EUGEIiE CITY GUARD,
I. UCAUrHKLU Frirleur.
EUGENE CITY. OREOON.
DyaamlU la a Hallway Accident.
It has leaked out that one of the pas
sengers on the truin wrecked had with
him twenty-five pound of dynamite
enough, had it exploded, to have blown
the whole tralu Into fragment He
bonght the stuff of a dealer In this city
and to Insure greatest cure curried the
package in his band. lie was in the
ainokljig car when the crash caine, and
the next few momenta were to him the
most terrifying of his life. When the
front end of the car lifted front the
wheels and tilted into the air he expect
ed it would follow the locomotive and
five cars ahead down the embankment
and the crash would explode the dyna
mite, but he also realieed his greatest
safety lay in keeping the dangerous com
pound in his lap.
As quick as the car stopped he made a
dash for the door, holding the package
at arm's length. Once on the ground be
bolted for the woods, carefully laid the
dynamite on the ground and hurried
away. Then he breathed easier, for even
after the danger of being crushed in the
car was over he feared the locomotive
boiler might explode and the concussion
eiplode his burden. Without question
bad the smoking car followed the others
iuto the ravine the dynamite wonld have
been Ignited and not only caused much
loss of life, but added another mysteri
ous feature to the affair. Naturally
every one would have connected the dy
namite with the plans of the men en
gaged in the act, as the owner of the
atuff would not be alive to tell his story.
Springfield Republican.
A Terror to Haad Agent. . I
Stephen Venard, famous aa a hunter
of highwaymen, has died at the County
hospital after a limroriug illness, at the
age of sixty-seven years. He came to
Nevada City from Ohio in the early
fifties add engnged in merchandising.
Subsequently he mined and did police
duty here, and was ror a tune engaged
In cattle raising in Nevada.
On the moruiiig of May 15, 1800, the
stage from North San Juan In this city
was stopped a few miles from here by
George Shauks, alias Jack WilliuinH;
Bob Finn, alias Caton, and George W.
Moore, who captured $7,000. Venard,
who participated in the chase a few
hours later, came np with the highway
men in one of the wildest and most in
accessable portions of South Yubacanon,
where they divided the spoils. An en
counter ensued, in which Venard, with
a rife, killed ull three, aud escaped un
hurt. Governor Low appointed him lieutenant-colonel
on his stuff for meritorious
service in the field, and the Wells-Fargo
Express compuny presented him with a
valuable rifle. lie was a man of modest
demeanor, thoroughly teuixrate, of the
strictest probity, and not afraid of any
thing. Cor. Son Francisco Bulletin.
Tilt Corinth Caual.
That great engineering work, the Cor
inth canal, which will sever the Pelopou
neeus from the mainland of Greece, and
will permit the largest ships to pass
directly from the Gulf of Athens to the
Gulf of Corinth, is said to be rapidly ap
proaching completion. The canal will
have no locks, but is level from end to
end aud perfectly straight, the width
being ninety -six feet and the depth thirty
six. At the Corinth end It is crossed by
a railroad bridge 101 feet high, under
which the tallest ships may puss without
lowering their topmasts. '
With the exception of a short space in
the center, the channel, it is stilted, has
been excavated down to the sea level,
aud water has been admitted for some
'distance at the Corinth end, as also at
the other approach. It is assumed that
boat 300 vessels from Trieste and Fiume,
and about the same numlwr from Italian
ports, will pass through the caual an
nually, while it Is calculated thut be
tween 700 and 800 Greek ships will use
the canal a total, say, of more than
1,300 vessels annually, averaging 1,500
tons each. New York Sun.
Interesting Autogroa.
Several interesting autograph letters
have been sold at the rooms of Messrs.
Christie, Muimod & Woods, the prices
obtained showing that rarities in this
line are always sure of finding a ready
market at sums which steadily advance,
A letter from Robert Burns to his father
sold for M, and five verses iu the same
handwriting brought 21. Oliver Gold
smith's manuscript has been steadily
rising in value of late, a letter from his
baud to David Garrick inducing a col
lector to bid as high as 11 for the docu
ment, at which price it was disposed of.
An epistle from Dr. Johnson Ooldie'ii
friend and patron only reached the sum
of 1013. Two lettersof Alexander Pop
weutfor17 10. and 0 IDs. respectively,
aud one from Jeremy Taylor brought
8 8s. A communication from Queen
Elizabeth to a correspondent abroad,
which her majesty had dictated to Roger
Aschaui, sold for 10 10. Uullguani's
Messenger.
Lira Lubatera la Demand.
There is now a strong demand for live
lobsters. The restaurants, boarding
houses and tunny of the families that
used to demand boiled lobsters now or
der them alive, because it is the whim
of the moment to eat them after they
have been broiled alivo. The idea is
that the flesh is halt a dozen times more
succulent then than if they are killed
first llauianltariaus nt-cd not shudder.
There never was any human method of
killing a lobster, lie used to be boiled
alive, and now he is broiled. It is doubt
ful whether, it each loUbtur could be ques
tioned, many of them would care which
way they were treated. New York Sun.
The Luugnt fclectrlc IU 11 road.
North Carolina is to have a forty-ont
mile electric railway, running from
Asheville to Kutherfordtou, for which
the power owruting the electric works
is to be furnished by water. The road,
when completed, will be the longest
electrio railroad line in the world, aud
the only one built to operate both freight
and passenger car. Though Kuther-
ferdton Is 113 years old, it never bad a
railroad of any kind until wlthm the
lt two year. Savannah New.
The Barber's Union of Tscoma pro
poses to see that the Sunday law In that
city, in so far as it relates to the closing
ot barber shops, be strictly enforced
hereafter. People who do not shave
themselTes will have to get shaved
Saturday a'ght or watt nulil Monday
morning.
tba Elephant Induetry and lla Halation
to the Blare Tnuta.
It has been succr-st td bv n recent writer
that the extinction of the African elo-
nlmnt would achieve the suppression
the African slave trude. for if there were
no Ivory to carry to the coast the Arabs
would have no occasion to maintain that
fell institution in Its foulest form.
the ainna lines we have heard it argued
tliat the ultimate patrons of African
slavery are those men among us wnose
amusement depend unon the perfection
of the sphere wrought out of the choicest
part of the elephant's tooth, and those
ladies w hose wstiielic taste would ue ot
fended with other than the soft, creamy.
delicately grained surfuce for their toilet
requisites, which no product but ivory
can give.
Muiit will reirard this lone chain
responsibility as the mere fantastic cre
ation of a philanthropic enthusiast, and
certainly the abolition of the slave trade
will bo a slow process If it depends upon
the establishment or an anti-ivory using
limcnn In, the boudoirs and dining rooms
i,t Muvfulr or the billiard saloons of the
Strand. The prospect that the problem
will be solved by the extinction or me
crreat pachyderm is also remote. The
vearlv destruction of eleuhunU is enor-
fa- ... ft.
niniis. and obv ouslv there is limn
the supply, but it promises to bold out
for a lonif time vet Occasionally times
nf aciircitv have been experienced.
for instance, during the recent blockade
of the East African coast by Uermany,
but the shipment to Mi rope continues
with a remarkable regularity.
The perennial talk of an ivory famine
linn na it come to nothing. rise i
price being sullicient to stimulate the
supply aud to some extent contract we
demand. Those in the trade will tell
you that magnificent tusks are now rare,
but of medium size were is comparative
abundauce. How long that will lost it
la iiiirxmsihle to sav. but as Africa is
opened up the elephant's bounds will be
circumscribed, and some line uay me
lust wild aniinul or the species win re-
,.ira Ma rim'i'iiiH. Fiftv vears is the
period which one authority in the trade
ventures upon for the practical drying
mi of the ivorv supply.
We obtain a certain proportion of our
. . . . . , . . . i . .
supplies or ivory rrom Asia, out tne uuik
and the best comes from Africa. , In
deed, a great part of what is nominally
East Indian is really African, for it is
sent from Zanzibar and Mozambique to
itiimluiv .ami such parts ns are not re
quired for bungles and curved work are
shipped to England, More or less comes
from Burmuh, Sium, Cochin China, Cey
lon. Hnrnatra and Java, the Siamese be
ing the best of the Asiatic, which ie apt
to discolor. The African is shipied
from Senegambio, Guinea, the Congo,
Benguela and other places on the west
roust: Zanzibar. Mozamhioue and Sofula
on the east; Capo town on tho south,
and from Tunis. Tripoli. Alexandria and
Cairo, being brought down from the in
terior in caravans. London Is the great
nmrkxt fur ivorv. and buyers both for
home aud abroad attend the four series
of sales held ut the London docks.
Liverpool, through its direct trading
connection with the west coast, receives
a rertuin amount of ivorv and has a
series of minor sales, and Antwerp is
now trying to cut into the trade, as an
outcome of the Belgian efforts in the
Congo Free Stnto. At the last scries of
.ilia held iii London only 75 tons were
offered, but th'j quantities usually range
from 100 to 120 tons. The lust auctions
in Liverpool disKed of 13 tons, aud
about 31 tous were offered at Antwerp.
Last year the total Imports of ivory iuto
this country weighed 11,737 hundred
weight This woulu mean at least tlU.WU
tusks, and the destruction of 80.000 ele
phants for this market alone. France,
Germany and America sliare in these
supplies, but they also obtain ivory di
rect, more especially Germany. Pall
Mull Gazette.
Balling tha Succulent Frog.
Two or three times a mouth bright
boy with a business like air visits the
hotels and restaurants. He was en
countered the other day in a down town
lunch room, where he had just sold the
proprietor a dozen fat frogs. They were
neatly strung along a stick, and one man
at first took them for reed birds. "I
caught Uiese down iu the Neck," said the
boy, "and it ain't no fun either, going
into a ditch after them with a net"
"What do you charge for thein?"
"Well, for nice, big ones, I can get
sixty cents a dozen," answered the youth.
A German woman from some place
"down in Jersey" peddles frogs, too.
She is talkative enough, except when
inquisitive folks try to find out just
where tho festive froggy cun be found.
Then she shrewdly scents a possible
competitor, aud thereafter remains as
mute as the provorblul oyster.
The usual way to cook bull frogs, or
cow frogs, as the boys call them, is, ac
cording to certuiu gastronomic authori
ties, a simple thing. Roll the frogs iu
cracker dust and then fry them as you
would an oyster. One gentleman of
pronounced epicurean tastes says that if
tho flavor of the succulent dainty is de
sired, it Bhould simply be fried iu butter.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Oramluia la a Hut.
. Bobby (who la visiting his fcluJ old grand
mot I wr) I wouldn't mind eat In' mine of that
nice hot bread, grandma. Qranduia Well,
Bobby, you can bavs all you want of It
Bobby Yea, but uia wont lot me eat hot
brvoiL Grandma (touting tha lad's moral
strength) She wont know anything about
It Bobby. Bobby-All right grandma; just
givt nio a piece, please. Harper's Bazar.
Itraaoa Enough.
mm
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RhaTlow conceitedly that
bean actor I
He Worai than tUtl Baa
actor. LiTa.
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Bias talks, la
amateur
FOREIGN LANDS.
Russian Peasants Prac
tice Cannibalism.
THE IRISH LINEN TRADE.
Japanese Fleet Will Not Co-operate
With China Against the
European Fleets.
Italy's finances are Improving.
Emigration in I'rusiia Increased
per cent, the last year.
S0.7
Mr. Jackson, tho new Irish Secretary,
Is a rich leds tanner.
Russia Is preparing to monopolize the
sale o( spirits and tobacco.
The loss of vessels at Martinique dur
ing the storm was fJ,000,000.
Luclen Bonaparte, who died the other
day, spoke eighty dilterent languages,
The Japanese fleet will not co-operate
with China against tne European neets.
Bremen is the first city in Germany to
operate all its car lines by tne electric
motor.
The French Senate has passed a bill
regulating the hours of labor of women
and children.
A company controls the flower girls of
lSerlin, who wear the national costume
and make money.
The imports of oil into India are 80
per cent, larger in quantity than they
were five years ago.
Emperor William will soon begin a
crusade against gambling in the civic
and military services.
Purine the past vear at Monte Carlo
the total receipts from the gaming tables
amounted to f-i,2')0,000.
A tier man syndicate Is working the
petroleum sprim recently discovered at
(iilinno, near Bologna, Italy.
A bill will be introduced in the En
glish Parliament to aholish actions for
breach oi promise oi marriage.
Baron Hirsch is reported to be ar
ranging an International Jewish Con
gress, to be held in tandon next year.
A vegetable cartridge shell, which is
entirely consumed in firing, in now
coming into general use in the French
army.
Gladstone has declined the tender ol
banquet at Paris by Frenchmen who
favor the withdrawal oi jiriusii troops
from Egypt.
Dom Pedro is reported to have an
nounced that he is willing to return to
Brazil to assist in restoring order and re
uniting the people.
The difficulty In fighting the famine in
Russia is increased bv the improvi
dence, ignorance, selfishness and fatal
ism of the peasants.
Women convict at the recent wreck
of the steamer Enterprise in the lav of
Bengal formed a human life line and
rescued six fellow voyagers.
It is rumored at Valparaiso that the
government of Chili will amnesty all
but some twonty of those who promi
nently supported Balmacedii.
Cycling is gradually making its way
throughout the armies of Europe. In
Russia each infantry regiment is to have
four orderlies mounted on cycles.
The Duke of Portland gives all his
profits at racing to charities under n
promise to his wife, and since his mar
riage has given $0,000,000 in this way.
Notwithstanding the Rucsian famine,
large quantities of English wheat con
tinue to be imported to England, the
amount rather exceeding that of lust
year.
A Brazilian Government decree lust
Issued orders a lease of the State rail
ways for thirty-three years at a gold
rental, half of which is payable in ad
vance.
A newspaper correspondent named
Eugene olff has been expelled from
Uerman Fast Africa fo : writing biased
reports discrediting the Governor of the
Colony.
The number ot deaths at Altonn from
trichinosis, caused by eating diseased
pork, 1b now reported as thirty. An in
vestigation as to the origin of the meat
is iu progress.
The famine in parts of Russia is so se
vere that peasants practice cannibalism.
The death role from diseases consequent
upon the absence among the people of
tne necessities ot ntu is terrible.
The ships that were built to carry beef
from the Argentine Republic, to Europe
are now employed in conveying fish be
tween the same points, the beef business
nsvlng apparently proven unremunera-
tive.
The Russian government is said to
contemplate a more rigorous supervision
of the sources of news sent to foreign
newspapers from Rtia-ia, which isclaimed
to be in many respects false and exag
gerated.
The London Sixctator has recently
shown that iu England the tendency of
population to the cities is irresistible,
that the young men and women are de
serting the agricultural regions and that
fanners are unable to get the laborers
needed (or cultivating the anil.
The St. Petersburg Xoro$ti. which has
already commented unfavorably upon
the speech ot Emperor trancis Joseph
to the Hungarian delegations. Teturns to
the attack in a second article, w herein
Austria is dubbed "a wolf in sheep's
clothing, always speaking peace while
armlug to the teeth for war."
Prince Bismarck has finished the first
volume of his memoirs, which, however.
scarcely brings him beyond the thresh
old of his public career. He has de
rided that no part of the work is to be
published during his life time.
ine trien linen trade is in a more
flourishing condition than for several
years post, and the 30,000 operatives in
the spinning mills and factories of Ul
ster are rejoicing in an increase of wages
ot from 5 to 7L cents, which will go
into lorce at once.
Turkey has refused to allow Russia to
disinter and remove to a point nearer
Umstantlnople tho remains of soldiers
killed In the late Russo-Turkish w ar and
buried in Turkey.
The Transcaucasian railroad has be
come so unsafe on account ot the bands
ot rotiliers which have of late been
formed in the mountains that the entire
line i j an imperial nkase has been
placed under military control.
The entire Eurojtean army ot the Cxar
of Ruia is to be furnished with the
new rltle by the summer ot 3ft!4. The
500,000 rifles ordered in France are to be
ready at the laU-at ly July ol that vear.
Meanwhile the Russian factories are to
deliver annually, reckoning from July,
430,000. thus making the total number
to be delivered in July. 1M, including
uiua oruereu m rrance, 1,7VU,IIUU new
nuea.
PORTLAND MARKET.
rrodaca, Fruit. KU.
w.,iTViilli,v. al.05fal.67H
Walls
Waiia. v.mm.tiW rree"ul,v Wan-
FuiDB-Htandard, .0O; Walla Walla.
H.HOS Graham, f4.U0; Huperline, J.u
per barrel. .
Oats New, 4234.rc Pr oahe.
l!AV-ll(tl3perton.
MiusTUrTs-Bran, $li ""orU
ground barley, ttM&l eM
tWlH per ton; feed barley, J0 w
dlings. ! per ton; hrewing barley,
ll.10Ml.15 per cental. v
Buttkr Oregon fancy creamery, 37,
CM.; fancy Jairy, SS,35e; ?jlr to
good, 25(c; common. 16--ic,
Eastern, 2o(aHi,c per pound.
Ciieim. Oregon, H15c; Eastern,
14rU5c per pound.
Edus-Oregon, 32,'Jc; Eastern, 27V
PPoSHnv-01J chickens. 3JK4 Mj
yonng chickens, l2.U0fl3.lW I ducks, $6.00
MM; geese. lU.OOG 10.00 per dozen,
turkeys, 13(t 15c per pound.
VaoBTABLiig Cabbage, nominal. 7ocf3
1 p.r cental ;caulillower,1.26 per doxen,
Onions, 75c(ul per cental ; potatoes, 40J
0c wt sack; sweet potatoes, io per
pound ; California celery, 75c per dozen
bunches; fancy Oregon celery, 60c per
dozen bunches; carrots, $1 per sacn;
beets, $1 per sack.
FKi'iTs-rJicily lemons, 8.50; Califor
nia, f5.60tfJ6.60 per box ; apples, 60
per box; bananas, $3. j0(t 4.00 a bunch;
pineapples, 4(ff0 per dozen; grapes,
Muscat and black, 6)0800 percrato;
pears, 75.251 pe' 1cn,JM
1.25 per box; cranberries, !!.'$ 10 per
barrel; Oregon cranberries, 9.o0 per
barrel; Smyrna Jigs, 17C'i22c per
pound; citrons, 27c per pound.
Muts Caiilorniawalnuts,ll4(31iCi
hickory, 8Jc; Brazils, 10Ulc; al
monds, 10(4 18c; Alberts, 1314c; pine
nuts, 1718c; pecans, 1718c; cocoa
nuta, 8c; hazel, 8c; peanuts, ou im
pound. .
Staple Orocerlaa.
Hokev 17J18c per pound.
8ALT-Liverpool,14.50, S15.6018.50;
stock, Sll12 per ton.
RiCK-Japau, 5.uu; isianu, o.o per
cental. . .
Bkans Small white, 2J4'c; pinx, Zc;
bayos, 2f4'c; butter, ac; limas, oc
per pound.
CoKKKX-Costa Rica, 20 21c; Rio,
2Cc; Salvador, 21c; Mocha, 3Uc; Java,
26c; Arbuckle's, 100-pound cases, 21 4'c
per pound.
extra C, 4?c; granuiaieu, o.c;
cube crushed and powdered, be; con
fectioners' A, buC'i maple sugar, 10$
1 c per ponnd.
Kybif Eastern, In barrels, 42245cj
half-barrels, 4447c: in cases. 6o80c
per gallon ; $2.26 per keg. California, in
barrels. 3iK! per gallon; Sl.75 per keg.
Dump Fb hits Italian prunes, 7a (8c ;
Petite and German, (?7e per pound;
raisin", $1.20( 1.00 per box; Plummer
dried pearB, 8(al)c; sun-dried and fac
tory plums, 0c; evaporated peaches,
C!llc; Smyrna figs, 17ft)22.,sc; Cali
fornia, figs, 7c per pound.
Cannkd Goons Table fruits, 1.65
1.80, 2,8; peaches, 1.80(a2.iM); Bartr
lett pears, $1.80(M.9i); plums, 1.374
1.60; strawberries, $2.2) ; uherrics, $2.2.)
(2.40; blackberries, $1.85C1.90: rasp
berries. $2.40; pineapples. $2.25(32.80;
apricots,$1.00(fl.70. Pielruit: Assorted,
fI.lUfltl.2U; peacnes, ii.z.; imims, i(i
1.10; blackberries, $1.25(HI.40 per dozen
Vegetables: Corn, $1.10(8 1.75 ; tomatoes,
Wcft?f3.00; sugar peas, $1.00(81.15;
string beans, H(ic(fl.UU per dozen.
Fish : Sardines, 75c(.il.()5; lobsters, $2.30
(83.60. Condensed milk: Eagle brond,
f8.10: Crown, 7.0i); Highland, ftl.50;
Champion, $5.60; Monroe, $0.75 per case.
Meats: Corned heel, f l.w; cnipo'i neei,
f2.10: lunch tonue, $3.10 Is, i5 6)2s;
deviled ham. $l.25tii2.li6 por d wen
AlUcellauoou
Nails Base quotations: iron
3.0"
steel, $3.00; wire, $3.60 per keg
Ibon Har, 3''4c per pound.
Stkhi, 10,'2c per pound.
Tin I. C. charcoal, 14x20, prime qual
ity, $S.O08.5O per box ; for crosses, $2
extra per box; rooting, Hiai, prime
quality, $0.75 per box ; 1. C. coke plates,
14x31, prime quality, $,.7o per oox.
I.kau if ue per pound; oar, o'vC.
Soi.pkr 131i(oiti,ic per pound, ac
cording to grade.
Shot $1.85 per Back.
HolIKKHllOKS $5.
Naval Stouks Oakum, $5 per bale;
rosin, $4.80(35.00 per 280 pounds; tar,
Stockholm, $12.b0; Carolina, $7.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $0.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, 05c per gallon in carload lots.
Bides, Wool and Hopa.
lluiKS Dry hides, selected prime, 8'a
ffiitc: Kc less tor culls: green, selected.
over 65 pounds, 4c; under 65 pounds, 3c;
sheep pelts, short wool, 3M(tfoUc; me
dium, iKKijtSOc; long, "0c(i$1.25: shear
lings, 10(tf20c; tallow, good to choice, .1
34c per pound.
Wool Willamette valley, I7lc
Eastern Oregon, 10(417c per pound.
according to condition and age.
liors Nominal ; 10loc per pound.
The Meat Market.
Bkkf Live, 2.c ; dressed, 56c.
Mutton Live, sheared, 3,Sc ; dressed,
78c.
lloos Live, 5c; dressed, 7c
Vkal 6(a7c per pound.
Smokip Mi; ats Eastern ham, 12(S
13vc; other varieties, 124c; breakfast
bacon, 13($15c; smoked bacon, ll4
ll?4c per pound.
Laud Ctomponnd, luc; pure, llMJSc:
Oregon, Ui 120 per pound.
Biks and Haa-alua;.
Burlaps, 8-ox., 40-inch, net cash, 6c ;
burlaps, 10-oz., 40-inch, net cash, 7c ;
burlaps, 12-oi., 45-inch, net cash, 7aC ;
burlaps, 10-oz., 00-inch, lie; burlaps, 20-
oi., jti-inch, l.lc. Wheat bags Calcutta,
22x3h, spot, 0c; three-bushel oat bags,
8c. Centals (second-hand wheat bags),
8c.
Aa UanMcaiarjr If.
During the recent visit of Jay Gould,
of New York, and his daughter to this
city they were taken through the treas
ury building, aud, of course, iuto the
money room. There, aa is usual, the
guide gave them the opportunity of
holding $1,000,000 in their hands. The
Hibernian guide, who had no idea who
the visitors were, remarked:
"Och. miss, aff yet only owned the
loikes av that now yei wouldn't be nad
in' to worry about where yes would be
getting your sparing wraps at aid, at
ahl." - Washington Cor Philadelphia
Record.
A Mlaalog Tar BmL
A North Carolina man exploded twen
ty pounds of gunpowder under a mass of
rock on the side of a mountain to loosen
it, and the shock sent five acres of rocks.
soil and treea ra.sb.iug down for half a
mile to fill np a valley and create a lake
a mile and a balf long Ue baa not been
seen since the rash. - Detroit Kree Prusa.
Tha Opanlng ol tha Saaaaa,
; Merchant- We will pay yoo three dol
lars a week if you tbink you can do the
work.
Young America - All right, boas.
Draw np dt con track an I'll sign wi4
Yoarclubv-Munsev t Weekly.
The Government Will
Begin Its Purchase
OF SEED FOR THE FARMERS.
Congress Appropriates $100,000 for
This Purpose Annually Cost
of Distribution.
fA Atrriculture in
pbout to begin its purchases of seeds
for supplying "e T" l"ul, "r"0VT 7 '
All such buying Is .lone direc tly from
itrowers. (Jongiess a,proi"i .
UUU lor mis puipunc
.UOU to put up the product and s hip
Uf.om Washington, so that only $ IO.OjO
is actually devoted to paying br the ma
terial distributed. In June and July
...I .,.,u.,,a travel aU)Ut. illHPei t'DK
new crops winch the serdsmeii are rais-
llilt. Iney select wnnv iui-y :
.u .l in .vHiiiler thev iournev
around again and make thmr contracts.
The seedsmen 110 not usunnj in
their stock in trade on their own land.
,'u.. t,;.a 11, u 11 no nf extensive tracts
4I1CY UHO
from farmers MjiuetimeH such a plant
tion will include 1.000 acres paying
much an acre and supplying tne seeas to
be planted. On their part the farmers
r . . 1 .I! .1... ...... a .tilAMtfl
UO UldUVAIi vaa ( ;
.,.,. AaUvar th rmiiB fibrillin!
uuiiiiat w vs . ;
hUHked ur tlireHHed, cieaneu ana in noou
AA.wi;yikn lr. it. Htrrpctl tint tliev Biiftll
do all the labor, and that the parties of
the Other part snail oe peruuueu iu c-
iUa tlnl.la at anv time and weed
UJlllUU n.w iit j - -
out all " rogues," which are plants ot in
ferior varieties, such as win creep 111.
In summer tune, wtien tne crops are
arowinif, Uucie Jerry s special agents
come along. To them each seetlsinan
shows not his green ueius, nnc 111s tnai
garden," wherein he cultivates a few
specimens of each choice vegetable that
he is enganed in propagating. The gov
ernment buyers look the sto. k over, de
cide in a general way as to what they
want to purcnase anu go away, 10 rem
in ti.a lutji mi tn hi n and uive their orders
III fc.tVt.M' ' . t 11
inaitantinir thn aeeils In tho hins.
n.LCI ,iiq-... ---
These seed farmers are scattered all over
the United States. Cabbage seeds are
naarlv nil nriiu'll nil Ijllllf IhlRlld. else-
where in New tork btato and in Con
necticut. Farmers believe tnai iney
need alt air. Of caulillower soeds the
.a.., a mmarka mv he repented. Peas
for seed ail come from the neighborhood
of Traverse, Mich., and Manitowoc, Wis.
Those got from elfewhere are always apt
to hove little worms in them, but the
flies, of which these worms are the larvie,
do not live in the region mentioned. Meet
seeds are nearly all imported. Carrot
seeds come from the far West, especially
irom liBlliorniB, in nnieu cum bio uiov
Droduced most ot the lettuce seeds and
the best. Corn and onions for seed are
raised all over the country, and the same
in trim nf Hip PiH-dfi of melons. CtlCUlll-
ber seeds come from Nebraska, Wiscon
sin and Missouri.
The Hower seeds which the department
distributes are nearly all imported from
abroad, where vast farma are devoted to
raising them. They have to be pur
chased from the big seed houses. As is
the case with vegetable seeds, they are
all tested before being sent out. For
this purpose a curiona little window gar
den is maintained, which consists of two
irood-sued pans about four inches deep.
Across the pans wires are laid in puirs,
with folds ot clieeso cloth hanging be
tween each pair into the water, of which
the pHiia ate half full. Tho seeds are
anrtnlrlu.l al.int In 1 lm fnlild nf till) flintfM
cloth, and quickly garminote, their roots
making their way tiiroiigii tne laoric in
a dense network. Sometimes vegetables
thus grown in the pans have actuully
prodiiced peas, beans and other things
big enough to eat. Any one who cares
1a (rat im aiif.li a wlnilnu' irnrilpn fin thin
at home will be well repaid for the slight
laoor involved, cmhkis can oe got lor tne
asking by writing to the Department of
Agriculture in the spring.
A flood Imlrjr low.
A noted dairyman recently said: "I'd
sell the best cow 1 ever had at. 8 years
old. Thev aro on the downhill fitter
that." The investigation that followed
showed that ho labored with a cow good
for beef and milk, sometimes one and
sometimes the other; and when his cow
leef was ready, he was wise enough to
sell it. lie hail it right. A good dairy
cow that puts her food into tha pail ami
not on her ribs grows better for years,
and the oldish cows are and have' lieen
nuite as profitable as tho younger ones
it cows are led and well cared lor, aud
not compelled to be forager in Bunimer
and manure-pile scavengers in winter.
there is no reason wby a good cow at 8
years may not be a good cow at 15. JNow
that succulent toods are largely the win
ter ration, the cow that is kepi w:irm
and comfortable in the stable in valuable
for milk, and good milk, for years, and
can be depended upon with far more
certainty, now that she has proved her
self a good cow, than can the heifer or
purchased cow to take her place. Keep
tne good, generous musing cow as long
as she is profitable, and then, thr.stian
like, consign her to a Bologna-sausage
factory and use the feed that would be
required to fatten her into 1-cent beet to
feed other cows in milk, or take her to
the woods and give her a respectable
burial.
Fpeillna- for (jtialltr.
The results of an experiment by the
Iowa elation in feeding milch cow's tor
quality iu milk are summarized as fol
lows: Oualitv of milk, so lar as ir.eas
ured bvitspereenlHireof fat. was changed
by teed to a much greater degree than
was quantity. Two-thirds ol the increase
in average gross yield ot butter fat was
due to improved quality of milk, and
only one-third to increased milk How.
While on this feeding Question it n av
be profitable to our readers to quote the
following from J. L. Hill iu the Vermont
experiment station report: " In trenetal
it may be said that the limit of ability to
assimilate a heavy grain feed and to ie
spond In milk product is dependent upon
the individual phvBical constitution and
nervous temperament of the animal. Up
to this limit there appears to be no un
favorable effect upon the animal or its
product. The financial effect of such
methods must depend largely non the
mnxe-npoi the animal and t'ie retutiv
cost of concentrated foods."
Each minute, night aud day, by the
official reports, the United States col
lects $039 aud spcuds $101 ; the interest
on the public debt was $04 a minute lost
year, or just exactly equal to the amount
of silver mined In that time.
A great amount of railroad building is
going on all over Switzerland. This
most difficult of all countries for railroad
engineering now has, relatively, mora
railways than the New England sUUs.
Last year 4,339 books were published
tn this country, and nearly one-quarter
V4 wieui i, no; went worKioi ucuou.
I a two bird po"-bt oo Ui.
. . i .iiAru run.
Wbara "" " -J. -
TJrbraa.Uol,l.aMtl...u
I watched thoin f hll M thi-y
oXnttodrthr.H.gUoutJ.dar.
And cheat "" th. tranquil air.
But suddenly I bird
Kprrad 0".t hfa. .ulnlDg wine fly.
And era be paawd '"" 1 btmt4
A Joyous carol In Ui 7
Tuo, frarlnn solitude too Jong-.
The oUiw followed la 111 wake.
And Ka.e the air a arlwroue
Aa luouiib hta Uny heart would breaa.
And aa I lUfned came Ui thoaght
Wby are ibelr aonif o dlfferentf
U It that each a measure caught
Aa o ar the amglug wire It wentT
For he who first went seemed to slug
"Sweethrt, to wedl Bweollieart, at
wed!"
The other's rolee teemed quatiering
TUr love la dead I Thy ke U deadl"
-Frank UeiupeUir Bhennan In Coeiuopolilan.
SLOW AND SURK
Jumea Llncard. an old and olid city
merchant, had In his employ two neph-
. . , . if v rt ot nil v-
ews, wno liau every ujhi
lug in the counting room the secret or a
successful business career. Ihese were
John Warren and Stephen Grey. Both
attained the age of 23 the same year, and
both on the first of May were summoned
Into Mr. Llngard'a presence. lie thua
addressed them:
"You have been In my employ eight
years: you know how my business is
couducted, and I consider you competent
to mauage a business of your own.
Though I should be glad to retain you
longer as clerks. 1 will not stana in me
way of your advancement I have
pluced to the credit of each of you, at
my banker's, the sum of 3,000. Tliia
will supply you with a sufilciont basis
for embarking in business. With econo
my in your personal expenses, and pru
dent and judicious management, you
will succeed. Success to youi
This was a long speech for the old
merchant, yet after a moment's pause he
added: '
"I have one thing more to say. This
Is all I purpose to do for you. You have
five times the capital I sturted with, and
with it you must sink or swim, iou
have my best hopes and wishes, but need
look for no further pecuniary aid."
His nephews thuuked him heartily,
and at once took measures to go into
business. John Warren secured a modest
shop at a moderate rent, and determined
to do business on a cash basis, contenting
himself with such a stock aa his own
capital would buy. Ho made his pur
chases judiciously, and overlooked every
detail of his business personally.
Stephen Grey hud larger ideaa. He
hired a shop at three times the rent,
pushed hia credit to the utmost, and
made a great show at the outset
Both young men were engaged, and
both soon married. Here, again, a differ
ence was manifested.
John Warren hired a small, neat cot
tngo just out of London, and furnished
it in a cheap, inexpensive manner. One
servant only waseiuployed, who together
with a boy to run errands, was found
sufficient for a small establishment. But
Stephen Grey turned up bis nose at the
cottage, and hired a city house at four
times the rent, which, of course, re
quired more servants and a larger scale
of expenditure.
"I ra not going to live like a pauper.
he said lofuly.
But can yoti afford such a house,
Stephen?' asked his cousin.
"My business profits will be much
greater than yours, he answered.
begin where you will be five years
hence.
"Perhaps so," said John shrewdly,
"but where will you be then
Don t fear for tne, said Stephen con
fideutly; "I'm ashamed of you for not
showing uiore enterprise. You ve im
mured yourself in an obscure shop,
where you win do next to no business.
"I don't know about that I d rather
be slow and sure. It's better to hug the
shore than et wrecked in mid-ocean."
'Perhaps so, but I know I am on the
way to fortune. Ten years frem now I
shall have turned my five thousand
pounds into a hundred thousand, while
you may possibly have fifteen.
"I see you are not to be convinced.
"Nor you, I suppose."
"No, my motto is, 'slow and sure.'"
"And mine, 'nothing venture, nothing
have.
"Well, the future can alone decide
which of us is right."
So the two cousins separated.
I am bound to confess, though my
own feeling is that John was right, that
circumstances seemed to justify Ste
phen in his course. It so happened that
the particular classes of goods of which
he had bought so largely, rose rapidly,
owing to a state of thiags which needn't
be explained, and as his stock was
large, his prolits were also very large.
Indeed, notwithstanding his personal ex
penses were three times as great as his
cousin's, his balance sheet showed, at
the end of the year, a clear profit of
j,000. Iu other words, lie had doubled
his capital, and was now worth 10,000.
John had profited, too, by the rise, but
on account of the more limited extent of
his business, advanced to but 0,000.
But with this he was well pleased, and
counted himself fortunate.
"How about our different matters?"
sold Stephen one day about this time, in
rather an exulting tone, to his cousin.
"I have no reason to complain of mine,'
said John, "it has served me welL"
"But nut so well as mine."
"It is hardly time to feel sure of that
Jet," said John.
I don t agree with you. I shall keep
on as I have begun. Indeed, I shall ex
tend my operations. I am in treaty for
a larger store, and
"For a larger store?" exclaimed John
surprised.
"Yes; it may suit you to poke along at
a snail's pace, but I boast a little more
enterprise.
"ou cant expect things will always
Porifleg the BLOOD, Cnrfs ff!ISTIPATIO?t,
BILIOLSSESS.HVER COMPLAINTS, SICK HEADACHE, CD 'J"'
PISt'LES, all SKIN AFFECTlOJiS, and DISEASES ARlSIirv"
DISORDEEED 8TOXACU. wt-l .pfrS
TU Genuine HAMBURG TEA it put ttp tn YELLOW WRAW
nU FaeriMiU Signaturt of EifIL FRESL'.
' . RCOINOTON OO. Aocnts. 6M Fwutcaca
' ULD BT ALL DKC6IT AUD VHUCEBaV.
aa favrirlil.i ....
lant year." . "
"vvemu.it take im,
of course; but when th. ., "1
Kuurw, out When it,. .. T.
me time to make hay Kii
I hope you will ,nal.
and be ready for a show,.
. . ' Skill. .1 '
come. llaW
"Trust me for that. kn
about You'd belter f0uw H
"How. more lntoalaree,
"Vest take this on. .V
to leave." lU9Hla,
Jolin ahook his hPaj
"It is too large for me "i,.
.in not yet ready to eiuu,e9 (7l 1
turn i beyond my pre,,, H
"Well. if. good atlvic, rm
you. whether yon uk, t 0. ' "to
ive no doubt you think
I hope VOU Will nim.i ,:.,. . ,otW
shake your faith h, your ,notto:1'
So the two cousin. a2ain
and each continued to do hmin
own way. Not only (!iu
crease his business e. . pnt"
Ing a store at a higher rent, reo
additional number of cU..T''i
moved Into a larger house and a-1
curriage. lJi
But circumstances still .
rihi'n. Th r u ..! , lb
not to as great an extent, and hii
being larger, he cleared tmLf
thnilHIlllfl tvinn.la II- I. 111
himself as destined n u M
,i , J wj.ui
end of the third year, which
iuvo rao e. lie nnrniv .
j vlu ,,uvg
ho wan worth tiftvm ,i. .
The tide had turned, and beouuT
tnken in anil R,, !,! i
... w. ii ,i,M.inn
------ ue saw no nw- I
eity for doing. So for two yean iZ I
he kept on his way. In that ii,.T7 i
fell very considerably. Ili
very large, and hi louses also VtKMf la
His property hud shrunk to eight tw
sund dollars, while John's had Incraj
to nine thousand, and lie wa
richer of the two. John now Mt lafl"
Ized in renting a somewhat largertBo.
while Stephen remained in disown,
I shall not lie able, nor would it U k
teresting. to detail the varying fw
of the succeeding years. Sufficti.
say, that at the end of tea yean u,
was winui uiieeii mousand poundl,uJ
was carrying on a safe and profim
business. Stephen found himself ut
point w here failure was inevitable ut.
he could obtain the immediate useolia
thousand pounds. His personal eitnn.
gunce and ill judged expansion injjks
count for this.
In this dilemma he betlioneht him
of hii uncle. He made his war tciL
well known counting room, and in
shown into Mr. Lingar l's prints rocs.
l.hope everything Is Koinr tA
Stephen." said the merchant
"O yes." said Stephen, "that u. But,
welL But, to tell the truth, r ii i
tight place just at present."
"Indeed: I in sorry to hear It"
"You see my ojierations are pmt
large, and I am afraid 1 shall barea
susend unless I can raine ten thotutni
pounds within a week.
"That's a large sum."
. "Well, my business is large."
"What do you estimuteyourstocka?
"Twenty thousand pounda."
"Will ten thousand pounds set joi
free entirely?"
"No," said Stephen reluctantly. I
have bills to the amount of eight th
sand more maturing in six months."
"Deducting the proper margin. It b
doubtful if your assets equal your nihili
ties." "A loan of ton thousand pounds wwll
give me a chance to right myself. Wiil
you como to my help, Sir. LingardT
The old gentleman shook liis head.
"Frankly, no. I resolved when 1 (tail
ed you in business to leuveyoutojw
Belf without further help. 0Userra(
how you started. I foresaw how thiifl
would turn out. You have held ut
longer than I anticipated."
"Then what am 1 to do, sirr W
Stephen, gloomily.
"1 advise you to call your creditqn
and make a frank statement. If tlx;
allow you to go on, contract your open
tions, take a smaller store, and lfii
over again. If you prefer, liowew.l
will give you a clerkshipat Ave IwinW
pounds salary. 1 presume my putM
will not object."
"Your partner, sir? Have you ttka
one?"
"Yes, I find I am getting old Mdwel
rest."
"May I ask who he is?"
"It is John Wan-en."
Stephen sprang to his feet In ana
ment, anger and envy. John WarresH
be placed so far above his head!
"Why Isrthis?" he asked in an
steady voice, ,
"It is because John Warren l t gw
reliable business man. Had yoo ibon
the same good judgment, sagacity m
moderation I should have taken J
also into partnership; but I tell J
frankly. I cannot trust my businea
your hands."
Stephen left the office abruptly. W
and mortified. He was glad eventing
to accept the clerkship, being utter?
wrecked In business. John
at this time, his uncle being defeat
the head of the great firm, and a very na
man. Stephen is a disappointed
but he has only himself to thank W
-Horatio Alger. Jr., in launw
Population In tha South.
Recently gathered statistics sbo
the present population of the
states is 19.489.150. as against U.-'
in 1880. being an increase in ten yen
the whole south of over 33 per cent i
wliite population of the south M
creased a little over 3.200.000. being
12.318,430. while the colored POPTJ
shows an lucrease in ten years ot
1,600,000, being at this time
Frank Leslie's Newspaper.
Way f tba TratreMr In
Wilson (who calls on Tommy's siwr
now did you get that bump oo your'1'
head. Tommy? .
Truthful Tommy-1 waawawhint.
and sister through the keyhole, tbeo
night, and 1 struck my head aga"
fliw knnh Yiint-eg Hlnfl
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