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SATURDAY, - - - FEB. 17, 1894
FIGHTING TINY FOES.
Warfare with insect peBts is the pen
alty laid upon the Northwest orchardist
for the advantage of railroad connection
with the markets of the world, says the
Spokane Review. Prior to the comple
tion of the transcontinental railway, the
orchards were wholly free from these
pests, and one could pass from Lewiston
to Jacksonville, eating fruit the entire
distance, and never bite into a wormy
apple. That was a great comfort to
people eating apples on dark nights.
Bat they came soon enough after that ;
were probably aboard the first train
that carried Villard and his backers and
his "busted" boom to these peaceful
Bhores, and for a while they had things
pretty much their own way. At first
there was some desultory fighting with
pan-flares and coal oil, but the pests
multiplied with astonishing rapidity,
and each recurring season brought new
and hungry allies. Then the fruit
grower became alarmed, and went at his
enemies with spraying machines, and
after that with laws, and where he
fought hard the victory has been upon
his side.
But it is in California that the really
scientific warfare is being directed
against the fruit pests. Most prolific
and voracious of all these pests was the
cotton cushion scale, which attacked
the orange groves and threatened to
wipe out a great and growing industry.
The assistance of the government ento
mologist was invoked. He discovered
that the ecale was a native of Australia
and came to these shores in ship
ments of Australian oranges, but
that it was not troublesome there.
This clue was followed up, and the
microscope did the rest. An agent sent
by the United States to that country
found that the cottony cushion scale was
kept in subjection there by the voracious
vedalia eardinalis, which attaches itself
to the cushion scale and eats into his in
visible vitals. The solution was reached.
A colony of the vedalia eardinalis was in
duced to emigrate to California, and
within a short time the scale was ob
literated and the orange grower had
peace.
If anything on earth more voracious
than the vedalia eardinalis, it is yet to
be discovered. From the cradle to the
grave it does nothing but eat, and when
the board is cleared of the scale, it turns
in and eats its own relatives, until at
last there is left but one big fat vedalia,
with the concentrated blood in his tiny
veins of billions of insect victims. Its
earthly mission ended, it then proceeds
to tiie of a broken heart because there is
no more in sight for the relief of its
frightful appetite. Great is science.
The argument that free trade will al
ways give American workmen better
wages over European, because they will
be , plus the freight charges across the
ocean, is pretty good until it comes to
goods that are exported. Then the
wages must be less the freight.
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
A toothpick factory is said to have
suspended. So many people are living
on soup that toothpicks are a drug on
the market.
The senate is monkeying with the
Wilson bill, and by the time it is re
modeled by its upper house friends, its
father wouldn't know it. Instead of
being the Wilson bill, it will come out
of the senate the billy Wilson. Hood
River Glacier.
"Next fall the country will go over
whelmingly republican. We hate to see
the chimneys without smoke, looking
like the tombstones of prosperity. We
are tired of furnaces with the fires oat.
We want the mechanics in the shops
instead of on the streets. We want. tr
Bee contented wives and happy children
in the schools and with good humor and
plenty of food." Bob Ingersoll.
Good Chance for a Rustler.
A man is wanted by Kerr & Buckley
of Grass Valley to run their hay and
grain ranch on shares, one with some
means preferred, but can furnish all
horses, harness, plows, etc., if neces
sary, provided he pays his own living
expenses for the vear. One hundred
and fifty acres is already sown and now
growing nicely, 100 acres are plowed,
ready to sow in the spring, and there are
100 acres of old land to plow and sow.
For further particulars address Kerr &
Buckley, Grass Valley, Or. dwtf
'TWAS A GOOD STORY.
That Is, When It Was Applied to Some
Other Fellow.
The Texas, congressman usually has
a shrewd perception of humor, re
marks the Washington Post. The del
egation has a corner on half the good
stories going, and can lay claim to sev
eral which have trot away. A corre
spondent backed the dean of the dele
gation up in a corner the other day
and told the following tale:
"A friend of mine," said the corre
spondent, "came up from Texas when
the session opened, and as he expected
to be here some time he looked around
for a moderate-priced room, which he
located in a nice neighborhood. A
motherly old lady showed him the
room, which pleased him very much
As he was about to leave the room she
asked him where he was from.
" 'From Texas, madam.'
" 'Well, let me show you how this
gas works. You turn it on so, and put
a match to it, so; when you get through
turn it off, so.' '
" 'But I understand all about gas.
We have it at home.'
" 'Yes. but I have had a good deal of
trouble with Texans about gas, and it
doesn't do any harm to show you, Turn
it on so, and turn it off this way.
Don't try to blow it out.'
" 'But, madam,' protested my friend,
you needn't go to all that trouble. If it
will relieve your mind any, I lived in
Chicago for six months before coming'
here.'
" 'You did, eh? Well, I want you to
understand that this is a respectable
house, and I won't have any poker
playing or drinking and carousing up
here.' "
"Haw, haw!" laughed the congress
man, "that is one of the best stories I
ever heard," and his sides shook with
laughter.
"But," said the correspondent, "the
boys are sending that story out to-night
and saying that you are the Texan."
"The deuce you say. Well, that is a
pretty low-down sort of a yarn to spin
on anybody, grumbled the congress-
man.
AN ANCIENT PEOPLE.
Belles
of a Prehistoric Kace Found In
Knssian Excavations.
The Hermitage is a famous building
in St. Petersburg, in which the relics
of Peter the Great are preserved. In
it there is also kept what is called the
ICertch collection..
Six centuries before Christ, the
Greeds founded colonies on the shores
of the Black sea. They united with
the native Scythians, and Scythian
rulers were generally placed over the
colonies.
Outside the gates of the modern
town of Kertch there are rows of
tombs and mounds. In the year 1830,
the Russian government began to care
fully examine these tombs, the objects
found there remains of the ancient
colonies being taken to St. Peters
burg and placed in the hermitage.
In 1831, a mound was opened called
by , the Tartars "The Hillock of the
Brave," and in a room of hewn stone
the remains of a Scythian king were
found, together with those of his wife,
his war horse and servant. His gold
en crown and ornaments were there
untouched.
Even the sarcophagus of carved cy
press wood, m which his body was laid,
remains undecayed, and the carving
and gilt figures upon it are still sharp
and beautiful.
It seems incredible that a substance
so frail should have endured for more
than two thousand years uninjured.
The gold bars of his shield, the sil
ver staves of his heralds, the collar of
twisted gold wire, are to be seen, be
sides many other articles found in his
tomb, although a large number were
stolen at the time of the discovery.
But still more interesting and beau
tiful were the contents of a tomb dis
covered in 1S0O, of a priestess of Ceres,
with all her rich ornaments, and these
were all preserved.
Most exquisite they are. The "gold
chains, buttons, bracelets, necklaces,
equal the best workmanship of Venice
or Florence at the present day. The
golden plates from her head-dress are
of respousse work of perfect beauty.
AN ODD
TIMEPIECE.
The
Chariot
Clock of the
Emperor of
China.
One of the most wonderful time
keepers known to the horologist was
made m London about one hundred
years ago and sent by the president of
the East India company as a gift to
the emperor of China. The case, says
the New Orleans Times-Democrat, was
made in the form of a chariot, in
which was seated the figure of a wom
an. This figure was of pure ivory and
gold ana sat with her right hand rest
ing upon a tiny clock fastened to the
side of the vehicle. A part of the
wheels which kept track of the flight
of time were hidden in the body of a
tiny bird, which had seemingly just
alighted upon the lady's finger. Above
was a canopy so arranged as to conceal
a silver bell. This bell was fitted with
a miniature hammer of the same metal,
and, although it appeared to have no
connection with the clock, regularly
struck the hours, and could be made
to repeat by touching a diamond but
ton on the lady's bodice. In the char
iot at the ivory lady's feet there was a
golden figure of a dog, and above and
in front were two birds, apparently
nying before the chariot. This beau
tiful ornament was made almost en
tirely of gold and was elaborately
decorated with precious stones.
A Queer Chinese Superstition.
The Chinese have a remarkable su
perstition about the Chu river, which
is the local name on the border for the
mating, a considerable trade in
drugs is borne along this river, for
which a special class of boats, com
posed of very light boards fastened
with wooden nails, is built. The na
tives say that the magnetic attraction
of the bed of the river is so strong that
were ordinary boats used the iron nails
would be pulled out. Along the river
banks iron is mined in primitive fash
ion, and from the geological evidence
it is believed that the ore is very rich.
Seigniorage and Silver Coinage.
Telegram.
Editor Telegram : Will you be good
enough to explain through your columns
what is meant by free silver coinage,
and what is the meaning of coinage of
the seigniorage? Some of us laymen
are befogged on these questions.
INQUIRER.
Free silver coinage means that any
man who is the owner ot a silver bar
shall have the right to take it to the
government mint and have it coined
into silver dollars just- as is now being
done with gold bars. If the govern
ment charges mintage, the owner re
ceives in exchange far his silver bar the
value in silver dollars nine-tenths tine,
and the other tenth is retained by the
government as toll to pay the expense
of minting.
The seigniorage now in the treasury
represents the toll that has been col
lected by the government on its pur
chase of silver under the Sherman law.
Seigniorage is a mint term, and in this
connection means the difference between
the cost of the silver bullion purchased
under the Sherman actkand the coinage
value of the same. It amounts to about
$55,000,000, and the Bland bill, now be
fore congress, provides for its coinage,
The serious fault of the Sherman law
was that it compelled the government to
purchase the silver bullion and to pay
for it in certificates redeemable in gold.
The advocates of free silver insist that it
is only the province of the government
to coin money and not to speculate in
bullion. Hence they demand that the
coinage of gold and silver shall be placed
on an equality that they shall be
coined into money at the ratio of 16 to 1.
and that it shall devolve npon the own
ers, not the government, to put it into
circulation.
ANTS IN FLORIDA.
The Vast Damage Which These Ententes
of the Fsrmer Can Io.
There are more ants to the square
mile in Florida than in any other coun
try in the world, says the Savannah
News. There are ants which will
measure more than half an inch in
length, and then there are ants so
small that they can hardly be seen to
move with the unaided eye. There are
red ants and black ants and trouble
some ants. But as bad as they are, I
have never heard of them eating out
the seat of a man s trousers, as a mis
sionary, Rev. Mr. Wilson, once told the
writer he saw the army ants do in
India, while the man was sitting on the
earth for a few minutes beside him.
But the Florida ants will take out
the lettuce and other minute seeds
from the soil in which they are planted
and actually destroy the beds. They
will suck the life out of acres of young
cucumbers and melon plants, uproot
strawberry plants or cover the buds
with earth to such an extent as to kill
them. They will get into pie. pickle.
sauce, sirup, sugar; on meat, m hash
will riddle a cake or fill a loaf of
baker's bread till it is worthless. All
remedies failing, I took to baiting them
near their nests with slices of meat,
bones, apple and pear parings, and
when I had from fifty to one hundred
thousand out I would turn a kettle of
boiling water on them. I have killed
during the past week over a million in
the space of a quarter acre lot, and I
have almost wiped them out. 1 had to
do this to secure any lettuce plants,
and many unobservant farmers com
plain of seedsmen when they should at-
tribute their troubles to insects.
FREE MAIL
DELIVERY.
Curious Result of an Experiment
by the
Postal Authorities.
The difference between city and
country ways have been illustrated in
a curious manner by an experiment of
the post office department, says the
New York Evening Post. Under the
last administration about fifty villages
and small towns, ranging in population
from eight hundred to four thousand
inhabitants, were picked out for a
trial of the system of distributing
mail matter by carrier, as in large
cities. At first general satisfaction
was manifested, and the receipts of
many of the offices for awhile showed
an increase, indicating that the con
venience ostimulated correspondence,
but as the novelty wore off the resi
dents very generally tired of the
change and returned to the old prac
tice of going to the office themselves
for their mail. A majority of the peo
ple would apparently rather have then
letters lie in the office until they call
for them and thus have an excuse for
frequent visits to the center of local
activity than have their mail delivered
every day at their houses. The carrier
in such places is really a foe to social
activity, as "going to the post office'
has always been a recognized means of
mixing with men, and its occasional
inconvenience is preferable to the loss
of -what is often only a pretext for
making a break in the monotony of a
retired life. In view of the evidence
that there is not "a long-felt want" tc
be met by this system 'i of free delivery
in small communities, and of the fact
that its general adoption would in
volve an annual expense of at least ten
million dollars, the first assistant post
master general wisely advises a sus
pension of the experiment.
Somewhat Severe.
An exchange prints a story which
may be commended to the attention of
all public speakers who have the dan
gerous gift of fluency. A young law
yer talked for several hours to a jury
in Indiana, to the weariness of all
who were obliged to listen. At last
he sat down and the opposing counsel
a white-haired veteran, rose to reply.
"Your honor," said he, "I will follow
the example of my young friend who
has just finished, and submit the case
without argument." With that he took
his seat and the silence was oppres
sive. -
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ITS TERRITORY.
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Lake, a distance of over two hundred miles.
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