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TUESDAY,
- FEB. 27, 1894
Prince Colonna wanted to thrash a
few of the New York editors for giving
him so much unfavorable publicity. ' It
is needless to say he was easily dissuaded
by his attorney. It is to be hoped he
was not afraid of meeting some irate
American newsboy on his belligerent
errand. '
Wheat at 62 cents per bushel in
New York is the lowest price ever re
corded for it in the history of the coun
try; and this in spite of a decrease in the
yield. A few days belore Cleveland's
election 73 was recorded. At this
time there was a tremendous clamor for
a change and "republican oppression"
was the battle cry with both democrats
and populists. The change has been the
other way. Now these demagogues
claim the price of wheat has nothing to
do with politics. If they are honest now
they were dishonest a year ago. The
truth is that politics have a wide bearing
on price, and not only - wheat, but wool
attests to the fact.
The report of the senate committee on
the Hawaiian mess is remarkable for
' one thing it finds a good worn for every
one of the Americans prominently men
tioned during the long controversy about
' the Sandwich Islands and Queen Lilliuo-
kalani. Neither Cleveland Blount,
Stevens or Captain Wiltse is criticized,
and an excuse is found for Willis for any
' possible indiscretion. - They have missed
"both Scylla and Chary bdis by some of
the most remarkable political engineer
ing ever recorded and the testimony
taken by the - committee covered over
700 pages. True the republican minority
find a few minor faults, such as declar
ing the appointment of Blount unconsti
tutional, hauling down the flag, etc., but
they express accord with the essential
findings of the main report. Altogether,
the matter presents a happier solution
than was even hoped for.
It would be amusing now if one could
Bee some of the transparencies that we're
carried in democratic processions in the
fall of 1892 "Vote for Grover Cleveland
and $1.25 per bushel for wheat." "Vote
for Grover Cleveland and steady em
ployrnent at increased wages." "Down
with the robber barons and up with the
working people." If these mottos were
gathered out of the woodshed and dusted
off for use today revised to suit the facts,
they would not be recognized by their
most intimate friends. One engineer
had on his engine running from The
Dalles to Portland a few days after the
election this motto :
"Hurrah for Grover,
Not In soup but clover."
- In less than six months of democratic
rule, wheat went down from 70 cents to
as low as 33 cents, the U. P. railroad
employes who voted for Grover to get
steady employment at increased wages
found half of their number discharged
from the service, the wages of the re
maining half cut down 30 per cent, and
the road in the hand's of a receiver. The
engineer who hurrahed for Grover "not
jn soup but .clover," is now more than
likely sawing wood in the backyard of
some second class soup house to earn
soup for himself, with this. motto on his
saw-buck:
"Old Grover Is still in clover,
His friends are in the soup.
, If the thing was to do over,
From me he'd'get no whoop.
On Trial.
That's a good way to buy a medicine,
but its a pretty hard condition under
which to tell it. Perhaps you've noticed
that the ordinary hit or miss medicine
-doesn't attempt it.
The only remedy of its kind so re
markable in its effects that it can be
sold on this plan is Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. Ab a blood-cleanser
strensrth-restorer, and . flesh-builder
there's nothing like it known to medical
Bcierice. In every- disease where .the
fault is in the liver or the blood, as
' DvsDensia. Indigestion, Biliousness, and
the moBt stubborn Skin, Scalp,, and
Scrofulous affections, it is guaranteed in
every case to benefit or cure, or you have
your money bacs.
To every sufferer from Catarrh, no
matter bow bad the case or of how long
standing, the proprietors of Dr. . Sage's
Catarrh .Remedy say this : It we can't
cure it. "perfectly and permanently, we'll
pay you $500 in cash." Sold by . all
druggists.
"Winter Fuel. -
We still have a large supply o.f Hard
Wood, including Oak, Ash, Maple and
Crab Apple, all drv. and suitable for
familv use to be sold cheap.
Febuary, 1894. . ,
Jos. T..Petebs & Gs,
POLITICS IN POMPEIL
How, Municipal Elections Were
Manaared Before the Eruption.
The Ward System and Primaries Were
thfl Same as Those of Our Modern
Cities Ballot-Box Stuffing' .
Known to the Ancients. . ..
The Pompeiians were in the midst
of a hot political campaign when the
city was destroyed by lava and ashes,
A. D. 79. Dr. James C. Wellinjr, presi
dent of the Columbian university at
Washing-ton, has been studying the
features of this ancient election, as
they are recorded upon the walls and
billboards which in those days took
the place of newspapers. In a very in
teresting lecture before the Anthropo
logical society, he gives a description
of ward politics in Pompeii more than
eighteen hundred years ago. It sounds
astonishingly like the story of modern
elections, with ward-meetings, primar
ies and appeals for candidates. The
city seems to have had a thoroughly
equipped political "machine." ' Polit
ical clubs were numerous, borne oi
them were evidently composed of "the
boys;" the Little Thieves, for instance,
the Late Topers and the Sleepy Heads.
Municipal elections were held once a
year, and any citizen was at liberty to
run for office. His intention to do so
was made known by his friends post
ing his name On the billboards and
walls about the city. One Titus . Ge
marius, a baker, who had a shop on a
corner with a side wall running back
along an alley, made a "handsome
thing" - by renting it for bulletin
boards. -. -
After a candidate's name had been
posted . for some time, he could tell
pretty well whether he stood any
chance of winning. If he saw that he
did not, he went to the chief selectman
and asked to have his name withdrawn;
but if he thought his chances pretty
good, his name was put on -the "white
list," after which there was no back
ing out.
The system of wards and primary
elections was practically the same as
that followed in New York to-day.
The electors chosen at the primaries
met at the Forum on election day to
deposit their ballots, and fell into line
as men do at the polls now. There were
three judges of election, and each can
didate was permitted to station pne of
his own men at the ballot box, to .see
that no intimidation was practised.
The ballot box was very closely
watched, a fact which seems to show
that ballot box' stuffing was not un
known even then. The candidate who
carried a majority of the wards was
elected . . 1 1 will be seen that th is gave
the "machine" fine opportunity for
a gerrymander.
The Pompeiians "whooped it up" for
their candidates in the true modern
style. Thus.the Late. Topers, who had
their headquarters opposite the forum,
announced their preferences on a bill
board as follows: "The Late Topers beg
their friends to vote for Marcus
Lavinius Vatia foi ajdile." . -
Vatia. who was a favorite in sport
ing circles, evidently liaa some money
to spend in the legitimate expenses of
his eampaiflrn, for all his' notices and
announcements are well got up. His
rival. Popidius, either- did not look
after his campaign, or else bad no
money to employ a competent bill
poster, for his notices are misspelled,
and in all respects unequal to Vstia's.
Thebus. a tavernkeeper on, the Via
Storta., wanted C. Gavius Rufus and M.
Holconius Priscus elected duumvirs.
They had probably promised to get his
taxes lowered, or that the police should
let his place alone. Therefore Thebus
had all the walls m his neighborhood
decorated with "Thebus and his cus
tomers 'nominate C. Gavins Rufus and
M. Holconius Priscus for duumvirs.''
The electors did not mind stirring up
candidates who expected their friends
to do all the work for them. One in
scription reads: "O Eubonius, . kgep
your eyes open!" And Infaqs is prod
ded as followg: "O Infans, you are fast
asleep, and yet you say you are elec
tioneering: '
There was a tavern in the first ward
wnere a primary was probably nela.
At any rate, a large crowd had assem
bled, and the landlord very 'obligingly
provided seats. ' For this he was re
warded by an inscription on the wall.
The sentiment was; better than the
grammar:
"O, landlord, ypu did great to get us
Unluckily, Dr. Welling could find
no record of how this election turned
out. Probably the 23d and 24th of Au
gust came before election day arrived.
THE YIDDISH DIALECT.
JL Corrupt Ion of Hebrew That Exists In
Every Community Where Jem Live.
Yiddish will defy the definition of
the smartest lexicographer, for not
any one of these Could state in &, few
words what constitutes the dialect,
which is neverthelesss perfectly clear
to every Jew. It evades definition be
cause of its mixed nature, and because
it is a different thing according to the
latitude and longitude it inhabits.
The Yiddish of Poland and Germany is
very different from .that of the east
end of London, though the latter ' is
based in a very large measure on the
former.
In other words, says the Jewish
Chronicle, it is influenced by its envi
ronments, an expression of which the
evolutionists. are so fond. The basis
of Hebrew words, with their ancient
encrustrations of who knows what
which have clung to them in their
wanderings through all climes and
through the centuries, still goes on
gathering' new influences day by hvy as
it needs them, and so Yiddish is, like
all other languages, an ever-shifting
element, only perhaps .more. so. Bat
all this we have known for a long
time. .' . "
.It is perhaps not so, generally
known, however, that this same Yid
dish in its turn exercises a consider
able influence over its. neighbors and
flowers the language of the Gentiles
among whom it dwellsby many a tell
ing and sigmhcant word and phrase.
STRIKE FOR THE STOMACH.
How to Attack Your Opponent When
forced Into a Quarrel.
"If you get into a quarrel -with
a man and see .that you can't get
out of it without a fight right then
and there, forget that he has a head,
pick out the. second button of his vest,
and smash him on it as hard as you
can. in ninety cases out oi a nunarea .
you'll win the battle without another
lick." Ned Donnelly snittea a bag- or
boxing gloves under his arm as he de
livered the injunction to a writer 'for.
the Washington Post. "There is no
foul about a stomach blow; it's only'
when you get below the belt that you
are open to criticism. Of" Course, you.
are liable to hurt a man by hitting
him in the stomach, but that .is what
you are there for. ; Most people who
pet into a sudden row I am speaking-, :
of course, of those who haveinever
been taught how to take' care or them
selves go at each other hand over
hand like a sailor climbing.up the rig
ging, and they invariably try for each
other's heads. As I said before, forget'
your antagonist has a head if "you are
forced into a fight. Just take .aim at
the place whe,re you, think his chest
protector 'stops and let drive at it.
There is not one man in ten thousand
can stand a crack there. It .takes
months of training to make a man's
6tomach hard enough to receive even' a
medium blow there. Then if you want
to spoil his beauty and leave your vis
iting' card with him in. the' shape of a
black eye, you can do it at your leisure,
for the fellow who is hit in the bread
basket forgets all about his body above
that, for the time being, anyhow."
FLEEING FROM FOREST FIRE.
The Experience of a Visito- to a Lumber
Camp in Northern SlicUirn.t
' "The most exciting experience I ever
had," said T. E. Spencer to a writer
for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,"was
in a forest fire near Manistee, Mich. I
had visited a small lumber camp and
retired to rest in one of the bunks pro
vided for the choppers. I was awak
Cnd by a strong light from the north,
and, going outside of - the wooden
shanty, it seemed to me that the entire
world was on fire. It cracked and
snapped, danced and jumped as if the
demon of fire w,s .holding a high car
nival and celebratinfj the end of the
world. From every side could be heard
sounds like the firing of cannon and
the shrieks of human beings. It was
the falling of the boughs and the sigh
ing of the wind, but I never heard so
horrible a sound, nor witnessed so
weird and terrible a sight. Hastily
awakening the other men in the camp,
. I mounted a horse and fled from the
flames. But the horse could not keep
pace with the progress of the fire. The
lurid heavens looked as 'though they
were at molten heat; the air was
stifling; the smoke almost suffocated
me, while falling leaves and boughs
burned my horse, and the sickening
odor of burning flesh added to the hor
ror. Within two or three hours I was
in an opening, where I was no, longer
in danger; but my horse was badly in
jured, while my clothing was full of
holes where embers had struck me. I
wilt take my chances with cyclones or
earthquakes, but not with a burning
forest again." .
What Goes to Slake Paper.
Paper can be made out of almost
anything that can bfe pounded to pulp.
Over fifty kinds of bark are. employed.
while old sacking or bagging makes a
good article. Paper is. made out of
banana skins, from bean stalks, pea
vines, cocoanut fiber; clover and timo
thy hay, straw, fresh-water weeds, sea
weeds and more than one hundred aif-
ferent kinds of grass. "Paper has been
made from hair, fur and wool, from as
bestos, which furnishes an article in
destructible by fire; from hop plants,
from husks of any and . every kind of
grain. Leaves make .a good, strong
paper, while the husks-. and stems of
Indian corn have also been' tried, and
almost every kind ef moss can be made
into paper. . There are - patents for
making paper from sawdust and shav
ings, from thistles and thistle-down,
from tobacco stalks and tan bark. It
is said that there are over two thou
sand patents in this country covering
the manufacture of paper. No matter
what the substance, the process is sub
stantially the same; the material is
ground to a pulp, then spread thinly
over a frame and allowed to dry, the
subsequent treatment depending on
the kind of paper to be made.
State ov Ohio, City of Toledo,)
x Lucas County. : S
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of F. J,
Uhenev & (Jo., doing business in ine
Citv of Toledo, county and state afore-
said, and that said firm will pay tne sum
of One Hundred Dollars for each and
every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the uee of Hall's Cataeeh
Cube. " Fbank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 6th day ot Uecember. !
A. U. lOOD. JX. W . VJiiiJlAOUJM ,
seal. Notary Public. '
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free. .
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Sold .by druggists, 75c. "
John Pashek,
The .Merchant Tailor.
73 Court Stiet,
I-
Next door to Wasco Sun Offioe.
Has Just received the latest Btyles in
Suitings for Gentlemen,.
and has a large assortment of Fort ten and Amer
ican Cloths, which he Can finish To Order for
those that favor him.
Cleaning and Repairing a Specialty.
CAUSE OF MANY DISEASES.
Bacteria and How They Are Cultivated J
and Studied bV Scientists. . )
Surgeon General Sternberg showed
a large gathering of military men at
the Army and Navy club recently how
cholera and. other disease germs are
cultivated at the Artny Medical mu
seum, says the Washington Post. Ex
periments in bacteriology are being
conducted here under Dr.' Sternberg's
supervision, and. he himself has an en
viable record as a discoverer in this
science. ,The lecturer, began- with a
short historical " account of the discov
ery of the germs of typhoid fever, glanders,-
tuberculosis, leprosy, pneumonia,
diphtheria, lockjaw and other diseases,
which, he said, were propagated in one
way or another by smalKgerms. These
are classed as micrococi, when they are
round as in diphtheria, as bacilli when
they . are straight as in tuberculosis
and as spirjlli when they are shaped
like a corkscrew as in' the cholera
germs. All .these 'are so small that
when magnified two thousand times
they have a diameter of sufficient size
to be photographed. These germs are
cultivated at the Medical museum in
different mediums, chief of which is
beef tea mingled with salt and
gelatine. The lecturer: showed how
the germs were taken from dead
bodies and safely planted and trans
planted so that they could be studied.
There seemed to be some doubt in the
minds of his hearers about the absolute
safety of handling1 the deadly cholera
germs, but the doctor said that they
were very easily killed, and in some
respects less to be feared than other
germs. He said that heat was a won
derful germicide, and that no germ
could live after being exposed to a tem
perature of one hundred and forty
Fahrenheit. Some one suggested that
if a man. could stand the boiling- it
would be very easy to rid him of the
cholera. .The doctor said that the chol
era germs died on exposure to the sun
light for twenty-four hours, but to
make assurance doubly sure we were
in the nahit of Killing h-.m with a
sledgehammer.. The bacillus ot typhoid
fever and of tuberculosis were very
tenacious of life, which explained in
part the prevalence of these diseases.
All germs became attenuated when
they were cultivated outside the hu
man body, so that . after awhile they
lost their power to attac k the subject
violently. The germs .lived in watei
sometimes for a long ' period ' anc
when drank produced mild formi
of disease. When reproduced ii
the ' body they -recovered their vi
tality. .Dr.' Sternberg said that
influenza or the grip was found .to be a
germ disease and its prevalence .was
due to the fact that people give it off
in their breath and take no precautions
to prevent it. The popular idea that
tobacco was a- preventive -. of "this
class of disease was a' mistake, for a
student once experimented and found
that bacteria would nourish in a tobac
co culture. Some germs could be killed
by immersion for a long time in alco-.
hoi, but the averaget germ would only
laugh at old Kentucky or commissary
whisky. '
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