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The Oregon Scout. VOL. III. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1SS7. NO. 30. THE OREGON SCOUT. An Independent -weekly Journal, Issued ovory Saturday by JONES & CHAUCEY, l'libllthcrs and I'roprlotors. .A. K. Jowrs, I Editor, f D. CuANcr.r, ( Foreman. KA1KSOK BUU-CKIPTIOX: Ono copy, ono year f to ' Six 11 onlhs I CO " " 'llu co months 73 Invsrialilv cmkIi in advance. If by any chmicu sub'crlplions mo rot paid mi oiiu oi j osr, mo uoilHM win eu o'iarmii It -lea of advertising loiido known on applies-! Ion. Conespondctice from nil parts of Uio county eoliolte.1. Addrn-s all communications (o A. K. Jones, Editor Oregon fceout. Union, Or. I.ode niroetory. On ami ItONriR Vai. f.v Lodok. No. TA A. F. nd A. M. Mcels on tho second and fourth ttattrduye of each montli. W.T. WMGI1T, W. M. A. L15VY, Secretary. Umon 1-opob, Ka 33. T. O. O. F. llpfrnlar iniet nir on h rliUy ovcninjM of ench week at their hall In Un nn. All tirctlncn In pood ctHiidini; are invited to utiond. liy ordor of Ojo lodiif. G. A. THOMPSON, N. O. C11AS.0 MILLER, fcecy. Church Directory. M. E. funncii Divine Fcrvico every Sunday at II a. in and 7 p. in. Sunday school nt 3 p. m. 1'iayer uuetlnjr every Tuur-day evonlni; otCi JO. HKV. O. M. IIIWIN, Pastor. rniBnYTr.niAN rnriicit Hcjcular church nervlccs every Sabbath morning and cvonliifr. Prayer meulnu- e eh week on Wednesday evening, bahhath u-hool every Saliliath at 10 a.m. Ituv. II. Vkiinon Uice, Pastor. Pt. John's EriscoeAt, Cnuncii Service every buuday at II o'clock a. in. ltiv. W. 11. 1'owUiU Koctor. County OfUcers. Jirdpe , O. P. roodall Sheriff A.N. Hamlton Clerk I. V. Nelll Treasurer K. C. Ilra'nsr.l School Superintend). nt J. L. llindmiin Burvuior M. Atsiii Coroner S. Altioison COUMISSIO.KKIIS. Jonn Chr'amnn - J. A. Rntnblo Btate Eeiiator I,. 11. Hint-hurt 1IE1-. ESKNTATlVKS. F. D. McCully V.. U. Taylor City Olllccrw. Mayor D. n. Roes COUNCIKMKV. P.-A.rurnel W. n. Ile.'dloman J.S. Klllott J. 11. Tnoiii'.Bon Jno. Kennedy A. Levy Itocordt r M. V. Davis lar-hal K. R. ntor. Treasurer J. 1). Carroll Street Commissioner L. Hatoti I'ltOlfl'SSIO.VAL. J. R. CRITES, ATXORIVBJY AT B.AW. Collecting and probido practice specialties Olllco, two doois south of l'ootofflco, Ucion, Oregon. It. EAKIN, Altcrccy at Law and Hitary Mk Office, ono door south of J. U. Eaton's storo Union, Oregon. I. N. CROMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Onice. ono door south ot J. 11. Eaton's storo, Uuion. OreBon. A. H. SCOTT, M D., PMYSKCIAIV AIVI ITrs permanently located at North Towdor, wbcrebo wlllunswer nil calls. W. R.JOHNSON, CONTRACTOR AHD BD1DER Main Street, Union, Oregon. rinns anil Specification for Dwelling, Burns nnd Bridged lurnished FREE OF CJIAKGE. Bridge Building a Specialty- All kinds ot Cabinet Work neatly execu ted. Repairing done on short notice. None but tlio lest workmen employed, anil satisfaction guaranteed. Call and interview me. FRUIT AND SHADE TEHEES APPLE, PKAR. PLUM, PRUNE, PEACH APKICOT, CItAUAPPLE, CJlEUItY. SHRUBBERY AND SHADE TREES OI well known vnrietiea. nultnble lor Ors ell urn to. Cut hIho Inniiuli Inreijn HiirtH nt one-tliinl thu priio nski'd by eiiHteru con Tiiemrs. 1 ilenire to Hell trees at prkrt that people can allurd to buy. L. J. HOUSE, Cove, Orujon. D. B. REES, Public Notary -AKD- Conveyancer. AT7TM srr r a Duion, Union County, Orvon. li. F. BURLEIGH, Araoy at Ijiw, Katato Hd CuIIl-cIIhu- Affiu. Land Olllco Buslncw a Specialty. 001 ce at Alder, Unloa Co., Oregon. w. capps, m. d;t Sargcoa end Homeopalliic Pliysiciar, Unio.v, Onuoox. Win Rn tonnypnrt ot Eastern Oregon when solicih'il, to portorm operutioud, or lorconsultatioit. !tlcdiclnei I'll rn I lied Without Ilxtra t.'lisrci Oluce adjoining Jouca Bros.' Store. Geo. Wnionr, President. T. WntntiT, Cuuhier. UNION, OREGON. Does n Genernl Banking Busincssi Buys Mid uells exchange, nnd discounts com mercial paper. Collections cnrefully promptly reported. attended to, nnd FX ess 3 B O o a Ha o ..a 5 e o o a tiT w M a 3 O m "S ($2 CD " s r- r 3 U3 a B&B3I Sun o .2 PS 5 " S.2 3 c o a -a c 3- B 9 OS (Oil Siia "Co 3 , o t.S rt n s H . " a a I MASON HAMLIN Orcaua riiuuis Unercelle.1 "irT" can cavo From to flPO on tho JLCtU p ir ha o of un liuti-uiuenl by buylnjr thioiiirh w.t. wicirarr, Agent Union,Ogn Laundry- Qiseen. The Best Washing: Machine in the World. B. M. WAIT, Proprietor. Wait Bros., Agents for Union County. This machine is without doubt tlio bent In existence, nnd rIvch en I iio r-iitir.fu.-i Ion wherever tried. Thin mncliine is in slock nt. I. U. EATON'S STOKE, wlicro they can bo iiiiiuiib ut uuy iiiue. Try thu Laundry Queen. ft Tonsorial Room Two doors south of Joncf Union, Oregon. Bros.1 store, e J. M. Johnson, ruornicTou. Hair cutting, shaving and shampooing done neatly and in tho best style. tm v HEATv HAM Main Street, Uuion, Oregon. Benson Bro.'s PltOI'lUCTOttS. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, P0I5K, VEAL. MUTTON 8AU SAGE, HAMS, LAI'vD, ETC. Jf-iMwtiit litimal.r rnllrd Illltrrr, the t.ktnzot wlilc'i. in in.uy In.i.nc , it only prrirtl fi-r-irfiik-tntr. i frref.Tjlii olcuuolic I'lnul.nn.mi'llr irlt ruloui ill lit rt-u lotu trifmn io.o..i'i;i. It win iiui rn iu rur:nc "iviv riA u.t'i it oJ iu iIIm-.-- nl u f - . dLurdcrtul wa h- SPRING SLOSSOM aSK SpringBIOSSOrakidneComptaints.' f' iffasen S.iSw tin 7ife$ mm issi SPURIOUS WINES. r f A Dlntlllatlon of ;nt.lti, Colored with I.otr-wood Supply Itm Denl urs with l.nlil-i Tho tost or Miinii fnc i life. Wore tlio stiitonionl to hu nisuiu that tho Aiiii't' I'iim :iru bc'U(imin; it nut on of vvitii! ilrinkotH, there woul.l ilonbi los bu hosts of iooilo ro:tily at a mo muni's noticu to ruftitu tins iisiortion, nml to pfovi! loth by observation anil figures thiit it was without foundation, lint oven e-isual observers adm t. sa.s The Sew Vui:'.: I'oinnjcro U jlilV'rtiset', that tho usu of wine among tho army of business men who are da lv fe.l in the lower portions of tlmeity is iuereas ng. Tlio keepers of retail rant sav that ful ly two-thirds of those p.tyiug .'io eouts and over for si luncheon drink ale, beer or wine, and that th majority would prefer the latter w.-re they muo that they were furnished with an iinilrugged and unadulterated article. Mueh Tims been said relative to manufactured wines, and (he fun of drinking them is only second to that of eating oleomar garine or gl iioono. The lallor are not positively injurious to thu h -alth, whilu thu fonn.tr are open to all the objec tions u-uallv made to spirituous drinks, and are in addition really harmful to the system. As many as'J,i500, Oj gal lons of wino are often received in Now York m onu moalh. and it is an open question what percentage of it is tho pure and unadulterated juice "of the grape. In ordor to s 'o what portion is either American production or else of foreign or domo-t c manufacture, one must to two nt soiuo idea of thu amount of the foreign vintages. Tho leading fori) gn rod anil whilo w'nou aro tho Chateau Lalitto. Chateau 1 Quoin. Chat 'an Morgans. Chateau Ilaut-Iirion. Moselle, and Chiante. With tho. exception of the hitter wino, tho following table shows thu amount j)roduced of each in 1831: Chaloau La fitte, first and second i lass. j8f hogs heads; Chateau Y'Qiioin. 12.000 dozen; Chateau Margaux. lirst and second class, 070 hogsheads, and Chateau Ilaut-Hrion, 4jJ hogsheads. Chiante, which is popularly supposed to bu an Italian wine, lir.-t common led itself lo the American public by reason of the fancy bo! ties, wiokor-eovered. in which it is sold. When tho empty bottles are not sold outright for decoration, thov are taken to some con vouiont cellar and rolilloil. It wdl be s sen that were thu entire vintages of 1$ ir loaux and Bur gundy brought to New York they would bo but a drop in thu vinous ocean. How, thou, is tho supply procured? In March, 18SG. l.Mo.oOO gallons of Cnliforu a wines were brought to New York City alone. This was an unu-ual-li heavy cons gum 'tit, and it would have to "be k -pt up st adily were noth ing but pure wine drunk. By what means, thou, ;s tin deficit between the combined w no product of Europe an I Aiiiur.oa an I the amount actually con sumed .supplied? There aro several old Frenchmen in New York who hnvo made almost na tional reputations as w.ne dealers and experts. Toey hav i ab ut retired from bu in iss, but. wit i thu proverbial thrift of their nation they M II liud limu to lend to their shops a few hours daily. Somi) of them have large restaurants in connection w th their wholesale and retail wine trade, an I favored custom ers are often given an oppotruuily to Ginaek the.r I ps over soniu rare old wine, who-e label is to.i dust-berimed to be legdj'o, and as ihey hold tho w no to thu I gilt they bec.iniu enthusiastic over its color, llavor and bouquet, ami probably order several doz n bjttles of it sent to their ho.n ;s. Now this winu may be old and it may bj new. It may bo imported from Franco, or porohancb it was pnsuid out on tin sunny Italian hills; I ut it is more than probable that tho old Frenchman, unless ho knows that his customer has a trained or del icate palate, has given him some win that is but the partial product of the vine, and wascon outed under tho sk li . ed oye of monsieur m the sub-basem mt 'of thu vorv establishment whore it is drunk. Whv should one tin I fault? It is surely more complimentary in a host to give one tho resu t of his own 1 ibor than tofurni-li o id with l hat of another. If it is a real wine thero is exactly ono chance in ten thousand that it is what tho Jabel represents it to ho. It may bo tho outcome of a jud ciotis mixture of several indifferent varief cs blonde I into a hiirmon'oiH whole, or it ma-- be an American wino sailing under faUo col ors. Hum-in inirrnttllv has nnvor vot bun ablo to mike w nu'witho it soni-j small percentage of alcihol. so this uluincr.t remains as a oasu lor tlio worst ot pro duetions. As it rule the manufactiirei; wines are ollorud cither as Califoru wines, or as via ordinaire, or sour claret. They ant the distillation of rai sins colored with logwood. The raisins we placed iu u vat lille 1 with water at n tomperaturo of 03 il igrees, thoro be ing fifty-live gallons of water to ovory hundred we ght of raisins. Some su gar s often thrown iu lo ha-t m fer mentation, wh oh usually lasts eight or ten days, at thu end of which lime the I quid is drawn ofT and want is made. II is of course pale, and it is doctored with some high-colored Spanish wine, which is cheap, and thou a solution of logwood isaddod. These wines do not. nt the mosi, contain mom than ten per cent, of alcohol and having but little taiiniu llioy w 11 not keep long, Whun Wine is thus produced it will not cost much. Ra'slns are not oxpeuslvu, and n moldv article answers as well as one that is fresh. Thoy may bo bought for 88 a hundred weight, and sometimes ut 80 ami $7. When full allowanco has been in ado ortho coil of muuufacturo thoro ro- imuns an ample pwlit when thoy aro sold at "0 cents a gallon. A noted French chemist has d olarod that Iho raisin wino. if not drugged, is vastly more healthful lhan many of the mix tures, nio-t of thoin deleterious, sold for genuine wino. This may give Wiiio drinkors a -park of oncouraiioinont, for there is no way of accounting for the con-t:mption of the enormous rals n p.roduct- of Italy, Turkey. Spain, ami ilrecce. unless one admits that they are used to take the place of grapes. Eu rope formerly u-od 8.00.) tons of raisins, and now it is e-lmiatod that the pro duel is 7.'i.0i)J tons. This i- not allow ing fur the large output of Iho Califor nia ra'sin vnoiard. But the counter foiling of w.nes. unhappiL, doe- not stop with the raisin product. There is a lion-e iu New York ndvortU'ng native winos that does not us.) even .-o much as a dr ed grape. l)i-t lied oak-wood chips, logwood alum, nods, nnd about 2 per cent, of alcohol are nil that aro u-od to ni.tko Bordeaux, Burgundy, port, and sherry wines. The cost of manufacture does not exceed !1 cents a gallon, and it can readily be seen that auv price at all for the stull' would givo a b g prolil. Several big hotels have inadvertently invested in it, but iu tho end it could not bo used oven at tho servans' (table. A prominent California wiuc-dealer advertises "La Ross claret, without labels." llo gave as an cxplaual on that some of his best customers pre ferred to plaeo the r own labels on hollies. There is a firm on Corllstndt street that makes a btisiue.-s of supply ing them, and many hosts hud rather set lioforo their guests so-called rare vintages to an acknowledged American product. This is not to bu wondered at. for California wines aro now pro duced of so fine a flavor and bouquet that the veriest ep'cuve is likely to bo deeo ved m them if Ids suspicions aro not roused. Native w ties, when bought by tho hogshead or cask, do not co-t more than '-'5 cents a quart when bottled, and a thrifty man can, if hu w.suly chooses his labels, make a dinner party cnthu-iastic over tho lon l.ents of his cellar. beMtlos cllecling an enormous saving. Clubdom abounds iu.-t tries of how Dick this and Tom that, or, it may be, some noble duke or lord, have boon heard lo loudly decry tho mu-ky, earthly flavor of Am 'f can wines, and then, by some cleverly-planned ru-e, bo tnado to literally drink their own words. Lion Hunting in tlio Transvaal. A correspondent of Forest nnd Slrcitm writes: "The lions wore swarm ing; nearly every day the boys would see two, Ihrco or four. I only saw ono and killed him. IL) has a ;ood skin and a splendid mane; a very old fellow and fat as a p g. He got our wind and was trotting oil", so wo trotted after him, knowing that he would stand, look back and give us a :ood shot. They go very leisurely. Hu stood at about one hundred yards, and my little boy with m. Mat tin lired close to my car Iho very instant I was pulling Iho trigger of thu Express, and I nns -d him. Of course thu b y also missed, iiowever, we ran on again and he soon gave us another chance, ami 1 brought J t i in down. You can tell at once when they are wounded; thoy go no further, but stand and roar coiit uuously. and you have a good shut nuxt time. I ran in. to about bovonty yards, and put an Express hollo. v bullet into his ribs, when he loll over. Th-.m I went cloiu up and put a buil t through his head. 'Anothur tlai Iliad Ihree young boys with me, and we followed a wounded giralle too long and lost our where abouts. Thu boys were very deter mined to line! the camp, anil we walked for three hours aftersuudowu. Just by accident we name near the dead huli'alo, mid lo hear the Hons feeding and light ing ami roar ng was well worth a long walk and a sleep out. "The 1ms would go no further. Thoy made half a do.en big tires and we slept in the contar. We had had no wat.tr since the forenoon, and nothing to cat shico before sunrise. I couldn't describe tho row the brutes were making it was terrible. I proposed to "o nearer and nit up in a tree and I sten, and perhaps get a shot, but my boys wouldn't hear of it. It do is not matter tor 1 ous or hyenas as long as you can make a lire, and there is always plenty of wood. The hyenas aro strange animals; they are in hundreds around your camp every night, howl ng and laughing, and ton'slruigor voi r alarnilng; llioy mo fierce looking and coin i w thin a few yards, but are great cowards." Hliu Wanted a Show, fonco heard a very good story of a young ami Imndsoinu Quakeress, who was slo gh-riding with two of her Lu tux. She had a vory larso mull, and one of the young men put his hand in ami grasped his companion's thinking it wis the girl's, and kept squeezing It. After a while tho young Quakeress said calmly: "(Liiitlnmon. whun you are tired of Kfiuoez ng each other's hands, you wdl please permit mu to warm my own!" Hew Uso for Bttstlca. A few-afternoons ago two Nowport girl chums took u walk nut to the grove at the end of tho town. When there they sat on a log to rjst, when onu said: "I wish wo ha I somothlng lo road." "I've got something brought soup) n'ce story papers along." "Whcro tiro thoy?" "Why. iu my busllo. You wntoh If anyouo comes whilo I get llioin out," Kentucky State Journal, VnulOAL MARVELS. Wonderful Vxptotts of vclctittnts l:i 1-hllndolplilii. As much to Lo thankful for as l'lidr. delphia has in all tlirccUonv, she is not always apt to remember her surgeons. It has boon sad of tho surgeons of Philadelphia (hat limy rob di-cas. of half of its (errors and the gravo of thn other half. Of all thu orthodox doc trines, they believe most consistently in the te-urrcclion. Yet their retort at tho L'nivors ty proves them the friends of cremation. None but Pli lade'phia sur geons could be so catholic in thoir post mortem tastos. With tho vear now closing the tri- triumphs of surgery in the United States have boon wonderful indeed. And each of them is a triumph for Philadelphia. ijot us recapitulate. Il has boon but a short fine since Dr Ilium Applejack, i f liucks county, was called lo see a man on whom i hou-e had falle.i. llu found the great est ddlicullv in gett ng a satisfactory view of tho patient, owing to the fact that the house was still on him. Fin ally he diagnosed tho poor man's caso. and concluded that ho was .Milljring from a lack of air, coiil'momcnt and pressure of tho superincumbent mater los. He instantly had a largo force of men put to work, the house removed and (lie patient at onco rcl eved. When he came out, tho patient said ho had a toothache the day before, ami hu thought perhaps that had something to do w th thu condition iu which tho doc tor found him. The doctor directed the workmen to pry out tho oH'onding tooth w.th a jaok-scrow, anil the lxior man went away dancing and returning thanks. Thu case of Henry Elcampnign ol t. n.impaign, III., was quite as striking. He was so lean that ho no longor cast, a shadow. Dr. (iicasepalm gave him an opiate, injected a pint of huttor- m Ik into his lusopluigus every twenty four hours for a month and. weighed him triumphantly at. the end of that period on a hay-scalo. Henry broke the scales. Amos Du'onburv of Conshnckcn had his brains kicked out liy his sister's put mule. After tho an mat's hoof had neon c.uciuliy washed the water was inlillratcd into Amos' oar, and hu was boon as bright as ever. Much uterest is exo ted In inodicnl circles by tho successful issue of a ro inarkable operation last week perform cd by Dr. William Bunkerhlll of tho Boston College of Surgeons. It is tho second operation so performed by him within the last few mouths, and it is believed that thero aro no previous instances ot success in such nn opora lion in Europe or poslbl- in America, On Tuesday of hist week a lady fell firm the top of Iho Bunker II II monu ment, a 1 stance ot 181) feet, to tho ground. She was carr cd to St. Thomas Hospital sufl'ering extreme agony. No bones wore found Lo bu broken, but ou Wednesday Dr. Biinkerhill, diagnos ing the case, cam) to tho conclusion that her vina'gretto had been ruptured. The woman was put uud iramusthetics, an incision made Into the pocket, and the d stenosis verilieil. Tho contents of the pocket were withdrawn, tho vina grotto drawn out, tho suture made and tested, (he pieces all replac ed, the pocket thoroughly cleansed with antiseptics and Iho incision closed. The pat. cut emerged from her insensi ble condil'on relievo I of pain, on Tues day was iu a comfortable condition, and is to-day declared practically out of danger. 'J 'ho operation occupied two nours. ritHid'Upiia acid. To Critics. When I wnsH-ventoen I heard From each ceiifwlous tongue, "I'd not do that If I were you, You k-o you'ie rather Joun.,, Now that I number fo-ti-yours, I'm quite uh often told Of this or that I shouldn't do lleciilru Pin quite too old. O nil ping world! If there's an ao Wlicro youth nnd manhood keep An equal poise, iiIjih t I inuut iluvu passed It In my t-lueji. Waller Ltarntd, in Century. Tho Cliitrm of Wearing (Jcnis, One of the charms of wearing a gem is n consciousness of its indestructibility, its permanency, and, if one may say sc, of its personal.ty tho myslory of na tures methods in Us crystalization iu dark tellur c depths, of thuglaucoof Im prisoned powers shut up w thin its walls, a remembrance of thu vague old idea of their poleiict all this, and more, lo many minds, has as much force us thu Inherent beauty of thu thing it self. Who knows what sprit, what one of th genii, what cahahslically commanded sprite, is shut up iu thu liry dunllis of tlio ruby, with Its mirnle.hiui' corners, of thu pfgcou-hlooit tinge, in the heavenly color a'ld brilliancy of tho saphire, ip the sea green water depths of emerald or I cryIP There Is always a fticlualion in Rs sparkle, both when w- wear a and see another wear t. or when wo lift It from its dark hidiiig-placo in the casket where we keep it, as it looks up at us with its lldlcss deathless glance of beau ty. Bui a bit of glass, however pretti ly covered what splr.t Is there iu that, made by a mini, according to a formu la -what spell can tho most vivid fili ng nation conjure no in its rav, what mystery lurks in a tiling that any clown can put logothur? Nothing of thu po litical or romantic attaches to tho wear ing of thu colored glass, thu tirtUlcinl gem, more love of show ami glitter and ostentation cuter into that, Harper's JLtzur. York Man A Boston ! came over to New York. She amused her-olf very w II for several davs, among her other pleasures including the beaut fill d.spl iy of chr santhuunis at Cosmopolit in hall. She was do!. ghted wilh it. The -plon-did shocks of snowy and llanied-oolorod blooms and the new .Japanese se dlinga that look as if nature had copied thorn from decoration- on Japane-o j irs, and tho clean, fresh, our ous perfumes, (ill. ed her cultured soul so full of smti. incut thai it bu'ib'c l over for the bon -lit of a New York man. He came to call soon after her return from tlio llower show. He was a charm ng young por-on who never bv any ac i ilent polluted his person with any ar ticle whatsoever manufactured iu this couiilry. Ho was turned out complete from top to loo in English goods, anil his ga t ou the avenue tilled beholders w.th thu wildust awu and delight, it so clo-oly cop ed the true thoroughbred stride. Tho Important details of dross had occupied his walking hours so closely that, he had found but 1 ttlo time to unbend his mind over a book, and other matters even more important had escaped his attention, among I hem tho llower show, w hich ho happened not to have heard of. "I've just come from seeing tho chrysanthemums," said the enthusiastic young woman from Boston: "and, oh! it was such a treat. I never enjoyed any thing so much in my life. Have yon been yet?" "No," ho drawled out aloud, think ing to himself. "What Iho douce is tlio girl talk ng about, anyhow." Af ter rapid but profound reasoning lie camu to tho conclusion that, being n Boston woman and addicted to litera ture, the thing she had been to was something partak ng of an Intellectual nature, and probably science judging from thu long and unnronntiucoablo name. So he remarked lightly that really he "didn't go much into that sort "of thing now it was out of his line, too deep entirely for him. Thu Boston g rl stared. "What do you moan? Chrysanthuunis too deep?" "Well, you know," said thu hupp less youth, putting his foot deeper into his mouth every limu lie opened it. "that one has to" do such an awful lot of reading to keep up with thuso seien lilic things, and for my part 1 nuvor enjoy them unless I am quite un on the subject they're talking about." Ho fell, ho was getting skillfully over a d.f licult question, and continued, with graceful solf-conlitlunco. to add a few delicate and artistic touches to his po sition. ' Wlion I go to this sort of thing." ho declared. "1 got works on the subject and read up thoroughly, so Unit I can lollow thu speaker with intelligent In terest: but, I am too awfully busy just now lo do that, and so I ctit the Nine teenth Century club, and thn chrysan themum, and all the rest of it." Tim Boston girl gasped a few fines, and then said she supposed that ho really must work awfully hard, anil it really was no en I of a pity ho had hail to give un Ids studies. But before she went bade to Boston shu told tho story, and the voting man has gone out in tho country lo May some time w.th Ids sl-ter. The Boston girl savs shu thinks Now York men aro delicious, simply delicious." A'cio Yoilt World. I'l'ciitii'lng Summer Supply of Wood. All work which can as well be dono now as somu months hence, should bo dono before thu rush of spring work. Preparing the summer supply of stovo wood can butter bo done now, than hi the spring or siiinnier. The pieces can be sledded up now, which Is easier and speedier lhan haili ng them in a wagon. The temperature is more favorable to chopping, wli eh is it job for cold weath er and not for hot weather. And now green wood can hu cut, and will bo sea soned when wauled; whorcas. if the supply is prepared only us needed, dry, hard wood must bu cut, or ulso Iho housewife ba subjected to the vexations of burning given wood. Light, soft wood, thoroughly seasoned, is tho best summer utovc-wood. It makes a (pi ck, hot lire and dies down quickly without coals, allowing thu room lo cool rap. illy nflor Iho meal is prepared, cave tho donso. hard wood for winter. Whdo elm and colton-nood aro tho best of all for sunimur sfovo-wooiL and nro scarce ly lit for anything else. Tho blocks of hickory (usuallO, oal; etc., are the host spit through the heart; hit cotton- wood nnd white elm must bu "slabbed oil"," working toward tho heart. Bo cnreful to cut the wood of tho proper length. To do so is us ea-sy as to have half the sticks tco long, and thu other half too short, and w.ll save thu house wife much vexation. After thu wood is prepared, put it under shelter. Only a run man can allurd to bu without a wood-house. Those with ready money can build something tasteful, but a structure that will answer oven- purpose can bu built at a cost not exceed ng fif teen dollars. Jmcricmi Agriculturist, "Tho World's" Work. There is languishing lu n Now York prison, ono John Do Ljoii. a "profes sor" of astrology, who has for several voars hjon engaged in thu nofnrioti business of sending young women lo Asplnwall ostens bly as seanistrossos, but actually for tho vory worst pur poses. The New York World got after" tho mlserabte villain 60 effectually Unit Indictments were found against him, nnd if he Is not conv cted and jwnt to Sing Slug for more years Ihun hu is 1 kely to Iivo. justice will not b dona. Ilocliater Ikrald. Boston Girl nu 1 a iNVw n