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PORTLAND MARKET Price List ported Dally. as Re JWliiAM), (At. 2o.-rinr) 11 no malarial elisnge in llis butler market, Supplies of oreum rt M to bt falling orr, which would tend to. itllren Hit market, but It 1 not demtd advlkabl to lulus prices at this time. Y$g continue firm st.prloes ruling lor the past wek. Pull varieties of applies art plenty, ana om wlnUr kinds nava been r eel vol On account of supplies being greater tliau the demand price an lower than lait week, Hojii ara weak on aocotint of condl turn In tha emit, and nut much Improve meat ii looked for la ism than one month. WU0LISA1B PRICES. The following art quotation! ruling ta Portland at reported by jobbers In tha various Unaai Grain, Flour, Fwd. Wheatfts crop price) Club, Bfe'i Valley, 87ej bluntem, OOcj red Ruhm, Mo. FlourHard wheat patent, 1480) Straight, 14.30) graham, H,504,75 rye, fl( whole-wheat flour, 14.50 j9 $3) Valley flour, 4 40; Dakota. M2t Kl. SO) pattern rye ftl.30) I'illapury, 17 j Corwilla, 14.06. drain bag Dometle, 8 7 8) Calcut ta Bo. Ily I1S3 11.30 per cut. Buckwheat 130 per ton. BarleyProducers' price) Brewing, 27.80) feed, fjd rolled, K8.7S$29.00. Corn WTjwIw. 32) cracked, (33 per ton. Mill feed City bran, 1 10 j country bran. fJO.OO) city ahort. fJO.OOj country abort. $12.30 chop, $17. OoaU lWucor' prices, White, $"2"; gray.r::. Way Valley tlmothr. $18 fl7i Eatam Oregon,, $18 6t $20 1 clover, $11) cheat, $11 1 alfalfa, $13) grain hay, $14 (518. Cereal food dlolled oat, cream, 00-tb ack, $H lower grade, $)57 oatxtieal, ateel cut, 40-Tb aacka, $8.50j 0-lb aacka, $4 50 per bale) oatmeal (ground) 401b aacka, $8 per bbl) 0-tb aacka, $429 per bale aplit peat, $423 per 100 aackt) 3-lb bote, $IJ!3 ) pearl barley, $4 per 100 lb 23-Tb box, $1.23 per box) paatry Sour, 10-lb aacka, $310 bbL Freeh Meats and Fish. Oyttera fihoalwater Day, per gallon. $2.23) per aack. $1.30) Toke Point, $1.00 per 100) Olywpiaa (120 lb), $0) Olym pian per gallon, $2.25. Freth meat Veal, medium, 75 to 100 K, 8Slc 100 to 130 lb, 7i$8o) ISO to 200 lb. OOlo 200 lb and over, 63)c! pork. 81b8C) beaviet 7g8ot beef, bull, Sl(4oi eow,STbS)s; ateert, 3ld0ci mutton, medium die, 7i(g6ei larga and coarse, 3Jcj apring lamb, dreed, OtgOJo. Fih-IIal!btit, 7c i black cod. 8oj black b. per pound. 20c j atrlped bat, lie) amelt, 7c) herring, 5c flounder, Oct etflb, Hot ahrltnp, 10c perch, 5c j atrigeon, 12Joj tea trout, 18ci torn cod, 7o) Chinook aalmon, 8c; ailvenidet, 7ej tteelbcadt, Oe, 'Clam Hnrdholl, per box, $2.40) rax Fruit. Tropical fruit -Itunana 83iTb) lemon, lgla lbi grapca 73c$l.S0 crate i irraiiefruit. $3.00 crate i 1 me. 75c i ft$1.00 per 100; huckleberries, OtfJTc Tb) peachct, OOcM1.00 box; pears, $1.00 (gl.23 lxixi watermelon! lo per lb.) grapes 75c 1,00 orate) canteloupea, 75c(?$1.25 crate; oaaabai, $2 doien, Dried fruit Apple, evaporated, 81 do pound) apricot, 20c i peacnea, 13c) pear, 31oj prune, Italian, ifle or olama, $2.23 per boa. French, 84o;l fig, California black, 8 8-te, California white, 8o, Smyrna, 20c j plum, pitted, Go. Doniotlo fruit Applet, $1.00 (3)1.73 boxj crab, 8050o box) qulncea, 73c $1.23. Vegetable. Cabbage Xb., 1 1-4 ci cauliflower, (1 1.2S dot) celery, 60a $ 1.00 dot) part ley, 25a dot; hothouae lettuce, 75o boxi spinach, box, $l8j Bruaale tprouta, 9o Tb) artichoke, 75c$1.00 dot.) okre, 88o tt tomatoe, 2535o bj Summer quash, 18g20o uoii Lima beau, So Xbt cucumber, 2025o dot) eggplant, $1.50 corn $11 aack j pumpkin, $1.18 1,78 crate) pepper, 37o ftj grteo 1 per cwt. PotatoesNew, 85o90o per cwt) . tweett, 2 1-49 o pound. . Produce, Egga Ranch, candled, 3334c. Butter Oountry creamery, 30(3) 8801 city creamery, 35oj atore, 2021j butter fat, S3ic Cheese Young Amorlco, 18oj; Oregon full cream, flat, 17c iloney-iDark, 101lloi amber, 12 Poultry Old rooster, 78oj pound) 13o) fancy white, 14lSc. heni, ll12a lb) Spring, 10lloj dressed ttook, llc higher than tlv; duckt, old, 10llc) young, 1212oj tur key, young, 1718oj old, 18 per Tbj geete, old, 78o, young, 80or plgeona, $11.25 per dozen; quab, $1.762 per dozea, Groceries, Provisions, Etc. Sugar, sack basis D. 0., $3,671; XX, $5,471) beot, $3.37i; Golden C, $4.07 1-2) sxtra 0, $5,071; powdered, $3,07 1-2) cube, $6,821) fruit or . berry sugar, $3,671) boxes, 60o cwtl adronce ovr saok basis (less I da if paid for In 16 tlay)'. Onions Oregon, $23.25 por 100 Ib. OorTee (Mocha, S528c , Java, good, 2024c; Java, ordinary, 1720oj Costa Rico, fancy, 151 $ 17c; Costa Rica, good, 1215oj Arbuckle. $10.50 cwtj' Lion.r 16 8-4o per lb ; Columbia coffee, 14er Salvador, lll141c. ' MELONS IN STORAGE, Hew Rural J. P. Oeolded Suit tween Ndghbort. Problouit wurlliy of Solomon's acu. moit nro oftvn Kiiliiiiltlcd to thvnn rural arbitrntort, JuhIIci of tbo jn'iico, la Uio Marun county (Ma) archive Is csa of this aurt: Timothy Kula, n fiinncr of Eaaley towuilp, act out soino wntcrmelon viae which grow to luxuriously that tboy trc'KpnatiKl upon tlio Held of his IMtlgubor, Felix Hopper. Whi'ti gnrucr likg tlmo enmo Kuiu't nttcinpt to bur vest lils rminwny (iroduct was rebuked by Hopper hikI bit iiiotirun. Tlio eon troveray gut Into court, and Bitilr M'llllain Knliy, for whom tlio town ship was named, wtt asked to decide tho ownvntltlp of tea watermelons worth 15 ciTita apiece, The lawyers for Knln rend books to tliow that bis rlidits of property followed the vines clear into tho next county should they travel so fur, Hopper's lawyers pro duced equally sotuul rending to provt that Hopper wat entitled by law to Auythliiir that cainped on his premlHca. It wasn't Hopper fault, they tald, if tlio vines wanted to tpreiul out and go vUltlng. He bad the tamo rluht to thorn that ho would hnvo to a colouy of boneyutM that tuliftit Kt tlrol of bolnj with Knln and concluded to move over nnd make honey for Hopper. Hitilro KuNloy let the lawyer apout until they bud rend through nil their books; then bo arose to bis tlx feet and anld: "Mitchell lias rend books that make It absolutely certain thorn melons bo- long to Kulu, I hadn't any doubt la tho world about that till Outhrlo here trot up sad turned MllrheH't law bot tom aldo up, There's no quettlon but what Uiero's enough law In the books for both Kuln and Hopiht, and that otiifht to make 'em happy- Tho court decide under the clrcuiiistanrt' tlint with tlio law derldluK IkiHi way there's nothing to do but to bnntl out JuHtice as be sees It. The judgment of tlx court Is that those are Kaln's nmlotm" "Tlmttk you, your honor," said Mitch ell, iirixliiK and ttowinjr. -"but that he's Indebted to IIopMr 20 cents nphx-o fur storoire," finished theJUHtlce. "Hut, your honor," said Mltcboll In- dlgimnlly. "you cau't do that They haven't tiled any claim for stornoo. liexhtes, you're allowing Uieti) mora for their melons than they're worth ou the market." The court will tnke Judicial notice of the tlefenduut's rliihts, offset or no," anld Sijulre lCnaley, with aouw oser Ity. "And your own evidence shows UoppiT was dlilKvully guarding Kalii'i proiwrty far him. That's worth some-thhut." "Uuardlug Itr' "Yes. Kaln himself testified Hopper Wtt there with a shotgun when be climbed over tha fcnce."-Kanaa City Star. TIE BLACK SCOURGE - i That Fearful and Mystic Visita tion of Olden Days. IT FOLLOWED IN WAR'S WAKE. In the fourteenth Century It Swept the Whole ef Europe, Killing 25,000,000 In Thre Ytart The Petti lene In Londen. froor iwatend tn 0a. I T Boston aud Cnmbridifo people of in ,bf "'nc the world be- tarller day remcmU-r well Profeeaor 1 "" lue u,,vw Vl WBr w" Child of Harvard, a scholar who wee! n comparison t It. It swept the likewise a live man. They toll with ' Europe, leaving In Its poth great Kusto a story' about his faithful uc luiry destitution, as the atteutluu to city politics. Professor I W0JIJ nnd never known- 11 k,11l Child always attended to his duties as' ,nrw Jn ou' 25.000.000 people, a citizen of Cambridge. One nlsht bo; 8ucn flKurt, inMr the comprehen w,.r i. a wnm iM.ttnir at which a ''. but the records of the tlmo can- boss tieisun to put forth some 6f bis not J lout.tl. The entire population wanted Ideas. The college profossor was swellly on his feet aud tcathtug Tho plague or pestilence, that myste rious and fearful visitation which bas moved its hosts In the wako of armies to slay more thnu war itself, Is sup posed to have first originated among the douse masses of people who crowd ed together In the great cities of Asia and Egypt or who formed tho encamp ments of Xerxes, Cyrus nud Tamer- lnno the Tartar, it probably sprang rrom tue Impurity which must have existed In the uildxt of such vast gath erings and lu part also from leaving the uiihurled dead upon tho field of battle. At uny rate, the germs of this fearful buruau poison have always been most active where conditions siuillur to those have prevailed. It has Hi way been war and the march of armies that have spread it broadcast over the world from time to time, and ns war became lens frequent and less worldwide tho frequency and extent of thee rnvagis have frowned also. The first recorded outbreak of the plague In Europe occurred In the six teenth century. It came from lower Etrypt- This was the flrt lapping of the wave that reached Into tha east auxin, there to stay Its movements, so far a tho west was concerned, until r4l A. I)., when the returning legions of the Kmpi-mr Jimtlnlnu brought It ii Kill n Into the western world from the biiltlellelils of Persia. Constiiutlnoiite was the flrt place it attacked. Here In a single day ns ninny a lO.WK) per sons are mi hi to have fallen victims to It. Hut the plague did not stop with CoiiHtiintluople. It had found a too coiiueuiul soil In Euroiiv, which was little else than one great battlefield at the time. It was tarried Into Gaul, where It followed cIokc In the wake of the Kru uk lull armies, and from Gsul It moved into Italy, with tho Loin- , bards, and so devastated the country as to letive It entirely at the mercy of the Invaders. The various crusades, which extend ed over a space of nbout 200 years, no doubt did much to hold the pestilence la Europe, for ttiey terved to keep i oHn the channels of Intercourse be tween the east and the west. Periodic epidemics were common during their continuance, and these teem to have culminated la the fourteenth century with what is known In history as the black death. The black death was more ratal to numan life than any ly denounced the boss and hie methods. After the meeting was over the good natured boss, just to .how that be bore no 111 will, met the scholar on the stairs and, genially handing over a ci gar, said, "Have a smoke, profess?" His antagonist straightened up, took tho cigar aud said with great dignity, "Yes, I'll match you iu any of your lessor vices!" Boston Herald. Didn't Get a Patnt. Among the straugo applications which of Euroite is estimated to have been about luu.00Q,Oiio, kept down as It wot by the constant warfare, nnd of these at least a fourth perished. .The ravages of the plague In Italy, where It came lu the truck of the war of the Gueliihs aud Qhibvlllncs, was particularly disastrous to mankind. It rnged with terrible fury lu Naples, where 00,000 persons are said to have died. It fell upon Pisa, and seven out of every ten perished. It utterly and forever destroyed the prosperity of Slenn. Florence also suffered severely, while lOO.Ooo of the Inhabitants of Vculce were literally wiped off the lusted the mortality was as great tis that caused by tho black death halt century before, Five thousand peopia died In Ave weeks, and then the plague left London as suddenly as It had ap peared there to sweep over the rest of Kn gland. In Rcotland the plague of 1S08 came lounedlatcly after the battle of Lang tldo, when Queen Mary was dethron ed, but no records of the mortality It occosloued sem to have been pre served. The plague visited Iondon in 1075. This followed after the civil war welch ended with the death of Charles IL, but so many years intervened that It Is Impossible to trace any connection between the two events. la modern war danger from the plagus seem gradually to have lessened perhaps at result of better sanitary conditions maintained by the armies of today. " RELICS OF THE DEAD. Horrible Custom ef South Amr)oe Indisn Tribe. The I'cayall Indians, a numerous south American tribe, with decided eaulballUc tastes, who Inhabit botA banks uf one of tho uppermost and longest of the affluents of the Amazon, have a system by which they preserve Cue features of their dead, so that friends can always Identify those thai have gone to the "happy hunting ground" at surely a If gazing at photograph. To accomplish this they cut the bead from the body, but rctiiln the long hair. Tho ghustly, bleeding trophies of day's battle or a nlght'a massacre of their euemles are auspended by tha long, straight black hair to the limb of a tree. Directly under this tbey dig a hole, which they fill with water, In their primitive way causing It to boil by placing hot stones In It, or, If near a camp or village, an earthen pot of boiling water is used. The ascending bot vapor and steam which envelop the suspended bead outlined by the fire and shadows, Uko ghosts In the durkness of a tropical bight, in the deep solitude and under tho black shudows of tho palm forests, accompanied by tho weird antics of tho ugly human brutes and tho shriek of wild birds of the night or the howl of tigers, make a scene that cannot be fully descrlls'd to the Imagination. This steaming process has the effect of loosening tho scalp from the skull or In some way of eofteuing it that all tlio bones uro removed. With the va cant suck of xkln drawn from the bead Intact, they next fill It with hot pebbles and sand. These are replaced by oth ers when they are cool. The process they use has the effect of drying and shrinking the skin, but in some way, not clearly known, it preserves the original features of the victim. They aro thus distorted and ghastly looking reminders of the departed. London Bpnro Moments, BOTH WERE TRICKY. reach the patent otlce ou. ii led some f rf , fitnn. niti tut... Iil.ttt, Hl.iriMlti1,1, It - years ago was most extraordinary, it being a pctitlou for a patent for an ant guard which consisted in merely draw ing a chalk mark nrouud a table or other place by which It was claimed the approach of ants was stopjwd. It seems that chalk makes an ant's legs slip as soaplug a track prevents a rail way engine from starting. The peti tion was novel and caused considers ble amusement. Tho application, how ever,' was refused on the ground that there was nothing new in the Inven tion, that chalk bad been uted for tuch purpose before and that such Ideas not patentable. Climbing 109 Step to Chureh, The only way of reaching the old parish church at Whitby, In York shire, from the town la by mean of 100 stone stepsprobably a carious an approach to a place of worship as Into 1'rnuce, where tho mortality woe almost as great. In Paris alono 00,000 people died from it. One of the worst features presented by the hlBtory of the black death was the cruel persecu tlon it aroused against the Jews. They were supposed to have Infected the air lu some mysterious manner, and they wore accused of having poisoned tho well and springs. In Strassburg 2,000 of them were burled alive in their own burial ground. The order of the Flagellauto arose at this time, coming from the belief that the alns of the world bad at last brought down the wrath of heaven. It was the beginning of the so called bandied years' war that carried the black death Into England, where In London Its victims numbered 100,000. When at last the plague had worked Its ravages It doubled back over Its course to disappear In the east Later on It appeared again In England, any In the kingdom. The church stands on the east cliff some 200 feet first among the soldier of Rlchmoad aoove toe sea tevei, ana to watcn the after the battle of Bosworth Field. crowd of worshiper before and after tad when the victorious army marched service tnreaamg its way up ana aown to London the plague went with them the winding stairway is a sight to be jo work: Jt havogjherc. As long a It remembered. London Strand. November Tide Table. NOVEMBER, 1907. High Water. Date, Friday .. . Saturday ,, SUNDAY . Monday , , Tuesday . , Wednesday Thursday . Friday .. , Saturday . , SUNDAY . Monday ., Tuesday .. Wednesday rnursaay . Friday .. . Saturday ,, SUNDAY . Monday .18 Tuesday .. .,..19 Wednesday ,. ..20 Thursday . . ...21 Friday 22 Saturday .. ,,.m SUNDAY . . - . . .241 Monday ,, ,(...25 Tuesday .. ...28 Wednesday ! . .27 Thursday ;. :. ..28 Friday .;, ......29 Saturday ...30 . 7 . 8 . 9 .10 .11 .12 .13 .14 .15 .16 ...17 A. M. P. M. h.m. 9:42 10:23 U:00 11:87! 0:13 1:00 1:431 2:38 8:81 4:30 6:84 6:46 7:53 8:501 9:8!) 10:25 11:05 11:44 0:81 1:12 1:52 2: 8:091 8:601 4:311 6:15 6:08 7:00 7:52 8:44 ft. I h.m. 7.51 9:451 8.0 8.6 8.9 8.01 8.0 7.81 7 7.4 7.4 7.0 7.1 7.8 7.7 8.1 8.6 7.5 7.8 7.1 6.9 6.7 8.6 6.71 7.01 7.4 7.81 10:871 11:27 12:13 12:521 1:82 2:12 8:00 3:51 4:54 6:07 7:80 8:50 9:68 10:65 8.7n.l:45 8.9 12:18 12:50 1:28 1:55 2:28 8:02 3:42 4:30 5:28 6:401 7:55 9:07 ft. 6.9 7.8 7.7 9.3 9.6 9.6 9.6 9.1 8.6 8.0 7.5 7.2 7.2 7.8 7.6 7.6 9.1 9.0 8.9 8.6 8.8 8.0 7.5 .7,1 6.7 6.8 6,2 6.5 NOVEMBER, Low Water. Date. I h.m. Friday 1 8:13 Saturday ., ,., 21 4:00 SUNDAY 3 4:44 Monday .. 4 5:2S Tuesday 5 6:12! Wednesday ,, .. 61 6:63 Thursday 7 7:3 Friday , 8 8:181 Saturday 9 9:00 SUNDAY ., . . .101X0:02 Monday 1111:11 Tuesday 1 12 0:02 Wednesday .. .,13 1:10 Thursday ., ...14 2:15 Friday 15 8:17 Saturday ...... 16 4:12! SUNDAY 17 6:01 Monday 18 6:48 Tuesday .. ....19 6:26 Wednesday .. ..20 7:00 Thursday 21 7:85 Friday .. ......22 8:00.1 Saturday 231 8:401 SUNDAY ,. ...24 9:18 Monday 25 10:05 Tuesday 26 11:00 Wednesday ,, ..27 ..... Thursday ,..28 0:12 Friday ... ......29 1:08 Saturday .. ...30 2: 0B 1907. M. ft, 1. 1.6 1.5 1 1.7 1 2.2 2.5 2.8 8.3 3.6 0.0 0.6 0.8 1 1.3 1.4 1 3.2 2.5 8.0 8.3 8.5 8.7 8.9 4.0 lis 1.6 1.9 P. M. h.m. 4:00 4:4 5:2 6:10! 6:51 7:35 8:20 9:10 10:02 11:00 12:31 1:55 S: 101 4:06 6:00 6:47 6:80 7:11 7:491 8:23 8:66 9:30! 10:04 10:42! 11:24 12:03 1:08 2:12 3:15 ft 2.5 1.7 0.9 0.2 -0.5 -0.9 -1.0 -1.0 -0.8 -0.2 3.6 3.2 2.4 1.6 1.0 0.6 -0.1 0.4 0.5 -0.4 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.7 1.0 8.9 3.5 2.9 2.2 A Bit of Butinttt Between a Merchant and a Lumberman. There used to be an old retired mer chant In Detroit who delighted In re calling bis experiences when an active man running a general store in one of the northern cities of 'he lower penin sula. "I used to reap a harvest when th men were coming out of the woods,' he reiutes. "They were not up it styles, and about any old thing would suit them provided tbo color was right and (be fit even passable. But there" were tricksters among them, and I bad to have my wits about me In oH dcr to keep even with them. " 'How much is that bat?' asked strapping six footer who arrived front camp one day with a pocketful oi money. " Two fifty,' I replied. "Then be Informed me that he al ways hod the crowns of bis bats punched full of holes In order to keep bis bead cool and bis balr from com. Ins out I soon had this atteuded to, and then be asked what the hat was worth. 'Two fifty,' I responded in sur prise, but he laughed at me for asking such a price for damaged goods. He had me nnd got his bat for $1, while tho jolly crowd with him had a laugh at my expense. He wanted to look at some 'fiddles,' and after pricing one at $10 concluded to take it. M 'Where's the bow? he asked as I was doing up the package. "You only bought the fiddle,' I laughed. The others saw the point and laughed too. The giant tried to bluff me, but I kept good humored and got even on the hat by charging him $1.60 for the bow. I not only got even, but the others were so pleased with my Tankee trick' that they spent plenty of money with me." -Detroit Fnje Press, Wisdem Beyond Hi Year. Els mother found him In the Jam and reprimanded him. A little later she caught him teasing his baby sla ter and reprimanded him again. "I don't see what's got Into you, Wil lie," she said. "You're usually the good little boy, but today you're up to all kinds of mischief." "I'm tired of being good," he return ed, with juvenile frankness. "Tired of being good!" she exclaim ed. "What do you mean by thatr i "Well, Brother Bob Is naughty moet of the time, and you're always giving him things to get him to be good, and I guess I'll be naughty for awhile .and see If I don't get something too." Sometimes a youngster seems to have wisdom beyond his years, . A'Magnats In Embryo. At the opening exercises of one ef our schools it Is tho custom to have mottoes and sentiments given by the pupils. Julius Moses cave, "The pen Is mightier than the sword." , 'Why, Julius,' is tho pen mightier than the sword?" j "Why? Because," ouswered Julius, ou can sign chocks with it." Circle. HARRIIAN has bought LAND HERE I for Big Terminals. WHY DON'T YOU BUY NOW and GET IN ON THE GEOUND FLOOE. f Come in and we'll show you some choice tracts AT REASONABLE PRICES. western 1jp w km 0 '5 495j Commercial Street, Astoria. Oregon! IMMMMIIHtnilIMM ' THE SHIP'S RUDDER. Difference In the ttrain That Come Upon It Two Part. The rudder of a wooden ship is com posed of the stalk end the backing, which are so joined together as to form in effect a single piece. The complete rudder Is coppered to protect It from worms, and then, besides being practically all In one piece. It has that appearance nl?o. The stalk is the part to which are at tached the pintles, or pivots, by which the rudder Is suspended and held In place, these going through eyes set In the ship's stern post The stalk runs np through the stern of the ship, and to Its head Is bolted a cap to which are at tached the ropes by means of which the rudder Is controlled. The backing 1 tho Hade part of the rudder. ! By far the greater strain comes on i the stalk, and the greatest strain of all , comes on the head of the stalk, the' rudder head, where it ;s held. The . stalk is made of the wood most likely ' to stand the strain, carefully selected. ' sound, well seasoned oak, wtftle the.1 backing Is made of spruce or hard pine. The stalk Is of a single, solid, massive piece, stout as an oak tree and Indeed of the dimensions of a small oak, some thing that a man can pin his faith to, If he can have faith In any wood, while the backing or blade Is, like many mod ern waoden mnsts, built up. It would be difficult If not impossible to find trees that would yield planks big enough for the purpose in a single piece, and the built up backing, made of pieces of selected wood, can easily be mode of ample strength to wlth atand any strain that will be brought upon it. As to the stalk, stout and solid as the oak may be. the head may be twisted by the force of ajreniemlous blow from k wave upon tne rudder, or, unaer me repeated stratus of long use, the bead may split aud so make the stalk use less. Then the rudder is taken out and fitted with, a new stalk. A suitable stick is selected and worked down to the proper size and form, and very probably the old backing la attached to It The life of a rudder stalk would probably be twelve to fourteen years. The backing might last as long as the ship. New York Sun. ' ' OUR MOTTO Perfection in Workmanship Promptness in Execution Satisfaction in Prices. ThatVAll" W. C. LAWS CO, Plumbers Steam Fitters Recognized Agents in Astoria for theJTHEJ AMER ICAN rAdiatorco. A Nice Little Hint. First Lieutenant How do yoa like the horse you bought from me last week? Second Lieutenant Very much. Ho might hold his head a little higher, though. First Lieutenant Oh, that will come all right when he Is paid for. -London Tit-Bits. A HERO OF THE BUSH. The Daring and Devotion of a Brave Maori Youth; Courage is not an attribute peculiar to the white man, nor la self sacrifice the prerogative of civilization. In Mr. J. O. Firth's "Nation Making" Is told a story as touching ta Its brave devo tion as any tale of the Victoria cross. The Incident occurred at Orakan, where the English soldiers had just defeated the Maoris. A little party of colonial troops, pursuing fugitives, came upon three natives, two old men and one young fellow. The youth, seeing the soldiers, drop ped a toe knee and aimed with bis gun at the advancing party, which halted a moment, while the old men ran toward the forest The old men had thrown away then firearms in order to make escape easier. The soldiers fired at the youth, but missed. Without discharging his gun he sprang to his feet and ran on In advance until he caught np with the old men once more. Then, facing about, he presented his gun as before, but reserved his fire. The weary old men gradually drew near cover. Once more the soldiers fired and missed; once more the gal lant fellow turned and bounded on. The old men were close to' the forest when the youth, nearly fainting, again knelt and took aim, but still did not fire.- - v - - UNIVERSAL Stoves and Ranges jj Every one Guaranteed ' We Buy them in Car Load Lots The Foard & Stokes Hardware Go Incorporated Successors U Fear ft Stokaa Cs Mal he soldiers shot him as be knelt and rushed to the forest, but failed to Hard Times in Kansas. Tha old days of grasshoppers aal drouth are almost forgotten in the pros- capture the two fugitives, who, safe J perom Kansas of today; although In the dense underbrush, made their escape. On their return the soldiers found the brave young fellow lying dead. His gun was empty; It had not been loaded at all. With It he had covered the retreat of the old men and secured their freedom by the loss of his own life. No more gallant deed of heroic devotion was ever accomplished In any land. Dreams of the Healthy. 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