
and clothing were burned. Young Eads
barely escaped ashore with his pantaloons,
shirt and cap.- Taking passage on an
other boat this boy of thirteen landed at
St. Louis with his parents, his little bare
feet first touching the rocky shore of the
city on the very spot where he afterward
located and built the largest steel bridge
in the world, over the Mississippi one
of the most difficult feats of engineering
ever performed in America.
At the age of nine young Eads made a
short trip on the Ohio, when the engin
eer on the steamboat explained to him
so clearly the construction of the steam
engine that before he was a year older he
built a little working model of it, so per
fect in its parts and movements, that
his schoolmates would frequently go
home with him after school to see it
work. A locomotive engine, driven by a
concealed rat, was one of his next juven
ile feats in mechanical engineering.
From eight to thirteen he attended
school; after which, from necessity, he
was placed as clerk in a dry goods store.
Over the store in St. Louis where he
was engaged his employer lived. He
was an old bachelor, and having ob
served the tastes of his clerk, gave him
his first book on engineering. The old
gentleman's library furnished evening
companions for him during the five years
he was thus employed. Finally, his
health failing at the age of nineteen, he
went on a Mississippi River steamer;
from which time to the present day that
jjreat river has been to him an all-ab
sorbing study.
Soon afterwards he formed a partner
ship with a friend and built a small boat
to raise cargoes of vessels sunken in the
Mississippi. While this boat was build
ing, he made his first venture in subma
rine engineering, on the lower rapids of
the river, by the recovery of several
hundred tons of lead. He hired a scow
or flat-boat and anchored it over the
wreck. An experienced diver, clad in
armor, who had been hired at considera
ble expense in Buffalo, was lowered into
the water; but the rapids were so swift
though encased in the strong armor,
feared to be sunk to the bottom. Young
Eads. determined to succeed, and find
ing it impracticable to use the armor,
went ashore, purchased a whisky barrel,
knocked out the head, attached the air
pump hoee to it, fastened several heavy
weights to the open end of the barrel
then swinging it on a derrick he had a
practical diving bell ; the best use I ever
heard made of a whisky barrel.
Neither the diver nor any of the crew
would go down into this contrivance, so
the dauntless young engineer, having
full confidence in what he bad read in
books, was lowered within the barrel
down to the bottom, the lower end of
the barrel being open. The water was
sixteen feet deep, and very swift. Find
ing the wreck, he remained by it a full
hour, hitching ropes to pig lead till a
ton or more was safely hoisted into his
own boat. Then, making a signal by a
small line attached to the barrel, he was
lifted on deck and in command again.
The sunken cargo was soon successfully
raised and was sold, and netted a hand
some profit, which, increased by other
successes, enabled energetic Eads to
build larger boats with powerful pumps
and machinery on them for lifting entire
vessels.
aysteria
Hysteria is by no means confined to
women, for one of the worst attacks
which I ever witnessed occurred in a
man. This gentleman one day found he
had lost his all, and on returning home,
he became the victim of laughing and
crying, until sheer exhaustion brought
an end to the attack. This was quite in
voluntary. But it might be remarked
that even in hysteria such a thing as
fashion prevails, showing that a certain
power of restraint may be used. When
I was a boy, hysteria was the fashion;
and if during conversation any remark
was made to touch a lady's sensibilities,
she would clinch her hands, make a wry
face; her eyelids would undergo a rapid
vibration, she would give a sob or two,
and sink from her chair. The cure
was accomplished by throwing
cold water, over her face; and if
this encroached- on her neck or
wetted her dress, the cure was very sud
den and complete. During church
service, it was the usual practice to have
a young lady carried out; but I think as
a rule she belonged to an inferior class,
whose kind, of work during the week did
not allow them to play dress-making
tricks with themselves on a Sunday; for
if I remember rightly the cure was
effected in their case by the call for a
penknife. This .was used to loosen the
body-armor, when a loud explosion took
place, followed by a deep sigh and a
speedy recovery of the patient. So
fashionable was fainting or hysterics in
church that I have a lively remembrance
of a young lady who had a weekly
attack, and was often carried out by a
gentleman in the next pew. As these
two were afterward married, I apprehend
that this was one mode of courtship. I
am only too thankful to think, for the
peace of other people, that this method
of forcing matrimony has gone out.
Chamber's Journal.
Love Stobies. It was. we think, with
"Jane Eyre" that it began to be sup
posed that the hot encounter of two lov
ers, with all their juxtapositions and all
their quarrels, heats and coolnesses, was
the only object of fiction a disastrous
discovery which has done more damage
in the world than many a more im
portant mistake. Taking Shakespeare's
example, however, we may say that a
story wnicn is pure love and nothing else
must end in a catastrophe. It is an in
tolerable state, not to be supported by
the great maps of human beings who are
not in love; and its suddenness, and the
overpowering brief current of its po
tency, the pity of the strange and tragic
conclusion, the bitter sweet of that union
which is ending, are component parts of
its power over us, and justify its accept
ance as the supreme romance, the one
typical tale of youth and passion. There
is no looking behind or after in that sud
den rapture it is all concentrated in the
moment, the hour, the one point of
everlasting duration, which to ordinary
mortals is beat out upon the clock in the
shortest spell of time. But when the
youthful pair occupy their real position
in a real world, the interest of their story
not only gives zest to the study of more
ordinary existence, but it gives the in
dispensable composition, the necessary
beginning and ending which every tale
requires. Blackwood's Magazine.
AH OREGOI K.VTKB.PK1SK,
A Brief Description of the Career of the
Oregon furniture nanafMtnrlan
Company and Its Products.
Prosperity- and Success Abundant.
Oregon as yet is a young state In years, young in
aer developments, young in the products of her re
sources. Portland, her representative city, leads
the way in all the undertakings of magnitude and
importance and is looked to by the entire North Pa
cific for examples worthy of emulation. In reflect
ing over the situation and scanning the field for an
industry to select as a prominent example we find
the Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Company well
suited to our purpose, which is to show our readers
what a world of wonders lie about us, only awaiting
the magic hand of industry, energy and persever
ance to bring forth such fruit as the world cannot
surpass. This company, its career and present po
sition will serve us well and if the kind reader will
accompany us upon our tour of investigation through
this establishment we win endeavor to interest
them. Away back, many years ago, an association
of far-seeing, energetic gentlemen organized them
selves into a company for the purpose of hewing
our native woods from the then almost unbroken
forests and transforming them into
ARTICLES OF FUBNITURB
To meet the wants of a rapidly-growing haml et
With careful business economy the enterprise was
conducted, and as the hamlet grew into a thriving
village, the village into a prosperous town and from
that on through the maze to become the queen city
of the Pacific northwest, in like proportion did the
Oregon Furniture Manufactory build up Its walls
enclosing one of the most extensive trades of any
similar undertaking within the pale of that fertile
garden " where rolls the Oregon." The founders
in fact bullded better than ihey knew. We will pass
on down to the present time, and find as president
of this mammoth Institution Samuel Lowenstein,
Esq. This gentleman is a graduate in the avenue of
industry In which he Is engaged, and is a shrewd,
far-seeing, business man, having commenced at the
base and by untiring Industry surmounted every ob
stacle until reaching his present Important position
at the head of the leading furniture house of the Pa
cific. In this we do not err, as this company can
turn out as fine work as can be fund in America.
By honest dealing, strict attention to business
courteous treatment of patrons, he has won for him
self and the company the confidence of the people.
In the secretary, Wm. Kapus, Esq., we find a man
particularly suited for the position, he
having charge of the office business. He
is an energetic, wide-awke business man,
and known as a public spirited citizen. Any move
ment to benefit the city at large finds him in the
front ranks, bearing his proportion of the expense
and labor. One instance proves this, and that is the
position he occupies as one of the directors of the
Portland Mechanics' Fair Association. With these
gentlemen conducting the deBtinies of this company
it will retain its prominent position at the bead of
the manufacturing Interests in Oregon and on the
Pacific coast. The shops occupy a large three story
brick building on the corner of Front and Madison
streets, and are made up of the latest and most ap
proved machinery in every department. These ma
chines are driven by an immense sixty-horse power
engine, and during the livelong day the mingling
songs of swiftly moving machinery make a grand
oratorio of Industry within those walls. More than
sixty men are here employed, besides the large
number in the upholstery shops and store, giving
to that number of families food and clothing, by this
company, which in itself is a pleasure to the ofllcers
to contemplate, and proves this a labor giving insti
tution of which our city should feel proud. Had we
a few more such energetic establishments, the Ore
gon of to-day would Boon pass from fact and mem
ory. At every fair or exhibition of consequence may
be found articles of f urniture open for public in
spection, taken from their general stock. They have
no time to make articles
BSPBCIAIXT FOR EXHIBIT,
And therefore the articles may be accepted as fair
samples only of their usual workmanship. The
company takes pleasure in showing the diplomas
and medals received, such as from the Paris Exposi
tion, the Centennial at Philadelphia and Oregon
State Agricultural Society for articles no other fur
niture factory on this coast could show. Their
medals are gold, silver and bronze, and are marks of
distinction they have just cause to feel proud of and
exhibit to their friends and the public with a great
degree of satisfaction. The ware rooms of this com
pany are located on the corner of First and Yamhill
streets, and comprise several immense apartments,
filled to overflowing with various articles of beauty
and value connected with their trade. Their carpet
department is composed of latest patterns in end
less profusion and the entire stock consists of staple
Soods. Having given this brief description of the
uslncssof the company, we will visit the Mechan
ic's Pavilion and take a peep at the articles they
have on exhibition there. Passing in at the main
entrance we make our way to the northern gallery.
At the head of the broad staircase our attention is
first atttacted by the magnificent display of furni
ture. We will pass on to the opposite end so that
we may travel from west to east. The exhibit is di
vided into three apartments, the walls being draped
with old gold and silver sheen, raw silk, upholster
ing goods bound with mani-oolored border: Three
handsome chandeliers illumine the booths to the
lightness and
BRIGHT HSS OF SUNSHINE.
The floors are covered with rich brussels carpet,
Turkish rugs, etc. The first booth contains an ele
gant book case composed of ebony, black walnut and
birdseye teaple polished as highly as a mirror. The
front upper portion has double doors of plate glass,
while above, heavy carvings give to that portion ex
quisite finish of superior design and workmanship.
The lower portion has double panel doors, heavily
carved and mounted with silver trappings. Next
come an Ingenious secretary with circular sliding
cover revealing pigeon holes, drawers, etc., which
are most conveniently arranged. As soon as the
cover is raised the writing desk can be drawn out so
as to give ample room. Directly below are folding
doors which are thrown open, giving room for com
fortable seating and the feet. It is very neatly fin
ished in black trimming of ebony. A set of furni
ture covered with borsehide adds to the variety, and
bears evidence of being made for service. In the
center a magnificently carved black walnut table
containing the various samples of marble used in
finishing furniture. The rear wall Is occupied by a
gold trimmed grate surmounted by a beautiful
French plate mirror. Upon the central table is a
miniature representation of Cleopatra's needle, which
displays to good advantage the maple burl and in
laid white ash, and black walnut of which it is com
posed. It also bears a gold and a bronze medal, re
ceived by the company from Paris and Philadelphia.
The next section next invites our attention. On the
wall may be seen diplomas and certificates of award
from various expositions, which speak more plainly
than words of the excellence of this company's work.
A crimson pliuh lounge of Egyptian pattern, and
a crimson piusu reclining cnair are really luxurions
and affords pleasure to examine or test. Thev would
not be ont of place In a king's palace. An easy chair
upholstered in crimson damask and trimmed in
crimson fringe is very attractive. In the center of
this booth is an inlaid table, the work of Daniel
Wenneberff. an emnloveaf thAconinanv and wbleh
Is a masterpiece of art. The ground work is of
mack eDony, lniaia with niarouetrei. which is im
ported from Paris, the designs being strikingly
beautiful. This is, without doubt, the finest piece
of inlaid work on the coast. The main body of the
table is black walnut and maple burl, beautified
with flashing lines of fire gilt. The employment of
SUCH SKILLED WOBXMZX
In this state Is a new departure, Indulged in by this
company alone. Next Is an olive-green raw silk easy
chair, the fabric being exquisitely flowered and up
holstered upon a York frame. It is trimmed for
service witn olive-green plush, which forms a strik
lng contrast. An old gold flowered raw silk patent
rocker is admired by all, there being but one more
like it on this coast. It was made to order, the up
holstering goods being ordered especially for the
lauy patron irom tne east. It la trimmed with
crimson plush, which Is complimentary in color to
the elaborately gilded black walnut frame. The last
m this booth, or special mention, is a cardinal
brown raw silk upholstered easy chair. It is
flowered in Japanese maze squares, trimmed
with wine colored satin upon an Egyptian
frame and is the favorite piece of furniture
with the ladies, who are the best Judges of
these magnificent articles. In the next booth we
find a superb bedroom set of modern and unique
pattern, ornamented with ebony panels and massive
carvings of black walnut. The bureau consists of a
main body of three drawers, with silver plated han
dles, set In a frame work of burl highly polished
This is surmounted by a fine slab of Tennessee
marble. On either side rise four beautiful pillars
to a neignt oi several leet, and which support a can
opy of heavily carved walnut and ebonv with fret
work lacings between. About one third way up the
columns on enner siae elegant polished walnut ana
ebony drawers are placed for toilet articles. The
back portion of the upper section consists of three
arystal sheet French plate mirrors wi th beveled edues
one wide and two narrow, one on either aide the same
wiutn as the space Detween the pillars. All portions
are highly polished and we do not hesitate in
saying it is one of the most elegant single pieces
ever exmoiieu in Oregon. rne bedstead is in
perfect keeping with the richness of carving and de
sign displayed on the bureau, its panels are genu
ine polished ebony, the carved walnut being perfec
tion, the whole forming a perfect study, and to be
appreciatedmust be seeuexaminod. It is a specimen of
workmanship that any establishment on earth need
not feel ashamed of. The washstand and commode
combined is also a perfect beauty, composed of ebo
ny, walnut and burl, surmounted by a handsome
marble slab. In the center of the booth Is a very
HANDSOME KBOXT TABLE
inlaid with marquetrel of artistic design, and fin
ished in fire gilt. The bed is made up and to the
tired visitor at the fair has a particularly inviting
appearance. The spread and pillow shams are real
hand made lace of oriental pattern, the work of Mrs.
Mondt and which add no little to the general beauty
of the bedroom set. A patent rocker, upholstered in
maroon and old gold trimmed with wine colored
satih occupies a conspicuous place in one corner of
the booth, and receives its share of admiration. Aside
from this the company exhibit several articles be
longing to and the work of private parties, of which
we will mention a beautiful patent rocker and foot
rest, upholstered in black satin upon which peacock
feathers had been worked with the needle by Miss
Stephens; an embroidered ottoman, representing
rusty wheat upon a black satin background, the
work of Miss A. Stork; an ottoman upholstered in
pink satin and old gold by Miss Gertie Oallick. The
upholstering work was done by Many Oallick, who
learned his trade in the shop of the company. An
ottoman representing "Contented Pussy." in rained
embroidery by Mrs. Harry Q, Bredin. Other articles
of lesser importance Ob toward giving a finish to the
magnificent display. We have thus given a very
brief description ofthe origin of the Oregon Furni
ture Manufacturing Company and the progress It
has made during fhese years in order to show what
enterprise and energy combined win do. It started
in on a small seal and gradually expanded and add
ed to until to-day it tend a monument of pride
among the manufacturing establishments of the Pa
cific coast. Just such men as are at the head of this
company are still needed in Oregon to open and de
velop her neglected resources and In turn launch up
on the ocean of traffic articles of vertu such as any
country on the globe would linger over with pride
and satisfaction.
The United States Fish Commissioner
furnishes the following list, comprising
thirty-three varieties, of the different
species of fish observed in the waters of
the Columbia and at its mouth: Spring
salmon, blue back, silver side, hump
back, brook trout, steel head, red spotted
trout, silver smelt, eulachun, anchovy,
shad, herring; flounder, sole, eel, 1am
frey, sturgeon, green sturgeon, porgy,
chub, minnow, sucker, sculpin, torn cod
and ling cod. Several of the above spe
cies are sub-divided into other species
discernible only by the long Latin names
given by the naturalist. The showing is
an important one in its line, adding its
quota to the exhibit which makes Oregon
renowned for her varied resources.
Dayton, Halt and hamberon,
This young and enterprising firm have
a very handsome exhibit at the Mechanics
Pavilion, near the entrance, and opposite
the fountain in machinery hall.
They have large show case
filled with fine cutlery, such as razors,
pen-knives, scissors, etc., and a number
of miscellaneous articles, such as door
bells, solid bronze and nickel-plated door
and window trimmings, locks bolts
and such goods, and a patent
sad iron, which would be a boon
to any house-wife. In a neat upright
show-case they present some extra nne
fishing rods and tackle, pistols and other
sporting goods, which takes the eye of all
true sportsmen. On the shelves to the
left they show farmers' and housewives'
goods, such as axes, forks, rakes, black
smiths' hammers, tongs and fireside sets.
The rear wall is very prettily
covered with a miscellaneous display
on a crimson background, composed of
cross-cut and hand-saws, broad and
chopping axes, ship carpenters' tools,
chisels, augurs, butcher and hunting
knives, surrounded by a festoon of log
and halter chains, the whole forming a
beautiful background, which shows ex
cellent taste in arrangement. Four
scroll saws are shown, which catch the
eye of every boy that comes into the
Pavilion. Tliey are tne Rogers, tester,
Hollv and Barnes' velocipede uatent. and
are but a small part of that class of
goods which this farm handles. They
show a number of brackets, picture-
frames, etc., which gives an idea what
can be done with the scroll saws. They
also show a Sibley builders' level on a
tripod for which they are sole agents.
At their corner on First and Taylor street,
in this city, the firm have a hand-
same brick store wfaion they nave been
compelled to enlarge by an addition of
30x50 feet, two stories high, in order to
keep up with their largely-increasing
trade. Their store is now 100 feet in
length, with 30 feet frontage, and is filled
from cellar to garret with shelf and
heavy hardware, mechanics tools, sport
ing goods, scroll saws, farming
implements , such as shovels ,
spades, rakes, scythes, axes, etc. etc.
as well as a large assortment of fine
tools for carpenters, machinists, black
smiths, masons and miners. The gentle
men that compose the firm are Frank
Dayton, Robert F. Hall and Buell Lam-
berson, all young men who have been
brought up in the hardware business in
New York City from boyhood, and
have eastern connections which enable
them to offer some rare inducements to
the trade. Though this firm have been
known until recently as retail dealers
solely, they have made arrangements to
wholesale all the kinds of goods in which
they deal, and the reputation they have
made for themselves as fair dealers in
Portland, will be of great help to them
in their new line of business. They are
prepared to fill orders promptly and at
lowest market rates for all kinds of goods
usually kept in hardware stores, together
with many novelties not generally found
in that line. Telegram.
Every music teacher or musician in
Oregon, Washington Territory or Idaho,
who will send their name and address to
Warren's Music House, 92 Morrison St. ,
Portland, will receive free for three
months, a copy of his Musical Review,
containing three new pieces of musio
each month, besides current musical
news.
BEWKHBE
That Warren's Music House, 92 Morrison street
near the PostofSce, Portland, Or., has everything
in the musical line at reasonable prices A large
stock of sheet music, books, pianos, musical mer
chandise, band and orchestra music always on
hand. Mr. Warren buys every thing direct from
Eastern houses, and can afford to sell cheaper
than any store in Oregon. Send for catalogue.
Arousing Its Readers.
An alarm of fire at midnight is a startling
thing, but not half so startling to many 'to hear it
as would be the sudden knowledge of their own
dangerous physical condition, thousand? of
thousands are hurrying to their graves because
they are carelessly indifferent to the insidious in
roads of disease and the means of cure. It is
the mission of H. H. Warner & Co., with their
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, to arouse men to a
sense of their danger and then eure them.
Memphis Appeal.
The Chicago Times says : Warner's Safe Kid
ney and Liver Cure is highly endorsed by nun
isters, judges, physicians, surgeons, by men oi
literary and scholarly distinction, and by indi
vidwals in all the walks of life.
Win malting- any pur en axe or In wrlt-
lugln response to auy advertisement to
ul paper you will please mention tne
unme of tne paper.
J. J3. KNAPP,
Commission Merchant
AND PURCHASING AGENT.
Ail Goods on Commission.
WOOL, GRAIN, DAIRY PRODUCTS AND
FRUITS A SPECIALTY.
Agent for Parrott'i Patent Doubletree.
267 First street, Portland, Oregon .
7t SlASktiJLAM 2
Ca-jrr x Softool. Fire-alarm, Flo-too ed, low priced , :rruv
ed. Catalogue wlUi 150Ut tiiaocieUa, prioo, do. . tvp t f n-e.
UN FORTH, RICE A CO.
Sols -tenii for Pacific Coast, 401 Market St. . Su Fruefesa
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING!
jjf Company 9
f Is now ptepared to furnish!
insides. Outside and Bup-tJ
p'eraents on (he shortest nn-l
Htioe. Address W. D. P.ilmtr
H Box 59. Portland. Or.
To Dealer .4 at Wholesale Rates.
Ex-Ringleader, direct form New York, a large assortment o
WAGON MATEiILL,
Hubs, Spokes, Felloes, Hickory and Oak Lumber, with a large
Assortment of
HEAVY HAEDWAEE, IBOU -A-ICTID STEEL.
Which we offer to the trade at. lowest jobbing rates.
THOMPSON, DeHABT & CO., Portland, Oregon.
THE OBJECT of this Institution is to impart a quality of knowledge that must be
used in the practical, everyday affairs of life, affording useful Business Education at
less cost, and in less time, than any other character of School can offer.
English Branches will receive special attention. Private Instruction given in any
separate study if desired, in either day or evening session. New Teachers, NEW
METHODS, careful attention, and entire satisfaction guaranteed to all students who
will work. Lady Assistant constantly in attendance in Ladies Department.
Dayton. Mall &Xiam??Fson.
Orders from mmmM ' I 1 1 1 i 1 1 J I rrrri pAr.riQnri
m. ui uaiiu,-
Oregon.
THE TRADE
Solicited.
Wholesale Hardware.
The Great English Remedy
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Is a never-failing Cure
lor iservous ueblllty
KxhaualeU Vitality.
Beailnal Weakness,
Spermatorrhea, LOS 1
DAKHllilll, luipcv
teney, Paralysis, arjd
all t e lernijie effect
of Belf Aljufte, youth
ful ibillr's, huiI exces
ses in maimer yo rs
such as Los- of Mem.
ory,Lasaiiu-le. Noctur
nal EuilKaiun, Aversiou Ut Society, Dimness o
Vision, Noises lu the head, the vital fluid
passing unobserved In the urine, and many
other diseases that lead to insanity and death.
on. 3IINTIK will agree tn forfeit Vlv
Hundred Dollars for a case of tills kind the
VIC I, KEM OtU 11 ls (under his special
advice and treatment ) will nut cure, or for
anything Impure or injurious found in It.
OU. DliNTI K treats all Private Diseases suc
cessfully without mercury. Consultation
Free Thorough examination and advice. In
cluding analysis of urine, So 00. Price of Vital
Kent rtl 83 00 per bottle, or tour times
the quantity for $10 00; sent to any adddress
on receipt of price, or O. O. D., secure from ob
servation, and in nrivate name if desired, by
A. K. 'BIINTIB, M. D.
11 Kearny street, an I-'raaelaco, ral.
IK. MINTIK'K KIDNEY KEHKIIY,
M:i'RKi'in:, curs all kinds of Kidney
and Bladder Complaints, Gonorrhoea, Gleet,
Lieucorrhcaa. For sale by all druggists; $1 00 a
bottle; six bottles for 85 00.
DR. RMNTIK'S DANORI.IIIN PILLS
are the best and cheapest DYSPEPSIA and
BIl,lU! cure in the ina-ket. For gale by all
ilrui-'glst".
IIOKUIS, D t VIS A CO. Portland. Or.
vfholcsniu (eiits. raarlltf
XJse Rose JPills.
J. Carson,
Manufacturer and dealer In all kinds ot
Sash, Doors, Blinds,
FRAMES, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, Etc.
RCASONED FIMM1KD LCHBER
Constantly on hand.
'.Importer o
Paints, Oils, Glass, Brushes.
AND A FULL LINE OF
Painters' Materials.
Orders from the country will receive prompt
and cureful attention.
salkskooh: . factory:
111 Front Street. At Weidler's Mill,
angfl PORTLAND. OREGON.
BLYMYER BELLS,
For Churches, Schools ?nd Fire Alarm.
SII.VJ.K MEDAL
Awarded by the MechanicV Institute at San
Francisco, September, 1880. Head what the
Jurors say of them In tlWr ReporJ.:
"These bells are made of a patented com
posite metal, partly of steel, and unlike that
In any other bells used. The highest encomi
ums are passed upon them for their CLIO a it
NESS, BEAUTY and VOLUME OP BOUND;
and it Is said they can be furnished for lesa
than HALF THE CO -T of those made from
bell metal."
send for illustrated catalogue to the General
Agents for the Pacific Coast, UNCOUTH KICE
A CO . ga and 325 Market, wan Francisco. Cal.
VARNISHES.
It is made from afSimple Tropical Leal of Rare
Value, and is a POSITIVE Kerned)- for all the dis
eases that cause pains in the lower part of the body
for Torpid Liver Headaches Jaundice Dizziness,
Gravel, Malaria, and all the difficulties of tho Kidneys,
Liver and Urinary Organs. For Female Disease,
Monthly Menstruations, and during pregnancy, It lias
no equal. It restores the organs that makk the blood,
and hence is the best ltiood I'uv.t. Ii is tl;f- only
known remedy that cores BrlghtFDlsease. For Dia
betes, use Warner Hate Dlnbete Care.
For Sale by Druggists and all Dealers at 111 XH per
bottle. Largest bottle in the market. Try it.
H. H. WARNER fc CO., Rochester, IV. Y
SPORTSMEN'S EMPORIUM.
WM. BECK & SON,
Importers and Dealers In
Sharp's, Remington's, Bailard's, Burgess',
Kennedy & Winchester Repeating Rifles.
Coifs, Remington's, Parker's, Scott &. Son,
Moore's and Clabroogh'i
BREECH-LOADING SHOTGUNS.
HAZARD'S SPORTING GUNPOWDER
Best In the world. Put np m ,ltb andSSictng,
6VIb kegs. Gun W?.ds. Shells, Cans and
Cartridges of all Kinds at Reduced Prices.
; e have just
v? from Nb York, the
Varnifbes:
NO.
NO.
NO.
EX.
KKCEIVED BY 8AU,
following lines o
Use Rose Pills.
L BL1 JUI ER At Co. Sole Agents,
land, Oregon,
1 COACH.
1 FURNITURE.
1 COPAL.
HEAVY DAMAR.
BROWN JAPAN.
BLACK ASPHALTUM.
SHELLAC K.
We are prepar d to furnish the above Varn
ishes In I arrel or can lots at as low prices as
have ever been offered in Poitland for same
quality of goods. These Varnishes are from the
well known manufactory of William TUden,
Special Inducements Offered to Painters.
E. BEACH &, CO.
(Successors to C. C B.)
103. Front Street - " Porting,
What the Press Says.
OREOOMAN-The Elegant Silk Drosses at
Lit''- are perfect in design.
SUN DAY MORN I.N tj STAN DARO The crit
ics were s.nisflot that Mrs, l.ltt is perfect In
I heart of Uresmakir-g, etc.
SUNDAY MERC RY Having knowledge In
b ail at Dressmaking, we consider the dla
p'ay the finest we have ever .seen.
' A "T PORTLAND VINDICATOR-We are
Kraiitled to rcpnr,. the sticce.'s of onr friend
Lii.t, whose Drese arc the most elegant.
Mrs. Dur i way, proprietor of the New North
wesl, will give a fhii account lu the weekly ta
ue. fleii i it.
KVbNINO TELEGRAM ('he only reliable
vnltis piper) The regal trains of these styi
!sh suit-' wee th" fl xir with a grace that might
PXchXtba admiration of a duchess, etc
Base Balls, Pries Bats, Croquet Games, Velocl
pedes, Archery, I.awn Tennis, Fishing Tackle
of every description and quality.
Cor Frnnon-l llder streets. Portland.
i Use Rose Pill.
FULL AUSjKTB EST OF
Ladies' Ready -Made Suits
For S15 we will send (0. 0. 1) to the country
Elegant Wool and Silk Suit.
Address, H. B. LI IT, f. O. Box 1ST,