lU1 ltv mil HEPPNER GAZETTE. OFFICIAL DON'T EXPECT. ic teAo s biz ttould rise, mux! either bitxl or (idmrtise. Ex. - 4-f - An wivertiscment, says Printera' Ink, to bc.r Iruit In one night. Yon can't eat eneugh in a week to last you a year, and you can't advertise on that plan either. Those who advertise once in three montha forget that most folks cannot remember any. thing longer than seven days. ELEVENTH YE All HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1893. WEEKLY rlO.'644. 8EMI-WEEKLY NO. 166. j Y ; l M I W E E K L Y GAZETTE. PUW.IKH11D Tuesdays and Fridays BY THE PATTERSON riTILISHIN'G COMPANY. Ai VAU Y. PATTERSON... .Hub. Mi timber. tJViH PATTKUSON Editor Ai jt.tn) per yoar, $1.25 fur biz montha, 75 ota. for tl.reu hiuuliis. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. Tho "XS-A-O-XE:. " of Lone Creek, Grant C.miuy, OrcK"" in published )iy the muni; oiu jmiiy every Friday mornijiK. HulmiH-Iiition npii'n S'' hit vn r. OSS-CIT Xj. PATTERSOIT, I'M. tor and Oreuou, or "Uazettii, Kopimur, Oregon. THI8 PAPEIWb kept ontilo at K. C. Dnko 8 1 Advert.isiu AKency, HI and nil Merchants Esol'-angs, Ban Francisco. California, wliore oju rncts fur advertising can be niado for it. TUE GAZETTE'S AG'.ONTS. Wagner, A.Hiinsakor Amui;tnu, 1'liM Heppner Lung Creek, TheEntrle jcIh) rontmaster (lamnisl'tairto, Oirar Do Vaul Nye, Or., 11. C. right Haidinau, Or., 1'onl master Hamilton, Urant Co., Or., Postuianter lone J- (;arl Prairie City, Or B. R. MkHhIot Canyon Oily, Or H. L. 1'airisli Hint liuek, U. 1'. bkulton liitvvlllo, Or., .J. K Snow John Day, Or F. 1- McUUluin Allien, Or J""" h-dingtnn Pendleton, Or., Postmaster Mount Vernon, aruntCo.,Or Postmaster .lioll.y Or Missstella i'lelt ox, Grant Co., Or., J-F. Allen Ki.'lit Mile, Or., MrB. Andrew Ashbaugh Upper liheu Creek B. K. Hevland b.nwlas, Or Postmaster l.ne llnek,Or K. M. Johnson Om-scberry J. K. tel u.nco:., Oregon Herbert llalntead LexluRlun Ja. 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This puzzle Is the property of the New York Press Club and generous friends of the club havo donated over liVJOO to provide prizes for lucky people, voung or old, who solve the mystery. There Is a lot of entertainment and instruction in It send a dime and get the souvenir puzzle by 1 return mall. Address "Press Club Souvenir, jemple Court,New York City. Highest of all in Leavening Power. ABSOOJf THE NAMES OF COINS. Derivation and Significance of the Various Terms.;? Interesting Facts Concerning the Mone tary Standards of the Different Na V tlona where the Alnerlcan ?' Dollar Got Its Name. The florin, one of the most famous of modern coins, originated in Florence, says the New York Homo Journal. Some say that it gave the name to the city, while others assert that it was first so called because it had on it a fleur-de-lis, from the Italian florone, or "flower," for the same reason that an English silver piece is called a "crown," or certain gold pieces in France indiffer ently a "Napoleon" or a "Louis," or the ten dollar gold piece in America an "eagle." For seTeral hundred years, and down to a comparatively recent date, money was coined at from twenty-five to thirty different cities in France that had in herited the privilege. Now all French money is coined at the Paris mint. Few French gold pieces are, however, in cir culation except those bearing the head of Napoleon III., and silver pieces of the same coinage are almost as com mon. French silver coins wear admira bly, and pieces cf the reign of Charles X., Louis XV11I. and Napoleon I. are very common. The standard eoias on the continent are: la Fnuu::, Cm; Train.:; in Spain, the peseta; in Italy, the lira; in Holland and Austria, the liovin; in Germany, the mark; in Kussia, the ruble. Belfjhvn nn:l Switzerland use tha French iki:;ki f ir the puve of twenty sou:;, l.'.'t'.h i 1 ! pieties is, like the Aniorit tiu '.lU: v, .livit'.Ltl into one hun dred paH:r. esdl.il 1: -.op.-cit in uussia, , kreutzer in Aus- pfennig in viorniari tria.eeului Holland, nut mltalv, France and Spain by the word meaning hun dredth. The v.'onl sli i :Ti7.;r Is of Ucntian deri vation, ir.:o p.T,-:y, which comes from the Ctvrmun ''pf'vii'r," The word crown" coni'.s jr. in the itiinge placed on tin by Kii 'nine was given t coined these ,1. v.'h Ti: lu-s pieces in !:::;. y bure the motto i - of the Franks), Le l:n i: V.!'i! and were i:f I v- -;) 'Li'ids. one ropresent- I'. rr-'.'l.ni.'.i, the other fr:ii - was f -irmerly also '.'.n!i. Ci -:i;:'a the connec ;; ; :! , -.-i;;ht is not evi- l' lla: German coin. ing the lri' ( on !i:-if. ; called livre l tion v,-:!:!; :;:; : dent. The inn mark, mo::-:i ounce ,, vr;:,s i.. :.; :t weight of eight - i : y in general use in i':.:::i: -w' Lite Italian coin :('. v.i;!i t he frane (lira) '.tin!. Tin: coins in pres i.i have their names from '.''! live-peseta piece, i-:::.!:, with the American -! i r.i-ial . Ii.hield). "Pese- cC 1 '.k: small coin rep- ui-metr.ry standard, "liltia piece." "Ruble" "'"d meaning "to cut," a'.l.'d because originally :u.'.e vriih an ornamental Europe. '1 ".w : that eiim'Sr-i:: also me:t!!s no: ent use i i Sp-.d other s.n:r-:'S. which ( -ol':v: : dollar. i : I '. ta," the r.v.h: resent ii'. li me:tns sii:m!v is from tin? and was so the ecin '.vt:s i edge. Few p TV. I'.nveever troubled them tf the derivation of the H is from the German :r.d lanie into use this selves t; t.ii'.i word dollar, thai (val'oyl wny .".lout Unvc hundred years ago. There is a Mi tie silver mining city or district in northern Bohemia called Joachimslhal. or Joachim's valley. The reigning (hike of the region authorized thii; i-itv i-i . iio ni v : iiimtli nuiitiipv coin a silver pace 'which was called ".Whimthalt r." The word "ioaehim" was soon iVf'jMM'u, and the namo "thaler" i ly continued. The place went into Fcreral use in Germany and Denmark, u here lie: orthography was changed to "tlalcr," whence it came into I:higli;;h. and wes rdopted by the Americans with .till further changes in the spelling. The Mexican dollar is generally called "piastre'' in France, and the nar.ie is somelinies applied to the United ola'u s d.illur. The appella tion is incorrect in cither ease, for the word piaster (or piastre) has for the last fifty years been only applied with correctness t: a small silver coin used in Turkey or Egypt, which is worth from fivo to eight cents. PROTECTED BY A WOLF. A Boy's Nliignlar Defender Agulnat a Pack ol Hungry Unites. Sam Adams was killed by the In dians near Johnstown, Pa., says Forest and Stream. II is brother John was with him when he was killed. They were watching some cattle ina swampy place on the. river, when they were sur prised by the Indians. John was only ten years old, but he knew all about the ways of the savages. When he saw his brother fall he dodged into the brush like a quail and ran till he got into the dense laurel that skirts the stream. He was thirty miles from the settlement in Hedford county, and when night came on he resolved to take the woods for it and cross the mountain. lie knew tho Indians would w al.:h the road. He was bareheaded and barefooted, and his feet were bleeding. The wolves followed him, litnvliji' a id getting more and more Impudent, lie dare not climb a tree for fear of being kept up till morn ing and beiiijf discovered by the red skins. One, wolf, much larger than the rest, came very near him, so near that yviicu uc nuinin inn nuilVMJ coal, wet with the dew. tho boy felt it splash in i - . J , , " his face. This one appeared to fight . , , v i- . the rest off and showed no disposition Latest U. S. Gov't Report. def ED PURE to qo narm. it was not ionp; till tne rest of the pack dropped off ahd left John alone with the hir vrolf, and they journeyed on together till broad day. When they reached the brow of the niountain and John could seethe smoke and .clearings of the settlement they separated. The wolf trotted off along the ridge, stopped several times, and looked back as though loath to leave his companion. John lived to be very old, but never harmed a wolf in all his life; and he firmly believed that his friend had been sent to him by some un seen power to guide him through the wilderness. He could never have found the crossing without the aid of the wolf, and would certainly have been eaten up but for his protection. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped bauds, obilblains oorns and all skin eruptions, and posi tively oures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Prioe 25 oents per box. For sale by Slocum-Johnson Drug Company. . SUMMEK KE5UKI rUK U'JUS, Board Costa Four Dollars a Month and the Place la Kept by a Woman. Down on Long Island is a summer re sort for dogs. It is a large, old-fashioned farm-house, where a few summer boarders are taken to supplement the dogs. The hostess is a woman of fam ily, but not of fortune, a lover of dogs. The dogs know their friend, and, ac cording to the New York Sun, when she comes up to town after a year- of ab sence they make the most extraordinary manifestations of affection, and will 1 .id 41... v. .1rtt m!.l-aoeaD afia. a winter of devotion to go with her. She , , t 4 ,.. j i w ilO 1U W UUUUb KWC1.VO uug uumuwo. They are chiefly big dogs, kept without the range of the dwelling house. The only parlor boarder is a fox terrier, who does not allow any other dopj to set foot on the piazza. The expense of boarding a small dog out of town is four dollars a month. This is clear gain, and, with a sufficient number of dogs, produces a good income on scarcely any outlay., as the dogs, being allowed to run at large, are much less fastidious in the choice of food than in town. Their eare is scarcely more of a consideration. They find their own diversion, take their con stitutional all day long, do their own bathing, and, if ill, find their own med icines in the green things that grow. The expense of a dog in town is a con sideration. A ponad of dog biseait will not last a fox terrier over three days. This must' be well pounded and moist ened with gravy. Twice a week it must have liver'fproperly prepared. Once certainly, and usually twice a week, ;t is bathed, it must have medicinal soaps, and the tyranny whioh its -caro in the matter of exercise exacts makeB one sigh to estimate. In return for this de votion the dog is much happier in the country, where it hasonone. AN ELECTRIC TRICYCLE. It Is Doe to the Gonitis of an Iodlanlao and II Simple. f An enterprising electrician in Indiana lately constructed an electrical tricycle, the description of which brought let ters of inquiry from all parts of the country. The machine was workud by storage batteries under the seat, and which gave enough current for an eight hours' run. Whether the machine turned out to bo impracticable in the iorm tnen auopieu, or wneuier iu m- ventor hesitated to undertake its com mercial exploitation, is not recorded, but the public, at all events, has heard no more of the Indiana machine. An other inventor, however, is ambitious to be tho first to claim the invention of a commercially practicable electric tri cycle, and has patented a machine which relics for motive power also on the storage battery. Tho singular point in its construc tion, however, is that the storage bat teries are carried around the circum ference of the wheel, preferably close to the tire, and there can be any num ber of cells, according to tho power re quired. It is claimed that in this way tho weight of the storago batteries is moro equally distributed, antl in such a manner as to causo the minimum in terference with tho efficient running of the machine, while at tho same time affording a simple and easy method of construction. The cells are connected by wires to insulated Bleeves that carry the current to a motor in the axle of tho wheel, which gives tho motive power to the machine. THE FINDING OF A LOST RIVER. Itemarkahle Msoovery Made by Claim Hunters In the Indian Territory. A party which has recently returned to Paris, Tex., from tho Cheyenne and Arapahoe country report a remarkablo natural curiosity that has been discov ered in the mountains in the extremes weBtern part of the territory. In the recesses of a wild and almost inaccessible range of mountains is a valley of consideralo magnitude, in which there is a lake which is fed by numerous streams that flow into it from the mountains around it. It has but ono outlet, which is a stream of considerable size. This stream flows toward a largo mountain on the east. , ... .,. ,,, ir, wmritrv 1 " " " 7, '"l " " which has until recently been explored ! , , but little, but in their search for claims . " .t:i.,,- auanv entereu iuo voncy waam the lake. The place Interested menu and they began to inspect it closely. They followed the stream flowing from the lake to the mountain, where it dis appeared by entering a hole under ground. It did not decrease gradually as if seeping into the ground, but flowed into the hole in a strong, bold stream. They searched long and carefully to find where the stream again came, to the surface, but could find no further trace of it It is believed that the stream flows clear under the mountains and empties Into the Canadian river at a point many miles east of where it disappears, as at that place the Canadian river suddenly swells to double its proportions above that point without any apparent cauBe. Nothing Got Away. An old deed recorded in Pettis county over fifty years ago contains a good il- lustration of the legal verbiage com- mon in such instruments in early times, In addition to forty acres of land sold for a consideration of fifty dollars, the document conveys "all and singular appertenances, appendages, advowsons, benefits, commons, curtilages, cow- houses, eorncribs, dairies, dovecots, easements, emoluments, freeholds, fea tures, furniture, fixtures, gardens, homestalls, improvements, immunities, limekilns, meadows, marshes, mines, minerals, orchards, parks, pleasure grounds, pigeon houses, pigstyes, quar ries, remainders, reversions, rents, rights, ways, water courses, windmills, together with every other necessary right, immunity, privilege and advan tage of whatsoever name, nature or de scription." Cheap Barometers. 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We proDounce the Western Pedagogue the best educa tional monthly on the ooast. Everyone of our readers should have the pnper if they are at all interested in education. No teacher school direc tor or student can got along well with out it. We will receive subsoriptionB at this oflice. Price only $1.00 a year. When desired we will Bend the Western Pedagogue and Gazette oue year to one address for 83.00. Call and examine cample oopies. Teaohers, directors and parents, now is the time to subscribe, tf PRIZES ON PATENTS. How to Get Twenty-five Hundred Dollars for Nothing, The Winner has a clear Gift of a Small Fortune, and tha Losers Have Patents that may Bring them in Still More. Would you like to make twenty-five hundred dollars? If you would, read carefully what followB and you may see a way to do It. The Press Claims Company devotes much attention to patents. It has handled ttiousands of applications for inventions, but it would like to handle thousands more. There is plenty of iuventivo tallcnt at largo In this country needing nothing but encouragement to produce practical results. Thatencouragcmenttho Pres Claims Company propose to give. VOX S IIAitU AS IT SEEIMN. A patent strikes most people as an appalling ly formidable thing. The idea is that an in ventor must be a natural genius, like Edison or Hell; that he must devote years to delving In complicated mechanical problems and that he miiHt spend a fortune on delicate experiments before he cat) get a new device to a patentable degree of perfection. This delusiun the com pany desires to dispel. It desires to get into the head of the public a clear comprehension of the fact that it is not the great, complex, and expensive inventions that bring the best returns to their authors, but the little, simple, and cheap ones the things that seem so absurdly trivial that the average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed of -bringing them to the attention of the Patent Olllce. Edison says that the protlts hu has received from tho patents on all his marvelous inven tions have not been sufficient to pay the coBt of his experiments. Hut the man who con ceived the Idea of fastening a bit of rubber cord to a child's ball, so that It would come back to the hand when thrown, made a fortune out of Ills sehemo. Tho modem sewing-machine Is a miracle of ingenuity the product of the toil of hundreds of busy brains through a hundred and lifty years, but the whole bril liant result rests upon tho simple device of putting the eye of toe neeuie at tne point in stead of at the other end. The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard, THE LITTLE THINGS THE JtlOMT VALUABLE. Comparatively few people regard themselves as iuveutorB. but almost every body has been struck, atone time or another, with ideas that seem calculated to reduce some of the little frictions of life. Usually such ideas are dis missed without further thought. "Why don't the railroad company make its car windows so that they can be slid up and down without breaking the passengers' back?" ex claims the traveler. "If I were running the road I would make them in such a way." "What was the man who made the saucepan thinking of?" grumbles the cook. "He never had to work over a stove, or he would have known how It ought to have been fixed." "Hang such a collar button!" growls a man who is latelfor ,breakfast. "If I were in the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip out, or break ofl, or gouge out the back of my neck And the various sufferers forgot about their grievances and began to think of something else. If they would set down the next con venient opportunity, put their ideas about car windows, saucepans and collar buttons into practical shape, and then apply for patents they might find themselves as independently wealthy as the man who invented the iron umbrella ring, or the one who patented the fifteen puzzle. A TEIUPTING OFI'EB, To Induce the people to keep track of their bright Ideas and see what there in them, the Press Claims Company has resolved to offer a jrize.l To the person who submit to It the simplest and most promising invention, from a commercial poiut of view, tbe company will give twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, in addition to refunding; the fees for securing; a patent. It will also advertise the inven. tion free of charge. This offer is subject to the following condi tions: Every competitor (must obtain a patent for his invention through the company. He must firstapply for a preliminary search, the cost of which will be five dollars. Shpuld this seach show his invention to be unpatentable, he can withdraw without further expense. Otherwise he will be expected to complete his application and take out a patent in the regu lar way. The total expense, including the Government and Bureau fees, will be seventy dollars. For this, whether he secures a prize or not, the inventor will have a patent that ought to be a valuable property to him. The prize will be awarded by a jury consisting of three reputable pateut attorneys of Washthg ton. Intended competitors should fill out the following blank, and forward it with their application: "I submit the within described invention in competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar Prize ottered by the Press Claims Company." NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETION. This is a competition of rather an unusal na ture. It is common to. offer prizes for the best story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the competitors risking the loss of their labor and the successful oue merely selling his for tho amoun of the prize. But the PreBS Claims Compauy's offer is something entirely differ ent. Each person is asked merely to help him self, and the one who helps him self to the best advantage Is to be rewarded by doing.lt. The prize is only a stimulus to do something that would be well worth doing without it. The architect whose competitive plan for a club houso on a certain corner is not occept ed has spent his labor on something of very lttle use to him. But the persou who patents a simple and useful device in the Press Claims Company's competition, need not worry If he fail to Beeure a prize. He has a substantial result to sliow for his work one that wll command its value in the market at any time. The man who uses any article in his dally work ought to know better how to Improve It than the mechanical expert who studies it only from the theoretical point of view. Get rid of the idea that an improvement can be too simple to be worth patenting. The simpler tho better. The person who best succeeds in combining simplicity and popularity, will get the Press Claims Company's twenty-five hun dred dollars. The responsibility of this compary may be judged from the fact that its stock is held by about three hundred of the leadiug newspapers of the United States. Address the PreBS Claims Comnauv. John Wodderbum, mauaging attorney, 018 F street N. W., Washington, D. C. (J. A. B. NOTICJi. We tuke this opportunity of informing our subscribers tbat the new commis sioner of pensions has been uppointed He is an old soldier, and we believe that nuldiers and their heirs will re oeive justice at his hands. We do not anticipate tbat there will be any radical changes in the administration of pension affairs under tbe new regime. We would advise, however, that U. 8. soldiers, sailors and their heirs, take iteps to make application at onoe, if they have not already done so, in order to seoure the benefit of the early filing of their claims in case there should be any future pension legislation. Sueh legislation is seldom retroaotive. There fore it is of great importance that ap plications be filed in the department at the earliest possible date. If the U. S. soldiers, sailors, or their widows, children or parents desire in formation in regard to pension matters, they should write to the Press Claims Company, at Washington, 1). C, and they will prepare and send tbe necessary application, if they find them entitled under the numerous laws enacted for their benefit. Address PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY, John Wedduhiiuhn, Managing Attor ney, Washington, D. 0., P. O. Box 885 tf. Baking Powder.