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EUGENE CITY GUARD. Proprietor. eugene crry, oregon. Tub population of New York city lias doubled in thirty years. It now exceeds 1,400,000. A new insurance company in Hun gary pays its policy holders from 100 to 600 florins if their wives elope. Thcb far the Indian war in New Mexico has resulted in the killing of eight bucks and capture of thirty quaws. The Davis Island dam at rittsburg, begun seven years ago by the Govern ment, is just completed at a cost of over 13,000,000. An Iowa Judge has decided that a man is in duty bound to tell his wife where he spends his evenings when away from home. It is understood that the death sentence passed on Louis Kiel, leader of the half-breed rebellion in Canada, will be commuted to life-long servi tude. Six circus men are threatened with lynching at Frankfort, Kentucky, for robbing four boys and compelling them to jump oil while the train was in motion. A bhort time since Baker City, Or egon, BufTered the loss of its jail by fire, and the Court house of Baker county has been destroyed with many aluablo records and books. It is said that 055 farms in Iowa are owned by women, and that twenty dairy farms are managed by women. There are 122 women physicians and five womon attornoys-at-law in the SUte. It is announced at New York that M. Bartholdi will superintend the erec tion of the statue which bears his name. It is expectod to bo in placo and ready for dedication by July 4, 1880. The United States stands third in the list of beer-producing countries, Great Britain, at the last gcnoral esti mate, brewing 1,000,000,000 gallons, Germany 000,000,000, and the United flutes 600,000.000. The pilot boat Governor Moody, which was recently launched at As toria, Oregon, is ready for operations. She is a schooner, and is the property of the State of Oregon. The last Legis lature appropriated $10,000 to build her. The one-cent-per-mile order litis gone into effect on tho Union Pacific railroad, which provides that any employo of the company can procure a ticket for himself or family to ride over any portion of the system at one cent pur mile. It is estimated, taking tho report of 1880 as a basis, that there are now 100,000 practicing physicians in tho Unitod States. It is also estimated that 75 per cent, of them carry and dispeiiHO, in wholo or in part, their own remedies. The finest opals uro now found in Hungarian mines. When first ex tracted tho gema aro soft, friable and easily broken ; so it is necessary to exposo them to tho air aad light for a few days that they may becomo hard and then their colors begin to appear, T. M. E. Schanck, the proprietor of the Assotin (V. T.,) townsito and tho Sentinel, committed suicide by hang ing himself in tho doorway of his printing ol'ko with a piece of printer's twino. He was about CO years old, a bachelor, and tho first white settler of ' tho Assotin bar. Shippers estimate this year's wheat crop of California and Oregon at 23,000,000 bushels. Carry over from last year 10,000,000 and tho -total quantity of wheat in California aud Oregon at this time is 33,000,000 bushels. Deduct what is required for local uses and seeding and there will remain 800,000 tons, or say 20,000,000 bushels available for exKrt. Oregon's wheat is estimated at 3,000,000 bush els for export. The great Cathedral of Saint Feter at Moscow, built to commemorate the release of that city from the French invasion, is now almost completed and it is said that its vast cupolas rival in coloring with the gold and scarlet of the sun. They are fivo in number, and no less than 000 pounds of gold were used in overlaying them. The doors of tho temple cost f 310,000, and uiKn tho marble floors were ex pended 1 1,500,000. Ten thousand worshipers can be comfortable, if their souls let them, within this $12,500, 000 temple. THE DEMI-SEASON. Drr Wlilrli Ar Mail for Trarelinff nil Mnil I'urpiMx. For domi-season dre-iscs for traveling, shopping and for morning wear, na7y blue alpaca is being made up in im itation of the graceful gown worn during the summer by the Princess of Wales and her daughters. For very young ladies silver braid or white mo hair has formed the trimmings, the mo hair being used as a narrow vest, high collar and stra'ght ctjU's, with rows of braid along the edges, and also on tho nath draperies that are worn witn kilt skirt For autumn dresses black braid, or else dark blue Hercules braid, will take tba place of metal braids, and either velvet or plush will be used for tho vest, cuffs and collar. Long over- skirts that are made like the house maid skirt, and looped up on one side or both, will be used with these dresses. and there may be rows of braid or of velvet ribbon tor the trimming. A sido panel of velvet will be chosen by those who prefer pleated skirts with Greek draperies. 1 tie new shade oi Drown, called lynx brown, is also being made up in mohair and alpaca dresses for the three autumn months, when , canvas dresses will be too thin and cloth too heavy for comfort Gilt braid will be sparingly used on such dresses, rather as a piping or edging for brown velvet than in many showy rows or in the ver micelli patterns lately used. Wide wool galloons and wool laces that are em broidered lightly with gilt are rich trimmings for lvnx brown mohairs. while silver threads are wrought in sim ilar trimmings for crav dresses. The mixed red and blue laces are also beinir used to trim blue alpacas, and with these are sometimes seen velvets of the two colors, in stripes or in very small figures, lor the small accessories oi the corsage. i tie correct idea, now ever, in such dresses is to have them ex ceedingly plain, depending on their fine tit for their beautv. When lace is used on mohair, it is most stylish when con fined to the lower skirt; a single deep fall of lace, very slightly gathered, crosses the front and side gores, or else there are two or threo narrower rutnes of lace across the front, and several rows are placed up the left sido in the onsen left uncovered bv the drancrv. Still another plan is that of edging side pleats with narrow wool lace, and form ing the front and sides of the skirt of these pleats. When braid is chosen for trimming, the new fancy is to form the front breadth of . two very wide box pleats, oovoring these with clusters of cross rows of the braid, lengthening each row in the cluster, and curling up the ends toward tho sides. A pointed plastron made in the same way then trims the corsage, and smaller points are on tho sleeves. To complete such a suit for traveling there should be a long blue or brown cloth ulster, and a bon net of rough blue straw with the brim covered with bluo or brown velvet as is the most becoming to the wearer. A rosette of braid or of wool lace, or some "donkey's-car loops" of wool or of crape, should trim the close round hat of felt or straw that many young ladies prefer to bonnots. Harper s liazar. UNDERTAKERS. How and Why the Term Cam to Applied to " Funeral Director." lie Tho earliest known use of this word as applied to conductors of funerals is by Young, who has tho couplet : While rival undertakers hovor round A n J with his eimid the sextoa marks the ground. The present use of the word is no doubt derived from its primary mean ing, ono who stipulates to do anything, or undertakes tho management of any alVair. Two hundred yoars ago a class of people known as upholders were usually called upon to take charge of tho funorals Thus the poet Gay say's : The upholder, rueful harblnirer of death. Wuli n with Impatience, lor the dying (Tenth. Now. upholders were dealors in second-hand furniture, old clothes and tho liko, and perhaps were so called because they were so often resorted to as tho last resourco of failing credit As theso persons wore able from their stock of cheaply purchased material to supply what was neoded at funerals at less ex pense than the regular merchant or haberdasher, they came to bo thus em ployed, and also to furnish houses. In time tho more ambitious of this class confined their business to tho furnishing of houses only, and dealt in goods both new and old, and to avoid tho con founding of thoir business with that of the Uneral managers styled thomsclves upholsters, a name changed latter to upholsterers. Subsequently the more pretentious members of the clan of upholsterers assumed the name of undertakers, deriving the cognomen fnnrinalltp anrtnrvli fpttm iKn atriittiitn wt "f.ivwuj v-iiwuii a i vita tuu n'uiiiVMiiivii of its parts in tho Saxon tongue. An undertaker, one who takes in hand a business or task, or renders himself responsible for its performance. Or perhaps tho idea of tho word was taken from the French namo for the samo ofllco. entrepreneur, though the primary Idea oi tho r reach word' is rather that of one who bids for a particular task. Clarendon, in his "History." gives the word with a general meaning in the ine, "Antrim was naturally a great undertaker." llonevwood. in "The Good-Natured Man of Goldsmith, speaks thus of Croaker: "His yery mirth is an antidote to all gayety, and his appearance has a strongor effect on my spirits than an undertaker s shop. St. Louis Globe Democrat, A noted statistical Edward At kinson, insists that there is an abund ance of room yet in this world. The 1.400.000.000 persons supposed to bo on theglobe could all find easy standing room within the limits of a field ten miles square, and by the aid of a tele phono could lie addressed at one time by a single speaker. In a field twenty miles square they could all be comfort ably seated. A. Y. Tribtme. Dr. C. C, Abbott the naturalist, re cently found upon his farm at Trenton, J., a box tortoise, upon the under shell of which was cut his grandfather's name. J. Abbott with the date 1821. The appearance of the tortoise denoted great age. and there is no reason to . . V. I. M i L i ,L. 1 Iuuuuw mo law mat me name was re any ngraved upon it sixty-four years ago. "THE GOOD OLD TIMES." (iooil UmlnuHmltjr, ll it Iteli'ml I lie Timet of the Present 4 8 mi It "-pnrU. Yes, "the good old fines" undoubted' had much to boast of, but in one regard they were wofully behind tiio present times, be the latter good, bud or indif- erent We refer to mendacity. Not that there is any less lying now than there was in ages gone, but rather that the practice is looked upon with a larger spirit of charitableness than formerly, and that mankind Is more willing to condone his brother's excur sions from veracitv than he was in those good old times aforesaid. We read in sacred writ of the quick and terrible visitation upon Ananias and Sapphira, not because they lied, but simply because they kept back part of the truth. If tho precedent established in their case were sir ctly followed to day, what an epidemic of sudden deaths the newspapers would be called upon to record! The Asiatic cholera and his twin destroyer. Yellow Jack, together with all their cousins and titer sisters, and their aunts, would be forced to shut up shop and go out of business, inas much as there wouldn't be enough of humanity left for them to work upon and pay running expenses, while con sumption, fever and diseases of the k'dney, heart, brain el a'., would long ago have gone into hopeless bank ruptcy. Possibly even the medical fra ternity might ero this have become dis couraged and become reputable mem bers of society. Why. look about you, and you will not fail to discover an Ananias or a Sapphira in every other man or womau whom you meet in your da;ly walk. Here' is the real-estate dealer, for ex ample. He takes you to look at the piece of property he wishes to sell. He points out the beautiful prospect but says nothing of tho raw winds which roar about the plnce from November to June; he speaks of the tine elevation, but is silent in regard to tho ice-covered, slippery hill you must climb, if you can, next winter; he explores with you the commodious cellarage and comments upon its roominess in eloquent terms, but he strangely forgets to mention that it is afloat two-thirds of the year; he shows you the tine well of water and asks you, with assurance born of per sonal knowledge, if you ever tasted better, but it does not occur to him to remind you that in summer, when tho well isn't as dry as a Sunday-school discourse, the water tastes almost as bad ns it smells anil smells almost as bad as it tastes; he takes you into the chamber hot a syl lable about the leaky roof ; he points out the external beauties of the house the fact that there is nothing but faith between the clapboards without and tho plastering within entirely es capes him ; ho dilat-s upon the splen d d neighbors, but fails to refer to tho neighbors' hens. And soon, t-- tluj end of tho chapter. What ho tells you is true. Ho does not lie. He only keeps back part of tho truth. Should he die suddenly, nobody would be so unchari table as to intimate that his taking-oS was a punishment for constructive men dacity, especially if he bo rich. It would bo apoplexy or heart disease, or some other respectable malady, and the stain which still hangs about the memory of Ananias and Sapphira would never cause his heirs, administrator? and assigns to hang their heads and blush. The landlord of tho summer hotel ad vertises his finely appointed house, its extensive views and its well-nppoiuted table; but advertising costs money, and ho can not afford to pav for space in which to tell of tho malaria which rises from tho swamps down there in the hollow, or of tho mosouitoes which tlinng the air nnd bleed the guest with a persistency! almost equal to his own, or of tho fact that his "fresh" vegetables are fresh Only in tho sense that they nro fresh from tho can in which the havo ' been imprisoned twelvemonth, or of tho diphtheretio con dition of the outbuildings, or of any one of the many "oris ' and "outs with which ho is only too familiar. He keeps back part of tho truth, lie docs noth ing nioro, nothing worse. And ho reads the story of the . Biblical fibbers with complacency, if not with coutempt 1 ho doctor feels of your pulse and gives you a dose. Ho docs not tell you vou aro better off without medicine. Perhaps he goes so far as to not tell you candidly that ho doesn't know what's the matter with vou. At all events, he keeps back part of tho truth. Tho fato of his Scriptural prototypes has no terrors lor mm. But why waste words over a matter that is apparent to all? In every pro fession, art craft trade and occupation you will find the same thing. Lvcry body, everywhere, no matter what he be doing, or whether he be doing noth ing at all. is engaged, more or less con stantly, in keeping back part of the truth. And whoever hears of "death by lying?" You will search the mor tuary reports in vain for it among the causes of deaths. To be sure, there is one exception, namely, the newspaper writer; but ho is the exception which proves tho rule. Boston Transcript. m mm Careless Letter Writers. Some facts and figures showing how careless many persons are, appear in a Washington budget concerning the Dead Letter Office. The whole number of letters received during last vear was 4,8:54.099, or an average of 15.675 for each working day. Of these 3.719.380 were sent to the Central Office because they wore not called for at the postoffice to which they were directed, and 112. 643 were returned to the postotlices by hotel-keepers and thence sent to the Dead Letter Ollice because the departed guests for whom they were intended failed to leave a new address. Of the domestic letters opened. 18.387 con tained money amounting to f :13,770. 17; 20,204 contained drafts, chocks, money orders, etc., to the amount of (1,56. 948. 13; 84,088 contained postage stamps; 34,390 contained receipts, paid notes, and canceled obligations of all sorts; 88.343 contained photographs, and 25. 654 contained art.cles of merchand.se. Chicago Herald. By a provis on in the laws of the Republic of Mexico it is said that all persons not Mexicans are prohibited from owning an estate within twenty leagues of we boundary Una. BOUGHT A MOLE. A Toons I-uriy's Peculiar Demand H ap plied hf lira Clerk. "What's the news? There isn't any," was tho reply a drug clerk gave to reporter this morning. " Do you sell much " " No, we don't sell much opium, answered the clerk, before the reporter had time to ask the question. " That racket is played out. When the papers get hard up for news a reporter is sent out to write up a harrowing tale about the great increase in the cale of such drugs; to tell how many hundreds of people are addicted to it how beautiful young ladies pawn their jewelry to get it, and how even the children cry for it It's dollars to buttous the reporter's imagination furnishes tho fact--. Oh, 1 don't know as I blame him; bo's got to writ) what he is told, I suppose, if it is a slight deviation from the truth. But as I said a good deal of it is bosh. There are opium eaters, of course, and people who take every imaginable sort of drug, people some of whom stand well up in societv but 1 don't believe there are any more of them than there were twenty years ago. But say, 1 w.ll give you an .tern. and ail of a sudden the talkative druggist was convulsed with laughter. Well, out with it quick." answered tho pencil pusher; "what is it funny?'' " Funny, yes. It's just this: a young lady, quite a society girl in Elmira, came in here the other day and asked me for somu:huig to make a mole. "Matfo a rauJo you mean remove one?" . "No, I don t mean to remove one. After some hesitation she explained to me that another cer ain young lady had a niolo on her wrist 'right on the line of life.' as a fortune teller had said. and that itindical.d a sunnv disnosi tion, a good wife, long life, happiness, riches and pretty nearly everything else on the calendar. I supposo ber rival had been making use of the informa tion, and therefore the young woman applied to me for sonr tiling to cause a similar lucky s gn to grow on ber arm. "Did you accommodate her?" "Why, certainly; it's one of the tricks of the business to always have what your customer wants. 1 gave her a preparation to ra'se a blister. Mid I suppose she is now undergoing the or deal It cost her a two-dollar bill, and I hope it will bring her riches, happi ness and a husband," and he turned away to wait on a customer who hud just couio in. Elmira Gazette. m m THE CLOAK " FORM." A Woman Who Earn Good AVare Pat ting on Other People' Oarments. Every afternoon at five o'clock richly attired woman emerges from a down-town cloak establishment Her figure is perfection, her face js beauti ful and her carriage is graceful. "Oh! she is our form," sbid one of the proprietors, when asked about her. " Your form?" "Yes. 1 see you are not acquaints 1 with trade terms. A form is indispensa ble to cloak establishments. The sale of cloaks depends on their attractive ness. The" buying for the fall and win ter season has begun, and country merchants are in town or aro coming to purchase their stocks. We must show them how the garments look. To display tho cloaks to tho best ad vantage, we have a woman to put them on, and thus buyers view them as they actually appear wben in use. Wire dummies will not answer. They have no heads, no arms, no feet. Tiiey are euveloped in paper muslin, and they can not move. "What can the form do that makes her so important to your trade?" Our form, you must have noticed, is a shapely woman with handsome feat ures. You do not often see a more stylish appearing woman, either in dress or in movements. A cheap cloak loses its cheapness on her. She knows how to draw tho cloak around her to exhibit it to tho best advantage. She knows the positions to assume and the stylo in which to walk and reveal to the customer's eye the cloak in a favor able way." " Is putting on cloaks and walking around and posing before your custom ers all that your form does?" "Yes, and we are mighty glad to get her without asking anything more of her." "What do you have to pay her?" " Wo pay her thirty dollars a week the your around. We let her have a vacation in the summer. She returned from tho seashore recently. She is so valuable to us that we paid her ex penses while she was away, and we also pay for the dresses which she wears in our house. We do as well by our form as any coucern, and we have as good a ono as there is in Now York." N. J'. Sati. THE ART OF WRITING. Ita Tower, an Compared with the Force of Oratory. Writing is a struggle. It begins early and ends late. It is inbred with some and acquired by others. A habic well formed will lead one to like it as a pastime, and certainly it is excellent as a mental discipline and an intellectual force. Speakers may be heard by a houseful. Writers are known to the million. It is the nearness to Nature's heart that touches. It is the speaking p.cture that hangs on the. walls of memory, and the viv.d story that we love to hear related. There is no am bition with a broader field; there is no audience of more infinite vaiiety: and no class of more ardent truth-seekers than the class 'vho would welcome an earnest wr.ter. To be a writer; to be able to reach thousands and convince hundreds; to please twenty and offend nonj; to cre ate new characters and retouch older events; to correct errors and stimu.ate exertion; to encourage the lowlv aud check tho haughty; to paint some soft tinges on the hard tragedy of erery-day life around us, is enough to inspire one's efforts, to excite one's ambition, to re ward one s undertaking. J. H. Dono van, in Current. mom Ira Wilde, of Dayton. O., recently discovered at a G. A R. reunion at Springfield a daughter that baa been lost to him for th.rty year. Cincinnati Times . TRICKS ON THE TRACKSI Danger frut hlf h Englurera Have the Pnblle and The mselvfa. The Railway lltview. One who is accustomed to railway traveling can scarcely realize how much he is dependent for safety upon the engineer. Added to the responsi bility of their station, engineers are also in constant danger of accidents caused by the tricks of jealous rivals. This rivalry, it is said, sometimes prompts to the doing of utterly mean tricks. A Nicklo Plate engineer after his very first trip was laid off because he had "cut out" all the bearings of his engine. He was re-instated, how ever, after he proved some rival had filled his oiling can uith emery. An other new engineer was suspended for burning out the flues of his boiler. Through grief at the loss of his posi tion he died, and then a conscience stricken rival confessed that he had put oil in the tank so that it foamed and showed water at the top guage, when in reality there was scarcely a quart in the boiler 1 These intense jealousies, together with terrible anxiety incident to their work, has a terribly straining effect on the nerve, and statistics tells us that, though Locomotive Engineers may look strong and vigorous, they are not all a hearty class. Ex-Chief Engineer A. 8. Hampton, Indianapolis, Ind., (Div. 143) was one of those apparently hearty men, but he says : "The anxiety, strain and jolting came near finishing me." His sufferings localized in ca tarrh of the bladder, but he used War ner's safe cure faithfully for twenty weeks and now exclaims, "I am a well man." T. S. Ingraham, of Cleveland, Ohio, assistant Chief engineer, and other prominent members are also em phatic in its praise. The Locomotive Engineers' Brother hood has 17,000 members and 240 di visions. Its headquarters is in Cleve land, Ohio, where Chief Engineer Ar thur for twenty years has exercised al most dictatorial sway. It was organ ized in August, 18C3, by tho employes of the Michigan Central. It has given nearly two million dollars to the widows and orphans of deceased members. WHY HE WAS AFFECTED. Buying a Trousseau irmn the Man She Once Dlscirded. Let ' me tell you one thing about shopping, dear reader. There was a clerk behind the counter in the white goods department of a dry goods store. Ho had the air of a foro'gn nobleman, with a bewitching admixture of tho American dude. The very sight of him was enough to conjure up a halo of roniauce around his darling, curly little bead. In front of that same counter, seated placidly oil a stool, was a dis- tinguishedly fashionable young woman. She was making a selection of under clothing; and anybody familiar with the beauty, intricacy and cost of the garments now worn by out-and-out swell belles can understand when I say that she seemed to be buying every thing that struck her fancy, that she was indeed purchasing liberally. But it wasn t poss bit, 1 thought, that a visibly growing emotion on the part of the pretty clerk was duo to the magni tude of the sales. No, nothing drectly connected with mere trade could nave so stirred the depths of his delicate soul. lie got worse ami worse. His liaud quivered, his eves tilled with tears, his replies to her casual ques fons grew more incoherent, and lin ally, with a sigh that almost rent his moderate bulk, and a grip of his in linitessnial forehead between lis trembling palms, he dashed out of the room. 'What in the name of goodness is the matter with the fellow?" I in quired of the superintendent of tho de partment after lie had detailed nnotlier clerk to attend to the fair customer. "On the positive quiet" ho replied, 'I don't mind tellnr; you. The young man is a rejected suitor of the lad v. She is going to be married to another. She is purchasing a bridal outfit. To take an active share tn the making up of her trousseau was more than he could stand. See?" Cincinnati En quirer. A MOHAMMEDAN TRADITION. The Miraculous f tone In the Great Mosque at Mecca. In tho Kaaba, tho most ancient and remarkable building' of the great Mosque at Mecca, is preserved a miraculous stono, with the print of Abraham's feet impressed upon it It is said, by Mohammedan tradition, to be the identical stone which served the patriarch as a scaffold when he helped Ishmacl to rebuild the Kaaba, which had been originally constructed by Seth, and was afterwards destroyed by the deluge. Whilo Abraham stood upon this stono it roso and sank with bim as he built the walls of the sacred edifice. The relic is said to be a frag ment of the same gray Mecca stone of which the whole building is con structed, in this respect differing from the famous black stone brought to Abraham and Ishmael by the angel Gabriel, and built into the northeast corner of the exterior wall of the Kaaba. which is generally supposed to be e ther a meteorite or fragment of volcanic basalt. It is supposed to have been originally a jacinth of daz zling whiteness, but to have been made black as ink by the touch of sinful man, and that it can only recover its original purity and brilliancy at the day of judgment The millions of kisses and touches impressed by the faithful have worn the surface cons d erably; but in addit on to this, traces of cup shaped hollows have been ob served on it There can be no doubt that both the relics associated with Abraham are of high antiquity, and may possibly have belonged to the pre historic worship wh ch marked Mecca as a sacred site long before the fol lowers of the Prophet had set up their shrine there. lilachcood's Magazine. THE GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL Of tho trans-continental I nes con, peting for Oregon patronage, the Northern Pacific has kept the l.-nd as the most desirable route, both us re gards completeness of equipment and beauty and variety of scenery along the route. Leaving Portland at 3 o'clock p. M one rides along the banks of the Columbia, whoso grand scenery, how ever often seen, is ever a fresh source of wonder and delight. It would re quire the genius of a Ruskin in hjg palmiest days to describe adequately the magnificent pictures which open out at every turn as tho train winds slowly over the trestles and along the mountain sides of the Columbia. Ncj. ther the Hudson, nor St. Lawrence tho Mississippi, nor Great Lakes can furnish any such combination of moun tains, colors and water as one can see any day in Oregon by riding from Portland to The Dalles. ! The lino from Portland to St. Paul by the Northern Pacific is the scenic route. There aro views along Clarke's Fork of the Columbia which are worth all the petty discomforts of tho two days' continuous travel to see. Lake Pond d'Oreille, over which tho road has actually been built, in its primitive wilderness recalls most vividly some imaginative scene from one of Cooper's Indian novels. Ono of the glories oi tlie Northern route is the abiding presence of our old friends the trees. What an infinite relief to the eye, after a day's ride over a treeless prairie, is the sight of even a scrub oak or a solemn pinel But what contributes very largely to the passengers' comfort is tho system of regular meals in dining cars which run on this line from one end of the route to the other. Even in tho coldest weather of Janu uary the passenger never misses hear ing "Dinner is now ready in the dining carl" called promptly at the hour wheji he wants it. Where is the enjoy ment of travel when tho stomach is empty? Let those answer who have patronized some Canadian roads and had five minutes in which to bolt down a cup of muddy coffee and a stale sandwich. The "Northern" is the only route to the famous Yellowstone Park, a branch road running from Livingston almost to the entrance of this great National resort. There is no doubt that when the peculiar beauties of this wonder land become thoroughly advertised, as well as its easy accessibility, thousands of pleasure seekers and tourists will visit this natural park. The unsuc cessful (because premature) enterprise of Iiufus Hatch, who attempted to apply Wall-street methods to the run ning of a hotel, can detract nothing from the charm of scenery of this re gion, which is above comparison with anything else. In its commercial importance the Northern Pacific is on the threshhold of a great career. Whether the Cas cade Division will be built in one or ten years, is of little consequence, so far as the development of tho country is concerned. Duluth, the Northern's real Eastern terminus, has many a day this fall received more cars of wheat than Chicago, the business connec tions of the former city reaching west ward as far as Spokane Falls and Sprague. The $8-per-ton rate from Eastern Washington to St. Paul or Lake Superior, though it may not re sult in diverting much traffic from the Columbia river route, has already created a confidence in the future of Spokane, Lincoln and Franklin county lands that six months ago did not ex ist. Such liberality on the part of the Northern Pacific is most commenda ble, and reflects the greatest credit on the management of the road, from a business point of view. The relations between a railroad and its patrons are mutual, and whatever tends to antag onize the one against the other, results in serious injury to both. And while the Northern management is ever on the alert to provide for the comforts of its first-class patrons, it is not slow to recognize in the emigrant to Oregon and Washington the foundation of the road's future prosperity ; hence more than ordinary attention is paid to those of limited means who come to this country to make new homes for themselves and families. Emigrant cars are attached to regular express trains, with sleeping accommodations on the same, without extra expense. Unlike other linos, its Directors recognized the commercial importance of Portland at the outset by establish ing a General Western Passenger Agency hore, under the efficient man agement of Mr. A. D. Charlton, whose father (of the Alton) has no superior among general passenger agents. As traveling passenger agent, Mr. W. F, Carson is as "fly" as they make them, and it must be a man of dense and opaque ignorance who is not convinced of the advantages of the "Northern" after listening to him. Mr. George T. Willett does the agreeable as private secretary to Mr. Charlton, whose sound judgment is demonstrated by so happy a choice of an assistant Take it all in all, a trip in either direction over this great thoroughfare is an event in a man's life not soon to be forgotten E. H. P. Uncle Jake (to his chums, as an il lustration of the simplicity of a stage load of city folks recently under his charge) Ez we turned Claggett s Bluff", about .seven o'clock, the hid crowd burstedout in "ohs!" and "aha. An' what d'ye s' pose 't was all about? Why, one of them common red an' y ler sunsets! Harper's Bazar. ATennessee young man recently sent fervent note to his girl, asking her to elope. The old man. however, guarded her so carefully that she wss unable to do so. But she managed 1 W send him a nice niuskmelon. M "cantelope" told him just how matters stood.