THE OREGON SCOUT.
JONES CHANCEY,
Publishers
UNION OREGON.
A TOKEN OF ESTEEM.
ItTonclies tlie Colonel' ,Hert-StrlnK, Hu
For n Few Moment Only.
As tho train stopped at a station about
thirty miles west of Indianapolis wo no
tlccd an unusually largo crowd on tho
depot platform and it was evident that
speech-making had been indulged in and
that somebody of nolo was taking his
departure. Wo soon discovered that
this person was a certain Colonel Blank,
who camo into tho car with a packago
under his arm, and whoso cheeks were
wot with farewell tears. Ho called
"Good-bye!" a scoro of times from tho
window, and as tho train finally rolled
on ho blow his nose, wiped his eyes and
turned to us:
"Gentlemen, it touches tho heart
strings to part with old friends and
neighbors."
"You aro saying farowoll, then?"
"Yes. I am going up to Indianapolis
to reside. Tho field hero is too limited,
as I havo discovered after ten years' res
ldonco." "Well, it is certainly pleasant to part
from friends tho way you have."
"Indeed, it is! Over two hundred of
tho best peoplo in town camo down to
boo mo oil, and tho president of tho bank
made a beautiful speech, wished mo
every success, and nil that, and then
handed mo this as a token of respect
und esteem."
"Ah I Mado you a present, oh? Evi
dently something nlco."
"Bound to bo," replied tho Colonel, as
ho took a package from tho seat.
"Perhaps you don't want to roveal tho
contents hero?"
"Oh, I havo no objections. We'll undo
it and sco what tlioy have given mo."
Ho carefully untied tho string and re
moved tho several papers which wrapped
tho precious memento, and lol there was
exposed to our gaze a spongo! Ye8,sir;
a great big bath sponge, which never
cost less than a dollarl Wo pressed for
ward to sco it, and tho Colonel turned
red and whito by turns, bit Ills lips, and
bobbed about on tho seat, and as wo held
our breaths ho burst out with:
"Gontlemon, heart-strings bo blowcdl
Tho onory, thieving, loafing, lyingcrowd
havo gono and heaped a deadly insult
upon mo, and tho next two hundred and
fifty years of my life shall bo dovoted to
wading in human blood clear up to the
top vest button!" N. Y. Sun.
THE TOOTHSOME OYSTER.
lie Ih (Inn f America' Oldest Settlers ami
Him Always lleen Apprecluteil.
Tho oyster is one of America's old set
tlers. His family antedates that of our
most aristocratic Puritan stock. That
oysters were eaten during tho revolution
is proved by tho story that is recorded
of Benjamin Franklin.
When he was traveling in cold weather
and saw no vacant place at tho tavern
Jlro where ho could warm himself, tho
genius whoso stntuo adorns Printing
House square cried out the order, "Half
a peek of oysters in tho shell for my
horse!" Upon this all tho fire-place
crowd rushed out to seo a horse eat
oysters. Very soon tho hostler returned
and ssild:
"Why, sir, your horso won't eat tho
oysters."
"Won't he?" said Franklin, now com
fortably seated by tho fireside. "Well,
then, bring them in and cook them and
I'll eat them myself."
Tho archives of tho States bordering
on tho Atlantic on wlioso coasts oysters
abound aro full of papers and document i
ubout legislative and ovon military strife
in regard to oysters. "Indeed," say.s
Mr. Parkinson, tho then editor of the
Caterer, "it is not going too fur to say
that oysters havo kept the peoplo of the
several colonies and States in a perpetual
stow over since they were first settled."
Tho ancient Romans ato oysters raw
with a seasoning of vinegar, garum, oil,
wine, honey mixed with eggs, and pop
per and allsander. Thoy also minced
them with mussels and sea hedgehogs,
stowed them with plno almonds and
various condiments and ato them scald
ing hot A celebrated Roman epicure
Lullt u fish pond, where ho kept oysters
and fed them on a paste of cooked wine
and honoy.
Tho Greeks understood tho sorvlng of
raw oysters bettor than modern Ameri
cans. They were opened by a slave at
tho very table in view of all tho guests.
Since the fourteenth amendment this
method is not practicable hero, hut it
Bcrved tho purpose of allowing them to
ho eaton, as noarly ns possible, alive,
whlc,h in spite of Thackeray, who in
jest scared an oyster oator half to death
by exclaiming, "Why, man, you'vo swal
lowed It alive!" Is a gastronomlcal con
sideration of tho first importance. N. Y.
Herald.
Virtue of Heil Umlerweur.
The popular belief in tho sanitary
clllcacy of red underwear la a clinging
superstition, nothing more. Bed was
in ancient times considered a potent
chnriu itgulust the evil eye. At one time
in tho sixteenth century, when tho evil
oyo was esteemed to bo especially tri
umphant in England, there was a boom
in red tupo which it has never slnco ex
perienced. Many peoplo to this day
believe that a rod string worn about tho
nook is a sure preventive of asthma,
measles and mumps. Tho relics of this
old faith are to-day best preserved In
tho great confidence which obtains in
tho medical virtues of red fiannel, and n
not so widespread belief that the milk
of n red cow is better than that of any
other cow. As to red fiannel it has tho
single merit over other colors, that the
dyeing material used destroys all vestige
of uuliuul life in the wool, and that red
flannel will not shrink as white tluunel
does. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
While passing a farm in Virginia
tho figure of an elderly man whose at
tiro was noticeable for the utter absence
of any decorative olTorts, was to be seen
loaning against tho fence. "How aro
you getting along down here?" "Jos'
gettln' 'long; no ino'h." "Good farm?"
"I'Vh." "Can you ralso any thing on
it?" "Consld'blo. I Jos' raised seventy
llvodollahscmlt; fohth mortgage, too,"
Wnsblmrton Post,
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Indian Medicine Woman Dragged
to Death.
E. J. Baldwin Loses Some Valuable
Brood Mares on His Santa
Anita Ranch.
Thorwald Juisett's child was drowned
in a well at Tncoina.
A liiuli-liccnso nFsociation has been
formed in Sun Francisco.
Colorado capitalists are investing heav
ily in Salt Lake property.
Tho State of California was libeled at
San Francisco for townge service.
Miss Jennie Clymer was struck and
killed by a train in Oakland, Cal.
The Challenge was a total loss on
Gueines island. No lives were lost.
Nine corps if Union Pacific surveyors
tire working in Southwestern Nevada.
Lewis Conwav, a Spokane convict, es
caped from tho Wnlhi Walla penitentiary.
New York people have purchased a
site for u sugar refine y at Vancouver,
B. 0.
John Meyers of Berkeley, Cal., was
drowned in tho Mokelumno river near
Hope.
A Bock Creek Indian medicine woman
was dragged to death by braves of her
tribe.
W. A. Burleigh has been appointed
postmaster at Birdsview, Skagit county,
Wash.
Mail service has been established twice
a week between Long Creek and Susan
ville, Or.
General Ticket Agent T. II. Goodman
of tho Southern Pacific is ill in San
Francisco.
John T. Glover, a San Francisco" lei tor
carrier, has been arrested for embezzling
$3.50 from a letter.
Louis Kuskell, a Ran Francisco hat
merchant, dropped dead on tho street
from sudden hemorrhage.
The injunction suit at Seattle against
the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern has
been thrown out of the court.
Considerable whisky is being taken
from Sun Fruncisco to Honolulu and
thence by whalers smuggled into Alaska.
Joe Dully has been limited, charged
with last fall's Forest Hill stage robbery.
He denies that ho had anything to do
wtih it.
Los A nicies electors have decided by
a two-thirds vote to issuo bonds for$374,
()() for the construction of an interior
system of sewers.
The libel suit of W. A. Kay, recently
a banker at Pasadena, against
tne Los Angeles Times was decided in
favor of tho Times.
Tho United States steamship Mouon
gnhela, untler sailing orders for New
York, still' lies in Sun Franc sco harbor
on account of stormy weather.
There is every belief that the lobsters
planted in Puget sound about fourteen
ironths ago are doing well. Many have
been seen on their feeding grounds.
The steamer Belgic. which reached
San Francisco from China lust week,
brought 410 eases of prepared opium, on
which tho consignees paid duty of $ 15,
100. 0. C. White of Olynipia, the last Sec
retary of Washington Territory, has been
unpointed to the ofi'ice of Printer for tho
State of Washington for the term ending
July, 1803.
From 1,000 to 1 ,500 coast seamen, with
torchl'ghts, music and transparencies,
paraded the streets of San Francisco in
commemoration of tho fifth anniversary
of tho Coast Seamen's Union.
Tho people living along the line of the
road between Seattle and Tacoiim com
plain that tho coal rates nre too high,
mid that they should bo reduced both in
justice and in response to good business
IHilicy.
One hundred and threo horses, valued
at $200,000, were shipped from Senator
Stanford's stithies at Palo Alto. Cal , by
special train to Now York. Thirty-two
nre colts from the famous Btallion Elec
tioneer. Tho towns on Bellinghnm bay nre pros
pecting tho advisability of uniting undor
one charter. The hitch will bo over tho
inline. Each town wants its name used,
ami tho older town wants tho others to
join undtr its charter.
In Walla Walla county so far no injury
has been done to grain, though consider
able injury has been indicted on the fruit
and very great injury on range cattle and
horses. There has also been more than
the average lots of sheep.
Bepresentntives of Fresno, Visaliu,
Bukorslleld and Merced have formed tho
California Baseball League. Mr. Mod
get t, ii prominent banker at Bukerslield,
is President of the li ague. The Fresno
club will be organized immediately and
grounds secured.
The Douglass County Board ol Trade
has taken in hand the matter of securing
seed grain to replace that which bus nec
essarily been fed out in consctiuence of
the unusuullv hard winter. Arrange
ments have been made whereby J,5tX)
wortliof seed grain will be deliverol in
Watervillo in time for spring seeding,
and farmers will be enabled to get seed
at reasonable prices on secured notes
payable utter harvest.
A petition is being circulated asking
the 1 ostofilce Pepar tmetit to establish a
mail route from Yiiiiiina City to Ahou
lt.iy and to establish a iKistolllco at
Heaver Creek. The route runs four or five
miles east of the present route from New
ort to Alsca. To have it established
would bo a great convenience to Yaiuiiia
City and the people on Uppvr Heaver
creek. The Hoard of Tnulo has indorsed
it by a memorial.
During tho recent cold rains a lot of
valuable brood mares belonging to E. J.
Baldwin, which had U'en turned to as
turn on his Santa Anita (Cal.) ranch,
took cold, and eight of them have bctn
iirostratod with congestion of tho lungs.
Two racers, Fallen lxaf and another
costly mare, died. Maggie Emerson, tho
dam of Mollie McCarthy, will probably
not survive. She is valued far in the
thousands. The other mares aro im
proving. The loss to Baldwin through
(his mishap will reach, it is said, $ 150,-000.
EASTERN ITEMS.
The State Treasurer of Missouri
a Defaulter.
Miscellaneous News From Ail Parts
of the East Condensed Into
Paragraphs
Omaha linemen have st uck.
Tho Grant Monument Association now
has $141,503 GO.
Kansas farmers aro petitioning for a
reduction in corn rutes.
The public debt reduction for Feb
ruary was $0,l;l),480.(10.
A cable-car laborer at Denver had his
leg groand on" by the cab!e.
The railway earnings for January show
a gross increase of $4,000,000.
The Kingston (Out ) City Council has
voted to tax all chun.li property.
David Dudley Field has made a speech
declaring for compulsory voting.
In Brunswick. Ga., the law confines
the sale of liquor to three streets.
A new town called Stanley will be
founded on the Sioux reservation.
An Illinois farmers' union has declared
that lump-jaw cattle aro good to cut.
The Cherokee strip is being invaded
by hundreds of Oklahoma boomers.
Virginia tux assessments in the future
aro to show tho race of the taxpayer.
A mysterious and fatal cattle disease
has broken out in AVayno county, Intl.
The brewery owners of New Orleans
talk of consolidating all tho companies.
The defalcations of the Slate Treasurer
of Missouri are now figured at $2i,000.
A number of Sparks' rulings adverse
to settlers have recently been reversed.
Chicago's street railway stock is boom
ing since the vote on the World's Fair.
Tho land on which the Auditorium at
Chicago stands has been sold for $470,
000. George H. Pendleton's funeral at Cin
cinati was attended by many distinguish
ed men.
German colonists arriving in Nuevo
Meon, Mexico, to work in tho cotton
fields.
The Canadian Pacific is encountering
heavy snowdrifts in Maine, which delay
travel.
The Knighls of Labor of New York
want the legal rate of interest fixed at 6
per cent.
It is estimated that 1 10.000,000 Euro
pean eggs were eaten in the United States
last year.
Phono'-'rnph closets are very common
now in tho ollkes of the New York busi
nets men.
Howell Osborn is said to have squan
dered $20,000 a year on Fay Templeton,
tho aclresi).
Judge Tuthill of Chicago has decided
that it is not libelous to call a ierson an
Anarchist.
Jay Gould is reported to have ac
quired nearly all tho. coal fields in tho
Southwest.
It is proposed to have daily mail and
passenger 6tf-amers between NewYoik
.Hid Liverpool.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Tillin, O., by an abandoned well legin
ning to flow oil.
In 1888 Illinois farmers made $10,000,
000 on their corn crops; last year they
lost that amount.
Tho Atchison railroad gross earnings
approximated for February show an in
crease of $420,000.
Tho Legislature of Mississippi has
changed the name of Bolivar county to
Jell' Davis county.
A bill has been introduced in Congress
for the establishment of a life-saving
station at llueneme, Cal.
The Women's Suffrage Convention has
chosen North Dakota as tho immediate
battle ground for the cause.
There is a rumor that the Chicago
vards aro about to be sold to an English
syndicate for $:!0,000,000.
The law prohibiting tho use of stoves
or furnaces in pas enger cars goes into
elfeet May 1 in Maryland.
The Kansas State Board of Agriculture
reports that the jiopulation of that State
has declined .tl,ti:)8 tho past year.
Minister Robert Lincoln authorizes a
denial of therepirt that ho intends to
resign in cunseqit nee of tho death of
his son.
Tho Chester (Pa.) School Board has
adopted and will foou introduce the
school savings bank sybteni into the pub
lic schools.
In many parts of Maine lumbermen
have had an exceptionally good winter,
with just snow enough for sledding and
no big drifts.
A New York court has enjoined tho
production bv Mark Twain of tho play
" Ptiuco and l'auper " on petition of Ed
ward II. llout-e.
F. W. Smith, the defaulting Laud
lice Receiver at Tucson, A. T., has
iipped, leaving his bondsmen in tho
rch. Four Indictments aro awaiting
otli
skippe
mien.
him
Cavalry overtook live renegade Anacho
murderers thirty miles north of GIoIk,
A. T., after a" 300-mlle chase. Threo
were taken alive and two killed in the
capture.
C. V. Henkel, cashier and tookkeepor
of tho Globe Light Company of Chicago,
has disappeared with Mwcen 2,000 ami
$.1,000 of tho company's funds. Ho left
his young w ife and two children in des
titute circntubtanccs.
Billy Myer, the famous light-weight
pugilist, lias signed articles of agreement
for a tight to a finish with Andy Hower
May 7, More the Athletic Club of New
Orleans, for a purse of $11,000 with four
ounce gloves, Queonslmry rules. He
lias arranged to tight with Jack HopjHjr
of New York at Fort Worth. Tox., May
1 to n finish, two-ounce gloves, for a
purse ot $1,000: eo ho will havo two
lights in one week.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Silver Ore Discovered at Nigoll,
Russia.
An Electric Plant Found In India
German Cavalry to be Armed
With Lances.
Students are rioting in Prague.
Ex-Sultan MuradV.of Turkey is dead.
Bismarck ia preparing an anti-strike
bill.
Franco will put a duty on corn and
flour.
The American squadron of evolution
is at Naples.
A free port is to be established near
Copenhagen.
The French Exhibition is to bo opened j
in London May 3. I
An ophthalmic epidemic is reported '
from Pressburg, Austria. .
Out of 300 suicides in Vienna in 1889 t
ninety-two were women. i
The French propose to deal rigorously i
with tho King of Dahomey.
The French language is to bo used at j
the Berlin labor conference. 1
Two thousand Liverpool grain porters
have struck for higher wages. j
Aukape has been issued increasing the
war footing of the Kouban Cossacks.
Von Moltke was thrown from a car
riage in Berlin and badly shaken up.
Tho Bank of England has reduced the
rate of discount from 4j to 4 per cent, j
Russia is trying to effect an alliance
between Servia, Montenegro and Greece.
Influenza is raging with great violence
throughout the State of Hidalgo, Mexico
Silver ore in quantities has been dis
covered at Nagoll, near Ekaterinoslay,
Russia.
Emperor Francis Joseph has offered
Doin Pedro Ilagendorf castle as a sum
mer residence.
The five elevators of the Eiffel tower
made a profU of $1,2J0,000 during the
Paris Exposition.
Tho infant victims of tho Warsaw
(Warsaw) baby-farming horror are now
numbered by the hundreds.
The popo will appoint a Metropolitan
of Tokio and four Suffragan B.shops, the
Japanese government consenting.
French detectives are scouring Mexico
for Evraud. who with Gahriello Bompard
assassinated Gouire a Parisian bailifl.
Tim nnli mips of London forbid an
officer to arrest a drunken person unless
the latter is trying to do some one an
injury.
An English railw ay company has set
apart a special fund from which to re-1
ward acts of bravery on tho part of its
employes. j
Phelps, American Minister at Berlin, J
gave a dinner one day last week to Eis-1
smdeoker, formerly German Minister at
Washington.
In an encounter in Ehisona between
Turks and a band of brigands over i
twenty of the former were killed and six
of the latter. j
Hi.wv rains have movailed in the
province of Murcia, Spain. The rivers
have overflowed their banks and done
much damage.
The colliery owners of Great Britain
have determined to form a federation to
protect their interests against combina
tion of miners.
Influenza is raging in Teheran, Persia,
causing seventy deaths daily. Several
members of tho Shah's household aro
among tho sufferers.
It has been decided by tho prosecutors
that in the coining trial of Moussa Key
ho will not be proceeded against on the j
charge of rapo ami pillage.
Tho House of Commons has author
ized tho expenditure of $20,000,000 iu
improving and extendini, tho military
barracks throughout the country.
Loudon city scavengers removed dur
ing the year from the city streets 20,000
vanloads of slops and sweepings and 3S,
3S7 vanloads of diiBt and trade refuse.
An tlectric plant (vegetable plant) is
said to have been dis"overed in India,
which has the power to affect tho nng
netic needle at a distance of twenty feet.
At tho Kompton Park (England) March
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j UlCCIlllU lllO CllllllllliUll lllltmu
I two miles over eight Hurdles, was won
' bv Theodolite, Papyrus second, Castili.n
1 ,
iiuru.
At Prague, Bohemia, a demonstration
of students was made at the grave of a
Young Czech. Tho students were dis
persed by tho police and a number ar-
rested.
j Tho lances with which tho German
' cavalry aro to bo armed urn to have
shafts of hollow steel and to carry small
tluga in the Prussian colors nailed near
the head.
Twelve thousand men and ninety-six
"steam navvies," which aro supposed to
do the work of several thousand work
men, are now employed on the .Manches
ter ship canal.
Labouchero in the House of Commons
said he would not believe the statements
I of either Salisbury er Attorney-General
Webster, and tho flouso suspended him
tiy a vote oi in o no.
Dotoctivo Moser. who was employed
bv tho Ixmdon Times to procure evl-
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lieiue llgaiusi wio i urm-nin.-o, ni-iiiro niu
I statement mado by Harrington as to
j Moser's operations iu America.
I In Vienna tho incandescent lamp has
! been much used in medical experiments
on horses for diseases of the nostril, fltere
is an ex client cooling arr.umetnent which
! allow-B cold water to circulate around the
lamp.
Booavuvtt, Brazilian Minister of tor
eign A (fairs, has returned from his mis-
sion to Montevideo and Buenos Ayres.
An official decree has been issued estab-1
lishing three hanks in tho northern
provinces of Brazil.
PORTLAND MARKET.
A contiuanco of wintry weather, until
three days ago, has had a quieting influ
ence upon the distributive movement of
trade in this city and vicinity, but reports
from interior cities indicate a moderate
improvement in the demand for staple
merchandise, and while trade is not active
for the season, it is of sufficient volume to
afford encouragement that further im
provement may be expected.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
t-. tii SXMroa
Urnadcast Seeders DJ(ffHU
Binding Twine lOperctdls 18c
i,i.ji..2 wi 12lc
Grain Drills 110 00
Gang Plow lL0llo
Osborne's Mowers
" lteapers
20 pet dis
io
1120
Combined Mowers and
Reapers... 20 t? ct dis
" Droppers "
Steel-frame self-binding
Harvesters, 2U V ct dis
1B8
130
180
Riilroad Barrows, iron wh.els,
dozen 49oa
Railroad Barrows, wood wheels,
fc dozen
Road Plow 30.Jb
Solid Steel Scrapers ?!mi
Steel Disk Harrows V-l
Spring Wagons l1."
Sulky Plows i-l
Walking Plows ,S
Wagons, all makes llUfelCO
HAGS.
Burlaps, 40 In ?
Burlap, 45 in
Burlaps, 00 in I'i
Gunnies, 28x40
Potato Hags, net cash OkS"!
Wool. Jib. " 4
Wool. :n tt.
Wheat Sacks, spot, net cash
Wheat Sacks, extra, second-hand.
3
COFFEES.
Green ,
Guatemala, ? lb 2? &m
Java, It go 27
Mocha, lb lb -8 n
So. 1 Costa Rica.'jMb 22 &2
Bio V lb 2U
Salvador, V lb 21iz22i
Boasted, In baps ,,
Arbuckle's Ariose, tT 2fipg2fii
Closset & D.'s Columbia 1 lb prs .2:l(20
Costa Bica 23 28
Guatemala 2oJto28
Boasted Java 30 (532
Roai ted Mocha 35 37
VKQETAI1LES (FRESH). (
Cabbage, V lb 2
Carrots, 1? sk 1 2o
Carrots, young, I? doz l-
Celery, V doz 00?1 00
Lettuce, t? doz 12J
Ontniw. W 100 lb' 3 003 23
Potatoes, C 100 lbs 1 751 DO
Potatoes, sweets, lb....
24
Radishes, p uoz
Spinach
Turnips, per sk.
12J
i'25
POULTRY.
Chickens, large young. $ dox. 5 00 5 50
Chickens, orouers
Chickens, old
IIurIch. V doz
OQ'dt 5 30
00 8 50
Geese. vouiiK. 1? doz 10 0011 00
Turkeys, young, t? lb 15
Grouse and Pheasants 3 00
FRESH FRUITS.
Apples 1 50(22 00
Bananas, i? bunch 3 504 '0
Lemons, California, P box 3 754 00
Lemons, Sicily, box, new 5 25
Limes, tf cwt 1 50
Oranges, Riversides 3 00
Oranges, Seedless 4 59(g4 75
GRAIN.
Barley, whole, V ctl
Corn, 100 tts
Osts, good, old, V bushel.
Oats, new, "
Bye, jf 100 lbs, nominal...
Wheat, Valley, tr H O lbs.
Wheat, Eastern Oiegon. .
80 00
1 50
40'a"42j
1 220l 25
1 17(31 20
1 1211 15
DAIRY PIIOUUCE.
Butter
Oregon fancy creamery- ,
Choice dairy
Common
Pickled, California
Eastern fancy creamery
California choice....
25
20
8O10
1820
1820
12j
10
15J0
11
10
15
Cheese
Now California
Oregon skims and old...
Swiss Cheese, domestic.
Young America, Or
Eggs-
Oregon, V doz
Eastern, tfdoz
fi.ouh.
Portland patent roller,
b bbl.
3 75
3 75
3 05
3 fli
3 50
3 73
2 50
3 75
3 25
4 50
haiem patent roller
Dayton patent roller
t'ascadia pttent roller...
Country brands
McMinnville
SupHrfine
White Lily
Grah'im
Uye flour
SEEDS.
Gra-s Seeds
Timothy Orchard Grass
Bed Top
Blue Grass
English Rye Grass
Italian Kjc Grass
Australian Rye Grass....
Mesquite
Millet
Hungarian Millet
Mixed Lawn Grass
0 0i
11 12
7 ra o
12 (314
m o
0411
74 o
7 (10
5 0
5 (a) (3
1215
10illi
10 ft 18
15 17
0J10i
43) 5
4i& 5
5 I 5J
3 i
Clover Seeds
Red Clover
White Clover
Alsyko Clover
Alfalfa
Miscellaneous
Canary
Flax
Hemp
Rape, California
FEED.
Bran, V ton...
Hay, f ton, baled
Ground Barley, t' ton....
Mill Chop, tfton
Oil Cake Meal, f ton....
Shorts, f ton
17 0018 03
15 00 10 00
22 5024 00
18 0020 (O
30 ax32 50
20 00fi21 00
LUMDER ItOUCill AND DRESSED.
Rough Per M, 10 00
Edged 12 00
T. & G. sheatMng 13 00
No. 2 flooring 18 00
No. 2 celling 18 00
No. 2 rustic 18 00
Clear rough 20 00
Clear P. IS 22 60
No. 1 flooring 22 f0
No, 1 celling 22 50
No. 1 rustic 50
Stepping sa 00
SALT.
Coarse -Fine
200-lb bags, Vton 17 00
100-lb barfs. ton 17 00
Ground Rock, 60-lb bags, t? ton 12 50
WOOL.
Eastern Oregon
According to shrinkage 1011
Valley
Snnug clip lOftlS
uinpqua 10 20
Uiupqua, lambs and fall ..10&14
FULFILL YOUR PROMISES.
The Value of Good Reputation to Yonn
IJuslnrsn Men.
Thero is no losson tho young business
man needs to learn more thoroughly
than tho valuo of good reputation and
good credit These can not bo won and
kept by falso pretenses of any kind, but .
must bo earned by a strict observance of
contracts, agreements and promises.
Tho man whoso word is "as good as his
bond" is tho man who has Inspired con
fidenco in himself by always doing that
which ho has promised to do. I"W i
nicn no n ruin, cautious about entering
into obligations, chary about making
promises that he may not be able to ful
fill. If too prodigal in tho latter re
spect one can not hope to keep faith at
all times. A man who is or intends to
bo honest sometimes loses credit and
reputation simply becauso ho is too
hopeful. Counting with too great confi-y
dence on uncertainties, he makes prom
ises that he can not fulfill becauso of
the failure of the event on which they
were predicted. Ho voluntarily fixes
the date for the payment of a debt, and
finds too late something hasgono wrong,
so that he can not meet his obligation.
Such an accident may happen to any
man. Upon the way in which ho meets
tho unexpected troublo depends how hl
reputation shall stand afterwards. If
he can fulfill his promise at any per- ,
sonal sacrifice ho should do so; failing-'
that, he should endeavor to keep his
word by borrowing elsewhere, thus
gaining time for tho final discharge of
his obligation. But if ho can not do ei
ther ho should go as soon as possible to
his creditor and secure an extension oy
frankly telling him the state of affairs,
thus renewing instead of nrcaK-
ing his promise. Tho ono essen-
tial thing to do is to keep good
faith, or come as near to it as possible.
Tho worst possiblo course is to lot timo
run nil nn til his creditor beirins to press
him on an obligation long overdue. It
is too 1 ate then for expl anations or renew
als. His credit is gone, his reputation is
gone. His after promises are mistrusted,
though they may bo grudgingly accept
ed. He may for years after thus shat
tering faidi in himself pay promptly
and keep his word, but thero will remain
the lingering feeling of distrust, born of
ono failure to keep faith or to explain in .
advance the reasons why it could not bo
kept. An engagement of any kind
should bo held sacred, and thus good
reputation, which is of slow growth,
may bo gradually built up, for ho who
keeps his word at all times becomes re
spected and is trusted. Tho young man
can not learn too early in life his respon
sibility to himself and to others. Hois
to make his reputation by what ho says
and does, and at the outset should havo
a high regard for truth, .which carries
with it honesty, and insures a prompt
and completo fulfillment of all engage
ments. Be should not allow a careless
habit in money matters to grow upon
him, hut should pay all his bills prompt
ly. There is an implied promise to pay
at the end of tho month or when tho
bill may bo presented, even though
thero has been no engagement mado to
do so in so many words, and it is a good
practice to keep these implied, as well as
all other promises, with scrupulous caro. f
Such a course will in timo establish a.
reputation whose value can not be meas
ured by money, besides developing use
ful habits and keeping ono free from op
pressive and grinding debts. Baltimore
Sun.
FOOLISH SUPERSTITIONS.
A Little Iiist-ct That Huh Caused Many w
Stout Heart tn Tremble.
Mankind havo in all ages been prono-
to tho most lamentable superstitions. -Tho
enlightened nations of antiquity
wero no moro exempted from them than
the most ignorant.
Tho .lews, as wo aro repeatedly in
formed "in Scripture, could with diffi
culty bo restrained from idolatrous and
superstitious practices and confined to
tho worship and servico of tho only truo
God.
This remarkable tendency of tho He
brew nation was in all likolihood caused
by their sojourn for the space of four ,
hundred years among tho Egyptians,
whoso wholo system of religion was a.
mass of idolatrous observance. They
had a number of ideal gods to whom
they erected temples of prodigious sizo
and architectural splendor; thoy also'
offered worship to various animals, as
tho ox or bull (honco tho golden calf of
the Hebrews), to which th'ey gave tho
name of Apis; the dog, tho wolf, tho
hawk, tho ibis or stork, tho cat and
other creatures; they likewise paid
adoration to tho Nile, personifying it in
tho crocodile, to which temples woro
erected, and set apart for Its service.
The Egyptians, notwithstanding their
learning, also believed in dreams, lucky
and unlucky days, omens, charms and
magic. In a word, they wero grossly
superstitious, and seem to havo had but
a feeble conception, if any, of the laws
which regulate tho ordinary phenomena
of nature.
Thero is a fiood of sclentlflo light
abroad in the world, but thero are, nev- .
ertheless, many dark places whero su-
perstition broods. Thousands and tens
of thousands of people believo that tho
noiso which a small beetle makes in
boring its way into old furniture and
the timbers of old houses, is premoni
tory of death.
The "death-watch," ono of the most
Insignificant of insects, has caused many
a stout heart to tremble at tho sound
made by the attrition between its neck
and body in tho act of tunneling, it is
a sly creature, and tho fact that It does
Its "tk'klng" chiolly in tho night, gives
it a mysterious interest for tho ignorant.
I f you capture a death-watch it invariably
"plays 'possum" feigning insensibility
so pertinaciously that it Is said tho ap
plication of tiro will notlnduco tho llttlo
hypocrite to betray tho slightest indica
tion of vitality. It has a bad habit of
destroying wood-work, and that wo be
lieve is the only evil that can bo said of
tho littlo creaturo. It Is not an uncom
mon thing, in old housos, to hearthreo
or four of tho genus at work at once
tholr labors having about as much to
do with tho fa to of tho Inmates as with
iho revolution of tho globe upon its'
axis. X. Y. Ledger.
Socrotary Proctor was an enthusi
astic coon-Uunter in his boyhood dav3.