THE OREGON SCOUT
JONES & CHANCEY, - Publishers
UNION OREGON.
A'eHu from School.
The young nunty was In tbo country: the
kid was nt school In (omi. "Dear Ileleno,''
wroto the kid, "Carl cort six mice in ono
night. How is mama's wml Tell roso that
I chained sect and got put up. Inm rightinc
letters nil n time, io bo'ty halpel mo nnu 1
think it is good. And if somo nro rong you
had somo rong to, and if you don't want to
bellcfo It then ast mama. Your loving boy,
Walter." San Francisco Chronicle.
The Lone and tlio Short of It,
"Jimmy, d' yez think th' byo '11 iver bo as
tallnsyerKllf?"
"Suro oi'm thinkin' av ho kappa on he'll be
as shorrt some day." Harper's Bazar.
The Mini Who lAt the Iluco.
I was hooflng it nlong n highway in Ar
kansas, my horwj having gono dead lamo and
being left with a farmer, when a man driving
ft LorM mid buggy overtook mo nnd Invited
mo to ride. I was only too thankful for tlio
offer, nnd when I got in beidohim I liked his
looks. Ho offered mo a cigar. Wo exchanged
names. Ho was Informed on politics und
current events. It was a spanking horso ho
had, and ho kept a steady gait for mllo after
mile, Tlio only thing about tho man that
puzzled mo was tlio way ho had of looking
behind every few minutes, and 1 Anally In
quired: "Aro you expecting somo 'riend to ovcr
tako you J"
"Well, no not a friend," ho replied
"Enemies?"
"It may bo that tho sheriff and his posse
will bo fools enough to try and ovcrtnko mo."
"Sly friend," I said, after swallowing tho
lump which suddenly gathered In my throat,
"is thoro nuy good reason why tlio bhcriir
should wnnt to overtnlto you J This is rather
blunt, I'll admit, but If I hurt your feelings I
am ready to beg pardon."
"Oh, no harm dono," ho laughed. "I bor
rowed this liorfco and rig nlnnit two hours
ngo without tho formality of nsklng, and tho
owner moy hopo to recover it. Don't givo
yourself any uneasiness, however. I run to
horses and not to highway robbery."
Three miles further on, us ho roso n hill,
ho looked back and then pulled up and said:
"Wo must part hero. The hherilf nnd half
dozen others aro in pursuit and overy
pound of weight will now tell."
"I nm very much obliged for your klnd-
BOSS."
"Oh, not nt all. Your society has leen re
ward enough. I would suggest that you en
tor that thicket and He cloo until thu party
gets by. When an Arkunsas fcheriff gets af
ter a stolen lioio ho means to hurt somebody
and his crowd isn't particular who it shoots
at. And fcay, you needn't make any special
effort to report that you havo seen mo.
Bavoyt"
"I won't."
"Then good-by."
lie put tho horso on a dead run, and was
out of sight in two minutes. 1 secreted my
eolf as directed, nnd in n fow minutes the
posso thundered by in n cloud of dust. I
followed nt a leisurely gait, and at tho end
of two hours emtio upon them, grouied
around n trea Hanging from a limb w its tho
lifeless body of my friend of tho rond, and
they were now waiting for tho blown nnd ex
liaustod horses to recuperate. Now York
Bun.
fluttlni; AciiimIiiU-i1.
It is a very simple process for children to
tieconio acquainted with each other if they
am left to their own devices. This is tho
way it comes to pass:
"Why, 1 did not know that you and that
Uttlo girl had got acquainted yet," said a
Hoxbury father to his O-yenr-old bon, who
camo in from n walk on tho adjoining lawn
with the tiny duughtor of tho new uext door
neighbor.
'Yes, Clara and I havo Ihvu 'qtinlntod lota
ct days," said tho very small Iwy.
"What did you say to her ilrsW" ask oil tho
father.
"Oil, Clara spoko to mo first. Sho camo
down by thu chicken houso anil asked mo
bow many prayers 1 say nights, nnd I told
her, nnd then 1 asked her how many prnyors
the says and sho told mo, nnd then wo wore
"quainted." St. Louis Post-Dlspatcli.
I'tmtlbly,
Friend Aro you going to tako a vacatiou
tills bummer, Hnrdwiirof
Merchant Well, I may step ovor to Poor
mau's bench for a fow days, if my clerks got
back from Kuropo in time. They nro send
ing their vacation there. Now York Sun.
Oppniril to Stop.
Agent You'll like tho organ, niaVni. Just
let uio put it in your jiarlor for u fow duy.
Housewife 1 don't want it.
Agent"-It has ten btops, nnd
Uousowlfo-1 don't enro if it has fifty. It
cau't btop hero. Detroit Froo Press.
Il Could Stuud It.
Visitor So your bister is off on n visit,
IVUliof 1 kupposo you feel very lonesome
without her I
Fivo-year-old Wllllo (dubiously) Yo-es, I
feel lonesome, but Put n good deal uioro
comfortable Chicago Journal.
I'ortllled.
Bascom Don't you feel us if It was rather
risky to bend Jonas to college, llacklotl
Vacklot Not n inlto, Jonas has got too
much common sense for edlkutiou to hurt
aim. Burlington Free I'm
Safe lo Aiiuiiiiiiro m lrllctlom
If Oen. (Ji'eely has been hesitating to make
(bo official announcement that tho b k h
o of w lit r is broken, he need do to no
longer. Thu eopU will stand by him. Chi
cago Tribune,
32x-Queen Nfttulio arrived nt Belgrade
on tho 30th. Her presence wiib totally
ignorod by tho Government oIIIoIhIb, hut
sho wiib received ontltUBlastlcally by tlio
crowds in tho streets. From jirivato
houHou uml places of btiBlneea flags were
displayed iu her honor.
jLM "ft"
EASTERN ITEMS.
THE AMERICAN BAPTI8T ASSOCIA
TION.
Sam Smnll Offends tbe Prohibitionist
The Atchison's Blanket Mortgage
Bottled tho Differences
With tho Pistol.
Minister Thomas Ryan is in Washing
ton.
Peach treeo are blooming all over Penn
bylvania.
An Italian at Chicago eold bio wife and
child for $15.
The capital of tho rubber trust is fixed
at $30,000,000.
Tlio Vermont day at Gettysburg will
occur October 9.
Edison nd family havo sailed from
Havre for home.
Negroes in Bibb county, Ala., refuse to
work lor whito people.
Hev. Sam Small is now stumping Ohio
for tho Prohibitionists.
An outbreak of small-jiox is reported
in Henderson county, lenn.
The tax collector of Richmond, Va.. is
reported short about $00,000.
The new dry dock at Halifax was used
lor tlio lirst tuno beptomoer u.
A woman arrested as a vagrant in
Montreal claims to bo 10L year? old.
Dinhtheria hns closed the public school
at 1 lelusboro, ISurlington county, in. J.
Tho builders of tho cruiser Baltimore
will receivo nearly $150,000 in premiums
Virginia and Maryland are getting into
a quarrel over tlio Potomac oyster neua
Kansas Railroad Commissioners order
a liO per cent reduction in rates to certain
cities.
Tho American National Baptist Asso
ciation advises colored people to leave tho
boutli.
Mrs. James Blaine, Jr., will sue for a
divorce as soon as sho recovers from her
illness.
Tbo new diffusion process by which
sugar is made from sorghum is not yet a
success.
Tho gunboat Petrel, though deficient
in power, will bo excepted iy ino uov
eminent.
Oklahoma authorities aro contending
iiL'anist I ho illicit sale of liquor in tlio
territory.
Ex-President Cleveland attended a
mammoth cliun-bako at Naysack, N. Y
last week.
Swindlers aro said to bo preparinir to
float fraudulent bonds ot counties in Jan
sas and Texas.
Tho Colorado Mining Exchango pro-
noses to contest tho Act restricting lliu
coinage of silver.
Ben Butterworth received a warm wel
come on his return to wasinngion ironi
his European trip.
"William P. Dale. Commissioner of In
d an allairs under President Lincoln, is
lead, aged 70 years.
Tbo ouuostrinn statno of Gen. Robert
E. IxiO will bo unveiled at Richmond,
Va., on December 5.
There is a movement in Arkansas to
requiro railroads to provido separate cars
fn tint jtrvltnwl rii-r!ii
1UI IrllU WlUiVAt r7Vjrw
The building of a now $1,000,000 "op-
noiiition" brewery in St. Louis is now
said to be an assured fact.
Tho delegates to tho Threo AmericaB
Conference, will visit New England to
inspect her manufactories.
St. Paul. Minn., through its Chambor
of Commerce, has voted in favor of Chi
cago for tho World's Fair.
Ovor $3,000,000 of tho $0,000,000
guar
at St,
imteo fund of tho World's 1-air
Louis has been subscribed.
Charles H. Stoddard, a woll-known
resident of Reno, Nov., died in Washing
ton, D. 0., on tho :ilst, of paralysiB.
Tho total notato crop for 1830 in tho
United States is estimated at '..'33,000,000
mshels, against 217,000,000 in 1SSS.
The son of ox-Governor Alon.o B. Cor-
lell. of Now York, pronounces the story
that his father iB insano a "silly ho."
Thoro is ovorv prospect ot a bitter tight
at tho annual election of the Northern
Paeillo Railroad, to bo hold m Now iork
on October 10.
The storv coincB from Yankton, 1). T.,
that Sam Small oH'eiided the Prohibition
ists there so deeply that they canceled
his engagement to lecture.
The pormanont Interstate Doop Hur
ler Committee mot in Topeka on tho
list, and liegati mapping out tho work
of tho coming convention.
Demitv MnrBhal Neaglo is reported to
be in Boston, his native town, visiting
his uncle. Ho makes uso of tlio name of
'John JoneB, of Now " ork."
Ex-Controller John J. Knox, in a
speech at Kansas City recently, opposed
coinage legislation at tho present time as
detrimental to tho interests of the country.
Intimations aro heard in Wall street
that tho Cotton Oil Company is likely
booh to givo up altogether its existence aa
a truat and becomu an ordinary corjKira
tlon. At Waterloo, Iowa, throe county jail
prisoners beat the Bhcritf Into Insensi
bility and escaped. M. E. Billings, tho
Waterloo lawyer, who had iiiBt received
a life sentence, gave tho alarm.
James J. West ami Charles E, Graham,
ox-editor and Bocretiirv of tho Chicago
Times, charged with ovr-isBuing tho
stock of tho Times Company, have been
held In heavy bonds to appear beforo tho
grand jury.
It looks aa If a proKHltlou for a
"blanket" mortgage, bearing 4 per cent
interest, to run fifty yeara, will bo Biib
inlttod to tho Atchison Beeurlty-holdera.
In all probability tlio limit will bo mado
$'-'00,000,000.
Four moil, nftor serving for flvo years
iu tho Pennsylvania penitentiary, are
found to I hi innocent of tbo Crimea charg
ed against them.
FOKKIHX FliAMIIKH.
Her Presence Ignored by tho Govern
ment Puts tho Blame on tho Gov
ernmentFatal Explosion.
Europe is adopting smokeless powder.
Vienna is threatened with a water
famine
Ireland recently sent 10,000 tons of ba
con to Paris.
The next Lord
Mavor of London will
be a Hebrew.
Last year 1 ,350 persons died of delirium
tremens in England.
Emperor William is investigating ex
ecutions by electricity.
Tho Sultan of Zanzibar 'las joined the
warfare against slavery.
Tho German Emperor has given his
portrait to Lord Salisbury.
A large part of Naples was recently
flooded during a terrillic storm.
Rov. George Porter, S. J., Catholic
Aicbbishop of Bombay, is dead.
English noblemen aro beginning to in
vest largely in real estate in Australia.
The Landoro Steel Works at Swansea,
Wales, were destroyed by fire last week.
The English postal clerks are forming
a uniori to press their claims to better
pay.
Gladstone expresses his decided oppo
sition to Land Nationalization and Bimet
allism. Twelve hundred and eighty-five deatliB
from cholera have been reported in Mes
sopotamia. Georgo Eliot's grave at Highgato Cem
etery is neglected and ovegrown with
grass and weeds.
The Coroner's jury nt Quebec, puts the
blame for tho land-slido disaster on tho
Government.
Twenty thousand pounds havo boen
raised in London for Dr. Wan.en's North
Polo expedition.
balloon trip across the Straits of Gib
raltar will bo attempted by a British
officer this month.
Minnie Palmer is to piny the title role
in "Cinderella" tho next pantomino at
Her Majesty's Theater.
Tho crew of tho Spanish vessel cap
hired by the RiHinns off tho Morocco
coast havo been released.
The Irish National League held a con
vention at Manchester, England, last
week. The membership is $.50,000.
Jay Gould is said to bo planning to
nlaeo $30,000,000 of Now York Elevated
Railroad stock on the London market
Joseph Chamberlain predicts tho early
collanso of tho Gladstone party, and
favors tlio formation ot a now iNationai
party.
Thocantainof tbo Spanish crow recently
captured by tho Moors has died from tne
effects of tho ill-usago to which he was
subjected.
Upward of twenty-eight largo bales of
human hair were brought to France in a
steamer that arrived the other day from
the Orient.
Lndv Mandovillo threatens to go on
tho stage unless her fathor-m-law, tho
Duke of Manchester, shall pay her hus
band's debts.
Tho prohibition of tho import of swino
across the eastern frontiers of Germany
has caused great dissatisfaction among
the poorer classes.
An English plasterer has boen stag'
gored with a fortune of XI, 400,000, left to
him by a clorgynian who emigrated anil
prospered in Sydney.
Buffalo Bill has become so fascinated
with Paris that ho is inclined to make
that city his homo when ho abandons his
calling as a snowman.
Tlio Russian Minister of War has or
dered that military races shall bo in
dulgod m from tuno to tuno as a means
of improving tho cavalry.
Uio French Government has decided
that defeated candidates may contest iu
tho second ballots without infringing tho
Multiplo Candidature Act.
Fifty nersons. mostly girls, woro in
j tired by an explosion in an ammunition
factory at spaniiau, prussia, mat wcck,
from which several will die.
Typhus fever, which somo months ago
threatened to causo great ravages in the
environs ot uairo ami oisownero, uas
been completely stamped out.
Advertisements in London joumalB in
dicate that the nnrchiiBO of cast-off court
suits, artificial teeth, etc., "for export,
is quite a considerable businesB.
bomb was exploded behind tho Ayeto
Palace at San beba'dian. spam, last wees,
whero Queen Christina is staying. No
ono was hurt and no damage was done.
General Boulanger s autograpli was
worth two weeks ago lis in l-ranco. It
had fallen to half-price, owing to tho Gen-
oral writing so many iciioro. iu n io
valueless.
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Ttouliinger is being urged to return to
Paris before tho second ballots. His
ireeenco, his suporters beliovo, will
iring a great wave of popular sentiment
to hia support.
Mr. Novillo, tho London banker, was
offered and refused $1,000,000 for his
business shortly beforo Ins .death. In
early life ho failed, and had hia ae -ountB
Bottled by tho Bankruptcy Court.
PrincesB Victoria of Prussia will ae-
oinjiany tho Empress Frederick to Ath
ens, ami tney win pass mo inmr iu
Italy, after which the Princess will go to
England on a long visit to tho Queen.
A letter froui General Boulanger has
been publishod in Boulogno, in which
tho General aeka hia Biipiwrtora in that
city to transfer their votea to tho Con
servative candidate;
Tuv l4iiin Evi'ositiok. It has lust
been officially announcod that tho Walter
A. Wood niachlnoa have received tho fol
lowing awanla at tho Parta oxjosition:
Grand prize on general exhibit only oh-
ectot art, luglieBi a warn on narveaier
and binder, gold medal on reajHT and
gold medal on mower, tso otner Aiuer-
can inventor or manuiaeiuror oi narveai
ng uiachinea baa over received for an
uli t at anv world's nur bo many Hon
ors and uiedala aa havo lioon awarded to
Valter A Wood at tho great runs oxio-
tion.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
WASHINGTON IS REPUBLICAN BY A
LARGE MAJORITY.
Fell Down an Elevator Shaft A Gold
Discovery Near Tacoma Shot by
the Authorities Hemmed in
by Immense Iceburgs.
Seattle's police are uniformed.
Portland, Or., has a building boom.
i The San Francisco Chronicle has a
$100,000 libel suit on hand.
Carson, Nev., was recently visited by
an immense warm of butlerllies.
The democrats of South Dakota claim
twenty members of the legislature.
The laundrymen of Tacoma have de
cided not to give credit to anyone.
Tho Grand Lodge of Good Templars
will meet at Fresno, ual., on the atli.
A lady shot and probably fatally killed
a burglar, near LosAngeles, on the 3d
Bee ranches have suffered severely by
tne brush llres in ban JJernardino, Ual.
Peter Hanson was burned to deatti in
brush fires near San Diego on the 31st
High license at Watsonville, Cal., has
caused twelve Baloons to close their dooro.
A carpenter named Christopher Reb
man, at Napa, Cal., suicided on the 1st.
Joseph Giannelli, a Stockton grocery-
man, is missing, nnd loul play is feared
Tho town of Cambria, Cal., was almost
wholly destroyed by lire on the 30th inst
Butto, Mont., has been visited bv an
incindiary fire to the amount of $300,000.
The new State of Washington has gone
ti i.i; i... ;
ivopuuiicaii liy uii overwueuiig majuiiiy.
It is believed thatDakota and Montana
have gono Republican by large majori
ties.
The Portland and AVillamette Valley
Railroad has been sued lor flo,bOO dam
ages.
The estate of Charles Crocker has been
settled up, the widow's share being $2,
850.-J44.
A ledgo of coal seven feet w ido has
1-een found eight miles from Jilleusourg,
Washington.
There is not a Chinaman in the min
ing camp at San Pedro, N. M. Nono are
allowed thero.
A recent gold discovery on a school
section, aJjoining Tacoma, caused quite
an excitement.
The official investigation of the Santa
Monica Hono for Veterans, was com
menced last week.
The salaries of the policemen at Los
Angeles have been reduced to $70 per
month, a cut oi $10.
A nicklo mine has been found in San
Bernardino county, Cal., that assays liO
per cent pure metal.
Tho Tacoma Hotel at Tacoma, Wn
has been eold to a Now York, St. Paul
and Tacoma syndicate.
An Ellensburg firm has signed a con
tract to ship ono carload of kaolin a day
to a pottery at lacoma.
Tho Salvation Armv at Colusa, Cal.,
has been acquitted beforo a jury on the
charge ot being peace disturbers.
F. A Carle, recently managing editor
of the St. Paul Press, lias taken editorial
charge of the Port land Oregonian.
Tho Union Pacific, which is now build
ing from PortTownsond to Portland, will
cross the .Northern I acilio at J'.leanor
K. J. Tallier, tho leader of a gang of
train robbers, was shot by the .Mexican
authorities, atGuaymas, Mox., last week.
Georgo Reese stole a valico containing
$0 from a car at Clnco, for which he has
been sentenced to servo six years at Fol-
som.
It is rumored that tho headquarters of
of the Santa Fo system, now at Los An
geles, ual., is soon to bo removed to ban
Diego.
Mrs. Albert Vincent hanged herself at
Port Townaend, recently, because sho
was dissatisfied with her daughter's mar
riage.
Charles Whito, an officer in tho Salva
tion Army, aged 22, eloped from Pasade
na, Cal., recently, with Miss Horton,
aged lo.
Miss Abbey, an elderly maiden lady,
was found in her homo, near Otay, niur
dored, it is believed by parties whom she
dotected stealing.
In tho case against tho parties charged
with robbing tho bpokano rebel stores,
the defence claims it was a free for all
grab for overybody.
Tho new steamer Arctic, carrying sup
plies to 300 minors on orty-nnlo creek,
Alaska, lias neon wrecteu, ami tne nun
era aro in danger of starvation.
Tho burglar killed at Sacramento last
week lias been identified as Win. Cran
ilall, alias Dickenson and Honrv Horton.
His mother lives in Pittsburg, Pa.
Colina Long, an English woman and
the wife of Pen Long, a Chinaman, has
been declared a citizen of tho United
States by tho courts of Portland, Or.
Dr. J. 0. Shorb, one of the most prom
inent phyaicianr in San Francisco, was
found dead in a lodging house in that city
last week. Ho was an opium fiend.
Seattlo republicans will again dine at
the expetiBO of the Tacoma republicans,
having won the standing bet on tho ma
jorities of King and Pierce counties.
Soven men havo been arrested for vio
lating tho salmon law on the Klamath
rivor. near tho Oregon lino, and tho dam
complained of by Governor Peunoyer has
been retnovou.
A contract has loen awarded for con
Btructiim tho Northern Pacific and Mon
tana Road, vhich oxtenda from Missoula,
Montana to the uonir u.Aieno country.
Proceeding havo begun at Portland in
tho important cases of tho United States
agaiiiBt four military wagon-road com
panics of Oregon, to forfeit their grant.
Mr. Thorn, present manager of tho
Grand Hotel, San Francisco, will soon
tako entire management of tho Palace
Hotel. Ho will also manage the Grand.
J ndgo Beverly of the Probate Court at
Tacoma, has divided that Indian children
of wiveB married according to Indian cus
toms cannot inherit unleas by Ieglsliiffvo
enactment.
IIOJIK A.l KAIt.n.
What he Needs Grapevines Feed for
Young Chicks An Orchard Lad
derCucumber Pickles.
Sailor hats in colored straw are effect
ively trimmed with black lace.
French Pickle. One pecK of green to
matoes sliced, two heads of cabbage cutas
for slaw, twelve large onions, chopped,
twelve green peppers chopped, four table
spoonluls each of ground cloves, allspice,
celery seed, and sait to taste. Cover with
strong chief vinegar and boil two hours
When done and cold, seal in jars and
keep in a dry place.
Mixed rations aro more economical
than the feeding of any particular article
of food exclusively, as some foods assist
in the digestion of others. There are
growing rations, which are best for grow
ing stock, nnd there are rations that
promote fat more than others. The
stockman should have an object in view,
and feed in a manner to obtain it at the
least cost.
There is no fixed quantity of butter or
ci earn to expect from milk. Milk varies
daily, according to the food and amount
of water consumed. The quality of the
food largely determines the amount of
cream also. Cream itself varies, and
does not give the same proportion of but
ter by measurement of weight. A great
many conditions enter into the work be
fore an estimate can be made.
Small Cucumber Pickles. Wash and
wipe a quantity of small cucumbers and
place them in jars. Cover them with
boiling brine strong enough to bear an
egg ; let stand twenty-rour hours. Then
take them out, wipe, place in clean jars
and cover with hot vinegar spiced with
an onion, twelve whole cloves, one ounce
of mustard seed and a little mace. Thev
will be ready for use in two weeks.
Oxen nre serviceable on Jargo farms,
and also in those sections where tho
roads aro nearly impassiblo in winter, as
they can travel where a horse cannot
venture. They can be ored for the pur
poses desired by judicious selection of
the best breeds for producing quick-
draught oxen, the Devon breed being
superior to any other. A Devon ox will
bear the heat well, travel at a rapid gait
and endure fatigue. A cross of the Devon
with large native stock also produces ex
cellent oxen, if the undo calves are re
tained for that purpose.
Grapevines Apply sulphur at the
first appearance of mildew, and follow it
up. We are surprised to unit that some
well-known nomologists, if they do not
advise, speak favorably of ringing the !
vines. This is done by removing a ring I
of bark a quarter of an inch wide, or by ,
twisting a wire (irmly around the shoot,
just beiow the lower cluster. This causes
early ripening and line-looking (ruit, but
is destructive to liavor. Most grape-
growers, with a conscience about them,
look upon ringing grapes that are to be
marketed in the light of fraud. Horti
cultural and similar societies should
speak on this matter.
Feed for Young Chicks. This should
be changed as often as possible, advises a
good authority. Too rapid feathering is
a drain on the system. Some varieties
feather up quickly, while others are al
most naked. Feed ground bone (fine)
every day mixed m with the teed.
Whero we raise from 0,000 to 10,000 per
year wo know by this timo the necessity
of proper feeding. Corn and oats ground
together is our standard feed, to which
we add ground bone, ground meat, char
coal and oyster shell. A pinch of bread
soda (Bicarbonato of soda) can boused
ae a substitute for charcoal.
An Orchard Ladder. It is made of
one-inch spruco or good pine, sixteen
Icet long, and tlio suit's aro joined to
gether at one end for a length of twenty
inches, when thev begin to spread apart.
Three leot six inches from the end the
end the sides are hold together by a five
bv one-half inch carriage bolt, both ends
of which are let into the wood so that
they will not injure the bark on the
limbs of the trees. Tho first rung, ten
inches long, is placed twenty inches be
low the bolt, pn 1 the last run is eigh
teen inches long, those between being of
graduated length. Theso ladders can be
run ui) into a tree and under tlio branches
anywhere without injuring the tree or
shaking down the lnnt. lhero is no
patent on them, so that any ono can
make one for himself.
Fall Feeding of Bees A western apiar
ist well says that the average bee-keeper
doa not hko tho work of feeding sugar
syrup to his bees in tho fall to insure
tliotn against starvation, because of tho
attention, and usually practiced, tho
puttering work it takes, lo any such let
this word of caution be dropped : now is
tho time to prepare against having this
to do. While honey is coming in and
the surplus being stored, a low brood
combs filled with honey should be re
moved from your best colonies and set
to one side that they may bo ready to
give to those light in stores later on.
lhero l? probably no more satisfactory
way than this method of fall feeding. It
is easily and quickly done, and does not
tncito robbery.
Unless a lawn is seeded to grasses that
can endure constant mowing, as well as
a dry season, it becomes unsightly in
stead of ornamental. When seeded down
in tho spring it becomes at times neces
sary to grow oats, wheat or some grain
crop on the lawn in order to shelter the
young glass from the effects of the noon
day sun in dry weather. Tins mav bo
avoided if the seed is sown in tho fafl, at
which period'of the year the ra'ns are
usually plentiful, and the young grass is
not so easily overrun with weeds.
Should the grass notmako a good "catch"
tho ground may again bo seeded over in
tho spring by simply scratching the sur
face with a rake, but it is seldom that
seed bowii in September fails, if a plonti-
uii supply oi seen no useu and the ground
pro(erly piepared.
-
It is now stated tho contract reoniro-
nienta of tho Baltimro of 9000 horso-pow-erhavo
not been fulfilled by about twenty
or thirty horso-iovor.
Franclbco Wagner, an errand boy in tho
iploye of W. F. Bowera A Co., Market
reet, San Francisco, was instantly
lied on tho 30th by falling down an
jyator shaft.
A. C. Poole, editor of tho Vernon, La.,
Nows, wont to the office of Sherilf McAl
pino and challenged hhn to n Htrlnmmi
of their differences with the pistol. Poole
a killed iustnutlv. and MnAlnl mi fltn.1
a few hours after from the etleeta of a bub
oi in uto aiMiomon.
rMTLANI) YIAKRKT.
THE LOCAL MERCHANDISE MARKET
CONTINUES GOOD.
Coffee Is Still Unchanged Sugars aro
fctendy at Quotations A Slight
Reduction In Poultry-Grain
is Still Inactive.
Tho local merchandise markets con
tinue under the influence of favorable
conditiono, v hich not only maintain the
volume of business, but in several in
stances havo developed progressive im
provement. The cooler temperature that
lias prevailed has stimulated the demand
for many descriptions of inerchand'se,
and the presence of many country buyers
in town attending the Industrial Fair,
adds to the busy feeling prevailing. The
coffee market still remains featureless,
while sugars are steady at quotations.
The demand for new evaporated apples is
good. Butter continues firm. Thero is
no startling activity in the grain market
yet, but an early change is looked for.
UHOCKHIKM.
Sugars, Golden C Ojc, extra O 0J.fc,
dry granulated 8Vc, culo, crushed and
powdered 8Kc. Coffee: Guatamala 20
22, Java 3032o, Costa Rica 21
22e, Mocha 37 c, Rio 2223c.
roasted Java 3032c, Arbuckle'a roasted
25c.
PROVISIONS.
Oregon ham 1313e, breakfast bacon
1213c, sideey10c, Eastern ham 12!fc
14c, breakfast bacon 12,'2C aides 0c,
shoulders 9c. Lard 8c.
FltUITo.
Apples $1, lemons $8, Sicily $7.50,.
pears $11.25.
mtlKD FJIU1TH.
Apples 4(?t5e, evaporated OrtiUijvjO sliced
tie, pears So, peaches 810c, Oregon
plums 3GjM, petite prunes 6o?0o, German
5J2(a0c, primes, Italian 7c, silver 0!v((i7o,
Ctdifornia figs 7c, Smyrna figs Miro,
ap.icots loQjl-lc, raisins $l.75f(J2.23 per
box.
veokvaih.es.
Potatoes, now, $t)cl, sweeta
per lb, onions 85c.
DAIHV I'KOntlC'E.
Butter, Oregon lancv
30c, dairy
2ocri27aC, common 1012e.
hastem
25c, California 18fd2()c.
EHOR.
Oregon eggs 30; Eastern 23c.
t'ocL.Tm .
Chickens $.53.50. old hens $4(34.23,
young geose $S10, lurkeys 12o per lb.
WOOL.
Valley I719e, Umpque 1920e, East
ern Oregon 10(Sl4!.
HOl'K.
Hops 0'ifSc for Oregon, 09c for
Washington.
GRAIN.
Wheat, Vallev $1,2231.25, Eastern
Oregon $1.12J$1.15. Oats 3Sc.
KI.OUR.
Standard $4.25, other brands $3.75
3 90.
FEED.
nav $1718 per ton, bran $14.50, chop
$1820, shorts $10.50. barley $21.
FltESH MEATS.
Beef, live. 'Jjc, dressed, 3o; mutton,
live, 3c, dressed, OJc; lings lire, 5(5c,
dressed 1U, deer 2?,j3:.
wit and Wisdom.
A man of pciiso finds much less diffi
culty in submittin; to ono who is
wrong-headed than in attempting to sot
him right.
Don't despiso systems of thought
that other men havo elaborated be
cuuo you can not place yourself at
onco at their point of r.ow.
Men get into grooves of working1
nnd thinking so that they becomo al
most automatic. And tho tendency is,
when a habit is formed, for ono to yield
more and more to its inlluonco. It is
specially true of a bad habit.
Times of general calamity and
i confusion havo over been productive of
uio greatest minus. 1 ho purest oro is
produced from tho hottest furnace, and
tho brightest, thunderbolt is elicited
from tho darkest storm. Colton.
Our accomplishments aro an cle
ment of personal strength and power.
There is a mensuro of truth in tho asser
tion: "Givo a boy address and accom
plishments, and you will givo him tho
mastery of palaces and fortunes whero
no goes, no has not the troublo of
earning or owning them; thoy solicit
him to enter and possess." S. S.
Times.
A lifo spent in brushing clothes,
nnd washing croekory, and sweeping
floors a lifo which tho proud of tho
earth would havo treated as tho dust
under thoir feot; a lifo spent at tho
clork's dosk; a lifo spent in tho narrow
shop; n lifo spent in tho lnborer's hut
may yet bo a lifo so ennobled by God's
morcy that for tho sako of it a king
might gladly yield his crown. Canon
Far rat:
Tho besotting sin of most men is
Impatience; unwillingness to wait until
thoir oxporieneo bears fruit, or their
thought lias traversed tho whole field
of fact, beforo arriving at n final con
clusion. This has always been tho bo
betting sin of men. They havo con-
btltuted themselves arbit iifirl unf In
judgment on the universe when thoir
knowledgo included only a fow facts
and very small field. Christian Union.
I hold that every rich man should
bring his son up to a trndo or Mich a
business training as ho himself receiv
ed. I count it as ono of ho sad signa
of domornllzation In civilization to see
young men going down town In tho
morning (if noon mny bo cnllod nuirn
ing)0bi thoir coupes, to alight ntTthe
door of ooino of our exchanges, thoro
to play, to make bollovo at business, by
dabbling in stocks; to thoir own ruin,
nm-ltmu:' i4ttuttt1t i. V. t ,i if....
nun. f i mini wisnos io curso his eon,
1 seo no Letter way than to let him
q'Icv. Jt. lkbcr A tufwH.
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