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At THE OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers UNION OREGON. THE PETROLEUM SUPPLY. A. Member of lVniinylvniiln' OoolojfleaJ Snrvry Tit k pa it (Jloiimjr Vlow. John F. Carll is assistant geologist of tho Stiito of Pennsylvania, and for Msvoral years it lias been his especial business to collect statistics and nil avallablo information regarding potro loum and natural gas. In conversation with Prof. Carll he expressed some rather scnsntional opinions regarding tho futuro supply of petroleum. Notwithstanding othor dews nro taken by producers. Prof. Carll says tho petroleum fields of Penn sylvania arc bolng rapidly drained, nnd at tho present rato of exhaustion It will not bo many years until tho question of supplying tho world with petroleum will bo a most sorlous one. "For tho last year." said Prof. Carll, vtho supply was 5,000,000 barrels short of demand, as gauged by former years, nnd ovory day tho domnnd is moro and tho supply much less. A few years ago tho reverse wns tho case. Stocks woro piling up nt tho rato of 2.000,000 bar rels per month, or about that, and now thoy aro being decreased at tho rato of 1,000,000 barrols a month, and havo boon for tho last yoar. This shortage in tho supply includes tho largo produc tion of tho Ohio fields, whero extraor dinary results havo been obtained in tho way of largo wells." Thoro aro now something like 12,000,000 barrols of potrolcum In tanks in tho Ohio field, but this wa3 bocauso Ohio oil was not yet used extensively as an illumlnant. Prof. Carll wits asked his opinion ro gnrdlng tho probable extent of tho Ohio field nnd said ho beliovcd it would bo found much loss in cxtont than tho trade and tho public genorally bclloved. Thoro havo boon opinions oxprcsscd that tho yield of tho Ohio field could bo incronsod to 100,000 barrels a day. Ho thought it would not last long at this rato of production. "When this flold comes to bo entirely doflned," ho said, it is pretty suro to fall very much bo low tho expectations that n-o now hold out for it" Whon uskod if ho thought Ohio oil would cvor bo successfully re fined and cntor tho markot as a com petitor of tho Pennsylvania product ho Bald: "I certainly hopo ho. Without this oil I can not see where tho world's supply Is to como from, and it would bo every great hardship to tho peoplo if thoy had to glvo up this cheap and popular illumlnant. Neither gas nor cloctrlclty, in my judgment, can over tako its place a? a means of illumina tion for tho masses. And yot, with tho known Holds bolng as rapidly oxhaustod ns thoy aro, I look boforo many years for a great scarcity of petroleum." Bradford was tho field that produced Buch an extraordinary quantity of oil, piling up tho stocks on tanks until thoy reached 3G.000.000 barrols, with tho flolds still yielding G0.000 barrols a day or thereabout. In rogard to tho possi bility of anothor such Hold bolng dis covered Prof. Carll said he boliovod thoro wns absolutely no likelihood of it. Tho number of experimental wells that had been drilled in search of anothor Bradford sand in all parts of tho coun try soomed to establish tho fact that Bradford was unlquo and alone. Ho did not bolievo that Biich a petroleum deposit as this would ever bo found in any country in tho world. Tho Brad ford Hold and Its annex In Allegany County, Now York, aro apparently be ing dralnod to tho drogs. At ono tlmo tho production of tho fiold was as high us 105,000 barrels ovory twenty-four houi-B. Now it is down bolow 20, 000, possibly as low as 18,000 barrols. Bradford has producod about 5G, 000,000 barrols of oil, and a pool that will yield tho fifty-stxth part of this is Bomothing that tho oil-producor is cngorly looking for. Prof. Carll said thoro woro yot possibilities of opening up small pools tliat would produeo from 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 barrels, even in eonio of tho old fields, such as Venango, Warron and Butlor Countlos, in Penn sylvania, but ovon theso possibilities woro growing moro and moro romoto. Tho Cogloy Hold, which has producod ubout 3,000,000 barrols, was tho last oxtonslvo fiold found in Venango Coun ty, and this was perhaps as largo a Hold as would over bo found thoro again. Cor. St. LouIh Globo-Domoonit. An Uncoromonlous Caller. At Harvard last winter Hov. Dr. Phillips Brooks noticed three young men who camo to hear him rogularly, and as thoy looked like working men, ho was moro interested than usual. Ho took palus to find out who thoy woro, nnd made an opportunity to speak with thorn. Having ascertained whero thoy llvod and what thoy did, ho wont ono day to call on them. Ho climbed eovoral (lights of stairs and knocked at tho doori All tlit'co of tho young mon woro in, and thoy woro taking their comforts In tholr shirt bIoovos, Natur ally thoy were a trlllo oinbarasvod at being surprised by this man, to whom thoy looked up with so much respect. Dr.ilrooks shook hands all around, and than euldflth Ills cheerful smile, Well, bopr It's Httlo warm hero; I U)fUti If you will let mo, I will tako off my coat," and ho did, nnd sat down nnd mndo his call In his shirt sleeves Boston Journal. liaiHh vord havo froquontly alien ated i child' 8 foollnff und cnuhod out Jl lovo of homo. Flour it proforablo to corn-starch Jor thlckonlng aucM., It it lets patty knd starchy, ra-wo y -Bontrnrv nothwlthPng.-Chrlttlan EASTERN ITEMS. HEAVY STORMS ALONG THE AT LANTIC COA8T. Pension Commlsaoner Tanner's Resig nation Asked for Trying to Fight a Duel Tho Cronln Murder "SunBOt" Cox Dead. Quebec City will annex St. Sauveur. Diamond fields in Guerrero, Mexico, are reportod. There is a rush of Boston school chil dren to get vaccinated. Bice birds aro playing havoc with the rice crop in South Carolina. A light frost is reported in tho northern part of Kansas nnd Missouri. An epidemic of typhoid fever has brok en out at New Concord, Ohio. The Sioux reservation is becoming a resort for criminals of all kinds. Sioux City's Corn Palace for 1889 is to bo moro magnificent than ever. Fifty persons woro poisoned by eating cheese at Bettsville, O., recently. Fourteen hundred men aro now em ployed at tho Brooklyn Navy yard. Louisville has voted down tho question of teaching German in tho public schools. Governor Hoards, of Wisconsin, is making it unconfortnble for prize fighters. A Soldiers and Sailors' mounumentlinB just been completed nt Winslow, Maine. Congressman "Sunset" Cox died at Now York on tho 10th inst. of heart dis ease. It is estimated that the Ilhnoiso corn croj) will not exceed half a good average yield. Ono hundred and fifty Mormons arrived in New York on tho 12th inst. en route to Utah. A devico for firing dynamite from ordi nary cannon lias been invented at Syra cuse, N. Y. Tho Bell Telephone Company has in creased its capital stock from $10,000000 to $12,000,000. Considerable sensation was mado by the appearance of a sun bonnet in Hydo Park, recently. A postofiico in Fulton county, Pennsyl vania bears tho brief and unromantic name of "SiB." Many public improvements aro going on simultaneously in tho streets of tho National Capital. The President lias appointed Henry C. AVannouth, of Louisiana, collector of cus toms at New Orleans. A letter-stamping maehino that can cels 21,000 sunups an hour is on trial in tho New York postofiico. James It. Kecno denies lio is leading tho present speculation in sugar trust certificates in New York. O. B. AVright of tho Northern Pacific denies ho has sold out his holdings in tho Northern Pacific to Villard. Tho wife of Cronin, the suspect, com plains that her letters aro opened at Chicago before thoy reach her. Tho crops throughout New England aro reported to bo in good condition, witli tho exception of jiotatoes and apples. Tho Supreme Council of tho Order of Chosen Friends begun its seventh bien nial session at Minneapolis on tho 10th. A Chicago policeman now bobs up with startling facts regarding tho murder of Dr. Cronin. Why has ho kept mum so long V awtenco Barrett has returned from lSurom) with a now play, "Manelon," which ho will open the season with in tho fall. By tho death of Mrs. Ellen M. Gifibrd, at New Haven, her estate which is valued at $(1,000,000, reverts to local chariUible institutions. San Domingo is tho only American country tout will not bo repretented at tho Conforenco of American Nations at Washington. Tho fifty American workinginen anil women w ho went to Europe last july to Investigate tho condition of European workmen, havo returned. A young sailor who was tarred and featherd on the steamer Baltic, from Ou'imKnunil to Toronto, committed sui cide in sight of tho pasaengors. The statement of tho Boston Moutana nmiunliiliidxl fVimmr and Silver Mining Company for ono your ending Juno 30th shows a mining prontoi Tho Governor of Georgia has asked tho rinvi.rnnr nf Smith Carolina to arrest two members of tho Georgia Legislature who havo crossed tlie statu nnoio ngiu a uuei. The clam-pearl flshera in tho vicinity nl All. ,i, iv U'lu urn wild to bo finding sonio valuable gems. Ono was found tho other day for which tho owner refused J3000. Corporal Tanner, of tho Pension oflico, Washington, at tho request of tho Presi dent, handed in his resignation on tho Uth inst. It IH nam no wornou iub jaw too much. Tho six days' Anniversary of tho Do fonco of Baltimore in the soncoud war with Great Britain, coinituneed thereon the nth. inst. Presidct Harrison was in attendance. St. Louis is entertaining tlvo Govornora at her Exposition, viz., Francis ol Missouri, Eaglo of Arkansas, lxnvry of Mississippi, llovey of Indiana ami Ijvt ralHM) of Iowa. Ixmg Island Sound navigators see promlBO of a revival of practice, onco fam ous on tho Mississippi, of racing tho great passenger lioats that ply between New York and Fall Blvor. Beports to tho leading cleaning houses In tho United States and Canada show that the total gross exchanges for tho week ending September 7th ero $D83, IM1,671, an Increase of 11.2 iwr cent com pared witli tho corresiKMidlng week of last year. It 1b K)sitively bUUihI by oyo witnesses ll.nl Kti.v.. ltrrultn. tlm man who first JumjHHl from tlm Brooklyn bridge, did go over tho American Falls, notwttliBtand roiKirtB to tlio i-onuary. . . i. ri- 1....4 Uaptatn r, u. i ojtn. vommamwuv ui tho murines nt tho Washington Navy Yard, is being tried ny court-martiai ior cruelty to u soldier while tho latter won under sentence on u drunk and disorderly FOKKlUX FI;AHIIK. Mr. Gladstone Sympathizes With Sara Bernhardt The Queen's Wealth The King's First Sea Bath. Marj Anderson is regaining her health. A Polish Club has betn opened in London. Singing bird tournaments are an Eng lish institution. A new novel by Dumas is expected about Christmas. The new fortifications of Paris have cost $750,000,000. China has just negotiated a loan in Hamburg of $40,000,000. Germany will strengthen its army to keep pace with that of 1 rancc. Ten thousand French workmen will make a pilgrimage to Borne at the end of October. A young Frencli lady recently found a l.OOOf note in her deceased mother's chignon. The promoters of the tnnnel between France and England hope to buiid it in a tew years. There is said to be little doubt in Eng land that Sir Edwin Arnold will be tho next laureate. The nightmare is going out. At least that IB the opinion ol the jjoiu Day surgeon-General. The stockholders of the Eiffel Tower in Paris have already received dividends of 429 per cent. The Queen's visit to Wales is such a distinct diplomatic success that it is likely to bo repeated. Gladstone has written to express his sympathy with bara Bernhardt uon tne death of Damala. Three sisters, named Cavelier, com mitted suicide at Vcsinex, owing to losses in betting. The French Commander-in-Chief, in caso of war, would be General de Saussfer, Governor of Paris. Tt in rnnnrfvl flin now (,irmnn armV bill involves an increased expenditure of :.'Uu,WJ,wUU marKS. Chancey Depew says in an interview in London that "England has not been so prosperous for ten years past." Tho European press is filled with articles concerning tho coining Congress of tho Americans at Washington. Tho first edition of Byron's raro "Waltz" of 1813 was bought not long ago bv a London bookseller for $250. In Sw itzerland 70 per cent of tho young men aro saitl to bo untitled, ny me use oi alcohol and tobacco, for military service. Tlm ArnrniUH Hnrln (iinnri of Florence has bought the Island of Monte Cristo and will construe there a splendid resi dence. Upward of twenty-eight largo bales of human hair were brought to Franco in tho last steamer that arrived from tho Orient. Tho bark Firth of Solwav. Captain Caise, from San Francisco for Ixmdon- . . .i ..iff i. derry, is ashore on me uais oi ivougu Foyle, Ireland. It is perhaps worth while recording that a son of tho lato Marshal Bawiino is an officer in a crack regiment in tho Spanish Army. John Bright's memoirs can't bo pub fished, Bays his son, John AUert, te causo "it will bo inconvenient to tho Queen and Mr. Gladstone." A project is afoot to construct an elec tric railwav from Ianark to Hamilton, Scotland. "Stonebyrcs Fall will supply the motive jiower. Mr. Gladstone has aroused the wrath of a section of tho Welsh I'ongregational ists by his recent abstention from voting on disestablishment. Free-trado England is seeing tho great est strike in tho history of labor disturb ances. Tho striko is also against a Dock Trust and monopoly. Wagner's only boh, Siegfried, now grown, is studying to be an engineer. Ho lookB liko his father, but shows no marked musical talent. The children of Mrs. Mnybrick havo been adopted bv a lady and gentleman of Ixmdon, witli the approval of the rela tives of both sides of tho family. Tho King of Spain took his first sea bath at San Sebastian three weeks ago. IHh eldest sister, tho Princess of the Asturias, aged nine, carried him in. Tho Spanish Government is much dis tressed at the steaii v increase oi emigra tion, chiefly of ablt - bodied peasants and tho working classes to South America. Tho richest man in tho House of Com mons is said to ho Mr. MeEwan, Home Uulo member for ono of tho divisions of Edinburgh, worth X'tL',000 per annum. if it bo truo that Germany is seeking an alliance with Portugal, tho reason may be looked for in tho eagerness of the former power to extend its influence in Africa. Tho sugar-planters of Trinidad have f...-..ll n Unci) Wntt. M. P.. a resolu- luinui.ti -. "O" t -I " tlon for presentation to Parliament, .1 ..!-.. .1.,. (nn.i.nmni.t fnr mult. 1 . UiaUKlIlg IW" VIVMl.'llllllu.' v u.tvivtiiw ing to abolish Biigar bounties. Tho book for which the Shah has been 1.1.... ..a.miu iint.ku ilnrmi. hirt Kiiro- pean tour will bo published soon after ho gets back to Persia. It will iw translated P . .... i 1 i. into IkhIi Kugiisu anu iTcncn. .t m..,.L-.u-l tlm ntluT diiv M!hh Annie .It' iul nrw. " Johnson essayed tho task of staying under waier uioru uuui - uun. ui-4 nm., i.t.,l. ,...-u u tlm r..rnrd achievement. Tho huly went down and stayed 3 min. 10 see. Tho English Government is interest ing itself in tho color blindness of sea ....... .....1 urtittn rim'.! nvntiilimtiniiH nnd exiieriiiienta aro to bo mado in tho fall when all tho naval reviews and bIiowb Bhall havo ended. w m Gt.u.l linu 1w.mi niiix-i'mtM from Oregon as dolegato 10 tho National Con nf Chnntios and Corrections to Ihj held at San FranclBCO. i..i.n,u ,1tuiuitihiH liriiu' newBof one of It. ...o olnr.iw tllilt llllH luxttl HIV'll 111 U D.I t I'l . Ol diui.Mu - " " on tho Atlantic coast for many years. Twfnty-Bovcn vcbbcib uru iviwi uouuiu at Lowes, Del., iuuI tho coast for miles down Ib strewn with wreckage. t r...n.'u l.lrv nt 'nu- Vfirk llllH rt'Il- dertsl u venlict of jtiBtltlahlo homicide In tho caso ol Harry Harrigun, a isau rran clBcau, who BUuck l'aUick Iteodv a fatal blow on tho head w itli a cano, when tlm THE PACIFIC COAST. THE LADIES OP WASHINGTON WILL VOTE. Schooner Launched Pensions Granted Postal Appointments Received tho Full Force of the Dyna moThe Exposition. Atrhoenex, A. T., twenty new build ings ars going up. S. Huekt,of Oregon City, has been ap pointed notary pablic. Tho walnut crop of Los Angeles this year will be worth $30,000. A Philadelphia syndicate has purchased 400 lots at Ellensburg, W. T. Quail can be killed in California from now until the end of February. In a mine disaster at Golden, Col., last week, eleven men lost their lives. Contracts will soon bo let for four new public school buildiugs in Seattle. Isaac F. Shown, of Oregon, original in valid, haB been granted .1 pension. The Bepublicans of Tacoma held a grand ratification meeting on the 13th. L. W. Darling lias been appointed post master at Condon, Gilliam county, Or. The Colfax Foundry, at Colfax. W. T., was totiilly destroyed by fire on the 15th. The first passenger train over the O. it W. T. arrived at Pendleton Or., on the 12th. Pima county, A. T., has thirty-five ir rigating ditches that aro fifty-five miles long. The fall meeting of the Portland Speed Association was held at Portland last week. The San Francisco police arc making it uncomfortable for the Chinese gambling houses. A tramp who "stood up" and relieved ILL. Berry at St. Helena of $250, was captured. It is understood tliat another match will Bood bo made between Dempsey and LaBlanche. The Grand Conclave of the Kighta Templar of Oregon met at Eugene City on tho 10th. Extensive forest fires are reported in the vicinity of Georgetown, Deer Lodge county, Montana. Warren D. Bobins of Idaho, has been appointed agent for Indians of the Nez l'erco agency, Idaho. The Washinton Territory Democrats have nominated ex-Governor Eugene Semple for governor. A postofiico has been established at West Seattle, King county, with Charles M. Cooper as jostmastor. A whale was seen in tho bay near Ta coma, a few dAys ago, that was thought to be about eighty ieet long. Scott S wetland of Washington Terri tory lias been appointed receiver of public moneys at Vancouver, W. T. The jetty at tho mouth of the Colum bia river extends over two miles, more than half tho pro.Kised distance. Tho collection of ores Montana lias sent to Minneapolis is valued at over $200,000. It will be exhibited in New York. Tho Livingston National Bank of Mon tana has been authorized to commence business with a capital of $50,000. Walter L. Stobies of Washington Ter ritory, has Ix'en appointed agent of the Indians of Yakima agency, W. T. Orango and San Diego counties propose to send a "Southern CiUifornia" on wheels through the Eastern states. The Great Exoaition, which opens in Portland on tho 2nth inst, promises to be ono of tho grandest exhibitions over seen on tho Pacific Coust. Tho burning of tho Cascado bridge, near Truckee, on tho Central Pacific, .caused considerable delay in mails and passenger trafiic last week. The largest four-masted schooner over built on Puget Sound, was launched at Port Blakeley on the 10th Tlioramo of the new vessel is Robert Levers. The ladies of Washington Territory proiK)so to assert their rights at the com ing election and vote. Preparations for separate polling places aro being made. Charles ("Sandy") Olds, tho man who mrilori'il Kmil Welwr in Mav last, at m Portland, Ur., was sentenced oy judge Stearns on tho 10th inst. to bo hanged November 1. Every block in Butto, M. T., lias a private watchman. Tho audacities of tho incendiaries have created great uneasi ness, and if a capture is mado the citi zens will hardly suffer the culprit to go to trial. It has been discovered that tho State of Nevada, by a mistake of tho surveyors running tho dividing lino betweon Cali fornia and Nevada, gave a strip of about six miles of California's territory to Ne vada. Tho stampede to tho Swauk gold dis trict, twentv-tivo miles north ol Ellens burg, W. T., is increasing. Tho mother lode, which produced from $100 to $700 nuggets, it is confidently believed, is found. Suit lias been filed in the federal court, San Francisco, against Leong Tsang, Chinese consul-gonoral, toroeovor$17,000 indemnity collected by him from this government, which ho tailed to pay over to tho proper owners. Tho fight at tho Golden Gato Athletic Club, San Francisco, between Put Killen, heavy-weight champion of tho Northwest nnd Joo McAuliu", oxchamplon of tho Pacific coast, waa won by tno latter in Boven rounds on tho 11th inst. ProfeBsor P. H. Redmond tho daring young aeronaut of Philadelphia, mado tho first and only parachute jump from a balloou, ever mado in Oregon, at Port land, on Sunday, the 15th inst. It waa a daring act ami witnessed by several thousand jeople. Thomas Holmnn, proprietor of the Salem Electric Light works, in endeavor- 1.... lU- .. clnwl nm lii'Yit nn tlin 1.1th. in bouio way caught hold of tho wires, completing tho cirvrlt, receiving tho full torcoof the dynamo. Hia hands were liornuiy uurneu. I Value of Young Plants-Clotted Cream Old Pastures Do Not Crowd Your Plants-Spiced Grapes. Sheep are not profitable if kept as a "side business." A iiock that is given the same attention that is bestowed on other stock, and kept as a business ven ture, will pay a larger profit for capital invested than any other class of stock, but sheep pay best when hied for mutton rather than for wool. When the branches of the tomatoe vines look as if the leaves had been atrinrxwl nfl" make a close search for the green worm, which is about two inches long and half an inch in diameter, un less the worm is caught it will eat up all the foliage, and as it is nearly of tho color of the vines it 5b easily detected. Stewed Pears with Lemons. Flavor lees pears may be used ; pare, quarter and core them. To each quart of pieces take a lemon cut in the thinnest slices, with peel ; for this quantity weigh a pound of sugar, dissolve in a little water, boil up and skim, put in pears an 1 lemons and cook slowly till the pears arc tender and clear. Frozen Peaches. Take two quarts of rich milk and two tcacupfuis of sugar ; mix well together and put into a freezer with ice and salt packed around it. Have ready one quart of peaches mashed and sweetened. When the milk is very cold, stir them in and freeze them all together. Strawberries can be used in the same way, but will require more sugar. To secure voting black-cap raspberry plants the caries are bent over and tipped into the ground, witli a clod resting thereon to hold each can in posiuou. These tips take roots and tho old vino is then cut off. The red raspberry repro duces itself by sending out shoots around tho parent vine. They can be taken up in tho fall and transplanted, or it may be done very early in the spring. Spiced Grapes. To every pound of fruit allow one-half pound of sugar, one pint of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of cinnamon and cloves, and one table spoonful of allspice. Cook pulp and skin separately, skins until tender and pulp until soft", and seed by running through the colanders. Put pulp and skins together, and vinegar, sugar and spices (the latter in a bag), and cook until of right consistency. After you remove the melon vines this fall set out a red raspberry plant on each hill. Tho manure left over from the supply given the melons will induce vigorous growth of cane next season, and the plants will be sufficiently close, as they will soon thicken in the row. Keep the canes clean until they aro nearly ready to bear, and cut them out if too thick. Puree or Peas. Wash a quart of peas which have been already hulled, put them in a saucepan with three pints of water, very little salt and pepper, halt an ounce of ham and an onion cut in slices. Boil until soft, then drain off the water and rub tho peas through a colander. Heat again on tho fire, adding two heap ing tablespoonfuls of butter and a pinch of sugar. Sei ve very hot. Sweetbreads. Ono generally sees these fried, but tho following is tho very nicest wav to serve them : Put them on in water enough to cover them well, sea saninu them with salt and black and red pepper to taste. Let tho water nearly all l)oil away, then set tho stevpan a Httlo back on the stove, and let the remaining water stew out entirely and the sweet breads brown nicely in the pan, stirring them up olten. Hub is a very rich dish Grecnunue Plums make delicious tarts Stew the fruit with a cupful of water (no suirar at first) for half an hour, then add three-quarters of a pound of sugar for every pound you put in ol fruit, and cook until they are a thick jam. Let the stones cook with tho fruit, but remove as many as possible before tho sugar is added. For an ornamented preserve stick each plum several times with a coarse needle belore cooKing them. Old pastures that are overrun with weeds can bo best utilized for sheep, as they will eat off tho young weeds and keep them down. Many weeds aro valuable, so far as their use for food is concerned, but are undesirable in place of regular saleable crops. They can bo utilized when young by pasturing sheep ujon them, anil if weeds aro not allowed to seed ine grass w in again uiKe joa session of tho field. The happy owner of a pear tree may, after canning and pickling, dry the pears : inferior ones will answer for this, and a most excellent way to use dried pears in winter is to soak thehi in hike-warm water until they are soft, then simmer gently, and while yet warm put thorn through a colander, or better still, through a sifter which has a handle; tho pulp slius mado makes perfectly delicious pies. Tho pies may havo ono or two crusts. A lower crust witli little strips across the top is preforaolo. Do Not Crowd Your Plants. There is nothing gained by growing three plants whero there is only room tor two. Tho two plants that the place would comfort ably accommodate will bo much finer than tho threo that you could manage to "just squeeze in." And remember that one plant, well-grown, is worth a score of poorly grown ones. One good plant is something to bo proud of, while a num ber of Kor specimens ought to make the grower ashamed, not of tho plants, but of hiniBelf. Treat plants precisely as you would peoplo, and givo them all the I'liain-o thov want to develop. Let them show what thev can do, and they cannot do Hub when they are cramped. Superior Vahto of Young Plants. Why, asks Josiuh Hooker in tho Now York Tribune, divide old bearing bushes of currents, gooseberries, tlowering shrubs, etc., to incrcaso one's stock of plants? This is necessary in tho caso of species dillicult of projogation, hut for the great majority of shrubs a simple hardwood cutting will emit roots rapidly in tho spring. These" rooted cuttings, if proiH'rly transplanted, rarely receive any setback, but coutinue$irowlng vigorously from tho start, and quickly arrive at tho tlowering and fruiting ago. On the other hand, old, matured plants, probably stunted in growth, if taken up and divided Btill retain a large portion of hard old wood and tough, useless roots. Prune theso us wo may, the plants w ill require aJong time to recover from Uiis treat ment, and frequently never form attrac tive plants. Another point too often overlooked is that young, vigorous uhoots, and consequently, large, healthv foliage. aro absolutely necessary for the formation of perfect flowers and fruit, and as a rule, only witli young plants can best results be always obtained. II OH K AM) KAJtai. PORTLAND MARKET. REPORTS CONTINUE TO BE MOST ENCOURAGING. But Only in a Few Instances Has There Been Any Material Change Tho Change all Round is Looked For Very Soon. f The general activity in the local mer chandise markets has kept up well dur ing the week, and reports continue to be of the most encouraging character, both with respect to the expanding volume of the distributive movement of merchan dize, and the feeling of coufidenco tliat prevails in nearly all departments. Sugar and coffee remain firm nt quotations. Tho market is still strong, witli a good demand for fruits and vegetables. In pro dueo and poultry the market shows more strength. The wheat and flour market continues dull and quotations about the same as reported last week. The local wool market remains dull and nominal in sympathy with the East. GJIOCEIUKB. Sugars, Golden C Ojc. extra C 0?4C. dry granulated Slc. cube, crushed and powdered 8'c Ctoffee: Guatamala 20 22, Java 30(3 32c, Costa Rica 21 22jc, Mocha 37c, Rio 2223c, roastetl Java3032e, Arbuckle's roasted 244'c. PROVISION'S. Oregon ham I3i34c, breakfast bacon 12Hj13c, 6ides9)10c. Eastern ham 13 14c, breakfast baccn 12'6c, sides 9c, shoulders 0c. Lard 8J4C FKU.1TB. Peaches 1$1.50, apples $11.25, lemonB $8. Sicily $7.50, pear3 $11.25. DRIED FRU1TB. Apples 45c, evaporated 6r?ti)o sliced 6c, pears 8c, peaches S10o, Oregon plums 34, etito prunes 50c, German 5 !i2Go, prunes, Italian 7c, silver tii(37c, California figs 7c, Smyrna figs 1415c, ap.icots 13(J14c, raisins $1.75f2.25 per box. VEGETABLES. Potatoes, new, $11.10, sweets 22e per It), onions 85c, green peas Go. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter, Oregon fancy 30c, dairy 2527l4c, common 1012)c. Eastern 22c, California 1820c. EUGB. Eggs 2oc. POULTRY. Chickens $33.50. broilers S22.60, old $4(25.50, young geese $810, turkeys l)e per 11). WOOL. Valley 1719o, Uinpque )920c, East ern Oregon 1014o. noPB. Hops 11c. GRAIN. Vheat, Vallev $1.201.22, Eastern Oregon $1.10(21.12". Oats 37K40c, new 38c. FLOUR. Standard $4.25, other brands $3.75 3 00. FEED. Hav $1314 per ton, bran $14.50 chop" $1820, shorts $16.50, barley $2022.50. FRESH MEATS. Beef, live. 2aC, dressed, 6c; mutton, live, 283c, dressed, 02c; nogs live, 5M5'-.jC, dresstnl 11!. Venison con tinues in fair supply and demand good. Tile Secretary of State of Louisiana says illiteracy is increasing moro rap idly among tho whito voters than among tho negro voters in that State. Tho schools aro poor, and but littlo public interost is taken in educational matters. Thoro aro some curious mon on tho legal bonch in this country. A Con necticut court fines a man $5 for lying in wait to kill his wifo and stabbing her and nn Ohio court calls it assault and battery when four bullet's aro fired into a farmer and ho is robbed of his wal let. A suro thing on rats has boon dis covered at tho Smithsonian Institution in Washington, which was ovorrun by tho vermin. In a storo-room drawer wero placed a quantity of sunflower seeds, used as food for soma of tho birds. Into this drawer tho rats gnaw ed their way, a fact which led tho cus todiau to experiment with them for bait in tho trup. Tho result was that tho rats can not bo kept out. A trap which appears crowded with six or oight rats is found somo mornings to hold fifteen. Thoy are turned into tho cages containing weasels and minks. Tho latter will kill a rat absolutely al most boforo one can bco it, bo rapid are its movements. Somo of tho ancient public records in tho Orango County, Pa., clerk's ollleo aro of curious interest One is a beautifully and olaborately ingrossed pnrchmont deed, oxocutod March 28, 1731. conveying by Edward Bagge 800 acres of land, located In whnt is now tho town of Blooming Grovo, to Syl vanus Whito, minister, and othors, with this curious proviso attached: "Bosorv ing out of tho within grant unto our sovereign lord, the king, his heirs and successors forever, all trees of tho di amotor of twenty-four inches and up ward, at twelve Inches from tho ground, for masts for tho royal navy and also all such othor trees as might ba fit to mako planks, kneos nnd othor thlnga uocossary for tho uso of tho said nov. A company for tho manufacture of Irish linen will build extensivo mills at BlackG0l, Vnliinil .- It is stated tliat the allionca between' BiiBsia and Franco will be formally an nounced next spring. Mrs. Laniitry is reported to bo with Mr. Gebhardt at Aix lea Bains ior the benefit of her health. Tho Queen's estate at Osborno com- prisea about five thousand fiveoViundrtxi acres, worth $250 an acre. It is reported from Wnlna that nxten- Blve veins of gold quartz havo been struck at Voel Vatuman, Flintshire. - j 1 1 Union. 9 charge. hitter attempted 10 rou uim,