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VOLUME YIII. CANYON CITY, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1SSG. No. 1G. ft Brat Gonntr lews PUBLISHED THURSDAY 1IOKNING, BY D.I.ASBTJRY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year Three months 1.00 LEGAL AD YEimSiCME NTS: $2. GO per square for first, and 1 per square r eaeh subsequent insertion. No certificate given until all charges are paid. LODGE DIRECTORY. HOBAII LODGE, No. 22. I. 0 0. F., meets every Saturday evening at their Lodge Room in Canjon City. Visitnig brothers are invited to attend. ly order of the 2s. G. J A. SWFER, P tto; ev-at-Law Cany Jj - - Oregon. j W. Parrhh, ATTORNEY AT LAW Canyon City, Oregon. jJ A. RRACKETT. Canton Citv, Okegon jg B. RINE ARSON, M. IX, Physi ian and Surgeon PRAIRIE CITY - Or eg n. Q I. HAZELTINE. OAHYOX CITY, OREGON. DUSTIN, Attorney at Law, John Day Cit, Oregon. yT U. KELLY. John 2ay City, Oregon, Collections promptly at tended to. yiQ. COZAD Kpls.r ? ublio, Oak yon City, - - - Ounce. Office in C. V.'. Parrich's Law Oflicc. J, T. RfiAEL, NOTARY PUBLIC, LOWC CREEK, Oregon. -X Collections marie, and return-? promptly re mitted. Particular atlrnti-m siren to Pre-emption fil Itiss, Proofs. &.c. Also aitt for the mle of Hehool Lands. Jj. 0. Sterns. G. C. Israel. C. W Mauvill. STERNS, ISRAEL 4 BWRVILL Attorneys at Law, Baker City, Orogon, Jr. Israel wi'l he in attendaneo at I'neh tenn of the Grxut County Cirruit Court, to Attend to all mattors entrusted to the firm. T. V. S. ERfSBRES, S3 D. HARNEY CITY, Or. Professional Calls from any part of the County irill recelra Prompt nttenttcn. ILAY TOD HUNTER. Collector of Bills, Notes, and Acounts. Canyon City, Orecon. AH business entrusted to his care will receive prompt attention, and all money will be paid om fast ut ojllecttid. NOT ITAlTi to neno for our Price List fo 18S0. Fhkb to uuj mlU.ress upon up itllraflon. Cont.il lit E dwrriptlnns or orery. thlm? renulred fid personal or family ue, with over 1.200 ISIiistraUoim. o se.i Ml trootW at wholes' rlrvn In qiianrttls U unit the purrhiwer. The otily Institution In America who make this thf-r spIal Imslness. Address, UQNTGOMKKY WARD & CO.. lfc7 Si '29 VHbah Ave.-f-Jslcaco. IIV m mm m Attornsy-at-Law AND Notary Public. Prairie City - - - Oregon. Also A sent for the sale of School Lands. 5-30tf X3r. IS- 33. STs&yra, yj8rt.tfa.c33L PHYSICIAN and SURGSOIf fcRlSfiK, - - Oregon. Will promptly respond to profes sional calls to any portion of tiie county. 27 J0IIJ BOLLINGER, Canyon City, Grant Co., Or. B plrnmifliir.n' Wmm, Carriage?, "Wagons. Hacks. Bug gies, ami Buekboards repaired or built to order. Every tiling done in a workman like manner, and warranted to give satisfaction. Prairie City LSVEFiY STAB LI -AND- Feed Corral, PRA3HU-: CITY - OH Mi OX .3ci5esiLi ftrrf, Propriclor. First-ch'.s? nuiv Teams and .Saddle Hoi-hps furnisliedat nawtmabie tato, at any limy of day orni;lit, and uUifacitn ?:Jinritiite:iJ. Tinik siont Stock will receive the hott of feed ami yroom'iifr. J.W. Howard M. I). OFFICE IN DU. HOWARD'S DRUG STORE WashiiiL'ton Street, Cain on City, Oregon. Jiesitlonce two doors north, acro-s the streets lias a laive and wcll-selrctod sfcoclc ot Pure Drugs, Chraifals, s& all kinds of Patent Medicines. Orders from the country solicited. . H. Cr.oTH, V. X. Tiiojirso-v CITY MOTEL Canyon City, Okeoon, GEUTH&TEOMi'SOH - Proprietors Eo' leave to inform their friends And trio Public Generally That thov can be found at the OLD STAND, And are ready to furnish good Board and Lodging AT MODERATE PKTCE. A fire a: d burglar proof safe has been phi :nxi i t the houto for tho accomina Isvicr. "d guests, 1). B. FStik. John Jit Isfcam Lanrne D. B. FiSK & CO. Plows and Hardware. PRACTICAL BLACKSMITHS ! AND- IJorse ?ihot'.rs. CarrriBice, Wairon.-, Huckhojird and Huji(j made u onlcr. 'Jlutrwa Moderate. All Work Guaranteed. Jobbing of all kind promptly done. All hills payable quarterly PRAIRiE CITY. Oregon. E. HALL, AT THE- -DEALLIl IN- Rogers Smith's Plated "Ware, WATCHES, JEWELRY, CCTLERY Optical Goods ana Stationery. Subscriptions received at Publisher's rates for all the leadin; Papers and Mazinos published in the United Statei. n m 1 PRAIRIE CITY BUEVSRY. A.VD Mnin Straet, Prai-m C.'ty, Oregon Where can always lie found both jjteam nnd Fia' IJeer in quantities to suit. The Har is al.o suji plied with the ciioicest Wines and iipior, als. JN'o. 1 Cigars. Orders for Rcer by the Ke? or by Rott't promptly attended to. and delivered to fsciilic if desired. Give me a rail. PAUL F AIM AN Proprietor. -AX D "Washington St., Canyon City, Ogn JOHW KUHL9Prop. ISuccossor to F. C. Sol. All orJers for bear in five or ten gallon keg will roccirtt jronipt attention. -THE- QiT ft, SALOON. Jciml'Ay City. Or eff en. GEO. W. IIATT, Prop rio tor. A Full Stock of Fancy Winos, Liquors, Ci;rs J and llittoi3. ' J. II. Cutter and I. X, J,. Cmtr WliUkey, ; Fine o'd Cojimo Jtranly. O'd Ilouthon Whi.-kfy, ! Old Uya and oh! .Msh V.'wkay, from $i.00 Ui pergfOlon. j i Pirnic and Carop-iuocUng Firtsks; plni and half pint. I Prompt attention to r11 orders from those ! vishiiiir fine Liquors for j-ieknoss or otherwise. J V j V'e recommend our Liquon?, and will refund all moneys awl pay all charges where they uto not what wc rooommend them to he. &if .Money must accompany all orders, lo receive attention. .P. 0 3I0R?LBY,M D. GttADL'ATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P 'NXSYLYArfiA, April 8, 1 818. Canyon City, Oregon. () itce in liisDrugStore, Main Street )rJer.s for Drugs promptly filled. No professional patronage solicted m! J.ss flircctionFarestrictlviollo'.veJ warn Proprietor o!' tire JohnSay EWSlk Ranoj Fresh milk deliverotl daily to ray customers in John Day and Canyon cities. Hive me your or ders. J. Oliver. 01 Ci P- c O- Jig o P O in aq o z o CD O P CO p 13 tr CD CD X p o n O in d I-H CO W a O O Q CD a- CD rn Co CD o D 2. O 3 CD CITY BREWERY WR DYSPEPTICS. Eloi 5jod anil Pr!nks In:r off Xcw Vovkcrs. In cold weather it is a very good tiling to know what to cat. A dor tor said yesterday that most people think the' know, but don't and that a jrreat many more do know, but don't put their knowledge into prat tic, iln said a man would rush down town in the morning, and alter dancing- around to keep warm, would pop into a restaurant and gulp down a piping hot oyster stew. That was the very wor:t tiling he could eat, the doctor said, and it was a wonder to him that half the people of New York didn't die of dyspepsia and the other half come mighty near it. "Never under any circumstances," said the doctor, "eat oysters that at e more than a week old. That may not seem to relate to the subject of cold weather, but it docs much more than yon know. Oysters that are more than a week old have become antiquated, as we say in medicine, and have to be cooked as hot as lightning just to make people think they're fresh. That's where all the mischief lies. Most people think it. is just the thing to get outside of anything that's hot, when the ther mometer is way down tickling zero, and they rush oil and tackle oysters that are old enough to walk, for the simple reason that they resemble a red hot stove. It's bad enough to eat anything that's hot, but to eat staie oysters without, knowing it is a good deal worse. Hot ousters will give you dyspensia and rheumatism, catarrh and a lot of other things, but ancient oysters will poison a man's blood in no time. 'ICvery winter I have to treat peo ple who get s;ck fiom eating hot food. Of course I hey never suspect what the trouble is, and laugh w hen they are told. 1 t's almost imposibIe to make them understand that they're actually committing suicide by inches. Why do I complain par ticularly about hot oysters? HeCaise people eat more of them than any thing else, il seems to me. Kvery young woman who go:s to a theater, ami fvery young man who goes out nights, must stop on the way home and eat oysters. I'eopie think hot food, and especially hot oysters, m;kes a person warm, but it's the biggest nd.take out. 1 1 ot drinks are just as bad as hot food, with this exception. All peo ple do not drink, siml women don't drink at all, as a rule, but everybody eats and wants to oat hot food. Jim there's no use talking about hot drinks. You might as well attempt to change the course of the earth as try to make some men feel that they could live without a steaming hot whisky every hour or so from No vember to April. They'll drink and free.e, and drink over again, and keep on freezing right through the livelong winter without ever dream ing that they're colder than anybody else, or that they're within an ace of pneumonia ail the time. Why, you'll meet men who know all about poii lies ami religion and horse-racing and everything else, and they don't know how to tak; care ot their health. It's positively demoraliJng to a man of sanitary earnings to go down lo Wall treef, for instance, and see the way the brokers down there act. The minute it gels cold they pour hot whiskies down their throats by the dozen. Une steam ing bumper oi a cold day is worse on a man who's out than lour plain whiskies or six genetous doses of rye and rock." A down town bar-tender said he wished it. was below ;;ero always. 2Ien drink a hot bumper, go out and come back in ten minutes to get another to keep the first one from freezing, lie don't know exactly iiow much better business was in winter than in summer, but he had an idea it was about ten times. From the New York Star. EJill Arjis CJ;Iniim of the Doctors. If the doctors had to shed tears for every patient, tho fountain would soon be exhausted. They experi ment and diagnose and make mis takes and lose, patients, but is ail for the best. Somebody has to be sacri ficed or science would not progress. The doctors experiment with disease and skirmish with death just like the general of an army tights battles. Some must be sacrificed to save the country, and so after a battle he counts up the killed and wounded and is happy if he has killed more of the other side than he has lost of his own. He likes to show a good balance sheet, even though it a a bloody one. Victory ami glory are bigger things than human su tiering or the grief of the loved ones at home. But still the family doctor is a part of the family an honored part. We are drawn to him as to a friend in need, and ho is drawn to us. lie has enough sympathy for his pur poses, liis tenderness may be pro fessional, but it is the right kind for the patient. The doctor is nearei and dearer to the family than the preacher, although one ministers to the mortal body and the other to the immortal soul. Bodies are bigger things than souls. The w hole world withal! its vast machinery is at work for bodies, butthe work done for sou is is only a side show in comparison. The family doctor holds a higher place than the family lawyer, foi health is a bigger thing than mone or property, and there are but few lawyers who would not take a case agaiusv us as readily as one for us. There are two sides to litigation but only one to medicine. Atlanta Con-titutior.s. BALD-HEADED FDTU11E. L Xtt York Eiiysiin ProillrJH TJie Doom of the Human SZair. A startling prediction comes from he Nineteenth Century t'lub. Dr. Win. A Hammond advances the opinion that in about one thousand years, which will carry us to the vear of our Lord 2S85-SG, all mankind will be bald. Unless the generation living in that age should choose to counterfeit theirancestorsof the pres ent day by wearing wigs, only smoothly polished heads, destitute of capillary covering, will be visible from the family circles of theaters or the galleries of churches. Dr. Hammond does not undertake to predict to what men and women of that distant eru wi'Il resort to sup ply this deficient' of hair, or whether they will regard it as a defi ciency at all. He only makes a proposition based on his observation of the steady increase of baldness, without even expressing an opinion whethor the decline of hair will be a blemish or an ornamentation. Per haps the esteemed doctor is inclined to regard it as the latter, since his ow n head emulates the days of li.S8."i, except to a light filamentous fringe which borders the base of the skttli. It is dillicult to conjecture to what this universal baldness may lead. It the present fashions should pre vail in those days, it is not improba ble that ladies may employ dis tinguished artists to paint "Mikado" figures, birds of bright plumage or indescribable animals on their heads, and enterprising men of business may use the smooth space for adver tising purposes. If ladies decide upon wearing wigs the business of hair-dresser ami lady's maid will bo considerably lightened. If Dr. Hammond is correct in his prediction it is certain that the ter magant wife oi 2;sSo will not be. able to take as firm a hold upon her hus band as the wife of the present time. It may also be questioned whether the politicians of that date will bo any more barefaced than those of ISSo, even if they .'-liMtild be more bareheaded. ,'"ew York Herald. Tl'aahgsjrfOi.'. Km lost or Conduct. One of George Washington's oarty copy-books eon tains a list of . 110 "Utiles oi Civility and Decent Behav ior in Company and Conversation." Here are a few of them : "Kvery action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present. i "Wijien you meet with one of greater quality than yourself, stop and retire, especially if it be at a door or any strait place, to give way for him to pass. "They that are in dignity or in ofiice have in till places precedency; but. whilst they are young, they ought to respect those that are their equals in birth or other qualities, though they have no public charge. "Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. "Be not hasty in believing flying reports to the disparagement of any. "Take all admonitions thankfully, in what time or place soever given ; but afterwards, not being culpable, take a time or place convenient to let him know it that gave them. "Think before yon speak; pro nounce not imperfectly, nor bring out. your words too hastily, but or derly and distinctly. "Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust. "Make no show of taking great delight in your victuals; feed not with lgieodiiie.ss ; cut your bread with your knife; lean not on tr iable ;. neither find fault with what you eat. "He not angry at the table, what ever happens, and it you have reason to be so. show it. not; put on a cheerful countenance, especially if there be strangers, for good humor makes one dish of moat a feast. "Let your recreations be manful, not siniui. "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." These are not unwise rules; they touch on things great and small. The difficulty with most boys would be to follow a hundred and ten of them. They serve, however, to show what was the standard of good manners and morals among those who had the training of George Washington. ( From "George Wash ington," by Horace E. Scudder, in St. Nicholas for Kebruar. Tho Koran It is necessary to have at least four wives in order to find one in good health and gentle humor. liOokii: for IJoard. Applicant (to landlady) And what can you let me have the fourth floor for, madam ? 1 do not hesitate to say that I am not so far advanced in my profession that a dollar or two a week would be a matter of in difference to me. Landlady. A member of the legal profession, sir? Applicant. No; I am a member of the musical profession. I play second flute. Landlady. I see. Well, sir, I would be willing to rent you the fourth floor back for $200 a "week, without fire. re.it:m:e and Industry. The novel process which has for some time past been in use for treat ing tho sewage of Buxton, England, continues to yield, it seems, the most satisfactory results, the precipi tant brought into play for this pur pose being simply a mineral water derived from the lower coal forma tions, about two miles above tho town. Jt contains 1.2 grains of iron per gallon in the state of fer rous carbonate, held in solution by carbonic acid ; the latter esoapes on exposure to the air, and the iron, taking up more oxygen, subsides in the state of ferric hydroxide in com bination w ith a considerable part of the organic impurities, suspended and dissolved. According to analy sis, the sewage before treatment contains free ammonia 11.74 per million, and 1 .(JO of albuminoid ammonia; after treatment these figures are reduced to free ammonia 4.00 parts per million, albuminoid ammonia 0.30. The effect shows the capability of mineral salts in, precipitating dissolved organic im purities. To measure luminous sources of high intensity, the plan has been in troduced of employing a Foucault photometer, one-half of the screen being illuminated by a standard light of one Carcel lamp placed at the end of a blackened tube one meter in length, w hile the other hall! is illuminated by the light to be ex amined. The latter passes down a, tube which is movable on a gradu ated circle fixed at right anglos to tho axis of the first tube; at the further end of this tube there is a rectangu lar opening, the breadth of which remains constant, while the length can be varied by means of a micro meter screw. '1 his opening is placed against the diffuser, and the size of Hits opening is altered until the two halves of the screen of the photome ter are equally illuminated. For intensities up to four hundred Car eels, the diffuser is made of ground glass, while for higher intensities opal glass is used. This arrange ment is found to realize very satis factory results. A Glasgow chemist has found that at about 86" Cent., the flesh of animals, such as mutton, etc., be comes so exceedingly hard that it rings like porcelain when struck with an iron instrument, indeed crushes by the blow of a hammer into a fine powder, in which muscle, fit. and bone are intermingled. Ami not only this, but the experi ments in this ditection have also, it is stated, demonstrated the still more remarkable fact that microbia. aiive in the flesh before the freezing operation can be detected still alivo after thawing, even alter exposure to the aboved-named temperature or lo',)' Fahr. lor a period of 10Q hours. Such a result as this is de clared to point to potential animal life, in the solid stale, capable of be ing brought into activity by heat and moisture. The experience of Lord Rosea preparing the mirror of his great telescope an operation calling for the utmost possible skill would make it appear that the best powder, all things eonsidered, for polishing glass or metals i prepared by extract ing the perox)leofiio:i from a solution of pure sulphate of iron by precip itating it by means of ammonia. The deposit thus resulting is washed, pressed until almost dry, and then brought to a dull red heat, just visible in the dark. The special points of importance in this case have reference to the purity of tho sulphate of iron, the use of ammonia; in considerable excess, and tiie exer cise of proper care that beat does not rise above that just indicated. Tho powder obtained by this means should be a pale red, slightly tinged with yellow. It has been estimated that an iron car wheel will travel some 40.000 miles, while a steel tire will run tho enormous distance of 200,000 miles before wearing out; thus, though costing so much more, steel haa greatly the advantage. A new alloy, peculiarly adapted to many important uses in tue arts, is described in La XtUure. It melts at the low temperature of 1(30 degrees, Fahr., or considerably below that at which the once lamous magical spoons melted in a cup of tea. It is composed of forty-eight parts bis muth, thirteen of cadmium, nine teen of lead, twenty of tin, and will withstand severe pressure. A foreign chemist claims to have produced pure cblorophyl, in a crys talline form, by slow evaporation of an alcoholic solution, though not to the extent of being able to isolate the crystals. Thoy arts represented as doubly refractive, giving a beauti ful green sheen in polarized light. Their physical properties diller from those of the daik green crystals of hypoehlorine hitherto obtained. The fact is not an unfamiliar one in mechanical operations that many soft timbers, especially walnut, nro more destructive to the cutting edge of planes than even oak. This is found to be due to minute particles of silica, of about uniform size, evenly distributed through the tissue of the wood. Sic Had ?o Objection. "Flow does your father seem to regard my coming hero? " anxiously asked Adoipbus of little Bobby while Miss Aland was up-staiu get ting ready to present herself, "I guess he don't care nothin' about it," repliod Bobby, carelessly. "So he has no objection, eh? But what did he say, my little man ? " "He said if Maud was a mind to make a fool of herself, why let her." J