WILLAMETTE FAHMER; POETLAND, OREGON, MARCH! 23, 1883.
Jurrcttl f.trafttrit.
THE FIB8T FARMER.
AM AdRICCLTORAL LYRIC.
There rc fools who scoff at the plow and
spade,
While they boast of dingly accolade
Bestowed on the chief of their houses grand,
In a far-off ago and a gory land;
Yet the foremost of all in time or place
Was the model and head of the Yeoman race.
If oft he ponaered his crime and its curse,
He till would murmur, "Things might be
worse ! "
If he labored early and labored late
On tho rough, bleak side of the Kden gate,
His streHgm was unirusneu aim ins iimus
were tree
Brave Fati er Adam, all hail to thee !
What t labor a curse or a hollow cheat?
Well, now, to my fancy, some toils arc sweet;
'Twould be scarcely a life to my humble mind
If an Kve were never so fond and kind,
To be sauntering under the changeless blue,
Throuah a tranquil Kden, with nought to do
But dream and dream through tho lay hours
'Mid a surplus of Iruit and a waste of flowers.
Bin wedded the exile's heart to woe;
But he worked bis spade and he plied his hoe
And through labor ulono could bis soul grow
free
Stout Father Adam, all hail to thee I
I can ace him now, in tho Orient shine,
His deep eyes holding a gleam divine
Of the old n days and mystic clime,
With his tameless force snd his brow sublime.
He is still in the noon of his stalwart prido,
And manhood in him seems magnified,
As armed with a weapon, coarse and rude.
His cleaves his path through the sullen wood;
While the hugo trees yield to the blade, ho
wields,
And the forest is changed into sunlit fields,
Xhat miull laugli, ere long, with a spring-tide
uieu
Stout Father Adam hail, all hail to thee 1
I beholil him in age, when the centuries' flow
Has wintered his great, grand beard with
snow;
Where tangled in folds of its rippling deep
The wisdom of ages might seem to sleep;
Yt his sight is undimmid and his frame un
bowed, And if over his foriheid there broods a cloud,
'Tis the prescient idooni of the awful years
That shall reck with murder. t set in tears;
But beyond the sorrow, tho pang, tho strife,
He views, in a vision, that fairer life
Whoso symbol the plow and the spade shall
bo
Wise Father Adam, all hail to thco 1
I behold him later, when peace steals down
To ciowu his days with a twilight crown;
And still he scatters tho pregnant seed,
Makes siiiouth the furrow and plucks the
weeil ;
And still hu is tending his orchard trees
And hiving the honey of sylvan bees;
Still delving with maitimoth hoc and spado
'Mid tho moorland sward aud the rook bound
glade;
Whllu scores of his oflipring aro gathered
round.
Anil the world is humming with busy sound,
That risen and falls like an echoing sea
Old Father Adam, CJod's grace on theo I '
and rendered her more or less helpless at
times, yet her dark, velvety eyes lroked out
like soft stars, and the ghost of a dimple still
flickered on her cheeks and chin-la spite of
her sixty ode years. Mis Becky's father had
been the district school teacher, in those far
off days of her girlhood. He had taught her
the simple lore at his command, but it was
Larry Rogers who had taught her music,
hour after hour, in the empty old school
house; they had practiced together, while
he wrote the score on the black-board. But
all this had not sufficed to earn her a liveli
hood. Her education, musical and otherwise,
had stopped short of any commercial value.
In those days she had never expected to earn
her living by the sweat of her brow. Larry
was going to give her everything. How
trivial the little quarrel seemed to-day which
circumvented this fine resolve of his. But
what magnitude it hod assumed at the time 1
On his return from a trip to a neighboring
city, some busy body had whispered to Larry
that Miss Becky had been seen driving with
Squire Eustis' son Sam behind his trotters.
Sam was just home from college, a harum-
scarum fellow, they said, who made love
gambled a bit; and when Larry reproached
her with it she had not denied it; she had
simply said : "What then ! If you choose to
listen to gossip rather than wait till I tell I
you '
"But you did not tell me, and I've been
home a week."
"I had forgotten all about it till you re
minded me." said Becky.
"It's such an every-day affair for you to
ride with Sam KuBtis'1 which incredulity
w sbuuu iwckv mai sue would not oonaes-
cend to explain that she had carried some
needle-work up to Squire Kustis' which she
bail been doinz for his wife, and that as sh'o
left to walk home Sam was just starting oft
wun ins smart cnaise ana now dapple grays,
and the Squire had said : "Take Miss Becky
home, Sam, and show her their paces;" and
how she had been ashamed to refuse the
kindness, although preferring to walk a
thousand times; and how, once in the chaise,
Sam had been the pink of courtesy, and had
begged her to drive over with him to Parson
Amory'a three miles out of her wav. "that
Lucy Amory may see that you don't disdain
my company. For you see' said Sam, who
was not as black as ho was painted, or as
many iiaeu w suppose, "ijiicy can make me
what sho will; without her I shall be nothing
and nobody; but they've told her all kinds
ofwild things about me; they've told her she
might as well jump .nto tho river as marry
scapegrace. And perhaps if I made
nine jeaious you Know tneroa no
single friends. Miss Becky had been spending
some weeks', with Mrs. Doctor Dwight, who
had moved away from Plymouth after her
husband's". death. She was there' chiefly in
order to pot some stitches into the wid iw's
wardrobe, which nobody (else would do so
"reasonably.'' that ladv'sVerief ' havinc in.
capacitated her for holding a needle or givinir
ucr uiiuu mi tne material aetiiisoi "seam ana
gusset and band." Bat during the visit Miss
Decay naa Deen seized witn aer sharpest at
tack of rheumatism, which had kept her in
bed for weeks, till her Wage were exhausted
by drags and doctor'a fees.' It waa at this
time that she made np her mind to go into the
Home on her return to Plymouth.
Mrs. Dight saw her off at the station. "I
hope you'll find the Home cozy," she said,
outside the car window. "It's lucky Parson
Amory left you that hundred dollars after all.
e migm nave uoumea it."
y
mut ymaut loom jukxk.
hardly
-I suppose not.
Ply
Have you
such
her a
harm in that, is there f All's fair in love: and.
perhaps, if the uld folks see me driving about
with Miss Becky Thome, my stock may go
up, and I may bo 'saved from the burning,' as
Parson Amory says. And Becky had con
sented; how could she refuse to do a service
for such a true lover? So slight n thing, too!
Sho l,.1 nflo.. ....,..! .1." 5'
I behold the fruits of his tireless toil
In the ripening bud and the mellowed soil,
In a tliousanj harvest of changeful sheen,
From the sunset's gold to the emereld's green;
III the rearing of numberless homes aloft,
On tho pastoral slope and the mouutain croft;
Iu tho dumb cartli touched by a wise control,
To utter some hints of her secret soul.
Through the shimmer of metals that flash and
dart
On tho slow, soft hcavo of her unveiled heart.
Oh, marvelous deliverer on hill and lea
Stout Father AiUm, all hail to thee t
Not a germ can rise, nor a seed expand:
On the highland sweep or lowlard strand;
Not a Beld grown product, for lip or loom,
Put forth its blossom and flaunt its bloom,
But it whispers, at length, to tho wind and
flame
Of tho first great farmer's deeds and fame
How he struggled with hardship and van-
ijuisueu ears
i Though it waxed oftti.nes to a grim despair);
''rom the levels of wretchedness, want and
pain,
Uprose to his heaven-born hones acin
Till the sin-hound fell and his soul was free
Drave rather Ailam, (tod's grace on thee 1
There is a Talmudic tradition to the effeot
that Adam, digging mora deeply than usual
one day in his garden, discovered gold, which,
however, an earth Genius warned him would
prove rather more of a curse than blessiug to
bis posterity,
Paul II, Ilnynt in Home and Farm,
' Miss Becky's "Home."
Miss Becky was going to the "Old Ladies'
Jlome" at last. It was a sorry fact, but
there waa nothing else for her to do, it
j. i ti.- i i.i,. . .
i-rini'", i no wiiuui mum oi ottering any
other homo to a, poor, almost helpless old
woman who had outlived her usefulness!
Having passed her days in other peoples
houses, so to speak, sho might uot mind it
as much, perhaps as one who had been more
ortunat.
"Yes," she said, "there's a vacancy in the
'Old Ladies' Hon.e," aud tne huudred dol.
Urs that Parson Amory left me will pay niy
way in, but it wouldn't last me long if I be.
gaii to spend it, jou know, and I shall have a
warm bed and my regular meals w ithout wor.
rying about where tho uoxt on 'scorning from.
I'm most tirenl worrying about ways and
means. Seems as though l'vje been aliout it
all my life; ever aiuce father waa taken with
heart disease hearing the class in algebra.
Now that the rheumatism has got tho Utter
onie, sothat lojii't work in cold weatlur,
and the doctor ) it will drew my lingers
op so that I can't use them oon, it do.sn't
teem as If there was anything left for me in
this uoild but the Home aud I ought to be
thankful for that."
Miss Becky had had other expectations iu
her heyday, when yoiug Larry Kouera
met her and carried her haslet) when hit
atrong ai in paddled her down the broad rier
to church on Sunday mornings; wheu they
aang together in the choir from the same
hymn book; when they loitered homeward iu
the fragrant summer dusk, aud heard the
whip-poor-will oomplaiu, and startled the
fire-flies in the hedges as they brushed by. It
sometimes seemed to Miss Becky as if all this
had happened in another planet, She was
young then, with a bloom on her iJieek.,. but
,tlthough the rheumatism had bout her figure I
on foot, on her daily round of tell and mercy
Sam Kustis had married Lucv Amorv yearn
ago, aud wjs the foremost man in the county
u-uMy. .itu.ugu uuw wiut irieuiiiy arive nad
interfered with Miss Becky's prospects; how
the simple fact of carrying homo Sirs. Kustis'
needlework should have determined her fate,
and devoted her to a life of hardship and the
"Old Ladies' Home" at the end 1 Talk of
trifles 1 Poor Miss Becky ! she remembered
that onco or twice the opportunity had of
fered wheu she might have- made it up with
Ijirry; but prido, or a sort of fine reserve, had
locked her lips Lurry ought to know she
was above silly flirtations. Ouce. wheu tbev
met at Lucy Amory'a weddiug, when they all
went out iuto the orccard while the bride
planted a young tree, and tho guests looked
for four-leaved clovers, she had found herself
whether by accident or design sho could
not tell on the grass beside Larry; their
lingers met over the Bame lucky clover, their
oyes met above it and for an instant s.;e had
it on her tongue's end to confess all about the
drive aud its result, to pride in her pocket,
but just then Nell Amory called to Larry.
"Oh a horrid snider 1 on mv arm T.rrtri
Kill him uuick do I Oh oh ob ! I ahull
die I shall faint." And that was the cad
oi it.
Tho old orchard, with its fragrant quince
bushes, its gnarled apple trets, its four-leaved
clovers, was a thing of the past; a cotton mill
roared aad thundered there all day long,
where the birds built and the trees bour
geoned thirty years ago, It no longer bios
somed, except in Miss Becky's memory. She
nan turned her thought to raising plants,
wheu she was left to her owa resources, but
ouo cruel wiuter's night killed all her slips
and the capital waa lacking by which she
might renew her stock. Since then aha had
gone out for daily Bewing, had watched with
tho sick, had been iu demand for temporary
housekeeper whttuever a tired matron uril,..l
an outing; but latterly, her eyes no longer
w.ou Me, iut Hue wura, and sewing ma.
chines had bocu introduced; she was not so
aiert in tne sick room as of yore: she moved
iiii-iu Biuwiy, anu ner Housekeeping talent waa
no louger in request; added to this, the bank
wnrro ner nine earning nait tiecn growing,
ono day failed and left her high aud dry.
Some of her friends had traveled to pastures
new, some had married away, some had
ignored or forgotten her. As for Larry
Uogcrs, ho had beou away from Plymouth
this many ft year. Somebody had sent him
abroad tho year after Lucy Amory'a marriage
to develoD his musical uemna. Iln h.i.l ,,,
into a famous violinist, playing all over the
country to crowded houses, liefore the finest
people in the laud. It was a beautiful
romance t.i Miss Beekv to read ti,
Plymouth Itteonl about "our gifted towns-
man; she seemed to hear the echo of his
violin wheu tho wind swept through the pine
-.-..j,.... ull ,,. uu inner (noughts; she tint
not blame him because she eat iu the shadow,
because her life had been colorless. She saug
a.aiu the old tunes he had taught her. and
made a Uflo sunshine iu her heart. All of
happiness she had eer known ho had brought
..j piii'uiu sue complain : nud now
her,
she was going to the "Old Ladies" Homo.
. if". "W what exacted in my
joutli, she said to the old doctor's widow.
".No; but )ou'll have a uice room and a
bright tire, aud the neighbors will drop iu to
you and make it seem home like. Jfow
there s old Mr. Ciuuu, Nothing iau persuade
iirr iu m, iu mo iioiue. She taj a it s only a
genteel alms house, after all- ami .,i .1.- .T.I..
along with what little she can earn and what
the neighbors have a miud to send lu; and
they have to do it nudity inmuirU- t., i,,..
as it they were asking a favor of her. 'Lor',
she ilovsu t am her salt."
., "1 tare say," returned Mis Becky. "Now,
it it hsdu t beeu fir the rheumatism, I could
earu my liviug for years yet, and maybe get
somithing ahead again. But it srems as if
the rheumatism laid in wait for the poor aud
friend leas.'
"You ought to have married h.n ,
were youiik'. Beck v." said th ,1.. t -'. .,),...
who had forgotten all about Becky's loir af.
fair, and labored under the impression that
she never had a chance, an impression which
matrons are apt to entertain cotceruing their
"Yes, I suppose so," answered Miss Becky,
meekly. Perhaps she waa thinklnc that if
she were Mrs. Dwight no old friend of hers
should go beggine for a refuge at an alms house
door, were it ever so genteel an alms house
Perhaps she was thinking of the pretty, com
fortable home waiting for her friend, and
wondering why their fortunes were so unlike.
"Write when you reach Plymouth, and let
mo know how you're suited," raid Mrs.
Dwight; and just then the cars gave a lur:h
and left her behind, and Miss Becky turned
her glance inwards. Somebody had taken the
seat beside her.
"Your friend was speaking of Parson
Amorv and Plymouth," said he. "I couldn't
help hearing. I was born in I'lymmith mv. I
self, but I haven't met a soul from there these
twenty years. I'm on my way down to look
up my old friends."
"Twenty years is a lone time." nmuor,l
Becky "I'm afraid you won't find many of
your friends left. You'll hardly know Ply-
mouth."
"I suppose not
lived there lonff?"
"I ? I have lived there all my days."
uoou 1 I m hungry for news of the peo
ple. Did Parson Amory leave a fortune? He
was called cloie. Where's Miss Nell married
or dead? I can see the old place in my mind's
eye; and the parsonage under the.elms, and
the orchard behind it, where Lucy Amory
planted a young tree on her wedding day, and
the gown little Becky Thorne wore by-the-
wy, is anu nave; uo you Know her;
Mies Becky hesicated an instant.
"YeS." renlied She. "I know linr mnronr
less. She's alive."
"And married?"
"Well, nn; she never married."
"Sho must be sixty odd: she was a nrettv
creature, such dimples I suppose thev are
wrinkles now I Where have the years gone ?
Is her borne in the old place still?"
"Her home?" said Miss Becky, flushiug a
little. "She has none. She is on her way to
the Old Ladies' Home. "
"To the Old Ladies' Home 1 Becky
Thorne I" he gasped, "and I "
"You seem to have known hnr nrettv wll "
said Miss Becky, who was beginning to enjoy
the incognito.
"I should think sol I'vn Wei II,.L-t,
Thorne from my cradlo; we had a silly quar
rel which parted us such a trifle I when I
iook oacK. Do you over look, madame?"
The twilight was falling about them;
Becky s face had grown a shade or two paler
all at once; she turned her dark velvety eyes
ui u,uu nun wiin a stariieti air.
"You," she said, "you mush bo Lirry
llogers 1" Then the color swept to her cheeks
in a crimson wnvc. "Do you know I never
thought you had grown old like myselfl Don't
you know me ? I am Becky Thorne."
Just then the train thundered through the
tunnel, and they forgot that they were sixty
odd.
"On the wav to th 01,1 T.ri;.' tt..
she wrote Mrs. Dwight; "I was persuaded to
go to an old gentlemau's, instead." Mary N.
Pretcott, in Our Continent.
Our Empire.
The Big Bend country is destined to under
go one of those magic transformations in de
velopment during the coming year, that is
consistent only in new coontrics of equal ad.
vantages. A "boom" in new towns is gen
erally disastrous to moit classes of business,
but the improvement of a new country can
never be too rapid for healthy irrawth. In
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tins new region will be found the best of soil.
extending 75 miles to the Columbia river,
embracing lands of a character to suit any
taste.
Spriogi, streams and "coolies" are found
in great abundance; level lands, lands broken,
hilly or rolling, covered with bunch grass,
rye grass or wool grass, may be had from
choice.
In certain locations timber is found suffi
cient for fire wood and fencing. Choice hay
and anil mmmttrtarm n.. r.n..A . i. i
.-u. nu. u.Ew..wna Wl UWVIUUlCUfc ISJ1U.S 119
vacant adjoining railroad lands appraised at
97 per acre. Several enterprising men have
already proceeded to locate a town 60 miles
northwest of Sprague, and as soon as spring
opens others will spring up to accommodate
settlements. The prospects are that in nnr
or five months hence the government land
will all have biea taken iu this part of the
oounty, and then look out tor a rise in the
Ence. Immigration will pour m from the
ast as icon a the completion of the road
and will naturally come to Sprague for advice
and location, as this is the nearest town on
the road to this famous country, anrl tU
depot for immigrants. The people of the
town must take some action for the enter
tainment of al these families, while seeking a
location, and an immigrant house here would
be a much more consistent nroccedinir than ia
shown by the people of Spokan Falls. We
have the natural advantage . hut this nnl
makes artificial the more necessary. -Sprague
Iltrahl.
Discouraging Litigation,
An act providing for taxing proscutors with
A Trad that Is fading' Away 'from the Cheery
Old Han wnoTaUts of the Past.
In Fifteenth street,tnear Eighth avenue,
stands a queer old lrame' structure that has a
rounded roof, like a back that is bent by age.
Its windows are grimy and dim with dust,
like eyes that have looked wearily on the
world for many years. The lines of its board
ing seen, like wrinkles in the weather-beaten
countenance of one who has reached the al
lotted "three score and ten." The little stoop
before the door creaks as if uttering a quer
ulous protest at being trodden upon, its little
railing quivers like the wavering gesticulation
of an aged hand, and the door opens with a
wheeze and a snarl and cough. Strange forms
of wood and iron are heaped on the benches,
piled on the floor, dangled from the beams,
stacked in the corners, and stem to overflow
and roll down and protrude themselves from
all directions, until there is barely space
enough left for one person to stand still and
another to move around cautiously. Hearing
footsteps below, a little old man, with a
genial smile and a bright, intelligent look
beneath his old strawhat and behind his big
spectacles, comes trotting down stairs from
his workshop, which is in the story above. He
must be about 70 years of age, perhaps more;
yet he is cheery, chirpy, and active, prompt
of apprehension, quick of speech, and when
ho picks up a board and a bit of chalk to
sketch a piece of mechanism about which he
is talking his hand is steady, and the lines it
draws are firm and straight.
"Yes, I've been here a good while," said
he, smilingly. "I've carried on my business
right here in this shop since the first week in
March, 1832, mors than fifty years ago, and I
am now the only maker of cheap, common
hand looms that is left in New York. And I
suppose when I'm gone there will be no more.
Why, I can remember the time when there
were yearly 400 hand loom weavers in old
Greenwich village, and up here, between
Seventh and Eighth avenues, and Fourteenth
and Sixteenth streets, as the space is marked
out now, there were a hundred. Ah I my
business was a pretty good one in those days.
Then all the cotton shirting, and sheeting, and
bedticking, and gingham, and checks, and
Canton flannel were woven by hand. Now
all that is done by steam, and only two sorts
of hand looms are used any more, those for
fine silk weaving and those for weaving rag
carpets and cocoa matting. The two ex
tremes, as I might say. I have always con
fined myself to the latter. I know all r,m,t
those Jacquard looms, but it isn't in my line
n K..1M .!.. T.. !.? .., i.
- M-i.u wem. indu are uig estaniisnmtnts
for the makinp of them, where hnnlnla nf
men are employed, but in my line there's only
me, and I log along in mv old wav. ThBr
never were many makers of these common
looms about here. You see a loom is a thine
that lasts a lifetime; yes, several lifetimes. I
have had looms here, brought in from the
country, that were two or three generations
old, and still wore good. Things about a loom
may wear out, or break down, or be damaged
by rouuh usage, but the loom itself goes right
along. When it exhausts the energies of suc
cessive generations in one family, it is ready
to start in fresh on another, so old looms
change about a good deal, more than is good
for the builder. Why. I sometimes Hnn't li
a loom in a year. 'Ought to command a big
price.' Well, perhaps, yes, but they don't. A
rag carpet loom is worth only $35, and one for
weaving cocoa mattine only 1540. In thnan ni.i
daj s when there were so many weavers I used
oniy to get io lor the same Bort of looms.
How do I get along? Pretty well. V
see, there are a great many thincs about a
loom that don't belong to it, but must go
-.uu8 n,, iu, ucm nuuui me same relation to
it that the tinware does to a cooking stove.
Those things wear out, and have to be re
placed or repaired. There's the reed and
treadles, worth 88: the pair of swift,. SS. t,
... , , .. . . v
muuiug wneei, jn.,o; snuc les, 51 each, and
they have from six to a dozen of them, and
bobbins and a bailer, if cocoa matting is to be
woven and other little things; and there are a
good many more of my sort of looms eoinc.
v... ... nvn iiiot, vuiii ,vu re imeiv in im.
agine. There isn't an cveuue, except Fourth,
on which there are not a lot of rag carpet
looms banging away all the time. One man,
up in Eighth avenue, does quite a business in
auppiying materials to rag carpet weavers, and
also keeps several looms going on that sort of
wor au tne time, uown in Uherrv atrnot
next to the Sailors' Home, there is a place
where they have thirty-five looms weavinc
cocoa matting, and those two sorts of hand
weaving are going on in a vast number of
other plsces all over town on a smaller scale.
Then when looms are sold they go mostly to
the country, out to Kentucky and Indiana,
and up into the interior of this State, and
over in Jersey all over, in fact, where the
rjeonle have not pot to 1r inn ln7u .. u.n.i.
;.:.vv . u... :. . v v ?"-
reopie navo cnangea a good deal in my
time. They have got stuck up, they want t3
wear good clothes, homespun isn't good
enough for them, and if it was there is nobody
any more to spin and w eave it for them n.
cept in the faraway West. I used to make
spinning wheels, but Americans don't use
them any more except in the lar-back coun
try. In the old ti .es, around Newburgh,
when I was a boy gruwing up, there wasn't a
house in oil tne country round that didn't
have the flax and the wool wheels iu a shed
out at the back of the house. They grew the
Max and the wool, spun them, dyed them,
wove them into cloth, and wore tfiem. No
body waa too high toned for that sort of
clothing in those days. I've seen, on court:
days, the judge and the lawyers come to court
in summertime wearing cowhide shoes, home-
Longevity of the Oyster.
It is proposed to give an account of an in
teresting determination of the extreme age of
a pair of venerable oysters which have just
come into my possession. They were given
me by a professional oyster grower, Captain
T. S. R. Brown, of Keyport, New Jersey,
and belong to a planting in which he was con
cerned thirty years ago. The young oysters
were obtained from Virginia, and planted in
Raritan bay, Keyport. At the proper time
the crop was taken up and sent to market.
In all such cases there are leavings or escapes
from the dredging. The bottom being too
hard, the bed was abandoned and never
planted again, and these oysters were found
.Uah k ?. 1n..BAn Than ... nnf "natural"
bllCia isn U.l MUi 11IUJ U.U..VV u. w.q
or natives, but simply naturalized "Virgin
ies." a distinction which a practical oyster
raiser will make unerringly. Any one ex
amining the Bhells would infer the nature of
the bed whence they were taken, for the
outer edges of the "shoots" or layers are
smooth, as if worn by a gentle motion on a
compact sandy bottom Popular Science
Monthly,
. "They who cry loudest are not always
the most hurt." Kidney. Wort does its work
like the Good Samaritan, quickly, unosten
tatiously, but with great thoroughness. A
New Hampshire lady writes : "Mother has
been afflicted for years with kidney disease.
Last spring she was very ill and had an
alarming pain and numbness in one side.
Kidney-Wort proved a great blessing and has
completely cured her.
A XOTKB BUT UNTrrXID WOAtia,
rrrom tta Boatea OUU.J
Stock Breeders' Directory.
XJTL'nder this head we will publish small advtr
tlsenientfl, like the following-, for $3 per jear. Larger
advertisements will be charged In proportion.
WM. BOSS,
BREEDER OF SPANISH or AMERICAN MERINO
Sheep, Pilot Rock, Umatilla county, Oregon,
e nd tor circular! and descriptions at sheep. jlypd
JOHN M1NTO,
BREEDER OF MERINO SHEEP,
Salem, Marlon County, Oregon.
DAVID GUTHRIE,
BREEDER OF LONG-WOOL and SPANISH ME
rlno Sheep. Dallas Polk County, Oregon.
Pure Bred Berkshire Swine
IMPORTED STOCK
MY. B0A.R ,OAK BOE WAS BROUGHT
trom England and his dam nasa famous prize
winner. Ihaeflneplgs on hand and ready tor sale.
Also I have the best breeds of
Imported Poland China Hwlne,
Imported trom the best Eastern herds. My sows will
haie piss next Spring. THOMAS CROSS,
da2tf Salem, Oregon.
Valuable Bull for Sale !
Mmr. Editor t-
The&boTelf aood WteoMi of lrra, XTdtaftfLh
bam, of Lj-nn, Km., who aboreaU other human ill
m7be trathfiUJrcaUMthe'X)earlVleBttefWoSS
as some of her correspondents lore to call hertfci
Is aealottsl j deTOted to her work, which Is the OBtooml
of a lifetudy, and Is obliged to keep ux j!
assistants, to helpher anawerthe large cormponrjli
which dally pours In upon her, each bearing IU ipjj
burden of sufferlne;, or Joy at release fron. ltl
Vegetable Compound Is a medicine for food and a?
erll purposes. I hare personally luTestlffateditjj
am satisfied of the truth of this.
On account of it proven merits, It Is recosjuneaiW
and prescribed by the best physicians la the country
One says t "It works like a charm and uts mi!
pain. It will cure entirely the worst form of fallluc
of tho uterus, Leucorrhcsa, Irregular and painfta
Menstruation, all Orariun Troubles, Inllasmxatlon asd
Ulceration, Flooding, all Displacements andthteoa.
sequent spinal weakness, and Is especially adapted fc
theChanpeofUfe."
It permeates eTery portion of the system, and tf re
new life and riffon It removes faintness, flatulency
destrorsall craving for stimulants, and relieves weak!
ness o! the stomach. It cures Bloating. Headacaes.
Rervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplegsntav
Depression and Indigestion. That feeling of beariof
down, causing p&ln, weight and backache, Is alwajs
permanently cured by its use. It will at all times, and
undr all circumstance, act in harmony with the la
that governs the female system.
It costs only $1. per bottle or six for $5., and is sold fc
druggl&tfl. Any advice required as to special casea, and
the names of many who have been restored to perfect
health by the use of the Vegetable Compound, eanU
obtained by addressing Mrs, P., with stamp for reply
at ber home in Lynn, Mass, '
For Kidney Complaint of either sex this compoundts
unsurpassed as abundant testimonials show.
u Mrs. Fukluun's Liver Pills," sayi one writer, "si
thebtst It the tcorld for the cure of Constlpatloa,
Biliousness and Torpidity of tho liver. Her Blood
Purifier v. orks wonders in Its special line and bids fair
to equal the Compound in its popularity.
All must respect her as an Angel of Mercy whose sob
ambition Is to do good to others.
Philadelphia, Pa. (3) Mrs. A. M. D.
.hk i
PRICE, - - - $75.
HALF JEB8KY HALF ftllOItT-HORX.
A THREE YEAR OI.I) HUM. Hinir,
.rlclin. a full Jtrsev. ounptl hr? .1. innd.n
dam BKAUTV 4th, owned by Goo. Dimlek; a Valuable
BY
animal for any farmer to hate.
ARTIIU
9mch5w 1J miles South of Oregon City, Or.
Al.Dh In
ARTHUR WARNER.
FOR SALE.
THE UNDRSIONED
Ing V
OFFERS THE FOLLOW
Pure and High-Bred Stock
For sale at figures whleh It is believed, will
meet tho approbation of the public
ROAN COLT RATTLER.
Twoscarsold the 16th of Anrll! h ki-,. touii
dam the Rattler Mare, owned by Mrs. Armstrong, near
Dayton. Ratller stands 16 hands; weighs 1190 lbs, is
irv .-bj,v' pww rcmarsaoie action.
This colt Is regarded by all who hae seen him as the
equal of any colt on the Paeidc Coast. Price T0O
THE THOROUGHBRED SHORT-HORN BULL
WATTERJUN BOY.
Four) ears old. Price, mo.
TIIOROUOHBRED AYRSHIRE BULL.
Fie jcars old. Price, MOO,
FARMER'S EXCHANGE I
All Sorts of Merchandise Exchanged for
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Boots ut I
Shoes, Hats and Caps.
Kverj thing a Farmer wants for Bale. Ever) thin? a t I
met raises wanted.
S. HERMAN.
Corner Madison and First Streets, Partial
opposite segman, Sabln & Co's Agricultural Wan-
house. ocBW
DRS. A. S. & Z, B. NICHOLS,
Homeopathic Physicians and
Surgeons.
Rooms 69, 60, 61a Union Block, Portland, C
Speclaltlcst
Dr Z B. N. Diseases of Women.
DR. A. S. N. Diseases of Eye, Ear and Throat.
USE HOSE PILLS.
SHADED HIIEEP.
Ten trrajpA PftTCU'lT no rnuHnti ...
and LEICESTERSHIRE buck..' pAVc tlO te IS?"
.... ALSO ....
Twnty grade ewes, one-half and three-quarter grades
a .., -w aau W.
S" eashers same age as those above were sold this
Fall .ut of the same flock for mutton at 16 each.
Apply to or address :
A. M. WADOELL,
oupiilKUAU MEAD FARM,
Amitv, Yamhill Co., Ogn.
AGENTS VyANTEDbED,rr,r
win knit a pair of stocUin
heat. Vinll Bf......Ka
l..fcii..T...:i;"".-.T.T..-. '."""
.irr.!.. " "euM!u. muKnica pair of stoekinn
with HEEL and TOE complete in 20 minutes. ItrtJ
olsoknitagreatmietyof fancy work for which then
Is always a ready market. Send for circularsand Una)
; :U,X ".."" Co.. JM.Tr.
. ..t., uu,,,,, aui. sepsmo
E. O. SMITH.
DE3XTTIST
OFFICE: No. 167 First Street, between Her.
Jrlson an'l Yamhill, Portland, Oregoi
march.tf
WM. WATSON.
commission Agent
for
J.M.HALSTEDt
self regulatiag
INCVHATOI.
From -20 up.
Seed for descrip
tive prlce-liitsk.
Tboroughbrsi
poultry and ttp,
1011 Broad;,
Oakland, Cal..j
de
.TUE SALE OF..
GALLOWAY and POLLED
ANGUS: Or
ABHf? E? FATrJ& "AVE F0R SALE
too head of imported cattle. As an old resident
m. ,reif?an?,Wi"hl2IIton ' know e h require
ments of the Pacific Coast stock raisers. ta.Ai?areas
me care of Piatt Evans, Stock Yards, Kanta. Citj.
Missouri. &XM. '
costs niid disbursements of criminal .ctions
when found to be malicious or without prob-
abltt cause i
lis it enacted by the State of Oregon :
vofm'rlu-ann.T0' """M through t&it trials in i business: ke way
KfaPKif'W uy Justice of the Md Then went home to their f.rms. Now
1'eace or liraiui Jnrv to nrnaeent.i anv rurinn .-.... i .- , ,,.. .. . '""
in a ciiminal action, ei
or felony shallbo enilors
spun trousers and shirts and strawhats that
this old one of mine would be a picture alone
Bide of. And it Mas a cood, honest judge, and
they were good, able lawyers, and they went
Jt
AbON Cllltr comes of
o proseonto any person in,tead of five til.ic, of clothing, they've cot
ther for a imademeauor , t0 h,ve , .cc,re anj fine iiner broadcloth,
orsed unon the com. i.:n. v... e i .- j u' . . """
ni.mi fnr.,,,,.;,,., i: .'. .-.!.. ' """"i "u ui. koiu waicnes.are
.",,. . if it .i, i if i necessities of their existence. And
"?t,,i,'rL.".a. ..'. L,hal I Joan by aoy ..n't a farmer out there who knowi
n,m.i;.t.l,.a...l..i.i.'. !.::- " w mm aim uu a lann. ne a c
niw .1 V ', ml tl,ree daughters and three ions, but
ate prosecutor f r the costs and disbursements ti..v.B mt tn W all th milk .,! l.,tt
Di Tn action nr tirrwNialfiitv u-hmh K A
i:tt.r, --- xwi'Kii.'T'a'nS'o
Two fullmeali
that run at Urge,
s a day a.o enough for fowls thlt h.' ot much use for hand looms. I
'. These shouhf be snnnliV.1 ! PUM1 . KP. on n,kln ?ne X?K. '
at resulsr hours-sy Wtwecn 7 aud Si. M ? yea w,tn ne demand. Oolng! Well, drop
and 4 or fl o'clock r. ji. ln aS"" wneQ 'ou re ovcr tnlM waJ'- l could
' tell you lots of stories about those old times.
Ktfty or sixty years wouldn't be much in some
Miluu) Ilea,
CUr 1)VU, liujt.K,
Well' Health limcer" r.'.totr. heiitn and icot. 'countries, I sup note, but It makes old times
, b.aual l'jfilty i. here.' ' .Vrtr ) ort Sun.
MASON CHIEF.
BY MAMBRINO PATCHES.
Illfill I1UEB TKOTTIXG
STALLION,
Foaled in 1S77 ; Bred by Herr 4
loung , Lexington, Kentucky.
inns nf tK. I ... a ..i .
known and full, Ju.tin hi. rUreV htaapSS,"
'!..YU'.P0..td . ",Kentuekln October
. .;,.' ,.m- . uij i-'iovc, one mue south of
Aumsyllle. from M.rch Ut to April 1st. After Apr"
1st wil be at Aumnille Mond. .. Tuesdsj's ind Wed
T': , ft, Salem Thursday., Frld-yVand I 8atSr.
daj'sunUU uly 1st. '"'
TKM1"''i5 '"' "Mon; 135 to Insurant
aarnjod pasturage for mares from a distance
O. W. PECK. Prem.
mchlmS .
II. CARPENTER. M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
(Lata of Salem.)
0aSiiti'XJ'-w-Co"'ttot " Morrison St
PORTLAND OREGON.
Will practice In Portland and surrounding counter. 1
augl-tf
F. S. Akin.
Ben Selling.
II, E. Doscb.
THE TWO FULL-BLOODS,
Wide Awake and Marquis
milE PRIZE WINNERS AND ACKNOWLEDGED
A supertcr Draft and All Work stallions. U1 make
i.,T en, J0"' rommencins April 1st, and ending
il UbM!M?V i?' ,hc tlHon. will be at tS
Fisher stable, in Salem. Thursda) ., Friday, and Satur
day,; balanc of Ue. Wide Aaak, i 1 li at the far,
of hi. owner, while Marqm. win be at Dallas.
Tsass Season, fa. Insurance. $35.
Without any desire to oerr.te these animals or to
mislead th, farmer, of Oregon, the oaner of theae two
puis bred .union. tlle. them to be "re. uk
equalled. He belle, ts that these two horse, (the former
a iVrcheroi .Ncrmau and th, l.tt(r , cilde) ,4 tn."
k-et have been awarded more premium, man ar.r twi
wlhon. known to Ih miKl... TV 1 '
omltteo here. .Imp hr l-cau, the onereliee. that
the pubUcar. familiar with them For reference to th.
rxdiiTM of W Ide Aw ate. See No, ;j, Vol. 1, Norman
,tuu book.
It I. prohab', that 1 will bare an Imported full-blood
rercheron to paw, la the tud at io and UUn n.
""eu T. J, FDMf.NbO.V, ralem.
" m I
O . 02 s.fa. aW LU
feBl St. bav fSaaaw I!
t.g KETgftBpjsjBSSj R
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aalalalalalalalalalalalalalalal
IsHH
S3 LLLLLLV
See that our Trade Hark " THE BOSS " and
A. S. tt CO.,
Is nn eery pair.
Every Fair Guaranteed,
Janlme AK1V bELUK0 & CO.
Compton's Automatic Gate
THE BET Time or THE KID.
Works Perfectly & Cheaply, all
Iron and Dumltl
TTTE ARE PREPARED Tn u.irv -rtic-ac-mrrs
Call and lifu" "? hI bouh' pnent rfebt
Si' "?." oik at ROSS& RICE-s'slIOP. orpo-
..- oank, Saltm. Ti. oix
.4
'4
Price: z : 912 to S20."