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THE OREGON SCOUT. !
JONES & CHANCEY,
Publlohors
UNION, OREGON.
FLYING WITHOUT WINGS.
Tho Souring Powers or n I'ocullnrly-Hiillt
Anllpoilenn I.lznral.
'Just keep your oyoon that follow."
Tho speaker had just returned from .1
trip ucross tho Pacific, and his room
was filled with curiosities from every
part of Southern Asia and India. From
a small cngo ho Inul taken u brilliants
hucd lizard. Ho balanced it upon his
lmnd and with a quick motion tossed it
into tho air. Now a horned toad or
ono of tho common lizards of our
western slopo would havo gone up
llko a rockot and camo down liko n
rock, but tho lizard was not of this
kind. It rose, then it seemed to grow
larger, to swell out liko a balloon, and
instead of dropping it sailed away at
an anglo and deftly alighted on tho top
of a plush-covcrcd chair, whoro it
clung, looking about in amazemont.
"Yes," continued tho ownor, taking
tho pet again, "it is a flying lizard
a wingless flyer at that, ono of tlio
most remarkable of tho lizard tribe."
Tossing tho llttlo orcaturo up again,
it seemed to spread, and again flow
away, buoyed by somo mystoriouB
power.
"I got my pot in tho island of
Borneo," said tho naturalist "It was
my intention merely to collect skins,
but ono day I was walking along
-through tho forest, when I saw what
I took for a brilliantly colored butter
fly coming along. As I drew nearer I
saw that it was a lizard, and, standing
perfectly still, it shot by mo. Having
a switch in my hand I struck it down,
and so secured it, and carried it to
camp in my pockot. Finding that it
would livo I kopt it, and soon saw that
it was quito a pot, and if I can got it
to England, shall deposit it in tho Lon
don Zoological Gardens."
On tho wing tho bnwovolnns, as UiIb
llttlo croaturo Is called, resembles a
richly tinted insect, but whoq. at rest
It can bo compared to a lizard, with
extraordinary protuborancos on oithor
ldo. Thoso aro tho so-called wings,
-which aro formed of a cutaneous
growth upon oithor sido, wing-liko in
Bhapo and supportod by a sorios of
false ribs. In color tho lizard is blue
and gray, with tints of various kinds
and shades. Tho tail is long, Blonder,
andbonoath tho hoad doponds a double
pouch, giving tho unlmr.l rathor a
ferocious appearance
Tho wing-liko organB aro used mere
ly uts parachutoB. When tho lizard
leaps into tho air tho upward current
"brings thorn out and onablos tho pos
sessor to soar away at an anglo to a
greater or loss dlstanco, according to
tho holght from which tho leap was
in ado.
Tho lizard can chango its dlroctlon
-whllo in tho air to either side; heneo a
casual observer might readily bollovo
them to movo tho so-called wings and
actually ily; but soaring is tho limit of
their powers, and in this way thoy
travel long distances sovoral hundrod
yards from treo to tree. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
A RARE CURIOSITY.
Xeniftrknlilo .Sircliiuu of Onrnl From ths
rlilllpplnci Iluniln.
Judgo 13. W. Knott, deputy superin
tendent of tho State Insuranco Depart
ment, rocolvod roeontly from Alexander
1L Wobb. United States Consul at Ma
nila, Phlllpplno Islands, a curiosity
that is exceedingly rare; a coral for
mation found only in tho Philippine
Archipelago, and 1b known to tho na
tives as "flower baskets," though why
such an appellation should bo con
ferred on It Is not quite eloar. It is
quite different from uny coral that has
over been seen by thoso who havo been
fortunate onough to vlow tho spool
inou which tho Judgo values so highly.
Tho Hpeelmon Is conical In shnpo, hav
ing a baso of nearly two Inches In di
ameter and rises to a holght of about
eight Inches, growing smallor towards
it top, whoro It onds In a tolerably
oharp point Tho baso was formed on
a smooth ledgo of rook, and tho nrchl
ntH nt Its construction had boirun by
laying cross sections of a formation ro-
Bombllng Hnest spun glass. i hose aro
laid very carefully and tivenly across
both wnvH. and aro soomliiL'ly Inter
laced and plaited with similar fornm-lniiH-thov
could hardlv bo called fibers,
runnlmr from ton to bottom of this
novel lllllimtlau castle. Tho work
rlHos In most beautiful shape, crowing
gradually smaller, until within about
three Inches of tho apex, whon ovi
ili.nl lv tho builders found on their
hands more of tho longitudinal laoes
than wore needed in their work, and
thov were diooned out at tho work
progressed, and stand about tho toy,
formliiL' a sort of tuft around tho
whole.
These lacings extend about ono inch
nhovo tho ton. and contrary to usual
formation of coral, thoy are pliable
and whon lent assume an upright
position on being released.
It would bo Impossible for ma
nlilnrt work or tho work of human
hands to keop up tho symmetry better
o.i.n tlinxn minute iinlmalculto havu
done. Tho work resembles tho finest
thci cross bars fashioned as beau
Ifllll V I1M DOSS Ible, In looking through
tho orosa burs 0110 can hoo tho roiiitilnn
nf xniiiu small marine animal, probably
vni.ii. iid n t In v claw or fooler,
similar to tho ones such animals a 10
u.lorn.ul Willi, lb IllllllllV IllkOOI'lllhlO
Tlio ooriil U u punt whllo itiul forms 11
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS
An Interesting Resume- of the- Week's
Happenings in Both Branches of
tho Nation's Leglelatura1
Rnmtml V. Tlixlnv has been nnnoint-
ed postmaster at Kelso, Cowlitz coun
ty-
.TnmnR P. Starr hna been appointed
postmaster at Syracuse, Polk county,
in place ot .rranK it. jiuuuaru, re
signed. A railway mail service has been es
tablished on tho route from Wood
villo to Snohomish, six times a week
to take effect from tho 28th.
Governor-elect Hovey has left Wash
ington for his homo in Indiana. He
will resign his seat in tho House,
which will be filltd by a special elec
tion next month.
Senator Cullom has reported favor
ably a bill from tho commerce com
mittee to increase tho salary of tho
surgeon general of the marine hos
pital service to $0000 per annum.
Tho total coinage of tho United
States mints for tho twelve months
endinc tho calendar year of lbno was
$G5:.n8.GU, divided as follows: Gold,
$31,380,080; silver, $33,025,G0G; mi
nor, $912,200.
Tb n Secretary of the Navy has is
sued peremptory orders to liasten tho
work of preparing tho Uniteu States
ships Atlanta, Vandalia and Mohican
for tea. It is reported that tho last
two named will be sent to Samoa to
reinforce the Nipsic.
A party of Dakota Democrats, re
cently elected delegates by tho
Mitchell convention, are now in vvasn
ington, their object being to securo
necessary legislation to carry into ef
fect tho desires of tho convention, and
Uwv primus tho intention of remain
ing thero until that is accomplished.
Tho President gave a stato dinner
of forty-eight covers to members of
tho cabinet Friday night, tho second
of tho winter's series of olliciul enter-
Tim White House was
handsomely decorated for tho occa
sion. A miniaturo lake, with banks
lmnil with ovorcreons and red and
wliito roses, wiib tho principal iloral
decoration.
Glaus Spreckols has made a state
ment before tho Senate committee of
finance, concerning his experiments
n tho manufacture 01 ueet sugar 111
California, intended aB an argument
against tho proposed reduction of duty
011 sucar and tho substitution thereof
limmt.v nf 1 cent a nou nil. Dur
ing tho hearing it was lniimatcu unit
tho committeo would insert in tho bill
n nrnvlninn. makinc tho bounty 01 ono
cent a pound operative until the year
A letter was laid boforo tho Senate
Friday from tho Secretary of tho
'PrmiHiirv iii renlv to a resolution of
Mm Snnato iiskiiiir for copios of the nil
inir made by tho department as 10 mic
classification of gill-nets mado 111
Scotland, and imported for salmon
lUlw.rinu nil Ilia 1'rtOlllO UOllSl. J. 110
Sccrotary says no decision has been
tiuiiln iliirinir tho past vpar on gill-
notB ready and lit for uso by salmon
iishornion.
Tim mnmhors of the Sonato commit
too havine chareo ot tho tanu out
havo docidea to oiler an aniondmont
mnbimr f.iin ilntv on lunibor $1.50 per
1000 feet, a reduction of 25 per cont
in tho bill as reported from tiio com
miltoo. It was first proposed to niako
the duty $ 1.20, out a cumpiunuou uu
a $1.00 rato wiib Becurou oy tno seua
tors from tho Northwest. A proviso
will tin ill Hurt 0(1 that this HltO shall bo
conditional on Ciinadiv romoving her
export duty on lumbor.
C. O. W. West, Governor of Utah,
is now in Washington. Ho intends to
boforo the House conimitteo
on territories to oppose tho admission
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rtf ITtnli itH IV RlULO. 1 I11H KUIllUUUIlli
ho says, is shared by nearly every uen-
ii- ;., tiin turritnrv. West places his
objection on tho broad ground that
Mormons aro unntieu to uxurcieu niu
riftiiiu nf citizenship. Ho says : "To
givo theso peoplo sovereign rights, as
1IIUIIVWVIII iiw-- a w
iiTinuiil. wnnui 1)0 lo luicouvery nun-
Mormon in uuiu compioiuij hi, muu
(tlil V iTiulnr tho territorial form of
govornmont wo are protected by Con-
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gross ant tho J-ixecutivo. junior vn
right of Statohood upon Utah and tho
Mormons would fratno a constitution
.ml luwu m iiniiist and arbitrary in
ihnlr ohiimctor Unit an outsider could
not livo among them. I favor leav
ing it a territory, but bo ainoniiing tuu
i,iw iiH in abrideo the power of tho
ohuroh."
Tho National Woolgrowers' Abboci
ation mot in convention atWaelung
in. i,.ut wik. llesolutions were
IUII ...wv . -
...tt.ii..l liiliirinL'. that whllo Con
groBs niiiiiitained a gonoial policy of
protection, tno wooi gmwvio i .,u
iimimfunturcra in tho United States
have a right to doinand that tho du
ties on wool and on woolen ami worn
nil ivfWM lu stmli bo lidi listed and main
t.,!n,wl no us to scouro to them tho
1 rtnmi liliirVnt. TllO rt'BOllltiollB
.ii..t itmiiiiii the Senate tan 11 bill so
far as it ailecU wool, and providing for
u conmuttoo oi Boven w lonuunuo
cilmdiiln nl tariff duties for wool
as tuny bo deemed just and necessary,
ijnd to present tho same to tho tlnnnco
committee of tho Senate and urge Us
adoption. Thoy further declare tlmt
tint determination of tho economic
ilmiuolul uoliov of this govern
iiiimt is no iiinuirtaut to wool-growing
ami all othor indiiKtriea ami buninos
ot tho nation as to require Imnu'ilwto
and ilitllnl'.o luginltttUm, uml if this
nluiU not bo iicmiijlulitHl liming tho
nretont Conuri' uu uurly oxlru
Moil of (lio 61t Oongivm u rv'i'om-
lltliUllvili
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PACIFIC COAST NOTES,
Matters of Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit of Our Readers.
Fresno tailors aro striking for better
wages.
Albuquerque,N.M., built 300 houses
last year.
Wallula and Walla Walla aro now
connected by rail.
John P. St. John will make his resi
dence in California.
Traver. Tulare county. Cal., now
boasts a checee factory.
The penitentiary of WashinEton
Territory is now heated by steam.
A frnmr nf Imodiums at Victoria at-
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tacked the salvation army recently.
TfnrLb Ynkimn. ii soon to have a
system of waterworks to cost $100,000.
At.lnmnts bavo been made to rob
people while getting on trains at Col-
ton.
J n. T.nisnrn. nf Pendleton, has re
signed tho position of deputy district
attorney.
An effort is to bo mado in tho Ne
vada legislature to obtain a charter
for a lottery.
Many arrests havo been mads on ac
count of the recent not at tho New
castle mines.
Tim spnlinf schooners are all pre
paring to leave British Columbia ports
for the north.
Thn ronairine shops of the Oregon
and Washington Territory road are to
bo located at Walla Walla.
Tho lono hifrhwavman appears to
hn hiifiilv encased in holding up stage
coaches in northern California.
Tho wind from eastern Oregon
MnwH nlkali dust which settles on the
glass of the Fort Canby lighthouse.
A colored man assauted a pretty
Pasadena girl laBt week, and if ho
had been caught tho mob would havo
lynched him.
Lanro numbers of miners aro flock-
inc to ho gold mines in tho Harqua-
Hala mountains in Yuma and Man
copa counties, A. T.
John and Fred Mize.who attempted
to murdor their father-in-law, Henry
nnflVu-v. nt. Smitn. Itosa. will have to
servo ono year in San Quentin.
A Chinaman at Sacramento at
,nM.in.l ir tnln i afntin frnm n. mil
LUlIll'kWl l,w man
road track, to prevent what ho thought
wouui oe an acciuum, " a-nitu
by a passing train.
Thnwifoof Charles Allen, of Ghibb
Vnllnv lin hnnn sent to the insane
asvlum. She fancies she is a bird,
tries to imitate its twitterings unu at
tempts to climb trees.
Tlnrrv. ii drunken scoundrel
at Portland, was arresled recently for
Wllipping 111B who b uuuu uuvij
dragging it from tho bed to tho floor,
becauso it would not riso at his bid-
At a recent meetinc of the Colum
bin ltiver Fishermen's Protective
Tlninn at Astoria, tho pnoo of salmon
fnr tliu nnxt cannery Feason was set at
$1 per fish if caught in cannery nets
and $1.20 if caught m privato nets.
Tho colored church in Sacramento
lmil it sensation last weok. when tho
iimitnr found a nuinbor of loud ciga-
are t to pictures m tno eeat wuicu n
hnrtii nnniiniod tno previous eveuuiK
by a parly of young fomiile membors.
.Tnhn Foster, who stolo a horso from
tho neighborhood of Elk Grove, bAC-
mmnnin nnimtv. Cal.. last month, and
who loft a piece of doggerel aftor him
to induco a believe in tne proximuy
of Ulaok 13art. has been tontonccd to
tou years at San Quonttn.
While passengers wnro being landed
I Ml til tho Htoamor Point Arena at Lit-
In llivnr. Mendocino county, last
hnnt. tho latfr was capsizo I
and Mrs. Ivilduy and I ho daughtor of
an assutmt keopor at tho light-house
at Point Arona were urowneu.
Last weok, at Bonita, Graham
county, A. T sovoral Bheopinon woro
grazing their Hooks noai the range of
Chiricahua cattlemon, who
Willi tod tho sheepmen to go elsewhere
A Intttlo ensued and five shecp-hordors
wore killed and ono cattloman
wounded.
There is trouble ovor hind claims at
Los Olivos. Squatters are Hooking
in from all quarters and Uiking
possession of hind on tho Brinkorhoff
and Laguna oxlonsiou, near tho town.
Tho land in dispute is claimed to bo
part 08 the Hell ranch, between Los
Olivos and Lompoo, Santa Barbara
county.
Tho little daughter of L. S. Kenne
dy, living at Pilot Kock, had a ivr
iov escape fiom death last week. Two
sohool-boys were shooting at a mark,
and while ending a field on her way
to Bchool the child was struck by n
passing bullet, inilicting ft painful
though not Borious wound abovo tho
right temple.
Charles Johnson, recently an in
mate of tho British Columbia peniten
tiary, and now a resident of Portland,
was ungaged last week in circulating
a paper in Victoria headed, "Prison
reform and hidden secrets , a brief ac
count of tho tyrtuiy, injustice and op
pression practiced in tho British Civ
luinbiii ptmitontiiiry. mo ourge
nuide against tho otllolals tiro very bt
rioiu. An inoretuo ot pension lias been
griinteil to Konwull J). Carter, of Port
(Jumble, W. T.i aUo to W. H. Cirpon
tor, Uonburv, l.T,
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Brief Mention of Matters of General
Interest. Notes Gatberod from
Homo and Abroad.
Rice troubles
are feared at Areola,
Miss.
Bernhardt gave ten performances
at Cairo, Egypt, recently.
Last vear 135G people died of de
lirium tremens in England.
The Paris police will search the
houbes of all known anarchists.
The Sultan is one of tho most en
thusiastic checs players in Europe.
In Russia last year 80.000 dram-
aheps were done away with by law.
Lord Coleridge has collected $35,000
for the widow and daughters of Mat
thew Arnold.
The British government stateB that
a successor to Hackulic vest win
Bhortly be appointed.
Final preparations havo been made
for the ofliuial trial of the 15-inch
pneumatic dynamite gun.
Annt.lipr vnliiablo r.oal deposit has
just jieen discovered in Dakota, three
miles iiurm oi uemurvmu.
Tho Italian railway system is un
dergoing a radical reform to facilitate
the mobilization of troops.
Tho largest organ in tho world is
now being built in ljomion lor oya
ney. It will cost about $75,000.
France appears to be somewhat dis
pleased over the debate in the U. b.
Senate on the Panama cal project.
Euceno Wetherill, husband of Em-
ma Abbott, tne noteu prima aonna,
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died suddenly at Denver last week.
Mrs. Sheridan has accepted the de
Bigu ol samuei n. juiison, oi rew
. - t tw . . r twt
York, for the monument to General
Shundan.
President Carnot of France received
nearly a thousand Christmas presents
from bis admirinsr leilow-citizens oi
the Republic.
Xra PnrnpU bus deeded to her SOU
Charles Stewart Parnell, the Ironside?
bnmestead and otber property at
Bordentown, N. J.
Thouirh nearly a million Lebel
riflDH have been turned out in France
tho eovernment workshops are still
turning out 3000 a day more.
Kinc Leopold, of Belgium, has in
structed tho bishops of his little realm
to havo prayers offered constantly lor
tho safety of Stanley and Emin Pasha.
A celebrated team of bull-fighters
from Seville, Spain, performed before
30,000 excited people at the City of
Mexico recently. Four bulls were
killed.
Articles have been siened by Sulli
van and Kilrain for a light near New
flrWris for a mirso of $10,000 and the
diamond championship belt now held
by tho latter.
The most prominont brigand in
China, Ho Ta L.io-hu, has been cap
tured and killed, lie wiib a giant,
boinir 7 feet 2 inches in height and
broad in proportion.
Five necrro niurderors were drowned
in Broad river, S. C, a few days ago,
wbiln Btruircrline: for the possession of
money thoy had just taken from the
body of ono whom they had murdered.
Fmnress Frederick is understood to
tinvn mnrln friends with her eldest boh.
the Emperor, but sho failed to receive
tho customary Christmas presont
from him. It is given out that she
requested him not to send it.
James L. Wright, R. N. Keen, R. C.
Afn Ai.lnv mid .Tnsenh S. Kennedy, tho
four original momberB of the Knights
of Labor, have issued circulars to tne
knights which aro expected to over
throw tho Powderly administration in
tho order.
The Czar is said to have become
reconciled to Prince .Alexander of Bat
touborg, owing to tho kindly efforts of
a mo herly Grand Duchess who tnKes
interest in the Princess Victoria of
Prussia, and wants to boo tho joung
couple happy and married.
Doputy Sheriff Moore, of Dallas,
Toxas, twice rescuod a burglar from
tho hands of a mob last week, and
cash timo tho culprit was hanging
from a treo. The second timo tho res-
cuo was made tho deputy fired upon
tho lynchers and injured several.
Tho city council of Oheyonno, Wy.
T haa closed the deal with tho Union
Pacific and workshops will bo inline
distelv established. Tho citizens of
Choyenno aro ovorjoyod, a boom has
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set in, ami mini in tne ucignuumuou
bus iucroiibed in valuo wondoriully
within tho lust fow weeks.
M. Lucicn Gaulard. who had so
hireo a sliaro in the ' introduction of
tho transformer system of eloctrio
lighting, died recently in a lunatic
asylum in Franco. His friends at
tribute his nion Ul failure to the legal
troubles ho hud experienced in con
ucotiou with hia various patents.
When Will Bright, son of John
Bright, wanted to roprovo his father
for tho hitter's severity for comment
ing on his son's adheronco to Iiqiiio
rule principles, the young men wroto
"Mv dear father, theso are not the
kind of lotters that should bo ad
dressed by ono statesman to auother,'
It is expected that not more than
ono million pounds of tobauco will be
! raised in Egypt this your, although
I throo million pounds havo boon pro
duced in former seasons, llm do
I o roil so u owing to the recent action o
: the Khodivo in putting a tax t
flf7 60 mi each ucro u( gruinul (lv
i voted to tula crop.
THE AGRICULTURALIST
Newsy Notes Concerning the Farm and
of Especial Interest to the Pa
cific Coast Husbandman.
Georgia is to have an immigration
bureau to encourago immigration to
the Suite of industrious and intelli
gent farmers and mechanics.
Do not bo afraid to open the doors
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anu windows ot tne ceiiar on eium
days. It is much better to have pure
air in tho cellar than to keep it close
and damp. When the cellar is musty
and a disagreeable odor noticed the
entire house is likewise affected.
A farm must not only be self-sup
porting but should pay a pront.
When the farmer reaches mat stage
when he is compelled to borrow, or de
nnml nn some income from another
source, his farm is unprofitable, and
he should then endeavor not only to
discover the cause of his loss but also
aim to improve in some manner, in
order that the farm may be self-sup'
porting.
The most disagreeable thing on the
farm in winter is mud, and, although
t can not be entirely avoided, yet
some ot us disadvantages inj uu
overcomo by carefully draining every
location that allows an excess of wa
ter to accumulate. When the cattle
are compelled to stand kneo deep in
mud thero is a loss of animal heat, and
trreater proportion of food will be
required to keep them in condition.
Chumine cream when slightly
sour, as is the custom in the Holstein
dairies, yields butter of a peculiar and
fine aroma. Butter made irom very
sour cream is destitute of this aroma,
and has tho taste which the Holstein
butter acquires after keeping some
time. Stirring of cream does not pro
mote souring, but rather Hinders it da
increasing access of air ; i may be ad
vantageous in making tne souring
uniform.
For verv early eccs warm, com
fortable houses, proper feed, and good
n i i
care are necessary, u tne nens imvu
to use all tho feed they get to keep
themselves warm, if they are not sup
plied with food containing egg-forming
material, and if tho houses are not
kept clean and well ventilated, the
egg basket need not be a large one.
The roof ot tho poultry House snotiiu
be tight, the sides well battened and
tho knot-holes covered, or the entire
eides covered witli tarred paper to pre
vent draughts, and the iloor made m
a wav to take no drainage from the
outside and be perfectly dry. For
tilntion. anv plan whereby the
fowls can be supplied with pure fresh
air without being subjected to draughts
will answer.
On how many places is it a pleas
ure to visit the hen house? Although
there has been a great change for the
hotter durinc the" last few years, tho
average hen houso is still shunned by
all who are not obliged to visit it.
This is not surprising, as it is full of
lice in summer, and in winter is foul
with the stench from a year's accu
mulation of filth. This need not and
ought not to be. Tho poultry on a
nliice. especially if a pure breed is
kent. should bo a "joy forever." They
never ose their interest, iacn nas
its individuality, its likes and dislikes,
like all other stock, and a half hour
spent in watching them is aiwayB mil
cf pleasure, and seldom without prolit,
Snmetlnne new can be learned at
every visit.
Wood ashes havo too great a value
to bo wasted. Every farmer's family
should make its own soap supply. It
is cheaper for the farmer to make
soap than to buy it. When not util
iznd on the farm, "soap crease" is
either wasted or sold for a pittance
After the ashes aro leached they are
as good as before for manure, where
the soil does not lack potash. If a
teasnoonful of clean wood ashes is
civen every third day to horses in
their feed they will will very rarely
need condition powders. The Banie
amount given to cattlo will have good
results. Cuttle, also swine, are Ire
quently Been licking ashes whore rub
bish has been burned. Hie aenes
given to hogs may bo mixed with
their salt. Ashes correct acidity of
tho stomach and destroys some in
testinal worms. Wood ashes aro a
valuable fertilizer for all crops, but es
pecially for orchard crops. They coiv
tain all tho mineral elements required
by plants. Tho lino oondition and
peculiar proportion of their ingro
dicnta make their real agricultural
valuo greater than the valuo com
puted from chemical analysis. Coal
ashes are comparatively worthless,
but wood ashes should nover be
thrown away.
Allowing each treo thirty feet of
room (that is planting the treea thirty
foot apart in checked rows), an acre
will permit of about fifty trees. Thoy
will not be ready for market, or to bt
sawed up as lumber, until they aro
about twenty years of ago. Their
valuo will then depend on the kind of
trees and the number of feet of lum
ber that can be sawed from each troe.
If tho treos aro twenty-livo feet apart
about sixty-five trees can bo grown n
an acre, but tho closer the trees the
slower the growth and tho sooner they
must bo cut down. Each acre of land
can bo mado to produce $1000 in
choice trees in twenty years, or at the
rato of $25 per acre annually, while
the yield of nuU will more than pay
the interest on capital. No correct
ostimato can bo m tide on tho valuo of
an acre of walnut. In Indiana re
cently trees sold at tho rato of $3000
per aero, but they woro very Urge. If
an application of iikIios bo given tho
treos every your tho growth will be in
eroaned. The profit arises from the
utllutttum of laud that would remain
t Uo if not occupied by trees.
PORTLAND '.MARKET REPORT
GROCERIES-Sugars have fallen Jc
silica our last report. V e quote O 64c,
extra C 51c. dry granulated OJc, cube,,
crushed and powdered 7gc. Coilos i flrni,
Guatemala mmi c, Costa Rica 18!fc21c,
ltlo 20wHc, SalvadorlOOc, Arbuckle a
roasted 23Jc.
pnOVlSIOKS-Oregon hams are ( jinot
ed atmrcltjc, breakfast bacon l.liWHV
Eastern meat Quoted as fololws: Hams
18ral3i, Sinclalrs 14 'a 15c, Oregon break
i:urml4c. Eastern l.iMW c.
i:m14c. Eastern l.itolJ
FRUITS Green fruit receipts UM oxs.
Hard fruit Is scarce, and the supply of ap
ples not equal to the demand. Apples Go3
g; per bx Mexico oranges .!"
1 00.50 per bx, bananas $J.50(a4.o0,
quinces 40 aCOc,
VEGETABLES Market well supplied.
Cabbatre 4 ale per lb, carrots and turnips
75Vper sack, red pepper 3c per ft. potatos
3ifc40c per sack, sweet lji!c per lb.
DRIED FRUITS-Reccipts 01 pkges.
Sun-dried apoles 4& 5c per lb, factory
slic-d 8c, factory plums aOc, Oregon
prunes 7'!-t)c, pears 0'ilOc, peaclie 8ai0c.
raMiis 232.25 per box, Call ornla flgs
8c, Smyrna 18c per lb.
DAIRY PRODUrE-OreRon creamery
and choice dairy 35c, medium iCaMc Cal
ifornia fancy 30c, choice dairy -ijc,
eastern SJ5(g30c.
EGGS Receipts 203 cases. Oregon 2oc.
POULTRY Chickens SafaS.'io, for
large young and ?4 4 75 for old, turkeys
14fl5e per lb. ducks $5(7 pur dozen.
WOOL Valley 1820c Eastern Oregon
10(a) loc.
HOPS-Choice 814c.
GRAIN-Valley 81.35, Eastern Oregon
1.30 Oats 33Jii35c.
Fl OUR-Standard 84.50, otner brands
84.25, Dayton and Cascade ?4.1d, Oiaham,
i.Zd, rye Hour 50, no unuiu
FRESH MEATS Beef, live, 313Jc.
dressed 7c, mutton, live, 3W;J'c, nressuu.
7c. lambs frz.cu eacn, nogw, a,
dressed 774, veal oiabc.
Tho unseemly discussion which a.
a certain class of newspapers have'
been making a conspicuous feature in'
their columns of lato of tho question,
"Is marriage a failure?" is simply a
fresh breaking out of the old and nau
seous social malady of "free love." It is
amazing that any editor who has either
any regard for the reputability of hi3
journal or any respect for tho welfare
of society should countenanco tho dis
cussion of so grave a themo in the
reckless and llippant stylo and manner
in which it is treated by tho class of
shallow and inconoclastic writers who,
in their anxiety to air their immoral
sophistications, delight to exhibit their
contempt for thoso things and institu
tions which reasonable and good moa
deem too sacred to bo assailable
The man or woman who soriously
asks tho question "Is marriago a fail
ure?" is obviously disqualified, by iv
lack of eit.ier virtuous or proper ex
perience, or of intelligent or thought
ful conviction, from answering or even
discussing tho question at all, tho very
asking of it being almost proof posi
tive that tho ono asking it is of the
affirmative way of thinking, and that
he or sho is of that way of thinking"
becauso of experiences, observations
or theories that aro at least superficial,
but more probably the resultants of
tho individual folly or viciousness of a.
dopraved nature. A married lifo that
has proved a failure becauso tho parties
to tho contract have had neither senso
enough, mutual forbearanco enough
nor morality onough to be faithful to
its obligations is not a just sample of
tho marital institution, is not a fair
illustration of modern domosticity,
is not an exponent of tho aver
ago family condition of civilized
society. It is exceptional and
abnormal. A true man and a truo
woman, entering into tho rolations of
man and wife with rational delibera
tion, with genuine affection, and with
high and pure motives, do not find
marriago a failure. Thoy know what
thoy aro about boforo they entor into
tho intimate and sacred partnership.
It is on their part not a matter of im
pulse, of emotion, of monoy, nor of
passion, but of mutual and reciprocal
affection, guided and consummated by
tho dictates of reason and of a thought
ful anticipation of all tho possibilities
and all tho contingencies that aro in
volved In tho soloinn compuct. Such
matches aro mado in heavon, aro heav
enly in their lifelong continuance and
extend beyond this lifa into heavon
itself.
Marriago is a failure only when tho
man or tho woman is a failuro in his
manhood or in hor womanhood. It is
nover a failuro when tho man and tho
woman aro truo to themsolves and to
each othor. It is novor a failuro where
tho feeling nnd the motlvo and the
purpose aro right. It is novor a fail
uro whoro truo lovo and honor aro tho
links of unity. It is nover a failuro
whero good sense and good principle
load to wid control tho relationship.
It is very rarely a failuro, in any ovont,
whoro children ure its fruitago and tho
family altar is tho center of its dally
Banctificiitlon.
Thoso who sneer and mock at mar
riago aro not God's people; thoy aro
not of thoso who aro tho best develop
ment of modorn civilization; thoy aro
not illustrations either of social mor
ality or of sound sonse. Thoy aro tho
froth mid scum that float and bubble
upon the turfaco of social lifo. Thoy
aro peoplo of unbridled passions, son
Bual and selfish instincts or shallow
minds. Thoy aro not tho many, but
tho wild and reckless fow. As a rulo, i
marriago is not a failuro, but quite thd
rovorso. When it proves a failure, it
is nn exception to tho rule, just as
idiots, cranks, lunatics and moral lon
ers are exceptional developments of
human ovolutlon. Chicago Journal,
MHO W. bumnibh, of Waldoboro,
Me., Is h direct deauotiriiuil of CnpUln
Ml lea SlandUh, who einj over in tho
Maylluui-i' in lG:o. and ho has 11 ton
liumod Milea.