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EUGENE Clff GUARD. rraptietar. EUGENE CITT. OREGON. HE ONLY WANTED A SLAB. r rut Peeollarly DcpraMlnf KffMl Hnntlof II u on Maa. "I W 7ur pardon," said a cadaver cm and dejected looking man at b itonped me on Twenty-third tfreet, "can Ton direct me to the morguer "To the morguer aid I, "why, ye," and I (rave him the needful directioni to find hi way to that hotel where quiet people (ro, but loinetline make more trouble than noisy ones could do. "Look' lug for a friendi" 1 aked, the journal Utio lenae coming to the front "No," tald he wearily. "Looking for yeaoe, that ia alL" "Indeedr "Yea,'' be replied, and the weight of grievou woe rested, it wa evident, upon hi aouL "My wife i in the country," be laid. "A week or two ago she wrote me that at the public schools were about to begin soon we must get settled for the winter, and she wished that I would look up pleasant flat for the winter. The rooms must be light and the neigh borhood good, and the rent not more than fiOper week. Of course she ex pected to have steam heat. 8h waa not dead set on hall boy, but had no ob jection to one. She utterly tabooed Harlem, would not of course think of living on a street that was made noisy and sooty by the elevated roads. Other wise she wsa ready to leave the selection to me, and she wanted me to exercise my own judgment largely in the picking out of our winter home. P. 8. It ought to be bandy to a good school, and I must be sure to lee that malarious influences did not exist either in the flat or in the neighborhood. P. P. 8. It would be well to make inquiry's regarding the cheapness and excellence of the neigh' boring markets. Not that it made any difference to her what she ate, but I was such glutton, and I could not work the market as if I were million' aire. "I accepted this easy commission with' out a tremor," said the cadaverous man wearily. "I knew that the town was full of beautiful flats, with all the con Teniences and blessings that the heart of man could desire. 1 gathered list of glorious apartments, all within five ruin ntes' walk of beaven apparently, and with my wife's directions In my bat be gan my quest. "And did you succecdr I asked, breath less with interest "Succeed?" be answered dreamily, "Succeed? Yes, 1 have succeeded. 1 have been five weeks upon tlie quest, and I have succeeded. Where is the Morgue? I do not want a flat I want a slab. A dark, malarious slab, miles from any tchoolhouan, without a janitor or hall boy, with all the electric bells out of order, and with every tenant like me, lying down to peaceful dreams." "Poor mon," said I, "I pity you, but do not blame you. For I yes, I must confess It I have been there myself." New York Herald. STAYING THE HAND OF DEATH. Haw Paluter Won a Wafer. Often have sculptors and painters dis cussed the relative merits of sculpture and painting. A funny story is told of an artist who resented the disparaging comparisons made by a sculptor, and laid a wager thut ho could, within a given time, paint a picture which should display the human figure as completely aa any sculptor could do. The wsger waa accepted, and upon the appointed dsy a painting was produced which ful filled all the conditions. It represented a wnrrior, his back to the spectator, bending over a sheet of water in the limpid surface of which waa reflected his entire face and form. To the right a suit of polished armor hung and threw back a full length profile Image, while a mirror performed a like offlc for the left side. The sculptor, of course, Handed over the money staked. and the painter doubtless laid it out to great profit and advantage to himself and his friends In the approved "cake and ale" of the rlod, after the generous manner of his kind. New York Star. Thar Is (aid to Ba a Cartala and Bapld Mfiul uf ItMascltatloa. Colonel Henry Elsdnle, of the Royal engineers, claims to have discovered a certain and rapid means of resuscitating persons from the effects of suffocation. A sapper among the men under bis com mand at Chatham was one day found enveloped in the folds of a half empty war balloon. The coal gas with which it bad been inflated had suffocated him, and to all appearances he was a dead man. But efforts were made to restore him, though tbs pulseless heart and ca daverous face of the man gave no en- couragement to persevere. In a mo ment of something like inspiration if occurred to Colonel blsdale to send foi some tubes of compressed oxygen, which bad been prepared for the oxyhydrogen light This pure oxygen, at a very blgh pre sure, was hurriedly conveyed into tht mouth of the prostrate sapper by meant of inserting the nozzle of the valve be tween his teeth, arid the supply was "gently turned on" to the smallest ex tent The effect was almolutely Instan taneous. In an inxtant lie opened hit eyes and seized the nuzzle between bit teeth. In short, the wipjier was not only thoroughly revived within a few min ntes, but in half an hour T.-alked away, quite well, to the barracks, and refused to go to the military hospital, aa was suggested by his commanding officer. Of course the objection will be raised that everybody has not tubes of pure oxygen at high pressure in readiness to apply to such cases. Happily oxygen in quantities as large as those administered not needed, and it can be stored "in small, strong bottle made of the finest steel, with valve giving an absolute hermetic seal. These vessels may be as small as a soda water bottle, and may be made part of the medical stock of every doctor. Oxygen at any degree of compression required can, in fact, now be obtained, and the whole apparatus for restoring vitality can be packed in a small box quite portable. W hat possibilities may not such a dis covery as thut to which we have drawn attention Involve! It is equally availa ble, we are assured, for titose personi who have heen asphyxiated by choke damp in coal mines, or by ordinary coal gas. I'eople apparently drowned, and those insensible from long exposure in the rigging of a ship, might also be saved from an untimely end by what Colonel Llsdale calls "a dose of oxygen." It would probably bo invaluable, too, In cases of suffocation from the fumes of charcoal, or in cases where chloroform had oterated injuriously on a weak heart. Such a discovery should at ones occupy the attention of the Koyal Col lege of Physicians, with a view of ascer talnlng whether Colonel Elsdale bat overrated the beneficient effects to be an ticipated from the administration of pure oxygen. London Chronicle. FOREIGN LANDS. Jack the Ripper Writes Another Letter. THE ANARCHISTS IN SPAIN. PORTLAND MARKET. I AGRICULTURAL. Horticultural Newspapers of England Renew Their Attack Upon American Apples. If Mad Maa. Christopher Columbus was the son of a weaver and also a weaver himself. Claude Lorraiue was bred a stry cook. Cervantes was a common soldier. Homer waa the son of a fanner. Demosthenes was the son of a cutler. Oliver Crom well was the son of a brewer. Howard was an apprentice to a grocer. Frauk lin was a journeyman'printer and son of a tallow chandler and soap boiler. Daulol Defoe was a hosier and son of a butcher. Cardinal Wolaey was the son of a butch er. Lucian waa the son of a maker of tatuary. Virgil was the son of a porter. Horace was the son of a ahopkeejier. Shakespeare was the son of a wool sta pler. Milton was the ton of a money acrivener. Pope was the son of a nier chsut Robert Hums waa the son of a plowman in Ayrshire. Exchange. Making laee. Simple worda are best, though a very busy man cannot always stop to pick one. At a hotel a waiter came out of tht coffee room and Informed the manager that a man was raising a disturbance, be cause be could not have his accustomel eat at the table. "Qo in agaiu.-said the manager, "and propitiate him in some way." Back went the waiter and said, "If yon don't like the way things Is done here you can get out. or I'll propltiat yon pretty qnick."-Lloyd Weekly. MiauUly Elact. The knack of looking at the bright aid of things was never developed U uch perfection a In the rase of a south erner who, after a railroad accident, Ul egrsphed to a friend wife: "Your hus band killed In railroad accident; head, both arm and both legs cut off." But later this correction was received: "First report exaggerated: your husband killedi bead and legs cut off, but only one arm." Ram' Horn. Whoever would do good In the worl4 ought not to deal in censure. We ourh A Ve,tro7' bnt "'her to construe! An effort wiU b made by a number of Xepreerntntlve to bar th Appropria tion Committee recommend that the lee rtem io Federal oifloes be abolished as far a can be don. This 1 to correct principally tb abuse which xUt In th offloe of Marshal in th various State. How II fads lo a Hug In Una's Ear. "A bug in bis ear," is a figure very ex tensively used in common conversation. Hut, reader, did you ever have a bug in your ear iu fact? If not, you have no idea how it feels. H. F. Tomlinson. who exmrienceil the seiiKstion, says he never suffered such torture in his life. The bug crawled into his ear while he was lying in bed asleep, between 11 and 11 o clock one night. It was only acorn mon candlebug or fly, but the degree of torture one of them can inflict while in the ear is beyond the hcoikj of the iiimiri nation. Mr. TomliiiHon said that when he awoke he dreamed that a railway train had jumped the track, struck him in the ear and was plowing Its why through nis head. The train kept iro inr. but it seemed that it would never get uirougn. Occasionally it would stop and then urt again with renewed force. Then again the train seemed to lie at a stand till, but the wheels would be turning with lightning rapidity. The traiu would move off gradually with a grating noise, ami would not stop till the whistle blew for the next station or it ran off the track or collided with another train, wmcn frequently occurred. Mr. Tom linson tood the torture till daylight, wnen lie sent for a doctor, who succeeded in Usnlhg out the bug, which in the meantime had died. Mr. Tomlinson aaid that if the bug had remained in his ear an hour longer he would have beeu a raving maniao.-Mexico (Mo.) Intelligencer. Strangthanlng Cast Iron. Home of the most nroininent iron founders are Introducing a new and aim pie practice in order to secure stronirer castings, the method in question consist ing in placing thin sheets of wrought iron In the center of the mold previous io me ojieration of casting. Th a method was first resorted to, it appear, in the casting or thin plates Tor the ovens of cooking stoves, it being found that a heetof thin iron in the center of a quar ter men oven piaie reudered it practi cally unbreakable by fire. this result has led to the procesa be- Rusala'i force on the Austro-Russian frontier i 13,000 strong. The London hospital are still taxed to the utmost with influenza patients. A revolt of the Seventh and econd Regiments at Buenos Ayres ia reported. The ciKsr manufacturer of the I)o- m in ion of Canada are forming a com- oine. It is 'aid that gold In large quantities lias just been discovered In Barmouth, Merionethshire, Wales. A torpedo boat 130 feet long, built for Victoria by Yarrew, made 11 knot an hour for three hour on her trial trip. A letter has Ix-en received in London. signed "Jack the Kipper," stating that ne intends to resume operations shortly, Russia has seven Pasteur institutions. in which l,li52 patients were treated dur ing the year, furty-two of whom died of hydrophobia. A hand of Anarchists attempted to piuage me town oi .ere, npain. They were renulsed and mint mulnrwl iih a loss of three killed. Immense bituminous denosit hsvs been discovered in Alsace, and no less than seven companies have recentlv btn formed to work them. A lariwly-eiifned petition has been placed before the Prussian Reichstag, praying for the admission of women to the ranks of druggists. Jame Cordon Bennett, who has had a slight attack of inlliienzs, is about to start irom I'ari lor Cairo, Egypt, whence he will go to Abyssinia. An imperial Russian decree has jnst been issued, extending to Finland the prohibition of the exportation of wheat irom the Kufsian r.mpire. The gold medal given to Vircliow on his Dili hiit'uliiy is the largest ever made. It weighs nearly six pounds, and the metal alone is worth f 1,750. The official figures for the French vint age show 30,000,000 hectolitres, nearly 3,000,000 more than in 1H1I0. The cider crop was U,000,OU) less than in 181K). Athiinii", the bandi. who created such havoc in Turkey a few months aim. re cently sent a letter to the Governor of Adrianople demanding fL' 1 0,000 at once, The high priest of Persia, who fur- hade smoking In order to break no tl tobacco monopoly, have triumphed. Tl monopoly nas Keen otllclally ahoiished Bernhardt' fucceswr in point of tal ent at the Comedie Francaise is Mile. Hiidlay, who has risen from the bottom of the dramatic ladder to near the top, hngland keeps up a vast navv. but noes not neglect the other department oi the army, lliere are thirteen regi menu oi heavy cavalry In the Hritis army. I he Pope has agreed to adopt an attl- tude toward King I umliert and Km peror Joseph winch will enable the latte to visit Rome without embarrassment tit either. a l i . noverai large lenna hankers am manufacturer announce that thev will prohibit all their employes from going to wie races uuring the coining spring Bt-HSUII, Two Nihilists have Iwen arrested Moscow. It is stated that there is ev .1 .1. . l . . m-nro unit mey niuccil DOin l with an electrical attachment under the lineover which the (inin-rial train was to pass no ii vriuiea. Father Ohrwalder. the Aust rian min. sionary who recently escaped from cap tivity among the Multilists, ssvs th original Mahdi wa poisoned by a girl. whose family lunl been alum-lit.. rwl hv the Mitlidi at Klirtoum. The special object of the three tour around the world undertaken by Mile. Kline St. Olmer under the an-nic. oi me raris wengrapmeal Ninety is study oi the lives, customs, etc., of the women oi the various countries It is reported the relatives of iheDnka oi Kochelonoalt ntl'aris are endeavoring to break off hie engagement with Miss Mitchell, daughter oi Oregon's Senator, the reason assigned is the lady is not wealthy enough to meet their view, Ijidy Brooke, whose name is comdml with that of the Prince of Wale in a auiphiet published some time ago, has eft Loudon, ami is living iu seclusion at r-.nsion l)dge, IHinnow. apparent! awaiting for the scandal to blow over. The horticultural papers of Finland are renewing their attacks on American apples on the ground that thev contain arsenic, and the attacks are liei'ng gener ally copied bv the dailv nrea. Th i nnrge is timi growen sprinkle arsenic Profile, Frail, !. Wheat -Nominal. Valley. tl.OOfl 1.02.4; Walla Waiia, $1.67tiStl.OO per cental. Fuu-.Standard,5.00; Walla Walla. 14.80; Graham, f4.00; rjuperone, aj.u per barrel. Oat New, 42dHtc per bushel Hay Ill'al3 per ton. MiuTUrrs liran. Ill): short, t ground barley, ttJMm'&i chop feed, llHialtf per ton: feed barley, 2d: mid dlings, lift per ton; brewing barley, II. I0(1. 10 Per cental. Bittkk Oregon fancy creamery, 87M &H)c fancy dairy, 22'i$'i:e; fair to good, 0t-ile; common, Ib&Tic; Lantern. 'IbbtiWc per pound. CinKHg Oregon, ltiglfc; Eastern, irU7c per pound. Koo Oregon, WtQZbs; Eastern,30c per dozen. Poultry Chicken. 13.50(31; ducks, V.W(a7.w. geeoe. $11 per dozen; tur keys. 12'uC per pound. VxoxTABLKs Cabbage, nominal, $1(3 fl bO percental: caulillower, lllgi zopei doz; Onion, 75cfall percental ; potatoes, 4U'tooc per sack; tweet potatoes, z;. (a'.ic mr pound; carrot, 76c per sack; beet, 76c per sack ; parsnips, 11.00 per hick; asparagus, Hoc per pounu; pump- ain, zc per pound. Fhuits Bicilv lemons. 13.60(30.60; California, $:.00(i-l.(0 per box; oranges, 14.0.1(40.6 J ; apples, 75c(l.Z6 per box; banana. t3.oUM-l.00 a bunch; pine applos, $4(40 per dozen; cranberries, 0.50 per barrel; Smyrna Hgs, IW&ke per pound; citrons, Z7c; lady apple, si iter box. Nuts California walnuta.ll V123ijCi hickory. 10c: Brazils, 104Uc; al monds, 10(418c; filberts, 14(otl5c; pine nute, 17(il8c: pecans, 17(4 18c; cocoa nute, 8c; peanuts, 7(g8c per pound. Preservation of Swee Potatoes. ONLY MYS1ERY EXPLAINED Loss in Trying1 to Keep Sweet Tuber Due to Abrasion of the Skin, Cutting and Frost at lug now applied ,o the tWng of large ! pnK - ,.,.. ... .,, llu luiparuug a mom, which eai noining Put of ..i.iiti i i i : r i-i' BI,rK, it-Hwmng tue "' iars. wrem mianinies oi American iiaowiy to any fracture. As an ail. apples are told In Kim and. dence or the additional strength capable of being Imparted by this means, it is stated that a plate of Iron one-fourth of an Inch thick, cast with a perforated aheet of 27-wire gauge wrought iron in the center, Kses.sed aix timet the trengtlmf a similar cost plate with no core. The quarter inch plate bad the irngtn,.i a plate one Inch thick. New York Situ. A Dunr In an Old hurra. Now and then a small door may be seen high up in the pier that divide the nave (mm tho chancel. This is the door mat once gav access from the winding stair within the pier to th footway on th top of the screen with which most churches were once provided. When creen were found inconvenient and were removed, these door were Wt. R church. Herefordhirw, has a no ticeable example; Hinckley church. Lei ceterhlr, baa another. -Gentlemsn'l Magazine. Aa t:ffw-tim n.- .lira. 1 (iinu i.tv.. l . . nTi . J saw, oear, Ihal r. V Why. mr Ut t,i,,.i. Mr. Y.-B autt, when Um baby m left akw today th. ,W l,il. ,hUlg . bottle of pill. Mj jrallk , botu-o, liquid. I ahudder to think .bat tUcLn queoca. niljilit hav baa if Um mwlktn had btan allopatlik-.-Auwlca. Maringo, a correspond, nt in Pari of certain inrkinh newspapers, has been conducted to the frontier under a decnw of expulsion with the charge ot misrep resenting the ahitir of HnViria ami other matters affecting France in his corn spon. lenee. In some nuarteM the act Is looked upon as a rebuke to Turkey mr ui. i aciivi.iv rnj o sing me cause ol rrance In the Cliadouine sllnir. The strike of the printers it still part ly on in Berlin, Impute, Frankfort and Munich. 1 lie leaders slate thst 1,000 men are Hill out and 14.000 men at work contributing to the fund for the support of the strikers. A number of the mas ter printers In Berlin have conceded the demands, and MikJstrikerswereenabled to return to work. The tandon Gaslight and Coke Com pany claims to have beaten the record in iu line during Christmas we- k. when fog and frost reigned for six awful days and nights. Ou the Thursday before Christmas the company's rustnmert con sumed IW.iHHJ.lKK) cubic feet of gat. The conductor of all the atreet car, omnibuses and other vehicle for public avommodtinn in Warsaw, in that nart of the city between Novaya Praga and the stihiirh of Brudno, are women, and fulfill their duties more accurately and to the better satisfaction of the public than men. The wine culture In Southern Crimea is being t xtendml very largely this vesr. Million of acre which have tven Iving idle are at present planUd with vine, j Tli peasant of the famine district I ttrearn'mg southward have made labor i Mtapla Ororarlaa. Honky 17'n(S18c per pound. Halt Li verpool, $I5.60iS $10.75 ; stock, 111(412 per ton. CorrKK Costa Rica, 21c; Rio, 21ci (Salvador, 21c: Mocha, 30c: Java, U6c; Arbuckle', 100-pound cases, l!u,V per pound. Kits Japan, 15.00; Island, .').o0( b.ih per cental. Bkans 8mall white, 3c; pink, 24'c; bayos, 2'ic; butter, Sjc; limas, 3,'i,c per (Kiund. Sloak D, 4'gc; Golden C. 4Wc; extra C, 4Rc; granulated, 6 1 s c ; I i enlje crushed and powdered, osc; con fectioners' A, 6c; maple sugar, 16$ 1 c per pound. Kyhup KaHtern, in barrels, 42(345c, half-barrels, 44(t47c; in cases, 3ow80c per gallon ; wt keg. California, in barrels, 3ic per gallon; I1.7J perkeir, HkikuFkuith Italian prunes, 8(58'vc; Petite and German, U(a7c per pound; raisins, ii.zimhi.wu per box; apples Plummer-dried, 86S)c; evaporated peaches, 9(illc; Smyrna ngs, V3i'i)it California tigs, 7c per pound. Cannkd Gooos Table fruits, I.00(? 1.80, Z't; peaches; f l.HOirfL'.oO; hart lett pears, $1.80(41.00; plumt, $1.37 i.no; straw oerries, -'.; cherries, .'.2o (42.40; blackberries, 1.86ur UK); rasp- oerries, -'.40: pineapples, fX(r2.80: apricots,$l.(i0(n.70. Pie fruit: Assorted, H.lOKtl.20; peaches, $1.2; plums, 1. 10 ; Pinck Perries, U.A((tlAU per dozen. Vegetables : Corn, $1.10 1.76; toniatoea, i'oc(i.w; sugar peas, WocMll.rJO ttrinir beans. iHJcOil.OO tier dozen. Fish : Sardines, 76c 1.05 ; lobsters, $2.30 (ic.i.rxi. uomtensed milk: Kagle brand, fH.10; Crown, $7.00; Highland, $0.60; I'liampinn, a.).oj Monroe, f.7o per case. Meats : Cornell tcel, $1.00; chipped beef, U.ld; lunch tonifiie, $3 0 ) Is, i5 5'2s: leviled ham. $l.f,0 i2.65 pr diisnn The only mvstery there i In keepinx sweet potatot ia to understand the sun pie method required to keep the akin from thrinking or rolling. A great deal of the lof experienced in trying to kei p these sweet tuoers it due to the abrasion of the skin, rutting or injury from frost. WM t ...... J L. f l . . . mere is no inuiiioo oi seenwiK sucn tu bers through the winter. Only the finest and most perlect specimen should b elected for winter preservation. Those that are to be kept ahould not be dug from the ground until they have ceated srowimr. lor Immature notatoet will roi quicker than thope which have secured their full matnnty. Alter they have been taken ontof the ground they should be carefully kept from all moisture, rain and frost, but at same time they should be kept out in a cool place until quite lafe in the fall. It lend to spoil them quicker by putting them into their close winter quarter too eariv In the season. .Methods, though essentially the same in general, are aiueient in detail re specting the preservanon of sweet pota toes in small quantities or in bulk. If only a small quantity, to be kept the should be placed in barrels or boxes, till Jng in the interstice with fine sand or dry dust. Alter being placed in the bar rels they are kept in a cool place in the parn until severe weather comes on. Then they should be removed to thecej lar, where no frost can reach them, hnl where good ventilation can be had. The fault with man y of our fruit cellar it that there is not -uflicient ventilation to keep the fruit and vegetables. Good, fresh. crisp air preserves the fruit irom wili ng, but many have an idea that the air of winter must be rigidly excluded from me cenar. uive the cellar all of the ventilation iKssible without reducing the lemperature too low. If the potatoes are preserved In bnlk. select eoine high, dry ground, or even form a board purface, on which about fl ty huHhels of the potatoes should I piled. Thia will make a cone-shaped heap about three feet high and fonr leet wide at the base. Cover them with a layer of stalks, hay, straw or potato vines to the depihof rix or eeven inches. Uig soil from the outer edire of the bunk and cover thia litter wiih it liirhtlv ni first, but increasing the thickness as the weather irrowa colder. Aa a ventilator a bundle ol cornstalks should portrude from the top of the heap down to the potatoes; also one from the tide near the bane. I nt plenty of tot on the bank io exciune iron, and then cover the ton L. I i .. . . oyer wiiii ooarus or tome rooting to ehed the rain. SWEET MEMORIES. Amid tb silver glacltr 't Ught f ar up tbs mwuntals i fiwo Meai, Th Alplo flowen bud aud bloom Wltliln their dreary Ic buunl how; XJkt (aw of p ureal light lulatd Xn soma dark carers. dumiaJ sbada, , Beoaalh the soft aad t-ij cloud That flial like auKel relied lo shrouds, Athwart tbe roay UnU-d brows Of peaks that nw la northern suows Thaw fraipl "thiiiifa of beauty" swaat BpTlng up tuld park, and slope of sleet, Even thus within the human heart Bom gentle iiipniorka ne'er can part; Their unknown Inwnie glrea relief, Aud Molliw tbe bitter Htirnu of grief; And llll they bloom tho' sorrows roll A green otuui for the soul. B. II In New Orleans Picayuaa, WAITING. "If you were alone in the world I would not ask yoa not to lore me; but I dare not take you from a lurj;e ami happy bom cir cle and doom you to a life of poverty and drudgery with ma. "some men do it, I know, but I could not It would go against every imtluctof my man hood, every principle of my life. "When first I felt tbe sway of this pas sion; when flml I divined the powerful affin ity of your soul for mine, I tried to go away I did go away, as you know; but it was not In nature for love to keep silence forever, and in that one weak moment before I left, I lot you aoe my heart, and Ood help met I taw yours." lie bid bis eyes. Uecould hurt her when It waa for her ultimate good; but he could not watch bur face grow whiter and whiter In its pain. "Oh, if you could know bow often I have wished I had died, ere ever I brought this trouble into your life) "Try to lie happy. Try to be Joyous and glad as or old the simple childlike woman I first loved or else I shall feel a criminal In deed. sad, yearning cry, tbe Uiht wail of tht humj, paiwiou ere it cbuuged Into the uplritualj "Denr one, let me say It thi. otice, in the n. cred uureaerv of death I love you to "'o on ever put it Into words but a . man: "I lore thee to the lerel of every day's Must quiet need, by sun snd randle light 1 love time freely, aa nvn strive for right; I love thee purely, aa they turn from praias, I love thee wllb the ponton put to tue Iu my old griefs, and with my cbildwn faith. I lovu thee with a lore I awnied to Um With my lost uliita. 1 kre thee with tbe bmaih Biniles, tears of all my life! and If Uud chouea I .ball but love thee better after death. "And yet notuetiineti I think, even up there waiting will be bard. ' "Forgiv me, dear, that complaint jcwcli, but I am to weak today so weak!" This letter came one day to a niun iittin in a dingy olllee in a fur away western town, lie wai writing at his dtwk wbeii th train whirled that brought in the mail Ilia fiioe wan thin and worn, but tr..i illuminated Just now by some warm ray f ronj wiuiin. no roj ruiiiy, ami often trailed as he diped his pen in the ink. Once h stopped and laughed to himself a rrw bovjs, lauKU. ,Wbut happy mes-ajjewns bis cunning band stumping on that smooth, white page! "Oh, Margaret, at laxt after so mauy years life ban been good to me. My California scheme has proved a succem, ami today I a rich man! "Do you hear, sweetheart, a rich man, and do you know all that mean to me If you still love inel " ('If you still love mcf Why tbould I fear did ever woman have truer heart than thine. It means the end of waiting the fruition of hope the "open sesame' to the louir barred doors of joy I "It means freedom freedom to the loving word, Imprisoned so long In the dark clum bers of silence, with honor, stera sentinel ever keeping guard! ' "Can you forgive all these years of seem Ing neglect! God and I know it was only teeming and may I como now come at hut to my home, my kindred, my inheritance of love to youf "I know I do uot deserve it. but whn fi.i "I am going away now zoln awav toe-et well aud strong that I may work like other I forgets and blewes u lieyond our worth, will men, ami wnen i nave someimnr more to I ' "u ' offer than my miserable self but no, that time it too far OIL You must be as free as a bird, Margaret; not even a word must bind you. e are neither ot us to blame we did not seek this love; it came to us both unbid den, but It is best we should part. I know it is best, aud, believe me. it is all for von. Will you ti utmr His lips trembled and his breath came ii "Do you remember the first evenlnir I n.ut youf You had on some sort of white, gauiy dress, and I thought you would never be fairer, even iu heaven. "Your yellow hair had such a pretty way of waving up from the naw of the nock, aud there was alway. one lock that would fall down and curl iu a soft little ring. -nave you lorgotten how surprised I was MlarellaneoiM Nam Base quotations: iron. steel, $3.00; wire, $3.50 per key ikon isar, 3'fc per pound. Krwci 10,'fcC per pound. ity, $S.008.5O per box; for crosse. $2 unoVr "!'" a flan of operation issimply Farm Work fur Winter. It was one advantage of the old-lime system of farm work that it made plenty for the farmer to do in winter. If notb ing else, there were at least Iwavs the clearing of the forest and it preparation for cultivation to be done. It did not pay much, but it increased the value of the farm, and fo indirectly gave bett-r wages than one larmer in ten can now mate. It is the do-noth ng policy In winter that isruiningthousandsof farm- et. lhey simply consume all that thev produce in the summer. To get ahead extra ing, Hi.'O, prime ; I. 0. coke plate, ac- Iier lx; rooHn quality, $0.75 per box Hx.il, prime quality. 17.75 per box Lkau igc per pound; bar, tilc. Soldhk lS'ioiltS'mC ner pound. --,--- r , coming to grade. NioT $1.85 per sack. Ilolli-KMIOKH $,'). Naval Storks Oukum. $5 ner bale: rosin, $4.80(t5.iH) per 280 pounds; tar, Stockholm. $12.t0: Carolina. 7.0i) npr barrel; pitch, $0.00 per barrel; turpen tiiie, 05c per gallon in carload Iota. Hide., Wool and Ilnna. HliiKB Dry hides, selected prime. All. 1 1 1 . -T.u icon tor cuiis rreen. selected over 65 pounds. 4c : under 65 pounds. 3c theep pelt, short wool, 30(ci50c; me dium, (k)((S0c; long, Oc0$l.26j shear- hngs, 10(20c; tallow, good to choice, p3S)C per pound. ool Willamette Valley, 1719c tastern Oregon. 10il7o ner nound I- . . . - V.- . r Becoming to conuuion and age. uora nominal; ioi8c per pound. Th Meat Market. BitKr Live, 'iKc ; dresswl. 5(l0c. Mutton Live, sheared. S!c : dressed f lfc. llooa Live, 4S,'c; dressed, 6c Vxal 4(itWc per pound. bMoKan MxATSKastern ham, 11m I'COther varieties. lJV.C! hreakfaat bacon, UnKU'Sc; sides, 10c ; smoke oacon, iiv4(ou?4c per pound. Lahp Compound. (410c: cure. 10'b (ftu.c; uregon, io(!Siz,c per pound, Bass and llatdnc. Bnrl:p. 8-oa.. 40-inch, net cash. Be burlaps, MSi-oi., 40-inch, net cash, 7c blirhlOB. lL'-KI 45.llli.li nul n.h TL'n burlaps, 10-oi., Oo-inch,' lie; burlaps, 20-' ., nnncn, i.(o. i heat bags, i;alcutta, x20, spot. Wc : three-bushel oat hair. 8c. CenUla (seind hand wheat Dags), hc. Ranltatlna at Cheap lta.tauraaU. The fretmentera of some of the cheap restaurants of our larro towns wonlal probably suffer from a jiainful falling off in tne appetite were they first to pay 4 visit to the kitchen from which their savory morsels come. In the iuteresU of their hunger they doubtless show sound discretion iu taking the good the god of the gridiron send them without ques tioning or demur. On the other hand. in the interest of sanitation and public welfare, it ia quite aa imporUnt that the cleanliness of our restauraut kitchens hould be beyond suspicion aa that of our baking establishments. The local authorities are empowered by the sanitary seta to deal with any wora place which is not kept in a cleanly state, or not properly ventilated, etc, o as to ix injurious or dangerous to health. It would be interesting to know what attention the local authorities hav hwwn to these establishment. Hopi- lat. Japan la not a pleasant conntry for editor. A Ja;aneae ditor ha just been , TTv to . Imprisonment j o cheap that breaking an acrof Und tor llhannw Ji.nM. . - . . : . ..... .1 I- j wiujxtrer was ! "u I'laniiug Tinea roe is very nine, and in land owner arw not (low to tak ad I vantage ol th poaitiou. I Toa Many Aranaati He (at an Tnin nart n I am afraUi alia Firrtaeasun, that you iraroaly recall bm, BJioouga wa Dare met befor. bow-vuite hkely; 1 meat so many people, ywa muw.-lM tpoc. hd 1,500 yaart s,.' Aa Old Saylac A maa dossal kauw waatbacaaldotaMl a tries and taik-aiartaa Tlaayara Ear- impossible, bverv farmer sboiihl hv feeding stock or in some other wv ml. culate to earn something in the winter u more larmers did this, larming would be more profitable than it is. (letting Oat of Ruts. The farmers who are following in n,B 01a ruts ao not generally want toget out. It involves effort to which thev are not accustomed. In the rut they are not re quired to think, and thinking is what uiey awi use. it usually requires more capital, anu in 18 also la beyond their reach. The lack of ready money in iiiiiRt-u me cniei cause 01 poor larm ing everywhere. We never saw a nnr shiltless farmer who did not know better than he did. If ho had more money to do with, he could make more money than is now possible. But the old rut is lollowed becauso it is easiest, and there i no change until death removes those who have lieen obstacles to an improved system 01 larming. t'nneeea.arr Fence., There was a time when the making even 01 needles lences cost only a little moor, anueo ltiiiKirtant was it deemed to have the farm well fenced that even when tbe fence was not needed it added materially to the money value of a farm. Now a needless fence is regarded as an incumbrance. What cost money whan tbe farm waa bought now cost money to net tin ot. mis is especially true ol stone fences. In rare instance they are salable for building material. Hut un less the farm having such fence is near a city or village, they are apt to be re garded, aa they are, a only Incum brances, to le got rid of in anv way dob- sible at tlie least expense. Manure In Hrapa. Occasionally even yet we find manure Irawn oh fields and lelt in heans dnrinu the winter. It is probably from a no tion that this is the best way to prevent waste. It really prevent the land from receivinu the benefit from the manure it ch nld. ripread on the surface, this ma nure would be dissolved by rains and snow and mixed with the soil. In that way its benefit will be increased a him- dred fold. Ift in heap until plowed in spring, it will do little good except where it lies through the winter. Will Save Labor la the Spring;. Everv weed pulled out of tho straw. berry beds will rave much labor in the spnnif. It is well known that the straw berry beds can be made to last a year or two longer than the average if they can be kept clear of weeds in the row. This is only to be accomplished by hand weed ing, and the work f hould be'uin rom the time the young plant are set out. Never allow a single weed to grow. rasps the proud man's sobs, as he stood hn- i to find your eye were brown! Such nl.r fore tbe woman be loved and nleaded for her I ey llly "ere. I never saw them well hut once. "Now I will Buze Into them until I learn every tone and tint by heart until I catch and bold fait the lovely soul mirrored there and make its every throb my own. "Will you smile when you meet mef "I.dream and dream of the look your face will wear. "Not cold. O no; it will never be cold; but what if I should find tears on your cheek tears that I had caused! "In the dut, at your feet, dear Margaret, would 1 plead forgiveness, ami then kiss and kLss them away until the very source of tears were my. an, well! n hut does it matter if the sweet fuce meet me grave or gay, so I but see it in the flesh, aiive and warm! "And yet, even were you dead (what made me think of that!) I believe that love like mine could call back the red of life to lips a century cold, and rekindle Into flame the very ashes of the divine Are! When I see you" The door opened and the ofllee boy handed in the evening mull. It was 7 o'clock. Ho glanced over two of the letters, which proved to be bu,inetMinti and then picked up the third, a little fretted at the interruption. It was a small, white enveloiw with a blurred x)stniark, addressed in a strange feminine hand. Lighting the hitiip-tlio dusk of the June night was gathering outside he laid a paper weight 011 bis unfinished page nud, slightly curious, broke tho seal, It took him a long time to master the faint, Illegible lines (her trembling fingers had tried In vain to niako the strokes steady), but tlie few words of explanation, added by her mother, made it all cruelly plain; ao plain that it was but a breath before Hope shifted pluce with Desmii-, aud a groan, such as we hear when spirit parts from flesh, burst from his grief smitten soul. He laid bis head on the table in front of him, and morning, with Its clamor aud its claims, found him there. The lump burned wan and dim, and the Jaunty summer sun sent its Mdly challenging rays, as if to say, "What do you beref" but it was not until the gong sounded from the hotel next door that Allan Kent raised him self up, and then the radiant light of the young day showed a face old and bleached with pain, and hair turned white as the nn . of Orizubo. New Orleans Times-Democrat. ore tbe woman be loved and pleaded for her future against his own. Too well be knew the generous nature aud how ready it was to sacrifice, and for that reason forced himself to be hard. And she! Ah! God has made her sex verv helpless. Could she tell him that while yoa may lift the latch and loose a bird from it cage, you cannot free with a word tbe heart woman that lietter life with him in a but on the prairie than existence In another man's palace that poverty shared is a Sam eon sboru of bis strength, and work for one you love is tbe prose of life set to music. No, she must bedumb self becalmed in the silence and chill of reserve, while her whole boing was otic rebellious protest against th cruel masculine decree. Separation, silence, indefinite waiting. These were the conditions, aud she was a woman and loved hi ml She was a woman and loved hlra, and be cause of that she hushed her Dain. and framed her lips Into the shadowy semblance of a smile as she took his outstretched hand. It was a piteous smile we see It on the faces of mothers when thoy send their first born to battle, the last brave cheer of a heart Deiore it breaks; and the eyes uplifted to his were strained wide with that sudden over- knowledge of hfo that suffering brings. He could not meet their gaze. It were easier to hxik 011 the murdered dead. Had he killed her soul! His reeling steps found the door, and b .a oeiore ait courage left him. rr- 1 1 , , .... ... auew ue wua tioing n;;iit, nut It was sa cruel that it wore the look of wrong. For a long time she stood where he left her. staring at a small black speck in tho wall pa- liuraig uoove mo mantel was it a fly or a break in the paper? IJut when she reached her room and put out the light, she took the slender right baud that ached yet from that last fierce wrench, and covered" it with tears and kisses; kisses that fell softly now as on the dead, and now wildly, passionately, as we press the liu of the living. When we are waiting for a dream to corns true or a dear wish to tie fulfilled we first count oy days, then by weeks, by mouths and twelvemonths, until at last, disciplined by much patient habit of hoping and rehoplng, "next year" seems as close as our childish "to morrow." 80 Margaret canceled the days after awhile; but it took her long, as it does us all, to real ise that Time exacts his same number of ruin ates to the hour and seconds to the minute whether we be Swift or slow, Mad with Joy or dumb with woe. Bh worked constantly and steadily h was poor as he was and laughed and sang al her tasks sometimes, for tho heart does not give up its habits any more readily than th mind; but she felt that something had slipped away-aomethitiB that hail made the skies a deeper blue and the grass a richer green. The bright tints with which youth paints the world had dried on the brush, aud she wist not bow to mix the colors anew. It ia when we are glad that we want th day, the blaze of light, the sunshine; but when paiu struck aud weary, we ask nnlv f.u. some place In which to hide-somewher where the soul can slip for a since the r. straints of the body, and stand face to face witu lteeir. Long ago, In compassionate nra-lcnnlHa of this, God said: "Let there be nteht aa wM as day," and since then into the sympathetic ear of the dark, whose "thousand eyes" ar sightless, have been sobbed the secrete of all the restless aud grief laden of earth; and Margaret, like the rest, carried her sorrows there aud wept her tears in tlie safe cover of its gloom. Sometimes in the long years that followed a letter would come aud it was always kind but it nover said "I am coming," and those were th words she was thirsting to hear. roorcnildl How was she to know, with out assurance, that bis love had not grown- cold perhaps died? She bad listened so long at the wall of (pace in vain for sound from the other side; bad looked into distance with eyes that burned, but were powerless to pierce; bad hoped until the nerves of her soul ached ; bad lulled longing with dreams, quieted Impa tience with fattb, only to find at last that you can no more nourish a starving heart on such unsubstantial than you can satisfy with a crust a hungry child. In time the body responded to this subtle sickness of the soul with that fine sympathy found only in delicate organizations, and when a day came that hope lay slain, tb mi aor forces gav way, too, and never again an swered to nature's rallying call. Before th worn ro.rit took its fliirht it e. panded all ot Uuelf that was earthly in on Origin of Kerr. The Germans, Gauls and Bretons manufac tured beer from barloy aud wheat as far back as there are any written records regarding vuem. incuus iens us mat beer was a com mon beverage of the Germans when he wrote, in the First century. We learn from Pliny that "the people of Spain, in particular, brew this liquor so well that it will keep a long time." He describes it as made from corn and water. The earliest of Greek writers speak of wine made from barley, and of the art of making it a derived from the Egyp tians. It is believed that Archilocus, ths Parian poet, who lived about 700 B. C, re ferred to beer drinking when he depicted the follies and vicious Indulgences of bis time. Ia the ancient writings of China reference is made to a fermented drink called "sham shoo," made from rice. When it was first Invented is unknown, but it was probably long before tbe Christian era. Number of 8tllrhea In a Shirt. Tlie following singular calculation of ths number of stitches In a plain shirt has been made by a Leicester seamstress: Stitches in collar, four rows, 3,000; cross ends of same, 500; buttonhole aud sewing on button, 150; gathering neck ami sewing on collar, 1,204; stitching the wristbands, l.L'-.'S; endsof wrist bands, 08; buttonholes in wristbands, 148; hemming slits, 204; gathering sleeves. 0): j setting ou wristbands 1,4H8; stitching on shoulder stra, 1.8S0; hemming th bosom, I ".; sewing iu sleeves ami making gussets, I S.OoO; sewing up sj.ie seams of sleeves, 8,554; cording bosom, 1,104; "tappiug" tb sleeves, 1,526; sewing all other seams and setting side gussets, 1,212; total niiniber of stitches, SO,- w. Db uouu Republic. War of 18H. The last shot In the war wfth England was Bred by tlie United States Vessel Peacock, un der Capt Warrington, who caitured th British vessel Nautilus in tbe Straits of Bun da. The next day the American commander heard of the conclusion of peace and gave up the prise. , In the three years of the war 1.GU0 merchant vessels belonging to Great Britain were taken. The American government ex- panned iao,oou,-u iu tb war of 181i A Praarher Who Make. Whisky. A curious controversy la airitatiDa th Ellljar Bant 1st association In few year ago th society snlit In two oa 1 lb liquor question bine then on wing baa fought whisky, while the other baa ad vocated It Id the latter faction is num bered th Rev Julius Pickett II fluad up a dtatillrry. uot a aovernment Ueanaa ! and went into th maniifactur of th arti cle. Tb association to which Mr. Picket belongs has Just decided that no clergymen will b permitted to engage in tb distill ing of Uquor. though the rtcht of drinklna ' tt la not taken away from them. Mr. Pkkatt will fight for hia rwrsonal rurhta" 11 in 1 1 111 1a1 vm mmm i ' 1 ntornfi T-Maaaaaaaaaaaaa?l ! II M Purifies tie BLOOD. Car rnTiPiTin ui..rT. MLI01S.1ESS, LITER CO I P L A I TS ,MfK HEAD ACHE COLDsI DISORDERED STOXICH. wia ma ..jy EAMBCRQTEA i$ put ia YELLOW WRAPPERS I?1 I riuseaca MLD BY AIX DKEellTS AID 4JKOCUS. aad will b (ustalued by hia conirretialioo.