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THE COLUMBIAN. THE COLUMBIAN. Published Eveby Thursday xt . iST. HELENS, Colombia County, Oregon. V 1 Y T 1 Published Evert Thursday HELENS, Columbia County, Oregon, E. O. AD A1IS, - - - - - - Editor Associate Editor E. 6. ADAMS, A. B. ADAMS, . - - - Editor ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OPwEGON, DECEMBER 10, 1885. NO. 14. VOL. VI. A. B. ADA12S, - - Associate Editor COLUMBIAN. LATE HEWS, SUMMARY. jatiUr !', Kattrrn ami Foreign. A ship lr0 years old recently landed at Quebec. , "ivter D 'n.ilme. the San Francisco millionaire, is dead. Six clubs will comprise the National Baseball IamiJuc of Ibbb. M:ir.hal Ferrano, the well known Spanish General, is dead A rumor prevails that Riel was not ejKcUim, nut is snii itiivu, Tk Grunt monument fund in New York now amounts to over $100,000, iiie utau & .Northern itaiiroaa is to be extended from Butte to Helena. President Cleveland did not attend the funeral of Vice-Proident HeU' drieks. A son o4 Kit Carson lives at Albu querque. 3L on a Oovernment pension. ' ., . , : At Bay City, Mich., McGraw's saw mill was destroyed by fire; loss, $150,000. - Two hundred professors in the Ger man universities are over seventy years of age. In Sweden the Government runs the drinking places, and puts in each a free library. , The teeth of Chicago school chil dren are cared for bv a dentist at the public expense.' The will of the late Vice-President iienuricKs bequeatns an oi nis prop erty to his wife. The steamer Aurora foundered near . Hartlepool, England, and three of her crew were drowned. Eight Indians, convicted of the massacre at Frog Lake, were hanged at Battleford, W. S. N. The Barnum iroa and wire works at Detroit were destroyed by fire, en tailing a loss of $210,000. W. II. Harrison and W, O. Waldo were recently murdered by Indians near Ft. Apache, Arizona. C A. Thorpe and J. White, upon retiring in a Baltimore hotel, blew out the" gas and were suffocated. Ben. IIoldn died near Vancouver, W. T., from an overdose of morphine, taken with suicidal intent. Miss Minnie Sheriff and James Tynan were fatally burned in the Metropclitan Hotel at St. Louis. Ex-Mayor Bowman, .of East St. Leuis, 111., was shot and killed at his own door by an unknown assassin. Six men were instantly killed at New York City by the explosion of the boiler on the tug Dora Emery. A" 'Hoiitrtui butcher was arrested and fined for irreverence because he knelt on only one knee in church. Miss Bertha Duckworth was found v v 1 a. T i ! 1 in iront oi ner residence at lseiruu with her throat cut from ear to ear. Myra Clark Gaines $1,200,000 to com promise her suit for real estate in that city. . Charles Stuck, while assisting in moving a casting in a San Francisco foundry, was killed .by an electric shock. The representatives of an English firm of thread-makers have secured a site for a mammoth factory at New ark, N. J. A. L. Sanborn, County Judge of Dane county, Wis., took poison and was found dead in the woods near Madison. The contestants for the billiard championship of the world divided the spoils without settling the ques tion at issue. One hundred and seventy-five news papers have been confiscated in Spain within the past two months for dis-loj-al utterances. Heavy rains are reported at San Luis Obi?po, Cal., where ten inches fell in twelve hours, doing damage to the amount of $100,000. An outlaw named Sandy Walker shot and killed a Mrs. Lucas and wounde 1 her child, in the Chocktaw Nation, Indian Territory. Five prominent citizens of Denver, Colorado, have been indicted and taken to Omaha, charged with land frauds. Other arrests will be made. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon to the memory of II.B.Claflin, stated that the dead merchant left $1,000,000 to private charities. The Legislature of Washington Territory is. now convened at Olympiad It is composed of twelve Councilmen and twenty-four Assemblymen. At New York, Mrs. Mary Kohn was crushed by a falling wall. Archer Georgia, James Barsie and George Mariveria were also fatally injured. The San Francisco Knights of Labor have adopted a resolution de manding that the Chinese be expelled from the city limits within sixty days. At Dubuque, Iowa, Mrs. Charles Kerry, a brid of two weeks, chloro formed and robbed her husband, and then eloped with a "nice" young man. The gchooner Highland Maid was found capsized, on Lake Erie. It is supposed that Captain Oliver and his two sons, who sailed the vessel, were drowned. " - Rar1er. in "New York. became insane, owing to the landlord s threat of ejection for non-payment of rent. Seizing her infant she jumped fourth Btorv winuow. Jiie child was killed and the mother badly injured. ,.' - ' John W. Laner, general manager of the nail-works! at Omaha, has been held in $25,000 for shooting his wife, L vounz and v beautiful woman, with a.y t lived unhappily. He ZSZ S-t SHU Jfh he mistook her. for a the shot was Jmost instantaneous.- A FOREST HYMN. The glowing sun is riding high Amid the arches of the sky. Dreamy air lies still. No sound disturbs the leafy jrlade gave that by busy wood bill made Upon some ancient trunk, decayed Calm broods o'er vale and hill. In such an hour I love to stray From haunts of toiling men away, Mid forest depths profound; There, in a bliss of solitude. Where no dull cares ol earth intrude. And Nature breathes sweet quietude The irrund old trees arvund The heart by daily cares Oppressed, The wearied spirit findeth test. As, pillowed on the sod, With nought above but leaf and sky, And loving look of Heavenly Eye,' -l'erchance with angels hovering nigh, I dream of Nature's God. Edward X. Richards, in Current. "STAR-SPANGLED BANNER." The Thrilling Event Which In ?; spired This Patriotic Song. A piece of news was borne across the Atlantic Ocean in May, 1814, which chilled with apprehension every Ameri can heart: Napoleon Bonaparte had been overcome by the allied armies of Europe, and was safely imprisoned on the island of Elba! This intelligence notified the American people that the fleets and armies of Great Britain, which for twelve years had been waging war with France, were now disengaged, and would have little to do, and would befree to overwhelm and crush tho Republic of the United States. Wa were then in the second year '. of that contest with Great Britain which we still call the War of 1812. It was a summer of alarm, aud the whole coast was alive with the bustle of defensive preparation. j 'I he invasion came. 1 he enemy s ships entered Chesapeake Bay about the first of June, a , fleet of frigatis and lighter vessels. In August Admiral Cochrane entered the bay in ai great ship of eighty guns, bringing with him a tleet and three or four thousand sol diers, which increased the British force in those waters to twenty-three nien-of war and an army of ten thousandtroops and marines. 1 Every one knows what followed. The country was invaded, Washington was sacked and pillaged and its publid build ings burned. The enemv retire! with considerable loss, it is true, but trkimph- ant and exulting. It was a flearly bought victory, for it silenced opposition to the war. kindled the nationalfeeliner and enlisted every heart in the country's defense. A few days after, the British forces made their second attempt upon that coast- -Baltimore, then a city of forty thousand inhabitants, enriched by the prosperous commerce of the last quarter or a century, would nave been a valua ble prize; and would have given the foe a nolo, oi the snores of the Unesapeake, from which they would have been dis loosed witn ditnculty. V asnington was but a straggling village, without milita ry value. Baltimore was a command- inir position, capable of being: defended. Two miles below tfTe city, on a point of land jutting into the water, stood then, and now stands, rort Mcllenry, so named after one of the early statesmen of Maryland. Sturdy arms and willing hearts had been laboring there for many weeks to strengthen its fortihcations and get additional guns into position. under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead. The time had been well employed, and the gal lant commander had . a modest confi dence in his ability to repel the imposing fleet of Cockburn, which now consisted of more than forty vessels, and carried seven thousand troops. The fate of Baltimore depended absolutely upon his holding this position.. The star-spangled banner which floated over the fort had been made by a lady of Baltimore, Mrs. Mary Pickers gill, aided by her daughter. These ladies, full of the patriotic feeling of the hour, made a flag worthy of the im portance of the occasion. It contained four hundred yards of bunting. It was so large that the ladies were obliged to spread it out in the malt-house of a neighboring brewery. When Mrs. Piekersgill's daughter was an old lady of seventy-six years, she used to describe the scene. 'I remember," she wrote, "seeing my mother down on the floor placing the stars. After the completion of the flag she superintended the topping of it. having it fastened in the most secure manner to prevent it3 being torn away by balls. The wisdom of her precaution was shown during the engagement, raauy shots piercing it, but it still re mained firm to the staff. . . .My mother worked many nights until twelve o'clock to complete it in a given time." The reader will see in a moment the significance of this statement. But for the firm and faithful stitching of these two patriotic ladies, we should probably have had no song of the Star-Spaugled linn ner. September the 6th the great British fleet left its anchorage in Chesapeake Bay and sailed for Baltimore; and en tered the Patapsco Rieer, upon which the city stands, five days after. Twelve miles 'below Baltimore, they landed seven thousand men. Happily, the brave Marylanders and Pcnnsylvanians were ready for them Three thousand militiamen, volunteers from Maryland and Pennsylvania, commanded by Gen eral John Strieker, well-pote' and well-intrenched, withstood this great force, killed their commander. General Ross, and forced them finally to aban don the attack. While these events were occurring1, the great vessels in the British fleet moved up the river, anchored before Fort Mcllenry, and began to pour upon it that tempest of shot, shell and rockets, which the author of our song has com memorated. Every gun was heard in Baltimore. We can well imagine the feelings of its inhabitants during the twenty-four hours of its continuance. Ti.J author of the song, Francis Scott Key, was not a combatant in the battle, although -he witnessed it from beginning to end. Inuring the first operations on that coast Admiral Cockburn and sev eral officers of the British army occu pied as their headquarters a house at Marlborough, belonging to an aged physician of the place, Dr. Beanes, whom thsy detained as a prisoner, lest ho should send the news of their land ing to Baltimore. He was a particular friend of Mr. Key and of his family. Hearing that the doctor was about to be carried off by the enemy. Key obtained permission from the commanding uen eral of the American forces to go to the British fleet under a flag of truce, and make an attempt to procure the old gentleman's release. In a letter to his mother, written just as he was about to start upon this errand of friendship, he wrote: 'I hope to return in about eight or ten daws. thou?rh it is uncertain, as I do not know where to find the fleet." He set sail from Baltimore about the third of September, arid found the Brit ish fleet at the mouth of the Patuxent bound for the attack on Fort Mcllenry. lie went on board the vessel of Admira Cochrane, to whom he stated his er rand, and asked for the release of Dr. Beancs. The Admiral received him with the utmost civility, but informed him that he could not comply at pres eat with his request, end was obliged even to detain rvey nimsen aim nis ves sel until the operation upon Fort Mc Henrv was concluded. Tho Admiral s vessel being over crowded, he sent the American gentle mpn on board of the frirate Surprise, nnmrnnnded bv his son. Sir Thomas Cochrane, where they spent .the night. ami thus moved on to the attacK. lkrlnc the bombardment of the fort Mr. Key and his friends, including Dr. T?anfis wpvf sent on board their own little vessel under a guard of marines and thus they were afiorded an oppor unitv to witness the action. Of all the thousands of human beings within hearing of that bombardment, there was probably not one so fitted by nature and education to be moved by it. Francis S. Key, then thirty-five years of arre. a lawver in good standing at the distiniruished bar of his native State. was a son of John Ross Key, an officer in the army of the Revolution, lie had been noted from his youth up for the ardor of his patriotism, and he had at iempted more than once to celebrate in verse the valiant deeds of his country men. He had a habit of dashing down lines and stanzas that occurred to him on any old scrap of paper that came first to his hand, and several of his poems were gathered up by his friends from the litter of his office. All day the bombardment continue without ceasing. During the whole night they remained on deck, following with their eves the continuous arcs oi lire from the enemv's ships to the fort The anxietv of the poet, and the little company of Americans about him, grew only more intense when darkness cov ered the scene, and they could form no conception of the progress or the proba- ble issue of the strife. suddenly, about three m the morn mg. the firing ceased. As they were anchored at some distance from the British vessels, thev were utterly t loss to interpret this mysterious silence, Had the fort surrendered;' As they walked up and down the deck of their vessel in the darkness and si lence of the night, they kept going to the binnacle to look at "their watches to see how many minutes more must elapse before they could discern whether the flag over Fort McIIeerv was the star spanned tanner, or the union jack ol England. The daylight dawned at length. With a thrill of triumph and gratitude, thev saw that "our flag was still there.'' They soon perceived from many other signs that the attack, both by land and sea, had failed, and that Baltimore was safe. Thev could see with their glasses the wounded troops carried on board the ships, and at last the whole British army re embarking. A few minutes after the dawn of that glorious day, when the poet first felt sure of the issue of the battle, the im pulse to express his feelings in verse rushed upon him. He found in his pocket a letter, and he wrote upon the back of It the first lines of the song. In the excitement of the hour he could not go on with his task, but he wrote some further brief notes and lines upon the letter. Some lines he retained in his memory without makincr any record of them. When his guard of marines left him free to hoist anchor, and sail for the city, he wrote out the sons on the way, verv nearly as it now reads, and on reaching his hotel in Baltimore, ho made a clean copy of it. The next morning he showed it to his brother-in law. Judge Nicholson, Chief Justice of Maryland, who, Judge as he was, had commanded a company of volunteers in Jrort JUclienry during the bombard ment. Vrn mr Via o nro ftiaf -Til rl rro read the song with no critical eye. So delighted was he with it, that he sent it round to a printer, Benjamin Edes, who had also commanded a company or troops in the late operations. An ap prentice. Samuel Sands, who was living in Baltimore in 1878, instantly set it in type, an in less than an hour it was dis tributed all over the city of Baltimore, received by every one with enthusiasm. But what is a song without music? An old Baltimore soldier told in after years how the words came to be so happily wedded to the music to which it has ever since been .sung. A group of volunteers lay scattered over one of the green hills near Baltimore a day or two after tne uomoarument. Have you heard Franc's Key's poem?" said a member of the company, 1 . . . - r il. Who had jusc coiuw iu uom iub iown. Ho took a copy of it from his pocket and read it aloud to them a3 they lay upon the grass. It was called for aain. He read it a second time, and a third, more soldiers gathering about to hear it, until the whole regiment seemed to be present. An actor, named Ferdinand Duran", who was also a soldier, sprang up, rushed into a tent, seized his brother's musie book, used by both of them for their flutes, examined piece after piece, and at iengin cneu out: "Boys, I have hit it! " He had selected the air of a favorite old English song;, called "To Anacreon in Heaven," written by John Stafford Smith, about the year 1772. It was composed for a musical club which met at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in London, frequented by Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds. As soon as Fer dinand Durang had selected the music, 1 ne mounieu a 6tooi ana wng it to his assembled comrades with all the fire and spirit of which he was capable. An eye-witness says: "How the men shouted and clapped! for never was there a wedding of poetry to music made under sach inspiring in fluences. Getting a brief furlough, the Brothers Durang sang it in public soon after. It was caught up in the camps. and sung around the bivouac fires, and whistled in the streets; and when peace was declared, and' we scattered to our homes, it was carried to thousands of fireside's as the most precious relic of the War of 1812." The llaer of Fort McIIenrv. which in spired the song of Francis Key, still ex ists in a tolerable state of preservation. Colonel Armistead caused it to be taken dawn from the stall after the battle, and its honorable wounds bound about by the very ladies who had made it. It was ever after carefully preserved. He left to his widow, who in turn bequeathed it to their youngest daughter, born under it in Fort Mcllenry after the bombard ment; and she in turn left it to her son, Mr.'Eben Appleton. of Yonkers, New York, who now possesses it. It was raised over Fort Mcllenry for the last time September 14, 1824, "at the recep tion ot General Lafayette. The author ot the sonjj died at Balti more in 1843, aged sixty-four years, and in 1857 a small volume of his poems was published in the city of New York. He has living descendants. James Par ton, in Youth's Companion. BEFORE PENS. Th Instrument Used for Writing Before These Wer Invented. The chisel was employed for inscrib ing on stone, wood or metal. It was so sharpened as to suit the material operated upon, and was dexterously handled by all early artists. The style, a sharp-pointed.-instrurnent of metal, ivory, or bone, was used for writing on wax tablets. The style was unsuit able for holding a fluid, hence a spec'e3 of reed was employed for writing on parchments. These styles and reeds were carefully kept in cases, and the writers had a sponge, knife, and pumice stone, compasses for meas uring, scissors for cutting, a puncheon to point out the beginning and the end of each line, a rule to draw and divide the lines into columns, a glass contain ing sand, and another with writing fluid. These were the chief implements used for centuries to register facts and events. Reeds continued to be used till the eighth century, though quills were known in the middle of the seventh. The earliest author who uses the word pen n a for a writing-pen is Isidorus, who lived in that century, and toward the end of it a Latin sonnet "To a Pen" was written by an Anglo-Saxon. But though quills were known at this period, they came into general use very slowly, for in 1443 a present of a bundle of quills was sent from Venice by a monk with a letter in wlrch he says: "Show this bundle to Brother Nicholas, that be may choose a qnill." The only other material towhich we refer is ink, the composition and colors of which were various. The black was made of burnt ivory and liquor of the cuttle-fish. We are not prepared to say what other in CTedients were used or how it was manufactured, but these ancient nianu scripts prove that the ink was of a su perior description. Red, purple, silver and jrold inks were also used. Ihe red was made from vermilion and carmine. the purple from murex, and the manu facture of these, especially with gold and silver varieties, was an extensive and lucrative business. Chambers'1 Journal. WOMEN AND THEIR FEET. The Care They Use In Ituylng Shoes Sizes of the .Feminine Foot. said a buperior otreet shoe dealer yes terday, "that it is in the selection of footgear that people are most fastid ious." "Is much difficulty experienced in dealing with women?" was asked. "Women have a strong natural de- sire, one that appears almost inborn, to have as small and shapely feet as possi ble, but except in a limited number of cases the desire is kept within bounds. It is not unusual for one to insist on crowding a No. 5 foot into a shoe two sizes smaller, but the majority while buying the footwear have in view mainly their personal comfort. There appears also to be a growing tendency in favor of comfortable shoes even at the expense of looks." "Speaking of sizes, does the average differ in various parts of the country?" asked the reporter. "1 don t know uist what foundation it has, or what investigations have been made into the subject, said the dealer, but it is generally recognized that the ladies of the East wear the smallest shoes. It is said that the average size of the shoes worn there ranges from 11 to 2. In Cleveland it probably ranges from the latter figure to 3, and many shoes a half size larger are also disposed of here. Shoes get larger as you pro gress to the West." "How about the Chicago girls t" "The belles of that city have, to some extent bsen slandered, but it is a fact that their pedal extremities are larger than the ordinary. The sizes probably run from iSos. o to 4, so you see unit. although not as diminutive as they might be, the ieec oi tne young lames are not so large that they merit the wide-spread" attention bestowed upon them. As between Chicago and ht. Louis. I think nature in th's respect dis tributed favors with an impartial hand. An exception to all that has been said, however, is the case or ire aanuusxy belle. While only seventeen years of age, she wears a number 24 shoe. Ohio thus does not take a position in the back ground, even in the case of feet. Cleveland JLeaaer. Three Canadian ladies, after solic iting funds for several years, are now collecting girls between the ages of three and thirteen years from some oi the worst quarters of London and bnng insr them to Canada, where they are provided with homes in the country. Toronto Mail. A Frenchman who loves his wifa calls her his "darling cabbage" or hlo liftlA Miia rabbit." ' m w vm--0 nrMv OLD-TIME SNAKES. A Prac ileal Joke Whose Kecollectlon Caused the Death of Its Perpetrator. in the olden time, when the prairies of Illinois had not vet been fenced in snakes were plentiful. In that day and age of tho world women did not gather up their skirts and climb up on the table if anybody inadvertantly said "mouse." They seized a rolling-pin, dust-brush or stove hook, and looked calmly around over their shoulders as much as to say: "Show me the bloody monster. Le me get a crack at him with this, and let him examine himself with a micro scope to see how much mouse is left Show me the horrid brute and let me knock him out in one round!" The serpents that infested the unfet tered wastes of prairie were bad. They were more numerous than black-birds are now, and some of them were so poi sonous that it made a man's leg swel and sent him screaming to the whisky jug to look at them. They roamed through the orchards and meadows and glided across the lawns and gardens many times every day, and when the members of the family were gathered around the festal board at evening, the ....... . ... . n boy or girl that bad not killed one or more snakes during th8 day was set down as a lazy-bones and sent to bed without supper in dire disgrace, but of ten redeemed himself or herself as the case might be, by going to bed with garter snake or two and hastily rising. taking it by the tail and jerking its head off whip-cracker fashion. It was not then an uncommon occurrence for men and women to go to bed alone in the eveniDg and awake in the morning to find a rattlesnake sharing his or her re pose, and when a thrifty house-wife made such a discovery as that, she did not allow her bed-fellow to lie there and doze away the best part of the dav in idleness. She got a hoe and yanked him out on the floor and then bruised his head while he monkeyed around trying to bruise her heel, just to carry out the programme of tenesis. Old Sole man Snarman was a practical joker to a certain extent, and when he removed with his wife Betsey, from York State to Eelinoy," he was more or less surprised at the amount of time he was obliged to devote to snake killing. He got to be a monomaniac on snakes, and they entered into his conversation by day and his dreams by night until he could not talk or think of anrthincr else, At last it came to such a pass that poor uetsey s lite was one uninterrupted round of snakes. While bending over her wash-tub, her spouse would stealth uy approach her from behind and yell "snakes!" at the top of his voice, but she would whirl round and slap him with a handful-full of soap-suds and then he would - become melancholly and have snake nightmare that, night for want of a crood, hearty lauarh. Un der his condition of melancholia, he grew thin and wretched and his diges tion began failing, so he resolved within himself that unless he could have some fun at Betsey's expense, he would grad ually pine away and die, so he went to the "barn and taking his black-snake whip out of the wagon, concealed it be tween the sheets of their bed, and when Betsey's bare feet touched the whip, and she stopped and breathed hard, Solomon sprang out of bed and yelled "snakes!" at the top of his voice, and then they slowly turned down the overs, and Betsey trembled while they made the discovery that it was the whip and not a snake, and then she chased Solomon all around the place and hehad so much fun that ! e felt himself coming back from the tomb at a rousing gate. ; , To-day, Solomon is in his grave. He has been there several years. He went in a hurry and several" years before he would have gone if he had not put his whip in the bed. He awoke one night and felt something cold gliding across his feet, so he sprang out of bed with the old cry of "snakes!" and Betsey slowly and grimly slid out of bed on the oppo site side and then they turned up the light and turned down the covers, and Betsey, remembering her whip expe rience, seized the black thing that lay there and flayed Solomon with it until he lay on the floor bleating like a sheep, for he knew it was a genuiuo snake, while Betsey thought it another joke of his with the whip. He always seemed sad afterward, and in about a year, he died, a victim of his own joke. Through Mail. m Item for Cigarette Smokers. Little Frank Carrucie, very dirty and very scared, was in the Essex Market Police Court yesterday morning. His mother-and father, dirtier' and more worried, were also there. Agent Young, of the Societv for the Prevention of Cruelly to Children, told Justice Power that the youngster was one of a band of little Italians who were started out on the streets every morning at five o'clock to pick up the cigar butts dropped the night before. If these little fellows oame back without a bagful of butts they Mere beaten and sent out again, the Agentexplained. "But what is done with the cigar butts?" asked the Court. "Whj", they sell them to manufactur ers, who make paper cigarettes out of them. A wagon goes through Mul berry, Mott, Bell and other streets every day to collect them.' They sell for fif teen cents a pound, and the daily task of this little fellow was to collect five pounds. If he didn't do that he suf fered for it. His father and mother live over a grocery store, and are in com paratively comfortable circumstances, but they never give the boy any school ing, and he don't get enough to eat. N. Y. Herald. When one ear is deaf it is almoit uniformly the left. An immense num ber of persons rely upon the right to do duty for the two. Persons who have been deprived of the hearinsr of the left ear for a length of time can usually hear sounds at a distance better than those whose hearing: is divided between two ears, because the single ear has been trained to an unusual sharpness. Chi- cogo Herald. The sea-shell business of California is little known to the public. The pro duct consists of mother-of-pearl, pearl oyster, brilliant or curious shells from Japan, China and the South Seas, and the several varieties of abalone. ket5 PE0DUCE HAH Portland. . FI,OUIl Fir bbl. standard brand. $i.zo; oiners. z.zoma.zo. WHEAT Per ctl. valley, 81.22i31.25 Walla Walla, $1.12J1.15. BARLEY Whole, V cental, $1,174 ground, & ton, $2425. OA lb Choice milling, 3o38c; choice teed, Aidzaoc. RYE Per ctl. 81.502. BUCKWHEAT FLOUR Per ctl. 84.00. iui.ix ji kal f er cti. z.eoa a. CRACKED WHEAT Per ctl, 83. HOMINY Per ctl, S4.0U. OATMEAL Per ctl. $3.25(5:3.50. PEAKL BARLEY Per ctl, 85.00(6.00. f LilL fmA.t far id, f c. TAPIOCA Per lb, 6Jc. SAGO Per lb, 6c. VEli M ICELLI Per lb, No. 1, 81.23; No. z, 51. BRAN Per ton, $14. -SHORTS Per ton, 816. MIDDLINGS Per ton, $2022. CUOP Per ten, 18.50.a20. HAY Per ton. baled, 87.9. OIL CAKE MEAL Per ton. 832.50. HOPS Per lb. Oreoron. 7atc; Wash. Ter.. 88i. BUTTER Per Infancy roll,27Jc; Inferior grade, lz; pickled, 15(oi20c. CHEESE Per lb, Oregon, 12:g,13o; Call fornia. 1213c. EGGS Per doz 32i33c. DRIED FRUITS Per lb. apples, quar ters, backs and boxes, do sliced, in sacks and boxes, ii(&oi; apricots,, 15c blackberries, 14 a 15c: nectarines, 15c: De&ches. halves unoeeled. WAlOhc: pears. quartered, 7(ay; pitted cherries, 20$ 2oo; pitted pmms, ualilornia, wiuc: ao ur egon, 7j(3c; currants, ti(a?7; dates, 9 luc; figs, Smyrna, 10ig2:0; California, 67; prunes. California, 7i(a8; French, 10C22$; Turkish, Oi(5i7J; raibias, California Lon don layers, 82.60&3.25 V box; loose Mus catels, 81.60; Seedless, lb, 12c; Sul tana, 12ic RICE -China, No. 1, 8 Uj do No. 2, 85J; Sandwich Islands, No. 1, p lb, 5&c; Japan, 5jc lb. BEANS Per ctl, pea, 82.0a$2.50; 8niall whites,$2.00to2.25; bayo8. 8t2.0O&2.25: lima, 3.25; pink, 82.00. VEGETABLES Beets, f 1; cabbajre, 81 1.50; cauliflower, ? doz, 00c(a81.2'; green corn, t? doz, 12jc; sweet potatoes, V lb, 14c; oiiiont, new, l$c; turnips, lb, lc: spinach, sack, 40 50c. POTATOES Per, sack 30 40c. POULTRY Chickens, doz, spring. 81.50&2.C0; old 82.50Ca3.00; ducks. 84.00; geeae, $u(&7.50: turkeys, V lb. I0f$l2ic. UAAis .rer lb. Jaatern, iatol4,c: ur- gon. 12c. JJACON I er lb, Oregon Bides, Vc; do shoulders, 7. LARD Per tt. Oregon. 8: Eastern. 8 10. J1UK.LE lJer 5-cal k.ee. 81.10: bbls. 1? gal., 332i. - SUGARS (juote bbis: Cube, 72; dry ranulated, 7&c; line crushed, 7ic; golden 'HONEY Extracted. 6c; comb, 15c Rica, 12cJ. Old OovM-rment Java. 18c; Rio, 1Z&&13C: fcalvado, 104c; Mocba, Z2(j$Zd; Kona, 18c. TEAS Young WyBon, 255, Coc; Japan, I2&55c: OoolonK. l&65c; Gunpowder ana Imperial, 25(a65c SYKUt'-California refinery is quoted at 42c iu bbls, 52 ic in kegs and 1-fcal. una fezi. , CANNED GOODS Salmon. 1 lb tins, doz, Sl.zb: oysters, 2-H tins. V doz. 82.1 2.75; l ib tias, 81.20(1.75 tfdoz; lobsters. 1-lbtiHS, tfdoz, Sl.o: dims. 2-Ib tins, V doz. 82 w 2.05: mackerel. 5-tb tins. doz. J50.2aiu tf.7d: fruits. P doz tins. sz.MMZ.4d: jams aud jellies, v doz. S1.UU; vegetables, V doz, 91(91.50. FRESH FRUIT Apples. Orecron, new, V box. oucin. 40: bananas, v buncn. w f cranberries, Western, 811.00gl2.U0 v bbl: grapes, v box,81tol.50: .Lemons, bicily. v box, fc7fe7.50: L.imes. V 100. 83.00; pine apples, doz, 8.00; pears, & box, 4W(g inc. SEEDS Per lb. timothy. 64c: red olover, 14&15c; orchard gras, 10c; rye grass, nioc. WOOL Eastern Oregon, spring clip. 12 vffiioc v id; lau cup, iu(iz. valley ur- egon, spring clip, 1416c; lambs' and fall, 1Z(SU1C. SALT Carmen Island. V ton. 815 17: Liverpool, ton, $16te20; 5-tt bags for table, iiffiiOC NUTS California almonds, 100 lb sks. 18ic: Brazil. 13c; chestnuts. 18Ca;20c: cocoa- nuts, 6er 8; filberts, 14c; hickory, 10c; pea nuts, 0'124c; pecan. 14c: California wal nuts, 11c. HIDES Dry, 1617c; salted, 6C7. TALLOW Clear color and aart; 44i lb; prime, 4Jc Man Francisco. . FLOUR Extra, 81.50g4.75 bbl; super. fine. 82.75S3.50. WHEAT No. 1 shioninr. S1.37iai.39 ctl; No. 2, 81.301.35; Hilling, 81.04 45. BARLEY No. 1 feed. 81.40: brewing. 81.451.50. OATS Milling and Surprise, 81-30C4 1.46 & etl; Feed. No. 1. Sl.22ftfel.25: No. 2. 81.15 1.17$. CORN Yellow, 81.22J ctl; white, 81.151.17. - r4 1 n 9l.279uZil.oO V ctl. HOPS 7 10c lb. DAY Barley, S10ll.50 V ton; alfalfa. 1 9 11.50; wheat, 8I3(16. olKA w 4 oc(g) oc V bale, ONIONS Par ctl, 80fey0c POTATOES Early rose. 25(g45c; river reds, 35c(ac50c; sweets, 40c CO. BEANS Small white. 81.60(211.80 ctl: pea. S1.7O&1.0J: pink. 81.35(z1.45; red.81.50; bayos, $1.6lK&1.90; butter, 81 tig 1.35; limaa. :.uw&z.zo. HONEY Comb, 612e 9 ft for best grades; strained. 5te54c. CHEESE-California. 5&10c V lb. BUTTER Fresh roll, fancy dairy, 32Jc t lb: good to choice, 224(ft28c; pickled roll. 'Ufa 23c; otker grades, lla;22c EGGS S24(a 374c V dozen for California; Eastern, 22afe25c First hen: "There comes the woman to drive us out of the garden.' Second hen: "Yes, and she is picking: up a stone, too! Let us fly out, quick!" No, no, stay here." "liut she is a m- ing riglvt ior us.' "xea, ana 11 we. should move we might get hit." Chi cago Time. A young mother, traveling with her infant child, wrote the following letter to her husband at home: " e are all do ng first rate and enjoying ourselves very much. We are in excellent health. Tho boy can crawl about on allours. iopinsr that the same can b3 said ol yoa. 1 remain, eic. iv. j. There,' said a woman 10 airamp, ia a nice dinner; but I shall expeel yon to saw a little wood for it." "Cer- tramp, attacking the dinner with both hands, "but you will pardon me, I trust, if I venture to correct your Ln- lish." "My what?" "Your Jngnsn. onie modern authorities claim that grammar is played out. . I know better. The word 'saw' is a verb; in this case, singular number and imperfect, tense. You can not say: u snail expeci you 10 saw wood.' 'I shall expect you to see wood' is correct. If you will Indicate the pile to me I will now look at it as 1 pass out." Boston Transcript. WRESTLING WITH THE MAZY. A Giddy Wyoming Youth Learn to Trip the IJffht Fantastic B.ll Hyn ia Boeton Globe. Very soon now I shall be itroaac enough -on my cyclonic leg to resume my l?ioii in waltzing. It is needle to say that I look forward with great pleasure to that moment Naturd intended that 1 should glide ia the mazy. Tall, lithe, bald-beadei, gonial, limber in the extreme, ftuave, soulful, frolic some at time, yet dignified and reserved toward strangers, light on the foot on my own foot, I mean gentle as a woman at timas. yet irroabUble as a tornado when in- sultei by a smaller, I am peculiarly fitted tosblne in society. Those who have Ob serve t my polished brow when under a strong electric light say they never saw a man shine so in sociaty as I da -aly wire tau ;ht ma how to waltz, aha would teach me on Saturdays and repair her Blurts during the lollowloz waolc I told her once that I thought I was too brainy to dance. She said she hadn't no ticed that, but she thought I seamed to run too much to lezs. My wife is not timid about tellinr me anything that she thinks will Da ior my good. When 1 make a mis take she is perfectly frank with me, and comes right to me and tells me about it so that I won't do so aaio. 1 had just learnai bow to reel around a ball room to a little waltz muilc when 1 was blown across the state of ILsiiMippl in September last by a high wind, and broke one of my legs which I usj in waltzing. When this accident occurred I had Just got where I felt at liberty ti choose a ' glorious being with starry eyes and fluffy bair and magniflc3ntly molded form to steer me around the rink to the dreamy musics of Strauss. One young lady, with whom I had waltzed My wife taught me to Waltz. 0 a gool deal, when she heard that my leg was broken, began to attend every dancing party she coull hear of, al Though she bad declined a great many previous to that. I asked hor bow uhe could be so giddy and so gay while I was suffering. Shs said she was doing it to drown her sorrow, but ber little brother told me on the quiet that sae was dancing wbdo xtsV Iptf becaosa slj . felt perfectly safe. A ti lanl of mine says I have a pronounced and disc;: ctly origin! .manner of waltzing, aai that : r tewssw anybody, with on) exception ho ir.td as I did, and that was Jumbo. He c.aiino-i that either one of us would ba a good dancsr if he could have the whole ring to himself. He said that be would liks to eea Jumbo aud me waltz together if ha were not afraid that I would step on Jomboanl fcurt him. You can sea what a feeling of jealous batrod it arouse i in torn) small minds when a man gets so that he can mingle In good society and enjoy himself. I could waltz more easily if the rules did not require such a constant change of posi tion. 1 am sedentary in my nature, slow to move about, so that it takes a lady of grant strength of purpose to pull ma around on time. Fixing: a florae's 'Af. Detroit Free Press. I "Doctor," he said as bo enteral the vetar Inary's office, "1 am about to sell a horse to a grocer, an! be wants you to pass on ths animal's age." "How old is her "Sixteen." "How old does the grocer want him to ber "Seven." "Ah I sea. A dollar a year for nina years Is $9. What an obstinate fellow the grocer must bet He might as wall hare wanted a horse 9 years old, and thus savd you $2!" . A Tower ful Hint to George. IBinghamton Republican. 1 A Bingbamton couple stood before a Court street jeweler's the othar evening, when the young lady remarkel: "Gawgia, don't you think there is som thing perfectly lovely about those clocks ?" '"What do you admire so much about themF' be asked. "Why, don't you see they they nama the ' day." The future" will tell if Gawgia tumbled. From a City Child's Standpoint. San FTancUco Ch ron icla. A friend of mine has a little girl who has just bean in the country. "How does the mule, comer' asked ber mother. "The cows eat the gras." "Yes; but how do they get the lnilk?', 'Thoy takes the cows by the tail and turns them upside down, and the milk runs out" All C1L Texas Siftings.) Gus Snobberlv ia a New York dude, ntuw lees are of the most attenuated charar-tAr. A good story is told at bis expensa. He was QHtu ujo auu vuuawu uuruig tue past sum mer, and while at a farmhouse tho farmer's dog bit him. "Lsok here," exclaimed Gus, indieaanuy. "youraog nas bit me in the calf of my leg." The farmer looked at Gus leg and drawlal out: "Don't exaggerata that way. Your leg hasn't got any caif.". She Waa Seeare. Chicago Kewa Boston girl Gawge, 1 see the papers ear that smallpox was brought to Boston by a kisa "Yaas, I nawticed that." Long vacuum of silence. "Gawge, have you been exposed to smaJl- poxf "Haw. nnyr "Oh, nothing; only I thought Td tell you I've been vaccinated." Tho Burglar's Preeeaeo of Allnd. ILondon Tkl-Bltal . Hearing a noise at night Jones descends with a lighted candle and discovers a bur glar escaping with a full sack. "Hello f he cries, "come back, youl" "Eh, wba;!' returns the burglar; "ah, yes, tbe silvor candlestick I Permit me." He takes it from tbe hand of the astonished Jones and pots it into his bag. "Ten thousand thanks. Have I forgotten anything eisol" oMrfe