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TH:E?E:BEVIE tS ISSUED - FRIDAY MORNINGS, ' ; by- - ' ' J. R. N. BELL, - - Proprietor. AJ mad HAS tej: FINEST JOB OFFICE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. CARDS, BILL HEADS, IESAL BLANKS, V aad ther PriuUng, Including tee at Em Festers ai Eail-Eilis, Keatly and expeditlouisly execatod AT PORTLAND PRICBS. A i V 1L Kf One Tear Six Months -Three Months $2 SO 1 SO 1 00 Tlieee we the terms of thoc paying to advance The Kkvikw offers fine inducement to advertiser. Terma reasonable. VOL. X. ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1885. NO. 1. ' -:"'tt ''''Inriir-ii.i . . i fc TT T V V o J. JASKULEK, PRACTICAL Watctaier, Jeweler ani Optician, ALL WORK WARRANTED. Draler lii Watches, Clocks. Jewelry, Spectacles and EyeslMsee. AND A FOIL U51 Cigais, Tobacco & Fancy Goods. Tb otilj reliable Outomer tn town for the proper adjuat . tueutof Spectacle; always on liana. D.-pot of the Genuine Brazilian FebbU Spec tacles and Eyeglasses. Ofkich -First Door South of Postoffice, ItONKHURCi. ORECiOX. LAITGEIIBEKG'S Boot and Shoe Store KOSEBURG, OREGON, - - -. - - "" Oa" Jackson Street, Opposite the Poe OSes, Keeps on Land the largest and best assortment of , l'aterii and Sau Fi-anelaeo Boats and MIioeM, alter, Slipper, . And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH. It ootid aud Shoes Made to Order, and Perfect Fit Guaranteed. I use the Best of Leather and Warran all my work. Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice. I keep always on hand TOYS AND NOTIONS. Musical Instruments and Violin' Strings a specialty. LOU23 LAKIUEXOERti. HUBBARD CREEK IV3 ILLS CLARK & BAKER, Props. Having purchased the above named mills of E. Stephens & Co., w e are now prepared to fur nish any amount of the best quality of ever offered to the public in Douglas county. We will furnish at the mill at th following prices: - No. 1 rough lumber........... . .',;.$12'PM No, 1 flooring:. 6 inch .f24 M No. 1 flooring:, inch , . . , . ; .$26 M No. 1 flnsihinjr lumber. . . $20 VM No. 1 finishing lumber dressed on 2 sides $24 V M No. 1 finishing lumber dressed on 4 sides $26 M CLARK 8c BAKER. L. T. LINK. JOHX UXE. LANE & LANE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office on Main street, opposite Cosmopolitan Hotel. CHARLEY HADLEY'S BARBER II O J? Next Door Live Oak Saloon. Shaving and Hair Cutting in a Workmanlike Planner. ROSEBURG, OREGON. JOHH FRASER, Home Hade Furniture, WILBUR, OREGON. OPHOLSTERY, SPMS MATTRESSES, ETC. Constantly on hand. FURNITURE I have the Best STOCK OF FURNITURE South ef Portland. And all of my own manufacture. Xo Two Prices to Customers. Resident of Douglas County are requested to give me a oall before purchasing elsewhere. ALL WORK WARRANTED. DEPOT HOTEL, Oakland, Oregon. RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor. This Hotel has been established for a num ber of years, and has become very pop ular with the -traveling public F1EST-CLAS3 SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS AMD THE Table supplied with the Best the Market affords Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad. H. C. STAWTOrJ, DEALER IN Staple Bry CJ-oods; Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment oi Extra Fine Groceries, WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE, . AtSO - CROCKERY AND CORDAGE, A full stock of SCHOOL BOOKS, Such as required by the Public County Schools. !j All kinds of" Stationery, Toys and Fancy Articles, . . TO SUIT BOTH TOCHO AND OLD. Buys and Sell9 Legal Tenders, furnishes Cheeks on Portland, and procures Drafts on San Francisco. SEEDS! SEEDS! ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY. ALL ORDERS Promptly attended to and goods shipped with care. Address; II ACHES Y A BESO, Portland, Oregon. "SHALL I?" Shall I do this, sir, and shall I do that, sir? Shall I go in. sir, or shall I go Out? Shall it be bonnet, or shall it be hat, sir? State your opinion: I'm sadly in doubt. Shall 1 go r:d ng, or shall I go walking? - Shall I accept it, Or shall I refuse? Shall I be silent, or shall I keep talking? ujvb your aavice, pray; x cau nut won choose. Thus do we pander to others opinions, wearing the garb of Society's slaves: Fashion's a tyrant, and we are her minions. itoDDing our lire or tne treeaom u craves. Qujrht I to visit her, ought I to eut her? Shall 1 be friendly, or shall I be cold? Shall I look boldly, or peep through the shutter? j -"-.- Shall I give silver, or shall T give gold? What will be said if 1 tay from the dinner? What will be sa'd if I'm seen at the ball? Will thev proclaim me a eaint or a sinner? If not the former. I go not at all. Thus do we pander to others opinions, wearing toegarD or society a slaves; Fashion's a tyrant, and we are her minions. Robbing our life of the freedom it c wives. Why not go forward, undaunted.'unf earing, Doing- the thinar that is lawful and right? Caring not who may be seeing or hearing, - Shunning" the a&ricness, ana courting me lia-ht. - ...i:-:-- Surely, if conse'euce forbear to iipbra'd us. well may we laugn at tne veraict ot fools; God is our guide for His service He made US - : Not to be ruled by the makers of rules. Pander no longer to Others opinions; Wear nt the garb of Society's slaves; Be not of Fashion the pitiful minions; Rob not your life of the freedom it craves. ! Xcvnnie Power O'Donoahue. in Ouxinber' Journal. CATCHING A WILD HORSE. A Lively Experience in Northern r Wyoming. ; The Phantom Horse of the Prairies Pur suit of a Wld Racer That Was Many Times Taken, Only to Escape. ' , When I was stationed up in the Wind River Valley, Wyoming Territory, I had a most exciting experience with a wild horse. I had often heard of this horse, and there was a good deal of romance attached to his history, much of which, I suppose, wa pure fiction. Such a horse, however, did exist, and he was often seen on the plains, in the canons, and gazing down at the passers-by from the mountain tops. At midnight often a horse was seen flying by the lonely camps on the prairie, and the Indian declared they had been startled out ol their sleep by the shrill neigh "or the clattering hoofs of the "phantom horse," as they called him. The Cheyenne In dians had stolen him in Kansas, whero he had been a noted race-horse, and the Sioux had in tjurn stolen him from the Cheyennes, who sold him to t.ho Utes and in a great battle near the Uintah Mountains the Snake Indians had captured him from the Utes. Ho escaped from the Snakes, and for a long time remained wild on the prairies, but finally a Mr. Gallagher and a party of hunters had succeeded in capturing'him and took hire' to the Salt Lake settle ments, but he had escaped, took to the mountains and finally drifted back to his old pastures on the Wind River. All efforts to recapture him were in vain, and when 1 arrived on the Wind River he had been at large some four years. 1 knew Mr. Gallagher well and wrote mm about the horse. lie re plied there was such a horse, and for a time he bad been in his possession. Mr. Gallagher's letter revived ail inter est in the mysterious horse, and X de termined, if possible, to capture him at the earliest opportunity. The Snake Indians, who inhabited that region, did not like to talk about him and believed he was possessed of an evil spirit. They freely adnitted often seeing him but would not help to catch him or have anything to do with him. fhus ran the legend of the wild horse or the phantom steed of the Wind River Mountains, as he was frequently called. I gave strict instructions to all hunt ing parties, scouts and trappers to look out for the wild horse, and if thev saw him to let me know. Once word came that he was at Buffalo Bull Lake, sixtv miles away, and I sent a party of Arra- phoe Indians and scouts to capture him After, days of watching they finally lassooed him and brought him to their camp. For days they beat,' choked and starved him, but his brave spirit seemed unconquerable. His legs were tied with ropes, and the Indians resorted i to all their known skill in horsemanship to ' e A . -ft DreaK and conquer mm. At last" one ambitious Indian vonth announced he could ride him, and the rope3 were taken off. The Indian mounted the wild horse and both disappeared into the hills. In the evening the Indian returned to the camp foot sore and bruised and an nounced that the horse had thrown him and escaped into-the mountains. That was the last seen of him for nearly three months, when a trapper on Big Wind Kiver said he saw a horse with an Ind an saddle on and a rope tied to his under jaw grazing on the river bottom, and he attempte ! to approach him, but he fled into the hills like the wind. The Arra- phoes no sooner heard of this than they set out for the Big Wind River, deter- jnined to capture and bring him in. will here say that the Arraphoes did not share the superstition of their neighbors. the Snakes, in believing the horse had supernatural powers, or was possessed of a bad sp'rit. They simply regarded him as a horse, and were anxious : to have the honor of being his captors. In a few days I heard the Arrapahoe Chief had succeeded in finding where the horse watered, and skillfully spread ing his lanat on some bushes had sue ceeded in catching him. He was tied . to a tree, and I sent a wagon and some soldiers to help bring him in. Chained to the wagon lie was started for eamp, but had only gone five miles when he broke tae chain in twain.sand once more lied to the hills, defying all pur suit.- - . ' The wild horse was not again heard of for nearly three months, when one morning just after breakfast in midsum mer, a sentinel on post reported a horse on a bluff overlooking the camp, and on a closer mspeotion with glasses we saw it wa? the veritable wild horse with the chain still about his neck. He seemed greatly excited, kept- galloping np and down the bluff with head and tail erect, steadily looking at our horse and mule herd, which was quietly grazing in the valley. I. gave orders to the soldiers not to disturb the horse or apparently notice him, but sent word to the herd ers to move th herd gently toward the bluff, keeping well in the background themselves. : The horse presently de scended the bluffs and approached the herd, but suddenly taking alarm crossed the- valley and went up the opposite h ills. As if charmed by the presence of his own kind,' he recrossed the valley and assumed his: old position on the bluffs. Being assured he came down and, for a minute joined the mule herd. Then running round and round he worked toward the horses and mares. As long as he would run I let him go, but seeing he was settling down to cap ture our mares I started , nim out on the hills once more Part of the herd was now driven in, a cavalry company and some team mules saddled up, and we waited for) developments. We could see the long chain about his neck, dang ling between his forelegs, and appa rently threshing them at every "step. In about an hour the horse, apparently ex hausted, came down from th : hills aud entered -the herd ' with the mares. 1 now ordered the men in two3, threes and sixes, to seize the passes leading into the hills and to picket the bluffs. Then began a , chase the like of which I had never seen before. I had sent out troopers to all the passe, and divided up a company Into squads of six and eight, with orders to relieve each other as fast as their horses became blown. The pursuing party started the horse, and he made straight for the hills where he wasf turned,back and driven across the valley again. Go where he might soldiers from every canon and on every hillside' emerged with lariats, ready to lasso him. Like most animals when closely pursued, the horse ran ak most in a circle, and soon made no ef fort to enter the hills. His only anx iety seemed to be to escape the immedi ate presence of his pursuers, who grad ually closed in on him. At first he easily outran the .; swiftest horses, but now some of the fresher ones were nearly able to keep up with him. The chain about Jieck threshed his forelegs and greatly impeded his onward prog ress. Suddenly from the wagon cor ral emerged a teamster mounted on a tall'saddle mule, and at the sight of the mule and rider the soldiers set up a great shout. The mule had a history, and was known in the command as Old Abe. Lincoln. He had been the hero of i many n race and won a bet, for not withstanding his ungainly appearance he had pluck, endurance and speed, such as rarely falls to the lot of a mule. Stretching himself and shaking his sraall'whisk tail in the air, Old Abe went straight for the wild horse. Placing himself on the outside of the circle at the horse's shoulder, : Abe stayed with him, pressing in and in, until he was going around on a few acres of land. , I now saw the capture of the horse was inevitable, and the soldiers of the camp ran out with guns, sticks and clubs to keep him within the circle. By com mon consent Old Abe and his rider were allowed to do" the chasing, the other mounted'men merely keeping the horse in the fatal ring. Abe's rider made one er two attempts to throw , a rope over the horse's head, but he dodged it with wonderful agilitv. - O es "Catch him by the chain! Catch him by the chain i" the soldiers called out, and Abes rider put up his" rope and made desperate efforts to get hold of the chain that hung from the horse's neck. Onoe or twice he got it, but the horse tore away. Old Abe seemed to under stand the business on hand, and was constantly trying to get ahead of the horse. He did not seem to know why he should be required to keep alongside, and greatly vexed his rider by his ef forts to pass the horse. At last, how ever, the chain was secured, and Abe, either understanding it or being tired out, merely kept at the horse's side. As the soldier tugged at the chain it began to choke the horse, and finally he stag gered a3 he ran. The soldiers 'now closed in and threw their lariats at him as he passed. One went over his head, and the soldier hung to it until another and another came to his help The horse could go no further his eyes , popped out of nis head, his tongue pro traded from his mouth, and he fell heavily on the plain. In -; an instant his forelegs were bound together, and at last we had the wild horse safe in our hands. I examined him carefully, and found him a dark chestnut "bay in color, and of medium size. The chain had cut deep into his neck, making an ugly sore, and the skin was completely threshed oft his knees and forelegs by the beating of the chain. ? He was broad-chested, with wide nostrils and a big, bright, fiery eye. The muscles were gathered in large knots, and the veins on his neck and body stood out like whip-cords. After we had securely hoppled his legs and tied a dozen long ropes to him we took the chain off his neck and . let him rise. He seemed completely' con quered, and moved along quietly enough to the stables. The horse was by com mon consent given to me; but I said I would not have him, and thought he ought to belong to Old Abe and his rider. This greatly pleased the soldiers, and, as Old Abe and his rider belonged to Captain Phisterer's company, of the Seventh Infantry, the horse went to that regiment , " ' Poor-lellow, he seemed glad enough to be in captivity, and was soon quite gentle, but they were afraid to ride him lest he should throw his rider and again escape to the hills. He would put down his head, to have the sore on his neck washed, and, itideed, behaved so well we soon ceased to talk about him. Not very long after-his capture a de tachment of Captain f histerer s com- pany was going in to Jtorc imager, ana the'Captam- determined to send, the wild horse in with them. He was securely tied behind a wagon and strict orders given to guard him night and day until his arrival at Bridger. On the second day out we heard from the detachment that the horse had es caped. It appeared a soldier had taken him down to the water, using merely a halter. Whether the horse got frightened and pulled away, or whether the soldier for a moment dropped tne halter-strap, no one could tell, but the horse got away, fled into the hills, and, of course, pursuit was useless. -He was often seen- afterward, hut no one ever could succeed in recapturing him. The events of which I have: been writing occurred in 1869, nearly sixteen years ago, and the horse is probably dead before this time, as he was thought to be eight or ten vears old when we captured him, hut I doubt not some of the descendants of this horse now roam over Northern Wyoming.Ahd it is prob able not a few of them annoy the cattle men and horse-growers by stealing their "mares. If the descendants are as good stuff as the sire 'they will not easily be got rid of, and a good many of them, as well a3 us, will have cause long to remember our first- experience in catching a wild horse. Gen. Jame Lrtibintin Chicago Horseman. :vV.: . v"; ; v-: A LATE DISCOVERY.. . The Illlnolsian Who Was and Dicing Know a Millionaire It. " I met him on Canal Street, New Or leans, or rather he came up to me' as I was leaning against- a - door-post and asked : vJ . I- .... , -- Be you from Illanoy P" '4 "No Michigan." . 'That's too bad. I wanted to find somebody from Illanoy." "Broke?". "No, notyet. See here, I'm plzenly bothered." "Well?" "Well, I've been a hired man in.Illa noy for the last thirteen years, gettin' about $16 a mouth and board. 'I've alius looked upon board as wuth about a dollar a week, but- -" "Well?" ' 1 just kinder . filled up back here - at the restaurant just about half a square meal just 'nuff to pitch hay or hoe corn on for an hour, and what d'ye 'spoie. the figger was?" "O, about seventy cents.' " "Seventy -pumpkins! It was $1. SO, or I'm a sinner. Say!" "Yes." - " , "That's $3.90 a day for fodder, or about $100 a month. A hundred a month' is twelve hundred a year. Thir teen times that is about $15,000. "Yes." . " "Say, I'll be gosh-baked and forever stepped on if I haven't been one of these dumed aristocrats a bloated bond holdera gosh-fired monopolist all the.-e thirteen years without knowing itl Tucked away $15,000 worth fot fodder! Woosh! but"! want to meet somebody from Illanoy and pint the finger of financial independence at him! De troit Free Presn. ; LOVE. The Symptoms of the Grand Passion as Explained by Two Colored People. , Pete Jackson is a colored man work ing for Tiff Johnson on Onion Creek, Swayback Lucy is also employed by Tiff as a house servant. They are very con fidential with Tiff, and tell him all about their private affairs. A few days ago Pete winked mysteriously at Tiff, and taking him off to one side, said to him :'-..- - : . "Mister Johnsing, I wants tor confide a great secret to yer." "What is it, Pete?" "I'se got a great notion ter ask Sway back Lucy ter marry me." "Do you think she reciprocates your affection P" "What did yer say she did?" "Do you think -she loves you as much as you do her?" "Dat's what I 'spicions.'V "Did she tell you so?" r "No, but she mout jess as well hab jtole me so. When she wasgdin' fru' de yard I punched her wid a pitchfork, and she said : G'wav, yer black nigger. I doan want ter hab yer about me.' I tells yer, Mister Johnsing, dat when a woman tells yer ter go 'way, she wants yer ter stay right dar. Dev m de con trairiest critters in de world." "So you think that is a symptom of love, do you?" "I does, sah, for a fac'." : Shortly afterward " another negro woman heard Swayback Lucy singing away for dear life in the yard, as happy as a bird. - .,-'.' . "What's de matter wid you?" "I tells yer. Aunt Sukey, I believes "Has he done tole yer so?" - "No, but he mout jes3 as well hab tole me so. He - punched . me wid de pitched fork. , I tells yer dat means sumfin'." Texas Siftings. BARBERS, How They. Appear to a Customer, Ab stractly and Concretely. Incidentally we love a barber. We do.not object to his conversation -j-in-deed, we admire to listen to his artless prattle as he whips the thin steel deftly around our jugular. Neither are we of that 'class of cynics who rail at the bar ber's foibles his absolute certainty of nipping a ' favorite pimple, his feverisk anxiety to annoint our , head with oil that shall run down upon our coat-col lar, to its undoubted detriment, his per sistence in giving our face a final flirt with the towel that shall hopelessly -disarrange the mustache he has with so great exactness just carefully "adjusted all these shortcomings and more we can forgive; but we do wish he would not so studiously avoid the spot upon our head or face that the light touching" of his hands has set to itching.. When the barber combs our hair, if there be one spot of all the broad expanse of head that would be grateful to the soothing touch of comb or brush, there is some thing supernatural in the manner with which the barber avoids it Similarly with the face. When the bay rum is filling our nose with cheerful odor and our eyes with tears, and the barbar throws over, us the glamor of the drying towel, is there not always an aggrava ting spot adjacent to the nose that his swiftly-flying hands utterly fail to reach? With all our love for the barber, there are times and occasions when he mad dens us UockZati'l Courier-Gazette. The moment a people begin to be lieve in themselves and their own ca pacity to develop their own resources according to occasion, outsiders see at a glance that that is the place to put money, for the'r prosperity will steauily advance. Columbia ( S. cf .Jt Jieqister. :---: '; rfx r ' v? '.--". An Indiana man has pitenied a model for a straw house. Th walls a: e to be made of bales of straw or hay, and then plastered and bolted down. It ?t said to be preferable to brick kn1 a en durable. Indianapolis Journal. HOUSEKEEPING. Some GooU "Advice By a Woman to Her Housekeeping Sisters. . Successful housekeeping! How many of us fully realize the mean'pg of that term? As I take it, successful house keeping does not consist merely in keeping the house scrupulously clean from garret to cellar, and the table al ways supplied with the choicest food; but in do'ng our work in the easiest and 'pleasantest manner to ourselves, and n that way which makes those about us in every way most comfort able. And to do this requires ju dgmen t, pat'ence and much careful study and forethought We have been deluged with advice about having a time, a plan and a place for everything; 1 ut all ye who have tried it .know how utterly impossible it is to keep our reohitionar regarding the last two, especially where there are young children or frequent callers to breafc in upon the routine; but I have found it a great saving of time and stfeng h to plan by littles. While ironing, sitting to pare potatoes or apples, nursing baby, etc., 1 keep thinking what I shall do next, planning every step, then if any mistak- s occur they are onlv mental ones; for instance, if a trip to the cellar is soon to be made I ecdjeavor to think of everythi ig ihat is to be taken, and everything that can be brought; at that t'ma,' instea I of runn'ng with or after one th;ng at a time in the hurried moment in wh:ch it happens to be thought of. Try it, ladies, yon have no dea what a help it is until you do try planning what you will do next, and just how in every particular; it is so much easier to rovise it and correct it in our minds than with our feet If you are forget ful, it is convenient to have a slate hanging in the kitchen en wh'ch you can note down many of the impormnt little thfngs which might otherwise, not be thought of when it would-be easiest to do them.' On the other side of the slate yon might kep- a -record of the names and dates of papers in which you saw recipes you wish to try or any val uable hints; for one often sees such, and whens we take many papers it is difficult to find what one wants without some clew; when full, copy into a little memorandum look.; unless von have tried enough (and placed in vour tested receipt book which every housekeeper should make for her.sejf). to erae and make room for moreN. Speaking of planning, I presume nons of aosi retire at n:ght without see'ng breakfast all 011 I I ne in your mental vision, it .-ave.s so much hurry and worry in the morning' ah! this worry, it is the bane of American women. Let us strive to "al ways remember " Tis worry, not wort, that kills." . . Another oae of the greatest aids in avoiding bustle and confusion is to be g n ' in time. It is certainly "much bet ter to do a th'ng in season than out of season, and if it must be done why not J do it in time? form this habit and jt will soon become a sort of second na ture to be punctual 1 , have lound it easiest ; as oou as breakfast work is. done and house in order (one room at least so 3 011 will not' be embarrassed if a neighbor steps 111), to arrange for dinner all that can be gotten ready at that time; it is no much nleasanter to have: it off one's m'nd at onca than to wonder all through the forenoon, "What shall I gt for din ner?" And, - when possible, I et the table at any leisure . time, putting on salt, spoons, castor, everything that will not dry out or spoil from getting too warm or too cool, and that wilt not attract flies, though, I hope, many are using screens, thev cost but 1 ttle and, though they do not afford complete re lief from the pests,' they.aje a wonder ful advantage. Another help, where the household is so fortunate as to have a baby in it, is to arrange its nap with reference to the ; dinner hour, if po s.b'e.'having him asleep at that time; with a little care to form the' habit a healthy babe ca generally be put to sleep an hour before dinner and sleep till it is all over. Mine dojs--some-times. On ironing day I have adoj tid the plan suggested by a writer in a late paper, always to iron the finest most ted ous clothes first, for two very good reasons: first we are fresh and have mote strength -and patience for them than when weary at the last, and, sec end, .f we are hindered in any way so that anything must be hurried over, or shook out and left ; 1 11 another-4ime, it w 11 only be the coarse art e'es, which will not be hurt so much by such treat ment As to what pieces need ironing each one must be her own judge. 1 used to think that every article mustbe, smooth and nice before putt'ng away, and they do look nicer, but w.th my little ones around me now, with minds and bodies' to be cared for as well as cTofiing, I find sheets wash-rags, flan hrfUand cjarse underwear can go with out sometmes for the sake of hav'ng the time thui gained to make a child happy." read a new paper or book,: ar rar ge some little surprise for papa," or at least have time to compose my self and be calm and pleasant when he comes; I know we can not always do this, but let's do so whenever we can, re member' ng the r faces are very much like m rrbrs, giving us back a reflec tion of our own; but I waut to say just he.-e that when leaving things undone, o sl:ghtly done, let it not be anything that will endanger health. Every th'ng in and about the bouse should always be so clean and fresh and pure as to in cur no risk in that direction. As to a place for everyth ng. have it so if vou can: where closeOi and cup boards are scarce .this is difficult and if out-of-the-way places are chosen i.orr.e of the careless ones wilf not al ways put them there, so we th'nk it best to have boxes, pockets, h oaks and closetH-oar ; catch-alls in conven'ent place 1 td keep those th'ng wh eh are us.d by all members of the family. Such thmg3 as strings, waite-paper, sc s n rs, needles, thread, it good lini ment, camphor, a few simple home n ed cines, i a court-plaster, ? lantern, umbrella and numerous o her thirjg . should be where any one can placi a hand on them without asking- or i e trehing for them. This can be done n the most inconvenient house with a litllr tact and perseverance;: and always . be careful to hare the places for matches, ink, lye and all poisonous article far out of the, possible reach of little hands. None of these things are mere theories, but a-e a few of the plans which I have put in practice to aid me during years of house-work on a farm where one pair of hands must do the work of laundre ss, dairymaid, house maid, seamstress, nurse and cook, and I recapitulate: "Look ahead;" "Be g'n in t:me;" . "Think before you step;'1 Have all that you 1 work with con ven'ent as possible." and "Don't worry." . And,;ow, if these rules are followed, thinking of your. work in the pleasant est light possible, not looking upon it as a drudgery, and striving ever to be "strong, pure and patient," I think you will learn to ; make housekeeping, in the fullest sense of the word, a grand success. Vesta - Lcroy, in West cm Plowman. - . ' - vV-.i:-- ' :- ; '''' ''Z-'ZK' ', " " - ' ' :-" CHEAP GRAIN. An Example Which Is Commended to Farmers Who Live Where Grain Does Xot Pay for Transportation. It, is unfortunate that so many American farmerls are hot In a posit'on to d-spose of the products of their farms to the best advantage. No farmer can afford to raise corn and sell it at from ten to twenty-five cents a bushel, and yet - thousands aretjom pelled;to accept such prices in conse quence of the pressing demands upon them for money at the time of gather ing their crops. After harvest notes begin td come due, interest and taxes must be paid, and all those who have nothing left over from last year's sales must dispose of some kind of crop to meet the demands of their creditors aid the tax gatherer. This is nothing new to a majority of farmers, and while they have bsea compelled to make great sacrifices year after year to meet the demands upon them com 1 arativelv few are able to get sid of this incubus which casts a cloud over their lives and all their operations. . In the Western States, where the farmer is compelled to haul his crops some distance to find ; a market" and then take whatever a local may choose to offer, he is agent likely to iare worse tnan m reg.ons where there is some competition among buyers. But ;V the farmer who is burdened with debts is a .slave, and the sooner he breaks the bonds and asserts h's freedom the better,.even if he has to make some sacrifices in do ing so. . Of coursti we do not mean to sax that a farmer should never run in. debt, but he should avoid placing him self in a position Where indebtedness will force him to make continual or annual sacrifices to meet interest or pnnc pal. it a man is so situated that When a man d es we jitlrkhij- lie mnst sell corn for ten orflfteenTtriir with him. a bu-hel to raise monev to pay debts of anj' kind, he is certainly making great sacrifices to meet, his obligations, and be had better lose all at once than con t'nue.to do this for any considerable number of years in suecess'on. . But it may be said that no farmer should ever sell corn at such prices, be cause it is worth far more to feed hogs, heep and cattle. This may AVe " true, but the farmer must first obtain the animals named before he can feed them his surplus grain, and it is just here that the want of means annoys - many a farmc most severely. He may. see how -he could make his corn worth fifty cents a bushel by turning it into pork beef or mutton, provided he was able to hold it and purchase the animals re quired to' con- time it; but not being able to command the nei-essary capitaC he sells at a loss, while other farmers in better circumstances may make a frofit on their gra n . even, at- present ow prices. ' . .. ' :". -', -. '- We not'ee a recent report of the do ings of certain farmers in Butler Coun ty, Kansas, where, distance from ra 1 road communication prevented them from marketing their corn at present. fnces without loss. I o avord this, a arge number combined and gathered together sx thousand head of cattle, and to these the corn is being fed dur ing the winter months. - These cattle will consume 03,000 - bushels of corn. and the cost of hauling this amount of grain will not only ba saved, but by changing it into beef, the raiser will probably obtain twice or three times as much for it as it wo.ild have brought if "fold last fall. Next spring. ;or as soon as the cattle are ready for. ship ment, they can be driven;. to the rail roads at a-very trifling expense, and will doubtless command a good price, for beef has not fallen in valua nearly sd much as grain during the past year. In fact, meals of all kinds have held the r own remarkably well during the recent " depression in prices of most k nds of farm products. The example of the Butler County farmers shou'd b.i imitated by tho re of r ther counties in Kansas and else where; not that all should try cattle, because such a move might tend to ad vance the price j of steers aud "other young stock, but the feeding of gra'n on the farm to sheep, ; hogs, cattle, horses and poultry is the true wav to d'spose of it when priees are so low; that t can not le sold in its natural state at a fa'r profit Of course we can not undertake to advise individuals as to the best way to obtain the ani mals they may need in. attempting to changs their s; stem of farming, but we w ll say that one good way to begin th? change is to stop selling off the i alve i. lambs, pigs and other young an;maL, and 'or no better reason than because some butcher or buver offers what you consider a good or fair vfci. Better keep the lambs and calves for a year or two, for as a rule, thev will advance in value one hun dred per cent per annum, wjiilo the value of their food will not be twenty five per cent This hankering; after a little ready cash which is not, actually needed has been the ru n of many an industrious and otherwise competent farmer. N. Y. bun. Every Saturday evening, when barber shop in Troy is crowded bv oung mechanics setting their haircut for Sunday, a priest who is a zealous temperance advocate arrives to get signatures to a pledge ot total abst: nence. He th nss that ne thus save manr a fellow from spending his weefi's wages in a spree. -Troy(N, Y.) Times. LIFE IN ICELAND. Qaeer -Castoms of the Pe ople la the Laud o? Eternal S ao we. Miss Olai Krarer is an intelligent little Exquimau woman, twenty-saven years 01 age. bhe relates that she wai born in the northern part of Greenland, and lived there until she was fifteen years of age, when, reports having reached her father oi the warmer, better country of Iceland, the family emigrated there on a dcg-sled. During her; stay of five years In Iceland she was, to use her own word, "eddicated," and learned, among ether things, of America and her people. -Having a great desire to satisfy her curiosity cjoiSeernjag' us, she came with a number of IcelCnders t o British Am er ica, and"Arom ' "the Eastern coast finally came to Manitoba. To an ita jtttrcr reporter she said: My country . is very different from this. I will ex plainj low we build houses In my coun try. We press (the snow into hard bricks and build a tent-shaped house. xnsiae we line tne wails and coor with fur. We have an opening left for a -door which is high enough for a child eight years old. here to go in and out We ban a fur curtain up at the open ing. We make our fire in the center of the snow-house. The re3 are mad 3 of lean meat oil and bones, for - we have no wood in my country not as much as one match. . Fire3 are started with a flint, but flints are very scarce and the man who owns one is consMered well off. The smoke from the fire is kept in the house, and as we use oil on our ' faces, the smoke and oil make us of a dark color. We never wash, for therj is no water and it would freeze on our faces. A lady in my country uses plentv of oiL just as ladies here think they look nice with powder and paint The ladies of my country have an easy time, no work but the making of the clothes , and the care of her children; only, if a baby cries she will not take care of it She throws it into the corner of the snow house, and when it is quiet sha takes and pets it 1 will explain for you how we-marry in my country. The man must steal his wife. -If h? is caught trying to get her he is killed, -for if he is not sharp enough to steal her they think he is not sharp enough to take care of her. After he has married her he can never leave her. . If he do as, he is killad. T We have no religion in my country, but we think a gocd man L will go to a good place, a bad man to a N bad Tllfft. vW pro fcinfl tn orli ntlior only we are not kind to the sick, fcr we fKiTlV if " f rlOV 1trila flnv rv rxst m - would - not be sick. ; We have bat two years, sometimes 'six years. I think it is what you call consamption.' " i "I will explain for yon how we hunt in my country. The men kill whales, walruses, bears and seals. The first . man wno sncus n:s speur into ina am- . mal-gets the skin, and the meat is divided with the others. The meat is eaten raw. The peoplo liks best the blood and fat The skins are used for clothes, whieh are sewed up. with an . animal's sinews. Our sleds are mada of skins and bones, and are drawn by dogs. W hen the dogs are well trained they are driven without reins. ' V. J V W J ..AV . I of the furs; a whole family sleep in one bed. If a man lives alone ho makes the furs into a sack and crawls into it when he wants to sleep. We sleep when "we are sleepy, and eat. when we are hungry. Oife night-time lasts for . six months, but we always have light enough from the snow and stars. Our daytime we do not Hue the sunlight and snow make our eves burn like they would drop out of our heads. - The two months, twilight is the mo3t pleas ant time." ; ,V My people grow no taller than a child of eight iu this country, and they never live to be over sixty years of age. This climate," : concluded "Miss Krarer, ' "weakens me. It f is very warm.''. And indeed , the ; imie lady wore her sleeves short, exposing her arms.: Short arms they were and pe culiarly shaped. Th9 arms of the Es- ' quimau men are straighter," froin being used more. Miss Krarer s height is for ty Inche3, her weight ore hundred and twenty pounds. ' - - f'What .d you thmE or the people ofj this country when you -first saw them?" was asked Miss Krarer. i"Oh," she replied, they, looked so big they almost scared me to aeatn; and I was much frightened when I first saw a black" woman. - I thought she was very dirty." ' Aliss Krarer has sent for her sisters who are in Iceland to join her. Cincin atti Enquirer. ' . v' . - m m - --,4 - Eating Off Gold. , Mrs. Astor's supper to twenty of her intimate ; friends was given -Monday nighty .-On this- occasion . the famous service of solid gold was .used. These yellow dishes are seldom brought out from the Astor vault They cost $100. 000, it is said, though I have -heard the figures exaggerated to $250,COO. Any how there is. no great extravagance in them, for the metal can at any time bo melted into good bullion and only tna workmanship lost. I have attendeJ many of the Astor entertainments, but never one when me goia uiensiis were displayed. A friend who has bad that inestimable privilege declared that she didn't enjoy the experience very much, after all. - . "In the first place," she said, "the eatables were completely overcome and dominated by the plates on wh'ch they were serveX The daintiest morsels seemed ,to have no flavor at all, and after a while I fancied that they became impregnated with a peculiar metallic taste. And then I go': it into my head that the man sitting opposita me was a detective in disguise, placed there to see tht I didn't slip plate into my bodice. He was afterv'ards introduced to me, and I had reason to believe that his covert glances had been purely sen timental, but they spoiled my supper all the same. No, thank you, fine china ware is goad enough for me." Cinein r i In Wyoming Territoryan ordinari ly healthful region, there is oce doctor