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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1894)
Lincoln County Leader. J. F. STEW AKT, Publisher. TOLEDO OREGON BESIDE THE CaV OF MCNTEREv. BeMdo the Id)" ef Monterey, When morn In on I lie mountains Whnt joy to lienr untl know not fear, Tho cry of seaborn fuuuialnsl Across the hay of Monterey The N fox, thinly drifting. The land reveals or chore conceals, Soft scenes, like magic, shifting. Bonldo the bay of Monterey How sweet to walk at even. When softened dyes from sunset skies Steal up the sapphire heavenl Along the reach of rocky beach Oh, Joy It I to follow, Where blooms tho sea nncinone In every wave worn hollow. On giant rock that fronts the shock Tho spray wet grosses glisten. Where breaks the waveou cliff and care The fiowcw bend and listen. I count (lie years by all my tears And all life's stormy wcathert Blnio fly tho lis y of Monterey We wandered, love, together. I walk aloiut ti.o chnnuliiK shore. Oh, sod nod Mrunuu It seems! And if you hear the billows ronr. You hear them but in iln-iuna. For you have slept now many a day Upon tho shore of Monterey. -Sarah L. fctlllwell In Uvcrlaiid Monthly. Frogs Eat Wasps. Some timo ugo I discovered accidcntal ly that frogs uro voracious caters of wasps. I havo in my garden a tank for watering, with un iHlarid of rockwork, which in a favorite, liuiuit of the frogH. The wasps jiiKt now are currying on a raid against my fruit, and when I wish to gratify at onco my revenge and my frogs I catch a marauder between a post curd and un inverted wine glass, carry hint off to the tank, wet liiH wings to pre vent hiit flying, and net liim on the rock work boloie liiu frogs. After a moment's pnuso a frog ad vances, and in an iiiHtaiit the wnsp Iiiih uisuptioured, drawn into the frog s mouth by a single dart of liiu long tongue. Oc- caHionnlly tho wasp reappoarH, wholly or partially, having made it uuplousiiiit for tho frog, but he in almost always awul lowed in tho end. Usually convulsive movements may he noticed in the frog's throat and body, as though the process of deglutition w to not quite easy, hut that they like the diet is evident from the fact that u single smallish frog lias been known to take three wasps, one aft er another. Indued it is remarkable what very small frogs, ntutu infants, will swallow u wnsp with avidity. This uf leruoon a tiny frog swallowed a full grown wimp, when a big rolutivo went for lii in iiuile savagely, like n big schoolboy thrashing u itinnll one for presuming to be helped before, him. It. K. ISartlett in Lonilon Bpcctalor. The World's I'ailliiiiiinU. Tho British pailinmetit fcouipnres fa rorably in sizo with those of other na tions. With 070 iiieniheiii in tho house of commons mid over .":) in tlm npiier hoiiHo.it is fur and away tho largest in tho world. Franco roiiirH nearest with BHl in tlio chamber of deputies anil 1100 in tho senate, Spam comes next with 41)1 in congress uud 11(11 in tho cortes, Then conn u the Austrian ruichsnith with 115 J and '.'15 in tho lower ami uppci houses respectively, followed by Ger many with i-7 in its reiehstag and fiM in Its buiidnsrath. Tho United States has oT0 representatives in congress and 88 senators. London Tit-Hits. Hnptiaid, Raphael experienced temptations to suicide. He himself says: "1 tied the Usheriuan's cords which I found in the boat eight times around her body uud mine, tightly as in a winding shirt. raised her in my arms, which I had kept free in orde r to precipitate her with me into tho waves. At tho mo tnent I was to leap to Isi swallowed for ever with her, I fi It her p:illid head turn upon my shoulder like a dead weight and the body sink ystwu upon my knees, Now York Times. The Truth Out. Clara There! I knew it. He has pro posed this cremngand she has accepted, Dora They are acting like other h pie. Merely t elite, that's all. "That's only a blind. Look at her yachting cap." "It's on hind hido before." "Yes. A man can't kiss a girl under one of those peaks. New York W eekly. Woltirns rutetils. Among the patents recently taken out by women are ones for a new folding bath, folding dish, cup and glass holder for use on shipboard, improvements in artificial eyes, new method of Hounding whistle and tho like in combination with bellows, and a regulator for slow combustion fireplaces. The greatest naval review of modern times was by (jueoii Victoria in IHol, at the beginning of the Crimean war. The fleet extended in an unbroken line for live miles and comprised !UK) men-of- war, with twice that number of store and supply ships. The flit-t was manned by 40,000 ttcamcn. It has licen computed that in A single cubic foot of tho ether which till all space there are locked up 10,000 foot tons of energy which has hitherto ruped notice. To unlock this boundless (tore and subdue it to the servlceof man U a task that await the ehvlriciati of the future. It i an old belief of native Hawaiian that the spirits i f their warrior chief inhabit after death tho liodics of their favorite horse. There is s tine white stallion in Honolulu in which, it ia pop ularly believed, live the spirit of Mokl, who led a rebellion in Tahiti years ago. A vine at Hamilton Court, which w planted tu is believed to to tho largest in the world. It branches ex- tend over a simce of 2,300 feet. It usu ally bear upward of 8,000 bunch. of grape annually. The stock of paid note for live year lu the Iiank of t.uglnnd U about 77,73, 000 in nnmlHT, and they till 13,40t boxes, which. If placed side by eld would reach f mile. It ha been shown that the cocoon of a silkworm will yield thread 1.000 yards, or three 0ft lis of mile. long. Homely person arc always aaytug that beauty U a suarv, just Uscwu they cauil anar aaiy of It UiuumIv, FOREIGN' FLASHES. More than 2.700 Jews have started from Odessa on their way to England. The Italian bank circulation will he increased by the issue of 125,000,000 lire. The French navv is to be strengthened by the addition of 101 swift torpedo boats. France voluntarily navs 180.000 in demnity to Italy (or the Aignes Mortes massacre. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain denies anv knowledge of a Unionist scheme for home rale. The number of books nublished in England last year was 6,342, says the London Telegraph. France is uneasv over the political significance of Bismarck's reconciliation with the German hmperor. The Pope is said to be preparing to issue an encvclical on Catholic Poles in a tone conciliatory to Kussia. The Austrian Cabinet has decided to introduce in the Itciclisrath a bill in creasing the tax on corn Hour to 7 francs. Fewer German emigants left tho port of Hamburg, the great point of embar kation, last year man in any year since 187U. The tax of 10 francs a year on cycles, which was imposed in France last April, yielded in the first half year over 7H0,- 000 francs. The French authorities of Corsica have forbidden English and German loctor to practice their profession in that island. The Appeal Court in Dublin has granted to Michael llavitt a certificate in bankruptcy, thus rendering him again eligible to sit in Parliament. Only five out of the thirty-three mem bers of the new Standing Committee on Customs I )u ties in the French Chamber of Deputies are not protectionists. For the first time in her known his tory tho city ol lmdou has fallen be hind the rest of England and Wales in the rate of population for a decade. Henceforth all Russian emigrants en tering Germany en route for the United Htates must be healthy, ami if over 10 years ot age, tie sissesseU ol 4oo mark in casli. The fortune of Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony in Africa, is set at some where from 100,000,000 to 7r,000,()00 all made in the diamond mines ol that country. The French Henate by a vote of 1U2 to H4 agreed to give votes to women en gaged in business at elections for tribu nals of commerce. This is the begin ning o( woman's suffrage in France, Orders for 2.r0 locomotives and several thousand rail way carriages have been jiven by tin) ItiisHian government to Austrian mid Itelgiun linns, presumably reipiired lor the Transiheriau railway. There was a decrease of 7,000,000 lire in the Italian customs receipts during last month, while tho revenue from in direct taxation shows a total falling oil of 1,000,000 lire in the last six months. Even Bulgaria, with her 100 or less miles of coast line on a small inland sea, lias caught the naval fever, and the gov ernment has just voted a sum equal to iliout to, 000, 000 (or the establishment of navy. The political leaders in the Masque provinces ot Ppaiu will send to Mr. Glail Uono a gold-mounted casket containing an address and a sprig from the historic mk of Guernica, the symbol of Itasiuie liberty. A government decree has been issued it Madrid abolishing the obligation of a ipecial pasport for entry to the Phillip pine Islands, which for centuries has ir ritated foreign visitors and closed the archipelago. Attention was culled in the House of ('ominous the other day to the injustice of maintaining the Church of K. inland establishment in India by taxation raised almost entirely from persons of the Mos lem and Hindoo faith. A "milliner 'inl museum" is alsiiit to be established at Tangier, Morocco, in which manufacturers and merchants from all countries may exhibit samples of those of their wares which they think best adapted to tho Moorish market. Women typewriters, who have hith erto licen employed in tho government unices in lmdou as supernumeraries, are according to a decision of the Treas ury Department, henceforth to be incor porated into the regular civil service. Three clergymen of the Church of England went over to the Church of Koine in the course of one week of last i ii tu 1 1 1 . Fourteen English clergymen have thus cluiiiged their church since the judgment in the noted Lincoln case. Though Jules Verne's works of scien tific llction havo sold by the hundreds of thousands and returned millions of francs to the publishers, tliev have earned for their author only (4,01X1 a year not even enough for him to buy the house ho rents at Amiens. A resolution in favor of birching had liny a instead of sending them to prison lias been sent to the British Home Sec retary, signed by a number of Magis trates. The proposition is to birch Imys under 111 for all otlonsos at thotliscrctiou of the Magistrate. The Argentine Republic is ranidlv be coming a prominent competitor in tho i : ..i - i. : .. ... v.. uiinilli'sn HI niiii ink j;iiuii III till' r.ll ropeaii markets,' Ship owners of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are taking advantage of the trade and finding em ployment lor their vessels. President Carnot gavea shooting party recently to tho military attaches of the foreign iHiwers and to several Magistrates of the courts of Paris. The hag included over 000 head of game. According to custom the greater part of these were distributed among tho Paris hospitals. Tiinbnctoii, which ha lieen occupied by a French column, has been so sedu lously guarded against European intru sion that only four EuroiH-un up to within a year ago bad succeeded during this ccnturv iu uainihg access into it Lning in IS'.'il, Caillie in 1828, lturtli in 1S50 and l.eni in 1SS0. The Governor of Sierra lxone tele graphs continuation of the report of an other engagement between trench and Ih itish forces on the frontier of Sierra I. eotie. ami snvs several weie killed on both sides, ami that the French attacked the British, whose force consisted en tirely ot nutires. Touching on the a' lair, the t ail .Mall tutcue says: vt o cannot have these thing happen weekly. No time should 1hi lost in settling the affair with France." Kl.u.Ltitn 111 iit-ilcp I,, lit ,,-it itdolf ,tnl ikf the reach of high water pionsito build a great boulevard to extend half wnv around the city on the east and north and to lone on the side awv from the city a capacious canal, which, it is thought, will carry away all the surplus water which conic from the mountains in the flood season. The boulevard w ill answer the double pnrK ol leveo and Wnilovard. This is part of the new drainage plan indorsed by the Council. After a hard struggle the Spokane temiM'rance people have carried the dav i in their ttiiht not to have any saloon at the site of the new water works, where to many men r employed. EASTERN MELANGE. New York Gambling Resort Frequented by Women. THE ISSAKE LAW OF MINNESOTA Great Amount of Distress in Ottawa, Canada '1 he Old Jefferson Davis Mansion. Iowa legislators cannot agree on a liq uor bill. A bill designed to put a stop to "treat ing" has been introduced in the Massa chusetts legislature. The insane law of Minnesota has been declared unconstitutional, and 470 in mates have a right to new trials. The Montreal Hebrews are organizing a society for the purpose of assisting des titute Jews and bringing others to Can ada. Sackett, the silhouette artist, who eloped with an Elkhart (Ind.) heiress, has been arrested at Topeka. The girl has been returned to her home. The Woman's Home Missionary Soci ety of the Philadelphia Conference has memorialized Congress against the ad mission of Utah as a Ktate. The State of Mississippi is proposing to discontinue inn penitentiary lease system and to establish a farm on which its convicts will be employed. Tree-planting on tho streets at Or lando, Fla., is encouraged by a bounty ot (w cents lor each tree in good condi tion after one year of growth. The hard times have induced the pre sentation of a hill in the Massachusetts Senate to prevent attachment of grave yard lots and tombstones for dent. A bill has been introduced in the Mas- .l,,iantu I .fr.iul,itrirf n emnnw-er cities and towns to make and distribute elec tricity for light, heat and motive power. The Connecticut Board of Health will vigorously prosecute irregular medical practitioners, disregarding any injunc tions which may be obtained by the lat ter. Senator Gray has announced a bill to enable purchasers at judicial sales of railroads organized under the laws ol the United States to organize new corpora tions. The Committee on Harbors and Rivers will give an appropriation to improve San 1'edro and Port Harford, but not as much as too Secretury of War recom mended. The joint committee of the Massachu setts Legislature has given woman sui fiage a black eye by resjrting adversely on the proposition to grant municipal sullVuge to the ladies. The Legislature of Kentucky has had before it lor lome time u bill providing for the compulsory education of the youth of the Slate, but tho bill is not likely to become a law. A Chicago dispatch to the Philadel phia Times snys: Prophecies of ruin in tint World s Fair district of the city to follow the departure of tho great show have not been lullilled. A dispatch from Ottawa, Out., states that there is a large amount of distress in that city, and the City Engineer's of lli'o is liesicged every morning by men w ho hope to get a job at stone-breaking. A company of Canadian capitalists are going to stretch a cable from below the Niagara Falls to Table Rock on the Canadian side on the plan of the Kerns wheel. It is proposed to run cars across every twenty minutes. Secretary Carlisle has called for the resignation ot 11. II. Lawrence, assayer of the mint at San Francisco; P. It. El lis, assaver of the mint at ('arson City, and E, It, Zahriskie, inciter and reliner of th mint at Carson City, Nov. With the money from tbesaloof bonds the Treasury Department is payingsoiuo of lis deferred obligations. Sugar homi lies to the amount ot $11,500,000 have I ice n awaiting payment for some time. They are now Ix'ing paid at the rate of $100,000 a day. It is now ladiovoil that Henry Carr, a young lawyer nl Denver, was shot by his wife and killed, and not by burglars, as ilrst reported. '1 lie woman lived in a notorious house betore ho married her, and frciticntlv became intoxicated and quarreled with her husband, Theold.lell'erson Davis mansion, which was donated by the city of Richmond to tho Conledeiaie Memorial and Literary Society, will sis in lie turned over to the proper authorities and made ready for the museum of Confederate relics, for which purpose it was presented. A gambling resort, frequented only by women, was raided ill New York city the other day. Many lashionahly dressed women were present anil liecaino panic stricken when the otlh'crs appeared, and several attempted to escape ny jumping out of w indows. They were allowed to depart unmolested. The bill by Terry, making railroad corporations citizens of Stales in which their lines may be for legal purposes, re ceived a favorable vote in committee. Pnder the existing law according to re cent decisions ol the Supremo Court the habitation of a rail mad is in the Stale where its principal olllce is located. Tho House Judiciary Committee has referred back to the sulicouiinittee Me Canu's resolution calling (or an investi nation of Judge Jenkins' action in en joining the Northern Pacillc employes Horn striking. The sulvoinmittee is in structed to iuquiie whether there are any i barges that Jenkins was iiitlucuccd by corrupt motives. Colli P, Huntington was Is'fore the SenaleCoiiiiuilteeoii Raiboads the other day, giving the committee information about tho Pacillc railroads. C. P. Hun tington made a suggestion to the com mittee in the shape of a bill looking to the mirganiratiou of the Central Pucitic system. Hi proiHieition is the company shall give a mortgage to the government covering all its proiorty, in coiisideia tionot whnh it may issue tUM.OOO.OiH) 2'v per cent bonds, to run 125 years, to lie applied Ilrst to the replacement of the mortgage bonds of the Central I'a cillc and California and Western Pacilic railroad, amounting to t27.lvVI.O0O; also to the redemption of Kinds issued on account of the California and t'iek'ui railroad, amounting to tott.OOO.OOO. The bill contain numerous provi-i. n look ing to the protection of the government interest in the nmd. C. P. Hmitinnton after hi argument before the Railro.ids Committee of the Senate in favor of the I extension ol the Central Pacillc in debt nines by issuing bonds payable in 125 year, ln'rin interest at 2S per cent, was asked by a newapaer correspond : cut if ho would stale in writing over his own signature just what hi proposition I was. lie replied! seutentiously and per i hap a hill bit facetiously: ' " It is a I imposition to use the credit of the 'lilted Slate, none of it money, ami pay otr ttie indcbledtiv. That i all 1 can say now." THE PORTLAND MARKETS. - Wheat Valley, 85c; Walla Walla, 75 77$c per cental. PBoruroxa. Eastek Smokid Mcat AJtD Laud Hams, medium, 2ic per pound; hams, large, llH'312c; hams, picnic, 11 'S 12c; breakfast bacon, 13(2 15c; short clear sides. iiZc; dry salt aides, 10gllc; dried beef hams, 12,'$ g 13c; lard, compound, in tins, lOc per pound; pure, in tins, llj13sc; pigs' leet, 80s,t5.50; pigs' feet, 40s, 3.00. HOPS, WOOL AJfD HIDES. Hops 'Win, choice, 15Uoc per pound; medium, 10(ttl2c; poor, 537c. Wool Valley, 10a 11c per pound; L'mpqua, 11(j12c; Eastern Oregon, 6(S 10c, ata-ording to quality and shrinkage. Hides Dry selected prime, 6c; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3,'ac; under 00 pounds, 2(it3c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 10(ul5c; medium, 20(i35c; long wool, 30(to0c; tallow, good to choice, 33jic per pound. LIVE AJfD PRESSED MEAT. BEEr Top steers, $2.5033.00; fair to goisl steers, 2 00,u2.2o; cows, 2.00(5 2.25; dressed lieel, 4'ii5,'4o per pound. Mutton Best sheep, f2.60; ewes, f2.; lambs, $ . Hogs Choice heavy, $4.00(34.25; me dium, $4.00; light and feeders, f3.00 4.00; dresBeil, 0K,t7c per pound. Veal Small clioice, tic; large, 4c per pound. COUDAGE. Manilla rope, t'4 in.cir. and up, 10)c; manillu rope, 12-ihread, diain., 11c; manilla rope, 0 and U-thread, .'-4 and 6-10 uium., ll,'2c; mauiila hail rope, in coils or 011 ree.s, 10 '.,c: manilla lath yarn, tarred, ic ; manilla hawser-laid ropewelt boriug, etc., 13c; manilla transmission- of-powcr rope, 14c; manilla imier twine, 11c; manilla spring twine, 14c; sisal rope, 1 '.i in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal rojie, 12-threail, iB diain., 7)c; sisal rope, 0 uud D-lhread, 1 and 5-lti diain.. 8c; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine twine, tarred, c; sisal paper twine, Hc. FIXIUB, FEED, ETC, Fi)UR Portland, $2.05; Salem, $2.65; Cascdilia, $Z.u5; Dayton, $U55 Walla ' Walla, $.i.00; Snon Hake, $2.75; Corval- lis, $2.05; Pendleton, $2.o5; Urahoin, t2.4;i, oujyi-i liiu, 12.25 pur barrel. Oats White, 3334c per bushel; ' gray, 31S2c; rolled, in bags, $5.76 tl.Oo; barrels, jO.OOmb.23; in cases, $3.75. ; Mii.i.mtukks Bran, 13(tl0; sliorts, $15('(,1U; ground barley, $10(1(18; chop feed, $15 per ton ; w hole feed barley, 0002$ 70c per cental; middlings, $23iu28 per ton; chicken wheat, 05c(aj$L15 per cental. Hav Good, $10(312 per ton. DAIKY PBOIIUCE. Buttek Oregon lancy creamery, 27)j 033Oc; lancy dairy, 22,'ll(M25c; fair to good, lriiu 17 'ac ; common, ll12u per Hjunil; Calil'orui , 45c per roll. Ciikkhk Oregon, 10(13c; Califor nil, 1- , I UIIIIK IHCII,:, Swiss, imported, 30 & 32c: domestic. 10 nia, c; joiing America, 120?l&c; lHc per pound. Ka (ti-emin. nenernllv 12114.. rwr doen ; Eastern, nominallV the same. VEOEIAHI.es AND FltUITS. VEOETA.ii.Es-Califori.ui cabbage. 1 !4'c pur pound; potatoes, Oregon, W a?i be per sack; onions (ouing price), $1.001.10 per sack ; sweet potatoes, 3c per pound ; California celery. 85(uMJc; artichokes, $I.U.i(i(.10 per dozen: California letl uce, ZiK4:Kn: per dozen ; Oregon hothouse let- t.u-e,40(5dc;caulillower,i2.75perciate, IIOc per dozen; parsley, 25c per dozen; sprouts, $l.llti(iil.25 per box; siring beans, 15(n IHo per pound; asparagus, I2'..c per pound; Los Angeles tomatoes, $2.00 per box. Fkiiits Sicily lemons, $4.00(i4.50 per Isjx ; (. aliloi .iia lancy. $.l.50(ic l.OO ; com- mon, !2.50i(i3.00; bananas, $1.50(i3.00 per bunch; Honolulu, $1.60o2.60; Cali- foniia navels, $2 25 ..2.76 per Isix; seed - limtu 41 2i.ii-' 1)11- .lutmni'.o it .75(11 '2.011 ! I m,,i II.... .if (I'lTf.. a,,,.l.,u ..ii.-ii,,. t.ei,.n r T-.. . ..... .,. ,......, vreen, 50o.i05c per box ; red. 60(it75c; late winter pears, OSajiSOe per box CANNED UOODs. Canned Hoods Table fruits, assorted, $1.75(a'2.00: peaches. $1.85iu'2.00: Hart- i lett pears, $1.75i( 2.00; plums, $1.3718(5 1.60; straw (lurries, $2.25(ic2.45; cherries, : $2.25(112.40; black berries, $LH5(i(2.00; I laspU'riies, $2.40; pineapples, $2.25aj 2.80; apricots, $1.05. lie fruits, assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.25; plums, i $1.00ojl.20; blackberries, $1.25ojC 1.40 per dozen. Pie Iruils, gallons, assorted, $3.15o."3.50; peaches, $3.50(14.00; apri cots, $3.50(44.00; plums, $2.75(u3.0O; blackberries, $4.25(ic4.50; tomatoes. $1.10. Meats Corned beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, $2.25; chipped, $2.40; lunch tongue, Is, $3.50; 2s, $tl.75(u7.00; deviled ham. $1.50 (u2.7fi er dozen; roust beef, Is, $1.50; 2s, 2.25. Fish Sardines, Ha, 75c($2.25; s, $2.15(0-4.50; lolwters, $2.30ot3.50; sal mon, tin 1-lh tails, $1.25(1(1.50; Hats, 1.76;2-lbs, $2.25i2.50; hj-barrel, $5.60. STAPLE OKOCERIES. Cokkee Costa Uica, 23c; Kio,2223c; Salvador, 22c; Mocha, 2(i's((r28e; Ar buckle's, Columbia and Lion," 100-pound cases, $25 80 Dm Ei Kumrs LS'.lll pack, Petite prunes, ou8c; silver, 10ot'12c; Italian, HalOc; tiermun, (Kn8c; plums, Cot 10c: cvajHirutett apples, SriilOc; evaMirateif apricots, 15iaUk", peaches, 10u(12'ac; pears, 7(iMle per pound. Sat - Liverpool, 200s, $15.50; 100s, $1(1. (Kl; 60s, tlti.50; stock, $8.50oi.50. Svid'i' Eastern, in barrels, 40o55c; iu half barrels, 42 a 57c; in cases, 354 MK- per gallon ; C2-25 per keg; California, in barrels, 20ut40c per gallon ; $1.75 per ken. Suuah I), 4'yc; Uolden C, 4lc; extra C, 4 'jc; con lect inner' A, 5'sc; drv gran ulated, 6'4c; cuIki, crusheil ami pow dereil, 6'Hc per pound; ltc per pound discount on all grades (or prompt rash; maple miliar, biuvlde per pound. Kick No. 1 Sandwich Island, $4.75(i$ 5.00; no Japan in market. ItKtNs Suiiiil white, No, 1,2V; No. 2, 2'vc; large white, 2'r; pea leans, 2l4c! l',1K- S'i!'': bayou, 2V! hutter, ;lc; Lima, 3' C per xund. Puki.ks liarrels. No. 1, 28iit;MV jht gallon; No. 2, 2tiui2Sc: kegs, tu, 8.ric Jht keg; half gallons. $2.75 per dozen; quar ter inllons, $1.75 H-r dozen, 1.' X.IV. I .....I.... I...M lU,... It ?t ,.(.iihi. 1...1..... i rki..i i. . ' J2.2.Va2.75; eighths, $2.503.1X1. Ixxise iMun ateis, K:xes. $1.50; fancv factsl, $1.75: li.-nrs. 3 crown. 4 ui.- wr Pound v- -.-, i.i. -un. Wm v-.-". inmiiri,, 4 crown, 5i5'vC SihhIIcss Sultanas, isixes, i.,,ii.c-.'.t.v; nags, otv h-t l poiiiiu. MMi-ks Miole Allspice, 18. a 20V per pound: cassia, Ht.i lSc; cinnamoti, 22(4 4'V; cloves, lSjJ.itV; black Hpper, LVoJ , lllli iue, o i .n V. Vtulrts Are 'rulltabla. Violets cut un mean tignre in the trade of New York, and in scamm when they em a ilim-ai they are highly profitable to the grower. Due florist, whow green house are jut on the edge of the city, pu keil from twenty live to thirty dollars worth of violets weekly all through the winter although the plants ocvnpied a coinwiratlvly .mall arc. The coat of pu king is lit U or nothing, and a skill ful picker acquainted with the nature of the plant can cull so that the fertility of the plants lial' tw vastly Increased. New York Letter lWrHY-Chickens. mixed. Quoted at "l''"-'r8- up yourcalves right, reed ' 13.00yt3.50 per dozen; ducks $4.50(! anil care lor tliem so as to produce ranid Ron- .mm. i,i,a. i;uu ni,.nu. growth and development, but do not feed ounil; .1 12c ' ' , " 't W ."ke them fat. Tint, i will produce a lieef tcndcm-v. w h eh will FARM AM) trAKDlN. Bngaboo of Overproduction of Fruit in the Northwest. HOW TO START AN APIARY, The Proper Time to Prepare Your self for the Coming Season by Deep Study. Prepare yourself for the coming season by reading up on everything pertaining to your business. If you are raising some special crop, get all the "pointers" on that special subject; then gli-an out that which is suited to your conditions. L'se your own brain as well as those of others. Study thoroughly the condition of your soil to ascertain whether it is suited to the crop you expect to raise. The next tiling is the market. Are you situated in such a position that it can be marketed profitably? There are a score of things of this sort which must be taken into consideration before making a start on anything, and winter is the proper season for this portion of work of the producer. OVEllPBODfCTIO.V OP PUL'fT. We hear considerable talk atiout over production ot fruit here in Oregon and Washington. Surely there is no leason to fear any such calamity, even after the present acreage is doubled and then trebled. The same fears were ex Dressed when California started to raise oranges and fruit by the trainload, and to-oay California fruits may be found in some form all over the United State. Cheap freights and improved methefts of han dling will stimulate the business; but to get cheap freights we must have larae quantities to ship. Plant more prunes, more apples ami more cherries. The evaporator aim cannery will work up the surplus that cannot he sold in a irreen state. The World's Fair has opened the 's of the millions regarding Oregon fruits. A want has been created, and the next thing to do is to satisfy the want. TO MAKE THE DAIBY PAY, A correspondent of Hoard's Dairyman writes: Weed out the cows you now have bv the use of the scales and milk test, lie sure to use both, and reject those that will not pay a profit. If vou buy cows, buy the best you can, select ing by the same means, (Jet a pure blood sire of one of the best milk-producing breeds, who has for ancestors the best of milk producers, liaise the heifer calves from your best cows those, if -, I .1 . , . . IHlle, that have motliers and grand , mot. ers inat are g.Hia milk producers. il,u longer the line of good ancestry the I more certain will you be of raising good ! " "-'"J"1." W'U 'ou 1,e,of wising K001 1 lu, ol li, ,.li,,. 1.1 ,1...... . I. ...i. i:r 1 Kreilliy injllre lh,,ir dai. v .pial.ties. At two yt,arH Bge thev should commence givin niikthe business of their lives, i . "v to staut an ai-iaby. in. s win uepemi largely upon your resources, it you are aide, you will be tempted tosta.tin too heavily, and this is where you will make a mistake. In one year you win nave gamed ttie expe- nonce you needed, but with probably a ioss oi a goon portion ol your Block, which is liable to ili-gust you willi the whole business, and you will he tempted to give it up. Don't do it. You have passed through the chrysalis stage of your development, ami you are now on 1 the fair mail to success. The proper WrtV to I let; ill will be tn liU'clmci. a ,.r,nn of il VII ll i V'l'H i II Hill ill. .it iu ........... .... , - ---- v, ,.v ,o niiunii j the dove-tail hive is probably preferable to any other. Next one or two sua mis of bees. Ihese you can usually buv at home; it not. send to your nearest dealer. If you buy at home and get the black bees, you will need a tested Italian queen. You will want besides this a smoker, lice veil and A. I. Knot's A B C of Bee Culture or sume other work of its sort, lou get in this iu a very cheap form the experience of otlierB," which you will timl very valuable to vou. This onllit, figuring on one swarm of bees, will coct you nliont $17.35. With this outlit you can easilv Mini nut whether you have an aptitude for the business or not. ITEMS OK INTEREST. Flowing for next season's crops during winter not only aids iu the destruction of insects, but puts land in good condi tion for culture. One of the most important points in agricultural operations is thoioiiL'hness of culture. This applies pot only to corn ami oilier grain crops, hut ulso to small fruits, young orchards, etc. No man was ever a poorer farmer be cause he possessed a liberal education. If you want to make your hov a reallv good fanner, better if possible" than his father, do not stint his schooling. Lund which is too rough for grain crops can either Iw seeded with grass and tluiB furnUh pasture for sheep, or can lc plained to limber or fruit trees. Very little land need lay absolutely idle. If yon have only a limited amount to invest and are almut having sheep, it will be lar better to buv a" few good ones than many culls. It is the quulitv of your flock more than the size upon which your prolit w ill depend. Selecting and planting the best farm seeds will incieuse the quality of grains and grasses jut as selecting good breed ing stock improves the farm herd; ami we all know what splendid results have been accomplitdicd in that line. Oilier business men ore cutting off all needless expenses, and it is advisable that farmers do the same thing. Make all I lie tools you can yourself and save hills in that direction. Do vour own re pairing and get rid of unproUtable stock. A thoroughly docile animal, no matter w hat it is, is more easily managed than one that is wild and fractious, and it is ni-ii iiiuie iroutao e. lor it win nmva . .... , ' , tfr,."vt'r " 1""c auioiiut of 1 , ' . wtter producer than the i Tactions one. Sheep often cannot lie kept in large , " " . "' nui.iiii quai teis w ithout Mi-ruing nisease. ue sure Unit vour riaiiii is proKirlionnte to your numbers, Foul air and dainpness are dcadlv ene- mies ot sheep, and tluse are adjuncts to wii-n niHiailu, A l.pliji lli.riirtl Si-rirut. Professor A. L. BuKuli, un nttaolic of tho I'.niH'i i.il, museum of Borliti, who, with nine trusty men. has been making explorations iu northern nuil western Biiii-.il. solids this extrr.or tlinury information to tho ilirvetors of the institution munexl above: "Have hml wonderful luck. W'e al ready have over 9.000 unnamed speci mens in natural history, ineludiiijf a make 07 feet lous. witb loug tuska like a boar nud a horn it feet long on lt forvheod." St. Louia Republic disappointing the judge. 4 Gnvemor TVkoe Interference Stopped a Seat Hanging Match. Some seventy years ago, as gray haired pioneers report, there was in Mississippi a justice of the peace who needed no clerk to write him down an asa. He attended to that clerical duty Limself. His district was interior and remote from the centers of intelligence. It was far away in the wild woods. No lawyer dwelt in those parts, and the prevalent idea of Justice and the modes of administering it were primitive and somewhat arbitrary. There were no -railroads, telegraphs or rapid mails to spread intelligence as in these palmy days. A man in the neighborhood of this mod ern Dogberry had the misfortune to take the life of a fellow man and the function ary bad him brought up for trial. He ex amined the witnesses on both sides, mode tip his mind that the homicide was unjus tifiable and condemned the prisoner to be hanged by the neck until dead, dead, dead. The sentence allowed the man but a few more days of life, and the condemned begged for a little more time. He told the court tearfully that his crop was about ready to be harvested and he hoped that for the sake of bis wife and hildren his honor would spare his life until that duty could lie performed. It was the last serv ice he should ever render to those nearest and dearest to him. Friends interceded and the judge relented. He granted the doomed man a respite of thirty days, and discharged him on his own recognizance, after exacting a solemn pledge that he would appear promptly on the day ap pointed and be hanged. A political campaign was in progress that fall. Governor Matthews, a popular stumper,-was in the field, and happened to have an appointment at the time and place fixed for the execution. While he was chattering with a group of rustic ad herents a wagon drawn by two oxen was observed slowly approaching. As it drew near it was seen to be occupied by a man, a woman and several children. They were all weeping bitterly, and the wife clung to the husband's neck. The latter was pale and haggard. He stopped his wagon asa bystander (he was the justice) called out: "So you've kept your word, Charley?" "Yes," said the condemned, with a deep sob. "I'm a man of my word. I'm ready to die." Here the wails of the wife and the little ones became heartrending. "Why, what s all thisP' said Governor Matthews. "It's a hanging," some one answered. "But is it all regular?" said the govern or, who was a good criminal lawyer. Un. yes, its all right. J edge gmita knows what he's about." "Who is Judge Smith?" "He's our jestis uv the peace." "And did he try this man?" continued Matthews, becoming very much interested in the proceedings. But he could get no attention, for the procession was now form ing to convey the prisoner to the place of execution. 1 he governor followed along, half dazed by the amazing procedure and half believing it was all a practical joke. But it was all in dead earnest. A gallows bad been erected, and, when the place was reached, the prisoner made to stand up, and tho justice, assisted by his nervous constable, tied his bands behind his back, bandaged his eyes and was beginning to adjust tho noose, when Governor Matthews called in u loud voice: "Hold on there, Mr. Justicel Will you listen to me just a moment? ' "Well, what is it, guv'ner?" "What is the man's crime?" "Kill'n another man." "How was he tried?" "I tried him and sentenced him to die. He's guilty, guv'ner. It's nil right." "But it's not all right," answered Matthews. "It's all wrong. Don't you know that a grand jury must indict a man before lie can be tried for homicide? Don't you know he can only be tried in th circuit cnurt? Don't you know that you can only send him to jail or bind him over to nwnit the action of the grand jury? Don't you know that if you take this man's life you will be indicted for murder your self?" "Is that so, guv'ner?" said the justice, as soon as he could recover breath. And he slowly and sheepishly turned the pris oner loose, while the fears and agitation of the citizens changed to uproarious inughter. Atlanta Constitution. Dickens' Children. Iventuretothinkth.it such a child as David Copporfield is rare. The majority are made or more commonplace material. They would know better how to get on with Mr. and Miss Murdstone. Very few hoys nowadays at any rnte would, even at eight or nine years of age, bo quite so easily Imposed on by a waiter as to allow him to cat their dinner without uttering a word of protest. I am very doubtful, too, whether many boys would have been quite so loverliko to Little Emily and have found such Intense delight in Mr. Peg otty's wonderful house by the sea at Yar mouth. Still, ons feels that David is real and from first to Inst consistent with himself. which, by the way. Is more than can be said for all Dickens' characters Ham Peg gotty, to wit, who, whea we are first intro duced to him, is little more thnn a half wilted, blundering lout, but becomes be fore the end of the story a really magnill cent fellow. Every one wdll call to mind many other chllU characters tn the writings of Dick ens. No other male writer has given us so many. In my judgment, none of his chil dren can compare with those of certain female writers. National Keview. Ilatr Restrained bj- tsw. Centuries ago for some reason it was thought necessary to introduce a kind of sumptuary law with respect to the length ot garments nmt the length of the hair. Men were forbidden to wear their hair ou their shoulders and women to wear the long plaits hanging loose. It was a mark of distinction for maidens to wear long hair, only the slaveborn having it cut short; so it Is not likely that women of free birth were induced by any edict to cut their hair loose, but only to confine it within reasonable bounds. Our forbears must have been better provided with nnture's head covering than we are. There Is, alast Title occasion now for restraining the abundance of women's locks. Notes and Queries. The Moon Has No Effect. In order to determine, what influence the moon has upon earthquakes. Captain De Alontessus has collected Information of 00. CM) earthquakes, and has arrived at the conclusion that our satellite has no effect upon thee phenomena. New York Jour nal. True to His Art. Carpenter What kind of wings do yoa want on yonr house? Maslclan-"iVhy-er "White Wlngm." Kate Field's Washington. UtlarloiiB I'tts, Traveler If New York society consists of only 400 people, what do the million or o of others do for pleasure or recreation? Mm. Forvumlred-They read about what we do. New York Weekly. A public speaker has humorously ad vanced the position that none but bald headed men and fat men are fit for beads of families, as they are noted for their meekness and sweetness of temper. Salmon Intended for smoking are first scrubbed and dried, after which they are uuug m me amoaenouar, where a alow Are la kept burning. On weak la required for the smoking prim. A PROSPEROUS EXILE HOW "BOSS" SHEPHERD HAS MADE A FORTUNE IN MEXICO. Driven From Home, ne Struck a Bonanta In Chihuahua, XVbere Tie Boles Like a KtDg A Career of Romantic Vicissitudes and Remarkable Successes. Thn world has heard but little of late ot the man who 20 years ago was alternate!; famous and infamous as the beautifler and the "boss" of the Capital City of the nation, Alexander K. Shepherd, formerly governoi f the District of Columbia. Vet the career vl this American Baron Haussmann subse quent to his downfall has been as full of romantic vicissitudes as a Haggard novel, and now he is a "boss" again, in something more than the political sense, and rules with despotic sway over a little city of his own, which he has built to protect soma fabulously rich silver mines near Batopilas, iu the canyon of Kl Fuerte river, amid tha mountain fastnesses of the SierraMadrc in the southwestern corner of the state of Chi huahua, Mexico. Practically an exile from his native land, almost "flat broke," Shepherd with won derful luck found his way to Datopilas just after oue of the regularly recurrent revolutions on which so many .Mexicans dd pend for fame and fortune. An American citizen owned a mine there which had been seized by the revolutionists and held for several months. They were finally driven out by the government troops, but left the mine in u chaotic condition, the works de stroyed and the owner on the verge of bank ruptcy. this was Shepherd a opportunity, and ha seized it with avidity. He made a con tract to buy the mine for the sum of $220,- ALEXANDER R. SnEPnERD. 000, put un American foreman in chnrge U get things in some kind of shape, and start ed for the Rio Grande border to negotiate with American capitalists for money with which to back up his undertaking. Hedid not succeed in getting as much money as he wanted, and returned to Batopilas rather disheartened, to meet one ot the greatest pieces of good luck that has ever befallen a favorite of fortune. In his ab sence his foreman bad "struck bonanza," as the miners say, and within 00 days hud taken out of the mine over $300,000 worth of silver, or enough to pay for the mine and leave a comfortable working surplus tor fu ture development. Then Boss Shepherd blossomed out as a bonanza king. He devoted all his master ful genius and tireless energy to develop ing the property he had and acquiring more, and pretty soon had control by abso lute ownership of a kingdom greater in ex tent and far richer in revenues than many an hereditary monarchy famous in the world's history. And be ruled and still rules like a king, or perhaps it would be more correct to say like one of the feudal barons of old, who were more powerful thnn the kings to whom they owed nominal ai legianco! Like the baronsof old, hebuilt him a forti fied castle, or rather an absolute fortress, for ils stone walls, which are 33 feet in height, inclose 100 acres of laud and are strength ened with some of the most approved ap pliances of the modern science of fortifica tion. Revolution is Indigenous in Mexico, and in. the state of Chihuahua, and partic ularly in that part ot Chihuahua wherein Governor Shepherd's mines are located, it is almost perennial. He has heeded the warn-' Ing conveyed by the fate of his predecessor In the ownership of the first mine be bought, and the greaser guerrillas who next at tempt to confiscate the property will have to do something more than demand posses sion. There is but one entrance to the fortress through heavy iron gates guarded day and night by armed sentinels and opened only to those who have the password. Mil itary discipline obtains throughout the little city built within the walls. The streets are patrolled continually by gen darmes, and every precaution Is taken agaiust treachery from within or surpriso from without. A small army of employees of various kinds is quartered there, and fidelity is assured by constant watchfulness and strictest regulation. The houses, of which there ore many, are one story adobe structures, built for tho most part with broad, comfortable veran das and standing iu the grateful shade of trees. The boss' mansion is quite luxurious in its appointments, and there Is a special bouse for visitors. A big hotel accommo dates several hundred Mexican miners and other hired men, and the huge stables are filled with whole droves of animals. A number of small parks ornament the in closure and lUrnish breathing places for the employees, who rarely go outside the walls except on special business or to cele brate some great national or religious fes tival. All the work of the mine is done within the fortress. The huge stamp mills are go ing day and night, nnd the ore is crushed, amalgamated, refined and cast into bars of pure silver, weighiug 130 pounds each, which are sent every fortnight over the mountains to Chihuahua city by carefully guarded pack trains. The output ot the mine averages fSMO.000 a month, and it is all spent on improvements. Upward of (10,000,000 has been so expended, and the work is not yet by any means completed. One of the improvements Is a great tunnel that runs straight into the mountains for a mile, and another is an aqueduct five miles long, built of solid masonry. Only the highest grade ore is worked at the present time, but when the tunnel It done, so tbnt ore can be brought out In train loads, then Governor Shepherd says be will begin working the ore that pays only 100 to (150 a ton, and the mine will be a dividend payer for at least 100 years. The boss never expects to visit his native land again. He has been In the United States but once since he became a Mexican silver king, but keeps himself well posted on events here, getting what news he can daily by private wire from Chihuahua ami patronizing American publishers of news papers, magazines and boi.ka with gr l.berality. Vt Ira as a Strengthener. The method of strengthening copper steam pipes by means of coiled metal wire has been qnite generally adopted in the Italian navy. The practice is to serve the tubes with one or two layers of wire wound nnder tension. The method is not considered annlicablo to other than straight tubes. The wire It . of sufficient strength to carry the f nil i load of steam, and the tension used in winding is about H tons persquareinch. The wire is put on in two or three inde pendent spirals, and th ends of each ar independently fastened to th fengsa,