EASTERN ITEMS. THE PUBLIC DEBT INCREASED DUR ING MAY. A Rich Vein of Gold Found In Georgia 1 Woman to Be Hanf?ed-Doath From Fear Two Thlov. a Lynched at Seattle. . Ohio oil will be pumped to New York city. Valentine, Neb., lias an Indian hod- carrier. Mind-Reader Bishop's estate was worth only f 250. Bangor, Mo., is to run its own electric light plant. Oklahoma's inhabitants are disappear ing rapidly. SmalliKJX is niukingtcrrihlo ravages in Guatemala. The public debt has increased $8,702, 877 during May. Indianapolis talks of a people's co-operative ice company. President Harrison will spend part of iis summer in Maine. Internal revenue frauds have been dis covered at Cincinnati. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is to liavo a gravity railroad. One or two districts in Florida began shipping peaches last week. Tho bathing season has already been initiated at Old Point Comfort. A woman who had been bitten in Phil adelphia by a dog, died of fear. The Valkyrie- finished third in the yacht races in England, on the .'Id. Tho incorporation of tho St. Louis breweries was completed on the .'list. Some Iowa counties aro paying a bounty of 5 cents a head for gophers destroyed. United States Minister Ryan was ban queted at the City of Mexico, on tho 30th. A great ollbrt is being made in New York to promote trade with South Amer ica. A smallpox patient was discovered in tho Milwaukee County Hospital, on tho 30th. A rich vein of gold ore is reported to liavo been found on a farm near Gaines ville, tlu. Tho rumor that an extra session of Congress will beheld in October, is re nowed. A vniltvt.wl mriilll ill. Kl mil 1 VVllln. Illll.. lias been arrested for selling tickets on Sunday. A miv ruin mi Mm rnnitu i'fnt nf fllli cago, extending to tho Pacific Coast, is predicted. 1 N" P fllnntniui. nf fJiilifnrnin T.J IjlH. III A ' t v ... ........ j - " 7 with his family, is on a Bocial visit to Washington. Tho monument over tho tomb of ex President Arthur, at Albany, will be un veiled June 15. 1 ..I !... I.1 !..., (1,,, 'M.,t caused tho people to rush from their houses in terror. A heavy fall of snow is roiwrtcd from several parts of Michigan. Tho damtigo to crops is great. A fuiii- i trtli4lfiil nririnl7llt infl lftinwilllH the "Single Tax Party," has been formed in South iMKota. A woman is to bo hung in Jofforsnn county, Ala., Juno 27, for highway rob bery. Sho is colored. Frost damaged tho corn in some por tions of Indiana ho severely that replant ing became necessary. Canadian Forirers are Hying to tho Unitcdt Sales. It is a queer crime that doesn't work loth ways. Congressman Edward J. Gay, a mil lionaire sugar-planter, died at Thilo deaux, Ia. the :10th iust. The American expedition to Iwgin work on tho Nicaragua Canal, Hailed lrom iNow York under British colors. lluoiuetta, Mexico, was almost entirely . . . i . i. i ....... : i...! destroyed iy a nan worm uu iiiiiimuuuu on tho'ilJth. Many lives wore lost. A convention to frame a Constitution for tho "'State of Wyoming," has been called for Jnlv 1th, at Cheyenne. Thirty divorces were granted in ono dav durini: tho recent hcshIoii of the Supremo Court at Manchester, N. II. Hungarians and Poles aro leaving Pleading, Penn., in largo numbers on ac count of tho suspension at the iron works. Tho jury in tho caHOof tho McClelland town bandits returned a verdict of guilty against IxMtis Wasker and the two Sulll vans. C. P. Huntington is to build a palatial residence in New York, on thosauthwest corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street. ft 1h understood that it will bo several mouths bi'fore tho guns of tho Charles ton and Baltimore M ill bo ready to go on tward. A numler of persons in Atlanta re sponded to a parrot'H cry of "lire," and discbvered that a house across tho way was in Humeri, Tho Palace Car Company is suing tho "Wagner Car Company to prevent tho lat ter from using tho vestibule as u com pleted structure. Tho iron market at Cleveland, Ohio, was nearly paralyzed on tho illst by the wile of MOO tons of Tennessee iron, A 1 forgo, at $13 (10 delivered. "Gambling is licensed in Laramie, AVyo.T." Such is tho deplorable but truthful item that is going tho rounds of tho Western press. Laramie Boomerang. Tho Secretary of War has ordered tho dismissal from "the army of Private (lus tavua Kimball, Company 0, Thirteenth infantry, now in confinement at Angel Island, Cul. Tho Pall Mall Garotte greeted our now Minister to England, on Ims arrival in London, with a glowing paneiryrio on Abraham Lincoln, and adds: "Wo wel come tho eon fort no sako of tho father." Tho California capitalist retried to nyo married a lady of Pontic, Mich., ipjKisod to bo L. N, Braniino, who flfo nt Santa Criu. Ho is worth rK,),000. 0UH of baseball was played at Port cry Mturday, between tho printers comets' JK Oreu'onlun tind tho print- Ka n,,? A lryto" Printing Co., to its lini.? tJtf fccatti0 mill'erers. FOKKl(i FfiAMIIEH. j The Popo Feeble Prince William of Hohenzollorn Married Bismarck a Cnristlan-Earthquakes. The Pope is showing extraordinary feebleness. English shoe-workers are agitating for eight hours. Vienna car-drivers get CO cents for i . i. cigmeen iiourn. Bismarck frankly declares that he is sincere Christian. " Twelve thousand -men arc still on strike at Saar, Germany. Lord Lonsdale protwses to organizo an ll. 1 1 I - cxpmmon 10 mo ioriu i uiu. Two-thirds of the engines exhibited at I'arn are oi the uoriess pattern. C.imdcn House, Chiselhurst, the last homo oi isapoicon in, is to ie let. Stafibrdshire, England, hlast lurnacc men demand 10 percent advance. Tho Dublin Corporation intends to visit tho Paris Exposition in a IkxIv. Several prolonged earthquako shocks have been felt on the Channel Islands. TIm !,.(. nniMont plinmisl dill tint lllivn a picture hi ken until ho was 1)7 years of ago. Tim .ri4li 1 .rvnl fJnvi'nimunt bill passed to a reading in tho Commons, last week. i novelist l-llCKens unm nun. nuirj Fieldint: Dickens, is a successful lawyer i. . i it.!. .1 1I..-.. in England. Vmtutrnr Willlnm lmB (ifTcriHl a L'old and silver ship as a prize to tho Berlin Yacht Club. ir.v.M Snialor 'Mi'ljinrt fhinL-H Ciniiprnl Boulanger's influence has decreased since lie left b ranee. Vii'lnr Mnpliin. Mm Cnb.m bandit, was married to his mistress before he was ex ecuted at Havana. Uluniiircl- lt'tu Inkon in nnlit.'ilrn. Mid is lioli in ' its heavy-weight championship against all comers. Commons are now in prison for oirenses under tho Crimes Act. Tim Hiiuuinti XillllistH im'n nut infor- ninti in that thev will sbortlv make an other attempt to kill the Czar. Heavy storms have been raging at TlnliidrniKr. n-cmitk. All ilHIIKHlHO iiinount of damago bus been dono. A tiinrii-m iui'L-iwii'I.-cIh nrn flocklm? to tho Paris ExoHition, whero their busi ness is said to no thriving woiuieriuuy. The Sugar Bounties Commissioners at London have signed their reiort and re ferred it to their respective governments. Princo Aloiso Schwarzcnborg of Aus tria, who was badly wounded in a duel with a Lieutenant of Hussars, is dying. A London dressmaker advertises that sho will furnish a complete bridal outfit, bonnets, boots and shoes excepted, for iMOO. Lord Salisbury informed a deputation of bi-metallists that tho business com munity, not Parliament, must settle tho question. In Venezuela tho yellow fovor is rag ing. Fears aro expressed that men enough to handle tho codeo crop will bo unobtainable. It is stated that tho Princess of Murat will claim indemnity from Italy of 61, OOil.OOO lire for tho confiscated estates of King Joachim. In Paris there aro inoro than 20,000 plaecH for tho sale of intoxicating drink. This is onu to four houses, or one to twenty-five mon. Mariotti, who attempted the life of M. doFroycinet some time ago, and was con fined in tho Asylum of Bicotro, as of un sound mind, has been released. Henry George has finished a remark ably successful lecturing tour in Scotland. Ho" thinks the singlo-tax doctrine has taken deepest root in that country. There is a new industry for women in London, that of accountants ami auditors for largo households. Miss Josie Courrah was the ono to suggest this industry. Tho Porsian Shah has the most impos ing show now on the road in Europe. Ho spends about $5000 a day on his tour. Ho is a sort of peripatetic Toyal Hush. Ship agonts say that heavy lookiiigs are being made on vessels from England to America. On tho leading vessels the saloon berths are full up to November. Ex-King Milan has privately declared his intention to return to Belgrade im mediately. It is rumored that ho is in some way resiousible for the recent riots. When a King goes to see the Kaiser, tho Kaiserspeaks up and says: "IiOt'sgo out and have some fun ; lot'H go out and give old Franco a rub on that Strasburgsoro." Ixml James Douglas, brother of tho Marquis of Queonsberry, has defaulted in the payment of his betting obligations anil lias leen warned oil' tho race-track. Tim i-ivll nuirrliiL'o of Prince William. of llohenzollern, and Princess Marie, of Itnnrlum. occurred lit the vlll.l of the Countess of Trapanl at Baden Baden, re cently. President Carnot, of Franco, is a great- ... t i..i .... .i er nciiovcr in capital puuisnmeiu man wasM.Grovy. Tho guillotine is much more active in Paris than It was some years ago. The Japanese Government has engaged two German lawyers in Berlin to proceed to Tokio and refnuuo tho Japanese Penal Code to conform to the German instead of the French code, as now. Australia has been enjoying a land Ikxhu, which prematurely collapsed, owliii; to a severe drought, in ouoous- land tho dry weather caused oxcosidvo losses among cattle and sheep. Tho Italian Government is greatly wor ried over tho increasing migration from that country. In uplto of tho stringent laws which liavo been passed lately against emigration agents ll).',211 Ital ians left lu 1S3S, as against 127,718 the year before. Gladstone omuied a stumping tour at Southampton lust week, The railway from Apraoh to tho sum mit of Pilatus, Switzerland, has been opened. Tho Incline Is lorty-elght feet to the hundred. THE PACIFIC COAST. SEATTLE'S, THE QUEEN CITY, LAID IN ASHES. Colored Masons A Sardine Factory Immigration From fcootland A Lumber Combination Frult-Gro era. Napa College is to have a telescope. Crooks abound alxiut, Seattle, W. T. Santa Barba school census shows again of 177. Last Sundav was Children's day in Portland. Santa Paula, in Ventura county, has ten saloons. The Castrovillo Gazette has ceasad publication. Tucson was shaken by an earthquake on the .'list. A lumber combination is reported at Helena, M.T. It costs $150 to destroy a shade tree at Olympia, W. T. Tulare has reduced the liquor license to $40 a quarter. The hills near Beuo, New, is swarming with grasshoppers. Bed Bluirhas refused to issue bonds for a new town hall. The Napa Cannery has begun work: with cherries the first. Smartsville, Nevada, county, is with out telegraphic service. Saticov. Ventura county, is to have a meal station on the railroad. Contracts for trading and sewering Bedding have been awarded. Several cases of small-nox have been reported from Wallon, N. M. Every town in tho Northwest have re sponded to Scuttle's call for aid. J. V. Chock has been sentenced to the Shite prison from Napa for forgery. Woodland. Cal.. is to have a first-class lawn tennis club in the near future. A sardino factory has located at ltose- ville, across the bay from San Diego. Tho estimated losses by last Thursday's fire at Seattle, is placed at $10,000,000. The Grand Ijodtro of Colored Masons of California, met at Marysville on tho ltd. Two barues "made a successful voyage over the Cascade Rapids a few days since. The last heitvy rainstorn in Walla Walla county, W. T., destroyed 10,000 sheop. Marvsvillc sent a shiniuent of black berries and pears to San Francisco, last week. Pomona dedicated the St. Joseph Church, Boman Cutbolic, .-Sunday, the 2d hist. 158 Gatos will close all saloons on July 1st and prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors. Chinese are said to bo oourinir into California over tho Mexican border, near San Diego. C. P. Fern', whoso wife caused a ereat scandal in Paris, is suing her for divorce in Tacoma. Tho John "Wit-land Browcry Associa tion, of San Francisco, refuse $2,500,000 for their plant. Work on tho addition to be made to tho Shito Printing ofiico at Sacramonto, has commenced. A bridge was burned near Hood river on tho 3d, delaying the Eastern trains in reaching Portland. Tho life-saving crow at Capo Hancock has for the ninth time been successful in saving life and property. Tho threatened locust plague of EaBt Riverside has been stopp.l by burning over the uncultivated lands. Tho entire business portion of Scattlo was burned on Thursday, the (ith. Not a business house left in tho city. Tho little 0-year-old daughter of Geo. F. Johnson, was thrown from a buggy at Portland, last week, r.nd soverely injured. A company to encourage immigration from Scotland, has been formed at SjK)kano Falls, with a capital of iH0,000. At Ainsleo, W. T., the 2d, the large sawmill of 1). J. Ainsleo. with a capacity of 1000 feet a day, was destroyed by lire. R. J. Skinner, of Cowichen, Victoria, father-in-law of Hon. Mr. Davio, the premier of British Columbia, died on tho 2d iust. Tho fire in tho Idaho mino at Grass Valley has been extinguished and tho bodies of the two burned victims re covered. Tho German singing birds that were liberated at Portland, Or., recently, have settled down to business. They liavo begun to build nests. Track-laying lias boon commenced on tho SK)kano and Northorn Railroad. Tho work is expected to bo finished to Colville by September. The railroad depot of the Oregon TraiiB-1 continental Company at Slaughter, in i King county, near incoma, w, T,, was burned on the ;ld iust. C. M. Pvke anil Martha liiincaster, the "lx)uise Manfred," of the Tivoli theater, were married at Martinez, on the 2d iust., by a Justice of tho Peace. Denis Hayes, ex-Coioner at Marys vill, Cal., and "Win. Potts, were thrown from a buggy last week, tho former, it Is feared, was fatally injured. The fruit-growers in the neighborhood of llaywards, have completed an organi zation to ship their own fruit East and to aid each other in finding a market. The Hildrcth stage robbery easo is pro gressing slowly at Fresno, Cal., with an nereased attendanco of spectators. No new evidence lias been obtained so far. During tho lire at Seattle Inst Thurs day, a thief while trying to ofiect an en trance at tho rear of one of the burning banks, was shot and killed by a police man. Will C. Bailey, formerly of tho River Bide Enterprise, is to 1h u partner of Mr. McKle In tho publication of the Coltou Chroulolo, the Huciessor of the Send-Tropio. ! Trees for Shade Around the House Rust Stains in Clothln? The Care of Hogs Good Cooking Hard boiled eggs and cornme.il makes a good first feed for ducklings. To remove stains from machine urease or oil, wash in cold rain water and soap. This will not injure colors. Kerosene oil will soften leather shoes that have been wetted; or machine belts; or harness that has been soaked with rain. Ammonia water will kill any acid that has been dropped upon clothes. In most cases, a few drops of chloroform will then restore the color. Trees alout the house make it more homelike and attractive, and shield it from f lie cold winds of winter and the hot sun of summer. It is better to have a close, warm pen, excluding snow and cold, and not give tho pigs two much bedding. If given the chance they will cover themselves with straw until they become steaming hot, and then go outside to the cold, thus minting themselves sick lrom colds allect ing their lungs. A wholesome Dish of Onions. Boil them in salt and water until they begin to bo tender, drain the water from them and wrap each onion in soft paper, bet them side by side into a dripping pan, let them bake until done, then put them into a vegetable dish and pour rich brown gravy over them. Rust stains in clothing or ink stains which are about the same thing can be removed as follows : Add two parts of cream of tartar to one part of oxalice acid, dry, and keep tho mixture in a liottle ; wet the stained part and apply a little of the powder; wash out soon after in clear warm water. Repeat if neces sary. Swiss Omelette. Break six eggs in a bowl, add a gill of cream, a quarter pound of grated cheese, some pepper and salt. Pour into a buttered pan. Stir the ome lette well about for a few seconds, so that it will not set like a sjionge cake. Let it brown quickly. Fold over on itself and serve. Parsley and a few fine bread crumbs added before cooking improve the dish for some tastes. Chicken and Macaroni. Cut up a ten der chicken in neat pieces and fry brown in fresh butter with a few strips of bacon, keeping the pan covered. Season with popper and salt. Boil a handful of the small Italian macaroni, for twenty min utes, drain through a colander," add a large piece of butter, a cup of rich, strong gravy, and, if liked, some grated Par me&an cheese. Arrange tho chicken on a very hot dish around the central pile of macaroni, which must be thoroughly moist and rich with gravy and butter. Screenings consist not merely of crack ed or imperfect grain, but contain also many heads of weeds seeds that unfit them for feeding whole to any kind of stock. Small seed aro seldom digested, and some of the hardest of them grow even better after passing through the stomachs of horses and cattle. It is this that makes barnyard manure so prolific of weeds wherever it is applied. It is safer to grind screenings, though if they consist almost entirely of weed seeds, it may be even better economy to burn them. "While a ewe is bearing a lamb part of her nutrition iroes to sustaining that. Her lleeco is therefore not so heavy as that ot the wether, that has no such do mand and is equally well fed. In lamb ing time the owe has usually some fever which injuriously affects tho quality of tho woo., by making a weak place in that grown at thU period. But in practical selling the avooI crop comparatively few buyers can mako such distinctions. They buy low enough so that poor wool will pass muster and leave them a prolltablo com mission. In very many places in the west where wheat was once in-own it now tails so per sistentlv that its culturo has to be aban doned. Some parts of Iowa and South ern Minnesota aro now in this condition. Tho winters aro not quite so cold as formerly, but it is tho summer heats that wither the plant, bomo wheat is still occasionally grown bv sowing tho spring variety with oats and harvesting both to nether, separating the grains afterward It is not poverty of soil that causes wheat laihuro. as the crop tans on land broken up for tho first time, us well as on that long tilled. Those who start cuttings in water will use a bottle with a wido mouth, thoy will find it an easy matter to removo tho plant when tho time comes to jKit it, without injuring tho roots. Or, after the roots have reached tho sidu of tho glass, thee can sift the fine earth into tho bottlo till it is an inch or two in depth. After the roots have taken possession of this soil, the top of the bottlo can bo broken off by a sharp blow with a knife, and then tho mass of earth can Imj slipped out without disturbing the roots in the least, in ex actly the same manner as tho ball of eartli in which a plant is growing can be removed from a iot. Apple and Sago Pudding. Paro and core a half dozen sour, juicy apples, and arrange them in a buttered pudding dish ; fill up the hollow of each apple with sugar and put a bit of butter on top. Cover the dish closely and a set in the oven to bako till the apples aro thoroughly done. Meanwhile lioil in double kettle a scant cup of sago with two cups of water and a little Halt. When dono which may be seen by tho transparent, jelly look of the sago and by tho taste beat in a lump of butter, sugar to taste, and llavoring if desired. Pour tho sago over the cooked apples in the pudding dish ami set back in tho oven to brown on the toj). There Ib nothing nicer to servo with the Sunday morning fish balls or baked beans than green tomato saucoor picalili. Chop a peck of green tomatoes, livo green poppers and two onions; mix them well in a wooden or earthen bowl, mid sprinkle a cup of salt over thorn ; put them aside and lot them stand until morning in a cool place, lu tho morning drain oil' all the liquor, put tho chopped fruit into a pre serving kettle, and put in vinegar enough to cover ; add ono cup of sugar, ono tablo HK)onfiil of owdored cloves, ono tablo HHxmful cinnamon, ono tablespoonful of nutmeg and one-half a teasioonful of inaco j sot it over the lire and cook slowlv until tho fruit is tender and well cooked, Htlrring it qtiito often to prevent it burn ing in the loltom of the kettle. If it suoius two sharp and not mallow enough to tho taste, mid auothor half a cup of sugar, and this will soften the taste. Portland market. SO FAR CROPS LOOK IN A SPLENDID CONDITION. Good Prices Is all That Is Wanted to Make Times Lively all Round Wool is In Better Demand Barley Is Lower. The local merchandise markets are be ginning to experience the usual lull in business that occurs for a month or so beore the harvest, still the aggregate transactions are above those of a year ago. So far tho crops look in a splendid condition, and all that is wanted ia good prices for them to make times lively all around. Sugars have advanced si ightly, but coffee remains linn and steady. Lemons and oranges are scarce and high er. Dried fruits are moving rather slow ly, now fresh ones are so abundant and cheap. The local wheat market exhibits little life, buyers being few and far be tween. We quote: OKOCEKIES. Sugars, Golden 0 7c. extra C 7?jje, dry granulated 8,'c, cube, crushed and po'wdered 0lftC. Coffee: Java 2o27c, Mocha 2S31e, Costa Rica 2122c, Rio22(?23e, Arbuckle'e roasted 250. 1'HOVlSIONS. Oregon ham 12C!l3c, breakfast ba con lac, sides 1010,l2C shoulders 84 (!)c. Eastern ham 13(13,HjC, breakfast bacon 13(ftl3c, sides 0)5 c Lard 5ac 10s FllUITH. Los Angeles oranges $2.25, Riversides $4.50. California lemons $4.505 per box. Oregon p'awberries $1.25 perorate. VKHKTAHI.EH. Potatoes 50c, onions $1.75, rheubarb 3c, tomatoes $1 fji3 per box. nitlKD Kltl'ITB. Apples 45c, sliced 0c, pears 8c, Oregon plums 57, Italian 8c, silver 7c, German plums 5((i7o apricots 13((tl4c, peaches 810c, California figs 8c, raisins $1.752.25 per box. da-ikv rnonucK. Butter, Oregon fancv 20c, medium 15 I7tr, common, 1012c, Eastern 22c, California 18L'0c. EQQS. Eggs 1820c. ' puinritv. Chickens $44.50, broilers $2.503, ducks $1011, geese $8, turkeys loo per lb. WOOL. Valley 1019o, Eastern Oregon S1S-. HOI'S. Hops 1015e. OltAlN. Wheat, Valloy l. 15(1. 17,l.', Eastern Oregon $1.051.07.. Oats 2830o. FLOUR. Standard $4, other brands $3.50(?3.75. FEED. Ilav .$13014 per ton, bran $13l4,cbop $18(320, shortB $1415, barley $20 22.50. FRESK MEATS. Beef, live. 3,'c, dressed, 7c; mutton, live, 3e, dressed 7c; lambs $2.60 each, hoga live tie, dressed, 77c; veal 68c. "Sixty or seventy specios of gold enrod, and ovon tnoro than this number of nslors," says "Vick's Magazine," "aro found all over our land." "No other flowers so abound and apparently claim possession as thoso And grouped together they might appropriately bo taken as our National ilowors, emblems of onduranco, vigor, light and froo dom." ADubuquo newsboy lately got ovon with a dead-boat. Tho man owed the boy for papors and would not pay him. Tho boy wrote to his (tho boy's) brother, who is attending school in Indiana, tolling about tho action of tho customor, and ono day last wook tho man received a box by oxpross markod "C. O. D." Tho oxpross charges amountod to sov oral dollars, and upon opening tho box it was found to bo full of bricks. Roforring to tho proportion of col lege graduates prominent in public af fairs, tho Philadelphia Nows cites the fact that fifteen out of twonty-three Presidents, fourteen out of twonty-four Vice-Presidents nincteon out of twon-ty-nlno Secretaries of State, sixteen out of twenty-six Spoakora of tho House, thirty out of forty-ono judges of tho Supremo Court, and flvo out of tho six Chief-Justices havo received a collo glato education. Tho United States Consul at Mar seilles, In a recent report, says that tho ollvo oil industry of Southern Franco Is suffering heavily from tho almost uni versal practlco of adulterating tho na tive oils of Nlco and Provenco with various seed oils, such as sesame, poa nut, poppy-seed, and ospoclally cotton seed, which last, by roason of itschor.jf ness, palatable flavor, and difficulty of detection, has of recont yours sup planted all tho others as an adulter- unions ar about tho bout norvlna known. No modlclno Is roally so pffl caclous in casos of norvous prostration, and thoy tone up a wornout system in a vory short thno. Green's Fruit Growor. An Inflamed bunlonshould bo poul ticed, and larfop hIidcw wnrn. Tndlna twelve grains, lard or spormaootl olnU meat half an ounco, mako a capital olntmont for bunions. It should bo rubbed on two or three timoa a day. 1110 narrow-gauge road from Ilivaeo, on linker's bay, Or., has leen completed (ft X.'irilftlt nil UliAiilifnia lim. .1 l!atflTtfn of sixteen miles. It runs tho whole dis tance along tho shore, in sight of the breakers and through a succession of ro- SOrtH frenUOllb'tl bv houmIiIa viultnra lltir- ing tho bninmer. Tli. ...(:.. -r t:i. t wan to. tnkit lilm'A nt ll,ll,i,Llr.l.l,i Tnlv Uth, has Ikhmi ostonod. Till Ollin Sfntlt la,... f,,. ( tnr 18-Si) is 2 7 mills, tho lowest rate asse5ad far thf past forty-nine years. " " CUYING A PRESENT. (Ihopplnc Exprillllon of u Mn Who Didn't 31 hut tlm I-..Xmmio. Ho was one of the old-timers of Pos sum Ridge settlement, and was down at the county seat for the first time since tho war. Be went poking- about the streets, peering into the stores and shops with the air of a man who had a deep-seated purpose in view. He went on until ho came to a large dry-goods establishment, where he halted for a minute as If undecided whether to enter or pass 011. Finally he blundered In, and, strikng the Hot clerk he came to. he said: ' Say, mister, hov yer any thing in this 'ore shebang es 'ud be suitable for er birthday gif fer the ole 'omnn?" 'Why, yes," the clerk stammered out, "I expect so. What would you like to buy?" "Wal, thnr yer got me, stranger. I'm denied if I know what 'ud suit." "What havo you been in the habit of gelling for the occasion?" 'Thol's jest it, young foller, I hain't nercr bought any gif afore, and it's all ne'.r to mo. ler see, it's this ere way: Me'n the ole 'oman's been iimitWI nigh tor sixty year. I say it's edxty past, but she holds out agin me thct it's gwlne ontor sixty, but ole 'Squar Beo son, who jined us. says I'm right, an' the ole 'Sonar's a mighty lovel-headod man. Yer know ther 'Squire, I rock 011?" "Yes. I know the 'Squire. But about thi present1"' "Yes. that's jist what I wuz gittin' at Wul, yer see, as I said; me'n thot ole 'oman's been er joggin' crlong tcr getlior all them years up thar on Pos sum Ridge, an' sort o1 humpin' our selves in ther craps an' out, an' wo luln't thought much er puttin1 on no style, nor nothin' o' that sort. But tether day I fell ter readin' er lectio piece what sorter sot mo tor goin' in my mind, an' I felt like es ef I hain't done jest fair by the olo 'oman, an' I l;bp' er th lutein', an' by gum, ther fust thing I Icnowed I'd dono jes' plumb made up mer in In' tor git 'er er birth lay gif. I want ter s'prise 'er." "Yes, and you want something real oice, I suppose?" ( "That's what, mister. Sumpin' ralo han'some that'll kin'er mako up fer all thorn gif's what sho didn't git. An' I don't heer ef it costs er right sracvet, nuther, fer ther olo 'oman's been mouty faithful all them years, an' hain't never kicked on doiif ther feedin' an' gittin' in ther wood an' shuekln' out ther fodder in ther winter, an' holpin' in ther hay stackiu' an' sech liko in ther summer." "Well, now, here is a nice dres pattern that would suit first rate." "Thet's kin'er nice, stranger. Wfiut does it come at?" "Ton dollars." "Say, I reckon that wouldn't suit. Yer see I got 'or er caliker gownd las' fall, an'" "Well, then, how is this wrap at eight dollars?" "Won't do, I guess. She's got or shawl, an', asidos, thot's a lectio grain mor'n I keer tor pay." "Hero aro a pair of slippers at fivo dollars." "I reckon I don't want them, author. Ks J said, ther olo 'oman's boon faith ful, an' hain't never kicked aerin kcep lu' up her eend o' thor work, an' 1 want ter s'piso 'er wuth sumpin' ralo nice, but. yor see, I don't want ter go too high." "Well, here is a pair of slippers at two dollars. That's low enough, isn't it?" "That's gittin' down some, but I'm afeord it's er leotle mite too high yit." "About how much aro you willing to pay?" "I hain't going ter bo perticlor, mis ter, fer i started out ter git sumpin' nico, even if it does come pooty well up, but I wanter be a leetlo keorful. Lom'mo see, what does them thar ban danners come at?" "Ten cents." "Hain't none fer five?" "No." "Wul, I reckon I'll jest tako ono o' them. Es I said at fust. I hain't por ticklor erbout or few cents one way er tother, an' asides it'll do for us both tor u&e. Don't yor reckon thor olo 'oman's eyes '11 stick out liko knots on or lorg wlion sho sees thot?" Dotrolt Free Press. Charming House Waists. House waists of silk or wool to wear with various skirts will give variety to tho bride's wardrobe, as thoy aro now worn at any hour of tho day. Thoy aro also made in most varied materials, the newest boing of figured allies, quaint, small-pattorued brocades of old-roso or bluo with laco frills, or else simpler rod or turquoise India silks with whlto or black figuros or stripes. Tho chatigoahle silks and surahs also mako pretty bolted waists with full sleoves, shirred or tuokod fronts and backs, and somotimes with a plain poko to which the fullness of tho bodice is attached with a narrow upright rutllo and slight shirring'. Tho oxcolent pongoo silks also mako uso ful belted waists for tho houso or for travollng gowus, with tho tucks of tho yoke and sleeves slightly foathor Btltched with brown, red or bluo. A good plan with these is to lnado tho , back tight fitting, with tucks down tho middle over a light lining, and huvo the fronts loose, confined only by a bolt which comos from tho undor-arm teams. Whlto vailing and the slllc frtrlpod Hunnols aro prettily mado up with blouso fronts and fittod tuokod bck, worn with n ribbon belt knotted ia fwiut ovfr the fullblousf Harper's Hu. xi