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r UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD PASSENGER.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I REMEMBER tbat multitudes of birds were singing, buttercups and daisies were In bloom, and the misty globes of dandelions had gone to leed for I picked some to blow away at one breath for luck. So It must have been on a June morning, In the year 185, that I went over to play with the Sherman boys, and thereby met With a memorable adventure. Finding the boys at leisure, a game of "1-epy" or as we had it, perhaps by Inheritance from our English ances tors, "hi-spy" was presently arranged. We were "counted out" by our favorite formula, "Wire, brier, limber lock, six geese In a flock," and It fell to Tom's lot to blind. Before his loud announcement of the first ten of the hundred which he was so rapidly counting that there was but a continuous mumble between the tens Jim, Billy and I scattered In search of hiding-places. I was at no loss to find one, for I knew every nook and corner of the premises; and as neither of the others went that way, I tiptoed up the stairs that led to the hayloft over the stable. This place afforded a good outlook to the "gool," as well as a good hiding-place. As I waded through the hay to the darkest corner, the figure of a man started up before me, nearly taking the breath out of me, so sudden and unex pected was the apparition. He seemed no less startled than I. and when, in the dim light, I made him out to be a negro, I guessed that he was a fugitive slave before his dialect made it appar ent, as he whispered, anxiously, "Say, chile, Is dis yere Mars' Abum Thome's place?" That was the name of my father, who was a zealous abolitionist, and whose house was well known by friends of the "cause," and suspected by enemies, to be a station of the Un derground Railroad, concerning whose dusky passengers, often seen by us be tween their mysterious coming and go ing, my sister and I early learned to keep our own counsel. It struck me at once that this fugitive could scarcely have made a greater mis take than In coming to the Sherman barn. Only a little while before I had heard neighbor Sherman declare to my father that It was as clearly his duty to give up a runaway slave as to deliver a stray horse to its owner. So I answered my Interlocutor In a tone as cautious and more alarmed than his own, "No, no! It's the next house. But thee can't go there now! Sherman's folks'll see thee! Thee must He down an' let me cover thee up with hay, an' don't stir till I come for thee after dark. I'm Abraham Thome's boy," I said, seeing that he hesitated a little. Thereupon he lay down, saying as he did so, "I'se willin' 'nough to rest, but I'se powerful hongry, chile." I carefully covered him with hay, hoping there was a good chance of his being safe from further discovery, for the horses were turned out to grass, and no one was "likely to visit the loft for hay. I had barely time to smooth off the covering before Tom Sherman sang out "One hun-derd!" and the wornlng, "One, two., thrtff?, loo'cjutf jyr .me!" I st wed myself wbere he would be sure ti find me before lie could stumble on the hiding-place of the negro. Tom spied the other boys, and I got a safe run to the "gool," so that he had no oc casion to search the loft. Hence I felt easy concerning the man for the pres ent, except that I was at my wit's end for means to relieve his hunger, and grew so abstracted over the problem that I attracted the attention of my companions. "What makes you look so down In the mouth, Tommy?" Bill Sherman asked. "Oh, nothln'," I answered, evasively; and then a happy thought struck me. "Only I'm so hungry, I b'lieve I've got to go home and get something to eat. I guess I didn't eat as much breakfast as I'd ought to this morning." The explanation might pass with those who had not witnessed my per- formance, but it was not needed by my playmates, for at the suggestion of j hunger, each became aware of his own pangs-it being now near 10 o'clock. j "Hurrah for something featP' cried Tom. "Come on!" and he led the way j to the kitchen door, where an appeal for relief was promptly responded to 1 by good, motherly Mrs. Sherman, with j a double slice of bread and butter and a doughnut for each of us. I made a pretense of eating, not with- !meff,rt JefralnlnS from the real- Ity till Jim Sherman began to count and the rest of us to scatter to cover. ; Then I crept no selessly up the stairs and gave all my lunch to the negro. It made me hungry to see him eat, and 1 felt that I was making a great sacrifice for the "cause" in which my father was so earnestly engaged. "I wish thee'd come to our house in stead of here," I whispered to the ne- gro, as he sat up under the tent of lmv I ... A le"L ol uay ravenously bolting the bread and but ter. "Tell ye what, honey," he answered, after a struggle to swallow a large mouthful, "from what de folks tol' me where I was stayin' yist'day, dis yere was de place, nigh as I could make out In de dim o' de mawnin' dis yere was de place." "Well, we can't help it now. All thee can do Is to keep still till night." Then Jim shouted warning, and I heard him coming cautiously up the stairs before my man was down and covered up again. But covered he was before Jim found me, and we rushed pell-mell for the "gool." When the game was ended I went home, hungry enough, but quite un able to enjoy my dinner, for fear of the discovery of the runaway. I told my father of him at the first opportunity, and he was as anxious as I, as his countenance showed. "I wouldn't have neighbor Sherman find him for anything, but thee did the ! best that could be done, my son, and there's nothing for it hut to wait till dark." The commendation comforted me, and I proved myself a valuable trench erman at supper. After nightfall I stole across the fields to neighbor Sherman's, and all being quiet about the premises, I at once made my way to the loft, where I fouud my man just on the point of setting forth alone, so Impatient was he of a longer stay In the dangerous precincts. We had crept cautiously downstair and around the barn, not drawing a free breath till we got It between us and the house, when we heard a team driven rapidly to the door, and voices in low, earnest conversation. Then some one ran rapidly up the stairs to the loft, and presently returned; where upon the team was driven away in greater haste than it had come. I did not understand it at all, and only felt sure that we had started none too soon. It was bright starlight, so we skulked along fences, which led us a roundabout way, till we came near our house, waiting among the pear trees of the garden. The kitchen door was open, my father standing in It, in silhouette against the candle-light, speaking in an earnest tone to two men who stood a little out side the threshold. Other figures stood at Intervals around the house, very steadfast and alert, except one who seemed to be looking In our direction. "I tell you there's no one but my own family In my house," I heard my father say. One of the men replied, "That's all very well, Mr. Thome, but I can't take your word for It, when there's a nigger in the case. We shall have to search the house." Then, with a terror that seemed to melt my leg-bones and take my heart ofmy body, I realized that our house was beleaguered by slave-hunters. The two men at the door pushed in past my father, while the others stood more alert. The man who was looking our way moved toward us as directly as if he saw us, though the negro and I, by a common Impulse, crawled quickly be hind the trunks of two pear-trees a few feet apart. On he came unerringly, until he was right between us, and I made out dis tinctly the tall, muscular form and red bearded face of our neighbor Sherman. I expected to see him pounce upon the crouching figure of my companion like a tiger on his prey, and wondered if a sudden attack In the rear by a 12-year-old boy could be of any avail. He turned neither to the right nor to the left as he passed between us, nor paused as he whispered with sharp dis tinctness, "Go back to my barn and lay low till I tell ye!" A few paces beyond us he turned about and passed between us again, re peating the whispered injunction, and going back to the house, took post there, loudly enjoining vigilance upon the others. The negro crawled away In range of his tree, on his hands and knees, as stealthily as a cat, and I followed as nearly as I could in like manner, till we gained the cover of a fence, looking back from which we saw the light shin- DON YOU TELL ME NUFFIS lng from successive window's as searching parrj- sit -err from root' r-eota, vrt.'.'e the fi,rni-es of the hi . sgers were dissolved and blotted out in the gloom. We' made our way back to the Sher man place with cautious haste, now startled by a ground-nesting bird burst ing up from the grass before us, now making wide detours to avoid some dim object, which proved to be a harmless cow or stump, till at last we reached the left and lay down upon the hay, with a welcome sense of security in the place which I had lately deemed so dangerous. Then as we rested and by degrees re covered natural breathing, my com panion explained in whispers the mys tery of neighbor Sherman's behavior. " 'Long in the arternoon I was layin' kivered in de fodder a-wishin' mighty hard for night an' suffin' for to eat an' I heard somebody come a-trom- piing up de stairs, an he begin pokin' de fodder, an' me des nat'aly shakin' wid fear, ontwel fust I knowed he hove de fodder clean off'n me. A mons'ous big, f eree-lookln man he was, wid a red baird-same man he was that came to we-nns ober yander, an' he holler at me, 'What you doln' here? You's a runaway nigger, dat's what you isr "When I try for to speak, he say, 'Don' you tell me nuffln'. I don' wan' to hear a word out 'n yo' head. Yon had anything to eat since you ben yere?' an' I tor him how you done fotch me a little speck, in de mawnin', an' he went an' fotch me a heap o' whittles, an. he toP me to lay gtm under de fod. der ontwl de dark come nn' n' r1n to de nex' house an' not come back yere no mo', 'cause he ain't gwlne for to have no runaway niggers roun' his place. Deen he kiver me in de fodder, an' dat de las' I seen him ontwll he T TT"1 n n r trrLlltlo j-l-rk irn nrlAH AV. Im'cn t. ' . .. a m.trhtv curious man. dat he s" I quite agreed in his opinion of neigh bor Sterman, since he was acting in so unexpected a manner. We lay quietly for an hour before we heard a cautious step ascending the stairs, and then neighbor Sherman's guarded voice, "If there's anybody here, they can go over to Thome's now. The coast Is clear." With that he went downstairs, and we presently followed, and went over to our house, where all was quiet after the futile search. On the following night my father car ried the fugitive to the next 'station I northward, and we saw no more of h:m, I but heard that he reached Canada with j out further adventure. A few days later I happened to hear j my father thanking neighbor Sherman very warmly for what he had done, j and the response of the latter was: "Sho! Abr'am, don't never say a . word about it. I wouldn't for all the world nave lt get out 'at 1 harbred a runaway nigger. Why, they wouldn't never call on me agin to help ketch 'em." Youth's Companion. The Largest Loaves of Bread. The largest loaves of bread baked In the world are those of France and Italy. The "pipe" bread of Italy is baked in loaves two or three feet long, while in France the loaves are made in the shape of very long rolls four or five feet in length, and In many cases even six feet. The bread of Paris is distributed almost exclusively by wo men, who go to the various bakehouses at 5:30 a. m. and spend about an hour polishing up the loaves. After the loaves are thoroughly cleaned of dust and grit, the "bread porter" proceeds on the round of her customers. Those who live In apartments or flats find their loaves leaning agalnstthe door. Fotters are not the only people who make family jars. U A . . . T f. AGRICULTURAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO FARM AND HOME. THE Suggestions on Making Palatable and Nutritious Ensilage-Most Farmers Cnltivate Too Much Land Stock Show Preference for Salted Hay -Notes, The dairyman who owns a silo usu ally needs very little advice on the points Involved In making palatable and nutritious ensilage, but suggestions are always welcome, and the following from the American Cultivator is worth considering: There is not the need that used to be supposed of doing the work of cutting In a single day, so that fermentation could not begin until after the top was covered with some weight to press the silage together. The effect of fermenta tion Is to liberate carbonic acid gas. This is heavier than the common air, and therefore remains In the silo unless there is a hole near the bottom to send In a current of fresh air. The greatest care should be taken to see that insects or mice have not drilled holes through the woodwork of the silo during the time it has been unoccupied. If such holes can be found they should be cov ered and closed with cement. The shorter the silage is cut the better It will keep, because short silage packs Itself closely and incloses little air. It Is the amount of which the silage holds at the beginning that determines how much it shall ferment. If the amount Is small the silage will come out sweet. The richness of the silage has much to do with Its sweetness or sourness. Corn that Is nearing maturity, but without drying of the leaf, makes the best sil age. It has more sugar and starch, and these, so soon as they ferment, are turn ediuto carbonic acid gas, and thus stop any further fermentation. On the oth er hand, green corn that is nowhere near mature, and has little sweetness, makes a very poor silage, and is mostly very sour. So, too, Is silage made from putting In whole cornstalks. These cannot be packed closely, and the result Is that many of the stalks will be al most rotten when taken from the silo. Cnltivate Fewer Acres. I am surprised at the small crops of grain, grass, potatoes, - etc., that are grown on many farms. The lack of sufficient good stable manure is largely responsible for this. A few years ago a company was formed and a large strawboard factory built at the county seat of my county. Since then every farmer within a radius of ten miles of this establishment-fortunate enough to have any straw has sold it at the very low figures of from $1 to $2 per ton. With the money received for the straw some cheap grade commercial fertilizer Is purchased. As a consequence the soils of the farms are becoming thinner each year from a lack of sufficient hu mus to make it lively and friable. It is very poor practice to sell straw from the farm. Keep enough stock to work over all the straw and rough feed into manure and then judiciously apply It to the fields. The labor will be more than doubly paid for by increased crops. Another trouble with a great many farmers is their greed for too many acres. How common it Is to hear a man boasting of the number of acres of corn or whent he is putting out, but when the harvest comes he usually lias about ww-tfelrtl kwa -ncrcs-tJoaa at se-e-diug time. It Is an old tdage that "tillage is maaure." We have this proven by 6eelng a field that has had an extra amount of work put upon it before sow ing It to wheat. The crop will be much larger than on a field only half prepar ed. If we expect to keep our farms in a state of fertility that will enable us to grow paying crops we must concentrate our work upon fewer acres and have them well fertilized. It pays much bet ter to raise a given number of bushels of wheat from ten acres than to raise the same number from twenty. By doubling the producing capacity of an acre half of the land can be in grass, thus giving it a chance to recuperate. M. C. Thomas, in Orange Judd Farmer. Favors Salting Hay. The farmer who guides himself by what he reads about salting clover hay will probably become confused, says a writer in the Stockman. One authority says never salt It it is dangerous to do so. Another no less confidently assures us that it should be salted; he has al ways done so, likewise has his father. Plainly when doctors differ the indi vidual may use his reason about the matter, and If possible decide for him self. The objections against salt Is that It is deliquescent and therefore an In crease of moisture is to be expected from its use. After many years of ob servation and experience we have con cluded that for us salting clover hay is very desirable. We have endeavored to arrive at this conclusion intelligently by repeating tests both In the mow and stack. The clover which is sufficiently cured to keep without salting will not Buffer from heat if salt Is applied. While It Is true that salt is deliquescent, yet It is altogether probable that this draw back Is balanced by the preserving quality, for why should salt cease to preserve hay when it Is applied to oth er commodities for this purpose? Yet we can admit, if necessary which our observation does not warrant that salt ing does not materially preserve the hay, and still claim our case. The pref erence of the stock for the salted hay is apparently a sufficient guide. Suppose the individual had to partake of his food unsalted, would he not make an objection? Neither would he be rec onciled to this if his salt came in daily or weekly installments. Winter Protection for Strawberries. There is no question but some good protection is almost essential to the strawberry plants, but authorities dis agree about the bc3t to be adopted. While some advocate manure, others object to it, and recommend straw, leaves, litter or anything of this nature. The chief objection to manure seems to be that seed weeds are apt to be sown with It on the strawberry bed. But If one's manure is as good as it ought to be weed seeds ought not to be spread in this way. Moreover, only well-rotted manure is fit fair this work, and the weed seeds will generally have died out before manure reaches this stage. The value of the manure in en riching the plants is often, overlooked by those who prefer other things for protection. All through the winter the strength of the manure Is soaking Into the soil, and by spring when the pro tection is removed the plants are fertil ized richly and ready to spring into im mediate and rapid growth. But if one has no suitable manur hand, the next best thing is proba'. forest leaves, collected in the .woods, and mixed with just enough straw to keep them In place. A few twigs of the j trees gathered with the leaves will be of value. These spread over them will help to keep them from being blown about by the wind. Straw is good as a protection, bin sawdust is not so easily handled. The rain makes the sawdust cling to trig plants so that It sometimes proves quite a nuisance. Potato vines can often be utilized for protection of strawberries, especially in connection with a few leaves. The two mixed together make a cheap and effective covering. Wis consin Agriculturist Warm the Milk. In winter It Is often a difficult matter to churn cream and extract its butter fats. Warming the milk to 140 degrees Is an effective remedy for this. It will also enable the dairyman to get a great er amount of cream from the same milk than he otherwise would. But the milk should not be allowed to become much warmer than 140 degrees or it will make the butter soft. As the warmed m'lk is cooled pretty much all the cream will rise at once. It should be skimmed before the top hardens into a crust, as it speedily wllL WThen put away to await churning In the winter season, cream should be stirred once a day, so as to mix all its parts together and pre vent mold forming on the surface. Some Poultry Do Nota. Do not keep 1,000 fowls In quarters built for but 500. Do not try to be a fancier before you are a common poul try man. Do not try to teach others until you know something yourself. Do not change to a new variety until you have fully worked the old one. Do not study the art of cure until you have mastered the art of prevention. Do not fail to remember that health In the hen nery Is brought about by cleanliness. Do not be led away by reports of oth ers' good success; try to beat it your self. Do not boast and think you know it all. Do not fail to read of the experi ences of others and try to profit by their loss. Do not trust alone to hired help, but try to do some of the work yourself. American Butter in England. The butter product of the United States bids fair to become a rival of the Denmark product in England. This is possible from the shrinkage of space brought about by present-day condi tions, making possible the transporta tion and delivery of butter In the Eng lish market fifteen days after making. Under these conditions Insuring the sweetness of the product being unim paired, and notwithstanding the hesi tancy of the English merchants to en gage in the butter trade with the Uni ted States, the product of this country promises to obtain a firm foothold and to command the highest prices abroad. Training Poultry, To build a comfortable poultry house will not prevent the fowls from roosting on the tree limbs in winter unless they are taught that the house is for their accommodation. This is done by catch ing them at night and placing them in the house, where they must be confined for a week, at the end of which time they will have forgotten their former roosting places and when given their liberty will return at night in their new quarters. Keeping Kggs. Did you know there is nothing better than last year's oats in which to pack eggs for winter use? It is not safe to use new oats; they must be a year old. I know of nothing more clean, conveni ent and sure. I kept eggs tbus packed in early fall until Easter one year, and the box was moved thirty miles over rough roads in midwinter. Farm and Fireside. HkUir m Hands f can AtoonMrW man rather than the rule. There are many men who can plow and perform general farm work In a routine manner, but the man who understands what is required, and who needs not be told what to do, is indispensable. Intelligence is neces sary to make a good farm hand, and the best men get high wages. Farm Notes. It Is estimated that the cost of pro tecting trees to prevent disease, by the use of spraying mixtures, is less than one-fifth of a cent per tree, and the spraying may also Increase the profit on fruit. Sulphur Is injurious when given in the food during damp weather to ani mals or poultry. For hens that are shedding their feathers it is beneficial if added to the food in small quantities twice a week. It is also excellent for hens that are laying. The largest profit for butter Is In win ter If it is of the best quality, because it can then be kept to better advantage and more easily shipped to distant mar kets. The cost will depend on how much ensilage was stored this fall. The honeysuckle Is a hardy plant, and In a few years forms a thick covering to a veranda or lattice frame. The com mon morning glory is another climbing plant which should not be overlooked, as It grows from seed and reaches a great height the first year. A difference of only lc per pound re ceived for a steer may amount to $10 or $12 for the entire animal. To fatten the steers is to not only Increase their weight, but also to add quality. Profits are small on all goods, but the largest profits are received only for the best. While it may be better to cut out the old wood from blackberries in winter, after the ground is frozen, it will be an advantage at this time to plow under the crab grass and weeds as so much green material. But few blackberry fields are manured, yet no crop re sponds more readily to good treatment than blackberries. Steers of the beef-producing breeds have large frames which can hold an abundance of meat. The more meat the farmer can crowd on a frame the larg er his profit, and he, therefore, should not object to his steers being heavy feeders, as they will make their gain in a shorter time than if dainty. 'The Oldest Metallic Object?. Dr. J. H. Gladstone, discussing at the Royal institution the question of the metals used by the great nations of an tiquity, said recently that gold was probably the first metal known to man, because lt is generally found native. The oldest metallic objects to which we can assign a probable date were found in a royal tomb at Nagada, in Egypt, supposed to have been that of King Menus. In one of the chambers were some bits of gold and a bead, a button, and a fine wire of nearly pure copper. If the tomb has been properly Identi fied, these objects are at least sixty three hundred years old. Nearly all the ancient gold that has been examined contains enough silver to give It a light color. It was gathered by the ancients in the bed of the Pactolus and other streams of Asia Minor. Certainly. Mistress Bridget these are ewers. I hope you'll not call them Jugs any more. Bridget Thank yez, mum. Sure, and is these others mine, too?--Jewelers' Weekly. : . It's enough to discourage the fool killer when he looks around and sees how far behind he is with his wcVk. Feel the lnfluer.ee. Cold and heat alike aggravate neural gia, because the nerves feel the cold dnol aandiliifatn hut narVAfl ara Hliu ilea, oi-nciij rtijj u n v ... . w . sensitive to treatment and feel the in fluence of St Jacobs Oil, which cures the affluent promptly. Condensed eggs are prepared in Pas san, Bavaria. First he eggs are dried, then reduced to a fine powder, which is placed in air-tight cans. Thus a most nutritiious food is compressed in to smallest possible space. Sharp Pains Darting from one point to another, stiff and swollen joints, inflammation, intense suf fering, are characteristics of rheumatism. All these disagreeable symptoms are cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla which purifies the blood and neutralizes the acid which is the cause of rheumatism. Why should you con tinue to suffer when others are being re lieved of all symptoms of rheumatism by Hood's Sarsaparilla America's Greatest Medicine. Price, $1. Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills. 25 cents. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Danish flag is the oldest in exist ence, dating back to 1219 or therea bouts. A church at Seidhtz, in Bohemia, contains a chandelier made of human bones. India has an anomaly in the shape of a fly which attacks and devours large spiders. Indiana's cement belt covers about 20 square miles. Seventeen miles are in operation. It is reported that rats climb the orange trees of southern Italy and suck the blood oranges. It has been found that if the per centage of carbon or silicon in steel be increased the electrial resistance also rises. In paper making these chemicals are used: Milk of lime, chloride of lime, hyposulphite of soda, china clay, lime or talc. Sumatra kerosene is at present a for midable competitor in the Russian market. The supply seems to be unlimited. How fast can a bee fly? A hive on the roof of a train was carried at the rate of 30 miles an hour before Che bees ' were left behind. The Best Seeds Absolutely Necessary. We cannot too strongly nor too often urge the supreme importance of planting seeds that are perfectly pure and fresh. Seeds that are offered at cheap prices are almost invariably of doubtful origin and uncertain age, sure to cause the planter disappointment and loss. The thoughtful planter's only surety lies in buying s.eeds sent out by a conscientious and trust worthy house- A vast number of Amer ican gardeners have (and have had for vears) the utmost confidence in seeds that eai the name, D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. The present generation of planters can hardly remember the time when Ferry's Seeds were not on sale eyerywhere each year and as regularly planted by thousands with the greatest faith in the unvarying quality of the seeds and in the integrity of the firm that grew them. Every glanter, whether already a buyer of Ferry's eeds or not, should send for Ferry's Seed Annual for 1899. It is mailed free" to any one who writes for it. Last year the United States exported 866 locomotives, valued at about $3,000,009. sewing machines to the value of $2,500,000 and typewriters worth $1,500,000. No household is complete without a bot tie of the famous Jesse Moore 'Whiskey. It is a ttare and tt'hoJ.some stiiuiiairi rec ommended by ail physicians. Don't ne glect this necessity. An unusual accident befell Mr. J. Thompson at Portland, Me. He jumped from a moving train and the shock caused a rupture of his windpipe, re sulting in death. TRY ALLEN'9' FOOT-EASE, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, ner vous and uncomfortable. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It rests and comforts ; makes walking easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and is a cer tain cure for Chilblains, Sweating, damp or frosted feet. We have over thirty thou sand testimonials. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoo stores for 25c. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olm sted, Lc Roy, N. Y. "The only thing we can do now," says Dupuy de Lome, speaking for Spain, "is to repent and reform." Such things are quite possible, even to Spain, when she can't do anything else. A LIVING WITNESS. Mrs. Hoffman Describes How She Wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for Advice, and Is Now WelL Dear Mrs. Pinkham: Before using your Vegetable Compound I was a great sufferer. I have been sick for months, was troubled with severe pain in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling in lower part of bow els, also suffered with dizziness, headache, and could not sleep. I wrote you a letter describ ing my case and asking your advice." You replied tell ing me just what to do. I followed your direc tions, and cannot praise your medicine enough for what it has done for me. Many thanks to yon for your advice. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has cured me, and I will recom mend it to my friends. Mrs. Florence E. Hoffman, 512 Roland St., Canton, O. The condition described by Mrs Hoff man will appeal to many women, yet lots of sick women struggle on with their daily tasks disregarding the urgent warnings until overtaken by actual collapse. The present Mrs- Pinkham's experi ence in treating female ills is unparal leled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometimes past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter as many as a hundred thousand ailing women during a single year. FERRYS were famous years ago their fame I grows every year as tbe seeds I most K U raiieu on uo BIWBJB i tfan tuut. For sale bv leading 1 dealers everywhere. Five cents i per paper ana aiways wonu ju insist on oaring mem. xvuu , no rtofc buy e r r s. 1899 Seed Annual is iree. .0. M. rKRH i lui Detroit, MICH. bs. r.URFS WHrRF All USE FAILS. P3 Cough SrruD. Tastes Good. Use I Id time. Sold by druggists. FREAK LIGHTNING. Went Through a House Without Find ing the Family. During the severe storm Tuesday tbe home of C. H. Redlidge, In California, Wicomico .County, was struck by lightning. The bolt struck a big locust tree in the yard, jumped from that to the peak of the house and burned or melted some nails In the wood. Prom there It went down the attic window post, which was splintered, went through tbe plastering In five small holes. It looked as though the holes were made by a gun. It set the lace curtains on fire and partly burned a feather bed. The bolt seemed to part here, part going out front and part going back. The part going front dam aged the shutters, ripped otf the plaster ing, followed some nails over the door head and melted the wire on a screen door, and went into the ground under the front steps. The part that weat the back way doubled again before it en tered the ground, one part taking one side, tearing out a window frame, fol lowing a tin valley down a doorway, ripping off plastering and laths and then Into the ground. The part that took the other side ran along a parti tion, ripping off laths and plastering down the back stairway and through a tin safe or cupboard. In this cupboard was a glass spoon vase, with silver spoons in it. The spoons were ttacken ed and some of them were melted where they touched each other. In the same cupboard were knives and forks. These were melted and stuck where they came in contact with each other. From the cupboard It went through the corner of the house, tearing off the plastering and weather boarding and ripping open the corner posts. The family, strange to say, were not hurt in the least, nor did any one feel any shock. Baltimore Sun. A Preference. Once in a great while Mr. Blynklns develops an Impression that he is wiser than his wife. This state of mini Is only occasional, owing to the com pleteness of demonstrations to the con trary which almost Invariably follow lt. The baby had been crying. All her efforts to sooth lt had been in vain, and finally Mr. Blynkins laid down the book whose reading hie had Interrupted two or three times a page to cast blameful glances, and said: "Julia, are you aware we pay rent for only a portion of this building? Does lt occur to you that while we have a right to fill this flat as full of noise as we choose, we are not morally Justified In causing noise to overflow and pervade the entire structure?" "It's the baby that's crying," she suggested. "You are not adopting the method likeliest to quiet the child. You have been humming to It, but what the child needs Is music Give him to me and I'll show you what I mean." He took the child and proceeded to chant a lullaby. The little one stopped crying and stared at him. "There," said Mr. Blynklns, as he reached the end of a verse; "what he wanted was music, real music. He wasn't to be fooled with any make believing humming. Of course, the fact that I used to sing in a glee club and had my voice cultivated may make a difference, too." He had not gotten very far Into the next stanza when there came a ring at the bell. He gave the baby to his wife while b&epevsi tiie daawt A girl of fourteen or flfteea said: "We're the people who have Just moved Into the flat above. There's a sick lady with us, and she says if it's all the same to you, would you mind letting the baby cry instead of singing to it?" German Thrift, An American In Munich writes to a New York paper concerning "German thrift,' 'with examples of petty econ omies he has seen In Germany, and that strike Americans as extraordin ary. He tells of a stout German gentle man who came Into the lobby of one of the picture galleries of Munich one day last summer puffing a cigar. After depositing his hat and umbrella, he looked around uneasily. Big signs on the entrance doors to the gallery warn ed him tbat no smoking was allowed. Finally his face lighted up as he strode over to one corner and deposited his half-finished cigar In a sort of metal rack fastened to the wall. "So!" he exclaimed with a sigh of relief, and marched in to see the pictures. Almost at the same moment, another German, having "done" the pictures, approach ed the rack in question, and, having scrutinized its contents, selected a stump of a cigar as his particular prop erty, and proceeded to light It before getting on his hat and coat This pro vision for saving the stumps of cigars was a novelty to the American, and he examined it with some curiosity. A sign, "Cigarre Ablade," placed above it in large letters, announced its pur posea "leaving place" or "depositing place" for cigars. The rack was of met al, and fashioned something like a miniature wire-rack; there was a spe cial groove for each cigar, but no par ticular mark or number by which one could identify one stump from another, and no particular reason why the first comer should not help himself to the best and biggest cigar of the lot These cigar repositories are common all over Germany In galleries, museums, and other places where smoking Is not al lowed. Rata. They appear to be turning snakes to good account in Brazil, for rats have become so abundant that a domestic snake, the giboya, which has about the circumference' of the arm, is sold in the market-place In Rio Janeiro to be kept In the house as a protection against ro dents. It would seem that the serpent pursues its prey more for the pleasure there is in it than from a sense of hun ger, since It Is said it rarely eats the rats caught. Similar in its habits and attachments to the domestic cat of more northern latitudes, the giboya will, lt is said, find Its way back to the house of Its master, even If transport ed to a considerable distance. Making Use of Him. Mr. Pendragon weighs 240 pounds. He called on Miss Flyrte the other evening. "Oh, Mr. Pendragon," she said, "I am so glad to see you. Would you mind sitting In this big chair. I put a port folio of autumn leaves underneath the cushion yesterday." And later in the evening Mr. Pendra gon suggested that she should help him press them. Somerville Journal. Foretelling tbe Weather. A curious barometer Is used in Ger many and Switzerland. It is a jar of water, with a frog and a little step-ladder in It. When the frog comes out of the water and sits on the steps, a rain storm will soon occur. About all that a married man goes through that a single man misses, la the experience of b;'ng the center Ag ar In a family group photograph. To Prevent Freezing. Some interesting things have come to light in the history of the tunnel boring for the Jungfrau railway in Switzerland. Blasting gelatine was used in this work, which freezes at a temperature of about 40 degrees Fahr enheit. It is an exceedingly danger ous substance to handle, being unlike dynamite in this respect, and so the contractors engaged in this woik are keeping their explosives in a sort of safe heated by electricity, bo that the danger of the gelatine freezing is en tirely obviated. In this connection is a proposition to extend this idea to the thawing out of dynamite by some elec trical application, as dynamite is com monly frozen for safe handling. The World's Supply of Wheat. An English expert claims that the wheat producing soil of the world is un equal to the strain that will be put upon it. Even now when the food supply s ample, thousands die because their dis ordered stomachs fail to digest the food they take. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters strengthen and tone up the stomach and digestive organs. Light From Sugar. Tfise flashes of bluish white light seen in the dark when pieces of sugar are rubbed together have been studied by Mr. John Burke, an English physioist. By rotating a loaf of Sugar on a lathe against a hammer he has obtained al most continuous luminosity, enabling him to observe and photograph the spectrum. The light appears to be a result of. some change in the crystals, and not due to heating or to chemical action between the sugar and air, as was supposed. Makes the Spot Vanish. A slight rap may cause a brnise, or a slight blow a black one, sore and ten der. But it is easy to cure a bruise by tbe use of St. Jacobs Oil, and make the spot vanish and tbe soreness heal. Interlocking Bricks. A resident of Tornoto, Canada, has i n tt n f Or! a iL'iT'inn K v 1 1-1 Ir VI? 1 -. 1 r V O : claims will save cities considerable ex ; pense if it comes up to expectations. It consists of a system of interlocking j brick, by which the stones dovetail into . each other, the economy resulting from its use being that concrete might be superseded as necessary to make a smooth pavement, but the bricks could be simply laid on tbe foundation. 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