NIGHTLY EPISODE.
Crispy air,
Lovely night;
Twinkling stars;
Spirits bright;
Bashful man.
Timid maid;
Both in love,
Half afraid;
Bob tail nag.
Shining snow;
"Git along!"
Away they go;
Narrow sled, -
Cosy rug;
"Nice!" she said.
Little hug.
Coming back,
Laughing moon;
Yum yum Smackl
Wedding soon.
New York Evening Sua.
repty.
HE June sunshine poured
generously in at tne wiae
doors of the Merritt "great
barn," and the large,
cleanly room partitioned
off for a carriage house
was full of the breatn i
summer.
ODDOsite the door stood the family
"surrey," wearing the drapery pro
ifWl for Its hours of retirement, and
In one corner was a lofty pile of
.ldcrha of various Datterns and sizes.
On the same side of the door stood
v crnvmt frame of an old-fashioned
hand-loom, and high in state before
It was seated the mistress of the farm
knnsA Manv haDDV solitary boura
Hfra Morntt intent there.
She "loved to weave," she said, in
her gentle, meditative voice.
But this love was not merely for the
weaving. It was more for the pleasant
Bights and sounds of the summer
weather, and for the kindly leisure
f life's afternoon. The peaceful task
hoinmred to summer as much as did
the swaying of the daisies and the
hum of the bees, in winter xne iwm
food neglected and forgotten, but in
the late days of May, when the grass
was already deep and green by the
footpath, and the apple trees had shed
their last lingering blossoms, the long
lnir for the dreamy, delightful task
would awaken, and Mrs. Merritt
would bestir herself to set up a
The old loom had come to her by
Inheritance, and she valued it as she
treasured the ancestral homespun
'linen, and the family traditions which
xtended back even to the inevitable
"three brothers that came over irom
England." ' -
She had often told her daughters of
the remote grandmother who, when
the men of the family had inadver
tently carried off the pick of the house
hold armament on an excursion to
Ticonderoga and Crown Point, de
fended her home and babies with an
axe.. To such deeds the Merritt sis
ter felt themselves quite adequate,
had need arisen, but they could see no
reason why their mother, should sit
in the barn and weave rag-carpeting
In the fact that the loom had been
framed of oak timber cut when all
the hillside beyond Roaring Brook was
a wilderness. But it "motner" pieaseo
It was all right
And Miss Sarepta Toker even was
welcome to bring her knitang-worK
and sit in the doorway, and tell who
was dead, and who was married, from
Roaring Brook to the Nepash. For
Sereota possessed married sisters and
; vantage asVcornSof news.
: - She was a meager little woman, who
had never been credited with mucn
alertness of mind or body. It added
a little brightness to her existence
even to look on from the outside at
the life and stir, and coming and go
ing, at "the Merritt place."
And in the intervals wnen "s repty
at and knitted, with her eyes shut to
risible things, she was no more hin
drance to the placid musings of Mrs.
Merritt than would have been a cat.
dozing in the sunshine.
Back and forth moved the shuttle,
then followed the dull stroke of the
batten. Occasionally the weaver
would descend from her seat to turn
the ratchet of the beam upon which
the fabric was wound.
"How nice you do beat tip your
weavinT exclaimed S'repty, rousing
herself to admiration. "Mis' Minki
don't do her'n, and Rosala has said
time and ag'in, she wouldn't send any
more rags to her; but then she's
klnd'er sorry for her."
"It's hard for her to struggle along,"
said Mrs. Merritt "If her children
had lived, it would have been differ
ent"
"Your loom got kind o crowded out
of the house, didn't it?" said S'repta
"The old f urnitoor has got to go. Re
minds me of what cousin Spencer Doo
little said when Square Lane fugled
round an got him turned out of the
gallery to the Baptis' meeting-house,
He'd played the bass viol to lead the
alngln', for forty year. 'There auv
no room left for the stable foundations
of order,' sez he. 'Folks mus keep
underminln an' countermlnin', an'
Improvin',' sez he."
"It was my notion having the loom
set up out here," said Mrs. Merritt.
"He says it's my amusement for sum
mer weather, that I have to have,
just as the girls play croquet and ten
nis.
Another long, dreamy silence, ex
cept for the shuttle that went on
and on.
There was a sound of wheels ,and
all semblance of slumber fled from
Sarepta's eyes as there appeared at
the front gate a very shiny top-buggy.
And when in a few moments a slender
shadow fell across the doorway, and
Lois Merritt entered, no detail of her
appearance was unobserved. The girl
was tall, like her mother, with the
same large, serious cast of counte
nance. vviiAb nniui ai lira uuuuius lurj LKT
a-wearin'J" said Sarepta, as if obey
ing an irresistible Inner prompting.
Lois received placidly this implied
criticism of her new summer millinery,
and her mother thought complacently:
"Lois don't mind S'repta. Emma and
Lucia ain't so even-tempered. They'd
have flared up."
It required but little urging to in-
tea. It had been one of the great
treats of Sarepta's childhood . to go
UUIIltJ UVU1 MJllUUl WJLU AJUCWUU.
"I don't see. mother." said Emma
Merritt, as with a sigh of relief she
watched Sarepta's departing foot
steps, "how you can like to have her
come here so much. It's just to see
and hear, and then go and tell. And
she doesn't miss anything that's going
on, for all that she keeps her eyes
shut"
"There Isn't any harm In S'repty,"
said Mrs. Merritt 'Tve always
known her, and it kind o interests
her to come here." .
"She takes too much interest In my
affairs," persisted Emma, "And every
where she goes she tells about 'Si,'
and 'Em,' and 'Lucindy,' and so on,
as If we belonged to her."
"Never mind. Emma. .Tane" iwllorl
ner motner, i guess tnere s room
enough In this world for you and
a repty. too:" ,
"Oh, toother, mother you're too
good. You make excuses for every
body, ana tnere s noooay you'a reruse
to speak to. I do believe you would
visit with a caterpillar, if you thought
it would be pleased." .'.
This seemingly absurd conjecture
was verified. The next day. as Mrs.
Merritt sat in solitary state at her
loom, there came upon the windowsill
a great fluted green caterpillar, mov
ing with dignity, as became a creature
whom splendid destiny was to trans
form into a still more magnificent
green moth.
The shuttle lay idle as ror some
minutes Mrs. Merritt watched, and
admired, and even talked softly to
her guest All this would have seemed
but foolishness to sarepta, naa sne
been present Her mind must have
been constructed on a larger scale,
after all, for she reserved her curios
ity for the human species.
Within a fortnight sne was again
spending the afternoon at Mrs. Mer
rltt's, but she . did not occupy her
usual "seat, commanding a view of the
house.
She had crowded her chair Into a
narrow space beside tne loom, xne
window was above her head as she sat
unobtrusively busy in darning a des
perate rent in her brown alpaca dress.
She had caught it upon a stane wnicn
was driven beside the path; one of
several stakes which were visible from
the doorway. Though her place was
humnle and retired, S'repty was run
of lofty indignation. Her own special
grievance, of the torn gown only add
ed to her wrath at what she deemed
a great public wrong.
For months there had been talk of
a proposed new railroad. At last the
line had been surveyed, and It crossed
the Merritt farm, running between the
house and the "great barn."
S'repty had lost no time In going
to condole with her friend.
"Here I be a-settin', mendln' a dress
on me, sne remarked, "it s a sign
somebody's goin' to tell a lie about
me, but I guess I can resk it If they
can, 's long's 'tain't the truth, wish
I could make them railroad folks buy
me avnew dressl But you oughter git
big damages," she went on. "It jist
spiles your posy garden. It's lucky
the girls is growed up big enough to
keep offn the track."
Mrs. Merritt assented.
"An to have 'em comin' along
screech in' in the middle of the night,
shakin' the very pillers under your
head! I know how 'tis to Sister
Church's. But the wust was when
they was diggin an' blastin', an'
great stones a-flyln', an' Ketury's
folks had to live all cluttered up in
the ell-part, an' all nerved up when
a blast went off. An when they went
to meetin', the road was all blocked
up in f ront of Eben Clay's house, an'
they had to drive up over the bank,
expectin' the kerridge wonld slip off'n
the aige. An' her a-lookln' out o' the
front winder, crosser'n time, because
there was wheelmarks on the terriss,
as she called it"
"The road will be easier to build
here," said Mrs. Merritt And now
they've begun, they say they're going
to rush it through."
'But . the emigrants will have to
come, them Eyetalians," said S'repty.
An' the shanties will be right under
your' nose an' there they'll be cookin'
themselves, an' llvln' on black bread."
Even this mixed statement, hinting
at cannibalistic tendencies on the part
of the workmen, did not seem to
shake the placid nerves of Mrs. Mer
ritt
"You're making a good, workman
like job of that tear," she said kindly.
"There s very few can beet ya at
mending S'repty." , -
s repty drew ner tnread witn a
steadier hand. She was used to less
disinterested compliments than this;
hints pointing directly to great- bas
kets full of tattered garments which
had accumulated ready for her needle.
Mother," said Lois Merritt one
morning some days later, "here is
Bradford Toker. He says S'repty is
very sick and wants to see you."
Yessum," r" in a small boy at the
door, "S'rep"" ---vs if you wanter see
her alive again, to come scon's you
can."
"How long has S'repty been com
plaining?" inquired Mrs. Merritt
"Oh, most a week an' las night
we was kep up with her 'bout all tho
forepart of the night," said the small
boy, with a careworn air. "She was
out of 'er head, an took on pretty
bad."
"I'll go over to your house as soon
as I can," said Mrs. Merritt
"She's been dretful flighty," said
Azariah's wife, before she led the
way to the sick-room. "She's beer
goin on about bein took up, an' about
your bein' run over by the engine,
an' such like. She begun with a sort
of Influential cold a day or two after
she was over to your house. Monday
she couldn't git up. I had my hands
full, so I ken' Bradford home from
school, an' that most killed him. But
hes a great hand to read. Bradford
Is. an' he took the last Roaring Brook
Argus upstairs an read it through to
S'repty, advertisements and all. Some
thin' in it seemed to excite her, and
she begun to act kind'er wild then.
he thought But of course we all
know that the intellex of S'renty's
mind ain't over keen at the best of
times, an' havin so much read to her
right out klnd'er dazed her."
It wa3 a very pale, drawn face which
Mrs. Merritt encountered a moment
later, that of the supposed victim of
too mucn learning, but there was in
the eyes a feverish brightness which
gave them more expression than usual.
S'repty said but little, and that In
very feeble tones, until there came a
call from below which her sister-in-law
was obliged to heed.
Then the invalid started promptly
into a sitting posture and drew from
under her pillow a newspaper, which
she handed to Mrs. Merritt.!
"I got Bradford to bring it up here,
an' say nothin'," she said. "Now read
that Itum,"
Mrs. Merritt read as follows:
"A considerable number of the
stakes which were driven by the of
ficials engaged in surveying the pro
posed route of the R. B. & S. V. R. R.
were surreptitiously removed during
the night of June 16th. We under
stand there are strong suspicions as
to the identity of the perpetrator of
this outrage."
"Now. how dew yew s'pose fhoy
found it out" said S'repty. "These
newspaper folks is great hands to
make up' new words, but when I
heerd my own name read right out
so, it did give me an awful start Who
couTd 'a' told 'em?"
"Oh, the correspondents make it
their business to find out about all
these little happenings.1
"But what made 'em think I did it?"
persisted. S'repty, in. a tremulous
whisper.
"You?" said her friend. "What did
you have to do about it? We sur
mised it was those Clancy boys did
AX for fun."
"It was me that pulled up them
stakes. An' I dunno but I'd dew it
agin. P'r'aps It's just as well I sha'n't
git up ag'in. But that sca t me so
when Bradford read it out so loud,
'Srepty-shusly,' just the same as say-
in' It was me."
"Don't worry a mite about it," said
her friend soothingly. "That's a real
dictionary word, and didn't mean any
thine About you. And I won't my a
word about It, even to Sllar."
S repty's eyes lost something of their
distracted look.
"That's just like you, Lucindy," she
said, feebly. "I should hate to have
it In everybody's mouth, arter I was
gone, how. I jus missed bein' took up,
by dyhr." '
But, S repty, what in the world did
possess you, a woman of your years,
to cut up such a crazy caper?" '
'"Twas all on your account, Lucindy.
Comin' home from your house, I got
thinkln' about the railroad track run
nin' between the house an" the barn,
an' if I didn't run ag'inst another
stake an' tear my dress wuss'n 'twas
before. . An' that night I dremp how
you was goin acrost to the barn to
do some weavin', an' the cars come
along an' run over you
"There', there, don't think any more
afout it," said her friend. But e'repty
"So nex night, when Azariah an
his wife was gone to the strawb'ry
festival, I cut asrost to your home-lot
I knew your folks was gone to the
Center too, but I was afeared some
body's be round an' see me. Still, I
hed to reek it. I'd no idee how hard
it would be gittin' them sticks up, but
I remembered how good you'd alius
ben to me. I tried to come home a
shorter way, thlnkin I heerd somebody
follerin'; an' I got Into that springy
place in the Lloyd lot, an' got my dress
wet an my shoes,
"You poor thing,. you!" said the ob
ject of all this ill-starred loyalty.
"To think that you should have so
much trouble on my account! The
railroad folks have acted real fair by
us. And I wouldn t say anything
about It yet, for you know how every
thing goes, but we expect to move In
the fall."
"You don't say!" exclaimed S'repty
with considerable animation.
"Yes, hes been thinking for a long
time the place is too large for him
to carry on, seein the boys ain't ever
going to take to farmin. And the
creamery folks want it, and he had
a good chance to buy the Ford place
at the Center."
"What! the house with the pillars
in front?'. inquired S'repty, much re
vived. "Yes, and so I gave my consent
It's home to me where my folks are.
The girls urged me real hard. I sup
pose, if nothing happens, Emma will
live right next door to us "
"What, has Emma Jane an' John
Kilborn made up?" queried S'repty,
forgetting her feebleness and sit
ting up.
xes, and I suppose there will have
to be a double wedding!" said Mrs.
Merritt
Well, I never!" said S'repty. "Loia
ain't goin' to be married, too?"
The girls wouldn't thank me for
telling, but you won't mention it
That's the plan now."
"When you move, I can't go an' set
with you an' see" you weave, even if
I should ever git up ag'in," sighed
S'repty, drooping on her pillow.
Oh, he says there's room enough in
the house for my loom, and when we
get moved, I want you to come and
make me a good visit"
The Invalid brightened again.
"Hain't you told anybody you was
goin' to move? Not Mis' Peters, nor
Viny Smith?'
Not yet," said Mrs. Merritt S'repta
breathed a sigh of content
An' I know Rosalia ain't heerd of
it," ehe said.
SEARCH - FOR CHARLIE ROSS.
& Rascally New York Police Captain
Prevented Success. .
So many years have passed since
the child Charlie Ross was . : stolen
from his home in Germantown that
the crime is lost to the memory of
many people, but that has not
deterred some people from still mak
ing the attempt to palm off a bogus
youth upon the afflicted family as the
lost son. The latest effort of this
kind was made by a woman who rep
resented herself as the widow of one
of the two burglars who were killed
at Bay Ridge, L. I., while trying to
rob the house of a judge of the courts.
The woman brought with her a
young man who, a relative of the boy
says, was flat-headed and beetle
browed, and could in no way have
borne resemblance to what little
Charlie would have been at manhood.
She had the story of the disappear
ance pat enough how the two chil
dren, Charlie and Walter, . were de
coyed away from the lawn of the
house, at Washington lane and Chew
street by the two men in a wagon,
Mosher and Douglas; how they were
driven into the country, where Wnlter,
the elder, was dropped, and b-r 20,
000 ransom had been offered tnj the
recovery of the younger son. rer
facts she seemed familiar with l it
her scheme had nothing else in it
Many believe the boy to be flarf.
There have hundreds or more alleged
Charlies, but in no one instance has
the father, who has traveled all over
the country, had any hope after once
seeing the alleged child or youth pro
duced. The secret of his fate prob
ably died with the Bay Ridge burg
lars, one of whom expired immediate
ly after being shot, while the other
had lived only long enough to say
that his companion had known where
tne child was, that the' lad was still
alive, but that he himself knew noth
ing of his location.
In narrating some of the facts the
relatives of the Ross family also shed
more light upon the efforts to find
the boy, and made the important
statement that once when success
seemed assured they were frustrated
by one of the police captains of New
York, a man who was charged before
the Lexow committee with having ac
quired wealth by the most corrupt
means. It was there, he says, the
kidnappers had arranged to deliver
their prisoner upon the payment of
the $20,000. They had exacted the
condition that Mr. Ross and those
helping him should leave New York
upon board of a special train, a loco
motive and one car. bound for Albany.
At one point along the road a col
ored lantern light was .to be waved
nnd the money, at this signal was to
!e dropped by the side of the track.
Further up the line there was. to be
another ' light shown and there the
boy was to be delivered to them.
According to the relative's story, the
rescuing party took along with them
an expert rifleman, with the object of
maiming the kidnapper, whoever he
might! be, and effecting his capture.1
They made the trip as directed, but
nothing came of it No lights were
shown and no other clew was ob
tained. The police captain in ques
tion, the relatives say, gave the tip
to the thieves that the sharpshooter
would be on board the car. Walter
Ross, the son who was- dropped by
the country roadside, was married
about two months ago. Philadelphia
Inquirer. .
THE SITUATION AT BOISE.
Boise, Jan. 28. Two ballots were
taken today for United States Senator
The result was: Shouj 19, Sweet 18?
Claggett, (pop.) 15. There are rumors
of a trade having been made by the
populists to lect Sweet Tonight the
populists go Into caucus,
SNAPSHOTS ATSfYTONS
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THE DEADLOCK.
Wliat a Little Pitcher Saw aul Heard
from Her Desk in the '
. - House.
Viewed from tne desk of a lady
clerk, the Oregon legislature ia a queer
Institution. I am just row engaged
In drawing the princely salary of $3
a day In the service of the state, and
my uiub is ruuy ocoupiou u iw.ui5 ;
our dignified brothers drawn up in I
battle amy to prevent the election of
an U. S. senator. I
The committees have eill been ap
pointed and their clerks selected, but
although more than one-third of the
session is gone the committees have
done nothing because it takes all the
time of each member to see that no
other member's vote shall counit any
thing toward .the election of a senator.
My admiration for the astounding
fortitude with which our tired brothers
grasp and discharge their mighty in
tellectual duties each day actually
knows no bounds, and I am sure would
be shared by everyone who might wit
ness their dally sessions.
Each session is opened by prayer,
and as the minister implores the assist
ance of the Giver of all good to inter
pose his daily assistance the "tired
feeling" which overspreads the coun-
tetaande of the averagte member
shows that he is fully conscious of
being able to cope wiith the situation
without invoking the aid of any for
eign power. The true American! citl
zen is nothing if not independent, and
especially if he is an Oregon legislator,
he patriotiieally resents any infringe
ment on the time-honored principles
of the Monroe doctrine.
-The first thing of an exciting nature
that occurs each day is when a meas
ure of some Importance comes uip and
if the author of it dioovers that a sin
gle member is absent 'he immediately
moves a "call of the house," the proper
officer is directed to lock the door, the
roll is called, and the sergeanit-at-arms
ordered to proceed to the committee
room where H. B. 104 is being con
sidered and bring forth the delinquent
statesman. However, before the of
ficer gets out of the door the gentle
man who made the motion at once
moves that "further proceedings un
der the call of the house be dispensed
with," which motion always carries
unanimously and the great work of
law-making goes on again with accel
erated slowness. ; Just why "a call of
the house" is always "dispensed with'
before the object of it has been at
tained, seems strange to a lady clerk,
but we know it Is wise or our poor;
tired brothers wouldn t do it,
Too much cannot be said in praise
of our esteeir.ed speaker of the house
who takes every means of making It
easy for the new . members. Every
i time he puts a motion to the house he
tens eacn memper. now to vote.
There are so many new members that
tms or course seems to mm to ne nec
esary. If the member from Marion
moves that the rules be suspended,
the speaker at once says: "The gen
tleman from Marion moves that the
rules be suspended; those who are in
favor, of tha motion will say aye as
your names are called, and those op
posed will answer "no.' This makes
it easy for the country members who
otherwise wouldn't know how to votr
Ordinarily if a member is in favor o
a measure he knows enough to vote
'ay' without being told so by the
speaker, and that officer would only
have to say: "The clerk will call the
roll ou suspension of the rules." But
there are so many new members this
session who might favor a measure
and still vote "no" unless told by the
speaker that the way to kill a propo
sition is to vote against it that the
affable presiding officer deems
proper, to look after all these details.
There -are those who have always
thought the Lane delegation could not
rise above the back Alley of ward
politics, but some incidents-of this ses
sion have shown that even the hor
ticultural shades of Hood river do not
furnish a more cunning Coon than the
ever green slopes of the Siuslaw; be
sides this the Lane county delegation
contains the only member of the
house of whom it can be said that he
is Moorhead than anything else.
It seems to me that the charges of
corrupt methods in the senatorial con
test must be unfounded, because the
delegations from every county in the
state are absolutely without Price,
excepting that of Umatilla and there
Is Hope for it as long as the gentle
man from Malheur comes to its res
cue. .
There are those who think the gen
tleman from Baker is too Young to
accomplish anything, but when he
unites his forces with the Burleigh
gentleman from Wallowa his point is
always carried if an alliance with the
member from Washington can be af
fected because it makes a triumvirate
that the Gates of hell cannot prevail
against
I notice one good-looking member
from Multnomah who sometimes talks
so long he almost Myers in the Beach.
During one of his oratorical displays
he was Huston the verge of going
down for good in fact was getting as
black as a Cole, and was shouting
Hofer help because he had burned his
Bridges behind him, when the senator
from Malheur appeared, proclaimed
himself King, and with the assistance
of the senator from Jackson got a
good Holt and jerked him higher than
a Keyt This was all Dunn in the
presence of the Butler who said he
was informed that the gentleman from
Lincoln was decidedly opposed to such
Daly occurrences. This brought the
gentleman from Klamath and Lake to
his feet, but his voice was so low that
I couldn't tell whether he was talking
pro or Conn, the speaker, however,
seconded the motion, and everybody
said: "The Moores the pity."
While there are many things that
puzzles a little girl like me, I am
enjoying the session hugely, and de
vote all my time between meals ad
miring the great display of intellect
that occurs every day. I don't see
how these over-worked mgn can en
dure such a mental strain "all for
three dollars a day," but of course
with -them it Is patriotism first and
mercenary considerations afterwards.
I think the me a are so nice to sacri
fice so much for the good of the state.
- LADY CLERK.
' DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
From ' a Woman's Point of View
What Is It? Does It Pay? . ;
Diversified farming from a woman's
point of view what is if certainly
not the opinions advanced by agricul
tural editors of city newspapers who
are usually as capable of advising
farmers as an Irish hod-carrier is of
Instructing a Jewish merchant
Farming is a business that requires
some capital and much judgment, and
not every inexperienced person who
enters it ia successful the old ways
are dispensed with and we must pro-
jgrees ia that as la everything eje,
u we would prosper. We must beered the land of imagination, of ro
satisfied with less profits, raise a rr t While this is
satisfied with less profits, raise a !
i greater variety or produce, ana not j
, cutuita -"-
in-
Merest in.
"For he who by the plow would thrive
Must either hold himself or drive."
If a farmer lives within his means
and is a good manager, he is a most
independent man. The Oregonian
some time since had an editorial on I
the farmer and his hired man eating
Ph,no nhAOeont( whilA thrt nian
. . . . . a'tn
irtrf!d it nn1llst and rfArr1 tn
rural pp as peasants."
j We are m f ree-born American cit-
;lsiena and know no peasantry; that
savors too much of landlordism and
who has a better right to enjoy the
game on his own preserves than the
man who raises and feeds it Our
forefathers were a nation of farmers
and their descendants constitute to
day the backbone and strength of this
grand country of ours.
Diversified farming this fall seems
to mean a great many "Irons in the
Ire" at-once and most of them burn
ing your fingers, there seems to be
so little In anything farmers can
raise no profitable market for prunes,
hops, wheat, for butter, beef or pork.
Still this is not usually the case, and
in these times of general prostration
the remedy would seem to be that
we must learn, on farms, to sell what
we can, and use ourselves what can
mot be disposed of to advantage else
where. The day for exclusive wheat
farming must be practiced if success
is attained. One trouble is: Many
undertake branches- of farming they
are not prepared for raise sheep and
do not provide shelter and food in
Inclement weather buy expensive
machinery and do not properly house
it, raise poultry and let vermin prey
upon It and then say: "There s notn
Ing in sheep" "there's nothing in
chickens" "there's nothing in rarm
Ing!"
Some of the diverse work iaiis on
the wife: It reads so easy in the pa
pers how "A man and his wife can
make money on a lew acres or iana
and lay something up! She dries
fruit on shares!" Well! 1 know a
farmer's wife who dries fruit every
summer, lots of it (she's not far off
as I write) and while her friends
enjoy the balmy air of the mountains
or sea shore, ana compiain oi mes
and heat, she mounts her airy wood
shed roof and spreads her precious
fruit thereon (imagine her reelings
when a shower comes! imagine her
taking it in when It rains and putting
it out again when the sun once more
blazes forth In all his glory, and neat.
Imagine, no. it's no imagination just
hard reality. The imagination comes
in when she takes it to tne village
grocer and he says there is not much
demand for sun-dried fruit but he
will give her something for it so sne
exchanges it for bean?, calico and
clothespins, and goes home rejoicing,
She raises chickens and they lay when
eggs are cheap, and insist on sitting
or doing nothing when eggs are dear.
Diversified farming is tne .- rule
around Jefferson. It is a great ship
ping point for immense quantities of
potatoes, hops, prunes', miner ana
gram.
The Statesman advocates a cream
ery at or near Salem. Salem is sup
plied with more gilt-edge butter than
the city can assimilate, and a cream
ery established there at the present
time would be a failure, working-
men generally take their lunch with
them and they but the best quality
of butter. When "the dinner pail
hnngs on the wall the butter market
suffers they go ; without or use
eheao article.
If there Is nothing In farming,
there's nothing In paying a board of
equalizers to raise the taxes m iia
rion county, and the present legisla
ture would do well to abolish all such
unnecessary things as that and the
railroad commissioners, who ride
around in Pullmans and diversify
farming by running over live stock
once In awhile. What shall we do
when it costs more to produce an ar
ticle on a farm, as well as elsewhere,
than said article will bring in the
market? Shall We create seats in
universities for men who have al
ready been well paid for their services
by the state? Let us abolish every
unnecessary thing and bring all sal
aries from state to county officers
down to a local commensurate with
the times. Many farmers cannot sup
port their families and pay their tax
es, living in the plainest way, without
mortgaging their farms. . We pay
dearly for our Independence, and
look anxiously to this present legisla
ture to make crooked paths straight,
and hope the new members from
Marion will make as good a record
for economy and reform as has Hon
Tilmon Ford when he has held a seat
in the legislature.
HARRIET C. LOONEY.
HOP TRADE.
There Is really no change to note,
A. steady enquiry for medium qua!
ities is maintained, and for such par
cels 4d percent seems to be about the
prevalent price. Of the 80,000 cwts.
which it is estimated remain unsold
out of 1894 crop, a considerable pro
portion will, probably, never see the
inside of a brewery, owing to their
inferiority, as for these low hops
there is no sale.
The values of sound and coloury
hops are still upheld, finest Goldings
being easily saleable at 90 percent to
95 percent with a firm tendency.
The continent is sending us practi
cally none, and there are compara
tively few Pacifies and states on
offer.. The American and continental
markets are firm. English Hop Grow
ers. .
HOPS GROW FAST.
As an instance of the way hops
grow in the Puyallup valley a farmer
here has a hop yard that grows close
to some tall fir trees. A vine ran off
a pole and started up the tree. The
farmer's boy climbed up the tree to
disengage the vine, but, slipping,
caught on the vine between the top
of the pole and the tree. He began
changing hands rapidly on the vine,
struggling and kicking until the farm
er called to him: "Why don't you
come down?" "Come down!" cried
the boy, "I'm trying to, but the
darned vine grows so fast it's running
me up faster than I can come down!"
They had to cut the vine close to the
.ground to stop its growth and let
the poor boy back to earth.
JAPAN'S VICTORIES A BENEFIT.
If the world had not mo,ved forward
in a wonderful ratio of progression
during the last thousand " years, then
might China have hoped to maintain
her conservatism aa an independent
empire. But in the evolution of na
tions ft' is impossible for any to stand
still. China has . been satisfied with
her institutions. Standing still is
death, and unless she entirely changes
her policy, emerges from her deadly
conservatism, she must share the fate
of empires as greait as her own whose
glories have passed 8-way, or he over
whelmed by the great billows of pro
gression ever sweeping aH things, laws,
customs, religions, nations and em
pires . before their resistless sway.
Ths orient h Always been consjd.
mance. of ooetrv. While this is
largely ture, far-ofE Cathay, our amti
podes, is preeminently the land of
prosa. The philosophy of Qcnfuciu3
WoS matter of fact; he dealt not in
imagination; he tamght of temporal,
not of eternal things, not even profess
ing a balief in the immortality of the
soul. Yet strange paradox, he and
his nation have come nearer to found
ing immortal institutions than any
others in the world.
But through China's conquest by )
Japan must, come, her awakening into;
new and more useful r ational life, f
Western civilization permeated Japan!
and Core&, breaking down their con-!
servatism, whicn has sur-rounaea tne
former like her now useless but won
derful great wall. China, the oldest
existing nation of the world, has been
called the type of permanence. Her
nstitutions have outlived everything.
Kingdoms and republics have risen,
flourished nd fallen, but China in her
national life has ' ever continued the
same.
While Japan formerly gained most
of her ideas of civilization from China
and Corea, yet it now becomes her
mission to reconstruct their laws, on
a mor-i practical modern basis.
It has generally proved true, that i
every great revolution has in the out
come proved to be a great evolution.
This will be especially true of Corea,
a fertile but much oppressed country,
where the nobles have been the only
class entitled to consideration, and the
masses little more than slaves. But
Invigorated , with Occidental energy,
nterprise, scientific ideas, labor-Saving
machinery, railroads and the telegraph,
she will 'take her place among the na
tions of the world, borne , forward
upon the tide of progression that is
sweeping eastward with a force that
must create or destroy, while China
Is not likely all at once to lose her pres
tige as a great empire, yet in the evo
lution of things she must either pro
gress or eventually lose lier national
existence. In either case the world
will be benefited.
BY THE LITTLE ONES
Those of our readers who remem
ber a book that was published some
years ago, containing remarkable an
swers given by school children will
agree that the following collection
would form a valuable addition to
it; they are all local, having been re
cently collected and compiled especial
ly for this edition of the Statesman:
"Cromwell was a man who, after
being decapitated five times, said to
Weller: 'If 14 served you as you ve
served me, I wouldn't have been
here.'" .
"Hydrophobia is when a mad dog
bites you; if a man catches it, it is
called 'hydrostatics.'
"Esau is the man who sold his copy
right for a bottle of potash.'
"A fnrt is si nliipa tn nut men in
when there's a war; a"fortiess is
where women are put."
Teacher: "Which of you can name
a small ammai mat crawis: -
Johnnie: "A little worm.'
Teacher: "Anyone else?"
Lottie: "Another little worm."
Kindergartner: "Do you know what
a carpenter is
Small boy: "It's a man that sells
meat and puts down carpets."
Teacher: "Can you tell me what a
legacy is?" Pupil: "I i don't . kuow
zactly what- it is, but it's something
to a stocking."
A little boy who was writing tho
gender of nouns wrote: "Masculine,
Duke, feminine, duck."
Teacher, trying to impress on the
children the meaning of the word
couple. "Johnnie, if you and Jennie
were walking down the street togeth
er, just you two alone, without any
body else,, what would you make?"
Johnnie: "Tracks."
Sunday school scholar: "If God
was mad because Adam and Eve et
apples, they must of et 'em between
meals."
During a thunder storm Little girl,
very much awed: "Who makes the
thunder, does God make it?" Big
boy, derisively: "Course God makes
it, who'd you spose made it, John L.
Sullivan?"
A little boy watched his mother
take a pumpkin pie out of the oven,
bubbling and sputtering with sup
pressed heat looking at it sympathet
ically he asked: "Mamma, do you
'spose it's sufferin'?"
Edith: "Mamma, must we always
thank God for everything, whether
we want to or not?" "Yes, dear, we
must always thank God for every
thing." An hour later: Edith: "Mam
ma, thank God I've broken your glass
pitcher."
A whale's bones, whitening on the
sands of Long Beach, caused a panic
among the cottagers' children, who
ran up to camp with the announce
ment that God was dead. "What
makes you think so?" asked someone.
"'Cause we found a lot of bones on
the beach and they're so big we think
they must be God's."
Small boy: "Who made those pig
eons over therei " Answer: "God
did."
Small boy: "Who made the clouds?"
"God did."
"Did God make everything?" "Yes."
"Did he make the world?" "Yes."
"Is there any other world besides
this?" "Not that we know of."
Smaljl boy, ' triumphantly: "Th,'en
what did He stand on?"
A .little Salem boy has recently been
presented with an engine and train
of cars; not long ago he beard his
mother describing the gownsr worn at
an evening party, and innocently
asked: "Mamma, did any of ..the
ladies' trains have engines to 'em?"
THE FIKST SMILE.
Only a baby, fresh from God "
Formed In His image, and nature s
child,
Flower that sprung from the sacred
sod
"Warmed - to life when it's maker
smiled. '
Gazing back in the Father's face, -
Bending o er it in perfect love, ,
Catches the dim, reflected grace
Only a baby's smile can prove.
Least of heaven, and best of earth
Linked in a life so pure and sweet
Gray dawn breaks, at the baby's birth
Pale where the dark and. daylight
meet. :".
Rich with promise, the morning gray
Heart of the waiting world beguiles,
Rich with promise the happy day
- Dawns and dies, when the baby
- smiles.
Glad as a message from Paradise, V
" Budding wisdom and baby wiles r
Come, when first In the hazel eyes
Laughter wakes, wid the baby
smiles.
SHOULD HAVE BEEN TWENTY.
Settle, -i Jabi 26. Thomas McGee.
the wife slasher, was sentenced to ten
years' liard labor arid costs. ,
A DEAD SOLDIER.
Paris, Jan. 2S. Marshal
is dead. . ,
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