IfPNEIl GAZETTE. HEPPNEK GAZETTE. OFFICIAL sy PAPER IISTO RISK, oooooooo The man who doesn't advertise, doesn't get the cub. NOTHING MADE. The man who advertises, i:ets the caBh. Notkc It ELEVENTH YEAR HEPPNER "MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER "29, 1893. WEEKLY riO.MI.I SEMI-WEEKLY SO. 166. j Ifffief SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE. PUBL1HHED Tuesdays and Fridays BY THE PATTERSON PUBLISHING COMPANY. AI.VAH W. PATTERSON Bus. Manager. OTIS PATTKR80N Editor Al J.5.1 per year, $1.25 for bix months, 75 ots. for three moiiuiB. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application. The " SS-A-O-XiH, " of Long Creek, Grant County, Oregon, is published by the same com- every rriuHv miuimiuk. w,,,,.,... .......... lay OuiiT Xj. PATTBESOIT, Editor and rauverusuig IttlUB, auuicnn uilor an Uazette, Manager, Long Creek, Oregon, Heppner, Oregon. HTHIS PAPKK is kept on hie at E. 0. Dake's I Advertising Agency, IU and 65 Merchants Exchange, Ban FranciBoo, California, where cou racw for advertising can be made tor it. THE GAZETTK'8 AG SNTS. yyHuner B. A. HuuBaker Arlington','.'. Phlll lleppner Lon creek, iheHagle fcioiio Postmastt r Camas Prairie,'. . . .'.' OeearDe Vaiil Nye, Or H. C. Wright Hardman, Or Poiim.ler Hamilton, Grant Co., Or Postinater Prairie City,' br.'.'.V.V.'.'.V.V '..'.'.'..'.It.' "it. Mcl'lafey Canyon City, or L. Par Pilot Kuck, iiHvville Or J. biiow Jul u iay Or'.', I- McCallum V ' John Kdington Pendleton '6'r'.,'."..'. PoBtinasler Mount Vernon, GrautCo.,Or . J'"'"' Bhelbv, Or., Ml88S,teL!i EW" ..'.'.'. Mrs.Vd'rey.lihauKh r 'E,.k r . K. M. Johnson Gooseberry : ' -- i u ... , Condon, Oregon ...Herbert Halsteiui Lexington. JaB. Leuch AN A0KKT WiKTKD IN BVKBV PRKCINCT. Umon Pacfic Railway-Local card. No. 10, mixed leaves Heppner 10:00 a. m. " jo, " ar. at Arlington 1 'IS a.m. 0, " loaves " Wi p. m. " V, " ar. at Heppner 0 :20 p. m. daily except tiunday. Enst bound, main line ar. at Arlington 1 56 a. m. West " " " leaves " li a. m. Day trains have been discontinued. OPPioiAi' xiisEC'roxa'sr. United States Officials. l'nident drover Cleveland Vice-President ..-Ad al B eveiiann beo-mary of HlateJ Walter Q. (ireshara (iecielary of Treasury Johu U. Carlisle ttocretary of lnfcjuor ; fioke bimtl, Becreiary of War.. Daniel B. Laniont bo.rrot.ary of Navj..- Hilary A. Herbert Postumster-UeaeraU. Wilson B. Unwell AUomey-Ueueral lUoharu 8. Oilier BeoreUiry of AgriUure J. Sterling Norton sate of Oregon. Governor. ... 8. Pennoyer U. W. MeHnUe Phil. MetBdiao , E. 1). Mciilroy I J. H. Miichull i J. N.Uolph t Hmuer Hermann Seuretary of State TreaBUiar tiupt. Publio Instruction. Senators Congressmen ( W. u. Ellis p.: ,,.. Frank C. Baker l F. A. J i W. P. , ( it. 8. U Aloore Supreme JudgeB. uord bean Seventh Jadlcial District. Circuit Judge W. h. 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As some have asked if this Is really the Orig inal Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, we are able to state we have learned direct from the nulillBhors the fact, that this is the very work complete on which about forty of the best years oi the author s me were so wen empioyea in writintr. It contains the entire vocabulary of about 100,000 words, including the correct spell ing, derivation and definition of same, and is the regular standard size, containing about :0,000 square Inches of printed surface, and is bound in ClOtll nan morocco aim sneeu. Until further notice we will furnish this valuable Dictionary Fitst To any new subscriber. Second To any renewal subscriber. Third To any subscriber now in arrears who pays up and one year in advance, at the following prices, viz: Full Cloth bound, gilt side and bad stamDS, marbled edges, $i-oo. Half Mo-occo, bound, gilt side and back stamps; marbled edges, $i. 50. Full Sheep bound, leather label, marbled edges, $2.00. Fifty cents added in all cases for express ap-e to Heppner. (fAi the publishers limit the time and number of books they will furnish at the low nrWn wpfidviRpall who desire to avail them selves of this great opportunity to attend to It at once. SILVER'S OHrPION o ;the THE DAILY-BY MAIL Subscription price reduced as follows: One Year (by mail) : : $6 00 Six Months " ; 3 00 Three Months " : 1 50 On Mnnth " : : .50 THE WEEKLY BY MAIL. One Year (in Advance) : $1 00 The News Is the only consistent ciairplon of silver In the West, and should be In every home In the West, and in the hands of every miner and business man in Colorado. Send In your subscriptions at once. Address, . : . Donvcr, Colo L U M BJE R ! im TT A VP! FOR SALE ALL KINDS OF UN i dresBed Lumber, 16 miles of Heppner, at what is known as the 8COTT SAWMIIiIj PES J.000 FEET. KOIH1H, " CLEAR, 10 00 17 50 TF DELIVERED IN 1 f ,.no per l.ooo feet, HEPPNER, additional. WILL ADD I.. HAMILTON, Prop. I . A. Hnmllton.Man'nr WISCONSIN. 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TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING Bl'SLNESS j COLLECTIONS Made on Favorable Terms. EXCHANGE BOUGHT & SOLD HEPPNEK. tf OREGON c? crxoxs: txtvles i T O San 1 jr f 1 liolseo nd all points in (.'ulifurnia. via the Mt. tihaeta route ift the Southern Pacific Co. Che great highway through California to all points KaBt and South, (irand Scenic Route Of the Pacific Coast. Pullman Buffet Sleeper. Second-class Sleepers A'ttachedito express trains, affording euperior accommodations for second-class passengers. For rates, tickets, sleeping car reservations, etc.. call upon or address R. KCflSHim Manager, E. P. ROGERS, Asst. Gen.kF. x P. Agt.. Portland, Oregon. Free Medicine ! A Qolden Opportunity for Suffering Humanity. Physicians Give their Remedies to the People fid Villi CrrUFn 1 Write us atonce,explaln UU lUl OlMrLri f inrvour trouble, and we will send votl FREE OF CHAKGE a full course of specially prepared remedies best suited to your case. We want your recommendation. 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Generous friends have given $25,000 In prizes for the successful puzzle solvers. TEN CENTS sent to the "Press Club Building and Chrrity Fund," Temple Court, New York City, will get you the mystery by return mail. Evorv Header OF this journal is Invited to aid In the erection of a great home for newspaper work ers by sending one dime to "Press Club Building and Charity Fund," Temple Court, New York. You will aid a great work and re ceive by return mail a wonderful puzzle-game which amuses the young and old, baffles the mathematicians and Interests everybody. Public spirited merchants have -contributed 125,000 worth of premiums for Buch as can solve the mystery. Everything from a "Knox" hat to a "Steinway" piano. DID YOU TRY 'PIGS IN CLOVER" or the "FIFTFEN PUZZLE." Well, the man who invented them has just completed another little playful mystery for young and old, which is selling for TEN CENTS for the benefit of the fund to erect a home for newspaper workers In New York. This puzzle is the property of the New York Press Club and generous friends of the club have donated over 125,000 to provide prizes for lucky people, young or old, who solve the mystery. There Is a lot of entertainment and Instruction In It. Send dime and get the souvenir puzzle by return mail. Address "Press Club Souvenir," xemple Court.New York City. 3000 PARCELS OF MAIL" FEES f UK 1U T-Utn I tlAMPB $OT;nlreM if received within M will be lor 1 year txnaiy printed on gummed kbeU. Only Directory guaranteeing IttS.OQO customers; from pub lishers and manufac turer you'll receive probably, thousands o valuable nooks, papery sam oles, mafrazl ne.ett ail free and each oarce with one of your printed address iHheli pasted thereon. EXTBAI We wll, also print and prepay postage on coo 01 your label addreswi to you; wiilcb suck on vour envelopes, books, eic.,U ,. writes : " Kroix In your i-fRhintrif vwi mv fiOO urtilreat label's and over 3000 iarrel ol Mn.i vf v niirlreittps vou scatterec ftinuiut- publlRhf-rs and nmnufucturers artMin-Mng daily, on valuable parwlf Nof mall from all parts tf the ti irtirn hii laiw m me WORLD'S FAIK DIRECIORY CO., . ... F..ni,.ord ,nA Qirard Aves., Philadel- ' " pi, Pa. PRIZES ON PATENTS. How to Get Twenty-five Hundred Dollars for Nothing. The Winner hat a clear Gift of a Small Fortune, and the 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 follows and you may Bee a way to do it. The Press Claims Company devotes much attention to patents. It has handled thousands of applications for Inventions, but it would like to handle thousands more. Tnere is plenty of Inventive tallent at large In thli country needing nothing but encouragement to produce practical results. That encouragemeutthe Press Claims Company propose to give. NOT SO HAKD AS IT SEEMS. 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 Bell, that he must devote years to delving in complicated mechanical problems aid that he must spend a fortune on delicate eii'eriments before he can get a new device to a patentable degree of perfection. This delusion the com pany desires to dispel. It desires to get into the head of the public a ciear comprehension of the fact that It Is not the great, complex, and expensive iuventious.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 bringlug them to the attention of the Patent Office. Edison says that the profits he has received tUa nntAiiia Ai, nil hie mnrvMoiii Itivpn- t.n. zrXZl 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 his scheme. The modern stwlng-ina- chine Is a miracle of iiigenulty-the product hundred and fifty jears, but the whole bril liant result rests upon the simple device of putting the eye of the needle at the point in stead of at the other end. v of the toll of hundreds of busy brains through THE LITTLE THINGS THE IflONT VALVAULK. Comparatively few people regard themselves as mveuiura, uumiwusi nvcij uu.ij uco.. . 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 withoutfurther thought. "Why don't the railroad company make its car windows bo that they can be slid up and down wlthDUt 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 aman' who is late for breakfast. "If I were in the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't slip out, or break off, or gouge out the back of my neck -And the various sutterers 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 aud collar buttons Into practical shape, aud 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 hi. tt ftepn nuzzle. A TEMPTING OFFI.U. To induce the people to keeu track of their bright Ideas and see what there in them, the Press Claims Company has resolved to otter a irize. To lite person who submits to it I lie simplest and moat promising invention, from a commercial point of view, the company will give twenty-five hundred dollar in cash, in addition to relundinic the Ices 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 obtaiu a patent for his invention through the company. lie must (irstapply for a preliminary search, the cost of which will be five dollars. Should this seach show his Invention to be unpatentable, he can withdraw without further expense. Otherwise he will he expected to complete his application and take out a patent in the regu lar way. The total expense, Including the (iovernment 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 patent attorneys of Washihg ton. Intended competitors should fill out the following blank, and forward it with their application: " , , 1893. "I submit the within described invention in competition for the Twenty-five hundred Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company." 30 BLANKS IN THIS COMPETION. This is a competitiou of rather an uuusal na ture. It is common to oiler prizes for the best story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the competitors risking the loss of their labor and the successful one mtrely selling his for the amoun of the prize. But the Press Claim Company's offer is something entirely differ ent. Each person is asked merely to help him self, andthe one who helps him self to the best advantage is to be rewarded by doing ,it. 1'he prize Is only a stimulus to do something that would be well worth doing without it. The architect whose competitive plan for a club house on a certain corner Is not occept ed has spent his labor on something of Vcry ittle use to him. But the person who patent a simple aud useful device ill the Press Clnlm Company's competition, need not worry if he fail to secure a prize. lie has a substantial risultto Bhow for his work one that wll command its value In the market at any time. The man who uses any article in his daily work ought to know better now to improve It tnan the mechanical expert who studies I' only from the theoretical iioint of view, (ict rid of the Idea tha' an improvement can be i Vmple to be worth patenting. The Klmplert better, ine person who best succee U i:i QPowdef The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard. combining simplicity and popularity, will get the Press claims Company's tweuty-fivo bus dred dollars. The responsibility of this company may be Judged from the fact that its stock is held b ' about three hundred of the leading newHpapors of the United States. Address the Press Claims Company, Jo Wodderburn, mauaging attorney, 618 F streal w. W Washington. U. C. G. A. K. NOTICE. We take this opportunity of in(ormig our subscribers that the new cooiinia siouer of pensions has been aiiooinled He is an old soldier, and we belitiv that soldiers and their heirs will re ceive justice at his hauds. We do not. anticipate tbat there will be any radical changes in the administration of ponsioi xffnirs under the new regime. We would advise, however, that XI. B, soldiers, sailors and tbeir heirs, take strpi to make application at onoe, if they hae not already done so, in order to secure the benefit of the early filing of tbeir claims in case there should be any future pension legislation. Such legislation is seldom retroaotive. There fore it is of great importance that ap plications be filed in the department at the earliest possihle date. If the U. S. soldiers, sailors, or tbeir widows, ohildren or parents deBire 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 the necessary application, if they find them entitled nmlei the numerous laws enacted for their benefit. Address PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY, John WEnuKltBCRN, Managing Attor ney, Washington, D. O., P. O. Box 385 THE WESTERN PEDAGOGUE. We are in receipt of the May nnmbtT of our state school paper. It exceed any of the former numbers it valu. The paper this month contains many new aud valuable features. The illus- trated series oil the schools of the state is introduced by a paper ou the Friendi- Polytechnic Institute at Sulem, Oregon. These papers cannot fail to be of great value both to the schools and to the publio. There are also several flue articles by our best writers and the departments "Current Eveuls,""Saturday Thoughts,'' "Eduoational News" "The Orach Answers, Correspondents," elo,, eaol contain much valuable reading foi teachers or paients. The mneazin Iihb about 50 pages of matter, well printed and arranged. We pronounce the Western Pedagogue the best educa tional monthly on the ooasl. Everyone of our readers should hav the paper if they are at all interested in education. No teacher school direc tor or student can get along well with out it. We will receive subscript, on at Ibis office. Price only $1.00 a year. When desired we will Bend the Westeri Pedagogue and (lunette one year to out address for 83.00. Call and examint sample copies. Teachers, directors and parents, now is the time to subscribe, tl Buekieu'a Ai-iuca Salvo. The best snlve in tbe world for cuts bruises, sores, nloers, salt rheum, ft-vei sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblain' corns and all skin eruptions, and posi tively oures piles, or no pay required. 1 is (ruiirauteed to give perleot satisfuotioi or money refunded. Pnoe 25 cents per box. For sale by Slooum-Johnson Drug Company. If you want to buy groceries, and bread stuff cheap, go lo the Euterprisi tiroceiy. Kirk At Kohl, proprietors, a PRISON DISCIPLINE. Mora Need of Itiror and Less of Flimsy Kcullmeuttillty. If wc cannot help the honest worker, at least we can stop petting and pam pering the detc.ted coniidence man, the tliiuf of the. dives and the enterpris ing but uiiLiiiccosKful burglar, says a writer in Lippincott's Magazine. The Ilovavd lu.Kociiilion appears to hit the naii on the head in urging "the neces sity 1' lvii'.lering the treatment of crim inal:; lewi attractive" than that of the law-abiding and industrious poor. He who lives ly h jneiit toil should not be templed to envy the scalawag who preys on tho community. When the scalawag in caught, what we have to do with him if his offense is not legally a matter for the noose is to keep him alive, safe and at work, to teach him somuthing useful if wo can (not neces sarily Shakespeare and the musical glasses), and to restrict as fir as possi ble his intercourse with his kind, es pecially s-.'paratiiiff him, while young, from those v.U would be his instructors in crime. It is not essential, nor even desirable, that lie should enjoy his con finement; iton;..-ht never to be forgoten for a mom-Hi t nit ho is there for pun ishment., li::;t ho is differentiated by his own a t iV I; r.vmt and decent people. Short of l.i.':r::r.. iily he can and ought to bo in.i 1 ; , , i' .'I that the way of the transgress.;!' is hard; tl it honesty, or what the law lvjognizcs as such, is the best poli.-y, Wiion tables are turned, when the Knave becomes distinctly an unprivileged person, he may find rwv. casion to mend his ways. -..-ii Highest of all in Leavening Power. ABSOLUT A PICTURE OF LONDON. The Terrible and Hrutul Savagery Thai Existed In Old Riverside. There were o masters in Riverside, London, and thore was no authority for the great mass of the people. The sailor ashore had no master; the men who worked on the lighters and on the ships had no master except for the day; the ifrnoble horde of those who supplied the coarse pleasures of the sailors had no masters; they were not made to do anything but what they pleased; the church was not for them; their children were not sent to school; their only masters were the fear of the gallows, constantly dangled before their eyes at Execution dock and on the shores of the Isle of Dogs, and their profound re spect for the cat o' nine tails. They knew no morality; they had no other restraint; they altogether slid, ran. fell, leaped, danced and rolled swiftly and easily down the Primrose path as they fell into a savagery the like ol which has never been known among English folk since the days of their con version to the Christian faith, writes Walter Iicsant in Scribncr. It is only by searching and poking among unknown pamphlets and for gotten books that one finds out the actual depths of the English savagery of the last century. And it is not too much to say that for drunkenness, brutality and ignorance the English man of the baser kind touched about the lowest depths ever reached by civ ilized man during the last century. What he was in Riverside, London, ha? been disclosed by Colquhoun, the police magistrate. Here he was not only a drunkard, a brawler, a torturer of dumb beasts, a wife-beater, a profligate he was also, with his fellows, engaged every day and all day long in a vast, systematic, organized depredation. The people of Riverside were all, to a man, river pirates; by day and by night thev stole from the ships. DOCTORS' SIGNS. How the Disciples of Galen Delude Thelx Vatlents. The first thing that strikes the eye on a prescription, according to the Bos ton lierald, is a sign like a big R with a long tail. This stands for the word "Recipe," and means, being addressed to the dispenser: "Take thou;" that is: "Provide thyself with the articles which follow." When the drugs have been ordered and the water suflieient to dissolve them generally a considerable quanti ty there is seen a large M with a line drawn through it. This stands for: "Misce ut Hat mistura," or, in other language: "Mix these ingredients so that they may form a mixture." v.,t iu :' : ,.Ji v. A.CAb HH. UIOll UUUUUD US lU UU Y U1C patient is to take the medicine are given. They may run thus: "S. c. m, II. 4 h." This, being interpreted, signifies: Sumat, let him i. e., tho patientr-take coclilearia duo, two large tablespoon fuls 4 stands for quartis and h. foi horis together, every four hours. Sometimes may bo seen: "Ft. hst. p. r. n. b." "Ft." means that "hst." or haustus, a draught, may be formed. "P. r. n." imply: Pro ro nata, as the occasion may be born; in simpler words, when required. "S." is sutnendus i. e., to be taken. A draught ordered to be taken at bedtime would be prescribed: "h. s. s." The first two letters mean hora somni, or at the hour of sleep. The second "s." is sutnendus again. Physicians use many idioms. For in stance, "ex lacte" means in milk. "Ex aqua suinenda," to be taken in water. "Tussc urgente" (ablative absolute), when the cough is troublesome. "Mis tura ad tussim" is a mixture for a cough. A CENT WAS THE " STARTER." The Great Results That Were Achieved by the Investment of One Penny. Miss A. J. Anderson, matron of tho Door of Hope, a charitable institution for girls, found a cent in the street says the New York World. At that time the Door of Hope was contemplat ing buying a cemetery lot in which to bury the girls who died while in its care, and Miss Anderson declared that she would consecrate the cent to this cause. .She bought an egg and sold the chicken that was hatched from it for a dollar. The dollar was invested in silk, ribbons, cardboard and fancy ar ticles. Out of the cardboard were cut Scriptural texts, and the silk was cro cheted into little rings, which, with strips of satin sash ribbon, made good photograph ie. holders. Tho fancy ar ticles were sold at good profits. At last accounts Miss Anderson had near ly twelve dollars, and she hopes to have at the expiration of the year enough money to pay for a center piece in the cemetery lot, which has been pur chased. Horaelr In England. ' When we say a girl is homely we mean that she is tho reverse of beauti ful, unmistakably plain, and sometimes painfully so. In England, however, the term is a measure complimentary. Tho homely girl is the one. endowed with all domestic virtues. She is a home-body in every sense of the word; one of those cozy little women with soft, plump cheeks, smooth hair and rounded out lines, that a man always imagines as sitting opposite him at the table or bending over a bit of sewing in the mel low lamplight. If we want to tell a Briton that a girl is not good-look we must not say that she is homely, but olain, or ugly. Latest U. S. Gov't Report SS32 ELY PURE THE WILD CAMEL. An Interesting' Animal of the Cen tral Asian Desert They Are Captured Only at Great Risk ana Expense and Only Rich Native Can Afford to Organize Hunt ing Expeditions. As far back as the fifteenth century writers on Asia told of vague rumors that wild camels exjsted in the great Gobi wastes of the central part of the continent. The existence of the wild camel, however, was never proven to the western world until within the last fifty years, says the New York Sun. Ten or twelve years ago Gen. Prejeval sky brought back to the museums of Russia a nvmber of skins of this animal. It is found to abound in very consider able numbers in the western part of Chinese Turkestan, and the fact that the world has known so little of it is due to the scarcity of white explorers in that region until quite recently and to the wildness of the animal, which renders it very difficult of atipro'ich. During the expedition of Mr. Jonvalot and Prince Henry of Orleans, the adven turesome son of the duke of Chartres, in 1889-90, Prince Henry collected in the region of Lob Nor quite a number of facts with regard to this interesting animal. The question whether the wild camel is the parent stock of the domesticated animal or whether, on the contrary, he is a descendant of the tame camel is not yet settled and perhaps it never will be. Instances have occurred in Spain and quite recently in Guyana of camels escaping from their masters and m the course of years becoming very wild. The natives at Lob Nor told Prince Henry that wild camels are found about six days to the north of Lob lake. In the summer they go up into the moun tains, but they always return to the same places, there being certain dis tricts to which they are accustomed. They wander about the desert feeding on scanty herbage in troops of fifteen or sixteen, all of them females except one male, which becomes the undisputed lord of his harem after terrific combats with other males. The females have two young every three years, and the male protects them until they are old enough to be weaned and to de pend on what the desert affords for their food. It is very fatiguing and difficult to get near them. The only way in which they are nunted is to hide near a pond on whose brink traces of wild camels have been discovered. Then when the animals come to drink, the hunter, con- ccaled in the reeds, picks out a good . Ill I. ' opeciiucii a.nu uuMa anujr wiiu lira am-gle-barreled gun. Unless he is a good shot he will lose his prize, for he has no time to get a second shot, and if the camel is only wounded it will make off with its companions, and the hunter will never get near it again. While Prince Henry was at Lob Nor three young men who had gone out to hunt wild camels returned from the chase. They had seen a great many camels, but had only killed two. They had cut the skins up into rectangular pieces ready to be worked up into their manu factures. The best season for the sport Is in winter, for nearly everywhere the water is then frozen over so that the places where the camels come to drink are very few and the hunter is pretty sure to find them. The natives believe these camels are not descended from domes ticated animals. "Our fathers and tra dition," they said to Prince Henry, "represent them as always wild. More over, a domesticated camel cannot do without man, but follows him. Every domestic animal is descended from wild ones." When the chase for wild animals is successful it is very profitable. The camel's skin is in great demand for boots and the hair makes very good cloth. Only rich natives, however, can organize these hunting expeditions, as it is necessary to send several men out to forward provisions to them, to fur nish animals to transport them, which sometimes die, and altogether consider able risk is incurred. When Snake-Polsou Is HarmleM. Nature seems to have provided that no poison which acts externally shall have any effect internally, and vice versa. Thus the most deadly snake venom can be swallowed with impun ity, the juice of the stomach presuma bly decomposing it and rendering 11 harmless. Many experiments, says the Washington Post, have been made tc provo this. On one occasion recorded by Humboldt one person swallowed th whole of the poison that could be olc tained from four Italian vipers without suffering any bad consequences. In the same way tho poison from the enven omed arrows of South American In dians can be swallowed with safety, provided only that there is no wound on the lips or inside of the mouth. Fast Talkers. The French newspapers tell of a very interesting match that came off in France. Two women in good society challenged each other to talk fast. Each was to utter as many words as possible in a fixed time. Each woman talked three consecutive hours. One uttered 203,500 words. Tno other won the match with 20fl,000 words.