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HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1894.
i WEEKLY WO. 5SS.I
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MISSOITRI SNAKE CATCHERS.
A. Queer Industry Carried On
Along the Mississippi
The fteptlles Forsake the Low Land In
Xb Fall and Seek the DluDs,
Where They Hibernate
Through Winter.
The cool fall weather affords the
careful observer a fine opportunity for
noting one of the curious things in
nature the migration of snakes, says
the Alton correspondent of the St.
Louis Republic. These reptiles look
up their winter quarters, and these
quarters in this vicinity may be found
in the bluffs which line the river bank
above the city. All the snakes which
spend the summer in the bottom lands
of Missouri point, just opposite, make
their way across tho river to the bluffs,
where they hibernate until the gentle
breezes of spring thaw them out, when
they slip down the shale and debris
which underlie the bluffs and again
seek the lowlands.
The crossing of the river is a very
simple matter for them. They simply
swim over, and many are killed by
fishermen while making this crossing.
An old resident of the bluffs above
this city states that he has seen the
time in November when the river
could not be crossed in a skiff, especial
ly in the middle of the (lay when il
was warmest, without at least a dozen
snakes being seen swimming for the
bluffs, and ho has frequently killed a
half dozen rattlesnakes with an oar
while going to and from Alton.
A hunter along these bluffs lntely
saw an old man who appeared to
be looking very intently at the water
with a field-glass, and, curious to dis
cover what it meant, joined him at the
edge of the water. The man had with
him besides the field-glass a heavy
sack and a curious pair of long wooden
tongs, and in answer to questions sa'
he was a snake catcher, watching the
surface of the water the while.
Presently he sighted a snake swim
ming for shore a short distance abov.i
where he was standing, and proceeded
to meet him with his tongs, with
which he picked up the snake as he
landed. It proved to be a black snake,
and was dropped into the sack without
further ado. During the next hour ho
caught two water snakes, a garter
snake and a spreading udder. The
last he put in his sack and turned out
the others, saying that they were "no
good."
The old man had grown quite friend
ly by this time, and a visit, by invita
tion, was paid to bis cabin boat, in the
back room of which he had corraled
over fifty live and hissing sna::es,
which he said he sold to a party ta.-SV.
ttralavwhoi&ia them ' to others -tor"
different purposes. The trick of -catching
them he had learned when a boy
from Indians, who would come down
to the bluffs and catch rattlesnakes as
they crossed the river. These Indians
used to catch them with boats, and
sold them to a man at the fort. He
had learned something that the In
dians did not know, however, and that
is that a man can catch more snakes
along the shore with half the work,
Snake catching Is followed every fall
of the year here by a number of men
who appear to find recreation, excite
ment and profit in the occupation,
while at the same time they are rid
ding the neighborhood of some very
undesirable visitors and thus con
ferring a benefit on their fcllowman.
MUMBLING LECTURERS.
How English Audlpnc. Are Entertained
by Muu of Science.
Nothing can surpass the patience of
the British audience at certain of these
lectures. We have been present, says
. writer in the London Globe, on one
such occasion when a distinguished,
but perfectly unintelligible, member
of the Royal society engrossed the at
tention of about nine hundred ladies
and gentlemen from eight o'clock until
ten. What he was saying no one
knew. He mumbled on unremittingly
and the company loudly applauded
him in the intervals, when he drew
breath for a fresh lease of incoherence.
But he held a long rod in his hand and
periodically he raised it and pointed at,
an enigmatic agglomeration of lines,
which were believed to be an illustra
tion. This of itself alone would have
satisfied his audience, coupled, of
course, with the spectacle of his own
respectable person. And when the
lecture was over the secretary compli
mented the old gentleman on his most
instructive discourse, there was a rush
of eager seconders of I .e resolution,
and the general public streamed out,
yawning and happy. This gentleman
received twenty-five guineas for his
effort, and it is not known to this day.
what he was talking about. There is
no civilization in the world to equal
that of the average provincial audience
at a lecture. It tolerates ail things
uncomplainingly. We have known
these kindly people endure a long se
ries of lantern slides upside down with
out a murmur, though their pictorial
matter was believed to be of a very ex
citing nature.
Fortune's I re ik.
In unexpected turns of the wheel of
fortune, elevating the unknown to
places of power and dethroning the
mighty without warning France leads
the nations, not excepting America,
where the grandson of the millionaire
may black boots for the grandson of
the crossing sweeper. The installation
of Mme. Grevy in the Elysee is a happy
Instance. Mhe was the daughter of a
tanner, and earned her living in Paris
as a bonnet maker. When she married,
her whole fortune was less than five
hundred dollars; at her death she
leaves something like a quarter of a
million to her daughter. 8he did not
Invent an ancestry with her promotion,
nor assume fine airs with her rich
gowns. Her manners were character
lied by simplicity, her accounts were
carefully audited to the smallest de
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ANTIQUITY OF SHORTHAND.
It rFas In Use Before the Beginning of
the ( hrlstlan Era.
Cicero is said to have been the in
ventor of shorthand writing, and the
freedman, Jlarcus Tullius Tiro, his
frieud, the first stenographer, and he
undoubtedly did use a method of short
hand writing as early as 60 B. C. The
first English treatise was by Timothe
Bright, entitled, "An Arte of Shorte
Swifte and Secrete Writing by Charae
ture, Inuented by Timothe- Bright,
Doctor of Phisike, Imprinted at Lon
don by 1. Windct, the assignee of Tim
Bright, 1588. Cum priuilcgio Regiae
Maiestatis. Forbidding all others to
print ilie same." Dr. Bright in this
vork says: "Cicero did account it
worthie his labour, and no less profita
ble to the Roman common weale (Most
Gracious Soueraigne) to inueut a
speedio kinde of wryting by character,
as Plutarch reporteth in the life of Cato
tho younjer. This inuention was in
creased afterward by Seneca that the
number of characters grue to 7,000.
Whether through inure of time, or that
the men gaue it over for tediousness of
learning, nothing remaineth extant of
Cicero's inuention at this day."
The stenographer who recalls the
efforts required to properly master the
few characters used in the art to-day
will wonder that of Cicero's system,
with its 7,000 characters, nothing re
mains at this day. It was not until
104:2, according to the New York World,
that the art became of any practical
use, and it was first used in the house
of lords in 1099 in taking testimony in
a divorce suit. Stenographers were
not regularly employed in parliament,
however, until 180J.
In many of the public Bchools of the
country stenography is a part of the
training. An evidence of its recent re
markable growth is shown by a circu
lar issued by the bureau of education
issued at Washington. Here it is
shown that from July 1, 1889, to June
30, 1890, 57,375 persons received instruc
tion in the art of shorthand in schools
and colleges in the United States. Five
thousand five hundred and fifty of
these were iirNew York and Brooklyn.
A lilce circular was issued by tho bu
reau in 1884, in which It was shown
that during tho year 1882 the number
of pupils receiving instruction was 12,
470. it is therefore quite safe to say
that the number for 1893 exceeded 75,
000. But this number does not take
into consideration an army probably
equally large who receive instruction
from some other source or from pro
fessional stenographers. Out of this
vast army, however, but a very small
minority are either physically or men
tally qualified to become court report
ers or even office ajsmmss "--jl
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SHORT BUT QUEER RAILROAD.
A Line In i alUopnl Where the Grade la
Six Feet In a Hundred.
California has a railroad so unique
that the most expert "railroad man" in
the world would be unable to name it
should he accidentally happen upon it
at a time when the cars and engine
were not in sight. The word "engine"
is used advise'llv. for. according to the
St. Louis Republic, there is no danger
of encountering more than one piece
of machinery of that class upon this
extraordinary "thoroughfare," and
should you come in contact with the
entire force of men with which the
road is equipped you could count the en
tire "gang" on the fingers of one hand.
This west coast curiosity lies in, or
rather runs up and down, a portion of
San Benito county, extending from
Burt's lime kiln to Tres Pines, in what
is known as the Gavilan ramge. The
road is of the "bicycle" or siugle track
variety, the engines and cars sitting
vtry low upon the rail. The rail is of
the slot pattern, not unlike that seen
on cable railways, the wheels of both
the engine and the cars having a
tongue of steel which works In the
groove. In addition to this each wheel
has a fiange on both sides, and, the
whole track being of but one rail, the
wheels are, in reality, tongued rollers
with flangelike projections on each end.
Every wheel in the whole outfit belong
ing to this curious railroad is thus pro
vided with four bearings, which pre
vent it from jumping the track on any
of the numerjus short curves. At
last accounts there were but nine
miles of road operated by this "sys
tem." When completed it will be four
teen miles rom one terminal station
to the other. In one place there is an
eight hundred-foot grade, mounted at
the rate of six feet to the one hundred,
and on anotiier section of the road
there is a grade between a quarter and
a half mile in length in which the
average ascent is fonr feet to each one
hundred feet of track.
Language of the Doz's TalL
All dogs wag their tails when
pleased, and the movement is gencr- j
ally understood by their human asso
ciates as an intimation that they are
very happy. The chief delight of wild
dogs, as with modern hounds and
sporting dogs, is in the chase and its
accompanying excitement and conse
quences. When the presence of
game Is first detected is invariably the
time when tails are wagged for the
common good. The wagging is almost
an invariable accompaniment of this
form of pleasure, which is one of the
chiefest among the agreeable emotions
when in a wild state. Owing to some
inosculation of the nervous mechanism
the association of pleasure and wag
ging has become so Inseparable that
the movement of the tail follows the
emotion, whatever may call it forth.
The most modest little pond can re
flect a picture of the sun, if it is abso
lutely at rest in itself. Carlyle.
The injury of prodigality leads to
this that he that will not economize
will have to agonize. Confucius.
TnosE who reason only by analogies,
rarely reason by logic, and are gener
ally slaves to Imagination. C. Sim
mons. Bore, the jneler, is the man to fix np
your wstnb or cloak, tie keep a full
took of everything pertaining to bis
batfofae, a
Highest of all in Leavening
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iBSO!JJIEI PURE
PETTY DISHONESTY.
The Little Impositions That Some
Women Think AU Right
A Charming Girl Who Waa HlghlT Elated
at tier Sneeeas In niamng m Ntreet
Car Conductor Out of
a K'lukeL
The readiness and enthusiasm with
which fair woman will beat the res
taurant keepers, soda water dispensa
tories, railroad companies and all
other institutions of civilization for
the collection of nickels, dimes or
other small change is one of the
strangest phenomena of these fast
utriding days.
I was discussing a lunch the other
day with a very charming girl, says a
lady writer in the New York Herald.
The first thing she said after removing
her gloves and arranging her rings so
that they would show to the very best
advantage to the other women present
was:
"Well, my ruledown town dida'tcost
me a cent. That stupid conductor never
came around for my fare."
Here she held up the nickel exultant
ly and laughed in an almost fiendish
glee.
At the moment a pretty blonde girl
passed our table and saluted my com
panion. The sight of the nickel up
held seemed to inspire pleasant
thoughts. She stopped and began to
giggle. Then they giggled together
and winked at each other.
"That nickel reminds me of some
thing funny, Susie," laughed the
blonde girl, whose costume cost her
husband a cool three hundred dollars.
"I have ridden in five horsecars to-day
and it hasn't cost me a cent."
My companion instantly grew se
rious and knitted her pretty brows.
"How did you manage It?" she In
quired, eagerly.
. 'fcasily enough J retorted Nrmri
tieaut,yl fin two cases the, impudent
couducsor never even asked me for my
fare, and of course I didn't call him
and beg to be taxed. Three of the cars
1 rode on were crowded, and when I
boarded them others did so at the same
time. The conductor was way up in
front. He didn't know who or how
many got on.
"Finally he came around with his
eternal cry of 'Fare, pleasel' I looked
straight ahead of me, for I wanted to
see what he would do. Ho passed and
repassed, collecting nickels from
idiotic women who were fumbling in
their purses. Each timo he looked
suspiciously at me. At last he said,
snappishly: 'Have I got your fare,
ma'am?1 I looked over his head as
haughtily as I could. He became hum
ble. 'Did I get your fare, lady?' he
lisped. 'How many fares do you
want.?' 1 renlied. sternlv. At that the !
poor man faded away to the back plat
form, thoroughly crestfallen. Several
good-looking fellows glared as if they
had a mind to throw him out of the
window."
The girls laughed long over this ex
perience, but when the blonde charm
er was gone I remarked savagely that
1 thought such tactics dishonest.
"Nonsense!" observed my lady, la
conically, and refused any further dis
cussion. In due time the waiter brought me
my cheek.
"Let me see it," said my beautiful
philanthropist. Of course she got it.
She studied It for a moment seriously,
then an amused expression crept
around the tempting mouth and final
ly Bhe burst Into a peal of laughter.
"See," she said, eagerly, bending
across the table. "lie has cheated
himself out of fifty cents. Now, don't
be a simpleton and have him correct It.
It's none of your business, anyway."
But I thought it a first-rate oppor
tunity for a lesson in morals. I called
the waiter and showed him where he
had erred and you may believe he was
profoundly grateful.
As I collected my change and rose to
go I noticed an ominous frown settling
over her lovely brow and 1 am sure the
word "fool" issued from between her
set teeth.
A RIDE ON A WHALE.
The Stlrrtng and Veracious Tarn of a Man
from North t'arollnau
Capt. Jim Willis, who hails from
Morehead City, N. C, where he runs
pleasure craft for the accommodation
of northern consumptives, had an ex
perience with a whale that came near
making a Jonah of him. In his own
story, as given to a Washington Star
reporter, he says: "One sunny after
noon, not very long ago, I was sitting
in the shade of my own fig tree and
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swinging tn my own grapevine swing.
. A party of my fisher friends who lived
farther up the beach, came running by,
and as they passed me they sang out:
'There she blows!' This cry woke me
up. I saw a jet of water spurted up
ward from the sea, and down to the
pier I rushed. There wasn't a real
whaleboat in the town, but four ordi
nary fishing boats were manned by as
many crews. One carried the harpoon
gun and one the hand-hurling appa
ratus. The other two were without
any armament excepting several shot
guns and one or two rifles. We rowed
off so as to come at the game from dif
ferent points of the compass. I was in
the gunboat. As we approached the
whale it was seen that ho was a large
and fat one. He took no notice of our
coining. When we got within about
one hundred feet of the monster the
harpoon gun was fired, and the barbed
weapon took effect just behind the
head and pretty well up on the back.
This was painful, but not necessarily a
fatal shot. The other boate turned
themselves loose and made some inser
tions in the fish.
"Instead of going under, as wounded
whales do, ho remained on top to fight
it out. He swished his tail aud turned
the sea into suds and made such a
swell that the good peoplo of Alexan
dria would not have permitted
him to pass their port without slowing
down, lie plunged headlong against
one of the boats and stove it so that it
would hardly float. . Its occupants
were knocked overboard. There was
a good deal of excitement.' The sea
round about us was boiling, the whale
was rod-hot with rage, the men were
shouting and tho guns were popping.
The fish next hurled himself against
the boat in which I was, and it yielded
to his wishes audgot smashed. It was
raised a considerable distance In the
air, and when It came down I was on
that whale's back, just abaft his
head, and holding on to that harpoon
.ul wt) inot.ai v'TUQ-nacmitiuii nad
connected the harpoon and the boat
had parted, and about two hundred
feet of manilla hawser squirmed and
wriggled snake-like around in the
seething sea. The whale didn't seem
to observe my attitude and continued
his attention upon the two remaining
boats. There wasn't any time to think
of this. The hand harpoon had been
shoved into the right place and the
whale was blowing his last. A column
of blood was being squ Irted skyward
and the scarlet flood fell over me, dy
Ing mo a gory hue. A few feeble
swashes of the tail and a keeling mo
tion as though he was going to lie on his
iMe tinnn'incn'l thnt, the fl'h dead.
Our catch was lashed alongside the
pier and the next day we went to
work at his carcass. The fish was
sixty-two feet three and three-fourth
inches long, and the proceeds from the
sale of his oil, bone and other valua
bles were three thousand five hundred
dollars."
AN ELASTIC CONSCIENCE.
The 81a of It Lay only In llelng Found
Out With Her.
The penalty attendant upon being
detected is the entire foundation of
many people's honesty. A woman,
savs a writer In tho New York Recorder,
in whoso company 1 found myself re
cently! was relating with pride an in
stanco of hor shrewdness. She re
marked as a prcfacu to her story that
anyone wl.o expected to get tho better
of her would have to be an early riser.
Said she: "
"1 went to the theater the other
night and after tho play a lady who
sat in front of mo asked mo if the
umbrella under her chair belonged to
me.
"I said no, and as no one else claimed
It she left it at the box olllce. It was a
lovely umbrella with a silver handle.
"Well, now the joke begins. Abouta
week later I went to the theater and
asked if such an article had been found
and if they had it. I described it per
fectly and told when It was lost. I
didn't say it was mine, but just let
them Infer it. It was there still; the
owner had never called for it proba
bly never knew where it hud been left.
They handed it out when I had an
swered all their questions, and I'm
that much in.
"I had just as good a right to it as
the theater people, and it looked, after
a week, as if the woman who found it
wasn't going to put in u claim. I'm
going 10 get a hat with tho money I
saved by being wide awake, for 1 in
tended to buy a new umbrella."
Slandkh Is a vice that strikes a dou
ble blow, woundlug both him that
commits, and him against whom it is
committed. Saurln.
Honors, World's Fair.
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