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ORftfctON SCOOTc JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers. UMIOX. ORKCJOX. INFLUENCE OF DEBT. It Dull the KiIro of llunlmntlry nml Mnkc It Victim Itimk Scoundrels. Debt Is nn inexhaustible fountain of dishonesty. The debtor learns the "jfinninp tricks, delays, conceal ments and frauds, by which dishonest servants evade or cheat their master. Ho is tempted to mako ambiguous statements; pledges, with secret pas sages of escape; contracts, with fraud ulent constructions; lying oxcuscs.and more mendacious promises. Ho is tempted to eludo responsibility; to de lay settlement; to provaricato upon tho terms; to resist equity, and devise specious fraud. When tho eager cred itor would restrain such vagrancy by law, tho debtor then thinks himself released from moral obligation, and brought to a legal game, in which it is lawful for tho best player to win. Ho disputes true accounts; ho studies sub terfuges; extorts provocations delays; nnd harbors in every nook.nnd corner, jind passage, of tho law's labyrinth. At length tho measuro is filled up, nnd the malignant power of debt is known. It has opened in tho heart every fountnin of iniquity; it has bo soiled the conscience; it has tarnished tho honor; it has mndo a man a dtr liborato student of knavery; a system ntic practitioner of fraud; it ban dragged him through all tho sowers of potty passion anger, hate, rovongo, mnliclous folly, or malignant shamo. When a dobtor is beaten at every point, and tho lr.w will put her screws upon him, there Is no dopth in tho gulf of dishonesty into which ho will not boldly plungo. Somo men put thoir property to tho flames, assasslnnto tho detested creditor, and end tho frantic tragedy by suicido or tho gallows. Others, in view of tho catastrophe liavo eonvcrtod all proporty to cash nnd conccalod it. Tho law's utmost skill and tho croditor's fury aro alike powcrloss now tho treo is green and thrifty; its roots driuving a copious supply from somo hlddon fountain. Craft has another harbor of resort lor tho piratical crow of dishonesty; viz.: putting ono's property out of the law's reach by a fraudulent convey ance. Whoovor runs in rtobt, and con sumes tho equivalent of his indebted ness; whoover Is fairly llablo to damage for broken contracts; whoovor by folly has incurred debts and lost tho benefit of his outlay; whoover is legally obliged to pay for his malice or care lossness; whoovor by inlldolity to pub lic trusts has mndo his proporty a just remuneration for his defaults; who over of all thoso, or whoover, under any circumstances, puts out of his hands proporty morally or legally due to creditors, is a dishonest man. The crazy excuses which men render to their consciences, aro only such he every villain makes who Is unwilling to look upon the black face of his crimes. N. Y. Ledger. QUICKLIME CREMATION. A 1'iiiii'nil in (Jiiiiid Ciiiiury 'With its At- tiMiilmit SpiinWh Ceremony. Slowly tho head of a funeral pro cession appeared from tho street by tho Bishop's palaco and bogan to glide between tho promotmdoand thoehurch Four laughing acolytes in seat-lot cas socks, with crucifixes and gilded lamps on staves enmo first. Tho priest with his book was next, attended on each side by a boy with a lamp to 11 lumlnnto his pages. Ho sang tho ser vice as ho stumblod over tho uneven etones of tho street. Tho body, under ii pall, carried by four men, who wore uttonded by a knot of othors for their roliof, followed tho priest, and then in parallel lines came tho friends and rel atives of tho deceased with lumps Interspersed among them to tho num ber of about two hundred. Tho heavy lava portal of tho comotory by tho bou nhoro bears tho inscription: "Do not bo doaf to tho voleo that tolls you all Is illusion except death." Hero all the lamps savo two wore puffed out by the boys and most of tho mourners turned on thoir hools and, with frosh cigars between thoir lips, returned to tho city. . Ton or twolvo of compaulcd tho chief the gates. A man, us, however, uo mournors within with a sack ol lhno Ids on his shoulder and u pipe in mouth, walking with the arrogance of ono proud without cjiuho preceded tho collln as It was liftod from iron stnlrcaso to Htatreuso until wo reached tho peculiar nicho in tho high "columbarium" which was to receive It. Then It was sot on the ground, tho Hd was romoved and tho man with tho llmo unipllou tho con tents of his sack ovor tho deceased -woman, methodically spreading and pressing it until nothing was visible ol her, except tho small, well-shod foot. Ho kept his pipe in his mouth during this operation. Tho chief mourner, while minutely watching that process attendant upon the burial of his moth or, found llmo to light a cigarette and chat with his friends, nnd tho two ro jtnalning acolytes grinned and played tricks by holding their lamps so that 1ho uuriouu shiulsws llutterod over the dead woman and tho llmo man. At length tho latter looked up with tin In terrogative grunt. "Aro you satisfied, jsouorP" 'Perfectly," replied thochlol mourner. Tho Hd wiih replaced, tho coffin wa run energetically into its appointed groove, nnd all wjih ended. Twenty lour houin ago tho deceased wtu alive and well; twenty-four hours hencu tdic will bo half oroinuted. UibraUar Tim, PACIFIC COAST NOTES. Matters of Local nnd General Import Gathered from AH Sources for the Bonoflt of Our Rouders. Virginia City lias many idle men. Small-pox at Merced is disappear ing. Hedwood City complains of burg lars. Vancouver has limited its saloons to six. There is a wood famine at Grass Valley. Burglaries aro still plentiful at Los Angeles. San Luis Obispo works its prisoners in a chain-gang. Salt Lake City ha? an ISM-pound 3-ycar-old Hereford heifer. Crescent City, Del Norte county, proposes to establish a pork factory. Fheenix, A. T., has succeeded in its efforts to securo tho Territorial capital. Tho remains of an unknown man were found on the tract at Bakors ficltl. San Bernardino charges $10 a day for circuses and $10 per day for dance houses. Miss Emma Holman was fearfully injured by a neighbor's dog at Al bany, Or. A fatal disease has appeared among tho horses on Dry Oreok, San Luis Obispo county. Salt Lake has risen three inches in tho last CO days, after a fall last sum mer of 2G inches. Idaho lawmakers complain of tho tricks bv which Mormons evade tho laws denying them a vote. About 50 passenger and freight con the Atlantic and Pacific railroad have been discarged. Tho Gilroy Advocate intimates that iiio rntinrted discovery of coal near that city has been exaggerated. trardncr applied to the beet sugar factory at Watsonvillo for a contract on 7U acres oi ueeic. Tho oflioial count in Novada gives n,.viino MlnrO for congress, 01)21 votes, una Cassidy, (Dem.) 5082. Sauta Kosa believes it will, within a year, bo connected by rail with tho western boundary lino of Sonoma. An artesian well at Flsinor, San rtw.im cnuntv. furnishes bath houses with water 108 degrees tcmperaturo A seam of bituminous coal, three fnnt. iii width, has beon discovered in Sun til if.it. R. C. 20 feet from tho sur face. Thirteen and one-half tons of bar iiiwOpm nil A (.hell fish were scraped ofl' tho bottom of tho Olympian at Vic toria. A boy tramp, aged about 13 years, .ifi-iutl nt. the Suisun depot, was fou ml to have two loaded rovolvers oa his person Tho jury in tho Teller uiurdor caso at Spokane Fulls brought in a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Teller killed her husband in self dofonso Leading lawyers in Nevada believe tho constitutional amendments that woro adopted by the popular voto last summer, aro null and void. At an undertaker's shop in San Ber nardino William Graham took a drink of embalming lluid, thinumg it was boor. He died in great agony. Mrs. Alice C. Whilford, wife of a Denver bankor, hus gone hopelessly insane at Pomona on account of her husband's complaint in a divorce suit. Sixlv acres of land wore purchased at Seattle for tho site of a lug snieltor to reduce tho ores cf tho northwest, and especially those ol tho uumr d'Alone. Shipments of fish from Hanford and lHiinoore, Tulnro county, ou.oo pounds from Soptoniber 15th to Do- comber 1, 1S8S. Tho hsh woro taken from Tulnro lako. A rattlesnake three feet long with seven rattles was found the other dny on the roof of Iho Palaco hotol at Tuc son, A. T. Tho building has brick walls and is sixty foot lugii. n h sup posed, tho reptilo whb dropped by somo bird of proy. It has been discovoiod tint ovor $75,000 in coupons of the fundo.l debt, purchasod by the city ol haeramonio, is missing ami not canceled. Tho eoiiDons iiio Ol lu. iv is nouevi-ii i:i.000 of the issue now in tho books anil canceled has boon paid twice. A. N. Polymath, the San Diego iow eler who was arrestee a low daya ago for illoutiUv restraining Mr. and Mm A. F. Tabor in his shop two or threo hours and subjecting them to a search to tho skin, because they refused to nay him if 15 for threo rings alleged to havo uoon lauon uy mum, " uwu held to answer before the supunor court-on a charge of falso im prison- ment. Sovoral companies navo been or gauiied to dovelop the oil Holds in Now Mexico, ami considerable excite ment exists at Gallup, whero oil is in such quantities that in nuuiy lacali tiea it "runs in rivulotB." Tho latest ndvieea from Wnhalak Mien., Iho bceno of the raco troubloa uro to tho effect that three moroiie groos have boon captured, but ihero names arc withheld. From a pris oner just taken it in learned thut tluro were thieo womuled in Iho tight. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 9- A Brief Mention of Mutters of General Interest. Notes Gathered from Homo and Abroad. New Cumberland, W. Va., had a $150,000 fire Tuesday night. Tho steamer Silver Star was sunk near Portsmouth, Maine, last week. A conference of wool-crowers will be held in Washington on January 10, Sunday trips of tho Fifth avenue, New York, stages have been abolished. Now i ork and Washington were surprised Tuesday with pleasant wea ther. Pittsburg has tho walking mania A 72-hour match was in progress last week. Canada prohibits the importation of lnmroncr literature from the United States. The secret ecrvico of tho Missouri Pacific road will cease to exist after January 1. The Butchers' Protective associa tion at Cincinnati, has declared a boy cott on Chicago dressed beef. A heavy fall of snow in Michigan has enabled tho lumbermen to begin tho winter logging operations. Two thousand people witnessed a game of base-ball at Philadelphia last Sundav. plavcd m-doors at the state fair building. Mrs. John Priestly and her grand son were murdered last Saturday and thon burned in an incendiary liro at Forest City, Peun. Tho French-Evorsoll actions in Kentucky aro heavily armed and pre paring for a fight. Tho French party has 35 men, heavily armed. Francis Murphy ha8 made 2000 to tal abstinence men in Indianapolis. Ilia methods appear to bo more effec tive than tho prohibition vote. There have been three heavy snow slides on tho Canadian Pacilic rail road in tho mountains during the last few weekH, all at or near Field. Tho owners of tho released Btoamoi Hartian Republic, demand damages from Hayti amounUng. to $200,000, and tho ship's crow $15,000. Bogardus was defeated"" in a pigon shootmg match at Cincinnati by Al Bandle. Tho latter killed all his birds, 100; Bogardus killed 95. Four woman had an 8-hour bicycle raco at New York Tuesday night. Lot tie Stanley made 80 miles and secured $500 and the diamond medal. C. J. Kershaw, who failed for two millions in tho Cincinnati wheat cor ner, has arranged to pay nearly 90 cents on the dollar on all tho claims. s advance agent, jumpod from a swift moving train, while .it) miles from Cheyenne, Tttes not killed, but badly day. Ho was bruised. Since 1835, and including tho one last week, nino explosions have oc curred at tho powder works in Wind ham, Maine. Altogether 33 lives have been lost. Indictments havo been found in Jefferson county, Intl., against every pilot who took out a Sunday excur sion from that locality during the pnst summer. Lincoln, Neb., has a jilizen named John McAllister, worth $30,000, who lives alone in a small room in a state of abject squalor. He is a monoma niac on "logic. Tho football team at Durnsin.N. C, has had powerful electric lights suspended over its grounds and pro pose to play tho game during the evening hereafter. Fount Horner, aged 20, while cnuy drunk, ran through the streets of Charleston, W. Va., Tuesday with a club, hitting ovorybody ho met. He struck Edward Ames, v.'ho stabbed him to death. Gsneral David Stanley was arrested recently by ordor of the mayor of Aus tin, Tex., but tho jailor tefiisod to in carcerate him. Tho general was exe cuting an ordor of ejectment issued by tho war department. Tho model of tho monument which is to ho orected in Hayniarket square, Chicago, in memory of tho policemen who foil in tho oncountor with the an archists, has been finished, and will bo Bent to New xork for casting. Tho St. Louis Post-Dispatch Christ mas fund reaehul $10,000. The sub scriptions stai ted at 10 conts. Fully lfi.OOU poor children received pres ents Tuesday, anil for hours tho vicin ity of tho exposition building wna packed. A riot broko out afresh at Bevtor, Mo., the sceno of tho recent mine troubles, last week. The negroes were tho aggressors,. and not only did thov grow boisterous, but attempted intimi dation by tho free use of firearms. The militia acted promptly, and Tuesday night five of tho leaders were in the guard-house. Arkansas lias received tho honor able mention of showing the greatest number and best varieties of seedling apples before the Illinois Horticultural Society. That Btate won tho sumo award at Now Orleans, Boston and Kiversiee. An odd piosont wa recoived by Gen. Harrison Christinas from Port land, representing a .pidor's web of lino wire, with a spider ami a tly in it in oloto proximity. Underneath were tho words: "Home, Sweet Home." Tho general was nimble to teo tho sig nificance of the gift, the Agriculturalist Nowsy Notes Concerning: tho Farm of Especial Icterost to the Pa cific Coast Husbandman. atd It will be a sign of progressive farm ing when the owner of Bwine saves clover for his hogs in winter, or goes further and preserves in a sile sweet corn, with which to winter and help his hogs. The possibilities of hog rearing with tho right kind of ensilage are beyond reckoning. Never grow trees of different kinds together until satisfied ono does not injure the other, as is frequently tho caso when plums aro grown near peaches, thus inducing the curculio to sometimes attack the latter. A single wild cherry treo near an apple orchard will provide a harboring place for catorpillars, which finally in jure tho apple orchard. There is a time, to market produce, and that must be regarded if success is hoped for. It is decidedl t best to market as much produce as possiblo in the immediate vicity of one's home, and to sell directly to the consumer. In this way usually better prices aro maintained, as there are no middle men to get their share, and there is also tho advantage of dealintr with peo ple whoso standing is fairly known. But oven if lowor prices must be taken as a rule it is better to soil near home than to take the risk of marketing at a distance. The value of the food is not in the availablo material contained therein for the production of meat or milk onlv, but also in tho amount and qual ity of manure derived therefrom. It has been estimated that one-third of the food eaton goes into tho manure As the manure, then, is simply tho food stored away for future use, it is important that in order to drive the greatest benefit from the food manure should bo carefully managed to pro vent loss. As the food is not exposed to injury by air and water tho manure is equally deserving of care. Tho manure-heap is the savings bank of tho farm. If it is desired to havo poppies very early, it is well to take " time by tho forelock " and prepare the bed in tho fall. Sprinkle the seed on tho top of tho ground just before winter fairly sot3 in, or it can be dono later. The finest poppies I have ever grown were sown during a January tuaw, while tho bed was freo from snow for a day or two. Poppy seeds are very tiny an I if planted too deep will not come up, or if not stilliciontly covered soon dry up , but tho rains and tho melting enow seem to regulate the mattor nicely. Use as little seed as your con scienco will lot you, else tho work of thinning out will be tiresome. Poppies should always be sown where they are to bloom, for they are very dif ficult to transplant. i'eeti warm swill to vour pigs in a warm placo. Feeil often and but lit tle at a time, so that tho pigs will always come to tho trough with t good appetite, and there will be noth ing lei t to sour, reed the swill as fast as it is made, so that it doesn't get sour. Try to got your litter of pigs in March or April, that they may bo lit for sale in eailv winter. Breed once a year, as this is a sufficient strain on tho vitality, and breed to mature parents. If you breed from too young parents you increaso the probabilities of infirmity and disease to which the pig is liable. Whenever you bring a now pig on tho farm, shut it up by itsolf for at least three wooks, until you have ascsrtained it to bo perfectly healthy. Tli a pulling ot learners is a pure habit, which is brought on in flocks that hare not enough to occupy their time and attention. When they onee got a tato of the meaty end of the feather they are liable to extend their picking to something more than feathorB, taking advxutage of the linked condition of their companions by nipping at exDosed bloody parts, and allowing the poor henaTno peace till tboy or their mates are' taken out of tho pen. During the winter con finement of fowls they should bo kept as busy as possible by scattering their grain among loaves and chaff, to that hard scratching will be necessaiy on their part in ordor to got enough to eat. This will take their tinio and be liablo to keep them out of mischief. As a further prevention, somo trim tho edges of tho beaks, so that when they attempt to pull a feather it will slip through and they cannot hold it. Another remedy is to put on tho fowl an appliance called tho poultry bit, which can bo obtained of almost any dealer in poultry supplies. If any person wero to chain an ani mal to a stake in a field and leave it to shift for itself, then to watch tho ani mal until it gets thin and decrepid from loss of Uesh and strength, it in quite probable that the humane so ciety would bo after him with properly deecrvud punishment. Yot this is what thousands of farmers aro doing with their fruit orchards, of course barring tho difference between the in satinU treo and living animal. Liko tho latter tho treo ia ohaiued to one locality and cannot go abroad for food, but fortunately it has n sense of suffering, or at least nono that we can appreciato. And yot even for a treo there must bo something akin to pain in the process of alow starvation tho seeking by exhausted rootlets of food that cannot be found. It takes an enormous amount of various ma nures to form fruit and seods. Tho leafy part of tho troo may mostly come from carbonic acid gas of thw atmosphere, but tho stone fruits need a good deal of potash, Grapes ami pttans inquire a considerable aim nut of phosphate in addition. There is perhaps, no place on tho farm where a good dressing of manure would do greater good than in an old applo orchard whoro the trees seem to be running out. Much of the feeding of chickens is of soft food. It is easily picked by the little fellows, and they can quickly fill their crops from a dab of wet meal thrown on the ground beforo them This too rapid eating is one of the worst evils in artificial feeding young chickens. They gorgchemsflves, be come surfeited and die. Wo havo found whole wheat grains much bet ter, beginning for two or three days by breaking tho grain in two pieceB, It does not matter, however, if the lit tle fellow is forced to do this work himself. He will struggle with grain of wheat or oat grain for two or three minutes, and at last, after a des perate struggle, swallow it. '1 ho very hardness of the whole grain keeps his food from compacting in his crop, Wo would not, however, feed wholb corns to very young chicks, nor in deed corn ground into meal, as their principal diet. At present many country people want to know how to make quickly vinegar out of cider. Apples vary in the amount, of sugar they contain Some that make thin and watery ci uer, or aro largely diluted with water, will never mako strong vinegar unless reinforced with more sweet. Any coarse sugar or molasses will do, as whatever impurities it contains must bo thrown up to tho surface in violent fermentation, and may bo skimmed off. If tho cider is all right, place it in a placo, whero some may be drawn off and poured back every day, taking pains to bring it into contact with tho air as much as possible. J? or this pur pose it is olton nltereu over coarse shavings or straw. Tho oxygen the air starts first tho vinous or alcoholic fermentation, which is quickly fol lowed by tho acid fermentation. The more sweet there is in the cider tho stronger tho fermentation and the sharper the vinegar. If you have old cider that don't turn readily into vine gar, put it into an old molasses hogs head or barrel, and give it another trial. There are various methods of keeping cider from working. If your old cider has beon subjected to .any of these, it is better to make or buy a barrel of now. Tho cider that has been doctored to keep it sweet is hard to change into vinegar, and is not of the best when made. Tho common practice of putting the cider barrel in tho coldest corner of the cellar, and then lotting it work itself into vinegar without help, is not ono to be gener ally reoommonded. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman writes from California how he saves and cures peaches in the sun. He says neaely all evaporators are abandoned and the rays of the sun are depended on and answer as grod a purpose as the best system of artificial heat. lie. goes on at length to sy how the fruit is gathered, peaches being .his cwn crop, that it is bleached by use of sulphur fumes half an hour, and the sun dries lartre fruit that is in halves in three days' time. California evidently has a great advantage in its warm sun and dry climate, but whilo they depend on tho sun's rays only, they havo not any decided advant ages over the evaporating machines now in xogue m Oregon. They do all the work of preparation and laying on trays, and while they place these trays in tho sun the evaporating concerns hold them mere conveniently and the cost of wood is small. The cost of handling is ttie same in either case. There was a short timo last summer when sun drying was efficient, but not to be depended on. The sun in August can be utilized hore in con nection with evaporating by heat. Last summer when peach plums were tnreatcning to spoil because there was not evaporating space to hold them, the expedient wag resorted to of spreading tho fruit cut and pitt ed upon boards and partially drying it thus. It was found to be an ad vantage's the fruit partially sun-dried was even bettor than that put at first into tho evaporator. If we havo a good sun it can be utilized to dry fruit and it can bo bleached as well bofore sun-drysng as when dried in an evap orator. In making calculations for any in vestment, it is tlways well to con sider both sides carefully tho proba ble cost and tho probablo returns tho investment will yield. If by one niothod of proceduro it costs live cents per pound, and tho price of beef gives promise of fluctuating bo tweon -fj and 5J cents per pound, the investment is not a promising one. Again, if it costs $100 to raiso a com mon horso in a common way to the ago oi iotir years, ami mere is no promiso of more than $125 for him, whilo it costs $11'5 to raise a line draft colt to tho ago of threo years, and such colts roadily sell at $175, it is not lard to seo winch investment gives the greatest promiso of profit. In this question of rolativo profit, tho Farm ers' Advance gives tho following inter esting incident: A gas company hav ing a quantity of pipe to bo hauled somo distance offered what they sup posed fair rates by the hundred pounds for the work. Light teams, or what many call general-purpose teams, could draw an averago of 2,200 pounds, earning $3.30, which, after deducting $1.50 per day for driver and his board, loft $1.80 for use of team, wagon and harness. Any ono will say that tho team would bo fed at a loss. Partios having heavy teams of grado draft horses took tho contract at tho com jinny's rates, and drew on an average of 3,800 pounds, earning $5.70 per deducting $1.50 for drivor and his board, leaves $1.20 for team, wagon ami harness. This is a differ ence of f 2.10 in faxor of tho draft team. PORTLAND MARKET REPOR1 The stato of the mercantile market ha remained unchanged throtiKUot the past week, wheat being alone affected. Cable advlcos from Liverpool do not give promise of a change for the better until after tho Christmas holidays. The retail holiday trade is very active, ready money being more plentiful than usual at this time of the year. G ItOCEIU ES Sugars have fallen Jc since our last report. We quote C t$c,. extra C PJc. dry granulated 7Jc, cube, crushed and powdered "Sc. Colt'ofs firm, .Tava'icc, Costa Rica life's 20c, Salvador 18ll)c, Arbucklo'a roasted 2Uc. In canned table fruit, assorted, 21s 2 per doz: pie fruit, assorted, 2i 1.2Jvfil.33. 8s ?!.75. PROVISIONS Oregon hams are qnot edat 14jlfc, breakfast bacon 14c, shoul ders lOic, Eastern meat Is qnoted as fol lows: Hams 13fel0c, breakfast bicon 13lc sides llc. FRUITS-Green fruit receipts 125U bss. Hard fruit Is scarce, and the supply of ap ples not equn! to the demand. Apples 6(K2 05 per bx, Mexican oranges 4, lemons 80(5,0.50 per bx, bananas $J3.50S4,50,. quinces 10 a 00c, VEGKTABLKS Market well supp'IecL Cabbage J lc per It), carrots nnd turnip 75c per sack, red pepper 3c per lb, potatous 40450 per Rack, sweet lljtgtfc per lb. DRIED FRUITS-ReceiptH 409 pkges-Sun-dried apoles 4fa5c per lb, factory slic"d 8c, factory plums 80c, Oregon, prune 7($0c, pears 0 adOc, peachc lOfiillc, raliln8l2.25 per box, Call ornla figs 8c,. Smyrna 18c per lb. DAIRY PRODUCE Butter receipts for tho week 151) pkges. Fancy creamery 32jc per lb, choice dairy Sc, medium i730c common 20c, eastern 2o(kj30c. EGGS Receipts 1W2 cases. Oregon 35c, eastern 32fe32Jc. POULTRY Chickens 3.50:31, for largo youiiR aud $1 4 .-0 for old, turkeys 12J'ai3Jc per lb, ducks ?57 per dozen,, geese 8 'S.il. WOOL-Receipt for week 221.800 lbs. Valley 1820c Eastern Oregon 10al5c. HOPS-Reeeipts for week 1027 lbs. Choice 12J(a14c. GRAIN Receipts ffor week 04,200 ctls. Valley 81.374(3)1.10. Eastern Oregon 81.32J, (gl.40. Oats 32g)3.r)c. Ff.OUR-Recclpts for week 5070 bbls Standard 34,75, otlier brands 81.25. FEED Barley 823 per ton. mill do $1818.50, shorts 810 50, brau815.50, baled hay $1315, loo5e 1215. FRKSII MEATS Beef, live, 3c. dressed 0c, mutton, live, 3c, dressed 0i, lambs K2.25 each, hogs, live, 5J(c0c, dressed 7 7J, veal OTc PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Masculine breach of promiso casoa will never succeed until thore are fe male juries. Baltimore American. Irascible wife to husband: "You aro no match for mo, sir." Husband (weakly): "If lam not, my dear, why do you always want to scratch mo?" Washington Critic. Hosides preventing consumption, tho boiling of milk is important other wise. It reduces tho amount of water that has beon pumped into tho milk cans. Louisville Courier-Journal. When you know all about a thing it loses all intorost. It is tho imagina tion playing upon a suspicion that gives it thoso beautiful colors which gossip delights in. San Francisco Chronicle. A man will dislocato his arm trying to hit a base-ball, and spend an eutiro day in debilitating efforts to make a homo run but he won't boat a carpet. Not much. Merchant Traveler. When a foreign prince comos of ago he generally rocoivos many presents of jowolry. This is as it should bo, for about tho only thing that a foreign prince over does to distinguish himself is coming of age. Jeweler's Weekly. "I see," said Mr. Bark'.ns, "that there are a million moro women than men in Germany." "Yes," said Mr. Smtirty; "they do that to evade tho military requirements of tho Gorman Government. " Harper's Bazar. A white woman in Columbia, S. C.r who was charged with hot- colored husband with violating the law against miscegenation, sworo that she had negro blood in her veins and secured a disagreement of tho jury. Irresolution on tho schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappi- ness. Addison. A man does not compliment you when ho gives you somo slanderous, disagreeable information and says: "I thought you would liko to know it." jr. Y. J'icavunc. For tho boat results there needs be- tho longest waiting Tho true harvest is tho longest in being reached. Iiio failures come first, tho success last. The unsatisfactory is gonorally soonest t-een. It is a great thing to know that thoro is a Power and Wisdom which guides us and tho world; and to feol that thoro Is a Justico immense, im measurable, irroslbtnblo, which swuys tho ocean of human forces. 'iheodore l'urktr. Virtue and talents, though allowed their duo consideration, yst are not onough to procuro a man r. weleoino wherever ho comes. Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished und sot, then they give a lustro. Locke. So far as wo havo tho opportunity of shaping our llvos, so far wo aro re sponsible for their forms. Our lives are Inlluenced by circumstances; but wo have tho opportunity of making cir cumstances. If wo mako thoso circum etances evil wo aro responslblo for tho sin which results. It Is a good idea that tho country hotels have adopted of furnishing thoir guests with both kerosene lamps and candles. Tho korosono lamps are very useful in helping you to soo the light that tho candles give. Somcr vilU Journal. A lato song U ontltled "Nobody Vnows but mother." Gonorally speak ing, nobody knows but mother what kind of a tomper a daughtor htu, but after the hunuyinoou Is over, tha young hiubunil begins to find out bOinoUilii of what mother luww.-.