THE COLUMBIAN.
THE COLUMBIAN.
Published Eveby Thursday
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iST. HELENS,
Colombia County, Oregon.
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E. 6. ADAMS,
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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"
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