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THE COLUMBIAN.
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T. HELENS,
Columbia County, Oregon,
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E. G. ADAMS, Editor
A. B. ADAMS, - - - Associate Editor
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VOL. VI.
ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 31, 1885.
NO. 17.
A. B. AD AlfS. - - - Associate Editor
COLUMBIAN
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
I'ariflr CoHt, Kacttem and Foreign.
A number of Servian soldiers were
frozen to death in their tents.
The negro exodus from Southern
States to Arkansas ftill continues.
Henry Villard will soon return from
Berlin and reside in New York city.
Frank A. Call, a salesman, commit
ted suicide with a revolver at Boise,
Idaho.
Nearly 2(H) Chinamen have procured
naturalization papers at EI Paso, New
Mexico.
Three hundred eiear makers left
Chicago on a sinjcial train for San
Franc'sco".
Apache Indians amhu.-hed and
killed five soldiers near Silver City,
New Mexico.
Twenty-three thousand Germans
have petitioned the Reichstag to per
mit optional cremation.
Sam Wilton murdered Mrs. Ferry
man and her two children at Laurel,
Miss. II was lynched.
The steamer Hudson sank on Lucas
bar, fifty miles below St. Louis, with a
cargo valued at $15,000
Jack Sanders and V. L. Bacon, cow
loys, fought a duel at Fort Futterman,
Wyo., ami both were killed.
A train ran into a hand-car on the
N. 1. 1L R. near Helena, Montana,
instantly killing Mrs. Gunnon.
The tomb of W. H. Vanderbilt is
guarded constantly by four watchmen,
who will remain on duty all winter.
George Butler, a brakeman, was run
over and killed by a train on the
A. fc I'. II. R., at Manuelito, Arizona.
in twenty large towns of Iowa,
under the prohibitory law, the num
ber of saloons has increased sixty per
cent.
Henry Moore and Joseph Beddlein
crossing a railroad track near Lafay
ette, Ind., were struck bv a train and
killed.
A huge black bear held possession
of a street in Kalamazoo, Mich., re
cently, until he chose to take to the
timber.
Henry Warnaeke and James Mc
Whirter were killed by the explosion
of a grease-tank in a slaughter-house
at Nashville, Tenn.
Ex-United States Senator Sabin and
others recently purchased 80,000 acres
of land in one lot from the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company.
A Christmas tree became ignited in
the Count j' Hospital at Chicago, caus
ing a panic, and nearly 100 persons
were injured before it subsided.
A snowslide struck the mouth of
the Prodigal Son mine, near Silver
ton, Colo., tilling an 85-foot shaft and
burying Burk Hovey and J. M. Scales.
A Forestry convention was recently
held at Dcfuniak Springs, Florida.
Delegates from all the Southern and
several the Northern Slates were
pretV-
FearsSJe. entertained in London
that the British bark Nooshead, Cap
tain lVeles, which sailed from Sidney,
N. S. V., August 29, for Portland, Or.,
has been lost. ,
Two hundred masked men at Pine
Run, Penn., assaulted and had a tight
of two hours with a squad of non
union miners, one of the latter Ieing
fatally injured.
A cage containing fourteen men fell
fifty feet down the shaft of the Sango
man mine, near Springfield, 111. One
man was fatally and five others seri
ously wounded.
The present United States Congress
contains ninety-two former Federal
soldiers and- sixty-six Confederates.
Those who received a collegiate edu
cation number 138.-
An express train on the Utah &
Northern Iiailio:nl was thrown from
the track near Market Lake, Idaho,
and one man was killed and several
others badly hurt. " 1
At Dubuque, Iowa, John B. Mueller
I rove one chisel entirely through his
head and imbedded another in his
forehead to the depth of one and one
half inches. He is still alive.
An old man named John Wynne,
living near Spokane Falls, W. T.,
while hunting for stock in the woods
was shot and killed by one of a party
of hunters who mistook him for game.
An explosion of gas took ylace in
the Mill Creek mine at Wilkesbarre,
Pa., fatally injuring three men and
maiming several others. A driver-boy
had his right eye torn from its 6ocket.
There was a shower of fish at Cum
berland, Me., recently. For a radius
of about a mile small fish, resembling
smelt, were found in abundance. It
is supposed they were taken from the
bay in a water-spout.
Mrs. W. H. Hancock was murdered
with an ax in the hands of an un
known assassin at Austin, Texas.
A bout the same hour, a few .blocks
distant, James Phillips and his wife
met a similar fate.
P. O'Rourke, who loaned Horace
Greeley $1,000 to aid in starting the
New York Tribune, and who has ever
since had charge of the engine and
press rooms in that establishment,
dropped dead from heart disease.
The gold-mounted sword, sent by
President Cleveland to the Governor
of the Russian Province of Yakotuk,
arrived there after the death of that
official. It was then tendered to the
Czar, who ordered it placed in the
Imperial arsenal as a tribute of Amer
ican friendship.
The water of the Susquehanna river
at Nanticoke, Pa., broke through the
workings of a coal mine and entombed
thirty miners. After four days and
nights of futile efforts to rescue the
imprisoned men, all hope of finding
them alive was abandoned. A new
shaft will have to be sunk in order to
recover the bodieB. B
THE CREMATORIUM AT MILAN.
A L).trr:tiun of the Method of Incinera
tion KuipIoyeU There.
The crematorium stands at the far
end of the grounds, a building not
large or high, but witli its crescent
shaped open atrium of white marble
sufficiently handsome and imposing.
On the ft U-ze is this inscription: Tern
pio Crematorio per rotonfa del Alberto
Keller eretloe dontt- lla ciltutli Mitano.
On the wall facii the entrance is a
handsome medallio . of Albert Keller,
who was duly cremated in the temple
of his own providing. Many portions
of the. wall are marked oft' in small
tablets inscribed with the names of the
persons whose bodies have undergone
cremation, and whose ashes, in many
cases, repose in an urn or small vessel
in a niche belrnd tin tablet. Ashes
they are not, properly speaking. I
was shown about a couple of hamlftils
of white bleached bone, in bits not larger
than one's linger all that remained, sis
I l-arned, after the cremation of the
body of a man some ten stones in
wc ght. Other spaces have been ap
propriated by intending cremators, and
have the word "Assegnato" inserilx'd
on them. Through a small door you
pass from the atrium into what I may
describe as the operating room, in the
middle of which stands the enclosed
furnace, looking Ike an enlarged
edition of the family laundry copper.
The fire is kindled at the back of the
furnace, and when at the proper mo
ment released by the uplifting of iron
shutters, comes roaring through two
large orifices, and quickly fills the
whole of the space where lies its prey.
The body it caJaveo. as the attend
ant called it, seeming to take
great delight in repeating the
worths dressed in a light linen
or woolen shroud or rather costume,
is taken from the shell in which it has
been brought, and laid on a marble
slab, thence transferred to a large iron
tray, which is borne to the mouth of
the furnace and laid on a frame,
which, by the action of a winch, is
wound into the interior with its burden.
The iron door is then closed, the shut
ters, as described above, are raised,
and the furnace, to use an American
expression, is literally in full blat. At
the end of two hours the operation is
complete, and all that there remains of
what was once a man, full of "blood,
bones, marrow, passion, feei ng," are
"Two handful of white dust shut lu an urn
of brass."
The svstem at present in use is that
ot Paola Gorini; it takes, as I have
said, two hours and the consumption of
three hundred kilogrammes of wood
and twenty-nva kilogrammes of ekar
coal. The cost of everything, includ
ing the mural tablet, is ninety-four
francs. A new method, known as the
Systeme Venini, under which the incin
eration will be effected by gas, was
then immediately about to be tr ed, I
saw the furnace just completed, and Is
no doubt now in operation. Under
this svstem the whole atlair will be
completed in fifty minutes.
In this place, which was perfect lv
sweet. clean and wholesome, without
the faintest trace of anything calcu
lated to offend the sense of sight or
smell, there are about eighteen or
twenty cases of cremation every month.
They are, the attendant told me, de
c'dedlv on the increase, and were the
cholera scare again to appear, he had
no doubt, from what he had heard,
that thepractice would have large, num
bers of adherents. Already bod es for
cremation are sent from distant parts
of Italy, and on the next clay one was
expected from Paris. And. indeed.
when I thought of all the horrors ot
our ordinary "buryings," I could not
wonder at the desire to be quit of
them, no matter at wha; amount of
trouble or expense. London World.
THE ART OF GETTING HER.
A Man Sure of Success in His Love A flairs
if He (inn the Kiijlit Way About It.
Tis sweet to love; hut oh. how b.tter.
To love a al und then not git her.
The man who loves the right way can
always "git her."'
"A score of men made love to me,"
a'd an excellent Louisville lady, "and
mv one of thern might have had me
if he had studied the art of love-making
with the same care he would give
any time to a game of chess. I hold
Ioye-making as an art There is no
such thing as love at first sight. e
may adm're each other in the begiu-
n'ng. but immediate ailection is out of
the question. First impressions, no
matter how favora! 1 must be strength
ened bv artful cultivation. Then love
comes, anil if the man who sues makes
no mistake he is sure to win, no matter
what his condition may ue. Of course
he must talk well, dress respectably.
and, above all, wear clean linen and
keep his face free from dirt. If he does
ail this and sues judiciously no arrow
of misfortune can keep the victor's
wreath from ofl his crown. 1 might
add that one of the requisites' in per
sonal appearance is clean teeth. A
man may have a nose iikc a pumpkin,
or a mouth like a mammoth cae, or
eyes like a jay bird, a hand like a ham,
or a foot as big as a canoe, and he can
w'n, but if Irs teeth are not what a
gentleman's teeth ought to be he will
rui the day that he gave his heart to a
well-bred woman. He may be tall or
short, stout or lean, with a voice like a
fog-horn and a carriage as ungraceful
asthe amble of a camel, and he may
et win any woman in the. world if he
tud i s her with care and keeps his
teeth clean. Louisville Commercial.
Mr. W. (J. Gra-, of Paulding
County, is in some degree a remarka
ble man. He is nearly sixty years old,
we'glts two hundred and fifteen pounds,
and is stUl fattening. He has repre
sented Paulding County twice in the
Legislature. In all his life he has
never wh stkd.sang a song or hallooed.
He has never used tobacco in any way.
He has never cursed an oath. Last,
but not least, he has never been drunk.
Macon (da.) Telegraph.
A Toronto Judge refused the appli
cation of certain petitioners for the
incorporation of a club for rowing,
tailing, yachting and other social
1 sports, on the ground that the peti-
doners were too oiu ior sucn exercises.
FIREMEN'S HATS.
Delts anil Trumpets Mora Volunteer
Companies Thn Formerly Interesting
FolntJ.
Wit'.i all the changes in the styles
of hats the old regulation fireman's hat
holds its own," said one of the oldest
dealers in firemen's equipments in the
city to a reporter. The place was a
little store on a down-town cross street,
and the dealer was found busily at work
attaching small red-leather letters to
strips of white leather by means of glue,
'The regulation fireman's hat to
day Is the same shape as it was long be
fore we bean business, and that is
twenty-live, years ago," he a Id id.
They are lighter weight, but that is
the only d flereuce. We make them
usually of black, but there are fire com-
K a lies who prefer olored ones, and we
ave made thm in all colors. Just
now we are liliing an order for a lot in
a bluish-gray color. The chief part of
u fireman's hat is made of oak-tauneJ
sole leather, fastened to a framework of
strong wire."
"Y hat are the prices?" was asked.
"The usual price is from $4.50 to 5
each, but I have made fancy ones for
presentation purposes that cost as high
as $7.0. Von may think it a. little
strange, but we send a good many of
them to South America. Another fact
that may interest the public is that
Cuba has the largest lire company in
the world. Why, we have made over
two thousand equipments for Cuba and
Havana. The reason this company is
the largest known is becauso the whole
lire department there is called one com
pany. It is known as Boiuljeros del
Comereio No. 1. The hat is black and
the front shield is the same, on which
are the letters in red giving the name
of the company. These letters arj all
cut by hand. There are very few man
ufacturers ;f this kind of goods iu th
country aud'only three or lour in this
city. Put there are many supplying
agents who travel about the couutry
taking orders for anything a lire com
l any needs." -
iiut don't you make any of the hats
of a shape diilerent from the 'regula
tion' patt ;rn?"
Oh, ye -, a cood many. Some of the
companies wanting to be peculiar have
ordered some of helmet shape, like
policemen's hats. Put the style doesn't
last, for, after wearing them a short
time, the companies usually come back
and want the regulation shape. Hy
regulation we mean the hat used by
bo'.h paM and volunteer departments.
It has four large cones, and between
these four smaller ones. For service
no better hat is made, and on parade
they are the most becom'ng to firem?n.
Care is alwavs taken to Jbave sufficient
ventilation w thout in'uring the strength
of the hat. For officers and presenta
tions we frequently make them with
fancy embossed rim and gold leather
fronts, on wh eh is painted a. steamer,
hose carr age, or truck. In these fancy
hats the pecul'arity is in the great num
ber of coues. For instance, the 'Prize
Chicago Tournament' hat had 16 cones,
and one that wc had at the Centennial
had 320 conns, the largest number
ever known to have been put in a singlo
hat.
"The fact is," added the speaker,
"that the companies haug tiie best
e ju pments ami who take most pride in
their work are the volunteer companies.
As for the volunteer organizations de
creasing in number, as is generally
supposed, the contrary is the case.
There are more volunteer conipanio in
existence n .w than formerly. Take it
in the towns close to New York. Kach
one has volunteer lire companies, and
they are composed of young business
men in some of the largest houses of
this city. They make a sort of social
club of their company as well, and at
the same time are exempt from any jury
dutv."
"What do belts cost?"
'Ordinary ones come at SI.. 10 to $2.
Put I have prize ones for m high as $30
and --iO. A new thing in the i.reman's
trumpet line is one twelve inches high
that will throw the voice as far as any
of a larger size, is more convenient to
handle, and can be carried in the over
coat pocket. It first was introduced by
the Auburn Fire Department. A trumpet
double-plate I in silver with bell and
mouth-piece, gilt, and twenty inches
high, costs from 20 to $3. A". 1".
31 ail aud JJxpress.
A NOVEL PUNISHMENT.
How the Czar Alexander II. Punished lilt
Trdueer.
A young poet had written a most
scurrilous poem, in which he had de
scribed and libeled not only the Em
press, but also all the Grand Dukes and
Duchesses. Some one, the censor of the
press, went and told the Empress. "The
man had better be sent olf to Siberia
at once." he said; "it is not a case for
delay."
"Oh, no," said the Empress; "wait a
little, but tell the man I desire to see
him at six o'clock to-morrow evening."
When the poor man was told this, he
felt as if his List hour was come, and
tfiat the Emperor must intend himself
to pronounce a sentence of eternal exile.
He went to the palace, and was shown
through all the grand state rooms, one
after another, without seeing any one,
till at last he arrived at a small, common-place
room at the en I of them all,
where there wm a s'ngle table wi h a
lamp upon it, aud there he saw the Em
press, the Emperor and all the Grand
Dukc.i and Duchesses whom he had men
tioned in his poem.
II jv do you do, sir?' said the Em
peror. "I hear jou have written a most
beautiful poem, and I have sent for you
that you read it aloud to us yourself,
and 1 have invited all the Grand Dukes
and Duchesses to come, that tiny may
have the ph a tire of hearing you."
Th n the poor man prostrated him
se'f :it the Emperor's feet. "Send me
to : ib. r a, sire, ' he said; "force me to
become a sol lier; only do not compel
me to read tlr.it poem."
"l.h, sir, you are cruel to refuse me
the pleasure, but you will not be so un
jallaut as to refuse the Empress the
pleasure of hearing your verses, and she
W.ll ask you herself."
And the Empress asked him.
When he had finished she said: "I
do not think he will write any more
verses aloutus again. He need not 'o
to Siberia ju.it yet." Studies in BussFj.
ROUGH EXPERIENCE.
Great Chance for ties Du ring to Buy
a Xiee, (ieirtle Rowing Machine.
The other da-, while temporarily in
sane, I bought a rowing machine. My
appetite had been diminishing for some
time and I felt in need of a little vigor
ous exercise. At least, I thought I did.
So I invested some of my numerous
shekels in the "Eureka Warranted Steel
Spring, Oak Body, Health and Happiness-Producing
Rowing Machine, best
in the world!"
After paying the express charges,
which were larger than the machine
itielf, I carried the thing up to my
room, trailing the name after me all the
way up. Once in the privacy of my
own chamber, 1 proceeded to unravel
the mysteries of it.
The man at the store where I bought
it had explained everything to me so
fully that I was sure I had it down as
tine as an alderman's virtue. But alas!
for the frailty of poor human nature
I got the thing together after awhile,
so that it looked like the cut on the cir
cular which accompanied it. Iiut there
were several little parts of the engine
that could not be shown on the cut and
with characteristic perversity I failed to
adjust these. However, it looked all
right, aud I proudly called the sane
members of the household up to admire
my shape and see me paralyze the ma
chine. I was going to show" them that
there was at le.i.-t one oarsman in the
family. In fact, I had very serious
thoughts about challenging llanlau.
Now this particular E. W. S. S. O. B.
H. & II. P. R.-M. etc. was of an aristo
cratic temperament and seemed unwil
ling to work unless everything was just
right. So when I grasped the oars,
looked confident and proceeded to
"museularize," the confounded inven
tion vetoed the business then and there.
At the first stroke it protested. It did
this in a very vigorous manner. It ele
vated its head, reared up on its hind
legs and began to spill me around in a
manner calculated to till a mule with
envy.
Then as if not content with this re
buke, it fell over on top of me, and we
had a short struggle, the machine at
length forcing me down and sitting
square on my face, and covering my
noble brow with a bruise abont as big as
a banana.
A look of pain immediately ' wended
its melancholy way across niy very mel
ancholy countenance, leaving its foot
marks to show future pitying genera
tions the course it had taken.
Then I got mad. The idea of a little
machine not able t staml on the floor
without something to hold it, having the
impudence to use run in that familiar
manm r. Ii was too much for my usual
good temper, and if I had not been too
busy extracting the leg of the machine
from my mouth. I would certainly have
made use of some very un-Sunday-school-like
remarks. As it was, I
thought considerable. My ear was'still
tingling with the effects of a very loving
embrace. It tingles at the touch yet,
from the same cause.
As I said before, I did not swear, for
the very good reason that I couldn't, I
never yet saw a man who could spit out
a decent cuss word with one corner
of an outrigger, slidiug-seat. rowing ma
chine jammed firmly iu his face. Bat
my thoughts would look awful in type.
In fact I do not think they could be ex
pressed in print under any considera
tion. While the female portion of the family
was giggling aud the other part roaring
outright. I proceededtoari.se, and after
getting myself from letween the floor
and my tormentor, I succeeded in doing
so. The lirst thing I did then was to
relieve niy feelings. This I did in such
an energetic manner that the atmos
phere in my luxurions boudoir took on
a line ultamanne tint, and some lu
cifer matches lying on the gold-trimmed
marble mantle were ignited.
After administering this much-needed
relief to my outraged feelings, I pro
ceeded to arrauge things. My danden
was up so high that it got tangled in my
beautiful, coal-black locks, and I was
resolved to ride that many-nanied fiend
of a machine or die. I shudder now to
think of the odds that were in favor of
my dying.
After a little investigation I found the
cause of my misfortune to be a small,
innocent-looking eyebolt with which 1
did not fasten the machine to the fl-Mjr.
The bolt feeling slighted, "no ilouht, had
taken revenge by allowing the machine
to act in the outrageous manner iu
which it did.
However, after properly adjusting the
eyebolt and making sure, as 1 thought,
that everything was all right, I again
took my seat with a just-see-how-easy-it-is
look on my classic features. For
the second time I grappled with the oars
and swung grandly acd majestically
into motion. For the first two or three
strokes everything went along as
smoothly as a fat man on a banana peel.
Then something seemed to give way.
The machine had evidently woken up
to business after the quiet little nap it
had taken on my shirt-bosom, and had
settled right down to arealization of the
fact that it had a mission in this Lfe to
perform and meant to perform it. I do
not know exactly how it happened, but
when loving hands had picked me out
of the plate-glass mirror and tied a
string around me to keep the pieces to
gether, I had a faint idea that my ma
chine had challenged a dynamite factory
to play baso-ball, and that I was umpire
in the gam that followed.
My ambition to become a gieat oars
man evaporated right there. Mean
while the machine stands, or rather lies,
just where it landed after the little toot,
nobody in the house having the courage
to approach it. If any of the Sun' a
readers wants to buy a nice, gentle,
easy-going young rowing machine,
strong, reliable and every way true,
trained to single or double harness, aud
warranted docile and to keep in any
climate, he may be able to arrange very
advantageous terms by calling on
Jo Quinn-, Charity Hospital.
PecVe Sun.
It is announced that an English in
rentor has lately devised a method of
coating tin with" a material resembling
glass, which removes all danger of poi
son in canned goods.
WALKING.
The Measures Kxperienced by the lutein
geut I'edpgtrlan.
We have people amongst us who con
sider walking vulgar, and who imagine
that they would lose their dignity if
they left their carriage. They do not
object to be driven through the coun
try, either in diligence or coach and
pair, and have the scenery served up to
them like fresh varieties on a fete day
or new paintings in this season's ex
hi itions; but to ask them to tread the
same quartz-grit on the hard highway
which the common tramp claims free
dom of, is to ofler them an indignity
which their, lo ty souls resent. After
all. if we a o not mistaken, the free,
unfettered tramp, if he has anything
like an observant spbit has the best of
it. He can make le ies on all nature.
For him the sunshine has a greater
jow and the moon in the falling twi
light a lets cold smile. The jolly mil
ler can give him the merry laugh and
the frankest hospitality; while the
grandee is permitted to roll past
in his carriage without ha: ing teuchei'
such Arcadian sweets. For him 'n the
flower-fringed by-path in tlie shelter
ing wood and for him the moss
wreathed wayside well. The plow
boy's wluV.le and the milkraai i's song"
are his by p-ocr ptive right; and if he
can bear vi;h him a pure heart, a love
for honest labor aud a reverence for
ih e Civer of all good we think that he
is happier than hU richer neighbor who
dare not go afoot.
No one looks so kindly and so lov
i ''gly b nature as he who walks. A
long stretch on foot in the open co m
try, in the face of the bugle-breezes of
nioru in the full glorv of noonday, or
ia the tender, fa iing luster and sacred
shadows of twilight, is a human experi
ence that tends alike to be tow physical
stro'tglh aud intellectual power and
joy. The man who walks abroad with
a keen eye and a receptive soul will get
in one dav more of the beauties of na
ture in all their rounded perfection in
co'or. in tint, and in sound than he
could obtain by the study of books
through many a silent and thoughtful
niht.
No matter the season of nature, and
no nvitter the mood, she is always
shining and fair, even when she falls
into her winter sleep of untainted and
untouched silence, covered over with
suow-wreaths of exquisite puiity.
curve and grace. And- what for
mat -bless outline and tint can
equal a snow-wreath Ling across your
path on a crisp, c ear winter afternoon,
with the western sky as ruddy and
aglow like molten ore. and the solemn
pine tree 1 ft ng their dark green
feathery branee mi I way between the
u'lsull e l stretch of snow and thideep
au.e of th holy twilight comiugfroni
the east, bringing w.th it the silent,
friendly stars? Do you think that ths
term Iriendlv" is out of place w th
reference to the stars? I hope not. How
those glorious lights look down wpo-i
u- w th 1 n rer.ng. loving luster from
the m dn ght sk es! Ea.u one seems as
if it weii aa augel's eye ga.ing on us
w th watchful care. And. as we mark
the constellations, and learn of the r
slow, silent march across the dark, sol
emn dome of heaven, we learn uncon
sciously to give th m a personality,
a d treat them as friends- There is
Orion, in his mass v.s grandeur, mor
in x rour.d our sleeping world like a
s Mitinel from a' o. e. majestic, sol -m ,
awful a co sst.llation whose p itioa
seeim to be assured through counties,
ages. Then there are the Pleiad js
those sweet s .e j s"nt rs of the heav
ens, whose pul-ating rays compass
every coior of the rainbow as they
lililtpi- like a swarm of fireflies
Tanyle't in a niiver brai'l."
The Qui. er.
"PATENT MFDICINtS."
A Misnomer to Tims Chtir.ictj-rlre Iri
lrl fury K .mettles.
- The name "patent medicine" is a
misnomer, there being no patents on
mod c n.s. In the infancy of the bus -n
ss. it was the custom of the inventors
of these anie'e. lo secure patents, but
no great amount of experience was
necessary to convince them that it was
not a good plan. In order to secure a
patent it was necessary to state tin in
gredients and the formula for the'r
prepatation. and these being thus
made public property, any one cmfd
make the goods as well a9 themselves
so m order to ma ntain the secrec
which they found indispensable totli ir
success, tuey were compelled to aban
don th? patent system altogether. B it
the Government- still affords them a
measure of protection by its system of
recording and protecting a trade-mark.
The manufacturers of the propretary
med c nes therefore adopt soma dis
tircLive device to be found oa the t
packages or bottles, and. this ba ng re
cord d. a counterfeit of it can not
be put upon the market w.th ut
an ttifr ng. ment of the co,n light
law and conse juent suit for
damages. This fact has not. however,
pre eilted the counterfeiting bei ir
done by imitative persons vrho found
pro it in tiie business; and lawsuits in
numerable have grown out of the in
fringements which hae come to public
no ice to say nothing of tho.e whi.:h
remained undiscovered. To no small
extent the manufactured medicines of
the day have been the results of the ef
forts of people to doctor themsel.es.
In the old t mes the women of the
family were exceedingly fond of pre
paring root and hero teas and extracts,
some of them of undoub ed value:
doctors often experimented iu the same
direction, ami what was more natural
than that, when a doctor found a cer
tain aitic'.e producing good results in a
disease, he should keep on uing it and
finally, becoming a specia'ist in that
direction, should conceal the ingredi
ents o: his physir and either sell the
.leeret to some one who was desirous o!
undertaking its manufacture as a bu i
ness, or sho dd undertake the manu
facture for himself. This has been the
history of several of fie Lest known
proprietary art e'es now on t' e mar
ket. IJoilon Globe.
By sowing a bushel of salt to the
acre a Fayette County (Missouri)
futu'r believes he has sncceded in
k e ing his aveiage of twenty-live
ou-he's of wheat to the acre mai.i
taii.ed for year.
II using.
Life
Bn3ath the broad elm's pleasant shade
Wli3re Neil and I, ciiild lovars, played
I tarr el.
Ye?, Nail, wa've changed sinc3 thenVs true,
I'm gray haired, old and wiser. You
Are married.
Pra7 toll if ycu, as I, e'er dream
O." child hool's hours; anl if they seem
As sweat.
Or is your life with fusi anl care
For what to eat, and what to wear,
Complete?
Ah, Mrs. Jones, no doubt vcu think
For memory's pan-s thj shjkeli' clink
A una.
Twai all for rbym, that cynics sigh,
Bjcaue, my gentle realer, I
Am Jone .
A Lorer of Ilish Art.
- Harper's Ba'.ar
Mrs. T3 Crossus Ryan (who has juH re
turued from her first vuit to Europe, to tl
horror of her daughter, whom she hat
brought back frrm a couven; ii Paii)
Well, I ea joyed as mcc'i as anything else
there the statury, and cf all them, give nid
the Apoller Billadonna anl the dying Gla
diolus I'm Thcebaw,
O Burmah,
With delirium tramen I'm suffer in'.
I'm the re J -hand d ore of Mind a lay,
1 butcher a man or two every day,
Save when I'm ill and my mood is mill.
When I slay a woman, or else a child ;
My claws are lik those of tha boasts I own,
And Burnish's jungle, I range alone;
I'm a wolf in clothes on a reeking throns,
I in a tawny brute with a taste for blood
And a great contempt for the threatening
Lud
Dafftr.'n;
Lot him come with his troops; I will eat
tham raw!
I ta hungry anl uglv, I'm old Thjebaw,
Of Burraa'i;
With delirium tremens I'm sufferin' !
Chicago Tribune.
Tiahlctn.
C'ncian&ti Merchant T.avjler: "For par
ticulars so 3 small bdls," said the candliate,
handing his ward lijuteuant a roll of
nioniV.
Providence Slar: A Cb.3patchet girl
wants to know how to cure a tickling a m
sati)n about the facj. Tell h in to go gat a
clian shavv
Ciiicago Lodger: Joaquin Miller say?
that no man evjr wrote anything good on
au empty stomach. Is this anotuor fling at
the struggling couatr- elitor?
Njw York Siar: 7he presldnt wislv de
clinod to kUs a baly at tha WbUe Ho i o
yes'erJay. Hi oulv sul: "Kutc y,
kufcchy," from a safe d'nta icj.
Tjomasville (Ua. ) E -quirei : We r fre
quantly askJ if tje marr a-s i amors w
refer to luc uda ourself. No, inquiring
frienls, no; wi on! have our own consent
atpresv.it.
Ilttaburg C mti ercial Gazeit. : Jar'Gou'.d
gave whisky tweuty-liva yoars ago,
s ncj which time he has male $5(1 JOJ.OOi.
S mi inn will sacrifice everything for
money.
Caicago Njw3; With om dimpbd hand
on her l?af lard and the other on her base
ball club, Chicago draws harself up to her
full majestic height, and, in the language
of Cornelia, prou Uy exclam ,: "These are
my jewels."
Milwaukes Journal: There is an Indian
in the Chrok-)e tribe, in the territory, who
is 94 years of age, and does all of his own
work. Ihi fact is chiefly curious as show
ing that there I an ago at which In'lians
will work.
Chictgo Journal: William Shakespeare
has been aipointel postmjiB'er at Kala
mazoo, Mich. It is to te bopd that no
gentleman named Bacon will start up and
claim that the appointment was intenled
for him.
New York Tiniis: "And did you tamsly
stand by and p2rmit Smith to call ycu a
bar an i a coward?' 4,Not much, I didn't.
I'm not that kind of a man." "What did
yi udof "I hurried off and saw my law
yer. I've got throe witnesses, and the case
comes up to-day."
Puck: Client (in his lawyer's ofllce)
Ilave you read this Mormon lu'iness
lately It's enough to raakj a man's IJool
boil to soa tha contempt thos3 people have
for the sanctity of the marriage relation
er how is my di vorce cr s - coming oaf
lrnanimoulr Excused.
Lincolnton (Ga ) News.1
We beg the inlulgenc? of our readers for
shortcomings for the past two weeks. Have
Len physically disorgauizsl by hiving had
a wagon roll across our troubled cranium
and experiencing the lusty blows of a Gjor
gia mule sprinkled up and down our back.
Hal a narrow escape lor our life. We
promise, however, not to be guilty of the
tike soon, Djo volente,
A rieanant Memory of Little Clara.
Roches: er Democrat.
Little Clara Abb;?-, whose pare its res't'
on fc'eio stree , was Lurijd y st.-rdav. 8jo
was 5 years o.d. A fewuayj before hor
death she drew ttn p.cturo of a dog and cat
ou her slate, and callln-j hor mother's at
:eat on to it, esai!: A c;t oughtn't to
have but fjur le.B, tut 1 drew it with six
legs, so that thj coull run away from the
do3."
A Souvenir.
Hamilton Spectator.
Willie kissel Busie beneath tue ro.e;
The rose was in Lud and the corn in il
ear.
And thi tip o rouse o l the tip of his no e
Remained with Willie as a Sou veneer.
A ItasU for Trust.
Bos to a Beacon.
Jack Grandma, have you gool tethl
Grandma No, dear. Unfortunately I
have not.
Jacic Then I'll give you my walnuts
to keep till I coma back.
Um the Prince of Wales Kentucky IJlood?
Life.
London Truth announces that the Print
of Wales is colon 3l of over fort Eugi.h
regiments, and the statement is creating a
dark suspicion that he ha. Kentucky blood
In bis veins.
BrlTD
PRODUCE MARKET.
Portland.
FLOUR Per bbl. standard brand.
$.25; others. 2.25f3.2d.
WHEAT Per ctl. valley, S1.22lfel25'
Walla Walla, f 1.15&1.25. "
BARLEY Whole, hi rental i 171-
ground, ton, $245.
OATS Choice millini?. S.'k&.'iHf rhrl.
feed, i'dfL'Soc.
RYE Per ctl, $i.60rt2.
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR Per ctl. E4.00.
CORN MEAL Per ctl. $2.60ta3.
CRACKED WIIEAT-Per ctl, S3.
ROM IN Y Per ctl, 4.00.
OATMEAL Per ctl, 3.25a3.50.
PEARL BARLEY Per cU, 5.00a0.00.
SPLIT PEAS-Per lb, 5ic.
TAPiOCA-Perlb,G4c.
SAGO Per lb, (Sc.
VERMICELLI-Per It.. No. 1 1 5.-; V
2,81.
lilt AN Per ton, 813.
SHORTS Per ton, 813.
MIDDLINGS Per ton, 82lXgi2.
CHOP Per ton, 18.50 jr.a.
HAY Per ton. baled, 87(?9.
OIL CAKE MEAL Per ton, 832.50.
HOPS Per lb. Oreoron. nominal-
Ter.,do. ' " '
IS UTTER Per Ib.faacv roU,30c; inferior
grade. 12; pickled, 15fe20c.
CHEESE lr th. liNmn V&1L- r.ii.
fornia, 12(&13c.
LGUS Per doz, 25c.
DHlKn URIIIT.5 n. i-
-.-wr . f jjjicra, uuns-
terft. HfLfkii adH hnT.il VI rn
F " waw, vg, DilWVU, u
sacks and boas 44(95i; apricots, 15c;
uiacKucirien, migiiuc; nectarines, lwc;
Deaches. halve unnw.lul uim nu nanm
Quartered. 7Afa9: nitLrd rh prri(u 1 Tin-
pitted plums, Caliiornia, SYadOc; do Or
egon, 7Kac; currants, 78: dates. Wdl
lUc; liKs, Smyrna, lua-20; California, 0;
prunes. California, lo; French, 10v124;
iurkish, OiCoJ; ramms, California Lon
don layers, 82.i5Coi3.50 V box; loose Mus
catels, 82.25; Seedless, . lb, 12c; Sul
taua, 12&c. !
Sandwich Islands. No. 1, lb, 5c; Japan,
5c lb.
liiiAAb Per cental, pea, 82.50; small
whites. 82.25: Imvoh. Sty.yfi. limn
83.00; pink, 82.25.
VGETAHr.ES-nt 1- !.
carrots. 81: cauliflower, a i ui,i v.-
celery, V doz., 75c; sweet potatoes, IP lb.)
itti onions, new, lie: turnips. V Ib.
le; spinach, V Back, 40tt&0c.
i u i ai ui-.a 'er, sack 40ft 00c.
POULTRY Chicken. , ,r.wn.
81.0(2.t0; old. 82.50Ca 3.00; ducks. 81.00;
geese, 8o(&7.50; turkeys, p lb, nominal.
i012c.
HAMS Per lb. Eastern, l2i14ic; Or
egon. ll12c.
BACON Per lb, Oregon sides, 8 $ 84c; do
shoulders, 7fe7i.
LARD Per lb, Oregon, 8; Eastern, 9
10c.
PICKLES Per 5-gal keg, 81.00; bbls,
to UGa'rS Quote bbls: Cube, 71; dry
granulated, 7Jc; lino crushed, 8c; Kolden
C, 0c.
HONEY Extracted, Oc; comb, 0j.
COFFEE Per lb; Guatemala, 124; Costa
Rica, lUfellJc; Old government Java, 18
LO.; Rio, 12ig,13c; Salvado, 104c; Mocha,
22(ai; Kona, 18c, " . - -
- 1EAS Youn Hyson," ZodC&c; Japan. .
I2feooc; Ooolong. lavbtdc; Gunpowder and
Imperial. 25jiooc.
SYRUP California refinery is quoted
at 42Jc in bbls, 52Jc in kegs and 1-ual.
tins 02.
CANNED GOODS Salmon, l ib tins,
doz, 81.15; oysters, 2-lb tins, doz, 82.2
lib tins, 81.4U V doz; lobsters,
l-lb tins, doz, 810J; clsms, 2-lb tins, f
doz, 82(? 2.05; mackerel, 5-lb tins, V doz,
8.50 8.75; fruits, fc doz tins, 81.75 2.50;
jams and jellies, p doz. 81.00; vegetables.
P doz, 8 1 (& 1.50.
FRESH FRUIT Apples, Oregon, new,
V box, 50cCa75; bananas, V bunch, 83 4:
cranberries, Western. 811.00(12.00 r bbl:
grapes, V box, 83.t0; Lemons, Sicily. V
box, 87(7.50; .Limes, V 100, 8L25; pine
apples, doz, 88.00; pears, p box, 75g
SEEDS Per, R, timothy. 5c; red
clover, 1415c; orchard grass, 16c; rye
grass, 14gl5c.
WOOL Eastern Oreeron, spring clip, 12
lbc lb; fall clip, 1014. Valley Or
egon, spring clip, 10(s,18c; lambs' and fall.
UfelOc.
SALT Carmen Island, ton, 815C217;
Liverpool, V ton, 8 16 19; 5-tt bags for
table, 4J(a.5c.
NUTS California almonds, 100 lb sks,
15c; Brazil, 124c; chestnuts, 18&20c; cocoa
nuts, 80fe7.5; filberts, 14c; hickory, 10c;
peanuts, 0Cal2Jc; pecans, 14c; California
walnuts, l9ic.
HIDES Dry. 16dl7c; salted. 67.
Man Franc-laco.
FLOUR Extra, 84.504.75 V bbl; super
tine, 82.753.50.
WHEAT No. 1 shipping. $1.40:31.41
Pctl; No. 2, 81.30&1.35; Milling,
1.45.
BARLEY No.l feed, 81.401.42i; brew
ing, 81.45l.f,24.
OATS Milling and Surprise. $1.35:3
1.40 ctl; Feed, Ne. 1, 8L25(gL274; No. 2,
81. 17& 1.22J.
CORN Yellow, S17i1.20 tfctl; whlt,
81.15:1.20.
RYE-81.25fel.27J tfctJ.
HOPS 7(& Uc V lb.
HAY Barley. 810ll.f0 V ton; alfalfa,
012; wheat, $ 1 2.50(015.5 J. '
STRAW 75c(tt. 5c bale.
ON IONS Per ctl, 751.15.
BEANS Small white, 1.65(31.90 ctl;
pea. 81.05 1.9J; pink. 81.20(1.30; red, $1.21
(41.U5: bayos, 81.3tK.1.45; butter, $1.10(0)
1.30; linias,82.60(&2.75.
POTATOES Early rose, 3545c; river
reds, 30c(a 45c; sWeetf. 35c40O.
HONEY Comb, 1013e lb for best
grades; strained. f)$(ti54c.
CHEESE-California. 10gl2c V IK
BUTTER Fresh roll, good, 227ic;
hoice, 30(g32; fancy, 3i(a37c; pickled
roll, choice, 27iC430c; other grades, 10(U7c.
EGGS S5'i 40c V dozen for California;
Eastern, 30 32c
Mr. Terriss, of the Lyceum Thea
cr, London, has ljeen awarded the
ncdal of the Royal Humane Society
or a gallant act. On the 9th of August
hree lads were bathing near Deal, when
one of them was seized with cramp
-.oout two hundred yard? from tha
horc, and shouted for assistance. Mr.
lerriss and his eon were sailing; close
hy, about a mile from the east of the
South Foreland. He at once lowered
his lugsail, and, without divesting him
self of any of bis clothes, plunged over,
board, and swimming out seized th
fad j ist in time, for he had sunk twice. .
Mr. Terriss' son, twelve years of age,
threw out a rope, which hb fathe
grasped when ho was clutched by the
urowning lad.
A prize fight was arranged, between
voung women in Australia. The pu-
two
g 1 st came up defiant and jaunty for the
first round, which ended in. a mutual
knockdown, each receiving a blow
Kiuarely in the nose. At the expiration
of the allowable interval the referee
called Time!" but the antagonists had
lost all vim, and both, were weep'ng
over the possible disfigurement of their
faces a calamity compared with which
the loss of the fight was nothing. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
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