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Only a Flirtation. It wan at Bannnbui-g, s fiwliionuble waterinpplace, in the beautiful region of the Hurtz. The hotel were crowded, and the gardeiiH and promenaded brilliant with well-uresseu, liappy-iooking people. The seiwon wan one of unusual gaiety, for a regiment of cavalry was quartered near; and balls, concerts and picnic ex ourswns were the order of the day. Among the English and American vis itors, none attracted more attention than Helen Knssel. Not that she was bv any means the fairest of the many fair wo men there assembled ; but her grace and wit, her expressive, spirituetto face, and a certain magnetic charm of manner, which American girls possess above all others, attracted to her side many upon whom the charm of mere "physical per fection had no such power. She was perfectly aware of this, and in her secret heart rather gloried in it. She was seated, this evening, at her window, looking out upon the beautiful grounds, and the lovely hills and valleys bevond, while listening to a grave, mat ronly hidy, who seemed very much in earnest in what she was saying. The young lady turned to her at length, with an amused smile: " Why, auntie, you take the matter a great deal too seriously. Of course I urn only flirting with him." ? " Flirting? and you engaged to be mar ried !" " There is no harm in a little innocent amusement such as this. It isn't even a serious flirtation, but merely a little plavfnl trifling, pour pamr le temps." : Helen, what would George Drewry think to hear vou sav tbis?" A slight shade crossed the fair face, but she answered lightly: " He would think nothing at all about it, auntie. George is too sensible to no tice such trifles. He knows that I love him." " And Cautain von Harling ? " " Knows that I am flirting. If we are satisfied on that point, I don't see why any one else should be concerned," she answered half pettishly. " You forget the girl with whom ho was said to be in love." " Minna Frieland, the little German beauty? Why she is only the forester's daugliter. I don't think he had any idea of marrying." " Report said differently. Her family is irood. though in a station beneath his own. Colonel von Grote informed me and I think with a purpose that Von Hailing had declared to lam his honora ble intentions toward the girl, who is said to be as good as she is beautiful." " Very impertinent in Colonel von Grote," said Helen, flushing. " But what must this girl think of what you call the flirtation between yourself and the man whom she has probably learned to love ?" " No doubt she understands it. These German girls are too calm and phleg matic to trouble themselves about trifles. The pretty fraulein is welcome to her hundsome lover. I wouldn't for the world seriously interfere between them. And as we leave here in a week's time, tho captain will forget me, as I shall him, and no one be the worse for our three weeks' waltzing and promenading ' uuter der linden.'" Mrs. Mason shook her head. She hod no fear of her neice's becoming too much interested in the young German officer; but she was a lady of tho " old school," and in her eyes nothing could justify tho woman who, with hand and heart pledged to one, could deliberately indulge in coquetry with another. Besides, she could not feel so certain as Helen of the harmlessness of the "amusement" in which she indulged. The captain was evidently very much interested in the charming American girl. More than once, of late, had Mrs. Mason detected a look in the frank blue eyes of the young otticer which betrayed more than perhaps he was himself aware of; and only last night she had noticed the prolonged stroll under the lindens, and the whisper at parting, which had called a slight flush to Helen's cheek, even while she laughed and threw back a gay repartee. This it was which had brought upon the young lady the remonstrance of her uunt, to which she hail replied that it was " only a flirtation." On' tho day following, there was an ex cursion to a point noted for its pictur esque scenery. Helen Hussel was of the party, escorted by a French count, whose attentions to the fair American were be coming rather marked. The young cap tain evidently had not relished this inter ference, but to-day, being on duty, he was compelled to resign himself to his rival monopolizing some hours of the society which he himself found so charm ng. Amid the ivory colored ruins of the old castle, the party dispersed. Some sketched, some lounged and chatted on the green, and others strolled about in poetic meditations and quoted poetry. So they enjoyed themselves, and after a while they awoke to the prosaic fact that they were very hungry, and that, having intended a brief stay, they had neglected to provide refreshments. There was a house of some kind in the valley below. They could see its quaint gable, through the beech trees; and thither the polite French count now volunteered to proceed on a foraging excursion. Doubtless, he could there procure some good brown bread, milk and honey a pastoral refreshment, much affected by the fashionable Bannsburgian visitors. Helen Russel 6tole away from the gay party, in order to enjoy alone the lovely prtcpect visible from the mined tower. She experienced a strange charm in the situation. The gray walls of the old castle, the masses of tangled ivy, the wild moun tain scenery, the deep, solemn stillness lervading the whole all wore for her a sjiell of romance. She wondered what fair lady had, centuries ago, stood on the battlements where she was now standing, watching percluince for the glistening armor or floating plume of the exjaxted lover. A rustling amid the ivy startled her. Had her fancy conjured up this fair vision ? There stood before her a young girl not more than seventeen with the loveliest and most innocent face that she had ever beheld. She was somewhat pale, and there was a very touching ex pression in the soft, appealing eyes. "I am Minna Frieland," said the leantiful apparition, timidly; "the daughter of the forester." Helen took in the whole lovely face and figure at a glance. " No wonder that he should have leen charmod with her," she thought; but she only said, in a graceful, half-playful ac knowledgement of the introduction: "And I am Helen Russel a visitor at the Spa." The girl's blue eyes dilated ; a quick flush rose to her cheek, and Helen no ticed the slight tremor of her lips. She needed no words to interpret these signs of emotion. " She has heard some nonsense about that foolish flirtation," she thought, re morsefully. " I must try to undo it. " " I came to invite the franlein to par take of refreshments at the Forrest House," the girl said, gravely. "The fraulein's friends will go." Helen called to the party below not to wait for her, and she followed slowly with her pretty young guide. " I have heard much of you," she said, in tho sweet, winning way with which she knew how to charm. " I know a friend of yours Captain von Harling. He often speaks of you." This was perhaps an exaggeration, for of late the captain had not mentioned the forester's daughter. " I have heard of the Fraulein Russel," was the girl's low reply. " Tho fraulein has been some time at the Spa? " " Sometime, but shall leave in a few days." " So soon?" She looked up with a sud den, eager light in her eyes. " Will the fraulein return?" " I do not expect to revisit your beauti ful country, which I like so much." And she added with a frankness which she could use with this unsophisticated little maid: "Did not your friend, Captain Von Harling, tell you I was going home to be married ? " Helen knew that Von Harling had no intimation of her engagement, but she had a purpose to accomplish. Minna looked up with eyes full of eager surprise. "It is not true, then, what they told me!" she said, impulsively. " What have they told you?" asked Hel en, kindly. "That Oh, frauline, forgive me! but I was so unhappy, and now to hear you say this is such joy! I I thought you liked him, and hod won his heart from me!" "My poor child!" said Helen Russel, placing her arm around tho waist of the girl, who, seating herself on a mossy rock, hal covered her face with both hands, and was silently weeping "my poor child, you have greatly misunder stood bothCapt. Von Harling and myself. We are tolerably good friends while I re main here; but I am going home to be come the wife of one whom I love with my whole heart, and then the captain and I will forget each other, and you will marry and be as happy as myself." Minna shook her head slowly. "I was very happy, though we were not betrothed. We would have been ah, yes, I am sure we would have been but, oh, fraulein, he is changed ! See beneath those willows by the river we used to walk every day every day; and now he seldom comes, and I think that we shall never again walk there as we have done. I go there still, but alone." Helen soothed and reassured her. Her heart was strangely moved by the artless confession which seemed to have been al most unconsciously poured forth from the girl's full heart. She bitterly regretted the folly of her own conduct, and felt also some indigna tion toward Von Harling, in thinking that he could have so heartlessly neglect ed this innocent, loving girl for a flirta tion with a stranger. No doubt she was herself partly to blame for it; for had she not encouraged and led him on, until that parting whis per of last night had startled lier into the consciousness that such "amusement" might result in something more serious than either had at first intended ? That evening, Helen Russel met the Trussiau officer more coldly than usual. It was time, she thought, that their trifling should be brought to an end; and, for this puqwse, she gave more than or dinary encouragement to the attentions of her new admirer, the French count, without considering that, in so doing, she might be creating a fresh difficulty. In fact, there was a spice of coquetry in Helen Russel's nature, of which she was herself scarcely aware. And this evening, in the crowded saloon, flushed with dancing, excited by the homage paid her, she forgot the lesson of the morning. She smiled on the admirers who crowd ed about her on all but Von Harling, who stood apart, surprised and bewil dered at the sudden change, and more troubled than one would have expected, considering that there had been between himself and the fair American " only a flirtation." He watched her as she floated past him, with the count, to the divine melody of one of Strauss' sweetest waltzes. A white glove fell at his feet, and he picked it up, and, turning aside, stealthily thrust it in his breast. Then he left the hall, and walked thoughtfully under the lindens, where, until this evening, he had had a fair com panion on his arm to reply with ready wit to the sentimental speeches, which, commencing in affected gallantry, had come to be too much in earnest. What were his thoughts, we cannot say; but he was startled out of them by a voice at his ellww. " Monsieur," said the count, with a stiff bow, "mademoiselle desires the glove which she unfortunately dropped, anil w hich monsieur picked up." " I will do myself the honor to retnrn mademoiselle's glove in person," was the somewhat haughty reply. "But, monsieur," persisted the Frenchman, quite as loftily, "made moiselle desired that I would bring her the glove." " Monsieur has my answer." " Monsieur then refuses to deliver the glove?" inquired the count, his dark eyes beginning to glitter. " To the lady, monsieur, I will deliver it." " Monsieur, is this an insult ? " A slight shrug of the shoulders was the reply; and Von Harling deliterately tnrned awaT, and sought the presence of Miss Russel. " Yon go away soon," he said, plead ingly. "Will you allow me to keep this, your glove, as a remembrance of hours happier than I may ever again see?" It was a slight thing to grant; and in deed she had no time for a refusal. The music struck up, and, whith a light an swer she was again floating away in the waltz. So Von Hai ling kept the glove, and. in spite of the jealous and indignant Frenchman, returned it to his breast. As he left the saloon an excited voice hissed in his ear: " Monsieur, you have insulted me! I demand satisfaction!" "Certainly," was the cool reply. " When ?" " Now, if you choose." He was in a wretched, reckless mood, inditt'ereiit, for tho moment, to life or death; for ho was beginning to discover that he had thrown away true heart for the sake of a woman who cared nothing for him, and with whom he yet believed himself in love. The hour was not late. It was no great distance to the ruined castle the least frequented spot that could bo hastily chosen for the settlement of this foolish quarrel. The moon was at her full, and shone down, clear and bright, on the two men who faced each other, and death. The count was excited, but Von Har ling was cool and unconcerned as though lie were strolling through the ruins fo his pleasure. Two shots simultaneously aroused the dreary echoes. Tho form of a man stag gered' bleeding from the spot, but anoth er lay still and white in the moonlight. And almost before the echo had died away, there knelt on the turf beside him a young girl, white as tho death-like face before her, who called frantically upon his name, and swooned on his breast. But between her heart and his lay a wo man's blood-stained glove. They took him to the nearest house, which was that of the forester, and there for weeks his life hung in the balance Vith death, and only tho care of the tru est love could have won him hack to the world which he had been so recklessly willing to leave. Long before he was again able to walk beneath tho willows with his little Min na, she was his betrothed wife; and ho looked back, half-ashamed, upon the fol ly which had uiado him the dupe of a woman whom ho now considered as heartless. For he had found out that, in all the time she had flirted with him, she had been the betrothed of another. As for Helen, she went back to her home a somewhat sadder and wiser wo man. George Drewry had heard some thing of the atl'air, and it needed tho con viction of all her good qualities, and of her real love for him, to undo the im pression and to restore his shaken confi dence. Bnt still Helen Drewry trembles when she thinks what might have been, to both herself and others, the consequence fos what was " only a flirtation." " Not at all! JSot at all! responded George, as they heartily shook hands. " I am delighted to meet the happy fel low who won my pet sister. " And no further allusion was made to the atl'air. " Fred, " said Rosa, demurely, as they enteredtheir own apartment, "is that friend of Davis' better? And "very very gravely" how came you to attend the opera?" " Rosa, cried fmi, turning impul sively, and catching her in his arms. Don t tease me! now could you tnght- en me so, dm-ling? " " Did you care so much whispered Rosa, nestling closer. " But you de- cieved me, and I felt so badly! If you had only told me! But we will bo good now, won't we ?" And she put up her lips for the kiss of peace. " Of course wo will! " said Fred, peni tently, choking over the tender reproach. " I never will again, if you forgive mo this once. I was punished, I think; I thought I had lost my wife. But" added, quickly" we did call to see the friend first. And lie had tne grace to flush a little. "Smart woman, that little wife of mine, " lie remarked to Davis, as he told him about it next morning. "Turned tho tables neatly. " " Humph!" muttered Davis. "lold you so! " Fruit-Trees Willi Low Tops. There can be no advantage of having a tree-top twenty feet high, with the ex tremeties of long, slender branches. As a rule, fruit trees should bo low-Headed so low that when the fruit begins to bear, the branches will reach to the ground. Dwarf trees, in particular, should be trained with low heads. It gives us great pleasure to see that this matter is already understood in tho West. The late planted orchards and the nur series, too, afford evidence of this, so that we can find but one opinion among the more intelligent cultivators. For the pear and cherry, this is still more essential than for the apple, because these trees are more delicate in general, and injuries are more fatal to them. For both these trees we prefer the conical form, whether on dwarfs or free stocks, not because the trees in that form are lieautiful, but liecause the trunks and large branches can lie more etlectually protected. The trees of finer pears are all easily injured by freezing and thaw ing in the bark, which is smooth and thin ; but if the trunks are well feathered with branches to the ground, they will seldom le injured. It should be always borne in mind that the trunk of the tree is the main channel of circulation. When it is injured, circulation will lie inqwded and irregular, and a general debility will quickly follow. Some people argue that this training of the trees as low standards and pyramids is both extensive and un natural. The low standard requires no more pruning after the tree is planted than the high one, and it is just as natural, anil more so, for the tree to branch at three fft from the ground than at eight feet The conical form does reqnire some pruning at first to fix the habit that is to secure a prejwnderance of vigor and size for the lower branches. When this is done it becomes natural, as most !far and cherrytrees, if left to themselves in abnndiint space, will as sume the conical form voluntarily. WomVand Drmorrat. TA'liai in an editor? An editor's bizi- noa i in n-n'tp pil itmala, criml rint neo- " " - , o J try, sort manuscript, keep a mighty big waste liasket, steal matter, rite otner jeo ples's littles, take white Wans and apple - ... . - ...... k ; .-nrlr nineteen hours out of twenty-four, and a w a it'll I damned vj every noaj.jjn ma- IIKJU. Bandana and gar plaid handkerchief are maile up into dresses lor mioses ana little girls. THE THRESHING .'Jr I ' 'I",,"- , , . II ! J Ill I I I ! J I OH, I II. c fee a 3 S u 1 fee " u S3 mS fc-l la VAWMM lUMne, Win., wai rounded In 184, and Ihon consisted of one log cabin. It in to-day the second city of Wisconsin In population, and the firs', in mitnufnrturea. ltn trade oovern two hemlapuermt and five continents, and It bid fair to become tlm rival In industry of the I argent and grentest o' Hs competitors. Among the most prominent Industrie that have contributed no tniion to make the elly what. It Is, are the works of Messrs. J. I. Cass d Co., const limine in the entirety the bincit Ihrcihiiui michiw ftictory in the world. Its capacity In double that of nuy other in this country, and the seventeen Hureg of ground It covers are full of life and scene of eulerprtae. It wiis founded iu a mmil I way la I HI'.', by Mr. L'ase. and now turn out annually three hundred and twenty-five threshing euginei. twenty-five hundred sepmvitors and horse power, three hundred heading mxclilnes, etc., bosldea doing mptir work amounting to over tlbu.tXK). Tile capital employed Is over KM 00,000; the pay-roll foot up over $ (KM per mouth; more than 500 mon are constantly employed. Tne yearly consumption of Iron I upward of I'HJO lou; of lumber, 5,100,000 feet; of belting 50,(HH), etc. Messrs. Cask A t'o. have over 5;H) agencies cattnrd over North America, and their active buglnes girdles the world. In no case was the Gold idedal of the Part commissioner better or more fittingly bestowed, and It hould have been a (Irand Prize. Their Heading Machine, to which wa awarded a Uold Medal lu Culllorulrt. also received the lame award at Pari. The excellence of the machine manufactured by Messrs. Cask A Co. t attested by the thousand who have them Inconstant use. Tbey Htund every tent, ami In quality and quantity of work rank A 1. Messr. Cask t' Co manufacture their celebrated "Apron" and " Eel Ipse" separators, down and mounted horse-powers. Portable and Traction Farm Kngiuei, all of the first order and constructed of the best m ite rials, and In tne best manner by the best workmen. The firm was org inlr.d lu lStti, and I oomposud of Jerome I. Case, Stephen Hull, Massen a B. Krsklue and Kouert H. linker. Huston Jourmil (Amimrrir, Dec. 7, 1878. GRO. W. 8TAVEH, J. N. fcTR .", MAXAUKR FOR OUKUO. AXD WASH1XNTO.X TKHRITORY, Aireutat Hfiaebiirir. Foot of Morrisou Ml reel, Purtinnd Or, ALUS & BLACK. Auenls Tor E. P. ALUS & CO., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, illLL BUILDERS, AND MILL FURNISHERS. We hvc on band and are constantly receiving, Steam Engines. Flour Mill Machinery, Mill gtonet, Portable Flour and Saw Mill, Brltlna; Clnth. flmulter, Bepara lor, Leather and Kubber llvlllns;, and Ueneral Mill FurnUhtitK. g-Sole Agents for the Celebrated Becker Brush Machines; Kcllpae' nd Victor Water wheel,: Allis' Corliss Knginea and Allu' baw Mills. Heud for frluet aud description. ap24 No. 10 Mjstcrlcs. " After nil our troubles, it remained a profound mystery." " Yes, impenetrable ! And so 'twill ever be." Those lew words caught my attention as I was wulkinu quickly by the speakers who at that moment uttered them. I merely saw two dark-robed females, and hould have passed them by unnoticed, had it not been for thoir soleuiu words and tones. It was growing late, and tho night air becoming chilly, so I withdrew to one side of the pavement, and there arranged my shawl to fold more closely around my throat. While so engaged, the sneakers passed me, as I guessed they would. They were now silent, but from the light of a street-lamp I obtained a good view of their general appearance ; their head-gear close-fitting bonnets and black veils folded back took the form of a monk's cowl, and as they flitted by with noiseless steps, one might have imagined them two members of the Spanish In quisition, about to attend the attfo defe to some unfortunate victim doomed by that once dreadful tribunal. The features of both were stern and for bidding, but in one they resemblud the gleaming eves and sharply-pointed beak ot some ferocious bird of prey swooping down upon its quarry ; and If that woman cannot fathom tho deepest mystery, no one ever will. It's verv well for them tbey can dis cuss the subject in all its phases ; but how am I to exist in this state of mental dink ness, haunted by that never-to-be reveal ed tale? I see no course before me but to plunge into some other obscurity j but, then, I do not love the mysterious in actual life, preferring, to use a nautical phrase, " all fuir and above board." Now, in a novel, it's delightful to be kept on the qui n'tvr.wondering how it will all end, and what the fute of that young and love ly heroine, surrounded by implacable foes, who, unbeknownst to the world, is nobody's daughter, and somebody's wife. Hut why people should wrap themselves in little mysteries is to me an enigma. I once lived in the same house with two ladies who were seldom visible to a stran ger. "Oh ! please say we are not at home," as they would hurriedly whisper, if the door-bell rang. And there they were peeping from behind the lace cur tains, and listening to the cross-questioning that followed the denial. If either of them had on a new dress, sacque or shawl, and no one could . ascertain where the article had been purchased whilst I I was so simple-minded as to rush into their presence with " a love of a pattern," or displaying some wonderful bargain in dry goods. Another individual I knew who even in his boyhood was mysterious, lie would bring in small parcels, and quickly place them under lock and key, looking like any murderer, endeavoring to hide the traces of his crime. 11 would destroy every letter and scrap of paper, and, at length, ended his dark career by going abroad, changing his name, mysterious to the last. And yet we are not compelled to "wear our heart upon our sleeve for daws to pick at," though that class of people are fur the most amiablo ; but they do not go through lifefco easily a the inscrutable being shrouded in mystery. For, alas ! are there not daws in human form, who take advantage of candor, ami simplicity, and the lack of worldly wisdom ? For my part, were I to put on the mys terious. I should feel like the Man in the Iron Mask, or the Wandering Jew, or some other personage a link between legendary and historical and thus lose my own identity, irrevocably. Secrecy and mystery cause a baneful atmosphere. Open, then, wide the windows ; let heaven's free airlandfelori ous sunshine wander through, and banish every dark nook and cranny from our homes and from our lives. A New-York dealer in second-hand 111 ccwtnmes has sent a dainty note to almost every prominent society lady ia town, offering to purchase " the discard ed costumes of the season jusU-hised at prices' that cannot be ignored." MACHINE WORKS OFJ. I. CASE & CO. tNlhKWAUt()UU.T WWIPtwajUHOtUk. IfcMMHATOH SHOH U.LMQIIIK a Mrnoun. ,TauoiMQn 1 1. uivKftPAiNT irowrneoifc i4.totAcaami imi i . n iRtuu uur riu tout. North Front Street, Portland, Oregon. Mannerism In Stylo Blackwood' OpInlon.J Almost evory man has his tricks of writ ing, which are apt to grow upon him un consciously. Sometimes they are so in significant as to be almost unobjectiona ble, and yet they jar on tho ear of the sensitive reader. As almost everybody must plead guilty more or less, we have the less h esitation in alluding to these, even at th a risk of laying ourselves open to retort. They may be merely tho un necesssary repetition of some conjunction which see'ms to lift tho writer more com fortably across the rift which yawns bo tween a couple of his periods. What strikes one more, of course, is the reitera tion of Borne epithet or qualify! ng adverb which will invariably force itself to the front when the pen hesitates nnd pauses. For the use of words of tho kind becomes well-nigh mechanical ; actually th oy may serve their purpose at least as well its any other, and yet we believe that the most careless of readers come to recognizo them with a sense of irritation. What is more strange is the affection which writers who should bo excellent judges of style, and who havo had an infinite variety of liter ary practice, take for certain phrases and turns of Hpeech, which, to say tho least of them, are singularly ungraceful. It would bo in vaiu for those eminent) gentlemen to make any attempt at concealing thoir identity ; and we would undertako to draw up from memory a catalogue of words and phrases which should reveal the workmanship of any one of them unless, indeed, they had been put on their guard and had cut their work to pieces in tho revising; for it is wonderful how somo favorite phrase comes to fall naturally Into Its place in a sentence ; if you Btop to change it you check the flow of thought, and are, after all, but indiffer ently satisfied with its substitute. Should any one care for illustrations upon the abuse of mannerism, we cannot do better than refer him to Thackeray's "Novels by Kminont Hands," or to some of the paro dies and extravaganzas by the American humorists, though there are wanting in Thackeray's more delicate discrimination. Committee on public lands recently considered Hibert's bill relating to the public lands of tho United .States, and au thorized the chairman to report it to the house with a recommendation that it pass. The bill was framed for the purpose of relieving parties imprisoned for interfer ing with timber on public lands. The steamship California, from Alaska, reports all quiet at hitka, and tne war steamer Alatka lying at anchor in the harbor. Wx of the Alatka'i crew attempt ed to desert a few days ago by swimming ashore, having donned life preservers. They were tracked by Indian runners and captured. ROCK SOAP! Tho llent Hoap Made. Ak jronr Grocer for it. H.G.NEWBE1IIIY, 133 Front Ht Portland, or. Agent for Oregon and Washington territory. BURTON HOUSE, rorner Third "d T Mtreet NearSleamablp Landing and Railroad Depots PORTLAND, OREGON. Lewlston k Fretland, Proprietor (Late of Minnesota House.) Will spare no paint nor expenae to make tbi bonae. TUB II KMT HOTEL IN PORTLAND. M. C. 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Our prewmew can print paper of any adze thereby avoiding; the noeeKwity of Mending to Hun IViiiicInco, hh hereto fore when deMlrlngr a Mlxo liirjrer than could bo t um lMhed lu Portland. Add ren, PACKARD & CO., Oregon NewspaDer pm- lithui(f Co. l'OHTLAND, OltlXJOIV. P. O. llox Stcbbln 8, Post & Co., Cankers. Chcyehmk, Wyo., April 19, 1879. Qkstlkmiw. I bave known the bearer. 8. H. Kennedy, Ki , for over three year. I have alio ned Die Hheen Din manufactured, by him during thai lime and I know frnro experience mat u cure aeao, a i nave erauicaied me an eae from my own flack by the u of hi Dip when all other remedie tried had failed. X confidently recommend hi Non-polnouou and Tobacco Dip aa the beat and ebeapeat dip lu ue. Very respectfully, M. . fOST. IMP0UT1XT TO WOOL GROWERS. I take pleaaure In announcing that I am making a pure "TOBACCO MHKKr DIP" Iron the beat Kentucky Leaf. I extract the virtue of tba tobacco by pure bot water. The Infuaion tbua made I evaporated from 20 degree of atrengtb to 2V), which make an article of uni form .trench and purity; witboul the addi tion of poiMinoua aubatancea, aud ahould be diluted 1UU part tonne (alinounb aafe tone at any degree of atrenglb) for dipping ibaep. Till, dip I convenient for ue aa 11 only re quire water to dilute IU A tobaceo la o well anown to wool grower who have ned the arne, I can only add that I have It In tbi con venient form fur them put up In on and five gallon tin package aeled tightly. aMrln orderiag tbi dip aak for Concentrated Extract of Tobacco. 8. H. KENNEDY. Oraaba, Neb. P. P. Order either of my three eheepDIpe, vis.: CrxranraATEn FxTarror ToarTO.(HiM lotk hhiif Dip, VWnouj); alaoNon-l'oiso-oua Huaar Dip. pkick riaeALLox: Tobaeoo Dip.. -UTS -its -. a 25 Hemlock Did Noo-Foiaanou Dip- J. McCRAKEN A CO., mj7 Wboleaale Agent. Portland. ADDIHON C CIDJJiX. Attorney A Counaclor at Law, Portland, t t t Oregon particular attention paid to bualneea In lh United btate eourU.