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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1901)
WHEN LOVE WENT BY. When Love went by I scarcely bent My eyes to see which way he went. Life had so many Joys to show, - What time had I to watch him go, Or bid him in, whom folly sent? But when the day was well nigh spent, From out the casement long I leant. ; Ah, would I had been watching so When Love went by I , Gray days with dismal nights are blent, Lonely and sad and discontent; I would his feet had been more slow. Oh, heart of mine, how could we know Or realize what passing meant When Love went by? Woman's Home Companion. r T was the yellow kitten who did it,' 11 Miss Priscllla Price said at the church social In her most positive manner, and no one, not even Mrs, 'Lias Miller, pretended to contradict her. "It's the truth, Indeed,',' Mrs. Sarah Crump agreed, with her fat, comfort able chuckle, and the society in a body responded, "That's so." Yes,' the yellow kitten was responsi ble for the wedding that was to come oil to-morrow and that would thus unite forever not only two very attract ive young people, but also the well known families of Price and Campbell. But we have begun at the wrong end of the story, for Miss Priscllla ought to have made, and In fact did make the remark about the yellow kitten at the end of the narrative, and not at the beginning. " And thus, to get things straight, we will start over again in the old-fashioned orthodox way. Once upon a time (not so very long ago, either) the little village of Plne ville flourished like a green bay tree. It is true it had not arrived at trolley cars or electric lights, but it was a very charming place to visit nevertheless. Bicycling was not entirely unheard of, though those who rode were scarce a few visitors at the summer boarding . house In the little hills Just outside the village had Introduced the wheel, but the most conservative Plnevillians, Miss Prtscilla Price at the head, quite frowned down upon the sport, and Miss Rebecca Slow has said, in season and out of season, that "if any niece of hers so dpmeaned herself as to be guilty of such an unladylike, worldly amuse ment she would be sorry, that's all," and then an expression of having al ready made a will would pass over her austere countenance. But to the story! There were two prominent families in the village who had lived there since the very existence of the settlement, and with whom all the best people craved to be connected In some way. They were the Campbells and the Prices, and Miss Priscllla, who insists upon getting Into print Just as If she were a heroine, was one of the most respected members of the latter tribe. As it has been hinted before, this Is an old-fashioned story, and has a genuine heroine, to wit, Mabel Camp bell. Of course, there is a hero, too, whom the girls said "was just too weet to live," and their mothers de clared that he was a perfectly safe young man, while the fathers and brothers, though not going quite so far, had only good words to say of Charlie Price, at your service. Now the "gentle reader" or, as some writers prefer to say, the "fair reader," has doubtless guessed the sequel. Charlie was in love with Mabel, and the wedding, though properly opposed by the powers that were, was a natural consequence. But where or when did the yellow kitten come In? All in good time, my friends. The Campbells and the Prices had a feud of long standing, originating In the years gone by over the fence boundary, each head of the family claiming twelve feet more of ground than the other considered his due. For tunately this feud was conducted In a quiet and perfectly lawful manner, and poison, bowie knives and pistols did not figure In it But the feud was a posi tive one, notwithstanding. No Camp bell or Price had ever been known to shake hands, not even at a church so cial, which Mrs. 'Lias Miller and Miss Rebecca Slow denounced far and wide as "onObristlanlike." But In spite of the disapproval of many of their com mon friends, there was apparently no chance of any of the members making up until well. Just before this story was written. The places adjoined, as the disputed boundary line suggested; In fact the whole village had grown up around them, and what was once an old coun try lane where their gates stood, was now a smart village street. As children, our hero and heroine had several times displayed much contempt for the family fuss, and had been seen playing together, though often forcibly separated by Indignant parents with threats of being sent supperless to bed If the offense was repeated. Evidently they bad inherited none of the ill feel ing of their ancestors, which wag mighty unnatural, Miss Priscllla thought, though, as she always said, he blamed the mothers on both sides who certainly had not inculcated tne proper spirit of righteous resentment and unappeased wrath In their off spring. But when childhood was over, Mabel Campbell was estranged by circum stance from Charlie Price as complete ly as If an ocean had been between them Instead of a paling fence. When he was 18 she came back from board ing school and was pronounced old enough for picnics and socials, and was. Indeed, the acknowledged belle of the Toung People's Pleasure Club, and the favorite even of matrons and spin sters at sewing bees and Dorcas socle ties, and a perfect Idol at home. She was an only child, and the love that seemed to overflow from father and mother was expended upon innumer able pets. She had two fat Yorkshlle puppies, a pug dog, a parrot, and a cat who recently had added to the proces lon a. yellow kitten, qf the story. This mall animal was up to mischief of all kinds, and had the most exploring turn of mind, for she was forever getting lost and 'being returned to her mistress by little boys of the village, who thus tamed many an honest penny. SENATOR STEWART HAS Senator Stewart of Nevada, who is the proud possessor of th most luxuriant growth of whiskers in the Senate, has never been shaved iu his life. His beard began to sprout when he was about 16, and he is now 75. "Oh, yes," said he the other day, "I have often thought of shaving. Kind-hearted friends have given me razors and advised me to go to work on my beard, but 1 never took their advice. You see, when I was a young man I never owned a razor, and 1 had to let my whiskers run wild. Now it is too late. My constituents would rage and my political career would be wrecked." One afternoon Mabel had been out In the woods with her young friends hunt ing for chestnuts, and on her return was greted with the sad tidings that the yellow kitten had again strayed from home. A search throughout .the place was at once begun. Evening came on, however, and no yellow kitten put in an appearance. Mabel became much distressed, as she was sure that an evil fate had at last overtaken her pet. She begged to be allowed to send over to the Prices, and see If the wan derer, scorning old opinions, had found her way there, but her parents would not consider such a proposition, so for that night the household was minus the kitten. . The next day was spent in looking for the loved-though lost, and many of the village boys joined In the hunt, but with no result Toward sunset Mabel decided to walk through the woods that skirted the vil lage, thinking possibly her little prodi gal might be somewhere about, and down a shady path she went. She fan cied. ere long that she heard a moan a very sad, klttenly moan it was and soon discovered up In a tree, tangled most promiscuously In creeping vines, the yellow kitten, unable to free her self. In vain Mabel called and tried to entice her from her perilous position; only piteous little meows were the re sult. If she only had a long stick, or, still better, if she could climb the tree, something might be done, but the years spent at boarding school had robbed her of all her childish accomplishments. In the mldlst of her dilemma, help was forthcoming she little dreamed of. Through the bushes she heard the sound of approaching footsteps and a cheerful whistle. Soon the author of these pleasant noises was in view. It was Charlie Price, the family enemy, and, to boot, a splendid young athlete! Mabel forgot the traditions of three generations of bitterness and called out to her playmate of former days: "Charlie Mr. Price, I mean can you help me? See my poor yellow kitten; she cannot get down," pointing, as she spoke, to the tree which contained her treasure. "With pleasure, Miss Mabel! Beg pardon, Miss Campbell. Poor little beastie she is caught In the vine." And with that he sprung up the tree with the agility of a squirrel or a circus rider, and at some peril of broken limbs rescued the kitten and placed her in the outstretched arms of her young mis tress, i. Then it was the most natural thing'in the world for our hero to walk home with our heroine, and still more natural the next day when they by chance met In the same woods, to stop and speak pt the lost one. Thus, In spite of the fam ily feud, the intimacy ripened between the young branches. It was useless for Mabel's parents to protest; Indeed, nothing short of a com mand would have stopped this new and delightful friendship, and Charlie bold ly announced to his paternal that he was tired of keeping up such an anti quated fuss; let the grandfathers tight out their own battles in whatever world they were now residing, but he, for bis part would no longer encourage hatred, malice and all uncnarltable ness. Ere the winter bad advanced Charlie Price was known throughout Pineville to be Mabel Campbell's "steady com pany," and although Miss Priscllla, at the head of the Price family, and old Mr. Jonas Campbell, Mabel's great un cle, the chief of the Campbell tribe, de clared in unmeasured language their opinion of the doings of -their young rel atives, It was useless, and, in fact hur ried up matters. Then the two moth ers, who secretly bore no malice, ex changed calls, and actually Mrs. Camp bell was overheard to say that Mrs. Price's sausage receipt was the best in the village, while Mrs. Price made no denial of having borrowed Mrs. Camp bell's knit quilt as a guide for the one she was making to exhibit at the coun ty fair in the spring. From that the fathers of the two peacemakers met and discussed poll tics, and not boundary lines over the disputed fence. By this time, as may well be Imagined, the wedding prep aratlons were well uniier way. At thg suggestion of Charlie his new house was to be built directly over 'the part of the ground that both Campbells and Prices claimed, and this was universal ly regarded as the most amicable set NEVER BEEN SHAVED tlement of the trouble, and lo and be hold! the marriage was announced to take place on the. following Easter Tuesday. . '. And just then did Miss Priscllla Price make her statement that the yellow kitten did it, and the entire village agreed with ber. "BONA-FIDE AMERICAN." Dr. William Mason Telia an Anecdote of the Violinist Remenyi. "I have already had something to say of Eduard Remenyi, the Hungarian violinist who accompanied Brahms to Weimar in 1853, says a writer in the Century. He was a talented mnn and was esteemed by Liszt as being, in- his way, a good violinist. He belonged to the class' typified by Ole Bull, but did not achieve so great a reputation. He remained at Weimar after Brahms left there, and I became Intimately ac quainted with him. He was very en tertaining and so full of fun that he would have made a tip-top Irishman. He was at home in the gypsy music of his own country and this was the main characteristics of his playing. He had also a fad for playing Schubert melo dies on the violin with the most atten uated pianissimo effects and occasion ally :his hearers would listen Intently after the tone had ceased, imagining that they still heard a trace of it Not long before leaving Weimar I had some fun with him by asking if he had ever heard "any bona-fide American spoken." He replied that be did not know there was such a language. "Well," said I, "listen to this for a spec imen: 'Ching-a-Iing-a-dardee, Chebung cum Susan.'" I did -not meet him again until 1878, twenty-four years after leaving Weimar. I was- going upstairs to my studio in the Steinway Bullding when some one told me that Remenyi had arrived and was rehears ing for his concert in one of the rooms above. So. going up, I followed the sounds of the violin, gave a quick knock, opened the door and went In. Remenyi looked at me for a moment rushed forward and seized my hand, and as he wrung it cried out: "Ching-a-ling-a-dardee, Chebung cum Susan!" He bad remembered it all those years. A Plant tbat Coughs. The vine Eutada tussiens is called the coughing bean. It Is a native of moist tropical regions, and there Is one thing which it cannot and moreover will not, stand, and that is dust When the breathing pores of this plant become choked by dust the gases accumulate within the leaf for a time' and are then forcibly, expelled in an audible par oxysm of coughing and sneezing which makes the leaf tremble violently. At the same time the whole plant turns red in the face, so to speak, through the sinking in of the green chlorophyll grains and the appearance of particles of red coloring matter on the surface. The eutada Is sometimes cultivated as a house plant Sweeping the room Is apt to set the plant coughing to the in tense.astoulBuruent of persons who are not familiar, with Its peculiarities. The respiration of plants is carried on through the leaves. On the underside of : leaves,' are millions of micro scopic mouths, each of which is opened and closed by two movable lips. These openings are the termination of pass ages -which are. filled with water vapor, air, and other gases, produced by the chemical changes which accom pany growth. Odd Furniture. Perhaps the oldest suit of furniture in the world is owned by a certain hotel keeper. For many years he has made it his business to collect match' boxes, of which he has now a collection of 4. 000. He ordered a skilled cabinet maker to equip a room with furniture made of these boxes. . The outfit con sists of a writing table with smoking apparatus, a fire screen, a cabinet a chair and other smaller articles. Perfidious Man. Mrs. Linguist I want to get a di vorce. My husband talks in his sleep. Lawyer Soozem But, my dear mad am, that is no ground . for divorce. There is no cruelty in Mrs. Linguist But he talks In Lathi, and I don't understand that language at all. Baltimore American. A man who neglects his own business can't be trusted to look after other peo ple's affairs. Women who live In flats In London are finding it almost impossible to em ploy servants, because they are So com pletely Isolated from the outside world. At a dinner given by Count Bonl de Castellane In Paris recently, dwarf cherry trees loaded with, fruit were used for ornament and the cherries for dessert The cherries, it is said, cost $4 each. The trees bad been forced in hothouses. One of the most frequent uses to which the telephone Is put by French country subscribers is that of an alarm to wake them In the morning. Those who wish to be aroused at a given hour have only to advise the telephone ad ministration the night before of an hour at which they wish to be rung up- The Land That Swings Like a Ham mock is the name given by Indians to the territory about San Salvador, Cen tral America. Tbat city was entirely destroyed by an earthquake on March 19, 1873, but the people had grown alarmed and had deserted it so only five hundred were killed. It flourishes to-day. A recent careful count by a com petent person places the whole number of buffaloes living to-day at only 1,024. Dr. William T. Hornaday says it would have been as easy to count the leaves in the forest as to calculate the num ber of buffaloes living at a given time during the history of the species pre vious to 1870. The "towers of silence" are two tall towers In Persia, so called by the Par sees. They never bury the dead, but leave the body exposed on the top of one of these towers until the sun and the rain and the fowls of the air have cleaned the bones of all flesh. Then the bones are collected and placed In the other towers. There Is no doubt the first Idea of a suspension bridge was suggested to primitive man by the interlacing of tree branches and parasitical plants across rivers. Probably monkeys used them before men did. In very moun tainous countries, such as Thibet and Peru, they have apparently been used since the dawn of history, possibly earlier. Hoboken, N. J., Is the most densely populated city In the country, having sixty-one inhabitants to the acre. At the opposite extreme. New Orleans has but two to the acre. Los Angeles, Cat, and Lynn, Mass., are oddly bracketed as having the most park space, an acre to every twenty-eight inhabitants. Jer sey City has but an acre to every 11, 488 inhabitants. Boston Is the richest per capita city in the country and spends the most per capita. If her wealth was evenly distributed every inhabitant would have $1,942 worth of property. Of course, in aggregates New York is far ahead of all the rest having a valua tion on a one hundred per cent basis of $4,735,114,370, or enough to pay the national debt four times over, with a comfortable balance of $300,000,000. Tacoma has the largest per capita debt in the country, $J.i5.74. It is a well-known fact that the en tire Atlantic seaboard is sinking at the rate of two feet a ,century from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. If it can sink that fast, it certainly has no very solid underpinning, and some day the props may let go all at once,, and where will New York be? Vast tracts of Holland are already far below the surface of the sea, and the waves are kept out (vith the great dikes, aud science says that Holland, Belgium, Denmark and ill the southern coast of the Baltic Sea ire sinking steadily. The entire conti uent of Atalanta has gone down under he waves. Why should not other con tinents follow? Finding Days of the Week. The prematurely aged young man whose duty It Is to get up the Record's "Answers to correspondents" column says that queries of the same nature always come In bunches. They seem o be epidemic. Just at present a great many people seem eager to know what day of the week they were born on, and It keeps him busy figuring the dates out. He has a system which he nses, and for the benefit of others who may be in search of like information it Is herewith given. For instance, take Jan. 15, 18G8. A man born on that date writes to know what day of the week it fell on. In order to ascertain this divide the figures representing the year by 4, rejecting the remainder, if any. To this dividend and quotient add the number of days in the year to the given date, Inclusive, always reck oi'i' g twenty-eight days In February. Divide the sum by 7, and the remain der will be the number of the day of the week, 0 signifying Saturday. Here Is the illustration, taking Jan. 15, 1869: 4)1868. 467 15 Number of days to Jan. 15, 7)2350 335-5 Thus, by this calculation, which Is In fallible, it will be seen that Jan. 15, 1868, fell on the fifth day of the week, which is Thursday. Philadelphia Record. He Knew. One cold, gusty December evening a man was struggling along against the wind, his overcoat buttoned to the neck. He was rather anxious to know what time it was, but he was too lazy to unbutton his coat in order to get at his watch. Just then he saw a gentleman In the distance. When he came up the man who wanted to know the time raised his bat politely and inquired: "Sir, do you know what time it Is?" The stranger paused, removed his right glove, unbuttoned his overcoat and finally pulled out bis watch, while the cold wind beat against his unpro tected breast. Holding up the watch so that the light of an adjacent lamp would shine on it he scrutinized It for an instant and said "Yes," and then passed on without another word. Tit Bits.., -, '-' ;' ' - -' . - A pert schoolgirl recently Informed ber mother that she didn't propose to wear abort dresses any longer. SLAVERY IN LONDON. DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF EN GLISH SHOP WORKERS Infinite Horror St the "Livlng-In" System Enforced by Rich Proprie tor Both Men and Women Are Poor ly Paid and Heavily FlueJ. Thousands of the working girls a;t men of London, with the assistance or Influential members of Parliament are making a determined effort to alleviate the deplorable conditions under which they are now compelled to labor. The poor shop workers are Imposed upon i'l many ways by the rich proprietors of some of the metropolis' biggest depart ment houses and the condition of many Is described as little better than sla very, from which up to the present there has been no hope -of escaping, as the majority of the shop workers have no other means of obtaining a liveli hood. One of the systems enforced by some of the proprietors is known as the "llv- ing-ln" system. By this plan the em ployes are lodged and fed together at the employer's expense and are under his Jurisdiction night as well as day. The system has many advantages in theory, but in practice they are found to be remarkably few. The grievances of the shop assistants who have to "live in" begin with their sleeping rooms. Of all the big London shops there are not more than 'one or two where every assistant has a bed to him self or herself. The general rule, is two, and sometimes three, In one bed and HEART OF LONDON'S eight or nine in every room. The rooms, too, are about as bare and unattractive as It Is possible to make them. Iron bedsteads constitute the furniture. There are no chairs, no tables, no cup boards. Every assistant keeps his or her clothes In a trunk under the bed, and If Inadvertently any article is left lying out it Is usually confiscated. It is against the rules to have any pictures, photographs or orna ments on the walls or any flowers, eith er In pots or vases. The girls are for bidden to do any needlework In their dormitories. Cold water and basins are supplied by the generous house, but the clerks have to get their soap and tow els. If they break any article of furni ture or crockery they have it to pay for. No assistant is allowed to visit any other assistant in his or her room; none Is allowed to receive a friend from out side anywhere In the building. But the hardest rule of all is that the clerk cannot choose his bedfellow or- bed fellows, but is forced to "bunk In" wherever he Is put and If his bedmates THE LONDOK SHOPOIKL. be of bibulous proclivities and come home drunk, or happen to have any disease, why, so much the worse for him. This unbreakable rule Is the same In the girl's department as in the men's. There is a sitting-room for the girls and a smoking-room for the men, but they are both always crowded to suffocation, and the assistant who would like to read a book or write a letter, has no chance at all. It Is one of the bitterest cries of .what the victims have dubbed "The white slavery" that there Is no such thing as privacy that one is never alone. . Again, every assistant half sus pects every other of being one of the Arm's staff of unknown spies, and they distrust each other accordingly. Everybody must be out of the living rooms by 8 o'clock in the morning and m again at 11 at night by 12 on Sun days. The living rooms are generally In a building in a side street near the shop, and at the street door there is a Cerberus who lets lri the young men and young women as they arrive, up to the forbidden hour, when the door .Is shut and if a girl has been delayed in getting back it's ten to one she will have to walk the streets all night un less she can find friends to "put her up." -" ...... :, - ;.,', ,' Just fifteen minutes after, the closing hour the gas goes out everywhere, and anyone who has a light later than that time is discharged. Not even a candle Is allowed. In most houses it is a rule that all rooms shall be unoccupied on Sunday, and roost of the assistants are glad to live up to It, but sometimes, when the seventh day happens to be rainy. It comes hard. No marriage is tolerated where "liv ing In" obta'ns. If the firm gets wind of an affection between a man and a girl one of the two is promptly dis charged. Such houses will not employ a married man if they know It, but sometimes they are outwitted by men who see their better halves only from Saturday to Monday. It Is another bard and fast rule that none of the male employes in these shops may vote. The dining-room Is usually a dark one In the cellar, not invariably free from cockroaches, known in England as black beetles. The meals are served on long oilcloth-covered tables, bare of anything beyond the essential imple ments of gastronomic warfare. As a rule the food Is indifferent, for the pro prietor Is constantly dissatisfied with the chefs efforts in the way of econ omy, and the bill of fare hardly ever consists of more than three staples. The damp room is lighted with flaring gas lights. The stale bread, rancid "butter ine," a pallid chicory mixture that mas querades as "coffee," stewed tea and tainted meat, and having to bolt It In fifteen or twenty minutes amid a clat ter of dishes, combine to make a ghast ly experience. The clerks go to their meals In "par ties" and are as liable as not to be called back to the shop again before they can eat two mouthfuls. If a clerk is busy when his "party" Is ready to go he has to wait an hour or more until all the parties have finished, when there Is a special table for stragglers, and if he is busy when that time comes he has to SHOPPING DISTRICT. go hungry. It often happens that a man or girl has to work on for eight or nine hours In a busy time without a bite. The proprietor does not have much trouble with grumblers, however bad a table he "sets." The reason is that he fines his people two shillings sixpence, or 62 cents, a grumble. The London shop man draws a salary of from $150 to $225 a year in addition to his board and lodging; the shop girl $50 a year less. They have to be well dressed, and their little Income Is drained by all sorts of fines, to say nothing of the small sums they often have to spend to eke out their scrimped meals. - Of course there is a fine for every clerical- mistake, and the pro prietor encourages those whose busi ness it is to ferret out such slips by pay ing them a small sum for every one they can locate. Most shops have all their rules and the fines attached to them printed in a little book, which they graciously sell to their employes for sixpence and fine them sixpence if they lose it. One well known London shop has 198 rules, an other 159. There is a fine for being late, which Increases with every minute of tardiness; one for taking a knife, fork or spoon to one's room; a set amount to 'be paid for . every box of goods not properly dusted; for wearing a bunch of flowers over three inches In diameter; for leaving the counter be fore the bell for meals has rung. Then there are what are called "omnibus" fines that is, the heads of departments "have discretion" to exact a line for practically any offense. When the clerk has liquidated all the fines that he in curs in the hurry of business and has paid out small sums for the "doctor," the shoe black, the shop's system of ac cident insurance, and so forth, what he has left for himself must be no great sum. A Close Shave. A Sand Hog in a red shirt and grimy trousers sat down by me oneafternoon on a heap of boards midway "between the Sand Hogs' bouse and the "hos pital." This pressurework'er, whose knees showed traces of "the bends,", evidently had a story to tell. "It was only the other day," he' said. "I seen it and how the man ever hap pened to live, I dunno. It was one o' these little caissons here we're putting this big building on. He was one of the superintendents, a young college feller that knows his Job. Well, he .went down with us. There wuz four In the gang, and one o' them, Tim that Harp yer .might see drlnkln' coffee now. They wuz a rock there, and the foreman told Tim to have a go at it. He got his pick and swung it .for a good crack. There was a tearln' an' a rippln' an' Tim dropped his pick. As he swung It the young feller had step ped out and the pick had ripped off every button from the blue jumper he had on, without even scratchin' him." Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. - Counting the Stars. Today the stars visible from the first to the thirteenth magnitude aggregate to about 43,000,000 of which nearly 10,000,000 have been photographed. In the most powerful telescopes, even the fifteenth magnitude has been reveal ed; of this magnitude perhaps 100,000, 000 stars are suspected, but knowledge concerning them Is uncertain. In the milky way alone there are some 10,000 stars, separate by vast distances. To the eye at the telescope the sky seems no longer dotted with constellations, but powdered with gold dust What has become of the old-fashioned woman who asked ber boy, when be did not speak up promptly and ac knowledge his fault "Has the cat got your tongue?" - A stiff upper Up is useless when pit ted against a wagging lower Jaw. WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Encouraging Reports Come From the Western Centers. Bradstreet's says: Trade reports from the distributive centers at the West continue encouraging, while such measures of trade volume as bank clearings and railway earnings indicate a considerable gain In busi ness over a year ago. Soft spots are, of course, to be found, notably in the manufacturing branches of the cotton and the wool trade, but ad vices from the dry goods and cloth ing distributors are encouraging, and . it is thought will help business. The strength of iron and steel this week recalls the boom of 1899. - It is prob- able, too, that the broad and strong consumptive demand and not the ope rations of pools or cliques; is respon- sible for the steady advances. Prac tically all markets report iron and steel higher, but special activity Is noted at Pittsburg, Birmingham and Chicago; St Louis alone reports foundry iron consumers indifferent The cereals are without notable change, wheat and corn being frac tionally lower in a dull, scalping mar ket. Lumber is strong in price, pend ing the resumption of general build ing operations. Western advices are especially bullish. Chicago has done the heaviest business ever recorded in yellow pine and white pine. Stocks have been broken badly by the active demand. Hard woods are rather slower to respond, however, and are still unsteady, not to say weak. Cop per is less active for export, but hold firm, while tin is again lower on foreign advices. " Wheat, including flower, shipments for . the week aggregate 5,233,313 bushels against 3,424,302 bushels last week. . Business failures in the United States for the week number 167, as against 231 last week. Canadian failures for the week lumber 28, as against 24 a week ago. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. j Seattle Market Onions, new yellow, $3 .50 4.25. Lettuce, hot house, $1.60 per case. -Potatoes, new. $18. , Beets, per sack, $1.25. Turnips, per sack, 75o. Squash 2c. Carrots, per sack, 75c Parsnips, por sack, $1.25 1.50. Celery 60c doz. Cabbage, native and California, 8c per pounds. Butter Creamery, 25c; dairy i 15 18c; ranch, 15c 18c pound. Cheese 14 c. Eggs Ranch, 20c; Eastern 20c. Poultry 13c; dressed, native ohick ens, 14c; turkey, 15c. Hay Puget Sound timothy, $15.00; choice Eastern Washington timothy, $19.00. Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $24; feed meal, $24. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $20. Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.40; v. blended straights, $3.25; California, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; era ham, per barrel, $3.25; whole wheat ' flour, $3.25; rye flour, $3.804.00. Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $15.00; shorts, per ton, $16.00. Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; middlings, per ton, $23; oil cake meal, per ton, $29.00.. Fresh Aleuts Choice dressed beef steerst price 8c; cows, 7 He; mutton 1; pork, 8c; trimmed, 10c; veal, 10c. Hams Large, lljc; small, 11; breakfast bacon, 13c; dry salt sides, 8c. Portland Market Wheat Walla Walla. 56c; Valley nominal; Bluestem, 67.52 0 per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3.40; graham, $2.60. ' Oats Choice white, 45c: choice gray, 43c per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $16.50 brew ing, $16.50 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $16.00 ton; mid dlings, $21.50; shorts, $18.50; chop, $16 per ton. Hay Timothy,$12 12.50; clover,$7 9.50; Oregon wild hay, $6 7 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery, 22 25c; tore, 13c. Eggs 14c per dozen. Cheese Oregon full cream, 18c; Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo per pound. " - Potatoes 4060o per sack; sweets, $l,6o per 100 pounu. Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 75c; per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab bage, c per pound; parsnips, 85c; onions, $2.753.00; carrots, 75c. Hops Sew 'crop, 12 14c per pound. Wool Valley, 13 14c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 12c; mohair, 25 per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers $4.75; ewes, $4.50; dressed mutton. " 6j27c per pound. HogR Gross, choice heavy, $5.25; light and feeders, $5.00; dressed, 67o per pounds. ' Beef Gross, top steers, $4.504.75; cows, $1.004.50; dressed beef, 6 7c per pound. Veal Large, 77Kc; small, 8 H' 9c per pound. San Francisco Market. Wool spring Nevada, 11 13c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 14c; Val ley, 1517c; Northern, 9 10c. Hops Crop, 1900, 15 20c. Butter Fancy creamery 18c; do seconds, 17c; fancy dairy, 15; do seconds, 12c per pound. Ega Store, 22c; fancy ranch, 26c. Mil .-tuffs Middlings, $17.00 20.00; lran, $15.00 16.00. Hay Wheat $913H; wheat aud oat $9.00 12.50; best barley $9.50 alfalfa, $7.00 10.00 por ton; straw, 35 47 )c per bale. - - 1'oKitoee Oregon Burbauks, $1; Salinas llnrbiuifcs, 76c $1.1 5; river Bnrlianks, Softt iiOc: sweets. 50 $1. Oil. Citrus Krnit Ontuges,' Valencia, $2.15(3.25; Mexican limes, $4.00 5.00; California lemons 7oe $1.50; do choice $1.75(22.00 per 1kx. TropiiMil Frnite Bananas, $1.50 8.50 per bunch; pineapples, nom inal; l'eisian dates, ;' GHio par pound " - '. -," '- - "