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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1887)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. L L. CAHPBKLL, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. fersonal'and LITERARY. ' The Pall Mall OaxtUt has adopted the American term "ulevator" in place f tlie shorter English name fur tlx Machine, "lift." Mr. Elliot Stack l.at secured tb aiusteri from the staircase of the louse la Fetter Lane in which Dryden la amid to have lived, and of which the attraction has been completed. When ex-henator Ihurman goes cat Journey he takes Mis. Ihurman along to keep off the nowepuper men. fche is said to have the most eh arm in manner ot showing a man the door. The finest library in Pennsylvania Is about to be established in Wilkes larre, through the benevolence of the ' late Inane Osterhout The fund given amounts to nearly 1400,000. Publio Opinion. Napoleon's traveling carriage, rhicta was captured at Waterloo by Tick! Marshall Bluohsr, is still in ex tote nee near Silesia. Napoleon had left the carriage a short time before its capture, abandoning his hat, sword and some valuables. Fred Douglass recently said in Tarts: "I have traveled through most f the countries of Europe, and when ever I am in the cars, in the theaters In the ball-rooms, anywhere in fact, I find llmt I am treated always with courtesy, and not rarely with clistin gulshod consideration. As far as I can ee, a man is judged over here with out any regard to the color of his lair, bis eyes or his skin." Dr. J. II. Hepburn of Reimers- tmrg, Fa., has in his possession a table W(Ji was once tho property of "William Fenn. It is solid walnut and has two folding leaves. a is ovai in 8ii ape. more are two drawers, one in each end. jne iauio is lonr lect and seven inches long and five feet wide when the leaves aro raised. It is very heavy and solidly built, with no attempt at raamentatioiL An offor of $500 was rofused for it. It is usual at Cambridge to annual ly Rive a handsome sum I think it is 100 for tho best poem. Some years ago a waggish umlorgraduata, for a Biere jest, mode a poo in by piecing together fragments of all those which had for many yen oeen the winnors. lie expected that tho committee would laugh at it and throw it aside. What was his korror at learning that he had been - l!.. I I.I I . ... aajougeu tne prize and that his name mas published all over England as that of tho victor, How ho got out of the scrape I know not, but no harm came to him that ever I heard of. London Letter. HUMOROUS. The Use of tho Negative. British Working-man "Hain't none o' you chaps see no pipe a-knookln' about none o' these 'ore sheds nowhoroP" Judy. , A Sunday-school teachor in Lltch laid told his infants to ask any ques tions they had in their minds, and a little one asked: "When is tho circus omingP" Christian at Work. Charlie " There, now, Em, Mr. Slant's hat ain't a bit bigger than pa's." Emma-" Woll, Clmrlio, what f lt" Charlie-" You said last night that Mr. Blunt had the thickest head you ever saw." Boston Beacon. Wife "I don't boo why women want to wear high hats, anyhow." llnsband -"Neither do I, my "dear." Wife "Yes; it's perfectly senseless. Tkey don't cost a bit moro than the others, and some of them not nearly so auueh." Pittsburgh Dispatch. What the Neighbors Said. A tanner'! ion wm HlUa Ilrown Wooe miulrmlt cauxeit bit parent pain, And who wm known about the town At one who'd ne'er do well miiln; Bo, when the rather, through the door Ulioltarring (lung with wrathful cry, The nelirhbon uld: "Ai oft bWore, Poor Urown hiu heaved n heavy 81." Boston Budget. "Where do you tet all the funnv things you print in your paperP" asked the inquisitive subscriber. "Out f my bead, sir, out of my head," urtly replied the bothered editor. "Do you really, nowP" said tho inquis lUve subscriber, pityingly. "Well, I rather had an Idea that something was wrong, but I didn't know it was so tad as that." Somenilh Journal. Wife "I have joined the Audubon Uocicty and think it a grand assocla tion." Husband "Woll, if I belonged to such a society, I would live up to its rules." W. "What do you lueanP I don't wear any part of a bird on my bonnet" 1L "Nobody said any thing about your bonnet. It's your faco decoration I refer to." W. "My faeel How is that decorated?" 1L "Why, with crows foot" Botton BudqeL A new reporter has joined the staff. He was writing p his first as signment, which was the resuscitation f a half-drowned woman. The city editor looked over the scribbler's houlder, and this is what he read: "The fair form lay on the dock, and W short pants " "Tut, tut, young aian," said the city editor, "none of jour Zola realism; not on this great religious daily; drop that pants busi aess." The new reporter smiled soft ly and wrote on, -And her short ants for breath showed that sou trioustiPM was returning." WUUmiu lrt Pa.) LrtalMt Tablt. , KILLED BY A SHELL. A Sample of VIvlil Word-ralntlng by a r'ainom ItuiaUa MuvolUk We left Fniskoiiklno coining back with Mikliailoir. tin roached a less exposed plneo and began to breatlio again, when he perceived, on turning around, tho sudden light of a flash. Tho sontlnol shouted: "Mor tar!" And ono of the soldiers who followed added: "It is coming straight into the bastion!" Mikhuilofflookod. Tho lum inous point of tho boiub-Nhull seemed to stop diroctly over his head, exactly tho momont when it was impossible to tell what direction it was going to take. That was for the spaco of a second Suddenly, redoubling Its speed, (ho projoctilo camo nearer and nearer. Tho sparks of tho fuso could bo soon flying out, tho dismal hissing was plainly audible. It was going to drop right In the midst of the battal ion. "lo earth: shouted a voice. Mikhailolf and Fraskonkino obeyed Tho luster, with shut eyes, hoard the shell fall somewhure on the hard earth very near him. A second, wide appeared to him an hour, piissid, and tho shell did not burst. Prasknukiuo was frighlo led; then ho asked himself what causo ho had for fear. Perhaps it had fallon further awa', and he wrongly Imagined that bo heard tho fmo hissing near him. Opening his eyes, ho was salistiud to see MikhailotT s. retched motionless at his foot; but at the same time ho pcrcoivod, a yard off. tho lighted fuso of tho shell spinning around liko a top. A glacial terror, which stifled every thought, every sen timent, took possession of his soul. Ho hid his faco in his hand. Another second passed, during which a whole world of thoughts, of hopes, of sensa tions and of souvenirs passed through his mind. "Whom will it kill? Ma or MikhailolT. or indeed both of us to gether? If it Is I, where will it hit meP If in the head, it will be all over; if on tho foot, they will cut it fT; - thon I shall insist that they givo mo chloroform. And I may get well. Perhaps Mik hailuff alnno will bo killed, and later I will tell how we were close together. and how I was covered with his blood. No, nn! it is nearer mo it will bo I!" Then ho remembered tho twelve rubles ho owed Mikhailoff, and another debt eft at Petersburg, which ought tohavo been paid long ago. A Bohemian air that ho sang tho evoning before camo to his mind. Ho also saw in his imagi nation tho luly ho was in love with in her lilac trimmed bonnet; tho man who had Insulted him live years before, and whom he had never taken vengeance on. But in tho midst of tlu-sa and many other soivonirs tho present feei ng- tho expectation 'of (loath did not loavo him. "Perhaps it is not going to explode! he thought, and Mason the point of opening his eves with esperate boldness. But at this instant a I'd lire struck his eyeballs through the closed litis. somethin!r hit him in the middle of the chest with a terriblo rash. He ran forward nt random, entangled his feet in his sword, stum bled and fell on his side. "God be praised; I am only bruisod." This was his lirst thought, and ho wanted to eel of his breast, but his hands seemed as if they were tied. A viso gripped his head, soldiers ran before his eyes, and ho mechanically counted them: One. two, three soldiers, and, besides, an officer who is losing his clonk." A new light flashed; he wondered what ad fired. Was it a mortar or a can non? Doubtless a cannon. Another hot, more soldiers livo. six, seven. They passed lit front of him, and sud- only he became terribly afraid of bo- crushed by tho ip. Ib wanted to ry out, to say that ho was bruised, but s lips were dry, his tongue was glued tho roots of his mouth. Ho had a burning thirst. Ib felt that his breast was damp, and tho sensation of this moisture made him think of water. He would have liked to drink that hich drenched him. "I must havo noekod tho skin off In falling." ho aid to himself, moro and more fright. ned at tho idea of being crushed bv the soldiers who were rnnninc in owds before him. He tried acrnin to mm An Epitome of the Principal Events 'Nov Attracting Poblie Interest yout, "Take me!" But instead of that ho littered a groan so tni-ribhi ilmt he was frightened by it himself. Then d sparks danced before his eyes; it emed as if tho soldiers wore piliii" tones upon him. Tho sparks danced more rapidly, tho stones piled on him lied hbn more and more. Ho stretch- I himself out, he ceased to see, to car, to think, to foul Ho had been illed Instantly bv a niece of shell riking him full in the breast. from 'ount Tolstoi' "Sebasfopol." A New York man recently cave a birthday dinner at which ilm mi's ere baked in snake form to typify io eternity of love; birds of jelly had unit almonds In the bills; there were roses of blanc mango, with stamens of pun sugar, fans of banana, ice wiih udets in their fror.cn heart The HHibona were put In nrettv il:i ,J wel ware, with bows of ribbon tied around the dish and tho candles squeezed in among the loops of the bow. Theve has recently Wen received at the State library in Albany. N. Y.. map of tho world which was nrinl. I In 1.S29 This map. which WAS mndo long before Henry Hudson was la.rn, Kiions the Hudson river on ir. 'his is proof positive that the river as discovered long In-fore Henry ud n ailod up tho stream. Th map I a fae simile of that by Ribero, u.eu tno n iririau inaiv TI.U f.... ill reop.n tho question of who dls- overedtlie Ilml-on river. About one thousand good. ftaivi'iiicloui make a cario.id. lar- A Port Dalliousie, Ont., a barge tow of a propeller broke her tow line and rank with ber crew of five per sona. . Henry Arkert shot and killed Mayor Finch, of Maxwell, Iowa, and then killed himself. No particular cause assigned. The schooner W. B. Taylor, grai laden, from Chicago to Kingston. now known to have been lost with all on board. On September 15th the Chinese transport Wsylee was lost in the Pes cadores, and 280 Chinese and five Eu ropeans were drowned. A battery of six boilers in the Law' rence Iron Works, at Trenton, N, exploded, killing four men and wound ing twelve persons. Portions of the boiler were blown half a mile away. Advices from Mexico state that locust cloud, three miles long and mile and a half wide, passed recently through the State of Chiapa, mow ing a wide swath as it went. When last seen it was moving rapidly in the direction of San Bartholomew. A Mexican Central locomotive ex ploded twenty miles north of Jiminez, 1 he cause of the accident is unknown Just previous the engine seemed perfect order. Engineer Harry bhep- ard was blown sixty feet into the air, and fell back to the side of the track badly scalded. A telegraph pole laid across the RockJsland railroad, between Minoka and Morris, Illinois, wrecked freight train Nn. 16. Engineer John Mill and fireman Orff were instantly killed and the head brakeman was fatally in jured. The miscreants doubtless meant to wreck the Kansas City express, The passenger was fifteen minutes late, and the freight pulled out aheai, to run to Ninoka, striking the obstruction with the result as stated. There great excitement over the matter. It has been discovered that a ferry man on the lower Danubo, near Vi enna, who nag been in the habit of conveying across the river workmen returning from Roumania, who took this route to avoid producing certiQ cates that they paid taxes in Rou mania, or money in default thereof, has taken them toasmall island, where he murdered and robbed them of their savings. A judicial inquiry reveals the astounding fact that hundreds of workmen havo been dispatched ny the fiend, and their bodies buried or thrown into reeds along the rivor bank. nTTsBuito, ra. ine hrst serious natural gas explosion in this city in two years occurred in the Hotel Albe marle. The gas emanated from leaky main, where workmen had been changing pipes. There were three terrihe explosions simultaneously in the cellars of D. T. Reed, the Hotel Albemarle and the Bijou theater block, f ire, which started, was soon gotten under control. An investigation shows that fifteen persons in all were injured, five of them, it is believed, taially. Others were only slightly ourneii, ana Druisea or cut. The pe cuniary damage by the explosion will reach $50,000. The fatally in j ured are employes of the gas company, who were making repairs. is Seven Mexican convicts attempted to escape from the territorial prison at Yuma, A. T. While the prisoners waited inside the main gate, previous to commencing outside work, Super intendent Thomas Gates parsed within the walls. When about thirty feet inside Librado Fueblo threw an arm about him, at the same time drawing a knile. h. tiustamente at the same time grasped the superintendent, while other convicts silenced the gate-tender by threats. They Hion marched him out towards the river. The stiDerin- tendenthungback, struggling violently and calling to the guards to shoot. whilo endeavoring to bring tho con victs in line with the guard's fire. During the melee four Mexicans were killed and several badly hurt. James E. Hamilton, mail carrier bo- tween the main land and Lake Worth, on the south Atlantic coast, was de voured by sharks while crossing Hils boro inlet. . Hamilton's route was seventy five miles long, and he usually walked most of tho distance on the beach. These inlets are dangerous, because of cross currents aud large and vicious sharks that abound there. While crossing the inlet these sea wolves attacked him, tore the oars out of his hands, bit huge pieces out of the boat's gunwale, and finally he was thrown into their midst. A horror stricken eye-witness at a dietanee told the story. The searching party found nothing but fragments of the boat. No other, residents there will Volunteer to esrry the mail as yet, as the tragedy was sucn a nornnie one. Grakd Rapids, Mich. An attempt to burn thirty Italians asleep in a building in the township of Taris, Kent county, was frustrated by the timely warning of one who awoke and found the building in flames. The' building was one used by an Italian, Santa Garfalo, who was keeninsr a son of store with rooms above for lodging Italians at work on the railway south of the city. There have been hard feelings existing between this crew and a crew of fourteen at work near by, and who lived in the city. An un known man crept into a vacant room and set fire to the house, and t'.en joined a party on the outside who bsrricaded the doors and used cverv effort to keep the iimiat"s from ecap ing. They, however managed to pi t out, many kavit'g their clothec j COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territory and California. Hugh McLean, a brakeman, was killed by a train at Silver Bow, Mon tana. A grain warehouse at I lay woods, Cal.. collapsed, entailing a loss of $8000. The girls at the Waitsburg (W. T.) public school have organized a base ball club. About 15,000 racks of grain were destroyed by fire in a Fresno (Cal.) warehouse. The courts have decided that J. N. Fuller is the legal chief of police at Seattle, W. T. Isaac Hayes, of Yakima, W. T., raised eight hundred bushels of sweet potatoes this year. In Oakland, Cal., Jack Falls, aged 15, was gored by a bull and died from the injuries received. George Gould, driver of an express wagon, was thrown from his vehicle at San Diego, and killed. John A. Grout, an old resident of Monterey, Cal., was thrown fioiu his wagon and run over and killed. Bill Rose of Red Bluff was stabbed in a row in a dance house at Sissons, Cal., and he died during the day. Mrs. E. T. Kellner, of Santa Bar bara, Cal., was fatally injured at Pho OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest in a Condensed Form. AGRCULTU Devoted to the Interest, nix, A. J., by being throwa from tuggy. Tho dead body of Dr. W. R. Hanna was found in his cabin near Gera, W, T. It is supposed that he committed suicide. Philip O Bnen stabbed Thomas Roscngrave four times in a saloon at San rrancisco, killing him almost in stantly. At Hill's Ferry, Cal., George Bird, a resident of that place, accidently killed himdelt by the discharge of his gun winie Hunting, John T. Emerson, one of the San Francisco jury bribers, has been sent to ban Ouentin for five years, the full penalty of the law. Anna Ivers, aged 30, employed as domestic in the family of F. R. Wal lace at Helena, Montana, committed suieido by taking poison. John Jacobs, a cook in a logging camp at eeaoecK, and an old re-ident of Puget Stsund, fell from a window at beabeck and broke his neck, At Capitola, Cal., a turtle, weighing uwpounus ana measuring eiaht feet in length md :wtt-ftci Ifi-wMtfr.'was caught in a net by an Italian 'fisher man. Dr. Wm. Dutsh. a well known de'itistof San Francisco, committed suicide by hanging inmself to the tran som of the door leading to his private apartment. Twenty -two engineers in the emtilov of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad are now encamped in the vicinity of Lake Kichelas, on the east side ot the Cascades. The body of Eihardt Zanf. a sailor was lound in the bay at San Fran Cisco, apt achieved much notoritv r i. . . . . . ' - iew years since ny claiming lie was iormer nusband t Lotta the actress. Richard Lirdes. head engineer at belby s smelting works, at Vallpin oi., was iwiucu uy iaiung irom an elevated platform while engaged in oil ig mo iiiHcuinery. nu neck was broken by the fall. At v-Ar.ni . 1. r n . i'icocih mere are oa prisoners in confinement nt McKuit'a TJj.i w t ,p, . ; . . " ",.. x., io being white men and the remainder Unnamen. The white men are mostly all serving sentences for sell ing liquor to Indians. L. R. Shaw, the fellow who was ar rested on complaint of his wife, chan ing him with incest upon her 12-vpnr- old daughter, committed suicide in the county jail at Tacoma, W. T., by taking uose oi prussio acid. rank Croasman, a deserter from the army, has beon sent from Vn oouver, W. T., to Alcatraz to serve three years. John Johnson, a military prisoner, has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for theft. An Indian named Hinock.seutenced at liappy tamp to sixty days in th county jail for misdemeanor, presented IliniHulf to the hiiprifT at Vf..1,.. (V.l for admission to that institution, bring ing with him his commitment. He traveled sixty miles unattended aud bore ins own expenses. The three-year old daughter of .Tolin uuuuiisici uui ucu io ueatu at kos ngeles by her clothes catchim? fim . i . . i o 1 wnue piaymg aDOUl a lighted cam o The mother was terribly burned in trying to extinguish the flames, and is in a tiuiutti eouuuion. ine coroners tury in the case of Oscar Shay, who was killed by Pat Hynn. at Burke, Idaho, brouirht in i verdict charging the latter with the murder of the former. From all ac counts the murder was unprovoked and cold blooded, and the testimony is conclusive. James Davis, an Alaska Indian, wag shot and dangerously wounded by unknown man at Muckiltoe, W. T. Davis had been left in charge of a schooner by its owner. Two strange men attempted to take it from him and when he resisted one of them shot him. The fatal results of the Gould and Curry fire at Virginia, Xev., have led to the co-operation of the manage ments of all the leading mines on the Comstock lode, in preparing better exits from underground in case of ac cident. There is now almost unbroken connection on the upper levels of the mines front 1 lie Union Onn. ca the nortn to the Totosl on the touth. j An. attempt, -will be made to grow cotton in Unipqua valley. The Dallas city hall has been com pleted and accepted by that city. Al. Sherfin, who killed a man named Pope, at L'ikeview, has been convicted of manslaughter. A couple of buildings are being constructed at Ray's landing to be used as car shops. Many farmers of Calapooia are lay ing tiles in the bottom lands as a meaBS of drainage. One hundred and sixty-nine indi viduals and corporations pay taxas on f 1000 and over in Benton county. A new pobtolficehas been established at Sanger, and mail service has been extended from Medical Springs to that place. The President has appointed Wm. W. Dougherty, of Missouri, agent for the Indians of the Warm Springs Agency. The Oregon Pacific Railroad Com pany is repairing the docks, by re moving track and planking and driv ing new piling at Yaquina. Gov. Ptnnoyer has appointed Wil liam Galloway, of Yamhill county. member of the State Board of Agri culture, vice, J. L. Hallett, resigned. Wm. Barton has been awarded 5, 000 by the Indian Office in settlement of his claim for depredations com mitted by Rogue River and Cow Creek Indians in 1855. A M.isonic lodge has been instituted at the Cove, Unioa county, with W. R. Holmec, Master; E. P. McDaniel, S. W.; Jus. Payne, J. W. There are thirteen master masons on the roll. That potatoes will grow in the Wil lamette valley, we want no better evi dence than to look at the one raised by Mr. George Taylor, near Lebanon, weighing 7$ lbs., Bays an exchange. Mrs. M. II. Surles.'of Scio, has sued the County of Linn for $5,000, for dam ages resulting from the accident occa sioned by hor team tumbling down an embankment near the Calipoola oridge. New postoflicos have been established at the following placou: RriixWll lamiiui county, with John W. Bried- well as postmaster: Haynesville. Kiam eth county, with Joseph K. llaynes as postmaster. About sixty Yainax Indians have left Yainix reservation and ret use to return. It may be necessary to use harsh means to induce them to do so, ss they have ever been dissatisfied with that particular locality. ' The Bheep-herder found dead near Pendleton was discovered by the coroner's jury to be oae J. T. Froffit, of Windsor, Henry county, Missouri. i lie verdict ot tlje coroner s jury was that he died of heart disease. It is currently reported that the railroad company. will enlarge their roundhouse at Grant's Pass, to the ex tent of eight more stalls. Also that they will erect a brick foundry in connection with their machine shops, which already have a good outfit in the way of fine machinery for repair ing purposes. A few days ago a man was found dead at Randolph, in Southern Ore gon, on the mud flat. Ho was drink ing heavily the night before, and as he had no maiks of violence upon his person, and had money in his pockets, it is presumed he accidentally fell into the river. He still had his pipe in his mouth when found. to Stock N Tli. ,.. .. . utiie'doubtu, beans in warm J ot bu' - ifH.in planting i8 a Mod J water tends to start tUe r- "T8"' Put in t! tot me bi or..- moist, and every conditin k orarapiddevlpt 3 In soaking the fori,. danger is run t l ' A . " 111 V V, - Wll TVl in the irrn-.j" w "u"t heavy rain fall. .r. .,n( in the ground, the.. ?., of many of the bean. uanger is doubled when ,V soaked beforehand "ill .." can li 0i.jr,l.i . au toe . crop should be low ani j 1 heaped-up bills of rowsS iieiu. rue ob eel i .7""" the take full nnJ .! "7 1 can be done only bv k-Jl: ' comparatively level ? norain.ditcl,esorsunkaT; After the seeds h, well to roll th ti.u .""Hi leave it alone until k. V reached maturity, and o..."" cut with the mowing hrst few days will deeidn .Er.. the crop. If the rl.m. Ul( able start, and 01 ' ghout the lot. a,J..- chance for tbn wn,io . .u t vvu MJ CDGIH Ik. or even to get a foothu , r D. G. Ross, who lives on Gray's river, has a Bhepherd dog and a hound that go out occaeionallv and have great fun running dew into camp. Recently they started as usual. tho hound Bhowing up at night, but the dog was missing. For three days the poor brute was gone, and a search f jr him found him caught by his bubhy tail in a vine and unable to move. Particulars of the horrible death nf John Hadley, the well-known Block man of Baker county, Or., are just re ceived. Hadley caught a half broken horse with a rope, when tho animal took fright and started to run. Had ley's foot caught in a noose of the mi and the unfortunate man was dragged a long distance, sustaining fearful in juries, from the effects of which he soon died. At Pendleton, W. N. Wells diPd very suddenly on the street while tak ing part in the fire department drill wens was standing at the foot of a lauuer, and suddenly fell to the side walk and immediately expired. A physician was summoned, and when he arrived he at once pronounced ens beyond earthly heln. and that ne naa died from a paralytic stroke. This was the third stroke deceased had experienced. The latest news regarding the di covery of the body of a woman in the Willamette at Evan's landing, above Oregon City, would indicate without a doubt that a foul crime had been per petrated. From all appearances the woman was murdered and the body then thrown into the stream. The body was found completely envelnnwt m a quilt and wrapped with ropes. Under the quilt and attached to the woman's body was a bae of AArwl onH several beaver traps. These of course were intended to sink and firmly an chor the body at the bojtora of the river. Had the water been deep at the place, the body would probably havu never been discovered But it had evidently been cast intr. th stream wueu the stage was quite fcV kcv a loothn lil tl . will thrive rjni.tlu j . i of thewholersoii. Ul8MIK In ordinary seasons th. ture and are readv for h...M.1 eleven weeks to twn . r...Uv..,6. iuo IttDOr ITWnt timu on, I ; .1 the machine, they can h. carried off the finl.l , the summer and fall work on hi is over, and be threshed nn 7 i i . . ""intr com aay in winter. The hnd k tl.a l. 1 . " " "",vu "cons nave Deen hm can be sown with rye, without ditional cultivation, for the turning under to enrich the i t micui, ib w ue piantea tns land i& no eiira plowing, the work of thect tivator or borrow answering ill R poses, provided the weeds have kept down. If the laud ia eim the soil will be found to pulve riu r easily wherejhe bean jiJaPUJK. growing, and "other condition! r favorable for a crop of wheat, The Orchard. The proper feeding of the out is yet a matter not generally ut avoou. circumstances, in thu nat as in all others, alter cases, fa soils contain a large amount ol; table matter. The trees make i it growth and an excess of wood, i bear no fruit. Stop feeding them t. stable manure. Mineral lertiliient perhaps root pruning are needed k duce the trees to yield fruit instead wood. Phosphorous andpotuk the great remedies. Wood atheK tain both, and its application, era large quantities, i9 always safe. TL hard soils, which contain little (-' table matter and produce only net: yenowisn-iooKing trees and a nt annual growth, are generally imprw by the application of etable muc An even coat of this should be fpr over every foot of the orchard, 11 will have the best effect if thoiwjir mixed with the surface soil. Era left on top, however, it will impw the texture of the roil and ttinul the trees to more active growth. The hills should be hollowed ! the cauliflower like a shallow basis, v retain moisture. The head mijfc blanched by bending the leaves it confining them loosely with a tmi These will head in succession diuic the autumn. When a cauliflower b reached its full siie, which ia shor. by the border opening as if aboat eed, the plant should be pulled, i if laid entire in this state ini place, may be kept several iaya should be pulled in the morning, for gathered in the middle or evening a hot day. it boils touch. Wbentiff is danger of.. severe frost injuring & cauliiiowers that have not aire. headed, they may be protected bypt boughs or empty boxes or Uni' where they stand, or pulled tip the earth attached to the root nd moved to a cellar or outbuiU'4 where they will flower in fuccesi Milk that is cooled to a low temp ature Will sour verv rapidly wben temperature is raised again. Ezra Meekor hun tulon the t&t ship of the agriculture department the Seattle Post InteUigenotr. Have good stalls and warm quirt ready fnr iho fall rMa if von them to grow fast during thewinW Although it is supposed tbt nog eats anything, yet it rejecu - grasses and weeds that are n eaten by sheep and cattle. Seven tv-five vpurs eo the fir matoes grown in this country cultivated as a strange and w horticultural cariosity in Salem,1 Farmers find less damage to ft stacked grain than they anticip1? says the Walla Walla JaurnA throwing off the wet tops most will be saved. . . Sixty tn wnnli inrn t.llk T-e" an DtTAnna nluxil - Knuhl Oi Tn-rv V,nl ,lj nn the ground usa all thn materials tliat needed by corn stalks, enough to P- id the water has bee frtlins atcad:.y j r b1()W worke inJ. who of cr since, and t 111 it lwnivin,l .I.... . i . ... t.:n o.m.1 MrtHl' . ii"-"1" mi I "iiu hoc cut anu kin -"" ,, tne bodj came to human view. ! a ,IJIV. if hp. t .Lo- th-m htn f- i