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Columbia Connty, Oregon.
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E. 0. ADAMS.
A. B. ADAMS,
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E. Q. ADAMS, -A.
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VOL. VI.
ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 17, 1885.
NO. 15.
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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.
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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.
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