THE OBEGON SCOUT
CHANCEY, - Publishers
UNION OREGON.
HowTlicy Arc Ohtnhieel by tlnliful l'roi
prctlvn llrliteRrnoiiiH.
Tho winter holldny season la when
thoro is tho greatest rush. Tho days
ot tho week havo their spoclal profor
onco among most people, yet somo
young men novor stop to think about
lho day of tho wcok or tho month, ns
lo whothor it bo consldored lucky or
unlucky. Somo prefer nn odd number
In tho date of tho month, for odd num
bers aro considered raoro lucky than
tho oven. Many will not tako out a
Itconso on tho thirteenth day of tho
month. They aro prejudiced against
lho number, notwithstanding tho fact
thoro aro "thlrteon" clubs who at their
banquets defy all suporstltion. Fri
day is always a light day in taking out
marriago licenses. It may only just
happon that way, but tho hotter rea
son would seem to bo that thero is a
general projudico against Friday as an
unlucky day. Tho liconso is usually
token out tho day beforo tho wedding.
yei somo wait till tho last day. Whon
evor you soo a young follow with a
kind of bashful look walking up to tho
county clerk's desk lalo in tho
afternoon and just before tho
closing hour, with hesitation in
his manner, tho clorks in tho ollleocnn
usually surmiso his mission. A man
with a deed to fllo or who wishes to
cxnmlno an abstract, will walk in a
hurried and busincss-liko way. But
-not so tho avorago prospective bride
groom. Ho will often, after having
obtained tho license, ask tho clerk to
have it kept out of tho papers. Tho
request is complied with by tho clerk
writing across tho namos of tho couplo
in tho marrlago-liconso book "don't
publish." This book 1b dally exam
inod by members of tho pross, and the
request is usually complied with, for
-nino times out of ton a liconso marked
"don't publish" aro namos not gener
ally known.
Ono day a reporter was at tho desk
when a young laboring man mado tho
request not to havo tho liconso pub
lished. . "Why do you not want tho liconso
published?" askod tho roportor, wish
ing to learn tho reason why somo pco
plo aro so anxious to havo their mar
rlago licenses kopt socrot- In roply
"ho said: "1 am a poor man and can't
afford to havo it published. Tho boys
will all soo it in tho paper and It
-would cost mo ton dollars to sot
-up tho drinks. That is tho reason
-why I don't want It published."
Agpod, squaro.honost reason, wasn't
.UP
"Woll. how many marrlago licenses
to-dayP" asked a Donvor gentloman of
a roportor ono day, glancing over his
flhouldor whllo copying tho namos of
proBpoctlvo bridegrooms and brides.
"Did you tako out a liconso?" was
tho query answor of tho roportor.
"No, sir."
"What is tho intorost you tako,
then, in thoso thlngsP" asked the ro
portor. "I am," ho ropllod, "an insurnnoo
agent. Young mon, whon about to
(jot married, aro good subjects for llfo
lnsuranco agents. By kooplng a list of
tho marrlago Uconsos wo know tho
names of mon who aro qulto llkoly to
tako out llfo insurance."
Evory man understands his own po
cullar business, doesn't ho?
Thpro is another intorosting foaturo
to this question. Sometimes a pretty
and fair maidou comos in and asks in
.n quiet way If Charley, Harry, Goorgo,
or whatovor tho namo may bo, has
taken out a license. Young ladies aro
cuto, und when thoy think thoro may
bo a rival Jn tho Hold, thoy aro on tho
look-out, and so, young man, If you
aro playing a doublo game, bowaro.
Donvor Republican.
UNKNOWN HEROES.
tUoblo Men Whom AnU Do Not Ooino to
the I.lKlit of I'ublla Approval.
Tho world Is full of horo worship,
and many aro tho fortunate ones wo
honor and rovoro. Somo won by
knightly deeds on battle-field, somo
by splendid prowess In saving life
periled by 11 ro or Hood by every form
of daring bravery or noblo offort tho
list is swelled. And a quick and gen
erous appreciation is awarded all such
deeds of exceptional heroism.
All heroic acts, however, do not coino
to tho light of public approval. Thoro
aro unknown and unnoticed heroos
and heroines in private llfo whoso
numos aro not destined to bo "sung in
numbers;" whoso quiot lives How on in
uneventful stillness.
Hut tho young man who voluntarily
resigns tho ambitious plans of youth,
-with all their vaguely splendid possl
bullion, to care fur his aged parents,
which is an obligation, perhaps, dis
tasteful to htm, seeing his more fortu
nate brothers and comrades winning
fortuuo and renown that might bo his,
is u horo of no humble typo.
Tho girl who, putting asldo hor own
happy dreams of tho future, dedtcatus
he. llfo to the euro of an invalid
mother or crippled sister, making
thslr lives bright with tho light sho
denies her own, Is a horolno, though
not always recognized as such.
In many an obsuuro homo tho frail
mother is tho heroic spirit, who moots
tho blows of adversity with tho shield
of cheerful industry, llrnvo und
netor dospalrlng. thankful and hope
ful to others, sho might havo poems
written of her horoUm if hor station
bad been higher in tho eyes of tho
...world Toxaa Sifting
THE PACIFIC COAST.
The Southern Belle group of mines,
nbout thirtv miles from Tucson, has been
Fold to an English syndicate for $500,000.
Orovillo has won tho fight fot the Cit
rus Fair in January. Marysville made a
gallant struggle.
Charles Scott shot and killed a fellow
workman known ns Simon, on a ranch
near llocklin yesterday.
Aruument in tho Montana election con-
apt will begin to-day, the point Wing tho
elleged disqualification of the judge.
Over two hundred and fifty varieties of
the crysanlhemum are on exehibition nt
tho "Cryeanthcmuni Fair" at Los An
geles. Mat Lewis, of the steamer Elder testi
fied at Portland that tho employes of tho
vessel carried whisky, which was sold to
passengers.
Peter Verdicr. n storekeeper twenty-
five miles from Prescott. A. T., lias been
murderded by a mau who afterward
robbed tho safe.
Many newspapers in Northern Califor
nia nrotniso to publish a "dead-beat" list
of their subscribers from and after No
vember 1 .
Tho land between Ellensburu'h. Wash..
and the recently discovered hemitite iron
mines, has advanced 50 to 1W) per cent,
in valuo lately.
filinrlnn T'errv. nn insane nerson. tried
to carry off Miss Knox, a teacher at
Salem. Perry followed Miss Knox from
Minnesota.
T1im Ytln!,. mnntiiTnr fnr W H Afc-
Knight & Co., nt Sacramento, has been
arrested for having female deerskins in
1i!b possession.
Tnmna TI Poiillrnor rfnffiP1 flu Ht'ht
weight wrestling championship in a
match at Tacoma last week with Charles
F. Eyton, of Australia.
A vnnnii mnn mimed Knulish lint been
swindling Portland merchants. Ho lias
been giving them drafts on a San Fran
cisco house that has been dissolved.
Tim Klnlo tlnnril nf A irri P11 It II re linfl HUH-
!., n.l 4l iiiMininttnunt nt nirr-rtnr Ullll-
1 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1 . tuu 1 " ' -
cock to look after tho Los Angeles Fnir.
Southern California wahled a nerson from
its section of tho State.
'Plm alnrv tlmt AlrH. VnrrV llllB 1)0011
. 1 1 V k IV! I..I..W - J . - w--
robbed of a largo sum of money nt Port
land is discredited, owing to tho fact that
tho huly has not mado tho robbery pub
lic. Tlm Run Dinim rrrnnil ilirv finVB that
t . . -. . r, r- - . -
i..nr,i tiwm tinanoorif the cnuntv funds
IIIUIU I J I ( a riuuu -
havo boon illogally spent, and recom-
cemls tho removal oi ino county sujiur
visors. lVV.J V. ! " I -- ' -
of the San Francisco Copper Company at
Campo Sece, who waB drowned on tho
10th inst., in ono of tho mine shafts, has
been recovered.
n.olta llrml wlifi r-liiimn in lmvn 1)0011
a member at ono timo of tho California
legislature, has served ins lour years in
iii rtnxrmi tuiiitrnl!nrv nn a conviction
for forgery, nnd was released Monday.
no & Viuth riiilrnml.
1 iiu jwu " r
frnm Knntii Monica to Los Angeles, has
stopped running trains. The track has
been badly washed iy tno rain, aim mo
road is making no effort to repair it.
T.uli.n T? V. Minn ii tlm nnwlv nnnoint-
ed justico of Arizona, assumed his duties
yesterday at Tucson, appointed Brewster
Cameron clerk of court and set tho
trial of tho Wham robbers lor JNovemuer
llth.
A wrestling match has been arranged
between W. II. Quinn of Victoria and J.
'i ivnnonii nf A ii ul ml I ii. The match is
i lUIIUIIHI VI. .......
collar and elbow, best three in five, for
f 300, and is to take place hi aeauio wiwi
in twolvo days.
ir n itrutiiTor tho iiiiraer on tho
Bteaiiier' Cyclone, has boon arrestod at
Portland lor norlurv. It is charged that
ho teetilled falsely during a recent oxnin-
ination into a collision between tno steam
ers Alarm and Cyclone.
XT. nmial-v nf tll IVIH1H of PIlL'illPOrS
surveying tho Ivoundary lino of tho stato
oi California, has just returned to Sacra
mento from tho final survoy, and ho
states that California gains 4,17d feet in
wulth, or nearly uiree-qunners oi a muu.
. n nr : : ..
Tho govornor 01 couora. iuu.m, in
sists upon proof that tko three men ar
rested on his territory, charged with tho
murder of Harney niarun, ins who aim
three olnlren, aro Anii'rican citizeiiB be
fore ho will return uiem 10 uiu iiniuri-
an authorities.
1 Uorlmrt ltnlfo nnd W. A.
Hill, tho three young villians who ( is-
. i ti t . .. it..,.:!..
ilaced a swucn on mo couuiern i m-im
Itailroad near Albany, Or., in July.caus
.... .1... .limit, nf Iviiniiii'iir .Iitok Mlllnr
ami Fireman Guthrie, have been indicted
for niunler in tno seconti uegree.
Tl..v onu nf Mll lTll!tll StlllPH llL'illSt
the Willamette Valley and Cascade Wa
gon Bond and Tho Dalles Military Knad
?.. ,.!iu fnr fnrfnHllrit (if 1)111(1 LTDIltH
lUIIII'lllllVD J .w...i-.- -J-
came up in tho United States circuit
court at l'oriianu ihbi, wvok, ur mw
ment as to the sulllcieney of tho pi as
interiosed y tho ilofendants.
Patsy (.Irlflin, "Happy Jack" unrring
ton nnd Oharli'B Beed, who wero arrest
ed Sunilav at Seattle lor BWinuiing Elinor
w u ii, M.i. 11 nut nf tl KCK1 111 a half-
n, i'i iiwni-it v... " i - --
Interest game, wero given a preliminary
exaiuimuion, aim neiu 10 nuoncr mw u
tho grand jury. Thoro is considerable
feeling against tho men.
Thero is a project on foot to plant tho
side of the public roads In Washington
i ..I.... I,., .m.1.1 rnimlv fill . with
Ivl" IIOIIIJ'I 4HI.... w j -
nut-beaiing, declduouB and ornamental
trees. If carried into eiieci n. wui re
pilre nearly t.0,000 trees and it Is claimed
by ItB proinoiers u win onnauto mo vmuu
ot the towiisiup wuniii a iu jiwo j
tOOO.OOO.
Tliu QiReu ol Bouinanla, so widely
known for her miBceUuneous writings,
liaa bocomo a muriyr 10 nervous ueunu
A titnnltmv nf (lolt'L'lVt loilH of till)
- - - f-.--
Clan-na-Oael, frlendlv to Dr. Cronln.wiia
. . . . . ' i ii...n.. .1 II.!
held at the unum l aciue uoiei, uiucuku,
yesterday, at which thero was a promise
given to raise money 10 am uiu pruoui-u
tion ol tho murderers.
Near Hampton, tho county seat of
Chickasaw county. Iowa, laat Saturday,
a l!0-year-oll feud broke out between tho
Doudand McKenna ftinillles, in which
'riiniiu.a ikiiul nnd Peter McKeuua wero
killed und Beveral wouuded.
FOItKlliX KI.AHIIK.
The estate of Wilkie Collins is valued
at 150,000.
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, recently
won $40,000 on a horse race.
Tho mackerel fishing on the coast of
Ireland 5b improving steadily.
Franco is arming. Sho does not like
tho German garrisons along the Bhine.
Ninety-nine royal personaires will at
tend the coming royal wedding in Ath
ens. Heavy rainfall and cold weather all
over Austria and Hungary have quenched
the last hopes of a good vintage.
Tho Bread Trust in London is mado
up of companies now earning 1U per cent,
and which expect under the trust to earn
20.
At tho Mayoralty of Berthecourt,
France, babies are now Baptized in the
name of the Republic, and so duly regis
tered. Miss Braddon, whose "Lady Audley's
Secret " came out early in the Ws, has
issued another novel, her fifty-first, in
London.
Vice Admiral Bnrtsch has written an
article, advocating a ship canal to Berlin.
It is stated Count Von Moltko npproves
tho project.
Germany propoeeB to rigorously en
force tho legislation against Socialism,
and will increase tho inquisitional pow
ers of the police.
Tho rainfall has destroyed the cotton
crops in the Yang-Tse-Kiang valloy,
China, and a famine is imminent. The
price of rice lias trebled.
Chinese imperial officials, headed by
Li Hung Chang, the viceroy, are making
tho best efforts" for a ratification of the
Cheefoo Telegraph Convention.
Mr. Goodman, of England, on a bet,
smoked eighty-six cigars to an inch in
length in twelve hours. Ho ate a chop
and took brandy during tho ordeal.
African diamonds have become too nu
merous for tho European market, and
tho largest trado is now done with Japan,
whose people are growing rich.
Several thousand Jews, who have been
expelled, from Russia and have taken
temporary refugo in England, intend to
go out aB colonists to tho Argentine Re
public. Three ladies ran for election to the
Frouch Chamber of Deputies Madame
Potonio, Madamo Saint Helairr and
Madame Astie de Valseyre. They wore
all beaten.
The steamer Vulcan, connected with
finntnin Wissinan's expedition, has been
' , 1 .1... I . nAiaf n.wl
WrCCKCll Oil UIU JIIUU uiuun v-unoi, ...n.
several of the crow wero slain by ne
groes
Tlin nnvniont. nf the debts of the late
King of Havana win not no coiupicieu
until lilOo. Thev are now being paid
off out of the Bavaria civil list at the rate
of 65,000 pounds a year.
ThninaB Monahan. an Irish million
nirn. who lived in Melbourne for half a
contury, died recently. Ho was one of
tno IfoU poor insu iiiuuiniiua uiu muiuu
for Australia in lH.iu.
Tim Kiffil rntfluro ifl tho latest social
n,wmMii)Ut in T.rttwlnn If in tlin rnviviil
of the Bix-story hair dressing of tho
rjlllllieei'lll ucniury, unit timi.i;o mum.
J! f!..i.t
women iodk. hku inuio.
Txird Brassev is deeply interested in
tlm (liiostion of assisted iuiiuration, and
is ono of a number of caiiitalists who
have purchased a nugo iraci oi num in
Canada on which to settle a colony of
British laborers.
Tim i.it.v nf l.ivnrno. Italv. is at nroB-
ent excited ovor the d'sappearanco of tho
Duchess d'Aurel, a member of one of tho
mnol nriutniTlltil- lint.HPH ill tllO k ill LTllOIll .
who has left debts to the amount of $200,-
000 behind nor.
ftivitur in tlin ureat success of tho exhi
bition, the FarisiaiiB aro suggesting that
it should bo kept open beyond the origi
nal limit October 31 at least for an ad
ditional fortnight. Foreign exhibitors,
however, do not lavor tno idea.
Tlmm in n nhien in the Paris Kxlii hi-
tion plan marked Panama, and in the
grounds a little building bearing that
ii.iiiui Imt tlinrn iri no nlini and no ex
hibit. Just as the Exhibition opened
the Panama Company went into the
Hands ot tno liquidators.
Tlin ir:i(T..l tnwnr ennui Idyll, hilt tho
stockholders aro glad they have it, as it
has paid its cost, about $1,000,000, and
handsome dividenl, beside. As it will
bo permanent it in likely to prove a very
handsome investment for thoso who
bucked tho aspiring architect.
Tlin Prini'il nf Willi's' clliof foot 11111 II. H
flunkev, who enjoys the titleof "sergeant
footnuui," has just been fined by a Lon
don police iiiumMritte for keeping a foot
man on hiH own account without paying
the usual license required by British law
. . i i. .1 ,
lor ttlO privilege Ol Having miu uumetmu
BervantB.
Tim drt Mimill-lmre ritles for the Ger
man army wero issued two weeks ago to
a single battalion of gu-uda, and tho re
sult of their being practically tested was
regarded as satisfactory. ItiBsaid that
Germany has already pulllciont smoke
loss jKjwder in stock to lust for the first
few niontns ot a genoral war.
All tlm iintivi-H nf Konoi'iil. Annum nnd
Now Caledonia at tho Paris Exhibition
havo been provided with frame houses
on the oxhloition grounds, and an abun
dant supply of warm pirments and bed
clothing has been distributed among
them. Thoy were uei;iniiing 10 conipiain
bitterly of tho cold, and wiBhed to be Bent
home."
Count Herbert Bismarck, during his
supposed sojourn in England, secretly
went, it is stated, to Pievo dl Cadoro,
Italy, where ho had an intorview with
SIgnor Crisnl. Count Herbert remained
thoro a week in strict privacy. Ho had
three meetings with tho Italian Prime
Minister, who whb also very private iu
his movements.
Tho strike of tho Scottish schoolboys,
wh'ch began in Hawick, haa Bpread to
Glasgow, Govan, Greenock, Port Glas
gow and oilier places in mo wesi oi ccoc
land, and uUo into Ayrshire and alwut
Aberdeen. Tho boya liavo formed regu
lar lnlior-llko tunnies, with banuera and
criea for "shorter hours." The strike
haa also spread into England. The other
day 100 nialcontenta paraded tho streets
of Burnet, demanding "ubolition of the
cano, leas hours in school, less parsing
aud no home leeaoua."
EASTERN ITEMS.
The lands pclerted in Mexico for colo
nization by the negroes are the most un
healthy in the Republic.
There is a bitter crossing flirht between
tho Dnluth, Crookston & Northern and
the Manitoba roads.
The whole business inrtion of Find-
ley's Lake, Pa., was destroyed by tire
hunuay.
The baby giraffe lKrn in the Cincin
nati Zoological gardens is dead. Its
mother refused to nourish it.
The latest advices from Blount county,
Ala., state that the outlaw, Rube Bur
rows, and his partners are still at large.
It is confidently asserted that the res
ervations of the Kiowns, Sacs and Kick
anoois will be open to settlera by next
March
There is no compromise possible be
tween the Baseball league and Brother
hood. If tho association remains neu
tral it will not bo molested.
William Henderson, an old and well
known theatrical manager, died laRt
week at Stockbridge, MasB., from pneu
monia. Ho was 00 years of age.
The notes of the great lumber firm of
W'ainwjight & Bryant, of Philadelphia,
have gone to protest. Judgments have
been entered aggregating $250,000.
The report that E. J. Baldwin has pur
chaied a half interest in the Richmond
hotel at Chicago is discredited at Chica
go by those immediately interested.
A fire nt Selma, Alabama, Sunday, de
stroyed Liepold Bros, dry goods Btore,
Gill's hotel and several business houses.
The lo38 is over $200,000.
Thomas Duane, who is supposed to be
the driver oi the hack that carried Dr.
Cronin to l.is death, has been arrested
at St. Joseph, Mich.
Sixteen men wero required to carry
the body of Annie Price, the Irish giant
ess, Barnum's fat woman, who died last
week, to tho hearso.
It is reported that John Jacob Astor is
engaged to be married to Mrs. Bowler, of
Cincinnati, widow of a nephew of George
11. Pendleton.
Stonelioro, a mining villago of 1,200 in
habitants, near Sharon, Pa., was almost
literally swept out of existence by lire
baturday. Loss, $150,000.
Knmiinl W ATlllnr pnaliior nf tlin Vmnr
ican bank at Findla'y, Ohio, was prob
ably fatally stabbed Sundav night by F.
it. giunuo ilia juuiut 'lu'iuil
The roads competing with the Union
Pacific and Northwestern will form nn
alliance and inaugurate a bitter fight
ni;ainst the Vanderbilt Union Pacific
deal.
Father Matthew has come to America
to raise funds for the completion of the
church begun fifty years ago by the orig
inal Father Matthew, of temperance
lame.
Tho Mexican government professes to
bo seriously oflended at tho tone of the
speech of Mr. Mizner, when presonted
to the Costa Rican governor as minister
of the United States.
Albert Parsons, the 10-vear-old son of
t'0 executed anarchist, Parsons, myster
iotislv disappeared from his homo o
Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, and has not
since been seen.
A movement has been begun at Colum
bus, Ohio, by tho labor organizations, to
pledge every candidate tor the btato Lex
lslaturo to support the eight-hour and
weekly-payment bill.
Democratic heelers at Baltimore are
making confessions of their sins for the
berefit of their former political oppo
nents. Tho elections tako place Tues
day, the 25th ol JNovemuer.
Millionaire W. W. Astor, late minister
to Italy, has written a novel entitled
"Sporzii," basfd on the Milanese song
which ho hns translated. Tho novel is a
semi-hiatorical Italian romance.
Somo siirpriso was caused Sunday
evening in Trinity Episcopal church, tho
most laslnonuDle nt iNewurk, :n. J., by
tho announcement that Rector J. baun
der8 Reed would resign atul go to a San
irancisco chinch.
Two negroes engaged in a fight at Mom-
dins w'th cotton hooka. ihey had
quarreled over tho prior right to unload
at tho railroad station. Both received
wounds that will probably cause their
death-
Vii'n nf tlin Ttarniirilu mnnnnllinnrfl
who killed Henry Sutton hvt January in
Hancock county, Tenn., will be hanged
on tho 23d of November., the supremo
.il. il. I.....1. f l...
couri manning uiu ticuui seiuciicu u. uiu
court below.
Ainnnithe nronosed ''reform" mens
ures to bo introduced in the French
Chambers, is one restricting the liberty
of the press nnd ettablishing a kind of
censorial eoniinisBlon instead of jurors to
. i. i . i i
iry ouenuers oi mo law.
Beforo leaving Cniaha each of the All
America party was presented with, as a
Kiuvonir, a steer's horn brightly ikjI
Ished, decorated with ribbons, and filled
with fancy little sackBCOiitainiugsamples
of isobruBka grams.
Tho prospects of Johnstown, Pa.,b'ing
again under water aro good. Rain has
been falling almost continually for the
past thirty-six hours. A great many of
tho streets aro already almost impassable
to pedestrians.
Postmaster General Wannmaker iu his
forthcoming annual report, will recom
mend that postotlices bo established on
tho principal steamers plying between
the ports of tho United States and Eii-
rope, similar to tho postal service on
runway trains.
Thomas SUoa, of Boston, started out
to kin John h, bullivan Saturday, and
found him iu a barber shop with Tiiomaa
J. Kolley. a prizo lighter. Shea com
menced tho quarrel, and Kelley, seeing
SVa move to tako n pistol, took a razor
from a barber'a hand and cut Shea's
throat. Shea car not live.
It la iHjllovfd that Charles W. Hatch
who was accused of murdering his uncle
near Burlington, Col., last spring, and
w hosu arrest created quite a sensation at
tho time, ia not guilty of tho crimo, hut
that neighbors murdered old man Urgch
aud tried to shift the blamo on the young
man, who had been visiting his "uncle.
The charge, after an examination last
w eek, was dismissed.
HEN-PECKING.
flow
n .Meek lVninnn Mnnncoi
tO IIT
Ilrr Own Why.
"If thero is a man in tho world that
excites my sympathy Itisnhon-pecked
husband." said Colonel jumpio.
"Somo timo ago my friend Amolton
invited mo to go homo with mm. i
promised, providing ho would wait
until I transacted a certain pieco of
business. He agreed reluctantly, say
ing that ho promised his wife that ho
would bo homo at n oortaln hour.
fter I finished my business I accom
panied him. As wo proceeded ho ro-
marked:
"'Rimple. I am the worst hen-
pecke'd man in town. That's why 1
nm in such a hurry.'
I was very much disappointed when
wo reached tho house. I expected to
seo a masculiiic-looklng woman, with
a savago face and a harsh voice, but I
was introduced to a little, meok-look-ing
woman, with a delicate faco nnd
plaintive tone of voice. After supper,
when Amelton and I wero sitting in tho
library smoking. I romarked:
" Say, didn't you mislead mo about
that henpecked business? I tlon t
know that I ever saw a gentler woman
than your wife.'
No. sir; I havo not misled you.
Gentleness is her strongest hold. It
is her gentleness that knocks mo.
Don't think that tho scold is tho worst
typo of hen-pecking women, for sho
isn't. Why. sir. if mv wifo wera a
scold I would got mad and leave the
house, but ns it is I am disarmed.
When I leave home my wifo always in
sists unon mv appointing tho exact
timo when I will return. If I am
Into, no matter what business has de
tained me, she cries and takes on, and
declares that I don't love her. hen
I vow by all things sacred that I do
love her, and that 1 was detained by
business that could not bo postponed,
sho wrings her hands and weeps so
violently that I am sometimes
afraid people think I am abusing
her. She has a wny of sighing and
turning over in bed with a kind of do
spairing llounce, and instead of asking
mo. ns is her custom, if I have locked
tho doors, she slides out of bed with a
suppressed "Uh. mo! and goes on a
tour of inspection. Every timo she
quiets down I try to convince her that
sho is wrong and that I do love her,
but just as soon as I say a word sho
breaks out afresh and turns over with
another despairin'r flounce. Next
morning she gets up before I awake,
When I get up I find hor at tho break'
fast table with swollen oyes and an ex
pression of such unutterable sadness
that I feel liko kicking myself. This
is what I call the worst kind of hen
pecking, aud don't misunderstand mo
when I say a man doesn't want more
than two such sieges a month.'"
Arkansaw Traveler.
ORIGIN OF IDAHO.
How ii Poetic Nainn Cumn to lln Applied
to it I'roa.'tiroui Territory.
From timo to timo something ap
noars in tho public prints connecting
the name of Joaquin Miller with the
orlcrin of tho word "Idaho" in which
it is always claimed that tho word in
nuestion resulted from an intorview
which Millor had with Colonel Craig
whllo both woro traveling through tho
Nez Perce country in tho sunimor of
1861. Miller is said to give Colonel
Craisr crudit for composing tho word
from elements found in the Nez Perco
language and which Craig is said to
have first pronounced Ldaho, applying
tho word to the appearance of a noiffh
boriii!r mountain, upon whoso summit
something was seen to gliston liko a
diamond or gem. This was no doubt
tho origin of tho Miller-Craig gem of
tho mountains, but not of the genuine
article nor tho word "Idaho."
In tho spring of I860, sovernl months
beforo tho discovory of gold had at
tracted the "poet of the Sierras" into
the Nez Perco country, a steamboat was
built at tho uppor cascades on tho
Columbia rivor under the auspices of
the Orogcui Steam Navigation Com
pany; and when tho steamer was
launched tho word Idaho appeared In
its appropriate place as tho namo of
tho vessel. Tho definition of tho word
then given to tho world was "gem of
tho mountains," and tho word was
then said to havo been taken from tho
language of one of tho Indian tribos
inhabiting that portion of tho Colum
bia rivor valloy. Somo efforts havo
been mn 'o to find out who it was that
first suggested that name for the steam
er, but thus far without success.
Tho steamer Idaho plied upon tho
waters of tho Columbia during tho
spring, summer and autumn of 1800,
and its namo was quite familiar to all
who traveled through tho country that
year. When it became necessav to
ilnd a namo for tho new Terifiory,
which was organized in March, 186U,
somebody, probably .Salucius Garfield,
suggested tho namo of tho old btoam
boat that had been long since used up
and relegated to tho "bono yard."
Idaho Statesman.
Iu Dublin, a small town in I. aureus
County, Ga., thoro lives a blue man.
Ho is a Caucasian, but instead of be
ing white, is a greenish blue, and is
known as "Blue Billy." His whole
Bklu is blue, his tongue aud tho roof
of his mouth aro blue, nnd where his
oyes should bo white is seen tho sainu
ghastly greonlsh-bluo color
An immense glass bubble or globo
which has been oxhlbltod at tho Paris
exposition Is over live feet in diameter,
with a capacity of 1,950 Imporlal
quarts, and weighs forty-eight nnd a
half pounds. It Is as pure as crystal,
and without a blemish, and is a work
of tho French glass-blowers said to
have never been equaled.
THE WORST
PORTLAND MARKET.
THE LOPAL MERCHANDISE MARKET jf
CONTINUES GOOD,
And the General Feeling of Business
Men go to tihow that There Will
be an Early Change In all
Branches of Trade.
In the local merchandise markets the
volume of general trado continues large
even for this season of tho year, and tho
evidences of growing of commercial and
industrial prosperity are abundant as well
as encouraging. The distributing move
ment of merchandise and the shipments
of produce are crowding the principal
lines of transportation with traffic; in
dustrial enterprise is actively 4 employed
supplying the legitimate requirements of
consumption, notably the iron aud steel
trades, which continue to snow substan
tial improvement; the export movement
of produce is of satisfactory proportions,
with the most active season ior shipment
yet to come,
qhocehiks.
Sugars, Golden 0 Oja'c, extra C 6c,
drv granulated 7Jgc, cube, crushed and
powdered 8kc. Coffee: Guatamala 20
22M, Java 3032c, Costa Rica 21
22c, Mocha 370, Rio 2223c.
roasted Java aoac, ArbucKie'B roaaieu
2c.
PK0VI8I0N8.
Orenon haml313c, breakfast bacon
126J3:, BidestKSlOc, Eastern ham 12!
14c, breaklast bacon lc, sides tc?4,
shoulders 9c. Lard 8?c.
Knurrs.
Apples $1, lemons $8, Sicily $7.50,
pears 11.25.
J)R1KD FRU1TB.
AppleB 45c, evaporated 00)c sliced
6c, pears 8c, peaches 810c, Oregon
plums 34, petite jirunet o(C0c, German
5Jijt)C, pmnes, Italian iu, silver 0)(a7c,
California figs 7c, Smyrna figs 1415c,
ap.icots 18(Sl4c, raisiDB $1.75r$2.25 per
box.
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes, new, 90e$l, sweets lc.
per tt, onions 86c.
DAIKY rilODOCE.
Butter, Oregon lancy 30c. dairy
2o(rf27jC, common 10J2Kc Eastern
25c, California 27)0".
BOOB.
Oregon eggs 35 ; Eastern 27K-
I'OL'LTKY.
Chickens $33.50. old hens $4.50
ducks $8.50 geese $10, turkeys 14c per lb.
WOOL.
Valloy 1719c, Umpque 1020c, East
ern Oregon 10(.14c.
nops.
Hops ti8o for Oregon, 69c for
Washington.
anAi.N.
Vheat, $1.22 und $1.15 are the max
iniiin bids for Valley and Eastern Ure
gon. Oata 40c for choice.
FLOUK.
Standard $4.25, other brands $3.75
03.90.
KIIESH MEATB.
Beef, cows. 2)c, leof light, 2c. beef,
prime, 3c, hogs live, 6c, mutton, live,
2?4 3c; deer, 2?43:.
FEED.
Hay$17.5018 per ton, bran $14.50,
chop, $1620, Bhorta $16.50, barley $21.
BERLIN'S CITY SHELTER.
Unique CiTiiill'i Clmrlty Willed MlKllt
Wll lln Instituted litre.
Ono of tho most notoworthy institu
tions of Berlin is that known as tho
"City Shelter," tho liko of which is
to bo found in no othor capital In tho g
world. It stands just outsido Berlin, J
was oponed in October, 1887, and is
intended for tho accommodation not
only of homeless individuals, but of
homoless families as woll. It consists
of ono largo three-story building, and,
in tho roar, twenty one-story barracks,
each of which is capablo of accom
modating from sixty to eighty per
sons. Tho main building is intended
1 chielly for poor familios. Routs are
excessively high in Berlin, nnd it y
often happens that an artisan or a la- f
boror gots into arroars with his pay
ments, and finds himself ojected with
his family into tho street, having no
money in his pocket with which to
hlro fresh rooms. His rosourco on
such nn occasion is tho "City Shelter,"
whither ho goes with his wifo und
childron and whatever household ef
fects he shall possess.
On their arrival tho clothing they '
wear and tho furniture thoy havo
brought with them tiro thoroughly dis
infected, and tho members of tho fami
ly are sent to dilToront parts of the
establishment, nccording to sex or
ago. Tho husband is located In tho
mon's department; tho wifo, tho oldest
daughters and tho smallest childron
aro sent to that for women, while tho
boys ovor six years of ago aro cared
for in rooms specially sot apart for
them. Tho ontlro family are allowed
to romaiii in tho shelter for eight
days, and aro not only lodged, but aro
providod also with good wholosomo
food by tho city, not a penny being
asked for from thorn in return. The
women, however, tiro expected to as
sist in tho laundry and iu keoplng tho
establishment scrupulously clean; tho 1
mon aro allowed certain hours of ab- 4
sonco, during which thoy may go in
search of work should they bo out of
employment, whllo tho boys got regu
lar instruction in tho school-rooms.
Should it bo found that tho husband
or father has honestly striven to obtain
work during tho eight days, but hns
failed, tho family is allowed to remain
for still another such porlod. Even
thou, if ho should havo obtained nn n
gagomont which is not aulllciently ' re
munerative to onablo him to sot up n
fresh homo at onco, tho wifo nnd chil
dron may remain still longor in tho
ilioltor, and ho may go thoro nnd sloop
at uighL Evon with all this tho kind-
ness of tho city doos not end. for whon
nt Inst tho family leavo thoy may bo '
presented with from fifteen to twenty
Bhllllngs toward their preliminary
household expenses. N. Y. Post.
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