The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918, September 19, 1889, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SCOUT. JL CHANCEY, - PublUhors UNION OREGON. CLAY AS A DIET. fcopl In Alabama Who V.at Clay 1'rom Infancy and I.Ike It. "Thoso pooplo nro clay-caters." Tho pooplo roferrod to wcro a group of men and women of various ngos who had gatherod at a country store in Winston County, Ala., to barter a few eggs and chickens for coffuo and to bacco. They woro poorly clad, men and women woro barefooted, and three children in tho party were also baro Jootod. Tho cloy eaten by theso people is found along tho banks of tho small mountain streams in inoxhaustlblo quantities. It is of n dry, whlto color usually; sometimes a pale yellow. It has a peculiarly oily appearance, and this oil keeps it from sticking to tho Tiand9 or mouth. Whon dry it docs not crutnhlo, and a few drops of water will enslly soften it until it enn bo rolled into any shape desired. It is almost without taste but must possess Ronio nourishment, and these pcoplo dcclaro they can subsist upon it for days. Thoy place a smnll piece in tho mouth and hold it there till it gradu ally dissolves and is swallowed In Bmall quantities at a time. Tho quantity eaten at one timo varies from a lump as largo as a pea for the child or beginner to a lump as largo as a hen's egg for thoso who have eaten it for years. 'How did you learn to cat tho clay?" 1 asked of a inan whoso faco was almost the color of tho stuff ho was eating. "Dunno," ho answered. "1 seen pap and t'othcrs oatin' it, an' I got at it." "Docs tho habit grow until you ac quire a tasto for this stuff?" "Huh?" "Can yon quit eating clay?" "Dunno; never tried." "Has the stuff a pleasant taste?" "If 'twant good I wouldn't be oatin' it," and tho native drew a second lump from his pocket and began to eat it with relish. Tho only bad eff ct of elay eating seems to bo tho peculiar appearance it gives tho skin of thoso who becomo addleted to tho habit. Tho skin turns pale; so pale, in fact, as to givo tho faco tho pallor of death, and thon later on it turns a peculiar pale yellow, a color closely resembling nomo of tho clay oaten. Children who become addicted to the habit grow old, at least in nppcaronce, prematurely, and their faces lose forever tho bright glow of youth and health. Thoro is llttlo sickness among the clay eaters, and thoy live as long us tho average of mankind; so it is conclusive that tho habit is not fatal in lis effects. JJ. Y. Times. WHAT A WORD DID. J!iv XnpU'r Win I'ormiuilpil l Writo Ills HUtiiry ill" thfi I'euliisuliir Wur. A word whispered on nn Alplno slopo may precipitate nn avalanche, and a suggestion spokvn by a friend may start a man in an honorable career. Sir William Napier, disabled by an in curable wound, and living on half-pay, was walking one day in London with Lord Langdalo. Napier had boon dab bling in painting and sculpture, and had written for the Edinburgh Re view an able artiolo on domlnl's great work on military operations. The two friends conversed, whllo walking, on .Southoy's narrative of tho Peninsular war. then fresh from the press, and Lord Langdalo was struck by Napier's remarks concerning tho events of the struggle, In which ho himself had achieved distinction. "Napier, what are you going to do?" suddenly asked Langdalo. "Do you moan whore am I going to dlnuP" answered Napier. "No, no. What are you thinking of doing for an occupation? You ought to give yourself to literature. Your article on .loinlni proves that you can write. Why not write a his tory of the war?" Napier wont home to tell his wife what Lord Langdalo had Mild. He added that ho doubted whether he was clever oiioukIi to write a history of the war. She believed In her hus band's talents, and was anxious that ho should take up some serious occu pation, and accordingly encouraged him to try. Ho did try. Day after day he labored at the desk. His wife, though burdened with the cares of a largo family, was his counsellor and umuinioiislc She deciphered the whole of Joseph Hoiuiparte's secret cor respondence, written In a cipher which had hauled all tho experts, who had un dertaken to read it. "1 would have given twenty thou hand pounds," said Wellington, on hearing of her sweet-, "to any por tion who could have done that for me in tho Peninsular." J'lvo years after tho conversation with Lord Langdalo the first volume of tho "History of tho Peninsular War" was published. It made Us author famous. Tho public were delighted 1o read tho book of one who hail nobly shared in making the history he so eloquently narrated. Ills descriptions of battles, o logos and marches stirred tho hearts of readers, and school-boy declaimed his most brilliant passages. Hut tho sluyile word of a friend had darted the historian to his work. One llttlo fellow, on bulng asked if ho was not sorry that the school term was over promptly rospoluled; No, sir; I'm glad, for I jtut want to go to soiiio place- where I can hollerl I'm tired of keeping Mill." -Ihudob EASTERN ITEMS. AMERIOAU TOURISTS ARBB8TBD IN SWITZERLAND. Robbed the Mnlla Mexico not Satisfied With Consul General S&mpaoa Will Deliver Meesages-A Trotting Horse Seized. Minister Phelps has sailed for Germany Tho Citizen' Bank at Prairie City, Iowa, has failed. John Grata, tho great Sioux chief, is dying from sunstroke. Chipped beef In pound boxes is having a run in Philadelphia. Tho prico of real estate in Newark, Del., has doubled recently. Georgia is about to pension the widows oi ner Lxmieuerauj ucau. A Detroit man bought a 60-cent raffle ticket.anu drew n cnurcn. North Dakota will hold its election on the first Tuesday in October. Holzhay, tho Gogebic Btago-robber, is now in jau at jweoimur, uuiu. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is to establish a pension Bysteui. Mrs. Catherine Sullivan, the mother of the pugilist, died in Moston on uio wui Pierre. 8. D.. is coming forward aa a prominent candidate lor uio uapiuu cny. Tim fflmnvti 1 nf tin' remains of General Grant to Washington is again being agitated. ill nnt tnnkn another trial. and will accept the penalty for deficient horse- power. At present tho South is building more railway mileago than any other part of the country- There are fifteen men and one woman in New York Tombs prison awaiting trial for homicido. Georgia 1h 125,000.000 richer than she was last year, according to tho reports of tho assessors. Gas got into the sewer and caused an explosion at Fourteenth street and Broad way, New iorK. Three routes ore being survoyed for the proosed avenuo from Washington City to Mount Vernon. Rev. Charles Wingate, pastor of tho Church of Ft. John Uio Evangelist at Haverhill, Mass., is dead. W. H. Seloment, General Delivery Clerk in tho St. Paul Postoilleo, has been arrest cd for robbing tho mails. Bob Younger, one of tho three noted outlaw brothem, is dying of consumption in the Penitentiary at Stillwater, Minn. Tho legality of tho annexation of tho suburbs of Chicago to that city is to be decided by tho Supremo Court of Illinois. Two colored men named Young and Garrett have induced 1)11 colored men to locate upon Government laud in Okla homa. II. 11. Turner, an Englishmen, was found in his room at Denver dead. Both murder and suicido theories have lecn formed. General Crook has been directed to take steps to prevent trouble lietween tho Indians and the whites in Western Colorado. Tho Dominion customB ollkers have seized tho well-known trotting horse Dave Thompson on Uio ground of under valuation. Tho Grant Monument at Fort Leaven worth, Ivan., will be unveiled on Septem ber 14th, with orations by Senator Ingulls and others. It is said that Moxico will ask the United States to recall General Samiwon, tho newly upiointed American Consul at Paso del Norte. Mrs. Mary Donnelly, tho nurse who was stabbed by Mrs. Robert Hay Hamil ton nt Atlantic Citv. N. J., has been de clared out of danger. Dr. Potel, of Portland, Or., while tGii.porarUy insane, jumped from a Bleep-inu-car somewhere in Nebraska recenUv, while on his way West. Thoro are eleven or twelve thousand less Chinese now in British Columbia than thero were some Unie ago. Tho $50 head tax had its elicit. Tho School Directors of the Conemaugh Valley have issued an apHal for help to rebuild tho school-houses washed away in the Johnstown Hood. The trouble between tho Now England vo.lo luiu luutu iiriii'ticnllv settled, the Canadian Pacific and Vermont Central agreeing to pay commissions. Wanamoker promises to the Western Union that in consideration for reduced rates tho Postoilleo Department will undertake to deliver messages. rw.willim n. Oninlmi. a nroinineut uuitiviiiiii v. -v r a - .... seller of cattlo, has been swindled at Kansas City out ot about -'u,miu y mm Ginon, a sharp gambler from Chicago. Briorly, the lover of Mrs. Maybrick, has reached Boston. Ho declares Mr. M.,,.Krt..i- u.iiu tlin victim of a consoiracv. .ill, , u... -- " . ' -ind" this he hoped eventually to prove. Houston, Texas, asks Northern capital ,i ,,wiiiii nf L'.MU00 to Invest with allko amount of Houston funds to go into the cotton iiianuiai'uiru m uuu uij. The Supreme Legion of Select Knights, i....:..,.. nj,ir nf llnliisl Workmen, has ,.1iu.t.i itu lilixtniiil session at Kansas Citv , IVDl ... .,-"- w ami will hold Its next meeting at Pitts burg. ti... i.v,il Imiiln nn Milwaukee Bnv. in honor of the G. A. K. encampment, was a grand success. One vessel of ' tho enemy's was mown up mm nuumw burned, The Conistock Tunnel Company has filed a certificate of Incorporation nt in w v (tiu.nilinMM will lie carrieil on in tho town of Sutro and counties of Lyon, Storey, Washoe ana isevuua. in... Pliinniiii !uinrn who recenUv electrified New York nro still In that city, . a t . I l...ll,lt itl.lld and local l mnanieu uiieuu ihuiiiiuk i a theatre in which they can bring out the 11.7 historical dnunus of their rojiertoire. A deposit of nsphult hna been ills (Hnventort Kv. It covers a largo area mid is thirteen feet thick. It is just iH'low uio minaco uuu caw i iiilnvfd at vwv nirtll cost. rOKKIMM FliAMHKH. Wlffftns KDlghted-Boul&nger Orola Ins In tbe Mediterranean Mr. Gladstone's Library. The Czarowich is to make a tour of the world. China propeflcs to develop her iron in dustries. A famine is threatened in Eastern Transylvania. The Pope has bad his largo bed-room tuiea wiui tanging mras. Bonlanger has left for a three month's cruise in the Mediterranean. The French Government has taken cliarge of the telephone stations. It is proposed by the Salvation Amy to establish, a noepitai in ixnuon. A lady advertises in tho London Times that she "gives lessons in tennis. Weather Prophet Wiggins is to be ..... - . ! TITI O knignted by yueen v iciona. n ny i Fanners in Franco are agitating ior 1 If ! , fA.i(m MMMlllI more provecuou uaumi. iui v-cv. Tho Maybrick committee has resolved to agitate lor a pardon for Mrs. Maybrick. t, TVntrn nt VHn a in a mieer Dosition. Ho is not his wife's equal ; yet he is her peer. A charter has been granted for tho first :i i t :umo T .. ill lw RTM milps raiiruuu in uiuituid. .v " . long. London iB to have a "monkeries," at which 1,000 monkeys will be on exhibi tion. A movement for higher wages is going on in nearly all Uie industries of Central Europe. The Cologne Gazette makes a sharp attack on the now colonial iolicy of Germany. The Prince of Wales homo farms at Sandringliam now extend over two hun dred acres. rrvii.-fniinrr. nf tho prnnH of MontenetTro will compel a wholesale exodus of the population. Most of tho large cities of Europe and many small ones now have their English newspapers. It is reported that Armenia will appeal to tho Czar to protect Christians from Turkish outrages. lino nronntoA the invitation of tho United States to atteud Uie Inter national Congress. Red Jim McDermott, the alleged Irish traitor, is in London. He says ho don't fear leing murdered. London is to have a "honeymoon hotel," to which only newly married couples will bo admitted. The oldest public house in England is the Seven Shirs at Manchester. It dates back to the Ume of Edward III. It io believed in Paris that C. P. Hunt ington will not consent to the marriage ot his daughter with Prluco Hntzfeldt. John W. Mackay, in behalf also of Mrs. Mackay, has "denied emphatically that his wife has ever helped Boulanger. The balance sheet of tho late Mel bourne Centennial Exhibition has been pub lished. It reveals a deficiency of .244,000. Emperor William has sent a palm and laurel wreaUi to lo placed on the coffin of tho late Crown l'rinie ltudolph of Aus tria. Four moie cotton mills at Blackburn, England, have given notice that Uiey will shut down. Oii6 thousand hands will bo idle. Tho Brazilian Government has negotia ul rWli n lm-jil Imnk tor the loan of 10.- 000,000 at 4 per cent, the issuing price being DO. nnmnntWinn bntwppn UllRsinil and En glish buvers in China has sent the price for teas L'O to 30 per cent higher than it was las year. Tim Ru-nJInh iviin noser. Ivor Ilallstrom. has just completed nn opera, Neaga. the libretto of which is by Queen ElizabeUi of Kouinanin. Vii'o-rVmniil Eik-iir Took, in ehanro of the United States Consulate-General in Miclioacan, is sending samples of coffee to tho United States. Peter Jackson and Parson Davies ar rived in London on the 150th and were given an immense reception. Jackson P 1 ,1 1 .'1 i.. f t ...1. .,11 lias cnauengcu miuiu, flavin ur.uui-m.-u. A cremation society, the first of its kind, has been for. tied in Finland, and as soon as it has been recognized by the auUiorities, a crvni.itoriuin will be created. Tho diiMiitv of Judge Stephen, who condemned Mrs. Maybrick to death, is said to have been dreadfully hurt by the commutation of that unfortunate woman's sentence. Gormaiiv looks upon F.mperor Wil liam's recent grand reception in the cap tured provinces ot Alsace- and lyirnuno as an Indication that they are being Ger manized. The Spanish Government has olfered two prizes fr),7iai and f-'.wo wnicn will be awarded in 18t2 for tho two iK'st eswij'B on the life of Christopher Columbus. A PnriB dispatch says tho French Government has declined to accede to Uio request of tho ioplo of New Hebrides lor uio nnnexnuon oi uio islands by France. The 111-ton irun Is being tried at Shoe- burvness with a proieetilo weighing iinnr v a ton. but witn iw pouiuis oi powder. The concussion Is less than from the 81-ton gun. m... nf Wnntiiiinatiir In Hf'tivelv (.., ..I l. tlin KiiHiltii- 1 jmmt, nf lin- nnt. j run. in .... -... --n - don, which seeks to have a proper Kteat britbh metropolw. tu uiimliniv imntlior nriroRH tn dieted. Miss Mym Kembl-j is Uio young woman s name, ami ouu ia;a un higher walks of tho drama. ni. ...... ..I iitlli. )utu-rwn IViver and tlui j I11V..11V. wit.-"- wv... . , , Continent continues at the highest hu man tide. No less thaTi five extra mail packets r now employe! to convey pas sengers, making sixtwn in all. i... ...llij ...... .,itn,ii.. nf HjiHnnr'H nroiv- i iiiitvii o .v - - - i . osition for a government endowment of .i... rv.tl.Mi.. r,,iv.rnitv nf Ireliiml is con- bidivt! the opening wedgo of n mtlition iK-twceii tho iiirueiiiicti au lunva, , THE PACIFIC COAST. LINKVILUS. OR. DBSTROTBD BY F1RB. Two Sulcedea at Taooata The Blame Laid to Campers Noted Outlaw Captured Stages Robbed Postal Appointments. The 8-hour movement is being agitated at Portland. Los Angeles has voted on bonding for an ontlall sewer. Butte, M. T., is threatened by Uie in cendiary's torch. The Marysvillo and Placerville fairs opened on the 3d. An electric railway is to be built from Tacoma to Seattle. Tho lighthouse tender Manzanita is bo- repairod at Astoria. Postmaster R. P. Dearborn of Salem Or., died on the 29th. Colusa is arresting and jailing Uie Sal vation Army followers. Buildings worth $30,000 axe in process of construction at Ukiah. An ice-house is being built at Boca that will store 6,000 tons. j Chico has ordered a large number of hard looidng cases out of town. j The Oregon crop yield is not up to that . of last year, but the quality is superior . Tho Odd Fellows of Ellensburg, W. T., , have let a contract for a $30,000 building, j The Victoria, B. C, scaling schooner , Theresa has been wrecked near Cape ; Beale. j It took a Fresno jury just fifteen min-; utes to find Walter L. Eldin guilty of : arson. ! Charles P. Boyer has been appointed postmaster at Porter, Chehalis county, Wus. Ter. j Forest fires are raging in Cottonwood ' Valley and on Uie fooUiills north of Cottonwood. Davis & Co.'s stable at Butte, M. T., was burned on Uio 30 tn, with twenty seven horses. Pulver, the jockey of Mark L., who was injured in a collision died at Santa Rosa on Uie 29th. An unknown mam jumped irom Uio eastbound train near Tacoma on the 8th and was instantly killed. E. Z. Baruett, a photographer of Mo desto, is in a precarious condition, owing to an overdose ot cmorai. i W. L. Bradshaw of The Dalles, and t William Hathway of Portland, have been ' appointed notaries public. Incindiuries are supposed to be at work . in the neighborhood of Orland. Four fires have occurred recenUy. ! Mary Kesterson has lieen appointed postmistress of the new postoffice at Syc- j amore, Multnomah county, Ot. There aro 13,150,000 acres of arid land Angles land district. 4.000:000 of which arc subject to irrigation. Tiio Washington Territory republic ana ' have nominated C. P. Ferrj- for governor and John L. Wilson for congress. John Nelson, a telephone lineman, was badly burned bv electricity at SeatUe on 1 the 6Ui hist., while repairing a wire. ; Atlolph Ottinger, a well known Ucket broker of San Francisco, has been fined . $100 for selling a worthless Bcalp ticket. A elate quarry is leing opened three miles bouth of Copperpolis. There is. said to be a huge ledge there of excellent , quality. , Dave Campbell, of Portland, has teen j matched to tight Con Riordan in the Gol den Gate Club. San Francisco, in Novem-' ber next. The bridge at Lane's crossing on the Snn .Tmiiiiiin river has been accented. This will bring a large country tributary to rresno. J. G. Tuttle of Danuba, Fresno county, ! luiu Iw.im nrreuteil nnd chamed wiUi per- ' jury for giving false tesUmony in a horse-, stealing case. A,,.M..ot KSupher. imrn in Herlin Aucust. 24, l.SU'7, an exile from Germany, com- nutted suicuio uy urnwniug in ijil- m n laniette river, on the 30th. Florence Cross, the notorious prosti tute who was found dead in F. Eugene Clark's room at Tacoma, on the 8th inst., is supiosed to have committed suicide. F. Eugene Clark, shipping clerk of the Stewarts Holmes Drug Company, atTa-1 coma, attempted suicide on iho.sth, but ptiysiciaii3 brougiu mm arounu an ngui. Sylvestro Morales, the Santa Ana Val ley outlaw, has been captured. The 10-. year-old girl whom he induced to leave j lier homo was found with him in the woods. . 1 i Tim i.vi.jir-nlii Rnn nf John Mitchell lell down an abandoned shaft in theJumlK). district, Nov., and was instantly killed. , Mitchell is a miner in the Consolidated California. All tho troops and other Government , employes in Yellowstono . Park have i leen engaged during tho last week in tighUng fires. The otlicers in command blame campers. The largest bar of gold over cast in the j world was turned out nt the Unied States i iiBsav ollico at Helena, M. T., recently.! It weighed 500 pounds and is worth a; w.ii ...... ifv ivvi I 1 1 1 UK' li IW,WV. A lone roblwr capturoil the south and northlKiund stawB near Unkville, Or., last week, and presumably obtained con siderable money. Ho was a young follow and wore no mask. James McGuftio. of Anakeim, Cal., .went to San Pedro on Uio 8th and shot and killed his divorced wife, and then Bhot himself, which may prove fatal. He hail lived wiUi his wife sixteen years. Tho United States District Attorney nt Portland has filed in tho United States Circuit Court tweuty-ono voluminous complaints in suits brought to secure the forfeiture of wagon road grants in Ore gon. Unkville. Or., was the scene of n very disastrous tire on tho Oih inst. The en tire business tKirtlon was destroyed, and many prosierous business men aro to day peuuillees, The total loss will reach HOUR AND FA KM. Moisture and Manure-Hoa; Pastures Repairing Tins-Smotbered Quail Peach Fritters Notes. Apply coal oil or turpentine on the roosting places occasionally in the morn ing. This will destroy vermin effectually and if given Ume to evaporate will not whiten the yellow legs of your fowls. To preserve butter any lenirth of Ume work out first Uie buttermilk; Becnnd, use rock salt; Uiird, pack in air tight cans or jars ; fourth, keep in a cool place, With this treatment butter can be kept sweet several months. A Georgia farmer prevents cows from jumping a fence by cutting off their lower lashes moke Uiero think Uie fence is three Umes as high as it really is. U you cut the upper lashes a reverse delu sion will result, he says. Wood ashes, where available, aro Uio cheapest fertilizer for fruit trees. In their absence, bone manure three parts, and m urate of potash (German salts) of high grade, one part, have Uie strong in dorsement of the Massachusetts Agricul tural College. Smothered Quail. Pick, split down Uio bock, remove all inside and wash thoroughly wiUi salt and werm water; drain well, rub with flour and place in a baking pan, breast down ; sprinkle salt anil pepper, and on each bird lay a piece of butter ; keep plenty of water in the pan to keep from scorching. Bake a deep brown. Sponge Pudding. One quart of milk, sweetened to taste, one quarter of a pound of flour, six eggs. Boil the milk, stir in the flour and sugar ;,let boil one minute, remove, and let stand two or three hours. About one-half hour tie fore it is ready to serve add tho eggs leaten to a froth ; pour into a greased pan ; set in another pan idled wiui boii in water, and bake fortv-five minutes. To make red-cabbage salad choose a small, firm head; take of tho outer leaves and cut the rest into very thin slices; if you can shave it fine it will le all the nicer; mix with two teaspoonfuls of salt, three teaspoonfuls of salia oil, or of clari fied butter, a little curry powder if you like. This salad is nice for two or Uiree days after it iB prepared if it is kept where it is cool ; if you prefer a sweet Balod, add sugar. Moisture and Manure. A scientific writer tells m that, however rich land may bo in available plant food, crops can never get it txcept Uirough moisture henco failures U.at coie through drought. F'armers complain beca'ise Uiey cannot get enough manure, but water is even more important and tbev employ no means to save tho abundanc? that, if properly stored for use, asn easily might be, would make droughts irapo3siblo. Peach fritters are delicious, and ire c welcome moisel to Ui6se deluded peop.9 who prefer fruit cooked. Make a nice smooth batter of flour and sweet milk, add egg and salt to your taste. Peel and cut the peaches in halves, removing the stones, of course ; dip the piecf s of peach in tho batter, and fry in hot Is rd. It will take about ten minutes to fry them prop erly. Drain them by placir j them on a very hot plate, scatter powdered sugar over them, and send to the table hot. The Barberry as a Hedge. Here is an item which will interest those who some time ago inquired if the barberry would make a good hedge. The common bar berry makes a verv elegant screen. The long racemes of yellow blossoms, followed by crimson fruit, aro very ornamental. "For an effective hedge to turn stock, the bushes should Ihj planted in a double row, wiUi an interval of twenty inches. The plants are readily propagated from seeds, cuttings or suckers. The cultiva tion is very simple, requiring only fairly rich soil, kept free from weeds "for the first few years. If a Uiick growth is le siral cut tho back severely the second ppring after planUng, and thereafter prune Uie hedge into shaie yearly." Hog Pastures. Ohio swine feeders re commend cool cinders as excellent for filling low laces in pig lots to prevent muddy wallows. Sows enjoy eating coal or ashes. F)ven anthracite coal is not passed by them. A sow with young pigs should not run in clover fields or high grass. Pigs becomo chilled, and are un comfortable much of the day. Then, short blue grass pastures are best. Sows and pigs should have access to grass lots at all times, unless, just as the frost comes out, tho sod is injured by the tramping. To prevent rotting the sod, two or three rings will cure the oldest rooter. When pigs are five or six weeks old they should bo taught to eat soaked corn and milk or sweet slop, kept whero the sews cannot reach it. Repairing tins. Farmers who live re mote from any place whero there is a tin smith are often troubled by leaks in tin roofs, or cave troughs. Any farmer can repair them and make them stronger than before. Find the leak, and apply a good coat of rather thick paint ; put on a piece of old Imgging or coarse muslin, then a second coat of paint, rubbing it well in and smoothly. Then cover with a pieco of tin, nailing it down tighUy close to Uio edge, using large headed tacks; thoso known as 24 or 30-oz. Swede's iron tacks are best. Then givo another coat of paint, and the leak is not only repaired, but that part will last much longer than the rest. Old fiuit cans aro just tho thing for the puriwse ; set them on top of a hot stove till the solder is melted, and then flatten them out. Iruning Roses. It is an astonishing thing to see how, year after year, tho chan ces of obtaining the most lieau'iful roso blooms are frittered away through unin telligent pruning of the plants, even in gardens of great reputation. Thero are thousands of rose bushes ali over the country, which, in spite of being found m spring to navo mane line growui dur ing the previous season, never produce good flowers, and the explanation is gen erally to Ihj found in the fact Uiat no rea sonable plan is followed in pruning. The commonest mistake is tho leaving of the older branching spray wood that has al ready flowered. Dwarf roso bushes at the beginning of the year generally con sist of sovenU much-branched stems which carried bloom in Uie previous sum mer, and several strong, straight shoots springtig from Uio base of tho plant. In Sie case of hybrid perpetuals, hese older branching stems should Ik? cut completely out, leaving only the new shoota from the base which themselves should lie then considerably shortened. If Uie old spray wood bo left in it prodiicca no flowers worth liav'ug, while Uie weak and crowded growths with wldeh it be comes covereu afford a perfect harborago to ever) known rose pest. PORTLAND MARKET, j ORDBRB COMING IN RAPIDLY FROX ALL HKCXIONS. Tbe Price of Ooffeee Well Matnla iXKK- Sugars Tory Boarce VeffetatriM In Good Supply Wheat . Market Billl Dull. T The local merchandise markets report an active trade for Uie week in most lines, and orders coming in rapidly from allBOctions. A generally confidant feel ing in Uio future prospects prevail. Tfaa prices of coffees are well maintained, tt e New York market still advancing. Fresh fruits are all firm in price, and Uie mj(r kct is acUve. In dairy produce and poul try, Uio market is firm at quotations. The wheat market is stilt dull and undefined. The wool market remains dull in sym pathy with Uie East. Th2ro is still a ten dency to crowd the market with fresh meats, though priceB are the same a last wetk. We quote : QBOCKKIKS. Sugars, Golden 0 Oc. extra C 0?4c, dry granulated 8,c. cube, crushed rM po'wdereil 8,4c Coffee: Guatamala '224, Java 3032c, Costa Rica 21 2c, llocha 37Mc, Rio 2-2Sc, roasted Java 3032c, Arbuckla's roasted PROVISIONS. Oregon ham 1313eC, breakfast bncou 12t(Sloc, sides 9jl tie. Eastern ham 13 14c, breakfast bacor. lUjC, sides Pi', shoulders Dc. Lard 8?4C. ' KRUITb. Peaches 75c$1.50, apples $11.'.!5, lemons $8', Sicily $7.50, pears $lt.'J-i. OKIEI) KKUITS. Apples 45c, evaporated CtSO'sc sliced 6c, pears 8c. peaches 810c, Oregon plums 34, petite pruues 5(T(k.', German 5ivUc, prunes, Italian 7c, silver ttJ27c, California figs 7c, Smyrna fins 14Ukv ap.icots 1314c, raisins $1.75(2.2o per box. VEGETABLES. Potatoes, new, $l1.10, sweets :J Hel per tti, onions $1, green peas Go. i DAIKV PRODUCE. J Butter, Oregon tanev 30c, dairv 25(327c, common 10i2Jc. Eastern 22c, California 1820c. BUGS. Eggs 2022is'c. POULTRY. Chickens $33.50. broilers $22.50, old $4(24.25, young geese $8010, turkeys lc per It). wool. . ' Valley 17010c, Dmpque 1920e, Ext ern Oregon 10(gl4:. HOPS. Hops 11c. GRAIN. iVheat, Vallev $1.201.222, Eastrn Oregon $1.10'31.125. Oats 37j40') new 363Se. FLOUR. Standard (4.25, other brands $3.75 3 00. FEED. Hay $1314 per ton, bran $14.50 chop $1820, shorts $10.50, barlyv $2022.50. i KIIKSU MEATS. Beef, live. dressed, tic; mutton, live, 2?b(T:3o. dressed, Gc; hogs live, S'Sc. Venison continue in fair supply, with a like demand. - rot unfit porridge, 'isiKt' two tnble fi)oonf ills of Hour and half a teaipootiful of salt; stir up with a oupofswrot milk. Have a skillet With a cup of niilK aiuLa cup of water boiling on the lire; turn'n the thickened Hour and let it boll up once, stirring it all the time o it will not scorch. - To can fruit, with tho juice rich mid delicious, you must not put a drop of wator in it. Tho water fades tho fruit, and renders it tasteless. Stow fruit in its ow n juice. Tho juice can bo extracted from ovor-ripo and inferior fruit to can with. Frliit canned in this way Is rich and delicious, and will kei t (or years. Potato Salad. Cut cold potatoes in small slices. Put into a dish two oggs, seven tiiblespoonfuls of vinngar, ono 4tnhlcspoouful of butler and half a tea spoonful of mustard. Put the dish into boiling water and stir until tho dressing is as thick as good cream. Add salt and pepper and pour all over the pota toes Hood Housekeeping. " - -When lire briccs heroine cracked thoy niav bo mended w it li a cement formed of equal parts of salt and soaj stono powder (which is bought of any druggist). Mix tlio-o ingredients with water to a thick 'paste, and apply. To romovo cliukurs from lire brlcK, put an oyster shell or two on a dour, bright lire, and tho bricks will bo bright atid clei'ji We grow wise as we grow older, but it is by forgetting what we though i wo know. Life. A Feaspoouful of powdered 'borax v dissolved in a quart of tepid water, is good for cleaning old black silk, cash mere or alpaca. For earache a pinch of red pepper gathered up in a pieco of cotton bat ting, wot with sweet oil and iuM-rtcdu the ear. w ill givo relief. Horry 'roam Cuke. Two eggs, a cupful of sugar, a cupful of sour cream, i teaspoonful of sodu, two cupfuls of hurries, and Hour to make a slitf battor' - Whon troubled with neuralgic pains heat a Hat-iron, put a double fold of Hannol on tho painful part, then move tho iron to and fro on the Hannol. The pain will coaso almost Immedi ately. To whlton Hannol, dissolvo half r. pound whlto Boap In fifty pounds of wator, add two-thirds of an ounco of spirits of ammonia, immerse tho tlannol and stir well around for a short tlmcj r.nso well in pur uati-r. A family oiin be uoinfuriab less boat und more fronh air tuair i generally supposed; and in rooms heal ed by fu-naces or btovos and lighted hi, ;; loo much care regarding utila ttot can not be exembed.