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No, 10, mixed leaves Heppner 10:00 a. m. " 10, " ar. at Arlington 1-15 a.m. 9, " leaves 41 8:02 p. m. " U, " ar. at Hoppner 6:20 p. m, dailj sxoept Bunday. East bonnd, main line ar. at Arlington 1 :2ll a. m, WeBt " '' " leaves ' 1:26 a. m. Day trains have been diBoontinued. OETXGI-A.X4 BIEBOTOET. United States Officials. I'lesidont Grover Cleveland Vice-President Ad.ai Stevenson Becetary of State . . . Waller (J. GreBliam ' bmufltju-y of Treasury..;.;... ,.;.John (i. xJarlisie Secretary of Interior i.. Hoke Smith Seerelary of War Daniel B. Lamont SeoreUiry of Navy Hilary A. Herbert Postinuster-General Wilson 8. liisBell Attorney-General Richard 8. Olney Secretary of Agriculture. . ...J. Sterling Morton .State of Oregon. Governor :8. Pennoyer Secretary of State G. W. McHnde Treasurer Phil. MotBchan Bupt. Public Instruction E. B. MoElroy u , ( J. H. Mitchell Senators jj. N.Dolph ., .5 Binger Hermann Congressmen ;y. jj, jjuig Printer , Frank C. Baker !F. A. Moore WPL,ord H. S. 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A. - .1 IW WOiaD'S FAIK DIHECTOKV CO., No. 147 Frankford and Girard Avei. Philailel phia, Pa. PRIZES ON PATENTS. How to Get Twenty-five Hundred Dollars for Nothing. The Winner has a clear Cift of a Small Fortune, and the Losers Have Patents that may Bring them in Still More. Would you like to make twenty-fivo hundred dollars? If you would, read carefully what follows and you may see a way to do it. The Press Claims Company devotes much attention to patents. It has handled thousands of application for inventions, but it would like to handle rhpysanda more. There Is plenty of inventive taltent at large in this country needing nothing but encouragement to produce practical results. That encouragementthe Press Claims Company propose to give. NOT SO I1AKU AR IT KEE.TIM. 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 aud that he must spend a fortune on delicate experiments before he can get a new device to a patentable degree of perfection. This delusion the com-1 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 tilings that seem so absurdly trivial that the average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed of bringing them to the atteutton of the Patent Olllce. Edison says that the profits he has received from the patents on all his marvelous Inven tions ave not been sufficient to pay tne cost of his experiments. But 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 his scheme. The modern sewing-machine Is a miracle of ingenuity the product a hundred aud fifty years, 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. of the toil of hundreds of busy brains through THE LITTLE THINGS THE IUOKT VAl.l aiji.i:. Comparatively few people regard themselves as inventors, but almost every body ha9 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 witlout breaking the passengers' back?" ex claims the traveler. "If I were running the road I would make them in such a way." 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To the person who submits to It tile simplest aud most promising invention, from a commercial point of view, the company will give twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, in addition to rciuiidiiiu 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 first apply 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 expeuso. 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, wilt 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 jnry consisting of three reputable p&teut attorneys of Washing 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 offered by the Press Claims Company." NO IIXANKS im THIS !1I PFTIOV This is a competition of rather an unusal 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 merely selling his for the amoun of the prize. But the Press Claims Company's offer is something entirely differ ent. Each person is asked merely to help him self, audrhe one who helps him self to the best advantage is to be rewarded by doingit. The prize 1b 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 very lttle use to him. But the person who patents a simple and useful device In the Press Claims Company's competition, need not worry if he fail to secure a prize. He baB a substantial result to show for his worn one that wll command its value iu the market at any lime. The man who uses any article In his dally work ought to know better now to imnrove It than the mechanical expert who studies it only from the theoretical point of view, (lot rid of the idea that an improvement can be too simple to be worth patenting. The slmiilerlho better. The person who best suececls in combining simplicity and popularity, will get the Press Claims Company's twenty-five hun The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard. dred dollars. The responsibility of this company may be judged from the fact that its stock is held by about three hundred of the leading newspapers ui ine uuiieu oiaies. AddresB the Press Claims Company, Jots Woddcrburn, managing attorney, 018 K street K. W., Washington, D. C. i. A. R. NOTICE. We take this opportunity nf informing our subscribers that tbe new oomuiis eiouer of pensions has been aponintei He is au old soldier, aud we telidV that soldiers and tbeir beirs will re ceive justice at bis bands. We do not anticipate that tbere will be any radinal changes iu tbe administration of pensioa affairs under tbe new regime. We would advise, however, Ibnt V. 8, soldiers, sailors and tbeir beirs, take steps to make application at once, if tbey have not already done so, iu order to secure the benefit of tbe early filing of tbeir claims in case there should be any future pension legislation. Snoh legislation is seldom retroactive. Ihere fore it is of great importance that ap phoatious be filed in tbe department al the earliest possible date. If the U. S. soldiers, sailors, or their widows, ohildreu or parents desire in formation iu regard to peusiou matters, they should write to tbe Press Claims Oompauy, tt Washington, D. C, and tbey will prepare and send the neoessury application, if tbey find them entitled under the numerous lawB enacted for their benefit. Address PKESS CLAIMS COMPANY, John Weddeuiiubn, Mauaging Attor ney, Washington, 1). O., I'. O. Box 385 tf. . THE WEal'liltN I'EDAUOUUIS. We are iu reoeipt of tbe May number of our state school paper. It exceed any of the former uumbcrs ir. vain . The paper this mouth cuutaius many new uud valuable features. The illus trated series ou the schools of tbe state is iutroducad uy a paper on the Frieuds Polyteolinic Institute at Salem, Oregon. These papers cannot fail to be of great value both to the sohools aud to ibe public There are also several tine articles by our bdst writers and tbe departments "Current Events,""Saturday Thoughts, '' "Eduoational News" 'The Oracle Answers, Correspondents," etc, eaoh ooutain much valuable reading for teachers or parents. The magazine has about 511 pages of matter, well printed and arranged. We pronouuoe the Western Pedagogue tbe best educa tional monthly on tbe const. Everyoue of our readers should bave 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 subsoript.ons at this offioe. Price ouly $1.00 a year. When desired we will send tbe Western Pedagogue aud Uazette one year to one address for $3.00. Call and examine sample oopies. Teaahers, direotors and parents, now is the time to subscribe, tf Thompson & Uinnsown tbe buss which goes to and from tbe Palace hotel, but will call for parties desiring to go to truiu in any pnrt of the city. Leave orders at City hotel. a Kncklen'a Arnica Halve. The best salve in the world for cuts bruises, sores, uloers, salt rheum, fever sores, ti tter, chapped bands, chilblains corns aud all skin eruptions, and posi tively oures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perlect satisfuotion or money refunded. Price 25 oents per box. For sale by Slooum-Johnson Drug Company. We will take wheat ou subscription at 50 oents per bushel. INCIDENTS Or CYCLONES. A Kefrlgrrutui- '1 j,ut Apparently Wulk4 Dowust'.tirs Into a Cellar. Some remarkable stories are told about narrow esrapes from injury oi death by the recent Hoods and cyclones and the queer positions in which people have been left nftor the. subsidence of the waters or passing1 of the storms. The telegraph rep .l'ls explained a few days ago how a ni."ii was lifted from a wagon ami deposited with great care on the top of n barbed fence. When the cyclone visited Wellington, Kan., a young woman was writing a. letter in the second story of her father's house and a moment ail-r the storm broke she was standing in the school yard, three blocks away, uninjured, lint this was not nil. The young" lady had com pany. A yonntf man whom she knew came sailing through the airandalight ed near by. lie In. I sought shelter in a restaurant ijuiir'.')- of u. mile away, but had been pi k. I ep and carried off and finally l"po:-!l"il without injury near tbe youiv; iiv'.y. Ili fore the storm a refrigerator filie I with three dozen eggs, numerous 1mUi s which had ar rived by express 1 i:ct morning, and meat, butter, v. !;!s, etc., rested quietly in the diion'j-rooin up stairs. After the storm the refrigerator, up right and without anything inside broken, was found in the cellar. The house had blown away, the floor re maining, and, the linii'alo News says, the only way for the refrigerator to get to the cellar was to walk downstairs and go through the door. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOiLITEl PURE ELECT! ilC BOATS. How One May Travel on a Plo- turesquo English Lake. The Noisy Steam Launch Gives Place to Crult That Moves Without Ulrt, Smoke or Annoyance Kleetrlclty Ap plied us a. Propelling Power. The quiet English lake of Windemere. which nestles among the hills of tbe lake country, has seen great changes since the days not so very long ago when a single little pueketbout served for nearly all the tratiic there was upon it. The great Christopher North used not infrequently to steer that packet- boat himself, and Harriet Martmeau tells bow striking a figure he made as he sat in it "with all the wild turbu lence of his nature subdued into repose by the quiet iniluence of the peaceful scene, bitting motionless, with his hand on the tiller, in the presence of journeymen nnd market-women, his eye apparently looking beyond every thing into nothing, and his mouth closed above his beard as if he never meant to speak again, he was quite as impressive and immortal as he could have been to tbe students of bis moral philosophy class or the comrades of his jovial hours." Now, however, says the Chicago Tribune, the calm waters of Windemere have become the highway of many thousands of tourists, and particularly of crowds of work people, escaping for a short interval of pleasure from the busy towns of Lancashire. The day that a steamer first sailed on the lake, to the no small wonder of many of the older peasants, was the be ginning of a new era for Windemere, and the summer of the present year, when the first electric boat moved swiftly and silently over its waters, is the beginning of another as full of meaning to American lake dwellers as to English, it may be. It is not inappropriate, for many rea sons, that the beginning of the restora tion of comparative quiet at Windemere should proceed from the lake that lies in "Esthwaite's peaceful vale," so close ly connected with Wordsworth's boy hood. It is the stream that flows from this lake that supplies the electric power for the new boats. On this stream, just where it enters Winde mere, is a picturesquely situated bob bin mill, driven by water power. This mill bad been partly burned down, but the company which is working the elec tric boats found the mill driving ma chinery intact, and had little to do but plant its dynamo in the large room where bobbins used to be turned, fix its wires and then run off as much electric power as it mi;ht need. The wet dock for the boats nt Causey mill and the charging station on the Jirowness side of the lake, where steam power is avail able in ease of drought, interrupting the supply of water power from Esthwaito lake, are shown in the uceompunying illustrations. The first experiment in applying elec tric power to the navigation of the lake has been made with lour boats (each forty feet in length and carrying thirty persons) built, on good lines, of steel, by a (Ihisjrow firm. Nothing can be simpler or more effective) than the ar rangements for the management of these boats, unless an improvement might bo made by placing tne ma chinery for regulating the power and for steering in the bows. Vibration is said to bo reduced to a minimum, and dirt, Kinoke. nnd noise, forever banished. The vessel pin.ses through the water with a motion which is said to be al most too quiet, gliding silently along in a fashion which is almost weird, as if the craft were endowed with some strange, inj -.lenous life of its own. INDIAN CAVAL'iYMEN. They Obey Orders Ilvtter Than White Sol dlerg and lichave Very Well. There is a company of cavalry at Fori Niobrara commanded by Lieut. Dravo. of which be is very proud, says the Omaha World-Herald. "The 21st day oi April," said the officer, "I completed tht enlistment of the fifty-five Indians ir my company. An Indian is more easily enlisted into the cavalry because he if allowed a horse." "His own pony?' "No; he must lie mounted on a horse as other cavalry soldiers are." "Do yov. find it difficult to discipline the In dians?" "Not at all. They obey or ders better than the white men, and you see the improvement iu them. The comparison between the Indian sol dier and their relatives at the agency is most favorable to the soldier. An In dian, while he is not round-shouldered, leans forward and bends his knees, but six months 'setting-up' drill has changed all this materially. Ten of my men are from the. Carlisle school at Pennsylvania, and the junior corporal is a son of the famous Two Strikes. We have a school iu the garrison, and they are at present learning the alphabet. It is bard for them, too, but they are very much in earnest and learn readily. I promised thcin when they enlisted that they should be as fully equipped as the white soldiers, and I have just returned from a nine days' trip around the reservation in which they proved my words good to their relatives and friends," "How did you induce them to cut their hair?" "It is funny about that. I told them that they could have no uniforms until thev were Baking Powder Clean and their hair cut. This was Sat urday. If they were ready they could don their uniform; Monday morning. Sunday the whole dcy was spent in bathing, six Lt a time, und Monday morning the entire company reported, clean and with lu.ir cut. They wish sin cerely to learn the while man's way, and, as I said before, are the most earnest worken, imiifrinable." "Do you trust them with Ueoholic drinks?" "They have the privileges of the can teen, as the si.hilers have, and you could count the disorderlies upon the fingers of one hand." "V,'h::t have they done with their wivef ? ' "rive of them have their wive:; .vill. 1Vrx The Indian mar riage is easily dissolved, however, and t m.mbci oi wives have been left be Liuu." NEGROES IN BARBADOES. They Die Rapidly of Consumption Euro peans Safe From the Disease. In Barbadoes the chief enemy of the black race is consumption, of which many of them die, though it is practi cally unknown there among Europeans. The cause is simply that all negroes, without exception, hermetically seal up their huts at night, partly from fear of mysterious ghosts or "duppies," partly to keep out mosquitoes, and partly again because they wish to keep out cold. For, strange as it may appear, the naturalized West Indian negro shiv ers in a temperature of seventy-four de grees, and, on the rare occasions in win ter when the thermometer falls to sev enty degrees, he is blue with cold and fclmost incapacitated for work. No doubt he is warm enough in his hut at night, with every shutter closed and every chink and cranny stuffed with rags, but nature avenges herself for this exclusion of her purifying oxygen by colds and coughs. The negro has quack remedies and balsams by the dozen for these, but All The Year Round says they do. not save him f tom the tubercle that soon forms in his lungs and eats his life away. After all, he is a little missed; he has had a short life and pleasant one. His relatives will feel a pride in covering themselves with crape, of color almost as black as their own complexions, for crape is "de rigueur" among the ncgress es of Harbadoes. He will probably leave after him six or seven children, mostly illegitimate, since the black la dies have strong objections to the bond of matrimony. Hut here th question of pounds, shillings and pence does not intrude itself as it does at home. It costs so little to bring up a black baby that there is really no reason whatever for its parents to consider its future. When it grows up, an hour's work or so a day will keep it in food and clothes. So, in the streets of Bridgetown, tb happy little black imps swarm like flies, and the island has the densest popula tion per square mile of any place in the known world that is, if what they say about Chinese statistics be true. MAMMOTHS OF SIBERIA. Froaen When They Died, Their Doues Now Cover the Vutl Plains. In his book on "The Mammoth and the Flood," Mr. Iloworth advances s new theory with regard to the remain! of mammoths and other large animals in the soil of Siberia. All over thii great plain, wherever the ground is frozen hard, are found mammoths and other animals preserved very fresh, sc that the wolves and hears can feed upon their remains. These mammoths have been found from the eastern border clear to the Obi river. They have been found undei conditions which make it certain thai they could not have lived unless the sur roundings and climate bad, at the time they existed, been entirely different from the present conditions. The re mains of the plants on which they feed are also found, and southern contempo rary shells are discovered with the re mains, pointing to climatic condition! which no longer exist. Mr. Iloworth believes that this pla teau is one of the most recent feature! in the known physical geography of the world, and that its rapid elevation caused the tremendous change of cli mate which has enabled the bodies o) great beasts to be preserved intact at we find them, lie says that unlesi these animals had been frozen immedi ately after they died, anil remained frozen to this day, they would certain ly have decayed and disappeared. A single Siberian slimmer snn would have destroyed them completely. It is known that further east the bones of great an imals have been found seventeen thou sand feet alxive the sea under condi tions which Falconer declared to be ab solutely incompatible with their mod of life. The Compass Plant. . . On the western prairie is found what is called the compass plant, which is of great value to travelers. The lonn leaves at the base of its stem are placed, not flat, as in plants generally, but in a vertical position, and present their edges north and south. The peculiar propensity of the plant is attributed tc fact that both surfaces of its leaves dis play an equal receptivity for ligM (whereas the upper surfaces of the leaves of most plants are more sensi tive to light than the lower); the leaves thus assume a vertical position, and point north and south. Travelers on dark nights are said to feel the edges of the leaves to ascertain the point of th compass.