J f POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tills powdor never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wiioKMomencss. .Moro economical than tlio ordinary kinds, nnd cannot bo sold in competition with tlio multitude nl low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Hold only In cans. Royal, Dakino Pownfcii Co., 100 Wall St., N. Y. CENTENNIAL HOTEL BAR. E. MILLER, Proprietor. Having fitted up tlio Centennial Hotel Bar-room, and removed my stock ot Wines, Liquors & Cigars to that placo, I am hotter prepared than ever to cntortaln and rcgalo my customers. I keep nono but the best ot Eastern Liquor, TIIlwnukco, IVuIIa AVnllu, ami Union Itecr. Also, tbe Finest Brands of Cigars. COMMERCIAL Hroy ml Feefl Opposite Centennial, IIotul. JOHN S. ELIOTT, PROPRIETOR. Having furnished this old and popular hostelry with umplo room, plenty of feed, good hostlors and now buggies, Is hotter jiropurcu than over to accommoduto cua- towers, Wy terms uro rcusouablo. GOVE TANNERY. Adam Chosbman, PitoiuttuTOit. I Has now on hand and tor sale tho best ot HARNESS, LADIGO, UPPER nnd LACE LEATHER iHEEP SKINS, ETC. iouxi.Aivi bicici:s Tald for Hides and Pelts. RAILROAD FEED MD LITO STABLE Near tho Court Houso. A. P. Benson, PitopiuuTOB. Union, Oregon, Pino turnouts nnd flrst-chiss rigs for tlio accommodation ot tho nubile generally. Conveyances for commercial men a spe cialty. PTho accommodations for feed cannot booxcolled In tho valley. Terms reasonable. HOT LAKE! Situated four miles west ot Union dop.t on Bouth Biuo oi tlio U. 11. it 14. Co.'b ru'il road. WARM MURAL BATHS. , Iu Comfortable Rooms. Health for tho Sick, and Host for the Weary. Especially ndaptod for tho Iluliof ot Wo mon. Is under tho supervision ol ouo who has had thirty yonin' oxperionco. 8. 1'. NEW11ARD, Proprietor. SMOKE OUR PUNCH Host Havana Filled 99 5 Five Cent Cigar. 5 Jones Bros., agents, Union. E. GOLLINSKY & CO. A Positive Cure. MEN, young, lulddle-uged and old, elnglo or nmrrled, and till who suiter with LONT MAM1(H, Nervous Debility, Spermatorrhea. Seminal Losses, Sexual Decay, Fulling Memory. Weak Eys, stunted development, lack ol energy, Jiupo Vfrlslied blood, pimpli's, tin pediments to marriage; iilao blood mid skin discuses. syplilliH, eruptions, hair falling, bono pains, swellings, sort) throat, ulcers, effects of mercury, kidney and bladder troubles, weak back, burning urine, Incon tinence, gonorrhea, gleet, stricture, receive eenrclilng treatment, prompt, relief and cure for life. JJotii Suxkb consult cnnfldontlally. It In trouble, cull or write. Delays are danger ous. Cull at once; 25 years experience. Terms Cttsh. Ollli-e hours 8 u. in. to 8 p. m, DR. VAN MONCISCAR, 132-131 Third St., Portland, Orejou. MITCHELL (LIMITED.) Factory, Racine, Wis, Manufacturers of CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, PHAETONS Buckboards, Road Carts, Spring Wagons, Etc. MITCHELL FARM AND SPRING WAGOMS. CANTON LIPPER PLOWS, HARROWS. ETC. CHILLED PLOWS. AND IDEAL FEED MILLS. 5 SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST. FREE. MITCHELL & LEWIS GO,, Limited. 192-191 Front St., Portland, Oregon. KIMBALL Pianos & E. M. FURMAN, Agent. WALLA WALLA, HOWLAND & LLOTD, Manfacturors ot IB1 TT R. 3T Main Street, Union, Oregon. Keen constnntlv on hand a larcro sunnlv of Parlor nnd Bed Room Sots. Bed ding, Desks, OfllcoPurnlturo, etc. Upholstering Done iiOiingcs, Mattresses, and till Hinds ot age souoited. JONES Dealers Groceries, Tobaccos and Cigars. Variety and Watches, Clocks Musical Instruments, Picturo Framos, Bird Cages, Baby Carriages, Etc. Candies, Nuta aud Frulta, Schaol Books, Stationery, Periodicals, Novels, Eta, of Every description. Orders from all parts of tho country promptly attended to. PHOTOGRAPH - GALLERY. Jones Bros., xi:is"ts . All KMs of Pliohppliic Work Done in a Superior Manner. Now Soenory and Aooessories Just Reooivod. All Work Warranted to Give Satisfaction. VIEWS OF RESIDENCES TAKEN ON APPLICATION. $c LEWIS CO., Braid Portland. Orenon and Dealers in Organs WASHINGTON TERRITORY. ITU 3R, E in the Best Style. purnituro mauo to order, lour patron BROS.. in Fancy Goods, and Jewelry. THE TREES OF WASHINGTON. Ilcsulta of Systematic Arborlculturo nt tlio federal Capital. In no city in the United States, nnd perhaps in the world, has arboriculture, as a means of urban embellishment, been moro intelligently employed and with moro gratifying results than in Washington, writes n correspondent of The Philadelphia Times. Tlio fnvora bio spring weather lias developed all tho natural beauties of tlio choico se lection of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs which beautify not only tho great parks, squares, and circles of tho capital, but tlio curb lines of tlio broad avenues which swoop up in beautiful ranges of vision toward tlio niassivo public edifices or form magnificent vis tas along streets busy with tho activi tics of trade. Tho work of tlio parking commission, under tlio auspices of tho municipal government, composed of W. R. Smith, superintendent cf tho bo tanic garden; William Sanders, super intendent of the gardens of tho depart mcnt of agriculture, and John Saul, begun in 1872, tints affording fourteen years of practical test of tho sagacity of their plans and tlio fruits of their la bor. AVashington, even in this brief space, surpasses Paris, Vienna, or Ber lin in tho number, variety, and beauty of its trees. In tho commencement of their work the commission selected trees possess ing statclincss and symmetry of growth, cxpansivo foliage, early spring verdure, and autumnal variety of colors. In order to secure a reliable and abundant supply of tho best varieties and health' ...it it - icst growin ior itio liituro a propaga- ting garden was also established in ono of tlio public parks, occupied by tho penal and reformatory institutions of tiio municipality, which now contains sixty thousand trees of tlio varieties used in different stages of growth. from seed to four and five years. U C3 Iho return of tiio superintendent and his assistants report ninety thousand trees along tho curb lines of tho ave nues and streets in thriving condition and ranging from five to twenty-iivo years' growth, winch includes the old trees of common varieties, generally cottonwoods, which wero standing when tho systematic arboricultural adornment of tho capital began. Tho number stated does not enibraco tho nrtistic groupings and groves of trees in tlio seven hundred acres of beaufci- ful public parks of the city. Some idea may bo formed of tlio ex tent of tho lines of trees now shading tlio avenues and streots when it is staled that if all tho trees wero stretched out in two rows they would form an unbroken vista from Washington to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and nearly half way to Boston, or if in a single row would reach from Wash ington to within ICO miles of Chicago Tlio annual plantings add from two to tlireo thousand trees to tho number of tho year before. The varieties which have been found best suited to streots are tho ash, catalpa, coffee, cypress, elm, maidon's-hair, gum, horso-chest- nut, linden, locust, maple oaks, poplar, sycamore, tulip, and willow, according to localties. lite plantings have also been mado with proper regard for certain objective features. For instance, tlio famed Untor den Linden" of Berlin is less mn a mile in length, nnd now moro appreciable in history than in reality. Tho "Untor don Linden" of tho Amori- m capital is Massachusettos avenue. This superb sweep of residences, statues, ami fountains, and oven through its moro sparsely settled por tions to its terminus on tho banks of tho Anacostia. presents four miles of igorous and stately young lindens, twenty to thirty feet high. Tlio con nections with streets and avenues simi larly planted will in a few years givo tho "Untor den Linden" of Washing ton a circuit of twelvo miles.' The othor avonucs and streots, whether do- oted to business or residence, havo also and their characteristics of foliage. Tho maples and cntalpas of Fonnsyl- aniti avenue, tlio elms of Now Jersey, Now Hampshire, New York, nnd Dola waro avonucs, tho tulips of North and South Capital streets, tlio meridian of tlio United States; tho maples of Mary land, Connecticut, and Vermont avenues, and tho poplars ot Virginia avenuo givo but a partial idea of what tho trees of Washington will add to tho landscape effects of tho nation's capital in another decade. i . , t Proot Positive. A man in last year's clothes was soat od at a tablo in tho reporters' room writing. It was costing him great effort apparently, for his tongue was sticking out about four inches, aud ho shoved tho pen along as if it woro a ilow. "Who is that?" whispered tho city editor to ouo of tho hoys who had boon coaching Mm visitor. "Anarchist," replied tlio roportor with a warning shake of tho head. "Tlio devil! How do you kuow?" gasped tho city editor. "Saw his writing. Spoils God with a litllog," and the reporter slipped out. Washington Critic Too Tired to Stand. A careful statesman has dofincd Handing as a combination of "tlio stag nation of rest with the fatigue of oxor siso," nnd conslderes it a very bad thing Jo stand continuously at any pursuit. Vuff'alo Commercial Advertiser. FIKST PENSION-HUNTING WIDOW. The Inlins of Snrnli Itnpnlyo ami tlio Dangerous Precedent Tlint It T!stnblislicd. Just now the president of tho United States is examining antl vetoing widows claims for pensions, says a writer in 77fl Jiooklyn Eagle. There is an lion est diilcrence of opinion as to tho jus tice of thus invoking tho executive pre rogative in defense of the treasury, but with Mint wc havo nothing to do other than to use it for a peg wpon which to hang a historical incident. mows arc credited by many married men and most bachelors with possessing superla tively winning ways. True it is that they present moro strikingly novel claims for consideration in support of their demands for treasury pap Mian tho most original tramp who pcrsonatos a long sinco deceased soldier. Ono of the widows whoso hopes were recently crushed by tho unsentimental president remembered in her eighteenth year of widowhood that her husband fell out of a baggage wagon ono day and prob ably hurt himself. Ho never found it out, but that was only a littlo obstacle for a determined widow. Another wid ow discovered eight years after tho lato Iamcntcd's demise that ho had been struck by a piece of shell in the foot and sido and thus contracted neuralgia of tiio heart. At the date of the alleged wounding tho husband was absent from his company on leave of absence in consequence of a real old-fashioned dose of fever and ague, and tho poor man never to his dying day imagined that ho was a scarred hero who had marks of two fragments of shells upon his mangled body. But the widow dis covered it, probably aided and advised for a consideration by an astuto pen sion agent. But these modcro fcmalo petitioners aro not up to tlio standard by a long way. They aro moro than two hundred years behind the age, and wero outdone by the very first woman wno ineti ner nana at a petition lor a pension, and that woman also was a Brooklyn woman, and, more, she was tho first wliito person born in Now Amsterdam, or, for tho matter of that, on the American continent north of Virginia. Tho story is illustrative of tho old saw that there is nothing new under tlio sun save the spectacle of a man paying a forgotten loan. Tho old patroon families of Borgens, Bogarts, and Polhcmuses glory in being tho lineal descendants of Sarah Rapalye, tho first born of Joris Janson do Rapalye, tlio first settler in Brook lyn, who got possession of a tract of land at tlio Wallabout. Sarah, it is claimed, was born in Brooklyn, or what was earlier, Williamsburgh, but this appears to bo an error, for this remark able lady was born at Fort Orange (Albany) on Juno 29, 1625. Two years later Joris Jansen Rapalye removed to iNcw Amsioruam, wnerc no remained XT . 1 i t until the last child was born, when ho tcok his largo family to tho Wallabout, wlicro ho had four hundred acres of land given him by tlio Dutch West India company. It was in 1659 that the grandmother of all tho Rnpalycs, Bergens, Polhemuscs, and Bogarts crossed over to Wallabout. In 1039 sho had married Hans Hansen Bergen, tlio progenitor of tho Bergens who spread over Long Island and New Jer- soy. nans isorgen settled on tno Rcnncgaconck farm, with his wifo's parents. Tlio United States marino hospital now occupies tho site. Hans Hansen Bergen, whoso pet name among ins noiglibors was nans tlio Boor, obtained a patent for anaddition ol four hundred acres of land at Ren- conck, which carried his posses sions irom too creek: ot that name emptying into tho Waalc-bocht to what is now Division avenue. Hans was a tobacco planter and a crony of Gov. Van Twiller. When ho passed to his reward, 1654, his good wifo was so well disposed toward tho married stato that she lost no time in providing a now father for her six children nnd Tlicunis Gysbert Bogart was tho fortunate man. Although Sarah was descended from a lino of Fronch Huguenots, her father and mother botli being Parisians, her lifelong association with tho thrifty Hollanders and her years of wifoliood with Hans tlio Boor appear to havo im bued her witli quite a Dutch oyo for tho main chance. Anyway, a year af ter making Thounis Bognort happy sho conceived tlio idea of getting a pons- sion, and oven went a step further; she wanted to bo rolioved of taxation. Sarali did not want Hooting gold in monthly pittances. Slto wanted good, oldfashioncd real estate, and to that oiid sho momoralized tho governor and council in 1656, petitioning that a picco of laud four hundred acres in extent, adjoining tlio farm sho lived upon at tho Wallabout, be granted to her. Sho complained that certain grasping noigli bors who had pieces of land of their own persisted in mowing the meadow nnd tho honest Hans Bergen not having enjoyed tho distinction of fighting in any war recontly wound up, sho set hor claim upon tho ground that sho was a widow aud was burdened with seven children. ii the council would give hor tlio four hundred acres and re mit tlio taxes sho thought sho could get along. Tho lady, liko many other ladies bofuro aud since, was absentminded and neglected to stato that her days of widowhood had closed tholr mourn ful engagement a year and a half before and that ono of tho said seven children ol tins inriorn widow with four hundred acres of her own wai Aartje, the first born to her second husband, Theunis Bogacrt, baptized on Dec. 19, 1C35. But in 1G55, as in 18SG. a slight omis sion of so littio consequence was not taken into consideration when by grant ing the prayer of a petitioner tho legis lature got solid with the constituents living contiguous to the party inter ested. The forlorn widow got her four hun dred acres, but tlio council refused to remit tho taxes. As soon as the Eng lish kindly reliovcd tho Dutch of all further worry about their American possessions, good old Mr. Bogacrt had this four hundred acres and the four hundred belonging to Bergen's children his stepchildren conferred upon him self, and tlio records failed to show that either of tlio six voung Bergens ever got any of tho property. Sarah Ra- palyc-Borgcn-Bogaert lived to the ago of 69, and passed away suddenly, hav ing twelve children, six by cacli hus band, and to-day the descendants of this remarkable woman, tho first born in Dutch-American possessions, and tlio original pension-hunting widow, arc as many as tlio children of Abraham of old. NUGGETS. Ho who cannot think is a fool. Ho who does not think is a bruto. Good thoughts bear as fruit good acts. He who can but will not think is a slave. Passion begets such thoughts us tho brute's. Beware of him who thinks he thinks and docs not. Man can think with tlio angles or de scend to beneath the brutes. He who thinks rightly and well is among tho rulers of the world. Learn to think grand thoughts, as you would seek tlio best compauy. Man looks upon the best works of God, tho best and lowest works of man, and chooses his thoughts therefrom. He who would have tho best thoughts must seek them abovo the realm of sense or 2assion in association with God and tlio best of man. Chicago Ledger. Early Use of Artillery. When Romulus was marking out tiio limits of his new city, gunpowder was already known, and 2,000 years before tho birtli of Schawrtz, pieces of ord nance had been cast in China. Tlio Moors used guns in Spain in tho begin ning of 1201), if not in 1100. Tho claims of the Chinese having now been generally admitted, it is supposed that ordnance reached Europe through tho Moors of Spain or tlio Venetians. Neither, however, had any connection with China. It is unaccountable that it should not havo been perceived by tho Turks, who conquered tho north ern portion of China in tlio early part of the thirteenth century, and wero es tablished all around the Black Sea with tho exception of a strip between Vcr- na and tho Bosnhorus. It is now doubted whether, indeed, tho Black Prince did use guns at tho battle of Cressy; but there is no doubt that Murad I. had before then employ ed them at tho battlo of Cossova. On both sides they wero used, tlio Turks having already instructed tho popula tion with whom they woro at war. Employing artillory in Mie field, it was easy (reversing tlio process in Europe) to apply it in fortresses: tho peculiar nature of tho Straits of tho Bosphorus and tho Dardanelles invited its use. To tho batteries placed abovo Constan tinople is attributed the fall of that city, tho supplies from tho Black Sea being cut off. Xational Republican. Silhouettes. Until Daguerro mado his discovery, tho wealthy had their miniatures paint ed on ivory, but tlio clioapor portrait- tiro invented oy oiinouetto was very common. Profile cuttors as they wero called, wero found in all cities and largo towns, while others went about tlio country from houso to house, so that it was rare to find a sitting room in any decent houso that did not boast of a framed silhouette, one looking to tho right and Mto other to the left. Thoro woro ditl'erent ways of arriving at tlio samo result, but the work was chielly done by cutting tlio prolilo out of whlto paper, which was backed by a picco of black silk or black paper neatly mount- od. To insure success it was necessary to have a steady hand and a correct eyoju with theso qualities ono could cut rts likeness in a few seconds. There wm also several mechanical contrivano10'11 f .i,auii- " iinvm..vi Vor- aam weiier uouutiess uau in ins mun oyo when, in inditing his valentine jy0 Mary, ho likened tho growth of lovo in its rapid operations to thn 'profeel machine," which "docs linist a portrait and put tho frame and glass 0 on complete, with a hook at tho end to t hang it up by, and all in two minutes and a quarter. Uoston Budget. A Woman's Forethought "I wish, Job," said Mrs. Shuttle "that you would bring up a fow yards of barbed wire to-night." Barbed wire? What sort of dress trimming do you call that?" Oh, it isn't for dross trimming. You know better than that. I'm go ing to ruu a barbed wire fenco around tho bed. I don't want any Anarchist to get under it. Hartford VosU