THE OREGON SCOUT.
JONES & CHANCEY, - Publlshors
UNION, OREGON.
EXILES' BEGGING
SONG.
on tho Great
A Touching Incident of I.lfo
Slbcrlnn Jtotul.
I Blinll novor forgot tho omotlons
rsrascd in mo by this song when I
jfceard it for tho first time. Wo wero
sitting, ono cold, raw, autumnnl day,
in a dirty post station on tho great
Siberian road, waiting for horses.
Suddenly my attention wns attracted
ty a peculiar, low-pitched, quavering
Bound which caino to us from a dis
tance, nnd which, nlthough inndo ap
parently by humnn voices, did not
rosomblo any tttlng that I had ever
N"-l)oforo heard. It was not singing, nor
chanting, nor walling for tho dead, but
a Btrango blending of all three. It
suggested vaguely tho confused and
commingled sobs, moans and cntrcat-
. . ies of humnn beings who wcro being
subjected to torture, but whoso sufTer-
-inga wcro not aculo enough to scok
expression in shrieks or high-pitched
cries. As tho sound Came nearer wo
went out into tho strcot in front of
lho statiou-houso and saw upprotich
ing a chained party of about a hundred
hnro-hcaded convicts, who, surrounded
by a cordon of soldiers, wcro marching
filowly through tho settlement singing
tho "exiles' begging song." No at
tempt was made by tho singers to pitch
thoir voices in harmony or to pro
nounce tho words in unison; thcro
wore no pauses, or rests at tho ends of
tho lines; and I could not make out
any distinctly marked rhythm. Tho
filngors scorned to bo constantly break
ing in upon ono anothor with slightly
modulated variations of tho same
slow, molancholy air, and tho olTect
producod was that of a rudo fuguo or
of a fuuornl chant, so arranged as to
bo sung liko a round or catch by a
liundrcd malo voices, each indopondont
of tho others in timo and molody, but
all following a certain sohomo of vocal
ization, and taking up by turns tho
Baino dreary, wailing theme. Tho
words woro as follows:
Unvo pity on us, O our fiithorsl
Don't forgot tlio unwttlluK traveler,
Don't forgot tlio long-imprisoned.
Food us, O our fathorw-iiolp us I
Food and help tho puor nnd needs-1
llovo cotiipatHlon, O our fathers I
Huvo compassion, Oour mothorsl
For tho miko of Christ, havu mercy
On tho prisoners tho shut-up onus)
llchlml walls of stono and grntltiKs,
llclilml oalion doors and padlocks,
llohlud hnrs and lochs of iron,
Wo uro held In close confinement.
Wo havo parted from our fathers,
From our mothers,
Wo from all our liln hnvo parted,
Wc nro prlsonors;
yity us, O, our fathers I
If you can imagine theso words, half
Bung, half chanted, slowly, in broken
timo and on a low koy, by a hundred
volcos, to an accompaniment made by
tho jingling and clashing of chains,
you will havo a faint idea of tho
"Mllosordnnyn," or oxllos' begging
rang. Rudo, artless and inharmon
ious as tho appeal for pity was, 1 hud
novor in my life heard any thing so
mournful and depressing. It scorned
to bo tho half-artiuuluto expression of
all tho griof, tho misery, and tlio do
Hpair that had been felt by generations
of human boings in tho otnpos, tlio for
warding prisons and tlio mines.
As tho party inarched slowly along
tho muddy street between tho linos of
gray log houses, children and peasant
women appeared at tho doors with
thoir hands full of bread, meat, eggs,
or other articles of food, which they
put into tho caps or bags of tho three
or four shavon-headed convicts who
acted as nlms-colloctors. Tho jing
ling of chains and tho wailing voices
of tho exiles grow gradually fainter
and fainter us the party passed up thu
Mtrcot, and when the sounds finally
uleu away in tlio distance and wo
turned to ro-entor tho post station, I
felt a straugo sense of dejection, as if
tho day had suddenly grown colder,
darker, and more dreary, and the
wires and sorrows of life more burden
tiomo and oppressive. Ucorge Kcniuiii,
in Century.
LAUGHTER AND
WRINKLES.
Curium
Olwrviitltnu .Mudo liy
Cli'ver
London riiynU'lun.
A London physician has recently
lieoii making a study of wrinkles. Says
tho doctor: "It is customary to say
that wrinkles come from worrying,
but tho truth Is that most of thorn
coino from laughing. This is rati for
paradoxical, 1 must admit, but 1 have
only been convinced after tlio most
careful investigation. To know how
to laugh is just as important as to
know how whon to do it. If you
laugh with tho sides of your fneo tho
skin will work loose in time, and
wrinkles will form in exact accord
ance with what kind of hu;h you
liavo. Tho man who always wears a
tuuirk will have a series of soml-clr-oular
wrinkles covering his cheeks.
Whon a gambler who has been ac
customed to Mipprostdug hls'fcolltigs
laughs a deep line forms on each slda
of Ills uoso and runs to tho upper cor
ner of his mouth. In t into this lino
extends to the chin and assumus thu
tdinpo of a half moon. A cadaverous
person with a waxtlko skin is very apt
to liavo two broadly marked wrinkles,
ouo running up from tho jaw and the
other tinder tjjo oyo. These moot ut
right nnglos at tho ehuek bono and
look as though they formed a knot at
tho apex. Tho scholar's wrinkles
form on his brow, while tho scheming
poUtlohin'hi'Oiuo round his oyos. where
they look for all thu world like thu
Kpokosofu whool. Homo of tho poo
plo who hot on races liavo tho most
iwloiiUliIng urop of wrluklos I ovor
wiw, suvo on an olophunL'' Loudon I
Tit-Mi,
FEOM WASHINGTON.
THE PRESENT OUTLOOK REGARD
ING GERMAN INTERFERENCE.
A Novol Scbemo for Coast Defenco The
Report of Mexican Outrages Un
founded More BIIIb for Ter
ritorial Admission.
International money orders havo
been increased fiom $50 to $10fi.
Charges of bribery were made in
tho Senatorial contcbt in Minnesota.
Tho Senate has ndoptcd tho sugar
bounty amendment to tho tariff bill.
Tlio Lord Mayor of London gave a
banquet last week in honor of Mr.
Phelps, the American ambassador.
Tho Secretary of Slato has received
a cable from the consul ut Oolon, say
ing w!!U all lire on tne isuunus are
quiet.
Tlio English cabinet disclaims co
operation with the United States re
garding the present misunderstanding
witli Germany.
Vice President-elect Morton has
leased tlio residence of Alex Graham
Bell, at Washington, and will occupy
it for the nest four years.
Tlio supreme court has decided that
a broker who fails to oboy tho instruc
tions of his principal in a stock trans
action, is liable fordamageB.
Tho United States District Court, at
Balimoio, in a recent decision, says
that tho law of civil rights must bo
interpreted by public opinion.
Senator Dolph has presented in tlio
Senate a petition of sixty-eight citi
zens of Bellevuo, Idaho, praying for
tho enactment of prohibition laws.
Tlio War department has been in
formed that rapid progress is being
mado by the contractors in supplying
heavy guns and arnior-plato forgings,
and rapid firing guns.
Tho Department of State is in
formed that tho Japanese government
liaB abolished tho export duty on
drugs, woven goods, timbor, cereals,
spirits, beasts, fuel, etc.
Dispatches havo been received at
the Stato department from tho Amer
ican minister at Berlin in regard to
tho Samoan question. Thuir con
tents are withheld from tho public.
A lato dispatch to a French journal
from Zanzibar says an Aniorican sail
ing vessel, bound from Zanzibar to
Madagascar, was iircd on by a German
vessel. Ono of her masts was broken.
United States Consul Willard, at
Guaymas, Mexico, has sent a dispatch
to tlio Stato department donying tho
report that a number of Aniorican cit
izens had been killed by the Indians
in Sonora.
Many leading Senators and Repre
sentatives of all parties scout tho idea
of a war between tho United States
and Germany. Nevertheless the arm
ament and equipment of war ships
is boing pushed at tho various navy-
yards.
Itopresontativo Springer will intro
duce in tho llouso anothor omnibus
bill, providing an enabling act for the
adniisaion of Arizona, Idaho and Wy
oming. Tho bill embodies all the
features of tho omnibus bill recently
passed by tho llouso.
Potitions, said to contain tho signa
tures of 1 '1,17-1 ,73-1 porsons, woro tiled
in tho Sonato at Washington last
week, praying for tlio passago of Sen
ator Blair's sunday rost bill, and all
woro prepared, bill and all, by tho
Women's Christian Tomporauco
Union.
Tlio conforrcBS on tho bill to amond
tho interstate coniniorco law upon
threo lunondinontB of importuned
agree, witli tno exception tnut ino
llouso members recodo from tho ono
requiring tlio commissioners to adopt
uniform oluBiifioutions for all rail
roads. A letter from tho Secretary of tho
Intorior in response to a. Sonato reso
lution, says there ia not on tho lilos
of his department anything to show
what part tho citizens of Washington
Territory and Idaho took in volun
teer service to BupprefS tho Nez Por
ces war.
The report of tho commissioner of
schools of Utah, for tho year 1888,
says tho taxation in tho territory for
school purposes is in insutlioiont. Ami
that tho leaders of tho Mormon
church are actively pushing tho
scheme to establish Mormon denomi
national schools in each county in the
territory.
Congressman Morrow says his views
of tho S.uiioan n Hair aro positive, and
that thu statu quo ut tho timo tho rep
resentatives of tho United States, Ger
many mid England met, must bo re
stored, and this would necessitate lho
loplueoinont oi King Malietoa in the
position ho was so unjustly removed
by tlio Gorman agents sent to tho Mar
shall islands.
Arminta Gardner, of Union county,
Iiiih been placed in tho insane asylum
at Salem. She is but sixteen years
old, nml has beeti.u mother for tho
past fifteen niunllis. ino autnoroi
her ruin, and also of her insanity, is
named Wiggins, and is serving a ton
years' Bcntonco for tho outrage.
Tho Canadian lumbermen aro re
joicing oter a measure which has
been introduced m uongroas, ami
chum that it will protect tho Cana
dian forests from American invaders.
It is provided that no rait of logs or
timber sloill he brought into or taken
out of any harbor or port of tho Unit
ed State, or brought into or upon any
of tho great lakes, from any part of
Canada.
Potatoes uro a drug in tho market
at Colfax, Wis., owing to lho enor
mous crop raiecd in that section. The
bent price that cau ho realized is ten
coin h oiunei.
MISCELLANEOUS,
OLD LIBBY PRISON TO BE REMOVED
INTACT TO CHICAGO.
An Ohio Murderess too Depraved fur
the Gallows A Remarkable Well
Noar Pittsburg Fruit of tho
Dime Novel la Boston
General Payne has sold the yacht
Volunteer.
Tho wife of the Czar of ItuBsia liaB
become insane.
A threshing machine in England is
run by electricity.
Teams crossed over the Mississippi
on the ice last week.
All the American war ships will
soon bo icady for sea.
A portion of tho imperial palace at
Peking has been burned.
The Mormon Bottlers in Minnesota
are selling out and going to Utah.
Oranges are now being moved in
Florida in bulk, lho same as potatoes.
Tlio Mali li's followers are said to
liavo made a saint of Genoial Gordon.
At
thcro
tho Paris exposition this year
will bo a band of 1U00 muai
cians.
A now naturalization bill has been
reported to tho House judiciary com
mittso.
Tho bodies of Mine, di Murska ant
her (laughter will bo sent to Gotha to
bo cremated.
Shoals of black cod in enormous
numbers are reported off tho coast
near San Diego.
A Wichita. Kan., clergyman has
boon asked to resign because his sor
mons aro too long.
Three murders similar to those of
tlio Whitechapel fiend have been per
potratcd in Jamaica.
Threo hundred houses woro de
Btroyed by an earthquake in tho Saba
ret valloy, Asia Minor,
Tho house in which Lord Byron wa
born in London will bo demoliaheu, to
enlarge a draper's shop
The cotton crop this oear will bo
tho largest ovor mado. and will up
proximate 7,500,000 bales
A Paris letter states that tho whole
of DeLessope' fortune disappeared in
tho Panama canal scheme,
The Kansas house has passed tho
senato resolution favoring tho opening
of Oklahoma for settlement
It cost a Nebraska county nearly
$3000 to run tho poor farm last yeai
There were but two paupers.
Tho St. Luwronco rivor roso thir
teen feet in four hours, last week, ant
submerged tho wharves of Montreal
There is apprehension of trouble
durimr tho contonnial celebration of
tlio French revolution next summer
Duiinc the past two montliB Mrs,
James G. Blaino, jr., has been study
ing hard for her debut on tho profef
sional stage.
A young physician of Fall Kiver,
Miibs., is laid up with a diseaeo of tho
tongue, attributed to excessive ciga
rette smoking
On Decombor 1, threo strong earth
quakes woro felt in Iquiquo, Peru
witli an intormisaion of only from live
to nine seconds.
Dr. J. Millo Jenkin, who correctly
located the bullot in Gartiold's body
dropped doad at Wilkesbnre, Penn., of
apoplexy, last week.
A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W,
says tho Gorman gunboat Olga Iiub
taken Malietoa, ex-king of Samoa, to
tho Marshall islands.
William Picrco, probably tho oldest
convict in Now iork in point of
continual penal servitude, has been
discharirod from tho at-ylum for in
sane criminals.
A rockinsr stono in New Marl
borough. Mass., is so nicely balanced
that, notwithstanding it weighs many
tons, the pressuro of a single linger is
sumciout to move it about an inch.
Tho Canadian Knights of Labor aro
seeking to securo tho ( xelusion of for
eign labor from tho Dominion, and de
mand that the government pay no
moro nionoy to securo immigration.
Joanuin Miller has finished tlio
novel ho was to write, as his contri
bution to tho literary syndicate. It
is entitled "Tho Buried Kiver." lie
was engaged but six days in its com
position.
A remurkablo woll hiiB just boon
struck at Pittsburg, Penn. It pro-
i duces at one and tho same timo pure,
cold water, salt water and a now of
iriu that when iirnited illumines tho
entire surroundings.
Tho Empress of Germany cannot
use tho imperial crown on her coat of
arms, but must be content with tho in
signia of tho Quoon oi Prussia. This
is the latent token of the tilial affec
tion of her eldest boy.
Tho priio light between Frank
Sheploy, of Helena, ami John Oronin,
of New York, which took place at
Missoula Friday, whb a remarkably
brutal atlair. Cronin was knocked in
sibleuud seriously injured.
At Boston Sunday Georgo Grotzon
gar. aged twenty, held up his father
with a pistol and scoured $10. After
ward ho attempted to hold up his
mother but she called tho police. He
shot two policemen before ho atir
rendred. Libby prison is to go to Chicago
The work of taking apart tho old
structuio is now going on in llioli
mond, Ya , and as the bricks and
beams aro dbplucud they are num
bered o that the building can bo put
together again just us it stood in Yir-
rUUft;
r no interior oi inu urn prison
is to be wed us a sort of war museum.
THE PACIFIC COAST,
INHUMAN TREATMENT OF PRISON
ERS IN A PENITENTIARY.
Mrs Langtry's Importation of Blooded
Stock Tho Lako Washington Ca
nalSurvey of Reservations
A Brute's Deserts.
Fresno, California, has the railroad
fever.
Numerous burglaries aro reported
from interior town in California.
The smoking of opium by the while
peeple of Spokane Falll is "increasing.
The rediscovery of the lost Pen
hachapi mine in Arizona is an
nounced. Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Drain & WcBt Coast Tele
graph company.
The Southern Pacific is believed to
bo building into San Diego behind the
Ocean Beach and Delniar railroad.
Reports from tho Harqua Hula
mines in Arizona are now discourag
ing, and many prospectors are return
ing. Charles Lumsteller was arrested at
Port Townsend last week, charged
with tho murdei f his wife in Minne
sota. An examination of tlio great regis
ter of San Diego gives promise of evi
dence of fraud of a sensational char
acter.
The leading men in New Mexico
say that the Territory is moro in need
of public schools than State govern
ment. Arlee, chief of the Flathead Indians,
proposes to inaugurate important re
forms on the reservation among the
tribes.
The bill to remove tho capital of
Arizona from Prescott to Phtenix
passed tho Territorial council Thurs
day. W. B. Reynolds, of Healdsburg,
litis been appointed inspector of Chi
nese for tho Coast, as provided by the
Scott law.
Mrs. Langtry has purchased an im
ported thoroughbred stallion and four
imported brood mares, for her Califor
nia ranch.
Tho police of Spokane Falls made a
raid last Thursday on tho opium dens
of that city, and captured twenty-five
Chinamen.
Thoro is great dittioulty in landing
provisions on Destruction island to
supply tho mon building tho light
house there.
Tho mail sorvico on route from
Hillsboro to Portland, commencing
February 1, has been increased to six
times a week.
John T. Black, under indictment
for tho murder cf his hrother last May,
died in the county jail at Virginia
City last week.
Reports from Helena, Montana, say
that indications point to the fact that
there will bo no little activity in rail
road enterprises in that vicinity the
coming season.
Tlio estimated cost of cutting a ca
nal from Lako Washington to tho
Sound, so as to admit deep sea vessels
to tho lake, is $1,500,000.
Miss Nollio Reach, who was so
frightfully stabbed by an unknown
man at her homo noar Colton, Cali
fornia, recently, will recover.
William Johnson whilo trying to
dischargo a gun at Hillsboro, Friday
received the whole charge in tho side
oi tho head, killing him instantly.
The grand jury of Elko county, Ne
vada, calls upon tho Liko delegation
to tho legislature to vote against tho
lottery bill contemplated by that body
Resolutions wero adopted at a mass
meeting held at North i aknna, last
week, urging tho Govornor to call a
constitutional convention to adopt a
State constitution.
Tho Pullman palace c.ir company
has acquired control of all parlor car
companies doing business in tins
country, with the exception of tho
uglier, which is used on the auder
bilt lines.
lho badly decomposed body ol a
supposed Germ in, about sixty years
of age, was found near San Rafael,
California, lust week, In a tree, about
fifteen fett fiom tho ground. A raised
umbrella was above tho body.
About .$10,000 of tho $f)0,000 re
quired lor tlio esiaunsnnient ot a
watch factory at Otay, ban Diego
tinty, which a company of Illinois
capitalists havo been talking of start
ing at that place, has been subscribed.
Surveyor General Green, pursuant
to instructions from tho land depart
ment at Washington, has posted no
tices calling for bids for tho survey of
tlio Blackfoot, Fort Belknap and Fort
Peek Indian reservations m northern
Montana.
Tho Union of Walla Walla is pun
ishing communications from convicts
in tho penitentiary concerning the in-
luman treatment oi prisoners in that
institution. If tho charges are true
thu prison authorities should bo 're
moved forthwith.
Jacob Wilkerson, the colored man
who was sont to San Quontin m 1S72
for forty-fivo years, for tho murder of
a woman in San Francisco, was par
doned in lS7(j on tho condition that
he would leave tho Stato and never
return. Ho went to Honolulu, but
returned a few days ngo, and was
rtcoguized by tho police and warned
to leave. Ho was arrested Thursday
night on tho charge of drunkenness,
and is now in tho oity prison. The
police will ask Governor Waterman
to revoke Wtlkeon's pardon.
AGRICULTURAL,
A PLAN FOR THE RECLAMATION OF
PEAR AND PEACH TREES.
Tho Effect of Too Much Pepper in the
Fowl's Food Bisulphide of Car
bon as an Antiseptic A
Model Barn-yard.
Very cold weather does not injure
stock as much as dampness. A mod
erately cold day, with a driving rain
storm, causes more illnets to stock
than severe cold on a dry, clear day
The flower-bed for the next year
may be mado very ricli by scattering
the sweepings of tho poultry-house
over it. Soapsuds may also be well,
utilized by throwing them on the
flower beds.
If the bulbs of certain flowers start
to sprout while in the cellar it indi
cates that they are kept too warm
They should keop cool enough to re
main in a dormant condition until
spring. Sprouting injures them.
The object of the farmer in feeding
Animals through the winter should be
for profit. Feeding stock to gam a
profit from is n nice point, and re
quires study and attention. It is not
enough to feed a sufficient quantity,
but the feed must be of stieh a nature
as is best for accomplishing the ob
ject of feeding.
Bisulnhide of carbon is one of the
best nnd cheapest antiseptics and in
secticides. Already more than 8,000,
000 pounds of it are used annually to
check the .ravages of phyloxera, the
tcourge of European vineyards. Bi
sulphide of carbon has an extremely
offensive odor, and is highly inflam
mable and explosive.
Feeding pepper often to fowls as a
regular appetizer is a bad practice.
Although a very little will do no harm,
yet the continued use of tho condi
ment is liable to cause liver complaint.
Warm feed tends to have the same
stimulating effect without possessing
the injurious qualities of the cayenne.
The only way to make roosts is to
make them on a movable frame, that
may bo taken out of doors, there to
be scalded with boiling water in which
is a little crude carbolic acid. Make
tho roosts all on a level and not more
than two feet high, thereby prevent
ing much quarreling and tho bumble
foot.
The kind of feeding that keeps a lot
of pigs or stockers from three to six
months without grain is a total loss
of grain ; also, a loss of time in the
maturing of tho animals. That is
shiftless feeding that carries a lot of
hogs, through winter on one cl.iss of
feed. The need of variety brings them
to the boneyard when grass is almost
in sight.
A farmer with considerable exper
ience who has siloed clover for two
years, says if it should bo left to wilt
oh tho ground for two hours after cut
ting, and each day's filling of the silo
bo allowed to heat before the fresh
cover is added, and the sides, not the
cantor, kept thoroughly tramped, the
clover will come out moist and green,
and tho cattle will relish it as
thoroughly as summer pasture.
To make pullets trot along toward
maturity with a wonderful accelorated
pace, give them every morning a
warm feed of bran and shorts and
ground oats mixed up with milk, or
moat stock in which is a little salt. At
noon give a feed of meat, and at night
all the wheat tUoy will eat and a little
left to scratch for the next day. In ad
dition to this provide green food,
crushed bones and pure water, and
give each day one heavy feed of brok
en dishes; they will be eaten with
avidity.
Freezing of tlio food and water will
bo ono of tho difficulties this winter
as usual. Tho troughs become ico
bound and tho soft food freezes rap
idly when tho weather is severe. In
such cases it is best to water the stock
at itervals rather than to keep water
in the troughs. If you havo no ar
rangement for warming water, try tho
plan of a Western farmer, who heats
stones and drops ono in tho trough
when tho water is pumped in. It is
better, however, to warm tho water,
using a boiler or steam-pipe, and if
there is a largo number of animals it i
will pay to do so. j
A person who has some old pear ,
trees that havo about run out, asks
advice of Popular Gardening and re- j
ceives the following : Try tho plan of i
digging a shallow trench, say ono foot
deop, six to eight feet away from the j
body of tho tree, and throwing into I
this a liberal supply of soda, leaf mold, I
ashes, litno and manure and covering !
with earth, and then cut away all dead
limbs and givo tho body and limbs a
good coat of whitewash. Wo havo
seen old poach treeB renewed beyond
belief by this process.
In some casos a largo barnyard
might woll bo divided into two or
more smaller ones for different classes
of live etock. A fruitful sourco of loss
is the keeping of weak animals with
vigorous ones; young with old;
horses with cattlo, shoop and hous.
By letting ono set of animals out of
stables or pons at one timo and another,
it may bo possible to get along with a
singlo yard, yot the best plan, when
much stock is kept, is to have several
yards.
Why moro men do not make tho
dairy pay is becauso they refuse to be- j
lievo that thoro is any study or invos- j
ligation notded in regard to the care,
tioatment and niiuinuoinent of the
uairy. ii tuey ciianco on a Riu-cots
they call it luck, and if they fail thoy
novor investigate the matter to see
wherein thoy fail, to as to steer clour
of a repetition.
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PORTLAND MARKET REPOR1
GROCEIltES-Sugars have fallen C Jc
slnc9 our last report. We , quote cube,.
extra C o.c. dry granulated ugc, cuue
roasted 23c.
PROVISIONS Oregon lnms are qnot
'ed atl20i:ic, breakfast bacon 13(fal3ic'
Eastern niat Isqnoted as fololws: Hams
12i(131, SInclntrs 14-aioc, Oregon break
fast b icon i:!l(a)14c, Eastern 1313 c.
FRUITS Green fruit receipts 1239 bxs.
Hard fruit Is scarce, and the supply of ap
ples not equal to the demand. Apples Co
$1 per bx, Mexican oranges 4, lemons
800.60 per bx, bananas S3.0(s4.50
quinces 40 a 00c,
VEGETABLES Market well supplied
Cabbage jrtUc per lb, carrots and turnips
75c per sack, red pepper 3c per lb. potatoes
3j(M0c per pack, sweet ljtotzc per lb.
DRIED FRUITS Receipts 01 pkges.
Sun-dried apples 4(6 oc per It), factory
slic-d 8c, factory plums 70c, Oregon
prunes 7'ffOc, pears 0 a 10c, peaches 810c,
ralMn 92J?,25 per box, Call ornla fig
8c, Smyrna 18c per lb.
DAIRY PRODUCE Oregon crcamery
and choice dairy 33c, medium ;7(33Uc Cal
ifornia fancy 30c, choice dairy 27ic,
eastern 23!a30c.
EGGS Receipts 293 cases. Oregon 25c.
POULTRY Chickens 55(85.25, for
large youm? and 44 75 for old, turkeys
14(V?15c per lb, ducks ?57 per dozen-
WOOL Valley 1820c Eastern Oregon;
lOfoiloc.
HOPS-Choice 814c.
GRAIN Valley 51.35, Eastern Oregon
51.30 Oats 33350.
Fl OUR Standard 8t.n0, otner brand
54.25, Davton and Cascade 4.10, Gaaliam.
53.25, rye flour 50, do Graham 55.60.
FRESH MEATS Reef, live, 33Jc,
dressed 7c, mutton, live, 3jff 3c, dressed
"c, lambs ?2!t0 each, hogs, live, 5J(uGc,
dressed 77J, veal 0(u Sc.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Peronnot is tho name nl an Alge
rian who is gaining famo as a trainer
jw crocodiles.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton, wife of th&
Vice-President-olcct, is a nieco of Al
fred B. Street, tho poet.
A brother of Millot, tlio eminent
French artist, lives in Boston and
earns a modest living as a sculptor.
Ezekiel Sankoy. father of tho
evangelist, died recently aged eighty
one. IIo was tho first man to run a
canal boat on tho Newcastle (Pa.)
canal.
Among tho student at, Miss Por
ter's school, Farmingtori, Conn., aro a
daughter of James G. Blaine, a nieco
of tlio Into ox-President Arthur and a
daughter of ex-Governor Alger, of
Michigan.
Pascal Porter, "tho boy preacher,"
Is really what his title claims. Ho is
only twelve years old, and ho has
been preaching for two years. Ho not
only expounds tho Biblo text, but
quotes poetry and argues with all tho
force of a logician. His father says ho
began preaching before ho left of!
pinafores.
An absent-minded Georgia traveler
put his only coat in his traveling bag
before retiring for the night. Tho
next morning ho couldn't remember
what he had done with tho garment,
and consequently, on tho train arriv
ing at Atlanta, ho walked eoatless to
tho hotel. Some timo afterward,
while searching for another missing
article, ho found tho coat.
Count von Moltko's house at Ber
lin is a largo one, with no less than
thirty windows looking on tho street,
but tho famous old General lives al
most exclusively in two rooms of it.
( Ino is his bedroom, tho other his study.
Tho ohlof ornaments of tho former aro
a largo photograph of his wifo and a
picture of hot-tomb. Theso arc always
wreathed with palm leaves.
Cot-alio Cohen is claimed by the
European Jews as a second Floronco
Nightingale. She is a Jewish lady,
who was an angel of mercy during tho
Into Franeo-German war, and passed
unharmed among tho wounded in tho
two hostile camps. Shois a Knight ot
tho Legion of Honor, and has been,
elected president of that patriotic body,
tho Association des Dames Francnises.
Mrs. Russoll Harrison, wifo of tho
only son of tho President-elect, will bo
tho White I louse beauty for tho next
four years. She is a young and bloom
ing blonde, with magnificent hair and
brilliant eyo. Hor figure is superb,
and she carries herself with a vast
amount of gr ice and dignity. Miss
Saunders was her maiden name. Rus
sell Harrison, her husband, is a quiot,
woll-drosscd man, exceedingly proud
of his handsome wifo.
Vorestschagin, tho Russian paint
er, when presonted to tho girl students
of tho Normal College in Now York,
tho other day, said: "Young ladies,
you aro Indeed very charming, and, in
obodioni'o to ono of our Kussian cus
toms, I would liko to salute you all in
dividually. But binco I can not I will
kiss Professor Dundon instead, and ho
will givo you tho kUs in my pluco;"
and. suiting tho action to the word, ho
turned to tho blushing and dignified
professor and, with u hand on each
shoulder, imprinted u refunding
smack on his ehook.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
An olophnnt muy loso his grip,
but ho always has his trunk with him.
Washington Post.
Stealing jam is not always fatal to
tho small boy, but ho is quito apt to
bo gathered to his father for it. Uur
ling ton Free I'rcss.
Smith (doaf) "What's tho mat
ter, Jones?" Jones "Pvo got tho
hoadaehe." Smith (who mistakes it for
toothache) --Why don't vou hnvi it
filled r
Ha "How different opora glasses
make tho actors appotir." She "Yen,
ospoohilly thoo ghiSboa you have been
out toiftt l,-t ween tho neu," Jaipur's
Wnl'-.
crushed and powuereuygc. ouoe urm,.
Guatemala ISjO'JWc. Costa Ulca 18Jfo21c
llo20(a2Uc. SalvadorlllS20c, Arbuckle's-