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HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
MIMNO NEAR OOLD MILL.
Considerable Activity Shown on Old and
New Properties.
Gold Hill The Condor Power &
Mining company is placing a new steel
wagon bridge across Rouge river just
below the Ray dam at Gold Ray.
L. T. Pockman, representing San
Francisco capital, has bought the
Hawkeye American Mining claim in
the Willow Springs mining district,
and hag moved a complete mining out
fit out to camp with a small force to
commence development on the prop
erty. In near vicinity to this property Ro
bert Allison and associates have taken
a lease and bond on the Schump mine
and aie" cleaning out and retimbering
the old tunnel, from which, the own
ers, a few years ago, took out several
thousand dollars in free milling ore.
The Lucky Bait mine, on Sardine
reek, has been leased to J. W. flays
and partners, who are now doing con
siderable development work.
J. M. Patrick has taken a year's lease
on the Braden mine, two miles east of
town, and is working quite a force
of men ou same. While repairing and
fitting up the ten-stamp mill now on
the property he lias leased the Bowden
mill at Gold Hill, through which he
will run some 200 or 300 tons of Bia
den ore. This mine has produced
large quantities oi pay ore in the past;
and as Dr. Ray has been steadily ex
ploiting and blocking out ore in this
property for the past five years it now
has immense ore reserves in sight, suf
ficient to keep the present ten stamp
mill running a number of years.
The large ore bodies in this mine,
in places from 1 to 20 feet iu width,
.aw found and oDened to a depth ot be
tween 400 and 500 feet, thus adding
another case to refute the old and well
established theory that there are no
thing but "pocket mines" in Southern
Oregon.
Messrs. Simons and Hawley are
prospecting E. E. Miners' placer
ground on Karrs creeK with a View of
demonstrating its adaptability for
dredging purposes, and are meeting
with very flattering results.
Monster Royal Anne Tree.
Montoe On the ranch of James E.
Edwards, a pioneer residing near here,
tands a mammoth Royal Anne cheiry
tree, which has been for many years
an object of wonder to visitors and to
strangers passing along the ioad near
which it stands.
The tree is 9 feet 3 inches in circum
ference at the butt. Four feet ' above
the ground it divides into three
branches, one of which is four feet in
circumference, another 4 feet 6 inches,
another 6 feet 4 inches. The branch
measuring 6 feet 4 inches divides into
two branches, one being 4 feet 4 inches
in circumference, another 3 feet, the
smallest branch mentioned being as
large as an ordinary tree at the butt.
The tree is 50 feet high and its wid
est branches cover a space 45 feet in di
ameter. It is 60 years old, and for
several years has yielded a fruitage of
200 gallons per annum.
Red Boy Sale Confirmed.
Baker City The sale of the Red Boy
mine, which was disposed of at receiv
er's sale several weeks ago, has been
confirmed by Judge Eakin. This
means that the $80,000 for which the
mine was sold will be distributed at
once to the creditors who attached the
property. It also means that the re
organized syndicate will proceed at once
to reopen and work the mine. When
the property was sold it was announced
that it had been purchased by a syndi
cate of stockholders represented by
Alexander Prussing, of Chicago.
Broad Gauge to Fair Grounds.
Palem The Citizens' Light & Trac
tion company, under the new manage
ment, has under way and in contem
plation extensive improvements and
changes to its property in this city. At
present a large force of men is engaged
in transforming the old -narrow gauge
line from the fair grounds into the
city, into a broad and standard gauge
track, so as to form a continuous broad
mum linp. in the form of a loop, to
and from the fair grounds.
Eastern Oregon Mills Busy.
La Grande All lumber companies
in Eastern Oregon are running their
mills on full time, and orders are pil
ing up for .ruit boxes. Heavy ship
ments of lumber are beii g made to
Chicago. Illinois and Missouri river
points, Nebraska, Colorado and Utah.
The Oregon pine comes the nearest tak
ing the place in the East of the Wis
consin pines now about extinct.
Prices are excellent and things were
never brighter for the lumber business
Praise for Oregon Station.
Corvallis The Oregon Experiment
station at Corvallis is announced by a
Washington official to be ahead of oth
er stations of its class and financial re
sources in the other states of the union.
The official is Dr. Allen, chief assistant
to Dr. True, the latter of whom is head
of all the stations in the country, with
headquarters at Wasington, D. C.
dold From Bine River District.
Euegne Gold to the amonut of $1,
200 was exhibited here recently as the
result of a few days' work with the
two stamp mills at the Great Northern
mine in the Blue river district. This
is the latest addition to the producing
list in this district and promises well.
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CRUDB OIL FOUND IN WELL.
Marlon County People are Much Ex
cited by the Discovery.
Salem There is yet a remote possi
bility that oil may be struck in Marion
county, as the most recent discoveries
would seem to indicate. At the town
of Pratuma, about 10 miles from
Salem, three is an old well in the rear
of the home and blacksmith shop owned
by the Rice Bros.
This well has been abandoned for
several months because it "roared,"
that is, made a npise like the saund
heard in a eeashell, and because the
water did not taste good. A few days
ago one of the Rice brothers let a bucket
down into the well, and when he pulled
it up he was surprised to find that
there waE about half an inch of crude
petroleum floating upon the lop of the
water.
The incident has created quite a stir
in the neighborhood, and it ia quite
probable that steps Till be taken in
the near future toward the sinking ofa
well for the purpose of securing oil in
paying quantities.
Drouth in C'ackamas County.
Oreogn City Unless there is a good
rain in Clackamas county within the
ensuing few days, fall sown crops will
be largely a failure. In some sections
rain would not be beneficial at this
time, the prolonged drouth having al
ready done its work. Late sown oats
and potatoes, which constitute two of
the principal crops produced in Clacka
mas county, have already suffeied ex
tensive damage, while it is estimated
that not more than 50 per cent of a hop
crop can be expected unless there is rain
during the coming week.
Dipping Beef Cattle.
Echo The work of dipping a train-
load of beef steers will begin on Butter
creek soon. The farmers were com
pelled to dip the stock by Dr. E. N.
Hutchinson, of Portland, who will De
present to superintend the work. After
the beef cattle are attended to several
thousand head of other stock will be
dipped. Asa B. Thomson, R. N. Stan-
field and J. B. Saylor have installed
the dipping plant, and it is one of the
beet in the state.
Brief In Review of Klamath Case.
Salem William B. Matthews, at
torney for the state of Oregon, has filed
in the department of the interior a
motion for a review of the Klamath
swamp land case, which was recently
decided against the state. An extend
ed brief has also been field in support
of the motion, in which Matthews tries
to show that the department was in
error in its decision. The motion will
probably not be heard for some time.
Cannery Outfit for the Sluslaw.
Astoria The Astoria Iron works has
completed the manufacture of a boiler
and complete cannery oufit for the
Prosper Canning company's new plant
on the Siuslaw river. They will be
snipped on the schooner Rio Rey.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 67c; blue
stem, 75c; Valley. 7778c.
Barley Feed, $23 per ton; rolled,
$24.5025.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.20; gray,
$1.15 per cental.
Flour Valley. $3.904.05 per bar
rel; hard wheat straights, $44.25;
cara. $3.854.10: hard wheat patents.
$4.404.70; graham, $3.504; whole
wheat, $44 2o; rye flour, $4.50.
Millstuffs Bran, $19 per ton; mid
dlings", $23.50; shorts, $21; chop. $18;
linseed, dairy food, $19.
Hay Timothy, $1516 per ton;
clover, $8t9; grain, $1112; cheat,
$1112.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 1920c.
Cheese Full cream, twins, new
stock, 1212c; old stock, 78c;
Young America, 1314c.
' Poultry Fancy hens, 1213c per
pound; old hens, 1213c; mixed
chickens, 1212Kc; old roosters, lOe;
young roosters, 1213c; springs, 1
to 2-pound, 1819c; broilers, 1 to Im
pound, 1920c; dressed chickens, 13
14c; turkeys, live, 14 16c; do dressed,
1516c; do choice, 1820c; geese,
live, 78c; do dressed, 96tl0c;
duck8: old, $67 per doz; do young,
as to size. X2.504.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per sack;
cariots, $1.50; beets, $1.25; parsnips,
$1.25; cabbage, iSi?4c; lettuce,
head, 2540c per doz; parsley, 25c per
doz: tomatoes, $1.752; cauliflower,
$1.752: celery, 7590c per doz; as
paragus, 50c; peas, 46c per pound;
bean 8, green, 45c; wax, 45c;
squash, $1.25 per box; green corn, 60c
per doz; onions, new red, $1.30 per
cwt ; yellow, $1.57.
Hnnpv f 33.50 per case.
Potatoes Fancy, 75c$l per cental;
new potatoes, sv.'zbWZ oo per cental.
Fruits Cherries, 45c per pound;
irooseberries. 6c per pound : raspberries
$1.25 per crate; apples, new, $11.75;
anricota. 80ctl.25 per box: plums.
80c$l per box; peaches, $11.10 per
box; canteioupes, sz.zo per crate;
watermelons, 2c per lb; prunes, $1.25
per box. ,
Hops 1903 crop, 2l(s24c per pound
Wool Valley, 19 20c per pound;
Eastern Oregon. 1017c; mohair, 30c
per pound for choice.
Beef Dressed, 56j4c per lb.
Mutton Dressed, 45c per lb;
lamhn. fic.
Veal Dressed. 100 to 125, 67c per
pound; 215 to 200, 65c; 200 and
no. 3X4c.
Pork Dressed, 100 to 150, 77c;
150 and up, 67c.
POPULISTS NOMINATE.
National Convention Chooses Candidates
tor President and Vice President. .
Springfield, 111., July 6. Thomas E.
Watson, of Georgia, for president, and
Thomas H. Tibbies, of Nebraska, for
vice president, were nominated by the
Populist convention today. The names
of William V. Allen, of Nebraska,' and
Samuel W. Williams, of Indiana, were
also placed before the convention for
president, but before the list ot states
had been completed in the roll call,
their names were withdrawn, and Wat-
. a a.:
son was nominated Dy acciamauuu.
Ex-Senator Allen made good his word
that he would not enter into any
scramble for the nomination, and while
the nominations were being made he
twice instructed the chairman of the
Nebraska delegation to say that his
name must not go before the conven
tion. In the face ot this, however, he
received over 40 votes.
The committee on resolutions in its
report to the convention reaffirmed ad-
heence to the basic truths of the Oma
ha platform of 1892, and of the subse
quent platforms of 1896 and 1900. The
platform then demands that all money
be issued directly by the government,
every dollar to be a full legal tender;
demands postal savings banks; upholds
the right of labor to organize, and fav
ors the eriactment of legislation . for the
mprovement of the condition of the
wage earners; demands tne initiative
and referendum ; favors prohibition of
the alien ownership of lands; demands
the withdrawal of special privileges of
trusts and monopolies, and declares the
government should own and control the
railroads, telegraphs and telephone sys
tems, and should provide a parcels post.
The platform was adopted unanimously.
LIQHTNINQ STARTS Bid FIRE.
Large Grain Elevator Is Burned and
Three Lives Lost.
Boston, July 7. The immense grain
elevator of the Boston & Maine railroad
company, one of the largest in the
world, together with three of the com
pany's freighthouses on piers isoa. 1
and 2, Mystie wharf, Charlestown,
were burned tonight, entailing losses
of over $1,000,000.
Three li res are supposed to have been
lost. Thirty-five sailors of the Allan
steamer Austriaf which was lying at
pier No. 1, jumped overboard to save
themselves from the flames, which 'had
communicated to their vessel . Olga
Olsen, boatswains' mate; James Flynn,
fireman, and Patrick N. Meehan, fire
man, aie the supposed victims.
Flynn's body has been recovered.
Most of the crew swam ashore, but
11 of their number required hospital
attention. Before the fire could be
controlled all the upper works had been
burned.
The fire started during a heavy
thunder storm, when a bolt of lightning
struck one of the freighthouses, in
which was stored a quantity of hay.
The flames spread, rabidly to adjoining
buildings, including the elevator, and
the larger part of the fire apparatus of
the city was summoned to save other
property. The elevator is figuied at
$400,000. Losses on the -freight
houses, their contents, the pier and the
steamer Austria will easily swell the
total to more than $1,000,000.
Among the steamship companies
who will suffer losses on freight de
stroyed are the Allan line, the Scandi
navian and the Wilson.
TOQO IN NO HURRY.
Land Operations at Port Arthur Must
Be Further Advanced.
Chicago, July 7. The following
special cablegrams are from a staff cor
respondent of the Daily News :
On board the Daily News Dispatch-
boat Fawan, Chefoo, July 7. While
the Fawan was off Port Arthur Friday
last, about noon, fierce cannonading
was heard, endintr in a heavv explosion
The, Fawan stood by one of the Japan
ese picket ships till late in the after
noon, but saw nothing. All was quiet
on Saturday. While cruising toward
Talienwan. Sunday, picket cruisers
were met all along the coast at inter
vals. About 15 miles off Dalny, the
Fawan was stopped by a cruiser of the
Asami type, but not detained.
"Several shots were heard about 4 p
m. in tne direction ot ron annui.
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"The naval situation is apparently
at a standstill. No active measmes
are likely to be taken by Admiral Togo
until the land operations are further
advanced."
Would Save Many Lives.
Victoria B. C, July 7. Last wint
er'n terrible wrecks on the west coast
of Vancouver Island are bearing their
fruit in a strong movement to have that
portion of the coast better supplied
with teleeiaphic communication. At
present the telegraph line runs north
onlv an far as Clavoauot. iust north of
Barkley sound, leaving all the coast to
Cape Scott without any means ot com
munication. It is suggested tnat wire
Iphs rpWsirnh stations should be m-
Rtalled at suitable points along tne
coast.
Many Russians Are Deserting.
Vienna. July 7. Russian deserters
ar constantly crossing the pruth into
Roumania. Many are arrested Dy tne
frontier natrols. but some reach the in
terior of the state. Both the soldiers
and peasants of Bessarabia have a su
perstitious dread of going to tne rar
East. The prisons of the Rusisan side
of the border are full of men suspected
of intention to desert. The officers are
undei the necessity of observing every
precaution to avoid a general mutiny.
More Troops for the Far Bast.
St. Petersburg. Julv 7. It is believ
ed that another armv corps will be
mobilized for the Far East, but it has
not yet been decided what corps will be
selected.
TO CUT OFF MUKDEN
JAPANESE WOULD PREVENT RETREAT
OF RUSSIANS.
Armies Are En eared In Fierce Conflict
Only Twenty-Five Miles From Llao
Yang'and Large Numbers of Wound
ed Russians are Arriving Small
Skirmishes are Numerous.
London, July 8. The Liao Yang cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph, , in
a dispatch dated July 7, 1 a. m., says:
A battle is proceeding 25 miles
from here.
"Numbers of wounded are being
brought irf from the mountains.
It is believed the Japanese are con
tinuing their advance with the object
of cutting off Mukden."
Russians Lose Many Men.
General Kuroki's Headquarters in
Field, via Fusan, July 8. On July 4,
two battalions of Russians attempted to
break through the Japanese outposts at
the northern entrance of Mo Tien Pass.
Before daylight, they surrounded an
outpost of 80 men at the foot of a hill
and charged the trench above. A
bloody encounter with -bayonets, -last
ing a quarter of an hour, ensued. The
Russians attacked the trench three
times, but were driven up the valley
by a Japanese reinforcement, leaving
many dead and wounded. Another sur-
vivoi saw 50 lying in front of the
trench.
Russians Inflict Heavy Loss.
St. Petersburg, July 8. The Peter-
bourgsky Loutsk this evening publishes
a dispatch from Liao Yang announcing
that an engagement has occurred at Ta
Tche Kio, during which Russian cav
alry, under General Samsonoff, sup
ported by a battery of horse artillery,
dislodged the Japanese force from the
heights in the lace of a heavy machine
gun and musketry fire. The Russians,
it adds, pursued the Japanese and in
flicted heavy loss upon them.
RAINS SEND STREAMS UP.
Kansas Is
Again Threatened
Serious Flood.
With a
Kansas City, July 8. All Kansas
streams are rising, the result of heavy
rains in the past 24 hours, and serious
floods are. threatened. From two to
four inches of water have fallen during
that time.
A worse flood than any that has pre
ceded it ie threatened at Emporia,
where both the Cottonwood and Neosho
rivers are close to ihe high water mark
and rising at the rate of four inches an
hour. At Sauna the river is rising
and three feet more will cover the east
ern part of the city. Dry Creek is rag
ing, and the citizens are moving out.
Farms in the lowlands are flooded, and
farmers are moving their stock to high
er ground. Gypeum City is flooded.
The water is in the houses and streets,
and at other points much damage to
buildings has been done by high winds.
At Kansas City both the Kaw and
the Missouri rivers are high and rising
rapidly. The water overflowed the low
places in Armourdale and Riverside.
No great damage is expected in the vi
cinity of Kansas City, however, unless
there are further rams.
At Leavenworth the damage to prop
erty will be heavy. There the manu
facturing district adjacent to Three
Mile Creek, along Cherokee and Choc
taw streets, from Twelfth to the Mis
souri river, were flooded. Houses and
lumber yards and wagon and railroad
bridges are washed away and telephone
and telegraph wires are damaged.
At and near Junction City the Smoky
Hill and the Republican overflowed
their banks at several places. There
was wasnouts on ail roads at tnat
point, and no trains have run in or out
of Junction City today.
At Lawrence the Kaw is rising at the
rate of three inches an hour, and the
lowlands are flooded.
At Abilene the lowlands are inun
dated, and it is estimated that fully 20
per cent of the wheat is ruined.
This is the fourth flood this year in
Kansas. In many places it rained
neatly every other day last month, and
the record this month So far has been
maintained.
Moyer Again at His Desk.
Denver, Colo., July 8. The opening
of the new headquarters of the West
ern Federation of Miners in the Pio
neer building, was marked by the ap
pearance of Charles H. Moyer at his
desk, the first time since he was arrest
ed at Ouray more than a hundred days
ago. He held conferences with Vice
President Williams and Assistant Sec
retary Kirwan, in which the entire sit
uation was thoroughly discussed and
plans decided upon for the continua
tion of the sti ikes in which the Fed
eration is interested.
Port Nearly Destroyed.
San Francisco, July 8. Private ad
vices received by cable leport that the
Port of Champerico, in Guatemala, was
almost wholly destroyed by a cyclone.
Details are lacking, but the few words
received uy wire indicate that the land
ing facilities had been swept away, and
in such an event the buildings ashore
must have suffered considerably. It is
not believed that the port will be able
to receive or ship goods' for the next
two months.
Russians Suffer From Heat.
Liao Yang, July 8. The troops here
have suffered from a second day of ter
rible heat, the thermometer registering
106 degrees. No more rain has fallen
here, and the roads have considerably
improved. Japanese prisoners are be
ing brought to Liao Yang.
TRUMPET CALLS.
a Horn Sounds a. Warning
to the Unredeemed.
Note
XEANLINESS Is
(I half of beauty;
character is all.
Parleying with
sin brings paraly
sis of the spirit. '
The church that
inclines to the
world declines.
A He is none the
better for being
set to music.
The dollar sign
la not the only sign of success.
His promises give power to our pray
ers. The offering always savors of the
hand.
There are no promises without pre
cepts. Results will punish better than re
venge. Man's raging cannot shake God's
ruling.
High" living does not make lofty
living.
"Do" prevents more evil than
"Don't."
The Bible is the world's text book
on manhood.
There Is no moral progress without
moral purpose.
The daily paper la a poor substitute
for daily prayer.
Angels would rather hear our pray
ers than their praises.
You cannot be a gentleman unless
you learn of tne gentlest of men.
Christianity proves itself and propa
gates itself by love for the people.
International comity is a convenient
synonym for International cowardice.
- The stone that shrinks from the pol
ishing never gains the power to shine.
The world's real rulers reign not in
the roll of the thunder, but in the si
lence of sunshine.
There is no imputed righteousness
wnere tnere is no endeavor for per
sonal righteousness.
Sometimes the people are going to
church In spite of the things the
preacher does to attract them.
CHARITIES IN JAPAN.
Efficient
Care Taken of Adults
and
Small Children.
The greatest development of Japan
in charity has been in the institutional
care of able-bodied adults and of de
pendent children. Progress in the care
of the former dates back to 1898, when
a commission was appointed to consid
er the problem in all its bearings, ac
cording to a writer in Charities. This
commission recommended, first, the
erection, through funds furnished by
the state, of workshops in which the
indigent poor of Tokyo could be put to
work and their earnings applied to
their support; second, to supplement
these workshops, or until they could be
erected, 'by the establishment of agen
cies for furnishing drivers of vehicles,
mowers of lawns, etc., men with sim
pie occupations, the employe to remain
under control of the agencies and his
earnings to be applied to his support;
and, third, the support under sanitary
conditions of the aged, the cripples and
those incapable of any form of labor
and the rearing of their children at
public expense and under public over
sight. As a result of this plan it is
not unusual to find that worksnop in
mates such as the blind, the paralytic,
the infirm, the high or middle-grade
idiots and persons who have lost one
or more limbs become well trained in
some particular task and acquire a de
gree of skill that enables them to earn
more than is necessary for their sup
port. In the children's institutions boys
over 7 are placed largely in the hands
of the older boys, more experienced
and more serious companions. Young
girls go to school carrying upon their
backs infants that have been intrusted
to, them so as to lighten the tasks of
the regular attendants. The attend
ants are fourfold those watching over
the child's clothing, the food, the clean
liness of person and the physical train
ing. In the training of institutional
children a kindly demeanor is required
on the part of the attendants and in
every way there Is encouragement of
the effort to provide a mother's ten
derness and sympathy. Foundlings are
boarded out for three years with
nurses who are paid $2 or $3 a month.
Some Japanese Proverbs.
Seeing that we all are, or ought to
be, grateful to the man who provides
us with a new proverb, we have espe
cial reason for gratitude to the Japa
nese, who have quite a collection of
excellent variants for some of our
best-known efforts in this direction.
Thus where we say, "More haste, less
speed," a Japanese puts it, "If in
haste, go round." Our "Accidents will
happen in the best regulated families"
becomes "Even a monkey sometimes
falls from a tree." "Out of evil com
eth good" reappears as "The lotus
springs from the mud." Other easily
recognizable variants of English prov
erbs are: "If one plays with a tiger
trouble may ensue." "You cannot fix
a nail in a custard." "It is hard work
scattering fog with a fan," which also
appears as "Building bridges to the
clouds," or "Bailing out the sea with
a shell." While, in case of a failure
in any such attempt, consolation is
conferred with "After all your own
heart makes the world."
' A Change.
Parrot Do you believe in evolution?
Tigerskin I should say I did. Last
year I was roaming the mountains as
free as the air; now I'm posing on the
, carpet made up into a rug!
OLD BOOKS LAUNDERED.
Public Library Pnta Thousands ot
Volume in New l)re Yearly.
A large room on the first floor of the
Chicago Public Library building re
minds one of a laundry with soiled
clothes at one end and washed and
Ironed ones at the other. Two or three
long, wide tables are covered with
books, torn, frayed and dirty. Other
tables and rows of shelves are filled
with volumes just from the bindery, in
spick, span, new clothes, with black,
blue, green, purple, maroon, or red .
backs; not as gaudy or as gilty as in
their original array, but far more
solid and substantial.
Last year 3,000 volumes were re
claimed and reclad, and this year 6,000
will be. Most of them are novels, an
occasional history or work on practical
arts feeling as lost in the tattered rank
of fiction as a pedigreed dog among
curs of the pound. The original bind
ing seldom lasts more than six months.
But stout "boards" in place of cloth is
substituted, and the leather backs in
stead of cloth ones. The thread is
much stronger, and each "token" or
cluster of pages Is sewed separately,
so that the renovated book of this
grade and sort lasts four or five times
as long as it did in its original cov
ers. Each new book costs an average
of 85 cents, and its new suit 35 cents,
or, taking into account its longer en
durance, about 9 cents.
The chief damage done is the tear
ing of the leaves, the tearing of the
covers from the leaves, the soil, and.
the writing in them. The writing
mainly consists of comment upon the
book, either in praise or blame. "Love
ly book." "Fine story." "Be sure and
read It." "Isn't she Just lovely?" "I
think Reginald is a splendid fellow."
"Just too fine for anything." Adverse
judgments are briefer and less ex
plicit. "Bum" and "No good" sums
it up.
These comments have all to be eras- -ed,
which is sometimes made impossi
ble by their being written In indeli
ble ink. Occasionally the character of
the book provokes controversial in
scriptions. Books in favor of secession
excite emphatic protests from Union
readers. The history of "Belle Boyd,"
the spy, has been fearfully marked up
with frank opinions of her secession
proclivities. Protestants and Catholics
also give vent to their sentiments in
regard to each other's creed and con
duct. So do those of socialistic or
anarchistic beliefs, when the rare
chance of their presence in fiction
offers. Frequently these voluntary
commentators are satisfied to draw a
line under the obnoxious text and set
a question or interrogation mark in
the margin. These expositions are gen
erally in poor writing, bad spelling,
and bad English. Occasionally they
are bitter, and even profane.
Two or three damaged books are
kept as curiosities. One is a history,
by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts.
It was run over by the wheel of a
street car and a hundred odd pages cut
sheer across diagonally. Another Is
a copy - of the United States Official
Register, from which some one while
in the library was able undetected to
cut over 400 pages containing the list
of postofflces and postmasters in the
United States, probably for a mailing;
list Many of the books are badly
stained with the compound of mud
and soot that overlays Chicago streets.
When a book has been defaced or
damaged, but is not yet far gone
enough for rebinding, the one who
draws It from the library after the de
fects have been seen, is protected by
a stamped line reading: "Pages 145 to
153 of this book were cut out previous
to June 15, 1904," or whatever the date
may have been.
Of Dickens' works "David Copper
fierd" is most frequently rebought and
rebound; "Ivanhoe" of Scott's. Of the
more modern books Mark Twain's "In
nocents Abroad," "Roughing It,," and
"Tom Sawyer"; Churchill's "Richard
Carvel" and 'The Crisis," though "Ben
Hur" beats them all in the length of
time during which It has been replaced
on the shelves. Sometimes the public
fools the library officials as it does the
publishers. Of the seventy-five copies
of Kipling's "Kim" thirty-five are on
the shelves as good as pew, and there
are forty such of Weir Mitchell's
"Hugh Wynne." The supply of James
Lane Allen's "Reign of Law" likewise
exceeds the demand. The last supply
of "David Harum;' is not yet exhaust
ed. Chicago Tribune.
- Yankee Ideas In the Kast.
Yankee notions have encircled the
globe, and there is scarcely a portion
of the world where some indication of
American enterprise cannot be found. ,
American agricultural machinery
seems destined to revolutionize condi
tions of living in Palestine. Recently
a rich man of Damascus, Abdul Rah
man Pacha, ordered from an Indiana
firm a modern steam thrashing ma
chine, the second of its kind ever seen
In Judea. Consul Rarndal, at Beyroot.
states that the triumphal march of his
machine through Damascus was one
of the most spectacular events which
has ever occurred in the white city.
On its way out to the pacha's estate
in the country it broke down several
bridges, but it was pulled out of the
creek beds and finally brought to its
destination in good condition to do
the work of thousands of the old-fashioned
flails In a region where for the
most part the people still live and
work much as they worked when
Abraham crossed through these fields
with his Chaldean flocks.
Naybor That boy of yours seems to
be a bright one. He'll cut out a nam
for himself some day.
Popley (angrily) He's done It al
readyon our newly painted back
fence. Philadelphia Press.