THE OREGON SCOUT.
St. CHANCEY,
Publishers
UNION OREGON.
PERNICIOUS READING.
'Opinion of tlio i:ioiient HpurKcon Th
CoIpnrtnRO llunlnes.
Presiding rccontly over tho twenty.
Bocond annual meeting of tho Metro
politan Tnbornaclo Colportago Associ
ntion, Rov. C. II. Spurgeon dwelt upon
tho statement in tho report that tho
vendors of pernicious litoraturo had
boon bold and aggressive of late,
especially in tho dissemination of for
eign novols, and pointed out that tho
chief aim of that organization was
Xm counteract tho ovil by the
Circulation of
and healthy
classes. This
books of a religious
tono among all
colportago business,
ho declared.
was a necessity of tho
Christian Church. Had literature
must bo mot. It could only bo met by
tho production of good literature, and
in certain directions godd litorature
would never go unless it was carried.
They had to create tho demand as well
m to supply it; and in country dis
tricts, whoro tho population was too
spar-so to support a bookseller, good
writing would novor bo read except
it was carried by colporteurs. Ho had
no personal knowledge of the fact, but
ho was constantly bolng informed that
English literature, in tho shape ol
stories and novels, was fearfully bad,
and that oven Christian households
were being corrupted by the soini
ohsconlty of many novols that wore
being sold at prcsont. Ho profcrrcd
history, natural history and travels
himself; but sinco pooplo would read
fiction, ho felt glad wlion he
saw something that was thor
oughly sweot and instructive. Thero
woro such books. Tlioro woro others
that wero as fascinating as thoazuro of
n scrpont's scales, but as deadly as tho
poison of an adder's fang. It must bo
so, othorwlso pooplo who dabbled in
novol reading would not fcol com
pelled to wrlta asking him to raise his
voico against it. Ono way of raising
Ills voico against it was by totally
abstaining from tho sin hJtn3of. It
" was no uso for a man moroly to stand
in tho church and protest against ro
ligious orror. Hut novols should not
bo road, but should bo lot rot by thorn-
"'boIvos. lie could not understand why
a man should drag himsolf through
filth for tho sake of tolling other
pooplo what it was llko. Colportago,
howovcr, was a groat doal moro than
a mcro attempt to moot bad litoraturo
A colportour wont from door to
door, and lite oxouso was that ho had 11
right to null hin IUblos and Testament?
nnd sound inagazlnos as well as any
'b'thor tradesman. Ho preached us
ofton as ho could on tho vlllago groon,
and Homotlmos occupied tho pulpit in
u littlo chupol whoro, porhaps, the
pooplo could not support a Noncon
formist ministor. Bosldo that, n
colportour was always a temperance
man, and was over ready to call upon
tho sick or pray by tho bedside of the
dying. Ho thanked God that such an
association as that existed in thoii
midst to watch ovor tho souls of mon
who othorwlso might bo altogothoi
noglooted, and ho fervently prayed
that pious Christians would do then
utmost to extend its usofulnoss.
London Telegraph.
POORLY PAID ACTORS.
Fifty Dollurn u Wni'k I.chk Than Twenty
11 vi' In Other rrnftnliiiiM.
Tho actor whoso salary is fifty dol
lurs or loss per week Is not, as a rule,
-as woll olT us tho cierk or salesinat
who receives half tho amount Tin
Motor rarely gets his salary for mon
than eight months in tho year, aiu
when unpaid salaries and prematurely
closed seasons uro taken into account
u still further reduction has to bo
madu. Thou, too, tho actor, and par
ticularly tho actress, has much greater
expense for dross than any other per
Hon earning a proportional income,
whilo tho cost of living while travel
ing in oven second-class hotels, it
double that noeossary at home.
At all tho agencies lists of actors,
eluBBod according to their spoolal abil
ities are kept, and tho ugont gonornllj
knows pretty accurately what Halnrlot
will be accepted. Ho is also supplied
with one or moro photographs of hit
clients. A manager who wants either
u single actor or an entire company
stutos liis wants to the agent, whe
looks over Ills list of unemployed peo
ple and thou submits names and photo
graphs to tho manager. Ho solootH
two or throe, who are requested to
xnoot him at tho otlico, and from these
u final choice is made, lietween three
nnd four thousand names are on the
hooks of somo agencies. Those nuiiios
Include not only every class of uctor,
but Htago-carpontors, property men,
baggagemen, business managers and
advance agents. N. Y. Tribune.
An Ailment from Erlo.
A man stood on tho post-oilice stopi
tho other day looking across the
street, and a newsboy stood lit front
of tho man gazing uthlm very llxedly.
'What yor looking atP" growled tho
man, as he tlnully realized tho lud'i
presence.
Yor nose."
'Don't you know what alls it?"
No."
It's erysipelas. Have had it foi
ten yours."
"(Jolng buck thoroP"
Whoro P"
To Erio. If that's tho kind ol
"'aipelas thoy havo there you'd bottei
hunt somo other ollmato." Detroit
JVeo Press.
EASTERN ITEMS.
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE WANTS
THE ALTON ROAD,
The Government's Expenses Died From
Delirium Tremens Beat the Cop
per TruBt FlRhtlng: the
Jute Bagging Trust.
Joaquin Miller is in Chicago.
Buffalo is to have a "men only" hotel
Gold has been found near Arrow Rock
Mo.
St. Louia wants the World'B Fair
in
1892.
Salina, Knn., lawyers havo a gymna
sium.
East St. Louis is to have an electric
railway.
Chattanooga, Tenu., is to have electric
street airs.
Snuash fried in bread crumbs is a new
6 ti miner dish.
A movement is on foot to form an
Orange Trust.
A case of vellow fever is reported at
Brunswick, Ua.
Secretary Tracv is ouite ill from an at
tack of dysentary.
finld is Bald to have boon found in Cler
mont county, Ohio.
Thirty nrotoctivo tariffclubB havo been
formed in Alabama.
The averoiro taxation in New Hamp
shire is $1.04 per $100.
A wolf-huntimr association is to be in
corporated at Salem, 111.
Montana's Convention will declare
strongly against Uu Chinese.
nnnlnn unnln the bii show of 1802 held
at Washington, not New York.
Alabama farmers aro fiuhtinK hard to
break up the jute bagging trust.
A .liunntc nvir the oavmont of 22 cents
lias led to a law Buit in Pittsburg.
Ti.n ntrontvi unt bv a Ilnrtford fire en
gine beats tho world, going 348 feet.
A niiicnim iltmn miiqnnm is trvlnif to
get hold ofGeronimo and Sitting Bull.
North Dakota is oxpectod to house
about 10,000,000 bushelB of wncat to sell.
Tho Scott Elevated Kailroadbill passed
tho Miseouri House of Delegates on
tho 2d.
Tho Special Senate Committee on Arid
Lands held a session at St. Paul on tho
1st inst.
Murat Halstead has annouced that he
is a candidato for United Suites Senator
from Ohio.
Editor John Arkins, who was brutally
assaulted at Denver by a blackleg, is
improving.
Tlio Constitution of South Dakota is
longer nnd stronger than that of tho
United Suites.
It is contended that. Black Bart had
something to do with tho train robbery
near Kansas City.
A man named J. I). Sullivan from San
Francisco, died from dolirium tremeiiB at
Denver, on tho 3d.
Suits aro pending against fourteen ox
County Treasurers in Arkansas why aro
Bhort in their accounts.
JYlinuii in iuwui. iv v..v - -
parts unknown. He sayB ho has no idea
ol Biirrenueriiig niinseii.
C. P. Huntington will head a syndicate,
it ia stated, to purcliaso tlio ahip-build-ing
works of Roach & Sons.
Burko. tho Cronin auspoct, iB Bafoly
harbored in jail at Ohicago. and it ib ro
nortcd thnt lie mado a confcBsion.
Tho lrovoriimeiit'a expenditure in July
exceeiledtho re:eiptB by $1,017,311.51,
owing to tho large pension paymenta.
HanBcn, tlio Minneapolis man bitten
by a cat, is to bo sent to Pasteur, who
has offered to treat him free of charge.
Lightning struck an olectric car at
Lynn, Mass., tlio other day. A big Bcaro
and fortunate cbchjics for many pusson
gora. A bona tide oiler of $10,000,000 lias
been made for tho Alton Hoad by an En
glish syndicate to General Counsel Beck
with. Chicago is incorporating a World's Fair i
Association with a capital of $5,000,000. ,:
A suong etlotl is Doing inauo 10 nuuv out
New York.
Thoordor of parado of tho Knights
Templar at the Triennial Conclave to be
. . .-v . , . nr 1.! i !... I......
hold In uetODor ai u uhiuukiuu,
announced.
Tlio Standing Uock Indians will sign
tlio treaty and it iB Bafo to predict that
11 ,000,000 acrcB of land will bo opened
for HcUloment.
Mavor Grant of Now Yorkliaa received
plans'for a tower which shall exceed tlio
Kill'ol Tower in height for the Columbus
Exiotfition in LSD-'.
Judge Field of tho Circuit Court of
KanaaB City luia declared tlio Btatuto al
lowing religious associations to bo incor
porated uncoiiBtitutloiial.
Tlio Nicaragua Canal Company expects
to havo tho lake open to the world in
two and one-half rears and tho whole
canal in about live years.
1 !irlnm! Iiiih been
appointed resident attorney of tho North
ern Pacini) Hailroad, at a salary, it is
said, of $25,000 per year.
Tho National Bureau of Engraving, at
Philadelphia, ono of tho most extensive
lltlirM.nmliliiL' establishment in tho coun
try, Ib in tlnanclal distress.
lW .T. V. Unwell, a well-known edu
cator of Rutledgo, Tenn., Ib dying of by
mliin. He wuh bitten thirteen years
ago by a bhick-iuul-Un terrier.
James B. Hagglii sailed for huropo on
tho 31. Ho won tlio Biiit against tho
French Copper Trust for $200,000, and
has gone to collect tho money.
Twin 1-liitdr.m heloniHni! to ono of the
loi-Vt-tl-oiit niinerfl ut Spring Valley, 111.,
died on tlio 2d, tho mother having too
little food to pioviuo nouriBiiiueiu ior mu
children,
U is roiwrtod that tlio Nicaraguii'Canal
Company la figuring on a lino of three
Atncricati steamships, which it proiKwoa
tocBtabllsh between Uroytown ntiil Now
York and Sau Fnuieteeo and Brito,
l-ORKIKN KliAHIIKH.
Railways In Ireland To Have a Public
Musical Clock Mrs. Belva Look
wood In London.
Cardinal Lavigerio is now recovering.
Extensive floods are reported in Silesia.
Belgium expelled 231 foreigners in 1888.
Mary Anderson's health is much im
proved. Rev. Horatio Honor died at Edinburgh
on the 1st.
England's
biggest ship has 14,000
horsepower.
Tho Scotch harvest promises to be early
and abundant.
The Czar has approved Count Tolstoi's
reform projects.
Tlio practice of cremation is spreading
rapidly in Italy.
London'B nolicemen number 14.247:
hackmen, 14,207.
- , ,
Tlio notorious Mme. Restell is said to
be living in Paris.
KelinnrHinrfit. the leader of tho English
Socialists, is dying.
A now nonm bv Lord Tennvson will
bloom in September.
Knnin baa a floatim? industrial exhibi
tion at South America.
T)fHArfiirn from Wndel Semi rav ho in
tends to fight to tho last.
Rinmarelc brines fi brine tho three Em-
i - i j
perora together at Potsdam.
There in a tmld ilininff.hnll in tho Im
perial residence at Moscow.
Krnmln indivnantlv renudiates the ro-
o J I
porta that ho is a Homo Ituler.
Tli Rliah nt PnrRia boiiL'lit a black dia
mond for $0000 in Paris, last week.
Tim miinii-iriiit i-niinrll at. Tlnmn has de
cided to form a Pasteur institution.
HiiAnn "Nnfnlio will tin nprmifti1!! fn
meet her Bon only outside of Serria.
Unntrnrv linn Pllf. Mllrflllll fnrPR tfl 15
and 10 cents for fifteen and twenty miles.
Tho whole of Abyasinia lia8 submitted
to King Menelck except tho Pronnco of
Tigro.
Eneland baa annexed tho Union and
Phajriix group of islands, in tho Pacific
Ocean.
Willintn fVRrinn ban annlied for a now
trial of his libel auit airainst Salisbury for
slander.
Tho Italian Parliament haa suddenly
been prorogued. It caused a general
surprise.
XTnl nnli. !u llm .Ut. r( Tian linnlmnf
llUb UI11J ID IIIU V7 a .u.. "." 'i'"J
but ten other Italian townB havo become
insolvent.
Canada liaB in view the project of a
steamship lino between Chilean ports
and yueoec.
Thorn Iihr not been asini'le death from
emall-pox in Loudon this year. No Chi
namen there.
Tho international BUgar bank agencies
have announced that thoy have a capital
of $15,130,000.
The British House of Commons lias
lirrned to irrant $3,000,000 to build rail
way a in Ireland.
During tlio past season Liverpool took
700,000 and lxmdon 350,000 barrels of
American apples.
Thirty nerfions wero killed and eighty
injured by tho recent earthquake on the
i minion j w.w
wBIand of Kiu-Siu, Japan.
Privv Councilor Kruger has been ar
rested on suspicion of being concerned
n the Gorman naval frauds.
Oueen Victoria desires to visit India,
but does not think her health suilicient
to BUind tho long sea voyage.
ivt ctnnlnv iu ronnrlpil in an Austra-
Han interview as saying that "the good
old race of aingers ia (lying out."
Tho dcenest artesian well in Russia
opens with a depth of 2090 feet. Tho
. f-l! Innlr I l..n I'll
SlUKlIlg UJIOIUUUII mv
Tho Italian cruiser Sardegna has tho
largest steam engine. It is four triple
expansion and haa 25,000 horsepower;
Fears aro expressed that thero will bo
. massacre at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, if
lippolito succeeds in his work of cap
ire. Mre. Belva Look wood, now in London,
is oxpectod "on account of her extreme
individuality," to bo "much sought
after."
It is though that Crispi, the Italian
Premier, is near i he end of his power,
and that with him will fall tlio torriblo
alliance.
Tho Spanish Government supports
Austria In advising tlio Pope to take up
his resiilcnco in Portugal if obliged to
leave Home.
Lord Mayor of Dublin Sexton persists
" . t . in -.a .
in charging tne iiruiHii noveruiueui. wmi
having opened tlio letter President Har
rison wrote him.
Boulancor savs his mental condition
never was letter, and is amused at tho
reorlB circulated in runs huh no nau
committed suicide.
Tlw ..r.Mi(.iwl limiHn in London before
long will jierliapa lie Lord Porlman'a pro
jwseil reproduction of Woolsoy's famous
lalaco ai liainpion voun.
Tho CrcUm Mussulmans havo burned
ovor a hundred liouscs in a village near
Ciinca. Tho insurgent leaders havo ap
plied to Greeco for assisUinco.
n la r.nvnrtm! Hint. Mrs Georuo Pondlo-
ton Bowler, of Cincinnati, haa been cap-
tumi ny paiuuiB in iiaiy. ono uaa uwu
traveling in Europe for years.
i u 11 i-nniiiiittixi Iiiih hoen fnriiied of
monilK'rB of tho House of Commons who
aro interested in tho welhrro ol the Ar
menian subjects of tho SulUin.
Premier Saullabury suyB tho Increased
war nrenarutlons of tho iwwors aro great
security to jhuico. Ho does not admit
that thero will bo an early conflict.
A cable messago from tho European
Union of Astronomers announces !tho
discovery of an asteroid of tlio thirtieth
nmgnltudo by Dr. Pulcsu of Vienna.
Melbourne, Australia, la to havo a pub
lic clock, which will roll off a popular air
every hour excepting during Sunday,
when only sacred music will bo played.
Rlstics. who has so long been a central
figure in Servian politics and intriguo, is
stricken with appoploxv, prolmbly tlio
result ot his exciting labors during tho
past two years.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
CHINESE HIGHBINDER HANGED AT
PORTLAND.
The Idaho Convention Escaped From
Folsom Prison Eloped With a
Married Man-The " OOl " at
Truckee In Earnest.
Portland is to have a fiie-boat.
Eastern Nevada is purchasing Califor
nia hay.
Portland is urging the construction of
a firc-boat.
Harvest hands in Oregon demand $3 a
day and board.
Seattle intends to have a fire-boat to
protect its wharves.
A lieutenant and twelve men will re
main at Fort Klamath.
Everj' salmon cannery on the Colum
bia river haa abut down.
Santa Rosa declines to suspend tho 12
o'clock saloon ordinance.
Washington will vote on the selection
tion of a city for ita Capital.
Many swarma of bees are found by tho
lumbermen up in the Sierras.
The Indians are flocking to the hop
fields of Washington Territory.
An immense deposit of mineral soap
haa been found near San Diego.
W. A. Smith's dry gooda atore at Napa
haa been attached by creditora.
Ten thousand dollars will be given in
pursea at the Santa Rosa races.
Geroge Gray, of Susanville, Cal., haa
gone insane from disappointment in love.
Mr. Finloi , of Arroyo Grande, has wal
nut treca that bring him in $10 for each
tree.
San Diego and San Bernardino coun
tiea are going to law about the county
lino.
Salt Lake City haa been carried by the
Gentiles in a popular vote by forty ma
jority.
Oranire county haB adopted aB its offi
cial aeal an orange with a stem and three
leavea.
In Tehama county the assessor levies
upon alfalfa patches, and tho farmers are
urious.
The Lima-bean crop of Ventura county
thia year will amount to 8000 tone, worth
$400,000.
A sawmill costing $300,000 will be built
at Tacoma this year by some Michigan
capitalists.
Tho value of the Columbia river sal
mon catch for thia season is estimated at
$2,100,000.
A How of gas has !eeii struck at a
depth of 78 feet near Tulara Iako, south
of Hanford.
Field fires are doing considerable dam
age to small holdings in tlio neighborhood
of Portland.
A. J. Elliott, a San Diego banker, lias
(iisapjieaieii anu iuui m) io ictto, uo uv
carried $700.
Three men have died in Tucson within
a few days from drinking ice water in
large quantities.
Two tougha have been arrested at
Baker City, Or , and charged with passing
counterfeit money.
The forest fires in Montana which havo
been prevailing for some time, show no
signs of abatement.
Another little diphtheria patient tho
fifth has been sacrificed under the faith
euro at Los Angeles.
PeUilutna is worked up over tho elope
ment of a foolish girl with a painter who
lias a wife and child.
Fish Commissioner McDonald thinks
salmon can be made as plentiful aa ever
in tho Columbia river.
John Miller, a plasterer, was shot,
probably fatally, in a bar-room quarrel at
Portland, on tho 4th inst.
Tho Republicans of Washington will
meet at Walla Walla on Soptember 4th
to nominate State olllcers.
Laborers have readied Santa Rosa to
begin grading work on tho Santa Rosa
and Sebastopool Railroad.
Tlio Nevada County Fair commences
August 20th and will last five days. The
racing events aro well filled.
Tho San Diego Cablo Company is a
now incorporation, with a capital of $5,
000,000, to work at San Diego.
A San Jose man offers to lease Alum
Rook Park from tho City Trustees and
to spend $28,500 in making improve
ments. Jewett R. Howland lias escaped from
Folsom. Ho is 20 years old and was
sent from Sacramento for two years for
burglary.
Tho Sutro Tunnel property has been
convoyed to the Union Trust l ompany
of Now York, which succeeds to all tlio
property ami franchises.
Emanuel Verdugo, who murdered
Louis Colin, a prominent citizen and
morohant of Nogales, A. T has been ar
rested in Mexico and taken to Tucson.
Tho Starting of tho extensive lumber
vard at Moss landing by the Pacific
Lumber Company of San FranciBco, lias
created a lumber war in Salinaa Valley.
Mra. Lbzio Grant, wife of J. D. Grant,
Jr., of tlio firm of Murphy, Grant A Co.,
died on tho 8th inst. at San Mateo, of
heart disease. She was 27 years of rgo.
Tlrrco Superior Court Judges sitting in
bank havo decided that all contracts
mado by tho Coronado Beach Company
for tho sale of lands there and at South
Snn Diego aro valid.
Tho -railway up Mount Vesuvius has
been reopened for traffic. Six months
ago it ivas nearly destroyed by the mal
icious Vesm-ian guides, who found that
the lino considerably dimintbhed their
profits.
Tho creditors of tlio Standard Live
stock Insurance Company, which ro
contly failed at Heading, Va., will realUo
nothing.
Tho Constitutional Convention at
Helena, has decided that the State of
Montana-shall pay its Governor a salary
of $5001).
HOHK ANIt KAKM.
Horse Radish aa a Poultice Successive
Crops Plowing Sod How to
Make Soap Corn Fritters.
Tepid water acts promptly aB an emetic.
Horse-radish as a poultice, is recom
mended for rheumatism.
Trim up tho shade trees and have
them in good ahape and attractive.
Finely sifted coal ashes are excellent
lor providing dust baths lor poultry.
Fresh boiled milk with cut sugar will
soothe a cough when other things fail.
Sprinkle cayenne pepper in tho resort
of rats and they will leave tho premises.
Better feed the inferior fruiu? and veg
etables to tho hogs than to send them to
market.
Many a vigoroua, fruitful tree owes ita
existence toa mulch, at this season, when
it was young.
How to Make Soap. Three and a half
pounds of grease, four gallons of salt
water, if possible ; one box of concentrat
ed lye. After tho lye is dissolved boil
three hours.
Horses should havo at least two hours
rest at noon. On very warm days horses
suffer severely. They should bo watered
often, and at night should be swabbed
and wiped dry.
Filthy quartors cause lice on aU classes
of stock, and at this season the vermin
multiply very rapidly. An animal that
is infested with vernrin cannot bo kept
in good condition, even with the bast of
feeding.
The henB will now begin to moult.
Keep tho hens that moult early, as they
will lay in winter. Late pullets will
seldom lay before spring, but pnlleis
hatched not later than April should lay
in November.
Corn Fritters. One coffcecup of
canned corn or grated corn, one of Bweet
milk, two eggs well beaten, salt and flour
to make quite a stiff batter. Drop with
a spoon into boiling lard. These fritters
taste like fried oysters.
Cucumbers aro sometimes served as an
entree when prepared thua : Take good
sized onca and peel them and slice them
lengthwiso; dip each slice intocornmeal
seasoned with pepper and salt ; fry them
in hot lard until they are a delicate
brown.
Beef Croquets. Take cold roast beef,
minco it fine, put in an onion chopped
lino, aweet marjoram, a little powdered
oloveB; moisten with the beef gravy;
make it into balls, dip in tho beaten yolk
of an egg, roll in Hour and froy them in
lard.
The City Council of Spokane FallSj af
ter an investigation into the inefficient
working of tho water facilities at the be
ginning of tho recent fire, are satisfied
Superintendent Jones was negligent in
leaving an incompetent person in charge
of the water works, and will make him
vacate.
Cliee Gong, tlio murderer of Leo Yick,
November (i, 1887, was hanged at Port
land on tho 9th inst. Cliee Gong de
clared his innocence to tho last. His
speech on tho scaffold impressed many
with the belief in his innocence. About
seventy-five persons witnessed tlio execu
tion. Plant turnip seed. The ground is in
excellent condition, being damp, and the
seed should germinate quicKly. As soon
as tho young plants tiirow out leaves
Bcattcr wood ashes along tho row. Give
tho croji extra attention when tho plants
are young, and but little work will bo re
quired later on.
The best time to uso the cultivator is
on warm, dry daya. All weeds and grass
will then bo quickly killed by tho sun,
and will havo no opportunity to take
root and grow, if the ground is damp
when it ia cultivated tlio weeds and grass
will not be entirely destroyed and the
work may have to bo done over again.
Sweet potato plants should now bo
spreading, ami unless they aro cultivated
the task will bo more difficult nfter tho
vines cover the ground. They should be
hilled up in order to avoid heavy mins.
It is not too lato to replant the missing
places if a handful of fertilizer bo scatter
ed around the plants that may bo sot out.
Green tomatoes fried are preferred by
somo peoplo to tho egg plant, and may
well take its place; cut tho outer slices
oil", and then cut the inner part in slices
about half an inch thick, roll them in
Hour and fry in butter; sprinklo pepper
and salt on them. Thia may bo used as
an entree or a garnish with meat of any
kind.
A pretty Chair. A friend of ours witli
moro tastb than money is constantly Bur
prising her acquaintances with littlo ex
hibitions of ingenuity. Ono of tlio latest
of her achievements is this : Scimwhoro
alieut tlio house was an old-faahioned,
rush bottomed rocker, a relic of tlio days
of our grandparents, a comfortable chair
enouuh to sit in, but wearing a corroE
jKindingly time-worn appearance. Out
of its hiding placo my friend brought this
uncomely affair and applied a coublo of
coats of vermillion to it, which quite me
tamorphosed its nppearanee. A square
of homespun linen, okl out good and
strong aim mellowed by time into a soft
cream color, mado a capital cover for a
cushion to tho Bame. A spray of flowers
mingled with wheat heads, worked in
CTewela, serves as ornamentation for thia
cushion, and thero isn't a prettier chair
in town for the amount of time and trou
ble cxionded uon it.
Plowing Sod. It is a question rarely
decided among farmers at what time it is
best to plow sod for a corn crop. Tills
question is best 6jttlel by considering
what is expect ed otthiB operation. Tlio
great jKint is that tlio corn crop9 shall
procure a largo iortion of ita nutriment
from it ; another is that the corn may be
planted on fresh clean ground so that it
may get ahead of Mio weeds by rapid and
vigorous germination. How, then, can
these important points bo best secured?
Clearly by permitting tho herbago to
grow aa long as jKMsible, and by defer
ring tho plowing until tho last moment.
Then a largo quantity of tho most ac
ceptable food for tho young corn iB
ploved under; tho soil is mellow, moist
and fresh : planting is done under tlio
best conditions. The seeds of weeda
will sprout quickly and u light harrow
ing before tho corn is up will destroy tlio
germs and clean tho ground of myriads
of them, lightening the after-labor of cul
tivating the crop. A top-dressing of ma
nuro on tho sod before the plowing will
bo a gre?' assistance.
PORTLAND MARKET.
ACTIVITY CONTINUES IN THE MEB-
CHANDISE MAR&ET.
Sugars Remain Firm at Last Quotations
Provisions are Active Wool
Weak and Lower Butter
and Cheese Firm.
In the local merchandise markets the
general activity continues, and has been
.considerably increased during the past
few days by the unexpected demands from
Spokane. Tho draw-back of unfairly dis
criminating rates is not considered when
people aro homeless and hungry. Time
is tho main object, and time at least is
Baved by getting supplieB here. City re
tailors report a seasonably quiet week's
trade. Tho decline of &c on all grades
of sugar noted last week has not varied
since. The provision market is active,
but one or two changes being noted. But
ter and cheese are firm and advancing,
both here and in California, tho result of
the dry weather. Tho wool market is still
weak and lower. The grain market has
not moved much, and shippera continue
their quotations.
GROOEKIES.
Sugars, Golden C 6aC. extra C Gc.
dry-granulated 8KU cube, crushed and
powdered 8c. Coffee : Guatamala 19y
3l, Java 2527c, Costa Rica 21
22,c, Mocha 37c, Rio 21M22Kc.
roasted Java 3032c, Arbuckle's roasted
23c. I
PllOVIBIONS. 9
Oregon haml313c, breakfast bacon
1213c, sideB'J10c, Eastern ham 13
14c, breakfast bacon 12c, sides 9)e,
shoulders Uv. Lard 9c.
FRUITS.
Peaches 75c$1.50, apples $11.25,
lemons $8, Sicily $7.60, pears $11.25.
OHIED FRUITS.
Apples 45c, evaporated 6(5'c Bliced
6c, pears 8c, peaches 810c, Oregon
plums a4, petite prunes owoc, uerman
50c, prunes, Italian 7c, Bilver bc7c,
Ualiiorma tigs 7c, Smyrna ugs I4(cibc,
apricota 13(sl4c, raisins $1.75(2.25 per
box.
VEGETABLES. '
Potatoes, now, $11.10, sweets Z per
Hi, onionB $1.10, green peas 6c.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter, Oregon lancy 30c, medium
17(d'2Gc, common 1012c. Eastern
22c, California 1820c.
EGGS.
Eggs 1820c.
POULTRY.
Chickens $34, broilera $2.503, olcT
$5.500, young geeso $810.
WOOL.
Valley 1822c, Umpque 2022c, Eastr
ern Oregon 1015!.
nors. '
Hops 1012Kc.
GRAIN.
Wheat, Vallev $1.20(1.22, Eastern
Oregon $1.101.12. Oats40o.
FLOUR.
Standard $4.25, other brands $3.75 1
3.90.
FEED.
Hay $1314 per ton, bran $14.5015,
chop $1820, shorts $16.5017, barley
$2022.50.
FRESH MEATS.
Beef, live. 23e, dressed, 66Jc,
mutton, live, 3c, dressed 67c, hogs live
6c, dressed, 77c ; veal 68c.
Warning to'-Chinese Dudes.
Tho acting Govornor of Kiangsu,
Hwang, has issued a proclamation call
ing attention to tho sumptuary laws of
tho collooted statutes of tho Ta-ts'ing
Dynasty, which ho says will bo vigor
ously onforced as regards wearing ap
purol. Tlio pooplo of this province
(which includes Soochow and Shang
hai), are, ho observes, notoriously ex
travagant in their way of living, striv
ing to surpass oach othor in tho rich- s
nous of their npparol, nnd thoir want '
of propriety is shown in tho crowdod
state of flower boats and restaurants
whoro mon and women nssomblo to
gether. Tho bright-colored jackets
and waistcoats of the young mon, em
broidered at neck and sleoves with
flowers and other oruumonts, are shock
ing to tho view of sober, respectable
citizens, who know that money shouiJ
not. bo squandered by mon on such
thincs. It is u Governor's dutv to
watch ovor tho behavior of tho neonlo
committed to his charge, and ho warns
thorn, therefore, that young men
dressed in a foolish, extra vagant way
will bo arrested and punished, and tho
responsibility of thoir fathers, older
brothers and tutors will not bo over
looked. Pokln Gnzotto.
Seaside hctol proprietor (anxious
ly) "Hasn't tho soa sorpont boon re
ported to-day yot?" Olllco boy "Noa
sir; no ono he, soon it" "Look1.
Thero conies a Milling party in now.
Rush down to tho beach and ask them
If thoy saw " "No use, sir; that's
a tomporanco crowd." Philadelphia
Rocord.
"I can't understand. Bobby." said
his father, "why you should quarrel slo
much with Tommy White. Your
mother tolls mo you quarrel with him
most of tho timo." "I can't help it,
pa," replied Bohjty, thoughfully. "I
guoss I must got my disposition from
you and ma."
William Meetz killed James Craik at
Charleston, S. C, on tho 3d. Tho caso
was somewhat similar to that in which
Dr. Dow Killed Editor Dawson.
Tho Interstate Railway Association is
formulating a plan which w ill bring tl.o
Canadian Pacific under the Bamo restric
tions imposed upon roads in this country.
A 13-ycar-old lad, named Logan, from
near .buinuuruh. arrived at Now York or
tho 5th, having a tag in hia hutton-hoj
directed to .Mra. J. Chellsrand of Eurei,
Cal.
Tho Idal n Pniislilntintnl Pn vpntinrn
in its framed provisions, excludes olyg-
amists and those who behove in jolyg
amy and plural marriages, and disfran
chises ail mormons.