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Newspaper Page Text7- i a: X. V if THE COLUMBIAN. THE COLUMBIAN. n 7 Published Evert Thcrsdat AT ST. HELENS, Colombia County. Oregon, Published Every Thubsdat AT ST. HELENS, Columbia Connty, Oregon. 1MJ E. 0. ADAMS. A. B. ADAMS, . - - - Editor Associate Editor E. Q. ADAMS, -A. B. ADAMS, - - - - - - Editor Associate Editor VOL. VI. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 17, 1885. NO. 15. COLUMBIAN .v It , t CONDEKSED ROMANCE. "Duck? Dot el" Younyr lore. I)ecat; . Clinjf fast. N'uir sed:" Must wed. Parents kieV, Lovers stick. 'Can m.-t be I r We shall seell!" Dr g-lit n;Kht; Seek flight. Church found; tJrist ground. Folks come: Bf- iluiub. "Too late!" '" Fixed fate. ' . i First year. Skies clear. Year- two. leather blue. Years three. Jamboree. . Ppat: pirt: Divorce oonrf Groom, bride Unt e l. . Heart crack, Jill. Jai-k Trot back. . E. Jones, in Jwlija- MY WINNY. How I Won a "Wife Amid the Ocean's Surges. Stranger to Canada. I th:nk you said? F'rst visit to Ontar'o? Well, you're heartily welcome to Indian Creek. Take a c!ia;r on the piazza t ll dinner's ready we d'ne early in these new-world parts. Fine farm? Well, yes; Indian Creek is a nice place, if I do own it. All, as far as you can see grass land, com fields, woods and creeks all belong to it. Stock, too they call it the best stocked farm in Ontario, I believe, ami I dare cay they're right. All mine; and vet I came to Canada twelve vears ago. without even the tradifoual half-crown in my trousers' pocket. You look sur . prised. Would you I ke to hear the story? There's a good half-hour to d nner-time yet. and it's a story I never tire of telling, sonv :ow. I began l fe as the son of a village carpenter in the South of England. You know that class pretty well. I dare say, and what a gulf was tixed between me and the vicar of the parish. And yet and yet from the t me she was seven years old and I e'even. and she fell down in the dusty ro id outside the cirpenter's shop, and cried, and . I picked her up, and smoothed the l'ttle crumpled p'nafore. and Kissed the dust oiitf her-golden curls. I loved but one girl jnjihe .world,., and -that was the vicar-Ta daughter. Winny Branscorae. Madness, vou'll saw" Well, perhaps so. and yet a man is but a man. and a wtmatT a woman: and" love" comes' w ateverone may do. There's no class distinct'on recogn zed by childhood. and we were playmates and friends t ll she went to boarding-school. If Miss Win ny had had a mother, no doubt things would have been very different; but we wereal ke in never having known a woman's care, and the old vicar was bl.nd to everything but h:s theological treatises. But when she came back from her London board'ng-sehool. a beautiful young lady, all smiles and laces and lit tle lovely ways then I knew. I had tried my best to study and work, and make myself more I ke the men she would meet: but what can a lad in an Engl;sh village do? I just had enough educat'on to make every other lad in the place ha:e me: and bos'de the men of her world I supp sp I cut rather an astonishing ft' sure. Yet the love of her was so be. ond ali else in me. that mad. hopeless as I felt it, I had no power over myself; and the first t me I caught her alone in the woods she avoided me. I saw, and I had to watch for a chance I told her the whole s'ory, and waited for her answer. She jrrew scar let a rush of color that ded her fair, swet faee then deathly white. Iick.'' she sa d. an I she wai trem bling f.om head to foot, "you know it can ni.'ver. never be: you know jou are wi-o"! , .vn t? d:va-n of such a th;ng. Some g rls would tuink it an insult I know you better; but if my father heard of th's, he would say you had abused h's kindness to you; he would neverfor give you. Forget your madness." And she. ran from rne. I let her go. I had seen the blush and the tremor, and I guessed that if I had been Mr. Loft us. the young Squire, instead of D'ck ILiwtry. the carpenter's son. her answer nrght have been dif ferent. A great resolve sprang up in my sold, and I took a solemn vow in those June woods. That very n:ght I sol 1 the old shop (my father was dea l, an t I had-taken to the business), and w th the money I bought an outfit, and st irted straight for Canada. It was pretty tough work at first, but I worked . like a galley-slave starred, and pinched and saved, and never spent a penny on m- ;lf except for the books I sat up half the n giit to read and study. Well, in th's country the man who works and doesn't dr'nk is sure to get on; and I had a m'ghty purpose in my head. By and by I bought some land dirt-cheap, a'ul sold it for tiiree times what I gave f.r it then I began to make money Jaf. I should call my luck wonderful if I b ! eved in luek. and didn't prefer to th nk I was helped by a Power far aider than rav own. At last, ten vears to the very day after I set fot on ana d a'i soil. I b night Indian .Creek Farm, and began to bu Id this house. All tiie neighbors thought my good fortune had tnr.:ed my bra n. for 1 fitted it up and furnished it for a lady, down to a little ro ?k;nc:-chair bv my study-table, and a work-basket with a tiny gold thimble in it. And when all that was lin shed. I took the first slip for Liverpool. Ten years buhls a c ty over'hem. It doesn't make much change in a Devon shire v II age. The very gates were still hdf o Tth.dr h'nges. as I left them, only the people were a little older and atrii! more stup:d. and there was a new vicar. Old Mr. Branscome had been dead sU months; d ed very poor, they told me; there was nothing left for Miss W nny. Jlv neart gave cm! great leap when I heard that. And Miss Winny? O. she had gone govemessing with some peo ple who were just off to Canada, and the ship sailed to morrow from Liver dooI. ' The Liverpool express never seemed I to crawl so slowly before. I got there to find every berth taken on b anl the Antarct'c. and the captain rag ng at the non-app-'araneo of two of the crew. Without a second's pause I o.!'ered for one of the vacant places. I was as strong as a horse, and active enough, and though the Captain eyed me rather askance 1 had been to" a We-t Knd ta lor on my way through London he was too glad to get me to ask any ques tions. So I sailed on the ship with rav girl, little as she kue .v it. I saw her the first day or two. looking so pale and thin that she was 1 ke the ghost of her old self, and yet sweeter to my eyes than ever befo. e. - Tne children she had charge of were troublesome l'ttle crea tures4 who worried and badgered her till I longed to cu't" them well. - But there was a ge ulencss and a patience .about her.quitu-.tiew to my idea of Miss Winny, and L ouly loved her the more for it. After the second day out the wind freshened, and I saw uo more of her. We hal an awful passage. It was late in November an early winter, and the cold was intense. It blew one con tinuous gale, and some of our machin ery was broken the screw damaged- and we could not keen our course. As we drew near the other side of the At lantic, we got more and more out of our bearings, and at last the fors told us we were somewhere oil the Banks of Newfoundland, but where no one wa qn'te sure. It seemed to me it had all happened before, or I had re:id it or dreamed it. At all events, it was hardly a surprise to me when, on the tenth 'n:ght.y just ai'ier midnight, the awful crash -and shook took pla: e asersation which no one who has not felt it can imagine in the least and we knew that the Antarctic had struck. It's a fearful th:ng, if yon come to think of it. a great steamer hue l with liv ng souls in the full tiow of 1 fe and health, and in one moment the call coining to ea?h of them to die. Before you could have struck a match the whole ship w.tsin a panic cries, terror, confusion, agony O. it was awful! I trust never to see such a scene asfa'n. I made my way through it all as if I hail ne ther eyes nor ears, and got to the stateroom 1 had long ago found out wa the one which belonged to my girl. I knocked at the door with a heavy hand: even at that awful moment a thr 11 ran through me at the thought of standing face to face with her again. "W.nnv!" I cried, " come out! make haste! there is not a moment to lose!" The door opened as I and she stood just with n. ready dressed, even to her little black hat. The cabin light had been left burning, by the doctor's orders, and it fell full on me as I stood there in my sailor's jersey and can. I wondered if she would know me. I forgot the danger we were in forgot that death, was waiting-nlose-at band forgot that the world held. any oue 'but jqst her and me. , . D'ck!" she cried "O. Dick. Dick!" and she fell forward in a dead' faint on my shoulder. All my senses came back then: and I threw her over my arm and ran for the deck. A great fur line I cloak had been dropped by the door of the ladies' cabin. There was no I giit. but I stumbled over it as I ran. I snatched it up and carried it with me. Up above, all va? in the wildest chaos: th'i boats over-fiI!cd. and push ing off: the shipsettl'ng rapidly: people shouting, crying, swearing. One hears tales of calmness and courage often enough at such times, wlrch make one's heart glov as one rea Is them: but there was not much heroism shown in the wreck of the Antarctic. The Captain behaved splendidly, and so d d some of the passengers, but the ma'orlty of them and the crew were ma i with ter ror, and lost their heads altogether. I saw there was not a chance tor the over-crowJe I boats in that sea. and I sprang for the r'gging. I was not a second too soon: a score of others fol lowed my example, and with my precious burden 1 should not have ha I a chance two m'nutes larer. As it was I scrambled to the topmast, and got a firm ho'd there. W nny wa? just com ng to herself. I had wrapped her round like a baby in the fur cloak, and with my teith I opened mr ka f i t cut a rope which hung looso with'n reach. With th s 1 lashe I her to me, and fastened us both to the topmast. The ship sank gradually: she did not keel over, or I should not be tell ng you the story now: she settled down, just her dick above water, but the gre.it" sea--wahe.i over it every seeoid and swept it clean. The boats had gone! One or two of the crew, floating on looe spars, were p'eked up afterward -r-no more. The rigging was pretty full, at least in the upper part; down below, the sea was too strong. The Captain was near me. I folt glad to think he had been saved he was not a coward like some of the others. How long was the longest night you ever knew? Multiply that by a thou sand, and you will have some idea of that n:ght's length. The cold was aw fill. The svray froze on the sheets as it fell, the yards were slippery w th ice. I stamped on Winny' s feet to keep them from freezing. D.d you not ce that I I mp a 1 ttle? I shall walk lame as lon r as 1 1 ve. Sometimes there was a spla-h in the bhvk water below, as some poor fellow's stiffened hold relaxed, and he fell from his place in the r gging. Ther was not a breath of wind, nothing but the b t'er, b tter fog. How long could we hold out? Where were we? How long would the sh:p be before she broke up ? Would it be by drowning or bv freez'ng? W.; asked ourselves these questions again and again, but there was no answer. Death stared us in the face; we seemed to live ages of agony in every minute and j et, will you be lieve me. that all seemed little n com parison to the thought that after all the struggles and the sorrows, after all those ten long wearv years. I held my girl in my arms at last! She had pulled one corner of the cloak around ray neck (I stood on a level just below her.) and her hand lay there with it it was the hand that warmed me more than the cloak and her check rested agauist my own. Often I thought its coldness was the coldness of death, and almost exulted in the thought that we should die together. And then I would catch the murmur of the prayers she was uttering for us both and know that life was there sstill, arid horie lived, too. Well, well! Why should I dwell on such horrors, except to thank the Mercy that brought us through them all? Day dawned at last: a id there' was the shore near by, and soon rockets were fired, and ropes secured, and one by one the half-dead living, were drawn from their awful suspension between sky and sea, and landed safe on shore. They had to take Winny and me to gether, just as we were, and even then they had hard work to undo the clasp of my stiffened arms about her. I knew nothing then nor for long after; and it is wonderful that Winny was the lirst to recover, and that it was she who nursed me back to l'fe and reason. And how did I ask her to marry me? Upon .my word, now you ask, I can't remember that I ever did. That seemed utterly unneccessary, somehow. Caste distinctions look small enough when you have bqeustaring death in the face for a few hours: and words were not much needed after we had been together in the rigging that night. Somehow I was glad it was so;, glad my girl had taken me in my cap and jersey, for a common sailor," and yet loved the old Dick through it all"; glad sha never dreamed I was owner of Ind'an Creek farm, and the r'chest man in that end of Ontario, and had wealth and a posi tion higher than Mr. Loftus, the young St pi re at home. Ihe people sue was with had all rone down on that awful n:ght; she had no one in the world but me. We were married at Montreal the Captain of the Antart'c gave her away and then i brought her home to Indian Creek. To see her fae when she saw the rocking chair, and the work basket and the thimble! Heaven bless her! There she com?s. with her babv on her shoulder. Come into dinner, friend, and you shall see the sweetest wife in the new countrv or the old: the girl 1 won ai?ald the ocean's surges. Bright Days. " " BABY DESTROYING. The Many Deaths of Children Caued by I:rnoric an I NVjrlect of Parents or A ttiilaiit'. It has come to be a gospel w'th young marr ed folk that the second summer is the destroyer of the baby. It is fate kismet. . That the second summer costs more lives th'an it ought is not the fault of the summer; it is the fault of the heat and the parents. The summer heat is dangerous to all young children: it is in connection with the bad diet of the second summer that it is fatal. It is a well-established fact that nearly all the mortality of second-summer babies is from d seases of the digest' ve organs, and these come from irrational arthic'al feeding. Children come to the table, cat pickles, unmashed or fried lumps of potatoes, beets, radishes, and the like, and the trouble begins. The stereotyped answer to the question; "What does the child :eat?" is: - 0. it eats at the table with the rest of the family." The result is enteric diseases and death, and the cause of death is ascribed to the "seaond summer." The first summer the baby stays at home, has its natural foo l, and pulls through fairly well. But the second sammer it must show off. It is trundled down town through the heat of a July or Au gust day, is overheated, excited, and its nervous system put to the stra n. Keep the yearlings at home: give them a grass" plat and a sand-pile. Do not let them come to the ta'de. give wholesome food milk, oat meal ground very tine and stirred and cooked for twenty min utes. Put them to bed at dark; with a garment they cannot kick off when the nights a- e cool. Bathe them in tepid water n ght and morning: Stay at home with them and take care of them 3'our self. forit :s not "the second summer' which kills the children, but the ignor ance or negligence of those who attend, or l ather do not attend, them. Colds and calves get through their second summers quite as well as their first, and there is mo reason that the human ani mal should not live qu te as close to na ture and do qu te as well. Indianap olis Journal. A Texas Centipede. The centipede is not a pretty insect. He runs too much to legs. Once I thought them of no use. but after seeing a lot of little Chiricahua Indian pa pooses pulling centipedes from their holes and greedily devouring them, legs, poison and all, I no longer doubted the wisdom and beneficence of their creat'ou. In the course of my check ered career I have had several adven tures with centipedes and always came out second best. A centipede can raise a blister on a man's body quicker than a red 'hot iron, and if you don't imrae d'atelv apply a remed al poultice of pounded pr'ck y pear and dose yourself inwardly with post whisky which latter is warranted to kill anyth'ng but an army mule the resultant effects may be serious. Centipedes usually attack the r victim at night, when he i9 asleep and can't defend himself. They are armed with ab:jut 20) lit le lances con veniently lashed to the toe of each foot of wlrch they have several "and at the 1 asc of each lance is a tiny sack of venom. If a centipede crawls across your body whii h he'll most likely do if you 1 e down anywhere within a half m le of him you'll have no difficulty in following h's tra 1 and you'll remember his vis't for weeks. No man ever d ed from the bite of a cent'pede.'but I hae known one to make a man wish he were d.ad. I'hiladclphia Times. To see her husband for half an hour on the day set apart for her s ;mi -annual visi.,. the wife of a convict at Portsmouth. England, trudged all the way from Birmingham, wheeling their crippled child, eleven yp-rs old, in a perambulator. The journey occupied twenty-one days. " The tribal government of the Cher ok ces is democratic in form, with an elective chief magistrate and an upper and lower house of representatives. The ju lic'ary is also elective, and crim inals are punished after the manner of the whites. Chicago Times. - - - - The last blow to the roller-skating rink has been given by a Philadelphia phys c an. who says that roller-skating enlarges the feet. " A deaf mute was recently ordained a clergyman of the Church of Kngland by the Archbishop of Canterbury. BIRD AND FARM. Kvpii Blackbirds and Cr w of Some Ben eiit to Agriculturists. The aim of this article is to point out the good and bad qualities of our com mon birds, and see whether they do more harm than- good; to discover these we must consider their food. It is an interesting fact that our. very in jurious insects only come periodically, and when they do appear all the birds leave their usual food (consisting mainly of fruit and grain) and attack harmless and injurious insects alike. When vast swarms of grasshoppers are leavins: devastation in the r wake, the b;rds leave' their natural food and fall upon the "hoppers," but after the storm of insect life has passed the birds return to their natural food, when the farmer has but little to spare. The thought may suggest itself that the birds by eating the fruit and grain of the farmer, after no has suffered from the grass hoppers, do more barm than the' did good before. This, however, is not the case. Let us glance at the following figures and then perhaps we will change our minds: An ordinary grasshopper weighs about a tenth of an ounce, and in the course of twenty-four hours eats and digests about five times his weight, or half an ounce. For example, we will take the robin: when the country is overrun with grass hoppers he eats about sixty during "the day, or six ounces. Now, if these grasshoppers had lived they would have devoured thirty ounces of the farmer s grain in - twenty-four hours. When the robin is busy with the "hoppers" he eats rjthing else, and when he returns to his regular d et he eats about four ounces of the farmer's grain in a day. the Temaininjj two being made up of harmless and injurious insects. We have now arrived at the questions to be cous'dered: 1. Are birds injurious or beneficial? 2. What birds do injury to agricul tural plants? 3. Can these birds be exterminated without augmenting thefarmer's loss: After the foods of the various b'rds are looked into we shall be prepared to answer these questions. In describing the foods it is to be understood that everything is in natural condition: that is. no unusual abundance of grasshop pers or similar pests. The robin lives on insects from Feb ruary unt 1 May, south of the Ohic and in higher latitudes his insect diet ex tends from the middle of March to May. During tha remain:ng part of his stay with us we find him chang'ng h's diet for fruit, and in the height of the sea son we find him living almost entirely oh it; in short, it forms two-thirds of his entire food, while the remaining third is formed of insects, ten percent, of which are harmless. Thefruits Sir Redbreast delights in most are raspberries, straw berries, blackberries, cherries and grapes. The cat b'rd eats arflts, crane flies and larva? of some of the predacious beetles: its taste for fruit does not differ from the robin's. We find more good qualities in the brown thrush than in any other b'rd. To be sure, it eats lim'ted quantities of fruit, but that little score of harm is wiped out by the long score of good it docs by devouring great numbers of harmful insects. The blue bird may be classed s bene ficial, because the amount of fru:t it eats is so small as to hardly be noticed, and it destroys injurious insects in great numbers; but it also attacks many harmless and beneficial insects, such as spiders (not properly an insect) and flies. The titmouse, or chicadee. is a wood land bird, and troubles the farmer least of all the bird family; in fact, the only way he 'pens himself to censure is his fondness for beneficial insects, but even on that score he nearly clears himself, becat.se he eats numberless injurious in sects besides destroying their eggs. This bird is o"C of the few which eat plant lice. The cedar bird is noted for its ravages in the cherry orchards, but even this feathered robber is not wholly bad. though we must admit that he does not atone for the damage he does by eating a few predacious beetles. The English sparrow is another bird we must put down as one.that does more harm than good, eating more grain than it does insects. The meadow lark is the only repre sentative of the oriole family whose food we know anything definite about. We tind it making about three-fourths of its food of insects, while the re;narning one-fourth cons'sts of seeds or grain. It cats no fruit whatever. The cow bird feeds princ'pally on seeds of weeds and grain, but destroys many injurious insects. The common crow is omniverous in hab't. but is part'al to corn. We also find it eating inserts in great numbers, some harmless; but injurious ones he destroys in larger numbers. The blue jay has a great liking for cherries and eats them in great quanti t es, but makes his score good by de stroying injurious insects. The fly catcher, as its name implies, is wholly insectivorous, and would be classed as harmless were it not for its unfortunate liking for the "busy bee;" but we find this fault outweighed by his wholesale destruction of injurious in- sec s, and we can place him" within the class of beneficial birds. Woodpeckers are noted for their fond ness of canker worms, and I dp not doubt the fainter is willing he should have his fill. It must oe admitted that he bores holes in the tree to build his nest, and samples the apples on your apple trees; but that is the small price he de mands for the goo J he does in destroy ing canker worms. The p'geons are entirely graniverous fera'n eating), but must be considered onlv slightly injurious, as vhey cat but - . . ' ' . . . - f 1 A til I. small quantities or wueai. aiuiouh thev do not eat any insect3, they do good service to the farmer by eating the seeds of several noxious weed? The quail eats less grain th-n the pigeon, but devours great quantities of gi-asshoppers, chinch and potato bugs if or "really potato beetles). We must class the quail as beneficial to the farmer. We will not consider any of the aquat'c b'rds. as they have so little to do with the farmer that we can not say whether they are beneficial or harmful. Farm, Field and Stockman. THE TRUMAN AND JOSLYN FEUD. How It Standi to Date Five Joslyns Gone Tito to Follow. New York Sua J Farmer Truman, of Kentucky ww up an apple tree the other day, hand-picking a choice lot of seek-no-f urtbar. whan along c una Farmer Jjslyn. At Farmer Josln had a sho:gua with him, a care ess obsarvjr might hava rja3one I that ha was out cun ning for quail. There was nothing of tha care!o?s obsirver about Farnwr Truman, however, i-e didn't tumb e from the tree riht away, but ha did tumble to Farmer Jadyn'3 errand, and ha halted In his plcx hg .! callad out: "Alter mi, ehF' "Jiit so, naybjrf "WjI!, 1 wa? sort o' expecting' you, but not quite so early. Is thi3 the same olj feud the on starting over a line feaoo forty-eight year3 ago!" "Yes, ths tamo old thing .which has caused tha deaths of throe Trumans and four Jjslym." "Oh. Ididu'tknow but something new had come up. Say, naylnr, I'll be down in just a minit." "I know you will, and you'll probably come head lu;t. I've come ever this morn ing to shooS another Truman, and kinder even up numbers." "But I ain't arm 3d. My shotgun is in tha hojsa." "Thit's all the b9tter fur m?, naybur!'' 'But you'll giva me a few ruinutaj in which to say my prayers?" A few minutes for prayers. "Ob, as to tha Idon't mind 'low.ng yon throe or fcur minits, thouga I'm in a hurrv to cj is back bom and go to cutting corn. Go ahiaJ, naybur." Farmer liuman settled himself in e crotch and saemeJ. to be praying, whiL Farm -r Joslyn kept an eye on him, and im patiently wui.ei to catch the concluding "am an." He was in this state of min .when a hole about as large as his arm wa bored through him from tacit to front ana a toy of 14 Came'running "up and called out : ' - , "Pop I are vou up there!" "Yv, my son." "I saw ha ha 1 the bulge oa you and I go' the run and droppad him!" "Itilht, my boy. That's what I wa praying for." "How many Josl7ns does this make! "Five. We've only two more to kill ofi (o wead out the let" "Weil, I'll te'l one of the niggers tog over and see if tha family want the bod. Good-by, pa, I shall be late to school." "Gooi-ty. my son. Always strive to bt a go )d boy if you want success ia life." Lincoln and Otn. McCIellan. INew York Tribune. I Two yL-ars ago the c.iief of engineers o the United States armv, at Washington, rccj.Tiiienbl that congress ba askel U make an app ropriation for strengthening at tmj Jay tha principal forti flea tion in the line r.f iefen83 that were constructs -around Washington in the early days o the rebel. ion. Tuis recommendation brought to mind an anecdote of President Lincoln, relat a i by the late Gin. J. G. Barnard at e Jinn?r givei in 1871, at ' Inverness, in the north of Scotlan i. T-e dinner was a sumptuous one and much enjoyed bv the distinguished guests. Betimes tha lalies retired, and the cloth being reniovad, liot Scotch mist" was brought in. Soon speeches followed, and and eacii gue6t was "remindel of aalory." It came Gao, Barnard's turn. He arose with his usual dignity, and spoke substan tially as follows: 'Gaatlenion, I cannot sing a son?, tell a story or pay a sixpance;' but 1 will relate for your inf ormation and amusement an in cident in my professional life In the early part of the war of the rebellion I was chief of engineers on the staff of Maj. Gen. George B. McCIellan. It was decided at a o uncil of war to fortify Washington. Pitms of the forest and the lines of the forti fications were accordingly prepared and the works were coniructei in due time, anii when complocel the gjnaral invited Presi dent Li j coin and his cabinet toa review of tha troops and an inspection of the forts an 1 dues ot fort ficitio u On the day ap pointed tho inpeciion commanced at Ar dnaton. We followed the lina of the works seutherly and r.crossed the Potomac to the easterly side of the river and continuad nloa j tue line easterly of Washington and into the beuviost of all tha fcrtifioacions cn tl.e northerly side of Washington. WheD wo reaches I this point the president asxed G;u. McCleUao to explain the nece sity of so stroug a fortification between Washing to!, and the north. "Gan. McCIellan replied: Why, Mr. Prcsida.it, according to military science it .s our duty to guard against every pessible or suppeaable contingency that may arise. For oxiiup'.e, if under any circumstances, however lortuitous, th9 enemy, by any cuaiico or freak, should, in a last resort, get in behind Washington, in his efforts to capture the city, why, thora tho lort is to def un I it.' "'Yes. that's so, general,' raid the presi dent; She precaution is doubtless a wisa oue, and I'm glad to gat so wise an explana tion, for it reminds me cf an interesting quitiou on co discussed for several weeks in our lyceum or moot court at SpriDgfiald, llUt, soon after I t-cgin reading law.' . "-Ahf tays Gan. tCiedlan, 'What ques tion was that, Mr. Pre-idantl ' " Tne question,' Mr. Lincoln replied, -was, 'Why docs man have breasts?" ' and he added that after many evenings' debate the question was submitted to the presiding judjo, w io wisely decided 'That if under any circumstances, however lortuitous, or by any chanca-or ireak, no matter ot what nature or Ly what cause, a man should have a baby, there wouud be the breasts to uursa i ,"' Arkansaw Traveler: Two men riding on a lailron.l t.min. Ona nf ttiom hmr n - - v..v wmwu. ftruj M VJK?f and at-er reading it a while, throwj it uuvu, kuiua iu mt iuuuix) companion, ana says: "'Ibis is the dullest book I ever saw. It ijj a fraud. I'd like to maul , the author. Wnat are you takiug oiT your coat forf' 'I am tho author." LATE NEWS SUMMARY. Pacific Coast. Kantern and Forclsn. Charles Scanlan, of Louisville, killed a man for pulling his dog's tail. Several persons were killed by the fall of a building at Jersey City, N. J. The strike of the Chicago, Burling ton fc Quincy switchmen is reported ended. Engineer Allen was killed in a rail road accident on the Erie road at El mira, N. Y. Colonel Albert Howell was shot and fatally injured by II. C. Pope, at Atlanta, Ga. Three Chinamen were drowned by the capsizing of their toat near Monterey, Cal. Two white men, names unknown, fought a duel near Sherman, Texas, and were killed. Chief Justice E. M. Ross, of Califor nia, will retire from the bench on the 1st of January. - There are nearly 3000 women voters on the lists at Toronto. They have full municipal suffrage. Near Eagle Pass, Texas, four Mexi can desperadoes who resisted arrest were killed by officers. John Freeze and Fred Bergmann were drow;ned on Shoal crevk, near Greenville, 111., by the upsetting of a raft. ' Four men working in the Croton acqueduct at New York City were killed by a bucket falling down the eh aft. At Greenville, Cal., a miner named B. Serevo fell down the ihaft of the zinnias Con. mine and was instantly killed. At Sacramento, Cal., Mrs. Win. Olson, while temporarily insane, mur dered her baby and then cut her own throa t. Private letters received at Ottawa, Ont., confirm the reiiorts of lawless ness among the Blood and Blackfeet Indians. Luia uurheid, who skates at a Youngston, Ohio, rink, is advertised by the proprietor as a niece of the late President. At its recent meeting in Washing ton, the Labor Congress adopted a resolution in favor of enforcing the eight-hour rule. A young woman of Jamaica Plains, Mass., was made seriously ill by re ceiving of anonymous letters prophe sying her death? At Enfield, Me., Ed. Whitney shot his wile twice and then "shot himself through the heart. They had been married three weeks. Cholera is reported to have become epidemic in Brittany and is commit ting frightful ravages, the scourge be ing worse than it was at Marseilles. Should he live until January 3, 1886, Emperor William will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ancension to the throne of Prussia. The dwelling of II. A. Grayson, a prominent citizen residing near Gal veston, Texas, was destroyed by fire, and his wife perished in the flames. Miss Susan Morse, daughter of the late S. F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, suicided by jumping from a Spanish vessel en route to Havana. Two highwaymen stopped the stage between Pleasant Valley and Merced Falls, Cal., and relieved the passengers of their spare change to the amount ef $150, . . The Mexican Congress has ap proved a modified contract with Capt. Eads for a ship railway,, and the bill has gone to' the President for his sig nature. The police force of Laramie, Wyo-j ming Territory, are provided with blacksnake whips to use on all boys found on the streets after 10 o'clock at night. Geerge Wolf, a farmer, of Melrose, near Lansingburg, N. Y., recently sold his wife to Augustus Ham, his hired n, for $2.50. The lady weighed 200 pounds. W. H. Vanderbilt died suddenly of paralysis "til the brain at his home in New Yerk, December 8th. He willed the bulk of is immense fortune to his son Cornelius. The Cattle Growers' Association of Nevada, Idaho and Montana have raised if3000 to nav detectives for scouring the Snake iliver country for cattle thieves. Dennis P. Murnhv. official stenocr- - A i - - - rapher ofsc4he United States Senate, receives $25,000 per annum for report ing the debates, but out of that he pays for al assistance. A fit?ht occurred at Macon. Oa.. re cently, between white and colored coal miners. One white man and three negroes were killed, and a num ber severely injured. Miss Adelaide Cushincr. an accom plished young lady, committed suicide with a Distol near Monterey. Cal.. be cause her parents opposed her mar riage to the man ot her choice. At Akron. Ohio, a sewer which was hoinc constructed, caved in. burvinir seven laborers four were crushed to death and three others injured so badly that they will probably cue. Representatives of a syndicate, of which ex-jSecretary Windom is a member, report that money has been provided for the construction of 550 miles of the El Paso, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad. At a meeting of tiie New York Hoard of Trade and Transportation a resolution was adopted recommending that the compulsory coinage oi ine standard tilvcr dollar be suspended, and that the coinage of the silver dol lar be resumed only when demanded by the general interests of the country. PRODUCE MARKET. Portland. FLOUR Per hhl. KtnnHn4 Kr nAm $1.25: others. 2.2..(a 3.26. ' vvtitiAi-l'er rtl. vntTer, $1. 224 1.25: Walla Walla, 9l.I2.Ui5l.15. " BARLEY" YVIiol. ta rpnl.l 1 171. grounrt, B ton, $24(ws5. uais tJioiee mlillnK, 3o.i8c; choice feed ..58j. ft YE Perot', $1.MXS2. BUCKWHEAT FLOUR Per rtl. 84.00. CORN MKAL Per-otl. $2.fi03 CRACKED WIIbAT Per ctl, S3. HOMIN Y per ctl, 4.0.i. OATMEAL Per ctL 3.2.V23.fin. PKARL BARLEY -Per ctl, 3.0u&6 00. SPLIT PEAS-Per lb, .Jc. TAPIOCA Per lb. oAc. SAGO Per lb, c VERMICELLI Per It.. No. 1 ftl 2V 2,!. UUAN Per ton, $13. SHORTS Per tou, 15. MIDDLINGS Per ton, $2022. CROP Per ton, I8.i0 2u. HAY Per ton. hn.ll HTCnQ . OIL CAKE A1EAL Per ton, 832.50. HOPS Per th. lirvtrctn n.wtilnul- IVnuti Ter., do. ' BUTTER Perth fancv mil !W . Inplnn grade. i, pickled, 15(tf 20c. ' ' CHEESE Per lt, Oregon, 12igl3c; Call- i-GGS Per doz, 35c. DRIED FRUITS Pr It, nnl. ters. sacks and boxm. : An bIih in Hack and boxes, 44;' apricots, 15c; blackberries, 14 -J 5c; ueciarines. 15c; ueachen. halve iiniu-IH u..j,.ii.s u F. quartered, 7jto9; pitted cherries, 17c; pilteu plums, Calllorula, 8aaue: do Or- ejOU. i.8i:; currauU, 7i8; cUte. 9(3 luc; flK. Smyrna. 14 MM; California, 0; pruueH, C aliiornia, 7j(a8; Freuch, 10 12J; '.'urkisll. Vh(a,X; raiRin. Calilor..i l-.n. douluer.i. &',o a.50 o b,x: Iiumm Ainu. cdtels, 2 25; Seedless, lb, 12.; Sul tana, 12. c. RICE China. NTo. 1 St'A- An KV v M- Sandwich lsiuud. Nu 1. lb. 5 v. Jhiuii. 5c v lb. iJoAAb Per cental, nea. 82 51: Mina.ll whiten. 2.25 luum H... $3.10, Pik, ,25. ' VEGhTAliLES Deetn. 81: nt.l. Q- carroU. $1; cauliflower, o Uus. Bum a-. 12 .: ceiery, r luz., 7oc; weei. ouuttow. r lb.. lr lie; ouiii-. new. 14c. Luiiiiim.Mii. lc. Buinach. fc sack 4u. foiAluw-lVr, ack 4Ufc COc. uo. ftprintf, $1.002.10 old $2. ahuH.OJ; lut-kM. 4.uw; Kce. $o. Lit); turke. r nominal. liAAijj Per lb, Eatem, 12tu.i4 ; Or egou, 1110,12c. BACON- Per lb. Oregon ildet., 8 8ic;io shoulders, 7 . 7 LAltU ierib, Oregou,8. E-.iern, 8(fl) he. PICKLES Per 5-gal keg, $1.10; bbl, gal., 3Hi 32.- oUGAi.o Quote bbl: Cnb-, , 7$ dry granulated, "it-;. Hue crushed, 8;; Kldeu C 6c 'llONEY Extracted. 6c; comb. 15c ' COFFEE-Per lb, Guatemala, 2 ; Cota Kica, Oi" ..v.n men -iiiva. .tn ; Rio, 12,(a, 13c toalvado, li$c; Mocha, 22,g,J; Kona, 18c TEAS Young Hyson'. 25': Japan. 12(u55c: Oooiuii,. lo5c; Gunpowder ana Imperial. 25vuac SYitL'i' CuInViuia rvHuery in quoUxl i 42i- iu bbio. oc in keg and 1-gaJ. una 02,. CANNED GOODS-Salmon, 1 tt, tin, doz, $l.l.i; oyMens 2-Ib turn, doz, 2.2 ; lib tins. $1.4 1 .Joz; lobntent, 1-lb tin, V doz, 1 9 ; tl ni, 2 tt llim, f doz, 2 2.1.3; iua k re , o-lb tin, r doz, 8..jO. 8 75; fruit, doz t-u, $1.75 2.-u; jam a..d jeliie, V doz, tfl.Uu; vegetable. P UOZ, 1(0,1.00. FRESH FRUIT Apples, Oregon, new, K box, oUo 75; banana. bunch. 8:J.- 4: cranberries. W esiern. 1 !.(,() . l5.ou t bbl: grope, t box, 1(0-1.50; Lemon. Sicily, box, .7ig7.50; Limet, p 100, $1.25; pine apple, doz, $8.00; pear, box, 4U oc. SEEDS Per lb. timothr. 6:- rA clover, 14t.l5c; on hard grani, lOc; rye graaa, 14 loc. WOOL Eantem Oivaron. snrinarclln. 12 16ci? lb; fall clip, 10&14. Vallet Or egon, t-pring clip, llHalrfc; lamb' and fall, UlU 1UC. SALT Carmen Island, ton, 1517; Liver'KX)!, V tou, $1010; 5-lb ban for tablf l)(a5c NUTS California almonds, 100 lb feks, 15c; Brazil. 12 c; chetnut, lN&20c: cocoa nuta, $b(a7.-0; Uibert. 14c; hickory, 10c; peanut, 0ul2ic; pecans, 11c; California wal unt, U(g9 jc. fllDES ury, ie17c; salted, 6(&7. Man Franrlro. FLOUR Extra, 1.50a4.75 bbljsuper ine, 8.75(a 3.50. One. WHEAT- -No. 1 uhlpplng. 91.4141.41 81.30a l.35; Milling, 81.4 tf ctl; No. 2 L45. BARLEY No.l feed, 81.40(gl 42; brew, ing, $1.45va,l.f2J. OATS Milliner and Sirpn, $1.35(3 1.40 b etl: Feed. No. 1. $1.25ia 1.21; No. 2, 81.17(4,1.224. CORN Yellow. 17i1.20 tfctl; whlU, (1. 15(?. 1.20. RYE-1 25 1 1.274 etl. HOPS 7fe0c V lb UA Y-Barle. M0?ll..r0 ? ton; alfalfa, (9tvi2: wheal. $ 2.-iOYa. 55'. STRAW 75c(at 6c bale. ONIONS- Fr cn, 75 J. IS. POTATOES Early roe. 35(g'45c; river red. ;0o 4''xi ; awe t. 35c 00. BEANS Smad wkite. ftl.C5 41.U0 ctl; pea. 8, .05 u 1.9 ': pink, ft I. -Uk i,3 :red. 81.25 u l.H5 ouois 8i.3t il.45; butler, 81. In l.3-; lun.ix.8 .fict2.7-. HONEY t omb. 1 r13c lb for beet rade; i rained. ii' 5. CUE' SE California. 10 ' 12c V lb. UU'lTER-Frehh roll, go-d, 2 274c: choice, 3io; ian-, 3 3 c; pick in! run. cnoicr. i.7 v 3-V:; other grnde. 10 rf 17 EGGS- 35 40: f dozen lor Caliioruia; Katieru. 30 3 v.. Bonnet Versas Flour. It is a rpiesti'-m win-tier tha flour barrel r le spring bonne, h.is "lli9 C.dl" iu ous h Id discussion. Many old and ii e per meed observers st .ko their mon v oa tin S. 15.," while to a casual onlooker tie "K. R." would s 'i-m to be ot j. re iter I nporianee. It was jusL utr the cermo i, nn.l they were v en ling ther way bonis in a soolh ;d an I p ace.ul mm of in nd. 'Oh. Job. di i V4u ce th.it del glrfiil nw bonnet or Mis. Arbuin I think I w; nt something h! e that." 'Like h;tt? ' exc a mcd Mr. Shutllo. That: why, i.'s the woist phantasy in rag loses l ever saw " 'Now. Job. ou know better. That bonnet is a comp ete symphony In har monious tones, an e fleet that is perf ct lv bewitchirg, and I'll have one like it It" 1 have to werape the slivers otT the n side of the Hour barrel for the next kai of bread." JJartiord J'osL Christian ty is protected as the Stnto roXg'on la Mudaguscar. 'Ihe best au thorities place the number ol Protest- -ants t. c.-e a; :."0.0 HJ and Koman C.itl.o lcs3o,t0. .Education is compulsory, vino dislr'ct alone makes a reiuru of 100,000 puprU in the schools. I I. i i , 1 1. ! -"- - ' :- t ;