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EUGENE CITY GUARD. JLUCAllPIIKLI Proprietor, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. UNE PETITE. Twin np In the mountains I met ber lMt lummer In early July: To wile If 1 noon will forget her? lnriseil, my dear follow, not I. to dainty nod charming a creature Ne'er yet ha graced germiin or ball ; -Srery pone of her form, every feature, X Mill can recall. Her gowns were remarkably tarty, Her hat had a faahlonable tone, Her speech, though It rnrfly wai haaty, Yet ahowed she'd a mind of lief own ; Aad I waa ber favored adorer. Won glances and smiles on the sly, Though mamma hovered watchfully o'er he. With guardian eye. Tbe end came with har.y September When Gertrude went back to the town; With pleaaure I long hall remember Her laughter, and even her frown. Did I apeak out my love ere we parted? Well, no, I did not, for you are The maiden who left ma half hearted Waa aged f thrti! Clinton ScoUari, fa A Banbler. AN HOUR IN A COLLIERY. Through the Earth's Crust Into a Coal-Mlne. Rewllderlng Herniation ol the Deacenl Horse-Stalls Allre with Mlre-A Haunted ave -Items nth Entertaining and Instructive. Through the earth's crust Into a coal mine! Will you come? Take first a glance round the pit-top; peer down the black hole you are to descend; look up at the huge wheel overhead, and comfort yourself with the thought that the ropes, though they seem so like p ders' threads, are made of steel and will bear thirty tons. Take this lamp, unless you prefer a candle stuck in your hat, collier-fashion; and as the cage o the platform is called in which men And coal alike are conveyed clicks on the catches, step In. clutch the iron rod which runs alons its top to steady Your self, and prepare to drop a quarter of mile in no time! A bell rings, and we are oft. Before the qtialrny sensation, so suggestive of sca-8lcknes, is fully realized, with a rattle and jurk the cage tops and you find yourself bewildered and helpless; for the candles cast so dim a glimmer as morely to render the darknoss visible We will sit on this bench for a minute, till as the phrase Is wo "get our pit eyes;" and theu start, escorted by the courteous man agur, to seo such objects of interest as naturally attract a novice's attention. First of all while we Hro waiting for our carriage to drive up let us pay a visit to tho stables; capital stalls, cut out in the solid rock, at present un tenanted save by swarms of mice, which scamper oil in all directions as we bring our lamps to bear ou Ihe well filled mangers, hurpriso number ono. Wondcringly, we ask: , "How did arc get here?" ' "lSrouffht down in tho hay, yon know; and they multiply so alarmingly that wo keep cats, and pay them weekly wagC5L that they may wash down with suaTl sue some oPliieliof ses as" we go our rounds." So our guide informs us. and adds: C'omo now; it is time we started for our drive." Accordingly, we return 1o the spot, whence divers arnull tiuinols. of im penetrable blackness radiate; each of us crams himoM into uu oblong box on wheels; and a tarn ot a docn or so "trams," as they are called. Is at once set in mot on by a plump, powerful horse. He has not seen daylight for eight years . we learn in answer to our question ings. the uniform temperature warmer in winter, cooler in summer than on the surface suits the equine oonsiiiiuiou woiuioniiliy; ana then there is no ra n iiuricrcroiind. Dark as it is. our Dobbin has sense enough to top outside the tram-rails at any stop page, and so the trams pass without touching Dim. Jiouutless, many a whack on the heels has taught h in this lesson, for the string of carts is drawn by a loose traoe-chain only. Don't omit, while going along thi road cut through rock and coal, to keep a good lookout for any ouriosit es we may pass; only hold your head well j " i. ...ii T i uown, or it w.ii come in pmniui COD' tact with the timber props which sup port the roof, and wh.ch rost at each side on stout upright posts. See! there is perfoct Lepidode nitron, standing just as it grew, when these dark places 01 tno cart!i constituted a swampy forest, densely covered with reeds anil ferns, and trees of which tho ornament si Monkey-shrub (Araucaria imbrica te) is perhaps the best representative among . our country's present-day growths. How many thousands of years have elapsed since this trunk r core of stone within, but without the actual bark with its seal-liko mark'ngs stamped out in solid coal waved its spiky branches beneath the open cano py ol heaven! And yet, through all these irons, pressed as In a girl s al bum, fern fronds of most fragile and exquisito forms, delicato as lacework. fts if photographed on stone, lie be neath the enormous mass of super added strata, perfect as whon they shot ueir graceful stems up into tho eteam ing air In which our coal-measures were laid down in such lavish pro lusion. eriiy, mere oe "sermons in stones," , "Show us whore thev are digging out tho coal," is naturally the lirt re quest as we leave our comfortable ve hicle. lint if riding was bad. walking is worse; if that can be called walking where, with bent neck and stooped shoulders, tall men progress with fre quent liead-bumpings along a road of a painfully low pitcn. Soon we come where, by the dusky light of a flicker ing "dip!" we see a half-naked collier lying on his s do. the better to dr vehis p ck into a narrow seam of co il; while, near by, others are hard at work on thicker ve ns, hewing out big blocks of shiny blackness, intersjwrsed with eataracls of small coal which other men hovel rapidly into trams, for con veyance to the upper regions, It is a tusv scene, for all those littlest fellows lire on piecework. As we jo on to visit other work ngs. our guulo Mops at a po nt Where a u used road runs Uown to me ngnt. "deeper and deeper still." to tell in this odd story: "This spot is believed by the minors to be haunted. They are, you know, very superstitious. anJ now none of them will come this whv with out company. It seems that a carter, whose duty it was to push trams of coal along here to the horse- oad we have just left, one day heard footsteps as of a man approaching him fro'n the opposite direction. He stopped, to avoid a collision, and distinctly heard the stamping of heavy boots, and a sound as of some one scrapinz mud off them on the rails. Ho shouted to him to hurry up, but got no reply. He held out bis candle at arm's length but saw nothing. He went on to the spot whence the sounds had proceeded; but there was no one there. Incon tinently, he bolted to the nearest work ings and told his weird tale to sympa thizing ears. The story has been cor roborated again and again by strang ers, who had never heard of it Hush! there it is! Can't you hear it?" (Our lamps had been taken from us under the pretense of trimming them, and at this instant they went out, and we were in the blackness of darkness. Few people know what absolute dark ness is.) "Yes," we faltered; "we do hear a strango noise. How do you account for it?" "I can't," was the reply. "It may be water in tho abandoned road there. It may be an unexplainahle echo. 'ound are audible at enormous distances un derground. We had a similar scare years ago." (Here the bailill' succeeded in relighting the lamps to our great relief.) "In another part of tho m n i. the men were constantly hearing mys terious knockings, which they quickly put down to Satanic agency. So I took careful measurements of the spot, and found it to be just under an iron foundry, where a steam-hammer was at work four hundred yards overhead, liut the colliers stick to the.r own theory still." A little further on we were told to climb on all-fours up a steep, low an narrow cutting, technically called "gug," up and down which a small boy was dragg.ng, apparently with the greatest ease, a wicker basket, lastenc by a chain to a rope round his waist, At the top he filled it with the coal which a collier was hewing; at tho bot torn he emptied it into a tram such as we have described. "This was the work which the last woman who workod underground bad to do. Her son is employed here now, Just think what a change has take place in the last thirty or forty e irs At the present timo, there is not, so far as I know, a sinirle woman at the colliery work either underground or at tho sur face in the west of hngland, though, in other parts of the country, female labor is still used at the pit top." Such was the manager s comment. Again we march on in Indian tile, stopping here and there to watch some swarthv giant the dim light makes them look immenso drive .n his pick wrth a duH thud and bring down ava lanches ot "black diamonds; or to notue how, with sledge-hammer and drill, holes in the rock are bored to re coive the charge of powder; or hurry past, halfcho!icdby4jlv1n'W,fM,'il uredTand tho pleased workmen aro shoveling up the copious results of their sk lllul blasting. We have already noted some of tho fossils of the vegetable life of long-past ages, iiore we eaten sight ot l.Viiiir, and apparently thriving, spiders though thev are colorless and dianhnn ous, presumably from lack of 1 flit. and perhaps also through insullic ent nutriment for what can thev find to eat? Not so the fungi, wh ch hang. like hugo pull-balls, from long threads rooted n tho roof. Hut they, too, are pale and almost substanccless, so that il you hold a candle, or even clap your hands against them. ih-y crumble to powder. Looking nt tli s strange growth, we think ot that imprisoned miner, who, whon ho was rescued, af ter many days of starvaton, well-nigh dead, was found to be covered all over face and bauds and all With a kin dred plant. Oh, the horror of the quietness and stillness in which a fungus could thus root itself, and flourish ou a living man! "xsow lor an adventure, If you are venturesome, our guide cries, as we reach the top of a long steep 'incline' worked by a steam-engine and an end less rope. "Did you ever try -tobog. ganing' on snow? This is a good sub stitutethese bits of plank I have had made with a groove to run on one of the rails. Sit on it so, and ott we no ." "Off we go." exactly described what happened; lor we kept tumbling over. either on the rope at one s do, or else against tho rough, rocky wall of this narrow passage. If the charm of "to bogganing" consists in a judicious m x- ture ol siH-ed and danger, this method oi ge ng down a colliery incline doubt less resembles it closely. Hut for all that, I should prefer to walk another time, . ' Arrived at tho bottom, bruised and shaken, we tind ourselves in a sort of dome of coal. Its height is perhaps . m . " . fourteen or uiteen ieet; and. in our in experience, we at onco exclaim: "Ah, this is more like tho real thing!" o: tho manager answers; "vou are mistaken. This is only a -fault.' and will soon narrow down again to its normal thickness of tive or six feet. You fancy it is easier to hew the coal here; quite otherwise. There are nar row bands of "shale' every here and there in these walls, of coal; and it re quires considerable skill and rare to keep this out of the trams. hile, if the "hewer' fails to send up his coal reas nably clean, it is condemne.l. and ho gets no pay for it. Then there is greater danger from falling stones when the roof is so h gh. For example, not long ago we had an accident here, not thout a comic side to iu Oue of the colliers was en lowed w than immensely tar, a , ong no-e. n a to ne was at work, a turn stone fell in front of h;ra. It fortunately missed his head, and would have dropped clear of any ord narv mortal; Lut the pro ect ng feature am 3 in the war. and from il a goo i. thick slice was cut clean off! The man su icred much pa n. and was la d as. do for a long t me; but on h s return to work, he was complimented in the vast improvement in ills appearance and his nickname. 'Thj Ite.ik,' 1 11 ,nto d s-u-e." Hut for all that we agrce we w ould choose this open, well-ven' lated nnd roomy place to work in. ' we were coll ers; esp.-o ally after we had been exposed to the taint closo ( lor which another ve n hard by gives oit When wo complained of cuu-ea and begged to be taken away, w(wero told that strangers hod been Inown to vomit after stand ng by the iice of this scam of coal for a tew in. miles. The smell serves one ijseful pur pose, in indicating at once what strata we are work ng; for, as far nil know. ' our gu'do informed us, "tis 'ls the only stinking vein in the district It is quite safe; there is no chow-dani or other noxious gas. I can t cxpla n how it is so; it is only one ol the m inv puzzles that confront the miking eng neer. Anotherof them's .when the wat- r come from wo constontly ha e to con tend with. Ix)ok at that hde. about big enough for a hen to go through You'll hardly believe mewh n 1 toll you that a few we -ks ago tli re was a road tive feet h;gh running do vn there. On Sunday evening the depitv-blli was going his rounds, to set that all was right for tho night men--wh re pair the roofs and keep the rads good to come down, when he f nnd this five-foot way contracte I to a la ght of only Irtt feet He crawled through to see what had happened, and frtunati ly got back safely before a flo(jd of wa ter burst through the spongy, flrofclav floor, which it had crushed up in sin h a r mnrkable manner. All the work ings below this point were flooded, and are not yet in a lit condition for coal getting. How much worse it must be in liery mjnes. where gases rush out in the same, or rather in a far more, sud den manner, dealing death to scores of hapless eoll'ers, you may now e is ly realize. We have no such awful per Is in this pit. thank God! Yet our men have amplo harl.ships and dangers to face. Now thnt you have seen them nt work, don't onvt. when occasion serves, to say a good word for those who do so much for England's pros perity our colliers." With which parting work our oblig ing cicerone put us under the care, of a subord nate, who led us bick safely by the way we had come, and brought us up out of the horrible pit into the cheerful light of day. Clttin'ers' Jour nal. PIPING BLACKBIRDS. The Method of Ins' ruction Kequlrtd to Make SongxteM of Them. When reared by the hand from the nest tho blackbird is capable of form ing strong attachments, and from h s wonderful imitative powers w.ll make h mself a great favorite He will, if tra'ned when young, learn to whistle almost any tune that may be taught h m. The best and perhaps tho quick est way is to take h m when about six weeks or not later than two months old, to a quiet room awav from any other bird, and in the evening and the first thing in tho morning give him his lesson. The tune may be played on a flute or other wind nstrument It is ad visable to feed him before commencing operations; and some br.be or other, as, for instance, a lively worm, shoJjfi, "you w sTrhim to learn, nnd he w 11 ev.dentlv pay part cnlar at tention to it Kepoat it with exactly tho samo time and expression, say twenty t mes; then give the b rd a 1 1 tle quiet fo that he may, if he will, have an opportun ty of imitating it If he Bhould make anv attempt instantly give h m his reward, coaxing and ca ress ng h m mean wh In. lleing. for a bird, possessed of strong reason ag powers, he will soon discover whv tut! worm or other br.be is given hm ar.d before long he w II understand how to earn it When once learnde. tho tunc or tunes will never be forgotten, but pass, as it were, into its song. It rather a tedious undertaking, but the lesuit is invariably satisfactory. blackbird will also im tato other birds very minuloly, and though there is litt'e variety n his natural song, it s made up for bv its pure, tlute-like tone ami lull volume. It most read ly im tales tho thrush, but it w 11 catch many notes from tho nightingale, to which bird it lone has most resmnblanou, were it not for the introduct on of several liars notes. Whon kept in confinement, i is always advisable to bring it up whei young near to ome good singing b rd, as it win thereby learn its ne ghbor song, and, intermixing the notes w tli its own. make a most agreeable song ster. Canariet and Caaebirds. HIS RIGHTS. How an Arkansaw Negro Secured Ilia Dues From a Kallroait Company. An old negro called on the President of a ra lroad company. Hobbling into tho room he said: "Look at mo, sah." "Well, what do you want?" "Money." "What for?" "Dis heah," holding out a foot from which three toes had been cut I've got nothing to do with that" 'Well, er mighty hno lawyer tells nn dat yer has. t uz on one o yer trams tuther week when hit nimiwd de track uo lawyer says uat i Ken rekiver er i , . , ,. thousan dollars. Didn't you once work for the road?" "Yas, sah. 1 worked fur it tw cet" "Were you not riding on a free ass?" "Xo, sah, win ridin' on de train." "You know what I mean. Didn't you have a free pass?" ".o, san, i n sw ar ter do I.awd 1 didn't an' more den dat I ken prube it" "What do you propose to do about it?" "Perposes terhabmy rights. G n me ten dollars an' a pass fur a year an' il let ao thing urap." i he monev and the pass were riven him. Thankee sah." As ho hobbled down the stairs he muttered. "Wa'n't din on c r free pass. Wu er steal n at ride. Dis pass is jes' inter mv han iwine ter fetch un fish frum de bavou. Huh, dis ten dollar bill is es pntty'ez a new sliirt" Arkansas Traveler. MOHAMMEDANS IN INDIA. The fnflaoiire of the Monlrnu In the Eat at ,0pieil to Ilralimanlsm. As reganls their iolluenco in India there Is much to be said, both good and bad. That tho Mussulman faith is su perior as an ethic inst tution to the Iirahmanlo belief may well be doubU'd. If tho principles which govern the lives of the best Brahmans could be cloar'y and succinctly tnught. they would be found to contain excellent elements of public morality. Unfortunately, how ever. Brahmanlsra is dres ed and adorned with a multitude of symbolism and tawdry idolatry which only con fuses the simple-minded and furuislie food for the sarjasmt of the wise. The danger of symbolism is everywhere the same. The ignorant will alw ays con found the symbol with the attributes of that (iod in whose hoDor symbols are invented. It is for this reason that Brahruanisni, or Hinduism, by which I mean to sig nify tho prlnc pal Urahmanic sects of worship now prevalent in India, has degenerated into tho grossest idolatry as f.ir as the mass of Hindus are con cerned! Mohammadan'sm. O the oth er hand, has maintained in a great measure its original faith in aninvisi ble and supreme (Sod. This is duo to theex'reme simplicity of the religion in its beginnings, excluding as it does every kind of image worship by the prime prohibition: "Thou sha'.t not make a graven image of an thing hav ing a bOiiL" That is the way the prophet worded his commnud. and it lias been interpreted to mean every living tiling. Mohummadan ru ers have never even stamp d their coins with portraits of themselves, but only with superscriptions and t'a'.es. liut the Hindu mind is naturally very imaginative and is not easily satis'ied with any simplo form of belief. The three-hundredfold pantheon oilers some especial attraction to each individual, and, as among the Egyptians of old, every man may carry his god in his pocket without any part cular disbe lief in his neighbor's favorite ileity, who may be quite as powerful, but is not so sympathetic to his own taste. On the whole, a Hindu is more likely to turn atheist than to become a Mohammadan, and the conversion of Hindus to Chris tianitv has been entirely insignificant- The only conversions of any historical importance were those of St. Francis Xavicr, who made Christians of the in habitants of Goa, in Southern India, by a military process of persuasion now no longer employed in matters of religion, The Mohammadans brought with them to India their faith, their strong. manly characteristics and their wonder ful architecture, which has entirely per vaded the land. It is almost always possible to distinguish Mohammadans from Hindus at sight, mey generally wear beards, whereas the Hindu is shaved, save for his mustache; they are more erect, more muscular and of bolder asoect; they wear their clothes ditlerently, ior all Mohammadans but ton their white liuen garments or their cloth caftans as wo do that is to say the left side is brought over the right whereas all Hindus button the right side of their coats over the left. liut wher ever there are .Mussulmans, there you will lind their graceful minaerts and -i.tinj U-I - J , J solitary tombs, their light balconies i nd pointed doorwavs, contrasting with the heavy architecture of the Hindus. J here are to be found m pr.vate dwellings lu Ahmcdabad, a .Mussulman city in the west of India, such speci mens ot beautiful design and exouisite workmanship ns are hardly to I e met with anywhere else. t. Marmn (Jrum ford, in harper's Magazine. Post-Office Romances. On one occasion a gentlemanly-look ing person calK d and expressed a fear that he had inclosed two letters in wrong envelopes, and that nil his pros pe.-ts in life depended on his having his lett -rs back nnd correcting the mistake, inasmuch as they revealed plans which he had adopted to servo two mercantile houses In the ame line of business whoso interests clashed at every point A similar blunder occurred in a more delicate affjir, wiien a youug lady was most urgent to have her letters re turned, as she had accepted the wrong oiler of marriage. Ti e local postmas ter was unable to resist her earnest en treaties, and thus prevented a painful catastrophe, liut a whole romance might be written on the following inci dent: A young lady who had been eu taged to a prosperous young manufact urer was informed afew days before the one tho marriage was fixed for that tho firm was insolvent Not a moment was to be lost, and a letter was writteu and posted, breaking the ngagen:ent when within two hours it was discovered that the report was entirely unfounded. The report continues: "The daughter, with her parents, rushed to the post- office, and uo words can deserioe the scene the appeals, the tears, the wring ing oi hands, the united entreaties of the family to have the fatal letter re stored: but alas! all was vain. The rule admitted of no exception.'" Loyal Mail. A Wonderful FisV A correspondent of the San Francisco Examitwr writes from Lake View, Ore. : A wonderfid fish is becoming nu merous in Oooso Lake. It has the power to fill itself with air until it be comes very much like a round ball. Of evenings about sundown they may be ?cen plaving oa the surface of the water. T. ey will swell up by taking in the air. and the wind will blow them over the lake. They reflect all the col ors of the rainbow, and whfen sporting over tho lake are a grand sight A hunter seviral weeks ago saw a crane swallow one of these tish when in its normal condition, but before tho crane ad gt more than fifty feet up above I ho lase the t.sh had taken in enough air to explode the crane, which, at tho sound of a report like that of a gun, i wall to atoms, and the fi.-h came lightly dow n on the water, no worse off for the short ride in the air. The fish Is a great curiosity, never having been found. I believe, in other waters. The but statement is authentic. UNDER THE GALLOWS I Frightful Condemnation of a Mother by Her Kon-lVhat Uo It Meant Not long ngo a weeping mother called to bid good bye to her only son who was soon to be executed. "Woman," he exclaimed in a mo mentary frenzy, "Woman, I would "never have been here had you done "your duty by me when I was young 1" This was a terrible parting I It hor rified the spectators, it nearly crazed the conscience stricken mother. One can scarcely overestimate the mother's influence in the moulding of the character of her offspring. But how often, oh, how often, do mothers gecm to ignore the responsibility 1 During a recent trip on the rail the writer made the acquaintance of Dr. A. J. Benedict, of Hackett's Harbor, N. Y., a person who has made a study of human development. Inferring to the murderous tendency of the times, we asked that eminent man if the out look was not discouraging? "It looks so," he said, "but I fancy we have a cause and the remedy for such evils. In my professional career I have found by hard study that we have emerged from savagery by devel opment of the nervous system and the intellectual life, and we return to sav agery as we ignore the fact that with out the solid, trustworthy nervous system, we cannot hope to save the race. Boys etufT dime novels, and the pistol is to them the only respectably glorious instrument to secure fame. Women read trashy literature and straightway try to murder their hus bands and friends by poison. Busi ness men yield to the tempter, and forge and steal and default. Minis ters, charmed by beauty, forget the behests of conscience. On every side we see the weakness of personal integrity." "Do you regard it as a disease?" "More especially as the result of dis ease which,however,may be prevented." "Please define how." "I cannot now enter into details. Our people can see their bodies, their blood, their bones. They never tee their nenei and consequently many do not tup pose they have any. The farmer's wife rejoices in a big, physical frame, and yet she dies prematurely. The nerve cannot stand the strain of 'continual work. The minister falls dead in his pulpit, but he never did a day's phy ical work in his life. The lawyer faints in the presence of the court and is soon a wreck or a corpse, and yet the work is nerve work. The man of affair's is overcome with apoplexy ; the politician and publicist, with Bright's disease. The mind of the untutored man is fired by the exploits of crime and he longs for such fame. These persons overwork or over-excite the nervous system and this fact kills or demoralizes them." "If nil this be so how would you rec tify it then?" "Let me tell you. A few years ago I had a lady patient who was an utter wreck. She was a mother of several olijlilrcn . Slip, lnul har mia anJ im agined she was cursed of God. She was a farmer's wife, and worked early and late. I never saw a finer speci men of physical womanhood than she, but she was a nervous wreck I She be cairte bloodless, had the very worst of female disorders and was in the last stages of albuminuria or Bright's dis ease. This latter disease works partic ular havoc with the nervous system and produces insanity and despair. She was insane and desperate and I fear tainted the hlood of her offspring with these terrible tendencies. I treated hor for several )-ears. One by one the standard remedies of the schools failed, but I finally cured her with V arner's safe cure, and she is to-day strong and well. Yet thousands of women like her, every year bring ill-formed and criminally-inclined children into the world. Is it any wonder that nervous diseases prevail and that the whole moral sense is demoralized? If that remedy were generally used, we would have stronger mothers, stronger chu dren, stronger men and women, and with perfect physical and mental health, crime would decrease and soci ety be more secure." Such candid opinions are surely worth considering. Belgium has withdrawn from the Mon etary Union. It costs each of the colleges, whosa crews particpate in the annual boat race on the 1-namos, about seven thou sand dollars for the sport. A gondola vovage across the Adri atic from Venice to Trieste has been made involuntarily by the Comte de Rardi, nephew and heir of the late Comte de Chambord. While the Comto was boating on the Venetian lagoons with an art st friend, his gondola was uddenly blown out to sea. and al though the little vessel was only in tended for canal naviat'on. she crossed the gulf safely to Trieste. The Co'int do V . Prime Minis ter to the King of Sardinia, affected mystery so much in all his transactions both publ c and private, that happen ing to hurt both his legs very severely, he erap'oved a surgeon for each 1 nib, while each was kept igno rant that the other was employed. The treatment therefore, adopted by the medical men. and the nature of the drugs they administered, being qu te nconsistent the consequences proved fatal to the Minister. i'arw Morning Journal. From a return published bv tho Berlin municipality of the population of the Germ,an capital, it appears that tserlin had on December 1st, 1XN) (the last census day of theGerraan Empire), 1,123.608 inhabitants, inoluding the military. By the end of 18S1 the pop ulation had risen to l,15G,Si!"2 souls; If . to 1,192,073; WX to 1.22fi,3'Jl'; 18f4. to 1,263.1. Tho garrson of Berlin was at the end of the latter vear 20,034. A fresh census of the German Empire will be taken on December 1st navt. A QUESTION ABOUT Browns Iron Bitters ANSWERED. tiling" Vril. It dnWt But a ioSSZL. lit miA i mpaUI.U phjMcua would prcr,b. uutl FhmicUna roootniM Inn u tha beat natarun. M"t known la tlx prnlnaiiaa. and Inqnur of mrZ kwdlna- cowniol Arm will Tth wmn ul tlut Uwra aiw mucw nrapwmtuma of Inm Uun td u otbar anbauooii naad in madiclM Thte thowi arT bnral; thmt Iron M acknowladrxi to b ln m, Important UoUir In auooeaaful mailiotl praotic ItiT howwirer a nrnnrkit.l fart that priir to tba dim? To H ko W.VIS I HON BITWKSMptrfcS" hr atlifaotoiT oumblnation had atar baatifucuul! BROWN'SIROKBinERSte naadacha, or prodaoa ermatlpatfon ll mbrrlrow urdirlnrads. KUOWN'MIUON BITTEHH rarea Indigestion, BilJoaaneaa, Wrnknraa. Pyaprpala, Malaria, Chills and Fctm! Tired Veelln,Oeneral Debillty.Pala la tba Hide, Bark or Llmba,Hrdachead NeoraU 5.:,.t,illmoU I " Prrada74 BR0WrSIR0IIBITTIRS.l5St: bewinttaranawedaoarnr. Thamaaelaathan bwSni, frmar, toa dwaation Inwnav tba bowab are artiwT In woaua tbaatfaot la naoallr mora rapid and markad IT"?.0,"0"0" 10 thtn: tlia akin rlav, p: health onlnrenmM tn thachaaka; narroaanaaa diuppaara; functional dHrancamenta baeoma nmZ jar. and if a nuninf mother, abundant luatanann h nuppUed for the child. Ramamber Brown', lr. Bittera latha ONLY iron medicine thai not to lunooa. I'kynHant and lritgtiu reraaiawarf It. Tba Genuine has Trade Mark and emend led linn, ou wrapper. TAKE NO OTI1E1U. HALL'SJ'ULMONARY BALSAM A ore onre for COl'GIW, COLDS, and 1VCIPIKNT CONSUMPTION. PRICK. (0 CUNTS. J. R. CATES A CO., Proprietors, 417 Saneome St.. San Franeleoo, OaL PETALUMA INCUBATOR. Hatches all klmla of TXHH The gm?tE8T, Cheapest, and MOST PfPffCT IN' OBATOg made. Sliold Medal, lSilrer, and IS first Prriuiuui Alt tarn, hend for lanre llluatrat di irruUr FREE. Addraaa Patajuma Incubator Co, i'nuiuma. Cat. A. B. STEIN BACH, The Clothier and -Hatter, Cor. First asl Morrison, PORTLAND, 02 Keeps the Urgent and finest stock of Clothing, Hat and Kuroinhtng Uoods on band. 8am pit, with rutaa for self-measurement, sent free nr charge to any pint on ai-plication. A. B. BTUINBAUlL E. J. BOWEN'H large Illustrated, DeacriptWe and - Prict-d Catalogue of Vegetable. Flower, Clover, Grass m Alfalfa Seels ' Mailed to all apvllcanta free. Addreae E. J. BOWEN, Seed Merchant, 815 and 817 Sanaome St. Han Francisco, Cat n BUSINESS It - 30 PONT MT San Francisco, - - CaL Life Scholarship, 75. Fend for Circulars. NOT DIFFICULT. The onuloMt poHMlble way to bay jenr llRY .OODM to advantage. Ubytnall order. In writluft-yoar ordrr Mat as nearly an yon ran the kind and priee of goods want, ed. and how yon winh then Dent, Write your uaine and l'OMtofllre addreH plalnfy. We will do the reat promptly and rare fully. Give os a Trial anl See How Easy it is. OLDS fc IvIIVCi, 186 First Street. PORTLAXlr. - - - ORF.GOS American Exchange Hotel, SANSOME STREET, Opposite Wells, Fargo & C..a Express Office, SAN FRANCISCO. f ERCHANTS, FARMERS .XD FAMILIES 111 from the interior will And it to be the moat convenient aa well aa the most comfortable and es pec table Hetel in the city to stop at. Tem perance principles. Table first-class. Board and room, $1, 1.2i and $1.50 per day. Nice) single rooms. SO cents per night. Free Coach to aad from the Hotel (.'HAS. & VM. MOKTOOMERY. Prow's. DR. E. A. JONEH, Physician and Surgeon, CAN BE FOUND AT HTS OFFICE DAT and night. Midwifery and diseases of women a specialty. Office 434 First SU (up stairs), PORTLAND, OREGON. t bar a Dotltlra ren.i r f ir U) abore drt ; by tta in thoaiantiuf eaoAf th wont klndaiidof 1od( ftaDdltiaT haTO btrn cured. Intlt, otmttclniTfntia rather with a VAl.rAni.KTKKATISKao thiid to anv ioOrtr. UtTexpreMnd F O. addr u. 4 DO. T. A. bLOC I'M, iu rtarldi., Maw Toct ANY LADY' biQ.innrini am makahandasmaRUOS lafoa out of ra. rain or anjoloto. M'lia. I LAI1L RUG MAKER onanrPawiiiQ MicarNB or by band. Aartradar fulinaaation. It aiLia at sianr. Price onlv II. no aooam, CMaipa friBaarplMfn Kaay.almpK raaotnatinR. Sand tamp for Kaaj Frae Lia. AGENTS Wanted, Great IndaceettaU. iTj ior wimwrj. rw plaa- Nomonarraomraa. IMOa C. HOITTatCO..iiaiaua,CMJCik 3DIFL. MINTDU. THE SPECIALIST, No. 11 EearnT St. San Francisco, Cai Turn all CuaoKic, S racial, asd Privati Disk with Wosdkwvi, Stroma, THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY I fa a certain core lor .Vcrrosw Itebllity, Imk HUnhood, rnntutor owa, and all the tit effects of youthful follies and exceavea, ana iu drinktaf tntoxicatint liquor. 2r. Mimm, a ho is a refrnlar ph yk -v n irrad'iate of the Ui ' n ityol Pennsylvania i aTee to forfeit fr- tw a can of this kin' 'i lUml Rmtforatin fin. derhit special advice and treatment) will not nt fl.so a Douie. or loiir iinw um - ant adiireas on receipa oi pnrc, w v. y. - - r-. name 11 utauixv. vj m.. , - . - S. tat Send for list ot questicoe and pamt-Ja' BAMTLE BOTTLE rBF,K m be seat to any one applying by letter, armMona. aex and ut, Strict secrecy in regard all business traaaactiona m rasa 4KB CONSUMPTION 9mm