A V---' ' JU I If 1 1 III 1 1 III 1 1 Ml I III MM frlMl HI Mil M 1 1.4 r.Uftl z ee'eeeeeee z : j : IF YOU DOX ' T READ THE GAZETTE I OFFICIAL PAPER KEEP YOUR EYE ON I j THE GAZETTE f 5 The paper of the people, j j lt$mt You don't get the news. i mMI I 1 1 til n l 114 II til I ill iiji 1 1 1 til liim rM MmmiMiiwiiniiii ittniMnii in i iiumh win i t itmti TWELFTH YEAR HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1894. WEEKLY NO. !!.( SEMI-WEEKLY N0.H7.1 SEMUVEEKLY CtAZETTE. FUBUBHID Tuesdays and Fridays BY ME PATTERSON PCBLMING COMPAQ ALVAH W. PATTERSON Boa. Manage! ims FATTKR80N Edito' At (4.9.1 per year, $1.25 (ur six months, 75 ot for tliree mourns. Advertising Rates Made Known oi. Application. The "BAG-US," of Long Creek, Gran County, Oregon, 1b published by the same com pany every Friday morning. Subscriptioi price, $2 per year. For advertising rates, addres Ssiiisf x. PATTEKSoir, Editor am Manager, Long Creek, Oregou, or "Uaxette,' Heppuer. Oregoa. THI8 PAPER is kept on tile at E. C. Dake Advertising Agency, iM and' 65 Merohani Exohangs, Ban fcranciaoo, California, where Co., racte for advertising can be made tor it (Jsion Paofic Railway-Local card No. 10. miied leaves Heppner 9:45 p. m. dai'. exoept Sunday ill. " ar. at Willows Jo. p.m. H, M leaves 4' a. m. " 9, " ar. at Heppner 61XJ a, m. dail exoept Monday. East bound, main line ar. at Arlington 1 h. n West " ' " leaves " ISM a. o West bound lo 'al fr-igh leaves Arlington 8 a. m., atriyes t The D-illes l:Kt p. ui. Loom passeng r leave Th- Uallex at 2:110 p. m. arriv i at Portland at 7HW p m. OmCX.ft.Xj BIBECTOBT. United 8tte Officials. i'rowident Qrover Cleveland Vice-President. Ad ai HreveUBoj. Secetary of Slate Waiter Q (ireaham Secretary of Treasury John G. Carliel. Secretary of Interior Hoke Bmitl Hocrelary of War Daniel 8. Lamont Secretary of Navy Hilary A. Herbert Pualumeter-General Wilnon 8. Biesell Attorney-Oeneral Kiclwrd 8. 01ne Heoreuiry of Agrioultnre J. (Sterling Alorloi State of Oregon. (tovernor B. Pennoyei Hecretaryof State 0. W. Mohridi Treasurer l'hll. Metacnal ttupt. Public Instruction E. B. Mclilroj j J. H. Miichei Hsnators j. N.Dolph I Binger Heruntni Congresainen J W. h. Ellis Printer Frank O.Bakei !F. A. Moon W.P. Lord K. S. Beau Seventh Judicial District. Circuit Judge W. L. Bradshav I'nK'tcutmg At.or.iey A. A. Jaym Morrow (bounty Olttuials. .!. r. Senator A. W. Oowjr ItoprcsRDtative J S B 'ihb. i . -only Judge JiiliuB KeiLhij 1 Cuminiueionere . J. K. uowaril J.M. Bauer. " ClerV P 0. B rr " Sheriff G. W. Hirni.gtoi " Treasurer Fraua Gillau Assessor J. r', Willi ' purveyor G. Lord " Ijoliool Sup't Anna Bileue' Coroner T. W. Ayera, Ji HKPPNBB TOWN OFFICEBB. Mayor J. R. Simoni I oi. acumen O. E. FarnBworth, M Llohtnnthal, OtiB Patterson, Julius Keithly W. A. Johnston, J. L. Yeoger. Hcoorder F. J. Hallock Treasurer A.M. fcluni. Marshal Precinct Offlerp. J ustice of the Peaoe. . '. E. L. FreelanC Constable N. S. 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As a matter of course he has the best medical care and attendance possible, and the physicians do all in their power to prolong his un happy and miserable existence. No other course is possible, but his death would be a relief to the country and to Germany. Although as a rule he is unable to recognize his relatives, attendants or friends, and remains for hours motion-, less in his padded room, he has lucid in tervals. Not a great while ago he sud denly recognized his attendants and bo came cognizant of his lofty position. A cavalier about the castle asked him if he did not wish to show himself to his subjects in Munich. "Gladly, gladly, would I go to Mu nich," he is said to have replied, with a look of irrepressible sadnesu in his eyes, "but my people wish to see a well king, and I am sick. Yes, yes, yes, I am sick, and these terrible fancies will not leave me." Upon another occasion he demanded suddenly that his attendants take him to his capital. In order to avoid an at tack of violent excitement, probable in case of a refusal, a stout carriage was summoned to the castla steps. The king, one of the physicians and an at tendant, clad in his royal livery to avoid suspicion, antercd the coach, which started on its journey. Looking out of the window the king saw a meadow almost covered with variously hued flowers. lie expressed the desire to gather a bouquet to present to his mother, and the coachman stopped while he plucked the flowers. Cut the ork was too tiring, and he returned to tiie carriage completely exhausted, lie was taken back to the castle and placed In bed. When he awoke the following morning his reason was again clouded and he had entirely forgotten his visit to Munich. The (rreatest difficulty which con- J fronts the king's physicians is to per suade him to eat. He is an inveterate smoker of cigarettes. At times the doc- j tors take advantage of his weakness. Upon one occasion they placed a pack age of cigarettes on the table next to his plate. When the king entered the dining-room he rushed at once toward the cigarettes, but the attendant physi cian quickly threw a napkin over them, saying at the same time: "The cigarettes, your majesty, must follow the dinner." Keeping the tobacco in sight during the meal time, the doctor induced the king to eat some nourishing food. He received his reward at the proper time. I But such subterfuges are not always ' successful. Although the good Bava rians celebrate his natal day with be coming loyalty, they wonld, one and til, welcome his de.tth as a deliverance to the country. Prince Leopold, the regent, is popular, and his son promises to become one of the most enlightened monarchs who have sat upon south German tlirones. A CANINE DRUNKARD. nov a Very Promising Bull-Terrier Tool to Consuming Liquor. We know a drunken doi, says a Saturna Reviewer, we regret to say, a real drunken dog. He was employed in a whisky distill ery of some r 'putc not an illicit one -tn the north of Ireland, to guurd the premises In case of thieves and burglars. He wns u bull-terrier of very promising exterior foi such a purpose -we believe exterior is the proper term to use in describing the out ward and visible siirnsof eliaracter. Bui whec we saw him be was a wreck, with only the shattered remains of bis promising exterior visible. He was lying on Ibc hearth-rug before the office fire, blear eyed, dilapidated, abandoned to vicious habits, with all the marks upon him of t dissipated scoundrel, thin, weak, unsteady in his gait when he got up. tail nowbere U speak of, ears much the same. Tbecausf of this melancholy backsliding was thus ei plained. Boon after he came to the distill ery, then a sprightly dog, fully alive to th( work of detecting the stealthy steps 0' thieves and burglars, he felt thirsty. 80 b followed some of the mea up a sort of a lad der of steep steps to an upper floor, anr there he saw a bright liquid looking like water running over the refrigerator he lapped, and was a lost dog It was a pure spirit; be liked it, and re turned to it again and again. The sensation of getting drank was very agree able to him ; he went up the steep steps not the usual way to sin drank to excess became hopelessly crunk, came down, ofter fal'.lng headlong, lay down by the tire in t stupid condition until he w s sober, sleep ing off his debauchery, and then again wenl up to get drunk as before. This was th( evil life he was leading when we saw him A more wretched, ill-conditioned, black guard-looking dog never was seen. It ma well be asked, why was such conduct al lowed? In a busy pi ce such an unusua. failing away from virtue in a faithful dot may not have been at first observed. Possi bty the upper eiaaaea In a aWulIerydo not take much notice of dors; whilst toe lower classes may have had a Sneakifig kindnesf for, and sympathy with, a dog in doing-thai which they would only be too glad (0 dc themselves if they could.' However .thst may be, the vice had beeq acquired beyond a 1 hope of reform, and the veryounoaitj of k literally drunken dog, lapse one am pied even In a distillery, of amoral nat ure, proof in ail former experience against the temptation of such an alcoholic para dise, was enough to let bira he, an example to mankind, on the office hearth-rug of an Irish distillery. What his end may be. or may have been, it is painful 10 contemplate. To imagine a bull-terrier with delirium tremens is not pleasant, and tbe M. R. C. V. 8. called in on such an occasion would not be in an enviable position. It would be probably pronounced rabies, as every thing else Is, and the end would be sn thing tmt praoe. -l THE GREYHOUND. Dogs I'sed for the Chnee by Kogliaa Sovereigns and Nobles. Greyhounds have existed in very much the same form as we find them to-day for more than three thousand years, as wo find them pictured on Egyptian monuments of that remote period. The name probably came from their general color in England when King Canute decreed that none but princes and nobles should keep them. The color now, in either smooth or rough coated greyhounds, is very sel dom grey, but more of ton fawn, red, brindled (either red and black mixed or fawn and blue), or black. The smooth coated dog is known as the English greyhound, and the rough coated as the Scotch deerhound. In conformation they are very much the same. Thoy are the fastest run ners of any of the canine race. On level ground they can go as fast as a race horse, and over hilly ground they can unquestionably beat even the fleet footed thoroughbred. Formerly the English dog was used in chasing the red and fallow deer, and it Is related that on one occasion Queen Elizabeth witnessed the pulling down of sixteen bucks. The dogs of that dnj must ha-e been stronger than those now found in England. When the master of the royal buckhounds now has a meet in the royal forests of England it is a sorry sight, for the deer are themselves more than half domesticated, and do not know how to get away. The greyhound is used, however, in coursing hares, and it is one of the na tional sports of Great Britain. In Texas and some other parts of America where jack rabbits abound grey hounds are kept to chase them. The English greyhound is a beautiful, graceful and aristocratic looking dog but the Scotch deerhound is more dig nified in appearance. These dogs ar trained to hunt game by the eye alone. They have good noses, however, and if permitted to do so will also hunt by scent. THE VANISHING MO0SS. Departure of New York's utms for. Parts , Unknown. , A deer, when started by a hunter or driven by hounds, usually returns in a few days to the same hill or mouutain side where he was first found; but a moose, says Madison Grant in the Century, when once thoroughly alarmed, will start on a long, swinging walk, and, taking with him his entire family, leave for good. It is one of the greatest difficulties and there are many in still-hunting this animal, to avoid getting him under way. for then the hunter may as well brejik camp and try other iields, since not a moose will be found within miles. They scent a moccasin track or the smoke of a fire at an incredible distance. A fresh trail may bo found one day and arrangements made to follow it at day break : on the morrow. During the night the moose, returning to his old haunts, detects the danger-signs, and all the hunters find in the morning is a trail six or eight hours old leading for parts unknown in an almost perfectly straight line. The moose is at that rnntr,pnt,. perhaps, twenty miles off and still going. Although moose cannot be driven to water by hounds like a deer, but will turn savagely to bay, still they will not remain in a locality where dogs arc running; so that when the white hunt ers became numerous in the North woods, and especially when they intro duced hounding; the moose simply left the country and passed either east ward to Maine or northward to Canada. It is a well-authenticated but little known fact that they practically left in one season. They were numerous in the Adirondack, especially in Brown's tract a large district in what is now the southwestern part of the wilderness until the period between 1850 and 1855 (probably near the latter year), when they suddenly disap peared. Before this several had beer killed yearly. Scattered ones wor shot later, but 1855 marked their exit from the annals of New York game Years later, four or five were brought back to Saranac, but would not stay. The Houian Consul. The most honorable office in the Bo man republic was that of consul. There were always two elected every year, one each from the patricians and plebeians. The consul must he at least forty-three years old and inu.-t have held the office of quaestor, aedi!e praetor. The consuls were the headi of the republic, discharging- all public functions, such as receiving ambassa dors or assembling the senate. Theii insignia were those of a king except a crown. They were always attended each by twelve lictors or servants, bearing the boxes or bundles of rods with an ax in the center. The lie-tors-, however, proceeded only one at a time, the lictorsof the other following him. The year was named after them, and any laws passed at their recom mendation also went by their names. They commanded the armies of the re public, and when both were with the same antiy they commanded on alter nate dayv Under the eirirors the ui flee became an empt.3' honor, though surrounded with much prea'er state. Sympathetic bounds. A stringed instrument suspended in a favorable position near a pianoforte will sound when tones corresponding to the open strings aro produced on the pianoforte. The volume of the answer ing tone v. ill depend upon fttrnosplieric condition, the quality and color of the pcTKiiading tone and the sensitive ness of the responding material. There is a familiar anecdote told of a famous tenor, who by singing the tone that was consonant with that of a wine glass, could make tbe glass shiver so violently that it would fall to pieces. It is because of the tonal sympathy that the cause of a harsh, rattling tone that may suddenly appear in 0 piano forte is detected with difficulty. Though it may appear to be in the in strunent, it is often far away and may come from a loose globe or pendant on a chftndelier. Even a key In the door has been known to be the guilty cause. FIRE WITHOUT SMOKE. A Berlin Inventor's Nehenie for Burning Powdered Coal Is Successful. Wherever there's smoke there's fire is an adage based on observation of unvarying physical laws, but the re verse does not always hold good, for j tucre iuu,y ue mc wiuioub blllUKe, or Ub all events without apparent smoke. . In Berlin, according to the New castle Chronicle, an inventor has suc ceeded in devising a means for insur ing complete combustion without the emission of smoke, and his method has, on repeated tests, proved so satis factory that two of the most important steauishipping companies in Germany have decided on adapting it to their steamers. In this system coal, reduced to powder in centrifugal disintegrators, is introduced into a pear-shaped com bustion chamber lined with firebrick, and fitted with an induction apparatus like those used in petroleum-fired fur naces, the coal dust being drawn along by a jet of steam or compressed air. The combustion chamber, which takes the place of a furnace, Is provided with two apertures, one in the center line of the boiler, occupying the posi tion of the usual fire-hole door, while the other, on the opposite side of the combustion oharaber. serves for intro ducing the coal dust through a pipe, so placed that the dust is evenly dispersed over the whole surface of the chamber. After the first Ignition, which may be effected by any source of heat, the com bustion continues-regularly and in tensely under the action of the air cur rent, which is regulated in accordance with the quantity of dust required to produce the necessary heat. The air or steam and dust are intimately mingled in the zone of combustion, while the speed of the current, which has served as a vehicle for the dust, is much reduced. Each particle of fuel held in suspension is by this method brought into such close contact with the oxygen necessary for its combus tion that this combustion is bo com plete as to allow of practically no smoke being generated. LITERARY LABOR. Value of Early Rising and Dancer of Overworking. To make literary work healthy is a simple process, depending on the mode in which each day is allotted to it, and also on the modo in which the body is physically trained and disposed to carry it out, writes Sir B. W. Richard son in the Ascleplad. The first grand point is to begin the day well by early rising. The universal experience of the wisest men of all ages is in lavot of the habit of getting up early in the morning. The practice is closely con nected with length of life. Ft is also closely connected with happiness and activity of life. With the early hours of the morning literary work is alwnys most fruitfully associated, when the habit of early work is once acquired. Thoughts are freshest then; the ar rangement of thoughts is clearest then; memory is keenest then. Thus thought, method and memory conspire together, and labor becomes pleasure. Mp'-n ti, .-vn vnr fellow-workman In the work of the day of the literary life nothing is so wholesome as to carry out the work without strain. There is always some little difficulty in getting into harness, but, this mas tered, work becomes easy enough. Samuel Johnson records that he could always work when he was forced to it; and Miss Martineau tells us that after the first quarter of an hour she found everything easy. With healthy minds this experience is common. There is, however, a danger connected with it that must not be forgotten; that dan ger is the too long continuance of the labor after it has become easy. With some this danger is serious. The work is so fascinating, the time goes as if hours were minutes, and the physical hours are, as it were, stolen upon. -and robbed outrageously. THu Hi.ur'if MrLtCTION. Few Women Know llnw to Use It When fiaylnv "Thank You." It is to be regretted wholly in the interest of her sex that the woman who thanks a gentleman for surrender ing to her his seat in the cars does not speak up boldly and cheerfully as if she really meant what she said. It has been long maintained by our foreign critics, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch, that the English language lucks flexibility, nice shades of mean ing, the quality of expression, com pared to other tongues. But after careful observation at home and abroad I am satisfied that the lack of expression is rather in the English speaker than in the language. There are an infinite number of shades of which this little "Thank you" is susceptible, as anyone about town knowB. It may be uttered In such a way as to make the blood tingle with indignation, it can be said with such grace and sweetness that the re cipient will carry the memory of it as the memory of some delicious per fume, or beautiful picture, or sympa thetic strain of music all through the long day of business cares. For such a reward as this thousands of men have suffered uncomplaining, have en dured the tortures of the inquisition, have fought, bled and died upon the battlefield. It would seem a very sim ple thing, but the graces and polite ness and gentleness of speech which distinguished the women of the chiv alric age are now almost wholly un known. When women talk of the decay of chivalry in men they forget that men are what women make them. Men are the exact reflection of their mothers and sisters and wives. Through the history of the men of tbe past we have accurate knowledge of the character of tbe women of that time. As it is Impossible for the fountain to rise higher than its source, so It is impossi ble for men to rise higher than their mothers, their sweethearts, wives and sisters. Horg. the jeweler, is th man to fix np your witch or clook. Ce keep a fall stock of everything pertaining to bit business. t Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report AR&Qmmx pure SMUGGLING ENCOURAGED. Ceetoma Offleiala Who Are Too Lazy to Kxamlne Travelers' Trunks. One of the most humorous phases of passing through the custom house is connected with the fact that its officials often seem to reserve their gravest dis pleasure for the very honest people. A writer in the Outlook says that she had bought a dress pattern of loden, a sort of woolen goods made only in the Tyrol, and packed it in the top of her trunk for the inspection of the Italian othoials. One after another the trunks were unlocked and closed again until nothing was left but an unpretending little straw one which had been over looked. "You have nothing in it nothing, signora?" asked the officer. "Yes, I have," was my unexpected reply. "It is just here on top." I opened the trunk and displayed my uncut goods. The train whistled, of ficials granted,- people jostled past us and glared at me. I knew he wanted to say: "Why do you bother me by de claring it?" He wrenched the loden out of the trunk and started toward the inner of fice, bidding me follow. There I was greeted by another official in these words, spoken with excitement and much gesticulation: "How is this? Just now at the last moment and the train ready to go. How is this?" One man was weighing the goods, an other poising a pen In his hand,and half a dozen looking on. "Why is this?" repeated the chief of ficer. "Why do you declare this at the very last moment?" "Perhaps it would have been better if I hail not declared it at all," I said, in my suavest tones. "But to come at the last moment" "Surely it is not for my pleasure, Mr. Officer, that you ransacked my trunks,'"' I reminded him. Then he looked at me with Ui air-of childlike helplessness so characteristic of Italians. "But there is no time now to look over your other baggage and see what else you have." 1 laughed. "I put this on top and declared it," I said. "There is nothing else, I assure you. But be tranquil; next time I pass the frontier I will smuggle every thing and declare nothing. I promise never to put you to so much trouble again." A quiver of a smile crossed his lips, but he growled: , "But the train is waiting." "Yes," I replied, "and it must still wait until you are pleased to return my goods and allow me to relock my trunk." The end of it all was that I was bowed out of the office after paying one dol'nr (jnty on a four-dollar piece of r ASTONISHED INDUhio. They Thourht a Ked. Haired Paleface AoniAihitiK of a Freak of Nature. Twenty years ago the Indians in Colorado knew hut little of the white man, and nothing hardly of his ways or habits except from tradition. Among the people who went to settle in Colorado at that time, says Golden Days, was a man with very red hair. He and his party were thrown among the Indians, who thought at first that his hair was painted, just as they painted their own bodies and faces. An old chief came up to him one day and looked at his hair very carefully. "Ugh!" said he. And theu, turning to the interpreter who had the party in charge, he wanted him to ask the man where he got the kind of paint that would color, and yet not be greasy or look dauby. He was told that the man's hair was not painted, but he would not believe It. He once more walked up to the man and scrutinized his locks, running his hand through them and looking at his fingers. The red-haired man became a little nervous, and half fancied that the chief was calculating how nice a red scalp would look hung to his belt. The In terpreter, however, laughingly told the man what the chief had said. Two or three more of the Indians then gathered around the party, and they and the interpreter had a pow wow. Finally the interpreter asked the man if he would object to putting water on his hair. lie saw tliiit the Indians would not believe boi, that it uus painted, until they saw tiat the water would not wash the color out. The mau took sume water, rubbed It on his hair ami then showed his hands to them. Hut It took four or five days of wondering examination to convince them that he had aot found some peculiar paint, and got himself up in a bright red suit of hair. Awarded Highest The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. No Ammonia, No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes 40 Years the Standard 1 Baking 1 r& 1 rowaer EUPHRASIA. The Beautiful Legend Connected with the Dedication of St. Sophia. A legend connected with the Church of St Sophia is recalled by "An Idle Woman in Constantinople," and as it contains a moral fragrant of truth it may well be held In perpetual remem brance. When the basilica was fin ished Emperor Justinian gave or ders that an inscriptiion in letters of gold should be placed about the dome: "Justinian dedicates this church to the glory of God." But on the day of the public opening the emperor looked up at the dome and saw, with amazement, that the inscription ran: "Euphrasia dedicates this church to the glory of God." "What is the meaning of this mock ery?" he asked, pointing upward, and turning to the patriarch sitting beside the throne he said: "Did I not com mand you to have my name engraven on the dome?" "Who is Euphrasia?" called the patriarch. "Who knows a woman bearing such a name? If anyone can answer let him speak." From the priests to the lowest of the assembled thousands the question: "Who is Euphrasia?" ran round the church. No one answerod. At length, while the emperor sat mute and amazed, a miserable follow who cleaned the marble floor stepped forth and said: "Imperial Co?sar, to whom I am un worthy to raise my cyos, I know a woman with such a name, but she is almost bedridden. She lives in a little house near one of the walls of the church." "Bring her hither," commanded the emperor, and straightway pages and chamberlains rushed out and soon re appeared carrying an aged woman whq trembled in everv wjmb . "Is your name Euphrasia?" asked the emperor. "Yes, mighty emperor, it is." "What do you know of that inscrip tion?" and ho pointed aloft to the large letters on the vault. "Nothing, my lord, nothing!" "But you sen your name on the church. It stands there instead of mine. What have you done toward the building of the church?" "Great king, nothing. My lord mocks his poor servant." "Not at all," replied the emperor. "They toll me you live near. Think! Have you done nothing, spoke noth ing, thought nothing to give you this claim?" "Majesty," bIic said, "there is a little act, but it is so small I am ashamed to trouble my lord with its mention." "Speak. I command you," said Jus tinian. "Fear not. Tell me all." Then she told how, as sho lay on her bed in her little house, she heard with sorrow the travail of tho oxen and mules, carrying the marble and brick and beams up the steep hill, and her heart was sore within her; and how, when she grew better, the . thought struck her: "Who knows If I cannot do so"i COINS FROM PRIVATE MINTS. They Were Issued Up to the Time of the Civil War. The constitution of the United States provides that no state shall coin money; but it seems that individuals might do so, up till about the time of the late civil war. Of course it has al ways been against the low to counter feit or imitate the coinage of the United States, and so, necessarily, a coin is sued by a privute mint would have to be so distinctive in shape or markings as to show that it was not intended to pass as federal money. For this reason, says the Washington Star, the fifty dollar gold coins or tokens issued by several private mints in California during the flush times of the fifties were octnonal in shape. Gold coins were also issued by the Mormons of Utah at about the same time, and the same thing had been done by parties in Georgia and North Carolina. I'robubly tho latest of these private mints was the one established in Den ver in the early sixties. It is said that the coinage of this establishment be ing brought to the attention of Secre tary Chase, that eminent financier was much astonished to lind a respectable firm of bunkers engaged in makkig and u'tcring money, and was still further surprised when the attorney general of the United States declared they had the right to do so. This incident caused tho passage of a law ab.iolutjly prohibiting Individ uals from issuing or circulating any thing intended in any manner to serve as monov. - il 13" Subscribe for the Gazkttb. HonorB, World's Fair. Bakirt Powden