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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1894)
Lincoln County Leader. J. T. STEW AKT. Publisher. TOLEDO OREGON EASTERN MELANGE. Petrified Tree Filled With Iloney Found in Florida. VERY RICH STRIKE OF GOLD ORE A Buffalo Burglar's Unique Manner of Making Things Pleasant for His Victims. Baltimore claims to have 20,000 men outot work. Cattle are (annulling in drought' stricken Texan. Many farmers in Indiana aro feeding Wheal lo their Hogs AtcIiiHoti'n earnings for the llrnt week in January decreased 1 151, (KID. Only married men aru given work by lh city authorities at Wiiltith. "coaa'faru complaining: of poachTiiir'l Kat-tern capitalists plan to invent $12, vw.uuu in noiu uiiy (la.) enterprises Special government agents are milking arrests in uKiaiioma ot timber thieves Chicago is considcrim- a nroiect of ele vated moving Hidewalks in the business district There are a largo number of newcom ers who desire to rent farms in Greene county, .Mo. The Indiana Associated i-rens lias been organized at J niliannjiolis to muke a feat ure of IStutu neus. Whites and blacks are having trouble near Kansas City, Kau., over the ques tion of mixed schools. An old Spanish grant, covering l'ensa rola's water front, is declared illegal by Florida's Huprcme Court. The Kaslein ice crop this year is not quite to good as lust. Cutting has al ready begun in New Hampshire. Owing to hard times some of the big circuses will not " take the road " next cummer, Korejiuugh'a among them. The revenue of the Toronto Ktreel Hailroad Company during 1K!KI was$llll2, 1)27. The city goM72,2;t4 in percentage. It is mi id that letters "till reach the Marahfield (Mans.) postollice from time to time addressed to " lion, Daniel Web ster." Cedar Creek county, Col., lias made its richest strike of gold ore in the Inde pendent mine, a ion assaying 7,GH.'l ounces. Thendvauceof Boston's death rale from 23 112 in 18112 to 24.02 to the 1,000 in 1HI); was almost wholly due to the prevalence of pneunioiiia. A iiull'alo burglar inveigled a man from liome by tending him a couple of theater tickets, and then went through hia house at leisure. Chicago proposes to apply the work test to all ill io men seeking public relief and to drive out all who refuse to earn tlieir food and lodging.. Guiutraragaii'Nt'iriH 'Hoily Drawing Clul nas nan me eiicci ol closing all the pol ny nnui.i in iiw wi if ails, The Standard Oil plant at La Porto, Jim., nas ocen itiive rused lo le sold for taxes. It is a wrangle between the company aim the authorities. The trials in progress within the past four years to ascertain whether or not Jcxiib could lie made a tuhacro-growiug nuuu nnve regimen succussiuiiy, Iicports from fourteen American loco motive-building works give the iiiiinlier of locomotives built in 1HIKI hs 1.II6H, a uecroiiso irom me previous year. The latest tiling in women's societies is a darning cluh, organised in a Western town. Une woman rea-ls aloud, while me others repair the family hosiery, St. Im people are contributing to lake employment liiiul. The idea is to give work to the uncmiloved and at the same lime ailil a lake lo rorest Park. A reward of $1,000 has been oll'creil for the capture of Civile Muttox, who cb t aped Irom jail at 'Wicliiia just niter be ing convicted of munleriutho llrst de greo. Home men who were digging a well at Live Ouk. Kin., found uIhiiiI ten feet Inf low the surface of the ground it tree Pet ri Med on Ihe outside. The inside was tilled with honey. The Colorado House Is conslderimr most Important measure, which makes u an oiiense lor any one, even farmers or lailway men, to work longer than eight hours In one day. The President lias vetoed the New York and New- Jersey bridge bill, giving as a reason that it provides (or piers in the river, which are likely in the future io interiere wild commerce. There is a strong movement on foot in New lurk among a iiunilicr of imnni nent physicians to establish a gymnasium on such a large scale that it can lie used by 0,000 people at the same time. At lubuiue, la., " Ta-ra-ra-Uxmi-dc ay was played during thu service in the In unit View Avenue Methodist Church, and came m ar causing a disruption, A asUr denounced it as blasphemy. (Secretary Herbert has Issued an order that no person in I lis United States navy hall write (or a newspaper or magazine on any subject whatever without llrst having secured permission from the Sec retary. A Hoard of Trade 111 in in Chicago sent a cable message to l.ivcrool from the tloorof the board unking for a bid on wheat. The answer was received at the same place iu four minutes. This is the quickest lime on record. Secretary of Agriculture Morton lias requested the return of all (ranked en felopes containing copies of bis speech on political (aimers, so that lie may see who violated his instriiciioni to send them out only at his own expense. A club man at Ihislun lias made a wager that lie will work his wav around the world, starting without a s'litch of cloth ing on him. One year is to lie given him in which to make the trip, ami he is to return to Boston with $A,tkK) in bis pock et, all ol which bo most have earned. Dr. Kalh, the astrologer, predicts that New York will lie inundated and in pirt submerged by the waters of the lay and the Kasl and North rivers, which w'ateis will be raised up by a great tidal wave, the result of a submarine earthquake. This event. Dr. Kalb sav, may I hi ex pected on or about July & or Auu-i 17. TheJudiieat Itoston in the K.verclt nickel-iu-lbe-slot case has decided the machines are part of a game of chance, and Wallace, at whore stores machine,, were placed by which a cigar or a cant telling your fortune appeared when the nickel was dropped III the slot, was found guilty of keening a gatubliug house. FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS. India reports a good wheat crop. England's pension list last rear was $38,000,000. Tiie South African sold mines' outDUt is increasing greatly. The wheat area in India for 1894 shows an increase of 0 per cent. Siamese are evacuating the terrritorv surrendered to the r reni.li. The entire Argentine maize crop has been ruined by the drought. France proposes to convert her 4)4 per cent Donds into 6yt per cent. A friend of Bismarck has been fined for libeling Chancellor von Caprivi. There were thirtv-one cases of death from starvation in London during 1893. It is said that fencing is to tie the fash ionable exercise for ladies this season in London. War in Europe is more remote than ever according to ex-Premier Di Itudini of Italy. The total value of the war material of the Krench army amounts to nearly $500,000,000. It is estimated that in the whole of Europe over (100,000 women hold public appointments. The French government has among its naval archives about 3,000 propellers of dillcrcnt design. Prince Bismarck is reported to be suf fering from inllnenza and a recurrence of his old gastric troubles. Premier Crispi is preparing a land re- :.-i i"1 f""f ''!''( "iLriicilv similar to Gladstone s Irish land bill. The Hessian fly is now for the first time recorded as occurring in Norway and doing damage to barley. The revenue returns of (iermany for 1803 show that the expenditures exceed the grants by 40,000,000 marks. The Austrian government has decided that the Vienna city railway shall lie built and managed by the Slate. Catholics in convention at Buda-Pestli demanded liiu lepml uf Hit lit'.v Austrian eo neat ion and civil marriage laws. The tendon Times says that the year InlM was one of tiie most peaceful am: prosperous ol the century in Ireland. Dispatches from towns in Saros coun ty, Hungary, sav that thousands of peas ants there are on the verge of starvation. The British naval budget will be $35, UU0,U00 larger than usual, in order to meet the popular demand for more war snips. London women now smoke cigarettes alter lunch In the better cla-s ot West End restaurants, uml no objection is made. The announcement comes from Cal cutta that it is not the intention of the government to place an import lax upon silver. (treat hunger and misery prevail in itussia, winch is sunt to lie in worse condition tliiiu during the active Nihilist period. Paris Figaro snvs the salon of Mrs. I'.nstis, wife of ti e Auieiican Ambassa dor, will lie the most brilliant of the season. The Kuxsian government is consider ing the iiestion ol extending the urea in territory upon which Jews are allowed lo settle. Spiirgeon's sermons have reached an enormous sale since his death. Thx sin gle Hermun on "Baptismal Regeneration" sold ZL'4,U(HI. The new French tax of 10 francs each on cycles has pioduccd in the llrst year or about 31,250, n,i i- .... i ne r reni n are negotiating lor a re newal of Ihe ratiuiuu cuuul charter, hut opHisition to the grant is being devel oped at Panama. ' Clenienceau is to bo prosecuted for his aiiacksupon thelrencli navy, the ground lieing that hia documents 'alfceted the security of the State, The total tonnage of ships built on the Clyde iu 1803 is estimated at 208.000, as against 330,000 in I8W2. The number of steamers launched was 132. The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee to consider a project to reduce port dues and to en large the facilities of the port. A 1'aris journal urges the necessity for France acouiring more conllins siiiiimiu if she wishes to lie iu a position "to talk in lilting manner" to (ireat Britain. The gold medal of the lioval Astro nomical Society of Knuhind has been awarded to Prof. S. W. lliirnliam. r- ceully of Lick Observatory, California. The bavarian Clericals have submit- ted a motion in the Bavarian Diet re- quest ing the government to use all ita authority to suppress dueling in the in my. By order of the Czar and as the result of a recent departmental conference the construction of thirty new torpedo lsjats mr inn name ueei is io ue commenced forthwith. Sarah Bernhardt claims that she came near lieing poisoned by her maid, w ho put laudanum in the tea by mistake. Sarah's advertising rencrlorv is nimin eaueii upon. it i ... Hurcnee Nightingale, the famous nurse, is 73 years old. She takes her bap tismal name from the Italian city in which she was Imrn. l or till v twentv years she litis lived a life ol seclusion. Brewery schools have been established by the government iu Bavaria, and lect ures on tne an oi urew ng constitute. feature of the curriculum at the univer sities of Berlin, Halle, Bonn and Hot tingen. The German governm -nt. vicldimr hi the desire of Chief Judge Ideof Samoa, has given its consent to the continual ion ol the Samoau 1-and Commission, lie- lieviug Judge Ida to be able and willing to pacify the country secdily. The French government has adopted plans (or a new lighthouseat Hon Marche ou the Atlantic near ljiiitner. The light is to ne the brightest in the world and visible at a distance of sixtv-thrve nau tical miles. It will cost 300,000 francs. The British Admiralty will aliandon the use of sixtv-seven-ton guns on the new war ships. The Krnpp nined gmis will continue to tat cast, but their use w ill be restricted to fortillcations. Prince Bernadotte, whose niimiit:c itrriage with Miss Monk created so much interest in Kngland a veur ami. has lust liectl SPIMMIlted to 'the chief command of the Norwegian army. Chinese pirates in Toinuin ambushed detachment of French trwun coin. maiidcd bv Captain IVluuncv. killing aptain iKilauuev. wounding three Lieu tenants and killing or w ounding eighteen men. The Queen of Koununla. who Is an exquisite needlewoman, almost a clever is with tier pen, Is making an artistic in il I (or Princes Marie's bills ton. A scheme Is on foot in the East among owner ami managers of theaters to form i mutual insurance iwo istion It is launed that exuding ratcsarv vcty high, healer cannot gel more than one-hall nsured. and the insurance ocoule make too U'U h on them. FARM AND GARDEN. Test the Germinating Powers of Seeds Before Planting. CRUDE PETROLEUM FOR HARNESS Keep the Cows Indoors During the Winter if Aiming for Butter and Milk Only. Feeding apples in small quantities stimulates the appetites ol mom cows Now that the weather is cold put nlentv of straw on the floor, and add a little meal to cows' rations. It is best to have cows go dry not over five or six weekr. About ten months of the year ou'ht to represent the time a cow can be milked. Corn kernels having a flinty, glazed surface contain an excessive amount of standi, while the dull olored, shriveled grains have an excess of sugar. When baling hav don't employ man with a poor old press; get a good macnine. It doesn't cost any more to send your hay to market in an attractive manner. One million acres of oats were sow n in Kcotl.mil last spring, and the value of the crop is estimated at t.TS.OOO.OOO. Only w,iww ot.icii ncm nevoid! lo die produc- t ion ot other cereals. Keep the cows indoors during the win ter if yon are aiming for butter and milk only. Except that a short time out of doors ought to he thu cow s right when the weather is warm. Practicing rotation in the production of crops is not only a most excellent course for preventing soil exhaustion, but the best means for preventing the multiplication ot weeds and insects. 1 1 is estimated iiiat uiimui the liior unfavorable circumstances an acre of properly cultivated willows during tli llrst three years will produce from 3,000 lo o.uou peeled willows ready lor market The average price of Irish butter in the home market has advanced during the jia-t three years, and may be partly attiibuted to the introduction of separ ators mid the creamery system of hutler- makiiig. The recent introduction of so-callc self-bleaching varieties of celery bus also Very in Hit i reduced the work ami cost ol blenching, 1 1 lull banking with the spad and shovel now being unnecessary will these viinelicf. i he rh u barb and asparagus beds shouli lie well manured now, so that the fertil itv can be sinking down lo the roots as the snows of winter melt into the soil i lie more generous vou are wilh the manure I lie mine profitable will you tin thuse items of vour garden. An ca-'v mid it I claimed a successful wav lo oil harness is to use crude petro leum. Add a iittle lamphhi -k and applv wiinoui wiisliing the leather. Ihe ol will not only take oil' the dirt, but will soak into the leuther, softening it am: milking it watcr-prool. Ice can be kept in the simplest kind of a structure. Ihe es.-ential conditions are that it shall be packed iu a ma-s that there shall benoutr spaces at the bottom: that it. shall lie surrounded bv a non-conduiTing material, ami that it shall have ventilation and lie secure from "iV the caftlu are SlaiYclrbned "all" day u noi iickicci i give u cm a irusiinnr or i aiding. ben lou-e they can attend to it themselves either with their tomriie or ny running, or by Isitli. When vou change their surroundings do not do prive them o( tins health-giving privi lege. Fertil'ty tends to make fertility. Goo. crops grown from the land, fed to goisl stock upon Ihe land, and the bv-nrod- ucih returned io me ninii will) una care will muke better land, bigger crops, and enable the feeding of more stock. Then you have more manure again, and the same round goes on and grows more money as it docs so. It is foolish business to plant seeds without testing their germinating power, it is so easily done that there is no ex cuse for omitting it. Place them between two cloths, and keep them damn and in a warm room ior a lew days, fiobalilv more will germinate thus than in the earlli: tmt, il 00 per cent prove good. you may safely plant tliein. Itecayuig matter of anv sort, even piles of rotten wood alsutt the premies, is a constant menace to health mid u breeding place for insects that will do ailing" to your crops. Do not think that bceause the snow covers them up it prevents tliem irom doing harm, (.let all such things cleared up la-fore yon cousmcr yourseu ready ior winter. There is one thing that must lie avoid ed in buying a run-down farm. That is. the dibit to make it yield good crops at ,,v ii,i i,p iii,iiif.v in vA'iitiiiitiii winie loingit. Such a course will onlv make lue land poorer. He content to do one thing at a time, and let the first bo the building up of the soil. Then the good crops will come in tlieir own good time. Hoots draw enormous quantities of moist lire from the soil, and by this means it. is iiiscmirged into the atmosphere r '.ample, me common sunflower was (on ml to exhale twelve ounces of water iu twelve hours, and an oak tree withan estimated number of 700,000 leaves would in the same way give something like 700 tons of water 'during tiie five moniiiH it carries lollage. SKKll I-OTITOKS. It is ol prime importance in successful potato culture to secure as ncarlv ported seed as Hssible. A verv good plan is to select seen as you lake llie potatoes fro.i the hills in the (all. But, if it is not done then, the seed supply should be se cured belore storing the crop away for mo w liner. Select well developed pota to's w it h smooth surface and free from cah. Medium sites are host, as these are more apt to he well ripened and more nearly perfect. If, however, the vines have Ivoon kept growing until all the lubers were fully ripe, the smaller ones make as good seed as any. The i m i t iiit thing i to get rie "lul-ers We have alwava a tvicd storing in out-of-door pit", covered just enough toecp them from fiveiing. If there is danger ot an car y thaw in the spring, it might be well to cover the pit with a layer of straw. Seed pntatoe should not le kept in a cellar. The eye will start before pi mting sen-oii, and much of thesub Bt.ince of Ihe seed w ill l lost. Eiplln4. Teacher Tommy, have you found out the dtlTcrriie belnceu a republic and a aumarvtiy jcir Tommy I asked pa about It, and he an Id that In a monarchy ihe people obey their rulers because they respect turm, aud Iu republic they obey Ihe boaara 'cause they cau't help lU-Iudiaiinpoli Journal rreelaely. "How la It that Dodger finds boarding cheaper thau houiwkrepiug with hia lrK- faiuil) f" "1 upHiae one reaaou la thai he never pays hia hoard bill" Chicago later Oeeaa. THE PORTLAND MARKETS. Wbiat Valley. 87X390c: Walla Waiia, 80381c per cental. . FSOTUM03S. Eastkrs Sxoeid Mi ats ajid Lied Hams, medium, 1213c per pound; hams, large, HH12)sc; hams, picnic, ll'gl2c; breakfast bacon, 1315c; short clear sides, ll13c; dry salt sides. 10;i(gllc; dried beef hams, lard, compound, in tins, v(twv,c per pound; pure, in tins, ll)13c; pigs' feet, 80s, $6.50; pigs' feet, 40s, 3.00. BOPS, WOOL A1IO BIOBS. Hoph '93s, choice, 15(2 16c per pound ; medium, 10(gl2c; poor, 5 7c. Wool Vallev, 10(3.11c per pound; L'mpqua, lKaliJc; Kastern Oregon, 6 10c, according to quality and shrinkage. liiuka Dry selected prime, 5c; green, salted, W pounds and over, 3,'.c; under b0 pounds, 2r 3c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 10(al5c; medium, 20(a35c; long wool, 30(dUUc; tallow, good to choice, 33c per pound. UVI AMD DBE8SED Ml AT. B it a r Top steers, 1 2. 50 53.00; fair to good steers, $2 00 s 2. 25; cows, 2.00(3 2.25; dressed lieef, 4m5c per pound. Mutton Best sheep, 2.50; ewes, $2.25; lam lis, - . Ilan. ci,,,i..d henirv i4.nflr34.25: me dium, 4-00; light and feeders, $3.00 principle that one can never see an ad 4.00; dressed, ,yd 7c per pound. j vertisement too often and in too many Vkal Small ciioice, tic; large, 4c per mediums, such an advertisement doubt pound, j less does no little good; but surely a coroags. I general advertiser, whose wares are noted Manilla rope, 14 in.cir.andup, 10c; in the pages of the newspapers, can hope uianilla rope, 12-lhread, ?8 diam., 11c; for little direct returns for his working manilla rope.O and 9-thread, i-i and 6-10 the ground over again in magazines, diaiii., lUue; nianiila bail rope, in coils I maoazixb vs. newsi'aper. or on ree.s, lOJ.c; manilla Jail, yarn Qf . . understood that there tarrcd,9c;inanillahawser-laid rope well- . ttn :,,:', i,.., hv nn mpan :;,,. Itfirnit le . l.le: mum i t.rAMHiiiiHslon- -powcr rupe, 14c; manilla iaer twine, IWIZ flour, raaii, arc. . ; i a l ... I ...I riua roriiaim, fz.o; paiein, tz.o; o -power ru -B, i: ; mam.ia paper .r, j j , B,,vertif,w, in ,li8 ma(razine . 11c; mail i a spring twn.e 14c a t, be ,it(e , jf rope, 14 i n. cir. and upward 7c; sisa , , . , d fc d rope, 12 thread, 8 diam., 7V?; sisal . . , . . , . newsna'ner rooe. 0 sud 9-tbreoil. 1 and - 5-1U diam.. ? . 1 J'.0m8. "?o l0...'' Cascadia, 42.75; 1 lay ton, $2.76; Walla riorartic edoesimpressits'-importance" Waiia, .tou; fiuoitlUkc, J2.S0; Corval- in some decree bv appearing in the panes lis. $2.05; 1'endlelon, 1(2.05; Graham, of a first-class magazine of large circuia 2. 4"; superfine, 2.25 per barrel. J tion, and it may, thus supplemented, se- Oatb White, 3334c per bushel; cure sale through the newspapers. It is amy, 3l(g32c; rolled, in bags, f6.264 quite in the renlm of certainty, however, tl.frn; barrels, fti.75ia7.00; in cases, 3.76. to assume that an article of general use MiiiLHrurra Bran, 13(310; shorts, finds a market throuvh local newspapers, (15.it Hi; ground barley, tl0f 18 ; chop and almost through them alone, feed, 16 per ton ; whole feed barley, 60(g . TnK newspaper's advantage. joe per ceuiai: iihooiiiiks, ?."o per . . . 1 T.- 1 ton : chicken wheat, 05c1.15 per cental Hay (iooil, 1012 per ton. DAIRY PROIIUl'K. Ruttkb Oregon lancy creamery, 30 32,'ijc; luncy dairy, 25(27'kc; fair to ifood, J0(22'e; common. 10(il7laC per Hiiiml; Call lorn i , 5055c per roll. CiiBKsit llreiion, 10(ttl3c; Califor nia, c; Young America, 12f15c; metropolitan Sundav papers the adver- Swihs, iniporteil, 8032c; doiuestic, 10 tiBemenls are all more or less read be (it IHc ier pound. ! cause of their being so easily seen, and EuoB-Oregon.l4(al5c perdozen ; Last- because of the fact that manv of them ern, iioiniually the same. , 1 are on pages with reading matter. Poultry Chickens, mixed, quoted at As a rule the advertising panes of mag 3 OOi3.50 per dozen; ducks, fi.OO azines are not, interspersed with reading (t.lKI; geese. 8.5Oi.O0; turkeys, live, matter. This is all the better for the lUdUe per pound ; dressed, 14c. I eu)Scriber; but, ala! it is not quite so vbuktarlbs and fkuitb. consoliiu; to the advertiser. Foreventhe Vkoktablkb California cabbage, l'4'c largest local general dealers to cultivate per pound; potatoes, Oregon, 00t76 per thepagesof miignzinesseemsadaringand sack ; onions, 1 25 per sack ; sweet pota- hazardous experiment. The circulation toes, 3c per pound; California celery, is over the entire Union, and there are K5i!IOc; artichokes, 1.00tl.l0 per not suthcient near-by consumers to rec dozen; California lettuce, 2035c per ompense the expense for readers away .Inen! Drwiin hothouse lettuce. 40( beyond the confines of the dealers' trade 5dc cauliflower, i2.75 per crate, UOc dozen; parsley, 25c per dozen; per HOIitH. Hl.tllKulzo per hox; String leans, irxifisc. per puuud: asparuirus. 12'.,e per pound; Los Angeles tomatoes, latum in the United States? It is con 12.00 per box. i ceded that some benefit would lie certain Fruits Sicily lemons, $4.00nr4.50 per 1 1 accrue therefrom, but it would not be lux; California fancy. 3.50(ic4.00; com- sufficient to warrant tbe outlav, wliile nion, l2.50iu3.UU; bananas, 1.50(43.00 'he same amount in anv home newspa per bunch; Honolulu, l.60(2.50; Culi- per would return a handsome prolit. forniii navels, 2 2" .i2.75 per Ikx ; seed- I a strikixo example. lings, 1.2 ii 2.00; Jaimnoe. 1.75iu2.00: The influence of lo.-o I n,l,...rtiu;,, nn,l siinllower. 2.76; apples (bmatig price), green, 50(atl"c per lox; tel. 5075c! late winter pears, K5ia80c per box. i manner on Sunday, December 4, 1803, cannkd qooob. when the New York Sundav Recorder Canned Uoopb Table fruits, assorted. 1 Prirltwl n more columns of a lvertise 1.76tit2.00; peaches, 1.86t2.00; Hart- men!9 than the wonderful New York lett pears, 1.76(ii2.0O; pliiniB, 1.37S,(J i,iy .. .of ,,m famei ll'' The 1.50: straw lierries. 2.26it2.45: cherries. Sunday World has iilnnvt three times 2.25i2.40; black lierries, 1.85t.i'2.00; lasnlierr eB. 2.40: niiieaiinlHs. -.a5i,i 2.80; apricots, 1.05. Pie fruits, assorted, 1.20; peaches, 1.26; plums, 1.00(il)1.20; blacklierries, 1.25ci)1.40per dozen. Pie fruits. eiiIIoiib. assorted. 3.15if3.50; peaches, 3.&0(.(r4.00; apri cots, 3.50(it4.00; plums, 2.76t3.00; lilackherries, 4.25of 4.60 ; tomatoes, 1.10. M eath Corned beef. Is. 1.60: 2s. 2.25; chipped, 2.40; lunch tongue, Is. 3.5(1; 2s, O.76(a7.00; deviled bam. 11.60 u2.75 per dozen; roast beef. Is. 1.60: !, U'.25. Kihii Sardines, Wg. 75c(3!2.25: k;s. 2.15(i(4.50; lobsters, 2.30(it3.60 ; sal mon, tin 1-lb talis. 1.25nf 1.60: flats. 1.76;2-lbs. 2.252.60; ), -barrel, 5.60. STAPLE GROCERIES. CorrEE Costa Rica. 2;J'c: Rio. 22' (423c; Salvailor, 23'c; Mwlia, 20',(J 28i'; Arbuckle'e, Columbia and Lion. 100-pound cases, 25;30e per pound. Dried Kruits 1803 pack, Petite prunes, tki8c; silver, 10utl2c: Italian. 8idl0c; (ierman, tlytSi-; plums, 0(ir KK-: evaiHirateil apples, 8(i(10c; evaporated apricots, 15(ii Hk'; peaches, 10afl2'oc; pears, 7tlle per Hinnd. Silt Liverpool. 200s. 15.50: 100s. ltt.00: 60s, 10.50; stock, 8.60ut.50. SYRfl- Kastern. in barrels, 40(d55c; in half Imrrels. 42n57c: in cases. :ir i HtV per gallon ; (2.25 per keg ; California, in barrels, 20uf 40c per gallon : 1.76 per Hex. Sugar I), 4'oC; liolden C. 4c: extra C, 4'.c; ivulei'tionera' A,6'Rc; drv gran uluttsl, 6'4c; culie, crushtHl and pow dereil, 6'se er Hund; t,c pr rwund discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 15(4 ltlc per pound. Rice No. I Sandwich Island. 4.75ir 5.00; no Japan in market. Hkans Small white, No, 1, No. 2c: hirge while, 2,c; n-a lieans, 'jc; pink, 2',,c; tiavou. 21.c: buttr. 3c; Lima, 3'iC per lxinnij. Picki.ks ltiirrels. No. 1. "S.aSlV; iter gallon; No. 2. aiuilSe; kegs. 5s. 85c per keg; half gallons, 2.75 tier dozen : uuar- ter g dlons. 1.75 per dozen. li wsiss bind, in laveis boxes, it 7 w.'isi; niuves. WinC.'.'.Ti; quarters, c etii. ,,,; eigmns, ,iO(ir;i.is.i. lsi-e .MU.cateis, Imxfs. II. SO: fnev f,-.Nt l.5; bigs, 3 crown, 4y.r,V per pound: eii.wn. o.in',c .-muess sultanas. ooxes, i.iaiiv; hags, OSc pound. H-r ,-ril .i 11 lime Allspice, 18,il.V p.-r iinii, iwi.i. in il in,-: Clllllilloiill 40 ; cloves. 18 .(,: black liutnieg, 75V. A business mat) of Cauuda of an enter prising nature Ins established a "float ing bank" on Kootenai lake. Canada Itisina steamer which journeys from place to place alsng the lake, thus ena bling its owner tojupply the inhabitant of the lake TillatfM with banking facil ttiea. A frog cannot breaths with iu mouth ipcn. Ita breaiuiug apparatns la to ar rangtil that wttu it month is opea Iu nostrils are clowd. To suffocate frog it i trceaaary oly to prop Iu Jaws that they cauut thai COUNTRY WEEKLY. ITS MERITS OVER MAGAZINES AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 1b AdrrtUr't Tcrdlet-An ArtleU That Er7 Home Merchant Sboald b Bar to Kd Crfullj. Written txpreuljr far this paper. The most extensive advertisers say that, after all, advertising is an experi ment. They do not bide the fact that it is paying experiment. The doubt that accompanies all experiments is as to the best methods and the best mediums. The phenomenal success in securing advertising of the magazines and special or class publications, that have a na tional circulation and comparatively a small local or home constituency, pre sents an interesting phase of the adver tising situation. COVEBINO GROUND TWICE. For one who uses the papers, I may say, almost nationally, to also advertise in the magazines, it appears that his outlay in the latter is in a measure cov ering ground twice. The magazines go to readers of newspapers, who have long ago seen an advertisement before it reaches them in the former. On the . . . ...... .n icant, benefit to be derived fromone'ssee- II that causes him 10 pur" I Tiat there is caste in advertising as in socieiy one may noisaieiy deny. An lnie- ,,i M .- i j l tierp an nrtlell is nilverttspd in mac. azines only, reachimr hundreds of thou sands of people, sales will moet assured ly be effected ; but they will be far more limited than they would be were tbe same amount of money that is spent with the magazines placed with the home papers of tie consumers. The hulky panes of mairazines nre seldom carefully scanned ; whereas, with even mammoth ler;:,""-v- , hat good would it do tho largest dry- uuun- u i.wi m mivmire in "p mnKazine wnti t no largest circu- soliciting trade through the home papers of coiiHinners was shown in a remark ible he circulation of the Recorder, but its ciremaiion is minonai, its main territory I ''l'lnK the Atlantic States; whereas, : !,,B '"""riler is more or lo-s restricted in : 1,8 r'.reuluMon to Xe- York city and im- mediate vicmitv. Xew York dealers rely largely upon trade at. home, and then fore they displayed tlieir wares in a home paper. This principle is recoinized bv all the large advertisers and by the leading ad vertising agencies in a' peculiarly strik ing manner. The smaller the circulation of a paper the higher proportionate rate is allowed it. The reason is that because the smaller the circulation the more cer tain it is to lie con lined to home. It will cover its immediate teiritorv more thor oughly than a paper with a larger circu lation, reaching beyond the trade limits of the dealers at the point of publica tion, A HEASONAHI.E ILLUSTRATION. Take a metropolitan dnilv that sav, -everal hundred circulation in tl.i place. Would it not pay anv drv-goods dealer or jeweler of the "big" city tietter were mat several hundred circulated in and near the point of publication? That is not a conundrum : its answer is self. evident, and is carried on the verv face oi me proposition. ?ow, take an article inat is ot more or less general sale, and is aNo advertised here; does the the ad vertisement of that article in the several nuniircii copies of the inetrono itan n. per, circulating here, benefit the adver tiser any or one-tenth as much as it won iu were inose copies taken in the minis territory, Kxpcrience is usually tbe correct ex ponent of true theory, and the experi ence that a lvertisin; in one's home pa per is the cheapest and best wav to se cure Ins patronage has produced the uicorv oi anvertisers that higher i"ir. p.. mui lur locai circulation are cneapcr man lower prices pro rata for larger circulation that goes beyond the lerrimrv oi me Home dealer. The country weekly with 600 circnla " irrniory more uioroughlv a in is proportionately a far more valu nn r aovcriising ineiiiuin than the metro politan uaiiv or the great magazine, each iui many inoiisamis ol general extra- lerrnor ai circulation. The metroKlit:in duilie mav enunei ate the pnHT public policies, but it ii me couniry weeKiies that deliver the irne poiiiieai givspei io the vast voting mac. Kminent political leaders niav give the note of the campaign but it is the country district workers that cojrv the election. Mammoth cin-u'ation's may spread broadcast the fume of some article, but it is the home paper that is reau every nay ot everv week that event unllv and sundy jH-rcolates into the un heeding K.jndg of its readers the merits of that article. A column report of our Senator's speech in 300.0HO c.pie of the New York World would not do himas much good as a half column of it in the paper of smallest circulation in thi. State. The issue ha been Joined, and shrewd tdvcrtisers are dividing in favor of the napeis that have local cirrnlai inn j n eitv. town, and remote cmntrv villsge especially in such paper as lio" io their trade territory. in iimuaAiiii; uivf rimf meiit win iiui. uc CC'eiiSCftATlON. TtJ"ik Tate or oto natte had flecrned Iniperiifctble, hig'a enrolled. The huma'i heart Is one Indeed, Jly own heart 't throbbing life hath told! Acd whik- that heart beats free and bald. To thee, O sorrowing world, I'll live. Leaving the laurel leaf and gold! All, all t thine 1 have to give! Though Love with measureless rich meed Of life and warmth my life Infold, Could I forget thr bitter need, Sad world, whose un kissed lips are cold. Poor world, like unkinged Lear of old. Can Love thy shameful state retrieve. Thy daughter's heart shall naught wlth-hold!- All, all Is thine 1 have to give! -times Ellery Channlng In Youth's Compan ion. A LUCKY MISTAKE. Within a month after Fort Sumter was fired on two young men from Pennsylvania enlisted in the Union army. These young men were twins, Tom and I. We were very much alike in size, feature, voice and manner everything, indeed, and the only persons who could always tell which was Tom and which waa I were the twins them selves. We did not join the same branch of the army, Tom enlisting in the cavalry, while I joined the secret service. After the investment ot Vicksburg, and when the Union forces were each day dig ging nearer the city, I was sent to make an inspection of the Confederate forti fi cations. I succeeded in passing the Confederate lines and entered the city at Vicksburg, where, dressed in civilian's clothes, I was reasonably free from suspicion. But it took me a full day before I secured tbe desired knowledge and started back to ward the Union lines under cover of dark- I passed the guards safely and was, per haps, a third of the way to camp wnen i beard a sharp "Haiti who goes there?" accompanied by the click of cocking wea pons. Escape was out of the question, and moment later 1 was a prisoner. "Which camp do you belong tof" queried the leader of the men who had cantured me, Neither," I answered, "but I am stay ing at Vicksburg." tmw tuuie ou bo far from the lines ty night?" "I was just wandering around and thought I would go until I reached the outer guard," I answered "This is very strange if true," said my questioner, turning to his comrades, but probably it is nil a lie." Then to me. "We will just take you into camp and sift that yarn of yours." The yarn sifted so poorly that I was con victed as a spy and sentenced to death. One day after my conviction some young ladies of the city visited the prison where the Yankees were confined, some to see the strange animals of the north, who they believed had "horns and hoofs like an ele phant," as one ot the young women ex pressed it; others to leave flowers or fruit for tbe unhappy prisoners. The number of the latter class was small. As a condemned spy I was an object of especial hatred or commisseration, accord ing to tbe feelings of the fair visitors. "Is he really a spy?" asked one young girl oi gusmng class and age. in, nnswerea tne guara; "ne Is a genuine Yankee spy." "Ob, isn't it awful," said the girl. "How can you tell r He doesn't look likeasnv. and if you hadn't told me I should say he was real nice." "You can't tell anything by looks," re- pnea tne guam. "Some of the brightest and handsomest men in the service are spies. This 'un looks well enough, but ha is a sneaking spy just tbe same." "How strange! And what do these dreadful spies do? What did this one do?" "He came to look over our fortifications, so he could tell the Yanks where it would be easiest to break through them and capture tne city." "Oh, dear! you don't think the Yankees will capture Vicksburg, do you? If they snouiii, tney wouiu Kin us all, wouldn't they? Oh, how dreadfully awful it would be. "I don't think they will ever take the city: it is too well fortified and too strongly defended." My attention was soon attracted to three young ladies who were distributing hand some little bouquets to some of the prison ers wuom iney appeared to know, and I was surprised to see the horrified stare wnicn followed the younger girl's first glance at me. &lie looked a second time, searchingly, her face pale and startled, men uiriieu away witn ner companions. The next day she came back again. bringing flowers, and I hid a chance to wntcn tier ror some moments. She brought me a small bouquet, and when handing It to me accompanied it by a glance appar ently full of meaning and yet utterly be- n nut-ring nun uuiriinsiaiaoie. "Surely," I t hought, "I have never seen her before. Not a look or question or movement Is familiar, and yet she appears to recognize me." The more I thought on the subject the deeper and blinder was my mystification, the more surprising the ac tion of my beautiful friend. I watched my charming mystery builder until she left the prison, then turned to the bouquet Bhe had given me, I gave it a close examination. Hidden anions lh leaves or one of the flowers waa a very small note, the paper being almost as deli cate as the tissues of the flower leaves. The note said: Dear Tom-I was so startled and horror struck to see you yesterday that I almost be. trayed the fact that I recognised rou. i'orta nately I did not. and now I will try and help you. Examine carefully everything 1 bring. It may have something useful. Agues la al ready ill, and I have not dared to tell her. Mabel. Evidently the young lady thought I waa somebody else. A guard came to my cell after she left and said: "I saw you were one of the favored ones tbday." "Yes," I replied; "who Is the lady?" "Miss Murfree Mabel Murfree." "Her home is in Vicksburg, I presume?" "No; Judge Murfree, her father, lived outside, and his plantation was for several weeks iu possession of the Yankeea. Fi nally he came here to be iu a safe place and brought his daughters along. The next day Miss Murfree came again, and when she reached my cell she handed me another bouquet. I waited until I waa free from observa tion, then examined my bouquet. Io tb collow stalks of Ihe flowers was a very small file, a slender but strong steel bar with sharp poiut and a little platinum bottle of hydrofluoric acid. The flowers had beeu carefully sealed up at the bottom to I P.". lu"r conienta rroni tuning out. ' Uea.de. the tool, for eacape was thisnote: I UEAS TOM Tomorrow I will i,..j a th.p.word from. roonaTiceTwho I aa, m.. I awaited tbe result of her effort mitt. painful (merest, and when she came the followina dav an t trar. m. tK i quel I found the following not.- Mr Ptia To-The password tonUjht to t artridw." If von eel out . , ,i.JZ talsMde of the C.km.iT which yo ran ere frtim your window, and aire a low whiatle. A colored man will rome from the basement of the tali buililin, on tbe right and addres. wlllbeaafe. May tiod help yon to escape! The night proved an auspicious one for my purpose. It waa very dark and a hea Ihlinil.MlnM - V. L. thunderstorm shook the old jail, to that uu Amount oi nunjr or hrrin heard. With the acid and the toola I norc wora oi ut ban across m window and of the Iron. wtiuSZl ml bosh. iwweu my I anneezed through the window and dropped to the ground. I had not gone far when a guard called oat sharply. ' Haiti Who goes there?" "A friend," 1 answered. "Give the countersign!" "Cartridge." "Pass on!" ' , , . , . , On reaching the corner I whistled softly, and in answer a negro came up ana said interrogatively, "Massa Tom?" "Yes," I replied. He threw a long cloak over my shoulders and started up the street ut asharp gait. I followed him perhaps half a mile, when he stopped before a plain brick house, un locked the door and bade me enter. I had scarcely glanced around the dimly lighted hall before the mysterious "Mabel," ac companied by a young lady taller and darker than nerseii, nurneaiy entered from an adjoining room. They bad evi dently been waiting for me. I only beard my beneioctress say, -un, Tom, thank heaven!" before her compan ion, with a wholly glad and half hysterical cry, threw her arms about my neck and showered tears and kisses upon me in most embarrassing profusion. I was utterly dumfounded. r many, col lectins mr thoughts, I turned from the ex cited and half crying woman I held in my arms to tbe one I partially knew, and said: "My dear Miss Murfree, you have saved my life, and I am bound, as an honorable man, to tell you that you have made a strange mistake in thinking you know mel" "Mistake!" gasped the young lady who had so passionately caressed me. "Mistake! What do you mean? Are you not Tom Atherton?" "Not quite," I answered, "but if you thought I was he, the mistake is not a very bad one. I am his twin brother, Ned." The surprise and confusion which had overwhelmed me were transferred to tbe young ladies, and for a moment we all simply stared at each other. Then Mabel laughed and said: "And so you are that wonderful brother of whom Tom used to tell us." "Yes, fortunately," I answered. "And you stood there and let me kiss yon without saying a word," Agnes (I found out afterward she was Agnes) said reproachfully. "You didn't give me time to object, even if I hud wished to," was my perfectly trutbtul repiy. "I don't know but that it is so," she as sented. "But, Mabel, what shall we do with him?" "I am entirely in your hands, and will do whatever you wish," I said. "If my being here will endanger you in any way I will try and get through the lines tonight." "You will be much safer here," Mabel said. "We owe it to you to do whatever we can for you." "Owe it to me!" I said, "for what?" "For your brother's sake. He saved my sister's life and protected our property from destruction and us from insult. He is the best and truest man that ever lived, and we cannot do loo much for bis brother." I was compelled to keep a dark retreat only a part of the time, and several hours each day were spent with Judge Murfree or his daughters. Mabel Murfree had saved my life, and the gratitude I felt was perhaps enhanced by the fact that she was a rarely beautiful woman. After weary weeks of siege the city was captured and the soldiers of Grant and Sherman entered it in triumph and I was free. When the time came for me to go, having said goodby to Judge Murfree, I went to the parlor to see Mabel and Agnes, feeling how hard, how very hard it was to say farewell, and when I saw Mabel dressed in pure white, with white flowers in he; beautiful hair, her cheeks flushed with ex citement and her deep blue eyes unwonted ly bright, the duty waa not made any easier. "Agnes is writing a letter to Tom for you to deliver," she said, aa I entered tbe room. "She will be down in a few mo ments." "I am quite willing to wait," I replied, "and Indeed I am sorry that I must go it all. I do not expect to ever again find such friends aa I have found here." "You must thank your brother for them," Mabel answered. "Miss Murfree, Mabel, you wish to rob your act of saving my life of any personal significance. You do not want me to be misled by the gift of my poor life to ask for that which can make it valuable. I re fuse to be warned. I love you, Mabel love you madly, hopelessly love you as I never thought to love any one, and while I dare not hope you will return my love, I could not leave you without speaking. Forgive me if I have pained you, but it was impossible for me to go away without telling my love, and you will at least be fortunate in the fact that an opportunity will not soon occur for you to be troubled again by one whose love was stronger than his fear of offending." Tears trickled through the long dark lashes, then, half smiling through her tears, she lifted her brave, clear eyes to mine and said: "And what if I insist on your remaining to repeat your offense?" 11. F. Marsh in Buffalo News. Saved Her Life. Miss Pastel It's too bad! I love you and I've promised to marry you, and yet there Isn't a bit of romance about it. You have never once saved my life. Adorer I haven't, eh? Don't you re member the time you first saw me? "Yes. I was walking down the avenue, and you passed me on your bicycle." "Yes, and I rang the bell for vou to get out of the way, didn't I?" Puck. Devotion. She (with emotion) Do vou trulv care for me just aa much as when we were first en (taged? He (with conviction) Yea. lnvev. everv single bit as much. And at the time this conversation took place they had been engaged fust 14 hours 8 minutes and 23 seconds. Chicago Newt- necoro. That IV ai Different. "How do vou like the new neiirhhnni br this time?" "Oh, mercy, I don't nretend to associate with them." But I saw VOU comlnir nut nf thorn hist a few minutes ago." I know, but I bad iust cone in to bor row a few things. "-Chicago Inter Ocean. Reason Enough. Old Gentleman What da rntt mMn. sir. by marrying my daughter and trying to keep it secret? loung Hansom I am fond of good Hv !n iju.i, boVho" ' ZT?!. 1" . . --... "-- y " " Weekly. CarefuL ' Deal-Yea, madam, I'll kill them for 7" nl "d" them home. Well, If you are positively sure they are fresh, you may. My husband will only fowl when it 1 fresb,-Tit-Bit. - - u' " lununiinu'j Bard Lack. Mr. 6awpead-Do you dawnce? Misa Wideawake (who baa been Informe! that he U a bore-No. Mr. bawpead Neither do L Let'a pan Teninl Juat talking to each other.'. AMIS, Rope For Her. JUaa Daybya-I ahall never marry. Ui w . V "-' mlVZ " ' "T thL T may leave joa fortune some daT.-Broc foe) fortune someday. Brocr 1alife.