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THE OREGON SCOUT.
JONES A. CHANCEY,
Publishers
UNION, OREGON.
-JSnronenn State In Which It Itnt neon
AholUhcil Iteccntlj-.
Tlio new Italian criminal code just
"voted tho Legislature, among other 1m
portnnt reforms, abolishes capital pun'
ishmont. Tliat part of tho report of
Signor ZnnardelH, tho Minister of Jus
lice, which deals with this subject, con
tains soino interesting statistics ua to
tho enforcement of tho death penalty
in the various States of Europe. Capi
tal punishment was abolished in Tus
cany in 185'J, in Ilumania in 1801, in
I'ortugal in 1807, (thcro had boon no
execution sinco 1811!), in Holland in
3870 (tho last execution was in 1800);
and it has been abolished in Bovcnteon
out of tho twonty-ono cantons of Swit
zerland, though in ono of tho sovenleen
it has been re-established. In Italy
thcro has been no execution sinco 1877.
Willi regard to theso countries which
Btill retain tho death penally upon
-their statute books, in Belgium thcro
lias been no execution sinco 18011, In
Prussia, out of oT)8 dcath-scntcnccs pro
nounced between tho years 1870 and
3880, only in one case that of Ilodel
was the sontenco carried out; in Baden
of 28 and in Wurtomburg of 30 such
sentences only ono In each caso was
carried out; in Bavaria out of 131 pris
oners condemned seven only wcro exe
cuted, and in Saxony in tho samo pe
riod of oloven years thcro was no execu
tion. In Sweden only four dcath-son-tenecs
out of 21 wore carried out. In
Franco botweon tho years 1830 and 1880
tho death sentonces executed fell from
fi5 to 20 per cent., and from 1880 to
3881 to 15 percent. In Austria tho per
centage foil from 10 in 180!) to 3 in
3881. In England only havodoalh sen
tences been carried into effect in
any dogrco approaching to certainty.
,!SL Jamca'' Gazelle.
CHEERFUL OLD AGE.
Why tho Climliijf Yiuri or I.lfii Nhoulil 1)0
Diivolil (if (.loom or IVtir.
"I look upon death to boas necessary
to our constitution as sieop," says Dr.
Franklin, In ono of his letters; "wo
shall rise rejreshed in the morning."
In this cheerful voln wroto tho phi
losopher and statesman at tho ago of
oighty-two. His vision was at that tiino
much impaired, and ho suffered sovoro
ly from gout; but those alllictlons, ho
tolls us, did not provent his "enjoying
tho pleasures of society, and being
cheerful In conversation."
Thoro is something inexpressibly
beautiful In old ago, whon thus exhibi
ted devoid of quorulousnoss, discontent
.or gloom, and frco also, from unbocom
inglovlty. Wo know of no good reason why tho
closing years of lifo should bo sorrow
Jul simply because they aro tho last.
JVh tho pilgrim's falling feet bear him
loitering through tho final scones of
this "strango, ovontful history,1' tho
poaco and happiness of tho world bo
yond must seem to him, one would
think mora deslrablo at every stop.
Even If tho backward prospect bo dark
with errors, thoro Is light boforo
light attainable; and tho great truth
that it may bo reached should bo a
jnighty consolation.
Tho traveler knows that however ho
may have sworved from tho direct path
that leads to his wlshed-for haven of
ponco, it Is still open to him, and that
it rests witli himself to strike Into It,
oven closo to tho tormlnus, and attain
tho rest to which it tends. N. Y.
Ledger.
W 1
Tho Most Serviceable Wood.
Tho vegetable world Is bolng ran
saokod," said a furniture manufacturer,
tho other day, "to furnish rare and
curious or now and striking woods for
decorative purposes. Tho result Is that
many pretty olTocts are produced, which
charm tho oyo for a time. Hut my ox
porlonco Is that tho good old-fashioned
mahogany outdoos them all for durabil
ity. A few years of wear does not loud
this wood a damp, dusty appearance
that no amount of varnishing, polish
ing or scraping will restore to Its
original beauty; but ago brings out its
bettor (jualitlus; it grows darker, richer
and Is more easily cleaned, not absorb
ing dust llko inoro coarsely grained
woods, but year by year bocoming cap
able of a higher polish ami a deeper
glow." A'. 1'. Tribune.
A widow or marrlod a second tlmo,
and his choice was a wealthy lady
about llfly years of ago. When tho
briilo and bridegroom returned homo
from tho woddlng tho husband, intro
ducing hie wife to his children, said:
"My dear children, Ulna this ladyV
hand. She Is tho new mother 1 prom
ised to bring you." After taking a
square look at the new mother, little
Oharlio wild: "l'a, you hnvoboeu fooled.
Shu ain't now at all!" Trxa Sifting.
An old lawyer hnd oeonilon to stay
at tho reUlem'o of a professional
lirothor, who was an old bachelor. In
tho morning the host wan up and ready
for hrenkfnut, hut his gmwt was about
an hour title. Tho Imoholor, wishing to
improve him, lomarkwl that Uin motto,
llko tho Duke of Wellington', wiw that
"tho first turn vhould a turn out."
Thu Bouedlok, with ready wit. replied
that jilt motto Htui that "one good turn
dosurvpj another."
It- -
-Stawad boof should i.l.-n.l with jh)
tntoua, fiuooolnh, stowed tomi.tnv or
fried cnbbngo.
A wJuogliifi of Btrqng borax wnloi
in h pint of raw staroh will mak col
lar and coifs stllT and glossy.
NATIONAL TOPICS,
PROPOSED CHANGES IN OUR IMMI
GRATION LAWS.
Demand on the Dutch Government
for Heavy DamaiteB Tho Attack
on tho Exclusion Law Tho
Eloctoral College,
Tho decrease in tho public debt in
January, was $13,210284.75.
Tho Territorial bills cannot bo acted
upon at this session ol Congress.
Carroll D. Wright, of Boston, has
been confirmed as commissioner oi la
bor. The President's message on civil
service reform will be bent to Congress
in a few days.
Tho House committee on appiopri
iitions have reported a bill repealing
tho tobacco tax.
Congress hns appropriated $250,000
for the protection of American indus
tries in Panama.
President Clove-land
tend to Congress a full
Sackvillo West incident
Senator Sherman i
cure an appropriation
will shortly
history of tho
trying to se
for dynamite
guns for the San Francisco harbor,
Tho attack on tho Scott exclusion
law before tho United States Supremo
court, promises to bo a vigorous one.
A contract has been awarded for the
construction of a dry dock at the Phil
adelphia navy yard. It is to cost
iff) 18,700.
Ono of tho justices of tho Supremo
Court says that the Scott exclusion
law will bo sustained in tho case of
Chae Chang Ping.
Captain F. M. Kamsoy has been
ordered by the Secretary of War to
do duty as commandant of tho New
York navy yard.
Kcprosontativo Oates, of Alabama,
from tho judiciary committee, has re
ported favorably tho bill to amend the
naturalization laws.
A bill has boon introduced in the
House granting the town of Moscow,
Idaho, 130 acres of tho publiu lands
for cemetery purposes.
Col. Lamont siys that ho will ocou
py the position of president of Avenue
C street railroad of Now York city
after tho 1th of March.
Tho Navy department has been in
formed that Hear Admiral Chandler,
commanding tho Asiatic station, died
at Hong Kong ol apoplexy.
Senator Dolph has olforod an amend
ment to tho sundry civil bill appro
priating $10,000 for tho purpose of
publishing a pilot chart of the Pacific
Coast.
Senator Mitchell h is reported favor
ably tho bill to punish dealers and
nrotonded dealers in counterfeit
money, and other devices, for uting
the maih.
Tho electoral vote was canvassed by
both Houses of Congress on tho 1.5th
inst, and Harrison and Morton duly
declared elected to the Presidency and
Vice-Presidency respectively.
It is now authoritatively stated that
Mr. Blaino will enter General Harri
fcou's cabinet as Seciotary of State, a
position that was tendered and accepted
a few days after tho election hut No
vember. A favorablo report has bpon made
in tho House on tho bill withdrawing
from publio sale vacant hinds along tho
Columbia river anil at Celilo, W. T.,
as a reservation f)r futuro improve
ment in liver navigation.
Sonator Dawes hns prosonted a po
tition from 120 studens at Hampton,
Va., against tho continuanco of tho
ration Bystom to Indians, as an oncour
agemont to idleness, and recommend
ing their equivalent in farming im
plements and stock.
Governor Sawyer, of New Hamp
shire, will appoint John Oilman
Marston to bo United States Senator
from that State during tho interim bo
tweon March -l and tho mooting of
tho legislature next June, which will
ohooso Chandler's successor.
It is thought in Washington that
tho Pacillo Coast interest in tho Ohao
Chan Ping case beforo tho Supremo
Couit is jeopardized by tho non-selection
of men by California to argue
the ease. Tho argument will bo made
under tho now administration,
It looks as if the Samoan confer
ence at Berlin will n t bo attended by
a representative of Hie present admin
istration. Bayard's unswor to Bis
maiok haB been forwarded by mail,
and tho reply is not expected until
uftor General H irrison'a inauguration.
Our government has made a de
mand on tho Dutch govonnent for
!rf)O0,O00 dm-iagos for losses and dam
ages to character siibtained by Oscar
liatliold, late United t-itales consul at
ll.itavia, who was arrived on account
of his partner in a mining enterprise
having been a partner in a Dutch
linn, which failed, mid llalliehl was
charged witli criminal connection in
thu failure.
The Secretary ol SUto has received
a dispatch from the United States eon
sill at Berlin, in regard to proposed
changes in our immigration laws. Ho
itiys that tho measure is viowed with
ni'uoh conuvrn in Herlin, in political
rb well as in nation! economic circles,
as foreshadowing a change, which
eventually may lend to n total rwfoini
in the matter of European emigration
to thu United Slate.
Thuio is much alarm in Virginia
City over tho report Unit many gucMs
have secured lodging thoro who are
directly from tho Onnsby houso, wt
Carson, in whioh so many casus of
miullpox have occurred,.
j COAST NEWS ITEMS.
A PEREMPTORY ORDER ISSUED TO
S. P. TIOKET AGENTS.
Tho Desporate Sutclde of a Callforntan
A Probate Judge Indicted Arrest
of a Gang of Burglars in tho
Woods NearTacoma.
More fog whistles are needed on tho
Sound.
New Mexico protests against the re
turn of Goroninio.
Several cases of small-pox arc re
ported in Carson, Nevada.
Tho penitentiary of Washington
Territory cleared $331)7 last term.
Colfax will bo connected by rail with
tho Coeur d'Aleno mines thin summer.
Masters of deep-water vessels at San
Francisco, find it difficult to secure
sailors.
It is predicted that the new navy
yard will bo established on the Colum
bia river.
Governor Waterman has appointod
John P. Irish commissioner of Yo
semite valley.
Mrs. Noon, of Danville, Cal., was
thrown from her buggy last Sunday
and instantly killed.
San Francisco is exercised over the
discovery of diseased meals in many
of her slaughter houses.
C. W. Davis shot and instantly
killed S. P. Bayler, Friday evening,
near lied Blub". Whiskey.
The first husband of Bertha M.
Stanley, tho confidence queen, has
been discovered in Los Angeles.
A shortage of $25,000 has been dis
covered in tho books of W. S. Varnum,
tax collcctoi of San Diego county.
James Wickersham, probate judge
of Piorco county, lias been indicted for
tho seduction of Sadie Brantner.
Tho appointmont of Judge Wade as
chief justice of Montana is not satis
factory to the people of tho Torritory.
Joo McAulifl'e, tho prizo fighter, is
expected to arrive in Portland shortly
to arrango a light witli Tim Campbell.
Alico Vincent, of tho Carleton
Onora troupe, was thrown from a horse
at Los Angeles last week and had her
arm broken.
Nino men woro arrested in the
woods near Tacoma, last Wednesday,
for burglaries committed in Puyallup
and Buckley.
Tho fourth trial of Charles Cooper
for tho murder of Paul Burko at Boul
der Crook, Cal., last fall, has resulted
in his acquittal.
ltobert Phelan, a young San Fran
cisco plumber, shot and instantly
killed Aruo Johansen, a Baloon keeper,
last Wednesday.
Tho Southern Pacific company has
issued a peremptory order to ticket
agents to compel passengers to sign
their names to tickets.
A dovil-firfh, twenty feet iu length,
attackod a man oil' Beacon Hill, B. C,
last week. It almost succeeded in
upsotting tho boat.
George Keller, a deaf mute, was run
over and killed by a motor engine at
San Bernardino Friday, lie was
frightfully mangled,
Willoughby Clark, a young lawyer
from San Diego, was arrested in San
Francisco last Tuesday, charged with
felonious ombezzlenunt.
The smooth young man who victim
ized soveral Portland firms last week
by forged checks, has been working
the same game in Seattle.
G. S. Loucks, a piominent mer
chant of Chohahs, was arrested lat
Tuesday by a Wisconsin shenil for
forgery, committed in 16b f.
Tug Wilson, recently released from
tho penitentiary, was arrested at Seat
tle, Tuesday, for tho murder of Tlios.
Davis, near Walla Walla, hist Novem
ber.
Tho ponitentiary commissioners of
Washington Torritory have oidered a
now steam brick machino in anticipa
tion of a building boom the coming
season.
Chailcs F. Lunimis, formerly city
editor ol tho Los Ang- les Tunes, was
shot in tho face at Atlantic and Pa
cific junction Friday by unknown
parties.
James Willoy, a San Francisco real
estato agont, aliot hi wife tlumigh the
shoulder and Bert Clark, her para
mour, twice through tint arm, last
Tuoxliiy.
Tho marriago of Wong Wing, a
Chinaman -10 years of age, and Miss
Ah Chey, 19 years of age, was cele
brated at San Francisco Friday. They
aro both Christians.
Itov. J. D. Flonner, of Idaho, has
been found guilty of serious charges
by tho Episcopal judicial conforonco
at Portland, and was dismissed from
tho ministiy last Friday.
Tho ballots oast in Washoe, Elko
and other eastoru fountics of Nevada,
against tho amendmont to the con
stitution authorizing the Nevada lot
tery, aro found to bo two incho short
of the length proscribed by tho com
missionois of election.
Luis Hullor, concesaiouaiic ol tho
Lowor California branch of tho Inter
national company, is accused of mis
appropriating the fumU of tho com
pany. Hullor has disappeared.
Joo Hawkins shot and fatally
wounded Jerry Keen, soxWm of tho
ohuroh at thu mission of San Joso,
nad severely wounded John O'Connor,
in a Ban FrancWoo saloon, Friday.
Tho Canadians are stil hopeful ul
ultimately producing a guide of beet
Kiignr that will limk oanu sugar ivum
poarBtuil'. Thoy havo boon laboring
undor that idea for about, twouty years
now.
OVER THE GLOBE,
PROMULG A f ION OP THE NEW CON
STITUTION OF JAPAN.
Meeting of Union and Confederate Vet
eransNo Change In the Status of
tho Samoan Question Sans
Culottes of Rome
Canadians aro opposed to immigra
tion. Gladstone has decided not to visit
Home.
Prince Bismarck is threatened with
facial paralysis.
Tho steamer Haytian Itepublic has
arrived at Boston.
Less than 30 per cent of Chicago's
population is foreign.
Gray hair for women is now the
fashionable tiling in Paris.
Within a week's notice Italy can
place 2,300,000 men in- tho field.
Thousands of emigrants are flock
ing into the Argentine Itepublic.
The official trial of the gunboat
Yo.ktown was a complete success.
Tho percentage of suicides in France
is greater than in any other country.
Tho members of tho French minis
try, headed by Floquet, have resigned.
The Knights ot Labor will return to
absolute secrecy in all their proceed
ings. Samuel J. Tilden's birth-day was ex
tensively celebrated throughout the
East last week.
It is proposed to consolidate all the
express companies of the coun ry into
cue corporation.
Th Ohio State prison was not only
self-supportinc last voar but yielded a
profit of $15,183.
A man was sentenced to 417 days'
imprisonment at Hutland, Vt., recent
ly, for getting drunk.
The value of the plunder secured
by the mob in the recent riot at Home
is estimated at $12o,UOU.
Men are swarming through tho gas
territory in Wabash county, Indiana,
taking oil leases from farmers.
The Pennsylvania Central railroad
will horeattor haul no freight on Sun
day except such us are classed perish
able.
A bill has been introduced in the
Delaware legislature exempting wo
men from tho punishment of the
whipping post.
Over five hundred women of Bangor
have signed a remonstrance sent to
tho Maino legislature, protesting
against woman suffrage.
Professor D. Henzel was severely
beaten by threo unknown parties at
St. Paul, Saturday. They iiad pre
viously warned him to leave town.
Emigration agents are draining
North Carolina of able-bodied negroes.
The fanners will bo unable now to
handle their crops tho coming season.
Mrs. McNulty, aged sixty, and Air
nio McGuire, aged eleven years, wore
frozen to deatli about 200 yards from
homo, near Ottawa, Canada, in the
blizzard of last week.
It is reported that affairs among tho
laboring class on tho Panama canal
aro in a deplorable condition. The
canal project is a hopeless failure, and
work will soon cease altogether.
Another tragedy was enacted at
Lako Starnberg, Thursday, when two
persons drowned themselves. Sinco
tho suicide of King Ludwig, cloven
persoiiB have drowned in the lake.
Tho Indians on Battle Itivor reser
vation aro biilleriiig greatly from an
airection of the throat and neck,
which provents thorn from swallowing
food. Tho complete extermination of
tho tribo is feared.
The steamer Carondelet sailed from
New York Friday afternoon for Sa
moa. She had on board 133 cases of
rides, sholls and ammunition, which
woro brought hero by the steamer
Westernland hibt Wednesday.
Tho oxcursion of Canadian legisla
tors through tho United States, given
by Amoric.n merchants with tho view
of furthering the annexation t-ohome,
will bo a grand affair. It expected that
fully -100 will visit, tho principal cities
of the Union.
Thero is danger of an outbreak
among tho half-breed Indians iu B.irt
lett county, Dakota. The military at
St. Johns have been ordered out by
tho shorilf, but tho commanding of
ficer says that tho sheriff has no au
thority to do to. Sorious tronblo is
feared.
At a meeting of tho Union and Con
federate veterans at Washington,
Thursday, tho plan of preserving and
marking the field of Chicainauga, un
der tho auspices of a joint nioniorial
corporation representing all the States
that hud troops there, was cordially
upproved.
Tho now constitution of Japan was
promulgated from tho throne last
week, it establishes a hoiuo of peers,
members of which aro to bo partly
heredltaiy, partly eleotivo ami partly
nominated by the mikado, and a
house of commons of 300 members.
The right of sutl'rago is given to all
men of tho ago of twonty-tivo yoars
and ovor who pay taxes to tho amount
of $25 yoarly.
Lato advicos from Samoa say that
thero has boon no change in the situ
ation sinco the last report. Thoro has
boon no lighting, and Tamatese and
Matuafa remain in their strongholds,
fho Brilirh O'luul ha warned 1! litis!)
uhjeoU not to supply the UHtives
wi.li arms, and to maintain a strict
mmtrality. The British war thip Cal
liope has iplaod tht war ship Ivoy
rtlist. Tho Gorman and Amurioan
war tihipt) romain stationary.
f OR THE PARMER,
THE
CARE OP FRUIT AND ORNA
MENTAL TREES.
Introduction of the Tomato Egg-Plant
The Management of Heed Pota
toesThe Amount of Food
Necessary for Hogs.
A Ulyssep, Nebraska, man has the
"largest coincrib on earth." It is 400
feet long, twelve feet wide and twelve
feet high.
Crows have become so abundant in
Maine that it is estimated they cost
the State $100,000 a year in corn, po
tatoes, young chickens, fiuit, grain
and the like. The next legislature will
be asked to gi e a bounty of ten cents
for every dead crow.
A New Jersey farmer has succeeded
in raising in the rich soil of the Hack-
ensack bottom the genuine white
yam, or "buneato" of Cuba, and he
predicts that in a lew years this de
licious vegetable, grown across the
North river, will be as common in the
New York market as the Southern
sweet potato now is.
Now Zealand, according to a recent
writer, is a splendidly endowed conn
try. Besides such natural curiosities
as boiling lakes of sulphur, smoking
volcanoes, sivrw-clad peaks and mag
nificent waterfalls, it has splendid vir
gin iorests ot rare anu useuii wooos,
great fields of coal, iron, copper, gold,
silver, etc., all awaiting the capitalist
and workman.
Taking the amount of food required
to make a pound of grain on swine
weightng thirty-five pounds, 33 per
cent more food is required by swine
weighing seventy pounds, 14 per cent
more by swine weighing 125 psunds,
ltt per cent more by swine weighing
175 pounds, 22 percent more by swine
weighing 220 pounds, 55 per cent
more by swine weighing 270 pounds,
and 84 per cent moie by swine weigh
ing S2b pounds.
Overhaul your stoic of seeds and
throw away those of doubtful vitality.
Thero aro but few seeds that aro not
good at the end of two years, while
the average are good at the end of
four or five, and squashes, melons anil
all of that family, last almost indef
inately. Onions, parsnips and car
rots are the seeds which growers are
the most particular about. Those who
supply tin market with crops should
put their dependence on varieties
known to bo marketable.
The management of seed potatoes
is one of the most important arts of
the potato growor. The chief point
is to prevont them fr;m sorouting,
and for this purpose a low tempera
ture as near to the freezing point tu is
possible without touching it is desira
ble. Nearly everywhere farmers find
that the hue varieties of potatoes are
more productive than the early ones.
Is not this partly duo to tho fact that
early varieties have been injured by
sprouting, while lato varieties are less
liable to this injury?
The buyors of fruit and ornamental
trees can hardly be too careful in get
ting stock grown on land free from
quaoK. mo tine underground root
of this pest aro often mixed among
those of fruit trees, and once planted
are difficult to get rid of. Whenever
quack grass appears for the first tune
on a farm it is usually in the orchard,
and has been introduced by the pur
chase of trees without careful exam
ination to fceo that quack is not mixed
witti their roots.
Everybody knows how difficult it is
to prevent the water from fret zing
during very colli woather Tin will
rust, wooden troughs become slimy,
ind earthenware crack from the ice
formed on the water. To obviate
theso difficulties, give water three
times a day. Use vessels that only
permit tho birds to get their beaks
wet. so as to avoid freezing their wat
tles, whioh results when they get wet,
and give warm water threo timea a
day. They will soon learn to look for
it at regular periods, and it will invig
orate them. By the time tho water is
somewhat cool all will have drank,
when tho surplus should bo thrown
out and the vessel loft empty.
Tho tomato egg-plant lias tho gen
eral appearanco of a common egg
plant, while its fruit, when ripe, re
sembles a medium sized, ribbed to
mato. Its skinj is very glossy and
bright red, much liko that of a cayenne
popper. Tho history of tho plant is
that the yoar beforo last a singlo spec
imen of it camo up among a large
nunibor of black Pekin egg-plants,
growing in southern Now Jorsoy. The
lleih of the fruit is very solid and dry,
apparently unfit for uso, but as a
curiosity and ornamont the plant is
worthy of a trial by those in search of
unusual novelties. The cultivation
of the plant is the same as thai of tho
egg-plant.
What is tho host food to give a
horse that is run down iu strength
and flesh? The Massachusetts Plow
man says : If you cannot got pastur
age, food your horse frosh-out grasa or
clover hay, witli a few oats, say four
to six quarts daily, and givo" him
gontlo work or exorcise so us to keep
his appetito and digostion good. A
ho guius strength you can substituto
oorn-moal mixed with cut hay for ono
or two rations daily, using not over
four quarts a day. Corn-nioal aloue
is not to safe a grain for horses as
out ; most oasos of colic aro to lie
traood to injudicious mo of corn-meal ;
but horses utten rapidly on it, him! ii
it cheaper than ohU. To ni-ik n
snfo ariiole of diet we wuil. .t lv
mixing it with the same bulk -i wlir.it
bran or feeding it mnn id n with
0 it nd buniw ivi-t, Bay wnc-iiaj pk
of carrots daily.
PORTLAND MARKET REPOR1
GROCERIES Sugars. Wo quote Golden'
C 5Jc, extra C 5c, confectioners' A OJc.
dry granulated Ggc, cube, crushed and
powdered 7c. Colfcs Java ioc, Rio l!0c,
ArbuckleV roasted 1144c.
PROVISIONS Oregon hiras aro quot
ed at I2v l'ic, breaKiast bacon
sides li. c, shoulders luifollc. EasteJ
ham lSraJSW. Shiclairs M15c. bred
fast bicon KW-injc side 10&10ic shouders
lufflllc. Lard 10i 11c.
FRUITS Navel oranges $1,0564 Ilo,
Riverside :i.S!53.50, apples $K21.$5r
einon 0 pur box.
V h GKTA HLES Cabbage Tc per It,
celery 8Uz.8o per doz. bunches, carrots
and turnip-t .oc per sack, onions 75 u 85e,
potatosUjE40c per sack.
DRIED FRUITS Sun-dried apdes oft
0c, sllc d OUc, apricots 13 14c, peaches 8'
fSlOc pear 8c; Oregon pruno, Italian
0c, Silver -c: German OJ 7c, plums Co 7c,
rat-insSI. 75,12 per box: Call ornia tigs 8c,
Syrna lnc,
DAIRY PRODUCE Oregon creamery
and choice dairy 25o. medium 20c, Eaetern
23c. California 2-2'a 25c.
EGGS Oregon 15c.
POULTRY Chickens $5,5.5'l ducks
$7.50, gesso S10112, turkeys lojaiGc.
WOOL Valley 1820c Eastern Oregon. 1
8 15c.
IlOPS-Choice 85114c.
GRAIN Valley 81.301.35, Eastern
Oregon 1.27K41.:W. Oats 3'J(si;4c.
Fi OUR Standard 84.50, other brands
814.10.
FEED Hay SHI'S 11 per ton, bran BIG,
shortH 18, barley chop 82321, mill chop-
sis-ago.
FRKSII MEATS Beef, live. 4c, dressed
8c, mutton, live. 4c, dressed 8c, lambs
82.50 each, hogs, live, 0c, dressed 7fe8c
veal Gig Sc.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL
Good intontions are, at least, the
seed of good actions; and ovcry man
ought to sow them. Sir W. Temple.
It is ostlmated thero nro now In
Europe, Asia, tho Unitod States ad
Canada about fifty institutions for tho
education of feoblo-minded children.
No man in daily lifo ought to be
satisfied with what his lifo now is. Ho
ought every day to bo looking forward
to some of tho possible improvements.
E. E. Hale.
It is easy to slip into a state of
spiritual coldness and indifference.
Tho temptation to it is ono that is al
ways with us. Once in it, how hard to
got out of it! United 1'resbiterian.
Bock ford Seminary, at Itockford,.
111., has established night schools for
tho working girls of tho city. Tho fac
ulty will ovorseo tho work, and the
studonts of tho 6ominary will assist in
tho teaching.
I still boliovo that life is tho most
frivolous of things, xinless it is regard
ed as ono great and constant duty. Lifo
is only of value by devotion to what is
true and good. Tho aim of a lifo worth
living should be ideal und unselfish.
Ernest Itcnan.
An aged man, who had lived moro
than threescore years and ten, upon
being informed by his physicians that
ho had but a low hours to live, replied:
"Is that so? Then death has come too
Boon for mo. I am not roady for it."
What a melancholy confession with1
which to closo up this lifo, and ontor
upon tho realities of tho ono to come!
N. i'. Jndtpendcnt.
"For gonoral improvement," says.
Dr. Johnson, "a man should read what
ever his immediato inclination prompts
him to; though, to bo sure, if a man has
a scienco to learn, ho must regularly
and resolutoly advance. What wo read
with inclination makes a stronger im
pression. If we read without inclina
tion, half tho mind is employed in fix
ing tho attention, so thero is but half to
be employed on what wo read."
President Adams, of Cornoll Uni
versity, in u recent address advised
students "not to rely on profossors to
do your work. Don't lossen individual
effort. Ilorcin is tho success of solf
mado men- Tho men whom tho world
wants nro tfioso who do better than is
expected of tliom. Sometimes thoy aro
without a collego education; aro such,
mon as Franklin and Lincoln, who get
a real llboral education and become
monarchs in tho domain of though."
It's bottah tor hub a green patch on
do basemon' o' yo yaller pants dan ter
sport seraa UUia trouuihs an1 hah ter
do da sneak act cb'ry wine yo seo yo
tailor. Uncle J'ete.
It h by plodding steadily along,
day in and day out, thai wo achiovo our
eucco"5ot. Thoy who mako tboir gains
o'.i.crwiso iro eccentricities, and not fit,
thoroforo, id bo taken as examples.
Against parsimony and niggardli
ness 1 proolaim war; but with the samo
sontenco I condomn thoso who mako a
grand sjlash while thoy livo, leaving
tholr families In destitution whon thoy
die. TuhwKje.
If ridlculo woro employed to laugh
mon out of vico nnd folly, it might bo
of some mo; but it is mado uso of to
laugh men out of virtuo and goodsonso,
by attacking ovory thing solemn and
6orious. Addison.
There is nothing more disappoint
ing to the generous mun than tho way
In which his absolute frankness is mot
by tho man of tho world, always look
ing out for motlvos, and imagining
thorn whoro ho dooa not find thoin.
Donald Grant.
A poculiar wreck occurred on iCS
Burlington load, near Ashland, Neb.,
Friday. A regular freight was stand
ing on tho tract, when aucthor freight
crushed into the calojee, breaking it
into kindling wood, ruining the en
gine and piling several cars on top of
eoh other. There were thirteen men
in the onbooso ut the time, all of whom
w-n- arleop. Oue iihii' nose bled
Mightly, Wm h tin-mcl ueriout
.ui'kk-nt t" u'iy m' t:,( tlnrfton.
Vnoavilie, Cal., liu
dens,
iu my opium
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